>The view of a leading US intelligence/strategic forecasting company
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>http://www.stratfor.com/home/0110091630.htm

rof,l.... Len, your eyes have glazed over. Before you wave their 'opinions' round perhaps you should find out who they are and what their history is. Their 'zero-based intelligence method' implies they are 'independent of anything'. Now that smells like snake-oil - "we have this crystal ball, and it can't be fooled by bias or opinion, it tells us the future.."