[Pak Daily Times] More than 150 people have been killed in a battle between South Sudan's army and Islamic fascistiin the eastern Jonglei state, officials said on Thursday.
The African country's army earlier this month launched an offensive against rebels led by David Yau Yau in Jonglei where the government hopes to search for oil with the help of La Belle France's Total.
Since winning independence from Sudan in July 2011, South Sudan has been struggling to impose its authority across vast swathes of territory bristling with weapons after decades of civil war with Khartoum.
Yau Yau mounted a rebellion last year, with support from his Murle ethnic group, after losing local elections in 2010.
Army front man Philip Aguer told Rooters his forces had killed 143 fighters from Yau Yau's militia in a battle east of Pibor town on Tuesday. Twenty soldiers were killed and 70 people were maimed, he said.
Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said the army, or SPLA, had seized an air strip which had been used to drop ammunition and arms to Yau Yau's troops.
"The SPLA is moving in the area so as to put an end to the rebellion," he said.
South Sudan has accused arch rival Sudan of supporting Yau Yau and other rebel groups, a claim denied by Khartoum.
A shortwave radio station with links to the Yau Yau rebellion says the group is fighting the government in reaction to abuses committed during a state disarmament programme in Jonglei.
Rights groups accuse South Sudan's army of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations during a disarmament push aimed at ending a cycle of festivities between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes.
Nearly 900 people died when about 7,000 armed youths of the Lou Nuer tribe attacked Murle villages in the Pibor area at the end of last year, according to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... .
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[Al Jizz] The Red Thingy in the Central African Republic has announced that it has "found 78 bodies" in the streets of the capital Bangui since it was seized last weekend by the Seleka rebel coalition.
"Since Saturday til today, our volunteers have found 78 bodies that were taken to the morgues.... We ask the population to come to these sanitary institutions to identify the bodies with a view to taking them away for burial," Red Thingy official Albert Yomba Eyamo told the AFP news agency on Friday.
Thousands of armed rebels invaded the capital of the Central African Republic last weekend, killing an untold number of civilians and at least thirteen South African soldiers in the intense fighting.
Bozize exile
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the fleet limped into Bremerhaven, the wreck of the Blutwurstkoenig in tow... ousted Central African Republic President Francois Bozize requested exile in the tiny West African nation of Benin, the country's Foreign Affairs Minister Nassirou Arifari Bako confirmed late on Thursday.
"It is true that he has asked Benin to welcome him but nothing has been decided yet," Bako told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency. "It's a delicate subject."
Bozize lived in exile Benin during the 1980s and has made a number of private visits there over the years, observers say.
He and his family are members of the Celestial Church of Christ, which originated in Benin.
Bozize had faced threats from a myriad of gangs since seizing power in 2003 after a rebellion. The latest rebellion was launched in December, when armed fighters began declaring control of towns across the sparsely populated north.
Regional mediators brought the rebels and Bozize together for peace talks in Gabon in January, and an agreement was reached that kept the rebels from attacking Bangui.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the accord quickly unravelled as the rebels accused Bozize of failing to deliver on his promises. Rebel leader Michel Djotodia declared himself president until 2016 just days after Bozize fled.
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...back at the sea battle, the fleet limped into Bremerhaven, the wreck of the Blutwurstkoenig in tow...
The surviving crew's morale was high as bands played at quayside.
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...back at the sea battle, the fleet limped into Bremerhaven, the wreck of the Blutwurstkoenig in tow...
Oberstleutnant Oskar Meyer commanding in place of Kapitän zur See Nathan, a steam casualty.
[AAWSAT.NET] The UN Security Council on Thursday approved the creation of a unique new combat force that is to carry out "targeted offensive operations" to neutralize gangs in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
The 15-member Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution establishing the so-called intervention brigade--the first time the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... has created such a unit within a traditional peacekeeping force--as part of the existing 20,000-strong U.N. force in Congo, the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as MONUSCO.
