+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Bernie Sanders may have been born Jewish but he does not have a Jewish heart. He has a liberal mind and that part of him may be Jewish but basically he is an unhappy, uncomfortable, empty and confused, angry man who never quite matured and accepted the fact that he happened to be Jewish.
Every Jew, in their lifetime, will be confronted by discrimination and if they cannot stand their ground and respond effectively they may seek to renounce and/or eventually deny their Jewish heritage in order to avoid further episodes and indignities. The owners of The New York Times did and that , I believe, explains their antipathy towards Israel. My fraternity brother Andy Richard Falk is one of the worst examples and then there is Soros, the epitome of self-hate.
However, there is no one reason why many Jews become anti-Semitic.
Bernie was a back bencher with no power base until he ran against Hillary and his Socialist message resonated with a great number of Democrats. Despite the fact that he is not a Democrat, Sanders is a trumpeted leader of the Democrat Party and a presumed front runner for the 2020 presidential nomination. Is he George Soros (tsouris) in disguise ? Will he eventually fade as will the NFL Knee Jerks or gain enough popularity, lead his party and then take it into another defeat as did Hillary?
One day Americans may be ready to embrace Socialism but I do not believe that time has, yet, come. A desire to try something else comes after what you are experiencing fails. The latest economic depression set the stage for the Bernie's and Pocohantas' but if Trump can preside over a strong recovery the embrace of and flirtation with Socialism will be for another day.
The problem with Socialism, and Bernie's effort to sell it, is that he has few areas he can point to where it has proven to work. Socialism is against human nature and is based on a desire to have what others have without working for it. As the number of "have not's" grows and more become addicted to dependency the ability for Socialism to become acceptable increases. Socialism is a sickness embraced by those who are embittered by jealousy and imbued with a serious lack of self worth. It is a false dream. If you disagree, I beseech you to read Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom." (See 1 below.)
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Meanwhile, facts are facts until they are supplanted by focused narratives whose purpose is to distort in order to create a different story to achieve a different outcome. (See 2 below.)
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A bright black man examines the black family. (See 2a below.)
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The tragedy in Las Vegas will again be used for emotional calls for gun control none of which would stop these kind of insane events. Rather it will create another subtle opportunity to attack our freedoms and constitutional guarantees.
Las Vegas has always been a gamble with your money now it is a gamble with your very life.
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Bernie Sanders calls for rethink on US aid to Israel, Iran policy
Jewish senator says America 'complicit' in Israeli 'occupation' of Palestinians, urges shift in US support from Saudis to Iranians
US senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called for Washington to adopt a friendlier approach to Iran, and said he would consider supporting slashing US aid to Israel over the Jewish state’s policies towards the Palestinians.
In an interview Thursday with The Intercept, the Jewish senator said the US was “complicit” in what he termed Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians, but was not the only guilty party, and urged Washington to play a fairer role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Certainly the United States is complicit, but it’s not to say… that Israel is the only party at fault,” he said.
“In terms of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the United States has got to play a much more even-handed role. Clearly that is not the case right now,” he added.
US funding, said Sanders, “plays a very important role, and I would love to see people in the Middle East sit down with the United States government and figure out how US aid can bring people together, not just result in an arms war in that area.”
The senator said that there was “extraordinary potential for the United States to help the Palestinian people rebuild Gaza and other areas. At the same time, demand that Israel, in their own interests in a way, work with other countries on environmental issues.”
When asked if he would “consider voting to reduce US aid to Israel or US arms sales to the Israeli military, Sanders said “the answer is yes.”
Sanders has long been critical of Israel vis-a-vis the Palestinians and in June said “the occupation must end” in a video marking “50 years of Occupation” since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six Day War.
The self-described Democratic Socialist from Vermont also issued harsh words for Saudi Arabia, saying the desert kingdom is “not an ally” of the US and calling for a “rethink, in terms of American foreign policy… vis-a-vis Iran and Saudi Arabia.”
Sanders said Saudi Arabia is “an undemocratic country that has supported terrorism around the world” and is therefore “not an ally of the United States.”
Despite Saudi Arabia being an “incredibly anti-Democratic” country, Sanders said the US has repeatedly backed Riyadh, while maintaining hostile relations with Iran, “which just held elections” and “whose young people really want to reach out to the West.”
Sanders did not mention that in May’s Iranian presidential election, in which President Hassan Rouhani was reelected to a second term, only candidates handpicked by the regime were allowed to run, nor that leading opposition figures were held under house arrest.
While saying that he has “legitimate concerns…about Iran’s foreign policy,” which is characterized largely by its opposition to Israel and the US, Sanders said he wanted a more “even-handed” approach from the US to the “Iran and Saudi conflict.”
While strongly criticizing Saudi Arabia’s support for terrorism through its funding of ultra-conservative Islamic seminaries, Sanders did not address Iran’s material and financial support for a number of terror groups, namely Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Sanders’ comments on Iran came as the tensions between the US and the Islamic Republic have recently escalated amid US President Donald Trump’s threat to scrap the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, declaring Tehran not to be in compliance with the accord meant to limit Iran’s nuclear program.
In the interview, Sanders also said US drone strikes in which civilians have been killed are one of the “root causes” of terrorism and called US President Donald Trump a “racist” for his efforts to “delegitimize” former US president Barack Obama.
