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@Taxi. " ..... I would point the finger at the religious ...." I completely concur, religion itself is not the cause of violence or repression, but rather the people. It always people. I would submit that the basic tenets of Christianity are good, but the powerful institution that became known as the Roman Catholic church, was often used as a tool to maintain that power and control over a population. In a broader context, it is not institutions themselves that are flawed, by the humans who run them.
Take our own country, we have in the Constitution, a document that attempts to provide a large degree of personal freedoms to individuals,
and yet, despite this, those freedoms have been eroded and weakened over the course of that document's life. Is it because the Constitution was re-written? No. It is because individuals in power have chosen to betray its principles, to misuse it, all in an effort to further political agendas.
We are all of us, flawed, unfortunately, some of us have more dangerous flaws than others. One of the greatest flaws, is the desire for power.
As an end, Mr. Maher is a silly, egotistical twit, and he carries his bias like a cudgel.
How do you know the message will in fact get to Stephen Hawking? Who manages/owns the site change.org? Is it not possible to email Stephen Hawking directly?
Friedman is a clown and I couldn't care less what he thinks.
It is really stomach churning that any human being could be that preoccupied with his or her cultural and/or religious affiliation. It is quite sick.
They are all "losers"!
@Tzombo. Absolutely spot on. Zionists whether they are Jewish or Christian, are the problem.
I also must ask the question: Is "stupidity" a qualification for political office and or political appointment? It certainly appears that way.
Do these very foolish people realize, or perhaps they do and do not care, what something so very stupid and silly such as this would mean in the future? You could presumably have black folks claiming it's racist to speak about the state of countries in Africa, people of Irish ancestry, claiming the same about criticism of Ireland, and on and on.
I've just today watched the 1997 interview of George Carlin by Jon Stewart. Carlin speaks about how he likes individuals but dislikes groups, and I agree with that sentiment. This kind of stupidity is an excellent example of "group think" mentality and it is an unctuous and despicable characteristic at its best. When does all this becomes tyrannical?
OBAMA IS A COMPLETE PUTZ!
It is with dismay I recognize that far too many people on the "left", a descriptive I use because I lack something better, wish to dismiss Rand Paul, primarily because of his somewhat more conservative views (compared to their own) on abortion. I can only assume then, that they believe 'a woman's right to choose' abortion is more important than an individual's right to his or her life. I find this position extremely immoral, although many of these people would be agitated in the extreme were I to accuse them of immorality.
Of course, I would not agree with Rand Paul on all things (I no longer support one party or the other, anyway). Is there anyone with whom we agree on all things? I think not. Rand Paul's filibuster did not limit itself to the legality of using drones against American citizens on American soil, but to the entire program of drone use against any human being, anywhere in the world, based on a presumption of the 'crime' of speaking of doing harm to the United States.
There are those who believe Senator Paul is using this issue only to attack the Obama administration, and don't accept the nobility, if you will, of his stance. They believe him to be playing politics. I am no stranger to cynicism myself when it comes to the motivations of politicians; however, I believe, Senator Paul's position does represent his personal beliefs, and seeing how he has been attacked by many others in his own party, vindicates my assumption, or so I think.
There is a very slick process at work designed to stifle free speech, without actually making it illegal to hold certain views, and that is what I see as impugning an individual's motive for criticizing certain policies. If you criticize American policy toward Israel, you are an antisemite; if you criticize the policies of Barack Obama, you must be a racist. I for one, will not be intimidated or bullied by this -- and so I say, that I am appalled and disgusted by many of Barack Obama's policies.
@goldmarx. The Borg Collective came to my mind too. A collective is another way to say 'robotic' as in a society which follows certain tenets without questioning.
Brooks praises a 'collective' when it can be described as a society which promotes the good of the group over the rights of the individual. Individualism is of course its opposite -- promoting the rights of the individual over good of the larger group. They are both extreme and fraught with dangers.
Toward the end of exempting Israel from the effects of sequestration, Representatives Ed Royce (R-California) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) are planning to introduce a bill making Israel a "Major Strategic Ally". It seems no country in the past has ever received such a designation. This from Mitchell Plitnick at lobelog.com.
@gingershot. I don't think the Israel Lobby has anything" on Lindsey Graham but rather it is that South Carolina has over 3,000 defense contractors and from 2000 to 2011 has won over $25 billion in defense contracts. Research it for yourself. I typed in the keywords "defense contracts for South Carolina" and came up with the list from the site http://www.governmentcontracts.com.
