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...exploits it as well, as Beck. He is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right. A gifted entrepreneur of angst in a white-hot market. A man with his ear uniquely tuned to the precise frequency at which anger, suspicion and the fear that no one's listening all converge. On that frequency, Frankowski explained, "the thing I hear most is, People are scared...
...fears are many - which is lucky for him, because Beck is responsible for filling multiple hours each day on radio and TV and webcast, plus hundreds of pages each year in his books, his online magazine and his newsletter. What's this rich and talented man afraid of? He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France. He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" - which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people." He is afraid that both...
...fundamental problem with the government's attitude toward reform: aside from vague promises of change, no one seems to have acknowledged that several investigations - domestic and foreign - have found strong evidence that the police in Kenya are a law unto themselves, taking hostages, collecting bribes and killing with little fear of punishment. (Read "Kenya: Protesting Politics As Usual...
...once provided the Afghans with a steady flow of weapons, young fighters and suicide bombers, are suddenly too pinned down to give anything but a trickle of support. Mullah Omar and the other members of the so-called Quetta Shura, or military council, have stayed on the sidelines for fear of losing their covert support from the Pakistani military and the ISI, who hate Karzai and his northern allies and want to see the Taliban back in power and the NATO forces gone from Afghanistan...
Over three decades, Ozawa has wielded his influence behind the scenes, and many fear that, as Secretary-General, surrounded by close allies, he could exercise veto power over policy legislation and undermine Hatoyama's control. Takao Toshikawa, the editor of the political newsletter Insideline, has named Ozawa the "new shadow shogun" (as has the Economist). He says, "Ozawa's power is increasing day by day, and I'm afraid that if Ozawa's influence becomes much greater, how Hatoyama will maintain leadership." Toshikawa calls Ozawa's views radical, particularly those that could threaten bilateral relations with the U.S. (Read Michael...