Just saying....
I mean even The Daily Show reveals more news more accurately than MSNBC.
That being said, MSNBC does reflect Obama more accurately than any other outlet except for Jay Carney.
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Saturday, February 08, 2014
LEFTISTS WRONG AGAIN: POVERTY DOESN'T CREATE TERRORISTS AND THE WEALTHY DON'T CREATE POVERTY
LEFTISTS CONTINUE TO SPOUT THEIR SIMPLISTIC LIES AND PROPAGANDA.
RECENTLY OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN "FRANCOISE" KERRY, REPEATED THE LIE THAT POVERTY IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF TERRORISM.
SINCE THE LEFT ARGUES THAT THE WEALTHY - AKA, THE 1% - ARE GETTING RICHER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR WHO ARE GETTING POORER, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY ARGUING THAT THE RICH CAUSE POVERTY, THAT MEANS THAT TO THE LEFTISTS, THE 1% ARE THE CAUSE OF TERROR!
(LEFTISTS EVEN ARGUE THAT "CLIMATE CHANGE" INCREASES TERROR! AND SINCE CLIMATE CHANGE IS, ACCORDING TO THE LEFT, CAUSED BY BIG OIL AND BIG COAL AND BIG BUSINESS, - WELL... YOU GET THE PICTURE. THEY SEEM TO BLAME EVERYTHING EXCEPT "THE RELIGION OF PEACE".)
HERE'S PROOF THAT THESE ARE ALL LIES:
1 - THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE NOT POOR. NEITHER WAS THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER OR THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER OR BIN LADEN. THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS AMONG THE RICHEST ENTITIES ON THE FACE IF THE EARTH AND THEY HAVE BEEN FINANCING THE SPREAD OF ISLAMO-EXTREMISM GLOBALLY FOR DECADES. MANY OF THEIR "PRINCES" MAY WANT TO CO-EXIST WITH THE WEST ON EQUAL TERMS, BUT NOT ALL. IN ANY CASE: THEIR WEALTH DOESN'T MAKE THEM MORE MODERATE.
2 - MOST OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST 1% MADE THEIR BILLIONS BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES WHICH MADE POORER PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER AND MADE MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE RICHER.
SAM WALTON MADE BILLIONS BY PROVIDING LESS EXPENSIVE GOODS TO POOR PEOPLE - SAVING THEM BILLIONS - AND HE PROVIDED MILLIONS OF POOR UNSKILLED PEOPLE JOBS.
DITTO STEVE JOBS, BILL GATES, AND MOST OF THE OTHER 1%.
THE 1% ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GROW THE ECONOMY WHICH LIFTS ALL BOATS; THEY'RE NOT PARASITES.
THE POLITICIANS WHO RUN THE GOVERNMENT IN WAYS THAT HELP THEIR CRONIES AND FOSTER DEPENDENCY ARE THE PARASITES.
3 - THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE SO IT CAN'T BE CAUSING BUPKUS.
IF THE LEFT DIDN'T LIE, THEN THEY'D HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.
DON'T BE DUPED.
SPREAD THE WORD.
RECENTLY OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN "FRANCOISE" KERRY, REPEATED THE LIE THAT POVERTY IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF TERRORISM.
SINCE THE LEFT ARGUES THAT THE WEALTHY - AKA, THE 1% - ARE GETTING RICHER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR WHO ARE GETTING POORER, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY ARGUING THAT THE RICH CAUSE POVERTY, THAT MEANS THAT TO THE LEFTISTS, THE 1% ARE THE CAUSE OF TERROR!
(LEFTISTS EVEN ARGUE THAT "CLIMATE CHANGE" INCREASES TERROR! AND SINCE CLIMATE CHANGE IS, ACCORDING TO THE LEFT, CAUSED BY BIG OIL AND BIG COAL AND BIG BUSINESS, - WELL... YOU GET THE PICTURE. THEY SEEM TO BLAME EVERYTHING EXCEPT "THE RELIGION OF PEACE".)
HERE'S PROOF THAT THESE ARE ALL LIES:
1 - THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE NOT POOR. NEITHER WAS THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER OR THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER OR BIN LADEN. THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS AMONG THE RICHEST ENTITIES ON THE FACE IF THE EARTH AND THEY HAVE BEEN FINANCING THE SPREAD OF ISLAMO-EXTREMISM GLOBALLY FOR DECADES. MANY OF THEIR "PRINCES" MAY WANT TO CO-EXIST WITH THE WEST ON EQUAL TERMS, BUT NOT ALL. IN ANY CASE: THEIR WEALTH DOESN'T MAKE THEM MORE MODERATE.
2 - MOST OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST 1% MADE THEIR BILLIONS BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES WHICH MADE POORER PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER AND MADE MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE RICHER.
SAM WALTON MADE BILLIONS BY PROVIDING LESS EXPENSIVE GOODS TO POOR PEOPLE - SAVING THEM BILLIONS - AND HE PROVIDED MILLIONS OF POOR UNSKILLED PEOPLE JOBS.
DITTO STEVE JOBS, BILL GATES, AND MOST OF THE OTHER 1%.
THE 1% ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GROW THE ECONOMY WHICH LIFTS ALL BOATS; THEY'RE NOT PARASITES.
THE POLITICIANS WHO RUN THE GOVERNMENT IN WAYS THAT HELP THEIR CRONIES AND FOSTER DEPENDENCY ARE THE PARASITES.
3 - THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE SO IT CAN'T BE CAUSING BUPKUS.
IF THE LEFT DIDN'T LIE, THEN THEY'D HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.
DON'T BE DUPED.
SPREAD THE WORD.
INDONESIAN PROVINCE ENFORCES SHARIA AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS
The Aceh province has increased the choke hold of Islamofascism:
The government of Indonesia's Aceh province has approved a new law obliging every citizen to follow the sharia Islamic legal code regardless of their religion.Then what's the point? Or the difference? It's all the same thing. And it all adds up to fiasco.
Councillor Abdulah Saleh told the Jakarta Post that the new behaviour law, or qanun jinayat, "does indeed oblige everyone in Aceh to follow sharia without exception."
Saleh said that the qanun stipulated that all those found to have violated sharia would be tried under Islamic law regardless of their religion.
Non-Muslim violators of Indonesia's national ciminal code (KUHP) will be given the option to choose between a sharia court or a regular court - but both courts will adhere to islamic legislation.
MARVEL'S ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO APPEAL MORE TO WOMEN, BUT IT'S DISPUTABLE
The Washington Post wrote about Marvel's allegedly focusing more on women in their output, but if there's one item that sabotages their efforts to be convincing, it's the Muslim Ms. Marvel:
In fact, I'm not sure comics publishers never tried to appeal to women decades before. In the 1980s, there were some books that did manage to win female audience members, like New Teen Titans, and Mary Jane Watson as Spider-Man's girlfriend and later wife could've succeeded in appealing to plenty too.
I also don't think they should be making assumptions without market research or giving the press actual sales figures. And if they're going to stuff blatant politicized issues into the products, then it is about publicity and bandwagon jumps. There may be more women getting into reading comics today, but it's not Marvel's output they care about, nor DC's. A lot of the comics drawing women now come more from smaller companies.
It's great if there's more women reading comics, but Marvel's current offerings are something they'd be better off without. As long as the editors continue with the anti-Spider-marriage charade, that's another something telling why women just shouldn't try new Marvel books.
