DEDICATED TO EXPOSING DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA AND TO PROMOTING UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - WITH SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY. NO ADS. NO TIP-JAR. JUST THE TRUTH.
"On board is Marion Kozak, the mother of Ed Miliband, Britain’s first Jewish head of the Labour party. He was elected last week, defeating his brother David. a former foreign minister. An Israeli Channel 10 reporter also is sailing with the passengers. Yonatan Shapira, a pilot dismissed from the IDF is also on board."Ralph Miliband, the husband of Kozak, became an active Marxist early on and eventually taught at the LSE.
In the 16 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa has followed the prescriptions of the West, opening its market-based economy to trade, while keeping inflation and public debt in check. It has won praise for its efforts, and the economy has grown, but not nearly fast enough to end an intractable unemployment crisis.
For over a decade, the jobless rate has been among the highest in the world, fueling crime, inequality and social unrest in the continent’s richest nation. The global economic downturn has made the problem much worse, wiping out more than a million jobs. Over a third of South Africa’s workforce is now idle. And 16 years after Nelson Mandela led the country to black majority rule, more than half of blacks ages 15 to 34 are without work — triple the level for whites.
“The numbers are mind-boggling,” said James Levinsohn, a Yale University economist.
As the debate about unemployment intensifies, the government’s failure to produce a plan 16 months after President Jacob Zuma took office promising decent jobs has led analysts to question his leadership, though he has promised to act soon.
Experts debate the causes of the country’s gravest economic problem, with some contending that higher wages negotiated by politically powerful trade unions have suppressed job growth.
MINIMUM WAGES HURT THE POOREST PEOPLE MOST.
FREE MARKETS AND GLOBALIZATION HELP THE POOREST PEOPLE THE MOST.
THE SOCIALIST ANC SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET SOUTH AFRICA GET DEVELOPED THE WAY EVERY OTHER NATION DID.
IOW: IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, THEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE LEFTISM HISTORY.
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico was found on Monday stoned to death in the third attack on a public official in the country in less than a week, local authorities said.A FEW WEEKS BACK OTHER FOES OF THE NARCO-TERRORISTS WERE BEHEADED.
The bodies of Gustavo Sanchez, mayor of Tancitaro in Michoacan state, and an aide were found, officials said.
"It appears they stoned them to death," a source from the local prosecutor's office said on condition of anonymity.
Local media reported that the bodies were found in the back of a flat-bed truck. There was no immediate indication whether the killings were related to drug violence.
In a joint Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) and IDF operation, an IDF drone located the two Palestinians preparing to fire rockets into Israel territory from a location in the central Gaza Strip. There was a secondary explosion after the terrorists were hit by fire, according to a statement released by the IDF.GAZANS WOULD BE BETTER OF THEY THEY BEAT THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS ...
The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered in images acquired on September 16, when it was about 20 million miles away.COOL: MAYBE WE WON'T END UP LIKE THE DINOSAURS...
It is the first "potentially hazardous object" (PHO) to be discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey and has been given the designation "2010 ST3."
"Although this particular object won't hit Earth in the immediate future, its discovery shows that Pan-STARRS is now the most sensitive system dedicated to discovering potentially dangerous asteroids," said Robert Jedicke, a University of Hawaii member of the PS1 Scientific Consortium, who is working on the asteroid data from the telescope. "This object was discovered when it was too far away to be detected by other asteroid surveys," Jedicke noted.
In some cases, nuclear missiles supposedly malfunctioned while a disc-shaped object hovered nearby.
ER, UM... OKAY. ARE THEY ALSO THE FOLKS BEHIND THE STUXNET WORM!? JUST ASKING...
There's a decline in trust of all the three branches of government, but especially in Congress. See, "Trust in Legislative Branch Falls to Record-Low 36%":
The Royal Palace says Jordan's Queen Rania has undergone a non-surgical procedure in New York to correct an irregular heartbeat.SHE COULD HAVE FLOWN ANYWHERE AND HAD THIS PROCEDURE ANYWHERE - BY THE NHS IN THE UK OR IN FRANCE, CUBA ETC.
The 40-year-old Rania accompanied her husband, King , who attended the meetings in New York. She also attended separate functions, including a panel on empowering girls.
A palace statement on Monday says Rania had a catheterization to restore a healthy heart rhythm.
The statement says the procedure went smoothly and that Rania is "well" and in "good spirits."
Rania is to remain in a New York hospital for two nights to recuperate and will return home later in the week.
