What Do Heinrich Himmler and Yahoo Have in Common?

The Watcher on Feb 05 2010 | Filed under: Nominations, The Council Has Spoken!.

The answer is easy. Apparently both have allied themselves with Palestinians that view Jews as the common enemy as exemplified by the two winning entries in this week’s Watcher of Weasels contest.
Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes on Yahoo by noting that someone at Yahoo went to the extraordinary measure of removing the Israeli town of Ariel, Irsrael from their weather service maps and replaced it with “Jenin, Palestinian Occupied Territories”.

Original: Kudos to whatever seething, obsessive anti-Israel organization managed to sneak this in under the radar. Drip drip drip delegitimization of the Jewish State is after all the strategy du jour. But seriously? This is what we’re doing now?

Apparently someone has convinced Yahoo to go into their News Weather data, erase “Ariel, Israel” as a valid location, and replace it “Jenin, Palestinian Occupied Territories.” The 20,000 residents from Ariel, where the relevant weather station is built, apparently don’t deserve their own weather. Yahoo has decreed that it belongs to the residents of Jenin, which is 25 miles north and 850 feet lower. It’s absurd that this kind of petty crap even has to be addressed, but inasmuch as it’s part and parcel of a broad-based replacement geography campaign it’s unfortunately not trivial.

Someone should ask Yahoo if there’s a list somewhere: which Israeli cities are Israelis allowed to keep, which do the Palestinians deign to let them share, which are entirely Palestinian, and which are simply unworthy of existing? Because given how they’ve gone out of their way to divide up Weather Channel data – more on that in a sec – apparently Israel’s capital, the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, and the city of Ariel are all in play.

As near as I can tell it was Reut Cohen who first reported that something was up. I’ve put the screencaps I reference at the end of this post for readability purposes:

Last night he called me to tell me that Ariel, Israel, which is an Israeli town near Jordan’s west border, had been renamed… Rather than seeing the weather for Ariel [on Yahoo's weather widget], he saw “Jenin, Palestinian Occupied Territories” listed in its stead… It is unclear why the change was made, but it is clear that those who deny the right of Israel to exist consistently refer to all of Israel — not just Ariel, Israel — as occupied territories… It’s this sort of blatant political revisionism of renaming Israeli cities that we are up against… When it comes to historic revisionism, the so-called myth of tolerance and acceptance of Middle Eastern Jewry is a perfect example of history re-written to suit the agenda of Arab Nationalists and/or Islamic Totalitarian organizations.

Here’s where things get weird. Yahoo’s weather widget just takes data from Yahoo’s Weather site, which in turn gets its information from The Weather Channel. If you use The Weather Channel’s weather.com to check what’s going on in “Ariel, Israel” you get data from the weather station that – not coincidentally – is in Ariel.

Good job Yahoo. If only you were around to push Nazi propaganda during WWII.

Atlas Shrugs comes in on top in the non-council category with From Himmler with Love: “His Eminence, the Grand Mufti, In Remembrance”. In this article Shruggs returns to the Muslim riots of 1936 and discusses the Hitler’s pledge to the Grand Muslim Mufti of help in wiping the Jews off the face of the earth.

Palestinian leader meets Hitler, and they agree on their common enemy: The Jews.

Hitler: We’re natural allies – we have the same enemy, namely the Jews. When we win, the Mufti will be Fuehrer of Muslims.

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The photo is inscribed by Himmler:
“To his eminence the Grand Mufti, 4 VII 1943, in remembrance H Himmler”
Seiner Eminenz dem Grossmufti 4 VII 1943[July 4, 1943] zur erinnerung H Himmler

It is almost impossible to believe that after the genocide of over six million Jews, the political committee of the General Assembly met (without a dissenting vote) to invite the Arav Higher Committee to testify before it on the Palestine [actually Israel] question.

“Moreover, a special sitting of the General Assembly, was convened under pressure of the Arab states, in order to issue the invitation  in a form which would invest the Arab Higher Committee with the same diplomatic status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the internationally recognized representative of the Jewish people.: [source;[1] THE ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE ITS ORIGINS, PERSONNEL AND PURPOSES: The Documentary Record submitted to the United Nations May 1947. NY: Nation Associates, 1947}

It is hard to believe that the rag we know of today, “The Nation,” was fierce in its pursuit of the truth and assembling an incredible document – an  extraordinary collection of documents and photos showing collusion of the Arab League with the fascist governments and Nazis during the War, background of the Mufti’s aides, documents in Arabic, French and German are translated. Includes for instance Hitler’s pledge to the Mufti for help in Iraq revolt of 1941, other material on Iraq, Italians pledge to abolish Jewish National Home, letters from Mufti to discourage Jewish emigration from Germany. Mufti was head of the Arab Higher Committee. This document is a real indictment of the Arab Committee and the Mufti for abetting the destruction of European Jewry during the Shoah.

