Riding the Tiger

Mapping the Global Future reveals an undercurrent obsession about the concomitanat rise of China and India in the world economy over the next 20 years, even as it reveals an awareness of America's desire to harness the manpower and technical skills of half of the world's population.

With the rise of the Asian giants, US economic and technological advantages may be vulnerable to erosion...

Realization of a Caliphate-like scenario would pose the biggest challenge (to globalization- my insert here) because it would reject the foundations on which the current international system has been built...

The interdependence that results from globalization places increasing importance... on maintaining stability in the areas of the world that drive the global economy, where about two thirds of the world’s population resides...

Asia rises with the technical sophistication we must export to maintain our standard of living. Although hostile to the progressive agenda, the Islamic Caliphate provides a tool to slow down the social and economic advance of the part of the world the Western corporate structure depends on. In this way Asia is kept from using its own resources to become efficient economic competitors of the West.

Which is all great if you think people exist to serve the needs of corporations.

I know Cheneyburton does.

Speaking of Organized Crime, there are some very interesting things it says, which I'll cover in a later post.

But given his intimate connections with narcotics traffic, it's no surprise Porter Goss was Bu$hCo's choice to head the new CIA branch of the Company.