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It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ’s entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work to stop their infantile assaults on liberty, truth, and decency is to push back harder until they suffer and break.This is something that most parents with young children instinctively understand. You don’t negotiate with two-year-olds. You tell them how things are and what sort of behavior is required of them, as...

President Donald Trump has reportedly shelved his ‘deal of the century’ peace plan, at least for now, Palestinian Authority media outlets reported on Thursday. The decision was taken after Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, reportedly recommended that the White House postpone the publication of the initiative because of the political and security crisis in Israel, according to the Palestinian Authority paper Al-Quds. An unnamed Israeli diplomatic source said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "prefers no ‎announcement of the plan whatsoever, especially now, amid the ‎recent developments in the region and the political ‎crisis in Israel." The Trump...

Japan Concedes Severity of Blast Nuclear Disaster Strained Relations With U.S. in Days After the Meltdown By CHESTER DAWSON, MITSURU OBE and PETER LANDERS Japan disclosed Monday that its nuclear accident was more severe in its first days than it had previously admitted—casting new light on how Tokyo's early handling of the disaster briefly sent its relations with the U.S. into one of the tensest periods in years. Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on Monday more than doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation released from the plant in the first week of the March disaster and said...

Kim Jong-il's Visit to Hamhung Is a Bad Sign Kang Chol-hwan I visited Hamhung many times before defecting to South Korea, and whenever I went I felt distinctly uncomfortable. Hooligans clustering at the railroad station glared at the goods carried by pedestrians and provoked quarrels if they thought you were looking at them. At construction sites in Pyongyang, the word was that Hamhung people were wild. Often there were gang fights at project sites where tens of thousands of youths from different regions had been mobilized, and Hamhung youngsters were always the most violent. The city was home to the...

Papadopoulos: I'm Ready to Reject the Annan Plan A Second Time Source:Cyprus The New Anatolian with the AP/ Ankara Under growing pressure to return to the negotiating table with the Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots have started a “diplomatic campaign” to win the support of the Western countries and counter the Turkish government's efforts, even as their leader reaffirmed an unpopular position against a UN plan for reunification. Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos and his foreign minister began separate visits to Britain and the United States on Saturday in a bid to improve strained relations with London and Washington. "Clearly some...