This Is Beyond The Ability Of Japanese Authorities
Let’s pray he’s wrong. I hate to say this but I advise my readers to consider investing in the Alberta oil sands. Soon.
The Massacre of Meaning
Daniel Greenfield:
When terrorists planted bomb in a bag near a bus station killing a Scottish Bible translator studying ancient Hebrew, and wounding dozens more including six Americans—Reuters decided it was time to explain to its audience what that peculiar Hebraic term, “Terrorist Attack” meant.
Police described the explosion as a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike,” Reuters elucidated. Reuter’s term for a terrorist attack turns out to be “Palestinian strike”, which suggests a labor rally by terrorists demanding more virgins in paradise and more euphemistic media coverage. If such were their demands, then they got their wish.
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Preschools Are Using a Marxist’s Theories to Manufacture Collectivists
By Chuck Rogér:
The room buzzes with little voices. Little children engage in “mature, dramatic play.” An adult helps the children “regulate” and “monitor each other’s compliance” with “rules and assigned roles.”[1] Each child knows his or her place. Each child does the group’s bidding, nothing else.
Orwell’s 1984? No, a scene played out in thousands of classrooms across America. The drumbeat of collectivism begins in preschool. And a long-dead Soviet psychologist helped define that drumbeat.
Months ago, an email from a teacher spurred me to investigate the theories of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). My research revealed starry-eyed academics enamored of collectivism.
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Are Christians humans, too?
by Ken Blackwell:
President Obama, on those rare occasions when he defends his Libya policy at all, focuses on Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s threats of “no mercy” to the rebels in his strife-torn North African satrapy. It’s a “humanitarian” imperative. America, the president says, has a moral duty to intervene when millions are threatened with extermination.
In the Sudan, some 5 million Africans have died for decades at the hands of the Islamist government in Khartoum. So brutal has been the rule of Omar al-Bashir that when the majority of Christians and followers of traditional African religions in South Sudan recently had the chance to vote on separation, most regions registered near unanimous votes to break away.
Yet there have been no calls from the Obama administration, or previous administrations, for the United States to intervene militarily in the Sudan.
Which leads us to ask: Are Christians humans, too? How is it that when U.S. administrations have been willing to spend blood and treasure for endangered peoples in the post-Communist era, it has been the case that we will intervene when Muslims are threatened, not when it is Christians who are being slaughtered?
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Woman claiming rape and torture dragged away by Libyan officials
by The Right Scoop:
**UPDATED: MORE VIDEO**
This is a very upsetting report by Sky News of a woman who came to their hotel in much distress to tell them she had been raped and tortured by Libyan officials. She didn’t get that far before Libyan officials pulled a gun on Sky News, dragged the lady away kicking and screaming and put a bag over her head and took her away. Monsters!
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Bolton to GOP: Foreign Policy Is Key
By JONATHAN WEISMAN:
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, a foreign-policy iconoclast, will take his most tangible step toward a presidential run on Saturday when he attends a Republican presidential cattle call here.
He will bring a striking message: Republicans can’t count on a poor economy or soaring national debt to thwart President Barack Obama’s re-election. They have to focus on foreign policy.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Bolton said that by next year, the economy will have turned around enough to make Americans optimistic about the future. A year-long budget debate in Congress will have eased voter concerns about the federal deficit—especially if a budget deal is struck to dent the projected U.S. debt, as Mr. Bolton thinks is likely.
The result, he argued, is that Republican Party standard-bearers are taking the party down a dead end by keeping a relentless focus on deficits and jobs.
Instead, Mr. Bolton said, the party needs a leader to reverse what he called Mr. Obama’s “post-American” presidency, which in his view has marginalized U.S. global leadership and hampered progress on energy independence, international trade and Middle East peace.
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Economic danger signs mounting
Steve McCann:
While much of the world’s attention is focused on Libya and the ongoing Washington follies staring Barack Obama, the global markets are the midst of their own struggle with reality.
