CNN - Alan Duke
Canwest News
Service
The Arctic seabed is as explosive geologically as it
is politically judging by the "fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been
blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole. "Explosive volatile
discharge has clearly been a widespread, and ongoing, process," according to an
international team that sent unmanned probes to the strange fiery world beneath
the Arctic ice.
CNN - AP
Anti-poverty group Oxfam
International on Tuesday urged the world's poorest nations to think twice before
jumping on a biofuel boom that could drive farmers off their land and hit food
supplies. Oxfam is calling on the European Union to scrap a target for biofuel
to replace a tenth of transport fuel by 2020. It says the target will not
fulfill Europe's goal of either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or cutting its
dependence on imported oil.
By Brian
Sussman
Monday, James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies (GISS), addressed Congress and brought a new twist
to his tired global warming song and dance routine. Hansen now seems to be
calling for the chief executives of Big Oil to be tried for high crimes against
humanity. Their crime? Spreading doubt about global warming.
Actually, it is Hansen who is guilty. Guilty of abusing the public trust. Hansen
is the man who is deemed the final authority on Al Gore's constant claim that
"the earth has a fever."
At last report, health authorities
had eliminated all U.S. states except Florida as possible sources for the
salmonella bacteria contamination of tomatoes, leaving only Florida and Mexico
as possible sources. Florida has now been eliminated but authorities are
still puzzled as to where the salmonella may have come from. Nope, no clue from
their own statistics map shown below. It remains a mystery, perhaps outer space?
Spreading socialism on the
taxpayer’s dime.
By Michelle
Malkin
If you don’t know what ACORN (the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you better bone up. This
left-wing group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers —
you and me — and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to
fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and
self-reliance, some of which have been implicated in perpetuating illegal
immigration and encouraging voter fraud.
by Youssef M.
Ibrahim
Once more Saudi Arabia told distressed oil consumers
to drop dead this past weekend. Speaking at a world conference summoned to
discuss what to do about insane oil prices, Saudi King Abdullah went around the
room telling representatives of 35 countries there is no crisis, as his oil
minister assured them there will be no Saudi oil to relieve it. Instead his
royal majesty mused about “selfish” speculators, muttering assertions of enough
oil out there and far too many Western bottlenecks holding it up.
Douglas C.
Branham, C.L.S., C.M.R.P.
Obama's "Not Exactly's": This
person is more dangerous than any candidate in recent years.... 1.)
Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in
1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. 2.) Father Was A
Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on
to work with the Kenyan Government.
Ralph Peters,
NY Post.com
The first beneficiary of Barack Obama's promise
to expand health-care access could be Osama bin Laden. The senator would rather
see Osama captured, not killed, then put into our federal system for trial. That
means the terror master would get better medical treatment - for free - than
many Post readers can afford. Is that really what Americans want? To spend
millions of dollars protecting a captive bin Laden and millions more treating
his kidney problems?
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
In recent months, a
growing number of U.S. commercial banks, hedge funds and other financial
institutions have begun promoting products described as "Shariah-Compliant." By
so doing, they hope to attract some of the immense petro-wealth now accumulating
in the Islamic Middle East. Neither the management nor shareholders of the firms
engaged in such Shariah-Compliant Finance (SCF) appear to admit, however, the
civil and criminal exposure to which they are exposing themselves — and the
serious dangers this practice entails for their country.
William "Bill"
Phillips
Did you know that the United States does NOT have
any big oil companies. It's true: the largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil,
is only the 14th largest in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil
companies--all owned by foreign governments or government-sponsored
monopolies--that dominate the world's oil supply. With 94% of the world's oil
supply locked up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the United
States, the relatively puny American oil companies do not have access to enough
crude oil to significantly affect the market and help bring prices down.
By George
Friedman
On June 20, The New York Times published a report
saying that more than 100 Israeli aircrafts carried out an exercise in early
June over the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Greece. The article pointed out that
the distances covered were roughly the distances from Israel to Iranian nuclear
sites and that the exercise was a trial run for a large-scale air strike against
Iran.
U.S. fighters ID
bombers near Alaska
Rowan
Scarborough
Russian bombers have stepped up provocative
flight exercises off the Alaskan coast, reminiscent of Cold War incursions
designed to rattle U.S. air defenses. U.S. Northern Command, which protects
North American airspace, told The Washington Times that TU-95 Bear bombers on 18
occasions the past year have skirted a 12-mile air defense identification zone
that protects Alaska. The incursions prompted F-15s and F-22 Raptor fighters to
scramble from Elmendorf Air Force Base and intercept the warplanes.
IBD
Editorials.com
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore
the "Fairness Doctrine" regulating political speech — proof that in the Internet
Age, Democrats have lost the communications war. Forty years ago, Walter
Cronkite could declare on the evening news that the Vietnam War was lost, and
that's the way it was. Do Americans want to return to those days by reviving the
so-called Fairness Doctrine?
By Ronald A. Cass
Yesterday the Supreme
Court ended its 2007-2008 term with a much-anticipated decision on the
constitutional right to possess guns. The 5-4 decision in District of Columbia
v. Heller will give grist to those who see the Court through simplistic
political lenses, viewing decisions as the outcome of justices' individual
biases tilting left or right.