If I am voting against the President, it is not racism but because he is going out of his way to persecute the Catholic church: The problem? The week after taking office, the President removed conscience rights regulations from the federal regulations. This means that the only thing standing between Catholics and Muslims from being [...]

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Paul Ryan Wins Vice Presidential Debate as Biden Yells, Interrupts, and Bullies – Joe Biden was rude, condescending, angry, and simply over the top in his behavior throughout just about the entire debate; so much so that his behavior was the primary topic of discussion on all the social networks.

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An article in yesterday’s National Journal – (http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/panetta-u-s-has-potential-military-plans-for-iran-20120308) by Yochi Dreazen, details comments made by Defense Secretary Panetta this week regarding both Syria, and the Iranian Nuclear issue. This article mentions The fact that the United States is weighing options and contingencies for conflict with Iran, and obviously this is no surprise. The “no evidence [...]

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Concerns about an Israeli Preemptive strike against Iranian Nuclear production facilities have gained attention recently and have been the topic of numerous speculative reports in both the foreign and U.S. Press. The Wisdom and effectiveness of such an attack has been debated, and both U.S. and Israeli Government officials have weighed in on the topic. [...]

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It was a cute photo, so I place it on my blog. a great photo of a happy young teenager holding a water sprayer, somewhat wet herself, and smiling happily. There is enough bad news in the world, so I like to post stuff that reminds us that not all of life is war and [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.orgTruckee, CA, USA, February 21, 2011 — As reported by PiratesWeek and Kim Andrew Elliott, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee who publishes his own private international broadcasting website, the BBG-managed Voice of America (VOA) websites were hacked on February 21, 2011, apparently by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” In 2009, VOA websites were out [...]

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What is going on in Egypt may have little to do Islamic fundamentalism or democracy per se. It is probably the result of many factors, and many of us will probably compare the demonstrations to the uprising in Iran against the Shah. Egypt’s government is corrupt, and the US has been propping up that regime [...]

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by Ted Lipien Opinia.US Truckee, CA, November 29, 2010 — Leaked secret State Department cables may help to resolve the mystery as to why President Obama chose September 17, 2009 to make his announcement on canceling President Bush’s missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The announcement pleased the Kremlin, which had been [...]

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Reporters are busy reporting the story of the day, but often they miss the big picture, preferring to report stories as a race horse betting game. Example: Michael Steele said that Afghanistan is the President’s war. What will Rush say? Will that make Obama’s popularity poll go up or down? Time out, fellahs. Because a [...]

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The Middle East figures Obama is a patsy and is vieing for who can hate Israel the most (the reborn Ottoman Empire, or the reborn Persian Empire?). At the same time, Obama’s oil spill policy gets ripped in the Rolling Stone of all places. There go the baby boomers. Time for a distraction, folks. Certain [...]

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…while the world sits on its collective hands and this continues unabated. Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of [...]

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Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — An article in the U.S. semi-official military newspaper Stars and Stripes suggests that the Obama administration’s plan for placing a limited number of Patriot missiles in Poland has no military significance and is being implemented largely for diplomatic reasons to appease Warsaw

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How does one respond to an unpopular tyranny who is threatening to start a war? Do you try to encourage them to reform, with soft words and promises to help if they turn to cooperation? Or do you be blunt and articulate the idea that unjust government must reform, because freedom lives in the hearts [...]

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Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Due to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s decision to prolong her stay in the Middle East, her scheduled meeting in Washington with visiting Polish foreign minister RadosÅ‚aw Sikorski has been cancelled. The announcement of the cancellation was made Tuesday by the State Department spokesman Ian Kelly. Tomorrow, of course, she has a [...]

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Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Blinken, national security adviser to the vice president, said in a briefing with reporters before Biden left for Europe October 20, that leaders in Warsaw, Bucharest and Prague should think less of what the U.S. can do for them and more about what they can do with the United States.

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Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Bloggers and Russian experts in the US have been trying to find out whether the Obama White House coordinated with the Kremlin the timing of the missile shield decision that deeply offended people in Poland and produced biting commentaries in the US. Speculations abound that Russian diplomats, working on instructions from [...]

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The answer is "Yes", but when it does, this is not necessarily a failure of those trying to prevent conflict.  At times, this is simply a result of the motivations of the belligerent.  In response to my post on the blog "Stones Cry Out" about the delusions of negotiating with Iran, commenter Dan Trabue responded [...]

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Dear Poland, Happy Soviet Invasion Day, Love Uncle Sam Wired While American and international media blames President Obama for choosing to announce his decision on the removal of the missile defense system from Poland and Czech Republic on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet attack on Poland on September 17, 1939, surprisingly so far no [...]

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President Obama’s announcement on September 17 that the US is shelving its plans to build a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in Central Europe is likely to raise painful historical memories in Poland. President Barack Obama bids farewell to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev backstage after the two spoke at the Parallel Business Summit at the [...]

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A lot of nonsense being written in the news about Conservative writer George Will deciding to throw in the towel in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a mess. Big deal. It’s been a mess for a couple thousand years, and trying to “win” a war there and put in a crumpets and tea democracy is a bit [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, August 18, 2009, San Francisco — Ever since the United States Information Agency (USIA) was dismantled in a foolish post-Cold War cost-cutting move, the U.S. State Department and American diplomats abroad have not been able to present a coherent message to foreign audiences quickly and [...]

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Today’s Manila Bulletin has it’s usual supplement from the New York Times, and the headline blares: A Nuclear Free Vision. In the Depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Colombia University wrote…about the vision of a “nuclear free world”. It seems that President Obama was promoting nuclear disarmament in the 1980′s. That [...]

