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citymoments  01/24/2013 09:28 AM Report

McNerney graduated from New Trier High School in 1967. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1971. At Yale he excelled in baseball and hockey. After graduating from Yale he worked for a year at both British United Provident and G. D. Searle & Company, then attended Harvard Business School, receiving a Master of Business Administration in 1975.

Boeing is a company which makes planes, does it make sense to you the CEO of such an entity ( with a $12m compensation) should have some technical qualifications in relation to engineering? Of course, McNerney can hire a chief engineer to advise him on technical matters. Then, how does a CEO who has no engineering qualification know which engineer is best qualified for the job? To hire another adviser to help him out on how to hire the best engineer?

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citymoments  01/21/2013 01:06 AM Report

Philosophically Speaking.

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SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/19/2013 03:24 AM Report

In May 2012, Amnesty International released a report stating that the conflict had created Mali's worst human rights situation since 1960.

The organization stated that fighters with the MNLA and Ansar Dine were "running riot" in Mali's north,[174] and documented instances of gang rape, extrajudicial executions, and the use of child soldiers by both Tuareg and Islamist groups.[175]

Ansar Dine reportedly banned video games, Malian and Western music, bars, and football in Gao[179] and ransacked alcohol-serving establishments in both Gao and Kidal.[73]

Football?

Our Music?

Alcohol in bars?

That is a smack in the face. Let's move the Super Bowl from New Orleans to Gao (population close to the number of shareholders of the Packers) and have the NRA arm the players. Inspiration: http://youtu.be/0H09MBynulM

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/19/2013 02:57 AM Report

'Armed Reaper Drones, no boots on the ground.'

A decade ago, the United States had a virtual monopoly on drones.

Not anymore. According to data compiled by the New America Foundation, more than 70 countries now own some type of drone, though just a small number of those nations possess armed drone aircraft.

(Careful with the rope. We don't want it to be used to hang us.)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/01/opinion/bergen-world-of-drones/index.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/19/2013 02:51 AM Report

'Champion a government that people respect.'

(Oh baby, Oh baby.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/19/2013 02:49 AM Report

'Mali is so bad it makes the government in Kabul look good.'

See there is hope for Kabul.

Next time they need eight pallets of American green all they have to do is say, "Well at least we're not Mali."

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/19/2013 02:44 AM Report

'The average insurgency is 10 years and France just started last week.'

Calm down fella.

You'll be on the show another time.

Max83  01/18/2013 08:55 PM Report

Beware of the Neo-Con Core:

''TEDxBerlin 11/15/10 - Janine Wedel - Shadow Elites''

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXGcEpI-sI

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Janine R. Wedel writes about power, influence, and governing through the unique lens of a social anthropologist. A professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, Wedel is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

Her new book Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (Basic Books 2009) was named Book of the Month by The Huffington Post in January.

Wedel has contributed congressional testimony and articles and opinion pieces to more than a dozen major outlets, including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe. She writes a featured weekly shadow elite column in The Huffington Post.

Wedel developed and directs the initiative on Outsourcing National Security at the New America Foundation. She is co-founder and convener of the Interest Group for the Anthropology of Public Policy (IGAPP).

She received a B.A. from Bethel College, an M.A. from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.''

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/18/2013 03:50 PM Report

WOW, I had my Google Maps on Warp 7 and couldn't find most of these places.

All the names of all the many groups will take more time to find.

Sounds more like a gang fight in New York City and these places appear to be the size of neighborhoods but with fewer people.

I bet the New York City Police could clean it up in one eight hour shift.

REMant  01/18/2013 12:18 PM Report

As might have been expected from the participants, this discussion is considerably biased. In fact it's crazy. And amounts to propaganda. It is not just about al-Qaeda. It may not be about al-Qaeda at all. It is hard to know what motivates people like these nut cases, but unless it's congenital, it must be base cupidity. Over-funding of higher education seems to have resulted in an oversupply of political scientists without portfolio but lots of references. At least it can't be blamed on the Tea Party.

Sarkozy expressed renewed interest in the region, which was once French territory, and it is France which has pressed, as it did in Ivory Coast, for intervention, Fabius now calling it a potential threat to Europe itself. (A view parroted by Cameron.) Not surprisingly, the puppet they installed there last year is in the vanguard of those urging intervention.

Tho promising when elected to roll back their presence in Africa, Sarkozy returned France to NATO, increased troops in Afghanistan, established a base in Abu Dhabi - the first outside the Africa in half-a-century - and created a commission to review French policy which recommended France redirect its traditional focus away from territorial defense to the identification and elimination of terrorist networks inside France and French-speaking Africa. It also identified the Sahel region as critical for France's global strategy: rich in oil, minerals and uranium. (Exxon operates oil fields in Chad.) French Special Forces have been deployed in several unsuccessful attempts to rescue French hostages, and established a regular presence. The French maintain a large base at Djibouti and bases in Gabon, Chad and the Ivory Coast. Senegal asked for forces to be withdrawn in 2010.

Tho Mali is Africa's third largest African producer of gold and once was involved in the slave trade, which persists to this day, it is mainly a relatively poor cotton-growing place, like the rest of region. The recent fighting began early last year when Tauregs returned from fighting for Qaddafi with weapons and know-how and renewed their battle for separation of the north. Nomadic herdsmen, they had staged unsuccessful rebellions in 1990 and 2007, claiming marginalization by the central govt and the ruin of pasturage. (See detailed article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_Rebellion_(2012) The Wash Post called for immediate NATO intervention. In response a coup by US-trained officers overthrew the government. Since then one prime minister was captured by the rebels and another was deposed last month. The coups were led by one Amadou Sanogo. No one appears to interested in fighting him.

Unlike other African conflicts this one is not between Arabs and Africans, nor does it involve Shiite-Sunni animus. Mali is 90% Muslim, mostly Sunni and Sufi, a small portion of which can be labeled Islamist.

Last October, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution "determining that the situation in Mali constitutes a threat to international peace and security," declared its "readiness" to deploy an "international military force" to invade the country, authorized planning for an invasion in coordination with African regimes and self-styled regional authorities, and called on regional govts to "provide coordinated support to these regional and international preparation efforts, including through military training, provision of equipment and other forms of assistance."

An African-led mission was slated to begin this fall, to be authorized by a new UN resolve, but had to be moved up with the rebels making substantial gains, and the French were forced to act unilaterally, quickly finding it to be no piece of cake. Hollande had said just a few days ago it would be over in a week. The US helped France carry out a failed raid in Somalia last week.

To what extent the US is supporting the effort will probably never be known. but US Africa Command has troops stationed across the African continent now, as well as, it seems, prepositioned dinner jackets. You can be sure it involves a lot of money to the "Economic Community of West African States" to which Mali belongs, its members pledged to mutual support. They have been holding joint exercises with the surrounding despots for months.

There's some irony in the fact that the African Union, which we are now looking to for "legitimacy" was largely Qaddafi's creation.

I'd say this is like Afghanistan only in being equally senseless, and more than a little like Iraq.

Richard_DeBiase  01/18/2013 11:28 AM Report

People have been talking about Islamic rebels in Mali making money from drug trafficking for many years now. I think this is one more good reason to end the U.S Drug War at home and abroad. But Barack “The Butcher” Obama will never end his Drug War because keeping the U.S. in a constant state of war is such an incredible money maker for the U.S. military-industrial-complex.

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