The Front Page Cover
2016 The turth is the gold of today
Featuring:
Socialism Gets a Second Life
Peggy Noonan.
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Iran Replaces US Dollar with the
Euro in Oil Sales
PAMELA GELLER
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nObama Continues to
Destroying the Military’s Leadership
Dave Hodges
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Skeptical of Peace Process,
Israelis Support Annexation
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What happens when Radical Islam is in charge -
1.5 million dead
Natalie Myers
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Girls Crucified by Muslims in early 1900's
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ In the course of history, there have been a number of tragic genocides, but perhaps the one most forgotten in today’s world is the Armenian genocide at the hands of Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire... Over 1.5 million Armenians died, an incredibly staggering figure especially when considering the population at the time was around 2 million. An entire ethnic group was almost wiped out because of one radical Islamist regime. If the Ottoman Empire had the same murderous equipment as Hitler’s Germany, such as gas chambers, the entire population could very well have been destroyed. These Armenians were executed, starved and subject to harsh physical abuse by radical Islamists, even though they had been in Turkey for over 3,000 years at the time of the genocide. http://punchingbagpost.com/what-happens-when-radical-islam-is-in-charge---1.5-million-dead.
The Knesset NGO Transparency Bill
is not what its right-wing backers say it is!
Rabbi John Rosove
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Ayelet Shaked, Israel's Justice Minister
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{jewishjournal.com} ~ srael’s Justice Minister, 39 year-old Ayelet Shaked of the right-wing Jewish Home Party that represents the powerful settler movement... is the primary advocate behind the Knesset bill that would require NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that receive 50% or more of their funding from foreign governments to publicly detail those sources as a means, Shaked says, to protect the state of Israel from the undermining and delegitimizing efforts of the Jewish state by foreign governments. This bill, however, has nothing to do with what its backers claim because the bill is superfluous. Israel already has many regulations in place for NGOs that receive money from foreign governments, and their budgets are published and sources of income are known. What is the real intent behind passage of this NGO Transparency bill? To target Israeli human rights and left-wing organizations such as “B’tzelem,” which monitors human rights violations against Palestinians by settlers and the Israeli military administration in the West Bank, “Breaking the Silence,” a group of former IDF soldiers who are speaking out about army violations of human rights in the West Bank, and the American based “New Israel Fund,” a pro-Israel human rights organization that funds projects not funded by the Israeli government or American Federation dollars. http://www.jewishjournal.com/rabbijohnrosovesblog/item/the_knesset_ngo_transparency_bill_is_not_what_its_right_wing_backers_say_it.
Ex-Homeland Security Chief Caught
Lying About Spying On University Staff
Clarice Palmer
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Image of Janet Napolitano
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{activistpost.com} ~ Janet Napolitano, the former United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack nObama and current president of the University of California... is under scrutiny for putting UC employees under surveillance under the guise of security. The former DHS boss who once said she doesn’t use email is now being accused of authorizing a monitoring system to keep track of the communications, file routing, and web surfing of UC employees. The UC system includes Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and other campuses across the state. The scandal was reported by University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) professor Christopher Newfield after the San Francisco Chronicle broke the story. According to Newfield, who published the internal communications between faculty members, the university’s campus information technology committee was banned from discussing the program with members of the staff. Things changed the moment the committee decided to break the rules and go public. http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/ex-homeland-security-chief-caught-lying-about-spying-on-university-staff.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=92d45107e5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-92d45107e5-387888649.
Another Top Democrat Defies Federal
Law to Target Opponents
Dave Jolly
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Kamala Harris
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{constitution.com} ~ Several years ago, we all heard about the IRS scandal where they targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups as well as Christian organizations applying for non-profit status... I reported back in 2013 that I firmly believe that the orders to target these groups came directly from the White House. Even though the targeting orders most likely came directly from Barack nObama, IRS Supervisor Lois Lerner became the administrations scapegoat for the whole scandal to avert any blame finding its way to the White House. Now another top Democratic leader has followed the example set by nObama and the IRS. Kamala Harris, California Attorney General and candidate for the US Senate, is trying to extort the names of top donors to charitable organizations. Her department handles the licensing of any charity in the nation that asks for donations from Californians..
