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Typical: the elite gets to keep their creature comforts, but the rest of us must sacrifice. There's nothing wrong with "culling" the population, so long as nobody they know gets culled.
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10/11/2010 11:41 Comments ||
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We missed this; it's from October 4th. It's a pretty good review of the decaying dystopia that is North Korea. Mr. Loyola is more optimistic about a Nork collapse than I am. Further, he sees China as being more in the position of picking up the pieces and gaining influence as a result of moves the West has made, whereas I see China as being, and having been, the puppet-master who pulls most of the strings. North Korea is China's dog, and it does little that China doesn't want it to do.
But Mr. Loyola has interesting information and a thesis that is worth reading.
Posted by: Steve White ||
10/11/2010 00:00 ||
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The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid slow ruin, yet the rest of the world cannot easily handle the consequences of such a wrenching adjustment. There is not enough demand to go around.
Currency wars are "wars" to lose purchasing power of you own currency!
Don't let propaganda fool you into thinking the economy is about exports. It 99% inter-person commerce and that's FUCKED* by you current tax regime which punishes everything but rent-seeking.
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It's wrong to characterize this as an American problem.
Currency imbalances are always symetrical problems. China's problem, is that it sells something for a dollar and only gets 80 or 90 cents (in Yuan terms).
BP is mostly right, because currencies mostly affect manufacturing exports and hence manufacturing employment, which these days is only 20% or so of total employment.
BTW, this is a bigger problem for the Euro, where Germany is exporting like crazy at the expense of the Clubmed members.
There is plenty of time for voter sentiment to shift, with three weeks before Election Day.
Except in states where voting has already been going on such as California, Oregon and Washington.
Oregon does ALL of their elections exclusively by main. Nobody ever turns up at a polling place. Voting there is already underway. Same with California and Washington which have a combination of mail in, early voting, and election day voting.
Votes have been cast in California for a week already and by next week most people will have voted already. Most people have already voted in Oregon and the ballots are on their way in the mail. I am not sure what the current status is in Washington state.
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I'm pretty sure that each and every day for many years, some iman or mullah has proclaimed a jihad against the U.S. Many of those were muslim brotherhood operatives.
I'm not sure this represents anything new. But of course this makes the media's ignoring of it a cumulative malpractice rather than a single event one.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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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.
