MICHAEL SONTHEIMER: GERMANY’S MOST COMPLICATED ART RESTITUTION BATTLE….SEE NOTE PLEASE

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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer [Deckle Edge] by Anne-Marie O’Connor (Feb 7, 2012)
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Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Melissa Muller, Monika Tatzkow and Ronald S. Lauder (Nov 1, 2010)

The legendary Jewish gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim lost dozens of precious paintings during the Nazi era. For years, his heirs have been fighting for their rights to many paintings that now hang in Germany’s top museums. It is one of the most complicated art restitution cases the country has ever seen.

The city of Berlin has affixed a memorial plaque to the front of the magnificent art nouveau building on Bleibtreu Strasse. It reads: “Alfred Flechtheim, art dealer, publisher and friend of modern art, lived in this building from 1923 to 1933. In 1933, Alfred Flechtheim was forced to emigrate. He died in exile in London.”

Flechtheim must have experienced good times in his nine-room apartment, where he played host to the stars of the Weimar Republic — actors, artists and athletes. But then the dark days began.

Michael Hulton, his grand nephew, still refers to him as “Uncle Alfred” today. Hulton, 66, an affable, soft-spoken man, now lives in San Francisco. His grandparents came from Berlin, and his grandmother was Flechtheim’s sister-in-law. The family name was still Hulisch at the time. Hulton grew up in London and later studied medicine at Cambridge.

‘I Want Justice’

For the last four years, Hulton has made regular trips to Berlin, where he rents a room at Pension Gudrun, in the house next door on Bleibtreu Strasse. “I want justice,” says Hulton.

WES PRUDEN: PUTTING US ALL ON THE DOLE

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One in seven of all Americans is now on food stamps, but that’s not enough for the bureaucrats at the Department of Agriculture. They’re determined to increase that number, and to do that they must eliminate the “mountain pride” of certain Americans, who value personal responsibility and independence above all else, and get them on the government dole.

It’s something like ethnic cleansing, or would be, if the feds mocked the pride and culture of any other ethnic group, whether in the mountains, valleys, flat lands or somewhere else.

By “mountain pride,” they’re talking about the descendants of the Scots-Irish settlers who pushed the frontier from the Atlantic coast into the hills and mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and the Carolinas, and later into the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. These are the Americans that Jim Webb, the Democratic senator from Virginia and author of the much-acclaimed book, “Born Fighting, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America,” calls “poor but proud – and stubborn as hell.”

WHO IS DAVID AXELROD? PAUL KENGOR….NOT NEW AND LONG BUT VERY INFORMATIVE

David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack By Paul Kengor from the March 2012 issue Obama’s main man will do whatever it takes to fell Republicans and conservatives. Where does his ruthlessness and drive come from? Getting Barack Obama elected president would be “something you could really be proud of for the rest of your life,” said David […]

THE TAQIYYA ROAD SHOW: IMAM RAUF AND MS. DAISY AT CHATAUQUA HALL OF PHILOSPHY….Mary Desmond

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THE 9/11 MOSQUETEERS TAKE THEIR PROPAGANDA ON THE ROAD…..

“Jesus Christ once said, ‘What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul?’ I believe this statement is true not only for people but also for nations,” said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Tuesday at the 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture.“The question that lies before us this week is: What would it gain America to win the world but lose its soul?”

During the afternoon lecture period, Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, addressed Week Two’s theme, “2012: What’s at Stake for the Common Good.”

In the first half of the lecture, Rauf delivered a speech titled “Moving the Mountain: A Bolder Vision for Peace in Plurality.” Following Rauf, Khan focused on the topic “Facing a New World: America’s Responsibility as a World Power.”“The question that has been discussed this week and has been raised this week is this very question: Where lies America’s soul? Where can we find it?” Rauf said.

Ethics stem from faith, and the common good must come from a common God, he said.

