MANY MORE CHILDREN IN LEV TAHOR CULT COULD DEFINITELY BE AT RISK

Officials in Quebec have warned about this, with good reason:

The head of the youth protection agency in Quebec that first gained access to the Jewish sect Lev Tahor is frustrated that children’s services in Ontario have not acted on Quebec court orders for more than 100 children in that community, CBC’s the fifth estate has learned.

While an Ontario judge has upheld a Quebec court order to place 13 Lev Tahor children in temporary foster care, Denis Baraby, the director of Quebec’s youth protection services Laurentian branch, told the fifth estate that his agency is concerned for more than just those children.

After Lev Tahor left Quebec, Baraby said youth protection authorities went to court and obtained orders to bring all the children in the community before a judge to determine if they are at risk. He said there were 128 orders in total. [...]

Baraby told the fifth estate’s Gillian Findlay that Quebec authorities handed over the court orders to their colleagues at the Chatham-Kent Children’s Services, expecting they would take them to an Ontario judge to enforce them. He does not understand why that has not happened.

“Frustrated, yes frustrated,” he told Findlay. “They [Chatham-Kent Children’s Services workers] had been in the community, they saw what was going on.

“Things were bothering [them], and yet there is no more action regarding the remaining children. So there is something we have difficulty comprehending.”

The executive director of Chatham-Kent’s Children’s Services, Stephen Doig, told the fifth estate that his organization is not legally obliged to act on the Quebec orders, as laws are different between the provinces. He said children’s services will wait to see what ultimately happens to the case of the 14 children that is already before an Ontario court. A decision is expected Monday.

Doig said his agency is not actively monitoring all the children in Lev Tahor, but he said if there are concerns reported, children’s services will visit the home and do an assessment.

I think Doig is foolish not to worry about the children in their entirety. There's every chance even other children in the cult were abused - both physically and psychologically - by the overlords and parents. But maybe the following could explain something:

Baraby said that Lev Tahor members might be presenting Ontario officials with a different view of their community. For example, Baraby says that in media reports, he’s seen the children playing with new toys that they didn’t have in Quebec.

“They’ve learned from their mistakes in Quebec, so things appear to be better in Chatham,” Baraby says. “If they are, you know it's going to be beneficial for the children because we know that they're seeing toys.

“I think we have all been manipulated by the community, even us.”

No doubt about that. The cult is clearly trying to disguise its earlier MO with a facade, but the authorities shouldn't let that get in their way. Besides, one of the worst forms of abuse against the girls in the cult was forcing them to wear niqabs.

As for the members who went to Guatemala, here's why:

The Lev Tahor members told Findlay they randomly chose Guatemala as their destination. However, that country may offer them a legal haven.

In Quebec, some of the allegations against Lev Tahor include marriage of girls as young as 14, and not following the provincial curriculum. In Guatemala, the legal age for marriage is 14 and there is no required educational curriculum.

The fifth estate learned that last month, Guatemalan authorities were warned that more members of Lev Tahor might be on their way to that country.

That warning came the same day the fifth estate learned that Lev Tahor’s leader, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, was detained in the Heathrow airport in London and sent back to Canada.

Boy, Guatemala sure doesn't have a very good political system, do they. And they clearly don't have much morale if they allow underaged marriages. But good to know the head honcho was collared and sent back to Canada after a potential jailbreak.

Some possible good news is that there's secret court orders preventing the children from leaving Canada:

More than 100 Lev Tahor children have effectively become prisoners of this country as a result of secret court orders that prevent them from obtaining passports and crossing international borders.

Guidy Mamann, an immigration lawyer who is representing the ultra-orthodox Jewish group, said the existence of the judicial orders was discovered when some Canadian-born children were denied passports. Their parents are temporary residents in Canada and would therefore be free to leave the country.

“Some of the families said, ‘You know what, we’re not going to apply for (residency) extensions. This is getting crazy — we just want to go,” Mamann told the Star in a telephone interview. “We’re not talking about running; we’re talking about these families do not have permanent status in Canada — they have temporary status. What is being proposed? That they leave their kids here? It’s crazy.”

No, it's not. Besides, some of those parents could be just as crazy as Helbrans, and therefore unsuited to the task of caretaking. Some lawyers sure are apologists for victimologists.

A spokesperson for the director of youth protection for the Laurentians region of Quebec said the warrants for every single child in the Lev Tahor community were obtained in the days after they fled Quebec for Chatham-Kent, Ont. — a departure that was prompted by a fight over the community’s home-schooling regime as well as an approaching court case that risked seeing 14 children from two families taken into temporary foster care.

Well there you have it, that's why the court orders, and for the right reasons. Because of the cult's dishonesty and lawbreaking, that's one more reason why the courts wouldn't allow a Passover visit for some children:

An Ontario Court of Justice judge has denied a request for two Lev Tahor children to spend Passover with members of the community, citing a concern over flight risk raised by the lawyer for Chatham-Kent Children’s Services.

William Sullivan, the lawyer representing two children who were apprehended and placed in foster care, said the family of Mayer Rosner, a community leader in the controversial ultra-orthodox Jewish sect, was willing to host them for three days during Passover.

“They are prepared to come here, participate in Passover, and if ordered, to return,” said Sullivan of the two children. “I said to my children clients when I saw them on Sunday, I said I want you to be the engineers of building this small bridge. I want you to, if this court was to permit you, to come to Chatham to spend Passover on the days that I’ve mentioned … to show the court that you will respect it.”

