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...
Christian Arab comic Ray Hanania (who is not the prime minister of Gaza) wrote this excellent article on ynet. Occasionally, when I am on the comedy stage, an American in the audience will stand up and blurt out, “Hey, camel jockey. How did the whole Arab-Israeli conflict start? What was the real cause?” ... http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3105616,00.html Ray Hanania is a Palestinian-American writer, peace activist and standup comedian w...
Africans are not stupid. And organising a working state is difficult. Most of Africa has failed to do so, as has most of Europe at many points in its history. What we are seeing in Africa is not an inherent inferiority of the location or the people but the same dark ages that many other continents were confronted with at other times. I believe the best solution for Africa is to allow other countries to organise Africa's economy. But for this to work, those other countries must profit from ...
My favourite dictator, Mahmoud (or whatever his name is) Qadafi, has reminded the United Nations that African nations are still underrepresented at the UN and the worldatlarge. I totally agree with him, as I often do. Here are a few steps I can recommend for helping African nations: 1. Give up Arab rule over North-Africa/Tamazgha. 3. Give up Arab rule over Egypt. 3. Give up Arab rule over Sudan. 4. Give up Arab rule over Somalia. There you are. A similar simple formula was o...
While the US become more left-wing, Europe is moving towards the right. In the UK the Tories are expected to win next year and in Germany first female (and first East-German) prime minister Angela Merkel just won the elections, most notably due to not her own Christian Democrats' success but due to the success of the more economically right-wing Liberal Democrats. Angela Merkel also won her own constituency decisevely. Many East-German constituencies fell to the Socialists. The Green party...
Does anybody else think that the world might soon run out of awards to give to President Obama? And he still hasn't achieved anything, let alone made peace between any parties. George W. Bush was instrumental in setting up peace treaties in Liberia and Sudan (between the Arab government and the Christian south). But actual achievement is worth so little these days...
My friend Kejda Gjermani has written an excellent article about the change and less unilateralism Obama brought about when he unilaterally changed the terms of a treaty with allies Poland and the Czech Republic. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-missile-defense-betrayal-15293 “Catastrophic for Poland” is how a spokeswoman at the Polish Ministry of Defense described the suspension of the program. Mirek Topolanek, the former Czech prime minister who had g...
The upside: I believe the facts speak for themselves: For the past few years, I have been crafting, in my head, an incredible novel coupled with some plot lines as well; I believe this novel will position me alongside literary giants such as Dostoyevsky. This novel may deeply affect the enlightened world’s cultural perception. In my mind’s eye I see how youngsters eagerly and passionately reading it, while the elderly zealously debate it at local cultural centers. And th...
There is so much that is wrong with the United Nations in the practical sense. The corruption, the support and protection the organisation grants to dictators, the deflection of criticism of genocide are only a few of these problems. But there is a more fundemantal problem with the UN which is probably the cause for all the practical problems, and that problem is with how the UN completely ignore their own purpose. When the United Nations were founded during World War II by the later victo...
According to these reports from the BBC and "Democratic Underground", whom both I have decided to trust about this, the Israeli secret service had tried to warn the US about the 9/11 terror attacks in advance and to prevent them. The American intelligence agency, the CIA, could have prevented the 11 September attacks if it were not for systematic failures, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit. The paper has uncovered details of a major Israeli spy ring involving some a 12...
Reports from Haiti say that the racist Israeli oppressors have arrived and built one of their terror hospitals: The IDF's field hospital in the Haitian capital worked at full capacity throughout Sunday, treating a relentless stream of victims from what a senior IDF medical officer described as "the war outside." Overnight Saturday, in what staff described as one of the most fulfilling moments of their work, the Israeli doctors delivered a baby boy, whose mother, Gubilande Jean Michel, pr...
The Miami Herald finally reveals the true depth of the racist evil that is the Zionist Entity: Israelis seem determined to do all they can to help the inhabitants of a frail nation thousands of miles away, people with no connection to Israel other than the fact that they both have a history of suffering. Watching the Israeli response -- one of the fastest, most effective of any country on Earth -- it is striking to see the enormous gap between the grotesque image of Israel woven by its enem...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/14/world/main6097735.shtml • The U.S. government is making an initial $100 million relief effort and is sending ships, helicopters, transport planes and 2,000 Marines. • Canada is sending $5 million Canadian (US$4.8 million) and matching contributions by individual Canadians to eligible charitable organizations up to a total of $50 million Canadian (US$47 million). Ottawa also is sending two navy ships, helicopters, transport planes a...