It has long been a truism that the stock markets are a bellwether as to the future of the domestic or international economy and are thus highly sensitive to factors that have financial implications either negative or positive. However that adage has been stood on its head thanks to unprecedented and highly dangerous monetary policy pursued primarily by the Federal Reserve but also by various central bankers throughout the world.
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Why are Canadian Conservatives covering for Obama in Libya?
Judi McLeod:
It could easily be argued that Canada is the most pro-UN country among all Western nations.
Canadian Maurice Strong, senior advisor to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had more UN titles than any other person living or dead, until his name was connected to the United Nations Oil For food Scandal in 2005, was kingpin for the sweeping major reforms under Annan, and of most UN initiatives seeking a One World Government.
Canadian Louise Arbour was from 2004 to 2008 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rawanda.
Canadian Louise Frechette was until 2005 UN Deputy Secretary-General for eight years.
The United States of America has troops. Canada has “Peace Keepers”.
Former Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while he was President of the UN General Assembly in 1957, proposed the concept of UN Peacekeeping Forces.
Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council George Ignatieff, is the father of current day Canadian Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
In fact, pull out a file from almost any UN portfolio, and you will find Canadian names with big titles.
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Geert Wilders in Rome: Defending the West from Cultural Relativism and Jihad
Andrew G. Bostom:
Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address yesterday evening (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy.
As is his wont, Wilders presentation moved far beyond the timorous platitudes about the most obvious (and dangerous) failures of cultural relativism belatedly echoed by Western European leaders Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, and David Cameron. Wilders demands that the West acknowledge the jihad-both cultural and military-being waged against it openly and incessantly by institutional Islam, Muslim nations, and the global umma. The Ducth Parlaimentarian concludes his eloquent and informative speech by insisting that four concrete measures must be taken immediately, quoting Ronald Reagan, so we can “…act today to preserve tomorrow.”
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Notion of Intifada allows Palestinians to justify violence while using victimhood card
Asaf Romirowsky:
The Arabic term Intifada connotes awakening or uprising and was first used during the 1987 uprising against Israel. It is also used in the Palestinian narrative in the sense of “to shake up or wake up” the world and Israel to all the wrong that was done to the Palestinians as a result of the Israeli “occupation.”
Practically, this idea, that any means including violence may be used in the face of “occupation” has given Palestinians the carte blanche to do whatever they want whenever they want with no consequences for their actions.
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West being suckered by Arab League
By Salim Mansur:
The Libyan mission Operation Odyssey Dawn, under UN authority, is a dog’s breakfast and nothing good is going to come out of it.
The conniving elite of the Arab League has snookered an ever-ready coalition of western powers to do its bidding. And the western powers (Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada dutifully in tow), with their sights protectively fixed on oil-rich desert patches of the Middle East and North Africa, needed little urging to respond.
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Glenn interviews Fogel family mayor
Glenn Beck:
Glenn interviewed the mayor of Itamar, the town where Palestinian militants murdered the innocent Jewish Fogel family. Glenn has been talking about this story on TV and radio for over a week, and today he interviewed the mayor of the town on radio.
Why Anti-Israel Incitement and Terrorism from the PA, PLO, and Fatah Continues
by Moshe Dann:
Calling for Mahmoud Abbas — president of the PA, chairman of the PLO, and head of Fatah — to condemn the terrorist attack in Itamar and to end incitement is meaningless.
Fatah, the main party in the PLO, is committed to violence. The Sixth Fatah Conference (2009) affirmed all forms of resistance, including armed struggle. Resistance to Israeli “occupation,” as Palestinians see it, is not only legitimate but honored.
Although there is no evidence that the PA, PLO, and Fatah are actively involved in terrorist activities, they support anti-Israel incitement and “popular resistance.” Local gangs and “sleeper cells” acting on their own and even loosely affiliated with Fatah/al Aksa Brigades carry out terrorist attacks, but — unlike their role under Yassir Arafat — are not officially sanctioned by the PA.
While international funding to Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizations may not be used directly to fund terrorism by donor law, these funds are used in the war of words against Israel with devastating success.
