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Russia and China Practice Loans for Oil to Bolster Chavez
Taking a risk, Russia and China are loaning Venezuela billions in hope that Hugo Chavez can hold out.

Russia and China learned the hard way in Libya and Iraq that oil deals signed with a despotic regime can backfire if that regime was ousted. Now they appear to be taking the same gamble in Venezuela.

Last week Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin visited Caracas to sign a loan agreement to finance arms purchases from Russia including Sukhoi fighter jets, combat helicopters, and small arms. This comes on top of a previous $2.2 billion loan for Russian tanks and anti-aircraft missiles.

Click here: AOL Irony Gold: Goodbye YUPPIES, Hello DUMPIES – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18286-AOL-Irony-Gold-Goodbye-YUPPIES,-Hello-DUMPIES.html Monday, October 17. 2011 AOL Irony Gold: Goodbye YUPPIES, Hello DUMPIES Replacing the YUPPIES, AOL hits the irony jackpot today, naming the 2010s young generation the DUMPIES, downward mobile, unemployed, poor. Of course, relatively few of last decade’s young were Yuppies, and […]

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Counterterrorism Experts Coughlin and Emerson Blocked from Presenting at Washington Intelligence Forum

Bill Gertz, Washington Times, Pentagon and Intelligence columnist had a report on October 6th about counterterrorism experts: Steve Coughlin and Steve Emerson, “Anti-Terror Trainers Blocked.” They were apparently denied making scheduled presentations at an event sponsored by the intelligence subcommittee of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments because of alleged objections raised by Federal Department of Homeland Security and White House officials. Gertz who is a defender of both Coughlin and Emerson wrote:

The CIA and Department of Homeland Security abruptly canceled a conference in August on homegrown U.S. radical extremism in what officials close to the issue say was an effort to block two conservative anti-terrorism experts from presenting their views.

The Unconscionable Silence of the Anti-Defamation League on Antisemitism at #OccupyWallStreetby Joel B. Pollak http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/10/16/the-unconscionable-silence-of-the-anti-defamation-league-on-antisemitism-at-occupywallstreet/The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most powerful and authoritative voices against bigotry of all kinds–not just in the United States, but throughout the world.  Yet the ADL’s message has been compromised by left-wing political bias, most recently in its […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=667 One million demonstrators participated in the anti-Mubarak Tahrir Square rallies. However, two million demonstrators joined the anti-US Muslim Brotherhood Tahrir Square demonstration following the toppling of Mubarak, highlighting the political trend in Egypt. The transfer of advanced US military systems to Egypt – including the co-production in Egypt of the M1A1 Abrams tank – […]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/14/putting-an-end-to-iran-air-terror-flights/ KAHLILI: Putting an end to Iran Air terror flights Sanctions need real teeth to make mullahs pay attention  Despite global sanctions, Iran continues to export terrorism worldwide while importing nuclear weapons technology in a quest to impose Islam on the world. The United States and its Western allies must step up the pressure against […]

Where Are the Grownups? JED BABBIN

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An SGO roundup, inspired by the weirdness pervading not only our domestic scene but the entire world.

You don’t need a crystal ball to forecast that next year we’ll see the nastiest, most expensive and exhausting presidential campaign ever. We can take the low comedy and the irrationality. We can even understand why the angry liberal narrative labels those conservatives who are supporting Herman Cain racists.

We should welcome the Occupy Wall Streeters’ invention of the Teat Party. They want wealth to be redistributed, from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. Which has a familiar ring to it and explains why President Obama and Noo Yawk Mayor Mikey Bloomberg are siding with them and against sanitation.

We can handle it all because we love full-contact politics. But what we can’t handle is the sense of weirdness that pervades not only our domestic scene, but seemingly grips the whole world. There’s a lot of really strange SGO out there, stretching from the inner sanctums of Tehran to Shenzhen, China.

The Netanyahu Capitulation By Steven Plaut “Those released will return to armed struggle.  It is a great national achievement.”  Khaled Mashal, Chairman, Hamas Political Bureau, Damascus, Syria I think that the best definition of leadership is where a political leader is willing to resist populist pressure to do “popular” things whenever those “popular” things are […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10600/pub_detail.asp Much has been written of the Israeli commitment not to leave a wounded soldier in the field, and of late, the wisdom of trading a thousand terrorists for a single Israeli hostage. The release of Gilad Shalit after five years in Hamas captivity, however, is more than a moral issue for Israelis. It is […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10596/pub_detail.asp  Rael Jean Isaac interviews Rich Trzupek, author of Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry, New York, Encounter Books, 2011. This book could not have been published at a more propitious time. As the economy falters, it seems that every critic of this administration cites the role of regulation in strangling […]