More than a dozen governments in Asia, Africa and Europe have either banned or recalled Chinese dairy products since the scandal broke two weeks ago. Indonesia released a list Wednesday of nearly 30 Chinese-made products it says could be contaminated, including such well-known U.S.-created brands as Oreo cookies, M&M chocolates and Snickers chocolate-covered peanut bars.

More and more Chinese products are being found to be toxic. This is because the Chinese people who are producing these products are uneducated and greedy. First they diluted their milk with water to make more milk, then added melamine to it to simulate the protein lost by dilution. They never checked to see if melamine was harmful and probably weren’t concerned anyway.

They use leaded paint on baby toys because they got it cheaper, and our children suffer deformities and disease. They export fresh-water shrimp raised in filthy, bacteria-laden water because clean water was unavailable, and we get sick from it. On and on and on.

There’s a backlash in America and Europe already against Chinese products, which is being felt in China as factories here and there are shutting down for lack of business. Now we have The Bailout going on and our economy is being depressed ever farther. We lose if it happens and we lose if it doesn’t. Either way, inflation is going to increase while wages stay constant.

The same thing is going on in Europe for a different reason, which is unhindered immigration of the poorest Europeans into the richest European nations. This is the legacy of the European Union, ostensibly created to unite Europe into one huge economic power but resulting in the destruction of age-old societies and their heritages while creating financial hardship and population compression for those in their native lands at the hands of the immigrants.

So the economy of Europe is suffering along with ours and Chinas, and things are going steadily downhill, and this has all been engineered by the most rich and powerful among us. Who would that be? Well, just follow the money.

Chinas problems are the result of greed and lack of governmental oversight. The Chinese government has aggressively encouraged the production and export of goods, without paying much attention to their quality, and the many huge recalls have now devastated parts of their industry. Their production costs have skyrocketed with the increase in the price of oil, which has increased their retail prices at the same time the American and European economies are faltering.

So as US/Euro trade goes, so goes China, except that the Chinese are making their own problems even worse.

Now, what has fueled global inflation and driven down economies? Why, the rising price of oil. Who has profited by that? Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, all the oil producing countries, most of which have aligned themselves against the United States and the West generally.  What has increased the demand for oil? Global overpopulation together with developing nations. Oil has become the new dominator of the global economy and those who have enough to be able to export their excess production have risen to the top of the power heap.

The Saudis are using the money to pervert nations to radical Islam. The Russians are using it to rebuild their military, force alliances and once again expand the Russian Empire. Iran is using it to build nuclear weapons with the well-paid help of the starving North Koreans. The UAE is using it to turn their deserts into oasis playgrounds and the other, smaller oil producing nations are using it to buy guns, threaten their neighbors and posture as if they were mighty players on the world stage.

The fall-off lately of oil prices has angered the Arabs, who now plan to cut production and drive the price right back up again. This fuels global inflation which will force another price increase which will fuel inflation which will force another…..

That’s the real global economy. Driven by greed and ignorance. Not by intelligent design, not by planning for the future, not by mutual cooperation, but by simple greed, utter lack of foresight and a total unconcern for the harm being done.

No one is preparing for the day when the oil runs out. The reason the price has increased so much has a lot to do with supply and demand, as well as greed. The worlds oil producers have just about reached a limit on their ability to pump it out and process it, and the Saudis have been pumping oil out of the ground since 1935, and at ever greater amounts. After 73 years of draining the pools, there’s not much left and they’re now pumping in salt water to force up more oil, an act that always precedes the death of a well.

When the oil really starts to dry up, Russia will once again be forced to back down, a whole new global economy will spring up based on alternative energy sources, fuel sources, new types of cars and so forth. Plastics will have to be made from other materials than oil, farming will revolutionize with the loss of oil-based fertilizers, the entire global economy will utterly change.

The nations that come out as winners then will be the ones who were leaders in alternatives to oil ahead of the Big Dry Up.

And that’s the real global economy.

I’m off to Baja for a week of fishing so there will be no further posts until October 2. Feel free to leave shamelessly long diatribes, endless rants or whatever suits you in my absence in the comment section.

Tell me one time that George W. Bush EVER did anything that was genuinely in the interests of the American public instead of his own and his wealthy friends. You can’t!

Under his total lack of leadership, our infrastructure, that is, our roads, our bridges, our dikes and dams and aquaducts, is falling apart from lack of Federal funds to maintain and repair it.