But Loree Hodgson-Harris, lawyer for CKCS, alleged Rosner played a role in the flight of the families that prompted the emergency order.

“Mayer Rosner is one of the community leaders that the society has concerns with,” said Hodgson-Harris, who said she was not given enough time to fully respond to the request. “The circumstances of this case involve parents fleeing the jurisdiction in the face of a court order. The evidence will be that it was with the assistance of the community leaders and in particular Mayer Rosner. The long and the short of it is that it’s much more complicated than the girls spending a few days in the community.”

Justice Lucy Glenn ruled that the two children could have access to the other children in care in Toronto and visits from their parents, but would not be returned to the community for Passover.

Glenn also ordered that the parents of the children be allowed eight hours per week of supervised visits. Chatham-Kent Children’s Services agreed to pay part of the cost required for the parents to travel to Toronto where the children are in care.

They really shouldn't. The cult and its sympathisers even tried to influence the rulings by posting articles about it in the judge's mailbox. They don't deserve the monetary support of the authorities.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY MADE MISTAKE RESCINDING HONOR TO AYAAN HIRSI ALI

A writer for CNN had the audacity to agree it was a serious mistake for Brandeis to revoke the honor for Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

First, Brandeis University offered an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken critic of Islam. Then apparently when officials actually familiarized themselves with her writing after several complaints, they took the offer back this week.

One Fox News contributor calls it "an honor killing, Brandeis-style." That's crass, but the university's behavior is certainly disappointing. It smacks of cowardice, and Hirsi Ali can't be blamed for seeing it as an attack on her personal dignity.

An act that was meant to honor her has been turned into an opportunity to shame her -- and, as she pointed out, "The slur on my reputation is not the worst aspect of this episode. More deplorable is that an institution set up on the basis of religious freedom should today so deeply betray its own founding principles." Indeed, the fear of creating offense is not compatible with academic freedom. On the contrary, criticizing society in the boldest terms possible is what intellectuals are there to do.

So Brandeis ought to have stood by its invitation. But there are some who would ask why it made the invitation in the first place. If the institution was worried about generating controversy, all it had to do was Google her name to discover that Hirsi Ali is a very controversial person. Indeed, her views fall well outside of the mainstream.

Unfortunately, the same writer begins to derail when he says:

Hirsi Ali's story is undeniably moving. Born in Somalia, she was the victim of female genital mutilation at the age of 5 and was betrothed into an arranged marriage, which she escaped by seeking political asylum in the Netherlands. Thereafter she emerged as a forceful, politically engaged critic of Islam -- her memoir, "Infidel," is an extraordinary testament to the horrors that fundamentalism can wrought on an individual. Her ethnicity excuses her from the charge of racism; her politics is not reactionary but rather a very muscular variety of liberal universalism.

However, the Islam that Hirsi Ali knew and denounces is a narrow cultural experience -- not the reality of the religion as a whole. There is no female genital mutilation in the Koran; tribes do it because it is a custom, not a legitimate religious instruction. Likewise, the extreme Islamism that threatens the West -- and against which the right campaigns -- is a small, geographically limited phenomenon that is almost unrelated to the considerably more liberal forms of Islam practiced in, say, Bangladesh or Europe.

Here's where he fouls up badly for the sake of PC. It may not be in the Koran, but it most certainly is found inside the Hadith. And his take on customs is confusing and bizarre, because don't customs usually derive from someplace? That's shameful to suggest it's seperate.

Israel HaYom warns that:

We're only 10 days into April, but 2014 already is shaping up to be a banner year for those who consider any criticism of Islam, radical or otherwise, to be something unfit for public consideration.

And they're right to be concerned. If we don't want this to keep happening, that's why all concerned must step up efforts to get universities, among other places, to stop harboring and paying lip service to totalitarians.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: A MONSTROUS FAILURE

VIDEO: "MODERATE" MUSLIM LEADER LET'S THE MASK SLIP

YOU MUST SEE THIS SHORT - 1 minute 29 second - VIDEO:

ANOTHER "MODERATE" ISLAMIC LEADER LET'S THE MASK SLIP AND REVEALS THE REAL ISLAM.

ADVOCATING SHARIA AND ANTI-SECULARIST POLICIES ARE SEDITIOUS AND TREASONOUS.

THEY ARE NOT ONLY ANTITHETICAL TO OUR NATION'S CONSTITUTION AND COD OF LAWS AND CORE VALUES,

THEY ARE ANTITHETICAL TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION.

THAT ISLAM IS ANTITHETICAL TO OUR CIVILIZATION IS NOT NEW - AND IT'S NOT A XENOPHOBIC OR ISLAMOPHOBIC CHARGE;

IT IS A CHARGE THAT ISLAMISTS READILY, NAY PROUDLY ADMIT - AS THE VIDEO PROVES.

IT LIES AT THE CORE OF THE ISLAMIST AGENDA, AND IT ALWAYS HAS;

TO USE SUHAIB WEBB'S PHRASE FROM THE ABOVE VIDEO:

"... IT IS THE DYNAMIC ISLAM OF THE PROPHET'S ERA."

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO; WIKI:

Several later Arabic sources describe the [ALEXANDRIAN] library's destruction by the order of Caliph Omar - [WHO LIVED "IN THE PROPHET'S ERA"].^[34][35]  

Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the 13th century, quotes Omar as saying toYaḥyā al-Naḥwī: 

"If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them."^[36]

THEY WILL DO THE SAME WITH OUR CONSTITUTION AND LAWS: BURN THEM.

