JP via RSS
War in Pakistan -Waziristan Coming Soon to a Market Near America.
Look at where the wars are waged to see the money being made.
Consider Pakistan’s strategic Silk Road borders and connects Afghanistan, Iran and China oil and gas not that far from Russian Caspian oil and gas.
Are Gog, Magog and the Lost Tribes of Israel gathering to assault the plains of Meggido in Israel for Armageddon Oil?
Real politique finds numerous significant recent changes in geopolitics, from the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union, to the rise of Global Terrorism, to the beginning of worldwide Depression and global trade mercantilist warfare.
Today’s changes in political power and economic wealth are perhaps the greatest in history, including the time of Alexander’s Conquests and the successive warrior empires of Babylon, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Mongolia, Rome and Tibet.
The Waziristan Revolution
Pakistani troops in the NWFP Northwest Frontier Province may be fighting less to protect US interests, and more to keep control of Pakistan nuclear missile arsenals and power from Muslim radicals that threaten the status of the more modern oligarchy of Pakistan.
One of my Stanford Teaching Assistants was from a prosperous industrial conglomerate family in Karachi on the Arabian Sea. He enjoyed his polo, modern conveniences and goods.
Similar could be said of the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Britain, as well as Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia and America.
Their Establishments protect their interests in an increasingly interconnected world. The rich never pay the bulk of taxes despite rhetoric to the contrary. They have their foundations and tax devices.
The Middle Class pay government Carbon Taxes, Cap Trade, EcoTerrorism, Healthcare and the costs of war on everything.
Government grew faster than the American population for decades, and we are the worse for it.
