[BLOOMBERG] As leader of Zim-bob-we, Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... has survived longer than Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao in China. If it's coming to an end -- which seems likely given his apparent inability to emerge from house arrest after the military took charge -- it's worth reflecting on the mistakes he made to end such a remarkable run.
Daniel Treisman, a UCLA political scientist, argued in a recent paper that most dictators fall for reasons proving that they are all too human: hubris, a propensity for needless risk, liberalization impulses that lead to a slippery slope, picking the wrong successor, counterproductive violence. Mugabe, 93, is no exception; he groomed the wrong person to succeed him and relied too much on his military. When he tried to change his pick, the generals decided they'd had enough.
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So who's the Chinese pick for Bob's replacement?
Dr. No?
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'veteran of the war of independence from the UK'. Tell that to an RLI vet or Selous Scout. Perhaps long of tooth but I'd love to be there for the reply.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Before commenting on Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi’s visit to Riyadh, and his historic meeting with King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... , it is important to take a step back. We should also learn about the new Saudi leadership project, which is determined to fight fanaticism and enhancing religious and sectarian rapprochement. Rahi’s visit adds another chapter to it.
In fact, expressions such as "war on extremism" or "promoting the culture of tolerance" have echoed so much that they have lost their meaning. This is because they often ignore the substance and turn into propaganda to silence Western governments and international organizations that place Arab and Moslem countries at the bottom of the list on religious freedom and anti-extremism efforts.
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That is the question that I ask myself as Republicans and conservatives lash out against Judge Roy Moore, with accusations and venom that I have never seen wielded against the Obamas, the Reids, and the Pelosis.
For (at least) the past decade, the Democratic playbook has been to win elections by bringing up personal sins to destroy their opponents with, whether real, perhaps exaggerated (Obama adversary Jack Ryan), or imaginary ‐ i.e., fake (Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, etc etc etc...)
I'm sorry, I have no earthly idea where Roy Moore fits in and, more to the point, I don't know how on earth Moore's foes (Democrat or ‐ especially ‐ Republican) know that he is indisputably guilty, and that of being nothing less, it seems, than one of the most disgusting and despicable people alive.
All I can say is that I remember similar accusations against Herman Cain in 2012, by one Sharon Bialek, who by an amazing coincidence, happened to live in the exact same apartment building of one of America's largest cities as one of Obama's closest associates (David Axelrod)...
Meanwhile, the Democrats' own transgressions are passed over (where possible, Bob Menendez, Bill Clinton, and members of the Kennedy clan have been mostly ignored). In the leftists' case, they are, at best, romanticized (Jack, Robert, and Ted Kennedy), and at worst, dismissed with a shrug and the words, "it's only sex".
If Republicans like Mitch McConnell cannot restrain themselves from making comments about Roy Moore not being fit to serve in the Senate and deserving to be expelled, couldn't they at least have paused to wonder why the sex scandal, by an amazing coincidence, happened to erupt after the Alabama judge was chosen to run for the state's Senate seat and not during any of Moore's past 20 years of often controversial public service? And while he was at it, couldn't the Senate majority leader at least have mentioned Bob Menendez in the same breath?!
Here’s the clincher:
Are you willing to believe the double standards of democrat drama queens and allow a party to return to power which wants to raise ever more taxes, relax border controls to allow illegal immigrants to pour across the Rio Grande, bringing everybody's salaries down in the process, order judges to inject politics in the public restroom area, and fine citizens $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake? Virtue signalling is a way of life - and, if you don't join the mob, you can be mobbed yourself.
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Black is urbane and erudite, but his constant refrain that - any minute now - common sense, rationality, fair play and justice are going to prevail is just a case of stretching the Silly Putty™ waaaaay past the breaking point.
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Don't know how I got Black mixed up in this. The observation still does apply to him, and regrettably to this No Pasaran post also. I always thought he was more clear eyed.
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No it doesn't: the guy clearly says "play the game, or die - suckers".
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Well, I told you so last week. Moore has one thing going for him against his opponent: he is not a Democrat.
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Have a look at the comment I made in Daily Depraved digest and let's see how the MSM handles pictural evidence of Al Franken abusing a sleeping woman.
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Let's hope they show up in larger numbers at the polls because right now, likely voters have Moore down by 8 and his negatives have almost doubled since this broke. Sexual scandal does no play well with evangelicals, which is why the press is using it.
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And the cat is just doing its job (chasing small stuff that doesn’t belong there). The GOPe; not so much.
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What Moore has going for him with Evangelicals is that they know everyone is a sinner, but it is them who are forgiven sinners. Therefore, he'll get their vote.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I do not think that the consequences of holding a referendum over the right of self-determination in the Kurdistan region and disputed lands have pushed the dream of Kurdish independence far as some analysts are saying.
Before the referendum day on September 25, the Kurdish dream was not close to becoming a reality so how can it become far from achieving now? The governments of Iraq, Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have agreed on punishing the Kurds for practicing their freedom of expression regarding their future, imposed a siege on them and deployed Iraqi federal forces in all disputed lands and on land and air border crossings.
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If they cannot get together, with exception to the terrorists and idiot communists, this will never be so.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] "Everybody, I’m doing very well and in God’s will I’ll be back in a couple of days... let’s all calm down. My family is in its country, the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the Kingdom of goodness."
The current situation is that this media delinquency in Lebanon, not all of it, is eye-catching. Despite all the facts and evidence before us, there is in this media someone who is running in the valleys of ignorance and illusion, spreading lies, then believing it and then forcing others to believe it too!
Mashari Althaydi
This was the resigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri’s comment on Twitter on Tuesday. Hariri’s tweet came after the first televised interview, with Future TV, after his famous resignation. It was a resignation that created big ripples in the stagnant Lebanese political waters.
During the interview, presenter Paula Yacoubian reflected on all Lebanese media claims, the cons before the pros, about the myths of Hariri’s resignation, which were ignited by Hassan Nasrallah, the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , Berri’s group and the like.
As we said in the previous article, Nasrallah’s group, and those allied with them, instead of discussing the core of Hariri’s resignation and the reason behind it, "changed" the subject to the form and place of Hariri’s resignation.
Even after Hariri’s interview with Paula Yacoubian, Lebanese media correspondents insisted on "chewing" on media illusion tablets again, questioning the news hound who interviewed the man and questioned him about most of the accusations of fictional conspiracies in the Lebanese media.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the person who spoke to the interviewer upon her return at Beirut airport insisted that Hariri was not at his house, but somewhere else and that we don’t know where this "somewhere" is! Yet the presenter swore that she interviewed Hariri at his home with his family where with the team they ate dinner at his table!
Trivial details
Imagine that we have come to this point of trivial details. All of this is an escape by Nasrallah’s team and his allies from discussing the original point of this issue. This is the point that Hariri has focused on time and time again during his interview, and that is: The fate of the Lebanese state, which some of its leaders want to accept its harmful reality. A reality that there is a state, controlled by a party or terrorist organization, killing and training killers in Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, al-Qatif ... and of course Syria and Iraq.
That is the question ... Hezbollah’s weapon and role in our region. The end of an era of lies and procrastination with this destructive reality. That in itself is beneficial to Lebrather than its neighbors, because it is for Leb.
The current situation is that this media delinquency in Leb, not all of it, is eye-catching. Despite all the facts and evidence before us, there is in this media someone who is running in the valleys of ignorance and illusion, spreading lies, then believing it and then forcing others to believe it too!
The reason behind Hariri’s resignation is the issue, not any other story, and this collective, emotional scramble will not do anything to change the subject.
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