Thursday, January 31, 2013
Visiting UK PM Cameron agrees to extra security help | Libya Herald
British Premier David Cameron and Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan (Photo: PM’s Office)
LINK: Visiting UK PM Cameron agrees to extra security help | Libya Herald
A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century? - By Kevin Rudd | Foreign Policy
These are no ordinary times in East Asia. With tensions rising from conflicting territorial claims in the East China and South China seas, the region increasingly resembles a 21st-century maritime redux of the Balkans a century ago -- a tinderbox on water....
FULL ARTICLE HERE: A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century? - By Kevin Rudd | Foreign Policy
IS SYRIA FABRICATING ATTACK ON "RESEARCH CENTER"? Why Israel might have felt the imperative to strike in Syria | The Times of Israel
...........The more likely scenario is that Damascus’s reports are false, the Americans are right, and that what was hit was, in fact, a weapons convoy. Transferring Russian-made weapons to Hezbollah violates UN Resolution 1701, so Syria would hardly admit to doing so. It makes both Syria and Russia look bad and, more importantly, jeopardizes the flow of arms from Russia to Syria. “They have a direct responsibility to Russia not to transfer those weapons systems,” said Professor Efraim Inbar, the director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies................
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Why Israel might have felt the imperative to strike in Syria | The Times of Israel
R.I.P. Patty Andrews, Last of The Andrews Sisters dead at 94 - CBS News - SONG VIDEOS ADDED
Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and the poignant "I Can Dream, Can't I?" captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family spokesman Alan Eichler in a statement.
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home......
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Patty Andrews of The Andrews Sisters dead at 94 - CBS News
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
REAL STEPS TOWARD PEACE IN COLUMBIA? BBC News - Tanja Nijmeijer: Dutch Farc rebel at peace talks
Tanja Nijmeijer: 'I don't have any regrets about having joined the Farc'
It is now three months since Marxist insurgents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and representatives of the Colombian government sat down in Havana to begin peace talks - the first attempt in a decade to end Colombia's long conflict through dialogue.
The government is pushing to secure an historic end to hostilities by November, whilst Farc leaders are pushing for a deal palatable to militants back in the jungle........
The government is pushing to secure an historic end to hostilities by November, whilst Farc leaders are pushing for a deal palatable to militants back in the jungle........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: BBC News - Tanja Nijmeijer: Dutch Farc rebel at peace talks
THE OLIVER STONE OF POLITICS "Professor" Hagel taught anti-Israel courses at Georgetown | Washington Free Beacon
AP
As a professor at Georgetown University, secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel taught a foreign policy course based primarily on anti-Israel materials and far left manifestos that castigate America’s role in the world, according to a copy of Hagel’s 2012 course syllabus.
Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, taught a Georgetown course focused on foreign policy since at least 2009 and planned to teach a similar course this year, according to the university’s records.
Constructed on the premise that America’s global supremacy is waning, Hagel’s seminar featured writings that criticize America’s standing in the world, advocate in favor of shuttering American military bases, and refer to Israel as guilty of war crimes.
The prominent use of these texts comports with Hagel’s belief that America should soften its alliance with Israel, and negotiate with Iran and other state sponsors of terror.
Hagel’s defenders have claimed in recent weeks that the nominee has recanted his most controversial positions. However, the Georgetown syllabi provide evidence that as recently as late last year Hagel still endorsed a fringe foreign policy outlook........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Hagel taught anti-Israel courses at Georgetown | Washington Free Beacon
CONFUSING REPORTS 2: Israeli jets bomb weapons convoy on Syria-Lebanon border
As stated in the previous article, we are getting conflicting reports that Israeli jets have A) Hit a Syrian convoy shipping anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or B) attacked a Syrian regime weapons research site near Damascus. Perhaps Israel his accomplished A and B.
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Israeli jets hit a weapons-transport convoy on the
Syria-Lebanon border. (Al Arabiya)
Syria-Lebanon border. (Al Arabiya)
Israeli fighter jets have struck a convoy on the Syria-Lebanon border suspected of carrying sophisticated Russian-made surface-to-air missiles, Al Arabiya correspondent Ziad Halabi reported from Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Halabi said “security indications” pointed to a convoy carrying surface-to-air missiles being smuggled into Syria via the Lebanese border.
The Lebanese army had reported a heavy presence of Israeli jets over its territory throughout the night.
