http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2449/David-Petraeus-No-Worries.aspx CNN reports that David Petraeus will make his first public appearance since resigning in multi-varied if only partly limned states of disgrace, all overshadowed by L’Affaire Broadwell. He will deliver a speech this month at a dinner honoring the military. The brief article cites two “persons” as sources. Petraeus will attend a March 26 […]
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ben-carson-cpac/2013/03/16/id/494978?s=al&promo_code=12D2E-1 Dr. Ben Carson to CPAC: Obama ‘Trying to Destroy the Country’ Dr. Benjamin Carson, whose speech at the National Prayer Breakfast made headlines, said Saturday he is leaving medicine, and hinted at political aspirations that could even include the presidency. The neurosurgeon, speaking at the Conservative Political Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., said he […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-profile-of-german-salafists-in-egypt-a-888605.html A year ago, a SPIEGEL editor met a Salafist in Hanover. Following several meetings in Germany, he traveled with him to his new home in Egypt. He could not have anticipated the danger he would encounter there. It’s night in Alexandria, and I can hear the Salafist breathing in the dark. He’s tiptoeing across […]
http://www.meforum.org/3467/obama-israel-visit Why exactly is President Obama going to Israel? A variety of theories have been advanced as to why he is making the trip now and what might be accomplished. Some have suggested that Obama needs to reassure Israel, to hold their hands and tell them that the US-Israeli relationship is special. This suggests that […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/egypt-may-allow-citizens-arrest-of-western-tourists-for-blasphemy/print/
Egypt’s tourism sector was doing really badly, so the Muslim Brotherhood regime decided to finish it off. I don’t recall even the Saudis allowing freelance blasphemy arrests. And this is taking place in a country where much of the population thinks that being a member of a non-Islamic religion is blasphemy and being a Westerner means you are a spy.
So come to beautiful Egypt. If you don’t get attacked by a mob making a citizen’s arrest, you’ll get attacked by a rape mob and if you don’t encounter any of these, you get a t-shirt that says, “I Survived Egypt.”
The Egyptian prosecutor general for the Muslim Brotherhood regime (their equivalent of our Attorney General, Eric Holder) has enacted a new law permitting ordinary Egyptians to make what amounts to carte blanche arrests of foreigners in Egypt for things like suspicion of ‘spying’ or blasphemy, or pretty much anything else that goes against Egypt’s sharia based legal code:
Egypt’s Coalition to Support Tourism (CST) condemns the prosecutor-general’s decision to allow citizens’ arrests announced on Sunday, arguing it raises many worries among tourists.
Many tourism agents called the head of the CST, Ehab Moussa in alarm. He told Ahram Online that they wanted to confirm the rumour over what they feel is a strange decision.
“If a tourist rebuffed an Egyptian merchant, refusing to buy something, the merchant might accuse the tourist of spying and arrest him,” he said.
Moussa claims that tourists would then be mistreated and blackmailed in Egypt.
Only Islamist political powers, represented by the Freedom and Justice Party and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, welcomed the decision as an attempt to curb the security deterioration in the country.
Egypt has fallen to the lowest rank out of 140 countries in terms of safety and security, just behind Pakistan, Chad and Yemen, in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Travel and Tourism (T&T) competitiveness index released last week.
So if you have to choose between a tourism trip to Pakistan or Egypt, jump into the ocean. It worked for the Israelites.
Iraq: Ten Years Since Removing Saddam: on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Shant Kenderian, Michael Walsh and Josh Brewster reflect on the ten year anniversary of our war: Did we win? Should we have gone?
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/iraq-ten-years-since-removing-saddam-on-the-glazov-gang/
http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/03/13/russian-navy-to-establish-a-permanent-presence-in-the-mediterranean/ MOSCOW — Russia, a leading ally of Syria, has decided to establish a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean Sea. Officials said the Defense Ministry has been funding a task force to protect Russian interests in the Mediterranean. They said the force would be supplied by the Syrian port of Tartous, the only […]
http://www.worldtribune.com/ CAIRO — Israel is said to have infiltrated the massive arms smuggling network contracted to supply the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. An Egyptian daily said Israeli intelligence was believed to have penetrated Libyan arms suppliers to Hamas and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip. Al Yom Al Sabea asserted that Hamas was concerned that Israel […]
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http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Using cancer to kill cancer. Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center have enhanced the immune system using proteins from melanoma (a severe form of skin cancer). T-cells in the immune system are stimulated to produce cytokines, which can fight other cancers in the body.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=305850
Success in trials of stem cells for blood cancer. (Thanks to Atid-EDI) Early trials of NiCord (umbilical cord stem cells) from Israel’s Gamida Cell have proved successful in maintaining the health of patients with high-risk hematological malignancies. The treatment was safe and reduced the time to recovery period.
http://www.gamida-cell.com/press_item.asp?ID=54
Colon cancer rates decrease. Israel is fourth among Western countries in the prevalence of colorectal cancer and 15th in the death rate from the tumor. However, the number of cases has declined in the last two decades – by 17 percent in men and 13 percent in women – largely due to early diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=305349
A pacemaker for the arteries. Israel’s Enopace Biomedical is developing an endovascular micro-stimulator, which reduces the strain on the heart by expanding the arteries to accept incoming blood. It is implanted by catheter in a 30-minute procedure while the patient is awake and is an alternative to a heart transplant.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000826211&fid=1725
Australia approves Israeli robotic spinal surgery. Israel’s Mazor Robotics has obtained approval from Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for the import and sale of the company’s Renaissance navigation robot for spinal surgery.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000826535&fid=1725
The missing LINC to deafness. (Thanks to NoCamels.com) Half of all hearing losses are due to genetic mutations. Tel Aviv University Professor Karen Avraham found that mutations in the LINC cells of the inner ear of an Iraqi family with a history of deafness could lead to new treatments.
http://nocamels.com/2013/03/discovering-the-missing-linc-to-deafness/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393304578358681822758600.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed The hysterical crusade against fat has become a veritable witch hunt. With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s ban on supersize sodas (now temporarily thwarted) and the first lady’s campaign to push leaves and twigs (i.e., salad) on reluctant school children—all in the name of stamping out obesity—it is fat-shaming time in America. […]
