Ulysses ends its career after revealing that the magnetic field emanating from the sun's poles is much weaker than previously observed. This could mean the upcoming solar maximum period will be less intense than in recent history.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has accused foreign aid agencies of using food as a weapon to try to remove him from power and will investigate their operations, state media reported on Monday.
Mugabe, whose government ordered aid agencies to stop work on June 4, has himself been accused by Western countries and human rights groups of using food as a political tool ahead a June 27 presidential election re-run.
The state-controlled Herald newspaper said Mugabe told a rally on Sunday that in the absence of the agencies, his government would strive to provide food aid, badly needed in a once prosperous country that now faces economic collapse.
Mugabe said aid agencies had worked against his ZANU-PF in March 29 elections, when the ruling party lost its majority in parliament and opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the presidential ballot -- but without the majority needed to avoid a run-off, according to official results. "Food aid is needed and the government is focusing on that. That is a need the NGOs exploited, saying 'we are feeding you, so do not vote for ZANU-PF, vote for the MDC'," Mugabe said, referring to the non-governmental organisations.
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Former Home Affairs Minister, Dumiso Dabengwa has thrown his weight behind the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of the 27 June presidential election run-off. In the 29 March poll, he backed Simba Makoni, who came third.
Dabengwa declared his position last Friday as three provinces of Makoni's Kusile/Mavambo project --Matabeleland North and South and Bulawayo -- met to strategise ahead of the run-off, which pits Tsvangirai against President Robert Mugabe.
The former Zipra commander's stance, which differs sharply with Makoni's proposal of a negotiated settlement, is likely to be adopted by the provinces at the workshop that ends today. This is likely to boost Tsvangirai's campaign as the bulk of Makoni's eight percent of the vote came from Matabeleland after Dabengwa ended up as the only Zanu PF heavyweight to openly support the former finance minister.
Dabengwa said although they felt that Makoni's campaign was let down by the failure of his high-profile backers in Zanu PF to come out in the open ahead of the election, there was no chance he would return to Zanu PF. "We have tried to push for the cancellation of the run-off because Zimbabweans spoke loudly that no candidate could go it alone and there was a need for a government of national unity," Dabengwa said. "The MDC was agreeable to the talks and the Zanu PF people that we spoke to agreed but none of them had the guts to approach Mugabe with the proposals."
The former Zanu PF politburo member said talks on a government of national unity were doomed. "This is why, personally, I am saying it is better to prepare for the run-off by going back to our pledge to the people not to support Mugabe, no matter what."
On the nature of the campaign he said there were concerns from the Kusile co-ordinators in the provinces that if they campaigned openly they would become targets of political violence engulfing the country. The MDC says at least 65 of its supporters have been murdered and tens of thousands others displaced by Zanu PF militias campaigning for Mugabe.
"A decision will be made at this workshop on how we will conduct the campaign but strong views have come out that we must not be reckless in the way we do things as we might also become targets," he said.
He said as a former ZIPRA commander he had tried to reason with war veterans in Matabeleland not to join the terror campaign against villagers who were backing the MDC. Levels of violence similar to those in most Mashonaland provinces would be unfortunate for people of Matabeleland who are still recovering from the Gukurahundi massacres that claimed the lives of more than 20 000 civilians, he added.
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MUSCAT A US State Department report alleging that Oman has not taken enough measures to check human trafficking has come in for exceptionally severe criticism from the Majlis Ashshura, currently in session here. The house rejected and condemned the report which included the Sultanate and a number of other states in the Gulf in a list of countries that have made no effort to combat trafficking in humans.
Addressing members on Saturday, Majlis Chairman Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Isaee, said the State Department report was false, stressing that Oman had always adhered to the solid values that called for respect of man and his dignity. The countrys laws and regulations, he said, secured human rights and freedom and dignity without any discrimination between citizens and expatriates.
Oman is a model of human rights, ev'ryone knows that ...
A strongly-worded resolution passed by the council, meanwhile, said the US accusations were false and groundless, adding: The Majlis Ashshura has followed with concern the report issued by the US State Department alleging that the Sultanate does not make enough efforts to combat human trafficking. The Majlis Ashshura, as a national platform that represents the Omani society, rejects and condemns the false and untrue allegations stated in the report.
