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In the spirit of the holiday bipartanship and perhaps Pinocchio…

Thanks to Dan Rosandich for sending this in.

OPERATION IRAQI CHILDREN

We conservatives are always talking about the biased coverage of what is happening in Iraq. “Why isn’t the good news about what is happening getting reported?” Well here is a story you can sink your teeth into, as well as your time and your wallet, and make a difference from right where you are.

Operation Iraqi Children is grass roots, private organization founded by actor Gary Sinise and author Laura Hillebrand. It’s mission is to provide you and me a conduit to help Iraqi children with much needed school and learning supplies. These supplies, donated by us, are then distributed by American soldiers.

First a little background. Sinise had taken a tour of Iraq and was amazed by two things. First, he was shocked at the condition of Iraqi schools. Dirty, wrecked, in need of rebuilding and basic supplies, these schools still represented the hope of a brighter future for Iraqi kids. The second amazing thing Sinise discovered was that our soldiers were taking it upon themselves to gather supplies, rebuild the shools in their spare time and do whatever they could to make a difference in these childrens lives.

At about the same time, author Laura Hillenbrand discovered much the same thing. She was trying to organize an effort to supply Iraqi children with Arabic language versions of her novel, Seabiscuit. Whe was put in touch with Sinise and together they founded Operation Iraqi Children.

Click here to link to the official web site and find out more. www.operationiraqichildren.org

When you go to the site you’ll see pictures of beautiful Iraqi children hugging our soldiers and smiling with joy at receiving these supplies. This IS the good news we’ve been talking about and you can be a part of it. The web site explains it in detail but here is baiscally how it works.

1. You go buy a basic school supply kit, or two or ten or one hundred. (A description of it is on the web site)
2. Send it to the collection center in Kansas City.
3. From there FEDEX donates the shipping to Iraq.
4. The military takes over from there by allowing soldiers to go to targeted schools and distribute the supplies.

This is real world stuff people and it makes a difference. It’s one thing to talk about supporting our troops and supporting the war in Iraq, it’s something else to get off your ass and actually do something to support it.

So I challenge you. Make a difference. Show the Arab street the everyday compassion and kindness that makes America great. Help Operatio Iraqi Children and be a part of the solution. Every effort you make through programs like this will help bring our troops home and help democracy take root and grow in Iraq.

IRAQ WAR IS JUST, RIGHT & ALMOST OVER.

I have reccomended articles by Victor David Hanson in the past, because his clarity and logic is impossible to refute. Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institue and a brilliant historian. But his latest article, which is available through National Review online and other sources is perhaps the most succinct argument ever made in support of the war in Iraq. The link above will take you directly to the full article. Below are some of the key paragraphs that are worthy of turning off your television and reading out loud to your children.

In is opening statements, Hanson points out that the mainstream media supports a one sided view of Iraq when they keep repeating falses stories and politically motivated points of view.

Almost everything that is now written about Iraq rings not quite right: It was a “blunder”; there should have been far more troops there; the country must be trisected; we must abide by a timetable and leave regardless of events on the ground; Iraq will soon devolve into either an Islamic republic or another dictatorship; the U.S. military is enervated and nearly ruined; and so on.

In fact, precisely because we have killed thousands of terrorists, trained an army, and ensured a political process, it is possible to do what was intended from the very beginning: lessen the footprint of American troops in the heart of the ancient caliphate.

It is almost laughable to hear the war protestors arguments against Bush and the war in Iraq. Hanson, nails them at every turn.

We took no oil — the price in fact skyrocketed after we invaded Iraq. We did not do Israel’s bidding; in fact, it left Gaza after we went into Iraq and elections followed on the West Bank. We did not want perpetual hegemony — in fact, we got out of Saudi Arabia, used the minimum amount of troops possible, and will leave Iraq anytime its consensual government so decrees. And we did not expropriate Arab resources, but, in fact, poured billions of dollars into Iraq to jumpstart its new consensual government in the greatest foreign aid infusion of the age.

THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD READ OUT LOUD TO YOUR KIDS
In short, every day the American people should have been reminded of, and congratulated on, their country’s singular idealism, its tireless effort to reject the cynical realism of the past, and its near lone effort to make terrible sacrifices to offer the dispossessed Shia and Kurds something better than the exploitation and near genocide of the past — and how all that alone will enhance the long-term security of the United States.

