Egypt Vs. The Muslim Brotherhood – Preventing the Next Syria
April 1, 2014 0

Egypt Vs. The Muslim Brotherhood – Preventing the Next Syria

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How Egypt Got Here    Egypt’s current turmoil is a direct result of the 2011 so-called “Arab Spring.†While nations like Libya lie in ruins with the “revolution†a “success†and the Libyan people now subjugated by pro-Western proxies, and Syria as it continues to fight on in a costly 3 year conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives, Egypt has taken a different path.  When violent mobs began inching Egypt toward violence of Libyan and Syrian proportions, the Egyptian military, who has been the primary brokers of power in Egypt for decades, bent with the winds of change. Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power and the military tolerated the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood itself into power.

April 1, 2014 0

Cold War 2.0

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We Are All Sitting Ducks
March 31, 2014 0

We Are All Sitting Ducks

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Tweet Michael Oppenheimer summed it up, "We are all sitting ducks" The WGII Summary for Policy Makers is available.  It can be downloaded , and is not very long (44 pages including figures, about 30 pages of print).  If bunnies have been paying attention a fast skim can be done.  It is a sobering read, no more so than expected, perhaps less than needed.  The first sentence says it all Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems Human existence depends on those natural systems and humans are straining them to the breaking point and it is in the natural systems that the largest effects have been seen, seen, but mere harbingers of that to come. In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.

China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility"
March 30, 2014 0

China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility"

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China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility" Financial stress related to Ponzi financing and other bad debts in China is readily visible in numerous places. One result is China’s Big Banks Double Bad-Loan Write-Offs . China’s biggest banks more than doubled the level of bad loans they wrote off last year, in a sign that financial strains are mounting as growth in the world’s second-largest economy slows.