Saturday, May 11, 2013

LEGISLATURE THAT CAN BAR SHARIA APPROVED IN MISSOURI

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that their own bill barring use of foreign laws has been approved by the state senate:
The Missouri Legislature has approved a bill that seeks to block the implementation of Agenda 21, a non-binding United Nations action plan that promotes sustainable development.

The anti-Agenda 21 bill now goes to Gov. Jay Nixon, following the House’s final approval of the bill Wednesday night.

“This is truly a bill that’s going to help protect Missourians and their private property rights,” said state Rep. Lyle Rowland, R-Cedarcreek.
Let's hope the governor gives it his approval.

SHARIA IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Carla Garrison at the Wash. Times has written about the dangers Islamic sharia poses to the USA:
WASHINGTON , May 10, 2013 — Former US Attorney General Mike Mukasey spoke recently at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Isms all want to rid the world of something. Nazism wanted to rid the world of Jews. Communism wanted to rid the world of God. Islamism wants to rid the world of infidels - that is you,” said Mukasey.

Sharia (the “path") is Islamic law. According to most sources, including the Council on Foreign Relations, shariah is made up of rules that regulate every nook and cranny of life - worship, marriage and inheritance, criminal offenses, commerce and personal conduct. “It is derived primarily from the Quran and the Sunna—the sayings, practices, and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.”

The bombings and shootings in the name of Islam, such as the Boston Marathon, Fort Hood, the “Underwear Bomber” and 911 are just one element of how sharia law calls Muslims to fight against those who do not accept their law.

Andrew McCarthy, former federal prosecutor and co-author of Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis, wrote, “American elites still deal with sharia as just a religious system, when in fact it is as totalitarian a political program as ever were those of communism, fascism, national socialism, or Japanese imperialism.”

The Muslim holy book, the Quran, says that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (Q 98:6)
Read the rest to learn about some of the terrible things that took place at universities, schools, prisons and courts of law in America when they too caved to Muslim demands for accomodation. A movement has to be formed to counter these appeasements and take back America's institutions.

WALL STREET JOURNAL MIXED UP ABOUT WESTERN WALL

Looks like the WSJ has been slipping in more ways than one:
Several hundred female Jewish worshipers at Jerusalem's Western Wall were pelted with rocks and bottles by thousands of ultraorthodox Jewish demonstrators outraged by their presence at a part of the site traditionally restricted to men.
Oh for heaven's sake. That's not so at all. They were praying in the women's section (which has less space than the men's section), and not in the men's section. It's the prayer customs that had the Haredis making a tempest in a teapot. Oddly enough, they do acknowledge those parts like the shawls and singing in the rest of the article. Nevertheless, this goof is really foolish of them.

They do say something vital though:
Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said that security forces prevented the escalation of violence into a full-scale riot. He said confrontations could be worse next time if a compromise isn't found.
Not exactly. It could be worse next time if the Haredi education system isn't improved and they fail to stop teaching their followers to behave so nastily.

I've never denied that the WoW could be publicity hounds. Certainly not their chairwoman. But the Haredis resorting to violence over something that doesn't involve physical vandalism of any kind are only making themselves look far worse if they keep that up.

ATROCIOUS: THE NEWSEUM PUTS 2 HAMAS TERRORISTS ON THEIR HONOR LIST

JTA reported that the Newseum is tarnishing its image by including two scummy men in their database just because they were "journalists":
A spokesperson for the museum said the two, who died in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle in Gaza last November, would remain on its roll of slain reporters despite protests from Israel’s embassy in Washington.

“Hussam Salama and Mahmoud Al-Kumi were cameramen in a car clearly marked “TV.”’ a spokesperson for the museum said. “The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers all consider these men journalists killed in the line duty.”

Earlier on Friday, the embassy asked the museum to remove their names saying they were members of Hamas, which Israel and the U.S. have designated as a terror group.

“Memorializing Al Aqsa TV terrorists hurts the integrity of reporters operating w/journalistic values,” the Israeli embassy wrote on its official Twitter account. ‪”@Newseum please take a 2nd look.”
But I guess they won't be. CPJ, RWB and WANNP are also hurting their reps by siding with those monsters simply because of their alleged career.

HMMM... CONVENIENT FIRE IN THE WEST WING OF THE WHITE HOUSE??? I QUESTION THE TIMING...


Part of the White House was evacuated Saturday morning because of smoke from an equipment malfunction.
 Secret Service spokesman Max Milien told the Associated Press that smoke was seen coming out of a mechanical room closet on the first floor around 7 a.m. The West Wing, including the press area, were evacuated out of an “abundance of caution,” CNN reported. Five firetrucks responded to the scene, but departed before long. People were allowed back inside the building after about an hour.
HMMM... :
The West Wing is the building housing the official offices of the President of the United States. It is the part of the White House Complex in which the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Situation Room, and the Roosevelt Room are located. Besides serving as the day-to-day office of the President, the three floors of the West Wing include offices for senior members of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and their support staff. 
HMMM... I WONDER WHAT BENGHAZI DOC'S THEY DESTROYED DURING THAT ONE HOUR EVACUATION?

