Here are the 10 most current posts:

• Video purports to show Russia’s proposed National Guard training to suppress a ‘Moscow Maidan’ – Business Insider
• ACTUV: Darpa’s drone warship – Business Insider
• How China Upstaged U.S. With a ‘Great Wall of Sand’ – WSJ
• Brazil’s congressional committee votes in favour of impeaching Dilma Rousseff | World news | The Guardian
• The UAE’s Fragile Good Life :: Daniel Pipes
• North Korean ships with corpses on board have been washing ashore in Japan – LA Times
• Senior North Korean Military Officer Defects to the South, Officials Say | TIME
• How to open a US Bank Account as a Tourist / Non Resident | Backpack Me
• When Feminism Meets Multiculturalism, Who Wins?
• Leaks About Chinese Offshore Dealings Threaten Xi Jinping

[Check the archive (on the left menu) for more of my latest posts.]

Here is a list of what I consider to be important posts:

• Scarborough Shoal: The Next U.S.-China Showdown in the South China Sea | The National Interest Blog
• Russia has 185 strategic warheads more than limited by the New START agreement
• US Army Chief Sounds Alarm: Military at ‘High Risk’
• Iran intends to produce the explosive used in atomic bombs – Octogen
• Tensions Rise in the South China Sea – The New York Times
• The real meaning of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei’s missile warning | Fox News
• 4-star admiral wants to confront China. White House says not so fast
• Russia Deployed Over 150 New Warheads in Past Year
• China Expects the U.S. To Roll Over | The National Interest
• Crackdown in China: Worse and Worse by Orville Schell | The New York Review of Books

(See a much bigger list here.)

A couple of things to focus on:

1. Problems develop during the good times. Then there is a crash. The crash is the solution, not the problem. Suppress the crash, or cut it short, only makes everything worse for a later time.

2. Generally, there are severe problems at US colleges. Students are afraid to speak freely.  “The better” cannot rise to the top. Clearly, we can see that with new age astrologers (economists) who failed to see the last financial crash coming and have no idea how to get things going, psychologists where 60% of studies cannot be reproduced, scientists/researchers where politically incorrect answers could land them in seriously hot water and the students who are so sensitive that the slightest thing – like “Trump 2016″ in chalk – could send them over the edge.

3. The dismantling of the existing world order by Russia, China and Iran is underway. What comes next is surely going to be a lot worse given that these countries answer the following question: What would happen if a country were taken over by the mafia?

And in response to Russia, China and Iran, the US leadership thought it would be a good time to gut the US nuclear arsenal and let the remaining arsenal rot. They have started to do something about upgrading the arsenal, but now (predictably) there are more and more complaints about the cost.