Update
Coughing a lot, on a new antibiotic, but feeling okay. Was
at the Veterans Advisory Board at the VA today. Good group, legitimately trying
to make the Madison VA better--not window dressing. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Excerpt: The Clinton
Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential
charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last
month. The Clinton
family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and
pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. The group spent the
bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the
fattest payouts going to family friends. (Donations from foreign
governments and shady foreign investors tied to the Russian government +
enormous expenditures on themselves and their closest backers + giant speaking
fees for Bill + little money to the actual good causes they claim motivates
them = a giant bribery scheme. Here’s the kicker: “It seems like the Clinton
Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons ,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow
at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group where progressive
Democrat and Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout was once an organizing
director. That statement is going to show up in a lot of ads. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: She’s earthy and “funny” just as her friends say —
but there’s another side, too, a woman who is unnervingly single-minded in her
pursuit of power, privacy and, at times, cash. Either way, there’s probably one
more Hillary than any presidential campaign should have. ... But that effort is
being undermined by a parallel storyline, and the well-executed New Hampshire
trip was blown off basic
cable by a barrage of stories Thursday documenting questionable
practices by the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation — and
illuminating once again what appeared to be the same old indifference to
boundaries between charity, politics and wealth.
Simplified bullet
point list of Hillary and Bill’s selling out to Russia
Excerpt: You can read the 4,500-word Times article or watch
the nine-minute-long summary produced by Fox News, but here’s a simplified
tick-tock of the deal: •In September 2005, Bill Clinton traveled
to Kazakhstan and met his friend Frank Giustra (pronounced joo-strah),
who wanted to buy uranium mines there. •Clinton gave
a press conference with Kazakhstan President
Nursultan Nazarbayev, in which he endorsed the leader’s human rights record and
democratic progress, even though he had just received 91% of the vote in an
allegedly rigged election. The event was a public relations coup for
Nazarbayev....
Bill Clinton fakes
crying at Ron Brown's funeral
Excerpt: Bill Clinton caught on film suddenly switching
from a laugh to a cry when realizes someone is filming him. (Mentioned by Rush
yesterday....the true Clinton
side. --Barb)
A progressive’s lament about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
By Katrina vanden
Heuvel
Excerpt: It has come to this. To sell his trade treaty —
specifically the fast-track trade authority that would grease
the skids for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), President
Obama is mobilizing a coalition anchored by corporate lobbies, the Chamber of
Commerce and Republican congressional leadership. He is opposed by the majority
of Democratic legislators, the labor movement and
a broad array of mainstream environmental, consumer and citizen organizations.
(I've been for Free Trade since high school economics with Ben Mark. As Adam
Smith pointed out long ago, for a society to advance economically, it needs
division of labor, pursuit of self interest and free trade. ~Bob)
Excerpt: When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the
White House this week, President Obama should offer him a warm welcome — and a
friendly challenge. Right now, the United States
is negotiating a historic trade deal with Japan
and 10 other countries on the Pacific Rim, and one of the key remaining issues
is whether Japan will open
its agriculture and auto markets to U.S. products. While Abe is in
town, the president should urge Japan
to drop the trade barriers and close the deal. This trade agreement, the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, would give a boost to both of our countries.
Excerpt: We all make mistakes and some of us learn from them.
What is even better is to learn from other people's mistakes, where they pay
for those mistakes while we learn free of charge.
Many Americans who say that we should learn from other
people, especially Europeans, mean that we should imitate what they did. That
may make those who talk this way feel superior to other Americans. But let us
never forget that the most disastrous ideologies of the 20th century --
Communism, Fascism and Nazism -- all originated in Europe .
So did both World Wars.
More recently, Europe has
been belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of
people from cultures that despise Western values, and which often promote
hatred toward Western people.
A Republic No More: Big Government and the
Rise of American Political Corruption.
By Jay Cost (Author)
Excerpt: After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin
Franklin was asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a
Monarchy?” Franklin ’s
response: “A Republic—if you can keep it.” This book argues: we couldn’t keep
it.
