From The Sun
A Saudi envoy ... claimed diplomatic immunity after allegedly molesting a girl of 11. ... The 41-year-old left British police powerless by using his legal right to escape prosecution over the alleged indecent assault at a party in West London. ... The alleged sex assault happened at the Holland Park home of another diplomat, who works at a different nation's London embassy. The Saudi is said to have gone into a bedroom and molested the young girl during the party last Sunday night. Police were called soon after and the envoy was arrested early on Monday morning.
But detectives were forced to abandon interviews when the suspected paedophile claimed immunity under the 1961 Vienna Convention. It states that diplomats do not fall under the criminal jurisdiction of the country in which they are serving. Once the Saudi's status was confirmed, he was released. ...
The Foreign Office said it had informed the Saudi embassy in Mayfair. ... Last night the Government was expected to call on the Saudis to waive their man's immunity. But unless the Saudis agree, police are powerless to take further action. It is not known whether the diplomat is still in this country. ...
Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
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Colonel Colt don't recognize no stinkin' immunity!! FUCK A BUNCHA saudis.....DEAD MAN WALKIN'....
Posted by: Halfass Pete ||
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There is another Saudi diplomat accused of sex crimes in Tanzania who is claiming diplomatic immunity.
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Should I be surprised that the "other diplomat" didn't gut the Saudi diplomat from pelvis to chin with a kitchen knife? Diplomatic immunity and all...
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The only response other than abject surrender is to expel the bastard----along with 10 more Saudi diplomats to emphasize the point. If the Sods retaliate by expelling British diplomats, up the ante, boot more Soddists, and scream the reasons for it from every rooftop in the civilized world. Cancel any royal visits and other cultural events, restrict the Saudi diplomatic mission and step up legal, though intrusive, suveillance of remaining Saudi diplomats.
The Sods have a lot to lose in a high-profile exchange of expulsions. The key factor is whether the Foreign Ministry is really willing to punish the Saudis, not whether they can.
Archbishop of York Dr. David Hope, the Church of England's second-most senior clergyman, said Sunday he had resigned his post to become a parish priest. Hope, who was archbishop for nine years, steps down in February to become vicar of St. Margaret's in the small town of Ilkey, northern England in March. "I'm very much looking forward to this new appointment," said Hope, 64, after a service at his new parish. "I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it as a parish priest and this I believe to be the call of God."
Hope's announcement comes as the church continues to struggle through the debate over the place for gay clergy — an issue that has threatened to split the community. The traditionalist Hope was often seen as a counterweight to his superior, the more liberal Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams. Last month, Hope told the General Synod meeting that the church must not be "overwhelmed" by the debate on gay issues and should instead concentrate on the "mission" of the Anglican faith.
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Unfortunatly Mr Hope, butt packing is what it's all about for the "gay issues" crowed. PIRATES!
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Crossing my fingers, hoping for a promotion.
Problem is of course my name is like poison in much of the UK.
That and the fact that I have a pretty well knownh fireworks/canvas fetish may work against me in the better part of the congreation as it were, and the better part of the congretation is where the latex is... but that's all I can say about that.
Posted by: The Right Rev Dr Shipman ||
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"concentrate on the "mission" of the Anglican faith."
Problem is, the Anglicans long ago ceased to be congurent with the mission of God's faithful (and words) on earth. They are more involved with political and socialist causes than matters of faith and salvation.
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy is causing some concern around the globe. Other countries fear they will soon no longer be able to compete. It's a revolution based on a limitless supply of manpower. The author starts right out with a manifestly false statement and magically glosses over numerous other ones in short order. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "LIMITLESS" OR INFINITE MARKET. Neither supply nor demand can ever be unbounded. China's supposedly infinite labor market is what will eventually destroy their corrupt system when all of these workers finally understand that only a few are destined for actual wealth.
Watch out Japan and the US; China already has the world's third biggest economy... and it just keeps growing. In Beijing this summer the latest fashion statement is a Hummer H2. For the uninitiated a Hummer is an enormous gas guzzling American 4X4. It's about the size of a small house. Just the thing for running around a congested city of 14 million people! Just the thing for a country whose dependence upon foreign oil exceeds that of nearly all others. One glance at the gas mileage rating sticker tells all; "Not Applicable."
