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Case Against Islamic Terror Groups

Goes to New York Jury

Stav Ziv

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Hollywood Blames Constitution for Pay Gap

Women don't get equal pay in America, says actress Patricia Arquette, and she blames the Founders. "To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," Arquette said in her Oscar acceptance speech. "It's time to have wage equality once and for all. And equal rights for women in the United States of America." The supposed pay gap has been largely discredited, but never confuse a liberal (especially one from Hollywood) with facts. Worse, Arquette went on to blame the men who fought to secure Liberty and who authored our Constitution. "It's inexcusable that we go around the world and we talk about equal rights for women in other countries when we don't have equal rights for women in America," Arquette lectured. "And we don't because when they wrote the Constitution, they didn't intend it for women." In the Heritage Foundation's Guide to the Constitution, Tiffany Jones Miller explains, "Contrary to popular belief, the United States Constitution of 1787 is a gender-neutral document. Throughout the original text, the Framers refer to 'persons' -- as opposed to 'male persons' -- and use the pronoun 'he' only in the generic sense. The word 'male' did not even appear in the Constitution until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868." In other words, Arquette suffers from something common to men and women on the Left: ignorance. -The Patriot Post

Al Sharpton Named in Racial Discrimination Suit

For years, race-baiter Al Sharpton has made bank by telling companies to pay him to avoid being accused of racism. Now, Sharpton himself is named in a $20 billion lawsuit accusing him of facilitating racism at Comcast in order to "whitewash Comcast's discriminatory business practices." The National Association of African-American Owned Media sued over the merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, alleging such a merger would discriminate against black-produced media. "Despite the notoriously low ratings that Sharpton's show generates," the suit said, "Comcast has allowed Sharpton to maintain his hosting position for more than three years in exchange for Sharpton's continued public support for Comcast on issues of diversity." Ouch. While Comcast calls this suit frivolous, Sharpton may not fare well in the near future. There are rumors swirling at MSNBC that the company is struggling because leftist opinion isn't making the money it used to. Sharpton may lose his 6 p.m. weekday slot for a less desirable time on the weekend. We know what Sharpton would say of the change: It's discrimination! More... -The Patriot Post

DEM REVOLT BEGINS ON nOBAMA AMNESTY
After maintaining a weeks-long filibuster of a Republican bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security but roll back president nObama’s executive actions granting amnesty and work permits for millions of illegal immigrants, Senate Democrats are starting to splinter. Unable to break the Democratic logjam, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell announced that he would instead offer a standalone bill to block nObama’s amnesty gambit before resuming the funding fight. Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would vote to “prevent the president from his executive action” and suggested that there might be the five other Democrats necessary to advance the legislation.
“Well, this bill removes those excuses. It sets up a simple political equation: Either stand in defense of extreme overreach, or stand with constituents in support of shared democratic values.” –Senate Majority leader Mitch McCon-nell in a floor speech today. -Fox News

Tick-tock - While nObama would almost certainly veto the bill, significant Democratic objections to his policies combined with the federal court ruling against the administration on the actions could start to shift the debate. The president will prove today that he doesn’t mind vetoing popular, bipartisan legislation as he spikes the bill approving an oil pipeline from Canada, but if there is a Democratic rebellion it is harder to argue that he is doing the will of the people. Plus, getting Democrats on the record as protecting the amnesty is always helpful to the GOP. But big questions remain. Can the House and Senate cough up an emergency, stopgap spending plan to keep the agency running while the debate plays out? The deadline is Friday and time is running out quickly.
“The American people are demanding more than that and seeing through these antics which are designed to protect the president in his lawlessness in defiance of a constitutional system.” –Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News

