Monday, October 30, 2023

Never Is Now - Cooper Union Rally NYC

 

Oct 29, 2023. Curtis Sliwa joined those who came out in a steady rain at Cooper Union to challenge the constant LIES that Hamas and the anti-Israel protestors feed to the media.

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Curtis always supports the Israelis and Jews here at home with the current message BRING THEM HOME NOW!

Those who were able to endure the steady rain til the end left with flyers in a reusable shopping bag with tape, ready to do battle with the vandals who tear the kidnapped posters: They must be stopped!


Flickr slideshow: BRING THEM HOME NOW!

Never Again Cooper Union NYC

. The situation world wide grows worse each day. See current news links on this ever evolving story:

‘It could have all ended with us getting killed’ Passenger on flight from Israel to Russia’s Dagestan recounts anti-Semitic riot at airport [https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/10/30/it-could-have-all-ended-with-us-getting-killed]

Cornell University Jewish threats prove how deep campus rot runs [https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/opinion/cornell-university-jewish-threats-prove-how-deep-campus-rot-runs/]

Hamas releases propaganda video of Israeli hostages accusing Netanyahu of wanting ‘to kill us all’ [https://nypost.com/2023/10/30/news/hamas-releases-propaganda-video-of-israeli-hostages-accusing-netanyahu-of-wanting-to-kill-us-all/]

We are passed the time to be passive observers.

[Where indicated pictures and video property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

 

Empty Chairs / Broken Hearts Shabbat NYC

 

4 pm. Oct 26, 2023. Duffy Square at 46th st and Bdway.
In the middle of Times Square I found 224
"Empty Tables/Empty Chairs" set for shabbat.


"On October 7th,2023, an unprecedented and horrifying attack against Israel was launched over  Shabbat and the holiday of Shemini Atzeret.

ISRAEL IS AT WAR!

In times of crisis, we MUST stand together. While our hearts break for the wounded, kidnapped, and murdered and their families, we are proud that our community rallies to show our support." [https://iac360.org/support-israel-fund/]

BRING THEM HOME NOW!

First slide show : The 224 places representing those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, 30 of them are children. HOSTAGES of HAMAS. This is a CRIME against Humanity. Israel. And the Jews.

 Flickr Slideshow 1:


Empty Chairs, Broken Hearts - NYC Part 1

Pictures that can only hint of the terror Hamas delivered on October 7 as the wantonly murdered the children. [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy8b31nrkSt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link]

Flickr 2- Later, families of some of the hostages were going to speak.  Meanwhile I took pictures of those present. It seemed to be many friends and families

  Empty Chairs, Broken Hearts- NYC Part 2

Video 1- Walking around the empty chairs. The children's tables. High chairs. baby bottles. The beautiful flowers and challah. It was a deeply moving experience particularly the children's table where chairs were knocked over and little toy-bears were blind folded and torn apart.

Video 2-  IAC Board Member,  Tal Shuster  was the first speaker.

Tal was born and raised in Israel, serving three years as an Officer in the Israeli Army, Tal arrived in the United States to complete her studies and graduate from Rutgers. Tal and her husband Eyal Shuster, have four children and live in Jersey City.

She was followed briefly by a woman who held a list of the countries supporting "palestine"; the hatred and racism. [She was being interviewed on camera so she wasn't on mic.]


Later a list of countries that the hostages are from was posted [https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/more-than-half-hamas-hostages-have-foreign-nationality-israel-2023-10-25/]

Video 3- While IAC Council member, Aviv Ezra, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, was being interviewed to my left, a woman to my right began a very loud, emotional statement. Everything stopped. She wanted everyone, the world, the city to hear her. She was so overwrought, that eventually she was given a supportive embrace to calm her down.

 


In the back ground of the video.... "Dear NY Times Words DO Break Bones .... "

Update with links and 2 short videos addressing the continued support for Pali/Hamas.

