20130731

James O'Keefe: undercover journalism or shock agitprop?

At a presentation by conservative activist James O'Keefe to the Hancock Park Patriots, author Evan Sayet ("Kindergarden of Eden") comments on liberals' treatment of individuals incongrous with the liberal, party line.



South-Central L.A. teacher, Keith Hardine, addresses pressures racist pressures from the black community, intimidating conservative voices- which he encourages to stand up. Liberal blacks convinced Twitter to ban his account. He feels that Barack Obama and Eric Holder, and black demagogues like Al Sharpton are advancing divisiveness and Marxism.



Mark Sonnenklar comments on James O'Keefe's efforts - just having hosted his presentation before a record group of Hancock Park Patriots in L.A. on July 18, 2013.

20130723

Wave-rider turned wave-maker, "Surfing Rabbi" Nachum Shifren weds Canadian bride on Malibu Beach


"Surfing" Rabbi Norm ("Nachum") Shifren and betrothed Canadian, Rachel, of Edmonton, Alberta, held their wedding ceremony on Malibu Beach, California on Monday evening, 22 July 2013.  Among the attending family and friends were surfers and bay-watch lifeguards. Malibu Rescue generously positioned a fire boat in the background for ambience for the wedding of their old friend.  The wedding was officiated by Rabbi Aaron Parry, witnessed by brother Rabbi Moshe Parry. 



Educator, Rabbi Shifren, has crusaded to improve America's "broken" urban school systems.  He is also recognized for courage in standing-up against the spread of political Islam throughout Western society.  Shifren is known as for receiving political endorsement of conservative-leaning people of diverse ethinicities and faiths. Rabbi Shifren is planning to challenge incumbent leftist Rep. Maxine Waters for the congressional seat which she has occupied.


Mastering nature's waves gave L.A. Senate candidate Shifren capability to swim with the sharks in Sacramento









20130716

CBS TV cameraman and local journalist, Dave Bryan, attacked while reporting the story of Trayvon Martin peaceful protests


At the All-Star break, are racial agitators testing for weakness in rookie L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti's pleas for pacifism?


CBS2/KCAL9 Reporter, Photographer Attacked During Crenshaw Protests


A CBS2/KCAL9 videoographer and reporter were assaulted Monday night while covering a George Zimmerman protest in Crenshaw.

Reporter Dave Bryan was conducting an interview around 10 p.m. when the suspect tackled him and his videographer, the station confirmed.

“All of the sudden, this guy came up from behind, he had a hood, and he knocked David on the head and he pushed the camera guy down. The camera guy went down, the camera went down, David went down,” witness Joseph Deguerre, said. “I was in shock.”

The suspect then fled the scene and the crew was treated for minor injuries, the station added.    The attack was under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.


 CBS Video Courtesy: Bill Omar
Dave Bryan, Newsman KCBS-Ch2LA

“To attack a news reporter when he’s getting an interview? That’s just crazy,” Deguerre, 43, said.

Fourteen people were arrested during Monday night’s protest.







Ruben Vives reports in The Los Angeles Times:
About 350 Los Angeles Police Department officers swarmed the Crenshaw district Monday night after groups of youths broke away from the demonstration protesting the George Zimmerman murder trial verdict.

The group roamed Crenshaw Boulevard and neighboring streets, breaking windows, setting fires and attacking several people.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck put the public on notice that officers would be taking a more aggressive posture toward protesters beginning Tuesday.

"This will not be allowed to continue," he said.

Police estimated that about 150 people took part in the violence after the peaceful vigil at Leimert Park following a Florida jury's Saturday acquittal of Zimmerman, 29, on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in last year's shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Protesters stormed a Wal-Mart at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, pushing their way through as guards scrambled to close security gates. A short while later, LAPD officers wearing helmets and carrying batons swarmed the store as others marched through the parking lot.

At a late-night news conference, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blamed the violence on a "a small group [that] has taken advantage of this situation."

He said protesters have the right to voice their disagreement with the verdict, "but people also deserve to be safe on the streets and in their cars."

20130708

The lynchpin which deters a third jihad - Muslim invasion of Europe - Mark Langfan

Global-affairs analyst, Mark Langfan, explains Muslim petro-political motivations using 3 geometric elements- a line, a triangle, and a rectangle.