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What Are Republicans Thinking?!?
by Dan Mitchell:
I posted yesterday at International Liberty about the stunning political incompetence of Republican Senators, who reportedly are willing to give Obama an increase in the debt limit in exchange for a vote (yes, just a vote) on a balanced budget amendment.
As I explained, there is no way they can get the necessary two-thirds support to approve an amendment, so why trade a meaningless and symbolic vote on a BBA for meaningful and real approval of more borrowing authority for Obama? My analogy yesterday was that this was like trading a all-star baseball player for a utility infielder in the minor leagues.
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The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN:
Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which boast relatively sturdy institutions, civil society associations and middle classes, as well as being age-old clusters of civilization where states of one form or another have existed since antiquity. Darker terrain awaits us elsewhere in the region, where states will substantially weaken once the carapace of tyranny crumbles. The crucial tests lie ahead, beyond the distraction of Libya.
The United States may be a democracy, but it is also a status quo power, whose position in the world depends on the world staying as it is. In the Middle East, the status quo is unsustainable because populations are no longer afraid of their rulers. Every country is now in play. Even in Syria, with its grisly security services, widespread demonstrations have been reported and protesters killed. There will be no way to appease the region’s rival sects, ethnicities and other interest groups except through some form of democratic representation, but anarchic quasi-democracy will satisfy no one. Other groups will emerge, and they may be distinctly illiberal.
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NYT: Surprisingly, the Muslim Brotherhood appears to have seized the Egyptian revolution
by Ed Morrissey:
You don’t say! This must come as quite a shock to certain experts who assured us that the Ikhwan was a mostly secular movement. Even some hard-nosed realists might find themselves a bit surprised at how quickly the nature of the Egyptian revolution changed after Hosni Mubarak fled:
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It’s so bloody obvious to anyone with a scintilla of intelligence that there is no such thing as a viable democracy movement in the non-Israeli Middle East. This stupidity on the part of the NY Times is exactly the problem with the Left in general. Leftists know nothing about anything, anywhere and historically all their ‘bright ideas’ have ended in the mass slaughter and subjugation of huge numbers of people. Leftist are self-righteous hypocrites who inflate their own sense of importance.
Power and The Post American President
Pam Gellar:
So great to see Glenn Beck cover Atlas exposes that I posted years ago on his show yesterday. It took years and no credit, but I am thrilled that this critical news has made the light of day. And thanks to Beck for pointing to the abandonment of Israel — also meticulously documented in The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America (read it!)
My book has the whole story:
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Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt
By Sean McLaughlin – The Washington Times:
Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the federal government in an even tighter financial pinch.
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MORE Acorn: Leftists Plot Squatting to Take Over Houses
by Publius:
MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) and other leftists held meetings in 2010 to plan their strategy for squatting on properties in the St. Louis area. The video above introduces some of their leaders. A future video will outline MORE’s longterm strategy to acquire residential property through extralegal means like squatting.
Who or what is MORE, you may be wondering. When ACORN was put out of business, the local chapters re-branded themselves. St. Louis’s ACORN chapter became MORE. Even after the re-branding MORE still has ties to communist organizations.
They’ve sponsored bank protests at Chase Bank and Bank of America. They recently stormed an event at St. Louis University. Their efforts to acquire property through squatting and “urban homesteading” are just another page out of the radical left’s play book.
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Allen West speech on the 21st Century Battlefield
by The Right Scoop:
Rep. Allen West gave a great speech to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches a few days ago. He talks about the 21st century battlefield from an economic, energy, and national security perspective. I’m telling you, West really has a vision of how to get our country back to greatness and I believe he can do it. I just wish I could vote for him now!
Even though the video shows 49 minutes, the speech only runs for about 20 min. The rest is a Q&A, all of which I haven’t had a chance to listen to yet but I’m sure there are some jewels there.
