Crazy Liberal Economist Paul Krugman Calls 4 28% Inflation

What am I talking about? Something like a commitment to achieve 5 percent annual inflation over the next 5 years — or, perhaps better, to hit a price level 28 percent higher at the end of 2015 than the level today. (Compounding) Crucially, this target would have to be non-contingent — not something you’ll call off if the economy recovers. Why? Because the point is to move expectations, and that means locking in the price rise whatever happens.

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This guy wants the abuse without any of the benefit. The point is to make jobs. There are some very cheap creative ways to do that, but borrowing money endlessly is not one of them. The idea is if you are good for a loan to take the money with the intent to grow the economy... not collapse a system that you don't believe in. For a very long time the Conservative were labeled as sarcastic. This guy Krugman is like a guy who is now being ignored and is going over the top with his ideas to get attention.

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Jimmy Carter After Hugging Hamas Demands East Jerusalem for Terrorist Groups

Jimmy probably isn't sorry for being Antisemitic. The Arabs want to set up a Jew free Palestine via daylife.com London's Al Quds quotes Jimmy Carter as calling for Israel to withdraw from "East Jerusalem", saying it must become the capital of a Palestinian Arab state. AFP quotes him as saying, "We will continue to work on a peaceful solution where the Israelis will withdraw from east Jerusalem and let this be the capital of a Palestinian state." Arab interest in Jerusalem was practically nil before the anti-semitic Mufti in the 1920s started politicizing the issue, and then it faded from Muslim and Arab consciousness for the 19 years of Jordanian rule when the Palestinian Arab national cause was all but mute. Arab interest in Jerusalem is directly proportional to Jewish political rule over the city. It is not inherent; it is derivative. It was never set up as a positive goal but rather a negative one - they didn't want to establish Jerusalem as an Arab capital, but to deprive Jews of establishing it as theirs. Nowhere was this clearer than in 1949, when almost the entire Arab world appealed to the UN to make Jerusalem an international city - and expel all Jews who moved there since 1947: If Tel Aviv must be Israel's capital according to the entire world, why can Ramallah not be the Palestinian Arab capital? via elderofziyon.blogspot.com Recently Jimmy Carter called Israel an Apartheid, (something which Israel is not and Carter knew) but after apologizing now Carter is demanding to make a separation where no Jew can go.. Why is he demanding to create a Jew free area when Israel does not have an Arab free area? The only thing that is consistent is the man's hate. What makes Carter different then Mel Gibson's cycle of apologies? Nothing!
London's Al Quds quotes Jimmy Carter as calling for Israel to withdraw from "East Jerusalem", saying it must become the capital of a Palestinian Arab state. AFP quotes him as saying, "We will continue to work on a peaceful solution where the Israelis will withdraw from east Jerusalem and let this be the capital of a Palestinian state." Arab interest in Jerusalem was practically nil before the anti-semitic Mufti in the 1920s started politicizing the issue, and then it faded from Muslim and Arab consciousness for the 19 years of Jordanian rule when the Palestinian Arab national cause was all but mute. Arab interest in Jerusalem is directly proportional to Jewish political rule over the city. It is not inherent; it is derivative. It was never set up as a positive goal but rather a negative one - they didn't want to establish Jerusalem as an Arab capital, but to deprive Jews of establishing it as theirs.	in 1949, almost the entire Arab world appealed to the UN to make Jerusalem an international city - and expel all Jews who moved there since 1947:

UNRWA Director Calls on Palestinians to Acknowledge They Will Not Return to Their “Homes” in Israel

A couple of days ago, an outgoing UNRWA official said something that was actually useful, for once:

Andrew Whitley, due to soon leave his post as director of the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency’s New York office, told the National Council for US-Arab Relations’ annual conference that...Palestinians must start acknowledging that the refugees will almost certainly not be returning to Israel, so that they can improve their situation.

 via elderofziyon.blogspot.com

"Right to Return" 
mural in Al Assria Centre,  
Jabalia camp, Gaza Strip

Andrew Whitley said that only a few Palestinians and UNRWA personnel were willing to discuss the issue publicly, but “the right of return is unlikely to be exercised to the territory of Israel to any significant or meaningful extent” (Jerusalem Post website, October 23, 2010).
 
UNRWA says the opinion does not reflect the agency

....probably because opinion of the agency is so low....

