Posts Tagged ‘Greenland Ice Cap’

Weekend reading: Links & comments 10/30/2015

October 30, 2015

The Midwife to Chaos and Her Perjury by Andrew Napolitano for The Unz Review.

Republican attacks on President Obama and the Clintons generally amount to straining at gnats while swallowing camels.  The House Benghazi Committee’s questioning of Hillary Clinton fits this pattern.

She was questioned for 10 hours, nearly continuously, for her alleged neglect of security leading to the murder of an American diplomat in Benghazi, Libya.  But nobody asked her about why she instigated a war against a country that did not threaten the United States, throwing innocent people leading normal lives into bloody anarchy.

And incidentally providing a new recruiting ground for terrorists..

The 6 Reasons China and Russia Are Catching Up to the U.S. Military on Washington’s Blog.

China Sea Blues: A Thing Not to Do by Fred Reed for Fred on Everything.

Just because the United States has the world’s largest and most expensive military doesn’t mean we have the world’s best military.  We Americans are complacent because of our wealth, and because we have not faced a serious threat to our existence in 70 years.

Our leaders think we can afford to waste money on high-tech weapons that don’t work, and military interventions that aren’t vital to American security.  Other nations, which have less margin of safety and would be fighting near their own borders, may be a match for us.

FBI Accused of Torturing U.S. Citizen Abroad Can’t Be Sued by Christian Farias for The Huffington Post.

Nowadays the Constitution stops where national security and foreign policy begin.

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Chasing Ice: largest glacier breakup ever filmed

February 4, 2013

On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski filmed the “calving” of the Ilulissat Glacier in western Greenland.   The chunk of ice that broke off was three miles wide, a mile deep and 3,000 feet high, with 300 to 400 feet above water and the rest below water.  The separation from the main glacier took 75 minutes.  It was the largest “calving” of a glacier ever captured on film.  The film won the Excellence in Cinematography award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and many other awards.

Hat tip to Bill Elwell