This is sad but true. Number 8 especially. I wonder if that is some natural law or some such that when countries/empires reach a certain affluence the money just gets to be too much and brings it all crashing down.

As far as cynicism goes Mr. Rothkopf I expect better out of you sir, I know you have it in you because I've read it in the past.

ROFL!! excellent analysis....

Depend all from where your see and hear it…what is first the Lie, become after the True, and visa versa, so where we are busy with, can you tell me…!
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The fantasy football playoffs started this week in most leagues and scores were high. The NFL games had some explosive performances and many players exceeded expectations. However, a number of No. 1 fantasy football starters choked when their owners needed them most. Here are the biggest disappointments from Week 14 of the fantasy football season.

Jason Witten

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Jason Witten is supposed to be a top tier tight end and one of the best in the NFL. With Miles Austin back, fantasy football owners expected him to be a bigger part of the game since he won't get the double teams in the middle of the field. Witten ended up with three receptions for 12 yards and was not even looked at when Dallas was trying to come from behind.

Greg Jennings

I don't normally like including injured players but Greg Jennings injury happened in the third quarter. In the rest of the game, he only caught two passes for 20 yards. This is supposed to be the No. 1 Green Bay Packers wide receiver and they scored 46 points. Yet, Jennings was invisible even before his injury.

Mike Williams

Mike Williams has been hit and miss this season but in PPR leagues he has at least delivered double digit fantasy points on a normal basis. In the last three games, he has averaged six receptions for 86 yards and has two touchdowns. With Jacksonville running all over them, they needed the passing game and their main receiver finished with three receptions for 35 yards. That is unacceptable.

Michael Turner

Atlanta came from behind to beat Carolina thanks to Matt Ryan's passing. However, Michael Turner had nothing to do with it. For a guy who catches no passes, fantasy owners need Turner to get into the end zone. In Week 14, he didn't touch pay dirt and only ran for 76 yards. Seven points from a starting fantasy running back will lose owners a lot of games.

Calvin Johnson

The Detroit Lions scored 34 points to beat Minnesota and their starting running back was banged up in the game. You would assume that means Megatron is running wild. However, Calvin Johnson only caught three receptions for 29 yards in the game. In standard leagues, fantasy football owners received 3 points from one of the best wide receivers in the NFL.

Author Shawn S. Lealos has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma (2000) and has played fantasy football since 1996, where he ran a league in the days where he added up stats using a newspaper, a pad and a pencil. He now plays in numerous money leagues as well as others just for bragging rights.

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There are many unknown facts about landlording and many misconceptions about what is required to “make it” in this business…
Being A Landlord Is Easy

There a whole industry out there devoted to encouraging people to just buy a property and they’ll make a mint. This is a lie. The truth is that being a landlord requires dealing with tenants, contractors and a whole host of other people. Properties are easy, people are not.
Anyone Can Be a Landlord

This is not true, not everyone can be a happy landlord that makes money. Many people do not possess the skills required. You can buy a property and rent it out, but time will tell if you will become a landlord or become one more guy who bought a property and sold it a few years later. Some people lose their shirts in this business, just ask Donald Trump who has lost his shirt, then got it back, then lost it again in a bankruptcy and then went to Europe to buy a whole new wardrobe with the money he made doing his TV show.
Tenants Are Jerks

Tenants are customers, without tenants there is no real estate business. Real Estate is perhaps the only business that reviles it’s customers. It’s a mistake.
Landlords Are Cheap

Landlords aren’t cheap, they are saving their money to replace your furnace in 4 years from now. The profit margins in this business are extremely slim so in most cases the money isn’t there to indulge unnecessary “projects”.
All The Rich People Made Money In Real Estate

This is perhaps the biggest secret… here’s the List Of The Top 15 Billionaires and although I’m sure their real estate portfolio is impressive by ordinary people’s standards only one has made a business of real estate and telecommunications and hotels. Owning a port is not exactly the same as buying a house to rent out. In all these cases you’ll find that these business people own real estate to hold their real businesses.

McDonalds has a huge real estate portfolio that comprises a steady income stream. They made their money flipping burgers and now they buy the properties that house the restaurants. Next, as the author of the article suggests… this real estate portfolio may be spun off on the Stock Market.

Actually if you look at the list you’ll find that most of these billionaires made money in retail not real estate!
Real Estate Is Passive Income

This is a whopper if I ever heard one, just like any business, to be successful, the real estate investor has to actively manage their affairs. Today is a Sunday and I’m taking it easy, and also going out to pick up some rent checks and changing a door knob and taking pictures of a property for the Landlord & Tenant Board hearing tomorrow. Sounds relaxing doesn’t it?
No one is handing out hundred dollar bills on street corners. If you want money you’ll have to damn well work for it.

