the opinionist

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

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

Ok, so forgive lack of URL’s, scruffy typing, and shortness of breath – due to running to make train and then unapologetic anger after reading the

Posted on February 26th, 2009 under Budget, Democrats, Emerging Markets, Federal Reserve, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human Rights Watch, IMF, Middle Class, New Deal, Obama, Oval Office, Politics, Social Security, Spending, State Department, State of the Union, U.S., US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, Unipolar, United Nations, WTO, World Trade, debt, israel, liberal. Tags: Budget, GAO, Obama. Comments: 1

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

With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the media [...]

Posted on February 18th, 2009 under Ahmadinejad, Alternative Energy, Axis of Evil, BRIC, Bolivia, Brazil, Chechnya, Chávez, Cold War, Corruption, Czech Republic, Dmitry Medvedev, EU, Emerging Markets, Global Policeman, Globalizm, Gulag, India, Iran, Jingoism, Mullahs, NATO, Natural Gas, OPEC, President, Refineries, Russia, Security, Senate, State Department, Syria, São Paulo Forum, UN, United Nations, Venezuela, War, War on Terror, World Trade, Zhirinovsky, counter-intelligence, gasoline, gorbachev. Comments: 2