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Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000
Many believe that the Clinton-Gore years will be remembered for scandal and corruption. Unfortunately, Clinton-Gore's true legacy be a far more dangerous world – a world for which they have left us unprepared.
You won't hear about this approaching era of international tension from Bill Clinton, Al Gore or the news media. However, the Center for Security Policy, in association with the Blanchard Economic Research Unit, has produced an eye-opening 83-page, 65,000-word special report: Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade. The Center exposes the failed Clinton-Gore politics of the last eight years that have left America vulnerable to a new age of tension.
"Contrary to what the general public believes, the world is more dangerous today than it has been for the last 50 years..."
Joseph de Courcy
Editor-in-Chief
Jane's Intelligence Digest
When most of us think of cities and financial centers that affect our investment portfolios, we think of places like New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and perhaps even Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley.
But over the next 10 years there are some place names that may have an even greater effect on our way of life. Places like the Taiwan Strait, the Spratly Islands, Pyongyang, Kashmir, the Strait of Hormuz, the West Bank, Chechnya, Bogota, and even outer space.
Many Americans have their heads buried in the sand. While we go about our routine business, trouble is brewing in the world. Trouble is brewing out of sight and out of the minds of Wall Street pundits, Washington politicians, and the so-called mainstream news media. In fact, Wall Street, Washington, and the liberal news media don't want you to know that trouble is even possible. President Clinton himself said it at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: there are "no enemies." What a whopper that was!
Although it may not seem that way now, events halfway around the world will have a dramatic impact on your life. The full story of how the next 10 years will be very different from the last 10 years is contained in the new special report, Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade.
The Forgotten Dimension
Politicians, reporters and investment analysts alike have all been able to completely ignore the foreign dimension since President Reagan won the Cold War and President Bush led us to victory in the Gulf War.
But just take a look at some of the potential problems brewing in the world and ask yourself: "How would America – no, how would my life – be affected if:
• China launches a ballistic missile strike on Taiwan?
• North Korea launches a surprise attack on South Korea?
• India and Pakistan have a nuclear exchange?
• Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz with a cruise missile strike?
• Saddam Hussein re-emerges as a threat?
• Israel and the Arab world plunge into conflict?
• South Africa plunges into civil war?
• Russia becomes dominated by a nationalistic, totalitarian regime?
• Terrorists conduct a biological warfare attack in a major city?
• Narco-terrorists disrupt democracy in Mexico and wipe out all the euphoria over NAFTA virtually overnight?
Any one of these events could rock the political scene in America, as well as the international financial markets.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have teamed up to create this important publication; CSP’s scholars have identified the threats and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit has outlined their economic implications and offer specific portfolio diversification recommendations to help you weather the storm.
Make no mistake. Turmoil, tensions and even outright war are very real possibilities in the coming years. The Clinton administration may be nearing an end, but years of neglect of our armed forces and ill-advised foreign policy decisions will haunt us into the 21st century. Our nation had better be prepared. And individual investors had better be prepared also. Precarious global financial markets could convulse because of political and economic conflict simmering below the surface even now.
You see, the Clinton-Gore administration has been obsessed with fighting for its political life while the news media pursue their own agenda. Meanwhile, Wall Street has been too mesmerized with the dot-com craze to pay much attention to anything else. None of them believe that national security and foreign affairs matter. That was true yesterday; it won't hold true tomorrow. How will America react when modern China is transformed from today's emerging market opportunity and trade partner into tomorrow's menacing threat to world peace?
The Center for Security Policy is one of the national security world’s most respected think tanks: it is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that informs the world about all aspects of national security, notably those policies bearing on the foreign, economic and financial interests of the United States.
America Sleeps
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were supposed to bring an end to the never-ending line of crises known as the Cold War. But, unfortunately, the world has only become different, not safer. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration has been asleep at the wheel, allowing America to become vulnerable.
The world in the next decade will be fraught with uncertainties of new and troubling dimensions, which will not necessarily be improved by parallel advances in technology or risk management. The national security issues facing America are already evident in trends and indicators. How the U.S. responds to these challenges will determine our domestic quality of life as well as world economic and political stability.
Specifically, there are eight challenges to U.S. national security that will severely impact the world economy and financial markets in the years to come:
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction – and ballistic missile delivery systems – has already altered the world's security calculus. How will the financial markets react to being potential nuclear hostages to rogue states and madmen like Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il and Moamar Qaddafi?
2. Troubled Behemoths. Russia, China, India and Indonesia are all in various stages of change beset with internal factional, ethnic and religious struggles and financial disparities. Together, they make up half of the world's population. Instability in these nations has implications for the entire world.
3. Drugs, Thugs and Plagues. Narco-states, syndicates and kleptocracies threaten states and world systems. Terrorism in all its varieties – conventional, chemical, biological, radiological and cyber-based – will have cross-cutting effects around the globe.