@Dan Crowther. With your dismissive "um .... good rant I suppose...." you have completely and utterly misunderstood the text.
Western or American feminism seems to be more preoccupied with a woman's right to have a legal abortion, than it does about the right of women living in places such as Afghanistan to be able to live without the fear their village will be subject to airstrikes, to live without the fear of learning their son, father, husband, brother, was killed because he was a suspected militant.
The sublimely egotistical feminism that covers itself in the cloak which bears the words 'women's rights'. The uber self-righteousness of these 'feminists' who, because they CAN live without the fear of their village being bombed, without the fear of learning their father, son, husband, brother, has been killed by violence, have the luxury to bore us all with their musings about the unfortunate, beleaguered who keep their heads covered in a cloth.
They disgust me, utterly.
Unsurprising reaction from a highly chauvinistic society who wants to believe in its own superiority, and is desperate to maintain its advantage over the Palestinian population, which it believes it can by denying them education.
You have to ask whether it would have even been nominated had it NOT had an Israeli co-director. I doubt it would have.
'The Holocaust" was one aspect of an event that was itself an unimaginable horror, and that was World War II. The tens of millions of people, civilian and military, who died in a stupid, senseless, orgy of violence, borne out of one man's sickness for power. Placing the Holocaust on some pedestal to be worshipped as a religion, degenerates into an amoral dismissal of the suffering of many, many, millions of other people.
I just thought I'd share this bit of idiocy heard on C-span radio a few days ago during an interview with Rep Schweikert (spelling?) of Arizona. One caller referred to Schweikert has having neo-con views and Schweikert began his reply with "be careful, calling someone a neocon borders on being racist ...." or "borders of racism".
WTF? So, the very serious and ugly fact of 'true' racism is being abused by the likes of Schweikert and no doubt others, and victimhood now becomes a source of power, so the victim becomes the aggressor.
I suspect the strategy is to make this process so terribly onerous for Mr. Hagel -- he is now being asked to prove that no organization with which he is affiliated has received foreign funding -- that he will ask to have his name withdrawn from nomination.
Please Mr. Hagel, stand firm against the lunatics, your country needs you.
This morning on C-span someone named Mareen Leed, Senior Advisor for the Center for International and Strategic Studies was speaking about the Hagel confirmation hearings. One call that was accepted was from a man who said that he didn't know that the position of Secretary of Defense of the United States, was actually Secretary of Defense of Israel.
Poor, weak, sorry, little nation of Israel that can't take care of itself.
@American. I think you are correct about Rand Paul being 'sly' as you say or 'cunning' I would say. In the dishonest world of politics , no one in office ever really says what he/she thinks. Personally, I think Rand Paul highly intelligent. Notice he refers to Israel as a "sovereign nation" meaning a nation which should be able to makes decisions about its welfare unfettered by the views of other nations. This statement is a prelude to a policy of cutting Israel loose. It's the politician's way of saying, "you make your bed, you lie in it". He knows exactly what he is doing and I do not believe he is some Zionist lackey, at all. As William Kristol has a very exaggerated view of his own intelligence and cunning, it would not surprise me in the least that he's been taking for a ride by Rand Paul.
Completely unrelated -- but will Mondoweiss look into the 'claimed' suicide of Aaron Swartz in New York?
Hot Diggety DOG! It may be the first thing Barack will have done that makes me hope that he may have some ba**s.
@Biorabbi. Gosh, what a bore you are! I've seen Michael Feinstein a few times on PBS programs, and I don't think I've every watched a program more boring. As to his interpretation of famous show tune lyrics -- nearly everyone knows about the homosexuality of Gershwin, Porter, etc., so Feinstein's 'interpretations' as you refer would be surprising to all but the slowest of wit.
Feinstein is a "proud, openly gay Jew", so what?! I'm a proud, openly heterosexual (I am really, really, bored with the 'gay' appellation), non-Jew, so what?!
What could be more tedious than individuals who are preoccupied with their sexuality and ethnic affiliation.
"Immigrants seeking refuge in the West must be grilled for their attitudes toward our civilization, our religion, and politics." Which is our religion, Mr. Pipes? Pray, do tell us. And I am so ignorant not to have realized that Mr. Pipes speaks for the "West"?
What an idiot!
