Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Obama Adviser Jeff Immelt’s Agenda: “Big Government and Big Business”


General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt — Obama's choice to lead the new "President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness" — is only about "big government and big business" and not thinking about the little guy. This is the message of Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli. On the 1/25/11 edition of "Fox and Friends" on the Fox News Channel, Deneen presents a new commercial from the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project and FreedomWorks that asks Immelt to resign his position with GE. This petition is available at www.bigbusinesswatch.org.

Chief Justice Roberts vs. Obammy

Ventura Sues DHS, TSA Over Body Scans, Pat-Downs


Ventura filed his lawsuit Monday in federal court in Minnesota.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Challenger's Crew Remembered, 25 Years After Disaster

Arnold Aldrich described five communication or organization failures that affected the decision to launch the Challenger that day. "Four of those failures relate directly to faults within the safety program," the report stated. "These faults include a lack of problem reporting requirements, inadequate trend analysis, misrepresentation of criticality and lack of involvement in critical discussions. A properly staffed, supported, and robust safety organization might well have avoided these faults and thus eliminated the communication failures."

Arizona Honor Killing: 'I hope this barbarian gets the full force of our law,' Dr. Jasser


Dr. Jasser, a devout Muslim and an outspoken critic of Sharia law, discusses the trial of Faleh Hassan Almaleki, the Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because he thought she was too Westernized and had dishonored the family.

Arizona will decide whether Obama gets reelected

During the last midterm election Russell Pearce was elected president of the senate and he has vowed to bring the eligibility bill up for a vote.

Russell Pearce is available here.

GM's China sales pass US for first time in history

General Motors Co. sold more cars and trucks in China last year than it did in the U.S., for the first time in the company's 102-year history. Toyota is still the world's largest auto maker. GM and Toyota tied for the global sales lead in 2007, ending GM's 76-year string of dominance. Toyota took the title in 2008 and has held it ever since.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Jews and Muslims in America, Sylviane Anna Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

Who would deny the presence of Muslims, both as traders and as slaves? However, this research does not state that the presence of Muslims in America means that somehow Muslims have always had a founding presence in America. They were slaves. In fact, one section of Diouf's book is "Resistance, Revolts, and Returns to Africa," indicating the significant non-participation of Muslims in American life.

On the other hand, in 1654, twenty four unwelcome Jews arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Dutch colony in New Amsterdam, and were eventually allowed to remain (p. 161, The Course of Modern Jewish History, Howard M. Sachar). The presence of a Jewish community pre-dated the founding of America but the claim that somehow Muslim presence means the existence of a Muslim community, or that Muslims are part and parcel of Revolutionary America is simply a fairy tale. Thereafter, both in New England and in the South a Jewish community existed, to the extent that Sachar can state: "On the eve of the Revolution, the American Jewish community was comparatively secure" (p. 162).

Most of purported texts in favor of Islam in America are of much later date than Islamists claim, are confined to insignificant numbers of the population, or do not support their sketchy and fragmentary proof-texts of evidence.

To wit, there is a credible scholarly account for one 19th Century figure.

Abd-Allah, Umar Faruq, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russel Webb. Oxford University Press, 2006. 400 pages.

Prominent American Muslim scholar Shaykh Umar Abd-Allah examines the life of a late nineteenth-century American intellectual and diplomat who converted to Islam.

A key work produces evidence of Muslims among slaves which hardly is documentation of a thriving community. This is akin to claiming that since bananas exist in the United States they must be a native plant.

Austin, Allen, African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. New York: Routledge: 1997. 194 pages.

An analysis of biographies of numerous West African Muslim slaves who lived in the American South between 1730 and 1860. These men and women, who were 15% of the slave population, were the first Muslims in the United States.

Islamic Indoctrination

American Schools but Saudi funding.

US Textbooks: Muslims Discovered America

Saudi-funded textbooks are being used in America's K-12 classrooms.

The Saudi government has donated millions of dollars to Middle East Centers at universities that receive Title VI funding.

The Harvard Middle Eastern Studies Center -- whose recommendations to the Massachusetts Board is one of them. As CBN News reported earlier this year, the Harvard Center received a $20 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in 2005. Georgetown University -- another title VI recipient--also received $20 million from the Prince that same year.

It's through these Title VI university centers -- all of them government-sanctioned and taxpayer supported--that Saudi-funded materials find their way into K-12 classrooms.

