We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.... http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/USA/ Mon, 7 Jul 2008 00:28:22 +0400 blogSpirit.com All Rights Reserved http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/03/30/i-want-you-r-oil.html http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/03/30/i-want-you-r-oil.html noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) USA Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:22:24 +0400 <div style="text-align: center"> <div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/media/00/01/2d31a3a750103e1895a0a93d32415fe2.jpg" alt="2d31a3a750103e1895a0a93d32415fe2.jpg" style="margin: 0.7em 0px; border-width: 0px" title="USA,Oil" id="media-164902" /></div> </div> http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/02/10/an-ottoman-warning-for-america.html http://pakistanspecial.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/02/10/an-ottoman-warning-for-america.html noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) USA Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:41:13 +0400 <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial">BY: NIALL FERGUSON</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial">Future historians will look back on the current decade as a turning point comparable with that of the Seventies. No, not the 1970s. This is not going to be another piece pointing out the coincidence of an unpopular Republican president, soaring oil prices, a sagging dollar and an unwinnable faraway war. I am talking about the 1870s.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial">At first sight, the resemblances across 130 years may not seem obvious. The 1870s were a time when conservative leaders such as Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister, were powerful and popular. It was a time of falling commodity prices, after</span>&#8230;</p>