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2011-05-13 Africa North

"There's a word for this kind of long-range, deep, subtle planning: Strategery"

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-13 10:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Some say it's due to the rise in food prices---but what do they know.

p.s. Personally, I wouldn't harry to take credit for "Arab Spring" because it's going to end in "Ikhwan Summer".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-13 14:51|| 2011-05-13 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, "strategery" may be for real, and may be serious.

Back when H.W. Bush was president, a new and very powerful data mining software class was invented.

One version is today being used by police to do in depth analysis of crimes and criminals, sorting through vast numbers of links that no human mind could analyze. It is so useful to the police, that a version was adapted for use by the US Army in Iraq, that proved very useful in busting up both criminal and terrorist organizations.

But H.W. Bush himself mentioned, about the time when he was leaving office, of foreign policy analysis via what he called "linkages", the thousands of connections that exist between countries. It would be a natural application of such software to data mine such linkages.

Importantly, doing so would reveal very complex and unseen relationships and activities, that would not normally be noticed even by foreign policy experts. This would be a huge advantage in foreign relations and realpolitik.

Even before W. Bush became president, he seemed to have amazing planning foresight, easily able to knock off all his primary opposition even before the primary season had begun. This continued into his presidency, though it was knocked for a loop by 9-11, an almost unforeseeable event.

But there seems to be no evidence of the use of such "strategery" outside of the Bush family, so perhaps they have kept it for their own use.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-13 16:04|| 2011-05-13 16:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The Progressives have been using 'strategery' to win elections since about 2004. See the book "The Blueprint" about the use of data mining in building up domestic voting blocs.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-13 17:03|| 2011-05-13 17:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The Progressives have been using 'strategery' to win elections since about 2004.

Except the strategy doesn't seem to be working so well. The 2010 elections resulted in a House landslide. Twenty nine governors are Pubs. Ten changed from Donk to Pub in the last election. Hard to say what will happen in 2012. The 2012 presidential election, elections to the House of Representatives, 33 seats in the Senate, elections for governors in 13 states and territories are up for grabs. The economy is bad. That doesn't bode well for BHO.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-13 17:40|| 2011-05-13 17:40|| Front Page Top

#5 There was recently a kerfluffle in Wisconsin when Dem state senators absconded to avoid a critical vote. Lots of hate & discontent about this in Wisconsin. The Dems came back, and now there are several recall elections in the works - to recall Republicans. No apparent recall elections for the absconders. I guess it would be the other way around. That doesn't bode well.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-13 18:33|| 2011-05-13 18:33|| Front Page Top

#6 as i recall, there was to be a recall election on some Democrats in Wisconsin, but someone broke into the offices of the petition gatherers and stole the signatures and computers... twice.

that is how the left intends to hold power.

Posted by abu do you love 2011-05-13 20:05|| 2011-05-13 20:05|| Front Page Top

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