A major mistake in mainstream media is how you measure the largest markets. Often the media uses “population” as the measurement tool. Market worth cannot count people who “dont” consume much, thus, counting markets by population is not relevant. If you look at “future” “potential” markets that is another matter, however, that is very speculative- why ? In the past, in the late 1960’s observers looked at Brazil, Argentina and even Africa as future large economic markets- based on the idea that those large populations would equate into consuming, importing economic markets. Those predictions did not pan out. We need to look at economic markets by the size of their economy ( in real dollars today, not Purchasing Parity Power PPP) and what their imports amount to; so, instead of wasting time with mainstream economic incompetence, let’s examine who the largest markets really are by economy and imports:
T= Trillion USD 2008 Stats/est.
By Economy By Imports
1. European Union 16.8 T 1. NAFTA 2.7 T
2. NAFTA 16.4 T 2. USA 2.0 T
3. USA 14.3 T 3. European Union 1.6 T
4. Japan 4.4 T 4. Germany 1.1 T
5. China 4.2 T 5. China 0.95 T
In stark contrast to most mainstream media, that China is the SECOND largest economic power, or that it’s the most important or soon to be important market, it’s not even close. China by economic market ranks 5th and by imports- meaning- how
important is it to sell to China more than others, it also ranks 5th- not even close to second. In fact, NAFTA and the EU are eight (8) times larger than China. The point is, for economic recovery, looking to China is a huge mistake. World economic recovery will strongly and almost wholly depend on what the US, EU and Japan does with their employment rates, banks and currency. If you are a company looking to sell things, NAFTA and the EU imports $4.3 Trillion dollars a year- that is your market, while China imports just under $1.0 Trillion. As one can see from the stats, just like global warming issues, the mainstream media completely distorts the hard facts. Yet, headline after headline exclaim how it may be up to China to save America and the world- with what ? 1.5 Trillion in reserves that it can’t spend (it needs those reserves to protect against their own teetering banking system due to a high percentage of non-performing loans) against some 42 Trillion USD and Euros outstanding in 2008 ? It’s truly a tiny paltry number. Also consider the Chinese stimulus spending package of some $585 billion USD announced recently. First, most of that was already planned spending on infrastructure and secondly, that planned spending is not for fiscal 2009 but over the 2009-2014 fiscal years. In reality, you’re really looking at some 10-23 billion of new spending over what was already planned in infrastructure spending over the next few years. Do you really think 23 billion dollars is going to save a 80 trillion dollar world economy in 2009 ? You’re wasting your time reading mainstream media.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Watch Gold Soar- just as LNR predicted months ago
Two major predictions by LNR will soon be realized, gold near $2,000 an ounce and the stock market medium-term floor of 6,900. Why did you have to wait until mid-February 2009 to find this out, by reading LNR you would have known the numbers back in October 2008 !
Oil will also become, again, THE major entity for which to park investment funds, while confidence in government bonds are being eroded, the stock market is imploding, real estate is in a depression, oil will once again, as last summer be the safe haven for trillions of investment dollars. As LNR states here, yes gold will reach $2,000 an ounce, however, gold as a commodity is in very limited supply and therefore can never be a haven for trillions of dollars, therefore, oil will sustain a cash dump and prices will shoot up again this summer. Note, that the oil jump, as LNR said before and was proven correct, is not a function of short supply. LNR is clear to state as many times before, there is no shortfall in oil for at least the next 25 years, even then, current sources will still supply foreseen demand. Oil exploration consultants state that it maybe in 2050 that oil demand exceeds new oil finds. Until then, gas up your hummer and drive like the wind !
Oil will also become, again, THE major entity for which to park investment funds, while confidence in government bonds are being eroded, the stock market is imploding, real estate is in a depression, oil will once again, as last summer be the safe haven for trillions of investment dollars. As LNR states here, yes gold will reach $2,000 an ounce, however, gold as a commodity is in very limited supply and therefore can never be a haven for trillions of dollars, therefore, oil will sustain a cash dump and prices will shoot up again this summer. Note, that the oil jump, as LNR said before and was proven correct, is not a function of short supply. LNR is clear to state as many times before, there is no shortfall in oil for at least the next 25 years, even then, current sources will still supply foreseen demand. Oil exploration consultants state that it maybe in 2050 that oil demand exceeds new oil finds. Until then, gas up your hummer and drive like the wind !