It said the baseless observations contained in the report contradicted with the fact that Oman enforced and maintained labour laws and regulations that protected expatriates rights, maintained their dignity and provided them with peace of mind.
The Majlis reiterated that within the context of the countrys Basic Law, regulations and laws, the Sultanate preserved human dignity and rights. They (the US government) should rather revise their failure in foreign policies and practices in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan before accusing others, it further said.
The whining continues at considerable length at the link.
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respect of man and his dignity
Sure, but respect for women, that's another thing.
The European Union's foreign ministers Monday called on their Irish colleague to explain his countrymen's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, warning that no quick solutions were in sight.
What part of 'no' don't you understand?
'Ireland signed the Lisbon Treaty, it is up to her to find a solution,' Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said at a meeting in Luxembourg.
But his Austrian colleague, Ursula Plassnik, said it would be unfair to isolate Ireland and called on all 27 member states to come up with a way out of the impasse. 'We are not going to put anyone in a corner, let alone the Irish. We must be fair towards them and listen to what they have to say,' Plassnik said.
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We must be fair towards them and listen to what they have to say,' Plassnik said.
We've already said it, thanks, just like the vast majority of other EU citizens would have if they'd been allowed a vote. Please, EUrocrats, get it through your thick skulls that surrendering national sovereignty is NOT what we, and most other EU citizens, had in mind when we joined. If you force us to make a choice between our countries and the EU, the EU WILL always come in second.
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"Because it's our fucking RIGHT to say no, ya bloody frog bastards!"
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And it will all come to much ado about nothing. The EUROcrats will continue with their slow motion coup.
Ireland, England, France, et.al. will be reduced to the status of Rhode Island at best. (Actually picture Rhode Island after 8 years of 'bama)
They have little sovereignty left now and will lose the rest momentarily. See EU Referendum for the details, but, the 'crats figure they can implement 85% of the treaty with out any more votes at all.
"Explain to us why you let your uppity peasants vote against this. We expect to see floggings, imprisonment and some public executions of the ring leaders."
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Compare wid DER SPEIGEL > FRANCE SHIFTING STRATEGIC POLICIES; + WAFF.com > FRANCE'S SARKOZY ORDERS CUTBACKS IN FRENCH MILITARY PROCUREMENT.
TOPIX > SARKOZY MOVING FRANCE TOWARDS PRIVATIZATION SCHEMES.
IMO, think IRELAND = FRANCE, + Ireland giving mainland Europe an opportunity to fix itself to its own advantage/benefit. AS THINGS STAND RIGHT NOW, IN THE RACE FOR SETTING UP + ESTABLISHING FUTURE OWG FREE TRADE ZONES, THE EURO-ZONE [includ MEDITERRANEAN UNION] IS FALLING BEHIND THE LATIN-ZONE = SOUTH AMERICA.
Uncles Fidel-Raul would be proud > QUBA/CUBA + CARIBBEAN ZONE? may not be kicking Amer's butt right now, but its defin kicking Euro-butt!
VARI NET Posters > Gener, opine that iff BRITAIN ever surrenders to Radical Islamism, THE EU [as pan-EURO Organiz = "As Is" Curr Treaty] WON'T BE FAR BEHIND???
(Xinhua) -- Only three days before a crucial European Union summit in Brussels, President Nicolas Sarkozy continued with his European tour to prepare for the French presidency of the 27-member union, despite a crisis that has been precipitated after Irish voters said "no" to the Lisbon Treaty. "President Nicolas Sarkozy had worked hard to win over skeptic European leaders on the need for the treaty that was aimed at reforming the EU following the rejection of the draft constitution treaty in successive referendums in France and the Netherlands," said one European diplomat, adding: "the leaders will have to go back to the drawing board."
In a move that, according to observers, is calculated at giving the sign that there is no crisis following the rejection of the simplified European treaty, President Sarkozy was expected to visit Czech Republic capital of Prague.