Oligarchs for
Hillary!
For me, the issue this US election season is the
corruption. Sure, I'd like a balanced budget and less debt and repeal of
Obamacare, but I'm getting used to being sold out on those issues. So I'm down
to the bare minimum requirement for a politician: The corruption nauseates me,
and, if it doesn't nauseate the candidates, then that explains a lot about why
nothing happens on any of those other matters.
Annals of Corruption:
What’s Real, What’s Parody? Who can reliably distinguish between satire and
reality when Obama, Holder, and Hillary are involved?
Excerpt: We have a “justice” department that prosecutes
a senator who made the mistake of crossing the President (Menendez) but declines
to do anything about a tax collector who treats American taxpayers differently
on the basis of how they vote (Lerner) .... We have replaced equality before
the law with a hierarchy of privilege, so that no-name ambassadors can be fired
for breaking federal record-keeping requirements by a department whose boss
outsources her federal records to her own server and then mass-deletes them
with no more thought than when she’s parking her van in the handicapped
space.... We have a president who rules by decree on everything from
immigration to health care—and a legislature of castrati too craven to object.
How Long Does America
Every week this country is consumed in a new distended orgy
of polarized, mutual hatred, set against the backdrop of outrage mobs, race
riots, shuttered businesses, scandals, Twitter-induced career ruination,
gleeful smear parties, and partisan hackery. Admit it: You’ve asked yourself
where America is
going, and how long it can survive the trip. Admit it.
Excerpt: I'm struggling to understand why Iraq is strategically irrelevant.
Unless you were just being glib, of course. I understand the emotional
response to Dempsey's words, but it's more than just the words. A few years
ago, thousands of men were told to go and secure that province, those cities;
because they were important. Men gave their lives because those places were
important. Now, suddenly, they are unimportant. Now, their sacrifices are
cheapened. The value put on life is entirely emotional. There is no monetary
value. There is no amount that can buy back the dead. Try as we might, there is
no universal standard price on human life. There isn't even a national standard
price. It is entirely emotional. The value of the sacrifice is also entirely
emotional, and in this case open to much interpretation. (Iraq vet lays it all out, in lavender...But not
lavender vocabulary, he speaks as a truly pissed off soldier, responding to
General Dempsey's recent comments about Iraq . And I feel his anger, and
share it. --Del )
Worth Reading : If South Vietnam
Excerpt: Look at the rest of East Asia and imagine what South Vietnam
could have been. April 30 will be the 40th anniversary of the fall of
Saigon . Forty years after the U.S. abandoned South
Vietnam , it’s possible that the most universally accepted
lie in American history is that America ’s
Indochinese intervention was a bad idea. In most circles it’s a truism that Vietnam was a
mistake, and few conservatives see it as a point worth arguing. When
Republicans talk about Vietnam ,
they defend the maligned troops. Occasionally someone points out that the Tet
Offensive was an American victory. Occasionally, Mylai is balanced with the
thousands of comparable, and dozens of incomparably worse, Vietcong and North
Vietnamese crimes. Rarely does anyone point out that once Creighton Abrams
replaced William Westmoreland as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam, we started winning the war — and that by refusing to live up to our
commitments after the Paris Accords, Congress snatched South Vietnamese defeat
from the jaws of military victory. Instead of making any of those arguments,
though, I’ll point out some facts about modern East Asia .
(What a truly important and meaningful comment on how things really turned out
with "liberation and justice" as compared to what could, and as far
as I am concerned, should have been. --Del )
Rising Dragon News
Excerpt: The investigator urged his host, a local security
official, to rush after the Kurd and ask if he would allow the rifle to be
photographed and its origins ascertained. Soon the investigator (who works for
Conflict Armament Research, a private arms-tracking organization in Britain ,
and who asked that his name be withheld for safety reasons) found a surprise
within his surprise. The rifle, which its current owner said had been captured
from the Islamic State last year, was not an M-16. It was a Chinese CQ, an M-16
knockoff that resembles its predecessor but has a starkly different
arms-trafficking history. The rifle’s serial number had been obscured by
grinding, and the roughed-up spot had been retouched with black paint. That
two-step effort at obscuring the weapon’s provenance was identical — down to
the dimensions of the grinding — to that of Chinese CQ rifles that Conflict
Armament Research and the Small Arms Survey, an independent research group in Geneva , had documented in 2013 in the possession of rebels
in South Sudan and had traced to a Sudanese
intelligence service. The Kurd’s rifle cartridges, too, were from the same
Chinese manufacturer (Factory 71) and the same production year (2008) as those
previously found in South Sudan .
