If you could snap your fingers & instantly change 3 typical company policies, what would they be?
"These are the first that come to mind. These types of polices were designed decades ago and really do not play well for today's top performing employees," explains Pat.
If eliminating or refining these policies makes you queasy, you may want to take a close look at whom you're employing. Top talent needs the support of a flexible and caring work environment to thrive.
"These are the kind of policies needed for people in your company you simply do not trust. Keeping these types of workplace practices in place, is like the tail wagging the dog. Populate your company with people who perform and whom you trust. Then the need for these programs becomes non-existent," Pat states.
How important is it to provide community service opportunities for employees?
"There is no doubt that today's top performers want to make a difference in the community." Pat notes that the challenge for company leaders is to facilitate and/or empower such opportunities. Whether this happens as a company-sponsored charity event, or individual employees being given time off work to volunteer, or some solution in-between... Pat encourages leadership to have this important conversation.
For employers that feel a little unsure of where to begin, or are nervous about giving staff time off, Pat suggests starting small. If your company is interested in starting an outreach initiative from within, you can test the waters with a 'random acts of kindness' program. If empowering individuals to make a difference sounds more up-your-alley, Pat recommends talking with your top people to hear what ideas inspire them.
Pat believes that everyone has the ability to change the world daily. He comments that once people realize this, and they take actions to positively impact someone's life... a ripple effect occurs and causes recurring positive change with others.
At ERC, Pat continually reinforces that ERC employees 'move the needle' every day. Staff see it and experience it with our customers and their organizations.
"The neatest part about our jobs at ERC is that because of our team's work, someone out there is paid fairly, is being treated better, gets a promotion and/or has enhanced skill sets... and the list keeps going... that is so cool!" Pat comments.
In addition to ERC team members' daily work, the organization embarks on a different community initiative each year. For instance, each week in 2013, a $50 bill was handed to a randomly-picked staff member, who in turn had one week to recognize WOW customer service customer service outside of ERC. As the $50 bills were passed along throughout the year, staff shared their experiences and touching stories with each other. The stories were really inspiring, the staff had a blast, and the initiative was successful.
It seems like today's workforce is becoming 24/7 due to technology. What are your thoughts on this and how do you see this impacting work/life balance initiatives?
"I think it really depends on the individual - if you want to be a slave to work you can... if you want to have a life outside of work, you can do that instead. There is no doubt that due to technology, employees can stay connected to work anytime of the day and night. Ironically, because of technology, employees can also customize their lifestyles around work and in effect, work non-traditional hours around family considerations," Pat comments.
In more and more companies, today's work week is anything but traditional. People are customizing their life; they're determining what's important to them by prioritizing, and then building a life around them that makes sense. Pat believes that in the workforce, this customization will be driven more from the individual than from the workplace or HR.
While there will certainly be some folks that elect to be 24/7 with their employer, Pat has created an environment at ERC where staff and their families come first and business second. "I do not want anyone working at ERC that values work over their family. We provide an environment at ERC where employees can be home for dinner and not work weekends or evenings.
Top performers appreciate this flexibility, are devoted to their families and in turn, truly appreciate the flexibility we provide in our company. And, make no mistake, this flexibility does not inhibit great customer service. Actually, the opposite occurs. I have said it for years, and I will continue to stand by our staff - they will out-service anyone on earth anytime. That's what happens when you hire and keep the best people," Pat states.
"I tell our staff all the time that you will never have a second chance to attend your child's day care or school program. If you don't go because of work, I do not want you employed at ERC. And neither does your child," Pat added.
There will always be some traditional workplaces with a traditional work week; however, Pat feels that these workplaces will become the minority. Certainly, there will still be some employers that believe loyalty is displayed through accessibility, and employees of such organizations will have to choose if this is the culture in which they want to work.
There is so much talk today about leadership. What is your take on the subject?
Pat mentioned that his views on the subject of leadership have changed significantly over the last 15 years. During that time, he really began to appreciate the importance of having the right people on the team - namely top performers. Additionally, with a traditional upbringing in HR and management, Pat believes leaders need to let go of antiquated and traditional leadership thought, and clean the slate.
Genuinely care about employees & their families.
Have an attitude of continuous improvement - for themselves & their organizations.
Expect the highest of themselves - set an example of work ethic & performance.
"There has been so much written about leadership and very little discussed about followers. If you have employees that are top performers, you do not have to manage them. You simply attempt to lead by example, be there for them when they need you, set organizational direction, and truly care about your staff. If you have the right people in place, leadership takes on a whole new meaning," Pat states.
What are your 2014 resolutions, and what do you think the New Year has in store for the business world?
"I simply do not make New Year's resolutions - never have and never will," Pat comments. While Pat has never made traditional New Year's resolutions, he does have a daily resolve to continuously beat the previous day - the way he acts, what he does on the job, and most importantly how he is as a husband and a father. Pat views this approach as a more sustainable way for him to set and achieve goals, rather than a once-a-year exercise.
"As for business in general, who knows? I have never been an advocate of long-range planning and to some extent short-range planning. The world is complex and dynamic. To be successful, you need to remain flexible, open-minded, and be ready to change," Pat states. Pat claims that while you can have some foresight and some visions to make best-guesses, what's even better is to adapt and change as necessary. "The only thing we know for sure is that 2014 will be exciting, fun, and challenging at times - with some mistakes, certainly - but hopefully with many more successes," Pat added.
Pat loves the challenge of adversity and the motivation it brings. He reasons that becoming stressed over a situation beyond your control is, basically, a waste of time and energy. And positive energy is precisely what you need during those difficult times - to right the wrong. So don't waste your energy with worry; rather, Pat suggests focusing on your reaction.
The only thing you can do when something goes wrong is to react to it - in either a positive or a negative way. How you respond, Pat believes, is how you build character. And the fun, Pat says, comes from looking back and saying, "Look what we accomplished, despite _________."
"Look... bad stuff happens... but that's an opportunity for you as a leader to utilize your intellect, your skill sets, and your experience to build a strategy," Pat states.
Another way that Pat approaches adversity - and the stress that often accompanies it, is through a high intensity daily exercise regime. "This is my time to get in the zone and de-stress if necessary. I have always exercised, but I took it up a notch about 6 years ago. I do a combination of P90x and the Insanity/Asylum programs. These programs, without a doubt, allow me to do a daily re-boot," Pat comments.
Pat encourages leaders to find their own 'reboot'. Whatever it is that helps ground you, utilize that outlet on a regular basis... and make that personal time a priority. The better you are able to lead at work, the better off your company & its employees will be as well.
What were your early influences and inspiration?
"Whenever someone would tell me I couldn't do something (legal, of course), or that it had never been done that way before - that was an opportunity for me to make a change. I have always felt an urgency to make positive change and I have never been satisfied with the status quo," Pat comments.
Pat's dad was his major influence growing up. He comments that his dad "always put our family first" - which became an important building block for balancing his own life. As a very successful banker in the 60's and 70's, his dad turned down several job promotions that would've taken him away from his family on frequent business travel. "In those days, you just did not turn down a promotion. Money was tight and if you turned a promotion down, you seldom got asked again," Pat states.
Pat says that while this, and other sacrifices, remained unspoken while growing up... Pat remembers his dad always being there. This lesson about family commitment and priority has stuck with Pat all these years and has strongly influenced his own work-life balance. Pat proudly comments that he makes sure his son is on the bus every morning, and then gets home in time for dinner 98% of the time. With stats like that, it's a win-win for everybody - from the folks at home to his work family here at ERC.


