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Zimbabwe: ?Generals? Wage War On Unarmed Civilians?
2008-07-07 11:10:00 Mugabe is no longer in charge of Zimbabwe, he?s a puppet. When it became evident that he?d lost the March elections, he wanted to concede defeat (See ?Mugabe Admits Defeat?, April 03.) He was ready to slither into the undergrowth to enjoy retirement on the vast riches he?d stolen from the people he claims to ...
Will David Cameron Now Eschew The Centre Ground?
2008-07-04 06:22:00 The political genius of Tony Blair, and unquestionably the main reason that he won three successive British General Elections, was that he colonised the centre ground. The traditional rhetoric of British politics was always predicated on the ideological divide between ?Left? (Labour) and ?Right? (Conservatives). In essence those on the left were socialists who believed ...
Zimbabwe: ??Beaten, Bloodied, Scared? in Mourning?
2008-06-23 05:32:00 With his supporters beaten, arrested and murdered, Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC leader) was forced on Sunday to withdraw from the so-called election ?runoff? (Daily Mail). Mugabe?s Zanu-PF thugs have succeeded in terrorising the population of Zimbabwe and, according to resident Cathy Buckle, ?a blanket of fear has descended? on the country. Mugabe?s Zanu-PF militia, military and police ...
Zimbabwe: What is the difference between Zimbabwe and Britain?
2008-06-09 15:38:00 There?s a tired Zimbabwean joke that asks the question, ?What did Zimbabweans use to light their homes before candles?? The answer, of course, is electricity? This joke epitomises the sad decline in Zimbabwe?s living standards after more than 20 years of socialist rule. Now that Zimbabweans can?t even get candles, they go to bed at ...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe In Rome For Food Summit, While Zimbabwe Suffers Mass Intim
2008-06-02 15:28:00 While Mugabe takes a holiday in Rome (Reuters), are Chinese officials and/or military personnel based in Zimbabwe coordinating the mass intimidation, beatings, torture and killing back home? Directed from Zimbabwe?s Joint Operations Command (JOC), many of the most senior Zimbabwe military personnel have been moved temporarily into areas where Mugabe?s Zanu-PF was badly beaten during ...
Panty Power: Use Your Underwear to Fight for Peace in Myanmar!
2008-05-31 23:33:00 Questions: How do you scare the bejesus out of the Myanmar (Burma) regime?Answer: Send them your panties!You got that right. A new movement is underway to protest for peace and regime change in Myanmar and the methodology, while a tad unorthodox on the surface, apparently has substance to it. The Panties for Peace campaign plays on the regime leaders? superstitious fear that contact with a woman?s underpants will rob them of their power. Women around the world are asked to post their panties to local Burmese embassies in a bid to strip the regime of its power and bring an end to its gross violations of human rights, especially those committed against Burma?s women. The leaders of the Myanmar military regime are make and superstitious. They fear any contact with female undergarments will sap power from them, effectively, emasculating them. (I am NOT making this up.) To send a loud message to a regime that has murdered thousands of its people, enslaved countless others, subjugates...
By: Tumerica
Net Neutrality in Canada
2008-05-30 02:23:00 A new bill put before the House of Commons in Canada will mean forcing the very few ISPs to stop throttling the speed at which people can use the internet. At the moment Bell and Rogers are the two largest carriers in Canada with a few smaller companies trying to compete - the main problem ...
Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa, and Mrs Mandela?s necklace
2008-05-26 12:38:00 ?Necklacing? is the primitive and barbaric method of punishment killing used by Nelson Mandela?s political party ? the ANC ? against ?sellouts? in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. Anyone who did not support the ANC during their ?struggle? against Apartheid back then was ?sentenced? by ?people?s courts? (lynch mobs) to die by necklacing ...
What Is The Job At Hand?
2008-05-24 18:12:00 I read stories like this all the time in the world of politics. What still amazes me is that so many politicians come out with it when they actually mean they have nothing left to give. Gordon Brown, Britain’s PM has only been in office a very short while and is losing support hand over fist! The ...