Excerpt: The
International Organisation of Vine and Wine (IOVW) said China now had
799,000 hectares (1.97 million acres) of land devoted to vineyards. That
compared with 1.02 million hectares in Spain .
Prelude to a Japanese Revival. By John Minnich
https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/prelude-japanese-revival?mc_cid=871da1f651&mc_eid=fdbbab3411#overlay-context=weekly/prelude-japanese-revival?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Gweekly&utm_campaign=20150428
Excerpt: As always with such occasions, the real work, whether on revising guidelines for U.S.-Japanese defense cooperation or negotiating the finer points of Japan's accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, will take place long before Abe sits down with Obama. In this sense, his visit is largely symbolic. But this does not make it insignificant. The significance of Abe's trip, like that of the work that precedes and surrounds it, rests in what it tells us about Japan's strategy and what that strategy reveals about ...
https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/prelude-japanese-revival?mc_cid=871da1f651&mc_eid=fdbbab3411#overlay-context=weekly/prelude-japanese-revival?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Gweekly&utm_campaign=20150428
Excerpt: As always with such occasions, the real work, whether on revising guidelines for U.S.-Japanese defense cooperation or negotiating the finer points of Japan's accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, will take place long before Abe sits down with Obama. In this sense, his visit is largely symbolic. But this does not make it insignificant. The significance of Abe's trip, like that of the work that precedes and surrounds it, rests in what it tells us about Japan's strategy and what that strategy reveals about ...
Quote by Bernie
Zilbergeld
The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven
years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a
piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his
playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not
practiced for seven years, he replied: I did practice, every day. I rehearsed
every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.
Gun News
Overnight Burglary
Turns Violent
Excerpt: The burglar,
who police say is the woman's ex-boyfriend, found the pair in the closet. The
man then shot the suspect. He was taken to regional one in critical
condition.
Race Card News
Comments on last blog
post
What happened to the young man who died is horrible, the
problem is being addressed. But, when a mob scene erupts and blatantly violates
the law, breaking into shops, looting, burning down a local business, causing
personal harm to the police who have to protect the rest of the neighborhood,
this is criminal activity. If you break the law and cause harm to persons or
places of business, the police must stop this activity, and that is what rubber
bullets are good for. By this activity they are causing only gives the police
more reason to protect and defend themselves. I refuse to defend mob activity,
and defend the police for any retaliation. --Russel Brummer. For several years
in a university classroom, I have been identifying societal factors that would
justify a prediction of an additional civil war. Of course, your presaging is
proving to be 100% accurate. --Robert "Doc" Woody.
Worth Reading : Why Are
They Rioting In Baltimore
Excerpt: I watched the riots Monday night and also
watched on Tuesday morning. I was amazed at the comments from local
citizens. The basic premise was that the people were angry and they were tired
of black men being routinely killed by policemen. They seemed to believe that
it was a daily occurrence. The media seemed to contribute to this by supporting
the premise that the rage was valid although it should not include looting and
arson. The city of Baltimore
has had a democratic mayor since 1967. The police chief and his deputy are both
black and the greatest percentage of the officers are also black. The state of Maryland has had a
democratic governor since 1969 except for four years when Bob Ehrlich won the
governorship. Seven of the eight delegates to the House of Representatives are
democratic and both of the federal senators are democrats. The state of Maryland is one of the
bluest if not the most blue in the country and it has been led by liberals for
nearly 50 years. The school system in Baltimore is struggling to say the least. The
last time that I checked, the graduation rate for students who start high
school and eventually graduation was less than 50 percent.