Now I shall add to the controversy. The person shown in the photo is just not very far out of the jungle, is he?
Who are "these people" who chanted? Other children? As we all are too aware children can often be unkind to one another. Today we call it "bullying". It happens when a dominant group faces a weaker one. Such actions can make you despair of human nature. It's happened to Italians, the Irish, and black folk, terribly so. I'll bet it happens today in Israel with Jewish Israeli children taunting non-Jews.
The disturbing preoccupation with all things "Jewish" in Mr. Ellis' writing smacks of a truly ugly chauvinism. Mr. Chomsky can't be understood outside outside of his Jewishness? Is Mr. Ellis serious? I've read and listened to Professor Chomsky for years and he is quite clear about his views; views which any reasonable human being should and could understand. You don't have to know he is "Jewish" and quite frankly his being Jewish is totally irrelevant.
Perhaps Mr. Ellis can't be understood outside his Jewishness, as he makes painfully clear from his writings; or then again, perhaps he can. Or is my writing this "anti-semitic"?
Holy cow, that's not to mention the ravings in the fifth paragraph!
Isn't this condition called in psychology "cognitive dissonance"? He says they "revile" Zionism. Why the hell wouldn't they revile Zionism. That second paragraph is definitely the ravings of an unstable mind, I jest not. If this is what Israel will be composed of in future, mentally unstable individuals, President Ahmedinejad (however, the hell you spell his name) is prophetic.
@proudzionist777. EXACTLY, it and Israel are nothing special, just like so many other places. A 'light unto the nations'. What a joke.
@Tuyzentfloot. I listened to all of Ahmadinejad's speech and I don't know whether he wrote it, or how much of what he said, he personally believes, but the speech itself was in many parts quite poetic; I was personally impressed by it. He is a politician to be sure, and a very clever one too; he always know precisely what to say to get Zionists shouting and screaming.
@ColinWright. Your assessment is accurate, I believe, and I've said something similar about Netanyahu using this silly cartoon as a way of telling his audience "I think you are stupid". Problem is as you say, it makes him look very stupid. It's hard not to laugh at people with a "superiority complex"; they will always get kicked down and end up looking incredibly foolish.
How often in the past have we hard about Israel being a "light unto the nations" and what a joke that is. One only has to read Israel's papers, to understand that Israel is like any other country, it has its murderers, pedophiles, corrupt politicians, and businessmen, petty crime; there is absolutely nothing special about it at all.
More than the silly cartoon bomb, which by its use Mr. Netanyahu seems to be saying to his audience, "you're not very smart so I must use this 3rd grade device so you will understand", I must ask the question: is Netanyahu saying the red line should be drawn at 90% uranium enrichment by Iran? 90% enrichment is weapons-grade enrichment. Does the clown know what he is saying?
I would have asked her why Saudi Arabia is not included. Women can't drive in Saudi Arabia, must go out in public with a male escort, I've heard, and in general I suspect life there for women and gays, is far more oppressive, and yet, not a peep do we hear about the Saudis. Me wonders why the silly twit shown above, ignores them?
Only if one gets caught, EscapeVelocity, only if one gets caught. And besides I'm not sure how this would go in a court, there would be very good arguments for exercising the right to free speech, and the sign wasn't damaged, it wasn't torn, and it is in the public sphere. Are not subways publicly owned? It used to be a crime if a black person refused to give up his or her bus seat. So, frig the law, anyway.
@hophmi. Your response is all too predictable and your claim of my bigotry leaves me bored.
@hophmi. ".... who argue for ideas foreign to it, such as civil liberties, women's rights, and religious freedom ...." I thought for a moment you might have been speaking about Orthodox Judaism, hophmi.
Here's some religious tolerance for you -- two years ago while waiting for an international flight in Philadelphia I struck up a conversation with a Franciscan friar. He was on his way back to Israel, where he lives in monastery in the village considered the birthplace of John the Baptist. We of course spoke of the Palestinian/Israeli situation. He told me of once being followed by an Orthodox Jew and having the man hit him in the back of the head with a rock and pepper spray him in the face. He also acknowledged that rabbinic Judaism thinks it acceptable to kill Christians.
I would also add there are also some rare and choice bits in the Talmud that show not only an extreme disdain for Christianity but for the gentile world in general.
So ....... hophmi, get out your mirror and have a goooooooood look.