The head of the Arab Higher Committee was the Mufti Haj Haj Amin el-Husseini, a brutal jihadi responsible for repeated massacres of the Jews prior to the Holocaust.

Remembering the history of the Holocaust is important toward understanding the dangerous times in which we live today. Please pass on these excellent articles and inform your neighbors of the danger that is luring in their back yard.

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The Black and White of Being “Scott Brown”

The Watcher on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

Illinois proved last night that moronic notions and lazy attitudes prevail. Anemic turnout for the Illinois primaries prove that the state of Barack Obama and Oprah is quite possibly one of the biggest voids of intellectually motivated people in the nation.

Worse, Illinoisans on the Republican side put Mark Kirk on the top of the ticket as the challenger to fill the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama. I wrote about this sellout phony in our July 27 edition of weekend weasel (Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk (R-RHINO, S-Sellout, P-Phony,…):

Mr. Kirk and 7 other tax and spend Republicans that voted on the bogus global warming boondoggle, forever known as the Waxman-Malarkey bill. Kirk joined another Illinois sellout in endorsing that legislation as he joined hands with Democrat Debbie Halverson who had at one time stated that Barack Obama could not pressure her into voting for cap-and-trade legislation, (video here), Halverson’s lie exposed here.  (please read all about Halverson at the video link provided.)

Elected weasels like Halverson and Mark Kirk couldn’t get away with this crap without the help of a complicit media. Kirk has used his past experience in the military to chum up to the normally responsible radio talk show hosts Don Wade and Roma at WLS. The wade’s son is a flying ace and up and comer in high places in Washington D.C. Every time Kirk shows up on the morning show the hosts give him a kissy lovefest and an agenda is furthered.

Kirk voted in favor of cap and trade, Kirk is soft on abortion, Kirk voted against parental notification, Kirk sat out on a crucial partial birth abortion vote, Kirk has it wrong on global warming and Mark Kirk demagogues on embryonic stem cell research. Yet now Mr. Kirk is mimicking Scott Brown in rhetoric and pretending to be the next Scott Brown candidate. Sorry weasel, you are no Scott Brown. This is just my personal opinion. What say you?

In the world of weasel watching we also have a new contest underway. Please read the following articles and pass them on to your friends. We will vote on the articles and announce the winners on Friday.

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Rock Stars and Pariahs

The Watcher on Jan 29 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!.

Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes a look at the reports coming out of Iraq that claims as accident an event where Iraqi workers erased an ancient Hebrew inscription from the tomb of biblical prophet Ezekiel while renovating a nearby mosque. Mere chance that Muslims renovating a mosque would mistakenly sandblast a Hebrew inscription from a Jewish tomb? Sure. Or-Perhaps-Not:

They irreversibly erased an utterly priceless inscription on a UNESCO site central to the history of roughly half the world’s population. No worries though. It was an accident:

Iraqi workers erased an ancient Hebrew inscription from the tomb of biblical prophet Ezekiel while renovating a nearby mosque, Army Radio reported on Sunday. The tomb is located south of Baghdad in the village of Al Kilf… Professor Shmuel Morre of Hebrew University, who was born in Baghdad, says the Historical damage is irreversible. “There are Muslim elements that are attempting to erase the Jewish character of the tomb,” Army Radio quoted Morre as saying… the Iraqi government dispelled claims the damage was done on purpose, and asserted that it sees the Jewish sites as assets important for tourism.

First of all, no. Reports have been trickling out for weeks predicting that something this outrage was in the works. The plan is to build a mosque on the site and you can’t have the tomb being all Jewish in the middle of a mosque.

In the winning non-council category Zen pundit discusses the COIN (Counterinsurgency) doctrine in terms of how it has become conventional wisdom out of mere necessity and what it means for the future; specifically in terms of fighting the war in Afghanistan.

