"Call it a confirmation bias. Everywhere I turned this year, I saw a new expression of Arab Jewish identity. The revival seems to be happening across all fields — literature, food, music — yet somehow nobody’s talking about it.

As an Arab Jewish writer (my family hails from Morocco, India and Iraq), I couldn’t be happier about this flurry of cultural expression. I’m often dismayed by how “Ashkenazi” becomes a stand-in for “Jewish,” while Sephardic and Mizrachi voices fall by the wayside.

Imagine my excitement, then, when I discovered Eduardo Halfon’s new novel, “Monastery,” in which the conflicted, tragicomic protagonist denies his Arab identity when talking to certain Jews, and his Jewish identity when talking to certain Arabs."





Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/211507/lets-make--the-year-of-the-arab-jew/#ixzz3NrjqmFv7







Comment: "Only a moron believes that Jewish Ibero-Berbers, Turko-Mesopotamians, and S. Arabians were not of the same ethnicity as the people among whom they lived."

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/211507/lets-make--the-year-of-the-arab-jew/#ixzz3Nrx6FI2i



Comment: "The Israeli Jews who came from Arab countries do not identify themselves as Arab Jews. First they are Israeli Jews and then they will say Egyptian Jew, Syrian Jew, etc. Recently several extreme anti-Zionists started using the term "Arab Jew", but the vast majority of Mizrahi Jews reject that."

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/211507/lets-make--the-year-of-the-arab-jew/#ixzz3Nrw2dQOS




Comment: "Stupid, racist term that conflates all brown people for clueless leftist ashkenazis to feel enlightened instead of ignorant."

Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/211507/lets-make--the-year-of-the-arab-jew/#ixzz3NrwK3gHz

"The Jewish community has long fretted over the so-called “December Dilemma,” in which Jewish kids are teased for not having Christmas trees and gifts from Santa. To paraphrase Kyle from “South Park,” it’s hard to be a Jew on Christmas, especially in a Christian-dominated society.

Which is why you may be surprised to learn that Christians themselves — particularly, the right-wing conservative kind — believe, sincerely, that they are a persecuted, oppressed group in America.

You read that right. The same people flooding our airwaves with carols, and indeed, arguing that saying ‘Happy Holidays’ perpetuates the deicide of Jesus, are, themselves, the martyrs.

That’s the takeaway from the new Christian documentary entitled “One Generation Away” — as in quoting Ronald Reagan this time, “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” (Personally, I prefer Janis Joplin’s version, but that’s another story.)


The film is part of two recent trends in conservative Christian America: the resurgent right-wing “religious liberty” movement [[http://forward.com/articles/173100/the-movement-to-rebrand-discrimination-as-religiou/]] and the spate of new films like this one, aimed at Christian audiences yet attempting Hollywood-standard production values. A few weeks ago, I reviewed — and live-blogged — the biggest of these, “Left Behind”, an atrocious mess starring Nicolas Cage."

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/211588/live-blogging-jewishly-in-a-weird-evangelical-chri/#ixzz3NrdCvI9G








"It Was the Worst of Times: ‘Left Behind’ features a theological argument between an end-timer and someone concerned about Theodicy."

"Why am I here? The question arises on many levels. On the surface, clearly, I’m here to review “Left Behind,” based on the second-best-selling series of books of all time (“Harry Potter” is the first).

In theory, LB should be the biggest of a run of terrible Christian movies, including “Heaven is for Real” and “God’s Not Dead.” In practice, I’m not sure. But of course, there’s no way to tell by the attendance in a New York theater (besides me, there are eight people — all African-American, which maybe is interesting)."



Read more: http://forward.com/articles/207423/live-blogging-the-rapture-and-the-demise-of-nicola/?p=all#ixzz3NreV59Jp

Astra and Lilith

"Little White Lie"
When Being Black Is a Familiy Secret

How do you spell "Nasenspülung"? Wenn von Leselektüre nur Bruchfetzen bleiben wie das Wort Wischen, dann helfen nur noch Bilder. Sucht Euch eines aus. The Witch.

"In October 2000, Congressman Denis J. Kucinich introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, which would oblige the American president to engage in negotiations aimed at the ban of space based weapons.


In this bill, the definition of a weapons system included:


"any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)… through the use of land-based, sea- based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations“(15).

As in all legislative acts quoted in this article, the bill pertains to sound, light or electromagnetic stimulation of the human brain."









Electromagnetic energy




"One of the main methods of manipulation is through electromagnetic energy.

In the declassified scientific literature only some 30 experiments have been published supporting this assumption (1),(2). Already in 1974, in the USSR, after successful testing within a military unit in Novosibirsk, the Radioson (Radiosleep) was registered with the Government Committee on Matters of Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR, described as a method of induction of sleep by means of radio waves (3), (4), (5).

In the scientific literature, technical feasibility of inducing sleep in a human being through the use of radio waves is confirmed in a book by an British scientist involved in research on the biological effects of electromagnetism (6). A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on nonionizing radiation published in 1991 confirms that:

"many of biological effects observed in animals exposed to ELF fields appear to be associated, either directly or indirectly, with the nervous system…" (2).

Among the published experiments, there are those where pulsed microwaves have caused the synchronization of isolated neurons with the frequency of pulsing of microwaves. Ffor example, a neuron firing at a frequency of 0.8 Hz was forced in this way to fire the impulses at a frequency of 1 Hz. Moreover, the pulsed microwaves contributed to changing the concentration of neurotransmitters in the brain (neurotransmitters are a part of the mechanism which causes the firing of neurons in the brain) and reinforcing or attenuating the effects of drugs delivered into the brain (1).

The experiment where the main brain frequencies registered by EEG were synchronized with the frequency of microwave pulsing (1,2) might explain the function of the Russian installation Radioson. Microwaves pulsed in the sleep frequency would cause the synchronization of the brain's activity with the sleep frequency and in this way produce sleep.

Pulsing of microwaves in frequency predominating in the brain at an awakened state could, by the same procedure, deny sleep to a human being.

A report derived from the testing program of the Microwave Research Department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research states

"Microwave pulses appear to couple to the central nervous system and produce stimulation similar to electric stimulation unrelated to heat".

In a many times replicated experiment, microwaves pulsed in an exact frequency caused the efflux of calcium ions from the nerve cells (1,2). Calcium plays a key role in the firing of neurons and Ross Adey, member of the first scientific team which published this experiment, publicly expressed his conviction that this effect of electromagnetic radiation would interfere with concentration on complex tasks"








http://mindjustice.org/russ9-05.htm




"Russians speak openly and pass laws on russian mind control weapons while the US says US mind control is classified or does not exist.



... A State Duma expert, Yuriy Lopatin says: "Psychotronic Technology is spreading illegally. A law banning the illegal development, production, retailing, and spreading of psychotronic devices which influence the minds and behavior of citizens is badly needed." He goes on to say: "The use of the mass media for psychological experiments should be banned and all the state-ordered research in human genetic experiments should be strictly registered." This was approved by Georgiy Georgiyevich Rogozin, first Deputy Head of the Presidential Security Service."






2001, June 28



Duma passes law-banning use of mind-control weapons on the Russian territory

in: Lost and Found in Russia - Encounters in a deep heartland

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