"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Friday, August 07, 2015

WOW: PETROBAS ADMITS TO GIVING $3BILLION IN BRIBES TO BRAZILIAN POLITICIANS

MOST OF THEM IN THE RULING LEFTIST PARTY, TOO:
Alberto Youssef, a convicted money launderer and former bon vivant, sat in aBrazilian jail cell in March of last year, getting ready to tell his lawyers a story.It was about an elaborate bribery scheme involving Petrobras, thegovernment­controlled oil giant. He opened with a dire prediction. 
“Guys,” Mr. Youssef said, “if I speak, the republic is going to fall.”To those lawyers, Tracy Reinaldet and Adriano Bretas, who recently recounted the conversation, this sounded a tad melodramatic. But then Mr.Youssef took a piece of paper and started writing the names of participants inwhat would soon become known as the Petrobras scandal. Mr. Reinaldet looked at the names and asked, not for the last time that day, “Are you serious?” 
“We were shocked,” he recalled, sitting in a conference room in his lawoffice in downtown Curitiba, the capital of the southern state of Paraná, onemorning in June. “It was kind of like, in Brazil, we know that corruption is amonster. But we never really see the monster. This was like seeing the monster.”
 To date, 117 indictments have been issued, five politicians have been arrested, and criminal cases have been brought against 13 companies.Petrobras officials have pegged the total of all bribes at nearly $3 billion, a figure that makes the scandal at FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, seem like the work of amateurs.


UH-OH: STOCKMAN: ".. the world economy ... is heading into ... an epochal deflation to the likes of what we have never experienced in modern times"

"The larger picture has nothing to do with the jobs report [Friday] or even the September decision by the Fed," said Stockman. "It has to do with the the fact that the world economy, including the U.S., is heading into what is clearly going to be an epochal deflation to the likes of what we have never experienced in modern times." 
According to Stockman, it's only a matter of time before the collapse in China trickles down to other markets. "The whole global economy since 2008 has been driven forward by this massive investment and construction and borrowing spree in China," said Stockman. "The point that I'm making is that it's over." 
For Stockman, there's no reversing the artificially inflated bubbles created by the Federal Reserve. "I think what we are seeing is the beginning evidence that the central bank-driven credit economy is over and we are in a new era," said Stockman. "It's a huge disaster waiting to happen."
SIGH...

IT'S A PERFECT STORM:

UNSUSTAINABLE GLOBAL SOVEREIGN DEBT, GLOBAL JIHAD, AND A SOCIALIST TRAITOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE....


HOW LEFTISTS HAVE A HATRED OF MUSLIMS


Via Jihad Watch, Jaime Glazov argues that leftists actually hate Muslims, and certainly don't like Muslim women who're oppressed under Islamic gender apartheid, and who've been victimized by honor murders and FGM.

SELF-FLAGELLATION HURTS ISRAEL, AS DOES SELFISHNESS

Israel Today spoke about Israeli politicians who're too quick to jump for conclusions:
Time and again Israelis fall prey to their own sense of self-righteousness. The death of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha from Duma near Nablus (biblical Shechem) has spawned an embarrassing display Jewish self-flagellation.

Though arson attacks carried out by Palestinians in order to falsely accuse Israel are not unheard of, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin didn't even wait for the start of an investigation into the fire before demonstrating just how ready Jews are to take the blame.

"More than I feel ashamed," he said, "I feel pain over the murder of a little baby. Pain caused by a few of my people who chose the way of terror and thereby lost their humanity. Their way is not my way. Their way is not our way. Their way is not the way of the State of Israel and not the way of the Jewish people."

Rivlin's response, which Arabic-language Israeli newspapers headlined with "I Am Ashamed," only served to bolster the impression that Israel was directly responsible for this murder.

Rivlin, who more than once has demonstrated an inclination toward political correctness, again revealed that his concern for Israel's image comes at the expense of Israel's future. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why he didn't use this sad occasion to likewise condemn the Palestinian Authority, which hails as heroes the killers of Jewish babies.

For those who would deem such a condemnation improper, the very least Rivlin could have done is point out the difference between Israel's contrition and the Palestinians' institutionalized incitement.

The lack of similar outrage over the premeditated killing of Jewish babies raises as much concern as the death of Ali Saad Dawabsha.
They're correct; even if Rivlin's not the worst of his kind, he's still a very embarrassingly PC president, and his pathetic display is only going to hurt Israel.