It says MONUSCO will "carry out targeted offensive operations through the Intervention Brigade ... either unilaterally or jointly with the (Congo army), in a robust highly mobile and versatile manner . . . to prevent expansion of all gangs, neutralize these groups, and to disarm them."
The resolution also states that the intervention brigade will be made up of three infantry battalions, one artillery and one special force and reconnaissance company headquartered in Goma under the direct command of the MONUSCO force commander.
Diplomats say South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi are the most likely candidates to supply the troops for the intervention unit. Mozambique had also been tipped to be part of the new unit but it will likely not be part of the new brigade.
Council diplomats say that the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... has pushing for the establishment of a "peace enforcement" wing of MONUSCO, even though the UN peacekeeping department, a number of council members and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s about how the force will work in reality.
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"targeted offensive operations" to neutralize gangs in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dennis Rodman leading a campaign to establish midnight basketball leagues?
[Pak Daily Times] A court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced three opposition members of parliament to up to 18 months in jail on Friday for leading a protest the judge said had aimed to seize power by force in the Central Asian nation.
Prosecutors had sought jail terms of up to 10 years for nationalist MPs Kamchibek Tashiyev, Sadyr Zhaparov and Talant Mamytov, who led a crowd which tried to storm government headquarters last October. The protestors were demanding the renationalisation of the huge Kumtor gold mine, long a bone of contention in the impoverished former Soviet Union state of 5.5 million and run by Canadian firm Centerra Gold.
The festivities between police and supporters of the opposition Ata Zhurt party were the most violent in the capital Bishkek since those that deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in 2010 in the second revolt since 2005 in the mainly Mohammedan state. Judge Adylbek Subankulov said the three parliamentarians were guilty of plotting to seize power by force and sentenced them to up to 18 months in a high-security prison. "We only voiced the will of the people to return Kumtor to our nation," Tashiyev, confident and defiant, said from a metal cage in which the three MPs were held before the sentence was pronounced.
Several hundred opposition supporters faced police with truncheons outside, chanting: "Acquittal!" and "Freedom!"
"Freedom to the people's heroes!" read one of the posters held by protesters who included many youths and women. "The revolutions on March 24 (2005) and April 7 (2010) were most directly linked to the issue of Kumtor - we wanted to attract the attention of the state to this problem and put an end to it," Zhaparov said before the judge.
Local political commentator Alexander Knyazev said the mild sentences showed authorities' concern over the support the three MPs enjoy in the less developed and ethnically mixed south, where the grip of the central government remains tenuous.
President Almazbek Atambayev, whose country borders China and hosts both US and Russian military air bases, was booed by hundreds of Ata Zhurt supporters when he visited the Jalalabad region on Thursday.
"The authorities simply feared that this trial could be used by the opposition to escalate protest actions," Knyazev said. Under a Bakiyev-era contract drawn up in 2009, the Kyrgyz state is a 33 percent shareholder in Centerra. Kumtor, located 4,000 metres above sea level in the Tien Shan mountains, is the biggest gold mine operated by a Western-based company in the former Soviet Union. After ice movement in the pit cut Kumtor's output in 2012, Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product also fell.
The mine with some 3,400 permanent staff and contractors made up 5.5 percent of Kyrgyz GDP and 18.9 percent of industrial output in 2012.
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[Chosun Ilbo] President Park Geun-hye models herself on former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as the "iron lady" of South Korea, the Wall Street Journal speculated Wednesday.
"Ms. Park, like Mrs. Thatcher, is known for not being intimidated by totalitarian regimes or men in power," the paper said. "When her father, President Park Chung-hee, was assassinated in 1979, Ms. Park was quoted as saying 'Is the border secure?' -- sparking admiration by worrying primarily about the possible threat of a North Korean invasion."
"In her first televised address from [Cheong Wa Dae] she sharply chastised opposition politicians -- almost all men --for blocking her government reorganization plans," the paper added.
