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Police Officers Hospitalized in London
Excerpt: Twenty-six police officers were injured Sunday during riots in the Tottenham area of London
Dead Man's Family Condemn Tottenham Riot
Excerpt: Hours of violence saw around 300 people battle police in north London
Residents have told Sky News they were in fear for their lives as shops were looted, police cars and a bus set alight and petrol bombs thrown at officers. Scotland Yard said 26 policemen were injured with eight officers admitted to hospital. They have all since been discharged.
Free cell phones are now a civil right
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/free_cell_phones_are_civil_right_htTMcKQFrjdvyl9A6NHPdP
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/free_cell_phones_are_civil_right_htTMcKQFrjdvyl9A6NHPdP
Excerpt: Pennsylvanians on public assistance now have a new 'civil right' -- free cell phones. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay higher cell bills as a result. Recently, a federal government program called the Universal Service Fund came to the Keystone State
NAACP and EPA Inflict Heat Prostration and Death
Excerpt: When a record heat wave slammed the nation in July 1936, Midwest temperatures hit 100-107 for a week. With most homes and businesses lacking even fans in this pre-AC era, millions suffered heat prostration. In Wisconsin America
Truth, evidence and belief
Excerpt: Many readers will have heard that the BBC Trust earlier this year commissioned Professor Steve Jones to look into the impartiality and accuracy of science reporting on the BBC. The report was delivered last week and was well-received by the broadcaster itself (BBC praised for science coverage according to the website). However, one area of concern related to balance, on which issue the report recommended that the BBC ‘must make a distinction between well-established fact and opinion’ to avoid giving ‘free publicity to marginal opinions’. This is something which immediately makes many people feel uneasy. On one hand, it is important not to give a public platform to cranks without challenging them, but on the other hand the body of scientific knowledge is by its nature constantly changing and expanding and interpretations may change with time. Who, therefore, is to say what is a ‘marginal opinion’ rather than legitimate criticism? Given that, despite claims to the contrary, much scientific ‘fact’ represents our best understanding at a point in time rather than the absolute ‘truth’, such decisions can be very difficult to make in a fair way. The classic example is in basic physics: the behaviour of matter at different scales. For centuries, Newton
New Low: 17% Say U.S.
Excerpt: Fewer voters than ever feel the federal government has the consent of the governed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters think the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-nine percent (69%) believe the government does not have that consent. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
Electric car owners may face £19,000 battery charge
All prices are in Pounds Sterling (around $1.50US to the Pound). It’s almost cheaper to buy a new car. And just think of the EPA’s howling if one of these monstrous batteries ends up in a landfill—or a reservoir. Ron P. Excerpt: Only 680 electric cars have been bought so far this year despite 2011 being declared Britain
Top 10 Unhinged Liberal Attacks
Excerpt: With the debt-ceiling madhouse resolved (at least for the time being), it would be instructive to look back and see how the so-called “adults” in the Democratic Party and their media sycophants acted during the deliberations. Here are the Top 10 Unhinged Liberal Attacks during the debt talks. 1. Saving life on the planet: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may have made her all-time silliest statement when she tried explaining what was at stake in the debt battle: “What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”
Excerpt: Doug Ross offers an excellent summary of the whole fandango. I still maintain that, as this scandal is rolled out, either it or the threat of it running its course will be the real reason for Obama to resign. The Dems, especially Invertebrate Harry in the Senate, have got to see BHO as a liability. The question becomes at what point the cost/benefit analysis is such that it’s easier to eat the impeachment than drink the fatal political kool-aid of hanging on to him. One likely damage control course of action is to highlight the thuggery of Fast and Furious, and tie that to BHO personally, instead of the Dems as a whole. Or not. Maybe the Progressive cult goes full political suicide pact.
EDL - Sharia Law - Battlefield London
The extraordinary collapse of Jatropha as a biofuel
Excerpt: The current American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology has a most amazing story demonstrating the foolish, indeed outright dangerous, application of the “precautionary principle” to AGW mitigation. (Although the original story is a the American Chemical Society’s website, this is linked through WUWT because of the other links and background it provides. I urge you to read the whole article and follow the links. Some great comments at WUWT, too. Ron P.)
Happy Birthday, Michael Ledeen!
