Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Technologic "Prophecy"?

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We are in a messianic process which is slowly bringing light to the world so that humanity won't be completely blinded (or destroyed) by the sudden onset of the light. Deeds done in darkness are coming to light and Truth is replacing falsehood as the Olam HaSheker disintegrates.

Rabbi Zamir Cohen has written a book called The Coming Revolution, Science Discovers the Truths of the Bible. At the End of Days, everything will come into harmony with the Truth of Torah and everything, technology included, will proclaim the Oneness of G-d.

Question: Is the web bot project part of that revolution?

The following is excerpted from an interview with the originator of the web bot project. It appears to foretell the rise of Mashiach (although those involved would disagree with this idea)and a possible holocaust (G-d forbid!) in America, all beginning in only a few weeks in October 2009.

(Excerpted portions)

1) That's a tricky one. It's one of those instances where we can't be too forthcoming because we don't want to reveal or participate or create a feedback loop that's going to endanger this individual, but apparently there's going to be a rather visible, or that is to say, a near-global personality that will arise as a result of, or out of the chaos of this coming Fall and through next year that we'll all think of later as a central figure to the humanitarian revolution against the powers that be. This individual is shown as having remarkable power in, hmmm, let's just say the entertainment field, but we're not talking an entertainer, ok. We're talking somebody who's going to be able to use their particular talent as a motivating factor for humans and this individual is described in various ways, but one of the key factors that we'll all recognize this individual by will be the level of individual personal suffering that is involved there, so, very much a, in our viewpoint, very much an admirable being that has arisen to a particular level of mindset, if you will, as a result of years of suffering. Ok, now the impact on this is going to be really shocking. I mean to the point where we think that we'll actually see exhibited, probably in some of the monarchist states, maybe in Belgium and England, this kind of thing, where we'll actually see the words of this individual banned. Once we start seeing them ban the contents of, and I won't go into the particular media, then we'll know we're onto that particular track. However, it should be a rather short and very meteoric rise as to global awareness. As we get into the chaos and everything starts becoming a little bit really strange, there will be this central point that stands out, that, you know, this guy really understands...that this particular person stands out as a stellar encapsulator of our common experience, if you will.

2) We're going to reach levels that replicate or exceed the impact of the Weimar Republic, that is to say, the pre-Hitler Germany Republic went through a nasty stage of hyper-inflation. We're going to hit something that will exceed that. The powers that be, the last time that occurred, used something in the following linguistic trail to create chaos. What they did was they got a leader up there who, for his own reasons was anti-Jewish, and so they started this mantra: "Dirty bankers caused Germany's defeat. Dirty bankers caused Germany's defeat. Dirty JEWISH bankers caused Germany's defeat." And finally it just came down to where they were advocating wholesale violence against the Jews and they dropped off all of the banker part and so on. And the general Jewish population had no concept of any of this stuff going on. Indeed there was a Zionist, if we should categorize it that way, banker elite that was involved and that included people like Prescott Bush, the grandpappy of old President Bush, you know, that kind of thing, so, it's not strictly speaking, a Jewish issue, but we're facing conditions that the same kind of a mantra can be used to lead to a pogrom, and that is to say a wholesale, um, i don't want to say a war, but a social movement against the jewish population and it may it may indeed be that it comes to that, but however, we see some stuff showing up in late 2010 in the general revolution that would seem to veer us away from the path that the powers that be have already picked out which leads that direction. Their goal is to have a dictator arise in 2012 that will pretty much take care of "the Jewish problem" as it will be stated then, which will be an outgrowth of all of the suffering that we have all suffered from the central bank and warfare model. And it will be an attempt to disguise the fact that they were the cause of it with the central bank and warfare model of how to run human affairs. ...Some of them happen to have affiliations to the Jewish community, but they're bad guys. That doesn't make all Jewish people bad guys but these very specific individuals are very evil because they will attempt to shift the blame in as wide a fashion as they possibly can to get out from underneath it These are the people we call "the banksters" and the political minions and their last gasp is playing out as we speak. It will get really chaotic this Fall as the various bits and pieces of this huge bailout bubble start breaking down and we start getting some secrets revealed about what's going on.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

America - the laughing stock of the world

I've been noticing the downfall of America. I'm pretty sure we all have. The dollar is in shambles. All the rogue nations of the world making fun of America. The "Great" America is clearly on its way down. The talk in America now, is not of how great America is, but how to bring America "back".

