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[Kevin Freels]

>  Conclusion is: world economy is pretty unstable.
It's a stable instability. It has its ups and downs but over the long 
term the trend has always been upwards.
>  
> There is an overproduction. 
> The European Union tries to sell the 'crap' to 
> less advanced countries like us but someday it will have to end. Such a 
> problem would surely lead to war.
Not sure where you get this idea. No country buys more "crap" than the 
US. Less advanced countries generally stick to necessities. If they 
truly are less advanced as you indicate, then they don't represent a 
very profitable market so I doubt anyone manufactures crap with a goal 
to sell it to you. Expansion of the ability to manufacture crap is a 
good thing. Not sure why it would end in war. The only way to end the 
buying of crap from other countries is to manufacture your own ...unless 
you cease to exist. War just shifts the type of crap t hat is manufactured.
>  But there is something else: China will 
> also send their probe to the Moon. The ESA does theoretical jobs as well. 
> Result? Yeah, Space Race. Or I hope it will be a colonization race. This is 
> sort-of sci-fi today but the idea is, to a certain extent comforting.
>   
Not sure what the concern is here. Someone needs to go and it really 
doesn't matter who.
> The world is rather bipolar and becoming ever more so. The, say, Western 
> block includes USA, Canada and the European Union (though that Union is 
> still pretty much in the state of infancy) and several others. The Eastern 
> block is mostly China now but I'm sure the Russians would just as soon join 
> their cause if need be. And the Arabs, well, I wouldn't consider them 
> Westerners. Now it is spheres of influence I'm talking about. My questions 
> are: what do you know about the Moon base? Does it have anything to do with 
> 'Moon Base Alpha'?
>   
You need to take a step back and look at all of humanity as if you are 
from another planet. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the world 
being "bi-polar"
but I always question  people when they make statements that  the world 
is somehow worse off today than it was in the past. Human beings haven't 
changed much over the last several thousand years. I would be careful 
putting them into groups such as "arabs". Each country has it's unique 
heritage and the people inside those borders also are very different 
from each other. Kuwait is very western like. Cuba is in the "west" and 
is a communist government.