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GeorgeGist

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3. Samantha doesn't recognize the real dysfunction.

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 01:06 PM

Sep 2015

“It can’t be fair that the entire African continent is not represented in the security council. If you look at the discussions in the security council today, the discussions are about Africa really - 80, 85, 90% of the discussions,” said Kingsley Mamabolo, the South African permanent representative at the UN. “How can we have a situation in which other people are discussing what is happening on our continent without our participation?” From the Guardian link.

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License to Kill - It's a Darwinian Universe (Samantha Power, wife of Cass Sunstein) [View all] Octafish Sep 2015 OP

Bump PufPuf23 Sep 2015 #1

No. They are just second-rate intellects acting like monsters, without much real awareness of the leveymg Sep 2015 #7

Happy Warriors, all right. Octafish Sep 2015 #8

Samantha and Victoria (and Cass) in Wonderland taking tea with the Mad Hatter. PufPuf23 Sep 2015 #9

21st Century Soft Power Couple: She provides the Fig Leaf, He provides the Hemlock Octafish Sep 2015 #10

Power: Any humanitarian crisis, ethnic cleansing, or genocide can serve a national purpose. leveymg Sep 2015 #2

sounds like The Family's vision of power, doesn't it? the stronger the dictator the bigger MisterP Sep 2015 #5

Sounds a lot like the GHW Bush branch of the CIA's vision as well. leveymg Sep 2015 #6

The Dulles Brothers School of Empire for the Well-to-Do. Octafish Sep 2015 #14

She argue for military intervention to avoid genocide in 'A Problem from Hell'... Octafish Sep 2015 #11

Samantha doesn't recognize the real dysfunction. GeorgeGist Sep 2015 #3

Africa’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power Octafish Sep 2015 #12

"Humanitarian warmonger." Yup. n/t Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #4

And if you call them out on it, you're labeled a ''Conspiracy Theorist.'' Octafish Sep 2015 #13