So if you wanted the latest end-of-the-world news, here you go:
UN Celebrates Israel’s Upcoming Birthday
via Collideoscope by Ron Giesecke on 11/25/08
By calling for their destruction:
NEW YORK – The President of the UN General Assembly has launched an unprecedented attack on a UN member state from the Assembly podium. Going beyond even existing UN resolutions, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua accused Israel of apartheid and called for “a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions” against it. Reminiscent of a classic antisemitic slur, Brockmann (himself a Roman Catholic priest and one-time official of the World Council of Churches) also claimed our Palestinian “brothers and sisters are being crucified” by Israel.
These remarks, made yesterday, underscore a biblical principle that may play itself out very soon (“I will bless those that bless Israel”). If America joins the rest of the haters diplomatically, then the jig is up for us. I fear that the only thread preventing America’s plummet into the raging antimsemitic chasm–and ultimately our demise– is about to be cut.
-R
The Coming Economic Monolith
via Collideoscope by Ron Giesecke on 11/24/08
Usually, I’d dilute this kind of news with the following joke:
“Economists have predicted ten out of the last three recessions.”
But this guy’s really, really sure of himself when he says all financials will be owned by the government within a year:
It’s not preferable, but all major U.S. financial companies will eventually be under government control because the alternative is so much worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday.
“All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year,” Hendry said. “I bet you.”
Nationalizations take dramatic losses from the private sector and places them on the larger balance sheet of the public sector, he said.
“It’s not good,” but society is vulnerable and society is going to have to intervene, Hendry said.
And when smart guys with hair that sticks up all over make these kinds of pronouncements, I tend to take notice. Not a good thing. At. all.
Video of Mr. Hendry’s full comments can be viewed here.
-R
HIV/AIDS Patients to Be Tagged with RFID Chips – Gizmodo
via Google News on 11/25/08
ABC News
HIV/AIDS Patients to Be Tagged with RFID Chips
Gizmodo – 1 hour ago
By Jesus Diaz , 2:36 PM on Tue Nov 25 2008, 526 views In the ultimate Nazi-inspired exercise of destruction of the most basic human rights, Indonesian politicians are planning to tag all HIV/AIDS patients with radio frequency identification chips.
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