mr ed - ok - so heres where my thinking is heading wrt the geo-political future of the planet. im just gonna ramble....

praps my overall sense is that rove and the neocons and murdoch et al are really good at what they do. the world seems to make a lot more sense under that prima facie assumption. im nearly sure that 911 was an inside job. im nearly sure that any lawyer could prove on balance of evidence, that the inside job story is more likely than the osama story. that means that things are about 1000 times worse than we originally thought on that horrible day. 1000 times. if we thought the osama thing was simply incomprehensable, then the idea that the president et al were complicit is orders of magnitude more fucked up. but the evidence seems to point more in that direction than the osama direction (at least not without inside support). so the stage is set.

then we get the iraq debacle - with military personel totally stretched, and the apparently inevitable imminent-ish invasions of syria and iran. there are only 2 ways that u can solve that problem. implement the draft (which at least probably adds many months to the time frame) or secondly, u nuke 'em. praps theres a third way - sars or some other disease. these people arent idiots - i reckon they *must* have a plan - newt is wrong - they arent 'going off a cliff' - at least, not without a stunt double.

and then we have the odd industry battles going on - first steel, and gm food, then textiles, now beef, and tourism (all details of passengers, and now marshalls - 'sovereign air space'). assuming they have a plan, then there must a purpose behind all this - its almost like they are intentionally isolating themselves, and destroying the usd in the process. praps the isolationism is purely to create other monsters. 'the japs wont buy our beef, cos canada is mad'. enemies enemies everywhere. or perhaps they did some analysis and decided that say a 90% fall in the usd would hurt russia and china more than the US. it looks intentional to me if im feeling skeptical - but i cant work out why they would do that. thank godness i knew i was crazy before bush was selected.