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Sep 15, 2011

prepare for the worst--- NYT: Seeing Ripple in Jewish Vote

 

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Date: September 15, 2011 8:26:22 PM EDT
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The New York Times


  • if this democratic party scheme doesn't work the fall back plan is to have Obama go down on Netanyahu during the half time show at the 2012 Super Bowl...


  • September 14, 2011

    Seeing Ripple in Jewish Vote

    WASHINGTON — Not since Jimmy Carter in 1980 has a Democrat running for president failed to win a lopsided majority of the Jewish vote. This has been true during times of peace or war, and even when there has been deep acrimony between the White House and the Israeli government.

    Republicans see a chance to change that in 2012, with President Obama locked in a tense relationship with Israel's leaders and criticized by many American Jews as being too tough on a close and favored ally. Tuesday's Republican upset in New York's Congressional election, they say, is a sign of bad things to come for Mr. Obama.

    Sensing trouble, the Obama campaign and Democratic Party leaders have mobilized to solidify the president's standing with Jewish voters. The Democratic National Committee has established a Jewish outreach program. The campaign is singling out Jewish groups, donors and other supporters with calls and e-mails to counter the Republican narrative that Mr. Obama is hostile to Israel.

    Among those efforts is a multi-page set of talking points circulated last Friday with the title, "President Obama's Stance on Israel: Myths vs. Facts." David Axelrod, a close Obama adviser, has sent e-mails to Jewish voters, pointing them to a speech by the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, praising Mr. Obama and saying he had deepened the military cooperation between the United States and Israel.

    And the White House is drawing attention to recent expressions of gratitude from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israelis after Mr. Obama intervened last Friday to help prevent violence after a mob attacked the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, threatening the Israeli diplomats inside.

    It was a rare thaw in the relationship between the men. At times since the midterm elections, Mr. Netanyahu has appeared to put more energy into cultivating the new Republican majority in the House than into his relations with the president.

    "We just have a lot of people lying about the president's record, and we have to push back on it," said Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who is chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. "The president has a rock-solid record on Israel, and because we're going to convey that in a detailed way, we're going to get an overwhelming majority again."

    She took part in one such "validation" exercise recently in Miami when she appeared before reporters with Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, and stood aside while he lavished praise on Mr. Obama.

    Like other Democrats, Ms. Wasserman Schultz played down the broader implications of the upset in New York, arguing that the district's Orthodox and Russian-Jewish population makes it more conservative than other Jewish areas. She pointed to polls showing that a majority of Jews still support Mr. Obama and that their level of approval for his performance largely tracks that of the broader electorate.

    Still, American Jews are clearly less enchanted with Mr. Obama than they were in 2008, when nearly 8 out of 10 voted for him (in a Gallup poll last July, the most recent month for which data was available, his approval rating was 60 percent). Jewish lawmakers have been warning the White House that this disaffection could hurt the president in turnout, fund-raising and enthusiasm.

    "For a while now, I've been hearing from my constituents a lot of dissatisfaction with the statements on Israel that have been coming from the president and the administration," said Representative Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York. "He'll still get a majority of Jewish votes, but I would not be surprised to see that drop 10 to 20 points."

    The nub of the problem, Mr. Engel said, is that Mr. Obama tends to blame Israel and the Palestinians equally for the impasse in the Middle East — an equivalence many Jewish voters find objectionable. He said this visceral reaction prevented Jews from giving the president credit for the positive aspects of his policy.

    Republican groups are determined to make Israel a wedge issue. In recent days, billboards went up around New York City showing Mr. Obama smiling and shaking hands with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and declaring that the president is "Not Pro-Israel."

    "Not a day passes when I don't see a string of e-mails on my BlackBerry from people I don't know or groups I've never heard of, just pounding away that this president is not a friend of Israel, and worse," said David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, a nonpartisan organization. "I can't measure the impact of that beating of the drums, but the pace is incessant."

    In New York's Ninth Congressional District, which was put into play after Anthony D. Weiner's texting scandal forced him to resign, the Republican Jewish Coalition sent mailings to voters that put a spotlight on Israel.

