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What makes lefties think it can end any better in Venezuela than it has in Cuba or the USSR or North Korea or Zimbabwe - or anywhere else it was tried!?!?Tucked into a corner on Plaza Bolívar is Café Venezuela, part of a chain of open-air restaurants established by the government this year. The cafe serves Venezuela-grown coffee and Venezuelan snacks like cassava bread at so-called solidarity prices, half or less than what customers would pay elsewhere.
Ideology is also on the menu. The cafes were created by Comerso, a state holding company for socialist enterprises, which also manages stores that sell everything from subsidized arepas, the crispy corn cakes that are the staple of the Venezuelan diet, to inexpensive Chinese cars. The branch in Plaza Bolívar replaced a clothing store that once occupied the same spot and was expropriated live on television by Mr. Chávez.
The planners behind the cafes have multiple objectives: to provide food and conviviality at democratic prices, to serve as commercial linchpins to renew some of the city’s most run-down districts and, not incidentally, to remind satisfied patrons of the government’s populist program in an election year.
Judging by the long lines that snake from the counter onto the sidewalk on most days, they are a hit.
“We’ve taken back this space from the oligarchy, and now it’s ours,” said Pedro Sandoval, 58, a musician who strums boleros on his guitar at the Café Venezuela at Plaza Bolívar. His repertoire includes Venezuelan folk classics as well his own compositions like a song called “El Terrorista” that describes a thwarted plot to assassinate Mr. Chávez.
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... Swedish police evacuated a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to Stockholm due to a bomb alert Saturday and detained a passenger on suspicion of preparing aircraft sabotage, officials said.
The Boeing 777 was traveling from Toronto to Karachi when the pilot asked to land at Stockholm's Arlanda airport after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives. Arlanda spokesman Anders Bredfell said there were 273 people on board.
A SWAT team detained the suspect as he was evacuated from the aircraft along with the other passengers. Police described him as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, aged about 30.
Police operation leader Stephan Radman said no explosives were found on the man, who was being questioned by investigators. He said a bomb squad was searching the aircraft, which was parked on a ramp at the end of a runway.
The tip was "called in by a woman in Canada," Radman said, adding that Swedish police took the threat seriously.
Police officials said the man was not on any international no-fly lists and had cleared a security check in Canada. He didn't resist when the SWAT team took him into custody.
Investigators were questioning the man at a police station, and a prosecutor was to decide whether to formally arrest him.
In Pakistan, a spokesman for state-run Pakistan International Airlines confirmed the incident involved flight PK782 to Karachi.
"The plane has landed at the Stockholm airport due to security reasons," airline spokesman Sultan Hassan said.
Calls to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canada's public safety department were not immediately returned.
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Associated Press Writers Ashraf Khan in Karachi, Pakistan, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.
THIS COULD BE A HOAX BY THE WOMAN WHO CALLED IT IN, OR A PROBE.
MAIN POINT: I AM SICK OF THE LIBS AVOIDING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
IDENTIFYING PERPS OR SUSPECT BY THEIR NATIONALITY IS WORTHLESS ACT OF DENIAL WHICH AT THIS POINT IN WW4 RISES TO BEING A DIVERSION AND LIE WHICH FACILITATES THE ENEMY.
THE RC CHURCH CAN RECTFY #2 BY REVERTING TO A MARRIED CLERGY - A FACT OF CHURCH LIFE FOR IT'S FIRST THOUSAND YEARS.If there is to be a two-state solution, it cannot be that the physical space for a Palestinian state keeps diminishing, square meter by square meter, as settlements expand.NONSENSE.
In 2009, workplace discrimination against Muslims rose 20 percent to a record 803 claims, according to federal data cited in the New York Times.
We sat down with the author of the article, Times labor and workplace reporter Steven Greenhouse, along with Arsalan Iftikhar, an Muslim- American international human rights lawyer and founder of themuslimguy.com, to discuss why these numbers have increased and what could be the cause.
