Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
WALSH SKEWERS FORMER GSA OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON DC - Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-8) strongly chastised former General Services Administration officials Monday during a Congressional hearing. The GSA is a government agency found to have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on recreational use and an especially extravagant Las Vegas conference.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood
In 1949, President Harry Truman signed the Housing Act, which gave federal, state, and local governments unprecedented power to shape residential life. One of the Housing Act's main initiatives - "urban renewal" - destroyed about 2,000 communities in the 1950s and '60s and forced more than 300,000 families from their homes. Overall, about half of urban renewal's victims were black, a reality that led to James Baldwin's famous quip that "urban renewal means Negro removal."
New York City's Manhattantown (1951) was one of the first projects authorized under urban renewal and it set the model not only for hundreds of urban renewal projects but for the next 60 years of eminent domain abuse at places such as Poletown, New London, and Atlantic Yards. The Manhattantown project destroyed six blocks on New York City's Upper West Side, including an African-American community that dated to the turn of the century. The city sold the land for a token sum to a group of well-connected Democratic pols to build a middle-class housing development. Then came the often repeated bulldoze-and-abandon phenomenon: With little financial skin in the game, the developers let the demolished land sit vacant for years.
The community destroyed at Manhattantown was a model for the tight-knit, interconnected neighborhoods later celebrated by Jane Jacobs and other critics of top-down redevelopment. In the early 20th century, Manhattantown was briefly the center of New York's black music scene. A startling roster of musicians, writers, and artists resided there: the composer Will Marion Cook, vaudeville star Bert Williams, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, James Weldon Johnson and his brother Rosemond, muralist Charles Alston, writer and historian Arturo Schomburg, Billie Holiday (whose mother also owned a restaurant on 99th Street), Butterfly McQueen of "Gone with the Wind" fame, and the actor Robert Earl Jones.
Designating West 99th and 98th Streets a "slum" was bitterly ironic. The community was founded when the great black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton Jr. broke the color line on 99th Street in 1905. Payton, also credited with first bringing African Americans to Harlem, wanted to make it possible for a black man to rent an apartment, in his words, "wherever his means will permit him to live."
A couple years after Payton moved his first tenants into West 99th and 98th Streets, the black orator Roscoe Conkling Simmon marveled that African Americans for the first time were living in "the most beautiful and cultured neighborhood in New York City...because back of them stands organized and sympathetic capital."
Fifty years later, the federal bulldozer tore that neighborhood apart.
Written, produced, shot, and edited by Jim Epstein. Narrated by Nick Gillespie.
Approximately 6.30 minutes.
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Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
Cultural Marxism: Understanding the Origins of Political Correctness
The origins of "political correctness" or "cultural Marxism" can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there. "The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition." Made by the Free Congress Foundation and narrated by William Lind. Who Stole Our Culture? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55833 Erich Fromm, Judaism, and the Frankfurt School http://obama.gbppr.org/erichfrommjudaism.html The Frankfurt School of Social Research - Review by Jett and Jahn http://www.jettandjahn.com/2010/10/frankfurt-school-of-social-research How a Handful of Marxist Jews Turned Western and U.S. Culture Upside Down http://www.davidduke.com/general/how-a-handfull-of-marxist-jews-turned-wester... The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt http://incogman.net/05/2009/the-frankfurt-school-conspiracy-to-corrupt
The origins of "political correctness" or "cultural Marxism" can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there.
"The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition."
Made by the Free Congress Foundation and narrated by William Lind.
Who Stole Our Culture?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55833
Erich Fromm, Judaism, and the Frankfurt School
http://obama.gbppr.org/erichfrommjudaism.html
The Frankfurt School of Social Research - Review by Jett and Jahn
http://www.jettandjahn.com/2010/10/frankfurt-school-of-social-research
How a Handful of Marxist Jews Turned Western and U.S. Culture Upside Down
http://www.davidduke.com/general/how-a-handfull-of-marxist-jews-turned-wester...
The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to Corrupt
http://incogman.net/05/2009/the-frankfurt-school-conspiracy-to-corrupt
Bill Whittle on The Narrative: The origins of Political Correctness
Saturday, April 14, 2012
RADICAL CLERIC WHO CALLED FOR MURDER OF ‘EVERY ZIONIST WHO ENTERS EGYPT’ LIVED & LECTURED IN AMERICA
Below, watch a CBN report that delves deeply into his connections here in America.
Fatwa to Kill Every Israeli in Egypt
[Update, 28 Sep: A small correction in the transcript--at the end of the first line it should read, "to carry their coffins with their own hands."]
Last month Dr. Salah Sultan, a member of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, declared on al-Jazeera that the IUMS would restore the fatwa they issued in 1994, which stated that "every Zionist who enters Egypt--tourist or not--should be killed."