85.8% of those polled are suspicious about how UNRWA teaches their kids about human rights;
87% say that teaching about human rights is like poisoning the kids' minds, and undermines the role of the Resistance;
79% think UNRWA is trying to normalize Arab relations with Israel;
70% demanded that UNRWA stop allowing kids to visit Western nations because it goes against their traditions;
80% think that mixing boys and girls in UNRWA programs cause social and ethical problems.

via elderofziyon.blogspot.com

If one doesn’t start a discussion soon with the refugees for them to consider what their own future might be – for them to start debating their own role in the societies where they are rather than being left in a state of limbo where they are helpless but preserve rather the cruel illusions that perhaps they will return one day to their homes – then we are storing up trouble for ourselves. We recognize, as I think most do, although it’s not a position that we publicly articulate, that the right of return is unlikely to be exercised to the territory of Israel to any significant or meaningful extent. It’s not a politically palatable issue, it’s not one that UNRWA publicly advocates, but nevertheless it’s a known contour to the issue,” Whitely said.

His exceptional remarks drew immediate reactions:

– In an official announcement, UNRWA unequivocally distanced itself from the statements made Whitley, saying that “statements in no way reflect the policies or positions of the Agency and are the personal views of Mr. Whitley” (UNRWA website, November 1, 2010).
– Saeb Erekat, head of the PLO’s negotiating department, sent a letter to Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East, expressing the Palestinians’ “deep disappointment” with Whitely’s remarks. He said that the Palestinians would not waive their “right to return” to their homes and lands, and claimed that the “right” was anchored in international law and UN resolutions (Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2010).

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According to a recent survey, more than 1,000,000 'Palestinians' would leave Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and move elsewhere, if they were allowed to do so.

The latest PSR poll asks Palestinian Arabs:
Do current political, security, and economic conditions lead you to seek emigration abroad?
37% of Gazans, and 24% of West Bankers, say either that they "certainly seek to emigrate" or "seek to emigrate" from the territories.
That comes out to some 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs who do not want to stick around.
Now, imagine what would happen if they were free to emigrate to any Arab country they wanted. After all, the Arab League encourages its members to have liberal naturalization policies for Arabs from any Arab state - except Palestine.
The reason given by the Arab leaders for this explicitly discriminatory policy is that they are helping to preserve Palestinian Arab unity - by keeping them in a stateless limbo. But has anyone asked the Palestinian Arabs themselves what they want to do?

Of course not. But read the whole thing.

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Atop Yemen al-Qaida, a militant who vows to hit US - Yemen Latest News

SAN'A, Yemen – Only four years after he and a band of militants made a daring escape from a San'a prison, Qassim al-Raimi has become the dominant figure in al-Qaida's most active franchise — the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

The group's military commander, al-Raimi is thought to be the brains behind a series of attacks, including the foiled plot to mail bombs to the United States and multiple attacks against Yemen's U.S.-backed government. In writings and videos, he has vowed to topple the San'a regime and to strike America.

"His charisma and leadership skills have qualified him to be al-Qaida's military dynamo," said Nabil al-Bakeery, a Yemeni expert on al-Qaida. "He is the one occupying the decision making position in the organization."

Al-Raimi is thought to be hiding in the tough mountain terrain of Yemen's central Marib province, according to Yemeni counterterrorism officials. He has a reputation as a master of disguise: The officials said he is believed to slip frequently into the capital, San'a, to meet with al-Qaida cells, or even visit family or friends on special occasions like weddings and funerals.

Faraj Hady, a suspected militant currently on trial for alleged al-Qaida links, testified last month in court that al-Raimi, perfectly disguised as a woman, once traveled with him in a car from northeast Yemen to San'a.

Since 2007, the government has announced al-Raimi's death three times in strikes or clashes, most recently in January — each time wrong. Even on the run, he directs training camps in Yemen's remote deserts and mountains, organizes cells and plans attacks at home and abroad, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

"Today's battle, American leaders, is not just between you and the mujahedeen of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. It's between you and all the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. You have united us with our people," al-Raimi wrote in the January edition of Sada al-Malahem, or "Echo of the Epics," the group's online magazine. His message came after airstrikes in southern Yemen targeting al-Qaida bases that reportedly killed Yemeni civilians.

"Today, you have attacked us in our homes, so wait for the ills that will strike you in your homes," he wrote, under his nom de guerre Abu Harira al-Sanani. "We will come for you from behind, from your left and from your right to blow up the earth beneath your feet."

U.S. investigators believe that the explosives in the mail bomb plot disrupted last week were put together by an al-Qaida bomb-maker named Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. But Yemeni officials say al-Raimi likely oversaw the operation. Two bombs in packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues were intercepted on flights in Britain and Dubai.

