Colombian VP’s stark message for Britain’s middle-class drug users
It is the opiate of the affluent. At dinner parties across the country and in the VIP lounges of Britain’s plushest clubs and bars, huddled masses of wealthy hedonists crouch over paper wraps filled with a crystallised tropane alkaloid known as cocaine. Tonnes of the “white stuff” are consumed each week.
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The Daily Flash: Eco, Space, Science (11/19)
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British Paper: Hillary Clinton to be Obama’s Secretary of State
british newspaper the guardian reports, “hillary clinton plans to accept the activity of secretary of governmental offered by barack obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to set up a unrefined coalition application,” according to its sources. in all events, there are concerns regarding the vetting of former president invoice clinton, not to reference possible conflicts–politico points out, “it could prove problematic for obama if the former president continues to arrange donations from unfamiliar countries at the same sometime that his wife, as secretary of state, is asking them for diplomatic concessions.” clinton friend james carville told the washington post, “there’s a lot of momentum in the direction of this happening,” but acknowledged the bubba factor: “she’s not married to todd palin.“
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VDARE: We Still Have Karl Rove to Kick Around Some More
Here’s an excerpt in which I uncharacteristically show some sympathy for Karl Rove and George Bush from my new VDARE.com column:
It’s important to fully understand why the lessons the two Texans, Rove and Bush, learned in their home state didn’t apply in other heavily Hispanic states.
So far, the mortgage meltdown hasn’t been as bad in Texas as in the four “Sand States” (as they were known on Wall Street during the Bubble): California , Nevada , Arizona , and Florida . These are home to half of the foreclosures and a large majority of the defaulted mortgage money.
Partly this is due to the Oil Bubble, which now appears to be ending. Oil prices over $100 per barrel kept the Texas economy strong in 2008, allowing debtors to avoid foreclosure.
Also, the enormous amount of land and the lack of environmental restrictions on home development in Texas means that when the federal government stimulates demand, the supply of housing increases quickly as well, keeping housing prices reasonable.
Finally, what Rove and Bush missed was how different was Texas’s economic and immigration history over the last three decades relative to the seemingly similar Sand States. Due to OPEC’s oil price increases in the 1970s, Texas experienced a huge construction boom thirty years ago. That mostly attracted construction workers from the rest of the U.S. rather than from Mexico , because Mexico was simultaneously experiencing its own oil boom following massive new discoveries.
When oil prices collapsed in 1982, the economies of Texas and Mexico slumped simultaneously. The big wave of post-1982 unemployed illegal aliens therefore headed for California rather than for Texas .
That’s why San Antonio had “surprisingly low levels” of immigration from 1965 to 2000, according to the important new book quantitatively comparing Mexican-Americans in San Antonio and Los Angeles in 1965 and 2000, Generations of Exclusion, by sociologists associated with the UCLA Chicano Studies Program.
The 2000 Census found that California ’s foreign-born population (26 percent of all residents) was almost twice as large as Texas ’s (14 percent).
As Texans, Rove and Bush apparently just couldn’t understand the quantity and quality of the immigration situation in the other heavily Hispanic states. In 2000, Texas had a large but fairly well-rooted, stable, and assimilated Mexican-American population that had a reasonable potential to make enough money in resource-extraction or other blue-collar jobs to afford to buy Texas ’s cheap houses.
In sharp contrast, California had a huge and mostly new, ill-educated, and unassimilated Mexican-American population that didn’t have even a chance of making enough money in Silicon Valley or Hollywood to afford California ’s already expensive houses.
And Nevada, Arizona, and Florida were more like California than they were like Texas. [More]
So, who are the bad guys here: Texans or Californians?
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Quantum Of Solace Sequel - Plans & Rumors
James Bond still has a lot of unanswered questions, so what can we expect from the Quantum Of Solace sequel?
** SPOILERS AHEAD **
The final scene of Quantum Of Solace was cut. It showed Mr. White’s ultimate fate and the identity of his superior. And it probably indicates a major element in the next movie -
If you remember, it’s mentioned that one of the PM’s closest advisors, Guy Haines, is a member of ‘Quantum’. In the original cut, Bond sees him during the Tosca opera scene and the movie ends with a one minute sequence where 007 introduces himself to Haines…
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Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to co-operate to deal with forces along their common border blamed for the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Both countries’ foreign ministers said Rwandan intelligence teams would go into DR Congo to help eradicate them.
The Hutu fighters have lived in eastern DR Congo since 1994 and have been a key factor in destabilising the region.
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has made the disarmament of the Hutu forces a key demand to halting his rebellion.
See detailed map of the area
Gen Nkunda says he is fighting to protect his Tutsi community from attacks by Rwandan FDLR Hutu rebels who fled to DR Congo after the genocide.
Some 250,000 people have fled violence that flared in August between Gen Nkunda’s fighters and government forces.
The Congolese government has often promised to stop Hutu forces from using its territory, but has not done so.
Its forces have been accused of instead working with the FDLR to exploit the region’s rich mines.
In last year’s Nairobi agreement, the FDLR forces - estimated to number more than 6,000 - were meant to have been disarmed by the end of August.
The deadline was missed. At this point Gen Nkunda’s forces resumed fighting.
But speaking at a joint news conference in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and DR Congo committed themselves to a course of action that correspondents say could change events in the region.
They agreed to Rwandan intelligence officers going into DR Congo to work with the Congolese army and the international community to help end the presence of the Hutu militia who have operated from the region’s hills and forests.
“We confirm our firm will to bring a military plan, with man-power and material support from different countries, to enable us once and for all to put an end to the problem of the FDLR,” DR Congo’s Foreign Minister Alexis Mwamba Thambwe said.
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Meanwhile, the UN says it is to move 60,000 people from a camp north of Goma to a location west of the city in case of fighting.
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Obama Administration Personnel: What Is Really Going on
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Spencer Ackerman is unhappy:
Open Wide: Do you know why you’re not reading solid stuff about who’s getting what positions in an Obama administration? Because everyone in Democratic D.C. thinks s/he’s about to get a job and doesn’t want to go spoiling his/her chances by blabbing to reporters, even when said reporters are just trying to collect quotes about what such-and-such an appointment would signify about Obama’s approach to issue X. This is a really f—ing irritating day.
Here are the talking points for Obama-Biden administration personnel selections. They have the added advantage of being true:
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Photo du Jour 268
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A series of photos showing an inbound 33 Stanyan bus navigating the infamously sharp hairpin turn at Market and Clayton.
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who’s gonna drive you home tonight?
anne and i took nolan out to glendale tonight for this art luggage he likes to do. after we dropped him slow, anne said, “hey, i want to have a dinner date with my manage.” bonus, unexpected dinner dates are always incredible, so i didn’t unvaried make a note up token resistance, and we had an awesome carry together. when we were finished, nolan met us in the parking garage, and wanted to pilot institution. he’s had his permit for up 5 weeks, and though he’s a very competent and careful driver, we were both a little in a flap about letting him drive on the freeway at night
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