When you see the rats flee, it means the ship is sinking.

The French are finally free of those barbaric Americans.

Their new masters... the Chinese.

Really? Really?


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Smirnov posted on his site a list of “people who have the blood of the Kazan victims on their conscience.” The list of 203 names is a kind of Who’s Who in Russian culture. It includes prominent writers Boris Akunin and Lyudmila Ulitskaya, film directors Eldar Ryazanov and Andrei Konchalovsky, and actors Chulpan Khamatova and Sergei Yursky. The ( Read more... )

We all know what's happening in Egypt right now. The old elite are moving out of the country to their well earned retirements with their well earned stolen millions. To that bastion of illicit wealth... England.

This is going to be ignored. England is now the chosen refuge for kleptocrats the world around, Russian, Chinese, Muslim, African. One of ( Read more... )

It only takes China 18 months to build a bridge. Which ends up lasting 8 months...

You kind of have to read all the way to the bottom to even start to understand what was happening...

BBC Party Line.
David Nkolisi, 37, who works as a rock-drill operator, told the BBC: "We were killed for asking our employer to pay us a decent salary for hard work deep underground."

Reality.
Thursday's incident came after several days of violent ( Read more... )

One problem with trying to figure out what's going on with the economy is that everyone is lying.

Copper is one of the more problematic commodities. How much is there? How much will be needed? Even before you start trying to predict whether the global economy will grow or contract, and then predict future demand, it helps to know how much is ( Read more... )

Paul Ryan represent Obama's most horrifying nightmare: math.

Pilgrim, revolutionary guard, tomato, tomahto...

Oh and I finally saw Puss in Boots. The only word I can think of to describe it is grotesque.