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Oh Oh! Ed Day, County Executive of Rockland cracks down on illegal housing! The party is over!
Ed Day standing in front of house that has 19 violations
The Rockland Health Department and other county agencies are launching a new crackdown on the spread of substandard and illegal housing to improve safety for residents and firefighters responding to emergencies.
The Rockland Codes Initiative includes hiring more housing inspectors, levying larger penalties against landlords and an online reporting system where residents can file anonymous complaints when they know of illegal dwellings.
Officials have also started an online Worst Landlord Watch List in an effort to bring anonymous LLCs to the light of public scrutiny. The list's top five worst offenders are posted now.
"We all know firefighting is dangerous enough," County Executive Ed Day said Thursday, standing on the sidewalk in front of a dilapidated three-story home at 76 Fairview Ave., the first property on the Worst Landlord Watch List. "It should not be made more dangerous when property owners motivated by greed illegally carve up apartments. We cannot allow a child or one of Rockland County's bravest to die in a converted attic or hidden stairwell."
Officials said the 2,522-square-foot tan stucco home has racked up 19 violations. On five visits, inspectors found faulty or inadequate sprinkler and alarm systems and emergency exits, as well as possible illegal dwellings in the basement and third floor.
The property is managed by Yaniv Razak through Metallic Sunburst LLC. Razak could not be reached for comment.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day gives his State of the County address Feb. 3, 2015, at legislative chambers in New City. (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News)
The crackdown reveals the extent to which illegal housing has transformed huge swaths of suburban Rockland.
While towns and villages are supposed to enforce fire and zoning codes, there are widespread concerns about landlords who illegally convert single-family homes, chopping them into small rooms and stuffing them with recent immigrants — many of them illegal.
"The driving force of this is money," Day said. "It's not unlike drug-dealing in the city."
Frustrated inspectors and fire officials warn that these illegal dwellings often lack emergency exits — a huge fire hazard that could mean a disaster in an emergency.
The new initiative stems in part from a perceived lack of enforcement and negligible penalties against absentee landlords in many town and village courts. Reports from the state have singled out Ramapo and Spring Valley, in particular, for serious problems.
Penalties under the county initiative can reach $2,000 per day per violation. As part of the crackdown, the county will also report landlords who are found to be taking rental payments in cash to the IRS for possible tax evasion.
"The cost of doing business has gone up," Rockland Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Rubbert said.
One landlord, Clarel Jean, already has been slapped with $38,000 in fines by the Rockland Board of Health for violations at 73 S. Madison Ave. in Spring Valley, she said. Another home at 57 S. Madison — managed by Jonathan Weiss, who oversees many properties in Spring Valley — was hit with a $2,200 fine.
The stepped-up enforcements will be conducted under the Rockland County sanitary code, which allows the county's inspectors to issue summonses forcing repairs and bringing the landlord before the Rockland Board of Health.
The Health Department can inspect properties without permission and also can review schools with dormitories and kitchens, many of which face town and village violations in Ramapo.
The Health Department will get two more housing inspectors, bringing the number to four, plus two new supervisors.
The additional inspectors, if approved by the Rockland Legislature, will get paid $46,000 annually with benefits. Day said the county also might hire retired police officers and firefighters to supplement the efforts, as long as they earn less than $30,000 a year to comply with their retirement plans.
Day said the enhanced inspection program will pay for itself through fines, penalties and registration fees.
John Kryger, chairman of the Rockland Illegal Housing Task Force, said the more aggressive response is what the fire services have been seeking and "reaffirms our goal of safety for the tenants and first responders of this county."
Gordon Wren Jr., coordinator of Rockland Fire and Emergency Services, also supported the move.
"I am encouraged by this giant step taken by the county," Kryger said. "It's just one piece in a puzzle that includes the District Attorney's Office, the state codes division and the FBI, to name a few."
Elements of the Rockland Codes Initiative
■ Web-based complaint form for people to confidentially report suspected illegal housing or unsafe conditions. The form will appear on the county government website at http://rocklandgov.com/ and the Rockland Health Department website athttp://rocklandgov.com/departments/health/. Or call the Health Department with complaints at 845-364-2585.
■ Rockland County Worst Landlords Watch List of property owners operating the most dangerous and dilapidated buildings with the most violations.
■ Multiple Dwelling Registry Law: Landlords must pay a fee and provide their names, addresses and contact information, including for their building managers.
Satmar Rebbe of Monroe Blesses Boro-Park Salami
Satmar Rebbe Of Kiryas Yoel Putting Up a Mezuzah at The New Satmar Butcher in Boro Park (Photos By JDN) -
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BALTIMORE COUNCILMAN SLAMS OBAMA AND MAYOR: 'JUST CALL THEM N*GGERS'
Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes (D) criticized President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) for referring to rioters in Baltimore as "thugs" saying, "just call them n*ggers" in an interview on Tuesday's "OutFront" on CNN.
Carl Stokes
When asked if "thugs" was the right term to describe the riot, Stokes said, "no, of course it's not the right word to call our children thugs. These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us. No, we don't have to call them thugs."
He was then pressed on whether that justifies the rioting, he stated that while the rioting was unjustified, "calling them thugs — just call them n*ggers. Just call them n*ggers. No, we don't have to call them by names such as that. We don't have to do that. That is exactly what we have set them to. Now, when you say 'come on,' come on what? You wouldn't call your child a thug if they should do something that would not be what you would expect them to do."
Earlier, he declared, "today has been a tremendously good day in Baltimore. We woke up this morning at 5:00 a.m., cleaning up the streets, cleaning up the neighborhoods. People have come out of their doors, no one is staying behind closed doors in Baltimore. The residents are coming out and saying 'this is our town, this is our city.' Our issue is justice being served. So, there were a few aberrant, and I know that that was a terrible scene that we saw last night and a little bit on Saturday, but the greater majority, so a few hundred people versus hundreds of thousands of residents of Baltimore city, have come out of their homes and said, 'this is Baltimore. This is our Baltimore.' And they're showing just who we are and why we're standing up for justice, not only for Freddie Gray, but for all of the Freddie Grays that have been killed or brutalized in Baltimore."
Stokes did defend the woman who cameras caught disciplining her son during the riots, arguing, "she was trying to save his life. It is clear that it's better that she hit him than the police hit him and brutalize him and take his life from him."
(h/t The Right Scoop)
Black Baltimore woman now jobless and homeless after rioting blacks burned CVS where she worked as manager
Katrice Gardner speaks with New York Daily News reporter Edgar Sandoval (pictured) in the aftermath of the riots in Baltimore. Gardner lost her home and her job in the same night
In one night of mayhem Katrice Gardner lost her home, her job — and nearly her life.
And when dawn broke Tuesday, the 30-year-old Baltimore woman said she couldn't understand why the Black mob that battled the police all night firebombed her house and reduced the CVS where she worked as a manager to ashes.
"I was yelling at them, pleading at them not to burn my house," Gardner, 30, said outside her boarded-up rowhouse. "They had set the houses around me on fire. The black hoodlums were throwing stuff into the house. They were throwing Molotov's and very flammable stuff. All I could do was beg them not to burn my house."
Gardner said she — like most African-Americans in Baltimore — is deeply upset about the death of Freddie Gray, allegedly at the hands of police.
But Gardner said she didn't recognize the people who starting lobbing bricks at cops and looting businesses after Gray's funeral on Monday.
"These guys aren't from here, they go from place to place causing trouble," she said. "This doesn't accomplish anything. This is our neighborhood."
Gardner, who is married, said she now has no place to live and no place to work.
"I can't live in my house while it gets renovated and the place where I work got burned down," she said. "I don't have a home and a place to work. This is a lot of calamity."
Horrific video shows White Baltimore store owner hauled from his premises, sucker punched and kicked by BLACKS as he lay in the street
A shocking video has emerged from the riots in Baltimore showing a mob of Black 'protesters' dragging a white shopkeeper into the street and assaulting him.
The video, shot by a witness, sees the white man being forcibly removed from his store, believed to be located in downtown Baltimore, as dozens of black protesters gather outside.
One of the black rioters knocks him flat out with a sucker-punch, and as the white man lies in the street, the black mob gathers around him.
A male Black protester wearing a hoodie appears to be stomping on the white man's head as others kick him while he is out.
Even though the video is only 20 seconds long, it captures the horrific violence that has swept the city since yesterday following the funeral of Freddie Gray who while he was alive was arrested 18 times.
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Shvartzas burn down Baltimore and the Mayor wants to give them "space"