Critics of the war mock the efforts of the Iraqi people to establish Democracy and they belittle the accomplishments of the United States and it’s fighting men and women since the war began. Look at Hanson’s list of positive developments that have occured, because of the war in Iraq.

First, the Iraqi military is improving — not eroding or deserting…In truth, the Iraqi military is proving good enough to hold ground and soon to take it alongside our own troops.

Our armed forces have already accomplished what the British and the Soviets could never do in Afghanistan; what the Russians failed to accomplish in Chechnya; and what we came so close to finishing in Vietnam. They won’t falter now when they are so close to winning an almost impossibly difficult war, one that will be recognized by friends and enemies as beyond the capability of any other military in the world.

MORE REQUIRED READING OUT LOUD TO YOUR KIDS
Kurds and Shiites support us for obvious reasons — no other government on the planet would risk its sons and daughters to give them the right of one man/one vote. They may talk the necessary talk about infidels, but they know we will leave anytime they so vote. After the December election, expect them — and perhaps the Sunnis as well — quietly to ask us to stay to see things through.

Hanson’s article is worth the full read so link to it here or visit www.nationalreview.com.

As I have stated before, the war in Iraq was a bold and brilliant move on the part of George Bush and his administration. It took the war on terror, a real war, and gave it a front. That was the one thing the terrorists didn’t want, it is their weakness. In spite of what the media tells you, the terrorists are fighting the war on our terms now. On the ground, in Iraq. Yes it is tough, bloody and deadly. Yes, it should be finished, won and our troops brought home as soon as possible. Everybody wants that, but what Bush has finally summoned the courage to say is that it’ can’t happen when we want it to happen. It will happen when it happens.

Bush will be remembered as one of the greatest leaders of our country because he had the courage to risk all for what is just, right and almost over.

Buck Evinger

JOKES ABOUT LIBERALS

I’ll know you’ll want to start filling up your catalog before Thanksgiving, so here are some bad jokes about liberals.

Q: Did you hear that Mary Mapes discovered that Santa Claus is real? She’s got the letters to prove it!

Q: What’s the difference between a puppy and a liberal?
A: Puppies stop whinning after they grow up.

Q: What do you get when you cross Bea Arther and a Raggedy Ann doll?
A: Maureen Dowd.

Q: Why do liberals and Rubix Cubes have in common?
A: The more you try to figure them out, the more confusing they get.

PARISTINE

With a nod to Joseph Farah at World Net Daily

Jacques and his frères are surely weeping

Les pauvres immigrès have caught them sleeping,

Paysans revolt, their emotions churning,

What’s that odeur? Is Paris burning?

Within the banlieues there’s no joy

Among les jeunes who are sans emplois

What, take a job? Not the way to go;

We’d rather riot, torch your Peugeot.

Ah, Mother France you took us in,

Then left us with no way to win.

We’re not ègal, not garçons blanc,

We’ve no real chance to earn a franc.

No, what we are, we’re useful fools,

For leftist dreams, just brown-skinned tools.

So the Rèpublique’s butt is in a crack,

Give your merci to Jacques Chirac.

We’ll breed you into minority,

Till only mullahs hear your plea,

And Shari’a rules throughout your land,

A Frenchman steals, he’ll lose his hand.

Your licentious lifestyle, long extolled,

Will leave your women stoned, dead cold.

But everything will turn out fine,

In the Muslim Republic of Paristine.

Russ Vaughn

MARINES GOING TO FRANCE

President Bush is may send up to 5 marines and a large dog to assist the French in quelling young Muslim rioters.

Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 angry teenagers, Mr. Bush doubts France’s ability to hold off the little threat. White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters the situation was grave. “Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now”, said McClellen.

Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. “If my wifes bridge club were available this would save the United States military a lot of time and effort.”, said Pace.

Pace originally asked for volunteers but stated he was having a hard time finding even one Marine to help those ungrateful French. However several women Marines were recruited to do the jub just prior to taking pregnancy leave saying a trip to Paris would do them some good.

President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our Marines out of there as soon
as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make
sure the Marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with them so they would “fit in” with the indigenous population.

