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[Sic Semper Tyrannis] Sic Semper Tyrannis : "Visa for Key Israeli Aide Still in Doubt ...:     There was more bad news for Israel, however, including recent statements by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that Tel Aviv halt Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories, America’s easing of its attitude towards Iran’s nuclear program, combined with the U.S. administration’s fixed and unyielding determination to obtain measurable progress in achieving an Arab-Israeli peace agreement. Taken together, they make for a combustible mixture.

[Works and Days] Works and Days » The Reckoning: i don’t want my children here….girlfriend and i can manage due to our enrollment in the school of hard knocks in the past..our combined children have no such experiences…my 22 y/o daughter is traveling europe now post graduation from Penn State engineering….she has been there several times and always felt safe…she doesn’t feel safe now…she told me in a conversation via phone that there is a weird tension in the air…especially in Amsterdam and the nordic countries….even her beloved Italy was different, colder, slightly hostile towards Americans…a great friend of hers who is finishing up post grad at the Vatican told her that the feeling on the street is that where Americans congregate, it’s a potential target rich environment….

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: CNN Poll: Favorable opinion of Dick … WASHINGTON (CNN) ”” The same day Dick Cheney delivered a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise.

[Wonders of Pakistan] Children of Darkness - Killing “them” (Part 2) « Wonders of Pakistan: Dear Davids,  “Have journalists learnt nothing from recent history?”  The answer, I fear, is nothing.  I work at BBC World Service and this email was recently sent as a group to everyone.  “Chris Booth, Baghdad bureau chief, tells me the following two websites are a good point of reference for casualty figures in Iraq (classified by time period, nationality etc). Useful for graphics and cues (with attribution):  “www.icasualties.org for military casualties (also deals with Afghanistan)  “www.iraqbodycount.org for civilian casualties (NB this is not a definitive count, but a trusted estimate, so needs to be qualified).”

[Romanticpoet's Weblog] The Obama/Harold Koh/Soros Connection « Romanticpoet's Weblog: Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror “obsessive.” In 2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law ”” “most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the United States of America,” which he branded .Al-Azmeh, Sorin Antohi, Andri Chassambouli, Yehuda.

[IsraeliGirl] IsraeliGirl: Submit YOUR questions to Mark Regev, Foreign Media ...: Leading Pentagon officials since Donald Rumsfeld have publicly stated a policy of promoting questionable intelligence by planting unverified stories with the foreign media or the intelligence agencies of friendly countries like Britain or Germany so that US intelligence agencies would accept the story as being from a friendly and reputable source and would not think to verify it.

[Untold Stories] Untold Stories: War Crimes: Another difficult thing is that I am a former soldier and an American, and as a soldier I heard constant references to the Israel Defense Forces, about how well-trained they were and how they share our values, how they are our best friend and best representative in the Middle East.  I never believed that Israel shared our values, democratically or otherwise, because the record of the past sixty years speaks for itself, but I never suspected that these disciplined troops would be allowed to inflict such horrendous damage on the civilian population, especially not in the 21st century. 

[Daniel Pipes Weblog] The University of Chicago vs. Victims of Terror - Daniel Pipes Blog: Manning responded with fury in a June 22 ruling, She rejected as "wholly unsupported" the university's "brazen accusation that the courts of the United States are hostile to Iran and that, as a result, Iran should be excused from bothering to assert its rights."

[treppenwitz] treppenwitz: Make sure they're nodding when the music stops: By this point in the piece, an intelligent reader must realize that what follows will be a recital of Scott Adam's beliefs, packaged in such a way that one might not immediately realize that he is no longer talking about Iran or it's leader. He takes a repugnant libel (that the Jews invented the Holocaust) and tries to make it more palatable by indicating what those greedy, undeserving Jews had/have to gain from the continued invocation of the Holocaust. 

[Mideast Peace Pulse] Settlement Freeze: No Exceptions | Israel Policy Forum: Today, the Israeli government simply says that stopping settlements is impossible because doing so would bring down the Netanyahu government-which is hardly America's problem. If the Obama administration believes that opposing settlements is a matter of principle, it must insist upon it without exception and without regard to Netanyahu's political situation.

[ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed] The PTSD Trap - Extras (sources, links, a bit of multimedia ...: although the risk of PTSD from a traumatic event drops as time passes, the number of Vietnam veterans applying for PTSD disability almost doubled between 1999 and 2004, driving total PTSD disability payments to over $4 billion annually." from Veterans Compensation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council PTSD Compensation and Military Service, National Academics Press, 2005.

[The Foundry] Heritage Calls on Obama to Pull False Ads » The Foundry: I find it fascinating that supporters of Senator Obama and Senator Biden find it acceptable that Joe the Plumber’s personal information has been not only accessed but has been shared with the public. If you bothered to listen to what he had to say about his tax situation you would also note he has taken care of this issue (during his interview on Hannity &

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Et Tu Brandeis: Brandeis bestows honorary degrees as a means of acknowledging the outstanding accomplishments or contributions of individual men and women in any of a number of fields of human endeavor. Just as Brandeis does not inquire into the political opinions and beliefs of faculty or staff before appointing them, or students before offering admission, so too the University does not select honorary degree recipients on the basis of their political beliefs or opinions.

[SpoutBlog] Preparing for Global Financial Apocalypse: Seven Lessons from the ...: Nuclear holocaust and virulent plagues are common Earth-clearing disasters, but there’s no reason to think that a global economic collapse would be any less destructive. Let’s not forget that one of history’s most common causes for war is a desperate grab for resources during tough times.

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