Listening to one of my favorite Euro metal groups, Sabaton.  They like to do heroic songs about World War II.  Their style of singing is a bit overblown, but it makes me happy that someone in Europe remembers World War II, and -- more to the point -- remembers that there was a time when Evil menaced the world, and Good stood up to it unflinchingly ( Read more... )

As skarmanpointed out in my earlier post:

Part of it is abject fear of the large muslim minorities from North Africa within their borders. In France, at the drop of a hat, the North Africans will start bloody riots. The police are fed up but are not allowed to crack down hard enough. Let's not forget the North Africans are being supported by the ( Read more... )

As some people are now finding out, the Russians have just convicted the members of a (rather silly) politically-oriented feminist punk rock group, "Pussy Riot," and may sentence them to years in prison.  Their crime?  Carrying out a "punk prayer" against Putin the Poisoner at a Moscow cathedral.

It's no surprise that Putin would use any excuse to ( Read more... )

The Libyan revolutionary regime has arrested and is currently holding prisoner a delegation rom the International Criminal Court of the Hague.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/06/11/icc-tries-to-free-libyan-delegation/

The team had gone to the town ( Read more... )

Courtesy of kellogs2066 in http://kelloggs2066.livejournal.com/607492.html#t3689732 referencing Shaun Waterman, "Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites," The Washington Times Read more... )

From "Europe is Baffled by the U.S. Supreme Court," in which John Hudson of the Atlantic Wire makes a deeply-futile attempt to make America feel guilty for having an independent judiciary in http://news.yahoo.com/europe-baffled-u-supreme-court-220944850. ( Read more... )

Courtesy of RIA Novosti, "Syria's Assad Threatens to Attack Israel," ( http://en.ria.ru/world/20111005/167398661.html ).

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has threatened to attack Israel in the event of any Western military intervention in his country's domestic affairs, ( Read more... )

Among the changes sweeping the Mideast appears to be the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_al-Gaddafi), the long-time tyrant of Libya, murderer of hundreds of innocent Americans, Brits and Europeans, and once-darling of the radical chic set ( Read more... )

There is a tendency to view what is happpening in Egypt as a "democratic revolution," and therefore something which would be good should it succeeed. However, this ignores an important aspect of the situation in Eygpt, and indeed in most Muslim monarchies or dictatorships.

( What Are We Ignoring? )

I doubt that this is receiving much main stream media attention, but the Muslim Brotherhood this year officially endorsed jihad against America.

Courtesy of erudito (http://erudito.livejournal.com/950372.html) referencing "Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America" (Read more... )