Bloodthirsty Liberal

In Michigan, a Unabomber groupie.

A Michigan professor who corresponds with “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski said the murderer’s cause was a noble one, and that the convicted terrorist may even be “a prophet and potentially a kind of savior of humanity and the planet.”

David Skrbina, a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has maintained contact with the Unabomber for the past nine years and has published their letters, Kaczynski’s essays and a manifesto about the bombings from the Washington Post in a book called “Technological Slavery,” the Washington Examiner reported.

Skrbina believes Kaczynski didn’t send the bombs because he thought killing people would do any good, but because the act would give him leverage to pursue the publication of his anti-technology manifesto.

Skrbina compared the Unabomber to President Obama. “If I wanted to be sarcastic,” he told his class, “I’d say our president kills people all the time, why should we listen to a murderer called Barack Obama?” he asked. “But we do. OK, it’s a different context and different circumstances, but there’s a kind of parallel there.”

At least he’s not a Republican, right?

- Aggie

I wonder if they are taking their companies with them?

Rich Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship rose sevenfold since UBS AG (UBSN) whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld triggered a crackdown on tax evasion four years ago.

About 1,780 expatriates gave up their nationality at U.S. embassies last year, up from 235 in 2008, according to Andy Sundberg, secretary of Geneva’s Overseas American Academy, citing figures from the government’s Federal Register. The embassy in Bern, the Swiss capital, redeployed staff to clear a backlog as Americans queued to relinquish their passports.

The U.S., the only nation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside, is searching for tax cheats in offshore centers, including Switzerland, as the government tries to curb the budget deficit. Shunned by Swiss and German banks and facing tougher asset-disclosure rules under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, more of the estimated 6 million Americans living overseas are weighing the cost of holding a U.S. passport.

“It started with the fallout from UBS and non-U.S. banks feeling it’s too risky to deal with Americans abroad,” said Matthew Ledvina, a U.S. tax lawyer at Anaford AG in Zurich. “It will increase because Fatca will require banks to track down people, some of whom will make voluntary disclosures before renouncing their citizenship.”

Renunciations are higher in Switzerland because American expatriates expect extra scrutiny of their affairs after the UBS case and as the U.S. probes 11 other Swiss financial firms for aiding offshore tax evasion, said Martin Naville, head of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce in Zurich.
Absurd Tax Laws

“Most of the real cross-border tax troubles have been around Switzerland,” Naville said. “We’ve got absurd tax laws coming into force because of the activities of certain people who tried to hide money.”

During a 10-minute renunciation ceremony in a booth with bullet-proof glass windows, embassy staff ask exiting Americans whether they are acting voluntarily and understand the implications of giving up their passports. They pay a fee of $450 to renounce and may incur an “exit tax” on unrealized capital gains if their assets exceed $2 million or their average annual U.S. tax bill is more than $151,000 during the past five years.

They receive a certificate within three months, telling them they are no longer American citizens and entitled to the services and protection of the U.S. government.

It sounds extreme to me, but Switzerland is a beautiful place.

Our country.

Despicable, but not particularly surprising.

Historian Dr. Rafael Medoff discovered documents showing that the US State Department threatened to incite anti-Semitism in 1948 if the the Zionist leaders proclaimed the State of Israel, a statement released Thursday asserted.

According to the documents,then Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett told Zionist official Nahum Goldmann that the Truman administration opposed plans to declare the Jewish state. Lovett reportedly threatened to release a “White Paper” criticizing Zionists, which he said would have “grave repercussions” for Jews as anti-Semitism was mounting.

If Jewish people understood this, they might be more comfortable voting for Republicans. Part of the reason that Democrats win most of the Jewish votes has to do with liberal views among the Jewish population, but part of it has to do with history. Truman recognized Israel 15 minutes after she declared statehood. That is all that most elderly Jews know about the era. The fact that Roosevelt refused to intervene, to bomb the train tracks to Auschwitz or help the Jewish population of Europe directly, is not well-known. And this is completely new information to most of us.