Worth Reading : L.A.W.
& O.R.D.E.R. in Baltimore
Excerpt: The Baltimore
bedlam is not a protest. What's going on in Baltimore is not just civic disobedience and
it is not a mere riot. It is wanton mayhem that must not stand.
CNN Anchor Brooke
Baldwin Blames Military Veterans For Baltimore
Excerpt: After more than a year of CNN pouring gasoline all over
America with hysterical, and oftentimes phony, stories of
American racism, the left-wing network’s afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin
finally took it to the next level by blaming American veterans for the
Baltimore riots.
CNN Analyst Rips Baltimore
Excerpt: “What do you think the mayor meant when she
referred to giving protestors who wish to destroy space to do that?” “You know,
Jake, I think that statement is so absurd. I don’t know how to respond,”
Fuentes said. “I would just let her clarify that. Does she want to serve up
police cars, or other public buildings in Baltimore or public officials like
the police, turn them into piñatas for the people to come out and whack at them
so they can get their aggression out of their system? I’ve never heard a
statement like that and I think it’s ridiculous.”
Photos: Looting, arson as Baltimore
Excerpt: A second day of rioting and looting marred West Baltimore on April 27. At least police officers were
injured, while one is reportedly still unresponsive at a local hospital. Police
cars and other vehicles were destroyed in by flames, and a store was looted.
Police spokesman Capt. Eric Kowalcyzk affirmed that one officer is
unresponsive and other suffered broken bones after rioters threw bottles and
rocks at the ranks of officers. Kowalczyk said that the rioters are
“lawless individuals with no regard for the safety of people that live in that
community.” He vowed that the perpetrators will be identified and arrested. In
a Twitter message, police said that some of the rioters are juveniles and urged
their parents to rein them in.
Maryland Gov.
Declares State of Emergency After Violent
Clashes in Baltimore
Excerpt: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of
emergency today following a violent gathering in Baltimore , where people threw objects at
police, set cars on fire and looted businesses. Hogan also activated the
National Guard.
National Guard Troops
Deployed After Violent Clashes in Baltimore
Excerpt: The standoff began near the Mondawmin Mall in the
northwest part of the city, the Baltimore Police Department said, as the group
threw bricks, rocks and other objects at officers. Fifteen officers were injured,
six seriously, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said in an evening news
conference. Those injuries are not expected to be life-threatening.
Drug Dealer: Freddie Gray Arrest Record, Criminal
History & Rap Sheet
Excerpt: Gray had a lengthy arrest record with convictions
dating back until at least 2007, according to the Maryland Department of Justice. Not all of the
arrests led to convictions, in many of the cases he pleaded guilty to one
charge while the others were dropped. Details of when he spent time in prison
were not immediately available. His arrest record includes at least 18 arrests:
(Taking in his arrest record, he was a drug dealer who was also violent and a thief.
Given his circumstances, it is likely he was selling to black folks, helping
tear apart black families. Doubtful that he preyed on whites. And they are
destroying the community they live n to protest this thug who was destroying
black lives. Without knowing the facts. ~Bob)
Worth Reading : Dear
Racist, Looting, Rioting Scumbags in Baltimore
Excerpt: You are animals. If you are able to destroy the
home or business of your neighbor, you’ve lost your humanity. If you are able
to harm your fellow man, to scare their children, to do so with a clean
conscience, merely because of something that some cop may or may not have done,
which has nothing to do with you… you are a horrible human being. You disgust
me, as you should anyone who wishes to be a part of civilized society. Leftists
will come to your defense and demand “understanding”. You deserve none. ... To
all the decent people left, kiss your wives and hug your children. We are on
the cusp of darkness the likes of which this country has never seen.