I've noticed something interesting. With our president apologizing worldwide for America's actions, the current financial situation, the brewing wars, the truth of Congress being exposed (they sign bills without reading them?!), etc., it could be said that America is being made fun of. America has become the laughing stock of the world. What ever happened to the great nation?

There is a parallel story in the Megillah, where Haman (being at that time second in command) was ordered by the king Ahashverosh to ride Mordechai through the streets declaring 'this is what shall be done to a man who the king desires his great value'. This was a most degrading and embarrassing thing for him to do. In addition, we learn that his own daughter, upon seeing the sight, believed that surely it was her father being led by Mordechai through the streets. She proceeded to empty the family chamber pot upon what she thought was Mordechai's head. It was her own father and when he looked up, she committed suicide in her embarrassment.

This was the process of Haman's downfall. A miraculous rise to power; followed by being made into a laughing stock, followed by his ultimate downfall and death. I perceive it to be the same in America. Whether the entire history of America is counted or not, is not the issue. It is clear that America was the superpower of the world. They are now struggling to hold that title. Russia and China are clearly trying to pick up the title. Iran, North Korea, Venezuela are wishing for it as well, but are not anywhere near likely to get it unless they c"v kill most of the world with nukes.

At any rate, America is currently at the stage most likely to be right before its complete destruction. The RaDaK clearly explains that the downfall of Esav/Edom/the "west" is immediately preceding Mashiach's arrival. Hold on!
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Two-edged Dagger

by Lazer Brody

Obama's new offensive in Afghanistan has been dubbed, "Operation Khanjar" - khanjar in Pashto Afghan means dagger.

At its outstart on July 7th, Obama Administration spokesmen declared, "Operation Khanjar will ensure the safety of civilians and limit casualties as well as to winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people." Meanwhile, Obama's Khanjar hasn't ensured civilian safety, is suffering painful casualties, and is growing old fast on the Afghans.

Mr. Obama, the dagger cuts two ways. By pressuring Israel on the subject of Jerusalem, you are leading your own nation into oblivion.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Factoid - US Foreign Aid and Israel

by Mystical Paths

Just had a brief argument on Twitter over why Obama feels the right to meddle in Israel and not in Iran. Person shot out "because Israel receives $100 billion+ per year in US aid." So, here's some factoids on US aid to Israel for when you encounter such ignorance...

US Aide, Year 2008

Israel - $2.4 billion
Egypt - $1.7 billion
Pakistan - $798 million
Jordan - $688 million
Kenya - $586 million
South Africa - $574 million
Mexico - $551 million
Colombia - $541 million
Nigeria - $491 million
Sudan - $479 million

75% of the aid to Israel must be spent IN THE US - which means it's somewhat of a stimulous package! The vast majority of Israelis have a very favorable opinion of the US.

Not so for the aid to Egypt, most of which is military aid. Who is the US equipping Egypt to fight? The only neighboring country with comparible military power is...Israel. The vast majority of Egyptians have a negative opinion of the US and are supportive of jihad against the West.

Pakistan's aid is clearly a bribe to help the US with Afghanistan. The people of Pakistan hate the US, support jihad, 9/11, and training camps for terrorists.

South Africa is not a friend of the US, and is a major weapons supplier to regimes the US would prefer not be highly militarized. The aid is for HIV assistance, which the previous government did not acknowledge existed.

Sudan is freaking genocidal!

So yes, Israel gets significant US foreign aid (less that 8% of the aid given to General Motors). For that America has a regional ally that can be counted upon.

The next 9 on the list...not so much.

Monday, June 22, 2009

4th Grade Teacher Writes President Obama

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington , DC 20500

Mr. Obama:

I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.

You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America.

You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth. I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain dead ? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about?

Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century? Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?

Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You don’t show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia . How dare you, sir! How dare you!

You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey . You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?

I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members - on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer.

