http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579078954043715792.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond President Obama’s plan on Syria will fail for the same reason the Oslo Accord did. Forty years ago Israel blundered disastrously on the eve of the Yom Kippur War because its military leaders had a concept about the circumstances in which it might be attacked, and the concept was wrong. Twenty years ago, Israel […]
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“Making public policy on the basis of what science “suggests” is not much wiser than summoning a fortune teller. This is a problem for the governing class, which has accepted as fact since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol the premise of a direct correlation between human-caused carbon dioxide and an overheated planet. The engine for global warming advocacy, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, now must explain that global warming’s hiatus. A portion of the U.N.’s fifth assessment draft report, due for release Sept. 27, is expected to pull back warnings to more closely reflect actual temperatures. Their credibility is at stake”
A climate scientist, comfortable in his government digs, nevertheless has a lot in common with the palm reader at the mall, hunched over her crystal ball between Nell’s Nails and Wanda’s Wigs. Both make their money from predictions, and as any high-end soothsayer could tell you, the more outlandish the prognostication, the more readily the client can be parted from his cash. Speed is essential, because the game ends when the mark realizes he has been played the fool. That’s why the weather clairvoyants who have been predicting global warming doom — “climate change” is the current name for it — are starting to sweat.
Bureaucrats being who they are, the government handouts will continue long after everyone is onto the game. But a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that of 117 computer models used to make climate predictions over the past 20 years, 114 overestimated global warming. The models predicted an average rise in the earth’s surface temperature of 0.30 degrees Celsius per decade; the actual temperature increase was less than half that. The study noted that the “predictive inconsistency” over the past 15 years “is even more striking.” The simulations predicted four times more warming than actual readings showed.
In 2007, climatologists predicted that rapid melting of sea ice in the Arctic would leave the top of the world ice-free by 2013, prompting hysterical prophecies of melted ice that would raise the worldwide sea level, inundating coastal cities and drowning cuddly polar bears. NASA satellite photos of the Arctic Ocean during the summer of 2012 showed the ice was indeed disappearing. Snapshots of the region last month revealed that a chilly summer has expanded the ice sheet by nearly a million square miles. The polar bears, never actually cuddly, are nevertheless in the pink. The scientists are red in the face, or should be.
One-State Delusion “Two-State Illusion” was an especially catchy title for the lead Opinion column in the Sunday The New York Times Review section (September 15). It was about time, I thought, after years of reading endless Times columns and editorials about the urgency of just that outcome, with Israel and Palestine living amicably side-by-side in […]
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-160913.html Americans see individual pieces of geopolitical real estate in isolation, like hotels on the Monopoly board, while the Russians look at the interaction of all their spheres of interest around the globe. Syria is of no real strategic interest to Russia, nor to anyone else for that matter. It is a broken wreck […]
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Mary McNamara could not have been awake when she decided to review “The Life of Muhammad” that was aired on PBS, or she might have realized that this was pure propaganda, designed to inspire hatred against the Jewish people. Had she paid attention, she would have realized all the lies declared against the State of Israel, and the misinformation spewed against her people. The film was propaganda at its worst, and is certainly a sample of civilizational warfare. PBS was terribly wrong to run it yet again, and the journalist exacerbated the injustice with her review.
The series spread the Palestinian narrative that is meant to delegitimize the sovereign State of Israel. It played down the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis, in order to play up their own false victimhood. Note that the Arabs could have had, but refused, a state of their own when the Ottoman Empire was divided into mandates; their strategy was to usurp all the land even if they lost the wars fought against Israel. They have continued to refuse Israel’s willingness to negotiate a peaceful settlement. Islamists who follow their Qur’an are commanded never to assimilate and have peace – and this is obvious in every country of the world to which they have immigrated.
How could it be that McNamara did not hear the hatred spewed by those interviewed, and still praise the show! Sabri, during the dialogue, endorsed suicide bombers, “It is legitimate, of course, as long as it plays a role in the resistance,” as the body count increases. Islamists are responsible for 21,570 deadly terror attacks since 9/11/01. While Israel thrives and her people strive for the welfare of all in technological, scientific, medical and other advancements, the Palestinians have become the leading producer of terrorists. The Islamists have turned Africa into a continent of burning Christian churches with their worshippers, and Sweden into the rape capital of the world.
A Catholic convert to Islam, Green, even denounced the hero of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who created a government and parliament to represent the people, abolishing the horrific Islamic laws and replacing them with a secular system, compulsory education and education for women. Considered a pioneer of national liberation and defender of peace, Ataturk was honored by the United Nations and UNESCO. Clearly, this film encourages a very dangerous supremacy, Islamism, terrorism, and pure hatred of all but their own Muslim sect.
Both the film and the review were a disgrace. I believe that, at the very least, McNamara, the L.A. Times, and, above all, PBS, owe a considerable retraction to the public. Garbage belongs in a landfill, not on television.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/09/05/latin-american-jewish-converts-converge-in-mexico-city/?intcmp=obinsite Judaism Converts Find Acceptance In Mexico City Known as conversos, or secret Jews, many Latin Americans have became Catholic in public while continuing their forbidden Jewish practices in private. They came to Mexico City from places as far flung as Colombia and Brazil. Some traveled from Guadalajara. Among their numbers were an ex-Catholic priest […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579078940387757478.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Bashar Assad may have pulled off the most successful use of chemical weapons in history. For the two years leading up to the Aug. 21 Damascus sarin gas attack, President Obama was saying that the Syrian dictator “must go.” No longer. In one month, Assad has risen from outlaw butcher to partner in disarmament. […]
If the entire Palestinian Authority leadership lives off an international welfare check that arrives only because the conflict still exists, there isn’t much incentive for ending the conflict. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than […]
http://amilimani.com/as-obama-turns-tail-iran-gives-chase/ The civilized world witnessed in revulsion the graphic images, which emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. The attack wiped out some 1300 people as they lay sleeping in their beds. The Obama administration claims President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched the nerve gas attack while […]