There has been, for years, an ongoing debate in the defense and national security community over the proper place of COIN doctrine in the repertoire of the United States military and in our national strategy. While a sizable number of serious scholars, strategists, journalists and officers have been deeply involved, the bitter discussion characterized as “COINdinista vs. Big War crowd” debate is epitomized by the exchanges between two antagonists, both lieutenant colonels with PhD’s, John Nagl, a leading figure behind the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual and now president of the powerhouse think tank CNAS , and Gian Gentile, professor of history at West Point and COIN’s most infamous arch-critic.

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Unfortunately for the COINdinistas, as George Kennan discovered to his dismay, to father a doctrine does not mean that you can control how others interpret and make use of it. As the new Obama administration and its new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal conducted its internally contentious review of “AfPak” policy in 2009 on what seemed a geological time scale, the administration’s most restless foreign policy bigwig, the Talleyrand of Dayton, proposed using COIN as nation-building on steroids to re-create Hamid Karzai’s Afghanistan as the secure, centralized, state that it has never been. Public reaction to this trial balloon was poor and the administration ultimately pared down General McChrystal’s troop request to 30,000 men, hedging a COIN based strategy toward policy suggestions made by Vice-President Biden.
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COIN is an excellent operational tool, brought back by John Nagl & co. from the dark oblivion that Big Army partisans consigned it to cover up their own strategic failures in Vietnam. As good as COIN is though, it is not something akin to magic with which to work policy miracles or to substitute for America not having a cohesive and realistic grand strategy. Remaking Afghanistan into France or Japan on the Hindu Kush is beyond the scope of what COIN can accomplish. Or any policy. Or any president. Never mind Obama, Superman, Winston Churchill and Abe Lincoln rolled into one could not make that happen.

Association with grandiosely maximalist goals would only serve to politically discredit COIN when the benchmarks to paradise ultimately proved unreachable. Austerity will scale them back to the bounds of reality and perhaps a more modest, decentralized, emphasis. COIN will then become a normal component of military capabilities and training instead of alternating between pariah and rock star status inside the DoD.

There are many trains of thought on this issue and it is one of the challenges that we must consider in light of the changing political landscape of the United States and the nature of the enemy jihadist that doesn’t share the same values as Americans. For a counterinsurgency strategy to succeed we need to get serious about that reality and consider it within the scope of a global jihad. This requires an understanding that we are not simply faced with local insurgency. Our strategy needs to be adjusted within that context in Afghanistan and Iraq. Otherwise we will continue to suffer the unnecessary loss of American life and civilian casualties without realizing the long term goal of winning the war against terror on all fronts.

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Obama’s First State of the Weasel Address

The Watcher on Jan 27 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

Tonight is the night that many Obama supporters waited for with baited breath. Another historic speech by a historic savior of the Democrat Party and it’s radical left leaning agenda. Of course it’s not unfolding quite as they envisioned. Thus the crowd is much smaller.

Obama supporters across the base are leaving in droves. Even over the top supporters are having second thoughts. For instance, Obama Girl, the left’s poster girl that sang the Obama electoral anthem and Paul Krugman, the New York Times cheerleader that feels betrayed and now admits that Obama is NOT the one that him and his ilk have been waiting for (do say).

I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

Even Bob Herbert, another NYT propagandist is finding that Obama is a liar; although Herbert can’t really commit to saying that evil 4 letter word:

Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. He is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won’t be able to close it.

While the weasels on the left haven’t decided to completely jump ship they have been pushed to the brink of being able to openly criticize the man that was defended from the same sort of criticism not too long ago using standard liberal protectionist attacks with cries of racism, radical, teabagging wingnut, etc…

Which makes tonight’s state of the union address all the more important to the left. Make no mistake. These frantic editorials from Obama’s pet supporters are a rally cry. Please Mr. Obama, return to the base, ram the government grab of healthcare down the throats of the American people, turn tail on Afghanistan, Mirandize all the terrorists at Gitmo before you bring them to New York or Illinois, shut down and nationalize the banks, redefine the middle class and tax and spend more despite the deficit. So I expect Obama to return to the days of his frantic campaign with an anti-corporate Bush bashing blame deflection. Cheering on the middle class even though his strategy has been to destroy and such notion of a self sufficient nation; the kind the middle class embodied before their success became a the target of the Obama elite. We will hear more cries of more government shrouded in vacuous feel good rhetoric meant to deceive and comfort. The State of the Weasel couldn’t be more desperate.

While you are watching tonight’s address make sure to read about other weasels as our members help expose them in every corner of the political spectrum. Enjoy this week’s contest and return on Friday to see the winning entries.

