http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/08/08/climate-change-what-are-the-real-questions/?print=1 My favorite part of Earth Day. Ancient history On April 22, 1970, I — along with a teeming multitude of junior high school and high school kids, college students, hippies and New Leftists — participated in the first Earth Day, a “teach-in” organized by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to make the world aware of […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/demagogic_writers_and_the_people_who_love_them.html
All Feldman does is repeat the screeds of Radosh and Herf…..hhmmmmm……
“This week I’m making an exception in highlighting the imbroglio between Ron Radosh, an historian whose knowledge of the American Communist party and the McCarthy era is unmatched, and Diana West, author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on our Nation’s Character. I’m doing so, not to attack West whose work I have not read, but to point out the dangers of demagogic writers — everywhere on the political spectrum and the emotional bonds their fans form with them. ”
Demagogic Writers and the People Who Love Them By Clarice Feldman
On any day on the internet you can find many top-ranked writers in serious dispute with each other. Sometimes it’s left versus right, but often it’s people on the same side in furious disputation over what in the course of things are rather small points.
I never write about these. I believe my readers are smart people with full and rich lives, heavily involved in their occupations, families, and community life. Instead, I see the best use of my efforts is to seek out important but undercovered stories or stories where the reporting, the partisan claims and counterclaims make it impossible to get to the truth easily, or events where the most publicized versions are dead wrong: the Haditha “massacre”, the trial of Scooter Libby, the Trayvon Martin case, all are richly documented tales of media malpractice. This work is more or less a natural to me. For most of my professional life, my time was spent poring through transcripts, documents, and pleadings to find in all of this jumble an honest, coherent narrative that comported with the evidence.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-Fray-Resign-continued-Responding-to-readers-322531 Despite his many talents, Netanyahu’s incumbency can be characterized as a catalogue of capitulation on issues he pledged to hold firm on. Martin Sherman thoroughly castigates our prime minister for either failing to implement the policy [he] believes in or implementing a policy he does not believe in. In Sherman’s world, once a political […]
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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Stroke device is a lifesaver. (Thanks to Atid-EDI) The revolutionary Ventritek105 device from Tel Aviv’s Biosan Medical treats Intra Ventricular Hemorrhage (IVH), which has a 50% average death rate. More than 90% of the study patients treated with Ventritek105 were alive and well at the 30-day follow-up.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130722005713/en/Biosan-Medical-Receives-U.S.-Patent-Device-Method
Researching a cure for genetic cancer. Another article on Weizmann Institute’s use of two diverse antibodies to target aggressive hereditary breast cancer.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4394858,00.html
“It’s about saving people”. Several subscribers have sent me this link to Eli Beer who started United Hatzalah and its lifesaving ambu-cycles. The paramedics on two-wheels get to emergencies in 3 minutes, saving lives before an ambulance can fight through traffic. Watch this inspiring story of Chutzpah and co-existence.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_beer_the_fastest_ambulance_a_motorcycle.html?embed=true
92 years young and still practicing. Dr Cyril Sherer is still treating patients in Jerusalem 70 years after graduating in London. He and his wife spent 13 years in New Zealand and made Aliya to Israel in 1961. His story reads like a history of modern medicine.
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/The-good-old-doctor-92-years-young-321965
The blind can “see” with their fingertips. (Thanks to Israel21c) Bar-Ilan Professor Zeev Zalevsky has invented a bionic contact lens that receives electrical signals and transmits the encoded image to the wearer’s cornea. The image gets translated into a tactile sensation that can be interpreted visually.
http://israel21c.org/technology/bionic-contact-lenses-turn-touch-into-vision/
Treating corneal edema. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s EyeYon Medical has two solutions for corneal edema, which affects an additional two million patients every year. First, Hyper CL is a patented contact lens that uses osmosis to release fluid build-up. Then a DSPEK polymer film implant prevents the formation of fluid.
