Tag Archives: War

The Wikileaks Video

Wikileaks has a very suggestive interpretation of the event surrounding the video they are showing.  I sympathize with it.
Pajamas Media has another interpretation.  (Gavel bang to Adam Gurri)  It is a war.  People die.  The soldiers followed protocol.
I posted on the Pajamas site, and provided my email address to their readers.
In this post I tried [...]

Cost of War In Iraq / Population = We Should’ve Moved Them Here

There are various estimations of what the war in Iraq has cost the USG so far.
Here is one running calculation ($580 billion), and another ($618 billion).
This report puts the number at $900 billion.  Stiglitz said $3 trillion earlier this year.
Let’s take that $900 billion number, just for illustration.
The population of Iraq is  27.5 million.
Divide $900 [...]

Russia Invades!!!

It has been a scant 5 days since we brought you this post suggesting that war was likely in the Balkans.
Lo and behold, Georgia’s President says, “My country is in self-defense against Russian aggression. Russian troops invaded Georgia.” CNN
Whether this attack will lead to global macro effects will be interesting to watch.   If international forces [...]

The Next Big Thing?

Is it China and India (so 2007…), Brazil, or … the Balkans?
My handle, Jurisnaturalist, is a word coined by Richard Maybury author of the Uncle Eric Books and an 8 to 12 page monthly newsletter called the Early Warning Report which he publishes 10 times a year and charges $300 for.  If you have a [...]