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1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered

1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered

August 6, 2014

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.

top secretFounded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.
The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.
Sally Kohn, formerly a Fox News contributor, now works for CNN reliably echoing pro-Obama Administration talking points and championing leftwing ideas as a network commentator. Kohn is also a member of Gamechanger Salon, and e-mails show that she occasionally approached the group’s membership and asked them to promote her television appearances.
“I’m guest co-hosting CNN’s Crossfire tonight at 6:30pm EST, with fellow co-host Newt Gingrich. I would be grateful for folks (a) helping spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, etc to encourage people to tune in; and (b) tuning in and live tweeting during the show,” Kohn wrote to the group on January 14 of this year.
In another e-mail, Kohn pitched her TED talk about working as a liberal at Fox News. “I would be grateful for any shares and reactions. Here is a straightforward, sample tweet[:] Watch @sallykohn’s amazing TED talk on emotional correctness: on.ted.com/Kohn” she wrote. “Thanks for everything all of you do every day to make the world a better place!” she signed off.
Amanda Terkel, the “Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post,” is a member of Gamechanger Salon along with The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim.
In mid-July, Terkel and Grim jointly wrote a piece about a leftwing effort to push Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) to run for president. The pair of reporters heavily quoted Erica Sagrans, a fellow member of Gamechanger Salon and leading organizer of the “Ready For Warren” effort, and cited Billy Wimsatt’s support for the project. Wimsatt’s work as founder of Gamechanger Salon and the reporters’ own membership in the group, along with Sagrans’ membership, went unreported.
In a subsequent piece Terkel again reported on the effort to recruit Warren for a presidential bid, and a previous piece by Grim contrasted Warren with presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
A former New York Times freelance columnist who now works as an energy and commodities reporter for Thomson Reuters is also a member of Gamechanger Salon. Anna Louie Sussman is listed as an “investigative reporter and journalist” on the Gamechanger Salon membership list, and while her beat focuses on energy issues, she has also writes about “local and international human rights and social justice issues” according to her website.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, a prominent and well-known periodical of leftwing political and social thought. She is also a member of Gamechanger Salon and a regular opinion writer for the online edition of The Washington Post.
A late-July column for the Post by vanden Heuvel entitled Building a progressive alternative to ALEC” hit on a theme regularly mentioned on Gamechanger Salon: liberals must build an alternative to the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Lisa Graves, who leads the Madison, Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy, is also a member of Gamechanger Salon, and – according to e-mails reviewed by Media Trackers – regularly promotes material developed by CMD to attack ALEC and the right-of-center lawmakers who tend to make up the majority of ALEC’s active legislative membership.
Vanden Heuvel suggested in her column that liberals support the efforts of the American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange – ALICE (a leftwing counterpart to ALEC) – and the Progressive States Network. Gamechanger Salon member Prof. Joel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin Madison founded ALICE. Vanden Heuvel in a 2012 column for the Post wrote about Rogers founding ALICE.
Not once does she appear to disclose her membership in Gamechanger Salon along with some of the very people she writes about.
Jordan Flaherty was, as of last year, a producer for Al Jazeera America television. He is also listed as a member of Gamechanger Salon and for a while he occasionally blogged for The Huffington Post.
In addition to working at the left-leaning American Sustainable Business Council, David Brodwin writes an online column for U.S. News & World Report. Brodwin is a member of Gamechanger Salon, and on July 14 he published a column arguing that small business owners support a minimum wage increase. Fascinatingly, the Obama Administration’s U.S. Department of Labor relies on Brodwin’s American Sustainable Business Council to argue that very point in a recent “fact-sheet” advocating for a minimum wage hike.
Dozens of members of the leftwing network have contributed columns to The Huffington Post, and others have written opinion pieces for several other publications. The full extent of the network’s activity and effectiveness at amplifying and coordinating left-leaning messaging campaigns has yet to be fully explored.
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URGENT -- Mexican immigrant gangs 'in military fatigues' marching through south Texas...

URGENT -- Mexican immigrant gangs 'in military fatigues' marching through south Texas...


(MAIL ONLINE) -- 'We're getting overrun and the danger is increasing. We need to open our eyes': Sheriff leading probe into murder of Border Patrol agent claims armed illegal immigrants in military fatigues have been spotted on Texas ranches
  • Sheriff Larry Spence of Willacy County spoke to MailOnline after murder of off-duty Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega Jr. who was allegedly gunned down by two illegal immigrants who had been deported six times
  • Sheriff Spence said ranchers had reported illegal immigrants walking through the brush in single file, armed with rifles in military fatigues
  • Spence said he used to not show a weapon but now he has 'two or maybe three' because of the increasing 'criminal element'
  • He added: 'It’s not like it was years ago when people were just looking for a job or something to eat'
  • MailOnline also spoke to the woman who reported Javier's alleged killers to the police. She now fears she could be killed by the cartels

the message of the cross

when you accept jesus into your heart when you accept jesus died on the cross
when Adam fell GOD said to Adam
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
but when you accept jesus into your heart and believe that he died for your sins 
you now dont have to wrk for god to bless you 
to save you 
to forgive you
when you accepted jesus into your heart you now have the forgiveness of god you no longer have to get god to see you doe your works
you are
now saved but the blood of jesus who died for our sins 

jesus paid the price for your sins 

the pope and these fake pastors want you to believe that you have to do all these works for god to for give you but when you accept the ture meaning of the cross you will see we dont have to work like what god said we had to when adam fell 
only though what jesus did on the cross god sees you 




