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David Rothkopf: American Jews now have 'a duty to oppose Israel'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:21 UTC
David Rothkopf
"For American Jews we have gone from a duty to support Israel to a duty to question Israel to a duty to oppose Israel. This law did that," foreign policy maven David Rothkopf wrote yesterday, about the new law declaring Israel the "nation-state of the Jewish people."

The Carnegie Endowment scholar and former editor of Foreign Policy had a dialogue on twitter with Jerusalem journalists who blamed Netanyahu's government for the law. One of them, Noga Tarnopolsky, responded that American Jews have "a duty to save Israel by standing firm vis-à-vis the Israeli government."

"Why? Why is there a duty? How long does that duty remain?" Rothkopf shot back.

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Jason Hill's "We Have Overcome" Calls BS on the victimhood narrative

Richard Kirk
American Thinker
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:54 UTC
Jason Hill

We Have Overcome: An Immigrant's Letter to the American People by Jason Hill, Bombardier Books, New York, July 10, 2018 (192 pages, $19.07, hardcover)

One can scarcely imagine the ideological venom generated among leftists by a well-spoken black professor with a doctorate in philosophy who has the temerity to make public statements like these:

Comment: The deadly and acceptable racism of the 'anti-racist' liberal imperialist

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Attention

Man kills girlfriend in frenzied knife attack and jumps out of apartment window


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:39 UTC
CCTV footage
© Greater Manchester PoliceThe moment Marler jumped caught on CCTV.
Police in Manchester have released footage of the moment 'manic' knife attacker Michael Marler attempted to escape the scene of a murder by leaping from an upstairs apartment window onto a parked car.

Oldham resident Michael Marler was sentenced to life in prison at Manchester Crown Court on Friday. He will now serve a minimum of 21 years behind bars for the "brutal" killing of Danielle Richardson, who he stabbed multiple times in February 2018 in what investigators described as a manic attack.

The moment Marler desperately attempted to evade justice has now been released by the Greater Manchester Police, showing how the killer jumped from a second story window. Police say Marler had only seconds earlier stabbed his girlfriend Richardson, "leaving her with no chance of survival".
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The Left strikes out against Andrew Sullivan for criticising 'racism' at NY Times


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:05 UTC
white supremacy protest
© Chris Wattie / Reuters
Andrew Sullivan, a self-styled conservative writer who backed Barack Obama and same-sex-marriage, ran afoul of the social justice crowd for criticizing New York Times' hiring of an Asian-American reporter who wrote racist tweets.

Sullivan's article, published in the New York Magazine on Friday under the headline "When Racism Is Fit to Print," points out that conservatives consider Sarah Jeong's tweets racist, while the political left considers that "simply impossible... by virtue of being an Asian woman."

Making it clear that he doesn't want Jeong fired, Sullivan then says "we all live on campus now," a society in which "we are all mere appendages of various groups of oppressors and oppressed, and in which the oppressed definitionally cannot be at fault."

'How dare he!' thundered the representatives of what Sullivan called the "liberal media," denouncing his column as "complete garbage," his worldview "stupendously dishonest" and his entire opus "a long jam of reactionary bad columns."
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UK Home Office turns 'blind eye' in giving spousal visas to men forcing victims into marriage


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:00 UTC
airplane
© Nicolas Economou/Global Look Press
A British victim of forced marriage has hit out at the government's inaction in investigating claims of unwanted spousal visas, telling RT that the scale of men coming to the UK through the practice is "massive."

Sunny Angel, twice a victim of forced marriage, described that Indian men asking her family to marry her had hoped to "use her as a ticket" to the UK by gaining a visa through marriage.

"[As] the victims, we don't want them here," she added.

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Chemical company Arkema indicted for Hurricane Harvey toxic chemical release


RT
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:56 UTC
Arkema plant
© Adrees Latif / ReutersA fire at the flooded Arkema plant after Tropical Storm Harvey passed in Crosby, Texas, US August 31, 2017
Top managers at French multinational Arkema could face up to five years in prison after the company was indicted for "reckless" emissions of toxic chemicals from its Houston, Texas plant during last year's Hurricane Harvey.

