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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352499/liberal-apartheid-victor-davis-hanson

The elite mostly lead a reactionary existence of talking one way and living another.

One of the strangest things about the modern progression in liberal thought is its increasing comfort with elitism and high style. Over the last 30 years, the enjoyment of refined tastes, both material and psychological, has become a hallmark of liberalism — hand in glove with the art of professional altruism, so necessary to the guilt-free enjoyment of the good life. Take most any contemporary issue, and the theme of elite progressivism predominates.

Higher education? A visitor from Mars would note that the current system of universities and colleges is designed to promote the interests of an elite at the expense of the middle and lower-middle classes. UCLA, Yale, and even CSU Stanislaus run on premises far more reactionary and class-based than does Wal-Mart. The teaching loads and course responsibilities of tenured full professors have declined over the last half-century, while the percentage of units taught by graduate students and part-time faculty, with few benefits and low pay, has soared.

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Two years after the collapse of Egypt’s sixty years of military rule, the largest Arab country has come full circle. Today’s army ultimatum to the Muslim Brotherhood government to work out terms with the protesting opposition puts a military veto on any political solution to emerge from the present crisis, and raises the prospect of a return to actual military rule. The population has had enough. Beans (not to mention animal protein) have been priced out of the budget of the poorer half of Egypt’s citizens for weeks, and the country is nearly out of fuel — which means, in the middle of the wheat harvest, nearly out of bread. There isn’t much to hope for here, but there are best and worst case scenarios.

The worst case scenario is the status quo: chaos in politics, violence in the streets, complete cessation of tourism, and economic breakdown. This is not an economy with a lot of buffer. Nearly a fifth of Egyptians were suffering from malnutrition when the World Health Organization surveyed the country in 2011. WFP estimates that two of five Egyptian adults are mentally and physically “stunted” by inadequate diet. The slow starvation of Egyptians under successive military regimes is gradually turning into actual hunger.

Sadly military government is probably the best scenario.

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No Women Allowed at Saudi Conference on Women

No Women Allowed at Saudi Conference on Women:

The image above show attendees at a conference in Saudi Arabia on the topic ‘women in society’ – and not a single one is female.

The conference, reportedly held at the University of Qassim, was attended by representatives from 15 nations, apparently all men.

The seats in the hall are filled with men in traditional Arab dress apart from one wearing a blue chequered shirt.

The photograph was published in a Saudi newspaper last year, and has since been making the rounds on social networks.

Twitter users have branded the image ‘absurd’, ‘the height of misogyny’ and …

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Under the Spotlight: The Australian Defense League

Under the Spotlight: The Australian Defense League:

The killing of a British soldier in London last month prompted fiery demonstrations from anti-Islamic groups.

In late May, 25 year old Lee Rigby was stabbed to death outside a London army barracks, allegedly by two people believed to be Muslim converts.

At the centre of the demonstrations that followed was a group called the English Defence League, believed to have grown out of the so-called football hooligan firms of the 1970s.

In Australia now, the anti-Islamic Australian Defence League is trying to expand its support base, particularly through social media.

“A group against Islam and Islamic immigration. …

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Saudi Jails Seven for ‘Anti-Government’ Posts on Facebook

Saudi Jails Seven for ‘Anti-Government’ Posts on Facebook:

Saudi Arabia has sent seven people to jail for up to ten years for posting status messages calling for anti-government protests, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

According to a statement issued Sunday by the New York-based human rights organization, the seven activists were all from the country’s Eastern Province and were convicted and sentenced to prison for terms ranging from five to ten years.

The eastern sector has seen a number of demonstrations by minority Shi’ites over alleged government discrimination and negligence since the region-wide Arab Spring uprisings two years ago.

“Sending people off to years in prison for peaceful Facebook posts …

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Over 2,500 People Killed in Iraq in 3 Months!

Over 2,500 People Killed in Iraq in 3 Months!:

More than 2,500 people were killed in Iraq in the past three months, U.N. figures showed on Monday, a surge of violence that has fanned fears the politically-deadlocked country is slipping back into all-out bloodshed.

