April 4, 1968 · Memphis, Tennessee
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, was the major architect of the Civil Rights Movement. He led and inspired non-violent campaigns which led to legislation to right the terrible wrong of injustice and segregation. He won the Nobel peace prize. He was assassinated as he prepared to lead a demonstration in Memphis. He was a great American and patriot whose words echo in these troubled days. Rsk
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16951/turkey-israel-antisemitism
[I]t was Erdogan who in October called Jerusalem a Turkish city. Referring to the Ottoman occupation of Jerusalem (1517-1917), Erdogan said: “It is still possible to encounter traces of the Ottoman resistance in this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War. In other words, Jerusalem is our city, it is a city from us.”
Apparently, the Erdogan regime is hoping to expand trade with Israel and further gain diplomatic support in international matters. At the same time, instead of genuinely trying to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in Turkish society through education and other means, the Erdogan regime has been indoctrinating its supporters with Jew-hatred and actively supporting Hamas terrorists.
On December 25, a reporter asked Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about his views on the news that Israel and Turkey were “re-establishing their relations recently.” Erdogan replied:
“Our relations with Israel concerning intelligence have not been interrupted anyway; they continue. I mean, we are experiencing some difficulties with the people at the highest level there, as with some other countries. If we had no such problems with the top [of the Israeli government], our relations with Israel would be very different. Of course, particularly Israel’s Palestine policy is Turkey’s red line. It is impossible for us to accept Israel’s Palestinian policies. It is impossible for us to accept Israel’s attitude towards our brothers and sisters in Palestine and its ruthless actions there. Where we differ with Israel is our understanding of justice and of territorial integrity of countries. Otherwise, we want to move our relations with them to a better point.”
Two weeks before Erdogan talked about “bettering relations with Israel,” a conference organized by a pro-government Turkish organization, the Association of Justice Defenders Strategic Studies Center (ASSAM), promoted the idea of creating a joint Islamic army and a common defense system for the “Confederation of Islamic Countries”. One of the main targets of this proposed army is Israel.
T’WAS NEW YEAR’S EVE AFTER MONTHS OF DEPRIVATION
THERE WAS SCANT FUN OR JOY OR NATIONAL JUBILATION
THE DEMS TURNED AND TOSSED IN THEIR BED
WITH VISIONS OF INDICTMENTS CAUSING THEIR DREAD
IN THEIR HEARTS THEY KNEW TWAS A TAINTED ELECTION
WITH A PATHETIC CLOWN AS THE ULTIMATE SELECTION
GLUM AND DISAPPOINTED I TRIED TO SLEEP
WITH SOME HOPE AND RESOLUTIONS TO KEEP
WHEN SUDDENLY I HEARD AN ENORMOUS CLATTER
I RAN TO THE WINDOW TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER
FROM EVERY SINGLE CORNER OF OUR VAST NATION
PROTEST CAME IN EVERY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
DONALD TRUMP JOINED THE RALLY LOOKING SERENE
WITH A BAG OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDING VACCINE.
“KEEP AMERICA GREAT” PROCLAIMED THE CROWD
“YOU CAN’T STEAL ELECTIONS” I HEARD LOUD AND PROUD
WITH HOPE IN MY HEART AND A GLIMMER OF CHEER
I WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR .
RSK
https://www.wsj.com/articles/science-eats-its-own-11608765409?mod=opinion_lead_pos3
In 2020 scientific publications have leapt into the political fray. Scientific American gave its first ever Presidential endorsement to Joe Biden, declaring that Donald Trump “rejects evidence and science.” The New England Journal of Medicine said in a pre-election editorial that “our current leaders have undercut trust in science.”
But if populist politicians undercut trust in science, sometimes they are aided by science’s own institutions. Consider the controversy over a now-retracted paper in the prestigious science journal Nature Communications, which shows how political fashions can dictate what research outcomes are acceptable.
In November three NYU Abu Dhabi researchers came under fire for an article questioning the popular academic view that young women scientists are better off with female mentors. Their “science of science” study analyzed the impact of millions of scientific papers with junior and senior authors and drew conclusions about the effect of mentorship on careers.
“While current diversity policies encourage same-gender mentorships to retain women in academia,” the paper says in the abstract, “our findings raise the possibility that opposite-gender mentorship may actually increase the impact of women who pursue a scientific career.”
The authors—two of whom are women—pointed to possible explanations for their findings, including that “historically, male scientists had enjoyed more privileges and access to resources than their female counterparts.”
Yet some scientists erupted on social media at what was perceived as an attack on policies promoting gender equality. One Boston University biologist told Science magazine, “Treating gender itself as a binary is also damaging in today’s climate.” On Monday Nature Communications retracted the article, writing that it wants to make sure “that the review process takes into account the dimension of potential harm.”
