http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3309/germany-integration-turkish-muslims Integration may even be unattainable if the younger generation of Turkish-Germans increasingly continues to embrace Islam. Nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the future, according to a new survey of Turkish-German mores and attitudes. The study also shows that […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2012/08/24/wake_up_gop_and_quit_ostracizing_todd_akin/print Prediction: If the GOP establishment doesn’t follow Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s example with a big, fat apology — to Akin — the whole party goes down in flames come November. I don’t mean every Republican will lose, but there is great political peril in not sealing the hole in Republican armor that has opened […]
WHAT BETTER EVIDENCE IS THERE FOR THE FAILURE OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA TO SERIOUSLY VET SOMEONE THAN THE SORDID STORY OF JOHN EDWARDS? RSK
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315013/original-birthers-victor-davis-hanson
The Left went apoplectic over Romney’s recent joke about birth certificates — perhaps a tit-for-tat shot across Obama’s bow for the prior week’s presidential evocation of the old story of Romney’s dog on top of Romney’s car. But if pundits wish to be so angry at the birther joking, then they should go after the original birthers, who may have started the myth — the literary agency Dystel & Goderich, which for over 16 years in their promo bio listed Obama as Kenyan-born — 1991–2007 — without any apparent complaint or questioning by those who read it. That fabrication was an odd thing to do for two reasons: One, authors are customarily asked to submit biographical information to their agents and publishers, and often periodically update and edit that information in catalogues, promo material, and booklets; and, two: The Kenyan-born reference disappeared abruptly in 2007, without any explanation, right about the time that Senator Obama began his campaign for the presidency.
Many have interpreted those strange events not as a simple “slip,” but as the lame fudging of either the agents, or the author, or both, to construct a suitably exotic birthplace for Obama that might emphasize the cross-cultural themes of his autobiography — a hypothesis strengthened by revelations that a great number of the key stories of Dreams from My Father were fictionalized, bearing little semblance to what actually happened.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2012/08/14/report-from-rome-berlusconi%E2%80%99s-comeback
Report From Rome: Berlusconi’s Comeback?
Ah, Italian politics . . . This scene reminds me of my native Serbia: corruption, sleaze, scandals, cushy jobs for the boys, and dramatis personæ that changes but little from one decade to another. There’s also the same resentment at various dictates coming from the German-dominated European Union—of which Italy (unlike Serbia) is a member, but an institution many Italians now see as a hostile foreign entity.
After nine months in power, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is in trouble. His non-partisan government of technocrats was effectively appointed on orders from the European Commission last November to sort out the country’s messy finances, which his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi was deemed unable to do. Berlusconi did not put much of a fight—which he could have done—and in retrospect we can see why. Within weeks Monti had to introduce hugely unpopular emergency austerity measures intended to restore market confidence, which included raising taxes by over twenty billion Euros ($25bn), increasing retirement age (which for many civil servants was a cushy 59!), and introducing tough new measures to curb tax evasion, a national sport if there ever was one. The assumption in Rome was that a reciprocal package would be put together in Brussels (with a blessing from Berlin, of course) to allow new liquidity into Italian economy to encourage growth and restore market confidence.
