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2013-09-27, 10:35 | Link #30843 | |
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Pfeiffer: White House is not ‘negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest'
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2013-09-27, 11:03 | Link #30844 |
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I just cashed out the US mutual funds in my IRA until we get past yet another round of stupid Republican budget hijinks. If the US really does default, the result could be horrendous, not just here but around the world as well.
I also hold a couple of foreign mutual funds; the Japanese one is doing quite well at the moment. I also have an emerging markets fund. I ran a few charts the other day to see how different regional funds performed. Surprisingly, despite what have been quite varied local economic conditions in East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, the funds for these regions all move more or less in lockstep (except for LA which plunged starting late last year). It looks like the actions of the US Fed have as much if not more influence on stock market movements in Brazil or South Africa as do the local economic conditions in these countries. I'm still keeping my foreign funds, though. If we somehow do arrive at October 17th without a debt ceiling resolution, my bet is that President Obama invokes the Fourteenth Amendment and continues paying our debts anyway. (Remember that the debt ceiling applies to spending the Congress has already committed to, not spending in the future.) We haven't had a good impeachment fight since Clinton, but I can see one looming on the horizon, even if there is no chance the Democrats in the Senate would vote to convict. I'm not even sure that a majority of the House would vote to impeach, but it's pretty much impossible to predict how the House will behave these days.
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2013-09-27, 11:19 | Link #30845 | |
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On a more humourous take : Gold, oil and government shutdowns And an even more silly one : Will Obamacare hurt job creation and marriage?
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2013-09-27, 12:40 | Link #30846 | |
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2013-09-27, 12:41 | Link #30847 | |
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2013-09-27, 20:55 | Link #30848 |
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Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-27-17-34-14 Philippines says rebel standoff is over http://bigstory.ap.org/article/phili...-standoff-over
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2013-09-27, 22:57 | Link #30849 | |
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Currently, the government of my city (Zambonga City) is still on heightened alert due to humors of bombings and new attacks. Curfew is still going on at 8pm-5am in the morning. Generally, peace, school and business is back to normal except in the devastated barangays. Barangay elections might also be postpones depending on the assessment from Comelec. |
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2013-09-28, 05:08 | Link #30850 |
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Finally, Greek neo-nazi party members are brought to justice.
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2013-09-28, 08:07 | Link #30851 |
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Kenyan official: Troops caused mall collapse
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-27-19-56-18 Search grows bleak in India building collapse http://bigstory.ap.org/article/searc...lding-collapse Security tight at Miss World final in Indonesia http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-28-08-39-23
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2013-09-28, 13:09 | Link #30852 | |
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OTOH. Even the most Elite of western special forces counter terrorism units rarely have to deal with hostage situations where there's an active gun battle going on, and the terrorists have access to heavy weapons. The most successful hostage rescue operations tend to occur against less well equipped terrorists in a prolonged siege situation that gives the hostage rescue team time to device a rescue plan.
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2013-09-28, 13:47 | Link #30853 | ||
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The latter is tougher as hideouts are more sparse and require more manpower for sweeps, but there are more options; when a hut is confirmed to have enemies within, a rocket or 40mm could solve the problem as building a village house is many times cheaper than renovation a burnt out shop in a mall. Quote:
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2013-09-28, 20:15 | Link #30854 | ||
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I could easily see the Kenyan special forces not being as familiar with this kind of operation...but regardless of that... Quote:
I mean, this isn't some video game where you can easily snipe machine gun nests from afar. In real life, a machine gun in a well fortified position with a good firing arc and plenty of ammo can hold dozens of soldiers. And the most sound tactics for taking that nest out usually involve expending huge quantities of rifle/machine gun fire to suppress the nest, or blasting it with explosives. Incredibly troublesome if you're trying to rescue hostages to. Even SAS would have trouble with this kinda situation.
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2013-09-28, 22:07 | Link #30855 |
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Iran leader's US outreach meets praise, some anger
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-28-12-53-49 Special Report: Myanmar old guard clings to $8 billion jade empire http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNew...98S00H20130929
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2013-09-28, 23:44 | Link #30856 | |
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Neither party is entirely right, but a large number of people support the Republican party's economic proposals because they see big risks in some of the proposals made by the Democratic party. It doesn't help that a thorough look at the economic situation shows to some one in large part brought about by bad decisions during a Democrat's term, which came crashing down during the term of a Republican president who just wasn't equipped to handle what was given to him and ended up making some bad military decisions that made things worse. And the Republican party sees the current situation as an influential jackass who insists on pursuing questionable routes and pushing the points they're most reluctant to sway on. After all, you don't get an impasse this bad without two groups of stubborn jerks who refuse to compromise. Ultimately both sides are largely filled with fools, bigots and power-hungry manipulators who plot and backstab one another while accusing their opponents of the same. One's left trying to choose the least unsuited person. What's worst is that sometimes the people with the best heads on their shoulders, who could make the best decisions, are driven to drop out by the mudslinging of candidates who know they can't win by policy and their supporters. |
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2013-09-29, 01:28 | Link #30857 | |
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A shutdown should kick them to the streets; I mean who's paying for them to do nothing?
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2013-09-29, 01:35 | Link #30858 | |
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Not to say that the Democrats won't do the same if they were in that position, but compound that with how the real demographic picture of the "American People" look quite different, and it's really a much larger distortion. Minorities, youths, redditors, immigrants, and women tend to be less acclimatized to the political norm and more likely to take up alternative political channels (activism, unionizing, etc.), if they bother at all. If and when they vote, by and large they tend to vote Democrat. As for "compromise," don't you give me that shit. Obama already sold out repeatedly -- hell, the man's a pure establishment man, look at the fucking NSA! However, if the GOP's tactics are akin to a minority fascist party looking to sabotage a functioning democracy, then they can kindly shove off. Enough with the, what do you call it when people sabotage things, throw out angry ranting propaganda and try to make planes stop functioning? |
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2013-09-29, 02:49 | Link #30860 | |
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I'm not sure on Kenyan military CT units though.
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