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November 24, 2011 | 4:07 am

This week in power: Egypt, Kibbutz, Jewish vote, Billboard

Posted by Danny Groner

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

Egypt’s uprising
More fighting between police and protesters in Egypt has some people feeling uneasy. “Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel has always been hated by the masses. This is a country where loathing of Jews, and venomous resentment of the Jewish state, are common among all classes,” said Peter Hitchens in The Daily Mail. But there’s reason to remain hopeful, said a Jewish Week editorial. “Israel has good reason to worry in the short term while hoping that, down the road, Arab citizens will choose human rights over rigid ideologies.” Reuven Firestone in the Jewish Journal added: “Egyptians have tasted freedom, and they want it.” And some Israeli women are showing solidarity in unique ways...

Was Kibbutz Meirav seized?
According to an AP report citing an Israeli researcher this week, some West Bank land was seized by Kibbutz Meirav. But those reports turned out to be false, opponents said.  “Is it any wonder, with so many journalists more concerned about being the first to expose dirt than about doing their job, that the public is increasingly distrustful of what they read in the mainstream press?” asked a blogger at Camera. Who do you trust?

One year out
“These are very dangerous times, and I think the Jewish community will be looking to see how the Arab Spring is looking to be more like an Arab Winter,” said Matt Brooks in a Tablet interview. But how could this all play out for Republicans, who will need the Jewish vote to win? “Mitt Romney is an attractive candidate for Jewish Republicans for reasons that include his outspoken backing of Jerusalem, relatively moderate positions, past business success and his having served as governor of Massachusetts,” said Gary Rosenblatt in The Jewish Week. It’ll just take embracing Mormonism.

Identity theft of Holocaust survivors
A woman who worked for a Jewish community organization in Florida was arrested for selling a Holocaust survivors’ identity information for $1,000. Crystal Thorne had access her clients’ info, as they sought help from the Holocaust Survivors Assistance Program. Thorne was apprehended trying to sell the info as part of a tax refund scam. “The recorded conversation indicated the (confidential informant) informed Thorne he would use the identities for tax return fraud and let Thorne know if they worked,” according to the affidavit.

Anti-semitic billboard?
A vodka company posted a billboard alongside New York’s West Side Highway that promised “Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing,” drawing criticism from Jewish groups and prompting the company to promise to remove the ad. The Wódka vodka ad featured the image of two dogs, one wearing a Santa hat, the other wearing a yarmulke. “Booze with a splash of anti-Semitism is what Wodka Vodka is serving up this holiday season,” joked Julia Rubin at Styleite. “Actually it got the company’s the cheap publicity it wanted,” said Don Surber in the Daily Mail. Other agreed that it was an expensive stunt.

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they voted in 2004 than were actually cotuned.  Where did those votes go?  The partisan election system corporations such as Diebold and ES&S are the black hole of honest voting.In this show you could explore how it was done and what is being proposed and put into place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.  Guests would include Leon County Supervisor of elections, Ion Sancho who is now under attack by the republican party state machine from Jeb on down for publically and scientifically proving that the Diebold electronic voting system can be hacked.  At his request, Finnish professor and renounded computer expert, Harri Harsti,  demonstrated that someone inside the supervisors’s office coud alter the outcome of the election and erase any trace of the meddling in the Diebold system.  I think you could get professor Harsti on the line as well to explain how he proved this.  To quote the Miami Herald (March 7, 2006),  real heroes catch hell.  The true patriots at blackboxvoting.org have been the first in the fight to protect our basic rights to free and fair elections under the Bush regime.  An outstanding guest from blackbox would be registered republican Jim Wilson who went to jail protesting election fraud in San Diego county.  He apparantly even has some of the computer code the bad guys used to fool election supervisors in 2004, and many other tales to tell.  It would be interresting to bring on California state senator Debra Bowen who just won the primary for seceary of state by a wide margin as a staunch defender, leader for voters’ rights and election inegrity.  She co-sponsored the state bill to ensure a paper trail for each vote cast.  Debra will give Diebold the boot as a security risk when she is elected.  Jennifer Brennan is running for secretary of state in Ohio to takne over the job of the Bush/Cheney election rigging henchman, Ken Blackwell, who is runnig for governor and possibly from the evil one himself.2)  I think a show in October adressing the issue of whether clean, accoutable elections are still possible in this nation would be in store.  A recap of all the election rigging and vote suppression schemes (and someone to cast doubt on their existence form the right, of course, or one of these clowns from salon.com), what has been done to counter and stop these practices, and what chane we have of the will of the people actually being recognized on election day in November.  I think Robert Kennedy, Jr. would be a fantastic guest.  Professor Mark Crispin Miller would be another get guest for his vast knowledge of the facts and deep interpretation of the peril election fraud represents to our democrcy and so-called free society (hardly touched in his previous appearance).  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman who have written extensively about the scam election in Ohio 2004 would be formidable guests.  Of course you’d need some republican fire-breather or weasel to defend the other side such as it is or the illusion of it.  Hey, why not ask Karl Rove on the show, or Dick Cheney?  Daniel Mellman?  That would be amusing.  You might think about inviting proponents and opponents of HR 550, the best election reform bill that still need twenty-some congessperson to sign to pass the House.  It has become, heartwarmingly, bi-partisan now.  Common Cause is behind it, and you might invite one of their top people.  And a terasure trove of election integrity news and alanlysis can be found on VoteTrust.com for both research and further guest possibilities.If this is wounding like three shows now, why not?You see how rich and deep the material and potential guests and areas of discussion are.In the end, it is up to the Bush/extremist politico machine to prove that election fraud outrage to the American people and God did not occur on a widescale basis in 2004 and not the other way around!Peace and God Bless!

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