Real Estate Always Goes Up

This is true until it isn’t. Actually real estate goes up and down and up in quite regular cycles: it’s just that the cycles are long. I was a teenager the last time the real estate market in Canada crashed. Those pretty graphs that show that real estate always goes up don’t adjust for inflation or taxation. If real estate always went up in value the most expensive real estate in the world would be the oldest.
The Value Of Real Estate Is Determined By Commerce

Without commerce there is no value. If you don’t believe me go house shopping in Detroit or even my home town of Temagami. Without an active burgeoning economy and business there is no value to real estate. It’s just a bunch of bricks and mortar in the wrong spot you have to pay taxes on and maintain.
Location, Location, Location

Real estate investors want prelocation, prelocation, prelocation. That’s because the greatest gains to be made in real estate are made by waiting for areas to gentrify. By the time your real estate agent tells you about a “hot area” it’s too late. The train has left the station. What makes an area valuable is the commerce in that area. For example, look at the agricultural lands and what happens to the value when the area builds up around it.
My Real Estate Guru Says…

I know a number of real estate investors that do very well for themselves. Most are millionaires several times over. None of them have time to bullshit teach masses of people about real estate. None of them have time to write books and if they did you wouldn’t buy the book because in most cases you would never have even heard their names.

People who are selling these courses and memberships are in the business of selling courses and memberships. They are not in the real estate business.

You Make Money When You Sell Your Real Estate

Smart real estate investors make money when they buy the real estate. I have seen this over and over. They are patient, they are smart and they won’t buy it unless it’s a great deal. They know the minute they sign on the dotted line that they’ve made money. They don’t pay one cent more than they have to, and they never pay for potential…only income. That’s because potential is not worth a penny without a lot of work. They want to be paid for their work and assuming other people’s problems. So they’ll buy, but only on their terms.

If you were to market a property that was run down and empty to a savvy real estate investor and you told them how much more they should pay because of the great location and promise for the future, they’d tell you to call them when you had done all the work and then they’d pay the price you’re asking. Then, they’d tell you how much that property was worth to them and make you an offer that would probably offend you. Some people say yes, if they are desperate enough. That’s how smart investors make money.

Many of these people who have made good money in real estate have sold their properties in the last few years. There’s a lot of wise money sitting on the sidelines these days just taking a break and having a nap. They’ll be back to snap up the deals when there’s blood in the streets.
Real Estate Is Safer Than The Stock Market

Real estate is just another business. The stock market is a place where businesses are traded. Anyone who knows anything about the stock market will tell you that businesses cycle up and down depending on the economy and popularity. Sometimes energy is hot, sometimes it’s real estate. Other time’s commodities are the good buy.

Different people have affinity and the skills to succeed according to the field of business they choose. I might not do very well in a fashion business, because I don’t care about it at all. Fundamentally every business is the same, in fashion you make or buy purses or clothes and sell them for more than they cost you. In the real estate business, we buy buildings and sell or rent space for more than it cost us.

If you want to be a successful real estate investor you’ll be using the exact same principles that countless businesses traded on the stock market use every single day, and if you’re extremely good, you’ll eventually be traded on the stock market too, if you want to.

On that note… here’s a great article by Robert Herjavec on business principles, ideas that you’ll need to apply to any business you’re in to succeed.

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2. “The war in Iraq is finally over after 9 years.”
3. “America’s mission in Iraq was a success.”

this is just funny the success ... what ? we still didn't find any single weapon for mass destruction did we? all we did there was spent billions had a big number of soldiers killed Banesa and yes we killed Saddam what else? i don't know any good....

By making a couple of vague comments barely referencing some major topic, it somehow passes for some form of serious analysis. In essence everyone filled in the gaps to see out of it what they wanted to.

Take #6 for example
"6. “America is unthreatened by China’s growth.”

IMHO the threat of China's growth has always been overstated. People look at growth %'s with China because the actual numbers are not quite so sexy to report. When you have a country which underwent 40+ years of economic ruin, anything resembling a functional economy represents phenomenal growth. It is a testament to how badly Mao ran the country in his years

Nowadays the threat is less that they will somehow overtake us to become some major superpower as much as the amount of sheer damage they cause in creating their growth. Think of China like a roidal linebacker sitting next to you in a bar pounding tequila shots. Of course he's a threat.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.

It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past.

