h/t Gates of Vienna
... listen you lazy bugger, now you have to tighten your belts, you have to save more, work more for lower salaries and only through that will we get out of the current dilemma that essentially prevents the economy from growing.
A good and a scary read about what may happen with the 2012 elections -- it's already happening, thanks to Holders's Civil Rights department. To read of the hires by Holder and their extreme left views, read here
Attorney General Eric Holder became a key figure epitomizing the view that government's role in racial matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal justice for all, but to be a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback. He has been too politically savvy to say that in so many words, but his actions have spoken far louder than any words. He ends with:
The widespread, organized and systematic corruption of the voting process revealed by the author of "Injustice" is on a scale that can swing not only local but national elections, including the 2012 elections. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder has not only turned a blind eye to blatant evidence of voter fraud, it has actively suppressed those U.S. Attorneys in its own ranks who have tried to stop that fraud.
Even in counties where the number of votes cast exceeds the number of people legally entitled to vote, Eric Holder's Justice Department sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil -- if the end result is the election of black Democrats. It has become the mirror image of the old Jim Crow South.
This is an enormously eye-opening book which makes painfully clear that, where racial issues are concerned, the Department of Justice has become the Department of Payback. A post-racial society is the last thing that Holder and Obama are pursuing.
Spengler's latest: If 15 million Egyptians starve to death, and all the Copts are murdered, and Syria plunges into a genocidal civil war, and Turkey kills another 40,000 Kurds, and the Iraqi Shi'ites and Iraqi Sunnis all fight to the death, whose fault will it be?
The Arab Spring is behind Israel's change of heart on the Gilad Schalit deal, which has not changed dramatically since 2006.
The deal to release Gilad Schalit is without a doubt controversial. The main change, though, took place on the Israeli side, which in recent months changed its position on the deal that has retained mostly the same format since Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, kidnapped Schalit in June, 2006.
The big question is what brought about this change.
The main answer is the so-called Arab Spring. Israel is concerned that the Arab regimes now in power will not be here tomorrow and that the Egyptian regime currently in power - the deal's main mediator - will not be there in a few months after elections are held in Cairo.
Israel is genuinely concerned about the outcome of elections in Egypt, expected to be held sometime next year. Predictions are that the elections will see the rise of a more anti-Israel regime to power, particularly if the Moslem Brüderbund wins a significant percentage of the seats in parliament.
These changes were also internalized by Hamas, which understood that fallout between Israel and Egypt would also impact its ability to reach a deal with Israel. This led Hamas to take a more pragmatic approach, moving it to change its own position on some of the names on the list of faceless myrmidons set to be released.
A significant number of the faceless myrmidons will be deported to the Gazoo Strip. While this will be a boost to Hamas and other terrorist organizations there, it will have less of an effect on Israel than if they were to be released to the West Bank. There, they would be able to help Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... reestablish their terror infrastructure, which has been severely damaged in recent years by the IDF and Paleostinian Authority security forces.
Egypt also successfully used as leverage the ongoing revolution in Syria and Hamas's fears that it will have to evacuate its headquarters in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... if Bashir al-Assad falls.
The change at the top of Israel's various defense agencies also played a role. Yoram Cohen, who was appointed head of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in March, is said to have been more flexible than his predecessor Yuval Diskin. The same is said about Tamir Pardo who replaced Meir Dagan as head of the Mossad.
In the IDF, the position has always been the same - to pay the price and release Schalit. In the cabinet meeting in 2008 that debated the swap for Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser - the reservists kidnapped by Hezbullies in 2006 - then-Chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi used all of his influence to push the deal through, raising the ire of then-head of the National Security Council Uzi Arad. His successor Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz shares the same view.
While Schalit's release is without a doubt dramatic, so is the day after. Hamas will be strengthened by this deal, will have brought about the release of 1,000 prisoners and will be able to use this as leverage in future reconciliation talks with Fatah, as well as in gaining popularity ahead of Paleostinian Authority elections, if they are ever held. Israel will need to work to ensure that PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... does not view this as a blow and will still be willing to renew negotiations with Israel.
