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What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up?
What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up? The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme and unreasonable […]
US Cities Face “Moment Of Reckoning” As China Halts Trash Imports
US Cities Face “Moment Of Reckoning” As China Halts Trash Imports In the Trump era, the American garbage business is changing in ways that Tony Soprano never could have anticipated. And it’s creating serious problems for American cities, who might soon find themselves with nowhere to turn to export their trash and recyclables (most of […]
Is China’s Social Credit System A Preview Of The Coming “Beast System”?
Is China’s Social Credit System A Preview Of The Coming “Beast System”? Virtually everything that you do online and offline is being monitored, tracked or recorded by someone. Could you imagine what life would be like if the government compiled all of that information into a giant database and used it to punish those that […]
Chinese Data Leak Reveals Millions Of People Actively Tracked By Surveillance Network
Chinese Data Leak Reveals Millions Of People Actively Tracked By Surveillance Network A data leak discovered by a Dutch internet expert has revealed over 2.5 million people who are under active surveillance by a Chinese government contractor, reports Reuters. An exposed database maintained by Shenzhen-based facial-recognition technology company SenseNets Technology revealed ID card numbers, birth dates […]
US accuses China of preparing for WWIII: What you’re not being told
US accuses China of preparing for WWIII: What you’re not being told The military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, Beijing, China, September 3, 2015 © Reuters / Damir Sagolj A Republican senator has accused China of preparing for World War III. Like most of Washington’s statements concerning China, […]
American Suspension of INF Treaty is Aimed at China
American Suspension of INF Treaty is Aimed at China So it’s done. The US has suspended its participation in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and Russia soon followed suit. This almost certainly spells an end to this late Cold War relic, which banned the two superpowers from deploying ground-launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles […]
A Survival Guide For 2019
A Survival Guide For 2019 How to safely navigate the ‘Year Of Instability’ As the first month of the year concludes, it’s becoming clear that 2019 will be a very different kind of year. The near-decade of ‘recovery’ following the Great Financial Crisis enjoyed a stability and tranquility that suddenly evaporated at the end of […]
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control Understandably, the problems and politics of the moment dominate the news and attract the attention of most policy commentators and much of the public. Will there be another government shutdown, will House Democrats attempt to impeach the president, will interest rates remain low, and will there be a […]
China’s ‘zombie’ companies are a big threat to the economy — and JPMorgan says their debt pile means the country could be slowing faster than anyone thought
China’s ‘zombie’ companies are a big threat to the economy — and JPMorgan says their debt pile means the country could be slowing faster than anyone thought China’s economy is beset by huge public and corporate debt problems which threaten to derail the country’s growth story, according to JPMorgan. Economic growth in China has been […]
Big Trouble in Little China
A worker cleans the promenade in Shanghai on July 24, 2014. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) Big Trouble in Little China The country’s economic problems are starting to escalate. China is a country of extremes, especially regarding economic forecasts. There are those who think “China will take over the world” with its technocratic central planning. Then there […]
The Next Big Threat For Oil Comes From China
The Next Big Threat For Oil Comes From China There is a widespread concern in the world regarding China’s decelerating economic growth. The slowdown, if it continues, threatens economic activity almost everywhere. Growth in Germany, for example, has already cooled due to its exports of high-quality machinery to China dropping precipitously. Those in the oil […]
U.S.-China War May Be “Just A Shot Away”
U.S.-China War May Be “Just A Shot Away” – “World’s most dangerous hotspot” is in the South China Sea– Currency and trade wars can lead to shooting wars warns Rickards– Chinese buildup in South China Sea like ‘preparing for World War III’ says US senator (see news)– U.S.-China shooting war could be, as Mick Jagger put it, […]
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams ‘This is truly an ominous development for the poor people of Venezuela. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo votes before addressing the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council in a meeting which was requested by the United States to offer a statement […]
Lessons From Davos: Everything Can Come Crashing Down… And A Total Rejection Of Any Policy Alternatives
Lessons From Davos: Everything Can Come Crashing Down… And A Total Rejection Of Any Policy Alternatives As Davos wraps up today, what have we got so far so far from the cockpit of globalisation? Warnings of rising nationalism. Fears of recession. Worries that everything could come tumbling down again. And a total rejection of any […]
The CIA, Lost In The Orinoco
The CIA, Lost In The Orinoco René Magritte The black flag 1937 One thing I am not is an expert on Venezuela. What I know is the country has the world’s largest oil reserves, mainly in the Orinoco Belt, but they come in a form of tar sands that while they are not as hard to exploit […]
