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Lipstick Fascism

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:31:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This is the path that America is on with Palin and McCain. The election of 2008 is a choice between the United States Constitution and Lipstick Fascism."

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The
Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

We have seen the next Mussolini and she's wearing a skirt.

Sarah Palin is the face of a post-democracy America, post-constitutional and post-freedom America. She is the home town "little Austrian" vice presidential candidate to a cancer-riddled old man who, chances are high, won't see the end of his first term in office if he becomes president due to illness and old age. The woman who said that we don't need to read people their rights may well be the next president.

mock and belittle your opponents, nibble at the edges of the rule of law, promote violence,

grasp at a weird religion of "destiny" (their version of American exceptionalism) with an "us" against "them" mentality, blame others,

intellectual classes and the media, pit the working people against the perceived elite (Jews in Europe and today's university-educated Democratic Party leaders in America), take power based on grievance and fear and then set aside the constitution altogether based on claimed threats by outsiders.

Tags: palin, mccain, republicans, fascism

Sarah Palin and the Jewish community

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:43:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jpost.com

Biden, of course, was the more conventional pick - especially for the Jewish community.

senator

is one of the most well-known and respected politicians among American Jewish leadership.

Palin is another story. She is an exceedingly odd choice for a party which has spent the better part of the past year loudly exclaiming that it was reaching out to Jewish voters

First, Palin has absolutely no foreign policy experience

Palin has never visited Israel and besides signing a pro-Israel resolution passed by the state legislature, she has apparently never spoken out or focused on the Jewish state.

ON DOMESTIC issues she is totally out of step with public opinion in the Jewish community.

The Jewish vote in 2008 has been a hot topic of conversation in the media. John McCain's fist major decision of this campaign - picking Palin for his running mate - leads us to believe that the Jewish community's concerns are not so high on his priority list.

Tags: politics, united states, jews

Moscow’s Plan is to Redraw the Map of Europe: Mikheil Saakashvili

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:55:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Since Russia’s invasion, its forces have been “cleansing” Georgian villages in both regions – including outside the conflict zone – using arson, rape and execution. Human rights groups have documented these actions.

It hopes the west will forget ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia drove out more than three-quarters of the local population – ethnic Georgians, Greeks, Jews and others – leaving the minority Abkhaz in control.

Last week Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president, put us on alert: “Russia does not really know where it begins and where it ends.” He noted that the Moscow regime is “a lot more sophisticated” than the Soviets under Leonid Brezhnev. He should know – he was on the front line the last time Russia invaded a European country.

Backing Georgia with Europe’s political and financial institutions is a powerful response.
The most potent western response to Russia is to stay united and firm by providing immediate material and political support.

Clip Source: www.ft.com

Any doubts about why Russia invaded Georgia have now been erased. By illegally recognising the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, made clear that Moscow’s goal is to redraw the map of Europe using force.

This war was never about South Ossetia or Georgia. Moscow is using its invasion, prepared over years, to rebuild its empire, seize greater control of Europe’s energy supplies and punish those who believed democracy could flourish on its borders. Europe has reason to worry.

Our first duty is to highlight Russia’s Orwellian tactics. Moscow says it invaded Georgia to protect its citizens in South Ossetia. Over the past five years it cynically laid the groundwork for this pretence, by illegally distributing passports in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, “manufacturing” Russian citizens to protect. The cynicism of Russia’s concern for ethnic minorities can be expressed in one word: Chechnya

This cynicism has become hypocritical and criminal

Tags: georgia, south ossetia and abkhazia, medvedev, georgian "cleansing", arson, rape and execution, human rights groups, vaclav havel, czech president

DO NOT PERFORM IN ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS TO MCCARTNEY

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:52:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ansamed.info

A Palestinian non-government organisation in the United Kingdom has asked Paul McCartney of the Beatles to cancel his forthcoming concert in Israel because "the expropriations from the Palestinians (by Israel) and the Israeli apartheid cannot be a reason for festivities".

(PACBI) has affirmed in a statement directed to McCartney that "performing in Israel in this moment is morally the same as performing in South Africa at the peak of the apartheid".

StandWithUs, has rebelled in defence of Israel, affirming in a letter to McCartney and his manager Stuart Bell that the statement of PACBI "contains just incredible lies".

"Performing in Tel Aviv you can expect to meet an audience of Jews, Muslims and Christians, a thing which is just impossible in any Arab state," StandWithUs affirmed.

In the meantime the tickets for the concert of McCartney

are selling like hot cakes in Israel

Tags: palestine, muslims, islam, hypocrisy

Iranian Jewish community calls for peace

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:33:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://www.iranjewish.com/News_e/32_committie.htm

Adr. of the Iranian Jewish Website

Clip Source: www.iranjewish.com

Iranian Jewish community wants an end to Israeli crimes

TEHRAN, May 22, The Iranian Jewish MP Morris Motamed condemns the recent Israeli violence against the Palestinians and calls for an immediate halt to these crimes.

