Right now, apart from the US Democrat Nomination “race”, Western world media attention is focussed on the Burma Crisis.  Burma (aka Myanmar) is suffering a combination of natural and man made disasters.  And the West is getting hot under the collar about it because the Burmese Military Junta wants to be seen to be the […]

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The two dominant characters of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s were Harold Wilson (Labour) and Harold MacMillan (Conservative) and each has contributed an aphorism the truths of which political observers forget at their peril. Wilson said that “A week is a long time in Politics” and MacMillan, when asked by a journalist for […]

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BURMA is the small country situated in South East Asia, and it is sandwich between China and India. The country is blessed with rich natural resources including Oil & Gas, However 45 years of mismanagement by the Military Junta Government, the Burma is listed as the one of the most poorest countries on this earth.
On […]

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BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before.
And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written […]

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One of my emails notified me that a Michael Crescenz, a classmate of mine, will be buried Monday May 12 in Arlington Cemetery. He was killed 40 years ago, in Viet Nam. Ah, it’s been many years since I thought of Michael, and even then I remember him as a young boy, not as the […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
“To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is at present but one flag upon Earth’s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful […]

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Last week, there was a lot of publicity about a shipment of arms from China destined to be delivered to Zimbabwe being stopped when local trade unionists refused to offload the shipment in Durban.
Mozambique also refused to offload the shipment, and China, after a lot of international pressure, seemed to agree that the arms would […]

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Make the people keep voting until they vote the “correct” way and until Mugabe is declared “President” again.  Except that Mugabe can never even claim to be the legitimate President of Zimbabwe.  From now on even his African neighbours will look askance at this ancient leader of terrorists with a mixture of condescension, amusement, pity […]

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Southern Yemeni activist Hassan Baoum is seriously ill and has been transferred to a police hospital, his family reports. Baoum is on a hunger strike in protest of his “illegal arrest” on April 1, 2008. He has had a diabetic reaction, and his blood pressure is very high. Baoum has been held incommunicato since his […]

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That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh…
I noted that two weeks ago…
And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys.
But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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Twenty-four babies, and forty children under the age of six, were among some 250 people rounded up on Friday, and crammed into “filthy cells” at a small prison in one of Harare’s southern suburbs.  (Christina Lamb and John Makura, Sunday Times.)  Their parents were accused by police of “voting incorrectly” during the elections.  Meanwhile in […]

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In New York’s Times Square on Sunday afternoon, Armenians, documentary filmmakers, politicians and historians who refuse to allow the nearly successful genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Turks to be forgotten, gathered to mark the 93rd year of the atrocity and of the Turkish denials.
The two-hour event featured the usual speeches – you know, that quote […]

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(London, UK) The CNN news channel recently dedicated several days to mark the first ever World Autism Awareness Day, declared by the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the recommendation of the State of Qatar.
WAAD had the full support of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who hailed the courage of children and families […]

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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial essentially saying that if guns were available to Zimbabwe’s opposition, there would be less of a problem for the people to worry about government persecution and intimidation.
Reality check, please.
The majority of people in Zimbabwe belong to the Mashona tribe.
Traditionally, the Mashona are passive and friendly. They have endured […]

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(London, UK) The UK based Autism Awareness Campaign has urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling to reach out to the vulnerable and help families with autism during what is now a time of crisis. According to campaigners, the credit crunch will hurt the poor, the most vulnerable sections […]

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An EARTH DAY SPECIAL from Churchill’s Parrot blog
Granted Karl Marx was a bitter, self-loathing, misanthrope, half-crazed with envy and his own depraved world view, but at least he had integrity.  When advocating the implementation of his beloved communism, for instance, he made no attempt to sugar coat what would be required:
“The proletariat will use its […]

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Some 1,500 Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - a similar demonstration also occurred at the cable news outfit’s Atlanta headquarters – demanding that commentator Jack Cafferty be fired over these comments he made on “The Situation Room” April 9th:
“We continue to import their junk with the lead paint […]

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Recent headlines have focussed on the “cargo of death” shipped from China to Zimbabwe last week, but in an even more sinister development, Chinese troops have been seen on the streets of a Zimbabwe town… (Daily Mail)  Chinese and North Korean troops were also in evidence alongside Mugabe’s own troops when he attended a rally […]

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This fascinating memoir by James Heaphey is set mainly around an American Air Base for nuclear bombers in Morocco, North Africa; it combines treachery with extreme violence and danger, and is narrated with the stamp of authority that can only come from one who has been there, seen it and done it.
Characters include Arabs, Berbers, […]

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I want to put an end to all speculations about prime ministership. There is no vacancy for the post.
That was Congress loudmouth Jayanthi Natarajan conveying publicly what her madam must have conveyed privately to Arjun Singh to pre-emptively deflate the Rahul Gandhi trial balloon.
But here is the catch.
There maybe no vacancy for the PM’s post, […]

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Attention Conspiracy theorists.
They caught two of the ships that caused part of that Middle East Cable outage, and it turns out it was not done by the CIA, or Mossad, or Iran, or Alqaeda.
Just some careless sailors.
There were four cable cuts at the time; this story refers to the FLAG cable between Oman and the […]

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A wave of fear is sweeping across Zimbabwe as terror reigns, not only in towns and cities but also in rural areas, where people are beaten and otherwise punished for having supported the opposition.  Cathy Buckle this week quotes one victim from a small country town telling her, “…it is terrible, there are injured people […]

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We just delivered more rice from the “second harvest” to the rice mill for storage and milling later. We don’t worry about a shortage of rice: We grown our own, a gormet organically grown rice for the upscale Manila market.
But not everyone is so lucky.
Here in the Philippines there is a rice shortage.
It came on […]

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Offstumped question for the new week:
Is a benign neighborhood a pre-requisite for a functional and sustainable democracy ?
It is definitely true of all of Western Europe. The more recent converts to democracy in Eastern Europe are still sorting things through but by and large the unstable ones are those with troubled borders and not so […]

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When Autism News on Blogger News Network requested the candidates for the Presidential Elections - Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton who are going for the Democratic nomination and Senator John McCain the Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party to speak out on autism to mark the first ever United Nations World Autism Awareness Day […]

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The announcement that Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe will not attend an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in nearby Lusaka is bad news for all involved.
After years of destroying the economy and winning elections by a combination of bribes and threats (rural voters knew voting against Mugabe would mean they would be […]

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A few weeks ago, Autism News at Blogger News Network appealed to the Presidential Candidates to respond to the first ever United Nations World Autism Awareness Day held on Wednesday 2nd April 2008. This was a historic day announced by the United Nations General Assembly, the resolution was backed by the State of Qatar. WAAD […]

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A USA Today story reports that a Lifetime TV poll suggested that many women agreed with Ferraro that Hillary was getting unfair coverage.
• 41% thought Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has received “more positive” news coverage because he is an African-American….
• 33% believed Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has received “more negative” news coverage because she […]

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With China as the location of this year’s Olympic Games, the recent crackdown in Tibet and alleged lack of general human rights in Mainland China are creating protests around the world.  These protests follow the Olympic torch on its international publicity tour.  Although supporters from both pro-China and pro-Tibet groups have been at the protests, […]

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