UK Government: Kids Who Don't Like Foreign Food are Racist

The National Children's Bureau puts disliking foreign food on par with calling people "blackies," the London Telegraph reports:

The 366-page guide for staff in charge of pre-school children, called Young Children and Racial Justice, warns: "Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships."

It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell".

The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'".

Fourth of July: From Celebrating Independence to Loving War and the State

Lew Rockwell's Butler Shaffer questions why certain holidays - which were meant to celebrate peace and limited government - are now co-opted to celebrate war and ever bigger government. The article gets goofy at the end, but it starts out with a bang:

I have long been a critic of the state’s co-option of holidays to serve governmental purposes, thus negating the messages these holidays originally served. July 4th – designed to celebrate independence from the state – has been refashioned as a holiday for revelling in the state’s favorite activity, war. Television treats us to a seemingly endless supply of John Wayne films, urging us to embrace the contradictory idea that submitting ourselves to increased state power is the way to promote our liberty! It is such twisted thinking that leads those who refuse to examine the content of their minds to bleat about the soldiers who "fight for our freedom." What nonsense. Shall we next be told that Sunset Boulevard hookers are peddling virtue?

Half of French TV Show Audience Thinks Sun Revolves Around Earth

Well, at least it is not only Americans that are dumb...

Barack "I'll Bomb Ya" Obama

Sheldon Richman asks if Obama is the peace candidate.

Two highlights:

What’s truly frightening is that Obama doesn’t seem to realize that U.S. foreign policy has been interventionist. For example, he said, “We cannot afford to be a country of isolationists right now. 9/11 showed us that try as we might to ignore the rest of the world, our enemies will no longer ignore us. And so we need to maintain a strong foreign policy, relentless in pursuing our enemies and hopeful in promoting our values around the world.” (Emphasis added.)

In the last hundred years, when have “we” ignored the rest of the world? U.S. administrations have been interfering in Middle Eastern affairs for more than 50 years. They have been interfering in Latin America even longer. Anyone who takes a close look with an open mind would know that 9/11 was a consequence of U.S. interventionism, not isolationism, which is a smear word. That someone opposes invading other countries doesn’t mean he opposes commercial or cultural relations with them. The great liberals of history (when that word meant freedom and minimum government) favored peace and free trade.

He has made it clear that he supports wars that are not strictly defensive and has expressed admiration for the first President Bush’s war against Iraq: “When we use force in situations other than self-defense, we should make every effort to garner the clear support and participation of others — the kind of burden-sharing and support President George H.W. Bush mustered before he launched Operation Desert Storm.”

The "Great War" - and its Successor - Neither Great Nor Necessary

William S. Lind's review of Pat Buchanan's new book, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.

Obama's New Nest of Hawks

The Real News Network details the pro-war inclinations of Obama's "Senior Working Group on National Security."



And as Infowars points out, this list is a who's who of globalists, including members of the CFR, Bilderberg Group, and 9/11 Commission. I would not hold my breath for a new, independent inquiry into 9/11 under Obama's presidency.