What Does China Know?

May 26, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditRecent revelations of how China has been investing are quite enlightening. It is not that China has really increased or decreased their investments in America. But, it has become very clear that the Chinese have dramatically shifted their investment focus. Understanding this change is key to recognizing the risks they believe we are facing. […]

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Is Putin Running Out of Gas?

May 19, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThe Weekly Standard has an insightful article in the 27 May Edition. Here is the headline with a couple of choice excerpts: Pipeline Politics Is Putin running out of gas? May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 BY ALEX ALEXIEV and STEVEN F. HAYWARD The Cold War is now so over that it might as well be grouped […]

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It Doesn’t Fit the Narrative, Part Two

May 10, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditLast October we explained how the Benghazi incident  highlighted the very sad politicization of the Intelligence reporting of the United States. Not at the functional level, but at various points in the political leadership. Click the link below and read the post in light of this week’s revelations: It Doesn’t Fit the Narrative To […]

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It’s All About the Economy, Part Two

May 7, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditOn 5 May, we posted our analysis of an excellent paper written by a top team from the Carnegie Endowment, China’s Military and the U.S.-Japan Alliance in 2030: A Strategic Net Assessment: It Is All About The Economy In that post, we made the case that the primary difference between success and failure in Asia […]

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Three Years After the Flash Crash

May 6, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleReddit It has been three years since the “flash crash” dropped the stock market. Today’s anniversary is remembered by anyone who sat through those frightening minutes. Here is an interview by Rick Santelli and the opening comments from a CNBC article marking the date:   3 Years Later: Learning to Live With Flash Crashes […]

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It Is All About The Economy

May 5, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditA new report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, demonstrates exactly why the global conflict for power really is, at its heart, an economic war. [Or, as Bill Clinton might say,  “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”] China’s Military and the U.S.-Japan Alliance in 2030: A Strategic Net Assessment, outlines […]

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A Single, Man-Made Stock Market Crash is a New-Concept Weapon

April 25, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWhen the two PLA Colonels wrote Unrestricted Warfare in 1999, they listed “a single man-made stock market crash” as one of three specific new-concept weapons for the 21st Century. They called it financial warfare. We have been warning about market manipulation for several years, first in our report for the Department of Defense and […]

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Financial Jihad via Welfare? Part Two

April 24, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditOn February 19th, we posted about how a Muslim preacher was urging followers to take advantage of the welfare system to fund jihad. This happened both in the United Kingdom and Australia: Financial Jihad via Welfare? There has been outrage that some have viewed our generous welfare systems in Western Economies as a means […]

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An EMP Attack Would Be Economic Warfare

April 24, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWe had a posting last month that generated tremendous debate on Facebook. A few said we were simply fear mongering. The role of this Blog, however, is to lay out the facts and some of those facts are frightful. This is the case when we discuss EMPs in light of developments by North Korea, […]

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Hack Twitter Account, Crash the Market?

April 23, 2013

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleReddit For those who doubt that there can be efforts to manipulate the stock market, consider that yesterday Google dropped 3% suddenly without explanation. Today, the whole market dropped a full 1% in an instant after a fake AP tweet about a terror attack on the White House was sent. Do not doubt that […]

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