Maryland Governor and Baltimore
Excerpt: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan abruptly walked away during an interview with
CNN’s Don Lemon Monday night after he repeatedly pressed them about their
efforts to maintain order amid
protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of a
spinal injury sustained while in police custody. Lemon asked Rawlings-Blake and
Hogan why a state of emergency and outside resources weren’t
called in over the weekend when demonstrations appeared to be intensifying,
with both the governor and mayor responding that officials initially had the
situation under control.
Ticked Off ‘Master Sergeant’ Delivers Must-Hear Message on
Live TV Amid Baltimore
Excerpt: A Vietnam
veteran took to the streets of Baltimore
amid utter chaos on Monday night and urged rioters to go home. He also
delivered an amazing, impromptu message on
live TV after a CNN reporter approached him. The man, who identified himself as
Robert Valentine, said the violent rioters do not “respect” the death of
Freddie Gray or the family’s feelings. Gray died of a serious spine injury
while in police custody, sparking unrest in Baltimore .
Man Dragged Out of Store by Mob in What Is Likely the Most
Disgusting Video to Emerge Out of Baltimore
Excerpt: In a shocking video posted
online, rioters can be seen punching and stomping on the white man for no
apparent reason. The man’s condition is currently unknown.
After a night of
rioting in Baltimore
Excerpt: This wounded city assumed a defensive crouch
Tuesday, one day after looters and rioters wreaked havoc on West
Side neighborhoods. Malls, museums, courts, federal offices,
universities, shops and a baseball stadium all locked their doors out of fear
that the mayhem would resume — and potentially spread — despite the hundreds of
National Guard members and police officers pouring into the city. (No free
loot, no peace! ~Bob)
Excerpt: After a week of protests and the funeral of
25-year-old Freddie Gray, who recently died in police custody of serious
injuries, rioters took to the streets of Baltimore late Monday afternoon and
rampaged through the city until the early hours of the morning burning
buildings, cars, looting local stores, attacking police and reporters.
Fifteen police officers were injured and the hoses being use by firefighters to
put out an inferno at a CVS
were cut.
Excerpt: On April 27, Baltimore
Sun reporter Justin Fenton was saved from a mob of rioters by a Baltimore business owner
armed with a shotgun.
Is This America Baltimore
Excerpt: Police officers were injured, businesses looted and
buildings were set on fire in Baltimore Monday during riots
protesting the death of Freddie Gray, who died on April 19 from a spinal injury
he sustained while in police custody. Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of
emergency, and activated the National Guard. (America transformed, as promised;
even while playing so much golf and sending WH minions to "grieve." Such
a community organizer. Job well done. Hatred is not from God. Consider the
Source as you follow the Pied Piper to your doom. We all have nothing we can
lose in a second and we hope that does not include our immortal souls....if
anyone believes in any of that any more. The Knockout Game on steroids, eh? And
then, add Mexican gangs, radical Islamist "immigrants" and anyone
else invited to the melee of the destruction of America and her people. No one
ever checked the locked up, "secret" background references of the
current POTUS. --Barb)
Riots erupt
across West Baltimore , downtown
The incident stemmed from a flier that circulated widely
among city school students via social media about a “purge” to take place
at 3 p.m., starting at Mondawmin Mall and ending downtown. Such memes have
been known to circulate regularly among city school students, based on
the film "The Purge," about what would happen if all laws were
suspended.... The flier included an image of protesters smashing the
windshield of a police car Saturday during a march spurred by
the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord
injury earlier this month after being arrested by city police. ("Purge"
of what? Police, EMS , firemen? WHITES? Shouldn't
"black lives matter" really be "All lives matter"? Blood is
red for everyone.....Hate comes from Evil, not God. Consider the source. --Barb
The Purge (2013) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 In the future, a wealthy family is
held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the
Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized.
