Update
I posted yesterday, but a lot going on. I also noticed I
used "their" when I meant "there" in my comment about Ferguson in yesterday's
post. I know the difference, but my fingers often don't. Sorry. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Must Read: Alone Again, Naturally. By Maureen Dowd
Excerpt: His circle keeps getting more inner. He golfs with
aides and jocks, and he spent his one evening back in Washington
from Martha’s Vineyard at a nearly five-hour
dinner at the home of a nutritional adviser and former White House assistant
chef, Sam Kass. The president who was elected because he was a hot commodity is
now a wet blanket. The extraordinary candidate turns out to be the most
ordinary of men, frittering away precious time on the links. (Uber liberal Dowd
has gone sour on The One, now sees what we always saw. ~Bob)
Worth Reading :
Multiculturalism Starts Losing Its Luster. By Theodore Dalrymple
Excerpt: Many women I have encountered as patients who came
to Britain from Pakistan 30 years ago, at 16 or 18, still know little
English—but not from any unwillingness to learn. Their husbands actively
prevented them from learning the language, to make sure that they would stay
enclosed in a ghetto and not get any ideas above their station. The same
rioting youths who protested British society’s failure to accept them as equal
citizens have themselves sought to reproduce the unequal social patterns of
rural Pakistan ,
half a world away, because it suited them to do so. Multiculturalism encourages
this stance. If all cultures are equal, and none has the right to impose its
standards on any other, what is wrong with the immigrant ghettos that have
emerged, where the population (that is to say, the male population) enjoys, de
facto, extraterritorial rights? If it is the custom of their ancestral culture
to keep girls out of school and force them into marriages that they do not want
and to confiscate the passports that the British government issues them for
their personal use, what can a multiculturalist object without asserting the
superiority of his own values? . (Published in his great book Not with a Bang, but a Whimper: The Politics
and Culture of Decline.)
Important: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl
prisoner swap, government watchdog says
Excerpt: The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office
says the Defense Department's failure to notify the relevant congressional
committees at least 30 days in advance of the exchange broke the law. The GAO
also says the Pentagon's use of funds to conduct the transfer, when no money
was available, was a violation of the Antideficiency Act which bars spending by
agencies above the amount of money that Congress has obligated. (Well, when the
president does it that means that it is not illegal. Nixon, 1977, embraced by
Obama. ~Bob)
High School Kid Arrested
For Writing About Shooting A DINOSAUR
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/21/high-school-kid-arrested-for-writing-about-shooting-a-dinosaur/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/21/high-school-kid-arrested-for-writing-about-shooting-a-dinosaur/
Excerpt: It’s only August, but an overzealous teacher and
some overzealous cops have already landed a high school student in serious
trouble for having — or, in this case, merely imagining — something
that represents a weapon, but isn’t actually anything remotely like a real
weapon. The student, 16-year-old Alex Stone, was busted after he wrote about
using a gun to kill a dinosaur earlier this week. (Support Charter schools and
home schooling. ~Bob)
Emotional Storms Are No Response for Disasters: A new study shows that government aid and World Bank projects are not enough to spur lasting recovery.By Amity Shlaes
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385905/emotional-storms-are-no-response-disasters-amity-shlaes
Excerpt: One such theory is that restoring old structures or
hurricane and flood spending can so stimulate economic activity at a disaster
site that the place will emerge better than it would have been prior to the
misfortune. Our officials routinely buttress this thesis. In addition to such
arguments for government or private spending, we see a second theory: disaster
as a kind of natural selection of businesses. There’s yet a third theory, which
is related: that disaster spaces can benefit from a specific version of Joseph
Schumpeter’s “creative destruction.”
Interesting: Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn.
By Richard Wiseman
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html
Excerpt: And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance
opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They
go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities
to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain
types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky
people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than
just what they are looking for. My research revealed that lucky people generate
good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and
noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their
intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and
adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. (I've always
been pretty lucky. ~Bob)
Check It: When
Staunch Gun Grabbers Shoot a Gun for the First Time [VIDEO]
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/check-staunch-gun-grabbers-shoot-gun-first-time-video/
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/check-staunch-gun-grabbers-shoot-gun-first-time-video/
Funny, but please don't draft any of these folks and put
them with our troops. ~Bob
Perry Grand Juror Is Democratic Party Activist. Sought Out
a Grand Jury Witness While Serving. By Erick
Erickson
Shoe me your shocked face. ~Bob. Excerpt: Rho Chalmers, who disclosed to the Houston
Chronicle yesterday that she was a member of the grand jury that indicted Texas
Gov. Rick Perry, was an active delegate to the Texas Democratic Party
convention during grand jury proceedings. Chalmers’ active participation in
Democratic state politics is important because she claimed yesterday to the
Houston Chronicle that her decision to indict Perry, a Republican, was not
based on politics.
