How many Golf Courses does the US Military maintain?

a somewhat dated story and exact numbers look to be fudged by military brass………but reports of between 200 and 300……. at a time when americans are debating what needs to be cut from the federal budget, here is a good place to start.…..by the way, how much does it cost to tee it up at the army’s Tournament Players Club, a golf course built, in 2003, by army personnel in Mosul, Iraq?

read more here:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/82009/

Governor of Wisconsin: we have been broke for years calls for cuts or big layoffs.

these stories will be more and more common as the year progresses. one wonders how GDP will grow, with so many layoffs and cuts in front of us.

“I don’t have anything to negotiate,” Walker said. “We are broke in this state. We have been broke for years.

read more here:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/115911379.html

Schools in Texas are flat broke……..

so is the state of texas and the good ole USA………………say good bye to high school as this country cant afford to educate its kids. but we can afford 50 MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN FRICKEN GERMANY.

“All across Texas, school superintendents are bracing for the largest cuts to public education since World War II, and the state is not alone. Schools across the country are in trouble as billions in emergency stimulus grants from the federal government have run out, and state and federal lawmakers have interpreted the victory of fiscal hawks in November’s midterm elections to mean that tax increases are out of the question.”

read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/education/15texas.html?hp

Communist China plans “rail link” thru Columbia

“Proposed Colombian railway linking Atlantic and Pacific coasts would make it easier for China to export goods to Americas”

read more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/14/china-rail-rival-panama-canal

“The looming Superpower clash triggered by Pakistan”

all eyes on pakistan…………………………

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4999.htm

Washington Post “US may need to borrow $7.2 Trillion”..

lets see…………$14 trillion + $7.2 trillion=$20 trillion in debt………….thats just beautiful…..

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021400906.html?hpid=topnews

The first spark of revolution in Iran?

pull up a chair……………………..

“If the people don’t go home, the regime will have a problem, says veteran Israeli expert on Iranian affairs Menashe Amir”

read more here:

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=208166

Wisconsin Governor briefs national guard about possible unrest

here it comes…………………………………..

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wisc-gov-briefs-national-guard-about-unrest-after-unions-blast-emergency-budget/

“Channel Tunnel rail link sale begins UK’s big sell off”

austerity is a bitch……….coming to america sooner than you think

“The great austerity auction of state-owned assets has commenced after a pair of Canadian pension funds splashed out £2.1bn to acquire High Speed One, the UK’s high-speed rail link.”

read more here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/8113973/Channel-Tunnel-rail-link-sale-begins-UKs-big-sell-off.html

“US and Pakistan square off”

this story is heating up……………….stay tuned

“All this is happening on account of the continued detention of a single American national commonly known as “Raymond Davis” in the Pakistani city of Lahore, despite the urgings by senior US officials at the political and diplomatic level that he should be forthwith released.

Davis is employed by the US government and is accused of shooting dead two armed men in Lahore. The US Embassy in Islamabad said the man, who it claims fired in self-defense, is covered by diplomatic immunity and should be immediately released.”

read more here:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MB15Df01.html

Pictures and Videos from the Middle East

from iran to bahrain, the region is exploding……….will the protests and riots reach the house of saud?…………..stay tuned………….

see the videos and read more here:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/

“China Works To Stave Off Wheat Crisis”

what happens when 1.3 billion people get hungry?……. stay tuned

“The worries go beyond China, which has essentially been self-sufficient in grain for decades. The concern is that China, with 1.3 billion mouths to feed, may need to import wheat in volume, creating shortages elsewhere.”

read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/asia/14china.html?ref=business

Communist China replaces Japan as Worlds 2nd largest economy.

how does a communist country become the 2nd largest economy in the world?…..how did all of our jobs end up in communist china?….many countries are complaining about this from america to brazil to even zimbabwe and when zimbabwe is complaining about cheap chinese imports something is seriously wrong.

read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/business/global/14yen.html?src=busln

“Stop the Global Land Grab”

is it safe to say that food prices and food inflation will be talked about for years to come?…………..you betcha

“NGOs don’t mobilise people, desperation mobilises people,” said a Cambodian land activist as he related the experience of Boeung Kak villagers who were driven off their land by their own government to make way for corporate profiteering.”

“Land grabbing emerged as the hot topic in this year’s forum. The phenomenon is defined as taking possession of and/or controlling a scale of land for commercial or industrial agricultural production, which is disproportionate in size in comparison to the average land holding in the region. Stories from Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, India, Brazil and Mozambique illustrate that the phenomenon is widespread and the consequences can be dire. Land investments from overseas to secure food supplies and biofuels, speculation and resource extraction are the major drivers of this phenomenon.”

read more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/global-land-grab-farmers

IMF warns that Inflation could spread.

no kidding……….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703361904576142901753380400.html?mod=googlenews_wsj