Disinvited
Below is the opening blast of an article by Phyllis Chesler, a very feisty Jewish lady in her 80s who is a lesbian these days and describes herself as a radical feminist. Many of her causes are however ones that conservatives could agree with. She is these days critical of what she calls the "transgender cult" and that has seen her cast into outer darkness by some
The leadership of New York’s West End Synagogue is too committed to the ever-changing progressive party line to suffer a radical feminist like me
As we know, a virulent, often vicious and increasingly intolerant “cancel culture” has permeated our campuses and much of the media—but it has also infested some of our synagogues. I now have firsthand experience of what this means.
Being disinvited is not a new experience for me. I’ve been disinvited from engagements before because my radically feminist views were not politically correct; because I dared to expose feminist hypocrisy among the sisterhood; and because I defended the truth, and thus defended Jews, Judaism, Israel, and post-Enlightenment values. I’ve also been disinvited because my academic studies about and activism against honor killing, face-veiling, female genital mutilation, Islamist terrorism, and an Islamist version of cancel culture (think Salman Rushdie) was seen as “Islamophobic.”
Here’s the story. In early May, a retired City University of New York (CUNY) professor, Susan Prager (a woman whom I do not know and have never met) invited me to deliver a lecture about antisemitism and feminism to the West End Synagogue (WES), a Reconstructionist congregation near Lincoln Square, possibly via Zoom, perhaps in person.
And now I’ve been disinvited. Why? Apparently, my alleged views on transgender and LGBTQIA people are key—even though this wasn’t the topic of my lecture—but such views rendered me unacceptable as a speaker on any other subject. I was also accused of possibly being a racist as well.
Are we living in the 1950s, and is this yet another version of McCarthyism? Have we plunged into Huxley’s Brave New World?
What would someone’s views about the transgender issue have to do with antisemitism and the survival of a demonized Israel? Moreover, are differences in opinion more important than freedom of thought and speech? Intellectual and political diversity? I guess they are in some circles.
Of course, the Talmud preserves both majority and minority opinions. For centuries, in fact, totally opposite views have lived side by side, a glorious example of tolerance and civility among those who take ideas seriously.
The good news: A number of WES congregants have written letters to the synagogue’s president, Harvey Weiner, and to the board of directors demanding that I be allowed to speak. I’ve been told that a handful of couples have already exited the synagogue; others have promised not to donate money to the annual appeal on Yom Kippur.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/disinvited-west-end-synagogue-phyllis-chesler
*********************************************************European Parliament says Hungary is no longer a 'full democracy'
Those who live in glass houses .... The EU is not much of a democracy either. Power in it lies with the bureaucracy, with the parliament being largely a rubber stamp
Hungary is no longer a "full democracy" and the EU needs to do everything to bring it back into line with European values, the European Parliament said Thursday.
MEPs voted 433 in favour, 123 against to now describe Hungary, ruled by populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who maintains close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, "a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy" in "serious breach" of EU democratic norms.
The vote was largely symbolic and does not change the course of EU decision making, which requires unanimity of all 27 member states -- including Hungary -- to adopt major issues, such as sanctions on Russia.
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‘Wholly Inadequate’: Federal Agencies Have No System To Check Whether Remote Employees Are Actually Working
Several federal agencies have no system in place to monitor whether remote workers are actually clocking in for the job—a fact one Republican senator said is "unacceptable and baffling" as the Biden administration pushes to expand telework options for its growing number of federal workers.
Four federal agencies told the Washington Free Beacon they have no specific oversight of remote employees: the Department of the Interior, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Housing and Urban Development. The agencies said their usual productivity measurements are adequate to track employees who shifted to remote work at the start of the pandemic. Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.) received a similar response from the Department of Labor when he asked about the agency's telework policies—and said this justification is "wholly inadequate and non-responsive."
"Taken together, this evasiveness does not inspire confidence that the Biden administration even cares whether the federal workforce is, in fact, working while remote," Burr wrote in an August letter to the Office of Personnel Management, which manages federal telework policies.
Burr justified his push for transparency on telework policies by citing a Free Beacon report in June that found at least a quarter of remote employees at the Department of Health and Human Services failed to log on to their agency's software suite, which includes their email, video conference calls, and other applications needed to perform remote work. HHS did not respond to letters from Burr nor a Free Beacon request for comment on how it plans to address the lack of activity from remote workers.
The Biden administration this year has pushed to make lenient pandemic telework policies permanent as agencies prepared to return to the office. The White House plan is backed by House Democrats, who in June advanced a bill that would require agencies to notify Congress and the Office of Personnel Management if they want employees to return to the office.
The Free Beacon reached out to all 15 federal agencies about their telework accountability policies. The Department of Energy directed requests to the Office of Personnel Management. A spokesman for the State Department told the Free Beacon the department has a range of tools to assess workers who fall short of expectations or engage in misconduct regardless of whether those employees are in office or work remotely. The remaining nine agencies did not respond to requests for comment.
