Mar 17 2015

Two Warnings

Thomas Sowell | Mar 17, 2015

This is one smart American that should be listened to!

When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister Winston Churchill.

The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. Both warned the world of mortal dangers that others ignored, in hopes that those dangers would go away. In the years leading up to World War II, Churchill tried to warn the British, and the democratic nations in general, of what a monstrous threat Hitler was.

Despite Churchill’s legendary status today, he was not merely ignored but ridiculed at the time, when he was repeatedly warning in vain. Knowing that his warnings provoked only mocking laughter in some quarters, even among some members of his own party, he said on March 14, 1938 in the House of Commons, “Laugh but listen.”

Just two years later, with Hitler’s planes bombing London, night after night, the laughter was gone. Many at the time thought that Britain itself would soon be gone as well, like other European nations that succumbed to the Nazi blitzkrieg in weeks (like France) or days (like Holland).

How did things get to such a desperate situation, with Britain alone continuing the fight, and struggling to survive, against the massive Nazi war machine that now controlled much of the material resources on the continent of Europe?

Things got that desperate by following policies strikingly similar to the policies being followed by the Western democracies today, including some of the very same notions and catchwords being used today.

Just recently, a State Department official in the Obama administration said that Americans have remained safe in a nuclear age, not because of our own nuclear arsenal but because “we created an intricate and essential system of treaties, laws and agreements.”

If “treaties, laws and agreements” produced peace, there would never have been a Second World War. The years leading up to that monumental catastrophe were filled with international treaties and arms control agreements.

The Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War, imposed strong restrictions on Germany’s military forces — on paper. The Washington Naval Agreements of 1922 imposed restrictions on all the major naval powers of the world — on paper. The Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928 created an international renunciation of war — on paper.

The Munich agreement of 1938 produced a paper with Hitler’s signature on it that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waved to the cheering crowds when he returned to England, and said that it meant “Peace for our time.” Less than a year later, World War II began.

Winston Churchill never bought any of this. He understood that military deterrence was what preserved peace. With England playing a leadership role in Europe, “England’s hour of weakness is Europe’s hour of danger,” he said in the House of Commons in 1931.

Today, with the Obama administration “leading from behind” — in practice, not leading at all — we see in Ukraine and the Middle East what that produces.

As for disarmament, Churchill said in 1932, “Alone among the nations we have disarmed while others have rearmed.”

Today, the United States has that dubious and reckless distinction. Our pacifists, like those in England during the 1930s, argue that we should disarm to “induce parallel” behavior by others. In England between the two World Wars, the rhetoric was that they should disarm “as an example to others.”

Whether others would follow that example was just as dubious then as it is today. While Russia and China increased the share of their national output that went to military spending in 2014, the United States reduced its share. Churchill deplored the “inexhaustible gullibility” of disarmament advocates in 1932. That gullibility is still not exhausted in 2015.

“Not one of the lessons of the past has been learned, not one of them has been applied, and the situation is incomparably more dangerous,” Churchill said in 1934. And every one of those words is more urgently true today, in a nuclear age.

Mar 17 2015

Orwellian nightmare unleashed on schoolkids Teachers now thought police with extreme new spy ‘tools’Orwellian nightmare unleashed on schoolkids Teachers now thought police with extreme new spy ‘tools’

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Leo Hohmann is a news editor for WND. He has been a reporter and editor at several suburban newspapers in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, areas and also served as managing editor of Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Technology is increasingly being used by schools to gather data on students, testing not just their knowledge of subjects like reading, math and science but subjective “social skills.”

Parents and students have been “opting out” of high-stakes testing in record numbers over the past year, saying the standardized tests waste valuable instruction time, cause undue stress and often measure “skills” that have nothing to do with academic knowledge.

Rather than merely asking for a right or wrong answer to a math, history or science question, the new assessment industry is capable of boring into a child’s attitudes, values, opinions and beliefs, all of which parents and privacy advocates say is no business of the government’s.

The pushback has led some state education systems to recommend a reduction in the amount of high-stakes testing in public schools.

But, parents beware, the sudden realization that maybe too much testing is going on is not going to lead to less data being collected. Quite the opposite.

In fact, traditional testing may no longer be needed. Schools have found they have better, more efficient ways to collect even more data on your child, without resorting to paper and sharpened No. 2 pencils.

Oregon’s Gov. John Kitzhaber, for instance, assigned a task force to this problem recently and after a year of private meetings, the group is ready to unveil its recommendations which are expected to include replacing standardized tests with high-tech “observation” tools.

Fewer tests might sound like a relief to stressed-out students and wary parents.

But what if your child’s teacher could have access to a software application that allows her to collect data on your child in real time, without ever rolling out a test?

Enter the BOSS app. It is just one of countless new data-collection products available to school systems looking to collect data on the sneak.

BOSS stands for Behavioral Observation of Students in Schools. The app was designed to “enable psychologists to observe” patients but is now being marketed to schools interesting in tracking students’ behavioral patterns.

Created by the British-based textbook giant Pearson, the BOSS app can be loaded onto a smartphone and used to secretly monitor every move of targeted students in the classroom.

