This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece misses requirements for next bailout payment * Greece’s banks face nationalization * Terrorist groups in Pakistan are splintering into smaller groups * US aids Uzbekistan despite human rights record * Defense Secretary
What course will China chart in the future? The soon-to-be captain of the ship is Vice President Xi Jinping. And there is growing evidence that far from being a reformer, he will be aggressive leader who will resemble Mao more
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * American al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki killed by drone strike * Demonstrations in Syria grow increasingly violent * U.S. Congress blocks $200 million in aid to Palestinians * China deeply suspicious about America’s strategic
The coup d’etat as a method for changing government is, to me, fascinating. Libraries have been written about revolutions, but the much more often utilized coup d’etat is misunderstood; a secretive, often lethal, highly violent, and brutally efficient military-led format
Let’s recap the last 2 weeks. The Palestinian leadership (including Hamas) received a standing ovation while lobbying the UN for statehood. They do this as they circumvent peace talks with Israel. Pakistan threatened America for chasing Taliban and other terrorists
Many are called, few are chosen. Isn’t that what they say? Reports of the rise of Herman Cain can be found, in between the GOP establishment’s calls to the Governor of New Jersey. Almost lost amid the buzz this week
Move over Saudi Arabia? With a series of amazing shale oil and natural gas finds in North America, it is now possible (if bureaucrats will allow it) for both Canada and the United States to become energy exporters in the
Truth of life number one: logic is anathema to left-wingers. Recently on the little-watched Current TV cable station, so-called “comedienne” Janeane Garofalo disgorged one of the most perfect examples of this truth of life that can ever be used as
The previous article on Chinese world domination covered their goal of cornering the world’s supply of energy. However, energy isn’t the only item they are striving to control. China is very active in acquiring and controlling as much as possible
CULVER STUDIOS UP FOR SALE Over the course of my short, undistinguished Hollywood career, I had the opportunity to visit every major studio lot in Southern California many times over and other than the MGM lot (which is now Sony),
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Germany expected to approve more bailouts on Thursday * Greece’s Papandreou promises to “fight our way back to prosperity” * Israel’s Netanyahu approves peace talks while new settlements are announced * Syria’s regime
Coke CEO Muhtar Kent told the Financial Times that U.S. states don’t fight one another for investment opportunities, while Chinese provinces clamor to compete for foreign investments. “In the West, we’re forgetting what really worked 20 years ago. In China
The Solyndra scandal involving the squandering a half a billion taxpayer dollars down a campaign supporter’s rathole, and then subordinating the taxpayer to another of said supporter’s interests in apparent violation of the Energy Policy Act, marches on. And as
The Institute for Energy Research (IER) in their post on Big Peace (America Can Be An Energy Superpower) make some powerful statements concerning America’s energy potential: America could have enough oil resources to meet today’s oil demand levels … for
The State Department’s authorization of a $5.3 billion Taiwanese bid to upgrade their 145 F-16A/B Block 25 fighters, instead of adding 66 new F-16C/D Block 52 planes as the ROC had originally requested, is the big defense news of the
Peter Schiff, the president of EuroPacific Capital and sometimes-pundit/author/political-candidate, testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Government Reform and Stimulus Oversight on September 13th. The video of his testimony has become a minor YouTube hit and was featured prominently
Over the years, I have been asked many times to estimate how many lives have been lost in China as a result of the one-child policy. Given that the policy has been in place for 30 years, I respond, and
These articles are not being written as justifications for promoting a war between the U.S. and China. That would be foolishness beyond the extreme. In fact, the exact opposite is true. It is only through maintaining our competitive economic, military,
The White House is expected to announce a new deficit reduction plan today. The bulk of it appears to be, end the wars and let’s get the class warfare on to try and position the GOP badly for 2012. That’s
China appears to be largely uninterested in bailing out the debt-ridden countries of Europe. Despite concerns that Beijing might buy debt and use it as leverage, the calculation by Beijing appears to be that this would be a bad bet,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece’s Papandreou cancels U.S. visit, but fails to take new austerity decisions Merkel’s ‘euro-skepticism’ defeated in German election Pakistan seeks to improve relations with the U.S. Fears of Yemen civil war rise as
Fareed Zakaria does a pretty good job explaining the global monetary crisis and proposes that the only solution to the debt problems plaguing the EU is to allow China a larger role in the global political sphere. He compares the
This is the second article that expands on my original Big Peace article, “The Growing Potential of Chinese World Domination.” The first article, on defeating the U.S. economically, can be found here. However, as a country becomes more and more
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Turkey on collision course with Greece, Israel in Mediterranean * Israel and Greece ally against Turkey * Turkey’s real goal is control of east Mediterranean * Child mortality falls, amount of cannon fodder
An oft-repeated talking point and applause line has crept into President Obama’s repertoire of class-envy and demonizing rhetoric these days. [youtube UxFVEtuB-Bg] “At a time when countries like China are building high-speed rail lines and gleaming new airports, we’ve got
