Why we hate ourselves…
April 20, 2010 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Culture
In more ways than you can believe...
Why Many Western Intellectuals
Want to Change a Successful System,
and Idealize Third World Tyrannies
by Barry Rubin
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George Orwell wrote prophetically in 1943:
“In the last twenty years Western civilization has given the intellectual security without responsibility….It has educated him in skepticism while anchoring him almost immovably in the privileged class. He has been in the position of a young man living on an allowance from father whom he hates. The result is a deep feeling of guilt and resentment, not combined with any genuine desire to escape. But some psychological escape, some form of self-justification there must be….These creeds have the advantage that they aim at the impossible and therefore in effect demand very little….The life of an English gentleman and the moral attitudes of a saint can be enjoyed simultaneously….
“The fact that the eastern nations have shown themselves at least as warlike and bloodthirsty as the western ones, that so far from rejecting industrialism, the East is adopting it as swiftly as it can—this is irrelevant, since what is wanted is the mythos of the peaceful, religious and patriarchal East to set against the greedy and materialistic West….We shall be hearing a lot about the superiority of eastern civilization in the next few years.” Click here to read the entire article…
When is it the time to put terrorists down?
March 21, 2010 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Middle East
When It’s Necessary and
Desirable To Assassinate Terrorists
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By Barry Rubin
originally printed on Thursday, February 25, 2010
There has been a huge international controversy about the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a leading Hamas terrorist, in Dubai on January 19. I have no idea who did it but have some points to make on the subject.
1. Generally speaking, media coverage almost never (in Europe) or only minimally (in the United States) talks about what Mabhouh actually did to merit his end. The New York Times had the following paragraph at the very end of its story:
“Mr. Mabhouh had a role in the 1989 abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers, and was also involved in smuggling weapons into Gaza, Israel and Hamas have said. Israel officials say the weapons came from Iran.” Click here to read the entire article…
The SWINE FLU ( H1N1 ); The video
October 25, 2009 by Roberto Santiago
Filed under Health Care, Videos by Chronicle Watch
The SWINE FLU and You – part 2; The Video
source The SWINE FLU part 2 the video
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Routine Flu Vaccine Goes Wrong ( H1N1 ) – Part 2
October 24, 2009 by Jim Turner
Filed under Health Care
But according to the experts it is rare, it is safe, we can trust them…
by Jim Turner
Right, we can trust our experts and governments, just like the millions resting in shallow graves that trusted Hitler, Mao, and Stalin.
“Every day, bad things happen to people. When you vaccinate a lot of people in a short period of time, some of those things are going to happen to some people by chance alone,” said Dr. Daniel Salmon, a vaccine safety specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services.
I have a better idea, let Obama and his administration take the chance while we watch for the CHANGE.
Now that sounds like a win-win situation to me, how about you?