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Could Peer-to-Peer Lending Be Resurrected By Falling Interest Rates? At Least For Now?
September 19, 2019 | By: Sean Murray
As interest rates rose and yields for investors at peer-to-peer (p2p) lenders collapsed, the allure of p2p lending, at least from my perspective, was gone.
Rates on FDIC-insured CDs hit 2.5% while annual returns at some popular p2p lenders had declined to less than 5%. That's a very narrow spread between an investment that has no risk of loss versus one that has a risk of losing everything, is rather unpredictable, and is marred by a history of misleading investors and overstating returns.
I compared the options and made the obvious decision and started withdrawing my personally invested funds out of p2p lenders 3 years ago in favor of more traditional investments like stock index funds.
But now interest rates are falling and it's possible that retail investors once wooed by modestly generous savings account rates could begin to consider alternative options to generate returns. Enter P2P lending, again.
At Lending Club, the percentage of individual investors has trended downward consistently. In Q1 2015 these investors accounted for 19% of all platform originations with a total of $308 million. In the most recent quarter, that group has shrunk down to 5% of originations and only $155 million.
But at StreetShares, an online small business lender that offers individual retail investors a fixed 5% annualized return, the trend is the opposite. In a recent statement the company filed with the SEC, they claimed they had actually shifted away from funds from institutional capital providers and towards funds from retail investors. It doesn't get into the specifics about why that is but it's certainly unusual. StreetShares' investment offering carries a total risk of loss much like other p2p lenders.
But interest rates aren't supposed to fall in a void where nothing else in the outside world is happening. Assuming the economy is cooling, or worse, eventually heading towards a recession, the somewhat attractive looking p2p loan yields will fall as well since defaults on the underlying loans will rise.
So what does this mean? It means that online lenders, to the extent they're still interested, have a potentially short window to entice retail investors back. To do so, they'll have to convince the world that past transgressions are behind them and that low savings account rates can be supplanted by people helping their peers in return for a slightly better yield. That's how the entire concept took off to begin with. I say the window is short because once we're actually in a recession, it will become incredibly hard to convince fearful investors to participate in making risky online loans especially if the average returns drop into the negative. Don't be surprised when that happens.
Sean Murray is the President and Chief Editor of deBanked and the founder of the Broker Fair Conference. Connect with me on LinkedIn or follow me on twitter. You can view all future deBanked events here.
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(August 28, 2014) Anti-Israel boycotts, unlike other anti-corporate activism, are counterproductive as well as ineffectual.
University of Ottawa students are now lobbying to ban U.S.-based Sabra Dipping Company from campus for its links to Israel.
This article, by Lawrence Solomon, first appeared in the National Post
With fighting in the Israel-Gaza war at bay in the Middle East, the battle continues in the West — in supermarkets and at college campuses. In this political dispute, as increasingly in others, business is a battlefield for activists of all kinds.
The supermarket skirmishes over the Palestine dispute, most of which occurred in Europe, target retailers who carry Israeli products, and even kosher foods produced domestically. The U.K.'s Tesco supermarket chain saw a mob of protesters ransack a store, clearing shelves of Israeli products and demanding the chain cease doing business with Israel. To avoid that fate, a London supermarket, this one belonging to the Sainsbury chain, pre-emptively stripped its shelves of kosher products, including those produced in Britain. In the U.K., the police recognize many of the anti-Israel protesters — they're the same ones who show up at anti-fracking rallies.
In North America, anti-Israel protesters use barcode-reading smartphone apps to identify Israel-related products. These free apps, first developed by young leftists to target products that contribute to the bottom line of the conservative Koch brothers (Dixie cups and Stainmaster carpets are among the offenders), also help consumers boycott companies over causes now in vogue, such as the labelling of GMO foods.
Canadian campuses are particular hotbeds of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity.
With summer's end, the highly politicized campus front is about to open up. Canadian campuses are particular hotbeds of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity, with student unions at various universities and the Canadian Federation of Students' Ontario division, representing 300,000 students, deciding to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. University of Ottawa students are now lobbying to ban U.S.-based Sabra Dipping Company from campus for its links to Israel. Sabra, a maker of kosher hummus that says it has never contributed "hummus or anything else" to the Israeli military, is half-owned by PepsiCo, the other half by Israel-based Strauss.
The targeting of Sabra for its links to Israel points to the student union's desperation for meaningful action. Boycotting, divesting or sanctioning Sabra hummus could never bring Israel to its knees. Neither could boycotts of the entirety of Israel's agricultural products, which represent a mere 2% of Israel's exports. To hit Israel where it hurts, a boycott campaign would need to attack its high-tech sector — Israel's lucre as well as its pride — but this boycott would be a non-starter.
Student union leaders can maybe exhort students to eschew hummus for the Palestinian cause without sounding silly. But they would positively be laughed off campus if they told students to take one for the team by giving up Google, which has two R&D centres in Israel. Likewise, iPhones, flash drives, instant messaging, voicemail and other products were in whole or in part invented in Israel. Students would sooner part with their university educations than with their smartphones.
Neither could student unions straight-facedly lobby university bureaucracies to stop using Word, Excel, and other products invented by Microsoft Israel, or to stop using computers powered by Israeli Intel processors. Virtually every major Western IT company relies on its Israeli R&D divisions or on Israeli patents in its operations. To ask society to cease and desist in using Israeli technology is to ask us to turn back the clock in worship of ignorance.
Since a principled boycott of Israel can't be promoted effectively — placards demanding we throw away our iPhones would draw blank stares — the BDS movement launches unprincipled campaigns that rely on symbols and rhetoric, rather than rational arguments, to make its case.
Corporate boycotts to make political or ideological points aren't new. Companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's have often borne the brunt of campaigns decrying everything from globalization to American power, such as the European boycotts that occurred when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003.
A difference, and an irony, in the current campaigns targeting Israel, is that the more they succeed in intimidating Jews, the more they fail in their claimed goals of providing justice for Palestinians. The campaigns, often driven less by anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian fervour than by raw anti-Semitism, are escalating, as seen in the smashing of shop windows in a Jewish district of Paris and in physical assaults on Jews. The result is an increasing exodus of Jews from many European countries and into Israel, which increases Israel's proportion of Jews relative to Muslims and decreases the fear that Israelis have of Israel eventually becoming a Muslim-majority country — it is this fear that drives the majority of Israeli Jews to want Palestinians to have a state of their own. The more that Israeli Jews lose the fear that they might one day no longer be masters in their own land, the less likely that Palestinians will ever achieve a state of their own.
Lawrence Solomon is executive director of the Urban Renaissance Institute and a member of the advisory board of StandWithUs Canada. Email: LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com.
Further to this story:
Honest Reporting: Defending Israel from Media Bias quotes Lawrence Solomon's article above for its report on the BDS movement's (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) focus on Israel. See: Israel's boycott-proof economy.
About Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon is one of Canada's leading environmentalists. His book, The Conserver Solution (Doubleday) popularized the Conserver Society concept in the late 1970s and became the manual for those interested in incorporating environmental factors into economic life. An advisor to President Jimmy Carter's Task Force on the Global Environment (the Global 2000 Report) in the late 1970's, he has since been at the forefront of movements to reform foreign aid, stop nuclear power expansion and adopt toll roads. Mr. Solomon is a founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation and the executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions. He has been a columnist for The Globe and Mail, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the editor and publisher of the award-winning The Next City magazine, and the author or co-author of seven books, most recently The Deniers, a #1 environmental best-seller in both Canada and the U.S. .
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I can still remote in to other computers including the DC. If I logon locally to the computer in question there are no corresponding entries in the event log matching my RDC session attempt. I have checked my services and terminal services are all up and running.
I really don't know where to go from here. It used to work, and now it doesn't.
if your turn the firewall off does it work?
Thanks for the suggestion. I am connecting locally on the LAN so the traffic never passes through the hardware firewall. I have windows firewall disabled because I use a 3rd party software firewall. The software doesn't block my Remote Access to the other server right next to it. I assume that means my ports are open. I can telnet in to the fileserver on the RDC port, a test that was suggested. Is there something I am overlooking?
Try restarting Terminal Services. I've had RDP services stop working on me before (usually after a reboot because of an update). Honestly restarting the service hasn't worked in my case and I've just had a reboot, but it's easier to restart a service than a reboot. So if that doesn't work, try a reboot. I know it's a server and you'll have to do it after hours, but that's a net admin's life.
Now I am scared. I came in today and it is working. I had tried to get in before leaving yesterday and it was still broken. I haven't changed anything. Now I don't know the cause or how to fix it. This is going to drive me crazy. I just hope it doesn't come back.


