On 10/10/2011 8:35 AM, HeyBub wrote:
harry wrote:

All empires fail from within. The collapse will take a few years but
is inevitable. No empire has ever suceeded in recovering from it's
decline.The rats/wealthy will fight for scraps seeking to preserve
their positions with no regard to the less well off. There's gonna be
a "Winter of discontent". Probably a few of them.

Heh! It took the Roman Empire longer to fall than the United States has been
in existence. We have, by that measure, a couple of hundred years before the
end.

So, why are the Russians and Chinese being so aggressive in manufacturing
and trade?

The crowd holds its breath!


They may be Communist (actually more like an oligarchy) within, but to
the outside world, they play the capitalist game increasingly well.
Don't think of them as countries- think of them as giant companies that
happen to own a lot of land. Much like the giant plantation
conglomerates from the colonial robber baron era, or several of the OPEC
states.

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aem sends...