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Oh really ... I guess that's why the push to replace Cantor with Kevin McCarthy.

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Oh really ... I guess that's why the push to replace Cantor with Kevin McCarthy.

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Personally, I think this is more of a strategy session on how to neutralize those pesky tea partiers in the next election, rather than to actually meet and move the party to its historical roots of limited government and actually do what their base desires them to do.

They will never move to the right -- it would cut into their profit and power margin too much.

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I totally agree. We have the best government that global finance and corporate can buy.

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I totally agree. We have the best government that global finance and corporate can buy.

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True that. But I'm wondering how - - and if - - they've factored those wacky terrorists who are about to take over Iraq into the equation.

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As Rahm Emmanual famously said 'Never let a crisis go to waste".

I don't see the citizens of the world being caught flat-footed. Remember their minion Zero provided, at minimum, arms to ISIS.

Thus far the global PTB have shown themselves to be very patient and flexible. Their forte seems to be fear mongering and providing solutions to crises that they directly or indirectly provoked. Inevitably these solutions result in further loss of liberty and transfer of wealth, mainly to the same global PTB and their buds.

I can see several benefits from the current chaos in Iraq:

rising cost of energy world wide further depressing the living standard of the first world middle / working class,
extermination of the remmanents of Christianity that survived the new government created by 'regime change',
further justification for the surveillance state
further instability in the Middle East
further demoralization of the US military
further disenchantment of US citizens with the are federal government and political class
in order to retain power and wealth, the political class will push back against 'radical right wingers', i.e. average Joes

There are probably more benefits, but reality is calling.

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True that. But I'm wondering how - - and if - - they've factored those wacky terrorists who are about to take over Iraq into the equation.

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Addendum to answer above:

I'm certain they did. The current situation in Iraq was discussed and predicted way back when GW decided to spend our blood and treasure on regime change and nation building in Iraq.

I had several interesting analyses with links that I wanted to include in my response, but they seem to be locked away on an external hard drive that ironically had a reader failure as I was creating a backup.

In essence it was pointed out that although Iraq was all Moslem it was split along three tribal lines: Sunni , Shia, and Kurd.

The nation of Iraq was an artificial creation when it was colonized. There were those suggesting that to prevent civil war, Iraq be partitioned into three states along tribal lines and the oil money be equally shared among the three.

Here's an article from 2006 that discusses the tr-state idea:
Three Strong Federal States Comprised of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis Are Needed Now in Iraq with a Division of Oil Income – or a Bloody Civil War Is Unavoidablee
http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/Iraq...-Is-Unavoidable