Jun 9, 2011

Strache - Le Pen meeting hit by Hitler controversy

http://austrianindependent.com/news/Politics/2011-06-09/7910/Strache_-_Le_Pen_meeting_hit_by_Hitler_controversy

9. 06. 11. - 15:59

Strache - Le Pen meeting hit by Hitler controversy

A leading right-winger from Austria has caused a stir by accusing a journalist from his home country of "fouling his own nest" by posing a question about Adolf Hitler in Strasbourg, France.

Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache travelled to the city to meet French politician Marie Le Pen, head of the Front National (FN) party, in the European Parliament (EP) for talks yesterday (Weds). The right-leaning party bosses called in a press conference to inform journalists from all over the continent they planned to cooperate more closely based on their agreement over a broad spectrum of European topics.

Strache launched a rant at Raimund Löw when the reporter of Austrian TV network ORF asked Le Pen for his opinion on the decision of FPÖ delegates to abstain from a vote deciding over whether Hitler should be stripped of his honorary citizenship title. Representatives of Strache's party in Amstetten decided not to take part in the Town Hall election some weeks ago. Amstetten decision-makers met to revoke the title from the Austrian-born Third Reich leader after a Green Party delegate revealed Hitler was still honoured that way 66 years after his suicide days before the end of World War Two (WWII).

The FPÖ chief accused Löw of "fouling his own nest". He added it was a "disgrace" to pose such a question at an international press conference. "This is incredible," Strache – who received support by FPÖ General Secretary Harald Vilimsky in his attack – added. Strache claimed that titles such as the one held by Hitler become obsolete when the person passes away. This argumentation has been put into question by historians.

Vilimsky issued a press release shortly after the incident in which he claimed Austrian journalists were trying to present their country as a "Nazi state" abroad. Strache linked Löw's decision to ask Le Pen about the disputed Amstetten Town Hall meeting with occurrences in 2000 and 2001. The European Union (EU) decided to reduce its cooperation with Austria to the lowest possible rate after the People's Party (ÖVP) of Wolfgang Schüssel decided to form a coalition with the FPÖ.

Le Pen – who is seen neck and neck with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in popularity polls in France – did not reply to Löw's query, but emphasised more that the FN and the FPÖ will create closer ties than ever before. Strache hit out at EU leaders and once more criticised decision-makers for supporting ailing Eurozone member Greece. The FPÖ caused outrage ahead of a recent provincial election by creating a campaign poster showing a "lazy Greek" lying in a hammock while receiving generous financial support from other EU member nations.

The FPÖ boss compared the situation in the EU with political circumstances in the Soviet Union before the fall of the Iron Curtain. "The European Commission (EC) has not been elected by the people," Strache argued.

Jörg Leichtfried, who heads the Austrian Social Democrats' (SPÖ) delegation in the EP, criticised Strache for his appearance alongside Le Pen. Leichtfried claimed Strache was kept from meeting anyone in Europe but representatives of the far-right.

Strache – whose party has good chances to come first in the next federal election, according to surveys – has attended summits of Europe's right-wing political leaders before. His decision to meet Israeli nationalists last December triggered a heated public debate, but also sparked an immense party-internal rift. The FPÖ's far-right branch condemned the move, but Strache has kept focusing on a less harsh tone considering immigration policies in Austria in what is understood as an attempt to win over young and frustrated voters.

He called off his attendance of a disputed gathering of far-right student fraternities in Vienna last May at which hundreds come together year after year to deplore the death of German WWII soldiers. The meeting has been under scrutiny as many student fraternity members claim that the German Reich did not start the war. Numerous people have held street marches each year to protest against their get-together as some of the right-wingers dream of a reunion of Austria and Germany amid fears of an 'Islamisation' of the continent.

Strache was due to hold a speech at the meeting. However, he cancelled his appearance hours before he was expected to take to the stage. Reports have it that local police were asked to ensure his personal protection before being told at short notice that such measures were not needed. The FPÖ boss claimed a top secret meeting with high-profile politicians abroad made it impossible for him to speak at the commemoration – which always takes place at the same time concentration camp survivors meet to remember their torments.

Strache – who is a member of a far-right student fraternity called Vandalia – has been attending night clubs in cities and music festivals in the countryside for years. Research has shown that one in five Austrians younger than 30 want him as the country's next chancellor.

