It feels strange to have nostalgia for the times of GW Bush, but Trump has make President GW Bush into a soft of folksy hero, and a re-evaluation of his time in the White House and his own sense of self-effacing humour contrasts sharply with the humourless, narcissistic approach we have become used to. Take …
Category: George Bush
Syria and Iraq
In the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/chemical-weapons-wont-be-used-in-rebellion-syria-says.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120724 - it is evident that Syria has a large cachet of WMD. Why? Well Saddam's stock must have gone somewhere when sabrés were rattled. Syria is all that is left of the common Ba-athist political party that fell with Saddam in Iraq. What is Ba'athism? It is an Islamic form of Socialism. …
Political Evolution
Politics needs evolution too. The US were way ahead of the game before GW Bush made the biblical error of declaring war on Iraq despite the evidence and spent the American economy into extraordinary debt compounded by fraud and banking fantasy-land mathematics. It was a stampede into insolvency that left the economy etherised on the …
How to solve the financial crisis
Economic RegressionThe path that GW Bush has set the United States upon is inverse socialism. It is regression. It has produced an incipient depression in the world economy by creating a inverse bubble. A huge cash vacuum has removed 2 trillion from the American federal reserve.To reduce the treasury into a funding agency for the …
Georgia
The history lessons that the leader of Georgia attended may have given him a distorted concept of valour. Giving the Russian army an excuse to invade seems rash at best. Risking all for territorial integrity, why?Russia used to control all sorts of countries that became independent of the USSR last century. Of course there are …
Death by a thousand Debts
The United States of America is being swallowed by its own shallowness and greed. There is a wonderfully revealing article in the NY Times today with a revealing interactive graph of events during each decade. It is most remarkable that the savings rate which deteriorated badly in the Great Depression mirrors what is happening now, …
Red Alert
Ever wonder how the ingenious Dept of Homeland Security Alert System of colour coded warnings was derived? Take a look at the linked movie. Click the title. It explains the design team's philosophy and perhaps explains why the Dept of HS is so effective at stopping terrorists (except white ones) from being able to harm …
Slowdown Fears Rife
Markets and Dollar Sink as Slowdown Fear Increases - New York TimesAs predicted when Mr Bush lowered tax rates for the very rich - the US economy devalued itself giving it the impression of a lot of spare cash. But he had gone to war with an already crippled Iraq and has spent hundreds of …
The Agenda Setting Edge
On a MB (Message Board) on The Agonist - one of the best blogs in the business:"I meant Trade Center Bombing 1993, first year of Clinton in office same as 2001 for Bush. I think Al Qaeda likes first term Presidents, a point of weakness before they get their bearings."Perhaps that is the pattern and …