ELECTIONS ARE A WAKE UP CALL

The election results from New York to California demonstrate one very important thing, Democrats are ready to fight and win. For Republicans, it should be a wake up call. Next year’s national elections will be the dirtiest, nastiest and most expensive election ever.

I don’t for a second see this election as any kind of indictment of conservative ideas and values. How could it be? Every Democrat who won ran as a “reform” candidate offer no ideas other than “let’s change what Bush and Cheney are doing.” It reminds me of the scene in “Oh Brother, Where Art Though” when Govenor “Pappy” O’Daniel’s nephew suggests that they are losing the election because the opposition has a reform platform. “Maybe we should get us some of that reform, Pappy?” suggests the nephew. “How can we run as the reform candidate when we’re the incumbent you idiot?”

Democrats maintained the govenors seat in Virginia, that wasn’t much of a surprise, but John Corzine edging out Doug Forrester in New Jersey was. Forrester was a good candidate and had the support of Rudy Guliani. What he lacked was Charisma and an election machine to rival John Corzine.

Michael Bloomburg won soundly in New York, but what that’s a hollow victory for Republicans as Bloomburg is Republican in name only and not even close to being conservative.

I am not worried about conservative ideas. I am worried about our willingness to fight the fight. Liberal Democrats NEVER win on ideas. NEVER! They win by fighting the political fight. If it means sacrificing truth, decency and anything else, they’ll do it for victory. Are we Republicans ready for such a battle? I’ll never forget some advice my sister gave me. She is a bank manager now, but used to be an attorney, so she has always been consulted by her siblings on legal issues. The advice she gave was in response to a problem I had with a former partner improperly using work that I had done and calling it their own. I sent a letter to the former partner asking them to stop and his lawyer sent a letter back to me that basically said, piss off! My sisters advice was this. ” Well, they’ve taken the game to a new level and if you’re not willing to play the game on that level, you’ll lose.”

The point was that my former partner had deep pockets and was willing to use them and unless I was willing to play the same game I should just forget it. Republicans and conservatives are in the same boat for the upcoming elections. We has better be prepared to spend money and get bloody or we will lose much of what we have gained in the last 7 years.

Get ready. The storm is coming.

WHEN IT SAYS LIBBY, LIBBY, LIBBY…..

Do you remember that old commercial jingle for Libby’s canned foods? It went like this, “When it says Libby’s, Libby’s Libby’s on the lable lable lable, You will like it, like it, like it on your table, table, table….

Scooter Libby’s name in the news so much recently made me think of it. I was scanning the radio dail around news time the other day and as I punched my presets each time the name Libby was the first thing I heard. I imagine if you went to a liberal’s cocktail party you could walk by any conversation and hear the word Libby 14 times.

Personally, I love hearing newspeople, pundits and reporters saying the name “Scooter Libby”. No matter how hard they try, they just sound foolish.

ANCHOR: “So tell us John, what’s the mood at the White House?”
REPORTER: “Well Bill, since Scooter Libby was indicted, W and Tricky Dick Cheney have been discussing a possible replacement. Names on the list include Skippy, Spanky, Sleepy, Doc and Dopey.”

Secretly I’m sure liberals are livid that Karl Rove was not indicted because you can sound so serious saying his name.

ANCHOR: So John tell us what’s happening at the scene.
REPORTER: Well Bill, I’ve never scene anything like it. Someone hit the dog, then backed over it, and then hit the dog again. One can only assume it must have been, KARL ROVE!”…back to you Bill.

I think Libby’s real name is something Irving Lewis Libby, which would make his initials I.L.L. That would be appropriate, but not nearly as much fun as Scooter. I hope his name becomes iconic political language, like Robert Bork. Remember when he was nominated for the Supreme Court? He was the first judge that the Democrats really persecuted by digging up supposed dirt and making it sound like some horrible character flaw. That has become known as “borking” a nominee. In Libby’s case, when he is found not guilty his name could become synonymous with any number of procedures. I’ll use them in context so you can see what I mean.

REPORTER: “Boss, I’ve got a great story here that goes all the way to the President.”
EDITOR: “This is not another Scooter is it?”

DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISER: “How are we going to get enough money to fund these TV commercials.”
HOWARD DEAN: “What we need is a good Libby!”

The possibilities are endless! But if I were Scooter Libby’s defense lawyer I’d take it a step further. I would announce that Lewis ” Scooter” Libby is legally changing his name by adding the words “One Bad Motor” in front of Scooter and he will, from this day forward, be known as “One Bad Motor-Scooter”. I can’t wait for the news coverage.

ANCHOR: “Tom, what’ s going on at the White House?”
REPORTER: “Well Bob, the President and the Vice President are welcoming the return on One Bad Motor-Scooter….”

WAS MIERS’ NOMINATION STUPID OR BRILLIANT?

I have to begin this by saying I love conspiracy theories, or rather the idea of conspiracies. Reading to much Tom Clancy will do that to you.

With that being said, I’d like to offer a theory of my own for your debate. Harriet Miers’ nomination and subsequent withdrawl was a calculated political ploy that will allow Bush to nominate a very conservative judge to the court with little or no opposition and will help the Republican Party in the coming election cycle.

Fact #1: The Bush team had to know, HAD TO KNOW, that the Miers nomination would not be very well received by certain members of the conservative movement. They were told as much prior to the announcement. They also had to know that the Democrats and the anit-judiciary machine behind them would go nuts over someone so obviously lacking in experience. So why do it?

Fact #2: If you take the Harriet Miers story out of the news cycle, the only thing left is “The Leak”. As it is now, Miers’ nomination beat that story to the back page, her backing out is going to be the talk for days and then the next nominee (the real one) will be the next big story.

Fact #3: Up until the Miers nomination one of the big cards liberals played against Republicans was that the party was being steered by the religious right/ulta-conservative base. I can’t tell you how many stories I’ve seen talking about how Bush has abonded his base.

Fact #4: Whoever the new nominee is ( I think Janice Rogers Brown) the Democrats are going to look like nattering nabobs of negativism when they oppose that nominee. All Americans are going to say, “Come on already!”

What has the Miers nomination done?
A. Created some cover for Rove and company during the Plame name leak investigation.
B. Forced the left’s “anti-judiciary machine” to expend time and energy chasing a red herring.
C. Set up the next nominee, if they have any qualifications at all, to look like a superstar.
D. Sets up the Democrats who will oppose the next nominee, and they will, as whiners.
E. Allows Bush to play hardball on a “real” choice for the bench.
F. Helps Republicans in the next election in a number of ways such as; Allowing Republicans who opposed the nomination to say, “See, I’m not a Bush rubber stamper”, Let’s swing voters know that the Republican party is not run by the radical right, and there are more advantages.

It’s amazing to consider how many real advantages there are to the Miers nomination. If it was part of a master plan, it would be akin to what the German army did in World War II. Young, inexperience soldiers would be sent by the thousands to a particular front with no real hope of victory. The real purpose was to draw attention away from the real battle plans, force the enemy to expend manpower, time and energy, while allowing the experienced German soldiers to prepare for the real battle.

The Miers nomination may not have been a calculated move. It may have been a stupid blunder. But it’s a blunder with no real down side and a lot of advantages. What do you think?

Global Super Powers And The World of Tommarow

This post shall be divided into three sections. The First Part shall discuss the threat of Economic take over of China, and the second shall deal with a revived Russian Super Power, and the third shall discuss the United States. This will be an extremely LONG Post. Not for those who skim, I recommend if one wishes to comment on it that they read the entire article so that they do not miss anything.

I. China

1. Introduction:

China is of course, a Communist nation and has been since Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, 1949 in Beijing. From the beginning, the Peoples Republic of China has been a dictatorial one-party state under the Communist Party. However, post-1978 reforms have led to the relaxation, in varying degrees, of party control over many areas of society. Nonetheless, the Communist Party still has absolute control over political aspects of society, and it continuously seeks to eradicate threats to its rule. Examples of this include the jailing of political opponents and journalists, general control of the press, regulation of religions and other non-party organizations, censorship of the press, literature and film, and suppression of independence/secessionist movements. Look into the incident in Tiananmen Square for more information on just how far the Chinese government is willing to go to suppress any threat to its regime.