Cf. The Stealth Curriculum: Manipulating America's History Teachers, Stotsky, Sandra.

Domestic use of Military aerial drones by law enforcement: privacy?

Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate.

Seattle Activist Wins Case Against TSA

Mocek’s case marks the first time anyone has ever challenged the TSA’s authority to question and detain travelers.

Elite Appeasement Before China

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "Appeasement is the proper policy towards Confucian China"

'Young Americans' given free speech 5 days/month

Preliminary injunction allows some campus distribution of information.

Chinese Pianist Plays Propaganda, Anti-American Tune at White House

US humiliated in eyes of Chinese by song used to inspire anti-Americanism.


Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays anti-American music at the state dinner concert in the White House on Jan. 19, 2011. (from 6:24, it is a theme song from the well-known movie "Battle of Triangle Hill" about the Korean War, a successful propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party.

“In the eyes of all Chinese, this will not be seen as anything other than a big insult to the U.S.,” says Yang Jingduan, a Chinese psychiatrist now living in Philadelphia who was Deputy Director of science and technology development at the No. 4 Military Medical University in Xi'an in China. “It’s like insulting you in your face and you don’t know it, it’s humiliating.”

Yang sees Lang Lang choosing this tune as an expression of the deeply anti-American propaganda that is constant in China.

“This deeply anti-American chauvinism has been fanned by the CCP for years; Lang Lang is expressing the feelings of this generation of angry young people,” Yang said.

A well-known example of such feelings was seen on Sept. 11, 2001, when Chinese chat rooms were filled with young people celebrating this act of terror as an American defeat.

"Neither the White House nor the Chinese Embassy responded to phone calls requesting comment on this story."

Scenes from the 1956 movie Triangle Hill/ShangGanLing

BattleTriangleHill.flv



Scenes from the 1956 movie 'Triangle Hill' (ShangGanLing), which is based on a real battle of Korean War, in 1952. Because the previous US strike, a CPV company posted on the Triangle Hill (the 7th Company of the 135th Reg., 45th Div., 15th Corps of the Chinese Peoples' Volunteers) was forced to give up surface positions and retreated into the bunkers. When US troops were proceeding towards the main hill, Zhongfa Zhang, commander of the company (charactor based on the real commander Jifa Zhang) organized machine guns to beat their flank. The Goryunov gunners had more protection in the battle, but the DP gunners were more exposed to the returning fire and suffered heavy casualties. The young CPV soldiers stood in line ---- silently but solidly, ready to replace and ready to give up their lives. Honor belongs to them.

When Nixon visited China, a photo was taken of him getting off the plane to greet Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. Nixon has a big smile and extends his hand out to Zhou. Zhou stands with a rigid face and holds his hand close to his body.

The photo was widely used in all of the Chinese media to help support the idea that Nixon’s visit was a victory for China. Chinese schoolchildren were told, “See how long Nixon’s arm is stretched out? That shows the United States is reaching out to us.”

Pork Chop Hill


Vintage movie trailer for Pork Chop Hill.
1953 Korean War - American GI's must retake a barren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops. The ensuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American and Chinese alike.

China to Buy U.S.

ICBC Signs a Deal for Bank of East Asia's Retail Outlets

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Islam, Textbooks, Resources from Mission Viejo

Act! for America

Suicide of the West

The Debt Limit: Made Simple


This video takes you to the United Estates--a gated community in sunny Florida--to help you understand the impact of Congress decision to annually raise our nations debt limit without addressing the out-of-control spending that keeps us buried in debt.

Ron Paul & Ralph Nader: A Libertarian-Progressive Alliance

CNN 'Skins' on MTV, Porn for Teenagers? Jan 22 2011

Teaching Resources: International Relations, Business, History

Soomo Publishing

Early Theory of International Law

On the Law of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

Geography

Games

Presidents, Records, Resources

Activities, Resources, and Multimedia

Natural Born Citizen, Citizen, Graphic

Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget

You Fix the Budget

Think you might have good ideas on how to balance the federal budget? Well, now’s your chance to solve it! With this budget simulation from The New York Times, you can peruse a menu of possibilities for cutting spending or raising taxes. As you select each item, the interactive feature shows how much money will be saved in both short-term and long-term forecasts.

The idea is pretty simple: read each issue along with its brief description underneath, and if you think, “yeah, let’s cut that,” check the box. When an item is selected, the gray boxes at the top (each representing $1 billion) will turn to blue. The goal is to cut enough spending and/or raise enough taxes to balance the federal budget by both 2015 and 2030.

Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.

Revolution American Rock: "Apologize" by One Republic, featuring Timbaland, 2007

Jesus Hates Obama

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Government report questions rescue claims

Government report questions rescue claims.

Ron Paul Questions Why Obama Daughters Haven’t Taken Swine Flu Vaccine

Council on Foreign Relations Laughs and Lies at People


A recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees laughing while discussing ways to create panic and force the public to take the swine flu vaccine. There has been mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over it’s safety.

The recording dates from October 16 when the CFR held a Symposium in New York entitled Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy. The transcript reveals that Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director at the Department of Global Health, George Washington University, suggests creating an artificial scarcity in order to ramp up demand for the vaccine.

“I think what would work better would be to say that there was a shortage and people tend to buy more of something that’s in demand. (Laughter.) We saw that — there was one season where, really, people lined up all night to get a flu shot.”

Simonsen states the point, much to the amusement of the other attendees at the symposium.

China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform

China questions costs of U.S. health care rationing.

Kyl vs. Holder


Sen John Kyl (R-AZ) questions Attorney General Eric Holder re: bringing Muslim murderers to NYC to be tried.

Sen Leahy brings up the conviction record but conveniently omits the fact that those people were not tortured.

A Wheat Ridge, Colorado sign compares Obama to a terrorist and questions his citizenship status.


A Wheat Ridge, Colorado sign compares Obama to a terrorist and questions his citizenship status.

The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road, shows two cartoonish images of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?"

It also says "BIRTH CERTIFICATE -- PROVE IT!" alluding to the questions surrounding his birth that would disqualify him for the office of President.

The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!" appear on the bottom of the billboard.

Gold for Grandpa Program

Gold for Grandpa Program

What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?


Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.

BANKRUPTCY DECLARATION FOR STATES QUIETLY STUDIED

A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens

Judge Promotes 'flag of Islam on American soil'

Decision approves government funding for Shariah indoctrination.

How to Repeal Obamacare in the Senate

Brian Darling

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Secretary of Education States Education Dummied Down to Elect Politicians


Secretary of Education Arne Duncan charged politicians with “dummy-ing down” state education standards under the No Child Left Behind Act to increase their chances of being re-elected.

“Historically in our country, I think particularly under the current law, No Child Left Behind, lots of states dummied down standards,” said Duncan at the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King, Jr. day prayer breakfast on Monday. “They reduced standards. Why? Wasn’t good for children; wasn’t good for education; wasn’t good for the country -- was good for politicians.”

“It made politicians look good,” he said. “You could dummy down your standards and tell the press and tell the public – if you could tell the public that more students in your state were quote/unquote meeting state standards, that helped you get re-elected. But it did a great disservice to young people.”

'China's real problem'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnJC0HBWylk

Weather radar shows something unusual around time birds fell


There is no certain explanation but it appears to be a non-natural event.

PolitiZoid: Greatest Moments in Liberal History

DA: West Philadelphia abortion doctor killed 7 babies with scissors

A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.


At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the "black" and "yellow" peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Alveda King is a Christian minister and pro-life activist. She is a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She is the full-time Pastoral Associate of African-American Outreach for the Roman Catholic pro-life group, Priests for Life.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

First time in US since 1824; Judge opined on Natural Born citizen; Concludes Obama not a NBC.

Is this the 1st serious legal challenge to Obama?

Did the Judge meet the same fate as the tampered Passport witness?

Obama recently signed an executive order allowing the Feds to confiscate all 401ks and retirement accounts. A single judge adjudicated that Obama did not have that authority and stopped the confiscation: Federal Judge John Roll. He died in the Tuscon tragedy.

Democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s is conducting hearings on a proposal to confiscate your personal retirement savings.

One Islamist Out, Another Islamist in at Victory Mosque


Imam Rauf has been replaced on the Victory mosque charade by Imam Abdullah Adhami.

Adhami, as Rauf, thinks Sharia Law should replace the American Constitution.

His hero is Siraj Wahhaj!

Who is this who Adhami refers to as his “beloved imam”?

Imam Wahhaj is an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was a character witness for the defense in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, “the blind sheik” who is now serving a life sentence for his role in plotting the 1993 WTC bombing.

Wahhaj has made it very clear in all of his sermons that he wants America destroyed and Islam to be built on its ashes.