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El municipio de Newfield (en inglés: Newfield Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Oceana en el estado estadounidense de Míchigan. En el año 2020 tenía una población de 2329 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 25,19 personas por km².

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El municipio de Newfield se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 92.46 km², de la cual 83,6 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (9,59 %) 8,86 km² es agua.

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Según el censo de 2010, había 2401 personas residiendo en el municipio de Newfield. La densidad de población era de 25,97 hab./km². De los 2401 habitantes, el municipio de Newfield estaba compuesto por el 95,17 % blancos, el 0,33 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,58 % eran amerindios, el 0,33 % eran asiáticos, el 1,37 % eran de otras razas y el 2,21 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 4,58 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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2. In a greased 12- cavity whoopie pie pan. add 1½ tablespoons of the cookie dough to the bottom. Add a oreo into the middle and cover with another tablespoon of dough. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Do not over bake. Let cool for a few mins. before serving.
This is a copycat recipe of one of my favorite snack, keeblers sandies cookies. If you haven't had them you must give them a try.
This recipe has no pecans, if you want to add them, then chop a cup of pecan to the recipe. Hope you enjoy it.
1. cream together the butter and sugar. Mix until light and fluffy, add vanilla and salt and mix.
2.Then add flour slowly and mix until combined. Dough will be a little sticky. But that's fine, place the dough onto chopping block or plastic wrap and kneed it together. Don't kneed too much, just enough to form a ball.
3.Wrap the dough in the plastic wrap and chill for a couple of hours.
4.Preheat the oven to 350. Remove the dough from fridge and turn it out onto a floured surface. Roll into flat sheet about 1/4 inch thick . Then using a cookie cutter, cut into individual cookies.
with more sugar. Place in oven for 18-22 mins. or until lightly brown.
6.Let cool, then is ready to serve.


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Q: Is there a way to create a Form in MS-Access without using a table? I want to show the results of a call to a webservice (several rows) in ms-Access. To do this I created a form with the defaultView = 1 (= continuous form).
Now I wonder if I can use show results from the webservice directly in my form. This means without creating a table which I then select with the recordsource-property.
Is there a way to show data a continuous-form in MS-Access without using a table?
I tried to set the recordset by myself like this:
Private Sub Form_Load()

  Set m_Dataset = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("Test", RecordsetTypeEnum.dbOpenDynamic)
  Call m_Dataset.AddNew
  m_Dataset("OutOfThinAir") = "Hallo"
  Set Me.Recordset = m_Dataset

End Sub

But OpenRecordset raises the error "invalid argument".
I also thought of setting the recordsource to a select statement without using a table name (In oracle this would be "Select ... from dual") but I did not find a working statement. "SELECT 1 from dual;" does definitely not work.

A: Yes, but you'd need to use an ADODB recordset, not a DAO one.
E.g.
Dim m_Dataset As New ADODB.Recordset
m_Dataset.Fields.Append "OutOfThinAir",adVarWChar, 6, adFldUpdatable
m_Dataset.Open
m_Dataset.AddNew 'No call!
m_Dataset("OutOfThinAir") = "Hallo"
Set Me.Recordset = m_Dataset

A: With the help of Erik A I I figured out a solution which works:
Private Sub Form_Load()

  Dim rstADO As ADODB.Recordset
  Set rstADO = New ADODB.Recordset
  rstADO.Fields.Append "OutOfThinAir", adVarChar, 100, adFldMayBeNull
  rstADO.LockType = adLockOptimistic
  rstADO.Open

  rstADO.Addnew
  rstADO.Fields("OutOfThinAir") = "Hello"
  rstADO.Update
  rstADO.Addnew
  rstADO.Fields("OutOfThinAir") = "Du"
  rstADO.Update

  Set Me.Recordset = rstADO
End Sub

Btw I had to add "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 6.1 Library" as a reference in order to use the constants and "ADODB.Recordset" as a variabletype.

