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UPDATED --- BREAKING NEWS - SHOTS FIRED AT COPENHAGEN SYNAGOGUE - Unconfirmed: The Danish army seems to be in central Copenhagen

I'm sure it's just a bunch of folks being randomly shot up, right?

Source:

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - One person was shot in the head and two police were wounded in an attack on a synagogue in central Copenhagen, Danish police said, adding that it was too early to say whether the incident was connected to an earlier one at an arts cafe. 

Danish television station TV2 said a large metro and train station nearby, Norreport, was being evacuated. 

The news followed a shooting attack earlier Saturday on a cafe which hosted a debate on freedom of speech and was attended by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has been threatened with death for his cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. One man died in that attack, and police said a suspect was still at large.

From Vlad:

Live feed here

The shooter is still at large, police says “Central Copenhagen cannot be considered safe”.

(Source…)
And, in contrast to the shooting at the Vilks event, this is the core of Copenhagen. The very center.

DAILY MAIL 

Unconfirmed: The Danish army seems to be in central Copenhagen.

BREAKING PHOTO - COPENHAGEN: Bus filled with armed forces enter the central Copenhagen area now. - SteenAJ pic.twitter.com/oZvT5qOBCx
— Jewish News Feed (@JewishFeed) February 15, 2015

BREAKING PHOTOS: Most used metro station in central Copenhagen being evacuated by police. pic.twitter.com/NUhjSrnGHO
— Jewish News Feed (@JewishFeed) February 15, 2015

UPDATE ----

RT description of Synagogue shooter:

"A manhunt for the suspect – described as a male wearing a light grey jacket, black pants, and black shoes – has been launched. Scores of militarized police have reportedly been deployed to the area.


vs.

The cafe shooter description per UK Mirror:

8:12 pm update: "He was wearing a black or dark blue ski coat with matching pants and presumably gloves.

He had covered the bottom part of his face all the way up to the eyes with a guerrilla scarf in yellow/orange and red.

He had a black black machine gun/machine rifle.

Witnesses described it as 90-100cm long, completely black and plastic-looking.""

****reports of shots at Noerreport train station (no link yet)

MORE ---

Google translation of Direkte.vg.no

Defence in Denmark do not want to confirm that soldiers are present in central Copenhagen, but refers to the police.Police are armed with machine guns and pistols. They shout that pedestrians that they must pull away from garden areas. According Ekstra Bladet, a person shall be hunted in the Botanical Garden, about four blocks from the synagogue.A person is hit by shot in the head, while two policemen are shot in respectively arm and leg.Copenhagen Police confirm they have checked a regional train on the way to Malmö. But you have not found anything.Nicolas S. Nielsen, ABC News 20:04

Live video feed here see upper right hand corner.

AND MORE ----

Stephanie was an eyewitness to the attack **Bartender: He suddenly took up a machine (google translation)

COPENHAGEN / OSLO (AP) Stephanie Halberg was an eyewitness to that a man walked into the cultural center and opened fire.

- We suddenly heard many shots and we initially thought it was fireworks. When we looked we saw two men. One had weapons. Then they run away. The one opens the door and shoot into the venue, said Halberg VG.

- Then comes lots of people running out of the room and into here in the cafe, she says.

- It was scary. This is a quiet area with lots of families. It is very scary that this happens in broad daylight.

Stood face to face with the perpetrator

Bartender Jesper Christensen Frimand was also at work behind the bar at "Krudttønden" when attacked Copenhagen happened.

- I'm a little shocked right now. It happened almost exactly the. says Frimand Christensen Danish TV2 .

- Can you tell us a bit more about what you saw, ask anchor during phone interview?

- I stand at the bar and watching a normally dressed man pulling up a machine gun. He fires so several shots at where I stand.

Further he says that those who are at the bar, around six people, prostrate on the floor.

- Then it gets quiet, says Frimand Christensen.

Staying close by ISOLATED: The two study girlfriends Linn Elise Stenseth (left) and Regine Mobech can not leave their apartment. They can not get visits. Photo: PRIVATE


Norwegian Linn Elise Stenseth and Regine Mobech, both 21, live right
next kulturhuset in Copenhagen where tens shots were fired and one
person killed Saturday.

They have now been told by the police not to move out of the apartment.

- It's pretty disgusting, says Stenseth VG.

Furthermore, the two students that there are police with dogs who walk the streets at the apartment where they reside.

- Bygarden we live in is adjacent to where the shots were fired. But we never heard anything bang, so it shows we are the little wonder, says Mobech.

She was earlier today for jogging.

