I don’t know how the Progressive Bloggers missed this. It’s so not like them.
So let’s go straight to the party! In case you forgot to pencil it in yourself last week, here’s a roundup of all the festivities from the DPRK news service!
“Speakers at the meeting said the Korean people are making a dynamic advance along the road of socialism, demonstrating the single-minded unity of the leader, the party and people, true to the independent and unique Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il.
“Kim Jong Il, possessed of matchless courage and grit, has wisely led the army and people with his correct strategy and tactics and outstanding leadership art, turning the DPRK into a political and military power, they noted.
“They expressed the firm belief that the Korean people would build a great prosperous powerful nation in the near future under his wise leadership.”
Speaking of progressives – Hugo Chavez was too busy nationalizing Venezuelan corporations to attend, and sent his regrets.
One hopes the bulldozer manufacturers aren’t foolish enough to pull out. The Venezuela mass grave industry is poised for explosive growth.
Kate.. I followed your link to the progressive bloggers.. Thanks for the tip.. I doubled their readership.
Interesting at the number of votes on the different posts. The number and readership were so high that the vote count all came out as “###”.
Rumor has it Dijon has asked Chavez to be a pall bearer for his recently departed mutt Kyoto.
When reading about fools like Kim Jong, it never hurts to remind people of Barbara Tuchman’s famous analysis of gov’t in her book ‘The March of Folly’.
‘Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts. It is epitomized in a historian’s statement about Philip II of Spain, the surpassing woodenhead of all sovereigns: “No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”
Unfortunately, Canada has had some leaders that could give Philip II a run for the title.
all the festivities from the DPRK news service
That’s not how the K.C.N.A gets festive…
This is:
U.S. Policy of Strength under Fire
Pyongyang, February 12, 2007 (KCNA) — Rodong Sinmun in a signed article Monday brands the policy of strength forced by the United States as an anti-historical and anti-peace action going against the trend of the times.
The Bush administration, advertising “the building of a powerful U.S.”, is pursuing the policy of strength, a leftover of the Cold War era, in its hare-brained military adventures to put the world under its control by force of arms, it notes, and continues:
The Bush bloc has chosen a preemptive nuclear attack as the main mode of military action for implementing the policy of strength and is rounding off its arms deployment and military operational command system to suit it. On the other hand, it openly commits brigandish wars of aggression and military intervention to seize independent countries and military strategic vantages under the cloak of “anti-terrorism”.
The U.S. imperialists have adopted the strategy of preemptive nuclear attack as the main mode of war and are making haste with the miniaturization of nukes geared to it, considering that it is now possible to use nukes safely and effectively today when there is no more military rival in the international arena unlike in the Cold War era when the East and West stood in an acute military standoff.
It results from the policy of strength and policy of aggression forced by the United States that the global situation is getting more complicated and many countries are embroiled in wars to suffer huge losses, human and material.
The U.S. policy of strength, a leftover of the Cold War era, is doomed to go bankrupt. The faster the Bush administration races along the road of war, clinging to the anachronistic policy of strength, the deeper it sinks into a political crisis. The Bush administration would be well advised not to run about madly in aggression and war, regarding strength as the almighty means, but to follow the flow of the times toward peace.
Damned those Americans and their positions of strength…
“Mass graves?” Come on.
North Korea has the best propaganda flicks on youtube – hilarious socialist crap full of martial music that our liberals must love.
I only add this because it was on a ‘Progressive Bloggers’ web site:
RCMP, CSIS (continue to pander) listen as communities vent
http://tinyurl.com/388clk
“The first speaker, Ahmed Motiar, started off by sharing his curious theories of the 9/11 attacks, claiming that “Muslims were not involved and seven of the alleged 19 hijackers are alive and well!”
Then Cheryfa Jamal complained about a Canadian military exercise she said was held outside her children’s Islamic school. (Her husband is one of the 18 men charged with belonging to an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist group that was allegedly plotting truck bombings in downtown Toronto.)
“You’re asking us here to have a dialogue, to bring our communities together, yet this is the kind of actions that we’re facing every day,” she said.
“My children came home upset. They thought the Americans had landed.”
“Good lord,” sighed another participant, before the meeting digressed into a shouting match between rival Muslim factions.
Hmmmm… even a ‘progressive blogger’ appears to understand an exercise in futility.
RCMP, CSIS (continue to pander) listen as communities vent
Further to my previous post:
Andrew Ellis, who heads the Toronto regional CSIS office, told the round table meeting. “There continues to be individuals in this country who are representative of every community who are representing a threat, who are pursuing an agenda that’s dangerous for all of us.”
Put out an APB, the Hutterites and Catholics are threatening us once again. Their “agendas are clearly dangerous for all of us!”
North Korea has the best propaganda flicks on youtube – hilarious socialist crap full of martial music that our liberals must love.
If the official K.C.N.A “news” releases aren’t comical enough, Banner of Songun’s got the North Korean propaganda videos covered…
http://songun-blog.blogspot.com/
Don’t be shy, Dawg. Defend the good Hugo Chavez.
“Don’t be shy, Dawg. Defend the good Hugo Chavez.
Posted by: Kate at February 17, 2007 11:32 PM”
I’m trying to think of at least one dictatorship where large numbers of people did not simply just *disappear*.
Nationalization of businesses, eighteen months of rule- by-dictate, news-police, thought-police, price-police, neighborhood *watches*. Yes, there will have to be a place provided for those who may disagree with this progress.
We would all be glad if Dr.Woof Woof moved to Curacas.