TN High-School Student Suspended For
Saying ‘Bless You’ After Someone Sneezed
Excerpt: A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her
religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule
of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed. When Dyer County High School senior Kendra Turner
said bless you to her classmate, she says her teacher told her that was for
church…
What would you do?
You are a white cop responding to a reported rape of a
child. You are alone and spot the black suspect near the mother's apartment in
a black neighborhood. You order him to stop at gun point, but he refuses and
walks rapidly towards an ally. you see no weapon. Do you shoot him and face
riots and a murder trial, or let him go and assure the rapes and perhaps worse
of other young girls? Some retired cops on my list responded to the question.
~Bob
Letter Worth Reading :
Black-on-black violence hardest to understand
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox
Excerpt: What is most troubling to me is the self-hatred
that drives some African-Americans to give other blacks a pass when they shoot
an unarmed black youth in the street, yet burn down their own community and
demand justice when that killer is white. ... -- Melvin Boone, Sanger B. Powell
Correctional Center, Oneida . (This guy
writes intelligent letter to the paper from jail. See the next one, not on Ferguson . ~Bob)
African-Americans
should stop using the N-word
Excerpt: As a self-respecting African-American, I find it
humiliating to be in a room with like-minded people when other blacks casually
use the word as if it were a term of endearment.
The N-word by definition places the African race on a
collision course with evolution, leaving them frozen in an ape-like state. As
one of slavery's most enduring legacies, the civil rights era of the 1960s
spawned a movement to end its use. ... -- Melvin Boone, Sanger B. Powell
Correctional Center, Oneida .
Excerpt: On average, more than 6,000 African-Americans are
killed by gun violence each year. That startling figure is nearly equal to all
of the U.S. combat
fatalities incurred in both Afghanistan
and Iraq
over some 13 years. African-Americans are the victims in about half of the
homicides in America each
year despite the fact that blacks represent only about 13 percent of the U.S.
population. One would think that these alarming statistics would provoke the
sort of protests that we’ve seen in Ferguson ,
but that is not the case.
Missouri Gov. Jay
Nixon withdraws National Guard from Ferguson, as clashes subside
Excerpt: Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard
to begin withdrawing from this St.
Louis suburb on Thursday, the clearest sign yet that
authorities believe the violent clashes between police and residents are
subsiding after nearly two weeks of civil unrest.
Missouri Governor under fire after calling for 'vigorous prosecution' of cop who shot dead Michael Brown but grand jury won't make decision until OCTOBER
Excerpt The Democrat governor released a five-minute video
on Tuesday, where he said: 'A vigorous prosecution must now be pursued.' His
statement began: 'Ten days ago, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown
in broad daylight. The world has watched as a community has been engulfed in
grief, anger, fear, at times violence.' The governor then called upon Attorney-General
Eric Holder and St Louis
county prosecutor Bob McCulloch to 'meet expectations' by finding justice for
Michael Brown and his family 'thoroughly, promptly and correctly'. (No Democrat
can resist racial pandering in Obama's post-racial America . ~Bob)
12 Inspiring Photos of Hardworking People Putting Back the Pieces of Their Once-Peaceful Home of
Excerpt: After numerous days of unrest in Ferguson
it’s nice to finally see some positive action happening in this Missouri town. Men,
women and children of all ages have put on their working clothes and set
out to clean up this rampaged city.
