PLO OPPOSES ANY CHANGES MADE TO WESTERN WALL PLAZA

If there's anyone who's really hostile to setting up an egalitarian section at the Kotel, it's the PLO and the Islamofascists:

The Palestinian Authority will not permit Israel to change the entrance to the Temple Mount in order to facilitate the building of an egalitarian prayer area near the Western Wall, PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud Habbash told The Jerusalem Post in Ramallah on Thursday morning.

And any Israeli attempt to “Judaize” holy sites in Jerusalem would be viewed by Arabs and Muslims as a declaration of war, Habbash warned.

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky’s plan would allow for the construction of an additional section of the Western Wall Plaza at the southern end of the Kotel – equal in size and height to the northern prayer area for egalitarian worship – and accessible as part of one unified Western Wall complex with a single entrance.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has told Sharansky to meet with National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror to deal with sensitive issues surrounding Mughrabi Bridge.

“Any changes in Haram a-Sharif [Temple Mount] are unacceptable to the Palestinians and the Arab side,” Habbash said in a meeting with Israeli journalists organized by the One Voice organization. “It’s a change of our heritage site and I believe such changes may push all of us to new conflicts and problems.”

It sounds like a hint of violence. As Joel Pollak says, the PLO is against gender equality, and indeed, it does make sense.

THE REAL SNOWDEN EXPOSED

• IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT HE MADE PUBLIC. 

• IT'S ABOUT WHAT HE AND HIS ACCOMPLICE(S) ARE SELLING IN PRIVATE.

MORE HERE.

NSA Swaps Data With "Thousands" of Private Firms

From Bloomberg:

Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. 

These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward Snowden, a computer technician who did work for the National Security Agency.  

The role of private companies has come under intense scrutiny since his disclosure this month that the NSA is collecting millions of U.S. residents’ telephone records and the computer communications of foreigners from Google Inc (GOOG). and other Internet companies under court order.  

Many of these same Internet and telecommunications companies voluntarily provide U.S. intelligence organizations with additional data, such as equipment specifications, that don’t involve private communications of their customers, the four people said.  

Makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies and many other companies also participate in the government programs. In some cases, the information gathered may be used not just to defend the nation but to help infiltrate computers of its adversaries.  

Along with the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency (0112917D), the Federal Bureau of Investigation and branches of the U.S. military have agreements with such companies to gather data that might seem innocuous but could be highly useful in the hands of U.S. intelligence or cyber warfare units, according to the people, who have either worked for the government or are in companies that have these accords.

We now live in a lockdown surveillance state, where the government will sell our personal information to the highest bidder.

I WAS RIGHT: SNOWDEN DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE STUFF HE LEAKED; ERGO: HE HAD HELP FROM SOMEONE WHO DID!

VIA GLENN REYNOLDS:

NSA leaker Snowden is lying, say leaders of House Intelligence Committee. “Emerging from a hearing with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.), the senior Democrat on the panel, said Edward Snowden simply wasn’t in the position to access the content of the communications gathered under National Security Agency programs, as he’s claimed.”

AS I HAVE POSTED BEFORE, SNOWDEN DID NOT DO THIS ALONE; HE WAS PROBABLY RECRUITED BY A SENIOR BOOZ ALLEN WORKER WHO HAD CLEARANCE AND THE TECHNICAL SKILLS TO EXTRACT WHAT SNOWDEN LEAKED. 

THIS SENIOR BOOZ ALLEN EMPLOYEE PROBABLY STOLE OTHER SECRETS - MORE LUCRATIVE ONES, ONES SNOWDEN (EN BEHALF OF HIS CO-CONSPIRATOR) - IS NOW PROBABLY PEDDLING TO CHINA AND RUSSIA.

THE PRISM LEAK WAS DESIGNED TO GIVE SNOWDEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CLAIM HE IS A WHISTLE-BLOWER, AND SAY HE IS A POLITICAL REFUGEE SO HE CAN AVOID EXTRADITION.

VERY CLEVER.

HIS CO-CONSPIRATOR AT BOOZ ALLEN MAY BE RETIRING SOON - OR EVEN HAVE RETIRED IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS - AND (S)HE'LL COLLECT HIS PART OF THE LOOT AT A LATER TIME.

STAY TUNED...

UPDATE: THE NYTIMES DISCOVERS ANOTHER BASIS FOR SNOWDEN TO GET POLITICAL ASYLUM AND AVOID EXTRADITION:

The decision by a former National Security Agency contractor to divulge classified data about the U.S. government’s surveillance of computers in mainland China and Hong Kong has complicated his legal position, but may also make China’s security apparatus more interested in helping him stay here, law and security experts said on Friday. 

The South China Morning Post, a local newspaper, reported on Friday that Edward J. Snowden, the contractor, had shared detailed data showing the dates and Internet Protocol addresses of specific computers in mainland China and Hong Kong that the National Security Agency penetrated over the last four years. 

IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE THAT GAINING POLITICAL ASYLUM IS A PARAMOUNT GOAL FOR SNOWDEN.

HE COULD HAVE USED THW WHISTLEBLOWER LAW TO DIVULGE PRISM TO CONGRESS AND AVOID ANY RETRIBUTION.

