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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Palestinian State By The End Of The Year--Bad News For Israel

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority received a pledge from the U.S. that by the end of 2014, the Obama administration will issue an official written declaration presenting general highlights of a future Palestinian state, a senior Palestinian negotiator told WND.
The negotiator further said the goal is to have the general framework for a deal ironed out by April.
The current framework for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement being brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry calls for the phased implementation of more Palestinian sovereignty within three to five years, the negotiator said.
As part of the written declaration, the U.S. is set to officially recognize Palestinian rights in eastern sections of Jerusalem, without defining the exact territories that would be eventually handed to the PA.
The U.S. will declare on paper that the Jordan Valley territory is “occupied” by Israel and that Palestinians have rights there, the negotiator said.
Kerry is currently discussing a proposal in which Israel would lease some of the Jordan Valley from the PA so some Israeli communities in the area can stay, said the negotiator.
The written framework will also declare the West Bank “occupied,” according to the negotiator.
Besides a declaration on paper, Kerry continues to broker specifics of a final-status deal, the negotiator said.
WND previously reported that Kerry is asking for the international community to administer the holy sites in the eastern section of Jerusalem, while details are still being discussed about whether Palestinians will have some symbolic presence in the area.
WND in December was first to report Kerry’s plan calling for an international administrative mandate to control holy sites in eastern Jerusalem.
The exact composition of the international mandate is up for discussion, but Kerry’s plan recommended a coalition that includes the Vatican and a group of Muslim countries such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The international arrangement is being proposed as a temporary solution for about two to three years while security arrangements in Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians are finalized, said Israeli and Palestinian diplomatic sources.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Anti Semitism Exposed In The Words Of The Presbyterian Church. Will It Ever End?

New Presbyterian Study Guide: Zionism Sole Cause of Unrest in Israel




“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle…” (Zechariah 14:2)
Page excerpt of the IPMN study guide "Zionism Unsettled" (Photo: IPMN)
Page excerpt of the IPMN study guide “Zionism Unsettled” (Photo: IPMN)
The Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has released a new education guide to the study of Zionism and Israel.  In the study guide, the group squarely blames all the ills of the region on Zionism, which it implicitly compares to Nazism.
According to the 74-page pamphlet and accompanying DVD, Zionism is responsible for destroying both the indigenous Palestinian population through oppression and the thriving Jewish community in the diaspora due to backlash.  It contends that Zionism represents a minority position among the Jewish community, as most Jews opt to remain where they are and not move to Israel.  It praises “brave” Jews who speak out against Zionism and Israel, and accuses powerful Jewish groups of suppressing dissenting voices.
In its press release regarding the pamphlet, the PCUSA wrote:
“What role have Zionism and Christian Zionism played in shaping attitudes and driving historical developments in the Middle East and around the world? How do Christians, Jews and Muslims understand the competing claims to the land of Palestine and Israel? What steps can be taken to bring peace, reconciliation and justice to the homeland that Palestinians and Israelis share?
“Zionism Unsettled embraces these critical issues fearlessly with inspiring scope. The booklet and DVD draw together compelling and diverse perspectives from Jews, Muslims and Christians in Israel, Palestine the United States and around the globe. By contrasting mainstream perceptions with important alternative perspectives, Zionism Unsettled serves as a guide to deeper understanding.”
Taken at face value, these statements reflect a desire to understand the complex situation in the Middle East and perhaps take positive steps towards reconciling the two sides.  However, the pamphlet’s bias is evident through its manipulative use of quotes, its blatant disregard of inconvenient facts and its generally one-sided approach to the conflict.
The Times of Israel listed several egregious misrepresentations.  Among them, a quote from Rabbi David Hartman is used to demonstrate support for wholesale genocide of Palestinians: “’Let’s really let them understand what the implication of their action is,’ he said of the Palestinians. ‘Very simply, wipe them out. Level them.’”  However, in its original context, Hartman was referring strictly to terrorist entities.
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Additionally, Israel is held responsible for initiating the 1982 war in Lebanon, but no aggressor is mentioned in any war launched by Arab countries against Israel, such as 1948’s War of Independence.  The booklet blames Israel for ignoring resolutions passed against it in the UN, but blames the UN for giving Israel a “disproportionate share of territory” in the 1947 Partition Plan.  Only the Jewish Irgun, an underground fighting unit in British Mandatory Palestine pre-1948, is labelled “terrorist” in the booklet.
The PCUSA claims the pamphlet, which was released ahead of the church’s biennial General Assembly, was met with immediate critical acclaim, but its supporters also betray the booklet’s bias.
In the press release, Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, is quoted as saying, “The urgency of the Palestinian plight in the face of Israeli intransigence indicates that intentional, concrete and sustained public action is necessary to respond credibly to the crisis. Zionism Unsettled is a welcome study guide. It will prove an effective vehicle for helping to mobilize public opinion so that both attitudes and policies can be transformed in the face of an imperious and exploitative ideology.”  Brueggemann, once a supporter of Israel, has since accused Israel of exploiting ancient biblical promises to create a “toxic ideology.”
zionism unsettledNeve Gordon, an Israeli political scientist and supporter of the BDS movement, had this to say in praise of the work: “In my work I am inspired by the great Jewish prophets’ struggle for justice and freedom, while simultaneously I am often astounded how certain strains in Judaism and Christianity invoke the Bible in order to justify oppression and social wrongs in Israel/Palestine. Therefore I welcome the effort to emphasize a conception of Judaism and Christianity that espouses universalistic ethics – whereby all humans are imago dei – and to use it to expose injustices carried out in my homeland.”
Needless to say, the Jewish community at large is less enthusiastic about the publication.  In a statement released Friday, Bnai Brith International said the work “promotes virulent hatred of Israel, as well as animosity toward the historic rights and fundamental sensibilities of Jews across the religious and political spectrum.”
“The seemingly balanced approach is a façade,” said Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC’s director of Intergroup and Interreligious Relations. “The study guide is reminiscent of medieval Christian polemics against Judaism, with the authors claiming to know better than the Jewish community how Jews define themselves. This is another example of the ongoing effort to demonize Israel by a cadre of people who want to see the dismantlement of the Jewish state.”
“This outrageous screed is the theological twin of the infamous 1975 UN ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution,” accused Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “‘Zionism Unsettled’ is a hit-piece outside all norms of interfaith dialogue. It is a compendium of distortions, ignorance and outright lies – that tragically has emanated too often from elites within this church.
“To be clear, this publication isn’t an attack on particular Israeli policies but on the very idea of a Jewish return to Zion.”

