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Actually, no, I will not be seeing the movie, unless I grab it off a torrent somewhere. Hey, Information Wants To Be Free, and Property Is Theft! How's that working out for you, Hollywood?
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I never heard of Megan Fox until now. In checking, I found that she was born in Rockwood, TN; a small community (maybe a couple of thousand people I'm guessing) just off I-40 west of Knoxville about 30 or so miles. The town is small and lies on Rt. 70 (of "Thunderoad" fame) which was the main road before the interstate. Once I-40 was built much of the business and industry in Rockwood dried up. There is no bus service in Rockwood and so no tokens are necessary. The community is probably better off with her leaving for Hollywood. People there are pretty decent people.
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thanks, B. The gag-ball requirement still stands. I expect she might object to that, being a genius and all. Heh - just like Pr0n, I'd just have to admire ogle with the sound off. In that case I'd wait for "free" cable showings. Just saw Transformers 1 the other night. "Meh" does it
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No problem Frank, anything for a buddy. Sat up with the boss the other night and watched Roman Holiday with Hepburn and Peck. More my speed. Not at all sure why Hollyweird can't make movies like that anymore.
#13
Bought "Gran Torino" on DVD today. If that flick doesn't move you, nothing will - I highly recommend it. The willing sacrifice for those you first knee-jerk-hated is a message some on the Burg could learn, I hope. On the other hand - some of those you knee-jerk-hated are shown as being deserved of that designation. Isn't that life?
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We missed the OVER-CHUNKY, DANCING STRIPPER-WANNABE, BLONDE BABE-IN-TIGHTS NEW REALITY SHOW PROMO this past weekend, didn't we!?
MARLON BRANDO in APOCALYPSE NOW > D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, "The Horror, the Horror.... ... THE SHEER ABSOLUTE UN-IMAGINABLE UN-ADULTERATED I-DEMAND-TO-BE-NUKED-NOW OMG-MY-EYES HORROR!
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TOPIX > PENTAGON WAR GAMES PREDICT [dire] FUTURE THREATS [Year 2018].
To wit,
* NEW KOREAN WAR > NK attacks SK wid two ARmies disguised as "refugees".
* RUSSIAN-FINANCED CRIME GANGS infiltrating into the US = TEXAS via MEXICO
* HUGO = VENEZUELA in the South.
Also on TOPIX > JAPAN: BUDDHISM-BASED NEW POLITICAL PARTY ["Happy Realization Party"] CALLS FOR END TO ERA OF PACIFISM/JAPAN MUST MILITARILY PROTECT ITSELF FROM NORTH KOREA AND CHINA.
The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims By WILLIAM MCGURN
Tony Fratto is envious.
Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult it can be to deal with a press corps skeptical about presidential economic claims. It now appears, however, that Mr. Fratto's problem was that he simply lacked the magic words -- jobs "saved or created."
"Saved or created" has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he describes what his stimulus is doing for American jobs. His latest invocation came yesterday, when the president declared that the stimulus had already saved or created at least 150,000 American jobs -- and announced he was ramping up some of the stimulus spending so he could "save or create" an additional 600,000 jobs this summer. These numbers come in the context of an earlier Obama promise that his recovery plan will "save or create three to four million jobs over the next two years."
Mr. Fratto sees a double standard at play. "We would never have used a formula like 'save or create,'" he tells me. "To begin with, the number is pure fiction -- the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being 'saved.' And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it."
Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama's jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one -- not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- actually measures "jobs saved." As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama's jobs claims are "based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs." Nice work if you can get away with it.
And get away with it he has. However dubious it may be as an economic measure, as a political formula "save or create" allows the president to invoke numbers that convey an illusion of precision. Harvard economist and former Bush economic adviser Greg Mankiw calls it a "non-measurable metric." And on his blog, he acknowledges the political attraction.
"The expression 'create or save,' which has been used regularly by the President and his economic team, is an act of political genius," writes Mr. Mankiw. "You can measure how many jobs are created between two points in time. But there is no way to measure how many jobs are saved. Even if things get much, much worse, the President can say that there would have been 4 million fewer jobs without the stimulus."