ON WEDNESDAY, Marvel Comics will debut its relaunch of Ms. Marvel — in which she’s introduced as a Muslim American teenager from Jersey City — as part of a broader women’s initiative that the publisher is calling “Characters and Creators.”Using a story promoting an ideology that's harmful to women is no way to make an initiative for more women readers.
As part of the initiative, Black Widow, Elektra and She-Hulk will be spotlighted in their own books, and X-Men and Captain Marvel will see a new emphasis on women.If they're referring to the Muslim character, then it's a huge step backward, I'm afraid.
Even as Ms. Marvel takes a big step forward for diversity in comics, the “Characters and Creators” initiative has broader implications, as it aims to speak directly to an audience that long was not the target for superhero comic books in America: women and girls.
In fact, I'm not sure comics publishers never tried to appeal to women decades before. In the 1980s, there were some books that did manage to win female audience members, like New Teen Titans, and Mary Jane Watson as Spider-Man's girlfriend and later wife could've succeeded in appealing to plenty too.
Axel Alonso, Marvel’s editor-in-chief, tells Comic Riffs that the stars of these new books “are not the big-breasted, scantily clad women that perhaps have become the comic-book cliché. They are women with rich interior lives, interesting careers and complicated families who are defined by many things—least of all their looks.”For the millionth time, they tell us this without giving any exact numbers. The sales charts show just 53,201 copies sold in December, and it's because, contrary to what they may boast, they're not doing a very good job writing, as the crossovers prove.
Sounds promising. Is Alonso worried about scaring off the traditional male readership associated with comic books?
“What people want are heroes,” he tells us from Marvel’s New York offices. “They want fascinating stories with compelling characters, regardless of gender.”
Jeanine Schaefer, who edits the new, all-female X-Men, agrees.
“There’s this fear that the men who have traditionally been our fan base will stop reading if we bring in new voices,” Schaefer tells Comic Riffs. “But we’re finding that that’s just not the case.”
The proof is in the numbers, and in the case of the all-female X-Men series, the numbers are solid. The first book was released last May, and became Marvel’s top-selling comic that month.
The comic book world, Alonso asserts, is no longer a boys’ club. “While we don’t have any market research, the eyes don’t lie,” he tells us. “If you go to conventions and comic book stores, more and more female readers are emerging. They are starved for content and looking for content they can relate to.”I'm afraid they are a bunch of guys doing what they think women want. They think women wanted the Spider-marriage broken up, and still do. They think women are fine with Scarlet Witch being turned into a crackpot, and even after she was cleared (something still debatable, to be sure), they wiped her out. And they even turn Jean Grey into a scapegoat again. I don't see how that appeals to women who may be hoping they'd provide the basis for character drama focus instead.
So is this just about the bottom line? Is there a group of dudes sitting around a table at Marvel, trying to come up with books they think female fans will want? After all, according to the Web site Comics Alliance, Marvel only has seven female-led books (DC Comics, for comparison’s sake, has nine female-led books).
“It’s easy for fans to think, ‘They’re just a bunch of guys doing what they think women want,’ ” Schaefer said. But, “It’s not about publicity or trying to jump on the bandwagon.”
I also don't think they should be making assumptions without market research or giving the press actual sales figures. And if they're going to stuff blatant politicized issues into the products, then it is about publicity and bandwagon jumps. There may be more women getting into reading comics today, but it's not Marvel's output they care about, nor DC's. A lot of the comics drawing women now come more from smaller companies.
Schaefer says that for many other women editors, writers and artists, these female-led books are “a labor of love.”Trouble is, if they're working at Marvel under the current conditions, they may not be able to make themselves heard well. The sad reality is that, if the Muslim Ms. Marvel is any indication, some of these efforts are done under a selective bias when the controversy over the belief system they're injecting could've been easily avoided. If they really wanted to please crowds, women included, they wouldn't be going out of their way to shove Islamofascism down everyone's throats.
“There are women here and there — always have been,” Schaefer says of the comic-book world, both on the creative side and within the fan base. “And we’re trying to make our voices heard.”
It's great if there's more women reading comics, but Marvel's current offerings are something they'd be better off without. As long as the editors continue with the anti-Spider-marriage charade, that's another something telling why women just shouldn't try new Marvel books.
COOL NEWS: THERE IS NO MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE!
Here's some important, COOL news: there is no man-made climate change!
Why is this important? Simple:
The anthropogenic "climate change" hoax has (1) driven up the price of energy - (and every product that uses energy; hence it has raised the price of EVERYTHING! Gasoline is over $3; it might be $1.50 without the hoax - a savings that would help working-class people the most), and it has (2) retarded global economic growth in the developed world; it has (3) especially retarded industrial development of the Third World where most of the impoverished, malnourished people live - people whose lifespans could be extended and living standards raised if they had more industrial economic development.This is why debating man-made climate change is important; it effects your life, my life, and the lives of every American - every North American and every South American, every European, every Asian and every African.
This Winter there is more proof than ever that man-made climate change is indeed a hoax.
Just a few years ago Al Gore and others were telling us that the Arctic ice cap would be ice free in summer; that the Antarctic was also melting and that snow in the northern hemisphere would be rare in winter: "Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' - By Jonathan Amos - Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm
Reality has been a little different: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2013/09/draft-arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-for-2013/
On September 13, Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent for 2013. The minimum ice extent was the sixth lowest* in the satellite record, and reinforces the long-term downward trend in Arctic ice extent. Sea ice extent will now begin its seasonal increase through autumn and winter.Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, sea ice extent reached a record high on September 18, tied with last year’s maximum.
The Arctic ice did NOT disappear last Summer as the alarmists predicted, and Antarctic ice is near an all-time record; in fact - despite the fact that global atmospheric man-made C02 has doubled, this winter is one of the coldest, snowiest, and iciest in decades.[The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere.]
Use these links to read articles (with links) which prove that this winter has defied the predictions of all the alarmists.
As a humanist who desires the lives of people EVERYWHERE be as good as they can make them, I think these facts are critically important.
Without the burden of the climate change hoax, energy would be much less expensive and economic growth might be at least 2% higher in the USA and globally - that's enough additional growth to bring our economy and the global economy out of the stagnant doldrums we've been stuck in since c.2008 - and to bring the third World out of poverty - and end global poverty - in 2 decades. A worthy goal.
Climate change alarmism is the single biggest impediment.
The alarmists thought they were inventing a new economy - "the green economy", but instead they have hurt the real global economy.
It's time we ended the hoax and stopped wasting resources and time.
IF WE WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISM HISTORY.
Friday, February 07, 2014
CRAPPY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REFLECT THE CRAPPY ECONOMY
NYTIMES: Weakness Continues as 113,000 Jobs Are Added in January
Some experts are concerned that feeble hiring is signaling a broader loss of momentum in the economy. The unemployment rate in January dipped to 6.6 percent.
JUST AS I PREDICTED.
BTW: THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ONLY WENT DOWN BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE "LIBERATED" FROM THE IDEA OF GETTING A JOB AND STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK.
THE LAST THREE MONTHS HAVE SEEN A STEADY GLOBAL DECLINE.
WE ARE NOT REPEAT HEADED FOR A CRASH: WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SLOW-MOTION ONE!
IF MARKETS DON;T GO SOWN TODAY, IT WILL ONLY BE BECAUSE THE INVESTING CLASS BELIEVES THE CRAPPY NUMBERS MEAN CENTRAL BANKS WILL OPEN TH SPIGOTS.