PEOPLE WHO ADVOCATE THESE ISLAMO-SUPREMACIST  POLICIES SHOULD BE DEPORTED FOR TREASON AND SEDITION IF THEY ARE NOT NATURALIZED CITIZENS, AND JAILED FOR LIFE IF THEY ARE CITIZENS.

SEBELIUS NAMED AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE

I KID, I KID.

BUT IT WOULD BE APT.

THE ONLY MORE APT JOBS FOR HER WOULD BE CHAIRMAN OF THE DNC OR HEAD OF THE BORDER PATROL.

DID THE THROWN SHOE REVEAL THE TRUE HILLARY?

JUST ASKING...

FAA LOBBIES TO KEEP SHARIA OUT OF FLORIDA COURTS

The Florida Family Association's doing its best to prevent sharia from being considered in local courts:

The head of a Florida-based, pro-family organization says he is lobbying the legislature to pass a statute that would keep Sharia law out of Florida courtrooms.

The Florida Senate Rules Committee is the final Senate committee that must approve SB 386 called "Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases" so it can go to the full Senate.

The American Laws for American Courts statute is based on bills in other states. It would prohibit Sharia and other foreign laws from being used in Florida court proceedings, and has already been approved by several other committees.

"Judges are not to consider international laws, laws of other countries including Sharia law, and in particular in divorce cases," says David Caton, president of the Florida Family Association.

Sharia law is very cruel in its treatment of women, says Caton.

"It ranges from the unspeakable act to a woman's personhood, to even killing the woman in the name of honor to demean and mistreat women," he advises.

He warns that a male Muslim could enter a Florida court and claim that, according to Sharia law, he has the right to their children.

That is not how American courts operate, Caton points out, and says that is why the Florida legislature needs to provide directives to the courts to prevent it from happening.

The committee is expected to vote Wednesday afternoon.

The American public - including the Tea Parties - also need to lobby to ensure human rights will be protected from such horrors.

HOW EFFECTIVELY WILL EGYPT'S NEW GOVERNMENT COMBAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT?

Here's another report on sexual harassment and assault in Egypt:

A 2013 United Nations study found that 99.3 percent of Egyptian women have been sexually harassed.

Women, the Egyptian government has claimed, are a top priority for the interior ministry which established a task force to counter violence against women. One female task force member, Colonel Manal Atef, believes that women must take more initiative in reporting harassment. The government and the laws, she claimed, are not the problem.

But even when women try to bring the harassers to justice, they are sometimes dissuaded. After passers by intervened when Lyla El-Gueretly was slapped by a man she had chastised for making unwelcome sexual comment, "The (people) tried to talk me out of taking him to the police station... They said it's just a waste of time, a waste of effort and he has learned the lesson."

El-Gueretly's attacker was arrested and charged with assault. The attacker, however, was released before his trial and while he was found guilty in absentia, he did not go to jail.

One Egyptian college student named Habiba encountered indifferent witnesses to her harassment. While walking down the street, a group of men began to chase her, making lewd gestures, and yelling "Come on! You know they want to." She sought refuge in a pharmacy but "No one in the pharmacy did anything to help me despite my pleas, they just wanted me to leave." After two hours of hiding in the pharmacy, Habiba ran as fast as she could out of the store. "I was so afraid that one of them would touch me ... you just don't forget something like that."

In Habiba's opinion, the harassment reflects "a lack of ethics and culture more than anything" and has nothing to do with choice of dress. "Even veiled girls get harassed all the time," she added.

I figured dress alone was not the reason for harassment. Rather, it's the Islamofascist mindset that does.

Gaber Nassar, a university dean, blamed one student for her "inappropriate attire" as the reason for an assault by a group of male classmates. He alleged that her removal of a black cloak upon entering the school caused a group of male students to grope and chase her. The female student, who was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and had bleached blonde hair, locked herself in a bathroom. A witness said that school security intervened only after the men tried to enter the bathroom. The dean later retracted his comments and asserted that the perpetrator, not the victim, would be punished.

But did they actually get rid of the man who committed the crime? If they didn't, then no justice was done.

The Egyptian Justice Ministry is working on a draft anti-sexual harassment law that stipulates fines and imprisonment terms for violators. Justice Ministry spokesperson Abdel Azim al-Ashry explained that instability and the absence of a parliament have delayed the passage of the law.

It's not enough. Only shunning the Religion of Rape will help reduce the crisis.

"GROUND ZERO MOSQUE" AT PARK 51 MAY BE DEMOLISHED TO BUILD BIGGER ISLAMIC CENTER

The Christian Post says the project of evil may be seeing a revival:

A real estate developer in New York City has filed an application to demolish Park 51, or what has become known as the 'Ground Zero mosque.' However, reports state that the developer may simply have plans to build a larger facility in its place.

The New York Department of Buildings told Reuters this week that it was reviewing an application from the developer to tear down the building and an adjacent property. The application was filed by Soho Properties, operated by Sharif El-Gamal, who owns three surrounding properties.

If this happens, opponents had better be ready to deal with this yet again. A structure devoted to the teaching of evil cannot go unchallenged.

CONVENIENTLY FORGETTING HOW GONZALEZ WAS TREATED, HOLDER CLAIMS CONGRESS NEVER TREATED AN AG AS HARSHLY AS THEY'VE TREATED HIM - AND IT'S BECAUSE HE'S BLACK

• VIDEO OF HOLDER PLAYING THE RACE CARD HERE.

