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energy conference at George
Washington University. “It’s been
are more likely to vote for a Tea
Party affiliated candidate. That’s
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Hinirang (Beloved Land) and CMA, PRU, CMG, PBR,
a long time since we’ve had them down from 30 percent in July. unpatriotic displays of the
up there.”
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Philippine flag is a Senate vote
away from becoming law.
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Palin adviser worked for foreign Reflective “death ray” torments For more stories from our Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:15:00 AM Outperform from a Market
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Republican presidential candidate, taking the heat for an intense informed. A n a l y s t U p g r a d e s a n d target on the stock.
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"The [$40 million] Katie Couric deal will be the last big deal of
that kind ever done … Those days are over,"...
(Business Insider) "The [$40 million] Katie Couric a r e o v e r , " C B S C E O L e s — via TVNewser
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:29:15 AM deal will be the last big deal of Moonves said Monday during a Join the conversation about this
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enough that he allowed it to be California doesn't do enough to hospital should not include his everyone ought to have the right organ donor at the Department of
leaked to the Wall Street Journal encourage people to become name in the press release. to get immediately a transplant. Motor Vehicles when you're there
that he would return by the end of organ donors. He told Maria that See photos from the event And this is why he has talked to to get or renew your driver's
the month. On June 20th, the WSJ she should get her husband to do Then, five days before the event, my wife and this is why he has license. No one asks you if you
also got word of Steve's surgery. something about it -- that Katie Cotton and Nick Ammann talked to me and put the pressure want to become a donor. And
In September, Steve was healthy California should require people from Apple public affairs showed on us to get this bill going so that there's no marketing campaign to
enough to speak at Apple's annual who want drivers' licenses to say up at the hospital and took a we open it up and have enough of make you aware of this
refresh of its iPod line. Still a bit whether or not they want to be preview of the tour that the the organs available for all the opportunity, either, so unless you
raspy, he told the crowd about his organ donors (previously, they'd Governor and the Apple CEO people that are potential know about it and unless your
surgery and his new liver. only had the option of saying they would take that Friday. recipients. So we want to say -- specifically ask, nobody is going
By December 2009, Steve Jobs's wanted to be donors). Finally, word came that Steve let's give him a big, big hand for to ask you, nobody is going to
life was much like it was before The First Lady talked to her would show. his great generosity. give you this opportunity. And yet
he got sick. Rumors were running husband. Then the Governor Friday came and so did the That's when Steve walked to the even with this obscure procedure
wild again and, unlike the year called Steve. The Governor called Governor, his entourage, and podium and said the following: over 20 percent of Californians
before, and more like every other State Senator Alquist, who he Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his Thank you, Governor have signed up to be organ
year in Steve's life since the knew to be a long time advocate characteristic black mock turtle Schwarzenegger. Last year I donors, which is fantastic. But
launch of the iPod, they were not for organ donation. Suddenly, a neck and jeans. After an received a liver transplant. I was imagine what it could be if
about his health, but about Apple's cause that couldn't find its way introduction from the hospital's very fortunate, because many everyone knew of this
latest gadget. into a bill for two or more years president, the Governor stood at others died waiting to receive one. opportunity.
But something about his whole was set to become State Senate the podium. He looked at Steve Last year in California there were And that's what the Governor's
experience still bothered Steve. Bill 1395. All thanks to Steve and said: 671 liver transplants but last year bill will do. It will simply require
What bothered him was that Jobs -- and his now-departed It's great to have Steve Jobs here, there were also over 3,400 people the DMV to ask you if you'd like
while he, a very wealthy man, was liver. who I think was very instrumental waiting for a liver and over 400 of to become an organ donor. That's
surviving his liver's failure, others After his conversation with the in getting us here today and to them died waiting in California. it. Asking this one simple
were not so lucky. Specifically, he Governor, a lot happened to have us come up with this great I was almost one of the ones that question may double the number
was upset because, while he was distract Steve from his new cause. bill that will change a lot here in died waiting for a liver in of transplant organs available in
able to afford the costs of multiple Mostly, there was the iPad -- a California. He talked to my wife California last year. I was California -- one simple question.
-listing and a private jet that could gadget that was supposed to save about his transplant and then my receiving great care here at And that's a very high return on
ferry him to any hospital in the media and replace laptops. The wife talked to me about it and I Stanford but there were simply investment, especially for the over
country at a moment's notice, iPad needed announcing and then talked to him about it and we had not enough livers in California to 20,000 Californians currently
others in California could not; last-minute perfecting. Things got these great phone conversations go around and my doctors here waiting for an organ transplant.
they had to stay in California and so busy that during the month back and forth and now here it is advised me to enroll in a So Governor, thank you for your
hope. He knew that 400 people before the iPad's launch, Steve reality; we are introducing the transplant program in Memphis, leadership on this bill. And now
died hoping. almost skipped an event at bill. Tennessee, where the supply/ I'd like to introduce Senator
And so, in a departure from a Stanford's Lucile Packard And what I like about Steve is, demand ratio of livers is more Alquist. Thank you.
largely apolitical career, Steve Children's Hospital where he, the because he is a wealthy man, we favorable than it is in California There's reason to believe the
decided to do something about it. Governor, and Senator Alquist all know that and that helped him here. And I was lucky enough to event moved Steve Jobs more
At a dinner in December -- no were scheduled to announce the get the transplant. But he doesn't get a liver in time. As a matter of than he expected it would.
one will tell us where this dinner bill. want that, that only wealthy fact, this coming week is my one- During the preview tour five days
was -- Steve sat next to Maria When the Governor's office people can get the transplant and year anniversary. prior, a hospital staffer recalls
Shriver, John F. Kennedy's niece contacted Lucile Packard to have a plane waiting to take him So why aren't there more organs someone from Apple suggesting
and California governor Arnold schedule the event roughly 10 anywhere he needs to go. He available in California? Because that they tighten up the tour of the
Schwarzenegger's wife. Steve told days ahead of time, they said that wants every human being, if you in California, like most other hospital's kidney transplant area --
her the whole story of his liver Apple's famous CEO had been have no money at all or if you're states in the nation, you must CALIFORNIA page 9
transplant. He complained that invited to appear, but that the the richest person in the world, specifically request to become an
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Holy Groundtography -
The Stefanie Vogl 'Open
Mosque' Series is
Beautifully Solemn
(GALLERY)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:50:01 AM
Toyota's All-In-One Energy Hub For Home And Car The Stefanie Vogl 'Open Mosque'
series is a collection of
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) There's just one catch: It will only day to cut down on household U.S. customers won't be able to photographs shot during open
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:37:45 AM be available in Japan. energy use and costs. And use Toyota's system, but they can M o s q u e i n G e r m a n y . T h e
The Smart Center syncs Toyota's smartphone users can remotely take advantage of a similar system photographs not only display
All plug-in hybrid and electric upcoming plug-in hybrids with check on vehicle battery charge, in the 2011 Ford Focus Electric, Stefanie Vogl's photographic skill,
v e h i c l e s o f f e r d e t a i l e d home energy management system tweak the charging time, and turn which syncs with Microsoft's but the talent behind the…
information about in-car energy -equipped homes (including the air-conditioning on or off in H o h m e n e r g y m o n i t o r i n g
usage. They have to--without that i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t p o w e r preparation for use. software to optimize charging.
information, drivers could run out c o n s u m p t i o n , s o l a r p a n e l The Smart Center system is Ford's system doesn't control
of battery power without knowing electricity production, and electric currently in testing, but Toyota home energy use, however--for
it. But Toyota wants to take heat pump hot water volume) to hopes to have it ready to go by that, we'll have to wait for Toyota
energy monitoring a step further allow remote energy monitoring 2012--just in time for the release to expand its Smart Center
with the Smart Center, a system and coordination. Toyota's system of Toyota's plug-in hybrids. Only worldwide.
t h a t l i n k s h o m e s , v e h i c l e s , also takes into account weather Toyota Homes(yes, Toyota has a Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
utilities, and users into an all-in- forecasts and utility charge-rate housing division in Japan) will be Twitter or by email.
one energy management hub. information for different times of able to use the control center.
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SocGen: Global Debt Has Already Increased By 150% In Just Two Years
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money economies are as well. Most ( s e e t h e r e d d o t t e d l i n e ) , asf
Game) nations around the world enacted depending on the actions of Join the conversation about this
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:15:13 AM some form of stimulus spending developed nations. If anything, story »
after the financial crisis and this this chart shows how developed
The U.S. isn't the only nation c h a r t b e l o w f r o m S o c i e t e nations have become the world's
adding government debt at a Generale shows the net result. basket case economies, while
torrid pace. Europe is, Japan is, Global debt has increased by firm forecasts that the situation emerging markets have managed
a n d a c t u a l l y m a n y s m a l l e r 150% in just two years, and the could potentially get far worse to keep debt under control.
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NATURAL
Israeli rabbis visit torched West Bank continued from page 13
Dropbox is down
(Scripting News) on will go down at some point. systems we've built on top of I forget if scripting.com depends
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:47:24 AM http://status.dropbox.com/ Dropbox stop working. on it. Guess I'll find out now.
Today it's Dropbox's turn. We get F o r e x a m p l e , h t t p : / / e a s t - PS: Apparently not. Whew!
Every realtime system we depend to find out what it's like when the village.org/ is not updating.
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Should one worry that these latest state, opened new solar-energy
TV All Over Again? changes mean our nation's federal
parks will soon be mottled with
permitting offices, and overhauled
the application and review
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) -video/ less than a minute ago via unsightly solar panels, consider process.
