By lila york (about the author)
opednews.com
The Katrina debacle was a warm-up act. So was the mortgage fraud with its 30 million foreclosures and resultant homelessness. So is the lifetime indebtedness of young people seeking a college degree. What is ahead is more of the above, multiplied by a million. What US banks did to third world countries for decades they are now doing to the people of western industrialized nations - including our own. Just as bankers lured millions into home loans they could not afford with malice aforethought, those same bankers lured nations into loans they could not afford. That is what they do and always have done. It was easier to ignore when those nations were Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. (See John Perkins' must-read book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". You will forgive me if I have omitted nations - the CIA and the bankers are relentlessly busy). Now many of those nations are prospering and free of indebtedness to US bankers - probably forever. (They barter oil for other commodities in order to avoid the US dollar completely). So what was a greedy banker to do? He had to find new victims.
At the center of this Armageddon are the banks on the dole from the Federal Reserve: JP Morgan (and its investment arm, Morgan Stanley), Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo, all of whom trade derivatives worth more than the GDP of the entire world. Their modus operandi is to lure nations into low-interest loans they know with certainty cannot be repaid, thus forcing bankruptcy and allowing them to storm in like a flock of vultures and seize every asset the nation has - every mine, railroad, monument and public utility - at pennies on the dollar; then driving up prices for a massive profit, forcing the population into ruinous poverty. That scenario was instigated and played out in every country listed above , beginning in the 1960's and is being enacted now. Greece is only the most recent carcass. Next on their list: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, France and finally, the United States, where the Fed has finally done it - printed money in excess of the entire GDP of America. (As of January of this year, the national GDP was 15 trillion and 816 million dollars; the national debt rose to 15 trillion plus 65 billion dollars.) Fed policy is confusing, even for those who follow it, but suffice it to say that if all of that newly- created cash had not been siphoned into stock and commodity speculation - ending up in the Cayman Island bank accounts of corporate CEO's and bankers - but instead had gone into the economy - jobs, education, clean energy and infrastructure - the entire debt situation would look much better, since millions more Americans would be paying income taxes and be off of the food stamp rolls.
Rate of money creation by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Rate at which money reaches the economy by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Instead it is in the stock market, oil speculation and US treasuries. That is where they put it. The nefarious purpose of this blatant act is not to "stimulate the economy" (since little of it was invested in the economy) but to allow members of Congress and corporate insiders to sell out of their stock holdings at record highs (which they are doing) assuring them of infinite wealth, before the market crashes again, as it always does after these rigged market rises. Wonder why gasoline is now 4 dollars a gallon when world demand is in fast decline? It is the Fed. Again. Free dollars drive up the price of everything priced in it. (Free to bankers only. The rest of us pay between 8% and 30% for those same dollars) Dodd-Frank supposedly outlawed Goldman's oil speculation plots, but the law is not enforced. Why? Because the Republican House of Representatives refused to provide the funds to the regulatory body charged with enforcing the law. Their Plan B, their ace in the hole when all of this money printing fails? Global war, initiated by the bombing of Iran. Hey, it worked in 1940, didn't it? Doesn't war always end recessions?
Where is this plot headed? What is their final, final objective? Wealth in the trillions for that handful of white guys and slavery for the rest of us. In the end, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will own every inch of real estate and every hard asset on the planet. That is their objective. They will become the new Hitlers and Mussolinis of the planet, dictating their will to governments. They are well on their way. As European nations fall to bankruptcy they are sucking up the spoils of their financial war. Corporations now pay Chinese workers a dollar a day instead of paying union labor in the US a living wage. They have imported tech workers from India at half-price and Mexican labor to supplant the last unskilled workers left in the U S. The only remaining obstacle to the total enslavement of Americans is the public sector unions - unions that represent the only jobs that cannot be shipped to the slave factories of Asia. Look at the number of Republican state legislatures and Republican governors erasing those unions from existence at record speed, as they ram through "right to work for pennies" laws. They are not going to stop until every last nurse, teacher and policeman is working for a dollar a day, confirming a new normal of impoverished misery for America. Advanced college degrees will soon only be held by the children of the richest .01% of Americans. And the ultimate coup - The Fed stated in comments of its last meeting that it is planning to devalue the dollar by another 33% over the next twenty years. Mind you the dollar has already lost over 30% of its value, so that totals up to a 63% loss of purchasing power over a thirty year period.Translation: A Depression economy coupled with hyperinflation driving up the cost of living to unseen levels.
Okay. What do we do about this? Are we all just helpless pawns in this scenario, doomed to horrible lives? First of all, understand that A) the bankers at the center of this are evil and immoral and do not care a whit for the future of the planet or anybody on it. (See Thom Hartman's article on why CEO's and bankers get paid millions to do middle class jobs: Because they are sociopaths); and B) Nobody in Congress, the White House or the courts is interested in stopping them. They own Congress, the White House and the courts, so forget petitions and phone calls to your reps. They don't care either. (There are exceptions - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for one, described the bank bailout as a "financial coup d'etat" carried out in the middle of the night without consent of Congress). I would go further. It was a hold-up. Hank Paulsen pointed a gun at Barney Frank's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless he handed over every last dime in the United States Treasury. When the House voted down the bailout, he held true to his threat and tanked the Dow another 700 points overnight. In the end, Paulsen got every last dime in the US treasury. And since he was not required to account for what he did with it, we can only assume it went to bonus pay for the bankers who destroyed the lives of 350 million Americans.
So what do we do? The obvious solution is to throw most elected reps out of office in the next election. That assumes that voters are allowed to vote, which means voters must carry the specific forms of photo ID their state now requires; and that assumes that electronic voting machines without paper receipts are actually counting votes and not making up numbers out of fantasy. (To vote at all in the state of Georgia is a total waste of time. There has not been an honest election in Georgia in twelve years.) That also assumes that the vote totals will not be wired into Republican National Headquarters to be altered before they are published, as happened in the 2004 presidential election. Big assumptions.
We need Tahrir Square. I recall a segment on CNN when Occupy Wall Street first hit the media. A reporter on the scene was asked, "Is this Tahrir Square?" He responded, "Oh, no. Nothing like that. Just a bunch of frustrated kids. Nothing to worry about". Nothing for who to worry about? The bankers at Goldman Sachs? Yes, that is what he meant. We need to give them something to worry about. They actually are terrified of us, the people. Why else cancel Posse Comitatus and build all of those concentration camps around the country? Why else pass legislation nullifying all rights guaranteed to the people by the US constitution, including habeas corpus and the right to a trial? Yes, we need to give them something to worry about. How many millions in the street will that take? Many. Many millions. And all of that must happen before this next election. If the relatively discrete demonstrations of the Occupy movements changed the conversation in Washington and led Obama onto a new path, what would a Tahrir Square accomplish? Much more.
And there must be demands. Not only "break up the banks " but shut them down and send the bankers to prison. Not only limit corporate bribes to campaigns, but remove ALL money from the electoral process and enact a law providing for publicly-funded elections. Not "reform" gerrymandering but eliminate it; Not add paper receipts to voting machines, but throw out ALL voting machines installed since Bush's hilariously-named "Help America Vote Act" corrupted the electoral system. Return to mail-in ballots or hand-written, hand-counted ballots, ballots that must be counted with representatives of all candidates present. Lastly we must dissolve the Federal Reserve and return to sound money printed by the US Treasury, not by a small group of private banks.
If we could accomplish those goals, before the election, we would not have to eliminate lobbyists because they would disappear. There would no longer be a reason for them to exist. As it currently stands, to call America a democracy is a joke and a lie. The people have NO say whatsoever - about any decision made in government. The corruption of all three branches of the US government is total and endemic. They are rotten and drowning in maggots. We need to get our say back. We need a real democracy. Will that take a full-out revolution? I hope not, but it might. And we all must be prepared for that. Or leave. If we, the people, lose this battle and they, the bankers, win, it will hardly be worth staying alive.
Lila York is a choreographer and activist. She has traded the markets since 1990.
Τετάρτη, 29 Φεβρουαρίου 2012
Το καλοκαίρι του 2009 αποφασίσθηκε η τύχη της Ελλάδας- STAND UP GREECE
Το καλοκαίρι του 2009 αποφασίσθηκε η τύχη της Ελλάδας
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Ερωτήματα εγείρει η «διαίσθηση» της αμερικανικής ιδιωτικής υπηρεσίας πληροφοριών Stratfor να παρακολουθεί τις κινήσεις τη Ελλάδας σε σχέση με το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο από τον Ιούνιο του 2009, δέκα ολόκληρους μήνες πριν από την απόφαση για την προσφυγή στον μηχανισμό βοήθειας και σχεδόν μισό χρόνο πριν από τις διερευνητικές επαφές Παπανδρέου – Στρος Καν.
Από τον ερευνητικό συνεταιρισμό που διοργάνωσε το Wikileaks με τουλάχιστον 25 μέσα ενημέρωσης παγκοσμίως, ανάμεσά τους και «ΤΑ ΝΕΑ», αποκαλύπτεται ότι η Stratfor διαθέτει πληθώρα πληροφοριοδοτών σε νευραλγικές θέσεις στης Ουάσιγκτον, τις Βρυξέλλες, την Τουρκία, το Ιράν, το Ισραήλ, την Κίνα και σε πολλές ακόμα χώρες. Δύο τέτοιες πηγές της «σκιώδους CIA», όπως έχει χαρακτηριστεί η συγκεκριμένη εταιρεία, έχουν δώσει και κωδικούς για να μην αναφέρονται ονόματα.
Το σύστημα της «σκιώδους CIA» λειτουργεί ως εξής: οι πληροφοριοδότες παρέχουν ευαίσθητες πληροφορίες στους συλλέκτες – χειριστές δεδομένων της εταιρείας, οι οποίοι με τη σειρά τους αξιολογούν και τις αποθηκεύουν ψηφιακό χώρο, όπου έχουν πρόσβαση οι αναλυτές που κάνουν την περαιτέρω επεξεργασία. Κάποιες από αυτές τις πληροφορίες, οι «ανώδυνες», περιλαμβάνονται στις εκθέσεις και τα δημοσιεύματα της Stratfor για τους συνδρομητές εταιρείας. Οι πλέον ευαίσθητες όμως δεν έβλεπαν το φως της δημοσιότητας - ούτε καν έμπαιναν στον ειδικό ψηφιακό χώρο: διανέμονταν μόνο στους αποδέκτες της λίστας ασφαλείας, που απαρτιζόταν από 10-15 υψηλόβαθμα στελέχη. Μάλιστα, όταν κάποιο στέλεχος ταξίδευε στο εξωτερικό, το όνομά του έβγαινε από τη λίστα για να μην υπάρχει περίπτωση να υποκλαπεί το e-mail κατά τη διαδρομή του εκτός συνόρων των ΗΠΑ.
Όπως προκύπτει από την ηλεκτρονική αλληλογραφία που απέκτησε το Wikileaks, στις 19 Ιουνίου 2009 υπάλληλος της Stratfor υπεύθυνος για τις χώρες της Κεντρικής Ευρώπης, της Βαλτικής και των Βαλκανίων απέστειλε σε συναδέλφους του που ασχολούνται με την ευρύτερη περιοχή της Ευρασίας μήνυμα με τίτλο «Αναλυτικές Οδηγίες για την Ευρώπη – Βαθμίδα 3». Σε αυτό υπήρχε επισυναπτόμενο αρχείο κείμενο, όπου αναφέρονται λεπτομέρειες για τα θέματα στα οποία πρέπει να δώσουν βαρύτητα. Συγκεκριμένα για τη χώρα μας, ανάμεσα σε άλλες οδηγίες παρακολούθησης, επισημαινόταν ότι «πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε επακριβώς τις συμβαίνει και εάν/πότε η Ελλάδα θα κάνει αίτηση για δάνειο από το ΔΝΤ. Είναι πολύ πιθανό να γίνουμε μάρτυρες μιας ολοκληρωτικής οικονομικής κατάρρευσης σε χώρα της ευρωζώνης. Παρακαλώ, δώστε προσοχή σε οποιαδήποτε σημάδια διαπραγμάτευσης ομολόγων. Η Ελλάδα έχει μεγάλο χρέος, το πως θα κινηθούν μπορεί να εξαρτάται από το τι θα γίνει με τος χρέος τους».
Σημειώνεται ότι από τον Ιούνιο του 2009 που απεστάλησαν οι «οδηγίες παρακολούθησης» δεν ήταν γνωστή η πρόβλεψη Μπαρόζο για τα υψηλά επίπεδα του ελληνικού ελλείμματος, καθώς το σχετικό έγγραφο συντάχθηκε τον επόμενο μήνα. Ούτε ότι το ταμειακό έλλειμμα κινείται στο 10%,όπως αποκαλύφθηκε στα τέλη του καλοκαιριού.
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Ερωτήματα εγείρει η «διαίσθηση» της αμερικανικής ιδιωτικής υπηρεσίας πληροφοριών Stratfor να παρακολουθεί τις κινήσεις τη Ελλάδας σε σχέση με το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο από τον Ιούνιο του 2009, δέκα ολόκληρους μήνες πριν από την απόφαση για την προσφυγή στον μηχανισμό βοήθειας και σχεδόν μισό χρόνο πριν από τις διερευνητικές επαφές Παπανδρέου – Στρος Καν.
Από τον ερευνητικό συνεταιρισμό που διοργάνωσε το Wikileaks με τουλάχιστον 25 μέσα ενημέρωσης παγκοσμίως, ανάμεσά τους και «ΤΑ ΝΕΑ», αποκαλύπτεται ότι η Stratfor διαθέτει πληθώρα πληροφοριοδοτών σε νευραλγικές θέσεις στης Ουάσιγκτον, τις Βρυξέλλες, την Τουρκία, το Ιράν, το Ισραήλ, την Κίνα και σε πολλές ακόμα χώρες. Δύο τέτοιες πηγές της «σκιώδους CIA», όπως έχει χαρακτηριστεί η συγκεκριμένη εταιρεία, έχουν δώσει και κωδικούς για να μην αναφέρονται ονόματα.
Το σύστημα της «σκιώδους CIA» λειτουργεί ως εξής: οι πληροφοριοδότες παρέχουν ευαίσθητες πληροφορίες στους συλλέκτες – χειριστές δεδομένων της εταιρείας, οι οποίοι με τη σειρά τους αξιολογούν και τις αποθηκεύουν ψηφιακό χώρο, όπου έχουν πρόσβαση οι αναλυτές που κάνουν την περαιτέρω επεξεργασία. Κάποιες από αυτές τις πληροφορίες, οι «ανώδυνες», περιλαμβάνονται στις εκθέσεις και τα δημοσιεύματα της Stratfor για τους συνδρομητές εταιρείας. Οι πλέον ευαίσθητες όμως δεν έβλεπαν το φως της δημοσιότητας - ούτε καν έμπαιναν στον ειδικό ψηφιακό χώρο: διανέμονταν μόνο στους αποδέκτες της λίστας ασφαλείας, που απαρτιζόταν από 10-15 υψηλόβαθμα στελέχη. Μάλιστα, όταν κάποιο στέλεχος ταξίδευε στο εξωτερικό, το όνομά του έβγαινε από τη λίστα για να μην υπάρχει περίπτωση να υποκλαπεί το e-mail κατά τη διαδρομή του εκτός συνόρων των ΗΠΑ.
Όπως προκύπτει από την ηλεκτρονική αλληλογραφία που απέκτησε το Wikileaks, στις 19 Ιουνίου 2009 υπάλληλος της Stratfor υπεύθυνος για τις χώρες της Κεντρικής Ευρώπης, της Βαλτικής και των Βαλκανίων απέστειλε σε συναδέλφους του που ασχολούνται με την ευρύτερη περιοχή της Ευρασίας μήνυμα με τίτλο «Αναλυτικές Οδηγίες για την Ευρώπη – Βαθμίδα 3». Σε αυτό υπήρχε επισυναπτόμενο αρχείο κείμενο, όπου αναφέρονται λεπτομέρειες για τα θέματα στα οποία πρέπει να δώσουν βαρύτητα. Συγκεκριμένα για τη χώρα μας, ανάμεσα σε άλλες οδηγίες παρακολούθησης, επισημαινόταν ότι «πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε επακριβώς τις συμβαίνει και εάν/πότε η Ελλάδα θα κάνει αίτηση για δάνειο από το ΔΝΤ. Είναι πολύ πιθανό να γίνουμε μάρτυρες μιας ολοκληρωτικής οικονομικής κατάρρευσης σε χώρα της ευρωζώνης. Παρακαλώ, δώστε προσοχή σε οποιαδήποτε σημάδια διαπραγμάτευσης ομολόγων. Η Ελλάδα έχει μεγάλο χρέος, το πως θα κινηθούν μπορεί να εξαρτάται από το τι θα γίνει με τος χρέος τους».
Σημειώνεται ότι από τον Ιούνιο του 2009 που απεστάλησαν οι «οδηγίες παρακολούθησης» δεν ήταν γνωστή η πρόβλεψη Μπαρόζο για τα υψηλά επίπεδα του ελληνικού ελλείμματος, καθώς το σχετικό έγγραφο συντάχθηκε τον επόμενο μήνα. Ούτε ότι το ταμειακό έλλειμμα κινείται στο 10%,όπως αποκαλύφθηκε στα τέλη του καλοκαιριού.
ΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΟ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΕΩΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΘΝΙΚΩΝ ΘΕΜΑΤΩΝ
ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΣΤΟ ΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΕΩΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΘΝΙΚΩΝ ΘΕΜΑΤΩΝ
STRATFOR:"Η κρίση στην Ελλάδα είναι πια πολιτική"....
ΧΩΡΙΣ ΛΟΓΙΑ
Σημαντική παρέμβαση του Προέδρου της Κυπριακής Βου...
Αλλαγή στρατηγικής στο Κυπριακό, ζητεί ο Ομήρου
Ο Ρήγας και οι λαθρομετανάστες
Επείγει όσο ποτέ στρατηγική συσπείρωση του Ελληνισ...
Νότια του Καστελόριζου έδωσε άδειες ερευνών για πε...
Το Αγαθονήσι, το Φαρμακονήσι και η τουρκική θαλασσ...
http://ethnikonthematon.blogspot.com
STRATFOR:"Η κρίση στην Ελλάδα είναι πια πολιτική"....
ΧΩΡΙΣ ΛΟΓΙΑ
Σημαντική παρέμβαση του Προέδρου της Κυπριακής Βου...
Αλλαγή στρατηγικής στο Κυπριακό, ζητεί ο Ομήρου
Ο Ρήγας και οι λαθρομετανάστες
Επείγει όσο ποτέ στρατηγική συσπείρωση του Ελληνισ...
Νότια του Καστελόριζου έδωσε άδειες ερευνών για πε...
Το Αγαθονήσι, το Φαρμακονήσι και η τουρκική θαλασσ...
http://ethnikonthematon.blogspot.com
A dozen bankers are destroying civilization and governments don't care-"CITIZENS OF THE EARTH STAND UP GREECE"
"CITIZENS OF THE EARTH STAND UP GREECE"
A dozen bankers are destroying civilization and governments don't care
By lila york (about the author)
opednews.com
The Katrina debacle was a warm-up act. So was the mortgage fraud with its 30 million foreclosures and resultant homelessness. So is the lifetime indebtedness of young people seeking a college degree. What is ahead is more of the above, multiplied by a million. What US banks did to third world countries for decades they are now doing to the people of western industrialized nations - including our own. Just as bankers lured millions into home loans they could not afford with malice aforethought, those same bankers lured nations into loans they could not afford. That is what they do and always have done. It was easier to ignore when those nations were Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. (See John Perkins' must-read book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". You will forgive me if I have omitted nations - the CIA and the bankers are relentlessly busy). Now many of those nations are prospering and free of indebtedness to US bankers - probably forever. (They barter oil for other commodities in order to avoid the US dollar completely). So what was a greedy banker to do? He had to find new victims.
At the center of this Armageddon are the banks on the dole from the Federal Reserve: JP Morgan (and its investment arm, Morgan Stanley), Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo, all of whom trade derivatives worth more than the GDP of the entire world. Their modus operandi is to lure nations into low-interest loans they know with certainty cannot be repaid, thus forcing bankruptcy and allowing them to storm in like a flock of vultures and seize every asset the nation has - every mine, railroad, monument and public utility - at pennies on the dollar; then driving up prices for a massive profit, forcing the population into ruinous poverty. That scenario was instigated and played out in every country listed above , beginning in the 1960's and is being enacted now. Greece is only the most recent carcass. Next on their list: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, France and finally, the United States, where the Fed has finally done it - printed money in excess of the entire GDP of America. (As of January of this year, the national GDP was 15 trillion and 816 million dollars; the national debt rose to 15 trillion plus 65 billion dollars.) Fed policy is confusing, even for those who follow it, but suffice it to say that if all of that newly- created cash had not been siphoned into stock and commodity speculation - ending up in the Cayman Island bank accounts of corporate CEO's and bankers - but instead had gone into the economy - jobs, education, clean energy and infrastructure - the entire debt situation would look much better, since millions more Americans would be paying income taxes and be off of the food stamp rolls.
Rate of money creation by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Rate at which money reaches the economy by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Instead it is in the stock market, oil speculation and US treasuries. That is where they put it. The nefarious purpose of this blatant act is not to "stimulate the economy" (since little of it was invested in the economy) but to allow members of Congress and corporate insiders to sell out of their stock holdings at record highs (which they are doing) assuring them of infinite wealth, before the market crashes again, as it always does after these rigged market rises. Wonder why gasoline is now 4 dollars a gallon when world demand is in fast decline? It is the Fed. Again. Free dollars drive up the price of everything priced in it. (Free to bankers only. The rest of us pay between 8% and 30% for those same dollars) Dodd-Frank supposedly outlawed Goldman's oil speculation plots, but the law is not enforced. Why? Because the Republican House of Representatives refused to provide the funds to the regulatory body charged with enforcing the law. Their Plan B, their ace in the hole when all of this money printing fails? Global war, initiated by the bombing of Iran. Hey, it worked in 1940, didn't it? Doesn't war always end recessions?
Where is this plot headed? What is their final, final objective? Wealth in the trillions for that handful of white guys and slavery for the rest of us. In the end, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will own every inch of real estate and every hard asset on the planet. That is their objective. They will become the new Hitlers and Mussolinis of the planet, dictating their will to governments. They are well on their way. As European nations fall to bankruptcy they are sucking up the spoils of their financial war. Corporations now pay Chinese workers a dollar a day instead of paying union labor in the US a living wage. They have imported tech workers from India at half-price and Mexican labor to supplant the last unskilled workers left in the U S. The only remaining obstacle to the total enslavement of Americans is the public sector unions - unions that represent the only jobs that cannot be shipped to the slave factories of Asia. Look at the number of Republican state legislatures and Republican governors erasing those unions from existence at record speed, as they ram through "right to work for pennies" laws. They are not going to stop until every last nurse, teacher and policeman is working for a dollar a day, confirming a new normal of impoverished misery for America. Advanced college degrees will soon only be held by the children of the richest .01% of Americans. And the ultimate coup - The Fed stated in comments of its last meeting that it is planning to devalue the dollar by another 33% over the next twenty years. Mind you the dollar has already lost over 30% of its value, so that totals up to a 63% loss of purchasing power over a thirty year period.Translation: A Depression economy coupled with hyperinflation driving up the cost of living to unseen levels.
Okay. What do we do about this? Are we all just helpless pawns in this scenario, doomed to horrible lives? First of all, understand that A) the bankers at the center of this are evil and immoral and do not care a whit for the future of the planet or anybody on it. (See Thom Hartman's article on why CEO's and bankers get paid millions to do middle class jobs: Because they are sociopaths); and B) Nobody in Congress, the White House or the courts is interested in stopping them. They own Congress, the White House and the courts, so forget petitions and phone calls to your reps. They don't care either. (There are exceptions - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for one, described the bank bailout as a "financial coup d'etat" carried out in the middle of the night without consent of Congress). I would go further. It was a hold-up. Hank Paulsen pointed a gun at Barney Frank's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless he handed over every last dime in the United States Treasury. When the House voted down the bailout, he held true to his threat and tanked the Dow another 700 points overnight. In the end, Paulsen got every last dime in the US treasury. And since he was not required to account for what he did with it, we can only assume it went to bonus pay for the bankers who destroyed the lives of 350 million Americans.
So what do we do? The obvious solution is to throw most elected reps out of office in the next election. That assumes that voters are allowed to vote, which means voters must carry the specific forms of photo ID their state now requires; and that assumes that electronic voting machines without paper receipts are actually counting votes and not making up numbers out of fantasy. (To vote at all in the state of Georgia is a total waste of time. There has not been an honest election in Georgia in twelve years.) That also assumes that the vote totals will not be wired into Republican National Headquarters to be altered before they are published, as happened in the 2004 presidential election. Big assumptions.
We need Tahrir Square. I recall a segment on CNN when Occupy Wall Street first hit the media. A reporter on the scene was asked, "Is this Tahrir Square?" He responded, "Oh, no. Nothing like that. Just a bunch of frustrated kids. Nothing to worry about". Nothing for who to worry about? The bankers at Goldman Sachs? Yes, that is what he meant. We need to give them something to worry about. They actually are terrified of us, the people. Why else cancel Posse Comitatus and build all of those concentration camps around the country? Why else pass legislation nullifying all rights guaranteed to the people by the US constitution, including habeas corpus and the right to a trial? Yes, we need to give them something to worry about. How many millions in the street will that take? Many. Many millions. And all of that must happen before this next election. If the relatively discrete demonstrations of the Occupy movements changed the conversation in Washington and led Obama onto a new path, what would a Tahrir Square accomplish? Much more.
And there must be demands. Not only "break up the banks " but shut them down and send the bankers to prison. Not only limit corporate bribes to campaigns, but remove ALL money from the electoral process and enact a law providing for publicly-funded elections. Not "reform" gerrymandering but eliminate it; Not add paper receipts to voting machines, but throw out ALL voting machines installed since Bush's hilariously-named "Help America Vote Act" corrupted the electoral system. Return to mail-in ballots or hand-written, hand-counted ballots, ballots that must be counted with representatives of all candidates present. Lastly we must dissolve the Federal Reserve and return to sound money printed by the US Treasury, not by a small group of private banks.
If we could accomplish those goals, before the election, we would not have to eliminate lobbyists because they would disappear. There would no longer be a reason for them to exist. As it currently stands, to call America a democracy is a joke and a lie. The people have NO say whatsoever - about any decision made in government. The corruption of all three branches of the US government is total and endemic. They are rotten and drowning in maggots. We need to get our say back. We need a real democracy. Will that take a full-out revolution? I hope not, but it might. And we all must be prepared for that. Or leave. If we, the people, lose this battle and they, the bankers, win, it will hardly be worth staying alive.
Lila York is a choreographer and activist. She has traded the markets since 1990.
A dozen bankers are destroying civilization and governments don't care
By lila york (about the author)
opednews.com
The Katrina debacle was a warm-up act. So was the mortgage fraud with its 30 million foreclosures and resultant homelessness. So is the lifetime indebtedness of young people seeking a college degree. What is ahead is more of the above, multiplied by a million. What US banks did to third world countries for decades they are now doing to the people of western industrialized nations - including our own. Just as bankers lured millions into home loans they could not afford with malice aforethought, those same bankers lured nations into loans they could not afford. That is what they do and always have done. It was easier to ignore when those nations were Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. (See John Perkins' must-read book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". You will forgive me if I have omitted nations - the CIA and the bankers are relentlessly busy). Now many of those nations are prospering and free of indebtedness to US bankers - probably forever. (They barter oil for other commodities in order to avoid the US dollar completely). So what was a greedy banker to do? He had to find new victims.
At the center of this Armageddon are the banks on the dole from the Federal Reserve: JP Morgan (and its investment arm, Morgan Stanley), Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo, all of whom trade derivatives worth more than the GDP of the entire world. Their modus operandi is to lure nations into low-interest loans they know with certainty cannot be repaid, thus forcing bankruptcy and allowing them to storm in like a flock of vultures and seize every asset the nation has - every mine, railroad, monument and public utility - at pennies on the dollar; then driving up prices for a massive profit, forcing the population into ruinous poverty. That scenario was instigated and played out in every country listed above , beginning in the 1960's and is being enacted now. Greece is only the most recent carcass. Next on their list: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, France and finally, the United States, where the Fed has finally done it - printed money in excess of the entire GDP of America. (As of January of this year, the national GDP was 15 trillion and 816 million dollars; the national debt rose to 15 trillion plus 65 billion dollars.) Fed policy is confusing, even for those who follow it, but suffice it to say that if all of that newly- created cash had not been siphoned into stock and commodity speculation - ending up in the Cayman Island bank accounts of corporate CEO's and bankers - but instead had gone into the economy - jobs, education, clean energy and infrastructure - the entire debt situation would look much better, since millions more Americans would be paying income taxes and be off of the food stamp rolls.
Rate of money creation by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Rate at which money reaches the economy by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Instead it is in the stock market, oil speculation and US treasuries. That is where they put it. The nefarious purpose of this blatant act is not to "stimulate the economy" (since little of it was invested in the economy) but to allow members of Congress and corporate insiders to sell out of their stock holdings at record highs (which they are doing) assuring them of infinite wealth, before the market crashes again, as it always does after these rigged market rises. Wonder why gasoline is now 4 dollars a gallon when world demand is in fast decline? It is the Fed. Again. Free dollars drive up the price of everything priced in it. (Free to bankers only. The rest of us pay between 8% and 30% for those same dollars) Dodd-Frank supposedly outlawed Goldman's oil speculation plots, but the law is not enforced. Why? Because the Republican House of Representatives refused to provide the funds to the regulatory body charged with enforcing the law. Their Plan B, their ace in the hole when all of this money printing fails? Global war, initiated by the bombing of Iran. Hey, it worked in 1940, didn't it? Doesn't war always end recessions?
Where is this plot headed? What is their final, final objective? Wealth in the trillions for that handful of white guys and slavery for the rest of us. In the end, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will own every inch of real estate and every hard asset on the planet. That is their objective. They will become the new Hitlers and Mussolinis of the planet, dictating their will to governments. They are well on their way. As European nations fall to bankruptcy they are sucking up the spoils of their financial war. Corporations now pay Chinese workers a dollar a day instead of paying union labor in the US a living wage. They have imported tech workers from India at half-price and Mexican labor to supplant the last unskilled workers left in the U S. The only remaining obstacle to the total enslavement of Americans is the public sector unions - unions that represent the only jobs that cannot be shipped to the slave factories of Asia. Look at the number of Republican state legislatures and Republican governors erasing those unions from existence at record speed, as they ram through "right to work for pennies" laws. They are not going to stop until every last nurse, teacher and policeman is working for a dollar a day, confirming a new normal of impoverished misery for America. Advanced college degrees will soon only be held by the children of the richest .01% of Americans. And the ultimate coup - The Fed stated in comments of its last meeting that it is planning to devalue the dollar by another 33% over the next twenty years. Mind you the dollar has already lost over 30% of its value, so that totals up to a 63% loss of purchasing power over a thirty year period.Translation: A Depression economy coupled with hyperinflation driving up the cost of living to unseen levels.
Okay. What do we do about this? Are we all just helpless pawns in this scenario, doomed to horrible lives? First of all, understand that A) the bankers at the center of this are evil and immoral and do not care a whit for the future of the planet or anybody on it. (See Thom Hartman's article on why CEO's and bankers get paid millions to do middle class jobs: Because they are sociopaths); and B) Nobody in Congress, the White House or the courts is interested in stopping them. They own Congress, the White House and the courts, so forget petitions and phone calls to your reps. They don't care either. (There are exceptions - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for one, described the bank bailout as a "financial coup d'etat" carried out in the middle of the night without consent of Congress). I would go further. It was a hold-up. Hank Paulsen pointed a gun at Barney Frank's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless he handed over every last dime in the United States Treasury. When the House voted down the bailout, he held true to his threat and tanked the Dow another 700 points overnight. In the end, Paulsen got every last dime in the US treasury. And since he was not required to account for what he did with it, we can only assume it went to bonus pay for the bankers who destroyed the lives of 350 million Americans.
So what do we do? The obvious solution is to throw most elected reps out of office in the next election. That assumes that voters are allowed to vote, which means voters must carry the specific forms of photo ID their state now requires; and that assumes that electronic voting machines without paper receipts are actually counting votes and not making up numbers out of fantasy. (To vote at all in the state of Georgia is a total waste of time. There has not been an honest election in Georgia in twelve years.) That also assumes that the vote totals will not be wired into Republican National Headquarters to be altered before they are published, as happened in the 2004 presidential election. Big assumptions.
We need Tahrir Square. I recall a segment on CNN when Occupy Wall Street first hit the media. A reporter on the scene was asked, "Is this Tahrir Square?" He responded, "Oh, no. Nothing like that. Just a bunch of frustrated kids. Nothing to worry about". Nothing for who to worry about? The bankers at Goldman Sachs? Yes, that is what he meant. We need to give them something to worry about. They actually are terrified of us, the people. Why else cancel Posse Comitatus and build all of those concentration camps around the country? Why else pass legislation nullifying all rights guaranteed to the people by the US constitution, including habeas corpus and the right to a trial? Yes, we need to give them something to worry about. How many millions in the street will that take? Many. Many millions. And all of that must happen before this next election. If the relatively discrete demonstrations of the Occupy movements changed the conversation in Washington and led Obama onto a new path, what would a Tahrir Square accomplish? Much more.
And there must be demands. Not only "break up the banks " but shut them down and send the bankers to prison. Not only limit corporate bribes to campaigns, but remove ALL money from the electoral process and enact a law providing for publicly-funded elections. Not "reform" gerrymandering but eliminate it; Not add paper receipts to voting machines, but throw out ALL voting machines installed since Bush's hilariously-named "Help America Vote Act" corrupted the electoral system. Return to mail-in ballots or hand-written, hand-counted ballots, ballots that must be counted with representatives of all candidates present. Lastly we must dissolve the Federal Reserve and return to sound money printed by the US Treasury, not by a small group of private banks.
If we could accomplish those goals, before the election, we would not have to eliminate lobbyists because they would disappear. There would no longer be a reason for them to exist. As it currently stands, to call America a democracy is a joke and a lie. The people have NO say whatsoever - about any decision made in government. The corruption of all three branches of the US government is total and endemic. They are rotten and drowning in maggots. We need to get our say back. We need a real democracy. Will that take a full-out revolution? I hope not, but it might. And we all must be prepared for that. Or leave. If we, the people, lose this battle and they, the bankers, win, it will hardly be worth staying alive.
Lila York is a choreographer and activist. She has traded the markets since 1990.
KALI YUGA REPORT 120229-CITIZENS OF THE EARTH STAND UP GREECE!
PROVIDING INFORMATION NOT FOUND IN THE ZIONIST CONTROLLED MEDIA,
MONITORING THE AGE OF DARKNESS, IGNORANCE, GREED AND STUPIDITY
& THE ZIONIST WARS FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE.
SETTING STRAIGHT THE RECORD OF HISTORY.
KALI YUGA REPORT 120229
1 - GILAD ATZMON : Conversation, humor & introspection + Zionist Immoral Intervention +
The Jewish Question and Racial Oppression today +
Dershowitz employs new and comical tactic - Nicholas Urie
2 - AIPAC Declares War - Philip Giraldi
3 - Is Holocaust II inevitable ? - Alan Hart
4 - U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agree : No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program - Madison Ruppert
5 - TEN Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran - David Swanson + Israel backing down from Iran threats - Michael Carmichael
6 - Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant - Felicity Arbuthnot + Tarpley : False Flag Alert, Blaming Assad For NATO Murders, The Kids Are Already Dead, Slain by NATO Death Squads
7 - Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government - Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham +
Russian Secret Services : U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
8 - Ales Bialiatski : legally a convicted criminal, ideologically a “human rights activist” - Gearóid Ó Colmáin
9 - Anti-Assad Propaganda Assault Heats Up With Claims of WMDs - Madison Ruppert
10 - Taking the Republicans Seriously - Justin Raimondo
11 - Brutal Bahraini State Terror - Stephen Lendman
12 - Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
13 - Syrian Rebels Captured With Israeli Weapons
14 - New York's U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules MERS's Business Model Is Illegal - Prof.L. Randall Wray
15 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State - Sartre
16 - Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland - Saman Mohammadi
17 - Intervention, Reloaded - Nebojsa Malic
18 - Armed attack on Catholic monastery in Syria + Syria slams "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia
19 - Syria grants Red Cross access to Homs
20 - A dozen bankers are destroying civilization- and governments don't care - lila York
21 - Satanic Possession - Kaj Krinsmøe
22 - It pays to be an FBI Terrorist Bomber
23 - THE NEXUS OF EVIL, part 10 - Philip Jones, Introduction Alex James
24 - Teachers : How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution ? - Carl Herman
25 - Roy Tov : Anne Frank’s Cult Backfires
26 - The Satanic Core of Libertarianism - Memehunter
27 - Northwestern's Intellectual Hall of Shame - Jacques Le Vangie
28 - The New Mediterranean Oil And Gas Bonanza, Part I - Israel’s Levant Basin - A New Geopolitical Curse? -F. William Engdahl
29 - Utah Bill : Videotaping a Factory Farm is Same as Assaulting a Police Officer - Will Potter
30 - Chemtrail Whistle Blower Speaks, Part 1 - Luemas
31 - PETRUS ROMANUS : the false prophet and the Anti-Christ are here, part 5 - Thomas R. Horn
32 - Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
33 - iN 1992 Eustace Mullins Exposed Dr. John Coleman (Joseph Pavlonsky, ashkenazi jew & Mossad agent)
34 - Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances - Sayer Ji
35 - Bill Gates, Monsanto and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture - Ethan A. Huff
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ACTION ALERT
February 25, 2012
Contact: news_editor@wrmea.com
1 - Conversation, humor and introspection with Gilad Atzmon
Israeli-born Gilad Atzmon, one of Europe’s finest jazz musicians, comes to Washington, DC for the first time as part of his multi-city North American tour to perform and discuss his recently published and highly controversial book, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics.
The Guardian described Atzmon as “one of London’s finest saxophonists [but] it is Atzmon’s blunt anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where his essays are widely read.”
A prolific performer, composer, author and activist, Atzmon brings his intellect and artistry to bear on Israel’s continuing occupation of Palestine. He strips away the propaganda and the polemics in U.S.-Israel relations that hide one simple fact: Palestinian people continue to live under occupation, financed by the United States, an occupation that builds roads they cannot use and houses in which they cannot live.
At each DC event the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs will be selling Atzmon’s CD “The Tide Has Changed” and his book The Wandering Who?—although as Prof. Garrison Fewell warns, when you finish reading the latter, you may likely “see a different face in the mirror.” (You can also purchase the book and CD directly from the AET Book Club middleeastbooks.com)
For more information call the Washington Report at (202) 939-6050 or visit www.wrmea.com orwww.gilad.co.uk. To purchase Atzmon’s book or CD, visit www.middleeastbooks.com.
Toronto, Canada
Friday, Feb. 24, 7 pm—Islamic Society of York Region, 1380 Stouffville Rd., Richmond Hill, ON; tickets $10 per person. Contact: (905) 887-8913.
California
Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:30 pm—Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St., Oakland, CA; suggested donation of $10-$20. Contact: (510) 224-3518.
Monday, Feb. 27 —Berkeley, CA. Private dinner, by invitation only.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2-4 pm, 8 pm— University of La Verne, 1950 3rd St., La Verne, CA. Presidents Dining Room, 2 pm; Morgan Auditorium, 8 pm. Contact: (909) 593-3511.
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 7:30 pm—Levantine Cultural Center, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Free, reservations suggested. Contact: (310) 657-5511.
Colorado
Thursday, March 1, 7 pm—University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, CO. UMC, Free for the public.
Friday, March 2, 8-11 pm—Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan Street, Denver, CO; price TBD. Contact: (720) 946-1388.
Saturday, March 3, 7-10 pm—3rd Street Center, Carbondale, CO.
Texas
Monday, March 5, 7-10 pm—Café Nayal, 6328 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX 77057.
Illinois
Wednesday, March 7, 7-9 p.m—Northeastern Illinois University Recital Hall, 5500 North St. Louis Ave., Chicago, IL; free.
Wisconsin
Friday, March 9, 7 pm—discussion, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1111 Humanities.
Friday, March 9, 10 pm—music portion to follow, The Weary Traveler, 1201 Williamson St., Madison, WI. Visit www.UWsw.blogspot.com
Georgia
Saturday, March 10 – Atlanta, GA. More information to come.
Washington, DC
Sunday, March 11, 3-5 pm—Plymouth Congregational Church with Maceo Kemp, 5301 North Capitol St., Washington, DC, open to public, donation to church recommended/not required.
Sunday, March 11, 6:30-9:30 pm — DC Jazz session at Dahlak Restaurant, 1771 U St. NW, Washington, DC; no cover charge.
New York
Tuesday, March 13, 7 pm —The Cracker Factory, 35 Lehigh St., Geneva, NY. Contact:(315) 246-4395.
Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 14, 6:30-8:30 pm—Gilad Atzmon discusses The Wandering Who?and other matters with Norton Mezvinsky, Connecticut State Professor of History Emeritus, at the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC; free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 15, 5-7 pm —Music and talk at DC Peace House, 1233 12th St. NW, Washington, DC; free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 15, 8 pm—possible additional event TBA.
New York
Friday, March 16 – New York, NY. More information to come.
Atzmon’s Washington, DC appearances are co-sponsored by the Washington Report, Deir Yassin Remembered, If Americans Knew and Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends.
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Zionist Immoral Intervention
Friday, February 24, 2012
By Gilad Atzmon
http://www.deliberation.info/
Alan Dershowitz - Zionut extrordinaire
Alan Dershowitz is whining again, this time on the pages of the Jerusalem Post. Apparently The Friends Seminary of New York which assigned its students to read my papers and invited me to attend a class, has made it clear to Israeli ethnic cleanser apologist that he was not welcome in its premises.
Dershowitz Admits Defeat
In short, Dershowitz admits total defeat. The Quaker school that was “unwilling to cancel Atzmon’s appearance” made it clear to the Zionist supremacist that he was unwelcomed.
This is not the first time Dershowitz is hurt by me being welcomed while he is spitted out. Yet, I am puzzled by the fact that Dershowitz is so keen to share his humiliation with the public. Normal people tend to hide such an embarrassing developments. Dershowitz may have well developed a close affinity to himself being a victim. This tendency is indeed symptomatic within the Jewish identity discourse and Jewish culture. It is there to stop self-reflection. Rather than looking in the mirror Dershowitz celebrates self-pity hoping to buy some empathy amongst his supportive Jewish crowd. It reminds me an old Jewish joke. Why don’t Jews drink? Because it numbs the pain. Dershowitz, is not going to hide or let the pain fade, he would actually make it into his flag.
According to Dershowitz whom Noam Chomsky and many others regard as a ‘remarkable Liar’, the headmaster of the Friends Seminary, has broken his solemn promise to him, to bring him along to present the anti Atzmon argument.
Dershowitz insists that the headmaster of the seminary agreed to:
Speak at an assembly to the students about the “evils of anti-Semitism”.
Assigned Dershowitz’ essay to the students who were assigned my essay
Invite Deshowitz to address the students
Dershowitz suggests that the Seminary broke those 3 promises. “Apparently”, according to Dershowitz, “the students who were at the assembly have confirmed that the speakers only made things worse. The teacher who invited Atzmon talked about what a great musician he was. The headmaster was defensive about how his words were manipulated and justified bringing Atzmon based on Quaker principles.”
It doesn’t take a genius to realise that my work is compatible with Quaker philosophy – I preach peace and tolerance. Yet, I wonder how long is it going to take to Dershowitz to accept that my work is supported by some of the greatest humanists of our time, while he, has managed to buy himself a horrendous reputation of a compulsive liar and a defender of a genocidal State. How long will it take for Dershowitz, ADL and AZZs to accept that calling me an ‘anti Semite’ or a ‘holocaust denier’ is counter effective. First, because I am not. Second, because it only proves that Jewish culture has lost its capacity to engage in any process of self reflection or productive exchange.
By now it must be clear to my detractors that all those Jewish smear campaigns against myself and The Wandering Who only achieved one thing. They proved how valid my criticism of Jewish identity Politics is.
Dershowitz is deluded enough to believe that the real reason behind his rejection was “pressure from hard-left members” within the faculty. He is obviously wrong. Dershowitz ideology and manners are incompatible with humanism let alone Quaker philosophy. There is no room for Dershowitz in any pluralist or tolerant institute and not because of his supremacist or racist views, but because the elder Zionist is an opponent of elementary freedoms and human rights.
As one would expect, Dershowitz reverts to the usual Zionist pressure.
“Unless I am invited to address the students inside the school, I will appear outside the school, where I will hand out my essays to those students who are willing to read them and will address those students who have an interest in hearing a response to anti-Semitism. I am also considering inviting parents, students and other members of the Friends Seminary community to an event, in a venue outside the school, where these issues can be discussed openly and candidly.”
Watch some exciting moments from the MLK memorial concert @ Friends Meeting House, an event Dershowitz attempted to destroy
http://youtu.be/AaKNXvLqDpg
I am perplexed, if Dershowitz is so convinced by his argument, why wouldn’t he debate me? Is he afraid? Probably and he has a good reason. However, Dershowitz offer is indeed an amazing development, the notorious supremacist offers some free Zionist supplementary teaching for Quaker youngsters. This must be ideal, the students will be able to enjoy both worlds. They will encompass the true meaning of peace in the morning and then learn how to justify a Zionist massacre just before they go to bed. lol
Dershowitz ends his daily drivel saying, “the Friends Seminary, like other elite schools around the United States, teaches our future leaders.” For once, I agree with Dershowitz. This is exactly why the Quaker institute assigned a humanist paper by myself while Dershowitz and his paper were not allowed entry.
To read The Primacy of the Ear, the paper that was assigned by the Quaker faculty click here.
Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Dershowitz employs new and comical tactic
Friday, February 24, 2012
By Nicholas Urie
http://www.nicholasurie.com
(Reminder: I’m commenting on this not a a member of the Friends family, but as someone who arranged the music for the concert, which was awesome. I am really proud of the band’s excellent hard work, Gilad’s wonderful playing, and the audience, who made the show feel electric. You can see the concert footage here: http://www.nicholasurie.com/news/?p=693)
I have to comment on Alan Dershowitz’s new epic from today’s Jerusalem Post, Friends Seminary plays bait, switch on anti-Semitism. In the article, Dershowitz continues his campaign of bullying and misinformation reaching new and even more spectacular heights. In my last two responses to the Friends-Dershowitz saga, “Alan Dershowitz, neo-McCarthyite,” and, Wall St. Journal Ignores Dershowitz’s History of Attacks in, “School Hits Sour Note.” I laid out some of the tactics employed by Mr. Dershowitz in his effort to smear Friends Seminary and its faculty, staff, students and parents.
