July 3, 2013 (NYPost) Clueless John Kerry < Just as true today!
Is John Kerry stupid? This is not a rhetorical question. …
Our brand-spanking-new secretary of state has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East over the past month. That makes sense, since the Middle East is the epicenter of the world’s troubles.
But Kerry has chosen not to concentrate on the immediate crises at hand there — the killing grounds in Syria, the roiling streets of Egypt, even (a little bit to the North) the troubles in Turkey. Instead, he’s dedicated himself to a lingering policy problem that is a) not in crisis, b) uniquely unready for any kind of forward movement at present and c) utterly beside the point at the moment.
That matter is, of course, the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians.
Read the rest @ http://nypost.com/2013/07/03/clueless-john-kerry/
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Thinking is hard
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Does a cartoon justify murder? UPDATE
May 3, 2015: Two men drove up and opened fire on the site of the heavily guarded “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas. The two gun men were shot and killed in the parking lot; one of the officers on duty suffered non-life threatening injuries. The event was locked down while police searched for a possible bomb while visitors to the exhibit sang patriotic songs to pass the time as they waited for the all clear. The cartoon contest was held in defense of free speech and to highlight the cowardice of the American press that refused to publish the Mohammad-mocking Charlie Hebdo cartoons that inspired the lethal January 7, 2015, attack in Paris. The $10,000 prize-winning cartoon was drawn by Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim.
January 7, 2015: Two members of Al-Qaeda attacked the office of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and murdered 22 people. The reason? Charlie Hebdo had published cartoons mocking Muhammed. IMHO, Hebdo has published far worse about Christians, particularly Catholics, and Jews. I am unaware of any of us responding with anything more dire than a strongly worded protest. Normally, I wouldn’t reprint this kind of trash, but I think it’s important that we view the context within which 22 people were murdered by militant Muslims.
UPDATE:
The American Left Stream Media has taken the “Blame Pam Geller” route for the shootings at the ‘Draw Mohammad” event. On Sunday, she told “Fox and Friends” that she has message for those who want to blame her for what appears to be a terrorist attack on the event:
“I’m not responsible for the violence conducted by others. It’s outrageous that this would even be the morally inverted view of the media, that somehow because we drew a cartoon that two gunmen with AK-47s tried to storm the building and shoot up innocent people, and somehow they’re not responsible?”
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Global Islamic Media Front Website Hacked by ‘Jester’ and Plastered with Charlie Hebdo Art
The following screen grab was made by Grunt at around 12:50 am Tuesday morning, when it was still up on the Global Islamic Media Front website. Sorry, no link, but you can search for it if you like or go to Jester’s twitter feed.
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The New York Times complies
I’ve heard the New York Times used to be a real newspaper. Now, it’s nothing more than the flagship for left-wing agitprop.
Case in point: It rewrote its own Charlie Hebdo story to remove evidence that the terrorists were Muslims.
ORIGINAL:
Sigolène Vinson, a freelancer who had decided to come in that morning to take part in the meeting, thought she would be killed when one of the men approached her.
Instead, she told French news media, the man said, “I’m not going to kill you because you’re a woman, we don’t kill women, but you must convert to Islam, read the Quran and cover yourself,” she recalled.
UPDATE:
Sigolène Vinson, a freelance journalist who had come in that morning to take part in the meeting, said that when the shooting started, she thought she would be killed.
Ms. Vinson said in an interview that she dropped to the floor and crawled down the hall to hide behind a partition, but one of the gunmen spotted her and grabbed her by the arm, pointing his gun at her head. Instead of pulling the trigger, though, he told her she would not be killed because she was a woman.
“Don’t be afraid, calm down, I won’t kill you,” the gunman told her in a steady voice, with a calm look in his eyes, she recalled. “You are a woman. But think about what you’re doing. It’s not right.”
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Charlie Hebdo vs. Media Talking Heads – UPDATE
MSNBC: Hebdo’s murder is no different from a slander lawsuit
FOX News: “If we had guts, those cartoons would be reprinted on the front page of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times tomorrow. They won’t be.”
In other media news … when Fox’s contract came up for renewal, they thought their increasing popularity should translate into more money for the right to carry their shows. Fox News and Fox Business are consistently in the top 5 viewed networks and Fox pulls in over 1.2 million viewers in a day. Dish Network Corp. didn’t agree and turned Fox off on December 20th. Since then, 350,000 Dish customers have called or visited Fox’s website about the problem and at least 90,000 have changed to a new provider that carries Fox.
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- More Hebdo toons @ http://www.ijreview.com/2015/01/229606-censored-mohammed-cartoons-fox-guest/
- http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/220671-news-makes-news-dish-drops-powerhouse-fox-news-channel/
- http://www.ijreview.com/2015/01/229738-2-cable-company-pulled-fox-news-platform-customers-revolt/
- http://twitchy.com/2015/01/09/james-woods-calls-out-cnns-completely-unbiased-correspondent-who-called-terrorists-activists/
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Loving Death
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on The Kelly File
She has something in common with the #CharlieHebdo editor murdered by terrorists in Paris: She is also on al Qaeda’s death list. “The only way we have a chance of fighting these barbarians is by talking about it […] It is worth it to me because I love life more than I love death. They love death. That message is so much stronger than anything they put out there.”
Bill Whittle: Terrorist Nation – Published on Jan 9, 2015
From the murder of the Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics in 1972, through the murder of 5 rabbis at prayer in 2014, the Palestinian cause has been driven by TERROR. In his latest Firewall Bill Whittle discusses their domestic front — Students for Justice in Palestine.
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