Attorneys for Barack Obama, Secretary of Homeland Security and Secretary of Health and Human services prepare their response, which was ordered by Judge Hanen to be filed by August 11, in 5 days

Attorneys for Barack Obama, Secretary of Homeland Security and Secretary of Health and Human services prepare their response, which was ordered by Judge Hanen to be filed by August 11, in 5 days

Posted on | August 6, 2014 | 5 Comments
Good Afternoon Dr. Taitz,

I am writing to you under Southern District of Texas local rule 7.2 in order to confer with you about Motions. I am in the process of drafting the Government’s response to Judge Hanen’s order to show cause, which he issued on August 1. Your filing was 43 pages (plus attachments) and I am finding that I will likely be over Judge Hanen’s 20 page limit.

So I am inclined to see if you would agree to me filing an “unopposed motion to exceed 20 pages”? Please let me know. I anticipate being able to get the brief done in under 30 pages (plus tables, index, etc.).

Best regards,

Colin

Colin A. Kisor
Deputy Director
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Immigration Litigation
District Court Section
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I am joining Sekulow, ACLJ in demand to stop all US aid to Palestinian authority until they dismantle this coalition with the terrorist group Hamas, expel all members of Hamas from Gaza and West Bank and demilitarize Gaza

I am joining Sekulow, ACLJ in demand to stop all US aid to Palestinian authority until they dismantle this coalition with the terrorist group Hamas, expel all members of Hamas from Gaza and West Bank and demilitarize Gaza

Posted on | August 7, 2014 | 4 Comments
Hamas fired nearly 3,500 rockets at Israeli civilians.
It fired 600 rockets from schools and other civilian areas.
It used “humanitarian” aid intended for schools to build secret terror tunnels to invade Israel.
Israel responded in self-defense.
Israel has decimated Hamas terrorists and destroyed 32 terror tunnels.
Now the Obama Administration wants to give millions of our taxpayer dollars to rebuild Hamas.
Hamas is a recognized terrorist organization. Its goal is to destroy Israel.
New “aid” will only be used to subsidize terror.
We cannot allow this to happen.

2 Top Khmer Rouge Leaders Sentenced To Life In Prison for crimes against humanity. Time to try Khaled Meshaal and other Hamas leaders for Crimes against Humanity fir sending 3,500 rockets into Israel and using Gazan women and children as human shields Posted on | August 7, 2014 | No Comments Two Khmer Rouge Leaders Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

Two surviving members of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime have been sentenced to life in jail. A United Nations tribunal found 88 year old Nuon Chea and 83 year old former President Khieu Samphan guilty of crimes against humanity for their role in the killing fields revolution in the 1970's. Around 2 million people are believed to have died under the regime- led by Pol Pot- from 1975-1979. The regime wanted to turn Cambodia back to "year zero" in its quest for a peasant utopia.

VIDEO: Archbishop: Hamas Fired Out of Our Church in Gaza

VIDEO: Archbishop: Hamas Fired Out of Our Church in Gaza

 

Gaza Bishop: Hamas Used Church to Fire Rockets: http://youtu.be/eb8BeCfZAko via @YouTube 

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Deeply, deeply evil. The obvious objective is to force the Jews to fire on the church, thereby destroying the church and dividing the victims of jihad, Christians and Jews.
“Islam is the rule of this place and whatever Hamas says we must obey or face consequences,” Archbishop Alexios told The Christian Broadcasting Network.
Islam is the rule of this place. Evil. And those who side with evil are just as culpable.
Archbishop: Hamas Fired Out of Our Church in Gaza (VIDEO),” Algemeiner, August 7, 2014
A Catholic Archbishop ministering to Gaza’s minute Christian minority says Hamas terrorists forced him to allow them to use his church to fire rockets at Israel during the four week-long Operation Protective Edge.
“Islam is the rule of this place and whatever Hamas says we must obey or face consequences,” Archbishop Alexios told The Christian Broadcasting Network.
Alexios showed the reporter where Hamas terrorists used the roof of the center to fire rockets at Israel.
Numerous Israeli UAV videos have shown similar images of rocket crews using mosques, schools, hospitals and other civilian structures as ammunition and gun nests, as well as launch sites – all war crimes according to the Geneva Conventions.
Watch the video:
Functioning as a tolerated Christian minority in an Islamic supremacist entity, some residents charge that Hamas has “imposed strict Taliban-style Islamic laws” on the populace, Muslim and Christian alike.
However, Alexios allowed 2,000 Gazans to take refuge within the church compound during the fighting, according to the report.
Hamas took over in Gaza, after a violent coup in 2007 against Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, led in the West Bank by Mahmoud Abbas.

