Jan 31, 2006 Asia Times (this has happened)
Were the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld axis to risk launching a nuclear strike on Iran, given the geopolitical context, it would mark a point of no return in international relations. Even with sagging popularity, the White House knows this. The danger of the initial strategy of preemptive wars is that, as now, when someone like Iran calls the US bluff with a formidable response potential, the US is left with little option but to launch the unthinkable - nuclear strike.
Monday, January 16, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com
Yet will not »helicopters dropping dollars« in the American heartland
further exacerbate the plight of Americans who depend on the dollar's
purchasing power? The result of all this may be domestic unrest and even
a growing distrust of the current homegrown monetary system. If such
sentiments were to blossom, then perhaps some of the so-called »patriot«
paranoia about the potential repressive nature of the US government,
including the use of certain, broad-based emergency powers granted via
executive order - could be unfortunately realized - or so go the 'Net
whispers.
01/14/2006 16:41 Pravda
Citing U.S. government forecasts, Snow believes that America's foreign debt
currently standing at $8,184 trillion will hit the debt ceiling as
early as February-March 2006. For decades the White House has been
borrowing money to cover expenditures that exceeded the real economic growth
rates. As a result, the U.S. public debt currently totals to $8.1
trillion, a huge figure compared to the U.S. GDP that is slightly above $11
trillion.