You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t! Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that’s $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million - not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.

I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.

Sincerely,

Every Real American

Ms Kathleen Lyday
Fourth Grade Teacher
Grandview Elementary School
11470 Hwy. CHillsboro , MO 63050

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

OBAMA’S MISSION: DESTRUCTION


by Torah news

Barack Hussein Obama is a messenger sent from Heaven, and Hashem is causing him to do strange and illogical things which are almost foolish. However with much help from Heaven he achieved his role as the president of the United States and Hashem has put in him the will to rule the world. He is an evil messenger who will cause the destruction of most of the world [See Zechariah 13].

Obama wants to be a dictator over the USA and he is succeeding greatly. He is in control of at least 30% of the businesses in America. It is very interesting that he manages to do things that no other president would have dared to try. He can't even prove that he is American, and this is amazing. He has signed hundreds of laws since he came to the white house. No other president had ever managed to pass so many laws in such a short time and some of them are very, very strange as well as anti-democratic and anti-American.

Barack Hussain Obama is a combination of Edom, Yishmael and Amalak and he reached the presidency by open miracles. He supports all sorts of things that are forbidden not only to Jews but even to B’nei Noach.

He wants to rule America more like a king then a president. He came into the world as if he were the secular Messiah, the goyish Messiah who does not believe in anything even close to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. He believes he can save the world. It's unbelievable and supernatural that such a wicked and unintelligent man could advance as far as he did. It's a miracle [all of which shows that he was sent from Above since he did not arrive by normal, natural processes].

Lately he has revealed even more his true hatred for the state of Israel which is based upon his hatred for Jews. It is now becoming clear that he wants to destroy Israel, tear it apart, and he doesn’t care if the Arabs eliminate the Jews, chas vesholom. It doesn’t interest him one bit.

If the above message sounds hard to believe, start looking into the situation and begin to realize - for you own good - what is going on in the world.

For a start, for example, one can see this article:

“Obama began his charade of a trip at Cairo, bowing and scraping before the Saudi King, and equating the Holocaust to the Palestinian Arab situation!

Obama's speech furthermore describes threatening Israel with destruction, genocide, as "deeply wrong." Why is it deeply wrong according to Obama? Because it raises "painful memories" for Israelis, and prevents them from making peace.

Not because planning to kill millions of Jews is wrong. But because talking that way upsets Israel too much to make a deal.

By contrast he describes the Palestinian situation as "intolerable". Killing millions of Jews to Obama is not "intolerable". By contrast Israel not giving the Palestinian Arab terrorists their own state, is intolerable. And of course an intolerable thing is something that Obama will not tolerate.”

Thus plotting to stage another Holocaust is "deeply wrong" (but don't expect Obama to do anything about it). On the other hand, failing to create a Palestinian state is "Intolerable."! to see full article - click here

See also what the Washington Post wrote:

“President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating."

An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone -- Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions."

What's the issue? No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them -- not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns -- even before negotiations”...

“This idea is not only logical, not only accepted by both Democratic and Republican administrations for the past decade, but was agreed to in writing in the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the United States in 2004 -- and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Congress.

Yet the Obama State Department has repeatedly refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations. And who now expects Israel to accept new American assurances in return for concrete and irreversible Israeli concessions, when he himself has just cynically discarded past American assurances.” to see full article-click here

For a step by step analysis of Obama’s speech in Cairo read:

“President Obama's Cairo Speech:

Outrageous, Absurd, Embarrassing”:

OBAMA: “As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam at places like Al-Azhar that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's renaissance and enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra, our magnetic compass and tools of navigation, our mastery of pens and printing, our understanding of how disease spreads and how it could be healed.

“Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires, timeless poetry and cherished music, elegant calligraphy, and places of peaceful contemplation -- and throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

RUSH: “But, folks, that is outrageous. This is simply outrageous. It was absurd, in fact. Let's see. Where do we start here? "It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra." No. The origins of algebra trace back to the ancient Babylonians. They were not Muslims. Algebra was temporarily developed by the ancient Greeks and later the English. "Our magnetic compass, tools of navigation," Islam gave us these? No. Recent research suggests that the compass may have been discovered by Central Americans, but if they didn't do it, the Chinese are then its discoverers. In either case, be it the Chinese or the Central Americans, the compass was discovered centuries before the advent of Islam."

