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Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
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Sunday, August 01, 2004
Attorney General John Ashcroft has put a plug in the whistle of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. Ms. Edmonds, a naturalized US citizen born in Turkey, is at the center of one of the most interesting government secrecy debates in... Office of Inspector General backs FBI whistle-blower
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: The Spectator has hit rock bottom
No individuality. No dissent. No private property. No choice. No freedom. And Matthew Parris, political columnist for the freaking Times, loved it. He concludes by admitting that communism failed - you're really going out on a limb there, Matthew - but falls back on the tired it was great in theory but failed in practice line.
This is what The Spectator has become. Now that they've published apologias for Saddam Hussein and the Soviet Union, I wonder what's next? North Korea? Fascist Italy? (It's not yet acceptable to praise Nazi Germany, but give it a few years...)
• Matthew Parris praises the hope and decency of Soviet communism ; [No cover-up - and victims' families outraged; Ach, the good old days, when for a pair of Levis and a pack of Marlboros you could buy anybody westernstandard.blogs.com/ ]
• · An extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring The French Revolution
• · · It was the week the US Democratic Party held its quadrennial national convention in Boston Hope is on the way, culminating in the crowning of Senator John Kerry as their presidential candidate ; [ John Kerry is a good man, who knows how to steer a ship through troubled waters ]
• · · · A Chat With Middle East Expert Bernard Lewis: Europe Will Be Islamic By the End of the Century
• · · · · Mordechai Vanunu was the Israeli atomic spy: Atom Expert Warns of a Second Chernobyl in Israel
• · · · · · · Ivan Strpka Slovakia: The Past is Now: I cut an apple in two, yet it remains whole ...; Another Ivan this time Klima - Czech Story: I put my trust in God, that after the wrath of the storm has passed by, the storm that we have brought over our heads through our sins, control over your own affairs shall return to you, oh Czech people!