Twelfth Bough

Read at the dentist's office today: BusinessWeek: As BusinessWeek reports this week, global investors are snapping up thousands of acres of farmland in Africa. Money from everywhere—from Saudi Arabia to Wall Street-backed funds—is pouring in. Why the sudden focus on Africa? Jim Rogers: The gigantic acreage in Africa has been underfarmed because there is not much infrastructure, not much machinery, not much expertise, not much fertilizer. I think the world is going to have huge food problems in the next few years. Other people seem to see that, too, so they’re buying up farm land . You can either buy it or lease it. It’s very, very cheap, it’s incredibly fertile, and it hasn’t been overexploited. And if you take in some expertise and some machinery and some fertilizer, you should make a lot of money. The labor’s cheap, everything’s cheap. BusinessWeek: So you think Africa is a good investment opportunity? Jim Rogers: I think it’s a fantastic investor opportunity. Now there are ove...

"The more talk about world government, the less chance of achieving it...it frightens people who would accept the concept of world law." ~ Senator Alan MacGregor Cranston, D-CA (died 12/31/2000) The UN Deception - Part 1 The UN Deception - Part 2 The UN Deception - Part 3 The UN Deception - Part 4 The UN Deception - Part 5 Note the Big Surprise around minute 20... Also see Global Tyranny Step by Step, by William F. Jasper The Phoenix studies, like many other government reports before and after, urged increased U.S. economic, scientific, and agricultural assistance to the Soviet Union. These recommendations are totally consistent with the long-range "merger" plans admitted to a decade before by Ford Foundation President Rowan Gaither. And both Republican and Democratic administrations have followed the same overall policy ever since. But world order think-tank specialists like Bloomfield realized that the incremental progress made through these progr...

Changing the subject.... Obama sending already sent US troops to Central Africa He’s not calling it a war, but President Obama will be sending American troops into Central Africa to offer military assistance. In order to aid with the takedown of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa, President Barack Obama told Congress today that he has authorized upwards of 100 American soldiers into the region to “remove from the battlefield” LRA leader Kony and other high-ranking officials of his army. In a letter address to House Speaker John Boehner today, President Obama says that American troops "will only be providing information, advice and assistance to partner nation forces,” but that they could engage in battle if necessary for self defense. Obama says that his decision to send troops into Central Africa comes as a response to two decades’ worth of aggression perpetrated by Kony and the LRA, whom the president says is responsible for havin...

On Friday we learn that a fake bomb made in the USA was responsible for a terror alert on a Munich bound plane from Namibia on Thursday. When a suspicious package was identified at Windhoek airport in Namibia on Thursday, the flight was halted, the Munich-bound passengers delayed and news sped round the world that an x-ray scanner had been found with batteries attached by wires to a detonator and a ticking clock. Today, however, a German government minister revealed the bizarre truth: the bomb was fake, manufactured in the US to test airport security. It was not yet clear who had planted "test suitcase", the German interior minister, Thomas de Mazière, said, but the one fact they had established was that the device had been manufactured by a US company that specialises in alarm systems. At no time were passengers' lives in danger. Do you believe that it is "not yet clear" who planted the "test suitcase"? One would think they could a...

According to reports*, one of the people killed in the Ethiopian plane crash off the coast of Lebanon was Hassan Tajideen, the administrator of Angolan-based food import company Arosfran. A short report in PropertyWeek.com, (UK) 12/17/07: Trocadero boss in $20m fraud suit http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?storycode=3102458#ixzz0dll7KIat In documents filed at the High Court, Golfrate’s new owners, Hassan Tajideen, his brother Kassim and Nasser Eid, allege that Aziz – whose company Criterion Capital is worth £620m – doctored accounts, invented false expenses claims and used company money to pay for luxury trips. In 2003 Kassim Tajideen was arrested in Belgium in connection with fraud, money laundering and diamond smuggling, although he was never charged. Aziz declined to comment, other than to say that he was fighting the case and would file a counter-claim. Asif Azi z is the Chief Executive of Criterion Capital. From Criterion's website: Asif's career began in 1992 at Mo...

January 2010: UN allocates 100 MILLION dollars to respond to 14 neglected crises UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations has allocated some 100 million U.S. dollars to respond to 14 ongoing but underfunded emergencies, ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen, the world organization announced Monday. The single largest allocation of some 17 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) went to UN agencies and their partners in Ethiopia. The Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC) came second with approximately 16 million dollars. Other recipient countries include Afghanistan, Kenya, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Yemen, Chad, Niger, Colombia, Eritrea, the Philippines and Haiti. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) noted in a news release that Haiti's full funding needs are being re-evaluated in light of the tragic earthquake that struck the country last Tuesday. Launched in March 2006, CER...

Bearing in mind yesterday's post about Dmitry Karlik, the Russian immigrant who murdered a family of six that lived across from the Chabad Lubavitch shul in Rishon Letzion, Israel, a case which has "rocked the entire nation" of Israel although good luck finding any news about it, and which is now under the personal jurisdiction of Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch..... I am going to show you some other things in the news. I don't know if these things are connected. I'm just showing them to you. Circles intersect. Big circles, little circles. They intersect and if you keep looking you can start to see patterns and people in the intersecting circles. First some backgroun d on Chabad Lubavitch and Russia: While ordinary Chabadniks often describe Vladimir Putin as an evil thug, the Chabad leadership basks in its relationship with him. This contradiction has complex roots. ...In order to assure the choice of Lubavitcher Berel La...