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Ongoing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa signals potentially catastrophic geo-strategic transformations. For Israel, the greatest danger stems from interpenetrating and largely unpredictable effects of war, terrorism, and revolution in the region. In essence, these plainly destabilizing effects could spawn an unprecedented and thoroughly “game-changing” kind of chaos.

Chaos in any form can play havoc with the best laid plans of nations. By definition, at least from the standpoint of national military operations, it is a constantly changing condition that can preclude “normal” and possibly indispensable security preparations. Significantly, this condition is markedly different from the “normal” chaos associated with the “fog of war.” This chaos describes a genuinely deep and wholly systemic unraveling that can itself create war.

The most obvious chaos-based perils to Israel concern the prospect of abrogated peace treaties in Cairo, and/or Amman. Following any such abrogation, which, ironically, could be the result of either regime change, or regime preservation, in those countries, certain old battle fronts could reopen. Convergent threats of war and terror could then reemerge and harden, potentially impacting any newly-emergent state of “Palestine,” and also the corollary power positions of al-Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. For the moment, at least, al-Qaeda is in a primarily adversarial stance vis-à-vis the Brotherhood, and Hamas, recently re-bonded with Fatah, is itself a direct offshoot of the Brotherhood.

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2726/energy-independence At year end, 2011, as Americans emptied their wallets at the gas pump and crude oil reached almost $100 a barrel, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia reported an $81.6 billion 2011 budget surplus. The White House action at the same time was to ask Congress to increase our debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion to $16.4 […]

Frank Scaturro is what we need in Congress….a fresh conservative voice. I know him and like him and trust him…..stay tuned!!!

http://frankscaturro.com/

He is running against Carolyn McCarthy, a consistent supporter of all Obama policies who routinely blames everything on the Tea Party.

The Fraudsters Who Invent the “Science” of Climate Change

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11145/pub_detail.asp

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is little known but affects us all. It controls the propaganda of Climate Change, and misleads people and governments with its “science.”
Rael Jean Isaac Interviews Donna Laframboise, author of The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert, available from Amazon or, a digital edition, from IvyAvenue.com, 2011.
This is a book about the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an outfit few know much about if indeed they have heard of it at all. That’s unfortunate because the IPCC is having a huge impact on all our lives. The IPCC has fashioned the so-called “scientific consensus” that man-made global warming threatens the future of the planet. Its periodic weighty Reports (literally, they are in the range of 800 pages and up) are the basis for the efforts by the governments of developed countries to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions and in the process make the energy our economy depends on to function, and we depend on to drive our cars, heat our homes and power our appliances, vastly more expensive.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11147/pub_detail.asp

Spend any time on a university campus, and the official culture will become obvious in short order. Bigotry and prejudice against blacks, gays, or women simply isn’t tolerated. Even a hint of racism or sexism is met with quick and decisive punishment. But anti-Israel rants on California’s public-college campuses seem to be tolerated, politely ignored, or even tacitly condoned by the powers that be.

Consider the case of David Klein, a math professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Klein maintains a page on the university’s web server having nothing to do with mathematical physics, teacher education, or standardized testing, his main areas of research. Rather, the page is devoted to the evils of the state of Israel. Students and other members of the university can learn that “Israel is the most racist state in the world at this time” and that the Jewish state engages in “ethnic cleansing.” Visitors can discover, furthermore, that the answer to the question “Aren’t Palestinians equally responsible for the violence?” is an emphatic “No.” Klein provides links to an assortment of Israel haters and, of course, calls for a boycott of Israeli products and U.S. companies that do business with Israel.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp 1. Indiana Democratic Party Head Resigns as 2008 Presidential Voter Fraud Probe Heats Up 2. ** Impact of Obamacare: Facts, Statistics, Charts and Videos ** 3. VIDEO: School District Defends Shocking Occupy-Themed Song Performed by Third-Graders: ‘I’m So Happy to Be Part of the 99%’ 4. VIDEO: Rose Bowl Parade-Goers Roundly Boo Intruding #Occupy […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/03/a-muslim-apostates-defense-of-the-west/ A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of the West Posted By Bruce Bawer Ibn Warraq is the pseudonymous, Pakistani-born author of the modern classic Why I Am Not a Muslim and the writer or editor of several other estimable books about Muhammed, the Koran, Islamic culture, Muslim apostates, and Western civilization.  Surely few people know as […]

