As we watch the price of a barrel of oil plummet to Neolithic levels, what does that do, other than having us breathe a sigh of relief for having purchased a Ford F-350 last spring? The destabilization of three nearby countries comes to mind, all intimately tied together: Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba. …
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The Sucking Sound of Bolivar-nism
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TV Interview
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/01/tv-interview.htmlI did a short interview today on Worldfocus. They tell me it will be played this evening and will be on their website as well. pl …
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Richard Cohen is a propagandist.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/01/richard-cohen-i.html"Conventional wisdom says that when Israel went into Lebanon in 2006, it lost that war. Hezbollah stood up to the mighty Israeli army; Israel could not muzzle Hezbollah's rockets. That may not be the way Hezbollah sees things, however. After the war, its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said he had miscalculated. …
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Debendification: How Accessible Is Boris’s New 38?
http://www.boriswatch.co.uk/2009/01/08/debendification-how-a...health-and-safety dirigisme, the disabled lobby and heavy salesmanship from big European bus companies has inflicted on Londoners a sequence of poorly performing and claustrophobic buses, including the new single-decker bendies. Then the neo-con’s friend Dean Godson, who blames the unions: The proponents of group rights referred to here are, of course, the representatives of the disability lobby.What an ascendancy they enjoy within many of our public services! When writing an article on the
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Is Israel winning the PR war?
http://un-truth.com/blogging/is-israel-winning-the-pr-wars propaganda campaign, while it may be working on the corporate media, is having little effect against the web”. Col. Pat Lang’s personal observations, and the comments on his posting, can be read in full on his blog here . 3.) Aluf Benn writes in Haaretz today: “War is a complex business with a lot of uncertainty and many surprises. But there is one recurring phenomenon that causes military operations to go wrong. You could call it
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Tortured Illogic
http://torturedillogic.blogspot.comColonel Lang
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Must-read of the Day: Patrick Lang on the IDF
http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2009/01/must-read-of-day...W. Patrick Lang has far more right than most to comment on the Israeli Defense Force; he served with them for many years (details at his original post here). I'll let him speak for himself: - Because of the heavy reliance on reserve units filled with older, part time soldiers, any mobilization of a large number of ground force units for considerable periods of time places a heavy burden on the Israeli
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Cables, dispatches and memoranda
http://peacelikeariverblog.com/?p=1738- Masked gunmen opened fire and tossed a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast Tuesday, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs. Pat Lang - So, to the earlier post comment on Chile and Brazil being our centers of interest in this part of the world: We can prosper from a new relationship with Cuba, shut down Guantanamo and save ourselves a pile of money as well as uplifting the Cuban
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The Phil Nugent Experience
http://philnugentexperience.blogspot.comSic Semper Tyrannis
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"... Revionist history of the worst kind!"
http://friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com/2009/01/revionist-hist...Sic Semper Tyrannis, here "...Conventional wisdom says that when Israel went into Lebanon in 2006, it lost that war. Hezbollah stood up to the mighty Israeli army; Israel could not muzzle Hezbollah's rockets. That may not be the way Hezbollah sees things, however. After the war, its leader, Hass
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Platonic Shift
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bastard.logic
http://bastardlogic.wordpress.comSic Semper Tyrannis
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New Yorker in DC
http://nykrindc.blogspot.com"Is Israel a Worthwhile Ally?" National Journal
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