The paper believes these are conscious similarities. Park "made her fondness for Mrs. Thatcher clear in a 2007 speech in which she said that the 'leadership that can revive South Korea from crisis is Thatcherism'."
In last year's presidential election, Park's campaign also emphasized similarities with Thatcher to establish the image of a strong and successful female leader in a patriarchal society which lacks female role models. "Coverage of Ms. Park during the campaign even noted how she dressed like Mrs. Thatcher, including wearing large brooches high on the left of her jackets," the WSJ said.
"Margaret Thatcher's heyday may be long gone, but the former U.K. prime minister and her ideas are enjoying something of a renaissance in Asia, where the new leaders of Japan and South Korea are openly embracing the controversial Cold War-era leader as a hero and role model."
Japan's new rightwing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also cited Thatcher as a role model.
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I sincerely wish good luck in trying to be another Madge/Maggie Thatcher - the two Koreas are entering what is likely the most decisive time in their post-1945 collective histoire', + its not clear yet iff one or both Nations will survive.
Truth be told - I wish ditto to Kim Jong-un, by + for the sake of the NOKOR People.
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to establish the image of a strong and successful female leader in a patriarchal society
I realize this is "journalism", but the key point about Maggie was economics, not the fact that she was a girl or how she dressed. And yes, I know there is a whole lot back story there, but if you miss the market economics, you're just seeing the trees.
Contrast our tough approach with the spineless diplomacy we've conducted the last two decades with the North...
The U.S. seems determined that South Korea should permanently relinquish its rights to enrich uranium and reprocess the mass of spent fuel rods from its nuclear power plants. Washington insists on what it considers the "gold standard" of a permanent ban on uranium enrichment and plutonium extraction by governments negotiating new nuclear deals with the U.S.
Seoul is in talks with the U.S. to revise the bilateral nuclear energy pact, which expires in March 2014, to get permission to produce low-enriched uranium for power generation and reprocess spent fuel rods, which are piling up from its many nuclear power stations. But instead it seems the government will have to scramble to avoid even tougher restrictions.
Let's compromise: let the South enrich uranium for their power plants. Have the IAEA monitor that (as they should do for any country). If any plutonium is extracted from a nuclear rod let that be sold back to the U.S. We can call it 'foreign aid' if it helps.
Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se's trip to Washington next month is apparently part of efforts to find a breakthrough in the stalled talks. Yun decided to fly to Washington even though U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit Seoul in the middle of next month.
When she was running for the presidency in November last year, President Park Geun-hye pledged to have the nuclear accord revised as it is "outdated."
"A major agenda item on Yun's list is the South Korea-U.S. civil nuclear pact," said one high-ranking diplomatic source in Seoul. "Yun will stress the importance of revising the pact when he meets Kerry and other high-ranking members of the Obama administration."
The pact, signed in 1974, details the extent of the nuclear technology Korea can use for civilian purposes and prohibits it from enriching uranium and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants.
As a country not in the 'Nuclear Club' international treaties allow the ROK to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes so long as they're honest with the IAEA and allow monitoring. Perhaps the original treaty in 1974 made sense in a Cold-War way but it doesn't now. Let the IAEA handle the situation, and get us out of the middle.
"Based on our mutual trust, we should be able to reach a win-win strategy by the May summit" between Park and President Barack Obama, a senior Foreign Ministry official said. "The existing pact expires in March next year, so we need to reach an agreement on the revised deal by June this year and have to get the green light from the U.S. Congress."
Seoul will try to convince Washington that it only wants to produce low-enriched uranium, which cannot be used to make nuclear weapons, and that it will wait for the results of joint research on a reprocessing method called pyroprocessing that does not produce weapons-grade plutonium before deciding on the issue of reprocessing.
But if Seoul fails to revise the deal, the existing pact simply lapses, and that could mean South Korea would face problems obtaining nuclear fuel. The country relies wholly on uranium imports to fuel its nuclear power plants, and 20 to 30 percent come from the U.S.