@just. You should call the Brookings Institution and share your disdain for Mr. Indyk. I did. Perhaps he won't change; he's probably too old, anyway, but it does perhaps put a seed of doubt and suspicion of his ilk in the person who answers the phone, and may be that will share it with someone else, and so it goes.
In Haaretz today is an article about Martin Indyk's comment on the Sunday airing of Face the Nation, in which he stated that he thought the United States would go to war against Iran in 2013.
I need to ask a question and it is a perfectly serious one. Does Indyk and those who make comments such as he does, have the mentality of a child in grade school? Imagine, your neighboring telling you, I don't like what you are doing, and I think I will do something to you next year. I ask this in deadly earnestness, as these are not the words or actions of grownups, and the world is too complicated to be left to children such as Indyk, Netanyahu, Lieberman, et al.
Will the grownups please take charge.
Yes, thank you Amar.
Let us be very clear -- the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, happened because the Jews were revolting against Rome. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact they were Jews. Rome did not tolerate rebellion, as can be easily understood from Roman action during the Spartacan rebellion.
@ColinWright. I don't know if one could call it proselytizing, but I think the growth in the population in Europe, where was existing the largest population of Jews, is attributed to the adoption of Judaism by the rulers of the Kingdom of Khazar. Just about the single most important event in the history of early Christianity was the adoption of that religion as the official religion of Rome. Had that not happened, Christianity would have remained obscure, as would Judaism.
@Dan Crowther. Well as for me, I'm completely disgusted by the drone attacks and the entire policy concerning Afghanistan. It is why I will write in the name of Ron Paul in November. I also believe we have no intention of leaving Afghanistan, unless forced to, and what is happening is drones are replacing troops, that is all; the policy is the same.
You are wrong about Romney, however, wiping the floor with Obama, as I said just above, Romney is a dog of a candidate and he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
@seanmcbride. I believe Mitt Romney continues to associate with them (the neocons) because Romney is essentially a completely clueless and rather stupid man, but one of galloping ambition. I watched his press conference about the Libya incident and he was painful to see and hear. While I hate to use the expression because it implies a level of phoniness, I don't think I've seen an individual whose demeanor was less presidential than Romney at that press conference. He is a dog of a candidate and I'm convinced he will not win the election, I don't care how much money Adelson throws at him.
Hooo-weeee, don't we live in interestin' times!
I wonder if they feel they've been taken for a ride with Mr. Wilders support for a ban of ritual animal slaughter.
@Shunra. Well said! NPR is nearly absolute garbage and not worth the listen.
Maybe Netanyahu can have a temper tantrum at the upcoming meeting of the UN General Assembly. Perhaps he will gnash his teeth, tear his hair, and cry ANTI-SEMITISM! Perhaps he'll have a complete nervous breakdown. Won't that be a sight to see.
The "special relationship" ain't so special anymore.
As of Sunday, 26 August, 9 am EDT, Trevino has still not updated his resume on Linkedin to reflect his being fired from the Guardian. Me wonders if he's been fired from a great many other jobs as well, as his resume shows he's not been at any one position for more than about 2 years, although some of those were temporary positions, such as the deVore campaign one.
I think perhaps Mr. Trevino is a not very talented writer/analyst/journalist? and for the not very talented, adopting a militantly pro-Israel, anti-Muslim bias, will get you a writing job for sure in some paper or journal, at least for a time.
@Kathleen. Yes, I feel quite certain of that.
@Kathleen. Chris Matthews is an employee. He doesn't decide who will be on his program, his employer does. Talking about 'pushing' him to invite people such as Juan Cole, John Meirsheimer, Steve Walt, won't get those folks on his show. He is not in control. If Chris Matthews said anything his employer had not authorized, he'd be out of a job faster than you can say lickety-split.
@Citizen. I think it because no third party candidate has yet come close to making any real progress in the two party system we have. I believe Ron Paul wants to change the direction of the Republican party, and not create a new party. It's the reason I think Jill Stein will be essentially unimportant. Handing out leaflets with other Ron Paul supporters before the primary, I hear from most of them they too wish to change the direction of the Republican party, most particularly foreign policy.
Ranjit Suresh, this American HAS decided that the issues of Medicare and the Department of Education are far less than important than the hideous drone attacks and other outrages perpetrated by this Administration. It is why I will be happily writing in (if necessary) the name of RON PAUL, on a presidential ballot in November. There is no difference between Obama and Romney in foreign policy; the only thing different about Romney is extreme unctuousness and servility to the pro Israel crowd.