Violence in Zimbabwe spreads to South Africa
2008-05-19 10:53:00 The conditions in Zimbabwe continue to deteriorate, with Mugabe postponing the run off election until June 27. In the meanwhile, violence against opposition leaders continues, with numerous reports of attacks against Anglican churches whose priests don’t recognize a former bishop who has become Mugabe’s henchman, and reports too numerous to list against opposition leaders, trade unionists, ...
An International Language
2008-05-18 18:20:00 European languages have been around a long time. Many of them are even older than the true international language, English. Many a-reader will know how the English language was transported around the globe - yet, many still don’t understand that as English was - so were many others. It wasn’t a matter that Elizabeth I decided ...
Gordon Brown - Parrot or Phoenix?
2008-05-12 11:39:00 The two dominant characters of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s were Harold Wilson (Labour) and Harold MacMillan (Conservative) and each has contributed an aphorism the truths of which political observers forget at their peril. Wilson said that “A week is a long time in Politics” and MacMillan, when asked by a journalist for ...
Burma: Cyclone ?Nargis? Killed At Least 80,000 People Which More Than 40% A
2008-05-11 12:14:00 BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before. And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written ...
Frontiers of the Human Spirit
2008-05-08 21:11:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog “To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.” - Sir Winston Churchill There is at present but one flag upon Earth?s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful ...
Yemeni Hunger Striker, Hassan Baoum, Seriously Ill
2008-05-03 02:18:00 Southern Yemeni activist Hassan Baoum is seriously ill and has been transferred to a police hospital, his family reports. Baoum is on a hunger strike in protest of his “illegal arrest” on April 1, 2008. He has had a diabetic reaction, and his blood pressure is very high. Baoum has been held incommunicato since his ...
The Global Election Effect
2008-05-03 00:21:00 This past week I was contacted by Andy Orin from Link TV to write about a new project that he manages and maintains called “Dear American Voter”. The essence of the site is that it allows people from around the world to post videos about their issues and concerns for the upcoming American election. Some Americans ...
Shoddy Goods from China: It?s Not Just Heparin
2008-05-02 03:58:00 That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh… I noted that two weeks ago… And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys. But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that ...
Greenpeace vs GM Food: keeping food from the hungry
2008-04-29 05:56:00 Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke. For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry ...
The Missing African Link
2008-04-28 00:35:00 Thanks to the folks at Wikileaks, I have come across an interesting document which is the shipping order for the weapons from Poly Technologies Inc. in China to the Ministry of Defense in Zimbabwe. Now, Zimbabwe has been in the news quite often in Europe because it used to be a British colony back however ...
Arming the Zimbabwe Opposition? Reality Check Please
2008-04-26 01:32:00 The Wall Street Journal has an editorial essentially saying that if guns were available to Zimbabwe’s opposition, there would be less of a problem for the people to worry about government persecution and intimidation. Reality check, please. The majority of people in Zimbabwe belong to the Mashona tribe. Traditionally, the Mashona are passive and friendly. They have endured ...
At Least Marx Had Integrity
2008-04-22 12:15:00 An EARTH DAY SPECIAL from Churchill’s Parrot blog Granted Karl Marx was a bitter, self-loathing, misanthrope, half-crazed with envy and his own depraved world view, but at least he had integrity. When advocating the implementation of his beloved communism, for instance, he made no attempt to sugar coat what would be required: ?The proletariat will use its ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe ? Chinese troops on streets as ?human wave? flees
2008-04-21 12:35:00 Recent headlines have focussed on the ?cargo of death? shipped from China to Zimbabwe last week, but in an even more sinister development, Chinese troops have been seen on the streets of a Zimbabwe town? (Daily Mail) Chinese and North Korean troops were also in evidence alongside Mugabe?s own troops when he attended a rally ...
