Posted by Matt in December 1st, 2008 |
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China,
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Currency,
Economic Development,
Economy China,
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Global Economic Growth,
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Momentum,
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Will Hutton,
Writing On The Wall,
Yuan
Don’t believe me? Here is what President Jintao Hu said over the weekend at a party meeting:
“In this coming period, we will starkly confront the effects of the sustained deepening of the international financial crisis and pressure as global economic growth clearly slows. … Whether we can turn this pressure into momentum, turn challenges into [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 17th, 2008 |
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War,
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Brink,
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climate change,
Disasters,
Doom,
Faces,
Global Crises,
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Milestone Events,
Military Superiority,
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scenarios,
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World War Iii
People normally do not think of doom scenarios until they happen. This was true of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Repeated warnings and mounting evidence were ignored in the highest places. In this same way, nobody thinks of the possibility of World war III until perhaps it suddenly blows up in our faces, if it will.
This [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 2nd, 2008 |
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Russia,
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Historians,
Ivan Iii,
kremlin,
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Repulsion,
Rock Bottom,
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Tsar Ivan,
Ukraine
Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 of these cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.
In the past, however, the Kremlin’s sharp anti-Western turns were reversed — usually out [...]
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