HE CHOSE NOT TO.

HE CHOSE TO GO TO CHINA.

THAT'S VERY REVEALING, TO ME.

AND DOVETAILS PERFECTLY WITH WHAT HE'S COSEN TO RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC

STAY TUNED.

NIDAL HASAN SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO REPRESENT HIMSELF AT TRIAL

The jihadist murderer at Fort Hood has until now been allowed to represent himself as lawyer at his impending trial:

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A military judge is expected to rule on Friday on whether to grant accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan more time to prepare as he represents himself in a murder trial for a 2009 Texas shooting rampage that killed 13 people.

The judge, Colonel Tara Osborn, could also decide whether to order Hasan's legal team to stay in place despite its objections as he leads his own defense - the latest wrinkle in a case that has seen myriad delays and legal tangles. [...]

Hasan, a U.S.-born Muslim, wants to argue that he was defending the Afghan Taliban when he opened fire, and may get a ruling from Osborn on whether he will be allowed to pursue that argument at trial. [...]

Osborn appointed three military lawyers to serve as standby counsel. They have said it would be unethical to advise Hasan on his proposed argument that he was protecting the Taliban and have asked Osborn not to require them to participate in that defense.

While it's become typical in some cases for creeps like Hasan to represent themselves, when I thought about it, the idea of Hasan speaking as a lawyer to the very people whose lives he destroyed smells repugnant. But at the same time, the army lawyers appointed have a good point that it wouldn't be ethical to defend Hasan based on such a sick defense tactic. This really is turning out to be a very frustrating case, and the worst part is that Hasan is no doubt hoping to aggravate everybody involved.

MORE ISRAELIS CONDONE THE DHIMMITUDE OF "GIVING UP" JUDEA/SAMARIA?

If this is correct, it's something that needs to be worried about and dealt with:

A new poll published by Ariel University shows that the number of Israelis who support maintaining Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) is shrinking. However, a majority still oppose a major withdrawal in the region.

Israelis are increasingly coming to see Judea and Samaria communities as a financial burden, and are growing less likely to see them as necessary for security, according to the survey, which tracked trends in responses as well as the current public sentiment.

A growing number of Israelis see the communities as an “obstacle to peace.” Fewer see Israelis living in Judea and Samaria as being “like any other Israeli citizen.”

Forty-eight percent of respondents described themselves as “right wing” politically, down from 57%. An increasing number said they were “centrist” or “left wing.”

Respondents were also asked about their opinion on what Israel should do with its communities in Judea and Samaria. While the survey found a decrease in support for annexation of all of Judea and Samaria, more Israelis said they supported annexing just part of the region.

The most dramatic changes pollsters noted were a more than two-fold increase in the number of respondents who said they support a large-scale withdrawal from Judea and Samaria – from 10% to 23% - and a major decrease in the number who said they oppose the demolition of any Israeli community in the region (24%, down from 46%).

When asked if Israel should “fight to the end against the hilltop youth and Jewish lawbreakers in Judea and Samaria,” 37% of respondents said “yes,” compared to 22% in a previous poll.

The poll found an increase in support among Israelis for transferring Israeli-Arab communities to Palestinian Authority control under a future peace deal. There was also an increase in demand for the PA to respect Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria, with more Israelis saying the PA should be willing to accept Israelis living in the region as citizens, and should guarantee continued Jewish access to Jewish holy sites.

They see nothing wrong with ceding land that, aside from being Jewish, could also be used to fire rockets from, as the Hamas has been and will still end up doing? And they don't understand what taqqiya is? Because that's what the PLO goes by, and would not for even a second respect Jewish access to holy sites.

One of the spokesmen for Hevron's Jewish community said:

A recent study by Ariel University showing decreasing support for the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) should be a wake-up call, says Noam Arnon, one of the leaders of Hevron’s Jewish community.

Most Israelis still support Judea and Samaria, he said. But the trend indicated by the survey shows a need for a serious response.

The new media of today’s generation has had a deep impact on society, Arnon told Arutz Sheva’s Yoni Kempinski. The Yesha Council and other Judea and Samaria leaders must learn to “speak the new speak, the new media,” he said.

Every week, Arnon takes hundreds of people to tour Hevron. The personal encounter with Jewish history is “very, very effective” he reported.

Arnon suggested ways that the Yesha Council could help Israelis forge a similar connection with other parts of the land.

He also explained why the public’s theoretical willingness to give up Judea and Samaria for peace is dangerous, even when most Israelis believe there is no peace partner.

If they were taught more about the beliefs in the Koran, that could help forge an understanding of what's dangerous.

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH POSTMODERNISM AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN ONE INSTALLATION

Published on Jun 9, 2013

Maurizio Cattelan is one of the most controversial artists of our time. The Italian artist is known for his satirical sculptures such as La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite, or HIM, depicting Hitler kneeling in prayer in a courtyard in the former Warsaw Ghetto. 

His current exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland) presents five taxidermied horses that go with their heads through the wall of the museum. The exhibition is curated by Sam Keller and Associate Curator Michiko Kono. 

Maurizio Cattelan. Kaputt. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (Switzerland). Opening reception, June 8, 2013.