China is naturally a Nationalist state meaning they love their country enough to destroy all foreigners, and even themselves to protect it. Political propaganda has pervaded many aspects of daily life in China. The history of communist propaganda in China predates the establishment of the PRC, and it has since manifested itself in various forms, such as songs, paintings, posters, and films. Propaganda produced by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been disseminated through state-controlled print and electronic media, and the CCP has made prolific use of the Internet as a means of distributing propaganda to both Chinese citizens and foreigners in the modern age.

2. Conquest of The Global Market.

Right Now, I’d like the reader to take a moment to read a previous post of mine from this site, as it will help tie this all together. It will be re-posted here for the reader’s convenience.

The Issue at hand is Mortgage rates, and why this conundrum of rising interest rates, but low mortgage rates exists.

First off before I start rambling on, lets look at some background information.
The Federal Reserve sets period rates: literally, the “overnight‿ cost of money. This rate is the rate one bank pays another for have a loan of money overnight. The rationale of banks borrowing from one another is to maintain what are called minimum reserve requirements. If You’re a bank and you have, say, $ 350 million in loans outstanding, you’re required to keep a minimum percentage of those loans, in cash, at all times. So if one day Bank A lends out a little more than it can cover with reserves, it borrows from it’s buddy Bank B, which happens to have a little spare cash on it’s hands.

Long-term interest rates (which include mortgage rates) are an entirely different story. These rates are “set‿ by the bond market, just the way the stock market “sets‿ stock prices. Banks, brokerage firms, pension funds, foreign countries, mutual funds, insurance companies and individual investors bid for bonds when the Treasury sells them every three months. The more demand there is the higher the “bid‿ the less the Treasury has to pay in interest rates to sell them. The Federal government can, and does, try to tinker with long-term rates by buying and selling bonds that it holds. But as big as it is, the Federal government can’t control the global market. These bonds are then bought and sold all day long, fine-tuning long-term rates between Treasury auctions. And because the market is so large and liquid, other long-term loan rates — like mortgages — tend to follow suit.

So, why the conundrum? Several economists have come up with a theory that goes a little something like this.

Say you buy a new pair of sneakers at Wal-Mart that were made outside the U.S. A few of your dollars end up at Wal-Mart headquarters where they’re booked as profit in the company’s next quarterly earnings report. A few more dollars wind up in the hands of the American company that imported your new sneakers. A few more go to the truckers and owners of cargo ships that brought them to you. But a significant chunk of your dollars end up in the country where the products were made.

Last year, around $650 billion ended up outside the U.S. The country with the most, China, took in over $162 billion in 04. Oil producers, lead by Saudi Arabia, received $164 billion from American purchases of gasoline, heating oil and other products made from crude oil.

So what would you do if you were one of those countries with a piece of that $650 billion? You can’t spend it on goods and services: your country has already bought all the stuff from the U.S. that it needs, wants or can afford. You could put it in a bank, but for many countries holding surplus trade dollars, especially those with shaky banking systems, that’s not necessarily a very good Idea

Eventually, those U.S. dollars come back home in return for I.O.U.’s from The Federal Government called U.S. Treasury securities, still one of the safest places in the world to stash cash. As long as our Congress continues to spend more than it rises in taxes, we’ll have plenty of that Treasury debt to sell. All that demand helps keep interest rates low.

One reason China is getting so much attention, aside from the huge chunk of the trade deficit it creates, is that it has kept its own exchange, the Yuan, artificially low by pegging it to the dollar. No one knows just how much it would rise if it were allowed to “Float‿ but the strength of the Chinese economy indicates that the Yuan should be valued considerably higher relative to the dollar.

The US dollar is at the center of a series of processes that are contributing to global financial imbalances. On the one hand, the growing US balance of payments gap threatens to bring about a collapse in the dollar’s value. On the other hand, action to close the balance of payments gap would almost certainly set off a global recession as the US is the chief market for the export industries of China and East Asia, many of them US-based firms.

So far intervention by the Asian central banks, which have sold their own currencies in order to purchase US financial assets, including a growing amount of government debt, has prevented a precipitous decline in the dollar’s value. But they need to keep the money flowing in and with the US needing around $2 billion a day the amounts are not small. In 2003 dollar purchases by foreign central banks were $616.6 billion, compared to $351.9 billion the year before. The total reserves of the countries of so-called “emerging Asia‿ rose by more than $350 billion in the year to March 2004, with the central bank of China the biggest buyer of US dollar assets.

