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If firemen had multi billion dollar contracts with hundreds of contractors to make fire hoses and oxygen tanks, then I see your point.Batboy2/75 wrote:ÜberSmet wrote:Fundamental Islam is a blessing for the military.powerlifter54 wrote:Fundamental Islam is the enemy and rival we need to engage, defeat, and kill.
And a Pox on humanity.
Like saying fires benefit firemen.
Have heard the same thing re the USSR from several sources, they almost always say almost exactly the same thing you did. Carter's energy plan, on the other hand, was a complete cluster-- based on the same logic that gave us the natural gas shortages in the late 70's. Sen. Byrd did the country a huge favor in shutting that down.Danny John wrote:Back in the 1970s, Professor Hoover had us read B. Thomas Trout's "External Pacer Theory." (I think I have the name right) He went on, and Professor Glatfelter agreed (great class), that the Soviet Union was a "Paper Tiger" with enormous issues of battle readiness (no antifreeze in the tanks was one memorable issue...the soldiers figured a way to consume it for a high) and "would soon break down." This is long before it happened, too, which was cool.
Both agreed that the USA would quickly have to invent a new enemy. It's funny because both thought China and BOTH mentioned the 1973 Oil Embargo and noted that we needed to take President Carter's energy policies seriously to keep our distance from relying on foreign oil as our base.
At best, it was 15 minutes, maybe five minutes, but as I have lived through the decades (I was 19), this was as close to prophesy as anything I have ever seen. Amazing. So, I usually don't comment much here save for training, but I just wanted to add this.
http://www.china.org.cn/business/2011-0 ... 468246.htmChina is attracting a rising amount of speculative capital, or hot money, as investors bet on the nation's growth and prospects for gains in the yuan.
The central bank said yesterday that financial institutions' influx of foreign capital jumped by 72 percent in August from July.
Their yuan positions saw a net gain of 376.94 billion yuan (US$59.1 billion) last month, the biggest increase in five months, according to the People's Bank of China's monthly report.
In July, inflows of capital shrank 20.8 percent from a month earlier to 219.6 billion yuan. Average monthly yuan foreign exchange purchases last year were about 272 billion yuan.
JMO, but I think our own fears, prejudice, bigotry, selfishness, etc. is the root of all problems. Everywhere.powerlifter54 wrote:China is not our problem. Jihadis are the problem.
400, not forty and it takes some balls to demonstrate in a country where "riot police" means "tank brigade".seeahill wrote:Wow. 40 demonstrators. In China.
JMO but I think you're right.Ice Nigger wrote:JMO, but I think our own fears, prejudice, bigotry, selfishness, etc. is the root of all problems. Everywhere.powerlifter54 wrote:China is not our problem. Jihadis are the problem.
=D>Fat Cat wrote:400, not forty and it takes some balls to demonstrate in a country where "riot police" means "tank brigade".seeahill wrote:Wow. 40 demonstrators. In China.
Their housing bubble hasn't even popped yet.