Did Aliens Seed Man on Earth?
It’s interesting that although science has proven the existence of mankind long before, thousands of years before, Jesus Christ, that God did not intervene to save the cave man from numerous perils of life, like the dinosaur, floods, disease and such, and decided to let man suffer for thousands of years before he sent his Son down to introduce Christianity as the savior of man.
Regarding the premise that aliens “seeded” the earth with themselves- MAN, unless MAN was perhaps a pet for aliens, that with their obvious high technology at the time, they would have seeded us with NO technology? No language, tools, knives, guns, just primitive MAN among the ferocious jungle animals and dinasours? Having obviously seen the condition of earth at that time, why even seed man on earth if it was likely to fail as they gave no instruments or technology for man to survive? Why travel hundreds of millions of light years to seed man as a primitive monkey with a high likelihood of failure? Why, -…. Cause it’s just not true. Of course aliens would have given some technology and instruments for man to survive, aliens would have given even a snippet of their advanced technology to give man a running start on such a perilous earth. We have no evidence of any advanced technology or tools for early man. The “seeding” idea is a ridiculous idea on which to sell books.
Regarding the premise that aliens “seeded” the earth with themselves- MAN, unless MAN was perhaps a pet for aliens, that with their obvious high technology at the time, they would have seeded us with NO technology? No language, tools, knives, guns, just primitive MAN among the ferocious jungle animals and dinasours? Having obviously seen the condition of earth at that time, why even seed man on earth if it was likely to fail as they gave no instruments or technology for man to survive? Why travel hundreds of millions of light years to seed man as a primitive monkey with a high likelihood of failure? Why, -…. Cause it’s just not true. Of course aliens would have given some technology and instruments for man to survive, aliens would have given even a snippet of their advanced technology to give man a running start on such a perilous earth. We have no evidence of any advanced technology or tools for early man. The “seeding” idea is a ridiculous idea on which to sell books.
全球变暖——啊，这不是真的，只是一种传感器故障罢了
Kaboom！另一个荒唐的观点“全球变暖”也被暴露出是谎言了。该传感器故障是和不予考虑的比较城市变暖模式，新的玻璃建筑物和几英里长的土沥青反射热量使读者感到温度升高一样的典型——关于温度实际上升的比率和速度对我们来说是毫无意义的，然而城市温度的上升通常被用来作为媒体传播的主流。
2月20日（布隆伯格电）——一个卫星传感器上的故障使得科学家们低估了北极圈内海冰500,000平方千米的范围（193,000平方英里），相当于一个加州的面积。美国国家冰雪数据中心说。
由于一个被成为“传感器漂移”的问题，这个错误从今年1月初开始，并且引发了缓慢增长的海冰范围的低估。这个错误一直持续到2月中旬，直到“困惑的读者”提醒美国国家冰雪数据中心关于被冰层覆盖的区域的数值已经延伸到了不结冰的洋面。博得尔、Colorado-based集团在其网站上说。
“虽然罕见，“传感器漂移”确实会偶尔出现。它是一种在质量控制措施之前数据存档的一种东西。 该中心说。“尽管我们认为1月初之前的数据是可靠的，我们依然会进行一次完整的质量检查。”
“北极海冰的范围被看做是如何影响地球温度升高的关键措施。在2007年冰帽曾经融化到了它的最低线，去年据说它达到了年度最小值第二。最近发现的错误不会改变北京冰层消退的事实。”该中心说。
该中心说由于全面的核对还没有执行，所以，关于海冰的实时数据总是不如存档后的数据可靠。历史数据是通过其它的来源来核查的。它说。
LNR——这个巨大的全球变暖的崇拜再一次作为一种欺诈而被暴露出来（也就是说，全球变暖正在迅速地上升并且失去控制。这正是人类的活动为其提供了温床）就像它操纵计算机模型来支持关于全球变暖的事先形成的猜想。
2月20日（布隆伯格电）——一个卫星传感器上的故障使得科学家们低估了北极圈内海冰500,000平方千米的范围（193,000平方英里），相当于一个加州的面积。美国国家冰雪数据中心说。
由于一个被成为“传感器漂移”的问题，这个错误从今年1月初开始，并且引发了缓慢增长的海冰范围的低估。这个错误一直持续到2月中旬，直到“困惑的读者”提醒美国国家冰雪数据中心关于被冰层覆盖的区域的数值已经延伸到了不结冰的洋面。博得尔、Colorado-based集团在其网站上说。
“虽然罕见，“传感器漂移”确实会偶尔出现。它是一种在质量控制措施之前数据存档的一种东西。 该中心说。“尽管我们认为1月初之前的数据是可靠的，我们依然会进行一次完整的质量检查。”
“北极海冰的范围被看做是如何影响地球温度升高的关键措施。在2007年冰帽曾经融化到了它的最低线，去年据说它达到了年度最小值第二。最近发现的错误不会改变北京冰层消退的事实。”该中心说。
该中心说由于全面的核对还没有执行，所以，关于海冰的实时数据总是不如存档后的数据可靠。历史数据是通过其它的来源来核查的。它说。
LNR——这个巨大的全球变暖的崇拜再一次作为一种欺诈而被暴露出来（也就是说，全球变暖正在迅速地上升并且失去控制。这正是人类的活动为其提供了温床）就像它操纵计算机模型来支持关于全球变暖的事先形成的猜想。
GLOBAL WARMING- ah, well not really, it was a Sensor Glitch
Kaboom ! another ridiculous global warming lie exposed, this sensor glitch is as typical as is comparing city warming patterns which don’t take into account, new glass buildings and miles of new paved roads which reflect heat to temperature readers- which tells us NOTHING about the rate or speed that temperature is actually rising, yet city temperature rises are used commonly in the mainstream media.
