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By HARVEY C. MANSFIELD

It is now 500 years since Niccolò Machiavelli produced the most famous book on politics ever written. On Dec. 10, 1513, he wrote a letter to a friend describing a day in his life and remarking by the way that he had composed a “little work,” one of his “whimsies,” on principalities. This was “The Prince,” a short book for the busy executive so shocking that it wasn’t published until 1532, after Machiavelli’s death. It was coupled with the “Discourses on Livy” (1531), a much longer book for those readers with more time to observe and reflect. These are his major works, the ones that he said contain everything he knew.

In them he openly denounced both Christianity and the church: the “ambitious idleness” that Christianity imposed on Christians by demeaning worldly honor and also the “dishonesty” of priests, who govern by invoking the fear of God but “do not [themselves] fear the punishment that they do not see and do not believe.” He attacked morality by declaring it unaffordable: A good man will “come to ruin” among so many others who aren’t good. And he redirected politics by asserting that a prince must “learn to be able not to be good.” Yet he also said, still more shockingly, that he believed that his advice to do evil “would bring common benefit to everyone.”

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FROM: THE LIEFE AND TIMES OF CURTIS LE MAY….BY WARREN KOZAK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON WORLD WAR 11 I EVER READ…..RSK

Gen. Curtis LeMay, in a 1945 speech to the Ohio Society, quoted in Warren Kozak’s 2011 biography, “LeMay”:

“It is beyond my powers of description to picture to you the difference between the bomb-blackened ruins and the desolation of our enemy’s cities and the peaceful Ohio cities and landscape, untouched and unmarred by war. I can only say to you, if you love America, do everything you can do to make sure that what happened in Germany and Japan will never happen to our country. Our preparedness for war should be the measure of our desire for peace. The last war was started by air power and finished by [air power]. America, if attacked, must be able to take the initiative immediately.”

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“Environmentalism is the religion of the comfortable, and the theology of the convenient. It injects a false spirituality into the materialism of the faithless. There is nothing to it but greed. From the false prophets spinning tales of the end, to scientists doing a more elevated version of the same for grant money to scribes envisioning the end for a lucrative book or movie deal. It’s not the end of the world they’re waiting for, but a commercial break.”

Two years ago, the media had a prolonged belly laugh at a group that predicted the end of the world. Now media outlets from The New York Times to The New Republic to The Economist are wrestling with the question of why their own ideology’s doomsday predictions are not coming to pass.

“If scientific models can’t project the last 15 years, what does that mean for their projections of the next 100?,” the New Republic asks. It means that the world isn’t going to end.

Even as Obama exploits Global Warming to launch a War on Affordable Energy, the doomsday environmentalists look as foolish as any other group that set a date for the end of the world, only for the world to stubbornly go on existing.

True believers in Gore would say that’s the difference between science and eschatology. But when bogus science warns us of an apocalypse if we don’t follow the tenets of their ideology, then how much difference is there anyway?

Of course no one expects MSNBC to do sneering reports of global warming activists freezing at a protest or Al Gore being forced to watch a count down of a solidly frozen North Pole. Such mockery is only directed at people who believe in more unpopular forms of apocalypses. At least unpopular at the broadcasting studios of Manhattan.

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Whatever happened to Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi?

In a first-ever audio interview with Alharbi, Amina Choudary of The Islamic Monthly brings us up to date:

Since the marathon stories continue to be written about him … speculating that he was put on a terrorist list and deported. We can confirm that neither is true. Instead we found him living discreetly in Boston. …

Listener beware. Even Janet Napolitano confirmed that Alharbi was put on a watch list. But who ever imagined he was still in the USA? According to the segment, Alharbi, who says he is “doubly injured from the explosion and the media,” currently lives in a hotel, a ward of the Saudi embassy. The piece hammers at the awfulness of leaks to the media which brought Alharbi into the public eye after the Boston Marathon Massacre (subtext: it was so hard to hide him away again), and insists the evidence against him — basically, misattributions about his Facebook pictures, according to the piece — was phony. Interestingly enough, there is no mention of the most damning piece of evidence: the “event file” that identified Alharbi as a “3B” (red hot) terrorist threat.

Among other things, that event file tells us Alharbi was on a no-fly list, and that two officers recommended he be deported as a 3B (red hot) terrorist risk. (More here.)

Having avoided the subject altogether, the interview gives Alharbi his dramatic moment, and he takes it, asking: “Where is your document that I am a suspect, that I am a terrorist?”

Right here! The cover sheet of the Alharbi event file, first published by The Blaze, is reproduced above.

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NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH KEN LIVINGSTONE, FORMER MAYOR OF LONDON WHO QUIPPED IN 2012 THAT “JEWS ARE TOO RICH.” HE LOST THAT ELECTION IN 2012 TO BORIS JOHNSON…..RSK

LONDON — There are so many Jews at the top of Britain’s Conservative party, Prime Minister David Cameron once quipped, that it should be known as the Torah party rather than the Tory party.