IF THEY DO, THE BENEFITS WILL ONLY BE TEMPORARY, AND THEN WHEN THE CRASH/CORRECTION COMES IT WILL BE WORSE.
Thursday, February 06, 2014
SOCHI'S PROBLEMS ARE TYPICAL OF ONE-PARTY STATES
SOCHI IS ALREADY A BAD JOKE AND THE OLYMPICS ARE SHAPING UP TO BE A PR DISASTER WITH AWFUL HOTELS AND AS YET UNFINISHED VENUES.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA?
EASY: IT HAPPENS IN ANY STATE THAT'S RUN BY ONE PARTY, THAT HAS NO-BID CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT BY CORRUPT POLITICIANS TO THEIR CORRUPT CRONIES.
THEY SPENT $50 BILLION ON THESE OLYMPICS, BUT MOST OF THIS LOOT WENT INTO PRIVATE ACCOUNTS, NOT REAL CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
PUTIN WILL GET ANGRY AT THE RESULTS, BUT WON'T FIX THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM; HE'LL JUST KILL A FEW PEOPLE IN THE HOPE THAT FEAR WILL PREVENT THIS KIND OF THING FROM EVER HAPPENING AGAIN.
THE REAL SOLUTION IS COMPETITION - POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL - AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY THAT ONLY CHECKS AND BALANCES, DIVIDED POWER AND COMPETITION BRING.
CONTROVERSIAL SLEEPWALKER STATUTE AT WELLESLEY FIXED
ST: And they say conservative women are fainting couch prudes? Via the Boston Globe (bolded emphasis added by me):
A realistic-looking statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear near the center of Wellesley College has created a stir among the women on campus, especially as more than 100 students at the all-women’s college signed a petition asking administrators to remove it.The statue, called Sleepwalker, is part of an art exhibit featuring sculptor Tony Matelli at the college’s Davis Museum. The exhibit, New Gravity, features sculptures that are often reversed, upended or atomized.However, the statue of the sleepwalker — which is hard to miss in a high-traffic area by both pedestrians and drivers near the campus center — has caused outrage among some students in just one day after its Feb. 3 installation. Zoe Magid, a Wellesley College junior majoring in political science, started a petition on Change.org with other students asking college president H. Kim Bottomly to have the statue removed.
INSTEAD OF REMOVING IT THEY FIXED IT - AND NOW EVERYONE IS HAPPY:
NY STATE MAY BAR BOYCOTTS OF ISRAEL
A helpful bill's been drafted in the NY state senate:
A bill to suspend state financial support to universities and colleges that help fund organisations boycotting Israel was overwhelmingly adopted by the New York State Senate last week.Most universities like those should have funding and donations cut for a lot of other shady dealings too.
The bill, introduced by Democratic Senator Jeffrey Klein, passed on a 56-4 vote.
If signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, the state’s higher education system would be barred from paying dues to groups, such as the American Studies Association, which has voted to boycott Israeli universities.
KERRY DENIES WRONGDOING BY MUSLIMS IN JUDEA/SAMARIA
John Kerry's outraged the families of Israeli terror victims (via Fox News):
Israeli victims of terrorism lashed out at Secretary of State John Kerry for his “insensitivity” after he inaccurately claimed “not one Israeli was killed by a Palestinian from the West Bank” in a recent speech.Sickening. Kerry really is one of the worst politicians of his kind to sully the State Dept. in this century.
During a controversial speech over the weekend in Germany, Kerry threatened Israel with economic boycotts and claimed that the Jewish state is enjoying a respite from Palestinian terrorism.
“There’s a momentary prosperity, there’s a momentary peace,” Kerry said. “Last year, not one Israeli was killed by a Palestinian from the West Bank.”
However, this is untrue. At least five Israelis were murdered by West Bank Palestinians in 2013.
Evyatar Borovsky is one of those victims. He was stabbed to death 10 months ago while hitchhiking in the West Bank. He left behind his wife, Tsofia, and five children.
“It’s a feeling of carelessness and neglecting actual Israeli needs,” Tsofia Borovsky told the Free Beacon on Tuesday when asked about Kerry’s remarks.
Borovsky said that Kerry’s comments reveal an inherent insensitivity and apathy to Israel’s security needs, particularly since the murders of Evyatar and others were so greatly publicized.
THE REAL STATE OF THE REAL ECONOMY
1 - FIRST TIME APPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IS STILL OVER 300,000/WEEK.
THIS IS MARGINALLY DOWN FROM LAST WEEK , BUT STILL WAY TOO HIGH - AND IT STILL SHOWS WE ARE LOSING JOBS NOT MAKING THEM.
BUT READ THE DESPERATE SPIN:
THAT'S NOT A "NEW ECONOMY; THAT'S RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
3 - TWITTER LOST $645 MILLION LAST YEAR AND THEIR STOCK DROPPED 12%.
TWITTER IS NOT ALONE: I BETCHYA HALF OF THE "NEW ECONOMY" DIGITAL COMPANIES ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE.
BOTTOM-LINE: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS NOT GROWING NOW; IT IS SHRINKING; CHINA, EUROPE AND THE USA ARE NOT GROWING.
SOLUTION: CUT/FLATTEN TAXES AND LOWER THE PRICE OF ENERGY BY CUTTING REGS ON ENERGY AND ENERGY EXPLORATION - AND OPEN UP ALL ENERGY REGIONS FOR EXPLORATION.
THIS IS MARGINALLY DOWN FROM LAST WEEK , BUT STILL WAY TOO HIGH - AND IT STILL SHOWS WE ARE LOSING JOBS NOT MAKING THEM.
BUT READ THE DESPERATE SPIN:
BLOOMBERG: Applications for unemployment benefits of around 330,000 suggest that hiring could return to the average pace of job creation over the past two years of about 185,000 a month.2 - THE EUROZONE'S RETAIL SECTOR IS COLLAPSING:
The unemployment rate fell in December to 6.7 percent from 7 percent. But much of the decline was due to the departure of about 347,000 unemployed people who stopped looking for work. Once people without jobs stop looking for one, they're no longer counted as unemployed.
BBC: Retail sales in the eurozone fell sharply over the Christmas period, with their biggest monthly fall in two-and-a-half years.IT'S A LITTLE BETTER IN THE USA, BUT NOT MUCH. IN THE USA, COMPANIES ARE GIVING AWAY BRICK & MORTAR DOLLARS AND GAINING DIGIATL DIMES.
December's sales fell by 1% compared to the same time a year ago, and by 1.6% compared to November. Both figures were much worse than analysts expected. The drop in consumer demand followed a surprise fall in eurozone inflation to 0.7% in January.
THAT'S NOT A "NEW ECONOMY; THAT'S RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
3 - TWITTER LOST $645 MILLION LAST YEAR AND THEIR STOCK DROPPED 12%.
TWITTER IS NOT ALONE: I BETCHYA HALF OF THE "NEW ECONOMY" DIGITAL COMPANIES ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE.
BOTTOM-LINE: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS NOT GROWING NOW; IT IS SHRINKING; CHINA, EUROPE AND THE USA ARE NOT GROWING.
SOLUTION: CUT/FLATTEN TAXES AND LOWER THE PRICE OF ENERGY BY CUTTING REGS ON ENERGY AND ENERGY EXPLORATION - AND OPEN UP ALL ENERGY REGIONS FOR EXPLORATION.
