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Electric shock therapy vs boiling the frog

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:27:00 +0000

Capitalism's need for constant 'creative destruction' has steam-rollered through another decade, punctuated by a series of nasty jolts and shocks.

Depression drugs profit from loss

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:43:00 +0000

Depression drugs profit from loss

Children of Thatcher, Cuts and Central Bankers

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:27:00 +0000

If Hague, Osbourne, Cameron and other self-proclaimed Children of Thatcher wrote a fanzine what would it be called? Eton Rifles? The Privateer? How ironic if it were called The Public Servant.

Preparing for Transition?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +0000

As more and more energy is required to extract oil, less will be available to feed economic growth. The low price oil we've enjoyed for decades appears to be history.

We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:38:00 +0000

What did the aide to President Bush have in mind when he said these to a journalist in 2004?

Was 9/11 the ultimate pseudo-event?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:12:00 +0000

Artful people create 'pseudo-events'. Western consumers demand them. They fulfil a purpose. They satisfy our 'extravagant expectations'.

How should I invest my money in 2009 | 2010?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:15:00 +0000

If today's financial crisis teaches us anything, it is that the mass media won't help us invest wisely.

Israeli Policy makes Israelis unpopular

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:06:00 +0000

Misguided policy risks pushing Israel into firing the opening offensive salvo of WWIII.

Who is interested in Zimbabwe?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:00:00 +0000

Before we point our accusatory finger rigid, consider this...

We are all connected

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:43:00 +0000

We're all rich in potential. We've much in common. Nobody is a zero. We are all connected.

Reflections on the Great Depression of 2010

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:35:00 +0000

The financiers were certainly not preparing to queue at the fuel pump. Ideas were floated. Depopulation? WWIII? Penury? They had already decided which they preferred.

UK financial crisis 2007 | 2008. Where to next?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:23:00 +0000

The UK is experiencing a downturn as the various wheels of fortune which have kept the credit boom going grind to a halt.

Sharing could be the answer

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:00:00 +0000

Can any of damaging trends affecting the world today be reversed by other nations adopting our western way of life?

Bush: Before and After

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:21:00 +0000

Before we enjoyed his cheeky grin, his straight-forwardness, his comical abuse of the queen's English. 7 years later, with energy prices at an all time high, liking the President is hard.

UK house price crash - quiet before the fall (2007)

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:37:00 +0000

There is an uncomfortable quiet right now. Like in the film Zulu, it is the quiet just before the embattled British soldiers catch sight of a massed army rising up across the horizon. It's the quiet before the fall.

When is a truck bomber not a truck bomber?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:31:00 +0000

Is the much hyped 'sectarian' violence in Iraq being stoked and orchestrated?

What's spooked the fat controller?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:58:00 +0000

In times of relative peace and prosperity, it's easy for those under our sphere of influence to forget just how unpleasant life could be without our protection. Sometimes the protected need reminding.

We're all living downstream

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:44:00 +0000

All the unhelpful consequences we create for this world will, in time, arrive back in our laps.

Want to rule the world?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:35:00 +0000

The UK's leading defence contractor IMPERIAL OUTREACH is recruiting Management Trainees. Full training provided.

UN vote to end private land ownership

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:13:00 +0000

Today the United Nations, in defiance of powerful vested interests, voted unanimously to return all land, worldwide, back into public ownership.

The death of quality

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:25:00 +0000

Why, when commentators continually tell us how 'robust' things are, are so few things built to last?

Iran attack 2007: why it's in the pipeline

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:34:00 +0000

We’ve been here before. In the early 1950s the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company AIOC, later renamed British Petroleum, was in control of Iran's primary source of income: oil.

Iraq: what's it worth?

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:33:00 +0000

Any advances on a pile of dollars 95 miles high?

City of London money-laundering unlimited

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:31:00 +0000

How far has the market’s love of inward investment allowed the UK to become the international criminal’s ‘laundry of choice’?

An Inconvenient Truth - the perfect antidote to media spin

noreply@blogger.com (The Leg) — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:16:00 +0000

928 peer-reviewed papers say global warming is fact, yet most commentators prefer to present fact as 'theory'.