ACTUALLY, THIS IS JUST MUSLIMS TEAMING UP WITH THE ACLU AND THEIR ILK TO FORCE SHARIA DOWN OUR THROATS.The number of complaints filed since then will not be announced until January, but Islamic groups say they have received a surge in complaints recently, suggesting that 2010’s figure will set another record.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found enough merit in some of the complaints that it has filed several prominent lawsuits on behalf of Muslim workers.
Last month, the commission sued JBS Swift, a meatpacking company, on behalf of 160 Somali immigrants, saying supervisors and workers had cursed them for being Muslim; thrown blood, meat and bones at them; and interrupted their prayer breaks.
On Sept. 1, the commission filed a case against Abercrombie & Fitch, the fashionable clothing retailer, accusing it of discrimination for refusing to hire an 18-year-old Muslim because she was wearing a head scarf.
And in June, the agency sued a Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Phoenix, asserting that its management had illegally permitted a hostile work environment in which workers called an Iraqi immigrant a “camel jockey,” mocked him with Arab ululations and taunted him over news items about captured terrorists. (The hotel’s manager said many of the claims were untrue.)
“There’s a level of hatred and animosity that is shocking,” said Mary Jo O’Neill, regional attorney of the E.E.O.C.’s Phoenix office. “I’ve been doing this for 31 years, and I’ve never seen such antipathy toward Muslim workers.”
This was videoed by a hospital worker, somewhere in England.This is islamic supremacism being enabled by publicly-funded entities: the NHS.
Christie (TO THE FIRE-FIGHTERS' UNION, WHOSE PENSION HE'D JUST CUT):WRONG WRONG WRONG TERRIBLY WRONG!
"You may hate me now, but ten years from now you'll be looking up my address to send me a thank you note"
One of the most senior leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) has been killed, say reports.
Jorge Briceno, also known as Mono Jojoy, died in a military air strike in the Macarena region, known to be a Farc stronghold, local media said.
President Juan Manuel Santos said Jojoy's death was "the hardest blow" in the history of the rebel movement.
The Marxist Farc rebels have been fighting the Colombian authorities since the mid-1960s.
Jojoy was believed to be leader of the Farc's strongest fighting division, the Eastern Bloc, and had eluded Colombian security forces for almost 10 years.
The United States had offered a reward of up to $5m (£3.2m) for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
YOU DO NOT ARREST OR CONVICT THIS TYPE OF LEFTIST NARCO-TERRORIST SCUM.
YOU KILL THEM WITH WHATEVER IT TAKES - "DISPROPORTIONATE" POWER.
WE NEED TO DO MORE OF THIS IN AFGHANISTAN - AND ELSEWHERE.
AND IF THE POWER WE ARE CURRENTLY USING ISN'T GETTING THE JOB DONE THEN WE HAVE TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY - THE PACE - AND INTENSITY OF THE ATTACKS UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE.
Who would have thought that six weeks before a cliffhanger election, President Obama would have to reach down to the D list to fill a room to listen to him? Most of us low rollers arrived early to see President Obama up close and personal. Our tickets for the general reception at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York were only $100. Some thought the email invitation was a joke. Some bought tickets for $50 from their desperate Democratic committeeman. Some bought the same day.
Democrats are in trouble nationally, but their problems are amplified in the very areas they need to do well enough to survive. While Republicans are hitting home runs nationally (for what that is worth), in the swing seats, the key states, and the key demographics, GOPers are performing like Sammy Sosa on steriods.UPDATE: BBC:
Two polls released on Thursday suggest that America's independent voters are continuing to sour on the Democrats.OBAMA AND THE LEFT WILL AT LAST GET THE RESULT THEY DESERVE.Independent voters propelled President Obama's party to victories in 2006 and 2008, but a majority of them now hold negative views of Democratic policies.
An Associated Press-GfK poll found only one third of independent voters want Democrats to control congress.
