By Jack Hellner, AMERICAN THINKER

The media is outraged that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich only had to serve eight years out of a fourteen-year sentence for corruption. They say it sends a bad message that political corruption is OK. But what is outrageous and sends a message that political corruption is OK is when the Justice Department, most of the media, and other Democrats didn’t care about the massive political corruption of Barrack Obama throughout his political life and supported him no matter what he did.

Obama was above the law.

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T. Belman.  Time and again, Netanyahu fails to take action and blames international pressure.  To me he is a status-quo nik. and I don’t like it.

Netanyahu said international pressure prevented announcement until less than 2 weeks before elections, but report says he knew White House had already okayed controversial project

By TOI STAFF Today, 10:02 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands at an overview of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa where he announced a new neighborhood is to be built, Feb. 20, 2020. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly received the green light from the US to lift restrictions against the construction of a controversial neighborhood in East Jerusalem more than a year and a half ago, but delayed the announcement until last week, less than two weeks before the elections.

The plan for construction in Givat Hamatos was first brought forward in 2012, earning widespread condemnation in the international community over its cutting off of the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit Safafa and Sharafat from the West Bank, in a manner that critics said placed a nail in the coffin of a two-state solution based roughly on the pre-1967 lines.

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T. Belman.  Suzann Kossian has been informing from day one about the magnitude of this crises.  I advised her  “I have been very cautious is publishing your stuff as I wanted to see it take the test of time.  I am now ready to disclose more.”

Yesterday I sent her this video by Rush Limbaugh “The Truth about Coronavirus.” He said that it is beng blown out of proportion to tank the US economy and thus to hurt Trump’s reelection.

Suzann Kossian. Feb 24/20

Hi Ted, thanks for sharing. Well, what can I say? I love Rush. He has done more to fight the Left and explain Conservatism than probably any one person with the possible exception of Reagan . I think he is very funny and he drives the left nuts. I am deeply saddened he has stage 4 lung cancer. All though cigars.

He may be partially right on this.

Importantly Rush I think is wrong on the %2 death rate not being a big deal. That is a death rate 10 x as high as seasonal flu which so far this winter has killed 12,000 in USA which is pretty normal (1oK – 25K and on a bad year, 65K dead) China and complicit political hacks at WHO report only a few hundred cases a year despite 4 x the number of people and far worse medical care. LOL) The point is Rush is buying China numbers. We don’t know what the real numbers are until we see the transparency of them in Western countries. That is true of the RO (how many new cases result from each infected person.) the Flu is about 1 to 1. This is at least 3 from what I have seen from credible sources and could be as high as 6. Anything over 2 is very difficult to stop. Especially true since the infector may have no symptoms until 14 days, meanwhile infecting others. And eve after symptoms stop, China now quarantining another 14 days as still can be infecting!  So when you have huge numbers getting it, even a 2% death rate mean a very large number of serious cases (as is evidenced by what is happening on the ground in China – I think I sent you today (from my work email Eric@insurepro.info) teh CCP propaganda video of the military nurses in hospital. …if not please let me know.   certainly not the flu: here is case of emergency room nurse infected (and talks of other medical personnel infected too – all young and healthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMMP84S7lGc In anohter video today of the same couple, she is improving and he says top medical teams are coming to Wuhan now from all over China (so this is hardly over)
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Iran faces anti-terrorism sanctions, voter discontent, and a rising death toll from the Coronavirus outbreak.

By Yochanan Visser, ARUTZ SHEVA

Missiles in Tehran  Reuters

Watching events in Iran over the past few days, one cannot escape the impression that the country is facing a modern-day Purim scenario whereby the country is imploding and is hit by a range of disasters.

It is not Israel that is threatened with annihilation but the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, just as the Jewish people in ancient Persia escaped unhurt while the Persian leader Haman who plotted their annihilation was hanged in the Purim tale in the book of Esther.

While the US Administration of President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is working to strangle the Islamist regime to death by trying to scuttle the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the 2015 landmark nuclear deal) altogether by convincing the United Nations that it should invoke snapback sanctions over Iran’s many breaches of the deal a global financial watchdog just returned Iran to its blacklist of countries supporting terror.
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The U.N. anti-Israel blacklist asserts that the most basic essentials—food, water, transportation, communication—raise “particular human rights concerns.” But if every human activity is a “human rights concern,” then nothing is.

By Evelyn Gordon

If you want to understand just how outrageous the U.N. blacklist of businesses operating in Israeli “settlements” really is, forget for a moment about its anti-Israel bias and its warping of international law, important though these issues are. Instead, simply evaluate it on its own terms, as a compilation of companies engaged in “activities that raised particular human rights concerns.”

