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What terrible commentary. I didn’t think it could get worse when they called him an “affirmative action president” (blatant racism) but then they also said he “loves ISIS,” which is so removed from reality as to be laughable.
Leadership
MEMRI was founded by Meyrav Wurmser and Yigal Carmon, both of whom have ideological affinities with Israel’s conservative Likud Party. Wurmser, the spouse of former Dick CHENEY adviser David WURMSER, left her position as executive director in 2002 to join the Hudson Institute.
As of 2011, Carmon, who is a former colonel in the ISRAELI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, remains MEMRI’s president. Steven Stalinksy, a former assistant to the Clinton/Gore campaign who has contributed to numerous NEOCONservative publications (including the Weekly Standard and the in-house journal of the Middle East Forum), has served as MEMRI’s executive director since Wurmser stepped down.[2]
MEMRI’s directors and advisory boards are top-heavy with neoconservatives and other supporters of hawkish U.S. and Israeli policies. Current and former board members include Elliott ABRAMS, Steve Emerson, Bernard Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Gen. Michael V. HAYDEN, Jose Maria Aznar, Donald RUMSFIELD, James Woolsey, John BOLTON, Michael Mukasey, Norman Podhoretz, William Bennett, Christopher DeMuth (former president of the American Enterprise Institute), Paul Bremer, Herb London (president of the Hudson Institute), Natan Sharanksy, James Q. Wilson, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Holbrooke, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Irving Kristol. (As of October 2011, information about MEMRI staff and directors was available online. However, previously, the organization was criticized for not providing access to this information online and for attempting to disguise its political ties.[3])
Funding
According to tax records, in 2001 MEMRI had an operating budget of just under $2 million. By 2009, operating expenses reached just over $5 million, decreasing to $4.5 million in 2010. Aside from salaries, MEMRI’s largest operating expense during 2010 was for translation services, for which it paid $1.3 million to its long-standing Jerusalem-based contractor Yesodot Shalom (Foundations for Peace). Additionally, it spent nearly $1 million for the MEMRI TV Project, which monitors Middle East TV broadcasts, and more than $300,000 to maintain its website.[4]
According to a non-exhaustive review of Form 990 tax documents filed by U.S. philanthropic organizations, Right Web estimates that some 45 U.S.-based charitable foundations provided more than $8 million to MEMRI during the period 1999-2009. By far, MEMRI’s largest donor among this group has been the Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation, which gave nearly $2.5 million during 2004-2009. Other donors have included the Daniel Pipes-led Middle East Forum ($100,000), the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation ($110,000), the Bradley Foundation ($160,000), the Adelson Family Foundation ($250,000), the Russel Berrie Foundation ($250,000), the Koret Foundation ($375,000), and the Donors Capital Fund ($550,000). (For a complete list of results of Right Web’s investigation, see the attached document “MEMRI 501(c)3 Financing, 1999-2009.”)
– See more at: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute#sthash.PWzR1aMO.dpuf
Another Conservative Neocon Propaganda venture. Sorry But I do not care about Bibi’s and Cheney’s wars for profit and land.
What I care about is stopping these wars for profit which included WW2
“War is a Racket” Gen Smedley Butler a Marine Hero
Bibi and the NEoCOn’s preping for the new wars,
Yup, the rest of the world is laughing at him and those who voted for him.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/cartoons/cartoons_of_the_week/
Re #1: Idiot.
“What I care about is stopping these wars for profit which included WW2…”
Stopping WWII? That would be quite a feat!
Hitler, Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan determined the course that nations would take in WWII. The tools necessary to defeat such monsters don’t just materialize by magic…they must be manufactured. As long as there is a need for these tools, company profits are necessary to continue manufacturing what’s needed.
Let us know when you can snap your fingers and eliminate threats to freedom, decency, safety, security and yes, peace.
At least your quest keeps you busy. You must be one of those people who believes its possible to totally transform the nature of mankind just by having positive thoughts.
