History Repeats itself and 1938 Germany is here once again.

An image of the reported leaflet was posted on several news sites and Twitter accounts. (Photo via Twitter)

Shocking flyer order Jews to register in Eastern Ukraine

Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:38 PM EST
The latest news out of the Ukraine should shock and concern anyone familiar with world history. This morning, Sharona Schwartz, Middle East Correspondent for TheBlaze, posted the photo of a flyer handed out in Eastern Ukraine that called for all Jews over the age of 16 to “to register with separatists, list real estate and vehicles they own and pay a special tax, or face deportation, loss of citizenship and confiscation of their property.”
According to Ynet’s translation of the flyer from Russian to English, it says, “ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles”.
The flyer has been attributed to Denis Pushilin, Chairman of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a pro-Russian militant group. Pushilin has denied any connection to the flier.
Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the flyer. He said, “And any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities, from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of, there is no place for that. And unanimously every party today joined in this condemnation of that kind of behavior.”
Schwartz briefed Glenn Beck on this story in Thursday’s morning meeting.
“Ukraine has a really ripe and troubled history with anti-Semitism,” Shwartz told Glenn, noting that the biggest massacres of the Jews during World War 2 happened in the Ukraine.
But the problem doesn’t just lie with the pro-Russian militants. Jews have encountered persecution from the other side of the conflict as well. Last year, TheBlaze reported that several Ukranian ultra-nationalists wore t-shirts with anti-Semitic slogans to a rally.
“Israel is now preparing to take in twice the number of immigrants from the Ukraine than they have in recent years,” Schwartz said.
“And so it begins,” Glenn said when he heard the news.
Watch the briefing from the morning meeting below:

What Local Op-Ed So Disturbed Demand for Legal Action

What Local Op-Ed So Disturbed Glenn Beck That He’s Discussing Legal Action?

The Salt Lake Tribune published an opinion piece on July 27 by an “art historian and educator” named Alexandra Karl that has some members of Glenn Beck’s staff so disgusted that they say they’d be happy if he took legal action.

Titled “Karl: Glenn Beck’s Nazi Exhibit,” the op-ed is both riddled with factual inaccuracies and filled with horrific implications about Beck’s character.

“Beyond plain unadulterated stupidity,” is how Beck’s co-host Pat Gray described it on radio Tuesday. “That’s character assassination and defamation territory.”

The opinion piece begins by getting the name and location of Beck’s “Man in the Moon” event wrong (it has been updated to correct the location as of this article’s writing, but not the name), before claiming certain items at the “Independence Through History” museum Beck created for the event came from his “personal collection,” though he doesn’t actually own them.

But far more offensive was the implication, Gray said, that Beck is a “Nazi sympathizer.”

The op-ed says of the museum:

To start, I can’t help wondering what prompted Beck to collect such macabre objects and include them among his personal belongings. What are the virtues of owning Göring’s love letters, Hitler’s signature or a few drops of his blood?

Surely, harboring such items adheres to a personality cult and suggests a sympathizer rather than a critic. The very presence of these objects begs the question: How does this material survive?

More than 70 old, most of the detritus of Germany’s Nationalsozialisten was destroyed after the war and continue to be banned to this day. The survival of such “memorabilia” can only be achieved with help from Nazi sympathizers wishing to pass on the torch.  [Emphasis added]

Beck and his co-hosts pointed out that the purpose of displaying such items is to remember history to ensure it doesn’t repeat itself, though they excused what they described as a “progressive” art historian for failing to grasp that concept.

Gray also noted that it’s unlikely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would praise a Nazi sympathizer as “fearless in defending Israel,” or that he would win the Defender of Israel award.

Obama wins "Media Darling Participation Award"

Time Magazine announced today that they let their "2012 Person of the Year" award go to their default candidate, Barack Obama. No surprise here. But I love the accidental irony shown on the front page of Yahoo:

You can cut the irony with a chainsaw.

This "Participation Award" for being a media darling is not new for Barack Obama. Remember he won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing more than being elected President of the United States.

The irony reaches a disturbing level when Time's managing editor, Richard Stengel said, "We are in the midst of historical cultural and demographic changes, and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America,"

Wasn't Adolph Hitler the architect of a new Germany? Here is the front cover of 1938's Time Magazine with the 1938 Man of the Year on the cover: