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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

China Dealing With its Own Oil Spill

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Conrad Black May be Free at Last

Former media baron Conrad Black, who was ruined and railroaded into prison, may be freed after posting a $2 million bond. Click here for the story, here and here for background.

And click here to buy and read reviews of books by Conrad Black, including biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt ("massive and moving") and Richard M. Nixon ("a superb volume").

Justice prevails? One hopes that is the case. More than one observer sees Black as the victim of a vendetta.

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Meaningless New Sanctions on North Korea

North Korea will not be moved by meaningless new sanctions, as explained here.

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Imagine Iran With Nukes

Click here to read Clifford May's excellent essay. An excerpt:

Is there a chance that Iran will give nuclear weapons to anti-American terrorists -- or attack the Great Satan directly? That is hard to imagine -- almost as hard as it was a few years ago to imagine that a stateless terrorist group based in rural Afghanistan would organize the hijacking of passenger jets and use them as missiles to attack Washington and New York.

Jim Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton, and Rebeccah Heinrichs, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, recently noted: "Iranian military writings show the mullahs recognize the potential" of launching a nuclear-armed missile from a ship near one of our coasts to create an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would destroy "the electric grid and electrical systems across a wide swath of U.S. territory." The result: "unimaginable economic devastation" and tens of thousands of deaths.

China Confidential has long focused on the very real threat of an EMP attack, which would overnight plunge the United States back into the 19th century--without the resources of the 19th century. In fact, experts estimate that only 10% of the population would survive an EMP attack.

Not for nothing, analysts assert, have Iran and North Korea developed and tested concealed systems for firing ballistic missiles from cargo ships.