Travel the World with Dschingis Khan
Yes friends, you too can travel the world with famous German pop band Dschinghis Khan. Although the band is best known for their trip to Moskau, they've apparently done songs about Rome, Madagascar, the Sahara desert, and Israel. Take a tour with them here.
It seems our neighbours to the South have been active since my last posting. First, I see (with some satisfaction) that hard-left Brasilian President Lula da Silva has been tainted by a massive corruption scandal. This is made more amusing by the fact that Lula was elected on an anti-corruption platform. He's asked the Brasilian People to "forgive him." Though leftist westerners are apparently more than willing to take up his offer, Brasilians have been more reticent. Understandably so, but then one must ask what else they expected to happen when they elected a hard-left nutball who has done nothing to decentralise power. The best checks on government corruption are virtue on the part of government officials and distrust of the state on behalf of the populace. The only way they can rid of the corrupt state there is to eliminate as many chances for officials to enrich themselves as possible.
I also see that Hugo "Fidelito" Chavez has revoked immunity granted to US DEA agents operating with the Venezuelan law enforcement authorities in the fight against drugs. He's also refused to cooperate with them. To justify this action, Chavez has accused them of being "spies" (he's already taken a page out of Fidel's play-book). A more prosaic explanation comes from the fact that since Hugo has taken over the state, Venezuela has given substantial aid (including air cover, I've heard) to the Colombian FARC rebels. It's notable that FARC's primary source of funding is narcotics. It seems to me that Hugo wants an alternate source of funding for all those paramilitary forces that he's equipping. Perhaps I'm just cynical.
In any case, it sounds like Lula's ripe for a military coup. If this sort of thing keeps up, the military there will have little problem removing him. Eventually Hugo will either wear out his welcome and suffer a similar fate and so continue the "cycle of South American governance", or he'll crush the military and become a dangerous version of Fidel Castro due to his control of a significant oil supply.
Fortunately, the US Military has a convenient Tinpot Dictator Removal Kit that we might want to lend to Alberto Uribe. It would certainly ease his troubles with his next-door neighbour.
To-morrow is V-J Day. It's been sixty years since the war that changed the world. We're about due for another one, methinks. In any case, it's a good day for reflection, especially on policies of appeasement, especially those involving Germans.
It seems our neighbours to the South have been active since my last posting. First, I see (with some satisfaction) that hard-left Brasilian President Lula da Silva has been tainted by a massive corruption scandal. This is made more amusing by the fact that Lula was elected on an anti-corruption platform. He's asked the Brasilian People to "forgive him." Though leftist westerners are apparently more than willing to take up his offer, Brasilians have been more reticent. Understandably so, but then one must ask what else they expected to happen when they elected a hard-left nutball who has done nothing to decentralise power. The best checks on government corruption are virtue on the part of government officials and distrust of the state on behalf of the populace. The only way they can rid of the corrupt state there is to eliminate as many chances for officials to enrich themselves as possible.
I also see that Hugo "Fidelito" Chavez has revoked immunity granted to US DEA agents operating with the Venezuelan law enforcement authorities in the fight against drugs. He's also refused to cooperate with them. To justify this action, Chavez has accused them of being "spies" (he's already taken a page out of Fidel's play-book). A more prosaic explanation comes from the fact that since Hugo has taken over the state, Venezuela has given substantial aid (including air cover, I've heard) to the Colombian FARC rebels. It's notable that FARC's primary source of funding is narcotics. It seems to me that Hugo wants an alternate source of funding for all those paramilitary forces that he's equipping. Perhaps I'm just cynical.
In any case, it sounds like Lula's ripe for a military coup. If this sort of thing keeps up, the military there will have little problem removing him. Eventually Hugo will either wear out his welcome and suffer a similar fate and so continue the "cycle of South American governance", or he'll crush the military and become a dangerous version of Fidel Castro due to his control of a significant oil supply.
Fortunately, the US Military has a convenient Tinpot Dictator Removal Kit that we might want to lend to Alberto Uribe. It would certainly ease his troubles with his next-door neighbour.
To-morrow is V-J Day. It's been sixty years since the war that changed the world. We're about due for another one, methinks. In any case, it's a good day for reflection, especially on policies of appeasement, especially those involving Germans.
posted by The Admiral at 3:08 PM
1 Comments:
But Germany is a peace loving nation! We would never attack unless we are attacked first! I svear!
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