Does little Johnny fidget in his seat a bit too much? Does he socialize with the students around him in an appropriate manner? Does he tend to stare aimlessly out the window when he should be paying attention to the teacher?

All of this information can be pulled in and stored in an individual dossier for later analyzing and assigned an intervention and remediation that will deal with Johnny’s shortcomings, whether they be laziness, lack of assertiveness, over-aggressiveness or whatever psychological problem the app may discover.

BOSS app can be downloaded from iTunes for $29.99 and comes in age-appropriate versions from pre-K through 12th grade. The product description boasts that BOSS is able to “record students’ behaviors in real time. The BOSS software uses interactive buttons labeled to a particular behavior for the observer to press while observing a student during a given duration. The software keeps track of the amount of times a behavioral button is depressed during an observation.”

The app tracks “a student’s active or passive engagement in activities” and will collect data and email it to the teacher “for future use to help support a disability diagnosis,” the Pearson promotional material states.

The BOSS app is not the only new technology percolating in the education industry that has the ability to invisibly assess students in real time without their knowledge, or the knowledge of their parents.

Below is a small sampling of other apps being marketed to educators:

You Can Handle Them All app• “You Can Handle Them All”: This app, produced by Master Teacher, describes 124 behaviors that teachers may encounter in their students and identifies the primary cause of each. A teacher using this app places each student into a category, with options that include “The Blabbermouth,” “The Blurter,” “The Boss,” “The Bully,” “The Complainer,” “The Disengaged” and “The Class Clown.” It then prompts the teacher with suggestions on how to remedy each unwanted behavior.

• “Pearson Dash”: Another product by Pearson, Dash, according to the iTunes product description, enables teachers to “Organize and track your students” according to classroom seating charts, to “record, edit, and e-mail observational notes on your students,” to “View student performance and mastery of skills with SuccessTracker data.”

• “What Would You Do at School If”: This app focuses squarely on social skills. Put out by Super Duper Publications, it seeks to elicit answers to sensitive, revealing questions that help schools develop a psychological profile on each student. Instead of a test, this app is presented to a young child as a fun “game” while collecting data on the child’s parental upbringing and personality.

what would you do in school if“Select the cards you want students to see, and have them work on solving problems and practicing good social skills as they discuss situations in and around school,” the product description says. “The prompts include questions like, ‘What would you do if … you forgot your homework?’ and, ‘What would you do if … your classmate teased you about the new shirt you wore?’”

Students are then graded based on how many “right” answers they give in what is clearly a test of one’s attitudes, behaviors, values and beliefs. The problem with such questions, say privacy experts, is that the “right” answer is clearly subjective and has nothing to do with a student’s ability to acquire and retain objective academic knowledge.

For instance, a parent may teach a boy to defend a weaker boy or a girl who is getting beat up by a bully. But what if the “right” answer in the role playing game is to go and tell a teacher or principal? Will the child get marked down if he answers that he would intervene and physically stop the bully’s attack? What will the remediation for this “wrong” behavioral skill be?

According to promotional details on iTunes, the “What Would You Do at School If” app lets teachers:

• Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players.

• Receive feedback for incorrect and/or correct responses

• View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session.

• Print, E-mail and share your results.

The same vendor, Super Duper Publications, puts out a separate app called “Super Duper Data Tracker” that allows teachers to “increase the accuracy and efficiency of your data collection” on each individual student.

There are literally dozens of these apps out there being downloaded by teachers, often at the behest of administrators, and many of them come tailored to the Common Core national education standards.

One teacher who reviewed the Super Duper Data Tracker on iTunes said he liked it but wished the data came with increased portability and could be more easily integrated into other platforms.

“It would also be great if this was tied to a website where teachers had an account and could input large amounts of data on something other than the small screen or tempermental (sic) keyboard of an iPad/iPhone,” the teacher said. “Then everything would be backed up, we could share data with other team members (especially in situations where many people see one student!). It is a great app, I just think in the day of icloud and spreadsheets it is BEGGING for a big overhaul.”

Playing video ‘games’

Another hot trend is using role-playing computer games to assess students. The games would be programmed to scoop up data based on every reaction the child has to the challenges presented in the game. The questions could then be changed “on the fly” to probe areas of weakness and collect more data.

One of these games, called the MineCraft Behavioral Improvement Plan, can be programmed to pose a series of ethical dilemmas to which students are asked to respond. It has the ability to adjust the line of questioning depending on the student’s answer to the original set of questions.

“How is it legal or even remotely ethical for untrained teachers to be expected to use devices like these to assess the psychological status of your child?” asks Charlotte Iserbyt, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan’s Education Department and now a blogger on education issues at The ABCs of Dumb Down.

Iserbyt calls the replacement of high-stakes testing with high-tech data-collecting a “bait and switch” tactic that many parents won’t pick up on.

As one YouTube instructional video cited by Iserbyt explains about the personified video games, “We know whenever you click. We know how long you stood waiting to make a jump. We can take in vast amounts of data and if we want, dynamically alter the experience [of the student] based on that data.”

The New York Times recently reported that MineCraft is highly addictive and can quickly become an obsession for many students. Schools around the world are taking advantage. Schools in Stockholm, Sweden, for instance, made the game mandatory for 13-year-old students to learn about sustainable city planning and environmental issues.