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:57:22 AM Twitterrific for Mac Wil Shipley t h i s : t h e B u r e a u o f L a n d And last month, the California
wilshipley Management oversees 258 million Public Utilities Commission
Remember Web TV? The set-top Now don't get us wrong - when surface acres of land and the granted permission for power of
box and keyboard that connected broadcast and cable television and Web TV first made the rounds the agency has taken over two years purchase agreements involving
to your television to the World Internet video. People with a Web wasn't anywhere near as to assess impact and develop a local utilities, Chevron, and
Wide Web? It's hard to not flash G o o g l e T V w i l l n o l o n g e r interesting as it is today (I planned program for allowing Tessera.
back to that odd venture ( still differentiate...We've very excited. remember - I had one!). There solar installations on public lands. "Only lands with excellent solar
kicking, mind you) after spying We're at the beginning of a new wasn't Facebook or Twitter or any In May 2008 the Bureau of Land resources, suitable slope,
the new Sony remote for Google age, an age where the monopoly Lady Gaga videos back then. I Management, in conjunction with proximity to roads and
TV, which was recently spotted over content distribution is think its best feature was the way t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n e r g y , transmission lines or designated
on ABC Nightline's Google TV eroding and anyone with talent the LED would light up when you initiated a joint Environmental corridors, and containing at least
special. and drive can access audiences..." had new email. Yes, that was Impact Statement (EIS) to assess 2,000 acres of BLM-administered
T h e r e m o t e o f f e r s a f u l l And the gushing continued. amazing, let me tell you. the impact of using public land in public lands were considered for
keyboard, two directional pads, Hudack has a point: putting the But Web TV failed to captivate a s i x s t a t e s f o r s o l a r - f a r m solar energy study areas. Sensitive
volume and channel buttons, all G o o g l e n a m e b r a n d a n d large audience, because - guess development: Arizona, California, lands, wilderness and other high-
encased in a form factor so large, engineering know-how behind a what? - TV viewing is generally a Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, conservation-value lands as well
it requires two hands to hold. product as big as this does hold passive, "lean-back" activity. Not and Utah. It also placed a as lands with conflicting uses
Sponsor promise for a more democratic one requiring a keyboard. Or any moratorium on reviewing any new were excluded," the BLM said in
The Guardian says this after future for TV. effort, really. Are We Ready for applications for solar installations, a statement at the time.
seeing the Google TV remote in However, there has been, until Google TV? but agreed to review the 125 This entry passed through the
action: now, more focus on the big ideas Granted, with today's Web, applications already in process. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
"...all that's missing is the aerial surrounding the Google TV there's a lot more to do. Google In July 2008, the BLM lifted the your content and you're reading it
sticking out of the top, and it platform - like how it's positioned says we will be able to watch the b a n o n r e v i e w i n g n e w on someone else's site, please read
really would look like a remote as an Apple TV competitor, what Web on TV, Twitter is building a applications for solar projects on our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
control. For a jumbo jet." t h i s m e a n s f o r A n d r o i d Google TV app and Android public lands. content-only/faq.php
Yikes, just yikes. developers, etc., etc. - and not a developers will have a whole new Then in July 2009, the BLM Five Filters featured article:
So far, we've been bullish on lot about the technical details of platform to target. released a set of maps for the six Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Google TV's potential, noting, for how one will interact with Web So maybe the living room is states that developers and utilities Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
example, comments made by content via the TV set. ready for Web TV again. Maybe... could use as guidelines when Catastrophe.
Google TV partner Blip.tv's CEO And apparently, unless this is Or maybe people will continue to applying for solar-installation
Mike Hudack, which talked of the some cruel prank, Sony's vision surf their iPads and Android permission. It launched several
p r o d u c t ' s g a m e c h a n g i n g for Google TV is Web TV, take 2. phones instead while the TV more environmental impact
capabilities: 1983 called, wants its remote blares in the background, the studies for specific areas in each
"It's good. Very good. The main back. http://www.engadget.com/ comforting white noise it's always
reason why it's so good is that it, 2010/10/05/sonys-google-tv- been. What do you think?
once and for all, demolishes the controller-outed-on-abcs-nightline Image credit, remote: Engadget
boundary between traditional Discuss
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Weird and
Freaky Animals
Videos
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:00:56 AM
Chris Davies (SlashGear) a new high-end iPhone with a model and a 4.0-4.3 inch high-end • iPhone nano – I’m sure it’s
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:08:55 AM larger display, and an entry-level version, but that’s only completely real, yeah right!
model with a smaller panel, which speculation. • Rumored iPhone Nano cases go
Almost since the first iPhone could feasibly ship in advance of The suggestion, Wu says, is that on sale
model was announced, there’s the usual iPhone refresh. Apple is looking to use the same • Analyst – the iPhone costs only
been speculation about larger or Unfortunately there are no hard tiered structure as with its latest $200 to produce
smaller versions of the specifications about the sizes of iPod lineup in its smartphone • iPhone Nano concept photo
smartphone; now, Kaufman Bros the screens, leaving things business. Still, the company has lacks credibility
analyst Shaw Wu is claiming that uncertain about exactly what sort had no small amount of success • Verizon testing 4G LTE iPhone
his checks on the Apple of scale Apple could be thinking. with its current iPhone range, with for 2010 release?
touchscreen supply chain suggest With the current iPhone 4 at 3.5- relatively scant differentiation.
both are in the works. His sources inches, it might be feasible to [ via Electronista]
claim that Apple is preparing both assume a 3.0-3.2 inch entry level Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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credible reports, the U.S.-born al- not, and must not interfere with There's ample precedent--and right. This is no job for courts. Your Android is supposed to
Awlaki is arguably the leading al- the commander-in-chief's ability common sense--to support the Wars and how we fight them are keep you instantly connected to
Qaeda propagandist in the world. to fight a war Congress has claim that the executive branch political decisions, properly left to your digital life. It can do that, but
He has directly inspired and authorized (if not formally can kill American citizens when Congress and the president. it needs some help. These best-of-
recruited terrorists to kill declared). "Here, the political they are sworn members of enemy So, let's have Congress and the class applications make sending
American troops and civilians. branches have exercised their forces and avowed traitors president come up with some files, syncing music, swapping
His name has come up in respective constitutional working with the enemy. clear, public rules. Better to start web sites, and other phone-
numerous investigations, authorities to protect national But those precedents start to fray the debate over an easy case than computer hook-ups so much
including those of the 2005 security," reads Obama's brief. at the edges when the whole a hard one. easier. More »
London subway attacks and the "Congress authorized the world is the war zone and the war Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
more recent Fort Hood, Texas, president to use necessary and doesn't end until a diffuse, fellow at AEI.
killing spree. appropriate military force against committed, and often Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force Hussman calls for 10-
So, again, I hope he gets his toe Al Qaeda, the Taliban and camouflaged army of suicidal photo by Staff Sgt. Paul Year S&P 500 Total
tag sooner rather than later. associated forces," and al-Awlaki religious fanatics defy their god Villanueva II
But that doesn't mean President is a "senior operational leader" of and agree to leave the Dark Ages. This entry passed through the Return in the Low 5%
Obama's decision to put al-Awlaki al-Qaeda in the Arabian And the common sense starts to Full-Text RSS service — if this is Area; Thoughts on Risk
on a secret assassination list is Peninsula. drain away like water through your content and you're reading it Management
problem-free. The ACLU and CCR counter: your fingers when you on someone else's site, please read
For starters, the very idea of a "The idea that courts should have contemplate that we may be our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
secret presidential assassination no role whatsoever in determining facing these kinds of problems for content-only/faq.php Economic Trend Analysis)
list is creepy in a country the criteria by which the executive half a century. So while it strikes Five Filters featured article:
committed to democracy and the branch can kill its own citizens is me as a no-brainer that al-Awlaki Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:57:00 AM
rule of law. unacceptable in a democracy." should go, what about the next Reporting of Falluja's Cancer John Hussman is bearish on the
That's why the ACLU and the Fair enough, but historically the guy? Or the next? Catastrophe. economy and stocks. He backs up
Center for Constitutional Rights courts usually step in when the And we know there will be a next his beliefs with good commentary
and a series of charts in Economic
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Measures Continue to Slow. measure of business performance, Based on the data that we've greater fool. As the Fed with a blind eye from the
Please see the article for some they don't provide a good measure observed in recent months, my mathematician John Allen Paulos FASB.
excellent economic charts. Here of the cash flows that are actually view remains that a fresh has observed, "people generally Moreover, the FASB has
are a few snips regarding equity deliverable to shareholders. downturn in the economy remains worry only about what happens delayed mark-to-market
returns. With the S&P 500 at a Losses that are booked as a not only a possibility but a one or two steps ahead and accounting rules and has still not
Shiller P/E over 21, and our own "extraordinary" are still losses, likelihood. Little of the economic anticipate being able to get out forced banks to bring SIVs and
measures indicating an estimated and represent the results of bad improvement we've observed before a collapse... In countless off-balance-sheet assets back on
10-year total return for the S&P investments and a consumption of since 2009 appears intrinsic, but situations people prepare the books. Those assets are held
500 in the low 5% area, it is clear amounts that were previously instead appears driven by exclusively for near-term at inflated values.
that investors have priced in a reported as earnings. Similarly, enormous government outcomes and don't look very far Equities only look cheap if you
much more robust recovery than the portion of earnings used for interventions that are now trailing ahead. They myopically discount use absurd forward earnings
we are likely to observe. Our long share buybacks is often expended off. Still, while I believe that there the future at an absurdly steep estimates, and ignore future
-term total return estimates are simply to offset dilution from is a second shoe that has not rate." Undoubtedly, we have writeoffs and other "one-time"
consistent the historical norms grants of stock to employees and dropped, I recognize that the full periodically missed returns due to items that seem to have a way of
based on Shiller P/Es - since corporate insiders, and again do force of government policy is to our aversion to risks that rely on recurring with remarkable
1940, Shiller P/E values above 21 not reflect cash that is deliverable obscure, stimulate, intervene and the ability to find a "greater fool" regularity. No Sure Things
have been associated with annual to shareholders. In recent years, borrow in every effort to kick that in order to get out safely. But it is Although most are plowing hand-
total returns for the S&P 500 based on the widening gap can down the road. I believe that important to recognize that over-fist into the "QE-Trade", it is
averaging 5.3% over the between reported operating the unaddressed and unresolved speculative risks are not a source a mistake to assume that
following 7 years and 4.9% earnings on one hand, and the problems relating to debt service, of durable long-term returns. At a quantitative easing is a guaranteed
annually over the following sum of dividends and increments employment conditions and Shiller P/E of 21 and a historical play for equities. It's not. Please
decade. to book value on the other, a great housing are too large for this to be peak-to-peak S&P 500 earnings see Sure Thing?! for a discussion.