Mr. Obama's comments yesterday are a perfect illustration of just such a claim. In the months since Congress approved the stimulus, our economy has lost nearly 1.6 million jobs and unemployment has hit 9.4%. Invoke the magic words, however, and -- presto! -- you have the president claiming he has "saved or created" 150,000 jobs. It all makes for a much nicer spin, and helps you forget this is the same team that only a few months ago promised us that passing the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising over 8%.
It's not only former Bush staffers such as Messrs. Fratto and Mankiw who have noted the political convenience here. During a March hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Max Baucus challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the formula.
"You created a situation where you cannot be wrong," said the Montana Democrat. "If the economy loses two million jobs over the next few years, you can say yes, but it would've lost 5.5 million jobs. If we create a million jobs, you can say, well, it would have lost 2.5 million jobs. You've given yourself complete leverage where you cannot be wrong, because you can take any scenario and make yourself look correct."
Now, something's wrong when the president invokes a formula that makes it impossible for him to be wrong and it goes largely unchallenged. It's true that almost any government spending will create some jobs and save others. But as Milton Friedman once pointed out, that doesn't tell you much: The government, after all, can create jobs by hiring people to dig holes and fill them in.
If the "saved or created" formula looks brilliant, it's only because Mr. Obama and his team are not being called on their claims. And don't expect much to change. So long as the news continues to repeat the administration's line that the stimulus has already "saved or created" 150,000 jobs over a time period when the U.S. economy suffered an overall job loss 10 times that number, the White House would be insane to give up a formula that allows them to spin job losses into jobs saved.
"You would think that any self-respecting White House press corps would show some of the same skepticism toward President Obama's jobs claims that they did toward President Bush's tax cuts," says Mr. Fratto. "But I'm still waiting."
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The media is/are mostly interested in cheering Obama and the economy on, rather than informing themselves (and us) about the terrible predicament we're in. "Things are bad and getting worse" doesn't sell papers, I know.
Here's something else the media isn't mentioning (from Karl Denninger) Remember we were told that the "PPIP" was absolutely necessary to get the "toxic assets" off the bank balance sheets - and without it, we would not be able to clear the banking system and restore our economy to balance.
Were still in the process of assessing whether a legacy [i.e., worthless toxic waste mortgages taken out by deadbeat borrowers] RMBS [Residential Mortgage Backed Security] program is feasible, and if it were feasible, whether it would be significant enough to make a major impact, Dudley said at a conference today in New York hosted by the Securities and Financial Markets Association and Pension Real Estate Association.
His comments add to signs that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithners [TTT's] Public-Private Investment Program [PPIP] to boost debt prices and rid banks of devalued assets to expand lending is stalling, after helping to spark a rally in stocks and bonds. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. yesterday delayed a test sale of bad loans held by U.S. banks that had been billed as a tryout for its role.
--- Now the truth comes out.
--- Nobody will have anything to do with this bilge - that is, there are no bids and no offers.
Why not?
THESE [RMBS] ARE BONDS!
What happens when you tamper with bankruptcy priority in the bond market? [e.g. GM & Chrysler bankruptcy management by the Gov't]
Bond buyers [aka "suckas"] disappear. Especially when the bond lays under some asset class that has some sort of "political connection." [i.e., Obama's supporters]
Is there anything more politically connected than houses and homeownership? Probably not.
Let's face the facts:
Obama's Administration has destroyed the very program they claim is necessary to return the banking system [i.e, FUBAR] to health, and which was responsible for essentially the entire rally off the March lows - a TRIPLING in many cases for banks and a 40% move in the broad market.
What do you think might happen when the market figures out that the PPIP will NEVER happen, the system will not be cleared, and that as the spending continues and rates rise, what's left of the housing market (and the mortgage securities still sitting on the bank balance sheets!) continue to blow up?
Don't Muslims refer to one another as "Brother", as so many other groups do? But why would Mr. Akbar do that, when President Barack Husssein Obama is so adamant about his baptism as a [Black Liberation Theology] Christian two decades past?
