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The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities
Post Date: 2018-01-26 04:23:37 by A Pole
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The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities By Simha Flapan. New York: Pantheon, 1987. 277 pp. $6.95 (paper). Reviewed by Andrew I. Killgore "Palestine will become as Jewish as England is English."—Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel in his autobiography, Trial and Error. A dimly lit chamber, a spotlight focused on a massive table at the center. On the table a beautifully wrapped package labeled: Israel, America's Strategic Ally. Seven pencil-thin legs "support" the table. And a surrealistic touch out of Salvador Dali: the legs do not quite reach the floor. The subject is not levitation. In a literal sense, it is a review of Simha Flapan's seminal ...
Trump to Palestinian Authority: No More Aid, No More Talking, No More Anything Until You Commit to Peace [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-25 17:57:07 by Tooconservative
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This Trump is so boorish. I wish we had a well-spoken chubby-faced College Boy like Marco who would talk tough for conservative crowds and then pursue the perpetual pay-off-the-Palestinians plan that the Establishment prefers. Oh well. We'll just have to take the crudity of words backed up by actual action instead of more words. In unscripted remarks to the press on Thursday, US President Donald Trump said the US would no longer transfer monetary aid to the Palestinians unless they entered peace negotiations with Israel, and excoriated the Palestinian leadership’s reaction to his decision last month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "That money is not going ...
SOROS: The US 'is set on a course toward nuclear war' with North Korea (Trump "mafia state")
Post Date: 2018-01-25 17:07:53 by Hondo68
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a target-striking contest of the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to occupy islands in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on August 25, 2017. KCNA via Reuters Legendary investor and Democratic megadonor George Soros gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.Soros said the US's unwillingness to recognize North Korea as a nuclear power is setting the two countries on a "course toward nuclear war."Soros also criticized Trump and claimed the president was trying to create a "mafia state" similar to Russia. George Soros on Thursday said the Trump ...
Looming scandal will hammer the Democrats Hillary Clinton. (Trump still won a rigged election)
Post Date: 2018-01-25 15:27:37 by no gnu taxes
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The fix was in. The 2016 election was rigged — and Donald Trump won anyway. All hell is breaking loose in D.C. The next few weeks will be the most shocking in America’s history. The revelations about to be made public will shake this nation to its core. Liberals who watch only CNN and MSNBC probably haven’t a clue what’s about to hit them. Trust me, that light at the end of the tunnel is a train headed straight for the Democrat Party. We all know — thanks to former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile — that Hillary rigged the Democrat presidential primary against Bernie Sanders. That was a precursor of what was to come. Does it shock anyone ...
Dems abandon “Dreamers” in budget talks? Update: Kelly to Capitol Hill
Post Date: 2018-01-25 09:54:21 by Tooconservative
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Better not let La Résistance find out about this. A week ago, Senate Democrats argued that the so-called “Dreamers” were more important than sick children and the armed forces. Now, according to Politico, they’re no longer part of spending talks at all. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin made their cave complete, splitting the DACA negotiations away from the resolution of the FY2018 budget plan: Senate Democrats are willing to drop their demand that relief for Dreamers be tied to any long-term budget agreement — a potential boost for spending talks, but one that could face opposition from their House counterparts. The shift comes in response to the deal struck ...
POS! (LBJ)
Post Date: 2018-01-25 09:38:18 by Deckard
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No Charges For Off-Duty LAPD Cop Who Fired Gun During Scuffle With Teens
Post Date: 2018-01-25 09:35:07 by Deckard
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CBS Los Angeles ANAHEIM (CBSLA) – An off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fired his gun during an altercation with a group of teenagers outside his Anaheim home last year, setting off violent protests, will not face criminal charges. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday morning that Kevin Ferguson acted lawfully as a private citizen when he fired his weapon into the ground while detaining a 13-year-old boy during a confrontation with several teens. (Video at the Link) “The evidence does not support a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ferguson committed a crime,” Assistant District ...
No, The American Founders Were Not Libertarians [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-25 08:43:41 by A K A Stone
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Libertarians are still trying to claim the American Founding as theirs. One occasionally hears the argument that the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are libertarian. One of the most recent instances of this claim resides in Nikolai Wenzel’s first-rate defense of libertarianism in “Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?” (Stanford: 2017). Yet a closer look at the Founders’ thought about government makes clear that it was anything but libertarian. Wenzel notes there are different types of libertarianism. He clarifies that “unless I specify otherwise, I will use the term libertarian to mean minarchy.” Minarchist ...
A Conspiracy of Silence Assaults Privacy
Post Date: 2018-01-25 07:26:14 by Deckard
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During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law vast new powers for the NSA and the FBI to spy on innocent Americans and selectively to pass on to law enforcement the fruits of that spying. Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted. All this bulk surveillance had come about because the National Security Agency convinced federal judges meeting in secret that they should authorize it. Now Congress ...
