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Why All French Jews Should Leave for Israel
In 2014, the year before the murder rampages at the Charlie Hebdo offices and the kosher supermarket in Paris, about seven thousand French Jews (out of a community of about half a million) emigrated to Israel.
With Muslim and other antisemitic harassment and violence constantly intensifying in France, that was twice the number of the previous year, and a record high.
Even before this month's terror attacks, a higher number of French Jewish immigrants to Israel was expected for 2015. Now, after the attacks, a higher number yet is expected, possibly fifteen thousand. There is even talk of the Jews leaving France—mainly for Israel—altogether.
Meanwhile it's reported that:
An unprecedented 15,000 soldiers and police officers have been mobilized in France to protect potential sites from terrorist attacks, of whom one third have been stationed at Jewish schools and synagogues for 24-hour-a-day supervision.
Five thousand police officers will guard 717 Jewish institutions, in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks that killed 17 people, including four Jews at a Paris kosher supermarket.
And in a speech after the attacks, French prime minister Manuel Valls said:
How is it possible to accept that France…how can it be accepted that we hear on our streets "Death to the Jews"?… How can one accept that French people be murdered simply because they are Jewish?
…We must say to the world: without the Jews of France, France would no longer be France. And that message is one that we all have to deliver strongly and loudly. We did not say it in the past. We did not show our indignation in the past.
On the one hand, one can ask whether sending one's children to a school that has to be guarded round-the-clock by seven or eight soldiers and police officers is much of a way to live. On the other hand, one could ask, in light of the protective measures and Valls's words: should France be given another chance, before Jews give up on it?
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70 Years Later, a New Solution to the Same Old Problems
I lit Shabbat candles this past Friday night for the first in a very long time. I made the decision somewhere between learning that the Grand Synagogue of Paris had closed its doors on Shabbat for the first time since the end of World War 2 and the starling fact that 15 Jewish patrons of the kosher supermarket in Paris huddled in a storage freezer to avoid being executed by terrorists.
Roger L. Simon wrote a compelling piece in the wake of last week's barbaric attacks perpetrated by radical Islamists in Paris. Reading his article I observed with irony that he writes about America's need for a Churchill. Perhaps, pray to God in His mercy we have one, as we are now surely England with a Neville Chamberlain at the helm. Europe, on the other hand, does not have a Churchill in sight. Europe's Churchills and their children have fled and are fleeing, some at a breakneck pace. The only Churchill I see on the world horizon is Bibi Netanyahu, which is why he will no doubt be elected to another term as prime minister in Israel, regardless of the deals he may or may not cut with the ultra-religious. Internal politics have to be placed on the back burner when international enemies are this bloodthirsty.
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Why Do Jews Struggle with Chosenness?
I have no interest in seeing Ridley Scott's epic IMAX 3-D meisterwerk Exodus: Gods and Kings. Why would I want to spend money on a "gloriously junky" movie that turns my history into a collection of high-tech special effects laced together by a biased, biblically-inaccurate script? Yet, for however lousy the movie itself might be, it has inspired some interesting commentary on Jewish peoplehood from Emma Green over at the Atlantic. For Green, the film inspired a polemic that highlights the seemingly eternal struggle Jews have with the idea of being called out, that is to say "chosen" by God.
I've always found this to be rather asinine as far as ideological burdens go. Most people struggle to find their purpose in life. Jews are born into it. We are here to bring God's teachings into the world in order to make this earth a better place. This chosen status, this calling doesn't make us any better than anyone else. It simply gives us a job to do, a role that manifests itself through every aspect of existence, every academic discipline, every profession we've ever encountered. Whether we're religious or not, or politically Left or Right, we (for the most part) are bent on doing our part to make the world a better place. Which is probably why those who hate us the most love to rub our chosenness in our face, intimidating the Emma Greens among us into second guessing our God-given responsibility.
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Free Speech Warrior Ezra Levant's New Lawfare Fight
In the summer of 2008, Ezra Levant was between jobs.
His magazine — the first in Canada, and one of the few in the world, to publish the notorious "Mohammed cartoons" — was now defunct, the result of his fight with the Alberta Muslim who'd taken him to a "Human Rights" court for printing them.
So Levant travelled to British Columbia to live-blog author Mark Steyn's court case on similar "hate speech" charges; in this instance, three Muslim law students (nicknamed the "Sock Puppets") had charged Steyn and Maclean's magazine with "Islamophobia" for printing an excerpt of Steyn's book America Alone.
On June 3, 2008, Levant blogged about the testimony of one "Sock Puppet," Khurrum Awan.
Again and again, Levant called Awan a "liar."
Fast forward to 2014, and Ezra Levant and Khurrum Awan were in a courtroom together again.
Awan had sued Levant for libel.
Last week, a judge found Levant guilty and ordered him to pay Awan $80,000.
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10 More Movies Projecting the Jewish Experience on Film
10. Daniel Deronda
A multi-part BBC series based on the powerful English classic penned by Zionist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Daniel Deronda tells the story of a young gentleman who discovers, through a series of almost mystical events, that his mother is Jewish. A fantastic examination of Jewish identity in Victorian high society, the novel was cited by the likes of Henrietta Szold and Emma Lazarus as influential on their decision to become Zionists. Wonderfully cast, the BBC version is grossly engaging and well worth a marathon viewing.
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13 Jewish Women Who Changed the World
13. Bess Myerson
Recognizing a woman who appears to have parlayed her Miss America recognition into a minor-league acting gig may not seem logical, until you realize that Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, paved an uphill path for diversity in the pageant circuit. She was told by one Miss America exec that she ought to change her name to something "more gentile" and refused. Pageant sponsors refused to hire her as a spokeswoman and certain sites with racial restrictions refused to have her visit as Miss America. This was of no consequence to Miss Myerson, who was the first Miss America to win an academic scholarship. The racism she confronted was motivation for a lifetime's work with organizations like the ADL, NAACP, and Urban League. She would go on to co-found The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and make boundless contributions to the city's art community. Along with becoming a television personality, Myerson received several presidential appointments in the 1960s and '70s and would receive two honorary doctorates.
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Macklemore: Antisemite or Schmuck?
.@macklemore, first you trick people into thinking you're a rapper, now you trick them into thinking you're Jewish? pic.twitter.com/3rtaE4GHje
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 18, 2014
At a concert in Seattle, one-time kitsch rapper and now full-throated social consciousness rapper Macklemore wore a costume to make himself look like a bad comic's stereotypical Jewish man, including a curly hair wig, gold chains and a nose prosthetic.
No one really knows why he wore the get-up at a surprise performance at the Experience Music Project Museum on Friday night (thought, one reason could be that none of the Jews he was mocking would be there on a Friday night… it being Friday night, and all). And no one is sure if the intent of the costume was to be antisemitic.
Intent and reality are often two different things. I'm sure President Obama didn't intend for people to lose their doctors or their plans under Obamacare. It just, you know, happened.
The folks at The Daily Dot say that Macklemore is Jewish, even though he personally denies it:
Macklemore's relationship with Judaism is an enduringly odd one: While some self-appointed experts claim he's one of god's Chosen people, the man himself denies such ancestry.
He announced his appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2013 by blowing the Shofar, used to announce the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays.
When Lady Gaga put out her latest release, Artpop, it was supposed to signify that that she was going to bring together art and pop culture. Artpop, instead, has been a disaster for the label, costing it $25 million. The music was reviewed unfavorably, to be kind.
Why did it flop? Because when the artist thinks their existence is more important than their art, they usually end up creating art that no one wants. Right, Kanye?
Macklemore has, quite clearly, reached that moment. Who knows what he was trying to pull with the antisemite get-up (maybe he was, as some reported, trying not to be mobbed by fans upon his arrival and just wore the get-up on stage). But this, mixed with his wedding hysteria at the Grammy's, puts him on the Gaga Train to Laughingstock.
And there's always room for one more on board.
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Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge, Part 5: The Drug of Disinformation
The Introduction to Pacepa's Seeds of Knowledge: Starting Down the Yellow Brick Road…
Part 1: The Mask of Marxism
Part 2: Getting to the Heart of Social Justice
Part 3: Who Needs a Brain?
Part 4: Are Conservatives Cowards?
"The August 1991 coup in Moscow collapsed three days after it had started, providing the ultimate, ironic proof that nothing, not even a coup, could succeed any more in a society whose vital arteries had been calcified by 70 years of disinformation and dismal feudalism. The main loser was the Communist Party."
– Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
Both the Democrat and Republican parties have been disinformed by Marxism. The Liberal wing of the Democrat Party has been duped into putting their faith in Marxism's many forms (socialism, economic determinism, progressivism), while the Republican Party has legitimized Marxism as a form of party politics instead of a murderous, atheistic religion that empowers despots. The Conservative movement, by and large, is slow to recognize Marxism's true nature, because we are a nation that has been drugged by Disinformation. Pacepa continues:
At the end of the 2001 summit meeting held in Slovenia, President George W. Bush said: "I looked the man [Putin] in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy." Unfortunately, even President Bush was deceived by disinformation. Putin consolidated Russia into an intelligence dictatorship, not a democracy. During the Cold War, the KGB was a state within a state. Under Putin, the KGB, rechristened the FSB, is the state. Three years after Putin enthroned himself in the Kremlin, some 6,000 former officers of the KGB—that organization responsible for having slaughtered at least 20 million people in the Soviet Union alone—were running Russia's federal and local governments.