http://times247.com/
Anti-Obama film nabs No. 1 at box office
The Blaze
Friday, August 24, 2012
News
Dinesh D’Souza’s anti-Obama documentary, “2016: Obama’s America,” began playing in 1,090 North American theaters on Friday and is opening as the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office today, Deadline reports. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz24ee7YX9f
Palin aiding ‘underdogs’ far from Florida limelight
Los Angeles Times
Saturday, August 25, 2012
News
Palin aiding ‘underdogs’ far from Florida limelight
When the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday in Tampa, the star of the 2008 GOP gathering, Sarah Palin, will be 2,000 miles away in Arizona, campaigning for congressional candidates. …
Palin will be in little Gilbert, Ariz., helping serve up barbecue Monday afternoon alongside congressional hopeful Kirk Adams and later stumping for a couple of incumbent Republican congressmen, Jeff Flake and Paul Gosar. …
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/palin-to-help-underdogs-far-from-fla-limelight#ixzz24eeptat8hopeful Kirk Adams and later stumping for a couple of incumbent Republican congressmen, Jeff Flake and Paul Gosar. …
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/palin-to-help-underdogs-far-from-fla-limelight#ixzz24eeZTGQw
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Libya’s Islamists raze another sacred site….GEEZ I ALMOST FORGOT THEY ARE AN ARAB ‘SPRING’TIME MODEL NOW THAT QADDAFI IS GONE
Agence France-Presse
Saturday, August 25, 2012
News
Islamist hardliners bulldozed part of a revered mausoleum in Tripoli early on Saturday in the second such attack in Libya in two days. The radicals used an excavator to demolish part of the mausoleum of Al-Shaab Al-Dahman, close to the center of the Libyan capital. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz24eddgvvy
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DAVID SINGER IS MY FRIEND AND E-PAL AND HE LISTS THE “CONSTRUCTIVE” EFFORTS OF ISRAEL TO SHOW GOOD WILL. ALAS, DEAR DAVID, THE ONLY CONSTRUCTIVE GESTURE THE PALARABS WILL ACCEPT IS THE “JONESTOWN SOLUTION.” (IN GUYANA ON NOVEMBER 18,1978 A MASS SUICIDE TOOK PLACE )…..RSK
Via the antipodean J-Wire service as usual comes this latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. It’s entitled “Palestine – Where To From Here?”.
‘Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has written to Her Excellency Baroness Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, “to demonstrate Israel’s goodwill, desire to build trust and sincere desire to create a positive atmosphere vis-á-vis the PA, with the goal of bringing our neighbors back to the table of direct negotiations”.
The PA has refused to resume direct negotiations until Israel agrees to impose a construction freeze in the West Bank for the duration of such resumed negotiations – which Israel refuses to do.
Mr Lieberman has listed the following “significant gestures” made by Israel to attract the PA to drop its demand for a freeze and return to the negotiating table – which he claims are “not properly represented or reflected in the policy of the European Union or the Quartet on this subject”.
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Shteinitz and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad concluded (July 31) arrangements with respect to the transfer of goods between Israel and the PA and related tax procedures as recommended by the International Monetary Fund;
In light of the PA‘s budget crisis, Israel transferred at the beginning of the month of Ramadan (July 27) an advance of NIS 180 million (approximately USD 45 million) of August tax remittances. The money was intended to help the PA pay salaries in time to celebrate the holiday;
An agreement was concluded (July 14) to employ an additional 5,000 Palestinian construction workers in Israel;
The number of roadblocks was reduced to 10, most of which are normally open;
The remains of Palestinian terrorists were returned (May 31);
Israel agreed to develop the gas field off the Gaza shoreline;
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1565/exclusive_bbc_spends_a_third_of_1_million_concealing_middle_east_balen_report_?print=true
A Freedom of Information request released by The Commentator shows how desperate the BBC is to hide the Balen Report
Today, The Commentator reveals a Freedom of Information request showing that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has so far spent almost a third of a million pounds (more than half a million dollars) in order to conceal the infamous ‘Balen Report’, into the corporation’s coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the British public.
Britons are required by law to own licences in order to use televisions. This raises £3.6billion in funding for the state broadcaster. Despite this public funding, the BBC does not have to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with regard to actual information held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature.
The Balen Report was written in 2004 and campaigners say the BBC does not wish to release the document over fears that it will substantiate claims of BBC bias against Israel. Ironically, it is understood that former Director of News for the BBC, Richard Sambrook, commissioned the report in order to allay public fears. The report, however, was never released.
Since 2004, campaigners have attempted to coax the BBC into releasing the report, taking the organisation through a series of legal battles in order to view the information held within.
It has now come to light that the BBC has spent almost a third of a million pounds to hide the report from the public eye: “The legal costs incurred by the BBC amount to £332,780.47,” the BBC said.