‘Extraordinarily Irresponsible’ — Obama Gives Pointless, Yet Damaging, Press Conference

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August 6, 2014 - 4:12 pm
President Obama gave a press conference this evening.
He started a little over an hour late without explanation. Reporters stuck to asking questions that they evidently knew Obama would be comfortable answering. None of them asked him about any of his administration scandals. ABC’s Jon Karl, usually a tough questioner of Obama and his spokesmen, asked a rambling question that played right into the Democrats’ “economic patriotism” canard.
Despite the fact that the president showed a passionless, bloodless, disinterested face to the world, he still managed to do some damage.
Chris Jansing of CNN asked Obama if the sanctions against Russia are working. She asked this in the context of Russia massing 20,000 heavily armed troops on the Ukraine border, and Russia claiming a “humanitarian” need to send those troops in.
Obama said both that he doesn’t know if the sanctions are working, and that they’re working as they are intended to do. He allowed that he might consider arming the Ukraine military, if Russia invades. But not before. That will keep Putin up late fretting.
When asked about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Obama said that Hamas using civilians as human shields is “extraordinarily irresponsible.”
Actually, it’s a war crime. It’s terrorism. Obama reduced deadly crimes against humanity for the sake of perpetrating genocide to equal something a badly raised teenager does on a drunken weekend. If we’re to take his comments on torture last week into account, Hamas are just “folks” who are “extraordinarily irresponsible,” not genocidal fanatics and war criminals.
By the way, Obama refused to rule out taking unilateral action to grant about five million illegal aliens legal status. He also refused to rule it in. And he had the gall to talk about good governance, transparency and accountability in government.
It was a poor performance made all the poorer by the media’s lack of any detectable backbone.
Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

Amnesty as impeachment bait

Amnesty as impeachment bait

Amnesty as impeachment bait
President Obama is impatient. Congress won’t act on immigration, he says, and therefore he will. The White House is coy as to exactly what the president will do. But the leaks point to an executive order essentially legalizing an enormous new class of illegal immigrants, perhaps up to 5 million people.
One doesn’t usually respond to rumors. But this is an idea so bad and so persistently peddled by the White House that it has already been preemptively criticized by such unusual suspects as (liberal) constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, concerned about yet another usurpation of legislative power by the “uber presidency,” and the Post editorial page, which warned that such a move would “tear up the Constitution.”
If this is just a trial balloon, the time to shoot it down is now. The administration claims such an executive order would simply be a corrective to GOP inaction on the current immigration crisis — 57,000 unaccompanied minors, plus tens of thousands of families, crashing through and overwhelming the southern border.
This rationale is a fraud.
First, the charge that Republicans have done nothing is plainly false. Last week, the House passed legislation that deals reasonably with this immigrant wave. It changes a 2008 sex-trafficking law never intended for (and inadvertently inviting) mass migration — a change the president himself endorsed before caving to his left and flip-flopping. It also provides funds for emergency processing and assistance to the kids who are here.
Second, it’s a total non sequitur. Suspending deportation for millions of long-resident illegal immigrants has nothing to do with the current wave of newly arrived minors. If anything, it would aggravate the problem by sending the message that if you manage to get here illegally, eventually you’ll be legalized.
Third, and most fatal, it is deeply unconstitutional. Don’t believe me. Listen to Obama. He’s repeatedly made the case for years. As in:
“I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books. . . . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the [immigration] laws on my own. . . . That’s not how our Constitution is written” (July 25, 2011).
“This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. . . . There are laws on the books that I have to enforce” (Sept. 28, 2011).
“If, in fact, I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so. But we’re also a nation of laws” (Nov. 25, 2013).
Laws created by Congress, not by executive fiat. That’s what distinguishes a constitutional republic from the banana kind.
Moreover, Obama had control of both houses of Congress during his first two years in office — and did nothing about immigration. So why now?
Because he’s facing a disastrous midterm election. An executive order so sweeping and egregiously lawless would be impeachment bait. It would undoubtedly provoke a constitutional crisis and stir impeachment talk — and perhaps even the beginning of proceedings — thus scrambling the electoral deck. As in 1998, it would likely backfire against the GOP and save Democrats from an otherwise certain sixth-year midterm shellacking.
Such a calculation — amnesty-by-fiat to deliberately court impeachment — is breathtakingly cynical. But clever. After all, there is no danger of impeachment succeeding. There will never be 67 votes in the Senate to convict. But talking it up is a political bonanza for Democrats, stirring up an otherwise listless and dispirited base. Last Monday alone the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised more than $1 million from anti-impeachment direct mail.
Apart from the money, impeachment talk energizes Democrats and deflects attention from the real-life issues that are dragging them down — the economy, Obamacare, the failures of Obama’s foreign policy. Everything, in other words, that has sunk Obama to 40 percent approval, the lowest ebb of his presidency.
There’s an awful irony here. Barack Obama entered our national consciousness with an electrifying 2004 speech calling for healing the nation’s divisions and transcending narrow identities of race, region, religion, politics and ideology. Four years later, that promise made him president. Yet today he is prepared to inflict on the nation a destructive, divisive, calculated violation of the constitutional order and national comity — for the narrowest partisan advantage.
For this president in particular, who offered a politics of transcendence, this would constitute a betrayal of the highest order.
According to White House leaks, the executive order will be promulgated by summer’s end. Time enough to reconsider. Don’t do it, Mr. President.