…Is it too far-fetched to suggest that this new Russia calls up the hypothetical image of a postwar Germany being run by former Gestapo officers, who reinstate Hitler's "Deutschland Über Alles" as national anthem, call the demise of Nazi Germany a "national tragedy on an enormous scale," and invade a neighboring country, perhaps Poland, the way Hitler set off World War II?
That is the secret power of disinformation.
Pacepa share these thoughts with me mere weeks before the Ukranian revolution and secession of the Crimea to Putin's Russia. Disinformation is wielding its power on the American homefront as well. In his critique of Thomas Piketty's new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, David Brooks embraces Piketty's idea of a tax on the wealthy's investment capital in order to create intellectual equality among the classes:
Think of how much more affordable fine art would be. Think of how much more equal the upper class would be.
His musings aren't that far off from those of Russian intellectuals, who are "making do" with their government's clampdown on free media and the right to protest. In exchange for their rights, these Russians whose intellectual arteries have been "calcified by disinformation" are being doted upon by their increasingly despotic government:
All sorts of entertainment is being lavished on Russia's hipsters. Their favorite public parks have splashy, beautifully designed restaurants and clubs, comfortable biking areas and luxurious places to chill. Sanctions or not, Fedoseyev's friends can still dine out at restaurants full of expats, take shopping trips to Milan, or buy their electronic gadgets online. Fashion Week this weekend was another party blooming with charming models and celebrities; the usual hipsters clubs, Solianka, Simachev, Oldich Dress and Drink or Strelka, felt as cuddly and crowded as ever.
To paraphrase Brooks, it would seem that the fine art is quite affordable in Russia these days. Like junkies seeking a quick fix, Russian intellectuals pursue disinformation at the expense of their freedom. Is Brooks suggesting we do the same, or have we already succumbed to the addiction? In either case, what we need to know now is: What is the antidote to disinformation?
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The #1 Strategy for Happiness
"You need to have a good mood. Good family, good children, good work, and then you'll be happy," he added. "You need to be a sociable person. I love and respect all people. After what happened to me, I don't only value my own life more, but I deeply value the lives of all human beings. It's very important to have good company and good friends. I view everything with optimism, it's very important."
The observation seems simple enough, until you realize that they are the words of a Holocaust survivor. Over at Times of Israel, Margareta Ackerman details:
As a grandchild of a survivor, I've always had a special interest in Holocaust studies. I have read many memoirs and attended numerous classes on the subject. But, from the very first class in a small Israeli school in the suburbs of Afula, to the courses I attended in a large North American university — I had always felt that something I had learned from my Grandfather was missing from these lectures.
For years, I had trouble pinning down that missing piece. It frightens me that my grandfather's gift may have been lost all together: No one would have known that there once lived a man named Srulik Ackerman, who challenged our understanding of human nature, and with that, could bring hope in even the darkest of times.
…after just a few minutes with my Grandpa you would see the mystery that had perplexed me for so many years. The first thing that would strike you would be his wide, welcoming smile. Grandpa smiled and laughed more than anyone I knew. He took every opportunity to tell jokes and bring joy to others. Without a doubt, Grandpa was the happiest person that I had ever met.
How was that possible? I spent two years writing his memoir, hoping to discover his secret. But, even after the book was complete, I still had no idea what gave him such unparalleled resilience.
So, I decided to ask him directly. "How do stay happy on a daily basis?" I asked during one of our conversations.
Do yourself and your kids a favor: Get to know a Holocaust survivor so you, too, and your children can understand how a human being can survive and thrive in the face of death. There aren't many survivors left, but there are countless resources through which you can interact with their thoughts and experiences. Tomorrow, the United States Holocaust Museum is sponsoring a Google+ Hangout with Holocaust survivors specifically geared towards school-aged children. Take advantage of this opportunity to get to know the real "secret" to happiness.
And don't forget to thank them for sharing it.
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How Antisemitic Writing Fuels Antisemitic Violence
As I sit writing from Berlin, Germany, I woke up this morning with the news that a demented American Nazi and KKK leader, Glenn Miller, has been arrested as the main suspect in the Kansas City murder of 3 American Jews. That all were undoubtedly preparing for tonight's Passover Seder makes the tragedy even more abhorrent.
In a country and city where all of its residents are always aware of the horrors of the Nazi past, it comes as a shock that this wanton act of vicious antisemitic murder has taken place not in Germany, but in the United States. Of course, it is an outrage that the authorities are going out of the way to not call it by its name. Rather than condemning Miller's action as a result of his Nazi beliefs, they say it looks like a "hate crime," and they make light of his yelling "Heil Hitler" upon his arrest.
Even the regional director of the St. Louis branch of the Anti-Defamation League held her words. As The New York Times reports,
" 'While it is too early to label these shootings as a hate crime, the fact that two Jewish institutions were targeted by the same individual just prior to the start of the Passover holiday is deeply troubling and certainly gives us pause,' Karen Aroesty, the group's St. Louis regional director, said in a statement."
Ms. Aroesty should have been more up front about the obvious motivation of Miller, and not hedged her words.
Fortunately, a quick look at some of the antisemitic extremist websites has led to the following post by Mr. Miller, reproduced verbatim below:
Israel Forming Super PAC to Attack Paul & Obama
This is some big dookee, yaw'll.
Jew journalist Max Blumenthal exposes and explains this attempt by a foreign government Israel, to buy the presidential election for the neo-con, war-mongering republican establishment.
Like I've been saying, the kikes simply do not trust a lame-duck black president with the name Hussein. Jews fear his re-election, thus this jewish Super PAC to defeat him.
1) Will Ron Paul and his close supporters fight back against this alien super-PAC by telling the truth about jew power in the U.S. ?? It's insightful and somewhat assuring that the above video news report was posted on www.runronpaul.com.
2) How will Hussein and his 45 million black supporters and the tens of millions of other liberals and anti-war Americans react to this jewish attack on their president and commander in chief ??
3) How will the democrat establishment react, and the so-called liberal media ??
4) Does this signal a huge split among jews, and if so how big is the split ??
Like Dr Pierce once said, "the jews have a tiger by the tail, and they dare not turn loose."
It sure looks to me like their grip is slipping.
Sieg Heil !!!
"To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" —–Voltaire
These and other posts by Miller can be found on vn forum, where he regularly engaged in dialogue with other neo-Nazis and antisemites.
What will our good friends at The Nation say now, when his very first sentence notes how inspired he is by the words of none other than Max Blumenthal, whose antisemitic and anti-Zionist book was released by the magazine's own publishing house, Nation Books? I can look back to find scores of examples of how various racist rants are attributed by the Left to conservatives, Tea Party members and especially to Rush Limbaugh. Some years ago, one man tried to enter a left-wing group's offices with a gun, and many leftists immediately attributed his actions to the hate spread by right-wing radio talk show hosts.
Now, Mr. Miller himself, a proud Ku Klux Klan leader and avowed antisemite, has found inspiring words from the one Jew he likes–Max Blumenthal. Look again at his words: "Jew journalist Max Blumenthal exposes and explains this attempt by a foreign government Israel, to buy the presidential election for the neo-con, war-mongering republican establishment." Except for the first two words,"Jew journalist," Miller's rant is similar to the arguments of Walt and Mearsheimer, John B. Judis and other realists and leftists, whose writings are filled with the same disdain for "neo-conservatives" who are always described as "warmongering." When someone like Pat Buchanan makes that same argument, he never uses the word "Jews," preferring to let his readers know by intuition just who is talking about.
So now we have the crazed antisemite's own post about who inspires him to have taken his dreadful murder today, on the eve of Passover. I wait to hear what rationale The Nation editors will make for their publication and endorsement of Blumenthal's articles and book.
What will the two journalists of note who sponsored or spoke at Blumenthal's appearance last year at The New American Foundation, James Fallows and Peter Bergen, have to say now about the influence young Blumenthal's words have had? I predict something like the following: "That this horrendous Nazi used Max Blumenthal's wise critique of the US-Israel alliance as a mask for his own actions, that stem from Klan and Nazi ideology, does not implicate Mr. Blumenthal at all, nor should it cause us to dismiss his warnings about changing the close ties with Israel held by the United States."
Or perhaps they will come up with something else, or maybe just hold their tongues for once. But Miller makes it clear: He has bought and learned the lessons he holds from Blumenthal, whose writings he recommends to his antisemitic brethren.
As I said in an earlier post, far Left and the extremist far Right have come together in their united hatred for Israel and for the American Jewish community. It is antisemitism and anti-Zionism that ties them together as brothers, and there is no escaping that truth.
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Glenn Beck, The Church & the Real Secret to Disney's Success
Last week, alternative media mogul Glenn Beck announced that he was going to focus on "taking back" American culture through the power of nostalgia:
In the future, Glenn Beck's focus is going to be more on influencing culture and less on politics and news. After all, news is only "what the culture allows," he said in a recent interview with National Review's Eliana Johnson.