WHAT IF BUSH HAD ALTERED THE RELEASED VERSION OF THE PRE-9/11 PDB SO IT MATCHED-UP WITH HIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN?

IF BUSH HAD ALTERED CIA BRIEFINGS OR TAKING POINTS TO MATCH HIS POLICY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED BY THE  MEDIA.

AND DON'T GIVE ME ANY OF THAT "BUSH LIED ABOUT  WMD" CRAP.

BUSH DIDN'T LIE ABOUT WMD; GERMAN INTELLIGENCE HAD AN DEFECTOR/INFORMER WHO THEY BELIEVED WAS TRUTHFUL - AND SO DID MOST OF THE CONGRESS - AT THE TIME.

AND WHEN YOU REPEAT SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUTHFUL, THEN YOU ARE NOT LYING.

BUT OBAMA AND HILLARY AND RICE AND CARNEY ALL LIED - THEY ALL REPEATED WHAT THEY KNEW TO BE FALSE.

THEY LIED.

AND THEY LIED - AND ARE LYING STILL - BECAUSE THEY ARE COVERING UP THEIR INCOMPETENCE AND PERHAPS EVEN WHAT THE AMBASSADOR WAS REALLY DING IN BENGHAZI.

PERHAPS HE WAS ARMING AL QAEDA, AND PERHAPS BENGHAZI I OBAMA'S IRAN-CONTRA?

IT HAS TO BE AT LEAST AS BIG, OR OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES WOULD NOT HAVE LIED SO FASTLY OR FURIOUSLY.


DURING THE TERRORIST SIEGE ON OUR AMBASSADOR IN BENGHAZI, OBAMA WAS MIA



WELL... HE DID HAVE TO GO TO VEGAS THE NEXT DAY TO CAMPAIGN...


FAMILIES OF SLAIN NAVY SEALS SAY MUSLIM CLERIC DISPARAGED THEIR RELATIVES AT FUNERAL


Via Family Security Matters, some families of deceased Navy Seals provided a recording of a Muslim cleric who said something very nasty about their loved ones at a funeral. Shame on the army for allowing such a man to preach his hate at the memorial service.

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH CHINA IN ONE HEADLINE

BBC: Chinese Filmmaker Is Investigated by Family Planning OfficialsBy EDWARD WONGChina's most celebrated director, Zhang Yimou, could face a hefty fine if he is found to have fathered more children than allowed by law.

HAREDIS RIOT AT THE WESTERN WALL, MAKING THEMSELVES EVEN WORSE THAN W.O.W

The Women of the Wall held their monthly service today, and boy did the Haredis make such a mountain out of a molehill:
Riot police were out in full force Friday at the Western Wall trying to contain ultra-Orthodox demonstrators attempting to break through barricades to approach Women of the Wall supporters and activists holding their monthly prayer service in the women’s section.

Three people were arrested and two police officers were injured in the protests, in which demonstrators at several points threw water bottles and chairs in the direction of the women’s section, while calling the police “Nazis” and shouting at them “Go back to Germany.”

Police formed a human barricade to hold back the protesters when the women exited the prayer plaza after they had concluded their service. After they had passed through Dung Gate, a group of ultra-Orthodox protesters began throwing rocks in their direction. They continued to throw rocks at buses that delivered the women away from the violent protests.
It makes no difference whether it was at the Western Wall plaza proper or even at the gateway, what they did was a Chillul Hashem. What if any of that crap they threw in their tantrum hit the stones the walls are built of and damaged them? They'd be guilty of desecrating historical sites, both the prayer plaza and the city itself.

Some Haredi schoolgirls came to the Western Wall, and while many of them at the women's section wisely refrained from clashing, they did say something interesting:
Several young seminary girls questioned by Haaretz said that they had come to the Western Wall because they were told to do so. One young woman, named Rachel, who refused to provide her last name or the name of her seminary, said she had come to protest women praying in the men’s section. Women of the Wall, however, do not pray in the men’s section, but in the women’s section.
On the one hand, we seem to have a case of failure to think for themselves, depending on one's POV. On the other, we have quite an idiot telling them why she came, assuming that's accurate (I'm not blind to Haaretz's leftism).
Rabbi Aaron Frank, the principal of Beth Tefiloh, a modern Orthodox day school in Baltimore, said he had just “come to daven” at the Western Wall with a few of his students. But when a group of ultra-Orthodox noticed him being interviewed by a foreign TV crew, they began shouting in his direction: “You are a Reform Christian. You are a Muslim. You are the pope.”

