You may have seen reference in the media to a new Rolling Stones documentary “Stones In Exile” shot during the year long orgy that the band conducted during the recording of Exile On Main Street – which is about to be re-released. As you would expect the Stones have been doing some PR to support [...]
Systems evolve over time. Look at the eco-system that drives most of the western world. It has been around for a relatively short time in historical terms. It is a sub-set of capitalism that may now be showing signs of weakness as a continuing driver for wealth creation. I’m talking about consumerism. Consumerism is assumed [...]
From my buddy, Ervin Grinberg comes this gem… Differences Between Christmas and Chanukah Christmas is one day, same day every year. December 25. Jews love Dec. 25th. It's another paid day off work. We go to movies and out for Chinese food, and Israeli dancing. Chanukah is 8 days. It starts the evening of the [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
When I was fifteen, I slipped in a puddle of Nitric acid that had spilled onto the roadway in Wellington (New Zealand) from an insecure load. Of course when 90 proof Nitric Acid meets skin, usually the skin suffers second or third degree burns. It did and I was hospitalized for the [...]
Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
Almost everyone I know is blaming the banks for the Global Financial Crisis. However, there is another aspect to the GFC that I will present here today. The GFC has been ascribed by journalists to low doc housing loans. (Low doc equals mortgage applications that normally wouldn’t meet the banks lending criteria being [...]
The Global Financial Crisis is like a huge wall that no-one is able to effectively scale. Governments keep offering ladders to the population, but the ladders would appear to be made of balsa wood. Aided by Hollywood engendered conspiracy theories, consumer trust has almost disappeared. The consumers are concerned. They no longer believe the media [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]