Under this despot our Treasury is emptied and our National Debt is well over 9.5 Trillion Dollars, and this debt continues to climb rapidly because of his out-of-control spending.

Everything, exactly EVERYTHING, that George Wastrel Bush has told us about virtually anything has turned out to be a lie. Remember the WMD’s that were his excuse for going to war in Iraq? Remember “Mission accomplished” from the flight deck of a carrier? Remember the “short duration” of the proposed Iraq conflict?

Remember the Terror Alert levels, Red, Orange, Yellow? Don’t hear that bullshit anymore, now, do we? Remember how the pressure was kept on to keep us all afraid of more impending terrorist attacks? Well, guess what Snake Oil he’s trying to sell us now:

Now he wants us to Be Afraid, Be Very Very Afraid, that unless we authorize the MASSIVE bailout of rich people who made bad investments, we will all go down the shitter as our economy totally collapses. If you listened to the pinch-faced little bastards speech, he kept saying “might”, maybe”, “could” harm our economy, make loans harder to get, lower the value of homes. Not one “will” collapse, will do this, will do that. He’s scaremongering.

This is Bush’s final attack on our larder before the evil bastard retires. Will someone please explain to me why only 5% of the total amount of money currently loaned out by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and etcetera, all private companies, which is all that’s in jeopardy from failing mortgages according to CNN, and which will be lost by the richest among us without this bailout, should be paid by us citizens instead of the rich, themselves?

Bush wants to expand this debacle to include credit card companies and others who made bad financial decisions. This of course does NOT cover individual Americans who did this, just the wealthy stockholders.

They’re the ones whose greed caused their problems, and frankly, I don’t believe for one second any of the fear-mongering, horrible doom and disaster for the whole world CRAP that Bush is pumping out of that anus below his nose, that the loss of only 5% of the total wealth of those PRIVATE COMPANIES will bring down America and the global economy. Give me a break!

They mismanaged and have now hatched this scheme to recoup their losses by dumping the burden on the shoulders of average Americans instead of licking their wounds and settling for having less billions in wealth than they had before. It isn’t our job to pay for their mistakes.

Let me say that again. IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKES!

I guarantee you that this is just another total bullshit scare trick from George to get the last of our money before he leaves office. The market will wobble for awhile. Big deal. Some prices will go up while some others will go down. Oh dear. Banks will still make loans because they’ll have to if they want to stay in business. That’s what their business is. People will still have jobs, will still draw paychecks, will still buy and sell their homes. Our world will not come to an end if we refuse to saddle ourselves with a trillion dollars of debt to save the asses of some greedy rich jerks. Their world may. Ours will pretty much go on as usual.

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The US president said nations like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are actively pursuing the terrorists. NO! Those countries are the supporters of terrorism. It was the Saudis who committed 9/11.

Do you remember when Bush vetoed the congressional override of the sale of our port security control to the Arabs? Congress overrode his veto and the sale to the United Arab Emirates was prevented.

The Bush-Saudi Connection. This site describes in detail the Bush family history of collusion with Saudi Arabia.

Saudis Flew on CIA Planes after 9/11, with the assistance of George W. Bush. Saudi Arabia has transferred $500 million to Al Qaida over the past decade, according to a report prepared for the United Nations.

The list is nearly endless of Bush’s assistance and secret dealings with the Saudis, not just his but his parents and their parents. This man is an exploiter and plunderer with no regard whatever for the safety and security of the nation he now leads. At the end of his tenure, his final act is to leave America in a financial shambles, with no action taken on Iran and Israel suppressed by him from dealing with Iran themselves instead of being supported by us. Very likely, Iran will get their nukes. When they do, they’ll use them against Israel and all Hell will break loose all over the planet as a result of the great political and economic upheaval that will result from the conflict.

George W. Bush might as well wear an Arab turban and declare himself to be a Muslim. He’s been selling out America for eight years now, and the end of his power is coming too late. He’s done too thorough of a job. The end of Americas long, long period of prosperity is upon us and the Bush family has led the way.

Look at that picture at the top of this post, again. Look at it for a long time. Be sure you understand.

Check in on the Google News page most anytime of day or night and you’ll find that the headlined news stories of the presidential campaign are primarily favorably oriented toward Obama and unfavorably oriented toward McCain and Palin.