IN SLAP TO UNIONS, nOBAMA TO CAN BIPARTISAN KEYSTONE BILL
Fox News: “The Senate will send the Keystone XL pipeline bill to President nObama on Tuesday, senior congressional sources tell Fox News. … The House passed a final version of the bill about two weeks ago, but the sources told Fox New that leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress intentionally waited to send it to the White House. They purportedly wanted Congress, which last week was on break, to be in session if and when the president vetoes the bill so they can draw more attention to the issue.”
“The White House’s recommendation of a veto has nothing to do with the aforementioned merits of the project. Instead, the administration claims the bill will ‘cut short’ the process for approving the project. We disagree. If anything, the process has been needlessly drawn out: more than 2,300 days have passed since the Keystone application was first filed. This level of delay is extreme, even for Washington. In fact, approving these types of pipelines was once routine.” –Rep. backstabber John Boehner, R-Ohio and Sen. Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky. in a USA Today op-ed. -Fox News

The massacre of the Assyrian Christians Is On The Way

(Walid Shoebat) - Shoebat.com reported yesterday before it became news, that ISIS attacked the Assyrian villages in the Hasaka province in northeast Syria where ISIS fighters were met by members of Natorehs...a Christian brigade which is also called The Assyrian Guards where Assyrian fighters were killed running low on ammunition and help from anyone in the West while killing tens of ISIS fighters. And the fighting is still ongoing in Tel Tamar. In the process an estimated 117 Christians, elderly, women and children were kidnapped by ISIS. The massacre of the Christian Assyrians is on its way with no help coming from the Western powers. nObama instead is aiding The Free Syrian Army working with Turkey to train 5000 Islamist fighters in order to oust Bashar Al-Assad. Yet it was the Syrian army whom nObama wants to end were the only ones reportedly 3-5 kilometers from Tel Hurmiz has offered assistance. http://shoebat.com/2015/02/24/the-massacre-of-the-assyrian-christians-is-on-the-way-isis-kidnaps-117-christians-in-syria-while-christian-fighters-tried-to-defend-them-ran-out-of-ammunition-because-they-had-no-help-from-western-p/

Sweden’s Multicultural Expert on Islamophobia Joins ISIS in Syria

(Jim Hoft) - Michael Nikolai Skråmo, who also calls himself Abo Ibrahim Al Swedi, is a former multicultural expert on Islamophobia in Sweden. That was before he joined ISIS...This week al Swedi appeared in an ISIS propaganda video wearing desert camouflage and clutching an assault rifle. He proceeds to give practical and motivational encouragement to would-be jihadis. Al Swedi tells Islamists to come join him in the caliphate. Al Swedi moved to Syria with his wife and two children in September. Boy, he is going to be sorry he did join. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/swedens-multicultural-expert-on-islamophobia-joins-isis-in-syria/

Global Corporate Govt – nObama Makes His Pitch For Fascism

(Rick Wells) - In light of the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult for all of us, including this author to listen to the vile filth that pours out of the septic hole beneath the upturned nose of Hussein nObama...the video below, taken from the official White House website. was clipped of some of the most offensive portions, with only the content relevant to this article remaining. Please bear that in mind and make an effort to tolerate a little more than a minute of the inevitable gastric discomfort in order to get an understanding of the latest attack being leveled by this anti-American subversive against our nation. If there’s two things we have learned since January of 2009, they are first, if nObama is talking he’s lying and secondly, anything he wants is bad for America. The examples are limitless and the proof lies in his words and deeds. http://www.rickwells.us/global-corporate-government-obama-makes-his-pitch-for-fascism-and-tpp-fast-track-approval-authority/

FCC refuses to let public see new internet regulation proposal

(Scott Russell) - Three days before the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on the most significant Internet regulations in history, two commissioners are asking Chairman Tom Wheeler to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public...The current FCC plan is drastically different than the one they released in May, but Tom Wheeler refuses to allow the public to see it. Despite serious concerns of government over-regulation, the FCC is predicted to pass their sweeping proposal with a 3-2 partisan vote. http://www.conventionofstates.com/fcc_leadership_refuses_to_let_public/?recruiter_id=11724

El-Sisi Calls For Unified Arab Miltary Force To Fight Terrorists

(Peter Malcolm) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, courageously leading the way to combat Islamic extremism, said on a national broadcast Sunday that Arab countries should create a joint military force to fight terrorist groups. El-Sisi said... “The need for a unified Arab force is growing and becoming more pressing every day.” After 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded, the Egyptian air force started bombing targets believed to be held by terrorists in the northeast Libyan city of Derna. Rumors of a joint Arab military force comprised of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait came to light recently, but Sisi's statement was the first time the subject had been broached publicly. He said Egypt had received offers of support from Jordan and the UAE. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/el-sisi-calls-unified-arab-miltary-force-fight-terrorists

FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday

(Bob Adelmann) - On Thursday consumers will finally be able to see and read the FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission) planned new rules to regulate the Internet...Deliberately hidden from public view, the 332-page document is expected to be passed by the FTC, as demanded by President nObama last November when he told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to adopt the “strongest possible rules” in regulating the Internet. Leaks from the document were inevitable, and critics have slowly pieced together the latest attack on Internet freedom. Five times legislation has been offered in Congress to mandate “net neutrality,” and five times it has failed. Twice courts have struck down previous efforts to regulate the Internet. This time, however, ignorance and momentum are likely to rule the day, and the Internet. http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/20183-fcc-to-vote-on-net-neutrality-rules-on-thursday?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=0b685a1f8f-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-0b685a1f8f-289778381

Sheila Jackson Lee Contradicts DHS, Admits Dems Blocking Funding

(Rick Wells) - When you’ve got a political party made up almost exclusively of self-serving anti-American liars, as is the composition of the Democrat Party, it’s sometimes difficult for them to all get their stories straight...If there’s going to be an inadvertent slip of the tongue, what better source than the Texas Tesla, Rep Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). In spite of claims to the contrary by the Democrat leadership, including the DHS Secretary, Jeh Johnson himself this past Sunday, Jackson Lee boastfully admits that the Senate Democrats are preventing the DHS bill from being considered. Asked what the endgame of the DHS funding debate is in her mind, Jackson Lee first has to make the obligatory humanitarian argument for rewarding criminal behavior while pointing out how caring the Democrats are before she begins to “sort of answer” the question. http://www.rickwells.us/the-talking-box-of-rocks-sheila-jackson-lee-contradicts-dhs-proudly-admits-democrats-blocking-funding/

Judge Napolitano Just Nuked nObama’s Pro-Amnesty Argument

(Norvell Rose) - One week after a federal judge in Texas blocked implementation of President nObama’s executive amnesty orders, the administration officially asked that same judge to admit his injunction was wrong and to issue a stay on his own decision...Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that allowing nObama’s unilateral action to defer deportations for millions of illegal immigrants to proceed would cause “irreparable harm” to the states. “The government wants to break the law so it can help other law breakers stay here,” Napolitano stated. “I have never heard the government make an argument like that.” http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-how-judge-napolitano-just-nuked-obamas-pro-amnesty-argument-as-weird-bizarre/#OjUIw6OdDVrp4FYl.97

McCon-nell & Other Senators Afraid nObama Will “Blame Them”

(Rick Wells) - The members of Congress in both the Senate and the House of Representatives assured the American people when they voted to pass the CRomnibus spending bill that there was no need to be concerned as far as funding the dictatorial nObama amnesty...They guaranteed us a fight on the DHS funding for the implementation when the temporary funding resolution expired. Our guarantee must have come with some fine print. Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, who has been at best a weak opponent of amnesty, has been looking for an excuse to cave to the White House since he assumed his position. The problem is that when McCon-nell assumes his favored, submissive position he drags the rest of us along in his perverse political debauchery. While he may be quite comfortable with that type of thing, the American people aren’t desirous of Democrat domination, particularly when it results in the destruction of our nation. http://www.rickwells.us/sen-jeff-sessions-mcconnell-and-other-cowardly-senators-afraid-obama-will-blame-them-for-standing-up-for-america-against-his-criminal-acts/

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Muslim Immigration Poses Serious National Security Threat

(Paul Sherry) - Investor's Business DailyFrance, Belgium and now even liberal Denmark regret letting in so many immigrants from Muslim countries. Their swelling Islamic communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists...So why is the U.S. opening the floodgates to foreign Muslims? The threat Muslim immigrants pose to homeland security was not addressed during the White House's three-day summit on terrorism. Instead, Vice President loose lips Joe Biden assured Muslim groups gathered during one session that the "wave" of Muslim immigration is "not going to stop." Wave? More like a tsunami. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/021915-740118-our-borders-are-threatened-by-upsurge-in-muslim-immigration.htm?p=full

Case Against Islamic Terror Groups

Goes to New York Jury

Stav Ziv

(jewishworldreview.com) - Jury deliberations were set to begin Friday in the case of Sokolow v. PLO, in which U.S. citizens who were injured or whose family members were killed in terrorist attacks in Israel have sued the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for damages.

