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http://news.investors.com/articleprint/606070/201203291839/north-american-energy-potential-could-change-world.aspx

The world was reinvented in the 1970s by soaring oil prices and massive transfers of national wealth. It could be again if the price of petroleum crashes — a real possibility given the amazing estimates about the new gas and oil reserves on the North American continent.

The Canadian tar sands, deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, horizontal drilling off the eastern and western American coastlines, fracking in once-untapped sites in North Dakota and new pipelines from Alaska and Canada could within a decade double North American gas and oil production.

Given that North America in general and the United States in particular might soon be completely autonomous in natural gas production and within a decade without much need of imported oil, life as we have known it for nearly the last half-century would change radically.

Take the Middle East. The U.S. currently devotes about $50 billion of its military budget to patrolling the Persian Gulf and stationing thousands of troops in the region.

America was the target of a crippling oil embargo following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Ever since, it has often hedged its support of democratic Israel in fear of oil cutoffs or price hikes from the Middle East.

Just as often, the U.S. finds itself hypocritically calling for democracy while supporting medieval sheikdoms and monarchies in the oil-exporting gulf. Likewise, Western petrodollars seem to find a way into the coffers of terrorists bent on killing Americans and their allies.

But at a time of shrinking defense budgets, an oil-rich America might not need to protect Middle Eastern oil fields and lanes. U.S. foreign policy for once really could be predicated on the principle of supporting those nations that embrace constitutional government and human rights, without worry that offended dictators, theocrats and kings would turn off the spigots.

Curbing the voracious American appetite for imported oil could also help lower world petroleum prices for everyone. Poorer nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America would save billions of dollars on their imported-energy bills.

High-cost oil has warped the global system by rewarding luck and punishing accomplishment. Oil-poor countries that earned their wealth through hard work and innovation — China, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, for example — should be rewarded with reduced imported-energy costs, while those that became rich by having someone else find and develop the oil beneath their feet might find their windfalls reduced……READ MORE AT SITE

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1655

“Let us not kid ourselves about the motive of the march. It is not about land. It is not about a two-state solution. It is not about Jerusalem.It is what all such campaigns have been since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. It is about what Arafat spelled out when he created the PLO in 1964 (three years before the Six-Day War). It is about what he and his successors continued to assert in Arabic.It is about making the Middle East, and eventually the rest of the world, Judenrein, cleansed of Jews, which is why the Iranian regime is behind it every step of the way.”

With the backing of the mullahs in the East, the support of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement in the West, and lots of press coverage everywhere, the “Global March to Jerusalem” kicks off Friday. As soon as all the “peace-loving” Muslims in the region emerge from their mosques following Friday morning prayers, there’s going to be a big protest against the Jews.

Scheduling it to coincide with Land Day — one of many made-up modern Arab “holidays” the purpose of which is to rile up street mobs and foreign media outlets against the “Zionist entity” – is a way of giving it a veil of legitimacy (pun intended).

Declaring that Arab Christians should join their Muslim counterparts to protect their holy sites from the Jews is an attempt at diverting attention away from the ongoing persecution of Christians in Muslim societies.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/29/bolton-accuses-administration-leaking-story-on-israeli-planning-along-iran/print Former U.S. diplomat John Bolton alleged Thursday that the Obama administration leaked a story about covert Israeli activity in order to foil potential plans by the country to attack Iran’s nuclear program. Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration, was responding to an article in […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2981/salam-fayyad-hypocrisy In public, Fayyad is telling his people and the rest fo the world how much he cries abut freedom of expression. Behind the scenes, however, Fayyad’s security officers are busy arresting and intimidating any Journalist who exposes corruption or voices criticism of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. How can Fayyad argue that he is […]

http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/19447-Will-California-Public-Universities-Continue-Hypocrisy.html#extended
Will California Public Universities Continue Hypocrisy?
Last December, my article at City Journal, Cal State’s Chutzpah: A hypocritical university goes silent while a math professor spouts anti-Israeli politics, raised attention to the illegal abuse of college websites by some professors, allowed to continue by administrators. Here’s another case, at UCLA. Private companies don’t allow this, so why should taxpayers be forced to fund this? At the bottom of the open letter below I’ve included the email addresses. You might copy-and-paste them and add your two-cents. Thank you.