ORLY TAITZ PROTECTING AMERICA YET AGAIN!

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Obama, Secretary of DHS and Secretary of HHS bring a second attorney to represent them, they have 3 days left to comply with the order to show cause issued by Judge Hanen and answer why shouldn’t the court rule in favor of Attorney Orly Taitz. Answer is due on August 11th Posted on | August 8, 2014 | No Comments Taitz v Johnson, second attorney joins the case on behalf of the federal defendants Taitz v Johnson, Order to show cause why the shout should not rule in favor of Taitz Taitz v Johnson Application for Stay draft 12 final summons Taitz v Johnson Certificate of interested parties Taitz v Johnson filed motion to expedite due to Ebola

Obama, Secretary of DHS and Secretary of HHS bring a second attorney to represent them, they have 3 days left to comply with the order to show cause issued by Judge Hanen and answer why shouldn’t the court rule in favor of Attorney Orly Taitz. Answer is due on August 11th

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REPORT: 1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered...

REPORT: 1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered...


(EAG News) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.
Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.
The group’s existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.
Sally Kohn, formerly a Fox News contributor, now works for CNN reliably echoing pro-Obama Administration talking points and championing leftwing ideas as a network commentator. Kohn is also a member of Gamechanger Salon, and e-mails show that she occasionally approached the group’s membership and asked them to promote her television appearances.
“I’m guest co-hosting CNN’s Crossfire tonight at 6:30pm EST, with fellow co-host Newt Gingrich. I would be grateful for folks (a) helping spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, etc to encourage people to tune in; and (b) tuning in and live tweeting during the show,” Kohn wrote to the group on January 14 of this year.
In another e-mail, Kohn pitched her TED talk about working as a liberal at Fox News. “I would be grateful for any shares and reactions. Here is a straightforward, sample tweet[:] Watch @sallykohn’s amazing TED talk on emotional correctness: on.ted.com/Kohn” she wrote. “Thanks for everything all of you do every day to make the world a better place!” she signed off.
Amanda Terkel, the “Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post,” is a member of Gamechanger Salon along with The Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim.

Airstrikes Begin: U.S. Navy Planes Drop Bombs on ISIS Forces

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Airstrikes Begin: U.S. Navy Planes Drop Bombs on ISIS Forces

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This is all just cosmetic. Obama lost Iraq. Now he is just trying to save face.
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“Airstrikes Begin: U.S. Navy Planes Drop Bombs on ISIS Forces,” NBC News, August 8, 2014:
The United States dropped laser-guided bombs on ISIS artillery in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said — the beginning of airstrikes threatened a day earlier by President Barack Obama.
The bombs, 500 pounds each, were dropped by two Navy F-18 fighter jets near Erbil, the strategically important city that serves as the Kurdish capital, and where the United States has a consulate. ISIS was using the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending Erbil, the Pentagon said.
The fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf. The mission marked a return to U.S. military engagement in Iraq, three years after Obama removed U.S. forces.
Obama, in a speech Thursday night from the White House, said that he was authorizing airstrikes to protect American interests in Iraq and drops of food and water for tens of thousands of refugees trapped by ISIS on a mountain in Iraq.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday: “As the president made clear, the United States military will continue to take direct action against ISIL when they threaten our personnel and facilities.” ISIS and ISIL are acronyms to describe the same Islamic militant group.

House Passes Bill to Block Obama's Planned Executive Amnesty

House Passes Bill to Block Obama's Planned Executive Amnesty

The House of Representatives voted Friday evening to pass a bill that blocks President Barack Obama from continuing or expanding executive amnesty via the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program or programs like it.

The bill passed 216 to 192, with 11 Republicans voting against it and 4 Democrats voting for it.
The Republicans who voted against are Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Jeff Denham (R-CA), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), David Reichert (R-WA), David Valadao (R-CA), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Joe Heck (R-NV), Fred Upton (R-MI), Mark Amodei (R-NV), and Mike Coffman (R-CO).
The Democrats who voted for it are Reps. John Barrow (D-GA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Mike McIntyre (D-NC), and Collin Peterson (D-MN).
The vote caps a lengthy battle between conservatives and the House GOP leadership and marks a new point in the GOP’s efforts to fight the Democrats on immigration, rallying Republicans against the left heading into the midterm election season.
The floor debate on this bill and the previous one Friday evening were bloody fights between Republicans, who seem to have found their backbone against liberal immigration policies again, and Democrats, who are using this battle to push for a widespread amnesty via a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
At one point, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) noted that the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives had to come down to the floor to restore order after Democrats loudly protested the effort by the Republican Party to block President Obama’s planned executive amnesty.