Here’s What Was Discovered About Dominion Machines Used in a Swing State https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/12/15/new-report-says-dominion-voting-systems-has-a-remarkably-high-error-rate-n2581624?
Fraud Analyst Finds Average of 2 to 3 Percent Shift for Biden in Counties That Used Dominion https://www.theepochtimes.com/fraud-analyst-flags-pro-biden-shift-in-counties-that-used-dominion_3619566.html?
Dominion Audit: Ballot Error Rate Was At Least 85,000 Times Higher Than FEC Allows https://www.westernjournal.com/dominion-audit-ballot-error-rate-least-85000-times-higher-fec-allows/
Did China Help Biden Win? DNI John Ratcliffe Confirms “There Was Foreign Election Interference by China, Iran, Russia in November” https://thejewishvoice.com/2020/12/did-china-help-biden-win-dni-john-ratcliffe-confirms-there-was-foreign-election-interference-by-china-iran-russia-in-november/
Media saves Joe Biden – just as they saved Barack Obama https://www.wnd.com/2020/12/media-saves-joe-biden-just-saved-barack-obama/
China exploiting mobile networks to spy on American cellphones: report https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-mobile-spy-americans-report
Inside China’s audacious global propaganda campaign https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
Corporate Media Awfully Quiet on News of Fraudulent Dominion Voting Systems Results https://redstate.com/jeffc/2020/12/15/corporate-media-awfully-quiet-on-news-of-fraudulent-dominion-voting-systems-results-n294959
2020 Election Fraud is CCP ‘Assassin’s Mace’: Patrick Byrne https://www.theepochtimes.com/2020-election-fraud-is-ccp-assassins-mace-patrick-byrne_3619337.html?
No jab, no job: Businesses call for right to sack workers who refuse COVID vaccine https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/no-jab-no-job-businesses-call-for-right-to-sack-workers-who-refuse-covid-vaccine-c-1254167
https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/why-the-cultural-elite-truly-despises-hanukkah/
Our cultural elites’ least favorite Jewish holiday has arrived: Hanukkah, of course.
Why did Hanukkah irk everyone from the late Christopher Hitchens, who memorably derided it as a “celebration of tribal Jewish backwardness,” to author Sarah Prager, who took to the pages of The New York Times recently to explain that she won’t be teaching her kids about it?
Well, because Hanukkah is about as out of step with the contemporary elite consensus as any religious tradition can be.
If you haven’t reviewed the story in a while, here’s how it goes. One fine day in 167 BC, a crowd of Jews was gathered in the town square of Modi’in, a suburb of Jerusalem.
They were there because the Seleucid Empire — the successors of Alexander the Great’s expansive dynasty — had recently moved into town. The conquerors believed that their Greek culture was the only path to enlightenment. The Seleucids had resolved to Hellenize this peculiarly stubborn people, the Jews, and they sought out the right kind of Jewish collaborator — you know, those who weren’t too bearded or too weird — to persuade the rest of the locals to abandon their backward mountain God and primitive laws.
And then, just as one of those Hellenizing Jews stepped up to sacrifice to almighty Zeus, out came a priest named Mattathias. Having precisely zero patience for idolatry, the fiery-eyed zealot killed not only the Jewish collaborator but the Seleucid governor, as well. Mattathias thus launched a war — partly an internal Jewish conflict, partly a rebellion against Greek imperial power — that would end with that well-publicized victory of the priest and his sons, the Maccabees, aided by one miraculous vat of oil.
So what’s Hanukkah truly about?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/hanukkahs-universal-message-don-feder/
Hanukkah is supposed to be a minor Jewish holiday that comes in the early winter – a way for Jewish kids to feel better about not having Christmas.
In fact, of all Jewish holidays, it may have the most universal appeal and be the most relevant to the war on religion raging in our culture.
According to the Book of Maccabees, when his army occupied the Land of Israel in the 2nd century BCE, the Syrian King Antiochus IV outlawed Judaism in an attempt to force everyone in his empire to adopt Greek culture and religion. Performing Jewish rituals (including Torah study and circumcision) were punishable by death.
Statues of Greek gods were set up in the Holy Temple and swine sacrificed on the altar. An elderly priest named Mattathias started the revolt by killing a Syrian official and a Jewish Hellenizer and fleeing into the Judean wilderness shouting, “Whoever is for God, follow me!”
When Mattathias died, his five sons carried on the revolt, defeating the Syrian army in a guerrilla war. In 165 BCE, they liberated Jerusalem and cleansed and rededicated the Temple. The miracle of Hanukkah, commemorated by the menorah, involved the candelabrum in the Temple burning for 8 days with enough oil for one.