Extra pollution in China and the U.S. account for more than half the increase in emissions last year, Marland said.

"It's a big jump," said Tom Boden, director of the Energy Department's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Lab. "From an emissions standpoint, the global financial crisis seems to be over."

Boden said that in 2010 people were traveling, and manufacturing was back up worldwide, spurring the use of fossil fuels, the chief contributor of man-made climate change.

India and China are huge users of coal. Burning coal is the biggest carbon source worldwide and emissions from that jumped nearly 8 percent in 2010.

"The good news is that these economies are growing rapidly so everyone ought to be for that, right?" Reilly said Thursday. "Broader economic improvements in poor countries has been bringing living improvements to people. Doing it with increasing reliance on coal is imperiling the world."

In 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its last large report on global warming, it used different scenarios for carbon dioxide pollution and said the rate of warming would be based on the rate of pollution. Boden said the latest figures put global emissions higher than the worst case projections from the climate panel. Those forecast global temperatures rising between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century with the best estimate at 7.5 degrees.

Even though global warming skeptics have attacked the climate change panel as being too alarmist, scientists have generally found their predictions too conservative, Reilly said. He said his university worked on emissions scenarios, their likelihood, and what would happen. The IPCC's worst case scenario was only about in the middle of what MIT calculated are likely scenarios.

Chris Field of Stanford University, head of one of the IPCC's working groups, said the panel's emissions scenarios are intended to be more accurate in the long term and are less so in earlier years. He said the question now among scientists is whether the future is the panel's worst case scenario "or something more extreme."

"Really dismaying," Granger Morgan, head of the engineering and public policy department at Carnegie Mellon University, said of the new figures. "We are building up a horrible legacy for our children and grandchildren."

But Reilly and University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver found something good in recent emissions figures. The developed countries that ratified the 1997 Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas limiting treaty have reduced their emissions overall since then and have achieved their goals of cutting emissions to about 8 percent below 1990 levels. The U.S. did not ratify the agreement.

In 1990, developed countries produced about 60 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, now it's probably less than 50 percent, Reilly said.

"We really need to get the developing world because if we don't, the problem is going to be running away from us," Weaver said. "And the problem is pretty close from running away from us."

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This is a really excellent analysis. I can only agree at these points, it's all sad, but true. I'd really like more posts like this.

Number 5, if wrong, then blame lies with US Administrations. It is US which tells Pakistan repeatedly that it is US ally (Major Non - NATO Ally, in fact); has hardly been claimed by Pakistan that it is US ally. Pakistanis knows it clearly that US has used their country since 1950s to serve its own interests and chose to discard it whenever those interests were achieved (realpolitik).
Put the question otherway round and then I agree with your analysis i.e. Is US ally of Pakistan?

I cant believe this that you can get this 13th lie in your list. ;0)
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According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

According to myth, a young George Washington confessed to cutting down a cherry tree by proclaiming, "I cannot tell a lie." The story is testament to how much respect Americans have for their cherished first president and honesty in general. Unfortunately, in the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels for every honorable hero like Washington.

Supposedly, the truth can set you free. But for many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects.

In the following pages, we'll go over some of the most colossal and significant lies in history. Although such a list can't be comprehensive, we sought to include a variety of lies that influenced politics, science and even art. As a result of these, lives were lost, life-savings destroyed, legitimate research hampered and -- most of all -- faith in our fellow man shattered.

Without further ado, let's delve into one of the oldest and most successful lies on record.

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Lies mean little without the influence of those who tell them...

Now a days telling a lie-you can say it is an art, because everybody uses this art for his/her own self without caring the effect of this activity. How much it will be harmful for the people but still don’t want to speak the truth. To hide a lie one has to speak hundreds of lies.
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@ bing520 Well your comment that China suffered 200 years of humiliation though may be partly true, is quite true for a lot of other countries that were under the british rule for equally long periods. Take India for example, it too had been under british rule for 200 years before their independence in 1947. But china unlike india is bent on acting like the south east asian big brother. Just imitating the US perhaps. Whats china's business poking their nose in a joint venture between vietnam and india, claiming the south china sea as their own.
Their posturing in regards to the south china sea reminds me of kids posting lame videos trying to increase youtube views and get their 5 minutes of fame. And its all posturing because they cant afford an all out military operation against India.
The largest number of hacker attacks on government servers comes from hackers in china. This is part of their strategy to try and become a super power like the US.
So NO i dont agree that china is not a threat. Wait for 10 years and look at this in hindsight and tell me if china's actions were all so benevolent.