I am certain about two things. I am a Muslim, and I live in this world. Now the uncertainties begin. On June 4 you gave what was heavily advertised as a major speech to the "Muslim world". Does that mean that while every Christian believes in the divinity of Jesus, he can be legitimately and widely varied in his political interests, but Muslims must have both Allah and politics in common?
As an Indian Muslim I belong to the second largest Muslim community in the world. I also live, proudly, as an equal, in India, a nation that contains the largest Hindu community in the world. Do you think I have the same political views as my fellow Muslims in Pakistan or Bangladesh or Nepal? You did mention that there are around six million Muslims in America. Were you speaking to them, or on their behalf, in Cairo? But for the accidents of life, you could have been an American Muslim, a Kenyan Muslim or an Indonesian Muslim. Would the same speech serve for all three?
Muslims live not only in different cultures and geopolitical spaces, but also under different constitutions. Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim nation, does not believe in a state religion. Pakistan, the second largest, became the world's first Islamic republic. There are kings and autocrats and elected heads of government in the "Muslim world", and one category that can only be described as "immovable object" unopposed by any irresistible force. Many Muslims live on the margins. Not many seem aware of this fact, and it is possible that none of your speech writers pointed it out, but 10 percent of the Russian population is Muslim. Islam came to that vast Eurasian region around the same time as the Christian church. Do Russian Muslims belong to the same "Muslim world" as Indonesians and Moroccans? The Chinese keep their Muslim-majority province, Xinjiang, a sort of closely guarded state secret, frightened that Islam might jump up and bite off communism's ear. Which world do these Muslims belong to? And what about the chaps in Britain, who probably went over on the assumption that Britain was still Great. Or the French Muslims, whose ears are still ringing with the famous Sarkozy diktat: "Off with their head scarves!" Where would you place them? In Above-Saharan Africa?
At one point you were kind enough to suggest that "America is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam". But no sane person ever accused America of being at war with Islam. America would have to be a theocracy, with Inquisition as its preferred domestic policy, and conversion as the principal instrument of foreign affairs, to declare war on Islam. I hope you will not accuse me of being pedantic, in the sense of calling a toothache a gumache. The conflation of Islam and Muslims is precisely the kind of misconception that encourages pre-nation-state fantasies like the revival of a caliphate. One might add that while every Muslim was deeply committed to his faith, political disputes among Muslims began with the election of the very first caliph, Abu Bakr. Muslims see themselves as a brotherhood, not a nationhood. If Islam is sufficient glue for nationalism, why would Arabs be living in 22 countries? That should have been obvious while you were snacking on Arab cookies and Islamic lemonade in Cairo.
"Islam and the West" is another phrase wandering through a dialectic shaped within the Queen of Alice's Wonderland. Islam is a faith; the West is geography. How do you construct a relationship between faith and geography?
You can have a debate on Islam and Christianity, or indeed between the West and West Asia, or the West and South Asia, or Southeast Asia. There is a past and a future to discuss. "Islam and the West" is straight out of 19th century Orientalism, laden with a subtext that is best left to warmongers. Peace requires a different idiom.
We understood your problem as you weaved through political and rhetorical swamps, because your predecessor managed to achieve what the mightiest of Muslim rulers failed to do -- unite Muslims, albeit against him, rather than for something. But every Muslim does not need a homily on democracy. Muslims of Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, who add up to nearly half the Muslim population, are not democracy-deficit.
The appropriate venue for a speech on Islam would have been Makkah, Madinah or Jerusalem.
Cairo was the perfect podium for the speech that we did hear, since your true theme was not the "Muslim world" but the region between the Nile and the Indus, which I have, elsewhere, called the "Arc of Turbulence". Those searching for a convenient caption for the Cairo oration might want to call it the "Nildus speech".
For the citizens of this region between Egypt and Pakistan, and particularly for Muslims, this was a brilliant gleam in the gloom to which they have become accustomed. Its great merit was justice and fairness, virtues that are repeatedly exalted in the Holy Qur'an. You did not deny Palestine its rights because you wanted to preserve what Israel has acquired. Of course, you will be criticized for being even-handed, but you have survived worse.
It was extremely important that a president of the United States quoted the Qur'an's unequivocal condemnation of terrorism, through a verse that is particularly beautiful. This will go a long way to correct the propaganda unleashed by those who controlled the White House and influenced media before you.
