Day: September 11, 2001

We Have A Winner! First Moron to Spin the 9/11 Terrorist Attack

Laura Flanders is one of those Left wing journalists who has worked for groups like Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. You know the type — the corporate media is shallow and full of lies, blah blah blah. Leave it to Flanders to be the first legitimate journalist I could find willing to spin the 9/11 attack,

Describing how New York City sanitation workers rushed to the area of the World Trade Center to help clear debris, Flanders can’t help but fit in a little political commentary,

More and more city garbage is picked up these days by private contractors. These city workers, members of the Teamsters local 127, have been without a contract for a year.?

“It’s always police and hospital workers who get the credit, but we’re here when you need us,” said union member Ray Garcia. It’s true. Dark skinned, blue collared, hot and waiting, these are emergency workers. Workers we depend on in an emergency. Cut public spending on social services? Think about it. Right now, chances are, I’d be looking at an empty street.

Jesus Christ. That’s about all the response I can muster.

Is This War? Probably

Blackholebrain I think has it right on the nose about the coordinated terrorist attacks in the United States:

My thoughts: This is war… with these attacks being as serious as Pearl Harbor, if not worse.

He’s probably right assuming there is a viable target to hit. It’s hard to go to war against terrorist groups who rely on suicide bombers.

Commence the Dropping of the Bombs

Damn. All I wanted to do was check on coverage of last night’s football game, but most of the major news web sites are down thanks to terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers.

Quick predicition — if this is the work of Osama Bin Laden, the United States will be dropping bombs on Afghanistan within 24 hours.

Will North Korea Ever Be Food Self-Sufficient?

As North Korea enters its sixth straight year of serious food shortages, it is becoming apparent that the isolated Communist country is going to require substantial food aid for many years to come.

The irony is that the policies that led to North Korea’s food disasters were designed by North Korea’s leaders to make the country independent of the rest of the world. Pushing an extremely xenophobic ideology, beginning in the mid-1970s North Korea’s leaders sought to limit all contact, including economic, between that country and the rest of the world.

The upshot of North Korea’s totalitarian policies, however, have required not only increasing contacts but about eight million North Koreans who are totally dependent on the World Food Program to provide the food for their survival.

WFP executive director Catherine Bertini recently returned from North Korea and told the BBC that even if that country experiences several years of excellent weather and good harvests, it will still require extensive food aid for the foreseeable future. According to Bertini,

…for the foreseeable future — at least for the next few years — even with improved harvests, even with good weather, there will be a need for food aid.

One point where Bertini was clearly incorrect, however, was in her assertion to the BBC that it was “no crime” for North Korea not to be self-sufficient. In fact, when a totalitarian government abuses human rights to such a degree that it results in the outright starvation of millions of people (as many as two million people have starved to death in North Korea), that most certainly is a crime.

Source:

N Korea faces desperate future. The BBC, August 21, 2001.