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China and Russia have had several very public police and military exercises of late. So have India and the US. Japan and the US. Indonesia and the US. Hell, Chad and the US have done several active, realtime anti-terror operations in the last 3 years. China and Russia have been playing The Game for hundreds of years, with Russia taking it in the keister most of the time. Short of using nukes Russia will never beat out China. These periods of friendly cooperation are cosmetic, at best.

This article is just one of many, follow the related links. BBC has done a few, and I think Fox has, also.

In the end, global political inter-relations are higgledy piggledy, just as they always have been and will be forever more. Amen.

People should be far more concerned with Russia and Iran dancing. That is where the problems are developing.

From our brothers across the Gulf, Al Jazeera. A fairly evenhanded article, better than CNN or the Big3 will do it.

This,"He said Bush used the province to highlight Anbar as an example of how successful the “surge” strategy has been in the region, pointing to a drop in attacks by Sunni fighters.

The drop in violence is attributed to Sunni Arab leaders joining forces with the US military to combat al-Qaeda fighters, although it is unclear whether they will back a unified Iraqi government as well.” is not nearly as snarky as American press usually are.

h/t Al Jazeera.

Here is an interesting tidbit. American workers are the world’s most productive. What will the doomcriers do!

“The average U.S. worker produces 63,885 U.S. dollars of wealth per year, the International Labor Organization said in its report.”
And.
“The U.S., according to the report, also surpass all 27 nations in the European Union, Japan and Switzerland in the amount of wealth created per hour of work — a second key measure of productivity.”

It ain’t long, but boy is it going to piss a pile-o-leftards off.

h/t Xinhua and editor Lu Hui.

Yet another apostasy uttered from within the Temple Of The Goreacle.

This has got to be pissing Algore off. He has decreed that all debate and research concerning “global climate change” is over.

These guys can expect a lump of coal upside they heads come Goremas season.

This is the money shot."The scientists said the source of the halogens is natural”. That has got to be pissing Algore right off.

This, from Egypt, could be the beginning of Islam’s Reformation.

“Egyptian grand mufti says Muslims can convert.”

Paul Schemm

Agence France Presse

“The essential question before us is can a person who is Muslim choose a religion other than Islam? The answer is yes, they can,” Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said in a posting on a Washington Post-Newsweek forum picked up by the Egyptian press on Tuesday.

Will this man be hailed by the western press for his vision? Will he be ranked with Martin Luther and Calvin? Will he be stabbed to death after morning prayers one fine day?

h/t to the Daily Star of Beruit, and as always, read it all.

And this sentence should be pounded into the heads of the left. “Gomaa is a civil servant, the top religious adviser of the state, and technically speaking the deputy justice minister,” he said. “So his views on the matter carry authority.” The equivalent in America would be to have Jerry Falwell or Bishop Donald Wurhul as Deputy Secretary of Justice.

Surrendering to Islamic terrorists will insure America has an Imam as the highest authority in our judicial system.

Is this the sentence that really has Hillary pised off?

“Edelman’s letter does indicate the Pentagon might be planning how to withdraw, saying: “We are always evaluating and planning for possible contingencies. As you know, it is longstanding departmental policy that operational plans, including contingency plans, are not released outside of the department.”

And why is that information at the end of the article? Seems that should have been in the opening paragraph somewhere.

Anybody remember Senator Leaky?

Algore is certainly not reining in his priests very well! I mean, did he or did he not declare all debate and research at an end? Did he not decree that Global Warming is solely and only caused by human agriculture and industrial activities? Apparently someone did not get the memo.

“It’s the coupling of the world’s two great fluid systems that actively defines climate,” said Michael Freilich, director of Nasa Earth Science Division and former project scientist on QuickScat.

h/t to Molly Bentley at BBC. A very good article. I agree wit the basic premise, losing QuickScat is one of the stupider things Congress and NASA have decided to do in the last few years.

I always thought the primary mission of the Space Shuttle was for maintenance and upgrading of satellites in orbit. Wasn’t it?

Funny how the Chinese national news service can find out things like thisand our media can’t.

“BAGHDAD, July 19 (Xinhua)—Iraq’s main Sunni Arab bloc ended Thursday its boycott of the parliament, a spokesman from the bloc told Xinhua.

“The Iraqi Accordance Front decided to end its boycott of the parliament sessions after the other political blocs agreed to our condition that the Front’s speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani would preside the parliament sessions,” spokesman Salim Abdullah said.

The 44-member bloc of the 275-seat parliament had suspended its participation in the parliament last month after the leading Shiite and Kurdish blocs voted on June 11 to remove Mashhadani, over allegedly ordered his bodyguards to beat a Shiite Member of Parliament.

On Tuesday, Iraqi political bloc of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr also ended its suspension of its membership in the Iraqi parliament.

The move of Sadr’s bloc came after the government responded to their demands of protecting the shrines and the formation of a committee to supervise the reconstruction of the two Shiiteshrines in Samarra, both were destroyed by repeated attacks.”

Even Mookie is bowing down before the Parliament in the face of Al Queda getting owned by the citizens and forces of Iraq.