Among Israeli security officials' chief fears is that Hezbollah could get its hands on SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. (Reuters)
“There was definitely a hit in the border area,” one security source said. A Western diplomat in the region who asked about the strike said “something has happened,” without elaborating.
Syrian television confirmed the Israeli raids but said they targeted a research center in Damascus province at dawn on Wednesday.
The air raids come amid Israeli concerns about the civil war in neighboring Syria and fears that advanced weapons could reach hostile groups in the country or the militant anti-Israel Hezbollah group in Lebanon.....
“There was definitely a hit in the border area,” one security source said. A Western diplomat in the region who asked about the strike said “something has happened,” without elaborating.
Syrian television confirmed the Israeli raids but said they targeted a research center in Damascus province at dawn on Wednesday.
The air raids come amid Israeli concerns about the civil war in neighboring Syria and fears that advanced weapons could reach hostile groups in the country or the militant anti-Israel Hezbollah group in Lebanon.....
CONFUSING REPORTS: Syria confirms Israeli airstrike - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
We are getting conflicting reports that Israeli jets have A) Hit a Syrian convoy shipping anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or B) attacked a Syrian regime weapons research site near Damascus. Perhaps Israel his accomplished A and B.
FROM AL-JAZEERA
The Syrian army has said that Israeli jets crossed into Syria below the radar level at dawn and hit a military research centre in Jamraya, near Damascus.
"Israeli fighter jets violated our airspace at dawn today and carried out a direct strike on a scientific research centre in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence," the army's general command said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA on Wednesday evening.
The strike came "after terrorist groups made several failed attempts in the past months to take control of the site," the statement added of rebel groups fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad............
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Syria confirms Israeli airstrike - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
FROM AL-JAZEERA
The Syrian army has said that Israeli jets crossed into Syria below the radar level at dawn and hit a military research centre in Jamraya, near Damascus.
"Israeli fighter jets violated our airspace at dawn today and carried out a direct strike on a scientific research centre in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence," the army's general command said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA on Wednesday evening.
The strike came "after terrorist groups made several failed attempts in the past months to take control of the site," the statement added of rebel groups fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad............
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Syria confirms Israeli airstrike - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
CLAY CLAIBORNE: Daily Kos: How #Obama's 'No MANPADS for you' policy in #Syria is backfiring
Clay Claiborne goes after
Obama's specious arguments.
LINK: Daily Kos: How #Obama's 'No MANPADS for you' policy in #Syria is backfiring
Richard Cohen: Obama’s failure in Syria - The Washington Post
- Richard Cohen Opinion Write, Washington Post
More than 60,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians. An estimated 650,000 refugees have fled across Syria’s various borders. They live in miserable conditions, soaked and frozen by the chilling rains of the Mediterranean winter, caked in mud. Children have died. More children will die......................
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Richard Cohen: Obama’s failure in Syria - The Washington Post
INVISIBLE CHILDREN HARD AT WORK: First rehabilitation center in DR Congo for LRA-affected youth officially opens | Invisible Children Blog
January 29, 2013 by Invisible Children
Seeing firsthand the limited rehabilitation services available to children who have experienced extreme trauma as a result of LRA violence and abduction, Invisible Children and our partners from the Commision Diocesaine Justice et Paix (CDJP) and Sponsoring Children Uganda have opened the very first rehabilitation center in DR Congo focused on LRA-affected youth. We’ve been working diligently since January of 2011 on its construction and are now pleased to announce that Centre Elikya is complete.
Territorial Administrator of Dungu giving his blessing from the community and declaring the center officially open. Abbe Benoit Kinalegu (Director of CDJP) is on the right.
Tree planting to mark Centre Elikya’s opening, symbolizing the life and growth to come.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: First rehabilitation center in DR Congo for LRA-affected youth officially opens | Invisible Children Blog
Richard Gere: ‘I’m Very Proud of Our Country ... It’s Something Extraordinary on This Planet’ | CNS News
(CNSNews.com) – Actor and human rights activist Richard Gere said, “I’m very proud of our country” when honoring Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng on Tuesday, and also said that America itself is a “miracle” of a country and is “something extraordinary on this planet.”
Chen, the blind human rights activist who escaped Communist China after seeking asylum at the U.S. Embassy last year, was awarded the Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize in a ceremony on Capitol Hill..........