Initially conceived as a simple presentation of the priorities of his mandate, the French head of state's visit to Prague has since Friday took the appearance of crisis meeting between the two countries that are expected to take turns at the helm of the EU between 2008 and 2009, according to analysts.
Since the outcome of the Irish vote was made public, President Nicolas Sarkozy and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek have issued statements conceding that the no vote was "a problem" or a "complication" for the European Union, nevertheless seeking to play down its repercussions.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo, June 15 -- Kosovo's government took control of the newly independent nation Sunday as the country's constitution went into force after nine years of U.N. administration. The charter, a milestone that comes four months after leaders declared independence from Serbia, gives the government sole decision-making authority.
But it threatens to worsen ethnic tensions between Kosovo's majority Albanians and Serb minority. Security in the divided northern town of Mitrovica was tight a day after a gunman attacked a police station, wounding one officer.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders marked the transition in a low-key ceremony in Pristina, the capital, that opened with Kosovo's newly approved, wordless anthem. Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told local and international dignitaries the constitution comes after years of "hardship and sacrifice." "Today the dream of the people of the Republic of Kosovo has come true," Thaci said.
Earlier, President Fatmir Sejdiu called it the most important act since Kosovo's declaration of independence in February.
However, Serbs -- who make up less than 5 percent of Kosovo's population of 2 million -- strongly oppose the ethnic Albanian leadership's decision to declare independence from Serbia after U.N.-mediated talks fell through last year. "Serbia views Kosovo as its southern province," Serbian President Boris Tadic said Sunday. "It will defend its integrity by peaceful means, using diplomacy, without resorting to force."
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Hmmm...Muslim remnants of savage Ottoman imperialism get to have 2 states in Europe (none of which permit construction of Christian churches), while Christian Lebanon is gonzo and Jewish majority Israel is under genocide threat.
Screw Clintonism; Muslims asserted their sovereignty by destroying centuries old Orthodox cathedrals in Kosovo. Quid pro quo and common sense are essential to good diplomacy. This catering to the predatory Muslim animal, is suicidal. Go Serbs; leave the Croats and Montenegrans alone, but do your stuff. The interventions in Eastern Europe, after the Russian pullouts will backfire. If Clinton hadn't stuck his nose in, Europeans would have an integrated energy superstructure by now. NOW WE HAVE TO PAY FOR RUSSIAN REACTION TO CLINTON OSTPOLITICK. That dirtbag swung his johnson in the Oval Office; why afford him post-office credibility for his surrender to the slaves of allah. Muslims can eat dirt.
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I don't think that Kosovo should be a state, either, but I've been to both Kosovo and Albania. Most of them are as radical as Methodists. Hell, they even drink beer.
I'm going to Albania's beaches in late July for my summer vacation. That should say it all about the Muslim "threat".
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dammit - I accidently hit enter before cleaning up the title (that's the actual one) and putting in the link
sorry mods
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It ain't funny when someone does it to you, is it Hillary? It's only funny when you do it to someone else.
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People will look back at Hillary's campaign and decide that the biggest blunders she made were to let Bill on the campaign trail and to go into the old fashioned scorched earth mud slinging and innuendoes against Obama that have personified the Clintons since he was Gov of Arkansas.
In the later case, it only punctuated the dirty politics that haunt the Democrats and highlighted the differences between BO and HC
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thx John.... *embarrassed*
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I guess Barry's home and Chicago headquarters needed extra garbage cans
China state paper casts doubt on Obama's platform for change
China's state-run People's Daily Monday cast doubt on Barack Obama's ability to bring change if elected US president, in a commentary that gave a rare insight into the Chinese government's thinking.
The report in the overseas edition of the newspaper -- the mouthpiece of the Communist Party -- also said Obama's emergence as Democratic Party candidate for the US presidential elections did not challenge racial divisions. "Obama has not broken through white America's feeling of superiority, on the contrary, his emergence has reinforced that feeling," said the comment, which was written by the paper's senior editor.
China has so far been publicly mute about the US presidential elections -- due in November -- in an effort to remain neutral. But the comment piece in Monday's People's Daily gave a small glimpse into the Communist Party's thoughts on the US elections after Obama clinched the Democratic Party nomination from rival Hillary Clinton.