http://israel21c.org/health/eyeyons-noninvasive-answer-to-a-common-eye-problem/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMNvoa7uPew
Inhalation masks for babies. Until now, infants’ inhalation masks have been miniature versions of adult ones – ill-fitting and unable to deliver medicine effectively. Now Israel’s Technion has made an infant-specific inhalation mask that even allows a pacifier to be stuck in the child’s mouth while he/she is wearing the mask.
http://www.ats.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7881&security=1&news_iv_ctrl=1261
Major Hasan is honest about himself; why aren’t we? http://www.nationalreview.com/node/355421/print On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked. Three years, eight months, and eight days later, the Japanese surrendered. These days, America’s military moves at a more leisurely pace. On November 5, 2009, another U.S. base, Fort Hood, was attacked […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/reds_under_the_beds_diana_west_cant_sleep.html
“I now support West’s conclusions after rereading KGB: The Inside Story account 23 years later. It does not ring true that Hopkins was an innocent dupe dedicated solely to defeating the Nazis. Hopkins comes over in history as crafty, secretive and no one’s fool, hardly the personality traits of a naïve fellow traveler. And his fingerprints are on the large majority of pro-Soviet policies implemented by the Roosevelt administration. West deserves respect for cutting through the dross that obscures the evidence about Hopkins, and for screaming from the rooftops that the U.S. was the victim of a successful Soviet intelligence operation.”
Reds Under The Beds: Diana West Can’t Sleep
Diana West comes charging in at a furious gallop unfurling the banner of treason in her recent book American Betrayal. The Secret Assault on our Nation’s Character. She arrives late to the subject of Soviet infiltration of the United States. But she brings attitude, wearing her outrage on her sleeve as she recounts the duplicitous activities of key American communists and sympathizers who allegedly transformed U.S. policy to conform with Stalin’s ambitions. Despite her hyperbolic, exclamation point, italicized febrile style, the awful truth appears to materialize, like a photographic image in a pan of developing fluid. Yes, yes…. it is true! she constantly exclaims.
And to her credit she explores key events and individuals beyond the declassified evidence available since 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. She notes books and articles from the 1940s and 1950s that identified espionage rings and traitorous federal officials at the heart of U.S. policy who operated in the thrall of Soviet communism. She is horrified by treasonous behavior and draws conclusions from parallel events, such as FDR’s commitment to Russia which she says altered the course of World War II and the chilling aftermath.
West never slows down divulging her selected evidence of manipulation of U.S. policy by Stalin’s agents of influence, such as efforts to induce the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor; the call for Germany’s “unconditional surrender” that she says prevented a negotiated accommodation with “good Germans”; the Chinese repudiation of Chiang Kai-shek in favor of Mao; and the White House-favored decision by the U.S. military to abandon Churchill’s Mediterranean Strategy that — West asserts — could have cut off the advancing Red Army before it rolled into Germany.
DE JURE AMNESTY The 1986 amnesty or the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which neither reformed nor controlled immigration, took in some 3 million illegal aliens. The new amnesty or Comprehensive Immigration Reform covers 12 million illegal aliens. If 1986’s euphemistic amnesty was a mere amnesty, this is a super-amnesty four times as big as […]
The practice of terrorism as religious sacrifice will not disappear with the creation of a Palestinian state http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/08/09/israel-should-beware-the-middle-east-peace-road-map-and-palestinian-statehood_print.html Now that the Middle East Peace Process is back “on track,” it is important to understand the continuing impact of irredentist and Jihadist roots of Palestinian nationalism. Armed with such an understanding, a two state solution in […]
http://www.newmediajournal.us/ Over the past few months, Progressives and Democrats who favor the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – both elected and not – have insisted that the new and expanding entitlement will go forward as planned because, after all, it is “the law of the land.” When I ponder this statement I find myself […]
Israel Caves to Pressure to Free Convicted Terrorists Under pressure to restart talks with Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), Israel has diverged from its refusal to accede to Palestinian preconditions and agreed to free 104 Palestinian terrorists from its jails. It’s a mistake. Israel should withstand the pressure and say no. Why? Because it makes […]
