http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-climate-of-fear-cash-and-correctitude?f=puball Trashing real science to protect grants, prestige, and desire to control energy, economy, lives Earth’s geological, archaeological and written histories are replete with climate changes: big and small, short and long, benign, beneficial, catastrophic and everything in between. The Medieval Warm Period (950-1300 AD or CE) was a boon for agriculture, civilization and Viking settlers in […]
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If parents don’t reclaim the education of their children en masse, whether with a massive, nationwide homeschooling program or by occupying the schools and extirpating the government indoctrination programs – Common Core and CSCOPE, America will be forever lost.
(En masse is critical for this effort. Remember Robert Small of Ellicott City, Maryland who was forcibly removed and arrested after questioning the Common Core curriculum while other parents did NOTHING. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQmUnisDEM)
Following two generations of citizens who are IGNORANT about American history, our quest for liberty and freedom, and our unprecedented founding documents – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the “cultural revolution” will take hold. There will be NO memory of the United States as a free country, except for some discredited old folks requiring a “re-education” process.
We saw this happen in Mao’s China where indoctrinated young people – automatons – deprived of family nurturing and bonding, turned in their own families and assisted in wholesale murder and destruction. Mao’s Cultural Revolution resulted in approximately 50 million deaths and a rapid plunge into totalitarianism.
It CAN happen here!
With best wishes for the New Year and renewed energy to fight the good fight despite terrible odds, ~ Janet Levy ~ Los Angeles
What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2014?
By John W. Whitehead Tuesday, December 31, 2013
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1
In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into his life but changes his priorities.
Similarly, as I illustrate in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again-egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.-although with far fewer moments of comic hilarity.
What remains to be seen is whether 2014 will bring more of the same or whether “we the people” will wake up from our somnambulant states. Indeed, when it comes to civil liberties and freedom, 2013 was far from a banner year. The following is just a sampling of what we can look forward to repeating if we don’t find some way to push back against the menace of an overreaching, aggressive, invasive, militarized government and restore our freedoms.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/re-writing-benghazi-for-political-purposes?f=puball In typical Progressive fashion, the New York Times set itself to re-writing the events of al Qaeda’s 2012 attack on the US embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya; an attack that took the lives of four Americans, including a US ambassador. At any other point in the history of our country, the assassination of a US ambassador […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-future-of-terrorism-ushering-in-the-new-year?f=must_reads “In the soil of hatred and despair sprouts the seed of violence” As the year draws to a close many pause to reflect on the past and what the future may bring. Terrorists are no different. They, like the average individual, have aspirations and make resolutions for the future. Their ultimate goal can often […]
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/dec/31/veteran-next-door/ I ran into this guy I had not seen in quite some time and we got to talking about the horses, as what else is there to talk about? So after all the bad news, like the chumps and bums who’d left us over the past year, we switched to something pleasant, like our […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6881 The sky is once again falling over Europe’s Jews. An ominous cloud of anti-Semitism is moving in and darkening the horizon. Eternal hatred of the eternal people is again rearing its head. From academia’s ivory towers to the neighborhoods on the outskirts of the cities, the slogans that led the troops as they carried […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=14323 One does not need to be especially intelligent to draw parallels and to understand why the rate of terrorists resuming their activities is also high when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian story. In a week in which the United States was slightly embarrassed by revelations that American intelligence agencies were engaged in surveillance of […]
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A Jewish Chronicle editorial (22 November) regarding the unconscionable leniency of the Lib Dems towards antisemitism in the party, following another whiff of judeophobia by yet another of its parliamentarians, David Ward:
‘….The real issue here is not his antisemitism. It is his party’s reaction to it. To say the LibDems have a track record of excusing antisemitism barely comes close to the reality. It took years for the party to remove Baroness Tonge, despite her form of antisemitic Tourette’s. But its treatment of Mr Ward takes its acquiescence in race hate to another level.
When the LibDems finally decided to act against the Bradford East MP they suspended him over the summer recess, then swiftly readmitted him in time for the party conference. It was a ‘non-punishment punishment’ and implied the party did not believe any serious action was really necessary. That impression has now been confirmed by the LibDems’ refusal to utter even a word of criticism against Mr Ward for his latest outpouring of hate, despite it being a clear restatement of the most basic antisemitic theme of all — that wealthy Jews buy up power.’
