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Chinese Uighur
Interesting that like it’s far too similar Western propaganda counterparts, authoritarian China feels compelled to mitigategrotesque muslim violence and downplay it’s motives – all under the guise of community cohesion. Thus we have the Chinese version of the British “move along now – nothing to see here” that is so prevalent in the British and Western “free speech” media particularly when the subject of muslim violence is involved.
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Russia
Photo courtesy of the Terezín Memorial
Sounds like the Rooshins are perhaps a bit leery that there will be a call for restitution for the crimes against Russian Jews committed by the stalwart hero of the American Left, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.43 states agree on property restitution to Holocaust victims
{CTK) - Forty-three countries have agreed in Prague on a set of recommendations concerning the restitution of the property of Holocaust victims and other victims of Nazi persecution that Czech PM Jan Fischer and U.S. Department of State adviser for Holocaust assets Stuart Eizenstat presented yesterday.
The document recommends the principles the restitution and compensation for the property of the Jewish victims of the Nazi persecution should be based on.
The states express in it their willingness to consider working out national programme and legislation on the still open restitution issues.
The recommendations concern not only the synagogues, cemeteries, schools and other buildings that served religious purposes before the Nazis confiscated them in 1933-1945, but also private real estate, Eizenstat said.
He said the recommendations also involve the property that has no more owners to be returned to. The revenues from it should serve the survivors with low income.
There are about 500,000 such survivors all over the world. About a half of them live below the limit of poverty, Eizenstat said.
He said the list of recommendations is not binding, nor does it break the law of the countries that have agreed with it.
Russia disagrees with the recommendations and would not follow them, the Russian embassy in Prague said in reaction to the disclosure of the document yesterday.
The Terezin Declaration, which EU representatives signed in Terezin (wartime Theresienstadt with a Jewish ghetto and a Nazi prison), north Bohemia, at the close of the Czech EU presidency in mid-2009, calls for the restitution of the Holocaust victims' property, including private, that was seized by the Nazis.
Ways to the implementation of the demand in individual states are outlined by the document that a commission of experts discussed in Prague in the past days.
A Russian delegation headed by Alexei Fedotov, the Russian ambassador to Prague, took part in the negotiations.
Fischer welcomed the states' agreement on the restitution principles yesterday. He said it is a "common shame" that the issue remains unsolved 65 years after the war.
"Nevertheless, it is better if justice is secured belatedly than never," he said.
Eizenstat said the recommendations are voluntary, not binding on the countries involved. In fulfilling them, the states should each respect its own law, Eizenstat said.
He praised the Czech Republic's leading role in this activity.
In its statement yesterday the Russian embassy says the approved document on the compensation and restitution methods does not reflect the approaches that Russia considers crucial.
A reference to "treaties and principles of the post-war arrangement of Europe" is missing in the document. That is why Russia has not joined the recommendations in it, nor does it feel bound by any commitments ensuing from it, including moral ones, the embassy said.
Eizenstat said Russia's reaction surprised him. He said Russia demanded a special reference to the post-war arrangement which a number of countries, such as Germany, would probably oppose as this does not directly relate to restitutions.
Apart from Russia, the Prague initiative has not been joined by Belarus, Serbia and Malta for the time being.
"We're addressing the remaining countries with a proposal to join [the initiative] additionally," said Tomas Pojar, Czech ambassador to Israel, who participated in the negotiations.
The Prague Jewish Community's former chairman Tomas Jelinek said Russia showed a reserved stand on the restitution talks in the past. Russia seems to be the first country to decide not to join the agreed-upon principles, Jelinek said.
"This reserved stand [of Russia] was known," he continued, adding that the restitution of the aryanised immovable property concerns Russia only marginally.
Helen Thomas and Jimmy Carter were unavailable for comment.
Via The Prague Monitor
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The View
What’s the difference between Hezbollah’s thugs and libtalker Rosie O’Donnell? Apparently, not much. While the terrorism lobby openly defends longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas, O’Donnell is offering similar praise and even going so far as to call her a victim of “political correctness”.Rosie, however, is willing to go all the way: fresh from declaring “communism” as the answer to dealing with corporate misconduct in America, O’Donnell actually appears to agree that Jews should depart Israel for Germany and Poland, especially since (GET THIS) THE OVENS ARE GONE!
Thank goodness for that, what more incentive does anyone need to abandon Tel Aviv? Pack your bags, kids, we’re leaving for Hamburg!
The obvious question: Rosie, did Jews live in the land that is now Israel before World War II?
Here, listen as Rosie & Friends (her producers who are for some reason given microphones) descend into unchartered depths of in-over-our-heads foolishness and depravity:
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Abu Mazen
The major topic of the evening was Abbas' reluctance to advance from proximity talks, brokered by the United States, to direct talks with Israel. Both Obama and Netanyahu favor direct talks.what benefit is there to still claim Abbas is a Moderate? He has no power. He is not sincere about his words.
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Heritage Foundation
Five weeks ago Escambia County officials requested permission from the Mobile Unified Command Center to use a sand skimmer, a device pulled behind a tractor that removes oil and tar from the top three feet of sand, to help clean up Pensacola's beaches. County officials still haven't heard anything back. Santa Rosa Island Authority Buck Lee told The Daily Caller why: "Escambia County sends a request to the Mobile, Ala., Unified Command Center. Then, it's reviewed by BP, the federal government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard. If they don't like it, they don't tell us anything." Keeping local governments in the dark is just one reason why the frustration of residents in the Gulf is so palpable. State and local governments know their geography, people, economic impacts and needs far better than the federal government does. Contrary to popular belief, the federal government has actually been playing a bigger and bigger role in running natural disaster responses. And as Heritage fellow Matt Mayer has documented, the results have gotten worse, not better.