"Our mastery of pens and printing..." Has anybody ever heard of Gutenberg? I didn't know Gutenberg was a Muslim. "Our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed..."? Are there Nobel Prizes for Medicine awarded to Muslims I have missed? "Islamic has given us some majestic arches and soaring spires..." Well, sorry, folks, but arches and spires predate the arrival of Islam by centuries. I mean, come on, folks. Arches? Anybody heard of Rome?

He also talked about the great gift, "timeless poetry and cherished music." The only problem there is that music -- and musical instruments especially -- are forbidden in most Islamic traditions. And it should be unnecessary to have to note Islam's "religious tolerance" has been demonstrated.”...

“What President Obama did today is unconscionable, to draw a moral equivalence between the slaughter of six million Jews and a political circumstance in Palestine that's largely brought on by Palestinian leaders. The six million Jews that were slaughtered were not terrorists. They were innocent, the essence of innocent citizens. The PLO, Yasser Arafat, Hamas, whatever you want to call them, Hezbollah? They spawn terrorism in their own country and in Israel. They have harmed themselves with their own efforts here to wipe Israel off the map. The Jews were not trying to wipe Germany off the map.” to see the entire article-click here


Sunday, May 24, 2009

Dollar's Dropping Like a Rock


Will Israel continue to prop up America by buying up this worthless paper? Monday is a national US holiday. What will happen when the markets open on Tuesday???

DOLLAR PLUNGE; FEAR OVER DEBT...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

US Vice President Shows Ignorance

by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths

Headline- US Vice President: Israel must back two-state peace solution

Vice President Joe Biden challenged Israel to back a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinians and urged the Jewish state's new leadership to demonstrate its commitment to such a solution. In a speech Tuesday to the leading pro-Israel lobby in the United States, Biden said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government should stop constructing new Jewish settlements and ease restrictions on Palestinians.

"Israel has to work toward a two-state solution," Biden told the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "You're not going to like my saying this, but not build more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement."


Mystical Paths Blogger Reb Akiva challenged Vice President Joe Biden to visit Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza without his security escort in a car with Israeli license plates and a yalmukah on his head.

"Mr. Biden will quickly learn the level of Palestinian commitment to peace as he drives through Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza City looking like a Jew. I would like to hear his recommendations regarding Palestinian freedom of movement after such a tour, should he still be able to speak.

You're not going to like me saying this, but the United States should stop constructing new settlements in Arizona, Southern California and Texas, dismantle existing ones such as San Diego, El Paso, and Albuquerque, and return them to Mexico. Similarly, the US should stop impeding the Mexican's freedom of movement through their historical territories. This is only a small part of the US's land grab and national oppression, given the number of Native American/Indian nations currently under occupation."

Monday, April 20, 2009

Lies about the "USS Liberty"

by Steven Plaut

In the middle of the Six Day War in 1967, an American naval vessel that had wandered into the war zone was mistakenly attacked by Israeli military planes. Israel apologized for the attack and paid compensation to the victims.

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Ever since, the attack on the USS Liberty has become a rallying cry for Neo-Nazis and anti-Semites from around the world. They claim that the attack was part of some nefarious Jewish cabal, whose purpose is never clear. The great irony is that the case of the USS Liberty is used as a bludgeon to bash Israel for an accidental friendly fire attack on American forces by many of the very same groups that applaud Bin Laden and cheer intentional Islamofascist terror attacks on Americans.