This Schvartza is also angry!
Mayor "Space" Rawlens-Blake of Baltimore
Before condemning the thugs who are looting and burning the city, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake talked about giving 'space' to people intent on destruction, showing a startling lack of common sense.
Yes, she said it.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood before the news cameras over the weekend and really did say, "We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well."'
She uttered these words while explaining how she had sought to maintain "the very delicate balance" between the right to protest and the safety of police officers as a week of demonstrations over the death of Freddie Gray began to turn violent on Saturday.
"We work very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate," she said. "And that's what we saw."
After that success over the weekend, she apparently took the same approach on Monday. And this time those who wished to destroy just kept destroying and destroying as the situation escalated to where Maryland Governor Larry Hogan activated the National Guard.
Rawlings-Blake was only 21 at the time of the Crown Heights Riots in 1991, when New York Mayor David Dinkins held the police back in order to let protesters "blow off a little steam." But, the destructive result was something anyone who runs a city should have studied.
Baltimore now suddenly became Crown Heights on steroids.
And to make matters worse, each thrown brick and bottle, each trashed car, each store looted and burned was an insult to Freddie Gray's twin sister. Her brother had become the second young man to suffer fatal spinal injuries after being arrested for a petty crime and loaded into a Baltimore police van. She nonetheless remained a voice for peace.
"My family wants to say, can you all please stop the violence?" Fredricka Gray said. "Freddie Gray would not want this."
Monday began with the chilling word from the Baltimore police of a "credible threat" that the Black Guerilla Family, the Crips, and the Bloods had formed an alliance to kill white cops as if were suddenly back in the 1970s and the time of the Black Liberation Army.
As night fell, the transmissions over the police radio were of a city going mad.
"There's 100 of them in the shoe store. People are even getting out of their cars to go into the shoe store."
"A group of black males breaking into a grocery store from the rear."
"No units are to go there alone…. Do we have any other units?.... I need at least three or four cars to go there.... Do we have any other units?"
"Is anybody else coming up there?"
"Male armed with a handgun."
"We have an individual in custody. We need a wagon."
"We don't even have a wagon."
"There's about 30 of them! We need backup."
"Nobody's up here right now."
"I got multiple fires inside the park. I got one beside the conservatory."
"I see other ones."
"I can't cover you."
"We got looting at the CVS and the 7-Eleven. I'm trying to keep people out of both places. It's really dark out here tonight."
"We have gunshots, a woman screaming."
"Do not drive into locations you can't get out of. We will not jeopardize our lives for those stores."
"Breaking into store in the shopping center…. Security says he is armed. He is alone."
"I have the injured officer back at his command. I'm heading out."
"A curfew in the city."
"That's crazy."
"I hope they make it so not nobody can come out. Then I don't got to go to work tomorrow."
The mayor reappeared before the news cameras and insisted that the media had twisted and taken out of context her remarkable words over the weekend. She said she had been talking about protesters, not thugs "who want to incite violence and destroy our city." She seemed deaf to the echo of her own words, when she had spoken earlier of giving room to "those who wish to destroy." That is a pretty good definition of a thug.
"What we see tonight that is going in in our city is very disturbing," she now said with considerable understatement.
She reported that the National Guard would be deployed as soon as it was available, no doubt to restrict the space of these destroyers. There would be a 10 p.m. curfew starting Tuesday.
"This is not a lawless city," she assured everybody.
She pledged that the thugs would be tracked down thanks to "police videos," a twist to an uproar that had been sparked by a civilian video taken of Freddie Gray being dragged to a police van.
"We will be holding people accountable," she promised.
She gave not the slightest glimmer of feeling that she should be held accountable for anything. She may have made her initial ascent from City Council president to mayor because her predecessor had been locked up for embezzlement, but she had since been elected to a full term with 87 percent of the vote. She seemed to consider that an unshakable endorsement.
And she rightly felt that Baltimore had been making considerable progress since days so benighted that the city jail had essentially been run by the Black Guerilla Family. The gang's jailed leader impregnated four corrections officers, two of whom were tattooed with his name, one on her neck.
"This is my jail," the leader, Tavon White, was recorded saying from behind bars. "My word is law…. If I told any motherf---ing body they had to do this, hit a police, do this, kill a mother---er, do anything, it get done. Period."
But White's reign had ended with a series of indictments, and it seemed that the rule of law was beginning to return to Baltimore. Homicides were leveling off. The new police commissioner boasted that he had fired 50 members of the department for misconduct.
Then came the death of poor Freddie Gray. The mayor clearly shared the anger over the failure of the arresting officers to summon medical assistance for Gray when it should have been clear to them that he was in serious distress. She also shared the anger over the failure of the cops to strap him in with a seatbelt even though that had led to the other Baltimore man dying from similar injuries in a police van.
Yet she seemed not to understand what was seething in her own city, what was liable to flare beyond any immediate controlling if the true destroyers were given space.
Gray's death showed what can happen when the police turn callous.
The riots showed what can happen if the police are believed not to be in control.
Rioters who rampaged after a cellphone video of an arrest will themselves be arrested with the help of police video.
And the good people of Baltimore will have to rebuild, as they had to do after the long-ago riots of 1968 that followed King's murder.
King no doubt would have found the city's present mayor to be smart and decent and right out of his mountaintop dream.
If only she had a little more common sense.
If only she were not deaf to her own words.
Women vow not to let Beit Shemesh turn into 'Taliban city'
Four women who won trial against municipality over modesty signs plan to use money they received to fund further activities against Charedi radicalization.
Nili Philipp and Dr. Eve Finkelstein (Photo: Rafi Kutz)
The four women who received NIS 15,000 (about $3,800) each from the Beit Shemesh Municipality after it failed to remove signs calling for the exclusion of women from the public domain are planning to use the money to fund further activities against radicalization in their city.
Nili Philipp, Miriam Zussman, Rachely Schloss and Dr. Eve Finkelstein made headlines recently when they won a trial against the municipality over modesty signs in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood. After receiving the money from the municipality last month, the four decided to invest it in their ongoing struggle against the exclusion of women.
"We will donate the money for causes in favor of the public and women of Beit Shemesh," they stated. "Many things can be done with such a sum. It's a shame we don't have a million shekels."
Their first goal, they say, is to fight the city's radical ultra-Orthodox newspapers, which ban pictures of women and even of little girls.
"There are female real estate agents who are not allowed to include their picture in their ads, as real estate agents do. It hurts their business. Agents include their picture in their ads for a reason – it has a psychological effect. It gives the client a sense of familiarity and security," says Dr. Finkelstein.
According to Finkelstein, the Charedi newspaper editors claim that they are being threatened, but refuse to clearly say who is threatening them. "They say they are being threatened? Well, we'll threaten them with the law," she states.
The four women's struggle began several weeks ago when they published an ad in Beit Shemesh's newspapers showing a girl asking her mother, "Why was that girl's face erased?" Under the picture they posted a red stop sign with the caption, "It's time to stop the insanity."
The women say they have been receiving many appeals from other women who say they are being excluded from the public domain. "We won't let Beit Shemesh turn into a Taliban city," they vow.
New York Times Again Blasted for 'Skewed' Headline in Coverage of Palestinian Stabbing Attacks
Media watchdogs and Jewish groups on Sunday admonished the New York Times for publishing a headline about Palestinian stabbing attacks in Israel which "blur Palestinian culpability" in the incidents.
The "skewed" headline, "Israeli Police Officers Kill Two Palestinian Men," appeared in Sunday's edition of the prominent newspaper and detailed in the opening paragraph that the two "Palestinian men were fatally shot by the Israeli police after attacking officers with knives."
"Why report the effect without the cause? Why continue to depict Palestinians as 'just victims'?" watchdog group CAMERA asked in a blog post. "What is so hard about… [a] straightforward headline accurately depicting the nature and chronology of events?"
CAMERA also pointed out that, in the past, New York Times bias against Israel had been subject to criticism by the paper's own public editor Margaret Sullivan.
Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said the paper "should at least revise the misleading headline for the record."
"We aren't dealing with possible police misbehavior in Baltimore or Cleveland, but uniformed officers targeted by terrorists in the Holy Land," Cooper said in an email to the Algemeiner. He asked whether the headline was the result of "sloppy editing, or the bias of a headline writer and editor (mis)leading the readers."
