Tall Trees Are Still

I am sure you have heard the phrase “it’s quiet before the storm.” But, right now there is plenty of noise being made at ground level over the seeming or near collapse of financial markets in the United States and abroad.
Ponder these questions, if you will. Is every market in trouble? Who is not making a lot of noise and is trying to stay low key?
Didn’t I read that Russia has agreed to pull out of the disputed territories in Georgia, by next Thursday–perhaps lowering world attention being paid to them.
NYtimes Op-Ed Columnist Tom Friedman in an article entitled “Palin’s Kind of Patriotism”, among other things brings up discouraging information that Iceland is teetering on bankruptcy–who would have thought it, he writes, and that this country of three hundred thousand citizens has reached out to Russia for a bailout to the tune of five billion dollars. They went to Russia with this request; not to Europe; not to the U.S.?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08friedman.html
You got to read what he says…yes read, the entire article!
But, know the storm to come is very much there, hidden in plain view. Consider the fact that in this world power follows money. And, when bankrupt both in money and moral authority a seismic shift can take place. It could determine world order. The tall trees (governments) that remain still during these times, are indeed very busy assessing in which direction the wind of change will blow.
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