Archive for October 2008

Motion: We were wrong to recognise Kosovo’s declaration of independence.

The voting tells the story. Before last Tuesday’s Kosovo debate most of the audience were unsure whether we were right to recognize Kosovo’s declaration of independence on February 17th 2008. BBC Balkans expert Alan Little introduced a ‘starry panel of commentators’ beginning with Sir Ivor Roberts, a former ambassador to Yugoslavia. Sir Ivor hoped that one day the people of the Balkans would ‘stop picking at the scabs of history – but the wounds are far too fresh for that.’ He blamed President Bush for skewing the negotiations over Kosovo’s future by declaring his support for independence before the process had begun. Kosovo’s independence had ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ which might destabilise the entire region. He proposed his own plan. Partition of Kosovo between Albania and Serbia. ‘Not an easy option but the least worst.’ A spell of separation might teach either side the advantages of closer union and eventually ‘their borders will become points of distinction not division and will eventually fall off like sticking plasters.’

Wolfgang Ischinger, Chief EU representative to the Kosovo Troika Process of 2007, knows as much as anyone about the negotiations. He admitted that the Secretary General had pressurised the negotiators to reach a speedy conclusion and said it would have been unthinkable to return Kosovo to Serb rule after eight years under UN protection. ‘I cannot imagine a more immoral decision.’ He was optimistic about the future. Kosovo’s departure would help Serbia heal the wounds of its brutal recent past. ‘Far sighted and intelligent Serbs believe this,’ he said, and Kosovo’s independence wasn’t just desirable but a necessary step in cooling the fires of aggressive Serb nationalism.
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One of the recurring themes in my essays is the realization that the West didn’t win the Cold War as decisively as we should have done. A generation after we “defeated” Marxism, Marxist-inspired groups control much of the Western education system as well as Western media and form alliances with our enemies, especially Islamic ones. I have concentrated on Europe, but this is a problem in North America as well. Barack Hussein Obama represents the triumph of cultural Marxism; or perhaps we should simply say Marxism. One generation after Ronald Reagan led the USA to “victory,” a person with Marxist sympathies could be about to be elected President of the USA. When the Nazis were defeated they were seen as evil, as they should be. When the Communists were “defeated,” they were not seen as evil; they are misguided individuals with good intentions, a bit like Santa Claus with a bad hair day.

Journalist Stanley Kurtz has done an excellent job at tracking the many ties to radical organizations in Obama’s personal history. Dr.Daniel Pipes lists some of the indirect ties he has to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Nation of Islam. Pipes states that “Obama’s multiple links to anti-Americans and subversives mean he would fail the standard security clearance process for Federal employees. Islamic aggression represents America’s strategic enemy; Obama’s many insalubrious connections raise grave doubts about his fitness to serve as America’s commander-in-chief.”
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Re Cooper Sterling’s Column: “Beyond Taco Night”: Barack Obama And The Frightening Future Of “Critical Multicultural Education”

I have bad news for Paul Gorski, the Marxist agitator and proponent of critical multicultural education, who thinks that teachers like me are the problem in education.

According to Cooper’s column, Gorski asserted: “One problem with teacher education is pragmatism.”

Apparently, Gorski wants us to do more than just offer the token “taco night,” a phrase he coined to refer to the panorama of multicultural events and ethnic awareness promotions in our classrooms and on our campuses.

Mr. Gorski, be happy with “Taco Night.”

Veteran teachers and administrators are fed up with pandering to your diversity agenda. It takes away valuable time from our true teaching mission.
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Recently, a black man went to his doctor’s office in Renton with a toothpick embedded in his foot. The doctor, a white man, prescribed painkillers.

Then he turned to his assistant, and said, “Do you think he’s going to sell them?”

“Race is always there,” the assistant, who is black, said later while recounting the story. She didn’t want to be named criticizing her boss.

“We’re always looked down upon, like they think black people are selling their meds, or they got an addiction.”
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ScienceDaily — Do “undecided” voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues are trying to answer.

