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Thursday, April 12, 2018

The Failure Of Education! Will It Cause Another Holocaust?

NEVER AGAIN? On Yom Hashoah, Poll Shows Two Thirds Of Millennials Don't Know What Auschwitz Was

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According to a new survey released on Thursday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, fully 41 percent of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz was, including two-thirds of Millennials. Approximately 22 percent of Millennials had not heard of the Holocaust, and 41 percent of Millennials thought 2 million or fewer Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
This is troubling stuff.
It’s also informative, because it helps explain just why younger Americans seem so comfortable embracing identity politics and large, intrusive government. If you’d never heard of the genocide of the Jews by an all-encompassing state focused laserlike on race-based differences between people, you might be warmer to the notion that racial hierarchies in politics ought to exist. You might also be warmer to the claims of genocidal Islamist terror groups who claim that Israel is a land of victimizers. And if you’d never heard of the Soviet Union, you might be more sanguine about the possibility of socialism in the United States.
This is just one reason why teaching of history in America’s public schools matters so much. But that teaching in recent decades has revolved not around signal events in world history, but around the revisionist histories of Leftist advocates like Howard Zinn, who focus in tremendous detail on the sins of America without spelling out the true history of alternatives to the American way throughout the 20th century.
Thursday marks Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Clearly the West is doing a pretty awful job of remembering just what happened just two generations ago, given its decision to look the other way at rising anti-Semitism in Europe and to side with the enemies of Israel in the state’s existential fight against genocidal Jew-hatred.

If California Is Divided Into 3 States, It Would Triple Their Representation In The Senate


VOTE: California to split into 3 new states!? (map)

There’s an effort to split California into three new states that’s gaining steam — and it may be heading to the ballot box in the 2018 midterm election.
It’s a question that could forever reshape America, and it’s already well on it’s way to the voting booth.

Tech billionaire and bitcoin enthusiast Timothy Draper wants to carve California into three separate states. This week, his initiative cleared the first legal hurdle needed to divide up the Golden State permanently.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Thursday that Draper is allowed to take the next step and circulate a petition among California residents. If he’s able to obtain 365,880 signatures from registered voters within the next 180 days, the state of California will officially vote to split apart after the 2018 election.
The new states would be divided by geographic area, according to the proposed measure. Northern California would encompass everything from Oregon to San Francisco county. Southern California would begin south of San Francisco in Fresno and cover nearly everything to Mexico. New California would be Los Angeles and much of the central and southern coast.
Should the measure gains enough signatures and voters choose to divide up the Golden State, California state’s assets and debts would be divided evenly among the three new entities.

According to a local Bay Area NBC News affiliate in California, the state would be divided accordingly:
CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Tulare
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaqui, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba.
The idea of the vote making it to the ballot isn’t too far fetched, either. After all, Californians once voted to allow a police officer in San Francisco walk his beat with his ventriloquist dummy. They tried to ban hippies from sitting on sidewalks (but failed).

California even voted once to ban the sale of horse meat to Europe on a statewide ballot.
Is it so much of a stretch to think that a billionaire could find over 365,000 people who want to divide the state into three?
If the initiative passes, it would mean the new state(s) map would look like the following:
What do you think of the idea?

The Lawbreaking By The Law Enforcers Is Becoming Outrageous

Alan Dershowitz argues 'Hollywood Access' tape was recorded illegally

Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School, often appears on television.
Alan Dershowitz warned on Monday that the FBI raid was an assault on the privileged lawyer-client relationship.
Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz discussed a "theory" Wednesday, one day after meeting with President Trump, about how the "Hollywood Access" tape was illegally recorded.
In that tape from 2005, which surfaced during the 2016 election, Trump could be heard talking with former “Today” show host Billy Bush on a bus, via hot mic, about groping women without their consent.
Dershowitz said during a panel on CNN that because California, where the exchange took place, is two-party consent state, the taping was illegal.
Host Anderson Cooper noted that they were wearing microphones, but Dershowitz dismissed that as being a disqualifier.
"But they didn't know it was on. That was the question," he said.
The "Hollywood Access" tape was dredged up again this week after FBI agents raided the hotel room and office of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen. Among the documents they took, agents confiscated records related to the tape as well as adult film star Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump.
Dershowitz imagined a hypothetical conversation about what Trump may have said to Cohen about the "Access Hollywood" tape and may be in the documents obtained by FBI agents.
"I can imagine the conversation," he said. "Trump calls his lawyer, Cohen, and says, 'Stop this tape. It's illegal. I didn't consent to it. I didn't know the microphone was on. Stop it. Use all legal means.'"
He said the documents would now go through a government "taint team," which would determine if some of the material is, for example, protected by attorney-client privilege.
The prospect of a lawsuit over the "Access Hollywood" tape has been raised before, by Trump himself.
Back in 2016, during an interview with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Trump said NBC releasing the tape was an "illegal act" and expressed a willingness to sue.
Robert Barnes, California-based attorney, said at the time Trump may have a case and explained how the hot mic audio could be illegal.
Dershowitz warned on Monday that the FBI raid was an assault on the privileged lawyer-client relationship and served as a sign that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians, is trying to turn Cohen against Trump.
Dershowitz met with Trump and other White House officials on Tuesday. He claims his visit was prearranged and regarded the ongoing peace process in the Middle East, but has refused to open up on any other matters that may have been discussed.
Dershowitz has been one of Trump's staunchest defenders on TV in recent months.
During the CNN panel on Wednesday, Norman Eisen, a one-time Obama White House ethics lawyer and chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, offered counter-points to Dershowitz's comments, but did concede Dershowitz might be right about the raid.
"You just heard the world's smallest violin playing for Alan's argument," he said. "Why? We can have confidence that this seizure of records was reviewed at the Justice Department, at the staff level. Then by [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein, then it was sent over to the U.S. Attorney's office and reviewed again by the public corruption unit here. It could be that Alan is right."
Cooper interjected: "And a judge would have signed off on this search warrant."
Eisen added that judicial permission would be needed and that the "prosecution has powerful reasons" for the raid.
Prosecutors are looking at a "pattern of illegal conduct," including allegations of threats made against Daniels to keep silent about her alleged tryst, Eisen said.
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Eisen also argued that he doesn't expect any leaks from the FBI raid, to which Dershowitz scoffed: "Boy I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. No leaks? Oh my God, a leak? It sounds like a scene from 'Casablanca.' Leaking is pervasive."

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