"Let's take the military option off the table. We have seen it doesn't work," Mr Schroeder told Social Democrats at the rally in Hanover, to rapturous applause from the crowd. http://www.pakistantimes.net/2005/08/14/top7.htm The suffering the Angloamerican invasion of Iraq has ended has to be seen to be believed. http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000374.php Saddam Hussein's SS (why not use the historical term) killed thousands, no, tens of thousands. I have not seen...
Every morning I check one German news site, n-tv.de , the German version of CNN. I do so for two reasons. One is that I do want to know what is going on in the country where my parents live. The other is that n-tv is less anti-American than most English news sites. They also have Ulrich Sahm , one of the few European journalists who actually knows something about Israel other than what the Nazis and later the PLO said about Jews and who actually lives in Jerusalem. But when it comes t...
Every now and then one finds stories such as these: http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2009/01/un-human-rights-bigwig-arrested-on.html I do not want to go into detail because some crimes are really beyond discussion. But the updates to the article are intriguing: S ince it's the UN, not so much. The UN has been bulletproof to these charges before, and I don't see it changing anytime soon, despite the fact that change is sorely needed at the UN. And finally, there is a conclusion: H...
I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country. The Daily Telegraph is read b...
Don't underestimate Iran. It is a common mistake Europeans and Americans make, assuming that only America and Europe are important. Quite in contrast Iran is the single most important individual country in the world . I am not exaggerating. All of world history can easily be described as the rest of the world trying to keep up, cope, or find favour with Iran. Iran's geographical location, religious importance to several faiths, its ancient history, its size, its relationship with other...
As a memorial, I give you the names and ages of the dead children, as provided by the rebel Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (Sudan Tribune, March 24): Abdel-Latif Hassan Gar El-Nabi, 7 months old; Ahmed Musa, 7 months old; Munir Mohamed Ibrahim, 9 months old; Esam Babiker Yacoub, 3 years old. At another camp, Otash, after the mother of a 10-year-old, weak from dehydration after vomiting all night long, took him to a clinic, the door was locked. Said a relative of the boy: "The whi...
There have been fights between Chinese police and Uigures in Xinjiang. Numbers of victims are now estimated to be in the hundreds. The Chinese have not yet provided information on their names and why they were killed. Has anybody seen any non-anti-Semitic protesters who are worried solely about innocent deaths yet or is China's government not Jewish enough?
This is what the unemployed in Germany receive for free from the state, as per Wikipedia. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_4 "Unemployed" are here those who haven't worked in years. These are the numbers for able-bodied young (20 to 40) people in Euros. Individual: 351 per month Married couple: 316 per individual per month Child (14 and older): 281 per child per month Child (younger than 14): 211 per child per month Also: between 42 and 126 per month according t...
I don't know if it is a good idea first to call Ahmadinejad the "elected leader of Iran" and then "correcting" that statement. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran 's elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran's election was fair. "Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say tha...
Harry's Place about "Human Rights Watch": I really am at a loss for words. Assuming that this is all correct, hiring a very extreme Communist, with simply horrendous views about Israel/Palestine to produce a report of this sort is akin hiring a man who was formerly active in the KKK to write about black people and crime. Fundraising for this sort of work in Saudi Arabia is like taking cash for this enterprise from the old Apartheid South Africa. This is the anatomy of a lynchi...
Take a look at the likely outcome according to current polls: http://www.n-tv.de/politik/politik_wahl_2009/wahl_statistik/ Black is a safe Christian Democrat win. Red is a safe Social Democrat win. Violet is a safe Socialist win. Green is a safe Green win. I already voted. In my district, the last place I lived in before I moved to Dublin, there were two candidates with chances to win: Klaus Uwe Benneter runs for for the Social Democrats and is famous for once having be...
Charles Krauthammer explains the problems with Obama's foreign policy: The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world. That picture -- a defiant, triumphant take-that-Uncle-Sam -- is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy. It d...
It is surprising but it seems that Obama's quest to "improve" relations with America's allies after the eight-year Bush debacle continue to fail. Even Reuters acknowledges that Obama has problems even just getting along with allies: U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, allied in war but lacking in personal chemistry, face a critical test next week of whether they can just get along http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64617L20100507 Any Obama supporters ...
Somalilandpress.com are still optimistic about rumours that Israel wants to recognise Somaliland's independence . I understand their optimism and I totally support official recognition, but I am ultimately less optimistic. I have checked every hint they had, Hebrew-language articles in Israeli newspapers, quotes from officials, word on the street; but I never could find the source of the rumours. I do know that the Israeli public are likely to support Somaliland. Anyway, Somalilandpres...
This is an opportunity for a really sarcastic article about how the supposed war crime of liberating Iraq somehow led to Iraqis voting for the very people who not only supported the invasion but even those who made the invasion happen . But instead of writing such an article, I thought I will rather celebrate this great democratic success and give liberals who opposed the invasion a chance to celebrate this too. For the third time Iraqis have had the chance to vote. Omar of Iraq the Model...