In an email to the Algemeiner, one reader alleged that in Sunday's issue of the Times, another article that appears in print confirms an anti-Israel bias on the part of the "paper of record."
"Even more interesting is another title in the same edition of the New York Times on an unrelated article: 'Man, 24, killed by Detective in struggle during arrest'," said New York native Noam Ohana. "So, in the New York case we are given a bit of context (there was a struggle) but when a Palestinian tries to butcher police officers/soldiers with a knife it apparently does not require any contextualization in the title."
The New York Times' public editor could not immediately be reached for comment on the story.
The New York Times has often been criticized for anti-Israel bias in its reporting on the Jewish state and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. CAMERA even maintains a billboard outside the paper's headquarters criticizing the media giant's coverage. Meanwhile, the New York Times asserts that it is criticized by both sides in the conflict.
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Bears take over Monsey!
Families who took to Viola Park in Monsey to enjoy a spring afternoon were greeted by a stunning site in the tall trees in the area: four black bears.
As news of the bears spread on social media, crowds gathered at the park with well over one hundred men, women and children walking all the way up to the tree, taking pictures of the bears until Ramapo police arrived on scene to tape off the area with the help of volunteers from Chaveirim.
"The park is being closed ," Dispatcher Cahill of the Ramapo told VIN News. "Hopefully once the people leave the bears will be comfortable enough to come down and disperse."
Ramapo Police have already contacted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and will seek further guidance if the bears refuse to come down from the trees.
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Miracle of the Mengele babies
Truly astounding story of how three women cheated demon doctor of death by hiding their pregnancies... and raised their newborns in the very cradle of Nazi horror
'Are you pregnant, pretty woman?' Dr Josef Mengele asked the 28-year-old Slovak language teacher as she stood on parade – naked, shaven-headed and shivering – within hours of arriving at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
It was October 1944, and the Nazis were accelerating the Final Solution, their murderous plan to exterminate the Jews and other 'enemies of the Reich' as the tide of war turned against them.
The man who later became known as The Angel of Death was dressed impeccably in his grey-green uniform with silver skulls on the collar as he inspected each new prisoner and – more specifically – asked if they were expecting a child, which could become a subject for his sickening human experiments.
Auschwitz survivor Anka Nathanova concealed her pregnancy and raised her baby Eva (pictured together) in the death camp
When it was her turn, Priska Lowenbeinova didn't hesitate. Shaking her head quickly, she replied 'Nein' in German, even though she was two months pregnant. She had no idea if telling the truth might save her or condemn them both.
None of the wide-eyed women knew then that Mengele's whim could consign them to the gas chambers, the agony of experimentation or pitiless hard labor.
It was an act of huge bravery, or maybe desperation. Yet unknown to Priska, who had conceived while living with her husband Tibor in Bratislava, two other pregnant women had also come face to face with Mengele at Auschwitz at the time. And they, too, had lied about their condition.
Rachel Friedman had been transported there from the Jewish ghetto in the Polish industrial city of Lodz; Anka Nathanova, the third of the women, was a former law student from Prague who had become pregnant while living with her husband Bernd in a 'model' internment camp in the Czech garrison town of Terezin.
All three were passed as fit for work by Mengele and despatched to make components for the Luftwaffe at a labor camp.
Dr Josef Mengele conducted grotesque experiments at Auschwitz and sent thousands to the gas chambers
Amid the almost unimaginable chaos that confronted them when they each arrived at Auschwitz, it is no surprise that the three mothers never met – or knew that others were also pregnant. Rachel never even told her three sisters she was pregnant even though they spent the rest of the war with her. Suffering from sudden and dangerous weight loss in such a murderous regime, they shrank inside the baggy clothing they'd been thrown by prisoner-guards so kept their pregnancies hidden until full term.
Incredibly, they and their tiny 3lb infants survived the horrors of the death camps, the brutality of slave labor and a final terrifying journey before being liberated. None believed that any other newborn could have survived such an ordeal and astonishingly these three 'miracle children' only learned of each others' existence five years ago when they were reunited at an event for camp survivors.
I have pieced together their remarkable stories from their mothers' memories, letters and stories, reinforced by the testimony of independent witnesses and archives.
By April 1945 all three women had been incarcerated in an old porcelain factory in Freiberg, Saxony, for up to seven months. Wearing their Auschwitz clothes, without underwear, plus horrid wooden clogs, these once-cultured women endured freezing conditions in Europe's worst winter for 15 years. They worked seven days a week using heavy machinery on little more than subsistence rations. Several of their fellow inmates died of starvation or disease, others had been returned to Auschwitz and certain deaths.
These three mothers may have passed the 'Mengele test' and avoided that fate but they now found themselves in a different sort of hell.
Then one morning, during a cold-water wash, Priska once again found herself fearing for her life.
A Czech prisoner spotted her tiny swollen belly and became hysterical. 'You'll get us all killed!' she screamed as the camp guards came running. Priska froze, her heart pounding. 'Is it true?' a female SS guard asked Priska, who weighed just five stone. Priska, expecting to be shot on the spot, was forced to admit she was.
With the Allies closing in, the guards were not sure what they should do. Days passed before a guard quietly asked her: 'What do you need?' By that stage Priska's feet, swollen and oozing pus from the cold and the rough clogs, had become her worst torment. To her amazement, a bowl of hot water was brought for her to soak them in. She knew the sudden change of heart among the guards was almost certainly self-serving, but she welcomed it.
The other two women's pregnancies were exposed in the coming weeks. Rachel was so weak she could barely walk. Anka, not knowing that Auschwitz had been liberated by the Russian army three months earlier, expected to be sent back there to meet her death. All three were saved by the fact that the Nazi regime was collapsing.
SS guards watched when Priska Lowenbeinova gave birth on a wooden plank laid across a table in the factory and placed bets on whether the baby would be a boy or a girl, pictured with daughter Hana
By this time the women hardly worked and were mostly confined to lice-infested barracks, from where they witnessed the bombing of Dresden and heard frequent shelling. Many no longer cared.
On the morning of April 12, Priska went into labour and was helped on to a wooden plank laid across a table in the factory, watched by SS guards betting on whether the baby would be a boy or a girl. 'They said that if it was a girl the war would be over, and if it was a boy then it would go on for even longer,' she recalled.
At 3.50pm, according to a guard's watch, Priska gave birth. 'It's a girl!' the Germans cried happily. 'The war will soon be over!' The tiny, malnourished child came into the world with her little blood-smeared hands screwed up into fists held around her ears. Priska was overjoyed, but also broken-hearted that her husband Tibor wasn't there.
The couple, who had chosen the names for their unborn child in a cramped railway cattle wagon on route to Auschwitz, had been separated the moment they arrived.
She was also petrified. Her baby had been relatively safe inside her belly. Now she was a vulnerable Jewish child in a world run by Nazis.
Her little girl was too weak to cry and could barely move her puny limbs, but she had her father's big blue eyes. 'She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen,' Priska said. 'We had been through so much and yet here we were, alive!'
Neither would have survived without the kindness of another inmate, a Czech paediatrician named Edita Mautnerova, so Priska decided to call her baby Hana Edith Lowenbein. Her fellow prisoners pooled their precious supply of their one occasional treat – marmalade – and mixed it with a little water to make syrup for the baby. They also found some soft white cotton stamped with the name of the camp – KZ Freiberg – and stitched Hana a smock and a bonnet complete with blue edging and tiny red flowers.
Then, 36 hours after she'd given birth, Priska was shaken awake just after midnight and told the camp was being evacuated to escape the advancing Soviet army. They were to be loaded on to a train a sent south or west, possibly to Buchenwald, unless the Allies got to it first.
The Red Army and American troops, had already forced the Nazis to evacuate scores of camps in Eastern Europe from December 1944.
Rachel Friedman was advised to lie and say her son Mark (pictured together) was born on Hitler's birthday – April 20th - and it saved him
Thousands of inmates were murdered, but others were allotted a different fate as the Nazi high command clung to the belief that they would still need slave labour to rebuild the Reich. Those given a chance to survive, like the women of KZ Freiberg, were transported by train. The less fortunate were forced on long 'death marches' in the middle of a brutally harsh winter.
Priska with her baby and 35 other sick women were among the last to leave. Initially they were ordered to march in the freezing rain with the others. When it became clear they couldn't keep up, the guards told the rest of the prisoners to move on.