Kiran Ahuja, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in a July subcommittee hearing that she was unaware of the Free Beacon report on HHS remote work but said she would look into the matter. She added that expanded telework can "enhance productivity." Her office has yet to respond to follow-up questions Burr sent in August and did not respond to a request for comment from the Free Beacon.
As remote work grew more popular since the start of the COVID pandemic, companies deployed technology to track employees' online behavior through their emails, browser activity, and use of other online work software. A survey of 1,250 employers in the United States last year found that 60 percent of respondents use some version of this online monitoring software for remote workers—and another 17 percent were considering adopting one. Roughly 15 percent of the federal government's 2.1 million employees worked remotely last month, according to a Labor Department survey.
The leaked HHS memo tracked the online activity of remote employees through their Microsoft accounts and virtual private network. Burr said the Department of Education is the only agency that when requested provided these data, which showed that employees averaged seven Microsoft Teams calls per day. But the other five agencies that responded to the Free Beacon and Burr said the data are unnecessary to track productivity.
Nearly half of federal employees worked remotely in 2020 when then-HHS chief of staff Brian Harrison commissioned a report on online activity at his agency after he noticed poor office attendance and overall productivity. A whistleblower later leaked the memo to the Functional Government Initiative, which shared the report with the Free Beacon. Harrison said other agencies need to measure this online activity, which he fears may show similar results.
"The American people deserve complete transparency on whether they have been paying thousands of federal employees billions of dollars not to work," Harrison told the Free Beacon.
The Internal Revenue Service, which is set to more than double its workforce through President Joe Biden's climate and tax bill, did not respond to requests for comment on how it monitors remote employees.
Peter McGinnis, the communications director for the Functional Government Initiative, said he hopes to see Congress hold HHS accountable for its incompetence amid the pandemic.
"Shockingly, the federal agency directly responsible for responding to the global pandemic appears to have rarely, if ever, been working at full strength," McGinnis told the Free Beacon.
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Conservatives: Why are you still living in the city?
I’ve asked myself and friends this question for the past couple years. Why are you still living in the city?
Usually, I get the same type of responses; “I can’t afford to move”, “my kids are in school here”, or “I can’t leave my job”. These are all reasonable and understandable responses. Reasonable in normal times; but these aren’t normal times, are they?
Major cities are overrun with leftist ideology. We have sanctuary cities, where undocumented criminals are embraced. The police are defunded while violent protests destroy public and private property at alarming rates. Crime is rampant while leftist policies are fueling inflation and sadly, common sense is long gone. If that isn’t enough, there is a poop “pandemic” in several of these cities. You’re not even safe in your home because criminals know law enforcement lack the resources to take them down. Hell, that’s why “smash and grab” is the latest shopping phenomenon.
Now, even Hollywood (the honey hole of leftism) is under attack.
Yesterday I was watching Tim Pool cover a story (watch video here) where the crew of an Apple TV show in production (Lady in the Lake) staring Natalie Portman (a proponent of BLM’s “defund the police” movement) ran into an issue involving 2 major drug dealers and their attempt to extort $50,000 from the production company.
In the video Tim Pool also covered a story from The Post Millennial where Andy Ngo wrote of violence that broke out on the streets of Portland during one of Antifa’s “street occupations”.
“At one of the street racing takeovers on Sunday night near the Expo Center attended by hundreds, an elderly man in a van appeared to be caught in the road before being violently attacked by an armed mob. Video posted on social media shows that as he desperately attempted to reverse and drive away while being attacked, he backed into a car. A man in the crowd then fires at least 18 rounds at his fleeing van. A follow-up video shows the crowd catching up with the elderly man who had stopped on a patch of grass. He appeared to be in shock and was bleeding heavily.”
To me, these stories are wild.
But they are indicative of the bad times we currently live in. Like it or not, this is what we’ve got. Even worse, these stories are tame compared to others; and there are so many more of them. I haven’t even gotten into the crazy stories coming out of public schools. Just this morning, The Officer Tatum released a video highlighting a woman exposing teachers pushing gender indoctrination homework onto kindergarteners.
Lawrence Johnson recently explained how we’ve gone from the basic two genders we grew up understanding to 72 genders! Our schools are attacking our youngest learners. Yet we keep sending our children to them to face the evils of the world head on while we are at work rather than working with our friends and family to home school our kids. Or showing up at the school board meetings in droves so big our demands for change can’t be ignored. Either way, something must be done!
Let me calm down and lower my blood pressure…
Just a few miles from where I live, there are quiet country roads, neighbors that know your name (and are just as armed as you are), fresh air, woods, and on and on. The crime and violence found in cities just isn’t out there on a regular basis. However, when it shows up (it will of course), you aren’t viewed as a criminal for defending your family or your property.
I get it, making changes to your life can be difficult. However, at some point you have to ask yourself if the risks in the city are worth the convenience of keeping things the way they are. Outside of making sure everyone in your family, that is eligible, votes to get the right people in office that can affect change; there isn’t much else you can do other than move out of the criminal infested cities.
https://theblacksphere.net/2022/09/conservatives-why-are-you-still-living-in-the-city/
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