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From the desk of Charlie Churchill’s Parrot Churchill’s Parrot: Charlie Churchill’s Parrot here and joining us this evening is the Prince of Darkness himself, Satan.  Mr. Satan, so gracious of you to be here. Satan: Not at all. CP: How are you, sir? S: Never better. CP: That’s most unfortunate. We must say we are [...]

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White House Photos, Lawrence Jackson. The President discusses Iran during his opening remarks at the Press Conference at the White House, June 23, 2009. FreeMediaOnline.org,  Free Media Online Blog,  GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, June 26, 2009, San Francisco – Ronald Reagan’s strong response to the imposition of martial law  against the independent Solidarity trade union in Poland in 1981 was distinctly different [...]

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Here in the Philippines, there are always demonstrations, usually by the leftists, but if things get bad enough, the opposition always reminds the government about the “People Power” revolution that overthrew Marcos. At that time, thugs associated with Marcos assassinated exiled politician Ninoy Acquino who had just returned to Manila to run against Marcos in [...]

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I am happy that President Obama is trying to mend fences with Arabs and Iranians in the Middle East by giving a speech in Cairo. And many Americans agree, although many think he is being naive, or is sending a message to the radicals in the area that he is willing to “throw Israel under [...]

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My grandkids are into Facebook, and most people in the US know how the anti war opposition used Facebook and other internet social sites to help catapult Senator Obama to win the US elections last year. But using Facebook groups for political purposes is not limited to the US. Here in the Philippines, we have [...]

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The Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said today that Tehran will ‘welcome favorably’ a start of  dialogue from the USA if it will happen “in mutual respect and justice”.  But he added that the Islamic Republic is still waiting for a “real change” by the new U.S. administration of Barack Obama. “The new US administration has [...]

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The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson writes a 692-word article on a topic President Barack Obama “just can’t seem to get right.” Is it getting Iran to take him seriously? A bailout exit strategy? What to do with the committed jihadis currently warehoused at Gitmo? No, it’s bowling: A president who this week spoke fluently about [...]

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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 [...]

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If you visit Washington, locals will point out when the President leaves in a convoy of helicopters, most of which are there to protect him from bad guys. It’s quite an inspiring sight. His helicopter is called Marine One. But the helicopters are getting on in age, so there has been some discussion about an [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog In the race of the Trojan horses, we have entered, it would seem, the final stretch.  Those of us with eyes to see and optical nerves still communicating with the brain – our voices drowned out in the hysteria – have a decision to make: continue languishing in the grandstand, or [...]

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As CNN and other News channels in the US spent most of yesterday showing its viewers an empty US Airways Airbus 320 floating in the Hudson river, the citizens of Gaza ran for their lives from the indiscriminate bombing by the Israeli forces. But in a place as small as Gaza, there is not much [...]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog  The Federalist Commentary, January 6, 2009, San Francisco Thinking About The Unthinkable by The Federalist If you think about the above phrase coined by the late nuclear war theorist, Herman Kahn, you might find it  both unusually appropriate and alarming when applied to US public diplomacy. There is a [...]

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You might not know it from the headlines, but the war in Iraq is essentially won, and the good guys won. Oh yes, you will still see reports of bombings, but then 50 years after Magsaysay here in the Philippines essentially ended the Huk uprising, we still get kidnappings, murders and killings here by the [...]

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The BBC has an interesting article about a “perfect storm”: economic collapse, high inflation,high unemployment, and an up and coming election. No, not the US: Iran. Some background: A couple months ago, oil prices surged to $150 a barrel, causing food and other everyday commodity prices to climb. Here in the Philippines, the government intervened [...]

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This September 11, everyone waited with baited breath for the yearly “nyah nyah nyah” video rant from Al Qaeda. More worrisome was that there might be a pep talk to coordinate a pre election attack in the US. But something happened with the Alqaeda websites that usually deliver the videos: They went off line. It [...]

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David Schussler This morning in an attempt to convince the American people that he is presidential, Barack Obama basically said that he is ready to protect us from terrorism, financial disaster, social ills, a John McCain presidency, and I’m sure he would have concluded warts, hail, frogs, and murrain. Obama surrounded himself with an impressive [...]

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Not to give credence to the crazies in America (no offense …  you know who you are) but you have to admit that things have suddenly gone awry, both domestically and internationally, at an awfully convenient time. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t following you. With what little we now know about what is REALLY going on [...]

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The Taliban has been busy. They do try to fight foreign troops (aiming mainly at the Canadians and the French: they admit the attacks are trying to get these countries to remove their troops). And they are busy trying to exaggerate “civilian” casualties by hiding out among civilians. That always gets headlines in the papers, [...]

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One of our relatives just came back to visit from Canada, and she is looking to recruit people to work with her in Alberta. I said no thank you, since my Hispanic (adopted) son already was working in nearby Alaska, along with other Hispanics and Filipinos, and he said if he changed jobs, he preferred [...]

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Just how did Barack Obama (D-IL), a rather undistinguished IL state senator, get elected to the U.S. Senate, and without doing anything noteworthy in that august body, go on to capture his party’s nomination for president before even finishing out his first term in Congress? A combination of heartlessness and happenstance – and some say, [...]

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After considering the possibility that “foreign leaders Barack Obama met with on his mid-campaign overseas trip were merely hedging their bets and don’t believe he will win the White House this fall” The Associated Press notes that many of them treated the candidate like a head of state:   Jordan’s King Abdullah flew back early from [...]