…"Beck is nostalgic for an America of decades past, and his cultural projects will aim to resurrect and revive it," Johnson writes. "It's an America where duty trumped desire and Americans were bound together by a sort of civic religion created by that sense of duty. 'I want to impact the culture in the way that people see good again,' [Glenn] says."
Beck's goal is admirable, to a fault. The period he seeks to resurrect was one in which concepts like "good" and "duty" were defined by a Biblical religion, not a civic one. Any history student will tell you that Marx had his own take on the American Revolution; you can show someone Frank Capra movies until you're blue in the face and they're still going to see Mr. Smith as the ultimate community organizer if that's their moral outlook.
As Amy Kenyon notes, there are pitfalls to what passes for nostalgia these days:
…the historical meanings and usages associated with nostalgia were finally mangled beyond recognition until its chief purpose became the performance of sentimentalism, the parceling out of discount memory via television, advertising, heritage theme parks, and souvenir markets, all aspects of what we might call the "nostalgia industry." As such, nostalgia became kitsch, trivial and reactionary: hardly the stuff of a meaningful engagement with the past or the workings of memory.
Simply put: Glenn Beck needs to do more than embrace the facade of America, circa 1940. Beck needs to dig deeper, to America's Biblical heritage, to understand what re-taking the culture truly means.
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What Is Antisemitic Cult Leader Fred Phelps Experiencing Right Now?
USA Today: Fred Phelps, anti-gay Westboro Baptist founder, dies
Fred Phelps Sr., a fierce opponent of homosexuality whose protests at military funerals prompted two federal laws, died early Thursday, his daughter Margie Phelps says. She didn't give the cause of death or the condition that recently put him in hospice care. He was 84.
Phelps headed the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., and was occasionally involved in politics. He gained national prominence for organizing protests against gays and Jews, including at military funerals.
From the ADL:
The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small virulently homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group that regularly stages protests around the country, often several times a week. The group pickets institutions and individuals they think support homosexuality or otherwise subvert what they believe is God's law.
Incorporated in 1967 as a not-for-profit organization, WBC considers itself an "Old School (or Primitive)" Baptist Church. WBC's leader is Fred Phelps and several of his children and dozens of his grandchildren appear to constitute the majority of the group's members. WBC has no official affiliation with mainstream Baptist organizations.
While WBC members have protested at Jewish institutions over the years, such institutions were not a major focus for the group until April 2009. Since then, WBC has targeted dozens of Jewish institutions around the country, from Israeli consulates to synagogues to Jewish community centers, distributing anti-Semitic fliers to announce planned protests at these sites. WBC has also been sending volumes (in some cases dozens over the course of a week) of faxes and emails with anti-Semitic and anti-gay messages to various Jewish institutions and individuals.
In addition, in April 2010, the group began mailing a virulently anti-Semitic DVD to Jewish organizations and leaders. The DVD also attacks President Obama, describing him as the anti-Christ, and is filled with anti-gay and anti-Catholic vitriol.
Kathy Shaidle, September 13, 2011: Ever seen those 'God Hates Fags' guys and wondered: why doesn't somebody mess with those mo-fos?
Well, guess what I did at the WTC?
If you were born in the middle of the 1960s, the Manson family imprinted themselves on your brain.
The girls looked like this.
I finally saw, up close, those (registered Democrat) Fred Phelps "family" members, with their "God Hates Fags" signs, outside the WTC memorial ceremony.
We wandered over to the location, knowing it was invitation only, but got as close as we could to the loudspeakers and giant TV, outside of Brown Brothers Harriman.
So did the Phelps gang.
I am not joking.
Same long straight brown hair, although mostly casually "up" in ponytails that morning.
And worst: the same creepy, post-orgasmic, beatific smile of every gnostic heretic; the one that says, "I know something you don't know: God loves me SO much more than you."
The cops told them to pack up. They put their signs back into the extra large black artist portfolio cases I now know they carry them in.
And the cops herded them away. Right past me.
So I stuck out my foot and tripped one of the girls.
Yeah, it felt fabulous.
She recovered herself, put her weird "I'm in a cult" smile back on and said, "Ha! Subtle!"
(This from a chick who'd been holding a "You will eat your babies" (?) sign.)
Her friend behind her, this old hag who looked like if the school librarian who'd been trapped in a fire, got in my face and with the most twisted expression you can imagine growled:
"You'll go to hell for all your violence!"
"See you there," I managed to croak.
images via The Guardian and ADL
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What the MSM Isn't Telling You About Medea Benjamin's Tweet-Fest in Egypt
Here's what the mainstream media has failed to report in its coverage of Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin's mad-tweets about being detained overnight in a Cairo holding cell.
According to Israel National News, the organization Stop the ISM has taken responsibility for getting Benjamin deported from Egypt:
The news wires were all abuzz today with the report that Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was deported from Egypt on trying to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Stop the ISM, a division of DAFKA.org was responsible for this.
Upon learning that Benjamin was planning a trip to Gaza under the ruse of bringing lanterns to the Palestinian Arabs, our agency contacted the Egyptian embassy in Washington D.C. and alerted them to her plans. The result was Egyptian officials met her airplane when she arrived and immediately arrested her.
…Benjamin's arrest and deportation show a serious shift in Egypt's relationship with Hamas since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi from that country. Only days ago, Egypt closed the Hamas office in the country and put out a clear signal that Egypt recognizes that the threat from Hamas extremists poses just as much of a threat to stability in Egypt as elsewhere in the Middle East.
Benjamin is part of the ISM network in the United States and was involved in several excursions to Gaza where her NGO's would bring support to the Hamas terrorist leadership in Gaza.
Egypt is to be commended for finally putting a stop to this woman's penchant for encouraging aid to a terrorist organization and disguising that aid as "humanitarian work." In any case, her arrest and removal by the Egyptian authorities is the first concrete step taken toward reining in Hamas in Gaza.
Hamas has been aligning itself more and more with Iran, also increasingly supported by Benjamin, so that she is seen as posing a security concern for Egypt.
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Noah Flooded with Potential for Interfaith Battle
All week I've been seeing anti-Noah posts popping up on Facebook from Christian friends who are convinced that the not-yet-released Darren Aronofsky epic must be a liberal, secularist perversion of the biblical story, morphing Noah into a drunk and spouting an anti-human, pro-environmentalist message. Where'd the controversy come from? According to Jordan Hoffman at the Times of Israel, entertainment trade mag Variety needed to drum up readership on a slow news day:
A strange agenda group for "faith driven consumers" sent out a push-poll asking if people who hadn't yet seen the film if they were "satisfied with a biblically themed film… which replaces the Bible's core message with one created by Hollywood?"
In other words, a bunch of opt-in Christians were asked if they were ready to see what some scarf-wearing artiste from Jew York City had cooked up with his liberal and probably homosexual friends when, you know, they weren't drinking blood and hoarding gold. Some 98% of respondents said that, no, they were not satisfied.
It would have been a nothing story had the press release not been picked up by Variety (one of the main entertainment trade publications) on a particularly slow news day. The Internet ran with headlines that basically read "98% of Christian audiences are enraged by 'Noah!'" forcing Paramount, which has already had plenty of tsuris with this film, to issue an explanatory press release of their own.
The stereotypes Hoffman plays with in his commentary entertainingly highlight the unspoken rift between Jews and Christians when it comes to biblical epics. We, for the most part, stand back while Christians re-interpret our history, our people, our nation, and our sacred text in light of their own slightly Aryan (why are ancient Israelis consistently blue-eyed Brits?) Sunday School memories. This time, however, a Jewish writer/director has paired with a Jewish writer to bring a Torah story to the silver screen. That interpretation has caused Christian uproar, something the filmmakers prepared for when they sought out production partner Rob Moore, who is both a vice chair at Paramount and a devout Christian who supports the film.
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Manufacturing Disney Guilt By Association
No one in the entertainment industry bears the brunt of ire like Disney. For decades, Walt Disney the man and the company he founded have taken hits from critics, reporters, and historians. On far too many occasions Disney has come up against agents of disinformation trying to tarnish its founder, and the company at large finds itself the target of media hatred. From the antics of its former child stars – as if the studio could be responsible for their personal behavior – to the recent attempts to deface Walt Disney that seem to come from out of nowhere, members of the media try to attach any scandal they can to Disney, manufacturing a type of guilt by association.
Two recent stories in the UK's Daily Mail signal this trend. In one article, a trio of would be child molesters work for Walt Disney World, while in the other, a Disney voice actor displays his anti-Israel hatred for the world to see. Disney has no direct involvement in either case, yet the authors of both pieces go out of their way to make the Disney connection in the headlines and in opening paragraphs.
Disney fired the Arabic voice of Donald Duck after he published an anti-Israel tweet:
Disney has dropped the voice of Donald Duck in the Middle East after he said Israel should be demolished.
Wael Mansour no longer works for the global corporation – whose founder Walt Disney was famously accused of being racist and anti-semitic – after he tweeted: 'I truly wish #Israel is demolished, I hate Zionism, I have so much hate inside me with every single child they murder or land they seize'.