Hilly scolds weak supporters,
'Wake up...there's no cavalry coming'
PAUL BEDARD
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Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton meets with attendees during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Admitting her team failed to keep pace with Sen. Bernie Sanders' fundraising, Hilly Rodham Clinton is urging her supporters to "wake up" and pour more money into her campaign... "There's no cavalry coming," her team said in a scolding email to supporters. Our political reporter Al Weaver just broke the fundraising imbalance. He wrote: "The Clinton campaign announced Thursday that they raised $15 million January, news they released four days after the Sanders camp released its $20 million figure. December was big for Sanders, as he raised a total of $33.6 million during the entire fourth quarter of 2015." She needs to give it up. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillary-scolds-weak-supporters-wake-up...theres-no-cavalry-coming/article/2582473?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI%20-%2002/05/16&utm_medium=email.
DHS Official: I Was Ordered to
Purge Records of Islamic Terror Ties
Sandy Fitzgerald
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Sheriffs to Americans: We Need to Take
Back Our Contry at the Local Level!
TRICIA CUNNINGHAM
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Socialism Gets a Second Life
Peggy Noonan.
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The big room was full, 700 to 800 people, good for 5 p.m. on a Friday. The audience wasn’t raucous or full of cheers as at his big rallies, but thinking and nodding. They were young and middle-aged, with not many white-haired heads. There was a working-class feel to them, though Bedford is relatively affluent.
The big room was full, 700 to 800 people, good for 5 p.m. on a Friday. The audience wasn’t raucous or full of cheers as at his big rallies, but thinking and nodding. They were young and middle-aged, with not many white-haired heads. There was a working-class feel to them, though Bedford is relatively affluent.
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“Let me disabuse you,” Mr. Sanders says to those who think he cannot win. He quotes New Hampshire polls, where he’s way ahead. He can defeat Donald slump-Trump, he says.
“Let me disabuse you,” Mr. Sanders says to those who think he cannot win. He quotes New Hampshire polls, where he’s way ahead. He can defeat Donald slump-Trump, he says.
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Then the meat. He described America as a place of broad suffering—“student debt,” “two-job families” with strained marriages and insufficient child care, “the old on fixed incomes.”
Then the meat. He described America as a place of broad suffering—“student debt,” “two-job families” with strained marriages and insufficient child care, “the old on fixed incomes.”
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We can turn it around if we make clear to “the billionaire class” that income inequality “is not moral.” The economy is “rigged.” Real unemployment is not 5% but twice that. “Youth unemployment is off the charts.” He wants job-training programs for the young. The minimum wage is “a starvation wage.” Raise it to “a living wage—15 bucks an hour.”
We can turn it around if we make clear to “the billionaire class” that income inequality “is not moral.” The economy is “rigged.” Real unemployment is not 5% but twice that. “Youth unemployment is off the charts.” He wants job-training programs for the young. The minimum wage is “a starvation wage.” Raise it to “a living wage—15 bucks an hour.”
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The audience is attentive, supportive. “Yeah!” some shout.
The audience is attentive, supportive. “Yeah!” some shout.
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He speaks of Goldman Sachs, of “banksters” and of a Republican Party owned by “the oil industry, coal industry.”
He speaks of Goldman Sachs, of “banksters” and of a Republican Party owned by “the oil industry, coal industry.”
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“Health care is a right of all people, not a privilege.” He asks if any in the audience have high-insurance deductibles. They start to call out: “$4,000,” “5,000,” “6,000!” Someone yells: “Nothing’s covered!”
“Health care is a right of all people, not a privilege.” He asks if any in the audience have high-insurance deductibles. They start to call out: “$4,000,” “5,000,” “6,000!” Someone yells: “Nothing’s covered!”
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No one mentions nObamaCare, but it seems clear it hasn’t worked here.
No one mentions nObamaCare, but it seems clear it hasn’t worked here.
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Mr. Sanders says people don’t go to the doctor when they’re sick because of the deductibles. “Same with mental-health care!” a woman calls out. “Mental-health care must be considered part of health care,” he responds, to applause. He is for “a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.”
Mr. Sanders says people don’t go to the doctor when they’re sick because of the deductibles. “Same with mental-health care!” a woman calls out. “Mental-health care must be considered part of health care,” he responds, to applause. He is for “a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.”