I have my own speculation about Ron Paul's reasons for not breaking with Republicans, and I'm not sure it's to do with his son's career.
@MRW. You are not reading what is written. It says the "amount of carbon dioxide being RELEASED into the atmosphere ....." That may in fact be true as power plant operators have changed from burning to coal to other sources of fuel. HOWEVER, the article is SILENT on the amount of CO2 gases expressed as ppm that are PRESENT CURRENTLY in the atmosphere. The last number I heard was 320 ppm. Way, way, back in about 1960 the Club of Rome predicted in its book "The Limits to Growth" that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere would reach 280 ppm about the year 2000.
While we are on the subject of our beautiful, little, planet, each of you should read the book "Too Smart for Our Own Good" by Craig Dilworth.
@NickJOCW. How true that Ahmadinejad is a master at provoking Netanyahu and others. Quite unlike the clown the western media has tried to portray, President Ahmadinejad has an extremely sharp and politically agile mind, a fact that just sticks in the craw of Zionists who want to believe they are so much smarter than anyone else. Experience is a hard teacher, neh?
Hey, OlegR, the "redline" as you call was PASSED when Israel developed its own nuclear weapons. Is the Israeli leadership truly that astoundingingly obtuse?
I don't give a DAMN if Iran develops a nuclear weapon. Good for them, they need it protect themselves from the United States and the Israel.
Personally, I would like to have a world completely free of this weapon, but until it is, then "god bless the child that's got his own".
Thanks for posting that photo, CloakandDagger.
I absolutely agree, Carowhat. And, except for those who are already "true believers", I think most people will see this silliness for what it is. As thinking, rational, beings, we should always be disinclined to accept one side of the an argument, and in addition, if that one side has to engage is such rhetorical flourishes as to call his/her opponent savage or any other pejorative, that itself should call the argument made into serious question.
As much as I think this ad stupid and nasty, and if I were to live in San Francisco, I would be tempted to engage in a bit of artistic enhancement to grace the surface of the paper on which it is printed, there is nothing in the First Amendment which says we have free speech as long as it doesn't offend.
Zell also speaks in a contradictory fashion. On the one hand, he says that Jewish values gave birth to a major component of Western culture, and on the other hand, he says, the world is now hostile to those same (my word) values. How is it possible that a society becomes hostile to its own values? I don't imagine he could explain that very easily. In fact, he is not particularly intelligent. He just spouts a great deal of the Zionist narrative and myth.
I hear a lot of this nonsense from Zionists. There is no recognition at all, that in fact, Jewish culture itself has very likely been affected and influenced by gentile culture. No group, no person, lives in a vacuum.
First, Zell says the world is "hostile to Jewish values" and goes on to mention circumcision and attempts to ban it. What the hell? Is circumcision a Jewish value? It's a custom, not a value. "That same set of value, those Jewish values, gave birth to a major component of Western culture." I find this talk extremely offensive in that he almost completely dismisses the contributions of many non-Jews to Western culture, not even to mention the contribution of all the many, many, non-Jews to human culture in general. It is so extremely, stupidly, chauvinistic. Something Jews shouldn't forget -- they as much as the Western gentile world benefited from the advances of the Enlightenment, when they as the with gentile world, began to move away from the power and influence of religion view the world from a far more secular perspective. And the Enlightenment was not a "Jewish" phenomenon, although Spinoza is considered to be a contributor. The Renaissance was wholly a gentile phenomenon, and look at the brilliance that came from that.
Nothing's going to happen, Krauss, period. Not if the Zionists are going to get their hair mussed, which will certainly will. If they attack Iran, this time they will allow their hummingbird ass to overwhelm their jaybird mouth.
Wow, exactly one example you give. How overwhelming (please note sarcasm).
What the hell are you talking about when you mention "conspiracy theories". How is someone writing about the experiences he had and based on those experiences speculating about the future a conspiracy theory?
Do you have an English dictionary, OlegR? If so, please look up the word "conspiracy".
The REALITY is you are quite the fool.