'The others were convinced they were going to execute us,' Priska said. 'They were saying goodbye and crying.' But the women were loaded into a military truck and driven to the station. Baby Hana was so lethargic she hardly moved. Trying to keep her warm, Priska pressed her daughter against her heart, kissed her head and prayed.
'I told myself it is all in the hands of God. He knew where I gave birth, so that's why he helped me.'
The only wagons available for the 990 Jewish women were 15 open-topped trucks and a handful of closed cattle cars. They were herded in, at least 60 to a truck, as grisly rumours of their destination spread: were they to be buried alive or transported to an extermination camp in Bavaria? As the Allies bombed tracks and liberated more camps, the journey continued interminably.She didn't know it until many years later, but she was on the same train as Anka and Rachel, who were both heavily pregnant and still hiding their condition. Rachel, now so fragile she'd been placed on the floor of an open coal wagon with the dying 'like herrings in a tin', was a few cars further along.
On April 19, five days after they had left Freiberg, in the middle of a night air raid, Rachel's waters broke. Sprawled on the faeces-covered floor and sandwiched between the dead, she gripped the arm of her sister Bala as the contractions took hold. A guard called for help and someone found Dr Edita.
The boy was small. 'Another Jew for the Fuhrer!' one of the guards shouted. Too weak to be happy, Rachel felt numb. She had secretly decided to name him Max (later to be known as Mark). 'I was thinking, 'So I have a child, or I don't have a child.' We didn't know what was going to happen.'
With no sharp objects to sever the umbilical cord, someone suggested Rachel bite through it. Eventually an SS guard handed Edita a dirty razor blade. 'They also found a cardboard box and put the baby in,' Rachel recalled.
Incredibly, Rachel had a little breast milk and was able to feed the baby. Rachel asked the date, determined to remember her son's birthday whether he lived or died. An SS guard replied: 'Say the boy was born on Hitler's birthday – April 20th. It might save him.'
Dr Mengele inspected each new prisoner and – more specifically – asked if they were expecting a child, which could become a subject for his sickening human experiments
Meanwhile Anka, a 'walking skeleton in rags', was squeezed into an open-topped coal truck praying fervently that they weren't on their way back to Auschwitz. With Allied planes bombing tracks behind and ahead of them, there was mounting confusion among the guards as to where the convoy has heading. Finally, after 16 terrible days, Train 90124 ended its long journey on evening of Sunday, April 29, 1945.
The wild-looking creatures still alive were dragged from the wagons by guards and pushed into ragged columns. They were in the beautiful Danube valley, but all Anka could see were big black letters spelling out MAUTHAUSEN.
'As soon as I saw that, my birth pains started,' Anka said. 'I was so frightened.
'Mauthausen was in the same category as Auschwitz: an extermination camp.'
Gripping the wagon door as her contractions took hold, she tried not to let on that she was about to give birth. All she could think was that she was about to deliver a child that would be thrown straight into a gas chamber, along with its mother.
Dragged off with others too weak to move, she was thrown on top of a heap of the dying on a farm cart.
'The sun was shining and it was awfully cold – such a beautiful spring evening. We were going up the hill and I noticed the Danube below and the [fields] beginning to turn green… I thought I had never seen anything more beautiful in my life – maybe the last nice thing I would see on this earth.'
By the time the cart had climbed the two miles to the hilltop camp, her contractions had worsened.
'There were lice crawling all over the place and dying women lying across my legs. I had only one fear – that the baby wouldn't survive.'
In those hellish conditions, Anka gave birth on the cart. The tiny infant didn't breathe or move. 'For maybe seven to ten minutes it did not cry or stir,' she recalled.
At the so-called 'infirmary', a prisoner who had been an obstetrician in Belgrade was summoned. 'He came running out and he cut off the baby, smacked its bottom and everything was fine. It started to cry. He told me, 'It's a boy.' Somebody wrapped it in paper and suddenly I was terribly happy.'
In fact the doctor was wrong, deceived by the swollen genitalia common in malnourished newborns, and Anka had delivered a little girl she later named Eva. She asked someone the time and date. In the sick bay she was grateful to be given her own bunk, even though there was a stench of excrement.
Her shrunken infant with a full head of dark hair was laid flat upon her chest. 'I was as happy as I could be – under those circumstances,' she said. 'I was the happiest person in the world.'
The three 'miracle children', Eva, Mark, and Hana (pictured l-r together) only learned of each others' existence five years ago when they were reunited at an event for camp survivors
There was no such joy for Rachel and baby Mark. They were loaded on to a similar cart and taken up the hill to the camp, which was in chaos. The population had doubled, food had virtually run out, disease was out of control and the German guards were eager to leave no trace of their crimes. Choking smoke filled the air as documents were thrown into incinerators, along with the corpses of 43 prisoners executed the previous day.
Even with the odds stacked hopelessly against them, the camp authorities seemed determined to continue their campaign of genocide. Rachel and her group were herded 50 at a time down a flight of steps to the showers. With baby Mark hidden under her grimy dress, she remembered enough from Auschwitz to know what having a shower could mean. Pushed into a large tiled chamber with sinister-looking pipes, she believed that they were meant to die. 'They took us some place to gas us,' she said afterwards, 'but the prisoners had dismantled the equipment so they couldn't do it.' In fact, the camp had run out of the deadly Zyklon B cyanide crystals.
Meanwhile, Priska was forced to march up the hill, her group beaten by the guards. When Hana stirred and moaned, a female kapo (the name given to trusted inmates who supervised prisoners) spotted the tiny bundle at Priska's breast and shrieked, 'Ein Baby!'
Another rushed forward to grab Hana, crying 'Keine Kinder hier!' (No children here!). Priska fought them both off, spitting and clawing at their faces as a deadly tug-of-war began.
Hana's life hung in the balance until an unlikely person intervened. An older female kapo placed one hand on Priska's shoulder and said quietly: 'I haven't seen a baby in six years. I should like to spend some time with her.'
Priska realised that this was a chance to save her child. She hesitated, then handed her over. 'Follow me,' the woman said, in a Polish accent. In a surreal sequence of events, Priska was ordered to wait outside the guards' barracks while the stranger took Hana inside, undressed her and stood over her smiling and cooing. After almost an hour, the guard wrapped Hana in her grimy smock and bonnet and carried her back outside. 'Here,' she said brusquely before ordering that they be taken to a vermin-ridden barracks.
Priska and Hana curled in exhaustion on the floor of a filthy hut as Anka and her infant lay in the infirmary and Rachel collapsed with Mark in a nearby barracks.
The following day, as Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, only Anka and her new baby, wrapped in newspaper, were shown any kind of care – although her infant stayed unwashed and surrounded by others dying of typhus or worse.
Dr Mengele conducted sickening experiments on more than 1,500 sets of twins including Miriam and Eva Kor
Anka said: 'By the time we arrived, the Germans were frightened out of their wits and started feeding us.'
She described their change of attitude as 'cloying and horrible', adding: 'I knew the day before they would have killed us.'
To her surprise, she was producing so much milk that she could have 'fed five babies'. 'I don't know where it came from. If I had faith I would say it was a miracle.'
Her baby, with arms the width of her little finger, guzzled greedily.
After weeks in which she had eaten not much more than a few mouthfuls of stale bread, Anka was given a bowl of macaroni swimming in fat. 'I was so hungry I ate it. I can't tell you how hungry I was… but it could have killed me on the spot. My intestines couldn't take it.' Almost immediately, she became incapacitated with diarrhoea and was extremely sick. 'How can you resist food when you are starving?'
In the early hours of May 3, SS commandant Frank Ziereis gave the order for his men to leave and handed over to a unit of police drafted in from Vienna, assisted by some older German soldiers. Two days later, a reconnaissance squad from the 'Thunderbolts', the 11th Armored Division, Third US Army, led by Polish-speaking Sergeant Albert J. Kosiek drove into the camp and found thousands of saucer-eyed prisoners, many on the verge of collapse. A huge number were naked, their skin covered in sores or eaten away by disease.
'It's a sight I'll never forget,' Sgt Kosiek said. 'They hardly resembled human beings. Some couldn't have weighed over 40lb… it made me wonder what kept them alive.'
Priska, who had been a language teacher, heard the voices of the soldiers and cried out for help in English. The medics rushed to the severely malnourished and dehydrated mother and baby. They took Hana away to operate on her abscesses and treated her with the new invention – penicillin. When a US Army nurse brought back the heavily bandaged bundle the following day, Priska thought she was dead. 'No, no! She's alive! She's healthy!' the nurse reassured her.
In the following weeks, as the three new mothers and their babies gradually regained strength and even began to gain a little weight, they were kept in quarantine in separate sections of the camp.
The three babies survived the horrors of the death camps, pictured is Auschwitz, the brutality of slave labour and a final terrifying journey before being liberated
None of the women's husbands survived the camps and, with war over, the three mothers went home.
Priska remained in Bratislava for five years, and finally accepted that Tibor truly wasn't coming home. She never remarried and became a professor of languages. Priska died in Slovakia in 2006 aged 90. Hana emigrated to Israel after the 'Prague Spring' uprising was crushed in 1968. She now lives in California.