Despite the importance of this fatwa for Egyptian-Israeli relations, this unfortunately received little attention in Western press. MEMRI did publish a short excerpt of the statements.
As horrifying as Dr. Salah Sultan's original comments were, some other details may be even more surprising. Sultan, who has radical ties to Islamist figures across the globe, recently resided in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to living in the U.S., he has also allegedly lectured at a local, Islamic elementary school (Sunrise Academy) and purportedly still has family living in the house he owns here in America.
Since leaving the U.S., he has relocated to Bahrain. His application for U.S. citizenship, of course, has been denied (he appeared at a Hamas rally in Turkey and has made comments overseas that lay blame for 9/11 on the U.S. government).
Patrick Poole, who says that Sultan lived in his community and who has sounded the alarm on his antics in the past, has more:
…Prior to Sultan being denied U.S. citizenship and later being denied reentry into the United States because of his advocacy of violence against the U.S., he lived in my own hometown of Hilliard, Ohio, not a mile from my own house. In fact, he still owns his home and some of his family still reside here. His oldest son, Mohamed, is the president of the Ohio State Muslim Student Association.
Friday, April 13, 2012
‘RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS UNDER ATTACK’: U.S. BISHOPS LAUNCH MULTI-YEAR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CAMPAIGN
‘RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS UNDER ATTACK’: U.S. BISHOPS LAUNCH MULTI-YEAR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CAMPAIGN
Our First, Most Cherished Liberty
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/our-first-most-cherished-liberty.cfm
WHAT WAS LIFE REALLY LIKE UNDER A COMMUNIST REGIME?
Glenn Beck hosted a panel comprising survivors of Communist regimes. Each took time to relive their painful stories and share opinions on Western society’s current, inexplicable exultation of socialism and Communism. Their personal accounts of experiencing food rations, religious persecution, confiscation of business, imprisonment, murder and assault on personal freedom, rang hauntingly familiar to one another’s.
At the conclusion of the program, Beck asked the panelists to tell Americans one thing they must look for in the current heated political climate. The following is a sampling of their answers:
Fox News Host: Harvard Should Release Obama's Records He's Spent $200,000 Hiding
Fox News Host: Harvard Should Release Obama's Records He's Spent $200,000 Hiding
Thursday, April 12, 2012
CNBC ANALYST LOSES IT OVER OBAMA’S BUFFETT RULE: ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT!’
CNBC ANALYST LOSES IT OVER OBAMA’S BUFFETT RULE: ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT!’
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
‘Test of Fire’: Catholic 2012 political ad goes viral
‘Test of Fire’: Catholic 2012 political ad goes viral
Catholics Called to Witness (CC2W) is an organization dedicated to encouraging Catholics to participate in the political process while upholding “non-negotiable principles” of protecting life in all its stages, promoting traditional marriage and protecting parents’ right to educate their children. Their new internet video is being passed around and has reached over 100,000 views already.
What is your reaction to this video?
Obama Official, Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: Boko Haram
Obama Official, Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: Boko Haram
Does religion play a role in the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-admin-official-says-religion-is-not-driving-extreme-violence-in-nigeria-the-day-after-islamists-slaughter-40-christians/
TEEN GIRLS ADMIT TO DRAWING ‘SYRUP’ SWASTIKAS & LEAVING FECES OUTSIDE OF CA JEWISH FAMILY’S HOME
TEEN GIRLS ADMIT TO DRAWING ‘SYRUP’ SWASTIKAS & LEAVING FECES OUTSIDE OF CA JEWISH FAMILY’S HOME
What is your reaction to the teenagers who did this? Is this a hate crime? Anti-semitism?
SCHOOL BACKTRACKS AFTER BANNING STUDENT‘S MURAL DEPICTING ’TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE’
SCHOOL BACKTRACKS AFTER BANNING STUDENT‘S MURAL DEPICTING ’TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE’
A student mural at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, Rhode Island, was reportedly deemed inappropriate and banned by a public high school due to its depiction of a man, woman and child holding hands. The couple, clearly engaged in a straight, monogamous relationship, are seen standing with what appears to be their child.
The school painted over this portion of the mural out of fear that it would offend people who live alternative lifestyles.
What do you think of the school's position to blot out the offensive images? Were they right or wrong, why?
Source: http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2012/apr/06/12/high-school-paints-over-portion-...
A public school in Warwick RI paints over portion of mural depicting a child growing up graduating and culminating with being married with a child.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Our best & brightest are our worst & dimmest: Michael Widlanski
Our best & brightest are our worst & dimmest: Michael Widlanski
Michael Widlanski, author of "Battle For Our Minds: Western Elites and The Terror Threat" joins Michael Coren to discuss the islamophilia of self-appointed Western elites. Feel free to smack one in the head when you see 'em.