With the announcement last Wednesday that Ian Livingston was selected as trade and investment minister and elevated to the House of Lords, Cameron has appointed to the government possibly its most committed Jew yet, and certainly its most outspoken supporter of Israel — which Livingston has called “the most amazing state in the world.”

Livingston, 48, is one of Britain’s most visible business leaders, widely credited with steering telecom giant BT (formerly British Telecom) through the global downturn as its chief executive. Wednesday’s announcement of his departure from the company, which will take effect in September, immediately wiped £400 million ($618 million) off its market value.

In his new role as trade minister, which he will take up in December, Livingston will promote UK trade globally and attract investment in the British economy. He is replacing Lord Green, an ordained priest in the Church of England who is approaching retirement, and he was personally handpicked for the trade minister job by Cameron, who said Livingston “will bring huge talent to a vital national effort.”

Quakers Planning Hate Israel Summer Camp » the Jerusalem Connection Blog –
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By NITSANA DIRSHAN-LEITNER, SHURAT HADIN—

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the political arm of the Quaker movement, is planning on holding a Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) summer camp in New York State on July 28th thru August 1st. The camp described as a “five day intensive program for campus BDS organizers — those with campaigns already running and those hoping to get one launched in the 2013-2014 school year.” According, to AFSC’s website the BDS camp will include anti-Israel training such as:

Extensive campaign development coaching
Grassroots organizing skill building
Media & Messaging trainings
Anti-oppression analysis workshops
Nonviolent direct action planning
Historical overview of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
Relationship building with activists on campuses nationwide
Strategy sessions with BDS movement leaders

The goal of the camp is to better organize pro-Palestinian students to launch campus campaigns targeting the Jewish State, boycotting Israeli academics, passing divestment resolutions and bolstering the haters’ message that Israel is an aparthei

Muslim Brotherhood Games — on The Glazov Gang
How Islamists play the “moderate” charade that we blindly and desperately embrace.
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http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3784/islamists-jihadis The salafist man finds it unbelievable that there are people who do not believe the same way he does. He considers this difference as a personal attack. He is astonished that the whole world is not Muslim and he is going to correct [this mistake]. The following op-ed was originally published in French in […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3781/world-policeman For the next seven years after Vietnam — victory we threw away in 1974 by defunding our Vietnamese allies — nearly twenty nations either fell into the Communist orbit or to other totalitarian rulers, such as Iran. Sequestration is again creating calls to remove troops from overseas. Many of America’s leaders have decided it […]

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Global Warming as a 21st Century Religion: By Peter Lilley
Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, former Cabinet minister

G.K. Chesterton said that “when people stop believing in orthodox religion, rather than believe in nothing, they will believe in anything”. One of the ersatz religions which fills the void in recent years is belief in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming. It claims to be based on science. But it has all the characteristics of an eschatological cult.

It has its own priesthood and ecclesiastical establishment – the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; they alone can interpret its sacred scriptures – the Assessment Reports; it anathematises as ‘deniers’ anyone who casts doubt on its certainties; above all it predicts imminent doom if we do not follow its precepts and make the sacrifices it prescribes.

What most clearly distinguishes the Catastrophic Global Warming cult from science is that it is not refutable by facts. As Parliament enacted the Climate Change Bill, on the presumption that the world was getting warmer, it snowed in London in October – the first time in 74 years. Supporters explained “extreme cold is a symptom of global warming”!

The Met Office – whose climate model is the cult’s crystal ball to forecast centuries ahead – has made a series of spectacularly unreliable short term forecasts: “Our children will not experience snow” (that was 2000, before the recent run of cold winters), a barbecue summer (before the dismal 2011 summer), the drought will continue (last spring before the wettest summer on record). Now they say that rain and floods are the new normal. But – hot or cold, wet or dry – global warming is always to blame.

Alarmists are reluctant to admit that the global surface temperature has not increased for 16 years, despite CO2 emissions rising far more than predicted. They wave this inconvenient truth away with the non-sequitur that this decade is the hottest since records began, so the world is still warming. If you climb a hill and reach a flat plateau you are higher than before – but the plateau is flat, not rising. When cornered, global warming alarmists assert that the current pause is simply the result of unspecified ‘natural variations’. That implies that the pronounced warming over the previous 25 years may have been amplified by ‘natural variations’ in the other direction. In which case, the likely temperature rise for a given increase in CO2 may be less than previously estimated or required to produce the threatened doom.

In 2006 I asked how long the pause in warming would have to persist before the Met Office would revise its model. They replied that, since it is based on known laws of physics, they would never adjust it. Just like the German philosopher Hegel, who claimed to derive the laws of nature from first principles: when told that the facts did not agree with his theories, Hegel replied: “So much the worse for the facts”! Climate models do incorporate some established physical laws including the basic greenhouse effect which, having studied physics at Cambridge, I accept. This implies that doubling the concentration of CO2 will raise the temperature by a fairly harmless 1.2ºC. But the models amplify this several fold using assumptions about complex phenomena which cannot yet be reduced to simple physical laws.