4. Systems, Supplies and Structures. The majority of the world's key mineral resources are located in – and/or transit – areas of current or projected instability (Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa), producing the real possibility of shortages and crises. Meanwhile, 95 percent of the world's population growth is taking place in Third World countries, a strain that could eventually lead to migration/refugee problems and epidemics for the First World.
5. Chaos: More Than a Theory. Potential adversaries, be they terrorist organizations or rogue nations, have a growing ability to produce chaos for the United States, and we have an ever- lower tolerance threshold for such events. The chaos can come in the form of economic, political or military activities – even all three at once.
6. Information and Space: Securing the Unsecurable. Increasingly major portions of military, civil and commercial systems rely on space-based technology. Potential adversaries such as China and Russia, and others, have active space, anti-space, and space denial programs under way. This brings a new level of political and commercial insecurity to a heretofore military mission. This vulnerability is perhaps the least addressed major U.S. security and intelligence issue.
7. Latin America. Threats are metastasizing in Colombia and Venezuela. The persistent success of narco-guerrilla enterprises, and any further reversals of democracy in the region, will sharply impact already fragile structures in Latin America. If Central America's fledgling democracies revert, the immigration, infrastructure and security costs for the U.S. would be huge.
8. Africa. HIV infection rates of 25 percent and higher in many major countries will reverse the marginal gains from market reforms and debt forgiveness. Fights over food and water will continue, and the predators of international organized crime, terrorism, and Muslim fundamentalism will further expand activities into weak-state areas including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and other U.S. trading partners.
In short, there is a lot of nonsense that passes for conventional wisdom in the "mainstream" press. We all need to look directly into the future to protect ourselves against these possible events.
The world is changing. Just as the Arab-Israeli War, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan racked America’s political scene and the financial markets in the 1970s, world crisis will have a fearful impact during the first decade on the 21st century.
The information contained in The Dangerous Decade simply is not available anywhere else. You certainly won't hear about it from today's liberal media. The Dangerous Decade gives you access to the uncensored truth behind tomorrow's headlines.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have combined their networks of worldwide confidential sources to help ensure that you are not blindsided by unexpected developments. With The Dangerous Decade, they have written a report that gives you an astonishing preview of historic events to come.
If you also believe we are all entering hazardous waters in the next decade, then call 1-800-880-4653 to get more information on Blanchard Economic Research's report, THE DANGEROUS DECADE. Or visit the Unit's report Web site at http://www.clinton-legacy.com.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/12/134120
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000
Many believe that the Clinton-Gore years will be remembered for scandal and corruption. Unfortunately, Clinton-Gore's true legacy be a far more dangerous world – a world for which they have left us unprepared.
You won't hear about this approaching era of international tension from Bill Clinton, Al Gore or the news media. However, the Center for Security Policy, in association with the Blanchard Economic Research Unit, has produced an eye-opening 83-page, 65,000-word special report: Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade. The Center exposes the failed Clinton-Gore politics of the last eight years that have left America vulnerable to a new age of tension.
"Contrary to what the general public believes, the world is more dangerous today than it has been for the last 50 years..."
Joseph de Courcy
Editor-in-Chief
Jane's Intelligence Digest
When most of us think of cities and financial centers that affect our investment portfolios, we think of places like New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and perhaps even Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley.
But over the next 10 years there are some place names that may have an even greater effect on our way of life. Places like the Taiwan Strait, the Spratly Islands, Pyongyang, Kashmir, the Strait of Hormuz, the West Bank, Chechnya, Bogota, and even outer space.
Many Americans have their heads buried in the sand. While we go about our routine business, trouble is brewing in the world. Trouble is brewing out of sight and out of the minds of Wall Street pundits, Washington politicians, and the so-called mainstream news media. In fact, Wall Street, Washington, and the liberal news media don't want you to know that trouble is even possible. President Clinton himself said it at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: there are "no enemies." What a whopper that was!
Although it may not seem that way now, events halfway around the world will have a dramatic impact on your life. The full story of how the next 10 years will be very different from the last 10 years is contained in the new special report, Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade.
The Forgotten Dimension
Politicians, reporters and investment analysts alike have all been able to completely ignore the foreign dimension since President Reagan won the Cold War and President Bush led us to victory in the Gulf War.
But just take a look at some of the potential problems brewing in the world and ask yourself: "How would America – no, how would my life – be affected if:
• China launches a ballistic missile strike on Taiwan?
• North Korea launches a surprise attack on South Korea?
• India and Pakistan have a nuclear exchange?
• Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz with a cruise missile strike?
• Saddam Hussein re-emerges as a threat?
• Israel and the Arab world plunge into conflict?
• South Africa plunges into civil war?
• Russia becomes dominated by a nationalistic, totalitarian regime?
• Terrorists conduct a biological warfare attack in a major city?
• Narco-terrorists disrupt democracy in Mexico and wipe out all the euphoria over NAFTA virtually overnight?
