Introducing the Gulf State Despots: 10 Facts about Saudi Arabia
August 9, 2012 0

Introducing the Gulf State Despots: 10 Facts about Saudi Arabia

By News Desk

Astounding hypocrisy, self-censorship, and complicity by the West regarding one of the most regressive regimes on Earth. by Tony Cartalucci August 9, 2012 –  The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. In principle, Kuwait and Bahrain are considered “constitutional monarchs,” in practice, all 6 are despotic autocracies with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman overtly “absolute monarchs.” Devoid of even a feigned semblance of representative governance, these regimes brutally repress not only their own subjects, but play active roles in repressing the people of other nations, both on their borders and well beyond them.

Song of the Pielkesphere: Toujours Meh
August 9, 2012 0

Song of the Pielkesphere: Toujours Meh

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.

Toujours Gai
August 9, 2012 0

Toujours Gai

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Rabett Run has today’s SSMIS map from Uni Bremen and is now taking bets that before the end of summer there will be no ice in the Arctic below 90N 80N.  A few more days of the cyclone and the Bunny may have to offer odds.  Neven as usual has the details

Non Sequitur by way of Lotharsson
August 9, 2012 0

Non Sequitur by way of Lotharsson

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid.

Tax Hike Indigestion in France
August 8, 2012 0

Tax Hike Indigestion in France

By News Desk

As a result "Les Riches" Have Tax Indigestion and are looking to move outside France. “We’re getting a lot of calls from high earners who are asking whether they should get out of France,†said Mr. Grandil, a partner at Altexis, which specializes in tax matters for corporations and the wealthy

French Central Bank Admits the Obvious: France Back in Recession
August 8, 2012 0

French Central Bank Admits the Obvious: France Back in Recession

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French Central Bank Admits the Obvious: France Back in Recession For those who who view matters on a practical basis, France has been in recession the entire year. For those who need to see two quarters of negative growth first, France slides back in recession . France is headed back into recession for the second time in just over three years, the country’s central bank warned on Wednesday.