Netanyahu to Obama: “Don’t Ever Second Guess Me Again

Conservative Tribune
August 2, 2014

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President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have been attempting for weeks to broker a cease-fire between Israel and the radical Islamic terrorist groups that have been attacking the Jewish state with rockets from behind human shields in the Gaza Strip, with very little success.
The Obama administration’s willingness to accede to the militant’s demands have worsened America’s diplomatic relationship with Israel, to say the least, despite strong pro-Israel support from Congress and the American people.

Now, the latest 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire agreement negotiated by the United States, United Nations, Qatar, and Turkey has collapsed in less than two hours, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s had enough interference from Washington.
Netanyahu told U.S. representatives “not to ever second guess me again” on the matter of Hamas’s unwillingness to abide by cease-fire agreements, according to recent reports.
The Israelis been dealing with Hamas and groups like it for decades, and know well how they operate. They say the Obama administration and the U.N.’s trust in terrorists to follow the terms of any agreement is “naive.”
In this case, the cease-fire was broken when Palestinians kidnapped one Israeli soldier and killed two others. To its credit, the administration called the actions of the Islamic militants “outrageous” and “barbaric,” the report says.
It is difficult to understand why Barack Obama, John Kerry, or any other liberal would expect a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization like Hamas or Islamic Jihad to be true to its word. Perhaps they view the terrorists as “freedom fighters,” as some have claimed, against an Israel that they view as a holdover from western colonialism.
Maybe now the Obama administration has finally learned that, even in you want to, you can’t negotiate with terrorists–their slightly more anti-militant rhetoric hints that it might be so.
But we rather doubt it.

Hamas Officials Praise Palestinians Who Sacrifice Themselves as Human Shields

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Mark Matheny
August 2, 2014

Hamas does not care about its own people living in Gaza. Here in this video you will see a Hamas official show how much they really care about their own people in Gaza..... Hamas wants the complete destruction of Israel.
According to an article at Truthrevolt.org, Hamas Leaders have vowed resistance to Israel, and the destruction of Israel:
After Israel announced it would not negotiate with a Palestinian Authority (PA) which includes a Hamas dedicated to destroying the Jewish State, PA Spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said the "terms of the national reconciliation agreement are clear: Palestine honors its commitments, respects international law and continues its popular nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation." However, top Hamas official Hassan Yousef announced that the terror group would not renounce its commitment to violence and the destruction of Israel.Speaking to the Palestinian Information Center from Ramallah, Yousef said Hamas will not recognize Israel and “will not give up the resistance,” which is widely interpreted to refer to Hamas’s ongoing terror attacks against Israeli civilians and military personnel. He added they will not bow to international pressure: "any interference in Palestinian affairs by outside parties is unacceptable, and we cannot exercise blackmail and dictation."Another Hamas leader Ra'fat Murra announced from Lebanon ""The option of negotiations has failed, Palestinian resistance remains the right option. 


You Tube-Hamas official, Ismail Radwan, praises Palestinians in Gaza for sacrificing woman, children and elderly. He congratulates them for "re-drawing the map of the homeland with your blood and body parts".

