Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Russo Interview; Angola, Sudan/OPEC; Carlyle Group: UAE, Geothermal

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ---Voltaire

Video Interview with Aaron Russo
(Thanks to Le Metropole Cafe for quote and link)

OPEC Moots Extending Membership to Angola, Sudan

Carlyle Group
Bush Approves Sale of U.S. Military Parts Suppliers to UAE
Carlyle Group and Geothermal Assets

4 comments:

Jenna Orkin said...

leigh, yeah, that's what happened just now to me too.

mind you, there was no fool-proof safe haven.

when the dust settles, you might raise this with the ftw web administrator.

A peon said...

Leigh,I think I may be able to help you out.I started putting FTW's search engine to work after I saw you posting about the draft and extradition.I found an article that has a partial chart with countries that do/do not extradite.I'll keep searching to see if I can find one that has been updated more recently than April 22,2004.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022704_draft_ruppert.shtml

Rice Farmer said...

"Silent Spring: What’s Happening to Honey Bees?"
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3249

Yet another blow to food production. Fortunately, a number of people in my village keep bees, and pollination is no problem. But if these bee afflictions ever reach here...

8riaN said...

Gail, you're right that the Fed is Federally appointed, but the members of the board are picked by the President and confirmed by the Senate, similar to Supreme Court Judges (although I don't know of an "advice and consent" clause in the Federal Reserve Act.)

So I find it completely plausible that this chairman with 14 more years on the Board and put in by an administration stuggling to retain it's hold on the reins (or is that reigns?) might consider Congress, especially the House, to be simply subject to his will in economic matters.

In Paul O'Neil's book he talks about the markets' exaggerated reaction to every word publicly spoken by the Fed (he had breakfast with Greenspan regularly since before he was Treasury Secretary.) I think knowing that kind of pressure was on would quite likely to break down a new Fed's guard and allow his true attitudes to be painly visible in his face and manner.

I didn't see the address, but I instinctively trust your judgement of the man's character. It just fits, in my opinion.