>Go read H&N's Empire and report back. >Welcome to the Palindrome:
>it's 2002 and 112 years have passed since 1890. >Things have changed
somewhat.
>Peter
That book is for shit if it's history or global financial analysis you want.
Read the book? (How about use your head?)
Like Carrol, I'm getting a bit tired of hearing this one. I've read the book, and hell, I'll pay the postage if someone contacts me off list and asks for the goddamned thing. Otherwise, it's pulp for the recycling plant soon.
False prophets will come, and false prophets will go.
But ask yourself, what other country, trade deficits and stock bubbles and all, could use global finance to fund a 400+ billion dollar a year military-intelligence-police state (and one that doesn't even work very well until it's time to drop bombs)? It isn't transcendental Empire, it's the American empire, the facticity of which nauseates me.
Charles Jannuzi