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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
U.S. Lawmakers Launch Task Force
to Fight Anti-Semitism
Lucy Westcott  
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 FEMA to Punish Climate Skeptics  
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is cracking down on Republican governors who don't agree on the supposed impacts of man-made global warming: Embrace the alarm and draft precautionary plans to combat "the challenges posed by climate change, such as more intense storms, frequent heavy precipitation, heat waves, drought, extreme flooding, and higher sea levels," or prepare to have emergency funding withheld. Michael Bastasch of The Daily Caller says the sanctioning will begin in 2016, when FEMA "will start denying disaster funding to states that don't incorporate global warming into their emergency preparedness plans." Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Becky Hammer praised the policy amendment, asserting, "If a state has a climate denier governor that doesn't want to accept a plan, that would risk mitigation work not getting done because of politics. The governor would be increasing the risk to citizens in that state." The federal government is willing to block potentially life-saving disaster relief because of a politician's personal views, yet leftists want to accuse Republicans of bringing politics into the debate? This is typical Orwellian guile: Adopt a viewpoint advocated by a fraudulent "scientific consensus," or suffer the consequences. Also known as totalitarianism. More...  -The Patriot Post
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 DOJ Calls Hunt for Hilly's Email 'Speculation'  
Is it really too hard to ask Hilla Clinton and the government for the whole cannon of email relating to communication about Libya during her time as secretary of state? House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Congress only wants her emails dealing with the Benghazi incident. "We're not interested in her private emails," McCarthy said. "We're not even interested in her emails regarding Russia and the 'reset' or Syria and Assad and the chemical weapons, only those pertaining to Benghazi." The committee investigating the Benghazi attack know Hilly is hiding emails from them. "There are huge gaps" in the email record, according to Rep. Trey Gowdy. But the Department of Justice has taken up the cause of defending Hilly from the investigations. In a brief written by two DOJ lawyers, the department argues it has no duty to unearth the records -- even when private citizens (in this case Freedom Watch) request the information. The DOJ opined about a request for the rest of Hilly's email, "Plaintiff provides no basis, beyond sheer speculation, to believe that former Secretary Clinton withheld any work-related emails from those provided to the Department of State." And again, the nObama administration once again tries to undermine transparency laws. How will the public learn if Hilly hid emails if there is no proof? See the vicious cycle? More...  -The Patriot Post
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 NO SHAME IN HER GAME: HILLY HANDS OUT JOURNALISM   PRIZE 
Hilly Clinton
presenting a journalism award is something like Scott Walker presenting the prize for the best AFSCME chapter. But neither she nor her hosts seemed the slightest bit embarrassed. They should have been. Having a Democratic frontrunner who is currently embroiled in a scandal involving her unprecedented efforts to conceal her activities as a cabinet official handing out the hardware and taking no questions should have been impossibly awkward. Instead, it provides a good indication of the level of scrutiny to which Clinton can expect to be subject in her campaign. She joked (or was it taunted?), “‘I am all about new beginnings: a new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account.” Haw, haw. There are nearly unending questions, many of them fresh, about Clinton’s private server and her destruction of tens of thousands of emails from her time as secretary of state. Clinton is taking the final steps before the public launch of her second presidential campaign in the midst of stonewalling the press, but no one seemed to mind.
          [AP: “[President nObama] and [Hilly Clinton] met privately at the White House Monday afternoon…Moments after the White House confirmed the meeting, Clinton posted a message on Twitter praising nObama's health care law…”]  -Fox News 
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 Beat-sweeteners unite –   Clinton talked about problems with her “relationship” with the news media, as if it were simply a misunderstanding or a matter of overcoming past mistrust. In the establishment media narrative, the question is whether the presumptive nominee will just “let her guard down” and let the people and the press see the “real her.” That’s just a bidding war among beat-sweetening reporters who are auditioning for access, implicitly promising to offer the perfect depiction of a strong-yet-nurturing-yet-funny-yet-thoughtful-yet-open-minded-yet-experienced candidate. It has nothing to do with the questions Clinton prefers to leave unanswered about her electronic antics or her buckraking from questionable sources around the globe. Nor does it address what she plans to do about the growing pressure for her to hand over her servers to a third party for review.  -Fox News 
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 Flattened out -   Though Charlie Cook argues today that Clinton will continue to take blows from the press, Monday’s spectacle was probably a much better indication of the kind of kid-glove treatment Clinton will mostly receive. Clinton can count on the fact that mainstream coverage of her bid will be more like that given to a new product launch from an old institution than that which should be given to an actual candidate seeking the presidency. The danger for Clinton, though, is that the media mandarins who murmured and applauded their way through her remarks are increasingly being replaced by hungrier, younger reporters at new outlets. Clinton was not able to deal with the disruptions wrought by social media in her first presidential run. The world has changed dramatically in the past eight years, and she may not be ready to meet the challenge.   -Fox News 
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 “The Iranian Deal Is What We Say It Is” – nObama and Iranian Officials  
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - If an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear capability is reached by deadline in the next seven days, one thing may be missing: an actual written accord, signed by the Iranians...Over the past few weeks, Iran has increasingly resisted any kind of formal “framework” agreement at this stage in the negotiations, preferring a more general statement of “understanding” followed by a final accord in June, according to Western diplomats involved in the talks. Should that position hold — one of the many unknowns of the coming days — the United States and its five negotiating partners may find themselves in the uncomfortable position of describing the accord as they understand it while the Iranians go home to offer their own version. Don’t be fooled by media reports claiming the Iranian’s are to blame for the “nuclear deal” not being formally written down. This is absolutely a McDonough, Jarrett, Blinkin and Rhodes type of proposition. This approach absolutely reeks of Denis McDonough strategery. This verbal-only construct benefits the White House FAR MORE more than the Iranians.       http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/25/the-iranian-deal-is-what-we-say-it-is-obama-and-iranian-officials-refuse-to-put-deal-in-writing/
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"They tell you: Sacrifice yourself with us, you will defend a just cause." The French government's anti-jihadist website, called "Stop Djihadisme," features videos debunking jihadist recruitment propaganda.

