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POPSFrench neocolonialism in Africa Johann Hari looks at the way that France has managed to maintain control of its colonies in Africa by using its forces to keep pliant dictators in power. He suggests that there is a new scramble for control of African resources, led by the Chinese.
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POPSWhen Murrow Met Castro So there you have it. I’ve chosen to outline five of Fidel Castro’s more blatant lies but what about his one truth? What about that one pact made with Edward R. Murrow while dressed in pajamas at his Hilton penthouse? “When we have fulfilled our promise of good government, I will cut my beard.”
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POPSAppeals Court Gives Bush Powers of a Dictator Dictators can lock up people, provide them no trial and detain them indefinitely and now so can George Bush. Bush once said it the job of the presidency would be a lot easier if he were a dictator. Locking up people and throwing away the key has now become very easy indeed.
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POPSHope + Change = 70% Tax Rate Still, Barack assures us that John McCain's and George Bush's policy stances are indistinguishable, so let's so stipulate. Is that worse than the alternative? After all, what President in the modern era does Senator Obama's agenda most resemble? Huge expansion of the federal government? Check. Letting entitlement spending run wild? Check. "Windfall profit" taxes on oil companies? Strong desire to meet with dictators and state terrorism sponsors? Big doofy grin? Check, check, and check. The Tax Man Cometh Obama’s Plan Since the early 1980s — after Americans rejected Jimmy Carter and embraced Ronald Reagan and his tax cuts — the United States has benefited from relatively competitive tax rates. But if Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan becomes law, the IRS will become one of the most punitive tax men in the world. http://blog.heritage.org/2008/07/01/morning-bell-the-tax-man-cometh/ (Obama caricature by Cox & Forkum)
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POPSOil: $60/bbl. by next year (?) I agree that the oil market has been driven by speculation. I'd _love_ to see $60/bbl. if only to screw the world's oil-dictators. But should it go that low again? The best way to screw the world's oil-dictators is to find a successful alternative energy source and $60/bbl. oil will only dampen demand for alternatives. BTW, such wild price swings are a typical feature of an item whose supply is dwindling.
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POPSA Tale of Two Rugby Players This issue is poignant at a time when SIR Robert Mugabe is cocking his nose at the whole world. When you look at his cohorts one has to wonder why the World gives this collection of bigots, dictators, non democratic leaders a second look, let alone increasing the coffers of the despot leadership.
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POPSBarak: Only deterrent military power will bring peace As if Israel is not already top-heavy with the most sophisticated weaponry and accompanying connivance ever known to the human race, including 150 nuclear bombs, its head-of-state don't think Israel has enough. Barak's statement is just one of the many illustrations of a very mentally ill society that thinks that gunpower will exonerate them from all the butchering, slaughtering, torturing, ethnic cleansing, stealing and any and every crime against humanity. If his statement is the rule of humanity then all gangsters and brutal dictators have been morally correct all along.
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POPSThousands Protest US Sanctuary Given to Bolivian Mass Murderer This murderer of 60 perople now resides under US protective custody in South Floridia, an area teeming with mass murderers, ex-generals and dictators, and henchman who did US bidding in the Americas. It is also home to a large number of paramilitary operations that have performed various terrorirst activites in the Americas, mostly against Cuba. The people of Bolivia have every right to be anngry.
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POPSTHE HIGH COST OF SAVING ANWR
It's going to raise the price of aviation fuel for an already ailing airline industry. It's going to raise the price of heating oil. If you're sick and tired of giving away $2 of every gallon of gas to foreign dictators, making other oil-producing countries, cartels and tycoons rich beyond their imagination, and watching the federal government bow to international powers –all of whom are sucking the very life out of the American people, I implore you to sign and pass along the petition, "Drill here, drill now, pay less" at Newt Gingrich's American Solutions website. Did I mention that the Iraq oil minister just reported that oil production is earnings for Iraq of $28.5 billion in just the first five months of this year? We'll likely soon be dependent and in debt to yet another Middle Eastern oil-producing country that we've helped stabilize and become wealthy while ours is going straight down the tubes. Congratulations Congress – you're completely failing us.
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POPSThe Dr. Seuss Many Didn't Know Dr. Seuss worked as an editorial cartoonist for the paper from 1941 to 1943, drawing cartoons that lambasted isolationism, racism, anti-Semitism, Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese, and the conservative forces in American politics.
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POPSMy moment with McCain All the Republicans control these meetings. It is how good little Dictators do things. And when you only have a few hundred show up. It makes it that much easier to control.