“For me, what they are doing is a desecration of God’s name, and I believe that 90 percent of Orthodox Jews would see this as a desecration,” he said. “This is a very sad day for the Jewish people, but for me it’s very important that people see that not all Orthodox men are like this.”

Ronit Peskin, an ultra-Orthodox women and the director of a brand new organization called Women for the Wall, which opposes Women of the Wall, credited her own organization with the massive turnout of ultra-Orthodox women this morning. “We were the ones who got the rabbis to do this,” she claimed.

She said, however, that she and her cohorts had not asked ultra-Orthodox men to show up in force and were disappointed with their behavior.
Well thank goodness she recognizes how destructive their attitude is! I've checked out various other reports, and if there's anything they seem to be right about, it's that pretty much ALL the demonstrators sans rationale were Haredi.

In other words, the average follower of Orthodox Judaism, even if they disagree with Reform Judaism, recognizes that going ape over mere prayer service is a fool's act. To some extent, this also can describe some Haredis. But the more insular the sect, it's clear they're the ones who cannot distinguish between constructive dissent and violent tempers.
Lynn Nadeau, a 72-year-old from Marblehead, Mass., was visiting the wall this morning on her first trip ever to Israel. “I think the men should be kept away,” she said, “because their anger is so strong and frightening. Women, however, can talk to other women even if they disagree.”

“I’m used to a pluralistic society where the chief rabbi doesn’t tell everyone how to live their lives,” she added. “It looks to me that all these ultra-Orthodox girls here have been manipulated.”
Depending on their MO, yes, in a way they have. When they grow up in a society that's all but a vacuum, that can be the result.

Because of the influence some Haredi rabbis apparently had over the Haredis who rioted at the Old City, there's now Conservative and Reform leaders petitioning the attorney-general to investigate:
The heads of the Reform and Conservative movements will demand that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein investigate the involvement of rabbis on the government payroll in Friday’s violent demonstrations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. [...]

The demonstrators jeered at the women as they prayed, some throwing water bottles and chairs in their direction. Dozens of riot police were on hand to separate them from the women’s prayer group and they grew increasingly violent. After the women exited Dung Gate, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators ambushed them with rocks.

“I think it is very clear today who came to worship and who came to create provocations,” Gilad Kariv, the executive director of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, told Haaretz. “The troubling aspect of it all is that the rabbi of the Western Wall and his team, all public officials, were deeply involved in organizing this Haredi protest. We intend to address the matter with the attorney general and have him investigate.”

Yizhar Hess, head of the Masorti-Conservative movement in Israel, said that Shmuel Rabinovitch, the Western Wall rabbi and government appointee, was playing both sides. “In the Knesset, he talks about his support for the Sharansky compromise, but outside, he undermines peace in Jerusalem, as he did today.”
Well he did suggest there'd be a "war between brothers", and if this is how they're going to react, then he has some responsibility to bear here for causing so much of a disturbance that any tourists and foreign reporters visiting the spot are bound to come away with a very bad aftertaste. Alas, neither Rabinovitch nor many of the other Haredi moonbats are likely to care that they do the Western Wall and the Temple Mount more harm than good with their antics.

Here's another report from YnetNews:
A mass brawl erupted at the site at around 6:30 am, during which garbage, water, coffee and various objects were flung at dozens of Women of the Wall and police forming a human barrier between the female group and the ultra-Orthodox. Three yeshiva students were detained during the clashes. Two police officers were injured lightly. [...]

Knesset members Miri Regev (Likud ) and Tamar Zandberg (Meretz ) arrived on the scene. Zandberg described the scenes as "tumultuous and exciting," saying those objecting to the female group's right to pray at the site have shown themselves to be seeking antagonism at any cost. [...]

Reform Movement CEO Rabbi Gilad Kariv, who also arrived at the site, said the leaders of the haredi public "desecrated the sanctity" of the Western Wall by calling on ultra-Orthodox to confront the Women of the Wall.
You know something's wrong when a Reform rabbi ends up making the saner argument.
Women of the Wall's Catherine Leff, 17, whose father is a Conservative rabbi, said the events actually strengthened the group and encouraged the members to sing and pray even louder. She said that at some point the haredim began to spit at the women until police cleared them from the area. According to Leff, the bus which transported the Women of the Wall out of compound was pelted with huge stones, but no one was injured. [...]