Mr. Dershowitz has taken his McCarthyist shenanigans to a new level, with the manufacturing of “evidence” from whole cloth in an effort to add pressure to a situation that was clearly winding down. Until this point, his tactic had been simply to distort things so heavily that they were almost unrecognizable to anyone actually involved. By knocking the corners off of what was real, he was able to stir a tremendous amount controversy, knowing that people are often gullible to the brand of manipulation that mixes falsehoods with truth. As Mr. Dershowitz has discovered, these tactics will only take you so far. People start to see through manipulations of this kind, as Bo Lauder, the Principal of Friends Seminary has done, evidenced by his rescinding Mr. Dershowitz’s invitation to the school.
A grand untruth is what is needed now, to take this tar and feather show to the next level, and that is what Mr. Dershowitz has delivered. This new article is a masterstroke in his quest to shame Friends Seminary and strike fear in the minds of any institution that may openly disobey him in the future.
We should focus on one particularly egregious falsity; Mr. Dershowitz’s claim that, “The Friends Seminary in New York has a rabidly anti-Israel history teacher on its faculty, who propagandizes his students against Israel in the classroom.” This statement is patently false and meant only to embroil his readers. I recently sat down to lunch with the teacher in question, and I can attest that he is as measured and intellectually honest as one could hope for in a teacher of history. Our discussion over lunch was wide ranging and gave me no reason to suspect that Mr. Dershowitz’s claim is anything but a convenient fiction. (The history teacher is also Jewish, if that matters to anyone reading - though I think it is irrelevant in this discussion).
The inditement of the history teacher is a perfect example of the evolution of Mr. Dershowitz’s rhetoric. The idea to create a grand lie is nothing new, and a modern source of inspiration for this particular rhetorical device can be found in what can only be described as a comical place, Mein Kampf. The Hitlerian, “big lie.”
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, volume 1, ch. 10
The psychological profile of someone who employs this Hitlerian tactic was perfectly described by the OSS during the Second World War, and can be applied to Mr. Dershowitz and his plan of attack on not just Friends, but all of his philosophical/political rivals. The OSS wrote of Hitler that,
“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.” -OSS report, p.51
Can we not all see how this device is being used against the Friends Seminary community? It is transparent to the point of absurdity, and I think it is time that supporters of Mr. Dershowitz take a moment to reflect on what is actually going on, and parse out what this campaign is actually trying to accomplish.
I for one have had enough of this, and I hope that everyone who reads Mr. Dershowitz’s garbage has too. I applaud Friends for finally making the decision to ignore Mr. Dershowitz, and hopefully the school continues to do so, taking a large step toward sanity and the teaching of responsible rhetoric to the students in their charge.
The Jewish Question and Racial Oppression today
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:18AM
Gilad Atzmon
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Jewish Children Liberated from Auschwitz, 1945
Palestinian Prisoners of Israeli Army
One reason why the years-long controversy over Gilad Atzmon has generated such rancour, and why conflicts related to it such as the recent purge of ‘anti-semites’ from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been so bitter, is because they threaten to re-open the Jewish question. There was a time when the Jewish question was a matter of considerable debate and public controversy among those seeking greater democracy and social and economic equality. Witness Marx’s celebrated essay The Jewish Question, among many others.
It was of course, also a subject of dispute among those with the opposite aims as well. But since WWII the Jewish question has not really been explored as previously. It is as if the Nazi genocide set a seal on it and made it one of those questions that had been ‘decided’, notwithstanding controversies around Israel which often involved major debates but which were ultimately considered to be something confined to the Middle East region. But now the decline of Israel’s moral authority, and the threat it poses to ‘world peace’, and crucially the nature of its worldwide support, means the Jewish question must be addressed again.
Re-opening it is not something that can be done lightly; the nature of the Jewish people and its historical role is intertwined with some of the most tragic and barbaric events in human history. It contains a number of paradoxes and subtleties and is complex and not easy to analyse. It has also undergone major, arguably fundamental changes since the Second World War, that have mainly been so far analysed almost exclusively through the narrow prism of looking at Israel and Zionism.
There has tended to be a division in the way that socialists and progressive political thinkers have looked at this. Questions involving Israel come under the heading of ‘colonialism’ and imperialism, whereas the Jewish communities in the advanced countries at least have tended to be looked at one of several ethnic minority communities, mainly as potential targets of racial discrimination and right-wing extremism. The division of the Jewish question into two different ‘compartments’ has however been objectively undermined by the rise to prominence of aggressive, powerful pro-Israel Jewish organisations, particularly in the United States but also in Western Europe, gradually over the past three decades or more. These have acquired considerable power. Politicians go out of their way to appease them, even though the formal electoral base that they represent is actually pretty small in all these countries without exception.
When Oppressed Become Oppressors
Any objective examination of the situation can only come to the conclusion that, in the advanced capitalist countries, the oppression of the Jews is no more. No government, or seriously contending opposition party anywhere in the advanced capitalist world propagates any form of hostility to Jews, and none has done so for a very long time. On the contrary, it is a badge of honour in bourgeois politics today to be vehemently pro-Israel, and to denounce any criticism of Israel from the left as ‘anti-semitic’.
In the United States, the hegemony of Israel’s supporters through such bodies is very strong – it is extremely difficult for any politician critical even of Israel’s most outrageous crimes against Palestinians to maintain a career in the main capitalist parties. Those that make such criticisms face organised and usually successful attempts to force them to grovel in apology if they are lucky, otherwise to unseat them outright. Administrations of both main parties fill many of their leading posts with rabid Zionists, from Rahm Emmanuel as White House Chief of Staff under Obama back to the neo-conservatives of the ‘Project for The New American Century’: the American-Zionist think tank that was the driving force of the Iraq war under the Bush administration.
In the UK we have a Labour Party that in government carried out a vehemently pro-Israel agenda under Blair and his Middle East special envoy and chief fundraiser, Lord Michael Levy, also known as ‘Lord Cashpoint’, a strident Zionist. Labour supported Israel’s bloodthirsty attack on Lebanon in 2006 – refusing even the usual mealy mouthed ceasefire demands – Israel bombed to kill and terrorise civiilans and destroy infrastructure but failed to defeat the Hezbollah fighters and so failed in its war aims.
Under Brown, it wrung its hands pathetically during the one-sided butchery of Gaza Palestinians in 2009′s ‘Operation Cast Lead’. While its chosen Zionist appointee as Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, banned an advert from the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise funds for humanitarian relief for Palestinian civilians. Thus the BBC under Labour endorsed Israel’s butchery.
At the base of the Labour Party, there is considerable disquiet with all this and anger at Israeli crimes reflecting, to some extent, changes in the trade unions which have now led to the TUC endorsing calls for a boycott of Israel, as have a number of important unions. There has been something of a growth of the Labour Friends of Palestine as a pale reflection of this change in the unions, though how influential it is in a party still heavily loaded with a neo-liberal, pro-Israel Blair-Brown derived cadre is highly doubtful.
Then there is the current government: Prior to the 2010 election, the Lib Dems were the least Zionist-influenced of the three main parties in Britain. In joining the Tories in government, they have become well-nigh invisible on this (as on so many other things). But 80% of Conservative MPs are sponsors of the Conservative Friends of Israel. The meaning of this is crystal clear for anyone with eyes to see. This is the same Tory party that backed the Smith regime in white-ruled ‘Rhodesia’ till it became unsustainable to continue any longer, that supported apartheid in South Africa to the hilt, whose youth leaders used to wear badges demanding ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’.
The similarity of this to their current infatuation with Israel is striking. Just as is the embrace of Israel by forces further to their right, from the pro-Zionist English Defence League and ‘British Freedom Party’ (currently allied with the Jewish Defence League – Israeli fascist followers of Meir Kahane), to the BNP’s own embrace of Israel and selection in recent years of Jewish candidates to run for council seats. This embrace of Israel by the traditionally imperialist, racist right – and the far right – speaks volumes about the real role of pro-Israeli agitation today. Support for Israel today is more and more a sign of racism and xenophobia, just as in the past was support for white ‘Rhodesia’ and apartheid South Africa.
‘Anti-racist’ racism
Though in today’s changed environment, where racist beliefs are widely discredited and it has rightly become social unacceptable to racially abuse others either individually or collectively, there is a big difference in the way this support for racist tyranny is articulated. The only way that the decades-long suppression of the Palestinian people, a racist political programme similar in degree and closely related, though not identical, to the oppression of black South Africans by the apartheid regime before 1989, can be given ideological legitimacy by the racist right, is by mendacious allegations of racism against Israel’s victims and their sympathisers.
The official reason why the Tory party, the BNP, the EDL, all the way to New Labour’s wretched neo-con cabals can deny that their support ot Israeli aparthied is racist, is by a narrative that says that the real problem is the alleged racism of the Arabs. Mendacious allegations of anti-semitism have become the main technique of reactionary bourgeois idelogues who are themselves racists, in excusing the racist oppression of the Palestinian people. This mendacity has two benefits from the point of view of those who propagate it. One is that is provides them with an alibi for racism. And two, the widespread propagation of false accusations of racism spreads cynicism about anti-racism itself, creating a popular perception that any and all form of opposition to racism is just a fraudulent game. Thus again, benefiting those ‘anti-racist’ liars who themselves have a racist agenda.
Roots of racism…
To cut through the nonsense, it is necessary to state some basic facts. One is that the essence of racism is not simply bad ideas in people’s heads. It is not hostility to some ‘other’ for its own sake – it is not mindless. Nor is it the situation where people who are themselves on the receiving end of systematic racial oppression come to hate and stereotype their oppressors. That may be regrettable and counter-productive, but it is not racism. Racism is an ideological weapon to justify the systematic oppression of entire peoples. If it is not that, it is meaningless. If there is no relation of systematic oppression, it becomes something chimerical, a subject of satire, like the various stupid sketches on some comedy shows where people with ginger hair complain about being victims of discrimination.
Racism in this sense is a product of capitalism, which is the first society in human history to create a state form around the concept of a nation, in which there was a partial homogenisation of the population around a (usually) standardised single language and a dominant, ‘national’ identity that in most cases originated in identification with a particular ethnic group, even if it is subsequently broadened. Not only did it create that state form, underpinned by an economic system that generated unprecedented economic dynamism and self-sustaining growth, but it used that power to enslave the populations of entire, distant continents, again on a scale that the mightiest pre-capitalist ruling class could only dream of.
At the same time as it did this, it gave birth to such concepts as ‘The Rights of Man’, ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” and other supposedly universal values. The contradiction between that, and the manner in which it treated the peoples it enslaved, could only be resolved by creating ideologies that demonised the victims of capitalist imperialism, that portrayed them as in some way unworthy of such rights. The ultimate expression of that was pseudo-scientific racism, that posited some kind of biological difference between ‘races’, that some ‘racial’ groups were sufficiently different in genetic terms to make them qualitatively inferior to the dominant ‘races’, in effect defining them as inferior sub-species.
That was the most consistent form of racist ideology, and found its ultimate expression in the racist theories of German fascism. Jews did not fit easily into this schema, as in general they were not a colonised people or a slave population, but a sometimes persecuted religious minority particularly in Christian Europe. As such they had been coerced, through exclusion from other fields of economic activity, into a characteristic role for practitioners of a ‘foreign’ religion, as bankers, and later usurers, to the kings and aristocracy in the early medieval period. As Abram Leon explained in his important book The Jewish Question – a Marxist Analysis, the Jews were the remnants of a people-class, and the their resistance to assimilation and most of their persecutions in the medieval period were the result of that economic role.
…and roots of genocide
With the rise of capitalism in the West, the Jews’ economic role became obsolete. Large numbers migrated to Eastern Europe and Russia, after being persecuted and driven out of their traditional feudal economic niches in the West by a new financial bourgeoisie. For a period of several centuries, they were again able to prosper, largely as traders rather than financiers until the 19th century brought about the decay of feudalism in the East also. Squeezed out of their economic niches again, the Jews were regarded as a surplus, alien population, and again subjected to persecution, leading to new migrations of many of them, this time back to Western Europe, as well as to North America, and a precarious existence for those who remained. Those that did not find their way into the emerging bourgeoisies themselves – which a layer did in America particularly – became a largely proletarianised or even pauperised section of the population, and the targets of a new form of hatred that drew on the kind of racist conceptions first used to justify slavery.
This was the oppressed stratum of the Jewish proletariat that played a significant role in pre-WWI Social Democracy, and later in the early Communist movement. Radicalised by their double oppression – exploited as workers, and targeted by racism for their Jewish origin, even though in a great many cases they abandoned ‘national’ sentiments entirely and became known for the most fervent internationalism. This is what reactionaries used to mean, more than anything else, when they targetted ‘international Jewry’ as if internationalism was some kind of curse word. From Hitler to Stalin, the worst monsters of the 20th Century ranted against ‘Jew-Bolshevism’ and ‘rootless cosmopolitanism’ respectively, and Hitler in particularly tried to exterminate this social layer without mercy.
In the USSR under Stalin, they were not exterminated, but subjected to arbitrary persecution and executions on the basis of perceived political sympathies, not ‘racial’ characteristics per se. That was the difference on this question between the Hitler and Stalin regimes, in that the Stalinists, while fearful of the internationalist spirit of Jewish workers, did not put it down to ‘racial’ characteristics and instead of wholesale extermination, used a mixture of co-optation, corruption, arbitrary repression and killings to destroy this layer morally and when neccessary, physically.
The upshot of this, however, is that this very important, oppressed layer of Jewish proletarians, whose existence and struggles were pivotal in defining the Jewish communities pre-WWII as an oppressed people, ceased to exist. That destruction is of utmost importance in analysing the Jewish question now, and the role of the Jewish communities today, as opposed to nearly three-quarters of a century ago, in the world order. How are the Jewish people(s) that exist today, as opposed to those that existed then, to be regarded? Are they in the ranks of the oppressed, or do they rank among the world’s oppressor peoples? Or is a more nuanced position that avoids either of those two polarities necessary? In examining it, it is necessary to look at the fate of those who survived, or managed to avoid, the terrible events of WWII.
Jews since the genocide
First of all, there were the relatively small groups of Zionist pioneers who migrated to Palestine from Europe and America before the tumultuous events of the 1930s. It is not necessary to say much about them since they were actually a small and quite isolated minority, who could command a certain degree of financial and political clout, but were short of numbers and mass support. So much so that it is highly likely that their project would have fizzled out, if it were not for the rise to power of Hitler in Germany and the resultant massacre of millions of Jews in Europe. This, and only this, provided them with reinforcements from the hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees – remnants of the murdered Central and East European Jews.
This desperate, easily manipulated population was indispensable in their programme of creating a Jewish state in an Arab-majority country like Palestine. Without that demographic it would have been an impossible task. Without such a terrible event as the Nazi genocide, there is no way that several hundred thousands of Jews could be induced to leave their homes in Europe voluntarily and migrate to the Middle East.
Then there are the Jews who emigrated to the United States. Today there are approximately 6.5 million Jews in the US, around 2% of the population. These have a long history, going back to the early days of the American republic. But large waves of immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a limited influx post-WWII, increased its numbers to the point that it became, and is still, the largest Jewish population in the world – exceeding that of Israel.
To its shame, the US restricted Jewish immigration quite severely between the wars, on an explicitly racist basis, calculated to deliberately exclude Jews, among others. This was not significantly relaxed even during the Nazi genocide. Indeed influential Zionist luminaries agitated against measures to give Jews fleeing the Nazis refuge in places like Britain and the US, to try to coerce then to go to Palestine instead. They were largely successful in this.
Jews have at times been targeted by anti-semitism in the US, though to a lesser extent than in Europe. The rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in 1913 was partly catalysed by the lynching of a Jewish teacher, Leo Frank, in Atlanta, Georgia, after a highly dubious murder case. It grew into a mass movement in the 1920s, and was strongly anti-semitic, though more or less disintegrated by the 1930s. In the 1930s, there were echoes of the anti-semitism in Europe; demagogues like Father Coughlin propagated Nazi-like anti-semitism over the airwaves. But this was limited by the logic of US imperialism’s development, which placed it on a collision course with Hitler’s Germany in what was ultimately a struggle for world domination.
Elements of anti-semitism were also visible to some extent in the McCarthy era, particularly over the execution of the Rosenbergs for spying for Russia in the early 1950s. Indeed, in the 1950s, unlike today, the Nazi genocide was something of a frowned upon subject, and those who made an issue of it were regarded as suspects, as were ‘premature anti-fascists’. Immediately after WWII, the US needed the help of ex-Nazis in a variety of fields, not least in developing its nuclear arsenal, so Nazi crimes tended to be played down.
But this was quite short-lived. The gradual ascent of Israel to be the US’s strategic ally in the Middle East, which was finally sealed in the 1967 Six-Day war, was the final nail in the coffin of any potential that might have existed for Jews to be pushed into a subordinate, oppressed status in the US. Parenthetically one could also add that this is also true in the UK, where however the Jewish population is relatively much smaller that in the US, 0.5% as opposed to 2%.
On most questions, Jews in the United States have tended to be socially liberal. Consistently they have maintained majority support for the Democratic Party since the days of the New Deal, with only slight variations. Jews played a significant role in the Civil Rights movement for black people, against Jim Crow segregation. In the earlier post-WWII period, the condition of Jewish people in America was undoubtedly no more advantageous that many other non-black minorities outside the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) dominant group.
Changing fortunes
But while American capitalism has undergone both considerable absolute growth over the past few decades, as well as relative decline in its world economic clout, the fortunes of the Jewish population have improved dramatically. Jews are now undoubtedly, per head of population, the most successful minority group in the US by far, in terms of income, in terms of education, and in terms of relative economic power. According to the Israeli source YNetNews, Jews make up “more than 20 per cent of the Forbes 400″ which is the list of the wealthiest people in the United States – not bad for 2% of the population. This in contrast to the black population, which is still very much under-represented. This level of economic integration into the most powerful ruling class in the world means that Jews cannot be regarded, in the United States, as an excluded or oppressed population in any way.
The US also tends to set the benchmark for the rest of the advanced capitalist world – so smaller Jewish populations in countries like the UK experience a similar mainstream status, even when they are less numerous and hence possess relatively less power. They are still thoroughly respectable, as evidenced by the normal bourgeois discourse, which pointedly refers to the West as ‘Judeo-Christian civilisation’. There were times, not so long ago, when the ‘Christian’ West was not quite so inclusive.
So Jews today are not an oppressed people. What are they then? Are they an oppressor people?
Not outside Israel, no. In the United States they are (mainly, with a few exceptions) part of white America, but they are also a part that has generally had a more honourable record vis-a-vis the black American population. Jewish participation in the Civil Rights movement was considerable.
This has not always been completely pure, however – one important, relatively recent blemish on this was the mayoralty of Edward Koch in New York, in the 1970s and 80s, a Jewish mayor elected with a considerable Jewish electoral base, became known for abusive and racist policies towards the black population and managed to provoke some quite serious tensions between blacks and Jews, and some black anti-semitism in response. But this is fairly exceptional, Koch was a maverick, seeking to run at times both as a Democrat and a Republican, and not typical of Jewish politics in America, which tends to be pretty liberal.
Occasionally,you hear, derived from the Middle East conflict, the view that Jews in some way oppress ordinary mainstream Americans by their demands. This particular accusation is sometimes raised by misguided Palestinian supporters looking for allies, as well as remnants of the old anti-semitic right. It is paranoid nonsense. Jews are a tiny percentage of the US population and are not remotely capable of that. This allegation is in fact a vestige of the old anti-semitism, but it is irrelevant and impotent today. The mainstream respectability of the Jews in the US and the West in general is not going to reversed barring some totally outlandish catastrophe.
Oppression from a distance
In Israel, Jews are clearly an oppressor people. There is no getting away from this, Jews live on land taken by force from the Arabs, they enforce racist laws on citizenship and land ownership, and the majority of the Palestinian Arab population from what is now Israel proper has been driven into exile. Not only that, but Israeli laws extend the right of Israeli citizenship to every Jew that fits the Israeli definition worldwide – even if they have never set eyes on the place, while depriving hundreds of thousands of Arabs refugees who were born there, or whose parents were, of the right to even enter their homeland. There are few clearer examples of one people oppressing another.
This citizenship law, and the existence of very strong and powerful Jewish lobbying groups particularly in the United States, and indeed to some extent in Europe, that exert a great deal of pressure within the politics of the US and its allies for a policy that is strongly pro-Israel, even to the point of being indulgent, give another dimension to the question of whether Jews outside Israel act as an oppressor people or not.
Organisations like AIPAC, and other Jewish organisations of a similar ilk in the US and elsewhere; the lobbying efforts of prominent, powerful individual and collective Jewish individuals within established political parties in Western countries (not just the United States); and the mechanism of the Israeli ‘Law of Return’, which in effect (partially) internationalises Israeli citizenship on an ethnic basis; all these things have a crucial importance in characterising the Jewish people today.
All these add up to one important point – while it is clear that the Palestinian people are directly oppressed by the Jewish ethnocratic state of Israel that has deprived them of their homeland, they are also, albeit less directly, oppressed, though the mechanism of the Law of Return and the efforts of Jewish lobbying organisations in the United States and its West European allies. That is, while American and also British Jews are not oppressor peoples in those countries at all, in their international dimension they do act as oppressors of the Palestinians’, albeit from a distance or an one remove.
A false equation
This is a crucial theoretical point in clarifying why hostility to Jews is not limited to the Middle East in current circumstances, and why criticism, and even expressions of hatred, for American and British Jews from Palestinians and their sympathisers, motivated by the Palestinian issue, cannot be equated with the anti-semitism of the past even when in some cases, as with Hamas, it regrettably borrows directly from the latter.
While pre-war anti-semitism was partially driven by a form of class demagogy, using the over-representation of Jews in business and particularly finance (which is most likely the product of cultural one-sidedness and a residue of the Jews’ past as a financial people-class), what really gave pre-war anti-semitism its psychotic character was the reactionary fear of the Jews as a bearer of revolution and subversion of the status quo. That particular delusion has been completely destroyed, by the extermination of the revolutionary Jewish proletarians by the Nazis, and by Zionism, which by its actions associates Jews with reaction, not revolution. The fundamental difference is that pre-war anti-semitism was hatred for an oppressed people by their oppressors, whereas in the current very changed circumstances, hatred of the oppressor by the oppressed is what we see today..
Such hatred still is inimical from the point of view of socialists and internationalists, though it has a very different moral and political content and context from hatred of an oppressed people by a people who oppress them. It is the product of despair and impotence in facing a powerful, unremitting enemy over what is now six-and-a half decades. The demonisation of the Palestinians as racists by Zionism to excuses its crimes has generated its own antithesis, as not only many Palestinians, but even some Jewish sympathisers, now suspect or even affirm point blank that everything that Israel uses to justify its existence, including the fact of the Nazi genocide itself, is a racist lie.
Socialists have, or ought to have, different ways of undercutting misdirected hatreds generated by the oppressed for their oppressors, than when the hatred is the other way round. We have to remember that at this point, the international labour movement is politically disarmed and hardly in a position to anything effective to shift the balance of forces in the Middle East. We have to deliver solidarity, and through fraternal debate and collaboration bring about the kind of change that can transcend the despair that produces this.
Anyone who equates these very different kinds of antipathy is playing a reactionary role, is acting as a chauvinist and, wittingly or unwittingly, as an agent of the oppression of the Palestinians in today’s world, which is very different from the days of Hitler and classical anti-semitism.
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2 - AIPAC Declares War
Posted By Philip Giraldi On February 22, 2012
The American people don’t particularly want a new war in the Middle East, but apparently Congress and Washington’s most powerful lobby do. Thirty-two senators have co-sponsored a resolutionthat will constrain the White House from adopting any policy vis-à-vis Iran’s “nuclear weapons capability” that amounts to “containment.” The senators include the familiar figures of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom have persistently called for military action. They and the other senators have presented their proposal in a particularly deceptive fashion, asserting that they are actually supporting the White House position, which they are not. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta repeated on Feb. 16 that Iran does not have and is not currently building a nuclear device. Before Christmas, he stated clearly that the “red line” for the United States is actual Iranian possession of a nuclear weapon. Even Israel’s intelligence services agree that Iran is not building a bomb. What we are seeing play out in Congress is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) position, which is that Iran has already crossed a “red line.” The AIPAC argument will no doubt be spelled out in more detail next month at the group’s annual convention in the nation’s capital, a meeting that will be addressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will attract nearly all of Washington’s power brokers.
Rejection of containment in this context and as spelled out in the resolution means that the United States will be forced to go to war if Iran attains the capability to put together a nuclear weapon. Indeed, one might argue that the United States should be at war already, based on the resolution. “Capability” is one of those particularly useful expressions that is extremely elastic and can be interpreted subjectively. By most standards, Iran already has the technical know-how to make a nuclear bomb and has most of the materials on hand to put one together, assuming it can enrich the uranium it possesses to the required level. The Iranians may not, in fact, have the engineering skills to do so, and the task of creating a small, sophisticated device that can be mounted on a ballistic missile is certainly far beyond their current capabilities and probably unachievable given the costs involved and the poor state of their economy.
There are about 50 countries in the world that have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon if they chose to do so, making Iran far from unique but for its persistence as a thorn in the side of Israel and Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States. In other words, Iran does not have to actually produce a nuclear weapon for it to be subject to attack by either Israel or the United States. It only has to continue to be an irritant for Israel.
The new threat of war takes the Bush doctrine of preemption to a whole new level. Some sources in the Obama administration are anonymously warning that war with Iran is nearly certain and are predicting it to break out in late summer. That would be just before the presidential election, a time in which Obama will be seeking desperately to seize the high ground on Israel’s security from whomever the Republicans nominate. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not even have to mimic Colin Powell by going to the United Nations to seek authorization for an attack using false and fabricated information. Everyone can agree that the mullahs do not actually have a weapon and may not even want to acquire one, but it’s fine to bomb them anyway. The U.S. Senate approves, so off we go to another misadventure in the Middle East
Without a doubt, President Obama is to blame for this shameful state of affairs for showing every sign of weakness whenever confronted by Netanyahu and AIPAC. We should almost certainly expect nothing less than a personal and presidential kowtow at the AIPAC conference next month, a complete surrender that Netanyahu will no doubt receive in his usual ungracious fashion. Even President George W. Bush was able to stand up to the Israelis and forbid an attack on Iran, but now the United States has boxed itself into a corner diplomatically speaking, without any real ability to influence Tel Aviv to cease and desist.
Israel’s prime minister is continuously ramping up the rhetoric, calling Iran a threat to the entire world and suggesting that his country will soon retaliate against recent Iranian-directed terrorist attacks. The bombing in New Delhi and attempted bombings in Tbilisi and Thailand targeting Israelis are a major escalation of the tit-for-tat terrorism between Israel and Iran. Israel has killed four Iranian scientists using Mujahedin-e Khalq agents and possibly relying on intelligence provided by Washington. Israel’s involvement in recruiting Jundallah-Balochi militants using officers pretendingto be American CIA, referred to as a false-flag operation, was recently revealed in the U.S. media, though the story quickly disappeared from sight, as is almost invariably the case when dealing with Israel.
But Iran is now signaling that it too has surrogates and is willing to respond in kind. An interesting subplot is the location of two of the attacks in India and Georgia. Iran certainly has covert resources among India’s large Muslim population and also within the significant Azeri minority in Georgia. Israel has been courting India and sees a strategic relationship developing, with the two united against Muslim insurgency. Israel also has a not-so-secret military and intelligence base in Georgia and has recently expanded into nearby Azerbaijan, where it has established an intelligence listening post at an airbase. Iran is surrounded by Israeli operational initiatives and is now signaling that it has had enough and is prepared to strike back. A back-and-forth series of assassinations is particularly dangerous, as it could produce the type of incident that Israel could exploit to preemptively attack, not unlike the fallout from the assassination of a certain archduke in Serbia in 1914. The conflict would undoubtedly ignite the region and inevitably involve the United States, particularly if Congress and the media have any say in the matter.
The United States is powerless to prevent such an outcome in spite of a clear national interest to do so. President Obama has insisted, probably sincerely, that he doesn’t want a war and maintains that he is willing to talk to Iran. But he has nevertheless refused to do so despite several overtures from Tehran to start a dialogue, preferring to deal through surrogates. He has told the Israelis repeatedly that they should not attack Iran, but he keeps insisting that “all options are on the table” in dealing with the mullahs, completely confusing the issue for most observers. What is needed is a clear signal from the White House that the U.S. interest is that there should not be a war and that Washington will not get involved no matter who starts it. If the Israelis know they will have to go it alone, they will not attack. Unfortunately, in an election year, such a position is unlikely because the White House will want to present itself as a close friend of Israel and tough against “rogue” states like Iran.
You might well ask how the United States wound up in such a pickle. Many Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that it is disgraceful that a small country like Israel should be able to dictate U.S. foreign policy in a key part of the world, but the current situation is actually far worse than that. This is the case of a foreign government’s lobby consisting largely of American citizens using its clout to avoid registering as a foreign agent while narrowing the policy options through its friends in Congress and the media in such a way as to make war inevitable. Some might call it treason. Such people should be denounced and marginalized before they send off another wave of young Americans to die on their behalf while beggaring the rest of us, but instead, senators and representatives will be lining up to cheer them in a month’s time. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison must be spinning in their graves.
Read more by Philip Giraldi
Bipartisan Support for World War III – February 15th, 2012
The World Turned Upside Down – February 8th, 2012
Another War on the Cheap – February 1st, 2012
Avoiding a ‘Dumb War’ With Iran – January 25th, 2012
Creating American Terrorists – January 18th, 2012
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NOTE : There was no Holocaust (I), just a HOLOHOAX, as Prof.Dr.Butz and many others have made clear by now.
See underneath this article, once more Butz's clarification on the issue and see also article #27.
3 - Is Holocaust II inevitable ?
By Alan Hart
The Gentile me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, which is being provoked by Israel’s terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen.
The notion that anti-Israelism could be transformed into anti-Semitism is not new. In his book Israel’s Fateful Hour, published in 1986, Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel’s longest serving Director of Military Intelligence, gave this warning:
“Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.”
The fact that (pre-1967) Israel is a Zionist not a Jewish state - how could it be a Jewish state when a quarter of its citizens are Muslims (mainly) and Christians? - in no way diminishes Harkabi’s message.
He was, in fact, treading a quite well worn path. Prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, and as I document in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, most Jews, eminent American and British Jews especially, were opposed to Zionism’s enterprise in Palestine. They believed it to be morally wrong. They feared it would lead to unending conflict with the Arab and wider Muslim world. But most of all they feared that if Zionism was allowed by the major powers to have its way, it would one day provoke anti-Semitism.
Today, in my opinion, it can be said that Zionism wants and needs anti-Semitism in order to justify anything and everything its monster child does.
So what are the two things that must happen if anti-Israelism is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism (assuming as I do that the Zionist state is not going to change course in the direction of peace)?
One is that the mainly Gentile citizens of the Western world among whom most Jews live become aware of the difference between Judaism and Zionism, and thus why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the hardest core Zionist few in Israel. The difference can be simply stated. Like mainstream Christianity and mainstream Islam, mainstream Judaism has at its core a set of moral values and ethical principles. Zionism, which created a state for some Jews in the Arab heartland mainly by ethnic cleansing and terrorism, is without moral values and ethical principles. Its driving ideology, conditioned by Jewish experience of persecution on-and-off down the centuries, is that might is right. Mainstream Judaism and Zionism are, in fact, total opposites. (In April one of the anti-Zionist Jews I most admire, Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer, is giving a talk in Luxembourg with the title How Israel betrayed all the human values of Judaism).
In the paragraph above I insist on the term “few” in Israel being to blame because the truth is that most Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by their leaders. (As the headline over an article by Gideon Levy for Ha-aretz put it on 5 February, Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran). Most Israeli Jews are, for example, totally unaware that the vast majority of Palestinians and most Arabs everywhere have been ready for many years for peace on terms which any rational government in Israel would have accepted with relief.
The other thing that must happen if anti-Israelism is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism stems from the fact, perhaps I should say overwhelming probability, that no American president is ever going to be free to use the leverage he has to oblige the Zionist state to be serious about peace because of the Zionist lobby’s control of policy for Israel-Palestine in Congress.
So as things are Israel is a nuclear-armed monster beyond control. (From recently de-classified documents we now know that in a memorandum dated 19 July 1969, Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, warned President Nixon that the Israelis “are probably more likely than any other country to actually use their nuclear weapons.” And as I mentioned in my post of 30 January with the headline Is Israel on the road to “self-destruction”?, Golda Meir said in an interview I did with her for the BBC’s Panorama programme when she was prime minster that in a doomsday situation Israel “would be prepared to take the region and the world down with it.”)
On reflection it seems to me that whether or not anti-Israelism is transformed into anti-Semitism will depend not only on the Westerners among whom most Jews live understanding why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the few, but also on what the Jews of the world, European and American Jews especially (I mean the majority of them), do from here on.
In my view they have two options.
OPTION 1 is to stay silent which, at this moment in time, is still the preferred option of most European and American Jews.
That said it has to be acknowledged that recent years have seen an increase in the number of Jewish groups which are critical of Israel’s polices and, in some cases, have even endorsed the call of Palestinian civil society for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights. But the voices these groups represent are those of only a minority of Jews.
On the debit side of this particular balance sheet is also the fact that by limiting their campaigns to calls for an end to Israel’s occupation to make the space for a two-state solution, most if not all of the “progressive” (critical of Israel) Jewish groups are demonstrating that they are out of touch with or don’t want to recognise the reality on the ground in Israel-Palestine. The reality is that Israel’s still on-going consolidation of its occupation of the West Bank has made a two-solution impossible. It is not yet formally buried but it is dead.
My own understanding of why began with a private conversation I had with Shimon Peres in early 1980. At the time he was the leader of Israel’s main opposition Labour party and seemed to be well placed to win Israel’s next election and deny Menachem Begin and his Likud party a second term in office - an outcome for which President Carter was praying. After learning that Carter had said behind closed doors that institutional diplomacy could not solve the Palestine problem because of the Zionist lobby’s control of Congress and that what was needed was some informal and unofficial diplomacy, my purpose was to invite Peres to participate in a secret and exploratory dialogue with PLO chairman Arafat with me as the linkman. The idea was that if we could use the 18 months or so before Israel’s next election to get agreement in principle on the way to the two-state solution to which Arafat’s PLO was by then committed, Peres and Arafat could begin to do the business for real when Peres became prime minister. (I was aware that a two-state solution would not provide the Palestinians with full justice, but at the time I shared the hope of those, including Arafat, who believed it was not impossible that within a generation or two the peace of a two-state solution could open the door to One State for all by mutual agreement, thus allowing all Palestinians who wanted to return to do so).
Peres welcomed the idea of an exploratory dialogue with Arafat with me as the linkman, but at a point in our conversation before I went off to Beirut to secure Arafat’s agreement to participate, he, Peres, said, “I fear it is already too late.”
I asked him why.
He replied: “Every day sees new bricks on new settlements. Begin knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s stuffing the West Bank with settlers to create the conditions for a Jewish civil war because he knows that no Israeli prime minister is going down in history as the one who gave the order to the Jewish army to shoot Jews (in order to end the occupation).” Pause. “I’m not.”
Question: If it was too late in 1980 when they were only about 70,000 illegal Jewish settlers on the West Bank, how much more too late is it today when the number of illegal Jewish settlers is in excess of 500,000 and rising, and the political influence of Israel’s religious fanatics and other bigots is growing?
In the words of an old English cliché, Jewish groups which are critical of Israeli policy but limit their effort to calling for an end to Israeli occupation are flogging a dead horse.
My considered Gentile take on why most Jews are silent on the matter of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians and denial of their rights is in my book. For this post I’ll make only two brief points.
One is that deep down, if only in their sub-consciousness, most Jews fear (in large part because they are conditioned by Zionism to fear) that there will one day be another great turning against them. Holocaust II. So they perceive Israel as their refuge of last resort, and they tell themselves they must say nothing, do nothing, that could undermine Israel and put their insurance policy at risk.
The other, no doubt related, is that private discussion about publicly criticising Israel or not can and does tear Jewish families as well as communities apart. So for the sake of at least the appearance of Jewish unity it’s best not to discuss the matter.
The problem with Jewish silence is that it’s not the way to refute and demolish a charge or assertion of complicity in Zionism’s crimes. So continued silence by the majority of European and American Jews is most likely to assist the transformation of anti-Israelism into anti-Semitism.
OPTION 2 is for the Jews of the world to distance themselves from the Zionist state.
A most explicit statement of this as a possible option was made in October 2001 by Dr. David Goldberg, the prominent, widely respected, liberal London rabbi and author of a popular introduction to Judaism, The Jewish People, Their History and Their Religion. He dared to say, in public, “It may be time for Judaism and Zionism to go their separate ways.”
Eight years on the late Tony Judt, a professor of history at New York University and director of the Remarque Institute, put some flesh on that bone. British-born of a Jewish mother whose parents emigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who was descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis, Judt started out as an enthusiastic Zionist. He helped to promote the migration of British Jews to Israel, and during the 1967 war he worked as a driver and translator for the IDF. But after that war, his belief in the Zionist enterprise began to unravel. “I went with the idealistic fantasy of creating a socialist, communitarian country through work, but I started to see that this view was remarkably unconscious of the people who had been kicked out of the country and were suffering in refugee camps to make this fantasy possible.”
In an article for the Financial Times on 7 December 2009, Judt wrote this:
“If the Jews of Europe and North America took their distance from Israel, as many have begun to do, the assertion that Israel was ‘their’ state would take on an absurd air. Over time, even Washington might come to see the futility of attaching American foreign policy to the delusions of one small Middle Eastern state. This, I believe, is the best thing that could possibly happen to Israel itself. It would be obliged to acknowledge its limits. It would have to make other friends, preferably among its neighbors.”
For the sake of discussion there’s a case for saying that an Israel that was obliged by European and America Jews to acknowledge its limits might also be an Israel in which many Israeli Jews were prepared to open their minds to the wise words of one of their own - Avraham Burg. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the speaker of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. By the end of his term in that office he was a leading advocate of the idea that Israel and a viable Palestinian state could coexist in peace. In August 2003 he wrote a most remarkable essay which was published in its original Hebrew by Yediot Aharonot and subsequently newspapers in Europe and America.
His lead point was that Israel had to “shed its illusions” and choose between “racist oppression and democracy.” The Jewish people, he wrote, “did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programmes or anti-missile missiles. We were supposed to be a light unto nations. In this we have failed.”
And the following is what Burg had to say about Israel’s need to change course and the choices:
Here is what the prime minister should say to his people: the time for illusions is over. The time for decisions has arrived. We love the entire land of our forefathers and in some other time we would have wanted to live here alone. But that will not happen. The Arabs, too, have dreams and needs.
Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing without paying a price. We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East. There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here, Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish majority in the world’s only Jewish state - not by means that are humane and moral and Jewish.
Do you want the greater land of Israel? No problem. Abandon democracy. Let’s institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages.
Do you want a Jewish majority? No problem. Either put the Arabs on railway cars, buses, camels and donkeys and expel them en masse - or separate ourselves from them absolutely, without tricks and gimmicks. There is no middle path. We must remove all the settlements - all of them - and draw an internationally recognised border between the Jewish national home and the Palestinian national home. The Jewish law of return will apply only within our national home, and their right of return will apply only within the borders of the Palestinian state.
“Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater land of Israel, to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via the ballot box. (Here, I note, Burg was being less than explicit about the consequences of Greater Israel giving full citizenship and voting rights to everyone. At the point not too far into the future when the Palestinian Arabs outnumbered the Jews of Greater Israel, Zionism would be voted out of existence. Palestine would effectively be de-Zionized, opening the door to One State for all).
The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire and suicide bombers or a recognised international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.
In my view Judt’s assumption that Israel “would” be obliged to acknowledge its limits if the Jews of Europe and America took their distance from it is questionable. Why? It’s rational, based on reason, and Israel’s deluded leaders are beyond reason. They are never going to shed their illusions and present the choices for Israel’s Jews in the terms outlined by Burg.
But the main argument for European and American Jews distancing themselves from the Zionist state and its policies is self-interest. By demonstrating that they were not complicit in Zionism’s crimes, they would be playing their necessary part in preventing anti-Israelism from being transformed into anti-Semitism.
But even if self-interest (in the context above) is the direction in which most European and American Jews might move, events on the ground suggest to me that the time left for them to decide whether or not to actually distance themselves from Israel is running out. And here is my brief summary of why.
Given their determination to keep for all time much if not all of the occupied West Bank (despite what they sometimes say to the contrary for propaganda purposes), Israel’s leaders have got to find a way to defuse the ticking, demographic time-bomb of occupation (the coming of the day when the Palestinians will outnumber the Jews of Greater Israel).
The evidence of the past 44 years is that Israel’s leaders believed they could do it in one of two ways.
One was by making life hell for the occupied Palestinians in the hope that very many of them would either give up their struggle in despair and accept crumbs from Zionism’s table - a few disconnected Bantustans which they could call a state if they wished; or, better still, abandon their homeland and seek new lives elsewhere. Neither of those two things happened or are going to happen.
The other was having in place a compliant, puppet, Palestinian leadership which could be bullied and bribed, with American assistance, into forcing its people to accept crumbs from Zionism’s table. It might be that Israel’s leaders still hope they can make this scenario work with Palestinian “President” Abbas or his successor, but it won’t work.
And that will leave them, Israel’s leaders, with only one way of defusing the demographic time-bomb of occupation - creating a pretext to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan, Syria or wherever. The final ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
I think that will be Zionism’s final solution to its Palestine problem. I also think that such an event will guarantee that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism is transformed into anti-Semitism, meaning, as Harkabi warned, that Jews throughout the world will pay the price of Israel’s “misconduct”.
I’ll end by re-asking my headline question and giving it an explicit answer.
Is Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against the Jews) inevitable? Yes unless the Jews of Europe and America distance themselves from the Zionist monster before it’s too late to do so.
Professor Arthur Butz : IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION
Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
1. A Short Introduction to the Study of Holocaust Revisionism
1. I see three principal reasons for the widespread but erroneous belief in the legend of millions of Jews killed by the Germans during World War II: US and British troops found horrible piles of corpses in the west German camps they captured in 1945 (e.g. Dachau and Belsen), there are no longer large communities of Jews in Poland, and historians generally support the legend.
2. During both world wars Germany was forced to fight typhus, carried by lice in the constant traffic with the east. That is why all accounts of entry into the German concentration camps speak of shaving of hair and showering and other delousing procedures, such as treatment of quarters with the pesticide Zyklon. That was also the main reason for a high death rate in the camps, and the crematoria that existed in all.
3. When Germany collapsed in chaos then of course all such defenses ceased, and typhus and other diseases became rampant in the camps, which quartered mainly political prisoners, ordinary criminals, homosexuals, conscientious objectors, and Jews conscripted for labor. Hence the horrible scenes, which however had nothing to do with "extermination" or any deliberate policy. Moreover the west German camps involved were not the alleged "extermination camps", which were all in Poland (e.g. Auschwitz and Treblinka) and which were all evacuated or shut down before capture by the Soviets, who found no such scenes.
4. The "Final Solution" spoken of in the German documents was a program of evacuation, resettlement and deportation of Jews with the ultimate objective of expulsion from Europe. During the war Jews of various nationalities were being moved east, as one stage in this Final Solution. The legend claims that the motion was mainly for extermination purposes.
5. The great majority of the millions allegedly exterminated were east European, not German or west European, Jews. For that reason study of the problem via population statistics has been difficult to impossible, but it is a fact that there are no longer large communities of Jews in Poland. However the Germans were only one of several parties involved in moving Jews around. The Soviets deported virtually all of the Jews of eastern Poland to their interior in 1940. After the war, with Polish and other Jews pouring out of the east into occupied west Germany, the Zionists moved large numbers to Palestine, and the US and other countries absorbed many Jews, in most cases under conditions making impossible a numerical accounting. Moreover the Polish borders were changed drastically at the end of the war; the country was literally moved west.
6. Historians generally support the legend, but there are precedents for nearly incomprehensible blindness on the part of scholars. For example throughout the Middle Ages even the Pope's political enemies conceded his false claim that the 4th century Emperor Constantine had ceded rule of the west to the Pope, although all knew very well that Constantine had been succeeded by more emperors. Near unanimity among the academics is especially suspect when there exist great political pressures; in some countries Holocaust revisionists have been prosecuted.
7. It is easy to show that the extermination legend merits skepticism. Even the casual reader of the Holocaust literature knows that during the war virtually nobody acted as though it was happening. Thus it is common to berate the Vatican, the Red Cross and the Allies (especially the intelligence agencies) for their ignorance and inaction, and to explain that the Jews generally did not resist deportation because they did not know what was in store for them. If you add all this up you have the strange claim that for almost three years German trains, operating on a continental scale in densely civilized regions of Europe, were regularly and systematically moving millions of Jews to their deaths, and nobody noticed except for a few of our Jewish leaders who were making public "extermination" claims.
8. On closer examination even those few Jewish leaders were not acting as though it was happening. Ordinary communications between the occupied and neutral countries were open, and they were in contact with the Jews whom the Germans were deporting, who thus could not have been in ignorance of "extermination" if those claims had any validity.
9. This incredible ignorance must also be attributed to Hans Oster's department in German military intelligence, correctly labeled "the veritable general staff of the opposition to Hitler" in a recent review.
10. What we are offered in evidence was gathered after the war, in trials. The evidence is almost all oral testimony and "confessions". Without the evidence of these trials there would be no significant evidence of "extermination". One must pause and ponder this carefully. Were trials needed to determine that the Battle of Waterloo happened? The bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The slaughter in Cambodia? Yet this three year program, of continental scope, claiming millions of victims, requires trials to argue its reality. I am not arguing that the trials were illegal or unfair; I am arguing that such historical logic as the legend rests on must not be countenanced. Such events cannot happen without generating commensurate and contemporaneous evidence for their reality, just as a great forest fire cannot take place without producing smoke. One may as well believe that New York City was burned down, if confessions to the deed can be produced.