    One postcard quoted former Mayor Edward I. Koch, who endorsed the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, as saying that if voters in Brooklyn and Queens turned against the Democratic favorite, David I. Weprin, "it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the State of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship that presidents before him had supported."

    The Republican Jewish Coalition said it planned to use the same tactics in other districts with substantial numbers of Jewish voters in 2012. "It's very easy to extrapolate to the 2012 election and say Obama is going to have trouble with Jewish voters in battleground states like Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania," said Matt Brooks, executive director of the coalition.

    Prominent Democratic Jewish politicians disagree. "It is not a bellwether district," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. "I don't think there's another district like that in America."

    While Israel emerged as a hot-button issue late in the campaign, a poll by Siena College in early September showed that other issues, like the economy and Social Security and Medicare, were viewed as much more important, even by Jewish voters. With the Republican Party swinging further to the right, analysts said, it will have trouble appealing to more liberal-minded Jewish voters on these issues.

    "The notion that this is a single-issue constituency, and that these people don't vote on the economy and jobs and other issues is just misplaced," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of J Street, a liberal group. "That perception is based on a handful of loud and effective advocates."

    As Steve Rabinowitz, a former Clinton White House official who advises Jewish groups, puts it, "Jews vote like everybody else — only more so."


    email: fpscott@gmail.com

    Frank Scott writes  political commentary and satire which appears in print in The Independent Monitor and online at  Mathaba and the blog Legalienate

     

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    Meet Kweku Adoboli

     


    From: Manuel Sotil <msotil@gmail.com>
    Date: September 15, 2011 9:02:28 PM EDT
    To: ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@gmail.com>
    Subject: Meet Kweku Adoboli

    The Swiss have a well-earned reputation for conservative banking, honesty, hard work and discretion, in one of the world's most solid economies.

    They were not playing the The New World Order game and that will not stand any more.

    If the Swiss want to export their products, they have to open up their borders to all the riff-raff of the European Community and their guests.
    So, if the Swiss want to do business in London, they have to hire the likes of Kweku Adoboli, who just wiped off about 2 billion dollars from the Swiss' bank vaults.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14927432

    When the Swiss venture outside Switzerland, they are not prepared for the likes of Ghanaian Adoboli, who functions as a regular member of the European Community.
    When the Swiss stray into New York, they are not prepared to deal with the likes of Rabbi Hier (Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA), ex-New York Senator Alphons D'Amato, Ed Fagan, Bernie Madoff, et al.

    May be they should have stayed at home.

    Manuel Sotil



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    Who runs our lives? Columbia warned over students’ dinner with Ahmadinejad

     


    Columbia warned over students' dinner with Ahmadinejad
    September 15, 2011

    (JTA) -- An Israeli rights group has warned Columbia University of legal repercussions following an invitation to some students for a dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    Members of Columbia's International Relations Council and Association were invited via e-mail to a private meal Sept. 21 with Ahmadinejad, the school's Spectator newspaper reported. Some 15 students will attend the dinner, which is still tentative, according to the Columbia publication.

    Ahmadinejad is coming to New York to participate in the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly next week. His controversial address at Columbia in 2007 embroiled the campus in hot debate over freedom of speech and academic freedom.

    The Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center in Tel Aviv sent a letter to Columbia President Lee Bollinger condemning the invitation and warning that it could make the university liable to legal repercussions.

    "Hosting Ahmadinejad at a banquet is not merely morally repulsive: it is illegal and likely to render Columbia University and its officers both criminally and civilly liable," said the letter from the center, which also has an office in New York.

    Bollinger was heavily criticized when Columbia hosted Ahmadinejad in '07. He introduced the Islamic Republic leader with a scathing rebuke of Iran's human rights record.