VIDEO:

SICK. AND UGLY. AND OFFENSIVE. AND CRUEL. MEANT TO SHOCK.

THIS 560 YEAR OLD SCULPTURE BY DONATELLO - MARY MADGALENE - IS INFINITELY BETTER:

THE GRAMSCIAN SCUM WHO PROMOTE SO-CALLED ART LIKE CATTELAN'S AND THAT OF OTHERS LIKE DAMIEN HIRST - ARE THE SAME FOLKS WHO PROMOTE MULTICUTURALISM, SOCIALISM, APPEASEMENT AND DHIMMITUDE - AND WHO FAVOR GUN CONTROL, ABORTION-ON-DEMAND, AND TAXING THE CRAP OUT OF CO2.

THEY WILL DESTROY OUR CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE JIHADISTS.

SIGH.

ABOUT INSPECTORS GENERAL

(with a hat tip to Asylum Watch)

About Inspectors General:

...Established by the Inspector General Act of 1978, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) examines all actions of a government agency or military organization. Conducting audits and investigations, either independently or in response to reports of wrongdoing, the OIG ensures that the agency’s operations are in compliance with the law and general established policies of the government. Audits conducted by the OIG are intended to ensure the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency’s operation. Misuse of agency funds or equipment are often revealed by OIG audits....

Obama's approach to inspectors general:

...Over the past few years Barack Obama has attempted to starve the beast by refusing to fill vacancies in the ranks of Inspectors General as they have arisen. The White House been routinely chided for years over its negligence. Timothy Smith of the Washington Post reported in May of 2011 that "there were 10 IG vacancies, including five at cabinet-level agencies. Four of them had been vacant for more than 3 years."...

America's system of government has many checks and balances. Obama is deliberately thwarting our system of checks and balances and, at the same time, declaring that Americans need not worry about tyranny.

Wake up, America! This is what you've got sitting in the Oval Office:

UPDATE (RELIAPUNDIT):

 THE HILL: State Department watchdog blasted for keeping hooker claims from Congress.“In a letter to the department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) blasts the agency over a February report that was scrubbed of specific references to misconduct allegations that included eight cases of State Department officials sleeping with prostitutes and other misconduct.” 

The Walpin firing, early in Obama’s first term, was intended to intimidate Inspectors General. It appears to have succeeded. 

Posted at 8:27 am by Glenn Reynolds 

MARINE LE PEN MAY HAVE APOLOGIZED FOR HER STUPID GOOF ABOUT SKULLCAPS

The International Business Times wrote about Marine Le Pen's battle against Islamofascism in France, and also notes she was more respectable about Judaism this time:

Le Pen asserted that the problem with Islam is its visibility, i.e., women wearing veils and burqas, people eating halal and observing prayers in public. Even though there are extremists in every religion, she said that “Catholicism or Judaism ... respect France’s secularism, because they do not have any visible signs.”

If this was recently she made this statement, it's certainly a lot better than the time she said kippas (skullcaps) should be banned along with burkas, which was stupid not just because she failed to avoid potential moral equations, but also because Muslim women's religious garb is more the cause of concern here, not Jewish men's. Or just women's garb and not men's, if it matters. And kippas do not conceal the face/head like a veil does.

They also bring up the subject of the EU parliament revoking her immunity. Since it's based on her criticism of Islam, that's why it certainly is cause for concern, since they're obviously not acting altruistically. She could help herself now by avoiding making any more statements that Jewish (and Christian) Europeans would consider offensive, since they're the least of France and Europe's problems and at a time like this it would be better not to alienate the wrong crowds. The FN may have a chance of winning nearly 20 percent in the Europarliament, so she'd best concentrate on the real dangers that are Islam. That way, she might even be forgiven by anybody who got mad at her earlier.

HOW ISLAM WORKS TO DESTROY EUROPE FROM WITHIN

James Richard Edwards writes about how jihadists Trojan-horsed into Europe:

HOUSTON, June 14, 2013 ― The Muslim Brotherhood described their grand plan for cultural jihad to destroy the West in a 1982 document, The Project:

“Cultural invasion … A kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers [Muslims] so that it is eliminated and God’s religion Islam is made victorious.”

In Western Europe, Islam has achieved much of its goal of eroding Western values, culture and institutions from the inside. Islam has very keenly used the failed concept of multiculturalism to exponentially increase the Muslim population in Western Europe while concurrently instituting a policy of creeping yet deliberate institutionalizing of Islamic “states” within the host countries.

There are a few tactics that have greatly helped Muslims to achieve these goals. First, Muslims have demanded that the host nations incrementally adopt various aspects of Sharia law and Islamic traditions, or else risk being deemed discriminatory or “Islamophobic.” Meanwhile, Islamic immigrants increasingly elect not to assimilate into their host societies, choosing instead to cultivate ethnic separatism and push for the creation of a (Muslim-only) state-within-a-state. Finally, Western leaders acquiesce to many Muslim demands in order to avoid further Muslim violence and crime that has plagued Europe over the last two decades.

