http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/send-in-the-obama-clowns/print/ On Saturday night in Sedalia, a Missouri city with a population that would fit into Arrowhead Stadium four times over, the entire nation was shaken when a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask performed his usual routine. Toward the end of Obama’s first term a tornado had torn through Sedalia blowing off roofs and […]
“If Jews do indeed abandon Europe, it will be to escape a situation in which their very identity is increasingly treated as a matter of suspicion and political contention. Should an emigration en masse come to be a reality, Gurfinkiel concludes, it would constitute “a profound blow to the collective psyche of the Jewish people” as well as a shattering judgment on the “so-called European idea.” In the absence of living Jews, Europeans will have nothing but Holocaust museums and memorials on which to base the moral reckoning of their past.”
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Time to pay our respects to what was, and for European Jews to move elsewhere?
Michel Gurfinkiel is in the tradition of the great French essayists who put the issues of the day squarely before the public. It is a bold thing to do, especially when the subject under discussion is the fate of the Jews.
“You Only Live Twice” argues that, in the relatively short term, Jews are likely to have left Europe. The Jewish contribution to European civilization has been “a crowning glory of the human spirit,” but now the majority of European Jews and also those non-Jews who are paying attention to the march of history “insist that catastrophe may lie ahead.” The causes of this coming catastrophe are already evident to Gurfinkiel, and they tend toward an unhappy ending. In any case, the wise will not linger, awaiting certain submission. The time has come to pay our respects to what was once but is no more, and for Jews to move elsewhere as they have done through so many centuries.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Europeans adopted the phrase “Never Again,” implying shame for the perpetrators and at least a shading of guilt for the many who had stood by and taken no notice. For some years, survivors of the Nazi genocide, along with Jewish refugees expelled from the countries of the Middle East, were able to remake their lives everywhere across the continent. This was all too good to last.
Since 2000 in France alone, as Gurfinkiel notes, 7,650 anti-Semitic incidents ranging from petty insults to brutal racist murders have been reported, and this statistic ignores many more incidents that are known to have occurred but were not reported to the authorities. Things have come to the point where the chief rabbi of France advises Jews not to wear a kippah in the street because it makes them recognizable as Jews. “Never” has dropped out of the slogan of solidarity, leaving “Again” to stand on its own.
Most of the following article by Victor Sharpe was first published in Family Security Matters on October 6, 2011.
Remember the Roadmap that Condoleezza Rice and President Bush earlier forced upon Israel? Well it is still alive and the current Obama regime continues to impose what history will recall as an insane repetition of failed policies.
The endless concessions, imposed only upon Israel, known by the morally bankrupt euphemisms of “land for peace” or “risks for peace,” and the “Two-State Solution” guarantee endless war against Israel. That is what the road map is; a veritable cul de sac of death for the Jewish state.
There is no peace partner at this time within the Arab world that Israel can truly trust, and certainly not among the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. Western absurdity as to which Palestinian Arab group is “moderate” enough to receive enormous amounts of tax payer funds was demonstrated by Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, during the Bush Administration. She certified that Fatah, led by Mahmoud Abbas, met the qualifications of a genuine peace partner for Israel.
Here the absurdity reached new heights for it was Fatah itself, the peace partner, which at the same time Rice was sanctifying it, sent two suicide killers into the Israeli Negev town of Dimona where they succeeded in murdering an elderly woman while maiming many other civilians. And Abbas, the Holocaust denier, was then, as now, unwilling to end Palestinian terrorism.
http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/
Saudi Arabia Gives UN $100M to Fight Terror It Exports
After bankrolling terrorist ideology around the world, Saudi Arabia has made a huge contribution to the UN for a “counter terrorism” cover story. 100 million dollars will go to the so-called UN Centre on Counterterrorism. A reasonable question would be: a centre for countering what? Because the UN has no definition of terrorism. In fact, the reason that the UN has no definition of terrorism is in no small measure due to Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom – along with the rest of the UN’s Islamic states who are all parties to the Islamic Terrorism Convention – insists that murdering Israelis and Americans who get in the way of “self-determination” is not terrorism. Now into this farcical mix steps John Kerry. Kerry has made an official statement “applauding” Saudi Arabia. The Secretary profusely thanked the Saudis for their contribution to financing counter-terrorism – notwithstanding that through their hate-filled “educational” and “charitable” works around the world they do exactly the opposite. Kerry was also happy that the money would “build support to implement the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy.” That strategy both fails to define terrorism, and is the UN’s central instrument for turning poor-terrorists into victims. Its section number one is entitled “Measures to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism.” Among other things, the Strategy urges states to “recognize…that…youth unemployment, could reduce marginalization and the subsequent sense of victimization that propels extremism and the recruitment of terrorists.” Does it look like Al-Qaeda members are out of a job to you? So not only are the terror-supporting Saudis paying blood money to the UN for countering-terror, the Obama administration thinks that’s great.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/05/UN-Accredits-NGO-Led-by-Anti-Semitic-Former-Malaysian-PM
The UN has awarded official accreditation to an NGO headed by the antisemitic former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. As its founder and President, Mohamad calls his personal project the “Perdana Global Peace Foundation.”
