JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Dems tussle over adding ‘occupation’ to party platform-As Clinton secures victory, Democratic National Committee debates how to describe Israel’s presence in West Bank-By Ron Kampeas June 11, 2016, 3:27 am-THETIMESOFISRAEL
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee tussled over whether to use the word “occupation” in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue, reflecting divisions between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps that could play out at the convention.The Democratic National Committee held two days of open hearings this week in Washington, D.C., on the platform, inviting experts to testify. The hearings, which will also take place in other cities, got underway the same week that it became clear that Clinton had secured her position as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.Much of the back and forth Thursday afternoon, when the committee considered foreign policy, was about whether the committee should describe Israel’s presence in the West Bank as an “occupation.”Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont who remains in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, appointed five members to the 15-member committee, including three who have advocated for Palestinian rights in the past: Cornel West, a philosopher who backs the boycott Israel movement, James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Clinton appointed six committee members.West said during the hearing that the party’s platform should include the word “occupation,” suggesting that to do otherwise would mean being “beholden” to American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC staffers were in the room, as were staffers from other pro-Israel groups, including J Street.Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests, said last month that he wanted Palestinian rights reflected in the platform. The most recent platform, from 2012, advocates for a two-state solution, but casts it in terms of preserving Israel’s security.Howard Berman, a former congressman from California with extensive foreign affairs experience, who is one of four appointees by the DNC chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said listing the grievances of both sides would bog down the platform. “I could come up with a list, if we want this platform to get into it, of issues of (Palestinian) incitement,” he said.Robert Wexler, a former Florida congressman who appeared before the committee as an expert witness representing Clinton’s views, said that to include the word “occupation” would prejudge the outcome of negotiations, which is not the role of the party.Zogby countered that the 2012 platform says that “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel,” a statement that also prejudges the outcome of negotiations.Wexler told JTA in an interview after the hearing that introducing “occupation” to the platform would be inflammatory. “To insert language with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is inflammatory and that prejudges items that are to be negotiated at the negotiating table, the Democratic platform is not the place to do that,” Wexler, the president of the Center for Middle East Peace, said.The drafting committee’s platform will be presented to the full committee during the convention in late July in Philadelphia. Party officials are eager not to repeat the scene in 2012, when the full platform committee, under fire by pro-Israel groups for not including Jerusalem in the original draft, voted to add recognition of the city as Israel’s capital. The motion passed, but there was loud booing during the session.Wendy Sherman, a Clinton appointee who is a former deputy secretary of state, counseled against exacerbating intra-party disagreements on the issue, arguing that the platform should focus on distinguishing Democrats from Republicans, who have retreated from two-state advocacy.“Only a two-state solution can provide Palestinian sovereignty and dignity and provide Israelis with the secure and recognized borders of a Jewish democratic state,” she said during the hearing. “Our differences are really with the Republican party in how we prosecute peace.”Matt Duss, the director of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, appearing as an expert witness, said failure to recognize the occupation as such ran counter to American values.“We must recognize that Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories and its daily restrictions on the most basic political and civil liberties of the Palestinian people run contrary to fundamental American values,” he said.Wexler, in his interview after testifying, said that while the platform could be tweaked, Clinton’s views – which he said included not prejudging the outcome by referencing an “occupation” – would prevail because she is the nominee.“There was a winner of the Democratic primaries and her name is Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton has a decades-long policy regarding Israel,” he said.Wexler in his testimony also said that the platform should reject bids to delegitimate Israel, including through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Police investigate suspicious death of Nazareth youth-Ameen Omar Darawsheh, 19, was found last week with multiple stab wounds, later succumbing to injuries-By Times of Israel staff June 12, 2016, 8:01 pm
Israel Police are investigating the suspected murder last week of an Israeli-Arab man from the city of Nazareth in northern Israel who was found in critical condition with multiple stab wounds to his body.Ameen Omar Darawsheh, 19, was found last Monday night with severe injuries and later died at the EMMS Hospital in Nazareth, also known as the English Hospital, police said on Sunday after a gag order was partially lifted on the case.According to an online tribute to the young man on the Nazareth World Facebook page, Darawsheh was to begin medical school after the summer.Darawsheh’s father is the principal of the Ibn Khaldoun Junior High School in Nazareth.Police said they were investigating the circumstances of the death and did not yet reveal a motive.A police spokeswoman that the investigation “was still ongoing in all possible directions,” adding that the “evidence still leads to no clear interpretation” of the events.“We cannot assert with certainty what stands behind his death,” she said.