Obama has campaigned on a platform for radical change in the US, but the newspaper downplayed his ability to bring about transformation if he was elected. It took Obama's staunch anti-Iraq war stance as an example, saying questions remained over how to pull troops out of the war-torn country.
"No one believes that on such a complicated issue, only relying on a firm stance can resolve things," the comment piece said. "The same problem exists for changes in the economy, social security and education."
The paper also pointed to Obama's inexperience compared to rival Republican Party candidate John McCain. "To borrow a phrase used in Clinton and Obama's campaigns, maybe one can describe the feelings that voters might encounter: Everyone imagine for a moment the person who picks up the red phone at 3am in the morning in the White House -- if it's McCain, they will be at ease."
Experts say China's leaders have traditionally preferred Republican presidents over Democratic ones, partly because they tend to focus less on rights issues.
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I suspect a situation analagous to what was recently described at Sondrak's blog, re: why aren't the right-wingers all revolting: [link]:
We dont need excuses to act out. Were adults. If we wanted to, we would. The reason we dont is that we all have businesses, work, familiesthings we built and are buildingthat need our attention and that we refuse to bring to harm by acting out.
Same reason your Mom doesnt throw dishes when shes angryshe knows she would hafta clean it up.
...but I guess kidz raised by a Nanny State wouldnt get this concept.
China is a big country, and I guess there are still some parts of the party that are bothered by the whole "ok, now all our vastly unstable friends have nuclear weapons, now what?" question.
This stuff isn't just dangerous to western liberal democracies, it's dangerous to anyone who wants a nation-state different than the North Korean model, which in spite of supporting in North Korea, the Chinese don't want for themselves.
Obama is literally running on the platform that anyone who's an actual adult doesn't deserve power, and there's no real nuclear proliferation problem that isn't the result of the US being Mean To People. During the age that will eventually be called "now the Hendersons have the bomb."
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The Chinese also sometimes have a streak of realism.
In this case, they probably see McCain as maintaining the status quo, as far as not upsetting either the balance of power in the world or the international economy.
While McCain would be a dangerous enemy, at least he understands and respects Chinese power as well. He would not foolishly attack China for some infantile reason.
Obama, however, is naive. He has no grasp of either foreign policy or economics, so he would be a tool of whoever has his ear. And that could be Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, Reverend Moon, or even Falun Gong.
If there was an I Ching for "dangerously chaotic", it would come up strong for Obama.
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Maybe China's doubts have less to do with geopolitics and more to do with what happens to the biggest single market for their manufactured goods if Obambi gets in and enacts his promised Herbert Hoover-style economic plan.
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"Chinese dislike instability unless they're provoking it, and BHO will bring it in spades."
LOTP, please provide coffee/monitor alert next time.
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Perhaps the Chinese think Obama will pull back from the Pacific Rim which might give them a bit of a Japan problem before long. Perhaps they worry that the US Navy which keeps the trade routes open won't be as effective at making sure that oil the Chinese need makes it to Chinese ports. Perhaps the Chinese know that if Obama pulls us out of Iraq war with Iran and Israel increases in likely hood and disruption of that oil is assured.
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I am gonna guess that it's mostly trade-related, with a mild dose of racism thrown in. On trade, Obama appears to be such a leftist that he might actually impose hefty tariffs on Chinese goods, something that the Chinese don't need at this point, given all the additional developed-country type regulations (combined with loopy China-specific items) the central government has imposed on the economy. Bottom line is that China's cost advantage relative to other developing countries is slipping, and serious tariffs would be the final straw that sent the Chinese economy into negative growth territory.
On the racism front, the average Chinese considers whites only slightly inferior to them, despite having less than 5000 years of recorded history (TM), because countries run by whites are visibly richer than China, and for the most part have not been defeated by China in battle. Blacks are a whole nother story. (Although in mitigation, it has to be said that there is no hint that the Chinese believe *anyone* should be subjected to the institutionalized racism of Jim Crow laws - the attitude is more or less of racial snobbery and condescension similar to what you might have found in Victorian England).