THE ISLAMIZATION OF NEW YORK CITY
Viewpoints of a Sagitarrian (Via Maggie's Notebook and Front Page Magazine) points to something all but overlooked by the public at large in Brooklyn:
New York City used to be a very likable place. Now it's plummeting into a quagmire of socialism and segregated disasters, with Muslim neighborhoods that could become no-go zones and if Bill deBlasio removes the police's right to keep watch for terrorist threats, it'll become even more dangerous.
In the above photograph taken on McDonald Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn sits the community often referred to as “Little Bangladesh.”Even more chilling is the potential that, with these Muslim immigrants, there could be rapists among them to boot: as this New York Daily News article tells, at least a quarter of men in countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka committed a rape at least once in their lives. How many could end up coming to America too, or be born on domestic soil?
What is not in photograph? Women, little girls, nor is there an American in sight, male, female, Black, White, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, only Muslims.
A few blocks over is Coney Island Avenue where from Church Avenue down to until the middle of the Coney Island Avenue between Avenue J and K is another Muslim neighborhood or an extension of Little Bangladesh, I suppose. This community although Muslim is a Pakistani and I suspect Afghani community.
In the center of Coney Island Avenue between Avenues H and I is a movie theater. Just a few doors past this theater, a transformation of the neighborhood begins almost as if someone drew an imaginary line Coney Island Avenue transforms from a Muslim community to Jewish.
On the Jewish side of town, in addition to the yeshivas, synagogues, delis, bakeries and other Jewish businesses, one can find every ethnicity traveling, working and socializing in the area. However, as with Little Bangladesh, the “Muslim” side of Coney Island Avenue does not appear to be as neighborly. Just saying.
Last Friday, I went to a market to shop for Super Bowl Sunday. It has been several months since I shopped there. During my visit last summer, the owners were Dominican. The new owners are Muslim. Incredibly enough or not, after all this is a sanctuary city, the old management’s consisted of people from the Caribbean, Central and South America. Today, the Caribbean, Central and South American staff with the exception of three or four no longer work at the market. The Muslim owners replaced the staff with Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa all of whom wear these thick off-white gloves when handling food products at the butcher’s section, deli and cash register.
Surprisingly, today the Muslim owned supermarket sold pork chops, ribs and ham as did the butcher and the deli section of the supermarket. Three months from now, there will not be a strip of pork on the premises.
While in the area, I decided to stop by the deli two blocks from the market to pick up a salad on my way home. Imagine my shock when I realized that the deli is also under new management and its owners are two Muslims whom I noticed sell hookah pipes on the premises.
Not able to take much more, I headed home disappointed but not before I made the error of taking a route home that I rarely travel only to find out that seven blocks from my home, what was formerly a grocery store is now a mosque.
New York City used to be a very likable place. Now it's plummeting into a quagmire of socialism and segregated disasters, with Muslim neighborhoods that could become no-go zones and if Bill deBlasio removes the police's right to keep watch for terrorist threats, it'll become even more dangerous.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
THIS NOVEMBER, LET'S LIBERATE THE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE FROM HAVING TO WORK FULL-TIME!
JUST SAYING...
ON ACCOUNT OF THIS:
ON ACCOUNT OF THIS:
On Wednesday, the New York Times editorial boardechoed the White House’s framing of a damning Congressional Budget Office report measuring the economic effects of the Affordable Care Act. The report found that the ACA’s benefits and the taxes associated with it would create disincentives to work so that, by 2024, the equivalent of 2.5 million people will have left the workforce and taken their productivity with them. The Times joined the White House in calling this condition a “good thing.”
“The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade,” the Times editorial began. “That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.”
“Of course, Republicans immediately tried to brand the findings as ‘devastating’ and stark evidence of President Obama’s health care reform as a failure and a job killer. It is no such thing.”
DOUBLESPEAK IF I EVER HEARD IT.
BUT TURNABOUT IS FAIRPLAY.
SO LET'S LIBERATE THEM!
CAN SCOTT WALKER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT EVEN THOUGH HE NEVER GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE?
MAYBE. AFTER ALL, THESE PRESIDENTS DID NOT GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE:
- George Washington (The death of his father ended Washington's formal schooling; however, he believed strongly in formal education. In his will, he left money and/or stocks to support three educational institutions.[1])
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison (attended college but never received a degree)
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore (founded the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
- Abraham Lincoln (had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind)
- Andrew Johnson
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley (attended Allegheny College and Albany Law School but did not receive degrees)
- Harry S. Truman (went to business college and law school but did not receive a degree)
THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD BUNCH OF P'SOTUS.
MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAITS A PRESIDENT CAN HAVE AREN'T TAUGHT IN COLLEGE.
MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAITS A PRESIDENT CAN HAVE AREN'T TAUGHT IN COLLEGE.
AND OBAMA WENT TO TWO IVY LEAGUE INSTITUTIONS, AND LOOK WHERE THAT'S GOTTEN US!
I ADMIRE LIBERALS FOR THIS TRAIT: THEY SURE STICK TOGETHER
ON THE ONE HAND, MOST LIBERALS STICK UP FOR THEIR LEADERS.
THE LEFT TRULY HAS ONE PRINCIPLE:
SERVE THE COALITION SO IT CAN DOLE OUT GOODIES.
ON THE OTHER HAND, MANY CONSERVATIVES ATTACK REPUBLICANS WHO DIGRESS FROM THEIR AGENDA AS RINOS AND PRIMARY THEM.
- TEDDY KENNEDY MURDERED A GIRL AND WAS STILL LIONIZED...
- BILL CLINTON WAS A SERIAL RAPIST AND SUBORNED FELATIO FROM AN INTERN, AND THEN COMMITTED PERJURY WHILE PRESIDENT, UNDER OATH, AND HAVING SWORN TO UPHOLD & FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE LAWS OF THE LAND - AND WAS IMPEACHED BY THE HOUSE...
- GERRY STUDDS SLEPT WITH UNDERAGE MALE CONGRESSIONAL INTERNS...
- BARNEY FRANK ROOMED WITH A PIMP FOR GAY HOOKERS...
- BARNEY FRANK ROOMED WITH A SENIOR EXEC' OF FANNIE MAE WHILE HE SERVED N THE HOUSE COMMITTEE WHICH OVERSAW FANNIE MAE
- AL SHARPTON WAS CONVICTED OF LIBEL AND SLANDER...
- JESSE JACKSON FATHERED A CHILD WITH A WOMAN - NOT HIS WIFE - AND USED RAINBOW COALITION MONEY TO SUPPORT THEM...
- OBAMA LIED AND LIED AND LIED AND LIED ABOUT OBAMACARE, BENGHAZI, AND HAS KEPT HIDDEN THE ROUTINE INFO' EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT AND EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT HAS RELEASED...
- LIBERALS DECRIED UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
- LIBERALS DECRIED DRONE ATTACKS UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
- LIBERALS DECRIED HIGH GASOLINE AND ENERGY PRICES UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S BEEN WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
- LIBERALS DECRIED OUT TROOPS DEATHS UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA. (WHERE THE EFF IS CINDY SHEEHAN!?)
- LIBERALS DECRIED UNFUNDED SPENDING UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
- LIBERALS DECRIED THE PATRIOT ACT AND THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
- PLIBERALS DECRIED INEPTITUDE UNDER BUSH - ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO KATRINA, BUT WERE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA - ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO THE BP OIL SPILL.