He made headlines by having himself tested on drug consumption amid ongoing speculations that he took illegal substances last year. Strache accused the SPÖ of dirty campaigning when he presented the faultless examination results showing that he had not consumed cannabis, cocaine and amphetamines in the previous nine months.

Left-wingers are desperately trying to regain strength among their core voter groups of students, workers, and social benefit receivers while the FPÖ looks back on a number of federal, provincial and works council elections in which it managed to drastically increase its share. Conservative opinion leaders have called on ÖVP leaders to be more precise about their views to keep the FPÖ from becoming stronger.

Strache – who has headed the FPÖ since 2005 – recently said his goal was to become the country's chancellor, but some analysts have claimed he has no interest in taking political responsibility. They have suggested the right-winger fears a sudden loss in support if people find themselves disappointed by the FPÖ's governmental decision-making.

The situation was similar after the ÖVP and FPÖ teamed up in 2000. Ongoing FPÖ infights resulted in the foundation of late FPÖ leader Jörg Haider's Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) six years ago.

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Only in New York: Hanukkah Subway Attack Was a Multi-Ethnic Mash-up

December 12, 2007, 2:48pm

Only in New York: Hanukkah Subway Attack Was a Multi-Ethnic Mash-up

By Daniel Treiman

I never thought that there would be a Hanukkah-related brawl on my favorite subway line — let alone one that would dominate the front pages of New York's tabloids.

As the alleged victims of the attack tell the story to the Daily News, the four of them boarded a Brooklyn-bound Q-train after celebrating Hanukkah at a bar in Manhattan. They were carrying a menorah and dreidels. A larger group of young straphangers shouted "Merry Christmas" at them, to which 21-year-old Angelica Krischanvich responded, "Happy Hanukkah."

Next, Krischanvich told the News, "[One woman said,] 'You can't say that, we are Catholic.'" Krischanvich continued:

"That's when two guys stood up and showed us their Jesus tattoos. They started yelling at us and telling us we have no savior."

"I started to yell back when one of them spat in my face. I didn't let it bother me, and I told him, 'Jesus turned the other cheek,' and that is when the fight started."

"They said, 'You dirty Jews, you killed Jesus on Chanukah, you should all die,'" Baruch College student Maria Parsheva told the News. She said a member of the other group pulled a knife and waved it close to her face.

The News reports that three of Hanukkah revelers suffered bruises and cuts in the fracas.

he Daily News reports that police wound up arresting 10 members of the larger group, charging them with various offenses, including assault, menacing and inciting a riot. The police are reportedly still investigating whether the incident was a hate crime.

Here's where the story turns crazy New York multicultural:

The hero of the episode is a Bangladeshi Muslim, 20-year-old Hassan Askari — who intervened to protect the Hanukkah revelers and wound up getting attacked himself. The tabs have had a field day with this fact: The Post's cover today featured a photo of Askari hugging Parsheva's 23-year-old boyfriend, Walter Adler — both sporting black eyes. The headline: "Peace Train: Muslim rescues Jews from subway thugs."

Meanwhile, the four Hanukkah revelers, described in many press reports as a group of "four Jews," are actually a more diverse bunch: Krischanvich, according to the Daily News, is not Jewish. (Two of the others are described as "half-Jewish.")

And one of those arrested, 19-year-old Joseph Jirovec, insists the clash was not motivated by antisemitism. His proof? He says that his mother is Jewish and that two of those arrested with him were Jewish as well.

It wouldn't be the first time that Jirovec has been involved in a racially charged incident. He is already headed to jail for a 2006 attack on four black youths. In that incident, too, Jirovec had a ready retort to allegations of bias: He explained that many of his friends are black and that he's a member of the heavily minority Bloods street gang.

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PALESTINIAN STATE PETITION

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Dear Editor,

Please help disseminate.

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Adam Kokesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On September 4, 2008, Kokesh interrupted Senator John McCain's acceptance speech of the GOP nomination for President at theRepublican National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Holding a sign reading "McCain Votes Against Vets" on one side and "You can't win an occupation" on the other,^[22] Kokesh yelled, "Ask him why he votes against vets!" A member of the audience grabbed the sign and tore it in two. Kokesh was released shortly after being detained by local police.^[23]

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My latetst VeteransToday piece...I stand with Phil Giraldi all the way on this problem

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/08/phil-giraldi-spills-the-beans-on-israeli-espionage-in-america/

Dear folks,

Phil Giraldi was an early leader in coming public on this ugly story. I have been a long time admirer as there should be more in the community doing it.