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  By RB Scott  In April Thomas Sowell, a respected conservative scholar, wrote an insidious column undercutting Barack Obama and attacking preemptively the presumptive stupidity and gullibility of an American electorate that would elect him President simply to make a little history. (http://www.townhall.com/col umnists/ThomasSowell/2008/0 4/29/an_old_newness )   This would not be particularly noteworthy were Sowell [...]

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With all the bruhaha about “petroleum addiction”, the dirty little secret is that until there is another cheap form of energy, no matter how many “trade sanctions” are imposed on Iran, that country will manage to find third parties to sell it’s oil. The way this is done is that a third country buys the [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog: A recent spat on the Chris Matthew’s television program (“Dancing with the Stars” we believe?) has provided a splendid micro-study of the various bankruptcies which characterize the low-state of political debate currently at play in the last best hope of mankind.  May God help us all. First there is intellectual bankruptcy [...]

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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 [...]

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Perhaps because I have lived in countries with insurgencies, I’m a little cynical about the US press covereage of Iraq. They seem willing and able to report Iraq as Viet Nam, while I see it as Colombia, or Algeria, or Luzon, or maybe even Mindanao. The problem? The politicization of coverage as an “us versus [...]

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008 Saipan Earthquake at 6:07AM Thurs 3-27-08 While sitting here at the computer I began to feel a moderately strong tremor. My fishing rods lean against the wall in my office/den/computer room and they began to sway and dance a bit. There was a rumbling noise. A deep, long period vibratory feeling, [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog , Easter 2008 “In history every nation that watered-down it’s Judeo-Christian heritage was taken over by Islam. Every single one.” -Walid Shoebat, former Islamic terrorist, on The Gathering Storm Report 3/14/08 ————– Christendom – the concept of nations or families of nations united through their mutual devotion to the teachings of [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog Unrivalled Churchill biographer and dear friend, Sir Martin Gilbert got it wrong in a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post. In it he elaborates upon parallels between the free world’s appeasement of Iran and the free world’s appeasement of Nazi Germany seventy years ago. Sir Martin notes that by the time [...]

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If you think the Eliot Spitzer affair is a scandal, your missing out on a sweet story of Islamic hypocrisy oozing out of Iran. Tehran’s Chief of Police who recently led a crackdown on women for not following the Islamic dress code and eroding public morality was arrested during a raid on a brothel. General [...]

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It’s raining in Israel.  You won’t hear about it on the weather channel, though, because it’s not your typical rain.  Sadly, the fact that rockets are raining down on the Israeli town of Sderot won’t be easily found on the regular news either.  No, it is more likely you will hear about actual rainfall in Sderot [...]

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The press seems to be busy canonizing Obama as the next Messiah, with one story after another discussing his charisma, his success among minorities, and contrasting his “successful” campaign against that of Hillary Clinton, who is noticed mainly in news stories reporting her impending demise. I predict that by convention time, Democrats will face the [...]

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The internet sabotage rumors have been invigorated when a UN official told the AFP: “We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN agency’s head of development, Sami [...]

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From CHURCHILL’S PARROT blog John McCain is Winston Churchill?  We think not. Nonetheless the comparison is rather in vogue, some less asinine than others. Everyone agrees he is no Ronald Reagan. But then, of course, neither was Ronald Reagan. Rush, Anne, Sean, and Laura are betraying the Party. The Party is betraying Conservativism. What’s a [...]

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Call the FBI….Call Homeland security… Call the X Files….call ArtBell… A fourth cable has been cut, this time off the coast of the UAE, disrupting communications in Qatar. Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said on Sunday a cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das on Friday, the fourth reported [...]

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John Edwards (D-NC) finally bowed to the political reality that he was in a two-person race for his party’s nomination – and he was neither one of the two candidates that voters were supporting: “It’s time for me to step aside so that history can … blaze its path.” As he racked up loss after [...]

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The last Republican and Democrat presidential candidates left standing met for the final debates of the primary season in CA. The GOP debate, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near Simi Valley, was notable for the palpable loathing the two frontrunners have for each other. The Dem debate, held at the Kodak Theater in [...]

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Dear Senator. You are saying that unlike President Bush, you will “summit with Muslim Countries”. (Didn’t Bush just do that last week?) PARIS (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told a French magazine in an interview that if he wins office, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries to better the United States’ [...]

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Press Release from Churchill’s Parrot blog  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com Churchill’s Parrot Launches Anglosphere Consortium Blogroll January 14, 2008.  Surrey, England – Charlie, Churchill’s Parrot, former pet and advisor to Sir Winston Churchill (1937-1965), announced today the inauguration of a new blogroll: “The Anglosphere Consortium.” “With the escalation in instances such as those presently [...]

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If you follow the news, you might not know about Bush’s trip to the Middle East, or what he said there. The NYTimes front page has one article, below a football story, but Al Jezeerah (the only “free” press in the Arab world) with three stories…If you really want a summary, go instead to Gateway [...]

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A recent press release from the James Martin Center for Non Proliferation studies, at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, (http://cns.miis.edu/) lists the ten most significant proliferation related events of 2007.  (http://cns.miis.edu/cns/media/pr080108_cns_top10.pdf) One of the events sited in the article, is the Iranian government announcement that Iran has reached a goal of having some 3000 operational [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” -Sir Winston Churchill Jews flee their homes amid increasing state persecution.  A belligerent little dictator arms his nation against the will of the international community, promising genocide. The Western powers, befuddled by their own notions of “keeping the peace” and cultural deference, [...]

