The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
US National Debt Reaches Record High, But No One Knows How to Handle it
The national debt of the United States has surpassed $19.5 trillion. According to the US Treasury, the debt will reach $20 trillion by the end of Barack Obama’s term.
Connectivity and Competition
Whereas the United States sees China through the lens of defense, Europe’s view of China is shaped by its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies. Of the 25 top EPC companies in the world, 23 are European and Asian (Bechtel and Fluor are the only American firms that make the list).
There is no doubt that China’s infrastructure-driven grand strategy is crafted to last at least two generations, riding out any changes of government in host countries along the way. The United States, too, needs a strategy not just for the next administration but for the rest of this century. Even though the country is geographically detached from Eurasia, three factors ensure that it will remain a deeply essential superpower for connectivity for at least two decades: Energy, money, and technology.
Continue reading “Parag Khanna: USA Losing the New Arms Race”
A Map Showing Every Single Cargo Ship In The World
This interactive map shows the movements of tens of thousands of cargo ships around the world, revealing key trade pathways and the way materials and goods are moved back and forth around the world.
Putin's New Chief of Staff Claims He Invented the ‘Nooscope' to Study the Collective Consciousness
An “A. Vaino” is listed as the co-author of an article entitled, “Capitalization of the Future,” published in 2012 by a Russian academic journal, Questions of Economics & Law. The vague title sets up the strange pseudo-scientific text that follows in an almost impenetrable blend of quasi-mystical language and academic jargon, mish-mashing contemporary economic concerns with transcendental philosophy and promises to be able to read the “code of the market” and describe a new way of being, made possible by the authors' creation — the Nooscope.
Globalism: a psychological GPS system for the masses
Globalism, hiding behind thousands of academic analyses, picks up jobs from one nation, where wages are reasonable and working conditions are tolerable, and dumps them in hell holes where wages are nearly invisible and conditions are poisonous. It’s that simple, and any moron could see how the job-exporting nations would suffer…if by nations we meant people. Instead of criminal corporations and criminal investors.