... Pew Research Center poll suggests Republicans have a 13 point advantage among independents.
...In the AP-GfK poll, only around 30% of independents think the country is headed in the right direction and more than half disapprove of President Barack Obama's performance.
Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.Read the rest of the article. I think this is proof perfect why women shouldn't even be politically active in movements like these, if they're going to lead to their slavery. Here's some advice: any woman who goes through an experience like this must distance herself from the "peace movement" she was taking part in immediately, and not only that, when pressing charges, she must issue a subpoena for the organizers to testify, if they refused to help her. If the "peace activists" are going to betray their own members, then they must be held accountable as complicit in a crime, which they are indeed.
Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left's Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”
“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists' demonstration at Bil'in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah [Shimon HaTzaddik],” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”
It turns out, she explains, that when female peace activists from Israel and abroad come out to Judea and Samaria and demonstrate against the Israeli “occupation,” they are assaulted sexually by the Arab men whom they have come to help. These are not isolated incidents, Aloni-Sedovnik stresses. Rather, this is an “ongoing and widespread” phenomenon that includes verbal and physical abuse. She accuses the 'peace' camp of purposely covering up the trend so as not to offend “the Palestinians and their heritage, which sees women as sexual objects.”
Media cover-up
Aloni-Sedovnik cites two specific cases which she has knowledge of – one is a case of rape and another is “severe sexual harassment.” The attackers in both cases, she stresses, were familiar with the victims and knew that they were “peace activists.”
The rape occurred several months ago in the village of Umm Salmona, near Bethlehem. The victim, an American activist, wanted to press charges but leftist activists put pressure on her not to do so, so as not to damage the struggle against the 'occupation.'
The second case involved an Israeli activist who took part in the demonstrations at Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, where the High Court ruled that Jewish families may move into homes that they have owned for generations. This woman filed a complaint with the police but retracted it after “severe and unfair pressure” from the demonstrations' organizers, according to Aloni-Sedovnik. Furthermore, the organizers appealed to demonstrators to dress modestly when they come to the Arab neighborhoods and suggested that they wear head scarves.
Aloni-Sedovnik accuses the Israeli media of complicity in the cover-up.
In a 56-page report (pdf), the UNHCR's three-member panel wrote that Israeli commandos had committed war crimes during their May 31 raid of the Turkish aid ship the MV Mavi Marmara that left nine Turkish, pro-Palestinian activists dead. Although Israel contends that its soldiers acted in self-defense, the council found that their response was “disproportionate” and that soldiers exercised an “unacceptable level of brutality.”
“There is clear evidence to support prosecutions of the following crimes within the terms of article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: willful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health,” wrote the report's authors.
The council also found that Israel’s blockade of Gaza is “unlawful” because of the humanitarian crisis, reports the BBC.
1 - THE PREMISE OF THE REPORT IS FALSE: THERE IS NO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA.
2 - FIRING BULLETS IN SELF-DEFENSE IS NOT EVER DISPROPORTIONATE: THE IDF USED NO FORCE LETHAL FORCE THAN A HOMEOWNER MIGHT WHEN FACED WITH AN INTRUDER.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon harshly criticized the UN Human Rights Council's report on the May 31 Israeli raid of a Gaza-bound flotilla, calling the findings "a big lie," Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
Ayalon reportedly made the comments while in New York for the yearly meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Ayalon stated that Israel did not cooperate with the UNHRC probe into the flotilla because the conclusions of the investigation were predetermined and that the report establishes the UNHRC as an irrelevant body.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday instructed Israeli embassies around the world to begin a widespread campaign to disprove the UNHRC report.
“Danish ghettos ravaged by fire,” alerts the Jyllands-Posten.Here, (with Google translate)
Every week in troubled Danish neighbourhoods, four fires on average burn down kindergartens, trash containers, cars and motor scooters, reports the Danish daily, based on fire department reports in the country’s three biggest cities.