Yaakov, a 21-year-old haredi, said, "What these women are doing is disgraceful and against the Torah. We will continue to fight them. A woman draped in a tallit (prayer shawl) is ridiculous. Jews do not act this way. I am willing to get arrested. Some things justify a violent reaction."
That comment is sickeningly reminiscent of how Islamofascists speak. What if God Forbid, somebody even got killed as a result of the rioting? What does it take to make them wake up, smell the coffee, and realize that WoW are hardly something to rage over?

SHAS SUPPORTERS MAIL DEATH THREATS TO BAYIT YEHUDI MK AYELET SHAKED

Shas cultists continue to drag the party's image downhill with their decidedly poor educational upbringing:
MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) filed a complaint with Knesset Security Wednesday night after an onslaught of threatening text messages were sent to her phone by supporters of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

The threats followed the Bayit Yehudi's faction meeting on Monday, in which the party gave Yosef one week to publicly announce that he supports a deal in which the Bayit Yehudi would pass legislation allowing the reelection of Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and Shas would support Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Ariel for the Ashkenazi chief rabbi position.

Shas activists saw the Bayit Yehudi's limit of a week as an ultimatum to Yosef.

Soon after, Shaked's cell phone number and the following message was sent to a group of Shas activists on the instant-messaging smartphone application Whatsapp: "Friends, Ayelet Shaked hasn't apologized for her impertinence toward the genius Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, may he live a long life. How can we be quiet when an MK from a religious party gives an ultimatum to the greatest rabbi of our generation? We must all send her text messages until she apologizes."

Shaked received dozens of threatening messages, including one that says "may you burn slowly in hell."

Another message said: "Apologize to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, may he live a long life, as soon as possible, or you'll die. What have you done?"

Shaked also received an SMS telling her that her "days are numbered" for harming Yosef, and repeated a quote from the rabbi during the election earlier this year, that the Bayit Yehudi is a "house of gentiles."

"Who are you to make an ultimatum to the greatest rabbi of our generation? You're lower than garbage," a message read.

On Wednesday night, Shaked filed a complaint about the messages to Knesset security, who are currently investigating them.
I hope they catch the offenders who sent those vile messages, and send them to prison for a long, long time. This is pure idolatry, and proof that any Shas supporter who sent her those threatening messages is not a follower of the Torah at all. Yosef would do well to condemn all the offenders and demand they be tried for their nasty crime against Shaked, and make clear that he rejects their worship of him. They have stooped lower than low.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

FAST & FURIOUS. GOSNELL. BENGHAZI...

FAST & FURIOUS. 
GOSNELL. 
BENGHAZI. 
BIDEN BLABBERING WHO KILLED BIN LADEN.
MORE TROOPS DYING UNDER OBAMA THAN BUSH.
MORE ATTACKS ON THE HOMELAND.
HANDING EGYPT TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
FAILING TO NEGOTIATE A TROOP AGREEMENT WITH IRAQ.
 APPEASING PUTIN ON NMD.

IF YOU'RE A LIB, AND JUST PLUGGED INTO THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE, THEN THESE THINGS NEVER HAPPENED.

THESE SCANDALOUS THINGS.

IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST - AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA DECIDES THAT REPORTING IT WOULD HURT THEIR AGENDA, THEN IT DOESN'T MAKE A SOUND.


TSARNAEV'S STIFF SHOULD HAVE BEEN CREMATED, NOT JUST BURIED

Newsday says that the Boston jihadist who was deservedly put to death has been buried:
Police in Worcester, Mass., say the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried outside of the city.

Police said in a statement Thursday that "a courageous and compassionate individual came forward" to properly bury the remains, which had been at a Worcester funeral home for about a week.

Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst says the body is no longer in Worcester and is now entombed.

Police did not disclose where the body was taken.

Tsarnaev's body had been at the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors for a week. Director Peter Stefan says he could not find a community willing to take the body, including Cambridge, where the family had lived for a decade. Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, had custody of the body.
Who was it who dared to give the corpse a burial it did not deserve? It should have been cremated, and to my knowledge, plenty of folks in the USA share that belief that a savage like Tsarnaev doesn't even deserve a burial, not even if it's devoid of prayer service. The police have only made themselves look foolish.

HMMM... FUNNY: TWO BIGGEST USA BANKS THAT TRADE EQUITIES HAD PERFECT RECORDS LAST QUARTER


BLOOMBERG:
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) had perfect trading records in the first quarter, making money every day of the period as Morgan Stanley posted losses in eight sessions and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in two. 
One daily gain at JPMorgan exceeded $200 million as the biggest U.S. bank by assets recovered from last year’s London Whale derivatives loss, the New York-based company said yesterday in a regulatory filing. Bank of America, the second-largest lender, generated more than $25 million of revenue on 97 percent of trading days, compared with 76 percent at Morgan Stanley, the firms said in separate filings. Goldman Sachs, which generated about half its revenue from trading last quarter, said its team made more than $100 million on 17 days.
TRADING STOCKS IN THE VOLATILE MARKETS AND NEVER LOSING?!?!!?