The Purge: Anarchy
(2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975578/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
Three groups of people are trying to survive Purge Night,
when their stories intertwine and are left stranded in The Purge trying to
survive the chaos and violence that occurs. )
Excerpts: Baltimore
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) stated that Al Sharpton and “anyone who
wants to add to the calls for peace in our city” “is welcome” during a press
conference on Monday. Rawlings-Blake said, “anyone who wants to add to the
calls for peace in our city is welcome. I would — if Reverend Sharpton wants to
come, if parents want to encourage their children to, you know, act within the
law, I met with young people this afternoon, young people who want peace, young
people who want justice, they were giving their own suggestions on how young
people themselves can add a voice and try to add a sane message, a message that
says ‘we don’t — not in our name that you are doing — that you are destroying
our city.’
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: Let's examine a few drought facts. California experienced
eight major droughts in the 20th century, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
They ranged from two years to as long as nine years, such as that which
occurred from 1928 to 1937. In the previous century, there was the bitter
drought of 1862-65, which was a catastrophe for the state of California -- made worse by a smallpox
epidemic. Scott Stine -- professor of geography and environmental studies at California State
University , East
Bay -- said that all of these modern
droughts were minor compared with California 's
ancient droughts of 850 to 1090 and 1140 to 1320. One wonders whether
California Gov. Jerry Brown and his cadre of environmental extremists would
attribute those ancient droughts to man-made global warming. A large part of California 's water problem has
economic roots. Whenever there's a shortage of anything -- whether it's water
or seats at a baseball stadium -- our first suspicion should be that the price
is too low.
Water Policy: Profit
from Mistakes Rather than Repeat Them. By Lloyd Brown
Excerpt: California 's
mismanagement of its water -- and government in general -- is benefiting Florida , but the Sunshine State
With agriculture wilting in California ,
some agricultural interests are looking for farmland in Florida , according to state officials. That
will help the economy but also put more pressure on the water supply.
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Retired
generals: Be afraid of ISIS . By Michael Flynn,
James Livingston and Michael Smith
Excerpt: Be afraid -- be very afraid. This is the warning
the world deserves to hear. Because the leader of the free world refuses to
look with clear eyes at the chief security challenges of the 21st century: the
fruits of radical Islam. The results of the Obama White House's innovative
efforts to make the world a better place can be accounted for in the
ever-growing numbers of victims of radical Islam in the Middle East, North
Africa and South Asia . Not to mention here in
the United States , Canada and Europe .
Is it not a tragic irony that the Arab Spring-era policies of a Nobel Peace
Prize recipient accommodated the transition of Syria
into the world's newest jihad theater while leaving Libya
a failed state and Yemen
a failing state? ... Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn served as director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency. Medal of Honor recipient and retired Maj. Gen.
James E. Livingston, USMC, and congressional counterterrorism adviser Michael
S. Smith II are co-founders of the strategic advisory firm Kronos
Advisory.
Worth Hearing: Ann Corcoran on Refugee Resettlement
This short video is something we should all be concerned
about. --GBH
Excerpt: Three photographs of the “Ustad Yasir” camp were
obtained by journalist Saleem Mehsud and published on his Twitter account on
April 18. The images were emailed to the Pakistani reporter, Mehsud
told The Long War Journal. Fourteen Islamic State fighters are shown in
formation in two of the photos.
The other image shows a pickup truck with a heavy machine gun mounted on the
back moving through a creek.
Iranian forces have
boarded the Marshall Island- flagged Maersk Tigris- Pentagon
Excerpt: The Iranian military on Tuesday seized a Western cargo ship
in the Persian Gulf , the Pentagon said,
briefly roiling markets. (Tweet This) Warning shots were fired but no injuries were
reported, a shipping agency said. Thirty-four crew members were reported
aboard.
Comedian Wonders – If “Moderate Muslims” Hate ISIS, Why
Haven’t Any Gone to Fight ISIS . By Onan Coca
Excerpt: Bill Maher continues to hit the nail on the head
when it comes to worldwide Islam (Islam and Political Correctness are pretty
much the only two things that Maher ever gets right). This past Friday on
HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host pointed out a glaring
problem with the argument that moderate Muslims hate terrorism as much as
everyone else does. “I mean, why aren’t any ‘moderate Muslims’ ever going to
fight ISIS ? I’m saying if ISIS
is so anathema to ‘moderate Muslims’ how come 0 have gone to fight them?” Maher
asked.