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Jill, the indefatigable poster-wielding heroine from Sussex Friends of Israel, in her customary sock-it-to-’em-with-a-smile pose:
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Sir Tom Jones, on completing a concert tour of Israel (where he memorably sang “My Yiddishe Momma”):
“I was in Israel … where a lot of singers won’t go. I don’t agree with that. I think entertainers should entertain. They should go wherever – there shouldn’t be any restrictions. I did two shows in Tel Aviv, and it was fantastic….
I wanted to go, because the Israeli people asked me. They would like me to sing, and I don’t see any problem in doing that. I don’t see why anyone would mix up the two things – entertainment and politics.”
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As we enter the UN-declared Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, here’s a brief round-up in snippet form of some items I didn’t have time to mention before.
Some are good, some bad, and two of the latter type are perplexing.
I list them under the names of the chief actors, in alphabetical order, naturellement.
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Woody Allen, publicly getting it at long last:
“I do feel there are many people that disguise their negative feelings toward Jews, disguise it as anti-Israel criticism, political criticism, when in fact what they really mean is that they don’t like Jews.”
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Bill Anderson, non-Jewish Aussie academic, in a letter to The Australian (20 December 2013) concerning anti-Israel Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon:
‘…. Rhiannon and other extremists in the Greens have frequently indulged in intemperate and ill-informed attacks on Israel. The NSW Greens conference in 2011 passed a proposal to “boycott Israeli goods, trading and military arrangements, and sporting, cultural and economic events as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel’s occupation and colonisation of Palestinian territory, the siege of Gaza and the imprisonment of 1.5 million people and Israel’s institution of a system of apartheid”.
This radical anti-Israel policy is at odds with the policies of both main parties in Australia and the majority of the Australians. It is also at odds with the federal Greens, which voted against a similarly worded proposal.
The NSW Greens policy is so one-sided and extreme that it could have been written by Hamas. Given that Hamas is recognised and listed by most democratic governments as a terrorist organisation, one can hardly be surprised that this position of the NSW Greens would cause concern.’
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Association of American Universities (quoted here) regarding the reprehensible Academic Boycott:
“The Executive Committee of the Association of American Universities strongly opposes a boycott of Israeli academic institutions…. Any such boycott of academic institutions directly violates academic freedom, which is a fundamental principle of AAU universities and of American higher education in general.
Academic freedom is the freedom of university faculty responsibly to produce and disseminate knowledge through research, teaching, and service, without undue constraint. It is a principle that should not be abridged by political considerations. American colleges and universities, as well as like institutions elsewhere, must stand as the first line of defense against attacks on academic freedom.
Efforts to address political issues, or to address restrictions on academic freedom, should not themselves infringe upon academic freedom. Restrictions imposed on the ability of scholars of any particular country to work with their fellow academics in other countries, participate in meetings and organizations, or otherwise carry out their scholarly activities violate academic freedom. The boycott of Israeli academic institutions therefore clearly violates the academic freedom not only of Israeli scholars but also of American scholars who might be pressured to comply with it. We urge American scholars and scholars around the world who believe in academic freedom to oppose this and other such academic boycotts.”
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Frank Baigel, who sits on the Jewish Leadership Council as president of the Manchester Jewish Representative Council, responding here to JLC chairman Mick Davis’s latest cheap shot at Israel, an article in Haaretz here:
“As Israel continues to be under continuous existential threat, I always — as all diaspora Jews should — support Israel, whichever party is in power. Until I go to live in Israel myself, I will not publicly express any reservations about the government’s policies.”
(Image at right: a cheap shot from Mick in 2010)
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Martin Bright, the Jewish Chronicle’s first non-Jewish political editor, on leaving the paper to take up another appointment:
“I have learnt much over the past few years. I have begun to understand the umbilical relationship between many British Jews and Israel, and their visceral reaction when it is attacked. I have grown to appreciate the many subtle and ingenious ways that antisemitism can express itself.”
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Pat Condell, with a chilling warning about the astonishing state-sponsored appeasement of Islamism in Sweden and all it portends for Jews (and for women); this video has had many thousands of hits, so chances are you’ve already seen it:
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/367254/print All things considered, it was a year without shame. It was the year that Miley Cyrus French-kissed a sledgehammer in the music video for her song “Wrecking Ball,” and cavorted naked on said wrecking ball. The former Disney star popularized the act of twerking in a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that […]
