Monday, March 16, 2009
North Korea Continues Border Closure
North Korea is testing, probing, provoking. A crisis is coming....
The Stalinist/Kimist/criminal state kept the border closed for a third consecutive day Sunday, leaving 727 South Korean workers stranded at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
The closure has endangered the safety of the civilians stranded there. They are basically hostages.
In all, 763 South Koreans are being held in North Korea.
China Confidential analysts say the North could keep the border closed through March 20 to protest the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise that started last week. The exercise, called Key Resolve, involves defensive training in preparation for aggression from the North and the possibility of a counterattack from the South Korea-U.S. forces, including a possible invasion of the North.
Pyongyang has a record of cutting off inter-Korean relations during South Korea-U.S. military exercises.Sunday, March 15, 2009
Hungarian Fascists Gaining Strength
Foreign Confidential....
A seemingly endless array of neo-Nazis and neo-Fascists have emerged in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Krisztina Morvai, Hungary's neo-Fascist Jobbik party candidate for European Parliament, is an example. She is a former member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. As a member, she seemed to devote most of her attention to the alleged maltreatment of Arab women in Israel. Here is a recent photo of Morvai, wearing the obligatory Arab keffiyeh, addressing an anti-Israel demonstration in Budapest, attended by members of the neo-Fascist, paramilitary Magyar Garda.
On Sunday, meanwhile, Hungarian radical right members in Nazi collaborationist, World War II style uniforms demonstrated against the government. Pablo Gorondi reports:Several thousand people held anti-government protests in the Hungarian capital during a national holiday on Sunday, and police detained 35 people.
Dressed in riot gear, the police chased some of the protesters through the streets of Budapest and prevented them from reaching Parliament, where violent anti-government protests had taken place in 2006.
At one point Sunday, tear gas was used to drive back a small group of demonstrators that tried to attack police lines near St. Stephen's Basilica, but law enforcement officials denied claims by Krisztina Morvai, a right-wing politician taking part in the protests, that she was beaten by police.
The detainees included Gyorgy Budahazy and Laszlo Torockai, leaders of extreme right-wing radical groups, said Budapest police spokeswoman Eva Tafferner. The radicals have been holding sometimes violent protests for years against Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who came to power in 2004. But Hungary's current economic crisis has intensified anti-government sentiment in the country.
Also Sunday, another radical group, the Hungarian Guard (Magyar Garda), swore in 600 new members at Budapest's Heroes' Square. A local court disbanded the group last year, but the Guard is appealing the ruling.
Hungary has been among the countries in Eastern Europe hardest hit by the global economic crisis, and it received a $25.1 billion bailout led by the International Monetary Fund late last year. Hungary's economy is expected to shrink by at least 4 percent in 2009.
Sunday's national holiday commemorates the unsuccessful 1848 revolution against the Habsburgs.
Monday, 16 March 2009
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