Apr 1, 2011

Painful truth underscored by U.S. intervention (today's SF Chronicle)

Memo: I found this all to be oh so true; neither party really cares about the constitution and neither really give a hoot about humanitarian consideration, here or abroad.

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Painful truth underscored by U.S. intervention

04/01/11

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Launched almost exactly a quarter-century after Ronald Reagan first bombed Tripoli, America's new war in Libya was guaranteed to be yet another fist-pumpin', high-fivin' remake of a big-budget 1980s action movie - the kind of scripted, stylized "Top Gun"-like production that gets audiences to cheer wildly and ask few questions.

Almost three weeks in, Operation Odyssey Dawn has no doubt delivered on that promise - it has a blockbuster $100-million-per-week budget, a comic-book-grade villain in Col. Moammar Khadafy and the modern media's obedient transcription of U.S. government pronouncements.

What war proponents did not bank on, however, was this latest exercise in "shock and awe" also unmasking unspoken and uncomfortable realities at the twilight of American empire. Here are just a few:

America suffers from selective deficit disorder: Dick Cheney once said "deficits don't matter," and that attitude defines our increasingly acute case of selective deficit disorder - i.e., the disease whereby politicians express concern about deficits only when it justifies cutting nonmilitary expenditures. Just weeks ago, both political parties were calling America "broke" and competing to show who was more concerned about reining in spending. Most of these same deficit hawks, though, seem unconcerned about all that cash being spent on million-dollar cruise missiles in Libya.

America doesn't really care about the Constitution: Despite the Tea Party-inspired talk about "enumerated powers" in the Constitution, the Libya invasion shows that few on either the left or right genuinely care about our country's founding document. We know this because there's been so little outcry about President Obama invading Libya without a constitutionally mandated congressional declaration of war. The silence is particularly deafening considering Obama himself explicitly said in 2007 that such unsanctioned invasions are blatantly unconstitutional.

America has made patriotism the refuge of partisans: During the Iraq invasion, Republican partisans regularly insinuated that Democratic war opponents were unpatriotic because their criticism allegedly helped Saddam Hussein. We hear the same demagogic argument today with regard to Khadafy, only now from Obama partisans.

American policymakers aren't motivated by humanitarian concerns: Though many Americans unflinchingly accept the Obama administration's humanitarian rationale for the Libya incursion, the justification is laughable, coming from an administration that called Egypt's American-financed dictator Hosni Mubarak "a friend," labels the Saudi royal family an ally and this weekend praised Syria's Bashar al-Assad as "a reformer" even as he now massacres his own people. The Libya war is about a lot of things - oil, defense contracts, the Pentagon's brand-new Africa Command establishing its first foothold on the resource-rich continent, etc. - but it is not primarily about saving lives.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told ABC News this week that Libya poses no imminent threat to America and that its civil war is "not a vital national interest to the United States." The same cannot be said for the painful truths the conflict underscores. If left unaddressed, they threaten our budget, Constitution and credibility far more than any tyrant or terrorist ever could.

This article appeared on page A - 10 of the San Francisco Chronicle

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011

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An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

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Re: -- Foxman Memoirs Published by Yad Vashem

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From: <heinzhb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:22 PM

ah yes, the old familiar survivor story, like so many Joseph had an guardian angel: "Ten times I stood in the shadow of death, and each time I was saved it was purely by accident," Wonder if he ever explains that these 'accidents' were? I also love that he admits that "There are many universal questions that arise out of the evil of the Holocaust; there are no easy answers and perhaps will never be," - maybe someone should inform Abe and the ADL that perhaps we can find the answers, if we're ALLOWED to ask the question and have open debate on them? What a unique concept.....

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:16 PM, ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@gmail.com> wrote:

Press Release Holocaust / Nazis

A Son's Traumatic Story is Recalled by His Father, in Foxman Memoirs Published by Yad Vashem

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/6013_52.htm

New York, NY, March 31, 2011 … Abraham Foxman was too young to recall much of what happened to him during the Holocaust years.  Perhaps aware of this, his father, Joseph, wrote down his traumatic memories of that time in painstaking Yiddish, so that his family might someday have a record of his survival in the midst of devastation and mass murder.

Now, nearly 60 years since they were written, the Foxman memoirs have been posthumously translated into English, annotated, and published for the first time.

"In the Shadow of Death," by Joseph Foxman (Yad Vashem, 2011)becomes the latest entry in the canon of Holocaust survivor testimony, offering a fresh look at the remarkable survival story of the Foxman family and their son, Abraham, who would become the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).  Published by Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, the book, released this month, includes a Foreword by Abraham Foxman and an introduction by noted Israeli historian Leah Aharonov.

"There are many universal questions that arise out of the evil of the Holocaust; there are no easy answers and perhaps will never be," Mr. Foxman writes in the Foreword. "But our children and our children's children need to understand how it happened, why it happened, so that they can carry on the imperative of Never Again."

Joseph Foxman's memoirs recall his fateful decision to give up his only son into the hands of the boy's Polish Catholic nanny, who had the infant baptized in order to keep him hidden and protected from the Nazis.  That decision saved the boy's life, and may have contributed to his parents' ability to survive the war years.

In his memoirs, the elder Foxman recalls how he stayed one step ahead of the Nazis while trying to keep in contact with his extended family.  It chronicles his narrow escapes from death, run-ins with the Gestapo, his witness to the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto in 1943, and his efforts to keep his only son protected in hiding.

"Ten times I stood in the shadow of death, and each time I was saved it was purely by accident," Foxman relates in his memoirs, adding, "It is incumbent upon every individual who survived the Hitler cataclysm to record and to immortalize his or her Holocaust experiences."