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With former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and other critics complaining that the National Intelligent Assessment (NIE) of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is tantamount to policy-making by “refugees from the State Department brought into the new central bureaucracy of the director of national intelligence” who have been hostile to the Bush administration’s foreign [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog We are not aware whether or not there exists any legal firm charged with the protection of the Adolf Hitler estate and its assets.  One is apt to conclude not.  Nonetheless, were such a firm to exist, they would surely today be awash in revenues resulting from countless suits filed on [...]

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PRESS RELEASE from Churchill’s Parrot Blog: www.churchillsparrot.com  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com Churchill’s Parrot to Produce Stage Adaptation of National Intelligence Estimate December 6, 2007.  New York –  Churchill’s Parrot Productions LLC announced plans yesterday to produce a musical stage adaptation of the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), entitled No Gays, No Jews, No [...]

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I usually listen to podcasts to go to sleep…LINK is a good place to start. It’s better than a sleeping pill. But one of last week’s podcasts was one of the US Catholic bishops (you know, the ones that dismissed and covered it up when that nice Father played hide the sausage with 13 year [...]

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As late as 2005 U.S. intelligence agencies had “high confidence” that Iran was building a bomb, but in a stunning reversal the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) ordered by Congress in 2006 concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The Israelis and Iranian dissidents, in particular, are not buying it – and [...]

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September 9 Israeli Attack on Syria Unveiled Dazzling New Capabilities Aviation Week & Space article Pack Informational Punch Pravda Responds An awesome display of electronic warfare capabilities by Israel in September sparked a sharp reaction in Russia today. It all may bode ill for Iran tomorrow. Electronic warfare capabilities reached new heights during the September [...]

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Carolyn Glick of the Jerusalem Post has an article reprinted HERE…most of it is about stopping Iran from nuking her, but the important paragraph is about the WMD from Iraq, and whether or not that hushed up airstrike in Syria by Israel was to destroy them: the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John [...]

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Musharraf’s deputy a reluctant linchpin — chicagotribune.com As Musharraf and secular moderates square off in Pakistan, President Musharraf’s emergency rule threatens to bring on the White House’s worst nightmare – a nuclear-armed, Islamist-controlled government on the border of both India and Afghanistan, threatening to spark a multi-way arms race in South East Asia. The scenario [...]

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In an op-ed published by The New York Times, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto (1988 to 1990; 1993 to 1996) and head of the Pakistan People’s Party, writes: Pakistan is a military dictatorship. Last Saturday, Gen. Pervez Musharraf removed all pretense of a transition to democracy by conducting what was in effect yet another [...]

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U.S. in Less Festive Mood Celebrating the first notch on the belt of the Great Satan’s warriors. Wonder if they had any barbecue? Iranians took to the streets last week to commemorate National Day Against Global Arrogance (NDAGA). One of the events it celebrated was the Iranian shin-kicking of the “Great Satan” in 1979. More [...]

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From CHURCHILL’S PARROT blog. Reflecting upon the events of  Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week, we felt compelled to once again examine the alleged source of all the chanting, frothing, eye-bulging, beheading, suicide-bomb vest-donning, IED-planting, plane-crashing, WMD-seeking passion that is Islamania: the existence of Israel.  At a recent Al Quds Day Celebration (October 5 if you missed it), the [...]

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After running a string of editorials against the Armenian Genocide Resolution (fourth item) – plus an anti-Armenian diatribe written by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan – The Wall Street Journal belatedly lets the other side present its case when it’s too late to resuscitate the symbolic bill. On Friday’s edition of “The Journal Editorial [...]

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Today’s Political Lunch menu features a Clinton roast and a Waldo salad for Fred Thompson. Plus, Chris Dodd may share his nachos with you, but you’ve got to buy your own ticket to the ball game. Watch now!

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A Press Release from Churchill’s Parrot  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com October 10, 2007- London, England.  A ground-breaking study funded by the Churchill’s Parrot Foundation released findings today indicating that America’s Democratic Party actually died sometime between the assassination of JFK and the end of the Johnson Administration. “What we have now in the DNC [...]

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Some of us remember when Reagan proposed the expensive “Star Wars” program. There was a lot of ridicule in the papers back the, since if the then USSR sent over a couple thousand missles, there was some doubt if shooting down a couple, or even most of them, would be adequate protection. Later, the early [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  10/2/07 –  Washington D.C.  Due to a virtually unprecedented influx of exceptional nominees, the Churchill’s Parrot Useful Idiot Hall of Fame has announced plans for a massive expansion of its facilities. A number of exciting new exhibits are in the works, all bringing to life with vivid clarity and realism the jaw-dropping [...]

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With the uproar over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University last week, views and opinions were aired on both sides of the free speech fence. But amidst those expressing support or dissent of Ahmadinejad’s right to speak and his backwards views on the Holocaust (obviously few expressed support of that statement), how many have a [...]

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And HERE is the reason why having Iran’s president Ahmadinejad speaking at an American University was a win-win for the bad guys. The “Kayhan,” the official Iranian news agency, had joyous headlines of Ahmadinejad’s wonderful and successful trip to America. “Shock in New York, Iran’s Logic Glares” Strong, scientific and accurate answers of the President [...]

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The controversy surrounding Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia is still roiling the campus and the legislature. Representative Duncan Hunter, a non-factor in the Presidential race, has threatened to cut all federal funding from Columbia for hosting the event. It's just not no-name presidential candidates hungry for airtime that are complaining. Conservative groups across the spectrum are [...]

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Columbia University president Lee Bollinger exercised his free speech rights by giving guest lecturer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a good tongue lashing. It is doubtful his words swayed the Iranian despot – “OK, OK, the Holocaust happened, and I will dismantle my nuclear program just as soon as I get back home!” – but with his tough [...]