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After thousands of people were murdered in simultaneous terror attacks on September 11, 2001, the New York Times said the violence came "out of the blue." Nothing could have been further from the truth.
Arab-Islamic terrorists had been attacking the West for years but the reports were dismissed as the work of "madmen" and, in fact, all the while recruiters and fund-raisers for Arab-Islamic terror were receiving academic and economic sanctuary in some of America's most esteemed institutions. Had Osama bin Laden been held accountable in 1992, 1996, and 1998, and had his followers been called out, his Al-Qaeda network wouldn't have become a clarion call for anti-Western terror. Now as new attacks, aborted and otherwise, are carried out from London to Mumbai to New York's Times Square, Western elites—academia, the media, and government officials—have once again been fueling that same dangerous complacency that is leaving us as vulnerable as before.
In Battle for Our Minds, Michael Widlanski delivers a powerful and sound argument for turning around this willful ignorance, and explains exactly how it can be done: by facing and genuinely understanding the precise motives and mind games behind those who want to destroy us. He names the officials, media pundits, and academics who have hindered the battle against Islamic terror, in turn obstructing a logical fight to stop it. Clearly, a lack of factual accuracy is sabotaging the Western mind, and Widlanski's anger is justified: Why has an all-out "holy war" been softened into the more liberally acceptable "spiritual struggle"? Why, pre-9/11, were the terrorist threats made in New York City mosques ignored? Why did we go out of our way to give bin Laden a proper burial out of respect to an ideology that erased the World Trade Center? Why is President Barack Obama so hesitant to offend the enemy by calling it what it is: Islamic Extremist Terror? How can we stop it if, out of a weak and outrageous political correctness, we refuse to even recognize it?
Dr. Widlanski lays out a commonsense, no-holds-barred solution to an imperative and increasingly dangerous global dilemma. This is not a witch hunt, nor a temporary Band-Aid, but a comprehensive strategy built around a hard-hitting truth carefully omitted from every liberal media outlet, and downplayed, overlooked, and incorrectly assessed by the FBI, CIA, and the State Department: terrorist "martyrs" want to change the course of history. By convincing them that their acts are futile, the tide turns and we can prevent further acts—and win the battle for our minds.
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IGNORING OR BELITTLING THE EXTREMIST IDEOLOGIES SPARKING TERRORISM IS ITSELF AN IDEOLOGY— THE WESTERN IDEOLOGY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. THIS IDEOLOGY HAS ALREADY COST MANY LIVES.
Several European leaders have recently shown that they are moving away from the politically correct path that avoids criticizing Islamic extremism and instead has enshrined it as part of multiculturalism. German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Nikolas Sarkozy, and British prime minister David Cameron, all of whom have large Muslim minorities in their countries, have now said that that path is a dead end.
After the London bombings then--prime minister Tony Blair said the war with Arab-Islamic terror was a battle whose roots were ideological: "This is the battle that must be won, a battle not just about the terrorist methods but their views. Not just their barbaric acts, but their barbaric ideas. Not only what they do but what they think and the thinking they would impose on others."
Fortunately, a growing number of Western leaders is starting to recognize ideology as a key to Arab-Islamic terror. To fight terror we need also to combat these ideological motivators directly in what has sometimes been called "the battle of ideas."
Monday, April 9, 2012
The Ballad of Mott the Hoople, Documentary Trailer & Q and A
BOMTH Original Promo from Start Productions on Vimeo.
The Ballad of Mott the Hoople, a documentary about the great glam rock band best known for its hits “All The Young Dudes” and “All The Way To Memphis” will see release on November 15. New interviews with Mott frontman Ian Hunter and band members Ariel Bender, Mick Ralphs, and Dale “Buffin” Griffin, as well as additional commentary from Mick Jones of the Clash and Roger Taylor of Queen make this a must see, but it’s the rare and previously unseen archival footage of the band, as well as exclusive video of Mott’s celebrated 2009 reunion show, that truly convey the glorious power of this classic British group.
New York Film Festival, 2011, The Ballad of Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter Q&A
CBS News legend Mike Wallace passed away; take a look back at some of his most memorable interviews, including the very first episode of "60 Minutes."
CBS News legend Mike Wallace passed away; take a look back at some of his most memorable interviews, including the very first episode of "60 Minutes."
O'KEEFE'S LATEST: VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION LANDS ON ERIC HOLDER'S DOORSTEP
O'KEEFE'S LATEST: VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION LANDS ON ERIC HOLDER'S DOORSTEP
Should we be concerned about a lack of voter ID laws? Why or why not?