Adhami is so enchanted with Wahhaj’s hate-filled screeds that he volunteered to design the Al-Taqwa mosque, from where Imam Wahhaj incites his followers with his wrath against the unbelievers.

"Under my plan, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket . . . . higher prices will be passed on to the consumer."


In a candid moment while running for president, Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, “under my plan…electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Last week, the Obama administration moved to make that a reality, using its rule by executive fiat to punish the coal industry. The action comes as Obama is halting offshore oil drilling and threatening one state alone with millions of dollars in lost revenue. His most recent action was “unprecedented,” could kill jobs during a recession, and comes as heating oil and gasoline prices are rising.

Obama’s latest environmentalist imbroglio is his declaration of war on the coal industry. Last week, the EPA revoked the mining permit of Arch Coal’s Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. The EPA granted the permit in 2007. Since then, Arch Coal has complied with all of the agency’s terms and made millions of dollars of investments in the hard-hit Appalachian state.

The EPA reversed itself last week, revoking its validly granted permit and calling into question whether it would honor any of its prior obligations. Its pretext was the company’s use of mountaintop removal mining, which it called “destructive and unsustainable. However, it was known the mine would use this procedure when the EPA granted the permit four years ago.

The mine would have employed 250 people and harvested more than 40 million tons of coal, over 15 years.

West Virginia’s lawmakers are rightly incensed. Newly elected Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s statement read in part: “According to the EPA, it doesn’t matter if you did everything right, if you followed all of the rules. Why? They just change the rules.”

Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller told President Obama in a letter that his action “needlessly throws other permits into a sea of uncertainty at a time of great economic distress.”

Industry leaders echoed his concern. “Every road project, construction project or mine site that has received valid CWA 404 permits in the past is now in jeopardy of having that permit vetoed or revoked,” said Bryan Brown, executive director of the Foundation for American Coal Energy. The crippling handicap of uncertainty harms our economy, undermines confidence in the government, and keeps industry executives from making additional investments in energy exploration.

DAY 729: Obama orders review of regulations that hurt job growth...

Obama Wants to Shed his Rules That Harm Americans Job Growth. Now he is learning about America and Economics 101. Pretty sharp guy he finally came around after harming job growth for so long. Still, there is no improvement yet so he may still cater to his moneyed masters.

Taiwanese mock with video cartoon: Hu Jintao jets into Washington


US-Sino Currency Rap Battle


Monday, January 17, 2011

In observance of Martin Luther King Day, pro-lifers are focusing in part on a major civil rights issue.


Joseph Parker, pastor of two African-Methodist-Episcopal churches in Mississippi, says today's culture often overlooks the critical questions and issues related to life and the unborn. Instead, he says, people tend to avoid pushing their moral views on others or agree that it is up to a woman to decide what she should do with her body.

"Tragically, this kind of argument has become just a smokescreen that has kept too many from really seeing the true issue at hand," Parker laments. "The false claim has been that the abortion issue is about women's rights and reproductive freedom, but this is simply marketing hype and lies. In reality, it was racism and eugenics that drove the legalization of abortion."

What's the most-telling piece of evidence that proves

the abortion industry in the U.S. targets minorities and the poor?

More than 30 percent of abortions that take place in the U.S. involve the killing of black babies -- a truth clearly portrayed in a documentary called Maafa 21, which was produced by Life Dynamics. A group of black pastors will show that film today at its "Festival for Life" at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.

"One of the great needs in our society is to recognize that there's a huge need for us to take a stand for the civil rights of the unborn child [and] that the civil rights of the unborn need to be respected and protected," Parker concludes.

He goes on to point out that Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., describes standing up for the rights of the unborn as one of the most serious civil rights issues of our time. The Mississippi pastor recently spoke at a rally in Jackson, where he voiced his agreement with that statement.

China's President Lays Groundwork for Obama Talks


WSJ's Jake Lee speaks to Heard on the Street Asia Editor Mohammed Hadi about Chinese President Hu Jintao's comments on currencies, balancing the Chinese economy and China's growing clout abroad.

Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a 'Cancer'


Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he supports Ron Paul's stance on abolishing the Federal Reserve. When asked by Peter Robinson what should replace the Fed, Sowell replies: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"

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Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.

"Through its various editions," Sowell writes, "the fundamental idea behind Basic Economics remains the same: Learning economics should be as uncomplicated as it is informative."

