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Showing posts with label Communism sucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communism sucks. Show all posts
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess Grandmaster and often called the greatest chess player of all time. He is also the author of Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. On the Federalist Radio Hour, Kasparov shared stories from his 78-year-old mother who grew up under Stalin and discussed what the U.S. could have done differently in their relationship with Russia after the Cold War.
Kasparov said that a dictator who runs out of enemies in his own
country, will eventually begin looking for enemies elsewhere. "Eventually [Putin] would be the problem for everybody," he said. "At
certain points he will have no other arguments to stay in power and to
justify his eternal rule, as to create more conflicts and war."
Boehner says he did not consult with the WH about inviting PM Netanyahu to address Congress.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 21, 2015
On AF-1, @PressSec says WH reserving judgment on Boehner invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress. Says WH wants to consult w/ Israelis.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 21, 2015
Earnest notes that it's a breach of protocol for Boehner to directly invite Netanyahu. Such invitations usually made leader to leader.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 21, 2015
Genuine anger developing between Congress and WH over Iran. Boehner invite to Netanyahu to address congress caught WH off guard.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) January 21, 2015
To have a foreign leader, who is an American ally, make the case to Congress to vote against the president's wishes. Feels unprecedented.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) January 21, 2015
WH: "This particular event seems to be a departure from that protocol.”
Asked if WH is annoyed, @PressSec said, “No.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 21, 2015
White House officials who once called Netanyahu a "coward" and a "chickensh*t prime minister" complain about "protocol."
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) January 21, 2015
"Meaningless" = When Democrats lose. RT @tnr Conservatives are pouting that Obama ignored the meaningless midterm results
— RB (@RBPundit) January 21, 2015
@CuffyMeh@tnr Hagan, Pryor, Landrieu, Udall, and Begich are pouting that they lost a meaningless midterm.
— Jason (@jasonhsv) January 21, 2015
.@tnr How much money did Chris Hughes spend on Sean Eldridge's meaningless midterm election campaign?
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 21, 2015
If only there were some historical correlation between socialist Utopias and economic destruction we could track..
http://t.co/9Jp2lmASn2
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 21, 2015
They just haven't implemented socialism the right way... RT @Wonkblog Venezuela should be rich. But its government has destroyed its economy
— Matthew (@Matthops82) January 21, 2015
@lachlan@baseballcrank These people need a wake up call. They should be required to spend a week with a working class family.
— sharonM (@sharm629) January 21, 2015
Al Sharpton loves BO's tax increase proposals. He owes $4 million in back taxes. Doesn't get any better than that.
— John Steigerwald (@Steigerworld) January 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015: The 1989 film “Back to the Future II” showed life on Oct 21, 2015. So we’ve got 9 Months to invent Hoverboards.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 21, 2015
Esteemed physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, there. Making a joke the rest of the world made a month ago.
— Jon Whiteley (@whiteleyjon) January 21, 2015
To be sure, President Raúl Castro is in a world of trouble, what with his failing economy and the likelihood that declining oil prices will force Havana's Venezuelan sponsors to reduce their subsidies.
The one thing he does have is a clear goal: keeping himself and Cuba's Communist elite in power, and a time-tested approach for doing so: permitting the minimum economic and political liberalization consistent with total control, and nothing more.
Greater engagement with the United States does indeed pose risks to the regime, not the least of which is that incoming tourists and businessmen will start to erode a pervasive system of social and political control.
But Cuba's authorities have years of experience manipulating foreign investors from Latin America, Canada and Europe, and with controlling Cubans' interactions with foreign visitors, who tend to be more interested in exploiting the local population than liberating it.
And on the plus side for Havana, Obama's measures, particularly greater remittances from U.S.-based Cubans, promise to bring much-needed hard currency to the perennially cash-strapped island.
By contrast, Obama not only abandoned long-standing U.S. policy, he also denounced it, giving the regime a huge propaganda victory. "Long weeks of cheers and victory cries await us," dissident journalist Yoani Sánchez observed ruefully.
The president traded these valuables for the wrongly imprisoned American Alan Gross — but no verifiable, irreversible democratic reform on Cuba's part. To the contrary, Obama came dangerously close to endorsing the argument by Raúl Castro and his brother, Fidel, that there's a binary choice between the status quo and chaos...
Sen. Bob Menendez: "President Obama's actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government" http://t.co/vRGBStI54i
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) December 17, 2014
I think it is disgraceful that these theaters are not showing The Interview. Will they pull any movie that gets an anonymous threat now?
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) December 17, 2014
A Japanese company with an American movie arm was bullied on free speech by the North Korean Gov's Hackers. QED #TheInterviewMovie cyberwar
— Robert Passarella (@robpas) December 17, 2014
The 1st major public showdown in that new frontier: cyberwar. And America surrenders to NK dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/A9yG265N8T
— Thor Halvorssen (@ThorHalvorssen) December 17, 2014
