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(1597 previous messages)Claude Dorsel - Mar 1, 2010 5:31 pm (#1598 of 1614)
I’m sure Claude will be second to approve even though she’s been all for doing away with term limits elsewhere.
Well, France had no term limits before the advent of Nicolas the First, and we had no problem with that. It was one of his first reforms, a slightly bewildering one, since it was not a priority preocupation. He probably thought that, since the US had them, we should too, not the first nor the last time he made apparently pointless changes to be more like your country.
Usually, after two terms, the president is exhausted and the people can't stand him any longer, so the case never arose.
- Mar 1, 2010 5:37 pm (#1599 of 1614)
So you prefer no term limits?
Claude Dorsel - Mar 1, 2010 5:41 pm (#1600 of 1614)
I never thought much about it. It seems a peculiarly US obsession. No term limits for an excellent President, and showing the door after one week for a lousy one sounds reasonable.
- Mar 1, 2010 5:48 pm (#1601 of 1614)
showing the door after one week for a lousy one sounds reasonable
Oh, you're for weekly elections!
El Toro - Mar 1, 2010 7:55 pm (#1602 of 1614)
Some idiot has been able to post under Claude's name.
Claude Dorsel - Mar 1, 2010 8:42 pm (#1603 of 1614)
No, Toro, it was I. And welcome back !
Let us just note that politically, Claude is not very mature. Basically, she judges foreign leaders on their attitudes towards the US, not on how they go about tackling the problems of their own countries.
Hello El Toro!
Claude Dorsel - Mar 1, 2010 8:52 pm (#1605 of 1614)
I will avenge myself some day on your unkind remark on my maturity, Pelle !
Claude Dorsel - Mar 3, 2010 10:02 am (#1606 of 1614)
Predictable reaction to the Chavez / Farc / ETA conspiracy accusations:
Venezuelan Government Rejects Accusations of Links to Colombian Guerrilla and Spain’s ETA
Published on March 3rd 2010, by Edward Ellis – Venezuelanalysis.com
Mérida, March 3rd, 2010 (venezuelanalysis.com )-- Venezuela’s Ministry of Foreign Relations called allegations linking the Venezuelan government to the Basque separatist movement, ETA, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, politically motivated and unacceptable in a statement released on Tuesday.
The allegation of collusion with terrorists was made Monday by the Spanish Judge Eloy Velasco, who accused the Chávez government of protecting an alliance between the Colombian guerrilla movement and ETA.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5170
- Mar 3, 2010 4:44 pm (#1607 of 1614)
Well, damn, I did expect Chavez to fess up.
Claude Dorsel - Mar 3, 2010 5:01 pm (#1608 of 1614)
Yes, it would have been more exciting !
Claude Dorsel - Mar 4, 2010 9:45 am (#1609 of 1614)
Now, even if this is but partly true, it is extremely worrying...
Mercenaries Circling Haiti
March 3, 2010
"These guys are like vultures coming to grab the loot over this disaster."
On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake devastated country.
On their website for the Haiti conference, the trade group IPOA (ironically called the International Peace Operations Association until recently) lists eleven companies advertising security services explicitly for Haiti. Even though guns are illegal to buy or sell in Haiti, many companies brag of their heavy duty military experience.
Triple Canopy, a private military company with extensive security operations in Iraq and Israel, is advertising for business in Haiti. According to human rights activist and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, Triple Canopy took over the Xe/Blackwater security contract in Iraq in 2009. Scahill reports on a number of bloody incidents involving Triple Canopy including one where a team leader told his group, "I want to kill somebody today…because I am going on vacation tomorrow."
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Naomi Klein, world renowned author of The Shock Doctrine, has criticized the militarization of the response to the earthquake and the presence of "disaster capitalists" swooping into Haiti. The high priority placed on security by the U.S. and NGOs is wrong, she told Newsweek. "Aid should be prioritized over security. Any aid agency that’s afraid of Haitians should get out of Haiti."
more
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/mercenaries-circling-haiti
Marc-A
- Mar 4, 2010 11:58 am (#1610 of 1614)
She's silly. As shown in Chile right now as well, you need militarization before aid.
McLovin - Mar 4, 2010 1:04 pm (#1611 of 1614)
Spoken like a true authoritarian bootlick...
TrilliumV.2
- Mar 5, 2010 9:19 pm (#1612 of 1614)
Dunno about that, McLovin. It sounds like a practical issue for the aid workers.
Sukey, who has volunteered for Red Cross disaster aid, has said something to the same effect as Marc-A, although she doesn't have a reputation for being an "authoritarian bootlick".
It's an unhappy situation, and one of the reasons why I think twice about moving out to L.A. even though I love the current weather. The thought of post-earthquake civil disorder out here is really off-putting, and I know the earth is due to up and move one of these days in a dramatic fashion. And I don't like "militarization". But what are your alternatives?
- Mar 9, 2010 5:49 am (#1613 of 1614)
This is a bit on illegal immigration.
United States Border Patrol - Watch more Funny Videos
Claude Dorsel - Mar 10, 2010 12:07 am (#1614 of 1614)
Tempest in a teacup abates:
Spain and Venezuela end spat over terror accusation
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6251B220100306
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