Blogging the democratic revolution
Remember Dubai Ports International? The first-rate Emirates-based firm that, fair and square, tried to buy the operations of several U.S. ports? They were reviled as terrorists, a public outcry followed and then U.S. Congress stuck its nose into the whole business, baselessly condemning the company for no good reason until they were ignominously forced to…
Venezuela is getting increasingly militarized. We know that from the photos of Hugo Chavez brandishing rifles, alongside his vow to start a Kalashnikov factory. That doesn’t mean his military is getting more professional, however. If anything, they are more incompetent, and easier to beat in battle than ever. Chavez’s priority isn’t military excellence, but to…
Oh, to hear how some Americans talk! – the Chinese are a menace, and Latin America is full of different kinds of Mexicans all of whom want something from us before they go communist, same as the Chinese. In fact, probably joining the Chinese! That’s how the world looks to some on the right who…
French Revolutionary Sabine Herold Source: Never Yet Melted La Margaret Thatcher of France? Source: The Telegraph, London Glenn at Instapundit has found the impossible, an authentic French revolutionary and Babe of Politics, Sabine Herold, 25, who takes it as a compliment when people call her Mlle. Thatcher. Mlle. Herold is a fierce free marketer who…
Hates Free Trade: Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Source: EFE, via Yahoo! Mexico If polls are right, Mexican leftist presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has probably taken the lead in Mexico’s upcoming presidential election July 2. If he comes to power, we will have a leftist on our border who’s going to…
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Imprisoned Democratic Revolutionary Of Burma Source: OA Net The Burmese military junta’s 61st birthday present to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was a beefed-up contingency of military troops at her door this morning. Burma’s democracy leader has now spent all of ten years under house arrest, with very few visitors…
Less than a week after Hugo Chavez threatened to shut down the broadcast press by yanking their licenses, a newspaper editor for the weekly Ahora newspaper was gunned down in a targeted hit. His death raises the total of news editors shot dead to at least four that I know about. Hugo Chavez has it…
Ghana football player John Pentsil after his team’s victory Source: AP, via Ha’aretz What a lovely story! Following Ghana’s tremendous and unexpected soccer victory over the powerhouse Czech Republic, a Ghanaian player whipped out an Israeli flag to show his support for the embattled Jewish state at the moment of his own victory. What a…
Yes, because if I think my nation’s player, Zaccardo, own-goal, I can’t sleep tonight: Italy have to win against Czech Republic if it wants to continue to play at the World Cup. But I think that what counts the most at this WC 2006 are the fans. So, below are some of them: Yes, I…
For as much as I love the United States, I have to support my national team. It’s sport, guys. But I liked some photos I found on Yahoo/NewsPhotos/Germany , showing Italian and American fans joking and smiling with each other. Posters of Italian players…half naked!
Argentine babe, during Argentina’s spectacular soccer victory over Serbia Another Argentine babe, harder to please, she has an Argentine scowl Fox News, on the job, hunting for babes – don’t tell me Fox didn’t try Source, all photos: Fox Sports Another Argentine football babe Source: Reuters, via Yahoo! More babes, significant because they are in…
These are the first photos showing, inside the stadium and despite the presence of the Islamic Republic’s vice-president, Iranian fans waving their original flag, the Lion & Sun, instead of the Khomeinist one that was imposed in 1979. In Iran, women (who have to wear the mandatory veil) are banned from entering the stadiums. Outside…
As Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez flashes his rifles this week, ranting on and on about a nonexistent “U.S. invasion” – a real war is going on in Venezuela, one in which real criminals are waging on Venezuela’s poor people, and one in which its combatants, the police, are starved for funds, as Chavez happily shoots…
I was fortunate enough to participate in a conference call with Natan Sharansky hosted by the Heritage Foundation. As you all have probably guessed, I’m a big fan of his book, The Case For Democracy, so this presented a very unique chance to get a question in. I was joined by several heavyweight bloggers Regime…
Abu Bakar Bashir, Southeast Asia’s Leading Terror Mullah Source: The Sydney Morning Herald I get a visceral reaction every time I see this guy. I first heard of Abu Bakar Bashir, the leading terror cleric in Southeast Asia, in early 2002 from Sidney Jones, who was then with Human Rights Watch. She knew her stuff…
Chavez taking aim Source: Globovision Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez vowed to shoot down the independent press today, in perhaps his most pointed threat against it ever. Amid all the Chavista propaganda reported here in the States, suggesting that Venezuela is not a dictatorship because of an existing free press, the fact today is that the…
Source: Reuters, via Yahoo! Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez unveiled thousands of cartons of rifles, bought from Russia supposedly to head off a U.S. “invasion.” Lovingly, his official press office released the dingbat photo above. What a bunch of slobs. Via a Bloomberg item found by Alek Boyd at VCrisis, here is what Chavez had to…
A couple of months ago, after the golden domed Al Askari Mosque in Samarra had been attacked, I was asked by a friend why Muslims blamed the United States and Israel for this bombing. The Iranian president, his leashed Lebanese poodle Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and a few other folks issued statements and articles accusing the…
A new flavor Frito Bandito? Source: Venezuela Today Have you ever wondered whether leftist populist Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was really cut out of the same kind of cloth as his natural ally, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez? This informed essay by Gustavo Coronel, on Venezuela Today lays the two of them out,…
If the job of the government is to create development and prosperity, the only way to do it is to create businesses. Businesses are not rich because they have governments, governments are rich because they have businesses – lots of businesses, Carlos Alberto Montaner offers these, and other thoughts on the aim of government and…
Islamism defeats itself. Every time. This is a simple observation. Take the recent take over of the Somali capital by Islamic militias. This illustrates the archetypical Islamist power grab scenario: in a nation wrought with chaos and violence, and lacking strong leaders of principle, Islamic leaders with machine guns move in to give a desperate…
Think back to March 26 2006. Belarussians were on the street protesting against Lukashenka, an Afghan Christian convert risked the death penalty, London Mayor Ken Livingstone had just called the U.S Ambassador a ‘chiseling little crook’, and the Commonwealth games had just concluded. Whilst some sort of closure has been brought to all of those…
As if making the political comeback of the century wasn’t the ultimate in good fortune, Peruvian president-elect Alan Garcia has gotten lucky once again: Peru’s leftwing Chavista presidential candidate, Ollanta Humala, is watching his political party, one that was so eagerly expecting victory, splinter into disintegration. In the mire of their defeat to Garcia, they’ve…
From SMCCDI “In several cities groups gathered in order to organize opposition soccer gatherings, in which they displayed the banned “Lion & Sun” flag and some posters of the Islamic regime’s crimes. Such actions were very noticeable, especially, in cities, such as in Los Angeles, where, the Marzeporgohar Party had rented a full restaurant in…
This is just breaking, thousands of Iranian women are demonstrating for equal rights now in Tehran – police are going after them with full Islamofascist barbarism. Speculatively, it might well be that the Iranian soccer babes had an impact – I felt they would when I saw them. Keep an eye on GatewayPundit, if anyone…