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January 4, 2021 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment
As I have been monitoring antisemitism domestically and globally for over two decades, I always review what events have made each year unique from that perspective. 2020 is no different. Events varied from wake-up calls to challenges to crimes, and they were both domestic and global. Keep in mind that even a global act of antisemitism has many ripple effects that will reach the United States. In my previous post, I reviewed January to June 2020, let's review the rest of the year now:
July 2020: Israel's Right to the Land
When the world struggles with a pandemic and increasing racial/cultural riots, Israel takes second place on the news. Don't quote me wrong, there is still plenty of antisemitic rhetoric to be heard, and acts against Jews still abound. But, somehow, there had been a bit of a respite. That was until the approaching deadline for Israel's annexation of territories from the West Bank became news. The day for the move was July 1st, but Benjamin Netanyahu decided to delay it a bit. Historically and politically, the 1917 Balfour Declaration followed by the 1920 San Remo Conference really made it clear that the land then known as "Palestine" belonged to the Jewish people. I see three reasons why this is true:
Biblically, Israel owns the whole land: Going back to the book of Genesis, God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:1-3; 15:18-21; Leviticus 25:23.)
Prophetically, Israel needs the whole land: There is an important factor that plays out in the future of the Jewish people. It is known as the Law of Return, which was passed in 1950 in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament.) The Jewish people are also promised by God that in the future they will all return to the land, even in unbelief. In other words, a Jewish person's spiritual connection of lack of, to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has no bearing on God's promise to bring the Jewish people back to the land in the last days (Ezekiel 36:22-28.)
Geopolitically, Israel runs the whole land better: With their proverbial head in the sand, most people do not realize how much better life in Israel can be for all people. This tiny sliver of land in the Middle East truly is a beacon of light in a very dark place. It is recognized as the only true democracy in the whole region.
August 2020: The Abraham Accord and the Antichrist
From a human perspective, in a region that has been punctuated by wars since Israel's birth as a modern nation on May 14, 1948, seeing peace between Israel and Arab neighbors is highly unexpected and very exciting. There has been a "proverbial" hatred between Arabs and Jews for at least 75 years. It's complicated! But from a human perspective, peace is good. As long as we understand that humanly speaking, peace simply means the absence of war.
At the end of the day, the world is quickly getting ready for the Antichrist (Daniel 9:26-27), but the world is also ready for the Messiah. It is up to those of us who know the difference, to teach those who would be tempted to follow the Antichrist, and lead them to the only true Prince of Peace known as Yeshua of Nazareth
September 2020: It's All the Jews' Fault
As 2020 went on, just about everything has been blamed on the Jews. This is nothing new, as we have been the scapegoats of humanity for centuries.
Covid-19: The Jewish people have been accused of creating, causing and even spreading the virus to the world for two reasons: To "take over the world" and to "monetize" the vaccine/cure that they have developed. This hardly explains how Israel has been suffering from two huge spikes of new cases of Covid-19.
The Protests/Riots: Some people found it interesting to spread the rumor that American police officers were being trained by IDF officers in using methods that include the way George Floyd was choked to death. The group known as US Campaign for Palestinian Rights came up with that unfounded accusation.
October 2020: A Jewish Cabal!
QAnon: The strange attraction that people have for the mysterious group known as QAnon is also leading people to blame the Jews. It is supposed to ANONymously expose the international Jewish cabal to destroy Donald Trump and take over the world. The fact that it is based on a hoax from 1904–The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion- that has been debunked over and over, doesn't seem to stop QAnon adherents. They claim that the Rothschilds are behind the whole agenda of controlling the USA behind the scenes.
November/December 2020: Hope Only in God's Word
Bible Prophecies are directed by God Himself for the benefit of mankind. From that perspective, almost 30% of the Tenach (Old Testament) is prophetic, and almost 22% of the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament) is prophetic.
Now, let's look at the one world event that we are living through today that is a guarantee that we are in the last days. I am speaking of the regathering of the Jewish people to the land of Eretz Yisrael. God promised to restore the land of Israel and He did when He allowed for the birth of the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948. Beyond the restoration of the land, He also promised in Ezekiel that the Jewish people would return to it in the end times. Ezekiel 36:24 is clear, "For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land." This speaks of the physical restoration of Israel and it has literally been happening in front of our very eyes for the last few decades. Additionally, In Ezekiel 37, the prophet is given a vision known as "the vision of the valley of dry bones", in which he is told that Jewish people will return to Israel. This is about Israel's national restoration, which is controlled by the God of Israel.
But the national physical restoration is only part of this world event because we will also see the spiritual rebirth of Israel as we read in Ezekiel 36:25-27. There are still some unknown elements to the end times, but, what we need to know, is that as we see the Jewish people repopulating their ancestral biblical land, we are living in these end times for sure, and this should encourage us and motivate us to share the Gospel with our people.
in 2021, let us all commit to learning more about the Bible, Israel, end-times and antisemitism so that we can make a better difference in our fight against the oldest hatred!
Filed Under: Antisemitism, BDS, Bible, Christianity, Featured-Post-1, God, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish, Messiah, United Nations, United States, Yeshua, Zionism
December 26, 2020 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment
There are many topics that could be covered to punctuate the year 2020. Most of them are unusually different from previous years. The race riots, the pandemic, or the elections are just three of them. It could also be argued that 2020 will be remembered as the year when we became the Divided States of America. Nobody in America ever saw such polarization between neo-liberals and conservatives, and the chasm will probably get wider as time progresses. There is also a way to look at Jewish life through the year 2020; Antisemitism! I have been monitoring antisemitism domestically and globally for over two decades, and once a year, I review what events have made each year unique from that perspective. 2020 is no different. Events varied from wake-up calls to challenges to crimes, and they were both domestic and global. Keep in mind that even a global act of antisemitism has many ripple effects that will reach the United States. So, let's review the year a month at a time:
January 2020: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Every January 27, we are reminded to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As multiple heads of state and key representatives gather to pay tribute to the victims and the helpers (Righteous Among the Nations), the rest of the world is also invited to post a photo of themselves with the hashtag #WeRemember. But Hashtags will not defeat Holocaust deniers, historical revisionists and antisemites. Hashtags are the bumper stickers of the twenty-first century, they make a statement in passing as they move to their eternal abode in cyberspace. Instead, people can visit one of the numerous US-based (30 states) Holocaust memorial/museums, read on the topic, share with the next generation and/or attend conferences and peaceful protests.
February 2020: The Aalst Carnival in Belgium
The city of Aalst, Belgium has officially held its carnival since 1923. Parades of that sort actually go back to the Middle Ages. Aalst almost always makes the news for its 3-Day carnival. The organizers repeatedly claim that the satirical tone of the carnival is to be remembered when one considers any of its floats. They regularly ridicule the Jewish people.
The "Aalst Jews of 2020" were wearing oversized shtreimels (fur hats), dressed in black this year, but the bottom half of their bodies were that of insects or vermin; ants to be exact (don't miss the extermination innuendo here). Joining the crowds were dozens of people wearing caricatural orthodox Jewish garb and large fake crooked noses, not to mention the many flyers with stereotypical renditions of Jews with side curls, crooked noses and curly hair, and the many people wearing Nazi uniforms…All of it in the name of innocent satire!
March 2020: The Covid-19 Vaccine versus BDS
As of March, 149 countries had been infected. The global number of cases exceeded 150,000 and deaths were over 5,600. We thought that it was bad, but we knew nothing yet. Several countries in the world were racing against the clock to research, discover, test and manufacture a vaccine for Covid-19. At the forefront of these modern countries was Israel.
And then, there were the usual BDS movement people across the globe, selling the false idea that Israel is an occupying, colonialist and human rights violating country. They convince a plethora of uneducated people to boycott Israel. Evidently, they boycott whatever is not going to be too inconvenient. So, here is the million-dollar question: "Would BDS people refuse the vaccine if it came from Israel?" They should if they were consistent and ethical.
April 2020: A New Bible Without Israel
The Danish Bible Society published a new Bible known as "The Bible 2020." It should be called the RTV (Replacement Theology Version.) This Bible is no Bible at all, and it is a very dangerous document. It chose to inaccurately replace or just ignore the word "Israel" (73 times in the New Testament), calling it instead "the land" or "the people."
It is just one more proof showing us how close we are from the final chapter in the "Real Bible", where Messiah Yeshua returns to establish his kingdom after fighting all those who went against Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:10), and establishes His messianic kingdom with His people among which the Jews will be the head and not the tail. That is the biblical truth that includes Israel AND excludes the enemies of Israel.
May 2020: Trump, Ford and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!
In May, President Trump made a very uncomfortable comment as he was visiting a Ford factory in Michigan. As he was addressing executives about the founder of Ford Motors, Henry Ford, he said, "The company was founded by a man named Henry Ford, good bloodlines, good bloodlines. If you believe in that stuff, you got good blood."
Ford's antisemitism is indelibly printed in the chronicles of history. It cannot be denied, it shouldn't be minimized and will not be forgotten. I do not believe that President Trump was promoting Eugenics or racial superiority in the way that Henry Ford did when he published The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, but his statement can be used against him by his enemies and also by those who espouse such a view, linking President Trump to a group of fringe antisemites that already are believed by some to support him.
June 2020: Black Lives Matter but BLM doesn't
2020 saw the tragic death of George Floyd and the rise of the BLM movement. But before we blindly join and support the BLM movement based on somewhat of a knee-jerk reaction, from a mix of compassion, rightful indignation and misplaced guilt, we should investigate who the BLM movement supports and promotes.
