On this day, September 11, 1990, the American President announced the beginning of the New World Order. Appropriately enough, it was President George HW Bush who made the announcement. After all, he was its chief architect. Before a special Joint Congress session, Bush outlined his vision for this New Order of the Ages.It was a time of extraordinary global turmoil. The United States was putting in place the men and equipment that would invade Iraq next year. While on the other side of the Globe, Estonia, Lithuania, and Georgia were declaring that they were each a Sovereignty Country. And, in…
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It’s been a half-century since President Richard M. Nixon set the United States firmly on the path to globalism. The date was February 28, 1973, when the President sat down with Premier Chou En-lai of the People’s Republic of China and signed the Shanghai Communique. Named after the city, they were meeting in, this was merely an agreement to talk. But it was the most revolutionary economic statement of the Twentieth Century.The Communique would set in motion a trading agreement between what would become the two largest economies in the world. For China, this marked when they emerged from their…
It is the final month of this organization’s fiscal year. In just 24 days, they will have to wrap up their annual reports. As this is a very significant organization, its bookkeepers and accountants over in the Treasury Department have been working diligently to produce the most accurate and up-to-date reports on the latest financial position of the organization.But as is the case most years, upper management continues to squabble over spending those last few dollars of income and, most importantly, how to budget for next year. The fact that management’s arguments have broken out in the open and are…
When this conflict in Ukraine began, it all seemed so black and white, so clear cut. Russia, in a wanton act of aggression and with no provocation, had invaded Ukraine. And, as has often been the case throughout our history, America rode to the rescue of Ukraine.But as time passes, that initial confirmation has all but faded away. New facts have come forth, and the American public has discovered that things were not as they appeared in February 2022.The Fall Of The USSRThe area we know today as Ukraine has, for centuries, been marked by conflict and revolt. However, modern…
Those Economic Reports that you see nearly every day are based, by and large, on fundamental econometric models. Reports like overall economic growth, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), employment reports, the Civilian Labor Force, or the Participation Rate rely heavily on underlying mathematics models. Many of those models have been used for years and years and have proven to be an accurate and reliable measure of the economy.Recently, however, some of those models and the Economic Reports they produce have gone off the rails. It’s especially true for reports on the number of gainfully employed workers.There is no doubt that…
It all began when Sergei Lavrov, the very capable Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, while attending the UN General Assembly in 2006, suggested that a Regional Conference between five significant Countries would strengthen a growing sense of Global Multi-Polarity. Lavrov saw the dominance of the United States and European Union in dominating Global Geo-Politics. He aimed to encourage those countries in the Global South to have their own international organization.Thus an ad hoc invitation by the Russian Foreign Minister began what is rapidly becoming one of the most influential Confabs of Nations worldwide. The 15th BRICS Summit, which began…
Texas, the land of ten-gallon hats and wildcatters, has run out of Energy. The Lone Star State, which in the past has had such oil barons as Cullen, Murchison, and Hunt, has run dry; there’s not enough Energy to run their air-conditioners.Just as they did last year around this time, the Energy Reliability Council of Texas recommends that everyone turn up their thermostats and reduce their energy usage. Why? Because the Texas energy grid cannot supply the peak demand created by another hot Texas summer. Texas has run out of Energy.It’s not an accident, a quirk of nature, or a…
In his 1851 novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville paints a picture of a single-minded Captain, Ahab, the master of the whaling ship Pequod. The Captain had become obsessed with pursuing the “great white whale.” In a previous encounter, Moby-Dick had bit off Ahab’s leg, and now he wore a stump, fittingly made out of whalebone.The novel is in the tradition of a Greek Tragedy, where the protagonist fails to see all the risks in his quest for Moby-Dick and ultimately dies in the pursuit. Making the novel even more downcast is that Ahab’s reckless actions cost not only his life but…
The rot in America is palpable; it oozes from the halls of our schools, drips like rancid water from the floors of Washington, and destroys the “unworthy.” In our uniquely American version of Reform, there is an implied “moral” component that allows its promoters to accumulate power for themselves. Under the “reform” banner, the United States has been transformed from a nation designed to restrain centralized power to likely the most concentrated control-mechanism of all time.
So, I just received my monthly home “Energy Report.” You may receive something similar from your electric company. It’s a report that shows me how much electricity I used last month and how my home compares to all the others in the neighborhood. It shows how I compare to the most energy-efficient homes, the average energy users, and, heaven forbid, the most extravagant electricity users. When I use less electricity, the report applauds my effort; it says things like, “Yeah!” “Good Job!” and so on. I’ve always thought that this is odd. How does an electricity company whose primary function…