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

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

Following Vlad Putin’s lovely ‘ditch the Dollar‘ remarks earlier this week .. the United Nations is jumping on the ‘Bash the U.S. Express’ and a panel of ‘experts’ on U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform.
The Reuters Story here.
Highlights:
Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 under Bernanke, Deficit, Democrats, Federal Reserve, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Putin, Russia, Stock Market, UN, US Dollar, US Treasury Bonds, United Nations, WTO, Washington, World Trade. 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 administration [...]

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

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

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

We are truly submerged in a Katrina of conspiracies, convenient fall-guys, and opportunistic (for some) chaos. So let us propose the most simple causes and perhaps, with a glass (or three) of Scotch, we can sleep better for it!

Posted on February 14th, 2009 under 9/11, Armageddon, Conspiracy, Corruption, Global Policeman, Global Poverty, Globalizm, Great Depression, Homeland Security, Islamofascist, Multipolar, Muslim Brotherhood, Patriotism, Security, State of the Union, Stock Market, Sub-Prime, São Paulo Forum, Terrorism, Unipolar, United Nations, WTO, coverage, fiction!?, global warming, opinions, patriot act. Comments: 3