IT'S JUST MORE PROOF THAT THE STOCK MARKETS ARE RACKETS RIGGED FOR THE BIG PLAYERS.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

ON THE KIDNAPPING OF THREE WOMEN THAT HAS BECOME 24/7 NEWS JUST IN TIME TO PREEMPT THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS.


These women were kidnapped, kept prisoner in the house, not allowed to leave unless supervised by one of the men, not allowed to be educated, not allowed to choose what to wear, not allowed to have friends, and, more than anything, not allowed to exercise their Freedom of Choice over any part of their lives.

In other words, what we call kidnapping and a life of horrific abuse is what women in much of the Muslim world call marriage.



benghazi tweet of the day



Republicans are at a hearing investigating Al-Qaeda attacks on , Democrats are at same hearing investigating attacks on Obama.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL WILL WORK TO MAKE GENDER-SEGREGATION A CRIME

Something's being done to crack down on Haredi discrimination against women:
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Wednesday adopted a Justice Ministry proposal to fight the exclusion of women from participating in public ceremonies, being featured on billboards and delivering eulogies at public cemeteries.

Weinstein contacted cabinet ministers with instructions to act quickly to implement the report’s recommendations and to eliminate the marginalization of women in the public sphere.

The separation between men and women is to be prohibited at the country’s HMOs, at all state ceremonies and state-sponsored events, and on public transportation. Moreover, the report demands that local authorities take steps to prevent signs being hung in religious neighborhoods that instruct women to walk in a certain part of the street or to dress modestly.

Gender segregation will also be prohibited in broadcasts of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Berama. The report recommended that if the station does not change its policy prohibiting from women appearing on air within six months that the station be shut down.
Amazingly, a certain someone in the justice ministry has just said something positive for a change:
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called gender segregation an “intolerable crime.” “The exclusion of women from the public sphere is not only an injury to women’s dignity, but harms our interests as a society and has no religious or moral justification. It is a phenomenon that must end,” said Livni.
But would she be saying - or doing - anything if she were in charge and wanted the Haredi parties in her coalition so much that she'd be willing to appease that kind of mindset at all costs? Maybe not, and the MSM would surely cover for her. So it's lucky she's not the prime minister here, or this kind of horrific case would still prevail.

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS MINISTRY WILL HELP ARRANGE FOR JEWISH PRAYER ON TEMPLE MOUNT

Finally, something is being done to allow for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount:
The Religious Services Ministry is working on ways to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, ministry Director-General Elhanan Glatt said Wednesday.

The Knesset Interior Committee held a special meeting on prayer at the Temple Mount, in honor of Jerusalem Day.

Glatt told the committee his office will examine ways to arrange Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.

"It cannot be that in the State of Israel Jews need to stand aside. The Temple Mount should be a place where people of any religion can pray," committee chairwoman Miri Regev said.

According to Regev, the Temple Mount is a mainstream issue in the heart of the Jewish People which prayed to return to Jerusalem for thousands of years.
Indeed it is. Those opposed to these arrangements include the Arab Knesset members and some of the left-wing Jewish parties.

MUFTI IN JERUSALEM ARRESTED FOR CAUSING INCITEMENT

A wise decision made by the authorities to arrest the resident mufti:
The grand mufti of Jerusalem was detained by Israel Police following an incident between Palestinians and Jews at the Temple Mount.

Sheikh Mohammad Hussein was questioned Wednesday and released hours later in connection with Tuesday's public disturbance in which Muslim worshipers threw rocks and chairs at Jews visiting the site, where the Al-Aksa Mosque is located.

Hussein's involvement is not known; senior clerics rarely are detained in Jerusalem, according to the Times of Israel.

The scuffle occurred at the start of Jerusalem Day, which marks the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Jews flocked to the Western Wall to mark the holiday.

The annual Jerusalem Day Parade through the streets of Jerusalem to the wall, known as the Dance of the Flags, is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Part of the parade route goes through eastern Jerusalem, which has raised tensions in the area.
It figures he and his worshipers would want to disrupt what's supposed to be a joyous day...except for the vilest of Muslims.

CALL FOR SASOL TO END BUSINESS WITH IRAN

United Against Nuclear Iran points to a South African company energy company called Sasol that's been doing business with Iran despite the evil still in charge there, and asks to campaign to get them to stop.

YAD VASHEM MAKES GOOD EFFORTS TO COLLECT NAMES OF VICTIMS

Israel's Holocaust Memorial Center continues with its honored custom of storing records:
REHOVOT, Israel (AP) - With a hand on her chest, 82-year-old Rivka Fringeru battled back tears as she reeled off a list of names she has rarely voiced in the past 70 years: her father, Moshe, then her mother, Hava, and finally her two older brothers, Michael and Yisrael.

