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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Anti-Semitism Rears Its Ugly Head Again In Germany.


German Jewish Leader Warns That Jews May Require Police Protection As Anti-Semitism Escalates


Former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch claims that Jews are increasingly under threat in public and may require police protection to lead a normal life without harassment and violence.

Ms Knobloch, who is now the President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, said that Jews are increasingly under threat, Die Welt reports.
“Aggressive anti-Semitism, from verbal hostility on the Internet and in the analogue world to desecration and destruction to physical attacks are commonplace in Germany,” she said.
“Jewish life can only take place in public under police protection and the strictest security precautions, or it must be completely cancelled for security reasons,” Knobloch added.
The Jewish leader spoke about several recent anti-semitic cases including the vandalism of a Menorah in the city of Heilbronn, and the cancellation of a public Menorah lighting in Mülheim/Ruhr due to security issues.“Anti-Semitism is strengthening on the right and the left, in the Muslim community and also in the middle of society. That’s why we need an anti-Semitism commissioner,” Knobloch said, requesting that the German Federal government appoint an official with “strong powers”.
Many have blamed the influx of Muslim migrants under Chancellor Angela Merkel for the growth in anti-Semitic incidents. Fashion mogul Karl Lagerfeld blamed  Ms Merkel directly earlier this year, saying: “One cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews and then bring millions of their worst enemies in their place.”


In a survey of Jews in Germany, many said that most of the violent attacks they experienced came from Muslims, while far-right and far-left attacks were mostly limited to verbal harassment or harassment online.
After U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would be moving the U.S. Israeli embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the city as the capital of Israel, Germany saw anti-Semitic protests which were denounced by the Chancellor and her government.
Despite the opposition to the protests, some, like German police union head Rainer Wendt, slammed Merkel.
“The same politicians who continue this immigration and deportation drama by illegally allowing in more and more foreigners from the most anti-Semitic region of the world and not even deporting the offenders among them, then proclaim that they are doing everything against anti-Semitism,” Wendt observed.

New York City Will Be Locked Down Tomorrow Night

Security in Times Square on New Year's Eve

Security in Times Square on New Year's Eve will be even tighter than in 2016, authorities said on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. (Credit: Steven Sunshine)

The Clerics In Iran Are Facing The People Again

BACKLASH: Here’s What’s Behind The Massive Protests In Iran

“The people are begging, the clerics act like God.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Iran on Friday to protest rising prices and corruption in Iran’s Islamic government. The protests included calls of “Death to the dictator.”
The protests began on Thursday and are thought to have originated on social media, BuzzFeed News reports. Initially, the protests, comprised of adults mostly under 40, started over economic issues as Iran unemployment rate rose by 1.4 percent from last year to 12.4 percent overall, but quickly turned political as demonstrators reportedly called “for freedom of political prisoners and even an end to the clerical regime.”
A report from Reuters noted the following highlights from the protests:
  • About 300 demonstrators gathered in Kermanshah after what Fars said was a “call by the anti-revolution.” They shouted: “Political prisoners should be freed” and “Freedom or death”, and some public property was destroyed. Fars did not name any opposition groups.
  • Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators yelling, “The people are begging, the clerics act like God.”
  • Social media videos also showed demonstrators chanting “Leave Syria, think about us”, criticizing Iran’s military and financial support for Assad.
  • Tehran backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country’s civil war, Shi‘ite militias in Iraq, Houthi rebels in Yemen and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group.
  • Some social media videos showed demonstrators chanting “Death to Rouhani” and “Death to the dictator”. Protests were also held in at least two other northeastern cities.
Pro-government protests are scheduled for Saturday to commemorate a crackdown on reformists in 2009 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and its Basij militia. Regarding the current protests in Iran, The Revolutionary Guard said, “The Iranian nation ... will not allow the country to be hurt.”
Several videos emerged on social media of the protests that showed demonstators peacefully protesting Iran’s government, which is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism – something that former President Barack Obama supported when he ended a massive federal in

Krauthammer Warning Is Important Reading

Subject: Krauthammer    warning

 
An interesting article from the New York Post,   by Dr. Charles Krauthammer. Please read it if time permits, and pass it  on should you agree with the content.
     



An article from the   New York   Post:
by
Charles   Krauthammer
 
I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years  ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one               of our former presidents set up a group called "Organizing for Action" (OFA).
 
OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s  administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our         Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of                governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established  government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to                follow our laws?
 
