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Posted on December 29th, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Apocolypse, Armageddon, Axis of Evil, Beijing, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Jingoism, Korea, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Oval Office, President Hu, Putin, Russia, john mccain. Comments: None

Posted on December 17th, 2009 under China, Deficit, Depression, Federal Reserve, Obama, President Hu, Putin, Spending, fiction!?. Comments: None

The FT published a brilliant article on Monday (May 25) entitled, “Beijing is caught in ‘trap’ over dollar.” The article suggests the world’s fastest growing economy has placed too much of its hard-won cash reserves in the U.S. debt market and, as a result, has locked itself into a bit of a jam. As the [...]

Posted on May 26th, 2009 under Apocolypse, BRIC, Beijing, Budget, China, Communism, Depression, Emerging Markets, Exit Plan, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Gold, Gold Standard, Great Depression, IMF, Insolvent, Lou Ping, Multipolar, National Debt, Obama, Oval Office, Spending, Stock Market, Sub-Prime, São Paulo Forum, Taxation, Trade Deficit, U.S., UN, US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, United Nations, WTO, World Trade, de Gaulle, debt, economy. Comments: None

[Follow up to blog post, "China's 21st Century War to Destroy the U.S. | Wake up! We Are Losing!"] Something is very wrong. The number of press stories / pentagon reports / think-tank assessments and arbitrary Joe Geek office cube conversations revolving around Chinese Hackers continues to escalate and very little notice (publicly) appears to [...]

Posted on April 21st, 2009 under Americans, Bush Administration, CIA, CNN, China, Cold War, Communism, Conspiracy, Cyber-Warfare, Defense Security Service, Domestic Spying, Espionage, F-35, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Jingoism, KGB, Lockheed, MI5, Multipolar, NATO, NSA, NeoCons, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Oval Office, Pentagon, President Hu, Robert Gates, S-300, Security, Spying, State Department, São Paulo Forum, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, War, WikiLeaks, World Trade, counter-intelligence, freedom, hackers, journalism, patriot act, the Great Firewall. Comments: 2

I’m at a loss for words this weekend. Having spent some time playing and exploring the Government’s General Printing Office (GPO) website (which has an amazing array of statistics, databases, raw data files and reports) – I’m seriously wondering … – Where is the public outcry? – Where are the pitch forks? – When shall [...]

Posted on March 29th, 2009 under Americans, Apocolypse, Armageddon, Arms Trade, Bill Clinton, CNN, China, Corruption, Deficit, Democrats, Depression, Eisenhower, Federal Reserve, GOP, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IMF, Insolvent, Jingoism, National Debt, New Deal, Obama, President, Spetsnaz, State of the Union, Stock Market, Trade Deficit, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unipolar, WTO, Washington, World Trade, ballot box, congress, defence, economy, fiction!?, john mccain. Comments: 1

Source: Wikipedia Chinese Military Power Report

Posted on March 29th, 2009 under 2009, Afghanistan, Americans, Arms Trade, Axis of Evil, Britain, Bush, Bush Administration, CIA, China, Cold War, Conspiracy, Cyber-Warfare, Defense Security Service, Deficit, Democrats, Depression, Dmitry Medvedev, Espionage, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Great Satan, IMF, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Medvedev, Middle East, Moscow, Multipolar, NATO, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, OPEC, Osama bin Laden, Oval Office, Pentagon, Politics, Presidential Election, Reagan, Russia, São Paulo Forum, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, United Nations, Use of Force, WTO, War, War on Terror, WikiLeaks, World Trade, al Qaeda, counter-intelligence, defence. Comments: None

The scent of blood is in the water. The U.S. is on its knees and its enemies are taking bite-sized chunks out of the perception of the invincibility, stability, and confidence that has been the United States of America circa 20th Century. In the nine years that have passed since the millennium, the ‘beloved’ Bush [...]

