International Commerce

★ Cuba – The “International Mob” Never Forgets About Possible Assets It Wants, So Others In A Government Do Its Bidding

News Analysis: Havana has recently been subjugated to additional attempts to destabilize the government; this by its Hip-Hop youth. Cuba- the “International Mob” never forgets about possible assets it wants, so others in a Government do its bidding. For the young of Cuba, an amateurish set of plots had germinated from their northern neighbor (a mere ninety miles away).

Since Sergeant Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar was ousted, for being a mere “Mob Stooge”, Organized Crime “OC” has been ‘on a terror’ against the evicting Castro Brothers.

Rather than declaring that “OC” wants Cuba for its location for its nefarious activities, and its estimated petroleum deposits, the neighbor to the North, stated it was fighting “Ungodly Communism” (an easier ‘Sell’ to a naïve public). Currently, this same 1950s-1960s Mantra is being used today.

As the majority of countries in the United Nations have voted to end the “Embargo Against Cuba”, political minions of “OC” in Cuba’s northerly neighbor, have pursued this action as zealots.

International Businessmen have the experience to see through the various charades and obvious holograms manufactured by Intelligence Agencies of other Nations. The same group responsible for the continued attempt to get Cuba’s Assets for ‘free’ are allegedly progressing well in Western Europe.

The Western Europe scenario is of a much greater magnitude because the potential “Freebie” this Entity wants to deliver to “OC’ and its Associates in nothing less than Siberia [with its vast natural resources]. Perhaps, like the former Havana of Sergeant Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, ‘OC” would establish casinos throughout the “Russian Far East” (RFE)? They could even offer better odds in their casinos since, under this scenario, they would have attained the property for ‘free’; thus having lower Non-Recurring Costs that would have ‘bitten into their profits’ (if they had purchased)?

Fortunately, International Businessmen realize that the aforementioned “OC” ‘RFE’ Fantasy has been, is, and should be, thwarted by Russia’s two Steadfast Leaders. Both of these Gentlemen evidence great skill in playing Chess with avaricious adversaries; the Castro Brothers have also done well.

When the music is being played, are “OCs” owned-politicians singing, or merely lip-syncing?

If one listens acutely, he or she may be able to discern the “Shuck and Jive”.

Reality.

Reference: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_SECRET_CUBAN_HIP_HOP_ABRIDGED

★ Cuba: International Commerce Cannot Flow Freely When Doors Are Locked Shut By Vested-Interest Politicians

News Analysis: The “Ancient” continuing Cuban Embargo by the United States, reveals more about Washington, D.C. Politicians and their ‘Handlers’ than it does about protecting America from ‘Foreign Aggressors Ninety Miles Off Its Coast’. Since International Commerce cannot flow freely when doors are locked shut by Vested-Interest Politicians, it hurts the entire world (which is presently in an economic slump).

The current 188 Nation Vote for eliminating this Anachronism to “Capitalism” (of which the Washington, D.C. Politicians love to extol) says: ‘It is Time to Change’. Closed doors benefit ONLY those with ulterior motives.

The loss of Cuba by President Kennedy’s father, Joseph, who wanted to create a fiefdom on the island, was thwarted by the Cuban Castro Brothers and their friends. It ruined those ambitions for both he as well as for American and foreign Organized Crime Interests. The island would have provided:  Anticipated abundant Petroleum Reserves; Expanded Casino Gaming; a Tax Haven for Joseph Kennedy’s friends, Geographic Immunity from Prosecution for International Nefarious Individuals, a growing area for illicit high-profit crops, and an entrepot for ‘illegal’ goods.

One should ask if America’s Current Politicians are not still being influenced by those who were ousted (or their successors) to continue a negative drag on the World’s Economy. While they continue their diatribe of the “Threat to America” by Cuba, International Businessmen will see that these “‘Patriotic’ Politicians are really lackeys for the Mob”; nothing more. 