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    Google Alert - Jewish Defense Organization

     


    Date: September 15, 2011

    News1 new result for Jewish Defense Organization
     
    French branch of Jewish terror group coming to Israel 'to defend settlements'
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    By Danna Harman Tags: Israel settlements Jewish Diaspora Palestinians PARIS - The French branch of the Jewish Defense League - an organization banned in Israel and America as a terrorist group - is recruiting people for a mission here next week to help ...
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    Rally for Palestinian Statehood and Palestinian rights

     

    VOTE YES For PALESTINE
    Join in the historic moment when the State of Palestine is declared by the United Nations
    Time: 11:00 AM
    At the United Nations Building
    46th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues, NYC
    Please bring banners, prayer rugs, signs, flags and keffiyehs and most importantly bring your family.
    Buses will be available at several area Masjids.

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    ...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

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    TOTALLY FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!

     
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    Auschwitz, the comedy....

     

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    From: heinzhb@gmail.com
    Date: September 15, 2011 
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    my buddy who's a hard core revisionist sent me this and I thought I simply had to share it as it brings up some facts that prove things just simply don't add up.  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbJDZcPJ1lc
    --
    Heinz

     "If my heart could do my thinking And my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew And know what's truly real." Van Morrison

    REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES

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    DigiNotar's IT security was woefully deficient for its trusted role

     