According to one sociologist quoted in the paper, these acts are perpetrated by a hard core of ethnic youths who want their neighbourhoods to “take on the image of a dangerous ghetto”.
Fewer than 1% of the arsonists are ever apprehended.
The Obama and the leftist media will attempt to spin this as merely descriptive, and as a tribute to America's resiliency. After all -- we did survive 9/11, didn't we? (Well, actually, 2996 of us did not survive 9/11, but apart from them, we survived.)One thing mo': the left not only thinks we can absorb another mega-attack, they think we can absorb a whole lot more islamization and creeping sharia. IOW: it's not just American lives they are willing to sacrifice; it's American culture and values and civilization.This is merely Obama talking up America's capacity to endure, they will say.
But it's not. This is a meme that has been circulating on the left for quite a while, usually secretly and among themselves only, but sometimes, ill-advisedly, being pushed out into public as a trial balloon.
The idea, of course, is that America overreacted to 9/11, and 50,000 people die every year in car crashes, and we don't freak out about that, do we? No, we accept these as acceptable losses in the bigger picture (that is, we want to drive places) and we take the exchange. We drive, some of us will die. Sound bargain.
That's the killer notion here -- the idea of bargain. Of what is being exchanged for these deaths. In the case of automobile collisions, well, sure, we have mobility and freedom. That's something.
But the left is pushing this idea that we can safely "absorb" many new 9/11's with an eye towards getting us to "accept" the greater bargain they fatuously offer -- peace, and a general wind-down of post-9/11 security "overreactions" like the FBI tracking Muslims suspected of terrorist ties. If only we didn't overreact to the occasional mass-murder, we could go about our business without war, without increased security measures, without "Islamophobia," without the rest of it.
The problem, you see, is primarily within us, those being targeted for murder. If only we understood that this was a good bargain in exchange for living in a multicultural country and global economy, then we could be good citizens of the world and not lash out so terribly and uselessly when some of the more aggressive proponents of multiculturalism blow up a few of our buildings.
In a flurry of speeches and meetings — and one meeting that did not happen — the Turkish president, , defended his country’s close ties to Iran, proclaimed Turkey’s intention to become a leader in the Muslim world, and spurned an attempt to mend fences with Israel over its deadly raid on an aid bound for Gaza....TURKEY IS NOT AN ALLY TO THE WEST.... Israeli officials reached out to Turkey to arrange a meeting this week between Mr. Gul and the Israeli president, , in New York. But it collapsed amid Israeli claims that Turkey had demanded an apology from Mr. Peres for the flotilla raid and Turkish claims that Mr. Gul had no time – all of which inflamed a sore that the Israelis hoped had been gradually healing.
Turkey’s leaders made no apologies, saying they did not start the fight with Israel. Nor are they shy about Turkey’s ambitions, declaring that its status as a Muslim democracy, its growing economy, and its location at the hinge of Europe and Asia should make it a central player in resolving problems like the Iranian nuclear program and the Middle East conflict.
“If you look at all the issues that are of importance to the world today,” Mr. Gul said in an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, “they have put Turkey in a rather more advantageous position.”
The UN Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission concluded that the naval blockade of Gaza was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as brutal and disproportionate.THIS IS A BOGUS VERDICT:
The former US president reportedly said that children of immigrants who serve in the IDF have difficulties imagining any division of land that may in the future be part of a peace agreement.THIS IS ALMOST AS OUTRAGEOUS AS CLINTON'S CLAIM THE COLIN POWELL MISLED HIM ON DADT.
North America's first bedbug summit opened in Chicago on Tuesday morning with a sellout audience and a slate of entomologists representing top universities such as Yale and Cornell.
"This summit really represents access to the best information available on bedbugs to date," said organizer Phillip Cooper, president of BedBug Central.
His organization is an information resource that has a public website providing information on health, treatment and prevention methods.
"This summit will provide a sophisticated level of information to a variety of industries that can be lost in smaller or less specific seminars," he said.