US vs. Europe: Life Expectancy and Cancer Survival
Is the U.S. system inferior to those in other developed countries based on life expectancy and cancer survival rates? Not according to economists Robert L. Ohsfeldt (Texas A&M) and John E. Schneider (University of Iowa), who argued in their 2006 book, The Business of Health: The Role of Competition, Markets and Regulation (AEI Press), that the U.S. system actually compares very favorably to the health-care systems of other nations.1. The top chart above (data here) shows both: a) unadjusted life expectancies for the U.S. and other OECD countries, and b) standardized life expectancies which are adjusted for the effects of premature death resulting from non-health-related fatal injuries. For unadjusted life expectancy, the U.S. ranks #14 out of 16 countries, but for the adjusted standardized life expectancy the U.S. ranks #1.
2. The bottom chart displays five-year age-adjusted cancer survival rates for the U.S. and selected European countries, showing that the U.S. has the best record for five-year survival rates for six different cancers. In some cases the differences are huge: 81.2% in the U.S. for prostate cancer vs. 41% in Denmark and 47.4% in Italy; 61.7% in the U.S. for colon cancer vs. 39.2% in Denmark; 12% in the U.S. for lung cancer vs. 5.6% in Denmark.
Also interesting is the fact that there is often a significant difference between white and black cancer survival rates in the U.S., e.g. prostate cancer - 82.7% for whites vs. 69.2% for blacks (see red circled data in bottom chart). But even in that case, the five-year survival rate for blacks (69.2%) is still higher than for all European countries except Switzerland.
As the 10-month settlement freeze expired at midnight, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom toured the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and called the prime minister's initial decision to freeze the settlements a "mistake."That incident where mother and child survived to live a new life and another day was miraculous.
Speaking at Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, Shalom responded to the Palestinian request to extend the settlement moratorium by three months, saying that even the 10 month freeze had been excessive.
Shalom said that the decision to end settlement building in the West Bank was a "mistaken" and "unwarranted" decision. Shalom said that he had been opposed to the settlement freeze from the beginning, and that it was a decision that no past prime minister ever agreed to.
Addressing Sunday's West Bank shooting after which a woman gave birth, Shalom said that the Jewish child which was born is proof of the Jewish nation's eternality, which will only continue to grow and develop.
"Los Angeles Times, December 1967: At the same time as denouncing “Amerikkka” for their actions in Vietnam, many in the Vietnam antiwar movement were cheering on Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. This is but another example of those on the far-left championing brutal murderers. Below I copy an extract from a letter published in the Los Angeles Times in the middle of all this:
Put Viet Reds on Trial: David Boelender, Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1967
"…. The Vietnamese Communists have conspired to commit aggression against South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. According to the Nuremberg Charter this is a crime against peace.North Vietnamese troops have violated the borders of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. According to the Nuremberg Charter this is a crime against peace.Since 1945 and continuing today the Vietnamese Communists have murdered thousands of non-Communist and anti-Communist Vietnamese leaders as a matter of deliberate and systematic policy. According to the Nuremberg Charter this is a crime against humanity.The Vietnamese Communists have sent agents into Laos, Cambodia and Thailand to subvert the people and to kill those opposed to the plans of North Vietnam and Communist China for these nations. According to the Nuremberg Charter this is both a crime against peace and a crime against humanity.According to Hoang Van Chi, between 1953 and 1956 the Vietnamese Communists murdered as many as 500,000 North Vietnamese citizens under the pretext of land reform. This is genocide and according to the Nuremberg Charter a crime against humanity."
The American Muslim Day Parade, an annual event since 1985, was held Sunday in Manhattan.WHAT A LOAD OF UNADULTERATED DHIMMI CRAP.
The scene seemed surreal, yet oddly poignant: at a silent, deserted intersection in the center of Midtown Manhattan, beneath bland corporate logos and brick office buildings, hundreds of Muslims knelt on a sprawling tarpaulin, faced due east and commenced the midday call to prayer.
The ceremony, held along a blocked-off portion of Madison Avenue, marked the start of the American Muslim Day Parade on Sunday, an annual event, first held in 1985, that brings together Muslims of many ethnicities and nationalities who worship in the New York region.
The parade is intended as a celebration of diversity and pride in the Muslim community, but this year it had a difficult context: national controversies over a planned Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, the threatened desecration of Korans by anti-Muslim ministers, and recent incidences of what the authorities called hate crimes against Muslims, including a New York City cabdriver who was slashed.
Unidentified assailants have toppled about 30 tombstones and scrawled swastikas into the ground at a Muslim cemetery plot in northeastern France.Unbearable racist act!? RACISM!? Er, um... islam is NOT a race!!
Mayor Roland Ries has denounced the desecration of the Muslim section of a cemetery in the city of Strasbourg as "an unbearable racist act."
Here's the short list of Obama punts:Hmmmm. Steny Hoyer on Colbert: "His testimony was not appropriate." Nancy Pelosi said it was "great.EITHER PELOSI RESIGNS AS LEADER OR SHE WILL HAVE A FIGHT ON HER HANDS.
