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The soft side of Communism shows itself.

Posted in International scene on May 26th, 2008 by gatordoug

Great news, the all-caring Communist government in China, you know the one that forces women to have abortions, sets a strict one child policy for families, and severely restricts basic human rights, has decided to allow parents who lost a child in the recent earthquakes to “replace” them!

Chinese officials said Monday that the country’s one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country’s devastating earthquake.Those families can obtain a certificate to have another child, the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in the capital of hard-hit Sichuan province said.

With so many shattered families asking questions, the Chengdu committee is clarifying existing one-child policy guidelines, said a committee official surnamed Wang.

Stalin would be proud I am sure

Heartache! Obama not Marxist enough for Castro

Posted in International scene on May 26th, 2008 by gatordoug

Apparently Castro thinks his nations troubles are less the fault of the failure of Comunism, than America’s evil doing. According to El Swino, Cunbans will starve if Obama does not lift the Cubam embargo.

Fidel Castro criticized Sen. Barack Obama on Monday, writing that the Democratic presidential hopeful’s plan to maintain Washington’s trade embargo against Cuba will cause hunger and suffering on the island.

“Obama’s speech can be translated as a formula for hunger for the country,” Castro wrote in a column published by government-run newspapers, referring to remarks Obama made before the influential Cuban American National Foundation in Miami last week.

He complained that Obama’s description of Cuba as “undemocratic” and “lacking in respect for liberty and human rights” was the same argument previous U.S. administrations “have used to justify their crimes against our homeland.”

Fidel, it is COMMUNISM THAT IS KILLING YOUR COUNTRY!

Couple forced to divorce is Saudi Arabia

Posted in International scene on May 25th, 2008 by gatordoug

More backasswardness from the Saudis!

Saudi couple forced to divorce by an Islamic court have called for more international pressure to reunite them after Saudi authorities failed to fulfill a pledge to a U.N. body to do so.Fatima Azzaz and Mansour al-Timani were forced to separate in 2006 after her brothers persuaded judges her husband’s tribal stock was not prestigious enough.

It is one of a series of cases that have drawn international criticism of human rights in Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally and the world’s top oil exporter.

Yakin Erturk, the U.N.’s expert on violence against women, said during a visit to Riyadh in February that authorities had promised to allow the couple to reunite.

“Our case has not been resolved yet … I cannot get justice in my country, the United Nations could not get me justice, I turn to Allah and to the world to ask for this injustice to be brought to an end,” Timani told Reuters late on Saturday.

Castro still alive, bashes Bush, McCain

Posted in International scene on May 24th, 2008 by gatordoug

 The evil dictator not only lives, he sounds a LOT like Democrats! 

Cuban leader Fidel Castro blasted Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday for his criticism of the Cuban government this week, saying McCain had shown why he finished near the bottom of his class at West Point. In his latest newspaper column, Castro also attacked U.S. President George W. Bush for his speech on Wednesday announcing that U.S. citizens would be allowed to send cell phones to Cuba.   

“A deluge of speeches and lies they directed at Cuba,” Castro said in a column published in Communist Party newspaper Granma. “How far they are from knowing Cuba and its people.

McCain, speaking in Miami on Tuesday, vowed to maintain the United States’ 46-year-long trade embargo against the island until, among other things, the Cuban government frees political prisoners and holds internationally monitored, multi-party elections.

 Fidel, buddy, can you do the world a huge favor and die already?

Chavez warns Columbia over US base

Posted in International scene on May 15th, 2008 by gatordoug

The Left’s favorite Marxist tool is outraged, no, outrageously outraged that Columbia might allow a US military base on its border with Venezuela.

President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an “aggression.”

Chavez said he would not permit Colombia’s U.S.-backed government to establish an American military base in La Guajira, a region spanning northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

The Venezuelan leader said if Colombia allows the base, his government will revive a decades-old territorial conflict and stake a claim to the entire region.

A loud mouth with no teeth to back it up. Columbia should tell him to get bent.

BBC: “Major world powers” to try to appease Iran into behaving

Posted in International scene on May 3rd, 2008 by gatordoug

STUPIDITY!

Major world powers are to offer Iran updated incentives to stop enriching uranium and end fears it is seeking a nuclear arsenal.

The agreement on a new package was announced by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband after talks between foreign ministers in London.

He said no details would be made public before the offer was made to Tehran.

Iran, which says it is seeking civilian nuclear energy, is under UN sanctions for continuing to enrich uranium.

Friday’s deal was agreed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, Russia, China, the UK and France - plus Germany.

Will they EVER learn?

Your obligatory UN scandal post

Posted in International scene on April 28th, 2008 by gatordoug

Well, a tad more than a mere scandal. In fact FAR MORE!