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The Inquisition of Melanie Phillips
by Robert Spencer, FrontPage:
Last week British columnist Melanie Phillips wrote a blogpost at the Spectator entitled “Armchair barbarism,” discussing the brutal jihad murders of the Fogel family in Israel. Her references to the “moral depravity” of the Arab “savages” who committed the crime have gotten her in hot water with Britain’s hyper-PC Press Complaints Commission, which has launched an investigation.
Phillips is being investigated, ironically enough, for writing that “the moral depravity of the Arabs,” as she chose to term the murderers of the Fogels and those in Gaza who celebrated those murders, “is finding a grotesque echo in the moral bankruptcy and worse of the British and American ‘liberal’ media.” And as if on cue, the watchdog organization in Britain of that liberal media swooped down upon her.
The irony was compounded by a further statement in Phillips’ column: “Overwhelmingly, the media have either ignored or downplayed the atrocity – or worse, effectively blamed the victims for bringing it on themselves, describing them as ‘hard-line settlers’ or extremists.” In this case, however, they were not blaming the victim, but blaming the columnist who spoke forthrightly about the nature of the murderers.
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Understanding the 3rd terror war
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem?
Wednesday’s bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel of the new Palestinian terror war that is just coming into view. As Israel considers how to contend with the emerging onslaught, it is important to notice how it differs from its predecessors.
On a military level, the tactics the Palestinians have so far adopted are an interesting blend of state-of-the-art missile attacks with old-fashioned knife and bomb-in-the-briefcase attacks. The diverse tactics demonstrate that this war is a combination of Iranian-proxy war and local terror pick-up cells. The attacks are also notable for their geographic dispersion and for the absence thus far of suicide attacks.
For the public, the new tactics are not interesting and the message they send is nothing new. With or without suicide bombers, Israelis understand that we are entering a new period of unremitting fear, where we understand that we are in danger no matter where we are. Whether we’re in bed asleep, or our way to work or school, or sitting down on a park bench or at a restaurant, whether we’re in Rishon Lezion, Sderot, Jerusalem, Itamar or Beersheba, we are in the Palestinians’ crosshairs. All of us are “settlers.” All of us are in danger.
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The Anti-Tea Party Fighting to Take Down Global Economies
Michelle Horstman:
When Glenn Beck tells you that an attack on our economic system has already begun, he’s not kidding. One of the major groups working towards “economic justice” is USUncut.org. Just launched in mid-February,USUncut is linked to the UKUncut group. Although billing itself as a spontaneous, grassroots “Tea Party for the Left”, USUncuts is also linked with SEIUand other98.com. You may recall that The Other 98 put together the “Celebrate the Dream” event in Washington last August in an effort to counteract Glenn Beck’s event.
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An ‘honest’ campaign must be honest about Liberal-NDP coalition
Lorne Gunter:
Ever since Tuesday’s budget, when it has seemed inevitable that the three opposition parties – the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois – would act together to force an election, there has been plenty of speculation that the Tories must win a majority in any upcoming election if they hope to remain the government. If they win the most seats, but fall short of a majority again (the third time in a row), the opposition parties will band together in a coalition to keep the Tories from being sworn in. Reports insist that in the event the Tories fail to capture a majority, the Liberals and NDP will go to Governor General David Johnston, tell him they refuse to work with yet another Tory minority government and ask him to give them a chance to form a working coalition instead.
Constitutionally, I have no problem with that. But politically, this is only half as clever as it needs to be.
For such a coalition strategy to work to the benefit of those hatching it, it has to be announced before election day and it explicitly must exclude the Bloc Quebecois.
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Roy Green: The central election question is — coalition, yes or no?
Answer the question Mr. Ignatieff. In the event of a minority Conservative Party election result might Canadians be treated to a rebirth of the Liberal, NDP, BQ coalition?
iPhone App Attack
Chuck Colson:
The greatest threat to religious liberty and free speech in the United States is on the attack again. I’m not talking about Islamic extremism or the New Atheists. No, as dangerous as these anti-Christian ideologies are to our freedoms, they take a back seat right now to the ruthless, methodical attacks by gay-rights groups on anyone who disagrees with them.
