Archive for the ‘Geopolitics’ Category
Friday, March 28th, 2008
In the early 1900s Argentina was the second richest country in the world. In subsequent decades its middle class enjoyed a very high standard of living. The country was rich in seemingly infinite natural resources, copious crop producing areas whose soils were as rich as any on the planet short ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
As my friends and family back in Iowa head to the caucuses today I am half a world away. This year, of all years, with the most wide-open and potentially interesting presidential campaign of my lifetime in progress, I am overseas and will miss the entire show.
Mercifully, today will ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
What do you think of the idea that the United States of America is probably destined to disinegrate into clusters of independent states?
What is your opinion of the idea that America is divinely appointed as the world's leader, now and forever?
How about America as the racially pure homeland of descendants ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
I was doing some research for a project yesterday and came across the clipping that follows.
It is an excerpt from the March 5, 1776 issue of the Londonderry Journal, the newspaper of the time in what is now Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Several things are interesting about it.
First is the extraordinary age ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
Please see the PDF file at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/happy-new-year-2007.pdf
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
A friend asked me for some thoughts on China based on my research and travels.
Please see the PDF document at:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/china-reflections.pdf
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Monday, October 4th, 2004
What’s to Fear?
I’ve met few Americans and practically no Europeans who have any big concerns about
China.
Americans are generally much more concerned about procuring another credit card so they can go buy more stuff than they are about what is happening out in the world, especially with a country so far ...
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2004
Japan and the bomb.
Please see the PDF document at:
http://www.hackneys.com/travel/japan/09-The-Greatest-Gift-12.pdf
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
7 September 2004
Japan is dying.
Japan, a nation that has existed for thousands of years, a nation that has the world’s most developed infrastructure, a nation that has the world’s most rigorous academic system, a nation with the world’s second largest economy, a nation with the world’s fourth largest military spending, ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
Turkey's efforts to join the EU:
http://www.hackneys.com/travel/Turkey/15-The-Empty-Corner-15.pdf
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