An excellent and prescient list. GE is indeed showing hairy legs: finance.yahoo.com
The Dow is still far from 16,000 and it is much later than Feb 2002 with the Dow at less than half that.
Financial relativity theory laws don't stop working though. We are having a deflationary trough but soon enough, the Zimbabwe effect of "stimulus spending" on borrowed or printed money will become evident. The Dow will soon enough reach 16,000 as the measuring stick continues to shrink. One measure of the shrinkage is gold at $1000 an ounce.
Eastern Europe, Germany, UK and co seem to be in a spot of bother. Germany has lots of unemployed. Perhaps they could be given uniforms and taught how to march = a traditional activity in Europe when young males are in surplus. Islamic Jihad would be well-advised to keep a low profile as times get harder and the liberal nampy pamby do-gooder tolerant attiudes get hardened up.
A couple of decades ago, watching a bunch of tough young male Germans in Frankfurt, I thought they looked as though they were only two goose-steps away from something more appealing [to them] than their pointless activities of the time.
But Gert Wilders, who made "Fitna",http://www.fitnamovie.net/ is persona non grata in England, so there is still a Neville Chamberlain streak there in the face of grave threat. Notice that Islamic Jihad is not so active in Germany. It would not take long to reopen concentration camps.
Partly the presence of Islamic Jihad in Britain is demographics, because Britain opened the doors to Pakistan Moslems back in the Enoch Powell era. It seems odd to invite in people sworn to your defeat and conversion, but that's what they did. Maybe the British thought Moslem religion is a hobby for Sunday like Christianity had become. It turns out that Moslems actually take the words of the Koran as being believable and containing good ideas. So when it says to hack off the heads of infidels, they are not just speaking rhetorically.
When the Pakistani doctors who tried to blow up LPG containers compared their Hippocratic Oath and their Koranic Oaths, they obviously decided cooking people alive at an airport was the better oath to follow. They were obviously idiots - they had no idea about how LPG tanks work and how LPG burns etc which calls into question their fitness for medical activities. They had perhaps seen too many movies showing cars laden with a bit of fuel making spectacular explosions and thought they were real.
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