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.
“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.’’
The extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a key measure of how rising temperatures are affecting the Earth. The cap retreated in 2007 to its lowest extent ever and last year posted its second- lowest annual minimum at the end of the yearly melt season. The recent error doesn’t change findings that Arctic ice is retreating, the NSIDC said.
The center said real-time data on sea ice is always less reliable than archived numbers because full checks haven’t yet been carried out. Historical data is checked across other sources, it said.
LNR- this gigantic global warming cult is once again exposed as a fraud (that is to say, that global warming is rising rapidly and out of control and is doing so as a result of man made activities- total bunk) just as it uses computer models which are manipulated to support preconceived conjecture about global warming.
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.
The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.
“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.’’
The extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a key measure of how rising temperatures are affecting the Earth. The cap retreated in 2007 to its lowest extent ever and last year posted its second- lowest annual minimum at the end of the yearly melt season. The recent error doesn’t change findings that Arctic ice is retreating, the NSIDC said.
The center said real-time data on sea ice is always less reliable than archived numbers because full checks haven’t yet been carried out. Historical data is checked across other sources, it said.
LNR- this gigantic global warming cult is once again exposed as a fraud (that is to say, that global warming is rising rapidly and out of control and is doing so as a result of man made activities- total bunk) just as it uses computer models which are manipulated to support preconceived conjecture about global warming.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Middle East Heading Towards Nuclear Showdown
The YEAR 2009 will prove to be the year in which we will see a nuclear showdown in the Middle East. Iran will complete its first nuclear weapons this year, along with its proven ballistic delivery systems and will prepare a showdown with Israel. Syria itself is preparing to attack Israeli nuclear sites in the coming months. Why ? With American and worldwide economic meltdown, and US force commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, a power vacuum has been emerging.
Iran will take advantage of this soon before the window closes, while they begin to coordinate actions with Russia, North Korea and Venezuela to further tie down American resources to prevent an aggressive U.S. response. Joe Biden was right last year when he said that “Obama” will be challenged in his first months in Office.
Iran will take advantage of this soon before the window closes, while they begin to coordinate actions with Russia, North Korea and Venezuela to further tie down American resources to prevent an aggressive U.S. response. Joe Biden was right last year when he said that “Obama” will be challenged in his first months in Office.
America’s New Secretary of State: George Clooney
Step aside Hillary, George Hollywood Clooney is stepping up as the new Secretary of State, as it were,
Meeting with President Obama to explain, “how it is” in Sudan. While millions of Americans are losing their jobs, banks on the edge of nationalization, Clooney- and his Hollywood cronies are “lobbying” for Sudan. Yes, this is lobbying because Clooney is acting as if the State Department and CIA and various other agencies are “not” informing the President of the situation in Sudan. LNR believes that Hollywood bubble heads should remain in their fantasy worlds of the films they make, since few of them have ever served on the front lines, they visit Sudan with journalist for a few days and walk away as experts ?