11. Detailed consideration of the specific evidence put forward in support of the legend has been a focus of the revisionist literature and cannot be undertaken here, but I shall mention one point. The claim of the legend is that there were no technical means provided for the specific task of extermination, and that means originally provided for other purposes did double duty in improvised arrangements. Thus the Jews were allegedly gassed with the pesticide Zyklon, and their corpses disappeared into the crematoria along with the deaths from "ordinary" causes (the ashes or other remains of millions of victims never having been found).
12. Surely any thoughtful person must be skeptical.
http://mccormick.northwestern.edu/directory/profiles/Arthur-Butz.html
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4 - U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agree : No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
The Intel Hub
By Madison Ruppert
February 25, 2012
Despite the repeated statements made by United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta which have clearly indicated thatIran is not developing nuclear weaponsand the analysis of the American intelligence community, the heated anti-Iranian rhetoric never seems to let up.
Indeed, it has even been reported by none other than the New York Times that intelligence analysts in America have yet to find any hard evidence indicating that Iran has even decided to construct a nuclear bomb.
American intelligence assessments have continued to be congruent with the 2007 intelligence report which clearly concluded that Iran had in fact completely abandoned their nuclear program years before (scroll to the bottom of the article to read the embedded report).
According to anonymous U.S. officials, this assessment was reinforced by the 2010 National Intelligence Estimate and “it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.”
So, how can the governments of the United States and Israel continue to ignore their own intelligence agencies and nonsensically push forward with the effort to go to war with Iran?
If nothing else, it has become painfully clear that our so-called leaders are ignoring any and all contrary evidence which might weaken their war effort and making the relentless push towards war.
Given that American intelligence agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have concluded that the Iranian nuclear weapons program was likely halted all the way back in 2003 and Panetta himself has debunked the Iranian nuclear myth, it becomes evident that they have no interest in the truth.
To make matters even worse, it appears that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an agency of the United Nations (UN) has now become little more than a tool of the warmongering factions of Western governments.
Recently the IAEA claimed that Iran had actually accelerated their nuclear program, increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and refused to answer some of the agency’s key questions about their program.
In their report issued Friday, the director-general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, said that their inspectors continue “to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Apparently Amano and the IAEA know better than one of the best funded and arguably the most powerful intelligence community on the planet.
“As Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation … the agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” Amano stated.
To any thinking person, this statement should be laughable. That’s like me saying that my neighbor cannot provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared thirty foot tall spiders in his garage, and therefore I cannot conclude that my neighbor is peaceful.
If the IAEA is worried about “undeclared nuclear material and activities” they should be focusing their efforts solely on Israel, not Iran.
According to Reuters, even though the IAEA’s report was far from conclusive and the preponderance of the American intelligence community has dismissed the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program, the latest report from the nuclear agency “will further inflame Israeli fears the Islamic Republic is pushing ahead with atomic bomb plans.”
“The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency gives added proof that Israeli beliefs are true” about Iran’s nuclear program, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, according to AFP.
My favorite part of that statement is the usage of the world “beliefs,” since that is exactly what it is. It is not based on fact or logic but instead blind faith and a belief that Iran is this bloodthirsty, genocidal nation relentlessly seeking nuclear weapons.
Of course, none of that is true but apparently Netanyahu has no interest in the truth, either.
“Iran is pursuing its nuclear program with no end in sight. It is enriching uranium to 20 percent, totally ignoring demands by the international community,” Netanyahu also said.
Israeli leadership – especially Netanyahu – pointing to the demands of the international community is painfully ironic. Israel regularly rejects the opinion of the international community in their oppression of Palestinians, raids on humanitarian aid flotillas and more.
The White House has also jumped on the report as more fuel for the anti-Iranian fire. They stated that Iran was in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions with their nuclear enrichment efforts, even though their own intelligence assets have said that there is no weapons program.
“When combined with its continued stonewalling of international inspectors, Iran’s actions demonstrate why Iran has failed to convince the international community that its nuclear program is peaceful,” Tommy Vietor, the White House National Security Council spokesman said.
The problem here is that Vietor is not speaking for the international community; he is merely speaking for the National Security Council – the same group that makes the call to murder American citizens without charge or trial.
There is no arguing against the reality of the Iranian nuclear program and their efforts to enrich nuclear fuel.
However, the problem arises when one makes the leap of faith required to come to the conclusion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons or their program is anything other than peaceful.
Iran is a sovereign nation and as such, the West has absolutely no right to tell them that they cannot pursue peaceful nuclear technology.
Thanks to the American intelligence community, yet another blow to the anti-Iranian propaganda has been dealt but obviously the leaders of the Western world care not about these facts.
Hopefully the real international community can take note of the truth and ignore the insane delusions of our so-called leaders who are making the relentless push to bring us to war.
This article originally appeared on End the Lie
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5 - TEN Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
February 23, 2012
By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org.
1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
2. My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
3. Iraq didn’t go so badly. Considering how lousy its government is, the place is better off with so many people having left or died. Really, that one couldn’t have worked out better if we’d planned it.
4. When we threaten to cut off Iran’s oil, Iran threatens to cut off Iran’s oil, which is absolutely intolerable. What would we do without that oil? And what good is buying it if they want to sell it?
5. Iran was secretly behind 9-11. I read it online. And if it wasn’t, that’s worse. Iran hasn’t attacked another nation in centuries, which means its next attack is guaranteed to be coming very soon.
6. Iranians are religious nuts, unlike Israelis and Americans. Most Israelis don’t want to attack Iran, but the Holy Israeli government does. To oppose that decision would be to sin against God.
7. Iranians are so stupid that when we murder their scientists they try to hire a car dealer in Texas to hire a drug gang in Mexico to murder a Saudi ambassador in Washington, and then they don’t do it — just to make us look bad for catching them.
7. b. Oh, and stupid people should be bombed. They’re not civilized.
8. War is good for the U.S. economy, and the Iranian economy too. Troops stationed in Iran would buy stuff. And women who survived the war would have more rights. Like in Virginia. We owe Iranians this after that little mishap in 1953.
9. This is the only way to unite the region. Either we bomb Iran and it swears its eternal love to us. Or, if necessary, we occupy Iran to liberate it like its neighbors. Which shouldn’t take long. Look how well Afghanistan is going already.
10. They won’t give our drone back. Enough said.
Israel backing down from Iran threats
By Michael Carmichael
Global Research, February 22, 2012
Israel is backing down from her threats to bomb Iran.
In a scathing loss of face for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, diplomatic sources in Israel have revealed that President Shimon Peres will meet privately with President Obama at the White House before - repeat before Netanyahu.
High level sources in Israel have just leaked a sanitized version of the President's plan to the Israeli press. But, there is much more to the story. In his meeting at the White House, Peres will inform Obama that Netanyahu has performed poorly in his handling of the Iran nuclear crisis and that bellicose statements from the Prime Minister's cabinet have been both self-intimidating and self-destructive.
Then after meeting with Peres, Obama will address AIPAC and finally meet with Netanyahu to counsel him on the sad fact of the self-inflicted damage to the diplomatic credibility of his right-wing government. More on the diplomatic kabuki in due course.
According to a report in Haaretz, by Yossi Verter (February 22, 2012), entitled Peres to tell Obama Israel should not strike Iran soon,
"officials say President reportedly feels recent threats by Israeli spokesmen are unnecessary warmongering, believes Iran issue should be handled by superpowers. ...
President Shimon Peres is expected to tell U.S. President Barack Obama early next month that he does not believe Israel should attack Iran in the near future.
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Peres told officials that there is no point in what he called the "unceasing self-intimidation" being voiced by senior Israeli spokesmen. This is what he intends to tell Obama.
Peres has told officials that the recent threats by Israel are unnecessary warmongering and that Israel should leave the Iran issue to the superpowers, first and foremost the United States.
Peres leaves for the United States on Tuesday, and the following Sunday he is to meet with Obama in Washington on the sidelines of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
Peres' meeting with the U.S. president will take place a day before Netanyahu meets with Obama. Netanyahu will arrive in Washington after a visit to Canada.
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When Obama meets with Netanyahu, he will already know what Peres thinks - information he will use in his meeting with Netanyahu.
Peres is expected to tell Obama that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is still the best Palestinian partner with whom to reach a peace agreement.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview yesterday that Israel will not bow to U.S. and Russian pressure in deciding whether to attack Iran.
Speaking on Channel 2, Lieberman rebuffed suggestions that warnings against striking Iran would affect Israeli decision making, saying the decision "is not their business."
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6 - Syria : Rogue Elements Rampant
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research, February 26, 2012
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." (J.EdgarHoover, 1895-1972.)
Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have not been paying attention, there are plenty about.
Consider for instance this: "Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now" and "must step aside …” Hilary Clinton (Asia Times, 9th February 2012.)
“I strongly condemn the Syrian government's unspeakable assault … and I offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones. Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now. He must step aside …” said President Barack Hussein Obama. (i)
Yet responsibility for US victims, in their hundreds of thousands, spanning Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, in Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, are wholly unaccountable – and uncounted..
Responsibility for tyrannicide (including the horrific, state sponsored assassinations of Osama bin Laden and others, Libya’s Head of State, Colonel Quaddafi, have, seemingly entered a Presidential memory hole.)
"This (Syria’s) is a doomed regime as well as a murdering regime. There is no way it can get its credibility back either internationally or with its own people”, Britain’s little Foreign Secretary, William Hague, chimed in obediently, from the Washington script, on Sky News.
“Because the regime is so intransigent, because it is conducting ten months unmitigated violence and repression – more than 6,000 killed, with 12,000 or 14,000 in detention and subject to every kind of torture and abuse – it is driving some opponents to violent action themselves”, concluded Hague.
Hypocrisy reigns supreme. Walking distance from Hague’s office: “living in style and protection”, is Bashar Al Assad’s Uncle Rifaat, under whose Defence Brigades onslaught killed up to perhaps thirty thousand people in the city of Hama, which was also partially destroyed, Falluja style. The thirtieth anniversary of a truly terrible event is commemorated today, 25th February. (See Robert Fisk, Independent, 25th February 2012.)
Of Libya, in March 2011, Obama stated: "Going forward, we will continue to send a clear message: The violence must stop. Muammar Gaddafi has lost legitimacy to lead, and he must leave. Those who perpetrate violence against the Libyan people will be held accountable. And the aspirations of the Libyan people for freedom, democracy and dignity must be met.”(ii.)
An anomaly (apart from the script similarity): In Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, deaths resultant from US-UK and “allied” actions are: “impossible to verify”, by Washington and Whitehall.
Indeed, this month, the (UK) Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence, issued a Report, after an Inquiry in to operations in Libya, stating that: “Britain has no way of knowing how many civilians died in the Libyan conflict as a result of Nato bombing.” (iii)
Back in March 2011, however, the exact figure of Quaddafi’s victims was “known.” Coincidentally, it was also exactly 6,000, stated a “political analyst” - using remarkably State Department-similar phraseology.(iv)
As under Saddam Hussein in Iraq (with no diplomatic presence) in Libya and now little in Syria - with no point of contact bar, seemingly, a satellite dish fitter, in Coventry, England, alleged to be the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” - exact death and casualty figures are always miraculously available.
A new nemesis appears on the horizon – or “Arab street”- and precise numbers are trumpeted. Yet when Western forces, “Viceroys”, “Intelligence” services, “mentors” and myriad, general meddlers, mercenaries and marauders pitch up, murder and occupy, none are available.
Of course no proposed invasion (sorry, “humanitarian intervention”) regime change and accompanying mass slayings would be complete without forces of a wicked tyrant switching off electricity to babies incubators.
For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”)produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”, a “Kuwaiti with first hand knowledge of ... her tortured land.”
“I volunteered (tears) at the Al Addan Hospital .. I saw the Iraqi soldiers ..with guns, they took fifteen babies out of incubators, left them on the cold floor and took the incubators.”
Strangely, no one asked why she didn't pick them up and wrap and tend to them, or checked who she really was.
She was the daughter of Saud al Sabar, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to US. The incubators story of course, was a complete fabrication.
October 10th 1990, Amnesty presented evidence against Iraq with Hill and Knowlton at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Capitol Hill. Amnesty International trustingly endorsed the incubator story. Apparently never investigating who “Nayirah” was, and in a charged situation, whether propaganda might not be rampant.
“Amnesty US Executive Director, John Healey, compounded the incubator baby story in testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on 8th.January 1991. The carpet-bombing of Iraq began nine days later.”(v)
Amnesty, enjoined by Human Rights Watch, are amongst the most enthusiastic champions of Syrian intervention and onward to Armageddon. Glen Ford writes all you ever need to know.(vi)
The first Syria incubator baby story surfaced last August. “Syrian government troops”, had cut the electricity. It was quickly exposed as beyond questionable.(vii)
Another one came up on 8th February (viii) with numbers varying from eighteen poor mites, to a subsequent eighty. With both tales, as the Iraq version, no distraught parents, extended family, were found, no funeral gatherings, then the stories, too, quietly vanished.
Coincidentally, the current Speaker of the eighty eight Member Arab Inter-Parliamentary union, which backs intervention in Syria, is Kuwaiti, Ali Al-Salem Al-Dekbas, calling for all Syria’s Ambassadors to be expelled, confrontation with Russia over her stance - and in remarkable US-speak, for swift intervention, to stop the Syrian government “killing (their own) people.” (Reuters, 4th February 2012.)
The new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, is Suzanne Nossel, formerly Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for International Organization Affairs, at the State Department. She has also previously worked for Human Rights Watch.
She: “… has launched several campaigns against Iran, Libya and Syria.”(viii)
The allegation that Kuwait gave Amnesty $500,000 for backing the Iraq incubator baby story has never gone away. But the little island, famously once called:”An oil company posing as a state”, with population just 2,595,628 (July 2011) which includes 1,291,354 non-nationals, also has powerful American-proxy clout.
In 1999, an agreement was signed between the USA and Kuwait for a permanent US force to be stationed there, in twelve facilities (there are a further eight “spares”, seemingly not currently in use.)
The agreement for the bases, incidentally, was named: “Operation Desert Spring.”(x)
Here is a further coincidence. In March 2010, Libya was voted, near unanimously, on to the UN Human Rights Committee, after a glowing Report on human rights progress. After a ferocious campaign by Geneva based UN Watch(xi) not only were they expelled from it, but nineteen months later, their country lay in ruins, their leader lynched and most of his family dead.
Last November, Syria was elected to the Committee and the fifty eight Member Arab board added their votes to the country’s place on UNESCO panels.
UN Watch railed that: “Western democracies, unanimously elected Syria to a pair of Committees – one dealing directly with human rights issues – even as the Bashar al-Assad regime maintains its campaign of violence against its own citizens.“ Syria’s Committee places, as Libya before it, died a death.
Amnesty’s Ms Nossel, unsurprisingly, has spoken at a number of events with UN Watch Director, Hillel Neuer, a Montreal born attorney, whose career has included serving as a judicial law clerk for Justice Itzhak Zamir, at the Supreme Court of Israel.
In March last year, there seemed a glimmer of hope that the US and “allies”, would back away from repeating the tragic disaster that was unfolding in Libya – and had already struck Afghanistan and Iraq.
Secretary of State Clinton committed on CBS (27th March 2011) that the US would not intervene in the way it had in Libya.
Now, it seems, a miracle is needed, as it emerges Saudi Arabia and Quatar are among those subsidizing insurgents with vast sums – as French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe announced that the EU is about to further tie the government’s hands, by freezing the assets of the Syrian Central Bank, from 27th February. Syria is already under a crippling raft of sanctions.(xii) France was, of course, one of the leading and most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the destruction of Libya.
At the same “Friends of Syria” Conference in Tunis (24th February 2012) UK Foreign Minister William Hague declared that the UK recognized the insurgents and Hilary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton called Russia and China:”despicable”, for their veto at the UN, which may well have blocked further “intervention.”
The US said it will consider military assistance to the insurgents – a representative of them said they were already receiving “western aid.”
With “friends” like these, Syria certainly needs no enemies.
The US has, of course, “despicably”, vetoed thirty five UN peace Resolutions relating to the Middle East(xiii) including on“Operation Cast Lead”, the 2008-2009 Israeli Christmas-New Year onslaught on Gaza, and Israel’s 2006 blitzkrieg of Lebanon.
A “new world map.”
Chillingly, no outrage, or cries of “despicable” has been given to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement, in Switzerland, the day before the Tunisia conference, that there: “would be no Lebanon in the new world map.”(xiv)
He stated, further, that an Israeli strike against Lebanon would be supported by the United States and Gulf States countries.
There surely is a wildlife park of elephants in the room. Given George W. Bush’s “Crusade”; the belief by extreme right Israeli circles in their control of the Middle East: “from the Nile to the Euphrates” and General Wesley Clark’s revelations of 2007, that the Pentagon planned:“(taking) out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”, there is an obvious question, sparked by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s confidence over a Lebanon attack:
Are these AIPAC and Israel’s wars?
Notes
i. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/04/obama-condemns-unspeakable-assault-in-syria/?hpt=hp_t2
ii. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057191,00.html
iii. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/295199/20120208/nato-libya-civilian-death-toll-mps.htm#ixzz1lzVEfpgS
iv. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/168203.html
v. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0520083989 (For timely reminder that propaganda sells wars, well worth revisiting. A crash course.)
vi. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29422
vii. http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/how-cnn-helped-spread-hoax-about-syrian-babies-dying-incubators
viii. http://bikyamasr.com/56287/18-babies-killed-in-syrias-homs-as-power-cut/
ix. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-state-departmentfake-ngo-conflict-of.html
x. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Kuwait
xi. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24151
xii. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-sanctions-imposed-on-syria
xiii. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
xiv. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228277.html
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Tarpley - False Flag Alert -
Blaming Assad For NATO Murders
The Kids Are Already Dead, Slain
By NATO Death Squads
By Webster Tarpley
2-24-12
A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad's forces. These children are already dead, and have been killed by NATO death squads. The goal is to create an atmosphere of hysteria at the Tunis "Friends of Syria" conference today Friday, which otherwise threatens to be a fiasco due to the boycott by Russia, China, and Lebanon, and due to the fragmented nature of the Syria opposition. Please spread this story as fast as you can as a highest priority False Flag Alert. --Webster Tarpley
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7 - Syria : Clinton Admits USA On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government
By Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham
Global Research, February 27, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition.
Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors in the region, al-Qaida [sic], Hamas, and those who are on our terrorist list, to be sure, supporting – claiming to support the opposition [in Syria].” [1] (Click here to watch video)
Yet at the same time, in the above BBC interview the US Secretary of State repeats the threadbare Western claim that the situation in Syria is one of a defenceless population coming under “relentless attack” from Syrian government forces.
There is ample evidence that teams of snipers who have been killing civilians over the past year in Syria belong to the terrorist formations to which Clinton is referring to.
As Michel Chossudovsky points out in a recent article: “Since the middle of March 2011, Islamist armed groups – covertly supported by Western and Israeli intelligence – have conducted terrorist attacks directed against government buildings, including acts of arson. Amply documented, trained gunmen and snipers, including mercenaries, have targeted the police, armed forces as well as innocent civilians. There is ample evidence, as outlined in the Arab League Observer Mission report, that these armed groups of mercenaries are responsible for killing civilians. While the Syrian government and military bear a heavy burden of responsibility, it is important to underscore the fact that these terrorist acts – including the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children – are part of a US-NATO-Israeli initiative, which consists is supporting, training and financing ‘an armed entity’ operating inside Syria.” [2]
The admission at the weekend by Hillary Clinton corroborates the finding that armed groups are attacking civilians and these groups are terroristic, according to US own definitions, and that the situation in Syria is not one of unilateral state violence against its population but rather is one of a shadowy armed insurrection.
Clinton’s admission retrospectively justifies the stance taken by Russia and China, both of which vetoed the proposed UN Security Council Resolution on 4 February, precisely because that proposal was predicated on a spurious notion that the violence in Syria was solely the responsibility of the Al Assad government.
Clinton also acknowledges in the BBC interview that there is “a very strong opposition to foreign intervention from inside Syria, from outside Syria” – which tacitly concedes the fact that the Syrian population is aware that the so-called oppositionists within their country are Al Qaeda-affiliated mercenaries.
Meanwhile, the US Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have separately issued statements that they are willing to send arms to Syria to support the insurrection against the Damascus government. Given the still substantial popular support for the government of Bashir Al Assad, such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar towards a fellow Arab League member state signifies an unprecedented interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Indeed, legal opinion could argue that it constitutes a self-indicting act of international aggression.
Besides, such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar of being willing to arm Syrian insurrectionists, can be seen as a cynical cover for what is already taking place. It is known that the Gulf monarchical states are already supplying weapons illicitly to the self-styled Syrian Free Army, along with Turkey and Israel.
So far, the US is officially maintaining the fiction that it is not involved in supplying arms to Syria even though Washington has demanded “regime change” and in spite of evidence that Western covert forces, including American, British and French operatives, are actively engaged with the opposition groups.
It is richly ironic that the unelected fundamentalist Sunni regimes of the Persian Gulf are supporting Al Qaeda affiliated groups within Syria purportedly to “bring about democratic reforms”. This is the same dynamic that prevailed in Libya where the overthrow of that country’s government by Western and Gulf Arab powers has now led to a collapse in human rights and social conditions.
Once again, Syria is indicating the same alignment of allies: Washington, London and other NATO powers comfortably in bed with Sunni/Salafist tyrants and terrorists, claiming to be supporting democratic freedom and human rights.
Of course, the real agenda has nothing to do with either democratic freedoms or human rights – as the awry alignment of allies clearly indicates. Rather, this is about Washington and its proxy powers trying to engineer regime change throughout the Arab World and beyond to conform to geopolitical objectives, principally the control of raw energy. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria are but a sequence of stops on a global roadmap of permanent war that also swings through Iran. Russia and China are the terminal targets.
Washington is evidently prepared to use any means necessary to assert this agenda: illegal wars, death on a massive scale, possibly triggering global war and the use of nuclear weapons. But surely the most preposterous mask is the “war on terror”, when it is seen – from the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – that Washington is now openly collaborating with the supposed “terrorist enemy” to bring about regime change in desired countries.
If somehow the weasel words from Washington could be taken at face value, then if it were serious about wanting regime change to facilitate democracy, human rights and world peace, the first regime that pre-eminently qualifies for such change is Washington itself.
Notes
[1] Transcript of Clinton interview on BBC, 26 February, 2012:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1202/S00690/interview-with-kim-ghattas-of-bbc.htm
[2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29234
Russian Secret Services : U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
Global Research, February 25, 2012
Itar-Tass - 2012-02-24
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) — Armed groups of Syria’s opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad, a source in Russia’s secret services told Itar-Tass on Friday.
“Huge batches of small arms and munitions for the Syrian Liberation Army’s troops are supplied from Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, but unofficially, not through these countries’ governments,” the source said. “The supply list includes submachine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles and antitank grenade launchers.”
Russia’s military expert, Lieutenant General Leonid Sazhin told Itar-Tass that “the scenario that has already been developed and administered by the United States and their NATO allies, mainly by France, Britain and Turkey, as well as the monarchy regimes from the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, in particular Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is being implemented in Syria.”
“This scenario was developed taking into account recent events in Libya, Egypt and other countries of the region with only one reservation – the lack of the UN Security Council resolution needed for the West. In fact, we see an unannounced military interference of some NATO member-states and countries of the region into Syria’s domestic affairs, who side with one of the conflicting parties – the armed opposition,” he said.
Sazhin noted that in addition to the Syrian National Council Syria’s refugees and army deserters in Turkey create a military structure - Supreme Revolutionary Council – led by Syrian army general Mustafa Ahmed al-Sheikh, who deserted to neighbouring Turkey.
“The main task of the Supreme Revolutionary Council is to coordinate actions of the armed opposition on the Syrian territory and to engage to its ranks new members both in Syria and beyond its borders to oust Bashar al-Assad exclusively through the use of force,” he said.
“As concerns weapons supplied to the troops of the Syrian Liberation Army, most of them were in service with the armed forces of former members of the Warsaw Treaty. After the countries joined NATO and re-equipped its troops with NATO’s samples, weapons were collected and piled up at storage facilities and depots, from where they are now taken and flow to Syria,” he said.
The expert did not rule out that some weapons can be fake Soviet weapon systems.
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8 - Ales Bialiatski : legally a convicted criminal, ideologically a “human rights activist”
aletho
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin
Dissident Voice
February 24th, 2012
Excerpt
On the 8th of August as plans for the siege of Sirte in Libya were underway, American senator John McCain was already signaling that Belarus would be America’s next target for regime change. McCain referred to the imprisonment of Ales Bialiatski, the so-called “human rights” activist arrested by the Belarusian authorities for fiscal fraud in 2011.
Bialiatski is the vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights, (Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme) a sub-organisation of which provided the United Nation’s Human Rights Council with false information in February 2011 accusing the Libyan government of “massacres” in Benghazi.
This false information served as a pretext for a war of aggression that led to the killing of tens of thousands of people, reducing a prosperous socially-oriented economy to rubble and imposing a corrupt foreign-selected dictatorship against the wishes of the Libyan people.
The barbaric destruction of the Libyan Jamahirya should serve as a sufficient lesson to any intelligent person of what NATO countries mean by “human rights,” “democracy,” and the “rule of law.”
Amnesty International’s condemnation of Bialiatski’s prosecution, without showing any proof of a miscarriage of justice on the part of the Belarusian courts, shows that the so-called “human rights” organization is more concerned with providing moral legitimacy for the foreign policy objectives of Western governments than protecting human rights.
Bialiatski was arrested by the Polish and Lithuanian police for fiscal fraud on intelligence supplied to them by Interpol. He was not arrested for his political opposition to the Belarusian government. This is not the first time Amnesty International has falsely accused Belarus of human rights violations and it is unlikely to be the last.
Since Bialiatski’s imprisonment, the Polish government has moved to prevent further Interpol arrest warrants issued from “undemocratic” countries. This is rather farcical coming from a state where wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt could land you in jail!
The human rights charade is now becoming so ridiculous it is likely to backfire in the long term. Regime change specialists such as Canvas, a US funded colour revolution training centre based in Belgrade, are now orchestrating stunts involving the use of naked women protesting outside the KGB headquarters in Minsk. Behaviour of this kind would get one arrested in any country.
However, the point of the exercise is, in fact, to get arrested, film it and thereby embarrass the KGB. But the KGB, being an intelligence agency, have pre-empted their plans and the silly nudists have only succeeded in catching a cold and providing light entertainment for pedestrians, all in the cause of the “revolution.”
That Amnesty International should hold openly take sides in favour of US-funded pseudo-dissidents should not surprise us. After all, the head of Amnesty International USA Suzanne Nossel is a former assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the man they call Dr. Stranglove, former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski is also a former board member of the same human rights organisation.
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9 - Anti-Assad Propaganda Assault Heats Up With Claims of WMDs
The Intel Hub
By Madison Ruppert
February 25, 2012
A U.S. Army chemical weapons crew takes samples from an M55 rocket. (Photo credit: U.S. Army)
Yesterday, Wired blog Danger Room’s senior reporter Spencer Ackerman put out a piece that reads like pure propaganda that lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
Ackerman even draws the obvious parallels between Saddam Hussein, although he fails to point out that maybe this is exactly like Iraq and Syria doesn’t have any chemical weapons at all.
He claims that the United States is becoming increasingly worried “about his apparent stockpiles of mustard gas and nerve agents.”
What exactly is an “apparent stockpile” anyways? I think Ackerman might have been more accurate in saying “alleged and unsubstantiated accusations of stockpiles” but seeing as he is clearly serving an agenda with his piece, no such qualifying language is included.
The Wall Street Journal has previously reported on the United States and allied nations increasing their surveillance of Syria’s alleged chemical and biological weapons stores, although officials have repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that these stockpiles are in danger of being overrun.
Ackerman attempts to make the reader fearful by writing, “Picture the looting and scattering of Moammar Gadhafi’s rockets or Saddam’s ordnance, only this time with stuff that attacks your lungs and digestive tract.”
That’s really scary and all, Ackerman, but where’s the proof of these weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)? Instead of providing any, he goes on to continue the propagandizing.
He points to a piece by Josh Rogin (who he identifies as a friend) in Foreign Policy which alleged that the U.S. State Department has begun to coordinate with Syria’s neighbors to prepare for the handling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses.”
The existence (or lack thereof) of Syria’s chemical weapons program is based solely on belief, which Rogin has to admit himself in writing, “Syria is believed to have a substantial chemical weapons program,” instead of a more concrete statement like, “Syria has a substantial chemical weapons program.”
Rogin also points to Syria’s refusal to open facilities to the IAEA that were supposedly part of their nuclear weapons program, although as recent events have made clear, the IAEA has become a political tool of the West and not an impartial nuclear watchdog.
Hilariously, an anonymous official told Rogin, “It’s an exponentially more dangerous program than Libya. We are talking about legitimate WMDs here — this isn’t Iraq. The administration is really concerned about loose WMDs. It’s one of the few things you could put on the agenda and do something about without planning the fall of the regime”
Actually, this is exactly like Iraq. In fact, the parallels are so numerous it is almost laughable to try to separate them. In both cases the American government is putting forth unsubstantiated claims of WMDs and then saying we have to do something about it before it’s too late.
Ackerman concludes his article by saying that it is unlikely that the United States will arm the rebels, even though there is evidence that they are already being armed by outside entities as you can see in the news report from last year below:
He also says that “invasion” looks even less likely, although he does not address the potential “intervention” which actually looks more likely by the day, although of course this would be done under the label of a “peacekeeping force.”
However, Ackerman does point to the possibility of “using crack troops to quietly and swiftly snatch chemical weapons before they’re looted, or pursue those who loot them,” pointing to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) as the likely perpetrator of such an operation.
All I can say is I hope people aren’t gullible enough to keep eating up the government’s unsubstantiated claims of weapons of mass destruction, especially given the push to confront Syria that has been so unrelenting for months now.
This should be a clear indicator to the astute observer of world events that something else is afoot here.
This article originally appeared on End the Lie
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10 - Taking the Republicans Seriously
Posted By Justin Raimondo On February 23, 2012
I was hoping never to have to write about the Santorum surge, yet I knew, in my hearts of hearts, it was meant to be. After all, the more Newt Gingrich talked – and talked, and talked – the more likely even Republican primary voters were to be repulsed by the vastness of his self-regard. It was inevitable that the Gingrich bubble would burst, and the next logical place for the thoroughly neoconized – that is, lobotomized — conservative “mainstream” to go is certainly not Ron Paul.
Santorum inherited those voters by default. For these people, the Iraq war never happened, or, if it did, it occurred in an alternate universe where the Iraqis pelted us with rose petals upon our arrival, instead of a hail of bullets, just like Richard Perle and the gang said they would. They have learned nothing since the Bush era: frozen in time, they are the party’s zombies, cheering the slogans of a long discredited cause. Santorum and Romney are competing for the Republican undead vote, with the latter doing his best to prove his pro-war credentials. The military option in Iran, said Romney during what was billed as the final debate, is not just “on the table – it’s in our hand.” Well, not quite yet, Mitt: you haven’t got your finger on the trigger just yet. And god willing you never will.
Yet Santorum manages to out-warmonger even this, boasting that he went up against George W. Bush in pushing “crippling sanctions” on Iran, and pointing to his campaign to fund Iranian exile groups – money he claims has been cut by the evil Obamaites, who are more than glad to fund the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya. Santorum scores extra points for implicitly pandering to the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim meme: although we probably won’t see him signing on to the theory that Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, that part of Santorum’s debate performance was a dog whistle aimed in the direction of outright loons.
Like Michele Bachmann, whose penchant for making up “facts” may have had something to do with her campaign’s early demise, Santorum just doesn’t know what he’s talking about:
“When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It’s now 60 percent of the budget.
”Some people have suggested that defense spending is the problem. When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It’s now 17 percent. If you think defense spending is the problem, then you need a remedial math class to go back to.”
In 1958, when Santorum was born, defense spending was 38 percent of the total budget: it’s now 58 percent if you count the interest on the military spending portion of total federal outlays and the costs of past wars, including veterans’ benefits and medical care. The “official” figure is 20 percent, so the Senator doesn’t even get that right. I understand what launching a presidential campaign on a shoestring entails, but if he’s going to make this one of his talking points, couldn’t he at least do a few minutes of pre-debate Googling?
It was amateur hour on the debate stage in Arizona on Wednesday night, and Santorum was far from alone is playing loose with the facts. Both Romney and Santorum have taken up thisHezbollah-in-Latin-America theme, a campaign talking point that stands right up there with the most far out of Laurie Mylroie’s fantasies and the Niger uranium forgeries in terms of credibility. Yet that hasn’t stopped the neoconservatives from pushing this idea for years, with little or no real evidence to back it up: indeed, the lack of evidence provides plenty of space for pure speculation, which is what they’re best at. You can be sure that when some right-wing “anti-terrorist” expert pontificates before a congressional committee, they’re bound to bring up the alleged “Hezbollah training camp” that supposedly exists on Margarita Island, a small, balmy island off Venezuela’s north coast. With its low-growing vegetation, small size, and paths well-worn by the inhabitants, Margarita Island is as unlikely a place for a terrorist training camp as, say, Fire Island. It would be discovered five minutes after being set up: the sound of shots would echo through the inlets and coves like thunderclaps. As Michele Salcedo put it in the Florida Sun-Sentinel:
“Recently, Gen. James T. Hill, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that ‘radical Islamic groups associated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Gamaat and others’ are ‘operating out of ….. locales, like Margarita Island off Venezuela.’
“Hill has never visited the island.
“The net fishermen, small-business owners, bank presidents and government officials who call Margarita Island home say Hill is all wrong. They would like him to take a drive around the island and through the peninsula to see what they already know.
“Strangers would have a hard time hiding here. The rough, low-growing vegetation offers no cover. Munitions explosions would echo off the mountains and amplify off the water. The coves and inlets are as familiar to the people who live here as the creases in their weather-worn faces. A dozen flights wing to and from Caracas each day, giving passengers on board a birds-eye view of the peninsula.”
The Romney-Santorum theme of a looming Latin American jihadist threat is a narrative that defies refutation for the simple reason that there is zero evidence to support it. When one boils down these reports, such as one issued by the American Enterprise Institute, the most one can say is that Hezbollah’s fundraising activities are international in scope and include contributions from some sources in Latin America. This is a very far cry from setting up operational centers and “terrorist training camps,” but that doesn’t deter the authors of this particular narrative, who aren’t interested in evidence, only in scaremongering. In short, the whole thing is a complete fabrication, on the same level as the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim meme. All of which makes it hard to take the two leading Republican candidates seriously.
The complete lack of any thoughtfulness should be worrying to those few Republicans left who care about such things. “The world is more dangerous,” says Romney. “It is not safer.” Yes, after a decade of constant warfare, after invading and occupying two Muslim countries and striking from Somalia to Pakistan, we are definitely much less safe – but whose fault is that? Romney would escalate the very policies responsible for increasing the danger to all Americans.
On the question of regime change in Syria, Romney and Santorum are in total agreement, declaring we ought to arm the rebels, along with Turkey and the Saudis. Why this wouldn’t turn intoanother Libya, neither bothered to say, although I wouldn’t want to be the one who started the Santorum-is-a-secret-Muslim meme, now would I?
The foreign policy portion of this debate underscored the fundamental unseriousness of the leading Republican candidates. Their fundamental dishonesty – are we really going to abjure any cuts in the military even if it means bankruptcy? – imbues these debates with an air of childishness: one feels as if one has been teleported back in time, to one’s high school election for class president. As the only adult onstage, Ron Paul shone in comparison.
The problem is that we’ve become a nation of babies: total narcissists who believe the world not only revolves around us, but that the laws of economics and of common sense itself are subject to our whims. In such a world, one can indeed have an empire and a welfare state and never have to worry when the bills come due – because, after all, babies don’t pay bills, do they?
This was Paul’s lament Wednesday night, when he said, in a tired voice: well I’ve tried the moral argument, and all the other arguments, and I haven’t gotten anywhere, so maybe the economic argument will work. I’m paraphrasing Paul, but in essence he said: “We’re broke, and we can’t afford all these wars.”
I’m afraid not even the economic argument will work on these “free market” Republicans. The reason it won’t work is because the Republican party is committed to permanent warfare as a matter of high principle, one that trumps economics, and everything else, including the laws of morality. Paul invokes the spirit of Robert A. Taft, but that strain of Republicanism is long since dissipated into political insignificance – although the Paul campaign may be a harbinger of its revival, Paul’s showing in the primaries hasn’t yet demonstrated that.
Polls show a good part of Paul’s support – which we can translate, for our purposes, into support for anti-interventionism – comes from independents, young people, and swing voters leaning Democrat. In short, it comes from precisely those voters who will be deciding the next election – not from Republican base voters, whose foreign policy views are frozen in time and impervious to rational argument.
Speaking of being impervious to rational argument, I see the Santorum camp is floating the rumor that Romney is offering Paul the vice presidential slot in return for an “alliance.” This is much like the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim rumor in that it cannot be refuted – because there’s nothing to refute. As I’ve pointed out before, Paul has attacked Romney often and hard: there’s nothing to this “alliance” other than the overworked imagination of one Washington Post reporter and, now, Team Santorum. We’re even hearing it may be Rand Paul, Ron’s son and the freshly-elected Senator from Kentucky, who’s up for the vice presidency. Since this possibility is contingent on Ron and/or Rand actually, you know, endorsing Romney, such a scenario seems highly unlikely, to put it mildly.
What’s funny is that the Santorum camp – and the political reporters pushing this non-story so strenuously – are utterly clueless about what drives the Paul campaign. It’s been so long since they’ve seen an honest politician at the head of a principled movement that they can’t even understand the concept. Ideologically, the Paulians are light years removed from all the other candidates, and no amount of cajoling – or bribes – will bring them into the fold. No, not even the prospect of Rand Paul a heartbeat away from the presidency, which isn’t going to happen in any event.
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11 - Brutal Bahraini State Terror
By Stephen Lendman
February 26, 2012
For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances.
Washington’s very much involved. Bahrain’s the home of America’s Fifth Fleet. Millions of dollars in aid’s provided. So are weapons, including armored vehicles, bunker buster missiles, wire-guided ones, and more. A Pentagon statement said:
They’ll “improve Bahrain’s capability to meet current and future armored threats. Bahrain will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense.”
In fact, Bahrain faces no external threats. Except for Western/Israeli-targeted Syria, Iran, and Lebanon, neither do other Middle East states. Yet Washington’s selling fighters, missiles, and other advanced weapons to regional allies.
In late December, a Saudi F-15 fighter deal was announced worth nearly $30 billion. Other plans include Iraq weapons sales worth around $11 billion. Israelis, of course, get billions of dollars in aid annually, including America’s most advanced weapons and technology. At the same time, Washington’s belligerently expanding its Middle East footprint.
Thousands of Iraqi troops remain. Others were repositioned. Kuwait contingents increased. Libyan bases are planned, and close ties continue with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and other regional states for future air, ground, and naval combat missions.
Notably, Bahraini activists published photos showing US troops training state security forces in crackdown tactics. In addition, former New York/Philadelphia/Miami Police chief John Timoney’s involved.
Occupy Miami organizer Mohammed Malik told Press TV he’s currently training Bahraini forces. His record includes repressive crackdowns against Miami global justice protesters, Philadelphia ones at the 2000 Republican National Convention, and other brutality in New York. For years, he terrorized city residents where he worked.
On February 16, London Guardian writer Ryan Devereaux headlined, “John Timoney: the notorious police chief sent to ‘reform’ forces in Bahrain,” saying:
For three decades, he was New York City police chief before heading up Philadelphia and Miami departments. He was hired along with former UK assistant top cop John Yates.
Timoney critics cite years of “police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering, and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.”
His methods include “pepper spray, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, Tasers, electrified shields, batons,” beatings, and mass arrests. Florida ACLU executive director Howard Simon called his Bahrain presence “extremely unsettling. I’m concerned for the people of Bahrain with Timoney directing how police there are controlling crowds.”
On February 15, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said brutal crackdowns continue. Saudi and Bahraini security forces attack nonviolent protesters daily. Stun grenades, shotguns, water cannons, and tear gas are used. When fired in closed places, it’s asphyxiating.
On February 7, six US citizens were arrested. Held in police custody for days, they were deported in handcuffs for the duration of their Bahrain/London flight.
On February 17, Press TV reported “a fierce overnight crackdown on anti-regime protesters across several regions of the country.” Manama, Daih, Ma’ameer, Sitra, Sehla and other areas were attacked.
Earlier in the day, police used water cannons against thousands protesting a teenage boy’s death. In Jidd Hafs, he died of severe burns inflicted while demonstrating peacefully.
Women were also assaulted. Homes were raided. Since February 2011 protests erupted, mass arrests, deaths, torture, imprisonments, and other abuses followed.
On February 17, Amnesty International (AI) issued an “urgent action” for “scores” of activists arrested on February 14, saying:
Police attacked, beat and arrested them. Their faces and legs showed signs of abuse. In custody, families have no contact with loved ones. Authorities freely torture and inflict other forms of abuse.
On February 17, Human Rights First said Mahdi Abu Deeb and Jaleela Al Saman (Bahrain Teachers Association president and vice president) will appeal their lawless military court convictions for protesting peacefully.
In custody, they were “tortured and ultimately convicted of unfounded charges and sentenced to prison by the discredited Bahrain military court.” Hundreds of others faced the same abuse.
“Bahrain’s crackdown and these baseless prosecutions continue as the United States considers a new military transfer to Bahrain.” Obama’s moving swiftly to approve it instead of condemning state terror.
Bahrain’s a valued ally. While hypocritically vilifying Assad for confronting Western-backed insurgents, Washington facilitates Al-Khalifi brutality.
A Final Comment
In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. Since mid-February 2011, major ones erupted. Thousands of Bahrainis challenged repressive Al-Khalifa rule nonviolently. Anti-government demonstrations continue daily.
In mid-March, Saudi forces invaded guns blazing. With Bahraini police, they’ve terrorize protesters repressively, including women, children, doctors, journalists, human rights activists, and foreign observers.
On February 13, 2012, Bahrain chief of public security General Tariq Al-Hassan said police presence would continue to confront “unlawful or violent acts of sabotage” even though none whatever are committed.
Despite extreme security force brutality, Bahrainis remain scrupulously nonviolent. Nonetheless, they’re brutally attacked. Minority Sunnis violate majority Shia rights. Bahrainis demand change. The monarchy yields nothing. Washington extends support.
King Hamad blames Iran for fomenting protests. So do Saudis for growing unrest in the kingdom. Heightened tensions suggest likely belligerent intervention ahead. At issue is replacing Tehran’s government with a repressive pro-Western one like in Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab League states.
Throughout the region, Washington backs state terror to achieve it. It’s official policy for unchallenged regional dominance, no matter the body count, vast destruction and human misery.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.S/small>
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Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening.
Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era.
For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.
America began with the invasion of a populated continent and the genocide of its native people. Once solidly established, it grafted enslavement of another race onto that base.
With those two pillars of state firmly in place it declared itself an independent nation in a document that nobly proclaimed the equality of all mankind.
In that act of monumental hypocrisy America's myth had its beginning.
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A Constitution was written that came to be regarded as American Holy Writ. Its central purposes were to defend private property and suppress mass democracy. It has fulfilled both those mandates beyond the wildest dreams of its creators.
Once the existing oligarchy was secure in law and native people largely exterminated, the ruling class increased its wealth and power fantastically in the 19th century, using the government as its enabler, exploiting to the limit the device of chartered corporations.
With its phenomenal money power, the financial elite began to use the military to expand its sway beyond the continent. Regions, territories, islands, and whole countries were annexed, invaded, and possessed outright, their peoples crushed, suppressed, and ruled.
Because ordinary Americans, like any people, need to believe that whatever the ruling elite undertakes in their nation's name must be essentially benevolent, noble in purpose and justified in fact, the myth had to be radically modified for imperial expansion.
The foundational story was that Americans had come to a howling wilderness teeming with godless savages and, through invincible strength of character and purity of purpose, had tamed the land and honorably earned the right to possess their bountiful home.
In the era of extra-territorial expansion that version was polished to justify and ennoble imperialism. The new corollary was that America could not ignore colonialist brutality but was obliged, by the Manifest Destiny that led us to civilize our own continent, to carry our mission into barbaric darkness wherever tyranny created abuse and suffering.
A national myth that absolutely binds the loyalty of a people to its government must be a subtle and powerful elixir that elevates and aggrandizes that people's self-regard. National policy will then appear to be an extension of its superior citizenry's inchoate will, and the basis for a justified arrogance toward the lesser world.
The simple, powerful myth of America's altruistic and heroic benevolence, shaped and maintained by the financial/political power elite, infused Americans with a deep and outrageously hubristic sense of racial superiority that, mobilized behind various imperial enterprises, has given all such adventures the character of a quasi-religious crusade. In this way insatiable imperialism acquires the apparent moral perfection of a syllogism.
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With WWII, the world was reconfigured. American Capitalism emerged supreme from the horror that had virtually wrecked its capitalist partners. The Soviet Union, though, having absorbed by far the greatest devastation from Nazi Germany, had astonishingly risen above its ruin to become the leading challenger to America as a world power.
This challenge was not competitive, it was systemic: Soviet Communism was a direct threat to American hegemony in that it categorically refuted the philosophical basis of Predatory Capitalism. Grounded in Marx and Lenin, it attacked Capitalism's inherent evils, monstrous inequities and flagrant injustices that, exacerbated by speculation, exploitation and fraud, would destroy it. And it promoted world revolution to that end.
This face-off of giants in the Cold War necessitated further refinement of the American myth. Now, instead of simply intervening in situations where despotism or tyranny required America to forcefully implant our just and ethical democracy, America had to become the shield and bulwark of the sacred capitalist system in which "free enterprise" was magically and increasingly identified with democracy and equally to be defended.
This version prevailed through many surrogate confrontations around the globe in the era of Mutually Assured Destruction and survived even the debacle of Vietnam, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the propaganda stream became ever more intense and pervasive. On radio and television Americans were subjected to an unrelenting barrage of hyper-patriotism in which American moral superiority was a given, and America's self-touted courage, generosity and decency were its unchallengeable proofs.
The implosion of the Soviet Union left America, in its own terminology, the "Sole Superpower in a Unipolar World." This, however, did not result in diminution of the myth. The practical effect of having no doomsday enemy -- China couldn't plausibly be cast in that role then -- was to supercharge it by increasing its element of pure, hubristic ego. America was no longer just called upon to defend the "Free World" from monstrous heresy; it was now, by virtue of its universally acknowledged, beatific "exceptionalism," required to oversee and police it in the interests, and for the benefit, of lesser nations.
