Repulsive

The enclosed is a column by Jack Kemp, a well-known American right-wing columnist. To put it in its proper context, it is well to remember that: in Egypt, to change one's religion is a crime; that the State persecutes Christians; that Egypt's government is as authoritarian as any other one across the region; that Egypt's ancient Christian church, the Copts, is being victimized and driven out of the country; and that Egyptian media routinely ascribe all crimes to Jews.( Read more... )

This revolting trash ignores the fact that both West Germany and Japan had democracy imposed on them by the victorious Americans at the point of a bayonet - and that it was democracy (along with the Marshall Plan) that worked, not the so-called sound implementation of first principles in an authoritarian and intolerant state whose political principles Mr.Kemp is so happy to praise. Want to bet that these Mubarak reforms will fail?

The meme of three

I have been threatened with instant, painful death by Kikei, who was threatened by pandoraculpa, who was threatened by thunderemerald, who was threatened by... someone... here goes!


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THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY:
1. Jennilee
2. Thepreciouss
3. rfachir

You couldn't make it up dept.10: dog bites man - that's news!

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You couldn't make it up dept.11: like cats, dogs, and city councillors

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America cannot afford its imperial policy

That is something I said when Bush was re-elected: the insane economic policies of his administration will no doubt end up costing the US more than it can afford and force a large-scale retreat, which, coupled with the anger Bush has managed to rouse in Europe, will result in the rise of the European Union (already involved as chief actor in the Ukraine and in Bosnia) to world power status. But this article by the outstand American investigative journalist Alexander Cockburn shows another side of the rolling economic disaster that is American economic/military policy. When you read it, bear in mind that, in 1945, the United States were able to rehouse millions of ex-servicemen in new suburban developments that still stand, and to educate them through the GI Bill.
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