An unidentified person can walk into the Attorney General’s voting precinct and obtain Eric Holder’s ballot.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
MA COUPLE FINDS SWASTIKA KEYED INTO THEIR CAR AT THE START OF PASSOVER
MA COUPLE FINDS SWASTIKA KEYED INTO THEIR CAR AT THE START OF PASSOVER
The keyed incident is not the only anti-Semitic incident in the area. The Anti-Defamation League New England reported that a nearby delivery truck also had a swastika keyed onto its side around the same time.
Are these incidents just random or part of a pattern of anti-Semitism against Jews during a holy season, Passover? Why do you think so?
Anti-Semitic message left on Brighton couple's car during Passover: MyFoxBOSTON.com
ADVERTISING FAIL: MIRACLE WHIP SEEMINGLY EMBRACING THE ‘SOCIALIST FIST’
Back in 2009, comedian Steven Colbert spoofed their edgy, “We Are Miracle Whip and We Will Not Tone It Down” advertisement in a clip titled, “The Mayo-lution Will Not Be Televised.”
And now, Miracle Whip seems to be jumping on the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon with an advertisement saying, “Keep an Open Mouth,“ and ”Join the Cause,” with the all too-familiar socialist fist clutching a bottle of Miracle Whip.
Miracle Whip’s website is running similar advertisements that may or may not have political undertones.
For instance, in one of the ads a group of towns-people with torches and pitchforks (tea partiers?) are stirred into a frenzy over a bottle of Miracle Whip.
Then, a level-headed girl tells them: “perhaps you should try it before making such wicked accusations,“ and the ”Keep an Open Mouth” slogan follows.
What do you think of the ads? Are they a clever way to appeal to the “Occupy” crowd, or are they an embarrassing marketing ploy?
Witch Hunt
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Arizona Misrepresented by Representative Jeff Flake of AZ Once Confronted, Denies Facts of Obama’s Fraud
Tom Ballantyne Jr., Author of "Oh Really, O'Reilly?" asks Republican Congressman Jeff Flake about his stand on the investigation of Barack Obama's Birth Certificate and Selective Service Card by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The results aren't pretty.
To see the March 31st video of Sheriff Joe's presentation on this issue go here:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/?p=43651
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Media Research Center and Breitbart.com Expose Lamestream Media Manipulation
Should the mainstream media distort the news to fit their narrative and sound bites? Why or why not?
NBC Fires Producer in Flap Over Manipulated 911 Call in Trayvon Martin Case
MSNBC Fixes False Report Which Made Zimmerman Look Racist, Doesn't Acknowledge Error
Following in line with their broadcast television colleagues who deliberately edited the audio of a 9-1-1 call of George Zimmerman, the Florida community watch volunteer who shot teenager Trayvon Martin, to falsely impute racist motives to him, MSNBC.com, in an unbylined piece did the exact same thing in text form, stripping out vital information which made Zimmerman appear to be racially motivated against Martin, who is black.
After being criticized, MSNBC.com restored the proper context but never posted a retraction, correction notice, or an apology for doing so. Originally, the story quoted from Zimmerman's call to 9-1-1 and edited the text to say the following: "'This guy looks like he’s up to no good … he looks black,' Zimmerman told a police dispatcher from his car."
But here is what MSNBC/NBC News left out thanks to “a convenient ellipses” (as first noted by Breitbart.com blogger Dan Riehl):
ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good, [begin ellipsis] or he's on drugs or something. It's raining, and he's just walking around, looking about.
911 DISPATCHER: Okay, is this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic? [end ellipsis]
ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.
With this in mind, Riehl stated:
Not only did Zimmerman not equate Martin's skin color with his looking suspicious; he didn't even initiate the comment. It was simply a response to the police dispatcher.
Instead, the community watch leader was speculating based upon what he could determine at night in the rain to answer the police dispatcher.
Since then, the news channel has changed that paragraph of the story on its website so it reads as follows:
This guy looks like he’s up to no good,” Zimmerman said in a 911 call. Asked by a dispatcher if he was white, Hispanic or black, he replied, "He looks black." (Italics supplied)
However, no one from MSNBC or NBC News has issued an apology regarding the error.
As noted above, MSNBC.com was not acting alone in editing the context of the telephone conversation, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell discussed with host Sean Hannity how NBC News did the exact same thing:
Friday, April 6, 2012
Our 1st and 5th Amendments are under being attacked… slowly
Our 1st and 5th Amendments are under being attacked… slowly
Organizations opposing voter ID laws require ID to enter their buildings
Organizations opposing voter ID laws require ID to enter their buildings
Should voters be required to produce IDs in order to vote? Why or why not?
‘LET THIS BE AN EYE OPENER’: CANADIAN POLICE USE FACEBOOK PHOTO TO IDENTIFY AND ARREST WOMAN
‘LET THIS BE AN EYE OPENER’: CANADIAN POLICE USE FACEBOOK PHOTO TO IDENTIFY AND ARREST WOMAN
Is this an abuse of power by police in a free society? Or, should social media be used in any way law enforcement deems necessary? What is your reaction?
