Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The walls close in around Andrew Cuomo

by Michael Goodwin

During his three terms in Albany, Gov. Cuomo has been an extreme micromanager who surrounded himself with a small band of aides, most a generation younger than he is. They are essentially on call 24/7, and are involved in all aspects of his job, from running the executive branch to dealing with legislators and the media.

It is an understatement to describe the top ones as fiercely loyal. Cuomo demands total fealty and their approach to the world was once described by Steven Cohen, a longtime Cuomo aide and friend, as simple: “We operate at two speeds here: Get along and kill.”

Those loyalties are now facing a crucial test. Growing out of the two major investigations into Cuomo’s conduct, dozens of people in the executive office, including the inner circle, recently received subpoenas.

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US open to discussing wider deal with Iran

 


Western officials believe Iran may wish to discuss a wider road map to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after efforts to sketch out initial US and Iranian steps to resume compliance with the agreement have stalled, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden’s aides initially believed Iran, with which they have not had direct discussions, wanted to talk about first steps toward a revival of the agreement.

The agreement would have eased economic sanctions on Tehran in return for curbs to the Iranian nuclear program designed to make it harder to develop an atomic weapon.

Three Western officials said the Biden administration and Iran had mainly communicated indirectly via European parties to the deal - Britain, France and Germany - and that they believe Iran now wants to discuss a broader plan to return to the pact.

“What we had heard was that they were interested first in a series of initial steps, and so we were exchanging ideas on a series of initial steps” a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters.

“It sounds from what we are hearing publicly now, and through other means, that they may be ... not interested in (discussing) initial steps but in a road map for return to full compliance,” he said.

“If that’s what Iran wants to talk about, we are happy to talk about it,” the US official added.

Iran has gradually scaled back its compliance with the 2015 deal in response to former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement in May of 2018.

Biden has expressed a desire to return to the deal but has stressed that Iran must resume compliance with it before any negotiations on a US return to the agreement.

The US recently accepted Europe's offer to mediate conversations with Iran regarding the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iran, however, rejected the proposal, claiming that the “time was not right” to hold such talks.

On Monday, it was reported that Biden is planning to put forth a new proposal to jump-start talks with Iran.

The proposal asks Iran to halt some of its nuclear activities, such as work on advanced centrifuges and the enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity, in exchange for some relief from US economic sanctions.

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Biden administration resumes use of 'Occupied Territories'....But the USA is Still Called The "UNITED" States!

 The US State Department’s annual report on human rights violations published on Tuesday refers to Judea, Samaria, Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as territories “occupied” by Israel but does not title the chapter “Israel and the Occupied Territories”.

The title “Israel and the Occupied Territories” was the title used by the State Department until the Trump administration changed the custom, after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

The 2020 report, which is the first to be released during the Biden administration, uses the label “Israel, the West Bank and Gaza” - the same chapter name from the last two reports issued during the Trump administration.

The report states it “covers the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem territories that Israel occupied during the June 1967 war” - a reference to the Six Day War - but also clarifies that “language in this report is not meant to convey a position on any final status issues to be negotiated between the parties to the conflict, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the borders between Israel and any future Palestinian state.”

Lisa Peterson, acting top State Department official on human rights, said on Tuesday that the report's authors continued to believe it was better to assign geographic names.

"That's in line with our practices generally. We also believe it is clearer and more useful for readers seeking information on human rights in those specific areas," she told reporters, according to AFP.

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Drama In J-m’s Biblical Zoo As Lion Eats Bunny In Front Of Children

 


The Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem is reviewing its feeding protocols following a rare incident in which children observed a lion eating a rabbit, JTA reported.

“The Biblical Zoo turned into National Geographic in the middle of the day,” a Channel 13 News journalist wrote on Twitter.

“The children who came to the Biblical Zoo today were astounded to see how a lion devours rabbits in the middle of the day. Their parents were horrified.”

The lions are usually fed animals out of public view but in this case, the lion dragged the rabbit into the public area, according to a statement by the zoo.