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Duncan Hunter has the right idea.  Nothing less than cutting all federal aid and funding from Columbia University.  We must send a message to the radical anti-American left.   Here’s Hunters press release from Saturday 9/22/07: “To host the leader of Iran when he supports terrorists that are moving deadly roadside bombs across the Iraqi border [...]

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Or so he would have us believe. The less than charismatic Iranian leader was given the opportunity to address the UN this afternoon. All I can say is that the UN is getting pretty lax in who they invite, at this rate they will be listening to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton next! Or any [...]

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The President of Iran paid a visit to Columbia University school of International studies and was berated by the University President Lee Bollinger during the introduction. While I grant you much of President Bolinger’s prepared aspersions were accurate and needed to be said. Academic tradition dictates you wait till your guest is welcomed to the forum before you begin denouncing the [...]

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The American people were able to learn a great deal from the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran today. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students and faculty at Columbia University that Iran doesn’t like terrorism and wishes to be friends with all nations. It turns out we were all wrong about Iran! Women have all [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog.   Churchill’s Parrot (CP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we meet again. Ahmadinejad (A): We’ve met before? CP: I interviewed you last February.  Don’t you recall?  Or are you often doing interviews with birds? A: I don’t seem to …wait a minute…YOU!  I vowed I would never… CP: Oh put a lid on [...]

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By all accounts, September 19’s much ballyhooed Talk Like a Pirate Day was an overwhelming success! Humans the world over adopted the attire and argot of murderous marauding malcontents for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than that someone somewhere – Hollywood publicists? – thought it a capital idea. Always one for a party, I submit that [...]

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Given how Turkish newspapers “report” the news, “independent journalist” Alexis Debat would have no trouble landing a top spot at any one of them. For instance, during Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey last November, local papers quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as claiming that the pontiff told him, “You know we don’t have a [...]

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Yup, those cheerful Mullahs in Tehran are at it again. GlobalVoices report that dog owners and their companion animals are being arrested for “unIslamic behavior”, and the pets “jailed” under atrocious conditions. The blogger kamangir posts pictures of the dogs and notes Clearly, these dogs are not meant to live in the conditions they are [...]

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While State Department officials in Washington say that Germany is still fully committed to pursuing stepped-up sanctions against the nuclear weapons-bound regime in Tehran, other reports indicate that German opposition to further sanctions is actually expected and may push the United States closer toward taking an even harder stance vis-à-vis Iran (you didn’t think that [...]

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On this day commemorating the worst attack on Western Civilization in the history of Western Civilization, we feel it an appropriate time to promote awareness of one of the greatest threats to the survival of Western Civilization. We are referring, of course, to CHAMBERLAIN’S SYNDROME. Thus the First Annual Churchill’s Parrot’s September 11th CHAMBERLAIN’S SYNDROME [...]

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Though Fred Thompson finally ended his dance of the seven veils and revealed his candidacy to Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” it’s Mike Huckabee – who has always made the most of his limited time in the spotlight as a second-tier candidate – who’s looking sexy after Wednesday’s “The First [...]

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German secret intelligence types must have been more than pleased about uncovering China’s recent cyber attack on Germany. Not only was the Chinese Prime Minister forced to address the issue publicly during Angela Merkel’s visit to that country, public awareness about the alarming degree of industrial espionage taking place in Germany has now been sharpened [...]

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What George W. Bush says about Iran may be true, unfortunately he lacks the credibility that would allow us to take him at his word. He speaks of seeing yet another shadow of nuclear holocaust over the middle east. Voices claiming to be privy to conversations at the very center of power. Would have us believe the President is advised [...]

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The surge has worked, at least against Alqaeda. You might not see it in the headlines (which right now are busy reporting about a senator’s “indiscretions”) but Alqaeda in Iraq is toast, and the reporters in the middle of the surge are reporting good news (despite an occassional bomb). But the main battle has moved [...]

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While I am not one to give the benefit of the doubt to tyrannical, evil regimes, and while I have often argued that hints by Iran and North Korea of willingness to work with the west in dealing with their nuclear ambitions have been smoke screens, a pair of stories today begin to sound like [...]

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I was amused to see the “quote of the day” on the BBC magazine website: QUOTE OF THE DAY well, yes. It seems that Oliver Stone wanted to make a film about the Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and asked for assistance by that government, they were not amused: The President’s media adviser says, “While it [...]

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Since the time this story originally ran, spokes-folks for Moore have denied that the film maker intends to head to Iran for the film festival. While Moore’s camp claims this is some vast right-wing conspiracy, the story was based on a legitimate press release from a legitimate news agency. According to the Iranian Students News [...]

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A special unit of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution called the Quds Force has been cited as a major contributing factor to the continued violence in Iraq. It has been known for some time that the Quds have been operating within Iraq, but recent intelligence reports have now answered the lingering [...]

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Iran is a question mark in the eyes and minds of most average Americans. Right now, one of the most important questions raised by this backward theocracy is: Why should we believe Ahmadinejad when he claims that Iran only wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes? Here is a man who acts like and speaks like [...]

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Yesterday, the BBC showed rioting at gas lines in Iran.    Yes, Iran. One of the major oil producing nations in the world has had to institute gasoline rationing. Why? Two reasons. One, the price of gasoline is artificially kept low by the government. Two: They pump crude oil, but lack refineries to process it [...]

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That’s right, I said fuel rationing, IN IRAN. The rationing restrictions, which took effect at midnight local time, are reported to limit private motorists to 100 liters of fuel each month. Given only two hours notice, Iranian motorists are experiencing long lines at filling stations. At least one filling station in the western suburbs of [...]