All perished in the Holocaust after the Harabju family from Dorohoi, Romania, was rounded up in 1944 and sent to ghettos and camps. Only Rivka and her brother Marco survived, and like many others, they spent the rest of their lives trying to move on and forget.

Now, Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial and museum, is asking them to remember.

Decades after the Holocaust, experts have documented the names of about 4.2 million of the roughly 6 million Jews who were killed by the Nazis in World War II, and officials are going door-to-door in a race to record the memories of elderly survivors before their stories are lost forever.

It is a painstaking process, complicated by trauma, attempted cover-ups and limited record-keeping.

The Names Recovery Project has been Yad Vashem's flagship mission in recent years. It's a vigorous campaign to complete a central database of Holocaust victims' names by encouraging survivors to fill out pages of testimony about those they knew who were killed.

The outreach effort has taken on a greater sense of urgency, with volunteers spanning the country to engage the fewer than 200,000 remaining survivors in Israel and etch the names of their dead relatives into the pages of history. Elsewhere - primarily in the United States and the former Soviet Union - testimony also is being collected from those unable to do so online.

With the passage of the years, Fringeru's recollection of the details of her traumatic past has become sketchy, but the emotions remain raw. Her voice quavered as she tried to trace her memory, often taking a break to compose herself with a sip of water. Her voice was low and her gaze was pained as she stared at her lone memento - a faded family portrait on a cracked piece of cardboard. When she recalled the last time she saw her brother before they were separated in the Mogilov ghetto, she grabbed her chest again.

"It's hard. I never thought we were going to part so quickly," she said, her voice cracking. "I wish I would have wondered with them. I wondered on my own."

After the war, she moved to Israel and later married, had a daughter, two granddaughters and six great-grandchildren. On occasion, she would bring up an old memory with Marco, who died 10 years ago, but largely kept them to herself, even shielding stories from her immediate family. The memories mainly surfaced in her sleep, she said, as nightmares, and she saw no reason to delve further into them.

"Why suffer? Why go back into that trauma?" Fringeru said.

Now widowed, she lives with her partner Baruch Bruner, 88, a widower and fellow Holocaust survivor. Only after he sought out Yad Vashem and filled out pages of testimony about his extended family did she relent and do the same.

To help them through the process, the director of the names project, Cynthia Wroclawski, made a pair of house calls to their modest home in this city south of Tel Aviv.

Wroclawski, who oversees a staff of some 300 volunteers in Israel, held Fringeru's hand, hugged her often and patiently waited for the details to emerge. Eventually, some did. Fringeru's father owned a grocery store, one brother was a shoemaker and had six young children who also died. The other brother's wife was named Malka. Wroclawski added each smidgen of data onto the single black-and-white page.

"This is a virtual tombstone, this is a place where we can remember the person," she said. "We are bringing that person back to life in a sense, their memory at least, in the act of recording and gathering information."

Yad Vashem's goal is to collect the names of all 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The memorial's very name - Yad Vashem is Hebrew for "a memorial and a name" - alludes to its central mission of commemorating the dead as individuals, rather than mere numbers like the Nazis did.

It hasn't been an easy task.

The project began in 1955, but over the following half century, fewer than 3 million names were collected, mostly because the project was not widely known. Many survivors refrained from reopening wounds, or they clung to hopes that their relatives might still be alive.

Later, Yad Vashem began incorporating names from other collections around the world. A big boost in names came from archival sources, such as prewar census records and data derived from analysis of books, documents and tombstones.

The names are commemorated in the museum's Hall of Names, a cone-shaped room whose walls are lined with bookshelves containing folders upon folders of testimonies. Still, until 2004, more than half of the allotted folders remained empty.

That year, the online database was launched, providing easy access to information in English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish and German. The number has since surged to 4.2 million names, and the Internet search function has allowed tech-savvy grandchildren to research their families, leading to several emotional reunions between relatives who had thought the other to be dead.

Yad Vashem hopes that in the next five to six years, it will be able to reach the 5 million mark. Even the most optimistic, however, don't believe it will go much higher.

Contrary to popular belief, the Nazis did not keep meticulous records. They kept tabs on the identity of Jews in Germany, Austria and elsewhere in central Europe, but ordered the wholesale murder of communities elsewhere that were not documented. They also tried to cover up many of their crimes.

Yad Vashem has essentially completed its database on German Jewry during the Nazi era. Its main struggle has been documenting the victims in Poland and eastward, primarily in the former Soviet Union, the site of large scale executions and mass destruction of villages where records were not kept. Limited archival material has allowed researchers to retrace some of them, but the names of many have probably been lost forever.