"That has to be the stupidest car on the planet!" I commented to a Chinese friend on seeing yet another one blocking up a Beijing street. "I can't understand why anyone would want to buy one of those things." She laughed at me. "I thought you understood Chinese people!" she said. "They love cars like that. If you're rich in China you want to show it off." And in Beijing there are plenty of new rich who like to show it off. The Asian fascination with conspicuous consumption will most likely be one of their major stumbling blocks to lasting economic success. As with Japan's obsession over owning and exhibiting name brand goods, when scaled up for China's masses, this preoccupation with ostentatious public displays will bring about the usual misery. Continued on Page 49
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Looks like the the author is, to put it mildly, an idiot. Remember about 5 to 10 years ago when Microsoft was going to take over the world's economy with their 20% annual growth? All good things must pass; China's growth will be no different.
Here capitalism is raw and unregulated. The air is acrid. The rivers run black. It’s not pretty, but it’s thriving.
Capitalism does not cause air or water pollution. Corruption, lawlessness and malign neglect do. Capitalism functions quite well under rule of law. What passes for leadership and law in China scurries back into the shadows when light is shed upon it.
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Wow, they try so hard to spout the various
liberal litanies.
1) There is a fixed number of jobs in the world. False. As more Chinese get rich, they will
buy more stuff, including American and Japanese goods.
2) The rivers are running black and the air is acrid due to capitalism. False. Under communism, a soot belching polluted water spewing factory was
considering an example of China's industrial prowess.
As for the Asian propensity towards conspicuous consumption, what is wrong with it? We have such a predilection, too. We just call it a normal suburban life because we (Americans) are all so damn rich compared to the average Chinese. We live in McMansions and drive suburbans, shop at WholeFoods, get baby-gucci wear for our kids and Coach leashes for our dogs. Even our food (organic) is upscale these days.
Poll: No boost for Kerry after convention
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Convention boosted voters' perceptions of John Kerry's leadership on critical issues, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds. But it failed to give him the expected bump in the head-to-head race against President Bush.
In the survey, taken Friday and Saturday, the Democratic ticket of Kerry and John Edwards trailed the Republican ticket of Bush and Dick Cheney 50% to 46% among likely voters, with independent candidate Ralph Nader at 2%.
Before the convention, the two were essentially tied, with Kerry at 47%, Bush at 46%.
Frankly, unstable results like this are usually a sign of a discontinuity of some kind in sampling, opinion elicitation methodology or something else. On the other hand, it could also be measuring something real. If so, its double plus ungood for the dems.
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That's the kind of bounce a watermelon gets when it's dropped from a ten-story building.
Polls aside, Kerry has also given us just in the last week
1- The Teletubby photo (thank you NASA: if you guys want to send a manned flight to Alpha Centauri I'm with you);
2- The faceoff with a serving Marine sergeant trying to eat his lunch and instead having Lurch's finger shoved at him;
3- The sultry look at Edwards (Ingrid Bergman didn't do any better in Casablanca);
4- The Theresa won't kiss him photo; and last but not the least
5- The You Call That A Salute photo.
I'm back to thinking that Rove has someone on the inside.
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As well as the negative bounce in the opinion polls, Kerry's negative bounce in the election betting at www.intrade.com has now reached four points; Bush shares are selling higher than they have in several weeks.
"I'm back to thinking that Rove has someone on the inside."
Maybe a secret operative named William Jefferson Clinton?
Posted by: Dave D. ||
08/01/2004 17:50 Comments ||
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I'm back to thinking that Rove has someone on the inside. Or perhaps, Matt, that insider is a Clinton plant to assure a clear field for her 2008 aspirations. Then again maybe there's no need at all for dirty tricks when an arrogant,lying asshole like Kerry is running.
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The methodology discontinuity hypothesis looks stronger. I noticed that Scot Rasmussen, who uses the same method and same sampling each day (as I recall he uses auto dial machines and calls 300 people each day - my memory might be wrong on this)
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democrats have an "admiration society", where they go around giving each other awards and blowjobs and stuff.....but outside of that, I think everyone else says FUCK 'EM & FEED 'EM FISH HEADS.