“The Asian lions in the zoo, which are a species in danger of extinction, are part of a worldwide lion conservation program,” the zoo stated.

“The lions in the zoo are fed prey that is no longer alive, which the zoo receives from an animal food provider. Due to sensitivity, the lions receive their food behind the scenes. In this case, the lion dragged its prey into the exhibition area.”

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

White House Hints That "Camela" Harris Will Soon be President


 


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Rav Izak Blau Will be a Witness Against Yehuda Mashi-Zahav ...

It's ok to "masser" since he left the anti-Zionist cult....  therefore it's a "mitzvah"to "masser" on him  ...but if he had remained, it would have been "asur"  ...

Blau knew this about Mashi-Zahav for over 20 years and allowed Mashi-Zahav to molest and rape...because Mashi-Zahav belonged to the cult ...


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Hatzala Member Chaim Zev Har-Kesef 43 Killed in Car Accident

 




One person was killed and three people were injured in a serious traffic accident on Highway 6 Thursday afternoon.

A 43-year-old man was critically injured in the accident. He was evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where doctors were forced to declare his death. He has been identified as Haim Har Kesef, a veteran volunteer at United Hatzalah.

Har Kesef's daughter, a 17-year-old girl in serious condition, a 20-year-old man in mild to moderate condition and a three-year-old toddler in similar condition were treated by the MDA staff and also evacuated to Rambam Hospital.".

Senior MDA medic Ruslan Singerman said: "I was driving on Highway 6 when I reached the entrance checkpoint to the tunnel which was closed while at the same time I received an MDA report of the accident. I went inside the new tunnel and saw the serious accident."

He said, "The wounded were lying on the road with one of them unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing and the others were conscious. We immediately began medical examinations for all four of them and performed advanced resuscitation operations on a human wounded man."

"Together with the large MDA teams that arrived at the scene, we continued the medical treatment and evacuated the wounded to Rambam Hospital with one of them in critical condition, the girl in serious condition and the other two in moderate to mild condition," Singerman added.

United Hatzalah founder Eli Beer was also one of the first responders on the scene and said: "While I was traveling with my family to the north of Israel for a vacation, United Hatzalah's Dispatch and Command Center alerted me to a car accident that took place near our location. When I arrived at the scene I immediately began CPR on a 40-year-old man who had no pulse due to his injuries. My wife Gitty and my children who are also EMTs began treating a woman who was moderately injured and a baby who was in light condition as a result of the accident."

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Helbrans Kicks Out Askanim Who are Trying To Get Back Teller Children That Were Kidnapped On a Shabbos

 


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Meir Simcha Katzberg 17 of Beit Shemesh Missing


 משטרת ישראל מבקשת את עזרת הציבור באיתור נעדר חרדי, שהקשר עמו נותק החל מלפנות בוקר (שני) ואבדו עקבותיו.
Police are asking for help in locating a Chareidie youth, communication with him was lost on Monday morning.

הנעדר עונה לשם מאיר שמחה קצבורג כבן 17, ועל פי הידוע הוא יצא היום מביתו בבית שמש ומאז נותק עמו הקשר ואבדו עקבותיו.

The missing youth answers to Meir Simcha and he is 17 years old, he left his house yesterday 

תיאורו: גובהו כ-1.75 מטר, גוון עורו בהיר, מבנה גופו רזה. ככל הידוע, בעת שיצא מהבית לבש חולצה לבנה ומכנס שחור ותיק גב בצבע תכלת.

He is approx 1.75 meters, he is light skinned, an is thin...when he left, he wore a white shirt with black pants and had a blue knapsack

"כל היודע דבר על מקום הימצאו מתבקש לדווח למוקד 100 של המשטרה או לתחנת בית שמש בטלפון: 02-9902222", נמסר מהמשטרה.


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Yaakov Weingarten Leader of Cult "Lev Tahor" Arrested On First Day Pesach

 




I guess he went from "chierut le'avdus" ... he is accused of kidnapping and abusing children.

