socialism and its many forms

I thought that this was an interesting quick read on the various socialistic political statures that some may or may not fall into...right now I'm reviewing a great Latin band called Grupo Fantasma...they're good stuff and not your typical fare for an x-mas eve stereo set-up...I truly am enjoying my time alone today...the grocery store was absolutely packed as was the movie store so I just avoided it...saw the Bourne Supremacy last night with the wife and it was pretty good, packed with one helluva an action-filled car chase through Moscow...which is a city I really would love to see sometime (though certainly not during their winter!)...speaking of Russia, it looks as if Putin is strengthening his country's economy even more with the purchase of Yukos by creating a huge energy giant owned by the state...of course our White House objects because our vested interests (read: Bush's campaign donors) wanted it for themselves and sure there's plenty of criticism that can be drawn towards Putin for corruption and much more, but honestly do we have any soapbox to stand on? I think not. hey you can't assume that we can be the only super-power forever right? Now we're going to have to seriously consider an alliance between China and Russia as the most powerful in the world, especially considering all the strides that both countries have made to secure oil production...they could have only seen our illegal war into the Middle East as a last ditch effort to grab up some oil for ourselves when our plan to launch the pipeline across Afghanistan had failed due to the Taliban...there's a lot going on in the world, in hushed circles, and nervous hands are wringing...we've got a stupid cowboy on one side, and on the other, the world.

besides who are we to complain about state-owned or controlled anything when we've got the GOP-controlled and manipulated media at our whim and multi-national companies who helped the neo-cons push for a "free market" utopia in Iraq only to see it unequivocally fail and terrifically at that as we could barely make out the jet streams from Bremer's fleeing airplane...merry x-mas soldiers, you'll be away for a long time indeed.