Persians demonstrate against the China/Russia/Iran AxisOn Tuesday evening, a group of "Persian Royalists" "occupied" the Arc de Triomphe in the center of Paris to protest the Iranian nuclear program, and the emerging alliance between Russia, China, and Iran. They flew the flag called the "draphshe," which is the royal crescent of ancient Persia.
The group undertaking the action is called "Derafsh e Kaviani". It is an anti-Islamic Iranian goup which is calling for the overthrow of the Islamic regime in Teheran, and its replacement by a royal regime. The protesters remained on the Arc de Triomphe until Wednesday morning.
Since 1995, this group has protested against the Iranian nuclear program, as well as the support for this program provided by Russia and China. In 2005 the group organized a protest in the European Union headquarters in Brussels against European negotiations with Teheran over the nuclear program. This group states that the Iranian nuclear program is one of the greatest dangers of our time. Their website is:http://www.iran-resist.org/ -- but it is in French...
Above: a marsh Arab now free from the murderous tyranny of brutal, sadistic, greedy dictator Saddam Hussein.“The (Iraqi) parliament knows the damage the previous regime caused to the environment,” said Salima Inseel, head of the marshland department of the Ministry of Environment. She said the receded marshes, along with pollution from factories in the area, have led to unseasonably warmer temperatures in Iraq .
In 2003, immediately following Iraq 's liberation by Coalition forces, the interim government set up the Center for the Restoration of Iraq Marshlands, under the supervision of the Ministry of Water Resources. The center is the lead organization for restoring the marshlands.
Ali Hashim Katie, the director of CRIM, said the marshes are already at about 40 percent of pre-1991 levels.
The thing that has me stumped is trying to figure out what leftists want. For example, when left-wing judges take it upon themselves to legislate from the bench, liberals are quick to say that the Constitution is a living document, and that it has to evolve to accommodate a changing world. However, whenever a conservative suggests that the 14th amendment, which grants automatic citizenship on any person born in America, ought to be changed in order to deny that gift to those born to illegal aliens, those same people carry on as if the Constitution, like the 10 Commandments, was carved in stone.
Another thing about liberals I can’t begin to figure out is their abiding devotion to failed economic theories. The fact that communism hasn’t worked anywhere in the world doesn’t cool their ardor in the slightest. The fact that Marx’s brainstorm invariably metastasizes into a despotic tyranny -- be it in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Cambodia or Venezuela -- doesn’t make the slightest impression on them. Neither does the fact that socialism has brought much of Europe to the brink of moral and financial bankruptcy faze them in the least.
Well, I hate to be impolite, but when people keep doing the same thing in spite of getting the same rotten results, we have been told by experts in the field that it’s a pretty sure sign of insanity.
Oh, and by the way, they're voting for "Best Con" from amongst a bunch of us conservative bloggers. Guess what? I'm winning!
The Six Nations has its legal tradition that they contend governs their actions and legal processes.
David Ramsay, minister responsible for aboriginal affairs, said Tuesday that the Six Nations "grand law" is similar to English common law.
"But what we're saying to them is that the Criminal Code of Canada is supreme in this country. It applies to all people and in all places."
While the United States has been preoccupied with the War on Terror since Sept. 11, 2001, China has embarked on a massive military buildup that can have only one objective — to challenge the United States as a world superpower.
That’s the conclusion of a chilling new book, "Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States," by Jed Babbin and Edward Timperlake, released by Regnery Publishing.
It appears that Islamic fanaticism is not the only threat to our way of life. The defeat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War was only a partial victory, the authors argue. A Pacific Cold War awaits the United States and its dwindling Western allies, according to Babbin and Timperlake.
"If war does become reality, it will be because China has chosen, clearly and decisively, to make war on America, its allies and its interests," the authors argue. "It will not be an accident, the result of an economic clash or a misunderstanding — and our diplomatic efforts need to bear that in mind. We believe China has already decided in favor of war."
The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation - whose meeting has forced the shutdown of much of the city this week - is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and is preparing to expand its membership well beyond the present China, Russia and four strategic central Asian states: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Li Hui refused at a briefing yesterday to disclose the countries that wished to become observers or full members, beyond saying: "A lot of countries in Asia and other continents have applied, demonstrating the SCO is broadening its influence."
Last week SCO secretary-general Zhang Deguang told journalists in Beijing, when questioned about the participation of Iran: "We cannot abide other countries calling our observer nations sponsors of terror. We would not have invited them if we believed they sponsored terror."
An Iraqi policewoman
Story here, courtesy of US Central Command (CENTCOM)
(Where, oh where is the MSM on this good news?)
So... do the anti-Iraq war leftists out there still believe it would've been preferable to have simply left Saddam alone to, among many, many other terrible things, continue to oppress women and deny them equal rights? Whatever made them think that the oppression of women was ever a good thing? And leftists are always going on about human rights and womens' equality? Are they really serious?Although women throughout Iraq have been given the right to vote and are accepted in the army and police academies, the city of Irbil was the first city to allow women to hold positions of power.
Iraqi Police Lt. Narseed, is one of the first female officers in the city.
She wanted to be a police officer at a very young age but thought that the career field would not be open within her lifetime. That all changed when the Coalition removed Saddam from power. She said she had already graduated college and was becoming a lawyer when she made the decision to become a police officer. “When I heard that the doors had opened for women to become officers, I jumped at the chance and then went to the police academy.”
She said that she has no issue with men following orders or accepting her as an authoritative figure. “Here, there is no difference between male officers and female officers. If I tell the men to do something, they do it. There is no hesitation on their part.”(...)
According to Aswar, when Saddam was in power, he tried to brainwash the females in the country into believing that they could not do the same things as men, but his beliefs were never really accepted in the Kurdish provinces.
“We knew that like so many successful and stable nations around the world, our views on women had to change,” he said.
“We consider ourselves more modern and progressive compared to a lot of other cities in the Middle East.”
I bet those leftists, most of them at least, will go into denial and claim that it's just "American propaganda" or something. Par for the course for the brainwashed moonbats who don't even like their own country.
Saddam's been removed. Democracy and human rights are flourishing in Iraq. The leader of the Saddam-loyalist "insurgents", Al-Zarqawi, is dead. Iraq is on its way to becoming a viable, modern, progressive nation. And the left hates this.
Iraq will become a model for other nations in the Middle East to eventually emulate. Why would the people of those nations want to remain stuck in the days of barbarism, thanks to corrupt, evil clerics and jihadist monsters who oppress them and try to teach them all to hate and kill? The people will indeed rise up and break free of the shackles of servitude! And the Free World must not abandon them, no matter how much Al Qaeda and the left demand that we allow evildoers to continue to oppress and tyrannize the people of the Middle East!
Thank United States President George W. Bush. He has done the right thing! History will vindicate him.
Well-done, Mr. President! Steady as she goes! Full speed ahead!
And the valorous warriors who fought and sometimes fell will be honored by history as well.
May freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights continue to spread like wildfire all across the planet! Let no one stand in the way!
I may be Canadian, but I'm so proud of my American friends and my friends in the Coalition of the Willing who dared against all negative pressure to do the right thing!