Rachel and her sisters found that in their village in Poland most of the Jews she'd grown up with had been erased from history, the survivors were unwelcome. She remarried, took Mark to American-occupied Munich for four years, then to Israel and, finally, to America. She died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2003 at the age of 84.
Anka returned to Prague, where she learned that Bernd had been shot on a death march from Auschwitz. Three years later she married a Czech, Karel Bergman, who had been a wartime interpreter for Fighter Command in London. They settled in Cardiff after her husband was offered the chance to manage a factory in Wales, which he subsequently bought. Anka died in Cambridge in 2013 aged 96.
None of the mothers went on to have more children, none were aware of each others existence until their three 'babies' attended a commemoration event at Mauthausen in 2010.
Anka was the only mother who lived long enough to learn the truth and it was with high emotion that Eva introduced her to Hana and Mark. With her eyes glistening, Anka told them: 'You are my children too.'
Now all grandparents, the three 'miracle babies' have, they say, become siblings of the heart.
All three will travel from their homes in California, Wisconsin and Cambridge to meet again at Mauthausen next month to mark their 70th birthdays and to thank the descendants of their liberators. They are proud to be born survivors.
Born Survivors by Wendy Holden is published on May 7 by Sphere, priced £18.99. Pre-order your copy at the special price of £15.19 from mailbookshop.co.uk; p&p is free for a limited time only.
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Any idea when Apple will release 10.4.11? Usally they issue thier final OS update when releasing their new OS but no 10.4.11 yet?
I'm sorry to say, but 10.4.10 was the last update.
At least thats what I've heard, let me know if I'm wrong.
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How Do You Overcome Lack of Commitment? Employee Involvement How To's
Have you ever thought you had a coworker's commitment to something, but then realized you didn't? Did you misread your colleague? Did he say he agreed when he really didn't, to avoid a conflict? How do you know when employee commitment is genuine? And when it isn't, how do you overcome lack of commitment?
Marina is in charge of strategic planning for her organization, which recently won a sizable award from a lawsuit. The company president has asked Marina and the CFO, Steve, to make preliminary recommendations for how the company should use the funds. In their meetings, Steve has been reluctant to commit. He feels whatever they recommend will be unpopular with some important people within the company. How does Marina overcome lack of commitment and attain Steve's buy in?
I Thought We Had a Commitment
Steve and Marina were able to hammer out a recommendation, in part, because Marina used the Five-Step Format for discussion to develop ideas they both supported. Now, it's just a matter of working through Step 5, developing an action plan for completing their task. Steve still seems hesitant, but ultimately agrees.
Four days later, Marina emails Steve, asking how the writing is going. He responds that "something" came up and he won't be ready by their deadline. He says he'll need an additional week — but that means the recommendation won't be ready before the company president leaves town for a couple of weeks.
Marina doesn't understand. She and Steve worked out a detailed action plan, and he agreed to a timeline. But it turns out she never really had the commitment she thought she did. Keeping in mind that Marina has no authority over Steve, she finds herself wondering how do you overcome lack of commitment?
How Do You Increase Employee Commitment
A. Marina might have been firmer with Steve — he clearly needs a heavier hand, and there's no need for her reputation to suffer because of his reticence.
B. Marina should just back off. Steve's not ready to make the final recommendation yet, so why force it? The plan can wait a couple of weeks.
C. Marina could have involved Steve in the action plan, asking him to lay out his ideas for a timeline, and showing him the value of seeing this through to completion.
Employee Involvement
Here's Your Q4 Answer!
Hi, I'm Lynne Hayes and I have the Q4 answer.
How Can You Get a Peer to Stick to the Action Plan?
When you use the five-step format to work through a challenging issue, it's natural to want to wrap it up quickly. After all, you have already resolved all the issues in step four, right?
Employee Involvement in Decision Making
Glossing over the action plan in step five can cause your plan to fall apart rather quickly. Fully involve the other person in creating a mutually acceptable and committed plan. That's why 'C' is the Q4 answer.
Marina could have involved Steve in the action plan, asking him to lay out his ideas for a timeline, and showing him the value of seeing this through to completion.
Although Marina did a great job of getting specific about the timing and responsibilities of the plan, she missed an important element of step five. That was gaining commitment from Steve. She missed really focusing on what's important for him. What was in it for Steve to complete the action plan? She also should have asked him for some of his own ideas that he would be committed to.
Why is Commitment Important in Step 5?
All along, Steve showed Q2 reluctance to the project. Marina should have started step five by asking him what he thought, what he might be willing to do. She started with a lot of her own suggestions and then got him to agree. What she really should have done is to make sure she got some of his ideas that he could be committed to. That doesn't mean Marina had to agree with him on everything that he decided. Rather, it means that the more Steve is involved in the plan, the more likely Marina will get employee commitment, because it's his plan and not hers.
Why is Employee Buy In Important?
Gaining commitment is extremely important when working with peers. We have to get the person's buy in. We have to make sure we paint a picture so that they know what's in it for them. Why it's important to the entire organization because we cannot rely on authority because we don't have any.
What Should Marina Do Now?
A compromise might be in play here. If Mariana could give up her one-week timeline, that might give Steve more time to come up with a plan that's more mutually agreeable to both of them. Or perhaps if Steve continues to stall and is resistant against the plan that they have, it's probably a great time for Marina to go back to step four and really get to the bottom of the issue. That's a good time to do more probing, ask more questions, and make sure that they are on the same page.
Importance of Commitment
There's no sense moving forward if Steve and Marina are not in agreement on the action plan. A good step five ends with a mutually agreeable action plan that both parties can be committed to.
In summary, how do you overcome lack of commitment in the workplace? Use the 5 step format and make sure to involve the other person in the step 5 action plan. Resist the temptation to tell him what to do.
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John Clemenza All About New York
18-year-old John Clemenza is an amateur surfer who lives in Oahu, Hawaii. This native islander has big dreams and big goals. He hopes to someday join the ranks of his idols Granger Larsen and Kelly Slater; two of the world's best professional surfers he looks up to and admires. But this isn't the only thing that John Clemenza hopes to achieve. He also dreams of living in the Big Apple in the future, after he has reached his goal of becoming a professional surfer. While he is working towards his goal of becoming a pro surfer, he imagines how life would be like in New York City.
For John Clemenza, the contrast that New York City provides to his laid back life on the island of Oahu is something that he would like to experience all day, every single day—not just as a tourist but as a local New Yorker. When he first visited NYC, he immediately realized why it was called "the city that never sleeps." No matter where he turned, it seemed that the whole place was abuzz with activities, regardless of the time of day. On that first visit, he tried to take in everything he could; squeezing in as many sights, attractions and activities as possible during his short stay.
One of the very first attractions that he visited was the Empire State Building. He patiently waited in line to get up the observation deck; eager to see the whole of New York as far as the eye could see. The sight of the Statue of Liberty took his breath away! And so, on the next day of his stay, John Clemenza joined a tour to Liberty Island and Ellis Island.
Over the following days, John Clemenza managed to visit Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and of course, Central Park. Times Square and Central Park were two of the places that he frequented during his short holiday in New York.
With so much to see and experience, he felt that his New York vacation was simply too short! Going over his amazing adventure in New York in his head while on a plane going back to Hawaii, he made the decision to live in NYC someday. For now, he's content with reliving his days in New York. Someday soon, he will become a pro surfer, and he can finally fulfill his dreams of living in New York.
These are what compelled John Clemenza to include a New York page on his site. He wishes to share more of his experiences with the reader, and at the same time, learn more about this great, big state with the help of his readers. On that note, he invites his readers to share with him their own experiences in New York. He would be especially grateful for information and details about NYC straight from locals.
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Q: How to find duplicate values in integer array in Swift? I need to know how to find duplicate values in integer array by loop method in swift?
I tried to ->
func findDuplicates (array: [Int]) {
        var prevItem = array[0]
        for i in 0...array.count-1 {
            if prevItem == array[i] {
                print(i)
            } else {
               print("there is no any duplicates values")
            }
        }
}