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"Power corrupts," said Lord Mahan, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
When the only rival and counterweight to American power disintegrated there was a sense within the American power elite that the opportunity existed, for the first time in history, for one country to absolutely dominate and effectively control the entire world.
This consensus was expressed in a policy statement composed by a cadre of major right-wing political players representing massive corporate capitalist interests called the Project for a New American Century. This triumphalist manifesto laid out a plan for absolute American access and control of essential resources and raw materials worldwide, to be guaranteed by the military which would enforce Full Spectrum Dominance.
The American Myth, which had seemed to have lost momentum and its animating principle in the totally unexpected so-called Cold War "victory," was now re-energized with a less defensive and reactive essence, and given the glowing radiance and patina of a true and, for the first time, self-professed and articulated, imperial mission.
The attack on the Towers, an unimaginable provocation, was the trigger mechanism for the explosive launch of the effort to impose that imperial model in practice on the world.
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It has been without question the most spectacular failure in the history of American misadventure. After a decade marked by the waste of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives, the stunning bankruptcy of our internally burglarized nation, and a consequent recession more fundamentally damaging than the Great One, Imperial America has nothing to show for the botched folly of its arrogant overreach but unequivocal disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with no end of madness in sight.
An impartial observer would have to say that the hypnotic hold of the American Myth on the loyalty of the people has led only to disgrace and disaster, and set a direct course to inevitable imperial decline and ruin. That would be inarguable on any rational basis, but it entirely mistakes the motive for, and the purpose of, the myth. The American Myth was never intended to serve the interests either of our country or of our people: it was created solely to buttress, shield, and exalt the ruling financial class. It has done that with astonishing and unbroken success that staggers the imagination from our earliest days.
The massive looting of Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan war funding to enrich the Corporate Tyranny -- for that is what it has become -- is on a unique scale of its own, without anything remotely comparable to its flagrant obscenity in the whole long history of war.
Neither the Pentagon nor any branch of the U.S. government can give any accounting whatever of the many billions of tax-generated dollars that have vanished, evaporated. There is no doubt but that beyond the outrageously inflated, no-bid contracts handed to giant corporate favorites with their preposterous guaranteed profits, much of the money was simply stolen in bulk by, through, or in spite of the military, and distributed among thieves and accomplices, some of it on huge pallets...for convenience, presumably.
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While this wholesale robbery was going on under the oversight of the military abroad, the Corporate Tyranny had evolved a whole set of impenetrably complex devices for the generation of money without any economically productive source or result at home.
The sole driving force and purpose of Capitalism is the realization of profit. According to that calculus, reducing production costs increases profit margin. This leads to the obvious conclusion that as production costs near zero, profit is maximized.
There is no provision for social good in Capitalist theory. Corporations, created to optimize business opportunity through efficient specialization, were originally required to operate for public benefit but that provision was quickly finessed and forgotten.
American law courts have always favored corporate concentrations of wealth since they, like the Congress, exist to serve the moneyed interests. The American Myth was created to provide cover for the financial oligarchy to exploit the country and the citizenry, and the judiciary has consistently cooperated in ruling for corporations against the people.
Indeed, without ever considering the question in law, the Supreme Court long ago endowed corporations with "personhood," that is with all rights of human beings under our Constitution. The way this travesty occurred -- the slipshod by-product of an obliquely related case -- shows that the court preferred to incorporate this perversion of the plain intent of the 14thamendment as an unexamined assumption rather than risk an eventual test which would unquestionably have created violent public outrage.
Given the collusion of Congress and the courts in securing legal invulnerability for the Corporate Tyranny and the principle that the only duty of corporations is maximization of profit, it was not surprising that megabanks, huge brokerage houses, giant insurance conglomerates, gilded hedge funds and the credit agencies pretending to certify their work, all engaged in massive and systemic fraud and deception for just that purpose. The result was the crash of '08, the recession, and the stunning and unprecedented rescue and bailout of the biggest banks, investment houses, and insurance and credit conglomerates with taxpayer dollars. So much for the hallowed Invisible Hand of the Free Market....
* * *
The last decades have seen two related mega-trends in American geopolitical mechanics, both with dire effects on the power of the American Myth. First, what belief the world at large had in it has been shattered by a catastrophic series of imbecile and irretrievable military failures and disasters, which has caused erosion of its efficacy at home. Second, in response to this, the State has made increasingly crude efforts to boost the Myth's waning power by the imposition of totalitarian methods of surveillance, intimidation and coercion on the American people to a degree unprecedented in scope and scale.
The whole clanking, medieval apparatus of Homeland Security that has sprouted like an enormous poison fungus since 9/11 with its brutal police state mindset; the odious Patriot Act with its flagrant subversions of the Bill of Rights; the endless, fantasy-based terror-peddling of the prostitute corporate media with its clowns and harpies churning irrational fear and anger in the uninformed: all this grim, repressive endeavor is a concerted attempt to distract Americans from the real causes of their injury, abuse, and oppression.
And yet, even with the American Myth now totally and irreparably blown full of holes and exposed demonstrably for the tissue of lies, deceptions and frauds that it has always been, it somehow keeps its phenomenal hold on the great mass of the American people. The tragic reality is that, for the majority, their own identities have been so deeply and thoroughly infused with the myth that to disbelieve it is to disbelieve in themselves.
* * *
So the American Myth is dead, and yet it lives on in its deadness, horribly masking our crapshot economy, our bankrupt debtors' prison of a society, our Ghost Dance charade of kabuki democracy, while typhoons of impending social, economic and ecological disaster build their enormous, lightning-charged thunderheads above the dark future before us.
And what is it that the dead Myth still imperfectly obscures for Americans? What is outside and beyond the opaque wall of faltering, failing dishonesty and deception? What is the horror that the shoddy, tattered Myth has so long and so effectively concealed?
It is the world that has suffered unrelieved exploitation by the violence of our imperialist mania. It is the many wrecked and pillaged economies financially looted by our imposed predatory capitalist austerity regimes. It is the teeming hundreds of millions of starved, deprived and dying children sacrificed to Wall Street commodities gaming. It is the multitudes of humble, innocent, ignorant people, barely surviving in absolutist and dictatorial regimes propped up in their barbaric cruelty by our military while our banks siphon off the profits left after arming their brutal police and armies and bribing their ruling Kings, Sheikhs or Generals. It is the millions of dead and maimed in the raped populations of simple tribal people whom our indiscriminately murderous juggernaut has left in its bloody wake in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is the appalling legacy of hate and repulsion, disdain and fear, that America has earned with its appalling hegemonist villainy in every corner of the world.
And at home, what is it we Americans have been so complicit in hiding from ourselves in our devotion to the perverse legend that has come to inhabit our souls like a succubus?
It is the millions of us with no work and no hope in middle age whose jobs and homes have been devoured by the heartless fraud machine of Wall Street. It is the trashed and demolished weed-lots of our major cities eroding in crumbling, fire-gutted ruin. It is the many towns and cities with industries shut down and factories deserted or dismantled and shipped overseas. It is our decaying, disintegrating public schools, our bankrupt states and counties, our overtaxed, antiquated public transportation systems, our obsolete, dissolving infrastructure, our bloated, irrational prisons complex, our punishing and inadequate health care disaster, and over it all, the repressive mechanism of our police state, armed and empowered, ready for use against the American people themselves.
* * *
This is where we are. The great question now is whether we as a nation can awaken from this long historic nightmare and face the terrifying and exhilarating prospect of living in the full light of reality without the false props and dishonest constructs of a hoodwinked, herded and dishonored people or, whether we have internalized the falsity and disease to such an extent that it has become an organic, overmastering form of insanity?
In 1846, Henry David Thoreau, offended to his soul by the injustice of the American government's invasion of Mexico, protested it and went to jail for his convictions. Later, in his essay On Civil Disobedience, he said this:
"If injustice is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
To attempt to break the hold of the American Myth will be a titanic, daunting challenge. To even begin to openly rebel against the might of the National Security State will require the courage to face much more than official disapproval and denunciation. Imperial America will not respond to even the most peaceful and orderly protest with anything less than hard police repression and the level of punishment will rise in relation to the scope and seriousness of the action undertaken.
Small protests will have no effect and will be meaningless. Organized mass events, when they occur, will draw the whole fiercely and brutally motivated National Security State apparatus down upon themselves. Americans, excepting those of our underclass who have felt it, have no experience with violent police or military repression. Those who commit peaceful civil disobedience -- a first and innocent tactic of serious protest -- will swiftly find out to their cost how it works. In a National Security State that has excised and eradicated all defensive laws and regulations intended to prevent abuse of the public, whatever the State does is legal. To such a pass have we in America come as a result of our long historic indoctrination in serving our financial elite, our Ruling Class.
To achieve any redemption for Americans, to make possible any more just, humane and life-honoring society, will require complete abandonment of the system of Predatory Capitalism. If offers no prospect of reform or improvement and we have all been witness to the idiocy of the so-called "democratic process" in action for generations now.
America is nearing the greatest crisis point in its history and the terrific cataclysm, when it happens, will determine the future our country is to have. If we cannot, in dominating numbers, rise to reject the heartless, mindless, soul-less machine of Imperial Predatory Capitalism, we will be condemned to a fascistic command and control horror in which human beings are mere possessions of the State, units of production or service, and then perhaps not even that, as excess population in that brave, new world nay be eliminated.
That end is not inevitable. We are not lost. We are not even defeated because to this moment we have not engaged. We have not honored our responsibility as human beings. We have not risen to defend our humanity. We have let ourselves be ruled.
All around the world the thunder of vast and immeasurable discontent can be heard and felt. In Egypt and Spain, Jordan and Greece, Iraq and Sudan, Afghanistan and Ireland, Latin America, the Far East and Africa, the legitimate anger of humanity is expressing itself against the dead and killing hand of Predatory Capitalism and its agencies of violence. And here, in America, so long trapped and encapsulated, frozen like a fly in amber in a false religion of state idolatry, the anger is deep, widespread, and growing.
It is up to those who know and care to lead. As Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls." Nothing is guaranteed us. That can't matter. We cannot be concerned with odds or outcomes. We cannot let the Machine of Injustice grind on. We must oppose it with all the moral force we own. We must act with quiet courage to confront a vicious tyrannical system that is destroying the earth, its life, and its people. We must put our lives on the line to oppose it.
The Nightmare Machine of rapacious exploitation has overthrown humanity's decency and reason and its bloody inhuman treason flourishes over us. This must be ended.
Let your life be a friction now to stop the Machine.
See also -- The Century of the Self -- How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__pl_AV3Lo
Jews planning another internet shutdown on their feast of "Purim"
http://www.infowars.com/kill-switch-fbi-could-shut-off-internet-for-thousands-on-march-8-to-eradicate-virus/
Illuminati Astrology and 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkwBjLG1ULA&feature=related
No More Americans to Die for Jewry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxzZY4JycY&feature=player_embedded
Dr. Pierce on how Judaism has destroyed White, Christian civilization
http://vimeo.com/37147833
2-minute video: FOX edits, fakes applause for John Bolton pro-war response
The 2-minute video is a public meeting of former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton responding to a US war veteran’s question. The video shows that FOX then edits-out the audience response to replace it with applause from a different person’s question. The proof is that the...
29-second Orwellian video: FOX News: “US has moral authority to annihilate Iran because they’re evil”
video here. This is Orwellian language in action. Mr. Carlson states that because the US has moral authority (we’re the good guys) and do not seek hegemony, the US can destroy Iran (and all its people?) in a pre-emptive strike because they’re evil (the bad guys). This...
Kriegslügen gegen Syrien - Christoph Hörstel im Interview mit Russia
Today - YouTube_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLg5xrGvJhs)
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talks about what is happening in syria....tags in german, but video is in
english
Who Said Israel Has A Right To Exist?
Israel & Palestine - The So-Called Right To Exist
Zionist Christians should read Revelation 2:9 & 3:9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUViCujPRnA&feature=related
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14 - New York's U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules MERS's Business Model Is Illegal
L. Randall WrayProfessor of Economics and Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City
Feb. 16, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/new-yorks-us-bankruptcy-c_b_824167.html?view=print
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/new-yorks-us-bankruptcy-c_b_824167.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman has ruled that MERS's business practices are unlawful. He explicitly acknowledged that this ruling sets a precedent that has far-reaching implications for half of the mortgages in this country. MERS is dead. The banks are in big trouble. And all foreclosures should be stopped immediately while the legislative branch comes up with a solution.
For some weeks I have been arguing that MERS is perpetrating foreclosure fraud all across the nation. Its business model makes it impossible to legally foreclose on any mortgaged property registered within its system -- which includes half of the outstanding mortgages in the US. MERS was a fraud from day one, whose purpose was to evade property recording fees & to subvert 5 centuries of property law. Its chickens have come home to roost.
Wall St. wanted to transform America's housing sector into the world's biggest casino and needed to undermine property rights to make it easier to run the scam. The payoffs were bigger for lenders who could induce homeowners to take mortgages they could not possibly afford. The mortgages were packaged into securities sold-on to patsy investors who were defrauded by the "reps and warranties" falsely certifying the securities as backed by top grade loans. In fact the securities were not backed by mortgages, and in any case the mortgages were sure to go bad. Given that homeowners would default, the Wall St. banks that serviced the mortgages needed a foreclosure steamroller to quickly and cheaply throw families out of the homes so that they could be resold to serve as purported collateral for yet more gambling bets. MERS -- the industry's creation -- stepped up to the plate to facilitate the fraud.
The judge has ruled that its practices are illegal. MERS and the banks lose; investors and homeowners win.
Here's MERS's business model in brief. Real estate property sales and mortgages are supposed to be recorded in local recording offices, with fees paid. With the rise of securitization, each mortgage might be sold a dozen times before it came to rest as the collateral behind a mortgage backed security (MBS), and each of those sales would need to be recorded. MERS was created to bypass public recording; it would be listed in the county records as the "mortgagee of record" and the "nominee" of the holder of mortgage. Members of MERS could then transfer the mortgage from one to another without all the trouble of changing the local records, simply by (voluntarily) recording transactions on MERS's registry.
A mortgage has 2 parts, the "note" and the "security" (not to be confused with the MBS) or "deed of trust" that is usually just called the "mortgage". The idea behind MERS was that the "note" would be transferred from seller to purchaser, but the "mortgage" would be held by MERS. In fact, MERS recommended that the "note" be held by the mortgage servicer to facilitate foreclosures, but in practice it seems that the notes were often lost or destroyed (which is why all those Burger King Kids were hired to Robo-sign "lost note affidavits").
At each transfer, the note & mortgage are supposed to be "assigned" to the new owner; MERS claimed that because it was the "mortgagee of record" and the "nominee" of both parties to every transaction, there was no need to assign the "mortgage" until foreclosure. And it argued that since the old adage is that the "mortgage follows the note" and that both parties intended to assign the notes (even if they did not get around to doing it), then the Bankruptcy Court should rule that the assignments did take place in some sort of "virtual reality" so that there is a clear chain of title that allows the servicers to foreclose.
The Judge rejected every aspect of MERS's argument. The Court rejected the claim that MERS could be both holder of the mortgage as well as nominee of the "true" owner. It also found that "mortgagee of record" is a vague term that does not give one legal standing as mortgagee. Hence, at best, MERS is only a nominee. It rejected MERS's claim that as nominee it can assign notes or mortgages -- a nominee has limited rights and those most certainly do not include the right to transfer ownership unless there is specific written instruction to do so. In scarcely veiled anger, the Judge wrote:
"According to MERS, the principal/agent relationship among itself and its members is created by the MERS rules of membership and terms and conditions, as well as the Mortgage itself. However, none of the documents expressly creates an agency relationship or even mentions the word "agency." MERS would have this Court cobble together the documents and draw inferences from the words contained in those documents."
Judge Grossman rejected MERS's arguments, saying that mere membership in MERS does not provide "agency" rights to MERS, and agreeing with the Supreme Court of Kansas that ruled "The parties appear to have defined the word [nominee] in much the same way that the blind men of Indian legend described an elephant -- their description depended on which part they were touching at any given time."
He went on to disparage MERS's claim that since in legal theory the "mortgage follows the note", the Court should overlook the fact that MERS separated them. He stopped just short of saying that by separating them, MERS has irretrievably destroyed the clear chain of title, although he hinted that a future ruling could come to that conclusion:
"MERS argues that notes and mortgages processed through the MERS System are never "separated" b/c beneficial ownership of the notes and mortgages are always held by the same entity. The Court will not address that issue in this Decision, but leaves open the issue as to whether mortgages processed through the MERS system are properly perfected and valid liens. See Carpenter v. Longan, 83 U.S. at 274 (finding that an assignment of the mortgage without the note is a nullity); Landmark Nat'l Bank v. Kesler, 216 P.3d 158, 166-67 (Kan. 2009) ("[I]n the event that a mortgage loan somehow separates interests of the note & the deed of trust, with the deed of trust lying with some independent entity, the mortgage may become unenforceable")."
That would mean not only the end of MERS, but also the end of the banks holding unenforceable mortgages because they were not, & cannot be, "perfected". MERS & the banks screwed up big time, and there is no "do over" -- there is no valid lien on the property, so owners have got their homes free and clear.
There have been numerous court rulings against MERS -- including decisions made by state supreme courts. What is significant about the US Bankruptcy Court of New York's ruling is that the judge specifically set out to examine the legality of MERS's business model. As the judge argued in the decision, "The Court believes this analysis is necessary for the precedential effect it will have on other cases pending before this Court". In the scathing opinion, Judge Grossman variously labeled MERS's positions as "stunningly inconsistent" with the facts, "absurd, at best", and "not supported by the law". The ruling is a complete repudiation of every argument MERS has made about the legality of its procedures.
What is particularly ironic is that MERS actually forced the judge to undertake the examination of its business model. The case before the judge involved a foreclosed homeowner who had already lost in state court. The homeowner then approached the US Bankruptcy Court to argue that the foreclosing bank did not have legal standing because of MERS's business practices. However, by the "Rooker-Feldman" doctrine (or res judicata), the US Bankruptcy Court is prohibited from "looking behind" the state court's decision to determine the issue of legal standing. Hence, Judge Grossman ruled in the bank's favor on that particular issue.
Yet, MERS's high priced lawyers wanted to push the issue and asked for the Judge to rule in favor of MERS's practices, too. So while MERS won the little battle over one foreclosed home, it lost the war against the nation's homeowners. The Judge ruled against MERS on every single issue of importance. And it was MERS's stupid arrogance that brought it down.
As I predicted 2 weeks. ago, MERS would be dead within weeks. Judge Grossman has driven the final stake through its black heart. The half of America's homeowners whose mortgages are registered at MERS have been handed a "get out of jail free" card. Wall St. has no right to foreclose on their property. The tide has turned. It won't be easy, but homeowners in those states with judicial foreclosures now have Judge Grossman on their side. Those in the other states (just over half) will have a tougher time because they can lose their home before they ever get to court. But the law is still on their side -- foreclosure by members of MERS is theft -- so class action lawsuits may be the way to go.
MERS is dead, but can the banks survive? There are two separate issues. First, there are the "reps and warranties" given by the mortgage securitizers (Wall St. investment banks) to the investors (pension funds, GSEs, PIMCO, and so on). We now know that a quarter to a third of the mortgages bundled to serve as backing for the securities did not meet stated quality. Worse, we also know that the banks knew this -- they hired third parties to undertake "due diligence" to check quality. This was not done to protect the investors, rather, the purpose was to strengthen the bargaining position of the securitizers, who were able to reduce the prices paid for the mortgages. Now, the investors are suing the banks for restitution--forcing them to cover the losses and buy-back the bad mortgages at original price. To add insult to injury, even the NYFed is suing them. That is a lot like having your parents sue you for their inadequate parental oversight of your behavior.
The second issue is that the mortgages backing the securities were supposed to be placed in Trusts (affiliates of the securitizing banks), with the Trustee certifying not only that the mortgages met the reps and warranties but also that the documents were up to snuff and safely locked away. We know they were not. As mentioned above, MERS told the servicers to hold the notes, and many or most of them were destroyed or lost. Further, the notes were separated from the mortgages -- making them null and void. In any case, they are not at the Trusts. This means the MBSs are not backed by mortgages, meaning the MBSs are unsecured debt. MERS's business model ensures that. So, again, the banks must take back the fraudulent securities -- paying off the investors.
What can Wall St. do? Well, I suppose the "help wanted" signs are already up at MERS and Wall St. banks: "Needed: Burger King Kids to Robo-sign forged quasi-professional-looking docs". The problem is that even with tens of thousands of Robo-Kids, Wall St. will not be able to pull off a vast criminal conspiracy on the necessary scale. Think about it: 60M mortgages, each sold ten times, means 600 million transactions and assignments that have to be forged. MERS's documentation was notoriously sloppy, relying on voluntary recording by members. The Robo-Kids would have to go back through a decade of records to manufacture a paper trail that would convince now-skeptical judges that there is a clear chain of title from the first recording in the public record through to the foreclosure. It ain't going to happen.
The only other hope is that Wall St. can call in its campaign contribution chips and get Congress to retroactively legalize fraud. That is what they do in those dictatorships that protestors are now bringing down in the Middle East. Is Washington willing to take that risk, just to please its Wall St. benefactors?
The court document is available here. It is terrific reading.
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15 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
The American "TC" Saga - Part 1 - INTRODUCTION
The American "TC" Saga - Part 2 - STATE
The American "TC" Saga - Part 3 - CHURCH
The American "TC" Saga - Part 4 - FAMILY
The American "TC" Saga - Part 5 - ECONOMY
The American "TC" Saga - Part 6 - SCHOOL
The American "TC" Saga - Part 7 - MEDIA
The American "TC" Saga - Part 8 - CORPORATIONS and LAW
The American "TC" Saga - Part 9 - CORPORATE STATE
The American "TC" Saga - Part 10 - GLOBAL CONTROLLERS
"Toxic Obama" - the latest failed Presidency
Barry Soetoro the Blackface Alfred E. Neuman
The New World Order Feudal Enslavement System
Fatalistic Reality and Election Futility
No Labels = the Ignorant Middle
Davos Elites Enjoys the Global Depression
The Rule of Gold after the Financial Collapse
Bretton Woods II - The Final Enslavement of Mankind
NOVO ORDO SECLORUM - NeoCon Hell on Earth
Agenda 21 in New York State - Home Rule and Article X
Liberty for the Ron Paul Generation
Federal Reserve is a Cache of Stolen Assets
Obamacare is a Public Requiem by Supreme Decree
Edgar Steele and the National Defense Authorization Act
Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
BREAKING ALL THE RULES
BREAKING ALL THE RULES Forum
Totalitarian Collectivism
"The privatization of public services and functions manifests the steady evolution of corporate power into a political form, into an integral, even dominant partner with the state." -- Sheldon S. Wolin
Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
Stricken with a terminal disease, the decline of traditional society is unavoidable. For decades, the political institutions that fostered a Republic based upon individual liberty and responsibility fade into fond memory. Defenders of all that made America a shining example of human freedom are attacked and ridiculed for holding onto a moral and ethical system that is based upon the dignity of every individual. Most will blame the failure of this decay on the politicians that willfully pander to the masses with the next generation of social welfare programs. While defining a politician as a scoundrel, deserving damnation, seems obvious; the underlying source of the decay that eats away the culture comes from various directions.
The trends toward despotism are visible for all to see. Most prefer their blinded vision because accepting the lethal condition might require some proactive response. The idea that a single dictator will seize power and rule as a tyranny seems foreign to many plebeians. Yet, the daily news that flows from the corporate mass media build upon the absence of real reporting and fundamental truth that ignores, denies and substitutes meaningless stories for earth shattering events.
Therefore, the significance of the concept, inverted totalitarianism, as defined bySheldon S. Wolin deserves examination.
"It is all politics all of the time but a politics largely untempered by the political. Party squabbles are occasionally on public display, and there is a frantic and continuous politics among factions of the party, interest groups, competing corporate powers, and rival media concerns. And there is, of course, the culminating moment of national elections when the attention of the nation is required to make a choice of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives. What is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly organized, single-minded interests rabidly seeking governmental favors and overwhelming the practices of representative government and public administration by a sea of cash."
Watch the Sheldon Wolin You Tube interview for a summary of his viewpoint.
For an in-depth study of Mr. Wolin’s ideas, review Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. He asks the following questions:
"Does a demos have a future in the age of globalization, instant communication networks, and fluid borders? Is the notion of "a" demos as asingle, compact body with a "will" and an identity that persists overtime at all possible or even a coherent notion in the age of the political bloggers? Is there time for a more authentic politics, more reflective of the pluralistic character of reality?"
He defines democracy as,
"Democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men and women can recognize that their concerns are best protected and cultivated under a regime whose actions are governed by principles of commonality, equality, and fairness, a regime in which taking part in politics becomes a way of staking out and sharing in a common life and its forms of self-fulfillment. Democracy is not about bowling together but about managing together those powers that immediately and significantly affect the lives and circumstances of others and one’s self."
The power influence of the transnational corporation dampens any idealistic notion that democracy is coming from the voices of the people. Momentous influence comes through the propagandist media message. The corporate economy dictates the parameters of the public debate. Trivia replaces the profound. Spending drives a lust for meaningless ingestion of poisonous consumption. The shaping of the popular culture is meant not just to dumb down the public but also to confer a normalcy for accepting the mundane. Rejecting the historic dialogue of the nature of man and the role of a just government is replaced with a diet of manufactured "dependency rights" and "entitlements".
From Fugitive Democracy: Sheldon Wolin and contemplating the local, the following quote offers an insight on the nature of political apathy that relegates one to accept a mad culture which is devoid from reality.
"In the emerging political economy, Wolin discerns an "anti-political" movement that coordinates the corporation and the state in a drive toward Superpower—that is, "an expansive system of power that accepts no limits other than those it chooses to impose on itself" (p. xvi). As this ‘postmodern’ political economy tends toward Superpower, those in positions of authority demand a new form of citizen: the imperial citizen. Sheldon Wolin reminds us of American president George W. Bush during the tense moments after September 11th, 2001, who exhorted the people to show their citizenship through consumption: "unite, spend, and fly" (590). This pastoral concern by the president emblemizes the postmodern power of the political economy as it reconstitutes "civic culture" as a flattened plane detached from the dynamic structures of Superpower’s soveriegn handle of world affairs. The best thing citizens can do is prove their patriotism by submitting to the authority of the established powers without a word of protest or difference (thus the encouragement to "unite"). Rather than spending unnecessary time and energy worrying about the changing shape of common life—of the networks that bind us to near and distant neighbors—the postmodern citizen faces the multiplicity of demands and choices available at the local Starbucks as she scrolls through the latest bids on ebay while listening to music on her iPod as she waits for the latest iTunes song to upload on her iBook. With so much to do, why worry ourselves with what our representatives are paid to do? This is the imperial citizen according to Superpower—a free-floating, apolitical subject, moved by the television pulse from the security of home to the perpetual satisfaction of shopping malls. "Superpower needs an imperial citizen," writes Wolin, "one who accepts the necessarily remote relationship between the concerns of the citizen and those of the power-holders, who welcomes being relieved of participatory obligations, and who is fervently patriotic." (565)."
The imperial citizen is truly a fool. The imperium that surrounds the disengaged participant in the latest escalation of self-imposed slavery, is the ultimate result of the corporate/state.
Progressive author and pundit, Chris Hedges adds his vantage point in the video,Inverted Totalitarianism: Brand Obama and the Corporate State.
Hedges’ talent for ripping apart the corporate state in all its horror is well established. However, his clarion voice goes unheard in the corridors of real power. The economy dictates the marketplace that is available for sale. The advertisement is the message that is acceptable to believe. And the limits upon one’s ability to think and act rationally is controlled by the inverted totalitarianism that is of our own making.
Blaming external forces for all the ills of circumstances begs the issue. As long as passive individuals accept their subservient plight, the tyrants of the establishment culture will exploit the sheeple at every turn. Our unique existence justifies resistance to every form of tyranny that comes our way. Notwithstanding, this basic human and natural right; most citizens succumb to the mind meld of limited expectations.
The frightful consequences on the totalitarian society rest upon the shoulders of each person who refuses to challenge the system. Resisting immoral authority is your primary civic duty. Our avowed responsibility is to abolish the corporate/sate and global governance that enslaves the planet.
A disconnect of left leaning progressives, from the historic context of natural law principles, is a core reason why a coalition of anti establishment advocates fails. Common dreams must become practical beliefs. As long as the utopians refuse to accept the lessons and validity of genuine conservative philosophy, the divide and conqueror tactics of the despotic New World Order will continue.
The economic implosion of the last few years is undeniable. The consolidation of power marches on because ordinary people obey repressive authority. Sadly, the indifference towards one’s own self-respect is the prime result of the sick popular culture. The abandonment of Western Civilization is almost complete, but is not final. Totalitarianism is a crime against humanity. It is up to you to do your civil disobedient duty.
SARTRE – February 26, 2012
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16 - Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland
The Intel Hub
By Saman Mohammadi – Contributing Writer
January 25, 2012
State of Emergency Communique #1: America, Canada, and Mexico are financially and mentally colonized nations. But financial fraud and media propaganda are no longer enough to keep the people down. Due to the political awakening across the continent the need for the boots has come.
“It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as continuous as it has been unheralded.” – Professor Peter Dale Scott, “War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis,” Global Research, February 23, 2011.
“They take our tax money and then militarize the police, and use the regular military against us.” – Alex Jones, “Military Industrial Complex has declared war on the US,” Russia Today, January 19, 2012.
“It’s not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (Constitutionally-protected) American territory for long, long stretches of time. Homeland Security doesn’t have a particular system in mind. Right now, it’s just soliciting “industry feedback” on what a formal call for such a “Wide Area Surveillance System” might look like. But it’s the latest indication of how powerful military surveillance technology, developed to find foreign insurgents and terrorists, is migrating to the home front.” – Spencer Ackerman, “Homeland Security Wants To Spy On 4 Square Miles At Once,” Wired, January 23, 2012.
“There is a genuine, dangerous disconnect between the Washington foreign policy apparat and the broad American people as a whole. And I think you saw evidence of this on February 15 (2003), when there were peace demonstrations in as many as 300 American cities. And I think that there is a real difference between what I call the American oligarchy, which now pretty much controls not only the White House but the Congress and the Supreme Court, and the American democracy.” – Lewis Lapham, “Lewis Lapham’s attack on American plutocracy,” Allan Gregg’s YouTube Channel, January 20, 2011, (Original broadcast: March 2003).
“How low have we sunk, Mr. Obama? You portray yourself as a man of honor and a defender of constitutionalism, but you have opened the gates to lawlessness and authoritarian rule.” – Philip Giraldi, “Creating American Terrorists,” The Council For The National Interest, January 19, 2012.
“A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent.” – Dana Gabriel, “The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter,” Be Your Own Leader, December 11, 2011.
“All the power and policy of man cannot continue a system long after its truth has ceased to be acknowledged, or an establishment long after it has ceased to contribute to utility. It is equally vain, as to expect to preserve a tree, whose roots are cut away. It may look as green and flourishing as before for a short time, but its sentence is passed, its principle of life is gone, and death is already within it.” – Anna Letitia Barbauld, Selected Poetry & Prose, pg. 275-276.
The process of global state-building has been going on for a long time. At the mid-way point of the existence of the American republic the U.S. Constitution came under attack and America’s national sovereignty was destroyed by international banks and corporations.
The U.S. Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788, but by 1900 it was already coming undone by traitors from within Washington and ambitions bankers from beyond her shores who invaded America with suitcases full of money instead of armies and tanks.
From 1900 to 1912 they engineered various financial crises in order to consolidate financial and political power. The bought off media misdirected public attention away from their criminal actions and towards an anti-capitalism/anti-free market narrative.
Then in 1913 the Federal Reserve Act effectively ended constitutional rule in the United States and recolonized the American people.
Under the Act, the power to create and lend money, which is the greatest power a government can have, was repossessed by the private bankers connected to the British aristocracy who were defeated by the American founding fathers and the American people in America’s First War of Independence.
I say “First” because it is clear that a Second War of Independence needs to be fought in the 21st century against the private bankers and the fascist multinational corporations connected to them that have robbed America blind and destroyed its social fabric.
But this time the pawns with the guns drawn are not foreign imperial troops, nor are they gentlemanly soldiers in red coats. The pawns in the 21st century American police state are ruthless and arrogant scum who have been trained to smash in faces and pull out eyeballs.
Police officers pepper sprayed university students in the face on a bright sunny day when everything seemed relatively peaceful and orderly. Imagine what these lawless goons in uniform will do to ordinary citizens and protesters when martial law is declared, order in the streets is gone, and mobs roam through stores like wild dogs.
When Martial Law is declared and social order breaks down, North America will become the battlefield that the military and civilian planners in Washington intended it to be all along. Indefinite detention centers will come into use. Also, the war on the Internet and free press will turn very real and very deadly.
I expect that Middle Eastern war zones will look pretty tame by comparison to some of the war zones on the North American continent. After all, the land of the gun can only be pacified by the gun.
All the police state laws since the false flag 9/11 attacks have contributed to the process of global state-building and the establishment of a universal slave grid system.
The unstated objective of this new international system is permanent bondage of the people. The criminal and Satanic elite want to gain complete control of the planet and human destiny. According to historian Webster Tarpley, radio host Alex Jones, and others, large pockets of the middle class and the underclass will be exterminated under this system of mass death.
This is where Homeland Security comes in. It has been set up as an extrajudicial killing and spying machine. But its undercover anti-democratic and eugenicist operations are being concealed behind false narratives like the war on terror and false aims like domestic security.
Homeland Security’s tyrannical reach also extends into Canada. The usurpation of Canada’s national sovereignty by political and corporate elites means Canada, like America, is a wilderness without laws and institutions.
We are witnessing the re-colonization of the North American continent. This time around, however, the colonizers do not speak a foreign language.); ?–> We are witnessing the re-colonization of the North American continent. This time around, however, the colonizers do not speak a foreign language.
Dana Gabriel highlighted the consolidation of political power and natural resources by the plutocrats in North America on December 11, 2011, in an article called, “The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter”:
On December 7, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the Beyond the Border Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan. The new deal focuses on addressing security threats early, facilitating trade, economic growth and jobs, integrating cross-border law enforcement, as well as improving infrastructure and cyber-security.
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While the perimeter agreement is being sold as vital to the safety and prosperity of Canadians and Americans alike, there is little doubt that it will mean a tradeoff between sovereignty and security. Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights. As both countries move forward, perimeter security will be further defined and dominated by American interests. This could force Canada to comply with any new U.S. security measures, regardless of the dangers they may pose to civil liberties. A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent.
Things will get messy once the people in America and Canada wake up and discover that both countries have been colonized by international banks and corporations behind their backs.
In a state of martial law, dissidents, bloggers, fact-based journalists, anti-war activists, gun owners, Occupy Wall Street activists, and Tea Party activists will all be deemed “domestic terrorists” and taken away into secret dungeons by the brainwashed pawns of the global corporatist state.
Tom Burghardt wrote on October 11, 2008, in his article, “Militarizing the “Homeland” in Response to the Economic and Political Crisis”:
Wholesale spying on activists by the Pentagon’s now defunct Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), as well as revelations that State police agencies in Maryland routinely spied on antiwar organizers, shared this information with the National Security Agency and classified them as “terrorists” in government-run databases, are viewed as exemplary means to “keep the rabble in line”–and under wraps, if necessary.
A highly-disturbing report by Christopher Ketchum in the May/June 2008 issue of Radar Magazine, outlined how the top secret Main Core database linked to Continuity of Government contingency planning, “includes dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.”
Reporting in July for Salon, investigative journalist Tim Shorrock was told by a source that Main Core is “‘an emergency internal security database system’ designed for use by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law. Its name … is derived from the fact that it contains ‘copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community’.”
Those who still believe that the criminal hijackers of our governments, “won’t order the military and police to shoot to kill dissidents and protesters,” are stuck in la la land.
They can’t see that North America is already being treated by the elites and government authorities as a theater of war. They can’t see that the mouse traps have been laid and that the maze of slavery has been designed to the last detail.
Staying blind doesn’t make the political crisis go away or the reality of war and tyranny disappear into the background of life.
A reckoning is coming. There is no sense in remaining blind to it.
Saman Mohammadi in an indepdent journalist and frequent Intel Hub Contributor, he also writes on his own blog, The Excavator.
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17 - Intervention, Reloaded
Posted By Nebojsa Malic
On February 23, 2012
Empire Studios’ Syrian Sequel
Syria is just like Kosovo, argued one interventionist two weeks ago, on the pages of the War Street Journal. According to Fouad Ajami, both involve a brutal dictator oppressing innocent civilians, and the Empire ought to act the same way, bypassing the U.N., and — to borrow a phrase from the late Richard Holbrooke — bombing for peace.
Sadly, Ajami’s “logic” is shared by much of the interventionist camp. It appears that film and television aren’t the only industries that have run out of ideas, relying instead on remakes and “reboots.” Though at the time it was a near-disaster averted only through last-minute subterfuge, it is easy to see how Bill Clinton’s evil little war might be mistaken for a splendid success following the megaflops that were Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, Obama’s administration being a revival of Clinton’s, it’s no surprise that last year in Libya they green-lit a sequel.
Trouble is, this is 2012, not 1999 — and intervention cinema is being shunned by both the critics and the box office.
The Land of Blood and Failure
A perfect example is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which opened in the U.S. in December and finally premiered in Bosnia and Croatia last week. The preachy and derivative film is a “dreary slog,” as one critic described it: “Subtlety and understatement become collateral damage as Jolie drives her points home as forcefully as possible and the film devolves into a grubby melodrama that fails to edify or entertain.”
Most critics agree, even as they give politically correct praise to Jolie’s assumptions about the Bosnian War. For example, a highly favorable review in The Atlantic loves Jolie’s politics but chides her for lack of subtlety. The sledgehammer approach certainly didn’t work on American moviegoers, who would rather watch a 3D tribute to a German choreographer.
Alas, that has not stopped Jolie in fancying herself a screenwriter, director, and even international diplomat (in the Holbrooke vein, at least). Following a worshipful reception in Sarajevo, she gave an interview to Al-Jazeera Balkans (video), in which she not only demonstrated an appalling ignorance of Bosnia’s history, but also used her war porn to advocate an intervention in Syria.
“Syria has gotten to the point where some form of intervention is absolutely necessary,” pontificates Jolie, proceeding to reminisce about the beauty of Damascus and proclaim that this is no time to ask who and why, but to “do something” to “stop the civilians being slaughtered.”
Well, she is a member of the CFR…
Whatever Jolie’s failings as a diplomat, screenwriter, and director, though, her acting chops are still in fine form. She’s a perfect example of hysteria politics, straight out of Central Casting.
Facts vs. Narrative
Jolie may actually believe her film is faithful to the reality of the Bosnian War, but it bears more resemblance to the apocalyptic reporting by the glory-hound Western media, which for years tripled the death tolls of the conflict, counted tens of thousands of soldiers as “civilians,” and ignored the jihad angle entirely — to name just three of its many sins.
Yet those are the very sins we see repeated today when it comes to reporting about Syria. How many of the civilians being supposedly massacred are actually armed and masked rebels? How many have actually died, and how much of the death toll is just plain propaganda? How come the bleeding hearts don’t care when the “unarmed civilians” actually murder clerics preaching peace? And what about terrorists in rebel ranks? Let’s not forget that much of the Syrian “news” last year was provided by an American blogger posing as a Syrian lesbian. As usual, when facts get in the way of the interventionist narrative, they are either trampled or tossed aside.
Especially galling is the interventionist prattle about civilians and the supposed care for their well being. Who do they think is going to get killed by the “liberating” bombs? Perhaps they believe in the miraculous transubstantiation of anyone killed by the Empire into an enemy combatant?
Whenever Imperial ordnance atomizes a wedding party, a refugee column going the wrong way, or just plain civilians minding their own business (the nerve!), the first response is to deny everything. Once that’s no longer possible, spokesmen say “terribly sorry” and the planes (or drones) keep bombing. It never occurs to the interventionists that this callous disregard of common decency may have something to do with the missing gratitude of the “liberated.”
How About Kosovo, then?
Not only have the myths about Bosnia and Kosovo contributed to needless bloodshed there, they have also been used to bolster arguments for murder elsewhere, from Iraq to Libya and now Syria. Invoking Kosovo to justify an attack on Syria was predictable. Yet what is going on in Kosovo is actually the best argument against the laptop bombardiers.
Four years ago, the ethnic Albanian provisional government set up under NATO occupation declared Kosovo an independent country. The “Republic of Kosovo” is a bit of a joke in many respects, but the few Serbs who have managed to survive in the province aren’t laughing. Over a thousand have been murdered since the beginning of the occupation in 1999, while some were carved up for body parts. In 2004, a three-day pogrom compared to Kristallnacht raged across the province, while most NATO “peacekeepers” stood by or hid in their bunkers.
Western talk of “human rights” and a multi-ethnic future is science fiction to the Serbs. Most of Kosovo is now completely Albanian, with the few remaining Serbs surviving in ghettos guarded by NATO troops and barbed wire. In the north of the province, several counties have successfully resisted Albanian occupation and have refused to recognize the “independent” government. Last summer, the regime in Pristina tried to conquer them; they said no.
In their peaceful standoff against the combined might of NATO, EU, the U.S., and even the quisling government in Belgrade, they’ve been gassed, shot at, and smeared in the press but have remained steadfast. Last week, they held a referendum — on the anniversary of Serbia’s 1804 rebellion against the Ottoman Empire — in which they overwhelmingly rejected the self-proclaimed independent Kosovo. Over 75% of registered voters showed up at the polls, a remarkable feat given that the entire area was blanketed by several feet of snow and ice, the worst winter in recent memory.
Yet what is the reaction of the Empire to civilians nonviolently protesting to protect their right to life, liberty, and property? Do the self-anointed champions of democracy and human rights applaud the Serbs of Kosovo? Are columnists lining up to support peaceful dissent against the government, whether in Belgrade or in Pristina? Think again.
Mainstream Western reports dismiss the Serbs as “nationalists” who “want close relations with Russia and are against joining the EU,” quote Belgrade quislings who declare the vote irrelevant or harmful, or obsess over the anniversary of “independent” Kosovo.
A Question of Power
So, alleged civilians allegedly being murdered are cause enough to reject the entirety of international law — except when it’s the Empire and its clients doing the murdering, because then it is magically OK. Democracy is the embodiment of virtue, but only the Empire gets to decide who is a democrat and what is democratic. Sovereignty and territorial integrity apply to Bosnia and “Kosovo,” but not to Serbia or Russia. And so on.
Interventionism isn’t about principles; it’s about power. Even champions of intervention admit that Syria isn’t being bombed yet because that would be too difficult. That doesn’t mean they won’t try. The “American Century” may be over, but the imperialists haven’t gotten the memo.
Read more by Nebojsa Malic
A House of Sand and Fog – February 10th, 2012
Return to the Fold – January 26th, 2012
Tides of Darkness – January 6th, 2012
Fallout – December 23rd, 2011
EUphoria – December 9th, 2011
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18 - Armed attack on Catholic monastery in Syria
Feb 26, 2012
For the first time in the history of the conflict in Syria, an armed attack has been made on a Catholic monastery, reported Vatican Radio on Saturday.
About 30 armed men wearing masks attacked the monastery, founded by Jesuit from Italy Paolo dell'Olio. Attackers demanded money and weapons. According to the abbot, no one was killed or wounded.
"However, it is strange that the attackers sought weapons in a monastery, known as a center of dialogue and reconciliation between Muslims and Christians," - said the monk.
According to the Catholic Archbishop of Damascus, maronite Samir Nassar, the situation in the country is spiraling out of control as the armed opposition spreads its influence to different regions of the state.
According to him, in actual fact Syria is becoming the arena of international conflict of political, military and economic interests.
(RIAN)
Jordanian MP Warns of Foreign Plots in Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of the Jordanian parliament warned about certain countries' plots and attempts to create turmoil and tension in Syria, and stressed the necessity for the continuation of the reforms initiated by President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab state.
"I think that the Syrian government has started reforms and seeks to materialize the people's demands and they should resort to talks and negotiations to (settle) their differences in ideas," Vasfi al-Ravashedah told FNA on Saturday.
"I think that a foreign conspiracy is underway (in Syria) to annihilate Assad's government," he added.
Earlier this month, Assad appeared on state TV to declare that a referendum on the new constitution will be held on February 26.
Under the new charter, freedom is 'a sacred right' and 'the people will govern the people' in a multi-party democratic system based on Islamic law, the state television reported.
The document allows multiple political parties to compete in elections for the legislature, sets a limit of two seven-year terms on the president, and eliminates a clause that guarantees political supremacy to Assad's Ba'ath Party, according to copies of the draft circulating in the Syrian press.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but the US and Israeli plots could spark some new unrests in certain parts of the country.
Syria slams "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia
Tags: protests in Syria, Politics, Syria, News, World
Feb 26, 2012 00:25 Moscow Time
Photo: EPA
Syria has condemned the "Friends of Syria" conference, held in Tunis, branding it a meeting of the "enemies of Syria", reported Reuters news agency Saturday.
"Syria condemns all calls to finance armed groups, which can lead to support for terrorism and harm the interests of the Syrian people," – it is said in an urgent message, broadcast on state television.
Participants of the "Friends of Syria" conference, which took place on Friday in the capital of Tunisia, called for new sanctions against the regime of Bashar Assad and an immediate end to all violence in the country.
In addition, they recognized the opposition Syrian National Council as a "legitimate representative of the Syrian people seeking peaceful democratic change" and promised the opposition "effective support".
(RIAN)
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19 - Syria grants Red Cross access to Homs
Feb 25, 2012
Moscow welcomes the Syrian authorities’ decision to allow the International Red Cross staff to visit the city of Homs where clashes between armed opposition and government troops are still going on, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov declared on Saturday.
He stressed in his Twitter blog that providing humanitarian aid to the people of Homs is the most important objective at the moment.
On Saturday, by agreement with the Syrian authorities, the Red Cross began the evacuation of civilian population from that city. Women and children were the first to be evacuated. The Red Cross is also holding negotiations with all the parties to the armed conflict on the subject of delivery of humanitarian aid to the regions worst hit by the hostilities.