Interesting, this parasite had a minhag of kidnapping  children on Shabbos making it difficult to have them traced .. so now he was arrested on Yom Tov in Guatemala ...
According to the Hebrew Blog Kikar Ha'shabbos The court is considering extraditing him to Iran .....

Yankele the kidnapper with Nachman Helbrans

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Yemen’s Last Few Remaining Jewish Families Expelled by Houthis... but Like Satmar Refuse to Make Aliyah


Yemen’s millennia-old Jewish population has come down to only four elderly men, after the last few remaining Jewish families were expelled this week by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports.

According to the report, one expelled family includes 13 men and women who agreed to leave Yemen if the Houthis freed a Jew who had been in prison for some six years.

The Saudi newspaper reported that the Houthis have made it a goal to wipe out the Yemenite Jewish community entirely. Until recently, the Jewish families resisted pressure to leave. However, when the relatives of the Jewish prisoner, Levy Salam, visited him in prison, the Houthi intelligence services offered to free him if the family would leave the country.

Salam was arrested for publishing an old version of the Torah.

One of the Jews who recently left told Asharq Al-Awsat, “Our choice was between remaining a target for harassment and them not letting Levy out of prison, or leaving, and him being set free.”

“Therefore, we were forced to leave. History will document us as the last Yemenite Jews who clung to their home until the last moment. We refused much temptation in other times, but now we must leave,” the man said.

Recently, another group of Jewish families left Yemen and found a home in the United Arab Emirates. 

The latest refugees are looking for a country to take them in, as they do not want to make aliyah.

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

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EU On the Way to Destroy Israel from Within ..Spent Billions on PA Construction Isolating Jewish Settlements

 The “Ad Kan” nonprofit organization, together with Israel’s Hebrew-language Channel 13 television news team has announced another expose, this one describing the silent war being waged by the European Union against the State of Israel using the Palestinian Authority to illegally occupy the land of Judea and Samaria in Area C.

“We want to tell you something that you do not know,” the Ad Kan narrator says in the report. “We are at war.

“In the past year we have infiltrated agents in the Palestinian Authority under false identities and established contacts with EU officials — and what we have discovered is nothing short of shocking.

“Behind the scenes and behind the back of the State of Israel, what we discovered was the European Union’s “Century Project.”

According to the report, the EU has allocated some three billion euros for the construction of a Palestinian state and the construction of its new capital city in Jerusalem. (ed: italics added)

In conversations with senior PA officials and original documents that were unveiled to the architects of the move on the Palestinian Authority and EU sides, the investigators found that the EU is pushing with all its might — all the while knowing this was being done against international law and the Oslo Accords — to build a Palestinian state, all of it behind the back of the State of Israel.

“We have uncovered a well-oiled mechanism in which the European Union secretly provides money, people and planning and legal knowledge to prepare a plan that will isolate Israeli communities in Area C in Judea and Samaria and in Jerusalem, and interrupt a settlement sequence to impose a de facto terrorist state in the heart of Israel,” the Ad Kan representative warns.

“During the activity we discovered that we are already in the middle of the process; about 100 such plans are gaining ground in the field, unhindered, while completely ignoring the law and the Oslo Accords.

“Never before has there been such blatant interference in the internal affairs of any country in the world by the European Union as there has been in ours, whether in funding anti-Israel organizations or in drawing the borders of the Jewish state.”

In the above video (Hebrew language only) the narrator goes on to explain — and to show the documents that prove the claim! — that sources who spoke with the investigative team said the Palestinian Authority government is expected to receive a sum of $952,460 for new Arab construction in the Old City of Jerusalem. The sources also said $778 million is to be invested in the development of areas around Hebron and Bethlehem, and another half a billion dollars ($500 million) earmarked for construction and development in the PA capital city of Ramallah, located in Binyamin section of Samaria.

The sums are to be invested in building that will be carried out in accordance with the EU’s Century Plan.

“This failure (by Israel to end EU interference – ed.) cannot continue, and we will do everything to stop it,” Gilad Ach, CEO of Ad Kan, vowed in the report.

