In his days on the staid old London Times of the 1930s, Claud Cockburn won an in-house competition for the most boring headline by coming up with "Small Earthquake in Chile: Not Many Dead." ...snip... Seismology in this decade is already emerging as the most important new department of socioeconomics and politics. The simple recognition that nature is master and that the crust of our planet is highly volatile has been thrown into some relief by the staggering 250,000 butcher's bill exacted from the people of Haiti by a single terrestrial spasm, and by the relative survival capacity of Chileans...
Israel is provoking the entire Mideast with an alleged ongoing covert campaign to assassinate top terror militants beyond the country's borders, Egyptian diplomatic sources told the London Times on Saturday. Referring to allegations that Israeli intelligence was upping its attempts to hurt terror strongmen beyond its borders, the source told the Times that his country was taking notice of Israel's "comings and goings." "We are aware that there is more activity both on our ground and other countries in the region," the diplomatic source added, claiming that Israel was "trying to embroil us all in their conflict."
It’s not just the threat of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035. Now another headline grabbing IPCC scare story is melting away. A report in Sunday’s London Times highlights new humiliations for the IPCC. The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. There is however one teensy-weensy little problem. As Professor Chris Field, the lead author of the...
One of the most alarming predictions of the IPCC, the scientific panel that is considered the world’s most authoritative source of information on global warming, turns out to be a total fraud, according to this story in The London Times. The prediction that the Himalayan glaciers, the prime source of water for hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, would disappear by 2035 have been a keystone in the case for urgent action on climate change. This is much, much worse than hungry polar bears; three nuclear weapons states depend on Himalayan runoff for vital water supplies: India, Pakistan...
Iran: The government that says it wants to develop a nuclear program for peaceful purposes is evidently building a trigger for an atomic weapon. This is the regime that our White House wants to negotiate with. The London Times reported Monday that it had obtained "confidential intelligence documents" that "show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb." "The notes, from Iran's most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion," it said. Foreign intelligence agencies, according to the...
Polish director Roman Polanski’s family is thanking French President Nicolas Sarkozy for being “very effective” in helping to win his release from a Swiss prison. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it is thanks to the President that Roman has been freed, but he has been super,” Polanski’s sister-in-law, Mathilde Seigner, told Le Parisien newspaper. “The President has been very effective.” The London Times speculated that Sarkozy’s wife, ex-model Carla Bruni, may have pressured her husband to intervene because she used to hob nob with Paris’ artistic community, which includes Polanski and wife Emmanuelle Seigner. After initially...
November 1, 2009 Barack and Michelle Obama: Mr&Mrs Show Irks Voters As political woes mount, not all have been won over by the first couple’s intimate revelations Tony Allen-Mills in Washington With difficult state elections and a crucial military decision looming, President Barack Obama sat down with his wife Michelle last month to give an in-depth magazine interview about a subject that has hitherto not ranked highly on the White House political agenda — the state of the first couple’s marriage. The president used the occasion to complain that when he recently hopped aboard Air Force One to fly his...
Let’s hope Democrats don’t read the London Times. If they do they might learn that the English language is being censored in the rush to be politically correct. Under this philosophy we must be careful to not offend anybody no matter how ridiculous...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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