Seems this act would have been a three-fer for the guy:
1) Kill the jew;
2) Protest government mind control;
3) Remove an traitor to the leftist cause.
Now, find his chicken-$hit mentor who ran away.
Moved to Opinion/Lurid Crime Tales. The link goes to Rep. Giffords' National Jewish Democratic Council page, but the above text is purely the poster's opinion.
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The thing I've seen (so far) that sticks out is that he is part of American Renaissance, which has less government as one of its ideals. Other than that, everything he has been up to has been part of socialist/communist ideology, including the anti-semitism crap.
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I can pretty much guess how Jared Loughner got tied to American Renaissance. Local law enforcement had contact with the guy in 2007, probably saw their page loaded on his computer/laptop. Bingo! Tied!
Loughner wouldn't have been allowed within ten miles of any legitimate group left or fright because pot fried his brain, and no one wants to be associated with that.
As far as I am concerned Fox News has some s'plainin' to do, as does sites such as Politico.
The AmRen story is the sorriest example of modern reportage I have ever seen and I have seen some crappy reportage. The reporting I have seen on this story runs neck and neck with the crappiest journalism done by Mexico Proceso.
Tea Party ads, my ass! If the reporterette at Politico had bothered to read the ads and do a whois lookup she would have seen those ads were for modified Gadsden flags, not the tea party.
You can blow your way through J-school ,honey, and blow your way into a job, but you can't blow your way out of fu*cking up a story.
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the apprentice (the gunman) doesn't seem to have made any anti Semitic comments that we know about
however, the master, that may be different
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I'm pretty sure he read them.
Well I'm pretty sure he didn't read them but did understand them perfectly. However, if you're sure he did read them, that's good enough for me. Thank you and good evening.
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It looks like the type of list a person would put up to appear knowledgable; a poseur. Seems to me what those books have in common is that every one of them is recognizable by anyone who has had a semester of literature. But if a person did want to read into it, it is government big individual small others think deeper for you; was it Plato who has been called the first socialist?
Reports are that the person-of-interest was not the gunman's master but a taxi driver who took the gunman to the event. He (the taxi driver) hung around for a little bit because he had not been paid and was hoping to bump into his customer and get the fare.
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Nothing contradictory between Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. They are both works of the Left. Nazi is an ackronyn for National *Socialism*. The connection is well documented.
In other news, it matters not one iota whether he read them or not. Identifying oneself with these works sends an immediate and nearly universally recognized message.
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Good point, swksvolFF. A list made, perhaps, in the hope of lending some weight to his bizarro rantings? A list that screams "listen to me! I'm smart!" Since it isn't looking like he had any experience or accomplishments to point to.
Thanks for the update, LG. This seems like the act of a psychotic loner more than anything else, so an accomplice struck me as unlikely.
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Here's a link to the Communist Manifesto, including prefaces for a bunch of different versions, which constitute the last third of the article. If you haven't read it before you may want to now. Or print yourself off a copy and read it in the bathroom, which would be more appropriate. It's amazing that such a small work could account for so much misery.
Nothing contradictory between Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. They are both works of the Left. Nazi is an ackronyn for National *Socialism*. The connection is well documented.
Also, Marx was as much an antisemite as Hitler; one of his later screeds was about the "Jewish question".
Hitler only appears to be "right wing" to devotees of Stalin.
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What I find instructive is a memo released by DHS. It says in part:
An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by FOX News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance.
The group subscribes to an ideology that is "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti -ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic," according to the DHS memo.
So is he linked to American Renaissance?
This should be easy to discover. He is either on their data base or has multiple back copies of the magazine, which the FBI will no doubt have found when they search his parents home.
If not I'm sure DHS will provide their reason for making the statement, even if it means holding Napolitano's feet to a burning flame to extract the information.
As for the rest of the diatribe of the memo, it's obviously a direct regurgitation of a polemic from the corrupt Southern Poverty Law Centre, which is one of Obama's attack dogs.
Massive storms are moving East from both the North and South on the American Continent. Rantburgers, who live in this continent, should be aware of the signs.
I would suggest you bookmark the link for future reference - great site.
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I prefer the Unisys Goes Satellite site - This is Goes-W for the west coast - pick GOES-E for the east coast. You can select visual, infrared or enhanced infrared and even loop it
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...Down here in SC they're telling us it could be getting truly bad about 0300 EST tomorrow morning - but it will have melted off by dinner time. A morning off though is a definite possibility.
Mike
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I watch
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/mixedcomposite.asp?region=d4&size=2x&ID=MXX19
(Southeast USA)
Weather Underground covers the whole USA, just pick where you want to view.
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storms move east along both the polar and the subpolar jet--- every year---
in the summer some storms move west
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Nice site, Wunder is a good site too. My most accurate foul weather indication is our grocery store, and when I went today all the beans were gone so I, for one, am buckling in. Air smells funny too.
Garth, out here if we see a spring/summer storm even looking like it is thinking about moving west we duck and cover.