Bedbugs, which were nearly eradicated 50 years ago, have been making a comeback in North America due to the banning of DDT and other toxic chemicals.
"Bedbugs have just increased, like phenomenal. I'm getting more and more calls I'm basically booked up two to three weeks in advance."
As anti-immigrant sentiment continues to sweep across Europe, generating a right-wing populist wave from the shores of the Mediterranean to the chilly reaches of Scandinavia, there is growing concern that such politics could take root here, too, in the fertile ground of financial uncertainty, rising anti-Muslim sentiment and a widening political vacuum left by the misfortunes of the once mighty Christian Democratic Union.IT ISN'T XENOPHOBIA.
Thilo Sarrazin has a best seller blaming Muslim immigrants for “dumbing down society.”
While the Swedes this week elected an anti-immigrant party to Parliament for the first time, and the French are busy repatriating Roma, Germans continue to debate a best-selling book blaming Muslim immigrants for “dumbing down society” and have heard a prominent conservative ally of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, suggest that Poland helped to instigate World War II.
“Uncertainty is widespread over German society,” said Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin. “That is always a good base for those who tell the people all their problems can be solved by simple methods, by solutions that the others wouldn’t dare to do, like throw out the foreigners.”
Since the end of World War II, German laws, political elites and social conventions have prevented right-wing parties from earning enough of a following to win seats in Parliament. The last time a far-right party came close to reaching the 5 percent threshold was in the 1970s, experts said.
But the nation’s political geography is being reshaped by strong gusts of discontent blowing in from different directions. Public resentments toward Europe were fanned by the German-led bailout of Greece, which Germans saw as paying for the profligacy and irresponsibility of others. At the same time, Germans, particularly younger generations, are feeling less constrained by their history and more comfortable in their national skin than at any time since World War II.
Into that environment came the book by the banker Thilo Sarrazin, “Germany Does Away With Itself,” which argues that the nation’s generous social benefits have attracted large numbers of Muslim immigrants who have refused to integrate. The book does not address any of the endemic obstacles to integration, like discrimination in employment and mediocre schooling, but instead labels Muslim immigrants as genetically inferior.
The book and its popularity — it has already sold about 600,000 copies in little more than a month — represent the one issue that seems to have unified the European public: hostility to foreigners, especially Muslims. Recent polls here said that a right-leaning party could now receive up to 20 percent of the vote, which would put it in Parliament, according to reports in the German Press Agency.
“It would be hard to cover all of this under one theme. Xenophobia? Not really. But it could turn into something like it,” said Michael Naumann, editor of the monthly political magazine Cicero in Berlin, about the regional political developments. “The search for scapegoats has started.”
"I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.These are the people we burned."
From Oct. 13 to Oct. 27, the first lady will attend fundraisers for Sens. Russ Feingold (Wis.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Michael Benett (Colo.). She will also attend a fundraiser for Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and raise money for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Los Angeles and New York City.NOTE: SHE'S PAYING CATCH UP/DEFENSE ON HOME TURF IN EVERY CASE.
"Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land," President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.OBAMA USUALLY ATTACKS COLONIALISM, BUT SEEMS TO BE PRAISING IT IN THIS INSTANT. WHY THE SWITCHEROO!? SIMPLE: IT'S ANOTHER WAY HE CAN ATTACK THE USA.
Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. It was recognized on September 27, 1821.
The United States of America declared its independence in 1776.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce on Tuesday a U.S. contribution of more than $50 million toward providing clean cooking stoves in developing countries to reduce deaths from smoke inhalation and fight climate change.THIS IS BETTER THAN CAP & TRADE - OR ANY CO2 INITIATIVE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: IT'S MORE EFFECTIVE IN COMBATING THE MICRO AND MACRO EFFECTS OF SOOT.
The U.S. funding, which will be spread over five years, is part of a Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves being started to combat a problem officials equate with malaria and unclean water in terms of their health impact worldwide.