    DigiNotar Certificate Authority Breach Crashes e-Government in the Netherlands
    POSTED BY: ROBERT CHARETTE  /  FRI, SEPTEMBER 09, 2011
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    When DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority (CA) company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VASCO Data Security International, Inc., announced on the 30th of August that it had been breached "which resulted in the fraudulent issuance of public key certificate requests for a number of domains," the general feeling in the IT security community was one of, "Oh, oh, here we go again."
    Last March, you may remember, the Italian partners (registration authorities) of the certificate authority company Comodo (namely GlobalTrust.it and InstantSSL.it) were hacked and nine Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption certificates fraudulently issued for Google, Microsoft, Skype, and Yahoo, among others. SSL encryption certificates are meant, to quote from VeriSign, the first company to issue SSL's in 1995, to help "... assure customers that they are safe from search to browse to buy and sign-in. When customers see the VeriSign Trust(tm) Seal, they know they can trust the link, trust the site, and trust the transaction."
    The attack on DigiNotar was detected on the 19th of July the company said in its press release, and it also reported that it had revoked the fraudulent certificates that were issued. Its press release did not say how many certificates had been issued, however, only that one involved Google. However, one certificate was apparently overlooked during the detection process and that one only came to light when the Dutch government informed DigiNotar. But not to worry, government sites were not at risk of being compromised, DigiNotar claimed.
    Fingers were pointed at the government of Iran as being the source of the attack, since it looked like the fake Google certificate was being used to spy on Iranian Gmail accounts.
    The press release tried to sound upbeat, with VASCO stating that it "... expects the impact of the breach of DigiNotar's SSL and EVSSL [Extended Validation SSL] business to be minimal." A Dutch IT security company - Fox-IT BV - was hired to conduct an investigation into the incident, which came to be called internally, "Operation Black Tulip."
    However, almost immediately after the public announcement of the breach, it became clear that the attack on DigiNotar might be worse than what the company was letting on. A story appearing in ComputerWorld soon after DigiNotar's announcement indicated that the fraudulent Google certificate was issued on July 10, over a week before DigiNotar said it had first detected the breach. In addition, a DigiNotar spokesperson admitted to ComputerWorld that "several dozen" certificates had been faked, not just a small number as it previously implied.
    By the 3rd of September, it was becoming clear that the IT security situation caused by the breach was indeed becoming dire for some. For on that day, reported the AP, the Dutch government announced that because of the breach, "it could not guarantee the security of its own Web sites." In addition, the government said it was taking over DigiNotar's operations, a move the company did not fight against.
    The AP story (at the New York Times) quoted the Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner as saying that visitors to Dutch government web sites could not be sure that "that he is on the site where he wanted to be."
    Press speculation continued that the hack attack was the work of the Iranian government.
    Then on the 4th of September, the news turned even more ominous. A story in ComputerWorld said that the "several dozen" faked certificates actually numbered more than 500 and included ones for "intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad." This news caused Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. to move to "untrust" any and all certificates that had been issued by DigiNotar. News also surfaced, said ComputerWorld, that DigiNotar may have been compromised as early as May 2009.
    For all intents and purposes, DigiNotar's CA operation was now out of business. So much for VASCO's claim of the breach having little material impact on DigiNotar's business.
    On the 5th of September, DigiNotar released an interim report by Fox-IT on its investigation into the Operation Black Tulip attack. The report (PDF) is not pretty reading (an overview of the report can be found in this ComputerWorld article). Traces of the attack could be found as early as the 17th of June, it stated, meaning that it had gone undetected for more than a month. Further, a total of 531 fraudulent certificates were issued for 344 domain names. In addition, it appeared that some 300,000 Gmail accounts - mostly in Iran - had been compromised.
    Moreover, DigiNotar's IT security was woefully deficient for its trusted role as a CA. The report said:
    "The most critical servers contain malicious software that can normally be detected by anti-virus software. The separation of critical components was not functioning or was not in place. We have strong indications that the CA-servers, although physically very securely placed in a tempest proof environment, were accessible over the network from the management LAN."
    "The network has been severely breached. All CA servers were members of one Windows domain, which made it possible to access them all using one obtained user/password combination. The password was not very strong and could easily be brute-forced."
    "The software installed on the public web servers was outdated and not patched."
    "No antivirus protection was present on the investigated servers."
    "An intrusion prevention system is operational. It is not clear at the moment why it didn't block some of the outside web server attacks. No secure central network logging is in place."
    The Fox-IT report declined, for obvious reasons, to describe exactly how the attack successfully penetrated DigiNotar.
    The news that 300,000 Iranian email accounts had been compromised reinforced the idea that the attack was government-sponsored, and primarily aimed at spying on Iranian dissidents.
    On the 6th of September, the AP ran a story that reported Dutch prosecutors were investigating DigiNotar for possible criminal negligence because it was slow to disclose the breach. A New York Times article on the same day reported that the Dutch data protection agency, OPTA, had asked DigiNotar to investigate whether Dutch taxpayer information had been compromised.
    A very interesting Wall Street Journal story on the 7th of September talked about how the Dutch government was telling its 17 million citizens basically to return to the use of pen and paper when dealing with the government until the situation could be fully resolved!
    Also on the 6th of September, word was filtering out that the Iranian "Comodo hacker" was claiming responsibility for the DigiNotar hack as well. According to this story in PCWorld, the hacker - who says he is 21 - attacked DigiNotar "... in order to punish the Dutch government for the actions of its soldiers in Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslims were killed by Serbian forces in 1995 during the Bosnian War."
    The hacker also said that he succeeded in penetrating GlobalSign - another CA - and three others. A ComputerWorld story said that GlobalSign was going to investigate the claim and for now, stop issuing SSL certificates.
    At the very least, the attacks against Comodo and now DigiNotar and possibly GlobalSign and several others demonstrates that at least some CA authorities are not nearly as secure as was generally believed. 
    In fact, Mozilla, the Register reported yesterday, has told the 54 CA's with root certificates in its Network Security Services to check for intrusions or compromises and make sure their IT security is solid, and report back to it by the 16th of September. While it isn't making any direct threats to those that don't do what it asks, Mozilla has said it will "take whatever steps are necessary to keep our users safe."
    While Mozilla's actions are yet being publicly followed by Google, Microsoft, etc., I suspect behind the scenes they are exerting their own pressure on CA's to tighten up their security. I wouldn't be surprised to see lawsuits filed against DigiNotar in the near future, either.
    The attack also shows what can happen when the trust in the Internet is severely undercut as has happened in the Netherlands.
    I'll post updated information on this story as it emerges, especially on the situation in the Netherlands.


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    Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

    Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3rvhdvc

    Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

    ...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

    "...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

    An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

    Start reading DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST in under a minute: http://tinyurl.com/3f8h874

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