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Another possibility is that the Chinese government prefers Obama, but thinks appearing to support McCain is more likely to promote their interests.
Or, as Zhang Fei says, they are afraid of Obama's protectionism.
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Another possibility is that the Chinese government prefers Obama, but thinks appearing to support McCain is more likely to promote their interests.
Actually, I think Obama is worse for them in practical ways. One, stomping on Chinese exports might get the Chinese government ticked off, but at a gut level, the average Chinese probably understands the concept of national sovereignty - governments make trade policy as they see fit. Two, the traditional Chinese bogeyman - and this has nothing to do with Communism - is the white man who, in the Chinese psyche, is an evil force perennially striving to keep the yellow man down. Having Obama in office deprives the Chinese government of this bogeyman. Three, Obama's national security policy is likely to be non-assertive - that is to say, he will probably cut hundreds of billions off the defense budget, while downsizing the forces facing China. This benefits the Chinese government, but deprives it of another excuse to demonize Uncle Sam. And China will need someone - preferably foreign - to blame when the Chinese economy slides in recession after Obama-scale tariffs go into effect.
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OTOH, WAFF.com > ISRAELNN - UNDERSTANDING THE NEW RUSSIA THREAT . Russ "Arms Diplomacy", espec in ASIA-PACIFIC vv both CHIHNA + USA. Artic - POST COLD WAR/USSR RUSSIA has under VLAD PUTIN a TOTALITARIAN MAFIA-POLITICAL STATE = REGIONAL-GLOBAL MAFIA STATE? perceived as controlled by the KGB-FSB [VladVedev]. CRIME SYNDICATE/
SYNDICATION > become the de facto means for ach POST-COLD WAR RUSS MANIFEST DESTINY = NEW "NATIONAL GREATNESS", + ach RUSS-DESIRED NEW GLOBAL EMPIRE via TRADE-PAID/SUPPOR NEW RUSS WAR MACHINE TO DE FACTO MILPOL CHALLENGE THE US-WEST, WHICH ARTIC PROCLAIMS RUSS IS INDEED DOING.
THE POST-COLD WAR/USSR NEW RUSS WAR MACHINE IS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO FORCE AND DEFEND RUSS POLICIES UPON THE WORLD, AND WHERE THE SAME GOES AND TRAMPLES UPON, THE KGB-FSB = RUSS MAFIA STATE IS CERTAIN TO FOLLOW.
IOW, and among other thingys, VLADVEDEV = OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM = ASIA-PACIFIC IS THE TRUE FOCII REGARDLESS OF WHAT EVENTS SEEMINGLY OCCURS IN ME + WESTERN EUROPE.
*Osama + Radical Islam > Hopes to save the Jihad via NUCLEAR CENTRAL ISLAMIST CENTRAL = FUTURE ISLAMIST ASIA, etc.
*VLADVEDEV > ASIA-PACFIC is the NEW "FULDA GAP" OF ANTI-US/NATO MILPOL COMPETITION AND CONFRONTATION???
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WAFF.com > WAPO = IN EUROPE, A SLIDE TOWARDS IRRELEVANCE; + OIL MAY HIT US$400 A BARREL BY 2018.
Lest we fergit, OSAMA + ISLAMISTS > Ultimately, in the end "THERE CAN ONLY BE TWO" [US-WEST + ISLAMIST CENTRAL ASIA/ASIA], NOT PUTIN's = VLADVEDEV's "MULTIPOLAR" WORLD.
You just know the anti-US Lefties, Marxies, Secularies, Globalies, etal. are gonna be thrilled.
LEST WE FERGIT PART II, WOT > WAR FOR MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND = MACKINDER'S WAR, which the NEW WORLD espec CONUS-NORAM is prevailing as OWG FREE TRADE ZONES = SPEC ECON ZONES ARE BETTING NEGOTIATED AND SET UP AT THE FOUR CORNERS OF CONUS-NORAM. Unless something changes, SOUTH AMERICA WILL BEAT OUT THE EURO-ZONE + MEDITERRANEAN UNION FOR SAME.
