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Does this choke you up?
After 6 burglaries, 3 car thefts, Multiple illegal trespasses, an ongoing cocaine and alcohol addiction, committing 2 violent home invasions, 3 armed robberies, dealing with Fentanyl and Meth, passing counterfeit money. beating 4 victims senseless and being arrested 23 times since 1998,George Floyd has not committed a crime in over nine months now !!
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It "hurts" to post this:
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Interesting story:
Over 80 years ago, in Greece sixty thousand Jews lived peacefully in Thessaloniki.It was a valued and vibrant community.
Most of these Jews worked in the port. So much so that the port of Thessaloniki was even closed on Saturday, Shabbat.
Great emeritus rabbis also lived and studied there. Everyone rubbed shoulders and appreciated each other. But on September 2, 1939, on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War, it is on this glorious community that the Nazi terror will suddenly rise.
On April 6, 1941, Hitler invaded Greece in order to secure its southern front before launching the famous Operation Barbarossa and its great offensive against Russia. Of the 60,000 Jews in Thessaloniki, around 50,000 will be exterminated at the Birkenau concentration camp in sad record time!
The massacre of the Jews of Greece was brief but intense. Very few will have the chance to make it.But among the survivors there was a family known as Bourla.
And after the war, in 1961, a son was born into this miraculous family in the camps. His parents called him Israel – Abraham. He grew up and studied veterinary medicine in Greece. A brilliant student, Abraham will get his doctorate in reproductive biotechnology at the veterinary school of Aristotle University in Salonika.
At the age of 34, he decided to move to the United States.
He changes his first name Abraham to Albert and meets a Jewish woman named Miriam and then marries her.
Together they will have two children. In the United States, Albert was integrated into the medical industry.
He progressed very quickly and joined a pharmaceutical company where he became “Head manager." Little Abraham (Albert) rose through the ranks and got his appointment as CEO of this company in 2019.
Throughout the year Albert decides to direct all the efforts of the company to try to find a vaccine against a new virus which has just struck the world. He expends great financial and technological efforts to achieve his goal.
A year later his work paid the WHO (World Health Organization) validates the authorization for his company to produce the long-awaited vaccine . His vaccine will be distributed in several countries including Germany, which counts thousands of dead from the pandemic.
Ironically, this vaccine which will save the lives of millions of people around the world including many Germans was led and pushed by a little Jew from Thessaloniki, son of Holocaust survivors from whom most of his people were exterminated by Nazi Germany.
And that is why Israel became the first country to receive the vaccine. In memory of his grandparents and his parents who gave birth to Israel-Abraham Bourla, known today as Albert Bourla: CEO of Pfizer!
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Biden's State Department not happy Israel continues to disrupt Iranian oil shipments:
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Washington attempts to quell
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And: My liberal Jewish friends count the Jews in Biden's administration and get overjoyed. I watch what they do and say and get dismayed. I am betting on myself. The Biden Administration
Scolds Israel By Michael Fenenbock Like a parent laying
down the law to an unruly child, this past week, the Biden Administration
scolded Israel. The American president continued a pattern of discourtesy
toward Israel by issuing a particularly pointed warning to the Jewish state not
to use its military to impact the Iranian nuclear situation. Having scornfully
disregarded a whole bevy of concerns raised by Israel regarding a rush to renew
the Iran nuclear deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the
Biden foreign policy team expressed its unhappiness with comments coming from Israeli