Waking Life: Alex Jones - I want freedom
2008-04-17 16:57:00 Alex Jones: You can’t fight city hall, death and taxes. Don’t talk about politics or religion. This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda rolling across the picket line. “Lay down, G.I. Lay down, G.I.” We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now in the 21st Century, it’s time to stand up and ...
Book Review: Legerdemain by James Heaphey
2008-04-16 09:54:00 This fascinating memoir by James Heaphey is set mainly around an American Air Base for nuclear bombers in Morocco, North Africa; it combines treachery with extreme violence and danger, and is narrated with the stamp of authority that can only come from one who has been there, seen it and done it. Characters include Arabs, Berbers, ...
Peter Goodspeed, National Post: Food crisis being felt around world
2008-04-14 14:28:00 Now is the time for extensive research into food-elimination strategies. It is as clear as day that markets are not an effective way of providing the world with inexpensive necessities. http://www.nationalpost.com/new-s/story.html?id=412984 Sharply rising prices have triggered food riots in recent weeks in Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania and Yemen, and aid agencies around the world worry ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe - wave of fear
2008-04-14 12:54:00 A wave of fear is sweeping across Zimbabwe as terror reigns, not only in towns and cities but also in rural areas, where people are beaten and otherwise punished for having supported the opposition. Cathy Buckle this week quotes one victim from a small country town telling her, ??it is terrible, there are injured people ...
Where?s The Rice?
2008-04-14 04:42:00 We just delivered more rice from the “second harvest” to the rice mill for storage and milling later. We don’t worry about a shortage of rice: We grown our own, a gormet organically grown rice for the upscale Manila market. But not everyone is so lucky. Here in the Philippines there is a rice shortage. It came on ...
The Turbulent Ride of the 2008 Olympics Torch
2008-04-13 21:30:00 The charged political atmosphere in the torch relays of the Beijing Olympics of 2008 should cause the founder of modern international Olympics, the French nobleman Pierre Fredy roll in his grave. The sporting event revived with ideals of promoting peace, harmony and international cultural exchange has eventually grown to turn to to a background of ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Remember the Alamo?
2008-04-08 12:12:00 From Churchill’s Parrot blog. Hilarious and nauseating at once is mankind?s chronic inability to retain wisdom acquired at the cost of much blood, toil, tears, and sweat. This tragicomedy was played out for us in no uncertain terms upon our recent Stateside pilgrimage to one of the more forgotten shrines to the cause of Liberty: the ...
The Flawed Anti-War Logic of the Left
2008-04-06 17:24:00 “John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such,” Ms. Psaki [an Obama spokesperson] said. “He?s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged.” This statement was made in response to a radio talk show host who called Sen. McCain a “warmonger” ...
Peter Davies on Zimbabwe - Elections in chaos
2008-04-02 17:05:00 The Zimbabwe elections are in chaos (Reuters). While the country waits in tension, Robert Mugabe has not been seen in public since casting his vote on March 29, and opposition candidate for President, Morgan Tsvangirai is claiming victory (BBC)? Suspicions remain that the long delayed results of the elections are being caused by manipulation of ...
Important: Do NeoCons, CIA Want Bush Assassinated to Stay in Power, Invade
2008-04-02 06:40:00 We were taught in the theories of international relations that democracies do not go to war. That notion however somehow seems lost in the erratic behaviour of the US administration regarding Pakistan. During the eight year long dictatorship in this country which also witnessed unprecedented assault on the American Twin Towers, the attitude of the ...
A World without Want is a World without Food
2008-03-30 08:32:00 Be it ours to see, from the first day of the Revolution to the last, in all the provinces fighting for freedom, that there is not a single man who lacks bread, not a single woman compelled to stand with the weariful crowd outside the bake-house-door, that haply a coarse loaf may be thrown to ...
Turn out the lights for the Earth
2008-03-30 05:34:00 Here in the Philippines, it’s “Tag-init”, the hot season that lasts from now until the monsoon hits in May. Since a lot of our power is hydroelectric, that means less power available at a time when everyone has their airconditioner on. The result is loss of electricity. Brownouts are not uncommon here: The electricity has been ...