This is the first time to my knowledge that a number for these suppressed investigations (which were actually criminal obstruction of justice incidents) has ever been printed, even by someone with Giraldi's Intel credentials. But you notice he was careful to quote a public source John Cole, that most folks have not heard of.

So I pitched in to stand beside him and added some things he might not have wanted to. But the public needs to know how bad this is, and how it has corrupted our security efforts up and down the line as eventually even the new folks learn about the 'outside forces' at work that can cancel out everything they are doing with one phone call.

We have the numbers, and all the proof to hang these folks out to dry...but as I mention in this piece...the fix is in at Justice. The Zios saw that vulnerability and plugged it up...and we are short on Constitutional or law enforcement remedies. It was a really smart move by the Israelis. They really know the business...and they take no prisoners.

In almost all my off the record interviews on this...whether it was the brass, Congressman, etc...they generally are just totally apathetic to it....similar in a way to illegal immigration. They are defeatist in that they just say there just isn't anything you can do about it...they are just too powerful and have their blocking forces all in place, and have for a long time...you are just jumping off a bridge to take them on.

The conflict with their oaths of office does not seem to come into play, mainly because so many before them have done nothing...so they think 'why me?'.

From a purely professional stand point I have to salute the Israelis, as they have accomplished one of the major intelligence coups of all times.

But unfortunately for them, I don't work for the Israelis...and never will.

We need everybodies help on this. Please spread the word. More will be coming. We have mountains of this stuff.

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"Ben Shapiro Ignores Jews in Hollywood" - by Rev. Ted Pike

BEN SHAPIRO IGNORES JEWS IN HOLLYWOOD

By Rev. Ted Pike
6 Jun 11

This week young Jewish Harvard-educated conservative writer Ben Shapiro has been on the media circuit with his new book Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV. His book features statements by many top media moguls candidly admitting their anti-conservative agenda. Shapiro says because he is Jewish and wore his Harvard baseball cap, more than 100 top media executives presumed he was liberal. The result was a book and 39 video interviews to be posted over the next three weeks on YouTube.

Shapiro's work is hailed by conservatives as a revelation of honesty about anti-conservative animus in Hollywood. But it's hardly news that Hollywood is liberal. Everyone on the right and grateful left know that.

The real news Shapiro might have shared is that a disproportionate number of moguls he interviewed are Jewish. His book proves that if you want to find out who controls Hollywood, you end up talking to a lot of Jewish people. Of the 45 Hollywood executives he lists as interviewed, nearly half are Jewish.

Shapiro's book reveals the same trend that Jewish investigators Lichter and Rothman documented in the early '80s. They found that although Jews compose only 1.5% of the US population, of 240 top media writers they interviewed (including ABC, CBS, NBC), 59% were "raised in the Jewish religion." (54% did not regard adultery as wrong and nearly 90% agreed that a woman has the right to decide on an abortion.)

Predictably, Shapiro completely skirts the question of Jewish power. Another young Jew was not so shy in 2008. Joel Stein was proud to boast in the LA Times, "The Jews are so dominant [in Hollywood], I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish. As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood."

And why is that? Shapiro insinuates that liberals hijacked big media which was, in some hazy past time, pro-Christian. Like Michael Medved, Shapiro represents the Bible-friendly Jew who is willing to critique "liberals" on FOX News till the moon turns to cheese but will never discuss the Jewish, Talmudic basis for their agenda. Himself an Orthodox Jew, Shapiro believes liberal Jews betray their basic Hebrew identity—but in fact, they are fulfilling the legacy left to them by Talmudic rabbis centuries ago and more recently by Communist Eastern European ancestors.