please show my solution in this way!

A: You can use a set and every time you try to insert an element it fails it means it is a duplicate. You would need also to make sure you don't keep duplicate elements on the result:
func findDuplicates (array: [Int]) {
    var set: Set<Int> = []
    for i in array {
        if !set.insert(i).inserted {
            print("duplicate element:", i)
        }
    }
}

findDuplicates(array: [1,2,3,4,5,6,5,6,7,9])

This will print:

duplicate element: 5
duplicate element: 6

If you would like to return all duplicate elements of a collection you can simply use filter:
func getDuplicates(in array: [Int]) -> [Int] {
    var set: Set<Int> = []
    var filtered: Set<Int> = []
    return array.filter { !set.insert($0).inserted && filtered.insert($0).inserted }
}

getDuplicates(in: [1,2,3,4,5,6,5,6,7,9])  // [5, 6]

extension RangeReplaceableCollection where Element: Hashable {
    var duplicates: Self {
        var set: Set<Element> = []
        var filtered: Set<Element> = []
        return filter { !set.insert($0).inserted && filtered.insert($0).inserted }
    }
}

let numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,6,5,6,7,9]
numbers.duplicates                   // [5, 6]

let string = "1234565679"
string.duplicates                    // "56"

A: let list = [5,7,1,1,7,9]

var result : [Int] = []
var duplicateArr : [Int] = []

for i in 0..<list.count {
    var isDuplicate = false
    if duplicateArr.count == 0 {
        duplicateArr.append(list[i])
    }else{
        print(list[i])
         for j in 0..<duplicateArr.count{
             if duplicateArr[j] == list[i] {
                 isDuplicate = true
             }
         }
        if isDuplicate {
            result.append(list[i])
        }else{
            duplicateArr.append(list[i])
        }
    }
}
print("Duplicate list -> \(result))

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1. Peace between India and Pakistan: A joint public opinion poll conducted by the two leading newspaper groups, Jang in Pakistan and Times of India in India, in January 2010, indicated that 72% Pakistanis and 66% of Indians want "peaceful relations between the two countries".
Ø 87% indicated security in Kashmir is "essential or desirable".
Ø Among the Muslim population in Kashmir, 70% said "armed struggle is totally unacceptable, and 54% said politicians are using the "Kashmiry people for their own interest".
3. The Need for Job Creation in Pakistan: The British Council's "Next Generation Report" on Pakistan (November 2009) reported that Pakistan is currently experiencing a "demographic dividend". This means that Pakistan now has more productive youth than dependents, resulting in a favorable ratio of productive young to old. Of the current estimated 180 million people in Pakistan, 50% are under 20 years of age and 66% are under 30.
According to the report, this ratio is a window of opportunity for Pakistan to rebalance its economy. If planned carefully to harness the energy of this young generation, Pakistan could help itself to build a strong nation with economic prosperity and peace.
"If we fail", said Durr-e-Nayab of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, "Pakistan will face a demographic disaster as large scale unemployment and immense pressure on health and education system could develop into a crisis".
This demographic disaster could become a breeding ground for extremism that would threaten the security of the region, the U.S. and the rest of the world.
4. Opinion on Suicide Bombers: An analysis of polls from a dozen Muslim countries by Fawaz Gerge of the London School of Economics found that "90% of Pakistanis surveyed are opposed to suicide attacks which is up from 43% in 2002."
Ø 51% of Pakistanis admire India's military strength.
Ø Afghans are still resolutely opposed to the return of the Taliban, but increasingly disillusioned and uncertain about what the future might hold for their country.
Ø When asked if things in Afghanistan were heading in the right direction, only 40% agreed – compared with 54% a year ago, and 77% in 2005.
Ø 58% said the Taliban are the biggest danger to Afghanistan.
Ø 84% said that the Taliban are weak or non-existent in their own areas.
the principle of "equal rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, and religion".
and women should have equal representation in political leadership.
These public opinion surveys clearly illustrate that there is public support for peace as well as the desire for normalizing relationship among countries in the region.


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"A cake, Frank, is made of flour and water." If George Banks–America's most famous father of the bride–was shocked at the prices of wedding cake in 1990's, just imagine what he'd think of our Pinterest-driven, reality-TV competing wedding planning of today. For some brides and grooms, planning a wedding is a dream come true. And yet for many, the price tags can quickly turn that dream into a nightmare. Here are ten bankable tricks for throwing a once-in-a-lifetime party without a once-in-a-lifetime budget.
From venues to catering to entertainment, timing is everything. And most popular wedding-related service businesses know they can book their Saturdays without issue. As a result, everyone's favorite weekend night goes for top dollar. But consider a Friday wedding, or dare we say it, a Thursday wedding, and you're likely to be met with plummeting prices.
Some venues will appear to be available for a steal. But if they force you to use their catering services, you may discover that the savings were just a mirage. Venue catering services can charge as much as $50 per head for something as simple as a glass of wine and slice of cake for each guest. Instead, find an affordable venue that also lets you use any caterer you'd like.
Speaking of cake, this is where the insanity of wedding pricing gets its reputation. Purchase a gorgeous cake for any other event, and you could be out $100+. Purchase a wedding cake, and you could spend thousands. Our tip? Create a stunt double cake out of styrofoam and fondant, then serve slices cut from a more affordable sheet cake.
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Decor can drain your entire wedding budget while you're not even looking. Your best bet is to seek out a venue that already provides plenty of visual interest. Places like museums and old state capitol buildings often need nothing but a group of happy guests to be transformed into a gorgeous ceremony.
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Or, ditch the bouquets all together. Oversized balloons, clutches, or a single perfect flower each give your best girls something to hold without the sticker shock of freshcut bouquets.
What would you say if someone told you you had $10,000 to plan a party? How about $20,000? $30,000? You'd likely envision the most elaborate party your city has ever seen. But if they clarified it was a wedding, you may have second thoughts. Well, so do vendors. Weddings are the ultimate money makers for florists, photographers, and venues alike. Whatever you do, avoid using the word until you absolutely have to. So what are you looking for? Oh, just a white dress.


