WORLD NEWS: "Brazil Turns to China to Help Finance Oil Projects: With Credit Markets Tight, President de Silva Hunts for Funding in Beijing, Offering His Hosts Secure Commodity Supplies," by John Lyons, Wall Street Journal, 18 May 2009.

Right under our noses, no less!

This will clearly trigger a war between Brazil and America, will it not. Isn't that one of the ten great-power wars that George Friedman has us waging this century? But is it before we fight Turkey or after we fight the Poles to the death, I can't remember.

Ah well, maybe it's just companies stretched for finance matching up with foreign partners loaded with cash. That might be it, but it sounds so naïve.