Ruthie Blum's also written about how the leftists who held a rally protesting the murder of the teenage girl don't seem the least bit angry at the Haredi extremists, and only seemed to want to take out their anger on Netanyahu:
Schlissel had been released from prison a mere three weeks earlier, after spending a decade in jail for committing exactly the same crime at the very same venue. Indeed, at the 2005 Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, he stabbed three marchers. This led to his being convicted of attempted murder and aggravated assault, and sentenced to 12 years in prison -- a sentence which was reduced in 2007.

Secondly, upon his release, Schlissel exhibited behavior that should have set off alarm bells. In the lead-up to the parade, he distributed a document to neighbors in Modiin Illit in which he wrote: "It is the obligation of every Jew to keep his soul from punishment and stop this giant desecration of God's name next Thursday."

He also gave a radio interview to a haredi station reiterating this sentiment and call to action from fellow zealots.

So the fact that he was able to roam around freely, with no surveillance, is shocking to many observers.

Not to me, though, because neither the overly lenient justice system nor the incompetence of the police, coupled with its limited manpower, is the least bit new
.

Nor is it surprising that politicians across the board, along with the public, the pundits and all rabbis who recognize and respect the laws of the state and the Torah, promptly denounced the attack. (Though Schlissel and his ilk claim to be upholding Jewish law, they seem to think they are above adhering to the Ten Commandments as well as to the Israeli courts.)

What should cause one to pause is the reaction of the Israeli Left to the incident. Rallies held over the weekend, ostensibly for the purpose of reiterating the call for "tolerance" and "togetherness," turned into hate-fests. Not against the anti-Israel ultra-Orthodox; not against the police; not against the courts; and not even against the electoral system, which is responsible for the power of the haredi parties.

No, the hatred and vitriol were directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners. Chants full of Hebrew rhymes, accusing the prime minister of incitement, were shouted everywhere, from Zion Square in Jerusalem to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett was asked at the last minute not to speak at the rally in Tel Aviv, when the shouting and cursing at the mere mention of his name grew too menacing. Energy and Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz was only able to reach the podium with escorts. Members of the LGBT faction of the Likud party ushered him to the front, while being jeered and called "fascists" by gays with opposing political views -- and by other leftists with red paint on their palms, to represent blood on the hands of anyone and everyone who might have a different opinion of why they were all gathered there in the first place.

The irony is that Schlissel hates Netanyahu just as much as they do, but for being a secular Jew in the modern State of Israel, whose espousal of liberal values is intolerable.

There is no doubt that this time around, Schlissel will be sentenced to life. Thanks to the Left and Netanyahu -- who prevented the passage of a proposed bill favoring capital punishment for terrorists -- the murderer will live to see his next release, rather than die for slaughtering an innocent girl.

This travesty is what allows Arab terrorists to bide their time until being freed as part of Israel's repeated "prisoner exchange" and "peace process" deals.

But this is of no concern to the Left, which treats every individual Muslim murderer as a "lone wolf," yet blames Israeli society as a whole (with the exception of themselves) for the likes of Schlissel.
It goes without saying this is a "everyone else's fault but ours" type of mentality. If the leftists had been elected, they would've formed a coalition with the Haredi parties if that's what it took just to maintain power and control. That's just what ended up causing so much damage to this country's psyche over two decades or so.

Judging from the reaction by LGBT activists, it's clear they have no problem with Haredi extremists and are only exploiting innocent blood for anti-rightist attacks. In fact, where was their condemnation of Haredis who committed sexual abuse of children? Where was their condemnation of Mordecai Elon after he disgraced himself? You'd think that kind of behavior would be a concern to them. Their failure to condemn even men like him suggests otherwise.

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

CALAIS INVADERS INSTRUCTED TO CLAIM THEY ARE GAY IN ORDER TO MORE READILY RECEIVE REFUGEE STATUS

Stowaways are advised to lie about their sexuality because it will give them a better chance of staying. 
They can claim their lifestyle has put their lives at risk in their homeland, according to posters on display in the Jungle camp in Calais. 
Many of the 5,000 camped on the French border come from countries where homosexuality can be punishable by death. 
Tips also warn people to “prepare their story well” and provide as much detail to UK immigration officials as possible.
FOR THE PRO-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LEFT, SODOMISTS ARE A PROTECTED CLASS AND SO GET SPECIAL TREATMENT.

I AM REMINDED OF THIS:


THE WEST NEEDS TO END DE FACTO OPEN BORDER POLICIES AND ONLY ADMIT PEOPLE WHO ADD TO OUR CULTURE AND SOCIETY, AND DO NOT COME HERE AND BECOME DEPENDENTS OR MEMBERS OF THE UNDERCLASS.


