I'd say "told ya!" because I saw this coming, ...but I don't think I actually said anything about it here. This rift is something that I've been predicting since November. I'll keep the rest of my prognostication to myself, lest I jinx it.

This might be a good time to learn Mandarin. China has been leveraging its position as the West's manufacturing bitch for some time now, and is on the verge of turning the tables. Very interesting article.

I've been reading a lot here recently. He covers a lot of territory, some of it troubling, some simply disturbing. He and I seem to share many interests, and seem to be approaching similar hypotheses about UFO-related phenomena, but I first got hooked when reading some of his research into the surprisingly widespread phenomena of ritual sexual abuse and pedophilia. This is scary, scary stuff. Listen: if your kids tell you something that sounds crazy, believe them. Believe them. They haven't learned how to use their cultural blinders, so they may well see more than we do.
In the words of Norman Brown, "all that is, is metaphor." Chew on that a while.