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The Devil is in the Details

The Watcher on Jan 22 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

The results are in and the sentiment is clear, voters across the political spectrum oppose the Obama agenda; especially when that agenda is viewed through the lens of Obamacare.

This was exactly the analysis of the winning non-Council submission from American Spectator that summarized voter sentiment leading up to the Scott Brown election.

Brown has also been a consistent critic of the economic stimulus bill that President Obama pushed through Congress last year. “The fact is the stimulus has not worked. Not one new job has been created in Massachusetts, or anywhere in the nation,” Brown said in one of his earliest campaign statements. “Our country can’t afford any more stimulus spending that adds to our deficit without adding to employment.”

More than anything else, however, it is Brown’s opposition to the Democrats’ pending health-care legislation that turned the Massachusetts election into a crusade for conservatives nationwide. The Republican has vowed to be the “41st vote” against the bill, preventing Senate Democrats from maintaining the filibuster-proof supermajority needed for final approval.

While it has been speculated that Democrats may find some procedural means of bypassing that obstacle, to do so would be to ignore the clear message of this campaign. If opposition to the administration’s health-care policy can spur the election of a Republican in one of the nation’s most liberal states, Brown’s election would be an emphatic “no” in what is tantamount to a referendum on Obama’s first year in office.

The rest is history. Brown won and Rasmussen found that 78% of Brown voters Strongly Oppose the health care legislation before Congress.

Winning council member Joshua Pundit looked at the left’s reaction to Pat Roberson’s comments stating that the cause of the Haiti earthquake was a pact that African slaves made with the devil in order to get his assistance in freeing them from the French. Rob’s analysis finds that left leaning negative reaction is a convenient tool used to take the spotlight off of Obama’s plunging approval ratings.

The whole thing has become an exercise in ‘hey lookit the dumb cracker hillbilly Jee-sus peddler’ so that the spotlight can be taken off the meltdown of Obama’s poll numbers as the Democrats prepare the consummation of the backroom ObamaCare heist.

Do I agree with what Pat Robertson had to say? Not at all, but I also know that he’s not the idiot people would have you believe, and I understand where he’s coming from even if his timing was abysmal and some of his historical facts are questionable.

Rob goes on to look at the history of Haiti and points out where he believes Robertson is wrong about the curse but perhaps misunderstood by some on the history.

Congratulations to all winning submissions. Please pass this along to your friends. We will return next Wednesday to announce a new contest in our never ending quest to expose the Weasels of the world!

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Scott Brown’s Boston Tea Party, Twenty Ten!

The Watcher on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts sent shock waves through the Democratic establishment. Democrats, having convinced themselves that the seat owned by Ted Kennedy was theirs for the keeping, ran a lack luster candidate. The people of Massachusetts felt otherwise and in a whirlwind manner gave the boot to the elitist mindset that had held their state hostage for decades.

More so, the Brown victory sent a clear message to Democrats across the nation; you are in trouble.

The left leaning mainstream media, their pals on left leaning blogs and Democrat politicians have spent the better part of a year deriding, insulting and name calling anyone that dared question the far left leaning agenda of the newly minted Obama administration. Rather than work with a campaign pledge to bring the nation together, Obama and his minions proceeded to hoist their left leaning tendencies on an unsuspecting electorate; people that bought into hope and change but got nothing but insults and empty pockets.

The derisive and derogatory sexual reference to the term teabagger was conjured up by the not so funny antagonists on the left that thought they could get away with anything now that they had fooled a centrist nation into giving the Democrats a majority across the board. Politicians and blowhards in the media quickly picked up the term, and some asses are even still using it today.

As luck would have it, Democrats overplayed their hand while accomplishing little. (yes, Rush predicted this would happen; all while keeping one half of his brain tied behind his back, just to make it fair).

And now they are being paid back in spades. The people really are angry.

Now two sides of the left are starting to play it out against each other.

Some Democrats are jumping ship. Whoa, slow down, perhaps we are moving too fast.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) told a local reporter, “It’s probably back to the drawing board on health care, which is unfortunate.” Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) told MSNBC this morning he will advise Democratic leaders to scrap the big bill and move small, more popular pieces that can attract Republicans. And Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said his leadership is “whistling past the graveyard” if they think Brown’s win won’t force a rethinking of the health care plan.

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), who now might draw a challenge from Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), said the party needs to rethink its entire approach to governing.

Others however are digging in deeper.