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/10996/new-presbyterian-study-guide-zionism-sole-cause-unrest-israel/#RHeblu5cCg5ChtvS.99

There Are Indeed Two Americas. President Obama Was Correct.

  
Written December 9, 2013   


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The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.
The America that works, and the America that doesn’t. The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t.
It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, to obey the law and support themselves and contribute to society, and others don’t.
That’s the divide in America.
It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility. It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country.
That’s not invective, that’s truth.
And it’s about time someone said it.
The politics of envy was on proud display last week as the president said he would pledge the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He notes that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just.
It was the rationale of thievery.
The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you.
Vote Democrat.
It is the electoral philosophy that gave us Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America.
And it conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense. It ends up not being a benefit to the people who support it, but a betrayal. The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them – in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victimhood and anger instead of ability and hope.
The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to ignore and cheat the law of choices and consequences. It seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices.
Because, by and large, the variability in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibility have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure.
And success and failure can manifest themselves in personal and family income.
You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course, you have them in wedlock and life is apt to take another course.
Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.
My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome. But, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. Whereas my doctor went to college and then gave the flower of his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant. He made a choice, I made a choice. And our choices led us to different outcomes.
His outcome pays a lot better than mine.
Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth?
No, it means we are both free men.
And in a free society, free choices will lead to different outcomes.
It is not inequality Barack Obama will take away, it is freedom.
The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. And there is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure.
The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy.
Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing.
Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.
Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get.”
The progressive movement would turn that upside down.
Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement has replaced effort as the key to upward mobility in American society.
Or at least it has if Barack Obama gets his way.
He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive and fosters equality through mediocrity.
He and his party speak of two Americas.
And their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other.
America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. And by the false philosophy that says one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.
What the president offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, he pitted one set of Americans against another.
For his own political benefit.
That’s what progressives offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow.
Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

- by Bob Lonsberry © 2013 

We Must Learn To Think For Ourselves Rather Than Take In The Prepackaged Drivel The Media And Politicians Give Us!

Every day, we feel like we are on the outside looking into a country, a nation and a world that makes no sense. We have asked ourselves "are we crazy, weird or just completely out of touch" with the rest of the American public.


So when we read the following article by Bob Livingston, we realized, that we are normal and the vast majority of Americans (and most of the world for that matter) are acting like a herd.  Herds get herded into pens, controlled like cattle going to the slaughter. This is America today.

We listen to our "leaders" who are the cattle rustlers of old. They push and prod us until we go along with them. Every once in a while we go on a stampede (like the 2010 elections) but before long they have us all under control again and things return to normal. The herd is moving in the direction the cowboys want us to move.