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Three Wise Monkeys Are Now Racist

 

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Oxford University May Remove Sheet Music for Being Complicit in ‘White Supremacy’

 

The University of Oxford is considering proposals that would remove sheet music from its curriculum over woke claims that teaching the Western form of musical notation has roots in “colonialism” and “complicity in white supremacy”.

In response to widespread Black Lives Matter protesters and riots last year in the United Kingdom, music educators at Oxford University have joined the wider iconoclastic movement which has been sweeping through British academia.

The music department at the prestigious and ancient university has seen calls to remove music notation from the curriculum as professors seek to focus less on white European heritage and culture, according to documents seen by The Telegraph.

The woke educators went on to claim that musical notation itself is a “colonialist representational system” that has “complicity to white supremacy”. The claim is similar to leftist pronouncements in America that mathematics is inherently racist.

The Oxford academics went on to pronounce that teaching the piano or conducting orchestras could cause “students of colour great distress” as the skills involved are closely tied to “white European music”.

Professors at the university said that the classical music which is taught at Oxford, which includes Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert, among others, is too focused on “white European music from the slave period”.

The assertion is somewhat dubious, as Western classical music, as well as the practice of sheet music notation, predates the Atlantic slave trade, stemming back to musical traditions from the medieval period such as Gregorian chanting.

In response to student demands “arising from international Black Lives Matter demonstrations,” the Oxford faculty is also considering placing a heavier emphasis on “non-Eurocentric” musical traditions such as Hip-Hop and Jazz, as well as “African and African Diasporic Musics” and “Global Musics”.

The curriculum could also place more importance on pop music and culture, with suggested topics including “Artists Demanding Trump Stop Using Their Songs” at campaign rallies and “Dua Lipa’s Record-Breaking Livestream”.

Mocking the woke push from the university, London mayoral candidate and Heritage Party leader David Kurten said: “For goodness sake. Oxford is supposed to be one of our top Universities that promotes academic rigour and excellence. It should not be peddling woke nonsense like ‘classical music is racist and ‘sheet music is non-inclusive'”.

The proposals come amid a wider push throughout British academia to “decolonise the curriculum” in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

In February, for example, the University of Leicester caused uproar after it proposed cutting courses in Medieval English literature — removing seminal works such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf — in favour of focusing more heavily on texts relating to sexuality, diversity, race, and ethnicity.

The woke push has also seen the introduction of speech codes, with the University of Manchester telling staff to refrain from using gendered words such as “father” or “mother” in favour of more “inclusive language”.

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Cop killer, who killed a father-of-four NYPD officer during a 1981 robbery now sits on advisory panel helping to reform the police in New York state

 


Richard Rivera, 56, murdered officer and father-of-four Robert Walsh in 1981. 

Walsh, a 36-year-old father of was off-duty at the time and was in a Queens bar. Rivera came in with a group of four others and attempted to rob the place. Walsh identified himself as a cop, Rivera shot him first in shoulder and then head. 

Rivera served 38 years behind bars and now at the age of 56 is to sit on an upstate New York advisory panel on police reform. 

The family of Officer Walsh say they are disgusted by the move and lack of respect of his memory. 
Since his release, Rivera claims to have found his purpose in life by helping others including working with a homeless charity.

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Asian woman, 65, suffers shocking attack in Midtown Manhattan while two security guards do NOTHING to help

 


An Asian woman was attacked by a black man in Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight on Monday - while a couple of security guards from a nearby building did nothing to stop it.

Surveillance camera footage from inside the building where at least two guards were on duty captures the moment a man randomly kicks the woman to the ground before viciously stomping on her head and face at least three times.

Despite the attack being both vocal by the suspect and the victim screaming, nobody came to her aide despite her being kicked in full view of those in the neighboring building. 

One of the men appeared to be busy opening up packages while the attack was ongoing.

At one point, a second security guard could be seen closing the front door to the premises where the pair were working, completely ignoring the woman who had just been the victim of a savage assault.

Neither decided to chase after the suspect who was still being hunted by police on Monday night.

