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“Spirit of Poles”: Seven Brothers among the Thirty-Three Who Fought WWII

"And hell was indeed what these women and their boys were fighting. Not only were they battling for freedom in America, but they had a special concern for what was happening in their native Poland. Their beloved nation had been the site of the start of World War II. On September 1, 1939, just one week after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Nazis invaded Poland from the West, followed by the Soviet Red Army invading from the East two-and-a-half weeks later. World War II was on. Over the next several years, Poland’s people would be slaughtered, suffering a higher proportion of death than any country in all of World War II. Poland also had a huge Jewish population, which was corralled into dens of unspeakable evil, such as Treblinka and the Warsaw Ghetto. When the Nazis were finally defeated, Poland’s reward was 44 more years of totalitarian occupation, this time by communists."

Seven Brothers: A World War II Story | The American Spectator

By Paul Kengor – 5.23.15

Six Polish immigrant mothers in the Pittsburgh area — 33 sons fighting in WWII

This time last year for The American Spectator, I wrote about the five Bailey brothers of World War II: Dick, Jim, Fonnie, John, and Fred. They were from Western Pennsylvania, my neck of the woods. All served in World War II. We’ve all heard of the Ryan brothers in “Saving Private Ryan” and perhaps the Sullivan brothers in the old black-and-white film “The Fighting Sullivans.” And we know from these movies that the U.S. military resolved to never again take the risk of exposing so many of one mother’s sons to the risk of death in one war.

And yet, there they were, all five Bailey boys. Not one was granted a desk job on the home-front. All five volunteered for combat after Pearl Harbor and all five faced—Europe, the Pacific, Northern Africa; by land, by air, by sea.

Imagine: Five brothers in one war.

I was pretty impressed by this, and still am, of course. So, imagine my surprise when a reader of that column sent me a package regarding his seven brothers who served in World War II. Yes, seven brothers in one war.

“Dear Professor Kengor,” wrote Ted Walters of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, “Your article about the family whose five sons served in WW II was interesting. You might be interested to know about families in Western Pennsylvania who had more than five sons who served in WW II.”

Whoa. Ted Walters had my attention.

“My mother, Stella Pietkiewicz, had seven sons serve in WW II,” he continued. “She had the honor to christen the plane, Spirit of Poles, because she had the most sons who served in WW II.” ...

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Pop-Eyed Robotic Run-on Say-Nothing Sentences Ejaculated from the Lying Bitch-of-Benghazi

Mark Steyn Blasts Hillary Clinton's Campaign - YouTube

May 19, 2015

Columnist sounds off about the presidential candidate breaking her silence.
Fox News: Hannity
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IT IS NO MYSTERY, THE MEDIA WON'T SAY IT: NOTHING GETS BETTER UNTIL OBAMA GOES

US GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW MYSTERY OF SLOW 1ST QUARTER GROWTH

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Hillary Clinton racks up rapper endorsements | Politics - Home

What else might be expected from following "Snake Charmers"?

The youth of the rich and upper-middle class and especially celebrities were targeted by these not-so-secret mantra hucksters. Devotees gave their youth and money as fanatically unquestioning, devoted followers and proselytizers. 
What other long term result could be expected to emerge through the mental cracks other than forms of depression and psychosis? m/r

The dark side of meditation and mindfulness: Treatment can trigger mania, depression and psychosis, new book claims | Daily Mail Online

By HARRIET CRAWFORD FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 22 May 2015

The dark side of meditation and mindfulness: Treatment can trigger mania, depression and psychosis, new book claims

• Theory is that techniques help relieve stress and live for the moment
• But 60% of us have apparently suffered at least one negative side effect
• Experts: Shortage of rigorous statistical studies into the negative effects of meditation is a 'scandal'

Meditation and mindfulness is promoted by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Brand, who boast of its power to help people put stress out of their minds and live for the moment.

But the treatment can itself trigger mania, depression, hallucinations and psychosis, psychological studies in the UK and US have found.

The practice is part of a growing movement based on ancient Eastern traditions of meditation.

However, 60 per cent of people who had been on a meditation retreat had suffered at least one negative side effect, including panic, depression and confusion, a study in the US found.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3092572/The-dark-meditation-mindfulness-Treatment-trigger-mania-depression-psychosis-new-book-claims.html#ixzz3aynGhsJG
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Just in time: Anti-Semitism Pile-On, Methodists with Palestinians

There is an old Southern joke that answers the age old question: 
What is the difference between Baptists and Methodists?
Answer: Methodists can read.