He insisted his message was 'anti-Zionist', claiming Israelis were 'just a bunch of Polish / Ethiopian immigrants roughly 70 years old'.
Note the dig at Walt in the second paragraph there – more on that later. Mansour sent the initial tweet in August of 2013, and he announced his firing earlier this month, also via Twitter.
He told his 5,000 Twitter followers: 'Disney decided I am no longer the official voice of Donald Duck in it's middle-east dubbed cartoons because of an anti Zionism tweet. Proud!'
His total has since rocketed to 30,000 followers.
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The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #1: Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan, born in New York City in 1933, started out in life as a talented musician. Training intensively on the violin from the age of six, he played with the Boston College orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony, appeared and won an award on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, and won national competitions as a teenager. In the 1950s Farrakhan—or Louis Wolcott as he was then known—took a different musical tack as a calypso performer. He recorded albums, toured, and in 1955 headlined a show in Chicago called "Calypso Follies." In other words, Louis Wolcott could have gone on contributing something positive to society as a musician and entertainer.
But that year, 1955, in Chicago, he embarked on a different path. Through a friend, Wolcott came into contact with the Nation of Islam, an antiwhite, antisemitic, African-American organization founded in the 1930s. Wolcott joined, converted to Islam, renounced music, and—in a profound sense—was no more, having morphed into Louis Farrakhan. And Farrakhan quickly rose through the Nation of Islam's ranks, becoming its leading figure by the early 1980s. He has also been, for decades, America's most vicious antisemitic rabble-rouser, poisoning thousands of minds or exacerbating poison that was already there. As Discover the Networks notes:
For many years, Farrakhan has ranked among the most influential black figures in America. He draws enormous, standing-room-only crowds of listeners wherever he speaks. An October 1992 lecture he gave in Atlanta actually outdrew a World Series game played there that same night….
Farrakhan's October 16, 1995 "Million Man March" [in Washington] drew several hundred thousand attendees….
Farrakhan has been a mentor and role model to many black radicals, among the most notable being Malik Zulu Shabazz and the late Khalid Abdul Muhammad.
Farrakhan's venues for speeches include mosques, churches, and universities, as well as online lectures. At Madison Square Garden in 1985, he addressed a notable but typical statement to Jews: "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever!"
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The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #2: Students for Justice in Palestine
Students for Justice in Palestine is a vicious, violent, antisemitic organization that hopes to contribute to Israel's destruction. With U.S. campuses a hotbed of antisemitic and anti-Israeli agitation driven mainly by Muslim and leftist organizations, the Anti-Defamation League has called SJP the "most ubiquitous" of these groups.
SJP was founded by Islamic and Marxist activists at Berkeley in 2001. One of its cofounders, Hatem Bazian, is a senior lecturer at UC Berkeley who won notoriety in 2004 by calling for an intifada in the United States. Before cofounding SJP, Bazam was a student activist at San Francisco State University and, according to Rabbi Doug Kahn, "more responsible than any other student on campus for trying to make life miserable for Jewish students." That included working to keep students with Jewish last names out of student government.
SJP's other cofounder is Snehal Shingavi, a Marxist and member of the International Socialist Organization. Shingavi, now at the University of Texas at Austin, made a national splash in 2002 when he offered a course at Berkeley on "Palestinian Resistance" and said conservatives need not apply. He has praised the Taliban, Iraqi terror, and Hamas, and his collaboration with Bazian was a classic case of the Red-Green Alliance.
SJP, which is closely allied with American Muslims for Palestine, has kept growing and now has about 90 chapters at American universities. It held its first national conference at Columbia in 2011. There it promulgated its "Points of Unity," which state that SJP is
committed to ending Israel's occupation and colonization of all Arab lands…. It calls for respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194.
In line with this destroy-Israel agenda, based in part on a nonbinding GA resolution that was unequivocally rejected by the Arab world at the time, SJP mounts "apartheid wall" displays on campuses, campaigns for divestment from Israel, equates Israelis with Nazis, disrupts events with Israeli and pro-Israeli speakers—and worse.
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Boycott, Divestment & ScarJo: Pop Culture Questions #BDS
The boycott/divestment/sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has been the stuff of universities, investment groups and the American Jewish community until now. Thanks to the stardom of Scarlett Johansson the BDS battle has made its way into the mainstream. While pop culture addicts more attuned to the size of Kim Kardashian's rear end will pass by the politically fueled story, chances are that the more intelligent among us, including ScarJo's Avengers following, may take a second look at the morality behind the latest #BDSFail.
The players in this story have drawn a more definitive line in the sand than Walter Sobchak, with left-wing Jewish American sources like the Forward throwing early punches at Johansson's presumed first move into the political realm:
…Johansson would do well to realize that "normalizing" the Israeli occupation is a bad use of her celebrity.
Justifying the sucker punch with statistics from the openly biased "Whoprofits.org" ("a project that researches and exposes 'the commercial involvement of Israeli and international companies' in the occupation"), the Forward got its own slap down from the Israeli leftist paper Ha'aretz, which lives too close to the facts to avoid them completely:
It is true that SodaStream employs hundreds of Palestinians under terms they probably wouldn't get at a similar Palestinian firm and Birnbaum, to his credit, was willing even to embarrass the Israeli president in defence of his Palestinian workers.
ScarJo's decision to leave OxFam was the star's reaction to BDS movement leaders who demanded the international non-profit organization cut ties with the SodaStream spokeswoman who defended the Israeli company, saying:
SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights.
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Obama's Great Jewish Conspiracy That Isn't
Last Thursday, Seth Mandel at Commentary covered a disturbing news report featured in the Jerusalem Post:
A US official close to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry said both men are disturbed over what is being perceived in their inner circle as "Jewish activism in Congress" that they think is being encouraged by the Israeli government, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
The official has informed Israeli government figures that the president and secretary of state are disappointed over repeated attacks made against them by leading members of the Jewish community in the US.
According to Israel Radio, Israeli diplomats and foreign officers have warned against this trend. According to officials based in foreign missions, the Israeli government is increasingly being viewed as fanning the flames among American Jews by encouraging them to promote the official government position while making no room for opposing viewpoints.
FrontPage Magazine, the Weekly Standard , and Breitbart were among the bigger conservative sources to pick up on the story, but that's not surprising. The shocker is the lack of coverage on the part of left-wing Jewish-American news sources, like the Forward and Tablet Magazine. Even the non-partisan Jewish Telegraphic Agency has failed to cover the story that, as Tom Wilson at Commentary succinctly explains, has extremely plausible grounding in the scenario of current peace talks.
So much for an Israel lobby on American shores. The "Joos" who are supposedly taking orders from Israel don't even bother to say a word to defend their dreaded Lord and Master Zion in the face of the Obama administration's aggression. Guess they didn't get the memo.
The one Jewish American response that hasn't come from a conservative news source was written by a former Forward editor …and published in Israel's left-wing Ha'aretz. Commenting on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's address to the Knesset, former Forward editor and current editor of the New York Sun Seth Lipsky writes:
The American leader is sending out word that he is "disturbed" by "Jewish activism in Congress" against his administration's entente with Iran. Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, according to Israel Radio, are even blaming Prime Minister Netanyahu's government for encouraging Jewish leaders to criticize the White House. We haven't had this tone since President George H.W. Bush carped about being "one lonely little guy" beset by the Israel lobby.
Obama's message hints at the kind of double-dual-loyalty libel that Harper confronted so bluntly in articulating the basis of the policies that have made him the most pro-Israel premier outside Jerusalem. …
…What is so striking about Harper's speech is not the ardent expressions of friendship — all recent American presidents, including Obama, have done the same. Particularly George W. Bush, who, in the well of the Knesset, spoke of the "Chosen People" and called the Jewish state "the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David." What is striking about Harper's speech is the willingness to confront political correctness and call the hostility to Israel for what it is.
That's what makes Israel the "holy land": 2 Jews with 3 opinions can still manage to agree on 1 thing: Political correctness can't mask blatant hostility towards Israel.
If only the American Jews would get the memo. After all, my fellow politically conservative Jews and I can't be the only ones bringing food to the "We've Conquered the World" after-party.
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The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #3: Thomas Friedman
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was for a long time a particularly harsh critic of Israel. The criticism had a special edge, a sneer, to it. The Israelis were such idiots he almost couldn't believe it.
As in a November 2009 column where Friedman asserted:
Right now [America] want[s] [peace] more than the parties…. Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything hard for peace with each other…. [T]hen I say, let them enjoy it. I just don't want to subsidize it or anesthetize it anymore. We need to fix America. If and when they get serious, they'll find us. And when they do, we should put a detailed U.S. plan for a two-state solution, with borders, on the table….
Full disclosure: Israelis don't like this sort of thing. We don't like being derided by a comfortable American Jew like Thomas Friedman for "not feeling enough pain," not wanting peace. We don't like being told that we and our rather peace- and democracy-challenged neighbors are on the same peace-refusing page, and a "detailed U.S. plan" is all it would take for flowers of harmony to sprout.
