GOP votes against Gosar censure, but frustration builds against controversial congressman: 'It's all silly'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gosar-republicans-censure-controversial 

 He’s not your mainstream Republican, a lot of people think he’s kooky," a different House GOP aide told Fox News. "He’s the type of Republican that’s far more a liability to the conference than an asset… There’s not much seriousness in his work.

"We can’t just be kicking people off committees… it’s a slippery slope," the GOP aide also said. "No one’s defending — most of the conference is not defending what he did."

A former aide to Gosar, meanwhile, said Gosar is "a smart person" and "a good person" who "just made some bad decisions." 

Gosar is "not a whackado," the former aide told Fox News. "But he represents a very far-right district" and "has made the strategic decision to try to replicate Donald Trump's bombastic style" because it's "what the people want."

"But attempting to replicate Donald Trump is going to get you in trouble," the former aide added. 

Gosar's Twitter header notably is a photo of the former president.

How a Vaguely Worded Wisconsin Law Could Let Rittenhouse Walk

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/17/wisconsin-self-defense-law-rittenhouse-522814

 If Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted, it’s going to shock a lot of people. But if you’ve been following the case closely, it will be less of a surprise. This trial — and particularly the judge’s instruction to the jury on the concept of “provocation” — has highlighted a key flaw in the way legislatures have written their laws to describe when a person may kill lawfully in self-defense.

In an era in which more and more Americans are carrying guns and invoking their right to self-defense, these flawed laws are going to continue to lead to controversial verdicts. But lawmakers have the ability to clarify them. Here’s how.

Congressman Threatening Violence With Attack on Titan Sees Actual Consequences

 https://news.yahoo.com/congressman-threatening-violence-attack-titan-225500225.html

 In the debate leading up to the censure vote, the Republicans mostly argued that the United States faced more pressing issues than the contents of an anime video. Noted weeb Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona attempted to explain why Gosar’s controversial video was not a death threat by invoking his deep-seated familiarity with Japanese culture and anime:

 I’ve lived in Japan for several years. I speak Japanese. I read and write Japanese. This is an anime, Shingeki no Kyojin. Highly popular, stylized, intended to demonstrate the alienation that people feel, particularly young people feel, in their cultures. Does anime have violence? Yes. It’s highly stylized violence. It is not meant to induce people to violence.

The Bulletproof Diet is everything wrong with eating in America

 https://www.vox.com/2014/12/19/7416939/bulletproof-coffee

 Still, Asprey went so far as to say: "There is one best way to help people lose weight, and that is eliminating inflammation." He said people who want to lose weight just need to test out different foods, determine if they cause them to  "feel food cravings and brain fog" and then eliminate those foods from their lives.

To find out about the evidence behind this system, I looked at a bunch of the citations for the claims that he makes about food. What I found was a patchwork of cherry-picked research and bad studies or articles that aren't relevant to humans. He selectively reported on studies that backed up his arguments, and ignored the science that contradicted them. Many of the studies weren't done in humans but in rats and mice. Early studies on animals, especially on something as complex as nutrition, should never be extrapolated to humans. Asprey glorifies coconut oil and demonizes olive oil, ignoring the wealth of randomized trials(the highest quality of evidence) that have demonstrated olive oil is beneficial for health. Some of the research he cites was done on very specific sub-populations, such as diabetics, or on very small groups of people. These findings wouldn't be generalizable to the rest of us.

House votes to censure and remove Gosar from committees over violent video targeting AOC and Biden

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/house-vote-censure-gosar-aoc-video/index.html

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that censures Rep. Paul Gosar and strips him of his two committee assignments, the first time a sitting House member has been censured in more than 10 years.

The action led by House Democrats represents a major rebuke to the Arizona Republican for posting a photoshopped anime video to social media showing him appearing to kill Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden.

The final vote was 223 to 207. Republicans Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming voted with all the Democrats for the censure resolution. Republican Rep. David Joyce of Ohio voted present, meaning he took no position either way.

Gosar took down the video after facing criticism but did not apologize. About an hour after being censured, Gosar retweeted a tweet praising him that also included the video. 

Chaim Walder's books removed from Osher Ad, Eichler's over rape allegations

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/chaim-walders-books-removed-from-eichlers-over-rape-allegations-685188

Popular Jewish retailer Eichler's will no longer carry the books of Israeli haredi (ultra-Orthodox) author Chaim Walder following accusations made against him of rape and sexual assault of minors, its CEO Mordy Getz announced over Twitter.

