Up until the early 1900s, the British fleet was considered the main military threat by the US war planners. Rejecting the British claim that global free trade served the good of humanity rather than the narrow interests of British manufacturers, the US engaged in industrial protectionism to promote its manufacturing capability at the expense of Britain, but who is now the main military threat to the US?

Saddam Hussein and his fantastic weapons of mass destruction are gone, Osama bin Laden is either dead, or playing chess in his hidden cave, and of course nobody can find him, but North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is still active, or maybe he has just got a better stash of Viagra It kind of all reminds me of the 3 stooges, yet ones dead, other either dead or hiding, and last one is snorting Viagra and ready to launch nuclear missiles………well maybe “pretend nuclear missiles” since there's not really any more evidence to suggest that they actual exist than Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Did someone forget to plant the evidence?

Of course the western media likes to promote North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il recent underground nuclear tests, but was it actually nuclear and not a massive TNT charge like some Russian News  agencies suggest………show me the evidence!

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like the replacement stooge for Saddam , although his time may be coming to an end, but its quite unclear why, as beating the Nuclear drum like Kim Jong-Il was only really about being granted more concessions,and nobody was really worried, but it sold good news print…… maybe not far different to the Somalian pirates with their hijacking activities trying to obtain “concessions “.

What makes Ahmadinejad different from the other stooges is that for some time now he dismisses the World war 2 Jewish Holocaust as a "great deception".

On the 3rd of June Mr Ahmadinejad's critics within Iran, including reformists and even some fellow conservatives, say his fiery anti-Western speeches and his questioning of the Holocaust have isolated Iran, which is at odds with the West over its nuclear ambitions and at the same time French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the words as "unacceptable and profoundly shocking", of course no one mentions the French’s involvement of “Jewish migration” out of France during WW2……….Maybe a Compensation claim in the making?

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad provocative remarks came as US President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at increasing US engagement with the Islamic world. In what's been described as a swipe at the Iranian President, Barack Obama has labeled Holocaust denials 'baseless, ignorant and hateful'. The US President didn't mention Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by name, but earlier in the week the Iranian President questioned the Holocaust.

Barack Obama spoke after touring a former Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

Obama's visits to Dresden and Buchenwald also ruffled some feathers in Germany. The US president's advance team, which had been sent to help prepare for the trip, made a negative impression on the Germans through their coarse language and overbearing behaviour. German officials were shouted at, treated like schoolchildren and told to wait their turns.

"We have never experienced such a hardline approach during any visit," says an official from Germany's Foreign Ministry. The Obama team, for its part, is trying to reclaim for itself the mechanisms of the modern media society, arguing that it was important to prevent the Buchenwald visit from being spoiled by images of a smiling and joking president. The spin doctors call it "message control.

" Barack Obama Uncle saw the lingering horrors of Buchenwald first hand; the ovens, the crematorium, the guard towers, the barbed wire, and maybe even soap made from human remains. It should then come to no surprise that Barack Obama's great uncle helped liberate one of Buchenwald's satellite camps, and the President says he heard chilling stories about it as a boy.

Maybe Obama should  of mention how much more safer it was for a black man in Europe during 1920 - 1960's including the Hitler era  to walk the streets than in his homeland USA, where they were still lynching black men.

Barack Obama's travelled to Buchenwald and spoke forcefully about the Holocaust, Obama's emphasizing what he calls America's unbreakable bond with Israel, and of course that’s more important than “stooge Kim Jong-Il” Stalinist state vowing to step up uranium enrichment and to use plutonium extracts to build nuclear weapons, and then maybe fire those nuclear missiles, so much so that a draft of Japan's new mid-term defense policy guidelines is calling for an increase in military personnel and equipment upgrade in the face of growing regional tensions. The Kyodo news agency, which has obtained a copy, says the draft recommends Japan reverses its policy of reducing its defense budget in response to North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests and “China's rise” as a major military power.

Its therefore no wonder that the head of the Pentagon's F-35 fighter program said that total sales of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could reach 6,000 over time, Brigadier General David Heinz, program executive officer for the F-35, said the United States and its eight foreign partners were expected to order more than 3,100 fighters.

Initial foreign military sales to other countries such as Spain, Israel, Greece, Singapore and South Korea could add at least 1,000 more orders. But in time, as world fleets of F-16, F-15, F-18 and other fighter jets need replacements, sales could climb as high as 6,000.

By the early 20th century, Britain's brief military and commercial hegemony had provoked its own nemesis, in the form of the arms build-ups and nationalist industrial policies of the US, Germany, Japan and Russia.

Paradoxically, Americans have been the principal sponsors of collective security and the new doctrine of US unilateralism. While the means differ, the end is the same - a world in which a single authority, be it the UN or the US acting on its own, is the functional equivalent of a world government, in which the line between war and law enforcement truly vanishes…………..what will really happen?

Meanwhile Research by international scientists shows the world faces a growing risk of "abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts" as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected.

Global surface and ocean temperatures, sea levels, extreme climate events, and the retreat of Arctic sea ice have all significantly picked up more pace than experts predicted only a couple of years ago, they say.

The stark warning comes less than six months before an international conference aiming to seal a treaty to save the planet from the worst ravages of global warming.