The actual cost to the BBC is likely to be far higher, as in-house legal time is not factored in and nor is Value Added Tax.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/army_report_buried_islamic_motivations_for_afghan_murders_of_us_troops.html
On May 12, 2011 a US Army “Red Team” issued an unclassified report which purported to explain the burgeoning rash of murderous attacks (which have since escalated even further, still) by Afghan National Army (ANA) members on US and other NATO troops.
Although the report is dominated by apologetic, cultural relativist drivel which attempts, in vain, to explain away these acts of murder committed against the US and NATO troops by their by ANA “allies,” it also includes a crudely buried, sub rosa truthful narrative.
This latter discussion is all that matters, and bears full, clear exposure — particularly in light of the morally dubious excuse for the most recent spate of such killings of US troops. Specifically, General Allen in a pronouncement for which he should be forced to resign, maintained that Ramadan fasting, combined with operational tempo during the summer heat, were the drivers of these most recent killings of his own troops by Muslim ANA soldiers.
What General Allen willfully ignores was laid out, albeit clumsily camouflaged, using plain language, fifteen months ago in the “Red Team” report.
Based upon extensive interviews, US and NATO troops, as the report notes, were both disgusted with, and highly (and justifiably) suspicious of, the Islamically-sanctioned practices and behaviors of their Afghan military allies, and Afghan civilians.
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN KEEPS REMINDING ME THAT IN SPITE OF IMPLACABLE ENEMIES SURROUNDING A TINY NATION…ISRAEL IS A BEACON OF LIGHT. AS ANYONE WHO VISITS KNOWS, ISRAEL IS INSPIRING, FUN, BEAUTIFUL, FREE-WHEELING, EXOTIC, WITH CITIZENS WHO ARE BRAVE, UNFAILINGLY RUDE AND OPINIONATED AND DISPUTATIOUS, AND UNFAILINGLY HELPFUL AND FRIENDLY AND PATRIOTIC, REMARKABLE IN WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH EVERY SINGLE DAY…..BRAVO AND THANKS MICHAEL ORDMAN…..RSK
In the 26th Aug 2012 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· Israelis use missile technology to replace a man’s jawbone.
· Israelis are running a summer camp for orphans in Ethiopia.
· A clever Israeli device turns your iPhone / iPad into a TV – without a network connection.
· Four of Israel’s eight universities are in the world Top 100 academies for scientific excellence.
· A new business park will bring 40,000 jobs to Jerusalem.
· National Geographic chose the Israel National Trail as one of its 20 “World’s best hikes”.
· Israeli archaeologists have discovered a huge, unique-designed, 1300-year-old olive oil press.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israeli engineers save man’s jaw. Vladislav Zaitsev was suffering from severe jaw infection causing loss of bone and inability to eat, drink or speak. Doctors decided to bring in engineers from Israeli company RAFAEL who used missile technology to construct a brand new titanium jaw. Ironically, before his Aliya in 1997, Vladislav was a missile engineer in the former Soviet Union.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4262161,00.html
Proteins that cause allergies. Tel Aviv University Professor Sagi-Eisenberg and PhD student Nurit Pereg-Azouz have identified a group of 30 proteins involved in the trigger process for an allergic reaction. They have isolated two specific proteins that could be targeted by medication without the side effects of steroid treatments.
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17029
Cancer – a terrorist in the body. A team of microbiologists, including Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University, has discovered that cancer cells and bacteria behave in the same way as terrorists do in real life. They spy out the body, manipulate genes, enslave normal cells and become dormant to avoid danger.