“I think Donald Trump has strong racist tendencies,” he said. “And I say that not just because of his absurd and horrific remarks on Charlottesville, but because… when you lead the effort to try to de-legitimize…the first African-American president in our history, I think that’s racist. When you argue about the Central Park 5, I think that’s racist — so I think it’s fair to say he has strong racist tendencies.”
Trump drew international ire last month after a far-right rally ended in violence when a counter-protester was run over and killed in Charlottesville, Virginia by a man with neo-Nazi sympathies and the president blamed “many sides” for the violence.
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That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination, and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Peter Kirasonow is an attorney who works for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
In this 5 minute TV segment he explains the false narrative that is heard frequently on TV and by the media, and by some well-meaning people….and he counters that narrative with facts.
We have all seen the NFL football players protesting the racial violence contending that police “ unfairly” target African Americans. And one of my rabbis yesterday gave his entire Yom Kippur sermon on this topic accusing all of the congregants of being racially prejudice, that we suffer from “implicit racial bias” and challenging us to take action to correct this “unfair problem” in America. Most media , unfortunately, including the N.Y. Times, also regularly run stories about racial disparities in police stops while glossing over the racial disparities in crime rates. Disclosing crime rates, a proper benchmark to measure police behavior, would demolish this worldview.
As an example and to support this with facts, the Manhattan Institute’s Heather McDonald reports that in NYC “ blacks committed 66 % of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55% of all stops and only 23 % of the city’s population). Blacks committed 80% of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together blacks and Hispanics committed 98% of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70% of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5% of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35% of the city’s population (and were 10% of all stops).They committed 1.8% of all shootings and less than 5% of all robberies. The face of violent crime in NYC, in other words, like every other large American city is almost exclusively black and brown).” If you were a police officer in an American city, do you think your reasonable bias would be to suspect blacks ,who are committing a majority of the crimes?
In a WSJ column this week, Jason Riley, a black journalist quoted a Justice department report indicating that ”a growing percentage of felons killed by police are white, and a declining percentage are black. And a separate Justice study released in 2011 also reported a decline in killings by police, between 1980 and 2008. And according to figures from the center for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate at which police killed blacks has fallen by 70% since the 1960s.
An increase in press coverage of police shootings isn’t the same as an increase in police shootings.”
As Mr. Kirasonow admits, there is still some racial bias by a few police officers, white or black, like the rest of the population. But the real problem is not these isolated cases and to get a better understanding of the real problem and a dose of truth, I’d suggest reading Jason Riley’s book “ Please Stop Helping Us”.
2a) The BlackFamily- Between 1960 and 2010
A proportion of black children in America raised in single-parent families rose from 22 percent to 70 percent.
That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination, and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question.
This is what academics and the civil rights establishment have taught. But as with so much of what’s claimed by leftists, there is little evidence to support it.
The No. 1 problem among blacks is the effects stemming from a very weak family structure.
Children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide, have behavioral disorders, join gangs, commit crimes, and end up in prison. They are also likelier to live in poverty-stricken households.
But is the weak black family a legacy of slavery?
In 1960, just 22 percent of black children were raised in single-parent families. Fifty years later, more than 70 percent of black children were raised in single-parent families.
Here’s my question: Was the increase in single-parent black families after 1960 a legacy of slavery, or might it be a legacy of the welfare state ushered in by the War on Poverty?According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, that year 11 percent of black children were born to unwed mothers. Today about 75 percent of black children are born to unwed mothers.
Is that supposed to be a delayed response to the legacy of slavery?The bottom line is that the black family was stronger the first 100 years after slavery than during what will be the second 100 years.At one time, almost all black families were poor, regardless of whether one or both parents were present. Today roughly 30 percent of blacks are poor.However, two-parent black families are rarely poor. Only 8 percent of black married-couple families live in poverty. Among black families in which both the husband and wife work full time, the poverty rate is under 5 percent. Poverty in black families headed by single women is 37 percent.The undeniable truth is that neither slavery nor Jim Crow nor the harshest racism has decimated the black family the way the welfare state has.The black family structure is not the only retrogression suffered by blacks in the age of racial enlightenment.In every census from 1890 to 1954, blacks were either just as active or more so than whites in the labor market. During that earlier period, black teen unemployment was roughly equal to or less than white teen unemployment.As early as 1900, the duration of black unemployment was 15 percent shorter than that of whites. Today it’s about 30 percent longer.Would anyone suggest that during earlier periods, there was less racial discrimination?What goes a long way toward an explanation of yesteryear and today are the various labor laws and regulations promoted by liberals and their union allies that cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder and encourage racial discrimination.Labor unions have a long history of discrimination against blacks. Frederick Douglass wrote about this in his 1874 essay titled “The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions,” and Booker T. Washington did so in his 1913 essay titled “The Negro and the Labor Unions.”To the detriment of their constituents, most of today’s black politicians give unquestioning support to labor laws pushed by unions and white liberal organizations.Then there’s education. Many black 12th-graders deal with scientific problems at the level of whites in the sixth grade. They write and do math about as well as white seventh- and eighth-graders.All of this means that an employer hiring or a college admitting the typical black high school graduate is in effect hiring or admitting an eighth-grader. Thus, one should not be surprised by the outcomes.The most damage done to black Americans is inflicted by those politicians, civil rights leaders, and academics who assert that every problem confronting blacks is a result of a legacy of slavery and discrimination. That’s a vision that guarantees perpetuity for the problems.Here’s my question: Was the increase in single-parent black families after 1960 a legacy of slavery, or might it be a legacy of the welfare state ushered in by the War on Poverty?
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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