By Mark Matheny

The Legacy of Mao Zedong is Mass Murder

Heritage Foundation
By Lee Edwards Ph.D.
August 1, 2014

Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong.
According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with -- by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
For Mao, the No. 1 enemy was the intellectual. The so-called Great Helmsman reveled in his blood-letting, boasting, “What’s so unusual about Emperor Shih Huang of the China Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have buried alive 46,000 scholars.” Mao was referring to a major “accomplishment” of the Great Cultural Revolution, which from 1966-1976 transformed China into a great House of Fear.
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million -- the population of California.
Rounding up enemies
Only five years later, when he sensed that revolutionary fervor in China was waning, Mao proclaimed the Cultural Revolution. Gangs of Red Guards -- young men and women between 14 and 21 -- roamed the cities targeting revisionists and other enemies of the state, especially teachers.
Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten -- all for the promulgation of Maoism. A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, but not before 1 million Chinese died.
All the while, Mao kept expanding the laogai, a system of 1,000 forced labor camps throughout China. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in labor camps, has estimated that from the 1950s through the 1980s, 50 million Chinese passed through the Chinese version of the Soviet gulag. Twenty million died as a result of the primitive living conditions and 14-hour work days.
Such calculated cruelty exemplified his Al Capone philosophy: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
And yet Mao Zedong remains the most honored figure in the Chinese Communist Party. At one end of historic Tiananmen Square is Mao’s mausoleum, visited daily by large, respectful crowds. At the other end of the square is a giant portrait of Mao above the entrance to the Forbidden City, the favorite site of visitors, Chinese and foreign.
Repression continues
In the spirit of Mao, China’s present rulers continue to oppress intellectuals and other dissidents such as human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo. He was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” His offense: signing Charter 08, which calls on the government to respect basic civil and human rights within a democratic framework. .
China presents itself as a vast market for U.S. companies and investors. But some U.S. companies are taking a second look at doing business in a country which considers Mao Zedong its patron saint. Google has said it is reconsidering its operations in China after discovering a sophisticated cyber attack on its e-mail which the government must have initiated or approved.
Google has revealed what many in the Internet world have known for some time -- China routinely hacks into U.S. and Western Web sites for national security and other valuable information. Mao would have enthusiastically applauded this intellectual rape.
I wonder: would President Obama be so ready to kowtow to China if in the middle of Beijing there was a mausoleum of Hitler and, hanging from the gate to the Forbidden City, a giant swastika?
Lee Edwards is distinguished fellow in conservative thought at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
First published on February 2, 2010

Massive emergency drill in New York City

My Fox NY
August 1, 2014

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -
The New York City Department of Health will be conducting a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday.
They are testing the delivery of emergency medications in the event of a biological attack, such as anthrax, or other large-scale public health emergency in the city. The majority of the deliveries will take place to public school buildings.
It's the largest surprise drill in the city's history. The drill was scheduled to take place from approximately 6:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The majority of participants were given no notice to better test and simulate a real emergency and response.
“The NYC Health Department is responsible for developing and executing plans for the mass dispensing of life-saving medicine in response to public health emergencies,” said Dr. Oxiris Barbot, First Deputy Commissioner of the Health Department. “This exercise demonstrates our commitment to ensuring we have the capability and resources to protect the health and safety of all New Yorkers in times of crisis.”
The city warned that supply trucks would be escorted by NYPD and other law enforcement vehicles across the city.
The exercise involves deploying more than 1,500 staff members from more than a dozen city agencies and setting up 30 temporary locations that would be used in the event of an emergency to dispense life-saving medication.
The goal is to see how quickly they can get the drugs distributed in case of an attack. The Health Dept. says that no actual medications would be distributed as part of the drill, and there should be no impact to other planned activities in the affected facilities.
“It is our responsibility to make sure New York City is prepared for the variety of hazards we may face, from a coastal storm to a public health incident,” said NYC Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito.
Called RAMPEx, which stands for Rapid Activation for Mass Prophylaxis Exercise, the drill's estimated cost was $1.4 million. The city says it will not share the results of the test due to security concerns. The Health Department says it will use the results to make policy and operational changes to its emergency response plan.

In Latin America, Russia and China Push New World Order

The New American
August 1, 2014

In Latin America, Russia and China Push New World Order
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping visited Latin America this month to push a new "international order" and boost relations between their regimes and the region’s totalitarian-minded rulers, signing huge deals with their counterparts in the Western Hemisphere on everything from trade and economic cooperation to military issues and espionage. According to analysts, the official Sino-Russo trips to the region highlight the fast-shifting geopolitical scene, with the world being shepherded in controlled fashion toward a new, “multi-polar” world order featuring a neutered United States and more unaccountable “global governance.”
From the start, Putin emphasized the agenda behind his trip. “We are interested in strong, economically stable and politically independent, united Latin America that is becoming an important part of the emerging polycentric world order,” he said. On the domestic front, Putin touted his emerging “Eurasian Economic Union,” a misnamed “trade” bloc bringing together several “former” Soviet regimes. In Latin America, the ex-KGB figure touted similar integration schemes — particularly the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which includes all governments in the Americas except the United States and Canada.
It is not just CELAC, founded in recent years by Latin American socialists with strong Sino-Russo support as a “counterweight” to U.S. “imperialism,” that Putin is interested in. In fact, the Russian strongman said Moscow is “open to substantive interaction with all integration formations in the Latin American region.” That would include the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Pacific Alliance, the Central American Integration System (SICA), and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Putin said in Havana.