The toll comes as the country grapples with months of protests by the Sunni Arab minority, tensions along a swathe of disputed territory in north Iraq and a protracted political standoff that has left key pieces of legislation unresolved.

The violence showed no signs of letting up on Monday as a new attack left eight former anti-Qaeda fighters dead.

The …

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Dhimmis Down-Under: First Muslim Frontbencher Sworn In, Hand on Koran

Dhimmis Down-Under: First Muslim Frontbencher Sworn In, Hand on Koran:

The dumping of Australia’s first woman prime minister Julia Gillard has paved the way for another milestone for the nation’s parliament – its first frontbencher of the Muslim faith, sworn in on Monday.

Ed Husic, whose mother and father are Bosnian migrants, was sworn in as parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who retook the leadership last week. “This is a wonderful day for multiculturalism, and everything it stands for in our country,” Governor-General Quentin Bryce told Husic during the swearing-in ceremony in Canberra.

“I wish you all the best as you …

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Muslims Teen Sisters Murdered, for Dancing in the Rain

Muslims Teen Sisters Murdered, for Dancing in the Rain:

Two teenage sisters have been murdered in Pakistan after they were accused of tarnishing their family’s name by making a video of themselves dancing in the rain.

The girls, aged 15 and 16, are seen running around in traditional dress with two other younger children outside their bungalow in the town of Chilas, in the northern region of Gilgit.

The sisters, named as Noor Basra and Noor Sheza, appear to break into dance and one even flashes a smile at the camera.

However, when the footage was circulated via mobile phones, it caused outrage in the …

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Millions Protest in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Cairo is Stormed, Firebombed

Millions Protest in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Cairo is Stormed, Firebombed:

A sea of bobbing heads hoisting Egyptian flags high spilled out of Tahrir Square as drivers pulled their cars over on the October 6 Bridge to watch the scene below. A long procession of others walked down Ramses Street in the direction of the presidential palace.

We’ve covered a lot of protests in Egypt since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, but the last time we’d seen anything on this massive scale was in the days following Jan. 25, 2011, when the revolution started against him.

As night fell today, it …

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/are_islam_and_islamists_taking_over_britain.html

I THINK THE PAST TENSE WOULD BE MORE ACCURATE…THEY ALREADY HAVE TAKEN OVER BRITAIN….RSK

June 29 was Armed Forces Day in Britain.

Lee Rigby was a British soldier who was attacked, murdered, butchered and beheaded in broad daylight on a busy street near his barracks in London last month. He was attacked, murdered, butchered and beheaded by Islamists acting in the name of Islam.

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are great heroes of our time. Both are tireless, passionate defenders of human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom in general and fierce critics of Islam and Islamists because Islam and Islamists destroy human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom in general wherever they are found and do it in cruel, hideous ways. Spencer and Geller do not advocate violence and never have and do not speak out against Muslims as such. They speak out against Islam and Islamists and spend their time exposing both in the hope of preserving human rights and freedom and turning back the Islamic tide.

Islamists hate them both and demonize them both because they cannot stand exposure, cannot stand the light that Spencer and Geller shine on them.

Spencer and Geller were scheduled to lay a wreath for Rigby at a memorial service on Armed Forces Day but were banned from entering Britain by the British government because their presence was deemed “not conducive to the public good.” Neither was going to speak at the service…all they were going to do was lay a wreath. They were banned because Islamists threatened violence and civil unrest if they were allowed in and the government capitulated to their demand to refuse them admission as a result.