Then there was the March 2010 dust-up when Vice President Biden was here, and the Israeli Interior Ministry committed the terrific faux pas of announcing plans for apartments—for Jews, no less—in a Jerusalem neighborhood. Biden, Friedman wrote,
should have… flown home and left the following scribbled note behind: "Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don't let friends drive drunk. And right now, you're driving drunk. You think you can embarrass your only true ally in the world, to satisfy some domestic political need, with no consequences? You have lost total contact with reality. Call us when you're serious…."
Again, those damn idiot Israelis. If one were to veer into the psychological, one would note that in these outbursts Friedman himself is suffering embarrassment over what he sees as his boorish country cousins, and contrasting this rather emphatically with his American allegiance.
And there were other instances, as when, writing from Tahrir Square, Cairo, in February 2011, Friedman celebrated what he called a "Facebook-driven, youth-led democracy uprising" and jeered at Israel's leadership—after all, what did these country rubes know about the region they lived in?—for being so "out-of-touch, in-bred, unimaginative and cliché-driven" as to think that the fall of Hosni Mubarak would usher in the Muslim Brotherhood.
All this, again, was especially nasty criticism, but not antisemitism. But if there's one thing you learn from looking into antisemitism in today's world, it's that the severe and persistent Israel-critics have a larger Jewish problem.
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Who Wants Barack Obama As Her Baby's Godfather?
This is Week 3, day 3 of my new 13 Weeks Radical Reading Experiment. I keep a daily journal of the most interesting media that crosses my path each day. See or create something I should check out? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
1. Seth Mandel at Commentary: Obama Administration to Israel: Call Off the Jews, Please
I made a point to put this story on top because it's the most important thing I read yesterday. It's more chilling evidence of how the conspiratorial vision of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright shaped how Barack Obama leads the country:
The latest dustup in U.S.-Israel relations is one that makes you wonder if Obama administration officials have a shred of self-awareness. The Jerusalem Post reports that the president is unhappy with the Israeli government because his consistent opposition to sanctions on Iran is not meeting with universal approval from American Jewish groups. And why does this make him upset with Israel? Because he apparently believes that such dissent must be the product of foreign influence:
A US official close to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry said both men are disturbed over what is being perceived in their inner circle as "Jewish activism in Congress" that they think is being encouraged by the Israeli government, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
The official has informed Israeli government figures that the president and secretary of state are disappointed over repeated attacks made against them by leading members of the Jewish community in the US.
The president and secretary of state would like American Jews' foreign handlers and sponsors to please stop riling up the Jews, because those Jews then practice their voodoo on members of Congress. Now, while this is obviously a very stupid thing for the president and secretary of state to believe–conspiracy theorists love the Walt-Mearsheimer dark tales of Jewish influence, but rarely do serious or intelligent people fall for it–it is even dumber to, you know, say out loud.
This is who our president actually is. He is a man who not only believes that those criticizing him do so because the Israeli government has directed them to do so, but will say it. He genuinely believes that there is a Jewish conspiracy and that it is a more malevolent actor against him and America, than say, the Muslim Brotherhood or Vladimir Putin.
One of the few things that comforts me about this is the knowledge that America has survived having antisemitic, paranoid, lying presidents in the past…
2. Bridget Johnson here at PJM: Carney: Just Ignore Iran; We Won't Be Releasing Text of Nuke Agreement
White House press secretary Jay Carney brushed off the Iranian foreign minister's claims that there is no dismantling of their nuclear program in the p5+1 agreement.
Mohammad Javad Zarif told CNN during an interview in Davos that "the White House version both underplays the concessions and overplays Iranian commitments."
"The White House tries to portray it as basically a dismantling of Iran's nuclear program. That is the word they use time and again," he said. "If you find a single, a single word, that even closely resembles dismantling or could be defined as dismantling in the entire text, then I would take back my comment."
Zarif urged the CNN reporter to read the agreement, but the White House won't release the text — claiming that the P5+1 agreed there was some technical information in the document that should remain classified.
"We've said before that we expected the Iranian government to spin the commitments they made under the joint plan of action for their domestic political purposes," Carney told reporters in today's briefing.
Because Millennials wanted Obamacare and John McCain was too cowardly to talk about Rev. Wright — he actually fired campaigners who did — Iran will end up with a nuclear weapon. Political failures result in military catastrophe.
3. Peter Beinart at The Atlantic: Rand Paul Is the 2016 Republican Frontrunner
Start with Iowa. Last May, Rand Paul gave the keynote speech at the Iowa Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner. How did he secure this prize invitation? Because the chairman, co-chairman, and finance chairman of the Iowa Republican Party all supported his father. Rand Paul's not the only potential 2012 candidate who will inherit a political infrastructure in the Hawkeye State. Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee also have networks left over from prior runs. But their supporters don't play as influential a role in the state GOP. "RPI no longer stands for the Republican Party of Iowa," noted arecent article in Politico, "but for Rand Paul, Inc."
Because the Iowa GOP will elect new leaders next spring, it's unlikely "Paulestinians" will so thoroughly dominate the party leadership in 2016. But Craig Robinson, former political director of the Iowa GOP, says that's actually to Rand Paul's advantage, since it will free up some of Iowa's most powerful Republicans to run his 2016 campaign.
If there's one thing that could obviate all this, it's the possibility that Paul could suffer his own candidacy-crippling scandal. He's already gotten himself into trouble for plagiarism and employing neo-Confederates. Who knows what the media will turn up when the real vetting that greets a presidential candidate begins?
That this story is written by Peter Beinart is significant, of course. Here was Ron Radosh a few weeks ago: "How Peter Beinart Defends the Repulsive Views of the Antisemitic Jew Max Blumethal."
Rand Paul is unfit to be president for the same reason that Obama was: having an unrepentant antisemitic conspiracy theorist as one of your core mentors means you are an evil person. And Rand Paul was campaigning for his father in 2008, invoking his father's antisemitic mentors in 2009 during his Senate campaign, writing a book with a neo-confederate staffer in 2010, and defending him in 2013 after his fantasies of assassinating Abraham Lincoln were revealed.
What's Jack Hunter doing now? Here's the publication that's decided to hire him…
4. Betsy Rothstein at the Daily Caller: Rare's new motto: Pink is the Center
Well, today, Rare's newest editorial hire, Jack Hunter, who has reportedly judged wet T-shirt contests, worn a mask emblazoned with the Confederate flag and supported the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, both backed up and contradicted internal orders (depending whom you believe) by announcing Rare's extremely strong stance on gay marriage: They are all in and all for it.
As an aside, Hunter is listed both as Rare's Editor and a "contributing editor."
"There is a civil war happening in the Republican Party over the issue of same-sex marriage," he wrote. (A pretty strange metaphor for someone who has said repeatedly that he supports the slave-holding South's independence.) "There are two sides—the winning side and the losing side. The winning side are those who believe the time for same sex marriage has come… The losing side are those who believe the country will somehow reverse course on this issue despite every single cultural indicator showing otherwise."
Question: now that Rare has a gay-marriage-only editorial line will they continue to publish the antisemitic, very anti-gay marriage, paleoconservative Patrick Buchanan?
5. Ed Driscoll here at PJ Media: Why Does the Left Hate Hillary Clinton So?
Goddess worship. What more do you need?
6. Vanity Fair: Why the "Planet Hillary" New York Times Magazine Cover Is a Legitimate Dadaist Masterpiece
What a fantastic piece of art! Did you notice that all the cover lines are puns about space? "The gravitational pull of a possible campaign," "the Chelsea quasar," "the Friends-of-Bill black hole," etc. Other, less rhetorical questions: why can't planets have hair? Like, obviously planets don't have faces and smiles, so our disbelief is already suspended. Why not just give her/it hair? She looks like Benjamin Button toward the end (beginning?) of that movie. (Full disclosure: we never saw Benjamin Button.)
Second question: why isn't, say, "the Chelsea quasar" in the shape of Chelsea Clinton's disembodied head? Why is Planet Hillary the only anthropomorphized astronomical entity? ("A quasar in the shape of a person? That's stupid. But a planet in the shape of a person? Now that's a metaphor.")
Third question: if the boys over in graphics were going to turn Hillary into a planet, couldn't they at least have made her an attractive rock planet? Why all the mountains and valleys to represent wrinkles? It's an invented astral body! It's not like the mountains and valleys correspond to actual geological properties of a real place. Also: in real life, Hillary Clinton's eyebrows are notably well-maintained. Why the unflattering half-brows? Or are those mountain ranges framing her ocean eyes?
7. Dave Weigel at Slate: Important Hillary Clinton-as-Planet Meme
8. Ann Coulter's New Column This Week: THE HEROISM OF WENDY DAVIS
Slater says Davis' kids lived with Jeff Davis in Texas while she attended law school. Wendy Davis claims her girls lived with her during her first year of law school. Let's say that's true. Why not the other two years? And what was the matter with the University of Texas Law School?
Sorry, MSNBC, I know you want to fixate on how many months Davis spent in the trailer park and her precise age when the first divorce went through. And that would be an incredibly stupid thing for conservatives to obsess on, if they were, in fact, obsessing on it. But I'm still stuck on her leaving her kids behind while she headed off to a law school 1,500 miles away.