political leaders and its military establishment to the effect that under no
circumstances should Iran be allowed to go nuclear. Israel has made it clear
that, if push comes to shove, it will use force to block Iran’s path to a
nuclear weapon. From the outset, the
Biden Administration has deliberately snubbed Israel. It is no secret that
there is a strong anti-Israel element active in the progressive wing of the
Democratic Party. Publicly putting the Jewish state in its place satisfies
Biden’s left-wing anti-Israel supporters and many in the mainstream media as
well as Biden’s new anti-Israel friends in Europe. A win-win situation. This past week, in
language more appropriate to dressing down a vassal state than its oldest most
durable Middle East ally, the Biden Administration told the Israelis in no
uncertain terms: Don’t get in the way of US policy and our policy goal is to
rekindle a relationship with Iran and to renew the JCPOA, whether you like it
or not. A document titled
“Interim National Security Guidelines” warned Israel: “Our partners in the
Middle East [do not have] a blank check to pursue policies at odds with
American interests and values.” It was published as Israel has increasingly
spoken of the possibility that it might have to use force to prevent Iran from
obtaining nuclear weapons. Ideological interests
that dominate the Democratic Party, rather than common sense, drive the Biden
Administration Middle East policy. Biden inherited the Abraham Accords, which
brought the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain together with Israel. The question
of the Palestinians has become uncoupled. The Palestinians are no longer the
central focus of the peace process or of economic progress or reciprocity going
forward. The Palestine question is no longer vital but just one of many. With the tacit approval
of Saudi Arabia, Sunni Arab states, in conjunction with Israel, were now allied
in opposing Iran and her Shiite satellites. Iran’s capacity to threaten and
dominate the region was thwarted if not deterred. At the same time, Iran was
suffering considerable distress as a consequence of the forceful sanctions
campaign hampering its economy, which had the effect of blunting the Iranian
nuclear program. That was the status quo
as Biden took office and Israel hoped that, beginning with the Abraham Accords,
the Biden Administration would see this new dynamic in the Middle East and
grasp its vital importance. But far from seizing the strategic initiative
presented by the accords – or heeding warnings from Israel and the Gulf states
about Iran’s intentions – the new administration has unfortunately soft-pedaled
the accords and shown little interest in listening to advice about Iran. Driven by the popular
left-wing, progressive ideology of the Democratic Party, Biden promises to
return to the Iran deal and to bring the Palestinians back to negotiations with
a two-state goal. To prove to Iran how anxious Biden is to make a deal, the US
administration immediately slammed Saudi Arabia hard over the murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi. As with longtime
American ally Israel, the Biden Administration has also treated Saudi Arabia
with disdain. But while sound political judgment and common sense say this is a
bad idea, for Biden and his administration, progressive ideology seemingly
trumps common sense. And so with an eye
toward punishing the Saudis and, at the same time showing Iran how friendly he
can be, President Biden removed the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen from
the list of designated terrorist organizations. This ill-considered move
immediately backfired. Houthi militants launched missile attacks on airports
and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia within hours. The Biden Administration
does not have much respect for Israel. Despite the occasional token outreach,
one suspects the cold shoulder will continue. The ideological Left bears a
genuine antipathy for the Jewish state and many in the Biden foreign policy
contingent seem to think America’s friends in the Middle East are the problem.
Ignoring the promise of the Abraham Accords, driven by ideology, and casting
aside common sense, they are intent on empowering Iran and pushing a failed
two-state idea.