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POPSMcCain: Obama's Positions Are So Changey WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to please a pro-Israel crowd this week by saying that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel and that the holy city should not be divided. That angered Palestinians, who claim part of the city, and Obama clarified his remarks to say that the fate of Jerusalem should be a matter for negotiation. That angered some Israelis and their U.S. supporters. By week's end no one was happy. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080606/D914QUV82.html
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POPSThe Family: The Hidden Christian Fundamentalist Power in the U.S. A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen—congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a "leadership led by God," to be won not by force but through "quiet diplomacy." Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls.
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POPSMcCain: A Critical Weakness on Foreign Policy
McCain's critical weakness on foreign policy is that he knows next to nothing about it. Although I have a lot of respect of McCain, I think he falls into the typical trap of myopic patriotism. Many people love their own country so much that they are blind to the reality of the world outside their borders. The outside world is a place where America is a pretty good nation, but has certainly seen better days. The outside world is a place where our enemies occasionally have legitimate points, and certainly have lives and families much like our own. In the reality beyond our borders, the US isn't guaranteed to win every fight, especially when we go in on shaky ground. In the reality beyond our borders everyone has to talk, whether they like it or not, because in the end, nations, like people, are created equal. McCain knows everything about the US Military, but knows nothing about our enemies. With a perspective like that, how can we expect to win?
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POPSWhile The US Tries To Avoid Recession, Obama Has A Plan RIP more money out of OUR pockets, out of OUR country, and from OUR future generations, to GIVE IT AWAY to other countries and THEIR dictators, which is where it usually ends up anyway. Yeah, thanks so much...NOT! CALL THEM NOW! $845 billion “over and above"!!!!
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POPS...Obama an appeaser? How dare you FTA: "Increasingly, the Western world has attitudes rather than policies. It's one thing to talk as a means to an end. But these days, for most midlevel powers, talks arethe end, talks without end. Because that's what civilized nations like doing – chit-chatting, shooting the breeze, having tea and crumpets, talking talking talking. Uncivilized nations like torturing dissidents, killing civilians, bombing villages,..."
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POPSObama & Hamas: McCain Camp Responds: Andy McCarthy We understand why Senator Obama doesn't want to engage in a debate over leadership and judgment with John McCain, but the American people demand that debate take place. Just today, the president of Iran, whom Senator Obama wants to meet with unconditionally, called the state of Israel a 'stinking corpse.' Iran is the paymaster and state sponsor of Hamas. In his victory speech this week, Senator Obama stated that 'wisdom' is meeting with our enemies, including Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Raul Castro. John McCain couldn't disagree more. Rather than giving tyrants and dictators the prestige of meeting with an American president, John McCain will instead meet with the champions of human freedom around the world and opposition leaders fighting for liberty
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POPSHabitat For Hamas Please support us in our efforts to legitimize Hamas, they are much more than just a terrorist organization. Habitat for Hamas will help with Hamas families housing problem, despite the group’s stated commitment to the violent destruction of the state of Israel, because you can’t always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even grovel and beg.
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POPSThe legacy of Rousseau and the French Revolution "No more thorough explication of the liberal fascist agenda can be found than in Hillary Clinton's best-selling book, 'It Takes a Village'," Mr. Goldberg writes. "All the hallmarks of the fascist enterprise reside within in pages." These include the superiority of the state-directed life over individual responsibility, even to the extent of the state having more say than parents in the raising of children. Mr. Goldberg is not making the point that American liberals are crypto-Nazis. They aren't. The kind of feminine fascist government America would likely see probably wouldn't have concentration camps but would have a Secretary of Hugs. More "Brave New World" than "1984."
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POPSA Ravenous Dragon Chinese companies will inevitably find themselves in fierce competition with Western ones for natural resources, as they must if global markets are to work efficiently. For the most part, however, they do not operate very differently from their peers. To the extent that the Chinese government does subsidise oil production, it helps to bring down the price for everyone else (its subsidies for oil consumption are another matter). As the world's biggest consumer of many commodities, China naturally wants to ensure a steady supply of them to keep its economy going. But markets for commodities are global, and the risk of any one consumer cornering supplies, or securing them at a lower price, is negligible. this special report will argue that concerns about the dire consequences of China's quest for natural resources are overblown. China does indeed treat some dictators with kid gloves, but it is hardly alone in that. Its companies do not always uphold the highest standards, but many...
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POPS The Race To Pull Out Of Iraq Elsewhere, however, it is hard to find many areas where they disagree on their approach to foreign policy or national security issues. The reason could be that their advisers are largely made up of people from Bill Clinton's administration. Hillary's team includes former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger, who was caught red-handed, stealing classified Clinton documents from the National Archives. Mr. Obama's advisers include former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake; Susan Rice, an assistant secretary of state in Mr. Clinton's second term; and Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brezezinski. "If you add up all of their differences, they both fail on Iraq. They both are advocating a policy that unless significantly modified would lead to a reversal of all our military progress in 2007," Mr. O'Hanlon said.
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