Finally I have found an intelligent commenter on this blog. Dewey is correct and you are all fools for not listening to him. The Zionists are manipulating you! They are pulling the strings at every level of government and around the world. They are behind climate change and actually they control our military from deep within Area 51, its true I have see it and I’ve seen the UFO’s there to, its all true. Want to know who the Zionists really are? They are not even human, they are called the Anunnaki and they are from the planet Arkahn and they are disguised as human beings. They have been here controlling us in a mass experiment for over a 5000 years. Wake up America before its to late!
Dewey, thanks for identifying the speakers in the video–I had no idea who they were.
Egyptians laugh at Obama Coast Guard Speech:
“At the expense of President Obama these commentators have a thing or two to say about Barack.”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fc6_1432678591&comments=1#4FbLteDyMxoZb7MM.99
Re #2 & #6:
Ah yes, the vast Zionist conspiracy. Those pesky Jews.
This is mostly taken from a article I read, I think it makes the abuse of the word Racist clear and how it is often misused.
Race-hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson and many of our elected are forever trying to convince Americans that racism is everywhere, despite all evidence to the contrary.
But now it has gone from the divisive to the ridiculous.
In a piece published in the Atlanta Blackstar, the so-called “Black BuzzFeed,” the article states that there are six words that no white person should ever use because they are “synonymous” with the “N” word.
The author had to do some pretty ridiculous stretching to turn these into “racist” terms — but we found out that they are not alone. Apparently this list comes right out of “Black Studies” and “Critical Race Theory” classes at “Ivy League” schools.
Let’s take a look:
Thug
Um, no. When most people talk about “thug,” it has nothing to do with skin color, but everything to do with those who break the law, White or Black.
Urban/Inner City
No. Once again, this has nothing to do with skin color. “Inner City” is just a politically correct attempt (invented by liberals, by the way) to not say “ghetto” or “sh*tty area”. People of all races live in the crappy parts of major cities, often the newest immigrants, who try like hell to work their way out of them.
State’s Rights
This one is completely ridiculous. They are trying to make you think “George Wallace.” But the average Republican governor citing “states’ rights” is usually ranting about an overreaching EPA or the Feds shutting down oil drilling on behalf of some “endangered” water rat. It has absolutely nothing to do with racism.
Welfare and Food Stamps
Nice try, race-baiters, but not even close, how on Earth is this “racist” anyway, when the majority of people on food stamps are White?
Law and Order, this is hitting home these days isn’t it!
So police shouldn’t use force to stop violent criminals, rioters and looters? Without law and order, there is anarchy and chaos. Ask those mostly Black business owners in Ferguson what happens without law and order. You get 26 businesses burned to the ground.
Cut Taxes
This one is beyond stupid. How is keeping the government from taking someone’s hard earned money “racist”?
Cutting taxes provides greater wealth for all families in the country, making it easier to pay the bills. The whole idea that cutting taxes essentially shrinks the welfare state and that makes it racist is nonsense
The actual racism in America these days,is that liberal nutjobs need to go to ridiculous lengths to invent it.
How little they have learned from the past. Liberal race-baiters are still focused on the color of one’s skin, instead of the content of one’s character.
Pot meet kettle. OOPS am I being …… ?
Tina
Welcome back I heard you had taken a bit ill! I am talking about the current US created mess in the Middle East. There is a reason why the Iraqi Army is laying down their arms, why?
WW2? How much do you know about it? WW1 created many arms companies ect. When the war ended those companies saw their business dwindle you think they just said oh well let’s make something else?
What do you know about WW2 besides what we were told?
Are you aware of how many American Companies invested in Hitler’s Germany? Sold them stuff? Or the Bush Family wealth and place in the present security state? Go back To Samuel Bush.
Interesting film, still evaluating, I do know the facts in WW2 part were things I already knew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
We have been lied to our whole lives. The oligarchy has always been in charge. Profit before life.
Dewey, I feel bad for you, seriously. You have been brainwashed. Anyone who believes this conspiracy garbage has flunked critical thinking. maybe it’s something internal, some paranoid pathology that makes you want to believe, I dunno, I can only say nobody here is buying any of that garbage, not Chris, not Libby…and certainly not any of the conservatives. Its way off in kookieland, sorry, but its true. JFK, 9/11, WWI bankers, geez they take a smidgen of truth and try to build on it. All this stuff has been thoroughly debunked. You really should avoid these conspiracy kooks, they absolutely crazy.