Apparently, the title’s reference to the word “peace” was enough to win over the members of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). That’s the committee formed back in 1975 to implement the Zionism-is-racism resolution and still going strong.
Accreditation will come with UN perks like the ability to attend and participate in various UN meetings. For instance, when the Palestinians upgraded their status at last year’s General Assembly, the CEIRPP stacked the visitor seats with supporters who dutifully stood up in front of the television cameras and cheered.
Strictly-speaking, the UN rule for accrediting NGOs is adherence to the UN Charter. The Charter preaches “respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”
Mahathir Mohamad, by contrast, has a long history of being for discrimination on the basis of race and religion.
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and AMY CHOZICK
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html?hp&_r=1&
EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES IS GETTING TIRED OF THE CLINTONS AND THEIR POLITICAL HUCKSTERISM…..
“For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.”
Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Two weeks of interviews with Clinton Foundation executives and former employees had led the lawyers to some unsettling conclusions.
The review echoed criticism of Mr. Clinton’s early years in the White House: For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.
And concern was rising inside and outside the organization about Douglas J. Band, a onetime personal assistant to Mr. Clinton who had started a lucrative corporate consulting firm — which Mr. Clinton joined as a paid adviser — while overseeing the Clinton Global Initiative, the foundation’s glitzy annual gathering of chief executives, heads of state, and celebrities.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/dropping_a_green_hammer_on_the_economy.html Despite reams of scientific studies and data to the contrary, $100′s of millions already wasted on failed “green” energy projects, and a majority of Americans placing “global warming/climate change” near the bottom of the list of national priorities, Barack Obama is nevertheless gearing up for a full frontal assault on reliable, cost-efficient energy producers, […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/14/oliver-stone-obama-snake-and-we-have-turn-him/
A video released Wednesday shows American filmmaker and Vietnam veteran Oliver Stone telling a Tokyo audience that President Obama is a “snake” for “institutionalizing” illegal National Security Agency spy programs, the Blaze reported.
“Obama is a snake,” he told reporters earlier this week at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, eliciting laughter and applause. “He’s a snake. And we have to turn on him.
“It’s never about terrorists, it always becomes about the way J. Edgar Hoover did it,” he said. “He brought all the weight of government to bear against protestors. He didn’t like protestors. He thought they were left-wing communists. He never could find the proof, but by the time the Vietnam War came around, as you know, 500,000 people were on the list, and they were being eavesdropped on. And where are we now? Same place.”
Mr. Stone also praised whistleblower Edward Snowden, calling him a personal hero.
“He sacrificed his well-being for the good of us all,” he said. “I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin did the right thing, and I’m proud of him for doing it. We need more countries to stand up to the U.S.”
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— What gives with Geico choosing a pig to sell insurance?
You do not have to be Jewish or Muslim to hate those Geico commercials that feature Maxwell the pig. A Christian group called One Million Moms, part of American Family Association, publicly complained about one particular spot that featured a woman trying to seduce the pig, in a car, apparently on a date. “Repulsive,” they said.
They also said that the madmen geniuses who came up with the concept were promoting bestiality.
That is exactly what I thought when I first saw that commercial. I turned to my wife, the wiser of the two, and said, “Am I getting this right?”
We know that in selling a product the trick is to sell it two ways, 1, say it loud, 2, say it soft, subliminally. Well, this does both.
So is Geico saying that bestiality is okay? There seems to be no other explanation. The Web says that Warren Buffett owns Geico through the parent company Berkshire Hathaway, and that Buffett would spend $2 billion on Geico ads if he could. So far the cost is about $1 billion a year.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3920/china-buys-academia
Why is an “ethics consulting” not-for-profit organization with millions in unused assets teaching Chinese intelligence operatives about British security practices? Given the recent growth of Chinese influence within Western universities, it should probably not be a surprise that a number of Western academics are party to the scandal.
Organizers of a conference for members of the Chinese intelligence services due to be held at Cambridge University in September have barred attending academics from asking questions about China’s human rights record.
The Sunday Times has reported that Anthony Glees, a British counter-terrorism academic, turned down an invitation to speak at the seminar for officials from China’s Ministry of Public Security after the seminar’s organizers barred him from commenting on Chinese government repression and cyber-espionage.