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As a relatively unschooled observer, the current situation in Palestine has baffled me from day one. I mean I understand that everyone hates Israel and that the US is the bad guy –some things go without saying- but what would drive Hamas to agree to a coalition government with Fatah and then renege. What would [...]

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Iran is boasting that they’ve developed advanced weaponry in spite of sanctions designed to prevent that, Iran has mastered the most advanced armaments and military technologies despite sanctions by the West banning arm imports to the Islamic Republic, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at an annual military parade. … “Some highbrow powers believed that by [...]

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Minister           Kaba Badjo     Iranian leader  Jammeh Jahumpa By Staff Writer Karafa Badjie,Banjul Paid for and Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper Gambia’s Foreign Minister Bala Garba Jahumpa, is currently in Tehran to witness the opening of the country’s embassy in that anti Western country, headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad, the Freedom  Newspaper can reveal. Accompanied by [...]

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In response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s announcement on Monday that his country is now capable of enriching uranium on an industrial scale, German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung now sees no reason for the US not to begin building its planned central European missile shield on an industrial scale itself. Jung, a Christian Democrat [...]

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The British soldiers recently freed by Iran provide the case in point for why torture and strong-armed coercion techniques don’t work. But no one in the mainstream media seems to be talking about the example set by the soldiers “confessions” and how they serve as indictments on any “information” extracted from prisoners detained in places [...]

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Terrorism: The old is new. BBC REPORTS :Oxford group claims Iraq spawns “new terrorism”. It’s all Bush’s fault, of course. Except when the fault is evil globalization and evil climate change, both of which have been going on for quite awhile but are usually spun as Bush’s fault too. The BBC writes: “Its latest report [...]

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In an escalation of the confrontation over its nuclear program, the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made an announcement about Iran’s nuclear program having reached an industrial stage. While this announcement did not clear the air over what exactly being at an industrial stage mean, and with no immediate explanations of what the number of cascading [...]

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As reports come out about the Ipodless British sailors and sailorette kidnapped by Iran continue to be used as both propaganda by Iran and as sob stories in the UK tabloids, one needs only to remember history to put things into perspective. The USS Pueblo was monitoring intelligence information in international waters when kidnapped by [...]

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It’s always hard to sift through news reports, which tend to be “Ain’t it awful” and “if it bleeds it leads”. We saw this last week in the Philippines, where both CNN and BBC covered a “hostage crisis” as if it was a horror…but the reality is that it was a publicity stunt, the kids [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    Britain said on Tuesday it had proposed direct bilateral talks with Iran to resolve the standoff over Tehran’s seizure of 15 British [...]

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Germans were shocked to wake up this morning to discover the disquieting results of a new Forsa opinion poll commissioned by Stern magazine. Poorly-chewed Frühstücksei (breakfast egg) dropping from its gaping collective mouth, Germany was dismayed to learn that only forty-eight percent of Germans surveyed believe that the United States is more dangerous than Iran [...]

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For once, the Bush Administration (note: without Rumsfeld) may actually be doing something right. Sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military pressure are all pushing the right buttons. The push for sanctions at the U.N. shows that the world is united against Iran’s nuclear program. Of course the sanctions will never make life horrible, but will be [...]

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Like me, Donald Klein finds it incomprehensible that Berlin was not able to move more quickly in expediting his release from an Iranian prison. One wonders why they couldn’t pay Iran off faster, in other words. Or did they not pay, for once? Arrested while fishing in the Straits of Hormuz, or so he says, [...]

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That the German military is looked down upon in this country is one thing (the weapons industry is still okay, though). But when high-ranking officers won’t openly adhere to pacifistic views (preferably of the hysterical kind) like they are supposed to do, why, that is simply intolerable. Take ex-NATO General Klaus Naumann, for instance. He [...]

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Thankful SPD politicians, their party and party’s popularity slowly but surely bleeding to death, were visibly relieved upon finally finding an issue they could finally sink their false teeth into. Hoping to revive fond memories of the extremely popular anti-missile protests in West Germany during the early 80s and Gerhard Schröder’s no-to-Iraq re-election masterpiece, and [...]

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“Iran givs “300″ thumbs down” cries one headline. “Iranians outraged over hit movie“, cries another. What are they outraged over? The muscle bound Spartans in loin clothes? The fact that Leonides wife wasn’t wearing a chador? No, it is because they see it as a criticism of their regieme, because it portrays the murderous tyrant [...]

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Cleary miffed at seeing how everyone in Germany has forgotten how much better they had it under his leadership, and sick and tired of having to clean up around the house after wife Doris all day long, ex-Chancellor Gerhard S. has volunteered to slam US plans to build a high-tech missile shield in Poland and [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders To borrow, once again, from newspaper columnist Jimmy Cannon: nobody asked me, but… YOU COULDN’T BLAME JOE WILSON AND VALERIE PLAME WILSON for wanting to move to Santa Fe after the Washington Post editorial on the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby verdict. The Post dismissed the Wilson-Plame case as “a Washington scandal remarkable [...]

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I can count the number of comic books I have read on one hand, maybe two hands if I focus. And I certainly haven’t read any comic books in the last twelve years. Though, to be honest, that’s only because the more serious comic books, those sans Donald Duck or Captain Planet, are now referred [...]

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In a further attempt to bring the Teheran regime to its senses as it persists in its hell-bent pursuit of nuclear weapons, the German government is about to give its okay for E.ON AG to buy an annual 2.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from that country. E.ON is Germany’s largest power provider and [...]