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SKor should just have a quiet talk with Taiwan and Japan.
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Obviously, the SKorens haven't learned from Pyongyang just to do what you want to do cause the Beltway ain't going to do nothing but whine and bitch.
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) on Thursday issued the following statement:
Shortly ago, the U.S. and south Korean puppet group cooked up a "joint plan to cope with the provocation of a local war," escalating the danger of a war.
The joint plan signed by the commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of south Korea calls on the U.S. forces to automatically get involved in the conflict in case of the north's "provocation of a local war" and thus jointly counter it together with the south Korean puppet army.
The plan for aggression elaborates on the contents of the operation and proposals on joint counteraction.
In this regard, the south Korean puppet group claims that a legal and institutional mechanism has been provided to ensure the U.S. forces' automatic involvement in the local war, the U.S. agreed with the principle on striking not only the base of provocations and supporting and commanding forces and that it has become possible to make a prompt and decisive counteraction against any provocation by the north.
All these facts brought the U.S. hypocrisy to daylight and proved that the U.S. and south Korea are the root cause and chieftain of the provocation of a local war.
The above-said joint plan is a very dangerous document for invading the DPRK and an open declaration of a war of aggression against it.
Any conflict on the Korean Peninsula will immediately lead to an all-out war and a nuclear war, not confined to a local war.
The Armistice Agreement, the north-south agreements on nonaggression and the joint declaration on denuclearization of the peninsula were totally nullified due to the grave provocations of the U.S. and the puppet group. Consequently, there is no mechanism to deter a war.
Worse still, the U.S. and puppet warmongers are openly hatching sinister plots to bring down the statues of the great Generalissimos and monuments to them, symbols of the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK. In order to counter these moves, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army has already declared military actions against the U.S. mainland and the bases of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific, to say nothing of the military targets and enemy ruling institutions in south Korea.
Have the U.S. and puppet warmongers imagined what catastrophic consequences to be entailed by the "joint plan for countering the provocation of a local war" at this time?
They are seriously mistaken if they try to threaten the DPRK with such farce.
The hatred and resentment of the DPRK's army and people are running high.
The signing of the plan will increase the justice of practical military actions of the DPRK which keeps not only Chongwadae in Seoul but the White House in Washington within the coordinates of high precision strikes. It is a foolish dream for the puppet group to seek a way out by clinging to coattails of the U.S.
The U.S. nuclear umbrella will never help protect the puppet group as it will prove ineffective in face of the powerful nuclear strikes of the DPRK.
The DPRK's army and people which launched a final sacred war to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of its supreme leadership will make a clean sweep of the U.S., the ringleader of aggression, and the pro-U.S. puppet warmongers from the surface of the earth.
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The DPRK = SSSHHHHH ... CCCCC China? may have a plan to strike certain major US Cities, but IMO its more likely the CONUS homeports + home bases of SEQUESTER-PARKED US CVNS, NUKE SUBS, + USAF STRATEGIC BOMBERS, ETC. are the targets.
Hopefully, of course, nothing will happen + no major war will break out, BUT IMO THIS WILL DEPEND ON WHETHER CHINA IS WILLING TO DELAY OR CHANGE ITS "MANIFEST DESTINY" VEE THE US - I do not believe that China will.
Once again, iff China refuses to back down, vee Japan in the ECS + ASEAN in SCS, the impetus will be on the Bammer + Debt-ridden US to EITHER FIGHT, OR ELSE MAKE UNILATERAL CONCESSIONS TO CHINA THAT NEITHER US ALLIES NOR THE AMER MAINSTREAM/ELECTORATE WILL LIKE, I.E. OBAMA "SAVED/KEPT THE US OUT OF [Nuclear] WAR".
> Handover of TAIWAN.
> Handover of Senkakus.
> Okinawa = Ryukyus?
> Reduce or Disestablish USFK + USFJ? UNCOM?