- LIBERALS DECRIED CRONYISM UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
THE LEFT TRULY HAS ONE PRINCIPLE:
SERVE THE COALITION SO IT CAN DOLE OUT GOODIES.
ON THE OTHER HAND, MANY CONSERVATIVES ATTACK REPUBLICANS WHO DIGRESS FROM THEIR AGENDA AS RINOS AND PRIMARY THEM.
UN "DEMANDS" POPE TAKE ACTION?
I SUPPORT THE ANTI-PEDOPHILIA GOAL - AND WOULD LIKE THE RC CHURCH TO END THE 1000 YEAR OLD BAN ON MARRIED CLERGY, BUT "THE UN DEMANDS"?!?!? BBC:
I DEMAND THE UN RESPECT FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION!
I THINK MORE HUMANITY COULD BE HELPED IF THE UN EXPELLED NON-DEMOCRATIC NATIONS FROM ITS RANKS AND THEN TOOK ACTION AGAINST ISLAMIST RADICALS WHO ARE WAGING A GLOBAL TERROR WAR AGAINST CIVILIZATION AND ALSO DEMANDED MUSLIMS CEASE ALL MISOGYNISTIC TREATMENT OF THEIR OWN WOMEN - ESPECIALLY HONOR-KILLINGS AND FGM.
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 22,000 TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11, AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HONOR KILLINGS, FORCED MARRIAGES AND FGM'S - MANY MORE THAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN MOLESTED BY RC PRIESTS.
The UN has demanded that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of children.AND THEY'RE MAKING DEMANDS REGARDING ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY???
In a report, it criticised Vatican attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
I DEMAND THE UN RESPECT FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION!
I THINK MORE HUMANITY COULD BE HELPED IF THE UN EXPELLED NON-DEMOCRATIC NATIONS FROM ITS RANKS AND THEN TOOK ACTION AGAINST ISLAMIST RADICALS WHO ARE WAGING A GLOBAL TERROR WAR AGAINST CIVILIZATION AND ALSO DEMANDED MUSLIMS CEASE ALL MISOGYNISTIC TREATMENT OF THEIR OWN WOMEN - ESPECIALLY HONOR-KILLINGS AND FGM.
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 22,000 TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11, AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HONOR KILLINGS, FORCED MARRIAGES AND FGM'S - MANY MORE THAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN MOLESTED BY RC PRIESTS.
DE BLASIO'S FIRST MAJOR TEST APPROACHING: TEACHERS' (UFT) CONTRACT
WILL HE FIGHT THEM AS BLOOMBERG DID, OR WILL HE CAVE INTO THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE A MAJOR PART OF THE MACHINE THAT ELECTED HIM?
IMHO (AND FDR'S): GOVT WORKER'S UNIONS OUGHT TO BE BANNED, OR CONTAINED AS GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER DID IN WISCONSIN.
F.D.R. Warned Us
James Sherk
James Sherk is the Bradley fellow in labor policy at the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation.
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
That wasn’t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking.
That was George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd.
Public sector unions insist on laws that serve their interests -- at the expense of the common good.
The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”
Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized.
George Meany was not alone. Up through the 1950s, unions widely agreed that collective bargaining had no place in government. But starting with Wisconsin in 1959, states began to allow collective bargaining in government. The influx of dues and members quickly changed the union movement’s tune, and collective bargaining in government is now widespread. As a result unions can now insist on laws that serve their interests – at the expense of the common good.
Union contracts make it next to impossible to reward excellent teachers or fire failing ones. Union contracts give government employees gold-plated benefits – at the cost of higher taxes and less spending on other priorities. The alternative to Walker's budget was kicking 200,000 children off Medicaid.
Governor Walker’s plan reasserts voter control over government policy. Voters’ elected representatives should decide how the government spends their taxes. More states should heed the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council’s 1959 advice: “In terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress — a right available to every citizen.”
KELO TODAY
The tyranny of eminent domain, and at the price tag of $78 million:
‘Kelo’ Revisited: Properties were seized and a neighborhood razed in the name of ‘economic development’ that never cameAnother disaster perpetuated by the Constitution-shredding government and corrupt cronyism — and a SCOTUS decision that involved the confiscation of private property. To what end?
New London, Conn.
"See that pole with the transformer hanging from it?” Michael Cristofaro asked me. “That was where my family’s home was.”
I looked up at a line of high telephone poles marching diagonally against a blanched winter sky across a vast, empty field—90 acres—that was entirely uninhabited and looked as though it had always been that way. New London, population 27,000, a rundown onetime whaling port on the Atlantic coast that never recovered after the whaling industry died at the end of the 19th century, is a desolate-looking city. Cristofaro, a 52-year-old New London-born computer network engineer, and I were in its most desolate neighborhood—actually, ex-neighborhood, for there was not a residential property left standing on the entire tract. Just below us lay the mouth of Connecticut’s Thames River (unlike in London, “Thames” rhymes with “James,” and the “th” is pronounced as in “thumb”) where it joins the northerly end of the Long Island Sound. An icy New England January wind—cold enough to freeze the ink in my ballpoint pen into a gray, spidery scrawl as I scribbled notes—ripped across the only signs of life, actually former life, on the deserted incline: waist-high dead weeds, probably the remains of the goldenrod, yarrow, pokeweed, and high grass that grow everywhere during warm months on the North Atlantic coast.
Cristofaro and I were walking through a section of New London called Fort Trumbull, a fist-shaped peninsula jutting out into the Thames. It is the battleground of what must be the most universally loathed Supreme Court ruling of the new millennium, Kelo v. City of New London (2005). The case is named after its lead plaintiff, Susette Kelo, a nurse who had owned a home a few blocks away from the Cristofaro house. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that the city of New London and a nonprofit quasi-public entity that the city had set up, then called the New London Development Corporation (NLDC), were entitled to seize, in a process known as eminent domain, the homes and businesses of Kelo, the Cristofaros, and five other nearby property owners in the name of “economic development” that would generate “new jobs and increased revenue,” in the words of since-retired Justice John Paul Stevens, author of the majority opinion.
That is, the city and the NLDC were entitled to condemn and then bulldoze people’s homes solely in order to have something else built on the land that would produce higher property taxes—such as the office buildings, luxury condos, five-star hotel, spacious conference center, a “river walk” to a brand-new marina, and high-end retail stores that were part of an elaborate “economic development” plan for Fort Trumbull that the NLDC had launched in 1997. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment bars governments from taking private property unless the taking is for a “public use.” Historically “public use,” as courts had interpreted it, meant a road, a bridge, a public school, or some other government structure. But in the Kelo decision, the High Court majority declared that “economic development” that would involve using eminent domain to transfer the property of one private owner to a different but more economically ambitious private owner—such as a hotel—qualified as a public use just as much as, say, a new city library.
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Meanwhile New London’s financial problems have continued unabated....
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
VIDEO: OXFAM DEBATES SODASTREAM ON THE BBC
THEY DON'T WANT PEACE;
THEY DON'T WANT PROSPERITY.