Extraordinarily irresponsible’ — Obama gives pointless, yet damaging, press conference

Extraordinarily irresponsible’ — Obama gives pointless, yet damaging, press conference


(PJ Media) -- President Obama gave a press conference this evening.
He started a little over an hour late without explanation. Reporters stuck to asking questions that they evidently knew Obama would be comfortable answering. None of them asked him about any of his administration scandals. ABC’s Jon Karl, usually a tough questioner of Obama and his spokesmen, asked a rambling question that played right into the Democrats’ “economic patriotism” canard.
Despite the fact that the president showed a passionless, bloodless, disinterested face to the world, he still managed to do some damage.

this is the email and phone number of the mk who went to the uk about if they cant protect israel that he will bring all the jews home if you want to go home to israel please contract him Israel Hasson Kadima


Telephone:02-6408467
Telephone 2:02-6408466
Fax:02-6496585
Email:ahason@knesset.gov.il

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MK to European envoys: ”Day when Islamic terror will reach your homes is near”



MK to European envoys: ”Day when Islamic terror will reach your homes is near”



Publicized: July 28, 2014

The Danish, Swedish and Dutch ambassadors to Israel, as well as officials from the embassies of Britain, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Germany took part on Monday in an urgent meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on the situation of Jewish communities in Europe.

MK Israel Hasson (Kadima), a former deputy director of the Shin Bet internal security service, told the ambassadors: ”NATO bombed 5,000 civilians in Kosovo just because it was insulted; 27,000 Iraqi civilians were bombed during the American invasion because they posed a danger to the US; there is not a country in the world that can talk to us about morality.”

MK Hasson told the foreign envoys that ”if the European countries fail to protect the Jews within their territory, the State of Israel will. Jewish blood is not cheap blood.”

He warned that ”if you do not stand by our side, the day when Islamic terror will reach your homes, your beds and your kindergartens will come soon.”

MK Shimon Ohayon (Yisrael Beitenu) addressed the pro-Palestinian protests across Europe and said Israel is fighting ”the war of the free and enlightened world against the darkness of Islam.” According to him, had the world truly been concerned about the violence, ”we would have seen protests all over Europe against the terrible acts being committed in Syria, where some 200,000 people have been raped and butchered.”

MK Avraham Michaeli of Shas noted that a quarter of the patients who are being treated at the hospital in Safed were injured in the civil war in Syria.

Representatives of the Jewish communities in Europe, who arrived in Israel with the help of the Israeli Jewish Congress, spoke about their sense of insecurity. ”Calls of `death to Jews` and `burn the Jews in gas chambers` are heard regularly on the streets,” one representative said.

Nathan Gelbert, a Jewish resident of Berlin, said the city has seen ”severe pro-Palestinian demonstrations” since the IDF launched Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. ”These protesters don`t know how to say `hello` in German, but they know very well how to shout that Israel is fascist and cruel,” he said.

The European envoys condemned the anti-Semitic attacks in their countries and described the tools their governments use to combat the phenomenon. A representative of the French embassy in Tel Aviv said his country pledges ”zero tolerance for displays of anti-Semitism, adding that ”every attack on France`s Jews is an attack on all of France.” France, he said, has beefed up security around the Jewish communities even before the recent anti-Israel demonstrations. ”France is not denying that there is a problem…The French government`s efforts against acts of racism will gradually increase,” said the official.

Dutch Ambassador to Israel Caspar Veldkamp noted that his country`s attorney general has opened cases against 40-50 people who participated in a radical demonstration and chanted anti-Semitic slogans. ”The acts of anti-Semitism call for strong measures; otherwise we will all slide down the slope. Europe should have exported a position of mutual respect rather than import the hate and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he told the meeting.

Danish Ambassador Jesper Vahr said: ”As an ally and as a country we will not tolerate anti-Semitism…but Denmark, as a country that respects freedom of speech, allows people to express their objection to actions taking place on the ground. My government`s position is that Israel has a right to defend itself.”

Absorption Committee Chairman MK Yoel Razvozov (Yesh Atid) said a distinction must be made between freedom of expression and incitement. The European countries must protect the Jews within their territory,” he said. ”Otherwise, terror will eventually reach you.”

The first secretary of the German embassy in Tel Aviv said his country was very concerned by the anti-Semitic acts within its territory. ”Our ministers condemn these violent means and the anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic calls. This is an attempt to undermine our social order,” he stated.

Akiva Tor of the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the ministry`s position is that the European governments are obligated to protect the local Jewish communities. ”It cannot be that the communities will not have the possibility to demonstrate and express their support for Israel without being afraid that they will be harmed,” he said.

MK Razvozov concluded the meeting by saying that the State of Israel is committed to protecting every Jew in the Diaspora. Turning to the foreign officials, he said: ”Take into account that if the terror groups lay down their arms, there will be peace; but if Israel lays down its arms, Israel will cease to exist. This is the sad truth.”