Many of the news titles are innocuous enough, like “Obama hits McCain on healthcare”, but many other are much more aggressive and a lot of articles from TV and Left Wing publications attacking McCain/Palin are referenced, such as from CNN, the San Francisco Chronical, New York Times and The Huffington Post, all notoriously Obamanuts. At the same time, much of the Right Wing press is ignored.

This left-leaning presentation seems to shift back and forth some over the day, apparently depending on who’s managing the ever-changing content of Googles News Page. Strangely enough, this mornings Google offerings of news headlines is genuinely Centrist. I’d sent them an email pointing out their obvious Left-leaning reporting, and very possibly many others have done the same. Or, maybe this centrism is just a temporary slip on their part. Wait and see.

Googles founding motto is “Do no evil”. It would be good if they live up to it, especially considering that they have a virtual monopoly now as the primary Internet search engine. With all the slanted media reporting from both the Right and Left, having a search engine that sorts it out and cuts it down the middle for us is exactly what we need.

What we don’t need is one more media source, and a major one, jumping onto the Leftist bandwagon. Obamas campaign is pouring far more money into Internet advertising than McCains, and Googles income is from advertising. I don’t know if there’s a connection but I do know that I’ve been seeing a lot of pro-Obama and anti-McCain headlines listed on the Google News Page for quite awhile now.

Do no evil. Remember?

Why should we be surprised that Hussein Obama is attacking Sarah Palin, using every dirty trick he can come up with? So much for disdaining the “old politics” and being the agent of some sort of nebulous, unspecified “change”.

Sarah Palin is a big threat to his aspirations to become president, since she exemplifies his hypocritical snubbing of Hillary Clinton, who we all know would have been his ideal running mate and certainly deserved to be his first choice. Palin shows Obama up for the arrogant person that he is. So instead of doing what he said and running on his own merits, and running a positive campaign, he’s sunk into the same old dirty politics that all desparate people use when they see their chances slipping away.

Now it’s email. Obomber may or may not have sponsored that particular attack, but what stands out is that he’s been absolutely silent on condemning this ugly violation of personal privacy. Just the opposite, his henchmen have crowing that it shows she was hiding state business deals by conducting them over personal email accounts.

This is a false charge. There is nothing in those emails that anyone can find referring to state business. There are emails to and from a few State personnel that she knew, but not about state business. There’s nothing wrong there but boy, are Husseins slimers ever trying to make it look like there is.

And speaking of hypocrisy, what could be more so than the one candidate with the worst character of them all, attacking the candidate with the best character, over her character?

The latest attack ad by Obamas crew says that John McCain is too old and out of touch to be our president because he can’t use a computer.

It is true that he cannot use a computer.

He can’t because he can’t even raise his arms high enough to comb his hair, because of the injuries he received as a result of his war wounds and years of being tortured at the hands of the Vietnamese.

He can type and does when it’s necessary, but doing so is painful and repetitive exercise involving his arms is painful, and he avoids it when he can. Naturally.

Obama, who approved that message, knows full well the reason why McCain never learned to use a computer, but he’d rather lie about it if it can make John McCain look bad. It’s simply not possible, with all the vetting and research that both parties do on each others people, that Hussein doesn’t know this.

The only person this makes look bad is Barack Hussein Liar Obama. Not that he needed more help. This is the man who equivocated all over the carpet when he was asked if he would try to conquer evil if he were president by pastor Rick Warren, in their now-famous TV interview, and ultimately stated that evil can never be defeated. That’s not the view I want my president to have. John McCain was far more direct and straightforward in all his answers, including his one to this question, when he stated that yes, we can and must defeat it.

Of course there will always be evil in the world. This is exactly why the fight against it must always continue. Evil can be defeated. Certainly. More will arise. Certainly. Then that must be defeated. If we just say, “Oh well, it’s a losing battle”, and give up, our civilization will revert to chaos.

The primary source of evil in the world today is Islamic terrorism, designed to spread the blood and death worshipping cult of Islam, and it is being spread, right here in America, by Saudi financed mosques. McCain is out to fight it. Obama wants to sit down and talk with it and work together with it and he said so right out in his interview with Bill O’Reilly.

You have a choice to make on Election Day. Remember that evil speaks with a facile and oily tongue and ask yourself which of the two candidates that most describes.

Looms. A popular word in horror and crime novels. Disaster looms, the specter of death looms. So today, our coming presidential election looms.