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Wunder is a great site - I just look at the Sat images for long term views and where the jetstream's going
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@ 19:00 CST
Bridges outside of the radar indications are collecting mist and freezing. Interstates have been taking winter mix long enough that I would not travel those unless I had to.
Lets just say I have 2 thermoses already made. Be careful out there.
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We in Ali-bamy get Ice rarely and snow once in a 'Coons age,(about every 20 years or so.) the state is effectively closed monday, even the Govenor got on TV and said stay home Monday.(I've lived In Virginia so snow and ice are NOT new to me,) but most of Ali-bamy Has no idea how to drive on Slick roads, so I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.
I'm sure the news will be full of crashed fools, But I'm not going to be one of them.
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Smart man, Jim.
Right now they're predicting snow/ice ("wintry mix") for Tuesday morning here in central Virginia. Guess I'll bring home some work Monday night just in case Tuesday morning's a mess.
I hate getting out among the crazies, too. I've got all-wheel drive, but nobody can drive on ice without chains - and I'm not so sure even then.
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After five years following up official reports on public expenditure, economist Franklin Rojas Penso paraphrases ex Venezuela's President Jaime Lusinchi: "What did they do with the money? Where is it?" And another unanswered question is still worse: where will the money come from to keep the promise of making quite a few investments?
Rojas, the head of the Economic Research Center (Cieca), has systematically counted each promise for disbursement made to any nation where President Hugo Chavez meant to prove how generous he is. And the list is long as well. "The Venezuelan government has announced expenses in or for 94 countries or regions."
Between 2005 and December 15, 2010, an upward curve reaches an outrageous total amount: USD 424.24 billion. All in five years. However, The infamous However... the matter should be put into perspective. They are mere announcements -direct investment, imports from any country, subsidies or payments. Another thing is whether they will come or not come true. This is easy to prove in most cases. For Rojas, however, the situation is clear. "In general terms, the government cannot keep such promises."
It is not only because Rojas distrusts the goodwill of the revolution, but the account does not balance. In that same period of time, President Chavez and his spokespersons reported on public expenditure in Venezuela for USD 1.22 trillion, according to Cieca. In the meantime, income, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), amounts to USD 505.57 billion.
Interestingly, the government promised to spend somewhat more than USD 1.65 billion there and here, but has gotten USD 505 billion. Generosity exceeded the domestic availability.
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Cieca sets 2005 as the year when President Chavez started to show his extravagant side by promising USD 19.77 billion to foreign countries. The following year, it was over USD 46 billion; in 2007, it climbed to USD 65 billion and in 2008, it went beyond USD 73 billion.
In 2009, statistics made a quantum leap: USD 126.35 billion. But it is not what looks like. Or it is, but otherwise. Rojas explained that such a variation in the pace is because of the new scheme of partnerships to develop the Orinoco Oil Belt. That is, joint ventures with Russia, China, Japan, Italy and Belarus, where state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) ought to have at least a 60-percent interest of the shareholders' equity. "Developing each bloc in the Belt requires between 15 and 20 billion dollars. Of course, if made, such outlays would start in the next years. At the end of the day, though, I think that Chinese are the ones really interested in developing that."
The well is drying up
No matter that many of such announcements are apparently made without planning and amidst presidential speeches. Rojas pointed to the status of the large supplier of foreign currency: Petróleos de Venezuela.
"Despite the income over the past few years, Pdvsa failed to make the necessary investment in maintenance and output capacity. Pdvsa was taken its surplus to spend it in other things and today it is in a situation of negative cash flow."
And there is no growth on the horizon. "A recent audit quoted by Rooters found that Pdvsa produces 2.8 million barrels per day, despite official numbers ending 2009 noted that output was at 3,012,000 barrels. Its production drops whereas debt surges. Companies get into debt to grow, to invest; but this is not the case, where one gets into debt to spend."
That is, it seems that the revolution is drying up the well where dollars are taken. "And nobody knows what they do with the money. That money taken away from Pdvsa is supposed to go to the National Development Fund to invest in housing, infrastructure; but those works are not apparent either. USD 67 billion has entered Fonden in four years. What was done with that?"
Anyhow, offerings have not slowed down. Until mid December, the Cieca counted public expenditure announced in Venezuela at USD 97.53 billion and another USD 92.89 billion for abroad. That is, USD 190.42 billion versus a tax income estimated at USD 98.08 billion.
Where will those dollars come from? The situation of Pdvsa depicted by Rojas -and many other analysts- is like riding a bicycle with deflated tires. Nothing has been invested to produce more and yield more income. Worse still, a big slice has been compromised in advance.
"There are 430,000 barrels per day that should be delivered to China as part of the arrangements for the so-called Chinese funds, plus some 300,000 for Cuba and Petrocaribe, in addition to the domestic market which consumes almost 500,000; that is, 1,230,000 barrels per day which do not yield income," he listed.
The current status of the oil company accounts has a dual effect: on the very company, because it cannot reinvest in itself and on the tax income because of its decreasing input. "The government has been forced to increase indebtedness. In 1998, the country's debt amounted to USD 27.80 billion. Today, it exceeds USD 119 billion, including the effect of the Chinese fund."