Powerful explosion rocks Lebanon’s capital-Blast goes off in Beirut during Ramadan fast-breaking meal, damaging cars and a bank; no reports of casualties-By Agencies June 12, 2016, 9:11 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A powerful explosion occurred near a major bank in the western part of the Lebanese capital Beirut late on Sunday, a policeman on the scene told AFP.The explosion in the upscale Verdun district on Sunday destroyed several cars and caused severe damage to LOM BANK, one of Lebanon’s biggest financial institutions.The sound of ambulance sirens was heard in the area near Hamra Street, but police said they had no immediate information.The nature of the blast was not immediately clear and there was no immediate word on casualties. The explosion occurred as residents sat down for iftar, the meal that breaks the daylong fast for observing Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.
Clinton vs. Trump: Battle of the New Yorkers-In a first since WWII, either a twice ex-state senator or a Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as next US president-By Jennie Matthew June 12, 2016, 7:06 pm-THE TIMESOFISRAEL
NEW YORK (AFP) — Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II.On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.Their campaign is the first time in 72 years that two New Yorkers are facing off in a US general election since Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated then Republican governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, in 1944.Clinton and Trump are two extraordinarily different personalities who once socialized together but are now political enemies. Yet both come from the same place in a country that straddles four time zones.How? New York’s pulling power is one answer.“New York attracts very aggressive, high quality, high performing individuals,” says Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political economy and international and public affairs at Columbia University.“Sometimes you’ve got to have that oomph that only a New Yorker can bring,” joked Will Liu, a 30-year-old working in finance who took his husband to celebrate Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination.“I know that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”-Constituency-Diversity might be a another reason. New York is the largest city in the country, where more than 200 languages are spoken and nearly 35 percent of the 8.55 million residents were born overseas.Clinton, who launched her historic bid to become America’s first woman commander-in-chief from the FDR memorial in New York, exemplifies the affluent, intellectual Democratic elite in the state.Born in Illinois and an Ivy League-educated lawyer, New York elected her twice to the US Senate, allowing her to escape her husband’s shadow after serving as first lady in the White House and first lady in Arkansas.Trump on the other hand comes from the cut-throat world of Manhattan real estate, a celebrity and former reality TV star whose messy divorces and outlandish opinions were tabloid fodder.Far removed from Republicans in the southwest, Trump can be considered a monied, northeastern Republican — fairly liberal on social issues and conservative on economic issues, O’Halloran says.But while Clinton has a New York constituency, Trump does not. His skyscrapers may dot the city, but in the Republican primary he lost Manhattan to his moderate rival John Kasich.Instead he speaks for white, often working class Republicans who feel disenfranchised and fed up. He has pockets of support upstate, but New York as a whole has been Democrat for more than 30 years.-Fluke-The state has twice as many registered Democrat voters as Republicans, but does have conservative counties that prevent an extreme Democrat from winning — which helped Clinton hone her electoral skills.“To win a position in state politics in New York you have to be able to go across the lines to really win and that’s an important exercise for a potential presidential candidate,” O’Halloran told AFP.Nationally, New York is an important source of donations to political campaigns and influential as the capital of a largely liberal media.If Trump pulls off what much of the world regards as the unthinkable and wins on November 8, he will also become the first president born in the city since Theodore Roosevelt took power in 1901.Theodore, incidentally the name of Trump’s newest grandson, was also larger than life and lavishly wealthy. But while Trump would be the oldest elected president at age 70, Theodore was the youngest.Stephen Hess, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute, says Clinton and Trump’s hometown is trifling at best.“It doesn’t really mean anything,” he told AFP. What’s more important, he said, is Clinton being the first major party female nominee and Trump an unusual party nominee with no prior background in politics.“They are unusual candidates in that regard, but the fact that both happen to come from New York is almost a fluke.”
