http://www.TheEttingerReport.com Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” 1. Four Israeli universities are included among the top 30 computer science universities in the world (US – 20 universities, Canada – 2, UK – 2, Switzerland – 1, Hong Kong – 1), according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1889/Libya-Blood-for-Oil-Pt-2.aspx Via ANSAmed (with thanks to Baron Bodissey): PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1 – France reportedly finalised an agreement with the National Transitional Council (NTC) at the beginning of the conflict in Libya on the basis of which the rebels would sign over 35% of Libyan oil to Paris, according to this morning’s issue of the French […]
Another Tack: Khartoum’s three ‘no’s’- the Ramallah version Our media – forever plying an advocacy agenda and tendentiously promoting hyped humbug – showed no interest in focusing on Ramallah figurehead Mahmoud Abbas’s latest song and dance. Denied resonance, the story expired virtually unnoticed. Most Israeli news-consumers were highly unlikely even to have detected any fleeting resemblance […]
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* In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered. The ceremonies, less than half an hour long, took place on board the battleship USS Missouri,
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Preparations on the Morning of 2 September 1945;
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Scenes on USS Missouri before the Ceremonies;
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Surrender Ceremonies Begin;
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Signing the Instruments of Surrender;
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Aircraft Flyover as the Ceremonies Conclude;
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Japanese Delegation Leaves USS Missouri and
* Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 — Activities immediately after the Ceremonies.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10294/pub_detail.asp The specter of Anders Breivik hovers in the minds of so-called progressives, haunting their imaginations and guiding their fingers as they type. Breivik, as you may recall, was the Norwegian extremist who slaughtered 76 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting spree on the island of Utoya, on July 22 this […]
Gore: Climate Change Opponents Racist Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/01/gore-climate-change-opponents-racist/ Last week, Al Gore explained to Climate Reality Project advocate Alex Bogusky that anthropogenic climate change believers must “win the conversation” against its opponents. By winning the conversation, Gore apparently means verbally bludgeoning its opponents into submission by shouting “racist” at […]
Iran’s Ominous Red Sea Move Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/01/iran%e2%80%99s-ominous-red-sea-move/ Both Israel and Iran have sent warships into waters south of Israel. FoxNews reported on Wednesday that Israel had deployed two more warships to its Red Sea border with Egypt; Israel already has an unspecified naval presence in the area. […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/276021 An unprecedented collaboration between the Obama administration and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly called the Organization of the Islamic Conference) to combat “Islamophobia” may soon result in the delegitimization of freedom of expression as a human right. The administration is taking the lead in an international effort to “implement” a U.N. resolution […]
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576532623176115558.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
“As a president, Barack Obama has been a force for mediocrity. He has banked more on the hopeless interventions of government than on the exceptionalism of the people. His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people. So the concept of the exceptionalism—the genius for freedom—of the American people may still be a stretch for him. But in fact he was elected to make that stretch. It should be held against him that he has failed to do so.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904716604576542552821233200.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Are you sitting down? If not, you probably should be, because we have some stunning news: Barack Obama is giving a speech next week. “Obama plans to propose his new jobs plan in a prime time address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, a week from today,” USA Today reports. As […]