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20 - A dozen bankers are destroying civilization and governments don't care
By lila york (about the author)
opednews.com
The Katrina debacle was a warm-up act. So was the mortgage fraud with its 30 million foreclosures and resultant homelessness. So is the lifetime indebtedness of young people seeking a college degree. What is ahead is more of the above, multiplied by a million. What US banks did to third world countries for decades they are now doing to the people of western industrialized nations - including our own. Just as bankers lured millions into home loans they could not afford with malice aforethought, those same bankers lured nations into loans they could not afford. That is what they do and always have done. It was easier to ignore when those nations were Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. (See John Perkins' must-read book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". You will forgive me if I have omitted nations - the CIA and the bankers are relentlessly busy). Now many of those nations are prospering and free of indebtedness to US bankers - probably forever. (They barter oil for other commodities in order to avoid the US dollar completely). So what was a greedy banker to do? He had to find new victims.
At the center of this Armageddon are the banks on the dole from the Federal Reserve: JP Morgan (and its investment arm, Morgan Stanley), Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo, all of whom trade derivatives worth more than the GDP of the entire world. Their modus operandi is to lure nations into low-interest loans they know with certainty cannot be repaid, thus forcing bankruptcy and allowing them to storm in like a flock of vultures and seize every asset the nation has - every mine, railroad, monument and public utility - at pennies on the dollar; then driving up prices for a massive profit, forcing the population into ruinous poverty. That scenario was instigated and played out in every country listed above , beginning in the 1960's and is being enacted now. Greece is only the most recent carcass. Next on their list: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, France and finally, the United States, where the Fed has finally done it - printed money in excess of the entire GDP of America. (As of January of this year, the national GDP was 15 trillion and 816 million dollars; the national debt rose to 15 trillion plus 65 billion dollars.) Fed policy is confusing, even for those who follow it, but suffice it to say that if all of that newly- created cash had not been siphoned into stock and commodity speculation - ending up in the Cayman Island bank accounts of corporate CEO's and bankers - but instead had gone into the economy - jobs, education, clean energy and infrastructure - the entire debt situation would look much better, since millions more Americans would be paying income taxes and be off of the food stamp rolls.
Rate of money creation by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Rate at which money reaches the economy by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Instead it is in the stock market, oil speculation and US treasuries. That is where they put it. The nefarious purpose of this blatant act is not to "stimulate the economy" (since little of it was invested in the economy) but to allow members of Congress and corporate insiders to sell out of their stock holdings at record highs (which they are doing) assuring them of infinite wealth, before the market crashes again, as it always does after these rigged market rises. Wonder why gasoline is now 4 dollars a gallon when world demand is in fast decline? It is the Fed. Again. Free dollars drive up the price of everything priced in it. (Free to bankers only. The rest of us pay between 8% and 30% for those same dollars) Dodd-Frank supposedly outlawed Goldman's oil speculation plots, but the law is not enforced. Why? Because the Republican House of Representatives refused to provide the funds to the regulatory body charged with enforcing the law. Their Plan B, their ace in the hole when all of this money printing fails? Global war, initiated by the bombing of Iran. Hey, it worked in 1940, didn't it? Doesn't war always end recessions?
Where is this plot headed? What is their final, final objective? Wealth in the trillions for that handful of white guys and slavery for the rest of us. In the end, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will own every inch of real estate and every hard asset on the planet. That is their objective. They will become the new Hitlers and Mussolinis of the planet, dictating their will to governments. They are well on their way. As European nations fall to bankruptcy they are sucking up the spoils of their financial war. Corporations now pay Chinese workers a dollar a day instead of paying union labor in the US a living wage. They have imported tech workers from India at half-price and Mexican labor to supplant the last unskilled workers left in the U S. The only remaining obstacle to the total enslavement of Americans is the public sector unions - unions that represent the only jobs that cannot be shipped to the slave factories of Asia. Look at the number of Republican state legislatures and Republican governors erasing those unions from existence at record speed, as they ram through "right to work for pennies" laws. They are not going to stop until every last nurse, teacher and policeman is working for a dollar a day, confirming a new normal of impoverished misery for America. Advanced college degrees will soon only be held by the children of the richest .01% of Americans. And the ultimate coup - The Fed stated in comments of its last meeting that it is planning to devalue the dollar by another 33% over the next twenty years. Mind you the dollar has already lost over 30% of its value, so that totals up to a 63% loss of purchasing power over a thirty year period.Translation: A Depression economy coupled with hyperinflation driving up the cost of living to unseen levels.
Okay. What do we do about this? Are we all just helpless pawns in this scenario, doomed to horrible lives? First of all, understand that A) the bankers at the center of this are evil and immoral and do not care a whit for the future of the planet or anybody on it. (See Thom Hartman's article on why CEO's and bankers get paid millions to do middle class jobs: Because they are sociopaths); and B) Nobody in Congress, the White House or the courts is interested in stopping them. They own Congress, the White House and the courts, so forget petitions and phone calls to your reps. They don't care either. (There are exceptions - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for one, described the bank bailout as a "financial coup d'etat" carried out in the middle of the night without consent of Congress). I would go further. It was a hold-up. Hank Paulsen pointed a gun at Barney Frank's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless he handed over every last dime in the United States Treasury. When the House voted down the bailout, he held true to his threat and tanked the Dow another 700 points overnight. In the end, Paulsen got every last dime in the US treasury. And since he was not required to account for what he did with it, we can only assume it went to bonus pay for the bankers who destroyed the lives of 350 million Americans.
So what do we do? The obvious solution is to throw most elected reps out of office in the next election. That assumes that voters are allowed to vote, which means voters must carry the specific forms of photo ID their state now requires; and that assumes that electronic voting machines without paper receipts are actually counting votes and not making up numbers out of fantasy. (To vote at all in the state of Georgia is a total waste of time. There has not been an honest election in Georgia in twelve years.) That also assumes that the vote totals will not be wired into Republican National Headquarters to be altered before they are published, as happened in the 2004 presidential election. Big assumptions.
We need Tahrir Square. I recall a segment on CNN when Occupy Wall Street first hit the media. A reporter on the scene was asked, "Is this Tahrir Square?" He responded, "Oh, no. Nothing like that. Just a bunch of frustrated kids. Nothing to worry about". Nothing for who to worry about? The bankers at Goldman Sachs? Yes, that is what he meant. We need to give them something to worry about. They actually are terrified of us, the people. Why else cancel Posse Comitatus and build all of those concentration camps around the country? Why else pass legislation nullifying all rights guaranteed to the people by the US constitution, including habeas corpus and the right to a trial? Yes, we need to give them something to worry about. How many millions in the street will that take? Many. Many millions. And all of that must happen before this next election. If the relatively discrete demonstrations of the Occupy movements changed the conversation in Washington and led Obama onto a new path, what would a Tahrir Square accomplish? Much more.
And there must be demands. Not only "break up the banks " but shut them down and send the bankers to prison. Not only limit corporate bribes to campaigns, but remove ALL money from the electoral process and enact a law providing for publicly-funded elections. Not "reform" gerrymandering but eliminate it; Not add paper receipts to voting machines, but throw out ALL voting machines installed since Bush's hilariously-named "Help America Vote Act" corrupted the electoral system. Return to mail-in ballots or hand-written, hand-counted ballots, ballots that must be counted with representatives of all candidates present. Lastly we must dissolve the Federal Reserve and return to sound money printed by the US Treasury, not by a small group of private banks.
If we could accomplish those goals, before the election, we would not have to eliminate lobbyists because they would disappear. There would no longer be a reason for them to exist. As it currently stands, to call America a democracy is a joke and a lie. The people have NO say whatsoever - about any decision made in government. The corruption of all three branches of the US government is total and endemic. They are rotten and drowning in maggots. We need to get our say back. We need a real democracy. Will that take a full-out revolution? I hope not, but it might. And we all must be prepared for that. Or leave. If we, the people, lose this battle and they, the bankers, win, it will hardly be worth staying alive.
Lila York is a choreographer and activist. She has traded the markets since 1990.
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21 - Satanic Possession
By Kaj Krinsmøe
When a satanic monster like Mr. Tony Blair is proposed as the European Union's first President it is symptomatic of how dark Illuminati forces and estranging political development is taking possession of the European Union. It is the New World Order which is already a crime against humanity.
The Bilderberg group is a front for the political assembly in the City (London). In fact global usury and Jewish Supremacism constitute neo-British Imperialism. This was set up many years ago when Joseph Rettinger, a Krakow Jew, approached Prins Bernhard of Holland and persuaded him to take a lead. Joseph Rettinger was paid by CIA and became a Catholic. And earlier yet, when Mr. Arthur Balfour, as Foreign Secretary, 1917, sent his Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild, the monstrous Masonic/Illuminati conspiracy gained great advantage. Jews in GB knew that they were being set up and compromised by the usurers in City, who would exploit Zionist ideology. But the media-controlled majority-mind was focused on the First World War. Great Britain thus became committed to support the Zionist State.
Adolf Hitler, trained at the British Army's center at Tavistock, Devon, England, in 1912, persecuted the Jews to create Israel. In much the same manner Europeans are now becoming committed in a satanic political nexus, the European Union, that they have no comprehension of and that only their corrupted democratic leaders have voted for. These political whores are entirely controlled by the Illuminati assets of global usury.
Mr. Blair is an asset of the intermarried British Imperialism and Jewish Supremacism that manifestly has been cultivated in City for a hundred years, at least, with Israel as a vital fighting wing. When Mr. Blair and former President Bush are not being prosecuted for crimes against humanity in the International Court in Holland, this shows what monstrous corrupt and collusive international administration prevails. The USA and its privately owned central bank, Federal Reserve, is another vital aspect of British Imperialism. America has fought world wars for British Imperialism. The British fought two major wars for the usurers in City, only becoming poorer and poorer for it, whilst the usurers in the City grew richer.
The British were confused by the ideology that Mr. Marx served up. Indeed Mr. Marx supplied the synthetic opiate that served the interests of global usury. When international usurers financed the Bolshevik Revolution this reveals how finance is used to disrupt cultures and acquire political/economic power. Mr. Marx wrote extensively about the problems of capital but he didn't mentioned usury which is the element of finance that cause, and is used, to create boom and bust economic cycles. And Mr. Marx put wage earners up against their employers. Yet, both employers and employees are at the mercy of and exploited by usurious predatory finance. Ideological flimflam and cultural subversion has prevented the employees and employers from seeing their common interests. Why else would international usurers finance ideologies?
When international politics is dominated and manipulated by usurers it is because the lick-democratic politicians are corrupted and co-opted. The European Union is managed by the whores of usury.Mr. Blair has already been paid a million dollars to integrate the Zionist State, Israel, in the European Union. His track record shows that he is a possessed political asset. And when Mr. Blair converted to Catholicism some years back this divulges how Masonic assets are used to subvert what integrity may still be intact in Catholicism. The present Pope is a Masonic asset. Before he goes on a state visit to Israel, he takes a holyday in Austria, this is where the present Black Pope (Father General) lives.
Jews began using Catholicism early in the 1500s, less than two generations after the Jews were thrown out of Spain, by starting The Jesuit Order and they put a pious Basque priest up as the first Father General, Ignatius Loyola. The second and third Father General, were Jews. One of their first "good works" was to teach children on Sicily to read and write. During the Middle Ages the Jews, largely excluded from the self-sufficient and wealthy feudal communities, noted that people who could not read and write had more intuition than the dolts who could. This is where mechanistic European thinking started and the ruthless logic culminated with an intellectual dolt like Immanuel Kant.
Within the first 100 years of the Jesuit Order, the Jesuits were in secret control of virtually all political activity in Europe, partly by using the confessional to extract information. And the Jesuit Order evolved as the world's most efficient intelligence organ. At one point Jesuits virtually controlled Japan and they were thrown out. One of their credos declared that the holy goal justifies foul means. Pious Catholics knew that this was a moral perversion, but by then the Jesuit Order was well established. Gradually the Jesuit Order faded into the background in a more and more secular world and their social/political activity was superseded by a political communism, and the communists reminded the world that the revolutionary goal justifies the foul means. Communism was a Jewish front and Catholicism is being subverted to become a satanic Masonic front for City.
The sinister legacy and the foul means of the Western world are blatantly demonstrated in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Palestine. The European Union is a facile moral bog that serves the hegemony of the New World Order which issue from City. And Mr. Blair is a living symptom of this criminal order of dark horses that possess Europe more and more trenchantly. The new Europe is a socialistic phenomenon. Just as Israel was cultivated by humanistic sentiments and socialists, so the European Union is developing in the environment of socialism. It is no coincidence that Jean Monnet worked in London when he master minded the European Union on Socialist lines. He said that a Federal European Government would prevent the nations fighting each other. Was he unaware that it was the international Illuminati bankers who were behind the wars and the ideologies that tore communities apart? Glibly he sophisticated the ideological temple that has attracted legions of bureaucrats and although international usurers don't own the European Central Bank, their predatory practice is almost as pernicious in Europe as on Wall Street.
Greed for work-free assets is a satanic obsession which usurers and Socialists live high on.Without their European and American assets, Jewish Supremacism, ruling the world from Jerusalem, is not feasible. This will be engineered by religious and economic parameters and incentives, and by the corrupt lick-democratic leaders in Europe who flourish in hedonistic hilarity and the cognitive dissonance generated by media whores.
Kaj Krinsmøe
Abildgade 15, 1.th.
8200 Aarhus
Denmark
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22 - It pays to be an FBI Terrorist Bomber
February 21, 2012
By the FES Admins
What's that you say; it's “sour grapes” from Edgar Steele's family and supporters when they observe that FBI informant Larry Fairfax soon faces release from his barely 24-month incarceration? Sorry, it goes much deeper than sour grapes when the facts are compared, as we'll see in a moment.
It's likely most readers of this piece already know the back-story, but if not, please visit the Free Edgar Steele web site for more info. In brief, north Idaho's Edgar Steele is framed by his handyman Larry Fairfax in a fabricated “murder-for-hire” plot; the “System” jails Fairfax with a hand-slap sentence; the “System” efficiently denies Steele any resemblance of a fair trial or justice with the judge repeatedly saying: “Don’t do anything to make the government look bad” and convicts him of all counts; Steele, age 66, is serving 50 years. Fairfax will be released in about 3 months from the date of this writing.
Let's observe the facts about the life of Fairfax as the tool of the Amerikan FBI and court system...
During the past 20-some months, Mr. Fairfax has been a general-population inmate. During the same time frame, Mr. Steele has been subjected to special solitary confinement, mail interception, loss of client-attorney privacy and minimal access to medical support.
Mr. Fairfax admitted he put the bomb on Mr. Steele's wife Cyndi's SUV with intent to murder her and confessed in court that he assembled and attached the device. Mr. Steele was charged with “possession of an explosive device with intent to kill” when the evidence proved he never possessed the components to construct any bomb.
Mr. Fairfax – given a sweet-deal by the Federal prosecution – was never charged with attempted murder or any charge that could result in a serious 10-year sentence. Mr. Steele's efforts to prove his complete innocence by analysis of critical evidence was derailed at every turn by a Judge and Prosecution who are, by federal law, entitled to receive bonus pay for convictions.
Mr. Fairfax was assigned to a facility in western Washington and has now been transitioned into a residential reentry center (RRC) , which rivals some decent hotel environments, for the remaining few months of his sentence.
Mr. Steele, designated as a low security, non-violent risk, has been sent to southern California, to a high security facility with jet fuel in the ground water that causes Astrocytoma, a spine and brain forming tumor without cure, that kills its victims and is seriously suspect, if not ultimately lethal, to the health of inmates.
It's unknown if Mr. Fairfax has received visits from his family (a long day's drive from his north Idaho home). It's known that Mr. Steele is denied contact of any form with his wife, because the Bureau of Prisons is concerned about some fictitious “danger” to the security of the facility.
In his transitional halfway house, the federal government says: Mr. Fairfax will receive employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance, and other programs and services in a safe, structured, supervised environment. In his distant prison, Mr. Steele continues to be denied attorney-client privacy and his correspondence is opened without his knowledge, is monitored, and sometimes “lost” before he ever gets it.
When released in a few weeks, Mr. Fairfax may return to his 'ole stomping grounds. If Cyndi Steele remains at her home, only a few miles away from her ex-handyman-bomber, she is worried about her own safety and security because the federal government stated that they would “NOT provide her any protection, whatsoever.” (So much for “victim protection”.) She feels forced to move away from their home of 15 years in order to secure her own safety from the FBI confidential informant, who is the FBI’s asset and tool that facilitated this whole, sordid fiasco because the SPLC demanded that the FBI bring Edgar Steele down. What the Hey? Fairfax needed money to pay up the foreclosure on his house and a way to cover up his theft of $45,000 in silver bullion, so one hand was washing the other.
These points and others have nothing to do with “sour grapes.” These points have everything to do with the side of Amerikan corruption you happen to fall on. For all the bumbling, all the private court “sidebar” conversations to which Mr. Steele was excluded, all the glaring misconduct in the courtroom, all the US Marshall heavy-handedness handling Mr. Steele, our government has the armed thugs and money to intimidate anyone and the motivation to silence whichever citizen they select. How soon will you or I be next to get the “Steele Treatment"?
We remain outraged at Mr. Fairfax receiving a paltry 2 year sentence for his crimes, due to the “System” (Government) not charging him with "attempted murder" for planting a bomb on a vehicle that literally endangered thousands of lives. What terrorism is the FBI really protecting us from?
There is no question whatsoever that Mr. Steele – jailed for speaking politically incorrect truth – has been targeted to be an example and a warning to others. Let’s face it, Mr. Steele is nothing more than a political prisoner.
The Steele camp lost the skirmish, sorry to say, but, we will win the battle.
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23 - THE NEXUS OF EVIL part 10
Introduction Alex James
http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/
Philip Jones died of cancer in Dec 2009. However, his blog remains.
As George Orwell concluded in 1984: “War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable...”
The Illuminati know full well that at the root of all wars, conflicts, and all forms of corruption lies man's distancing himself from the true religious moral values, and this in itself explains why they have spent so much time, money and effort in defaming and de-constructing true belief.
The `Endgame` for this insane agenda, is a One World Global Communitarian[4] State, of demonic proportions, with a culled and reduced population of micro-chipped slave workers, whose every movement and thought will be monitored by a Big Brother apparatus the like of which even George Orwell [his famous book is 1984 published in 1948] could not have imagined.
“By wielding inordinate financial and political power, the plan of the Illuminati is to foment a global war, or World War III, from which will emerge, out of the ashes of the expired civilizations of our time, like a phoenix from the fire, a New World Order. The coming confrontation is being presented as a Clash of Civilizations, between the Liberal Democratic West and Islamic fundamentalism.” David Livingstone inTerrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History (Paperback) by David Livingstone (Author)
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By all standards, the United States Government has been conducting a form of warfare against the people of Iran. In his speech to the Middle East on June 4, President Obama mentioned that "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government." So here we have the president of the United States actually admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government, while the United States is in the very midst of trying to overthrow the current Iranian government.
It now seems that the term `Democratic` infers nothing more, than establishing a regime's "pro-western" credentials in these cases.
As `super power` conflict returns after a long absence, South Ossetia is only a taste of things to come in Brzezinski's Grand Chess game of `Who's Going To Rule The World.`
To speak of saving Palestine from the Zionists is to speak simultaneously of one's hope for a worldwide liberation [from the yoke of Zionists]. The Palestinian `cause' does not signify the simple reconquest of a patch of territory occupied by aggressors. It is not even about peace and war; Its implications go much further.
The Rothschilds support those Jews who have fallen prey to the deceptive gnostic and occultic teachings of Cabalism, who in turn promote the Illuminati controlled Zionist movement.
After Prime Minister of England, Lord Asquith, was deposed in 1916, because he had opposed Zionist interests, David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization, as well as Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour of the Round Table, were placed in power.
In his expose of the Rothschilds Dynasty, Fritz Springmeier wrote:
"...the six-pointed star [had] made its way from Egyptian pagan rituals of worship, to the goddess Ashteroth and Moloch, to King Solomon when he went into idolatry," says, Graham. "Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft [including Arab magicians, Druids, witches and Satanists], astrology (in which It was no new thing), through the Cabala to Isaac Luria, a Cabalist, in the 16th century, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, to Zionism, to the Knesset of the new State of Israel, to the flag of Israel and Its medical organization equivalent to the Red Cross."
So what is the ultimate goal of Zionism? David Ben-Gurion, a Zionist leader, tells us:
"With the exception of the U.S.S.R. as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an International police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents."
Simply stated, Zionism (with Rothschild support) promotes a New World Order. The Rothschild control of Israel is immense. The Luciferian Rothschilds completely dominate Israel. They help Lucifer's Empire control the world’s resources, the world’s nations and the world’s religions. They are an institution in the conspiracy and if one looks carefully, the path of their destructive reign can be followed through the history of the past three centuries.
The Nexus Of Evil : Part Ten (A Pre-emptive Strike On Humanity) The Conclusion. By Philip Jones 16th September 2009.
Foreword.
When the concepts and ideas which formed the initial `skeleton` of this series began to formulate and take shape in my mind, my goal by article's end was to to illustrate how the `Nexus Of Evil,` created by the Illuminati, has by use of divide and rule, and the Hegelian Dialectical formula, caused otherwise good and decent human beings to fear and even hate each other, for no other reason than being different. Christianity, Islam and Judaism each have the same root origin, and share the worship of the same God. And yet in this the first decade of the 21st century, they are lining up against each other once again, in wars of aggression, stage-managed and manipulated by an ancient and malevolent secret force literally `hell bent` on world domination.
It is all too easy for an extended article such as this, to lose its way, so in order to avoid such digression and deviation from the `script,` I reasoned that an `anchor` was needed. I remembered a booklet I had read some years ago by a now deceased Swedish born South African journalist named Ivor Benson[1], entitled `This Age Of Conflict.`
It is true to say that Mr. Benson's short and concise expose of what many term the `Global Agenda,` had a profound affect on my view of the world I lived in. It is from that booklet that the above diagram originates, and it is that simple illustration of the `Nexus Of Evil` which has credibly provided the required `anchor.`
This series of articles has drawn upon many research sources, but two stand out as having been critical in helping me to assemble the necessary research material and information. The late Mr. Benson's is one, and the other is Canadian historian and author, David Livingstone's `Terrorism And The Illuminati.`[2]
The latter is without doubt the `Bible` of this field of investigation, and I would recommend that anyone wishing to truly understand the dangerous world events now taking place, not only read the book, but refer to it frequently as a means of staying focused, and not becoming sidetracked by the multitude of often conflicting theories and hypotheses, put out by some researchers with not always sincere intentions.
I would like to belatedly thank Mr. Benson for his many excellent articles and books on contentious subjects most writers avoid, and David Livingstone for his superb book and his always prompt and helpful advice whenever I have found it necessary to contact him. All other source material drawn from, is listed with thanks in the reference section below each individual part.
Introduction.
During the course of this series, our path has traversed that 150 year time period which Ivor Benson quite correctly termed an `Age Of Conflict, ` unprecedented in human history. From the middle of the 19th Century to the present day, humankind has been subjected to an almost uninterrupted sequence of terrible and catastrophic wars, which have decimated the global population, and twice during the 20th Century caused slaughter and destruction on a scale hitherto unimagined. A Third Global Conflagration would most certainly bring the mass of humanity to the very brink of annihilation.
Research has shown clearly that this `Age Of Conflict,` is no accident. In fact, there exists a `blueprint` for what has happened, in the form of a letter written by Free-masonic Grand Master Albert Pike, to fellow Mason and Luciferian, Giuseppe Mazzini back in the 19th Century[3] where he outlined his plans for three world wars, the third being a `Clash of Civilisations, ` between the Islamic World and the West.
So far, everything has gone exactly according to Pike's plan, and since the tragedy of September 11th 2001, it has not been too difficult to identify the means by which the Illuminati are manipulating the Dialectic towards a Third Global War, by maneuvering the Zionist puppet government of the USA and its allies, into a major confrontation with the nations of Islam, which will then inevitably spill over and draw Russia China, Pakistan and India and thereafter the whole world into the conflict.
The `Endgame` for this insane agenda, is a One World Global Communitarian[4] State, of demonic proportions, with a culled and reduced population of micro-chipped slave workers, whose every movement and thought will be monitored by a Big Brother apparatus the like of which even George Orwell could not have imagined.
In the previous part, we examined the aftermath of 9/11 and the carnage being wrought by the `allied` occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here in this concluding `episode,` we will look at the likely `flashpoints` which could give the Washington `War Hawks` the pretext they need, to launch their `Operation Armageddon,` and finally draw our conclusions accordingly.
For the past two years, all indications have been, that the Islamic Republic Of Iran was next on the Zionist `hitlist, ` so it will be to that ancient land and civilisation which we must now turn our attention.
A Warning to Iran.
The American invasion, occupation, subjugation and destruction of a modern, scientifically and culturally advanced civilization, such as existed in Iraq, is only the prelude to what the people of Iran can expect if the US-Zionist `hawks` in Obama's regime decide that the time is right and a military attack is launched. The impending threat to the people of Iran and its cultural and scientific foundations, has been conspicuous by it absence from the narrative among the affluent Iranian student protesters and their US-funded NGO's during their post-election so called `Lipstick Revolution' protests.
They should not forget that in 2004, educated and sophisticated Iraqis in Baghdad consoled themselves with a fatally misplaced optimism that “at least we are not like Afghanistan.” The same elite are now to be found in squalid refugee camps in Syria and Jordan, and their country now resembles Afghanistan, more closely than anywhere else in the Middle East. The chilling promise of President Bush in April 2003 to transform Iraq in the image of “our newly liberated Afghanistan” has been fulfilled, and reports that the US Administration advisers had reviewed the Israeli Mossad policy of selective assassination of Iranian scientists should cause the pro-Western liberal intellectuals of Tehran, to seriously ponder the lesson of the murderous campaign that has virtually eliminated Iraqi scientists and academics during 2006-2007.
The conquest of Iraq has resulted in the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural wasteland that remains is controlled by gangsters, swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as `Iraqi officers', tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and corrupted religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding `blue-prints for empire', formulated by graduates of the Ivy League Academies on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations, and ultimately, wittingly or not the Illuminati Agenda.
The Iranian people should take Michael Ledeen[5] at his word, and should be viewing events in neighbouring Iraq with not a little trepidation.
An Arc Of Crisis : Return To Iran.
"Never believe anything until it's officially denied," British writer Claud Cockburn.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski thought he could use the Iranian government, including the Iranian Shiite mullahs as part of an `Arc` of resistance[6] from Egypt eastward against Soviet expansionism. When `students` supported by Khomeini took over the U.S, Embassy in Tehran, it presented a crisis. However, as Robert Dreyfuss notes:
"Along with the threat from Khomeinism, some U.S. policy makers also saw opportunity...using the Islamic `right` to undermine the Soviet Union in its own empire, deep in Central Asia....The twin Islamic movements in Iran and (Muslim Brotherhood linked organizations like Al Qaeda in) Afghanistan, inspired Brzezinski and Bill Casey (President Reagan's CIA director) to pursue the Islam-in-Asia ('arc-of-Islam') theme aggressively."
Brzezinski developed a plan of financial and other means of support for Afghanistan, hoping to lure the Soviets into involvement in a `quagmire` there, and as history records, the Soviets obliged and invaded in December 1979. After this, Zalmay Khalilzad[6] (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq), a neo-conservative RAND strategist, wrote a paper explaining "the Khomeini regime also poses risks to the Soviets. The change of regime has encouraged similar movements in Iraq and Afghanistan, and might even affect Soviet Muslim Central Asia."
Perhaps it is useful at this time to remember that according to a map prepared by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government meeting in London in 1952, when the World Government comes into being, U.S. forces would be patrolling Central Asia (e.g., Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.). Brzezinski at Mikhail Gorbachev's first State of the World Forum in 1995 said:
"We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."
This is the same strategy proposed by Cecil Rhodes' Association of Helpers member P. E. Corbett in Post-War Worlds (1942) and its fruits can been seen in the EU, NAU and other Superstate projects currently under-way.
Since the Iranian election of June 12th this year, barely a day has passed without mass global media coverage of what has been depicted as another tumultuous event in Iranian history. Elections whose results are challenged as being dubious, have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. Many countless Americans and with much justification, believe that the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen by the Republicans, and not just inside the voting machines and in the counting process, but prior to the actual voting as well, with numerous Republican Party dirty tricks designed to keep poor and black voters off voting lists or away from polling stations.
That large numbers of people did not take to the streets day after day in protest, as they have in Iran, is not something Americans should be proud of. Perhaps if the CIA, the Agency for International Development (AID), several US government-run radio stations, and various other organizations supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (which was created to serve as a front for the CIA, literally) had been active in the United States, as they have been for years in Iran, major street protests would have taken place in the US.
In 1953, when the CIA overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, they paid people to agitate in front of Mossadegh's residence and elsewhere and engage in acts of violence; some pretended to be supporters of Mossadegh while engaging in anti-religious actions. And it worked, very well.
Since the cessation of hostilities following the end of World War II, one US government or another, on behalf of the Illuminati agenda, has seriously intervened in some thirty elections around the world. Adding a new twist this time, the State Department asked `Twitter` to postpone a scheduled maintenance shut-down of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran, helping to mobilize protesters.
In recent years, the United States has been provocatively patrolling the waters surrounding Iran with warships, halting Iranian ships on the pretext to check for arms shipments to Hamas, or other equally spurious and illegitimate reasons. It has been financing and "educating" Iranian dissidents, used Iranian groups to carry out terrorist attacks inside Iran, kidnapped Iranian diplomats in Iraq, abducted Iranian military personnel from inside Iran, thereafter transporting them to Iraq. It has been spying and recruiting within Iran, and has manipulated Iran's currency and her international financial transactions, and imposed various economic and political sanctions against the country.
By all standards, the United States Government has been conducting a form of warfare against the people of Iran. US President Barack Obama said with a straight face on June 23rd:
"I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran's affairs. Some in the Iranian government [have been] accusing the United States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the elections. These accusations are patently false and absurd."
In his speech to the Middle East on June 4, President Obama mentioned that "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government." So here we have the president of the United States actually admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government, while the United States is in the very midst of trying to overthrow the current Iranian government. If you can think of a better example of hypocrisy, let me know.
So what is all the fuss about over the Iranian election and street protests anyway? For public consumption at least, the announced winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is currently sharing time with Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, as Washington's `public enemy number one.` This `honour` has been `bestowed` for not sufficiently respecting the `Empire` and its Israeli partner-in-crime; indeed, Ahmadinejad is publicly one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy in the world. Can anything be that simple though in the grand web of Illuminist machinations?
This `default` response seems to be `built in,` to Washington's world view and the fact that whilst Mousavi,[13] (Ahmadinejad's main opponent in the election and very much supported by the protesters), was prime minister back in 1981-89, he was largely blamed for the attacks on the US embassy and military barracks in Beirut in 1983, which took the lives of more than 200 Americans, and also for the 1988 truck bombing of a US Navy installation in Naples, Italy, that killed five persons.
It simply cannot be, that no one in the Obama administration knows of Mousavi's background?
Despite his anti-American terrorist deeds, and just because he's opposed to Ahmadinejad, Time magazine calls Mousavi a "moderate", and goes on to add: "It has to be assumed that the Iranian presidential election was rigged," offering as much evidence as the Iranian protesters, i.e., none at all. It cannot of course be proven that the Iranian election was totally honest, but the arguments given to support the charge of fraud are not very impressive, such as the much-repeated fact that the results were announced very soon after the polls closed.
For decades in various countries election results have been condemned for being withheld for many hours or days. It was contended that some kind of dishonesty must be going on behind the scenes during the long delay. So now we're asked to believe that a species of dishonesty must be going on, because the results were released so quickly. It should be noted that the ballots listed only one electoral contest, with but four candidates.
Phil Wilayto, American peace activist and author of a book on Iran, has observed:
“Ahmadinejad, himself born into rural poverty, clearly has the support of the poorer classes, especially in the countryside, where nearly half the population lives. Why? In part because he pays attention to them, makes sure they receive some benefits from the government and treats them and their religious views and traditions with respect. Mousavi, on the other hand, the son of an urban merchant, clearly appeals more to the urban middle classes, especially the college-educated youth. This being so, why would anyone be surprised that Ahmadinejad carried the vote by a clear majority? Are there now more yuppies in Iran than poor people?”
Since both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are members of the establishment, neither is seen as being any threat to the Islamic theocracy, and the election can be seen on the surface at least, as the kind of power struggle you find in virtually every country. But that is not the issue here. The issue is Washington's long-standing goal of regime change. If the exact same electoral outcome had taken place in a country that was an ally of the United States, how much of all the accusatory news coverage and speeches would have taken place?
In fact, the exact same thing did happen in a country that is an ally of the United States, three years ago when Felipe Calderon appeared to have stolen the presidential election in Mexico, and there were daily protests for more than two months; but the American and international condemnation was virtually non-existent compared to what we see today in regard to Iran, where Iranian leaders undertook a recount of a random ten per cent of ballots and recertified Ahmadinejad as the victor.
So what does all of us tell us? Well at least for now, Ahmadinejad is fulfilling his dialectical role as the antithesis to Washington's thesis. As in all the major conflicts, military or political, for at least the past century and a half or so, the Iranian election has been one stage-play in a global drama being played out in the media and educational faculties, whilst the reality of the situation is very different. The recent elections in Iran are almost certainly dialectical, with both thesis ( Ahmadinejad) and antithesis (Mousavi,) either knowingly, which I believe likely, or not, being played off against each other for the benefit of the masses, whilst the Illuminati puppet masters pulling all the strings, seeking to impose their synthesis on the unsuspecting Iranian populace.
That synthesis to be presented in the shape of a less radical liberalising of Iranian society than Mousavi's platform, yet more so than anything Ahmadinejad might have offered, and more to the point, moving an Islamic society ever closer the point where western secular influences can begin to rot away at the heart, body and soul of Iranian life from within, thereby weakening the nation viewed as the `West's` most formidable adversary in any `Clash of Civilisations, ` with Islam.
One thing's for certain; The sticky fingers of the CIA are in there somewhere, along with their `playmates` Mossad, working to undermine and subvert Iranian Society from within, whilst the `war hawks` in Washington make their preparations for the Zionist invasion of Persia and the probable spark which ignites WWIII.
The Grand Chess-Game: Central Asia, The Caucasus And The Encirclement Of Russia.
The outcome of the recent six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most appalling hypocrisy from western politicians and their bought and paid for media. As the `Chatterers` waxed indignation against Russian imperialism and brutal dis-proportionality, former US vice-president `Big Dick` Cheney, faithfully supported by the UK's Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered". George Bush denounced Russia for having "invaded a sovereign neighbouring state" and threatening "a democratic government". Such an action, he insisted, "is unacceptable in the 21st century".
Could these by any chance be the leaders of the same governments that in 2003, invaded and occupied , the sovereign states of Afghanistan and Iraq on false pretences at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives? Or even the two governments that blocked a ceasefire in the summer of 2006 as Israel pulverized Lebanon's infrastructure and killed more than a thousand civilians in retaliation for the capture or killing of five soldiers?
You'd be hard pressed to recall after all the fury over Russian aggression that it was actually Georgia that began the war in the first place, with an all-out attack on South Ossetia, supposedly to "restore constitutional order" – or put another way, establish its rule over an area it has not controlled since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nor, were there, amid the outrage at Russian bombardments, more than the very briefest of references to the atrocities committed by Georgian forces against citizens it claims as its own in South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali.
Several hundred civilians along with Russian soldiers operating under a 1990s peace agreement, were killed there by Georgian troops during the offensive; "I saw a Georgian soldier throw a grenade into a basement full of women and children," one Tskhinvali resident, Saramat Tskhovredov, told reporters.
Both the current Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and his predecessor, came to power in western-backed coup d'Etats, the most recent having been labelled the `Rose Revolution.` Saakashvili was then initially rubber-stamped into office with 96% of the vote before establishing what the International Crisis Group recently described as an "increasingly authoritarian" government, violently cracking down on all opposition dissent and the independent media last November.
It now seems that the term `Democratic` infers nothing more, than establishing a regime's "pro-western" credentials in these cases.
The long-running dispute over South Ossetia - as well as Abkhazia, the other contested region of Georgia - is the inevitable consequence of the breakup of the Soviet Union. As in the case of Yugoslavia, minorities who were happy enough to live on either side of an internal boundary that made little difference to their lives, feel quite differently when they find themselves on the wrong side of an international state border.
Problems such as these would be problematic enough to settle through negotiation in any circumstances, but when one adds to the cooking `pot` the determined and forcible US promotion of Georgia as being a pro-western, anti-Russian forward base in the region, along with its efforts to bring Georgia into NATO, the routing of a key Caspian oil pipeline through its territory aimed at weakening Russia's control of energy supplies, and the US-sponsored recognition of the independence of Kosovo - whose status Russia had explicitly linked to that of South Ossetia and Abkhazia - and conflict was inevitable.
The CIA has in fact been closely involved in Georgia since the Soviet collapse. But during the Bush administration, Georgia became a fully fledged US satellite; its forces are armed and trained by the US and Israel, and it has the third-largest military contingent in Iraq - hence the US need to airlift 800 of them back to fight the Russians during the Ossetia clash.
Saakashvili's links with the neo-conservatives in Washington are particularly close: the lobbying firm headed by former US Republican candidate John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has been paid nearly $900,000 by the Georgian government since 2004.
But underlying the conflict has also been the US administration's wider, explicit determination to enforce American global hegemony and prevent any regional challenge, particularly from a resurgent Russia. That aim was first spelled out when Cheney was defence secretary under Bush's father, but its full impact has only been felt as Russia has begun to recover from the disintegration of the 1990s.
Over the past decade, NATO's relentless eastward expansion has brought the western military alliance hard up against Russia's borders and deep into former Soviet territory. American military bases have spread across eastern Europe and central Asia, as the US has helped install one anti-Russian client government after another, through a series of CIA sponsored revolutions. Now the Obama administration is preparing to site a missile defence system in eastern Europe, transparently targeted at Russia.
By any sensible reckoning, this is not a story of Russian aggression, but of US imperial expansion and a ever tighter encirclement of Russia by a potentially hostile power. That a stronger Russia has now used what happened in South Ossetia in order to put a check on that expansion, should hardly come as a surprise. It is not difficult to deduce why Saakashvili launched the attack; of course, he was being `egged on` by his `Warhawk,` friends in Washington.The plan however spectacularly backfired, at tragic human cost.
In spite of the US regime's attempts at `tough talk,` the war also exposed the limits of US power in the region. As long as Georgia's independence is respected - best protected by opting for neutrality - that should be no bad thing. American unipolar domination of the world has squeezed the space for genuine self-determination and the return of some counterweight in the form of a resurgent Russia has to be welcomed.
But the process of adjustment also brings huge dangers. If Georgia had been a member of NATO, this conflict would have risked a far sharper escalation. That would be even more obvious in the case of Ukraine - which recently gave a warning of the potential for future confrontation when its pro-western president threatened to restrict the movement of Russian ships in and out of their Crimean base in Sevastopol.
As `super power` conflict returns after a long absence, South Ossetia is only a taste of things to come in Brzezinski's Grand Chess game of `Who's Going To Rule The World.`
The Zionist Factor.
Zionism is both alien and illegitimate in origin. It is a hegemonist and nationalist project rooted and nourished on what could be called the imperialist impulse towards expansion and domination. The founding fathers of the Zionist adventure were not believers in Judaism, not even in its distorted, rabbinical form: they were in essence pragmatists and Kabbalists who exploited the Judaic heritage as a means to achieve their nationalistic goals. All this, moreover, was done within the broader context of Western strategic hopes for the destabilizing and enfeebling of the Islamic world.
Because Zionism's progenitors were European in their training and mental orientation, and members of the same secret societies, they did not find it difficult to reach an understanding with Western politicians, exploiting their own financial power through their extensive and committed Diaspora, until the Zionist agenda became subsumed under the more general objectives of nineteenth-century European imperialism. The idea of inserting an alien polity into the very heart of the Islamic world, which would exhaust its resources and obstruct any attempt at reforging Muslim unity, proved immediately appealing to European policy-makers in thrall to a Luciferian agenda, and served well the new Western orientation which was ostensibly materialistic, secular, and obsessed with the idea of territorial expansion.
The Centrality Of The Palestine Issue.
It could be said that Palestine and its people have provided the Zionists and Neo Imperialists with a `prototype` model for what we are now seeing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and unless the `Hawks` in the US are either unseated, which is unlikely, or suddenly develop hearts and consciences, which is even more so, then we can reasonably expect similar hostile action in Iran and again in the Caucasus in the foreseeable future.
So Zionism though nationalist in theory can also be seen to be imperialist and malevolent in its practical application.
It can further be perceived as being hostile to every element rooted in ethical and religious principles. It both represents and serves the new existential ethos which transforms the human race into 'marketing' and 'geopolitical' units, which can be deployed, rewarded or punished by the `Hidden Powers` that be, who are accountable to no-one save themselves.
Zionism then, nurtured by and in turn nurturing this global pseudo-secular civilization, represents a secular onslaught on the very heart of Islamic civilisation. The Islamic project, by contrast, is its polar opposite, representing perhaps, the last great hope that human civilization can be rescued from the worship of the Luciferian credo, being foisted incrementally on the global population in the shape of the erroneous political doctrine known as democracy.
To speak of saving Palestine from the Zionists is to speak simultaneously of one's hope for a worldwide liberation. The Palestinian `cause' does not signify the simple reconquest of a patch of territory occupied by aggressors. It is not even about peace and war; Its implications go much further. For to strike at Zionism in Palestine is to strike at the Luciferian enemy in its new citadel, which it has constructed at the centre of the world, in the very heart of the Muslim nation, in a land which has always been of unlimited strategic and spiritual fecundity. The `West,` as a civilization, seems set to extend its influence into the heartland of the Islamic World,` all the better to destroy the surviving traces of spiritual resistance which have remained intact there, and finally to obliterate man's remaining hopes for the rebirth of a civilization which is qualitative and humane, rather than quantitative and perversely malevolent.
Once more we are caught in the pernicious, suffocating and deadly embrace of the Hegelian Dialectic.
The reality is that the Zionist project, being violent, aggressive, and secular, is formidable in its potency. Its power can only be exhausted by mobilizing the resources of those people around the world who have identified the malevolence which stalks our planet and are willing to join in solidarity with the entire Muslim nation in its efforts to resist the monster in our midst.
These resources I speak of are not merely of a military nature; they extend also to worlds as disparate as thought, art and economics. They are also, and pre-eminently, spiritual: demanding a return to the principles of renunciation, repentance, piety, reliance on God, yearning for the ultimate meeting with Him, the spirit of Islamic fraternity, selflessness, and the certainty that the final victory shall go to God and all believers. No project undertaken on this tremendous scale can be 'regional,' or 'Palestinian,' or Arab.' It is far broader. It represents nothing less than a struggle which is at once cultural, Islamic, Christian and Judaic in its pure form. We must, therefore, light the fires of longing, resistance, and sacrifice everywhere on earth. For Palestine will not be retrieved until there is struggle against oppression in all its forms throughout the world.
Lucifer, The Rothschilds And The House Of Zion.
In the ancient world, it was said that all roads lead to Rome. Nowadays, no matter where one turns whilst in the process of investigating the One World Conspiracy, the same can be said of the Rothschilds[8]. Inevitably, their name crops up, and equally inevitably when it does so, the slur of `Anti Semite` is applied to the researcher involved. But the Rothschilds are not Semitic and what's more, neither are they Judaic either!
The Rothschild relationship with the Jews is deceptive. The family stance is publicly "pro-Jewish", and they have given abundant charity to Jewish causes. But their support of the Jewish people has, in most cases, been used for the sole purpose of controlling and profiting from the Jew's misfortune. The Rothschilds have often been called, the `Royal Family` of the Jews. Many leading Rothschilds have been dubbed "King of the Jews". But what kind of Judaism do the Rothschilds support? Do they support the orthodox Jews who believe in the Old Testament and are waiting for the return of the messiah? No.
Do they support Messianic Jews who believe Jesus Christ was the messiah who came to save all men? No. The Rothschilds support those Jews who have fallen prey to the deceptive gnostic and occultic teachings of Cabalism, who in turn promote the Illuminati controlled Zionist movement. Not all Zionists are part of the conspiracy, but their leaders are, and the ultimate leaders of the Zionists have been the Rothschilds. I am disappointed by some researchers, who automatically coin the conspiracy a "Jewish" one.
Recently, I was assailed by one fellow researcher following an article I had penned regarding the pornography industry. “It's The Jews Stupid,” said he, and no amount of documented evidence to the contrary would alter his stance. He is not alone in this assertion that all the world's ills can be attributed to JEWS.
Having read at length the work of Fritz Springmeier, Henry Makow and David Livingstone, it is clear that the Rothschilds are participators in Cabalism, Jewish Sabbatism, and or Frankism, all of which are involved in witchcraft. This belief is strengthened by the Rothschild’s use of the occultic Seal of Solomon as a family symbol. The city in which the Rothschilds originated, Frankfurt, was deeply `anti-Semitic,` and hostile to Jews*[7] See Note.
The first principle of the House of Rothschild was to amass wealth, and the liberation of the Jewish people from oppressive restrictions contributed indirectly to this end, since it would facilitate intercourse with the rest of the world, and thereby increase the possibility of financial gain, which in turn would serve to increase its power.
The `Father's of Israel.`
During the Rothschild's funded slaughter that was the Crimean War, the small Jewish community in Jerusalem found itself isolated from all outside support. This resulted in near starvation. The first Baron Edmond de Rothschild's father James, set up the James Mayer de Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem in response to this problem. Edmond took over his father's interest in Palestine. When the Russian Jews fled the Czar’s pogroms in the 1880’s Edmond began to finance the Russian Jew’s attempts to establish colonies in Palestine, It is clear that he was an advocate of Zionism, his charities were not only aiding the persecuted, but were promoting the concept of a return the "homeland".
The man who set up the first Zionist Congress was Theodor Herzl. He attempted to get the support for his plans to "restore the Jewish state" from the Rothschilds but many members of the family were opposed to Zionism. Although Edmond supported Herzl’s cause, he felt that the plan should not be implemented to soon, and should rather be accomplished by stealth. He was further concerned that Herzl would annex for himself Rothschild power and influence over the slowly forming Jewish state.
The Baron continued to support his own colonies and though Herzl was socially supported because his ideas facilitated Rothschild power in Palestine, he was not allowed to implement his plans. The Baron was in affect a dictator who expected the colonists to obey him without question.