THEY WANT A JUDENREIN JUDEA & SAMARIA:
BTW: THAT POS FROM OXFAM KEPT REPEATING THE OFT' REPEATED LIE THAT SETTLEMENTS ARE IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.THE FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION OUTLAWED FORCIBLY SETTLING PEOPLE IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY, NOT SETTLING PEOPLE IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY. WHAT IS MORE:
Judea and Samaria were taken from the occupying Jordanians during a defensive war and therefore the "settlements" are legal. [VIDEO AT LINK]AND ANOTHER THING: ISRAEL DIDN'T TAKE THIS DISPUTED LAND FROM PALESTINIANS; IT WAS A DISPUTED PART OF JORDAN, AND JORDAN MADE A PEACE DEAL WITH ISRAEL WITHOUT WANTING IT BACK.
FROM 1967 TO 1993 AND OSLO/THE RETURN OF ARAFAT, THE SO-CALLED "OCCUPIED TERRITORIES" WERE AMONG THE FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD.
"During the 1970s, the West Bank and Gaza constituted the fourth-fastest-growing economy in the world — ahead of such 'wonders' as Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea, and substantially ahead of Israel itself."THAT CHANGED WHEN ARAFAT RETURNED, AND HIS CORRUPT THUGS TOOK OVER.
IT'S NO DIFFERENT UNDER ABBAS. OR HAMAS. AND DESPITE THE HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY GET FROM THE USA AND THE EU EVERY YEAR.
OXFAM AND THEIR COMRADES ON THE LEFT HATE ISRAEL; THEY ALWAYS HAVE.
THEIR HATRED FOR JEWS BLINDS THEM FROM THE TRUTH.
THEY REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT SODASTREAM IS BETTER FOR ARABS THAN THE PLO.
SODASTREAM DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MORE THAN OXFAM (1992), OBAMA(2009) OR ARAFAT (1994).
New York Times Supports ASA's Boycott Of, and Divestment From Israel
The American Studies Association called for a Boycott of Israeli Universities, and Divestment from all University investments in Israeli companies.
The New York Times came out today and made it clear, in an editorial, they support this boycott.
Scum:
The New York Times came out today and made it clear, in an editorial, they support this boycott.
Scum:
A Chill on Speech
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - FEB. 3, 2014
The New York Legislature is moving to pass a bill that would bar state financing for academic groups that have taken official action to boycott higher-education institutions in Israel. The initiative, which last week passed the State Senate, is now pending before the Assembly. It should be voted down by lawmakers, or, if they prove feckless, Gov. Andrew Cuomo should veto it.
The bill was introduced after the American Studies Association, an organization of scholars, in December adopted a resolution supporting a call by Palestinians to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
The group said it would refuse formal collaborations with Israeli academic institutions or with scholars who represent those institutions or the Israeli government until “Israel ceases to violate human rights and international law.”
The boycott does not apply to individual Israeli scholars engaged in ordinary exchanges. The resolution has caused waves because it reflects a growing support for the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement as Palestinian and Israelis approach a critical point in American-mediated peace efforts.
The United States is expected to soon reveal a framework for a peace deal that has been under negotiation for months. The New York bill is an ill-considered response to the American Studies Association resolution and would trample on academic freedoms and chill free speech and dissent.
Academics are rightly concerned that it will impose a political test on faculty members seeking university support for research meetings and travel. According to the American Association of University Professors, which opposes the association boycott and the retaliatory legislation, there is already a backlash, including in Georgia where a Jewish group compiled a “political blacklist” of professors and graduate students who supported the boycott.
Real support for Israel can be shown by promoting honest debate about the peace framework and by encouraging Israelis and Palestinians to make a sincere effort to forge a lasting agreement for a two-state solution.
A version of this editorial appears in print on February 4, 2014, on page A20 of the New York
IT'S TIME FOR THE USA TO STOP FUNDING THE PLO
Mark Langfan writes about why it's high time for the USA to stop wasting taxpayer's money, and lets know that a certain rival country is now giving them dough:
Putin's willingness to deal with Abbas is reprehensible and only reinforces the notion Russia is sinking back into the totalitarian MO they'd had until 1990.
Last week, the Palestinian Authority's Chairman and Terrorist-Paymaster Mahmoud Abbas inked a 1 billion dollar deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to extract gas and oil from the Gaza Strip's economic exclusion zone.Agreed. It's also time for Europe to stop funding them, and with some effort, it is possible to persuade European governments to stop wasting their own innocent citizens' tax money on such awful movements.
Apart from all the other issues, with this money from Russia, it's now time to cut all US aid to the Palestinian Authority and Abbas.
First, Abbas appears to be very good at selling "rugs" he doesn't own. Hamas, and not Abbas' Fatah, is in control of the Gaza Strip. So Putin really should be talking to Hamas. But Putin has been talking to Iran, Hamas' puppet-master, so the deal is probably fine with Hamas. Consequently, the billion-dollar payment to Abbas is a token to perfect the real deal with Hamas.
And isn't it strange that the same Abbas who is impotent to compromise on "one refugee's right of return" in a "peace" deal is the same Abbas who is omnipotent in transacting oil deals with Russia that deposit a billion dollars into his sovereign Swiss bank account for those very exact same Palestinians?
Putin's willingness to deal with Abbas is reprehensible and only reinforces the notion Russia is sinking back into the totalitarian MO they'd had until 1990.
Monday, February 03, 2014
US MARKETS TANK - as we predicted... UPDATE: UH-OH: ASIA FOLLOWS SUIT....
Dow Jones Industrial Average
CNBC's Bob Pisani and Art Cashin, UBS, discuss the causes of today's monster sell-off. There is something here that's not weather related and perhaps more serious, Cashin says. U.S. stocks were hammered on Monday, with benchmark indexes falling through key support levels after a gauge of factory activity disappointed, heightening concern about the economy before Friday's monthly jobs report.
(Video at link.)The crash is coming.
Obama isn't worried; it'a Bush's fault.
UPDATE: HAS THE GLOBAL SPIRAL BEGUN? TUESDAY IN ASIA:
| Nikkei | 14,170.77 | -448.36 | -3.07% |
| HangSeng | 21,571.17 | –464.25 | –2.11% |
Hong Kong stocks tumbled, with the benchmark index poised to cap a 10 percent fall from a December peak, after weaker-than-expected manufacturing growth from the U.S. to China fueled a global equities rout on concern about the strength of the global economy.
The Hang Seng Index declined 2.1 percent to 21,571.15 as of 9:30 a.m. in Hong Kong, heading for a five-month low, as it reopened after Chinese New Year holidays. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) of mainland Chinese companies, known as the H-share index, lost 3.1 percent to 9,512.22. China’s markets remain closed until Feb. 7.
Manufacturing gauges for the world’s two biggest economies are signaling a growth slowdown, which has combined with concerns about slumping emerging-market currencies to erase about $2 trillion from the value of equities worldwide. The H-share stock measure has tumbled 12 percent in 2014, more than any other primary equity index tracked by Bloomberg, while the Hang Seng Index (HSI) slid 7.6 percent.Update 2: HOW EMERGING MARKET CURRENCIES HAVE DONE THE LAST 12 MONTHS:
UPDATE #3: WUH-OH:
DJIA DOWN 6.66% IN THE LAST MONTH...
FROM 1/3/14-2/3/14
HMMM...I think it may very well go down another 20% more by the Ides of March ... though not necessarily all at once - it may very well be a sort of a "slow-motion crash": down 3%, up 1%; down 2%, up 1%; down 3%... and so on...