So what horrendous activities do these 112 companies engage in? Well, there are several supermarket chains, which sell groceries to both Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem. There are several fuel companies, which operate gas stations where both Israelis and Palestinians fill up their cars.

There are several bus and rail companies, which provide public transportation used by Israelis and Palestinians alike. There are phone companies (cell and landline) that provide general communications services. There are banks, which provide basic banking services. There’s a water company, which provides potable drinking water and sewage solutions.
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Donald v Bernie

By Phillip Baram 1/20/2020

1. I think come November 2020

it’s going to be

a shouting match

no, a bloody duel

between Trump and Sanders

The Donald versus uncle Bernie

Queens versus Brooklyn

show-off goy versus big-mouth jew

big alpha male capitalist

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Multiple salvos fired on Israel for second day in a row. Children’s playground in Sderot damaged by rocket debris. IDF says aircraft struck “dozens of Islamic Jihad terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip” and a facility belonging to the terrorist group on the outskirts of Damascus.

By Neta Bar, ISRAEL HAYOM , 02-24-2020 16:34

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in May, 2019 | Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that if Gaza’s terrorists continued to fire rockets on Israeli communities, they will face a massive Israeli assault.

Netanyahu made the comments during a visit to Samaria with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and other American officials.

“We attacked in the Gaza Strip, and also in Syria, and I am not going to let up the pressure,” Netanyahu said. “On my way here I talked with security officials and as you can probably gather, we are going to go beyond the painful blows we have inflicted on our enemies.”He then went on to say that he will resort to a full-fledged assault if the Palestinians continue to terrorize Israeli communities along the border with rocket attacks.
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T, Belman. Could it be that Netanyahu wants Hamas to escalate prior to the elections.  Some believe that the country is less likely to vote against a war-time leader.

The Egyptians, as usual, will be called upon to help calm the situation, along with the UN’s mission to Gaza. They’ve likely already engaged with the sides, but will only be able to make progress after the current tit-for-tat subsides.

By Yoav Limor, ISRAEL HAYOM

A masked Palestinian terrorist checks the damage following overnight Israeli airstrikes on an Islamic Jihad military base in the town of Khan Younis, Monday | Photo: AP/Khalil Hamra

Sunday night’s wild rocket attack on the western Negev and Gaza envelope communities forced Israel into an uncomfortable corner at an inconvenient time. Contrary to its stated desire to maintain calm in the south, Israel had to act, but still with the clear intention of keeping the ceasefire with Hamas intact and avoiding a wide-scale escalation on the eve of the March 2 general election.

This time, too, Palestinian Islamic Jihad was behind the mayhem, similar to its previous efforts over the past year and a half (and on the eve of the last election in September) to torpedo any attempt by the sides to reach an agreement. It doesn’t matter whether these efforts stem from an internal rivalry with Hamas, PIJ’s natural anarchism, or directives from its Iranian master, the result is the same: Palestinian Islamic Jihad is currently the primary source of Gaza’s ills.

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Children’s playground in Sderot damaged by rocket debris. IDF says aircraft struck “dozens of Islamic Jihad terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip” and a facility belonging to the terrorist group on the outskirts of Damascus. Palestinian Islamic Jihad says the airstrikes in Damascus killed two of its members.

By Neta Bar, ISRAEL HAYOM   Last modified: 02-24-2020 13:32>

Rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip | Archives: AFP/David Buimovich

For the second day in a row, sirens blared across southern Israel on Monday as residents were forced to take shelter in the face of incoming rockets fired from Gaza.

There were no reports of casualties, but considerable damage was caused to property in several locations by debris from intercepted rockets.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AMERICAN THINKER

True to form, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) — also known as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the largest terrorist funding case in U.S. history, and a designated “terrorist organization” for nations allied to America — is again protesting my forthcoming appearance to the U.S. Army War College, urging the latter to “reconsider its decision and disinvite Ibrahim,” since my presentation will no doubt be “hypocritical, ahistorical and hateful.”

This, of course, is all déjà vu — a repeat of events from eight months ago. As CAIR itself notes in it new press release, which came out on Feb. 21, 2020:

.Last summer, CAIR and its allies launched an online campaign highlighting Ibrahim’s Islamophobic views and their negative impact.

Led by CAIR-Philadelphia and MPower Change, and supported by Community Responders Network, About Face, and Common Defense, the campaign drew more than 1800 signatures and received widespread support from its interfaith allies.

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Netanyahu and Defense Minister Bennett talk a big game but are willing to go far to ensure calm – Sunday’s rocket fire shows Hamas is in no rush to implement a cease-fire

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

A demonstration, called for by various groups in Gaza, to protest against a U.S.-brokered peace plan, in Gaza City on February 21, 2020. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is not bothered by little things like the army censor’s objections, especially when it’s not clear that they are justified. And this time, the Yisrael Beiteinu leader did the public a favor.