At the same time Australia's latest defense white paper has been heavily criticized for pretending that Australia's military could eventually deliver a knockout blow to China in the event of a full scale conflict. One of Australia's most prominent strategic policy makers, emeritus Professor Paul Dibb, says the Australian government has failed to explain how it would even develop the force structure for such a blow. But professor Dibb's views have not gone unchallenged.

In Germany Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told the "Tagesschau" prime time television news show on Wednesday "That is no war," in Afghanistan after Tuesday's casualties brought the total number of German deaths in Afghanistan to 35.

Minister Franz Josef Jung said "In a war, you don't build schools, you don't take care of the water and energy supply, you don't build kindergartens and hospitals. And you don't train the military and the police."

But for the German parliament's military commissioner, Reinhold Robbe, things look different on the ground "I was just in Afghanistan," Robbe told SPIEGEL ONLINE after Tuesday's deaths. "In what was sometimes a very emotional way, the soldiers there made things clear to me. They said: 'Mr. Robbe, there aren't any wells being built here at the moment, and no schools are being opened. It's war here now.'

The ministers in Berlin won't officially speak about war. Instead, like cowards they use all sorts of synonyms, such as conflict, armed defensive action and military engagement.

US President Barack Obama recently met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Dresden where , he did something completely unexpected in the middle of their conversation: He deviated from the program.

When high-ranking politicians meet, the briefing book is one of the most important elements. It includes the agenda and the things a politician is expected to say. Chancellors and presidents like to stick to briefing book, because it gives them security.

In Dresden, Obama remained true to the program at first. But then he unexpectedly asked "Angela" why, exactly, she didn't want Turkey to be accepted into the European Union……………

Merkel was taken aback. She had to think on her feet and quickly come up with an answer for an issue on which she had no pre-prepared comments.

The two leaders talked about the Middle East, Iran, North Korea and, most of all, about the two major crises of the day: the collapse of the financial markets and the possibility of a climatic catastrophe.

But a clash of cultures is raging between Berlin and the United States on the issue of financial policy. The administration in Washington is combating the financial crisis by taking on more and more new debt, thus It isn't even clear that the United States still perceives Germany and Europe as important partners. The White House believes its policy of printing money is necessary, not risky.............sure!

Merkel, on the other hand, is struggling to keep Germany's budget deficit at about 4 percent of GDP this year. In the United States, the deficit will likely have reached 13 percent when the current budget year ends this fall. The German chancellor also considers the Americans' aggressive monetary policy to be dangerous.

The Americans remember the 1929 global economic crisis with horror which they see as the epitome of hunger, hardship and ruin. The Germans, on the other hand, think of 1923, when hyperinflation destroyed assets and plunged many into poverty.

Most of all, Merkel wants Obama to ensure that an effective climate agreement will be agreed upon at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, she plans to ask Obama to significantly step up US efforts to prevent a dangerous warming of the atmosphere and oceans.

In the UN Climate Conference in Bali in late 2007, the administration of former US President George W. Bush reluctantly agreed to a footnote stating that the industrialized countries are to reduce their CO2 emissions by 25 to 40 percent, compared with 1990 levels, by the year 2020.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling for the same thing, but Obama has instructed his negotiators to oppose reduction targets at those levels.

Obama is only willing to commit to drastic CO2 reductions by the more distant date of 2050. His reluctance stems from a dispute with China. The Chinese have refused to specify a binding reduction target, and the Americans are only willing to make commitments for 2020 if the Chinese do so as well. Merkel's adviser on global warming, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warns that immediate, large-scale reductions are needed to prevent catastrophic climate change. For Merkel, the fact that Europe is offering a reduction target of up to 30 percent and the German government is even pursuing a 40 percent reduction by 2020 is evidence of "leadership" on their part. "What the Americans are currently offering is simply not enough," says one source close to Merkel.

Economic Crisis, Catastrophic climate change, Advanced Biological Warfare recombination DNA genetically engineered virus's, Money Printing and Printing, Iran, North Korea, Middle East, China.................

It all seems so random, all so un planned, but is it?.

According to traditional interpretations, the Messiah will return to earth and destroy the Antichrist at the Battle of Armageddon. Then Satan will be put into the bottomless pit or abyss for 1,000 years.

Sure we can start praying, and or start preparing.

What we are witnessing is the battle of the Computer Algorithms, in mathematics, chaos theory describes the behaviour of certain dynamical systems

As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behaviour of chaotic systems appears to be random. This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions with no random elements involved. This behaviour is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.

Chaotic behaviour is also observed in natural systems, such as the weather. This may be explained by a chaos-theoretical analysis of a mathematical model of such a system, embodying the laws of physics that are relevant for the natural system.

It can be difficult to tell from data whether a physical or other observed process is random or chaotic, because in practice no time series consists of pure 'signal.' There will always be some form of corrupting noise.............the corrupting "Noise" in the current world can be simply an abstract random decision to attack a country, or releasing  Advanced Biological Warfare systems which will throw the "Enemy Algorithms" into complete error.

Still worried about your investments, when no economist knows what is really going on, yet on they "Spin", simply the only people that know what's going on are running the Algorithms, and all we can do is to prepare.

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