Yes it does. It truly looms. It will either be McCain or Obama, the Religious Right or the religious Far Left, which very likely will prove to be an open embrace of either Fundamentalist Christianity in government or of Fundamentalist Islam, the kind the terrorists practice.

America, the nation that prides itself on the separation of church and state, has never actually practiced what it preaches. Pull a coin out of your pocket or purse and read it. What does it say? It says “In God we trust”. Look at our laws, all demanding the separation of church and state, except for abortion, which has always been a religious issue and is still today our most hotly contested one. If McCain wants to believe that a new human life is formed “at the moment of conception”, as he stated, with the same full rights as an adult human, that’s a religious belief that has zero factual validity. Pushing religious laws onto us will not make America a better place.

Obama is well known as the single most Far Left Liberal in Congress. He has Muslim family, his father was a Fundamentalist Muslim, along with his brother and other family members in Kenya. He has declared that if he becomes our president he wants to convene a meeting of all the worlds Muslim leaders. What in the Hell for? To plan the instituting of Muslim religious law in America? That would be the most logical answer and the most likely.

Both of these men are strongly religious in their own way. Obama claims to be Christian, yet he attended a black, racist, anti-American, Afro-centric church, hardy the Christian ethic, for 20 years, that was run by a supposedly former Muslim.

All my life, growing up in America, our country considered itself to be a Christian nation. This began changing in the 1960s as atheists won Supreme Court rulings that enforced the separation of church and state, and today we no longer really consider ourselves to be a completely Christian nation. Various influences hostile to democracy have been using our laws regarding religion to attack us from within, such as the ACLU, founded by a Communist and now taken over by Islamists, that have forced the removal of religious icons of various kinds, primarily Christian, from public sites.

The plain truth is that it is the basic tenets of Protestant Christianity which are most conducive to maintaining Democracy, more than any other faith, and by breaking down the observance of Christianity in our society, the enemies of America open the way for the breaking down of our societys morals. One of our greatest strengths, Religious Freedom, is also one of our greatest weaknesses.

Politicians like to tout their religious credentials and the Republican Party has gone far afield in pushing it’s religious agenda, so it’s to be expected that the Democrats would go far in the opposite direction as a counter.

We had some candidates, starting out in this race, who were far more centrist than either of the two we’ve ended up with. Electing either of these men is going to guarantee continuing party extremism on both sides but considering all options, McCain is the best choice of the two. He at least has good in his heart and no one, in all the mud slinging so far, has ever accused him of telling a single lie. That says a lot.

Obama has evil in his heart and proves it by the endless stream of lies he tells, from his “Christian” mother and grandmother, who were actually outspoken atheists, to his convicted criminal and terrorist friends, to his cocaine addiction and alcoholism. This is a bad man.

Our election day looms.

Today is the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack that resulted in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of a 4th highjacked airliner that would have destroyed the White House, had it not been for the bravery and courage of its passengers.

Never forget!

This was visited on us because of the hatred for all non-Muslims that Islam inspires. You know this, and knowing it, are you certain that you want to vote for a man with a Muslim name and Muslim family members, with terrorists and felons for friends and a “former” Muslim pastor who openly hates America? Are you certain that this is a good idea?

Have you forgotten so soon?

Political speeches are not acts and deeds. Know the persons of your choice by their deeds, not by their words.

According to Wikipedia, the official census report put the U.S. population at 150,520,798 residents in 1950. The current census has us at 305,114,780 residents.

According to the Official United States Census, our population has about doubled in the past 58 years. Yet virtually all our villages, towns and cities have vastly increased beyond mere doubling of their populations. Palmdale and Lancaster, California, are two good examples, Palmdale having a population of about 5000 in 1950 and lancaster about 10,000. In 2007 the Palmdale - Lancaster urbanized area had a population of 462,272, a population increase of well over 30 times. Not far away is Los Angeles. Back in 1950, Los Angeles was surrounded by towns such as Pasadena, Burbank, and Inglewood, the largest of which was Pasadena with just over 100,000 people. Los Angeles itself had 1,970,000 people.

Today, the Los Angeles Basin, as this area is now generally referred to, having become one big wall-to-wall mass of endless city, is listed as having a population of about 17 million. I would argue that it’s at least twice to three times that.