Al-Raimi, who is in his late 30s or early 40s, is also thought to have masterminded last year's failed attempt by a suicide bomber to assassinate Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, the head of Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism agency.

Al-Raimi's senior status was clear even during his 2002-2006 stint in a San'a prison, where he was jailed alongside other al-Qaida militants. "He represented the inmates in negotiations with the prison officials over privileges and conditions," said one official. "He was a threatening figure who scared prison guards. The main ward where al-Qaida leaders stayed was off limits to the guards."

In 2006, al-Raimi and 22 other al-Qaida inmates made a spectacular escape from the prison. The next July, a suicide bomber attacked tourists at a historic site in Marib province, killing eight Spaniards and two Yemenis, in an attack the government said al-Raimi planned.

Many of the 23 have since been either killed or returned to prison, but those still at large constitute al-Qaida in Yemen's core leadership — including its official leader, Nasser al-Wahishi.

In 2009, al-Wahishi announced the creation of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, combining Yemeni militants with those from the terror group's Saudi branch. Al-Wahishi earned the leadership post likely because he was once a close associate of Osama bin Laden, and al-Raimi was named military chief.

Born in a village in the scenic mountainous region of Raima some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of San'a, al-Raimi, the son of an army enlisted man, is thought to have dropped out of school and left home as a teenager to work in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. He spent a year there, then is believed to have gone to the northern city of Saada, home to Yemen's leading school of militant Salafi ideology, to which al-Qaida members subscribe.

Over the next 10 years, he disappeared. He spent part of the 1990s in Afghanistan, where he received military training from al-Qaida militants, according to Yemeni officials. He passed through Saudi Arabia, joining al-Qaida's branch there and earning himself a spot on the kingdom's most wanted list of terrorists.

He surfaced in Yemen in 2002, when he was arrested and imprisoned for allegedly planning a suicide bombing that year against a French supertanker off the country's Arabian Sea coast.

His most recent appearance came in a videotape posted on militant websites last month. In it, a man said to be al-Raimi — bearded, turbaned and wearing a long beige tunic over baggy trousers — speaks amid footage of men with automatic rifles using U.S., British and Israeli flags for target practice.

In the tape, al-Raimi announces the creation of the "Aden and Abyan Army" to overthrow President Ali Abdullah Saleh's U.S.-backed regime. Accusing Saleh of killing Muslim women and children on U.S. behalf, he warned, "By doing so, stupid, you are digging your own grave."

He also added a chilling call: He urged fellow Muslims with experience in chemistry, electronics, electricity and physics to join al-Qaida.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization aka UNESCO says Rachel's Tomb is a Mosque

Referring to the structure as the "Bilal bin Rabah Mosque/Rachel's Tomb", UNESCO's board voted 44 to one, with 12 abstentions, to reaffirm that the site was "an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law".

via haaretz.com

...Director Irena Bokova had previously stated “concern” at Israel's decision to treat the tomb as a heritage site.

The vote called for Rachel's Tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – the burial site of the other Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs – to be removed from Israel's National Heritage list.

The Palestinian Authority has claimed that Rachel's Tomb is holy to Muslims as the site of a mosque called the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque. The PA demands control over both the tomb and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hevron, as well as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

UNESCO appeared to support the PA demand for the Temple Mount as well, asking that Muslim officials be allowed to examine the Mughrabi Gate near the Western Wall (Kotel). Muslim leaders have accused Israel of attempting to damage the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount under the guise of repairs to the Mugrabi Gate. Israeli officials have warned that if the gate is not repaired, it could collapse, putting worshipers at the Western Wall at risk.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, Rabbi of the Western Wall, termed the decision “outrageous.”
“They have never said in the past that this was a Muslim holy site. The [UN] organization responsible for heritage has turned heritage into politics.” Israel should think carefully about whether or not to cooperate with UNESCO in the future, he said.
Israel's Foreign Ministry denounced the UNESCO ruling.

via israelnationalnews.com

the denied correlative is that Mohammad himself blamed the Jews for turning prominent graves into religious sites.

 "Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians that they took the graves of their prophets as mosques. She ('A'isha) reported: Had it not been so, his (Prophet's) grave would have been in an open place, but it could not be due to the fear that it may not be taken as a mosque."

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Israel's reaction was not quite as serious as it first appeared. Ayalon's spokeswoman said that Israel would cut off relations with UNESCO altogether - but shortly after said that the announcement had been made in error and retracted the statement.