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17079&news_iv_ctrl=-1
We care for Autism. Hundreds of researchers and educators joined families affected by autism at ICare4Autism’s 2012 International Autism Conference in Jerusalem. The organization is building the world’s first global autism research centre, adjoining the Hebrew University campus on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/InnovativeIsrael/International_autism_experts_Jerusalem_2-Aug-2012.htm
http://www.icare4autism.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ5djHi2KpE
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
The Ramadan cannon. Rajay Sanduka has been responsible for the Ramadan cannon in Jerusalem for 25 years. But on this particular day, he gave the task of firing the cannon (to mark the end of the fast) to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who spoke of how vital it is that all religions respect each other in Israel’s united capital.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLsVTIqx6QE&feature=em-subs_digest
Only 10 roadblocks left. More than a hundred checkpoints in Judea and Samaria have been removed as “goodwill” measure to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The media frequently reports that roadblocks are a crucial reason for the failure of the Palestinian Authority to become economically solvent, but the PA itself said last week that it is enjoying an exceptional growth rate of 5.2 percent.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158895
Saving Jewish teens. Here is the story of the charity ‘Learn & Live’ that rehabilitates those young people who, due to dysfunctional families, bad company or immoral influences, fall between the cracks of society.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/4148
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/Player.aspx#0#4148
Israelis run summer camp for Ethiopian orphans. Please read this guest blog. Five young Israeli volunteers from Project T.E.N. (Tikkun Empowerment Network – a project of The Jewish Agency for Israel) have opened a summer camp for street children in Gondar, Ethiopia. 51 children attend the camp, where they study English every day and participate in traditional camping activities including sports, arts and crafts, and drama.
http://verygoodnewsisraelguests.blogspot.co.il/2012/08/ten-summer-camp-in-gondar.html
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
The death of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, takes place in the shadow of the death of the space program. Last year Armstrong had called the dismantling of the space program under Obama, leaving behind a shadow space agency: “embarrassing and unacceptable”.
Armstrong had proposed not only future investments, but along with other astronauts had sensibly proposed retaining the space shuttle program until they were ready, instead of scrapping the shuttle program and distributing viable shuttles to museums. Armstrong was critical of the Bolden regime at NASA that had stripped the space agency of its best people and its ability to conduct manned space exploration or even reach the International Space Station without begging passage on Soviet Soyuz tubs.
“The reality that there is no flight requirement for a NASA pilot-astronaut for the foreseeable future is obvious and painful to all who have, justifiably, taken great pride in NASA’s wondrous space flight achievements during the past half century,” Armstrong concluded his testimony. “In space fight, we are in the process of exhausting alternatives. I am hopeful that, in the near future, we will be doing the right thing.”
If we ever do get around to doing the right thing, in space or on the ground, Neil Armstrong will not be around to see it. The famously reclusive astronaut passed away after being drawn out to make a final bid at reviving the space program. His final contribution may be that he joined the many voices warning of the decline of America. His final legacy may be determined by whether the American people choose to listen to some of his final words.
Neil Armstrong was born in 1930, the year that a young researcher watching the sky over Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. By 2006, it was decided that Pluto was no longer a planet. By 2016 we may decided that Neil Armstrong never really walked on the moon and that walking on the moon is an assault on the lunar ecology.
Two years ago, Charles Bolden, the incompetent Obama appointee who has implemented his mission of killing America’s space program, declared that the agency’s chief goal was outreach to the Muslim world. This was not his original idea.
While visiting Egypt, Bolden told Al-Jazeera that Obama had given him three missions. “One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering,”
Space exploration was not on the list for a reason. Michael Griffin, Bolden’s predecessor, who had done much to rebuild NASA, only to have his work ruined by Obama’s affirmative action appointees, Charles Bolden and Lori Garver, said of those comments, “NASA … represents the best of America. Its purpose is not to inspire Muslims or any other cultural entity. If by doing great things, people are inspired, well then that’s wonderful. If you get it in the wrong order … it becomes an empty shell… That is exactly what is in danger of happening.”
NASA, like the rest of American exceptionalism, has become that empty shell in the throes of Obama’s Post-American national order. It exists to make Muslim boys feel good about imaginary Muslim inventions and to provide jobs to Russian engineers. In the last week NASA premiered a new song from one of Obama’s favorite musicians, will.i.am and demonstrated a new “green” alternative to existing rocket fuels.
In a memo for NASA’s OEOD, Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Charles Bolden declared that, “Diversity and inclusion are integral to mission success at NASA”. Because how can we possibly reach the stars unless there are mandated diversity targets among the launch crews and the conflict management specialists?
“As NASA’s Diversity and Inclusion Champion,” Bolden wrote,”I belicve it is incumbent on every member of the NASA community to advocate for promote, and most importantly, practice the principles of diversity and inclusion in everything that we do.”