But the State needs more cash and will get it somehow. The ghost of a second devaluation in 2010 hunted most of the year. Finally, on December 30, it came true disguised itself as "unification." No more dual exchange rate at 2.60 and 4.30 bolivars per US dollar. January brought a single official exchange rate at 4.30 bolivars per US dollar. The alarms of inflation, particularly in drugs and food, were the New Year music.
"The central government wants all the funds," the expert said. "And it established such a thing like the communes, which will be rather used to give money to the government. And taxes will also move up; but this will have not much effect on a recessive economy and where there will be no private investment out of the huge risk of investing here. Therefore, everything goes through public expenditure; everything goes through Pdvsa. But if a large portion goes away in commitments, possibilities of economic growth are low. As long as there is indebtedness capacity, Chavez will continue doing it."
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Bullshit, we (Earth) are awash with oil, only a few Very easy to tap areas are showing signs of LOWER flow, not "Drying up".
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Jim, Maybe he's talking about the economic well rather than the oil well. I gather that they aren't handling the assets properly.
My cousin's Venezuelan in-laws, living in NYC, are getting a tiny bit of Chavez' largesse. I think Chavez is sending small stipends to every emigre to keep them from saying bad things about him in their new countries. I wonder who he's sending the really big goodies to. I bet a lot of people in Venezuela are asking the same questions.
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"I think Chavez is sending small stipends to every emigre to keep them from saying bad things about him in their new countries."
Interesting, mom. What's to keep them from taking the money and bad-mouthing him telling the truth about him anyway?
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Interesting, mom. What's to keep them from taking the money and bad-mouthing him telling the truth about him anyway?
Relatives back home being vulnerable to reprisals.
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Given that I had the conversation with the cousin's in-laws some time ago, and in Spanish before I took the review class last semester, I wouldn't swear to all the details. But the gist of the conversation was that Chavez had a fund to subsidize utility costs and other things for Venezuelans everywhere. The relatives were enthusiastic about how Chavez "takes care of people". I suspect that they're a lot less enthusiastic now, but I have not had a chance to talk to them recently.
#7
The resolution to the money crunch will be the solution used by all Socialist/Dictatorships that ran out of money. Arm up and invade your neighbors.
#2
Back in the 1970s, I talked with a young socialist theorist who was more honest than typical, and he asserted that US socialism had been methodically planned and programmed for a gradual takeover since just before the turn of the 20th Century.
He said the two wings of socialism, socialist-communalism and socialist-nationalism, are both elitist in orientation, and want to rule, not just govern. So while they might seem to compete, they have much the same eventual goal.
#3
She is absolutely correct. As if recent events in Europe don't make it obvious enough, the West's current path is unsustainable and inherently self-destructive. It's time to let go of the dream of a society engineered by the elites for equality and supposed happiness for all. The scientific correlation between the two is tenuous at best if not a downright fantasy to begin with.
Perhaps the establishment on the Left will finally listen to one of their own: a highly educated, sophisticated, insightful, professional and pioneering female; from Africa, no less.
That may be wishful thinking given the general hubris on the Left but never underestimate the power of reality and the constancy of human nature to provide the inevitable wake-up call.
In that effort, I applaud Ms. Moyo and her courage to "speak truth to power", as it were.
'According to Bari,' writes Arif Jamal, 'the general stated his intentions plainly: he had decided to contribute to the American-sponsored war in Afghanistan in order to prepare the ground for a larger conflict in Kashmir, and he wanted to involve the Jamaat-e-Islami of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. To the general, the war in Afghanistan would be a smokescreen behind which Pakistan could carefully prepare a more significant battle in Kashmir. The general said he had carefully calculated his support for the American operation, predicting that the Americans would be distracted by the fighting in Afghanistan and, as a result, turn a blind eye to Pakistani moves in the region.' Bari claims he was sceptical. But Zia was persuasive: how could Americans, he pointed out, stop 'us from waging jihad in Kashmir when they themselves are waging jihad in Afghanistan?'
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After eight years as US president, during which Pakistanis probably burnt him in effigy virtually every day, Bush`s book mentions our country only 47 times on eight pages -- an average of one page per year.
This hope of tapping the US treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan`s own uncertain position as a new political entity.
"In the weeks to come," Bourke-White wrote, "I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam`s thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. `Surely America will build our army,` they would say to me. `Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in.` But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. `No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan.`"
"This hope of tapping the US treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan`s own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze."
In 63 years, little has changed. The menace now cited for tapping the US treasury is no longer communist Russia, it is terrorism. But simultaneous to seeking US assistance is our penchant for abusing the US and those we send to Washington as supplicants.
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Long piece at Foreign Affairs; good for a Sunday morning read. I wouldn't go so far to say that it explains Pakiwakiland, as Fred has a lot of evidence that the local and regional jihadists and various corrupt nutters have a role. But as a slice of life in Pakistain, it's not a bad introduction.
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The unrelenting pressure on academics to produce "original" research sometimes bears (very) odd fruit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