Some 1.9 million premature deaths, mostly among women and young children, occur every year due to smoke inhalation from rudimentary stoves, which in many cases consist of a few stones and an open fire inside or outside a shelter, officials said.
Smoke from such cooking methods can lead to childhood pneumonia, lung cancer, bronchitis and cardiovascular disease while contributing to climate change through emissions of carbon dioxide and methane -- two major greenhouse gases -- and black carbon.
The new alliance to combat the issue groups U.S. government agencies with the United Nations Foundation, Germany, Peru, Norway, the World Health Organization and corporate backers including Morgan Stanley and Shell, among others.
"This is something that touches on climate, on health, on women's empowerment, on deforestation and on poverty," Reid Detchon, vice president for energy and climate at the United Nations Foundation, said in an interview.
Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel spoke last week to the Charlotte Observer about current events. Among other things, Wiesel spoke of the “Ground Zero mosque" planned for downtown Manhattan.Wiesel usually has some good ideas, but this is something I must disagree on, if only because leftists are likely to use that whole notion of interfaith for propaganda purposes, which in fact, interfaith is, depending on how you see it.
Wiesel suggested that the mosque and Muslim community center, which is to be built a short distance from the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, be made into an interfaith project.
“I would speak to the imam and tell him, 'Look, I don't doubt that your intentions are good. Nevertheless, you've divided the community. Why not unite it?'” Wiesel said. He added that someone from his foundation had been sent to speak to the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and get his opinion.
For years, you have reviled and attacked those few brave souls who tried to alert the community of the danger of radical Islam. You called them bigots, haters, and Islamophobes, and you censored their information from reaching your congregants.Here's sentiment I fully agree with. Of course, I think it would help to know - just what sects do these rabbis belong to? Orthodox? Conservative? Reform? Maybe even - gasp! - the anti-Zionist Satmar? I don't know, although I do realize that even today, sadly, it is possible for some Orthodox and Conservative reps to be dhimmis in America; I wouldn't underestimate them.
On May 25, 2010, when Wellesley public school kids were prostrating to Allah on the taxpayers' dime, what were you doing to protect the Jewish community? Well, seventy Boston rabbis were burning up the phone lines, planning an assault on Dr. Charles Jacobs, the founder of American for Peace and Tolerance, which released this hair-raising video.
And so, on June 10, you publicly issued a "Jewish fatwa" against Charles Jacobs in the Jewish Advocate, in which you demanded that "Mr. Jacobs discontinue his destructive campaign against Boston's Muslim community, which is based on innuendo, half-truths and unproven conspiracy theories. We call upon members of our community to reject the dangerous politics of division that Mr. Jacobs fosters ... We refuse to allow Mr. Jacobs to spread his calumnies and paralyze our community in fear."
Seventy of your most "distinguished" rabbis signed their names to this vomit-inducing twaddle!
You actively conspired to harm Dr. Jacobs rather than face the disturbing facts he was unearthing: the founder of the Islamic Society of Boston, Abdurahman Alamoudi, is in jail for 23 years for al-Qaeda-linked terrorist pranks; the loathsome Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, "spiritual" leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who's banned from the U.S., served as ISB Trustee; and Osama Kandil, ISB Trust President, is director of an Islamic charity designated as terrorist by the U.S. government.
So here's where your sharia-loving, self-induced, feel-good blindness leads us. You gave the rabbinical seal of approval to this freakshow at the Boston mosque -- and now we have bar mitzvah boys on the floor, praying to Allah.
And gosh, aren't we lucky? Your rabbi pals in New York are busy pulling the same bone-headed trick! They're bashing 9/11 families for not loving a Victory Mosque to the Nineteen Martyrs erected on the ashes of their dead, and for not wanting to hear "Allah Akbar" when they visit Ground Zero. And whom do these dignified rabbinical giants slobber over? The rat's nest of violent felons, criminal landlords, and 9/11 truthers who want to build the mosque, and who are this year's must-have, radical-chic fashion accessory for the "social justice" crowd.