As for MCCAIN + CHINA > D *** NG IT, THERES A MILYUHN STORIES IN THE NAKED CITY = HANOI HILTON,...... AND DON'T YOU ever Ever EVer EVER E-V-E-R EEEEVVVVVEEEEERRRRR FORGET, D *** YOU, WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU!
Pat Buchanan wrote a book blaming Winston Churchill for World War II. The mighty Victor Davis Hanson criticized it, and a couple of other "revisionist" publications, in a newspaper column. Buchanan stamped his tiny feet in rage and wrote nasty things about VDH. VDH, in return, gives Pitchfork Pat a ruthless (but fully deserved!) fisking:
Patrick J. Buchanan got upset that I wrote a column about the World War II revisionists, especially his book, and that of Nicholson Bakers on the allied crimes of bombing German cities. I produce his column by paragraph and then comment in brackets.
Buchanan, of course, is the last of the Paleoconservatives, the heir of Senator Borah.
In attacking my book Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, Victor Davis Hanson, the court historian of the neoconservatives, charges me with rewriting facts and showing ingratitude to American and British soldiers who fought World Wars I and II.
[In dealing with Mr. Buchanan, one must accept at the beginning two caveats. First, as is his style, he will always resort to ad hominem attacks in lieu of an argument. Thus note at the very beginning his sneering court historian of the neoconservatives. Second, Buchanan unfortunately is neither a reliable journalist nor an historian, and thus simply cannot be trusted to report accurately what is written. He says I charge him with rewriting facts (note those convenient three dots). I did not charge him with rewriting facts, but simply advancing a thesis contrary to them: Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. (emphasis added) And I didnt just criticize Buchanans book, but in a brief 750 word newspaper column lumped it together with the novelist Nicholson Bakers (Human Smoke) equally critical attack on the allies in World War IIboth as signs of the sorry state of historical revisionism that has sprung up in the climate of the Iraq war.
The siren song of revisionism has enticed Buchanan just as thoroughly as it's enticed Howard Zinn.
Writing a book whose theme is that the allies, and especially the British, unwisely and unduly pressured Hitler, and therefore were culpable for much of the carnage of World War II, again, does not rewrite facts, but simply ignores them. And, yes, it does indeed serve to lessen the enormous sacrifices that American and British soldiers endured to stop a monstrosity like National Socialism, whose doctrine of racial hatred and territorial expansion logically led to a German government attacking by 1940 most of its neighbors, to the east, west, north and south, and eventually, in industrial fashion, murdering 6 million Jews.
Buchanan had no problem accepting the fact that the commies were evil -- as close to objectively evil as it's possible to get without horns, pitchforks and the odor of brimstone. He seems incapable of tossing the National Socialists into the same category.
Much of Hitlers madness was outlined well in advance in Mein Kampf. By the late 1930s his harsh treatment of the Jews was a harbinger of things to come, once his own power was consolidated and Germany free from outside objection.]
Both charges are false, and transparently so.
Hanson cites not a single fact I got wrong and ignores the fact that the book is dedicated to my mothers four brothers who fought in World War II. Moreover, the book begins by celebrating the greatness of the British nation and heroism of its soldier-sons.
[Within a 350-word critique devoted to the theme of his book, I cited his misreading of the Versailles Treaty (see below), and his special pleading that serves to exculpate Hitlers Nazi government. Again, the thesis of Buchanans book is not based on facts, but can only be advanced by contradicting them. And it has a disturbing habit of mechanically at times praising those who are his natural targetsor supposedly naive victimsof the book, as if that allows him to further denigrate their wisdom and sacrifice.]
Go read the rest of it.
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"Today Europe; Tommorow the World," Adolf Hilter. What else needs to he said?
Check out this unintentionally funny Youtube post. Neo-Communists are putting their faith in Obama. See him speak, with the old Soviet anthem ("Song of the Motherland") playing in the background. I thought it was either a fake or a smear, but it isn't.
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Buchanan has really gone off the rails. I have stopped listening the Hannity because he is on there a lot. I'm about to write Fox and tell them if they keep this loon on, I'll stop watching them too.