And when the federal government isn't sapping the initiative and expertise of local governments, it has been preventing foreign governments from helping. Just three days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the Dutch government offered to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms and proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands. LA Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) supported the idea, but the Obama administration refused the help. All told, thirteen countries have offered to help us clean up the Gulf, and the Obama administration has turned them all down.
According to one Dutch newspaper, European firms could complete the oil spill clean up by themselves in just four months, and three months if they work with the United States, which is much faster than the estimated nine months it would take the Obama administration to go it alone. The major stumbling block is a protectionist piece of legislation called the Jones Act which requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens. But in an emergency this law can be temporarily waived as DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff did after Katrina. Each day our European allies are prevented from helping us speed up the clean up is another day that Gulf fishing and tourism jobs die.
And then there are the energy jobs that the Obama administration is killing with its over-expansive ban on offshore energy development. Experts--who were consulted by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar before he issued his May 27 report recommending a six-month moratorium on all ongoing drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet--now tell The New Orleans Times-Picayune that they only supported a six-month ban on new drilling in waters deeper than 1,000 feet. A letter from the experts protesting the use of their names to support a ban they actually oppose reads: "A blanket moratorium is not the answer. It will not measurably reduce risk further and it will have a lasting impact on the nation's economy which may be greater than that of the oil spill. We do not believe punishing the innocent is the right thing to do."
And just how many innocent jobs is Obama's oil ban killing? An earlier Times-Picayune report estimated the moratorium could cost Louisiana $2.97 billion in revenue and 7,590 jobs directly related to the oil industry. President Obama still has the power to save many of the jobs. He could reverse his decision and lift the ban. But political considerations make that impossible. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the President was the largest single recipient of campaign contributions from BP and its employees over the past twenty years. Therefore, the President has to put distance between himself and BP, which may be why President Obama has not spoken with BP CEO Tony Hayward one single time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April. The problem is, vilifying BP's corporate leadership does nothing to stop the spill or quicken the cleanup.
After the Obama administration refused help from the Netherlands, Geert Visser, the consul general for the Netherlands in Houston, told Loren Steffy: "Let's forget about politics; let's get it done." It's sound advice, Mr. President. Let's free local governments to clean up their shores, waive protectionist laws that keep out foreign help, and let the oil workers who can safely do so get back to work. Let's get it done.
Decreasing Defense No Solution for Debt Disaster
QUICK HITS
The Democratic Party will launch a national cable television ad campaign today daring Republicans to repeal health care.
A new report by the Troubled Asset Relief Program's Congressional Oversight Panel blasts the Federal Reserve and the Treasury for creating the too-big-to-fail problem by bailing out AIG.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified yesterday that Congress must prepare to address an "unsustainable" level of debt in the federal budget.
As part of their stepped up campaign of assassinations, the Taliban executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for the government.
President Obama urged the Israeli government to loosen its blockade of Gaza and promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza.
There’s a joke about “how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?”
“That’s not funny.”
(The original one was, “5, 1 to do it and 4 to write about it.” But that got the above-mentioned response so often that it got replaced by it.)
Now I’m not bringing this up to accuse feminists of lacking a sense of humor (another post), but rather to focus on feminists as a subset of radicals who take themselves entirely too seriously. Eileen Read, now a columnist for the Huffington Post has an interesting profile which suggests just the kind of earnest “we can save the world” milieu that Caroline Glick’s Latma piece is designed to skewer.
Her response: “that’s not funny” in the current aggressive-progressive mode: that’s racist.
And typically, she misreads the song from start to finish.
If this is what passes for intelligence in the “progressive” community, we’re all in trouble. (HT/Daled Amos)
The Jerusalem Post Should Fire Caroline Glick for Making a Racist Video
Eileen Read
Los Angeles-based journalist focusing on foreign policy
Posted: June 5, 2010 05:07 PMComments 323
‘We Will Slaughter the Jews,’ goes a blatantly racist music video that has had nearly 700,000 views on YouTube.Its title is, ‘We Con the World,’ sung to the tune of ‘We are the World.’
However, the video’s keffiyah (headscarf) wearing, knife-wielding ‘Arabs’ and other members of the ‘Flotilla Choir’ clearly aren’t Turks or Gazans. They’re Jewish Israelis singing “there’s no people dying” about the Gaza humanitarian-aid flotilla, in which nine people were killed last Monday by Israeli commandos, and many others were shot. A 19-year-old American aboard was shot five times at close range.
The lyrics begin:
There comes a time when we need to make a show
For the world and CNN
There’s no people dying so the best that we can do
Is create the greatest bluff of allThe press office of the Prime Minister of Israel sent this video around the world. Apparently inadvertently, according to spokesman Mark Regev. Regev notes nonetheless that “”I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny. It’s what Israelis feel.”
Clearly not all Israelis, since thousands and thousands of them massed in Tel Aviv today to protest the mess their extreme right-wing government is making of their nation’s image abroad.
“It was not intended for general release,” said a statement from the press office. “The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel.”
On her blog, the deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, claims credit for the video. I never take Glick-bylined pieces seriously because they’re all the same, since she constantly talks about continuing the occupation of Palestine, trashes Obama (and she is from Chicago!) and is a favorite on the lowest-level of American right-wing tv, like the Laura Ingraham show.
But this is lower than I’ve ever seen someone go who carries a management title at a journalism organization. I’m ashamed to say that Glick and I are both Columbia alums. Even if she hates people of another race or religion and is allowed by her editors to poke fun at them in a tasteless and blatantly racist way, she should be fired for making fun of the dead.
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