{"id":5624,"date":"2011-08-18T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:17:06","slug":"around-the-world-mid-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/around-the-world-mid-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Around The World, Mid August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>O<\/b>ur friends at Balloon Juice are tracking the SEC shredding scandal.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2011\/08\/18\/shredding-documents-is-always-the-right-way-to-go\/\"> John Cole writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m beginning to doubt the rumors there was a \u201cred phone\u201d inside the SEC that could be called by those in the know to get investigators to back off. It would just be redundant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>J<\/b>aime writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/services\/trackback\/6a00d834518d3769e2015390ccbf90970b\">the Cossaks have been called to defend the Steppe once more<\/a>.  Most in Eastern Europe will still remember their slaughter of Germans trapped in the Korsun Pocket in 1944.  Still, it&#8217;s a long time to coast on a rep.<\/p>\n<p><b>J<\/b>erry Pournelle examines the <a href=\"http:\/\/jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=1460\">concept of &#8220;Islands of Liberty&#8221; as a both a viable political response to Obama and source for good fiction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>D<\/b>an Simmons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dansimmons.com\/news\/message.htm\">explains his fascination with dystopian novels<\/a>.  His newest, available now, is &#8220;Flashback&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><b>L<\/b>eon Hadar <a href=\"http:\/\/globalparadigms.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/reagan-like-win-unlikely-in-2012.html\">compares today&#8217;s Movement to Reagan and Goldwater eras<\/a>.  His conclusion?   We won&#8217;t see a Reagan-sized win in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>lex at <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/technique-of-generalised-mayhem-without.html\">Yorkshire Ranter ponders how could Cameron blithely use up the Metropolitan and other police forces&#8217; strategic reserve so quickly?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Balloon Juice are tracking the SEC shredding scandal. John Cole writes: I\u2019m beginning to doubt the rumors there was a \u201cred phone\u201d inside the SEC that could be called by those in the know to get investigators to back off. It would just be redundant. Jaime writes that the Cossaks have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-5624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acolytes-in-aktion","7":"tag-economic-reform","8":"tag-foreign-policy","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}