UPDATE #4:
A weaker-than-expected report on U.S. factory activity slammed global equity markets and the dollar on Monday, pushing Wall Street stocks down more than 2 per cent while keeping the pressure on battered emerging market assets. The benchmark S&P 500 index recorded its worst single-day drop in seven months, while the CBOE volatility index - Wall Street's so-called fear gauge - jumped 16.5 per cent to close at its highest level since December 2012.
Trading volume of 9.18 billion shares in U.S. stocks was one-third higher than the daily average in January, according to data from BATS Global Markets. Emerging market stocks extended a two-week selloff as weak Chinese manufacturing and services data also weighed, while the Turkish lira and South African rand weakened after policymakers dashed expectations of higher local interest rates.
Investment sentiment darkened after the Institute for Supply Management reported U.S. manufacturing activity slowed sharply in January on the back of the biggest drop in new orders in 33 years, while construction spending barely rose in December, suggesting the economy had lost some steam. The dollar fell to its lowest against the Japanese yen since late November, while the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to its lowest since early November.Stay tuned...
ONTARIO JUDGE RULES LEV TAHOR CHILDREN MUST RETURN TO QUEBEC
It looks like some good news may be coming in about the Haredi cult with Islamic influences called Lev Tahor:
CHATHAM, Ont. _ An Ontario judge has ruled that children from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, who left Quebec while the community was being investigated by social services, should be returned to that province.That's not all that should be done. Many of the members should be sent for psychological counseling and deprogramming, since they do appear to be brainwashed and badly educated. Cults like these cannot be allowed to roam around loose.
EVIDENCE THAT "PRICE TAG" ATTACKS WERE COMMITTED BY ARABS, NOT JEWS
There had been reports in past weeks/months that "settlers" were committing "price tag" vandalism against Arab properties. But now, there appears to be evidence a lot of it was staged by Arabs/Muslims instead:
For years, Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria have been accusing Arab and leftist activists of falsely blaming them for "price tag" revenge attacks that they never carried out. Now, one determined resident of Samaria appears to have found a "smoking gun", documenting how local Arabs have been damaging olive trees and then reporting the incidents to authorities and the media as "price tag" attacks carried out by local Jews.There's more at the link. Now I won't say it's impossible for Jews to allegedly carry out these acts of vandalism, but here, it's clearer than ever that much like a lot of other cases like these, it was leftists contriving blame of their rightist rivals. Some of these acts were even committed against Christian churches, which, if it had been Jews doing it, would be strange since Christians weren't considered part of the problem like Muslims are. It's just like Muslims to commit acts of vandalism against Christian property, and come to think of it, their left-wing cronies too.
"Price tagging" is a phenomenon associated with fringe elements of the Israeli Right, in which assailants vandalize Arab-owned property in revenge for terrorist attacks or military demolitions of Jewish homes (which are often instigated by Arab claims). On occasion, "price taggers" have targeted army property as well, in response to demolitions and other orders carried out against Jewish communities and property by Israeli authorities.
However, on a number of occasions suspected "price tag" incidents have been proven false or staged by Arab and left-wing activists, who purposely damage Arab-owned property in an attempt to blame nearby Jewish communities.
Jewish community leaders in Judea and Samaria have regularly expressed concern that "price tag" accusations are being used by left-wing and Arab extremists as part of a campaign of anti-Jewish incitement.
Those fears appear to be well-founded. Recently, a group of Jews were kidnapped and severely beaten by Arab villagers from the village of Kusra, in Samaria. The attackers justified their actions by claiming the Jewish group had been on their way to carry out a price tag attack, and were feted by left-wing activists and media personalities; the victims, meanwhile, claimed they were in fact hiking near the village when they were ambushed.
Despite the media circus having resulted in the arrest of some of the Jewish victims of the assault, no evidence of any wrongdoing on their part has been uncovered. On the contrary, the victims were unarmed at the time, and had nothing in their possession to indicate they were involved or planning any foul play.
On occasion, Jewish residents have been able to provide photographic and videotaped proof of staged provocations by Arab and leftist extremists - but this may be the most convincing evidence to date of the truth of this claim.
KERRY'S BIASED WARNINGS OF BOYCOTTS EERILY SIMILAR TO BIASED WARNINGS ABOUT VIOLENCE
John Kerry said that if "peace talks" fail, there'll be boycotts of Israel, suggesting he's encouraging and condones actions that can harm Israel:
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday threatened Israel that a failure in the peace talks would lead to global boycotts and delegitimization of the Jewish state. The warning comes as no surprise to those familiar with reports earlier in the month, which revealed that Kerry is orchestrating the European boycotts against Israel.To me, this sounds an awful lot like the bizarre warnings of violence and bloodshed from past years if these talks fail. Besides condemnations from Israeli government ministers, there have also been condemnations from Israeli community leaders:
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon responded to Kerry's threats of boycotts, saying "we respect Secretary of State Kerry but will not hold talks with a gun to our head. Friends don't put ultimatums on the security of the state of Israel."
A leader of the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) has harshly criticized United States Secretary of State John Kerry for his declaration that Israel could face international boycotts if it does not succeed in making peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA).The prime minister's brushed off Kerry's remarks:
Kerry’s boycott threat shows that he has bought into anti-Semitic thinking regarding Jews and Jewish motives, said Yesha Council official Adi Mintz.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning that Israel faced a growing boycott threat if peace talks with the Palestinians fail, saying the campaign would not achieve its goal.Only an education system with no Islam in it will too.
In the latest flare-up between the two allies, two of Netanyahu’s Cabinet ministers went even further, lashing out at Kerry and accusing him of undermining the Jewish state’s legitimacy and the chances of reaching a peace agreement. [...]
At the opening of his weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said international pressure on Israel would backfire and only cause the Palestinians to harden their positions.
“Attempts to impose a boycott on the State of Israel are immoral and unjust. Moreover, they will not achieve their goal,” he said.
While Netanyahu refrained from taking aim at Kerry, some of his ministers were harsher. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, called Kerry’s comments “offensive, unfair and insufferable.”
“You can’t expect the state of Israel to conduct negotiations with a gun pointed to its head,” he said.
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, from the religious, pro-settler Jewish Home party, said all “the advice givers” should know that Israel will not abandon its land because of economic threats.
“We expect our friends around the world to stand beside us, against anti-Semitic boycott efforts targeting Israel, and not for them to be their amplifier,” said Bennett, a fierce critic of the Kerry-led talks. “Only security will bring economic stability", he said.
BOSTON GLOBE RUNS TAQQIYA ABOUT MUSLIM MS. MARVEL
The Boston Globe, that most ultra-leftist paper in New England, ran some propaganda by an Indonesian writer about the Muslim Ms. Marvel, and the taqqiya includes:
Naturally, we can't expect any of the Koran/Hadith's verses to be mentioned in the story being published either, not even what they say about sexual assault and honor murders. In that case, I'm not sure why Wilson's depicting the character carrying a copy.
The new Ms. Marvel tackles both stereotypes of both oppressed Muslim women and terrorists. Many Muslim women chose not to wear a hijab, and Kamala’s character is one of them. She carries her US history book side by side with a book on prophet Mohammed’s sayings and another book on illustration and design. Her creators claim she was born “out of a desire to explore the Muslim-American diaspora from an authentic perspective.” They would know because they, too, have had to navigate their way of being Muslim and American.Tsk tsk tsk. Pretty much what one could expect from somebody who hails from an island country with a large Muslim population. Whether or not they want to is not the query. It's whether they have the right to refuse that is. And that definitely was not the case with Aqsa Parvez, for example. There's also an imam in Denmark named Shahid Mehdi who spouted repulsive beliefs about what he thinks should be done to women who don't wear hijabs.