Well, the day has finally come when we are not going to take it anymore.
We're proud American Jews, and we're not trading in our Constitution and Torah for the Koran, now or ever -- no matter how many red-faced temper tantrums you throw.
Obama said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”Maybe Obama wanted to say "endowed by Allah"? Heh. Never mind that Allah doesn't "endow" anything, much less equality or unalienable rights.
And of course the correct quote, as is found written within the Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Listen for his "long pause" before he says, "endowed."
Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study.PEOPLE WHO THINK NEW WORLD NATIVES WERE PEACEFUL AND LIVED IN HARMONY WITH NATURE ARE IGNORANT.
The paper, accepted for publication in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, describes the single largest deposit to date of mutilated and processed human remains in the American Southwest.
The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site — Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo.
Based on the archaeological findings, which include two-headed axes that tested positive for human blood, co-authors Jason Chuipka and James Potter believe the genocide occurred as a result of conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups.
APPEASEMENT = DHIMMITUDE = SUBMISSION.Mark Steyn rants over the elite’s response to Koran-burning-that-never-took-place as well as to the plight of the latest victim of cartoon jihad, Molly Norris.
He didn’t burn any buildings or women and children. He didn’t even burn a book. He hadn’t actually laid a finger on a Koran, and yet the mere suggestion that he might do so prompted the President of the United States to denounce him, and the Secretary of State, and the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, various G7 leaders, and golly, even Angelina Jolie.
President Obama has never said a word about honor killings of Muslim women. Secretary Clinton has never said a word about female genital mutilation. General Petraeus has never said a word about the rampant buggery of pre-pubescent boys by Pushtun men in Kandahar.
But let an obscure man in Florida so much as raise the possibility that he might disrespect a book – an inanimate object – and the most powerful figures in the western world feel they have to weigh in.
Aside from all that, this obscure church’s website has been shut down, its insurance policy has been canceled, its mortgage has been called in by its bankers.
Why? As Diana West wrote, why was it necessary or even seemly to make this pastor a non-person?
Another one of Obama’s famous “teaching moments”?
In this case teaching us that Islamic law now applies to all?
Mahmoud says he found a note belonging to his sister with several phone numbers and rang one to find it was a clinic that restores a woman's virginity through surgery.
He says that was the final straw.
"She was violating rules of the society. Why has she done that?
"She didn't have the right to do that. She shamed our family."
On average in the West Bank, about 20 men a year like Mahmoud kill a sister, daughter or even their mother because they claim she has brought shame on the family.
Some women are killed if they are considered promiscuous, have an affair, or even if they are victims of rape or incest.
"I don't think if anyone betrays his family (they) can be trusted by anyone else," Mahmoud said.
He says his views are representative of most people in the West Bank.
Mahmoud spent six days in custody. He was never charged and does not see himself as a murderer.
"It wasn't my fault, and I haven't done anything wrong," he said.
"I overreacted but I don't think that it makes me deserve jail for a long time."
'Killing is killing'
But human rights groups, non-government organisations and virtually every minister in the Palestinian government is demanding change so others like Mahmoud are treated as cold-blooded murderers.
Ashraf Hayyeh from the Palestinian Women's Centre for Legal Aid is one of the strongest advocates for reform.
"Killing is killing, whether it's for honour or anything," she said.
"And if someone kills that way they should deal with it as murder. He should be sentenced to at least 15 years' jail."
There is, however, one major obstacle to change.
The Palestinian penal code, in the West Bank at least, is a Jordanian law drafted 50 years ago.
To change it the Palestinian government needs to abolish that law and draft its own.
But since the militant group Hamas refused to take part in elections due last January, the Palestinian Legislative Assembly is effectively paralysed.
Until there is a new election, men like Mahmoud will continue to be let off the hook for what most countries would say is cold-blooded murder.
