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 fundamental flaw in the […]

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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 NPA, […]

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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 by subsidizing low […]

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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 was assumed that […]

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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 in our […]

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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, blaming the […]

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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 Aspen, […]

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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 not […]

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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 item, […]

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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 demonstrated […]

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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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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 them” […]

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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, more than […]

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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
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Christendom - the concept of nations or families of nations united through their mutual devotion to the teachings of Christ and thus comprising […]

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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 Hitler […]

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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 Reza Zarhei, […]

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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 problem […]

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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 al-Murshed, […]

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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 Republican […]

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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 in the […]

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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 loss […]

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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’ image in […]

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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 being endured by Lionheart and […]

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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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