Friday, March 21, 2014

Weekend Chillout - Go Your Own Way

As this week saw the US and Russia placing sanctions on each other's prominent people it seems both sides are still going their own way.

Friday afternoon funnies

Well it is Friday afternoon in this part of the world so we can start to go a bit funny.


U.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan

Keiser Report: People Power Age

From RT

Published on Mar 20, 2014 In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the Potemkin factories that may create a manufacturing renaissance in America, or at least the perception of one. They also discuss a version of the future where elite-guided drones end the Age of the Gun and the Age of People Power and return us to another dark Age of the Elite. In the second half, Max interviews Elizabeth Rossiello of Bitpesa.co about the Silicon Savannah in East Africa where mobile currencies and now digital ones bring in greater remittances and new spending power.

Boom Bust - Bitcoin is maturing: Patrick Byrne & Jinyoung Lee Englund on the cryptocurrency

From Boom Bust

Obama extends Russia sanctions over Crimea

From Al Jazeera English

Published on Mar 20, 2014

US President Barack Obama has announced additional sanctions on senior officials in the Russian government in response to Moscow's seizure of the Crimea region from Ukraine. The US president, speaking at the White House on Thursday, also said Russia's threats to southern and eastern Ukraine posed a serious risk of escalation of the crisis in the region.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Denis Gartman - This will send gold soaring

Tue 18 Mar 14 | 01:00 PM ET

Gold tumbles as the crisis in Crimea eases. Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter, discusses gold's next move, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders, Rich Ilczyszyn and Jim Iuorio, both at the CME.

 

Yellen signals Fed nearer to rate rise

Um yeah whatever Janet, just keep printing.

From Reuters

International Happiness Day

Hoping all my blog followers are staying cool and happy on International Happiness Day

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Diamonds of the Earth

March 19 (Bloomberg) –- Affectionately known as "The Truffle Lady of New York," Francesca Sparvoli's company, Done4NY, supplies rare truffles to high-end New York City restaurants. Truffles are one of the most expensive perishable food items in the world, a pound cost upwards of $750. Francesca takes Bloomberg behind kitchen doors and into the secretive world of the truffle trade.

Putin - Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine was unconstitutional

From rapsinews.com

An interesting come back on the unconstitutional vote in Crimea argument.

Article link

MOSCOW, March 18 (RAPSI) – The 1954 decision by leader Nikita Khrushchev to hand over the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine was unconstitutional, President Vladimir Putin said in an official address to federal and regional officials Tuesday.

Crimea, a largely Russian-speaking republic within Ukraine, was part of Russia until it was gifted to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954. President Putin said in his address that the decision was made with evident violations of the constitutional norms prevailing at the time.

The Russian President added that Sunday’s referendum, which resulted in Crimea professing its independence from Ukraine, was conducted in full accord with democratic principles and international law.

Putin added that one must be familiar with Crimean history to understand the desire of its people to reunite with Russia.

The president further added that Ukraine appealed to the UN Charter when declaring independence from USSR, and pointed out that Crimea acted similarly.

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