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China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe
MikeChino sends in this excerpt from Inhabitat: "China already has the most advanced and extensive high-speed rail lines in the world, and soon that network will be connected all the way to Europe and the UK. With initial negotiations and surveys already complete, China is now making plans to connect its HSR line through 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe in order to connect to the existing infrastructure in the EU. Additional rail lines will also be built into South East Asia as well as Russia, in what will likely become the largest infrastructure project in history." They hope to get it done within 10 years, with China providing the financing in exchange for raw materials, in some cases.
What a great idea. It turns a six hour flight into a 3 day ordeal! What a wonder.
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I would propose Japan as the leader in this category.
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
I don't think that Russia is as screwed as many seem to think.
They have a secret weapon; its called 'the Russian people'.
I think that 'westerners' look at Russians and they think 'oh they are white people, eurpopeans, they are like us.'
These 'westerners' will then assume that these (Russian) people are subject to the same kinds of cultural limitations and constraints as them. And thereby underestimate them massively.
The 'western world' is experiencing its golden age now, and it thinks itself strong and virile. But it isn't, its far from virile in fact its very weak and unstable. Times have been easy but things are changing. As civilisations go, I anticipate that 'the western world' will undergo something resembling presenile dementia.
And then the wolves will close in.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
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Hi, I'm FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, I'd like my news back.
Also, I'm obsessively focussed on the United States. No country other than the US has ever behaved with hegemonic disdain for the sovereignty of smaller countries. Ever! The United States INVENTED it, in fact. Like slavery. And racism.
Hey, is that a black helicopter over your shoulder? Didn't you see that same delivery van parked outside your house yesterday?
-Styopa