Daily Caller: The White House announced last week that it is launching a “Call to Action” asking private businesses to help with the resettlement of refugees. This could be done without regard to the government cap of 85,000 total refugees, including 10,000 Syrian refugees, in 2016.
Fifteen founding corporations have teamed up with the Obama administration on the effort. These are: Accenture, Airbnb, Chobani, Coursera, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, IBM, JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mastercard, UPS, TripAdvisor, and Western Union. The Call to Action initiative is not only to help refugees in the United States, but all over the world.
In Europe for example, Mastercard “worked with Mercy Corps to distribute prepaid debit cards to eligible refugees traveling through Serbia. Approximately $75,000 was distributed to nearly 400 families and individuals.” The three main facets of this private partnership program are: “education,” “employment,” and “enablement.” Education includes “facilitating refugee children and young adults’ education by ensuring that refugee students can access schools of all levels.” The employment facet includes “increasing employment opportunities for refugees.”
Through those two parts of the initiative refugees can be settled in the United States without limit as they wouldn’t fall under the purview of the government cap on refugee resettlement. Through work and education visas refugees would not actually be considered as refugees for their immigration status. One of the companies already partnered with the Obama administration, Chobani, currently has a work force in the United States that is roughly 30 percent resettled refugees. A White House fact sheet states 66 percent of refugees are of working age.
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* Who cares? Frozen is one of the few movies for children that isn’t complete PC garbage or inappropriate.
Jews don’t sit around worrying if they are anti-white, anti-black, anti-Muslim or anything else. So what if some people don’t like Jews or Jewish culture, or oppose Jewish interests?
As far as I know, Frozen is a Disney movie, and Disney is very friendly to Jews. What’s next? Will we start calling food producers anti-semitic for plastering kosher symbols all over everything we eat?
* This Jewish paranoia, which makes them see Goebbels’ face in their rice crispies is the opposite side of the coin of their disdain for the outsider.
One thing Jews have in common with blacks in America is that both groups believe themselves to be unwarranted victims of special persecution. With the Negro, this takes the attitude of “dindu nuffins”, while with the Jew it takes the form of Charlie Brown’s lament in the 1950′s pop song “Why’s everybody always picking on me?”
To perceive oneself as the blameless victim of endless persecution requires that one suspend their belief in Newton’s Third Law which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Adults know that human relations are governed by laws of reciprocity–one generally gets what one gives. This fundamental truth lies not just at the root of European Science, but Christianity’s Golden Rule, the notion of Karma in Buddhism and the Yin and Yang of Lao Tzu as well. In short, virtually every spokesman for the great Civilizations believes that actions don’t happen in a vacuum.
Spokespersons for Jews, such as Elie Wiesel, part ways from this ancient wisdom and insist, against all evidence, that their people, uniquely, are not subject to the laws of the Universe. Alone among humanity, they are punished for that which they were not in any way responsible. And in their minds this blamelessness sets them apart. They must have been singled out by God to have to bear such iniquity at the hands of the hoi polloi. God has a special purpose for them. Acting upon the sanction of this special purpose they administer punishment to the Gentile. So, as Freud observed, masochism and sadism complement one another in the same personality.
If a group brings this attitude of blamelessness/righteous wrath to the table, then that is their Script in this life. How an individual member of that group deals with this Script is what creates Kharma, one’s personal moral debts and assets. Believing that one is outside the wheel of human causation casts one in a hellish, anxious otherworld. No wonder Jews are paranoid.
* What a ridiculous way to blow this. The peak time for the Republican nominee to come out swinging at Hillary for Benghazi and the emails and he just gives away this idiotic freebie to the press to lay into him. The antisemitic juxtaposition is blatant to any half-way intelligent person, which means the guy doesn’t even bother to hire half-way intelligent people to run his media operation. It all goes to show he’s not genuinely invested in the campaign itself, just the notoriety and attention it’s brought him.
Salute to Trump playing everyone. This whole campaign is about his own stupid ego. He was able to figure out the anti-immigration angle was untapped but he’s just tapped to run this ego campaign for himself and he’s going to end up setting the movement back when he loses in November.