Michael Fenenbock is an
American political strategist in a career that spans over four decades of
providing tactical expertise to major campaigns. Hanson's a solid bet also: The Legends of Our Fall The left-wing postmodern
idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal. "When the legend
becomes fact, print the legend. " Many politicians at one
point or another live by lies—if they can get away with them. Our supposed sentinels,
the media—self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists—are
supposed to separate political fictions from truth. Legends As Facts Of course, sometimes
they used to do that—if only selectively. There were Communist sympathizers in
the Roosevelt Administration and holdovers in the 1950s deep state. But the Red
Peril was not always what the demagogic Joe McCarthy claimed when shaking his
lengthy, indiscriminate “lists” of “commie” names and crimes. Once U.S. Army counsel
Joseph Welch, Edward R. Murrow, and assorted journalists began to demand proof
of all of McCarthy’s charges, his public following dissipated. The George W. Bush
Administration in its case to remove Saddam Hussein unwisely ignored all the 23
bipartisan writs authorizing the use of the force by the Congress. Instead, it
rhetorically bundled all congressional authorizations into one case against
Saddam Hussein: the existential threat of huge Iraqi stockpiles of deliverable
“weapons of mass destruction.” After Saddam’s removal,
U.S. forces did not find depots of poisonous and nerve gases. Whether they were
nonexistent, or moved stealthily to border dictatorships like Syria or even
Iran, or were destroyed no one knew. The public only remembered the government
assurance that WMDs, the popular justification for the preemptive invasion,
would be there upon U.S. arrival—a narrative that the media originally did not
question and then later swore that it always had been skeptical as it led the
cheer: “Bush lied, people died.” Noble Lies So there are lots of
legends common across the political spectrum. Yet those of the Left are quicker
to become fact. They become “truthful” because of the current appeasing
progressive octopus of traditional media and Silicon Valley. In other words,
some untruths become either “noble lies” that serve communitarian purposes or
canonized lies that would cause too much collateral damage if exposed. The lie, or at least an
unproven “truth,” soon becomes so institutionalized that the effort to
challenge, or even modify it, is seen as corrective medicine far worse than the
disease of the lie. From the health of FDR
late in his third term, to “family man” JFK, to the moral “lion of the Senate”
Teddy Kennedy, our media printed legends when facts were considered too
heretical or injurious to themselves and their icons. Yet when an ideological
media decides to print legends, then we all descend into a nation buttressed by
lies. Russian Collusion Take the “Russian
collusion” lie. For three years, everyone from Hillary Clinton and the New
York Times to John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and the
newsrooms of CNN and MSNBC, assured the nation that Donald Trump stole the 2016
election through “collusion.” Indeed, Trump was declared an active Russian
“asset.” That was pure legend from its beginning with no proof, and none of its
purveyors have yet apologized. Carter Page was a fall
guy, not an agent. The FBI lied about him, and eventually forged an email to
entrap him. Christopher Steele was a Trump-hating, washed-up British spy, who
was a pathological prevaricator. His “dossier” remains unproven and, in places,
on even a first reading is demonstrably absurd. Any “collusion” likely was
Steele’s own gullibility in believing Russian sourced fantasies. It was Hillary Clinton
who hired Steele to do opposition research on her opponent Donald Trump. She
disguised her payments through the three firewalls of the DNC, the Perkins Coie
law firm, and Fusion GPS. When pressed to put up
or shut up, Steele claimed he no longer had his notes and documentation. The
FBI had fired him and considered him unreliable—but not without utility, given
his anti-Trump venom and his vestigial high-level contacts. The “dream team” of the
doddering Robert Mueller never proved Russian collusion. The special counsel’s
$35 million project ended up disgracing itself with resignations from soon to
be admitted felon Kevin Clinesmith and the Peter Strozk-Lisa Page partisan
paramours. The special counsel
Mueller, while under oath no less, could not recall any real knowledge of the
Steele dossier, or indeed Fusion GPS, its progenitor—the two foundational
catalysts for his entire investigation. James Comey on 245 occasions swore to
the House Intelligence Committee that “he could not remember” when asked about the
basic details of his own FBI investigations. CNN serially was forced
to retract its “bombshell” and “walls are closing in” psychodramas. No matter.