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ALERT -- Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: “Battle-ready Force of Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and Air Defense”

ALERT -- Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: “Battle-ready Force of Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and Air Defense”

(by Mac Slavo, SHTFplan.com) -- A massive buildup on the Ukrainian border in the last 48 hours has seen Russia double its troop levels with 17 additional battalions and has left Western leaders trying to figure out what President Vladimir Putin is planning to do next.
On Tuesday the Russian President called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to resolve the “humanitarian crisis” in Ukraine that has reportedly left tens of thousands of people displaced because of fighting over the last several months, a move that some in the West see as prelude to a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“We are convening an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine,” Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Vitaly Churkin was quoted as saying.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.N. and the International Committee of the Red Cross expressed “readiness” to discuss its plan to deploy a “humanitarian mission” to Ukraine, which some consider to be a pretext for an invasion by Russian forces.  
Russia has significantly built up its troop presence along the Ukrainian border in recent weeks, according to U.S. officials, making it ready for a potential large-scale invasion of southeastern Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin so chooses.
According to a report in The New York Times, Russia has nearly doubled its troop presence along the border, adding 17 battalions and 19,000 to 21,000 troops who now compose a “battle-ready force of infantry, armor, artillery, and air defense within a few miles of the border.”
The White House has openly worried about what would be, for all intents and purposes, an invasion under the guise of a “peacekeeping” operation.
“We’ve seen a significant re-buildup of Russian forces along the border, potentially positioning Russia for a so-called humanitarian or peacekeeping intervention in Ukraine,” deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken said last week.
“That’s a very real option,” a senior Defense Department official told The Times. “And should Putin decide, he could do that with little or no notice. We just don’t know what he’s thinking.”
It should be clear exactly what Vladimir Putin is thinking.
He’s thinking he can send his troops over the border and no one in Europe or the United States will have the will or fortitude to stop it. And, given the foreign policy failures of the United States over the last five years, he’s probably right.
After heavy sanctions that threaten to seize the asset of Russian politicians and businessmen, and a direct attack on Russia’s economy, Vladimir Putin is about to show the world what a Russian response looks like.
The following map, made available by Zero Hedge and generated within the last week, indicates that Russia now has up to 42,000 troops within a few miles of the border with additional units in reserve.
As Charlie McGrath noted recently, the Russians have the weapons, the technology, the will and the manpower to see this through.
For casual observers, pay attention, because there’s a strong possibility that you are seeing the buildup to the next great war.

Obama Official Deleted Obamacare Emails Sought By Congress

Obama Official Deleted Obamacare Emails Sought By Congress

The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) deleted some of her emails and may not be able to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the flawed Obamacare rollout, CMS has warned Congress.
Marilyn Tavenner, who was appointed by President Obama to take over CMS within the Department of Health and human Services in 2013 — prior to the Obamacare rollout — deleted some of her emails and did not save hard copies as the Federal Records Act requires her to do, MSNBC reported Thursday.
Though Tavenner’s computer did not crash like ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly did, Tavenner may be unable to cooperate with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenas.
“During her entire tenure at CMS, Ms. Tavenner’s CMS email address, which is accessible to both colleagues and the public, has been subject to write-in campaigns involving thousands of emails from the public,” according to a letter CMS sent Wednesday to the National Archives and Records Administration. “Therefore, she receives an extremely high volume of emails that she manages daily. To keep an orderly email box and to stay within the agency’s email system capacity limits, the Administrator generally copied or forwarded emails to immediate staff for retention and retrieval, and did not maintain her own copies.”
CMS noted that this practice of not keeping emails “continued until November 2013,” just one month after the Obamacare website launched.
“It is possible that some emails may not be available to HHS,” the letter stated.
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Unreal: Key Obamacare Official Deleted Emails Being Sought By House Oversight Committee…

Unreal: Key Obamacare Official Deleted Emails Being Sought By House Oversight Committee…


(by Patrick Howley, The Daily Caller) -- The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) deleted some of her emails and may not be able to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the flawed Obamacare rollout, CMS has warned Congress.
Marilyn Tavenner, who was appointed by President Obama to take over CMS within the Department of Health and human Services in 2013 — prior to the Obamacare rollout — deleted some of her emails and did not save hard copies as the Federal Records Act requires her to do, MSNBC reported Thursday.
Though Tavenner’s computer did not crash like ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly did, Tavenner may be unable to cooperate with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenas.
“During her entire tenure at CMS, Ms. Tavenner’s CMS email address, which is accessible to both colleagues and the public, has been subject to write-in campaigns involving thousands of emails from the public,” according to a letter CMS sent Wednesday to the National Archives and Records Administration. “Therefore, she receives an extremely high volume of emails that she manages daily. To keep an orderly email box and to stay within the agency’s email system capacity limits, the Administrator generally copied or forwarded emails to immediate staff for retention and retrieval, and did not maintain her own copies.”