• VIDEO OF SCHUMER GIVING HELL TO BUSH'S USAG ALBERTO GONZALES HERE.

(1) THE SCHUMER/GONZALES VIDEO PROVES THAT OTHER AG'S HAVE BEEN TREATED JUST AS HARSHLY AS GOHMERT TREATED HOLDER;

THEREFORE, HOLDER'S ARGUMENT THAT HE'S BEEN TREATED HARSHLY BECAUSE HE IS BLACK IS FALSE.

HOLDER IS SMART - AND KNOWLEDGEABLE; HE KNOWS IT'S FALSE; THEREFORE HOLDER IS LYING.

(2) NEITHER GONZALES OR ANYONE ON THE RIGHT CLAIMED SCHUMER WAS ATTACKING GONZALES BECAUSE GONZALEZ WAS LATINO; THE RIGHT DID NOT PLAY THE RACE CARD.

THE USE OF THE RACE CARD BY HOLDER - AND OBAMA AND THE REST OF THE LEFT-WING IN THE USA - IS JUST LIKE THEIR USE OF THE GENDER CARD, AKA "THE WAR ON WOMEN".

IT IS LIKE HOW THEY USED TRAYVON MARTIN.

AND IT'S WHY THEY CALL DEFENDERS OF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE "HOMOPHOBES";

THEY MAKE THESE SPURIOUS AND DIVISIVE DEMAGOGIC ATTACKS TO RILE UP THEIR BASE AND OBFUSCATE THE REAL ISSUES, AND DISTRACT FROM THEIR FAILURES AND TREACHERY.

ANYONE WHO FALLS FOR THIS BULLSHIT DESERVES THEIR AWFUL LEADERSHIP AND TERRIBLE STEWARDSHIP.

THE SAD THING IS:

WE ALL HAVE TO SUFFER AS A RESULT.

WE CAN FIX THIS IN NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

BROOKLYN HOLOCAUST MUSEUM MAY BE CENSORING WOMEN'S IMAGES FOR SAKE OF HAREDI FRUITCAKES

A Holocaust museum in NYC is running a special exhibition for Haredis. Unfortunately, they're succumbing to political correctness:

Is it permissible to show images of Jewish women with their heads shaved but without a head covering as they walk towards Nazi gas chambers?

This is the type of question faced by organizers of the first Holocaust museum to be aimed specifically at Orthodox Jews.

Elly Kleinman, the Orthodox businessman behind the project, sought the advice of a Hasidic rabbi on this question not long ago. Kleinman said that the rabbi told him: “Are you allowed to show it? You are obligated to show it.”

But Kleinman, who declined to name the rabbi, said he wanted to accommodate the cultural sensitivities of the community’s more conservative wing.

So, for groups that shun images of women, the Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center will have a separate track in which the material on display will not include pictures of women.

“Our objective is to cooperate with all constituencies,” Kleinman said, adding, “We expect to resolve these issues within the community.”

Why?!? Do they realize how pathetic they're being? Do they understand that by censoring women, they're giving the impression that female lives were expendable? In reality, they're cooperating with sects like Satmar that never fought seriously against such bigotry, and what if there were kapos of Haredi background whose names need to be known? Are they going to censor that too?

Kleinman has aims for the museum that go beyond just telling the story of the Holocaust itself. He wants visitors to learn about the vibrancy of Orthodox life in prewar Europe and about the flourishing of Orthodox life after the Holocaust. He also wants them to think more about anti-Semitism and about how easily a civilized country such as Germany could descend into barbarity. Jews often refer to America as a medina shel chessed — a country of kindness — Kleinman said. But toleration can disappear in an instant.

Civilized? Even in centuries past, that could be disputable, given that this was a country from where the Vandals came from during 429 led by king Genseric, and the society that cooked up the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

In several interviews with the Forward, Friedmann and his colleagues said that the Holocaust has been a neglected topic in the ultra-Orthodox education system for decades.

Most children have been raised in households of survivor parents or grandparents. But until recently, the Holocaust was not taught in ultra-Orthodox schools. Even today, only a minority of schools, mainly girls schools, teach the subject.

I assume it's because they considered it too "secular" for their mindset.

Rabbi Dovid Reidel, the KFHEC’s director of research and archives division, said museum staff are still grappling with how to portray women in the Holocaust without upsetting religious sensitivities.

“The last thing we want to do is suggest there weren’t women in the Holocaust,” Reidel said. [...]

Asked how the museum could depict both women’s stories without offending ultra-Orthodox men, Reidel said that on days when ultra-Orthodox school groups visit the museum, they might have to make sure no images of the women are on display.

If they go that route, they'll be blowing everything. To censor images of women is wrong, and would give the wrong impression about the value of life for both sexes. More to the point, if the Haredi schools refuse to attend simply because of women's imagery, then they're the guilty party, and are putting petty discrimination before historical knowledge. The museum should not seek to please Haredis who consider women inferior, something which, let us note, the nazis were doing during WW2.

HYPOCRISY ON DISPLAY

At the March 2014 National Young Feminist Leadership Conference, those claiming to be tolerant and inclusive bully female conservative reporter:

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages. — Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832)

PUTIN OUTMANEUVERS OBAMA, AGAIN!!!