This tripod floor lamp features an espresso black finish wood base, topped by a ivory hardback shade for a hip, high-contrast look.
With a Mid Century appeal, this tripod floor lamp is perfect for modern style interiors. It features an espresso finish wood base. A simple, ivory hardback shade completes this innovative design.
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*Some things never change. 💫🙏🦅🕊✨ Copyright. Karen Ben-Moyal. Dec. 18, 2021. Copyright. Karen Ben-Moyal, 2016.
On January 5, 2022 January 16, 2022 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn A Peoples Revolution, activism, America, ANTI SEMITISM, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, constitutional law, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, Helping Fulfill Creation, One Small Step at A Time, History, houston, independent candidate for US Congress, IR theory, israel, Jews, Latin American perspectives, life after death, mayor, middle east, middle eastern conflict, New year, New York Times, News, philosophy, Political Thought, Politics, science, Short Literature Essay, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, trump, Uncategorized, united we stand, UNIVERSE, ZIONISTSLeave a comment
Setting All Propagandas Straight: Israel's Place in the World
On March 24, 2021 June 9, 2021 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, councilman, CREED, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, houston, IR theory, israel, liberals, life after death, mayor, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophu, Political Thought, Politics, Short Literature Essay, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, THEOFFICE, Uncategorized, UNIVERSELeave a comment
When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Seasons: Told for the Ages
On April 11, 2020 November 22, 2021 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, councilman, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, houston, israel, liberals, life after death, mayor, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophy, Political Thought, Politics, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, Uncategorized, UNIVERSELeave a comment
A collection of sonnets, haiku's, and poems written by Karen Ben-Moyal throughout the Year of life, aka 20CHAI, or by Gregorian Calendar known as: The Year 2018. Hidden beneath the words here are messages depicting the true meanings behind the stories told from generations unto generations; Also shown through the writings are the meanings behind Nature's changing seasons; Finally, the distorted reasons for the start of holidays and festivals which continue to be celebrated to this day are made abundantly more clear by the more accurate distinctions made by the writer of these sonnets, in honor of restoring justice to the most ancient civilizations of the world and bridging the glory that connects our modern societies to the never changing, permanent laws of nature; new and old.
Blessed are the Peace-Makers: The Pulse of The Patriot
On March 18, 2020 November 22, 2021 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, ANTI SEMITISM, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, houston, IR theory, Jews, middle east, middle eastern conflict, News, philosophy, Political Thought, Politics, SPIRITUAL, texas, trump, Uncategorized, UNIVERSE, ZIONISTS2 Comments
"Each interest group in America, by and large-- is managed for and by the PEOPLE to gain access to the attention of their representatives in office, usually to call on a certain issue or express their doubts about a law they seek to amend or bill they want passed. Hundreds of lobbying groups exist all with shared goals and their own unique cause. How is it that Israel is the only "all powerful lobby" who seeks to leave an imprint on American foreign policy, and supposedly by scheming the politician and somehow blinding him or holding him hostage until the politician gives in? How ridiculous your argument is. I had been waiting to throw this your way a while, so thank the leftist who assisted in your obsession with disliking Jews to the point they need to troll strangers… The point is, each lohbyist has the right to seek change if they don't agree with something their government is doing. NO ONE should begrudge the other's right to try. And no one should cast conspiracies on those who succeed -- again, as long as they play by the rules, and they certainly and openly do."
The U.N. Delusion
On November 20, 2019 November 22, 2021 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, economy, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, israel, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophy, Political Thought, Politics, trump, UNIVERSELeave a comment
"...All our insistence was in vain. I do not accuse the UN officials of lack of goodwill, but they turned out to be helpless to compel our neighbours to keep their promises. The chain of murders continued. We had no alternative but to take action ourselves for our self-defence, which is a natural right; perhaps more than a right: the duty of the State...."
".....We will not allow ourselves to be deprived of the right of self-defence as long as the UN and its Security Council are incapable of putting an end to these murders. As long as the Arab rulers honour their signature to the cease-fire, there will be tranquillity on the borders, for Israel has never violated and will never violate its promise."
"...The UN is founded on the principles of peace and justice, which are no less precious to us than to anyone else. It is our obligation and privilege to ensure, as far as it lies within our power, that these principles should apply to us as much as to other members of the UN...."
"....It is inconceivable that Israel should consent to discrimination: one rule for ourselves and another for the rest of the world."
Dear Jews and Enemies of the Jews/State of Israel – You know Who You Are:
On August 6, 2019 January 14, 2020 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, FAITH, Foreign affairs, israel, Jews, liberals, middle east, middle eastern conflict, New York Times, philosophy, Political Thought, Politics, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, Uncategorized, UNIVERSE, ZIONISTSLeave a comment
Do not underestimate the power of anti-Semitism in the media, in academia, and in a liberal government. Worthy to note: LIBERALS CANNOT STAND DONALD TRUMP FOR MOSTLY THIS REASON: DONALD TRUMP IS NOT AN ANTI SEMITE, and actually loves the state of Israel.
Closed Borders Promote Peace
To Whomever it May Concern,To deny another man the freedom that he himself has is to diminish the meaning of what it truly means to be an American & patriot at its core.Instead of relying on politicians to secure our blessings of freedom, America's unfulfilled journey towards restoring covenants of old must live on, even if these American duties, both divine and of historic means, are not fully understood by all. Justice is offered by nature's glorious law(s); in the form of choices and decisions and the will to stand firm in the face of adversity. Should all acquaintance be forgot, focus your inner eye on the grand old flag. The symbol of liberty and peace through strength may never be forgotten if it is bounded into your every day decision making. Justice for all will win so long as the balances which weigh out and redefine the global scale of things serve as a permanent reminder to those who may freely choose to think and give; receiving nature's gift is easy, and yet so rare in our world and even more difficult is it to maintain and secure. The rekindling of Lady Liberty's flame takes courage and above all, faith beyond belief. Indifferent to the light of democracy are tyrants and their followers who take nature and natural law for granted. This is a blatant fact, for those who believe a dictator could govern a nation better than a majority elected leader are not followers of the American way towards freedom for all, nor contributors to the universal right to become economically stable and therefore hinder the growth of a global civil society. A freer world market should be the guiding light Americans envision when embarking into strategic cooperation in general, in daily life and in your work endeavors. To be united and free as the wind that blows, natural laws are to be influenced all over, to shine away the darkness in all corners of the Earth. Universal rights can be protected and justified by certain inalienable truths, so long as these truths are proclaimed as the governing laws of the land, of the free of course. Not to mention, natural laws must be protected by those individuals who have the avenues to lead and/or participate in any form of the growing free enterprise system. America and Her guiding lights must work to maintain Her own free society, by striving to fulfill Her duties as a nation of free men and women, to work to redeem all rights thereof for all who will it. The majority of mankind exist under enslavement of some kind. America's duty to restore human rights unto all nations has only just begun. A victorious revolution for each actor, as well as any nation-state, including that of American foreign policy makers, requires a reconstruction of laws and amendments needed to continue the virtues our forefathers risked their lives and others to this day have died for us to carry out.The basis of true progress is resulted from the improvement or update of amendments, not legally outlined in the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, nor Constitutional principles, but within the realms of foreign affairs. Amendments thereof are required for the successful revision of all such American policies, and therefore must first and foremost be rededicated to coincide with American traditions, while reminders of the notions of freedom must be simultaneously determined and outlined for the purpose of transforming knowledge into growth. A genuine reevaluation of the whole concept of globalization is necessary by law makers or those who contribute to endeavors politically regarded to the public eye. All such reevaluations must be maintained by certain methods for successful working implementation in order to later become known by lawmakers for citizens to vote on, and if done correctly, all laws to be amended within the realms discussed in the following situational efforts will be agreed on by all sides of beliefs, both political and religious. As a republic, we should be united in what was meant by our ancestors when the origins of our United States heritage were born and written/interpreted into law. All citizens of America, citizens of our ongoing melting ot of immigrants of old and of new, are wired to instinctively follow the guidelines which have been clearly set out for us descendants, because all of us were born with natural law to pursue our greatest amount of happiness. We must strive for the betterment of us and all mankind, to accomplish in today's modern age, a fruitful and bright future of all of us, that is, justice restored again, one day, for all mankind. Virtuous ordinances and universal laws upon which these structured elements were endowed by our Creator unto us as human beings, must be designed by a working legislature and voted into action by citizens who wish to embrace U.S. ideals in other worldly corners, as American laws were created to do. All truths which are self evident in nature are endowed by our universal Creator, meaning all such ancient laws must be created to fit into the changing of times, for all men and women to carry out in our ever changing lives, world, and endeavors.As Americans, our duties to create peace throughout all lands is considered a priority, just as our right to vote is to be seen as a privilege and utilized by Americans accordingly. Fact is our American identity calls for similar action to be taken regarding ever changing laws of reformation in American foreign policy to be enclosed at times of need by our national doctrines.As American citizens, all such duties handed unto us cannot remain unfinished, nor are we allowed to stop half way down the line in humanity's progress towards peace and prosperity in our life cycles.On the contrary, these rights are part of what established the guidelines which make up the soul of an American, those of which are obviously threaded into Constitutional principles.Furthermore, quitting is not in a true American's blood, dying for what's right is to be expected in the ongoing pursuit of peace endeavors worldwide.To share the pillars of freedom which branch from the American tree is to guarantee your own civil rights as a citizen of humanity intertwined for working knowledge to be succumbed by the realization that all human rights should be universal and dedicated to all. Justice is meant to be lived by mankind, this includes those living outside American borders.Thus, all constitutional rights must be reordered for worldly advances for the promotion of self governed regimes to manifest into the destinies all were born to accomplish.To assist others in peace pursuits is to abide by our American duties..Unlocking the doors of freedom for all regions and societies should be our collective aim as a society. To experience this justice is as American in U.S. heritage, as are the privileges to vote in American elections or the rights to fair trials are relevant in American endeavors and are as self evident as any and all American dutiful tasks belonging to all U.S. citizens living freely today.
On July 25, 2019 November 22, 2021 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, houston, IR theory, israel, liberals, life after death, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophu, Political Thought, Politics, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, Uncategorized, UNIVERSE6 Comments
Jerusalem, Mankind's very First 'Embassy' Among other Thoughts, a short Tribute to the Homeland of all of US. Yours Truly, KBM
On March 27, 2018 October 18, 2018 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, conservativephilosopy, constitutional law, councilman, CREED, economy, FAITH, Foreign affairs, foreignaffairs, houston, IR theory, israel, liberals, life after death, mayor, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophu, Political Thought, Politics, Short Literature Essay, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, THEOFFICE, UncategorizedLeave a comment
היא מדינת ישראל © Karen Ben Moyal, 5/16/2018 ירושלימ של זהב Jerusalem, humanity's very first embassy; Origins of the first planted seeds; Sprouted With light, love, faith, and liberty; A desert only blooms when hope prayer and fate; Are shared by an unbroken bond, lit with an eternal flame; The Tree of Life, the …
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December 18th, 2017: From the Roots of My Tree
On December 19, 2017 January 14, 2020 By Karen Ben-MoyalIn activism, conservative, Conservative Socialism, Conservative Socialists, CREED, FAITH, foreignaffairs, houston, IR theory, israel, liberals, mayor, middle east, middle eastern conflict, philosophu, Political Thought, Politics, Short Literature Essay, SPIRIT, SPIRITUAL, supreme court, texas, THE OFFICE, THEOFFICE, Uncategorized, UNIVERSELeave a comment
Huuuge thanks to all of you lovely ladies & gents for the kind birthday wishes and sweet thoughts this past December 18th! 27 years ago today I started down this life path on Earth. Every birth is renewal, the reproduction of light, love, knowledge, and ultimately, life itself. Today, I can proudly say that although …
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Age Libertad October 12, 2021
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E Equals M Plus C, Squared December 2, 2020
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A Year to Begin the World Over Again: A Strategy for American Renewal July 18, 2020
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Seasons April 11, 2020
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"The Elements Will Always Protect You" April 11, 2020
Blessed are the Peace-Makers: The Pulse of The Patriot March 18, 2020
Calling Out the Purim Plot of the 21st Century, before it is too Late to Save the Jews from Our Current Holocaust Arising from within our Own House in the United States House and Chambers of Congress March 12, 2020
Students for a Better Future Radio Interview, "The World in Crisis with Karen Ben-Moyal." (Link & Audio) January 31, 2020
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The U.N. Delusion November 20, 2019
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As the Era of Rapid Technological Growth Increases, the free thinkers and fighters of our generation are in Decline. Numbers. October 31, 2019
Eve was born out of the rib of Adam because Adam & G/d needed HER to save the world. September 24, 2019
Informal – How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution? September 19, 2019
The Eyes of Texas are Upon You, Yes You—-117th Congress— September 17, 2019
Making Manifest Destiny Great Again August 27, 2019
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Closed Borders Promote Peace July 25, 2019
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From Ben-Gurion Airport to Beirut Duty Free? (Archives)
Beirut airport sells Israeli lighters
Lebanese media gushing over products originating in Jewish state, which are being offered for sale in capital's Duty Free stores
Roi Kais|Published: 02.18.13 , 14:22
VIDEO – Lebanese media outlets are gushing over one important question in recent days: How have Israeli-made products reached the Beirut Duty Free?
Mysterious Invasion
Israeli peppers infiltrate Lebanon
Roi Kais
Shopper spots bag containing three kinds of peppers with word 'Israel' printed on sale tag in large retail store in Sidon. Case referred to the military judiciary for investigation
According to reports in the Arab country, a Lebanese company selling products at the Beirut International Airport is knowingly marketing goods and products originating in Israel, including lighters.
The al-Mayadeen satellite television channel, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah organization, prepared a special report on the subject, noting that Lebanese law bans any direct or indirect trade with the Jewish state.
Report about Israeli products on Hezbollah-affiliated channel
The report presented a form allegedly showing that certain goods arrived from Milan, but another form was discovered behind it. The second form stated that the goods had arrived in Milan from the Ben-Gurion Airport.
Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper al-Akhbar said that according to information it had obtained, 41 out of 70 parcels which left Israel to Milan had made it to Beirut.
'Normalization at Duty Free'
Al-Akbar published an article on the issue last week titled, "Normalization at the Duty Free." The story claimed that upon the arrival of the delivery from Milan, the company which runs the Beirut Duty Free removed the Hebrew captions on the cover. But one of the products, which reached the Duty Free's tobacco store, still had the Hebrew caption on it.
Discovery verified on Google search
'Cooperation with Israeli company.' Beirut Duty Free website
The al-Mayadeen channel presented one of the lighters offered for sale at the Beirut airport with a Hebrew caption on it, alongside the trademark used in Lebanon. A translation of the caption revealed that the product originated in the James Richardson company, which runs the chain of duty-free stores at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.
In order to verify the discovery, the channel's staff searched Google and confirmed that the product was indeed made in Israel.
Attorney Ahmad Marai, a Lebanese activist against normalization with Israel, said that bringing the Israeli goods into his country as part of a donation or trade did not change the fact that they were Israeli goods.
"The risk in marketing Israeli goods in Lebanon is not that it yields a financial profit to the enemy, but that it could lead to an agreement and recklessness in regards to the idea of normalization," he said.
The al-Akhbar newspaper noted that direct or indirect cooperation with an Israeli company entailed a punishment of three to 10 years of hard labor, as well as a fine.
"Will the relevant parties treat this matter seriously, or take it lightly as they did with the collaborators issue?" the Hezbollah-affiliated paper wondered.