Unbeknownst to his family and friends, Foxman kept his manuscript hidden away for many years and never spoke of it.  It was discovered years later by the family after his death.

"My father and my mother protected me in my youth from hearing about the tough decisions and hard sacrifices they had made during the war years," Mr. Foxman writes. "Imagine my surprise when, years later, I came across these papers as I was going through his personal effects.  I had no idea that these memoirs existed.  My mother and father had never spoken of them."

The Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project is an initiative of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.

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"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011

Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

Thank you and remember:

Peace is patriotic!

Michael Santomauro

253 W. 72nd Street

New York, NY 10023

Call anytime: 917-974-6367

E-mail me anything:
ReporterNotebook@Gmail.com

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Italy battles Islamic caliphate

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Oppressed populations around the world acquired a new rival on Wednesday with the announcement by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his campaign to "Free Lampedusa" within 48-60 hours. What the Sicilian island requires freeing from: thousands of migrants, primarily arriving from North Africa. Why it requires freeing: residents are not pleased, and Berlusconi sympathizes. [...]

Teacher Suspended After Allegedly Calling Students 'Future Criminals' On Facebook

Paterson Teacher Suspended After Allegedly Calling Students 'Future Criminals' On Facebook

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PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- A New Jersey first-grade teacher who allegedly posted derogatory comments about her students on her Facebook page has been suspended.

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Several parents who saw the posts apparently came to Paterson School 21 and asked that their children be removed from her class.

The teacher's name has not been released.

The Paterson school district is said to have ordered the removal of the post earlier this week. In it, the teacher reportedly called her 6 and 7-year-old students "future criminals" and said that she felt like a "warden" handling them.

The school district issued a statement saying that the teacher is on administrative leave with pay and that the matter is a "personnel issue" that is under investigation.

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"Tween girl pushup tops cause furor." Chicago Sun Times. Childhood's End.

From: joe webb <webfoote41@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:18 PM

This was reported in the Daily Post of Palo Alto, 3-31-11, p. 4. The Daily Post has no Internet connection and I tried to google it from the Chicago Sun Times, but failed.

Therefore I quote it. Mike Jeffries is a very odd character; if you google him and read the Salon article. He is 61 and may be gay per the article. Bizarre is the word that comes to mind. I have noticed from personal experience that the queer world's axis is sex, and not much else.
This is the reason most normal folks are "homophobic". It is not fear of homosexuals per se, it is fear of pig behavior. Likewise a straight pig is feared as well, put not as much, for obvious reasons.

He transmuted a "fuddy duddy" Abercrombie and Fitch into a retailer "sizzling with sex" and has a several billion dollar company now. Many groups are not happy with his sexualizing of young girls. A google search says he is not Jewish.

Here is the story:

" A bikini with a "pushup' swim top aimed at 7 to 12 year-olds has been removed from the Abercrombie KIds Web site, the Ohio firm said. After protests, the company first changed the description of its "Ashely" bikini top from "pushup" to "padded" on Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

We have re-categorized the Ashley swimsuit s padded. We agree with those who say it is best 'suited' for girls age 12 and older," the company said via Facebook. on Tuesday, the Ashley bikini top disappeared from the Web site completely.

Abercrombie has previously been criticized for selling THONG UNDERWEAR IN CHILDREN'S SIZES [my caps] and for catalogs featuring provocative teen-age looking models, the Sun-Times reported.

L.A. psychologist, Dr. Nancy Irwin, told Fox News that wearing a chest-boosting bikini top as such a young age can pave the way for sexual promiscuity."

Well folks, it is much worse than that. Feminism's only claim that made any sense was its refusal of "objectification" of women. Thus, presumably, the sexualization of women (I guess they never dreamed 40 years ago that Hugh Hefner would spawn Mike Jeffries and countless others) in a one-dimensional way should have fueled resistance to this degradation of women and girls. But an anti-feminist woman friend says that it did not because the "liberation" of women far out-weighed the former protest of Objectification.

So the girls are liberated now too. This is all Bondage of course, to the lowest common denominator of... animals in general. I happened upon a store in downtown San Francisco called, FCUK, and went in and lectured the salespeople...they said it was just a job..

Are women and girls capable of ruling themselves? Look at the Women's magazines anywhere. The girls just want to have fun, like their mothers.

Any mother who allows her girls access to Abercrombie or the FCUK wannabee retailers, should be given a good hard jerk by the man (who may or may not be a Real Man) who is father and husband. Men are almost as perverted as our women. Man sets the standard, not women. They are not capable of it.

Easily seduced is what it is. I remember an episode from the The Shield, a TV series based on the L.A. Police and the corruption scandals of a couple decades back. Black pimp lectures the white detective on "Pimpology." Find, preferably, a White woman who is depressed, treat her real nice, be sweet to her, let her respond, put her to bed, and then when she is yours, you put her out on the street to work for you. She is grateful.

That my friends is the story of many females today. They are liberated, and will not listen to their fathers, brothers, and so on. That assumes that there are some genuine Fathers who can lay down the law if necessary. Of course part of the problem is that most men don't know what the law is and are just as sexualized as their women....porn comes to mind...a particularly Jewish contribution to our Freedom.

One last note, for girls who are not too bright, they will never figure this out. Thus, the only thing they "think" they got is their sex. Sluts R Us. It must be ok because I watch JewTV.

Joe
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Breaking: Accused “Westside Rapist” pleads guilty to seven murders

Accused "Westside Rapist" pleads guilty to seven murders

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Alleged 'Westside Rapist' pleads guilty to seven murders

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Police describe John Floyd Thomas Jr. as one of the region's most prolific killers. He targeted older women and his crime spree spanned decades. Above, his arrest in '64, '71 and '82.

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