> No new or refurbished US Milbases in PHIL?
> Guam-CNMI, Other???
> Reduce USDOD in Hawaii???
Shall we bring up the INDIAN OCEAN REGION [IOR]?
OTHER?
Lest we fergit, THE DEBT-RIDDEN US DESIRES TO CONTINUE BORROWING UP TO US$85.0BILYUHN PER MONTH FOR PURPOSES OF "MONETARY EASING - read, CHINA.
* FYI PRAVDA > WEAK US TO THROW THE WORLD INTO CHAOS. "Global Trends" 2030".
NEW DELHI: India's Mars mission is on track and space scientists are testing the payloads before they are integrated with the satellite.
"We are on track for a October launch this year. The payloads are undergoing tests," a senior official of the Department of Space said.
The Mars Orbiter Mission, expected to be launched in mid-October this year, will carry five experimental payloads with a total weight of 14.49 kg.
The Methane Sensor for Mars, which will be capable of scanning the entire Martian disc within six minutes, will weigh 3.59 kg. Earlier missions to Mars had detected Methane in the thin Martian atmosphere, but the discovery is yet to be corroborated. Methane is known to be released by some microbes as part of their digestive process.
The Mars mission will propel India to the elite club of five nations comprising the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan which have launched similar missions.
Another instrument --Thermal Infrared Spectrometer -- weighing 4 kg will be used to map the surface composition of Mars. The Mars Colour Camera has a mass of 1.4 kg, while the Lyman-alpha photometer, weighing 1.5 kg, will measure atomic hydrogen in the Martian atmosphere. The Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA) which will study the Martian atmosphere weighs about 4 kg.
The Mars orbiter will go around the planet once in three days. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had announced the Mars Orbiter Mission in his Independence Day address last year.
ISRO's trusted warhorse rocket PSLV-XL is expected to launch the mission some time in October from the spaceport Sriharikota. The satellite is expected to exit Earth's orbit on November 26 and embark on the journey to Mars, which is expected to last for around 300 days. Scientists have drawn up plans to insert the satellite into an orbit around Mars on September 22 next year.
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[An Nahar] Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... headed Friday to Myanmar and Nepal, hoping to find ways to encourage democracy in the two Asian nations, which are undergoing political transitions.
Carter, 88, will first head to Nepal, where he will encourage political parties to hold delayed elections and to move forward on reconciliation from the civil war, the Atlanta-based Carter Center said in a statement.
The former president will then head to Myanmar to meet politicians and civil society as the erstwhile military regime pushes ahead with reforms that have included an easing of press censorship and the release of prisoners.
Carter's visit comes amid growing concern about religious violence in Myanmar, also known as Burma, where at least 40 people have died in anti-Mohammedan riots led by members of the Buddhist majority.
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Those Burmese anti-Mohammedans are a bad lot. I would have picked an anti-American, Iranian apologist to give them a stern, lecture as well. Good luck Jimauh.
[Al Jazeera] War-crimes court rules Nuon Chea, most senior surviving member of ex-Cambodian regime, "capable" of defending himself. The guy's 88 years old. He should have been dead and in his grave years ago.
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...Problem here is that the current regime was put there by the Vietnamese, who were more than a touch complicit in the rise of Pol Pot and his gang of merry men. Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, and all the others who died quietly in their house arrest beds did so because a trial would have been far too embarrassing to the Noble Vietnamese Liberators.
And let me extend that just a bit: there are a great, great many influential men and women in comfortable, well-fed middle age whose efforts DIRECTLY enabled the Vietnamese to defeat the old Republic of Vietnam and help to destroy the imperfect - but free - nation of Cambodia under Sihanouk. Men, for instance, like our current Secretary of State. One cannot help but think that at various times, they quietly passed their concerns on to the Liberators as well.
Mike
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Personally, I would dig up the graves of all of the Pol Pot crazies and try their corpses in court just to make the point.