Sustained by an incredible $403 billion in foreign reserves, Chinese companies are going on a shopping spree, with a menagerie of elite mainland brands establishing footholds abroad. Leading state enterprises are scouting for overseas partners or takeover targets that offer technology, raw materials and inroads into new markets. Capital is flowing out at record levels—China claimed overseas assets of $35 billion as of the end of 2002. And with a string of new deals either landed or on the horizon, “China will become a visible player not just in the markets for toys and TVs this year,” says Dong Tao, chief regional economist for Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong, “but in mergers and acquisitions around the globe.”

3. Military strength.

One Looks to the future, and can see an obvious Chinese Domination of the entire Global economy, meanwhile the U.S slides further and further and further into debt, so far in fact, that it may not be able to defend itself against a possible upcoming threat posed militarily by not only China itself, but also the reemergence of Russia as a world superpower. (For more information on that, see previous post “The Biggest Issue No One Is Talking About”)

China’s Military might is becoming a rapid problem for the U.S. If War is ever declared on China it will be for one reason and one reason only, Taiwan. Taiwan has been separated from China when it became communist in 1949, But the Peoples Republic of China still considers it a part of Chinese domain, and has decreed a policy of war if Taiwan is to declare their Independence. Naturally The U.S will want to protect Taiwan, after all we are profiting off of it as many of our goods are produced there for cheap wages. This future conflict could spell not only disaster, but also humiliation for The U.S, as Chinese Military might stands at almost twice our own, with peacetime army of over 2.5 Million. Add that to the increased spending in defense that has produced missiles capable of penetrating the defense grid of many U.S naval forces.

3.1 Nuclear Arms

China does have a reasonable nuclear arsenal, but it’s current policy is to never use them unless nuked first. Therefore it is not likely that any nuclear conflict with china will ever happen.

II. Russia

1. Introduction

Russia is a very interesting topic right now, President Vladimir Puten, the leader of The Russian Federation, seems to be taking steps to Re-Birth the former Soviet Union There are sections of a previous Post her that I’d like to quote.

“The Biggest Issue Nobody is Talking About”.

President Putin, a former KGB heavy back in the days of the original USSR, has forged world alliances, formed his own party, rebuilt Russia’s economy, and now has won such a solid majority for his party in the elections yesterday that he likely has the power to rewrite the constitution at his will and get any law passed he chooses.

He now has four more years to take advantage of Bush’s bankrupting, naive foreign policy and absolute spinelessness. He knows the difference between a bully and someone truly strong. The bully is bold in attacking the weak but cowardly when confronted by anyone who truly is a match. Putin knows Bush loved acting tough by launching a massive attack against Iraq, a nation that had been rendered defenseless by a decade of UN sanctions, but that he doesn’t dare stand up to any real threat: not to Pakistan, not to North Korea, and certainly not to Russia.

2. Rebuilt Economy

In 2004, Russia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by approximately 7.1%, surpassing average growth rates in all other G8 countries, and marking the country’s sixth consecutive year of economic expansion. Russia’s economic growth over the last five years has been fueled primarily by energy exports, particularly given the boom in Russian oil production and relatively high world oil prices during the period. This Economic growth is Fueled Mainly by Oil and Natural Gas prices. As it stands, Russia is one of the largest exporters of oil in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. Over 70% of Russian crude oil production is sent directly abroad for export, while the remaining 30% is refined locally. It also holds the world’s largest natural gas reserves, with 1,680 trillion cubic feet, nearly twice the reserves in the next largest country, Iran.

3. Military

Russia currently has 1,520,000 military personnel serving in their combined military force, which at the moment is about the same as ours. The Russian military equipment is out dated and far inferior to our own, how ever mass build up of arms and equipment has begun recently wit profits from the Russian oil trade. It’s fair to saw that Russian military might is being significantly upgraded. Russia has the ability to produce and manufacture vehicles and materials to become the most powerful nation in the world. However, because of the economic decline they suffered from Communist rule it will take a very long time for them to even consider getting back on track.