Collusion is still a legend seared into the mind of the Left as fact, given the
media’s three- year saturation of the airwaves and its value in harming the
hated Trump. The Plague No modern era has
changed American life more than three events in the 12 months between February
2020 and February 2021—the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and
the January 6 Capitol assault and riot. Yet in all three cases, legends, not
facts still dominate. The legend is that a
mysterious virus, birthed in a wet market, escaped from Wuhan to the world at
large. Then, the Chinese government, with the timely help of the World Health
Organization, marshalled the world’s health experts. They immediately did all
they could to appraise the endangered global public of the looming
dangers. After normal hits and
misses, and despite the buffoonery of Donald Trump, the legend has it that
finally experts and courageous state governors implemented life-saving national
quarantines that mitigated the disaster of an inept administration. Meanwhile,
China and the EU far more effectively dealt with the pandemic than the hapless
United States. In truth, we still have
no proof of when or how exactly the virus from Wuhan first originated. It is
just as likely that a level four viral lab was the incubator, and the virus was
released through a mysterious accident. The origins and nature of the virus
were hushed up by the Chinese Communist Party from the beginning. A sycophantic
and compromised WHO issued lies about the imminent danger, consistent with its
patron China’s instructions. On the accessibility and
reliability of initial testing, the utility of masks, travel bans,
transmissibility, and the dangers of a pandemic, our medical experts at the
CDC, the NIH, NIAID and our own Dr. Anthony Fauci were, as humans and like our
politicians, contradictory and sometimes dead wrong. They presented arguments
from authority rather than from fact—and then constantly changed narratives
without admissions that prior assertions were flat-out wrong. Often their
narratives were shaped by media flattery, political polls, and the election
year 2020. Year-long quarantines
and lockdowns finally lost credibility not because of clueless red-state
governors or the ignorance of the deplorables. The edicts were implicitly
mocked by our own officials who sometimes violated them even as they loudly
insisted on them, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to California
Governor Gavin Newsom to San Francisco Mayor London Breed. Medical professionals
went on record that mass protests in May, June, and July were not medically
unsound given their ideological urgency. No one told the people that the
careerist, Emmy winner, and now alleged sexual predator, Andrew Cuomo—who up
until now has been deified by the media—for political reasons had sent
thousands to their death by releasing COVID patients into pristine populations
of the vulnerable in nursing homes. In other words, ideology constantly
adjudicated medical narratives. The media in 2020
further assured us that the Trump Administration’s promised 2020 COVID-19
vaccination was a myth, another Trump-brand brag. Politicians like Kamala
Harris virtue signaled to the nation that she would not take a Trump endorsed
vaccination. When the drug companies
announced a successful vaccination mysteriously just a few days after the
November election, Harris and other vaccination deniers were among the first
cohorts to be vaccinated. Joe Biden, first
vaccinated on December 21, claimed no American was vaccinated until he took
office on January 20 (“It’s one thing to have the vaccine—which we didn’t have
when we came into office”). He quickly took ownership of the once ridiculed
Operation Warp Speed and blamed Trump for not producing quickly enough
vaccinations that Biden had doubted would even appear in 2020. Never have the
facts of a pandemic in American history become more politicized and warped by
the media for political advantage. From the Capitol to Mighty Joe Biden to
Minneapolis Now we are presented
with yet more legendary narratives. On January 6 a mob, mostly of pro-Trumpers,
broke into the Capitol. Some vandalized it and many resisted police. That
account of a violent intrusion seems fairly certain. But we additionally were assured
that this was an “armed insurrection,” and that an insurrectionist “murdered” a
police officer, Brian Sicknick. His body lay in state at the Capitol in rare
homage to his sacrifice thwarting off alt-right, white supremacist
revolutionaries. Yet—so far—no master
insurrectionist planners have emerged; no plan of a coup or of a Capitol
takeover exists. There are no cells found deep inside the government that were
activated by or followed up on the assault. Donald Trump did not urge violence,
but the opposite in warning demonstrators to be peaceful. If he is culpable of
anything, it was the bad idea of organizing a huge rally, while the Congress
was in session, on the premise that it was still imminently possible to
overturn the election result of early November. He should have informed his
supporters that, whatever grievances they had, there was zero chance on January
6 of that election reversal ever occurring. Officer Sicknick did
not, as the media and impeachment narratives insisted, die from head trauma
from a violent assaulter. The cause of his tragic demise remains unclear. But
he may have died from natural causes, not necessarily aggravated by
riot-related violence. No one arrested in the Capitol was found either to have
brought in or to have used a firearm. No one was then “armed.” No protest or
vandal brought their own plastic ties into the Capitol to kidnap or “arrest”
legislators as media reports have alleged. We still await the full
story of January 6, an event that was used politically to justify a second
impeachment and trial of Trump, the greatest militarization of Washington, D.C.
