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DALLAS, July 22 – Kimberly-Clark said on Friday that it would cut 6,000 jobs and close or sell 20 manufacturing plants by the end of 2008 as part of a broad-based strategy to reduce costs… said net income was $421.8 million, or 88 cents a share, compared with $454.3 million, or 90 cents, in the period a year earlier.
Can’t wait to see what the designers will come up with when CSS3 comes out, check out the cool things you can do around the border-radius parts of the docs.
Summer is getting closer to being half over, and that means it’s house hunting time again. Although it’s a nice location and the price is right, it’s still a temporary place sharing a public bathroom and I’ve been lazy in not looking for something more permanent. The rental market on Bowen is very tight, and the movements made are really well defined by the ‘summer season’ so better to get moving now, so to speak 
summers go way too fast when you’re a kid, and they still flash by in an instant.
Here comes that perfect storm I’ve been harping about:
“NYT – July 21, 2005 – China said Thursday it will no longer peg its currency to the U.S. dollar but instead let it float in a tight band against a basket of foreign currencies.
The yuan currency has been strengthened, effective immediately, to a rate of 8.11 to the U.S. dollar—compared to the 8.28 it has been set at for more than a decade—and the new trading band will begin Friday, the government said in an announcement on state television.”
And further into this mornings’ newspaper it becomes clear why it seems that they can’t distinguish between propaganda and fact down there: “Over all, the United States has one of the highest high school dropout rates in the industrialized world…”
China floating their dollar will help US factories that wanted to place tariffs on imported goods, some members of the U.S. Congress blame China’s currency policy for a record trade deficit and the loss of 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. The move on China’s part will make no difference to them though, and they will still call foul. In the long run it’s just another dark cloud added to the storm, in the form of higher prices for everything and that makes the pin that pops their, (and our), housing market bubble sharper yet.
Don’t forget Malaysia, Taiwan and Japan are going to follow in China’s footsteps. It’s the cumulative effect of these smaller events that the moneychangers and power mongers are hiding from the public, no wonder they need control of the media as they would be run out of town on a rail if forced to follow the same rules as the people they purport to represent, all the while robbing them blind.
And the real ironic thing about it all, China’s Unrestricted Warfare plan is playing out just as written and eventually it should work. After all, it’s just the same game the US has been playing all along, but they learn better and are now using their own tools against them. Who knows if the treatise is real though, nothing but innuendo from a Google that brings up this sort of info, so is this propaganda from the US or China? Does it matter which side it’s coming from when it’s all the same?
LA Times – “Unrestricted Warfare” recognizes that it is practically impossible to challenge the U.S. on its own terms. No one else can afford to build mega-expensive weapons systems like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost more than $200 billion to develop. “The way to extricate oneself from this predicament,” the authors write, “is to develop a different approach.”
Their different approaches include financial warfare (subverting banking systems and stock markets), drug warfare (attacking the fabric of society by flooding it with illicit drugs), psychological and media warfare (manipulating perceptions to break down enemy will), international law warfare (blocking enemy actions using multinational organizations), resource warfare (seizing control of vital natural resources), even ecological warfare (creating man-made earthquakes or other natural disasters).
Cols. Qiao and Wang write approvingly of Al Qaeda, Colombian drug lords and computer hackers who operate outside the “bandwidths understood by the American military.” They envision a scenario in which a “network attack against the enemy” — clearly a red, white and blue enemy — would be carried out “so that the civilian electricity network, traffic dispatching network, financial transaction network, telephone communications network and mass media network are completely paralyzed,” leading to “social panic, street riots and a political crisis.” Only then would conventional military force be deployed “until the enemy is forced to sign a dishonorable peace treaty.”
