The Situation Intensifies

March 13th, 2011 5:23pm CST
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A short time ago, the Guardian published this update of the nuclear emergency in Japan:
"Fears of a major nuclear accident in Japan have intensified as authorities scramble to bring under control several overheating reactors at one power station, and declared a state of emergency at another, where radiation levels soared above normal limits.

Workers at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in the north-east of the country pumped seawater into three reactors in a last-ditch attempt to make them safe after emergency cooling systems failed to stabilise the radioactive cores.

More than 200,000 people were evacuated as officials imposed a 20km exclusion zone around the power station and a 10km zone surrounding the Fukushima 2 power plant nearby. Japanese officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency they would distribute potassium iodide pills as a precaution against an increased risk of thyroid cancer from radiation."

Kristol's Phony Journalism

Oct. 8th, 2010


by F. Grey Parker

Today in the Weekly Standard, William Kristol seems to be attempting to gin-up support for Israel as a pre-election litmus test.


Citing a variety of numbers from a poll conducted by the "Emergency Committee For Israel," Kristol makes this warning:




"So it’s not only that the American public is pro-Israel by more than two to one. It’s also that being anti-Israel is an actual disqualifier for a majority of American voters.

This is a pro-Israel nation."

Absent from the piece are a number of important facts. The most important of those facts is that Bill Kristol himself is on the board of ECI. He is passing off as journalism an essay endorsing the findings of an organization he helps run.