Comment from a friend
in St. Louis
From Blog Reader BW: A friend of mine in St. Louis sent me the information below. I
have known him for decades. He is sane, reliable, and trustworthy. Here is his
statement: "The odd-ball groups have arrived in Ferguson . A national communist group is here,
a church group last night said a group prayer and then a chant to get Officer
Wilson, then threw bottles of urine on the police. One guy from Austin, Tx. has
been arrested 3 times, people from California ,
and many states are here to make trouble. There is even a zoo-train going up and
down the street giving rides to kids while their parents protest. The local
news just reported that two women with signs supporting officer Wilson came to
the riots last night to exercise their 1st amendment rights. The police had to
circle them to protect them. Gov. Nixon is on local TV now saying he will
not remove the county prosecutor. This afternoon a petition was submitted
containing 70,000 signatures of people who wanted him switched. Mr. Holder came
and met with the Brown family, said he's is for fairness. He did not have time
on his visit to call or meet with the police officer or his family."
--BW
Excerpt: The interior of the Ferguson Market and Liquor
Store is littered with broken bottles and scattered snacks. Despite the plywood
boards covering the windows and doors, looters with their faces covered in
bandanas helped themselves to anything they could find as those who came to memorialize
Michael Brown carried on his work. The violence in Ferguson didn't begin when a police officer
shot Michael Brown. It began when a 300 lb thug robbed the Ferguson Market and
abused a clerk. The release of the video showing the obese criminal assaulting
the clerk led to a terrified statement from the store manager that he had not
called the police and had nothing to do with the release of the video. “They
kill us if they think we are responsible," he said.
Fix Ferguson by Getting Rid of the Media. By
Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: If there’s a problem in America or anywhere in the world,
inflicting the media on it can only make it worse. By some accounts there are
more reporters in Ferguson
than there are protesters. That may be why the protesters ran for cover behind
the media after throwing bottles of urine at the police. There are so many
reporters in Ferguson
that the rioters and looters can use them as human shields.
Excerpt: To frame it another way, 33.5 of every 100,000
whites in the U.S.
assaulted a black victim at some point during each of those five years. Oh,
sure, the nitpickers will point out that during the same five-year period,
blacks in the U.S. committed, on average, some 327,900 assaults annually
against whites—meaning that about 898 of every 100,000 blacks nationwide
assaulted a white victim at some point each year. In other words, statistically
the average black was nearly 27 times more likely to assault a white, than vice
versa—898 versus 33.5 (out of every 100,000).
Holder AWOL for black
mom killed by cops: Justice ignores unarmed woman's slaying by police
Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder is in Ferguson , Missouri ,
ostensibly to investigate the shooting of an unarmed African-American by a
white police officer. What he is not investigating is the shooting of an
unarmed African-American woman by his own federal officers, in his own
jurisdiction, the District of
Columbia . And that has the family of the late Miriam
Carey so outraged, they announced Wednesday they plan to double the
amount of money in their lawsuit against the federal government to $150
million.
Excerpt: With an army of FBI agents on the ground and the
governor of Missouri calling
for a “vigorous prosecution” of the officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown,
many are questioning if the case isn’t already tainted before any arrest has
been made.
Obamacare News
About 400,000 in Mass. must seek new
health plan. By Felice J. Freyer
Excerpt: Nearly 400,000 people in Massachusetts will need to reapply for
health insurance before the end of the year, and many of them probably do not
even know it. They are people who do not have employer-sponsored health
insurance and who instead sought insurance through the state. After the Massachusetts insurance
website failed last year, most of them were enrolled in temporary coverage that
ends Dec. 31, which is why they must select a new plan.
Excerpt: A study recently
published in Health Affairs describes how price transparency
drove down the cost of MRIs by almost twenty percent from 2010 to 2012.
Compared to patients who did not have the advantage of transparent pricing,
cost per procedure dropped $220. Further, there was a significant shift from
hospitals to outpatient facilities.
Undocumented Democrat News
Dreamer Who Killed
Two Girls In Hit And Run Won't Be Deported, Still Protected By DACA
Excerpt: A beneficiary of President Obama’s Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals program who killed two children in a hit and run
accident has been released from jail and will be able to return to the protections
of the program, according to OregonLive.com.
Should Local Schools
Admit the Latest Illegal Immigrants?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/august_2014/should_local_schools_admit_the_latest_illegal_immigrants
Excerpt: School districts around the country are beginning
to discover where the Obama administration has moved many of the new illegal
immigrants, but most voters don’t believe these youngsters should be allowed to
attend local schools. Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters think
these illegal immigrants should be allowed to enroll in local public schools
this fall, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Fifty-three percent (53%) disagree and say they should not be permitted to
attend local schools. (Yet anther case where "democrats" are against
what a democratic majority would vote for, like late term abortion, and
Keystone. ~Bob
"You're Greener Than Gore" News
REPORT: Fracking Doesn't Create Destructive Earthquakes. By
Matt
Vespa
Excerpt: The debate is over; fracking doesn’t cause
destructive earthquakes. The highly non-controversial way of extracting natural
gas, which has been used
since 1947, has been a focal point of some absurd claims that they’re a
threat to the environment (via Associated
Press)
Religion of Peace News
Worth Watching: Proportional response?
