Blogging the democratic revolution
Drudge has posted many fantastic excerpts from President Bush’s speech today in Brussels, which reads fantastically. “The alliance of Europe and North America is the main pillar of our security in a new century. Our robust trade is one of the engines of the world economy. Our example of economic and political freedom gives hope…
For some reason, JerseyGOP has Yulia Tymoshenko has their 80th Babe of the Week. This is not surprising to most of us why she would be up there, but I am posting this because there are pictures.
Do I ever say how much I love news roundups? Yes, quite often. Even though I have many posts on Lebanon already, Arthur Chrenkoff offers a fantastic multi-dimensional roundup of his own!
Whenever Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s popularity drops, he weighs in with “news” of an American assassination plot against him. He’s feeling some kind of heat today and needs to talk assassinations. Or maybe he’s heard about that upper bunk General Noriega’s reserving for him. Whatever it is, he’s talking like a madman running from the…
For those who don’t know, the Jackson-Vanik Act was basically an embargo that restricted trade between them and the United States. I’ve written McCain about this and I’m glad to see something happening. From the Action Ukraine Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representatives Henry Hyde and Tom Lantos today introduced…
Spain’s Zapatero is facing his first big test as voters go to the polls to ratify or not the EU constitution. He’s made a big effort to persuade them to say yes. Whether they will or not is their choice. Regardless of that a lot of people look in askance at his ascent. Venezuelan blogger…
Bill Rice thinks that the joint declaration on Taiwan by the United States and Japan was timed just right. What is amazing about the event, is its timing. US Diplomacy of old would have kept such a meeting until after China had given the message of displeasure to the North Koreans. On another level, the…
Venezuelan blogger Miguel Octavio is in fine form, outlining the string of stupid arguments a certain general in charge makes for losing one billion dollars in aid money for 1999 mudslides that have resurged in force in the past two weeks. It’s called accountability.
I’m upgrading WordPress, so temporarily there should be some problems, like the website not working. Should be working soon though. UPDATE: IT WORKED! Maybe soon now I can do a redesign of the website. Very cool. DONE: Alright, this is what I’ve come up with so far. Feel free to make suggestions! As for me,…
Thomas L. Friedman makes an eye-opening personal account in the Houston Chronicle regarding the rules Syria plays by, namely, none: When Syria’s Baath regime feels its back up against the wall, it always resorts to “Hama Rules.” Hama Rules is a term I coined after the Syrian army leveled ???????? and I mean leveled ????????…
Nathan’s weekend edition is up, and PORA is tranforming itself into a permanent think-tank. Vladyslav Kaskiv is one of the leaders of the Pora movement, whose demonstrations ???????? often laced with biting humor ???????? became a memorable feature of those exuberant winter days. Pora drew its inspiration from pro-democracy youth movements in Serbia and Georgia…
Nobody’s blogging this, so I will. Today, Colombia’s army reported a powerful victory against the vicious, drug-trafficking Marxist FARC rebels. Eighty of their thugs were destroyed with minimal casualties taken by the Colombian army. Not only that, a huge drug-trafficking operation was shut down. It’s a significant gain in this war on terror, and less…
I have been telling you all about Radio Free Nepal the past few days, and they have been an invaluable source of information. And like any good source of information, they have pictures: Arrests made during the democracy protest earlier. It is so hard to get a good idea of what is going on in…
The Venezuelan Information Office, which is the aggressive propaganda arm of the Chavez regime, does more than just propagandize – it also seeks to discredit critics – in the U.S. It has now has targetted Wall Street Journal editorial page writer Mary Anastasia O’Grady in a concerted campaign. Venezuelan blogger Alexandra Beech at The Sixth…
There are two noteable articles on Lebanonwire that I noticed. The first is that Chirac is being accused of aiding the opposition. BEIRUT, Feb 19 (AFP) – Lebanese Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Mrad accused French President Jacques Chirac Saturday of encouraging the opposition during a visit to pay condolences after the assassination of former premier…
I was just passing by C-Span2, and they had George Soros on talking about his book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, something I will probably not be buying. However, we was talking extensively about the Open Society Institute, something I find more valuable than his political leanings in the United States. When asked why he…
Venezuelan blogger Miguel Octavio has translated a shocking essay by a poverty expert in Venezuela, who wrote about trying to reason with Chavez regime planning authorities whose solution to poverty was Pol-Pot style forced relocations to the countryside. That’s right, Pol-Pot relocations. He tried to explain to them why a Pol-Pot-style “relocation” of the nation’s…
This week’s murder of a kidnapped president’s daughter in Paraguay was disturbing enough in itself. What’s more disturbing is who’s behind it – none other than the FARC terrorists of Colombia, carrying out the operation by email from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Read more here.
Regime Change Iran’s daily briefing is up. New satellite intel shows that Iran is building an underground tunnel just north of the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) at Esfahan. It appears too big to be only for storage. It might be intended to house production facilities for some uranium conversion processes.. Iran already has about 500…
While the mainstream media sleeps, the blogosphere doesn’t, and Spain’s Barcepundit Franco Aleman is particularly swift. Franco reports a new video showing evidence that Spain’s great skyscraper fire last Sunday (which he did excellent blogging on this week) may have been deliberately set. If that’s the case, the mainstream media’s blithe dismissal of the fire…
Val at Babalublog has some fine examples of letters to editors in Minnesota, giving the facts of life in Cuba in response to the naive Sandalistas who write editorials about the pleasures of being a cossetted political tourist in Castro’s island hellhole.
Alek Boyd at Vcrisis reports that anecdotal evidence suggests more deaths from flooding in the provinces than the dictatorial government has let on.
I had a look at the marvels of Cuba’s health care system for Daniel’s blog. I learned Cubans are disgusted their doctors have been shipped out to Venezuela, leaving them with almost no medical care. Venezuelans, meanwhile, are disgusted their own doctors have been put out of work because of the cheap new Cuban labor….
Discoshaman has posted his news roundup and promises a more full one tomorrow. Out of the links was an editorial in the Kyiv Post regarding the reprivatization reviews: The process of reviewing shady privatization deals, recently announced by President Viktor Yushchenko????????s administration, makes us a bit nervous. It????????s true that some recent ???????privatizations??????? of valuable…
John Burgess at Crossroads Arabia posts an article from Arab News written by a woman that counters arguments against women’s suffrage. Last week, Raid Qusti wrote yet another article about women and elections. This was not the first time he tackled the issue, making it clear to all of us, again, that he agrees with…