Saturday, April 11, 2009
Polisario Violate Truce with Morocco
The Algeria-backed Polisario Front has violated an 18-year truce with an American ally, Morocco. Click here for the report.
China Confidential has learned that Polisario supporters are planning to revive their decades-old, Western Sahara independence campaign.
Several members of the Obama administration, including U.N. envoy Susan RIce and National Security Council member Samantha Power, are inclined to tilt toward the Polisario. Powers, who called Hillary Clinton "a monster" during the 2008 Presidential campaign, is a Hamas sympathizer and a fierce advocate of diplomatic engagement with nuclear-arming Iran.Corruption Conceals China's Killer-Coal Mines
China has the world's deadliest coal mines. The New York TImes reports that corruption has concealed the magnitude of the problem. Click here for the story.
The expose will not deter fawning foreign investment bankers, including Americans, from renewing efforts to shovel money into China's coal industry. Several projects have stalled; but bankers are still shuttling to and from the mainland, even as the U.S. government proceeds with plans to kill America's world-class coal industry.
Dependent on China for financing the nation's debt, Washington will not investigate Wall Street's wheeling and dealing with corrupt Chinese coal companies and Communist Party officials--transactions that could be considered violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.Faced with Piracy, French Summon Spirit of Foreign Legion while America Seems Dazed and Confused
Sacre bleu!
The French have rescued their hostages from a band of brazen, African Muslim pirates while the American Navy seems helpless and confused.
Never again will Americans be able to ridicule the French in military matters. The gallant spirit of the Foreign Legion seems to be alive and well in Paris; the philosophy of appeasement, in Washington.
The appeaser-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama, appears unmoved by the crisis, which, as China Confidential observed yesterday, is one of three American hostage situations currently playing out across the globe. That must be a record for a sitting President. The other outrages involve journalists: two American reporters held in North Korea, one Iranian-American freelance reporter held in Iran.
Obama seems distracted and indifferent, irritated by the intrusion of real-world tests so early in his tenure. An apt word, tenure; the President lectures the public like a second-rate academician or a community organizer, both of which he has been. (He also taught law for a while; but he clearly could never have succeeded as a litigator.)
His deafening silence on the crisis has naturally been praised by an adoring liberal media for whom American military might--and American power and alleged "arrogance," for which Obama has publicly apologized--are the main threats to world peace (apart from Israel's military might and willingness to use it).
Fact is, Obama is more likely to appoint a commission to study the root causes of piracy, or order the State Department to bring the pirates and their families to America for resettlement and retraining, than end the menace of piracy.
The nauseating spectacle is enough to make every patriotic American and every veteran of a foreign war thoroughly seasick.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The indomitable Atlas Shrugs is featuring an in-depth overview of Obama's submission to tyranny and "emasculation of America."
Saturday, 11 April 2009
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