Following his death, Herzl was succeeded as President of World Zionism by David Wolffsohn and thereafter by Otto Warburg. In 1914 Edmond travelled to Palestine where he was hailed as the "prince returning to his people". Later the Baron Rothschild told Weizmann: "Without me Zionism would not have succeeded, but without Zionism my work would have been struck to death."
The next Rothschild to embrace Zionism was - Lionel Walter, the second Lord Rothschild. The Balfour declaration, which declared England’s support of the creation of a Jewish homeland, was addressed to Lord Rothschild II. Lord Rothschild also received the documents of support from the League of Nations. Charles T. Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society, sent a letter to Lord Rothschild praising his work towards the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
Among its other calculated aims, a further purpose of the Illuminati orchestrated First World War, was to cause the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, in order to free the land of Palestine from its grasp, thereby leading to the creation of the Zionist state of Israel. After Prime Minister of England, Lord Asquith, was deposed in 1916, because he had opposed Zionist interests, David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization, as well as Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour of the Round Table, were placed in power.
Present at the first official meeting of the Political Committee were Lord Rothschild, James de Rothschild, the son of Edmund de Rothschild of Paris, former owner of Rothschild colonies in Palestine, and Sir Mark Sykes. There, the future mandates of Palestine, Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Arabia, then still forming parts of the Ottoman Empire, were discussed in detail.
The Hegelian Dialectic- A Rational For Genocide.
After the cessation of hostilities in 1918, Britain ruled Palestine, and the Rothschilds ruled Britain. Also, a bulk of unpaid debts to the Rothschilds by the failed Ottoman Empire gave the family even more control over Palestine. Then came Hitler. According to Walter Langer, a psychoanalyst who wrote the book `THE MIND OF ADOLF HITLER,` the demonic German leader was a grandson of a Rothschild. Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. It was generally supposed that the father of Alois Hitler was Johann Georg Hiedler. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home ... where Alois was born."
It is believed that Hitler (who was a creation of the Luciferians) attacked Austria first, in order to destroy the Austrian records that proved his Jewish ancestry.
Remember the six-pointed star was the symbol of Moloch and Ashteroth.
Cui Bono? Who benefits. They do: Israel, The UN, the slur of `Anti Semite` to quell opposition and promote Jewish victim status, etc. etc.
Few Jews unfortunately will tolerate any discussion on this subject. After World War II, the U.N., granted Israel its statehood. Weizmann was the first president of Israel’s Knesset (which was built with Rothschild money). The occultic hexagram is on the Knesset, and is also displayed on the Jewish flag.
In his expose of the Rothschilds Dynasty, Fritz Springmeier wrote:
"...the six-pointed star [had] made its way from Egyptian pagan rituals of worship, to the goddess Ashteroth and Moloch, to King Solomon when he went into idolatry," says, Graham. "Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft [including Arab magicians, Druids, witches and Satanists], astrology (in which It was no new thing), through the Cabala to Isaac Luria, a Cabalist, in the 16th century, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, to Zionism, to the Knesset of the new State of Israel, to the flag of Israel and Its medical organization equivalent to the Red Cross."
So what is the ultimate goal of Zionism?
David Ben-Gurion, a Zionist leader, tells us:
"With the exception of the U.S.S.R. as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an International police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents."
Simply stated, Zionism (with Rothschild support) promotes a New World Order. The Rothschild control of Israel is immense. The Luciferian Rothschilds completely dominate Israel. They help Lucifer's Empire control the world’s resources, the world’s nations and the world’s religions. They are an institution in the conspiracy and if one looks carefully, the path of their destructive reign can be followed through the history of the past three centuries.
The Nexus Of Evil - The Road To Armageddon Or A One World Utopian Control Zone.
What follows is based on current trends as they unfold and on an understanding of the policy objectives of the Luciferian elite. This hypothesis is not unique to myself and is only one of several possible `doomsday` scenarios generally agreed upon by most if not all serious students of the New World Order.
A Nation's borders are ultimately defined by its military competence. All of the U.N. edicts and conventions are meaningless without the ability to enforce its will militarily upon recalcitrant nations. It is likely that the E.U. super-state will acquire its necessary army through incremental-ism, sometimes referred to as the `ratchet` system since there is no mechanism in place to repeal E.U. laws. The monumental geo-political restructuring needed however, to bring all nations under a world army will require something quite spectacular.
Think-tanks, university grants and bribes are not enough to bring about global government. The league of Nations and the United Nations were forged from the heat of the first and second world wars. Global government will be the fall-out from World War III. There is a three pronged strategy being played out, masquerading as the Global War on Terror. Firstly, America's super-power status will be destroyed.
This will partly be achieved in carrying out the second tactic which is to bring uncooperative nations, especially those in the Middle East, under U.N. control. America's military might will be exhausted by invading Third World nations and setting up U.N. protectorates. Thirdly, threatened or actual conflict between nuclear powers will persuade all nations to surrender their military power to the U.N. thereby permanently relinquishing their sovereignty.
This is why the West has given nuclear technology to North Korea and China. At this point, before hundreds of cities are annihilated, there will be an emergency U.N. conference. The agreement reached will be to surrender control over all weapons of mass destruction to a U.N. agency. The submission of all conventional armed forces to U.N command will follow. Eventually all military forces will be U.N. 'Peace Keeping' forces, whose purpose is to enforce the U.N. hegemony over rogue states.
If this sounds a little fantastic, consider this: NATO exercises for enforcing U.N. embargoes on breakaway states have already begun. The first exercise of NATO'S Response Force took place between 11th and 26th September 2003 in Galloway, Scotland. This was a 'crisis response' operation called 'Exercise Northern Lights' in which the mission was enforcing a U.N. arms embargo on a recently formed country.
A second exercise took place in Turkey on 20th November 2003. According to the NATO website, "the forces rescued and evacuated the U.N. staff and civilians, established an embargo, engaged in counter-terrorist operations and a show of force".
Like American and European politicians, the Russians and Chinese oligarchs are happy to play their part in this farce because they also dream of international governance. Former party bosses are happy to assume the new role of 'World Controllers' in the eastern regions of the Brave New World. The neo-Liberal/Conservative (Communitarian) government in the Whitehouse, like almost all previous administrations, is 100% committed to the globalist plan to destroy the independence of the U.S.. Once completed, the Donald Rumsfeld-initiated NATO Response Force will put the boot behind the imperial decrees the `Death Star` wishes to impose on rebel colonies.
The policy of weakening the U.S. military really began in earnest under Bush Sr. during the first Gulf War. 300,000 of the 700,000 troops deployed in that conflict are now seriously ill with Gulf War Illness. They are being denied cheap and effective medical care for no apparent reason.
Former Consultant to the Defence Department, Dr Garth Nicolson, estimates that at least 25,000 have died since the war ended. The others face permanent disability and destitution. Major Doug Rokke was the U.S. Army's depleted uranium project director in 1994-95 who has since campaigned tirelessly to expose the devastating health effects of DU munitions.
The report he has obtained from the U.S. Veterans Administration states that by August 2004, it had awarded permanent disability compensation to almost 280,000 U.S. troops who served in the Gulf region between August 1990 and May 2004. Meanwhile, the Veterans Administration refuses to acknowledge that there is a Gulf War Illness, preferring to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder.
The cause of Gulf War Illness is multi-faceted, invariably linked to depleted uranium munitions, experimental vaccinations and exposure to chemical and biological weapons. All of these factors lead back to the Western military-industrial complex controlled by the elite, whose ultimate goal is to destroy America militarily and economically. The troops who served in the first Gulf War have almost all been cycled out of the military, so the poor new recruits currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan know little or nothing of their appalling fate. The policy seems to be to give troops a limited operational lifespan, after which they are killed or incapacitated to make way for the next round of cannon fodder. Meanwhile hundreds of billions of dollars are being bled from U.S. taxpayers to finance this destruction. As George Orwell concluded in 1984:
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable...”
Conclusion – A Righteous Alliance.
It has by now, been well enough documented, that the doom laden events occurring worldwide were planned long ago, and that the `blueprint` for global conquest outlined by Albert Pike appears well on course for realisation. In this series of articles, I have tried to show how through an alliance of intellect and money, the former inevitably in the service of the latter, the dark forces of Magic in the form of the Illuminati and their co conspirators, have captured all the positions of power throughout the nations of the world and are intent on driving humanity to the point of no return. But does it have to be that way?
The Hegelian Dialectic is literally killing us. It is the means by which we are manipulated to do their murder and their bidding. We are divided and conquered because of it. It is only by stepping out from their Dialectical Trap that we can hope to foil their plans, and finally rid the world of a malevolent force which has haunted mankind since the dawn of time.
As I have written in this article, for the Illuminati, the means to achieving their `ends` is a fomented clash between the West and Islam sometime in the the near future. That is the main theme of Samuel Huntington's thesis of the `Clash of Civilisations.` But the truth is that there should be no question of any such clash between Islam and Western civilisation, because the Judeo-Christian belief that forms the basis of Western civilisation, is in actuality in complete harmony and alliance with Islam, not in conflict with it. It is in the Luciferian Creed of the Illuminati one finds the conflict!
As people who believe in right over wrong, good over evil, and those who love God and follow His revelations, let us all rally to a common formula - `faith.` When all good people, be they Muslim, Christian or Jew, rally together in this way; when they understand that they are friends not enemies, when they see that the real enemy is the Luciferian Illuminati, then the world will become a very different place. The fighting that has raged for ages, enmities, fears - and the `false flag` terrorist attacks on innocent people- will then come to an end, and a new civilization based on love, respect and peace can be established upon this `common formula.`
However, achieving this goal depends on our identifying the methods used by our enemies to manipulate and control us; namely, the Hegelian formula, and thereafter the promoting of secularism, thereby bringing about a decline in religious morality and decency. Once we understand this, we can begin eradicating their ideological basis. The fact that the law of the strong, which is the Satanic model, prevails throughout the world, is wholly responsible for our fraught situation, for this attitude is as a virulent contagion, and engenders a social model based only upon self-interest.
Even more seriously, it has replaced acceptance, love, sympathy, compassion, and cooperation with conflict, greed, and dispute. This is not man's intrinsic nature, but the result of a perverse and intensive programmed way of thinking and being, which only serves the Luciferian cause, whilst at the same time aiding our own spiritual impoverishment and material enslavement.
In the present environment of hardship and troubles, sincere Jews, Christians, and Muslims must be even more accepting, conciliatory, complementary, and respectful of each other. They should not forget that unity, togetherness, and cooperation will bring success, and that dispute, argument, and conflict bring nothing but division and weakness, rendering our divided efforts ineffectual in the face of the menace which confronts us. The current situation demands the immediate formation of such an alliance.
The Illuminati know full well that at the root of all wars, conflicts, and all forms of corruption lies man's distancing himself from the true religious moral values, and this in itself explains why they have spent so much time, money and effort in defaming and de-constructing true belief.
Historically, the perverse interpretations of certain insincere individuals working on behalf of the malevolent force, allegedly in the name of a religion, have influenced the mass of people who had insufficient knowledge of the true religious ethic. And this has caused them to commit acts that were totally inappropriate in terms of said religious ethic. The solidarity of believers gains ever greater importance in the face of people who believe in the necessity of solving disagreements and problems by violent means, and those who routinely persecute people with oppressive and despotic implementations.
Every Christian, Muslim or Jewish believer, and all those who have understanding, are obliged to do his or her utmost to struggle and strive to end the `blight` on the lives of humanity caused by the Nexus Of Evil. It is right for those who believe in God, who try to gain His approval, who have surrendered to Him, whose hearts are bound to Him, who praise Him, and who essentially defend the same values, to act in partnership. Sincere believers should and must unite in order to live according to the moral values of their maker, and to unseat from his throne, the dark `Lord` of disaster and carnage, so that for the first time in all of history, men and women can live the lives meant for them by God, and not the lives perverted for them by Lucifer.
Comments to : true_brit58@hotmail.co.uk and http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/
Reference:
1] http://www.historiography-project.com/jhrchives/v13/v13n3p21_benson.html
2] http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/node/35
3] http://www.rense.com/general86/pikeknew.htm
4] http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-feudalists-eu-communitarian-agenda.html
5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen (See also Part 8 in this series)
6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
7] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_khazar.htm
*Note: The term Anti Semite implies one is anti Semitic. The vast majority of `Jews` (97%) today originate in Khazaria, not Palestine. In fact, the true Semites are to found in the Arab peoples of the Arabian Peninsula.
8] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild16.htm
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/rothschild.htm
9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Essential Reading :
The Police State Roadmap by Michael Nield http://www.policestateplanning.com/id19.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14464
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14779
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14672
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14538
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14870
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14642
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24 - Teachers : How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution?
“Law” based on the dictates of a leader is exactly what Nazi Germany had
By Carl Herman
Global Research, February 25, 2012
Washington's Blog - 2012-02-24
We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken by tyrannical government.
The two-minute video here is Defense Secretary Panetta claiming US law allows assassinating Americans if government merely says an American is guilty of a crime. Acts upon what the leader says at any given time rather than limited power under law is the etymology of dictatorship. “Law” based on the dictates of a leader is exactly what Nazi Germany had; their word for leader was fuhrer.
The 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution promise that if the government is to seize you, let alone assassinate you, they have to follow due process to secure persons’ unalienable rights:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury (that means a jury of one’s peers, not the dictatorship of “the leader”)… nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;…
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury…, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
Department of Defense Chief Counsel Jeh Johnson spoke to Yale’s law school and repeated the claim of government authority to dictate any American as a “terrorist” or “terrorist supporter” and be assassinated. This is in Orwellian contradiction to 5th Amendment rights that government cannot deprive you of your life without the above explicit due process. Importantly, Mr. Johnson, the War Department’s top “legal” voice, had more to say: government-dictated assassinations cannot be legally challenged through US courts.
President Obama instructed Justice Department lawyers to defend unlimited warrantless searches in Orwellian violation of the 4th Amendment. Such searches could be claimed as evidence of “supporting terrorism” and then not subject to review after assassination.
The 2006 Military Commissions Act and 2012 NDAA “legislated” dictatorial authority to declare any person a “terrorist supporter,” seize such persons, and hold them indefinitely and without rights.
President Bush and VP Cheney previously claimed that controlled drowning (waterboarding) is an acceptable method to interrogate and receive confessions, despite US courts’ unanimous rulings that this is torture and that the US hanged WW2 Japanese authorities for its use.
These policies to crush dissent protect US obvious violation of war law to engage in current Wars of Aggression. The publicly-stated “reasons” for these wars are tragic-comic lies easily proved as such with a few moments’ attention.
This is US “law” in our world of the present, and in “emperor has no clothes” obvious violation to the Bill of Rights for all persons (not just citizens).
If we just used “nation x” and “government official y said” for the above facts, and students identified them as examples of the US form of government, we would be horrified at their fundamental confusion, yes? We have other names for such forms of government.
Americans who receive their “news” from the six mega-corporations that dominate ~90% of “reporting” will never view clearly-stated facts of the above topics. The CIA disclosed to the Senate Church Committee that they had 400 persons working with the largest US media market to spin stories favorable to administration policies. The facts argue this is still active practice.
Colleagues in education: how are you teaching US War Crimes and destruction of the US Constitution?
Or, do you ignore these changes as you suffer from cognitive dissonance, American Exceptionalism, or the “Big Lie” (and here)? Is it that you haven’t heard about them clearly through the “news” you receive? Or can you ethically stand that government claims for Bill of Rights removals is indeed constitutional?
If you can refute any of the above facts I present as objective, I’d really like to hear the argument. I worked with 200-300 policy briefs for 18 years, and am deeply practiced for factual documentation meant to withstand academic and political challenge; I assert that what both parties’ leadership and corporate media publicly state is paper-thin propaganda on the above topics. Don’t believe me, read this to see for yourself how the New York Times “reported” about the largest meeting of heads of state (presidents, prime ministers, royalty) in world history to save a million children’s lives every month. When you’ve read how this story was obfuscated and buried after the sections on style, travel, and corrections, ask and answer to yourself how that can be explained in any other rational way other than supporting a political agenda consistent with this article’s facts for American neocolonialism (domestic and foreign control by an oligarchy/1% for their own benefit).
Actually, such policies and “news” manipulation have been US business as usual for some time (andhere).
I can provide documentation among literally hundreds of professional and “hobby” journalists, but you’ll have to look and think for yourself.
Upon confirmation of these facts, how are you teaching US War Crimes and destruction of the US Constitution?
Part 1: Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher explains
Part 2: How a government teacher easily proves Occupy’s claim of US War Crimes
Part 3: How an economics teacher presents Occupy’s economic argument, victory
Part 4: Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate media: they lie
Important history that makes crimes in the present easy to see and understand:
Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now (6-part series)
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25 - Roy Tov : Anne Frank’s Cult Backfires
Posthumously Baptized
On February 18, 2012, Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank, a German-born Jew who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was posthumously baptized by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic. This was disclosed by Helen Radkey, a former member of the church, who told the Huffington Post that she discovered Frank's name on a database open only to Mormons. Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal and his parents were similarly honored.
Anne Frank’s Cult
“The horror, the horror.” Joseph Conrad could have finished a story taking place in a kibbutz, a community resembling the described in Heart of Darkness. I described in the past how we—high school students in a Jordan Valley kibbutz—had been brainwashed with stories about our grandparents having been made into soap. No human DNA was ever found in the infamous soap bars; it was just another scary Israeli soap-opera. Another key topic in our indoctrination into constant fear was the story of a young girl named Anne Frank.
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt and died in early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen. She is one of the most renowned Jewish victims of the Holocaust due to her diaries. These were discovered and published after the war with the name The Diary of a Young Girl. Over time she became an important topic in Israeli high schools, to the extent that some history classes seem to be dedicated to a Cult of Anne Frank.
Back in 1998, shortly after a disastrous visit to Zurich, I was invited again by Dow Chemical to a conference in Amsterdam. Upon my return to Israel, everybody asked if I had visited the Anne Frank House. Anything else was irrelevant, despite my never having had noticed the Anne Frank Altar at the office. During the Defensive Shield Operation, I met Dutch citizens standing at Bethlehem’s northern entrance. They were there day after day, giving flowers and postcards to the soldiers. Some of the postcards featured the picture of the revered Mademoiselle Frank. These people couldn’t understand who the aggressor was. They were blind to Palestinian victims. They had fallen victims to an ideological weapon called “Anne Frank.” This weapon—and similar ones—has been coldly used to self-portray the State of Israel as a victim. Yet, in October 2009, it was defined by the UN General Assembly as a terror inflicting entity. I’m sure most Dutch have been educated on Christian values and know for sure the value of Compassion and Love, but they were applying it toward the bloody butchers.
For a long while, the new cult worked out quite fine for its false priests. However, it was bound to backfire.
Proxy Baptism
Baptism is one of the most recognized events of a Christian life. It symbolizes the transition of the person baptized into Christianity, though it is not essential, as one of the non-baptized thieves crucified with Jesus was told: Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). Most mainstream Christian denominations, including Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist churches, do not accept posthumous baptism (also known as proxy baptism, because a living person, acting as proxy, is baptized on behalf of a deceased person). This has to do with the acceptance of the conversion; the dead person obviously cannot consent to the event. This consent is so important, that in churches where baptism of children is accepted, the child is required to pass a confirmation ceremony once he—or she—is old enough to understand what he is doing; then he declares his faith, which was the part missing during the original event.
However, other interpretations exist. With respect to proxy baptism, the most notorious one belongs to the Latter Day Saints movement, often referred to as Mormons. They believe posthumous baptism by proxy allows deceased persons to receive the Gospel in the afterlife. The church believes departed souls can then accept or reject the baptismal rites. Since they recognize also the Book of Mormon as holy, and do not accept the Nicene Creed (a short summary of Christian beliefs dating back to the 4th century), there is no other way but referring to them as a sect. Accordingly, Christian and Mormon baptisms are not mutually recognized.
Judaism also doesn’t recognize baptism. That is to the extent Orthodox Jews won’t recognize a Jewish convert to Christianity as such. “It’s just a bit of meaningless water,” I’ve heard Haredim saying while referring to the baptism issue. Yet, reality is different, with proxy baptisms being openly criticized over the Hebrew media. The fact is that Orthodox Jews are particularly offended by this, especially with respect to Holocaust victims, to the extent that the baptism of Holocaust survivors was barred by a 1995 agreement with the mainstream church. Yet, the agreement didn’t include the Mormons.
Queen Elizabeth
An easy way of controlling a civilian population is unifying it behind a leadership figure. In their endless envy of Jesus, states often manipulate historical and political figures so that they would mimic the unifying capabilities of Christianity. A remarkable example of this was Queen Elizabeth I, who following a long Catholic-Protestant schism in her kingdom unified it by becoming the Virgin Queen and Head of the Church of England. This was an undisguised attempt to portray herself as Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. Did she design the strategy, or was she convinced by Walsingham, the Machiavellian father of all Western security services? We’ll never know for sure.
Eventually, someone in the Jewish camp noticed that after a few hundred years the strategy worked quite fine. As a precaution—they didn’t want a living queen—they chose an already dead virgin. Shortly after, the Cult of Anne Frank began. Sadly, there was no way the State of Israel could claim monopoly on a German girl who died several years before its foundation. It was just a matter of time until she would be adopted by others; consequently, she was a few days ago. It is just a matter of time until “new and recent analyses” would disclose signs she was in fact a Christian, or a Mormon, or whatever the manipulating entity behind the event desires. Israel tried to play God; it backfired.
Mademoiselle Frank, let me apologize. We all struggle for freedom. Not for a single one, but for all freedoms promised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some people are using you—and others—as an excuse for robbing them from us. Thus, please take no offense, but I’ll skip your writings, even if you were proxy-baptized.
The Day Israel Died
The Goldstone Report was an important milestone. Until it was published and adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council, I was extremely careful while referring to Israel as a terror state.
“Yehudon!” Open Letter to Justice Goldstone
Justice from the Hip
The Day Israel Died
The Devil's Own
The Palestinian Kristallnacht
Calling for International Intervention in Israel
Vetoing the American Veto
Finally, Justice Goldstone got a prize and the opportunity was used to explore certain Jewish Values.
A result of this attack was Gaza's Freedom Flotilla:
Convergence: Freedom Flotilla, Palestinian Independence and Israel as a Failed State
Corroboration of Killing
From Aloni to Zuabi: Flotilla Attacks
The Ugandans Attack
On the Devil's Advocate and Gaza's Flotilla
Napo Beats Bibi
White Washing War Crimes
Turkel: On Dark Ages and Lesser Evil
Isolating Israel: Flotilla Aftermath
On Shayetet 13, State Terror and Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla
Freedom Flotilla to Gaza: on a Pirate Nation
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26 - The Satanic Core of Libertarianism
Posted on truther on February 26, 2012
De Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees demonstrates that Satanism is at the core of Libertarian doctrine and Austrian economics.
It’s the same old story: “liberate” your basest impulses, i.e. “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.“
“Essentially, two seemingly opposed forces advance the same goal: a worldpolice state governed by an oligarchy of billionaire Satanists.”
by Memehunter
(henrymakow)
In Proof Libertarianism is an Illuminati ploy, we covered the Jewish Money Power’s ongoing involvement in Libertarianism.
In The “Catholic” Wing of Libertarianism, we explored the Jesuit a.k.a. Illuminati connections with Libertarianism.
In this article, we explore the Illuminati creed at the root of Austrian economics and Libertarianism : Satanism.
The obscure hero of Libertarianism : Bernard de Mandeville
Born in Rotterdam in 1670, Bernard de Mandeville came to England in the wake of William of Orange’s accession to the throne. A doctor by profession, Mandeville became better-known as a satirist. More importantly, Mandeville was also a Satanist, linked with the Blasters and Hell-Fire Clubs of 18th-century England.
Although Mandeville’s name has been all but erased from contemporary mainstream economical discourse, many free-market thinkers lavish glowing praise on his insights.
In a lecture delivered at the British Academy in 1966, Friedrich von Hayek extolled Mandeville as a “mastermind” and “great psychologist” whose theories anticipated those of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, and praised his poem The Fable of the Bees as a “remarkable” work.
According to Hayek, Mandeville’s ideas “returned to economic theory” through the work of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School by way of 19th-century German historian Friedrich von Savigny.
Ludwig von Mises also paid tribute to Mandeville in his Theory and History, observing that
“He [Mandeville] pointed out that self-interest and the desire for material well-being, commonly stigmatized as vices, are in fact the incentives whose operation makes for welfare, prosperity, and civilization.”
Even John Maynard Keynes, surely not an Austrian, recognized Mandeville as one of his main precursors inThe General Theory of Employment and Money.
These days, Austrian economist Gary North introduces The Fable of the Bees on his website as “the most important poem in the last 300 years”.
But what is so special about the Fable of the Bees that this fairly obscure poem, and its author, could have inspired such eulogies from Hayek, Mises, and Keynes?
Good comes from evil, and other perversions
Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits was published in 1705, but was reworked and supplemented with abundant commentary over the next 25 years.
In his writings, Mandeville argues that liberty represents man’s uninhibited pursuit of his basest material and carnal instincts. Rather than being evil, selfishness and licentiousness lead to prosperity.
According to Mandeville, this is “the grand principle that makes us social creatures, the solid basis, the life and support of all trade and employment without exception”.
(left, Talk of a Romney-Paul ticket. Romney: “I’m not concerned about he poor…”)
Influenced by Mandeville, Adam Smith came to the conclusion that self-interest is the pillar of a prosperous society. Hayek and Mises went even further. They railed against altruism and solidarity as hindrances to a society’s economic success.
Of course, Smith is right to identify the added value brought by the division of labor and to point out that producers and sellers are primarily motivated by self-interest. But that does not mean that self-interest should be the fundamental principle of civilization. This is plain evil and the antithesis of what civilization is all about.
Mandeville also claimed that a nation’s wealth was predicated on the maintenance of an underclass of poorly educated laborers.
Following in Mandeville’s hoof steps, Mises emphasized that “men are born unequal and that it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization.”
The “Right to Allow your Child to Die”
To his credit, anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard distanced himself from Mandeville’s ideology. However, the same Rothbard advocated that parents have “a legal right not to feed [their] child, i.e., to allow it to die”, and for the emergence of a “free market in children”.
Since Rothbard’s system denies that humans have moral obligations to each other, he rejects aggression (the “non-aggression principle”) but allows outright neglect, to the point of causing death.
This is the evil outcome of taking libertarian ethics to their logical extreme. Clearly, the “non-aggression principle” is necessary but not sufficient to design a just and humane society.
Satanic Ideologies in Modern Libertarianism
Below are three well-known quotes.
Satanist Alastair Crowley’s Law of Thelema reads thus:
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”.
Libertarian novelist Ayn Rand’s mouthpiece Howard Roark proclaims in The Fountainhead:
”Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”
Finally, a passage from Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, who admired Rand’s elitist stance:
”The ultimate end of action is always the satisfaction of some desires of the acting man. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people’s aims and volition.” (Human Action)
Beyond differences in wording, and even though Mises’s version is more nuanced than Crowley’s or Rand’s, these three extracts are essentially saying the same thing.
Now, it is one thing to point to similarities between Satanism and Libertarianism, but, Satanist propaganda is actually at the core of the Libertarian doctrine and of Austrian economics.
The Satanic-Libertarian connection is very much alive today. Libertarian candidate Ron Paul, a self-avowed Rand admirer, may strike the right chord on many topics, but he has been linked to the Illuminati and has been seen displaying Satanic hand signs.
The Satanic Dialectic
The Austrian School is not the only economic school infected with Satanism, far from it. Like Hayek, Keynes was a member of the infamous Fabian Society. He was also known as a child molester. Karl Marx was himself a Satanist.
In fact, Socialism, Zionism, and Satanism were originally joined at the hip: 19th-century Jewish activist Moses Hess, an influential precursor of modern Zionism, was also an early proponent of socialism and a collaborator of Marx. It was Hess who initiated Marx and Engels into Satanism.
The end goal of all these ideologies is domination by a transnational, oligarchic, Satanic elite. Marxism andAustrianism both oppose nationalism and support free trade.
Mises’ collaborator, the arch-Zionist, Jesuit-trained, high-ranking Freemason Richard Coudenhove-Kalergisummarized the Illuminati dialectic thusly:
“The fight between Capitalism and Communism over the inheritance of the beseeched blood aristocracy is a fratricidal war of the victorious brain aristocracy, a fight between individualistic and socialist, egoist and altruist, heathen and Christian spirit.
The general staff of both parties is recruited from Europe’s spiritual leader race [Führerrasse] the Jews.”
Essentially, two seemingly opposed forces advance the same goal: a world police state governed by an oligarchy of billionaire Satanists.
Rising Above the Illuminati Dialectic
To be sure, Austrian economics and Libertarianism have introduced useful concepts in both ethics and modern economic theory. The same can be said about Keynes and Marx. Illuminati ideologies always contain some savory morsels of truth, in order to make the Satanic deception more effective.
In rising above this Illuminati dialectic, our challenge is to digest these nuggets of wisdom, and spit out the evil lies and half-truths that defile them.
In the end, the real war waged by the Illuminati is a spiritual one. It is not merely about which monetary system is conducive to prosperity or which economic model is optimal. It is not solely about which political system is superior. It is, at heart, a battle between God and the Devil, for our souls.
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27 - Northwestern's Intellectual Hall of Shame
by Jacques Le Vangie
With great pleasure we award the 2012 Intellectual Hall of Shame prize to the president emeritus and sixty faculty members of the department of Electronics Engineering of Northwestern University for their cowardice in failing to defend their stance against revisionist historian Arthur Butz, also of the same university.
Ladies and gentlemen of Northwestern, its time to trade your mortarboards for dunce caps!
In 1976, Butz published The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry. In December 2005 Butz congratulated Iranian president Ahmadinejad after the latter gave a speech about the Holohoax, writing, “I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues [the fabrication of the Holocaust], and regret only that it was not a Western head of state.”
In response, Northwestern president Henry S. Bienen condemned Butz, writing that, “There is no question that the Holocaust is a well-documented historical fact.” In addition, sixty members of Butz's department signed a letter of condemnation against Butz. Bienen touted the great variety of Holocaust programs at his university, to further distance Northwestern from Butz and his personal views.
Last week, a KYR reader suggested that, in place of condemning Butz, Bienen might have sponsored a debate between Butz and his opponents, and in that way uphold the principle of free speech on university campuses. But that debate never took place, Butz was simply condemned, his opponents perhaps claiming victory simply by assuming the overwhelming superiority of evidence in favor of their position.
Until now.
Six years later, Bienen has retired from his presidency, and is now president emeritus, but far from retired: he holds positions on the Council of Foreign Relations as well as many boards of major corporations. Moreover, Bienen continues to serve in many governmental capacities, which include a stint as a CIA analyst. Today he enjoys a broad array of connections in academia, government and business.
A former political scientist, Bienen specialized in African affairs, not exactly at the forefront of his field. Chalmers Johnson, a well-known political scientist from the University of California, used to describe Africa as an “economic basket case.” In that light, the field of African studies ranked low in academic status as well as in assignments for the US State Department, perhaps near the bottom of the list, just above studies of Ecuador or Paraguay.
Bienen did manage to write a few books during his years as a political scientist, but more than half of his books show a co-authorship or worse, an “edited by” credit. During his entire academic career, Bienen perhaps authored four books completely by himself – not exactly an impressive figure for thirty years of work.
Despite the paucity of academic achievement in Bienen's career, this writer took him at his word and emailed Bienen directly, with a cc to his administrative assistant, asking him to produce a little of that evidence that proves the Holocaust, the evidence he evidently has been hiding since 2006. A week has passed without response from Bienen or his his administrative assistant, so this writer assumes:
a. Bienen has no evidence to support his claims
b. Bienen finds academics too challenging to locate such evidence, even from among the great number of Holocaust education programs at his former university.
Realizing that Bienen would not respond, this writer changed tactics to include some sixty members of Butz's department, who had signed a letter condemning Butz for his views. This writer felt it fair game to request proof of the Holocaust from the signatories as well. While none of them are historians or political scientists, they still profess to be scientists and so a reasonable person would assume that such scientists would not sign their name to a statement for which they lacked evidence.
In this spirit, this writer sent emails to a number of the professors listed in the department directory, and by the end of this week, not a single professor had responded to the email, which requested irrefutable evidence of the Holocaust.
Therefore, Northwestern and its department of Electrical Engineering boasts one man of conscience and sixty cowards; one true scientist and historian, and sixty - one intellectual cowards who lack the courage of their convictions. Morever, these sixty - one pseudo – intellectuals claim academic and scientific status, yet in their condemnation of their colleague, Butz, not one of them bothered to look for irrefutable evidence of the Holocaust.
Not a single one of these putative scientists followed the scientific method in their attack on their colleague; as such, their condemnation of Butz amounted to nothing more than a witch hunt, the sort of witch hunt conducted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's and by the Puritans of Salem in the seventeenth century, or the European Inquisitions of the Dark Age, prior to the Enlightenment.
Thus we flunk them all, withdraw their tenure and academic titles and boot them out of respectable academia. Yet since Northwestern and its administration lack intellectual honesty and integrity, we realize that may never happen. Nevertheless, not a one of them deserves a place in academia, which speaks to the thoroughly corrupt character of American academia.
Given the geography of Northwestern, in northern Ilinois, not far from Skokie, with its high percentage of Jews, and Chicago, run by former Zionist Obama – handler Rahm Emmanuel, the campus certainly came under tremendous local pressure to toe the Zionist line. Like good Zionists, the professors perhaps received orders not to respond to emails such as the one sent by this author. One might even speculate that the Council for Foreign Relations has issued such a command, and Bieden was simply “following orders,” like a good Zionist, in ordering his underlings not to discuss the issue, for which there exists no irrefutable evidence.
The sheer silence from Northwestern speaks volumes about the evidence for the so-called “Holocaust” - there does not exist any scientific, irrefutable and undeniable evidence for such a historical event. The Holocaust never took place, which vindicates Butz's original position. Instead, we are left with the Holohoax, again supporting the position Butz asserted in 1976 – and the astounding complicity of the Jews in perpetrating the hoax for more than sixty seven years.
We can petition the Nobel Committee to award a prize to Arthur Butz for his intellectual courage in standing up to the intellectual morons around him for these thirty – six years. After all, Elie the Wiesel obtained his Nobel prize only after decades of Zionist lobbying of the Nobel Committee, despite the fact that the Wiesel lacks an Auschwitz tattoo on his left forearm, as all genuine Auschwitz inmates' bore.
The Northwestern Hall of Shame includes:
Henry S. Bienen
President Emeritus
Arthur Rubloff Building
375 East Chicago Avenue, Room 11-410
Chicago, Illinois 60611
hsbienen@northwestern.edu
Rita Mosevich
Assistant to the President Emeritus
phone: 312-503-7460
fax: 312-503-5388
r-mosevich@northwestern.edu
brenna.argall@northwestern.edu
aydin@eecs.northwestern.edu
rberry@eecs.northwestern.edu
birnbaum@cs.northwestern.edu
ychen@northwestern.edu
choudhar@eecs.northwestern.edu
pdinda@eecs.northwestern.edu
ddowney@eecs.northwestern.edu
robby@eecs.northwestern.edu
forbus@northwestern.edu
fortnow@eecs.northwestern.edu
freeman@eecs.northwestern.edu
m-grayson@eecs.northwestern.edu
dguo@northwestern.edu
ahaddad@eecs.northwestern.edu
hammond@eecs.northwestern.edu
nikos@northwestern.edu
hartline@eecs.northwestern.edu
henschen@eecs.northwestern.edu
sth@eecs.northwestern.edu
mh@eecs.northwestern.edu
michael-horn@northwestern.edu
ian@eecs.northwestern.edu
nickle@eecs.northwestern.edu
ismail@eecs.northwestern.edu
rjoseph@eecs.northwestern.edu
kao@eecs.northwestern.edu
aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu
kumarp@eecs.northwestern.edu
akuzma@northwestern.edu
cclee@eecs.northwestern.edu
linw@eecs.northwestern.edu
changliu@northwestern.edu
seda@eecs.northwestern.edu
memik@eecs.northwestern.edu
The remainder of Northwestern's shameful professors may be found on the Electrical Engineering department website, where these addresses are listed.
Please go ahead and email them, requesting scientific evidence for the Holocaust. Humiliate them for their cowardice, throw virtual rotten tomatoes at them and virtually spit in their faces.
The Wikipedia entry for Arthur Butz reads as follows:
In 1976, Butz published The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry. This book asserted that the Holocaust did not occur and had been deliberately fabricated to justify the creation of the state of Israel.
Butz summarized the book as follows:
1. The alleged slaughter of millions of Jews by the Germans, during World War II, did not happen.
2. The extermination allegation is properly termed a hoax, that is to say, a deliberately contrived falsehood. It was not at its source an honest misunderstanding or accidental falsehood.
3. The hoax had a Zionist provenance and motivation. That is, while some of the original obscure stories did not come from Zionist sources, the elevation to allegations repeated by the American and other governments, and major institutions, was due to Zionist circles within those countries, who acted with Zionist motivations.[4]
Some have argued that he was not fired because of academic freedom granted to tenured professors.[dubious – discuss][3]
Most recently, Butz attracted attention when he issued a statement in which he agreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that the Holocaust is a "myth." In a press release dated December 18, 2005, Butz wrote:
I congratulate him [Ahmadinejad] on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues [the alleged fabrication of the Holocaust], and regret only that it was not a Western head of state. His political remarks receive no comment on my side. By 'political remarks' I mean those that deal with questions of what ought to happen now.[5][3]
The press release was in response to a speech President Ahmadinejad gave, in which he quotes the following from Imam Khomeini, "This regime that is occupying Qods [Jerusalem] must be eliminated from the pages of history.".[6]
Sixty of Butz's colleagues from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty signed a censure describing Butz's Holocaust denial as "an affront to our humanity and our standards as scholars".[7] The letter also called for Butz to "leave our Department and our University and stop trading on our reputation for academic excellence."[7]
University President Henry S. Bienen issued a statement strongly rejecting Butz's positions and distancing the university from them:
Northwestern University Associate Professor Arthur Butz recently issued a statement commending Iranian President Ahmadinejad's assertion that the Holocaust never happened. Butz is a Holocaust denier who has made similar assertions previously. His latest statement, like his earlier writings and pronouncements, is a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people. While I hope everyone understands that Butz's opinions are his own and in no way represent the views of the University or me personally, his reprehensible opinions on this issue are an embarrassment to Northwestern.
There is no question that the Holocaust is a well-documented historical fact. The University has a professorship in Holocaust Studies endowed by the Holocaust Educational Foundation. Northwestern offers courses in Holocaust Studies and organizes conferences of academic scholars who teach in areas relating to the Holocaust. In addition, Northwestern hosts a summer Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. And most recently, a fellowship in the political science department has been established in my name by the Holocaust Educational Foundation. In short, Northwestern University has contributed significantly to the scholarly research of the Holocaust and remains committed to doing so.
Butz is a tenured associate professor in electrical engineering. Like all faculty members, he is entitled to express his personal views, including on his personal web pages, as long as he does not represent such opinions as the views of the University. Butz has made clear that his opinions are his own and at no time has he discussed those views in class or made them part of his class curriculum. Therefore, we cannot take action based on the content of what Butz says regarding the Holocaust - however odious it may be - without undermining the vital principle of intellectual freedom that all academic institutions serve to protect.
Henry S. Bienen
President[8]
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28 - The New Mediterranean Oil And Gas Bonanza
Part I - Israel’s Levant Basin - A New Geopolitical Curse ?
By F. William Engdahl*
Author of Century of War - Anglo-American Oil Politics
2-19-12
Recent discoveries of not just significant, but huge oil and gas reserves in the little-explored Mediterranean Sea between Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Syria and Lebanon suggest that the region could become literally a “new Persian Gulf” in terms of oil and gas riches. As with the old Persian Gulf, discovery of hydrocarbon riches could as well spell a geopolitical curse of staggering dimension.
Long-standing Middle East conflicts could soon be paled by new battles over rights to oil and gas resources beneath the eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Basin and Aegean Sea. Here we explore the implications of a gigantic discovery of gas and oil in offshore Israel. In a second article we will explore the implications of gas and oil discoveries in the Aegean between Cyprus, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Lebanon.
An Israeli Leviathan
The game-changer was a dramatic discovery in late 2010 of an enormous natural gas field offshore of Israel in what geologists call the Levant or Levantine Basin. In October 2010 Israel discovered a massive “super-giant” gas field offshore in what it declares is its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The find is some 84 miles west of the Haifa port and three miles deep. They named it Leviathan after the Biblical sea monster. Three Israeli energy companies in cooperation with the Houston Texas Noble Energy announced initial estimates that the field contained 16 trillion cubic feet of gas—making it the world's biggest deep-water gas find in a decade, adding more discredit to “peak oil” theories that the planet is about to see dramatic and permanent shortages of oil, gas and coal. To put the number in perspective, that one gas field, Leviathan, would hold enough reserves to supply Israel's gas needs for 100 years.
Energy self-sufficiency had eluded the state of Israel since its founding in 1948. Abundant oil and gas exploration had repeatedly been undertaken with meager result. Unlike its energy-rich Arab neighbors, Israel seemed out of luck. Then in 2009 Israel’s exploration partner, Noble Energy, discovered the Tamar field in the Levantine Basin some 50 miles west of Israel’s port of Haifa with an estimated 8.3 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of highest quality natural gas. Tamar was the world’s largest gas discovery in 2009.
At the time, total Israeli gas reserves were estimated at only 1.5 tcf. Government estimates were that Israel's sole operating field, Yam Tethys, which supplies about 70 percent of the country's natural gas, would be depleted within three years.
With Tamar, prospects began to look considerably better. Then, just a year after Tamar, the same consortium led by Noble Energy struck the largest gas find in its decades-long history at Leviathan in the same Levantine geological basin. Present estimates are that the Leviathan field holds at least 17 tcf of gas. Israel went from a gas famine to feast in a matter of months.
With the Tamar and now Leviathan discoveries, Israel was beginning to discuss how to become a major natural gas export nation as well as whether to significantly tax s and oil revenues and place it into an Israeli Sovereign Wealth Fund that would make long-term investments in the Israeli economy as China and many Arab OPEC nations do.
“The Levant Basin Province is comparable to some of the other large provinces around the world,” noted a spokesperson from the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy Resources Program. “Its gas resources are bigger than anything we have assessed in the United States.”
Perhaps sensing that major oil and gas discoveries were being confirmed with potential to change the geopolitics of the entire region, the USGS launched its first-ever estimate of the total reserves of oil and gas in the broad region encompassing the Eastern Mediterranean including the Aegean Basin offshore Greece and Turkey and Cyprus, the Levant Basin offshore Lebanon, Israel and Syria, and the Nile Basin offshore Egypt. Their conclusion was impressive to put it mildly.
The USGS, using all data from previous drilling and geologic surveys of the region concluded, “undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Levant Basin Province amount to 1.68 billion barrels of oil, and 122 tcf of gas. Additionally, according to USGS estimates, “undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Nile Delta Basin Province (bounded by the Nile Cone to the west, by Strabo to the north, by the Pytheus and Cyprus Trenches to the east and by the Levant Basin to the south) are estimated to be approximately 1.76 bbl (of oil), and 223 tcf of natural gas.”
The USGS calculated the total for the eastern Mediterranean as a whole currently at 345 tcf of gas and 3.4 billion barrels of oil. Suddenly the entire region is facing completely new geopolitical challenges and conflict potentials.
To put the numbers into perspective, the USGS estimates that Russia’s West Siberian Basin, the world’s largest known gas basin, holds 643 tcf of gas. As well, the Middle East and North Africa regions have several natural gas-rich areas, including the Rub Al Khali Basin (426 trillion cubic feet) in southwestern Saudi Arabia and Northern Yemen; the Greater Ghawar Uplift in eastern Saudi Arabia (227 tcf) and the Zagros Fold Belt (212 tcf) along the Persian Gulf and into Iraq and Iran.
Just months earlier, securing foreign gas was a national security priority of Israel as existing domestic gas supplies dwindled dangerously low. Further adding to the energy crisis were the so-called Arab Spring protests sweeping across Egypt into Libya in early 2011. The revolts toppled Mubarak, under whose regime Egypt had supplied some 40% of Israeli natural gas. With Mubarak toppled and the ban lifted on Egypt’s Islamic parties, especially the Muslim Brotherhood and the radical Salafist Al-Nour Party, the gas pipeline delivering Egypt’s gas to Israel was target of repeated sabotage and disruptions, the most recent February of this year in northern Sinai. Israel was becoming more than nervous about its future energy security.
Lebanon reaction fuels new frictions
Discovery of Leviathan by Israel in the waters offshore immediately triggered a new geopolitical conflict as Lebanon claimed that part of the gas field lay in Lebanese territorial waters in Lebanon’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Lebanon delivered maps to the UN to back its claim, to which Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman retorted, “We won’t give an inch.”
The fly in the Mediterranean energy soup is the fact that Israel, like the USA, has never ratified the 1982 UN Convention on Law of the Sea dividing world subsea mineral rights. The Israeli gas wells at Leviathan are clearly within undisputed Israeli territory as Lebanon affirms, but Lebanon believes the field extends over into their subsea waters as well. The Lebanese Hezbollah claims that the Tamar gas field, which is due to begin gas deliveries by the end of this year, belongs to Lebanon.
Washington has lost no time adding political gasoline to the natural gas dispute between Lebanon and Israel. In July of 2011 as Israel prepared to submit its own proposal to the UN as to where the offshore demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel should run, Frederick Hof, US diplomat responsible for special affairs regarding Syria and Lebanon, told Lebanon that the Obama Administration endorsed the Lebanese document, adding to the growing tensions reported since outbreak of the Arab Spring between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama.
Netanyahu has reportedly recently urged America’s eighth wealthiest person, his close friend Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson to pour millions directly into the campaigns of Republicans, including Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. It represents an unprecedented direct Israeli intervention into US presidential candidates’ campaigns, in order to try to defeat a second Obama term. New issues of control of the vast energy reserves being discovered off Israeli and Lebanese, Cypriot, Turkish and Greek shores will clearly play a growing role in one of the most entangled political regions on Earth.
In our next piece the added complication of oil and gas discoveries in the Aegean Sea will be examined.
*F. William Engdahl may be contacted via his website, "http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net" www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
Endnotes
Charles Levinson, Guy Chazan, Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel, The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2010, accessed in "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576049842786766586.html#printMode" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576049842786766586.html#printMode.