Posted on March 18th, 2009 under 9/11, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Americans, Apocolypse, Axis of Evil, BRIC, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, China, Chávez, Cold War, Communism, Crazy Ivan, Defense Security Service, Dmitry Medvedev, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Great Depression, Homeland Security, Hugo Chávez, Jingoism, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, NeoCons, Nuclear Weapons, OPEC, Obama, Oval Office, Pentagon, Politics, President Hu, Putin, Recession, Rosoboronexport, Russia, Thatcher, U.S., WTO, War on Terror, Washington, World Trade, Zhirinovsky, climate change, gorbachev. Comments: 1

Our beloved mainstream media reported today on China’s plans to increase its defense spending by a whopping 15%. Quote, “China is to increase official military spending by almost 15 per cent this year as it seeks to upgrade its smart technology and improve the living standards of its soldiers.” The story suggests the U.S. believes [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2009 under China, Cold War, Communism, Conspiracy, Cyber-Warfare, Defense Security Service, Domestic Spying, Espionage, Homeland Security, Human Rights Watch, Jack Bauer, Merkel, Obama, Oval Office, Pentagon, Politics, Spying, Tim Reid, Times Newspaper, congress, counter-intelligence, defence, patriot act. Comments: 2

When U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, concluded her East Asian tour with a highly visible visit to China she demonstrated how times have truly changed. For a ‘Hyper-power’ like the U.S. is forced to bring a begging bowl to a once submissive, introspective, and seemingly naive nation, you know things have truly gone to [...]

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 under CIA, China, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Defense Security Service, Deficit, Domestic Spying, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Multipolar, Patriotism, Pentagon, Police Brutality, Reagan, State Department, U.S., UN, US Dollar, Unipolar, United Nations, WTO, Washington, counter-intelligence. Comments: 1

Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state. Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2009 under Al-Jazeera, Ann Coulter, BBC, Britain, CNN, China, Communism, Fox News, France, Human Rights Watch, Jingoism, Tibet, fiction!?, interviews, opinions, the Great Firewall. Comments: None

CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer – says what needs to be said. People are hurting now. Jobs are being affected. Homes are being lost and companies are collapsing. How’s your investment net worth in recent weeks?

Posted on August 6th, 2007 under Armageddon, BRIC, CNBC, China, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Jim Cramer, Stock Market, Sub-Prime. Comments: 2

Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West. The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Putin, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, israel. Comments: 3

Recent stock market declines, an ever-weaker Dollar, and an increasingly loud chest beating by nations beyond the U.S.’s rapidly shrinking sphere of influence suggests one disheartening but rapidly apparent reality. We are witnessing the rapid decline in global dominance – the unipolar / hyper-power world – of the United States of America and the emergence [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2007 under BRIC, Bush, China, Chávez, Global Policeman, India, London, Middle East, Multipolar, New York City, Putin, Russia, UN, US Dollar, Unipolar, Venezuela. Comments: 1

Every once in a while I get a comment from a reader. These are terrific because my opinions do indeed change as based on new facts, clarifications or even when I’m pointed to ‘real’ facts and not, perhaps, an over-reliance on faulty sources or assumptions. Hey – I’m human and I’m not an economist! I [...]

Posted on July 3rd, 2007 under China, Cyber-Warfare, Iran, Tibet, Venezuela, oil. Comments: 1

Article from June 25, 2007 published by The Daily Telegraph entitled “BIS Warns of Great Depression Dangers From Credit Spree” by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Begins … “The Bank for International Settlements, the world’s most prestigious financial body, has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fueled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy more [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2007 under BIS, Bubble, China, Great Depression. Comments: 1

Just as an increasing number of nations around the world join the growing demand for a more multi-polar world [1,2,3,4] and the demise of an over-extended United States – seemingly power-drunk on global domination – along comes a wave of speculation on the possible instability and ultimate collapse of the next supposed Hyper-power, China! Article [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2007 under China, Russia, US Treasury Bonds, Venezuela, oil. Comments: 6

The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, Brazil, Bush, China, France, IMF, Iran, Jean-David Levitte, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia, UN. Comments: 3

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is literally running out of time – politically, militarily, and rather frighteningly, spiritually! Iran is teasingly close to an all-out war with the United States and the consequences for Iran, the U.S., and the world are enormous and potentially cataclysmic. Politically: Conservative Ahmadinejad was swept into power in August 2005 on [...]

Posted on April 2nd, 2007 under 12th Imam, Ahmadinejad, Bush, China, Iran, Iraq, Mahdi, Qods, Russia. Comments: 2

There is rarely a day that China is not mentioned by the mainstream media, online media portals or the blogosphere and for damn good reason! This century is rapidly transforming into the Chinese Century, the rise of globalization and the demise of slow sunset of the U.S.’s hyper-power status, at least economically, if not politically [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2007 under China, DSS, Espionage, FBI, MI5, Redberry, USCII, the Great Firewall. Comments: 1