If the democrats didn't have the media to trumpet their lies message...they'd cease to exist as a party.
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Shipman, I think you nailed an important concept:
"Life is too weird now to package."
I can only add, ..."or to poll."
You are the Hunter S. Thompson of RB!
It was interesting to see Ben Affleck emerge as the Hollywood mascot of the Democratic Convention. The week reminded me of Ben's movie Pearl Harbor: wall-to-wall evocative military imagery, a cast of thousands, superb production values, but a huge gaping hole where the star performance was supposed to be.
On TV the other night, young Mr Affleck offered a pearl of wisdom to Mr Kerry and his consultants: "You have to enervate the base," the Hollywood heartthrob advised solemnly. Thank goodness Steyn is willing to sacrifice some of his brain cells to watch this crap and catch boners like this; I couldn't stand it.
If it's enervating the base you're after, John F Kerry would seem to be the perfect candidate. On Thursday, for his first big moment in the national spotlight, his only concession to the occasion was to speed up his delivery, in order to cram a 90-minute address into the hour of primetime the networks were prepared to give him. But otherwise it was classic Kerry: verbose, shapeless, platitudinous, complacent, ill-disciplined, arrogant, and humourless. Don't hold back, Mark - tell us what you really think.
*snip*
At one level, what's happening is very unfair. Three-quarters of Democratic voters opposed the Iraq war; 86 per cent of convention delegates opposed it. But they've wound up with a presidential ticket comprised of two Senators who both voted in favour of it. And, after being for-and-against the war for the last year according to political necessity, Kerry seems to have settled on a position of doing pretty much what Bush is doing while simultaneously spending more time on the blower to Kofi, Jacques and Gerhard. If I were a principled anti-war Democrat, I'd be furious. But the anti-war Dems aren't principled, so they're not. They'd support the anti-Christ if he were running against Bush. (But wait - the leftists think Bush is the anti-Christ; it's the ultimate in cognative dissonance!)
But they're not. Because the real distinction is not between pro- and anti-war, but between September 11 Americans and September 10 Americans. The latter group is a coalition embracing not just the hardcore Bush haters - for whom, as the opening of Fahrenheit 9/11 makes plain, it all goes back to chads in Florida - but the larger group of voters who've been a little stressed out by the epic nature of politics these last three years and would like a quieter life. That's what John Kerry's offering them: a return to September 10. In his dreams.
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Say what you like about Bush, but on Iraq he stood by his principles and rallied the British, Australians, Poles, Italians, etc, to join him. He also rallied Kerry and Edwards to join him. They voted for his war, as the columnist Debra Saunders of The San Francisco Chronical drolly pointed out: "Kerry and Edwards followed. Bush led." Someone said that in San Francisco? Ouch!
Kerry now says that Bush "misled" him on Iraq. But, if he was that easily suckered by a renowned moron, how much more susceptible would he be to such wily operators as Chirac. They would speak French to each other, and Jacques would blow soothingly in his ear, and Kerry would look flattered, and there'd be lots of resolutions and joint declarations, and nothing would happen. We'd be fighting the war on terror through the self-admiring inertia of windbag multilateralism. That pretty much sums it up. The man definitely has a way with words!
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Leadership is about hearing different viewpoints and reaching a judgment. But Kerry gives the impression that, as long as he enjoys the perks of the top job, he's happy to subcontract his judgment to others. If he actually, you know, had any.
He moans endlessly about the "outsourcing" of American jobs but, when it comes to his own job, he's willing to outsource American foreign policy exactly!
to the mushy transnational talk-shops and to outsource homeland security to some dubious intelligence tsar. There's no sense of any strategic vision, no sense that he's thought about Iran or North Korea or any of the other powder kegs about to blow. I tried to ask him about some of these matters during the New Hampshire primary and he intoned in response, "Sometimes truly courageous leadership means having the courage not to show any leadership." (I quote from memory.) Yep, that's our "truly courageous" Kerry.
