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I used to underestimate Korean power, but now changed my view completely with this Wondor Girls music video. They know what the entertainment is!

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"War is a continuation of diplomacy using other means." Carl von Clausewitz. For sovereigns and super national institutions, power politics is the game they play. It is relatively easy to check and evaluate the hard or the military balancing by sovereigns. But it’s not so easy to estimate soft balancing undertaken by sovereigns and super national institutions, via a combination of economic,

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The global equity market crash in 4Q/2008 was the real sea change event, and　I was lucky enough to foresee the event, well in advance, to protect myself and make some profit out of it. The impacts of the implosion of unprecedented global huge bubbles of over credit and derivatives shall not disappear in just two or three years. The governments has been injecting unprecedented amount of money

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If one takes a look at following graph of the history of world population, it might be clear that we are now at a unique and critical point of human history. World Population by Billions 10000BC - 2000AD Wikipedia As for me, this skyrocketing population increase, particularly after 18th century, looks nothing but a population explosion. It is of my understanding that there were obvious

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In an interview by CNBC at Davos 2010, Mr. George Soros said it clearly that “Copenhagen was a bust and the disappointment.” And in one of the main panel in Davos by the head of states titled “Global Governance Redesigned”, Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico said “The negotiation by consensus mechanism is not working.” “We have new problems and we cannot tackle [problems such as climate

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It might be wise to admit that we are at the beginning of a big sea change. Now the growth center is shifting from the West to the East, and the global population is growing exponentially. At the same time, peaking and depletion of many natural resources as well as the environmental problems are beginning to take places. And the present system is designed to seek maximum growth, and this

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Aristotle sorted the true constitutions into three types according to the number of those who participate in the magistracies. They were monarchy (government of one), aristocracy (government of few) and constitutional government or republic (government of many). And he also defined the perverted constitutions as tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. Today, at the nation states level, there are

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Excerpt from United Nation University’s web page on Policy and Institutional Frameworks. "Global governance refers not to world government, but to an additional, mediating layer of international decision-making between governments and international organizations which is comprehensive, multisectoral, democratically accountable, and inclusive of civil society actors in the shared management of

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This is a TV commercial of The Economist. If he were to sit next to you on a flight, what topics do you like to chat with him? As for me, as a student of history and a minor gentleman; with a humble and respectful attitude, I would love to hear his view on the course of chivilization. There are two quality videos about Dr.Kissinger. The links are as follows. Uncommon Knowledge: Henry

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In the business field, there are huge transnational corporations such like listed in the fortune 500, and the market had been integrated into a global one, specifically after the collapse of Soviet Union. Those TNCs and its stake holders all support the globalization. Now we have global organizations like UN, BIS, IMF,WB,WTO, etc. And there are other various institutions, private meetings and

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I’ve already put up a video of Mr. Fareed Zakaria in my previous post “The age of global governance-Part 3.” . I believe Mr. Fareed Zakaria is making himself quite clear with the new framework of globalization, which is now appearing in the post global bubble world. Americas Next Foreign Policy Playbook by Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter Dec. 16 2008 New America Foundation event,

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There are several excellent videos by Professor Niall Ferguson. I’d recommend following two for people interested in the history and the future. "Living Dangerously? Risk in the 21st Century." - McIntire School of Commerce UVA It can be found at the bottom of his web page. Above is an important speech he made in 2005. Unfortunately, McIntire School of Commerce has removed the script from

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Professor Niall Ferguson is one of my favorite economic historians. His recent articles are insightful and worth reading. He stresses the fragility of the globalization from his historian viewpoint. And he foresees the increase of economic and political conflicts and instability in some countries. But a world war type crisis is not on the horizon, as the U.S. has overwhelming military power.

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The U.S.A. has been an excellent vehicle to promote the globalization and free market capitalism to the world, for past more than 60 years, since the end of the WW2 in 1945. And, through the late 1980s and early 1990s, the table of the global free market has been finally achieved after China and Russia took part in it. Now we are mostly all playing the same game on the globe, and the developing

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The United States of Europe is quite advanced in the sense of super-nationality. It seems high chance to me that some of the European standards might well develop into the new global standards. The long sought global civilization is finally emerging now. I believe that this is a huge paradigm shift of human civillization. Following statement by Pascal Lamy WTO, published by eGov monitor.com,

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These are recent excellent articles for us to foresee the future. We are now in the process of the historic revolution toward the age of global governance; a New World Order. Dr. Henry Kissinger delivered the Atlantic Council’s third annual Christopher J. Makins Lecture January 15, 2009 Atlantic Councils. The Chance for a New World Order　 By Henry Kissinger　January 13, 2009 　　Real Clear

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"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Prof. Al Bartlett Without understanding the real meaning & impact of the exponential function, we may not be able to project our future correctly. Arithmetic, Population and Energy by Professor Emeritus Albert A. Bartlett (Colorado University at Boulder) Transcript in English,

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It is an essential view point for us to understand the world we live in today. God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern By Walter Russell Mead, a foreign policy expert of the Council on Foreign Relations

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