A report, about to be published by journalist Tal Shalev on the Walla news website, had been delayed by the military censor for nearly two weeks. It revealed a secret visit to Qatar by Mossad head Yossi Cohen and the army’s Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi to persuade the Emirati leadership to continue funding the ceasefire process in Gaza. On Saturday Lieberman went on Israel’s Channel 12 and blew the case wide open.
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The first few tapestries were completed in December 1519, and brought to the chapel immediately thereafter. However, Raphael died in the months following and never got to see the complete collection.

By Zachary Keyser, JPOST 

A tapestry designed by Renaissance artist Raphael is installed on a lower wall of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican as part of celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of his death  (photo credit: REUTERS)

Ten breathtaking tapestries commissioned by High Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, have been returned to the Sistine Chapel after centuries of separation.

The tapestries are being brought to the famous chapel in Vatican City to commemorate the anniversary of Raphael’s death. Normally the tapestries are housed on rotation in the “Raphael Room” at the Vatican Museum, and have not been removed from the facility in centuries.

Referred to informally the Raphael Cartoons, the extravagant tapestries depict the lives of Saint Peter and Paul – painted by Raphael and then sent to Brussels to be woven into tapestries by master weaver Pieter van Aulst.

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By Anna Ahronheim, JPOST

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett meets with IDF officials on January 28, 2020  
(photo credit: DEFENSE MINISTRY)

Israel is “preparing a plan to fundamentally change the situation in the Gaza Strip” Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a night of deadly retaliatory air strikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in Syria and throughout the Strip after rockets were fired toward southern Israel throughout the evening on Sunday.

“We are preparing a plan to fundamentally change the situation in the Gaza Strip. I really understand the situation of the people of the South; they deserve peace and security,” Bennett said during a conference in Jerusalem on Monday.“We have eliminated at least six terrorists over the last day – not only in Gaza – but we have also made progress in hurting the source of the problem. But deterrence is not built in a moment,” he said.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck numerous PIJ targets south of the capital of Damascus on Sunday night, killing at least six terror operatives. Amid fears of fresh violence, the IDF’s Home Front Command announced that roads, schools and the train line near the Gaza Strip would be closed.

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London says it’ll look at tens of millions given to UN refugee agency; one physics book discusses use of slingshots against IDF soldiers, others praise terrorists

By TOI STAFF

An image said to be from a Palestinian school textbook covering physics which shows a Palestinian boy shooting a slingshot at Israeli soldiers. The caption, according to the Daily Mail, reads: ‘What is the relationship between the elongation of the slingshot’s rubber and the tensile strength affecting it? What are the forces that influence the stone after its release from the slingshot?’ (Courtesy IMPACT-se)

British officials have pledged to urgently review the tens of millions of dollars in aid the UK provides to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, after an investigative report found that a majority of the funds have been going to schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip which use textbooks that incite violence against Israelis.

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From Utøya to Christchurch to Galle and Hanau: Experimenting with the body of society in the name of creating utopia produces monsters.

By Alexander Maistrovoy

A century ago, in 1918-20, Europe sunk into the “red terror”. Inspired by the Russian revolution, people with red armbands, red flags and red stars were determined to celebrate the “new bright future”. At factories, the power was transferred to factory committees, banks were nationalized, churches were turned into food and military warehouses, monuments were demolished, people were forcibly mobilized into the Red Army.

Extraordinary commissions murdered the “enemies of the people” and their families and deprived them of land and property. The Bavarian Soviet Republic, Hungarian Soviet Republic, Slovak Soviet Republic, Alsace-Lorraine Soviet Republic, Bremen Soviet Republic, Red Finland – the creators of the great Utopia destroyed everything that was associated with traditional values, ideals and virtues.

Nowadays no one seems to remember it. The Left will not benefit from those memories; the Right dreads accusations of whitewashing Nazism.
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Reports show US schools are not preparing new generations of Americans to understand basic US history, the virtue of freedom, and the stark difference between a free market and a government-dictated economy. What can we do to fix this?

By Kenneth Abromowitz

However, our schools — both secular and religious — are failing to educate and protect our distinctly American culture.

A recent research report, “Meet Today’s Typical Millennial,” by SaveTheWest consulting editor & videographer Jon Sutz, lays waste to the notion that our schools are preparing new generations of Americans to understand even basic U.S. history, the virtue of freedom, and the stark difference between the free market and a government-dictated economy.

So what can we do to fix this growing mess?

There are 9 changes that should be made now:
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