The Harris County court grand jury ruled that Richard Rowe, the CEO of the Paris-based company, and Leslie Comardelle, the manager of the Houston plant, were personally at fault for the emission. Arkema itself faces a fine of $1 million.

"Companies don't make decisions, people do. Responsibility for pursuing profit over the health of innocent people rests with the leadership of Arkema," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement.

The facility lost power after being submerged in up to six feet of water during last August's devastating storm. As a result power went out, causing organic peroxides to become unstable. Through the course of a week, the flammable materials caught fire and exploded over the plant, sending plumes of smoke into the air. This caused documented damage among a half-dozen first responders, and more general complaints elsewhere.
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Donald Trump Jr comes under fire for saying Democrat & Nazi policies 'heavily aligned'


RT
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:59 UTC
Donald Trump Junior
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Donald Trump Jr has come under fire for equating the Democrats' platform and that of the Nazi party in an attempt to dismiss the concerns of "kids in dreadlocks running around screaming about fascism" in the US.

Trump made the remarks at the premiere of Dinesh D'Souza's new film, 'Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party,' which argues Adolf Hitler was a progressive liberal.

"I've been hearing the left talking about these things ― fascism, Nazism on the right, and when you look at the actual history of how these things evolved, and when you actually look at that [Nazi] platform versus the platform of the modern left, you say, wait a minute, those two are really heavily aligned and frankly contrary to the right," Trump Jr. told One America News Network.

Comment: Further reading: Liberal Fascism: Why Fascism Has Always Been a Leftist Movement, And How to Recognize Its Flavor

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Stirewalt to reporters: Stop going to Trump rallies, quit letting him use you as a foil

Pam Key
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
Chris Stirewalt
Friday on Fox News Channel's "Outnumbered," Fox News' digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said journalists should stop going to President Donald Trump's rallies during a discussion on CNN's Jim Acosta recent back and forth over Trump's press criticisms.

Stirewalt said, "We are at a point where the White House briefs very rarely and when they do it's useless. We should stop the televised briefing, it is counterproductive, it's turned into showboat theater, no one, no questions get answered. Not no questions, but the substance of issues is not addressed. It has become a forum for personal achievement and clinical utility for the administration."

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CNN's Brian Stelter says Trump is leading a 'hate movement' against the MSM

Tony Lee
Breitbart
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:01 UTC
CNN Brian Stelter
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump of leading a "hate movement" against establishment media reporters.

Discussing the Trump supporters who heckled CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Tuesday evening before Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida, Stelter told CNNI's Hala Gorani, "I think what we are increasingly seeing from the president and his aides and his allies is a hate movement against the American press."

"When you look at the behavior around Jim Acosta and some of the other reporter at these rallies, you really do see a hate movement," he insisted.

Comment: Trump's ongoing battle with the press appears to be reaching a boiling point. Trump supporters are so sick of the lies coming out of the MSM that they're starting to fight back. The worries that 'someone might get hurt' are likely valid - with tensions as tight as they are, there's no telling when, where or how this might explode.

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Diversity and harm: How identity politics is threatening fields where competence is vitally important

Walter E. Williams
walterewilliams.com
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
scientists labwork science
In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it's not long before the magical words "diversity" and "inclusiveness" drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. We're told how it's doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled "How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences".

Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses. Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and math. In the eyes of the diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don't have a pleasing mixture of blacks, Hispanics and women. The effort to get this "pleasing mix" is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness.

Comment: The importance of competence in fields that are life and death, or even fields where innovation and progress should be valued over equity, is something we as a society ignore at our own peril. The idea that skin color or gender are more important than actually being qualified or capable of performing, never mind excelling at, a job is utter insanity.

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