FULL ARTICLE W/VIDEO HERE: Richard Gere: ‘I’m Very Proud of Our Country ... It’s Something Extraordinary on This Planet’ | CNS News
MSNBC Caught Selectively Editing Another Clip — This Time of Sandy Hook Victim’s Father | Video | TheBlaze.com
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir,
typical "creative" propagandist at MSNBC (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
LINK: MSNBC Caught Selectively Editing Another Clip — This Time of Sandy Hook Victim’s Father | Video | TheBlaze.com
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC STARVES THE PEOPLE: Report: Starving North Korean Villagers Resorting to Cannibalism
The Dear Leader gives and the Dear Leader takes away. Those in favor or in the Party get fed, those outside these circles die.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Report: Starving North Korean Villagers Resorting to Cannibalism
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Report: Starving North Korean Villagers Resorting to Cannibalism
LATEST HORROR: Dozens of bodies found 'executed' in Syria - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
The bodies of at least 80 young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, have been found in a river in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a watchdog and rebels said. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 65 bodies were found in the Quweiq River, which separates the Bustan al-Qasr district from Ansari in the southwest of the city, but that the toll could rise significantly. A Free Syrian Army fighter at the scene said the death toll is higher, pointing out that many more bodies were still being dragged from the water, in a rebel-held area. "Until now we have recovered 68 bodies, some of them just teens," said Captain Abu Sada, adding that all of them had been "executed by the regime." "But there must be more than 100. There are still many in the water, and we are trying to recover them."
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Dozens of bodies found 'executed' in Syria - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
FRANCE GETS TOUGH ON THE CRAZIES: France to deport 'radical foreign imams' - Europe - Al Jazeera English
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls told a conference that several 'radical foreign preachers' will be expelled [EPA]
France to deport 'radical foreign imams' - Europe - Al Jazeera English
GOOD NEWS FOR THE GULF COAST! US court approves $4bn BP criminal penalty - Americas - Al Jazeera English
The explosion at the BP's Deepwater Horizon well claimed the lives of 11 oilmen in April 2010 [EPA]
LINK: US court approves $4bn BP criminal penalty - Americas - Al Jazeera English
Monday, January 28, 2013
GREAT IDEA: Sen. Ted Cruz to House GOP: ‘Stop Reading The New York Times' | CNS News
Even the late hard-Left writer Alexander Cockburn couldn't stand the NY Times and its arrogant pretentiousness.
ARTICLE LINK: Sen. Ted Cruz to House GOP: ‘Stop Reading The New York Times' | CNS News
ARTICLE LINK: Sen. Ted Cruz to House GOP: ‘Stop Reading The New York Times' | CNS News
Interview: I’m an FSA Battalion Leader | Syria News
by Karen Leigh, January 25, 2013
Abu Adnan and I meet on a cold dark night, a few days before the end of the year. He’s lean and grizzled in jeans and a dark overcoat. He holds a flashlight, standing at the precipice of an incline in the mountains along the Turkey-Syria border. He’s about to walk me down and looks wary, but determined, at the thought of yet another cross through this well-used smuggling route.
Abu Adnan is not his real name; many of the FSA leaders in the mountains around Latakia City use the nickname “Abu” – “Abu Adnan” means the father of Adnan. A gentle-eyed 55-year-old, with floppy black hair he looks the part of the father of the pride. His own children, and wife, are not here.
When we are safely through the mud, he becomes chatty. At our safe house, with its mismatched carpets and a small generator-power TV blaring Al Arabiya’s news of a regime massacre in Damascus, Adnan talks candidly about the states of his battle, his mind, and Latakia’s sectarian tension.
“There is no problem between [everyday] Alawites and Sunnis. But we have tension with the regime, and those who support the regime are Alawite,” Adnan tells me. That said “the regime is mixed between Alawites, Christians, and Sunnis. We don’t have a problem with the people, we have a problem with the regime. We [in the FSA] are liberal people, we like everyone.
“If the regime falls, we will start a new fight with the shabiha, and they have 100 leaders. There are three big groups of shabiha that have famous leaders, like Rami Makhlouf [Assad’s wealthy cousin], who has 2,000 shabiha followers. Our problem isn’t Assad—everyone wants him to leave now. Our problem is with these 100 names. A lot of them escaped fromDamascus to Latakia, and now they’re preparing to fight.”....................