Cuba Finally Allows Cellphones
2008-03-29 08:07:00 The LATimes reports that Cubans will finally be allowed to own cellphones. Of course, they will have to pay for the service with foreign currency, but they will now be allowed to own their own cellphones, and in another month or two, they may even be able to own DVD players and computers. People in the USA ...
World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2007-2008 Update
2008-03-29 05:43:00 BUY NOWBook Description : WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION is the best selling text in International Relations, because of its trusted balance in coverage and approach, unmatched by any other text for the course. By analyzing both historical and contemporary trends and developments, utilizing theoretical concepts, and weaving in the interactions of global actors, WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION resists the temptation to overly simplify world politics, presenting the material in a thought-provoking yet accessible manner while preparing students to assess the possibilities for the global future and its potential impact on their lives. The major theories scholars use to explain the dynamics underlying international relations-realism, liberalism, and their variants-frame the text. At the same time, this book incorporates the reconstructed theories newly advanced to interpret contemporary developments (such as constructivism and feminist theory) and resists the temptatio...
More Self-Parody at the UN
2008-03-28 18:30:00 From a press release from UN Watch. To the sound of cheers, and by an overhwelming [sic] majority of 40 out of 47 votes, the UN Human Rights Council today elected Jean Ziegler, the co-founder of the “Muammar Khaddafi Human Rights Prize,” as an expert advisor representing the Western world. And for its new Palestine expert, ...
The Anatomy of a Qassam
2008-03-27 22:38:00 Every day, Sderot–the little town near the Gaza Strip in Western Israel–is hit with countless Qassam Rockets. Some days only a few rockets are fired, at random, into the streets of Sderot. Other days several dozen fall down amongst the heads of the civilian population there. It’s ...
Peter Davies on Africa - Zimbabwe, violence, hyperinflation and elections
2008-03-25 12:38:00 Mugabe says that both Blair and Brown are ?blooming fools? and ?devilish liars?? (Reuters, Africa). Anticipating opposition protests when he declares himself winner of the presidential elections on March 29, Mugabe told supporters in the context of the riots that took place in Kenya that, “If Tsvangirai and his (MDC) group have such plans, they ...
A New Direction for Taiwan? or Not?
2008-03-25 00:58:00 Well by the time I accomplished anything on Saturday, the Taiwanese election was over and the wrong candidate won in my opinion because he advocated closer ties with the mainland. Especially with current events in Tibet, I would have though that the typical Taiwanese voter would have made the logical choice and voted for Frank Hsieh who ...
Not-So-Free Press in Venezuela
2008-03-24 18:23:00 “Give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile.” In Venezuela these days, that venerable saying could be morphed to, “Give Hugo a company, and he’ll take the industry.” Not content with RCTV, Chavez is gunning for one of the last independent voices in Venezuela. President Hugo Chávez is trying to whip up public ...
Let the 2008 Summer Olympics Begin with Protests
2008-03-24 16:37:00 Photo at right: Chinese riot police marching in Tibet's Shangri-la · 99 Tibetan protesters slaughtered (that is, unarmed protesters) by the Chinese government, who has only recently raised its official death toll for the protests to 22 · Pro-Tibet activists arrested in Greece in the flame-lighting ceremony there, where they face criminal prosecution · Chinese government announced U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who met with the Dalai Lama recently, is "habitually bad tempered," and proceeded to try to discredit her · The Chinese government's propaganda newspaper, The People?s Daily (think Fox News for China) accused, "The Dalai clique is scheming to take the Beijing Olympics hostage to force the Chinese government to make concessions to Tibet independence." If the last accusation is true, then more power to Tibet. Sure, I?d hate a boycott of the Summer Olympics, but to help free the Tibetan people from their five decades of Chinese tyranny? I say, bring it on. Ex...