The boost to Hamas will not just be for its morale but also for its operational abilities. Kidnappings, Hamas and Hezbullies have learned, pay off. They will likely try again.
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You know to orchestrate a good reelection campaign you need to get the people focused on a good war. All the trappings of timing and the classical slight of hand to shift the attention of failures past. Anyone really think that this administration and State Department which can't even address the Somali pirate acts with anything other than catch and release has any intentions of doing something real other than a lower primate displace of territorial declarative and nothing much more?
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lower primate displace of territorial declarative
...is over my head, at the moment. I'll check back later.
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..my bad..'display'. It's done with a lot of shouting and throwing of arms into the air to display dominance and marking of territory without the humanoid variation of cracking heads with blunt tools or inserting sharp objects into body parts. Symbolic rather than scalp collecting acts.
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And of course, since ShortRound is so vehemently and publicly antiSemitic, this is no doubt going to raise Obama's posture with US voters who are Jewish.
We know how this will end. Perhaps not tomorrow, not next year, perhaps not for a decade or so yet, but it will end in thousands of American corpses, and bloody-handed Iranian mullahs daring us to do anything about it, believing in their hearts that we are too weak and too preoccupied.
And of course, we will end it, and the world will condemn us for it.
Mike
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Mike Kozlowsk Hello. I believe you are a writer. Specifically on this part of the world. I see Russia being more constructive than other powers.
Russia is a vast country with a diverse cultural population. That can be an advantage in relations with its neighbors. Have you seen the change?. More carrot less stick. Less willing to undermine established order. The Chinese definitely welcome that approach.
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Dale,
Everything you say is absolutely true - it's in Russia's best interests to have a higher carrot-to-stick ratio when dealing with their neighbors. The problem lies in the fact that A)Russia doesn't know how to do that and B)Russia doesn't WANT to do that. The goal of the current Soviet Russian leadership is to bring back the Old Days, and that means diplomacy backed by threats with all the subtlety of a ten-pound sledgehammer. If the Russians wanted to undermine the Iranians, they could do it by the simple expedient of opening their borders a bit and making sure everybody on the Iranian side of the line knew how (comparatively) good things were there. They don't want to undermine the Iranians, though - there's far too much to be gained for their strategy by propping them up as a thorn in our sides. The fact that an Iran that's a threat to us is also a threat to them seems to either escape them entirely or come under the heading of, "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it."
Mike
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Mike Kozlowsk Thank you for your post. In my opinion the cat is out of the bag. The Russian youth want nothing to do with the old days. The Russian leadership is playing a game of chess with this part of the world. Cold and calculated. They may dream of the old days of power but the country has changed. Prosperity and stability is what the people want. That is the true carrot to win over others and the glue that will hold their country together. Iran is a problem for them. I agree "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it."
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The Russians seem to have many of the problems we are having. Drugs, poverty, and crime. The teenagers and young adults hope for a better future. The Siberian underground has been strong for years. The contemporary music is loaded with their stories of hope and despair.
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ION NOT-IRAN-WAR, CHINA DAILY FORUM > MITT ROMNEY CALLS FOR CENTURY OF US DOMINANCE | US NEED WORLD'S STRONGEST MILITARY FORCE FOR THE "AMERICAN CENTURY", i.e. the 21st Century.
ARTIC > ROMNEY = Fergit the UNO + Multilateralism.
and
* SAME > ROMNEY: US DESTINED TO NOT BE EQUAL WITH WORLD NATIONS.
versus
* SAME > SANTORUM: I WANT TO GO TO [Trade]WAR WID CHINA.
Not unlike Patton or MacArthur, the US must settle for nothing less than TOTAL VICTORY = UNCONDITIONAL CHINESE SURRENDER in any trade war wid Rising China.
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