III. The United States

1. Introduction

The United States already has had super power status in the world since the end of the Second World War. Threw careful manipulation of the world around it, it even managed to survive the cold war. Currently it is using this power in a global conflict against terrorism, and Iraq. There are also a great many situations that the United States is involved in on a global scale such as negotiations in North Korea and Iran over Nuclear arms. While the majority of it’s focus is in the middle east the United States is still a very major player on the world scale.

2. Economy

There can be no doubt about it, compared to the immense growth by the other two future super powers, the United States seems to be declining. Don’t get me wrong, The U.S is extreamly strong economicly RIGHT NOW, being the top in forign trade, etc… what I’m about to talk about is the decline in GROWTH of our economy, and how we’re endanger of having our economy out produced by the other two future superpowers. As stated above, China owns a massive chunk of Trade deficit as well as Saudi Arabia and other countries. Production has moved over seas to countries like South Korea and Taiwan where labor is cheaper. Major corporations have also taken advantage of tax looph0oles and have moved corporate HQ over seas to avoid paying taxes.

Now, as you’ve guessed I’d like to put in yet another quote from a previous post Thoughts on the Economy

Our deficit ceiling just got raised to $8 trillion. Our annual deficit is running over $450 billion.

This is why you no longer hear the President or conservatives talk about balancing the budget through spending cuts. That old rhetoric about how just by cutting programs for those poor, lazy minorities you could balance things out is replaced by the reality that even entirely eliminating such programs doesn’t even come close to making a dent in things – you could entirely eliminate programs for the poor and still have about $400 billion of deficit, or about 20% of all the rest, much of which is uncuttable.

3. Military

Military is the U.S specialty. The United States currently spends $370.7 billion on defense, that’s more than the next 5 countries combined. Our Current Military strategy is to be prepared to fight 2 wars at the same time, so you can see why such a massive military is required. As it stands the U.S Army has military troops all over the world, From South Korea, to Germany, to Saudi Arabia and of course Iraq and Afghanistan. We have the most high tech equipment available, and currently have a great many contractors working on development of “Next Gen” technology. There can be no doubt about it the military of the United states is, and will continue to be a dominant force in the world so long as we have the man power to maintain it.

IV. Conclusion:

As you can see the Future will be very interesting. No more will things like abortion seem important as we may have 3 superpowers battling each other for supremacy, which brings to mind a question, have we, the human race, learned our lessons from the Cold War when two Super powers fighting for supremacy nearly destroyed each other and the world with them?

Jack Antilla.

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Foot Notes

1. New Yorker.Com “IN YUAN WE TRUST” Oct 7, 2005
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050418ta_talk_surowiecki

2. Frank W Moore, IDDS Research Analyst, ComW.Org “China’s Military Capabilities ”
Oct 7, 2005
http://www.comw.org/cmp/fulltext/iddschina.html

3. Wikipedia.org “CHINA” Oct 7, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

4. Wikipedia.org “Economy of the People’s Republic of China” Oct 7, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_People’s_Republic_of_China

5. The Economist Intelligence Unit, “China” (Economic Structure) Oct 7,2005
http://www.economist.com/countries/China/profile.cfm?folder=Profile-Economic%20Structure

6. Bigpicture.typepad.com “Subsidizing U.S. Borrowing & Spending” Oct 7, 2005
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/10/subsidizing_us_.html

7. Jonathan Weisman The Washington Post “Foreign Investment Aids Cleanup, Despite Adding to U.S. Deficit” Oct 7, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001650.html

8. George Wehrfritz MSNBC “Flush with billions in foreign reserves, China is embarking on a buying spree” (China: Going Global) Oct 7, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4432131/site/newsweek/

9. EIA.Gov “Russia” Oct 8 2005,
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/russia.html

10. RML “Russian Military links” Oct. 14th, 2005
http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~kkehraus/

11. Nationmaster.com “Russian Profile‿ Oct. 18th, 2005
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/rs/Military

12. CIA.Gov “United States” Oct 18th, 2005
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html

13. BLS.Gov “United States Economy” Oct 18th, 2005
http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm

I Recommend reference #5 for a visual look at many Charts on Chinese Economics, It may help, it may not.