By: Tumerica
World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2007-2008 Update
2008-03-23 12:15:00 BUY NOWBook Description : WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION is the best selling text in International Relations, because of its trusted balance in coverage and approach, unmatched by any other text for the course. By analyzing both historical and contemporary trends and developments, utilizing theoretical concepts, and weaving in the interactions of global actors, WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION resists the temptation to overly simplify world politics, presenting the material in a thought-provoking yet accessible manner while preparing students to assess the possibilities for the global future and its potential impact on their lives. The major theories scholars use to explain the dynamics underlying international relations-realism, liberalism, and their variants-frame the text. At the same time, this book incorporates the reconstructed theories newly advanced to interpret contemporary developments (such as constructivism and feminist theory) and resists the temptatio...
The Genealogy Of Hate - The Roots Of Anti-Islamism
2008-03-18 11:52:00 (Here is another rather long article on the issue of Islam-West relations. Before reacting to the title or the terms used alone readers are requested to first kindly peruse the piece. I am sure your queries will be answered within the same text. Regards) On March 16, 2001 several youths allegedly attacked two Muslims who were ...
What if Chavez Isn?t Bluffing About War with Colombia?
2008-03-14 03:55:00 Hugo Chavez is making news again, this time threatening war with Colombia (a U.S. ally) over the assassination of terrorist elements that have taken refuge in Ecuador. The facts aren't quite known, but it is alleged the Colombia sent military forces into Ecuador to attack members of the FARC, a terrorist group that has been ...
HYPOCRISY: Tehran Police Chief Arrested During Raid On Brothel
2008-03-13 20:22:00 If you think the Eliot Spitzer affair is a scandal, your missing out on a sweet story of Islamic hypocrisy oozing out of Iran. Tehran’s Chief of Police who recently led a crackdown on women for not following the Islamic dress code and eroding public morality was arrested during a raid on a brothel. General Reza Zarhei, ...
China?s Terrorism Problem
2008-03-10 08:52:00 In the news, a small story talks about the Chinese stopping an airplane hijacking. There are reports that the Chinese are worried about more attacks during the Oympics Wang said the group had been trained by and was following the orders of a Uighur separatist group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, ...
World Autism Day: UK Parliament applauds Autism Song
2008-02-22 15:11:00 (London, UK) The British parliament has applauded the song for autism, ‘Open Every Door.’ Parliamentary history was created when ‘Open Every Door’ became the first song for autism to be mentioned in the House of Commons in London. Influential parliamentarian Andy Love, MP for Edmonton tabled the early day motion 999 on ‘Open Every Door’. Prime ...
WTO DG Lamy Celebrates Benefits Of Opening Trade In Telecoms
2008-02-22 15:02:00 This is something to watch from the WTO (World Trade Organization), as it could open more doors than one might want. Director-General Pascal Lamy hailed liberalisation of trade in telecoms services as a vital tool in economic growth and development on the occasion of the WTO Symposium on Telecommunications organized in Geneva to commemorate the 10th ...
Parade's Top Ten World's Worst Dictators: Where's Bush?
2008-02-18 17:21:00 Here's the list of Parade Magazine's Top Ten World's Worst Dictators: Kim Jong-ilCountry: North Korea Omar Al-BashirCountry: Sudan Sayyid Ali KhameneiCountry: Iran Than ShweCountry: Burma (Myanmar) King AbdullahCountry: Saudi Arabia Hu JintaoCountry: China Robert MugabeCountry: Zimbabwe Pervez MusharrafCountry: Pakistan Islam KarimovCountry: Uzbekistan Isayas AfewerkiCountry: Eritrea But where, may I ask, is George W. Bush? Why do I think he's one of the world's worst dictators?First, what is a dictator?Dictator, noun, A person granted absolute emergency power, one holding complete autocratic control, or, one ruling absolutely and often oppressivelyAbsolute emergency power: National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20 give the President the powers to declare martial law in the event of an emergency, the definition of which is, naturally, completely up to the President, or whomever else might be in charge at th...
By: Tumerica
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