Any one of these events could rock the political scene in America, as well as the international financial markets.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have teamed up to create this important publication; CSP’s scholars have identified the threats and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit has outlined their economic implications and offer specific portfolio diversification recommendations to help you weather the storm.
Make no mistake. Turmoil, tensions and even outright war are very real possibilities in the coming years. The Clinton administration may be nearing an end, but years of neglect of our armed forces and ill-advised foreign policy decisions will haunt us into the 21st century. Our nation had better be prepared. And individual investors had better be prepared also. Precarious global financial markets could convulse because of political and economic conflict simmering below the surface even now.
You see, the Clinton-Gore administration has been obsessed with fighting for its political life while the news media pursue their own agenda. Meanwhile, Wall Street has been too mesmerized with the dot-com craze to pay much attention to anything else. None of them believe that national security and foreign affairs matter. That was true yesterday; it won't hold true tomorrow. How will America react when modern China is transformed from today's emerging market opportunity and trade partner into tomorrow's menacing threat to world peace?
The Center for Security Policy is one of the national security world’s most respected think tanks: it is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that informs the world about all aspects of national security, notably those policies bearing on the foreign, economic and financial interests of the United States.
America Sleeps
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were supposed to bring an end to the never-ending line of crises known as the Cold War. But, unfortunately, the world has only become different, not safer. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration has been asleep at the wheel, allowing America to become vulnerable.
The world in the next decade will be fraught with uncertainties of new and troubling dimensions, which will not necessarily be improved by parallel advances in technology or risk management. The national security issues facing America are already evident in trends and indicators. How the U.S. responds to these challenges will determine our domestic quality of life as well as world economic and political stability.
Specifically, there are eight challenges to U.S. national security that will severely impact the world economy and financial markets in the years to come:
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction – and ballistic missile delivery systems – has already altered the world's security calculus. How will the financial markets react to being potential nuclear hostages to rogue states and madmen like Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il and Moamar Qaddafi?
2. Troubled Behemoths. Russia, China, India and Indonesia are all in various stages of change beset with internal factional, ethnic and religious struggles and financial disparities. Together, they make up half of the world's population. Instability in these nations has implications for the entire world.
3. Drugs, Thugs and Plagues. Narco-states, syndicates and kleptocracies threaten states and world systems. Terrorism in all its varieties – conventional, chemical, biological, radiological and cyber-based – will have cross-cutting effects around the globe.
4. Systems, Supplies and Structures. The majority of the world's key mineral resources are located in – and/or transit – areas of current or projected instability (Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa), producing the real possibility of shortages and crises. Meanwhile, 95 percent of the world's population growth is taking place in Third World countries, a strain that could eventually lead to migration/refugee problems and epidemics for the First World.
5. Chaos: More Than a Theory. Potential adversaries, be they terrorist organizations or rogue nations, have a growing ability to produce chaos for the United States, and we have an ever- lower tolerance threshold for such events. The chaos can come in the form of economic, political or military activities – even all three at once.
6. Information and Space: Securing the Unsecurable. Increasingly major portions of military, civil and commercial systems rely on space-based technology. Potential adversaries such as China and Russia, and others, have active space, anti-space, and space denial programs under way. This brings a new level of political and commercial insecurity to a heretofore military mission. This vulnerability is perhaps the least addressed major U.S. security and intelligence issue.
7. Latin America. Threats are metastasizing in Colombia and Venezuela. The persistent success of narco-guerrilla enterprises, and any further reversals of democracy in the region, will sharply impact already fragile structures in Latin America. If Central America's fledgling democracies revert, the immigration, infrastructure and security costs for the U.S. would be huge.
8. Africa. HIV infection rates of 25 percent and higher in many major countries will reverse the marginal gains from market reforms and debt forgiveness. Fights over food and water will continue, and the predators of international organized crime, terrorism, and Muslim fundamentalism will further expand activities into weak-state areas including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and other U.S. trading partners.
In short, there is a lot of nonsense that passes for conventional wisdom in the "mainstream" press. We all need to look directly into the future to protect ourselves against these possible events.
The world is changing. Just as the Arab-Israeli War, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan racked America’s political scene and the financial markets in the 1970s, world crisis will have a fearful impact during the first decade on the 21st century.
The information contained in The Dangerous Decade simply is not available anywhere else. You certainly won't hear about it from today's liberal media. The Dangerous Decade gives you access to the uncensored truth behind tomorrow's headlines.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have combined their networks of worldwide confidential sources to help ensure that you are not blindsided by unexpected developments. With The Dangerous Decade, they have written a report that gives you an astonishing preview of historic events to come.
If you also believe we are all entering hazardous waters in the next decade, then call 1-800-880-4653 to get more information on Blanchard Economic Research's report, THE DANGEROUS DECADE. Or visit the Unit's report Web site at http://www.clinton-legacy.com.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/12/134120