Hollywood isn't left wing because liberals hijacked it! Hollywood was bankrolled by international Jewish financier Jacob Schiff, head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. (now Chase Manhattan), who also helped finance the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917. [1] Hollywood is liberal because it was created by pro-Communist Jews from its inception. Among the masses of Eastern European Jews who immigrated to America in the early 20th century were the founders of Hollywood. Most were "Ashkenazi" Jews (with predominant ancient Khazar origins) (See The Khazars: Do They Destroy God's Plan for the Jews?) and brought Marxist values and ambitions (See Jewish Activists Created Communism). The Jewish Encyclopedia:

The Jewish exodus from Russia drafted to the United States large numbers of Socialists, mostly college and university students, who must be reckoned among the pioneers of the Socialist parties in America. Their main field of activity was the ghetto. But the masses of Jewish workmen and tradesmen who were educated by this propaganda scattered throughout the country in pursuit of employment or business opportunities and became the 'peddlers of Socialism' among their shop mates and neighbors. [2]

The Encyclopedia Judaica in its article on Franklin D. Roosevelt lauds Roosevelt for inviting a veritable flood of Jews into his administration. Roosevelt's liberal policies "endeared him to the Jewish community which shared with him the overriding commitment to the welfare state… In fact, so pervasive was Jewish influence in Roosevelt's experiments to socialize America that the pejorative epithet 'Jew Deal' became popular among anti-Semitic elements."

Leftist Jews pioneered the ideological plague that Christians and conservatives abhor as "20th century liberalism." They created the Hollywood movie industry and later "Big Three" TV networks and dominate the largest New York publishing houses and periodicals, as well as many of the largest newspapers nationwide. (See Jews Confirm Big Media Is Jewish) Shapiro confirms that today their ideological descendants consciously intend to change the morals of the primarily Gentile, even Christian public. They want to normalize permissive liberal values and undermine Christian civilization so that their own Judaic new world order might overlay it. Leonard Goldberg, producer of Charlie's Angels, told Shapiro flatly that you must be liberal to work in big media. He said liberalism is "100 percent dominant, and anyone who denies it is kidding, or not telling the truth."

The mainstream rightwing in America will not touch the fact of Jewish animus against Christianity, in big media or anywhere else. Instead, partial truth-tellers like Ben Shapiro are exalted as our conservative Jewish brethren, proving by their existence that Judaism is basically friendly toward Christian culture. And so the lie continues.

People have a moderate regard for right and wrong, justice and injustice. But they choose safety over truth every time. Shapiro is yet another example of this. Powerful, punitive groups like ADL and SPLC would be quick to punish him if he wrote about the real nature of the liberal animus against Christianity. Motivations from within and without crush any such true critique.

Jewish media aggressively devours freedom and Christian values incrementally, giving us enough time to rationalize and adjust to the loss. Yes, people know something is definitely wrong but they have been instilled with a greater concern: fear of being socially punished for anti-Semitism, a term Jewish leaders have established as almost as evil as child molestation.

It is sad that Shapiro will build his career on massive cover-up of Jewish control of the media – censorship expected by conservative leadership. It is sad also to see such leadership praising him as if he had done something profound and courageous.

It is clearly up to the enlightened minority to speak the whole truth about the religious/ethnic identity of the bold assault launched against us – while there is time. Let us follow the pattern of Jesus who said, "I must work while it is yet day. The night cometh when no man can work." (John 9:4)

Footnotes:

Encyclopedia Judaica "Motion Pictures," pg. 449. "Thus all the large Hollywood companies, with the exception of United Artists (a distributing company established by Hollywood actors who feared that the big producers would restrict their artistic freedom), were founded and controlled by Jews. In addition, the first bank to finance the filming industry was the Jewish-owned Kuhn, Loeb and Co., in 1919.
Jewish Encyclopedia "Socialism," pg. 420.

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Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.

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YET ANOTHER MOSQUE IS SET ABLAZE IN THE NAME OF 'KOSHER TERRORISM'

desertpeace | June 9, 2011 at 15:44 | Categories: Associate Post, Collective Punishment, Ethnic Cleansing, Extremism, Hate crimes, Israel, Palestine | URL: http://wp.me/pahWK-6gd

Terror and murder don't suddenly become kosher when committed by Jews.

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Zionist Jews can't codone mosque-burning in West Bank and then complain about anti-Semitism

By Khalid Amayreh

On Tuesday, 7 June, illegal Jewish settlers under the full protection of the Israeli army set fire to yet another mosque in the occupied West Bank, the fifth in less than two years. Responsibility for security in all of the villages where these attacks took place lies exclusively with the Israeli army.