Pro-Israel Muslims Join the Fight Against Radical Islam

Pro-Israel Muslims Join the Fight Against Radical Islam

Child with gun
A Palestinian child wearing a Hamas headband aims a toy gun during a rally after Eid prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on July 28, 2014. While such scenes are a manifestation of radical Islam, a growing number of pro-Israel Muslims are seeking an alternative path that they hope will lead to peace with the Jewish state. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
Jews around the world were inspired last month when Arab-Israeli teenager Mohammad Zoabi cloaked himself in an Israeli flag and spoke into a bedroom video camera, "I am an Israeli and will remain an Israeli. Israel will remain a Jewish and a democratic country."
What few realized is that within days after the video went viral, Israeli police arrested three men in his own family for plotting to cause him harm in retaliation for the piece. His cousin, Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi, called her young relative "a sleazy, mixed-up kid who has identity issues."
Still, more voices like the young Zoabi's have emerged in the month since the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and the weeks since the launch of Operation Protective Edge. Young Bissan Salman, an Israeli Arab from Ramla, blogged on July 23 that she refuses to choose between her Arab and Israeli friends.
"My tears choose the side of peace," she wrote. "We are tired to hear about more killings. We are tired to run every time we the sirens. ... Don't judge, pray. Pray for this to be over."
But as the operation rages on and the rockets continue to plummet onto the state of Israel, these young voices are lost. But there is another voice--a growing one that is bubbling above the surface. That voice has little to do with Israel and everything to do with fighting Hamas. It is the voice of Arabs—Muslims, really—calling on their peers to fight the inexorable advance of political Islamism over moderate Islam.
Dr. Qanta Ahmed, author of Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, told JNS.org that while the media focuses on the war in Israel, similar wars are being waged across the world. Islamism, she said, is the driving force between the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization and Iraqi government forces, between the Pakistani Taliban and the Pakistani Army, the Afghan Taliban and would-be Afghan democratic leaders, Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists and the Nigerian government, and between Jama'at Al-Nursa rebels and the Syrian regime.
"Muslim militaries are not held to global condemnation in the way the Israel Defense Forces must face—despite their targeted attacks, pre-strike warnings, and efforts to contain civilian deaths," said Ahmed.
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser—founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), which works to provide a platform for Muslim Americans who advocate for liberty, freedom and the separation of mosque and state—expressed similar sentiments. AIFD has brought together a group of dozens of U.S. Islamic groups to the form the American Islamic Leadership Coalition. To be a member, agencies have to sign on to a list of 17 principles. The last of the principles is recognition of the state of Israel.
"I don't believe Israel is a religious issue for Muslims," Jasser told JNS.org. "Hamas and other radical Islamic groups have propagandized the issues for decades, and the latest conflict demonstrates that. It is constant warmongering. Hamas creates, starts these wars, commits acts of terror, and then uses the war as a platform to say all its grievances are Israel's fault."
Jasser said that while he hopes Israel deals a heavy blow to Hamas, he does not believe the war will have any long-term impact because the war is not about Israel, but rather "about Hamas and their corrupt ideology."
"You can compare it to drug addiction, which leads to violence," he said. "Well, if you say the problem is the violence and you stop the violence, it won't work. It is the drug addiction that leads to the violence. We believe the gateway drug here is political Islam."
Jasser's group tries to stay quiet on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because he does not want to feed the international belief system that if that crisis was solved, it would be the solution to global terrorism.
"As a Syrian, I can tell you, nothing is further from the truth. [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad displaced and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and Israel had nothing to do with it," he said.
Tawfik Hamid is a former member of the Jamal Islamiyah terrorist organization. Thirty years ago, he broke from its grip to move to the U.S. and begin a fight against radical Islam. Recently, he founded the International Center for Countering Radicalism (IC4CR.org). He told JNS.org he believes radicalism needs to be fought on multiple fronts.
First, he said, more accessible modern and peaceful interpretations of the Quran are needed. Next, accurate information is required; hate, said Hamid, is often based on misinformation that is being taught in Islamic schools and mosques.
Additionally, Hamid said, the world should use behavior-modification techniques, like having "more negative reinforcements to stop them from doing terror acts."
Terrorist organizations deprive their followers of anything beautiful, such as color, art, music, fashion, etc. Over time, Hamid explained, the followers become unable to appreciate beauty, and this makes them more receptive to "extremely ugly things."
"It is like if someone destroys the receptors on their tongue, they cannot distinguish between good- and bad-tasting things," said Hamid. "This is what happens. We need to reintroduce the beauty."
Ahmed, Hamid and Jasser said they are frustrated by the international media, which offers sensational sound bites and ignores the full picture.
"Many people look at what is happening in Gaza as if Israel is the aggressor. But when you think deeply, Egypt offered a cease-fire and Israel immediately accepted it. It was supposed to start on July 5 at 9 a.m. Hamas refused the cease-fire. The full responsibility for any killings after July 5 lies with Hamas," Hamid said.
He added that Hamas accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing of Muslims, and the U.S. of being anti-Islam. But he said what is not reported is the number of mosques that exist in both Israel and America.
"If this was the case, if they were anti-Islam, why would they allow these mosques and Islamic schools to be built? Compare the numbers to the synagogues and churches in the Muslim world—there, these places are being destroyed," said Hamid, who noted that anti-Semitism in the Arab world has been on the rise over the past decade. Jasser suggested that anti-Semitism might be as high as 90 percent among Arab nations.
A recent Pew Research Center study of Muslim world perceptions of Hamas found that support for the terrorist organization in general was on the decline. But Jasser said the study should be taken with a grain of salt.
"This is no silver lining unless we find an alternative to Hamas—not just we [as] Muslims, but the West. President [Barack] Obama has been missing in action, and if a vacuum is created it will be filled with Arabism or Islamism," said Jasser.
"This is the beginning of change, but Arabs that think like I do, they are very few," Hamid saod. "That does not mean these views could not one day dominate, but they need to be empowered."
Hamid's webpage has 2 million "likes." He surmises that 10 years ago, that number would have been only 200.
"If we can support this momentum, it can change," he said.
For now, though, Operation Protective Edge continues, and in the end, Israelis and Palestinians are likely both to lose, said Ahmed.
"Israel is fighting an impossible battle, on one front with nihilist political Islamists who willingly lead their populations to slaughter in the interest of religionized war for fictionalized spiritual gain rather than true political solution," she said. "And on another front, waging other battles with an international media reflecting an increasingly ignored and biased public opinion."
Ahmed added, "The sooner media commentary can be broadened to explain political Islamism, diplomatic and political powers globally can begin to plan the true long-term freedom of the Palestinians ... a lasting liberation from the stranglehold of Hamas's political Islamism."
Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in Overland Park, Kansas. Reach her at maayanjaffe@icloud.com, or follow her on Twitter, @MaayanJaffe.
For the original article, visit jns.org.