The ultimate goal of Islam and every practicing Muslim, “moderate” or not, is to further the cause of a global caliphate in which every nation would be Islamic and governed by Sharia law. In pursuit of this goal, Islam divides the world into two groups, the “House of Islam/Submission” (dar-al Islam) and the “House of War” (dar-al harb). The root word for Islam in Arabic is “al-Silm,” which means “submission” or “surrender.”

The House of Submission therefore, includes all of the countries of the world that are governed by Sharia law and have submitted themselves to Islam. Any country that has not submitted to Islam and Sharia law is considered a part of the “House of War.” The goal of every single practicing Muslim is to enslave and submit every country to Islam and Sharia law.

And multiculturalism is the leading cause of the downfall in Europe:

Multiculturalism sounds like a wonderful idea on paper: many different cultures living in harmony in one host nation that doesn’t require or even suggest integration. In reality though, it is another utopian conception by liberal elites that sounds wonderful but ends up being extremely detrimental and an utter failure.

Mainly because sick cultural mindsets are the most incompatible part of the whole mishmash.

WHO'S GOT A BIGGER EGO, CHRIS MATTHEWS OR BILL O'REILLY?

HOW THE TWO SHOWS USED SPLIT SCREENSHOTS TELLS YOU WHO HAS THE BIGGER EGO:

MATTHEWS IS AN ASS.

MORE PROOF HE IS EVIL: OBAMA HAS DECIDED TO GIVE MILITARY SUPPORT TO AL QAEDA'S AFFILIATES

USA TODAY:

A Syrian rebel group's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group's influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al Nusra as well.

CBSNEWS:

... in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply military support to the rebels, the White House announced Thursday. "The president has made a decision about providing more support to the opposition that will involve providing direct support to the [Supreme Military Council]. That includes military support," Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communication Ben Rhodes told reporters.

EXCERPT OF THE 2001 AUMF:

Section 2 - Authorization For Use of United States Armed Forces[edit]
(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

BY AIDING THE SO-CALLED "REBELS" IN SYRIA, OBAMA IS AIDING THE TERRORISTS WHO ATTACKED US ON 9/11 - AND WHO HAVE PUBLICLY SWORN TO ATTACK US AGAIN.

BY DOING THIS, OBAMA IS AIDING AL QAEDA AFFILIATES.

THIS LEGALLY MAKES OBAMA A LEGAL TARGET OF THE 2001 AUMF AND MEANS SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

JAWA NAILS IT:

State Department Listed Supporters of Terror Used Chemical Weapons on ...State Department Listed Terrorists 

So the Syrian regime, which is on the hook for its support of the terrorist group that has killed the second most Americans, has been using chemical weapons against rebels who now seem firmly allied with the terror group which has killed the most Americans. And now we must intervene? 

ANJEM CHOUDARY WANTS A CALIPHATE IN BRITAIN

The International Business Times reported that the most horrific Muslim hatemonger in Britain today hopes to establish a caliphate in the UK:

A Muslim majority will one day impose sharia law in Britain, the US and much of western Europe, according to radical cleric Anjem Choudary.

Muslims will dominate the West and impose a return to the harsh moral code of the 13th century Arabian caliphate, Choudary told the US network CBN News. The interview has just emerged on a rightwing website, which has published the interview for the first time in the UK.

The interview was recorded shortly after Choudary's Sharia4UK group was banned by Whitehall.

"Innevitably, I'm convinced, I'm 100% certain that the sharia will be implemented in America and in Britain one day," said the preacher, who had been linked to Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebolawe, the two suspects in the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich.

He also went on to preach against America:

Choudary told the US network's correspondent in London that Sharia4UK had given birth to Sharia4America, Sharia4Holland and Sharia4Belgium.

"We have the Sharia4America project, where we put down what we consider to be an alternative to liberal democracy, freedom and the kind of life people lead in America," he said.

"Ultimately, the Americans will be defeated. They're going to be defeated back home, they will be defeated militarily, and they're not going to get the resources.

"They will go from the recession into a complete downfall."

Sickening. They say the authorities are continuing to monitor him, but it's clear they have no interest in enforcing the law, or they would have arrested Choudary already for the violence he's caused and is still hell-bent on leading to.

GIANT MAJORITY OF IRANIANS WANT SHARIA

This despite their abhorrence of Ahmedinejad and dictatorial tactics. The Times of Israel (via World Net Daily) says:

NEW YORK — Iranians favor implementing Sharia law in Iran by a huge majority — 83 percent to just 15 opposed — according to a new survey of Iranians published Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

A majority of Iranian Muslims already believe that is the case in the country. Over one-third, 37%, believe Iran’s current system follows Sharia law “very closely,” while another 45% say it follows Muslim religious law “somewhat closely.” Among the 13% who believe Sharia law is largely not being implemented in Iran, a large majority, 78%, believe it should be.

The survey, published three days before Friday’s Iranian presidential election, found strong support for Islamic-inspired government in the country, despite the belief of many Westerners that the 2009 elections signaled a desire among Iranians to liberalize or overthrow the religious institutions that control the Iranian state.

