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Palmyra

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  • The 'Jewbags' photo
    • Palmyra April 5, 2012 at 12:14 am

      I mean - I get the whole "Jewish political money" issue on this site, and the discussion is invaluable. This just doesn't qualify, it only reads as a communique of someone who found evidence of a Jewish staffer being gauche in college. It reads as....no I won't say it.

    • Palmyra April 5, 2012 at 12:10 am with 1 replies

      Am I teh only one who gets this? "Jew-bags" of course is the affluent college girl version of a "ho-bag". These are girls who haven't a care in the world and are as free to mock tired strereotypes as any class in the history of man. Actually it is sweet, and self-deprecating, if anything. Not that the issues above aren't important to discuss...but...what do you people think college kids do these days for fun? Meet for milkshakes and discuss football? These girls are obviously destined for elite, calm lives, not because they are Jewish, but they at least realize that it has helped lol.

      "White" college girls on the same trajectory, for instance, would hold a "white-trash" costume party .... or whatever. Like, you know? And post it on Facebook the next day - tube tops, PBR, and all.

      Things like this read as slightly hysteric, I'm sorry to say.

  • Notes on my racism, part 3: 'My people'
    • Palmyra October 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm

      Every time I read posts like these I come out a little sadder. Being of a certain age, I've experienced many ethnic inner circles in America through close friendships and romances; muslim, hispanic, black, jewish, philipino, african, slavic, and on and on and on. Coming from a teetotalling Christian Science family, I can tell you that we are probably the closest thing to Jews in America wrt moralizing, work ethic, scrutiny of others' habits and so on. That said, I quit going to church when I was 12, partly because of the above reasons.

      I guess it's just overwhelmingly depressing to read how alien some types of people still perceive themselves to be in a more or less homogenized era, in these times of information overload and near abolishment of cultural secrecy. As if we don't all celebrate holidays, have frank or contentious conversations with calcified family elders, hold humanistic moral outlooks in high regard, etc. Really depressing.

  • Sanchez's first mistake
    • Palmyra October 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm

      Yes, and you could even go further and say that all political moves of late are nothing but responses to whatever the media decides to discuss; the inverse of what should be, in a 'democracy' - this is rather obvious and has been for at least a decade, the 'jackpot' phenomenon as well. So it's one big pc commercial with no substance, and the only way it can work is with tacit internal agreement that no one actually opines, neither political players in their official press releases, nor following commentaries. Soviet style.

      Sad as it is, what Sanchez said on tape was probably the only 4th estate opinion let slip for years...oh except for that (mildly)recalcitrant ARAB, Helen Thomas. In her case it took someone from an Orwellian citizen brigade to pass her on to the media masters, who then dispatched her tout de suite.

      I really can't think of anyone else who's left...maybe Glenn Greenwald? They won't even let him on tv because he's so badass. You absolutely will be marginalized if you're quick on your feet, and full of 'opinions'.

    • Palmyra October 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm

      Ted Turner stepped down as vice-chairman of Time Warner in 2006 ...

    • Palmyra October 2, 2010 at 1:14 pm with 3 replies

      No he's a moron, period. He's not letting realities slip out because of any sort of righteous agenda, it's pure carelessness. Of course it was only a matter of time since he dared criticize Israel the first time(in the video above) that he'd be taken out. In other words, it doesn't take any sort of genius to come to the conclusions he has. The illusion in American media is that no one has yet came to these conclusions, and since this is upheld by everyone BUT Sanchez, he had to go.

      Sanchez was only hired by CNN - way too late I might add - as the quasi-Hispanic veneer to cover up the stench of Lou Dobbs' blatant xenophobia but he's an empty suit with no impulse control, which spells danger in the industry of "real" news.

      It does take a certain self awareness and restraint to hold back your inner logic if you want to be successful in US media. There's the paradox for cable media execs - they need anchors who are either numbed up enough by their paycheck or innate status to float over the issues(the usual choice - Cooper, Blitzer, etc), skin in the geopolitical game(rare, usually retired businessmen politicians), or the jackpot - which they thought they hit with Sanchez - an ethnic who can hint at the necessity for sympathy towards "the other", but with ultimately neoliberal tendencies and conclusions(Zakaria, Amanpour - and at the amateur level Don Lemon & TJ Holmes).

      It's rather ironic that his lack of self-awareness regarding his own affirmative action would lead to his downfall, but again he's not very bright. They bafflingly trot him out when there's something going on in the Latin world, where his ignorance really shines.

      Bottom line is there's no "there" there, in US media. They shuffle around blindly. Their mistakes end up being their material.

    • Palmyra October 1, 2010 at 11:25 pm with 8 replies

      First of all, Sanchez is a newsmodel moron but no more so than Cooper, et al.

      And he didn't even bring up Jewishness. In his bashing of Stewart(AND Colbert) he was referring to the economic class that typically oppresses blacks and hispanics. Then the host totally got it twisted and said something like "but John Stewart is a minority too". Only then did Sanchez pointed out that Jews are not oppressed in this day and age in America. In the end of the interview the host patted him on the back and told him he was cool even.

      There isn't a word about this in any headline or outrage blog. Headlines all read "Antisemite Sanchez says Jews control the media!"

      It's also quite obvious that at least 90% of all commenters haven't even listened to the audio and another 9% have only read the one sentence from the transcipt.

      The only thing this proves is that Sanchez IS a moron...for thinking he would get away with it. It's old news to anyone with a brain.