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His default position is the conventional wisdom of the Massachusetts Left: on foreign policy, foreigners know best; on trade, the labour unions know best; on government, bureaucrats know best; on defence, graying ponytailed nuclear-freeze reflex anti-militarists know best; on the wine list, he knows best. Dead on target again.
*snip*
Last year, I was at a Kerry campaign stop in New Hampshire chatting with two old coots in plaid. The Senator approached and stopped in front of us. The etiquette in primary season is that the candidate defers to the cranky Granite Stater's churlish indifference to status and initiates the conversation: "Hi, I'm John Kerry. Good to see ya. Cold enough for ya?" Etc. But Kerry just stood there nose to nose, staring at us with a semi-glare on his face. After an eternity, an aide stepped out from behind him and said, "The Senator needs you to move."
"Well, why couldn't he have said that?" muttered one of the old coots, as Kerry swept past us.
That's how I felt after the Convention: all week Senators Biden, Lieberman and Edwards made the case that the Democrats were credible on national security. Why couldn't Kerry have said that?
Because in the end he's running for President because he feels he ought to be President. That's his message to George W Bush: "The Senator needs you to move." And even then everyone else says it better.
Now that's painful (heh-heh)! Read the whole thing.
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Even if I were still a Democrat I'd be hard-pressed to find a reason to vote for this clown-- or any reason to vote against Bush.
Kerry is easily the least-inspiring candidate the Dems have fielded since that sad-eyed basset hound, Walter Mondale. And now comes John Kerry, with the same depressive message.
Bleah.
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Hey!
Steyn, August 1: [Kerry and Chirac] would speak French to each other, and Jacques would blow soothingly in his ear, and Kerry would look flattered, and there’d be lots of resolutions and joint declarations, and nothing would happen.
Me, July 28: Where Bush got a cold shoulder and a curt brush-off, Kerry will get a warm embrace and a polite brush-off. Kerry and the Europeans will have wonderful dinners where the champagne freely flows, and they will speak in beautiful French, and get along so amiably....And we all (especially Kerry) will walk away quite satisfied, despite the fact that the agreements have been qualified and nuanced into futility.
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I was listening to Dem speeches last week on the truck radio driving north of Fairbanks. I had flashbacks to my '60s Berkeley days. It was awful. Everyone with an axe to grind and an agenda was up there on the podium, grinding the axe and ramming their agenda down our throats.
IMHO, middle America watching this display on the telly will be repulsed by the fringe radicals which make up much of the Democratic Party nowadays. If they are not, then it means that collectively the country has lost its moral compass and we are in deep s**t. I sure hope that we wake up out of this nightmare in November.
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08/01/2004 14:53 Comments ||
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Angie: Cool! You go, girl! :-p
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Hey Affleck, SHUT UP AND SING -er- ACT -er- ENTERTAIN -er- ah forget it -- shut up and BANG whats-her-face and keep her off the movie screen.
CF - rumor's out that he's trying to tap one (both?) of Kerry's daughters. How you could possibly have sex with that woman and not get disturbing images of nailing Senator Horseface is beyond me.
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Lucky - I can't say I'm an expert on how people look when they're stoned, so you may be right.
To me, Kerry looks like a love-sick calf. And this isn't the first picture I've seen where he looks at Edwards like that. I don't know whether to call him creepy or pathetic (can he be both?).
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Good grief!, clicked through, saw the image for 0.5 second, closed window...but I don't think I'll get the image out of my head for quite some time... Uggh!
Posted by: Tony (UK) ||
08/01/2004 14:11 Comments ||
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Is it the alcohol or the botox talking?
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08/01/2004 14:14 Comments ||
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I had pretty much the same reaction as Tony (UK): my first conscious thought as the picture came into view was "I shouldn't be watching this. This is WRONG."
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Since Kerry is re-buffed by Teresa, do you blame him for looking elsewhere to find a "more receptive" face??
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Seeing that picture, I half expect the cheezy boom-chicka-chicka music to start. Along with some lines like "you'll be an important MEMBER of my STAFF".
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08/01/2004 18:29 Comments ||
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He has now made an honest (wo)man out of Edwards.
