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Russian Wheat Export Ban = Riots in Mozambique?

The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing today produces a tiny change…
…so, in a month’s time,
a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn’t happen,
or maybe one that wasn’t going to happen does.

Ian Stewart
The Mathematics of Chaos

“U.N. Raises Concerns as Global Food Prices Jump
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

With memories still fresh of [...]

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John Fund on Pollster Scott Rasmussen

…Whose judgment do you trust more:
that of the American people or America’s political leaders?

Has the federal government become its own special interest group?

Do government and big business often work together
in ways that hurt consumers and investors?

Those who identify with the government on two or more questions are defined as the political class…

Before the financial crisis [...]

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Reason Foundation from Wall Street Journal: China Real Estate Bubble? Profound.

China’s Looming Real-Estate Bubble

A massive Keynesian spending program has misallocated capital and set the stage for a crisis.

…there is mounting evidence that Beijing has misallocated vast amounts of capital, touching off a real-estate crisis that could yet drag the world’s second-largest economy down to earth.

When the global marketplace went into meltdown mode two years ago [...]

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On Resource War

Calling All Future-Eaters

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off.

 The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals.

The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas.

Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians.

…Homo sapiens, [...]

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Why would who want to target Iraqi public sector banks?

Two suicide bombers detonated cars laden with explosives outside the Trade Bank of Iraq, …one of the public sector’s most active financial institutions and at the forefront of efforts to encourage foreign investment…, killing 26 people in the latest attack to raise concerns about the nation’s stability after an inconclusive election.

A week earlier, gunmen and [...]

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If Chinese labor unrest = higher prices, could more Developing Economy worker instability limit future economic investment and growth?

We can ignore reality
but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality

Ayn Rand

Time to defend Chinese workers’ rights

Wherever exists exploitation and suppression, rebellion erupts. If the exploited are a majority of the society, the revolt draws even nearer and comes with a louder bout.

For the past 30 years witnessing China’s meteoric [...]

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What does a carnivore look for in the face of its prey and why?

If mold continues to multiply after eating half a piece of cheese
what happens when demand exceeds supply?

Are there times when compromise isn’t appropriate?

Should you do what you need to whether you like it or not
sooner than later?

Is the definition of civilized changing again?

I don’t care if I follow your rules, if you can [...]

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On Iran: Have the powerful created symbols for the powerless to destroy to turn tyranny into nationalism?

Iran anniversary ‘punch’ will stun West: Khamenei

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a “punch” that will stun world powers during this week’s 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

“The Iranian nation, with its unity and God’s grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman [...]

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On Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy etc…: Have the educated underemployed instigated most rebellions?

Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary security,
deserve neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Greece faces strike barrage over austerity cuts

Greek tax collectors and customs officers walked off the job on Thursday, kicking off a spate of strikes against government austerity cuts designed to halt a financial crisis caused [...]

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What could happen if a generation of underemployed, underpaid, educated and indebted young adults become disillusioned by their elders’ financial mismanagement and seek to identify and punish those responsible?

Moody’s warns of ‘social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals: Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested.

 

In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, [...]

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