Sunday, July 26, 2009
china confidential
China and Rio Tinto: a Tale of Corruption and Control
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Guest Comment: 10 Inconvenient Questions
Ten inconvenient questions from a reader who describes himself as a lifelong progressive:
1. Where is it written that if someone believes in national health insurance--or, even, socialized medicine--he or she also has to accept appeasement of Islamist monsters?
2. At what point did being a liberal, or a left-winger, or a social democrat, or democratic socialist, also mean that one is sympathetic to the worst reactionary scum on earth--the clerical fascists known as Islamists?
3. Where is it written that believers in free trade among civilized, democratic nations also have to accept the hollowing out of the West at the expense of workers and the middle classes in order to line the pockets of Third World despots and greedy corporate executives and criminal bankers?
4. When did wearing a backward Muslim headscarf or a barbaric veil or burqa stop being a sign of enslavement?
5. When did appeasement and stupidity become synonymous with diplomacy?
6. A piece of garbage like Hugo Chavez--at what point, did be become worthy of respect by the Left?
7. A Stalinist mass-murderer like Fidel Castro--why is he still revered by the Left?
8. The atomic ayatollahs of Islamist Iran--why isn't the Left clamoring for their overthrow?
9. Where is it written that men and women of the Left have to believe in an absurd myth--manmade global warming--that is clearly designed to cripple the West while lining the pockets of Wall Street bankers and other corrupt exploiters of human ignorance and misery?
10. America's phony economic stimulus--why isn't the Left demanding a real, job-creating alternative?
-L. Bronstein,
The Bronx, New York, USA
EDITOR'S NOTE: The answer to "when" can be traced to the time when America's Democratic Party stopped being the party of Henry ("Scoop") Jackson and instead became the party of Jesse Jackson.Obama Bullies Israel, Bows to 'Muslim World'
America's appeaser-in-chief is tough on allies, soft on adversaries, as Mackubin Thomas Owens observes in the Wall Street Journal:In foreign policy, President Barack Obama has demonstrated a disturbing propensity to curry favor with our adversaries at the expense of our friends.
The Czechs and Poles are rightly concerned that they will be sacrificed on the altar of better U.S. relations with Russia. And the Israelis fear that the Obama administration’s desired opening to the Muslim world will be achieved at their expense. Mr. Obama’s attempted bullying of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a case in point.
Continue here.Iran Regime Even Killing Rival Conservatives
Click here for the story. Even rival Islamofascists are being detained, tortured, and killed by the increasingly paranoid Iranian regime.
Of course, fascists are no strangers to purges. Click here andhere for articles, respectively, about the Nazi and left-wing fascist --Stalinist--purges of the 1930s.
The fascist appetite for blood is insatiable.Kudu Ridge Cries Out for Big Screen Adaptation
A reader has just brought to my attention a superb book, which pulls together several seemingly unrelated current events and news stories.
Kudu Ridge is author Joe O’Neill’s second publication, and, while being anchored in current day South Africa, the story line stretches from ancient pre-historic hunter gatherers, who roamed Southern Africa before the migration of the Bantu tribes from central Africa, through the days of post colonial Africa. The book culminates in a private war against Al Qaeda by the novel's central character.
The story line, while purely fictional, uses historical facts and current events to pull together the seemingly unrelated topics of African corruption and the rise of radical Islam--and its links to both rhino poaching and international terrorism.
Kudu Ridge is a book which once opened cannot be put down until the reader reaches the climax, which involves several Western governments cooperating with Israeli commandos to defeat Al Qaeda.
The book cries out for a Hollywood movie deal. It is a natural for the big screen.
Kudu Ridge is published by Lulu, and is available here as a quality paperback for $21.95 or as a download for only $6.25.
-Andre Pachter
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Click here for the story. It is intriguing and complex.
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