I was around in those days and before them. I lived in Long Beach, which itself was the next largest city to L.A. with about 250,000 people in 1950. At that time, there were vacant lots in virtually every neighborhood and very few apartment buildings. Even those were all one-storey apartments that all looked alike. A row of apartments on each side with a central walk. There were no multi-storey apartments whatever and it was a short ride to the edge of town.

Traffic was minimal even though there were no freeways. There was no traffic congestion. When I was there in 2000, most of the houses had been replaced with high-rise apartment buildings, the downtown skyline was packed with skyscrapers, the traffic was extremely congested, the city had expanded to it’s absolute limits where it was stopped by the expansion of neighboring cities, and there wasn’t a vacant lot in the entire city.

Yet the same census claims that the population of Long Beach has only increased to 461,522 residents when clearly this large city had to be well over a million.

Flying over San Jose, CA in a light plane and looking down, you could see this small town surrounded by vast tracts of farmland. During the 1960’s I watched the town expand and the farmland shrink until today it’s all city and no farmland. How many more people does it take to do that? Would you claim that the population only doubled?

This is just California, but I’ve traveled all over the United States and have seen the same thing everywhere. Some of the most hostile living environments in the country have become filled with people where, in 1950, only a few lizards lived. In Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico. Go to New Mexico today and it’s like downtown Mexico City, and in the best areas to live in, people are practically stacked on top of each other, on out to the higher hills and distant fringes. Drive cross-country, go clear to Florida or New York from the west coast and you’ll see how people are filling up the hillsides.

This is why there’s so many wild animal attacks lately, because we’ve not just encroached on their habitat, we’ve taken it over and pushed them aside. If deer and bears can live there, hey, so can we, and we’re moving in on them by the millions.

So what I propose here is that our census is pretty obviously lying to us and the truth is that the population of the United States is more likely over 500 million people and still growing. The question I have is, why is our actual population being covered up and downplayed? Perhaps there just aren’t enough census takers being hired or perhaps those that are just aren’t doing their jobs. I know there’s a lot of places where no census taker in his or her right mind would dare to tread, maybe that’s part of it.

BUT… what I think is that if we Americans were made fully aware of what a massive problem this overpopulation is, how it’s literally destroying the ecology of our once-beautiful nation, how it’s creating poverty and misery and a massive increase in crime and a massive decrease in our personal freedoms, I think we’d be unhappy enough about it to want to reverse this trend.

Reversing this trend means kicking out all the Mexican illegals. It means reducing political power bases. Less people, less votes. It means reducing the profit margins of big corporations that are selling massive quantities of goods to this burgeonong population. It means taking away a lot of wealth and power from those who are most powerful in our society.

So do I think this is a conspiracy? You bet I do.

Israel minister suggests kidnapping of Ahmadinejad
Posted Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:34am AEST

A former top agent of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad has suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be snatched and dragged before the International Court of Justice.

“We must snatch the Iranian President who uses the same discourse as Hitler on the need to exterminate the people of Israel, in order to take him to the International Court in the Hague,” said Pensioners Minister Rafi Eitan, who is a member of Israel’s security cabinet.

“I believe Mossad has the capability of doing this,” he told army radio.

As a senior Mossad agent, Mr Eitan organised and participated in the daring capture in Buenos Aires of fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

Wouldn’t that be hilarious? What would Iran do if the Jews suddenly showed up with that Iranian madman tucked away in one of their prisions and put him on trial as a criminal terrorist? What would OUR administration do? Talk about upsetting everyones apple cart, this would be truly Palinesque. I love it.

It’s the imams who actually run Iran, but this would sure put them on notice to calm themselves down.

In other Israeli related strangeness, they’re still negotiating with Hamas over the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 450, yes, 450 Palestinians held prisoner in Israel for criminal acts. Many of these have Israeli blood on their hands and why the Israelis are willing to free so many violent actors who will just have to be captured or killed all over again, for one Israeli soldier, is a mystery to me. Particularly when Shalit will probably be returned in a small box.

But now Hamas is vacillating. Now they want 1500 prisoners released instead of 450. At least the Israelis are saying NO to this. Now if they’ll just stop negotiating with terrorists at all, in the first place….

It should be a rule that if a soldier gets captured or killed, that Israel wipes out one square block of Hamas-dominated territory for each one. Tear down all the buildings and fence the area off. Eventually Hamas will be forced into such a tiny area that everyone will have long since gone off to Egypt and Jordon to live. Let the world bray about “Palestinian Holocausts” and such utter crap. It would solve the problem. Negotiating with those people is bottomless and never-ending.