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A lot of the misunderstanding about Iraq is the failure to see the thousand plus year divide between Sunni and Shiia Islam. The Farsi Shiia are not the same as the Arab Shia, but the meddling of Iran into Iraq can be understood not only as Iranian mullah’s mischiefmaking but as supporting their fellow Shia. [...]

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama blamed the Bush administration’s war in Iraq for strengthening Iran’s strategic position in the Middle East.

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A small group of disgruntled Muslims who think that Islam is inherently political and radical, unreformable and goes way too heavy on the headscarves, has launched what they call the National Council of Ex-Muslims here in Berlin. The hopeless dreamers actually believe that “coming out” like this will somehow eventually produce a counterweight to other Muslim [...]

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Let us not go into the usual line of how American forces are suffering in the same way that their previous generation had suffered in Vietnam, that particular piece of linen has been washed, dried and once again washed many times before. No..let us see the situation from another angle…that of the neighboring country. During [...]

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In a sly move designed to put even more pressure on a vacillating German government, Iran’s chief negotiator on nuclear policy, Ali Larijani, feigned sickness before the start of a two-day security conference being held in Munich this weekend in order to hoodwink Berlin out of half a dozen Berlinale “VIP” tickets for his cousin [...]

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“Chancellor Merkel cannot hide behind the Americans” says German Green Party leader Fritz Kuhn. “If Germany and the EU blindly follow America’s lead, we will have no capacity to de-escalate the situation.” Yup, it’s the same old same old all over again. Concerned Germans everywhere are concerned once again that their chancellor is not concerned [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that nuclear weapons became a “strategic compulsion” for India, “born out of the failure to [...]

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Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican, Nebraska; is considering a run for President. Personally I find the idea of Chuck Hagel running for President to be very distasteful. I do not feel he has a level of maturity that is required to be Commander in Chief. To start with, lets discuss the purpose of a non-binding resolution. What is a non-binding resolution… [...]

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A recent poll showed that the majority of US Politicians couldn’t tell a Sunni from a Shiite Muslim, and this raised a question on their ability to interpret let alone discuss the war in Iraq. Essentially this would be like ignoring the Protestant versus Catholic difference in Northern Ireland, which has both tribal and historical [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of the Loden Hut to Jimmy Cannon, New York newspaperman who popularized the phrase: Nobody asked me, but… IT HAS BEEN A WARM WINTER in Northern Europe, so much so that our taxi driver called it a “second summer for Bavaria,” an observation offered as we zoom-zoom-zoomed (at 180 [...]

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The idea of the US attacking Iran seems far-fetched and unrealistic. Not only is the US’ military over-stretched, strategically any operation could spell disaster. Iran’s facilities are not as exposed as Iraq’s were and Iranian infrastructure would not be taken out of order as easily, with an intricate underground network existing in Iran. However, considering [...]

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“Imagine this war as a sort of grotesque race. The jihadists and sectarians win if they can kill enough Americans to demoralize us enough that we flee before Iraqis and Afghans stabilize their newfound freedom. They lose if they can’t. Prosperity, security and liberty are the death knell to radical Islam. It’s that elemental.” —Victor [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about a Sunday Times report that Israel had plans to attack an Iranian weapons facility. Since then people have challenged the report on two grounds, and Israel has denied it. Some say that no one would leak such information; others challenge the likelihood of the plan itself. The first objection is, for [...]

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This story outlines what ought to be one of the most difficult decisions in journalism, that of whether to publish secret war plans. Unfortunately, from my experience in journalism school, most in the profession answer that question with a default “yes.” From the story: “ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment [...]

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Drudge Report is splashing the news that the Sunday Times of London plans on reporting that Israel is planning a nuclear strike against Iran to head off Iran’s nuclear ambitions. According to Drudge: Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is [...]

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Afghanistan. Often forgotten because of the headlines from Iraq, Afghanistan is not a solved affair. Only Kabul is somewhat stable, with Kandahar and other cities remaining unsafe. Global Warming. Scientists have been talking about it for years, and Al Gore has now popularized it with a documentary film . Yet there is still no clear [...]

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When the US went to war with Iraq a few years ago, it cited the possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by Saddam Hussein’s regime as a reason for the war. Since the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, there has been no proof of WMD in the country. Luckily, the US (as [...]

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The UN Security Council has passed a resolution condemning Iran for its nuclear enrichment program. Key was to get the support of China and Russia, who had been reluctant to approve earlier drafts concerning resolutions against Iran. Iran has responded by questioning why the UN has not condemned Israel for its nuclear arms program. This criticism was [...]

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No matter where you stood on Iraq, the UN didn’t do a good job. The organization didn’t manage to get inspectors in. It didn’t back its demands with force. And when it failed, that didn’t stop the US and the UK from taking matters into their own hands. That’s why I’m not convinced that the [...]

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While it appears that there is still no consensus on an Iranian resolution, the US wants the UN Security Council to vote on one this week. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said the US wants the vote before the weekend. It’s not clear yet what the resolution would be and what kind of sanctions could [...]

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People discussing war with Iran –or war with Iraq for that matter– ignore a few little things. One: Shiites have been hated by Sunnis since Ali was killed. Two: Kurds are Sunnis but persecuted by Arab Sunnis under Saddam. Three: Turkey hates Kurds. If Kurdistan declares independence, the Turks, who have been fighting some very [...]