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Interview: I’m an FSA Battalion Leader | Syria News
Abu Adnan and I meet on a cold dark night, a few days before the end of the year. He’s lean and grizzled in jeans and a dark overcoat. He holds a flashlight, standing at the precipice of an incline in the mountains along the Turkey-Syria border. He’s about to walk me down and looks wary, but determined, at the thought of yet another cross through this well-used smuggling route.
Abu Adnan is not his real name; many of the FSA leaders in the mountains around Latakia City use the nickname “Abu” – “Abu Adnan” means the father of Adnan. A gentle-eyed 55-year-old, with floppy black hair he looks the part of the father of the pride. His own children, and wife, are not here.
When we are safely through the mud, he becomes chatty. At our safe house, with its mismatched carpets and a small generator-power TV blaring Al Arabiya’s news of a regime massacre in Damascus, Adnan talks candidly about the states of his battle, his mind, and Latakia’s sectarian tension.
A member of Abu Adnan’s Hateen battalion shows off a destroyed Assad tank.
“There is no problem between [everyday] Alawites and Sunnis. But we have tension with the regime, and those who support the regime are Alawite,” Adnan tells me. That said “the regime is mixed between Alawites, Christians, and Sunnis. We don’t have a problem with the people, we have a problem with the regime. We [in the FSA] are liberal people, we like everyone.
“If the regime falls, we will start a new fight with the shabiha, and they have 100 leaders. There are three big groups of shabiha that have famous leaders, like Rami Makhlouf [Assad’s wealthy cousin], who has 2,000 shabiha followers. Our problem isn’t Assad—everyone wants him to leave now. Our problem is with these 100 names. A lot of them escaped fromDamascus to Latakia, and now they’re preparing to fight.”....................
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Interview: I’m an FSA Battalion Leader | Syria News
CLAY CLAIBORNE: Daily Kos: Obama on Syria: They're still dying, he's still looking
The handiwork of the Assad Regime, an image recalling the Nazi Holocaust:
Posted on Twitter by Zaid Benjamin : The body of Abdelmajed al-Damlakhi [20 yo] after he was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intel #Aleppo #Syria pic.twitter.com/t9dpaXz8
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Daily Kos: #Obama on #Syria: They're still dying, he's still looking
Posted on Twitter by Zaid Benjamin : The body of Abdelmajed al-Damlakhi [20 yo] after he was detained for 5 months in Air Force Intel #Aleppo #Syria pic.twitter.com/t9dpaXz8
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Daily Kos: #Obama on #Syria: They're still dying, he's still looking
French-led forces in Mali seal off Timbuktu; rebels torch ancient library - World News
Thousands of residents came out to celebrate after French and Malian troops entered the town of Gao on Sunday, with a parade of motorbikes honking their horns and people weeping in disbelief. Lindsey Hilsum of the UK's Channel 4 News reports. /By Adama Diarra and Richard Valdmanis, Reuters
Without a shot being fired to stop them, 1,000 French soldiers including paratroopers and 200 Malian troops seized the airport and surrounded the centuries-old Niger River city, looking to block the escape of al-Qaida-allied fighters. The retaking of Timbuktu followed the swift capture by French and Malian forces at the weekend of Gao, another major northern Malian town which had also been occupied by the alliance of Islamist militant groups since last year...........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: French-led forces in Mali seal off Timbuktu; rebels torch ancient library - World News
STEREOTYPES STILL MUDDYING THE MEDIA WATERS: American Media Bias
I was in the United States when an Egyptian national popular uprising forced Hosni Mubarak to quit his presidency, and I was in the United States again when Mohammed Morsi was elected as the new Egyptian president. Now, as then, Americans remain unsure about how to react to the popular revolutions that have felled their long-time autocratic Arab allies, who in most cases were replaced by more legitimate, Islamist-led governments.
At the same time though, Americans—who helped define the modern revolutionary and democratic era in the twentieth century—instinctively tend to support national populist revolutions that create government systems based on the consent of the governed and democratic electoral pluralism. When it is Arabs who carry out these revolutionary and democratic endeavors, however, American society reacts with obvious hesitancy alongside the flashes of enthusiasm. It is important for Americans and Arabs alike to understand this phenomenon, because it reflects much deeper perceptions, sentiments, and biases that will continue to haunt relations between Arabs and Americans and prevent them from ever fully embracing one another—or even from developing normal relations.