Someone sent me the link above, to
a scene from the TV program West Wing, in which the President asks a really
cogent question, and in the end demands his military people come up with a
response to those who have killed an American that will really, truly, for damn
sure get their attention. It's not a long clip (2.28), I recommend watching it.
Yes, it's way past time to hit people so damn hard, so fast, that the few
survivors have their heads spinning and the rest of the world sits back and
says "Those Americans are goddam dangerous!". My ideas: Day and night
air strikes on any target we can find, every vehicle, every artillery piece,
every suspected ammo dump, and drones overhead quietly waiting with IR for body
signatures of men with weapons, who all then go to Allah as death rains from
the sky. Done day in, day out, night after night until we get frustrated
because we can't find a damn thing worth a bullet. By which time they will be
hurt enough and weak enough that the Kurds and the Iraqi army can mop them up
as they run, preferably with a "no prisoners" policy. Just a
thought..... but sadly, the fictional President of that scene and today's
actual President are very, very far apart in how they think. I do read that the
Kurds have really tightened up, even in little towns every man from 17 to 70
has got himself a weapon and at least some ammo, and they are ready to fight
the ISIS guys alongside the organized Kurdish
forces. They have figure out that these ISIS
maniacs are as dangerous as dogs with advanced rabies, and the only thing you
do with such dogs is put them down. We are giving the Kurds some air support,
and have at least promised them some more advanced weapons, which really just
means antitank rocket launchers so they can at least take out the ISIS armored vehicles (that we gave the idiot Iraqi army
fools). But if we just supply small arms ammo, grenades, and antitank stuff in
plenty to the Kurds, they will put them to good use, and if our air support
does at least significant damage to the ISIS
equipment, things can turn around. What we can hope for is that once the ISIS guys start taking a real beating, and start
retreating, more and more people like the Iraqi army will jump on the bandwagon
and go after them. It could turn into a real downward spiral for ISIS , and they could get really chewed up and chased all
the way back into Syrian territory. Meanwhile, it'd be nice if somebody figured
out if there's anyone in Syria
who also hates and wants to destroy ISIS , that
we might offer support to as well. Hitting them from both sides would be a
dream come true. But I am looking for nerve and competence from our leadership.
No, I have not been smoking any herbs, I just engage in deep wishful thinking
sometimes. --Del
Worth Reading :
Suicide Bombers. By Theodore Dalrymple
Excerpt: However secular the tastes of the young Muslim men,
they strongly wish to maintain the male dominance they have inherited from
their parents. A sister who has the temerity to choose a boyfriend for herself,
or who even expresses a desire for an independent social life, is likely to
suffer a beating, followed by surveillance of Stasi-like thoroughness. The young
men instinctively understand that their inherited system of male
domination—which provides them, by means of forced marriage, with sexual
gratification at home while simultaneously freeing them from domestic chores
and allowing them to live completely Westernized lives outside the home,
including further sexual adventures into which their wives cannot inquire—is
strong but brittle, rather as communism was: it is an all or nothing
phenomenon, and every breach must meet swift punishment. Even if for no other
reason, then (and there are in fact other reasons), young Muslim males have a
strong motive for maintaining an identity apart. . (Published in his great book
Not with a Bang, but a Whimper: The
Politics and Culture of Decline.)
RE: Bedbugs at the
U.N.
Muslim apologists won't like the sarcasm any more than the
underlying truth. Even if only 1% of Muslims were jihadi-oriented, that's still
12 million people dedicated to the destruction of Western Civilization.
Meanwhile, the other 99% go along to get along (and keep from getting
murdered), and are doing NOTHING to stop it. Classic definition of a cult. --SA
Excerpt: But the U.S.
government didn’t forget about him; on the contrary, the president himself
green-lighted a top-secret operation to rescue him and other hostages in Syria . Alas,
the mission failed. (I agree with Del 's
solution, above in "Proportional Response." If I were president,
there would be a lot of dead ISIS people, but
no one would dare touch an American for years. The murder of the teen in Israel who was American
is ignored, because he was Jewish. ~Bob.)
