The Rise of Shariah Compliant Finance

January 21, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditAt present, the national defense community has identified two of the most serious concern areas in the world today. We have outlined the Chinese threat and how it plays out in the realm of global economic warfare. We have also touched on the threat of  jihad seeking to impose Shariah Law on the West. Both of […]

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Chinese Espionage is a Fact of Life

January 20, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWe have already demonstrated that the Chinese Military (PLA) has been planning for Global Economic Warfare with the United States for at least the past decade. This is documented in their doctrinal text,: Unrestricted Warfare  (see the January 14, 2011 post on this subject in this Blog). Many, however, have attempted to argue that the […]

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Can Wall Street Be Manipulated?

January 20, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditOne of the debates among those who look at the risks of global economic warfare and the research I prepared has to do with whether or not it is possible to manipulate free markets. For those who have studied the current state of Wall Street, the debate is over. High-frequency trading accounts for about […]

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The Weapon of Oil?

January 19, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThe report we prepared on Economic Warfare in early 2009 documented a Phase One attack. Clearly the ramp in oil prices to nearly $150/barrel in June 2008 from as low as $50/barrel at the start of 2007 had a very negative effect on the U.S. economy. In fact, it set the stage for the […]

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Testing Their Weapons?

January 19, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditSTRATFOR has just published an interesting piece that is available free to non-subscribers on their website (Read the online version). It covers some interesting points that match with some of our earlier analysis. Here are a few of the key quotes: The J-20 Test’s Timing “Perhaps more interesting than the test was its timing, […]

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Two Primary Suspects

January 17, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThere are really only two large pools of capital in the world today. The first is China as an export powerhouse. We’ve already posted a good amount of information that indicates Chinese awareness of Financial Warfare and how to use our markets as weapons against us. That’s written into their military doctrine as Unrestricted […]

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What Caused the 2008 Market Collapse?

January 17, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditThere are many theories regarding what happened in 2008. Perhaps the most to-the-point analysis comes from none other than George Soros. By any account, Soros should be viewed as someone who understands how markets can be used as weapons. The Chinese military experts, in their book Unrestricted Warfare first published in 1999, had this […]

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It Didn’t Take Long….

January 16, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleReddit…for President Hu to acknowledge the primary weakness of America, our vulnerable status as reserve currency of the world. In fact, he specifically term that status as “a product of the past.” He was quick to blame the 2008 market meltdown on the United States and just as quickly call for an elevation of […]

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Which Chinese?

January 15, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditWhen discussing the report, one of the initial “this can’t be possible” responses of total shock and disbelief centers around the simplistic thought that the Chinese would never harm the U.S. economy. The argument is that we are simply too interdependent. Massive Chinese holdings of U.S. dollars and Treasury bonds would suggest that it […]

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Opportunity for Phase Three

January 15, 2011

Share this…EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditAn important part of economic warfare research is to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited. These encompass the opportunity in a motive,means, and opportunity analysis. At present, there is no greater vulnerability faced by the United States than the removal of “reserve currency” status from the United States dollar. This is a very serious […]

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