I was in the United States when an Egyptian national popular uprising forced Hosni Mubarak to quit his presidency, and I was in the United States again when Mohammed Morsi was elected as the new Egyptian president. Now, as then, Americans remain unsure about how to react to the popular revolutions that have felled their long-time autocratic Arab allies, who in most cases were replaced by more legitimate, Islamist-led governments............
THE CONSEQUENCES OF OBAMA'S AND THE INT'L COMMUNITY'S FIDDLING WHILE SYRIA BURNS: Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning - By Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy
Earlier this month, the United Nations announced its assessment that 59,648 people have died in Syria's two-year-old civil war. That headline figure is grim, but U.N. human rights commissioner Navi Pillay made a point of noting that the real number is almost certainly higher. The overwhelming majority of those people were civilians. Far too many of them were children.
That should have been a call to action. It wasn't. The government's attacks against civilians continue unabated. U.N. Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has accomplished next to nothing. The daily death tolls continue to spiral. Unless the international community does something, the total is going to be far higher.........
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning - By Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Don't fear Hungary's radical anti-Semitic party, Jewish MP urges | The Times of Israel
BUDAPEST — Seventy years ago, János Fónagy would be a dead man for calling out the anti-Semitic virulence of his detractors in the Hungarian Parliament. Modern Hungary is a very different beast.
“We must not fear them; fear is their political capital,” Fónagy (pronounced fone-adge) — a Jewish Hungarian politician who survived the tyrannical Fascist and Communist regimes that ruled his country for decades — said of the extreme right-wing Jobbik party.
Days after Israel’s November campaign against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, Jobbik politician Marton Gyöngyösi said it was “timely to tally up people of Jewish ancestry who live here, especially in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government, who, indeed, pose a national security risk to Hungary.”
Fónagy, who currently serves as the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of National Development, responded in parliament: ”My mother and father were Jewish, and so am I, whether you like it or not. I cannot choose, I was born into this.” Turning to the Jobbik party he said, ”But you can choose, and you have chosen this path [of anti-Semitism]. Bear history’s judgment.”
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Don't fear Hungary's radical anti-Semitic party, Jewish MP urges | The Times of Israel
LITTLE HITLER: Ahmadinejad urges Muslim world to unite to destroy Zionism | The Times of Israel
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September 2012 (screenshot: YouTube/CNN)
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the Muslim world to unite to eradicate Zionism, which he called “corrupt, uncultured and murderous” Sunday.
Ahmadinejad spoke in Tehran to the 26th International Islamic Unity Conference, which coincided with International Holocaust Remembrance Day............
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Ahmadinejad urges Muslim world to unite to destroy Zionism | The Times of Israel
Warsaw, Poland - In Photos: Holocaust Victims Mourned At Auschwitz And Beyond -- VosIzNeias.com
Hungarian Holocaust survivor Erzsebet Brodt, 86, lights a candle in front of a wall bearing the names of victims at Budapest's Holocaust Memorial Centre, January 27, 2013. The world commemorated on Sunday the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. More than half a million Hungarian Jews were killed during World War Two. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Warsaw, Poland - In Photos: Holocaust Victims Mourned At Auschwitz And Beyond -- VosIzNeias.com
International Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at Auschwitz and beyond - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Holocaust survivor 83-year-old Shlomo Resnik and his wife attend the 'Gathering the Fragments' exhibit at Yad Vashem of more than 71,000 items collected nationwide, Jerusalem, Jan. 27, 2013. Photo by AP
FULL ARTICLE HERE: International Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at Auschwitz and beyond - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
SUNDAY TIMES PULLS A DER STURMER: Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day | HonestReporting
January 27, 2013 15:26 by Simon Plosker
This cartoon published in The Sunday Times (subscription-only) would be offensive at the best of times. That it has appeared on Holocaust Memorial Day is doubly so.
Penned by Gerald Scarfe (the cartoonist behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall), the caption reads: “Israeli Elections… Will Cementing Peace Continue?”
A hideous looking PM Benjamin Netanyahu caricature builds a wall cemented with blood, crushing Palestinians including women and children.
