Obama , Putin just symbols for powerful groups and interests that are really in charge.
No one can rule a nation alone and most leaders we see and call the leader are really the talking heads for powerful behind the scene economic interests.
I have an inkling of who President Obama’s supporters are such as big Pharma, Wall Street etc..
With Putin I have no idea, maybe something like the energy sector and the Russian military industrial complex.
Just got back from 5 days in New York Mostly Manhattan wow!
I just started reading Cormac McCarthy’s book Blood Meridian. This will be the first non fiction book I have read for pleasure in about 5 years.
I have read about 20 pages of Cormac’s book and it is awesome, but I have some critiques that sometimes I don’t know what character is speaking in his dialogue.
New York really blew my mind, I will write more about it over time after I get more sleep and unpack.
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Below is part of an article with link to it from Asia Times Online.
In it it discusses the implications of China acquiring Nexen inc, a Canadian oil and gas company.
It has slightly ominous implications from this Americans point of view if interested there is a link to this original at bottom of intro to article.
MONTREAL – The US$15 billion purchase by China-based offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC of Calgary-based Nexen Inc, Canada’s sixth-largest independent oil explorer and producer, marks the biggest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese company.
CNOOC has agreed to buy all Nexen’s outstanding common shares at US$27.50 cash per share, nearly a 62% premium over what the stock was trading at before the announcement. Total cash to be paid for Nexen’s common and preferred shared will reach US$15.1 billion. The company’s current debt of $4.3 billion will remain outstanding. The transaction will close within three to six months.
The deals are also part of the Chinese firms’ continuing their worldwide search to purchase or otherwise acquire energy technology. Important in this profile is technology for exploiting shale-gas deposits, as well as the shale-gas reserves themselves. For this purpose, Chinese companies have focused on North American firms, which have developed the techniques perhaps furthest.
Control energy and you control the nations.
–Henry Kissinger
Kelly Pavlik beat Will Rosinsky in an entertaining bout this last Saturday night 7.7.2012.
Pavlik while not his old dominant self made good strides as he tried to resurrect his career following the loss of his Middleweight title in 2010 to Sergio Martinez and a slew of personal problems revolving around alcohol that followed.
Pavlik left his old trainer Jack lowe and Youngstown Ohio to come out to California to train with trainer Roberto Garcia, in Oxnard California in one of boxing best gyms.
Pavlik doesn’t seem to have the same punching power when fighting in the 168 pound division that he had fighting in the 160 pound Middleweight division.
Pavlik may regain some power punching dominance as he grows into the 168 pound division, and improves his Stamina and technique.
Pavlik is now working on improving his left hook to the body and head, punches he has shown improvements in applying during fights during his comeback. He is also working on throwing short uppercuts a punch he never really threw while under the tutelage of Jack Lowe.
I ended up scoring the 10 round fight against Rosinsky 97-92 for Pavlik. Pavlik Knocked Rosinsky down in the 2nd ground which was another bright side to Pavliks performance.
Rosinsky put up a good fight. Rosinsky is a former amatuer champion in the Lighheavyweight division and fought top prospect Edwin Rodgriguez to about an even fight about a year ago but Rodriguez was given the disputed decision over Rosinsky. Edwin Rodrgiguez is currently rated 11th the world at 168 pounds on some reputable boxing websites.
The big question’s are can Pavlik keep his demons in check , stay on the right path and who does he fight towards the end of the year.
Living on the Pacific Slope of the North American continent, traveling up the freeway from Fresno to Stockton looking for work. Traveling the freeway system through mass ghetto’s of Hispanic’s .The state over run by a different culture, of people broken from previous colonizations. He trying to hang on to his standard of living in a time of mass Third World immigration to North America lowering of wages and massive outsourcing of jobs to China and Mexico, the White working class battered by their corporate elite stagger up and down the free ways looking for work. In the Petrol/Oil empire.
Air condition corporate parks tucked away on former farm land, hooked into the corporate structure doing accounting, making electronic components for the defense industry etc.
Now as the global neo feudalism gains pace even the new Third World immigrants are wondering why they came to America as it is almost as poor as where they came from and far lonelier.
He hung on to his psychological center with prayer, tried to get enough sleep and stay positive, tried to defend the family.
Large masses of impoverished people Large seas of impoverished people.
It takes 1.25 US dollar to buy A Euro .. I wonder why the Euro is still stronger than the dollar by so much if it’s imminent demise is near according to the media?
Much of the United State Political leadership are lawyers and much of China’s current political leadership are Engineers and scientists what this really means who really knows?
You could say manipulators vs builders
or talkers vs builders
or managers (lawyers) vs workers (engineers)
There are a million ways to look at it but it is an interesting factoid.
Just a few examples of this on the US side, President Barrack Obama educated as lawyer, Hillary Clinton educated as Lawyer, Bill Clinton educated as Lawyer, in the 111th US Congress 2009 54 out of 100 or 54% percent of Senators educated as lawyers and 162 out of 441 or 36% Representatives in the House.
As for China from Wikepedia
Thus, in official discourse, the “third generation” lasted from 1992 to 2003, with Jiang Zemin as core, and other leaders including Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Qiao Shi, Li Ruihuan. These leaders were born before the revolution from 1924 to 1934 but were educated afterwards before the Sino-Soviet split. Most of them received education in the Soviet Union as engineers and entered the party initially as factory managers.
Jiang Zeminin -General Secretary of the Communist Party of China-1989-2002.
Graduateed 1947 with a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Hu Jintao-General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 2002-present.
He graduated in hydraulic engineering in 1965.
Slavic Boxers have Dominated the Heavyweight division in boxing since 2003, waves of them were knocking on the door of the top tier of the division before that.
When it has finally settled the top of the Heavyweight would be ruled by Vitali, and Wladimir Klitschko. From 2003 or 2006 depending on your metric until present a time frame of over 6-9 years .Impressive.