Random Politics & Religion #21

I think its ironic that an American is defending Israel against any information that is presented to him, to perpetuate his view that Israel doesn't influence his country or its Politics.

Don't forget to register as an agent of Israel KN.

I think its ironic that an American is defending Israel against any information that is presented to him, to perpetuate his view that Israel doesn't influence his country or its Politics.

You guys should loosen your tinfoil hats a little. I think the blood is being cut off to your brains.

Don't you have an ISIS recruiting session to attend?

I think it's funny a bunch of people with anti-Israel sentiments throughout all of their post histories just showed up outta nowhere talking ***about Israel.

I think it's funny a bunch of people with anti-Israel sentiments throughout all of their post histories just showed up outta nowhere talking ***about Israel.

Right now we're all on an Anti-Israeli-Apatheid IIRC channel coordinating our attacks on Israel.

It's amazing, isn't it?

Not only that, but they have to make up conspiracies about how Israel had a direct influence on the elections.

Every election, every candidate goes to AIPAC's party and pledges their soul to Israel.

The only one who didn't do it was Sanders and that's why he has more respect and support than Clinton and Trump.

Fish isn't aware of the water until its beached.
Arabic saying, loses something in english.

Often with a Simpsons .gif

Newsweek is reporting that Comey wanted to go public with information on Russia's campaign to influence the U.S Presidential election in the summer of 2016 via an Op-Ed in the New York Times but was shut down by the Obama White House.

All I see is nothing.

Yup, figured as much.

Fish isn't aware of the water until its beached.
Arabic saying, loses something in english.

As a left of center American Jew I rather agree with Blazed and maldini.

The Gulf states are investing their money in so much economical development they might seem like they dont care about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Everyone would be wrong to assume this. We're just pacing ourselves. Cuz when we're ready, we will make our move and we will retrieve Jerusalem.

(Newser) – After ethics experts raised concerns about her acting as a informal adviser to her father, Ivanka Trump will join her husband as an unpaid government employee, the New York Times reports. Critics worried Ivanka Trump, who already has an office in the White House, could skirt ethics rules while advising President Trump, despite her promising to voluntarily comply with them. Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday, asking how ethics rules would apply to the president's daughter, according to the AP.

A short time later, Ivanka Trump announced she would take an official position as an unpaid White House adviser with the title "assistant to the president." She says this will allow her to be "subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees." Those rules include prohibitions on conflicts of interest. Releases from both Ivanka Trump and the White House call her new position "unprecedented." CNBC notes that Ivanka Trump has already sat in on her father's meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

(Newser) – More fallout from Toshiba's reported "nuclear" loss last month, this time in the form of a bankruptcy filing. In what the AP says was a "largely expected" move, Toshiba noted in a statement Wednesday that its Westinghouse nuclear unit has submitted a Chapter 11 petition to the US Bankruptcy Court of New York. This announcement leaves up in the air what's going to happen to four still-to-be-finished nuclear reactors in South Carolina and Georgia, which were plagued with surpassed budgets and missed deadlines, per the Wall Street Journal. Reuters reports that Toshiba—which ventured into nuclear waters when it purchased Westinghouse for $5.4 billion in 2006—is expecting to take a $9 billion loss for the year ending March 31.

The New York Times details some of the company's challenges in the nuclear industry, including more affordable forms of other alternative energy, such as wind and solar power, as well as safety fears spurred by the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A Westinghouse statement says that while the firm attempts to reorganize under Chapter 11 parameters, it will be kept afloat by special $800 million financing. Reuters notes the bankruptcy will allow Westinghouse to figure out whether it's worth it to keep plugging ahead on the nuclear reactor projects, some of which are only about a third completed. Some say Toshiba's unique situation can be applied more broadly to the nuclear industry in general. "This … illustrates that there is no bright future for nuclear anymore," a consultant tells the Journal, which notes that Westinghouse boldly proclaims "We Are Nuclear Energy" on its site.

I wouldn't say anti-Semitic. They are Semites since covers pretty much all the peoples that live in and around the Fertile Crescent.

Anti-Ashkenazi is probably more accurate.

I wouldn't say anti-Semitic. They are Semites since covers pretty much all the peoples that live in and around the Fertile Crescent.

Anti-Ashkenazi is probably more accurate.

Semitic is an obsolete term outside of linguistics.

Right and wrong both.

Arabs are semites. Turks are not. Ashkenazim aren't nearly all the Jews. The word is really anti-Jewish.

P. S. I have been pointing this out FOREVER here.

Obsolete or not it's a good practice to use it accurately.

The root word Semite gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people. However, the compound word antisemite was popularized in Germany in 1879 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass "Jew-hatred", and that has been its common use since then.

As a left of center American Jew I rather agree with Blazed and maldini.

Um....

Y'all seem to be confounding some factors here. First of all, practically every country with which we interact has some degree of influence in elections. This is normal and impossible to prevent.

And then you have the people who throw on the tinfoil hats and greatly exaggerate the influence of any given nation based on their own political (or other) bias.