MOM COULD FACE 20 DAYS IN JAIL FOR BAPTIZING HER KIDS WITHOUT HER EX-HUSBAND’S PERMISSION
MOM COULD FACE 20 DAYS IN JAIL FOR BAPTIZING HER KIDS WITHOUT HER EX-HUSBAND’S PERMISSION
Is the appellate court decision treading into forbidden territory of deciding spiritual doctrine? Or, is it just upholding the law when a parent is accused of flagrantly violating a court order? Which is the more convincing position and why do you think so?
Niall Ferguson U.S. Lost Competitiveness Study
NIALL FERGUSON: THE U.S. HAS LOST ITS COMPETITIVE EDGE AND THERE’S ONLY ONE PLACE TO PUT THE BLAME.
Figures 9 and 10
Bloomberg Video
HBS Study of U.S. Competitiveness
http://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/survey/
‘GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY’: IRAQI WOMAN’S DEADLY BEATING IN CALIF. MAY NOT BE HATE CRIME AFTER ALL
‘GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY’: IRAQI WOMAN’S DEADLY BEATING IN CALIF. MAY NOT BE HATE CRIME AFTER ALL
#3390 - Algerian Cleric Ali Belhadj, Former Vice-President of the Islamic Salvation Front, Calls Sarkozy "Despicable" for Having Muhammed Merah Buried in France; French Citizen Tears Up His Passport, Calling Sarkozy a "Pig" and Justifying Merah's Actions The Internet - March 30, 2012 - 04:13
#3390 - Algerian Cleric Ali Belhadj, Former Vice-President of the Islamic Salvation Front, Calls Sarkozy "Despicable" for Having Muhammed Merah Buried in France; French Citizen Tears Up His Passport, Calling Sarkozy a "Pig" and Justifying Merah's Actions
The Internet - March 30, 2012 - 04:13
The Internet - March 30, 2012 - 04:13
Following are excerpts from an address by Algerian cleric Ali Belhadj, former vice-president of the Islamic Salvation Front, in the course of which a Muslim with dual nationality demonstratively tears up his French passport. The footage was posted on the Internet on March 30, 2012.
Ali Belhadj : Yesterday, I saw that despicable man, Sarkozy of France. Forgive me. I brought important things to talk about, but sometimes, there are things that make one go off on a tangent.
I saw the father of [Toulouse terrorist] Merah, Allah's mercy upon him...
Crowd : Allah's mercy upon him...
Ali Belhadj : He asked for his son to be buried in Algeria. True, he was a French citizen and was supposed to be buried in France, but if his father writes a letter to the president, asking that his son be buried in Algeria - why refuse?
Did his act warrant his excommunication? Is he a heretic? He should be buried in a Muslim graveyard, and prayers should be said for him.
[...]
French Muslim : Sheik, I would like to say something.
Ali Belhadj : Go ahead.
French Muslim : Sheik, this is my way of supporting... I would have like to have done it in front of Allah's enemies in France 24 TV, and in front of all the infidels. I want Allah's enemy Sarkozy to see this.
I have dual nationality. Sarkozy, Allah's curses upon you...
Tears up his French passport
Crowd : Allah Akbar... Allah Akbar...
French Muslim : I love you as a brother in Islam, Sheik... I am doing this in support of my brother in Islam, the mujahid Muhammad Merah.
Crowd : Allah Akbar... Allah Akbar...
French Muslim : By Allah, he was a lion, my brothers. Let me tell you, Sheik, he is not a kharijite. By Allah, he is a Sunni Salafi.
Sheik, I would like to tell you something.
Ali Belhadj : Go ahead.
French Muslim : I am not in a position of authority in matters of jurisprudence. You are a sheik, and I love you as a brother in Islam. By Allah, [Merah] was not in the wrong, because there are fatwas by great scholars who said: If they kill our women, kill their women, and if they kill our children, kill their children.
Sheik, he was not in the wrong. Sheik Ibn Al-Uthaymeen said this, and he was a great scholar, and Ibn Taymiyya and many others said it before. [Merah] was a God-fearing man, and I don't mind if they denounce me.
Sheik, let me say to that Sarkozy: Allah's curses upon you, you pig! You are a Jew. We know you all too well. I lived among you in France, you enemies of Allah. I was a lawyer, defending our brothers in Islam. Let me tell you something. I pray that Allah place [Merah] in Paradise. Sarkozy, you pig, may Allah freeze the blood in your veins.
Crowd : Amen.
French Muslim : Allah, bring a black day upon them.
Crowd : Amen.