While these games might have some value if programmed to build and evaluate students’ knowledge of math equations or science principles, they could be dangerously invasive when used to gauge students’ personalities, ethical responses, political views and emotional makeup.

All of the above apps and games are marketed for use on students in general-instruction classrooms, not just students in special-ed classes with known, serious behavioral problems.

Privacy advocates say technology meant to collect data on a student’s academic knowledge is one thing, but they question whether teachers should be acting like psychologists and collecting data on a student’s “social skills” and personality traits?

Some critics are sounding the alarm that schools will be building a psychological dossier on their students through the use of this technology, and they are starting to ask questions.

Who will have access to this data besides the teacher in the classroom who is collecting it? Where will the data ultimately be stored and for how long?

Who ultimately owns a child’s private data? The school, the school system, the state or the parents? And who has the right to view it?

Will this data be made available to any third-party contractors outside the school, the school district or the state? President Obama took executive action to weaken the FERPA (Family Education Rights and Protection Act) in 2011 giving third-party contractors access to some student data, lending more reason for concern among parents.

And what rules will be set to make sure these new tools are transparent for parents who actually want to know what their children are being taught or tested on?

Iserbyt poses a chilling question:

“If parents can’t even get a hard copy of the current high stakes assessments that their children are taking now, how are they EVER going to get evidence, much less be aware of, the assessments given to their children via computer games or teacher smart phone apps based on a child’s experiential or project-based work, or any of the other invisible assessment model coming down the pike?”

So far, at least, the jury is out on all these questions.

Mar 17 2015

38 Principles of Self-Sufficiency

Very Good Advice here.

Mar 17 2015

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Mar 15 2015

The Pieces for America’s Imminent Red Dawn Are In Place

By Dave Hodges | March 13, 2015 5:44 am

On Thursday night, airing on Randy Yarbrough’s radio show on 1360AM out of Johnstown, Colorado, Dr. Walker Todd [3]called in into the show and offered a stunning prediction. Dr. Todd stated that the U.S. economy has about “60-90 days of life left in it as the dollar is on the verge of collapse”.

The dire prediction from only man would not ordinarily carry much weight, however, Dr. Todd was an economic consultant with 20 years of experience at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York[4] and the Federal Reseve Bank of Cleveland[5]. He is also a member of the Cato Institute[6]‘s new Center for Monetary Financial Alternatives as one of its Adjunct Scholars. Given his background, his expressed opinions should be given very serious consideration.

If Dr. Todd’s prediction is accurate, this fits in with what other sources are saying is coming in the very near future. It has always been my position that a false flag even would be used as a pretext to invoke martial law. Martial law would then be used as the excuse to begin gun confiscation. Gun confiscation will be used disarm American citizens prior to subjugating the country by using foreign mercenaries in what could be labeled as a “Red Dawn” scenario.

All News Pipeline

Stefan Stanford from All News Pipeline[7] has been quick to point out that the movie miniseries, Amerika, portrays the Soviet Union conducting a bloodless takeover of our country. This was a takeover made easy by the apathy of Americans to defend freedom as clearly stated by the Soviet leader in the movie: “It (the coup) worked because you lost your country before we ever got h[8]ere”. The more things change, the more they say the same.

It is highly recommended that all Americans watch this movie about the country we would could soon be “fundamentally transformed” into, Amerika. It is chilling to watch the parallels of this 1987 miniseries and what is taking place now with ever increasing rapidity.

Through a series of Executive Orders, President Obama has rendered Congress to be an impotent body. Here, in the move, Amerika, the President of Amerika, enacts the final solution against Congressional interference against the communist takeover of our country.

Senator Lindsay Graham is now advocating for a military dictatorship on the eve of some very ominous events which lie in our immediate future.

Red Dawn

[10] Let’s dust off some old evidence from last year when a rash of UN vehicles were being spotted as they were being transported to places unknown inside the United States. In retrospect, it is clear that these vehicles are being stored for future use.

Given what is to be revealed in the rest of the article, these UN vehicles were being transported to staging areas in preparation for a later roll out, such as the implementation of a real Red Dawn scenario.

What Lies Ahead?

As I have written multiple times, America will be taken down according to the following scenario: (1) A false flag, more than likely a scenario resulting in economic collapse and the destruction of the dollar. This is in line with what Dr. Todd stated on the radio on March 12, 2015; (2) The implementation of martial law, perhaps involving the use of foreign troops; and (3) All out conflict.

There are clear economic, political and military reasons why the Russians would want to occupy Alaska. My interest in this topic surfaced quite serendipitously as a couple of listeners to my radio program sent me information on the Agenda 21 invasion of small Alaska communities, and oh, by the way, they also reported that they were seeing Russian troops in their respective communities. The adjacent maps reveals the towns where Russian troops, or there is a large contingency of Russian civilians in Alaska.

