INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW September 12, 2014

INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW September 12, 2014 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Young Americans Less Trustful, More Alienated The Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/study-millennials-less-trusting-gen-x-052502305.html ... While they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them. The Millennials also are as mistrusting of other people as the gloomy "slackers" of Generation X were 20 years ago - or even more so ... "Young people today feel disconnected and alienated," says Twenge, a psychologist and professor at San Diego State University, who wrote a book on Millennials called "Generation Me" ... While Americans of all ages had growing trust issues in recent years, the researchers found that young people's trust dropped more steeply in several categories.

The Forever War Patrick J. Buchanan http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/the-forever-war.html The strategy that President Obama laid out Wednesday night to "degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL," is incoherent, inconsistent and, ultimately, non-credible ... Now Obama wants to lead the West and the Arab world straight into Syria's civil war. Only this time we bomb ISIL, not Assad ... If Assad falls, do the Alawites and Christians survive? Does Syria disintegrate? Who will rule in Damascus? ... Among all the nations involved here, the least threatened is the United States. Our intelligence agencies, Obama, says, have discovered no evidence of any planned or imminent attack from ISIL. As the threat is not primarily ours, the urgency to go to war is not ours.

Czech Court Clears Publisher of Hitler Speeches of Hate Crimes JTA http://forward.com/articles/205546/czech-court-clears-publishers-of-hitler-speeches-o/ The publishers of a book containing Adolf Hitler speeches were cleared of hate-crime charges in the Czech Republic, spurring concerns from the country's Jewish community. The Brno municipal court ruled Wednesday that it found no evidence that the 2012 book put out by a Brno-based publishing house, Guidemedia, promoted Nazi ideology. The court said the publication of historical documents cannot be considered a criminal act. Under Czech law, propagating Nazism is a crime that carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. The book features 18 speeches delivered by Hitler between 1939 and 1942.

In France, Front National's Le Pen Tops Presidential Poll For First Time The Guardian (Britain) http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/08/le-pen-tops-presidential-poll-for-first-time-ever Polls out in the past few days in France have shown far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen topping a presidential poll for the first time. This matters as supporters of main parties may no longer be doubling up to push out Front National. Meanwhile, President Hollande's popularity has hit an unprecedented low. An Ifop poll released by Le Figaro on Friday placed far-right Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen ahead of President François Hollande in a hypothetical second round runoff.

Hundreds Rally in France Against Non-European Immigration The Telegraph (Britain) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11080428/Far-right-extremists-lead-hundreds-in-Calais-anti-migrant-protests.html Far-right extremists led hundreds of protesters in an anti-migrant demonstration in Calais on Sunday night which saw riot police step in to end a tense confrontation. The stand-off between the protesters and a group of about 50 left-wing activists highlighted rising tensions in Calais over the presence of up to 1,500 migrants, mainly from Eritrea and other impoverished African countries, who are trying to reach Britain illegally ... The anti-migrant group was led by an activist holding a blue flare and wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Charlemagne 1944" a reference to an SS division that was composed of French volunteers. Those around him sang La Marseillaise and chanted "bleu, blanc, rouge" (blue, white, red), the colours of the French flag.

Brigitte Bardot: Kosher Slaughter Is 'Ritual Sacrifice,' Should Be Banned JTA http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.615009 Brigitte Bardot published an open letter in several leading French newspapers calling for a ban on shechitah, or Jewish ritual slaughter. The one-time French actress terms the practice "ritual sacrifice" in the letter that appeared Monday in newspapers such as Le Parisien, Le Figaro and Le Monde. The letter also calls for a ban on halal Muslim ritual slaughter as well as on horse meat. Jewish and Muslim religious laws require that animals be conscious when their necks are cut - a practice deemed cruel by some animal welfare activists. The letter drew condemnation from the European Jewish Congress.

Tinseltown Goes to War: Hollywood World War II Propaganda Ralph Raico http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/09/ralph-raico/tinseltown-goes-to-war/ ... There were a number of anti-Nazi films during and even before U.S. entry into the war. But the attitude of the motion picture community to Communism and the Soviet Union was quite different. The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), Song of Russia (1944), and other productions informed Americans of the happy life led by the citizens of the Marxist utopia, and of their death-defying resistance to the German invaders ... The Longest Day [1962] gives the impression to the easily impressionable and historically clueless (the vast majority) that the Second World War was won on the western front, principally by the United States and Britain.

Hollywood Goes to War Jack Wikoff - Institute for Historical Review http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v08/v08p104_Wikoff.html ... After reading Hollywood Goes to War, one cannot help but come away with the impression that the movie industry and various government agencies were very much in the propaganda business before and during World War II ... In 1939 Warner Brothers premiered Confessions of a Nazi Spy, which claimed in melodramatic fashion that Germany sought to conquer the entire globe ... In 1943 Warner Brothers premiered Mission to Moscow, based on the book of the same name by Joseph E. Davies, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. The authors of Hollywood Goes to War characterize this picture as the "most notorious example of propaganda in the guise of entertainment ever produced by Hollywood."

Lies and Deceit In American Film Propaganda Mark Weber - Podcast http://www.ihr.org/mwreport/2012-04-04 Decades of deceitful motion pictures have done much to produce a misinformed and compliant American public. A notable example of such film deceit is "Mission to Moscow," a major Hollywood production made with White House backing, that portrays Soviet dictator Stalin and the Soviet Russian regime as benevlolent, peace-loving and trustworthy. Another good example is the "Why We Fight" series of documentary-style films produced by the US War Department, which have been viewed by millions. Made during World War II, these seven films use staged scenes and fake quotations to present a grossly distorted view of history and the world.

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