Each box-cell in the above Infograph carries the chemical symbol for key minerals that are found deep inside the geological bowels of our planet earth. They are mined, exported and get consumed for various industrial purposes and in various manufacturing processes by countries around the world. Who produces the minerals most? China does… and willContinue reading “Coveters, Producers and Consumers in the great Geo-political war of the 21st century”
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The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …
The Top 100 Companies of the World: The U.S. vs Everyone Else The USA is still by far the fattest capitalist-pig in the world …. miles ahead of the rest of the pigs … proving clearly the famous Orwellian truth that “All Pigs are equal but some Pigs are more equal”. All the world’s anContinue reading “The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …”
The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another
What the Infographic tells me is this: 1. All the pompous geopolitical and Geo-strategic punditry we hear and read these days from think-tanks and international-relations policy-experts about the world becoming “multipolar” is plain bunkum and politically correct eyewash meant to pull wool over the eyes of the rest of the world … make no mistakeContinue reading “The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another”
Battery-Powered world domination by China !
The world can, of course, continue to demonise China for one thing after another, every other week or month … and at all sorts of fora and through all platforms of media … But the world has got to realise that to keep going at it for long into the future it will need ChineseContinue reading “Battery-Powered world domination by China !”
Meritocracy as a value in China and India
This morning a very dear friend and ex-colleague of mine and I happened to exchange some views on India and China and their relative achievements as a people in contemporary times. This is what my friend wrote to me: QUOTE: “I strongly believe in (this line of reasoning):No Kingdom without Army.No Army without Wealth.No WealthContinue reading “Meritocracy as a value in China and India”
Meritocracy as a value in China and India
This morning a very dear friend and ex-colleague of mine and I happened to exchange some views on India and China and their relative achievements as a people in contemporary times. This is what my friend wrote to me: QUOTE: “I strongly believe in (this line of reasoning):No Kingdom without Army.No Army without Wealth.No WealthContinue reading “Meritocracy as a value in China and India”