Friday, 5 March 2010

Friday, March 05, 2010

 

China Says it Aims to Restart N. Korea Nuke Talks

China says it wants to restart six-nation, North Korean nuclear negotiations before July, as reported here.

So what? The Stalinist/Kimist regime in North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons.

 

Western Wooing of Syria Fails

Damascus is preparing for war. Click here for the story.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

 

Is China's Real Estate Bubble Ready to Burst?

A $45 million duplex in Shanghai is only one example of China's gravity-defying real estate boom, as reported here.

Prices are soaring, thanks to crony capitalism and Communist corruption.

 

Dateline USA: Two Pentagon Police Officers Shot

A gunman cooly opened fire at the subway entrance to the Pentagon. He was critically wounded after shooting two police officers. Click here for the breaking news story.

An inconvenient question: what if five or six gunmen had shown up, armed with shotguns and automatic weapons? Who would have stopped them? At what cost?

 

China Increasing Investments in US

The United States is fast becoming a Third World country. Its assets are being gobbled up at bargain-basement prices by China, as reported here.

Both political parties have essentially sold out the American people--ordinary workers and citizens--in the name of free trade and globalization. Actually, only handfuls of Americans--the political and economic elites--benefitted from the hollowing out and outsourcing of their nation's economy, especially, its manufacturing sector.

Free trade with first world democracies made a lot of sense; free trade with developing despotisms, no sense.