Geofgray has some excellent observations. My own observation is our system of electoral politics is who can make the biggest whore of themselves (and please don't give me any pc about using the word "whore"; I'm tired of that crap too) to the groups who can get them elected. And, sadly enough, given the dismal outcomes of the current state of our electoral politics, we wish to export this garbage to other nations? You've got to be kidding! I don't know if Mitt Romney really means what he says when he makes the comments he does about Israel, about Jewish culture, and any number of other things. He's pandering. He may be saying these things while thinking to himself, "what a bunch of assholes, I think Jewish culture is crap, I couldn't give a damn less about Israel ....." We just don't know do we? We're not mind readers. Look, Mr. Obama told us a bunch of crap too that he probably didn't really mean.
A solution to this terrible situation, I don't profess to have.
Here this will make you start salivating, OlegR: seems as if a fair number of Zionists are sociopaths. Go ahead, beat your head against the wall, jump up and down, have heart palpitations, scream loudly and yell anti-semitism, it will make me feel delighted!
You might be onto something there, Brad. :)
I stopped listening to NPR many months ago after the refusal of Diane Rehm's guests on the Friday News Roundup to give Ron Paul a fair shake, and Rehm's inability or refusal to ask that they did. The news on NPR is absolute crap and has been; I listened to the station for a few programs, but found it difficult to stomach the other garbage. I don't listen anymore and never shall again. The bullsh**t factor has increased by a thousand.
Well written, Exiled at Home. I'm afraid as soon as I read the use of the overused "tough neighborhood" by Terry Levine, it signaled that here was someone who still hadn't quite disabused him or herself of Zionist propaganda.
While I've never seen his films, I saw the first 5 minutes of "Borat" to convince me that Mr. Cohen is an essentially talentless individual, who makes himself into caricatures of human beings and whose "humor" consists of mocking different groups. I love good comedies, and some of my favorites, Some Like it Hot, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Odd Couple, present funny situations, and never mock, but then again, they were acted and written by talent, something as I've said, Mr. Cohen lacks.
Jews are just as racist as anyone else, and always have been. I too have heard American Jews spout ugly, disparaging comments about blacks in the United States. I've heard them refer to black folk as "animals". Is this all Jews, no, anymore than all non-Jews are racist. The important point here, though, is that too many Jews believe their own propaganda about their religion and their culture. Because SOME Jews were involved in the civil rights movement, it therefore implies that ALL Jews believe in equal justice for all people. Not true as we can see from events now in Israel.
Frederic Nietzsche's book title explains it well "Human, all too human".
American. You mean "smarmy" bragging thing, rather than "swarmy"? I was going to comment about that particularly piece of smarminess myself. It is a particularly odious and chauvinistic trait this claim (which is not true) of intellectual superiority.
Time Magazine is one of "Americas finest news publications"? Mr. Higgens should not be disseminating such inane propaganda.
Time Magazine, like its counterpart, Newsweek, is a joke. People Magazine dressed up a little and with just enough "faux" intellectuality to appeal to those who think they are somehow smarter than readers of People, when in fact they might not be even that smart.
The title of the article is just as silly as Newsweek calling Barack Obama the first "gay president".
Why in the hell should he care. I wouldn't.
I stopped listening to NPR when Diane Rhem allowed her guests on the Friday news round up shows to ignore Ron Paul. That was at least two months ago. The bias of NPR news has been apparent for a very long time, but I still listened to hear Rhem's show, such that it was worth. My time was wasted.
This past Friday, I turned on NPR just to see if anything had changed. It hadn't. The same tired guests, voicing the same, tired opinions. Nothing thoughtful, nothing insightful, nothing different.
If only the Nazis had asked France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and a host of other nations "how is the occupation illegal" it would have justified all.
But as the Nazis and Zionists have so much in common it is not surprising that Proudzionist asks such an absurd question.
Your criticism of a Nazi past or charges of anti-semitism carry no sting anymore nor will they ever again.
Giladg's remarks are a fine example of the banality of evil. I forget who coined that phrase.
As for the IDF lying, what else is new, they've been liars. Once you've been proven a liar you may as well be rendered mute, only fools we believe you.
How predictable. Just yesterday in comment to another article about the likelihood or not of Israel attacking Iran, I wrote that Israel to prove to itself it has cajones and from frustration about its weakness with regard to Iran would kick the Palestinians' ass. Well, they did.
Ugly, pathetic, racists.
Behind all the talk about Israel not attacking Iran because of strategic, tactical, political, what have you, concerns, there lies a fundamental observation about human nature. Israel is a 'bully' and bullies only attack those weaker than themselves It's just that simple. Israel would get a serious bloody nose from an attack on Iran.