There was one element of your speech that did address almost the whole of the Muslim world: Your stark, unambiguous condemnation of gender bias, one of the besetting sins of the "Muslim world". If Muslims do not eliminate gender bias, they will not be permitted into the 20th century: Who is going to send them an invitation to join the 21st? Barack Obama has offered the key, but it is up to Muslims to open the door.
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WORLD NEWS > ANALYSIS: OBAMA WOES NO MATCH FOR OTHER PRESIDENTS.
* OTOH, MIL FORUM Netters > MACEDONIA + ALBANIA + FORMER YUOGOSLAVIA + BULGARIA, .... + TURKO-IRAN/PERSO-AZERI CONFEDERATION = "GREATER TURKISTAN" + CENTRAL ASIA = EUROPE AT THREAT FROM THE JIHAD???
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"It was extremely important that a president of the United States quoted the Qur'an's unequivocal condemnation of terrorism, through a verse that is particularly beautiful. This will go a long way to correct the propaganda unleashed by those who controlled the White House and influenced media before you."
Probably refering to Koran 5:32, a verse which, in context, justifies killing of Jews. Its now almost 8 years since the 9-11 atrocities and people still are using this verse without knowing what it says and the next verse.
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The conflation of Islam and Muslims is precisely the kind of misconception that encourages pre-nation-state fantasies like the revival of a caliphate.
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A majority of Indonesians believe that sharia laws will follow the establishment of islam on a global scale. They have a problem with sharia timing, not its authority. In any case, Indo law has to conform to the "injunctions of islam." Thus, sharia is the real basis, even if they don't hack off limbs of thieves or be-head blasphemers.
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You know I'm going to use my favorite word.....Pullllleeeeease?
Brother? "Dear Brother Hussain".....preamble, preamble, blah blah blah....
Brother? I guess the writer thinks false intimacy fostered by the word Brother in caps is preferable to rank and title when addressing the President of the United States. Which is good how? Obama may be an individual, but he still occupies an office with a title. Someone please enlighten me how this is okay?
People are the religion they are, does everyone seem to need their butts kissed these days or is it just me?
[Jerusalem Post Middle East] Monday's attack near the Karni border crossing, which was claimed by the Army of Islam group, shows that Hamas still doesn't have full control over the Gaza Strip.
Oh no, Hamas couldn't possibly control all the splinter groups ...
Hamas officials said they were surprised by the attack, which came as leaders of the Islamic movement started arriving in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on ways of ending the power struggle with Fatah and maintaining the relative calm in the Strip.
One Hamas official said he did not rule out the possibility that the latest attack was aimed at scuttling the Egyptian mediation efforts and embarrassing his movement. Noting that Hamas was keen on preserving the current relative calm, he said that Hamas was trying determine the identity of those responsible for the attack.
Over the past few months there have been periodic reports that Hamas's security forces had blocked attempts by other groups to fire rockets and mortars at Israel. In some incidents, Hamas reportedly arrested Palestinians who defied its orders.
The Army of Islam has in the past been targeted by Hamas, especially after its members carried out numerous bombing attacks on cafes and restaurants in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has shown that it has little tolerance for competition from other groups.
Some Palestinians, however, believe that the attack could not have been carried without the approval or knowledge of Hamas, whose security forces and supporters are scattered throughout the Gaza Strip.
A former Fatah security officer said he did not rule out the possibility that the assailants belonged to one of Hamas's militias. Hamas, he added, may have sought to distance itself from the attack after it transpired that the terrorists had failed to kill or kidnap IDF soldiers. Had the operation succeeded, Hamas would have claimed responsibility, he said.
Truth from the mouth of an enemy ...
But Hamas has not been stopping others from attacking Israel because of a change in its strategy. Nor has the movement decided to abandon violence and join the peace process.
Hamas is interested in maintaining the undeclared truce with Israel because it needs time to rebuild its infrastructure, which was severely damaged during Operation Cast Lead earlier this year.
