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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (107333)	8/30/2014 11:46:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219862

Referenda outcomes tend to not be predictable or inevitable though the process tends to relentless. That's because for the situations to get to referenda stage instead of being dealt with by bad old majority bossiness, they tend to be equally supported either way. So in Scotland, there is comparable support for either way, as in Quebec, likely as in eastern Ukraine which is comparable with eastern Canada aka Quebec and northern Britain aka Scotland. In Falklands Islands, claimed by both Argentina and England a vote by the local yokels was held to see which country they wanted to join. England held that vote as Argentina had no sway on the matter. Perhaps Kiev would like to hold such a vote in eastern Ukraine to see what the local yokels want to do. For some reason, the Kievans want to shoot at them instead. Argentina is like the Kievans. They don't like that democracy stuff because the local yokels will opt for the unapproved outcome. Both Argentinians and Kievans want to shoot the opposition and persuade them with a bullet in the face. The USA and evil doers in Euroserfstan have the same philosophy as the Kievans and Argentinians. Amazing that Teevee thinks it's a good idea to nuke people into submission and that the proposed victims might not have already got their own atomic bombs arrayed in formations sufficient to make such attackers regret their decision. Already, a vote in the USA, especially among the enlisted men and women would say that going on an expedition to get WMDs in Iraq was a wild goose chase, doomed to failure. While gung ho for victory over WMDs, terrorism, Saddam and Uday while chanting "USA USA USA" it probably seemed like a great idea, just as the enlisting men in WWI thought it positively spiffing to go and bop Jerry on the nose. After the maimed and families of the dead contemplated the results in the quiet of the night and the impoverished whose taxes were poured down the gurgler were licking their financial wounds, I dare say a different idea occurred to them. Now ISIS rampages murderously across Iraq while Obama has not yet developed a strategic plan in response. The carnage in Iraq has been much more than would have happened if Saddam and Uday had been left to conduct their horrors which at least had the merit of keeping the other barbarians in check. A first strike on Moscow as proposed by Teevee would lead a lot of Americans to regret their "USA USA USA" decision to go noocular. Unsurprisingly, the land of chess will be shown to have figured out a counter-strike, which is perhaps even more effective. But Americans might just choose such self-destruction. I hope to vacate London before such MAD ness becomes too florid. Hopefully my descendants will be on holiday in NZ for the main event. Mqurice