- Pakistani peacekeepers in the eastern town of Mongbwalu were involved in the illegal trade in gold with the FNI militia, providing them with weapons to guard the perimeter of the mines

- Indian peacekeepers operating around the town of Goma had direct dealings with the militia responsible for the Rwandan genocide, now living in eastern DR Congo

- The Indians traded gold, bought drugs from the militias and flew a UN helicopter into the Virunga National Park, where they exchanged ammunition for ivory

The UN looked into the allegations concerning the Pakistani troops in 2007.

It concluded that one officer had been responsible for dealing in gold - allowing traders to use UN aircraft to fly into the town, putting them up at the UN base and taking them around the town.

But the UN decided that “in the absence of corroborative evidence” its investigators “could not substantiate the allegation” that Pakistani peacekeepers supplied weapons or ammunition to the militia.

Ah, so the UN investigated itself and found no corroborative evidence? Right!

Ruthless dictator wants to compromise on election he lost

Posted in International scene on April 24th, 2008 by gatordoug

Oh, how very reasonable of him

Zimbabwe’s state-run press is floating the possibility that Robert Mugabe will annul last month’s presidential election and call for a national unity government with himself as president while a new constitution is negotiated and a fresh ballot held.

The proposal, in an opinion piece in the Herald, is not a formal Zanu-PF plan. But the newspaper is often used by the ruling party to lay the ground for policy changes. The proposal is viewed by the opposition as another attempt by Mugabe to overturn the election results.

Yesterday, Gordon Brown repeated British accusations that Mugabe was trying to rig the elections. The prime minister said he would propose an embargo on all arms going to Zimbabwe.

With the results of the ballot still unannounced 25 days after it was held, and a partial recount of parliamentary and presidential votes taking days, it is increasingly apparent that the Zimbabwean government is undecided on the way forward.

Oh those tricky dictators!

Question to ponder

Posted in International scene on April 23rd, 2008 by gatordoug

Will Islam conquer Europe? Or will Europe modernize Islam. A compelling question indeed

Leading Muslim scholars are laying the theological foundations for a “Euro-Islam” which would reconcile their religion with the challenges of modernity. But just how compatible is Islam with secular Western values?

In effect, [Tariq] Ramadan is something of a modern-day itinerant preacher. His mission is to boost the self-confidence of Europe’s Muslims and to explain his vision of a “European Islam” to Europe’s Christian elite. The new brand of faith which, according to Ramadan, “is currently taking shape among European Muslims with Islamic-European culture” aims to reconcile Western values with the teachings of Islam. This “Euro-Islam” has allowed Ramadan to win friends among immigrant children and proponents of interreligious dialogue — and make enemies among right-wing nationalists and hardline Islamists.

Ramadan has given thousands of presentations over the past few years, speaking to a wide range of audiences, including Muslims and Christians, atheists and Jews, church representatives and politicians, industrialists, students and anti-globalization activists. Over the weekend, he made four appearances in France where he spoke to over 2,500 people, mostly young Muslims. Tonight he will speak in Birmingham at a police convention, tomorrow morning his schedule takes him to Blackpool; he can’t remember off the top of his head who he’s talking to there. …

Some, like the British government, see him as a Muslim visionary who provides a modern interpretation of the Koran and breaks with outmoded traditions. “We need trust and dialogue and a more flexible faith,” says Ramadan. This kind of language prompted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to appoint him to what was essentially a Muslim task force to combat extremism. On the other side of the Atlantic, Time magazine placed him on its list of the 100 people who comprise “tomorrow’s most influential individuals.”

Others see him as an Islamist in disguise, a “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” a master of deception. And, as a matter of fact, Ramadan has made a number of statements that don’t sound remotely liberal or tolerant.

Hot Air has a lot more info on this fellow.

Gorbachev bashes McCain, defends UN

Posted in International scene on April 21st, 2008 by gatordoug

Leave it to the media to dig up some Marxist like this tool

At a speaking engagement in Florida, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev took issue with Sen. John McCain’s call for a new “League of Democracies” and said any move that undermines the United Nations is a “mistake.”“Great powers set an example to the world and must give a chance to the United Nations to develop a new global system,” Gorbachev said. “We must not, instead of the United Nations, propose NATO or some kind of a coalition of democratic countries, as suggested by Sen. McCain. I think that to replace the U.N. with that kind of an organization would be wrong.”“This proposal I regard as a mistake,” he said.

“I think that we must reform the United Nations, we must give new functions and create new committees to properly address the problems we have. We must reform the United Nations, we cannot destroy it,” Gorbachev commented during a speech at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

“Our political leaders and our political elites must get rid of the confrontational attitudes of the past, must get rid of unilateralism and a monopoly of domination,” he said, adding that “had the U.N. been more influential, the United States wouldn’t have been able to start a military action in Iraq. The U.N. Security Council was against it, even many allies of the United States were against it.”

Oh shut up and wash your head off you Marxist retread! Your failed ideolgy of Communism killed over 100 million people on the 20th century. So, NO, HELL NO, you have no credibility, no standing, no honor!

