[RUDAW.NET] All polls were wrong. Everyone thought that it was neck and neck between the two main parties and some inclined, like me, to think the Conservatives would return with the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives astonished everyone, perhaps themselves included, by securing a major victory and can govern alone. The Liberal Democrats were smashed. The Scottish National Party (SNP) destroyed Labour in Scotland. Labour is a shadow of its former self. Heads have rolled. Its Leader Ed Miliband has resigned, having lost key strategists including the shadow Chancellor and shadow Foreign Minister. Other leaders have gone.
Kurds will also be happy to see the back of George Galloway ... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ... whose own indefatigability ended with a dose of self-conceited pomposity as he declared in his concession speech that 'The hyena can bounce on the lion's grave but it can never be a lion and in any case, I'm not in my grave.'
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All polls were wrong. Everyone thought that it was neck and neck between the two main parties
Happens every election in Israel. The "cognitive elites" are not really good at distinguishing between their desires and laws of nature---kinda like a bunch of overindulged third graders.
The media in Israel, US, UK, et al. trend hard left in their political views. Like good progressives everywhere they see everything through the lens of their narrative. If the item under discussion cannot be made to fit their agenda then it is ignored.
"I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" could be their motto, as they play in their echochamber.
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The MSM does report their "Wishful thinking," not what actually is trending. They are also trying to create an attitude of an inevitable outcome or a bandwagon effect in the voters for the lefty candidate of their choosing. They should stick to reporting in the garden section or obits and leave the heavy stuff to "real" reporters if there are any out there anymore.
Exactly - I've been saying for a while that in 2016 you will see the US media just come out and say that you might as well vote for Hillary because everyone else is. I'd like to think that the UK's experience over the last few days might give pause, but I ain't hopeful.
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I always figured the polls were propaganda, maybe based around supressing the vote of the people they don't like. You know, resistance is useless and all that.
And it may have worked, in a way, if it convinced enough people to vote Tory instead of UKIP.
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There are two ways to do polls. The first is to ask carefully worded questions to seek out the truest unguided responses from a representative sample. These are the expensive private polls politicians use to guide their decisions. The second is to ask carefully worded questions that drive guided responses ("Do you think those poor Palestinians need to be protected from Israeli aggression, or should we force Israel to stop?"). Those are considerably less expensive, and the results are widely publicized.
Here in southwest Ohio, which for some reason is of great interest to political pollsters of all sorts as the next election approaches, I've amused myself by explaining to the person who called me why various questions are impossible to answer, and what they should have asked instead. Teachable moments, especially since these things are supposedly taped for management review.
After 60 days of fighting between factions in both Donetsk and Lugtansk, plus threats of arrest from the political leadership in Lugansk, the civil war with the civil war in southeastern Ukraine is about to take a turn for the worse.
Rantburg.com correspondent Chris Covert explains the developing headache for both the rebel rank and file and the leadership.
[NATION.PK] n 1979, Iran went through a so-called Islamic Revolution that saw the ouster of Iran's king, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the instalment of Ayatollah Khomeini as the supreme leader of the Islamic Theocratic Republic. There is no doubt that the Arab states, particularly the 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... , due to this development, remained watchful. They were also afraid of its extension into the neighbouring countries, including Pakistain. And Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , being the largest province of the country, shares an approximately 900 kilometre long mostly non-existent border with Iran. Moreover, Iran's Seistan-Balochistan province abundantly contains the population of Sunni Baloch in a Shia state. That is why, as independent analysts say, the Saudi-Iran proxy war started in Balochistan in 1979.
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[NationalReview] Economic inequality is an attractive issue for progressives, because it provides a permanent state of emergency -- problems such as absolute poverty are in fact tractable, as the United States and other countries have shown, while the not-unrelated problem of economic growth is, though slippery, something that a great many nations with very different cultural characteristics have addressed, mainly with policies that are anathema to progressives.
But economic inequality -- the fact that people will experience radically different economic outcomes, not always for reasons that strike us as fair -- is never going away. Indeed, as societies grow wealthier and more integrated into the global economy, economic inequality tends to increase, a fact of life in such different countries as the United States, Sweden, Singapore, and India.
The enduring nature of economic inequality may be a political blessing for progressives -- it provides a perennial source of discontent -- but it is a problem, too, for one very important but under-appreciated reason: The main sources of economic inequality are not matters of public policy. They are instead rooted in the individual -- including in the physical facts of the individual -- and in the family, both of which have traditionally been considered outside of the public sphere. In a liberal society, some things are not political questions, but the Left, with its authoritarian mottos -- "The personal is the political," "If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem," etc. -- is in its most fundamental assumptions the opposite of liberal: It is totalitarian.
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“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”
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.
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