The reason Wendy Davis' apocryphal story was impressive is that single mothers have to run a household, take care of kids and provide for a family all by themselves. But Wendy was neither supporting her kids, nor raising them. If someone else is taking care of your kids and paying your tuition, that's not amazing.
I wonder what a private conversation between Hillary Clinton and Wendy Davis would sound like.
9. Tony Lee at Breitbart News: CNN PLANS TO SPEND YEAR FOCUSING ON REVELATIONS IN PETER SCHWEIZER'S 'EXTORTION'
Schweizer, as Breitbart News has extensively reported, detailed some of the ways in which politicians legally extract wealth from Americans in his best-selling book Extortion. He revealed:
How Democratic Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-CA) funneled at least $294,245 in campaign cash to herself by loaning her campaign money in 1998 at a staggering 18% interest rate and then letting the loan linger unpaid for 20 years
Top-secret "price lists," known officially as "party dues," that include the donation totals members of Congress must raise to land top committee spots and chairmanships
How leadership PAC loopholes allow members of Congress to convert campaign cash into lavish lifestyle upgrades for themselves and their family members
Allegations that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) bagged over $200,000 in donations from executives and companies prior to holding votes on three bills of critical importance to their industries
How President Barack Obama used a political extortion tactic known as a "double milker bill" to "milk" millions in donations by pitting Obama's friends in Hollywood against his supporters in Silicon Valley to extract cash from both
10. The Daily Mail: The real Goodfellas: FBI arrest New York mafia suspected of carrying out the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist
This is the first time any accused member of the mafia has ever faced charges in connection with the crime.
The arrests of the five men follows a discovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of human remains at a New York property tied to James 'Jimmy the Gent' Burke last summer.
Burke, the suspected mastermind of the heist, died in prison in 1996 while serving time for the murder of a drug dealer. Actor Robert De Niro played a character based on Burke in the film.
Question: which is more morally objectionable and destructive, a bunch of mobsters who steal $5 million dollars in 1978 or a President who, to take just one example, enables his campaign supporters to legally steal $535 million in government loans before declaring bankruptcy?
11. J. Christian Adams quotes from the press release: Dinesh D'Souza Indicted By Eric Holder's DOJ
In 2012, the Election Act limited both primary and general election campaign contributions to $2,500 for a total of $5,000 from any individual to any one candidate. In August 2012, D'SOUZA directed other individuals with whom he was associated to make contributions to the campaign committee for a candidate for the United States Senate (the "Campaign Committee") that totaled $20,000. D'SOUZA then reimbursed those individuals for the contributions. By directing the illegal contributions to be made, D'SOUZA also caused the Campaign Committee to falsely report to the FEC the sources and amounts of those contributions to the campaign.
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D'SOUZA, 52, of San Diego, California, is charged with one count of causing $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions to be made to a candidate for the United States Senate in calendar year 2012, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison. He also is charged with one count of causing false statements to be made to the FEC in connection with the illegal campaign contributions, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
I'm not a D'Souza defender at all. I think his critique of Obama in both his book and film were wrong-headed. Naming Obama's anti-colonialism and his father's ideology as the keys to understanding him is like saying that the Filet-o-Fish and McRib are the most popular menu items at McDonald's.
And it wasn't the first time he's been really wrong about a major issue. Remember his horrific book about 9/11 that claimed the "cultural Left" had inspired the Jihadists to attack us over our decadent Britney Spears society? Robert Spencer took him apart in a memorable debate.
12. At Salon: 6 reasons female nudity can be powerful
6. Self-defined public female nudity is a challenge to capitalism and its uses of women as products, props, assets and distributable resources. Nothing on Earth is used to drive sales and profits and display male wealth and status like women's, often naked and semi-naked, bodies. If you are thinking women make choices and are complicit, show contempt for other women because they are women — well, of course some of them do. That is a defining feature of misogyny. Until we have equal access to resources, and are not subject to constant predation, this is a no-brainer. In the meantime, when women refuse to sexualize themselves and use their bodies to challenge powerful interests that profit from that sexualization, the words we should use aren't "lewd" and "obscene"; they're "threatening" and "destabilizing."
Women who use public nudity for social commentary, art and protest are myth-busting along many dimensions: active, not passive; strong not vulnerable; together, not isolated; public, not private; and, usually, angry, not alluring. The morality offense is misogyny, not nudity.
13. Graphic Images at the Daily Mail: Starved, tortured then throttled: The true horror of how Assad's soldiers execute rebel prisoners is revealed in new images
More photographs showing the maimed bodies of alleged victims of 'systematic killings' in Syrian prisons have been released today.
The second cache of photos paints an even clearer image of the horrendous conditions and gruesome torture in government-run jails in Syria.
The images, some of the 55,000 leaked by a witness 'tasked with recording deaths in custody', were taken between 2011 and 2013.
14. Zombie at the PJ Tatler: Kiddie Porn Does Not Count as 'Moral Turpitude' to S.F. Govt.
A former high-ranking San Francisco government employee convicted of felony possession of child pornography will continue to receive his government pension because, according to city regulations, evidence of "moral turpitude" is required to revoke a pension yet viewing violent kiddie porn does not qualify as moral turpitude.
As reported here in the Tatler, Larry Brinkin, a prominent San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner and nationally known gay rights advocate, was arrested in 2012 for possessing and possibly distributing videos and images of babies being raped by adult men. Because of Brinkin's "iconic" stature in the community as the person who pioneered "domestic partnership" laws nationwide, supporters at the time accused the police of framing him with false charges. But the evidence was so overwhelming that, after 18 months of legal wrangling, on Tuesday, January 21, Brinkin pled guilty to felony possession of child pornography, with various other more serious charges dropped as part of the plea bargain. He will serve just six months in jail and thereafter have to register as a sex offender.
On the second page of Zombie's post he has some horrific excerpts of Brinkin's comments about the violent videos he was sharing. Making them even more chilling is the way his racism expresses itself.
15. Daily Mail: Killer who kept six women as sex slaves in a home-made dungeon and murdered two of them is executed in China
During their incarceration he repeatedly raped them, forced them to have sex with other men for money and made them perform in pornographic web shows.
When you see a woman performing online how do you really know that she's doing so by her own consent and that she's 18 or older? You don't. This is the real danger of internet pornography, far darker than the commonly discussed problem of men dropping out of relationships to retreat into a virtual realm. It's a world where anyone can shoot a video and throw it online in minutes, perhaps not even breaking the law in the foreign country where they're shooting.
16. Megan Fox continues her investigations here at PJ Lifestyle: In the Age of Information Orland Park Public Library Can't Use Skype to Hear Expert on Library Porn
Kleinman has been waging this war against porn in libraries for 20 years now, largely on his own since his friend and SafeLibraries.org partner died several years ago. There is no one more well-versed in the ALA's tactics, lies, intimidation techniques, and actual court cases involving pornography in libraries than Kleinman; refusing him the right to speak on behalf of children and parents who don't want porn in libraries is nothing less than willful deceit of the public on behalf of the OPPL.
17. Kathy Shaidle here at PJ Lifestyle: Ted Nugent Did What?
That may explain why — until I read about it in the comments beneath Gavin's article — I'd never heard of Ted Nugent's relationship with a 17-year-old girl.
Trying to get the truth about this felt like a game of "telephone," with hysterical left-wing sites like The Daily Kos quoting Wikipedia quoting Spin magazine, circa 2000:
In 1978, 30-year-old Ted Nugent fell in love with 17-year-old Hawaiian lovely Pele Massa. To keep the hassle factor low, the Motor City Madman convinced the girl's parents to sign documents that officially made Nugent Pele's guardian. His pitch? Better a horny, rich, drug-free, right-wing bow hunter than a horny, poor, stoned high school student.
That's the most authoritative citation I've found so far.
18. The Daily Mail: The 2,300-year-old torture chamber: Ancient dungeon containing a 'bloody well and death rooms' unearthed in Turkey
Archaeologists and the Bursa Muncipality plan to turn the dungeons and corridors into an open-air museum. Yimiz said torture tools will also be put on display, and the museum is expected to be ready by 2016.
The past is so much darker than we're ready to accept but if we can overcome it then the future will be brighter than we can imagine.
19. Stephen Green on PJTV: Bill Gates: No More Poor Countries by 2035
20. Gossip Cop: Kerry Washington Asked President Obama To Be Baby's Godfather, Claims Report
A so-called "informant" for the tab says, "Kerry's been courting the President and First Lady for some time now because she wants to play Michelle in a movie."
The purported "insider" goes on to allege, "She's desperate to have someone as prestigious as the Obamas as her baby's godparents and plans on casually asking Michelle at the next fundraiser they attend together."
It seems like someone over at Star has been watching too much "Scandal."
For some bizarre reason, the magazine and its sister publication the National Enquirer are intent on trying to link the actress to Obama, despite how obviously ridiculous the idea is.
In any case, Gossip Cop checked in with a source close to the situation, who laughed off the outlandish story.