[12]The sighting of Russian troops in small Alaskan towns such Ketchikan, Alaska, got my undivided attention. Ketchikan is the southeastern most city in Alaska. With an estimated population of 8,050. Ketchikan is the fifth-most populous city in the state. Another area where there are civilian sightings of Russian troops is in Sitka, Alaska. The City of Sitka, formerly, New Archangel under Russian rule, is located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean. Additionally, one military veteran reports seeing Russian submarines, on a frequent basis, just off the coast. Further, there are civilian reports of Russian vehicles and troops moving through Alaska north of Anchorage. Because of the multiplicity of the reports, these are indeed verifiable, reported accounts of Russian troops on American soil.

The presence of Russian troops on American soil is very troublesome. America does not need to rely on the anecdotal accounts of Alaskan civilians to be concerned about the presence of Russian troops on American soil. Russian commandos are also “training” at Fort Carson[14], in Colorado Springs.

There are additional reports of Russians in and around the Alaskan town of Wasilla.

I have learned, from multiple sources that the Russians have moved at least one, and probably two divisions of troops into the Eastern Arctic, just outside of Alaska. This dovetails with another Russian military/political actions in recent times as we know that the Russians have established a very large presence in the Arctic, just above Alaska.

Russian troops are amassing just East of Alaska and to the North in the Southern Arctic.

I have also learned that Russians, in large numbers have crossed over into Alaska. Many are in civilian clothes and many are being housed in several closed Alaskan military bases and abandoned motels. I am told that Russian troops are being maintained in the following two closed Alaskan bases.

Site Name	City	Type	NPL Status	BRAC Round Closure	Agency
Adak Naval Air Station[16]	Adak	NPL/BRAC	Final	4	US Navy
USARMY Fort Greely[17]	Fort Greely	BRAC	Pending	4	US Army

Further, it is not a secret that some of these forces have worked with DHS on abduction exercises in which hypothetical members of the Independent Media and uncooperative and influential politicians (i.e. just like the movie Amerika) are snatched by troops offloaded from low-flying helicopters in the middle of the night. These drills have been coordinated in multiple locations which leads one to believe that when this scenario is acted upon, these abductions will take place on the same night.

Former Soviet Union Defectors Have Warned US

Anatoliy Golitsyn, a high-ranking KGB defector who fled to the United States in order to warn Americans about the secret Russian plan to attack the United States. Golitsyn is generally considered to be among the first and most revealing on the subject of the secret Russian plans to attack. Having authored the The Perestroika Deception[23] in which Golitsyn wrote about the deceitful intent behind the Leninist strategy in which the present-day Communists are actively pursuing as they fake American style democratization efforts in Russia. According to Golitsyn, the short-term strategic objective of the Russians is to achieve a technological convergence with the West solely on Russian terms and mostly through a series of one-sided disarmament agreements. According to Golitsyn, after the United States military is eliminated as a strategic threat to Russia, the long-range strategic Russian plan is to pursue Lenin’s goal of replacing nation states with collectivist model of regional governments as a stepping stone to global governance. In order to achieve their final goal, Golitsyn[24] states that Russia, after lulling America to sleep, will join with China in order to attack the United States from both the outside and inside as he detailed that …the Soviets and the Chinese will be officially reconciled and enact a “scissors strategy” in which China will attack the US through the southern border and Russia through northern border by way of Alaska. As the reader will clearly see in the following paragraphs, Obama is the catalyst in making these long-range communist plans come to fruition. Has Obama already signed Amerika’s surrender papers?

Is Dr. Todd correct? Do we only have 60-90 days left before everything unravels?

Endnotes:

[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2014/08/CSS-Offical-New-Logo21.jpg
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2015/03/walker-todd.png
Dr. Walker Todd : http://www.freebanking.org/author/todd/
Federal Reserve Bank of New York: http://www.newyorkfed.org/
Federal Reseve Bank of Cleveland: http://www.clevelandfed.org/
Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org/
Stefan Stanford from All News Pipeline: http://allnewspipeline.com/index.php?pr=Home
“It (the coup) worked because you lost your country before we ever got h: https://www.timesforgottendvd.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=57
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2015/03/amerikacongress1.jpg
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2014/01/russia-attacks-america-red-dawn.jpg
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2014/07/un-military-vehicles.jpg
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/02/27/why-russia-needs-alaska/alaska-map-2/
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/russian-and-american-troops-at-fort-carson.jpg
Fort Carson: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/09/23/the-road-to-world-war-iii-runs-through-chicago/
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2015/03/wasilla.jpg
Adak Naval Air Station: http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=1000128
USARMY Fort Greely: http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=1001454
Wrangell Island: http://www.teaparty.org/russian-troops-are-on-us-soil-obama-is-caving-in-to-putin-26829/#sthash.DBzPZFKc.dpuf
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2015/03/russian-troops-landing-air-120.si_.jpg
[Image]: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2015/03/russian-troops-in-snow.jpg
Dmitry Medvedev: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/dmitry-medvedev
more lenient on nuclear issues: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/26/obama-medvedev-space-nuclear
The Perestroika Deception: http://www.spiritoftruth.org/The_Perestroika_Deception.pdf
Golitsyn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn

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Mar 15 2015

Why Jews in Israel Can’t Win Against their Arab Foes

By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

When I first visited Israel in 1972, I asked my host, a Harvard graduate, to tell me about the political science curriculum at Tel Aviv University. He told me it doesn’t include political theory, which is taught in the philosophy department. I was shocked, because this meant that Aristotle, the father of political science, who wrote treatises on 100 Greek polities, was not taught in Israel’s largest university.Imagine this: Aristotle wrote the first and most comprehensive work on Statesmanship. He also wrote two treatises on Ethics and the first systematic treatise on Rhetoric. He is the very man who taught Alexander the Great, who was a statesman as well as a conqueror. Nevertheless, this man, an unsurpassed architectonic genius, in comparison with whom Machiavelli’s knowledge of politics could be put on a postage stamp – this Aristotle, to date the world’s greatest political scientist, had no significant place in the curriculum of Israel’s political science departments, hence in the studies of those who became, or were to become, Israel’s policy makers and decision makers! Heaven help us! Let me offer only a few simple words about Aristotle on whom I have written an entire treatise contrasting him with the leading thinkers of modernity.As is well known, Aristotle set forth a six-fold classification of regimes: three just and three unjust, depending on whether or not the rulers ruled in the interest of the common good. Kingship, aristocracy, and “polity” were included in the good. Their degenerate forms, tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy, were included in the bad.Although kingship, for Aristotle, is the best regime in theory, one almost never finds a people with enough wisdom and virtue to construct such a regime. Aristotle therefore devotes a good deal of space in his treatise to what he deems the best regime in practice, a “mixed regime,” which he calls a “polity.” A polity, which I liken to a “Republic,” combines democracy, the rule of the poor (meaning, for Aristotle, those who have to work for a living), and oligarchy, the rule of the rich. However, our wise Aristotle weights his mixed regime somewhat toward democracy to ensure greater political stability and security. He thus prescribes a middle class regime that respects the rule of law to resolve disputes among its citizens and thus maximize justice.That Aristotle distinguishes between good and bad regimes is the basic reason why he is a virtual stranger to contemporary political science in the democratic world, including Israel and the United States, where the doctrine of moral relativism reigns supreme. This doctrine induces Israel, a democracy, to engage in the morally neutral policy of “conflict resolution” when dealing with the Palestinian Authority, a tyranny. Aristotle would say that this policy is morally perverse as well as politically futile, if not self-destructive.

But I know of no political scientist in Israel that would utter such a statement, and none should be expected given the moral relativism that underlies the teaching of political science in this country, as I have noted in books and many articles since 1976, both in English and in Hebrew translations, but which Israel newspapers have ignored, with one ephemeral and forgotten exception.

The exception was once reported, but never used to causally as well as logically explain the disastrous territorial policies of Israeli prime ministers, by the gifted editor and political analyst of The Jerusalem Post, Caroline B. Glick. Come with me back to the year 2003 and see how the subversive doctrine of moral relativism was manifested by Israel students at Israeli universities.

Ms. Glick addressed some 150 political science students at Tel Aviv University, where she spoke of her experience as an embedded reporter with the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division during the Iraq war. Any person not corrupted by moral relativism would favor, as she did, the U.S. over the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Yet the general attitude of her academic audience was expressed by a student who asked, “Who are you to make moral judgments?” Now ponder this exchange between Glick and a student who spoke with a heavy Russian accent:

Student: “How can you say that democracy is better than dictatorial rule?”

Glick: “Because it is better to be free than to be a slave.”

Student: “How can you support America when the U.S. is a totalitarian state?”

Glick: “Did you learn that in Russia?”

Student: “No, here.”

Glick: “Here at Tel Aviv University?”

Student: “Yes, that is what my professors say.”

Ms. Glick spoke at five liberal Israeli universities. She learned that all are dominated by moral relativists who indoctrinate their students and ban “politically incorrect” publications.

Ms. Glick did not have to elaborate by saying that moral relativism is undermining Israel’s struggle or conflict with morally confident – nay arrogant – Muslims that rule the Palestinian Authority. She could hardly be expected to anticipate the “two state solution” to this conflict, which Benjamin Netanyahu advocated on June 14, 2009, is a logical consequence of moral relativism.

Mr. Netanyahu is not a moral relativist, judging from a brief encounter I had with him some years ago. Nevertheless, he succumbed to the “two-state solution” advocated by the American State Department, whose officials, according to former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, are steeped in “moral equivalency,” the corollary of moral relativism. But this university-bred doctrine is one if not the basic reason why Jews can’t win against their Arab foes!

Mar 15 2015

UNDERSTANDING HUMANISM: Humanism is Founded on the Notions of Factual and Moral Relativism

Moral Relativism is one of the worst concepts ever thought up by man!

The Oil for Your Lamp

NOTE: this is a long post, but it connects many dots. Please consider reading it all the way through. It may help you see the bigger picture but, more importantly to me, it may help you provide me with additional pieces tot hat picture. — Thanks 🙂

Are you a member of a cult? Let me caution you against answering that question too quickly. First, ask yourself whether or not you believe there are such things as objective fact/reality and universal morality? If you do not, then there is a very good chance you have been indoctrinated by our schools and other supporting social institutions. You see, one of the main characteristics of a cult is mind control. We are all aware of a very common form of mind control, we just know it by another name: Political Correctness. But that is all Political Correctness is: a form of…

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Mar 15 2015

Republican Grover Norquist has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood!

