The Iconoclast Sunday, 9 October 2011 Brutal Crack Down Against Coptic Protests in Egypt: 24 Dead by Jerry Gordon When we posted on the rising flight of Coptic Christian to their Diaspora, we saw a bleak future and mounting massacres. What happened in Cairo today is a precursor of what could happen to crush the […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576613284007315072.html?mod=djemalertTECH
The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Attorney General Eric Holder, top, has said the U.S. is pursuing an ‘active criminal investigation’ of WikiLeaks.
Sonic said it fought the government’s order and lost, and was forced to turn over information. Challenging the order was “rather expensive, but we felt it was the right thing to do,” said Sonic’s chief executive, Dane Jasper. The government’s request included the email addresses of people Mr. Appelbaum corresponded with the past two years, but not the full emails.
Steve Jobs and Me He said my 1971 article inspired him. His iBook obsessed me. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/steve_jobs_and_the_little_blue_box_how_ron_rosenbaum_s_1971_arti.html You may have read about this in the Times obit for Steve Jobs. I’m talking about this passage which dealt with the origin of the Apple partnership between Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and my role in it: The spark […]
DC museum closed after protest; pepper spray used http://news.yahoo.com/dc-museum-closed-protest-pepper-spray-used-022321601.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Air and Space Museum inWashington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters. Smithsonian spokesman John Gibbons said a large group of demonstrators, estimated at 100 to 200 […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ “You’re either one of the 99 percent of one of the 1 percent,” reads a sticker on a lamppost near my house. The implication being that if you’re not one of the 1 percent, you should be packing your class warfare kit of cardboard signs, camping gear and iPods loaded with a copy of […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-790539,00.html
German General Says NATO Mission Has ‘Failed’
A top German general who was instrumental in planning the Bundeswehr’s mission in Afghanistan has said that the intervention has failed and the Taliban will regain power within months of withdrawal. Ten years after the invasion, he is far from alone with his critique.
It was 10 years ago that the United States, together with its NATO allies, marched into Afghanistan to put an end to Taliban rule and begin the hunt for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. A decade later, the terrorist leader is dead. But, says Harald Kujat, former general inspector of the German military, the mission has been a failure.
“The mission fulfilled the political aim of showing solidarity with the United States,” Kujat told the German daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. “But if you measure progress against the goal of stabilizing a country and a region, then the mission has failed.”
American Autumn http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/279534 The zombie youth “occupying” Wall Street are contemptuous of the world that sustains their comforts. Michael Oher, offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, was online on Wednesday night when his Twitter feed started filling up with tributes to Steve Jobs. A bewildered Oher tweeted: “Can somebody help me out? Who was Steve […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/505/the_antisemitism_lobby
The Antisemitism Lobby
When a self-described ‘self-hating’ Jew holds forth on what vexes him about ‘Jewish identity’, Professor Mearsheimer of ‘Israel Lobby’-fame thinks it should be recommended reading
Did you know that the Jews declared war on Germany well before the Nazis adopted anti-Jewish policies?I have to confess that despite my Ph.D. in contemporary history, I was completely ignorant of this “fact” – but that’s because this particular spin of the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott of late March 1933 is of course a favorite among people who think the Nazis were right about the Jews.
Just like how Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi Minister of “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda,” felt that there was “intrinsic” truth to the antisemitic forgery known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” there are still people who see “prophetic qualities” in this forgery, which reads to them like an accurate description of “the political reality in which we live.”
Such views are not restricted to the far-right fringes and neo-Nazi groups, but are also held by supposedly leftist “anti-Zionists.”
Among the latter type is the Israeli-British jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, who apparently has a lot of spare time that he devotes to expressing his disdain and hatred for all things Israeli and Jewish.
Gunwalker: Punch-Drunk Eric Holder Swings Back at Critics, Hits Self Posted By Bob Owens
URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-punch-drunk-eric-holder-swings-back-at-critics-hits-self/
Friday was just another day in a continuing series of bad days for the administration of President Barack Obama, as the furor surrounding the executive branch’s gun-walking scandal continues to escalate.
The day began with a gritty montage-style video from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asking the question few in the media are willing to ask about the gun-walking program: Holder vs. White House: Who Is Responsible? [1] Like a duffel bag stuffed with straw-purchased Draco pistols, the day quickly went “south” from there.
The White House attempt to implement a weak “Bush did it too” defense collapsed in spectacular fashion, in the worst possible way. The administration – specifically the Department of Justice — leaked a claim that a Bush-era operation called “Wide Receiver” also walked guns to Mexican cartels, just like Obama’s Operation Fast and Furious. The claim served as a “hook” to draw out news agencies that had up until now largely ignored the scandal out of partisan deference to the White House.
But the claim simply wasn’t true [2].Gunwalker: Punch-Drunk Eric Holder Swings Back at Critics, Hits Self Posted By Bob Owens
URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-punch-drunk-eric-holder-swings-back-at-critics-hits-self/
Friday was just another day in a continuing series of bad days for the administration of President Barack Obama, as the furor surrounding the executive branch’s gun-walking scandal continues to escalate.
The day began with a gritty montage-style video from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asking the question few in the media are willing to ask about the gun-walking program: Holder vs. White House: Who Is Responsible? [1] Like a duffel bag stuffed with straw-purchased Draco pistols, the day quickly went “south” from there.
The White House attempt to implement a weak “Bush did it too” defense collapsed in spectacular fashion, in the worst possible way. The administration – specifically the Department of Justice — leaked a claim that a Bush-era operation called “Wide Receiver” also walked guns to Mexican cartels, just like Obama’s Operation Fast and Furious. The claim served as a “hook” to draw out news agencies that had up until now largely ignored the scandal out of partisan deference to the White House.
But the claim simply wasn’t true [2].
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=240870
In the face of mounting international pressure, Israel cannot afford to lose sight of what the conflict is really about.
“It is time to acknowledge the unpalatable fact that the enmity of Arabs towards the Jews and the Jewish state is:
– not about borders but about existence;
– not about what the Jewish people do but about what the Jewish people are;
– not about the Jewish state’s policies but about the Jewish state per se; and
– not about Jewish military “occupation” of Arab land but about Jewish political existence on any land.
Israel must internalize these truths and undertake a policy to convey them – with conviction and vigor — to the world. Otherwise it may well be “liberated.”