 France Declares War on Radical Islam  
(Soeren Kern) - The French government has cut the social welfare benefits of nearly 300 jihadists who have left France to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Amid a rapidly expanding jihadist threat, it has also started confiscating passports, imposing travel bans and blocking access to jihadist websites...The moves are part of a raft of new anti-terrorism measures aimed at preventing French citizens or residents from joining jihadist groups abroad, and at slowing the spread of radical Islam at home. Muslim groups are criticizing the flurry of activity as "Islamophobia." On March 17, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve revealed that the government has stopped paying welfare benefits to 290 French jihadists fighting with the Islamic State. He said that the agencies responsible for distributing welfare payments were being notified as soon as it was confirmed that a French citizen had left the country to fight abroad.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5440/france-radical-islam
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 Countdown to nObama’s Dangerous Deal with Iran  
(Arnold Ahlert) - The nObama administration’s determination to reach an accord with Iran at any cost continues unabated. As the March 31st deadline approaches, the administration has taken to recklessly downplaying Iran’s increasing belligerence...as well as continuing a coordinated attack on Iran’s chief critic, newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This weekend, the White House dismissed a speech by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei that included more chants of “Death to America” by both the crowd and Khamenei himself, insisting that it was only “intended for a domestic political audience.” Yesterday White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest doubled down on that contention when CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta asked “if those comments give this White House any pause about moving forward with a nuclear deal with that country?” I wonder if Netanyahu had said. 'Death to America" would he react the same?       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/countdown-to-obamas-dangerous-deal-with-iran/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3d71b6855a-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3d71b6855a-156509103
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 Letter to nObama Demanding He Work WITH Congress on Iran Deal  
(Onan Coca) - On Monday a large contingent of House members sent a letter to the White House reminding the President that he needs to be working WITH Congress on any deal he plans to close with the Iranians...A bipartisan group of 367 members of the House, a majority of both parties, joined a letter to President nObama saying, “Should an agreement with Iran be reached, permanent sanctions relief from congressionally-mandated sanctions would require new legislation. In reviewing such an agreement, Congress must be convinced that its terms foreclose any pathway to a bomb, and only then will Congress be able to consider permanent sanctions relief.” The letter is strikingly similar to the one sent to Iran by 47 Republican Senators, the main difference being that one was sent to the White House and one was sent to the leaders of Iran.       http://freedomforce.com/2455/367-house-members-send-letter-to-obama-demanding-he-work-with-congress-on-iran-deal/
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 Documentary Exposes Hamas Indoctrination, Child Soldiers  
(investigativeproject.org) - The boy stands on a crowded field that looks better suited for soccer matches. He might be in his early teens, his face smeared with black camouflage. He explains what he's learning at a Hamas camp for boys in Gaza... "I joined to fight the Zionist enemy," he says, "and to liberate our forefathers' land, Palestine. We won't allow the Jews to keep our land." This boy is one member in the "Children's Army of Hamas," a title bestowed by the Israel-based Center for Near East Policy Research (CNEPR) in a new documentary short. It will be shown at a United Nations forum in Geneva today in an effort to prove that Hamas is violating international laws by training child soldiers, Fox News reports.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4805/documentary-exposes-hamas-indoctrination-training
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 Immigration judge pushed to sanction nObama's lawyers 
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Bob Unruh) - A federal judge who halted President nObama’s executive action implementing amnesty for up to 5 million illegal aliens now is being asked by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to sanction the administration for lying in court...The nObama Justice Department has “lied intentionally to two courts which have addressed the president’s unconstitutional and illegal executive actions,” claims a motion on behalf of Arpaio submitted to the federal court in Brownsville, Texas. Judge Andrew Hanen has issued a temporary injunction stopping Obama’s amnesty program, determining it is unconstitutional because he didn’t follow the Administrative Procedures Act.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/immigration-judge-pushed-to-sanction-obamas-lawyers.
 
 
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 Progressive Fruits  
(tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - “Death to America! Death to America!” shouted a million Iranians in the capital square. Every year they would gather to chant, and every year I would show film clips to my students...It was always instigated by Iran’s government in a country that calls itself “The Islamic Republic of Iran,” which, I’m sure, President nObama would insist has nothing to do with Islam as he negotiates with the ayatollahs. My teaching ran directly counter to what was being taught in the vast majority of American public school classrooms. Most American students hear that Islam is a religion of peace. A majority of the world’s muslims are peaceful, most teachers claim. About the latter, they are correct. About the former? Fourteen hundred years of history gives lie to any assertion that Islam is a religion of peace. Yes, it was relatively peaceful between the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 to the Iranian revolution in 1979, but in virtually every other period since about 600 AD, Islam has been anything but.
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 South Africa rebuffs U.S. demands to relinquish its nuclear explosives  
(Douglas Birch) - Enough nuclear explosive to fuel a half-a-dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of lower Manhattan, is locked in a former silver vault at this nuclear research center near the South African capital...Technicians extracted the highly-enriched uranium from the apartheid regime’s nuclear weapons in 1990, then melted the fuel down and cast it into ingots. Over the years some of the cache has been used to make medical isotopes, but roughly 485 pounds remains, and South Africa is keeping a tight grip on it. That gives this country — which has insisted that the United States and other world powers completely destroy their nuclear arsenals – a theoretical ability to regain its former status as a nuclear-weapons state. But what really worries the United States is that the nuclear explosives here could be stolen and used by militants to commit the worst terror attack in history.       http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/03/14/16873/south-africa-rebuffs-repeated-us-demands-it-relinquish-its-nuclear-explosives?utm_campaign=nat_sec_south_africa&utm_medium=link&utm_source=appeal&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-200182789e-100318285&mc_cid=200182789e&mc_eid=19f9d76dda
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 Ben Shapiro: nObama's Faith in Iran  
(truthrevolt.org) - President nObama has made it one of his chief missions to reach out to the Islamic Republic of Iran...His attempt to cut a nuclear deal with Iran – a deal that would leave Iran with a huge number of centrifuges intact and a crippling sanctions regime against it largely removed – is merely the latest signal that the President has faith that the Iranian dictatorship can be an ally to the United States.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYi2JRzo-xY
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 The U.K. Govt Pedophiles Who Got Away With Spiritual Murder  
(Selwyn Duke) - We’ve heard much recently about the Muslim-run child sex-trafficking rings that have plagued Britain and that, for most of the last 15 years, had been covered up by the nation’s authorities...But it appears U.K. officials are old hands at protecting pedophiles, as a shocking story about powerful child molesters embedded deep within the British government reveals. The story dates back to the 1980s and involves politicians, judges, intelligence officers, staff at royal palaces, and figures from private schools, big business, and the Church of England — and more than 100 government files on the pedophile network that have mysteriously gone missing. Writes the Daily Beast’s Nico Hines: A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster...        http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/20520-the-u-k-government-pedophiles-who-got-away-with-spiritual-murder?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=d71baf5985-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-d71baf5985-289778381
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U.S. Lawmakers Launch Task Force
to Fight Anti-Semitism
Lucy Westcott  
 
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     (jewishworldreview.com) - A bipartisan task force to combat rising global anti-Semitism was set up by the House of Representatives on Tuesday in response to a number of attacks targeting Europe’s Jewish community this year.
 