Islamic (Double) Agent & Repub Power Broker, Grover Norquist: Alarm Bells Rung, Ignored!

ADINA KUTNICKI

KNOW this: if not for the fact that RINOS’s are in collusion with Islamic forces, much of HUSSEIN Obama’s Brotherhood infiltration and penetration could have been stopped. This is a fact.

BUT to understand where the onus lies, one must be willing to hold the so-called Repub leadership to account. Otherwise, just roll over and be done with it.

SHEEP’S in wolves clothing…

(Grover Norquist is a co-founder of a Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Islamic Free Market Institute!)

IT has been reported at these pages, on a multiplicity of occasions, that there are more than a few Islamic foxes in the Repub power base. But when one adds them to the laundry list in the Demster column the waters become very muddy. Indeed, some are “sympathizers” inside Congress, while others act as lobbyists, etc. Well paid whores.

THE fact is that some deserve a higher profile than others, although the list keeps growing. That’s just the way it is. Consider:

HOW corrosive is it when the actual House Intelligence Chair, Repub Rep. Mike Rogers – tasked to investigate Benghazigate – has a sordid nexus to the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia? Say what?

Those of us who are anticipating a measure of (long overdue) justic…

At the very least, is it too much to expect that a man of honor sits at the head of said committee, a leader who is capable of discerning justice? Asked and answered.

Alas, this is not the case, even though (Repub) Rep. Rogers was a former FBI Special Agent and should be able to smell the jihad. This blogger has more than a nose for their scents, therefore he has zero excuse. Zip and zilch. Agreed?

Nevertheless, like many Congressional reps, in tandem with other powerful players in tow, Rogers turns deaf, dumb and blind and plays footsie, even to the point of accepting a keynote address at a mobbed up Brotherhood event! Readers, it doesn’t even matter why. What is intrinsic is he in their pockets, one way or another.

Now, as dangerous as it is for any Congressional Rep. to be in bed with Islamists, expecting them to decouple is akin to whistling in the wind….removing pigs from their s*** is more likely. It ain’t gonna happen. Fruitless.

However, it’s an order of greater magnitude when the Chairman of the House Intelligence committee is cozy, currying favor, with the likes of those who “hob nob” with Islamists, Muslim-American (non-American too) leaders covering for Benghazigate terrorists. Can you imagine such Congressional conflict of interest, perhaps leading to treason? Indeed. Islamic foxes deep inside the hen house. Burrowed…

MOREOVER, another closer than close Muslim Brotherhood apologist/sympathizer is none other than (never gonna retire) Sen. McCain.

IN this regard, Hill and Huma’s fingerprints are all over the catapult of ISIS through its parent, the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia. Their thrust accelerated through Obama Inc.’s illegal war into Libya. Benghazigate.

AND lest anyone thought otherwise, Sen. McCain assisted ISIS’s rise into top dog status, therefore, their bloody swathe across the Mid East lands at his feet too. Yes, it does.MORE specifically, McCain’s admitted alliance/support to the so-called “rebels”, those who have pledged their allegiance to ISIS, cannot be overstated. Overlooked…

NOW that the above snakes in the grass have been identified, let’s turn our attention to one who is even more insidious, as he works the aisle as a mega power broker/deal maker, though never having been elected.

Enter, Grover Norquist, U.S. born and bred, Harvard educated (what a shock…) and married to a “Palestinian”. Quaint.

NOW, for sundry reasons he debuted (several times) at this site, yet, the following analysis was most notable:

NOT only that, but an omerta is in place to suppress anyone who dares point out the obvious; a pernicious beach head is implanted within America. Namely, a fifth column, via Muslim-American front groups, and those who support them are aided and abetted by Obama Inc.:Terrorists Intimidate GOP!

And, anyone foolish enough to believe that the RINO leadership will come to their rescue, well, good luck with that fantasy land meandering: Republican National Convention Heralded “Arab Spring” In Its Platform, Oblivious To The Unfolding Arab/Muslim Nightmare!

More specifically, between House Leader Rep Boehner, an addled bonehead and booze hound, and Repub political operative Grover Norquist, himself an Islamist, who exactly are Conservatives expecting to sound the (sleeper) alarms?…..(continue reading)

NEVERTHELESS, Norquist’s pet projects – entry tickets into his anti-American mischief, F/B/O the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia – ala Islamic infiltration and penetration are conducted under the guise of two umbrellas.

ONE trajectory is via his status as president ofAmericans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes tax increases. Well and good. In fact, it is a conservative principle which rallies around limited gov’t, etc. He understands the conservative economic base, and also how to theoretically drag along clueless Repubs. Demsters, on the other hand, are not the ones who need incentives toward the Islamic “way of thinking.”

HIS second thrust lies within being a co-founder of theIslamic Free Market Institute.

YET, to understand how deeply implicated Repubs are with the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia, is to follow the trail of Norquist and his influence peddling, both within the White House and every major power center in the Beltway.

In 1996, President Clinton won the Muslim-American vote, a growing minority that the Republican Party saw as an opportunity.

