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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

21 June - Signs of our Times

The $35 billion New Kabul master plan, in whic...The $35 billion New Kabul master plan, in which the city is expected to expand north towards Bagram Air Base. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: DUSHANBE. With President of Afghanist...English: DUSHANBE. With President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. Русский: ДУШАНБЕ. С Президентом Афганистана Хамидом Карзаем. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a su...English: Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
SCO summit, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2009.SCO summit, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Russian President Vladimir Putin with...English: Russian President Vladimir Putin with representatives from Iran and Mongolia, observers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 06: Chinese President Hu...BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 06: Chinese President Hu Jintao shakes hands with Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit at the Great Hall of the People on June 6, 2012 in Beijing China. Central Asian leaders are visiting China for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a Central Asian grouping headed by Beijing and Moscow, with discussions focusing on approaches to Syria, Iran and the influence held by the United States in Asia. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 06: Iran's President Mah...BEIJING, CHINA - JUNE 06: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) attends a meeting with China's Premier Wen Jiabao on during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit at the Great Hall of the People on June 6, 2012 in Beijing, China. Central Asian leaders are visiting China for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a Central Asian grouping headed by Beijing and Moscow, with discussions focusing on approaches to Syria, Iran and the influence held by the United States in Asia. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)



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Science is rapidly moving to recognize that our human body is far more than a highly organized cardiovascular machine, that it is a conglomeration of 50 trillion or so cells, all coalescing into a dynamic whole. Yet, at a deeper level a 70 kilogram human would have approximately 7*1027 atoms.That is...
 
 By occupying the Central position (Afghanistan) in the region the US had intended to contain China, sit at the under belly of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) and by implication Russia's and deny them all an approach to oil rich Iran, the ME, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. By its departure by 2014 these grand objectives will go even further beyond reach. The US has also failed to install India as its regional plenipotentiary in Afghanistan! The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO, will thus get enough breathing time and space to organize and exert itself as a viable and competing pole to the US in the region. This will reduce the US footprint and effectiveness in the region too with very far reaching geopolitical implications.












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