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Ruth King

SHALE OIL CAN CREATE AN ENERGY BOOM IF OBAMA WILL LET IT

http://bigpeace.com/ier/2011/07/01/shale-oil-can-create-an-american-energy-boom-if-obama-will-let-it/ First, hydraulic fracturing gave the United States a boom in shale gas that lowered natural gas prices by 54 percent between 2008 and 2009. Now, shale oil discoveries are being made that can substantially increase onshore oil production. The Bakken oil field located in western North Dakota, northeast Montana, and Canada’s Saskatchewan Province is pumping 225,000 […]

JONATHAN HOFFMAN: JIHAD JENNY TONGE

http://www.thejc.com/blogs/jonathan-hoffman/jihad-jenny-threatens-quit-libdems-over-salah-detention Shame on her and shame on her miserable craven organisation. http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ At a meeting in a House of Commons Committee Room last night where I was present, “Jihad” Jenny Tonge spoke about “the power of the Israel Lobby”. Her remarks were in connection with the Home Secretary’s decision to arrest and deport Sheikh Raeed […]

NUKES: IRAN NOW, SAUDI ARABIA TOMORROW?

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/576980/201106301900/Nukes-Iran-Now-Saudi-Tomorrow.htm Mideast: A key Saudi royal warns NATO that a nuclear-armed Iran means Saudi Arabia must attain weapons of mass destruction too. The United States and/or Israel could have prevented this unfolding disaster. A nuclear arms race begins among Islamic regimes in the Middle East. Our elected leaders and the hyper-educated, lavishly paid diplomats we […]

UNEXPECTED NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR RICK PERRY

Newsmax Unexpected NH Support Presses Perry Run, Aide Says By: Hiram Reisner A top adviser to Texas Gov. Rick Perry says New Hampshire support for the governor’s potential presidential run was unexpected — especially since Perry has yet to visit the Granite State — and a decision will be made in the next several weeks, […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE REPUBLICANS AND LIBYA

Re: Republicans and Libya By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/270902 It gets tedious to continue pointing this out, but Qaddafi was every bit as much a “homicidal dictator,” to borrow Max Boot’s phrase, when a Republican administration decided to embrace him and regard him as a key ally against terrorism. Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, […]

WES PRUDEN: GOP NOT QUITE OFF AND RUNNING YET

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/ The 2012 presidential marathon is on, and one mainstream pollster (Rasmussen) says a Republican apparition is opening up a lead on President Obama. (Any Republican 46 percent, Barack Obama 42 percent.) A growing number of Democrats figure that whoever can keep his head in the rattle and bang of unexpected events just doesn’t understand […]

ELIOR LEVY: GAZANS UNIMPRESSED BY THE FLOTILLARDS

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4089709,00.html Gazans unimpressed by flotillaIsraeli claims over futility of flotilla receive reinforcement from surprising direction – Gazan businessmen who say it isn’t imports that are problem, it’s exports. ‘Gaza doesn’t need anymore humanitarian aid,’ says Gisha movement director Israel has been claiming for quite some time that the desire to break through the blockade on […]

ECONOMIC WARFARE INSTITUTE: EHRENFELD AND JENSEN

http://acdemocracy.org/economic-warfare-institute.cfm CONTENTS    MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA FLOTILLA ITEM 1: Ehud Rosen: Who Is Behind the Second Gaza Flotilla? http://jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=0&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=7745&TTL=Who_Is_Behind_the_Second_Gaza_Flotilla ITEM 2: Benny Avni: A Flotilla of Fiends-and Useful Idiots http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/flotilla_of_fiends_and_useful_idiots_k0Sas1R7v0Y7hmZ86sDVRO EGYPT ITEM 3: REUTERS: U.S. shifts to closer contact with Egypt Islamists http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/us-usa-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE75T0GD20110630 ITEM 4: LA TIMES: Egypt’s pro-democracy activists feel their grip […]

ISRAELIS AND SELF INFLICTED BLINDNESS: SARAH HONIG

The recycling of the nobody in Israel’s politics — http://www.sarahhonig.com/?p=880 There’s a well-defined distinction between a schlimazel and a schlemiel. The former is the one on whom soup is spilled, while the latter is the one who spills it. In the rare instance that both categories of klutziness coalesce in one persona, it’s an out-and-out […]

HAVE WE BEEN SCAMMED BY SALAH UDDIN SHOAIB CHOUDHURY? BRENDA WEST

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/92561/sec_id/92561 Can we admit that we have been scammed?   Many of us in the Western world believed the Bangladeshi journalist and publisher, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, when he called himself a “Muslim Zionist.” Choudhury presented himself as devoted to Jewish people and Western principles of democracy. He won international acclaim and generous financial support as […]