Re: Benazir Bhutto - the reality.

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On Jan 17, 3:02 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Once again, you're making suppositions based upon your opinion and
>>> stating them as fact.

>>> Nope.
>>> But in any case we'll see won't we.
>>> I'm still calling a further major fall in the standing and 'relevance'
>>> of the USA in the medium term, starting with a recession beginning in
>>> 2008. Difference with my 'opinion' is that I've been saying it was
>>> coming about now for the last couple of years. Considering I 'don't >>> know
>>> anything about the US' I think that's fair going.

>> Is it your considered opinion that any such recession would be confined
>> to the US?

> No - but the old adage 'If America sneezes the rest of the world catches
> cold' is becoming less and less true. Other countries will now take up
> the slack. And, banter apart, surely you would agree the US really *is* > in
> a terribly vulnerable position at the moment?
> Sure - '20 of the last10 recessions have been predicted' but it all > looks
> a bit dodgy this time.

> There might be a slowdown in Australia for example but they are well
> placed to ride it out and given the acute labour and skills shortages > here
> that might even be a good thing. Anyway - their main trading partner is > no
> longer the US but China.
> Also, after a ten year drought its finally raining heavily down south. > Not
> enough to fill the aquifers but enough for a cash crop.
> Even US bankrupts have to buy food.
> As for other countries - screw them - if it means the downfall of the
> Great Satan it will be worth it.

There has also not really been a proper EU trading block during any other
major recession.
This coming one, and it is coming just now, could well be the catalyst that
cements the EU into a far more united power block.
Whether we get Russia to sign up with us is a different matter.

Might there not also be the possibility of it tearing apart? The
true test of whether each country's people can set their differences
aside will be during the tough times. Protectionism will be very
tempting.


So we have Australasia, Europe, China, Japan, Russia and the Far East now
all much larger and all much less dependent upon what happens in the USA
than they ever were in the past.
It could well be that one or more of these could not only weather the coming
storm but use it to become dominant.

Could be. I think the next dominant area(s) will be whomever
manages best a transition to some other power source. The US is behind
politically/governmentally, but second to none in research potential.

--
The real Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).


You think?
There have been two very significant things that happened in the past few weeks.
The Scottish Government announced they would not allow ANY new nuclear power stations on Scottish soil and the Crown Estate service announced, yesterday, that an undersea power line to carry renewable and sustainable power from Scotland to London, England and even the main continent of Europe was a feasible project.
Not only that but did you know Scotland now generates more of her own power from renewable and sustainable sources than she does from nuclear power?

There is much, much more capacity for wind, Hydro, wave motion, tidal flow, geo-thermal and even sea currents than we have tapped into as yet. What is more we have a lead in several of these methods.
We have had hydro for a very long time and we were way ahead on wave motion too. Now that we have our own parliament which is now also ready to buck Westminster, and do what we Scots do so very well, we should soon get ahead.

I speak of financial services, (such as banking), invention, engineering, science and medicine.
There is no other country of our size that has given so much to the World.
Much of which benefitted the USA in one way or another.
Andrew Carnegie, Bell and such like were Scots who gave their gifts direct to the USA while we had such as, Baird, Watson-Watt, Watt and the medical world's Lister, Simpson, Fleming and Dott, (who were respectively responsible for antiseptics, anesthetics, antibiotics and the brain surgery. In fact the operating table first built by Norman Dott is still, with very little improvements, the standard table in use today.

I feel that exciting things are happening in Scotland these days and we are about to surge forward with a new born strength and will to succeed not seen since the glory days when such Scots were shaping the World.
--
The real Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

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