The Red Line comment is at 1:25
Photo by @Stcrow of @nytimes of Pres Obama making remarks about Ukraine during photo op with Mexican Pres Pena Nieto. pic.twitter.com/XftQFDDiDQ
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) February 19, 2014
Meanwhile, I shall call him “Chief Wilson Moon Bat” …
The basic reason for his claim is that Jakarta is a little over three feet above sea level.
However, what’s more alarming is that apparently John Kerry does not know more than 85% of Florida is less than three feet above sea level….. Or, maybe he does and he just doesn’t want to tell Floridians they are going to be sunk by the end of the century.
(Via CNSNews) During his speech on global warming in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that by century’s end the sea level could rise by one meter, a little over three feet, and “put half of Jakarta underwater.”
Jakarta is the capital and largest city in Indonesia, on the island of Java, on the northwest coast. About 9.5 million people live there and the city is 258 square miles around.
In a speech before largely college students in Jakarta, Kerry talked about greenhouse gases warming the Earth and said, “And because the earth is getting hotter at such an alarming speed, glaciers in places like the Arctic are melting into the sea faster than we expected. And the sea is rising – slowly, but rising – and will rise to dangerous levels” (more…)
As with almost every aspect of life whatever inherent truths you deny, you are doomed to revisit. Yesterday we outlined the latest media-avoided conversation surrounding yet another racially inspired knock out assault.
Knowing that a single blow to the head can lead to death, as was evidenced recently in the “knock out murder” trial of Jesse Smithers, these awkward, horrific and continually repeating examples are not a game.
They are, for all intents and purposes, attempted homicides.
Capital Murder as generally defined is: “the unlawful killing of another person, with malice of forethought and specific intent to kill“. Remove any of the three essential elements [(1) Unlawful, (2) malice, (3) specific intent] and you have the various degrees of homicide charges.
Remove ‘specific intent’ and you have “Murder 2” unintentional killing. Add in the removal of ‘malice of forethought’ and you have “manslaughter”. Remove ‘unlawful‘ and you end up with “justifiable homicide”.
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Generally, at least in this example, I would surmise no – but one could easily argue, perhaps.
I’ll be writing up some thoughts on how the media is presenting this again.
The issues are far more complex than can be summarized in a six to eight hundred word synopsis.
There are serious issues represented in how Chris Cuomo and the larger media are continuing to advance a historically flawed narrative surrounding the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. When the trial evidence was presented (poorly in my opinion) and then the jury verdict was announced, a decision by the media was needed. Would they admit their former false presentations, or would they double down on their false media narrative.
It is now clear the media is wantonly doubling down on their falsehoods.
It is also clear the reason they can get away with it is because Mark O’Mara played a white-guilt apologist role in keeping the “why” out of the sunlight.
As the only person who interviewed hundreds of students in/around Krop Senior High School, and having invested thousands of hours in research to the people and motivation’s behind the story, we will attempt clarification.
VERY FEW, almost no-one, at Krop Senior High School knew Trayvon Martin. When you understand why that is, you begin to understand how totally false the entire construct of the shooting storyline, as presented by the media, actually is.
The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Let me repeat. The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Repetition is needed because literally every single media pundit talking about either trial says, as if it were true, that Stand Your Ground was a factor in the self-defense claims of George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. However, for media and politicians they can never let facts get in the way of their propaganda.
FLORIDA – Critics of Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law are using the verdict in the murder trial of Michael Dunn to showcase their argument that state laws should be changed.
Dunn was convicted on three counts of second-degree attempted murder, but the jury could not reach a verdict on first- or-second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis after about 30 hours of deliberations.
“It’s a sloppy bill. It needs to be narrowly tailored and judges need more discretion,” U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, said Sunday.
“When the law started, the intention was very good: If you break into my house, I’m going to deal with you. But when you extend [that premise]…. there are problems.” (more…)
Karen Gray Houston, a local reporter for Fox 5 DC, interviewed a few straight-A middle school students who were rewarded a pizza party at their school and made them feel bad that the party excluded “B” and “C” students.
The party, which happened during the last period of the day, featured free pizza, soda, games and a DJ. Students with all A’s were invited to the pizza party while students with some B’s, and C’s were only invited after the pizza was served. The report says that students with even lower grades were not invited at all.
Houston, who was reporting on site, could relate, saying, “Speaking of not getting an invitation, we were not allowed inside for the party at Eastern Middle School either, so we know a little about what it’s like to be left out.”
The students who were interviewed by Houston all answered in the affirmative that the party was indeed fun and that they were proud of making straight A’s. Then Houston shamed them for reaping a benefit of hard work: (continue reading)
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“Reporters Without Borders”, a watchdog organization headquartered in Paris, France and known by its French acronym, “RSF”, has published its annual “World Press Freedom Index”.
Liberty Blitzkrieg brings to our attention that in the great march FORWARD!, the US was a front runner in the stakes for greatest loss of press freedom in year over year results – slipping an impressive 13 slots from #33 last year to #46 on the 2014 world ranking, after Romania but before Haiti.
There were some “non-surprises”, such as North Korea and Eritrea remaining at the back of the pack, but also some pleasant surprises with tiny Belize clocking in at an impressive #29, hanging out in the “free press” band with Australia at #28.
Clearly, much work remains to be done before the US can be satisfied that the people’s work is completed and it can comfortably hang in the 100’s with its pals in the middle east and Africa. Maybe that will provide the necessary incentive to Dirty Harry in the Senate to get working on that innertubes kill switch. In the meantime, those pesky bloggers keep bringing up stuff like Benghazi, or Warrantless Wiretaps, or the ever expanding use of technology to spy on and monitor its own citizens.
The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists. The ranking of some countries has also been affected by a tendency to interpret national security needs in an overly broad and abusive manner to the detriment of the right to inform and be informed. This trend constitutes a growing threat worldwide and is even endangering freedom of information in countries regarded as democracies. Finland tops the index for the fourth year running, closely followed by Netherlands and Norway, like last year. At the other end of the index, the last three positions are again held by Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, three countries where freedom of information is non-existent.
VENEZUELA – “I want to get out of here. I want to leave this country as soon as possible and never come back.”
The text from my friend Luis surprised me. A lawyer by training, he got his masters in urban planning from an elite Manhattan university, and had returned to Venezuela full of hope. He was hired by a local NGO working on poverty abatement issues. But now, he’s fed up.
“Nothing works. There are lines to buy everything. Prices have gone through the roof. You can’t go out at night for fear of getting shot. If you want to get married, finding a place to live is impossible. The country has become unlivable.” (more…)
NEW YORK – Two radio DJs in Long Island who caused an uproar last week by posting the homophobic RSVP to a birthday party for a ‘little girl with two gay dads’ admitted on Saturday that the whole thing was a hoax.
K-98.3 DJs Steve Harper and Leeana Karlson on Wednesday posted on their show’s Facebook page a heartbreaking note written on an invitation to a ‘tie dye party’ for a girl named ‘Sophia’s’ seventh birthday.
The DJs tricked people into believing that Sophia had two gay dads, and the note – supposedly written by the mother of a friend of Sophia’s, who they called ‘Tommy’ – stated ‘Tommy will NOT attend. I do not believe in what you do and will not subject my innocent son to your lifestyle. I’m sorry Sophia has to grow up this way.’ (more…)