BTW want to see how cheap our politicians sell themselves? The TPP will make millions for these companies look how little they paid to the campaigns of these politicians
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp
Everything is about profit and money – time to admit it
In my opinion some of Dewey’s beliefs are a little out there, but I don’t see anything in comment #2 that implies anything anti-Semitic.
Harold, I think some of the language highlighted in that article are often used in racially coded ways, though I disagree that that should make them “off-limits” to anybody; it would be impossible to have debates about some of our most important issues without using the terms “welfare” and “tax cuts.” I think it’s more the way they are sometimes used that is the problem. I do take issue with the word “thug,” though, as I think it is definitely used to apply more to black criminals than white criminals; just do a Google image search of the word if you don’t believe me.
Dewey thanks for the warm welcome. I’m not back full time due to ongoing and additional medical challenges but hope to be months before the election!
There’s probably more than one reason for the Iraqis to give up but one of them is that they were abandoned by the current administration. Another would be the infighting. Another the inept/feuding leadership in Iraq. Another would be ISIS is more strongly committed to their cause…they play to win.
What reason were you referring to?
“WW1 created many arms companies ect. When the war ended those companies saw their business dwindle you think they just said oh well let’s make something else?”
That’s exactly what many of them did!
The federal government is constitutionally charged with the defense of the nation. A weapons industry is necessary to fulfill that role. Any time government or corporations get too big there is bound to be some corruption. The bigger problem for American citizens is that we have given the federal government too much power…it is just too big! Every department of government is corrupted by people of low moral fiber.
If you’re going to take a stance against “war profits” you owe it to yourself to acknowledge the whole truth instead of relying on charged words in blanket fashion. That’s a typical propaganda tactic used to deceive and control others.
There are a number of conspiracy theories regarding WWII…they are mostly politically motivated.
I’m not against trade agreements but the TPP is as bad as Obamacare…not surprising the same leftist control freak idiots have been busy trying to make it happen for years.
Ref #13.
At the prompting of Chris, I did do some looking into the definition of the word ‘Thug’.
So far the definitions as posted by Merriam-Webster
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thug)
as well as others do not mention race and skin color. Thug is just a word used to identify criminal types and their anti-social behavior,
So I will stand by my opinion that Thug is misused as a racial phrase and has nothing to do with identifying criminals by skin tone.
noun: thug
noun: thug
a violent person, especially a criminal.
synonyms: ruffian · hooligan · vandal · hoodlum · gangster · villain · criminal · tough · bruiser ·goon · heavy · enforcer · hired gun · hood …. Etc.
In my opinion Dewey is no more “out there” than the self aggrandizing “judge” Chris.
Seriously Jack, is Dewey any more brainwashed than Chris?
Seriously, is anyone more obsessed with me than Pie Guevara?
Harold: “thug is misused as a racial phrase”
Well yeah, then we agree. It didn’t start out that way, but it is misused often to have a racial connotation.
Hey Hi Jack and Tina, No not brainwashed at all. Remember I look at everything. I have no party, no stanch view.
That said in the realization that you can not believe any media, past or present I do get around, I do collect facts and stay away from conspiracy.
We can not allow ourselves to be one minded. Yes Tina some factories did stop. But not the arms factories we know today. That is why their names are known.
One thing I hope we can agree on is no one wants to see this country go down. That said, The constitution needs to be held closely and not distorted.
The constitution protected liberals and conservatives. It was not constructed for an authoritarian view nor for one view religious or business to control.
Here’s what I can only conclude from your post #20, about that your agreeing to the misuse of buzz words spoken by activist of social friction, but your avoiding the fact of your comment in post #1 that started my post #10.
I posted that article to create an understanding of those misused buzz words or even the outright accusation of “blatant racism” is unnecessary in many if not all speeches from Race-hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson and many of our elected who are forever using race as a political pawn
To them, it does not matter which word they apply to pepper their message, they are all intended to create friction and misinformation these days.
