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- Some Parting Words October 20, 2012When I began to ponder the things that I might address in this my last column in this space, I was confronted with many issues and subjects that are both important and timely. After some contemplation, I realized that parting words should be the most important words you can leave behind. They should be the […]mediaguy
- Behind Closed Doors – The Human Rights Crisis In North Korea September 25, 2012From 10,000 feet, you can’t see North Korea but you can see the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), where my wife Margaret and I, through our organization The Forerunner Project, presented with CIGI, Behind Closed Doors – The Human Rights Crisis in North Korea. How did we get involved in Human Rights in North […]mediaguy
- Arctic Sea Ice Reached Record Low Extent in 2012 – or maybe not August 30, 2012Recently, there have been a lot of pictures of the ice in the Arctic or lack thereof – but here is another point of view which merits consideration, originally published in the Tuscon Citizen. by Jonathan DuHamel on Aug. 28, 2012, The media are atwitter because the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced […]mediaguy
- More Inconvenient Truth August 21, 2012Since the beginning of the Climate Change War, I have attempted to bring to light some of the less reported information to readers in order to provoke a more informed perspective on the matter. I have been criticized for doing so, but I hardly noticed. Some people feel, I suppose, that the status quo should […]mediaguy
- Taking a Stand for Justice and Truth in the Climate Change War August 14, 2012‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’ – Harold Lewis Phd. This quote is the summation of Dr Harold Lewis resignation (a 67 year member) from the American Physical Society. This is an important moment in science history. It appears from leaders in the science […]mediaguy
- Privacy For Sale July 24, 2012On a recent flight from Costa Rica to Toronto, I was required to show my passport 9 times and was searched 3 times, most of which was required because of a flight connection in the US. The ordeal brought on flashes of wartime movies where suspicious Gestapo officers checked travelers’ papers on night trains to […]mediaguy
- Who Is Trying to Destroy RIM?? June 19, 2012One of the really nice things about Canadian summers are the long days. Our beautiful, pleasantly warm evenings are unequaled in most places on earth. I was enjoying one of those evenings recently with a small group of friends and wondered out loud which star was Mars and which was Venus – two of the […]mediaguy
- The Man Who Quit Money May 19, 2012Amongst the din of hundreds of offbeat stories with sizzling headlines, there occasionally comes one that totally captures your attention. The headline was a simple, but seemingly impossible idea – “ The Man Who Quit Money”. I wondered if this could be a real story of a rational, sane person who had found a way […]mediaguy
- Could The World Do The Unthinkable? April 21, 2012I have been producing this radio program for a year and I have learned a lot. One of the things I have learned about “change” is that some things have to be modeled before they gain enough credibility to get wide acceptance. Many people need to “see” something before they “get it”. In other words, […]mediaguy
- That’s Not Science! March 26, 2012The problem with being a forerunner is that we don’t accept most of what we are told. We have to see for ourselves. This may arise from having experienced fraudulent authority in the past or from realizing that most of what is wrong with the world is their doing. In the past 50 years, science […]mediaguy
- Some Parting Words October 20, 2012
Tag Archives: Financial Markets
How to Beat World-Wide Food Inflation
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that world food prices had risen 3.4% in January (the seventh monthly increase in a row) to the highest level since records began in 1990. Continued increases are expected. Food prices have proven to be the underlying motivation for civil unrest in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan, [...]
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Tagged as: Better ways to live, Commodities, Financial Markets, Government, Inflation
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Eight Wishes for the World in 2011
Humanity is caught between corporations and ineffective and corrupt government. Some corporations act more like the Mafia than companies. They will use any tactic including bribery, extortion, murder, overt lies, deception to achieve their greed driven objective. Governments and political leaders have been intimidated, threatened and bribed, to give these marauding pirates what they want. [...]
Dreamers – Dream On
Predictions for our economic future by the Bank of Canada are for a “marked slowing” of the economy in the second half of 2010 because of the Spanish government’s insolvency. One may ask the question, “why should the problems of Spain affect us here in Canada?” – what is wrong with this picture??? It would [...]
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Tagged as: Financial Markets, Government, World Issues, World Politics
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The Third Depression
With the G20 having just ended, Canadians are thinking about what was accomplished in the “mega-meetings” and if they will help produce economic stability for a world which is standing on the edge of a financial abyss. Within days of the meetings, renowned economist Paul Krugman predicted a “Third Depression” (NY Times – June 27/10) [...]
A Look Forward at 2011
It was difficult choosing a topic for this month’s column because there has been so much going on in the news that I wanted to bring to your attention. But with the US dollar “dropping off the table”, I decided to do my year-end projections for 2011 a month earlier. Since June, the US dollar [...]
HST – Too Good To Be True?
The birth of HST in Ontario has arrived. I doubt if anyone will be handing out cigars – on second thought, maybe Dalton McGuinty will. Compared to British Columbia, the first step in selling the HST to Ontarians has gone down like an Oceans 11 movie. The tax will probably have a longer life than [...]
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Tagged as: Commodities, Financial Markets, Government, Inflation, World Issues, World Politics
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So What’s Wrong With A Little Corruption?
Russian Corruption Skims Billions Corruption is described as a disease in Russian society Corrupt Russian officials are creaming off about $120bn (£61bn) a year – the equivalent of a third of the national budget, a senior prosecutor has said. The country’s new President, Dmitry Medvedev, has pledged to tackle the problem – although correspondents say [...]
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Tagged as: Corruption, Financial Markets, Government, Intregrity, money, World Issues
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Oil up 11.6% this year (April 07-08)
The Story: By Barbara Lewis LONDON (Reuters) Speaking about the increasing price of oil: QUOTE: ……Investors have been drawn in by a weak U.S. currency, which has made dollar-denominated commodities relatively cheap for holders of other currencies. Speaking to Reuters during a visit to Venezuela, OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said the soft dollar was [...]
Perilous Times Require Wisdom and Insight
The Stories: April foreclosures rise 65 percent on year: Wed May 14, 2008 3:28pm EDT (Reuters) “The total number of U.S. properties with foreclosure activity in April was the highest monthly total we’ve seen since we began issuing the report in January 2005,” James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac, said in a statement. [...]
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Tagged as: Better ways to live, Commodities, Financial Markets, Inflation, World Issues
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Dominos
The biggest story in the news today, as it has been for 5 months, is the price of oil. There has been a lot of disinformation about what is causing the rise in the price of crude. It has increased 25% in the past 4 months. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and G. W. Bush have [...]
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Tagged as: Commodities, Financial Markets, Forerunners, Government, New Age, Oil and Gas, Oil Prices
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Housing Crisis or Transfer of Wealth?
The Senate is trying to figure out a way to avoid the collapse of the financial system. Lenders are leveraging for a bail out. But Americans are angry, as they well should be. They don’t want the perpetrators of the problem to “walk” while they take the “fall”. “Excerpt from (LA Times, April 25, 2008) [...]
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Tagged as: Commodities, Financial Markets, Government, Housing Crisis, Sub Prime
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