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China Finally Realizes How Badly It Bungled Tibet

clipped from www.newsweek.com China has failed, despite billions of dollars in aid, to win over Tibetan loyalty. And now Beijing is finally realizing just how badly it mishandled things. So as concerns about actual separatism receded, China's leaders recognized they really need a plan to govern the province. The money they had spent to buy the loyalty of Tibetans ($45.6 billion since 2001 for roads, trains, and housing complexes) had more or less come to nothing. That's why last week, after nearly 15 months of trading barbs—Beijing had shut down relations after the Olympic spotlight went dark—China's leadership invited the Dalai Lama's government in exile (based in the north Indian town of Dharamsala) back to talks about the province's future. Soon, two of the Dalai Lama's representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, left for China along with three of their aides.

Honest History

More at site. Great source for combatting progressive propaganda

clipped from www.amazon.com 1.  FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell 2.  The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes 3.  Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch 4.  Salvos Against the New Deal by Garet Garrett 6.  The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn 7.  The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek 8.  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises 9.  Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Rose Friedman 12.  The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom 13.  Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by S. Fred Singer 16.  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) by Christopher C. Horner 30.  Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr. 40.  The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia by R. J. Overy

U.S. Shifted Party, Not Ideology

Barack Obama was not elected for his liberal policies. America is a center-right nation. Obama was elected because people personally liked him and the economy was doing horribly; he was not elected because people actually like liberal policies as he is quickly finding out .

clipped from online.wsj.com The Democratic party's problems, crystallized in the last-ditch scramble to save Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat in a special election Tuesday, can be traced to a simple mistake: Many in the party misread voters' desire to switch parties in recent years as an ideological shift to the left. In fact, there is little sign that Americans' ideological tendencies changed much at all, even as voters gave control of Congress to Democrats in 2006 and handed President Barack Obama and the rest of his party a massive victory in 2008. Ideologically, the country remained throughout this period what it was at the outset: a center to center-right nation. In retrospect, the problem for Democrats was that some in the party—particularly in the liberal wing that is dominant in the House of Representatives—seemed to read this shift away from Republicans as a shift to the left. The share of Americans calling themselves liberal has gone down a bit, to 21% this month.

Rathore called Ruchika a girl of loose morals

Haryana DGP S P S Rathore had allegedly used Ruchika’s expulsion from school to weaken the initial inquiry into the

molestation allegations by portraying her as a ‘‘loose character girl.’’ The teenager was thrown out of her Sacred Heart school soon after she complained against the top cop.

Madhu Prakash in her statement given to sub-divisional magistrate (south), Chandigarh, claimed: ‘‘S P S Rathore had submitted a representation in the last week of September 1990 stating that Ruchika was a girl of loose morals, who already stands expelled from the school.’’

‘‘This was apparently done by Rathore to evade harsher punishment,’’ said Anand Prakash, father of lone
eye-witness Aradhana. The former DGP in his statement given to SDM (south) stated that he did not remember whether he ever submitted such a representation to CBI or Haryana Government in 1990 or any time thereafter.

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What’s the bee in Amar’s bonnet?

Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh’s decision to quit from various positions in his organisation appears to be impulsive and taken in a fit of pique while he was in Dubai. Had it been a considered move, there would have been no need to fax his resignation letter from a foreign country. He could have easily waited and handed it in personally to party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav who is his close friend. The casual manner in which Yadav dismissed reports of Amar Singh quitting the party also indicates that the boss is confident that he will get his friend to reconsider the decision.........Read more

Southern Italian Town World's 'Only White Town' After Ethnic cleansing

Is it to a similar scenario that Australia is heading for?

Authorities remove all remaining immigrants out of Rosarno for own protection after locals unleash bloody ethnic cleansing

• The Guardian, Monday 11 January 2010
• Article history

Immigrants working as crop-pickers wait to be transferred from Rosarno, Italy, after clashes with locals in some of the worst episodes of racial unrest in years. Photograph: Tony Vece/EPA

Rosarno in southern Italy had, by last night, been turned into what one politician termed the world's only entirely white town after a bloody ethnic cleansing that produced scenes reminiscent of the old American deep south.
As bulldozers got to work to obliterate shacks belonging to the itinerant crop-pickers who had fled, the last of more than 1,000 such workers were being removed from the area for their own protection.
After two days and nights of violence that began with the apparently motiveless shooting of two African workers, the number of injured stood at 53, comprising 18 police, 14 local people and 21 immigrants, eight of whom were in hospital.
Some of the crop-pickers had been shot; others had been beaten with metal bars or wooden clubs as local people took indiscriminate vengeance after a riot of Thursday in which more than 100 Africans caused extensive damage in the town to protest at the shootings.
Those who fled included several hundred people who had agreed to be taken to government-run centres after reportedly being given assurances they would not be deported if found to be illegally in Italy.
But Silvio Berlusconi's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, said yesterday that they would, in fact, be expelled. "The law is implemented and nothing else can be done," he told a television interviewer.
A centre for asylum seekers near Bari took 324 immigrants, mostly Ghanaians. The city's prefect said that more than half of those whose cases had been examined had temporary residence permits.

Top 1 Percent Controls 42 Percent of Financial Wealth in the U.S.

clipped from beforeitsnews.com Many Americans are not buying the recent stock market rally.  This is being reflected in multiple polls showing negative attitudes towards the economy and Wall Street.  Wall Street is so disconnected from the average American that they fail to see the 27 million unemployed and underemployed Americans that now have a harder time believing the gospel of financial engineering prosperity.  Americans have a reason to be dubious regarding the recovery because jobs are the main push for most Americans.  A recent study shows that over 70 percent of Americans derive their monthly income from an actual W-2 job.  In other words, working is the prime mover and source of their income.  Yet the financial elite have very little understanding of this concept.  Why?  42 percent of financial wealth is controlled by the top 1 percent.  We would need to go back to the Great Depression to see such lopsided data.