The Black Suspect calmly walking away

The unidentified suspect allegedly hurled anti-Asian statements as he punched and kicked the 65-year-old woman on West 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue just before midday, according to the NYPD. 

'F*** you, you don't belong here,' the man is said to have yelled at the woman according to sources as reported by the New York Post. 

The woman was taken to NYU Langone Hospital in stable condition having suffered a fractured pelvis.

The suspect was also caught clearly on surveillance camera as he walked away from the scene and appeared to be wearing distinctive blue pants, a maroon scarf and beige cardigan.

The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is now investigating the incident. 

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Is "Camel'ah" Sicker than Biden?

 


The Camel laughs hysterically when discussing struggling parents who aren't able to send their kids to school. 

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Monday, March 29, 2021

Cuomo kept COVID-19 tests from nursing homes But His Relatives got them


 The Cuomo administration largely ignored a county official’s pleas for COVID-19 tests for nursing homes at the pandemic’s height last spring — even as the governor allegedly secured the then-scarce tests for his relatives, The Post has learned.

The slight is the latest stumble in Cuomo’s pandemic response, particularly with respect to nursing homes, where thousands of residents have died of confirmed or suspected cases of the coronavirus.

Troubled by reports of COVID-19 running roughshod through nursing homes early in the pandemic, Jack Wheeler, the manager of upstate Steuben County, requested in April 2020 that the state Department of Health provide enough tests for every resident and staff member of three facilities in his jurisdiction.

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Documentation of Atrocities: The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross

 


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Rare coin rediscovered during conservation project of Jerusalem museum tower

 

A box of artifacts was rediscovered during a major conservation project to restore the stones of the “Phasael” tower of the Jerusalem citadel’s $40 million renewal project, the Tower of David Museum said Monday.

Additionally, the team discovered a box of artifacts, originally excavated in the 1980s. Within it, they uncovered a rare silver coin from the Second Temple period  — a “Tyre shekel.”

Two images are imprinted on either side of the coin: On one face is Melqart, the chief god of the Phoenician city of Tyre, and on the other, an eagle.

The coins were struck at some point between 125 BCE and the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE, when they were used to pay a half-shekel tax. Talmudic sources suggest that the Tyrian shekel was likely the only means of paying the head tax at the Temple for its upkeep.

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Thousands at Kotel for traditional Pesach "Birchas Kohanim" ceremony

 


For the first time in a year and a half, thousands of people were able to attend the traditional priestly blessing event at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, made possible by the rolling back of coronavirus restrictions ahead of the Passover festival.

Traditionally, tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims make their way twice a year to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, on the intermediate days of the Passover and Sukkot festivals, with crowds of men and women spilling out from the Wall’s plaza to surrounding areas.

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Thousands come to Yehoushua's Altar after PA desecration

 


Thousands of Jews visited Mount Ebal in Samaria today (Monday) and also visited the altar of Joshua son of Nun, part of which was destroyed last month by the Palestinian Authority. The site is believed to be the place where the Biblical Prophet Joshua built an altar after entering the Land of Israel more than 3,000 years ago.

Last month, a gravel crusher used by the Palestinian Authority for the paving of a new road deliberately removed and crushed stones from the ancient wall around the altar, provoking outrage among the Jewish and archaeological communities. The Samaria Regional Council promoted the restoration of the site and today for the first time held a huge event featuring thousands of people took place at the archaeological site.

"We invite the general public to come and enjoy the national parks, heritage sites, wineries and nature sites, enjoy a breathtaking view, Samaria is open to everyone and is a 25-minute drive from Tel Aviv," says Yossi Dagan, chairman of the Samaria Regional Council.

Referring to the thousands who came to the first festival on Mount Ebal and the altar of Joshua, Dagan says: "They are destroying and we are building, they are trying to erase history and we are restoring and preserving the world history and historical sites of the Jewish people, the thousands who come today prove that the Jewish people do not forget their roots. A nation that remembers its past will have a glorious future on all its land."

The festivals and celebrations at nature and heritage sites throughout Samaria are expected to continue tonight and tomorrow.

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