Because of these difficulties, the actual number of victims remains unclear. Based on records, census data, deportation orders and other documents, most scholarly research estimates the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust at 5.5 million to 6 million. More estimates run higher, and some lower.

The figure of 6 million that is commonly used is attributed to Adolf Eichmann, the mastermind of the Nazi "Final Solution" to destroy European Jewry.

"Our goal is to keep collecting name after name to get as close as we can to 6 million and we will continue to invest time and resources into getting there," said Yad Vashem Director Avner Shalev, whose voice is often heard in radio ads beseeching survivors to come forward. "This has huge historical and emotional significance ... it makes the historical record more accurate and by having a name it helps give a human face to those who weren't treated like humans."

While the main goal is for commemoration and research, Yad Vashem says the database also serves to combat Holocaust denial. The emphasis on filling out a signed testimony in person, rather than submitting a name, gives the database more detail, depth and authenticity - like sworn testimony in court.

"It is of incredible importance that we have the documentation," Wroclawski said. "Usually when we are finished, you can really see that it's almost like a stone has been lifted from their hearts. They know that it is being passed on."

Despite the draining effort, Fringeru said she was pleased she did it and left behind a remnant that would outlive her.

"It's important that people know," she said. "I hope that now they (my family) won't be forgotten."
I'm glad they're still as vigilant as ever in preserving history.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

BOKO HARAM IN HUGE, BOLD, DEADLY ATTACK IN NIGERIA


BBC:
Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state. Bama's police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, said the military and witnesses. Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out. This strike - coming on the back of other deadly attacks - undermines the suggestion that the military operation against the militants has diminished the threat they pose, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos. ... Boko Haram, as it is popularly known, has its roots in this region of Nigeria. It is fighting to overthrow the government and set up an Islamic state.
I BLAME BUSH/ZIONISM/REPUBLICANS/TAX CUTS/CO2/POVERTY.
SERIOUSLY: THERE ISN'T A PLACE ON EARTH WHERE ISLAMISM IS DOING WORSE NOW THAN IN 2008.

SENATOR GRAHAM: BENGHAZI IS HUGE - AS BIG AS WATERGATE


“I think the dam is about to break on Benghazi. We’re going to find a system failure before, during, and after the attacks.
“We’re going to find political manipulation seven weeks before an election. We’re going to find people asleep at the switch when it comes to the State Department, including Hillary Clinton.
“The bond that has been broken between those who serve us in harms way and the government they serve is huge — and to me every bit as damaging as Watergate.”
THE ESS IS ABOUT TO HIT THE EFF - AND PANETTA AND HILLARY WILL EITHER FALL ON THE SWORD FOR THEIR OWN INEPTITUDE OR THEY WILL BLAME OBAMA AND BRING HIM DOWN.... WHERE HE BELONGS. 

 STAY TUNED!

MORE PROOF OBAMA'S AND THE LEFT'S ANTI-GUN LAW BINGE IS PURE DEMAGOGUERY: GUN HOMICIDES AT 20 YEAR LOW


BBC: Gun homicides in the United States have fallen sharply since peaking in 1993, two studies have found.
The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics said firearms-related homicides had dropped to 11,101 in 2011 from 18,253 - a reduction of 39%. Meanwhile, the Pew Research Center found gun homicides per 100,000 people fell to 3.6% in 2010 from 7% in 1993. The figures were released three weeks after US senators rejected proposals to extend background checks on gun sales. 
President Barack Obama has campaigned for tighter firearms laws after 26 people died in a school shooting in Connecticut in December. Both reports found the rate of non-lethal crimes involving guns had also fallen significantly over that period. 
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, an office of the justice department, found that non-fatal firearms crimes dropped by 69% from 1.5 million to 467,300 during the period under study. However, the justice department study also suggested that the percentage of US homicides committed with a firearm had held steady at around 70% between 1993-2011. 
Despite the drop, some 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than two decades ago and only 12% think it is lower, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew also found that African Americans made up a disproportionate share of gun homicide victims - 55% in 2010, despite accounting for 13% of the overall population.
WE NEED TO FIX THE BLACK FAMILY - WRECKED BY THE WELFARE STATE EVER SINCE MOYNIHAN WARNED US IN THE 1960'S.
BLACK MALES RAISED IN HOMES WITHOUT RESPONSIBLE FATHER FIGURES ARE THE MAJOR PROBLEM. 
IT'S NOT THE FAULT OF THE BLACK SINGLE MOTHERS; THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH THEY CAN DO FOR THEIR YOUNG BOYS; THEY NEED DAILY RESPONSIBLE, FATHERLY MALE HELP RAISING BOYS.
AND WE NEED TO FIX THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM AND OUR MENTAL HEALTH LAWS.

