As horrible and tragic as the cyclones and the lives lost in Myanamar are. It is even more tragic that Myanamar officials seem more concerned with staying in power than helping their own people. People are starving and devastated. Myanamar has accepted help from a few neighboring countries but there are many more that are willing to help but being denied permission. This situation is just horrendous and it breaks my heart. I just watched a news report which showed a...
Le bonhomme au pull rouge passe les doigts dans sa blanche tignasse. Il regarde d’un air amusé la trentaine de types en costards et cravates réunis, attentifs, autour de lui, dans une salle de conférence en haut d’un building dont les grandes baies vitrées dominent la rivière qui arrose la capitale de l’Empire. Son public : des pontes de la Banque mondiale. Il sait que ce qu’il va leur dire, en réponse à l...
Autant dans l’esprit guerrier, les américains changent d’humeur et veulent s’évertuer dans la stratégie ‘académique’, question d’assimiler les tenants et les aboutissants en Irak et gagner la sympathie des irakiens. On croit rêver ! Selon Newsweek, il y plus d’une semaine, l’administration Bush a dépêché depuis 2007 des ‘experts’, académiciens ant...
Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Hyena, has announced support for Obama.
"We like Mr. Obama. We hope he will win the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America."
The ringing endorsements just keep coming in
Louis Farrakan, Hanoi Jane, 'spiritual advisor' Wright, 'Mentor' Bill Ayers, Jimmy Carter, and now, the Hamas terror organization.
Il arrive que nous restions muets devant le malheur, quand il surgit des entrailles de la terre : une éruption volcanique, une vague géante qui submerge des villages et emporte des milliers de vies humaines. C’est ce qu’on appelle une catastrophe naturelle, souvent imprévisible. Mais rien n’est moins naturel que la catastrophe qui frappe depuis quelques jours Haïti, l’Égypte, le Bangladesh, la Guinée, le Maroc, la Maurita...
This is what we are supposed to look up to an emulate?
At least some here, and abroad are holding up this as an example of what America should be. A land where you can be arrested, fined and jailed for what?
"I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts,"
That is Bridget Bardot's crime. Just stating an opinion.
Now we can argue that she is wrong,...
Ex-President Jimmy Carter is going about the work of the Jimmy Carter Foundation's stated purpose of promoting peace around the world. How can this be wrong, he is a private citizen that has the right to do what ever he pleases as long as he does not break the law.
Why are our leaders going so overboard on calling this man of peace the worst president in history, and the president of so little accomplishment when they themselves can not even begin to compare with what they have done for...
This is my first new post in 4 years. I stepped away for school and work. I'm here to pose a question. Why is it freedom is so selective? The current analogue is Tibet, of course. You may have heard of it. Tibetans want to be independent, as they were. China, the new bully in town, says no way! Everyone feels for them, some protest, but there is no major multilateral front from any government or institution. Why? Because it's effing China.&nb...
Je ne condamne pas le roi Fahd, honoré par le roi d’Espagne, qui taille les têtes, coupe les mains et arrache les yeux, qui humilie les femmes et bâillonne les opposants, qui fait l’important en l’absence de presse, de parlement et de partis politiques, qui viole les Philippines et torture Indiens et Egyptiens, qui dépense le tiers du budget de l’Arabie Saoudite entre les 15.000 membres de sa famille et finance les mouvements les plus réac...
Il était une fois, aux États-Unis, pays de cocagne, d’aimables philanthropes accourus au chevet des pauvres (pas trop, mais assez pauvres quand même) pour leur offrir de les aider à acheter une maison. Ces bienfaiteurs prêtaient, presque sans contrepartie, de l’argent à qui en manquait. Les pauvres n’auraient qu’à rembourser tout doucement, à leur main, tout en jouissant sans délai de leurs nouveaux murs et de l...
First of all I still don't know why we invaded Iraq in the first place. Yeah, I know the excuses etc. but I don't think any of them hold water. There were no weapons of mass destruction. None of the 9/11 terrorists were from Iraq or receiving funding from or through Iraq. There actually has recently been a study which the administration is trying to hush up that basically states that prior to our invasion of Iraq there was NO link between Iraq and Al Queda. Ye...
So a few weeks back one of the world's foremost studies on attitudes to war, peace and apathy in Islam was released to the media (but not the public).
I was waiting for Brad to post it up, as demographic surveys of Muslim countries are one of his regular topics.
But he hasn’t yet, so I thought I’d mention it and throw it up to JU.
Looking at the handful of figures that are out right now, I think everyone can probably find something to point to and say, “Wow, I’m ...
"U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency."
Article II, Sec. 2 of the U.S. Constitution assigns the authority to make international treaties to the President of the United States, with consent from 2...
Manufacturing jobs are disappearing - blame NAFTA except it isn't really because of NAFTA. For one thing where are most of our goods manufactured in Mexico? Canada? No? They are manufactured in China because labor is even cheaper there than it is in Mexico. There was a time when people in this country made a choice to buy the cheaper foreign made item over a more expensive American made item. There are consequences to these decisions. Now we very se...
By the end of the Second World War (WWII), Europe and Japan were in shambles. The United Nations (UN) was established after WWII to prevent war from breaking out again. It was not founded to govern over the myriad nations of the earth, but rather to preserve the sovereignty of each through international oversight and action. All nations could have a seat in the General Assembly, but only five nations would comprise the UN Security Council: the United States (US), France, the United Kingdom (U...