Two years later, Alamoudi dispatched his closest aide, Khaled Saffuri, to team up with an extremely influential Republican activist named Grover Norquist to form the Islamic Free Market Institute. He has been called the “most powerful man in America” because of his ability to make Republican congressmen and candidates bend to his anti-tax platform. Suhail Khan also joined as chairman and a board member.

Saffuri had personal ties of his own to the Brotherhood lobby beyond Alamoudi. He has worked with Jamal Barzinji, one of the main founders of the network, since 1988. The FBI’s source around that time mentioned Barzinji by name as aMuslim Brotherhood operative trying to influence U.S. policy.

He remains a senior IIIT official and his home was raided in 2003 as part of a terrorism investigation. Special Agent David Kane said Barzinji “is not only closely associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.”

The evidence suggests that Norquist’s passion was triggered by a personal conversion to Islam. His wife, Samah, is a devout Muslim. In 2008, they adopted a Palestinian baby from Bethlehem. When asked by author Paul Sperry if he converted, Norquist dodged the question by saying it is “personal”…(read the whole thing!!)

IN this regard the evidence keeps piling up…double agent and more…

The already alarming connections of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) President Grover Norquist to Islamic terrorism have both come into sharper focus and gotten even more alarming. In an expose’ by Lee Stranahan, it’s revealed that being married to a Palestinian Muslim wife isn’t Norquist’s only connection to Islam through his family. In fact, the other connection appears to have come years earlier and may be far more consequential to American history (more on that at end of post).

Norquist reportedly married his wife Samah Alrayyes in 2004. However, 1998 is a key year when digging into his nefarious dealings. The timing of those two events could suggest that Norquist was running in Islamic activist circles years before he met his wife. He founded the Islamic Institute with a man named Khaled Saffuri in 1998. In the year of ATR’s founding in 1985, Norquist’s sister Loraine graduated with an MBA from Harvard. Sometime thereafter, she married a Muslim man named Majed Tomeh, who also received a Harvard MBA. This provides us with a window in time (1985-1998) when something happened that would prompt Grover to partner with Saffuri.

What Stranahan has discovered is that Saffuri wasn’t the only Islamic Institute co-founder; Norquist’s brother-in-law Tomeh was too:

Why has Majed Tomeh never been mentioned by Grover Norquist as a co-founder of the Islamic Institute?

That’s a question that becomes much more interesting when you learn that Majed Tomeh is also Grover Norquist’s brother-in-law, who was married to Norquist’s sister years prior to the founding the Islamic Institute in 1998. That means the unrevealed connection between Norquist and Palestinian Anti-Israel activism goes much deeper than anyone had suspected.

Stranahan also links to a 1999 petition signed by Tomeh that expressed a Hamas-friendly position against the Palestinian Authority and then in 2009, Tomeh was a signatory to another letter that supported the position of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

As Shoebat.com has reported, Saffuri was once the deputy of a man namedAbdurahman Alamoudi, who founded the Boston Mosque attended by the Boston Marathon bombers and was arrested on terrorism charges in 2003. One year later, Alamoudi was sentenced to more than 20 years. In 1999, Alamoudi cut two $10,000 checks to the Islamic Institute founded by Norquist, Saffuri and Tomeh:

Two months after the Boston Marathon bombing, FBI Director Robert Mueller, who began his tenure one week prior to the 9/11 attacks, was asked by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) at a House Judiciary Committee hearing if he knew that Alamoudi founded the mosque in question. More shocking than Alamoudi’s connection to that mosque was the response of Mueller – on whose watch Alamoudi was convicted – to that question:

Speaking of mosques, perhaps the most notorious one in the United States is Dar al-Hijrah, located in Falls Church, VA. At the time of the Islamic Institute’s founding, a man named Bassam Estwani was the Chairman of that mosque. As Shoebat.comhas reported, Estwani was once a very powerful mover and shaker within American politics, dating back to as far as 1995 when he began visiting the White House. Less than one year prior to the 9/11 attacks, Estwani’s Congressman, Rep. Thomas M. Davis (R-VA) was able to get him a gig on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, delivering a prayer:

In a photo taken around the time of the Islamic Institute’s founding, Estwani can be seen with none other than Saffuri, Alamoudi and U.S. Congressman Jim Moran(D-VA). Norquist’s sister had been married to Tomeh for years by then.

At the time of the 9/11 attacks, none other than Anwar al-Awlaki – inspiration for Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Malik Hasan – was the Imam at Dar al-Hijrah; three of the 9/11 hijackers visited the mosque. This actually prompted the FBI to track al-Awlaki afterward, as Shoebat.com reported. Unfortunately, Estwani was not only ignored; he continued to rub elbows with powerful politicians for years.

