“Call the police!” he cried. But it was the police. They were there to murder him. And so they did.
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Neocon John Hannah: “Please Explain This Concept ‘Shame.’ I Do not Understand.”
Iraq Needs Regime Change Again
The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be.
Allawi’s recent nomination to be Iraq’s next leader is a dead end, for Iraq and the United States alike. He has no chance of resolving the two fundamental crises now plaguing the country: first, the collapse of legitimacy of Iraq’s post-2003 political class, and second, Iraq’s ever-expanding subjugation by Iran and its local Shiite Islamist proxies. The United States would be well advised to keep its distance from Allawi’s candidacy and instead focus its energies on supporting the extraordinary protest movement that has upended Iraq’s politics since late last year, and whose demands for sovereignty, independence, and clean government represent the last best hope for salvaging not just Iraq, but the future of U.S.-Iraqi relations as well.
It is hard to overstate the importance of the mass demonstrations that erupted in Baghdad on Oct. 1, 2019, and rapidly spread to every major city in southern Iraq. Dominated by young people (close to 60 percent of Iraq’s population is now under 25), the protesters are overwhelmingly Shiites—Iraq’s largest religious sect. But from the beginning, they have called for a complete overhaul of the Shiite-dominated regime that has ruled them since the fall of Saddam Hussein, charging it with being irredeemably corrupt, incompetent, and fatally infected by sectarianism, Islamism, and Iranian penetration.
A Video of the Great William N. Grigg Debating the Iraq War Has Surfaced
This is from November 16, 2008, and the resolution is, “Is There a Justified Military Presence in Iraq?” Will obviously argues for the negative.
I made sure to watch the entire debate before I posted this. Will’s opponent comes from the “America is a Christian Nation and Muslims wish to slit out throats in the streets” school of “thought.”
What you will hear from Will is a well-thought out presentation in which he explains everything from the US empowering Iran with Iraq’s regime change, to a detailing of the “redirection” by the Bush administration. He gives a historical analysis all the way back to the Iranian coup in 1953, and finishes off in his closing arguments with a fiery denunciation of the American Empire. He even includes a section on Clinton’s war in the Balkans.
I strongly recommend watching this to remember why he was the best of us. If you’re not willing to devote the time, at least watch his closing statement which will infuriate, and inspire you. It starts at 1:21:25.
Millennial Success Threatens Default Keynesian Fed-Heads
God forbid my generation gets ahead.
Ladies & gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you Default Keynesian 101. Today’s “economists” demonize my fellow millennials’ practice of fiscal responsibility.
It’s a miracle my generation can express financial-sovereignty at the apex of student loan debt/deceitful market signals. God forbid they enjoy the fruits of their hard-earned labor & actually get to retire before their parents…and grandparents for that matter.
Yet, we get shafted via inflation, and paying off the debts of irresponsible generations before us. After all, who’s gonna pay for THEIR retirement? Social security? I won’t see a single fiat cent of that. A mortgage? What on Earth is a mortgage?!
The only loser here is the Fed, and envious, privileged, and indoctrinated generations from a cynical, jaded, wrinkled, fiat era.
The only cure for this this toxic, monetary/fiscal chaos is sound money.
Cops Kill Man
Cop Kills Cop
Surprise: He deserved it.
Cop Kills Man
This time the DA actually objected.
But the jury said nah it’s cool.
Workin’ for the F.B.I.
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