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Tuesday Snarky World News Briefs (now, with politics!)

Yes, we’re going to start delineating world news from, say politics. But I haven’t much time for politics today. Oh, well. Maybe. Respect my authori-tay! Um, Kartman, call your agent. I think Manuel Zelaya is stealing your act. Here’s my … Continue reading

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The difference between them and us

Palestinians celebrate attacks on Jews. Gaza’s streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands on Thursday evening following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary in which eight people were killed. In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many … Continue reading

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Obama administration: Throw out the Constitution, please

The Obama administration is talking about deliberately going against the Constitution of the United States. Because, you see, the Constitution is inconvenient to what they want to do regarding a treaty with Russia. MOSCOW — With the clock running out … Continue reading

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Medvedev approves of Obama’s Muslim outreach

Barack Obama is making the Russian president happy. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday against attempts to impose Western values on the Arab world, praising US President Barack Obama’s recent efforts to reach out to the Muslims. “There is … Continue reading

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Spain’s activist courts becoming inactive

Looks like the Spanish government is finally reining in its ridiculous activist judges. Spain’s National Court on Tuesday decided to shelve an investigation launched by one of its judges into a July 2002 air strike by the Israel Defense Forces … Continue reading

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And more on Honduras

From WSJ: Honduras Defends Its Democracy With a great subtitle: Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object. Well, politics make strange bedfellows, they say. However, I disagree with the last sentence of the article: The struggle against chavismo has never been … Continue reading

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Honduran coup: left, right, left, right…

It looks like Latin America is starting another swing of the hundred(s) years old pendulum. This time from a left wing (populist really) government of a single honcho intent only on keeping himself at the trough to a right-wing military … Continue reading

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No more Spanish war crimes lawsuits?

The Spanish government is trying to change the laws that allow, well, anyone to sue anyone else in the world, for whatever reason. Spanish legislators voted Thursday to change a law that let judges indict Osama bin Laden and Chilean … Continue reading

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Iraqis to sue Israel for Osirak

Here we go again. A group of Iraqi lawmakers are determined to press forward with their demands for reparations for a 1981 Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, Baghdad’s daily al-Sabbah reported Thursday. Mohammed Naji Mohammed, a member of … Continue reading

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The legitimization of Hamas begins

Jimmy Carter is going to work the Obama administration to try to get Hamas’ terror designation revoked. Former President Jimmy Carter will urge the Obama administration to remove Hamas from the terrorist list, FOX News has learned. Carter, a chief … Continue reading

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Testing Obama’s mettle

A quote from October: “Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The … Continue reading

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Argentina’s pogroms

Argentinian Jews celebrating Israel were attacked and beaten by anti-Semitic creeps holding anti-Semitic signs. Not anti-Israel—anti-Semitic. Police in Buenos Aires, Argentina arrested at least five people after anti-Semitic demonstrators clashed Sunday with Jews marking the 61st anniversary of the creation … Continue reading

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Somali pirates guided by London intelligence team – a very quiet scoop

If this news item is true, the lack of attention it gets from mass media is amazing. At least, kudos to The Guardian where kudos due: The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are … Continue reading

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Netanyahu to EU: F.U.

I am loving stories like this. I foresee many more of them to come. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday dismissed European calls to suspend the upgrade in Israel’s relations with the European Union. “Don’t set conditions for us,” Netanyahu told … Continue reading

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Johann Hari – not a moonbat

Frankly, when I read about that story first at Yid With Lid‘s place, I didn’t believe in it at first. No offense to YWL intended, but even after reading the fully quoted article, then moving to the original at HuffPost, … Continue reading

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