Much like the“affirmative action president””(blatant racism)”comment you made in post #1 if only to attempt to align racial undertones with the video and there by discredit the point of view of others in different parts of the world have toward Obamas Presidency.
You could have just as easily simply stated how your views differ from theirs with regards to that regions commentators and their views about his speech, and kept Race out of it.
Ref: #21 comment;
‘Yes Tina some factories did stop.”But not the arms factories we know today. That is why their names are known’
Those companies that stopped making guns, you mean IBM, Nation Postal Meters, Rock Ola, GM Saginaw.
And by those Arms companies that we know today, you mean, like Remington, Colt, Winchester, Springfield, Etc., seems they were in the Arms business prior and just kept on keeping on….even spawned others gun designers to start their own companies and hiring workers, and by the way “workers” is a keyword here.
Baltimore is fast becoming the poster child for the standard of “government subsidized living”, or should I have said Welfare
Seriously, does Chris ever take a good look at himself?
Re @22 Harold: “To them, it does not matter which word they apply to pepper their message, they are all intended to create friction and misinformation these days.”
Yep.
Al Sharpton VS The Teleprompter —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
This young black man is none too happy with Al Sharpton (Warning, explicit language.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
Harold: “Much like the“affirmative action president””(blatant racism)”comment you made in post #1 if only to attempt to align racial undertones with the video and there by discredit the point of view of others in different parts of the world have toward Obamas Presidency.
You could have just as easily simply stated how your views differ from theirs with regards to that regions commentators and their views about his speech, and kept Race out of it.”
This is pointing out the obvious, but it’s impossible to “keep race out of” discussing a comment like “affirmative action president” applied to the first black president. Race is already there. There’s no possible interpretation of calling Barack Obama an “affirmative action president” that doesn’t include race. Your request that I “keep race out of it,” when it was the speaker in the video that brought race into it in the first place, is unreasonable.
And yes, calling President Obama an “affirmative action president” is racist. Maybe you really believe that Obama’s race had a lot to do with him winning the election. While that may be true, I guarantee you that race had even more to do with the victories of 43 presidents before him, every single one of which was white. Unless you think that’s a coincidence, you have to admit that being white was a huge advantage to those candidates, and that the vast majority of them wouldn’t have won had they not been white. But yeah, it’s suddenly a big problem and “affirmative action” when a non-white candidate gets the job partially because of race.
Chris, the great racism expert, nit picking Harold is just too funny.
Nice try negro burner.
Post #20 ” It didn’t start out that way” your paraphrased comment was timely and supports how politics misuse everything.
Post #25 “This is pointing out the obvious” Yep it was, and no it is not impossible to keep race out of commenting on their chiding references as seen in the video link. Your ‘AA Racism’ in post #1 as to their disrespect of Obama however strengthens my point about how terms, single words even slander are often misrepresented as racism, especially when trying to support one’s political stance.
Obviously these commentators in the middle east have no confidence in Obama, and are engaging in ridicule to express their dislike for his policy’s, It is clear they are trying to goat Obama, but their comments show clearly they have no respect for his politics or his statement about global warming, not a word about his race.
Post #25 “Your request that I “keep race out of it,” when it was the speaker in the video that brought race into it in the first place, is unreasonable” Not so , your either a better person than they or you’re the same game as them on their field.
As to Affirmative action now being considered a Racist term? Well this statement is much like the misuse of the word Thug being racist, and it application here is wrong.
“The term “affirmative action” was first used in the United States in Executive Order signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, which included a provision that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants ARE hired without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin in an attempt to achieve non-discrimination”
What happened after that is just another example of an over reaching Government, Once It morphed into something other than its original intent, it has since been banned in usage in California and other States such Michigan, and Washington which have have passed constitutional amendments banning public institutions, including public schools, from practicing affirmative action within their respective states. It was never racist, just an Executive Order that went too far.
Oh, as to your reference as why I didn’t vote for Obama in either election, well let me assure you it wasn’t because of race, so stop fabricating things you have no knowledge about, it is a very weak and losing statement and portrays you to be less than mature with that remark.
