Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Beck Presents Obama's Passover Message

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4652860/beck-obamas-passover-message

The video is a clip from Glenn Beck. We know that he has not been Obama's biggest fan throughout his administration. In the video he seems to be completely offended by what Obama said in his passover message. He reads that Obama sees the Palestinians as slaves and the Israelis as their oppressors. It is scary to see the President, the leader of the free world, making such a statement over our holiday.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Oh Beiber, You Didn't...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/world/middleeast/13bieber.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

I have no words.
Meaning i have a million things to say, but why is Justin Beiber a young pop singer making the front page of the New York Times. There has got to be more interesting news. Or maybe this is just the kind of interesting news that the public craves? Politics meets pop culture?

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

1986 or 2011: When Chernobyl meets Japan

According to many news sources, (I am using the WSJ) the damage from the nuclear plants in Japan are reaching the levels of the horrors of Chernobyl. Something that everyone thought the modern world had moved far beyond. The earlier disaster happened in the Soviet Union, when the world was entrenched in the drama of the Cold War. A concept that we, the modern thinker, wants to think is now passe. Even though relations with Iran are shaky at best, they have yet to reach the level of Soviet relations. The Soviet union represents a low point in American diplomacy, when there was no end in sight and fear more than anything else perpetuated the relationship.
Today, however, Japan is in trouble. Their nuclear reactors are malfunctioning due to the earth quake and subsequent tsunami, they are damaged and are releasing large amounts of radio active material into the air.
As the WSJ says:
"It is quite different from Chernobyl," said Mr. Nishiyama. "First, the amount of released radiation is about a tenth of Chernobyl," he said, adding that while there were 29 deaths resulting from short-term exposure to high doses of radiation at Chernobyl, there were no such deaths at Fukushima. "At Chernobyl, the nuclear reactor itself exploded," he said, adding that at the Fukushima plant, the pressure vessel and the containment vessel were largely intact.

At the end of the day, the word is "scary." There is nothing that anyone can do to control what is going on and in a world where everyone feels like they control everything based on who wins a debate, who has the most money, who gets the most votes; this is foreign territory. 

see the article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703841904576256742249147126.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read