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POPSArab Spring Swaps Secular Despots for Islamist Ones Of course it is!!! And the ruling forces across the World knew it....even us in the US. They are exchanging one terrible system of evil governing for another. So, will we continue to let it creep into our shores in the name of "tolerance" and "freedom"? Hmmmm....
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POPSObama Responsible for Arab Spring? I Don't Think So. Does this woman realize what she is saying? Does she really mean that it would be better to have people ruled by despots and not have any individual freedoms? If "Barack Obama's comments and actions have caused those people to want those despots gone then I say that's a good thing. What we should be more concerned about is that they are replaced with a democratic government.
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POPSDefund the U.N. . . Don't Fix It they believe that unelected, unaccountable functionaries of tyrannous regimes—regimes not only pursuing their own interests but frequently working against our interests—are more capable of determining the legitimacy of the United States’ foreign policy and behavior than are the American people. Unlike the U.N., the true legitimacy of American actions is conferred by the democratic process and the attendant free and open debate on the part of citizens who can hold their leaders accountable, and who have a sense of the ideals and principles that animate foreign policy and provide its goals. Subjecting those decisions to the corrupt deliberations of the U.N. merely hampers our own interests and endangers our national security. We need to get out of the U.N., not fix it, as Rep. Ros-Lehtinen is trying to do . Defund the U.N. by Bruce Thornton http://bit.ly/nk3AKj http://www.hoover.org
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POPSEconomics, Politics, News (08/11/11) Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law... economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. -- Ludwig von Mises
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POPSThe Czechs Pull Out of Durban III (Updated)
The countries from the so-called non-aligned movement, which comprises 115 developing countries, have also incorporated into the political declaration a claim that “poverty,” “underdevelopment,” and “economic disparities” are “closely associated with racism and racial discrimination.” That’s a familiar form of extortion that starts by labeling donor countries racists. The Czech Republic rightly decided they’d had enough. The next round of "negotiations," at which Western states are dressed-down and manipulated by the racism charge coming from the Islamic world and others, will be held at U.N. headquarters on July 28. Italy and The Netherlands announced over the weekend that they will not take part in the notorious United Nations Durban III meeting scheduled for September 22, 2011 in New York City. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini pointed out that “The Process has been transformed … into a tribunal for accusations against Israel.” http://www.eyeontheun.org
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POPSRebel first emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China
In the middle of the 14th century, with famine, plagues and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Zhu became a leader of an army that conquered China, ending the Yuan Dynasty and forcing the Mongols to retreat to the Mongolian steppes. With his seizure of the Yuan capital 'Biejing" Seldom has the course of Chinese history been influenced by a single personality as much as it was by the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.His rise to power was fast despite him having from a poor and humble origin. In 11 years he went from being a penniless monk to the most powerful warlord in China. Five years later he became emperor~Parallels between numerous Chinese-rebels-become-Emperors-and- ferocious- despots and the Mao revolution of 1949 Mao would very likely have followed in the footsteps. Communism had a 'modernising' aspect to it which enabled it to some extent to escape the orbit of Chinese tradition, despite Mao's best efforts to impose his personal rule via the Cultural Revolution
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POPSThe motives of Bradley Manning The objectives Manning described there have, in a very short time, already been vindicated: the Baghdad video was viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, and even the anti-WikiLeaks Executive Editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, has credited the release of the diplomatic cables allegedly leaked by Manning as playing a substantial role in triggering the revolts across the Middle East against mostly U.S.-supported despots. Beyond that, so much of what we have learned about the world's most powerful factions over the last year has come from these leaks. Those results, by themselves, mean Manning -- if he is the alleged leaker -- has done at least as much, if not more, to advance the causes of transparency, accountability, and freedom across the world than any single living individual.
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POPSRussian Leader Calls Obama ‘Insane’ Over US-French Plan To Control Internet If no Food you not need the Internet ? Initial reports circulating in the Kremlin today about the G-8 Summit being held in Paris state that an angry President Medvedev has accused both American President Obama and French President Sarkozy of being ‘completely insane’ for their attempting to monopolize the agenda with their plan to ‘control the Internet’ while the West teeters on the brink of economic collapse, the world is fast running out of food, and the revolutions in the Arab world threaten all-out global war.
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POPSMugabe torturer who pulled out man's teeth with pliers However, Machemedze 'grew tired' of his work as a torturer and apparently fearing Mugabe would turn against him, he fled to Britain 11 years ago. Despite only having a temporary visa, Machemedze has remained in the country ever since, receiving taxpayer-funded treatment for HIV. Thanks to the Human Rights Act, Machemedze and his wife Febbie, 40, who also has the disease, will continue to live and be treated in Britain at the taxpayers' expense At an asylum appeal hearing in Newport, South Wales, Mr Justice David Archer said Machemedze was 'deeply involved in savage acts of extreme violence'. The tribunal also heard that some of the tortures 'were too gruesome to recount'. He added: 'Whatever crimes he has committed he cannot be returned to face the highly likely prospect of torture and execution without trial, the Sun reported.