Historical context. Chanukah, the holiday of light, is narrated in the four Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The Wars of the Jews. The Greek Empire was split into Greece-Seleucid/Syria-Ptolemaic/Egypt following the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE), who held Judaism in high esteem. In 175 BCE, the Seleucid/Syrian Emperor Antiochus (IV) Epiphanies claimed the Land of Israel, and suspected that the Jews were allies of his Ptolemaic/Egyptian enemy. Therefore, he aimed to exterminate Judaism and convert Jews to Hellenism. In 169 BCE he devastated Jerusalem, massacred Jews and prohibited the practice of Judaism.
A 166/7 BCE rebellion was led by members of the Hasmonean (Maccabee) family, which included Mattityahu, the priest, and his five sons, Yochanan, Judah, Shimon, Yonatan and Eleazar, who established Jewish independence until 37 BCE.
The success of the Maccabees on the battlefield was consistent with the reputation of Jews as superb warriors, who were frequently hired as mercenaries by Egypt, Syria, Rome and other global and regional powers.
When ordered by Emperor Antiochus (Book of Maccabees A: 15:33) to end the “occupation” of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza, Gezer and Akron, Shimon the Maccabee responded: “We have not occupied a foreign land…. We have liberated the land of our forefathers from foreign occupation.”
Chanukah according to David Ben Gurion, Israel’s Founding Father and first Prime Minister, a modern-day Maccabee: “The struggle of the Maccabees was one of the most dramatic clashes of civilizations in human history, not merely a political-military struggle against foreign oppression…. Unlike many peoples, the meager Jewish people did not assimilate. The Jewish people prevailed, won, sustained and enhanced their independence and unique civilization…. It was the spirit of the people, rather than the failed spirit of the establishment, which enabled the Hasmoneans to overcome one of the most magnificent spiritual, political and military challenges in Jewish history….” (Uniqueness and Destiny, pp 20-22, David Ben Gurion, IDF Publishing, 1953).
The words “alleged” and “unfounded” are now rote every time evidence of election tampering is discussed. Really?
Can one honestly surmise that witnesses- hundreds of them who were present at polling sites- who described actual election fraud are liars willing to risk penalty for perjury?
Such credence was given to those who offered hearsay evidence of Trump collusion with Ukraine and Russia but the media and biased judges dismiss all affidavits given by outraged Americans.
Read Roger Kimball’s essay reprinted today.
Appalling….rsk
https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/04/save-our-democracy/
I have said all along that I thought President Trump would win reelection. The question was whether he would win by a big enough margin to insulate himself from the machinations of fraud, on the one hand, and litigation, on the other.
I believe that Donald Trump did win the election last night. By my count he had chalked up well over the requisite 270 electoral votes necessary to win reelection. That was a little past midnight. I repaired to the arms of Morpheus confident that November 4 would ratify what was essentially a fait d’accompli on the evening of November 3.
No such luck. No sooner had my head hit the pillow than the Democrats in the urban centers of states where Trump was leading—in Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee—stopped counting the votes. Why would they do this? Because they wanted to stanch the flow of votes going to Trump and buy themselves time to determine how many votes they would need to win. Finding the votes later on is never a problem. That’s what we pay corrupt party apparatchiks to do. It seemed novel in 1960 when Richard Daley went to Cook Country to secure the election for JFK. When I went to bed last night, President Trump was comfortably ahead in Wisconsin. Close your eyes: poof: 100,000 ballots suddenly appear in Wisconsin with Joe Biden’s name on them. Stand by for similar feats of magic.
Although common, this outrageous practice is a direct assault on our democracy. Trump presumably will fight it in court. But I think he should take a page from his own playbook and hold rallies in those and maybe other hot spots (Phoenix comes to mind) over the next couple of days. Bring the fight to the people and, just as important, bring the people to the fight.
The Democrats are not sitting idly by, they are busy “harvesting” votes. Donald Trump needs to mobilize the public with a series of high-profile “Save Our Democracy” rallies. He was performing at 3, 4, or 5 rallies a day for the last couple weeks of the campaign. He should take the show back on the road one last time. If the Democrats complain that the campaign is over he can rebaptize the events as “peaceful protests.” That’s what Antifa and BLM do when they take to the streets. The contrast with the threatened scenes of mayhem, arson, and looting by the Left will afford a useful visual. As many people have observed, Trump’s followers wave American flags. Democratic supporters prefer to burn them.
I suspect that such Save Our Democracy rallies would attract tens of thousands of people, just as Trump’s campaign rallies did these past weeks. There is no way that Sleepy Joe Biden could compete with them. Not only would they dramatize the extent and enthusiasm of Trump’s support, they would also serve as a salutary reminder that Trump, unlike so many Republican politicians, is willing to fight to assure a free, open, and fair election. They would have the additional attraction of driving the Left even more beyond the pale than than they already are. It’s not nice to take pleasure in the sufferings of others, but I am willing to make an exception in the case of the anguish such rallies would cause among the people who have spent the last four years trying to destroy the president and anyone who came into his orbit.
Save Our Democracy! It has a ring to it. I hope team Trump will consider organizing a bunch of them now, today.
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