End of the American Century, Empire and Oil

http://www.thesoapboxroadshow.com
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5202497.ece
The recent National Intelligence Council report on global trends and its estimate of global power for the next 20 to 50 years predicts that power - economic and technological etc.. - will shift from the United States and the West to the third world, Asia; China, India; South America.

See also the book "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• global
• economics
• power
• oil
• America
• empire
• NeoCon
• project
• Century

[perstaere]

That's what I like about YouTube. The most amateurish videos could be posted by people who have nothing substantiative to say, and they say it in the most amateurish way. Everyone has a chance, even if they make fools out of themselves.

[Ralphdraw3]

@perstaere Yes, America is now stuck in two wars, is $14 trillion in debt, the economy struggles along with little job growth; states are going bankrupt; millions of homes are in foreclosure; gasoline is nearing $4 a gallon.

[friedie1jeff]

@Ralphdraw3 That has nothing to do with someone making an amateurish video that puts viewers to sleep. The maker of the video should at least practice first. He sounds unprepared and therefore rambling on.

[Ralphdraw3]

@friedie1jeff make your own video!!!  do it professionally - higher standards than the usual Youtube video!!!

[daro2096]

The young Donald Rumsfield reminds me of the Columbo actor Robert Culp.

[Ralphdraw3]

Are you talking about the Columbo TV series?

Wasn't that a great series? Remember the episode where Culp was the murderer - even as kid, I was glued to that program

[qanazir]

Two things America should do:

1. Stop sucking up to the oil companies and invest massivly in alternative energy and research.

2. Spreading democracy is fine but randomly invading contries isn't the way to go.

[moistfaucet]

@perstaere, Einstein Theory was a joke before it proven few years later.

[kahetel13]

@perstaere to that list add people who based on some insubstantiative videos, then merrily jumpp and denounce all other videos and use the now old standard cliche'; "conspiracy theory" or, other buzz words/pharses that do a diservice. if you think that all that is posted on YouTube by these "amateurs" are all lies. your a bigger fool than those you think are declaring to be fools:)... i suspect your a professional because you are certainly gifted in manipulative semantics.. congratulations

[thedavecorp]

Get to the point man! This video is taking too long! Forget the sunset and get to it!

[scorpioninpink]

@qanazir i'm a muslim, but america should also stop having immigrants in their country... i know muslims, although some are liberal thinkers, like the younger generation, the older radical generation is still a big threat... and besides, it can start an identity crisis...

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

The sad thing is you wonder how can people be so greedy and cruel that they'd let their own country fall for their own interests? I guess you could say that the lesson is that pride makes one blind to their own mistakes and what's going around you.

[mike4ty4]

But how will the economies of those other places -- Asia; China, India; South America -- continue without oil? What are they doing to plan for the depletion of oil, which likely has already peaked globally right now or is right about to? Are they more ready for to transition away from mandatory growth (which is silly when Earth is not a TARDIS) than USA, and actually doing so? As USA sure ain't, at least it don't seem that way. And what happens when oil costs ten times as much as it does now?