Polish analyst raps politicians for involving bishops

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Polish polls and the press

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History remembers the final result and the aftermath

Everything else is smoke and noise. Bush/Cheney resolved to unleash some whopazz on the jihadis after looking upon the ruins of lower Manhattan. I expected no Presidential power to be left not pushed to the limit to go after these clowns, everywhere. Read More

The ways of Washington

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.Read More

The Social Singularity Continued

There are some questions that are so dangerous that most people simply refuse to consider them. However as our technology begins to offer new tools, some of our unthinkable questions may well be answered within a mere generation. Read More

HITLER'S LEGACY: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST

A transcript of a very informative lecture by Matthias Kuentzel. A short synopsis can't do the lecture justice, but the basic point is that while there was always anti-Jewish sentiment in the Muslim world, it also was based on the notion of Jews as an inferior group that Mohammed had defeated militarily. Anti-Semitic visions of powerful Jews being behind the world's problesm, and plotting to control the world, found most prominently in the Hamas charter, entered the Muslim world via the Muslim Brotherhood, who in turn took those ideas from the Nazis, which spent significant effort and money propagating them in the Middle East. This all started well before the creation of the State of Israel, belying the notion that the Israel-Palestinian conflict caused modern Muslim anti-Semitism. Thanks to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East for the pointer. Read More

US exports

Exports are now the prime driver of the US economy.

Your Wish Is My Command

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Mission accomplished

With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively. The country remains one, it has embraced democracy and avoided all-out civil war. What violence remains is largely local and criminal. Read More

Czech President Vaclav Klaus,

"As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning."Read More

Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness

Science Daily — Psychologists from the University of Toronto and Harvard University have identified one of the biological bases of creativity.Read More

Saddam Risked His Life for WMD Secrets

The Washington Post reports on a story leaked to Spain's El Pais about a meeting between President Bush and the former Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar weeks ahead of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It's interesting to note how Bush discusses Saddam's signals that he might accept exile from Iraq.

El Pais provides the Spanish language transcript here. And here's Bush on the chances that Saddam Hussein might choose exile instead of war [translation mine]:

...The Egyptians are talking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he's indicated that he'd be ready to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1 billion dollars and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction. Gaddafi has told Berlusconi that Saddam Hussein wants to leave. Mubarak tells us that in that case, there's a strong possibility that he'd be assassinated.
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We are not trying to win the elections, we are trying to have elections

The main goal of Russian foreign policy is to raise the oil price, no matter what - that's why the tensions in the Middle East are so important to Putin Read More

Hungary issues entrepreneurial permits to prostitutes

In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur's permit - a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.Read More

Acupuncture helps back pain, don't ask how

Acupuncture provided twice as many patients relief from lower back pain as did conventional drug and exercise therapy, which German researchers said on Monday might point to a "superplacebo" effect. Read More

Worshipers Of A Bloodthirsty God

Humans are clearly well-suited to some economic, political, and religious systems and not to others. Some systems--such as Islamic jihadism with its recycled socialist and communist politics -- are nothing more than a Procrustean bed of torture, as they try to adjust human nature to fit their "perfect" religion and the will of their bloodthirsty god.

In every case where totalitarian ideologies are put in place, whether they are religious or not, the result has been either catastrophic human misery and death (when the ideology is applied ruthlessly and viciously) or stagnation and decay (when applied nonchalantly and accepted passively).Read More

The War on Terror: The German Front

Although praise for the United States occurs very seldom in anti-American Western Europe, it was different in Germany last week. Unreported by most media outlets, the largest potential terrorist attack on German soil since the Second World War that saw three men arrested, two of them German converts to Islam, was thwarted with considerable American help. Read More

Walmart Flipflop Checmical Burning Case Reported

The story of the burnt foot from flip-flops confirmed my Fear that I had suffered a Chemical Burnt from a Black Flip Flop, bought at Walmarts too. Unfortunately three doctors have not yet identified why I suddenly developed dried, Cracked skin under my booth feet and on the sides. Read More

Are Democrats Tough Enough To Be President Of The United States

If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that (on General Petraeus), then I don't know how you're tough enough to be President of the United States. Read More

Battleground Europe

The Continent is a front line in the war on terror, whether its people know it or not. Read More