Fox reporter fired for slurring Jews, Mexicans-Emily Austen, 27, calls Jewish people stingy on Facebook live video, expresses surprise Mexican immigrant was valedictorian-By JTA June 11, 2016, 5:48 am-THETIMESOFISRAEL
A Fox Sports sideline reporter has been fired for making racist and anti-Semitic comments on a live Facebook broadcast Thursday.In the broadcast on Barstool Sports’ Facebook Live, Emily Austen said Jewish people are stingy and expressed surprise that a Mexican immigrant was valedictorian of his high school because. “I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart,” Austen said. She also made a stereotypical remark about Chinese-Americans.Citing an unnamed source with the Tampa Bay Rays, which Austen covers, Business Insider reported Friday that Austen had been fired for the comments and will not appear on any future game broadcasts.In a statement first published on Deadspin, Fox Sports Florida senior vice-president Steve Tello said:“We were made aware that Emily Austen appeared in a social media video unaffiliated with FOX Sports in which she made insensitive and derogatory comments. She was not speaking on behalf of FOX Sports, nor do we condone any of the statements she made in the video. Emily has been advised that her comments were unacceptable, and she is not scheduled to appear on any upcoming FOX Sports Florida or FOX Sports Sun broadcasts.”Austen’s broadcast Thursday included a rant about Jewish customers at an establishment where she worked in Boca Raton, Florida: “The way I used to talk to the Jews in Boca. … I just didn’t care. They would complain and b—- about everything. I gave a guy, delivered his beer, and he was complaining to me that there was too much head. I knew that he was a stingy a– and he wasn’t going to give me a tip.”
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
Dems tussle over adding ‘occupation’ to party platform-As Clinton secures victory, Democratic National Committee debates how to describe Israel’s presence in West Bank-By Ron Kampeas June 11, 2016, 3:27 am-THETIMESOFISRAEL
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee tussled over whether to use the word “occupation” in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue, reflecting divisions between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps that could play out at the convention.The Democratic National Committee held two days of open hearings this week in Washington, D.C., on the platform, inviting experts to testify. The hearings, which will also take place in other cities, got underway the same week that it became clear that Clinton had secured her position as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.Much of the back and forth Thursday afternoon, when the committee considered foreign policy, was about whether the committee should describe Israel’s presence in the West Bank as an “occupation.”Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont who remains in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, appointed five members to the 15-member committee, including three who have advocated for Palestinian rights in the past: Cornel West, a philosopher who backs the boycott Israel movement, James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Clinton appointed six committee members.West said during the hearing that the party’s platform should include the word “occupation,” suggesting that to do otherwise would mean being “beholden” to American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC staffers were in the room, as were staffers from other pro-Israel groups, including J Street.Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests, said last month that he wanted Palestinian rights reflected in the platform. The most recent platform, from 2012, advocates for a two-state solution, but casts it in terms of preserving Israel’s security.Howard Berman, a former congressman from California with extensive foreign affairs experience, who is one of four appointees by the DNC chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said listing the grievances of both sides would bog down the platform. “I could come up with a list, if we want this platform to get into it, of issues of (Palestinian) incitement,” he said.Robert Wexler, a former Florida congressman who appeared before the committee as an expert witness representing Clinton’s views, said that to include the word “occupation” would prejudge the outcome of negotiations, which is not the role of the party.Zogby countered that the 2012 platform says that “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel,” a