Posts Tagged ‘International Politics’

Iran going broke?

December 25th, 2006 | No Comments

This was a rather heavy read for a late Christmas night: Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could disappear by 2015, a National Academy of Sciences analysis found. And, I stumbled on this while trying to find the actual source document for the [...]

Hugo Chavez is NUTS

September 20th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Wanna see? Here’s his speech to the United Nations: PRESIDENT CHAVEZ DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 "Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read [...]

Pelosi on the failed effort in Brazil?

May 15th, 2006 | No Comments

Another night of gang attacks against Brazilian police and civilians in Sao Paulo left 23 more people dead, bringing the three-day toll to 78, local CBN radio said citing police sources. The weekend onslaught by the powerful "First Capital Command", the biggest criminal gang in the southeastern Brazilian state, has left several dozen police officers [...]

Dubai and Economic Nationalism

March 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments

In wake of DPW withdrawing from the ports deal amid a basically unanimous political backlash against the deal, a lot of people are once again speculating Bush got himself in more political hot water because he made a strong-armed decision that no one else supports.  I personally have supported this deal based on my lack [...]

Jimmy Carter supports Hamas?

February 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment

Here’s one headline: Carter Says Hamas Will Be €śPeaceful€ť, Advocates Giving Money to UN (VIDEO) In a released statement, Carter elaborates further: "During this time of fluidity in the formation of the new government, it is important that Israel and the United States play positive roles," Carter wrote in a piece in Monday’s edition of [...]

Hamas wants the money

January 30th, 2006 | 4 Comments

OK, here’s the headline: Hamas Asks Nations Not to Cut Aid One of the things they cite is that cutting financial aid would lead to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.  Well, that’d be a shame IF they continue to encourage the violence in Palestine.  You see, The US, especially Rice, are in a bit [...]

The ultimate in Pandering: Silvio Berlusconi

January 29th, 2006 | 4 Comments

This has got to be the ultimate in political pandering: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is famous for his ambitious promises, but he is unlikely to be called to task if he breaks his latest pledge: not to have sex before the April 9 general election. At a party rally in Sardinia on Saturday, the [...]

What a day

December 21st, 2005 | No Comments

In the last 24 hours, the Democrats: Returned us to the intelligence agenda that led directly to 9/11. Told the Middle East that we’re not willing to do what it takes to lessen our reliance on them.  Keep sending those terrorists, it’s no biggie. Didn’t mind too much cutting benefits for the poor, but were [...]

Germans: Hamadi is “something normal”

December 21st, 2005 | No Comments

Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eva Schmierer told German media that Hamadi had been imprisoned for nearly 19 years, which she said was not an uncommon amount of time in the case of a life sentence. "This is something normal that happens every day," she said. Something normal that happens every day.  During the hijacking in 1985, [...]

Iraqi Elections

December 15th, 2005 | No Comments

Apparently the elections in Iraq have gone quite well.  You can take my word as an unprofessional hack living in rural Kentucky, OR, you can take the word from Iraq the Model who has all kinds of first hand comments, second hand comments, and, very good pictures.  I’ve said it before, that’s just one heck [...]