WE DO NOT NEED MORE GUN CONTROL.

THE CALL FOR MORE GUN CONTROL IS BULLSHIT MEANT TO RILE UP THE LEFTIST BASE, AND THEY'RE IDIOTIC AND SYCOPHANTIC ENOUGH TO BUY IT.

PROOF PANETTA LIED UNDER OATH - and what must be done about it...

HUFFINGTON POST - 2/7/13:

"Time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response," Panetta said in likely his last Capitol Hill appearance before stepping down as Pentagon chief.

WE NOW KNOW THIS WAS A LIE. PANETTA OUGHT TO BE INDICTED FOR LYING TO CONGRESS - AND CHARGED WITH MALFEASANCE FOR FAILING TO DEFEND US TERRITORY AND US DIPLOMATS WHEN UNDER ATTACK.

PANETTA OUGHT TO BE COMPELLED TO EXPLAIN WHY HE LIED - AND IF HE WAS ORDERED TO BY OBAMA.

IF THE WHITE HOUSE COORDINATED THE LIE, THEN THEY SUBORNED PERJURY AND OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

CONGRESS = NEST OF THIEVES

CRIMINAL SCUM.

THE BEST REASON TO BE A CONSERVATIVE IS THIS SIMPLE FACT:
THE LESS GOVERNMENT DOES...
THE SMALLER IT IS... 
THE LOWER ITS TAXES... 
THE LESS POLITICIANS CAN STEAL, STEER TO CRONIES AND MISMANAGE.

UNREAL: THE NYTIMES WON'T REPORT ON THE BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS EXPOSING OBAMA''S LIES, BUT THEY WILL FEATURE SPRING CUISINE IN CAIRO


CAIRO JOURNALA Taste of Spring That Reeks of Tradition
Egyptians commemorate the arrival of spring with the holiday Sham el-Nessim, meaning "smell the breeze," and its signature dish, a smelly fish called feseekh.
UNFREAKINREAL.
THEY WENT FROM PROMOTING ARAB SPRING FOR DEMOCRACY TO ARAB SPRING FOR CUISINE?!?!
AND STILL NO STORIES ON THE BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS.
THE NYTIMES IS EVERY BIT AS BAD AS PRAVDA EVER WAS.


IS OBAMA DUMB REGARDING CHINA - OR WORKING FOR THEM?

NYTIMES:

U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks
The Pentagon explicitly accused China of attacks on government systems and defense contractors, possibly to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis."
BUT... OBAMA SEEKS THEIR HELP TO QUELL THE NORKS!?!?
THAT'S STUPID, AT BEST.
THE NORKS DO WHAT THEY DO AT THE BEHEST OF CHINA.

WE SHOULD BE TREATING ALLIES LIKE ALLIES AND ENEMIES LIKE ENEMIES.

OBAMA DOESN'T; OBAMA TREATS OUR ALLIES THE WAY HE TREATED OUR AMBASSADOR AND HIS AIDES IN BENGHAZI.

OBAMA HAS MISTREATED ALLIES LIKE MUBARAK AND ISRAEL AND BRITAIN.

OBAMA RETREATED FROM AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ. AND AID AL QAEDA IN LIBYA AND SYRIA.

I'M BEGINNING TO THINK OBAMA TOOK OUT BIN LADEN CUZ HE VIEWED HIM AS A RIVAL.

Monday, May 06, 2013

DESPITE THE ESS HITTING THE EFF TODAY, THE NYTIMES DIDN'T POST A SINGLE STORY ABOUT THE BENGHAZI COVERUP

THE PARTISAN HACKS AT THE NYTIMES HAVE NO SHAME:
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BENGHAZI, Libya — Young Libyans call their government “rule of the mooq- mooq,” a nonsensical neologism used to mock the armed militias ... May 5, 2013 - By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK - World / Africa - Article - Print Headline: "New Law In Libya Bans Some From Office" Book Looks Behind the Scenes at Fox 1 day ago ... “Roger Ailes covered the Benghazi story as if it were Watergate just before Nixon's resignation, with almost wall-to-wall coverage,” Mr. Alter ... May 5, 2013 - By BRIAN STELTER - Business Day / Media & Advertising - Article - Print Headline: "Behind the Scenes at Fox" What's on Sunday Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, and Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts, debate the latest in the Benghazi investigation. May 5, 2013 - By KATHRYN SHATTUCK - Arts / Television - Article - Print Headline: "What’s On Sunday"

DOCUMENTED, FOOTNOTED, PROVEN BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT: GLOBAL JIHAD - AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE USA - IS A REAL CONCERTED, WELL PLANNED, AND WELL FINANCED EFFORT THAT REALLY THREATENS WESTERN CIVILIZATION