[https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/27/grand-central-terminal-shut-down-due-to-pro-palestinian-protests/] Outrageous

Short video supporting Pali/Hamas

 

[https://nypost.com/2023/10/28/metro/broadway-producer-removes-israeli-hostage-fliers-in-nyc/]

This young woman, confronts the lies that support Hamas. The lost generations who know only the anti-Israel/ anti-Jewish agitprop should listen to her. (but...they won't) "If you truly want PEACE, you Stand With Israel"


And Starbucks ... What were you thinking?

Supporting HAMAS?
Starbucks is on the WRONG side of the protest Game.



This was so unnecessary.

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

 

Monday, October 23, 2023

BRING THEM HOME NOW! Rally For israeli Hostages in NYC

 

October 19 , 2023. Duffy Square.
Bring Them Home NOW!
Powerful and deeply emotional.

Security was tight, as I expected.   My press cameras were inspected to make sure they were actually cameras, but ... understood.

FLICKR Slideshow Part 1

 Bring Them Home NOW! NYC

Once in the press enclosure, I wasn't sure  I was loving this location, surrounded by way too many cameras, but this was where I landed.* fellow journalists were getting great video and pictures of the crowd from outside the press area.* so, eventually, I too left this area.

FLICKR Slideshow Part 2

 Bring Them Home - NYC Part 2

The evening began with U.S. National Anthem AND then Hatikvah (sung by Gilad Paz and Shiri Maimon).

Then, from the MC: "We no longer can be the Jews trembling in the shadows," actor and activist Yuval David, a dual Israeli and American citizen, "We know what happened to us then, and we know what is happening to us now." (the video is an excerpt of his opening remarks)


Elan Carr (CEO of Israeli American Council, quoted a by WPIX) “The (hostages) are suffering unimaginable agony every moment, and we are here to demand the release of those hostages as well as to stand for Israel’s inalienable right to defend itself decisively.” 

Elan Carr then introduced Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) Senate Majority Leader and highest-ranking Jewish official in US history. The senator pledged America would do everything it can to rescue those held by the terrorists.

Video: NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who was supposed to be at the rally, bailed and sent a recorded message instead. He started awkwardly referring to Emmet Till, then once on message with the tragedy in Israel, he concluded by hoping for a PEACEFUL Resolution.(what would that entail?)

Ambassador Gilad Erdan (permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations since 2020) Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, declared that “Gaza will not have a moment of quiet until we bring them home and we will bring them. Israel will prevail.” (NY Post)

The parents of Israeli-American hostage,Omer Nuetra: Ronen  and Orna Neutra. Omer had just turned 22.

The Acting General Council of Israel in NY- Aviv Ezra .

ALL were impassioned and committed to BRING THEM HOME-NOW.

Found this on line at Twitter X- "We as Muslims, don't hate any body for what they are , we deal with someone according to his actions with us. The issue in Palestine now is they want their land back from the occupying Zionist. Before Israel, there were a jews in Palestine and every thing was alright." NOT CORRECT, but this is what they have been TAUGHT

I left the press area to get a better look at the crowd.

  It was huge and message oriented.

15 billboards in Times Sq were alive with the faces of those kidnapped. The mother and daughter below were freed the next day, BUT tragically there are still 200 hostages.

Israeli American Council demands the 200 hostages be freed NOW. However, Hamas has said it will not release the hostages until Israel ends its attack on Gaza, where some 2.3 million Palestinians live. The terrorists have also demanded the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

SO, is a PEACEFUL resolution even possible when the hostages are not HOME?

[Where indicated, pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

ADDENDUM: A few news links of the rally:

[https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/2-american-hostages-held-by-hamas-released/]  

[https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/19/hundreds-rally-in-times-square-to-demand-release-of-hostages-held-by-hamas/]

[https://nypost.com/2023/10/19/hundreds-of-demonstrators-to-rally-in-time-square-demand-hamas-release-israeli-hostages]

Saturday, October 7, 2023

NYC Climate Ignorati March against "fossil" fuels- again.