Mueller Probe Accidentally Exposes FBI Cover-Up of Saudi Role in 9/11
Post Date: 2018-01-25 07:06:49 by Deckard
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Further deteriorating the propaganda surrounding the government’s probe into alleged interference by Russia in the 2016 election, recently discovered court documents have just revealed that the person leading the investigation, Special Counsel Robert Muller, was complicit in covering up Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11. Not only did Mueller cover for the Florida Saudi family but, according to the documents, he released intentionally deceptive statements to muddy the official investigation. The new report, released by Florida Bulldog is nothing short of bombshell. As TFTP previously reported, Florida Bulldog, a team of investigative journalists that has spent years probing the ...
Innocent Man Calls 911 to Report Burglary, Cops Show Up and Shoot HIM
Post Date: 2018-01-25 06:59:20 by Deckard
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An innocent man called 911 for help while his home was being burglarized. However, when police showed up, the robber got away and they shot the innocent man instead—leaving him paralyzed for life.Hollywood, SC– Dashcam footage captured the disturbing scene as Deputies Keith Tyner and Richard Powell of the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the home of then 26-year-old Bryant Heyward, who had called 911 after he’d just been the victim of a home invasion. Heyward had fended off the two intruders who were threatening his home and his life, only to be critically shot and paralyzed by those who he had desperately called for help. Now, the ...
Trump imposes steep tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines (More Tax Increases under consideration)
Post Date: 2018-01-25 01:09:37 by Hondo68
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A residential solar installation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trump will impose a 30% tariff on imported solar cells and modules in the first year. Photograph: Sergio Flores/Getty Images The US president, Donald Trump, has announced steep tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels, giving a boost to Whirlpool Corp and dealing a setback to the renewable energy industry in the first of several potential trade restrictions. The decisions in the two “Section 201” safeguard cases followed findings by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that both imported products “are a substantial cause of serious injury to domestic manufacturers,” US trade representative ...
Philadelphia's Government 'Expresses Interest' in Safe Injection Sites - new District Attorney also supports Shooting Galleries
Post Date: 2018-01-24 23:07:46 by Hondo68
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Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/Sipa/Newscom Philadelphia officials are now open to allowing safe injection sites for heroin users. The city's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, does not yet have details about how such sites would be run, who would run them, or who would pay for them, looking instead to solicit for proposals from private and non-profit organizations. "Part of what we're doing today is expressing interest," he told the local NBC affiliate. The announcement comes on the heels of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's decision to offer a range of waivers for regulations that have made it harder for substance abusers to access life-saving treatments. Jeanette Bowles, a ...
Cops: Jets' Robby Anderson Threatened To Fuck Officer's Wife, "Nut In Her Eye" After Arrest
Post Date: 2018-01-24 21:34:04 by Gatlin
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New York Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson was arrested early Friday morning in South Florida and charged with reckless driving, resisting arrest, eluding police, and threatening a public servant.According to police, Anderson was clocked driving 105 mph in a 45 mph zone and then attempted to evade the officer who tried to stop him. Cops say Anderson ran multiple red lights while trying to get away from the officer, and was “all over the roadway and failed to maintain a single lane on numerous occasions.”Anderson eventually stopped, at which point police say he resisted their attempts to arrest him and put him in the back of a police car. Once Anderson was in the car, cops say he ...
Pope Francis slams Fake News, Disinformation
Post Date: 2018-01-24 18:36:05 by Hondo68
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Pope Francis releases 2018 World Communications Day messageIn his message for the World Communications Day 2018, Pope Francis calls for a “journalism for peace” in response to the threat of fake news, which “thrives on the absence of healthy confrontation with other sources of information”. Pope Francis on Wednesday released his message for World Communications Day, which is held annually on the Sunday before Pentecost, falling this year on 13 May 2018. “The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). Fake news and journalism for peace” is the theme of the Pope’s message. The Holy Father explores what makes fake news ‘fake’, how to recognize it, ...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
Post Date: 2018-01-24 17:39:27 by Hondo68
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Along with the entire the military-industrial complex. Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense. Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens are permitted to see—is in essence a brief for increasing the size of the U.S. military budget. Implicit in the document is this proposition: more spending will make the armed forces of the United States “stronger” and the United States “safer.” Simply put, the NDS is all about funneling more bucks to the Pentagon. Remarkably, the ...
A short love story
Post Date: 2018-01-24 13:48:31 by sneakypete
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A SHORT, BUT BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY A man and a woman who had never met before, but were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train. Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper berth and she in the lower. At 1:00 a.m., the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying, “Ma'am I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I'm awfully cold” “I have a better idea,” she replied, “Just for tonight, let's pretend that we're married.” ...