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he's always on PMSNBC as the "house republican/conservative". Would anyone here pick him to represent those values? He's a populist liar and demagogue who got what, 10% of the convention's delegates?
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How many lefties think that Buchanan represents the right and Conservatives? This guy is so damaging that Hannity is irresponsible for putting him on (that is if he doesn't mock him).
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Pat Buchanan first raised this theory in 1992 during the Republican Primary campaign, and saw his Presidential campaign collapse as a result.
In typical Pat Buchanan fashion, he blamed the Jews for torpedoing his election bid.
In 1992, Pat had the excuse that some of the Ultra transcripts had not been declassified yet. Now these transmissions are open knowledge and disprove Pat's theories.
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Buchanan is a pathitic little man that has turned into a buffoon, a left wingers caricature of a conservative, and a Nazi apologist.
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Buchanan's always been slimey. He thinks he's some kind of uber-intellectual and isn't afraid to let everyone know it, but his observations, deductions, and pontifications are so off the mark it's unbelievable that anyone listens to him anymore.
And the Left does think that this guy is the face of the Republican Party.
It is time to recognise that the Aids scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics of the past 30 years. Instead of being treated as a sexually transmitted disease that affected certain high-risk communities, and which should be vociferously tackled by the medical authorities, the "war against Aids" was turned into moral crusade.
Both Conservative and New Labour governments exploited the disease to create a new moral framework for society. Through baseless fearmongering, officials sought to police and regulate the behaviour of the public. No longer able to appeal to outdated Victorian ideals of chastity or restraint, the powers-that-be used the spectre of an Aids calamity to terrify us into behaving "responsibly" in sexual and social matters.
They were aided and abetted by the rump of the radical left. Gay rights campaigners, feminists and left-leaning health and social workers stood shoulder-to-shoulder, first with the Tories and later with Labour, in spreading the "glorious myth" of a possible future Aids pandemic. An unholy alliance of old-style, prudish conservatives and post-radical, lifestyle-obsessed leftists latched on to Aids as a disease that might provide them with a sense of moral purpose.
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And is so passe as Human Induced Global Warming is the latest trend for Fearmongers Are Us(tm). So many people still need their secular religion having tossed the tenets of the traditional ones.
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They were aided and abetted by the rump of the radical left
that's gonna get Andy Sullivan's glutes in a twist
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I don't think the conservatives in the US were very effective at all. The rump of the radical left was however. They spread the idea that it was not a gay lifestyle problem and thus avoided the closing of the bathhouses for a long time. THat did not help.
I mean if there ever was a straightforward disease and solution available this was it. If you're gonna do *it* use protection. If you're infected only romp with other infected people and it would have burned out fairly quick. but noooooooo.
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IIRC, there was a court decision some years ago in the US declaring that AIDS was not a sexually transmitted disease. This was important (to gays) because if AIDS were an STD, existing laws would require people with AIDS to reveal their sexual partners, just as people with syphilis or gonorrhea are. Since most AIDS sufferers are gay, exposing their list of sexual partners would subject those partners to discrimination.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The European Union's foreign ministers Monday called on their Irish colleague to explain his countrymen's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, warning that no quick solutions were in sight. 
[In dealing with Mr. Buchanan, one must accept at the beginning two caveats. First, as is his style, he will always resort to ad hominem attacks in lieu of an argument. Thus note at the very beginning his sneering court historian of the neoconservatives. Second, Buchanan unfortunately is neither a reliable journalist nor an historian, and thus simply cannot be trusted to report accurately what is written. He says I charge him with rewriting
facts (note those convenient three dots). I did not charge him with rewriting facts, but simply advancing a thesis contrary to them: Questioning the past is a good thing, but rewriting it contrary to facts is quite another. (emphasis added) And I didnt just criticize Buchanans book, but in a brief 750 word newspaper column lumped it together with the novelist Nicholson Bakers (Human Smoke) equally critical attack on the allies in World War IIboth as signs of the sorry state of historical revisionism that has sprung up in the climate of the Iraq war. 