Excerpt: I was not privileged to be born in the United States Washington , D.C. United States
The Week That Was: 2011-08-06 (August 6, 2011)
Lots of good, interesting—and in some cases, frightening—articles in this week’s TWTW, and most of them are new things TOJ hasn’t previously covered. Enjoy. Ron P. Excerpt: Global warming alarmists have been claiming that they must communicate better with the public. Apparently, one of the ways is to try to explain why scientists "the deniers" who do not accept global warming alarmism must be conservative white males. In "Stuff white people like: denying climate change" David Roberts announces a new study to be published attempting to explain this failure of communication. The quote from Chris Mooney, a newly elected director of the American Geophysical Union, is one of several in that post. Apparently, those quoted, especially Mr. Mooney, are incapable of realizing that many people do not accept the threat of dangerous global warming because the science of the alarmists is shoddy. The alarmists fail to empirically verify their claims. [Note: the term climate change is used, even though the alarmists have failed to establish any period of stable climate.] As if race were important, the day before Roberts posted his piece, two members of the Affordable Power Alliance, Harry Jackson and Niger Innis (Innis is a director of the pioneering equal-rights group, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)), clearly stated why they oppose the global warming programs of the EPA and others. These programs will significantly increase the costs of electricity, thus lower the disposable income and standards of living for most Americans, particularly the poor. The programs will result in electricity shortages when demand is greatest, during the hot weather causing greater suffering. Please see Article #2 and referenced article under "Communicating Better to the Public - Make things up."
Mossad's hit streak
Excerpt: The two assassins arrived from nowhere as their victim was driving home with his wife. Trapped inside his car, he was hopelessly vulnerable as their motorcycles pulled alongside. He would just have had time to notice their blacked-out visors before they opened fire, emptying round after round into his chest. Nuclear scientist Darioush Rezaei died immediately. His wife was critically wounded and still in a hospital days after the attack in northeastern Iran Israel ’s intelligence service, Mossad, who will stop at nothing to prevent Iran
Punting on Syria
Excerpt: As Syrians began their Ramadan fast last week, dictator Bashar al-Assad was busy killing hundreds of protesters in Hama, deploying tanks and troops in a brutal flash that has scorched cities across the country. Like father, like son, it seems — Assad pere massacred more than 10,000 civilians in Hama Hama is an atrocity,” said Turkey Middle East policy are gaping.
A Question of Honor: Police Say Iraqi Immigrant Father Targeted Daughter in Honor Killing
Excerpt: An audio tape obtained by Fox News sheds new light into the 2009 murder of an Iraqi-born woman who was killed in Arizona Peoria Peoria Arizona Peoria , a suburb of Phoenix
Bomb hits NATO supply tankers in Pakistan
Excerpt: Police say a bomb attack in Pakistan has destroyed 16 tankers carrying fuel for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan
73% of Palestinians agree with genocidal hadith about Muslims killing Jews hiding behind trees
Excerpt: "Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews." -- Sahih Muslim 6985 A few years ago, the Horowitz Center mounted an initiative to ask Muslim groups in the United States U.S.
Small Businesswoman’s Epic Rant Against Obama’s Disastrous Economic Policies
The 18 Countries With a Better Credit Rating Than the United States
Geithner staying at Treasury, says Congress ‘owns the credit rating’
He can go; it's not like he's the only tax cheat in Washington
Americans want the honor of 'earned success'
Excerpt: Why aren't voters moving to the left, toward parties favoring bigger government, during what increasingly looks like an economic depression? That's a question I've asked, and one that was addressed with characteristic thoughtfulness by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg in the New York Times last week. Greenberg argues that voters agree with Democrats on issues but don't back them on policy because they don't trust government to carry it out fairly. I think he overstates their agreements on policies: They may favor "investment in education" until they figure out that it actually means political payoffs to teachers' unions. But his larger point rings true. He points out that "the growth of self-identified conservatives" began during the fall 2008 debate over the TARP legislation supported by George W. Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain. The voters' take: "Government works for the irresponsible, not the responsible."
Excerpt: In the wake of Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the United States government's credit rating from AAA to AA+, a number of commentators on the left are directing most of the blame not at high levels of government spending, and not even at tax rates they would like to increase, but at the ratings agency itself. Since S&P made enormous mistakes in rating securities backed by subprime mortgages prior to the economic meltdown, they argue, the ratings agency has no right to judge the U.S. U.S.
Did Tim Geithner Really Say There Was ‘No Risk’ of a Downgrade? Let’s Go to the Video
Obama Flashback: My Presidency Will Be ‘A One-Term Proposition’ if Economy Doesn’t Turn Around in ’3 Years’
Excerpt: The timing of this CNSNews report published early Friday about a definitive statement made by President Obama seems particularly eerie given the fact that Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S’. credit rating Friday evening for the first time in history. The rather foreboding report delved into a flashback of Obama circa 2009, in which he stated that his presidency would be a “one-term proposition” if the economy did not turn around on his watch in “three years.” His statement, made that February, puts Obama less than six months out from his three-year milestone.
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