http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7234817.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7240197.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7239829.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4990302.stm

These stories seem to be building up quite rapidly....

The challenges to American hegemony are coming faster and faster. This is not good. We are in huge debt to the Chinese and militarily overstretched because of our forays in the Middle East.

I dunno, something does not feel right about this. Do you think that these are all connected?

I'm starting to think so, and I don't like it one bit at all.

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I'll tell you this no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
You may bury my body, down by the highway side,
so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride.

if we go into a cold war with china we'll stiff them on the bill. there's little need to worry.