Kerry took his breath away.
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(Democrats could save a lot of money by holding the Democratic National Convention and the National Education Association Convention at the same time.)
How true. The problems in the schools is not the student-teacher ratio but the Teachers union itself injecting itself into the classroom where they have no right to be. The Union has more say in what gets taught and how then the parents do.
As John F. Kerry tries to bounce out of Boston and into a decisive fall campaign lead, a skeleton from the past will slink out of jail - possibly looking to score headlines and undercut the new nominee. David Paul, a central figure in a 1980s savings and loan scandal, is set to be sprung from a halfway house in Miami Sunday - a decade after his conviction on 97 counts of banking fraud.
TV news outlets are scrambling to line up the first interview, hopeful the long-silent Paul might spill some beans about his close fund-raising ties to Kerry during the 1988 national campaigns. David Bossie, who interviewed Paul for a new book that is very critical of Kerry, titled ``The Many Faces of John Kerry [related, bio],'' said the former banker may have a lot more to say about Kerry. ``There's no question he's holding cards, there's no question there's more out there,'' Bossie said. Paul did not return calls. The Kerry campaign wouldn't comment on his release. Paul, who was chairman of the Miami-based CenTrust Savings, and Kerry came into closest contact while the Bay State senator was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1988. Kerry appointed Paul head of the Democratic Trust, a fund-raising arm of the DSCC. The senator was then chairman of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and other S&Ls. Bank execs and associates gave more than $30,000 to the DSCC, earning Paul recognition at the `88 DNC in Atlanta. That year, Kerry attended a swank party at Paul's Miami mansion, where guests were fed by six of the top chefs of France. Paul was later charged with wrongful investment of his bank's funds in junk bonds and using bank money to finance his lavish lifestyle.
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Coming up next: Taraaaaysa and a bag of money take a road trip.
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I wonder what the odds are of this dude showing up on Larry King anytime soon? ;)
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The sad thing is, I don't know if this would rattle Kerry. If you've got the media secretly rooting for you to win, you can downplay anything. Hell, Kerry could shoot a little old lady crossing the street and the media would probably try to put a positive spin on it.
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Doc, Obviously the little ole lady was a Al-Q operative with links to Condi and Bush (and the RNC) who are secretly the Leaders of Al-Q while OBL is simply a puppet and figurehead.
From Voice of America News
A group of eight young girl football (soccer) players from Afghanistan are here in the United States this summer to learn more about the game and to take part in the International Children's Games in Cleveland, Ohio. The girls range in age from 11 to 16 and all of them are from the Afghan capital of Kabul. Their trip to the United States was arranged through Awista Ayub, founder of the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an organization she started last year to promote leadership among Afghan youth, using athletics as a tool to teach leadership skills. She said she began the program as a result of her love and passion for sports.
"I grew up as an Afghan-American woman in the States and played sports from my childhood to my adulthood, and it played a very integral part of my life, in helping me to become a strong leader, have a higher self-confidence," she said. "And I thought it was important for me to share with other girls in Afghanistan to help them become stronger leaders using sports as that tool."
The young Afghan girls will be competing in the International Children's Games which will be held in Cleveland, Ohio July 29 to August 2. This will be the first time since the games were established in 1968 that Afghanistan will be represented. Before their appearance, the girls have been attending a sports leadership and soccer camp in Connecticut and other practice sessions. One was in suburban Washington, where they trained under a local girls youth coach, Jawed Sanie. Coach Sanie is from Kabul, the youngest in a family of 12 brothers and sisters, who left Afghanistan in 1980. The family went to Germany and then came to the United States in 1983. He played high school and college soccer and has coached girls youth soccer in the Washington area for 12 years. Coach Sanie says he works with about 200 kids per week and said the young Afghan players are quick learners. ... The goal is that after playing in the upcoming International Children's Games in Cleveland, Ohio, these girls will go back to Kabul to promote sports in their communities and to take leadership roles both in sports and outside of sports.
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I don't like this one bit. We should be teaching them softball!
Health workers took a polio vaccination campaign Saturday to villages in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, ending a ban on inoculations that had caused a regional outbreak and threatened global eradication efforts.
