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Brooke Goldstein is a New York City-based human rights attorney, award-winning filmmaker, and media personality, and serves as director of The Lawfare Project. Skylar Curtis is an attorney, legal analyst and a research associate at The Lawfare Project.

Can an attorney demand that every woman in the courtroom dress in an “appropriate” way? What if “appropriate” means adhering to a conservative version of sharia, or Islamic law? At the May 5 arraignment of the alleged 9/11 masterminds, defense counsel asked for just that.

Cheryl Borman, representing defendant Walid bin Attash, asked the court to order the women in the courtroom to dress “appropriately” as a show of “respect” for her client’s religious beliefs. That is, Borman insinuated, women in an American courtroom should dress according to sharia law because the defendant is a Muslim. Defense counsel stated that simply looking at the prosecution team’s female members could cause him to “sin” and lose his “focus” on the trial.

In a show of passive-aggressiveness and dramatic flair, Borman accused “someone” in the courtroom of dressing improperly. While she didn’t define what attire would indeed be “appropriate,” Borman herself wore a black hijab and long black robe, showing only her face. Curiously enough, Borman is not a Muslim. However, bin Attash’s other lawyer boasted that “[o]ur client has never seen Ms. Bormann’s hair, he’s never seen her arms, he’s never seen her legs.” Coming from Borman, an accredited attorney, not only is the request to limit the garb of another legal professional to what is acceptable under sharia law in an American courtroom insulting, but it flies in the face of American values.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1284/it_s_always_the_death_of_democracy_when_the_left_loses_an_election_isn_t_it_

I’m going to take another stab at Mitt Romney’s old ‘corporations are people too’ comment which has been lobbed around as a ‘gaffe’ for many months now.

Citizens United notwithstanding, the issue of campaign finance in a democratic society is potentially one of the greatest areas in which the United Kingdom and the United States will have their respective internal battles for decades to come. Constitutional reform can only deliver so much.

I’m sure you’ve heard all the arguments before: corporations and their management are wealth and job creators, the unions fund the left as much as private enterprise backs the right – so on and so forth.

So why do we still seem to be suffering from circular thinking when it comes to campaign and political finance? While the issues have been argued out in terms of balancing the scales of justice in such an area – perhaps we have done little to address the true driving force behind such emotional thinking on the topic: morality.

A conservative will tell you that morality in this area is defined by the effort exerted by individuals or groups who have consequently earned enough to influence elections. The application of your labour or indeed the fruits of your labour in the political sphere one might argue, is a fundamental democratic right.

On the left, it is often remarked that ‘fairness’ should be paramount – that everyone should perhaps be able only to give a capped amount (actually the system that the US has in place when it comes to direct campaign funding). In the United Kingdom, this is slightly more relaxed, with individuals able to contribute vast amounts to political parties, as author JK Rowling did when she gave £1million to the Labour Party in 2010.

But throw in Super PACS, external organisations, unions, corporate sponsorships, think-tanks and all the other appendages of political activism and soon you have, on both sides of the pond, a fine mess indeed.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/06/Democrats-Join-GOP-in-Condemning-White-House-Intelligence-Military-Leaks
Legislators from both parties are condemning a string of leaks from the “highest levels” of the White House about the Osama bin Laden killing, President Barack Obama’s oversight of a terrorist “kill list,” and U.S. cooperation with Israel in creating the Stuxnet computer virus to target Iranian nuclear facilities, among others. The leaks, which always seem to make their way to selected mainstream media headlines, and which paint Obama as a tough-minded commander-in-chief, are being described as a threat to national security.

Senate Democrats, in particular, have been vocal. The Hill quotes Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee: “This is like an avalanche. It is very detrimental and, candidly, I found it very concerning,” Feinstein said. “There’s no question that this kind of thing hurts our country.”

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, added to the criticism, saying that the leakers–whoever they may be–were acting contrary to national security: “A number of those leaks, and others in the last months about drone activities and other activities, are frankly all against national-security interests,” he said, according to The Hill. “I think they’re dangerous, damaging, and whoever is doing that is not acting in the interest of the United States of America.”

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Syrian massacre reported, dozens slaughtered
Agence France-Presse
Thursday, June 7, 2012
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Syrian massacre reported, dozens slaughtered
Pro-regime militiamen armed with guns and knives swept through a village in central Syria slaughtering dozens including women and children, a watchdog said on Thursday in allegations denied by Damascus. Read more…

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Obama claims GOP bought Walker win
Ralph Z. Hallow

In what might be seen as a sign that he felt stung hard enough to hurt, President Obama on Wednesday blamed Republicans’ outspending Democrats as the reason Gov. Scott Walker survived a union-driven recall election in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Read more…

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Inside the Ring: Forbes pressures Obama
Bill Gertz

A key House Republican this week stepped up pressure on the Obama administration for its weak public response to the growing threat posed by China’s military buildup. Read more…

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Military mulls discipline for Afghan Koran burnings
The Hill
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
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A recently completed Pentagon inquiry into the accidental burnings of Qurans in Afghanistan could result in disciplinary action against U.S. troops. Read more…

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moral crisis tends to go hand in hand with an identity crisis. It’s when you don’t know who you are that you’re most likely to take refuge in a political or ethical identity that provides you with the comfort of a false sense of superiority. When all other identities fall apart, you can always rely on being the better man, the better nation and the empty space with the moral high ground.
Societies that go multicultural tend to experience identity drift and take refuge in a self-definition based on values. Who are Americans? As generations of presidents on the left and right have told us, they are people who believe in American values. What are American values? They’re the values that Americans are told they need to believe in, in order to be Americans. Like tolerance, immigration, free trade, and respecting the right of anyone to be a member of the Communist Party or the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a time of crisis, nations and peoples have to choose to survive. But what is survival? Proponents of a values-based identity have argued that survival means the survival of our values. If we take Measure X against an enemy, whether it’s outlawing the Communist Party or waterboarding Islamic terrorists, then we have “killed our values” and we are no longer Americans. It doesn’t matter then whether an act saves millions of American lives, if it means we destroy our values, then we have killed the only worthwhile thing about us.

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AIM Report

The issue of global warming continues to be a fault line in this country and across the world. There are, on the one hand, those who believe, like Al Gore, that the earth is warming to a catastrophic degree, that it is caused by man’s overuse of carbon-based energy, and if we don’t hurry and do something about it we will face the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, biblical flooding, and increased tornadoes and hurricanes. Their holy grail is the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which they cite as confirmation of their theories.

In a recent interview with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), we discussed his recent book, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, in which he documents his personal journey of discovery on this issue—from his early days in politics, as the mayor of Tulsa, to his time as a congressman—from his years in the insurance and oil businesses, and seeing firsthand the heavy hand of the federal government.

In what way is global warming a hoax? Inhofe said, “…I’m talking about MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, the Al Gore Hollywood elites, and all that. These are people who really want to believe this, and they have unlimited funds that they pour into campaigns. They brag about having ‘defeated’ people, that they’re able to do, and that’s how they got so much political power. That is where the hoax comes in, because they’re perpetrating a hoax, and that hoax is that catastrophic global warming is taking place in the world now, and it’s due to manmade gases—CO2, carbon, methane, that type of thing—and what they want to do is just shut down this machine called America.”

http://babalublog.com/2012/06/castro-dictatorship-averaging-over-400-political-arrests-per-month-in-2012/

THE NEW “HOT SPOT” IN THE CARIBBEAN IS CUBA…..THESE FACTS DON’T SEEM TO BOTHER THE TOURISTS
Castro dictatorship averaging over 400 political arrests per month in 2012
By Alberto de la Cruz, on June 6, 2012, at 7:52 am

Only five months into 2012, the Castro dictatorship in Cuba has already amassed a total of 2,258 arrests of peaceful human rights and democracy activists on the island, reports CIHPRESS, a Cuban independent news agency. In their latest monthly report, the agency documented 343 arrests of dissidents and opposition members in the month of May.

2012 has been one of the most repressive years for the resistance in Cuba with the violent arrest of dissidents reaching a crescendo in March during the visit by Pope Benedict XVI. In the days leading up to the papal visit, the repressive Castro regime amassed 760 arrests. However, the arrests carried out in the months prior to and after the visit by the pope were not much lower, with the regime averaging over 400 arrests of opposition members during 2012.

At the current rate, the Castro dictatorship is on pace to carry out over 5,400 arrests of political opponents in 2012, a notable 41% increase in repression over 2011, and a whopping 262% increase in repression over 2010.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3099/germans-boycott-israeli-products

Although Pax Christi claims it is not seeking a blanket boycott of Israeli products, the NGO’s use of vague and sweeping language, plus the fact that there are no special labels to distinguish products made in the so-called occupied territories, does make it a de facto boycott of everything made in Israel.

A prominent Roman Catholic NGO in Germany has called for a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli products.

The petition represents an expansion of the boycott, disinvestment and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel in Germany, where efforts by pro-Palestinian activists to delegitimize the Jewish state continue to pick up momentum.

The German branch of Pax Christi, which describes itself as an “international Catholic peace movement,” issued a press release dated May 22, in which it urged German consumers not to buy goods from Israel as long as it remains unclear whether they are produced in the “settlements” or in “Israel.”

A two-page flyer for the campaign, which uses the slogan “Occupation Tastes Bitter” (Besatzung schmeckt bitter), states: “Israeli settlements on occupied territory violate Article 49 of the Geneva Convention. Whoever contributes to the profitability of these settlements contributes to the violation of human rights.” The flyer also encourages German consumers to report “questionable” Israeli products on a website called www.lebensmittelklarheit.de .

REP. STEVE ROTHMAN (OBAMATHON) IS OUSTED BY NASTY BILL PASCRELL (CLINTONISTA)

Clinton-Backed Bill Pascrell Beats Obama-Backed Steve Rothman In New Jerseyhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/bill-pascrell-steve-rothman-new-jersey-primary_n_1572642.html

SO LET’S GO FOR KYRILLOS!

http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_primary_makes_Menendez_vs_Kyrillos_Senate_race_official.html

Setting up a New Jersey race that will mirror the presidential campaign, Republicans on Tuesday chose veteran legislator and party insider Joseph M. Kyrillos to challenge first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez.
State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos, left; U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez
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State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos, left; U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez

Kyrillos, 52, of Middletown is a state senator from Monmouth County. He is a close ally of Governor Christie and headed presumptive 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s New Jersey campaign in the 2008 presidential primary.

Adopting the Romney playbook, Kyrillos is promising to repeal the 2010 “Obamacare” health insurance law, cut taxes on “job creators,” get rid of “job-killing regulations” and balance the federal budget. He also blames Menendez for the ongoing economic slump, just as Romney blames President Obama.

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Christie protege Kyrillos wins N.J. Senate primary
The Star-Ledger
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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New Jersey state Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) has won the Republican nomination to take on incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in November. Read more…

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