Dividend payout ratios and deal of what is reported as successful, but as we move growth rate of 6%, a simple Moreover, QE is not a guaranteed
operating earnings growth earnings ends up evaporating as through the remainder of this year reversion to the historical (non- play for the economy either, as
A note on valuation. A number of extraordinary losses and share - as I've said throughout 2010 - bubble) Shiller norm of 14 would noted in Bernanke says
observers have suggested that the compensation. we are gradually assigning greater require seven years of earnings Lawmakers Should Consider
low level of dividend payouts as a The second problem with the low probability to the "post-1940" growth and yet zero growth in Rules on Fiscal Limits; Expect
fraction of operating earnings is level of dividend payouts, relative dataset. Accordingly, there are prices. Stocks are not cheap here. Hissy Fit from Krugman;
indicative of strong prospects for to forward operating earnings, is developments that could Stocks Not Cheap Bernanke Pisses in the Wind
reinvestment, which is then that there is no historical evidence potentially move us to a more I wholeheartedly endorse Yet everyday I get emails calling
extrapolated into assumptions for whatsoever that low payouts are constructive position. We don't Hussman's analysis that suggests me a "chicken little" or other
high rates of future earnings accompanied by higher growth in observe those at present, but an stocks are not cheap. I have said unprintable names for not
growth. Unfortunately, this future operating earnings. To the improvement in economic the same thing repeatedly all year recommending everyone plow
argument is problematic on two contrary, when dividends are low evidence and a clearing of long, most recently in Analysts into equities. I heard the exact
counts. relative to forward operating overbought conditions, leaving Cut S&P 500 Profits Forecast; same thing in 2006-2007.
First, forward operating earnings earnings, it is a signal that market internals intact, would be Earnings Estimates Still Overly However, I have recommended
are not realized cash flows. As operating earnings are temporarily one configuration that might Optimistic; Stocks Not Cheap gold continuously since it was
I've noted frequently over the elevated - typically because of warrant less defensiveness. Earnings Estimates A Mirage $300. I have also recommended
years, forward operating earnings transitory profit margins. As a To some extent, I view current It's important to understand why treasuries with many attempting
represent analyst estimates of the result, subsequent growth in market conditions as something of earnings have gone up: Trillions to short the things and getting
next year's earnings excluding a forward earnings is actually a "Ponzi game" in that valuations of dollars of stimulus worldwide their heads blown off.
whole range of chargeoffs and slower than normal over the appear neither sustainable nor that is not sustainable. Bank Superior Returns Come From
"extraordinary expenses" as if following decade. likely to produce acceptably high earnings estimates have been Reducing Risk
they do not exist. While operating On the latitude for a constructive long-term returns, and speculators inflated by massive extend-and- HUSSMAN page 41
earnings provide a smoother investment stance increasingly rely on finding a pretend games encouraged by the
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Abused by Hope
David Rieff (The New Republic would have disliked Gramsci’s wasted—about this optimists and made that just as it had been a The irony is that in contrast to,
- All Feed) celebrated injunction, “pessimism skeptics largely agree—but that, mistake for supporters of say, Niger and other Sahelian
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:29:21 AM of the intellect, optimism of the after five decades, outside aid, communism who nonetheless countries, where hunger is
will”—he stood for realism of the whether given by governments or opposed the Soviet Union, China, endemic, or North Korea, where
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia intellect, optimism of the will. by the increasingly important and Cuba to keep saying that not the regime of Kim Jong Il has at
Since Live Aid And the fact that his optimistic philanthropic sector, above all the one of these actual communist the very least (accurate
By Peter Gill scenario for what could be Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, regimes had lived up to the information is almost impossible
(Oxford University Press, 280 pp., achieved has not come to pass has done little to alleviate the doctrine’s emancipatory potential, to come by) brought the country
$27.95) does not necessarily mean that condition of the world’s poor. so it is time to admit that there is repeatedly to the brink of famine,
In the fall of 1994, James P. Grant was wrong to say—as, were What is needed is private only “actually existing” Ethiopia since the famine of 1984
Grant, the executive director of he alive today, he almost certainly enterprise, and the more the development, and that it has not - 1985 has become quite literally
UNICEF, sent a message in the would say—that there was every better. As Easterly has put it, “the worked. the poster child for global hunger.
name of his agency to the reason to believe that it could do parts of the world that are still These debates have their arcane In large measure, this was because
upcoming Cairo conference on so. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not poor are suffering from too little side, but for what Paul Collier has of Band Aid and Live Aid, the
population and development, in in our stars,” and all that. capitalism.” called “the bottom billion,” they globally broadcast concerts that
which he declared that the world There are fundamentally two The critique from the left has are in fact matters of life and the Irish pop singer Bob Geldof
had within its grasp the means to views of development aid, and important points of overlap with death. To really understand this, organized as the centerpiece of his
solve “the problems of poverty, they are incompatible. The first is Easterly’s view. Colin Leys’s one needs to get down to cases. massive fundraising effort in 1985
population, and environmental Grant’s, which is essentially that, classic work The Rise and Fall of This is what makes Peter Gill’s for Ethiopian famine relief.
degradation that feed off of one after many false starts, we now Development Theory, which was book so valuable. Gill knows If anything, Gill remarks, “our
another in a downward spiral know how to do development, and published in 1996, two years after Ethiopia extremely well. He was expectations and promises have
[bringing] instability and strife in that what is lacking is political James Grant had made his among the first foreign journalists become grander” since Geldof
its wake.” Grant was a great man, commitment and money from the sweeping claims for the to cover the famine of 1984 - recorded his charity single about
a giant of the development world. donor side, and political effectiveness of development aid, 1985, first in Bitter Harvest, a starving children, “Do They
He was among the first senior commitment and fiscal argued that the theoretical film he did for Thames Television Know It’s Christmas?” with its
figures within the U.N. system, responsibility on the part of the assumptions that have while the famine was going on, chorus of “Feed the world/Let
not to mention national governments and the elites of the underpinned development policies and then in A Year in the Death of them know it’s Christmastime
governments in either the poor recipient countries. The opposing since the 1950s no longer hold Africa: Policy, Bureaucracy, and again,” and when, in the acerbic
world or the countries of the view is that, no matter our good true, if indeed they ever did. The the Famine, his subsequent book formulation of the Zambian-born
Organization for Economic intentions, and the literally tens of deregulation of international trade on the catastrophe that was far neo-liberal economist Dambisa
Cooperation and Development thousands of people in and the free movement of better than its dreadful title might Moyo, one of the fiercest recent
(OECD), to take on board the development ministries, relief capital—that is, the move away suggest. As Gill writes, the critics of the aid system, “Africa
fundamental insight that groups, international and local from the post - World War II famine of 1984 was “supposed to became the focus of orchestrated
development is inextricably development NGOs, and popular regime of regulation in which be the final turning point,” but of worldwide pity.” When New
bound up with the emancipation, movements, we still do not know economic interventions by the course it was nothing of the sort. Labour came to power in Britain,
education, and empowerment of what we are doing. Those who state could be effective, which is He rightly observes that for all the Blair declared that one of its goals
women. favor an emphasis on the signature result of bluff talk of “eliminating world was “eliminating world poverty.”