Just out of spite, and to convince themselves they've still got cajones, they will probably go and kick the Palestinians' ass.
The Chosen People???? Hell no! Just people with all their stupidity and weakness.
Ron Paul 2012!
I was truly p***ed of when I heard Obama "I've got Israel's back" statement, but after pondering his remarks as shown above, perhaps we (meaning this who question this stupid Israel policy) have begun to make a difference. All leaders use diplospeak, they have to say "nice" things and make their guests feel "loved." It's all a show and intended to make everyone look good, and generally you desist from "spitting" in your ally's eye. But, I think the stance on Israel has shifted, even if just ever so slightly, and will continue to grow as the critics of the Israel policy grow.
Nearly everyone I know is sick and tired of the anti-semitic canard used each time Israel is criticised. And yesterday, when I read that Ron Paul was not invited to address AIPAC (no loss there, however) because of his "anti-Israel rhetoric" I really had to laugh. It's not enough to talk about Israel's sovereignty, all politicians must grovel. Well, ain't gonna happen anymore.
They can talk about anti-semitism as much as they want, that's really lost its sting, and the cynical abuse of the events of World War II demeans those who abuse it.
No, I think there has been a subtle shift, and it's never going to be the same again. Hallelujah!
Could not agree more. Ron Paul is the only anti-war candidate, the only candidate speaking out against the Patriot Act, the War on Drugs, torture, and yet, we hear his stand on abortion mentioned with horror. As if there is any moral equivalency between the right to abortion and the killing by the United States of human beings in other countries. THERE IS NO MORAL EQUIVALENCY BETWEEN THOSE TWO THINGS.
I am going to keep reiterating this advice. Contact your senators/representatives and tell them that 1) Israel must declare the number of nuclear weapons in its possession, 2) must open its nuclear facility to full inspection, and 3) MUST sign the Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty. Until that is done, concern about an ALLEGED Iranian nuclear weapons program is absent.
I called my two senators and representative, and the White House today with this comment: "Until the State of Israel publicly declares how many nuclear weapons it has in its arsenal, opens its nuclear facility to full inspections, and signs the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, I am uninterested in hearing about Iran's ALLEGED nuclear weapons program.
I would humbly suggest each of you do something similar.
DONT YOU SEE THAT THIS TALK IS A FORM OF BLACKMAIL by the Israelis. It's a subtle one, but it's blackmail nonetheless. Israel will not attack Iran on its own as it will get a serious black eye from that. So, it is attempting to convince the world that it would be better and with less chaos if another country (the US) were to do it for them. The other possibility is it just wants more weapons and can shake down the United States for additional aid, despite our own problems.
Kissinger (he's barely understandable now) is just a stupid mouthpiece for this blackmail.
In a discussion on the Weekly News Roundup with Diane Rhem about the results of the then just finished Iowa primary and the upcoming New Hampshire primary, Ron Paul was not mentioned once. Not once! They even spoke of Bachmann who by that point had dropped out of the race, but NOTHING about Paul. They were forced to acknowledge him when two callers brought up his campaign, but only reluctantly it seemed obvious to me. And Rhem never had the "balls" to question her guests about this terrible oversight. From that day, I have stopped listening to NPR and as far as I am concerned, they can pull all funding for "public" and I use that word lightly, radio.
I've recognized NPR's bias on many issues, particularly that regarding Israel and Palestine, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
You done yourself proud, JewishGoyim!
As a member of a Quaker meeting I have seen first hand how completely spineless and without any real 'moral' compass those who consider themselves on the left have become. The feminists among them are convinced that it is acceptable to murder people in countries because the women don't have the same rights as women here. They believe that mandating the freedom of abortion is more important than the lives of the already born in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Pakistan, and any number of other places that have borne the brunt of American drone attacks.
They read the New York Times and they feel informed, intelligent, and enlightened. They worry more about what private schools they will send their children and think themselves thoughtful and concerned by writing letters to what they call prisoners of conscience in predictably Muslim countries, while men languish in Guantanamo --fathers, sons, husbands of people who probably have no idea what has happened and whether their family members are alive or dead.
They think they are involved and active citizens because they meet with the Congressional representatives to express 'concern' about the actions of the government, while their representatives, in the soothing and inoffensive words, of the car salesman tells them he/she "can feel their pain".
They with the "not-in-my-backyard" mentality who protest in front of the White House about some stupid pipeline, but haven't considered that the oil will be coming out of the ground pipeline or no.