Here, Sowell seeks to uncomplicate some of the economic issues confronting the country today, from the financial crisis and the role of the Fed to the economics of health care and trade imbalances. - Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

Previewing Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. Visit


Kenneth Lieberthal: Next week's Washington meetings between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will provide the leaders with an opportunity to further improve relations between the U.S. and China. The dialogue is expected to cover tough economic and trade issues, security concerns and military expansion. China Center Director Kenneth Lieberthal explains.

The Talking Feds.mov


RightChange.com

The Brick Thief: A LEGO Short Film

Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties

Christie nominated Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.

Nat'l Socialist Strategy Session Calls for Head-Cracking Revolution

Man faces charges for defying TSA agents

"What’s really at root in this case is whether travel is a right that we have under the Constitution - an ability to move about the country without having to show papers."

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Klavan Explains "Liberal" Culture

Why Leftists Are Far Likelier to Use Political Violence Than Conservatives

No Surprise AZ Shooter Was a Mentally Deranged Anarchist.

The tenets of Classical Liberalism are listed by Amy Sturgis (Sturgis, Amy H. "The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism." Belmont University | Nashville, TN | Middle Tennessee | Liberal Arts College. 1994. Web. 16 Jan. 2011. .):

1. An ethical emphasis on the individual as a rights-bearer prior to the existence of any state, community, or society;
2. The support of the right of property carried to its economic conclusion, a free-market system;
3. The desire for a limited constitutional government to protect individuals’ rights from others and from its own expansion; and
4. The universal (global and ahistorical) applicability of these above convictions.

U.S. Satisfaction Remains Near 12-Month Low

Despite their party's winning House control, Republicans' satisfaction lower than Democrats'

Saturday, January 15, 2011

CBS POLL: 77% say cut spending; only 9% say raise taxes

Poll: Americans Split on What to Cut from Government

Cornel West "Barack Obama Is NOT The Fulfillment Of Martin Luther King's Dream!"


Cornel West,January 13, 2011 C-SPAN

Arizona Shooter walked through campus last fall rambling about his 'genocide school.'

College releases YouTube post from Loughner.

The video was posted on YouTube on Sept. 23 but his current account was not created until October. No one seems to have noticed the discrepancy. Thus far, no one has stated what his previous YouTube account was if he had one. In any event, this video got him suspended from the community college.

$14,000,000,000,000

Remarkably, nearly half of today's national debt was run up in just the past six years. It soared from $7.6 trillion in January 2005 as President George W. Bush began his second term to $10.6 trillion the day Obama was inaugurated and to $14.02 trillion now. The period has seen two major wars and the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s.

In three years the U.S. increased its debt $4 trillion; then, in two years, Obama increased the debt another $4 trillion.

Here's what then-Sen. Barack Obama said on the Senate floor in 2006: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance the government's reckless fiscal policies."

At that time, not a single Senate Democrat voted to raise the limit, opposition that's now complicating White House efforts to rally bipartisan support for a higher ceiling.

Friday, January 14, 2011

OPEC OIL EMBARGO - 1973


NBC Nightly News coverage of OPEC's decision to cut exports of oil to the United States along with other nations. Reported by John Chancellor of the evening of October, 17 1973.

Catholic Doctor Explains How Native American He Is: Arizona Memorial

Obama’s Halftime Report card

Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare

Exemptions for religious objectors, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line, members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS).

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Title: Ending World War Two with the Atomic Bomb

Explore the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and end World War Two.

Title: The Battle of Iwo Jima

Description: A detailed look at the Allied invasion of the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

World War One and Gallipoli

Description: Students have the opportunity and resources to explore various aspects of the Gallipoli campaign. In groups of three students are required to compile information regarding the landing at Gallipoli Cove, the life in the trenches and the experiences and conditions of our soldiers.

Problems and Progressives

Description: To analyze the problems stemming from industrialization (the Gilded Age) and how the progressive movement aimed to change society.

Loughner Police Records

51 pages of police reports on Jared Loughner before Arizona shooting rampage.

Security methods used in Israeli airports

TSA chief seeks less 'invasive' methods.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Claremont McKenna College Prof Actively Supports Hamas and Hezbollah

Professor of Arabic Bassam Frangieh, head of the Middle East Studies department.

Joe Zamudio: Typical American, One hand on his firearm, Committed to Helping People

Hong Kong ranked world's freest economy: report

Hong Kong remained the world's freest place to do business for the 17th year in a row.

Best Trip Ever Taken by Hillary

Hillary Trips.