His books will also be removed from the ultra-Orthodox supermarket chain Osher Ad, and his weekly column in the haredi newspaper Yated Ne'eman and his talk show on Kol Chai radio are both being stopped, Haaretz reported.

Walder's books will no longer be available in their store, or online at Shopeichlers.com.

Supreme Court pauses decision to send cable car crash boy back to Italy

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkpitpgdk

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily suspended a decision to send back to Italy a child orphaned in a cable car accident there and brought to Israel by his grandfather.

Anti-vaxxer nonsense

 Judy Mikovits PHD 40 Years vaccine  expert 

Covid 19 is not a human virus ! 
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Covid Hoax all the covid numbers were faked 

HIV in vax! Cancer in Vax!  Ebola also .. Listen  to her astounding eye opening report.

Karen Kingston PROOF PFIZER KNEW KIDS WILL DIE,

KAREN KINGSTON: FDA'S OWN DOCUMENTS ARE PROOF OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Conspiring to commit aggreavated Murder?
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DR DAVID MARTIN - FOLLOW THE PATENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE COVID BIO WEAPONS.

Israeli couple accused of spying by Turkey released, sent home

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israeli-couple-released-from-turkey-on-way-home-685317

 Natali and Mordi Oaknin, the Israeli couple jailed in Istanbul after photographing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s residence, were released from prison and returned to Israel on Thursday morning.

"After joint efforts with Turkey, Mordi and Natali Oaknin were released from custody prison and are on their way home to Israel," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement. "[We] thanked the President of Turkey and his government for their cooperation and look forward to welcoming the couple back home.

The couple’s release came nine days after their arrest, after a concerted effort from the Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister’s Office, which emphasized that, contrary to the Turkish prosecution’s accusation, the Oaknins are not Israeli spies and have nothing to do with Israeli intelligence. In addition, Mossad chief David Barnea spoke to his counterpart and President Isaac Herzog called senior figures in Turkey.

Knesset approves commission of inquiry into death of Ahuvya Sandak

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317113 

The Knesset on Wednesday approved the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the death of Ahuvya Sandak, the 17-year-old boy who was killed in a police chase last year.

Both the coalition and the opposition voted to support the measure, including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Under the measure, a joint committee will be established from the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Internal Security Committee in the next two weeks, to discuss the issue of the response of the police and the IDF to the 'hill-top youth.' The establishment of the joint committee was initiated by MK Nir Orbach (Yamina).

 

Two men convicted of role in Malcolm X assassination to be exonerated on Thursday

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/11/17/malcolm-x-killing-exoneration/

Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday will move to vacate the convictions of two men who served decades in prison for their alleged role in the assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X, officials involved in the case said.

After a Netflix documentary last year raised doubts about the guilt of Muhammad A. Aziz, who previously went by the name Norman 3X Butler, and Khalil Islam (a.k.a. Thomas 15X Johnson), who died in 2009, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. launched a review of the case.

Vance’s office and the Innocence Project, which is part of Aziz’s legal team, announced on Wednesday that two men would be exonerated on Thursday afternoon in New York State Supreme Court.

While the announcement did not name the men, Aziz is the only living person convicted in the assassination who has tried to clear his name.

 

Rabbi caught on video giving his shoes to homeless man on NYC subway

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjaituguy

In a moving gesture that was caught on video and has now become viral on social media, a rabbi gave his shoes to a barefooted homeless man whom he saw on a subway in New York.

Unlikely coalition wants women to register for military draft

 https://www.axios.com/mandatory-draft-registration-women-74f20132-e733-4c90-9c21-07dca512fba0.html

Driving the news: Whether allowing women to serve in combat also means they should have to sign up for the military draft has been a debate for decades. Now, an unlikely coalition of feminists, veterans and conservatives could make it law as part of the Senate's expected passage of the National Defense Authorization Act.

• The House included the change when it passed its version of the NDAA in September. The Senate could act as early as this week.
• A majority on the Senate Armed Services Committee backed the change in a markup over the summer. One group of Republicans now is renewing an effort to block it as the Senate considers amendments before a final vote, but it's not clear they have the numbers to stop it.
• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said for years the draft also should apply to women.