While numerous serious journalists have long put the story to rest, the best debunking of all of the conspiracist "theories" about the attack was that of Michael Oren in Azure in 2000. His arguments are too long to be reproduced here, and his piece should be read in full by anyone who wants to know the truth. Here is just one segment:

The incident began with the ill-conceived decision to send the Liberty to the crisis-torn Middle East, a mere half-mile beyond Egyptian waters, in an area not used by commercial shipping and which Nasser had declared off-limits to neutral vessels. The Americans did not accede to Chief of Staff Rabin’s request for the identification of all U.S. ships in the area or Ambassador Harman’s request for a strategic liaison between Israel and the Sixth Fleet. The Liberty’s dispatchers, meanwhile, overrode naval orders to keep the ship in Spain, and then failed to inform the U.S. attaché in Tel Aviv of its presence near the war zone. These mistakes were compounded by the navy’s communications system, which delayed by as much as two days orders to the Liberty to withdraw 100 miles from the coast.52 Even after it was hit, the Americans had difficulty locating the Liberty, the JCS placing it at “60-100 miles north of Egypt.” If neither Castle, nor CINCEUR, nor even the President of the United States could know where the Liberty was, it seems unreasonable to expect that the Israelis, in the thick of battle, should have been able to locate it.

The Israelis, too, committed their own share of fateful errors, as the Yerushalmi report points out: The erroneous reports of bombardment at El-Arish, the failure to replace the Liberty’s marker on the board after it had been cleared, the over-eagerness of naval commanders, and worst of all, Ensign Yifrah’s miscalculation of the ship’s speed…. All of these elements combined to create a tragic “friendly fire” incident of the kind that claimed the lives of at least fifty Israeli soldiers in the Six Day War, and caused 5,373 American casualties in Vietnam in 1967 alone.

An even better documented book debunking the "theories' of the conspiracists and Neo-Nazis is "The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the US Spy Ship," by Jay Cristol.

Nevertheless, anti-Semites of all stripes continue to use the 42 year old incident as a weapon against Israel. Even Neo-Stalinist Noam Chomsky, who adores Islamic terrorism, uses the Liberty incident to bash Israel. So do the Stalinist anti-Semites at the leftwing pro-jihad Counterpunch web site.

But curiously, these people have now been joined by Barry Chamish, the UFO "researcher" and inventor of the fictional "theory" about how Shimon Peres and the SHABAK were the real murderers of Yitzhak Rabin. Chamish has a long history of collaboration with Holocaust Denier organizations and web sites, and he is now proliferating a "theory" of the USS Liberty attack invented by Neo-Nazi organizations.

Here are some of Chamish's new "discoveries," taken from a Chamish web site. Chamish invents a claim that it was American President Johnson who ordered Israel to sink the ship:

'The issue of the Liberty has deeply poisoned the American relationship with Israel. It is a far greater thorn than Israelis understand because, in fact, Israel did try to kill every sailor on board The Liberty.... Admiral McCain was not covering for Israel, he was protecting Pres. Lyndon Johnson, who ordered Israel to attack the Liberty....Cutting to the chase, it wasn't Israel's idea. Israel still did the killing, and muffed the attack with an amateurish show of its military prowess, but it wasn't the leader of the hit squad. That's far better than being left in the lurch as the mafia's don....
"Of course Johnson gave the order. But he received his orders from higher up." "So the attack on The Liberty wasn't an Israeli decision?" I asked. "It was an American action forced on Israel," he answered....
We have the reason Moshe Dayan turned into Israel's top traitor of his day. As Chief-0f-Staff of the IDF, Dayan HAD to have given the order for his Air Force to sink the Liberty. Johnson may have given the actual command, the American navy did nothing to rescue the stricken ship, but Dayan had the blood of 37 American sailors on his hands and if he didn't play major league ball, he and Israel would be turned into friendless lepers.... There were endless debts to be paid, and America offered Israel $3.2 billion in annual aid to keep its mouth shut. But Israel bore the existential brunt of Dayan sinking close to the entire Egyptian navy, but accidentally keeping afloat one American ship too many."

Chamish has a long track record of inventing "theories" and "news" and imaginary nameless "witnesses." I used to think that his claim that Simon Wiesenthal was in fact a secret Nazi agent was just about the silliest thing he could invent. But his new fabrications about the USS Liberty may even make THAT look pale in comparison.

For more on the conspiracist sickness, see this.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Goodbye Freedom Tower, Goodbye Freedom


A rendering of 1 World Trade Center, formerly known as The Freedom Tower.
The following article appeared on the NBC NY website:

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Thursday that the 1,776-foot edifice that was to replace the World Trade Center will no longer be called the “Freedom Tower.” Instead, it will have the less ornate appellation, “1 World Trade Center.”