April 2012 at the Daily Mail:
Michelle Obama has banned actress Kerry Washington from the White House because she it 'too flirty' with the President, it was sensationally claimed today.
The First Lady was said to have a 'watch list' of women that were to be kept away from her 50-year-old husband – but it's a story one White House official claims it totally false.
According to an article in the National Enquirer, Mrs Obama, 48, planned to keep the actress at arm's length – despite Miss Washington's honorary post on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
"It always comes down to my gut, my gut tells me everything I need to know." — Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, expressing the matriarchal credo.
Last week my wife April and I finished watching the first two seasons of Scandal on Netflix streaming. It's a show popular among Washington D.C.'s progressives, kind of an Obama-era fantasy West Wing only since they already have their dream president in office this time around it's a wimpy, corrupt, center-right Republican president. (Added bonus: among the main villains is a married and gay chief of staff who does most of the President's dirty work.)
The show is a celebration of political amorality and conspiracy theory culture. In it Washington plays a scandal fixer who runs an elite firm of dedicated super-lawyers while she maintains an affair with the president. Throughout the seasons both she and the President and his henchmen commit crimes that should put them away in jail for life. There are no heroes — both "sides" are equally corrupt and criminal. In future PJ Lifestyle pieces I'll begin exploring some of the themes in the show, explaining how it promotes nihilism, postmodernism, and conspiracism with entertaining plots and badass characters. It's truly a show of the Obama era, perfectly in synch with what I've begun describing as Single Mom Nation. Perhaps some PJ Lifestyle contributors would like to join me in dissecting another dark show poisoning American culture?
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The Ten Worst U.S. Purveyors of Antisemitism, #4: Ali Abunimah
If you oppose Israel's existence, and especially if you work for its destruction, you're an antisemite—even if you don't say things like "Jews are always out for your money," "Jews control all the world's governments and banks," "Jews drink blood at Passover," etc.
Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and about half the world's Jews live in it. If you devote yourself to its dissolution, you're anti-Jewish—antisemitic—just as someone devoted to America's dissolution would, of course, be anti-American.
Ali Abunimah, an American of Palestinian descent who runs the Electronic Intifada website, has been called "the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." "One-state solution" is code for Israel's demise, to be replaced by a country of mixed Arab and Jewish population that would, however, extend the "right of return" to millions of descendants of (purported) Palestinian Arabs.
In other words, there would no longer be any Jewish state anywhere in the world, but there would be yet another Arab state in the Middle East, one where Jews would be a minority. For an idea of how that would work out, one can consider the current situation of Christians in the Arab Middle East.
Indeed, Ali Abunimah himself has acknowledged that, under a "one-state solution":
You can never have an absolute guarantee about what the future will be like….You cannot guarantee that if there was a one-state solution it wouldn't, it would be…the best scenario is if it's more in the direction of South Africa and Northern Ireland than Zimbabwe. But we couldn't rule out, you know, some disastrous situation, like Zimbabwe.
Not only couldn't we rule it out, we could be sure of it, and almost all Israeli Jews know it. But for Abunimah and so many like him, the current tally of at least two Palestinian states, twenty-three Arab states, and forty-nine Muslim states isn't enough; the one Jewish state has got to go.
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The Hypocrisy of the Leftist Response to Ariel Sharon's Death
I don't celebrate death of anyone. Sharon will meet his Creator and answer to massacres and destruction committed by him. He was a criminal.
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) January 11, 2014
Editor's Note: This is Part V of an ongoing series by Robert Spencer highlighting human rights hypocrisy and fraudulent peace activists. For Part I, see "The Hypocrisy of the 'Islamophobia' Scam," for Part II, see "The Hypocrisy of the Fatwa Against Terrorism," for Part III "The Hypocrisy of the Feminist Response to Islam's Oppression of Women," for Part IV see last week's "The Hypocrisy of the Western Christian Response to Muslim Persecution of Christians."
Leftists and Islamic supremacists took to Twitter on Saturday morning to take their last shots at Ariel Sharon.
New York-based Linda Sarsour tweeted piously: "I don't celebrate death of anyone. Sharon will meet his Creator and answer to massacres and destruction committed by him. He was a criminal." Sarsour is a rabidly antisemitic Islamic supremacist who has said that "nothing is creepier than Zionism" and has equated it with "racism." She is also a frequent visitor to the Obama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA agent – part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam.
Sarsour is a practiced exploiter of the "hate" smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America. Although she decries "hate," she is venomously hateful herself – as is clear in this self-righteous, self-pitying, foul-mouthed, hate-filled and utterly off-putting performance at a "comedy show," which reveals that the preening preachers of the "Islamophobia" myth are the real haters. Her lurid tweet envisioning Sharon being damned to hell by a vengeful Allah showed it yet again.
Sarsour wasn't alone. Others focused on Sharon's alleged "war crimes." Hard-Left journalist Glenn Greenwald, hero of the Snowden scandal, pointed out helpfully:
The BBC obit gives a surprisingly clear account of Ariel Sharon's decades of savagery and war criminality http://t.co/wpLOFrQWJP
DHS Adviser Mohamed Elibiary, who once spoke at a conference honoring the Ayatollah Khomeini, chimed in:
Woke up today 2rpt Aerial Sharon has died. As young teen I did media interview @ Dallas protest against Sharon over Sabra & Shatila. #Killer
Leftist cartoonist Carlos Latuff drew a cartoon of Sharon walking down a stairway into hell, weighed down by leg iron balls labeled "Sabra," "Shatila," "Qibya," and "Jenin," while a righteous figure clad all in white except for a Palestinian flag over his chest looked on.
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A few months ago Ron Paul touched off a media flap by agreeing to give the keynote address, on September 11, to a conference of the Fatima Center in Niagara Falls, Canada. The American Jewish Committee said it was "appalled" and "dismayed" and called on Paul to reconsider. Of course, he did not take the advice.
The Fatima Center is a Catholic fringe group whose leader, Father Nicholas Gruner, was suspended by the Vatican in 1996.
As a Huffington Post blogger noted at the time, the center,
has in the past published writing suggesting that Jews should be stripped of certain civil rights…. Gruner [and other leaders] have for over two decades promoted claims that a global conspiracy of wealthy "apostate Jews" and Freemasons—who are alleged to have financed Hitler and the Nazis and hold a "Hitler-like doctrine of exterminating the gentile races and repopulating the Earth with their own kind"—is plotting to institute a "New World Order" global government under the command of the anti-Christ.
…Also…at the event will be speakers who have promoted Holocaust denial and portrayed global warming as a hoax that will be used to justify a Jewish and Israeli-led genocide of most of the Earth's population, and who reject the long-established scientific fact that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Gruner himself is a blatant Holocaust denier, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has called the Fatima Center "perhaps the single largest group of hard-core anti-Semites in North America."
What, then, was the longtime congressman and three-time presidential aspirant doing—on September 11, of all days—addressing such a gathering?
The answer is that he fit right in.