Cameron in bed with the Lebanese Defense Forces which are really Hezbollah who are the murderers of Hariri Elder

Hariri to Cameron: I Don't Think Assad Had Anything to Do with My Father's Murder translation: Bombing Jews is more fun then the reason for my father's death. Cameron in bed with the Lebanese Defense Forces which are really Hezbollah. Jews are dying because of Western funded murderers. The enemies of justice have shown their face and it is time for the Americans who just voted and care to wave goodbye to the Queen and England

I do not think that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had anything to do with my father's murder, Prime Minister Saad Hariri has told the British daily The Times.
Asked by The Times who he now believed killed his father, Hariri said: "I'm the Prime Minister. I do not have the luxury of speculating these days."
"I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues," he added.

but then why were U.N. investigators violently attacked?

"The relationship (with Syria) is geographically and historically important, and I should act as a prime minister, not as Saad Hariri."
The premier said he does not believe that the blood of his slain father, ex-PM Rafik Hariri, "will or should cause strife in the country."
On Tuesday, Hariri held talks with his British counterpart David Cameron.
Talks were attended by Lebanese Ambassador to London Inaam Osseiran, Hariri's chief of staff Nader Hariri and advisors Mohammed Shatah and Hani Hammoud, and, from the British side, by British Ambassador to Lebanon Frances Guy, National Security Advisor of the British Government Sir Peter Ricketts, Cameron's foreign affairs advisor Tom Fletcher and his advisor Richard Freer.
Upon receiving Hariri, Cameron said: "We have a very strong relationship, but I think we can make it stronger still. We want to do everything we can to support the stability and security of Lebanon. We think that this is absolutely vital."
"We fully support the Special Tribunal (for Lebanon) process and we want to see that properly completed and we want to do everything we can to help you with the work you are doing in your country. You are very welcome here today," Cameron told Hariri.
After the meeting, Hariri spoke to the press.
"We discussed the issues of the region and the challenges that Lebanon is facing, and especially the Israeli threats and our problems with Israel. We also spoke about ways to improve the economic relations between the two countries," said Hariri.
"PM Cameron also underlined Britain's support for the Special Tribunal. We also asked for military assistance for the military and security forces in Lebanon, and there was a large receptivity from Britain regarding this issue," added Hariri.
Asked about Cameron's position regarding the STL, Hariri said: "You have heard his declaration regarding the tribunal. PM Cameron stressed that Britain fully supports the Tribunal, which was formed by a U.N. resolution, and that Britain will not retract on this issue."
Asked if Cameron had expressed any fears regarding the repercussions of the indictment of the STL, Hariri answered: "We did not tackle this issue."

via naharnet.com

Cameron is awarding attacks on Jews... not to mention non Hezbollah Lebanon.  

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Lord Phillips of Sudbury

Your excess of pejorative language also gives away your anti-Israel agenda. Thus we learn that Israel practises “Machiavellian diplomacy” (not “Machiavellian” enough to stop the UN endorsing the Goldstone Report, though), “divide and rule” (divide and rule whom?) and “obfuscation and procrastination”. Tell me Lord Phillips, at Taba in 2001 Yassir Arafat was offered all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. Moreover the West Bank area offered was contiguous, not “cantons”. He turned it down. Was that “obfuscation and procrastination” on the part of Israel?

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United Nations plans to attack Israel with Lawfare on the Tenth Anniversory of September 11th

The United Nations is planning to hold “Durban III” in New York City in September 2011, marking the tenth anniversary of the 2001 Durban conference, and the non-governmental forum which preceded it, held in Durban, South Africa in 2001.

Durban I produced the infamous Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), which charges Israel with racism but names no other state in the world. Durban II, held in Geneva in April 2009, was headlined by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who saw the occasion as ideal for issuing another denial of the Holocaust and an endorsement of genocide against the Jewish state. Timing Durban III for the annual opening of the General Assembly is meant to guarantee the extensive involvement of presidents and prime ministers, most of whom eluded organizers of Durban I and II.
The U.N. will now be marking the 10th anniversary of Durban I at the same time and place as the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. Durban I, the platform for violent, pro-terrorist, and anti-Semitic rhetoric that included such speakers as Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro, ended just three days before 9/11.
The intergovernmental working group charged with preparing next year’s commemoration session just wrapped up its first planning meeting in Geneva. It adopted a series of “conclusions and recommendations” and indicated that Durban III is intended to “reaffirm that the DDPA provides the most comprehensive UN framework for combating racism.” The U.N. General Assembly is now occupied with the delicate matter of finalizing “the modalities” of Durban III, and New York-based diplomats are hard at work negotiating the details.

via weeklystandard.com

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