BEASTS WHO BELIEVE IT'S OKAY TO MURDER THEIR OWN DAUGHTER AND SISTERS TO RESTORE FAMILY HONOR CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH ANY PEACE AGREEMENT AND SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN YET ANOTHER STATE.
IT'S INSANE.
While his four-party Alliance did not win a parliamentary majority, it is the biggest bloc and Reinfeldt has said he was prepared to lead a minority government. However, he said he would approach the opposition Green Party for support.
THERE'S A SOLUTION:EITHER EUROPEANS CHOOSE TO FIGHT BACK OR THEY CHOSE TO SURRENDER - THERE IS NO THIRD WAY.
ALL MUSLIMS WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SUPERIORITY OF CIVIL LAW OVER SHARIA SHOULD BE DEPORTED OR SENT INTO VOLUNTARY EXILE.
CAN WE REALLY EXILE AND DEPORT MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS FROM EUROPE?
YES:
THEY GOT TO EUROPE; THEY CAN LEAVE.
- THE BATTLE CRY FROM THE LEFTISTS IN LATIN AMERICA USED TO BE "YANKEE GO HOME!"
- NO ONE ACCUSED THEM OF RACISM.
- EUROPEANS SHOULD START THEIR OWN BATTLE CRY:
IF THEY WERE BORN I EUROPE, THEN THEY MUST SWEAR ON THE KORAN ON VIDEOTAPE POSTED ON YOUTUBE THAT THEY BELIEVE THAT CIVIL LAW IS SUPERIOR TO SHARIA, OR BE TRIED FOR SEDITION AND IF CONVICTED IMPRISONED FOR LIFE OR SENT INTO VOLUNTARY EXILE TO ANY ISLAMIC STATE THEY CHOOSE.
- MUSLIMS GO HOME!
Science just ran with a significant story that is getting lots of press: Say goodbye to sunspotsMORE ON LITTLE ICE AGE HERE:Here’s a prominent excerpt:
The last solar minimum should have ended last year, but something peculiar has been happening. Although solar minimums normally last about 16 months, the current one has stretched over 26 months—the longest in a century. One reason, according to a paper submitted to the International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 273, an online colloquium, is that the magnetic field strength of sunspots appears to be waning.
… Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period of cooling on Earth.
ER, UM... IT'S TIME TO CRANK UP OUR MAN-MADE CO2 EMISSIONS! HEH.... any of several dates ranging over 400 years may indicate the beginning of the Little Ice Age:
The prevailing scientific view is that the Little Ice Age ended in the latter half of the 19th century or early in the 20th century.[9][10][11]
- 1250 for when Atlantic pack ice began to grow
- 1300 for when warm summers stopped being dependable in Northern Europe
- 1315 for the rains and Great Famine of 1315-1317
- 1550 for theorized beginning of worldwide glacial expansion
- 1650 for the first climatic minimum.
... Europe and North AmericaThe Little Ice Age brought colder winters to parts of Europe and North America. Farms and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by encroaching glaciers during the mid-17th century.[16]
Canals and rivers in Great Britain and the Netherlands were frequently frozen deeply enough to support ice skating and winter festivals.[16]
The first River Thames frost fair was in 1607; the last in 1814, although changes to the bridges and the addition of an embankment affected the river flow and depth, hence diminishing the possibility of freezes.
The freeze of the Golden Horn and the southern section of the Bosphorus took place in 1622.
In 1658, a Swedish army marched across the Great Belt to Denmark to invade Copenhagen.
The Baltic Sea froze over, enabling sledge rides from Poland to Sweden, with seasonal inns built on the way.[17] The winter of 1794-1795 was particularly harsh when the French invasion army under Pichegru could march on the frozen rivers of the Netherlands, while the Dutch fleet was fixed in the ice in Den Helder harbour.
In the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. Sea ice surrounding Iceland extended for miles in every direction, closing that island's harbors to shipping.
