From the desk of George Handlery on Fri, 2011-04-01 16:32 The time approaches when Gaddafi might be joining his Serbian and Rwandan colleagues-in-political-crime. This comes about by becoming a full room and board guest of an international tribunal. The prediction hinges on a pre-condition. Primarily, it involves not so much “The Guide’s” ability to hold on to power – regardless of intermittent tactical successes- that appears to be increasingly unlikely. His paid goons have contracted to serve in a machinery of oppression directed against defenseless victims. To serve in that function, the quality demanded of them is the willingness to kill people to which they feel no kinship. What the deal did not include was a sincerely meant commitment to fight heroically a lost battle against insurmountable odds. Going down as the heroes of a “Götterdämmerung” in the last bunker on the side of a “Leader” might look good in a history book. However, such a role is not attractive to folks who rent themselves out on a thousand-dollars-a-day basis. In this respect, Gaddafi’s praetorians differ from the SS. A tidbit to illustrate the ideological commitment that Gaddafi does not enjoy. The last Iron Cross/Ritterkreuz of the Nazi régime was awarded during the siege of Berlin. The recipient was a French member of the Waffen SS. From the desk of Geert Wilders on Wed, 2011-03-30 12:12 To know why Islam is a mortal danger one must not only consider the Koran but also the character of Muhammad, who conceived the Koran and the entirety of Islam. The Koran is not just a book. Muslims believe that Allah himself wrote it and that it was dictated to Muhammad in the original version, the Umm al-Kitab, which is kept on a table in heaven. Consequently one cannot argue with the contents. Who would dare to disagree with what Allah himself has written? This explains much of Muhammadan behaviour, from the violence of jihad to the hatred and persecution of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims and apostates. What we in the West regard as abnormal, is perfectly normal for Islam. From the desk of Dirk Crols on Mon, 2011-03-28 09:00 One of Brussels' latest rather brutal infringements of member states' sovereignty is the proposal from European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs to force the national governments to spend 0.7 percent of their Gross National Income (GNI) to development aid. If they fail to meet this imposed objective, the Commission will impose sanctions. Forcing the member states to comply with this arbitrary norm, this '0.7 percent dogma' is not only the world upside down, it will also make problems in Africa and in other poor regions and countries even worse. Targets should be set according to demand rather than supply. Rather than imposing targets to increase aid, based on how well donor country economies are doing with no relation to Africa's economic circumstances, we should be setting targets to decrease aid, having analysed more profoundly its impact on recipient countries. The aid quantity argument - the assumption that more aid money would automatically lead to more development - is indeed a fallacy. The facts are crystal-clear. Over the past 60 years, at least one trillion in aid has been transferred from so-called rich countries to Africa. Yet real per-capita income today is lower than it was in the 1970s, and more than 50 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, a figure that has nearly doubled in decades.Decriminalizing Crime
Time To Unmask Muhammad
A Conservative View On Development Aid: Revaluing Peter Bauer's Legacy
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