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

[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 be [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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: 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