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2007-12-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by ryuge 2007-12-04 07:25|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1731 views ] Top

1 Why? How about this....countries that allow a small minority of people to grab/steal all wealth in a country, leaving the rest of the population in chaos scrounging for the few remains, starts to seem like not such a good deal to a lot of people. Watch the U.S. too as it's not impossible to think that it could happen here...starting to look a lot like we've been plundered by Wall Street.

Posted by Goober Glilet3155 2007-12-04 08:08|| 2007-12-04 08:08|| Front Page Top

2 Leo Naphta, the great character of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain": "Its (youth's) deepest desire is to obey."
Like ants. Or honeybees. But not like my kids.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-12-04 08:17|| 2007-12-04 08:17|| Front Page Top

3 Thomas Mann ever raise any kids?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-04 08:39|| 2007-12-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

4 Chavez has given Venezuelan nationslity and vote to a million Colombian leftists.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-12-04 09:16|| 2007-12-04 09:16|| Front Page Top

5 . . . starting to look a lot like we've been plundered by Wall Street.

Is this just "populist" demagougery in the tradition of Huey Long, or subtle anti-Semitisim (e.g., ~~Weasel~~ Wesley Clark's crack about the "New York money people)? Or is there even a meaningful difference between the two?

(Ever notice that Hugo Chavez is just the Spanish-language translation of Huey Long? Or that Osama sometimes sounds just like your average Mk.1 Mod.0 anti-globalist?)

Posted by Mike 2007-12-04 09:32|| 2007-12-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

6 Why?

Russia has no democractic tradition. Venezuela has precious little democratic tradition. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-12-04 09:43|| 2007-12-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

7 Never heard of Huey Long, but after a quick look, isn't it interesting that he was a politician during the great depression?

Oh, and by the way....I didn't know....Happy Chanukkah Stan O'Neil and Kathleen Corbet and everyone else I'm missing...

Posted by Goober Glilet3155 2007-12-04 10:47|| 2007-12-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

8 ask not why but who counts the votes. If we don't maintain our own voter integrity, it could happen here too.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-04 11:10|| 2007-12-04 11:10|| Front Page Top

9 Could?

Something about Illinois, Chicago, 1960.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-04 12:08|| 2007-12-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

10 1960 ? Wisconsin and Washington (state), 2006.

Posted by wxjames 2007-12-04 15:58|| 2007-12-04 15:58|| Front Page Top

11 Dostoevsky nailed this tendency in his "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter from The Brothers Karamazov. Wretchard has quoted from it rather extensively over the years.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-12-04 18:03|| 2007-12-04 18:03|| Front Page Top

12 WAFF.com > NEWSWEEK [12/01/2007] - THE WAR IN THE KREMLIN. *OTOH, WAFF Poster believes that Russia is being de facto governed by MOBSTERS??? Recall EDGAR CAYCE'S WARNING ON "A MOB RULE" but for the USA??? REGNUM.RU > UKRAINIAN ANALYST:PUTIN IS EXPANDING HIS CONTROL OF THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

See also REDDIT/TOPIX > WHY VENEZUELANS VOTED AGZ CHAVEZ.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-04 21:08|| 2007-12-04 21:08|| Front Page Top

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