Nice.

The timing couldn’t have been better. It follows on the heels of the Pentagon’s ending the War on Terror. You didn’t hear? You must have missed the memo. No, seriously. In a memo, following a request from the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Defense declared that foreign military and strategic ventures associated with various Muslim-world nations will no longer be called the “War on Terror.” It is now Overseas Contingency Operation.”

Cool.

This, in turn follows Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s statement to a “Der Spiegel” journalist earlier this month that she prefers to call terrorism, “man-caused disasters.”

Wonderful.

And, lets not forget that the Obama administration no longer refers to opponents in the Conflict-Formerly-Known-As-The-War-On-Terror as “enemy combatants.” Haven’t quite figured out a proper replacement on that one.

Neat.

Now, this is real change — a seismic cultural shift that not too many people might have expected.
The cumulative effect is clear: The symbolic, rhetorical and strategic signifiers of America’s post 9/11 world are being airbrushed away.

“Freedom Tower?” Gone.
“War on Terror?” Gone.
“Enemy combatants?” Gone.
“Terrorism?” Gone.
Three-thousand Americans? Gone?
Oh, right.
Well, at least they got the memo early.
(Source: NBC New York)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Islam being whitewashed in American textbooks

Do not offend the Islamist activists. They might sue, or somethin…


“Critic Says Islamic Extremism Gets Whitewashed in American Textbooks,” from Fox News, March 4:

An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what’s being taught in public schools.

In numerous history textbooks, “key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, the status of women are whitewashed,” said Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent group that reviews history books and other education materials.

Cindy Ross, the mother of a junior high school student in Marin County, Calif., said she couldn’t believe her eyes when she read her son’s textbook last school year.

“I was very shocked by what I saw, looking through the book,” she said — shocked at how Islam was portrayed in her son’s seventh grade history text.

“What did strike me was that all the other religions seemed to be lumped together, where there is an inordinate emphasis on Islam specifically,” Ross said.

Sewall claims that publishers have been pressured by Islamic activists to portray the religion in the most favorable light, while Islamic terrorism is downplayed or glossed over.

“The picture is incomplete … and the reason for this is that publishers are afraid of the Islamist activists. They don’t want trouble,” he told FOX News.

Sewall, who authored a report on how textbooks teach and present Islam, singled out one book that he said failed to explain what the story of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

In a section discussing Islamic fundamentalism, the textbook “World History: The Modern World,” published by Prentice Hall, omits direct mention of the 9/11 hijackers’ religion, referring to the 19 Islamic fundamentalists as “teams of terrorists.”

“On the morning of September 11, 2001,” the book reads, “teams of terrorists hijacked four airplanes on the East Coast. Passengers challenged the hijackers on one flight, which they crashed on the way to its target. But one plane plunged in to the Pentagon in Virginia, and two others slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. More than 2,500 people were killed in the attacks.”

In his report on the text, Sewall called the passage “dismaying” in its flatness and brevity. “In terms of content, so much is left unanswered. Who were the teams of terrorists and what did they want do to? What were their political ends? Since ‘The Modern World’ avoids any hint of the connection between this unnamed terrorism and jihad,” he wrote, “why September 11 happened is hard to understand.”

US public school teaching children pro-islamic propoganda

Friday, February 27, 2009

Heart-Stopping Housing Chart

A history of home values
The average price of housing hasn't really changed (adjusted for inflation) aside from the Great Depression. What is the other period that sticks out as being fantastically different? You guessed it -- right now. It's in the other direction, but that's possibly even more dangerous.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel

When will the Jews, and their organizations and Rabbinic leaders stop being silent regarding our entitlement to the Land of Israel based on G-d's everlasting Covenent with our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed the Nation of Israel? This is the Torah and it is not Old and antiquated and it is relevant to current events! Failure to speak out with clarity, and publicly, of our entitlement of the Land of Israel is a Chillul Hashem. This chillul Hashem is the source of anti-Semitism (Semi comes from Shem which means name. i.e. w/o G-d's name).
How can we then reasonably expect the US speak out at Durban when we ourselves are Silent?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009