Of all the catastrophic problems on the President’s plate, he takes time out to talk to this bubblehead, Clooney ? The White House should have responded that there are multiple government agencies which cover the area of Sudan and inform and make suggestions daily for actions to be taken.
It’s amazing how Hollywood continues, even after its multitude of social dysfunctions, to act holier than thou by pushing increased American involvement in Sudan, which is the least of our national security concerns, while lambasting Bush about America’s involvement in Iraq which even without WMD’s had 100 times more reason for American intervention than Sudan.
Meeting with President Obama to explain, “how it is” in Sudan. While millions of Americans are losing their jobs, banks on the edge of nationalization, Clooney- and his Hollywood cronies are “lobbying” for Sudan. Yes, this is lobbying because Clooney is acting as if the State Department and CIA and various other agencies are “not” informing the President of the situation in Sudan. LNR believes that Hollywood bubble heads should remain in their fantasy worlds of the films they make, since few of them have ever served on the front lines, they visit Sudan with journalist for a few days and walk away as experts ?
Of all the catastrophic problems on the President’s plate, he takes time out to talk to this bubblehead, Clooney ? The White House should have responded that there are multiple government agencies which cover the area of Sudan and inform and make suggestions daily for actions to be taken.
It’s amazing how Hollywood continues, even after its multitude of social dysfunctions, to act holier than thou by pushing increased American involvement in Sudan, which is the least of our national security concerns, while lambasting Bush about America’s involvement in Iraq which even without WMD’s had 100 times more reason for American intervention than Sudan.
Monday, February 23, 2009
WELCOME BACK
Luko News Review took a break during January, We are back, welcome !
Drop Cuba Embargo
LNR strongly supports (as pronounced in earlier articles in 2008) dropping the embargo against Cuba. It's an old policy which has long outlived its usefulness, including its ability to garner Cuban-American votes in Florida for elections. LNR believes that different types of engagement policies- i.e. spanning from "constructive engagement" that Reagan used with apartheid South Africa, to economic engagement with Pinochet's Chile which helped them reform from an authoritarian economic backwater to a modern democracy with a booming open economy, are the only logical approaches. Even recent engagements with North Korea and Iran are more active than American policy towards Cuba.
Opening relations and trading is recognized as a proven method of helping to “democratize” authoritarian regimes, as was done with China and Vietnam with extremely positive results. Continued alienation and embargo of Cuba is providing a safe haven for Russia and Venezuela to propagate anti-American policy in the Western Hemisphere as well as physical platforms for enemy policies, economics, drug trade and militaries.
废除古巴禁运政策
LNR完全支持废除古巴禁运政策。虽然它曾经在弗罗里达州选举中赢得了美籍古巴人的选票，但是这项政策早已完成了它的使命，应该被废止了。LNR相信各种类型的经济关系——也就是：从里根总统用过的对南美的“种族隔离政策”到曾经帮助智利由闭塞的独裁主义经济走向繁荣开放的现代民主经济的皮诺切特经济关系。甚至最近与朝鲜和爱尔兰的关系也比与古巴的关系更加亲近。
开放性的关系和贸易被认为是使独裁政策民主化的行之有效的方法。中国和越南都曾经取得了非常积极的结果。
对古巴持续的疏远和禁运是美国为了防止俄国和委内瑞拉反美政策在西半球的渗透而自我提供的一个安全的天堂，同时也是一个敌对政策，经济，毒品和军火贩卖的物质平台。
UK TELEGRAPH
Radovan Karadzic 'was protected by UK'
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who has been indicted for genocide and war crimes, was able to avoid capture for 13 years because he received protection from London, a former Hague Tribunal official has claimed.
By Alex Todorovich in Belgrade
Last Updated: 12:23AM BST 11 Aug 2008
Nato troops maintain peace in Banja Luka, some 200 km north of Sarajevo in 1997 Photo: AP
James Luko, a former United Nations political affairs officer in Bosnia and a Hague Tribunal investigator, told a Belgrade newspaper that Gen Angus Ramsay, the former commander of British peace¬keepers in Bosnia, was ordered by superiors in London to leave Karadzic alone just minutes before British troops prepared to capture him in August 1997.
Mr Luko, who spent several years in Belgrade before resigning in 2005, claimed he was one of three people present when Gen Ramsay entered a room at British Army headquarters in Banja Luka moments after speaking to London. Karadzic’s convoy, monitored from an Awacs plane, was visible on a large screen in the room.