SPANISH ECONOMY PROVES CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES WORK

TGAM:

Spain’s economy is growing faster than any of Europe’s big economies. The International Monetary Fund forecast Spanish growth at 3.1 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2016, about double the average of the 19 euro zone countries. Of course, the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is taking most of the credit for the turnaround, citing the success of the labour and banking reforms and the fiscal tightening. “Seeing what is happening to others right now, one has to say: It was worth it,” he said in a recent radio interview.

THE REST OF THE EU AND ESPECIALLY GREECE OUGHT TO FOLLOW SPAIN'S LEAD.


Tuesday, August 04, 2015

ARE TRIAL LAWYERS REALLY BEHIND "BLACK LIVES MATTER"?

WHO REALLY STANDS TO BENEFIT THE MOST FROM THE LEFT'S CURRENT ANTI-COP WAR BEING WAGED, AKA "BLACK LIVES MATTER"?

IOW: CUI BONO?

NOT THE BLACKS IN THE GHETTOS: VIOLENT CRIME IS WAY UP SINCE COPS HAVE STOPPED THINGS LIKE STOP'N FRISK AND OTHER FORWARD LEANING/AGGRESSIVE POLICING METHODS.

HMMMM... MAYBE THESE HEADLINES PROVIDES THE CLUES:

SEEMS TO ME THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER HAS PREPARED THE LEGAL BATTLEFILED FOR LAWYERS TO GO TO TOWN SUING THE POLICE.

AND WHY HAVE THE DEMOCRATS AND THE LIBS'N LEFFIES AND RACE-BAITING HUCKSTERS JUMPED ON CAUSE?

SIMPLE, THEY CAN RAISE MONEY WHILE AIDING THEIR NUMBER ONE CONSTITUENCY:

TRIAL LAWYERS.

FACTS HERE:

  • http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/23/us/trial-lawyers-pour-money-into-democrats-chests.html
  • http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trial-lawyers-find-that-generosity-to-democrats-pays-big-dividends/article/38945
  • http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/money-from-trial-lawyers-groups-flowing-to-democrats/
THAT'S RIGHT, THE DEM PARTY IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE PARTY OF TRIAL LAWYERS. THEN AFTER THEM WHITE COLLAR UNIONS, MEANING FOLKS WHO WORK FOR THE GOVERMENT.

(IDENTITY GROUPS --- BLACKS, FEMINISTS, LGBTISTAS, AND SO ON, THE SO CALLED "PROTECTED CLASSES" WHO - BECAUSE OF PROGRAMS DEVISED BY THE LEFT, AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY APPROVED BY LEFTIST JUDGES --- GET SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT, ARE THE UNDERLINGS AND PAWNS OF THE MACHINE... READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO SWALLOW ANY LIE AS LONG AS THEY GET THEIR SHARE OF THE DOLE.)

TOGETHER, THEY HAVE STARTED A RACE WAR IN ORDER TO LINE THEIR POCKETS AND BUTTRESS THE MACHINE.

AND THE TRIAL LAWYERS - AT 33% OF THE SETTLEMENTS, MOST OF WHICH WILL BE DOLED OUT BY LIB RUN CITIES FROM TAX REVENUE - STAND TO MAKE THE MOST.

THE DEMS AND THE TRIAL LAWYERS BEHIND THEM ARE EVIL SCUM.




MUSLIM FIREBOMB ATTACK AGAINST JEWS IN BEIT HANINA NEIGHBORHOOD

Another attack against Jews in the Arabic neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem:
A Palestinian terrorist threw a firebomb at a passing car in Jerusalem. As a result, three civilians were wounded – two men lightly and a young woman moderately.

An Israeli woman, 27, was moderately wounded Monday night when a Palestinian terrorist threw a Molotov cocktail at her car on the Ben Zion Netanyahu interchange on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Her husband, who was with her, escaped unharmed.

Another man was lightly wounded after the driver of the burning car lost control and hit him. A third man was lightly injured after attempting to extinguish the flames. He sustained burns and inhaled smoke.

The car was completely consumed by the fire.

The wounded woman was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem. A hospital spokesperson said she was being treated for second- and third-degree burns on 25 percent of her body, mostly on the lower limbs. “We will determine in the coming days the course of treatment,” depending on the severity of the burns,” she added.
Truly awful. The Islamofascists have only used the incidents of the past few days as another excuse for terrorism.

