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The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
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The symptoms of catastrophe are unmistakable, and the diagnosis is clear: we are in a race against time with the forces of the natural world.
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China is emerging as the new power in the global economic pantheon, and their embrace of Russia is a clear sign that they wish to become less engaged with the U.S. rather than more.
The October 9 issue of The Week reports that during this month's gigantic celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, more than 1000 Chinese soldiers sought mental health counseling after drilling for the event.
In the Czech Republic, "news cafés" are springing up, where people can relax, meet, down some brew, see their local paper being produced, mingle with editors and contribute copy.
A bumper crop of Chinese companies have emerged to address the country's significant environmental hazards accrued from their multi-decade role as the "world's largest factory."
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"Such an act would be both arrogant and foolish. In the world today, the United States can afford to be neither. Let's hope we remember that." Wonder what percentage of folks has any idea on this score? Hope US can afford to do both again, one day soon...
Free trade has always been a lie.
Just blows my mind that economists continue to perpetuate this myth that somehow the terror of two economies morphed into what it is - when it is patently clear that the US corporations/politicians are the architects of this arrangement, with China being allowed to participate.
Stop the spin already, we already know they wanted to move GM's assets to China too.
There is a huge difference between "what happens on paper" and what -actually- happens in the hulls of oceangoing ships ... in (closed) American factories ... and so on.
On paper, we may soon be exceeding the capacity of Microsoft Excel to store more zeroes to the left of the decimal-point. (Not really, of course.) But "all those zeroes" mean precisely what all zeroes mean.
20% tarrif on Chinese goods immediately.
Going 10% each year.
That would be a disaster. We import all kinds of things from China, so the price of goods we be even more expensive. That would also provoke a trade war.
I love how afraid Americans are. They scared us into war with Iraq. And they scared us into the bailouts. "Oh, we have no choice but to give them billions"
And now with trade its the same surrender monkeys. "It will start a trade war." America is a nation of cowards! Left and right. Both are cowards!
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