An article on the left-leaning website Truthout announced yesterday that a “new direction in the war on terror” may result from a case that occurred in the last year of the Bush Administration. Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born suspected terrorist who was captured in Pakistan, was given “all the rights of  American criminal suspects.” The results? […]

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Reading through the Screens of Bias
The New York Times has a poignant story, in significant miniature, of how last week’s coup in Honduras has split Honduran society. Jorge Arturo Reina, Honduran ambassador to the United Nations has sided with ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Honduran ambassador to the United States Roberto Flores Bermúdez, Reina’s former law […]

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Thoughts on Honduras

All of the facts that can be gleaned through the news media indicate that the OAS (Organization of American States) is acting irresponsibly. They have called the ousting of former Honduran President Zelaya a “military coup” when the facts clearly indicate that the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the military to remove Zelaya after […]

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In Africa alone, 800,000 children die of malaria each year.
The death rate was actually once lower, but then economic problems, and the banning of DDT caused a rebound of disease carrying mosquitoes, and a resurgence in these diseases.
But it’s not only malaria: Southeast Asia has had a rebound in Dengue fever in the last few […]

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CNN is reporting that there is to be a “new beginning” in the US relationship with Cuba.
Yet Cuba continues to jail dissidents, and has not changed it’s policies (so loved by the western social planners) that let the neighborhood busy bodies butt into your private life.
Shouldn’t a “new beginning” mean something?
At the same time, I’m […]

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When offered the opportunity to review En Este Momento, Claudia Acuna’s latest album, I jumped at the chance. I am a huge fan of Latin Jazz in general, and Claudia Acuna in particular. Once the album arrived, I wasted no time in ripping open the cover and getting down to business. I was not disappointed. […]

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Here in the Philippines, we live within sight of an extinct volcano, and less than 100 miles from the great Mt.Pinatubo.
Mt Pinatubo, whose eruption was so severe that it lowered the world average temperature a degree, showed the world how devastating a volcanic eruption can be, but it also showed the world how a well […]

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MEMO TO: Richard Feducci, Overlord of Finance
FROM: E Pluribus, Wondergod
SUBJECT: Five Year International Finance Plan
DATE: January 1, 2005
Happy New Year, Rich. Got some good news and some bad news. The bad news: We’re going to let the American economy crater. The good news: Everybody else’s will, too. The best news: By 2010, we’ll be on […]

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By Jefferson Flanders
Who hasn’t been disturbed by the recent images of Palestinian civilians killed and wounded by the Israeli incursion into urban Gaza? Or deeply troubled by the video of injured children and lifeless bodies? The IDF’s military assault proved both misguided and counterproductive, a disproportionate overreaction to rocket attacks by Hamas. It was exactly […]

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It’s a saga that brings tears to the eyes.
Years ago, back in the late 1960’s or 1970’s, some imported Argentinian parrots arrived in the US and set up housekeeping in Brooklyn, a section of New York famous for their immigrant neighborhoods.
How the Quaker Parrots got there is not known: theories range from being blown there […]

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I’m watching CNN International gleefully report a “gotcha” against the Colombian government. Apparantly, one of the soldiers who rescuedIngrid Betancourt and other innocent hostages from FARC in Colombia had a tiny Red Cross on his jacket.
Hmm…aren’t there stories of “insurgents” in Iraq and Gaza and Lebanon using Red Crescent ambulances to move arms? I don’t […]

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A former United States Diplomat is asking a Virginia judge for leniency after being charged for possession of child pornography in April.
Gons  G. Nachman, age 42, a former Consular Officer, had recorded various sexual acts with young girls between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. Nachman admitted in court that he did have sexual relations […]

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My roommate grew up in South America.  He once said I would make a great South American, something I still hold as one of the highest compliments I have ever received.  South America is now a land of political extremism and American oppression.  Yet back in the day, South America was viewed in the way […]

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In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe.
After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those […]

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Christianity…a religious conversion of personal choice!

