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What can only be described as a North Korean regime’s propaganda video is being promoted by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a U.S. government agency charged with providing uncensored radio, TV, and Internet news to countries without free media, BBG Watch, a nongovernmental citizen watch group reported. Read From BBG website: Pyongyang is a […]
China has already used it’s economic clout to intimidate many countries to boycott the Nobel Prize cermony that honors their poet Liu Xiaobo. This boycott has gotten them criticism from some human rights groups, including those in our Philippines. The ability and willingness of China to use it’s economic clout for political purposes is a […]
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has put all the eggs of broadcasts to Russia from the U.S. in one basket. FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, July 10, 2009, San Francisco — Established in 1942 in response to wartime emergency, the Voice of America (VOA) has been the official U.S. […]
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 […]
The Burma government’s doing it’s best to keep quiet about a new iron mine project in the war-torn state of Shan, fuelling suspicions among local villagers that there may be more going on than meets the eye. As it stands right now, the project will “decimate” Mount Pinpet, and possibly lead to the permanent displacement […]
FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, July 09, 2009, San Francisco — While other U.S. government computer networks have long been back in operation after the cyber attack launched last weekend, the lead Federal agency in charge of communicating with the world on behalf of the United States suffered a catastrophic failure, which it has […]
FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, July 08, 2009, San Francisco –The Voice of America (VOA) multi-language international news website has been down most of the time during the final day of Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to Moscow as a result of a suspected North Korean cyber attack. Other U.S. government websites were also […]
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 […]
Ah, the Minneapolis paper is telling us to reflect on Peace in Dafur this Christmas. on Tuesday, a U.S. task force on preventing genocide presented a report to the public on the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. convention against genocide. The task force, chaired by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and […]
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 […]
 Citing President Bush’s agreeing to a “time horizon†for troop withdrawals from Iraq (second item) and the administration’s having authorized high-level talks with Iran and North Korea, The New York Times notes that McCain – who remains opposed to a timed withdrawal that is not based on conditions on the ground, as well as to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
North Korea is starting to dismantle it’s nuclear reactor. The breakthrough on making the Korean peninsula a nuclear free zone is being hailed cautiously by the six parties involved in the negotiations: The move is one of the biggest steps the North has taken toward denuclearization, a stipulation reached during October’s six-party talks with the […]
Pirates attackis on ships off the coast of Somalia has been a problem in recent years, but like the many pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, they rarely get mentioned in the US press. We hear about them in the Philippines when our sailors are involved, but the US press usually ignores the problem. However, […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to reports North Korea has agreed to fully disclose and dismantle it’s nuclear programs in return for U.S. aid and an end to economic sanctions. The “hermit kingdom” has agreed to have this completed by years end marking the first time the North Koreans have set a date. Of course it remains to be […]
At the bottom of your newspaper, you might have read a couple hundred people in North Korea died in floods. But now there are stories coming out of the “Hermit Kingdom” suggesting the damage was worse than first admitted, and may have devestated much of the country’s infrastructure. One report says it was “ten times […]
UN Monitors have claimed that North Korea has shut five of it’s nuclear reactors, not just the single reactor reported several days ago. US and South Korean diplomats are happy at this report, but aware that this is just the first step in dismantling the nuclear weapons system of that country. North Korea claims to […]
North Korea, after 15 years of playing games in negotiations, has actually shut down their largest Nuclear Reactor. The significance of this will be largely ignored, I suspect, for several reasons. First of all, it was a victory for the Bush administration, and the press is loath to admit Bush can do anything right. Indeed, […]
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 […]
The story of Pastor Son, who became a Christian while working in China and returned to North Korea to spread his faith, gives us a glimpse into a rarely reported story: the large number of North Koreans who live and work in China, the porous border that allows the smuggling of Kareoke machines and South […]
Americans are bread and butter Christians, with a thin slice of faith spread across the white bread culture. They assume their way is the best, and seem to think their “missionaries” are taking the truth to the heathen. What they don’t seem to realize is that Christianity has deep roots in Asia, and that the […]
Did you know that last month 400 North Korean refugees in a Thai detention camp held a hunger strike? or that three aid workers are being sought for arrest for smuggling them in? This has been going on for some time. Are you aware that some Koreans are picketing the Chinese embassy to protest China’s […]
Since I live in Asia, I usually scan the Asian news. Lately there have been articles about the US freezing a Macao bank account, What’s the big deal? The bank is known for it’s connection with the casinos there, and is suspected as the middle man in laundering North Korea’s counterfeit dollars. And of course, […]
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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