The Right Perspective: Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotenceâ€Â. “In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,†Putin said during a speech at [...]
Telepraph: It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime’s illicit weapons project, the experts say. The most dramatic element of the “decapitation” programme is the planned assassination of top figures involved in Iran’s atomic operations. Despite fears in Israel and the US that Iran is approaching the point of [...]
Make no mistake. Leftists are nothing short of agents of the Devil. Tney are like the cannbalistic, lunatic, human monsters in “Dawn of the Dead”, driven to their rabid Gollum-like state by the spiritual pathology of Atheism, and the intellectual pathology of its political manifestation, Leftism. Politics is the instrument of religion. The political struggle [...]
Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package. In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on [...]
Agencie France Presse: The stress caused by the global economic downturn could reduce men’s testosterone levels, a British doctor warned Monday. Chronic stress caused by redundancy, financial worries or working longer hours could make levels of the hormone drop, said Richard Petty, the medical director of a top London men’s health clinic. Testosterone, the hormone [...]
Austin News 8: The U.S. Strategic Command Monday said there’s no relation between the collision of two satellites over Siberia last week and the weekend shower of fireballs over Texas. What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris. Preliminary reports [...]
Tribal leaders in Badghis KABUL – A coalition airstrike has killed a powerful Taliban commander who broke a promise to renounce violence after village elders persuaded President Hamid Karzai to free him from prison, officials said Monday. The Sunday night attack destroyed a building housing Ghulam Dastagir and eight other militants in the village of [...]
BEIJING – A Chinese blogger whose satirical postings have gained a wide following was stabbed in the stomach at a Beijing book store after giving a reading, witnesses and friends said Monday. Xu Lai, who writes under the pseudonym Qian Liexian, was attacked Saturday evening at the Wanda branch of the Beijing Danxiangjie Book Store, [...]
“Pacifying the Taliban insurgency.” There’s no such thing. The Taliban’s perceived moral obligation to Allah is to continue to spread Islam until all available territories are under its control. In Islam, Muslims are obligated to lie in “defense” of Islam, including in peace treaties. This means that when they agree in writing to stop waging [...]
PARIS – France’s top judicial body on Monday recognized the French government’s responsibility for the deportation of Jews during World War II, the clearest such recognition of the state’s role in the Holocaust. The Council of State found that the government of Nazi-occupied France at the time held the “responsibility” for deportations that led to [...]
It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths. The latter may simply be a less inhibited and less grandiose form of the former. Indeed, the DSM V Committee is considering to abolish this distinction altogether. – Suite101.com The Betrayal: The brilliant scholar Ali Sina wrote a scary but highly relevant article about Barack Obama’s Narcisissm [...]
Beeqube: Britain is becoming a soft touch and a “fragmenting, post-Christian society” with a “misplaced deference to multiculturalism” undermining the fight against extremists, a security thinktank says. The warning is published today by the Royal United Services Institute, Rusi, a thinktank at the heart of Britain’s defence and security establishment. “Some may believe that we [...]
Brian Birdnow in Townhall.com: Much has been written in recent weeks concerning the Obama Administration’s early struggles and stumbles, particularly in matters such as properly vetting prospective cabinet nominees, differentiating between campaigning and governing, and staying on message during a rambling press conference. Some commentators have tried to downplay or dismiss these difficulties, while others [...]