French Muslim : I would also like to say to our brothers in the Forsane Alizza organization, headed by my brother Abu Hamza, who were taken to prison. Sheik, they sent 19 of them to prison, although they had nothing to do with it. They had nothing to do with those brothers. [the Forsane Alizza] are preachers, religious people, who wanted to defend women wearing the niqab.
Sheik, I'm not in a position to...
Ali Belhadj : May Allah bless you...
French Muslim : Sheik, may that lion [Merah] vouch for me on Judgment Day.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Strike on Iran could prompt Hezbollah attack within U.S. -- Reuters Investigates
Strike on Iran could prompt Hezbollah attack within U.S. -- Reuters Investigates
Reuters investigative correspondent Mark Hosenball reports that the intelligence community believes the Islamic militant group Hezbollah stands ready to hit civilian targets in the United States if Iran is attacked. (April 5, 2012)
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: KITCHEN TABLE ECONOMICS AND BRING-HOME PAY
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: KITCHEN TABLE ECONOMICS AND BRING-HOME PAY
The Senate Budget Office notes that during Obama’s first term, the nation has run four consecutive trillion-dollar deficits, and under his budget, we would see another trillion-dollar deficit for FY 2013. The SBC writes in a statement:
The U.S.’ per-person government debt is now worse than that of Greece. Using the Administration’s own numbers:
In just four years, President Obama’s policies will have added $6.4 trillion in new gross debt, for a total debt of $16.4 trillion by the end of this year.
Per-household debt will have risen from $85,500 at the end of 2008 to $135,100 by the end of 2012.
Average spending under the Obama Administration will be 33 percent higher than the four years preceding his term.
Spending in 2012 will be $800 billion higher than 2008.
Per-household spending in 2012 will be $7,000 greater than 2008—a 23 percent increase.
Per-household spending in 2022 under the president’s budget will be $44,000, nearly $20,000 higher than in 2008.
Per-household debt in 2022 under the president’s budget will be $195,000, more than double what it was in 2008.
In critiquing Republican Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, Obama characterized the House Budget Committee Chairman’s cost-cutting measures as “thinly veiled social Darwinism” that is “antithetical to our entire history.”
MA SCHOOL REMOVES ‘GOD’ FROM LEE GREENWOOD‘S ’GOD BLESS THE U.S.A’ DURING ASSEMBLY
MA SCHOOL REMOVES ‘GOD’ FROM LEE GREENWOOD‘S ’GOD BLESS THE U.S.A’ DURING ASSEMBLY
Should schools violate intellectual property rights by removing "God" from a commercially released song? Should references to God be removed from songs at all?
School changes lyrics from 'God Bless the USA' to 'We love the USA' : MyFoxBOSTON.com
Greenwood went on to say that “we can’t take God out of the song, we can’t take God out of The Pledge of Allegiance, we can’t take God off of the American currency.”
School changes lyrics from 'God Bless the USA' to 'We love the USA' : MyFoxBOSTON.com
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Uncivilized Tactics at UC Irvine (Rough Cut)
A six-man, six-woman jury found members of the Muslim Brotherhood group, the Muslim Student Union, guilty on all counts of misdemeanor disturbing a public meeting and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 8, 2010.
They deliberately broke the law. They deliberately disrupted and shut down Ambassador to Israel Michael Oren's, speech, knowing full well that they risked arrest. The stealth jihadists use freedom of speech to shut down freedom of speech. There is no freedom of speech under the sharia. Today American law triumphed over the sharia.
Atlas readers and others are to be applauded for urging the DA to prosecute the Muslim Brotherhood supremacist group. The Irvine 11 are the MSU students at UC Irvine who are accused of disrupting Ambassador Oren's speech. This was an orchestrated attack on free speech. Please take a minute to email Tony Rackauckas, the Orange County DA, letting him know you support his decision to prosecute these MSU students. Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR pushed for an aggressive plan to stop this prosecution. Both groups were named as Brotherhood proxies and unindicted co-conspirators in the largest Hamas funding trial in American history.
No modern phenomenon has impacted college campuses today more than the Muslim Student Association/Union. Founded in 1963 by the Muslim Brotherhood — the same radical Sunni organization that spawned the terror group Hamas — the MSU has since made headlines around the country due to its militant and controversial rhetoric. The MSU, especially that of University of California at Irvine, is infamous for attracting charges of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, as well as for sparking the 2007 investigation of UCI for anti-Semitism. The MSU is no stranger to the First Amendment. Come May every year, the organizations hides behind it so its members can spout anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic remarks on college campuses. And just last February, MSU members at UCI attempted to use their right to free speech in order to deny Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren his own free speech. (more here.)
The Brotherhood thugs:
Atlas Shrugs, Feb 2010: Oren was interrupted 10 times while trying to give his speech before 500 people at the UCI Student Center, where there was heavy security. Oren took a 20 minute break after the fourth protest, asked for hospitality and resumed his speech, only to be interrupted again by young men yelling at him every few minutes. Many members of the audience also applauded Oren.