Perhaps, the next couple of elections in America, will bring in some ‘less contaminated’ persons who will thwart the seeking of hegemony on other nations and instead, seek free and open markets so the World Economy can improve.

Reality.

Reference: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-10/29/c_133749355.htm

☆ A Business Or Political Leader Who Does Not Lead, Is Not A Leader, But Litter.

News Analysis: In today’s very fast moving world, it behooves everyone concerned to review their leaders, business or otherwise. A Business Or Political Leader who does not lead, is not a Leader, but Litter for his or her subordinates. The: Prestige of the position; the Income derived therefrom; the Expense of maintaining the effete individual, all make it necessary for those who “Pay the Tab” to demand effective Leadership.

All too often today, Journalism Majors,  have little critical experience analyzing Business or Political Leaders of which they write. Yet, they often times pen glowing passages about Political Pals or young Nabobs they adulate. Where is the Critical Analysis? Where is the “Trust But Verify”?  What parameters do they use to judge?

Today, as in the past, a Leader is one who has: Ability to make decisions forthwith, High “Emotional Pain” Tolerance; Prescience of Mind; Tenacity, and a Truth Vindication Perception. He or she KNOWS that LONG TERM the Fateful Decisions made must benefit all of his or her subordinates.

History will correctly judge ALL Leaders both Business and Political.

Narcissists will end up with foggy mirrors.

Reality.

Reference: http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/david-limbaugh/obamas-narcissism-threat-national-security

International Businessman Credo

International Businessman Credo

An International Businessman understands that: Perseverance, Preparation, and Professionalism, Produce Profits and Progress.   The Road to acquiring the aforementioned Assets takes Dedication, Desire, and Discipline. This, not for just “Making a Buck”, but for enjoying the Challenges, Honing one’s Abilities, Leaping the Hurdles, and Humbly Succeeding without sophomoric Mass Media Adulation.

One thing that has been made abundantly clear from all of Our Years of  Commercial Exposure: An International Businessman is not just a “Fellow with Abundant Financial Resources” [perhaps acquired by Guile, Inheritance, Larceny, Luck, or ‘rarely’ Talent]; but more of “A Soaring Eagle” who understands ‘The Rules of Flight’, ‘The History of Soaring High’, ‘The Frailties of Feeble Behavior’ and, most importantly perhaps, ‘The Powers of “Mother Nature”’. The International Businessman, while trying to become a “Soaring Eagle” has experienced being blinded by the Sunlight and at times severely chilled by the cold atmosphere. ‘Negative’ Real Life Experiences have not weakened him, but made him stronger.

We have been asked for Decades: “How does one become an ‘International Businessman’?”; “Can you teach me the Business ‘Ropes’ so I can become ‘Global’?”; “Is there a “Quick Way’ to Success?”, “Can I, as a Female, become an International ‘Businessman’?”; “Is it possible to acquire Money and Power Legitimately?” To these questions, we can provide the following response: “If One is Singularly Dedicated to becoming an ‘International Businessman”, All Things are Possible”.

One very important element that must be understood by all, regarding this “Mount Everest” Challenge is “One MUST Fly Straight” i.e., “Be your Word”, “Say what you Mean and Mean what you Say”, and, ‘Never Be A Crook’. These simple admonitions are very hard for many people to follow. If one does chose to follow these precepts he or she may succeed. But the path to Success as an International Businessman is a Rocky Road at best. “Tenacity Triumphs” for those who endure the hardships.

Mass Media adulation of some Mutual Fund Operators, Internet Relationship Site Distributors, or even Motion Picture Producers may lead the uninformed to think these persons are ‘International Businessmen’; NOT A CHANCE. One of their many possible shortcomings is that they have merely collected ‘Other People’s Money’ (OPM) and are using it to do whatever. They are hardly of the level of former International Businessmen such as: George Franklin Getty (Getty Oil),   Aristotle Onassis (Olympic Maritime), and Soichiro Honda (Honda Automobiles), for example. Each of the aforementioned understood both the “Culture” and “Fundamentals” of International Business. Over time, the Gentlemen all enjoyed the “Status” of International Businessmen; they “Soared with the other few Eagles” from Continent to Continent. Each of the aforementioned Gentlemen, one can surmise, “Took their Lickings, and kept on Ticking”; such is International Business. 