statement that also prejudges the outcome of negotiations.Wexler told JTA in an interview after the hearing that introducing “occupation” to the platform would be inflammatory. “To insert language with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is inflammatory and that prejudges items that are to be negotiated at the negotiating table, the Democratic platform is not the place to do that,” Wexler, the president of the Center for Middle East Peace, said.The drafting committee’s platform will be presented to the full committee during the convention in late July in Philadelphia. Party officials are eager not to repeat the scene in 2012, when the full platform committee, under fire by pro-Israel groups for not including Jerusalem in the original draft, voted to add recognition of the city as Israel’s capital. The motion passed, but there was loud booing during the session.Wendy Sherman, a Clinton appointee who is a former deputy secretary of state, counseled against exacerbating intra-party disagreements on the issue, arguing that the platform should focus on distinguishing Democrats from Republicans, who have retreated from two-state advocacy.“Only a two-state solution can provide Palestinian sovereignty and dignity and provide Israelis with the secure and recognized borders of a Jewish democratic state,” she said during the hearing. “Our differences are really with the Republican party in how we prosecute peace.”Matt Duss, the director of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, appearing as an expert witness, said failure to recognize the occupation as such ran counter to American values.“We must recognize that Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories and its daily restrictions on the most basic political and civil liberties of the Palestinian people run contrary to fundamental American values,” he said.Wexler, in his interview after testifying, said that while the platform could be tweaked, Clinton’s views – which he said included not prejudging the outcome by referencing an “occupation” – would prevail because she is the nominee.“There was a winner of the Democratic primaries and her name is Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton has a decades-long policy regarding Israel,” he said.Wexler in his testimony also said that the platform should reject bids to delegitimate Israel, including through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Police investigate suspicious death of Nazareth youth-Ameen Omar Darawsheh, 19, was found last week with multiple stab wounds, later succumbing to injuries-By Times of Israel staff June 12, 2016, 8:01 pm
Israel Police are investigating the suspected murder last week of an Israeli-Arab man from the city of Nazareth in northern Israel who was found in critical condition with multiple stab wounds to his body.Ameen Omar Darawsheh, 19, was found last Monday night with severe injuries and later died at the EMMS Hospital in Nazareth, also known as the English Hospital, police said on Sunday after a gag order was partially lifted on the case.According to an online tribute to the young man on the Nazareth World Facebook page, Darawsheh was to begin medical school after the summer.Darawsheh’s father is the principal of the Ibn Khaldoun Junior High School in Nazareth.Police said they were investigating the circumstances of the death and did not yet reveal a motive.A police spokeswoman that the investigation “was still ongoing in all possible directions,” adding that the “evidence still leads to no clear interpretation” of the events.“We cannot assert with certainty what stands behind his death,” she said.
Powerful explosion rocks Lebanon’s capital-Blast goes off in Beirut during Ramadan fast-breaking meal, damaging cars and a bank; no reports of casualties-By Agencies June 12, 2016, 9:11 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A powerful explosion occurred near a major bank in the western part of the Lebanese capital Beirut late on Sunday, a policeman on the scene told AFP.The explosion in the upscale Verdun district on Sunday destroyed several cars and caused severe damage to LOM BANK, one of Lebanon’s biggest financial institutions.The sound of ambulance sirens was heard in the area near Hamra Street, but police said they had no immediate information.The nature of the blast was not immediately clear and there was no immediate word on casualties. The explosion occurred as residents sat down for iftar, the meal that breaks the daylong fast for observing Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.