Naturally, we can't expect any of the Koran/Hadith's verses to be mentioned in the story being published either, not even what they say about sexual assault and honor murders. In that case, I'm not sure why Wilson's depicting the character carrying a copy.
BARRY RUBIN, RIP
The veteran professor passed away from cancer at age 64:
Veteran Middle East scholar and commentator Barry Rubin died on Monday, his family announced.I have a copy of the Israel-Arab Reader he sent me in the mail, following a conversation we once had via email several years ago, which was co-written with Walter LaQueur. His passing is a very sad thing, since he was one of the best voices on middle eastern affairs, and understood many issues a lot better than most. He was a very honest man. My condolences to his family.
A longtime columnist for The Jerusalem Post, Barry was director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya.
Rubin was also the author of several books including Israel: An Introduction, The Israel-Arab Reader, The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East and The Truth About Syria.
AS PART OF DEAL, ABBAS WANTS NATO MILITARY TO PATROL SO-CALLED "WEST BANK"
Palestinian Leader Seeks NATO Force in Future StateJust as predicted, long long ago....
Palestine, President Mahmoud Abbas said, would not have its own army, only a police force, so the NATO mission would prevent the weapons smuggling and terrorism that Israel fears.
Sunday, February 02, 2014
UH-OH: CHINA SERVICES SECTOR TO 5 YEAR LOW
REUTERS: Growth in China's services sector slowed to a five-year low in January, an official survey showed, another sign of stuttering momentum in the world's second-largest economy that could deepen investors' concerns about emerging markets around the world.A CRASH IS COMING...
UPDATE: ASIA'S BIGGEST OPEN MARKET IS LOWER:
- JAPAN
- Nikkei
- 14,717.28
- –197.25
- –1.32%
WAPO: OBAMACARE WEBSITE PROBLEMS PERSIST; OBAMA COVERING UP
REUTERS - The HealthCare.gov website is not yet equipped to handle appeals by thousands of people seeking to correct errors the system made when they were signing up for the new federal healthcare law, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper, citing sources familiar with the situation, said appeals by about 22,000 people were sitting untouched in a government computer.
"And an unknown number of consumers who are trying to get help through less formal means — by calling the health-care marketplace directly — are told that HealthCare.gov's computer system is not yet allowing federal workers to go into enrollment records and change them," according to the Post.
It added that the Obama administration had not made public the problem with the appeals system.WE CAN FIX THIS IN THREE EASY STEPS:
- WIN SENATE.
- REPEAL.
- IMPEACH.
OBAMA IS A LYING PIECE OF SH*T ON THE IRS: NOW TELLS O'REILLY IT WAS NOTHING (VIDEO)
OBAMA THEN - HE CALLED IT AN OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL:
OBAMA NOW - SCROLL TO 7:30; NOW HE DENIES THERE IS AN IRS SCANDAL:
OBAMA IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT.
HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.
LOIS LERNER PLEADED THE FIFTH, AND NOT BECAUSE THE 501(C) LAW WAS CONFUSING.
WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. NOW.Update:
BRYAN PRESTON: If There Was “Not A Smidgeon” Of Corruption In the IRS Scandal, Then Why Did Lois Lerner Take The Fifth?Posted at 2:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds
WHY DOESN'T OBAMA GIVE EVERY WORKER A RAISE WITH THE STROKE OF HIS PEN?
OBAMA CHANGED OBAMACARE BY FIAT - WITH THE STROKE OF HIS PEN - AND DELAYED ITS ENFORCEMENT FOR MILLIONS AND HAVE BIG BUSINESS A BYE FOR A YEAR.
IF HE CAN DO THAT, THEN HE CAN ORDER THE IRS TO REFUND EVERYONE THEIR FICA TAXES FOR A YEAR.
AND IT WOULDN'T COST ANY BUSINESSES A PENNY.
SO... WE'RE WAITING MR. PRESIDENT.
OBAMA: IF YOU REALLY WANT AMERICANS TO GET A RAISE, HERE'S YOU CHANCE.
IF HE CAN DO THAT, THEN HE CAN ORDER THE IRS TO REFUND EVERYONE THEIR FICA TAXES FOR A YEAR.
AND IT WOULDN'T COST ANY BUSINESSES A PENNY.
SO... WE'RE WAITING MR. PRESIDENT.
OBAMA: IF YOU REALLY WANT AMERICANS TO GET A RAISE, HERE'S YOU CHANCE.
RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE - ESPECIALLY FOR LOW-SKILLED ENTRY-LEVEL WORKERS IN FAST-FOOD - WILL INEVITABLY LEAD TO THIS:
... MORE UNEMPLOYMENT.
AND THIS IS WHY:
CNET:
THEY PUSH ON WITH THEIR DEMAGOGUERY ANYHOW, AS IT ENERGIZES THEIR BASE AND GETS THEM THE VOTES THEY NEED TO GET AND HOLD ON TO THE POWER THEY NEED TO LOOT THE COFFERS AND DOLE OUT THE LOOT TO THEIR MACHINE.
THESE LEFTIST DEMAGOGUES ARE EXPLOITING THE WORKING-CLASS MORE THAN THE EMPLOYERS!
AND THIS IS WHY:
CNET:
McDonalds recently went on a hiring binge in the U.S., adding 62,000 employees to its roster. The hiring picture doesn't look quite so rosy for Europe, where the fast food chain is drafting 7,000 touch-screen kiosks to handle cashiering duties.AND A ROBOT THAT CAN MAKE 360 BURGERS AN HOUR:
With a seemingly endless line of talking-heads willing to ignore essentially every study that has been undertaken with regard the effects of raising the minimum-wage, and propose what is merely populist vote-getting 'benefits' for the ever-increasing not-1% who benefited from Ben Bernanke's bubbles - we thought the following burger-flipping robot was a perfect example of unintended consequences for the fast food industry's workers.
With humans needing to take breaks, have at least 4 weekend days off per month, and demanding ever-increasing minimum-wage for a job that was never meant to provide a 'living-wage', Momentum Machines - a San Francisco-based robotics company has unveiled the 'Smart Restaurants' machine which is capable of making ~360 'customized' gourmet burgers per hour without the aid of a human.
First Jamba Juice, then Applebee's, next McDonald's...
Meet the Robot That Makes 360 Gourmet Burgers Per Hour
The San Francisco-based robotics company debuted its burger-preparing machine last year. It can whip up hundreds of burgers an hour, take custom orders, and it uses top-shelf ingredients for its inputs. Now Momentum is proposing a chain of ‘smart restaurants’ that eschew human cooks altogether.THE POLITICIANS HARANGUING FOR A RAISE IN THE MINIMUM WAGE ARE WELL AWARE OF THESE FACTS.
THEY PUSH ON WITH THEIR DEMAGOGUERY ANYHOW, AS IT ENERGIZES THEIR BASE AND GETS THEM THE VOTES THEY NEED TO GET AND HOLD ON TO THE POWER THEY NEED TO LOOT THE COFFERS AND DOLE OUT THE LOOT TO THEIR MACHINE.
THESE LEFTIST DEMAGOGUES ARE EXPLOITING THE WORKING-CLASS MORE THAN THE EMPLOYERS!