Black Lives Matter clearly supports BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions). BDS has been pushing for a total boycott (academic, cultural and economic) of Israel and those who support Israel and Israeli products and companies. It has made great strides towards convincing people across the globe that Israel was the perpetrator of crimes against humanity, oppression, invasion and persecution. BLM is also one of more than 150 organizations within the coalition known as Movement for Black Lives (M4BL.) Let's support all black lives, but not through a manmade movement that has a shaky foundation at best. Rather, because of our Messiah who supported all lives, enough to die for them. We all should support black lives and it definitely matters how we do it!
Part II with the rest of 2020 will be published next week.
Filed Under: Antisemitism, BDS, Bible, Christianity, End-Times, European Union, Featured-Post-1, God, Holocaust, Islam, Israel, Jewish, Messiah, Middle East, Muslims, Palestinians, Political Correctness, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, Yeshua, Zionism
December 4, 2020 By Olivier Melnick Leave a Comment
Asking Wolves to Tend Sheep Never Ends Well for the Sheep!
2020 has been a year that the world will remember even though all of us wish we could forget it. Inevitably and sadly, when the world goes through a crisis, there is always a segment of the population that will favor blaming the Jews for that crisis. So, it has been no different with the current Covid-19 pandemic, as some have irrationally accused Israel and the Jews of the virus. Conspiracy theories abound!
The result has been a global surge in acts of antisemitism. At the same time, people are trying to come to an agreement on some kind of an international definition for antisemitism in a concerted effort to fight it more holistically, and that is commendable. As it stands, most of the world has been adopting the United States Department of State's definition that is as follows, "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities." I honestly find it surprising that The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) adopted that same definition in 2016. Additionally, they were quick to clarify that it was a non-legally binding definition. In other words, these are just words.
But even then, that definition is a start, although I find it to be a bit vague or possibly too soft. When I hear "a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews", I feel like the use of defining terms should have a bit firmer. For instance, I would have stated "a certain perception of Jews, which is expressed as hatred toward Jews", because I have yet to see any iteration of antisemitism not being hatred of the Jews or Israel. Then, the definition goes on to say that antisemitism can be "rhetorical and physical", and we know that to be true, but by introducing the idea that antisemitism may be expressed as hatred, we now open the door to the possibility that rhetorical or physical acts of antisemitism may not be hateful and thus, could be justified. Simply stated, this definition is too soft and too vague. But this is not the only challenge with trying to combat antisemitism. We also have to look at who is speaking against the oldest hatred and how they are possibly spinning the concept to fit their agenda.
When a conference or seminar is organized, it is common sense to gather a panel of the foremost experts on the topic at hand. The last thing that the organizers want to be accused of, is that they have gathered a panel of people who have not earned the right to speak on any given topic. You would not gather a group of white supremacists or KKK members to speak on the ills of slavery, just like you would not ask a group of neo-Nazis to speak on Israel's right to exist. In reality, such gatherings might take place, but nobody would take them seriously, let alone attend the conferences. Well, you would think so, but this is 2020 after all, and the sky is the limit when it comes to the irrational, and when the working definition of antisemitism is non-legally binding, strange things can happen.
So, when I found out that a webinar-panel discussion was scheduled for mid-December, on the topic of "Dismantling Antisemitism, Winning Justice", I got excited, be it for a very short moment until I realized who was on the panel. I expected experts like Manfred Gerstenfeld, the Israeli former Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, who also founded and directed the Center's Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism program, or maybe Deborah Lipstadt an American historian, author and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. These people are just two of many experts I can think of on the topic of antisemitism.
Well, imagine my surprise when I found out that the webinar on dismantling antisemitism will be led by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Marc Lamont Hill, Peter Beinart and Barbara Ransby. This would provide great material for a Saturday Night Live skit if the topic wasn't so tragically serious.
Rashida Tlaib just finished participating in a conference titled " Against All Odds: Palestine beyond 2020", organized by American Muslims for Palestine. She was also joined by congresswoman Ilhan Omar and terrorist supporters like Hatem Bazian or Tarek Hamoud who has is tied to Hamas. At the end of the conference, Miss Tlaib retweeted "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free " which is a euphemism for the total destruction of Israel and all Jews.
Marc Lamont Hill was employed by CNN until he made some very antisemitic comments and also claimed that we all need to strive for a free Palestine from the river to the sea. Additionally, he was part of a fundraiser for a known terrorist.
American Jewish journalist Peter Beinart is also on that panel. He has called the Jewish state a cancer. He goes as far as comparing modern Israelis and American Jews to Nazis against the Palestinians. Yes, Mr. Beinart is Jewish! Whatever that means to him.
Barbara Ransby is a professor in Chicago and she supports terrorist Rasmea Odeh. She has also promoted violent protests against Israel.
These will be the four speakers on this panel dedicated to the dismantling of antisemitism. Is this to be taken seriously? You better believe it is. These people really believe that they have a message that can make a difference. Maybe they think that by eradicating Israel and eliminating all Jews, antisemitism will cease to exist. After all, "no more Jews" means no more need for antisemitism. What a farce! I find it hard to believe that anybody would take this webinar seriously, but then I looked at who was organizing such an event and I was shocked even further.
The event is co-sponsored by several "Jewish" organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, Jewish Currents and the Jewish Vote, among other groups. A quick perusal of these Jewish groups will reveal that they are JINOs or "Jewish in Name Only." They actually are a disgrace to the Jewish people, the memory of the Holocaust and the modern state of Israel. These groups have proven to have no affinity for the people they claim to represent. They are very liberal organizations that in the name of social justice will quickly throw Israel and the Jews under the bus. They regularly claim that Israel is occupying stolen Palestinian land and that Jews are weaponizing antisemitism to their advantage.
We are told by the event website, "Join social justice movement and political leaders as they share what fighting antisemitism looks like to them and how it connects to their own liberation struggles. Panelists will address their own experiences of fighting oppression, how they learned about and have experienced antisemitism." I cannot wait to hear how self-proclaimed Palestinian American Rashida Tlaib and African America Marc Lamont Hill have experienced antisemitism.
I am actually not sure if these panelists believe that they can solve antisemitism. Are they so delusional that they could see themselves as the providers of a solution against antisemitism, but still see Israel as a threat to the world and Jewish people as colonizers and murderers? I realize that 2020 has been an upside-down year on so many levels, but to let wolves tend the sheep will never end well for the sheep. If these people are the experts on antisemitism, we are so doomed!
Filed Under: Antisemitism, BDS, European Union, Featured-Post-1, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish, Middle East, Muslims, Palestinians, Political Correctness, Terrorism, United Nations, United States, Zionism Tagged With: Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Tlaib
Kristallnacht and the Temple Mount: What Can They Possibly Have in Common?
Sometimes when I look at the history of Israel and the Jewish people, I feel like I am watching the opening credits of a Star Wars movie. The main theme appears in text form from the bottom of the screen and slowly moves up as its size reduces towards the horizon and eventually disappears off the screen completely. As years go by, I continue to see the absolute necessity to tell people about critical markers on the timeline of Israel and the global Jewish community. This is why I continue to educate my audience about things like the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, BDS and other important events that plague the Jewish people.
If it happens today, it is part of the news, but as soon as tomorrow hits, it becomes part of history. The problem is that not all of history is worth recalling, but whose choice is it to pick what part of history to remember? We all have different interests, customs, traditions and even agendas. They all dictate what we choose to remember, commemorate or celebrate. This being said, there are events that transcend history and must be recalled by all, lest history becomes forgotten, erased or altered, putting us in a dangerous position where history could repeat itself.
One of these nefarious events took place on the night of November 9-10, 1938 and is remembered every November as Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass." But, before we can look at Kristallnacht, we must consider what just happened to the Temple mount that will help us to understand how the two are connected.
This is not the first attempt and probably not the last one either, but 138 countries of the United Nations approved a draft resolution naming the Temple Mount solely as an Islamic holy site, by the name of al-Haram al-Sharif. The title of the resolution itself is so politically charged that it shows the slant taken, "Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including east Jerusalem." It is important to note the few countries that voted against the resolution. They were Israel, Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and the United States. The European countries who supported the resolution were Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK to name just a few who also claim to be friends with Israel?
The Temple Mount currently hosts several buildings that are all Muslim. The Dome of the Rock with its gorgeous golden roof–often mistaken for a mosque–is an islamic shrine containing the rock/location from where, according to Islam, Abraham ascended to heaven. The Dome of the Rock was built in the 7th Century AD and further renovated and restored throughout the centuries. The Temple Mount also includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque that was built in AD 705, just a few decades after the Dome of the Rock. Many archeological excavations and studies have been made on the Temple Mount. It was believed for a while that there were no Jewish connections to the area, or at least, as stated by British archeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon, "no trace of the Temple remained." She eventually changed her views to declare that much of the remains of Herod's Temple (2nd Temple) could still be found. Additionally, remains of Solomon's Temple (First Temple) were also discovered underground, proving without the shadow of a doubt that the geographical location known as the Temple Mount did indeed host both the first and second Temples in Jerusalem. For an in-depth archeological, historical and biblical study of the Temple and its surroundings over the centuries, Dr. Randall Price wrote his authoritative volume, The Temple in Bible Prophecy: A Definitive Look at Its Past, Present and Future.
No serious scholar or archeologist would venture to say that the Temple Mount has no Jewish connections, unless they had an agenda and wanted to push a narrative to delegitimize Israel's presence and right to self-determination. This is exactly what we are seeing at the present time. This resolution is yet another attempt at re-writing history and delegitimizing Israel. This allows Israel's foes to paint the Jewish state as an oppressor, invader and colonizer, trying to claim Muslim land, when in fact the real estate where the Temple Mount is located precedes Muslim history by at almost 2,000 years, Solomon's Temple era having started around 1000 BCE. Biblically speaking, the destruction of the second Temple that took place in AD 70, was prophesied by Yeshua Himself in Matthew 24:2, "And He said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down." It is nothing short of a miracle that we can actually find even traces of the two Jewish building at that location.