(CNN) -- Police in La Paz, Bolivia, fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse merchants participating in a two-day protest against a proposed law with tough sanctions for selling contraband.
Police in riot gear, some on motorcycles, used tear gas to reclaim streets surrounding Murillo Plaza, a main square in La Paz where the national executive and legislative offices are, video from CNN affiliate Unitel showed.
Nineteen protesters were arrested in the clashes with police.
At issue is a bill being considered in Bolivia's parliament that would bring tough sanctions to merchants who sell contraband. Small, informal merchants fear that the law would unfairly target them, compared to large shops.
As many as 5,000 merchants created a barrier around the plaza, the state-run ABI news agency reported.
On Wednesday, protesters controlled the Murillo Plaza for almost eight hours, ABI reported. It was the second day of protests, the agency said.
The government defended that law at a news conference.
The proposed law, known as the Customs Law, will not affect the small merchants who work legally, but it will be hard against "contraband magnates," the minister of Economy and Finance, Luis Arce Catacora, said, according to ABI.


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Erich Abraham (Marienburg, 27 de março de 1895 — Wiesbaden, 7 de março de 1971) foi um general-de-infantaria alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Biografia
Abraham nasceu em Marienburg, Prússia Oriental, em 1895. Ele se ofereceu para o serviço militar após a eclosão da Primeira Guerra Mundial e no ano seguinte foi comissionado como Leutnant der Reserve. Ele foi desmobilizado em 1920 como Oberleutnant honorário e ingressou na polícia. Ele voltou ao serviço militar em 1935 na patente de major. Ele comandou um batalhão de infantaria no 105º Regimento de Infantaria em 1936-39, sendo promovido a Oberstleutnant em 1938. Em 1939, ele foi transferido para o 266º Regimento de Infantaria, novamente comandando um batalhão por um ano. Em 1940 foi nomeado comandante do 230º Regimento de Infantaria e, em 1941, foi promovido a Oberst, continuando no comando desse regimento até 1942. Durante seu tempo no comando do 230º Regimento de Infantaria, ele foi condecorado com a Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro.

Em 17 de fevereiro de 1943, ele foi nomeado para comandar a 76ª Divisão de Infantaria, que estava sendo reconstruída na França depois que a divisão original foi destruída em Stalingrado. Ele foi promovido a Generalmajor em 1 de junho de 1943, após o qual liderou a divisão inicialmente para a Itália antes de ser transferido para o Grupo de Exércitos Sul na Frente Oriental durante o inverno de 1943-1944. Em 1º de janeiro de 1944, Abraham foi promovido a Generalleutnant. Ele continuou a comandar a divisão em combates pesados e durante a retirada em face da Ofensiva Dnieper-Cárpato do Exército Vermelho e, exceto por um curto período de julho a agosto, comandou a divisão até outubro de 1944. Enquanto comandava a divisão, ele recebeu as Folhas de Carvalho de sua Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro. Mais tarde naquele ano, ele foi nomeado para comandar o LXIII Corps. Em março de 1945 foi promovido a General der Infanterie. Capturado no final da guerra, ele foi libertado em agosto de 1947. Após a libertação, ele morou em Wiesbaden, Alemanha Ocidental. Ele morreu em 1971.

Honrarias

 Cruz de Ferro 2ª Classe (1914) - 2 de setembro de 1915
 Cruz de Ferro 1ª Classe (1914) - 27 de junho de 1917
 Cruz de Mérito Militar Austríaco 3rd Classe com decoração de guerra - 20 de março de 1917
 Cruz de Honra da Primeira Guerra Mundial 1914/1918 - 1 de dezembro de 1934
 Condecoração da Wehrmacht por longo tempo de serviço 2ª Classe - 2 de outubro de 1936
 Medalha da Muralha Ocidental
 Broche da Cruz de Ferro (1939) 2ª Classe - 10 de março de 1940
 Broche da Cruz de Ferro (1939) 1ª Classe - 21 de junho de 1940
 Grande Cruz da Ordem da Coroa da Romênia 22 de junho de 1942
 Distintivo da infantaria de assalto - 13 de novembro de 1942
 Medalha da Frente Oriental
 Cruz Germânica em ouro - 7 de março de 1942
 Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro - 13 de novembro de 1942
 Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro com Folhas de Carvalho

Bibliografia

Generais da Alemanha
Pessoas da Segunda Guerra Mundial (Alemanha)
Recebedores da Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro
Recebedores da Cruz Germânica em Ouro
Mortos em 1971

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