Babalu Blog reports Miami police and the Coast Guard aren’t preparing for the celebrations and emotional outpouring the island dictator’s death would bring. So it’s pretty safe to conclude Fidel is still kicking. Bummer.
“Update From Miami” [via Ace]
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Rumors of Fidel Castro’s death are floating around. Perez Hilton of all places claimed there would be an announcement at 4:00 pm ET. It’s 5:00 now with no news yet.
I’m hoping they’re true. His death would give the U.S. an opening to re-examine its policy towards Cuba, one that has a better chance of freeing […]
Despite all Hugo Chavez’s power-to-the-people shtick his efforts haven’t reduced Venezuela’s income inequality. What it has done is secure his place as a top-notch authoritarian.
“Economic Divide” [via Marginal Revolution]
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A group of conservatives held a press conference in Quebec where President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon were meeting decrying a possible North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Howard Phillips fretted about a “New World Order.” Another participant, Jerome Corsi, known as the Swift Boat […]
Michael Moore loves to perpetuate the fable that Cuba is a wonderful place where the people cheer their socialized medicine. Reality shows the island is a prison state were people desperately want to escape. The latest example are Cuban boxers who might not come to the U.S. to qualify for the Olympics because Castro fears […]
A group of U.N. peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire a.k.a. the Ivory Coast have been pulled off their mission because of charges of sexual abuse of the natives:
“It means they don’t participate in our operations,” said Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Cote d’Ivoire (ONUCI). “Those who are found guilty will be sent back […]
The self-proclaimed revolutionary Hugo Chavez is using the national oil company to gobble up more and more of Venezuela’s economy placing greater control in the authoritarian’s hands:
Petróleos de Venezuela, the state oil company that controls the biggest reserves in South America, may begin making shoes, building ships and farming soybeans as President Hugo Chavez widens […]
It’s almost cliche for a second-term President to organize a Middle East peace conference. President Bush joins the club:
President Bush on Monday announced an international conference this fall to include Israel, the Palestinian authority and some of their Arab neighbors to help restart Mideast peace talks and review progress in building democratic institutions.
He said that […]
A Gordon Brown U.K. government is quite a change from a Tony Blair one, and it’s not a change for the better. Brown has ordered his ministers to not mention “Muslim” in the same breath as “terrorist:”
Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis.
The Prime Minister has […]
A Jeep Cherokee rammed into an entrance of Glasgow Airport then bursting into flames:
Two people are being held after a burning Jeep was rammed through the terminal building at Glasgow airport.
The incident is being treated as a terror attack, a nearby hospital has been evacuated, extra police are at other UK airports and the Prime […]
On Glenn Beck’s radio show Mitt Romney attacked Jimmy Carter for urging the U.S. to deal with Hamas.
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Here’s a paragraph from an NY Times story about Hamas conquering Gaza:
Now, in post-revolutionary Gaza, the place is trashed and looted, toilets and tiles ripped away, offices emptied of computers, furniture, light fixtures, doors and electric wiring. Bits of plastic plumbing dot the courtyard, mixed with broken glass, burned files, the charred manual to a […]
Gina Nahai comes from left field with the notion that in order to stabilize the Middle East a Sunni dictator should again rule Iraq. For her the problem isn’t the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the 1400-year struggle between the two major divisions of Islam Shia and Sunni.
Nahai desires a “balance of power [that] is created and […]
French president Nicolas Sarkozy got a majority in the French parliament. It should be enough for him to get needed economic reforms passed, but his party actually lost seats:
But Sunday’s legislative runoff suggests that voters in France, long driven by leftist ideals, wanted to send the hard-driving and U.S.-friendly president a message that his powers […]
Twenty years ago today, Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev:
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Two years later, the wall fell:
UPDATE: Via Power Line we […]