After the 10th interruption, several dozens students who opposed Oren’s talk got up and walked out and staged a protest outside. It is not clear whether they were members of the UCI Muslim Student Union, which issued an email earlier in the day condemning Oren’s appearance on campus.
They invoke freedom of speech to to kill freedom of speech. There is no free speech under the sharia. Today American law triumphed over the sharia.
UC Muslim students guilty of disturbing speech (hat tip Laurie R)
SANTA ANA – A jury Thursday found 10 Muslim university students guilty of disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at UC Irvine last year, in a case that focused on free speech.
The six-man, six-woman jury found the students guilty on all counts of misdemeanor disturbing a public meeting and conspiracy in connection with the Feb. 8, 2010, talk by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
We're delighted the jury saw this the same way we saw it," said Assistant District Attorney Dan Wagner.
The prosecution said the defendants used a "heckler's veto" to thwart the free speech rights of the speaker and others in the audience, while the defense countered what the protesters did was a lawful expression of their free speech.
Defense attorney Dan Stormer said he was honored to represent the students, but disappointed in the verdict.
The jurors left the courtroom without comment immediately after the verdict was announced.
Court will reconvene at 1:30 this afternoon for a possible sentencing.
After months of pretrial motion, the trial lasted eight days, including about two days spent on closing arguments by one prosecutor and six defense attorneys earlier this week.
Wagner told jurors the protesters actions amounted to censorship when they planned to disrupt Oren and tried to cover it up.
The right to free speech is not absolute, he said, and it does not include canceling out the speech of others.
"If heckler's veto was allowed, then no one would have the right to free speech," he said. "Freedom does not mean that no one can tell me what I can do. That's not freedom; that's anarchy."
The prosecutor urged jurors not to buy into the "alternate reality" created by the defense, saying the defendants "convicted themselves."
Defense attorneys for the students – seven from UC Irvine and three from UC Riverside – said their clients intentionally disrupted the speech, but they believed they were conducting a peaceful protest that did not break any laws.
University officials' zero tolerance for protest kept students from exercising their rights to free speech, defense attorneys argued.
And, it they told jurors in Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson's court officials were prohibiting the content of the protesters' statements at a controversial political speech and not simply their conduct.
One of the elements the prosecution needed to prove for the jury to find the students guilty was the students' conduct and not the content of their message disrupted the speaker.
"It was the message that was being targeted by administrators," defense attorney Lisa Holder said, "The university was prohibiting (the students') unpopular pro-Palestinian message."
[...]
The "intent of the conspiracy was to rob the speaker of his free speech rights," Wagner told jurors, adding that a planned Q&A would have given students ample opportunity to have their say, not yelling out "something non-responsive that violates the rules we all live with."
When in an emailed "game plan" before the event students expressed willingness to disrupt regardless of what the university officials and police would do, that Wagner said was proof of conspiracy and the unlawfulness of the plan.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
IMAM CALLING FOR WAR AGAINST FRANCE, MUSLIMS MARCH SCREAMING "DEATH TO THE JEWS!"
We have just released a new and very shocking video, made in Paris last Friday, September 16th, in the islamized district of Barbès (18th district of Paris).
Days before this Friday, the French Interior Minister (Claude Guéant) had said publicly, on TV, that all the public Muslim prayers are for now on forbidden in France.
So, we sent a special reporter in the streets where, each Friday, for 15 years, the Muslims had been praying illegally on the ground. Our reporter videotaped a salafist preacher calling for war against France, in front of the Polonceau mosque (in the 18th district of Paris), and calling for the death of the French police and the French people "pigs".
Then, he videotaped pro-Hamas extremists marching in the streets of Paris with a big Hamas flag, and screaming "Death to the Jews!" And, then, he videotaped the Muslims praying on the ground in front of a barracks that had been renovated by the French authorities for them (of course, this renovation was illegal, since it is forbidden to give public funds to a religion).
The guy with the long hair and keffiyeh is basically warning of an uprising in at least 5 boroughs.
He clearly states "It will explode" a number of times.
Usual threat of violence... what else is new...
He accuses France of supporting Israel and alleges that the Le Pen led FN (far right party) is the most pro Israel in France (totally false, Jean Marie Le Pen minimized the holocaust and was known as a fascist racist)
The man then attacks France claims that prayer is their right as citizens and that because they pay taxes, they have the right to pray in public (I guess he never went to school in France because no other country makes the faith-state separation more clear than France).
Then the Hamas marchers come and chant the usual, Kill the Jews and Allah Akbar ....
The film maker notices that there are no women in the Muslim crowds and that this was the "first day without street prayers in Paris" sarcastically.