House set to punish Gosar for violent video depicting killing of Ocasio-Cortez

 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/house-gosar-censure-aoc-video-522794

The House is set to censure Rep. Paul Gosar and boot him from his committees Wednesday over a violent social media post, representing a rare rebuke of a colleague that Speaker Nancy Pelosi deemed an "emergency."

Censures are uncommon in the House, with the last formal admonishment of a member in this manner occurring more than a decade ago. But Pelosi and Democratic leaders moved quickly toward the punishment after Gosar posted an anime video last week that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden. 

“We Will Get Through This Together”

Re-Inventing The Steal:" Tell Congress: Hands Off Of Our Daughters - Repeal Selective Service

BS"D 

"Re-Inventing The Steal:" Tell Congress: Hands Off Of Our Daughters - Repeal Selective Service

November 17, '21 / 13 Kislev, 5782 / Vayishlach

by Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director, Help Rescue Our Children

"A sign of an idiot is someone who repeats the same actions - expecting different results." 

(- attributed to A.E.)

We in the United States - now facing the specter of expansion of Selective Service to women - ignore the lessons of the disastrous Israeli female military draft at our own societal peril. Here's a vital summary of the relevant issues, in this Veteran's Day post, edited and posted by Arutz Sheva [on November 14]: 

Congress: Kill Selective Service, NOT Our Daughters: 
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316856

Below are just a few sample articles relevant to sexual abuse and exploitation in the IDF -- from a secular Israeli media source, Israel HaYom. It should go without saying [but sadly needs to be said] that whatever nonsense and iniquity we see coming from the Israeli government or Army does not reflect in any way on Judaism or the Jewish People.  Also realize that whatever news passes Israeli military censors is likely not fully reflective of the full gravity of the actual realia.

1) Reports of sexual assault, harrassment in the IDF up by 24%: 
IDF attributes rise in complaints of sexual assault, sexual harassment to ongoing "collective trauma" caused by the COVID pandemic and says it is working to eradicate such attacks from its ranks. 

By  Lilach Shoval  Published on  02-16-2021 08:28 Last modified: 02-16-2021 08:28

https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/02/16/reports-of-sexual-assault-harrassment-in-the-idf-up-by-24/

2) IDF parents claim daughters sexually harassed while serving as lookouts 

In a letter posted on social media, parents of female lookouts of the 636th Battalion describe their base as "an aggressive and violent environment that excludes women and imposes humiliating and disrespectful rules." 

By  Hanan Greenwood and Shahar Benjamini  Published on  05-07-2021 09:47 Last modified: 05-08-2021 09:21

https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/05/07/outraged-idf-parents-our-daughters-were-sexually-harassed-while-serving-as-lookouts/

3) Sexual harassment victims cannot be ignored over 'inconvenient practices' 

Investigating an anonymous sexual assault complaint has its challenges, but dismissing it from the start due to fear of it being a way to "settle scores" is outrageous and fundamentally wrong. 

By  Efrat Nachmani-Barr and Sharon Zaggi-Pinchas  Published on  10-11-2021 09:56 Last modified: 10-11-2021 10:44

https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/10/11/sexual-harassment-victims-cannot-be-ignored-over-inconvenient-practices/ 

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Clearly, the Israeli military drafting of women has decimated the culture. It's literally stolen away the indescribably magnificent spiritual destiny of generations of Israeli mothers. It's had a pernicious effect on the abortion rate. It's stolen untold numbers of Jewish babies from our People, to the detriment of national security, to which female-draft propagandists pay shallow homage.

In America, let's not allow either Democrats or Republicans* to "reinvent the Steal" here by expanding Selective Service to women, or to enable additional "national emergency" conscription.

Our daughters aren't government property.

* https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/23/conservatives-riled-up-over-registering-women-for-draft/ http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2021/11/demonizing-dems-enables-gop-on-female.html

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Tell Congress today: Kill Selective Service, not our daughters.

To contact Congress by phone:

Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121

online: https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/CWFA/campaigns/87862/respond

Anderson Cooper calls out McCarthy’s silence on Gosar

Rep. Gosar's 'Despicable' Attack On AOC Blasted By His Own Sister

Arizona's Gosar to face House censure-resolution vote Wednesday

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-of-representatives-to-vote-tomorrow-on-resolution-to-censure-representative-gosar

Gosar Digital Director Jessica Lycos told the Washington Post last week that Democrats don’t understand meme culture.

