Via Peter K of SovereignMan.com,
I’m visiting my brother in Indonesia right now.
Being a good host, he was fixing us vodka martinis, when he realized he ran out of olives.
Both of his drivers had finished for the day so I was expecting him to compromise on the olives.
No need.
He loaded up a mobile phone app and ordered a jar of olives.
An internal White House strategy review on North Korean options includes the possibility of both military force and regime change to counter the country’s nuclear-weapons threat, the WSJ reports, a prospect that has some U.S. allies in the region on edge. The review comes amid recent events have strained regional stability including last month's launch by North Korea of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, and the assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia.
Via Jim Goad of Taki's Magazine blog,
As far as I can tell, globalism is a scheme concocted by the rich to destroy the working and middle classes through worldwide financial imperialism.
I have a strong hunch that globalism is also a plot hatched to obliterate indigenous cultures and real human differences under the deceptive ruses of “multiculturalism” and “diversity.”
This will be the biggest challenge for developed nations over the next hundred years: depopulation.
Expect strange things to happen in the western world and developed nations in Asia over the next fifty years -- marked by unusual foreign policy moves -- and a craven, almost desperate clamoring for middle eastern, south american and african migrants to replace their withering and decadent societies.
Why?
Credit expansion, or at a minimum, stasis.
What if we were to tell you that for the bargain basement price of just $10,000 per hour you could buy yourself the privilege of a 1-hour conversation with an equity research analyst from a top-notch investment bank, would that be something that might interest you?