- When I ran out of the door I was greeted by what looked like a slosskamp. There were two men who yelled at each other. And shortly afterwards came a mass police cars, says Mobech.

The two girls studying daily at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
and tells VG that they will not be allowed to receive visits.

Obama's New War Authorization Request Mentions Religious and Ethnic Groups Targeted by ISIS, But Neglects To Mention Jews

From CNN:

Freshman Lee Zeldin is the only Republican Jewish member of Congress, and says it immediately leapt off the page that the President’s proposed resolution specifically singles out several ethnic groups threatened by ISIS: Iraqi Christians, Yezidis and Turkmens, but says nothing about Jews. 

“I see an understanding, a recognition in the resolution with regards to ISIS attacks on Muslims, on Christians and others, and I didn’t see a reference to Jews,” Zeldin told CNN in an interview. 

“And one of the efforts I’ve been involved in is trying to raise awareness for the rising tide of anti-semitism.” 

The New York Republican questioned whether the White House deliberately left out Jews as an ethnic group that ISIS has threatened. “I think that when the White House is drafting a resolution for the authorization of force, that every single word, every phrase in there is done deliberately — it has to be,” said Zeldin. 

“Jews should have been included by the White House,” he said. 

The omission comes on the heels of a recent comment from Obama called the attack on a Kosher deli in Paris “random.” The White House was later forced to clarify the President didn’t mean to imply the incident wasn’t “motivated by anti-Semitism,” according to press secretary Josh Earnest. 

But the White House argues that its war request draft language borrows from the resolution passed in the then-Democratic led Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year. 

In fact, it does mirror that text drafted by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., word-for-word, saying “Whereas ISIL has threatened genocide and committed vicious acts of violence against religious and ethnic minority groups, including Iraqi Christians, Yezidi, and Turkmen populations.” 

That was, however, before the Jewish Kosher deli attack. Zeldin said the targeting of the Kosher deli last month is proof that ISIS is committed to vicious acts against Jews around the world. “I strongly believe we were reminded in Paris that these radical Islamic extremists, they want to wipe Israel off the map,” said Zeldin. 

“They target not only Jews but our freedom our exceptionalism as Americans — the whole western world.” 

“The pursuit of ISIS includes a threat not just to Muslims, not just to Jews, not just to Christians, but everyone and it all should be recognized in the resolution,” he said. 

Zeldin sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee which will be debating and voting on the use of force resolution. He says he intends to try to get Jews included any text that actually becomes the law of the land.

Obama's Outrage at Israel

From the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, after days of mounting tension, signaled on Wednesday how angry it is with Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted Republican leaders’ invitation to address Congress on Iran without consulting the White House. The outrage the episode has incited within President Obama’s inner circle became clear in unusually sharp criticism by a senior administration official who said that the Israeli ambassador, Ron Dermer, who helped orchestrate the invitation, had repeatedly placed Mr. Netanyahu’s political fortunes above the relationship between Israel and the United States. The official who made the comments to The New York Times would not be named, and the White House declined to comment. The remarks were the latest fallout after Mr. Dermer, without the White House’s knowledge, worked with House Speaker John A. Boehner to arrange the speech, which is scheduled for March. The remarks are likely to escalate a feud between the White House, Republicans on Capitol Hill and Mr. Netanyahu over the invitation, which has led to a new low in American-Israeli relations and threatened to mar the long tradition of bipartisan support for Israel in Congress.

Pastorius note: If such a thing can mar support then the support was not there to begin with.

Obviously Netanyahu already knows this, and that is exactly why he accepted the invitation.

This invitation is simply an excuse for Obama to suddenly be "outraged". His outrage is at the simple fact that Israel exists as a homeland for the Jews.

Fuck Obama. I can't wait for him to be removed from the world stage.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

 Newt Gingrich: Choosing Tyranny Over Freedom: The Obama Legacy

In deciding to skip the Unity March in Paris for a football game but cut short his trip to India to go to Saudi Arabia, President Obama chose tyranny over freedom.

His comments about the Saudi regime in advance of his trip confirmed the President’s priorities. As the Associated Press reports:

“Sometimes we need to balance our need to speak to them about human rights issues with immediate concerns we have in terms of counterterrorism or dealing with regional stability,” Obama said in a CNN interview aired while the president flew from New Delhi to Riyadh.

Although Obama will meet formally with the new king, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, he suggested he would not be raising U.S. concerns about Saudi Arabia’s flogging of blogger Raif Badawi, who was convicted of insulting Islam and sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes.

His first flogging took place in early January in front of dozens of people in the Red Sea city of Jiddah, though a second round has been postponed after a doctor said his wounds from the first lashes had not yet healed.”