Iraq opens oil field bidding

Posted in International scene on April 17th, 2008 by gatordoug

Good News!

Iraq will open at least six major oil and natural-gas fields for exploration and production in the first bidding for licenses since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Iraq, which pre-qualified international oil companies this week for the bidding, will open the southern fields of Rumaila North, Rumaila South, West Qurna and Zubair for exploration, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said in an interview in Brussels yesterday. In the north, international oil companies will be invited to develop the Kirkuk oil field and the Akkaz gas field.

“At least six giant fields will be included, including some gas fields,” Shahristani said. “There will be other bid rounds next year, and more companies will be qualified as we go along.”

Iraq aims to nearly double oil production to 4 million barrels a day in the coming years with the help of international companies, many of which have refused to invest in the country because of a lack of security and the lack of a federal energy law. No legislation has been passed because of disagreements over revenue sharing and oil-field development.

Stupidity for the ages-Jimmy Carter

Posted in International scene, War on Terror on April 16th, 2008 by gatordoug

Good Lord! Has this fool ever had a rational thought?

“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels,” he said over the weekend, responding to a question from an Israeli journalist who noted that Mr. Carter had been snubbed by most of Israel’s top leadership and reprimanded by its president, Shimon Peres. “When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.”

OH, OK Jimmy, so dictatorships and republics are the same right? In Republics the people have a voice, and they do in dictatorships too! They just choose to let their ruler say it for them Jimmy? There is NO WAY he is that stupid! Is there?

Olmert to worst president ever: Take a flying leap loser!

Posted in International scene, War on Terror on April 12th, 2008 by gatordoug

Good! I wish president Bush would revoke Carter’s passport. Think of the morals Carter is showing by visiting with the leader of Hamas. Meeting with a terrorist murderer! Meeting with a man whose business it is to kill Israeli women and children? Talk about morally retarded? That sums up Jimmy Carter! So, good for the Israeli leader. He really should not allow Carter in his country.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has turned down a request from former American president Jimmy Carter for a meeting during his visit to Israel next week. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni both said that their schedules will not allow a meeting, but an anonymous Israeli official told the Washington Times, “You draw your own conclusions.” Other officials have expressed anger at Carter’s proposed meeting with Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.

However, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israel Is Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) leader Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman have scheduled to meet with the former president, whose recent book compares Israeli policies on the Palestinian Authority (PA) with former apartheid policies in South Africa.

It amazes me that any Israeli would want to meet with Carter. Why would anyone want to talk to a man so enamored with terrorists?

Worst president EVER, to play footsies with Hamas

Posted in International scene, War on Terror on April 9th, 2008 by gatordoug

DESPICABLE!

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

We should not allow the damned old fool to re-enter America. Let him stay over there.

“It’s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does,” said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part.”

“I’m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,” said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.

Exit question! Has Carter ever met any dictator, terrorist, or thug he did not excuse? How many evil asses has this scumbag kissed?

UN investigator compares Israel to Nazis

Posted in International scene on April 8th, 2008 by gatordoug

Well, I for one am glad we can dismiss that whole notion that the UN is biased against Israel

Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza.

Is he seriously trying to equate these two situations?

“If this kind of situation had existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison,” he said.

That reluctance was, he argued, based on the particular historical sensitivity of the Jewish people, and Israel’s ability to avoid having their policies held up to international law and morality.

International morality? Spare me!

Mugabe ordering arrests of poll workers

Posted in International scene on April 8th, 2008 by gatordoug

Wow! he is reacting to losing an election even worse than Al Gore did.

Zimbabwean police have arrested at least five officials for allegedly under-counting votes cast for President Robert Mugabe in last month’s election.

Police said the election officials have been charged with fraud and criminal abuse of duty, accused of taking nearly 5,000 votes away from Mr Mugabe.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joined international calls for the urgent release of the results.

That nation is headed for a civil war.

Go figure! Ruthless dictator might not honor election results

Posted in International scene on April 3rd, 2008 by gatordoug

What? You mean dictators do not respect the will of the people? Apparently not.

Raids on opposition party offices and the rounding up of foreign journalists are threatening to push Zimbabwe further toward confrontation between current President Robert Mugabe and the apparent winner of national elections.

Police raided the Meikles hotel, which is used by the opposition, Movement for Democratic Change, and ransacked some of the rooms. Riot police also surrounded another hotel housing foreign journalists, York Lodge, and took away several of them, according to a man who answered the phone there.

“Mugabe has started a crackdown,” Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti told The Associated Press. “It is quite clear he has unleashed a war.”

The New York Times said that its correspondent Barry Bearak, who won a Pulitzer prize in 2002 for his coverage of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan, was taken into custody by police.

As bad as things are in Zimbabwe now, this turn of events could make it far worse.