Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

EDIT:  See alsoJournal: Wall Street Scam Collateral Damage II From a Source in Moscow (First Two Paragraphs Only) Russian trade ministry officials are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that China is preparing to plunge the United States and European Union into the “dustbin of history” as major World economic powers over their, the West’s, …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 13 Nov 09

Hot Topics AA: Arab experts predict Mideast water wars 11/13/09 AA: Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat 11/11/09 AA: Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi 11/14/09 AA: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are not best countries for … 11/13/09 AA: Terror training camps smaller, harder to target 11/09/09 …

Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again

Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …

Journal: Taming the Informal Shadow Government

What do the MICC, the Collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the Financial Meltdown Have in Common? I strongly recommend that readers study carefully the attached article by Janine Wedel.  She analyzes the emergence of self-organizing government – industry networks in the post communist states and then compares these structures to the very similar emergence of …