It appears reading has not helped Janet Lahr Lewis in her thinking. m/r

A Methodist Boycott of the Holocaust Museum? | The American Spectator

By Mark Tooley – 5.23.15

A church official’s pro-Palestinianism veers off into fanaticism.

Recently a longtime United Methodist official, lamenting that Israel’s Independence Day obscured the Palestinian “Nakba” or catastrophe, urged boycotting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. until the Palestinians have their own Holocaust museum.

Here’s the quote from Janet Lahr Lewis, “Advocacy Coordinator for the Middle East” at United Methodism’s General Board of Global Ministries in New York, and “Peace with Justice Associate” at the church’s General Board of Church and Society in Washington, D.C., in an article originally appearing in but now seemingly removed from the online weekly newsletter of the latter agency:

Don’t participate in Holocaust Remembrance Day without participating in Al Nakba Remembrance Day. Don’t visit a Holocaust museum until there is one built to remember the other holocausts in the world: the on-going Palestinian holocaust, the Rwandan, the Native American, the Cambodian, the Armenian… You could be waiting a long time!

How nice. Lewis also accuses Israel of having “gone so far as to destroy archaeological artifacts in an effort to wipe out evidence of non-Jewish cultures, except Roman, throughout history in the region.” She also claims that “Israelis of conscience” are quitting Israel, now controlled by an “extremist government” that’s creating “a new Exodus.” Mocking the Exodus story, a defining narrative of the ancient Hebrews, is another nice touch.

But Lewis’s boycott of the Holocaust Museum, and suggestion of “on-going Palestinian holocaust,” is of course far worse....

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Who Needs Democrats When there are so Many Stupid Republicans?

It's a secret trade deal! What the hell is our Enemy Government doing? m/r

Obama wins trade victory in the Senate - The Washington Post

Because "Climate Change, formerly Global Warming" is a Hoax, CIA ends climate research

Obama wants to scare up more regs and taxes, that's all. m/r

CIA ends climate research program Medea after Obama calls climate change security risk - Washington Times

DMZ Meets TMZ - Crossing the Wasteland to further Satisfy the Self-Satisfied

Gefilte fish

So many people just waste out time. m/r

Gloria Steinem Descends on the Korean DMZ | The Rosett Report

By Claudia Rosett On May 20, 2015  In Uncategorized

To boldly go where Dennis Rodman has gone before.

Gloria Steinem has landed… in Pyongyang. From there she plans to head south and on Sunday lead a group of women’s rights activists in a peace march — pardon me, an “historic” peace march ^[1](have you noticed that everything done these days in the name of peace is dubbed “historic”?) — across the Demilitarized Zone, from North to South Korea.

Organized by a group called Women Demilitarize the Zone, this march is meant to help end the unresolved Korean War, reunify the peninsula, reunite divided families and nudge North and South toward peace.

As a self-serving publicity stunt, this exercise has already been something of a success. It has netted the 81-year-old Steinem more news coverage ^[2] than she usually gets these days (though not quite as much as Dennis Rodman enjoyed during his Pyongyang phase). And I think we can safely assume that for the participants in the march, it will be a gratifying tour of some fascinating parts of the Korean peninsula, including the DMZ — during which they can congratulate themselves that they are not only serving the cause of peace, but providing a feminist counterpoint to all those armed men facing off across the Zone. The governments of both North and South Korea have agreed to permit the march; peace events are planned on both sides of the DMZ, and presumably the historic peace marchers will cross the DMZ  along a carefully selected route that will be misleadingly free of land mines.

As Steinem explained her DMZ project in an interview published May 1 in the Washington Post ^[3]:

“There is no substitute for putting your bodies where your concerns are…in my experience conflicts are far more likely to be solved when people sit down together… you have to be together with all five senses in order to produce the oxytocin that allows us to empathize with each other.”

These are excellent points if the aim is for Gloria Steinem and her co-marchers to enjoy their visit to the Korean peninsula. But they are at best an absurd gloss on the realities of the scene, in which the nuclear-testing missile-building repressive and murderous regime of North Korea maintains one of the world’s largest standing armies, deployed chiefly along the DMZ, with artillery threatening Seoul. The problem on the Korean peninsula is not a dearth of oxytocin, but a totalitarian government in North Korea, facing off against a democratic system in the South. There are plenty of people in both North and South Korea who would like to see the peninsula reunified. The sticking points are, on what terms? Which system prevails? At what cost? Who wins? ...

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Read more: http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/gloria-steinem-descends-on-the-korean-dmz/#ixzz3apVJiOxf