Our news is nothing more than reinforcement of the things the government wants us to hear. Rarely do we hear conflicting opinions. 

The political machines have made it nearly impossible for a third party candidacy allowing the two major parties to control the direction of the country. To those who think there is a difference between the parties, you need to go back and examine their stands on many issues. They are virtually the same. 

If someone speaks against the status quo, they are branded a rebel, a wacko and someone who could not be trusted with the reins of government. Aren't the best ideas those which solve a problem and more importantly look at the solution from a different direction?  We think so.

Our government is a rigged mechanism where the outcomes are pre-determined by the ruling class.  We have little if no impact on those decisions no more than a palm tree can withstand a hurricane.  

The problem is that most people do not realize this. They still believe that they can have some impact on Washington by, for example, writing their congress person.  We have done that also. The response is a boiler plate prepared letter that does not address your concerns.

Several years ago, a client and friend of ours emailed her Senators and Representatives on the subject of getting help to get qualified for Social Security after she suffered a devastating stroke. She was unable to walk or function. Her "representatives" wrote back polite letters about their concerns with the Social Security system and how hard they were working to make sure the system could be preserved for future generations. Huh? They did not answer her nor did they address her issue.  Why? Because they don't give a rats behind about her, you, or anyone but themselves.

It seems the system is out of control and not the representative republic the Founders created in 1783.  What can we do?

The only way of getting our government back is to completely dismantle what is our government today. Initially, term limits must be instituted. This will get rid of the "job for life" that many of the Washington crowd lives on. We need doctors, farmers, truck drivers and other ordinary people to run our government. People who have met a payroll and who know how federal rules effect the common citizen.

Secondly, we must prohibit representatives from getting jobs on K Street as lobbyists for 30 years after their term. No more cushy job offers after serving in Congress.

Thirdly, we need to have single subject bills, no more 3000 page monstrosities which no one has read before they vote on them. No extraneous amendments. No "Bridge to Nowhere" contained in a military spending bill. Additionally, these bills must be on the internet for 30 days before a vote. Lastly, every representative must sign a statement that they have read and considered this bill, under penalty of perjury.  

Lastly, every agency (TSA, NSA, FBI, EPA, FAA, etal) must stand for re-authorization every ten years. At the hearing to determine it will be around for another period, those in charge must demonstrate the accomplishments of the past ten years, how they met the goals at the prior re-authorization and goals for the next ten years against they will be judged.  Additionally, all agencies must show they are doing a unique service that could not be accomplished by other parts of the government.  Maybe then we can get rid of some of the obese, duplicate agencies that only suck up valuable dollars.

Can we institute this small list? Probably not. The media will wring its hands and show mock concern for the dramatic change in America, the pols will fight it with all their will and the public will not become involved as it interferes with their watching of "Dancing With The Stars" or whatever other pablum their minds are dining on.

So we who are on the outside looking at this country can only say, "it's been a fine ride" and watch the nation go over the cliff. The time is near, the country is in peril and the government has jammed its foot on the accelerator.  There will be NO retreat from the impending disaster. Most are not listening and those who are, cannot be heard.

Conservative Tom





Decoding The Political Message: Politicans, Governmentspeak and Brainwash

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Decoding The Political Message: Politicans, Governmentspeak and Brainwash