This from a government and a country that is infested and overrun with Islamists that are destroying the fabric of the nation and rapidly turning Britain into an Islamic land governed by Sharia, Islamic law.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393804578555143257421504.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop If you think the federal student-loan program looks like a bad deal for taxpayers, imagine how it would look with honest accounting. And now you don’t need to imagine thanks to a new report that’s receiving far too little attention. Turns out that the official “savings” for taxpayers of $184 billion over the next […]

http://www.jpost.com/Experts/Palestine-The-bi-national-state-that-can-work-318186?prmusr=DJm0TrMfi4eM69vaVubcHqsrXziMS0Xt4UAtjXslH1EdI%2bnCDU0wuqXrtWa7YUuq Surely it would be better to examine alternatives to the failed two-state solution – which cannot possibly happen because of the entrenched positions of the protagonists to the 130 years old long running Jewish-Arab conflict. It is a pity that US Secretary for State John Kerry still believes that a two-state solution is possible […]

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/07/01/one-more-on-zimmerman-depraved-mind-murder/ I am a fan of Bill Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection (legalinsurrection.com) and as such I am not surprised at the stellar job LI’s Andrew Branca has done covering the George Zimmerman trial in Florida. (Mr. Branca’s most recent update is here.) I am only surprised to find myself in a disagreement with Mr. Branca — […]

http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim It is accepted as a truism by many liberals and multiculturalists and touted by much of the Western media that the “clash of civilizations” between the West and the Islamic world is a clash of values between a secular, tolerant, post-Christian world and a minority (albeit a large one) of Muslims, fundamentalists, and literalists […]

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=aabae2e175f3579408b9ef9ad&id=4c75063521&e=c3c6d0eb75

For the European Union (EU), labeling Hezbollah as a terrorist organization amounts to a tough philosophical question. But labeling Israeli products from Judea and Samaria as non-Israeli entails no such travails.

While there is no question that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, defining Judea and Samaria as “occupied territory” is debatable at best.

In international law, a territory is occupied when it has been conquered from a sovereign country. The west bank of the Jordan River was neither a sovereign country nor part of a sovereign country when it was conquered by Israel in June 1967. During the 1948 War, and as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreements, the Hashemite Kingdom conquered and annexed the hilltops of what was supposed to become part of an Arab state according to the 1947 Partition Plan. This annexation was never recognized by the international community (with the exception of Britain and Pakistan). So Israel did not seize a territory from a recognized and legal sovereign country. Rather, Israel recovered a territory that had been granted to the Jewish people for self-determination by the Balfour Declaration (1917), by the Sèvres Treaty (1920), and by the League of Nations Mandate (1922) which was confirmed by the UN Charter in 1945. Those are binding international documents, as opposed to the 1947 Partition Plan, which was a mere recommendation (like all UN General Assembly resolutions) and which became moot the moment it was flatly rejected by the Arab League. The west bank of the Jordan River is thus a disputed, not an occupied, territory.

There are many disputed or occupied territories in the world. Yet the EU does not discriminate against products from those disputed or occupied areas.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/1/soledad-obrien-joins-al-jazeera-america/
CNN DUMPED HER AFTER CONSISTENTLY LOW RATINGS… QATAR (PRONOUNCED GUTTER) CONTROLS AL-JAZEERA FROM THE TOP JOURNOPROPAGANDISTS DOWN TO THE TOILET PAPER….RSK

Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien is joining Al-Jazeera America as a special correspondent, the network announced Monday.

Miss O’Brien will contribute short-form segments to the network’s prime-time current affairs magazine program, “America Tonight,” and her production company, Starfish Media Group, will produce hourlong documentary specials, the company said.

“O’Brien’s career producing and reporting on the human side of many of the most important stories of the past decade will fit in perfectly with what Al-Jazeera America will be covering every day,” said Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of Al Jazeera’s international operations. “Her dedication to that type of journalism is what makes it so exciting to announce that she and her production company are joining the Al-Jazeera America team.”

“I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al-Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories,” Miss O’Brien, the former “Starting Point” anchor, said. “I am thrilled to be back in business with Kim Bondy, who is a long-time friend and among the finest journalists in the broadcast news business today. With this agreement, Starfish continues its expansion as a cross-platform media company dedicated to compelling storytelling and enterprise journalism.”