SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

UNBELIEVABLE – FROM THE ALLIANCE OF IRANIAN WOMEN:   On April 20, 2021 the United Nations voted to appoint the Islamic regime in Iran, which openly flaunts gender apartheid, to the Commission on the Status of Women via “secret ballots”. Forty three out of 53 countries, including many of the Western democracies, basically voted to approve discrimination against Iranian women and children.  The Swiss-based organization UN Watch called on the lawmakers from 15 EU, U.S. and others to demand that their governments reveal how they voted. The countries that may have voted yes, include Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Latvia, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.  The culprits are not countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or China; they are the Western Democracies whose votes contradict what they preach.  And notice please the absolute silence on the part of Western "women's" groups.  What frauds.  And so are their friends in journalism.

AND OTHER CHEERFUL NEWS – FROM AMERICAN MILITARY NEWS:   The top general over U.S. troops in Africa warned that China plans to establish a new military base on Africa’s western coast capable of hosting submarines and aircraft carriers. The move would expand China’s access to the Atlantic Ocean and provide a base to rearm its naval forces in a potential conflict with the U.S.  In an interview with the Associated Press published Thursday, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) commanding Gen. Stephen Townsend said China has already approached countries along nearly the entire west African coastline, as far north as Mauritania and as far south as Namibia, to pitch the major naval base idea.  “They’re looking for a place where they can rearm and repair warships. That becomes militarily useful in conflict,” Townsend told the Associated Press.  A Chinese military base on the west African coastline could put Chinese forces closer to east coast U.S. than any Chinese bases in the Pacific are to west coast U.S.  And precisely how much coverage of this do you see in the American press?  One artcle?  Two?  We're asleep again.

May 8, 2021