Monday, July 13, 2009
china confidential
Brits Deny Arms Partial Israel Arms Embargo
Defeated Conservative Iranian Presidential Candidate Warns System Could 'Collapse'
Will the Military Take Over North Korea?
Reuters' Dean Yates analyzes possible post-Kim scenarios--click here--including a military coup and collapse of the state.Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Monster is Dying
The Stalinist criminal Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer, according to South Korean and Chinese sources. Click here for the story.Pakistan Pushing US to Appease Taliban
China Confidential has learned that Pakistan's pro-Taliban intelligence services are promoting a truce between the Al Qaeda-associated Islamist movement and the United States.
And the Obama administration, according to China Confidential analysts, is likely to consider a deal with the Taliban--as soon as Washington feels it can pull off a pact with the devil without appearing to be bowing or caving into the medieval monsters.
Fact is, the Obama administration is prepared to negotiate with any and all so-called reconcilable Taliban elements, even if they practice stoning and enslaving women, amputating hands, torturing and hanging homosexuals, and other barbaric Islamic practices.
Only a Matter of Time ...
It is only a matter of months before Al Qaeda, alone, is beyond the pale of the administration's "engagement" policy, and a few years, at most, before the insane idea of reconcilable Al Qaeda elements is floated (with the support of an adoring liberal media).
The administration is bent on trying to ride the Islamist tiger without being eaten by it. America's first Muslim-born President (according to Islamic religious law, which traces religion through one's father) entered the White House with the intention of appeasing and aligning with Islamism in general--and Islamist Iran in particular--in a throwback to the Great Game of imperial rivalry between Britain and Czarist Russia.
Under cover of dialogue and diplomacy--sacred concepts to dumbbell Democrats and otherUseful Idiots of the West--Obama aims to use Islam to counter China's rise and Russia's resurgence. Hence, the lack of cooperation by Beijing and Moscow on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear issues.Forgotten Masterpiece: Iran by Claude Lelouch
There was a time--before The Great Betrayal by the catastrophic Carter administration--when Iran was an American ally led by a modernizing monarch, His Imperial Majesty Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (may his soul rest in peace).
The legendary Claude Lelouch made this little-known, 1971 film as a gift to the Shah's wife, Her Imperial Majesty Empress Farah, whom this reporter was privileged to interview in 1976 for a cover article in a national American magazine. This reporter went on to produce a half-hour documentary about Iran--as seen through Her Imperial Majesty's eyes--which was shown on television stations across the United States.
But Iran at the Crossroads, which this reporter produced, cannot compare in any way withIran, which won six international awards shortly after its release. Iran consists of spectacular geographical and archaeological footage interspersed with slice-of-life shots, exhibiting some of the best juxtapositional editing ever accomplished in the history of motion pictures.
Iran is a politically suppressed masterpiece--an example of hidden cinema--from the director of A Man and a Woman, Happy New Year, and And Now My Love. Lelouch shot a staggering six miles of footage to make Iran--a visual poem that transcends time and space. The musical score by Francis Lai is priceless.Inconvenient Data: Earth Cooled as Carbon Rose
"It's getting cold out there," writes Deborah Saunders. No wonder skeptics consider the left's belief in man-made global warming as akin to a fad religion -- last week in Italy, G8 leaders pledged to not allow the Earth's temperature to rise more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
For its next act, the G8 can part the Red Sea. The worst part is: These are the brainy swells who think of themselves as -- all bow -- Men of Science.
The funny part is: G8 leaders can't even decide the year from which emissions must be reduced. 1990? 2005? "This question is a mystery for everyone," an aide to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.
And while President Obama led the charge for the G8 nations to agree to an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in industrial nations by 2050, the same Russian aide dissed the standard as "likely unattainable."
No worries, the language was non-binding. Global-warming believers say that they are all about science, but their emphasis is not on results so much as declarations of belief.
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Monday 13 July 2009
Click here for the story. The headline is troubling, almost reminiscent of the Mandate period, following Britain's betrayal of the Balfour Declaration and ban on Jewish immigration to pre-State Palestine before, during, and after World War II.
Click here for the story. The cracks in the political establishment seem more irreparable every day.
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