Hamas is also well aware that the Palestinian public, which paid a very heavy price during the war, is not prepared for another round of violence - at least not now. Scores of Palestinian families who lost their homes during the IDF offensive are still living in tents and public buildings, or with relatives and friends. Because of the ongoing blockade and the international sanctions, Hamas has not been able to do any major reconstruction in the Gaza Strip.
Another war will only increase bitterness among the Palestinians, who are likely to turn their anger not only against Israel, but also against Hamas. Violence and anarchy in the Gaza Strip will only undermine the Hamas regime and loosen its grip on the area.
Hamas is prepared to do almost everything to retain its control over the Gaza Strip - even if that requires abiding by an unofficial cease-fire with Israel and preventing others from violating it. Hamas is even prepared to resume "unity" talks with its arch-rivals in Fatah, which is why the movement's leader, Khaled Mashaal, is on his way to Cairo.
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D *** NG IT, this ARTIC can't be right as STARS-N-STRIPES > IIRC HAMAS has formally entered the INTERNET DATING/MARRIAGE GAME???
(Obama's) naiveté is worrying, and it means that among the global Muslim audience, the wrong sort of people were laughing at us, while the ones who ought to be our friends and allies were shedding a disappointed tear.
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It's busted html. Everybody's name shows up at &owner=YourName
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Dubya gravely miscalculated when he brought the first groups of terrorists to GTMO. He should have (and could have, at first) said "Islam is a religion of peace and you gents failed your faith, hijacked its values, and therefore you will not receive Korans/imams/mecca arrows/etc."
He could have quietly provided the halal meals though.
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If they're POW's then they have the rights to red cross visits, correspondence, etc... and the matter that for many of them the countries they are from are not at war with us. There's also the matter of when do they get released.
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Gitmo a madrasah? Maybe. The Sauds et al seem to want those scumbags back home for some reason.
Meanwhile, Israel has a month to explain their position of the Judea/Samaria (west bank) settlements to the Enlightened-One. How do you say 'blow it out your ear' in Hebrew?
Absolutely. That so many ex-detainees remain violent should come as little surprise, considering Gitmo is now more madrassa than prison camp.
Detainees are fed a diet of violent anti-Western agitprop by sympathetic Muslim chaplains and librarians who have unfettered access to their cell blocks.
The chief librarian at Gitmo, Mohammed Abdelaal, is an Egyptian-born civilian contractor who speaks Arabic.
He has developed an affectionate rapport with the prisoners, who have nicknamed him "Abu Saleh," or Father of Righteousness.
Abdelaal distributes Islamic texts -- some of which contain violent passages that only nourish jihadi bloodlust -- from a library stocked with some 10,000 pieces of Islamic literature and videos.
Command has entrusted him with exclusive control over such materials. In fact, nobody else can so much as touch the Islamic holy texts, which he wraps in white linen -- not even Gitmo's commander.
Why help the Islamic terrorists stay radicalized?
The Federal Bureau of Prisons recently realized that Islamic materials were helping radicalize its Muslim inmate population. So it purged its libraries of such books. It also no longer lets Muslim chaplains in the pen unescorted. Guards now accompany them to prison chapels to make sure they preach in English.
At Gitmo, chaplains have on-demand access to detainees and minister to them in Arabic; library materials aren't screened for violent or anti-Western content. Is it any wonder so many detainees have rejoined the jihad?
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[Jerusalem Post Middle East] It is now clear that the pro-Western March 14 alliance has won an unexpected victory in parliamentary elections in Lebanon, and senior sources in the Hizbullah-led March 8 bloc have conceded defeat in statements to Western reporters.
Contrary to most forecasts, the vote appears to have produced a legislature very similar in representation to the one that preceded it.
March 14 is thought to have won 69 or 70 seats in the 128-member parliament. If one adds the one or two independent, pro-March 14 MPs to the total, the movement now controls around 71 seats. In the outgoing parliament, they controlled 70.
What were the factors that led to March 8/Hizbullah being upset, and what implications do the results have for stability in Lebanon and for Israel?
Most importantly, the results represent a defeat for the party of former general Michel Aoun. Aoun's Free Democratic Party is the Christian element in the Hizbullah-led March 8 bloc. Aoun, who once led an anti-Syrian rebellion, is now a firm member of the pro-Syrian alliance in Lebanon.
