- With lots of negative-value music out there, this action against freedom ought to have a massive silver lining:
- Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned all Western music from Iran’s state radio and TV stations
- In another display of Red Capitalism we find huge benefits to certain sick people (and I don’t mean so-called “sick-os”):
- A Chinese company has begun marketing kidneys, livers and other organs from executed prisoners to sick Britons in need of transplants.
- And some (seemingly?) irrational behavior by the Americans brims with good news…for their adversaries! (So much for the President’s assertions that all these folks were to be brought to justice.)
- U.S. forces yesterday flew eight newly released “high-value” Iraqi detainees out of the country aboard a special military aircraft….
- Next we read some marvellous news tempered with some bad news:
- Teenagers’ use of illicit drugs continued to decline in 2005, with sharp drops in the use of methamphetamines and steroids, an annual national survey reported yesterday.
- Misuse of household products, which some teens inhale, and prescription drugs, which teens obtain in homes or over the Internet, were areas of renewed concern, government officials said.
- And how about them Generals Abizaid and Schoomaker, eh? This non-PC-comments story offers a glimmer of hope that reality might prevail. (I know, a strange sentence, but I know what I mean!)
- Gen. John Abizaid spoke recently at the U.S. Naval War College and said the war on terrorism will continue for the foreseeable future, and that the real enemy is not insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan but the Islamist ideology of al Qaeda.
- Freedom is on the loose according to the folks at Freedom House. (Just watch out for the contradictory use of despite below!)
- The Arab world made small but noticeable steps toward greater political liberty this year, in spite of a war in Iraq and instability across the region….
- And finally, from Israel a Go Get ‘Em, Bibi story:
- Exit polls last night gave Benjamin Netanyahu a victory in the Likud primary, returning the former prime minister to the leadership of a party in tatters after Ariel Sharon bolted last month to make a third-party run for parliament next March.
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