That's the elephant in the room - despite ostensible detestment of totalitarianism, they fail to grasp that all Ahmedinejad's steps stem from Islam. The religion is all they know, and with little or nothing to provide an alternative to think about, they can only think to condone more of the same and ultimately remain unchanged. As a result, even if the Iranian dictatorship as it stands now is one day defeated, the replacement will be no different if no other belief systems are allowed space to provide alternatives. And, as a result, more nuclear warfare and other such horrors will continue to remain a threat in Iran.

ISRAEL IS READY TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ANOTHER HOLOCAUST

During the opening of a new memorial exhibition at Auschwitz, the prime minister gave the following speech:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited Auschwitz on Thursday with Iran very much on his mind, saying one of the key lessons the Jews took from the Holocaust was not to expect "others to do the work for us." "The leaders of the Allies knew about the Holocaust in real time," Netanyahu said at the opening of a new permanent exhibit called "Shoah" in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

"They understood exactly what was happening in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have acted, and they did not. To us Jews the lesson is clear. We must not be complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us. We will never be helpless again," he said.

Netanyahu, who in the past has drawn parallels between Iran's nuclear march and call for the destruction of Israel to the Nazi intention to wipe out the Jews, said "even today we hear threats of the destruction of the Jewish people, and the world behaves as usual.

"From here, Auschwitz-Birekanu, the place that attests to the desire to destroy our people, I -- the Prime Minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish People -- say to all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent another holocaust. Even today there is someone who declares his intention to destroy millions of Jews and wipe their state off the map."

Netanyahu said the difference between then and now was that today "we have an independent state and a strong army, which allow us to protect our people and to stop this criminal intent." Netanyahu disputed the notion that the world's attitude toward the Jews has changed after the Holocaust. "What has really changed?" he asked.

"The hatred of Jews changes form, but it remains -- if not [based on] racial superiority, than [on] religious superiority. And the world's apathy toward this hatred remains the same." Netanyahu said that the world has swiftly become accustomed again to those declaring that they want to destroy millions of Jews.

Likewise, he said, "the indecision of the enlightened countries regarding whether to act against extreme regimes that threaten us and the peace of the world is also something that has not changed."

The only thing that has changed, he said, "is our ability and determination to act to defend ourselves and prevent another Holocaust."

Absolutely right. But the query that remains is if the government has the political/diplomatic guts to prove their capabilities in defense.

SATMAR BIT THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM

The Forward sums it up correctly about the Satmar sect's behavior during their anti-Israel demonstration in NYC earlier in the week:

If you needed social services from New York’s fervently pro-Israel mainstream Jewish community, would you organize a tremendous anti-Israel rally in its backyard?

Despite assurances that it wasn’t their intention to do so, that appears to be exactly what the Satmar Hasidic community did on June 9, when they gathered a reported 30,000 men in lower Manhattan to protest Israeli efforts to draft thousands of ultra-Orthodox men into the army.

Satmar Hasidim are known for their anti-Zionist theology, but organizers insisted before the protest that they would focus specifically on the Israeli draft. Yet despite a strictly enforced ban on anti-Israel placards, speakers addressing the crowd in Yiddish voiced anti-Zionist sentiment.

“Today’s rally is a declaration of war against the enemies of God and the enemies of religion,” said the Monsey, N.Y.-based Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, who was the protest’s opening and closing speaker. “We hope the evil Zionists will not be successful in destroying our holy Torah studies.”

Speakers used the Yiddish word reshoim, or evil people, to describe Israeli politicians specifically and Zionists generally. And Rabbi Nachman Stauber, who leads a Satmar yeshiva in Queens, made a comparison in his address between Zionists and Amalek, the biblical Jews’ greatest enemy.

Here we go again, as the Satmar deny any connections between the Torah and Zionism. They can blabber all they like in defense of their abominable tirades, but it's clear that they are as anti-Israel as they come.

Interestingly, a poster that promoted army enlistment was taken down in Williamsburg after the fact was discovered:

“Shall your brothers go into battle while you remain here?” the poster screamed in large red print, encouraging Charedim in New York to take to the streets in support of the struggle faced by their brothers in Israel. Taken from the bible, the words are spoken by Moses as he chastises the tribes of Reuben and Gad both of which propose settling in Transjordan rather than Israel, and imply that they do not wish to take up arms for the conquest of Israel. The bible story takes place right as the Israelites are about to enter Israel after fleeing slavery in Egypt. Moses subsequently commands the tribes that they must fight for Israel.

The source noted that this biblical phrase wherein Moses commands the tribes who wish to opt out of military service to in fact take up arms for Israel, would appear to promote IDF enlistment rather than reject it. The source said that the posters were on “every street pole” but that the Charedim in the area seemed to wise up soon after, as they were taken down not too long after the error was spotted.

Proof they don't respect the Torah, nor Moses. What right have they to be calling themselves Haredis anyway? Those who live in Israel should definitely not be relying on our tax shekels.

Update: they don't respect passersby who aren't Haredi either: Gothamist got a letter from a guy who'd passed through the rally who said:

I was stuck in a cab with my fiancé for about 20 minutes. We decided to walk once we realized that we wouldn't be going anywhere soon.

We got out and started waking straight through the crowds since that was the fastest way downtown. They looked like they wanted to tear us apart. My fiancé was wearing summer shorts and we just got back from volunteering for the Big Apple BBQ wearing Big Bob Gibson's t-shirts covered in pork logos. It's like they could smell it on us.