Throughout his long career, entrepreneurial assistance rather globalization—means that poverty,” (the utopian phrase was Bono, generally more sensible
Grant was as unyieldingly than aid-based development development aid on the traditional Tony Blair’s), “the hunger than Geldof (who does not seem
optimistic about human solutions, the subtlest of whom by model has had fewer and fewer persists, people still die of to be able to imagine how any
possibility as he was clear-eyed far is William Easterly, who runs positive effects. As the longtime starvation, and no country in the decent person could question
about the extent of human the Development Research editor of the Socialist Register, world confronts the threat of either his motives or the effect of
suffering among the bottom half Institute at New York University, Leys would probably not endorse famine more painfully and more
of the world’s population. He argue not only that much aid is this view, but a strong case can be frequently than Ethiopia.” ABUSED page 47
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his initiatives), has popularized relief could have perverse The result was that before very abundantly mystified. the famine zone (the famines and
Jeffrey Sachs’s wildly over- consequences as well as positive long, the Ethiopian catastrophe We know with some certainty near-famines in Tuareg areas of
optimistic view that poverty can ones. But until Ethiopia, Brauman had gone from being one of the that famines have occurred Mali are good illustrations of
be ended in our time—a theme pointed out, there were very few world’s most forgotten crises to everywhere in the world, with this), or, most commonly of all, as
taken up on the twenty-fifth in NGO circles who could accept perhaps its best known. Geldof’s regularity, since the beginning of the result of vast misguided
anniversary of the Ethiopian that “we had become part of the single, “Do They Know It’s recorded history. But as the great efforts at social engineering
famine by the charity Christian problem, not just part of the Christmas?”, the first blast of contemporary authorities on undertaken by socialist regimes,
Aid, with its “Poverty Over” solution.” what would become the Band Aid famine—among them Amartya notably in Soviet Russia under
publicity campaign. Haile Selassie, the emperor of /Live Aid juggernaut, came out Sen, Cormac Ó Gráda, and Alex Lenin and Stalin, and, in the worst
Gill looks in some depth at what Ethiopia, was overthrown in 1974, that November and raised five de Waal—have shown, modern modern famine of all, in Mao’s
the real effects have been on the and his downfall was caused to a million pounds, though, as Gill famines are almost invariably China during the so-called Great
ground in Ethiopia, over the past considerable extent by his comments acidly, Ethiopians “did political in the larger sense of the Leap Forward. The Ethiopian
twenty-five years, of all these well regime’s failure to confront the of course know it was Christmas term. Another way of putting this famine of 1983 - 1984 was an
-meaning and not so well- famine that year. A decade later, because the starving were mostly is to say that whereas before the example of this most terrible
meaning foreigners. All the usual famine swept the north of Christian.” nineteenth century most famines variety of man-made famine. The
suspects make their Ethiopia once again. For most of Neither Geldof nor Bono has ever were largely the result of definitive account of it is to be
appearances—Western donor 1983, it went on without much of been willing to accept that, climate—flooding or drought, found in Evil Days: Thirty Years
governments, the World Bank and the rest of the world paying it any however wellintended, the most commonly—today they are of War and Famine in Ethiopia,
the International Monetary Fund noticeable heed. It was this premise of Live Aid was flawed largely the result of anti- the report that Alex de Waal
(IMF), the relief and development famine that galvanized Geldof, from the start. Amid criticism of democratic or at least non- prepared for the Africa Watch
arms of the United Nations Bono, and the Live Aid the ways in which the monies democratic practices by the division of Human Rights Watch
system, notably UNICEF, and the movement. A part of the reason from Live Aid were being used by authorities and the dominant elites in 1991. De Waal was
mainline international relief for this was that the Derg, the international relief agencies to in the countries where they take unequivocal. “The famine killed
organizations like Save the Stalinist regime then in power in fund programs connected with place. History will remember in excess of 400,000 people,” he
Children and Doctors Without Addis Ababa, forbade almost all resettlement, Geldof told The Amartya Sen when Malthus is wrote. “The human rights abuses
Borders (MSF, in its French coverage of what was going on. Irish Times that “the long forgotten, or thought of no made it come earlier, strike
acronym). Much of this is This is not to say there was no organizations that are more seriously than we think of harder, and reach further. Most of
historical. The famine in Ethiopia coverage at all—Gill, who unlike participating in the resettlement nineteenth-century phrenologists. these deaths can be attributed, not
in 1984 was a milestone in the most of the foreign journalists effort should not be criticized.... What Sen showed in his work on to the weather, but to the
history of modern covering the famine at the time is In my opinion, we’ve got to give the West Bengal famine of 1943 government’s gross violations of
humanitarianism because, as actually an Ethiopia expert, points aid without worrying about was that the problem was not human rights.”
Rony Brauman, who was out with understandable population transfers.” The way in absolute food supply but the And yet Michael Buerk’s first
president of MSF/France at the exasperation that in July 1984, which both men have capitalized access to that food supply by BBC report from the famine zone
time and was a central figure in ITV ran a documentary called on their new status as global disfavored groups. In other words, opened with the words, “Dawn,
the controversy, later put it, the Seeds of Despair, and an appeal consciences to rescue their pop what appeared like a food crisis and as the sun breaks through the
crisis was crucial in that it launched in its aftermath raised 10 music careers has been grotesque, was really, to use Sen’s term, an piercing chill of night on the
compelled MSF to reconsider million pounds for Ethiopian but their sincerity is beyond entitlements crisis. plains outside Korem, it lights up
some of its most basic ideas, and famine relief; but it was only in doubt. Yet their competence to Sen’s insight is borne out by the a biblical famine, now, in the
to face the cruel fact that “aid October 1984, when a BBC TV hold the opinions that they peddle history of famine in the twentieth twentieth century.” Apart from
could be turned against those team led by Michael Buerk and is another matter. What is so great century. The great famines have the facts that it was dawn and
toward whom it was directed and Mohamed Amin were allowed to about sincerity if it leads not to taken place under colonial there was a famine, nothing in
those delivering the aid integrated film what was going on, that understanding but to regimes (as in British India in what Buerk said was right. It was
into a system of oppression.” Ethiopia became the focus of mystification? And what 1943), or under regimes where the precisely not a biblical famine, in
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the locusts/great flood/visitation- the famine zone of the country’s were powerless to alter. This fight rarely seem as informed by it as reactionary, closing down civil
from-God sense that Buerk was northern highlands to lowland spread to the donor governments, they should be—that “poor society. But he was a brilliant
evoking. It was, rather, a man- areas in the south. He is in no with Washington taking the countries will emerge from macroeconomist. I went with Jeff
made famine—the direct and in doubt that the Derg used this hardest line against resettlement poverty only when they take full Sachs to see him, and I asked him
all likelihood inevitable result of policy as part of its war against (but not hard enough). Here Gill charge of their own destiny.” His how he became this great
deliberate policies in Addis Ababa the forces of the Tigrayan rather misstates MSF’s argument. book is not just a look back at the economist when he’d fought a
by the Stalinist government of secessionists in the north—and As Brauman has pointed out, the great controversies of the famine guerrilla war against the
Mengistu Haile Mariam. That is not as part of famine alleviation, reason the public silence of years of the mid-1980s, but also communists for 70 years.” Yes,
to say, it was a famine that was as the government and some of its mainline agencies such as Oxfam an attempt to understand whether, that’s seventy years, which would
more likely to occur in the apologists among U.N. and and Concern was so grave is that as he puts it, “beyond the take Meles’s struggle against the
twentieth century—the heyday of foreign NGO officials, and the “neither the Reagan challenges of famine forecasting Derg back to 1937, that is, the
man-made famines—than at any representatives in Addis Ababa of administration nor the European and hunger relief, are there [now] year after Ethiopia fell to
other time in human history. important donor governments, Commission would ever have Ethiopian political institutions and Mussolini—but hell, who’s
Gill, for reasons that elude me claimed at the time, at least agreed to underwrite forcible policies in place to deliver the counting? And what’s all that rot
(he knows de Waal’s work well publicly. As Gill notes, the population transfers.... The Derg transformation known as about pop stars not being
enough to cite it, and is as far Mengistu regime was quite frank could never have resisted a ‘development’?” qualified to speak on these
removed from being an apologist in admitting that “food is a major critique coming from [all] the Let’s be grown up about this. subjects?
for the Mengistu regime as it is element in our strategy against the NGOs ... [and had they been Ethiopia is a tyranny. It was a The admiration for Meles was not
possible to be, speaking of secessionists.” That strategy was forthcoming] the transfers might dictatorship under Haile Selassie, restricted to official circles in
Mengistu’s “Red Terror”), argues not just brutal, it was immensely have been halted.” Instead MSF and then under the Derg, and it Washington, London, and
that Buerk’s report was “a model sanguinary. De Waal concluded was expelled, and the remaining remains one under the regime of Brussels. Joseph Stiglitz, hardly a
of evocative precision.” He could that “resettlement certainly killed NGOs, while remonstrating Meles Zenawi, the erstwhile regurgitator of neoliberal pieties,
not be more in error. Buerk has as people at a faster rate than the privately with the Derg, did not leader of the Tigrayan rebels, and was an early ally and supporter of
much as conceded the point, famine.” Credible estimates of the suspend their assistance with the once the poster child for a Meles—an episode that Gill
admitting later that while he had deaths range from fifty thousand program. supposedly new, uncorrupt, and recounts at length and with great
of course known of the Ethiopian (de Waal) to a hundred thousand Gill’s for the most part studiously dynamic generation of African acumen. Stiglitz told Gill that he
government’s role in the famine at (MSF). neutral, he-said-she-said approach leaders. (Paul Kagame in Rwanda was struck by Meles’s level of
the time, he had chosen to present As the full implications of this to the controversy (there are and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda insight into macroeconomic
the famine to his audience in the became clear to at least some occasional hints of British-style were the others most frequently structures, and championed the
tried and true vernacular of the people in the relief world, above condescension to the French relief cited.) At the G8 Gleneagles Ethiopian regime during the
classic “natural” disaster so as not all to MSF/France, a bitter fight agencies) is quite Summit on Africa, called by Tony 1990s against its critics at the
to complicate the situation too erupted over whether or not the useful—particularly for readers Blair in 2005, the podium at IMF. That the British government
much for his viewers—a decision international NGOs should who are not familiar with the which the final communiqué was could put Meles forward at the
that Rony Brauman has rightly participate in the resettlement period. Gill pursues this announced included Blair, then - Gleneagles Summit as the model
compared to Sartre’s famous effort. For most of the agencies, somewhat tentative approach Chancellor of the Exchequer of the forward-looking African
admission that he had known notably Oxfam International and throughout his book, and while Gordon Brown, Geldof, Bono, leader less than two months after
about the Gulag all along but had the Irish relief organization this can be frustrating at and Meles. Two years later, when national elections in Ethiopia that,
not wanted to admit it publicly so Concern Worldwide, it was times—probably more frustrating it had become impossible to deny as Gill rightly records, ended in
as not to make the French imperative that the NGOs stay the more you know about the the dictatorial nature of Meles’s “violence and repression,” and in
working class give up hope (“pour and do what they could, subject—on balance he was right regime, Bono would admit the arrest and imprisonment of
ne pas désespérer Billancourt”). regardless of the political to do so. For one thing, there regretfully in an interview in New hundreds of anti-Meles activists,
Gill is on firmer ground in his context—that, indeed, the duty of surely was a question of access. York magazine that “Meles demonstrates how low Western
account of the Ethiopian relief agencies was to stay, thus at Gill makes the point in his Zenawi in Ethiopia is somebody I expectations are about African
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leadership, not to mention the famine has ever taken place in the government statistics, which are deflected the international African scene, might play in
superficiality of the West’s history of the world in a in all likelihood exaggerations). consensus away from population Ethiopia’s better future. To have
commitments to democracy on the functioning democracy,” and its The problem is that the food growth.” And he cites astonishing gotten Chinese officials in Africa
continent. All Tony Blair was corollary, “that a free press and an security of poor Ethiopians is statistics from the United Nations to speak with candor and in depth
ever willing to say, six months active political opposition anything but more assured today Population Fund (UNFPA) that is a considerable journalistic
later in South Africa, was that constitute the best early-warning than it was a decade ago, and it is show that out of the four principal accomplishment, but quoting a
while Meles’s government had system a country threatened by anything but clear that the country program areas—family planning, Chinese official in Addis Ababa
won the election fairly, it had famines can have,” is considered is any less dependent than it ever reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, about China directing “some of
“over-reacted” to the protests to be proved, no longer open to was on food aid from foreign and research—the percentage of their surplus savings to
against its victory. Geldof’s dispute. But for Meles, as Gill donors. funds allocated to family planning infrastructural development in
response was typically childish. reports, it is a neo-liberal myth, Although he does say that has decreased from 40 percent in Africa” is the thinnest of thin
“Behave!” he said, when asked by “not validated by historical facts.” outdated farm technology 1997 to 5 percent in 2007. In this reeds on which to place one’s
a reporter what Meles should do. The threat of a major famine combined with periodic drought matter, he says, Ethiopia “has hopes. My sense is that Gill
Clearly neither Meles, nor his returned to Ethiopia in 2003. This played a role in Ethiopia’s taken its cues from the knows it.
