Brendan Goldman, Reviving Jewish Race Science at Columbia U Conference Another proof that the Israel test is really the Jewish test and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

From Columbia to Comedy Central is no distance at all. Neither is it from Israel Attack to "You Lied to Me, Jew Producer" though Comedy Central would like you to act as if there is.

Comedy Central sees reason and removes the game. Thank you, Honest Reporting.

Terrific idea. The trouble is that the weakening of the Euro means that America's exports have just become more expensive, European (especially German) exports less expensive"with Renminbi having appreciated by 24% against the Euro since November> This means that China less willing to raise the value of its currency and Europe less willing to join the US in pressuring it to do so. Indeed, whatever hopes Clinton or Geithner had of a being able to return from China with promises of a prompt Chinese devaluation must be gone with the wind. Indeed, Hu says China to hold firm on yuan policy for it has its own priorities points out Head of China Research, Jonathan Fenby that China is $2500bn in the debt which it cannot case it and the value of which fluctuates in a manner it cannot control. Of course, one may add that its hopes that it could use the Euro to reduce its dollar exposure has been dashed along with American hopes that a booming China would be a democratizing China.

If that would not be bad enough, the decline of the Euro reduces the earnings of US multinationals by about 10% (is that the reason Buffet is selling Kraft stock?) and with a zero interest rate, Bernanke can do little to reduce the value of the dollar. Almost a perfect storm. Add signs of deflation and the reason that Christopher Wood warns against ruling out a double dip recession becomes even clearer.

Economists hoping for continued US recovery are doing so on the basis of continued decline in American savings from 4.6% to 3.4% and a rise in consumer spending. In other words, the rebirth of the conditions that have been undermining the long term health of the American economy. But, then, from the very beginning of the current crisis economists held steadfast to the belief that talking up the economy (remember the greed shoots?) is the way to solve the current crisis. As Martin Wolf remarked one of the serious mistakes policy makers made is taking economists seriously.

Also see, Low-Cost Labor and trade deficit Advantage

Hank Hyena, Israel’s Value to Transhumanism We know. If only it could enhance its value in peace.

Alas, that does not seem likely. PA to Israelis: Go to Europe and Ethiopia because Israel is"stolen" land

Eric Holder would not admit a connection between Radical Islam and terror.

'Al-Sharq Al-Awsat' Deputy Editor praises"The Obama Administration… [for Taking] the Initiative to Remove the Term 'Islamic Terrorism' From Its Documents and Official Transactions." It is bound to make Islamist attack on the US even more COST FREE. That may be the reason that in late 2008 after Obama's election, Iran decided to let Once-detained al-Qaeda operatives leave Iran. The cost is clear and attacks on US homeland are safe again.

The Obama administration's "smart power" disastrous insistence on ignoring allies. Even non Jewish ones: Diplomatic Negligence The Obama administration fumbles relations with India" and they love his so but then so did his grandmother and he threw her under the bus by charging her with racism.

In the meantime, we better study The Geography of Chinese Power according to Robert Kaplan.

Yes, the same China US prevented from nuking in 1969 and is currently persecuting its dissidents. Having given up on Obamahelp, those dissidents are organizing. Good.

Museum of Stalinist labor camps to open in Russia's Far East Unfortunately, it is too far from the madding crowd at a time when A Billionaire Dissident remains Jailed If you have doubts about Putin's mendacity read Fareed Zakaria's interview with WILLIAM BROWDER, CEO, HERMITAGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT.

Instead of"Allah Akbar" a southern Iranian crowd interrupted Ahmadinejad with chants of"We are Unemployed." Official Iranian unemployment stands at 11%; unofficial at 25% and the country suffers from a double-digit inflation.

The drop in oil prices and production hence, income is a major problem for a government which subsidizes everything from electricity to gasoline, from bread to other food staples.

"Oil production capacity has dropped by probably about 300,000-400,000 bpd," a former senior official in Iran's government told the Financial Times.

The drop in Iran's oil production is primarily the result of a decision by some of the world's largest oil companies to sever economic ties with the Islamic Republic due to US pressure and the impending sanctions.

Nothing would undermine the regime faster than the belief that Ahmadinejad is responsible for their economic duress. That is the reason the Iranian regime tries so hard to convince its own subjects as well as the rest of the world of Iran's resiliency in face of sanctions:

Ebrahim Hosseini-Nasab, economics professor at Tehran's Tarbiat Modares University, also played down the impact of sanctions on the economy.

"Iranian policy makers have learned from experience how to deal with these sanctions," he said."The Iranian economy has always had a great deal of resilience ... I don't believe it will have any crippling effect on the Iranian economy."

But Morteza Masoumzadeh, a shipping line executive and vice president of the Iranian Business Council in Dubai, a transit route for many Iranian imports, said sanctions had hurt.

"The sanctions clearly have affected our business and already our business is down by 70 percent compared to three years ago," Masoumzadeh told Reuters in Dubai.

U.S. sanctions imposed in 2007 targeting two Iranian banks with branches in Dubai had been particularly painful, he said. But that did not mean new U.N. measures would make things worse.

"The sanctions have already hit us so I don't think anything of this nature will hit us further," he said.

Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St Andrews University in Scotland, said the new sanctions could have a psychological impact and, if properly targeted, could hinder the powerful Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force which has become a major economic player.

"However, I have always felt that the sanctions will be a minor irritant as compared the Ahmadinejad government's own mismanagement of the economy and the lifting of subsidies," Ansari told Reuters.

The truth is that much more can and should be done. For a new study reveals a more troublesome pattern:

While the international sanctions regime prohibits contact with banks in Iran, 18 US banks have indirect financial connections with the Islamic Republic. In this manner, Tehran succeeds in getting its hands on the money needed to finance its nuclear program and to provide aid to terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and Hamas.