The lawsuit, filed in 2004, covers six attacks that took place between 2002 and 2004, during the second intifada, or uprising, in which 33 were killed and more than 450 were wounded. The prosecution argues that the PA and PLO supported the shooting and bombing attacks—whether via direct involvement or assistance in the form of material support or training. The organizations also allegedly paid the perpetrators of the attacks and continue to compensate those who were imprisoned as well as the families of those who died.

All 10 plaintiffs are American families, and thus the case is being tried in the U.S. under the Antiterrorism Act signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, which gives American courts jurisdiction over acts of terrorism that harm U.S. citizens abroad.

Although lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and her Israel-based law office, Shurat HaDin, have been filing lawsuits against the Palestinian organizations for years, she tells Newsweek that this case marks the first time the PA has defended itself in court in a full trial in front of a jury.

“They would come into court, filing motions to dismiss,” says Darshan-Leitner, whose office’s tag line is “Bankrupting Terrorism—One Lawsuit at a Time.” The defendants “say they have sovereign immunity and thus don’t have to litigate the case,” she explains, but “a plaintiff can go after them to enforce judgment even if they don’t appear in court.”

In this case, too, the defendants filed several motions to dismiss before it reached a jury trial, but the motions were denied by U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York George B. Daniels. In November, the judge cleared the way for the case to proceed when he reaffirmed a 2008 decision stating his court had jurisdiction over the claims.

Kent Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter LLP’s New York office, who also worked as an attorney for the 10 families, told jurors that money could not make up for the lives lost and injuries suffered in the attacks, Reuters reports. "But if the only thing you can give them is money, then money has to stand in as compensation for the unspeakable loss," he said in his closing arguments Thursday.

“Money is oxygen for terrorists,” he said. “Take away their money by making them pay their fair share for what they did.”

On the other side of the courtroom, the PA and PLO denied that senior officials of the organizations, including the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, aided Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, saying the attacks were carried out by low-level employees without approval.

“There is no concrete evidence that the senior leadership of the PA or the PLO were involved in planning or approving specific acts of violence,” defense lawyer Mark Rochon said.

“It is not the right thing to hold the government liable for some people doing crazy and terrible things,” said Rochon, who claimed the plaintiffs “exaggerated testimonies to make the Palestinian Authority look bad.”

The plaintiffs are seeking $350 million, an amount that could be tripled under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

“This case, the first in the U.S. to go to full trial will be a test of the effectiveness of the Anti-Terrorism Act which was enacted following the Achille Lauro hijacking episode, specifically to address the brutality of Palestinian terrorism against Americans traveling abroad,” Darshan-Leitner said in a statement emailed to Newsweek after the closing arguments were completed Thursday. “The families and their counsel are hopeful that they can achieve a measure of justice and some closure in their lives.”

The case could also set a precedent for future legal action. If the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, the decision may set the stage for future terrorism trials in American courts. It would make “a very clear statement,” Darshan-Leitner says, that “nobody can kill American citizens and go free.”

From the Israeli perspective, she adds, “we’ll prove that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for the suicide bombings and terror attacks taking place during the years of intifada and now have to pay for it.”

“I think the significance of this ruling would be to deter the Palestinian Authority from ever getting involved again with supporting terrorism,” Darshan-Leitner says. It will “teach the Palestinian Authority that it’s too costly.”

The trial coincided with Palestinians gaining access to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has concluded less than two months before they can formally join on April 1. The Palestinian Authority joined the ICC seeking to file war crimes charges against Israel.

Darshan-Leitner predicts the jury will return with a verdict in Sokolow v. PLO early next week.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/terrorism_law_suit.php3

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