ANTISEMITISM AND FARRAKHAN: The Elephant in the Room.
Archive for 2019
December 31, 2019
DON SURBER: Press Silent On Biggest Story of 2019. “Instead, the best economy in 50 years continues.”
HIS NAME IS ERIC CIARAMELLA AND HE’S NOT A WHISTLEBLOWER: Why Adam Schiff doesn’t want anyone talking to the whistleblower.
CENSORSHIIP DISGUISED AS . . . WELL, IT’S NOT REALLY ALL THAT DISGUISED. UK academics set to launch ‘virus’ software for online ‘hate speech’ in time for 2020 election. If “hate speech” is a virus, the academy is a major carrier/producer.
SOCIALISM: IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL LEAVE. California lost more than 200,000 people to other states in 2019.
Related: Census Estimates Show California, New York Losing House Seats to Demographic Change.
OUT ON A LIMB: Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect Appears To Have Been Driven By Anti-Semitism, FBI Says.
Authorities also recovered journals written by Thomas, some of which appear to include anti-Semitic sentiments. The FBI found references to Adolf Hitler and “Nazi culture” on the same page that included the star of David and a swastika, according to the criminal complaint filed on Monday.
Investigators also searched Thomas’ phone and found an Internet history that included such searches as “Why did Hitler hate Jews,” “German Jewish Temples near me,” “Zionist Temples in Elizabeth, NJ” and “Zionist Temples in Staten Island.” He also searched for “Prominent companies founded by Jews in America,” the complaint states.
After the attacks, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the incident was an act of domestic terrorism, telling NPR, “When you try to commit mass murder based on race, color, creed, you try to instill fear. That is terrorism.”
Following the incident, Rockland County officials announced that an international security firm will provide armed guards for area synagogues.
Related: Law Enforcement Believes Monsey Attack Suspect May Have Beaten and Stabbed a Jewish Man in November.
More: CBS, NBC Skip Hanukkah Attacker’s Connection to Black Hebrew Israelites.
And finally: Suspect in NY Hanukkah Stabbings Facing Federal Hate Crimes Charges.
MICHAEL BARONE: We’re living in (almost) the best of times.
Temperamentally, in the United States, or at least in that loud if not large part of it dominated by political tweets, the overwhelming weight of opinion, crossing party lines that are unusually rigid in this period of American history, is that we live in the worst of times. . . .
To which I say: nonsense. And so does, in more elegant terms, the science writer and British House of Lords voting member Matt Ridley in the British Spectator. “We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history,” he writes of the decade just ending.
Olden times may look better in warm memories — think of multiepisode dramas about Edwardian noblemen or carefully curated statistics showing narrower pay gaps between 1950s CEOs and assembly-line workers. But the cold, hard numbers tell another story.
“Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 percent when I was born,” Ridley writes, referring to the year 1958, a time that some of us can actually remember.
Of course, you may say, the economic progress made since China and India discovered the magic of free markets has helped people over there; but over here, in advanced countries, we’re not growing. We are just gobbling up and wolfing down more of the world’s limited resources, aren’t we?
Not so, replies Ridley. Consumers in advanced countries are actually consuming less stuff (biomass, metals, minerals, or fossil fuels) per capita, even while getting more nutrition and production out of it. Thank technological advancement and, yes, in some cases, government regulations.
We’re also experiencing, as a world and in advanced countries, less violence and more in the way of peace, international and domestic. That’s the argument of Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature. Wars are more infrequent and less deadly than in the past.
So too has violent crime abated in the U.S. and other advanced nations. It used to be taken as given that disadvantaged young males, especially those minorities discriminated against, were hugely likely to commit violent crimes. Now, thanks to improved policing and changed attitudes, far fewer do so.
The natural tendency of most people is to ignore positive trends. They are not the lead stories on your local newscast, nor are they mentioned in the shouting matches on cable news. People usually focus on complaints and grievances.
Even more now that complaining and being aggrieved are potent sources of power.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Chuck Todd Finds All the Disinformation In ‘Ecosystem’ on the Right.
—NewsBusters, Sunday.
—Twitchy.com, yesterday.
THE FREE BEACON’S 2019 MAN OF THE YEAR: Jeffrey Epstein’s Assassin. He’ll have to hang that award, though because . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . it won’t hang itself.
DECONSTRUCTING THE MEDIA SPIN: “If Trump is the weakest candidate of all, the Democrats wouldn’t look so weak.”
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO ENJOY ENGLAND: “Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.”
—“Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us,” the London Grauniad, February 21st, 2004.
WAIT, ACCORDING TO THE NEWS MEDIA EVERYONE HATES TRUMP AND EVERYONE LOVES OBAMA: Gallup: Trump ties Obama for top honors in poll of most admired men of 2019.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT BURISMA: Hunter Biden Accused of $156M Counterfeiting Scheme With Burisma, Crowdstrike, Legal Filing Claims.
I’M SURE THE 1619 PROJECT ACCOUNTED FOR THIS: That Time Thomas Jefferson and Virginia Colonists Tried to Get King George to Stop the Slave Trade.
GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: After Monsey, Anti-Semite Al Sharpton Says Can’t Remain Silent About Antisemitism, But What About His Jew-Hatred?
VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY’S Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity gets an extensive review in the New York Review of Books.
HE SHOULD HAVE PULLED A GUN AND SHOT THEM:
More disturbing footage of a Chassidic Jew being assaulted on the street in Brooklyn last Tuesday.
pic.twitter.com/QvMIdTQaWc— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 31, 2019
That would only have to happen a couple of times to have a useful deterrent effect.
DEBLASIO’S NYC: New York City – 2019.