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How to pay for it all? “Impose a tax on Wall Street speculation,” he says, briefly. He does not elaborate and is not pressed to.
How to pay for it all? “Impose a tax on Wall Street speculation,” he says, briefly. He does not elaborate and is not pressed to.
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Mr. Sanders’s essential message was somber, grim, even dark. It’s all stark—good guys and bad guys, angels and devils. But it’s also clear and easy to understand: We are in terrible trouble because our entire system is rigged, the billionaires did it, they are the beneficiaries of the biggest income transfer from the poor to the rich in the history of man, and we are going to stop it. How? Through “a political revolution.” But a soft one that will take place in voting booths. We will vote to go left.
Mr. Sanders’s essential message was somber, grim, even dark. It’s all stark—good guys and bad guys, angels and devils. But it’s also clear and easy to understand: We are in terrible trouble because our entire system is rigged, the billionaires did it, they are the beneficiaries of the biggest income transfer from the poor to the rich in the history of man, and we are going to stop it. How? Through “a political revolution.” But a soft one that will take place in voting booths. We will vote to go left.
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As the audience left they seemed not pumped or excited, but satisfied.
As the audience left they seemed not pumped or excited, but satisfied.
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I listen to Mr. Sanders a lot, and what he says marks a departure from the ways the Democratic Party has been operating for at least a generation now.
I listen to Mr. Sanders a lot, and what he says marks a departure from the ways the Democratic Party has been operating for at least a generation now.
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Formally, since 1992, the Democratic Party has been Clintonian in its economics—moderate, showing the influence of the Democratic Leadership Council. Free-market capitalism is something you live with and accept; the wealth it produces can be directed toward public programs and endeavors. The Clinton administration didn’t hate Wall Street, it hired Wall Street. Big government, big Wall Street—it all worked. It was the Great Accommodation, and it was a break with more-socialist approaches of the past.
Formally, since 1992, the Democratic Party has been Clintonian in its economics—moderate, showing the influence of the Democratic Leadership Council. Free-market capitalism is something you live with and accept; the wealth it produces can be directed toward public programs and endeavors. The Clinton administration didn’t hate Wall Street, it hired Wall Street. Big government, big Wall Street—it all worked. It was the Great Accommodation, and it was a break with more-socialist approaches of the past.
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All this began to shatter in the crash of 2008, not that anyone noticed—it got lost in the nObama hoopla. In March 2009, when Mr. nObama told Wall Street bankers at the White House that his administration was the only thing standing between them and “the pitchforks,” he was wittingly or unwittingly acknowledging the Great Accommodation.
All this began to shatter in the crash of 2008, not that anyone noticed—it got lost in the nObama hoopla. In March 2009, when Mr. nObama told Wall Street bankers at the White House that his administration was the only thing standing between them and “the pitchforks,” he was wittingly or unwittingly acknowledging the Great Accommodation.
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The rise of Bernie Sanders means that accommodation is ending, and something new will take its place.
The rise of Bernie Sanders means that accommodation is ending, and something new will take its place.
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Surely it means something that Mr. nObama spent eight years insisting he was not a socialist, and Bernie Sanders is rising while saying he is one.
Surely it means something that Mr. nObama spent eight years insisting he was not a socialist, and Bernie Sanders is rising while saying he is one.
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It has left Hilly Clinton scrambling, unsteady. She thought she and her husband had cracked the code and made peace with big wealth. But her party is undoing it—without her permission and without her leading the way. She is meekly following.
It has left Hilly Clinton scrambling, unsteady. She thought she and her husband had cracked the code and made peace with big wealth. But her party is undoing it—without her permission and without her leading the way. She is meekly following.
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It is my guess that Mr. Sanders will win in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the tendency he represents—whether it succeeds this time or simply settles in and grows—is, I suspect, here to stay.
It is my guess that Mr. Sanders will win in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the tendency he represents—whether it succeeds this time or simply settles in and grows—is, I suspect, here to stay.
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A conservative of a certain age might say: “No, he’s a fad. Socialism is yesterday! Marx is dead, the American economic behemoth rolled over and flattened him. Socialism is an antique idea that rocks with age. America is about the future, not the past.”