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Chinese Corporation Buys World’s Largest Copper Mine In Peru

News Analysis: Averaging an estimated 90,000 Tons of Copper Concentrate a year, a mine located at south Peru’s Apurimac region, the Las Bambas Project, will help support China’s Cuprous (Cu) needs.

This $5.5 Billion Dollar Acquisition needs pertinent approvals by all relevant parties.

A ‘Cu’ Mine sale of this size will benefit the acquirer for many years. One might expect the value of this property to increase mightily in future years.

Reality.

Reference: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-04/14/c_133261332.htm

☆ Computers’ “Heartbleed Bug” Was Not To Be Government Corrected For ‘Bleeding Hearts’

News Analysis: Computers’ “Heartbleed Bug” Was Not To Be Government Corrected For ‘Bleeding Hearts’ by the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) Personnel people say. Since the ‘NSA’ allegedly had been working on such a ‘Bug’ for its own purposes for several years, why would it not want to enjoy a ‘Free Lunch’ with an Existing Software Flaw it discovered?

As We have maintained for years, the ‘NSA’ has remarkably ‘Bright’ People working for it and, a Budget to Match! It is now pretty much Omnipotent and Omniscient, like it or not. While we decry Invasions of U.S. Citizens’ Right to Privacy as Guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, we also understand both “Power” and “Justice”. The adage: “Justice Occurs When The Entity With The Power Says It Has; Nothing More” might seem a little harsh to the Naïve; to  experienced ‘Internationalists’, this Actuality is well understood. In this Instant Case, the ‘Power’ (NSA) determined ‘Justice’ was served with ‘Non-Disclosure’ of this “Heartbleed Bug”.

Perhaps, all of the ‘Silicon Valley’ Information Technology (IT) ‘Geniuses’ the Mass Media love to fawningly adulate, will realize the “Heartbleed Bug” should have been discovered YEARS AGO by THEY and/or their ‘IT’ Peers around the World; It Was Not. Could it be that rather than paying such generous Salaries and giving ‘Stock Options’ of substantial value to Managements in Software ‘IT’ Companies, more of the profits would be better utilized in seeking out “Heartbleed Bugs” and their Cohorts? Is not Silicon Valley the “Apotheosis of Information Technology In the Entire World”? Mass Media reports indicate it is; could they be mistaken?

“Bleeding Heart” Masters of the ‘IT’ Universe at Software Companies about the ‘NSA’s’ Lack of Disclosure of this ‘Bug’ is sort of like the “The Pot Calling The Kettle Black” many people think; Disingenuous at Best, Hypocritical at Worst.

Reality.

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/us/politics/obama-lets-nsa-exploit-some-internet-flaws-officials-say.html

☆ Russia Names Three Major Corporations That Are Moving Their Headquarters To Siberia

News Analysis: Russia Names Three Major Corporations That Are Moving Their Headquarters To Siberia as they all have very sizable investments already there and additional future investments in Siberia by them will occur.

President Vladimir Putin had appointed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to oversee the Russian Far East Development to happen post-haste. Both Gentlemen, International Businessmen state, are Declarative, Driven, and Dynamic; they DO NOT VACILLATE (as some other World Leaders seemingly do). Development of Siberia is beginning to gain Momentum with this Corporate Re-location Announcement and other peripheral events taking place. 

Investors and Entrepreneurs, as We have stated many times, presently and in past decades, should seriously consider the Financial Prospects of Funding Siberian Projects (one way or another); “The World Belongs to the Aggressive”.

The Russian Far East has possible collective Natural Resource Rewards far exceeding anywhere else on this ‘Big Blue Marble’.

