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Post-US world born in Phnom Penh
Asia Times, by Spengler
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Posted By:rolanddd, 11/29/2012 9:06:06 PM
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| It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world´s population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.
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Even after Obama is gone the people that elected him will remain.The U.S. will be a little smaller every year and the foreign media will increasingly be the only reliable source of information and perspective.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 11/29/2012 9:21:48 PM (No. 9040393)
America as we know it died on January 20, 2009.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 11/29/2012 9:27:36 PM (No. 9040402)
America as I knew it died when Mario Savio, in 1963, climbed on a truck bed with a megaphone and blasted the world with obscenities. We never recovered and all I have left of that once decent pre-Savio America are old movies on Netflix, big bands on Pandora and a couple of old friends.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
grounded, 11/29/2012 9:31:17 PM (No. 9040408)
Actually, Obama is getting exactly what he wants: America´s comeuppance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals, 11/29/2012 9:32:19 PM (No. 9040411)
No nation will take seriously a currency that continues to be devalued by unbridled government spending tied to inflationary monetary policy by its lender of choice. The reserve currency status of the dollar will be dead by 2016. Then we will be beholden to the Communist dragon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ccyr, 11/29/2012 9:57:11 PM (No. 9040431)
Francis Fukuyama totally predicted this in the Origins of Political Order.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LadyHen, 11/29/2012 10:21:51 PM (No. 9040449)
I would give my blood and treasure to see the makers of this nation come together, secede from the takers, and rebuild using the innovation, efficiency, and sheer kick-@55 spirit this nation still has outside the inner city entitlement waste lands and DC cesspool. Freedom is too young to die.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Objectivity, 11/29/2012 10:44:25 PM (No. 9040461)
of course ... you never read this in the all things "Forward" Team 44 NYTimes or Tom (I´m a self-appointed military expert) Ricketts´ Washington Post, or Bloomberg ...
we pretend to work ... and they pretend to pay us ... that is where this is all heading
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
asu86pe, 11/29/2012 11:18:43 PM (No. 9040480)
I remember not liking Kennedy for the Bogotá Agreement which sent my mother´s job to Mexico,
I remember not liking Nixon because my Poly-Sci professor "smelled a rat" in Edmond Muskie´s resignation and McGovern ran instead,
I remember being the only one in my peer group that distrusted Carter and wanted Ford.
I remember thinking Regan couldn´t be ´that´ conservative, as conservative as me, and win the presidency,
But loosing Australia to China in trade agreements........I do not want to remember this!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tomanderson61, 11/30/2012 12:01:12 AM (No. 9040514)
Loosely related, we need to stop IMMEDIATELY with the billions of dollars of "foreign aid" to other countries. Pakistan is no friend of ours, Egypt has been around thousands of years, they can figure things out themselves. We should wrap up Afghanistan and Iraq, with limited ongoing aid.
We´ve heard all the excuses for years, that these are "investments" that bring value to the US. No they don´t. How about we help our real friends when they have disasters, like Poland, Israel, etc. Why is there foreign aid to places like Vietnam? Do hardworking Americans even know that their money ends up in these places?
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Post-US world born in Phnom Penh
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Asia Times, by Spengler
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Posted By: rolanddd- 11/29/2012 9:06:06 PM
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It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world´s population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.
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Real Clear Politics, by Michael Barone
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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White House: Planned GOP
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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