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with  judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage    could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!
Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration  promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his                administration's top dogs over to Organizing for Action.
OFA is behind the strategic  and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically                active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
OFA is dedicated to  organizing communities for "progressive" change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality,  climate change, and of course, immigration  reform.
OFA members were propped up  by the ex-president's message from the shadows: "Organizing is the  building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities            and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond."
OFA's website says it obtained its "digital" assets from the ex-president's re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the                shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down                the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald  Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will                command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White                House."
Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA,    which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.
Think about how this  works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant  groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence                follows. All of this happens from the ex-president's signal that he is heartened by the protests.
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
 
So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We  are becoming a "PERFECT TARGET" for our enemy!
 
Charles   Krauthammer

Maybe This Time The US Will Support Those Who Want Change In Iran

New economic protests in Tehran challenge Iran’s government

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.
The demonstrations appear to be the largest to strike the Islamic Republic since the protests that followed the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election.
Thousands already have taken to the streets of cities across Iran, beginning at first on Thursday in Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city and a holy site for Shiite pilgrims.
The protests in the Iranian capital, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump tweeting about them, raised the stakes. It also apparently forced state television to break its silence, acknowledging it hadn’t reported on them on orders from security officials.
“Counterrevolution groups and foreign media are continuing their organized efforts to misuse the people’s economic and livelihood problems and their legitimate demands to provide an opportunity for unlawful gatherings and possibly chaos,” state TV said.
The protests appear sparked by social media posts and a surge in prices of basic food supplies, like eggs and poultry. Officials and state media made a point Saturday of saying Iranians have the right to protest and have their voices heard on social issues.
However, protesters in Tehran on Saturday chanted against high-ranking government officials and made other political statements, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Hundreds of students and others joined a new economic protest at Tehran University, with riot police massing at the school’s gates as they shut down surrounding roads.
Fars also said protests on Friday also struck Qom, a city that is the world’s foremost center for Shiite Islamic scholarship and home to a major Shiite shrine.
Social media videos purport to show clashes between protesters and police in several areas. At least 50 protesters have been arrested since Thursday, authorities said. State TV also said some protesters chanted the name of Iran’s one-time shah, who fled into exile just before its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Earlier Saturday, hard-liners rallied across the country to support Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and others. The rallies, scheduled weeks earlier, commemorated a mass 2009 pro-government rally challenging those who rejected the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amid fraud allegations.
State TV aired live the pro-government “9 Dey Epic” rallies, named for the date on the Iranian calendar the 2009 protests took place. The footage showed people waving flags and carrying banners bearing Khamenei’s image.
In Tehran, some 4,000 people gathered at the Musalla prayer ground in central Tehran for the rally. They called for criminal trials for Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, leaders in the 2009 protests who have been under house arrest since 2011. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose administration struck the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, campaigned on freeing the men, though they remain held.
Mohsen Araki, a Shiite cleric who serves in Iran’s Assembly of Experts, praised Rouhani’s efforts at improving the economy. However, he said Rouhani needed to do more to challenge “enemy pressures.”
“We must go back to the pre-nuclear deal situation,” Araki said. “The enemy has not kept with its commitments.”
Ali Ahmadi, a pro-government demonstrator, blamed the U.S for all of Iran’s economic problems.
“They always say that we are supporting Iranian people, but who should pay the costs?” Ahmadi asked.
Iran’s economy has improved since the nuclear deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the end of some of the international sanctions that crippled its economy. Tehran now sells its oil on the global market and has signed deals for tens of billions of dollars of Western aircraft.
That improvement has not reached the average Iranian, however. Unemployment remains high. Official inflation has crept up to 10 percent again. A recent increase in egg and poultry prices by as much as 40 percent, which a government spokesman has blamed on a cull over avian flu fears, appears to have been the spark for the economic protests.
While police have arrested some protesters, the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and its affiliates have not intervened as they have in other unauthorized demonstrations since the 2009 election. The economic protests initially just put pressure on Rouhani’s administration.
Early on Saturday, Trump tweeted out his support for the protests.
“Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption & its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad,” he wrote. “Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching! (hashtag) IranProtests.”
It’s unclear what effect Trump’s support would have. Iranians already are largely skeptical of him over his refusal to re-certify the nuclear deal and Iran being included in his travel bans. Trump’s insistence in an October speech on using the term “Arabian Gulf” in place of the Persian Gulf also has also riled the Iranian public.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s comments in June to Congress saying American is working toward “support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government” has been used by Iran’s government of a sign of foreign interference in its internal politics.
The State Department issued a statement Friday supporting the protests, referencing Tillerson’s earlier comments.
“Iran’s leaders have turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos,” the statement said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the comments.
“The noble Iranian nation never pays heed to the opportunist and hypocritical mottos chanted by the U.S. officials and their interfering allegations on domestic developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the state-run IRNA news agency quoted ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying.
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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