Border Crisis Strains Local, Federal Budgets

The new American
August 1, 2014

Border Crisis Strains Local, Federal Budgets
Even affluent Montgomery County, Maryland (median household income $94,965) may feel the strain of meeting educational and other needs of the illegal immigrant children being sent from the Texas border to communities around the country.
"Enrollment in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) has increased by 860 students in the past three years and will be further challenged by the addition of new international students," WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., said in reporting on Tuesday's meeting of the Montgomery County Council in Rockville, Maryland. The county, whose Washington suburbs include the "sanctuary city" of Takoma Park, has enrolled more than 100 of the unaccompanied minors from Central America in its school system since they began arriving in record numbers at the U.S. southern border last fall. Language barriers are only one of the concerns the Montgomery County public schools must address in meeting the educational needs of the recent arrivals.
"All of the unaccompanied minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador enrolling in MCPS [Maryland County Public Schools] do qualify for enrollment in the ESOL program where they receive instruction in English as a new language, as well as parent engagement and counseling supports," said Karen Woodson, ESOL director for public schools in the county, which is home to about half of all immigrants in Maryland and has the state's largest Latino community.
"Montgomery County has always been a place that's welcomed and really addressed some of the challenges associated with minors that might be unaccompanied or trying to reconnect with family members that are here in the area," County Council President Craig Rice said.
In many communities and states, the challenge may be more overwhelming than welcome. Mayor Jim Darling of McAllen, Texas, a city in the frontline of the immigration wave, said about 1,000 immigrants, both children and adults, have come to his city. Once they cross the Rio Grande, Darling said, they cheerfully turn themselves in.
"They get across and they wave to Border Patrol and say, 'I'm here," Darling said earlier this month at a hearing of the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee of the Texas House of Representatives. While U.S. law allows the prompt return of most Mexicans apprehended after illegally crossing the border, those from Central America must be a given a hearing. Many of the immigrants migrate inland and never show up for their hearings. 

OBAMA SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO DETAIN AMERICANS WITH ‘RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES’

Infowars News
August 1, 2014
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As the Ebola outbreak continues to cause concern, President Barack Obama has signed an amendment to an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of “respiratory illness.”
The executive order, titled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amendsexecutive order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”
The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred only to SARS. Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display, “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.”
Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities.
Although the quarantining of people suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus seems like a perfectly logical move, the actual preconditions for this to happen aren’t restricted to just those suffering from the disease.
As we highlighted earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has measures in place for dealing with an outbreak of a communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of the disease.
In addition, under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, public health authorities and governors would be given expanded police powers to seize control of communications devices, public and private property, as well as a host of other draconian measures in the event of a public health emergency.
When the legislation was introduced, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons warned that it “could turn governors into dictators.”
Yesterday it was reported that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was set to receive a patient infected with Ebola. A hospital in Germany also accepted an infected patient earlier this week. Some critics have raised concerns about the risk of deliberately importing infected individuals into the west.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.

Argentina Declared in Default by S&P as Talks Fail

Bloomberg
August 1, 2014

Standard & Poor’s declared Argentina in default after the government missed a deadline for paying interest on $13 billion of restructured bonds.
The South American country failed to get the $539 million payment to bondholders after a U.S. judge ruled that the money couldn’t be distributed unless a group ofhedge funds holding defaulted debt also got paid. Argentina, in default for the second time in 13 years, has about $200 billion in foreign-currency debt, including $30 billion of restructured bonds, according to S&P.
Argentina and the hedge funds, led by billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp., failed to reach agreement in talks today in New York, according to the court-appointed mediator in the case, Daniel Pollack. In a press conference after the talks ended, Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof described the group of creditors as “vulture funds” and said the country wouldn’t sign an accord under “extortion.”