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POPSForbes: The Michigan Monarchy Legislates Financial Martial Law - Nation Yawns
How does this not anoint Michigan’s governor as King Richard the First? ... there is no such availability of martial law for financial emergencies in this country, unless that financial emergency results in civil disorder beyond the capabilities of the civilian authorities and courts to manage. This is not a Republican, Democrat or Tea Party issue ... ... can anybody explain to me how so many people can be focused on Newt Gingrich’s stupid attacks on the president for taking nine minutes of his time to discuss his March Madness picks – yet say absolutely nothing about so serious an attack on our most basic democratic principals? I don’t care if you support unions or object to them. In this matter, your party affiliation or ideology could not be more irrelevant – unless you happen to be a monarchist. This law is a direct attack on our most basic American principles of democracy and everyone seems content to sit on the sidelines. - much more @ clip source.
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POPSEgypt, Out Of Unthinkable Cruelty, Comes Courage Divide and separate is the modus operandi these depots used and it always worked. But now with technology breathing down their necks, there seems to be a new aberration in their cozy paradise of cold-bloodedness. Now ordinary people, the backbone of any nation, can communicate with one another in spite of the Thou Shalt Nots Or Else, rules and laws the power-hungry have shackled them with. They (WE) now possess a means to transport their persecutions to the world exposing the despots’ monstrous inhuman control, bringing out the empathy that all humans have for one another. We all want the same thing: PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. (nus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno)"One for all, all for one" . Below is my feeble attempt to keep this movement of monumental human optimism alive, stirring and growing. thinkingblue Video Also At: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwlEjkTPvgo
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POPSYou Say You Want a Revolution? Many left-wing Westerners found a kindred spirit in the Ayatollah Khomeini — whose despotism went on to viciously persecute homosexuals, religious minorities, women and political opponents — and to engage in general bellicosity. In 1979, all of that was yet to come, yet large segments of the Left saw themselves in the Islamic revolutionaries — while it wasn’t difficult to predict the ensuing authoritarianism of the new regime. The revolutionists were anti-American, and so were Western radicals. More importantly, the revolutionists were revolutionists and that somehow made them Marxists. Calling the Islamic Revolution “one dictatorship replacing another” was to “oversimplify,” reported the Manchester Guardian’s Liz Thurgod. The left-wing daily repeated Khomeini’s claims to support political and religious freedom, predicting in February 1979 the emergence of an “introverted” nation ready to jettison “big arms spending.” The Guardian reassured ....
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POPSChile’s President Is The Kind of Leader That America Desperately Needs Chilean President Sebastián Piñera is known as the most democratically liberal and capitalistic of all leaders in South America. Flanked by a continent with more than its fair share of despots and tyrants, the contrast to Piñera could not be more evident. Juxtaposed to the abject poverty, misery, and prison-states that despots and tyrants create, the contrast to Chile’s vibrant free market economy could not be greater. Beyond this, Piñera and our own President Barack Obama could not be more polar opposite. Obama is a man motivated by something mostly unfamiliar to Americans — redistributive anger and envy. Watching the Chilean president these last few days brought me to this. Sebastián Piñera's brilliant handling of the mine crisis showed the world his strong character while revealing weaknesses in the character of our own president. In President Sebastián Piñera’s shoes, Barack Obama would have undeniably acted much differently. He would have turned to his ...
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POPSRADICAL CHANGE,,,,,,not welcome.
Before liberals level charges of red-baiting, I’ll offer that the differences between Lenin and the Bolsheviks and Obama and left-wing Democrats are significant, many, and varied. Through skullduggery, battle, and blood, Lenin established a dictatorship of the proletariat, which history has amply shown was a thinly veiled dictatorship by Lenin and his Communist Party heirs. There was nothing “soft” about Lenin’s tyranny or Stalin’s. The mass graves of tens of millions of victims bear mute testament to these despots’ infamy. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are decidedly pale reds, or as was said in an earlier generation, “pinkos.” But all three have grand ambitions, make no mistake, to achieve through imposition the social — or should it be said, socialist — democracy that lies with deadening weight across the width and breadth of Western Europe. These three Democratic leaders are working within our system of government to fundamentally alter government’s relationship to the people.
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POPSWhy Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are decidedly pale reds, or as was said in an earlier generation, “pinkos.”..... These three Democratic leaders are working within our system of government to fundamentally alter government’s relationship to the people. If these three succeed, the American experiment in liberty will effectively end. The president and the two congressional leaders are so blinded by their ideology, so bullheaded in accomplishing a radical transformation of health care, that they’ve discarded the common sense and instinct for self-preservation .... Yet all three Democratic leaders are taking a calculated gamble: if they can impose govern-run health care, they’ll establish the framework for Democratic dominance for years to come, even if that means short-term election losses. Pelosi, Obama, and Reid also know that if they can successfully defy the will of the people and impose government-run health care, if they can then prevent the entitlement from being repealed ....
