Shortly after Donald Trump made good on one of his core campaign promises on Monday morning by signing an executive order formally withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal, Trump told labor union leaders that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement Source: Trump Wins The Unions: Teamsters Praise TPP Withdrawal, […]
KW: The United Nations has been nothing more than an extension of U.S. foreign policy. Can any one tell us just where U.N. intervention has halted war and suffering anywhere. Meanwhile under Obama the U.S. was bombing 7 different countries and the U.S. was at war for every day of Nobel Peace prize winning Obama’s […]
KW: Why has it taken Donald Trump to correctly recognise the danger of the TPP deal that would have pinned New Zealand to the nuiances of big corporates that have no interest in N.Z. apart from dominating our markets and ordering what we can and can not do ? Trump and his advisors regard the Pacific […]
KW: One thing I have observed about U.S. commentary about anything to do with Russia or China is just how biased the reporting is, even from commentators I have respect for, it is always negatively biased against these two countries almost like there is an ‘internal irrational switch’ inbuilt in every American no matter how […]
KW: Jim Rickards writes….The problem with a financial panic is that panicked investors don’t care if the president is a Democrat or a Republican; they just want their money back. The same dynamic applies to natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes. Once the disaster starts, the dynamics have a life of their own and don’t […]
KW: Reproduced verbatum from Paul Craig Roberts The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Book Review by David Ray Griffin F. William Engdahl, who is well known for books and articles in geopolitics, has recently published a book entitled The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy. The subtitle refers to a dictum by Euripides, “Those whom […]
KW: In a round- a-bout way support for Trumps policies By Nick Giambruno: January 18, 2017 The establishment is setting up Donald Trump. The mainstream media hates him. Hollywood hates him. The “Intellectual Yet Idiot” academia class hates him. The CIA hates him. So does the rest of the Deep State, or the permanently entrenched “national […]
KW: John Mauldin is as establishment as you can get so it’s interesting that Such a mainstream economic commentator should come out with these observations. He’s not alone as many other economic commentators are also sounding more and more impressed with Trump as the days go by. The only ones who are out of step […]
KW: I have been reading for a number of years now about the coming crisis in financial markets. Many of the commentators are thinkers that I respect including Doug Casey, Jim Rickards and Bill Bonner but so far the crisis they describe has not hit. Surely the logic of their collective thinking will play out […]
KW: Perhaps the only surprise here is the speed of the execution. I wonder if John Key and Murray McCully think the reported $7m donation by NZ taxpayers to the Clinton Foundation was a good investment? At least we don’t see any evidence that Trump is actively promoting anything similar although these are early days […]