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MELIANTHUS (Melianth'us)
These slightly hardy to frost-tender perennials and shrubs are native to South Africa. They are mainly grown for the beauty of their foliage. M. major (Honeybush) is a large, evergreen shrub that grows from 6 to 10+ feet high, or up to 4 feet high in cool climates. It has a spread from 6 to 10 feet. The evergreen or deciduous, glaucous blue leaves grow up to 18 inches long and are divided into 7 to 13, toothed, oval leaflets. The small, tubular, brownish-red flowers are produced in foot-long, terminal spikes, in the summer. We have nice stand of this M. major (Honeybush)the birds love the flowers. They are blooming now. In the Dirt,
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Looks interesting, but a little big for my garden. |
Hello Stella, I have two M. villosus plants (kruidjie-roer-my-nie). This winter is a true test of their hardiness, as they are in pots on my deck where temps in the teens were recorded during the last week of October. Fortunately it has not been that cold again, although the past three weeks persistently had morning temps of 25 degrees F. I cut the stems down to the ground, and apparently they will resprout in the spring and grow fast, as is their habit. M. villosus does not get as tall as M. major but they are striking plants, and very good subjects for container growing. Some folks on the Northwestern Gardening forum has posted pics of fabulous specimens of M. major growing there. I find the smell of the M. villosus intriguing, it is somewhere between castor oil and peanut butter. I have noticed that the darn deer leaves them alone. What other S.African plants do you grow? Delina |
- Posted by Susi_So_Calif USDA10/Sunset24 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 16, 03 at 3:32
I've got both M. major and M. comosus blooming now. Anybody need seedlings/seeds of M. comosus? Thing is VERY prolific! |
I have Melianthus major here for ten years growing under very difficult conditions. It is between two mature douglas firs which suck up all the nutrients and what ever moisture the winter brings, as they get no summer water. They do not get any taller than about 8 feet but they do bloom every year. I enjoy the unusual type foliage as a backround to my ceanothus ground cover. Al |
- Posted by Salvia_guy z8 OR (My Page) on Tue, Feb 18, 03 at 0:30
My M. cosmosus came through a cold snap we had back on 10/31/02. It didn't even seem to effect the plant. The temps overnight went down to 18F, 20F and 21F on 10/31, 11/1. 11/2. from THE WET ZONE 8 |
I am in Walnut Creek, CA, zone 14, Sunset 7. I have my plant under the canopy of a large Valley Oak. I have been told that there are some unattended plants in our area that are in full sun and doing quite well, blooming and thriving. Do most of you think of this as a partial shade plant? How easy is it to propagate? The books say very easy but we have not had any branches root. We have several branches bent to the ground to get them to root and then we will clip them. I would love to have some more suggestions for propagating this beautiful plant. sps |
It grows easily from seed. Also, when I transplanted mine last year, I noticed that they have thick fibrous roots and were sending up sideshoots ... my guess would be that it would be easy to start a "baby" by spading off a side growth section and repotting. Delina |
Propagation of M. major is easiest from root divisions. Look for underground shoots with both already developed roots and a growth tip. Seems to be fairly easy to get started once the weather has warmed up abit, try in April or May. The plants seem very variable in their preferences; I think it looks its best with dappled shade, but have also seen it doing well in full hot sun and little summer water. It definitely grows more vigorously with regular summer irrigation. |
- Posted by Stella_Blue USDA 9 SS 24 CA (My Page) on Tue, Feb 25, 03 at 1:37
Hi Modjadje, Below is a list of other S. African plants that I grow. I could have more and not even know. I have a more complete list of our over 400 plants. You can get to it from my members page if you care to identify any for me I would be grateful. Now that my garden is mostly planted I mostly try to keep up with all the volunteers. But now I have time to work on my plant database and photos and spend some time in the forums. I have a piture of our Melianthus.major in my journal. Carpobrotus chilensis - Bulbinella floribunda - Strelitzia reginae - Clivia miniata - Brugmansia grand marnier - Agapanthus africanus - Trichodiadema densum - Aloe plicatilis - Ferraria crispa - Crassula coccinea - Aloe brevifolia - Dymondia margueritae - Veltheimia bracteata - Watsonia beatricis - Cotyledon macrantha - Ceropegia woodii Thank you, |
Has anybody grown both M. comosus and villosus? M. comosus is definitely zn. 7 in terms of root hardiness. After all Rachel lists it as such and I have had them survive pretty cold winters here in the DC suburbs. However the top does die down below about 20F in my experience. My problem is it appears to bloom on old wood, and the flower buds were forming in December(!), so it will have no chance of blooming here. |
- Posted by Matt_Houghton (My Page) on Sat, Nov 1, 03 at 18:03
Anyone know a source for M. major here in Seattle area? Thanks |
Matt, do a thorough search of our local retailers in the spring. I have seen it available in a couple places - usually in small pots. Here is a pic of what is by far the largest Melianthus major I have ever seen, in Yachats, Oregon. I have posted it before. |
Can someone spare some M. major seeds? I could trade some seed from a lovely sort of apricot colored Gaillardia... Let me know please! BigDogs |
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Benefits claim man who said he was too ill to work caught playing golf - court
Last updated at 12:16, Tuesday, 06 March 2012
A Cumbrian man who claimed nearly £39,000 in Disability Living Allowance over nine years was secretly filmed playing golf and renovating a house, a court heard.
On his claim form, filled out in 2001, Leigh Neilly, 41, told officials he could walk no more than 100m without feeling severe discomfort and that it took him up to 10 minutes to cover that distance.
He said he needed somebody beside him outside because there was a danger his legs might "give way".
Neilly also wrote that he had difficulty gripping a toothbrush, the jury heard.
But Carlisle Crown Court was yesterday shown a series of covert surveillance videos taken last year. On one occasion, said prosecutor Tim Evans, the defendant was filmed striding across Silloth Golf Course and he was filmed driving the ball down the fairway.
Neilly denies benefit fraud by making false claims about his health, and a charge of failing to tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) his health had improved enough to affect his claim.
Mr Evans said benefit fraud is not a victimless crime because taxpayers are defrauded when money goes to those who do not deserve it.
"The Crown says that Leigh Neilly is just such an individual: that he made a claim to benefit suggesting he had a severe disability which he quite simply did not have," said Mr Evans.
Mr Evans said that the Crown's case was that Neilly's claim for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) – made in October 2001 – had been fraudulent from the outset. He said: "In any event, it is plain he was not throughout the period you are concerned with severely disabled. You will see his prowess on the golf course and his house renovations.
"It is plain, therefore, that if it ever was severe – which the Crown suggest it was never – that it came to very significantly improve."
The jury was then shown a series of video surveillance clips, taken at various times during 2010, when Neilly, of Wampool Street, Silloth, was still claiming DLA.
In the video of Mr Neilly on Silloth Golf Course, said Mr Evans, he is seen striding across the green, with nobody there to support him.
Commenting of a shot which the prosecutions says shows the defendant driving the ball across the fairway, Mr Evans said: "You can see what happens – the ball goes, and the club stays." In another clip, Neilly is shown chipping the ball onto the green.
Mr Evans said the jury should ask whether this was a man who had trouble gripping a toothbrush?
Between April 2001 and July 2002, a period straddling the defendant's DLA claim, Neilly played 19 rounds of competitive golf, the jury heard.Between 2002, when he joined Silloth Golf Club, and 2008, his golfing handicap improved, said Mr Evans.At no point in his eight years as a member of the club, continued the barrister, did Neilly use the motorised golf buggy available for members who had trouble walking.
The jury then heard evidence from DWP fraud investigator Alan Robinson, who led the covert surveillance of the defendant in 2010.
Mr Robinson confirmed that a man seen arriving on a bike at a house in Silloth and then working on its renovation was the defendant.
The film showed him carrying a ladder, and shaking out a dust sheet, and also emptying a large bucket of water onto the street. Later footage showed the same man cycling home, with just one hand on the handlebars because he was smoking a cigarette.
In yet another video sequence, the defendant was filmed walking through Penrith town centre, and browsing in the town's British Heart Foundation charity shop.
The final sequence shows Neilly carrying two large shopping bags back to his Motability car with his wife walking at his side. Asked how far the defendant had walked that day, Mr Robinson confirmed that he had measured the distance as being 1,489 yards.
"At any stage," asked Mr Evans, "did he have to stop and rest?" Mr Robinson replied: "I did not see that at all."
The case continues.
First published at 11:29, Tuesday, 06 March 2012
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
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i've been wanting to make beef wellington ever since i started watching hell's kitchen...i love chef ramsay!! well i finally made it last night for valentines dinner and i have to say it came out wonderful! here's the recipe he uses on the show along with two additions i made (the shallots & garlic). this isnt a difficult recipe its just time consuming with the wait times, but remember that most of the steps can be done in advance.
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- 1 lb filet mignon
- 1 lb mushroom
- 6 -8 slices procuitto ham
- 1 large shallot
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon
- 1 (10 ounce) package puff pastry
- flour, to dust
- 2 egg yolks, beaten
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons basil
- 2 teaspoons thyme
- 1 dash sea salt, to taste
- 1 dash pepper, to taste
- 1heat olive oil in a frying pan.
- 2season fillet with garlic powder, basil, salt & pepper.
- 3sear on all sides for 25 seconds. (you dont want to cook it at this stage, just color it.).
- 4remove fillet from the pan and leave to cool.
- 5put the mushrooms, shallots & garlic in a food processor with thyme, salt & pepper -- pulse to a rough paste.
- 6scrape the mixture into the same pan and cook over high heat for 10-15 minutes, tossing frequently, to cook out all of the moisture from the mushrooms. spread out on a plate to cool.
- 7brush the fillet with mustard.
- 8preheat the oven to 400.
- 9lay a sheet of cling wrap on a work surface and arrange the procuitto slices on it, in slightly overlapping rows.
- 10spread the mushroom paste over the ham, then place the seared fillet in the middle.
- 11spread more mushroom paste on top of the fillet and top with the remaining procuitto.
- 12using the cling wrap, neatly roll the procuitto and mushrooms around the fillet and twist the ends to secure. chill for 15 minutes to allow the fillet to set and keep its shape.
- 13roll out puff pastry on a floured surface til the thickness of a penny and brush with egg yolk.
- 14remove the plastic wrap from the beef and lay in the center.
- 15fold the ends over and then wrap the fillet in pastry, cutting off any excess. turn over so the seam is on the bottom and place on a baking sheet.
- 16brush all over with egg yolk and chill for 15 minutes to let the pastry rest.
- 17lightly score the pastry in 3 places and glaze again with egg yolk.
- 18bake for 20 minutes, then lower the oven setting to 350 and cook another 10 minutes.
- 19allow to rest for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
- 20the beef should still be slightly pink in the center.
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Serving Size: 1 (645 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 2
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 1652.0
- Calories from Fat 1098
- 66%
- Total Fat 122.1 g
- 187%
- Saturated Fat 37.5 g
- 187%
- Cholesterol 325.0 mg
- 108%
- Sodium 566.1 mg
- 23%
- Total Carbohydrate 78.3 g
- 26%
- Dietary Fiber 4.9 g
- 19%
- Sugars 5.7 g
- 23%
- Protein 62.3 g
- 124%
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