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

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Mark Matheny
July 27, 2014


"The Lips of Wisdom are closed, but to the Ears of Understanding....
Where fall the footsteps of the Master, the ears of those ready for his Teaching open wide.....
When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with Wisdom.”

–The Kybalion.

Shocking! Hillary Truthfully Explains the Conflict Between Gaza and Israel....

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Mark Matheny
July 27, 2014

In an interview on the 23rd of July, Hillary Clinton gives a pretty candid description of the problem between Israel and Gaza, and points the blame at Hamas for both Israel's response to the rockets attacks by Hamas, and the poor living conditions of the Gazan Arabs who suffer due to Hamas's rule and desire to continue conflict against Israel at their expense....


Isreali Ambassador Exposes CNN Propaganda

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Mark Matheny
July 27, 2014


EXPOSED: Israeli Ambassador Rakes A CNN Anchor Across The Coals For Intentionally Misleading Viewers

Center for Western Journalism
July 25, 2014

Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the US, hits hard and doesn’t let up over the course of this interview with CNN host Erin Burnett. He cites CNN for being a “disservice” to their viewers for not once mentioning the fact that the UN Secretary General just issued a statement warning people that Hamas is storing weapons in these UN schools, thus making them a target.
CNN only wants to point out that the children are dead and how tragic it is (and it is), but they are failing to see the greater atrocity. The fact is that Hamas is using these schools to house their weapons, even furthering the statement made by Prime Minister Netanyahu that “Hamas uses its people to protect its weapons.” 
Watch the Video Here

Netanyahu says Hamas violating its own cease-fire

Politico
July27, 2014

Netanyahu also noted that Hamas had rejected several cease-fire offers in the past. | AP Photo


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas is already violating its own cease-fire that it proposed Sunday morning.
“Hamas doesn’t even accept it’s own cease-fire. It’s continuing to fire at us as we speak," he said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Hamas announced a 24-hour cease-fire with Israel beginning at 2 p.m. local time. But Netanyahu said that Hamas hadn't abided by its own announcement, saying it has not ceased in its campaign against the Israel on Sunday.
“Hamas is simply continuing all its operations, and Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people," Netanyahu said, suggesting Hamas entertains the idea of cease fires only when it has to restock its weapons supplies.
The prime minister also noted that Hamas had rejected several cease-fire offers in the past, including an Egyptian-brokered deal to which Israel had agreed. He added that he hoped for a cessation of fighting soon and that a solution could only come from Egypt, calling for a plan that provided economic relief for the Palestinians but also the "de-militarization of Gaza" in terms of Hamas's rockets supply and tunneling into Israeli territory.
Later on Sunday, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Netanyahu again called for the Egyptian plan, saying it was the only chance for a "sustainable cease-fire."
"I think the first thing is we have to accept the Egyptian proposal," he said. "That's the only game in town. ... It will enable us to actually get a sustainable cease-fire."
Netanyahu skirted several questions about whether Israel would broaden its offensive in Gaza, 
saying repeatedly: “We’ll take whatever action is necessary to protect our people.”
He also addressed concerns that Israel was losing the public relations battle in the conflict, particularly given the mounting civilian casualties among Gazans and Palestinians and the disproportionate death count on both sides. The Associated Press reported Saturday night that 1,047 Palestinians had died since the conflict began, with more than 6,000 wounded, compared with fewer than 50 Israelis. The United Nations estimated last week that 75 percent of those Palestinians who had been killed were civilians. And Netanyahu again criticized Hamas for wanting to "pile up more and more dead bodies" and using Gazans as human shields against Israeli rockets targeting Hamas operatives and their weapons supplies.
Hamas is trying to "mislead the entire world," he said, in its efforts to create a lopsided body count. The international community, he said, was giving Hamas "a tremendous victory" by suggesting Israel could not act against an organization using civilians as a human shield as it receives rocket fire.