How much are you aware of how the sun affects you? Sure on a sunny day, you longingly stare out the window wishing you could go out and enjoy the sun, and conversely, on a cold rainy day there is nothing better than snuggling up with a loved one by the fireplace, ok, nowadays it would sadly be the TV. But nonetheless it does affect out attitudes just by its sheer presence or lack thereof in the sky.
What if I told you that it has a much greater effect than that. There has been revealed a correlation between sunspot activity and the stock market to be so profound that many investment journal have featured articles on this correlation. An image speaks a thousand words.
Each sunspot peak is followed by an economic contraction.
But I am not hear to discuss the stock market, but the rise of the new cold war between China and the United States and does this have anything to do with the present state of the sun during this Grand Solar Minimum which has been named after a solar physicist by solar physicists and is called The Eddy Minimum. Can we show any correlation between sunspot activity and the rise and fall of empires?
While not every rise and fall of every empire correlates with solar output, the Incas for example; the largest and longest lasting empires do. Here is another one correlating the rise and fall of Chinese Empires with solar maxima and solar minima cycles. 
Take note how the empires rise during the warming phase(solar maxima) and fall during cooling phase(solar minima) of the climate cycle.
I would like to draw your attention to this Corbett Report where James Corbett discusses a leaked Chinese memo, in his own words in the show notes...."A leaked Chinese memo reveals that the Chinese military is combating "peace disease" and avoiding an "unavoidable" war by . . . building up their military? What does all this mean, what does it have to do with Thucydides, and what is the reality behind this smoke and mirrors? Find out in today's thought for the day."
Thucydides? Or more accurately the 'Thucydides Trap', is where one great power threatens to displace another, war is almost always the result. Thucydides Trap
And there is this.
The last 100-150 years where we have seen what seemed to be an unprecedented warming, which some unscrupulous individuals have correlated with human industrial activity and erroneously used such correlation as an indicator of causation. Erroneous because correlation does not automatically mean causation and such a short time period is a blink of an eye when it comes to the geologic record of climate. Especially when we know that just about everything within our solar system is cyclical, from day to day sun rises, monthly lunar cycles, perihelion to aphelion and that the cycles of the solar system are more than likely influenced by the galaxy. Knowing such cycles exists, Occam's Razor insists that it is imperative that we first rule out the cyclical nature of climate and ensure there is not a pattern and if there is, that this pattern isn't repeating before we blame human industrial output.
What we see here is when sunspot activity is increased the planet goes through warm periods such as the Medieval warm Period and when there is decreased sunspot activity there is a cool period. Correlation is not causation, but because this graph covers a thousand years, long before our present day industrial output, it does indicate that there is something here that there is a pattern that is much greater than the human factor.
It is undeniable that the last 150 years also seen the rise of US hegemony. They are the great empire of the day with more military bases around the world than any other nation. Their rise to power correlates very closely with the rise of sunspot activity. Shall we now see this Imperialistic Empire of the US fall with global cooling? Of course only time will tell, but based on previous patterns it does seem likely.
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Compiled and written by Freddie Thornton
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