Offshore Energy Today Staff, Israel: Leviathan Holds More Gas Than Previously Estimated, Offshore Energy Today, December 19, 2011, accessed in "http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/israel-leviathan-holds-more-gas-than-previously-estimated/" http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/israel-leviathan-holds-more-gas-than-previously-estimated/.
AFP, Israel has enough gas 'to become exporter,' 29 December 2010, accessed in "http://www.france24.com/en/20101229-israel-has-enough-gas-become-exporter" http://www.france24.com/en/20101229-israel-has-enough-gas-become-exporter.
US Department of the Interior, Levant basin holds 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 20103014, March 2010-April 10, 2010.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Avi Bar-Eli and Itai Trilnick, Forecast Blackout Israel is about to run out of natural gas: Shortage expected to last at least until next year, when the Tamar gas field starts production, February 2, 2012, Haaretz, accessed in "http://english.themarker.com/forecast-blackout-israel-is-about-to-run-out-of-natural-gas-1.410513" http://english.themarker.com/forecast-blackout-israel-is-about-to-run-out-of-natural-gas-1.410513. See also Reuters, Blast Hits Gas Pipeline Between Egypt, Jordan, Israel, 4 February 2012.
Barak Ravid, US Backs Lebanon on Maritime Border Dispute with Israel, July 10, 2011, Haaretz.com
Reuters, Sheldon Adelson Probe: Donations From Casino Owner Could Embarrass Republican Candidates, February 8, 2012, accessed in "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/sheldon-adelson-donations-casino-probe_n_1263945.html?ref=email_share" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/sheldon-adelson-donations-casino-probe_n_1263945.html?ref=email_share. For more on the Adelson-Gingrich-Romney-Netanyahu connection see, Max Blumenthal, The Bibi Connection, January 12, 2012, accessed in "http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bibi-connection" http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bibi-connection.
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29 - Utah Bill : Videotaping a Factory Farm is Same as Assaulting a Police Officer
By Will Potter (about the author)
opednews.com
Utah is the latest state to consider new laws targeting undercover investigators who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms. A new bill would make photographing animal abuse on par with assaulting a police officer.
Rep. John Mathis calls undercover investigators "animal rights terrorists," and says video recordings that have brought national attention to systemic animal welfare abuses are "propaganda" and fundraising efforts.
The bill, HB187, targets anyone who videotapes or takes photograph on a farmer's property without permission. It creates the crime of "agricultural operation interference," a class A misdemeanor which is elevated to a third-degree felony on the second offense.
It comes at at time when the FBI has considered "terrorism" charges against undercover investigators.
Rep. Mathis' opening remarks at a hearing by the Utah House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee on February 14th are indicative of the good ol' boy network that is attempting to pass this legislation:
"It's fun to see my good ag friends in this committee," Mathis said. "" all my good friends are here."
Mathis, the sponsor of the bill, said animal protection groups are solely using their investigations as "propaganda" efforts for fundraising drives. He went on to claim that animal welfare reforms, such as allowing chickens to spread their wings, are actually "detrimental to the welfare of animals."
Exposing animal abuse is hurting animal welfare? Photography is terrorism? What Mathis leaves out is that these investigations have led to criminal charges against farm workers. Just this week, undercover video shot by Mercy for Animals at a Butterball farm resulted in six workers being charged with misdemeanors and felonies.
And a recent investigation by Compassion Over Killing (in Iowa, another state considering "Ag Gag" legislation) showed workers pushing herniated intestines back inside injured piglets, thencovering the wound with tape.
Only token gestures of opposition were made during the hearing, such as one representative voicing concerns that the bill could target people who take "pretty barn pictures."
But this bill isn't about pretty pictures.
This bill, and similar attempts in Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and New York, is to criminalize anyone who exposes abuses on factory farms.
These disproportionate penalties are solely motivated by the corporate interests affected by animal welfare reforms. As Rep. Craig Frank, a Republican, noted: this bill makes taking a photograph of a factory farm in Utah a third-degree felony on the second offense, the same as assaulting a police officer.
He called it a "Black Angus Ops" bill and questioned the need for new laws when trespassing is already a crime, but outside of making jokes he and the others on the committee offered no opposition.
In light of the recent criminal charges and systemic animal welfare violations, it's startling to hear Mathis and supporters say the bill is the same as punishing someone who leaves a video recorder "under you and your wife's bed."
This isn't about personal privacy. It's about corporations attempting to hide their criminal activity, deceive consumers, and deflect public scrutiny onto those who are dragging these abuses into the sunlight.
The committee voted 10-3 to move the measure as originally written to the full House. You can contact Utah representatives about HB 187 here.
Will Potter is an award-winning reporter who focuses on how lawmakers and corporations have labeled animal rights and environmental activists as "eco-terrorists." Will has written for publications including The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning (more...)
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30 - Chemtrail Whistle Blower Speaks, Part 1
The Intel Hub
By Luemas of People Beyond
February 26, 2012
Intel Hub Note: This article was submitted to us by a concerned citizen who spoke with a whistleblower and while many things put forward in this article can clearly be confirmed, others cannot and are being posted here in an attempt to further research into this subject.
BACKSTORY
About 4 years ago, through a series of synchronistic events, I ran into a very informed man. He had family involved high up in the alphabet soup agencies and showed me so much involving this delicate issue.
He found out that I was awake to the NWO which prompted the many conversations we had. He knew more than anyone I’ve known including the many researchers I’ve listened to throughout the years.
I too, am an autodidact and skeptical of anyone who portrays knowing so much about things most can’t get any info about. This was 4 years ago, and since then, from my own research, everything he said has checked out and proved to be very accurate.
We’ll just call this man Robert. He was very cutting edge and ahead of the times as far as knowledge. The writings below are what he said and described, in detail, about the chemtrail operations taking place across the world.
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MORGELLONS
This is a part of the puzzle that I hear very few talking about. It’s the hardest to conclude and most average system people would never buy it, but it remains extremely important.
He told me that what he called morgellons are polymer fibers which are found in chemtrail samples.
Besides heavy metals, people find these fibers in samples when looking at them under microscopes. Some are microscopic, some can be seen with the naked eye.
These fibers are found in countless people around the world so itʻs been theorized that everyone has them inside their body.The fibers are nano tech strands that grow and form a network inside our bodies.
When a person has morgellons disease itʻs because their bodies are rejecting this stuff and it grows out of their skin. Some people’s bodies don’t take to it and they have this kind of reaction. These poor victims are written off as nuts and hypochondriacs by the mainstream doctors.
The fibers combine in our bodies and form an antenna to HAARP and other machines. Morgellons form a network from our brains, down our spine, to our reproductive organs. It makes us one big antenna. Basically they cover all of our chakra points. This program is all about mind control and dumbing us down, I believe.
How this connects to HAARP and chemtrails:
They spray down the metals and fibers. We inhale or ingest them. HAARP is pulsing itʻs energy into the upper atmosphere and shooting back down into smaller antennas and transmitters like T.V. towers, cell phone towers, G.W.E.N. towers etc.
Then, this energy is re-directed into smaller devices such as computers, cell phones, smart meters, wireless internet, HDTV boxes and even ipods. (all these things run off of the same elf energy)
These devices are close to our bodies so they conduct with the charged fibers in us, in turn that helps the fibers build their self-replicating network.
Robert said another thing that feeds the “wire” (his other word for morgellons) is refined sugars. Notice how everywhere you go in this world thereʻs so much sugar in the food and everybody’s on their portable devices that constantly feed the morgellons.
Right now the effect this has on humans is more subtle but when they turn HAARP up we will get the full effect. Robert said they incrementally turn it up a little higher each time.
This also connects to weather control because they can move chemtrail clouds with these fibers to control cloud movement. Maybe move a storm where they want it etc.
Who knows how far taken we are by the wire because all of us have some in us. Very few are away from this process so itʻs hard to gauge where are natural state without all this is.
If you want some more information on the morgellon/ chemtrail connection, check out Clifford Carnicom’s in depth research. Pieces of this puzzle are everywhere if you are willing to look.
I have actually spit visible fiber material out doing an important detox that I will send separately from this document.
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WEATHER MODIFICATION
Robert said that most of the weather modification can be done with HAARP.
However, our atmosphere is charged or in a plasma state thanks to chemtrails. This is perfect to conduct pulse weapons to possibly create man-made disasters. I noticed from my own research that they often spray into a storm front.
One thing you can physically see is the HAARP clouds which look like the wireless internet symbol in the spray.
Robert said that they spray before a storm to help better rain these poisons into the plants and our skin pours.
Also, I think that all this crazy weather across the planet has to do somewhat with this massive accumulation of dumping non-stop for the last decade or more.
While some of the weather could be natural, caused by solar flares and other natural phenomena, it’s hard to say with this one.
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GEO-ENGINEERING
Everything he said matched what Michael Murphy has uncovered in his groundbreaking documentary, “What in the World are they Spraying.”
I’ve noticed weather has definitely been stranger than normal for at least the last seven years. I am a novice gardener but, I have noticed that my seeds have had a much harder time sprouting.
Another thing that Robert said is that they want to spray the wilderness as well because these metals and fibers can be seen on radar. Therefore, they can create a sort of the 3D image of areas which essentially makes hiding impossible.
I donʻt have much to add here other then some friends in California have told me that a lot of trees have this white mold stuff growing on them which is killing forests. If we were to take samples, they would most likely indicate that this is from the spraying.
One thing that chemtrails do is suck the oxygen levels from our environment. This effects anything alive. Imagine how it is in places like inner city Los Angeles where there are relatively no trees and just concrete for miles. Oxygen is already starved in these environments.
I personally don’t believe that they are trying to mitigate global warming with this. How can we make a good judgement until they clear all of this poison out of our skies?
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POPULATION CONTROL
It seems that they also spray pathogens like the desecrated red blood cells found in samples from Clifford Carnicomʻs work. A lot of people get sick after a spray day. I personally often feel sedated after heavy spraying. I didnʻt get to this subject with Robert because when the guy talked he was like a spouting encyclopedia.
When they spray, a lot of people across the islands suddenly have the same thing. No cold, but fatigue and upper respiratory illness. I have some kind of infection and I never get sick.
They probably would like to kill off as many people who have weak immune systems as they can. We could also be falling victim to barium poisoning as well. I wouldn’t put it past the elite to kill us off.
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PLANES
He said that most planes are run by remote control, not pilots. Others are flown by pilots who are chipped.
Locally here in Hawaii I know of a story where a lady visited a natural doctor we know who owns a health food store and it turns out that the Lady told the doctor she sprays the skies for the military. She told the doctor that she doesn’t know why she does it, she just does what she’s told.
She was seeing the natural doctor because she keeps getting sick.
Little to say here, but that’s a small lead.
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CONCLUSION:
Regardless of what a guy you’ll never meet named Robert said, this is how it is – use your own judgement and critical thinking. Most of the evidence is laid out in front of us, if one actually does the research.
Everyone has something they can contribute to help make others aware of something so huge, yet right above our heads. This is massive, and nobody is un-effected by it. If you choose to ignore it, it won’t go away and it will destroy our lives and the planet even quicker.
There are multiple programs being conducted. All are forms of playing God which is what the NWO is, satanists trying to be God over the planet.
Killing off our immune systems, killing off the natural world, replacing it with genetically modified seeds, completely manipulating our bodies, using us as antennas, and changing the weather, all makes one wonder what is the end goal of all of this?
What are they preparing us for? Full spectrum domination is for sure, that much we know.
There are some solutions that we can do to help our bodies. That will be outlined in part 2.
Luemas will be appearing on The Bob Tuskin Show to continue this in-depth investigation.
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31 - PETRUS ROMANUS : THE FALSE PROPHET AND THE ANTICHRIST ARE HERE
PART 5
By Thomas R. Horn
February 12, 2012
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Rosemary’s (Petrus) Baby and the Priests Who Were Dying to See Him
In the 1968 horror film Rosemary’s Baby by director Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow plays Rosemary Woodhouse, a naive young housewife who agrees to become pregnant but through a series of spooky events comes to believe her husband has made a pact with eccentric neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer) to use the unborn child in some sort of occult ritual.
On the night they have planned to try to conceive, Mrs. Castevet brings separate dishes of chocolate mousse to Rosemary and her husband Guy. Rosemary takes a few bites, but disliking the chalky under-taste, quietly throws it away. A few minutes later, she becomes dizzy and passes out. She then has what she thinks is a nightmare in which the Castevets and other neighbors are in her bedroom watching as she is raped by a demonic presence. The dream is so vivid she suddenly screams out, “This is no dream—this is really happening!” When she wakes, there are scratches all over her body, and her husband tells her that in order not to miss the opportunity for conception, he had engaged her body for sex while she slept.
[Note that Polanski had wanted his wife Sharon Tate to play the role of Rosemary, and Tate reportedly provided the idea for the key scene in which Rosemary is raped and impregnated. In tragic, real-life irony, on August 9, 1969, Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when she and her unborn child were brutally murdered by followers of Charles Manson—Susan Atkins and Tex Watson. When screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, who was at Sharon Tate’s home the night of the murders [and also murdered] asked Tex who he was and what he was doing there, Watson replied, “I’m the devil, and I’m here to do the devil’s business.”]
Following the horrific “nightmare” scene experienced by the movie character Rosemary, she learns she is pregnant and that the baby is due June 28, 1966 (666). The Castevets recommend an obstetrician named Dr. Abraham Sapirstein (Ralph Bellamy) who prescribes a daily “vitamin drink” for her, which he assures is good for her and the unborn child. Minnie Castevet gives her an odd-smelling “good luck charm” to wear, which also smells of the main ingredient in the vitamin drink—tannis root (a phonetic play on the term Satanas; Satan).
When before long Rosemary’s dear friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) notices her appearance becoming gaunt and hears her complaining of severe abdominal pains, loss of weight, and unusual cravings for raw meat and chicken liver (an ancient witches fertility prescription), he decides to research the “tannis root” concoction. Mysteriously, before he can share what he finds, he falls into a coma and dies, but not before waking up long enough to ask a friend to deliver a book on witchcraft—in which he has marked photographs and passages—to Rosemary, along with a cryptic message: “the name is an anagram.” From this, she deciphers that her neighbor Roman Castevet’s name is the anagram and that he is actually Steven Marcato, son of Adrian Marcato, a former resident and devoted Satanist.
Her suspicions grow as she becomes convinced that her husband and neighbors really are practicing witchcraft, and that somehow this involves her unborn child. Dr. Sapirstein and Rosemary’s husband Guy learn of her mistrusts, and tell her that neither she nor the baby will be harmed so long as she cooperates. Right after, she goes into labor and is sedated, and when she awakens, her baby is gone. She is told the infant died, but she hears a baby crying in another room at the apartment. Finding a secret door connecting her residence to the neighbors, she discovers a congregation gathered around her infant son. The baby boy’s eyes are frighteningly deformed, and she is told that her husband is not the father, that the child is the spawn of Satan.
Although Rosemary’s Baby is based on a novel, ritualized sexual magic is real and the plan to use it to incarnate the devil’s seed has had a long and curious history among Satanists, secret societies, freemasons, and even, according to some Catholic priests, the Vatican.
Highly guarded instruction manuals used by secretive Satanist organizations such as The Order of Nine Angels, the Church of Satan founded by Anton LaVey, and even further back by members of Ordo Templi Orientis including works by infamous 33rd-degree freemason, Aleister Crowley, have described how it is through sex that a being is brought into the world and housed in a body of flesh. Thus it is a mystical exercise that, when combined with magick rituals such as chanting of specific syllables to project proper vibrations (which open the inner mind and mesmerize the conscious mind), invite the nebulous spirit to fill the embryonic host. As the participating priestess lies upon the ground or upon the altar and is aroused by activity of the priest, copulation proceeds while the priestess visualizes the opening of a celestial gateway and Dark Chaos flowing out of it downward upon her, providing the mystical seed. Like the ancient Pythian of Apollo, the priestess is also at this moment a portal to the abode of dark gods.
Rocket scientist and cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jack Parsons, and his pal L. Ron Hubbard (Church of Scientology founder) were disciples of Aleister Crowley and recorded one such event called the “Babalon Working,” which they performed in hopes of incarnating the whore of Babylon—a demon child or gibborim—through a portal during ritual sex. Parsons later wrote that the ceremony was successful and that “Babalon is incarnate upon the earth today awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation.”[1]
According to Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 (widely considered the magnum opus of occultist Aleister Crowley), ritual magic sex can include (what sounds like) cannibalism and human sacrifice. Crowley says, “It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.”[2]
As far back as 200 AD, the Christian apologetic work Octavius by Marcus Minucius Felix described apostate Christians participating in orgiastic rituals in a dark room while worshiping the head of adonkey and sacrificing a baby for the Host during Black Mass. Most experts believe similar activity has secretly continued throughout the ages, and that true “Hosts”—that is, the bread and grape wine used after consecration, which is, according to dogma, changed into the literal substance of the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ via transubstantiation—are given by Catholic priests, who have made diabolical pacts with Satanists, to the attendants of the Black Sabbath. Among highly placed Church experts who assert such activity is real and even occurs inside the leonine walls of the Holy See would be: Monsignor Luigi Marinelli (whose 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican sold one hundred thousand copies in just the first three weeks); exorcist and Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who in a speech at the Our Lady of Fatima 2000 International Conference on World Peace, charged high-ranking members of the Church hierarchy of being in league with “Satan”; and the late exorcist and maverick professor of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, eminent Catholic theologian and former Jesuit, Malachi Martin.
When the Manhatten magazine “The Fatima Crusader” asked Martin about the public alarm raised over Archbishop Milingo’s claim that high-ranking Vatican officials were “followers of Satan,” Martin replied, “Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and continues to have his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”[3] While a few have tried to discredit Martin by claiming that he was everything from a double agent for Jewish lobbying groups during Vatican II (to effect the final draft of Nostra Aetate, which would, among other things, absolve the Jews of the death of Jesus) to maligning him as an outright “pathological liar” (which the dead cannot defend themselves against), Malachi was in fact a close personal friend of Pope Paul VI and worked within the Holy See doing research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, publishing articles in journals on Semitic paleography, and teaching Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sacred Scripture.
In 1965, Paul VI granted Martin a dispensation from his Jesuit and priestly duties, and Martin moved to New York, where he dedicated himself to writing about—and sometimes speaking out on—a variety of issues stemming from the Second Vatican Council, to detailed insider accounts of papal history, Catholic dogma, and geopolitics. As a member of the Vatican Advisory Council and a formidable polyglot who could speak seventeen languages (not to mention being personal secretary to renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea), Martin had privileged information pertaining to secretive church and world issues, including the Third Secret of Fatima, which Martin hinted spelled out parts of the plan to formerly install the dreaded False Prophet (Petrus Romanus) during a “Final Conclave.”
On this, Martin’s claim that an Illuminati-Masonic group made up of Western plutocrats called “The Assembly” or the “Superforce” had infiltrated the highest levels of Vatican administration and were working to bring about a New World Order, may have led to involvement by operatives of the same group concerning his untimely (some say “suspicious”) death in 1999.
This raises questions as well about John Paul I, who was elected pope in 1978 but who died only thirty-three days later (33 is an occult masonic marker). Shortly after becoming pope, John Paul I learned of cardinals, bishops, and high-ranking prelates that were Freemasons. He may have been murdered to keep him from exposing these men’s plans and/or to deter an investigation he had launched into the Vatican bank connected with Roberto Calvi, a Grand Orient Freemason and the Chairman of the Ambrosiano Bank, which the Vatican Bank was primary shareholder of. When in 1978 it was discovered that monies had been illegally laundered for the Mafia through that bank, Calvi fled Italy and three days later, the Bank’s shares crashed. One day after that, Calvi’s secretary conveniently committed suicide, and on June 18, Calvi himself was found hanging beneath the Blackfriar (connected to Freemasons) Bridge in London with a Masonic Cabletow around his neck and chunks of masonry (left as a symbol?) in his pockets. John Daniel says of this in Scarlet and the Beast: “At Masonic ritual murders, Masonic symbols are left at the scene for several reasons: (1) to show Masons that this was a Masonic murder; (2) to warn Masons to follow the Masonic code, or suffer like fate; and (3) to prove to Masonic paymasters that the “hit” was accomplished.”[4]
But was John Paul I, like Calvi may have been (and like Malachi Martin infers in Windswept House), murdered by a Masonic “Superforce” too large and too powerful for him to contain; one that Martin would later claim was behind the scenes, secretly working to use the Vatican to bring about a global Antichrist system? “Suddenly it became unarguable that now… the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it,” wrote Martin. “The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links—the network, in other words that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network.”[5]
We will continue the investigation into "Rosemary’s (Petrus) Baby and the Priests Who Were Dying to See Him" in the next entry...
[See the U-Tube clip above: Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here]
Click here for part -----> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
© 2012 Thomas Horn - All Rights Reserved
Footnotes:
1. Ronald L. Conte Jr., “The Future and the Popes,” Catholic Planet, November 14, 2004.
2. “Henry Edward Manning,” Wikipedia, last modified August 28, 2011
3. “Ultramontanism” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed. rev. ed. F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1667.
4. Cardinal Manning, The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, reprinted in 2007 under the title, “The Pope & the Antichrist” (Tradibooks, Dainte-Croix du Mont, France), 75.
5. Ibid., 79-80
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32 - Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
February 13, 2012
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlatedwith the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies linking it to decreased IQand infertility. In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries.
Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.
According to the authors of the study:
The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.
Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation; however, the United States government (along with other nations) has allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.
Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply
Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while only 8% of fluoridated children did the same. In fact, the safety precautions regarding sodium fluorideare quite telling themselves:
Risk and Safety Phrases.
R25 – Toxic if swallowed.
R32 – Contact with acid liberates very toxic gas.
R36/38 – Irritating to skin and eyes.
S1/2 – Keep locked up and out of reach of children.
S22 – Do not breathe dust.
S36 – Wear suitable protective clothing.
S45 – In case of accident or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately (show the label whenever possible.)
But what about cavity prevention?
Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nation’s drinking water. Touted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually does nothing to prevent against cavities. In fact, vitamin D has been found to be significantly more effective in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes. According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride was found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects? Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply, as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.
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33 - Eustace Mullins Exposed Dr. John Coleman In 1992
Real name : Joseph Pavlonsky - Profession : MOSSAD agent
According to the late, great Eustace Mullins, Dr. John Coleman (the name he goes by, anyway) not only lifted the materials he used in his books and lectures from both Mullins and Lyndon Larouche publications, but he also may have lifted material from the Anti-Defamation League…while working as a Mossad agent-agitator against America!
Check out below what Mullins had to say about Coleman back in 1992, and see if what Mullins said holds any water. Given that it’s from Mullins, I’d say it holds a glass that is over half-full.
Some Illuminating Background On The Character “John Coleman”, Agent-Agitator Finally Exposed
(Editor’s note: Regular readers will recall that much space in the 9/8/92 LIBERATOR was devoted to explaining an insipid array of attacks from one “Dr. John Coleman” aka John Clarke and likely actually one Joseph Pavlonsky, of Russian Khazarian origin. It seems that some of the excellent sources “Coleman” “borrowed” material from have seen fit to discuss this colorful character and in so doing, provide an illuminating — if sadly destructive — pattern of activity we would share with our readers. The following is an extract from an article purportedly by Eustace Mullins in Lawrence Patterson’s publication Criminal Politics for July or August of 1992.)
A specter is haunting the American conservative movement — a specter using an alias (among others) of Dr. John Coleman. Coleman bills himself as “the World’s Greatest Intelligence Expert — with secret but highly placed ties to British Intelligence.” He appeared out of the blue at a Bob White, Sound Monetary Conference meeting in Costa Rica in 1984.
With no sponsorship — other than the seminar sponsor, a Dr. Harold Brown — and no documentation, Coleman managed to convince the attendees that he was indeed one of the world’s important experts on international intelligence. He claimed to be privy to the most carefully guarded secrets of the individuals who clandestinely rule the world.
However, Coleman said he would share these secrets only if certain carefully observed guidelines were maintained. The most important of these was that he would never be asked to furnish any personal background information — any documentation or any source from which he obtained his “secret information.” Such restrictions would scream “confidence artist” to most people. But when he met James K. Warner (editor of the Christian Defense League newspaper) — in 1984, he justified his refusal to reveal background information on himself or his sources by claiming that “he was subject to assassination threats.”
He snared Jim Warner by confiding in him one of his closely guarded secrets — that his name was not Dr. John Coleman at all, but that it was, in fact, John Clark. Coleman stated that by giving Warner this private information, he was actually placing his life in his hands. As he was an accomplished confidence artist, Coleman convinced Warner that he should offer him a position. Warner responded to him by employing him as a writer for the Christian Defense League Report.
Coleman would send in material which indeed contained startling information (but was totally undocumented, [and] would soon win him an enthusiastic following among Warner’s readers. Coleman also supplied a great many audio tapes which were offered to Warner’s readers. Each of course supplying “secret information.” This began a five year relationship which proved to be filled with pitfalls for Warner, who was after all a small underfinanced businessman.
Not only did Coleman continue to refuse [to provide] any documentation, but he made frequent demands for salary increases…extra expenses for himself and his family…and advances on his salary which exceeded the projected totals of several years salary. Warner was in no position to meet these demands, but in his anxiety to retain Coleman, he dug deep into his own pocket and also issued frantic fund raising appeals for Coleman. The result was that Warner was nearly bankrupted and conservatives nearly lost an excellent source of out of print books and independent information.
It should be noted that it is a common technique for an infiltrator to attempt a financial raid on a host target — thereby rendering the host target unable to continue in business. An example of this would be the Rockefeller faction attempting to take over the National Rifle Association some 15 years ago with a grandiose plan which would have bankrupted the NRA…
Mullins Material Had To Be Discontinued… Or Else!
There were other problems which Coleman created for Warner. One of them was his continuous demands that Warner cease any articles or sell any books written by myself, Eustace Mullins. I had, in fact, been writing for Warner for more than a decade. Warner attributed this obsession to mere jealousy on Coleman’s part. In fact, it went much deeper.
Coleman’s vaunted sources of information were not secret at all, but were discovered by me in the process of reviewing his printed statements. Here are the results of my study: about 30% of his material was lifted from my own writings and about 70% was stolen from Lyndon Larouche publications. Principally, Coleman would rely on feature articles in the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. The material was simply rewritten by Coleman and crudely puffed up to five or six times its original length. Unfortunately, Warner never noticed.
Finally I became so concerned about the quantity of material lifted from the Larouche publications by Coleman that I decided to let Jim Warner know that his “new star” was lifting most of his “secrets” from Larouche publications.
Some months later, Warner received an indignant letter from the Larouche office, complaining about Coleman‘s plagiarism of the Larouche material. When Warner confronted Coleman, Warner was assured that it was simply an effort by the Larouche group to sow dissension. Coleman claimed he had only seen one copy of the Executive Intelligence Review in his life. Sometime later, when Coleman claimed to have left the country for South Africa, some of his effects were stored at the Warner warehouse. Among them, Warner found two boxes of well-thumbed issues of Larouche magazines. Sure enough, this proved to be the source of many of Coleman’s “British intelligence” connections. But Warner’s readers were trapped, and they were besieging him with requests that he bring Coleman into the public spotlight through meetings and seminars.
Coleman finally did appear at some meetings for a few months. But then, Warner was hit with still more demands for more loans and salary advances. He tried to find other employment for him, sending him off to a part-time job with a long time supporter,William Makinney, of Florida. Bill Makinney was lured by the promise that Coleman could make some extremely profitable deals for him. Later he was disappointed when Coleman arrived with his wife and son, and Coleman demanded the use of a Lincoln town car and memberships in the most exclusive Palm Beach Clubs and nightly meals in the most expensive restaurants.
Even worse he spent much of his time closeted in a room at Makinney’s home. He claimed to be making long distance phone calls to the head of the South African gov’t. Makinney was later unable to find records of any such phone calls in his billing. Soon Makinney asked him to leave and put him on a plane the sadder but wiser.
Warner was again assailed by constant demands for more money. Warner finally decided that the only way to meet the demands was to hold public meetings with Coleman as the star. Coleman, who had billed himself as the “World’s Greatest Orator” proved to be a lack luster speaker, who read in a dull monotone from his type written speech, The meetings were a failure. Meanwhile, Warner had purchased a car for Coleman’s use and a computer for Coleman’s use at a large home which Warner rented for him. Coleman rarely appeared at the Warner offices citing his fear of assassination.
What’s more, Warner discovered at the meetings, Coleman attempted to make financial deals for himself, showing no loyally to Warner whatsoever. Finally, Warner informed him that he was fired. Warner was required to obtain a warrant to cease the automobile and computer that were loaned to him. Then he realized that Coleman had obtained an illicit copy of his mailing list. Coleman began issuing appeals to Warner’s subscribers claiming that I had had him discharged in order to become an editor of another Warner publication.
Finally, Coleman showed in California where he was guest of one Dr. Arnold Geisbret, of Glendale, CA. Geisbret has an interesting background. He is an attendee at many rightwing meetings, including those of Lawrance Patterson’s National Bankruptcy Seminars. He would take copious notes and interrogate everyone that would talk to him. Geisbret, obviously, intended to collect as much information on the right-wing as possible. Coleman, meanwhile, went from one address to the other in California using Warner’s mailing list as a source of suckers.
At each resident, he would spin a spiteful tale of having been cruelly used by Jim Warner who had taken all of his money. Meanwhile, Coleman would make threatening calls to Warner informing him that he would launch a national campaign against him if he refused to make a financial settlement. Wishing to avoid legal problems, Warner settled a substantial sum of money on Coleman, all to no avail. Coleman not only launched a campaign of denunciation against Warner using his mailing list of subscribers, but he also began a surreptitious mailing campaign using pseudonyms to accuse Warner of sexual offenses and of being a double agent. These defamatory letters were also mailed to Warner’s mailing list.
Great Success… In Spreading Discord!
Coleman was achieving great success in spreading consternation and discord throughout the conservative network. I began to realize his true motives. Rather than a greedy confidence artist — with an ability to rewrite other’s materials as his own — it became obvious to me and to those that knew him, that he was more than likely a highly trained double agent, whose handlers would unleash the “attack dog” on an unprepared patriot community a step at a time. One source I have spoken with claimed that he has been trained in Israel by a Mossad unit — and had been known there as Joseph Pavlonsky.
We later discovered that he entered the United States on an English passport recorded by the INS as #A20211168 issued to “John Clarke.” Interestingly, when Warner accompanied him to get a driver’s license in Louisiana, he claimed he had applied for a social security number although none was forthcoming. Even though he had been in the United States for almost a decade, he had been driving in the Western states on a Louisiana license, and had never obtained a U.S. green card or work permit.
On To Carson City, Nevada…As “Space Commander”
Next comes Coleman’s employment with one George Green who operates a nonconformist publication titled Phoenix Journal Express which is supposedly representing the statements from a space being — (yes, we said space being) by the name of Gyorgos Ceres Hatonn!!
Hatonn is the claimed commander of a fleet of space ships from the galaxy of Pleiades. These spaceships have been deployed over the California border with Nevada for several years. This has proved to be convenient for all concerned because the people of Pleiades, interestingly enough, do not require a U.S. work permit from its employees. Coleman is now writing the material for Hatonn. Interestingly enough, he gives advice about International Banking, but amazingly, is always negative on Sterling denominated investments and, interestingly, Swiss banking as well.
Under the auspices of George Green’s Phoenix Journal Express, and America West publishers of Tehachapi, California, Coleman finally published his first and only book “The Committee of Three Hundred”. After examining this book, it has proven to be the usual amalgam of his borrowings from my various textbooks and, again, from the Larouche magazine.
The foreword to the book is very revealing. He again takes the opportunity to sow more dissension in the conservative movement. It is a vitriolic denunciation of the movement claiming it was “part of a carefully crafted and orchestrated program to discredit him (Coleman) and run by secret government agents and informers embedded in the so-called Christian right wing “identity movement”. The invective goes on at some length repeating the slanders of his previous circulated hate letters. The Committee of 300 contains nothing new and is an amalgam of others’ materials.
Material Lifted From the Anti-Defamation League!
Having reviewed the material of the anti-defamation league, I can say that Coleman’s smear attack in his foreword against the “so-called Christian right wing” is atypical material taken from the guide books of the anti-defamation league. His denunciation of the “identity movement” is also taken directly from ADL literature. For years the ADL has considered the “identity movement” its number one opponent and target in the United States.
A Potent Agitator… Working Against America!
Whatever the truth or falsity of the claims of Dr. John Coleman (alias John Clarke, alias Pavlonksy), it is clear that he is a potent agititor working among American conservative publishers. Lawrence Patterson has also had a brush with him and he has recently succeeded in taking in Colonel Arch Roberts, who ran a lengthy review of his book.
He has constantly sown seeds of discord and hate for his own devious purposes and will undoubtedly continue to pit patriot against patriot for as long as he is allowed to betray, impede and infiltrate without exposure. Hopefully, this article which has been submitted to Criminal Politics magazine of which I am a contributing editor, will help to expose John Coleman as a foreign agent.
http://thewhaler.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/eustace-mullins-exposed-dr-john-coleman-in-1992/
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34 - Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances
Post date: Sunday, February 26th 2012 Sayer Ji
According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.”
The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, prevent and in some cases cure disease, and which cannot be called drugs according to the FDA.
How can this be? Well, the FDA has assumed for itself Godlike power, requiring that its official approval be obtained before any substance can legally be used in the prevention and treatment of disease.
The FDA’s legal-regulatory control therefore is totalitarian and Napoleonic in construct; what it does not explicitly permit as a medicine is implicitly forbidden.
Historically the FDA has required new drugs undergo expensive and elaborate multi-phased clinical trials, which are out of the grasp of any ordinary interest who might want to demonstrate the efficacy of a non-patentable (and therefore unprofitable) herb, food or spice.
The average out-of-pocket cost for obtaining a new drug approval is US$ 802 million dollars,[1] and therefore an investor putting capital into bringing to market a substance that does not lend itself to market exclusivity and therefore cannot produce a return on investment, is committing economic suicide, if not also breaking the law. The investor actually has a legally-binding fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make a profit. And therefore, capital will not flow into any would-be commodity that can be produced or obtained with ease, including most things that grow freely on this Earth.
It is an interesting footnote in history that shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Congress declared that natural substances, e.g. water or salt, were God’s gift to mankind and that therefore products of nature should be limited in their patent protection. While this was a noble declaration, it has actually been used against those whose rights it would protect. It has forced private interests to synthetically alter natural substances -- for instance the burgeoning biotech field of recombinant DNA technology, i.e. genetically modified organisms (GMOs) -- for the sole reason that it guarantees them ownership/patent rights.
In fact, a medical system that legally requires it make a profit threatens to destroy and/or incriminate itself if non-patented, non-profitable natural substances or therapies are employed. It also results in so much collateral damage to those it purports to serve that it could rightly be called a modern form of human sacrifice.
As a result, instead of choosing prospective medicines logically: because they work, are easily accessible, and safe, billions of dollars flow in the exact opposite direction, capitalizing only those substances which are unnatural, and therefore while proprietary are almost invariably unsafe, and whose access and administration can be intensively controlled.
Has The Attempt To Co-opt Medicine Through the Drug-Based Model Undone Itself?
And yet, there is a silver lining to the story. Due to the fact that our bodies are ultimately constructed from the natural things (food, air and water), and obey very strict natural laws such as the well-known principle of chirality (handedness) – the fact that all amino acids in our body turn a beam of polarized light in the left-handed direction (L-lysine) and sugars to the right-handed direction (D-ribose)-- one cannot simply create biologically active, synthetic drugs arbitrarily, as a mistake in handedness (or similar property) could be fatal. Nature, therefore, still provides an elegant biomolecular architecture of irreproducible intelligence and complexity, from which synthetic analogs are modeled and/or derivatives are spun.
As a result, billions of dollars of drug industry and government money (i.e. tax payer money) flow into finding lead compounds for drug development. Nature is put on the rack, if you will, and her secrets teased from her through innumerable animal and test tube experiments, in order to find compounds that can then be converted into synthetic, patented drugs.
Inadvertently, some of the very same companies and interests which require that natural substances not receive the same drug-approval status as synthetic ones, are funding research that prove basic vitamins, foods and spices are as effective or more effective – and usually much safer – than the drugs they are developing to replace or supplant them.
This means that tens of thousands of studies do exist showing that natural substances may prevent and/or treat disease, at least in the in vitro (test tube) and animal models. These results oftenconfirm traditional uses in Ayurvedic, Chinese and other traditional systems of medicine, and therefore may be compelling enough for individuals or healthcare practitioners to use the information to inform their treatment decisions.
The Case For Curcumin In the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
The government biomedical and life sciences database known as Medline contains over 21 million published study citations, and is accessible to search through engines such as Pubmed.gov. 2.6 million of them contain reference to cancer. 115,000 of them remain after applying the “Complementary Medicine” filter. 2,625 of them can be found indexed on the GreenMedInfo.com database, referencing 612 natural substances of potential value. Turmeric, and particularly its polyphenolic constituent known as curcumin, which gives the spice its golden hue, is one of the most extensively studied natural compounds of all time, with 4588 references to it on the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database known as Medline [as of 2.25.2012]. And yet, despite having been shown to have therapeutic value in over 500 disease states in animal and in vitro studies, it still has not been the subject of extensive human clinical research – for the reasons stated above.
GreenMedInfo.com, an open source natural medicine database, has indexed curcumin’s anti-cancer properties in over 50 cancers, with the top 10 most cancers researched in association with curcumin listed below.
Cancer
Number of Articles
Breast Cancer
58
Colorectal Cancer
23
Colon Cancer
51
Prostate Cancer
42
Pancreatic Cancer
24
Cancers: Drug Resistant
40
Lung Cancer
37
Liver Cancer
27
Cancer Metastasis
32
Skin Cancer
15
Sources: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/curcumin
As one can see curcumin holds great promise. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to possess simultaneously both chemoprotective/chemosensitizing and radioprotective/radiosensitizing properties, meaning it is capable of reducing the adverse effects on healthy cells caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as enhance the cancer-killing properties of these conventional therapies. It also has an exceptionally high margin of safety, at least an order of magnitude greater than commonly used conventional chemotherapy agents such as 5-fluoruracil.[2]Given these facts curcumin, at the very least, should be considered an ideal candidate for use as an adjuvant in integrative cancer care, and perhaps as a first-line treatment alternative to conventional chemo-agents.
For additional information on the remarkable research supporting the use of Turmeric and Curcumin in medicine, watch the video below. Join our Facebook research page on Turmeric for updates: Turmeric -- What The Research Reveals
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[1] http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/econ/dimasi2003.pdf
[2] Curcumin’s LD50 (lethal dose, 50%) in mice is at least 2,000 mg/kg, versus 5-fluorouracil 115 mg/kg, or
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35 - Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture
by Ethan A. Huff
(NaturalNews) After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world's poor (http://www.guardian.co.uk). It turns out that the Gates family legacy has long been one of trying to dominate and control the world's systems, including in the areas of technology, medicine, and now agriculture.
The Gates Foundation, aka the tax-exempt Gates Family Trust, is currently in the process of spending billions of dollars in the name of humanitarianism to establish a global food monopoly dominated by genetically-modified (GM) crops and seeds. And based on the Gates family's history of involvement in world affairs, it appears that one of its main goals besides simply establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process.
William H. Gates Sr., former head of eugenics group Planned Parenthood
Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates Sr., has long been involved with the eugenics group Planned Parenthood, a rebranded organization birthed out of the American Eugenics Society. In a 2003 interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head of Planned Parenthood, which was founded on the concept that most human beings are just "reckless breeders" and "human weeds" in need of culling (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html).
Gates also admitted during the interview that his family's involvement in reproductive issues throughout the years has been extensive, referencing his own prior adherence to the beliefs of eugenicist Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that populations of the world need to be controlled through reproductive restrictions. Though Gates claims he now holds a different view, it appears as though his foundation's initiatives are just a modified Malthusian approach that much more discreetly reduces populations through vaccines and GMOs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus).
Gates Foundation has invested heavily in converting Asian, African agricultural systems to GMOs
William Gates Sr.'s association with Planned Parenthood and continued influence in the realm of "population and reproductive health" is significant because Gates Sr. is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/leadership/Pages/william-gates-sr.aspx). This long-time eugenicist "guides the vision and strategic direction" of the Gates Foundation, which is currently heavily focused on forcing GMOs on Africa via its financing of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
The Gates Foundation has admittedly given at least $264.5 million in grant commitments to AGRA (www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Documents/BMGFFactSheet.pdf), and also reportedly hired Dr. Robert Horsch, a former Monsanto executive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA back in 2006. According to a report published in La Via Campesina back in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto, and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).
The same report explains that the Gates Foundation pledged $880 million in April 2010 to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs. GAFSP, of course, was responsible for providing $35 million in "aid" to earthquake-shattered Haiti to be used for implementing GMO agricultural systems and technologies.
Back in 2003, the Gates Foundation invested $25 million in "GM (genetically modified) research to develop vitamin and protein-enriched seeds for the world's poor," a move that many international charities and farmers groups vehemently opposed (http://healthfreedoms.org). And in 2008, the Gates Foundation awarded $26.8 million to Cornell University to research GM wheat, which is the next major food crop in the crosshairs of Monsanto's GM food crop pipeline (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).
If you control agriculture, you control the populations of the world
The Gates Foundation's ties with Monsanto and corporate agriculture in general speak volumes about its real agenda, which is to create a monopolistic system of world control in every area of human life. Vaccines, pharmaceuticals, GMOs, reproductive control, weather manipulation, global warming -- these and many other points of entry are the means by which the Gates Foundation is making great strides to control the world by pretending to help improve and save it.
Rather than promote real food sovereignty and address the underlying political and economic issues that breed poverty, Gates and Co. has instead embraced the promotion of corporately-owned and controlled agriculture and medicine paradigms that will only further enslave the world's most impoverished. It is abundantly evident that GMOs have ravished already-impoverished people groups by destroying their native agricultural systems, as has been seen in India (http://www.naturalnews.com/030913_Monsanto_suicides.html).
Some may say Gates' endeavors are all about the money, while others may say they are about power and control. Perhaps it is a combination of both, where Gates is still in the business of promoting his own commercial investments, which includes buying shares in Monsanto while simultaneously investing in programs to promote Monsanto.
Whatever the case may be, there is simply no denying that Gates now has a direct interest in seeing Monsanto succeed in spreading GMOs around the world. And since Gates is openly facilitating Monsanto's growth into new markets through his "humanitarian" efforts, it is clear that the Gates family is in bed with Monsanto.
"Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions," wrote Silvia Ribeiro in the Mexican news source La Jornada back in 2010.
"On the contrary, their 'donations' finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world ... Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM)."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org
http://english.pravda.ru
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eugenics_Society
http://www.naturalnews.com/033148_seed_companies_Monsanto.html
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MONITORING THE AGE OF DARKNESS, IGNORANCE, GREED AND STUPIDITY
& THE ZIONIST WARS FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE.
SETTING STRAIGHT THE RECORD OF HISTORY.
KALI YUGA REPORT 120229
1 - GILAD ATZMON : Conversation, humor & introspection + Zionist Immoral Intervention +
The Jewish Question and Racial Oppression today +
Dershowitz employs new and comical tactic - Nicholas Urie
2 - AIPAC Declares War - Philip Giraldi
3 - Is Holocaust II inevitable ? - Alan Hart
4 - U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agree : No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program - Madison Ruppert
5 - TEN Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran - David Swanson + Israel backing down from Iran threats - Michael Carmichael
6 - Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant - Felicity Arbuthnot + Tarpley : False Flag Alert, Blaming Assad For NATO Murders, The Kids Are Already Dead, Slain by NATO Death Squads
7 - Syria: Clinton Admits US On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government - Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham +
Russian Secret Services : U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
8 - Ales Bialiatski : legally a convicted criminal, ideologically a “human rights activist” - Gearóid Ó Colmáin
9 - Anti-Assad Propaganda Assault Heats Up With Claims of WMDs - Madison Ruppert
10 - Taking the Republicans Seriously - Justin Raimondo
11 - Brutal Bahraini State Terror - Stephen Lendman
12 - Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
13 - Syrian Rebels Captured With Israeli Weapons
14 - New York's U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules MERS's Business Model Is Illegal - Prof.L. Randall Wray
15 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State - Sartre
16 - Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland - Saman Mohammadi
17 - Intervention, Reloaded - Nebojsa Malic
18 - Armed attack on Catholic monastery in Syria + Syria slams "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia
19 - Syria grants Red Cross access to Homs
20 - A dozen bankers are destroying civilization- and governments don't care - lila York
21 - Satanic Possession - Kaj Krinsmøe
22 - It pays to be an FBI Terrorist Bomber
23 - THE NEXUS OF EVIL, part 10 - Philip Jones, Introduction Alex James
24 - Teachers : How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution ? - Carl Herman
25 - Roy Tov : Anne Frank’s Cult Backfires
26 - The Satanic Core of Libertarianism - Memehunter
27 - Northwestern's Intellectual Hall of Shame - Jacques Le Vangie
28 - The New Mediterranean Oil And Gas Bonanza, Part I - Israel’s Levant Basin - A New Geopolitical Curse? -F. William Engdahl
29 - Utah Bill : Videotaping a Factory Farm is Same as Assaulting a Police Officer - Will Potter
30 - Chemtrail Whistle Blower Speaks, Part 1 - Luemas
31 - PETRUS ROMANUS : the false prophet and the Anti-Christ are here, part 5 - Thomas R. Horn
32 - Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
33 - iN 1992 Eustace Mullins Exposed Dr. John Coleman (Joseph Pavlonsky, ashkenazi jew & Mossad agent)
34 - Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances - Sayer Ji
35 - Bill Gates, Monsanto and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture - Ethan A. Huff
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February 25, 2012
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1 - Conversation, humor and introspection with Gilad Atzmon
Israeli-born Gilad Atzmon, one of Europe’s finest jazz musicians, comes to Washington, DC for the first time as part of his multi-city North American tour to perform and discuss his recently published and highly controversial book, The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics.
The Guardian described Atzmon as “one of London’s finest saxophonists [but] it is Atzmon’s blunt anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where his essays are widely read.”
A prolific performer, composer, author and activist, Atzmon brings his intellect and artistry to bear on Israel’s continuing occupation of Palestine. He strips away the propaganda and the polemics in U.S.-Israel relations that hide one simple fact: Palestinian people continue to live under occupation, financed by the United States, an occupation that builds roads they cannot use and houses in which they cannot live.