On the sidelines, Democrat Rep. Barney Frank took to the airwaves to call for sabotaging Senate rules and ending the filibuster in anticipation of losing the magic 60th vote for the government health care takeover plan. Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer trotted out the old blame-the-GOP card – incoherently arguing that GOP candidate Scott Brown’s surge among conservatives, independents, and once-reliable rank-and-file Democrat voters in the deep-blue state of Massachusetts was a backlash against Republican obstructionism.

Whatever happens I predict this is just the beginning. Scott Brown’s Boston Tea Party is just the first step in a process that will most certainly be the beginning of real change at the hands of the very tea party protesters the left loves to insult. Over hear at WoW we will be glad to see these weasels walk a very long plank as they try and jump ship like lemmings over a cliff. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Speaking of weasels we are beginning the week anew with a fresh list of submissions for consideration in the weekly Watcher of Weasels search for the best weasel exposing articles in the blogosphere. Please read and pass on to your friends. Results will be up on Friday!

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Watcher’s Council Winners! The Tribe Has Spoken

JoshuaPundit on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

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The Council has spoken, choosing the winners in this week’s competition. And there’s some superb weekend reading in in store for you.

In the Council category, the winner this week was American Digest with his in depth essay on the Christmas crotch bomber # Lowballing Death: Keeping the Northwest 253 Numbers Down:

I’ve noticed the chant more and more as the days have gone by. It’s a chant usually preceded by the world “only;” as in “Even if the bomb had gone off it would have ‘only’ killed 290.”

“290″ is by far the most magical number in the morass of magical thinking that’s subsumed discussion of the “near disaster” of the Christmas attempt to give Northwest 253 a “premature landing”. The number “290″ is the number of passengers and crew on board the aircraft. “290″ is a number we hear a lot in conjunction with discussion of this failed attempt at mass murder. A lot of people in the administration, the TSA, and those on the left attempting to excuse what happened would be happy if “290″ stuck. If “290″ can be made to stick then the disaster, tragic as it might have been, is merely a “pinprick” and can be, like so many other aspects of this monumental failure, lowballed.

But “290″ is, looked at from any reasonable point of view, at the bottom of the scale when it comes to discussing how many might have lost their lives. The ultimate outcome of NW253 being brought down could have been much worse and, like the attacks against the World Trade Center on 9/11, easily have risen into the thousands.

When referring to “290″ the Obama administration along with their media cohorts and apologists are assuming that the =/-400,000 pound Airbus 300 would have vaporized in thin air and, like some event in the Bermuda Triangle, the aircraft, passengers and crew would have simply gone to their reward in the middle of the sky with only a puff of pixie dust left behind. This is sweet nonsense since airliners, when bombed in mid-heaven, have a nasty habit of coming to earth. In flames and sometimes in pieces.

In flaming pieces is what happened to the closest parallel to NW253, the downing in Lockerbie, Scotland of PanAm 103. In that “incident” the parts of the aircraft fell onto a village of a few thousand people and killed 11 people on the ground as well as the 259 on the plane.

At that point comparisons between PanAm 210 and NW253 diverge. Flight 210 was on climb out from London and, interestingly enough, on a course that would have taken it into Detroit. NW253 was on final approach to the same airport on a flight path that took it over the Detroit metropolitan area with a population of some 3,900,000. It is a much, much denser area; one that might be described as a “target rich environment” for a 400,000 pound flying bomb.

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – On To The Next Decade!

JoshuaPundit on Jan 06 2010 | Filed under: Nominations.

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Trust the Israelis to make a joke out of this…Menachem Jerenberg in the Jerusalem Post.

The Noughties are so over!

Welcome to the latest edition of the Watcher’s Council nominations, some of the best writing from a group of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The Council votes to pick the winners in each category and the results can be seen in this space on Friday morning.

COUNCIL NEWS:

This week, LawGambit got the drop on the competition and took advantage of our generous link whorage offer this week, earning an honorable mention. If you wish to have your blog earn an honorable mention and have a piece of yours appear on the Watcher’s Council page next week, the opportunity is open and up for grabs.

Here’s how you do it:

  • Make a post on your site linking to this week’s Council winners when they’re posted Friday morning.
  • Send me an e-mail by Tuesday 5 PM with the subject line ‘link whorage’ at rmill2k@msn.com with a link to the post you wrote linking to this week’s winners and a link to a new piece you’ve written and want to showcase that you want to appear here the following week.
  • We”ll do the rest, and the increased traffic and the resulting fame and notoriety are all yours!

    • So, without further ado, let’s see what we have this week…. Continue Reading »

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