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The world watched in restrained shock and resigned dismay this week as South Africans looted and pillaged in the name, and arguably at the behest, of their disgraced former president, Jacob Zuma. The defiant 79-year-old was finally convicted of contempt of court last month for refusing to attend an inquiry into state-capture corruption during his… Read more.
In “Democrats’ Achilles Heel: Ostrich-like Silence on Spikes in Urban Crime” on August 21, and “Folks, If Crime Stats Begin Rivaling Covid Stats, Trump Wins! So Shut Up, AOC!” on July 12, I argued, in fact warned, that BLM protesters are looking too much like marauding rebels without a cause. Only this explains BLM mobs… Read more.
Which I suppose is the ultimate demonstration of walking and chewing gum at the same time. A SpaceX spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts soared into outer space Saturday — marking the first time humans have traveled into Earth’s orbit from US soil in nearly a decade. … The launch also marked the first time in… Read more.
Most news organizations cover riots, terrorist attacks, and natural or manmade disasters more as boon for ratings than tragic events. Now they’re covering the presidency of Donald J. Trump … as both. But one can hardly blame them. After all, his Barnum & Bailey-esque antics are such that even his news conferences are like high-wire… Read more.
In 2005, as displaced, disaffected and disillusioned immigrants were on their twelfth-consecutive night of rioting, which began in Paris then spread all over France, I felt moved to write “World Beware: French Riots Affects Us All,” The iPINIONS Journal, November 8, 2005. In it I warned that the same social, political, economic and racial grievances… Read more.
We are thoroughly investigating the incident and we are taking steps to ensure that this does not ever happen again… I assure you … I promise you … this was NOT intentional in any way… I offer my sincere apologies for any offence this may have caused, to the president of Afghanistan, the government of… Read more.
Fears are mounting in Italy that immigrants from North Africa are determined to ape the riots their brothers perpetrated throughout France five years ago. Because for the second time in as many months, disillusioned, disaffected, and delinquent youths rampaged through Milan last weekend, destroying shops and burning cars to vent long-simmering grievances over chronic unemployment, racial… Read more.
In a manner eerily reminiscent of the way young people rioted all over Paris, France in 2005 to protest their political, social and economic frustrations, young people have been rioting all over Athens, Greece for seven-consecutive days now to express similar grievances. Granted, the riots in Athens were sparked by the shooting and killing of a 15-year old… Read more.
