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		<title>Egyptian Islamists: Persecuting the Copts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the theology of Islamic triumphalism, all land in the Middle East and North Africa is &#8220;Muslim Land&#8221; even though the indigenous Christian and Jewish populations were exterminated or terribly persecuted to realize the fantasy. One such Christian group that has successfully resisted religious cleansing are the Copts of Egypt. The Coptic church is very [...]
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		<title>Not in the Stars But in Ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we polished our crystal ball and tried to grasp the enormity of a world changing before our eyes. There were references to fate and fatalism but the reality is that what we and the Europeans are experiencing is ultimately the work of our own hands. We did it to ourselves. All of it is [...]
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		<title>Invade Mexico?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Red State, there&#8217;s a fascinating post on the situation with a lawless Mexico and the implications for US security. The author (LaborUnionReport) speculates concerning the possible invasion of Mexico to secure our border and root out the all-powerful cartels. Part of his speculation is whether we should annex Mexico as our 51st state [...]
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		<title>Strator: Rumors of the Chinese Central Bank Chief&#8217;s Defection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stratfor is reporting a rumor that the head of China&#8217;s Central Bank has left the country, apparently one step ahead of the sheriff. Rumors have circulated in China that People’s Bank of China (PBC) Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan may have left the country. The rumors appear to have started following reports on Aug. 28 which cited [...]
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		<title>Barack Obama: Support for Israel to be &#8220;Balanced&#8221; Against &#8220;Other Interests&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve expressed my misgivings about Hope &#8216;n Change&#8217;s attitude toward Israel. In spite of his anti-Semitic mentors and associates over the years &#8211; including the likes of Samantha Power, I wanted to hope for the best. But no more. From Thursday&#8217;s New York Times: It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s [...]
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		<title>Barack Obama and the Degradation of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<title>Social Security Chickens Come Home to Roost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Scott Moody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News is reporting that for the first time since the 1980s Social Security payments exceeded receipts by $29 billion. So the $2.5 trillion in IOUs from Uncle Sam to the Social Security Administration is coming due. Needless to say, on the margin, this means that all of this $29 billion in former IOUs will [...]
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		<title>Rep. Chellie Pingree &#8211; Lightweight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always suspected that my congresswomen &#8211; Rep. Chellie Pingree (D. Maine) &#8211; was a complete twit. Now my suspicions have ripened into certitude. From yesterday&#8217;s New York Times: In a strong bipartisan endorsement of the Obama administration’s policy in Afghanistan, the House of Representatives on Wednesday soundly rejected a call to withdraw American troops [...]
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		<title>The Falklands: Hillary Slaps Britain in the Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of Nile Gardiner&#8217;s posting today on his UK Telegraph blog. Since last week, Hope &#8216;n Change and his State Department savants have changed their position from &#8220;neutrality&#8221; to siding with Argentina in calling for &#8220;negotiations&#8221; with Britain over Falkland sovereignty. Appearing with Argentine President Christina Fernández de Kirchner last night, Hillary dropped [...]
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		<title>Islamist Radicals Infiltrate Britain&#8217;s Labour Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crocker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;What&#8217;s Going on in Britain&#8221; we noted that Britain has a serious Islamist problem. As Melanie Phillips observes in her book Londonistan, Britain is one of the principal terror-states in the world today because the Labour government has permitted Britain to become infested by jihadi networks that use the country as a base of [...]
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		<title>Nigel Farage and the Art of the Rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a refreshing palate cleanser via Breitbart TV &#8211; a wonderful rant by Nigel Farage in the European Parliament against the bureaucratically elected &#8220;president&#8221; of the EU, Herman van Rompuy. Farage is a member of the British Independence Party &#8211; independence from the EU, in case you were wondering. This is an insult of the [...]
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		<title>Obama, The Falklands and the Special Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as if Hope &#8216;n Change is ready once more to diss our friends &#8211; in this case our oldest and best friend, Great Britain. As reported in the London Times, it now appears that the US will refuse to endorse British sovereignty in the Falkland Islands, over which Britain and Argentina fought a [...]
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		<title>The Chinese Are Not Ten Feet Tall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve pointed out numerous times, China has massive problems that may well undermine its current ascendancy. As Joel Kotkin writes in Forbes, put your bet on America for it&#8217;s youth, freedom, stability and restless innovation. A few years ago, most were predicting Japan&#8217;s ascendancy. We saw a spate of movies &#8211; think, Rising Sun [...]
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		<title>China Dumps US Assets &#8211; Warning or Prudent Planning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know by now, China holds a lot of our (a) Treasuries, (b) Agencies, (c) currency, and (d) corporate paper. A lot. As reported by the polymathic David Goldman in his Asia Times blog, the Chinese have apparently decided to divest themselves of US corporate paper and asset-based debt instruments and invest in [...]
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		<title>Chinese Inflation &#8211; Coming to a Wal Mart Near You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been horrified by the sheer volume of money pumped by the Fed into our economy. We&#8217;re not the only guilty parties when it comes to quantitative easing, however &#8211; Britain has followed suit as well as the Euro zone. But quite possibly the biggest offender has been China, whose economy is both awash [...]
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		<title>Yemen and the Gitmo Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in today&#8217;s Times of London, Yemen is turning into a magnet for terrorists freed from Guantanamo. And Yemen is none too stable these days. At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country’s Government [...]
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think the Kelo decision trashed U.S. eminent domain law? Welcome to eminent domain &#8211; China style. Stealing is more like it. As reported in Sunday&#8217;s Washington Times, China&#8217;s &#8220;urban housing demolition law&#8221; is under increasing pressure after a couple of bitter recent protests ended with evictees setting themselves on fire. The law has been used [...]
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		<title>China&#8217;s House of Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In multiple posts over the past year, I&#8217;ve taken a fairly contrarian view of China&#8217;s current position in the world. While certain media know-betters write purple prose about China&#8217;s supposed invincibility and its inevitable rise in the world, I&#8217;m less convinced. In my untutored view, China&#8217;s economy cannot be separated from its centralized political system [...]
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		<title>Albright: America Has No Intention of Being First Nation of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And this creature was our Secretary of State. Madeleine Albright gave a speech to students this week in the Russian city of Omsk. It most certainly surprised her Russian audience. From the Pravda report: Madeleine Albright said during the meeting that America no longer had the intention of being the first nation of the world. [...]
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		<title>Sucker and Sellout</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now it&#8217;s official: Hope &#8216;n Change has decided to sell out our Polish and Czech friends on missile defense after the Russians whined about it. And what&#8217;s he getting in return? Russian assistance in calling Iran off its nuclear weapons program. The same Russia that&#8217;s been selling sophisticated SAM systems to Iran while assisting [...]
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