Avi Jorisch, a former US Treasury Department analyst in charge of fighting money laundering for criminal and terrorist purposes, scans in his new book,"Iran's Dirty Banking - How the Islamic Republic Skirts International Financial Sanctions". . . .

Jorisch's main claim is that no less than 18 American banks have an indirect relationship with three Iranian banks on the US' black list and another one subjected to UN sanctions. By using various banks around the world as intermediaries, Tehran carries out its finances unhindered, even though three of the prohibited banks funnel money into the nuclear program, the ballistic missile program, and the terrorism network.

Let's hope a miracle will occur, a tipping point will be reached and the regime will be overturned. Further international sanctions with an addition of Congressional mandated ones may just provide the right push. Unfortunately, g unilateral sanction must be delayed until the passage of UN ones. Otherwise, Moscow, which would rather keep the Mullahs in power and the Iranian nuclear crisis simmering to keep oil prices up and Washington weak looking.

Of courses, the slower the building up of the pressure, the more effective Iranian counter measures. As I wrote, we need a miracle.

BROWDER: I became the largest foreign investor in Russia. Our funds, at the peak of our success, was about $4.5 billion of foreign money invested in the Russian stock market.

And so we developed a strategy which - which seemed a bit crazy at the time, which was let's research how they do the stealing. Let's figure it all out, and then let's share the research with the international media. And we did that.

ZAKARIA: And this is just about the time that Vladimir Putin has come to power in Russia. So why is Putin allowing you to do this?

BROWDER: I was fighting with oligarchs who were trying to steal money from the companies I was investing in and Putin was fighting with the same oligarchs who were trying to steal power from him.

And so, for - for that period of time, as we were exposing the corruption in these companies, the government was acting.

ZAKARIA: And - and was that public approval of what you were doing?

BROWDER: Well, everybody - there's only one group of people that didn't approve of what I was doing, and that were - that was the people who were stealing the money from the companies. I mean, of course, who wouldn't be happy if - if you find out that the bad guys are getting fired and can't steal money from the gas company or the electricity company or whatever?

But everything changed all of a sudden in 2003. In 2003, in October, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was the richest man in Russia and the head of the Yukos oil company, was flying on a private jet to Siberia, and he was arrested on the runway in Siberia. And when they did that, they did one thing which was psychologically devastating for all the other rich people in Russia, which was they took the richest man in Russia and they put him into a cage and they allowed all the television cameras to come in and film him sitting in a cage.

And imagine that you are the 17th richest guy in Russia, sitting on - in your yacht, parked off the Cote d'Azur in France and you turn on CNN and you see the richest guy sitting in a cage, and what do you want do? You want to make sure you're not sitting in the cage.

And, so one by one by one, they went back to the Kremlin and they declared their allegiance, and, all of a sudden, they -

ZAKARIA: Their allegiance to Putin?

BROWDER: To Putin. And, all of a sudden, Putin no longer was at odds with the oligarchs. Unfortunately, I still was.

ZAKARIA: So you go for a business trip aboard November, 2005, and you come back to the airport in Russia and what happens?

BROWDER: So I arrived at the airport, as I had 250 times before in the past decade. I went to the VIP lounge at Sheremetyevo-2 Airport, handed them my passport. And what - what should have been a five-minute process, while they process the passport, turned into an hour. And after an hour there was a bunch of commotion and a bunch of officers came into the lounge and they came up to me and said you're not allowed into Russia. Follow me, Sir.

They took me down to the detention area of the airport where they kept me for a day and then they deported me out of Russia.

BROWDER: But then, the Russian government decides to go after you in another way, which is quite extraordinary.

BROWDER: Well, the next - so this was nothing. This part of the story was nothing compared to what happened next.

Respect for somebody else's religion does not mandate following that persons religious mandate. Following years of Muslim attempts to intimidate writers and artists to comply with Muslim religious strictures, a group of activists decided to push back. In posting this all too true cartoon, I am joining them in solidarity.

Pakistan, the country that gave us the Taliban and built the"Islamic Bomb" is boycotting 'Facebook' and 'Youtube' for drawing Muhammad.

Optimistically treating European Commission partially funded data1, we find that for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain’s experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created. . . .

Spanish citizens must therefore cope with either an increase of electricity rates or increased taxes (and public deficit), as will the U.S. if it follows Spain’s model. . . .

Renewables consume enormous taxpayer resources. In Spain, the average annuity payable to renewables is equivalent to 4.35% of all VAT collected, 3.45% of the household income tax, or 5.6% of the corporate income tax for 2007

Now, they note that President Barack Obama is driving the US off the green energy cliff. The Spanish found:

Green energy is 120 percent more expensive, simply due to the extra costs of solar and wind, and the evolution of the market is not going to bring down those costs any time soon.

The clean energy sector is slated to receive 126 billion euros in the next 25 years, but no one knows where the money is going to come from . In 2009, the subsidies were worth 5 billion euros.

Photovoltaic solar power accounts for 53 percent of the extra cost of renewables, whereas it produces only 11 percent of Spain’s renewable energy.

Each “green job” comes at the expense of 2.2 traditional jobs.

The sad thing is that everybody in Thailand has known for months that the troubles are coming. A young, cocky prime minister refused to call an election he feared would deprive him of power. Once the lengthy legal case against former prime minister Thaksim ended in compromise, election could no longer be indefinitely delayed. Thai papers touted the compromise as the Thai way. A similar compromise, an agreement to an election at date sure, would have prevented the current troubles. A Thai style compromise could yet do the trick. The current death and destruction seem so unnecessary, so wasteful . . .

Watch the black tanks! Bangkok 2010 looks worse than Prague 1968. SO NOT OVER! It is moving north. Time for elections.