After What This Congressman Just Did, Obama Won’t Be Able To Ignore This Huge Atrocity Any Longer

After What This Congressman Just Did, Obama Won’t Be Able To Ignore This Huge Atrocity Any Longer

"Your conscience will haunt you long after you leave office..."


As terrorists aligned with ISIS – or Islamic State – continue to use brutal tactics in an effort to conquer Iraq and surrounding regions, many Republicans are expressing dismay that Barack Obama has failed to take a firm stance against the ongoing violence.
Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf penned a letter to Obama this week encapsulating many of the concerns held by others in his party.

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He concludes that “mass atrocities” against Iraqis have already led to countless deaths and the displacement of large portions of the nation’s citizens.
“Genocide is taking place today in northern Iraq,” Wolf wrote, asking Obama why he has remained silent on the issue.
“Why have you not spoken up,” he asked, “and why has the Atrocities Prevention Board not taken action? Just today, the editorial page of The Washington Post described your administration’s response to this emergency as ‘listless.’”
He went on to describe some of the most horrendous methods used by ISIS militants in Iraq, including the desecration of Christian homes and landmarks.
“Families have been forced to flee,” he wrote, “often on foot, with nothing but literally the shirts on their backs.”
Wolf also referenced a graphic video purportedly depicting the mass slaughter of Iraqis by the Islamic militant group.
He suggested that, as Bill Clinton “deeply regretted his failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994,” Obama will likewise regret his inadequate response to the ISIS threat in Iraq.
The letter included an excerpt from a 2012 speech Obama gave at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in which he promised to live up to his promise that his administration would do “everything we can to prevent and end atrocities.”
At that time, he said that he had worked diligently as president to “back up those words with deeds.”

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Wolf, however, questioned where the deeds – or, for that matter, the words – were regarding the violence in Iraq.
“You will come to sincerely regret your failure to take action to stop the genocide in Iraq,” he concluded. “Your conscience will haunt you long after you leave office. Mr. President, say something; do something.”
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Unreal: Key Obamacare Official Deleted Emails Being Sought By House Oversight Committee…

Unreal: Key Obamacare Official Deleted Emails Being Sought By House Oversight Committee…


(by Patrick Howley, The Daily Caller) -- The administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) deleted some of her emails and may not be able to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the flawed Obamacare rollout, CMS has warned Congress.
Marilyn Tavenner, who was appointed by President Obama to take over CMS within the Department of Health and human Services in 2013 — prior to the Obamacare rollout — deleted some of her emails and did not save hard copies as the Federal Records Act requires her to do, MSNBC reported Thursday.
Though Tavenner’s computer did not crash like ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly did, Tavenner may be unable to cooperate with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenas.
“During her entire tenure at CMS, Ms. Tavenner’s CMS email address, which is accessible to both colleagues and the public, has been subject to write-in campaigns involving thousands of emails from the public,” according to a letter CMS sent Wednesday to the National Archives and Records Administration. “Therefore, she receives an extremely high volume of emails that she manages daily. To keep an orderly email box and to stay within the agency’s email system capacity limits, the Administrator generally copied or forwarded emails to immediate staff for retention and retrieval, and did not maintain her own copies.”