Israel is shaking up the information war
… signaling the end of legacy media’s influence. The big Internet story this week is Israel’s magnificent end run around the mainstream media. The IDF’s new weapons of war: YouTube and Twitter. According to the head of the IDF’s press team: “The blogosphere and new media are another war zone, we have to be relevant there.”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Ben Pollack and his Californians performing Waitin’ For Katie (1927, 3:00).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
I think this applies here.
Chavez expels Israel’s ambassador from Venezuela.
The Stubblejumper vs The Mighty Yanks! it’s a win-win for the Canadian blogosphere. For those on the right, an opportunity to pull together and score one for Canada! For those on the left, an opportunity to pull together and stick it to the lousy Americans!
In the meanwhile, be sure to check out the other categories – here are some of my picks:
Best Blog – my favourite isn’t nominated this year, so I’m going with Hot Air.
Best Individual Blogger – The Anchoress.
Best Humor – Mother May I Sleep With Treacher
Best Science Blog – an easy choice in Watts Up With That
Best Culture Blog – SondraK
And the category that’s the most difficult – Best Canadian Blog, because there are so many good choices, including my co-defendants Ezra and Kathy Shaidle, our good friends at The Torch, and Darcey’s Dust My Broom. And if you can’t make up your mind, you can help Canadian Sentinel achieve his goal of beating “a couple of Leftists”.
(I haven’t been through all of the categories. If you spot any other Canadian blogs in competition, drop me a note.)
You are allowed to vote once every 24 hours until the polls close. No cheating, please – the Weblog admins have enough work as it is.
Dr. Tooryalai Wesa, formerly an academic at UBC, is the new Governor of Kandahar province. And instead of telling his people what they want to hear, he’s telling them what they need to hear.
Without understanding the root causes…
What could possibly go wrong?
Ontario’s largest university workers union is proposing a ban on Israeli academics teaching in the province’s universities, in a move that echoes previous attempts to boycott goods and services from the Jewish state.
The resolution, proposed by CUPE’s Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee, is in protest of a Dec. 29 bombing that damaged the Islamic University in Gaza.
“In response to an appeal from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, we are ready to say Israeli academics should not be on our campuses unless they explicitly condemn the university bombing and the assault on Gaza in general,” said Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario.
The openings these banishments create will be filled by visiting Palestinian professors of weapons storage, rocket manufacture, and hostage taking…
Related – Sid Ryan’s new anthem
“If sociologists ignore genes, will other academics — and the wider world — ignore sociology?“
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here courtesy of mail from listener Exetaz is Mr. Frank Sinatra performing Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim‘s Wave (4:26).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
It’s the Stubblejumper vs The Mighty Yanks….
Click here to vote for SDA in the Best Conservative Blog category. I was out this afternoon, so we have some catching up to do!
Click this link to vote for Best Canadian blog, while the other categories can be accessed here.
Update – We’re up two percentage points in 15 minutes 5 percentage points in 45 minutes !
Jan 6th Morning Update – holding our own and then some – currently in third place, nipping at the heels of Little Green Footbals and within 200 votes of Ace of Spades…
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.
Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.
Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.
The data is being reported by the University of Illinois’s Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions
Related! “Birdwatchers’ delight as Arctic snowy owl is spotted in freezing England for first time”…
(By the way – who’s the designated global warming mouthpiece at CTV these days? A few hundred forwards of the DailyTech link would be a wonderful service to Canadians.)
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Dec. 3, 2008 – President-elect Barack Obama names New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Commerce secretary calling him “a leading economic diplomat for America…”
Jan. 4, 2009 – Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs on Richardson’s withdrawal – “I think our vettors have done a good job”.
Nov. 17, 2008; – Heath Haussamen, on New Mexico Politics
In addition, the FBI is probing dealings between the state and a California firm that was paid almost $1 million related to a $1.6 billion transportation program. Investigators are looking into at least two financial contributions totaling $100,000 that the company involved, CDR Financial Products, made to political committees formed by Richardson around the time it won the state contract related to Governor Richardson’s Investment Partnership (GRIP) in 2004.
“Solar cycle 24: where are you?”
Update – “Looking at the data to 1932, it was clear to me that what we are seeing today for levels doesn’t exist in the record.”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here courtesy of mail from listener David are Pinchas Zukerman (currently of Ottawa) and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing Max Christian Friedrich Bruch‘s Violin Concerto #1 in G Minor, Op. 26 (8:18), Part 2 (9:15), and Part 3 (7:49), in Tel Aviv in 2007.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Chris, who sent along this photo of Saskatoon’s QE power plant on a -40 day writes;
I guess we’re terrible people for not harnessing the power of a 7km/h wind and 8 hours of sun….
Related – Saskatchewan residents resort to burning solar panels to keep warm…
The people who were once partners in animal husbandry are rapidly being converted into animal rights activists with stethoscopes;
In the new way of thinking, it is OK to do surgical sterilization of an animal with all the far reaching impact this may have due to the change in hormones this causes, but its not OK to snip off a length of tail before a pup can feel that surgery, or take off excess ear so that the ear can stand as is normal in dogs (a drop ear is a mutation seen only in tame canines). It is considered reasonable to mention only the positive effects of alter surgery but not to mention the negatives. Now how can it be OK to ‘sexually mutilate’ a dog without its agreement, but not be OK to prevent tail injury or fix an ear or remove a dewclaw? Do the vets not realize that if they alter the last animals they will be out of work?
Precisely. The next time you hear someone declare a docked tail to be a “needless mutilation”, ask them if their cat is spayed.
Related: The Humane Society Of The United States – a “humane society” in name only.
Not dead enough.
(Update – try this link if the other gives you problems.)