      Funniest post on Huffpo:

      "When we blacks control the media we won't fire you for saying so"

  • A 'party for Marty' greets Peretz at Harvard
  • UN: Two men killed on 'Mavi Marmara' were holding cameras when they were shot
    • Palmyra September 26, 2010 at 12:19 am

      It's a shame in this day and age that we have to wait almost half a year for 'confirmation' of what credible nonpartisan int'l witnesses were saying on the day an incident occured. Time is more precious in this technologically manipulated era of preformed "framed" discourse than ever before. This doesn't just go for Gaza...it's the infallible formula still relied upon by the world's ruling class in nearly every gross miscarriage of justice, and will continue to be as long as they control all accessible media.

  • The legend of the Silwad sniper
  • Bibi & Barney: Spring Pollard for 3-month freeze extension
  • Our cross to bear
    • Palmyra September 21, 2010 at 7:59 pm

      Well, well. Not much to say that hasn't already been said. Great post Mr Phillips, and there should be a new sort of chosen sainthood for They Who Undertake The Readings So We Don't Have To.

  • Think back to 2003... the year the U.S. didn't invade Iraq
    • Palmyra August 26, 2010 at 3:53 am

      Please. We instigated the Sunni Shia "conflict", arguably with false flags. I remember indy reports coming out of Iraq at the time - early; 2003-2004 that questioned the actual perpetrators of sectarian violence time and time again. What happened to those reports? I would link to them if I could. I wish I'd at least saved the text.

      And remember early in the war when a bunch of Iraqis in Fallujah were killed from above as they were protesting the conversion of one of their schools into a military hq? It seemed like right after that the whole "sectarian violence" propaganda and "theory" was really amped up, as a pure distraction of course from the atrocities the US was committing. Then came the blackwater debacle - they actually caught them in an act of some sort, it would seem. And remember, the media constantly repeated the lie that they were 'civilian contractors', at least until after they incinerated Fallujah with radioactivity. After a while the formulaic violence might have gained a tinge of credibility but I know the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when the Golden Mosque was precision-bombed by "insurgents" dressed in Iraqi police uniforms - it certainly smelled like a US op given the troop movements of the time, preceding sectarian herdings and the unnatural pushes for diplomacy - there were report of native-based reconciliations going on, to neocon punditry's chagrin iirc. And of course it led to some of the bloodiest retributions ever. Eventually we were able to label areas like this "ethnically cleansed" and start designation of fake local gov'ts, leading to even further animosities.

      So I call bullshit on the gloomy fantasy forecast above. More likely Saddam would have been popularily ousted from within by a clerical figure. Shia, Sunni, it doesn't matter. The violence would be short lived and regionally contained. Iraq may have even amicably fractured. Not saying that would be a stellar trajectory but...I do remember a time when Sunni and Shia leaders would leak out statements like "we are all Iraqis". When you look at it this way it makes our invasion even more necessary - a peacefully broken-up Iraq, egads! We can't have the Iraqis as competent energy traders on the international stage, period.

      Sorry for the angry mishmash but it's therapeutic sometimes to vent your recollections, especially after they've been pushed down the memory hole.

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali misuses Samuel Huntington
    • Palmyra August 21, 2010 at 9:01 pm

      Anyhow as the years go by I mourn Hirsi-Ali's tragedy and recent exploitation less and less. With her crazy Dutch alliances and now the AEI, she's honed herself into what she lives to subvert - authoritarianism. And she's not done yet.

    • Palmyra August 21, 2010 at 8:19 pm with 3 replies

      She doesn't get it right, but neither does Sam, or any of the new Orientalists or those exploited to that end - Naipaul, Bernard Henri-Levy et al. The fact is that throughout history ethno-religious groups only 'reacted' with each other out of territorial or resource conquest. Religion or Ethnicism is always a great excuse for the winning scribes to use, but it's almost never the primary motivator.

      Gah, the comment section of the WSJ is positively Victorian with "animal this", "parasite that". It's a shame that the real parasites are able to exploit a literate traumatized native to their beastly ends...not one of them would ever admit that Hirsi-Ali's unconscionable past has everything to do with colonialism and ancient tribal customs and nothing to do with Islam aka the religion of the peopole who sit on top of our Black Gold.

  • Revenge of the Nerds: Partying with the boys of Im Tirtzu
  • Eden Abergil, the product of a blindfolded society
    • Palmyra August 16, 2010 at 11:36 pm

      Brava Seham, this is the norm and even laudable in mainstream US society. "Look at them thar swarthy prisoners, comfortable enough to be featured on Facebook!"

      And in some circles it only abets the canard that Israeli methods are the most humane; and unfortunate Americans in the same position are merely less tactful...and only when they choose to relay their pics of humiliations that leave marks on the untermenschen.

  • I ruin 'Seven Samurai'
    • Palmyra August 14, 2010 at 5:25 pm

      See I have to fast forward at least to Mifune to get mine to watch it period. And then he usually falls asleep within the next hour or so. I think we've attempted to watch it 'together' about twenty times.

  • Richard Cohen says that Arabs want to exterminate Jews
    • Palmyra August 12, 2010 at 2:53 pm

      He stabbed 20 black people in 3mos. time. In media reports before his arrest he was said to have ties to white supremacist sites, etc. Now no mention of that. News crawls say "Israeli citizen".

  • Feeling the hate in New York
    • Palmyra April 29, 2010 at 12:55 am

      Totally.

      He is proving that he is a real yocal, and will not get beyond his assemblyman seat in Brooklyn.

      And the Hussein-ophiles are also Stormfronters. He'd better realize which fire he's looking to kindle. Of course that's a hedged catastrophe, in the official playbook.

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