"The left doesn’t get meme culture," Lycos said. "They have no joy. They are not the future. It’s a cartoon. Gosar can’t fly and he does not own any light sabers. Nor was violence glorified. This is about fighting for truth."

 

US Congress to punish lawmaker over violent clip

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59314792

 The US House of Representatives is poised to punish a Republican lawmaker who tweeted a cartoon depicting him attacking Democrats with swords.

Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar faces a formal censure on Wednesday in the Democratic-controlled Congress.

It came after he posted then deleted an anime video that Democrats say promoted violence against President Joe Biden and lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Mr Gosar has said the video was just a "symbolic cartoon".

It comes just 10 months after supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed Congress in an attempt to block the certification of Mr Biden's election victory.

Earlier this year Democrats stripped another Republican lawmaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, of committee assignments for past remarks that included support for violence against Democrats.

Conservatives accused them of hypocrisy for taking no punitive action against a Democratic lawmaker, Ilhan Omar, who made remarks that were construed as anti-Semitic.

Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim of Agudath Israel Release Statement on the International Beit Din

 

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Agudath Israel of America shared a statement from the Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim of Agudath Israel.

It has come to our attention that the so called “International Beit Din” (IBD) has issued multiple heteirim for married women to remarry without a get, utilizing various methods and arguments.

Gedolei Haposkim and multitudes of Rabbonim from across the spectrum have publicly decried the actions of the IBD and claim that their heteirim have no merit. The Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah and Conference of Synagogue Rabbonim of Agudas Yisrael join them in protest. Throughout the generations such matters were dealt with exclusively by universally recognized, foremost Gedolei Haposkim, in conjunction with other Gedolei Hador, and we firmly state that it is unprecedented and unacceptable for these matters to be dealt with in any other manner.

We turn to Rabbonim from across the country and across the world, and to all who hold our Torah and Kedushas Yisrael dear, to only rely on decisions rendered by valid, recognized Batei Din. It is our opinion that no Rav may be mesader kiddushin for any woman on the basis of a heter from the IBD to remarry. While the plight of agunos pains us deeply, and we hope and pray for them to be released from the chains of igun, dubious heteirim do not resolve their predicament. 

To the contrary, it only complicates a woman’s situation by causing issues of issurim chamurim of arayus and mamzeirus.

 

Demonizing Dems Enables GOP on Female Draft

 BS"D

Distorted Demonization of Democrats Enables Republican Betrayal on Selective Service Expansion

Wednesday, November 17, '21 /  13 Kislev, 5782 / Vayishlach

by Binyomin Feinberg

This post appears on Breitbart today https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/16/democrats-may-force-women-register-draft/. It alerts the public to one aspect of the threat of expansion of Selective Service, namely its expansion to include women. Unfortunately, it focuses ire against the Democrats, as opposed to the MANY Republicans who also support this downright barbaric policy. Moreover, the readership of Breitbart would have far more influence in pressuring wayward and wavering Republicans than Democrats. So why the blatant omission?

This imbalanced portrait of the Selective Service danger as a Democratic one is all the more perilous inasmuch as those tainted optics threaten to enable the Republican leadership to get away with "fighting to lose," with the intention of exploiting the expansion of Selective Service to women as a wedge to campaign next year, to retake Congress. (Read carefully: https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/23/conservatives-riled-up-over-registering-women-for-draft/.) However, that trick is likely to fail, when voters catch on. And eventually, many will.

No, allowing the Republicans another campaign issue isn't worth the price, even for Republicans themselves. Besides the fact that such a nefarious stunt could backfire, once female SS registration is enacted into law, it will be much harder to repeal in the future. That's especially true given the very problem that is being overlooked here: GOP weakness on this issue, weakness apparently rooted far deeper than merely being a political ploy for next year's congressional races.

It would behoove Democratic leadership to take heed here. It doesn't serve their interests to grace the Republican leadership with another campaign issue, albeit a volatile, risky one. Is allowing passage of the NDAA in its current form really worth it for the Democratic Party? Wouldn't that endanger multiple Democratic seats already at risk?

