the opinionist

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

Texas Governor Rick Perry stirred the stick of popularism yesterday with his war-cry of secession from the Union during the Texan-chapter of the not-so-great Tea Party rallies. Alas a firebrand pitchfork and torch march on Capitol Hill was not the reality hoped for by hundreds and the mainstream media added just the right measure of [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2009 under Americans, CNN, Cold War, Conspiracy, Democrats, Depression, Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Igor Panarin, Jingoism, KGB, Medvedev, Moscow, Multipolar, National Debt, NeoCons, Obama, Oval Office, Patriotism, Putin, Recession, Republicans, Russia, State Department, State of the Union, Stock Market, Taxation, Tea Party, Texas, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unilateralism, Unipolar, WSJ, Washington, World Trade, congress. Comments: 1

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 [...]

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

If skepticism is a defense mechanism – I am one heck of a sceptic when it comes to prophetic ‘End of Days’ / apocalyptic / doomsday stories often pressed into circulation as ‘and finally‘ news items footnoted into an already crappy news broadcast.
So when ‘Famed‘ Reverend David Wilkerson, an American Christian evangelist – (who’s substantial [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2009 under Apocolypse, Booms, CNBC, CNN, CT, Christian, Comedy Central, Conspiracy, Depression, Evangelist, Global Poverty, Globalizm, God, Great Depression, Great Satan, Hell, Jon Stewart, Ministries, New York City, Pope, Stock Market, Sub-Prime, War, Wilkerson, World Challenge, climate change, coverage, economy, fiction!?, global warming. Comments: 1