Contrary to the popular public opinion, Islamic faithful believers are converting to the practice of Christianity in record numbers. This is perhaps the reason for the deeply seated animosity and religious antagonism directed towards the Catholic Church and all of its associated teachings. A principle that underlies all of the […]

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“Give them an inch, and they’ll take a mile.” In Venezuela these days, that venerable saying could be morphed to, “Give Hugo a company, and he’ll take the industry.” Not content with RCTV, Chavez is gunning for one of the last independent voices in Venezuela.
President Hugo Chávez is trying to whip up public […]

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Catholicism migrated to the area of the Persian Gulf in the early 4th century. However, the history of the Catholic Church in this area has always been difficult. Nestorianism rose as a heretical movement among the faithful followers regarding the person of Jesus Christ. Nestorians believed Jesus had two distinct persons, one as Jesus the […]

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Hugo Chavez is making news again, this time threatening war with Colombia (a U.S. ally) over the assassination of terrorist elements that have taken refuge in Ecuador. The facts aren't quite known, but it is alleged the Colombia sent military forces into Ecuador to attack members of the FARC, a terrorist group that has been […]

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The war on terror has encouraged other countries to follow and kill known terrorists who found safe havens a couple miles across the border.
First someone dropped a missile on some AlQaeda bigshot in Pakistan, then the Turks sent troops to chase Kurdish separatists into Iraq. They too were terrorists who have killed and bombed […]

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The Wall Street Journal calls AZ “a laboratory for new ways to crack down on illegal immigrants.” Spurred in large part by “transplants” from other parts of the country, The Journal notes that AZ enacted 13 laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration, many of which triggered lawsuits or have yet to be enforced. These include […]

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According to the BBC, over a million people in Bogata protested FARC’s terrorist war against the Colombian people.
On the streets of Bogota, the message was blunter.
“No more Farc, we don’t want any more Farc, young people have to say no to the Farc and tell them to stop their violence,” student Jaime Martinez said.
Former hostage […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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In Colombia, FARC continues to tease by again claiming they will release two hostages (out of 3000 civilian and military hostages, of which a couple hundred are high profile hostages).
This is a game, of course, allowing nearby Venezuela President Chavez to bask in the limelight pretending he is Castro’s heir in promoting socialist utopias in […]

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Autism Campaigners around the world are appealing for greater support on Autism Sunday 2008 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Churches of all denominations will be remembering over 60 million people worldwide who are on the autism spectrum, in prayer.Parents groups and charities have been calling for more support and better […]

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Double standard indeed.
Restrain murderous terrorists during flight and transfer, and you are accused of torture and restricting their rights all over the papers of the Western World.
Kidnap innocent civilians, terrorize peasants, place murderous landmines, and rape women, but it doesn’t matter: people like Chavez and Oliver Stone will still defend you as merely freedom fighters, […]

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If Oliver Stone bothered to go outside his Caracas hotel room into some of the small nearby businesses, he might meet the middle class folks who demonstrated many time en mass against Chavez’ attempt to become dicator.But if Stone went around the corner, he would find the lower middle class neighborhoods are dotted with small […]

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What was the Top Weird News Story of 2007?
Vote from among the DBKP Top 44
Hard Choices: 2007 Was a Boom Year for Weirdness
What was the weirdest story in 2007?
Now, you can decide!
Vote for your Favorite Weird Story of 2007,
From the safety of what promises to be an utterly Non-weird 2008.
What was the weirdest story […]

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Oliver Stone was left with the proverbial egg on face when a highly publicized “hostage release” of a two woman and a child, a son “conceived by one with a captor” were to be released into the waiting arms of Venezuela’s left wing president Chavez.
Whoops. Turns out the boy was a foster child in Bogata…and […]

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Doctors without Borders has a little list, and they’re hoping someone will read it.
The Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007.
The reason why these stories are ignored are probably twofold: One, many have  been going on for years, and two: They are in countries where the disasters can’t be blamed solely on America.
Number ten is […]

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Four Regions from Boliva Declare their Autonomy
The Four Areas Produce Most of Bolivia’s Natural Gas
What will the Bolivian Government of Evo Morales Do? 
Hugo Chavez’s vision for a South American socialist paradise was dealt a blow Saturday.
Not often seen in the Western Hemisphere, is a full-blown civil war coming to Bolivia?
Four regions declared their autonomy from […]

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