since the Civil War, and the most intrusive use of state power in memory to
root out supposed insurrectionists throughout government. Another legend presented
as fact is the vigorous presidency of 78-year old Joe Biden. If he has not
given a press conference in 50 days, we are told, it is only because he does
not wish to become a distraction from pressing events. His slurred speech,
fragmented pronunciation, mental fogginess, slips, and blank stares are not
reported fully. In late 1944 if millions of Americans still believed the myth
that FDR could walk on his own, albeit with difficulty, and remained in sound
health, so in 2021 Joe Biden is supposed to be cogent, alert, and without
cognitive issues. The result? The United
States is now unknowingly engaged in a great experiment not seen since the
hushed-up incapacity of stroke-victim Woodrow Wilson: can the oldest president
in our history, with obvious cognitive impairment, serve as a virtual
commander-in-chief? Can he meet head-to-head with either friendly or hostile
leaders? Or will the fusion media play its accustomed role of putting ideology
over the interests of the American people and keep raving over his purported
Lincolnesque speeches? We are soon to witness
the most contentious and volatile trial in modern American history. It will not
just determine whether Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was innocent, or
guilty of either manslaughter or second or third degree murder in the death of
George Floyd while in police custody. It will also determine whether there is
peace or violence again in our major cities. The media has not
apprised us that there are legitimate arguments that Chauvin may not be guilty
of murder, given the strange Minneapolis police institutionalization of
knee-to-neck methods of subduing resisting suspects, and possibly lethal levels
of drugs found in the toxicology reports of the deceased. Any effective
prosecutor might well convince a jury of Officer Chauvin’s recklessness and his
obliviousness to the appeals of the gasping suspected that nonetheless would
justify a conviction of involuntary manslaughter—but not murder. The case is ambiguous,
difficult, and no doubt will be full of surprises as heretofore new evidence is
introduced. Clearly, it should never have been held in a tense Minneapolis. Yet
the public is not prepped by the media to envision a fair trial in which we
allow attorneys, judges, juries, and the evidence to determine the likely
truth. Instead, there is a
sword of Damocles hanging over the entire proceeding—that of a return to 2020
summer-like looting, arson, and riot. That specter results from 90 days of
prior violence contextualized and excused by the media. Street activists expect
the same exemption should they not like the verdict—that is, anything other
than a murder conviction and a long prison sentence. Since May 25, 2020, an
entire country has been recalibrated with woke remediation and reparatory
programs—in hiring and admissions, and through workshops, reeducation, thought
training, and renaming and rewriting of American customs and traditions. Thanks
to the media, that entire reset has hinged on the supposedly open and shut case
of a murderous Chauvin, aided and abetted by his co-conspirator officers and
partners in crimes. Their supposed murder of
an innocent in custody was proof of an institutionalized racist, lethal, and
nationwide rogue police industry—itself the reflection of a racist America.
That allegation is now printed as fact. At this late date the media will not
wish a mere trial to stand in the way of the ongoing Jacobin revolution in our
midst that it helped to start. In sum, the left-wing
postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now
normal. The relativist idea that everyone has a legitimate “truth” of his own
broke out of its incubator—in this case the university—and is now a scourge
upon the land. Legends become fact, and lies become truth on the basis of their
service to a cause. In our upside-down
world, the smeared “liar” is the revealer of such fraud. And sadly the deified
“truth-teller” is in truth the abettor of falsity. And all this is the work
of amoral “moralists.” About Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a
distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and
Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is
an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and
scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale
College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by
President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a
family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to
farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The
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