I wish I was making this up, but we were scared for our lives. The main part of the rally was thousands deep and no one would make room for us to walk through. Many men sneered at my lady and crossed their arms at me in disgust, spit in our paths as we made our way upstream.

I saw a half dozen men synchronize-peeing on a wall, three others peeing in a phone booth, and a couple of kids scattered about peeing on the curbside of their mini vans.

Gross. And not only do they not respect the Torah, they don't respect ladies either. This is just why isolationist mindsets can be harmful.

I THINK JUST FIGURED OUT THE KEY TO THE SNOWDEN/PRISM LEAK: SOMEONE ELSE AT BOOZ ALLEN IS REALLY BEHIND IT!

HERE'S MY SCENARIO:

SOMEONE ELSE AT BOOZ ALLEN - SOMEONE INVOLVED IN HIRING OR TRAINING SNOWDEN - (AND WHO HAS THE NECESSARY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE AND CLEARANCES) - SECRETLY RECRUITED HIM TO BE THE FACE OF THE LEAK.

IN THIS SCENARIO, SNOWDEN AGREED TO BE THE FACE OF THE LEAK FOR FAME AND MONEY.

THE REAL BRAIN BEHIND THE LEAK, IN THIS SCENARIO,  MAY HAVE DONE IT FOR BOTH POLITICAL REASONS AND FOR MONEY.

THE REAL BRAIN MIGHT HAVE BEEN PAID TO GIVE OTHER MORE IMPORTANT SECRETS TO RUSSIA AND/OR CHINA, AND/OR OTHER "COMPETITORS" OF THE USA AND OUR ALLIES, AND MAY BE USING THE PRISM LEAK FOR COVER.

(ALSO, THE PRISM LEAK TURNS SNOWDEN INTO A POLITICAL REFUGEE WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO AVOID EXTRADITION.

THIS SCENARIO EXPLAINS EVERYTHING WEIRD ABOUT SNOWDEN'S BIO AND HIS ACCESS TO SUCH SENSITIVE STATE SECRETS AND WHY HE ENDED UP IN CHINA.

IF I WAS INVESTIGATING THIS FOR THE USA, THEN I'D START INTERROGATING EVERY BOOZ ALLEN EMPLOYEE WHO HAD ANY CONTACT WITH SNOWDEN.

ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH ANY INPUT IN HIS HIRING AN EMPLOYMENT AND EVEN MORE, THOSE WHO HAD THE SKILLS AND CLEARANCES NECESSARY TO BE AWARE OF THE THINGS SNOWDEN SEEMS TO BE AWARE OF.

JUST SAYING...

GOOGLE BUYS ISRAEL'S WAZE APP

An impressive advancement made for Israeli technology:

Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening spoke with Waze heads, including CEO Noam Bardin, and congratulated them on the sale of their application to Google and for putting Israeli technology on the world map.

"Congratulations, you reached the goal! You put Israeli technology on the world map!" the prime minister said over the phone.

"You are also contributing to state coffers, which is welcome at this time. I am waiting for your next start-up! You have done exceptional work," he added.

Yes, I agree, they certainly have.

85 PERCENT OF ISRAELIS OPPOSE RELEASING TERRORISTS

The public is clearly realizing that releasing jailed jihadists does not help in the war on terrorism and are fed up with it:

The Palestinian Authority’s demand that Israel release terrorists from prison as a precondition for peace talks is unacceptable to 85 percent of Israeli Jews, according to a Smith Research poll sponsored by the Knesset’s Land of Israel caucus.

Asked whether they would support releasing terrorists as a gesture to bring the Palestinians to the negotiating table, 57% said they would strongly oppose it, 28% said were against it, 13% said they supported it and just 2% said they were strongly in favor of such a move.

The poll of 407 respondents representing a sample of the Jewish population of Israel was taken last week and has a 5% margin of error.

The survey also asked how withdrawing from Judea and Samaria would impact the security situation in Israel. It found that 68% of Israelis believe it would harm Israeli security and 21% believe it would improve it.

And that too is important to take into account.

SHARIA GAINS A FOOTHOLD IN GERMAN LAW SYSTEM

Gatestone Institute (via The Jewish Press) warns that sharia is becoming entrenched in the German legal system:

An appeals court in northwestern Germany has decided a contentious divorce case based on Islamic Sharia law.

The ruling is the latest in a growing number of court cases in Germany in which judges refer or defer to Islamic law because either the plaintiffs or the defendants are Muslim.

Critics say the cases -- especially those in which German law has taken a back seat to Sharia law -- reflect a dangerous encroachment of Islamic law into the German legal system.

In the latest case, the Appeals Court [Oberlandesgericht] in Hamm, a city in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, ruled on June 2 that whoever marries according to Islamic law in a Muslim country and later seeks a divorce in Germany must abide by the original terms set forth by Sharia law.

There's more, and it sure doesn't spell good news for Germany.

THE DUTCH HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF ISLAM

Geert Wilders (via Creeping Sharia, New English Review and Front Page Magazine) found a public poll showing that the Dutch have become fed up to the chin with Islam:

A poll conducted by the research bureau of Maurice de Hond (the Dutch equivalent of Gallup), commissioned by the PVV, among a representative sample of over 1,900 people also shows other striking results:

A majority of 55 percent favors stopping immigration from Islamic countries.

