yes, i am watching the drama playing out in japan
but for the mess happening in mena w/ the seeming continuation of an ancient story, what w/ the caliphate's re-drawing of already re-drawn map making china's supposedly big-deal of nine-dashed lines in south china sea seem very reasonable, japan would be front and center as we all turn japanese in an econo-monetary sense
a hoot-ing 2015 could be spot-on
especially w/ the vacuum effects to take place in afghanistan/pakistan, and w/ the indians seemingly (at least by msm take) getting more ernest with wat-wot-whatnot, and a europe turning japanese at faster clip even as japan accelerates in japan-ification. should policy makers choose, much more unconventional measures can be sprung
at the same time it is unclear to me what the china offers to russia and iraq and and and all means, but observe that a lot of long-reach gear is being rushed from lab to field, and quite a bit of i-banking related to development and rollout of long-reach gear is filling the pipelines - a new peace-keeper is in the making, an reasonable surmise that is neither optimistic nor pessimistic - but if so, expect the new peace-keeper would behave very differently than all peace-keepers w/i past 700 years.
oh, yes, and then there is the lead-up to usa electioneering 2016 which ought to be as if not more entertaining than usual
it seems odd to me that the msm makes hong kong's very extremely peaceful and orderly and clean civil disobedience holiday to be symptom of severely repressed and soon to explode rage - my observation, raging people do not pick up and bag their own refuse during demonstrations
but, gad, i have been sent and watched some macdonald's-rage youtube clips ... observe that i would not want to inadvertently make a wrong turn into a less-right neighborhoods
air and road rage are more understandable
burger rage less so
in hong kong people hold marriage parties at the golden arch telegraph.co.uk
in other places such would seem ill-advised tvnz.co.nz
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cheers, tj |