You have to read these paragraphs several times to understand how committed the Obama Administration is to apologies and appeasement of Islamist tyranny.

U.S. Muslim Group With Deep Ties To The Obama Admin Hosts Anti-Semitic Speaker

From Commentary:

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a Muslim Brotherhood-inspired group which declares as its mission “to be an exemplary and unifying Islamic organization in North America” and to “advance the cause of Islam in North America.” Well-funded, in part by donations from the Emir of Qatar and other elements in the Persian Gulf, ISNA not only has become an interlocutor with the White House despite its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror finance case, but goes so far as to claim to be the credentialing organization for American imams, including Muslim chaplains serving in the U.S. military. 

Over Labor Day weekend, ISNA sponsored its annual conference in Washington, DC. Among its featured speakers was Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, who addressed a panel titled, “Interweaving Religion & Life in a Moral Society.” ISNA’s choice of Nasr to promote a moral society is deeply troubling. In October 2009, Nasr attended a reception at the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Interest Section in Washington, D.C. The Iranian press published an account of his comments there: 

“Before the revolution all the chairs in Islamic studies were taken by the Jews and that now all the Shi’a studies chairs are taken over by the Bahai’s! Before the revolution I used my position to send professors from Iran to take over such chairs and I am pursuing the same goal today… Since I have access to the Dean of the George Washington University I have the opportunity to establish a chair in Shi’a studies and the preliminary phase of the course is also ready and I only need financial assistance from Iran in order to support the chair. If this does not happen before I become a pensioner this opportunity will be lost.”

Keep reading…

OBAMA DENIES GOD, PERSECUTES HIS PEOPLE

Democrats 2012 Platform Drops Language From 2008 Saying “Jerusalem Is And Will Remain The Capital Of Israel”

This is the section that was dropped from the 2008 DNC platform:

The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements. Sustained American leadership for peace and security will require patient efforts and the personal commitment of the President of the United States. 

The creation of a Palestinian state through final status negotiations, together with an international compensation mechanism, should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel. All understand that it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.  

Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel.The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.

From the 2012 platform (the language on Hamas was also dropped):

President Obama and the Democratic Party maintain an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security. A strong and secure Israel is vital to the United States not simply because we share strategic interests, but also because we share common values. For this reason, despite budgetary constraints, the President has worked with Congress to increase security assistance to Israel every single year since taking office, providing nearly $10 billion in the past three years. The administration has also worked to ensure Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region. And we have deepened defense cooperation – including funding the Iron Dome system – to help Israel address its most pressing threats, including the growing danger posed by rockets and missiles emanating from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. The President’s consistent support for Israel’s right to defend itself and his steadfast opposition to any attempt to delegitimize Israel on the world stage are further evidence of our enduring commitment to Israel’s security. 

It is precisely because of this commitment that President Obama and the Democratic Party seek peace between Israelis and Palestinians. A just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian accord, producing two states for two peoples, would contribute to regional stability and help sustain Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. At the same time, the President has made clear that there will be no lasting peace unless Israel’s security concerns are met. President Obama will continue to press Arab states to reach out to Israel. We will continue to support Israel’s peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, which have been pillars of peace and stability in the region for many years. And even as the President and the Democratic Party continue to encourage all parties to be resolute in the pursuit of peace, we will insist that any Palestinian partner must recognize Israel's right to exist, reject violence, and adhere to existing agreements.

Then there is this:

Report: Obama, If Re-Elected, "Will Make Netanyahu Pay For His Behavior"

Israeli security officials on Saturday tried to downplay the Pentagon’s decision to significantly scale back its participation in a joint military exercise with Israel next month, but some government officials said the decision came as a response to the growing tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the Obama administration. 

“This is the Obama administration’s response to the dinner party Netanyahu held in (Mitt) Romney’s honor,” a senior member of the political-security cabinet told Ynet, while another official said the Pentagon’s decision “isn’t boosting deterrence and is not making the Iranians sweat. 

“Regardless of the exercise, the relations between Israel and the US have soured,” another minister said, while another added cynically that “our relationship has never been better.
“The US elections are in two months, and there is no doubt that President Barack Obama, if he is reelected, will make Netanyahu pay for his behavior,” said the security cabinet member. “It will not pass quietly.”

Meanwhile, Debbie Wasserman Schulz is lying, telling voters that the Israeli Ambassador told her "the Republicans are dangerous for Israel." 

He says he absolutely did not tell her that.

And, also, I do not think it is merely coincidence that 

AT THE SAME TIME THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS SEPARATING ITSELF FROM ISRAEL

IT IS ALSO REMOVING ALL REFERENCE TO GOD FROM IT'S OWN PARTY PLATFORM.

US Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East?

From Foreign Policy Journal:

BEIRUT — Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social rounds at this month’s Republican National Convention.  Illena is the only female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israel’s most ardent agent.  She is a constant thorn in the Obama administration’s side, regularly castigating the president for playing “political games with U.S. foreign policy” and being “soft on Iran” and undermining the legitimacy of Israel.  Ros-Lehtinen is a congressional cheer leader also for her Jewish voters in Florida—a key battleground in the rapidly approaching US presidential election. Most recently, Ros-Lehtinen helped shepherd through Congress yet another bill tightening sanctions against Iran while calling for US military action against the Assad regime in Syria. 

The Congresswoman’s focus will likely not be on pushing the republican’s talking points regarding her party’s nominee, Mitt Romney, the former “moderate Massachusetts governor” who she is aware is unlikely to win the White House. Nor, according to a source at the Democratic National Committee, frantically putting together final touches on their own Convention, to be held the week of September 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina, will Ileana spend much time with or promoting Mitt’s running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan, an Ayn Rand (author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as founder of the Objectivism movement) follower, regularly tells audiences that “Ayn Rand’s teachings have been one of the most profound philosophical influences of my life”—well, except for religion and abortion, as Ayn who passed away in 1982 was an avowed atheist and strongly pro-abortion,  the opposite of  what Ryan tells audiences he is. 

Rather, Ros-Lehtinen will be meeting with local, national, and international Jewish leaders in this must win state where she has been assigned the task of reassuring them that the Republican Party is Israel’s best friend and that a recent US government draft report urging a US re-think of its relationship to Israel is the responsibility of none other than Barack Obama, and it reveals his true disdain for Israel. 

Helping her smear the White House with the findings in the draft  analysis will be William Kristol, publisher of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and Director of the New American Century, an “Israel first” Washington-based lobby “promoting joint Israeli and American political and military leadership across the globe, while bringing democracy to the Middle East”. 

So what is all the fuss about? 

It’s a paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, an 82-page analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations  with  Arab and  Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community. 

The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community comprising 16 American intelligence agencies with an annual budget in excess of $ 70 billion. The IC includes the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State, Treasure, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency commissioned the study. 

Among the many findings that Ros-Lehtenin and Kristol and other unregistered agents of Israel will likely try to exploit politically between now and November 6, by using them to attack the Obama Administration are the following:

• Israel, given its current brutal occupation and belligerence cannot  be salvaged any more than apartheid south Africa could be when as late as 1987 Israel was the only “Western” nation that upheld diplomatic ties with South Africa and was the last country to join the international boycott campaign before the regime collapsed;

• The Israel leadership, with its increasing support of the 700,000 settlers in illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank is increasing out of touch with the political, military and economic realities of the Middle East;

• The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply complicit with and influenced by the settlers’ political and financial power and will increasingly face domestic civil strife which the US government should not associate itself with or become involved with;

• The Arab Spring and Islamic Awakening has to a major degree freed a large majority of the 1.2 billion Arab and Muslims to pursue what an overwhelming majority believe is the illegitimate, immoral and unsustainable European occupation of Palestine of the indigenous population;

• Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding Arab and Muslim power in the region as evidenced by the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the ascendancy of Iran, as American power and influence recedes,  the US commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or execute consistent given paramount US national interests which include normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries;

• Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the United States through spying and illegal US arms transfers. This includes supporting more than 60 ‘front organizations’ and  approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel’s bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of  the US government which should no longer be condoned;

• That the United States government no longer has the financial resources, or public support to continue funding Israel. The billions of dollars in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel since 1967 is not affordable and is increasingly being objected to by US taxpayers who oppose continuing American military involvement in the Middle East. US public opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel’s behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the International public;

• Israel’s segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by  legalized discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or  ignored by the US government;

• Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as international pariah state;

• Increasingly,  rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree  that the Israel government has become its protector and partner;

• The expanding chasm  among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli occupation,  are gross violations of American and International law and raise questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation;

• The international opposition to the increasingly  apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with American claimed  humanitarian values or US expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member United Nations;

• The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid entangling alliances that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the consequences.

Interestingly, it notes Iran as an example of a country and people that have much in common and whose citizens have a real interest in enjoy bilateral associations (here an apparent reference to Israel and its US lobby) not determined by the wishes of other countries and their agents. It also highlights the need for the US to undertake the repairing of relations with Arab and Muslim countries, including the drastically curtained use of drone aircraft.