Most of the analysis of the annexation of Crimea by Russia has focused upon local historical issues, NATO, and the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine.  If we zoom out just a bit we can see that Russia's assertiveness in Crimea and Ukraine is part of a larger geopolitical contest between the USA and Russia   (yes - Mitt Romney was right...).  Some critics of the Obama Administration would argue that the failure of American Foreign Policy is a feature and not a bug.  Putting that discussion aside, let me explain to you why I see the annexation of Crimea as a significant blow to the USA and some of  it's allies.

President Obama's failed RED LINE in the Syrian sand, and the face saving response by Putin that followed, was when Putin recognised the true weakness of the Obama Administration.  The decision to reassert control over Crimea was taken, not just as a response to Ukrainian movement towards Europe, not just as a move to secure the operations of the Black Sea Fleet, but as the essential step to guarantee that Russia could project power in the region.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Iran. With a more assertive Russia and a timid USA,  it is even more unlikely that the United States will take part in any preemptive strike against Iran.  Especially when such action would require the support of Turkey.  Clearly the USA is on retreat in the region - and Russia - not Nato - is in position to fill the power vacuum.

OBAMA AND KERRY AGREE WITH ABBAS AND FATAH: "IT'S THE JOOOOOOOZE FAULT!"

NYTIMES: 

For those who suspect that the Middle East peace process has become a diplomatic drama, playing on an endless loop, Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday could serve as Exhibit A. 

Explaining to the senators why his latest efforts to bring together the Israelis and the Palestinians had almost broken down last week, Mr. Kerry could have been channeling Secretary of State James A. Baker III when he explained a similar impasse to House members 24 years ago. 

While Mr. Kerry said both sides bore responsibility for “unhelpful” actions, the precipitating event, he said, was Israel’s announcement of 700 new housing units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. That came three days after a deadline passed for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, and it undercut an emerging deal to extend the negotiations. 

“Poof, that was sort of the moment,” Mr. Kerry said. “We find ourselves where we are.”

THAT OBAMA AND KERRY BLAME ISRAEL SHOULD SURPSIE NOBODY.

LIKE HAGEL - OBAMA'S SEC DEF - AND POWER, HIS UN AMBASSADOR, OBAMA AND KERRY HAVE BEEN ANTI-ISRAEL FOR DECADES.

MOST OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS OPPOSE ISRAEL AND POLLS SHOW GOP VOTERS SUPPORT ISRAEL MUCH MORE THAN DEMOCRAT VOTERS. GALLUP:

Americans' Sympathies for Israel Match All-Time High 

Republicans, conservatives, older Americans most likely to voice sympathy for Israel

PRINCETON, NJ -- As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, and Jordan next week -- his first trip to the region as president -- Americans' sympathies lean heavily toward the Israelis over the Palestinians, 64% vs. 12%. Americans' partiality for Israel has consistently exceeded 60% since 2010; however, today's 64% ties the highest Gallup has recorded in a quarter century, last seen in 1991 during the Gulf War. At that time, slightly fewer than today, 7%, sympathized more with the Palestinians.The new data are from Gallup's 2013 World Affairs poll, conducted Feb. 7-10. 

One of the more notable aspects of the trend is the steady increase in relative support for Israel over the past decade, at the same time that the percentage with no opinion or favoring neither side has declined. Preference for the Palestinians has been relatively flat, generally in the mid- to high teens, before this year. 

Republicans Remain Most Staunch in Support for Israel 

Consistent with prior years, Republicans are substantially more likely than Democrats to favor the Israelis, 78% vs. 55%, with the preferences of independents -- currently 63% -- more closely matching those of Democrats.

JEWS WHO CONTINUE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS ARE JUDENRATE.

REAL JASON BOURNE FOUND IN NORWAY?

BBC:

Police in Norway have released photos in a bid to identify a young man found in a snowdrift near Oslo in December, apparently suffering from amnesia. 

Police say they do not know where the man comes from but that he speaks good English with an East European accent. A police spokesman told the Norwegian VG newspaper there was reason to believe he had been a victim of crime. The man, who calls himself "John Smith" for now, agreed to his photo being released after inquiries drew a blank. His fingerprints and photo were sent to East European police forces via Interpol but without success. 

"The man did not possess any form of identification, and did not remember his name, origin, how he ended up in Norway or any other details of his life," the police said in a statement. "[He] is of European origin, speaks very well English with a Eastern/Central-European accent, and understands Czech, Slovak, Polish and Russian languages. He is 187 cm [6.1 ft] tall, has blue eyes and dark blonde hair." 

According to the police, he is aged in his twenties and was found in a snowdrift in an industrial area east of the Norwegian capital. Amnesia, the partial or complete loss of memory, is usually associated with either physical trauma such as a blow to the head or some sort of psychological trauma. It is usually a temporary condition and tends to affect only a certain part of a person's experience. 

'Clear-headed' 

Police prosecutor Sturla Henriksbo told VG that despite his apparent amnesia, the man could "reason and think clearly". He said that aspects of the case had led police to suspect the man was a victim of crime but he did not elaborate.

HMMM: A REAL LIFE JASON BOURNE?

THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THE POSTMODERN LEFT THINKS IS DEVIANT:

THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THE POSTMODERN LEFT THINKS IS DEVIANT:

DEVIANCY FROM THE PARTY LINE.

• HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDERASTY ARE NOT DEVIANT TO THEM.
• SEX-CHANGE SURGERY IS NOT DEVIANT TO THEM.
• EXHIBITIONARY TATTOOING AND BODY-PIERCING IS NOT DEVIANT TO THEM.
• FAKE BUT ACCURATE "NEWS" IS NOT DEVIANT TO THEM.
• USING THE IRS TO ATTACK YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS IS NOT DEVIANT TO THEM.