That's too bad. Now they'll miss their cause and effect lesson...
Nigeria's Kano state — where a recent epidemic of the crippling disease started and spread to 10 other African nations — allowed vaccinations to resume Saturday after an 11-month boycott. The ban was imposed after religious leaders alleged that foreign powers were spreading AIDS and infertility among Muslims with the vaccine.
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religious leaders alleged that foreign powers were spreading AIDS and infertility among Muslims with the vaccine
Completely unnecessary; they're spreading that all by themselves with no outside help.
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Electricity is a known cancer causing agent and sewers are known to cause homosexuality in Muslims. Spread the word.
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- where a recent epidemic of the crippling disease started and spread to 10 other African nations -
This is the little gem that hacks me off. Shouldn't Nigeria have their oil producing revenues garnished to pay for the surrounding misery that they single-handedly propagated? It's these sort of repercussions that continue to go unnoticed by the global community. More than just Nigeria's Muslims were made to suffer by their own intense stupidity. But no mention is made of how to obtain justice for this intentional infliction of crippling disease upon thousands of other non-Nigerian people.
Absamat Masaliyev, former leader of Kyrgyzstan who headed the Central Asian nation's Communist Party both before and after the Soviet collapse, has died, the government said Sunday. He was 71. Masaliyev died Saturday from a heart attack, the government said.
In 1985, he became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Kyrgyzstan after changes in the Soviet Communist leadership that saw Mikhail Gorbachev take power in Moscow. He remained in office until 1990 when he lost elections in the country's first-ever presidential elections, as the Soviet republics sought to assert their sovereignty in moves that led the next year to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The election was won by Askar Akayev, who remains president of independent Kyrgyzstan. After the election loss, Masaliyev took control of the surviving Communist Party, and in 1995 he won a seat in the upper chamber of parliament representing his southern home region of Osh. Later that year, Masaliyev challenged Akayev unsuccessfully again, but drew strong support in the south. In 2000, he won a lower parliament seat and held that post until his death.
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Well, these things happen in this best of families. I hope he left a litter clout to his family. In times like this a little clout goes a long way in the cotton markets.
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It couldn't be Ukrainian resentment and distrust over the 6-8 million dead of the Stalin engineered famine and executions or being conquered and reabsorbed into the Russian empire after the Russian Civil War.
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a) The millions of Ukrainians deliberately starved by the Russians from 1932-33 are actually higher than 6-8 Million...it's more like 8-10 Million...better known as the Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor).
b)And sadly the famine-genocide of the Ukrainians continues to remain an "insignificant" event in history, rarely discussed outside of Ukrainian circles in world history. Salt was recently administered to the Ukrainians'open wound by the owner of the NYT, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and by the Pulitzer committee.
One of the major reasons this atrocity was covered up at the time it happened was due to NYT journalist, Walter Duranty, who consciously covered up the stories coming out of Europe about Stalin's atrocities against the Ukrainians and Duranty attacked the allegations as being ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPOGANDA. Duranty was a senior foreign corresponant and his views carried alot of weight at the time. Duranty won a Pulitizer for his false reporting.
About 2 years ago - an event as under reported as the Stalin imposed starvation of Ukrainians - the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Union started a campaign to have Duranty stripped of his Pulitizer posthumously by the NYT. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. rigorously politic'ed the Pulitzer Prize Committee not to do so, arguing this would be a precedent...this was clearly a lie....and because he said Duranty earned the Pulitizer for the good journalism he wrote before he lied about Stalin's genocide of the Ukrainians...from an article in the Calgary Sun by Paul Jackson May 20, 2003: ...For his falsifications, Jayson Blair has been banished from the New York Times, but Walter Duranty paid no penalty for his outrageous behaviour. The Times and the Pulitzer Prize Committee still claim Duranty received his award for work before his sham reporting in the Soviet Union in 1932-33. This is like suggesting an apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime should still be honoured for earlier endeavours.
Ukrainians the world over deserve justice, and the Times should give them that justice by stripping Duranty of his Pulitzer Prize now. Right now.
Postscript: Just because Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is Jewish, it doesn't give him a free pass from honest criticism about unconscionable behavior.