colleagues in the African Union time the government response was inability to banish hunger on a development community at This pessimistic note is
(of which he was chairman at the infinitely more effective than durable basis, Gill believes that large,” seemingly in the belief that confirmed in a vignette about
time of Gleneagles), nor the Mengistu had been in 1983 - 1984 the main reasons for this are not “patience and the development Jeffrey Sachs, the former
leaders of the principal Western or Haile Selassie had been in failures of agricultural policy but process itself will bring about economic shock-therapy man who
donor governments, were 1973. Proud as they were of their Ethiopia’s vertiginous rate of sufficient falls in the birth rate and re-invented himself as the
listening. Since the summer of accomplishments, Ethiopian population increase. A country so stabilize population growth.” intellectual avatar of the
2005, Meles has represented officials realized that their success that numbered 40 million in 1984 The problem is that, as critics on Millennium Development Project
Africa at one international forum had been due at least partly to now numbers 80 million and is on both the right and the left have and the author of a book
after another, from the G8 and good luck, an important point that track to double again over the shown from their oddly (complete with a preface by Bono,
G20 summits to the 2009 United Gill is right to emphasize. The next twenty-five years. And complementary perspectives, the naturally) called The End of
Nations Climate Change famine had come at a moment unlike most of those countries development process is in Poverty: Economic Possibilities
Conference in Copenhagen in when the levels of food aid where population is projected to shambles: its theories are for Our Time, in which he
2009. And the Ethiopian elections Ethiopia was receiving, above all rise steeply in the next two incoherent, and based as much on confidently predicted that if the
of 2010 (which took place after from the United States, were at decades, the demographic wishful thinking—the triumph of rich world would dramatically
Gill had finished his book but historic highs. These levels were transition has not even begun in hope over experience—as on increase its aid commitments,
certainly would not have surprised not sustainable, as Meles Ethiopia. To the contrary, fertility empirical research. As for its there could be no global poverty
him) were, if anything, even more understood, and in response the rates are rising, not falling. Gill implementation—well, anyone to speak of by 2025. Gill visits a
questionable than the ones held Ethiopian authorities began to argues that this is at least partly who has observed directly how benighted village called Koraro,
five years earlier. Human Rights emphasize agricultural due to the dramatic shift away the development business actually chosen to be one of Sachs’s so-
Watch described them as “multi- development—something that had from population control as an unfolds in poor countries can only called Millennium Villages,
party theater staged by a single- consistently been under-resourced essential element in international laugh so as not to weep. One of which were meant as
party state.” and treated very much as a development policy, which he the great contributions of Gill’s demonstration projects to prove
The importance of this does not stepchild by governments all over dates back to the 1970s. He book is to show, by means of that foreign aid can really work.
derive from some sentimental sub-Saharan Africa, including attributes this partly to “China’s observant, well-informed He asks a local man whether he
attachment to free elections, let Ethiopia—and growth in the one-child policy and the excesses reporting on the ground in rural has ever met Sachs, to which the
alone a “Western” desire to economy. In terms of GNP of India’s sterilization drive Ethiopia, just how vain a promise man replies, “I have met the
impose democracy and good growth, Ethiopia has been [having] undermined the development has been to date. owner twice,” which in itself is
governance. As Gill points out, in remarkably successful, achieving international consensus around an Gill tries hard to be optimistic. worth a dozen U.N. development
the development world, Sen’s rates somewhere between 7 emphasis on the merits of birth He even writes hopefully of the assessments and a hundred NGO
celebrated argument in percent and 11 percent since 2004 control.” In this century, he says, role that China, now the most ABUSED page 52
Development as Freedom that “no (the latter figure reflects official “it was the AIDS disaster that transformative player on the
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Leon Wieseltier (The New triumphalism of our moment, and to Trilling, it seems hours that Martin Sheen spent on He prefers to believe that he is the
Republic - All Feed) its e-millenialism; its idiotic belief incontrovertible that in our a grate with the homeless near the beginning. This accounts for the
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:11:36 AM in the complete transfiguration of politics we are becoming trash. White House a few decades ago, strange soullessness of this
human life in our time, in the final The degradation of politics takes after which he returned to his thoughtful man. He seems to
“If you have ghosts, then you b a n i s h m e n t o f o p a c i t y a n d many forms, not all of them tea- hotel a survivor of homelessness. regard the past as a long era of
have everything.” Those are the obscurity, by means of data and soaked. One of them is the And having turned the Capitol errors, and carries himself in the
words of a tender and demented the quantification of inwardness, valorization of entertainment. The into a ratings opportunity, Colbert superiority of the very latest. I
rock legend of Austin, and they or by the expansion of genetic and spirited defense of liberalism has will do the same to the Mall later keep hearing that he does not like
have stood me in good stead for evolutionary necessities—all this become the work of comedians. this month, when he and Jon his job. It certainly shows in the
years. Ghosts are a solution for i s n o t s u p p o r t a b l e . I s i t But there was nothing funny Stewart hold a rally in response to dourness of his current demeanor,
loneliness. One needs someone to conservatism to say so? Perhaps. I about Stephen Colbert’s the rally that Glenn Beck, another from which only the Damoclean
talk to. I mean about the old think of it more as a custodial testimony before the House conscience with audience share, predicament of the Democrats
themes, if one believes that they f e e l i n g a b o u t t h e m a n y Judiciary Subcommittee on held last summer. The moral occasionally rouses him. We
are still the right themes. Ghosts attainments that made it, quite Immigration on behalf of migrant authority of Jon Stewart is a appear to have disappointed him.
are the natural companions of improbably, all the way across farmworkers. It was tiresome and baffling phenomenon. “He’s He may even be experiencing
anybody in estrangement; the time to me, and for whose fate I exploitative and insulting to the Cronkite,” proclaims New York some sort of crisis, as he
invisible officers of tradition, of am, whether I like it or not, chamber’s ghosts. This time the magazine, “the most trusted man discovers the folly of his post-
all the valuable things that have responsible. (I like it.) Too much fake blowhard was a real in America.” He is plainly a political Mugwumpery, and the
been declared obsolete but, in is slipping away too easily. This is blowhard. When John Conyers likeable man, and always good for failure of his illusion about the
some stubborn hearts, are not a l s o t h e q u i n t e s s e n t i a l sagely remarked (did I just type intelligent laughter, though an air transcendence of partisanship. For
o b s o l e t e . I t i s o n e o f t h e Washington sensation now. The that?) that “I would like to of genial sanctimony clings to his there is honor in partisanship,
fundamental properties of the capital is busily diminishing itself. recommend that now that we’ve every joke. But it is not exciting when the differences are
human that the absent may be I sense this every time I run into got all this attention that you that people glean their philosophical; and for the purpose
more significant than the present. one of its ghosts. At lunch, for excuse yourself,” the putatively understanding of the world from of social change, politics is all we
I have the best ghosts. My example: in the dining room of hilarious witness pointed out that “The Daily Show,” it is have. Faction is not only a reality,
revenants will never utter the the Hay-Adams, the black arts of he was there at the invitation of discouraging. Better Stewart than it is also a calling. A bummed-out
words “Mark Zuckerberg.” In influence are practiced on the the chairwoman, a Democrat who Beck, sure; but the Lincoln White House is a
their company I may continue the very spot that Henry Adams lauded him for “walk[ing] in the Memorial deserves a break from misunderstanding. The memory of
conversation that was begun long produced the greatest book ever shoes of migrant farmworkers” all this political vaudeville, as do courage and wisdom covers its
before me and will last (since I written here, in which he foresaw and serving as an “example of we from the notion that walls. Its past is its gift. Behind
will not shirk my own ghost- “the acceleration of history,” how, using both levity and fame, a amusement is a basis for the Beltway, there is Washington.