Speaking of complicity, don't forget our own antiwar media and legislature denying every report of the genocide in Cambodia. Heck, The National freaking Geographic did a pictorial on Ankar Wat in the 70s and it was full of pictures of empty abandoned Phenom Phen and surrounding towns and a few words of "rumors" of slave labor camps.
There was good intell about this and because our antiwar ninny press couldn't admit to it lest the domino theory be right, they had to bury it. The movie, the Killing Fields, the Sam Waterston character was a bunch of crap. What happened in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam after we left would have happened sooner if we had not intervened, and it sure as hell would have never happened if the communists in Congress and the Soviet funded antiwar movement had not got in the way.
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My brother in law was in one of the concentration camps with his siblings and mother. The Rouge killed his dad because he was Chinese, I think or wore glasses
So you know how completely mindless and irrational the Khmer Rouge was.
I had to deal with the Pathet Lao and I found a bullet between the eyes or behind the ear to be the only effective means of negotiation.
Because I had to deal with fanaticism at a tender age, I do not suffer fools when it comes to dealing with Islamic fanatics (is there a Moslem that is not a fanatic?).
I know those who survived live the horror of their experiences every day. My heart goes out to your family members and I will keep them in my prayers.
BTW the picture that ole Fred put on this is a painting of one of Tamerlain's pyramids as he rampaged across the Middle East.
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I know those who survived live the horror of their experiences every day. My heart goes out to your family members and I will keep them in my prayers.
Thank you Bill, thankfully he was too young remember much, he does have the scars from where his mother attempted to burn out a fever because they had no medicine.
The lone picture they have of them in the camp is tough to look at, the family is standing holding numbers in front of themselves. Very hard to fathom man's inhumanity. But they were sponsored by a doctor here Atlanta and now I have an awesome bro-in-law.
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And let me extend that just a bit: there are a great, great many influential men and women in comfortable, well-fed middle age whose efforts DIRECTLY enabled the Vietnamese to defeat the old Republic of Vietnam and help to destroy the imperfect - but free - nation of Cambodia under Sihanouk.
A great, great many influential men and women who were also able to afford a comfortable old age by accepting (or 'misdirecting') money from the same sources that backed the North Vietnamese.
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Mike, Sihanouk enabled the communist takeover in both Vietnam (by helping to supply their armies from across the border) and Cambodia; the Khmer Rouge's main foreign backer was China. While they were massacring the population down in Cambodia, Sihanouk was living in a palace in Beijing pretending to wring his hands and crying crocodile tears about how brutal they were.
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Obviously as with Clarence Thomas and Cain, the Democrats cannot stand a minority person leaving their plantation.
The media is doing backward flips and somersaults trying to find some dirt or something to discredit Carson. If not, they'll pay someone to say something outrageous in a he said she said kind of way, a la Anita Hill. It doesn't have to be true, just sensational and it will get blown up into a national media storm without any fact checking or due dilagence (because the media wants to believe it and because they want to punish those who leave the plantation).
The Democrats are the same racists they were when they stood on the steps at Central High School in Little Rock (note the REPUBLICAN President who sent in the National Guard to enforce the desegregation order), and it was Democrat politicians and supporters that closed the University of Mississippi and murdered the Freedom Riders.
They want everyone to forget the Republicans pushed through the Civil Rights Act. The Dems want captive constituencies of minorities to manipulate and vote in mass for them, held captive by laws and entitlement programs and lousy schools.
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The left would only appreciate the surgical skills of dr Carson if he killed children instead of saving them.
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Paraphrasing an old southern axiom; there are those of the caliber of the learned Dr. Carson, Thomas Sole, Condoleezza Rice, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Alan West, along with many I have befriended in rural Georgia, and then there are the.... others. Certainly not so different than the rest of us I suppose.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Al Jazeera] War-crimes court rules Nuon Chea, most senior surviving member of ex-Cambodian regime, "capable" of defending himself.