He says: "The Iranian Jewish community sympathizes with the Palestinian nation and declares its abhorrence of the recent violence and the murder of Palestinians and destruction of their houses and official offices by the Israeli regime and calls for intervention by human rights organizations to stop these crimes and prevent more damage to the Palestinians’ infrastructure and to ensure that this oppressed nation regain their inalienable rights."

Parliament Speaker Haddad-Adel also expressed appreciation to Iranian Jews for the statement and condemned the Zionist crimes against the Palestinians.

Mehr News Agency
22 may 2007

Tags: iran, jewish community, israel, palestinians

Palestinian Attack In Israel Part of God's Judgment, Said Recent Guest At Palin's Church

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:49:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Could you please stop blaming God for this stuff?

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

As the Huffington Post reported earlier Tuesday, Palin addressed a gathering at the Wasilla Assembly of God, asking them to pray for oil pipeline development and "God's will" in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Boston Herald and Newsweek have both identified Wasilla Bible Church as the Alaska Governor's most recent church. And it was at that Bible Church where a recent guest described a Palestinian attack on Israeli citizens as part of God's judgment coming to pass on Earth -- an analysis likely troubling both to Jews, as well as to mainstream foreign policy analysts.

Describing a trip by his son to Jerusalem, Jews for Jesus founder David Brickner described the a July Palestinian bulldozer attack against Israeli civilians as part of God's "judgment."

Tags: palin, alaska, church, israel, religion

Jewish descendants in China's Kaifeng rediscover their heritage

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:04:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ynetnews.com

Proud of their newfound heritage. Kaifeng Jews

Shi Lei and his father

Descendants of centuries-old Jewish community in China's Kaifeng rediscover Jewish heritage after near complete assimilation in local community

Ancient Kaifeng had a Jewish community – a small but thriving one, whose story is unique in the history of the Jewish people. For the 800 years of its existence, Kaifeng's Jews never suffered from persecution or discrimination.

In the prophecy of the redemption in the book of Isaiah it states: "See, they will come from afar – some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Sinim ("Chinese")" (Isaiah, 49:12); but biblical scholars agree that the verse does not speak of China per se.

DNA testing done over the past few years on the descendents of the Kaifeng Jews, proved them distant relatives of Armenian, Iranian and Iraqi Jews.

merchants from Persia

Confucianism is willing peacefully coexist with any religious belief

California churches plan a big push against same-sex marriage

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:07:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Early on a late September morning, if all goes according to plan, 1 million Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, evangelical Christians, Sikhs and Hindus will open their doors, march down their front walks and plant "Yes on Proposition 8" signs in their yards to show they support repealing same-sex marriage in California.

It is a bold idea, one that may be difficult to pull off. But whether or not 1 million lawn signs are planted in unison, the plan underscores what some observers say is one of the most ambitious interfaith political organizing efforts ever attempted in the state. Moreover, political analysts say, the alliances across religious boundaries could herald new ways of building coalitions around political issues in California.

On Why The Civilizations Clash

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:56:20 GMT

clipped by: Elisabeth Eaves
clipper's remarks: Wise man Bernard Lewis tells Foreign Policy that Christianity and Islam have been at odds because of similarities, not differences.

Clip Source: www.foreignpolicy.com

What brought Islam and Christendom into conflict was not so much their differences as their resemblances. There are many religions in the world, but almost all of them are regional, local, ethnic, or whatever you choose to call it. Christianity and Islam are the only religions that claim universal truth. Christians and Muslims are the only people who claim they are the fortunate recipients of God’s final message to humanity, which it is their duty not to keep selfishly to themselves—like the Jews or the Hindus or the Buddhists—but to bring to the rest of mankind, removing whatever obstacles there may be in the way.

So, we have two religions with a similar self-perception, a similar historical background, living side by side, and conflict becomes inevitable.

Muslims show more of thier irrational fear of westerners.

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:00:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Don't be celebrating your B-Day, that's anti-islamic of you.

Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

Birthday parties against Islam says top Saudi cleric

Celebrating anniversaries, birthdays or mother's day is against Muslim 'righteousness', Saudi Arabia's top cleric has said, quashing suggestions by a colleague that Islam permits personal celebrations

Salman al-Awdah told viewers during a call-in television show last week that celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries was not against Islam, sparking a debate in the conservative kingdom and prompting the mufti to weigh in

Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Shaikh said celebrating such events would make Muslims like followers of other faiths including Jews and Christians, al-Madina newspaper reported

Women are banned from driving and mixing with unrelated men in Saudi Arabia, whose clerics issue edicts ordering Saudis not to buy red roses on Valentine's Day on an almost annual basis

"A Muslim should thank almighty Allah if his children are healthy and if his married life is stable as the years pass by," the paper quoted Shaikh as saying

Tags: religion, islam, muslim, saudi arabia, irrational

The value of conspiracy theories

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:44:20 GMT

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Clip Source: online.wsj.com

There's a famous joke about a pair of 1930s Jews, sitting on a park bench in Berlin reading the newspapers. The first Jew notices that the second Jew is reading Der Stürmer, the infamous Nazi weekly. Incredulous, he asks why.

"When I read the Yiddish paper," the second Jew explains, "all I hear about is bad news: pogroms, riots in Palestine. This paper says we run all the banks, dominate the arts, and are on the verge of dominating the world. It makes me feel a lot better."

Tags: conspiracy theories, anti-semiticism

"US Banking Conspiracies"

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:39:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/conspiracycorner/1230/us_banking_conspiracies.html

Clip Source: www.forteantimes.com

US banking conspiracies

The conspiracies behind the sub-prime lending fiasco

Text: Robin Ramsay / Images: Gerard Goffaux

If there has been a single theme running through this column it is that mega- or meta-conspiracy theories – of the it’s-all-the-fault-of-the-Jews-Masons-aliens-lizards kind – are a distraction from real conspiracies. Sometimes, though, these two fields threaten to overlap – for example with bankers. Now, this makes many respectable commentators nervous lest it should be thought they are interested in banking conspiracy theories – which sound, of course, rather similar to Jewish banking conspiracy theories, that deathless staple of the far Right.

‘Even Israelis and Americans’

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:52:56 GMT

clipped by: Gul Agha

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

An Iranian vice president said in rare comments that Iran was a friend of Israeli people, newspapers reported on Monday. “I say for a thousandth time that we are a friend of all people in the world, even Israelis and Americans,” the daily newspaper Etemad quoted Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the vice president for tourism, as saying. Mr. Mashai first made the comments last month, angering Parliament, but he repeated his statement on Sunday and said: “We are against the Israeli regime. We have no war with Jews.”

Tags: iran, israel

The Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:00:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Redemption never tasted so good.

Clip Source: apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com

re you tired of waiting around for the return of your messiah?
Too many rules and commandments got you down?
Frustrated trying to match your magic underwear to your Reebok cross-trainers?

Now you don’t have to, thanks to the Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi!

For just the low, low price of $50, the Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi will insure your place in the afterlife of your choice!

See, death is all paperwork. It’s a lot of filing, background checks and forms, all filled out in triplicate to make sure your soul gets the treatment it expects and deserves.

And we’ve got them all!

Catholic heaven? Yep!
Lutheran heaven? You betcha!
Mormon? Episcopalian? Snake handler? Yes! Yes! And yes!
Jews? Absolutely.
Satanist? New condos available with lake-of-fire views!
Spaceship behind a comet? Window seat or aisle?

The Church of the Apocalyptic Kiwi.
We know people who know people so you don’t have to.

Clip Source: apocalyptickiwi.files.wordpress.com

The Extreme-Right Way To Make A Buck

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:13:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Actually, it's a little darker than that. Corsi doesn't just belong to the right's conspiratorial wing, he belongs to its racist, white-supremacist fringe. Over the last couple of years, he's written disparagingly about Muslims, Catholics and Jews, not to mention gays and lesbians. Muslims are "ragheads," the pope is "senile" and tolerates "boy bumping," and Jews ... well, you can imagine.

The fact of the matter is, though, that Corsi doesn't so much aspire to participate as he does to profit.

n former years, Americans' ideology was influenced by their participation in the economy. To put it crudely, businesspeople tended to find a home in the Republican Party, working men and women in the Democratic Party. Today, we have a new class, one to which Corsi and his ilk belong, whose business is their ideology."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

"The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," occupies a class of its own. Corsi, you may recall, was the coauthor of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," the campaign diatribe that slimed the decorated Vietnam War veteran and then-Democratic presidential candidate's war record.

Corsi is frank about his motives for writing "The Obama Nation." As he told the New York Times this week: "The goal is to defeat Obama. I don't want Obama to be in office."

That's clear enough from the text. You can pretty well sum the whole thing up this way: The Democratic candidate is a deceitful jihadist drug addict who, if elected, plans to impose a black supremacist, socialist regime.

What's far more interesting is how somebody like Corsi suddenly becomes a player in a presidential campaign.

If the music you seem to hear playing in the background sounds familiar, it's because ... yes, you've crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

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