- Aggie

Nice story. That’s really all I can say:

The isolated, sun-drenched West Texas town of El Paso is nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains and snakes along the US-Mexican border in line with the contours of the Rio Grande. It might be an unlikely place for a group to gather to honor a slain Israeli soldier. But this is an unlikely story.

In July 2006, IDF Commander Benji Hillman, whose family immigrated to Israel from London when he was four years old, was killed in action in the Lebanese village of Moran Aras at the beginning of the Second Lebanon War. He had been married for three weeks before his death. This summer, Benji’s family and friends will honor the fallen soldier by opening a $3.5 million guesthouse in Ra’anana, the Hillmans’ hometown, for Israeli soldiers without family and from disadvantaged backgrounds who need a place to stay during their army service.

“Our goal is to provide these boys with general assistance, a warm bed, good food, and a room of their own away from the army,” according to the Benji Hill Foundation’s website. “And, of course, all the love, care attention and help they need at ‘Habayit Shel Benji’ (Benji’s Home), which will serve as a hostel for these soldiers — with all the comforts of home.”

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During the groundbreaking ceremony for Benji’s Home two years ago, Ra’anana resident Terry Mowszowski said she had a “fleeting thought that it would be nice if I could do something personal to honor Benji’s legacy.” She is the mother of a son who returned from the army unharmed, but says that some of her friends’ sons did not.

“Last year, it came to me that I might be able to contribute to Benji’s Home,” says the South African-born immigrant. “I am the owner of a computerized Gammill Supreme Longarm sewing machine — the only one in Israel — and decided, with my two partners and quilting friends, to launch a project called ’50 Quilts for 50 Beds.’”

Since then, Mowszowski and a group of Israeli quilters have been hard at work producing 50 quilts to donate to Benji’s Home — one for each bed. She said the quilts will send a powerful message to the mothers of the lone soldiers — who may be far away — to know that their boys are being cared for.

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Thanks to a chance encounter years earlier, though, Mowszowsi’s group has one less quilt to worry about.

At the International Quilt Festival in Houston four years ago, an El Paso quilter and prominent member of the town’s Orthodox Jewish community, Susy Rothschild, spotted a yarmulke on the head of Terry Mowszowski’s husband and struck up a conversation. Since then, Rothschild and Mowszowski have been discussing their shared hobby over the phone and via email, cementing their friendship. Both of their daughters, too, married and had babies around similar times. Rothschild’s youngest daughter, Shira Moskowitz, moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. When her grandchild was born in February, Rothschild went to Israel and took the opportunity to visit Mowszowski in Ra’anana.

“I introduced her to my project when she came,” says Mowszowski. “She went back home inspired by the project introduced it to her local quilting group.”

Unanimously, the El Paso quilters decided to contribute a quilt to the project.

“We’ve always extended hospitality to [local US army base] Fort Bliss and its soldiers,” quilter Ann Geyer told the El Paso Times. “This makes my heart overflow. It shows how connecting threads from around the world keep us together, no matter where we are, who we are.”

Just a nice story. Makes you feel better about being a human being.

And they’re in high places:

Israel Air Force commander Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan was awarded the Legion of Merit from Commander of the US Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz last week during a ceremony in Washington.

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In the certificate given to Nehushtan with the medal, Schwartz wrote that the IAF has over the years shared intelligence on terrorist organizations in the region with the US.

“This information assisted the United States Air Force efforts in overseas contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Schwartz wrote.

Schwartz also hailed Nehushtan’s decision to increase joint training which helped increase interoperability between the two forces.

“General Nehoshtan’s exemplary performance, dynamic leadership and exceptional devotion to duty reflect great credit upon himself, the Israeli Air Force and his country,” the USAF commander wrote.