The focus in these elections was the Christian community, because the allegiances of the Druse, Sunni and Shi'ite Lebanese were clear and predictable. The Sunnis and Druse overwhelmingly backed the pro-Western March 14, while the Shi'ites - their loyalties divided between Hizbullah and the pro-Syrian Amal movement, were almost exclusively aligned with March 8. As a result, around 100 of the 128 seats in parliament were effectively allocated in advance.
The Christians, however, were divided. Aoun expected that his personal standing and his strong showing in 2005 would allow his party to sweep the board in Christian areas. The pro-March 14 Christians - the Lebanese Forces Party of Dr. Samir Geagea and the Phalange - were widely disregarded.
Though the emergence of a number of "independent" Christian candidates in the weeks prior to the elections had led to rumors of a possible upset, it appears that the Christians affiliated with March 14 performed surprisingly well, though without entirely eclipsing Aoun.
March 14 swept the board in the symbolically important Beirut 1 District, which contains five seats. March 14 also won the seats of Batroun (where a Lebanese Forces candidate unseated Michel Aoun's son-in-law) Koura, Bsharreh and Tripoli.
Why did so many Christian Lebanese turn against Aoun and March 8?
Many Lebanese analysts consider that fears in the community over the consequences of a drift further toward the Iranian and Syrian regional bloc played an important part. In this regard, the events of May 2008, when Hizbullah sent its forces onto the streets of Beirut, were seen as playing a role.
A recent speech by Hassan Nasrallah, in which he described those May events as a "glorious day" for the "resistance" and warned March 14 against any future interference with Hizbullah's independent military infrastructure, may well have helped to concentrate Christian minds regarding the danger represented by Hizbullah.
Some have also suggested that the memory of the destructive 2006 war with Israel, sparked by a Hizbullah kidnapping of IDF soldiers and shelling of Israeli communities in the North, also played its part.
The election results mean that March 14 will be the dominant factor in the governing coalition which will now be formed. However, the opposition will also be represented in the new government. Negotiations over the make-up and nature of the coalition are likely to be protracted.
Lebanese analysts are pointing to the issue of the opposition's demand for a "blocking third" of cabinet seats as a possible source of strife.
The veto was granted to Hizbullah and its allies in the Doha negotiations which followed the May fighting last year. However, March 14 leader Sa'ad Hariri has said that he is not interested in renewing the veto arrangement.
This is likely to prove a central issue in negotiations. Given Hizbullah's and its allies' and patrons' proven capacity for using violence to reinforce their arguments, the potential for further strife remains real.
It is important to remember that while the averting of an electoral victory for the pro-Iranian, pro-Syrian bloc is significant, it has no bearing on the wider issue of Hizbullah's possession of an independent military capacity, and its consequent ability to pursue an independent foreign and military policy.
Hizbullah would certainly have preferred the March 8 bloc it leads to have performed better. But the movement itself fielded only 11 candidates. Beyond this, it was content to concede the Shi'ite representation to the allied Amal movement.
For Hizbullah and its Iranian patron, the key interest at present is the rebuilding and expansion of its independent military capacity, and the shadow state which has emerged around it.
Hizbullah successfully defended the borders of this shadow state from internal interference in May 2008. Iran invested heavily in repairing it after the war of 2006, and its guns remain pointed at Israel.
So amid the justified relief at the setback suffered by the pro-Iranian bloc in the vote, it should be borne in mind that the results represent a continuation of the problematic preelection reality, rather than any major transformation.
The writer is a senior researcher at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.
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Iowahawk at his cutting best - a taste:
For many younger people, Dwight said, work is less central to their lives. According to her surveys, more and more young people are saying they are willing to trade off a high pay, high pressure job for one with flexible schedules and a lot of vacation time. "The new Administration has been very responsive to that -- just look at all the millions of new jobs with zero salaries and 52 week vacations," said Dwight, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado.
Martinez said she finds herself looking into jobs she would have never considered before, such as selling crab apples or freelance prostitution. What's more important, she said, is flexibility, vacation time and something that doesn't have "that 9-to-5" feeling.
"And access to free clinics," she added.
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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.
