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To: RealMuLan who wrote (912)	1/15/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Zhang, <<What bothers me about Stratfor.com's prediction is that they made it sound every other country can fall, and will, and still the US will remain stronger than ever. I smell of something --centric here.>> I too was beginning to sniff the same faint odor. I will read on a while to see if comes to a full nose. Geeez I hope these aren't the guys that wanted to secede from the union. Best, Stitch

To: RealMuLan who wrote (912)	1/15/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9980

Yiwu when I was in Korea last the ex-head of Unesco compared the world's financial position thusly: the world of finance, "is like a circle of thirty six men standing in a circle. Each man has his in the other man's pocket. The only fear I have," my Korean friend paused. He looked into the distance and then he continued: "Is that one of the men in the circle will take his hand out of the next man's pocket and find his hand is empty. At that every man inteh circle will withdraw his hand from his neighbor's pocket and find their hands are empty." This seems to me to be a kind of parable of our confused times. Certainly, Yiwu the US will go down with everyone else. At that StratFor's commandments call for South America to eclipse Asia. My goodness. Maybe all the heat in Austin during the summer becausetheheatvaporseffect these guys. Do you really think the Koreans are going to be eclipsed by the Brazilians and the Mexicans? Or, the Japanese by the people of Argentina and Colombia? The new paradigm. In 1960 Castro came to power and Cubans started leaving Cuba. Now, there are something like 1/40th's of the Cubans in Florida that there are in Cuba; the Florida Cubans - the 1/40th - produce 10 times more than the GNP of Cuba. We are in a new world. Brainpower and education are the new gold. If people don't like where they are they take their brainpower elsewhere. And people, like water, run into channels of least resistance...witness the intellectual capital America has gained from places as diverse as Bangla Desh and England.