YOU KNOW WHAT IS DEVIANT TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT? HERE:

• BELIEVING THAT MARRIAGE - (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN AND ALWAYS ABOUT HAVING AND RAISING CHILDREN) - SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, IS DEVIANT TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

• WANTING PEOPLE TO BE JUDGED AS INDIVIDUALS AND NOT ON THE BASIS OF THEIR SKIN COLOR OR GENDER IS DEVIANT TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

• WANTING IMMIGRANTS TO IMMIGRATE LEGALLY IS DEVIANT TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

• WANTING PEOPLE TO KEEP THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABORS AND NOT HAVE IT TAKEN AWAY BY POLITICIANS TO SPEND ON THEIR ALLIES, CRONIES AND SUPPORTERS IS DEVIANT TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

IN SHORT:

TO THE POSTMODERN LEFT, IT'S ALL ABOUT ONE-THING:

AFFILIATION, SERVING THE COLLECTIVE - SERVING THE MACHINE:

SERVE THE PARTY AND TOE THE PARTY LINE.... OR.... ELSE.

IF YOU SERVE THE PARTY, THEN YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH GOODIES, PATRONAGE, SPECIAL STATUS AND SET ASIDES.

IF YOU DEVIATE FROM THE PARTY-LINE, THEN YOU ARE A DEVIANT AND MUST BE SHUNNED UNTIL YOU ARE RE-EDUCATED.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PARTY.

• THE BUNDLE.
• THE FASCI.
• THE COLLECTIVE.
• THE "COMMON GOOD".

PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN TRANSCENDENT, UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL LAWS ARE A THREAT TO THE COLLECTIVE AND SO ATTACKED AS BEING DEVIANTS.

THE COLLECTIVIST/RELATIVIST POSTMODERNISTS MUST ATTACK THE UNIVERSALISTS BECAUSE IN ORDER TO REWARD THE FACTIONS OF THE MACHINE THEY HAVE TO HAVE VIOLABLE, MALLEABLE SITUATIONAL PRINCIPLES.

FOR EXAMPLE:

TO WIN CIVIL RIGHTS FOR BLACKS THEY JOINED THOSE WHO CORRECTLY ARGUED FOR A COLOR-BLIND SOCIETY - AS IF THEY TOO HAD A PRINCIPLE.

BUT, ONCE THEY ATTAINED BLACKS AS A RELIABLE VOTING BLOCK AND BLACKS BECAME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MACHINE, THE MACHINE HAD TO REWARD BLACKS BASED ON THEIR SKIN-COLOR - A REVERSAL OF THE PRINCIPLE OF A COLOR-BLIND/MERITOCRATIC SOCIETY.

RELIGION AND RACE INCREASINGLY BLURRED IN UK FOR SAKE OF CENSORSHIP

Enza Ferreri says that in Britain's quest to criminalize opposition to Islamofascism, they go quite the distance to fudge the differences between religion and race:

In British law, race and religion are increasingly becoming deliberately confused for the purpose of accusing critics of Islam of racism.

A soccer fan was recently arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after allegedly ripping up pages of the Qur’an and throwing them at a match. While on bail, he was also banned from attending any football games, visiting St Andrew’s – the stadium of the incident -, and going to any city where his team Middlesbrough was playing.

Insults against Islam are taken very seriously in Britain, and the world of soccer is particularly sensitive to them. After the incident, Middlesbrough Football Club suspended six more people, and vowed to ban anyone convicted of the “crime” from the Riverside Stadium, its home ground, for life.

A Middlesbrough club spokesman said it operates a “zero tolerance policy” towards all forms of discrimination, and supports football’s pledge to “eradicate racism in all its forms”.

Nobody could answer the question of what race Islam is. Muslims belong to all races, including white. But we know that the word “racism” has lost its original sense, and indeed any sense.

Everything's lost sense in Britain. One could wonder if there ever was any to begin with.

3/27/14: BASHAR ASSAD USES CHEMICAL WEAPON AGAIN

According to this account, it wasn't a lethal chemical per se, but that doesn't mean it wasn't something to worry about:

The Assad regime used a non-lethal chemical weapon on March 27 on the outskirts of Damascus, an Israeli security source said Monday.

The source said he could confirm claims made by Syrian rebels and doctors last month, that a substance was used on rebel fighters in Harasta, an outlying region of the Syrian capital, adding that the chemical "neutralizes but does not kill." A second alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime occurred in the same area within days of the first attack, according to Syrian opposition sources, though the security source said he could not confirm that additional report.

According to the New York-based website Syria Deeply, which interviewed doctors on the ground in Syria, in one instance, 25 fighters were injured. Despite the assertion by the security source that the chemical is non lethal, some reports suggested that four people were killed in the March 27 attack.

[...] "Symptoms suffered by patients included hallucination, accelerated pulse, trouble breathing and, in some cases, suffocation," according to SAMS.

If at least a handful were killed by the chemicals, and illnesses ensued, I don't consider that "non-lethal".

PUCK DIES

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

UN'S APOLOGY FOR FAILURE TO STOP RWANADAN GENOCIDE CONVENIENTLY FAILS TO MENTION KOFI ANAN EVEN ONCE

BBC: The UN is still ashamed over its failure to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said. He was addressing thousands of people in the capital, Kigali, as Rwanda began a week of official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide. Many people were overcome by emotion during the ceremony, with some suffering fits. 

