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China's "business plan" depends on being able to put all the countries that provide markets for China's stuff _out of business_, but for them to simultaneously still be able to provide a market for China's stuff.
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Makes one want to support a cause that is popular among environmentalists of the Pacific Northwest - free the rivers to natural flow. (Free the Nile. Blow Aswan Dam?)
#4
Move the Copts into the Sinai as a buffer between the Egyptians and Israelis. The Copts would have a separate, sovereign state, a mutual defense treaty with Israel, and a generous start up from Uncle Sugar to include weapons and training.
Wait two generations and see who is doing better, the Copts or the Muslims.
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How many Copts are there as compared to Palestinians? Maybe you could move the Palestinians into the Sinai and let the Copts have the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Dunno how the Egyptians would like that but I have a feeling the Israelis would like it a lot.
#6
The key line I see as per JudaeoChristianity is "CONQUEST IS COMING ...", which IMO is a direct threat agz any + all non-Muslims throughout the ME + Arab-Muslim World + Islamist MilTerr-besieged regions.
IFF THE JIHAD BE NOT "GLOBAL" OR "UNIVERSAL", THEN WHY ARE HISTOR NON-MUSLIM REGIONS UNDER THREAT???
[Dawn] PAKISTAN'S top rights activist Asma Jahangir has added to the feeling of fear in the country by speaking out about a plot to murder her. She says she has reason to believe the scheme is not an invention of an individual mind but a conspiracy whose origins can be traced to security operators of the state. Ms Jahangir is respected the world over for taking tough positions in the most trying conditions and reporting on difficult situations at considerable personal risk. As a lawyer she has stood by the principle that every accused has the right to defence in court. Hers has been a journey replete with many dangers, but she is not known for raising too many alarms about her personal safety. That she has done so now is significant and cannot be ignored or speculated upon. This is a serious enough charge for the authorities to undertake an investigation, and an urgent one.
But this is not just about the safety of one person, however valuable she is to the causes she has been pursuing and the people to whom she has given a voice. Ultimately, it is about pluralism and safeguarding the dissent that is vital to all human endeavours. Ms Jahangir vows the progressives in this country shall continue to fight. It will be tragic if those who are opposed to her creed resorted to violence instead of committing themselves fully and infallibly to the interplay between thesis and anti-thesis for forward movement. Since dialogue needs to be the preferred mode, some of the signs following Ms Jahangir's allegations are positive. Political parties including the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , MQM, PML-N, PTI and PPP have all slammed the reported threats to Ms Jahangir as have members of civil society. They now need to take the debate to other forums including the media and the elected assemblies.
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The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards.
What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything they had into "one of their most aggressive grass-roots campaigns ever," as the Washington Post's Paul Whoriskey and Dan Balz reported in a day-after piece. Fifty thousand volunteers made phone calls and knocked on 1.4 million doors to get out the vote against Gov. Scott Walker. Mr. Walker's supporters, less deeply organized on the ground, had a considerable advantage in money.
But organization and money aren't the headline. The shift in mood and assumption is. The vote was a blow to the power and prestige not only of the unions but of the blue-state budgetary model, which for two generations has been: Public-employee unions with their manpower, money and clout, get what they want. If you move against them, you will be crushed.
Mr. Walker was not crushed. He was buoyed, winning by a solid seven points in a high-turnout race.
President Obama's problem now isn't what Wisconsin did, it's how he looks each day--careening around, always in flight, a superfluous figure. No one even looks to him for leadership now. He doesn't go to Wisconsin, where the fight is. He goes to Sarah Jessica Parker's place, where the money is.
It just all increasingly looks like a house of cards. Bill Clinton--that ol' hound dog, that gifted pol who truly loves politics, who always loved figuring out exactly where the people were and then going to exactly that spot and claiming it--Bill Clinton is showing all the signs of someone who is, let us say, essentially unimpressed by the incumbent. He defended Mitt Romney as a businessman--"a sterling record"--said he doesn't like personal attacks in politics, then fulsomely supported the president, and then said that the Bush tax cuts should be extended.
His friends say he can't help himself, that he's getting old and a little more compulsively loquacious. Maybe. But maybe Bubba's looking at the president and seeing what far more than half of Washington sees: a man who is limited, who thinks himself clever, and who doesn't know that clever right now won't cut it.
Because Bill Clinton loves politics, he hates losers. Maybe he just can't resist sticking it to them a little, when he gets a chance.
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Fifty thousand volunteers made phone calls and knocked on 1.4 million doors to get out the vote against Gov. Scott Walker.
Apparently the good citizens of Wisconsin saw things differently. That's democracy in action.
IMO that we can't continue as a nation with public unions taking over state and the feral government. The taxpayers cannot afford the cost of government. Public unions were a mistake.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Dawn] PAKISTAN'S top rights activist Asma Jahangir has added to the feeling of fear in the country by speaking out about a plot to murder her. She says she has reason to believe the scheme is not an invention of an individual mind but a conspiracy whose origins can be traced to security operators of the state. Ms Jahangir is respected the world over for taking tough positions in the most trying conditions and reporting on difficult situations at considerable personal risk. As a lawyer she has stood by the principle that every accused has the right to defence in court. Hers has been a journey replete with many dangers, but she is not known for raising too many alarms about her personal safety. That she has done so now is significant and cannot be ignored or speculated upon. This is a serious enough charge for the authorities to undertake an investigation, and an urgent one.