63 percent say: no new mosques.

72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.

64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.

Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.

PVV leader Geert Wilders: “The results are very clear. The Netherlands has had enough of Islam. The majority do not want new immigrants from Islamic countries, nor any new mosques. They think that Islam is no enrichment for the Netherlands and say: Enough is enough. I will confront the Dutch government with these findings and demand that we finally stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands. For a long time is has been claimed that anti-Islamic opinions are extremist. It is clear now that a majority of our people supports them!”

The official poll can be found here in PDF. Much like the recent polls taken in France, this is equally encouraging news. And when there's people waking up to the threat of Islam, there's reason for hope.

CNN FAWNS OVER AN ANTI-ISRAEL SOCCER PLAYER

The Wash. Free Beacon (via Camera) reported that CNN, still the dishonest source they are for a lot of world news, has been lying about the case of a Muslim soccer player who's anti-Israel:

CNN has come under fire for what critics say is a highly misleading Thursday story about a Palestinian soccer player who is boycotting Israel.

Critics said the sympathetic CNN profile of Palestinian soccer player Mahmoud Sarsak neglects to mention is that he is an admitted and active member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a violent Muslim Brotherhood affiliate that carries out terror attacks against Israel.

CNN’s story about Sarsak and his efforts to boycott a high-profile soccer tournament currently taking place in Israel were prominently featured on the front page of CNN’s international edition.

Pro-Israel advocates and Jewish officials expressed outrage over what they said is CNN’s efforts to whitewash Sarsak’s violent background and erroneously portray his boycott as a successful international campaign against Israel.

“The reporter makes a romantic figure out of someone with ties to Islamic Jihad and shows zero skepticism about Sarsak’s rendition of events,” said Andrea Levin, director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). “CNN shouldn’t be in the business of whitewashing. Viewers need the whole story.”

If I were a soccer player, I'd rather die of starvation than play a game of soccer with someone that repulsive. It's really Israel that should boycott the soccer player plus any team he works with.

THE "ISRAEL-PALESTINE" INSANITY NEEDS TO CEASE

Jerrold Sobel at the American Thinker explains why all the two-state solution nonsense has got to be retired and put to bed.

SWISS VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVE EXTREMELY TIGHT IMMIGRATION RULES

Swiss voters have overwhelmingly backed a controversial move to tighten asylum restrictions amid a spike in the number of refugees in the country. Almost 80% of voters approved changes made to the asylum law last September, final results of a referendum said.

ALL OF EUROPE NEEDS TO FOLLOW THIS LEAD AND VOTE ON THE SAME CHANGES.

THE RESULTS WILL BE THE SAME.

AND IT MIGHT SAVE EUROPE.

CAMERON TIGHTENED THE RULES A LITTLE, AND THE LEFT IS CRYING THERE, TOO.

BUT THEY NEED TO DO MORE - AND GET A MANDATE TOO - BY USING THE REFERENDUM PROCESS.

THE NEW LIBERTY PARTY IN BRITAIN HAS THE RIGHT IDEA: A HALT TO ALL IMMIGRATION!

ABOUT 80 YEARS AGO, AT THE VENICE BIENNALE....

THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN FELLOW SOCIALISTS/STATISTS/ANTI-LIBERTARIANS, HITLER AND MUSSOLINI, WAS IN VENICE, FOR THE BIENNALE.

IT WAS QUITE A SCENE:

THE BIENNALE IS STILL GOING ON - AS "SUBVERSIVE" AS EVER - MEANING AS HOSTILE TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION AS EVER... SIGH...

INSTEAD OF BEAUTY, TRANSCENDENCE AND EPIPHANY, ART - SINCE THE ADVENT OF POSTMODERNISM AND THE INVASION OF GRAMSCIAN AESTHETICS -  IS FIXATED ON SUBVERSION.

UTOPIANISTS KNOW THEY HAVE TO DESTROY THE OLD ORDER BEFORE THEY CAN CONSTRUCT THEIR UTOPIA, AND THEY ATTACK THE OLD ORDER ON EVERY FRONT - ATTACKING THE CHURCH, THE FAMILY, AND TRADITIONAL ART, TOO.

We Have the Right To Bear Encryption

This NSA issue has got me to thinking about how we, who may oppose the government from time to time, are going to be able to avoid detection and ensure that our movements and communications are secure.

How does one avoid an Omniscient all-seeing Government Machine like PRISM?

If one wants to communicate something privately through a digital system, the way to do it is to Encrypt the code. I am certainly no expert. But, as I understand it, PGP is one simple, yet powerful way to send and receive a secure message.

It has occurred to me that, in a Surveillance society, Encryption is just as dangerous to a tyrranical government as guns.

And yet, we have no codified Right to Encryption. And we can be pretty sure that, as citizens become more and more aware that we are never truly alone (without the government snooping on us in some way), we will all find that various forms of encryption (or screwing with the code) will become ever more important and even necessary.

