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May 2010

THREE SUSPECTS REMOVED FROM DUBAI FLIGHT AFTER TIMES SQUARE…..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7676377/New-York-Times-Square-bomb-three-passengers-removed-from-Dubai-flight.html   New York Times Square bomb: three passengers removed from Dubai flight Three passengers were removed from a New York to Dubai flight after a Pakistani-American was arrested in connection with a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square while trying to board a plane to the Emirate state.  Faisal Shahzad was accused […]

SENATE FAULTS BROADCST TO CUBA…PLEASE SEE NOTE

WHY WOULD BRAVE CUBAN DISSIDENTS TRUST ANYTHING COMING FROM THE US? THEY REMEMBER THE ELIAN GONZALEZ TRAVESTY IN APRIL 2000 WHEN UNDER ORDERS FROM US ATTORNEY GE. JANET RENO FEDERAL  AGENTS IN COMBAT GEAR SEIZED THE SIX YEAR OLD CHILD AND DEPORTED HIM TO CUBA…..WHERE WAS THE SENATE THEN?   RSK http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/04/senate-us-broadcasts-cuba-have-failed/print/ Senate: U.S. broadcasts to […]

PAKISTAN HELD IN TIMES SQUARE TERROR….SEE NOTE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/04/source-pakistani-custody-ny-car-bomb-attack/? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UBIQUITOUS NEWS REPORTS THT THE SUSPECT WAS A FORTY YEAR OLD “WHITE” MAN?…..RSK   By Colleen Long and Tom Hays ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A Pakistani man believed to be the driver of an SUV used as a car bomb in a failed terror attack on Times Square was […]

CUBA SI! ARIZONA NO! PRESIDENTE CALDERON ET.AL. HUMBERTO FONTOVA

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=fdd6761d-2405-48b7-ab4d-896522bff349&t=c   “Cuba Si!—Arizona No! “ Says Mexican President Felipe Calderon (Among Many Others) Humberto Fontova Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Mexican President Felipe Calderon can hardly contain his revulsion and rage against Arizona’s SB 1070. He’s “deeply troubled” reports the Associated Press over a law he denounces as “discriminatory and racist,” not to mention “a […]

NYTIMES REVIEW OF PAUL BERMAN’S BOOK “THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/books/03book.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=print   In Pursuit of Prey, Carrying Philosophy By DWIGHT GARNER THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS By Paul Berman 299 pages. Melville House. $26. Paul Berman’s new book, “The Flight of the Intellectuals,” plural, might as easily have been titled “The Flight of the Intellectual,” singular. It is essentially a booklong polemic against one magazine […]

OIL, CELL PHONES AND MOUNTAIN JEWS:WHAT FUELS AZERBAIJAN’S GOOD RELATIONS

http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3967&q=1 Israel Resource Review OIL, CELL PHONES AND MOUNTAIN JEWS:WHAT FUELS AZERBAIJAN’S GOOD RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL? By Rhonda Spivak, attorney, writer, and member of Canadian & Israel Bar Associations, now edits Winnipeg Jewish Review at http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/ http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/archives-azerbaijan.html Rhonda Spivak Azerbaijan, a country made up mostly of Shiite Muslims, with only 25,000 Jews, has some rather […]

THE WORST OF THE WEST :JOSEF JOFFE ON TONY JUDT

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/Joffe-t.html?emc=eta1   The Worst of the West By JOSEF JOFFE ILL FARES THE LAND By Tony Judt This little book is a cri de coeur — an outburst of rage and sorrow in equal parts. The language of “Ill Fares the Land” is felicitous and polished, as befits such an intelligent and erudite author. […]

DANIEL PIPES: A REVIEW OF EPHRAIM KARSH’S “PALESTINE BETRAYED”

Palestine Betrayed  by Efraim Karsh Yale, 336 pp., $32.50 Reviewed by Daniel Pipes National Review May 17, 2010  http://www.danielpipes.org/8329/palestine-betrayed  Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” has entered the English language in reference to the Arab–Israeli conflict. As defined by the anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, Nakba means “the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands […]

GENERAL PETRAEUS’ THIRTY YEAR WAR…RIGHT ON TARGET

General Petraeus’ Thirty Years War By Spengler May 4, 2010 Asia Times Memo to heads of state: beware the clever general who turns up at a tough moment, and says “Leave it to me: I can fix it for you.” Two examples come to mind. The great field marshal of the Thirty Years War of […]

WILL PETRAEUS BE LIKE IKE?

 WELL FIRST LET’S SAY THAT IKE’S “SURGE” IN NORMANDY DID NOT INCLUDE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT THAT HAMPERED OUR TROOPS ABILITY TO WIN. NO SPONGY LITTLE MESSAGES ABOUT AVOIDING “CIVILIAN” DEATHS…..AND CALLING THE NAZIS “INSURGENTS.”…BUT THE TROUBLE IS THAT USING IKE AS AN EXMAPLE IS PRETTY POOR READING OF HISTORY. IKE ENDED THE KOREAN WAR, LEAVING […]