JEWS PRAY FOR ARAB TERROR VICTIMS

Via United With Israel, here's a filming of a special prayer session in Gush Etzion for Arabic victims of terror. You may not see it reported in the mainstream press, but this shows there are Jews out there who care for Arabs as much as for Jews.

WHOEVER CAUSED DEATH OF ARABIC INFANT IS AN ABOMINATION

Another heinous crime that took place last week was the firebombing of an Arabic house, causing the death of an infant:
A one-and-a-half year-old baby was burned to death and three of his family members were seriously hurt late last night after their house was firebombed by settlers in the village of Douma, near Nablus.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack as a “horrific, heinous” crime that is “a terror attack in every respect.”

The Hebrew for "revenge" and "long live the king Messiah" alongside a Star of David were spray-painted on the walls of the house.

The mother of the baby and his four-year-old brother were in a critical condition.

"This attack against Palestinian civilians is a barbaric act of terrorism," IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner tweeted soon after the attack. Forces are searching the area in attempt to find the perpetrators.
If this was committed by Jews, then the perpetrators not only violated the Ten Commandments, they provided ammunition for anti-semites. But what if it was Muslims who did it? The whole notion Arabs can't write in Hebrew is ridiculous, and this could've been planned. We'll see who the murderers are, if they're caught. But it's regrettable that for now, they may be jumping to conclusions.

HAREDI CRACKPOT PAROLED BY COURT STABS TEENAGE GIRL TO DEATH AT HOMOSEXUAL PARADE IN JERUSALEM

A Haredi crazy who was freed by the courts despite his clear continued danger and irresponsible police doing nothing to monitor him stabbed 6 people at a homosexual pride parade, murdering a girl:
An Israeli teenager has died of stab wounds sustained when an ultra-Orthodox man with a knife attacked a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem three days ago.

High school student Shira Banki, 16, was one of six people wounded in the assault. Hadar Elboim of Hadassah hospital said the succumbed to her wounds Sunday and that her organs will be donated.

The suspect, Yishai Shlissel, was arrested at the scene. Police have come under fire for not keeping him under surveillance as he had been released from prison only weeks earlier having been jailed for stabbing three at the same event in 2005.

Shira went on the march on Thursday in support of her LGBT friends, reported Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Her parents and three siblings survive her.
She wasn't even a lesbian, and this piece of filth murdered her anyway. And indeed, it's the fault of the police and courts, who took no proper action to keep him away from the march.

The culprit is crazy enough that he even rejects the court's authority while not admitting he's erred too:
A Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge extended the remand of Yishai Schlissel for 12 days at a Friday hearing for allegedly stabbing six people at the capital’s annual gay pride parade the previous day, although the ultra-Orthodox suspect said the court had no jurisdiction because it does not “follow the rules of the holy Torah.”

Schlissel, 50, from Modi’in Illit – who was released from prison three weeks ago after serving a 10-year sentence for committing a similar crime at the 2005 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade – defiantly told Judge Chana Miriam Lomp during the hearing: “I do not accept this court’s authority. This court is part of the mechanism of evil. I have no interest in cooperating at all. I do not recognize any of the regime’s institutions.”

Noting Schlissel’s previous conviction, the severity of the crime he is accused of, and that he poses an imminent threat to society, Lomp honored the police request to keep him behind bars for a minimum of 12 days.
I hope they're only saying he's to be in a cell until a trial can be arranged, after which he'll hopefully be incarcerated for life.
In 2005, Schlissel was convicted of attempted murder and aggravated assault for stabbing three people marching in that year’s parade. Although he was initially sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, a successful 2007 appeal lowered the sentence by two years.

While police spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Saturday she could not comment on the case, the Judea and Samaria District Police issued a statement saying that although Schlissel lives in its jurisdiction, officers were not obligated to follow him into Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Post’s sister paper, Ma’ariv, reported that following Schlissel’s release from prison, he returned to his ultra-Orthodox West Bank community and penned a hand-written pamphlet railing against the impending parade.

“It is the obligation of every Jew to keep his soul from punishment and stop this giant desecration of God’s name next Thursday,” the pamphlet stated.

“Once again, the evildoers want to have a parade of sin, and of all places, in Jerusalem – city of the king of kings, blessed be He – in order to defile its holiness and desecrate its holy name on Thursday,” the missive continued.