You still think that’s funny? You still think that’s clever? You still think that makes up for your complete inability to construct an actual argument?
Who else thinks Pie’s “negro burner” slur is hilarious, or even remotely fair? I’d like to know.
Harold, your comments are very hard to understand, but it seems like you’re saying that the commenters in the video never mentioned race. That doesn’t make any sense. What did they mean when they called Obama an “affirmative action president,” if they didn’t mean that he only got elected because he was black?
“Oh, as to your reference as why I didn’t vote for Obama in either election, well let me assure you it wasn’t because of race, so stop fabricating things you have no knowledge about, it is a very weak and losing statement and portrays you to be less than mature with that remark.”
I never made any reference to why you didn’t vote for Obama, nor did I ever imply that the reason you didn’t vote for Obama was his race, so I have no idea what you are talking about. You need to read more carefully.
I have no wish to drag this verbal gamesmanship on, but Chris attempting denial is not a new thing.
Chris wrote,” I never made any reference to why you didn’t vote for Obama, nor did I ever imply that the reason you didn’t vote for Obama was his race”
In my response to him pointing out he was just talking without foundation, he wrote in his reply to me;
“Maybe you really believe that Obama’s race had a lot to do with him winning the election. While that may be true,” blah blah..
Seems to me that of late Chris plays the race card often enough that you can draw a clear intent of his message to me. Which was without foundation of truth, just Liberal misdirection, and he is well practiced at it.
His statement of ‘I never made’ was dishonest, and his “Affirmative Action was blatant racist” was not true either, (unless you think in those terms), to me the use of Affirmative Action was just inflammatory remarks to excite their viewers’ attention.
Not one of the commentators used the word ‘race’ in their digs at Obama or those who elected him.
By implying a racist connotation to their comments is no better than they were, and smacks of listening to the likes of a Al Sharpton spew his messages of provocation.
Harold:
“and his “Affirmative Action was blatant racist” was not true either, (unless you think in those terms), to me the use of Affirmative Action was just inflammatory remarks to excite their viewers’ attention.
Not one of the commentators used the word ‘race’ in their digs at Obama or those who elected him.”
Please explain to me what the commentators meant by calling President Obama an “affirmative action candidate,” if they were not referring to his race. Thank you.
Folks ifn’ I may .. best you ignore this person, its clear as a fine day that he’s hardheaded as a old plow mule,
and has never learnt that it aint wise to whiz on a electric fence.. twice. ifn’ you get my drift
Bless his heart
Chris, this wasn’t about Pie calling you names is it, its now all about your hubris and who’s the better poster,and how you’re perceived here.
REF: Chris writes, “Harold, I’m amazed that you could draw an equivalence between my comments and Pie’s. There is such a wide chasm between my writing here and Pie’s”
And now you’re going to use ‘Personnel Responsibility’ as you’re personal “Cursed Crusade Icon” about how Pies behaves toward or deals with you, I repeat myself (last time) best review your own history here. As I have said prior, you earned a lot of Pie’s and my scorn toward your behavior.
‘I’ll have a second slice of Pie, if I may please’
And when it comes to P.R. I have no respect for this current group behavior or your apparent support of entitlement people that continue to give rise to slothfulness and aimless lives, while living off the backs of others work ethics who fund the Government dole.
And to be perfectly clear, nor do I support any Liberal politician who supports the life of welfare in exchange for votes, those Politicians do not deserve to be in office.
‘“Alright let’s hear a yes for all champion Personnel Responsibility’ and more “Pie” for all Liberals
Personal responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.
A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable.
Personal responsibility can be contrasted to the idea that human actions are caused by conditions beyond the agent’s control.
Since the late 19th-century, personal responsibility has become increasingly associated with political conservatism and libertarianism. God Bless those that understand.
More recently, personal responsibility has been associated with the reform of social welfare programs (e.g. in the Personal Responsibility and Welfare Reform Act of 1996).
Harold, please explain to me what the commentators in the video meant by calling President Obama an “affirmative action candidate,” if they were not referring to his race. Thank you.