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Category Archives: Middle East
NY Times: Suddenly We Love American Wars Against Brown-skinned People
Hot Air – NYT on Libya: Bailing out of a war before it’s won will hurt U.S. credibility: First Obama out-Bushed Bush, then Hillary started questioning the patriotism of war opponents, and now we’ve got the flagship paper of the … Continue reading
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Biden in 2007: Impeach a president who goes to war without Congressional approval
Biden and Obama both thought war without Congressional authorization would be unconstitutional, but they did it anyway. Say what you will about Bush, but he got Congressional approval for both of his wars. Newsbusters: Networks Stressed Importance of Congressional Approval … Continue reading
Operation Odyssey Dawn
Odyssey Dawn is such a reassuring name for the operation in Libya. It suggests to the troops that after the war it will take ten years for them to return home, only to find every mustachioed dude, douchebag, and Guido … Continue reading
Printing money to pay for unsustainable spending is bad, mkay?
Business Insider – 10 Hyperinflation Horror Stories Of The 20th Century: Yugoslavia (1989 – 1994) – “At its worst the bank was printing dinars denominations as high as 500 billion.” China (1948 – 1949) – “China’s Yuan Dynasty funded its … Continue reading
Iran accumulating gold, which is odd since you can’t eat it
Secret Iran Gold Holdings Leaked: Tehran Holds Same Amount Of Gold As United Kingdom, And Is Buying More: “Market observers believe Tehran has been one of the biggest buyers of bullion over the past decade after China, Russia and India, … Continue reading
“Former UN Human Rights Chairman Guns Down Hundreds of Unarmed Mourners”
I had forgotten about Gaddafi’s UN chair. GaddafiGaddaf
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Egypt, Inflation, and Food Prices
Fortune – Egypt and the growing problem of global inflation: Suffocating your citizenry with stagflation is a problem, particularly when that citizenry is young, hungry, and unemployed. By definition this is the Egypt we’re seeing today. While this may be … Continue reading
What’s the Matter with Egypt?
What’s Behind Egypt’s Problems? At least part of Egypt’s problem is the fact that in the past the government has threatened to reduce food subsidies. Now it is planning to hold food subsidies level and raise energy subsidies, but it … Continue reading
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Wikileaks Show Team Obama Was Clueless on Middle East
Wikileaks: Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack: Under this theory King Abdullah expected to talk about militarily confronting Iran, and he couldn’t believe it when Obama kept reciting bromides about the … Continue reading
Iran Sentences Blogger Hossein Derakhshan (Hoder) to 20 Years in Prison
CNN – Iran’s ‘blogfather’ sentenced to almost 20 years in prison: An Iranian court has sentenced the so-called “blogfather” of Iran to 19½ years in prison, the semi-official Mashregh news website said Tuesday. Hossein Derakhshan was “convicted of cooperating with … Continue reading
Headline of the Day
Oceania Has Never Been at War with General Petraeus: Or as the Professor wrote last week, when the Ministry of Truth MoveOn.org was caught deleting their infamous 2007 “General Betray-Us” ad (which the New York Times gave them a sweetheart … Continue reading
Google switches Gmail to https by default
Information Week – Google: We’re Encrypting Everyone’s Gmail Automatically: Whether or not the timing of this announcement has anything to do with Google’s recent actions in the Chinese market is unknown. The company today said that it is switching Gmail … Continue reading
Iran seizes Nobel Peace Prize winner’s medal
This is why people say Iran’s government is run by dicks.
Iranian blogger Hoder has been in solitary confinement for 10 months
BoingBoing – Iran: blogger Hossein “Hoder” Derakshan said to have been jailed in solitary for 10 months: Fershteh Ghazi (@iranbaan) tweets that Hamed Derakhshan, brother of jailed Iranian blogger Hossein “Hoder” Derakshan, just said on @bbcpersian his brother has been … Continue reading
Fight Club
Watched Fight Club again last night. The basic story is that a generation of young men are living empty lives, “working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” Fight Club gives them a purpose and makes … Continue reading
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Rich Lowry on the illegitimaticy of the Iranian elections
Rich Lowry: “A reminder: There is not a question about the legitimacy of the Iranian election. It was illegitimate from the beginning; the regime hand-picked the candidates.” Absolutely correct. Even if the vote counting had been 100% legitimate (which it … Continue reading
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Iranian election fraud
In many Iranian cities the number of people who voted exceeded the number of eligible voters. Is miracle! This is in addition to the suspiciously-fast vote count. “How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter … Continue reading
Daoud Kuttab’s crazy bias against Israel
Little Green Footballs – Washington Post: ‘Amateur’ Rockets ‘Nagging’ Israel: The Washington Post gives column space today to Palestinian shill Daoud Kuttab, who turns in one of those very predictable whiny pieces claiming that fighting against terrorists “only makes them … Continue reading
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Roundup of missed predictions on the surge…
at Volokh.com. The only real question about the planned “surge” in Iraq — which is better described as a Vietnam-style escalation — is whether its proponents are cynical or delusional. — Paul Krugman, NYT, 1/8/07 There is nothing ahead but … Continue reading
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