Libyan Jihadist’s Mavi Marmara Connection Posted By P. David Hornik

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/03/libyan-jihadist%e2%80%99s-mavi-marmara-connection/

It turns out that major Libyan rebel commander Mahdi al-Harati was one of the jihadists on the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship that tried to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza in May 2010. As John Rosenthal notes, “after the seizure of Tripoli, al-Harati was named second-in-command to Abdul-Hakim Belhadj, the head of the newly formed Tripoli Military Council.” Belhadj also has an interesting pedigree, having been in phone contact with the leader of the 2004 Madrid train bombings just weeks before they were perpetrated.

Al-Harati, for his part, told the Spanish daily ABC in December that “I was wounded on the Mavi Marmara and spent nine days in an Israeli prison.” ABC reporter Daniel Iriarte had come upon al-Harati and two more of Belhadj’s men in Syria; they candidly told him they were there to help their “Syrian revolutionary brothers.” That should raise alarms as to just what sort of elements might be replacing Bashar Assad—who, like Gaddafi before him, is a brutal thug but not necessarily the worst the region has to offer.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286962/december-diary-john-derbyshire

Global-warming-hysteria hysteria. In our 2012 predictions symposium, under the heading “Things that will get worse in 2012,” I included “the weather.” This prompted some e-mailers to wonder whether this particular prediction was inspired by what one of them called “the anthropogenic global warming mega-hoax.”

Not really; it was just my Englishness breaking through. Since the subject’s come up, though, I may as well take the opportunity to record the following opinion: The global-warming-hysteria hysteria (GWHH) of the political right is now every bit as annoying as the global-warming hysteria (GWH) of the left.

#ad#I understand of course that leftist globalist power-maniacs want to use global warming to advance their knavish schemes. As a conservative, I’ll fight that as enthusiastically as I’ll fight all other globalizing, nation-hating, liberty-destroying projects — mass immigration, imperialism (e.g. China’s in Tibet), multiculturalism, missionary wars, “refugee” rackets, common currencies, the United Nations, etc.

The fact remains that some things are true even though Comrade Zilliacus says they are true, and global warming is one of those things. Yes, the atmosphere is on a warming trend. Nothing the least bit surprising about that: The chronic instability of Earth’s climate was one of the first large facts ever to come to the attention of our species. And yes, human activity is making some contribution, as, again, it has been doing since our Paleolithic ancestors started setting grass fires to flush out game.

Progress: Canadian Senate Listens to Global Warming Skeptics Posted By Tom Harris

http://pjmedia.com/blog/progress-canadian-senate-listens-to-global-warming-skeptics/

On December 15, four leading scientists appeared before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources to challenge global warming advocacy. The hearing was the first of its kind in Canada. (Video of the hearing can be found here [1].)

Guelph University Professor of Economics Dr. Ross McKitrick [2] led off the hearing, explaining that the foundation of the climate scare — the science as promulgated by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — cannot be trusted:

The so-called Climategate emails confirmed the reality of bias and cronyism in the IPCC process. … IPCC Assessments are guaranteed merely to repeat and reinforce a set of foregone conclusions that make up the party line.

McKitrick explained how his research showed that much of the warming seen in the IPCC surface temperature record is almost certainly a result of urbanization, agriculture, and other land use changes, not greenhouse gases (GHG). He also found that the 50-year record of temperatures measured by balloons does not show the warming trend forecast by climate models.

University of Ottawa (U of O) Professor of Earth Sciences Dr. Ian Clark [3] addressed the committee:

We have not really seen any global warming for the past 10 years. … This is in stark contrast with the IPCC forecast of an increase of some 0.2 degrees per decade.