So, when the United Nations declare that the Temple Mount has no Jewish connection, they de facto become co-conspirators in the crime of delegitimization of Israel. The danger here, is that if people believe that Israel has no right to the area, it further feeds the narrative of Israel's occupation and crimes against humanity. Now, the question still remains, "How does the Temple Mount connect historically to Kristallnacht?" Well, it doesn't connect historically, but it does connect politically, and this is how.
First, a little background on the events that transpired in Germany on the night of November 9-10, 1938. During that dreadful night, a critical event took place that would seal the fate of six million European Jews. That was 82 years ago. The event is known as Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass." The reason given by the Nazis was the assassination of German official Ernst vom Rath, shot two days prior by Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish teenager reacting to his parents' deportation. In reality, the boycott/pogrom of Jewish synagogues, schools, businesses and homes resulting in the death of almost 100 Jewish people and the destruction of 7,500 properties was well planned, and anything but a reaction to the death of a German official. Additionally, 30,000 Jewish people were sent to concentration camps. Historians agree that Kristallnacht was the onset of the Holocaust, shifting Nazi antisemitism from mere rhetoric to pure violence and murder. It set in motion the death factories aimed at accomplishing "the final solution." They almost succeeded!
So, it is very important to remember Kristallnacht and tell our children about it, especially in light of current world events. We have seen an increase in acts of antisemitism worldwide, in several cases leading to the death of people in Europe and the United-States. Antisemitism has now become a reality almost on a daily basis. It can no longer be ignored, and yet in the eyes of many, it is not really that important of an issue. As a matter of fact, a recent survey showed that 32% to 50% of young Americans had very little to no knowledge or understanding of the Holocaust. Most couldn't even name one concentration camp.
Alongside the ignorance of history, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is becoming mainstream. So mainstream that people don't bother checking if any of its accusations are based on facts or fiction. People in Hollywood, in government and even in several Christian denominations are doing their best to cripple Israel and the Jewish people. They are not trying to bring justice to the Middle East as they would want us to believe but rather, they want to completely eradicate Israel from "Palestine".
The Jewish people have also been accused by some, of creating propaganda with the events of Kristallnacht, the ghettos and the Holocaust, to build a case for themselves to move to "Palestine", uproot the "native Palestinians" and settle down under the guise of Zionism. When people buy the false narrative of Jewish occupation on a "Muslim only" Temple mount area, they can easily be swayed into buying a revisionist position on Kristallnacht. After all, one of the best ways to completely eradicate a people group is to erase their history. If their history cannot be proven, maybe it never happened, and if it never happened, or was best grossly exaggerated, it also becomes easier to paint this people group as the problem. As it stands, most people are not history buffs. The era of the Internet and social networks has turned us all into consumers of information, and in and of itself, this is not a bad thing. The problem is that we used to be consumers of well prepared, nutritious meals as we took interest in the details of history. Today, most of us only have time for junk food as we barely digest the brief internet soundbites and headlines rarely checked for veracity. So, when people de-judaize the Temple Mount, nobody pays attention or if they do, they don't question it. The generation that believes that the Temple Mount is a Muslim site only will have no problem believing that Kristallnacht was Jewish propaganda to claim the land of Israel. If and when history repeats itself, this current generation suffering from "self-imposed historical Alzheimer" might not see it coming before it is way too late. That is the very reason why we cannot remain silent!
Filed Under: Antisemitism, BDS, Bible, European Union, Featured-Post-1, God, Holocaust, Islam, Israel, Jewish, Middle East, Muslims, Palestinians, United Nations, Zionism Tagged With: Historical Revisionism, Kristallnacht, Temple Mount
80 Years After the Warsaw Ghetto…Danger Will Robinson!
In a recent article that I wrote, I went over the results of a US survey made with the millennials and Gen Z community. The results were terrifying. One of the questions posed had to do with the ability to name a death camp or a ghetto. Incredibly, 48% of all respondents were unable to name anything, and in some states, it was as high as 60%. Historically, Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto are the most known names within that category, and yet half the people didn't have a clue at all.
This month we remember that eighty years ago in October 1940, in Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto was established. But what is it exactly that we remember, for those of us who do remember? So much can be said about the Warsaw Ghetto, and so much can be learned from what happened there and how it happened. To be sure, the concept of the ghetto didn't get invented by the Nazis to control the Jewish population, but it was simply re-introduced and "put on steroids" so to speak!
The word ghetto or geto is Italian for "foundry" which is the area where the first ghetto was organized in Venice, Italy in 1516 in the district known then as Gheto Vechio, some four hundred years before the Warsaw ghetto. The large Jewish community that had been expelled from Spain in 1492 was moving to Italy to relocate, and the Venetian community decided to keep things separated for better control. You can still visit the Venetian ghetto area to this day.
Fast forward to 1940. The Nazi Party is struggling to control the Jews. Holocaust historian and author Raul Hilberg explained that there was a progression in how the world got organized to first control and eventually get rid of its Jews, "Since the fourth century after Christ there have been three anti-Jewish policies: conversion, expulsion and annihilation. The second appeared as an alternative to the first, and the third emerged as an alternative to the second."
While the final solution concentrated on the complete eradication of European Jewry, the institutionalization of the ghetto paved the way and helped to organize that step. Forced conversions and forced baptisms of the Jews to Christianity had been attempted for centuries and had resulted in the loss of many lives. Expulsion seemed to be a good option for those who wanted to get rid of the Jews. It had occurred in Europe on many occasions (England in 1290, Hungary in 1349 and 1360, France in 1394, Austria in 1421, Spain and Sicily in 1492, Portugal in 1497, Nuremberg in 1499, Naples in 1510 and Milan in 1597.)
But for Hitler and his Nazi murderers, expulsion didn't yield the results expected. Things had to move further along and much faster. Ghettos started to get organized by the Nazis all over Europe as early as 1939. Jews were rounded up and sent to controlled and enclosed areas. Many smaller ghettos were started across Europe, with the first large metropolitan ghetto in Lodz in April of 1940, closely followed by the Warsaw ghetto in October of 1940. Erected brick walls and barbed wires formed new boundaries for various Jewish communities that would have to survive in their new communal prisons.
The ghettos were somewhat organized with occasional, Jewish traffic in and out of their limits, with special authorizations from the Nazis. The Jewish people did their best to maintain a semblance of communal life. Schools were organized and even synagogue services took place. But things started to deteriorate very rapidly. Food became scarce, living conditions were extremely crowded and sanitation was insufficient at best. Typhus and other infectious diseases started to plague the ghettos, and the death toll became very high. Over 43,000 people died inside the Lodz ghetto, and 76,000 within the Warsaw ghetto before the summer of 1942.
In a sense, the ghettos became clearing houses for the "final solution to the Jewish question", a euphemism for the total destruction of the Jews of Europe. Since the Jews were not leaving fast enough and the ghettos were bulging at their seams, something else had to be done to rid the world of the "Jewish virus." Slowly but steadily, the Nazis started to deport the Jews out of the ghettos to the death camp of Treblinka, only 50 miles away.
Two heroes of the Warsaw ghetto are worth remembering. The first one was Mordekhai Anielewicz, the young leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) who led the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This was the largest Jewish revolt during World War Two, which inspired others of the sort in various ghettos and camps. He is remembered as the symbol of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
The other hero was a Polish-Jewish historian named Emanuel Ringelblum. He managed to chronicle Jewish deportation and ghetto life. His records were preserved inside tin boxes and large metal milk cans. They were respectively recovered in 1946 and 1950 and have provided the world with over 25,000 artifacts documenting the Holocaust and life in the Warsaw ghetto. This was a priceless find made possible by the selfless desire of a Jewish man to document the horrors he had to live through. Such courage!
What will happen to this crucial part of history if the proponents of the "Cancel Culture" movement had their way? I can only imagine! But there is something that we need to come to grips with even today. I believe that even though we are not seeing the brick and mortar walls being erected with barbed wires around Jewish communities, ghetto life is lurking again. The purpose of a ghetto is to separate, ostracize and control a group of people. Could it be that the global Jewish community is being rounded-up into a virtual ghetto?
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is working hard at accusing Israel of apartheid, colonization and human rights abuse in an effort to ostracize the Jewish people. No physical walls are necessary, just paint the Jews into the unwanted camp.
The Campus Intifadas are indoctrinating our young people into believing that Israel murders Palestinians every day and inviting pro-Palestinian apologists to lecture on US campuses. Jews are excluded from the marketplace of ideas, ironically enough, under the guise of freedom of speech. No physical walls are necessary, just paint the Jews as the oppressor and the rest of the student body will gladly denigrate them.
The myriads of antisemitic acts all over the world are a constant reminder of the danger that Jewish people run, simply for "being Jewish" Cemeteries are being desecrated, synagogues set on fire, diatribes and libels are posted online on all social networks (even though Facebook and Twitter finally agreed to block and cancel Holocaust deniers on their platforms.) No physical walls are necessary, just accuse the Jews of the ills of the world, and the world will gladly pass judgment and inflict the verdict.
When the ghettos proved not to be enough for those who hated the Jews with every fiber of their beings, Jewish extermination became the next logical step. No "Cancel Culture" demagogue will be able to prove otherwise. Today, the Jewish people are no longer in a ghetto between four walls topped by barbed wire, but it can easily be argued that we are being ghettoized by the media, politicians, the entertainment industry and even some of the churches. I dare not imagine what's next if indeed we do cancel culture and we let history repeat itself!
"Indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, and in a free society,
some are guilty, but all are responsible."
Filed Under: Antisemitism, BDS, Christianity, Featured-Post-1, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish, Palestinians, Political Correctness, Terrorism, Zionism Tagged With: Warsaw Ghetto