There are two commandments strongly held by each Abrahamic faith, and it is from those two commandments that the common good is defined, Rauf said. The first is to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself.

“In fact, it is from these two commandments that Islamic law, what is called Sharia, is built upon. Laws pertaining to love of God and laws pertaining to love of neighbor, which extends beyond just human beings to the animal kingdom, and to nature, and to our responsibility as stewards of God to take care of this Earth and develop it,” Rauf said.

The United States was built on the foundations of a social contract, which outlined that all men are equal and that all have certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness, Rauf said. Those rights, defined by the founding fathers, were not entirely original. Seven hundred years predating the Declaration of Independence, Muslim jurists defined a similar set of principles in Muslim law, or Sharia law. Sharia law can be reduced to the six principles that need protection: life, dignity, intellect, religion, family and property, Rauf said.

“We see here a great commonness between the foundational structures and worldview of Islam, of Christianity, of Judaism and of the American social contract. Which is why I say America, or the American social contract, is a very Sharia-compliant document,” Rauf said.

Yitzhak Shamir: Warrior & Statesman (1915-2012) by Moshe Phillips

http://www.israelnetdaily.com/editorial/258/Moshe+Phillips/Yitzhak_Shamir_Warrior__Statesman_19152012 With the passing of Yitzhak Shamir we are seeing the near end of an era. How many individuals that could truly be considered among the founders of the State of Israel are left. Only a handful. Besides Shimon Peres and Moshe Arens there are not many members of the Jewish State’s founding generation whose […]

THE GLAZOV GANG: HOW ISLAM RUINED MY LIFE

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On this week’s Glazov Gang, Amani Mustafa, Anni Cyrus and Nonie Darwish gathered to share the horror and torture they endured under Islam. All three segments of the three part series are posted below. Part I deals with How Islam Ruined My Life, Part II focuses on Escape From Sharia and Part III involves testimony on Redemption After Sharia.

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DANIEL GREENFIELD: MUSLIM WITCH HUNTS

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/daniel-greenfield/muslim-witch-hunts/ In response to Congressman Peter King’s hearings on Islamic radicalization, Muslim Brotherhood stooge Suhail Khan authored an article denouncing the hearings as a “witch hunt.” He was echoed by Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR who also branded the hearings a “witch hunt.” The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson caught on to this original idea, declaring the […]

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EDITORIAL: Government fiddles while the West burns

EDITORIAL: Government fiddles while the West burns
The Washington Times | A U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft outfitted with a modular airborne firefighting system crashed in South Dakota on Sunday, killing four. Meanwhile, a supertanker with a much larger capacity than any aircraft flying is sitting idle as fires continue to rage in the West. That’s how government doesn’t work. Read more…

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British police arrest 6 on terrorism charges
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British police have arrested five men and one woman in London on suspicion of terrorism, the force said in a statement. Read more…

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Report: Countrywide bought influence with loans
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
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The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation’s foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government officials and executives of troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, according to a House report. Read more…

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California drafting ‘anti-Arizona’ immigration bill
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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While America’s debate over immigration has been dominated recently by crackdowns in states like Arizona and Alabama, California legislators are trying to turn that tide with a bill to protect illegal immigrants that they dub the “anti-Arizona.” Read more…

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EILEEN TOPLANSKY: PANDERING TO BLACK VOTERS

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/pandering_to_the_black_voter.html According to DeWayne Wickham, who writes for USA Today, on June 23, 2012, Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, met with a small group of black columnists at the National Association of Black Journalists and “decried Republican obstructionism that has kept Obama from getting more done.” Realizing that Obama needs a “significant increase […]

ALAN CARUBA: OBAMA’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS……WHAT NOW?

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-constitutional-crisis?f=puball In 1832, the threat of nullification by States that opposed tariffs on imported goods came close to bringing about a civil war. Thirty years later as cries for the abolition of slavery reached a fever pitch the War Between the States would begin. Today, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that found […]