Why are CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC so silent about this?

h/t to Xinhua

"update" After going 5 pages into FOXNews online I found this AP article. I have AP on one of my RSSFeeds, never saw it there. Guess I will try their public pages, too.

Gang, to see the irrefutable proof that America armed Saddam head over to Froggy’s Dacha.

Incontrovertible evidence that America IS the Great Satan. Go check it out!

I had to laugh on seeing this headline:
Army Misses Recruitment Goal for Second Straight Month

And yet, the numbers quoted seem a bit underwhelming.
“But two defense officials said the Army fell short of its 8,400 goal by about 15 percent — which is more than twice the June shortfall and would mean that roughly 7,000 recruits signed up.”

I am curious as to how many of that 7000 recruits chose a Combat Arms MOS? And why the re-enlist numbers never make it into any of these articles?

And this short fall is just staggering.
“Last month the Army said it recruited 5,101 new soldiers in May, about 7 percent short of its 5,500 goal for that month.” Again, of this 5,101 how many chose Combat Arms MOSs?

If recruiting is falling off, then the numbers of recruits going into combat related MOSs would be affected, would they not? In one direction or the other. And yet, when I read these articles, I see no indication either way.

And nary a word about the poor attainment of minority recruiting by colleges. An issue you would think deserves far more attention, given the crisis in education concerning minority students.

Curious, no?

French president supports Socialist as new IMF chief

“ Strauss-Kahn “seems the most fit for the post,” said the president in an interview with the newspaper.

Noting the former minister shares the same version of the IMF function, Sarkozy said Strauss-Kahn owns the qualities required by the post such as strong credibility, incontestable experience and multilingualism.

Strauss-Kahn has yet to express his interest in the post.”

And the talkingheads in America call Sark the “Great Moderate Hope” of Europe. As if the IMF has not enough problems already.

h/t to Xinhua. At least someone is paying attention.

"MILF pulls out of search for Italian priest”

I saw this in Xinhua just now and laughed so hard I think I hurt myself.

And it is an actual article.

Would someone on the left please explain to me why none of you care about women’s rights and safety when it does not put money in your purses.

Jail, flogging for Iranian women’s rights activist
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced a women’s rights activist to flogging and almost three years in jail for taking part in a 2006 protest over “discriminatory” laws, the ILNA news agency reported on Tuesday. Delaram Ali was sentenced to 10 lashes and two years and 10 months in jail for “participation in an illegal gathering,” “propaganda against the system” and “disturbing public order,” her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh told ILNA. Ali was one of the 70 people arrested in June 2006 in a protest at a Tehran square against articles in Iranian law which are seen as discriminating against women. “Delaram Ali’s sentence is too heavy, we will definitely protest the unlawful verdict. A flogging sentence for social and women’s rights activists is against international law,” Sotoudeh said. Several other women were sentenced to jail for taking part in the protest. Around 30 women’s rights activists - arrested while demonstrating outside the court where the five campaigners were standing trial - were detained for several days in March. - AFP

Not a word of support or outrage from NOW or Hillary or Nancy or Elisabeth or Cameron or the Right Honorable Ms Ginsberg.

Shameful does not even come close to a description of the American Women’s Rights proponents.

And does anyone really believe Delaram Ali will actually survive nearly 3 years in an Iranian prison?

In American Thinker there is this article The Incredible Shrinking New York Times which describes the current demise of NYT.

Like some robber baron capitalist of yore, the New York Times is telling the remaining full price readers of its print product that they will pay more and get less, the same message it has been sending advertisers for years. But far from a sign of strength, this move is an indicator that the slow motion business collapse of the New York Times Company may be picking up its pace.

Faced with rapidly waning print media revenue and internet revenues which are growing, but not even close to offsetting the decline of print, the strategic plan of Pinch Sulzberger is failing. He had hoped to replace print profits with skyrocketing electronic publishing revenues, but evidently lacked any concrete notion of how to get from here to there, and overpaid for a niche website in a business increasing ruled by ruthless giant players like Microsoft and Google.

Yesterday, New York Times Company Chief Executive Janet Robinson told investors at a Newspaper Association of America conference in New York that the company would be raising the price of single copy newspapers and home delivery subscriptions. At the same time, the company has suddenly accelerated and apparently made more drastic a previously-announced plan to shrink the physical size of the paper and cut the amount of news provided to readers. It is also speeding the closing of a mammoth Edison, NJ printing plant that was one of Pinch Sulzberger’s first strategic moves, opening in 1992, but which, after the decline of metropolitan circulation during the Pinch years, is now surplus capacity, its presses and skilled workers unnecessary burdens.

However, undaunted by their failing strategies, NYT sails on in shark infested waters and rocky shoals (isn’t that typical for libersls?).  In summary, this statement says it all.

At the Incredible Shrinking New York Times, everything is shrinking except the arrogance of the publisher and liberal editorial staff. Unfortunately, that is the one area of the company where less truly would be more.

And a cookie for the first one that can guess where I was at 07:00 this morning.

No, I was not part of that group of volunteers, I was there to etch a name for a friend of mine who can not travel to DC. Or, more appropriately, won’t.

A grateful Thank You to all those who volunteer each week to clean the VietNam Veterans Memorial.

Booyaa!