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Mar 9, 2011

The president and CEO of National Public Radio, Vivian Schiller, resigned after a video surfaced showing an NPR executive apparently countenancing a remark that Jews control the media.

 

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/09/3086347/npr-exec-caught-saying-jews-control-print-media

NPR chief resigns in wake of exec's video slurs
March 9, 2011

(JTA) -- The president and CEO of National Public Radio, Vivian Schiller, resigned after a video surfaced showing an NPR executive apparently countenancing a remark that Jews control the media.

The executive, Ron Schiller, president of the NPR Foundation and vice president for development, has apologized for his comments in a videotape disclosed Tuesday made by a right-wing political activist, James O'Keefe, in a sting operation. Ron Schiller, who was to take a position in May at the international nonprofit Aspen Institute, said his resignation scheduled for May 6 would take effect "immediately."

Ron Schiller was heard making derogatory remarks about the Republican Party, Tea Party activists and the NPR commentator Juan Williams, who was fired after saying on Fox News that he would be concerned if he was on a plane with passengers in Muslim garb.

"I offer my sincere apology to those I offended," Schiller said Tuesday night, adding that "In an effort to put this unfortunate matter behind us, NPR and I have agreed that my resignation is effective today."

Vivian Schiller (no relation to Ron Schiller) offered to resign "if that was the board's will, and the board decided that it was," Dave Edwards, the chairman of NPR's board of directors, said Wednesday, according to The New York Times.

Vivien Schiller told the Times in an interview Wednesday that "I obviously had no prior knowledge" of the executive's comments, "and nothing to do with them, and disavowed them as soon as I learned of them all. But I'm the CEO, and the buck stops here."

Slate reported Wednesday that the Aspen Institute, where Ron Schiller was supposed to start next month as director of the Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program, released a statement saying that "Ron Schiller has informed us that, in light of the controversy surrounding his recent statements, he does not feel that it's in the best interests of the Aspen Institute for him to come work here."

In the video, Ron Schiller was meeting with two men posing as wealthy would-be Muslim donors who said they wanted to make a $5 million, no-strings-attached contribution, according to reports. The Muslim donors were discussing Jewish control of the media; Schiller added his sentiments saying that "Zionist influence" doesn't exist at NPR, but "it's there in those who own newspapers obviously."

"No one owns NPR," he adds.

Ron Schiller also is heard laughing when one of the men jokes that NPR should be known as "National Palestinian Radio."

The incident has come to light as Republicans in Congress, who have long complained about a liberal bias on public radio, are targeting public broadcasting as an area for budget cuts.





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Excerpt from Chapter One of 'Moral Cowards' available on Amazon.com for $5.99 in eBook

 



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Part I

 CHAPTER ONE  The Actors Part One

"We are organized, staffed, and trained to maximize effective and efficient public service and to maintain a positive work environment."

----Police Mission Statement

"People are mean, you know?" Stan said as he sat across from Susan in the shuttle bus.  The driver, his name long since forgotten, was supposed to pull away from police headquarters at ten minutes after two.  This departure time was not arbitrary—it was set by some Upper in supervision who decided that if the shuttle filled up before two, everyone would rush to get on and the sin of all sins—that an employee might actually leave his desk at five minutes till two—would occur.  So, the Uppers solved this possibility:  The shuttle bus would sit in the alley until ten after two—full of passengers.

As every idea that evolves—good or bad—gets baggage added to it, so to the driver began leaving later and later.  He had the keys to the bus—he had the authority to drive it—why should he cater to the passengers?  The driver was not happy either because he was ordered to sit there and knew a camera was focused directly upon his bus.  Every day a deputy chief would watch the shuttle from seven stories up, pushing aside the leaves of the philodendron on his windowsill like a cat peering through the bushes, watching his stationary prey.

             Because he was under the microscope, the driver had taken lately to pushing the envelope.  Eleven minutes, twelve minutes after.  He left later and later every day, one would suppose, to make the shuttle occupants squirm because that is what they did—squirm.  The city employees, mostly police officers, would obediently sit in their seats, waiting for the last minute pardon from their suffering that they knew would eventually come.  This day it was not only warm, but for some reason hot air was blasting from the bus' air conditioner vents.