At least 800,000 people - mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - died at the hands of Hutu extremists. The killings ended ended in July 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a Tutsi-led rebel movement, marched into Kigali and seized control of the country. 

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Mr Ban lit a torch which will burn for 100 days - the length of time the genocide lasted.

KOFI ANAN WAS IN CHARGE OF THE "PEACE-KEEPING" FORCE THERE AT THE TIME; HE ADMITTED SHAME IN 2012.

BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT.

BOTH SHARE BLAME.

NEITHER IS BLAMED; NO ONE IS BLAMED WHY?

BECAUSE THEY ARE DARLINGS OF THE LEFT.

LIKE THE USELESS U.N. ITSELF.

IT'S TIME THE USA QUIT THE U.N. AND THREW THEM OUT OF THE USA.

THE NEXT STEP FOR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION?

Consider the following excerpt from Were your parents rich? Maybe you should pay more in taxes, published in the Washington Post on March 28, 2014, and written by Yo Jeremijenko-Conley, a freshman at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and Dalton Conley, a professor at New York University:

...We need a tax policy that accounts for how economic benefits and disparities are passed down from generation to generation. To do that, we could calculate tax rates based not just on what people earn now — as traditional progressive taxation does — but also on the income their families brought in during their critical childhood years....

Let’s introduce the Great Gatsby tax rebate for upward mobility....

Read the entire essay HERE.

I can hear Obama now in his preacher's lilt: "It's the right thing to do!"

The Left will not be satisfied until taxation penalizes and thereby subjugates and impoverishes the wealthy in a collective manner — that is, by family.  The Left despises the very concept of the individual.

Also, remember this: who is "wealthy" is subject to interpretation, particularly when the word is interpreted on a global basis. Even the poorest in America are wealthy in comparison to most living in certain Third World countries.

Of course, the ruling elite will keep their wealth and live like kings while trampling everyone else into serfdom.

HOW THE LEFT-WING CHANGED COMICS POST-WAR ON TERROR

US News & World Report wrote - pretty dishonestly, I might add - about how comics changed after 9-11:

Captain America and Superman fight for truth and justice as they have for decades, but they've questioned the U.S. government more often since the start of the War on Terror in 2001.

Superheroes since the 2000s have increasingly held up a mirror to controversies like mass surveillance, remote killings using drones and the “with us or against us” mentality espoused by former President George W. Bush. Misuse of military technology also played a key role in recent movie adaptations featuring Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America and Iron Man, showing how fighting dirty to defeat evil can make America its own worst enemy.

It's just like them to worry more about supposed breach of civil liberties than about violent ogres lurking around our neighborhoods, making them less safe.

Before the terrorist attacks of 2001, great comics – such as Frank Miller’s “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” and Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” – reflected a grittier side of American power. But the War on Terror “prompted comic books to take a more global view of the world,” says Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief at Marvel Comics.

Some view alright! The man doesn't have the guts to admit he's a leftist, and acknowledge the leftists now running Marvel seem intent on pushing the Truther view - that 9-11 was supposedly an inside job.

“It provoked comics that used metaphor to comment on the United States’ uncertain place in the world,” Alonso says. “The best comics take a look at the issues outside your window. We don’t take sides and we avoid raw politics. We focus more on ethics.”

A big fat lie. They've been taking leftist leanings for longer than we think. Since the turn of the century - and especially since 9-11 - they've taken a leftist bent that's become progressively worse as time went by.

The premiere of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” on Friday is a prime example of Captain America’s unique role taking on current events after being created in the 1940s to rally support against the Nazis. Captain America fought jihadist terrorists in the early 2000s, but at the same time fought anti-Islamic racism fanned by the World Trade Center attacks, Alonso says.

“'Cap' is not pro-government, he is pro-U.S.,” Alonso says. “He is about doing what he thinks is right for the people.”

More dishonesty from the same editor who's kept up the anti-Spider-marriage position. It may have looked as though Cap was fighting jihadists at first, but then, as that 2002 story drew to a close, it turned out those jihadists who took the small town hostage were working for the government. And that's when the book became extremely unreadable. Sure, they may have tried to disguise their intentions with allegedly pro-US standings, but the moral equivalence fell flat on its face. Besides, despite what they say, under that Marvel Knights imprint, Cap was simply not pro-Republican.

And once again, some of the most incompetent reporters call "anti-Islamic" sentiments "racism" instead of anti-religious sentiment. Nothing's changed with these clowns.

Marvel brought its entire comic universe into that commentary in 2006 with its “Civil War” series, inspired by the inescapable destruction of the World Trade Center near its New York City office and the perpetual security in the city that followed, Alonso says.

“Much of the public debate around that time was, ‘How much of your civil liberties are you willing to give up for your security?’” Alonso says. “Many of us were riding on trains having our bags inspected by soldiers. We were in constant ‘orange alert’ in New York. That discussion was the seed for what became ‘Civil War.’”

Sacrificing liberty for security is the “with us or against us” challenge given to the superheroes of the Marvel universe in the "Civil War" series, as the destruction of a school by supervillains leads the government to pass a law requiring superpowered people to unmask themselves to the government as lethal weapons. This tore the superhero world apart, with Captain America leading resistance and claiming infringement on civil liberties, and Iron Man supporting the government by helping them to imprison rebel heroes in a parallel dimension in the name of public safety. That story does not have a happy ending, and neither does political feuding.