“They are always looking for ways to desecrate God’s name even more.”
That monster desecrated God's name even more. He violated the Commandment against murder, and acts like homosexuality cannot be reversed and repaired. And there's the following to ponder too:

MORE PROOF THE POSTMODERN LEFT IS EVIL: REFER TO FETUS AS PARASITE

OFFERED WITH NO FURTHER COMM3NT....


Actually, "some parasite I picked up from some dodgy meat" is exactly how I'd describe a fetus, personally. https://twitter.com/andyadc123/status/628285316655394817
12:26 PM - 3 Aug 2015

https://mobile.twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/628285729886441472
NO FURTHER COMMENT IS NECESSARY.

WEEKEND SHOOTINGS IN NYC, CHICAGO AND BALTIMORE PROVE TWO THINGS: THE WAR ON COPS IS HELPING THE REAL MURDERERS AND THE THUGS IN BATIMORE HAVE THE BEST AIM

Baltimore: 11 shot, 2 fatally.

Chicago: 40 shot 3 fatally.

NYC: 25 shot, 3 fatally.

BALTIMORE THUGS EVIDENTALLY HAVE THE BEST AIM...

Seriously:

The surge in gun violence in lib run cities nationwide is a direct result of the left's war on the cops aka black lives matter.

If the left really believed that black lives mattered, then they'd demand more cops and more stop and frisk- the opposite of their agenda.

The truth is the left cares about blacks as much as they care fetuses.

To the left, there are women's votes in supporting abortions and and black votes in attacking cops.

They don't care how many are killed, as long as they get votes and keep a protected class in their machine.

All the recent gun deaths in the lib run ghettos were precenrable are the fault of the libs.

The left has human boood on their hands.

And that's much more damnng than any lion shot by anyone, anywhere.




GUN USED IN JIHAD ATTACK IN GARLAND MAY HAVE COME FROM FAST & FURIOUS SALE

The LA Times discovered that the weapon used by the jihadist in Garland, Texas may have been bought through the scandal called Fast & Furious (Hat tip: Hot Air):
Soofi’s attempt to buy a gun caught the attention of authorities, who slapped a seven-day hold on the transaction, according to his Feb. 24, 2010, firearms transaction record, which was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Then, for reasons that remain unclear, the hold was lifted after 24 hours, and Soofi got the 9-millimeter.
So here's another case of awful screening conducted to check a buyer's background that enabled them to acquire a weapon they should not have had. Just how did that happen we'll probably never know. All we know for now is that in this case, a disaster was thankfully prevented.

Monday, August 03, 2015

GUN VIOLENCE IN NYC OUTTA CONTROL SINCE THE LEFT ENDED STOP AND FRISK

WNBC NEWS: 
After a dramatic weekend of gun violence in New York City that left three people dead and 16 others wounded, community leaders are calling on Mayor de Blasio to step up and crack down on shootings plaguing the city's streets. The mayor responded Sunday night, saying the NYPD would beef up patrols in high crime neighborhoods. 
Nearly 20 people were shot in seven shootings since Friday. Two people were killed and 11 wounded on Sunday. On Saturday, one person was killed and five others were wounded in gun violence.A 24-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Canarsie late Friday.  
Early Sunday, a 20-year-old man was shot to death in a playground in the Soundview section of the Bronx. A short time later on Sunday, a 46-year-old man was killed in Fort Greene. And then in East New York, nine people were shot at a family house party. 
Late Sunday afternoon, community leaders demanded de Blasio do more to end the violence. At a Brooklyn Borough Hall rally, Tony Herbert, a community advocate, said that de Blasio has ignored his coalition of parents and clergy, who want to put thousands of volunteers in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent to mentor at-risk young people.
THESE LEFTISTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SURGE IN GUN CRIME BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DEMANDED AN END TO STOP AND FRISK.

IF THEY REALLY WANT TO LOWER GUN CRIME, THEN THEY'D DEMAND A RETURN OF STOP AND FRISK.

BUT THEY'D  RATHER LET THE GUN CRIME CONTINUE TO SURGE AND EXPLOIT THE VIOLENCE TO LINE THEIR POCKETS.

THEY WANT THE MAYOR TO FUND THEIR PROGRAMS AS IF THEY WOULD LOWER CRIME.

MORE COPS AND MORE COPS DOING STOP AND FRISK ARE WHAT WILL LOWER CRIME.

AND AN END TO THE WAR AGAINST COPS AND THE WHOLE BLACK LIVES MATTER AGITPROP BS.

BUT THESE LEFTIST SCUM WILL NEVER SUPPORT WHAT WORKS BECAUSE THEY AEE PARTISANS FIRST.