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The Steady Enmity of Powerful People
“Crime doesn’t pay.” Actually it does, handsomely. If you are a banker or large financial player, it pays wonderfully. You get filthy rich committing the crimes and after…you continue to get filthy...
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Danske Bank – Who helped them Launder?
A couple of days ago the always good Francis Coppola wrote a piece for Forbes entitled, The Banks That Helped Danske Bank Estonia Launder Russian Money In it she made the simple but essential point...
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Debt is back but this time its corporate
On Wednesday Feb 7th 2007 HSBC issued a profit warning. It was the first in its 142 year history. The bank told its share holders it would have to take an unprecedented charge of $10.5 billion because...
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It’s not Brexit but “Deutsche-it” you want to worry about
While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive. But...
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Regime Change. Part One – How it’s done.
There’s been a lot of Regime Change around in the last few years. One might even think it had become a nasty habit: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela. These are just the most recent....
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How to prevent debate while claiming to be in favour of it.
When I look around at the state of public discourse in ‘the West’ what strikes me is that everyone says they want to have a reasoned and rational debate but say that the reason it doesn’t happen is...
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Corona Virus – The African connection.
Like every issue of consequence, in our Age of Incomprehension, opinion about the truth concerning the Corona virus outbreak is divided. Either China is taking all prudent steps, the virus, while...
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Corona Virus – Africa update and peek into the near future
Surely it is time to stop pretending that in all of Africa there are only one or two cases of Coronavirus? Everything we now know about the virus makes this virtually impossible to believe. We know...
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Death – a small thought.
For a great many of us in the industrialised countries, especially the relatively affluent and comfortable middle class, death and our mortality are something we have pushed to the margins of our...
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We need to talk about AI – Trailer and clips
For anyone interested in AI here is the film I was working on a year or so ago. I was hired to do the interviews. The film is directed by Leanne Pooley. The film is released by Universal and is...
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