             The occupants of the shuttle fanned their shiny faces with papers and looked at each other, all locked tight in mutual group suffering.  A homicide detective seated next to Susan stood up and opened some tiny sliding windows near the ceiling for the people to get some fresh air for which all were grateful and rewarded him with their weak, sticky smiles.  After he sat back down, Susan cocked her head to one side and looked knowingly across the isle at Stan.  They had been through a lot together these past three years and had become friends.  Stan Byas.  He's around forty years old and looks like Mr. T—a good-sized man who shaves his head because "I'm losing most of my hair on top anyway."  He is righteous, moral, leads a stable life, is peaceful and connected to a higher power that saved him, as he put it, years ago, from a life he considered wrong. 

             He is an eighteen-year veteran who had not only been Susan's friend and ally in the den of egos that was The Juvenile Bureau, but he played a ruthless game of Jeopardy!  The answer is 'Two police officers who committed the ultimate sin of speaking the truth when the emperor really had no robes on.'  Question:  'Who were Susan and Stan?'  She laughed to herself—That's the way it goes when you wear cheap clothes.

            As the minutes ticked by while the shuttle remained motionless, the passengers tried to forget the stifling heat by talking about anything but that, when someone in the front of the bus spoke up, "It's eleven after," and another, "I have twelve after," and yet another, "My watch says thirteen after," but no one raised their voices or said anything to the driver, whose head was jutted out his side window chatting to someone standing next to the bus.  Susan looked at her pager:  Sure enough, it was twelve after.  Many people are afraid to speak up and like the ostrich, bury their head in the sand but when they do that, they leave their butt high in the air so that someone could kick it.  Susan was not a good victim.





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Debate on the Holocaust The latest effort to combat "Denial", i.e., Holocaust Revisionism. (Part III)

 

Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust

The latest effort to combat "Denial", i.e.,  

Holocaust Revisionism. (Part III)


By Wilfried Heink

 

 

 

The second study in chapter one is by Dr. Moshe Zimmermann, Prof. for contemporary history and head of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The essay is titled: "How survivors perceive the mass murder by poisonous gas."

 

 

Before we go into this, the book this article is part of is about new studies on killing with poisonous gas by the Nazis, and the denial by Revisionists of said killings. The first article by Mr. Evans contributed nothing to the issue supposedly under discussion, the title of the second seems to follow that trend. One has to wonder why we need to know how the alleged murder by poisonous gas was perceived by the, ahem, survivors. But let's not judge a book by its cover and see what Mr. Zimmermann has to say.

 

 

He starts out by informing us that he will concentrate on how Jewish survivors perceived this mass murder, specifically Israelis, even though only a small percentage of actual survivors live in that country. But, so Zimmermann, the whole of Israeli society, starting with the "Survivors of the second generation", consider themselves to be a society of survivors. And in their opinion they represent the whole of Jewish society [...].[1]

 

 

Comments: The last part makes it clear that "surviving the Holocaust" has turned into a social exercise and has nothing to do with actual numbers. But the part about percentages is interesting, because one needs to ask: A percentage of what? In a Ha'aretz article of December 29, 2005, we read: "As of 2005, of the nearly 400,000 Holocaust survivors residing in Israel, 40% live below the poverty line...". This article has since disappeared, all I have is the printout of a portion of it. Some of it is still available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Holocaust - look under "Survivors welfare in Israel" (footnote 7 refers to the disappeared Ha'aretz article). And this article talks about cancer/colon cancer as a result of starvation - clearly just about actual survivors. Thus, if 400 000 is a small percentage of the total of survivors, how many did "survive"? Why do we have no exact figures when they surely must exist because Germany is paying retribution to each of the survivors? I have seen numbers as high as 4 million [2], but it is said that some of those were double claims. Possibly so, but why the big secret?

 

Fact is, no historian ever concerned himself with the issue of how many survived, and many did survive the war.[3] In this essay, links are provided to works by Messrs. Kulischer and Scheidl, among others, with the latter demonstrating that the numbers we are given - of Jews allegedly murdered by the Germans - are not based on solid research. We also know now that up to 20,000 camps, i.e., detention facilities existed instead of the 5,000 to 7,000 believed to have existed. Mr. Thomas Kues mentions this in his article.[4] So, why is the issue of how many survived seemingly unimportant? It should not be, for only if we know how many Jews were able to flee or make it through the war somehow can we begin to look for those missing.

 

 

 

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