As Bush was meeting with the likes of Saffuri and Alamoudi in the Texas Governor’s Mansion, Estwani was meeting with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office:

Another key figure in all this is a man named Suhail Khan, who was a George W. Bush administration adviser. It was Norquist who lobbied hard on behalf of Khan getting that job. Khan’s father was an early founder of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. According to an article written in the weeks after 9/11, it was Norquist and Saffuri who brokered a meeting between Muslim leaders and Rep. Tom Davis (Estwani’s congressman). After that meeting, Saffuri’s trips to the White House became a regular occurrence. Khan once served on the Islamic Institute’s Board.

image: http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Khan_Norquist-…

As Shoebat.com has reported, there was no figure more significant than Norquist when it came to bringing the George W. Bush White House and the leaders of Muslim Brotherhood front groups together both before and AFTER 9/11. When Bush was still in the Texas Governor’s mansion, he welcomed a Muslim delegation that included Saffuri and Alamoudi. Close Bush advisor Karl Rove was seen carrying a book penned by an author with deep connections to the Brotherhood.

image: http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Alamoudi_Bush_…

Here is a photo of what appears to be the same room inside the Governor’s Mansion, via the official website (note position of clock, mirror and drapes):

image: http://shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tx_Gov_Mansion…

In June of 2001, Alamoudi presented Khan with an award. While introducing Khan, Alamoudi proclaimed ‘Allahu Akbar’ after mentioning that Khan had been in the White House earlier that day and one day might be Vice President, ‘Inshallah’ (Allah willing):

Suhail Khan receives award from top Al-Qaeda fundraiser Alamoudi on… from SuhailKhan Exposed on Vimeo.

It’s clear that after Bush was elected president, the practice of Rove giving Norquist and his Muslim buddies access to the President’s mansion (White House) continued. Unbeknownst to most, an article written by the New Republic’s Franklin Foer two months after 9/11 would serve as the quintessential journalistic time bomb. Here are two very relevant paragraphs:

On the afternoon of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House.With cameras rolling, the president proclaimed that “the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good.” It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America’s Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam’s name.

To the president’s left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas “freedom fighters.” Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of September 11 told a Los Angeles public radio audience that “we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list.” And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who last fall told a Washington crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans, “America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.” Days later, after a conservative activist confronted Karl Rove with dossiers about some of Bush’s new friends, Rove replied, according to the activist, “I wish I had known before the event took place.”

Rove didn’t know? Norquist’s access to the White House should have been terminated; it was not. That fact demonstrates Rove absolutely did know.

If you’re still not convinced, consider news relayed by Shoebat.com in 2013 that Norquist’s ATR received more money from Rove’s SuperPAC than anyone else did:

Tax documents from Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS show that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is largely funded by Rove, ProPublica’s Kim Barker reports…

…On its 2012 tax return, Barker reported, the biggest grant Rove’s Crossroads GPS gave to anybody was a $26.4 million grant it gave to Norquist’s ATR for “social welfare.”

In Foer’s article, one of the Muslim leaders Norquist helped inside the Oval Office on September 26, 2001 was a man named Dr. Yahya Basha. Basha is listed with… wait for it… Bassam Estwani on the Board of Directors of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a group with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and that seeks to aid in the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

When Elizabeth O’Bagy, the Political Director for SETF was caught hiding a significant conflict of interest after Senator John McCain cited her Wall Street Journal article in a Senate Committee hearing in an effort to push the shared agenda of regime change in Syria, the SETF website began the process of digital document shredding. O’Bagy, however, landed safely in the arms of McCain as a legislative assistant,as Shoebat.com reported.
In the wake of McCain’s endorsement of O’Bagy in a Senate hearing, Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto interviewed O’Bagy before she was jettisoned by the SETF;it didn’t go well for McCain’s future employee:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=2652116150001&…

Shoebat.com also pointed out that it was Karl Rove who signed on to a letter addressed to Barack Obama at about the same time, urging the President to launch a bombing campaign against Assad.

Thanks to Stranahan’s find, Norquist’s connections to Islam are traced back further than they have been before with the discovery of his connection to Tomeh, which dates back to circa 1985. As such, Norquist helped to dirty up both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Alamoudi worked for the U.S. State Department in varying capacities from 1992-2001. It’s true that the bulk of that time was during the Clinton administration but George H.W. Bush was President in 1992 and his son George W. in 2001.

An interesting question to ponder: Did any of these relationships play a role in the Bush administration’s decision to pressure Israel to pull out of Gaza and hand control over to Hamas?

As if all that wasn’t bad enough, it all leads us to conclude that Norquist has been a key player in a 30-year Muslim Brotherhood plan in America that commenced in 1990, as Shoebat.com first revealed.

NOW, whether coming from Repub infiltrators, or from the likes of a Jihadi-in-Chief, the fact remains that both are equally dangerous. Thus, while HUSSEINObama’s fingerprints are all over the Brotherhood, one can surely find similar infiltration across the aisle – inside and outside Congress.

TRAITORS, regardless of their political garb, must be held to account…whatever it takes…bring them down. Crashing!

{re-blogged at Israel’s Voice}

{re-blogged at Islam Exposed}

NRA launches ethics investigation into Grover Norquist

On Wednesday’s radio program, Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, alleged that Grover Norquist was acting as an agent of influence on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Norquist is currently up for re-election to the board of the NRA, and Glenn said he had heard enough bad things about Norquist that he was going to drop his membership if the re-election was a success.

Friday morning, Glenn revealed that he had spoken with Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, and the NRA was opening an ethics investigation in Norquist.

Related: Below is a rush transcript of this segment from radio:

Read the complete post HERE:

Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/03/13/nra-launches-ethics-investigati…