shop to open again

hello, i am sure you have missed me. had to close shop for medical reasons. will be back soon but need to warm up a little first.

look at what's been happening since that i could not put in my two bits' worth of wisdom: muslim pakistan snuffed out the last and sole remaining candle of hope on its hopeless trek toward civilization, while relatively, its arch enemy godless india has taken off already...

americans are so happy with almost a decade of running about as a global superpower as coherent as a headless chicken that they almost decided to replace dubya with dubious, more commonly recognized as barack obama (*), possibly just because they want to maintain oval as oval instead of oral, as far as white house offices are concerned...

the u.s. fed has put the brakes on globalization - the way we used to when we were young, riding bicycles that did not have working brakes, i.e., wearing out the soles of our shoes...

meanwhile chindia (**) have become the scourge of capitalism, now that oil has topped $100 a barrel. a new world war is expected to gain control of petroleum producing areas. however since wars are expensive enterprises as even dubya is learning, when prices of cheap chindian goods hit celestial levels because of oil procured at the end of oil wars, they will have to sell their merchandise in world markets at the end of bayonets...

well, i've been out on my back three weeks or so but the world is as crazy and absurd as ever.

thank heavens and their consumers...

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(*) one of turkey's supposedly top tv anchormen, mehmed ali birand apparently cannot pronounce obama, he kept calling the candidate "barak omaba" in a number one fm radio commentary. i have to admit though, that the man's name sounds more african than american. (**) china and india are more than emerging markets in some eyes, they are emerging powers, too - among which some also add russia. such illusions always happen to those who view the world as a playing field of nations and their states rather than deeper forces: after the opec oil embargo in the 1970s, everyone was weary and reverent of the arabs and the 1990s were supposed to be the decade japan would finally rule the world, etc., etc. so, i turned the emerging powers into a merging concept.