The settlers' terrorism was not, as one might think, an attack in revenge for something done by Palestinians. According to Israeli sources, the arson attack was part of the so-called "price-tag policy", whereby Jewish settlers vandalise Palestinian property in response to the dismantling by the Israeli security forces of newly-built settler outposts (illegal even by Israeli standards) on the hills of the West Bank. In addition to burning houses of worship, the fanatical settlers have set fire to Palestinian cornfields and olive groves. They have also placed time-bombs in Arab schools, especially in the Jerusalem area. Despite the shocking frequency of these acts, the Israeli security forces have failed to arrest a single perpetrator.

Some observers attribute this failure to collusion between the Israeli occupation army, which controls every nook and cranny of the West Bank, and the settlers. It is well known that settlers and settler sympathizers have infiltrated Israel's army and justice system, so much so that settlers feel free to commit acts of terrorism in the knowledge that they are unlikely to face arrest, prosecution and punishment for their crimes.

Although some Israeli officials have condemned the mosque-burning, it is clear that these grave terrorist acts, which could spark off a religious conflagration, have failed to raise any eyebrows in the increasingly self-absorbed wider Israeli-Jewish society; nor, indeed, among the activists of the Israel Lobby in the West. Interestingly, most of Israel's rabbis have either maintained their silence in the face of such abominations or made tendentious statements blaming the Israeli government for "forcing the settlers to lose their patience and behave the way they did". The less PR-savvy settler politicians, including lawmakers, blame the Palestinians brazenly for bringing the attacks upon themselves. Unfortunately, Zionist rabbis, unlike their anti-Zionist peers, invoke a thousand falsehoods and "red herrings" to justify these unjustifiable attacks against innocent Muslims and Christians.

I don't intend to hold any Jew legally responsible for the evil committed by a few terrorist settlers. However, I believe strongly that all Jews have a moral obligation to condemn those who commit arson and murder in the name of Jews everywhere; even, in fact, in the name of Judaism. In the final analysis, terror is terror, regardless of the religious identity of the perpetrators and victims. Terror and murder don't suddenly become kosher when committed by Jews.

I also believe that the failure of most rabbinical circles to condemn Zionist-Jewish terror against Muslim houses of worship contributes to the rise of anti-Semitism. Perhaps that is their aim, as Zionism as an ideology depends on anti-Semitism to justify its aims, objectives and methodology. Could this also be the ultimate goal of the fanatical thugs who believe that non-Jews are children of a lesser God and whose lives, therefore, have no value? Today in Israel there are respected rabbinic authorities of immense influence who advocate the worst kind of racism against non-Jews merely for being Gentiles.

Some of these figures have published religious edicts which permit the killing of "children of the enemy", claiming that according to Halacha, or Jewish religious law, there is no such a thing as "enemy civilians", especially during wartime. One rabbi who is especially notorious for his genocidal theology released a religious ruling stating that Jews may kill hundreds of thousands, even millions, of Gentiles in order to save Israeli soldiers. Ovadia Yosef, the religious mentor of Shas, one of the largest religious-right political parties in Israel, has declared that all non-Jews are basically donkeys and beasts of burden whom the Almighty created so that they would serve the chosen people. For the latter, read master race. I thought that this kind of language perished with the Nazis. Obviously, I was mistaken.

Such sinister statements, even from the lips of an elderly and allegedly senile clergyman, are not anecdotal or amusing and ought to be treated with the utmost gravity since they encourage racism. Imagine if you can how Jewish circles might react if a prominent Muslim leader in London, or New York, declared all non-Muslims to be less than human beings.

Not surprisingly, Muslims are not the only victims of Zionist Jewish terror and racism. In recent months, there have been several attempts by Jewish settlers to burn down churches in Jerusalem. The settlers' religious hostility towards Christians, Christianity and Jesus exceeds by far their hostility to Islam. Some settlers, for example, believe that Jesus is the most evil being ever created and upon uttering or hearing his name recite, "May his name be damned and memory erased". One settler leader, who is also a rabbi, once referred to Christ as "the Hitler of Bethlehem".

Some people might think that words, even such emotionally-charged words, are innocuous. But words can and do kill. The path to the Holocaust began with words, and we all know how that ended.

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