So Much For Global Warming

THE BIG FREEZE 

Sharks freeze and Niagara Falls turns to ice in -37C temperatures colder than MARS as America braces for the chilliest New Year’s Eve in 50 years

Extreme cold descends of much of the United States as 220million Americans wrap up for coldest New Year in living memory
THE US is colder than the surface of Mars and Niagara Falls has turned to ice as temperatures plummet to record-breaking lows — leading to frozen sharks washing up on the beach.
It is set to be the coldest New Year in living memory as 220 million Americans wrap up to face lows of -37 degrees Celsius.
 Niagara Falls froze over as temperatures plummeted across the United States
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Niagara Falls froze over as temperatures plummeted across the United States
 Lows are being forecast well into the minus figures even in Fahrenheit this weekend
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Lows are being forecast well into the minus figures even in Fahrenheit this weekend
The crippling cold has brought transit systems grinding to a halt in Boston while there were 30 crashes in one Michigan county alone on Friday morning due to treacherous icy roads.
Fountains froze over in New York where New Years Eve partygoers are being warned to lay off the booze and bring some hand warmers to see the famous big ball drop in Times Square as forecasters say it will hit -11C.
The National Weather Service has warned of hypothermia and frostbite across the country.
A dog in Ohio was found frozen solid on a front porch — while three Atlantic White Sharks have been found frozen solid having been washed up on Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts over the last three days.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said: "We hauled the shark off the beach and it is currently thawing at NOAA Fisheries Service to be dissected later. A true sharkcicle!".
A temperature of -35C was recorded in Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire — the highest peak in the northeastern United States — breaking a record set back in 1933.
 A shark was found frozen solid on a Massachusetts beach amid the record-breaking temperatures
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A shark was found frozen solid on a Massachusetts beach amid the record-breaking temperatures
 The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said it had found three dead thresher sharks stranded on the shore of the Cape Cod Bay in Brewster, south of Boston, in the last three days
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The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said it had found three dead thresher sharks stranded on the shore of the Cape Cod Bay in Brewster, south of Boston, in the last three days
 Temperatures reached a crippling -37C in New Hampshire, while Niagara Falls in New York State froze
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Temperatures reached a crippling -37C in New Hampshire, while Niagara Falls in New York State froze
 The landmark looked more like Narnia as ice formed across the waterfall
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The landmark looked more like Narnia as ice formed across the waterfall
 Tourists try to keep out the cold as they look over the picturesque scene in Niagara Falls
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Tourists try to keep out the cold as they look over the picturesque scene in Niagara Falls
Such is the extreme cold that some parts of the US are chillier than the surface of Mars.
Data from the Curiosity Rover, which is roaming the red planet, shows temperatures there reached a comparatively balmy -23C on December 20.
Niagara Falls looked more like Narnia as the landmark which straddles the on the border between New York State and Canada froze over.
But the picturesque scenes do not mask the danger as the cold has already been blamed for a handful of deaths.
 Two chilly women pose for a selfie in front of the frozen fountain in New York's Central Park
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Two chilly women pose for a selfie in front of the frozen fountain in New York's Central Park
 Pedestrians wrap up warm ahead of forecasted temperatures as low as -11C on New Years Eve
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Pedestrians wrap up warm ahead of forecasted temperatures as low as -11C on New Years Eve
 Snowfall is sweeping across much of the north east United States
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Snowfall is sweeping across much of the north east United States
An 83-year-old woman died from exposure to the cold after crashing her car in eastern South Dakota.
Meanwhile, organisers are being forced to cancel a long list of New Year's celebrations.
Already winter-weary parts of the nation are dealing with a mounting number of weather-related headaches, from highway pileups to frozen pipes and a rash of car thefts.
Police in the Cincinnati area say a half-dozen cars have been stolen in recent days after being left running unattended by owners trying to warm them up.
Woman tries to kayak down snowy slope in Erie, after record snowfall in Pennsylvania