"Liberalism" is dead and most liberals "brain-dead", thoroughly and completely propagandized, and so sure everything they believe is true and so completely resistant to new ideas. Will their children be better? One can only hope so, as they completely lost and essentially irrelevant. A pox on their liberalism.
And now, just as I finish this, I hear about a navy seal raid in Somalia! Somalia ... a dirt poor country playing host to a navy seal raid. What will most of liberals among us say -- not a goddamn thing.
And yes, I will be voting for Ron Paul.
They read the New York Times and feel smug that they are well-informed
Were you being coy, when you said you thought Adler's apology "sincere." Personally, I don't believe he's sorry for what he said, only that it became public.
Hell, as far as I'm concerned they don't need to give us any notice. Want to attack Iran, go right ahead, baby, you're on your own.
The Israeli leadership are really quite comical. All this 12-hour talk is what the Japanese call "saving face". I suspect General Dempsey went there to tell these clowns that they are on their own with an attack on Iran and this is their comical spin on it.
"Any generalization about Jews ..... or about any ethnic group ..." Such as talking about Jewish intellect, Jewish talent ... oh, that is ok. Just any generalization that is unflattering is the problem, eh? And what is culture? When you talk about Italian culture, Greek culture, English, etc., is that generalising?
Stick in a sock in it Donald!
I must demur. It seems highly unlikely that someone who would support Ron Paul would cast a vote for Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is anathema to Paul in every way one can imagine.
I think everyone is missing a very important point about the commentators in the traditional or mainstream media. They are employees. They can't say what they want. The say and speak as they are instructed to do by their masters. If there were to say anything important that would be contrary to those who own them, they'd be out the door in a microsecond.
This is why what they do or say is completely irrelevant. We only need to convince more people of that fact.
Proudzionist777. You are a fool Proudzionist. Israel seems well on its way to destroying itself because of internal contradictions, you can see it happening now. They don't have to worry about the Iranians, the Syrians, etc., etc., the question of who is truly a Jew will destroy Israel.So, the rest of the world should just keep out of Israel's affairs both domestic and foreign and watch the spectacle.
I have sent Dr. Paul money and will again, and I will do whatever I can to assist his campaign. The use of Beethovan in this ad is an insult to that great composer.
NPR has become a joke. This morning on the Weekly News Roundup with Diane Rehm, the guests and Rehm were discussing the republican presidential candidates. Everyone of the candidates with the glaring exception of Ron Paul, was discussed. The guests make a joke of what they call a "conspiracy theory" about the lack of discussion of Ron Paul, but guess what, it is a conspiracy. There could be no other way to interpret what is a determination to avoid all discussion of Dr. Paul. These people are employees of the news organizations they represent and I am convinced thery have been given instructions to avoid the topic of Ron Paul. If not, they would probably be fired. It would be funny were it no so terribly disturbing and it makes one wonder who is so afraid of Ron Paul?
I've just checked the website E tu, Mr. Destructo. Ratner's got to be kidding! Look at the list of contributors, one calling himself Mobuto Sese Seko, another calling him or herself, Idi Amin, and the owner .... Marty Peretz!
A poor choice of websites Ms. Ratner.
If Mr. Paul were brought into court to answer the charge of being racist and homophobic (that can't happen yet, thank goodness) any halfway decent lawyer could shred the case to bits.
While I am not a lawyer, I have so many questions about these newsletters. One of which is who was in possession of this cache and why? Is it credible that a man with a political position would write so openly and crudely about such matters? While we're on the writing topic, the style of writing is nothing like Mr. Paul's writing elsewhere (I've read two of his books). And that's only the beginning.
Case dismissed!
If you want to have a "marriage" recognized by the legal authorities, you have to get a license in the state in which you live. A license in essence is permission to engage in a certain activity, such as driving. It hasn't a damn thing to do with the federal government.
I've just read the article at salon and it said NOTHING. It took a remark Paul made and condemned him for it. There was nothing else written about why Mr. Paul would have the view of FEMA he does. It is precisely the same as was done with his remark about the DC criminal justice system and black folk and labeling him as racist for it. You want to know about the man, listen to all the debates. I couldn't give a damn what some fool at salon wrote.
To Richard Witty. The moment Israel obtained nuclear weapons, a nuclear arms race began in the region. Don't want others to get nuclear weapons? How about Israel get rid of its own.