Is The Climate Consensus Beginning to Change? URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/18/is-the-climate-consensus-beginning-to-change/ The current scientific consensus on Global Warming and Climate Change (or Global Weirding or Global Climactic Disruption, etc.) may be slowly shifting away from the catastrophism of the United Nations IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. True, the shift has been tentative. Carbon-driven global warming was […]
North Korea, Iran, and the Lessons of History
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/18/north-korea-iran-and-the-lessons-of-history/
Comparing our foreign policy to the feckless behavior of England and France in the Thirties is often dismissed as an overused and simplistic historical analogy. But when one watches our government pursue appeasing policies toward North Korea and Iran that over and over repeat the very same errors and delusions of that awful decade, then as Juvenal said about writing satire, it’s hard not to make those comparisons.
70 Years Since Doolittle Raid on Tokyo Posted By Daniel Mandel
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/18/70-years-since-doolittle-raid-on-tokyo/print/
On this day seventy years ago (April 18, 1942), America’s already famous pioneer aviator and air force Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) led the intrepid and celebrated first U.S. air raid on Tokyo. The raid, carried out by 80 airman and 16 specially modified B-25 Mitchell bombers launched from the windswept deck of the carrier Hornet, did much to dissipate the darkness and foreboding overhanging the Pacific war.
In the four and half months since the surprise attack upon U.S. naval and air installations at Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo’s aircraft carriers, Japan had enjoyed one success after another: the seizure of Guam; the surrender of Hong Kong and later Singapore; the destruction from the air of the British battleship Prince of Wales and the battle-cruiser Repulse; the further destruction of the British aircraft carrier Hermes and the cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall off Ceylon; the invasion of a brace of Pacific islands, including the Philippines and New Guinea, the bombing of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory and so on. Imperial Japan had appeared unstoppable. The Doolittle Raid permitted a different inference.
In a day, the notion that Japan was invulnerable to attack because of its sudden, far-flung conquests and the long arm of its navy was dissolved. The U.S. Navy had demonstrated that it could penetrate to within range of metropolitan Japan and launch a squadron of medium bombers upon the imperial capital itself.
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/18/obama-betrays-every-ally/ While in the United States the news from the Summit of the Americas involved a prostitute scandal, on the other side of the ocean it was about Obama’s continuing determination to undermine America’s allies. After Prime Minister Cameron’s last humiliating outing with Obama, all he had to show for it was […]
http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/2012/04/organ-harvesting-group-operating-in.html
AS DAPHNE ANSON NOTED…THE LOATHSOME BARONESS TONGE ONCE ACCUSED THE ISRAELIS OF THIS GRUESOME TACTIC….AND DON’T FORGET THE PRIME MINISTER OF KOSOVO HASHIM THACI ALSO INDULGED IN THIS APPALLING PRACTICE….
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/04/yes-baroness-body-parts-are-indeed.html
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2010/12/16/hashim-thaci-kosovos-organ-trafficking-boss-and-pal-of-successive-american-presidents/
Palestine Press reports that a gang specializing in exhuming and dissecting bodies is operating in Gaza. According to the report, the bodies are exhumed at night, the organs are then stolen and smuggled through the tunnels to Egypt where they are sold at high prices.
The other day body parts were found in a cemetery near Al-Ahli Hospital. According to Palestine Press, there are four doctors in this gang and some of the members of the gang may be Hamas members.
Here is video of Hamas forces finding the bags and their contents
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/04/pro-israel-maxine-dovere-socks-it-to.html
Pro-Israel Maxine Dovere Socks It To Ken O’Keefe & Co On Press TV (video)
Press TV, the satellite news and current affairs channel of that impeccable bastion of liberty, equality, fraternity and (of course) sorority, presents a so-called “analysis” of the Flytilla fiasco. (That’s the one in which a participant left a swastika on the wall of a holding cell at Tel Aviv airport. Perhaps the Israeli authorities should release the culprit’s name. After all, the participants sought publicity.)
There’s also a studio discussion between talking heads in different locations: it seems that the two Israel-bashing men can’t bring themselves to be polite to the pro-Israel Ms Dovero.
O’Keefe calls her “this delusional woman in New York” and Irish activist Derek Graham, ensconced in Gaza, “this woman”.
Ms Dovere makes excellent points, which the bossy-voiced studio anchor, enveloped in voluminous robes, hastens to cut short.