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Considerate host that she is, and not to be outdone by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s nuclear slip of the lip in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly diffused the situation for him by saying that “Iran must never get the atom bomb”, and then; “not unless somebody like America, France, Israel or Russia [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA, December 12, 2006 — Many international journalists and broadcasters who could have had a difficult time providing their audiences with comprehensive and balanced coverage of the conference on the Holocaust being hosted in Tehran by the Iranian Foreign Ministry managed to overcome most of the problems. [...]

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While Europe (in consultation with US) is looking to soften the proposed UN resolution on Iran, to accommodate opposition from Russia and China, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert called for dramatic steps to be taken against Iran. Understandably, the Israeli leader’s remarks come in light of repeated anti-Israeli statements by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The Israeli PM [...]

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European states have reportedly drawn up a new text for the Iran Nuclear resolution. The previous draft had been rejected by China and Russia. Unidentified officials have told The New York Times that the new text allows for Iran’s civilian nuclear program to go on, as the prohibitions have to do with activities linked with [...]

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Nuclear threats are more and more prevalent these days with North Korea having tested a nuclear bomb in October of this year. Iran is also reported to be developing a weapons program, something its leaders deny. Terrorists are reportedly in search of nuclear capabilities; last year, Russian dissident Boris Berezovsky was quoted as saying that [...]

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The Iraq report is out…blogosphere is not impressed. Summary: make Iran and Syria our friends…right. Syria…you know, the country that destroyed a whole village and everyone in it to send a message…the country that just assassinated another Lebanese politician? The country that with Iran funded Hezbollah’s war against Israel, and is funding many of the [...]

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Don’t let anyone tell you that Michigan teens are low-achieving slackers. For example, 17-year-old Thiago Olson has built a working atomic fusion reactor in his spare time. [QUOTE] As the machine runs, the atoms in the chamber are attracted to the center and soon — ta da — nuclear fusion. Thiago said when that happens, [...]

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There is a constant tension in international relations between criticizing a country’s internal policies and asking for its cooperation in dealing with other nations. For example, do we rag on Russia for its impending authoritarianism, or do we ask for help on matters like North Korea? It’s pretty tough to do both. That’s the tradeoff [...]

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News Item: Iranian Paper:  Great war to wipe out Israel coming. Does this sound like a country that is preparing to negotiate?  On anything? Granted, the source for this may be a bit biased, but it does purport to be a direct translation from two Iranian newspapers.  The articles basically say that fully half of [...]

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Let’s face it. This is out of control. They’re not talking to each other, they are threatening, indeed working feverishly towards, all out War! This could get Nuclear! (bush sp). No, I’m not talking about Iran vs. USA (although that is a pretty messed up thing too!) No this is much, much worse! This is [...]

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Working at a foreign policy magazine/journal has, more than anything, taught me that I know far less about foreign policy than I thought I did. So this is more an idea I’m throwing out than a thesis. Iran is claiming it’s almost nuclear. What does that say about our decision to go into Iraq? Well, [...]

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If ever there were two subjects that Germans know a lot about, world peace and war crimes have to top the list (though not necessarily in that order). And that is why it is immer wieder (always as in again and again) refreshing (not) to hear their latest viewpoints on how various international figures rank [...]

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Ahmadinejad is still running his mouth I really wish someone would shut him up. IRANIAN President Mamhoud Ahmadinejad said Israel was doomed “to destruction” and would soon disappear, in his latest verbal attack on the Jewish state, local news agencies reported. “The great powers created the Zionist regime to extend their domination in the region. [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA,  — Iranian state broadcaster Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran is promoting a new conspiracy theory involving Pope Benedict XVI and former U.S. secretary of state Dr. Henry Kissinger. [Link] As in many of its previous propaganda broadcasts, the focus of the latest Iranian radio report [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA, November 9, 2006 — Rather than scoring flamboyant propaganda points, state-controlled media in countries considered strident enemies of President Bush’s policies reacted slowly and cautiously to Republican defeats in U.S. midterm elections. Slow media response in countries like Cuba, Iran, and North Korea can be explained [...]

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In the light on the obvious non-effectual nature of nuclear negotiations with Iran, six other Arab states decided they want to be nuclear powers. Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia all have announced plans to start working on nuclear technology. The obvious implication is that this “peaceful” research well within the “sovereign rights” [...]

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by Ted Lipien  FreeMediaOnline.org Dublin, CA, November 3, 2006 — A search of Internet sites shows that most international broadcasters paid little or no attention to Wednesday’s awards ceremony in Teheran for the winners of the international Holocaust cartoons contest. Iranian media also devoted relatively little reporting to this story. Iranian papers published names of [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Dublin, CA, October 30, 2006 — Iranian leaders have intensified their anti-Israeli rhetoric in recent weeks using strong language reminiscent of anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda and some of the anti-Western Soviet propaganda of the Cold War period. Most recent statements by the Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki and the Iranian Foreign Ministry [...]

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U.S. Splits With Europeans Over UN Resolution Sanctioning Iran Or Pardon Me, is My Cynicism Showing? Remembering the sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and the way that they were profitably subverted right left and center, remembering the Oil For Food Program, I am left to wonder if the fix isn’t already in; private firms comfortably [...]

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How sane is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Not very, may well be the answer. The Iranian leader has proclaimed the Holocaust as a, ‘myth’ and, reports CNN, ‘suggested that Israel be moved to Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska.’ What? No option for Siberia? I suppose if you can deny the deaths of 6 [...]

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The Khaleej Times reports “Foreign ministers from six major world powers were to meet here on Friday for crunch talks on whether to call for sanctions on Iran for failing to bow to demands to suspend its suspect nuclear programme.” However, as the Houston Chronicle reports, the meeting ”was disrupted when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s [...]

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