Will Obama Pick
Another Fight with Israel
Excerpt: The concessions that President Obama is making to
Iran have alarmed not just the right in Israel but also the left, and forced
pro-Israel Democrats to choose between loyalty to the President and steadfast
support for the Jewish state. Even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
has cautioned that "we need to all work together to return the special
U.S.-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared
concerns and interests."
Excerpt: Yom Ha’shoah or Holocaust Day, marked this year on
Thursday, April 16, will commemorate 70 years since the end of World War II,
and the liberation of the Nazi death camps. The horrific toll anti-Semitism and
Nazi racial hatred exacted on humanity in general and Jews in particular can
never be overemphasized. The dwindling numbers of survivors carry the pain of
losing loved ones, and the brutality of the Nazis and their helpers in Eastern
and elsewhere in Europe . Six million innocent
Jews were murdered, including 1.5 million children. Humanity was a loser as
well. Millions of educated and productive Jews, who might have become inventors
of new medical cures, scholarly researchers, poets, writers, and entrepreneurs,
were sent to the gas chambers for the crime of being born Jewish. Europe has blood on its hands, but little remorse. Anti-Semitism
in Europe has gone viral in 2014, and has
grown worldwide. (Consider this when you contemplate spending your money in a
foreign country. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: Iran led
the call by non-aligned nations on Monday for Israel to
give up its cache of nuclear weapons. Addressing the conference on the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iranian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif placed a target on the Jewish state. Zarif
insisted that the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is demanding
that "Israel ,
the only one in the region that has neither joined the NPT nor declared
its intention to do so, (...) renounce possession of nuclear weapons."
Excerpt: The head of the Islamic State is reportedly injured
so badly he can barely move, Kareem Shaheen at The Guardian reports. "Sources
tell us Baghdadi is still alive, but still unable to move due to spinal injury
sustained in the March air strike," Shaheen tweeted.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who last year declared himself caliph of the Islamic
State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh), was reportedly wounded in a US-led airstrike in March.
Women must give
husbands sex ‘even on camels’, Islamic scholar says http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/women-must-give-husbands-sex-even-on-camels-islamic-scholar-says
Excerpt: While insisting that the concept of marital rape
does not exist in Islam, religious scholars say it is sinful for a Muslim man
to force his wife to have sex when she is ill or menstruating. Perak Mufti Tan
Sri Harussani Zakaria said that men can always have sexual intercourse with
their spouses even if the latter do not agree, saying that a Muslim woman has
“no right” to reject her husband’s demand. “Even the Prophet says even when
they’re riding on the back of the camel, when the husband asks her, she must
give.
Son of George Soros Launches Anti-Israel ‘Jewish Action PAC’
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/24/son-of-george-soros-launches-anti-israel-jewish-action-pac/#ixzz3YZtsGexg
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/24/son-of-george-soros-launches-anti-israel-jewish-action-pac/#ixzz3YZtsGexg
Excerpt: It is no secret that Papa Soros funds various PACs tied directly to the
#BlackLivesMatter movement. In his announcement, Alexander Soros makes it very
clear that this “civil rights” movement is his organization’s primary focus.
While J Street
UN plan to settle 1M
refugees an invitation to terror, critics warn
Excerpt: The humanitarian disaster unfolding on the
Mediterranean is likely already providing a "shield" for Islamist
terrorists to infiltrate waves of migrants attempting the perilous crossing
from North Africa to Europe, terrorism experts and other strategic observers
are warning..... Former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi had spoken of
dispatching tens of thousands of migrants to Europe as a political weapon to
transform the identity of continent, Phares recalled – and now jihadist
militias had “opened the path” for them. “This is an urban militant campaign
masterminded by jihadist forces on the ground in Libya ,” he said, identifying the
human-trafficking puppet masters as ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood,
the transnational Islamist organization founded in Egypt . (Per article, UN plans to
settle 1 million "refugees" in Western nations. --Barb)
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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
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