Israel is an ally of the US in matters military and anti-terror—but not least culturally. Yet the Left holds Israel at arm’s length, at best. Those with a more realistic view of the world know the US couldn’t have a better friend.

Please go to the link to view

Unfortunately, I was unable to embed it. But it is chilling and should be seen by every adult in America – black, white, brown, green or spotted.

- Aggie

This one might be better:

- Aggie

Labor Department will have posters of Al Sharpton in all elevators

I’ve written the country off.

President Barack Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, has authorized new posters in elevators throughout the Department of Labor’s Washington, D.C. headquarters building. The posters feature a photo of her marching in protest alongside the Rev. Jesse Jackson and MSNBC television host Rev. Al Sharpton, among others.

The photo depicts Solis acting as an emissary of the Obama administration protesting against Alabama’s strict new law combating illegal immigration. Solis has her arms locked with Sharpton, and Jackson is a few feet away. The poster also carries a message for federal government employees — who are traditionally expected to be apolitical in the performance of their duties.

“Whether we take to the streets or simply do our work with integrity and commitment here at the U.S. Department of Labor,” the poster reads, above Solis’ signature, “We are all marching toward the same goals: safer workplaces, fair pay, dignity on the job, secure retirement and opportunities to make a better life. I believe in the power of collective action.”

They are marching for the acceptance of antisemitism in the highest offices in the land. Just a quick refresher: Aside from the Tawana Brawley case, where Al Sharpton falsely accused a white prosecutor of raping a 14 year old black girl, Sharpton help to incite two riots in NYC by giving fiery, ranting, antisemitic speeches to large crowds. The results were eight deaths in Freddie’s Clothing Mart, when his mob ran in to a crowded clothing store with both guns and matches, and the stabbing death of a 26 year old Yeshiva student from Australia. Again, both incidences were antisemitic riots. And now Sharpton’s photo hangs in the elevators of the Labor Department building in Washington, DC.

I want our government to understand something: Under no circumstances, ever again, will I vote for a Democrat. And I was a Democrat most of my adult life. Furthermore, I no longer give to causes that in any way remind me of democrats, and this means that if I even assume that the people working in the non-profit are likely democrat voters, I close the checkbook. This has been a handy policy during the recession, incidentally. Donations down nearly 100%.

I fully understand that Jew hatred is not a wedge issue for most voters. But I hope that others understand that it is tough for me to get up any concern for other issues when I assume an easy-going Jew hatred at the highest levels of our culture.

- Aggie

The PA and The Red Crescent are responsible for terror attacks against Israelis

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced Monday that it uncovered and arrested a terrorist cell that included a number of Palestinian Red Crescent workers that was behind a shooting in the Ramallah area earlier this year.

The shooting near the Amari Refugee Camp on January 20 caused no injuries but did damage a number of IDF vehicles.

The weapons used in that attack, which were Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles, were provided by a senior officer in the Palestinian Authority’s intelligence service, who is also in charge of security for the Red Crescent.

Among those arrested for their activity in the terror cell was Omar Abu Rayas, who is affiliated with Hamas, is a Red Crescent worker, and the goalie on the Palestinian Olympic soccer team, the Shin Bet said. Manzar Abbas, 41 from Amari, who was also arrested by the Shin Bet, is a senior officer in the PA intelligence services.

Two other men that were arrested are also employed by the Palestinian Red Crescent. A total of 13 people were arrested.

Fuad Usha, the owner of a Ramallah barber shop and who is currently in PA custody, served as a lookout in the attack, the Shin Bet said.

Following the attack, the shooters left the assault rifles in a bag inside an abandoned home and planned to move them the next day to a new hideout. During the investigation members of the cell, the Shin Bet said they were planning additional attacks against IDF troops near the Atarot checkpoint as well as in Ma’ale Adumim and the Efrat settlement.

The PA is a terrorist entity that has offices in the United States.

- Aggie

Again.

- Aggie