Attorney Langfan explains how US Sec'y of State Kerry's pressuring Israel to cede land control for a Palestinian state will facilitate Islamism's crusade into reconquering Europe via Greece- which NATO is obliged to go to war to defend.

20130630

Venerable, leftist-weekly demands president’s impeachment over mass-surveillance

The Daily Caller reports: 
In the pages of The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the country and the self-described “flagship of the left,” a former member of the House of Representatives has called for the impeachment of the president over revelations of massive government surveillance of ordinary citizens. 
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) (ret.)
Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman of New York, who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate era, powerfully yet dispassionately lays out the case for the immediate impeachment of the president. 
“Nothing less is necessary to protect our constitutional system and preserve our democracy,” she declares.
The last straw for the retired Congresswoman was the revelation that the president “directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans” (a number that is likely conservative).

“As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment,” writes Holtzman in her bombshell treatise. “A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law — and repeatedly violates the law — thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office.”

The eloquent Harvard Law grad provides a devastating legal critique of the vast executive-branch scheme to log every phone call in the United States.
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20130618

Another critic of Obama administration, liberal writer Michael Hastings, 33, killed on Los Angeles street 15-months after Andrew Breitbart

A liberal critic of the Obama Administration, writer, Michael Hastings, 33, was killed in an automobile accident early this morning in Los Angeles.

Jack Mikinson characterizes the writer and journalists reaction to it (and, presumably, the risks of criticizing this administration) in  the Huffington Post "Michael Hastings Death Met With Stunned Horror By Journalists Everywhere"

The journalism world reacted with stunned horror at the sudden death of Michael Hastings on Tuesday. 
Hastings, who was just 33 years old, was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles early Tuesday morning. 
He rocketed to instant fame when his piece in Rolling Stone brought down Stanley McChrystal, the top-ranking general in Afghanistan, in 2010. Since then, Hastings was a regular presence in print and on television, a frequent critic of the Obama administration and an aggressive and enthusiastic debater. In recent years, the war correspondent had turned his focus to domestic politics, bringing the same independent spirit to the campaign trail.
Journalist Michael Hastings dies in L.A. car crash by Richard Winton, Andrew Blankstein and Kate Mather
Neither the Los Angeles Police Department nor coroner's officials could immediately confirm whether Hastings was the victim of a single-car crash that occurred about 4:25 a.m. in the 600 block of North Highland Avenue. Police officials said it was the only vehicle fatality reported Tuesday morning in the city of Los Angeles.
The vehicle crossed a median, struck a tree and burst into flames in the Hancock Park area, LAPD Officer Christopher No said. The driver was prounounced dead at the scene. 
A witness described the accident 
to KTLA News: “I was just coming northbound on Highland and I seen a car, like, going really fast and all of a sudden I seen it jackknife,”  Luis Cortez said. “I just seen parts fly everywhere, and I slammed on my brakes and stopped and tried to call 911."

On May 25, Melissa Jeltsen reported in the HuffPo Michael Hastings Rips Obama Drone Speech (VIDEO)  
On Thursday, Obama gave a major national security speech in which he defended the use of drone strikes as a key counterterrorism tool. Hastings said the speech marked a reversal in Obama's thinking. 
"If you compare this speech to the speech he gave in Cairo, in 2009 or his Nobel Prize speech, you see almost a total rejection of the civil rights tradition that President Obama supposedly came out of... and just an embrace of total militarism," Hastings said. 
"That speech to me was essentially agreeing with President Bush and Vice President Cheney that we're in this neo-conservative paradigm, that we're at war with a jihadist threat that actually is not a nuisance but the most important threat we're facing today," Hastings continued.
Andrew Breitbart, another outspoken critic of the Obama adminstration, but from the political right, also died mysteriously one evening a Los Angeles street in March, 2012. 


DemoCast filmed Mr. Breitbart endorsing the Tea Party in L.A. ato the Republican Jewish Coalition Summer Bash in 2011.  His father, Gerald, died Monday, 11 June 2013 - approximately 100 days after his beloved wife, Arlene.