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Buddha Boy Not So Zen
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The 20-year-old "Buddha Boy" of Nepal, who is famous for meditating in the dense forest of Ratanpur village since 2005 and whose followers claim is the reincarnation of the Buddha, beat up more than a dozen villagers last Thursday before locking them in a room. Ram Bahadur Bomjan told officials that the villagers were smoking cigarettes and disrupting his meditation.
Bara District police superintendent Manoj Neupane said in a phone interview, "Seventeen people have come to us claiming that they were beaten by Bomjan and we are investigating the issue."
Bomjam, who claims to be in penance (or, meditating), has advocated non-violence and campaigned against the mass sacrifice of animals. Last year, he even addressed the public highlighting non-violence and peace.
Bomjam has claimed that he can mediate for months without eating food. But the 17 villagers, who say they were in the jungle to collect firewood, told police that Bomjam beat them and detained them. Police have sent the injured for medical checks in the nearby Bara Hospital.
The "Buddha Boy" told journalists and police that he slapped the villagers "as a punshiment" for smoking and mimicking him.
http://www.filmat11.tv/news-updates/2010/07/buddha-boy-not-so-zen
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by Matt deKimble
Will Wood: Well He Would
Barman, bouncer, tour manager, psychiatric nurse, multi-instrumentalist band member and now solo country/folk recording artist, Will Wood has an attitude, as well as a name, bred for success. Though his newly released album is entitled 'Broken Man', as he tells Matthew deKimble, the recording process was the happiest time ever. He's now dead keen to begin his new life making a living as an internationally touring musician.
Brought up playing classical music on the piano and violin, Will Wood picked up his first guitar in the last year of high school, intending to play guitar in a band. Awkwardly his bandmates did too.
"Me and my three best friends at high school wanted to make a band, but we all played guitar. One said, 'I'll play the bass' and the other two were better at guitar than me, so I played the drums," admits Will. "I realised if I wanted to play in bands, being a drummer would make it a lot easier because everyone plays guitar."
He fell in love with the drums and behind the kit he stayed until a couple of years ago. A good friend, who was looking for someone to support a touring musician, knew of Will's talent with a guitar and roped him in.
"My very first solo show was to an empty room in Bar Bodega," Will recalls. "The only people in the audience where the members of Band of Horses and I got so nervous that I vomited before I went on stage!"
Getting over those initial nerves he began playing solo sets when time permitted, insisting now, "I never wanted to be a singer/songwriter, I just wanted to play in awesome bands."
The idea of a solo record came in early 2013, as the first step in realising his dream of being a full-time touring musician. Most of the songs on the album were already written, the earliest being the fast-paced, foot stomping single, Sick Of It All.
"I'd never really written a song," he muses, "Sick Of It All was just a weird coincidence, I wrote it by accident."
A number of songs were conceived while working as a psychiatric nurse at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.
"I get a huge amount of inspiration from my work, it's got tragedy, violence, happiness and a lot of frustration. When you're in really weird, high pressure situations you wouldn't normally find yourself in it stimulates you emotionally.
His album was recorded in Lyttelton studio The Sitting Room, and will be released by Ben Edwards' Lyttelton Records. Will says he is the first 'out-of-towner' on the label but that it doesn't feel that way.
"All my friends, the people I've been playing shows with for years and love to hang out with, record at The Sitting Room. It's nice to be part of the family."
The recording took a fortnight and despite the album's title, 'Broken Man', Will says it was the happiest time of his life.
"My best friend Thomas Landon-Lane did all the slide guitar and lap steel, and Dave Khan did all the violins and mandolins. Reb Fountain did all the female vocals, and Delaney Davidson was called in to play Telecaster," he smiles.
Lyttelton Records' provided session musicians for the rhythm section with Ben Woolley on bass and Joe McCallum on drums.
"It was a pretty big deal for me getting another drummer, he confesses. "But I know Joe is freakishly good and that took a lot off my mind.
Recorded and mixed by Ben Edwards, and mastered by Ben Delany the album is a well-constructed traditional composition. Side A opens simply with Will, his guitar and harmonica. Instruments and vocals are added track by track, and the momentum builds. Interestingly the drums are omitted until the first track of Side B.
"I wanted a record that starts and then goes somewhere, not just a collection of songs."
He was adamant that the album be pressed on vinyl too.
"I don't think I'd bother making a record if I wasn't going to put it on vinyl," he says bluntly. "CDs are how you get your dinner money when you're on tour but I would feel like I hadn't made an album if I just made some CDs."
While such vinyl purist ideals may not be universally shared, they are reflective of the unabashed honesty in his lyrics.
"I can't write about something I haven't experienced, but that's why I like country music. These songs are all real stories adapted from stuff that I've gone through."
Lyrically, the songs are bound by emotional turmoil. From the desperation of an atheist's prayers, to homesickness in a Singaporean whorehouse, to the heart breakingly melancholy Hymn, Will knows how to write country. Musically too, the album is undeniably country at its core, though no two songs sound the same. He blends country blues, bluegrass, folk, rock and roll and even a little garage rock to create what can only be described as an eclectic country album.
Shortly after the NZ album release, Will Wood embarks on a five-week solo tour of Europe.
"It's fucking terrifying," he says plainly, "but I'm at a point in my life where I'm desperate for something new. This record is an attempt to find something really awesome and get that dream of being an internationally touring musician as a living.
Six years of observing bands come and go through Whammy and Wine Cellar (where he has worked various roles), his own experience of touring, hard work and passion may just prove; where there's a Will, there's a way.
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Sinead O'Connor in hospital following son's tragic death
The funeral of her son is supposed to take place on Sunday
Sinead O'Connor in hospital after threatening to take her life in days following son's tragic death (Image: Redferns)
Sinead O'Connor has confirmed that she has been admitted to the hospital day's after her son's death.
The 55-year-old took to Twitter on Thursday night and said she believed "Shane's death was no one's fault but my own."
Her 17-year-old son was found dead on January 7 after leaving Tallaght Hospital, where he had been admitted for care.
Earlier this week, Sinead said her son was Hindu and had requested - in a suicide note - a traditional funeral with only wanted his parents at the service.
The Irish singer said she has been on her own for the last three days and posted some distressing messages on social media on Thursday.
Sinead O'Connor in hospital after threatening to take her life in days following son's tragic death (Image: Twitter)
O'Connor then deactivated her Twitter account but came back online an hour later to reassure fans that she was safe.
She said: "I am with cops now on way to hospital. I'm sorry I upset everyone."
People have been responding to the posts online overnight offering support, with one person writing: "If I could take your pain away Sinéad I would but I can't.
"Please know you are loved and the world is a better place with you in it. Sending u love and strength."
Among the hundreds of responses, another said: "You have people who care about you. It's tough and healing takes time. I'm sorry."
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The City is putting down the final touches for Masich Place Stadium slated to open next week.
The upgraded field includes the first synthetic outdoor turf in Northern BC, however, the fake grass has a max heat rating of 50 Degrees Celsius.
With temperatures hitting record numbers last week, the city recorded a scorching 70 degrees on the field.
"In the NFL they use Fan Misters so we are looking into a portable unit that will be able to be out by the player's bench just to help cool people down in the heat of the day," says Parks Supervisor Chris Bjorn.
Safety for the players who use the field is top priority for the City.
"Studies have been done on where the cutoff point is and that's why it was chosen to be 50. You can cool this down with water, but it doesn't stay cool," added Bjorn.
The facility will be staffed during all hours of operation to maintain and monitor the field. The City will also be soliciting public input to hear what other items people would like to see on the field.
Masich Place officially opens to the public on Tuesday.


