Britannia Radio

Tuesday, 9th March 2010

Just when did the EU sign up to this?

10:22pm

The drug legalisation lobby group Transform purrs on its website:

As Steve Rolles heads off for California, I am at the UN's annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna for which Transform has ECOSOC special consultative status. We are here as more than just spectators. In addition to attending a range of meetings that I will report on over the next few days, we have co-organised our own event, as part of the rapidly growing campaign for an Impact Assessment of drug policy, with our colleagues at theInternational Drug Policy Consortium. We are particularly pleased Carel Edwards the Head of the EC's Anti-Drugs Policy Unit has agreed to speak, as well as the Chair of IDPC Mike Trace, and myself (details below).

What is the EU’s top drug policy official doing sharing a platform with drug legalisers?

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The president who made his country a global mockery

9:57pm

As predicted here, Obama’s foreign policy has collapsed in total ignominy. We are now all very much less safe than we were before this man was elected to the White House. A new poll -- for the Democrats, forsooth -- suggests that a majority of Americans think the USA is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security.

You don't say.

As this piece in American Thinker observes:

Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable.’ He repetitively offered Iran ‘engagement.’ He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months.

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Monday, 8th March 2010

The jihad in Nigeria

5:44pm

Utterly appalling violence by Muslims against Christians in Nigeria where the latest tally after weekend attacks on three mostly Christian villages is some 500 dead. The media have described these events as ‘riots’; I would call this a jihadi pogrom. It is but the latest episode in what the media persist in characterising as inter-ethnic violence, but which is in fact a systematic attempt by Muslims to murder and ethnically cleanse the Christian community. The onslaught is described as ‘retaliation ‘ for violent attacks in Jos last January, in which the majority of the victims were Muslim. But as the Barnabas Fund reports, there is evidence that those January attacks were in fact Christian retaliation against Muslim aggression -- in particular on that occasion an attack on a church -- which has been going on for years.

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