Samuel Huntington?????????

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

The only thing that racist professional shill for white people ever did that was worth a tinker’s dam is: HE FINALLY DIED.

But white uber alles pimps just keep digging up his putresecent corpse and trying to peddle pieces of it on internet sites like this one.

Smellavision never really caught on, guys.  It was of the same era as 3-D,—which is making a legitimate comeback—but that doesn’t mean that Smellavision will ever be anything but stench.

IMax:  I insist that you should understand what I say before loading your guns and firing.
  You used the expression “interplay beteen nations, cultures and markets” which caused me to gag.  Why?
Because nothing much except exploitation, beating up on smaller and helpless nations, cultures and markets is what is actually happening worldwide.
Though the US is not the only nation guilty of promoting this one-sided behavior of “Amerika uber alles” (which is deadly serious, anything but “interplay”) we have to take most of the responsibility for our part. (We are the chief promoters of NAFTA, CAFTA, the WTO and its murderous policies, aren’t we? And the maintainers of by far the most powerful and extensive military “presence” in the world, selling weapons and breathing down necks wherever we can get a foot in the door, right? Does this promote peace? No, it doesn’t.)
  Why do we do this?  For money?  For power? And what do money and power buy for us?  More money and more power? Plus the secret or overt hatred of most of our client states and dependencies? And even the behind-hand sneers of our “friends”? Have you ever been abroad?  If so, you must have been encased in a cocoon of self-deceit or you would have experienced awareness that the U.S. is in the hot seat of criticism by most “foreigners.”
  And by the way, suggesting I read Huntington is a dead giveaway to where you get some of your ideas. Actually, rather than being superior in intuition, behavior and foresight, we are woefully behind the times. (It makes me weep to say this, actually.) but the U.S is the bull in the worldl’s china shop, oblivious to the wreckage it leavss behind. 
  This need not be. As long as I live, I will try to do what I can to try to help us understand ourselves because I know we can do better.

“I see how passionate you are.  But you must end your constant focus on the United States.  You take the entire globe out of context then question why there is no peace in the world.”

What patronising garbage. You don’t need to go to Stratfor for answers. Just google “American military Interventions” and take a good long look at those pages and pages of invasions, bombings, occupations and assassinations stretching all the way back to 1890. If you don’t know why there’s no peace in the world after that you’re not trying.  Who do you suggest we focus on Imax? Switzerland? Lithuania? Or should we turn our critical gaze on New Zealand? Or perhaps Kirabas and Tuvalu? America is the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room and as such is impossible to ignore and with its record of aggression and wholesale slaughter in foreign lands it cannot be classed with other countries because it is like no other country. The American love of power is well-documented: what is not documented are America’s crimes against humanity and its lust for wealth and resources - at any price. The economic agenda is the plan and war is how its implemented. It’s always been that way so it’s disingenuous to claim America is just another member of the world community. That is arrant nonsense. And since you’re recommending reading matter try reading ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ by John Perkins and maintaining your claim that America is unjustly subjected to criticism.

gerard, - “Do tell us more about this interplay between nations, cultures, and markets.”

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Perhaps you should get a copy of George Friedman’s book from your local library so that you too will understand the interplay between cultures.  I would also suggest the book “The Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington.

I will be as polite as I’m able with you.

I beg you to understand there is zero validity to any opinion of U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan if that opinion does not include China and Taiwan.  You in particular will benefit tremendously with the knowledge that the world is larger, and a great deal more complicated, than you seem willing to fathom.  There is more than one nation-state on earth to consider, gerard.  Over the past few months I have never seen you consider more than one.

I see how passionate you are.  But you must end your constant focus on the United States.  You take the entire globe out of context then question why there is no peace in the world.

Do tell us more about this “interplay between nations, cultures, and markets.”  It would appear to most careful observers that “interplay” it is NOT.

Of course if Stratfor and others choose to call it “interplay” that sells more papers, I suppose.
Pardon the cynicism, but “wordplay” says a lot, too.

WikiLeaks Catches Stratfor Tracking Activists? 

Tracking and reporting global events and notable players is precisely what Stratfor does.  The service has been doing this, quite competently, for some time now.  I’ve been a paying consumer of the service for roughly the past 12-15 years.  It’s been an invaluable resource.  I highly recommend ‘The Next 100 Years’ by Stratfor founder, George Friedman.  An excellent look at global dynamics and the interplay between nations, cultures, and markets.  Friedman is a known and well respected “futurist”.  Even when I disagree with him I always come away better informed.  The follow-up book, ‘The Next Decade’, already waits on my NOOK.

Friedman argues better than I a belief I happen to share.  The belief that China will ultimately, likely painfully, collapse under it’s own weight in the coming decades into smaller, culturally divided, nation-states.  He argues quiet convincingly how natural resources in the future, along with large and educated populations, will raise Central and South America to near “super power” status.  And, as unlikely as it may seem today, Mexico and Turkey may well turn out to be heavy-hitters in the next couple of generations.

WikiLeaks Catches Stratfor Tracking Activists?  This is the worst kept secret imaginable.

The most interesting thing in the Stratfor leaks is the fact that the US has a sealed indictment against Assange, ready to go as soon as the bullshit rape charges in Sweden get him extradited to Sweden and from there ‘rendered’ to the US to face more bullshit charges of espionage. The first amendment protects free speech and freedom of the press so that sealed indictment is just one more example of how lawless and unaccountable America now is, even to its own constitution. Not only is the truth whatever America says it is, the law is whatever America says it is.

Looks like a good move/partnership for Anonymous.

I think this will be much more effective then temporarily shutting down websites, publishing peoples credit card #‘s???,  and such.

Also… “The Yes Men Save The World” was AWESOME!!!