* I am very impressed with Trump. Perhaps it is because I spent time in NY and so I think I have some kind of awareness of his background. It seems he is simply saying we ought to put America first and that makes sense to me. Also he is unlikely to enlarge NATO nor antagonize Russia. That also seems like a good thing because it is certain that the Democrats are very much in favor of NATO expansion and thus likely to start WWIII. So I think that Trump is good for everyone–including Jewish people.
* How anti-Semitic is Hillary? She grew up in Chicago, a town awash in anti-Semitic symbols, and not once has she denounced the sea of anti-Semitism that surrounded her for decades! In fact, she is proud of her hateful home town!
Here is her home town’s flag, which has not one, but four anti-Semitic symbols!
* Peter Bart (the longtime Variety editor-in-chief) wrote in one of his books (Boffo!):
Disney remained something of a hick from the Midwest who thought of Jews as accountants and merchants. I once made the mistake of asking Walt a question that had business implications (we were having lunch at the Disney commissary at the time) and he replied by saying, “Let me check that with my Jew.” He started to summon a financial aide nearby, but I quickly changed the subject.
* Abuse of anti-Semitism charges by Jewish groups against their enemies ends up the same place as overusing antibiotics against disease does, with the target population building up a resistance to anti-Semitism claims, so that even stronger and more hysterical anti-Semitic claims must be found to move the needle at all.
On the other hand, those of us who used to listen to Public Enemy know the word “Frozen” can be stretched and twisted into an anti-Semitic complot. Below are Public Enemy’s lyrics from their song “Welcome to the Terrordome” This song was in response to their “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, being forced to resign from the group for “anti-Semitic” comments back in the late 80′s:
Crucifixion ain’t no fiction
So-called chosen frozen
Apology made to whoever pleases
Still they got me like Jesus
One source for that Frozen image is from Steve Sailer, who has said that Hispanic people have lower IQ's than whites https://t.co/YB5It7TNc4
Steve Sailer writes: In other Justice Department news, Attorney General Lynch announced that Bill Clinton has asked her to stay on as Attorney General, while also being the next nominee for the Supreme Court, and that she signed a ten year contract with the Clinton Foundation with unspecified duties and an unlimited expense account. Her favorite niece will become ambassador to Monaco, her favorite nephew an astronaut, and Ms. Lynch will serve with Mrs. and Mr. Clinton on a new Semi-Unofficial Committee of Three that will oversee the FBI, NSA, and Navy Seals and choose targets of drone strikes (each member gets “one free one per year, no questions asked”). Also, the highest priority legislation of the New Clinton Administration will be “Shoulders & Up Only” hate crime legislation making it illegal to tweet a full body photo of a clothed female federal official.
New York Times: JERUSALEM — Donald J. Trump has been called a lot of things by a lot of people around the world. In Israel, where his comments about remaining “neutral” in peace negotiations raised hackles but his condemnation of “radical Islam” wins plaudits, the word that keeps coming up is “dugri.”
A slang Hebrew term derived from the Arabic for “straight ahead,” dugri describes someone who is frank and blunt no matter the consequences. This is how many outsiders view Israelis, often with considerable discomfort. But here in Israel, a society that views pretension with suspicion and disdain, it is almost universally a compliment.
“Israelis tend to talk more frankly and openly about subjects that, in America, could be somewhat taboo,” said Zev Chafets, a co-host of a weekly radio program in Tel Aviv that focuses on the United States’ election. “Trump does that. People find that refreshing.”
…More recently, Mr. Trump has generated headlines in Israel by declaring that the United States should emulate some of Israel’s security practices. He has said a version of the security barrier Israel built along and through the occupied West Bank should be erected along the border with Mexico, and he asserted that the United States should follow what he called Israel’s “profiling” of Muslims at security checkpoints.
His compliments were not universally welcomed. A columnist for the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, Chemi Shalev, worried that Mr. Trump’s admiration of Israel could weaken Democratic support in the United States for Israel’s security policies. “His compliments damn Israel with loud praise,” Mr. Shalev wrote.
Pressed by reporters after Mr. Trump’s “profiling” comment, a senior Israeli minister refused to discuss American politics but defended profiling as effective in limited circumstances, according to Reuters. “Sometimes, when there is a specific form of terrorism, you can seek out Islamic terrorism only among Muslims,” said the minister, Yisrael Katz.
Mr. Trump’s praise of Israeli policies alone is not likely to lift his appeal to Israelis, said Shmuel Sandler of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. “We always enjoy the fact that the West is coming to learn from us,” Mr. Sandler said. “More than this, I don’t think it will make a difference.”