A conservative of a certain age might say: “No, he’s a fad. Socialism is yesterday! Marx is dead, the American economic behemoth rolled over and flattened him. Socialism is an antique idea that rocks with age. America is about the future, not the past.”
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I disagree. It’s back because it’s new again.
I disagree. It’s back because it’s new again.
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For so many, 2008 shattered faith in the system—in its fairness, usefulness and efficacy, even in its ability to endure.
For so many, 2008 shattered faith in the system—in its fairness, usefulness and efficacy, even in its ability to endure.
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As for the young, let’s say you’re 20 or 30, meaning you’ll be voting for a long time. What in your formative years would have taught you about the excellence of free markets, low taxes, “a friendly business climate”? A teacher in public high school? Maybe one—the faculty-lounge eccentric who boycotted the union meetings. And who in our colleges teaches the virtues of capitalism?
As for the young, let’s say you’re 20 or 30, meaning you’ll be voting for a long time. What in your formative years would have taught you about the excellence of free markets, low taxes, “a friendly business climate”? A teacher in public high school? Maybe one—the faculty-lounge eccentric who boycotted the union meetings. And who in our colleges teaches the virtues of capitalism?
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If you are 20 or 30 you probably see capitalism in terms of two dramatic themes. The first was the crash of ’08, in which heedless, irresponsible operators in business and government kited the system and scrammed. The second is income inequality. Why are some people richer than the richest kings and so many poor as serfs? Is that what capitalism gives you? Then maybe we should rethink this!
If you are 20 or 30 you probably see capitalism in terms of two dramatic themes. The first was the crash of ’08, in which heedless, irresponsible operators in business and government kited the system and scrammed. The second is income inequality. Why are some people richer than the richest kings and so many poor as serfs? Is that what capitalism gives you? Then maybe we should rethink this!
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And Mr. Sanders makes it sound so easy. We’re rich, he says; we can do this with a few taxes. It is soft Marxism. And it’s not socialism now, it’s “democratic socialism” like they have in Europe. You’ve been to Europe. Aside from its refugee crisis and some EU problems, it’s a great place—a big welfare state that’s wealthy! The French take three-hour lunches.
And Mr. Sanders makes it sound so easy. We’re rich, he says; we can do this with a few taxes. It is soft Marxism. And it’s not socialism now, it’s “democratic socialism” like they have in Europe. You’ve been to Europe. Aside from its refugee crisis and some EU problems, it’s a great place—a big welfare state that’s wealthy! The French take three-hour lunches.
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Socialism is an old idea to you if you’re over 50 but a nice new idea if you’re 25.
Socialism is an old idea to you if you’re over 50 but a nice new idea if you’re 25.
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Do you know what’s old if you’re 25? The free-market capitalist system that drove us into a ditch.
Do you know what’s old if you’re 25? The free-market capitalist system that drove us into a ditch.
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Polls show the generation gap. Mr. Sanders does poorly among the old. They remember socialism. He does well among the young, who’ve just discovered it and have little to no knowledge of its effects. A nationwide Marist poll in November showed Mr. Sanders already leading Mrs. Clinton, 58% to 35%, among voters under 30. She led him among all other age groups, and 69% to 21% among those 60 and older. By this month a CBS/New York Times poll had Mr. Sanders up 60% to 31% among voters under 45.
Polls show the generation gap. Mr. Sanders does poorly among the old. They remember socialism. He does well among the young, who’ve just discovered it and have little to no knowledge of its effects. A nationwide Marist poll in November showed Mr. Sanders already leading Mrs. Clinton, 58% to 35%, among voters under 30. She led him among all other age groups, and 69% to 21% among those 60 and older. By this month a CBS/New York Times poll had Mr. Sanders up 60% to 31% among voters under 45.
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Bernie Sanders is an indicator of the Democratic future. He is telling you where that party’s going. In time some Democrats will leave over it, and look for other homes.
Bernie Sanders is an indicator of the Democratic future. He is telling you where that party’s going. In time some Democrats will leave over it, and look for other homes.
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It’s all part of the great scrambling that is happening this political year—the most dramatic, and perhaps most consequential, of our lifetimes.
It’s all part of the great scrambling that is happening this political year—the most dramatic, and perhaps most consequential, of our lifetimes.
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