service!) long after me. And the where text messages now fly. Or media figure can bring attention commitment. I omit Bill Maher The Beltway is a venal place, but
ghosts have a public role to play, another phantom, this one a more to a critically important issue for from my complaint, because no the streets of Washington are
too. They possess a certain r e c e n t a n c i e n t : i n S t e v e n the good of the nation.” And moral authority can plausibly be paved with the Constitution, the
shaming force. They spoil the Weisman’s rich and riveting promote himself, too, which is all imputed to him. He has the look Constitution is the mortar between
adoration of the new with the compilation of the letters and these people ever do. Their true of a man who mainly wants to get every brick of every building, it is
suggestion of a decline, or at least journals of Pat Moynihan, I read cause is their own celebrity. laid. in the air and in the light, you can
with an unflattering comparison. I this, in a letter to Louis Henkin in Colbert—eternally trapped in the “‘Ghosts,’ Obama whispered.” find it even in a brandy glass, and
do not mean to exaggerate their 1989: “If we are somehow to keep dungeon of his character—had This, in Bob Woodward’s telling, it can get you through the day.
authority: in the recurring quarrels our tradition alive for the next spent a day on a vegetable farm at was a scornful response to an Leon Wieseltier is the literary
between the ancients (who, by our century, we are going to have to the invitation of the United Farm allusion to Vietnam made by editor of The New Republic. This
velocity, lived just the other day) return to Trilling.” This, from a Workers, and so he was an expert Richard Holbrooke in a meeting piece ran in the October 28, 2010,
and the moderns, there are no United States Senator. Whether or on agricultural adversity. I was about Afghanistan in the winter of
c l e a r w i n n e r s . B u t t h e not we are going to have to return reminded of the few freezing 2009. Obama is not a ghosts man. GHOSTS page 52
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Russia has a role to play in all Ceyhan oil pipeline from the welcome in NATO (Kiev itself leaders, swallowing Kazakhstan's
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agreements with Russia that policy has largely succeeded: The idea), and when she accused was the country's private
enable, for example, the speedy full flow of oil Baku-Ceyhan Russia of invading and occupying commitment to release
overflight of U.S. military planes began in 2006. The Central Asian Georgian territory. Though imprisoned opposition political
across the North Pole and on to
Kyrgyzstan, in support of the war
states of Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan are not linked
Clinton's trip also made some
progress in assuaging local fears
activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, and
deepening relations with
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in—and given their cautious
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paid for by the Pentagon, to the Russia’s ire by agreeing to be Russian weaponry on what most brutal leader in the former Soviet (Verse of the Day)
Afghan government; and a tighter connected by pipeline with the of the world still regards as Union. In other words, the reset Submitted at 10/6/2010 2:00:00 AM
financial squeeze on Iran. West—but they have also Georgian territory demonstrates has a serious downside: By
Meanwhile, on the domestic front, developed alternate export routes the irrelevance of her assurances. deciding that the politics of Trust in the Lord forever, for the
absent any other fulfillment of through China, which has President Obama must realize Central Asia are what they are, Lord, the Lord is the Rock
Obama’s campaign vow to win constructed its own pipelines that that his new policy ultimately Washington risks losing its justly Eternal.
hearts and minds abroad through serve precisely the same function. represents a trade-off. While the earned reputation as the region's — Isaiah 26:4(NIV) Thoughts on
civility, the "reset" is Exhibit Crucially, the change in geopolitical gains from protector of political and Today's Verse... When we see
Number One that good manners American policy has been more deemphasizing the Great Game economic independence. mountains we feel small, knowing
work. dramatic in Central Asia than it have been substantial, the local Steve LeVine, a contributing not only how much larger it is
In addition, Obama officials has in Eastern Europe or the costs of America's hands-off editor at Foreign Policy, is the than we are, but also how much
believe that, while the great- Caucasus. Sensitive to criticism approach have been quite high. In author of The Oil and the Glory. longer it has been here than we
power-rivalry strain of geopolitics that the administration's policy of Kyrgyzstan, which is still For more TNR, become a fan on have been. But the Lord was long
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obsolete. When Heslin's policy developed close ties with the leaving a largely powerless nothing. He is the only rock of
was initially drawn up, its West, Secretary of State Hillary government to its own devices. security and stability. All the
concrete objective was to provide Clinton was volubly supportive on Azerbaijan has nervously struck forevers we have are found in
the Caucasian and Central Asian a July swing through Ukraine, up negotiations over natural-gas him. My Prayer... Eternal I Am,
states with a financial channel Poland, and the Caucasus states of with Russia’s Gazprom in order to who is and was and will be
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field reports. And when Gill When Gill tells him that David Rieff’s upcoming book on Twitter. Shepherd, and my Father. I
himself finally meets Sachs, he Ethiopia’s population has doubled chronic malnutrition and the commit all my tomorrows to you.
discovers that he, too, is grasping in a quarter-century and will global food crisis will be In the name of Jesus my Lord I
at the Chinese straw. “They are likely double again in the next published by Simon & Schuster in pray. Amen.
doing something,” he tells Gill, twenty-five years, Sachs can only 2011. This piece ran in the
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Chains!" talent; in my version he is now character, in which case you're several women's skirts and/or have absolutely no respect or
What It Actually Says more ripped than Superman me. cram it into someone's mouth or regard whatsoever for any woman
"In choosing my costume I first himself. The sad truth is I'm The Costume pants. Maybe both." in any way other than a sexual
found a blind man, then a child hoping the fake six pack will What You Think It Says The Costume object. A lifetime of solitude
born after 1999. I had the child mask the body I am so ashamed "Get it? Heheheheh. I love good What You Think It Says fueled by mass marketing and
describe to the blind man their of from everyone here." wordplay almost as much as I "That's right, fellas. I'm the pornography has led me to believe
understanding of grunge, who in The Costume love doin' it! Look out ladies, I'm p****y magnet! It's a pun, I think, that waxing is the norm and I
turn relayed it to me. Through this What You Think It Says on the prowl! Hey, Lisa! Lisa! so that makes it clever! Dude this should derisively mock anyone
bizarre game of telephone I "Look out! There's a party animal LISA! Check out my costume! is the greatest mixer in Phi Beta who dares to venture outside the
arrived at the following costume, on the loose! Hey bros, me and Huh? Sack race? No. I'm good in Epsilon history! WE'RE incredibly narrow constraints of
which is in no way an actual you guys. Right now. That table. the sack! Hey, where are you TOTALLY GOING TO CRUSH 'beauty' dictated to me by Maxim.
costume aside from the cartoonish Beer pong! We're doin' it, man. I going?" THOSE IDIOTS FROM The horrible reality is I am
slogan on my shirt and the kick so much ASS at this game! I What It Actually Says SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS equally intimidated by the pop
ridiculous blonde wig which, even bought a shirt online that "I am so focused on my own COLLEGE AT THE GAME culture idea of male beauty, so
ironically, is probably borrowed says UNDEFEATED BEER inadequacies in the bedroom that I TOMORROW! WOOOOO!" rather than fruitlessly strive to
from the costume maker's 'glam PONG CHAMPS! I should've was inexorably drawn to the one What It Actually Says achieve it I have decided to take
rocker' series. If you'll excuse me, worn that under this giant cup! costume I could find that literally "I have never spent any actual women down a notch. You know.
I need to be getting drunk and GAME ON!" attempts to tell people I am time with a woman. Seriously. Because they deserve it."
screaming Kurt Cobain lyrics into What It Actually Says sexually proficient. If you are a Not even my mother. I mean, she The Costume
fellow partygoers' ears now." "I have become so enamored with woman you would probably be was AROUND, but we never What You Think It Says
The Costume my own alcoholism that this was wise to not accept drinks from really bonded and as a result I "I'm too sexy for my shirt, dude!
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"Check it out, I'm the Boy not even sure what event this The Costume estimations as to what it takes to names were? And that song?
Wonder! Well, I should say MAN party is commemorating, and it What You Think It Says form a coherent, supportive Awesome!"
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pecs! I'm totally a superhero. I wear this to a wedding, bris, or HILARIOUS, right? Oooh, watch being. Luckily, I've accepted this "Why's everyone dressed so
don't even need that Batman guy funeral. I have actually tried to him squirm! Hey! Don't touch my long ago and just wore this to weird? Costume party? Oh. I had
to kick some butt! Ha, but plug up the leg holes in this cup to trouser snake! He's only got one impress my bros." no idea."
seriously, my pal Kevin is here fill it with booze. Don't bother eye! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" The Costume Think you could pull off wearing
somewhere dressed as Batman. trying to explain to me that the What It Actually Says What You Think It Says one of these get-ups? Know any
We're the Dynamic Duo!" game I'm obsessed with is "My own obsession with "Hey, I'll be your lifeguard. My better costumes out there that we
What It Actually Says actually called 'Beirut,' and that homoeroticism and penile humor name's Anita Waxin'! HA! Check missed? Let us know in the
"I have such deeply-rooted beer pong involves actual ping will soon be surpassed only by my it out, dude! It looks like I've got comments below, and if you ARE
feelings of inadequacy and self- pong paddles. I won't care." regret at the logistics of Buckwheat in a scissor hold or planning on wearing one of these,
loathing that even though I ABANDON ALL HOPE... navigating a crowded house party something! Dude, can you you owe us a picture.
allowed my friend to convince me We've saved the saucier outfits with a three-foot erect phallus. imagine a real chick like this?
to dress as a pre-teen sidekick, I for last, so from this point on you Nevertheless, I will continue to Gross!"
insisted on buying this most might want to make sure your admonish all to pet the snake, kiss What It Actually Says
garishly-faux muscled costume boss isn't looking over your the snake, lick the snake- well you "I hate women. I don't mean that
available. Nevermind that Robin shoulder. Unless you're the kind see where this is going. In about in the way guys sometime say
is a pre-pubescent trapeze artist of person for whom staring at men two hours you'll have to forcibly after a bad break-up or in the
whose greatest assets have been in ridiculous "sexy" costumes on eject me from your house after I middle of a fight with a female
his flexibility and gymnastic company time isn't out of drunkenly use this thing to lift up loved one. I mean I genuinely
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Randy Moss' improbable return at a news conference at 3:30 p.m. over backwards to bring back QB Patriots quarterback Tom Brady struggled all season with migraine
to Minnesota has become reality. ET. Brett Favre for one more season, has been an unabashed fan of headaches.
