Last week, the prospect of a showdown with Iran at the United Nations Security Council seemed inevitable. This week, the rhetoric has been toned down somewhat, and today the Chinese delegation expressed it’s support for a possible Russian solution to Irans nuclear problem. All that said, there still seems to be plenty of talk about …
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James Bond car really DID have machine guns?
It’s true apparently. Remember in Goldfinger and Thunderball… the car that James Bond (Sean Connery) drove had machine guns, tire shredders, an oil slick thingy, and an ejection seat on the passenger side? Well, I always thought it was just faked somehow… I didn’t think it was all an actual, working, car. Apparently I was …
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US Dollar : Under Pressure from Russia
Yesterday I talked about how the Iranian government was using many different levers to “disrupt and annoy” the United States. Most critically, I mentioned their move to making all their oil transactions in Euros instead of Dolllars, thus forcing any countries using their oil to hold Euros in their federal reserves instead of Greenbacks. Admittedly, …