Gul’s vision (in the article i linked above) is the Obama vision. meanwhile, a perfectly reasonable aquaintance, a stock trader who lives in Texas, just sent me an email which i’ve located on the web. This stuff is circulating. It reminds me for all the world of the stuff the gloom & dooms were writing after 9/11.

Anyway, clearly the US financial system is under attack –the ”shorts” alone, operating without the old uptick rule which was killed due to technical problems in valuing the fast-growing ETF vehicle, have been doing all that can be done to shatter retail confidence in US financial mkts, and the housing bubble, well, that too started somewhere, and we don’t have to let it happen again. I can’t figure out all the ways we have subverted ourselves, or have been subverted, but whatever, it may have broken this week, when instead of the commodity superspike under the pressure of Georgia-panic, we got a magnificent Dollar rally.

IOW, the hideous zombie planet Medvedev (supposedly) describes in the article, may have taken a huge setback on the strength of this week’s really monster rally in the US Dollar.

And another thing –the USA political unrest Medvedev (supposedly) forecasts in the article –we can help damp that –we just need to force ourselves back into the condition of civility which has been unfortunately terribly degraded in America over the last eight years since Florida 2000.

But it does appear that Russia has decided to ignore MAD doctrine, that is, fear of superpower nuclear war, and to fight wars on its borders wherever it sees a gain in doing so. As John Bolton & others have said with great conviction over the last few days, Europe needs to stand up, now, or it will have already become, more or less peacefully, the completion of Stalin’s dream.