President condemns
brutality of ISIS :
Excerpt: Now, Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to
his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and
villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They
abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery.
They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target
Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering
them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different
religion. (Translation: Based on O's history in Libya, Syria and every other
place in which the US has confronted thugs on his watch, ISIS will soon be
receiving US humanitarian aid [probably including ammunition], in an effort to
"Reset" their understanding of the West. Buy burkas for your wives
and daughters before they disappear from the bazaars and Kasbahs. --TH)
Excerpt: But on a deeper level, the statement
suggests 2) some serious problems with this administration’s understanding
of man’s nature and propensity for evil. Let’s look at a few tweets that get at
this: ... President Obama’s utopian fantasy of “the future” “always” being “won
by those who build, not destroy” is just obviously and resoundingly false, for
better or worse. I mean, define “future.” And define “winning” and “building
vs. destroying.” Tamerlane had tremendous success destroying and slaughtering
his enemies — for most of a century. And World War II didn’t end by building up
Nagasaki .
Worth Reading :
American Decapitated by Englishman. by Mark Steyn
Excerpt: From the United Kingdom 's
point of view, the Afghan war has long been in essence a British civil war
relocated to the Hindu Kush and played out
between those British passport-holders loyal to Queen and country and those who
regard themselves as soldiers of Allah. But the execution of James Foley
broadens the scope, and foreshadows a world in which Americans are beheaded by
nominal "Australians", Australians by "Belgians", Belgians
by "Canadians", Canadians by "Germans", Germans by Americans.
There are two approaches to ISIS : You can
kill it. Or you can feed it. And right now we're feeding it - with manpower,
and with victims.
Quote
The President is wrong to continue to downplay this threat
by saying that ISIS is claiming to be at war with America
merely out of expediency, or that ISIS is
motivated by sheer 'nihilism.' This is not a "J.V. team," as the
President has put it. ISIS is an army of
cold-blooded killers motivated by radical Islam. They continue their march,
uninterrupted, to convert by the sword, kill Christians and other religious
minorities, and expand their control of the Middle East .
The Iraqis have already demonstrated that they cannot stop them on their own.
The President's current path of action has been far too limited to make a
difference. We must do what is necessary to eliminate ISIS ,
protect the innocent, and keep Americans safe." -- Representative Mike
Pompeo, (R., Kan), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, West
Point graduate, and former Army cavalry officer.
Excerpt: Then he was turned over to the Islamic State as a
token of this Free Syrian Army group’s allegiance to the new caliphate. The
Free Syrian Army are the “moderates” to whom the Obama Administration has given
weapons in Syria .
Thus the incoherence of the Obama foreign policy is laid bare: he is funding
what he considers to be heroic freedom fighters in Syria who, when they cross over into Iraq ,
becomebloodthirsty terrorists.
Holder says criminal
investigation launched into American journalist’s execution
The miscreants could get up to six months of community
service. ~Bob
Video: Irate Chris Matthews Taken Aback by Obama Reax to
Foley Beheading; Says of ISIS 'If They Want to
Die, Help Them Out.' By Ken Shepherd
Excerpt: "I don't know why he used the word 'justice.'
It's not appropriate here. This is an attack on our country, we have to react
to it," an upset Chris Matthews reacted to a video excerpt of President
Obama's statement today about the beheading by an ISIS
member of American freelance journalist James Foley. (Chris Matthews? He of the Obama-induced leg tingles? I gues when a
journalist gets the chop, it hits home. ~Bob)
Excerpt: However, there may have been one big tactic they
didn't try: paying a ransom. David Rohde, a well-respected journalist who works
at the Atlantic and the Reuters news agency, touched
upon this Wednesday, when he wondered whether U.S. foreign policy had failed
Foley with its refusal to negotiate with his captors. Rohde points out that
journalists of other nationalities were apparently released after their
governments paid large sums to the Islamic State, something the U.S. government
refuses to do (though private individuals and entities may). ... And while the United States
generally refuses to negotiate with kidnappers, there are times when it appears
to do so, as shown by the recent exchange of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
for five
Taliban commanders. (The basic laws of human nature remain unchanged
after thousands of years. you reward behavior you want to get more of. You
punish behavior that you want less of. Which is why the rose of the modern
progressive welfare state is matched by rising rates of non-marital births,
broken families, divorce, crime, drug abuse, domestic violence, unemployment
and entitlement drones unwilling to work. Which is why we don't pay ransom--and
why we should pound ISIS until nothing moves
on the ground. ~Bob)
Benjamin Netanyahu:
Isis And Hamas Part Of 'The Same Savagery
Excerpt: At a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday night,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on the offensive to describe Hamas as
part of a network of Islamist terror groups, which include the Islamic State
(IS), Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda.