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POPSThe Mount Vernon Statement Go to the site and sign it. "A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world. A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda. * It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal. * It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life. * It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions. * It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and op
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POPSThe Mount Vernon Statement: Constitutional Conservatism A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world. A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda. * It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal. * It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life. * It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions. * It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world
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POPSVintage Moonbattery: Copenhagen's A Battle To Humble And "Redefine Humanity" So this isn't the place for rationality. It's the place to reverse the Industrial Revolution. You do have to read this entire self-caricature, though, because there's just so much I couldn't include. There's an entire section on how the people who disagree with him - the bullies who call him bad names - are angry because he's just too decent. Then there was a part about how we have to reign in "adventurers," which a cynical person might read as a pointed version of banal Blue State nannyism. "I'm too priggish to have fun so you're not allowed to have any either." The Guardian (http://bit.ly/691nUu)
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POPSYawn - Dinesh's Same Tired Dogma This guy never adds anything new to the conversation. The same tired arguments, over and over again. For those of you unfamiliar with this defender of the faith, he is a frequent columnist on the World Net Daily. The WND is notorious for such rational positions as backing the Birthers, Creationists, and Christian Nationalists. Dinesh's mainstays are straw men, claiming atheists are a dangerous "movement", and bashing liberals. One could compare him to Glenn Beck without a TV show.
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POPS "dumb" Well, they’re falling down on that score in Afghanistan. Hang on, Gates gets it. USA Today: ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY JET (AP) " The Obama administration needs to decide on a war strategy for Afghanistan without waiting for a government there to be widely accepted as legitimate, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Gates’ comments put him at odds with top White House and NATO officials who are balking at ordering more troops and other resources to Afghanistan until the disputed election crisis there is resolved. The Pentagon chief called the Afghan elections " and the larger issues of curbing corruption in its government " “an evolving process.” “We’re not just going to sit on our hands, waiting for the outcome of this election and for the emergence of a government in Kabul,” he told reporters en route to Tokyo. That part of the O admin doesn’t sound as dumb as the other part.
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POPSThe UN Loves Barack Obama Because He Is Weak Not convinced about that last “seething with anti-Americanism” line, though. I think the world actually loves America. That’s why the world is all trying to get here. The world just has a bit of an adolescent attitude toward America’s dad-like role in the world. . . I’d say it’s more the United Nations General Assembly that is seething with anti-Americanism. Get back on topic, Nile! OK, here we go: It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House. The UN is not a club of democracies - who still remain a minority within its membership " it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies.
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POPSFouad Ajami strikes again Ajami is one of the "truth-tellers," as he calls the authors of the UNDP Arab Human Development Reports. He pulls no punches. Must read if you're interested in US policy i the Arab world.
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POPSLeft in Dark Times, Bernard-Henri Lévy Maybe the most important book of our time! I think I will move this to the top of my list MORE: The neoprogressives believe "liberalism is the source all the planet's evils," Lévy writes (p. 90), so they must declare innocent those Third World despots who "meddle with their citizens and treat them like cattle," because in the neoprogressive dogma "the System, and the System alone, bears full responsibility." They reject that the great revolutions, including the British and the American, were explicitly liberal, and used liberal thought in their struggle against absolutism (p. 92). The liberal market-based republics can more easily be portrayed as Evil, when liberty, which might be thought their finest aspect, disappears from view.
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POPS Obama Is The Anti-Reagan What kind of leader is it who talks down his own country on foreign soil? America's performance in the Cold War was hardly flawless. But does anyone deny that we were on the right side, that the Soviet Empire and Mao's China and communist Vietnam and Castro's Cuba were on the side of tyranny -- and that the neutrals were by and large irrelevant or worse in that great cause? A nation is an extended family. While families fight and quarrel, often bitterly, you do not take the family quarrel outside the family. You don't hang the family's dirty linen on the communal clothesline. Obama, however -- like some Hollywood actress seeking sympathy and public approbation with her tell-all biography detailing how she was abused by her father -- trolls for popularity with America's adversaries by reciting for the benefit of the world all the sins his country has allegedly committed. When did this become the duty of the president of the United States?
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POPSObama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty of paying federal income tax and eligible for occasional rebates. As CNN reporter Susan Roesgen said, "Don't you realize that you're eligible for a $400 tax cut?" In other words, take the money and shut up. Which brings to mind Tocqueville's warning: "Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work." The Obama administration is assiduous in the protection of this administrative class. It offers $6,800,000,000 to the state of California on one hand, and then threatens to take it back because the state cut the pay of public employee union members by $74,000,000. The government gives JPMorgan Chase $25,000,000,000, and then insists that it give up in the Chrysler deal what it would ordinarily receive in bankruptcy proceedings and turn it over to fund the health care benefits of United Auto Worker retirees.
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