Reality.  

Reference: http://siberiantimes.com/business/others/news/three-major-companies-to-be-sent-to-the-other-side-of-siberia/

Argentina’s Huge Vaca Muerta Oil and Shale Gas Reservoir Gets Accelerated Development

News Analysis: The huge 30,000 Km2 (12,000 Mi2) Formation has its Shale at a depth of 2,900+/- Meters (9,500 Feet) with an average thickness of 400 Meters (1,300 Feet) covering the entire area. Now, Argentina’s Huge Vaca Muerta Oil and Shale Gas Reservoir Gets Accelerated Development  with an American Oil Company joining an Argentine Concern.

The American Government estimates Hydrocarbons subject to recovery are 16.2 Billion Barrels of Oil and 308 Trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas.

Investors who finance such a project as the Vaca Muerta can win substantial monetary returns on a “Sure Thing” as it eventually goes into Production Increase.

The question many Geologists ask: How many other large Shale Oil/Gas Reservoirs are there: besides, the Vaca Muerta; the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela; and the Bakken Field in North Dakota, U.S.A.; and of course the biggest of all, the Bazhenov Formation in the Urals area of Russia.

Beyond being ‘Fashionable’ for being renewable and lower polluting, Alternative Energy Sources OF EARTH are presently Quantitatively Minuscule (a relative Scintilla) compared to available Energy from Vast Petrochemical ‘Reservoirs’ as aforementioned.

Perhaps the “Marketing Capacity (‘Hype’)” of those who promote Alternative Energy Sources is more Productive than the Actual Energy available from those entities NOW; and less of the Petrochemicals to which they remonstrate.

To the Chemical Engineers and Physicists who desire to “Think Outside The Box” regarding this General “Power” Subject, We suggest the “Non-Polluting” ‘Energy Potential’ conjoined with the HUMONGOUS  ‘Quantitative Source Availability” in Sea Water.

Reality.

Reference: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156684/chevron-ypf-boost-spending-to-develop-argentine-shale

☆ “Cosmetic Loans” Benefit No Debtors, But Do Sound Impressive To The Naïve

News Analysis: “Cosmetic Loans” Benefit No Debtors, But Do Sound Impressive to the Naïve, think many International Businessmen (who heard such Financial Tripe by Politicians before).

If a Government Loan Guarantee will not be accepted by any Lender, for the benefit of  Debtors, it is effectively a “Cosmetic Loan”; as real as a hologram.

As the Adage goes: “If One is to Talk the Talk, He Must Walk the Walk”. It appears that the severe Capital Shortage of a Nation is NOT being aided with a Financial Tranche, but  merely supplanted in Oral Emanations by those whose Real Intentions  may be suspected (EVENTUALLY by the debtors). 

Reality.

Reference: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_11/US-loan-guarantees-to-help-Ukraine-are-worthless-Putin-1085/

☆ Greek Bond Issue Is Oversubscribed

News Analysis: Greece has a glimmer of light cast on its heavy Government Debt; a scourge due to Gross Mismanagement of the Country’s Economy and Theft by its Various Leaders (Military and Political), many Financial Analysts declare.

As welcome as the new funding will be to the Greeks, they still have to remember the Bonds are still Debt (to be repaid in the future). As Greeks work to get the Government’s Financial House in order, the terrible price they have paid does not appear, as yet, to include redress to those who caused the Debacle. Which Military Leaders and Politicians who have secreted their ill-gotten gains in Switzerland and elsewhere been brought to Justice? Which of the aforementioned Thieves are now housed in Greek Prisons? Δεν ξέρω.

Egos of a Nation’s Leaders can allow for continued Personal Expropriation of Government Monies, as it has occurred in Greece. Many people are of the opinion that until any possible Gains are SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than the Pains, which the Leaders knowingly will receive, the possibility of recurrence is likely. Now, if caught, they will merely move back to America, as before.

Reality.

Reference: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26967027