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HOZ · 05-10-2005, 07:33 AM

Honestly this guy is a gem for writers. Proudly Canadian and read world wide. Another Canuck to be proud of!!!!

Slamming those that need it! From Bush to Bananada!!!!!

Some quotes
of the ten richest countries in the world, only four have populations bigger than one million — the US (296 million), Switzerland (7 million), Norway (4.5 million) and Singapore (3 million). The Americans are the exception that proves the rule: they’re a highly decentralised federation. As Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore observe in The Size Of Nations, if America were as centrally governed as France, it would have bust up decades ago.

Vladimir Putin, as befits an old KGB hand, was waxing nostalgic. ‘The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,’ he declared. ‘For the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.’

Well, why don’t they come home? If there’s one thing Russia could use, it’s more Russians. The country is midway through its transition from ‘superpower’ to ghost town.

The Saudis are under a lot more pressure than they were back then — hence Abdullah’s feints towards faux ‘reform’. Nonetheless, only the other day the chief justice and big Abdullah sidekick was captured on video urging Saudi men to go to Iraq and fight the Americans — and still the Crown Prince gets ranch privileges from Bush.

His bet
Boy Assad will be gone before the end of Bush’s presidency; Crown Prince Abdullah will be lucky to ride out even his faux reforms; but even the naysayers have begun to accept that the Middle East is going Bush’s way. The real foreign-policy challenges in the immediate future are the stagnant EU, poor doomed Russia and China’s incoherent market-communism. If you were betting on only one happy ending, I’d take China

Steyn

05-10-2005, 07:33 AM	#1
HOZ Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	Honestly this guy is a gem for writers. Proudly Canadian and read world wide. Another Canuck to be proud of!!!! Slamming those that need it! From Bush to Bananada!!!!! Some quotes of the ten richest countries in the world, only four have populations bigger than one million — the US (296 million), Switzerland (7 million), Norway (4.5 million) and Singapore (3 million). The Americans are the exception that proves the rule: they’re a highly decentralised federation. As Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore observe in The Size Of Nations, if America were as centrally governed as France, it would have bust up decades ago. Vladimir Putin, as befits an old KGB hand, was waxing nostalgic. ‘The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,’ he declared. ‘For the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.’ Well, why don’t they come home? If there’s one thing Russia could use, it’s more Russians. The country is midway through its transition from ‘superpower’ to ghost town. The Saudis are under a lot more pressure than they were back then — hence Abdullah’s feints towards faux ‘reform’. Nonetheless, only the other day the chief justice and big Abdullah sidekick was captured on video urging Saudi men to go to Iraq and fight the Americans — and still the Crown Prince gets ranch privileges from Bush. His bet Boy Assad will be gone before the end of Bush’s presidency; Crown Prince Abdullah will be lucky to ride out even his faux reforms; but even the naysayers have begun to accept that the Middle East is going Bush’s way. The real foreign-policy challenges in the immediate future are the stagnant EU, poor doomed Russia and China’s incoherent market-communism. If you were betting on only one happy ending, I’d take China Steyn