“Many people, especially early in the political process, declare themselves as undecided,” Nosek said. “But while they have consciously said that they are undecided, they unconsciously may have already made a choice.”

And in a close election, undecided voters may determine the outcome the moment they make their decisions known on Election Day.
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FSM: It has been said that Sen. Obama would not be able to get a security clearance now if he applied for one because of the many relationships he has had in the past, and now, with people like Khalid al-Mansour and Bill Ayers. Is that true?

BR: Well, of course, all I can do to render my opinion is to the time I served in government, and I retired after 35 years in 1994. But at one time I was the Assistant Director in charge of the administrative division of the FBI, which as part of its duties was hiring and clearing personnel, and certainly we would not have hired during my tenure a person that had the background, associates and relationships that Obama has had over his adult life.

Now, that’s not saying that he has engaged in any illegal or improper activity, but when you associate with people of the likes of Bill Ayers, who is not only a known radical but an unrepentant radical, and teaches a radical socialism – some would say communist – approach to government, and espouses the use of violence if “necessary,” and he determines when it’s necessary, this is not the kind of person that an association with – and an association that was both voluntary and lengthy – would give you the necessary satisfaction that the applicant himself was not involved to some degree or at least acknowledged and agreed with parts of that person’s social or political agenda.
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Britain risks a surge in Right-wing extremism if it fails to help its white working class weather the recession, the equalities chief will warn today.

Trevor Phillips will break with years of political convention to call for the law to be changed to enshrine positive discrimination in favour of disadvantaged whites.

His startling intervention in the race debate is a rebuke to Harriet Harman, who earlier this year trumpeted plans to make companies discriminate in favour of women and ethnic minorities.

Mr Phillips said ministers should allow councils and education authorities to introduce ‘positive action’ programmes aimed specifically at young whites unable to compete with highly skilled immigrants because the ‘need is so great’.
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Angry Aborigines south of Brisbane have warned of possible revenge attacks against Pacific Islanders following the bashing death of rugby league star Johnathan Thurston’s uncle, last weekend.

Up to 100 members of the Aboriginal community gathered outside Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning where nine males of Pacific Islands descent, aged 15 to 24, reappeared over the murder of Richard Saunders.

Mr Saunders died in hospital after the gang allegedly attacked him and two friends in a park at Woodridge, south of Brisbane, early Saturday morning.

His family and supporters hurled abuse and threats at dozens of Pacific Islanders as they arrived at court.
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A teenage student of Lebanese descent had developed a phobia towards young males of Asian backgrounds after he was brutally assaulted by a group of Vietnamese youths, a Sydney court has heard.

The attack on the former Birrong Boys High School student, who is now aged 26, occurred when he was a year 11 student at the south-western school on February 26, 1998.

The man, whose name was suppressed in the District Court today by Judge Len Levy, is suing the NSW Department of Education for breach of duty of care.

He said that his post-traumatic stress disorder was so serious that he felt imprisoned in Dubai - a place where he moved to for work four years ago - because of the stress he would have experienced if exposed to groups of Asian males in Australia. The man, whose family still lived in Australia, said he encountered few Asian males in Dubai.
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RICHMOND, CA (KGO) — A candidate for Richmond’s City Council says he’s dropping out of the race and resigning his seat on the police commission. It all stems from a controversial flyer endorsing him, which he says he had nothing to do with.

In a city where illegal immigration is a sensitive issue critics called it a “racist scare tactic” used to support Richmond City Council candidate Chris Tallerico’s pro law enforcement stance.
“I learned about it just like everybody else did, after it was produced,” said Chris Tallerico.

In the mailer sent out by the Richmond Police Officer’s Association, an arrow from Mexico to Richmond, illustrates crime caused by Mexican drug dealers. It refers to “headless bodies” and “orgies of violence” which set off a firestorm at Tuesday night’s council meeting.
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