Let me explain. Last year, you’ll recall that we created an iPhone app for the Manhattan Declaration. The app would allow users to read, sign, and share the Manhattan Declaration and its defense of human life, traditional marriage, and religious freedom. Apple said the app was “free from objectionable material.”
But when a group that supports so-called “gay marriage” protested that the Declaration promoted “hate” and “homophobia” and was “anti-gay,” (which it wasn’t), Apple removed the app from its iPhone store.
Since then I’ve been warning you that the Manhattan Declaration was just the first target of gay-rights groups. Now they have another: Exodus International, a Christian ministry that aims to free people from homosexuality. Apple has now removed the Exodus International app from its app store.
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THR: Joel Surnow Says ‘Kennedys’ Was Nearly Killed Because of His Political Views
by John Nolte:
The Hollywood Reporter delivers an absolutely terrific and in-depth look at some of the maddening behind-the-scenes nonsense that ended, quite incredibly, with the History Channel’s cancellation of a $30 million miniseries, a move that likely cost its parent company, A&E Television Networks (and its owners Disney, NBCUniversal), millions already invested in production and marketing costs. This from the same network that broadcast a two-hour love letter to Howard Zinn. But it’s obvious the powers-that-be chose to lose a bundle in order to stay in the good graces of the Kennedy family (and therefore Hollywood) in the same way Disney appeases the Clintons by refusing to rerun or release on DVD “The Path to 9/11.”
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The media in general is in the pocket of the Left and the Dems. It’s the same here in Canada where CBC, CTV and Global are all shills for the Left and Liberal/NDP axis. For that reason I have boycotted watching or listening to CBC for 15 years now. It’s also the same in the UK.
Mounting Terror in Israel
by P. David Hornik, FrontPage:
Snugly asleep at 5:30 on Wednesday morning, I was awoken by sirens that rang through Beersheva. By the time, groggy, I made it to the stairs of the apartment building, heading down to the air-raid shelter, I and other groggy, semi-dressed people around me heard the boom, sounding very near.
It was a Grad rocket fired from Gaza. It landed in a private yard—indeed not far from us—and a man who saw the explosion from his third-story window was injured by shrapnel. Beersheva schools were closed for the day.
Another Grad from Gaza hit Beersheva four hours later, this time with no damage.
These two Grads were part of a larger barrage of southern Israel: a Grad had also landed near Ashdod Tuesday night, causing no damage, and another seven mortar shells struck the region on Wednesday. During Tuesday, amid a general escalation stretching back to the weekend and earlier, Israeli planes had hit terrorist targets in Gaza, killing nine including four civilians.
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Senate to Hold Hearings on “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”
by Robert Spencer, FrontPage:
On a day when Islamic jihadists exploded a bomb in Jerusalem that murdered at least one woman and wounded thirty, and when Islamic jihadists opened fire on and killed two Christians outside a church in Pakistan, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) announced that he was going to hold hearings on the rise in “anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Durbin, of course, was retaliating for the hearings recently conducted by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who himself bowed to politically correct pressure and dropped several witnesses that he had originally announced his intention to call, including ex-Muslim human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and terror analyst Walid Phares.
Not only was the timing of Durbin’s announcement ironic, but also the fact that his retaliatory hearings were unnecessary in the first place. King, after all, gave a prime platform at his hearings to the weepy Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), whose pilgrimage to Mecca was paid for with $13,350 from the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Brotherhood ‘s chief operating arm in the U.S.
Ellison used the bully pulpit King gave him to paint a lurid picture of Muslim victimhood, all the while saying nothing (of course) about the sharp increase in jihad terror plots in this country over the last two years. How can Durbin top that?
The irony of Durbin’s hearings becomes even more acute when one notes that according to the most recent FBI statistics (covering 2009), anti-Jewish attacks account for 70% of hate crimes, and anti-Muslim attacks for only 9% of crimes thus classified. Durbin is preparing to hold hearings about an “anti-Muslim bigotry” that is almost completely nonexistent.
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