Palin on Arizona


America's Enduring Strength

'Rebooting' brain could ease ringing in ears: Tinnitus Cure?

The process of vagus nerve stimulation, known as VNS, is already being used in the treatment.

Housing Market Slips Into Depression Territory

Home values have fallen 26 percent since their peak in June 2006, worse than the 25.9-percent decline seen during the Depression years between 1928 and 1933.

'HE DID NOT WATCH TV. HE DISLIKED THE NEWS. HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO POLITICAL RADIO'

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/jared-loughners-friend-says-suspect-did-not-watch-tv-disliked-the-news_b48040

The suspect had run-ins with Barney Fife but he will not release them.

A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack.

A trove of 131 online-forum postings written between April and June 2010 provides insight into Loughner's mind-set has been viewed by the WSJ.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

History of the Internet


"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The clip was made by Melih Bilgil — http://www.lonja.de
The history is told using the PICOL icons, which are available on picol.org. You can get news about this project on blog.picol.org .

Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this movie on my website
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history...
or on the PICOL-Project site where you can download a pre-release of the icons.
http://blog.picol.org/

If you are interested in more Internet history you can also read/watch:
- ISOC: History of the internet: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...
- Geschichte des Internet (german & link to Amazon): http://tinyurl.com/4kzlwq
- Computer Networks: The Heralds Of Resource Sharing http://tinyurl.com/apocod

Credits for subtitles:
(The correctness of the subtiles depends on the people listed down here)
English: Stefan Badragan | youtube.com/StevXtreme
Italian: Stefan Badragan
German: me
Turkish: Zeynep Can
French: Arnaud 'dehy' DE MOUHY
Bulgarian: Andrian Georgiev
Chinese: Terry Lee
Portuguese (Brazilian): Guilherme Euler
Spanish: Mauricio Diaz Orlich
Polish: Agnieszka Marciniak
Greek: Pantelis Bouboulis
Swedish: Paul Lindström

Also thanks to: Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes

100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education

100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education

EasyBib for Citations

EasyBib

U.S. Defense Secretary Gates Visits China: Peace Through Pleading?


Peace Despite Weakness?

China’s Stealth Fighter Makes First Test Flight

Monday, January 10, 2011

Kennedys Kill The Kennedys

How Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver Helped Kill 'Kennedys' Miniseries

Airborne Laser to Attempt Another Missile Shoot-Down


February 11 2010. A modified Boeing 747-400F with more than 7 tons of optics up front and a megawatt-class laser in back destroyed a liquid-fueled ballistic missile target while both were in flight. The Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser TestBed reportedly carries a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser that's coupled with precise pointing and atmospheric correction equipment. And it has now proven capable of knocking a ballistic missile out of the sky.

The system is the result of a cooperative effort led by Boeing, in partnership with Northrop Grumman (which supplies the laser) and Lockheed Martin (which is developing the fire control system). The aim is to deter enemy missile attacks by disabling the attacking missiles while they are in the boost phase. That means hitting a target capable of 4,000 miles per hour with a beam of light traveling somewhere close to 670 million miles per hour.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency hopes similar devices will one day be able to track and attack multiple targets, at a range of hundreds of kilometers, at at a lower cost than current technologies.

But For now, the price of the program is a problem. Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled what had been an order for a second airborne laser system. The original, will continue to participate in experiments.

Third High Level Official Killed

The third high level official, and an attempt on a Congresswoman as well, has died under strange circumstances. Hill aide, dead in burning car.

The sport-utility vehicle was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple's Capitol Hill home. The cause of her death is uncertain. She was found dead shortly before 5 a.m. in a burning BMW, the back end of which was partly out of the garage, as if the vehicle had been entering or leaving when the fire started, authorities said. Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three. Neighbors called for help about 4:50 a.m. after they saw flames spewing from the garage at the rear of the house. He said firefighters found a burning vehicle facing into the garage with a dead body in it. A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.

The deceased was the wife of Daniel A. Turton, 43, the White House's deputy director of legislative affairs for the U.S. House. As such, he is President Obama's point man on legislation moving through the House.

She was a lobbyist for North Carolina-based Progress Energy, which announced a merger Monday with Duke Energy.

A lobbyist for an energy company being acquired by Duke Energy, one of the worst of the Big Oil crowd, is married to someone in charge of pushing legislation through Congress for Obama. Aren't there conflict of interest laws? Who's to say that he's not pushing Duke's favored bills more than others?

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