Posted by julian on Aug 19, 2009 in
Politics
In 1946 in a speech to Westminster College in Missouri, Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” At the time war weary Europe and America condemned his speech as war mongering. How profoundly correct Churchill proved to be about Soviet [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, America, China, E.U., Europe, Iraq, Pakistan, South Korea, Vietnam War, Winston Churchill
Posted by julian on Jun 26, 2009 in
Economy
Get off the grass America and Europe. Running, whining and complaining to the WTO about China is like piddling into the wind. A blog or two back I suggested that the quicker the United States exits all these global gaggles of dysfunctional “dis-organizations”, the better. And that starts with pulling out of the United Nations [...]
Tags: America, Bush, China, CIA, Europe, Iraq, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, Nuku'alofa, Tonga, UN, WTO
Posted by julian on Jun 2, 2009 in
Economy,
Export,
Import,
Politics
With China claiming they are so worried about the value of its roughly $1.4 trillion of treasury bonds, and the mood of the Federal Reserve to print money to solve our economic ills, if I were Timothy Geithner, I would have asked Ben Bernanke to have cranked up the printing presses and dispatched a shipload [...]
Tags: Al Queda, Asia, bankruptcy, Caterpillar, China, dollar, Europe, Federal Reserve, G8, Geithner, Japan, Mexico, Microsoft, Middle East, Motorola, North Korea, Pakistan, South America, Taliban, Wal-Mart, Win Jiabao
Posted by julian on Apr 22, 2009 in
Politics
President Obama made it quite clear on the campaign trail, as President he would reach out to the foes of America in the hope building up dialogue may make a friend out of the enemy. Since becoming President I have come to the conclusion we have another Neville Chamberlain (Britain’s Prime Minister at the outbreak [...]
Tags: Ahmadi-Nejad, America, Castro, Chavez, China, Europe, Obama, oil, United Nations, United States, Venezuela