Clinton vs. Trump: Battle of the New Yorkers-In a first since WWII, either a twice ex-state senator or a Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as next US president-By Jennie Matthew June 12, 2016, 7:06 pm-THE TIMESOFISRAEL
NEW YORK (AFP) — Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II.On a likely freezing January 20, 2017 either the adopted daughter who served twice as state senator or the Queens-born, Manhattan billionaire will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.Their campaign is the first time in 72 years that two New Yorkers are facing off in a US general election since Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated then Republican governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, in 1944.Clinton and Trump are two extraordinarily different personalities who once socialized together but are now political enemies. Yet both come from the same place in a country that straddles four time zones.How? New York’s pulling power is one answer.“New York attracts very aggressive, high quality, high performing individuals,” says Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political economy and international and public affairs at Columbia University.“Sometimes you’ve got to have that oomph that only a New Yorker can bring,” joked Will Liu, a 30-year-old working in finance who took his husband to celebrate Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination.“I know that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.”-Constituency-Diversity might be a another reason. New York is the largest city in the country, where more than 200 languages are spoken and nearly 35 percent of the 8.55 million residents were born overseas.Clinton, who launched her historic bid to become America’s first woman commander-in-chief from the FDR memorial in New York, exemplifies the affluent, intellectual Democratic elite in the state.Born in Illinois and an Ivy League-educated lawyer, New York elected her twice to the US Senate, allowing her to escape her husband’s shadow after serving as first lady in the White House and first lady in Arkansas.Trump on the other hand comes from the cut-throat world of Manhattan real estate, a celebrity and former reality TV star whose messy divorces and outlandish opinions were tabloid fodder.Far removed from Republicans in the southwest, Trump can be considered a monied, northeastern Republican — fairly liberal on social issues and conservative on economic issues, O’Halloran says.But while Clinton has a New York constituency, Trump does not. His skyscrapers may dot the city, but in the Republican primary he lost Manhattan to his moderate rival John Kasich.Instead he speaks for white, often working class Republicans who feel disenfranchised and fed up. He has pockets of support upstate, but New York as a whole has been Democrat for more than 30 years.-Fluke-The state has twice as many registered Democrat voters as Republicans, but does have conservative counties that prevent an extreme Democrat from winning — which helped Clinton hone her electoral skills.“To win a position in state politics in New York you have to be able to go across the lines to really win and that’s an important exercise for a potential presidential candidate,” O’Halloran told AFP.Nationally, New York is an important source of donations to political campaigns and influential as the capital of a largely liberal media.If Trump pulls off what much of the world regards as the unthinkable and wins on November 8, he will also become the first president born in the city since Theodore Roosevelt took power in 1901.Theodore, incidentally the name of Trump’s newest grandson, was also larger than life and lavishly wealthy. But while Trump would be the oldest elected president at age 70, Theodore was the youngest.Stephen Hess, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute, says Clinton and Trump’s hometown is trifling at best.“It doesn’t really mean anything,” he told AFP. What’s more important, he said, is Clinton being the first major party female nominee and Trump an unusual party nominee with no prior background in politics.“They are unusual candidates in that regard, but the fact that both happen to come from New York is almost a fluke.”
Fox reporter fired for slurring Jews, Mexicans-Emily Austen, 27, calls Jewish people stingy on Facebook live video, expresses surprise Mexican immigrant was valedictorian-By JTA June 11, 2016, 5:48 am-THETIMESOFISRAEL
A Fox Sports sideline reporter has been fired for making racist and anti-Semitic comments on a live Facebook broadcast Thursday.In the broadcast on Barstool Sports’ Facebook Live, Emily Austen said Jewish people are stingy and expressed surprise that a Mexican immigrant was valedictorian of his high school because. “I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart,” Austen said. She also made a stereotypical remark about Chinese-Americans.Citing an unnamed source with the Tampa Bay Rays, which Austen covers, Business Insider reported Friday that Austen had been fired for the comments and will not appear on any future game broadcasts.In a statement first published on Deadspin, Fox Sports Florida senior vice-president Steve Tello said:“We were made aware that Emily Austen appeared in a social media video unaffiliated with FOX Sports in which she made insensitive and derogatory comments. She was not speaking on behalf of FOX Sports, nor do we condone any of the statements she made in the video. Emily has been advised that her comments were unacceptable, and she is not scheduled to appear on any upcoming FOX Sports Florida or FOX Sports Sun broadcasts.”Austen’s broadcast Thursday included a rant about Jewish customers at an establishment where she worked in Boca Raton, Florida: “The way I used to talk to the Jews in Boca. … I just didn’t care. They would complain and b—- about everything. I gave a guy, delivered his beer, and he was complaining to me that there was too much head. I knew that he was a stingy a– and he wasn’t going to give me a tip.”
