Rudy
Elections in the EU: don’t go
Most countries do it on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, but in The Netherlands and the UK the elections for the European Parliament are today. No, I’m not voting, despite the propaganda produced by the Dutch government and the EU that I should vote. The website of the European Parliament has the audacity to state that [...]
“Nothing you say can and will help you in a court of law”
Many jurisdictions have a law protecting suspects of criminal activities against abuse of government authority. European countries that are part of the EU have article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in the United States there’s the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The US case is well known, you probably heard of the [...]
North Korean nuke test: low yield is bad news (updated May 28)
Yesterday, only hours after North Korea’s second nuclear test, this blog already published an early estimate about its yield, based on available seismic data. According to Sjeltur’s calculations the yield was about 4.5 kilotons, considerably less than the estimated 10 to 20 kilotons the Russian defense ministry published later in the day. The Russian estimate [...]
North Korea has reached its nuclear goals… or not?
North Korea has conducted its second underground nuclear test today, more powerful than the country’s first test some two-and-a-half years ago. Although US State Department officials said they were not able to immediately confirm that a nuclear test occurred, seismologists from the US and South Korea said they detected a tremor in the northeastern part [...]
John Demjanjuk: another victim of Nazi crimes?
This morning 89-year-old John Demjanjuk arrived in Munich, Germany, where he will face accusations of crimes committed as a Nazi death-camp guard. Yesterday US agents arrived at his family home in Seven Hills, Ohio, removed him from his wheelchair and drove him to a federal building in Cleveland. Last night he was put on a [...]
China has now more than 1,000 tons of gold
Today Hu Xiaolan, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), said in an interview with Xinhua news agency that China has now a gold reserve of 1,054 tons. This is an increase of 454 tons since 2003.
It’s no secret the Chinese are very worried about the US dollar as the world reserve currency, [...]