The Patriots have completed a The Patriots now have two picks ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert writes, Moss since the receiver arrived in Without the deep threat that he
blockbuster trade sending the Pro in each of the first four rounds of so why not take every step to New England prior to the 2007 had in Rice, Favre's production
Bowl wide receiver back to the 2011 draft -- their own picks surround him with a comparable season. The two hooked up for 23 has dropped dramatically. The
Minnesota. and a first-round pick from set of skill players? Blog of Brady's record 50 touchdown Vikings have lost two of their first
The Vikings will send a third- Oakland, a second-round pick • Blog network: passes that season. Last season, three games and their receiving
round 2011 draft pick to the from Carolina, the third-round AFC East| NFC North| NFL Brady came to Moss' defense group lacks the prototypical big-
Vikings in return, a league source pick from Minnesota and a fourth- Nation when a Panthers defensive back play receiver who can outjump
told ESPN NFL Insider Adam rounder from Denver. • ESPNBoston.com Patriots blog questioned Moss' effort. And after smaller cornerbacks for passes
Schefter. Mike & Mike in the A source close to Moss told • Stats and Info: Favre gathers Moss said he didn't feel wanted by down the field.
Morning ESPN NFL senior analyst Chris Moss the Patriots a few weeks ago, That's Moss in a nutshell.
Adam Schefter says Randy Moss Mortensen that Belichick "When you have done so much Brady again came out strong in Moss immediately energized a
will be traded to Minnesota informed Moss of the trade on and put so much work in, it kind support of Moss. lagging franchise when he was
sometime today. Schefter doesn't Wednesday morning by of feels like I am not wanted," "Randy is important, was chosen in the first round in 1998.
expect Vincent Jackson to wind telephone. The source said the Moss said before the season important, will be important, He averaged 19.0 yards per catch
up in New England because San conversation was cordial, with began on Sept. 6. "I am taking especially from my standpoint as and hauled in 17 TDs as a rookie
Diego won't budge. both men expressing appreciation that in stride and playing my final a quarterback," Brady said during to help the team reach the NFC
Patriots coach Bill Belichick said for the time they spent together. year out and whatever the future an interview on Boston sports title game. His first season
he was "grateful" for the Moss will report to the Vikings holds is what it holds, but it is radio station WEEI. "I love Randy coincided with a string of sellouts
opportunity to coach Moss and on Wednesday and is said to be kind of a bad feeling -- feeling not and I'd love to play with him for a at the drab Metrodome that
wished him the best "for the "excited" about returning to his wanted. It is not like my long time."[+] Enlarge remains going to this day.
remainder of his Hall of Fame original team with Brett Favre at production has gone down." Greg M. Cooper/US Presswire The move would no doubt delight
career. quarterback, the source said. No Moss made similar comments Randy Moss had 259 catches and Favre, who will turn 41 later this
"Over the course of the past contract extension talks have been during a press conference 50 touchdowns in his 52 games month. He openly campaigned for
several months, I have spoken conducted, but it is expected the following the Patriots' season- with the Patriots. the Packers to acquire Moss
with Randy and his representative two sides will have a discussion opening victory over the Bengals. Moss, 33, has only nine catches toward the end of his time in
about Randy's place on our team later in the day, the source said. The next day, he apologized for for 139 yards and three TDs Green Bay. But the Patriots
and his future in football," FoxSports.com earlier reported the timing of his remarks and said through four games this season. ultimately ended up parting with
Belichick said in a news release the trade talks. he loves playing in New England. That comes after hauling in 83 just a fourth-round pick to pry
announcing the trade. The seven-time Pro Bowl But the Boston Herald, citing an passes for 1,264 yards and 13 Moss away from the Raiders, and
"While I will keep private the receiver is in the final year of his unnamed source, reported on touchdowns last season. His Favre privately fumed at the
details of internal conversations four-year contract with New Tuesday that Moss wanted out of career year came in his first with swing and miss by the Green Bay
with players and staff, suffice it to England and has voiced his New England after a Week 1 win the Pats, when he caught 98 front office.
say that many things were taken displeasure with being in limbo. on Sept. 12, telling his agent to passes for 1,493 yards and 23 Favre was traded to the Jets a
into consideration before making More from ESPN.com ask the Patriots to trade him. TDs, an NFL record. year later and signed a two-year
the trade," Belichick said. "In this The Patriots are only getting a Although the Patriots crushed the The Vikings have been looking deal with the Vikings last season.
business, there are complex and third-round pick in return for Dolphins on Monday night, Moss for help at receiver for Favre, but The Vikings made room for Moss
often difficult decisions, but it is Randy Moss, a year after they got did not have a catch -- the first they were unable to work out a on their roster by trading
my responsibility to make them a first-round pick for Richard time that's happened for him in a deal for the Chargers' Vincent defensive end Jayme Mitchell to
based on what I feel is best for our Seymour. ESPNBoston.com's New England uniform. Jackson. the Cleveland Browns for an
football team, in both the short Mike Reiss wonders if there's Moss and Belichick did not speak Pro Bowl receiver Sidney Rice is undisclosed 2012 draft pick. The
term and long term." more to the story of Moss' trade. or even see each other on sidelined for at least the first six teams agreed in principle to the
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was expected to discuss the trade The Vikings have already bent Schefter. hip injury and Percy Harvin has
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offer an IPO. measures of general feeling or gives, say, a stock analyst a tied to serious stakes in both [ Technology Review]
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Mollie posted last year on the to a pizza restaurant, which themselves the sincerity of Tampa Bay Rays starts at 12:37
media coverage of that incident. happened to have a bar. He had a Hamilton’s faith. (I must p.m. my time. I’ve already filled
This past Sunday, The Dallas vodka and cranberry juice, then acknowledge that if I were the out the proper medical excuse
Morning News recalled that another, then went to a bar and editor, I would have added a he form to take off from work. BIBLE-TOTING
continued from page 78
incident in a remarkable Page 1 had many more. He told her he says to facts such as this: he has Written by: Bobby on October 6,
story about Hamilton and the role didn’t remember everything that been clean since that night in 2010. (1) What were the circumstances
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Hamilton had become famous the allowed him to burn through a $4 legend Richard Ostling at Time accusing Brown of being a sissy
or a sinner? Was there any
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consensus among sociologists that Pulliam Bailey on October 5, t e a c h e r s a n d s c h o o l debated. Yes, we’re back to the
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torment others.” right now, are linked to students and on the WWW, they deserve to
The Gift of Obama’s
“There are accomplices out
there,” he wrote Saturday. In an
who are acting on religious
motives or acting on other
be exposed and the details of their
actions dissected. That would be Foreign Policy
interview, Mr. Savage, who is motives. I, for one, suspect that responsible journalism. Do the Remove Bush, elect his antithesis,
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at religious leaders who used accused of broadcasting a sexual October 5, 2010. As the antithesis of Bush is return.
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journalistic issues here, please Journalists need to ask the themselves into thinking the are no better since the end of
note that I am actually saying that questions to a wide variety of world’s problems neither predated 2008, or they are much worse, or
journalists need to probe the facts people (and not just to Savage). If nor transcended George W. Bush: the Obama administration has
of these stories. Journalists need there are Bible-toting bullies out Tensions arose, America was at GIFT page 84
to find out if the bullying trends, there, in public-school hallways fault, Bush was the culprit, presto!
Lethal Engagement
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage international norms. As a United
Magazine » FrontPage) Nations correspondent for
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:21:39 PM FrontPage Magazine and Canada
Free Press, I have been able to
Frontpage Interview’s guest gain access to and ask questions
today is Joseph A. Klein, an of high level UN officials
attorney with a Harvard Law including Secretary General Ban
School degree who writes for Ki-moon, our UN Ambassador
Frontpagemag.com and Canada Susan Rice, the Israeli UN
Free Press as their United Nations ambassador and Islamic delegates.
correspondent. He is also a Their answers are included in
featured blogger for NewsReal Lethal Engagement along with the
Blog, where he has written results of more than a year of
extensively on the Ground Zero extensive research. My legal
Mosque controversy. A guest on background, including my
many radio and TV shows, intensive study of constitutional
including “Fox & Friends,” he is law at Harvard Law School under
the author of the new book, Lethal the late Watergate Special
Engagement: Barack Hussein Prosecutor Archibald Cox, has
Obama, the United Nations and helped me analyze the
Radical Islam. implications of a very disturbing
FP: Joseph A. Klein, welcome to trend I see in recent Supreme
Frontpage Interview. Court decisions that I expect will
Let’s begin with what inspired get even worse as a result of
you to write this book. President Obama’s two nominees
Klein: Thank you for having me. now sitting on the Court. The
Have you ever remembered a trend I am talking about are
United States President from Supreme Court decisions tending
either party who has traveled to internationalize the U.S.
abroad and apologized repeatedly Constitution.
for America’s alleged wrong- remember under either party’s United Nations, along with your perfect storm revolving around FP: Your thoughts on Sharia and
doing? That’s what President administration, I am truly nervous legal background, helped you in the increasing Islamicization of how it poses a threat to us?