“We are not police, we are soldiers, and therefore this is not our responsibility. The police force of Republika Srpska must arrest Karadzic. International troops may help afterwards, if there is unrest in Banja Luka”, Gen Ramsay allegedly said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: “We have no knowledge of this alleged incident and we would not comment on intelligence matters. The UK has been fully committed from the outset to bringing to justice indicted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.”
A report in the same newspaper last week claimed that Karadzic was living under US protection until the CIA caught him breaking an agreement to stay out of politics.
In his first appearance before The Hague Tribunal, Karadzic claimed that Richard Holbrooke, the former assistant secretary of state, had guaranteed him immunity if he withdrew from public life. Mr Holbrooke denied any such deal.
Drop Cuba Embargo
LNR strongly supports (as pronounced in earlier articles in 2008) dropping the embargo against Cuba. It's an old policy which has long outlived its usefulness, including its ability to garner Cuban-American votes in Florida for elections. LNR believes that different types of engagement policies- i.e. spanning from "constructive engagement" that Reagan used with apartheid South Africa, to economic engagement with Pinochet's Chile which helped them reform from an authoritarian economic backwater to a modern democracy with a booming open economy, are the only logical approaches. Even recent engagements with North Korea and Iran are more active than American policy towards Cuba.
Opening relations and trading is recognized as a proven method of helping to “democratize” authoritarian regimes, as was done with China and Vietnam with extremely positive results. Continued alienation and embargo of Cuba is providing a safe haven for Russia and Venezuela to propagate anti-American policy in the Western Hemisphere as well as physical platforms for enemy policies, economics, drug trade and militaries.
废除古巴禁运政策
LNR完全支持废除古巴禁运政策。虽然它曾经在弗罗里达州选举中赢得了美籍古巴人的选票，但是这项政策早已完成了它的使命，应该被废止了。LNR相信各种类型的经济关系——也就是：从里根总统用过的对南美的“种族隔离政策”到曾经帮助智利由闭塞的独裁主义经济走向繁荣开放的现代民主经济的皮诺切特经济关系。甚至最近与朝鲜和爱尔兰的关系也比与古巴的关系更加亲近。
开放性的关系和贸易被认为是使独裁政策民主化的行之有效的方法。中国和越南都曾经取得了非常积极的结果。
对古巴持续的疏远和禁运是美国为了防止俄国和委内瑞拉反美政策在西半球的渗透而自我提供的一个安全的天堂，同时也是一个敌对政策，经济，毒品和军火贩卖的物质平台。
UK TELEGRAPH
Radovan Karadzic 'was protected by UK'
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who has been indicted for genocide and war crimes, was able to avoid capture for 13 years because he received protection from London, a former Hague Tribunal official has claimed.
By Alex Todorovich in Belgrade
Last Updated: 12:23AM BST 11 Aug 2008
Nato troops maintain peace in Banja Luka, some 200 km north of Sarajevo in 1997 Photo: AP
James Luko, a former United Nations political affairs officer in Bosnia and a Hague Tribunal investigator, told a Belgrade newspaper that Gen Angus Ramsay, the former commander of British peace¬keepers in Bosnia, was ordered by superiors in London to leave Karadzic alone just minutes before British troops prepared to capture him in August 1997.
Mr Luko, who spent several years in Belgrade before resigning in 2005, claimed he was one of three people present when Gen Ramsay entered a room at British Army headquarters in Banja Luka moments after speaking to London. Karadzic’s convoy, monitored from an Awacs plane, was visible on a large screen in the room.
“We are not police, we are soldiers, and therefore this is not our responsibility. The police force of Republika Srpska must arrest Karadzic. International troops may help afterwards, if there is unrest in Banja Luka”, Gen Ramsay allegedly said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: “We have no knowledge of this alleged incident and we would not comment on intelligence matters. The UK has been fully committed from the outset to bringing to justice indicted war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.”
A report in the same newspaper last week claimed that Karadzic was living under US protection until the CIA caught him breaking an agreement to stay out of politics.
In his first appearance before The Hague Tribunal, Karadzic claimed that Richard Holbrooke, the former assistant secretary of state, had guaranteed him immunity if he withdrew from public life. Mr Holbrooke denied any such deal.
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