Excerpt: Israel
conducted a targeted killing of two senior, and one lower level, Hamas
terrorists in the Gaza Strip Wednesday night, the Jerusalem Post reports. Coordinating with the Shin
Bet, Israel 's
domestic intelligence agency, the Israeli Air Force struck a building in Rafah,
killing Ra'ad Attar, Muhammad Abu Shamalah, and Muhammed Barhoum.
Answering question on
Israel ,
Bernie Sanders tells townhall hecklers to ‘shut up!’
Excerpt: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has little
patience for being heckled. The self-described “socialist,” often named as a
liberal alternative to Hillary Clinton in 2016, fought with constituents over Israel and the deaths of Palestinian civilians
in Gaza that
escalated into an angry screaming match.
Permanent cease-fire
may require Palestinian Authority’s return to Gaza . By Samuel R. Berger and Stephen J.
Hadley
Excerpt: The Hamas terrorist organization forced the PA out
of Gaza in
2007. But in the West Bank , the PA’s security
forces have proved relatively effective in maintaining security. There has been
good cooperation with Israeli security forces, and considerable progress has
been made in building the governmental institutions of a potential Palestinian
state. By contrast, Hamas’s rule in Gaza has
been disastrous for its people — producing economic failure, brutal governance,
human hardship, little hope and three wars with Israel in six years.
Interesting: Al Jazeera America Staffers Rattled By
Layoffs, Catastrophic Ratings. By John Nolte
Excerpt: A year after the launch of the cable news network
Al Jazeera America ,
layoffs, rumors of more layoffs, and catastrophic ratings have staffers
rattled. Writing for Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Starkman reports on
the struggles of the Qatar-based cable news network but misses one vital point:
... What Starkman misses is what has to be most grating to AJAM: The network has
absolutely no impact on the national conversation or news cycle.
Excerpt: At least 63 people have died in clashes between
rival Arab groups in Sudan 's
arid Darfur region, witnesses say. One
Sudanese radio station said its sources reported that more than 300 had died in
the fighting between the Rezeigat and Maaliya.
Why Jews Are Worried.
By Deborah E. Lipstadt
Excerpt: And despite all this I wonder if I am too sanguine.
Last month, pro-Gaza protesters on Kurfürstendamm, the legendary avenue in Berlin ,chanted,
“Jews, Jews, cowardly swine.” Demonstrators in Dortmund
and Frankfurt chanted, “Hamas, Hamas; Jews to
the gas!” And a pro-Hamas marcher in Berlin broke
away from the crowd and assaulted an older man who was quietly standing on
a corner holding an Israeli flag.
An
Execution Wave Against LGBT Iranians. y Majid Rafizadeh, an
Iranian-American political scientist and scholar
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has long depicted himself as
a defender of women’s and LGBT rights not only in the United States
but across the world as well. Yet, where is his voice when it comes to the
growing number of executions and the persecution of the gay and
lesbian community as well as the repression of women in the Islamic
Republic of Iran? In addition, why has the LGBT movement
not criticized the Obama administration or made a movement over these
injustices, egregious actions, and human rights violations committed in the
Islamic Republic against the gays and lesbians?
The Bankers To The
Terrorists
Excerpt: WikiLeaks documents prove that the United States has known for quite some time
(years) that the fictitious pseudo-state of Qatar bankrolls Hamas as part of
the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ikhwan. While Iran is
the world’s major facilitator of terror, Qatar is their bank. ...
This is the banker to the world of terror – Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda,
Hamas, Boko Haram and more. (Article notes they also own Al Jazeera....Note the
"Uniform" Kerry wearing--black suit with red tie. --Barb)
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