Obama has done, including when for our country’s future. What writing this book? key UN bodies – particularly the Klein: Sharia (Islamic law) is a
he went to Cairo as part of his kind of America will our children Klein: I have studied the United ones that produce political-legal system that is
never-ending aggressive outreach be inheriting from us? Nations for many years and have influential international norms- wedded to the religion of
to the Muslim world. He That’s why I felt compelled to watched it degenerate into an anti- and President Obama’s key Islam. Separation of Mosque and
apologized to them for America’s write Lethal Engagement: Barack Western echo chamber that does priorities to improve America’s State is foreign to Islamic
the West’s alleged misdeeds and Hussein Obama, the United more harm than good. I wrote standing with the Muslim world at ideology.
promised to make amends. Add to Nations and Radical Islam. It is about the UN’s dangers to all costs, to elevate the United Here are some examples of
that President Obama’s policy of intended as a wake-up call for the American sovereignty and Nations (where radical mainstream Islamic laws which,
unconditional engagement with American people to do everything freedoms in my previous book, Muslims exert so much influence) along with others, are discussed in
the thugs of Iran without that we can lawfully do to stop Global Deception: The UN’s to a central place in his foreign more detail in my book Lethal
preconditions. this madness. Stealth Assault on America’s policy and to force-fit
For the first time that I can FP: How has your experience in Freedom.” In my new book Lethal U.S. foreign policy into the LETHAL page 87
researching and writing about the Engagement, I focus on the straightjacket of UN-inspired
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reverted to the Bush way of doing the destruction of democracy in good for the oil business. Despite Obama’s interview with wealth at someone else's expense
things -- despite constant Venezuela -- has resulted in even #page#Pressuring Israel did not Al Arabiya, his Cairo speech, and is balanced by the risk of any
assurances to the world that Bush more animus, just as appeasement bring any Middle Eastern his editorializing about the confrontations that might ensue
was at fault, American foreign of the unhinged and dictatorial breakthrough. To the extent that Ground Zero mosque, there has and the possibility that they might
policy was now reset, and global always does. One might almost there has not been another been no letup in radical Islamists’ lose -- all such calculations being
animosity arose out of past conclude that dictatorships hate intifada, it is largely a result of a efforts to kill us at home, as we more likely when the players are,
misunderstanding, insensitivity, American freedom, the global mini economic boom on the West saw in the cases of Major Hasan, like these three, autocratic in
and American hubris. stature and power of the United Bank, which continues despite, Abdulmutallab, and the would-be nature.
Take first our most vocal and States, and our propensity to rather than because of, American Times Square bomber. What good In the end, Obama’s Carteresque
overt enemies. Fidel Castro, after oppose aggrandizement, and that negotiating. Obama has achieved by sermonizing over the past two
a few mixed messages, is still they do not much care who Are our other allies -- like Japan, resonating more effectively with years has achieved the opposite of
recycling his 1960s anti-American happens in any given year to be in South Korea, and Europe -- the Middle East’s tired and poor is its intended result. The preaching,
boilerplate. Syria’s Bashar al- the White House. suddenly much more friendly offset perhaps by the impression, confessionals, and outreach, from
Assad is cementing relations with Then there are the big four. China owing to Obama’s hope-and- fair or not, among would-be the ridiculous bowing to Saudi
Iran and Hezbollah, and doing is more confident today in change proclamations? Not really. terrorists that he would not quite princes to the supposedly sublime
nothing to help matters either in confronting the Japanese and its All, for the first time in 60 years, be as unpredictable and dangerous Cairo mythmaking, have
Iraq or in the Mideast generally, other neighbors in the Pacific. It have some suspicion that just as past presidents, should there be reminded the world that anti-
despite being assured by Obama sees no obstacle to being the new maybe the sort of liberal another 9/11-like attack. As far as Americanism transcends alike the
that he can do business with ascendant power, flexing its American administration that they Muslim sensitivities go, serially unfair caricatures of George Bush
someone who is not “smoke ’em growing muscles as Japan did in have so longed for might not be as promising to close Guantanamo and the hokey apotheosis of
out” George Bush. the 1920s, and imperial Germany ready as past administrations to Bay seems no better than quietly Barack Obama. If we can avoid
North Korea’s unhinged rhetoric at the turn of the 20th century come to their aid in the next crisis. keeping it open. the wages of this naïveté -- and
and occasional missile or torpedo (and we know how all that ended Certainly, we have spent far more Why, then, is the Obama reset not suffer another annus horribilis
shots escalate. Hugo Chávez is up). Turkey wishes to become the effort in winning over Putin than policy a positive development? in the fashion of 1979 -- then
becoming more authoritarian and new Ottoman Empire, and it sees emphasizing our old alliances Obama’s efforts, and the global Obama’s inadvertent primer on
more anti-American the more he the United States as largely with Germany, France, and reactions to them, are reminding unchanging human nature will
need no longer call Bush a devil. indifferent to its ambitions, and Britain. Japan and South Korea the world that global tensions still have been worth it.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad perhaps even quietly sympathetic. are starting to sense that their arise out of perceptions of self- — NRO contributor Victor Davis
told the world at the United Relations with India are no better respective Communist rivals, interest, regardless of who is in Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Nations that the United States than they were under Bush, and China and North Korea, will soon the White House. Hoover Institution, the editor of
might well have planned to kill perhaps less friendly. Russia, in become more their own problems When nations act contrary to Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the 3,000 of its own citizens who contrast, seems to be quite fond of than ours. American interests, they can be the Persian Wars to the Fall of
died on Sept. 11, 2001; apparently the Obama administration -- to the #ad#The situations in Iraq and finessed somewhat by empathetic Rome, and the author of The
the tired American apologies for degree it is given concessions in Afghanistan are now simply American officials, but they Father of Us All: War and
the removal of Mossadeq nearly return for empty promises. It evolutions of the policies that remain largely unaffected by History, Ancient and Modern.
sixty years ago still do not weighs the downside of having a George Bush had established apologies, bowing, promulgations Victor Davis Hanson
register. nuclear Islamic Iran in its when he left office. The “bad” of pseudo-history, and therapeutic
Note that in each of these neighborhood against the upside war in Iraq that Obama mythologizing. Leaders like
instances, appeasement -- failing of having such a rogue state, campaigned against has become a Putin, Assad, and Ahmadinejad
to support the Iranian freedom which, at least in the short term, is better war than the “good” one in act in their own perceived self-
protestors, ignoring the abuses of more a problem for America than Afghanistan that he had hoped interests, calibrating to what
the Cuban and Syrian totalitarian for Russia. Chaos in the Middle was over by virtue of NATO and degree a constant desire to
regimes, and keeping silent about East, Putin knows well, is always U.N. approval. maximize influence, stature, and
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other sources, some commentators commentators suggest that it is a recent Wall Street Journa l how far environmental zealots are But, given that the first two
have argued that they are not real only a tiny fraction of businesses article explains, it was tax hikes willing to go to make their offenders who meet explosive
businesses and therefore a tax that have enough income to face a on businesses, along with union dubious points, you can watch the justice are an adolescent boy and
increase would not cause job tax increase under Obama’s plan, wage demands, that most likely video here. girl in the middle of a classroom –
losses. This is simply not true: it simply is not true. caused the dip. Today, it is quite For those who don’t care for executed by their teacher no less –
many of these businesses have Meanwhile, there are fears of a clear that government spending is blood and gore, here’s the the notion that any sane person
employees. The businesses most “double-dip” recession. not what lifted (to the extent we synopsis: A school teacher, a could find humor in this abhorrent
likely to have employees are the Keynesian advocates of have been lifted) out of this business mogul, and some soccer video defies comprehension.
most successful ones, and government spending like Paul recession, because we’d barely players urge their on-screen Bowing to global outrage, 10:10
therefore would face very large Krugman argue that reducing opened the purse before the compatriots to get on board with pulled the video from their
tax increases; but a significant government spending during a recession officially ended. But, 10:10’s planet-saving carbon website and the organization’s
portion of small businesses at recession is dangerous, and was a tax hikes could once again reduction program. “No director, Eugene Harvey, issued
every income level report having big part of what caused the prevent recovery. pressure,” each environmental an apology of sorts. “This media
paid employees. “recession within the depression” This entry passed through the champion says, echoing the tag- coverage for this film was not the
Many small business owners face in 1937. Not all economists agree Full-Text RSS service — if this is line of the film that its producers kind of publicity we wanted for
high tax rates even if they are with this analysis, for good your content and you're reading it find oh-so-ironic. That punch line, the cause of saving the climate,
currently reporting business reason. on someone else's site, please read such as it is, is delivered and then, nor for 10:10, and we certainly
losses. For example, a small For one thing, the evidence our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ inevitably, a dissenter or two didn’t mean to do anything to
business owner may hedge against simply does not support content-only/faq.php refuses to take the pledge. At that distract from all the efforts of
losses, and also earn income to Krugman’s version of history. Five Filters featured article: point, our heroes push a large red those in other organisations who
invest in expansion, by Government spending only fell by Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- button which causes the stubborn are working so hard to secure
supplementing business revenue 1 percent of GDP in 1937 Reporting of Falluja's Cancer miscreants to be blown to bits effective action on climate
with another source of income preceding the “double dip” – Catastrophe. with as much blood and gore as change,” he said. Nowhere in his
such as interest or capital gains. In hardly enough to account for the 10:10 could fit on the screen, statement did Harvey apologize
fact, businesses filers in every fall in GDP of 4.3 percent that never to offend mother earth for offending the public or for
earning category will face a tax occurred the next year, even if again. This is what passes as sending a grossly twisted
increase if Obama’s tax hikes are you believe in his high humor among global warming message. His overriding concern
zealots. was rather that “No Pressure”
“Many people found the resulting might be a distraction and thus get
film extremely funny, but in the way of the important work
unfortunately some didn’t and that 10:10 and the well-heeled
10:10 would like to apologize to charitable foundations that
everybody who was offended by support it are doing.
the film,” 10:10 representatives
said in a statement. It’s hard to
understand what could possibly be
funny about blowing people up
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