Archive for the ‘Geopolitics’ Category
Friday, January 16th, 2009
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day.
America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day.
America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from OPEC countries.
Every day.
America sends $150,256,400 to the Persian Gulf countries ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Is what you know true?
Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true?
Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I was forwarded a copy of "The Endorsement from Hell," a recent editorial by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times.
My comments on the editorial follow the "Read more" link. Mr. Kristoff's editorial follows my comments.
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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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