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!
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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 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
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 Shusterwas 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.]
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.
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]
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
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
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]
A parting thought: THE FAKESTINIANS AND THEIR LEFTIST COHORTS have continued to SPREAD THEMSELVES AROUND MANHATTAN with huge protests BLOCKING the streets and challenging the police. THE MEDIA LOVES THIS ARROGANT CHAOS. THEY SCRAMBLE TO GET PICTURES AND VIDEOS of this NOT very Peaceful Resolution.
''The goal of scientific research should be to pursue the truth, not confirm a personal or institutional bias. But many analyses of the global warming hypothesis begin with the assumption that man has caused global warming and then proceed to try to prove the thesis, employing pseudoscience in the effort.'' [American Thinker- 1]
Even Bill Gates is backtracking — the air’s gone out of the climate-crisis balloon.[NY Post-3]
"It would be nice to see the New York City government emphasize crime control, subway maintenance and pothole-fixing instead of trendy (and grift-filled) social justice projects."
Video Part 1 - Climate March NYC was huge with the usual hard -core leftards and do-gooders who still think dinosaurs are the source of oil. (so many FOSSIL FUEL signs.) Lots of Street Theatre when they get together that always entertains and of course, kids (and adults) with dino-hats as the ignorati happily marched to First Avenue and speakers and music and FUN.
Video Part 2 - Lots of Street Theatre when they get together that always entertains and of course, kids (and adults) with dino-hats as the ignorati happily marched to First Avenue and speakers and music and FUN.
Video Part 3- Chose to avoid the end of the march....there's only so much silliness to be endured ...
+++ Flickr Slideshow- Part 1 .Always a lot of pictures to post of the climate warnings, the costumes and the banners
Flickr Part 2- Everyone was VERY happy, even though the end of the world is near.
Flickr Part 3- Families. young and old. politicians. Communists and LOTS of Socialists.
.Flickr Part 4- And it seemed out of state as well, based on some of the t-shirts
.Think Manhattan is a mess this Climate Week? Wait until the UN-led movement bans fossil fuels [NY Post-4]
"In legitimate scientific research, the data obtained by experimentation or observation are never adjusted; adjustments corrupt the data and invalidate the results. If the methodology used in an experiment or observation is faulty, one adjusts the methodology, not the data obtained from the investigation.
In effect, adjustments to temperature readings have artificially "created" global warming.
.... the Earth has no average temperature to measure or calculate,
.... CO2 does not cause global warming. I use publicly available data from the world's temperature databases to prove that there has been no statistically significant global warming of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, or land mass as the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increased, thereby falsifying the global warming hypothesis.
.... It is all about the money and political power. Science has been sacrificed on the altar of political opportunism for economic and political gain.
..... "why do the UN IPCC and certain US and world politicians continue to promote the man-made global warming hypothesis when the science and data prove it to be false?"
The legal definition of fraud is intent to deceive....
Guy K. Mitchell, Jr. is the author of a book titled Global Warming: The Great Deception — The Triumph of Dollars and Politics Over Science and Why You Should Care
Why do people always reference dead dinosaurs when discussing oil and other fossil fuels. How did dinosaurs turn into oil? [NY Post- 6]
Jacob Hall 3y[QUORA-7]Unfortunately a large percentage of people in modern times are ignorant in the majority… and seemingly have absolutely no intention of ever changing that. Most people around 45 years old or younger were actually taught the truth back in school… but I guess most were not paying attention.
Originally the concept of “fossil fuels” was brought about by some misinformation from the 1700’s.
This term was apparently first used by German chemist Caspar Neumann in 1759. It was subsequently used in the early 1900s to give people the idea that petroleum, coal and natural gas come from “ancient living things”, as a way to promote them as a “natural substance” within the public’s consciousness of those times.
Even as recently as the 1970’s some oil companies still inaccurately referred to their products as “dead dinosaurs” (you really would think that these kinds of specialised companies would at least understand the product they are selling).
The term “fossil fuel” is just a misnomer that caught on and has continued to persist into modern times. But oil and natural gas do not actually come from “fossilized dinosaurs” (hence they are not actually “fossil fuels” at all).
Petroleum, natural gas and coal come from ancient pressurised and “cooked” BIOMASS, primarily from plankton and decaying marine organisms, and single-celled bacteria that evolved in the Earth’s oceans about three billion or so years ago.
Therefore, oil and gas are still “organic” BUT contain no actual “fossils”.
Coal on the other hand was mainly laid down during the Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago (which was still a good 75 million or so years before the rise of the first dinosaurs). Coal was formed when the dense forests and jungles were buried beneath layers of sediment, and their unique fibrous chemical structure caused them to be ‘cooked’ into solid coal rather than liquid oil.
I guess “Ancient Dead Biomass” Fuels just isn’t a “sexy” enough term to have ever caught on… and as a consequence inaccurate terms and concepts like “fossil fuels” continue to persist.
Is the oil we are burning today the corpses of dinosaurs?
No, virtually none of the oil we are burning today came from dead dinosaurs. This is a popular misconception, similar to the cartoons of cave men living among the dinosaurs. Neither is true, they are just memes that are propagated by people who are trying to be funny, or people who don’t know any better.
In reality, the vast majority of oil on earth today originated as marine plankton that lived in shallow seas. As the plankton died, it sank to the bottom and was buried in the mud under anaerobic conditions where it did not decay. Over time, the increasing sediment from above buried this organic mud deeper and deeper.
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....regardless of where it is found, virtually none of the oil comes from dinosaurs, nearly all of it comes from marine plankton.
IN CONCLUSION:
[Although it may seem contradictory, the cornerstone of the scientific method is the ability to falsify, not prove, a hypothesis.If there is no means to disprove a hypothesis, there is no means to verify its validity.
As Einstein famously stated, "no amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."] [American Thinker -9]
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
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.
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]
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