This article doesn't make clear the most embarrassing part of Civil War: the New Warriors were scapegoats, depicted leading to the situation while hoping for publicity.

Rather than take one side, Alonso says he and the Marvel team represented both sides of the security and civil liberties debate equally.

“Iron Man’s methods may not have been ethical … [but] Iron Man might see a long-term game to be played, political or otherwise,” Alonso says.

It's just like Alonso not to admit neither he nor any of the contributors to Civil War were showing any true love for the cast in their care. And equally? I don't think so at all. What is clear is that they wasted everyone's time over a pointless clash between superheroes, far more than hero-vs-villain, if at all.

Also in 2006, “Superman Returns” raised eyebrows when a character in the film asked if Superman stood for “truth, justice – all that stuff” instead of the rest of his motto, "the American Way.”

I assume they consider that fine, since they've already made clear they see nothing wrong with the angle used in the Marvel Knights take on Captain America, the senseless slaughter of a school building in Civil War for the sake of it, or the sheer disregard for many great heroes and co-stars.

The ethical challenges of mass surveillance additionally were a major feature of “The Dark Knight,” and privacy advocate Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., even made a cameo in the Batman film. Batman movies starring Christian Bale also showed a healthy distrust of the military-industrial complex, as he battled executives that made Wayne Enterprises into a weapons company.

Now that I think of it, that may have been one thing overlooked by everyone who saw that movie, IIRC.

A major dose of realism the War on Terror brought to comics is that superheroes can’t save everybody – but they’re heroes because they try. The first comic about New York native Spider-Man published after the World Trade Center attacks showed Spidey walking through the destruction of the towers and helping rescuers find survivors in the debris.

“One of the things that modern comics have come to terms with is the fact that there are some problems that heroes can beat, but some that they can’t,” Alonso says. “Not all problems can be beaten, kicked or force-bolted into submission. Sometimes the best thing a superhero can do is to save as many people as possible.”

This is another example of their inability to recognize why there's cases where fact and fiction simply don't mix. They leave out that there's many other superheroes in the MCU - quite a few who also appear in the issue from that time by J. Michael Strayncynski (36, Vol. 2) like Thor, who have the strength to hold up a large building long enough for civilians to escape. Another irritating problem overlooked is that during the story, Spidey's seen replying to a guy running from the debris that they couldn't have known or imagined this would happen. Excuse me? The very same heroes who had to contend with the menace of Dr. Doom, Kang and Thanos couldn't forsee something horrible like this as possible? US News doesn't even mention how several supervillains showed up at the wreckage, allegedly to pay their respects even as they went right back to their old ways within the following year. Why would anyone - superhero or civilian - welcome Doom to the site after all the chaos he caused in past decades, including his attacks on the original Baxter Building? How does the tragedy suddenly give scum like him immunity from anger for his own crimes? And if he were really sorry this happened, why didn't he go after al Qaeda, who wouldn't stand a chance against his technology? Stracynski even injected left-wing propaganda about this supposedly being the fault of America for not listening to foreign sources, by which he probably meant Afghanistan and the Islamic world.

In the end, what turned that issue of Spider-Man into one of the worst exploitations of real life was that it trivialized the tragedy in a way no Golden Age WW2 comic ever could. And US News is making things worse with their lip service to people who don't deserve the platform on which to spew their propaganda, foisting it on unsuspecting audiences who shouldn't have to be fooled into buying their awful tommyrot.

LIKE MOST LEFTIST GROUPS, THE LGBT CROWD ARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS' CLOTHING

THE LGBT CROWD ARE LIKE CASTRO AND MUGABE AND LENIN AND HIS SUCCESSORS - THEY ALWAYS PROMISE THEY'RE BENIGN FOLKS WHO JUST WANT TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD, BUT THEY ALWAYS END UP AS TYRANNICAL TOTALITARIANS.

THE OUSTER OF OF EICH PROVES IT ONCE AGAIN.

LEFTISTS ARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS' CLOTHING.

UNDER COLLECTIVIST RULE, EVERYONE IS EQUAL, EXCEPT SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

DON'T WORRY: THEY HAVE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS TO CURE THE INCORRECT.

IOW: ALL EICH HAS TO DO TO GET HIS JOB BACK IS PERFORM FELLATIO ON THE LGBT CROWD; FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, OF COURSE...

TAB SITE'S TRAFFIC IS STEADY, BUT FIREFOX VISITS ARE DOWN 10%

JUST SAYING...

BRITAIN WILL DISH OUT SHARIA-COMPLIANT STUDENT LOANS

From the incorporation of sharia into the UK legal system, we next discover they're preparing student loans along the same belief system:

A new system of “Sharia-compliant” student loans is to be launched to allow more Muslim students to go to university, it has been announced.

David Willetts, the Universities Minister, said an alternative financial model was being created to satisfy Islamic law that forbids Muslims taking out loans that make interest.

Under the system, students would apply for taxpayer-backed loans but repay them into a mutual-style fund that would be ring-fenced to provide future finance to other students with the same religious beliefs.

The move will raise concerns over a two-tier system in which Muslim students pay less than other undergraduates.

But the Government insisted it would be set up in a way that ensured repayments were made at the same rate as students who take out traditional student loans.

Oh no, I don't buy that. The advocates of sharia in Britain have long employed their own form of taqqiya, and now, they're furthering the encroachment of sharia into their university system too.