There is actually no credible definition by which the government of Israel could be called an ally of the U.S. Ally is a two way street, and this street is one way, from Washington to Jeruselum, paved with a lot of money that is used (indirectly) to continue building settlements which, in the long run, is in no one's best interest.

They are only an ally in the sense that they've got there hand in our pocket.

Hmm,taking about China? Don't think you guys know China well enough. Should really go to google it more then start taking. The Apple products you own now are made in China.

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9. “Cutting the taxes of millionaires helps creates U.S. jobs.”

This one wins in the audacity category. It is said with a straight face without one shred of evidence to support it. You know why there’s not one shred of evidence, right? ‘Cause it’s an idiotic, insupportable idea.

I totally agree that this one is a major lie. How do they justify this statement? All the millionares walking around in their expensive workwear and uniforms whilst us working class are paying to much tax.

Number Fourteen - "We love Israel" - misses the mark...

There is a great amount of truth here; the only problem is that you've exaggerated the statement itself. No US politician actually says that we "love" Israel... no one with a national profile, anyway...

Perhaps we SHOULD "love" Israel, which is generally well-aligned with American values and beliefs. They are a democratically governed, mostly free society, with many cultural similarities to the United States, after all...

Israel also serves as (1) a hate-absorbing lightning rod for the Arab world (and beyond - Europe in particular), (2) a proxy spearhead for military and espionage activities that would be politically impossible for the US, and (3) the basis for an almost unlimited number of secondary lies - the fabricated imperatives, twisted justifications, and other fodder of American political discourse...

But we do NOT "love" Israel... Any savvy politician (professional liars, as you point out) recognizes the impossibility of trying to generalize any particular position in a nation of 300,000,000 people.

Moreover, Anti-Semitism is perhaps THE most wide-spread form of hatred on the planet, and our US politicians know that, too...

Will we "always support" Israel? Sure, we hear that a LOT... but NOT "love"...

China is sheep in wolf's clothing.. Don't believe?

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment_relax-the-future-of-the-world-will-not-be-made-in-china_1596216

I loved the 14 lies! Lies of that sort, where the liars are lying even while speaking the truth lol. It would be great to have more lies, and this time categorized geographically. That is, 1 best lie told to each country! :-D

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Given that even the German economy is, by legal sanction, significantly less transparent than that of the U.S., I'm always interested to learn what I can from pronouncements about "China" and "China's growth," as if both were quantities easily known and understood by outsiders, casual and expert.

What makes these pronouncements all the more instructive is that they're made in the absolute absence of any context of Chinese history, classical or contemporary, and are, moreover, apparently dreamed up in a madcap apprehension of China existing, now and at all times, as something of a coherent whole.

My middle-brow and patchy reading of Chinese history would suggest that "China's growth" is rather less of a threat to the U.S., or anyone else, than it is to China itself.

For at least two thousand years, the Chinese seem to have been hard pressed to come up with a universally pleasing definition of what "China" and "Chinese" ought mean to people living within China's ostensible borders. And when it comes to distributing or apportioning the spoils of economic success, in whatever form, the debate over the definition of these most basic terms has, often as not, been rather disruptive on a fairly large scale.

