Month: November 2005

“CRS – SS!” 1968 – 2005?

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Cross-posted at EuroTrib.com.With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday, it was the worst one-day toll since unrest broke out … Five hundred cars were burned a night earlier. In a...

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Evildoers Who Hate Greed

Wide gaps between haves and have nots have never been good for the social order, and when these gaps become extreme, unbridgeable chasms of hopelessness and despair, they are fatal. This occurs independently of religion and...

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An Open Letter to Col. Patrick Lang

(First posted as a response to Col. Lang’s front paged diary “CRS – SS!” 1968 – 2005? Which dealt with ONE way of handling the riots presently occurring in France. ETHNIC riots. Muslim riots, it...

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Old Habits Die Hard at “Al-Hurra”

By Patrick Lang (bio below) “The Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal agency, has asked the state department’s inspector general to investigate, a spokesman for Karen Hughes, under-secretary for public...

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George Orwell would Recognize This

by Patrick LangThe FBI now issues more than 30,000 national security letters a year, according to government sources, a hundredfold increase over historic norms. The letters — one of which can be used to sweep up the...

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