* Speaking of Israel, it is a good example of what to expect when your country becomes 20.7% Muslim.
Lots more suicide bombings, random stabbings, seedy neighborhoods and “no-go” areas for law-abiding whites. Public institutions exploited and trashed by people who did not build them and never have and never will pay substantial taxes for their upkeep.
That is Angela Merkel’s Europe and Hillary’s USA!
Now some might say Israel has it worse became they “stole” the land. That’s not true, but that is really the wrong way to look at it. There is always going to be a pretext for Muslims to trash and destroying neighboring peoples.
You’ll notice, also, that land is “stolen” all the time in recent history without the “victims” engaging in endless bloody terrorist campaigns. American Indians? Sudetan and Prussian Germans? North Cypriot Greeks? All accepted honorable military defeat on fair terms and moved on. But Muslims will always have grievances against non-Muslims that they believe justify jihad.
Is it OK for me to envy the anti-establishment right in England over ours? Trump is to be commended, but really, it is a night-and-day difference. Leave ran a modern, extremely well run campaign. Trump … is not.
Leave figured out they needed to make the election about Diversity damaging the old middle class welfare state, and most of all a referendum on Muslim migration. Trump has this part figured out, but the whole “well oiled turnout machine” he is not even trying.
He very quickly needs to make his peace with the GOP establishment so he can raise money, and pivot left on middle-class economic issues, and not look bad doing it.
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Michael Hiltzik writes: To serve this end, American producers become obsessed with making their characters lovable. The idea is to give the audiences characters they’re comfortable welcoming into their homes week after week, year after year. So the rough edges of even the nastiest roles, not to mention the merely offbeat, get sanded down over time. They lose their distinctiveness and become a collection of tics and catchphrases.
Jonathan Lynn, the co-creator and co-writer of “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister” (and director of “My Cousin Vinny”), understood this very well.
“American TV comedy nowadays tends not to be ironic or satirical,” he related. “There is a wish to make it homey and cozy. When I was talking to a network about turning [“Yes, Minister”] into an American series, I was asked if I could put a kid into it — or failing that, a dog. I decided that life is too short.”…
The finite lifespan of British programming gives producers the luxury of retaining and enriching the qualities that make their characters so distinctive without turning them insipid. John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty may occasionally inspire our sympathy, but never do we lose the feeling that it’s Basil’s actions that make things go from bad to worse. When Viacom tried to turn the show into an American sitcom named “Amanda’s” with Beatrice Arthur in the title role, they allowed her to be acerbic like her Maude, but softened her into a California hotel owner more sinned against than sinning. Cleese was aghast. Viacom told him, “We have changed one thing, we’ve written Basil out,” he recalled years later. The show lasted four months in 1983.
Cleese recalled that an earlier attempt to remake “Fawlty Towers” with Harvey Korman and Betty White misfired because the actors “were embarrassed by the edgy dialogue.” That points to another reason why American political sitcoms are so wan next to their British forebears: cowardice…
The makers of American political satires always claim to have devoted close personal study to the workings of Congress and the White House before they set pen to paper, but it’s the Brits who really base their work on real life. “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister” drew heavily from the diaries of former Cabinet minister Richard Crossman. There he wrote of his battles with his own private secretary, the fearsome Dame Evelyn Sharp, who became the prototype for Sir Humphrey Appleby.
The British “House of Cards” has an even finer pedigree: It’s based on a trilogy of novels by Michael Dobbs, who spent 10 years serving Margaret Thatcher as advisor, speechwriter, and “hit man” and used his fiction in part to settle old scores. “The Thick of It,” again, draws its realism by starting with real-life characters, and augmenting them into dramatic types with the skill of expert caricaturists.
But the defining difference is spine. British TV producers actually have more to fear from their political masters than Americans do — the BBC, which broadcast all three of the series we’ve discussed, is after all a government agency. (Government efforts to manipulate the news, by no means unsuccessfully, are a thread running through all three programs.) But as Lynn perceived, the guiding ethos of American producers of political shows seems to be harmlessness. They don’t want to offend the broadest possible audience or those who might make trouble for them in Washington. It’s always safer to be frankly implausible.
British shows have a simpler goal. They want to be funny, and in the process they end up being real.
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