In any case, this type of misportrayal of the crisis demands that concerned Republicans employ all the more vigilance in ensuring that the GOP doesn't betray their base (yet again). It's likely that Republicans will be allowed only ONE amendment on this issue, starting this week.  Therefore, concerned citizens need to ensure that GOP grandstanders do not get away with squandering the one opportunity to avoid Selective Service expansion - by knowingly choosing an amendment (e.g. a "Direct Strike") with less likelihood of success than the most promising prospect: Selective Service Repeal (as in S.1139 / H.R. 2509). 

GOP leadership must be told unequivocally: "If you're not in this to win - we are.  Ensure a vote on repealing Selective Service altogether. Don't play Russian Roulette with our daughters. If you cannot properly oppose the attempt to force young women into the most unequal dangers inherent in military units, and even combat, then nothing you do stand for justifies supporting you."

Jonathan Karl’s ‘Betrayal’ unearths new details about Trump’s attack on democracy

 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-11-16/jonathan-karls-betrayal-unearths-new-details-about-trumps-attack-on-democracy

It’s no secret that Trump indulged a startling array of falsehoods about the last election as part of his effort to cling to power. However, Karl finds new examples of how conspiracy theories were transmitted through Trump’s inner circle.

The president’s allies seemed to think they had a kindred spirit in Ezra Cohen, a Pentagon official who had previously worked for Michael Flynn, and they often sought his assistance. After the election, Flynn called Cohen to say that ballots needed to be seized, then yelled at him when Cohen said “it’s time to move on.”

Sidney Powell, Flynn’s lawyer who also advised Trump, later called Cohen to unspool a bizarre theory that Gina Haspel, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was trying to cover up election fraud and had been detained in Germany. “You need to launch a special operations mission to get her,” Powell reportedly told Cohen. (None of Powell’s wild claims were true.) 

New York State vows to update rules governing secular education in yeshivas

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-state-says-it-will-update-rules-governing-secular-education-in-yeshivas/

 The New York State Education Department on Monday announced a plan to update regulations governing education in non-public schools in the coming year, which could have major implications for the state’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious schools.

Critics of the religious schools, or yeshivas, applauded the announcement, while supporters condemned it.

New York State mandates that all children in non-public schools receive instruction that is “substantially equivalent” to education at nearby public schools. The definition of the term, and the law’s enforcement, have been the source of ongoing controversy surrounding the yeshivas.

Author Chaim Walder's books removed from Brooklyn store

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317078 

"Dear customers,

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that we will no longer carry the books of Chaim Walder in our stores due to shocking allegations recently revealed.

This decision was not made lightly and will no doubt come at a heavy financial cost, as these books were bestsellers— but as a business that cares about our community, we cannot ignore the pleas we have received on behalf of the alleged victims.

Given that the access to alleged victims was largely by way of the author’s books and work, we believe that this decision is an essential step in protecting our children and building a safer, healthier community.

Our heart goes out to all who had to, and those who still have to, suffer in silence and it is our hope that this statement serves as an encouragement to them to come forward knowing that we care about them and will have their back and help them heal.

צדק צדק תרדוף

Sincerely,

Mordy Getz

Eichlers Judaica

Chaim Walder's books removed from Eichler's over rape allegations

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/chaim-walders-books-removed-from-eichlers-over-rape-allegations-685188

Popular Jewish retailer Eichler's will no longer carry the books of Israeli haredi (ultra-Orthodox) author Chaim Walder following accusations made against him of rape and sexual assault of minors, its CEO Mordy Getz announced over Twitter.

Walder's books will no longer be available in their store, or online at Shopeichlers.com. 

"This decision was not made lightly, and will no doubt come at a heavy financial cost, as these books were bestsellers," Getz wrote, "but as a business that cares deeply about our community, we cannot ignore the pleas we have received on behalf of the alleged victims."

Statement on Child Abuse Allegations Made Against Rabbi Chaim Walder

Anti-vaxxer addresses Knesset video conference — apparently invited by mistake

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-vaxxer-addresses-knesset-video-conference-apparently-invited-by-mistake/

 An anti-vaccine activist claimed to lawmakers on a Knesset committee Tuesday that a top Health Ministry official cannot be trusted to give an objective opinion on vaccinations for children, falsely asserting that the official works for the company that produces the shots.

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health at the Health Ministry,  has become the focus of anti-vaccination activism, receiving threats so severe that she has been provided with a bodyguard and a panic button.

Activist Valentina Nalin, an attorney, was apparently invited to participate in the Knesset Health Committee meeting by mistake.