 

https://lamag.com/news/the-monarch-butterfly-beats-extinction-in-triumphant-california-comeback

Signs are good that the western monarch butterfly is again flourishing in the Golden State after fluttering near the brink of extinction. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation has announced that its most recent yearly monarch count registered more than 330,000 of the distinctive orange-and-black beauties in California—a massive increase since 2020, when just 2,000 were tallied

Defend the Planet : [https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/festival/nyc/2023/]

The world’s poorest people contribute the least but suffer the most from the climate crisis. Climate change impacts people's health, ability to access nutritious food, and livelihoods.

YET: the Hypocrisy of the Greenies jumps to the FRONT:
[https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/another-green-failure-global-citizens-ruin-our-local-park-to-save-the-planet/]

Sept 23 Global Citizen Festival destroys Great Lawn Central Park

[https://www.westsiderag.com/2023/10/03/large-section-of-great-lawn-closed-until-at-least-april-following-damage-from-global-citizen-festival]

Never Mind: the Carbon loons who justify their personal JETS with CARBON CREDITS in a world controlled by the ELITES .... We are just along for the ride.

[Pictures and Videos where indicated property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

 

Friday, August 25, 2023

Humanity For Peace Aug 6, 2023 - NYC (Part 2)

 Part Two continues covering the Humanity for Peace Memorial ( Part 1)

"Was this a peace memorial or a political campaign, crusade, drive, grassroots movement, lobby, and/or a popular front.

Aug 6, 2023 in Dag Hammarsköld Plaza, across from the U.N. with Hiroshima/Nagasaki as the forgotten step-child.

One of the many sponsors was Caleb Maupin (Center for Political Innovation)

"The crisis facing the United States, exacerbated by the pandemic, is rooted in the capitalist system. The US has embraced insane, libertarian neo-liberal economics. [ ...] The public is viewed by the ruling elite as an obnoxious horde to be controlled and managed. The United States and the rest of the world are being reduced to greater poverty, in order to ensure that a clique of big bankers and international monopolies can stay at the top of a global high-tech economy. The danger of a new world war hangs over the USA, as it threatens countries like China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela."

 Caleb Maupin represents the younger generation and their dedication to Socialism. Caleb seems to be one of the many who supports La Rouche/Schiller in tandem with hard Left / Socialist/Communist cohorts.

He is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst and has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America.

A previous post re Socialism and the Left (2018) Caleb for 16 minutes walks the streets of NY while tracing the economic history of socialism and why capitalism is the problem . [@RealCalebMaupin] 

IN CONCLUSION, " We need to tell people in the United States that Socialism will make your lives better and it's capitalism that's causing so much misery and insecurity." (15:36 to 16:10)

 

Caleb T. Maupin has been involved in many struggles for social justice (as) an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well 21st Century Socialism. CPIUSA.org : Center for Political Innovation [@RealCPIUSA]

= A flash back to “Caleb 2012”: a long-haired, NoKo sycophant ranting on the streets of NY, (video clip at link

 
defending North Korea from defamation while defending North Korean Communism to the Times Sq passersby [and riffing on this reporter at the top of the clip [riff 0:11 to 00:47]
                                                       
 
This is a far cry (hair-wise) from Caleb Maupin 2023. Now so clean cut as he moves from street agitator to suited reporter at Press (Iran ) TV and  RT- Russian TV, claiming to love America, 
even though he believes Capitalism is the problem.
 
"Why do I have “right-wing” friends now? Because most of my “left-wing” friends stabbed me in the back, and turned on me out of Trump Derangement Syndrome. My beliefs have remained the same. I want to stop WW3. I support all anti-imperialist countries. I oppose Western Capitalism. I advocate empowering the US working class to create a Socialist Society in America."
 
 
"The “woke” left does not believe this, and signing on with them means turning on anyone who does. I refused to change. I’ve been to global communist gatherings. I’ve met with youth from DPRK, China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries. I know what this stuff is really about and I’m down for the whole thing. I won’t be “wokified.” I’ll build @realcpiusa and work with anyone I can to carry out our minimum, maximum and transitional program."
 
Caleb asks: Will the Trump MAGA crowd open a path to Socialism? - MAGA and the Crisis of Capitalism.
 
China, Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua are showing how growth can actually be achieved.... Controlled means of production to ensure economic growth. It is what the MAGA people want, but they revolt against it because of the term "Socialism".... the "fight" will be between Fascism and Socialism.'
 
The Next Generation Communists/Socialists are nurtured in our schools and colleges - they do not chose their path, they are CHOSEN with relentless propaganda .... Watching Caleb march up the ladder of totalitarianism, seems a waste of brains and talent, yet so many like him are also dedicated to this New Normal: SOCIALISM.
 
 
.... that confuses, then claims the next (victim) convert.
 

Flickr Slide Show Part 2 - More banners posters the crowd was promoting. (see Part 1 for more pics)

  Humanity For Peace Part 2


END WAR. END NATO

Hands Off UHURU Peoples African Socialist Party

 

Uyghurs                        Glass - Steagall 

 A Reparation demand made by one protestor : Japan/Korea

 

 

PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES

  • To  unite all democratic minded, peace loving people in the USA into a national united front against fascism and war.
  • To provide a peoples' response to state sponsored terrorism and violence in our communities.
  • To demand an agenda for social justice
  • To fight corruption
  • To demand accountability and transparency from our elected representatives.
  • To bring corporate domination of our economy to an end.
  • To establish peoples' councils in every community with authority to enforce laws that protect the people from abuse of authority
 
What happened to Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

Gas deliveries ceased in September 2022 following the destruction of three of the pipe lines and sanctions linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of February 2023, there is no conclusive evidence of who carried out the sabotage despite three separate investigations by Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

Six commercial maglev systems are currently in operation around the world. One is located in Japan, two in South Korea, and three in China. Jul 13, 2023

 There are several disadvantages to maglev trains:
- Maglev guide paths are more costly than conventional steel railway tracks. Because the magnetic coils and material used in this setup are very costly.
- Maglev trains require an all-new set up right from the scratch. It is hard to be done as well as costly.
- As present railway infrastructure is of no use for maglev, it will either have to be replaced with the maglev system or an entirely new set up will have to be created; both of them will need a huge amount of cost for initial investments.
- Although maglev is pretty quiet, noise caused by air disturbance still occurs.
- Maglev trains are feasible only in urban areas.

China is now the proud parent of a National Maglev Transportation Technology Research Center. The revered Chengdu Aircraft Industry Cooperation (CAC) in South Central China is also dedicating significant resources to maglev.  China now has its own research programmes and says that it can do maglev better and cheaper than Germany or Japan. The growing number of maglev enthusiasts hope that its optimism is not unfounded. For now, the future of maglev seems likely to rest on these Oriental entrepreneurs" (These trains are very costly )

The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has emerged as a formidable economic and geopolitical power.

BRICS Countries

In 2006, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, and China met for the first time ... marking the beginning of BRIC cooperation.... In 2011, with South Africa officially becoming a member, BRIC was enlarged to BRICS.  ...in 2017, China successfully hosted the BRICS Xiamen Summit.

How long will the dollar last as the world’s default currency? The BRICS nations are gathering in South Africa this August with it on the agenda.

Across from the park I saw these dissenters

and their flyers [1] [2]
 
Not happy with Scott Ritter- NY Times 2012


 

Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in the 1990s, and a Marine Corps analyst during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a decade prior, is among the cohort of Americans courted by Russian propaganda sources.

Recently, he launched a tour of his new book, “Disarmament in the time of the Perestroika,” in Russia, and presented it in cities such as Kazan, Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg. The book, he claims, aims to warn the US public about not seeking out escalations with Russia which could lead to a nuclear attack and insists the Western public has forgotten how difficult it was to achieve these agreements in the first place. [Euro-News  2023]

"Recently, he launched a ferocious debate after publishing an article alleging the US had bombed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The controversial gas route through the Baltic Sea was supposed to circumvent countries like Ukraine and Poland – Russia’s main political opponents even before the invasion -- in delivering gas to the western part of the continent."

Good People
Hoping for PEACE
Embracing Socialism
Are we there yet.
 
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
 
 hiroshima nagasaki, humanity for peace, larouche schiller, No Nuclear War!, pamela hall photographer, scott ritter, communism, socialism