Phi Beta Iota: This was written well before Occupy, and there has been ZERO news on this since then. Obama's first move was to send Van Jones to penetrate Occupy NY (which was already over-run with ACORN fraud). If he revives this theater, and goes after NYPD (highly doubtful), it will play with the left and be seen for what it is on the right–the usual crap.
Orlando to be site of Florida's first Occupy convention
ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Orlando will host the nation's first state-wide conference of the Occupy Movement to develop what organizers are calling “The People's Plan.” The event is scheduled for the weekend of December 9 through 11.
The purpose of the conference will be to devise a list of desired legislative changes to be delivered on the first day of the Florida legislative session. A spokesperson with Occupy Orlando said that those involved in protests from all over the state will march on Tallahassee to deliver the plan directly to the State Capitol on January 10, 2012.
Occupy representatives from at least fourteen Florida cities will be attending the conference. Those cities include: Orlando, Bradenton, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Daytona, Tavares, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Miami, Palm Beach, Naples, Sarasota, and Key West. There will also representatives from Florida's Space Coast.
“The first working day of the convention will focus on generating a list of proposals,” read a statement from Brook Hines, an Occupy spokesperson. “On the second day, a General Assembly will convene to consider which of the proposals to adopt.”
Hines said the convention will be broadcast live via the Occupy Orlando Livestream website . The location has not been announced.
Phi Beta Iota: Posted anonymously, this announcement has not yet been verified but is interested as one of the early signs that Occupy may be maturing.
… How the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) Will Win By Losing
The old adage that it is easy to get into Afghanistan but painful to leave is true for many reasons — here is a big one described in 27 November issue of the Daily Mirror [also attached below] — the British army plans to use Russian railways, built by the Tsars 140 years ago, to return hundreds of millions of pounds worth of equipment in Afghanistan via a landroute to the English Channel.
If you think the horror described in the Daily Mirror report is bad, think about the US options: Given our deteriorating relations with Pakistan, the long, highly vulnerable land route out of Afghanistan, thru the Bolan and Khyber passes, and then down the road system of the Indus Valley in Pakistan to its port of Karachi, is becoming increasingly problematic.
An optional US exit strategy would be an agonizing variation of the Dunkirk option described in the Daily Mirror report plus a sea lift, perhaps via transshipment points in Black Sea ports, like Batumi in Georgia, or Novorossiysk or Sochi in southern Russia, or even Odessa in the Ukraine (which at least would avoid the problem of different railroad gauges).
You have a clasp when people criticize your new strategy because they don't know how to execute it.
Yes, a new strategy has to be executable, or it's merely a wish. No, the logistics behind it don't have to be tried and true. It's one job to dream up a strategy and another job to execute it. Whining about how hard the logistics are is just fine, but don't conflate this with thoughtful feedback about whether your strategy makes sense.
Just about every great new project couples a brilliant strategy with impossible logistics that somehow get handled.
