Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 August 2016

…Soviet Union researchers captured the harrowing footage of the flattened Japanese cities around a month after the US bombings took place.

The black-and-white video, which is around five minutes in length, was presented to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June this year by the chairman of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin. …

…Some telegraph stations that used chemicals to mark sheets reported that powerful surges caused telegraph paper to combust.… When American Telegraph Company employees arrived at their Boston office at 8 a.m., they discovered it was impossible to transmit or receive dispatches. The atmosphere was so charged, however, that operators made an incredible discovery: They could unplug their batteries and still transmit messages to Portland, Maine, at 30- to 90-second intervals using only the auroral current. Messages still couldn’t be sent as seamlessly as under normal conditions, but it was a useful workaround. …

Stuart McMillen’s webcomic does a marvelous job of adapting (and updating!) Neil Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984.

Sheriff David Clarke: Hillary Clinton a ‘Morally Bankrupt,’ ‘Pathological Liar’ — ‘Her Ethical Elevator Has No Bottom Floor’…
The 47 Clinton Friends Who Mysteriously Turned Up Dead…
Hillary’s America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party…

How do you come to terms with the fact that you're just ordinary?…
The Black Hole of San Francisco…
The alphabet is sexist…

Six men were arrested in Indonesia for plotting to launch a rocket attack against Singapore from an island near the city-state. No motive for the planned deed has yet been determined, but it is certain that the incident had nothing to do with Islam. Perhaps the men were lone wolves who were mentally ill, suffered from anomie, felt marginalized, and were bullied in school. And they may have been suddenly radicalized online.

In other news, Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the motorway route into Heathrow Airport and caused other disruptions in cities across England.…

Michelle Malkin: Stop The Insanity, Terror Apologists – It’s The Jihad, Stupid!…
Don Surber: A Vote For Hillary Is A Vote For Allah…
Power Line: Government Says Wearing Gadsden Flag Might Be Unlawful Racial Harassment…

Al Jazeera: Obama: ISIL still a threat despite coalition gains…
Indonesian police: plot foiled to fire rocket at Singapore…
White House on track to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees…

Being overweight makes brain '10 years older' than if you are slim…
Researcher Says Government Is Racist For Recommending Milk…
Hamas 'infiltrated int'l Gazan aid group,' stole tens of millions of dollars…

Twitchy: Ain’t It Cute When Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren Pretend To Care About The Constitution?…
Joe For America: 15,000 At Trump Rally Missed By The Media…
This Ain’t Hell: DNC Resurrects Ku Klux Klan…

According to the latest reports, the youngster who went on a stabbing spree in London yesterday is a “Norwegian”. Mainstream media outlets breathed a collective sigh of relief at being able to put that in their headlines. It’s only when you read down a ways that you discover the murderous youth was “of Somali origin”. However, since it has emerged that he is mentally ill, we know that his actions had nothing to do with Islam. He’s just a Norwegian loony, like Anders Behring Breivik. Except, of course, that we can’t figure out a motive for his attack — that will probably take months. He’s just a Viking berserker with an unusually dark suntan.

In other news, according to the Archbishop of Rouen, the last words of the priest who was halal-slaughtered in the church in Normandy were: “Be gone, Satan!” Surely he couldn’t possibly have been directing such hateful words at the misguided Algerian youth with the knife. Maybe he was talking to one of the nuns.…

Looky, Looky, Trump was right about seeing a video of Iran money drop from Obama… Somebody owes Trump an apology. It'll never come, he's crazy and stupid and everyone else is sane and smart.…

…“I hope you will compare what I’m proposing to what my husb — my opponent is talking about…”