As from Friday, September 16, 2011, the collective prayers and illegal street is prohibited in France. This large first (which is illegal ban ...) was it acted upon? The two mosques of the 18th arrondissement of Paris were closed to the "faithful", and signs the new place of worship, located at Inside the barracks of the Rue de la Porte des Poissonniers, offered to the Muslims of the Republic "secular." front of the mosque from the street Polonceau, we filmed the imprecations of a hateful and racist Salafi, prompting until armed revolt against France, punctuated the roar repeated that "Allah is great", followed by applause. Then we went to the barracks, surrounded by groups of Muslims shouting hate speech, such as "Death to the Jews "certainly objects of future lawsuits ruthless SOS-Racism and other leagues usual ... Minor clashes, fortunately not serious, occurred between the security service, consisting of relatively older workers, and some Salafist colors Hamas, calling the scandal and inciting violence. The calm restored, and prayer in the open (and therefore illegal) of several hundred participants completed, all things have passed away without further violence and spoken. According to testimonies, prayer and banned illegal street took place at the same time outside the mosque closed the street Myrha. There was, at least, no visible police presence wherever we went. wait for the next Friday for the rest of the experience.
Obama Donations - Anyone, Anywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UzRzsWc0Kds
The Obama campaign does not have the universal 3-digit security code feature for credit card transactions on their website. It appears that anyone, anywhere can donate to President Obama's re-election campaign, all you need is a credit card number. Watch me put Obama's donation system, as well as his opponents, to the test.
Should anyone, anywhere in the world be able to donate to the Obama re-election campaign? Why or why not?
Here we go again: Obama website accepting contributions from phony donors.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/02/here-we-go-again-obama-website-accepting-contributions-from-phony-donors/
The Wall Street Journal Details how President Obama is trying to Destroy the Coal Industry in America
The Wall Street Journal Details how President Obama is trying to Destroy the Coal Industry in America
Editorial board member Joe Rago on the EPA's de facto coal ban.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Netanyahu's U.N. Address (9.23.11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJFnqi5rEs&feature=player_embedded
IS OBAMA USING ‘I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER’ TO PEDDLE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-calls-more-redistribution-wealth-declaring-i-am-my-brother-s-keeper
On 30 March 2012, Obama appeared in a campaign speech in Vermont where he spoke about helping others and the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. In his address, Obama condemned what he sees as “you’re-on-your-own economics” and argued, as CNS News alleges, for policies that would transfer wealth from one group to another.
In Genesis, Adam and Eve’s first-born son is Cain and their second-born son is Abel. Cain becomes a farmer and Abel becomes a shepherd. When Cain offers the fruit of his farming to God and Abel offers a lamb, God is pleased with Abel’s offering but not Cain’s. Cain then kills Abel. When God asks Cain where Abel is, Cain says: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
But Obama’s focus on that particular episode in the book of Genesis is instructive. This use of the Cain and Abel story is classic liberation theology, the tasty slurry of Christian teachings and Marxist class struggle that was characteristic of the Church the Obama family attended in Chicago for 20 years. The story of Cain and Abel has a special meaning to liberation theology that sets it apart from most mainstream Christian denominations. In most Christian churches, the idea of original sin is usually associated with the narrative of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God when they fell to temptation and ate the forbidden fruit. In Liberation theology, on the other hand, Adam and Eve’s original sin is largely abandoned and replaced by an increased significance on Cain’s betrayal of his brother.
Further explanation of this significance comes from Christopher Rowland and Mark Corner’s 1989 book Liberating Exegesis: The Challenge of Liberation Theology to Biblical Studies:
The story of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4) is read as an example of the kind of struggle which goes on in society between the landed and the landless, the farmers and the shepherds…The cause of Abel’s death is the division of labour, which creates social classes and the ensuing struggle for land.
As a central theme of the class-struggle preached at church while Obama attended, the liberation theology of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, he’s clearly drawing from a familiar well.
HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER HEARD BILL CLINTON SAY OBAMA INELIGIBLE
Bettina Viviano – who started her own film production company in 1990 after serving as vice president of production for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment – stated that it was common knowledge among delegates committed to Hillary that the Clintons believed Obama was constitutionally ineligible and that Bill Clinton would eventually disclose his belief to the public.
Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Where's the REAL Birth Certificate?"
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Employment and Unemployment, History Degrees: Penn and Harvard
Education matters
Paul Harrington, professor and director of the Center for Labor Markets & Policy at Drexel University explains the correlation between unemployment and education level.
Mal-employment hurts earnings
Laura Wesolowski has applied for more than 200 jobs. She holds a master's degree in public policy from University of Pennsylvania.
Harvard and Penn history graduates
http://www.philly.com/philly/video/BC1530987322001.html
Debunking the Palestine Lie
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East.
This video debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world.
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