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

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Posted by ryuge 2007-12-04 07:25|| || Front Page|| [11127 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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