Howard Kurtz: Media Partisans, Broken by "Trump Trauma," Have Thrown Away all Professional Standards in Order to Become Full Liberal Democrat Partisans Against Trump (and Republicans)
Post Date: 2018-01-24 13:09:51 by Tooconservative
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Well, this isn't new, really, but he is right. These are excerpts from his new book Media Madness.Donald Trump is staking his presidency, as he did his election, on nothing less than destroying the credibility of the news media; and the media are determined to do the same to him. This is not just a feud or a fight or a battle. It is scorched-earth warfare in which only one side can achieve victory. To a stunning degree, the press is falling into the president's trap. The country's top news organizations have targeted Trump with an unprecedented barrage of negative stories, with some no longer making much attempt to hide their contempt. Some stories are legitimate, some are not, ...
California hoping to make businesses cough up half of their tax cuts
Post Date: 2018-01-24 12:55:32 by Tooconservative
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This story popped up a couple of days ago but we’re only just getting around to it now. The central theme of the state government in California these days is fairly obvious: #RESIST Trump. Basically, anything the President is in favor of they need to oppose and reverse if possible. But the one thing you’d expect them to keep their hands off of would be a federal tax cut, right? Don’t be silly. Since it was a GOP idea, no matter how massively popular it’s been with the voters, the tax cuts must be opposed. But they can’t do anything about it because it’s a federal law, or so the theory goes. Never fear, citizens. The state legislature has figured out a way ...
Schoolgirls arrested in bid to find men who impregnated them, Tanzania officials say
Post Date: 2018-01-24 10:10:14 by misterwhite
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Five pregnant schoolgirls in Tanzania were arrested so law enforcement could interrogate them about the men who impregnated them, officials said. The schoolgirls, whose names and ages were not disclosed, were arrested last week. They were later released on bail, Tandahimba District Commissioner Sebastian Waryuba said late Monday. He said people are looking to question two other girls in the district, which is on the Mozambique border. The East African nation has among the toughest laws against those who impregnate school-aged girls, sentencing them to at least 30 years prison. Officials said the penalties are intended to discourage early marriages and teenage pregnancies that lead to ...
Does Trump understand that the US government operates by the Constitution and its laws?
Post Date: 2018-01-24 08:44:41 by tpaine
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Does Trump understand that the US government operates by the Constitution and its laws, and that there is no personal loyalty to the President? I am sure that he is aware of that fact, although his enemies are now engaged in trying to prove otherwise. Which leaves the question: --- --- Do the enemies of Trump realize that the US government operates by the Constitution and its laws, and that the President has the executive power and the duty to ascertain whether government employees understand and comply with their oaths to honor the U.S. Constitution? This executive power is about to be challenged by the Mueller investigation, --- contending that Trump asked for personal loyalty from ...
How This Silicon Valley Giant is BacKing China's Tech Ambitions
Post Date: 2018-01-24 07:18:08 by sneakypete
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As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping. The same goes for artificial intelligence, mobile technology and supercomputers. Qualcomm is also working to help Chinese companies like Huawei break into overseas markets in support of China’s “go global” campaign to develop big multinational brands. Qualcomm is providing money, expertise and engineering for Beijing’s master plan to create its own technology superpowers. Big American companies fiercely protect their intellectual property and trade secrets, fearful of giving an edge to rivals. But they have little choice in China — and Washington is looking on with ...
Trump Nominates Racketeer for Federal Bench
Post Date: 2018-01-24 06:54:52 by Deckard
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By Aaron Kesel Very quietly, over Christmastime, President Trump nominated former Delaware United States Attorney, Colm F. Connolly, to be a Delaware District Court Justice (see Congressional – here). Arguably, as the facts below will detail – not only should this nomination be denied – Colm’s BAR Card should be yanked, and Connolly should be in jail. Question germane – are racketeers the ones promoting the nomination of Colm Connolly for the federal bench? According to eToys whistleblower, Laser Steven Haas, that is exactly what is occurring. Racketeers are influencing the system of justice! In 2008, then-Delaware Senator, Joe Biden, intentionally blocked Colm ...
DHS is convincing states to lower their BAC limit to 0.05 or one drink
Post Date: 2018-01-24 06:13:02 by Deckard
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This month the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Mathematics (NASEM) published a report that encourages states to make it illegal for people to have one drink and drive. The NASEM report titled ‘Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities’ claims that a person’s ability to operate a motor vehicle begins to deteriorate at a BAC below 0.05 percent and recommends police arrest motorists for consuming one drink. “The committee recommends that state governments enact per se laws for alcohol-impaired driving at 0.05 percent”. A Google search of the NASEM and Homeland Security returned close to a million hits. ...
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