Israel’s security barrier (of which the vast majority is a fence and not a wall) is meant to protect Israeli civilians against Palestinian terrorism. In any case, the imagery of this cartoon amounts to a blood libel on a day when the millions of victims of the Holocaust are remembered.
In response, The Commentator’s Raheem Kassam states:
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day | HonestReporting
This cartoon published in The Sunday Times (subscription-only) would be offensive at the best of times. That it has appeared on Holocaust Memorial Day is doubly so.
Penned by Gerald Scarfe (the cartoonist behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall), the caption reads: “Israeli Elections… Will Cementing Peace Continue?”
A hideous looking PM Benjamin Netanyahu caricature builds a wall cemented with blood, crushing Palestinians including women and children.
Israel’s security barrier (of which the vast majority is a fence and not a wall) is meant to protect Israeli civilians against Palestinian terrorism. In any case, the imagery of this cartoon amounts to a blood libel on a day when the millions of victims of the Holocaust are remembered.
In response, The Commentator’s Raheem Kassam states:
In conversation with a friend of mine recently, I was asked, “Do you think in 200 years time, people will have forgotten the Holocaust, or believe that it was a myth?” I naively responded, “No. I believe there are enough good people in the world to ensure that doesn’t happen.” At the time, I would never have thought the editors of the Sunday Times were in amongst those who would seek, in true Der Sturmer fashion, to use Holocaust Memorial Day to publish a blood libel, and knowingly undermine the memory of one of the worst genocides ever.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Cementing Hate on Holocaust Memorial Day | HonestReporting
THE (PRO-FASCIST) CLOWN OF ITALY: Ex-Italian Premier Berlusconi’s Shocking Comments: Mussolini ‘Did Good’ Despite the ‘Extermination of the Jews’ | TheBlaze.com
HIS FOOT PERMANENTLY IN HIS MOUTH:
LINK: Ex-Italian Premier Berlusconi’s Shocking Comments: Mussolini ‘Did Good’ Despite the ‘Extermination of the Jews’ | TheBlaze.com
LINK: Ex-Italian Premier Berlusconi’s Shocking Comments: Mussolini ‘Did Good’ Despite the ‘Extermination of the Jews’ | TheBlaze.com
CONFIRMING THE OBVIOUS: Study shows growth in European anti-Semitism | The Times of Israel
A new government study, released annually, shows a rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the past year, especially violent attacks by radical Islamic groups.
The paper, reporting on trends in anti-Semitism in 2012, was being presented to the Israeli cabinet on Sunday morning, coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Prepared by the ministry in charge of diaspora affairs, the study found an increasing number of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and Jewish communities worldwide, many of which were carried out by groups identifying with extremist Islamist factions or with the radical right, according to Israel Radio.
However, the report found no significant rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the Arab or Muslim world........
Saturday, January 26, 2013
‘I Need You in the Game’: Wis. Sheriff Tells Residents to Learn How to Use a Gun to Defend Themselves | TheBlaze.com
In this Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke talks during a budget hearing in Milwaukee, Wis. The Wisconsin sheriff said he released an ad calling on residents to defend themselves because the old model of having a citizen call 911 and wait for help isn’t always the best option. (AP)
LINK: ‘I Need You in the Game’: Wis. Sheriff Tells Residents to Learn How to Use a Gun to Defend Themselves | TheBlaze.com
MAMET ON GUN RIGHTS: David Mamet: Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so. By David Mamet.
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.
‘In announcing his gun control proposals, President Obama said that he was not restricting Second Amendment rights, but allowing other constitutional rights to flourish.’
‘In announcing his gun control proposals, President Obama said that he was not restricting Second Amendment rights, but allowing other constitutional rights to flourish.’
For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia. The agency is called “The State,” and the motto, fleshed out, for the benefit of the easily confused must read “The State will take from each according to his ability: the State will give to each according to his needs.” “Needs and abilities” are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to “the State shall take, the State shall give.”
All of us have had dealings with the State, and have found, to our chagrin, or, indeed, terror, that we were not dealing with well-meaning public servants or even with ideologues but with overworked, harried bureaucrats. These, as all bureaucrats, obtain and hold their jobs by complying with directions and suppressing the desire to employ initiative, compassion, or indeed, common sense. They are paid to follow orders.
Rule by bureaucrats and functionaries is an example of the first part of the Marxist equation: that the Government shall determine the individual’s abilities...................
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