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This newspiece seems significant to me for two reason.
1) First of all it shows, possibly for the first time, a clear case of Putin using anti-Western rhetoric -- not only that but connecting this with his desired reemergence of a united neoSoviet block. Pretty much the way he dubbed everyone who disagreed with the emergence of such a block a "western agent". Purging times a-coming?
(Some time ago, btw, I had argued that Putin was using anti-American rhetoric in a certain incident rather than the merely anti-Democrat rhetoric other people here believed he was using. This incident here is much clearer on the general anti-Western front, even if he doesn't attack Americans alone but the West in general.)
2) Secondly, because as the article says "Ukraine has approved membership of this space, but, so far, the government has insisted it will not implement anything that damages its chances of EU integration - such as a single currency or a free trade zone."
...which shows what I've said before, that the existence of the EU (and the hope some countries like Ukraine or Georgia have of joining it) seems one of the few roadblocks towards the reemergence of such a new Soviet Union -- same as the EU is one of the influences against Turkey sliding back to either a secular or an Islamist tyranny.
Which also connects to an earlier discussion of one or two days ago, about EU's influence in the world.
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Postscript: Just because Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is Jewish, it doesn't give him a free pass from honest criticism about unconscionable behavior.
Wouldn't Sulzberger's status as a Jew make it just that more important for him to get out the truth about Stalin's pogroms? All of this simply reeks of manipulation. Unca Joe may have killed more Jews than Hitler. He most certainly killed more people than Adolph. Yet, like the Armenian genocide, the world continues to sweep this one under the rug. Go figure.
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Aris! You're getting way too single issue.
Tell us about your brother, do you plan to sell him into slavery? Is that still allowed? If not, why not? Is it an EU thing? :)
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It almost pains me to say this but I agree with Aris on this one. Putin, it seems, longs for the days of the old Soviet Union and is having some trouble so ramp up the ole' anti Western retoric.
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Big deal. This is Putin's answer to the EU and NATO creeping up next door. Keep in mind it's not only Putin that longs for the days of the Soviet Union, but a solid 1/3 of the people as well.
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If you want a good example of the "long march through the institutions" undertaken by sixties leftists after they left school, look no further than the career of Orville Schell, dean of Berkeley's School of Journalism. Since the political program of the left was unlikely to prevail through democratic means-- given the innate good sense of most Americans, who can smell a totalitarian rat a mile away-- those like Schell endorsing various socialist nostrums could realize their utopian schemes only "by insinuation and infiltration rather than confrontation," as Roger Kimball has put it. Thus they settled in the universities and the media, "working against the established institutions while working in them," in the words of sixties leftist guru Herbert Marcuse.
But there is another dimension of the institutionalization of the left, one also illustrated by Schell--what Tom Wolfe famously called "radical chic," the use of leftist ideology as a fashion marker to signify one's elitist superiority to the bovine middle class befuddled by a false consciousness that keeps them from seeing the horrible oppression and injustice of America. This combination of elitist privilege and ideology has been a pretty good deal for lucky leftists like Schell, for their insidious undermining of democracy's institutions works just slowly enough to allow them to continue to enjoy the prestigious and profitable benefits of those same institutions that their "progressive" ideas are corrupting. The circumstances of Schell's hiring at Berkeley illustrate just how entrenched the left has become in American universities. Before going to Berkeley as dean, Schell had written for various publications, produced some television documentaries, run an organic farm, and published several well-received books on China, having given up on finishing his PhD. In other words, a pretty good career, but not one that would usually qualify you for being dean of one of the country's most prestigious journalism schools. But if Schell lacked one of the requirements for the position, a completed PhD, he did have impeccable leftist credentials. That was qualification enough for Berkeley profs like Troy Duster, another ex-sixties-radical who was instrumental in Schell's hiring. More at the link...
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1. its not brainless leftism; its demented leftism
2. the success of leftists in infiltrating, then dominating universities is due to their strong sense of ideological incestuousness --- whereas conservatives are more impressed by scholarship, and thus were willing to hire leftists who were scholars, the leftists ignore conservative scholars
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