     The House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony from European Jewish leaders on Tuesday about the spike in attacks on Jews in Europe, including the January attacks on a kosher supermarket and the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris; the deadly shooting at a Copenhagen synagogue last month; the 2012 attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France; and the 2014 killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

     The Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, co-chaired by four Republicans and four Democrats, was created to help Congress fight global anti-Semitism around the world and to promote tolerance and remembrance of the Holocaust. The task force will educate congressional members on the “distinct form of intolerance” that is anti-Semitism and will work with foreign leaders, civil society groups and the executive branch to share ways to reduce acts of hate and anti-Semitism worldwide.

     “We look forward to working with our colleagues in Congress to find innovative solutions that match the 21st century face of this age-old bigotry,” U.S. Representatives Chris Smith, Nita Lowey, Eliot Engel, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Kay Granger, Steve Israel, Peter Roskam and Ted Deutch said in a joint statement.

     Testifying in front of Congress on Tuesday, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, noted a “strange confluence of hatred” across Europe that includes radical Muslims, far-right and neo-Nazi political groups like Jobbik in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece, and an elite, educated class of people “with a pathological hatred of Israel,” all of which, along with years of economic downturn, has caused a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.

     “For the first few decades following World War II, we mistakenly believed that anti-Semitism—the age-old hatred of Jews—had finally disappeared from Europe and everywhere else,” said Lauder. “I now tell you with the greatest sadness that, 70 years later, the age-old virus of anti-Semitism has returned in all its evil and ugliness. Anti-Semitism has returned to streets of Paris and Toulouse, to the streets of Brussels and Copenhagen. It has even returned to Berlin.”

     France, which with 500,000 Jews has the world’s third largest Jewish population, behind Israel and the U.S., has seen a particularly sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the past year and has increased security at Jewish schools following the Charlie Hebdo attack. A February report for Le Parisien newspaper and the French TV program CQFD found 68 percent of French people believe anti-Semitism is on the rise. Seventy-seven percent believed Islamophobia is increasing.

     Jews in France experienced twice as many anti-Semitic attacks in 2014 compared with 2013, according to a report released in January by the country’s Jewish Community Security Service.

     Jews in Denmark also faced threats and attacks last year. According to Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, president of the Danish Jewish Community, who testified before Congress on Tuesday, fewer Danish Jews are wearing yarmulkes, and “they wouldn’t dare” for fear of being physically attacked in certain areas of Copenhagen, he said.

     On February 15, Dan Uzan, a volunteer security guard, was shot dead outside the main Copenhagen synagogue, hours after a shooting at a debate on freedom of speech and Islam at a cultural center in the city.

     “The terror attack against the Jewish community in Denmark did not occur in a vacuum. It did not happen in Copenhagen just by chance. It was the culmination of years of growing anti-Semitism,” said Asmussen. “It happened in a country where it has become widely acceptable to criticize and question both Israel and Jews with a carelessness that we did not expect or imagine just a few years ago."

     Representative Curt Clawson, R-Florida, who noted his own Danish ancestry, asked what the world could do next, especially if the solution to global anti-Semitism cannot be found within the Muslim community.

     “What we see in Denmark is the same all over. The Muslim community tends to be very fractured,” said Asmussen. He cited the “ring of peace” that saw Muslims form a human shield around a Copenhagen synagogue earlier this month, which mirrored a similar initiative around an Oslo synagogue in February. But not many Muslims take part in such displays of solidarity, said Asmussen.

     Lauder, Asmussen and Roger Cukierman, president of the Council of Jewish Institutions of France, who also testified, all agreed that not every country takes the anti-Semitism threat seriously, and that the U.S. needs to do more to step up the pressure and fight it.

     Both Lauder and Cukierman said the Internet can be a tool and a platform to disseminate hatred and ill-feeling toward Jews. “On the Internet, ways were found to ban child pornography. Likewise, anti-Semitism must be banned,” said Cukierman. “The providers of Internet must understand that they bear a responsibility when murders are committed by youngsters who became jihadists through the Internet.” 

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0315/congressional_task_force_worldwide_anti-Semitism.php3

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