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The 2019–20 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Ducks, led by 10th-year head coach Dana Altman, played their home games at Matthew Knight Arena as members of the Pac–12 Conference. They finished the season 24–7, 13–5 in Pac-12 play to win the regular season Pac-12 championship. They were set to take on rival Oregon State in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 tournament. However, the Pac-12 Tournament, along with all postseason tournaments, was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previous season

The Ducks finished the season with a 25–13 record, 10–8 in conference play, and finished tied for fourth in the Pac-12. As the 6 seed in the Pac-12 tournament, Oregon upset No. 3-seeded Utah, No. 2-seeded Arizona State, and No. 1-seeded Washington to win the tournament championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Oregon entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 12 seed and upset the No. 5 seed Wisconsin in the first round. Oregon made it to the Sweet Sixteen where they lost to Virginia, who would eventually become National Champions.

Off-season

Departures

Incoming transfers

2019 recruiting class

Roster

 Freshman center N'Faly Dante missed first nine games of the season due to academic ineligibility.

Depth chart

Schedule and results

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| style="text-align:center"|March 12, 202012:00 pm, P12N
| style="text-align:center"| (1) No.13
| vs. (8) Oregon StateQuarterfinals/Civil War
| colspan=5 rowspan=1 style="text-align:center"|Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
| style="text-align:center"|T-Mobile ArenaParadise, NV
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Ranking movement

*AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings.^Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll.

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The Walking Dead: Book One - Robert Kirkman et al.
In the Afterword, Kirkman explains that he loves zombie movies but always hates the ending. Specifically, he hates the way that they don't really address what happens to society after the helicopter swoops in and saves the heroes. So, he wanted to create a zombie movie that never ends, one that kept following the consequences and characters as they lived in this forever-changed world. Of course, you can't do that in a movie; you have to use TV or comics, so Kirkman went with comics.
This particular book collects the first twelve issues of The Walking Dead in a slick hardcover book, all in glossy black and white (except for the cover gallery in the back). The cover on the version I read is different from the one pictured and is a little subtler, with a hint of Mike Mignola-black/white/red to it. It's pretty well-illustrated, with fairly recognizable characters and appropriately gruesome undead. There's a good amount of variation in the panel layouts, with some striking full-page bleeds at times. The writing is okay, with the story being a bit better than the dialogue itself.
Kirkman doesn't waste much time: on the first page, you see Officer Rick Grimes get shot while trying to apprehend someone. On the next page, Rick wakes up in his hospital bed some unspecified amount of time later, and discovers zombies locked in the cafeteria. Who needs exposition? Now that we've jumped into a world with zombies, Rick tries to make his way to Atlanta to look for his wife and son, and of course encounters lots of zombies and a few survivors along the way.
Overall, it's not a bad zombie story. I think Kirkman does a good job imagining what the world might have been like when people were still figuring out the epidemic, and then the difficulties of staying alive. Interestingly, getting eaten by zombies is not always the biggest concern for the survivors. There's a lot of suspicion and distrust going around, and being forced to band together doesn't always suit everyone. And, of course, since this is a zombie movie that never ends, characters can develop and then die, and new characters enter the scene. It's only the beginning, and I suppose if the comics are selling well it could continue for quite some time.
Not necessarily at the top of my list, but if I came across more I would probably check it out.