One of the brilliant things about the Bill of Rights, as framed by our Founding Fathers, was that they it is based on the concept of Natural Rights. These are rights which exist, just like logic and mathematics, separately from the human mind. They are true because they are true, not because human beings invented them.

We are Free because we are Free. If one is a believer in the Judeo-Christian religion, then one believes he is Free because God Created human beings to be Free.

Our Freedom of Speech, our Freedom of Conscience, our Freedom to own weapons to protect ourselves, these are not Rights given to us by the Laws of man. No King bequeaths us these Rights. These Rights are ours because they exist before the vote, before the decree of a King. They are axiomatic. They are Universal and Inalienable. They are as true as 2 + 2 = 4.

The Bill of Rights only codified what already existed. Just as Biologists who discover "new species" have not really done anything new, but have instead merely noted the existence of something that was already there, so the Bill of Rights merely noted that we have these Rights. The Rights came before the Bill. The Bill merely enumerated them.

Before the Bill of Rights, the Rights existed and had not been noted.

Now, even as the Bill of Rights exists, we find ourselves in ever new situations, as the world changes, and sometimes, we, like the Biologist who finds a "new species", may find a "new Right."

There are two Rights which I believe are just as Universal and Inalienable as the original 10.

These are:

1) The Right to the absolute Privacy of our own minds, and the contents, and issue thereof.

2) The Right to have, as our property, the necessary Encryption technologies to maintain the Privacy, contents and issuance of our minds.

Just as the Right to Bear Arms naturally follows the Right to Free Speech and Religion, so the Right to Bear Encryption naturally follows from the Right to the Absolute Privacy of our own minds.

As technology develops in the 21st century, the line between computer and the human mind will become more and more blurred.

Already there are chips which can be planted in the Retina which can transmit data to the human brain which can help a blind person to see. That is uploading of digital data directly to the human brain.

Already there are computers which can be controlled by the thoughts of a human brain. That is downloading of digital data directly into a computer.

This downloading and uploading of information between brain and computer will only become more and more sophisticated as the 21st Century winds on. Before we know it, we will be truly thinking with the help of Google. We will wonder about something and immediately the answer will come to us. We will have a thought and immediately it will be transported out onto the worldwide web of digital information.

At this point, the question becomes, what separates one individual human being from another? Will we be doomed to think with a hive mind? Will our thoughts always be directed by Web Browser Systems, just as the web pages we visit now are filled with Advertisements tailored specifically to our "needs"?

Or will we devise the necessary means to keep ourselves separate, to ensure the Absolute Privacy of thought necessary for a human being to function as an Individual, created by God with Free Will and Creativity?

I believe Privacy is absolutely necessary to the exercise of Free Will and the genesis of creative processes in the human mind.

I believe this is axiomatic; Universal, and Inalienably true.

I also think we'd better start having some serious conversations along these lines, because the genie is out of the bottle, my friends. The future is rushing at us with a speed that is almost, but not quite, faster than the human mind itself.

Now, what are we prepared to do about it?

THE NSA WHISTLE BLOWER

Video and article HERE in the Guardian.

Whistle blower Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, said, among other things:

'I do not expect to see home again'.

He also said:

"...My primary fear is that they will come after my family, my friends, my partner. Anyone I have a relationship with …

I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. I am not going to be able to communicate with them. They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night."...

Snowden has no regrets about blowing the whistle. Rather, his goal seems to be to prevent tyranny.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

I DOUBT HIS SINCERITY:

If he hates tyranny he wouldn't be living in China now; China is a tyranny; and an enemy; and they've been hacking the crap out of us. 

Putin and the Mossad would know what to do with this TRAITOR and they'd make it known they did it to send a message.

THERE'S A SIMPLE REASON WHY THE GOVERNMENT COLLECTS DATA ON EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN:

AMERICA IS CURRENTLY TOO DANG POLITICALLY CORRECT TO PROFILE AND TARGET THE REAL ENEMY, THE ISLAMISTS.

WE'D HAVE A LOT MORE FOCUSED AND EFFECTIVE COUNTER-ATTACK ON THE ENEMY IF INSTEAD OF HAVING THE NSA LISTEN TO EVERY DANG PHONE CALL AND READ EVERY DANG EMAIL AND ANALYZE EVERY DANG GOOGLE WORD-SEARCH, THEY WENT AFTER ISLAMISTS.

DATA-MINING ALL THE CRAP THEIR DATA-MINING IS LIKE FEELING-UP AND PATTING DOWN EVERY DANG PERSON WHO BOARDS A  PLANE.

Data-mining everything from everyone wastes resources and time.

And it need MORE oversight.

But this leak was NOT about improving our defenses or restoring our liberty and more than Manning's was. (And this Snowden traitor LOVES Manning.)

This leak was abut hurting our defenses.

I wonder how much China paid him. They may have offered him a choice: be exposed for something or leak and live in HK as a king.

Bottom-line: the secrets he leaked hurt us as they inform the enemy how to avoid detection. Avoid digital and telephonic communication.

It is now more likely we will sustain an horrific attack.

That's not a good thing and the scumbag who made it so cannot ever be considered noble or a hero.

He is a traitor.

UPDATE FROM RELIAPUNDIT: John Bolton agrees with me.