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/5070 As the nation directs its attention to the events taking place at the United States Supreme Court, specifically, the oral arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now may be a good time to evaluate some of the “progress” we have made, both as a country and as a […]

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/03/30/theodore-roosevelt-on-the-early-20th-century-egyptian-arab-spring/

TEDDY ROOSEVELT WAS KNOWN FOR THE PHRASE; “SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK”….THE PRESENT OCCUPIER OF THE WHITE HOUSE “SPEAKS SOFTLY AND CARRIES A BIG SCHTICK”……RSK
Theodore Roosevelt on the Early 20th Century Egyptian “Arab Spring”
Theodore Roosevelt penned the remarkably prescient words, below, in a 1911 letter to his long-time correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, reflecting upon Roosevelt’s post-Presidency visit to Cairo and Khartoum, the previous year. Roosevelt’s concerns about the recrudescence of “old-style Moslem rule,” i.e., a Sharia not re-shaped or constrained by Western law, may now be fully realized a century later following the removal of Egyptian President Mubarak, and the electoral ascendancy of vox populi, mainstream Egyptian Islamic parties.

http://ncjausa.org/
JOIN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL TO CONDEMN STATE DEPARTMENT REFUSAL TO

RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM AS CAPITAL OF ISRAEL

ON THE EVE OF THE GLOBAL MARCH TO JERUSALEM BY ANTI-ISRAEL
ACTIVISTS AND TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH
AFFAIRS PUBLISHES POLITICO AD CALLING ON OBAMA AND CONGRESS TO
REAFFIRM JERUSALEM AS UNDIVIDED CAPITAL OF THE JEWISH STATE

AT ISSUE:

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs is appalled that the United
States Department of State has adamantly refused to recognize that
Jerusalem – any part of Jerusalem – is the capital of Israel, the
Jewish State.

With the possibility of a substantial turnout for tomorrow’s Global
March to Jerusalem
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/29/10907912-global-march-to-jerusalem-israels-borders-on-high-alert-as-huge-protests-loom,
the State Department’s latest assertion is particularly troubling, and
underscores what many Jews and friends of Israel have feared: that
there may indeed have been a major shift in U.S. policy away from
Israel under the Obama Administration.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294856/bolton-blames-obama-leaking-israeli-azerbaijan-relationship-patrick-brennan

BOLTON BLAMES OBAMA FOR LEAKING ISRAELI-AZERBAIJAN DEAL: PATRICK BRENNAN

According to a new article in Foreign Policy, Israel has, through a longtime but recently deepened relationship with Azerbaijan, gained access to airfields in a country bordering Iran, which it could use to make more feasible its attack on Iran. FP reports:

In 2009, the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Donald Lu, sent a cable to the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom titled “Azerbaijan’s discreet symbiosis with Israel.” The memo, later released by WikiLeaks, quotes Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev as describing his country’s relationship with the Jewish state as an iceberg: “nine-tenths of it is below the surface.”

Why does it matter? Because Azerbaijan is strategically located on Iran’s northern border and, according to several high-level sources I’ve spoken with inside the U.S. government, Obama administration officials now believe that the “submerged” aspect of the Israeli-Azerbaijani alliance — the security cooperation between the two countries — is heightening the risks of an Israeli strike on Iran. . . . “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official told me in early February, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.”

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/figuring_the_odds_on_obamacare

Guessing how the Supreme Court will decide a case, based on the questions the justices ask of the lawyers, is a fool’s game. That’s why pundits can’t resist playing it.

Rarely has a case before the court attracted so much attention as this week’s arguments about Barack Obama’s health-care scheme. Everybody is studying transcripts and accounts of which judge wiggled his eyebrows at whose lawyers, looking for hints, allusions, implications and insinuations, like Las Vegas oddsmakers searching for inside dope from the training camps on the eve of the Super Bowl.