Taken from eonline:

“Obama’s speech, however, was carried live by two more networks than McCain’s eight, and by four more than Palin’s 6.”

Media bias? Why, Noooo! Where? Do you see any media bias? I don’t see any media bias. Just because more networks chose to cover the Democratic convention than the Republican, and Obama more than McCain or Palin, how can you call that Media Bias?

Even with the greater network coverage of Obama and the Democrats, McCains speech still set a record for most watched speech of all time. Looks like those refraining networks lost some good ratings and the income that goes with them. Too bad, huh?

From the Poo-poo Department of The Wall Street Urinal comes this slanted bit of reporting to back up my point: “Just 9% of women who supported Clinton in the primaries say they are more likely to vote for McCain because of his inclusion of Palin on the Republican ticket, according to a poll of 800 women conducted on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. A majority — 55% — said Palin’s inclusion on the ticket makes them less likely to vote for McCain, who will be nominated at the Republican convention tonight.”

Sounds really awful for the McCain/Palin ticket, right? Until you stop and read it slowly. 9 percent of DEMOCRAT women who were for Hillary Clinton will now vote for John McCain because he now has Sarah Palin as his running mate. That’s 9 percent MORE than before. 55 percent of DEMOCRAT women are less likely to vote for McCain now. That leaves 45 percent who ARE NOT less likely. In fact they may be MORE LIKELY to vote for McCain now.

Something else that poll hides from us is, how many Democrat women besides that 9 percent had already decided to vote for John McCain BEFORE he chose Palin as his running mate?

These Liberal Lefties take polls and don’t like what they get, so they distort the results by deletion and misdirection to look the exact opposite of what they really were.

It’s been well publicised that many Democrat women had decided to vote for McCain after the the poor treatment Clinton received from Obama, her party and the media. Now the addition of Palin to the ticket has attracted still more and the Democrats must be panicking to publish such distortions. The newest political polls now have McCain and Obama in a dead heat. Obama is slowly, steadily losing ground.

Considering that this zero-experience, Muslim-born, almost-African with a gift for gab has been literally given his candidacy on a silver platter by the Liberal media and Left and Far Left power brokers, without deserving it or even being qualified for it, his party is right to start panicing now. They denigrated Hillary for having a sense of entitlement, whether she did or not, and now act as if Obama is entitled.

Well, he’s not. He’s getting his ass kicked, in fact, by a brilliant man making brilliant moves that tell all of us that this man, John McCain, is a world-class player whom we can count on to stand up to all comers, and now he has his counterpart in Sarah Palin.

Two brilliant and savvy genuine and proven leaders are far better than one unproven fancy talker and his hack sidekick, the world can see that for what it is, and there’s nothing the biased media can do about that.

From the Independent, UK:
“Gunmen in the Russian republic of Dagestan killed a television journalist who promoted an officially approved form of Islam, police said today.

Abulla Alishayev was the second journalist to die in three days in Russia’s north Caucasus, a region scarred by fighting between federal forces and Muslim rebels.

Unknown assailants shot Alishayev - an editor at an Islamic television station who made a documentary countering the radical Wahabist form of Islam - as he drove through Dagestan’s capital last night. He died today.

Analysts say predominantly Muslim Dagestan is fertile ground for radical Islam to attract disenfranchised young men, a trend they say could spread further through Russia’s north Caucasus.

“Alishayev received wounds to the shoulder and head. He was operated on, but his life could not be saved,” Dagestani police said.

On Sunday the owner of an opposition Web site in the nearby republic of Ingushetia died from gunshot wounds while in police custody. Police said Magomed Yevloyev was shot dead when he lunged for a gun. Human rights workers said they did not believe this story.” Gee, why not?

The “opposition website” was a radical Islamic website. No doubt the police were just doing what Russian police do so well, which was trading an eye for an eye. Radical Islam is on the march in Russia and China, and I have the feeling that it’s going to fare poorly. Not before causing major disruptions to the societies of both nations, however. The Russians have done what we should be doing, which was to institute an “official” form of Islam that didn’t threaten The State. Now the Fundamentalists are out to kill off any Muslim who supports the official version and considering the blunt methods of the Russians, this can only lead to internal warfare.

If only Mohammad had just stuck with goat herding, how much happier and more prosperous the whole world would be today.