Politics is a con game of misdirection and subterfuge.
The game is run by politicians, bureaucrats and the mass media operating as a front for the government and the elites. While most did not see it, last week’s votes on the “debt ceiling” in Congress was an example of the game on display.
Governments and politicians mask their agendas and create illusions to deceive, misrepresent and misdirect. The story out of the House of Representatives is that Weeper John Boehner and a handful of his caucus fell on their swords to give President Barack Obama a “clean” debt ceiling bill. That act was followed by a small number of Republican Senators, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, doing likewise.
This has prompted howls of protests from Republican voters. They have called for Boehner’s head and vowed to defeat him and McConnell and other “traitors” to conservatism who voted to give Obama a blank spending check.
Republican voters—those who consider themselves Tea Party members, fiscal conservatives and Constitutionalists—operate under the misperception that replacing current Republican leadership in the next election will somehow alter the direction of government. They say this despite the wealth of evidence demonstrating that no matter which of the two political parties possess the upper hand at the moment, the nation’s budget grows, the “debt ceiling” must be raised, so-called social “entitlement” spending increases and military adventurism continues apace.
No political promise to eliminate Federal alphabet soup agencies, reign in “wasteful spending”, streamline government or cease foreign “nation building” has ever come to meaningful fruition. In governmentspeak, “cuts” simply means a reduction in the growth of a program or agency. Those cuts are always quickly reversed (see the sequester). There are never any real or substantive cuts as Americans perceive them.
It is the nature of governments to perpetually grow, and the nature of politics and politicians is for wealth and aggrandizement. Politicians and bureaucrats represent government and the political system, not you. (The same can be said for judges, prosecutors and lawyers.)
Governments, bureaucrats and politicians look upon the public as a herd that should be deceived and led for the benefit of government and the elite. By and large it works because the vast majority of Americans go along with the system. Its social and moral depravity prospers under the cloak of democracy.
Democracy is an organized system of political, moral and social control. It is the evolution and fulfillment of all systems gone before. It is the New World Order to perfection for the ruling international elite. It is the master strategy of taking human liberty and individualism and transferring them to the group herd that clamors for authoritarianism.
Because of its groupism (and other reasons), democracy was anathema to the Founding Fathers. For that reason they created a republican form of government and guaranteed it to the States in the Constitution. But republicanism has been flushed down the memory hole, replaced by democracy-in-name-only fascism.
Groupism, then, is the hidden strategy to get the masses to give their minds over to the state. This, my friends, is the politics of authoritarianism.
More than anything else, democracy is the psychodrama of worldwide dehumanization. Mass behavior or mass delusions become driving economic or social forces because it is a mindless psychological phenomenon. This crowd behavior is created and manifested upon the loss of critical faculties of the individual. Democracy is not freedom. It is not government by the people and for the people. It is the perfect disguise for benevolent totalitarianism.
As sober individuals, people would behave very differently. But when people are drawn by the passion of the crowd, they become totally irrational. The intelligence of a crowd is always inferior to the intelligence of the individual.
It is a modern illusion that everything is known to everybody because of a mass of available up-to-date information thanks to the Internet and, especially, social media networks. Instead, the truth is that the media consensus is always the opposite of what will help you.
The purpose of the media, the market and politics is to create public sentiment and direction opposite of reality. Public opinion is the worst trend to follow. Most everybody spends their whole existence mimicking public opinion without ever suspecting that they do not think their own thoughts. (Proof of this can be found in the comments section of every Personal Libertyarticle.) Social media networks have exacerbated this phenomenon.
Esoteric change agents know this psychological principle extremely well. The fundamental principle of mass persuasion is to create the herd or group mentality in order to significantly lower the intelligence level — the better and easier to direct and control for the benefit of authority.
Edward L. Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, is the father of manipulative propaganda in America. Mass persuasion and mass hypnosis is fundamental to so-called “democracy.”
According to Bernays’ book, Propaganda, “Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of. In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
The thoughts of the public mind become conventional wisdom. There are two words that describe conventional wisdom and they are control and conformity. These terms are self-enforcing. That is, if there is control, there is conformity. And if there is conformity, there is control.
One important thought here: A person’s IQ or education level has absolutely nothing to do with their perception of reality. Higher education is higher brainwashing. Sometimes it seems that the more education, the bigger the fool.
People are obsessed with believing what they have always believed without question. An inquiring mind is required for anyone to question long-held views.
Here are some examples of conventional wisdom. This is what most people believe:
  • That government will not lie or allow an economic depression.
  • That history as taught in schools or history books is truth.
  • That pharmaceuticals sell good drugs that aid cures.
  • That vaccinations bring immunity.
  • That people can “catch” disease from someone else — germ theory.
  • That the cure for cancer is just around the corner.
  • When a child is sick, he needs antibiotics.
  • When a child has fever, he needs Tylenol.
  • Hospitals are safe and clean.
  • That drugs are not poison.
  • That doctors and hospitals do not cause deaths.
  • Guns are dangerous.
  • World War I “made the world safe for democracy.”
  • World War II was for democracy to prevail over tyranny.
  • The Korean War was to “contain communism.”
  • The Iraq war was to find and destroy “weapons of mass destruction.”
  • Paper money is wealth.
They have dumbed us down. They rape us daily and we never question their criminal intentions.
We seem to have no memory, no will to resist, no interest in our own fate. And worst of all, we have no interest in preserving Christian morality. The need to conceal evil is becoming less necessary as the American people themselves continue to become more perverted.
The political con game is all about the transformation of human beings to the animal farm. The message must be decoded on our terms — on the basis of our original politics, our original culture, our original beliefs and our original traditions. Unless and until the game is viewed this way, one does not have the tools to keep from being brainwashed. Until then, nothing will change.