I wouldn't be so sure if Point 14 is actually a lie. For me unconditional support of Israel by most of Republicans seems genuine and given their anti-islamic rhetoric, they won't back off on it, because they would have been automatically labeled as cryptomuslims and enemies of Israel and therefore enemies of right-wing Americans...
Besides I agree with all other points..
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You asked for them…
Science is scientifically controversial.
Religion is not scientifically invisible.
Republicans are working in the national interest in accordance with their oath of office; like pizza is a vegetable.
Federal Courts, and especially the Supreme Court, are above money and partisanship since they are the decision-makers of last resort.
Small, incremental and cumulative violations (by which I mean rapes) of the Constitution are nothing much to worry about.
It is uneconomical to address global warming; global warming is scientifically controversial.
Burning fossil fuels and Uranium/Plutonium reactors are irreplaceable technologies, essentially harmless.
I can escape the consequences of my/my buddies’ corruption/stupidity in a high-priced gated community.
I can escape the consequences of my/my buddies’ corruption/stupidity in a supremely well-armed and rich country.
We can shoot our way to peace. Shooting is the first resort, not the last. If shooting doesn’t work, shoot more.
My children will benefit from the consequences of corruption/stupidity.
Government cannot accomplish anything constructive, even when run by people who believe in constructive government.
Government can accomplish anything constructive if run by people who don’t believe in constructive government.
Global population growth is not the primary source of every other geopolitical and ecological problem on Earth.
We do not need to practice global zero population growth immediately and for whatever time it takes, because Nature will never do it for us, with prejudice.
If Nature does it for us, that is God’s will, plan for Earth and road to Paradise.
Jesus is due back any day now that the Diaspora has been reversed, and that idea is not blasphemy against the Holy Ghost and thus uniquely unforgivable, per Christ.
American evangelicals love Israel and don’t look forward to the Jews’ (and everyone else’s but themselves) genocide, per their sick interpretation of the sick-interpretation promoting Book of Revelation.
The American educational system can be improved, given American TV and its sickening cultural norms force-fed to us 24/7/365.
America is a representative democracy in any but the flimsiest sense (representing wealth alone).
National-capitalism is less toxic than national-socialism; not toxic at all, as a matter of fact, on the contrary, thanks to the fairy magic of the invisible hand.
Quadrennial Presidential elections make a difference; voting is fair and honestly conducted; things can change for the better depending on the winner (and not just remain the same and/or get worse).
American TV news is not a national disgrace; who needs balanced-reporting metropolitan newspapers?
A real American Left exists, equivalent to the American Right’s Bucket of Wings. Do you want Freedom fries with that?
The American Center, that solitary amputee, can slow (much less block, much less reverse) America’s stampede to the Right.
The motto of bipartisan American politics is not Louis XIV’s: “Après moi, le déluge. (After me, the Flood).” This belief is not the last refuge of the idiot.
The world is run by the three-odd percent of the population smarter than me (God help us).
The world is run by the conscience-driven and not by jumped-up sociopaths to relieve their permanent sense of boredom with rationally unjustifiable risky behaviors, injustice and tyranny – and more and more so over time.
Fundamentalist Christians, Muslims, Hindus, atheists and Jews are fundamentally different.
American optimism is a reasonable expectation and not mere denial of the obvious.
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Now that Fukushima has shown us what a mass nuclear powered future has in store for us, low-dose radiation is actually good for you.

While the Father of our Country was memorialized as being ethically incapable of producing a falsehood, his namesake city, as noted in the article, is just a sewer of them. My particular dislike is when a descriptor in the opening line in a think tank web page "About Us" is "nonpartisan". I have learned to interpret this as a euphemism for "we'll shill for either side, couched in academic terms of course".

I guess like the wriiter says, lies have become part of our lives.

“America’s mission in Iraq was a success.” A total lie in my opinion It seems like an empty celebration that forgot about the millions that have lost everything. PI

David, I don't think you can leave out the joke that is the COP17 climate change conference.. if that isn't a lie that the world actually cares about global warming, then I'll eat my hat!

Telling it like it is as always David - LOL! Coming into election year in the USA so we can expect much more of the same lying by politicians into the new year no doubt!

I believe we need to think twice before believing everything we read and watch. damer

This is not true, not everyone can be a happy landlord that makes money. Many people do not possess the skills required. You can buy a property and rent it out, but time will tell if you will become a landlord or become one more guy who bought a property and sold it a few years later. seslichat Some people lose their shirts in this business, just ask Donald Trump who has lost his shirt, then got it back, then lost it again in a bankruptcy and then went to Europe to buy a whole new wardrobe with the money he made doing his TV show.
Tenants Are Jerks

1. It is nice to read an op-ed coming from a Carnegie Endowment visiting scholar channeling the passion and candor of Matt Taibbi, who currently writes for Rolling Stone.

2. Lie #14 is most sad, because: a) Jewish Americans buy into this lie, even though they know it is a lie, and b) because Jewish Americans seem not to realize how dangerous it is to support this lie, for themselves, for the United States, and for Israel. Demographics and economics ultimately trump everything, folks.

Also, see current Foreign Policy report on Mossad agents posing as CIA agents to recruit Pakistani Jundallah terrorists to target Iranian officials, civilians, etc. Focus on the responses of US intelligence, state department and elected officials. When do you think the tipping point in American politics will arrive? Now, think about how US politicians who scream "I love Israel!" are the friends of Jewish Americans, or Jews anywhere. Think about how Mossad agents, and the government and people who support them and give them their orders, are friends of Jewish Americans.

This is not a blackmail in the faculty of one who will displace us as a superpower, this is a blackmail as one who is alarmingly ambiguous and absent to the abeyance for accident they cause.

Developed countries with anatomic per capita apprenticeship systems accept crumbling populations as a rule. Most of the developed apple is growing abased on clearing to aggrandize its populations due to shrinking families. If China's citizenry is accretion due to calm demographics, it agency it has ample workouts for men which are poor or area women accept little to no admission to able education.