O’Keefe is given the final say, and he invokes the influence of “powers … bankers” …
U.S., British officials suspected Obama’s father
The Daily Mail
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
News
Fears were expressed by U.S. and British officials about President Barack Obama’s father, who was categorized with others as “anti-American and anti-white” when he moved to the United States in 1959. Read more…
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GSA undergoes second House panel lashing for abuse
Associated Press
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
News
General Services Administration witnesses came under sharp criticism from Congress for a second day on Tuesday, as lawmakers expressed outrage over junkets, bonuses and parties paid for by taxpayers. Read more…
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London mayoral candidate ‘appalled’ U.S. killed Osama
The Daily Mail
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
News
Ken Livingstone, who is running for mayor of London, waded into further controversy yesterday by claiming U.S. special forces were wrong to kill Osama Bin Laden. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz1sO4zjUQq
Karzai demands guarantee of $2b annually from U.S.
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karza…
Read more…
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http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/296326
‘A conservative,” the old cliché goes, “is a liberal who has been mugged.” But some liberals who are mugged refuse to admit that it happened.
Observe the rough treatment to which the new American ambassador in Moscow, Michael McFaul, has been subjected since his appointment last January. Since his arrival, the ambassador has been constantly accused in the media of stirring up anti-government protests, and lately he has been ambushed by Russian state-TV crews at his meetings, official and unofficial, suggesting that his phone was tapped. This comes on top of numerous other strong indications that the Obama administration’s attempts to “reset” relations with Russia — a policy spearheaded by Mr. McFaul — have failed. But while McFaul has complained loudly about his recent treatment, he does not seem to realize that he has been mugged in a much broader sense.
Designed ostensibly for three main purposes — to secure Russian cooperation in thwarting the nuclear ambitions of Iran, promote disarmament, and assure supplies to Afghanistan from the north — the “reset” policy has failed miserably, with the partial exception of the last item. Russia now protects Iran’s nuclear ambitions rather openly. It also supports and arms the genocidal regime in Syria, and has succeeded in postponing missile defense in Europe, to the great detriment of our relations with the pro-American Eastern Europeans. It continues to display its neo-imperialist designs, from South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia to Transnistria in Moldova, as well as in its new Eurasian Union scheme.
Northeastern University — Profs Gone Wild
http://pjmedia.com/blog/northeastern-university-profs-gone-wild/?print=1
Many people suspect that American college students get a left-wing and sometimes radical slant from their professors, especially when it comes to matters concerning the Middle East. But few ever get a chance to peek into the lecture halls to see for themselves what today’s higher education provides. It can be shocking.
On April 2, Americans for Peace and Tolerance/On Campus (APT/OC) released a 16 minute video showing radical professors and guest lecturers at Northeastern University in Boston teaching students that Israel is a Western colonialist project and that the Jews “use” the Holocaust to distract from their needless oppression of the Palestinians, which is in fact comparable to the Holocaust itself. They are also taught that Jews do not qualify as “a people” and so therefore do not qualify to have their own state. These things were taught at Northeastern in programs designed to teach students about the genocide of Europe’s Jews.
Readers can view the film for themselves here [1].
Tasked with responding to the film, Northeastern’s provost, Steven Director, chose not to apologize to Holocaust survivors or the Jewish community, but instead to charge us — the filmmakers — with “cherry picking” and to counter with a list of speakers who had positive messages about Jews. But of course we chose the egregious cases — that was the entire point. Should the Jews be offended only if all of the speakers and professors were this horrible? And do lists of good presentations erase the bigotry?
A university administrator can only speak to Jews this way. He would not dare try that if it were found that a Black History Month observance featured speakers (even one) who postulated that blacks use their past suffering to take advantage of white people today. He would never dare suggest to blacks that a sympathetic speaker balances out the bigots. Imagine offering to blacks an Eric Holder to balance David Duke and then acting as though it were a wash.
Walking Papers? The Incredibly Thin, Speculative Zimmerman Affidavit
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/walking-papers-the-incredibly-thin-speculative-zimmerman-affidavit/
Last week, Florida prosecutor Angela Corey stunned many within the legal establishment when she announced her office was filing a second-degree murder charge against George Zimmerman. The four-page affidavit of probable cause [1] filed by Corey’s office shocked legal experts, ranging from liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and liberal law blogger Jeralyn Merritt [2] to conservative former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy [3] and talk show host Mark Levin [4], among others.
The affidavit starts out typically, listing the names and qualifications of the two investigators used by the special prosecutor. It then begins to build a case against George Zimmerman:
On Sunday 2/26/12, Trayvon Martin was temporarily living at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community in Sanford, Seminole County, Florida. That evening Martin walked to a nearby 7-11 Store where he purchased a can of iced tea and some Skittles. Martin then walked back to and entered the gated community and was on his way back to the townhouse where he was living when he was profiled by George Zimmerman. Martin was unarmed and was not committing a crime.
Not one paragraph into the “meat” of the affidavit, Corey’s team already made two unsubstantiated claims.
First: there is no publicly known evidence that supports the contention that Zimmerman “profiled” Trayvon Martin.
