The headlines from the weekend's news are certainly ominous. For instance, North Korea has gone way beyond rattling its saber. The Communists there have brazenly sentenced American reporters to outlandish prison sentences, issued to all parties a strict no-sail warning off its east coast, and pledged to respond with "extreme" measures if the United Nations tries to upbraid them in any way for last month's nuclear test.
The Reuters reporters at one time describe the country as "Stalinist North Korea." Interesting. For I've been seeing that term used of North Korea with some frequency in recent weeks. But, of course, Stalinist attitudes and policies have been in place in North Korea for a whole lot of years. So why are Western reporters (a few anyhow) just now describing it as such...and why only there? Why not Stalinist Venezuela or Cuba or Iran?
But the most alarming news of all, at least to the MSM here in the States, are all those "far right wing" (read: not Labour, not Socialist, not Green) parties gaining ground in European elections.
