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We are at a hinge moment in world history

hypocritexposer

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A new age of uncertainty: Why Arab turmoil could mean an orgy of bloodletting and rocketing oil prices rather than a Utopian world order

By Dominic Sandbrook
Last updated at 8:38 AM on 24th February 2011

Even by the repressive standards of Middle Eastern autocrats, Colonel Gaddafi has long cut a brutally capricious figure.

But while nobody who remembers the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher or the appalling slaughter at Lockerbie will mourn Gaddafi’s downfall, this year’s tumultuous events in North Africa could mark a shocking and seismic shift in the balance of power.

We are at a hinge moment in world history. As the Arab revolutions have shown, the old certainties are cracking apart.

And despite the naive predictions of a new liberal order, the future might well prove a very dangerous place indeed — with potentially devastating economic repercussions for millions of British families.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1360095/Middle-East-crisis-lead-orgy-bloodletting-rocketing-oil-prices.html#ixzz1Ex1UsFVM


Like the arrogant neo-conservatives who thought it would be child’s play to export democracy to Iraq...

Since Iraq was a misguided enterprise, I wonder why it is the only country over there not engulfed in flames and still has a mildly stable democracy still in place?
 

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Simple answer - because our Muslim-loving, Uber-Marxist, Control-freak, Dictator, Anti-Christ WannaBe “president” wants prices to skyrocket.

It all comes down to this - a fully-functioning “One World Government” requires there to be no “superpowers” in the old sense of the word. With the US as the last “1st World” nation that can still at least partially claim that status, the US must be brought down in power. This is only possible if we crumble economically - as that will open the door.

The Democrats (aka - the party of Marxism) have pontificated and bloviated for some time about needing to be “energy independent”, yet they consistently force policies that create just the opposite. This is not by accident. This is the plan, and has been for quite some time. There was a day when we still had TRUE patriots who saw this and actually TRIED to do something about it. They have been vilified and pushed out (Think Senator McCarthy).

We have been focused on keeping our gun rights, and have been somewhat remiss at actually forcing the issue on economic policy. We have seen our Federal (and State governments as well) grow to absolutely insane size and power. Our founding fathers would be violently ill, and maybe just a bit mad at us for letting it get this far.

And I believe we are not far from a point that it won’t matter how many guns we have -

Nikita Khrushchev’s words ring prophetic now, don’t they?

1959 - Nikita Khrushchev, dictator of the Soviet Union, states: “We can’t expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they awaken one day to find they have Communism.”

1961 - Nikita Kruschev states: “We do not have to destroy America with missiles; America will destroy itself from within.”
 
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