At each DC event the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs will be selling Atzmon’s CD “The Tide Has Changed” and his book The Wandering Who?—although as Prof. Garrison Fewell warns, when you finish reading the latter, you may likely “see a different face in the mirror.” (You can also purchase the book and CD directly from the AET Book Club middleeastbooks.com)
For more information call the Washington Report at (202) 939-6050 or visit www.wrmea.com orwww.gilad.co.uk. To purchase Atzmon’s book or CD, visit www.middleeastbooks.com.
Toronto, Canada
Friday, Feb. 24, 7 pm—Islamic Society of York Region, 1380 Stouffville Rd., Richmond Hill, ON; tickets $10 per person. Contact: (905) 887-8913.
California
Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:30 pm—Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St., Oakland, CA; suggested donation of $10-$20. Contact: (510) 224-3518.
Monday, Feb. 27 —Berkeley, CA. Private dinner, by invitation only.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2-4 pm, 8 pm— University of La Verne, 1950 3rd St., La Verne, CA. Presidents Dining Room, 2 pm; Morgan Auditorium, 8 pm. Contact: (909) 593-3511.
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 7:30 pm—Levantine Cultural Center, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Free, reservations suggested. Contact: (310) 657-5511.
Colorado
Thursday, March 1, 7 pm—University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, CO. UMC, Free for the public.
Friday, March 2, 8-11 pm—Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan Street, Denver, CO; price TBD. Contact: (720) 946-1388.
Saturday, March 3, 7-10 pm—3rd Street Center, Carbondale, CO.
Texas
Monday, March 5, 7-10 pm—Café Nayal, 6328 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX 77057.
Illinois
Wednesday, March 7, 7-9 p.m—Northeastern Illinois University Recital Hall, 5500 North St. Louis Ave., Chicago, IL; free.
Wisconsin
Friday, March 9, 7 pm—discussion, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1111 Humanities.
Friday, March 9, 10 pm—music portion to follow, The Weary Traveler, 1201 Williamson St., Madison, WI. Visit www.UWsw.blogspot.com
Georgia
Saturday, March 10 – Atlanta, GA. More information to come.
Washington, DC
Sunday, March 11, 3-5 pm—Plymouth Congregational Church with Maceo Kemp, 5301 North Capitol St., Washington, DC, open to public, donation to church recommended/not required.
Sunday, March 11, 6:30-9:30 pm — DC Jazz session at Dahlak Restaurant, 1771 U St. NW, Washington, DC; no cover charge.
New York
Tuesday, March 13, 7 pm —The Cracker Factory, 35 Lehigh St., Geneva, NY. Contact:(315) 246-4395.
Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 14, 6:30-8:30 pm—Gilad Atzmon discusses The Wandering Who?and other matters with Norton Mezvinsky, Connecticut State Professor of History Emeritus, at the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC; free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 15, 5-7 pm —Music and talk at DC Peace House, 1233 12th St. NW, Washington, DC; free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 15, 8 pm—possible additional event TBA.
New York
Friday, March 16 – New York, NY. More information to come.
Atzmon’s Washington, DC appearances are co-sponsored by the Washington Report, Deir Yassin Remembered, If Americans Knew and Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends.
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Zionist Immoral Intervention
Friday, February 24, 2012
By Gilad Atzmon
http://www.deliberation.info/
Alan Dershowitz - Zionut extrordinaire
Alan Dershowitz is whining again, this time on the pages of the Jerusalem Post. Apparently The Friends Seminary of New York which assigned its students to read my papers and invited me to attend a class, has made it clear to Israeli ethnic cleanser apologist that he was not welcome in its premises.
Dershowitz Admits Defeat
In short, Dershowitz admits total defeat. The Quaker school that was “unwilling to cancel Atzmon’s appearance” made it clear to the Zionist supremacist that he was unwelcomed.
This is not the first time Dershowitz is hurt by me being welcomed while he is spitted out. Yet, I am puzzled by the fact that Dershowitz is so keen to share his humiliation with the public. Normal people tend to hide such an embarrassing developments. Dershowitz may have well developed a close affinity to himself being a victim. This tendency is indeed symptomatic within the Jewish identity discourse and Jewish culture. It is there to stop self-reflection. Rather than looking in the mirror Dershowitz celebrates self-pity hoping to buy some empathy amongst his supportive Jewish crowd. It reminds me an old Jewish joke. Why don’t Jews drink? Because it numbs the pain. Dershowitz, is not going to hide or let the pain fade, he would actually make it into his flag.
According to Dershowitz whom Noam Chomsky and many others regard as a ‘remarkable Liar’, the headmaster of the Friends Seminary, has broken his solemn promise to him, to bring him along to present the anti Atzmon argument.
Dershowitz insists that the headmaster of the seminary agreed to:
Speak at an assembly to the students about the “evils of anti-Semitism”.
Assigned Dershowitz’ essay to the students who were assigned my essay
Invite Deshowitz to address the students
Dershowitz suggests that the Seminary broke those 3 promises. “Apparently”, according to Dershowitz, “the students who were at the assembly have confirmed that the speakers only made things worse. The teacher who invited Atzmon talked about what a great musician he was. The headmaster was defensive about how his words were manipulated and justified bringing Atzmon based on Quaker principles.”
It doesn’t take a genius to realise that my work is compatible with Quaker philosophy – I preach peace and tolerance. Yet, I wonder how long is it going to take to Dershowitz to accept that my work is supported by some of the greatest humanists of our time, while he, has managed to buy himself a horrendous reputation of a compulsive liar and a defender of a genocidal State. How long will it take for Dershowitz, ADL and AZZs to accept that calling me an ‘anti Semite’ or a ‘holocaust denier’ is counter effective. First, because I am not. Second, because it only proves that Jewish culture has lost its capacity to engage in any process of self reflection or productive exchange.
By now it must be clear to my detractors that all those Jewish smear campaigns against myself and The Wandering Who only achieved one thing. They proved how valid my criticism of Jewish identity Politics is.
Dershowitz is deluded enough to believe that the real reason behind his rejection was “pressure from hard-left members” within the faculty. He is obviously wrong. Dershowitz ideology and manners are incompatible with humanism let alone Quaker philosophy. There is no room for Dershowitz in any pluralist or tolerant institute and not because of his supremacist or racist views, but because the elder Zionist is an opponent of elementary freedoms and human rights.
As one would expect, Dershowitz reverts to the usual Zionist pressure.
“Unless I am invited to address the students inside the school, I will appear outside the school, where I will hand out my essays to those students who are willing to read them and will address those students who have an interest in hearing a response to anti-Semitism. I am also considering inviting parents, students and other members of the Friends Seminary community to an event, in a venue outside the school, where these issues can be discussed openly and candidly.”
Watch some exciting moments from the MLK memorial concert @ Friends Meeting House, an event Dershowitz attempted to destroy
http://youtu.be/AaKNXvLqDpg
I am perplexed, if Dershowitz is so convinced by his argument, why wouldn’t he debate me? Is he afraid? Probably and he has a good reason. However, Dershowitz offer is indeed an amazing development, the notorious supremacist offers some free Zionist supplementary teaching for Quaker youngsters. This must be ideal, the students will be able to enjoy both worlds. They will encompass the true meaning of peace in the morning and then learn how to justify a Zionist massacre just before they go to bed. lol
Dershowitz ends his daily drivel saying, “the Friends Seminary, like other elite schools around the United States, teaches our future leaders.” For once, I agree with Dershowitz. This is exactly why the Quaker institute assigned a humanist paper by myself while Dershowitz and his paper were not allowed entry.
To read The Primacy of the Ear, the paper that was assigned by the Quaker faculty click here.
Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Dershowitz employs new and comical tactic
Friday, February 24, 2012
By Nicholas Urie
http://www.nicholasurie.com
(Reminder: I’m commenting on this not a a member of the Friends family, but as someone who arranged the music for the concert, which was awesome. I am really proud of the band’s excellent hard work, Gilad’s wonderful playing, and the audience, who made the show feel electric. You can see the concert footage here: http://www.nicholasurie.com/news/?p=693)
I have to comment on Alan Dershowitz’s new epic from today’s Jerusalem Post, Friends Seminary plays bait, switch on anti-Semitism. In the article, Dershowitz continues his campaign of bullying and misinformation reaching new and even more spectacular heights. In my last two responses to the Friends-Dershowitz saga, “Alan Dershowitz, neo-McCarthyite,” and, Wall St. Journal Ignores Dershowitz’s History of Attacks in, “School Hits Sour Note.” I laid out some of the tactics employed by Mr. Dershowitz in his effort to smear Friends Seminary and its faculty, staff, students and parents.
Mr. Dershowitz has taken his McCarthyist shenanigans to a new level, with the manufacturing of “evidence” from whole cloth in an effort to add pressure to a situation that was clearly winding down. Until this point, his tactic had been simply to distort things so heavily that they were almost unrecognizable to anyone actually involved. By knocking the corners off of what was real, he was able to stir a tremendous amount controversy, knowing that people are often gullible to the brand of manipulation that mixes falsehoods with truth. As Mr. Dershowitz has discovered, these tactics will only take you so far. People start to see through manipulations of this kind, as Bo Lauder, the Principal of Friends Seminary has done, evidenced by his rescinding Mr. Dershowitz’s invitation to the school.
A grand untruth is what is needed now, to take this tar and feather show to the next level, and that is what Mr. Dershowitz has delivered. This new article is a masterstroke in his quest to shame Friends Seminary and strike fear in the minds of any institution that may openly disobey him in the future.
We should focus on one particularly egregious falsity; Mr. Dershowitz’s claim that, “The Friends Seminary in New York has a rabidly anti-Israel history teacher on its faculty, who propagandizes his students against Israel in the classroom.” This statement is patently false and meant only to embroil his readers. I recently sat down to lunch with the teacher in question, and I can attest that he is as measured and intellectually honest as one could hope for in a teacher of history. Our discussion over lunch was wide ranging and gave me no reason to suspect that Mr. Dershowitz’s claim is anything but a convenient fiction. (The history teacher is also Jewish, if that matters to anyone reading - though I think it is irrelevant in this discussion).
The inditement of the history teacher is a perfect example of the evolution of Mr. Dershowitz’s rhetoric. The idea to create a grand lie is nothing new, and a modern source of inspiration for this particular rhetorical device can be found in what can only be described as a comical place, Mein Kampf. The Hitlerian, “big lie.”
“…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, volume 1, ch. 10
The psychological profile of someone who employs this Hitlerian tactic was perfectly described by the OSS during the Second World War, and can be applied to Mr. Dershowitz and his plan of attack on not just Friends, but all of his philosophical/political rivals. The OSS wrote of Hitler that,
“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.” -OSS report, p.51
Can we not all see how this device is being used against the Friends Seminary community? It is transparent to the point of absurdity, and I think it is time that supporters of Mr. Dershowitz take a moment to reflect on what is actually going on, and parse out what this campaign is actually trying to accomplish.
I for one have had enough of this, and I hope that everyone who reads Mr. Dershowitz’s garbage has too. I applaud Friends for finally making the decision to ignore Mr. Dershowitz, and hopefully the school continues to do so, taking a large step toward sanity and the teaching of responsible rhetoric to the students in their charge.
The Jewish Question and Racial Oppression today
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:18AM
Gilad Atzmon
http://redscribblings.wordpress.com
Jewish Children Liberated from Auschwitz, 1945
Palestinian Prisoners of Israeli Army
One reason why the years-long controversy over Gilad Atzmon has generated such rancour, and why conflicts related to it such as the recent purge of ‘anti-semites’ from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been so bitter, is because they threaten to re-open the Jewish question. There was a time when the Jewish question was a matter of considerable debate and public controversy among those seeking greater democracy and social and economic equality. Witness Marx’s celebrated essay The Jewish Question, among many others.
It was of course, also a subject of dispute among those with the opposite aims as well. But since WWII the Jewish question has not really been explored as previously. It is as if the Nazi genocide set a seal on it and made it one of those questions that had been ‘decided’, notwithstanding controversies around Israel which often involved major debates but which were ultimately considered to be something confined to the Middle East region. But now the decline of Israel’s moral authority, and the threat it poses to ‘world peace’, and crucially the nature of its worldwide support, means the Jewish question must be addressed again.
Re-opening it is not something that can be done lightly; the nature of the Jewish people and its historical role is intertwined with some of the most tragic and barbaric events in human history. It contains a number of paradoxes and subtleties and is complex and not easy to analyse. It has also undergone major, arguably fundamental changes since the Second World War, that have mainly been so far analysed almost exclusively through the narrow prism of looking at Israel and Zionism.
There has tended to be a division in the way that socialists and progressive political thinkers have looked at this. Questions involving Israel come under the heading of ‘colonialism’ and imperialism, whereas the Jewish communities in the advanced countries at least have tended to be looked at one of several ethnic minority communities, mainly as potential targets of racial discrimination and right-wing extremism. The division of the Jewish question into two different ‘compartments’ has however been objectively undermined by the rise to prominence of aggressive, powerful pro-Israel Jewish organisations, particularly in the United States but also in Western Europe, gradually over the past three decades or more. These have acquired considerable power. Politicians go out of their way to appease them, even though the formal electoral base that they represent is actually pretty small in all these countries without exception.
When Oppressed Become Oppressors
Any objective examination of the situation can only come to the conclusion that, in the advanced capitalist countries, the oppression of the Jews is no more. No government, or seriously contending opposition party anywhere in the advanced capitalist world propagates any form of hostility to Jews, and none has done so for a very long time. On the contrary, it is a badge of honour in bourgeois politics today to be vehemently pro-Israel, and to denounce any criticism of Israel from the left as ‘anti-semitic’.
In the United States, the hegemony of Israel’s supporters through such bodies is very strong – it is extremely difficult for any politician critical even of Israel’s most outrageous crimes against Palestinians to maintain a career in the main capitalist parties. Those that make such criticisms face organised and usually successful attempts to force them to grovel in apology if they are lucky, otherwise to unseat them outright. Administrations of both main parties fill many of their leading posts with rabid Zionists, from Rahm Emmanuel as White House Chief of Staff under Obama back to the neo-conservatives of the ‘Project for The New American Century’: the American-Zionist think tank that was the driving force of the Iraq war under the Bush administration.
In the UK we have a Labour Party that in government carried out a vehemently pro-Israel agenda under Blair and his Middle East special envoy and chief fundraiser, Lord Michael Levy, also known as ‘Lord Cashpoint’, a strident Zionist. Labour supported Israel’s bloodthirsty attack on Lebanon in 2006 – refusing even the usual mealy mouthed ceasefire demands – Israel bombed to kill and terrorise civiilans and destroy infrastructure but failed to defeat the Hezbollah fighters and so failed in its war aims.
Under Brown, it wrung its hands pathetically during the one-sided butchery of Gaza Palestinians in 2009′s ‘Operation Cast Lead’. While its chosen Zionist appointee as Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, banned an advert from the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise funds for humanitarian relief for Palestinian civilians. Thus the BBC under Labour endorsed Israel’s butchery.
At the base of the Labour Party, there is considerable disquiet with all this and anger at Israeli crimes reflecting, to some extent, changes in the trade unions which have now led to the TUC endorsing calls for a boycott of Israel, as have a number of important unions. There has been something of a growth of the Labour Friends of Palestine as a pale reflection of this change in the unions, though how influential it is in a party still heavily loaded with a neo-liberal, pro-Israel Blair-Brown derived cadre is highly doubtful.
Then there is the current government: Prior to the 2010 election, the Lib Dems were the least Zionist-influenced of the three main parties in Britain. In joining the Tories in government, they have become well-nigh invisible on this (as on so many other things). But 80% of Conservative MPs are sponsors of the Conservative Friends of Israel. The meaning of this is crystal clear for anyone with eyes to see. This is the same Tory party that backed the Smith regime in white-ruled ‘Rhodesia’ till it became unsustainable to continue any longer, that supported apartheid in South Africa to the hilt, whose youth leaders used to wear badges demanding ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’.
The similarity of this to their current infatuation with Israel is striking. Just as is the embrace of Israel by forces further to their right, from the pro-Zionist English Defence League and ‘British Freedom Party’ (currently allied with the Jewish Defence League – Israeli fascist followers of Meir Kahane), to the BNP’s own embrace of Israel and selection in recent years of Jewish candidates to run for council seats. This embrace of Israel by the traditionally imperialist, racist right – and the far right – speaks volumes about the real role of pro-Israeli agitation today. Support for Israel today is more and more a sign of racism and xenophobia, just as in the past was support for white ‘Rhodesia’ and apartheid South Africa.
‘Anti-racist’ racism
Though in today’s changed environment, where racist beliefs are widely discredited and it has rightly become social unacceptable to racially abuse others either individually or collectively, there is a big difference in the way this support for racist tyranny is articulated. The only way that the decades-long suppression of the Palestinian people, a racist political programme similar in degree and closely related, though not identical, to the oppression of black South Africans by the apartheid regime before 1989, can be given ideological legitimacy by the racist right, is by mendacious allegations of racism against Israel’s victims and their sympathisers.
The official reason why the Tory party, the BNP, the EDL, all the way to New Labour’s wretched neo-con cabals can deny that their support ot Israeli aparthied is racist, is by a narrative that says that the real problem is the alleged racism of the Arabs. Mendacious allegations of anti-semitism have become the main technique of reactionary bourgeois idelogues who are themselves racists, in excusing the racist oppression of the Palestinian people. This mendacity has two benefits from the point of view of those who propagate it. One is that is provides them with an alibi for racism. And two, the widespread propagation of false accusations of racism spreads cynicism about anti-racism itself, creating a popular perception that any and all form of opposition to racism is just a fraudulent game. Thus again, benefiting those ‘anti-racist’ liars who themselves have a racist agenda.
Roots of racism…
To cut through the nonsense, it is necessary to state some basic facts. One is that the essence of racism is not simply bad ideas in people’s heads. It is not hostility to some ‘other’ for its own sake – it is not mindless. Nor is it the situation where people who are themselves on the receiving end of systematic racial oppression come to hate and stereotype their oppressors. That may be regrettable and counter-productive, but it is not racism. Racism is an ideological weapon to justify the systematic oppression of entire peoples. If it is not that, it is meaningless. If there is no relation of systematic oppression, it becomes something chimerical, a subject of satire, like the various stupid sketches on some comedy shows where people with ginger hair complain about being victims of discrimination.
Racism in this sense is a product of capitalism, which is the first society in human history to create a state form around the concept of a nation, in which there was a partial homogenisation of the population around a (usually) standardised single language and a dominant, ‘national’ identity that in most cases originated in identification with a particular ethnic group, even if it is subsequently broadened. Not only did it create that state form, underpinned by an economic system that generated unprecedented economic dynamism and self-sustaining growth, but it used that power to enslave the populations of entire, distant continents, again on a scale that the mightiest pre-capitalist ruling class could only dream of.
At the same time as it did this, it gave birth to such concepts as ‘The Rights of Man’, ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” and other supposedly universal values. The contradiction between that, and the manner in which it treated the peoples it enslaved, could only be resolved by creating ideologies that demonised the victims of capitalist imperialism, that portrayed them as in some way unworthy of such rights. The ultimate expression of that was pseudo-scientific racism, that posited some kind of biological difference between ‘races’, that some ‘racial’ groups were sufficiently different in genetic terms to make them qualitatively inferior to the dominant ‘races’, in effect defining them as inferior sub-species.
That was the most consistent form of racist ideology, and found its ultimate expression in the racist theories of German fascism. Jews did not fit easily into this schema, as in general they were not a colonised people or a slave population, but a sometimes persecuted religious minority particularly in Christian Europe. As such they had been coerced, through exclusion from other fields of economic activity, into a characteristic role for practitioners of a ‘foreign’ religion, as bankers, and later usurers, to the kings and aristocracy in the early medieval period. As Abram Leon explained in his important book The Jewish Question – a Marxist Analysis, the Jews were the remnants of a people-class, and the their resistance to assimilation and most of their persecutions in the medieval period were the result of that economic role.
…and roots of genocide
With the rise of capitalism in the West, the Jews’ economic role became obsolete. Large numbers migrated to Eastern Europe and Russia, after being persecuted and driven out of their traditional feudal economic niches in the West by a new financial bourgeoisie. For a period of several centuries, they were again able to prosper, largely as traders rather than financiers until the 19th century brought about the decay of feudalism in the East also. Squeezed out of their economic niches again, the Jews were regarded as a surplus, alien population, and again subjected to persecution, leading to new migrations of many of them, this time back to Western Europe, as well as to North America, and a precarious existence for those who remained. Those that did not find their way into the emerging bourgeoisies themselves – which a layer did in America particularly – became a largely proletarianised or even pauperised section of the population, and the targets of a new form of hatred that drew on the kind of racist conceptions first used to justify slavery.
This was the oppressed stratum of the Jewish proletariat that played a significant role in pre-WWI Social Democracy, and later in the early Communist movement. Radicalised by their double oppression – exploited as workers, and targeted by racism for their Jewish origin, even though in a great many cases they abandoned ‘national’ sentiments entirely and became known for the most fervent internationalism. This is what reactionaries used to mean, more than anything else, when they targetted ‘international Jewry’ as if internationalism was some kind of curse word. From Hitler to Stalin, the worst monsters of the 20th Century ranted against ‘Jew-Bolshevism’ and ‘rootless cosmopolitanism’ respectively, and Hitler in particularly tried to exterminate this social layer without mercy.
In the USSR under Stalin, they were not exterminated, but subjected to arbitrary persecution and executions on the basis of perceived political sympathies, not ‘racial’ characteristics per se. That was the difference on this question between the Hitler and Stalin regimes, in that the Stalinists, while fearful of the internationalist spirit of Jewish workers, did not put it down to ‘racial’ characteristics and instead of wholesale extermination, used a mixture of co-optation, corruption, arbitrary repression and killings to destroy this layer morally and when neccessary, physically.
The upshot of this, however, is that this very important, oppressed layer of Jewish proletarians, whose existence and struggles were pivotal in defining the Jewish communities pre-WWII as an oppressed people, ceased to exist. That destruction is of utmost importance in analysing the Jewish question now, and the role of the Jewish communities today, as opposed to nearly three-quarters of a century ago, in the world order. How are the Jewish people(s) that exist today, as opposed to those that existed then, to be regarded? Are they in the ranks of the oppressed, or do they rank among the world’s oppressor peoples? Or is a more nuanced position that avoids either of those two polarities necessary? In examining it, it is necessary to look at the fate of those who survived, or managed to avoid, the terrible events of WWII.
Jews since the genocide
First of all, there were the relatively small groups of Zionist pioneers who migrated to Palestine from Europe and America before the tumultuous events of the 1930s. It is not necessary to say much about them since they were actually a small and quite isolated minority, who could command a certain degree of financial and political clout, but were short of numbers and mass support. So much so that it is highly likely that their project would have fizzled out, if it were not for the rise to power of Hitler in Germany and the resultant massacre of millions of Jews in Europe. This, and only this, provided them with reinforcements from the hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees – remnants of the murdered Central and East European Jews.
This desperate, easily manipulated population was indispensable in their programme of creating a Jewish state in an Arab-majority country like Palestine. Without that demographic it would have been an impossible task. Without such a terrible event as the Nazi genocide, there is no way that several hundred thousands of Jews could be induced to leave their homes in Europe voluntarily and migrate to the Middle East.
Then there are the Jews who emigrated to the United States. Today there are approximately 6.5 million Jews in the US, around 2% of the population. These have a long history, going back to the early days of the American republic. But large waves of immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a limited influx post-WWII, increased its numbers to the point that it became, and is still, the largest Jewish population in the world – exceeding that of Israel.
To its shame, the US restricted Jewish immigration quite severely between the wars, on an explicitly racist basis, calculated to deliberately exclude Jews, among others. This was not significantly relaxed even during the Nazi genocide. Indeed influential Zionist luminaries agitated against measures to give Jews fleeing the Nazis refuge in places like Britain and the US, to try to coerce then to go to Palestine instead. They were largely successful in this.
Jews have at times been targeted by anti-semitism in the US, though to a lesser extent than in Europe. The rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in 1913 was partly catalysed by the lynching of a Jewish teacher, Leo Frank, in Atlanta, Georgia, after a highly dubious murder case. It grew into a mass movement in the 1920s, and was strongly anti-semitic, though more or less disintegrated by the 1930s. In the 1930s, there were echoes of the anti-semitism in Europe; demagogues like Father Coughlin propagated Nazi-like anti-semitism over the airwaves. But this was limited by the logic of US imperialism’s development, which placed it on a collision course with Hitler’s Germany in what was ultimately a struggle for world domination.
Elements of anti-semitism were also visible to some extent in the McCarthy era, particularly over the execution of the Rosenbergs for spying for Russia in the early 1950s. Indeed, in the 1950s, unlike today, the Nazi genocide was something of a frowned upon subject, and those who made an issue of it were regarded as suspects, as were ‘premature anti-fascists’. Immediately after WWII, the US needed the help of ex-Nazis in a variety of fields, not least in developing its nuclear arsenal, so Nazi crimes tended to be played down.
But this was quite short-lived. The gradual ascent of Israel to be the US’s strategic ally in the Middle East, which was finally sealed in the 1967 Six-Day war, was the final nail in the coffin of any potential that might have existed for Jews to be pushed into a subordinate, oppressed status in the US. Parenthetically one could also add that this is also true in the UK, where however the Jewish population is relatively much smaller that in the US, 0.5% as opposed to 2%.
On most questions, Jews in the United States have tended to be socially liberal. Consistently they have maintained majority support for the Democratic Party since the days of the New Deal, with only slight variations. Jews played a significant role in the Civil Rights movement for black people, against Jim Crow segregation. In the earlier post-WWII period, the condition of Jewish people in America was undoubtedly no more advantageous that many other non-black minorities outside the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) dominant group.
Changing fortunes
But while American capitalism has undergone both considerable absolute growth over the past few decades, as well as relative decline in its world economic clout, the fortunes of the Jewish population have improved dramatically. Jews are now undoubtedly, per head of population, the most successful minority group in the US by far, in terms of income, in terms of education, and in terms of relative economic power. According to the Israeli source YNetNews, Jews make up “more than 20 per cent of the Forbes 400″ which is the list of the wealthiest people in the United States – not bad for 2% of the population. This in contrast to the black population, which is still very much under-represented. This level of economic integration into the most powerful ruling class in the world means that Jews cannot be regarded, in the United States, as an excluded or oppressed population in any way.
The US also tends to set the benchmark for the rest of the advanced capitalist world – so smaller Jewish populations in countries like the UK experience a similar mainstream status, even when they are less numerous and hence possess relatively less power. They are still thoroughly respectable, as evidenced by the normal bourgeois discourse, which pointedly refers to the West as ‘Judeo-Christian civilisation’. There were times, not so long ago, when the ‘Christian’ West was not quite so inclusive.
So Jews today are not an oppressed people. What are they then? Are they an oppressor people?
Not outside Israel, no. In the United States they are (mainly, with a few exceptions) part of white America, but they are also a part that has generally had a more honourable record vis-a-vis the black American population. Jewish participation in the Civil Rights movement was considerable.
This has not always been completely pure, however – one important, relatively recent blemish on this was the mayoralty of Edward Koch in New York, in the 1970s and 80s, a Jewish mayor elected with a considerable Jewish electoral base, became known for abusive and racist policies towards the black population and managed to provoke some quite serious tensions between blacks and Jews, and some black anti-semitism in response. But this is fairly exceptional, Koch was a maverick, seeking to run at times both as a Democrat and a Republican, and not typical of Jewish politics in America, which tends to be pretty liberal.
Occasionally,you hear, derived from the Middle East conflict, the view that Jews in some way oppress ordinary mainstream Americans by their demands. This particular accusation is sometimes raised by misguided Palestinian supporters looking for allies, as well as remnants of the old anti-semitic right. It is paranoid nonsense. Jews are a tiny percentage of the US population and are not remotely capable of that. This allegation is in fact a vestige of the old anti-semitism, but it is irrelevant and impotent today. The mainstream respectability of the Jews in the US and the West in general is not going to reversed barring some totally outlandish catastrophe.
Oppression from a distance
In Israel, Jews are clearly an oppressor people. There is no getting away from this, Jews live on land taken by force from the Arabs, they enforce racist laws on citizenship and land ownership, and the majority of the Palestinian Arab population from what is now Israel proper has been driven into exile. Not only that, but Israeli laws extend the right of Israeli citizenship to every Jew that fits the Israeli definition worldwide – even if they have never set eyes on the place, while depriving hundreds of thousands of Arabs refugees who were born there, or whose parents were, of the right to even enter their homeland. There are few clearer examples of one people oppressing another.
This citizenship law, and the existence of very strong and powerful Jewish lobbying groups particularly in the United States, and indeed to some extent in Europe, that exert a great deal of pressure within the politics of the US and its allies for a policy that is strongly pro-Israel, even to the point of being indulgent, give another dimension to the question of whether Jews outside Israel act as an oppressor people or not.
Organisations like AIPAC, and other Jewish organisations of a similar ilk in the US and elsewhere; the lobbying efforts of prominent, powerful individual and collective Jewish individuals within established political parties in Western countries (not just the United States); and the mechanism of the Israeli ‘Law of Return’, which in effect (partially) internationalises Israeli citizenship on an ethnic basis; all these things have a crucial importance in characterising the Jewish people today.
All these add up to one important point – while it is clear that the Palestinian people are directly oppressed by the Jewish ethnocratic state of Israel that has deprived them of their homeland, they are also, albeit less directly, oppressed, though the mechanism of the Law of Return and the efforts of Jewish lobbying organisations in the United States and its West European allies. That is, while American and also British Jews are not oppressor peoples in those countries at all, in their international dimension they do act as oppressors of the Palestinians’, albeit from a distance or an one remove.
A false equation
This is a crucial theoretical point in clarifying why hostility to Jews is not limited to the Middle East in current circumstances, and why criticism, and even expressions of hatred, for American and British Jews from Palestinians and their sympathisers, motivated by the Palestinian issue, cannot be equated with the anti-semitism of the past even when in some cases, as with Hamas, it regrettably borrows directly from the latter.
While pre-war anti-semitism was partially driven by a form of class demagogy, using the over-representation of Jews in business and particularly finance (which is most likely the product of cultural one-sidedness and a residue of the Jews’ past as a financial people-class), what really gave pre-war anti-semitism its psychotic character was the reactionary fear of the Jews as a bearer of revolution and subversion of the status quo. That particular delusion has been completely destroyed, by the extermination of the revolutionary Jewish proletarians by the Nazis, and by Zionism, which by its actions associates Jews with reaction, not revolution. The fundamental difference is that pre-war anti-semitism was hatred for an oppressed people by their oppressors, whereas in the current very changed circumstances, hatred of the oppressor by the oppressed is what we see today..
Such hatred still is inimical from the point of view of socialists and internationalists, though it has a very different moral and political content and context from hatred of an oppressed people by a people who oppress them. It is the product of despair and impotence in facing a powerful, unremitting enemy over what is now six-and-a half decades. The demonisation of the Palestinians as racists by Zionism to excuses its crimes has generated its own antithesis, as not only many Palestinians, but even some Jewish sympathisers, now suspect or even affirm point blank that everything that Israel uses to justify its existence, including the fact of the Nazi genocide itself, is a racist lie.
Socialists have, or ought to have, different ways of undercutting misdirected hatreds generated by the oppressed for their oppressors, than when the hatred is the other way round. We have to remember that at this point, the international labour movement is politically disarmed and hardly in a position to anything effective to shift the balance of forces in the Middle East. We have to deliver solidarity, and through fraternal debate and collaboration bring about the kind of change that can transcend the despair that produces this.
Anyone who equates these very different kinds of antipathy is playing a reactionary role, is acting as a chauvinist and, wittingly or unwittingly, as an agent of the oppression of the Palestinians in today’s world, which is very different from the days of Hitler and classical anti-semitism.
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2 - AIPAC Declares War
Posted By Philip Giraldi On February 22, 2012
The American people don’t particularly want a new war in the Middle East, but apparently Congress and Washington’s most powerful lobby do. Thirty-two senators have co-sponsored a resolutionthat will constrain the White House from adopting any policy vis-à-vis Iran’s “nuclear weapons capability” that amounts to “containment.” The senators include the familiar figures of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom have persistently called for military action. They and the other senators have presented their proposal in a particularly deceptive fashion, asserting that they are actually supporting the White House position, which they are not. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta repeated on Feb. 16 that Iran does not have and is not currently building a nuclear device. Before Christmas, he stated clearly that the “red line” for the United States is actual Iranian possession of a nuclear weapon. Even Israel’s intelligence services agree that Iran is not building a bomb. What we are seeing play out in Congress is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) position, which is that Iran has already crossed a “red line.” The AIPAC argument will no doubt be spelled out in more detail next month at the group’s annual convention in the nation’s capital, a meeting that will be addressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will attract nearly all of Washington’s power brokers.
Rejection of containment in this context and as spelled out in the resolution means that the United States will be forced to go to war if Iran attains the capability to put together a nuclear weapon. Indeed, one might argue that the United States should be at war already, based on the resolution. “Capability” is one of those particularly useful expressions that is extremely elastic and can be interpreted subjectively. By most standards, Iran already has the technical know-how to make a nuclear bomb and has most of the materials on hand to put one together, assuming it can enrich the uranium it possesses to the required level. The Iranians may not, in fact, have the engineering skills to do so, and the task of creating a small, sophisticated device that can be mounted on a ballistic missile is certainly far beyond their current capabilities and probably unachievable given the costs involved and the poor state of their economy.
There are about 50 countries in the world that have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon if they chose to do so, making Iran far from unique but for its persistence as a thorn in the side of Israel and Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States. In other words, Iran does not have to actually produce a nuclear weapon for it to be subject to attack by either Israel or the United States. It only has to continue to be an irritant for Israel.
The new threat of war takes the Bush doctrine of preemption to a whole new level. Some sources in the Obama administration are anonymously warning that war with Iran is nearly certain and are predicting it to break out in late summer. That would be just before the presidential election, a time in which Obama will be seeking desperately to seize the high ground on Israel’s security from whomever the Republicans nominate. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not even have to mimic Colin Powell by going to the United Nations to seek authorization for an attack using false and fabricated information. Everyone can agree that the mullahs do not actually have a weapon and may not even want to acquire one, but it’s fine to bomb them anyway. The U.S. Senate approves, so off we go to another misadventure in the Middle East
Without a doubt, President Obama is to blame for this shameful state of affairs for showing every sign of weakness whenever confronted by Netanyahu and AIPAC. We should almost certainly expect nothing less than a personal and presidential kowtow at the AIPAC conference next month, a complete surrender that Netanyahu will no doubt receive in his usual ungracious fashion. Even President George W. Bush was able to stand up to the Israelis and forbid an attack on Iran, but now the United States has boxed itself into a corner diplomatically speaking, without any real ability to influence Tel Aviv to cease and desist.
Israel’s prime minister is continuously ramping up the rhetoric, calling Iran a threat to the entire world and suggesting that his country will soon retaliate against recent Iranian-directed terrorist attacks. The bombing in New Delhi and attempted bombings in Tbilisi and Thailand targeting Israelis are a major escalation of the tit-for-tat terrorism between Israel and Iran. Israel has killed four Iranian scientists using Mujahedin-e Khalq agents and possibly relying on intelligence provided by Washington. Israel’s involvement in recruiting Jundallah-Balochi militants using officers pretendingto be American CIA, referred to as a false-flag operation, was recently revealed in the U.S. media, though the story quickly disappeared from sight, as is almost invariably the case when dealing with Israel.
But Iran is now signaling that it too has surrogates and is willing to respond in kind. An interesting subplot is the location of two of the attacks in India and Georgia. Iran certainly has covert resources among India’s large Muslim population and also within the significant Azeri minority in Georgia. Israel has been courting India and sees a strategic relationship developing, with the two united against Muslim insurgency. Israel also has a not-so-secret military and intelligence base in Georgia and has recently expanded into nearby Azerbaijan, where it has established an intelligence listening post at an airbase. Iran is surrounded by Israeli operational initiatives and is now signaling that it has had enough and is prepared to strike back. A back-and-forth series of assassinations is particularly dangerous, as it could produce the type of incident that Israel could exploit to preemptively attack, not unlike the fallout from the assassination of a certain archduke in Serbia in 1914. The conflict would undoubtedly ignite the region and inevitably involve the United States, particularly if Congress and the media have any say in the matter.
The United States is powerless to prevent such an outcome in spite of a clear national interest to do so. President Obama has insisted, probably sincerely, that he doesn’t want a war and maintains that he is willing to talk to Iran. But he has nevertheless refused to do so despite several overtures from Tehran to start a dialogue, preferring to deal through surrogates. He has told the Israelis repeatedly that they should not attack Iran, but he keeps insisting that “all options are on the table” in dealing with the mullahs, completely confusing the issue for most observers. What is needed is a clear signal from the White House that the U.S. interest is that there should not be a war and that Washington will not get involved no matter who starts it. If the Israelis know they will have to go it alone, they will not attack. Unfortunately, in an election year, such a position is unlikely because the White House will want to present itself as a close friend of Israel and tough against “rogue” states like Iran.
You might well ask how the United States wound up in such a pickle. Many Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that it is disgraceful that a small country like Israel should be able to dictate U.S. foreign policy in a key part of the world, but the current situation is actually far worse than that. This is the case of a foreign government’s lobby consisting largely of American citizens using its clout to avoid registering as a foreign agent while narrowing the policy options through its friends in Congress and the media in such a way as to make war inevitable. Some might call it treason. Such people should be denounced and marginalized before they send off another wave of young Americans to die on their behalf while beggaring the rest of us, but instead, senators and representatives will be lining up to cheer them in a month’s time. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison must be spinning in their graves.
Read more by Philip Giraldi
Bipartisan Support for World War III – February 15th, 2012
The World Turned Upside Down – February 8th, 2012
Another War on the Cheap – February 1st, 2012
Avoiding a ‘Dumb War’ With Iran – January 25th, 2012
Creating American Terrorists – January 18th, 2012
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NOTE : There was no Holocaust (I), just a HOLOHOAX, as Prof.Dr.Butz and many others have made clear by now.
See underneath this article, once more Butz's clarification on the issue and see also article #27.
3 - Is Holocaust II inevitable ?
By Alan Hart
The Gentile me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism, which is being provoked by Israel’s terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen.
The notion that anti-Israelism could be transformed into anti-Semitism is not new. In his book Israel’s Fateful Hour, published in 1986, Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel’s longest serving Director of Military Intelligence, gave this warning:
“Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism. It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.”
The fact that (pre-1967) Israel is a Zionist not a Jewish state - how could it be a Jewish state when a quarter of its citizens are Muslims (mainly) and Christians? - in no way diminishes Harkabi’s message.
He was, in fact, treading a quite well worn path. Prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, and as I document in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, most Jews, eminent American and British Jews especially, were opposed to Zionism’s enterprise in Palestine. They believed it to be morally wrong. They feared it would lead to unending conflict with the Arab and wider Muslim world. But most of all they feared that if Zionism was allowed by the major powers to have its way, it would one day provoke anti-Semitism.
Today, in my opinion, it can be said that Zionism wants and needs anti-Semitism in order to justify anything and everything its monster child does.
So what are the two things that must happen if anti-Israelism is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism (assuming as I do that the Zionist state is not going to change course in the direction of peace)?
One is that the mainly Gentile citizens of the Western world among whom most Jews live become aware of the difference between Judaism and Zionism, and thus why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the hardest core Zionist few in Israel. The difference can be simply stated. Like mainstream Christianity and mainstream Islam, mainstream Judaism has at its core a set of moral values and ethical principles. Zionism, which created a state for some Jews in the Arab heartland mainly by ethnic cleansing and terrorism, is without moral values and ethical principles. Its driving ideology, conditioned by Jewish experience of persecution on-and-off down the centuries, is that might is right. Mainstream Judaism and Zionism are, in fact, total opposites. (In April one of the anti-Zionist Jews I most admire, Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer, is giving a talk in Luxembourg with the title How Israel betrayed all the human values of Judaism).
In the paragraph above I insist on the term “few” in Israel being to blame because the truth is that most Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by their leaders. (As the headline over an article by Gideon Levy for Ha-aretz put it on 5 February, Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran). Most Israeli Jews are, for example, totally unaware that the vast majority of Palestinians and most Arabs everywhere have been ready for many years for peace on terms which any rational government in Israel would have accepted with relief.
The other thing that must happen if anti-Israelism is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism stems from the fact, perhaps I should say overwhelming probability, that no American president is ever going to be free to use the leverage he has to oblige the Zionist state to be serious about peace because of the Zionist lobby’s control of policy for Israel-Palestine in Congress.
So as things are Israel is a nuclear-armed monster beyond control. (From recently de-classified documents we now know that in a memorandum dated 19 July 1969, Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, warned President Nixon that the Israelis “are probably more likely than any other country to actually use their nuclear weapons.” And as I mentioned in my post of 30 January with the headline Is Israel on the road to “self-destruction”?, Golda Meir said in an interview I did with her for the BBC’s Panorama programme when she was prime minster that in a doomsday situation Israel “would be prepared to take the region and the world down with it.”)
On reflection it seems to me that whether or not anti-Israelism is transformed into anti-Semitism will depend not only on the Westerners among whom most Jews live understanding why it is wrong to blame all Jews everywhere for the crimes of the few, but also on what the Jews of the world, European and American Jews especially (I mean the majority of them), do from here on.
In my view they have two options.
OPTION 1 is to stay silent which, at this moment in time, is still the preferred option of most European and American Jews.
That said it has to be acknowledged that recent years have seen an increase in the number of Jewish groups which are critical of Israel’s polices and, in some cases, have even endorsed the call of Palestinian civil society for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights. But the voices these groups represent are those of only a minority of Jews.
On the debit side of this particular balance sheet is also the fact that by limiting their campaigns to calls for an end to Israel’s occupation to make the space for a two-state solution, most if not all of the “progressive” (critical of Israel) Jewish groups are demonstrating that they are out of touch with or don’t want to recognise the reality on the ground in Israel-Palestine. The reality is that Israel’s still on-going consolidation of its occupation of the West Bank has made a two-solution impossible. It is not yet formally buried but it is dead.
My own understanding of why began with a private conversation I had with Shimon Peres in early 1980. At the time he was the leader of Israel’s main opposition Labour party and seemed to be well placed to win Israel’s next election and deny Menachem Begin and his Likud party a second term in office - an outcome for which President Carter was praying. After learning that Carter had said behind closed doors that institutional diplomacy could not solve the Palestine problem because of the Zionist lobby’s control of Congress and that what was needed was some informal and unofficial diplomacy, my purpose was to invite Peres to participate in a secret and exploratory dialogue with PLO chairman Arafat with me as the linkman. The idea was that if we could use the 18 months or so before Israel’s next election to get agreement in principle on the way to the two-state solution to which Arafat’s PLO was by then committed, Peres and Arafat could begin to do the business for real when Peres became prime minister. (I was aware that a two-state solution would not provide the Palestinians with full justice, but at the time I shared the hope of those, including Arafat, who believed it was not impossible that within a generation or two the peace of a two-state solution could open the door to One State for all by mutual agreement, thus allowing all Palestinians who wanted to return to do so).
Peres welcomed the idea of an exploratory dialogue with Arafat with me as the linkman, but at a point in our conversation before I went off to Beirut to secure Arafat’s agreement to participate, he, Peres, said, “I fear it is already too late.”
I asked him why.
He replied: “Every day sees new bricks on new settlements. Begin knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s stuffing the West Bank with settlers to create the conditions for a Jewish civil war because he knows that no Israeli prime minister is going down in history as the one who gave the order to the Jewish army to shoot Jews (in order to end the occupation).” Pause. “I’m not.”
Question: If it was too late in 1980 when they were only about 70,000 illegal Jewish settlers on the West Bank, how much more too late is it today when the number of illegal Jewish settlers is in excess of 500,000 and rising, and the political influence of Israel’s religious fanatics and other bigots is growing?
In the words of an old English cliché, Jewish groups which are critical of Israeli policy but limit their effort to calling for an end to Israeli occupation are flogging a dead horse.
My considered Gentile take on why most Jews are silent on the matter of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians and denial of their rights is in my book. For this post I’ll make only two brief points.
One is that deep down, if only in their sub-consciousness, most Jews fear (in large part because they are conditioned by Zionism to fear) that there will one day be another great turning against them. Holocaust II. So they perceive Israel as their refuge of last resort, and they tell themselves they must say nothing, do nothing, that could undermine Israel and put their insurance policy at risk.
The other, no doubt related, is that private discussion about publicly criticising Israel or not can and does tear Jewish families as well as communities apart. So for the sake of at least the appearance of Jewish unity it’s best not to discuss the matter.
The problem with Jewish silence is that it’s not the way to refute and demolish a charge or assertion of complicity in Zionism’s crimes. So continued silence by the majority of European and American Jews is most likely to assist the transformation of anti-Israelism into anti-Semitism.
OPTION 2 is for the Jews of the world to distance themselves from the Zionist state.
A most explicit statement of this as a possible option was made in October 2001 by Dr. David Goldberg, the prominent, widely respected, liberal London rabbi and author of a popular introduction to Judaism, The Jewish People, Their History and Their Religion. He dared to say, in public, “It may be time for Judaism and Zionism to go their separate ways.”
Eight years on the late Tony Judt, a professor of history at New York University and director of the Remarque Institute, put some flesh on that bone. British-born of a Jewish mother whose parents emigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who was descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis, Judt started out as an enthusiastic Zionist. He helped to promote the migration of British Jews to Israel, and during the 1967 war he worked as a driver and translator for the IDF. But after that war, his belief in the Zionist enterprise began to unravel. “I went with the idealistic fantasy of creating a socialist, communitarian country through work, but I started to see that this view was remarkably unconscious of the people who had been kicked out of the country and were suffering in refugee camps to make this fantasy possible.”
In an article for the Financial Times on 7 December 2009, Judt wrote this:
“If the Jews of Europe and North America took their distance from Israel, as many have begun to do, the assertion that Israel was ‘their’ state would take on an absurd air. Over time, even Washington might come to see the futility of attaching American foreign policy to the delusions of one small Middle Eastern state. This, I believe, is the best thing that could possibly happen to Israel itself. It would be obliged to acknowledge its limits. It would have to make other friends, preferably among its neighbors.”
For the sake of discussion there’s a case for saying that an Israel that was obliged by European and America Jews to acknowledge its limits might also be an Israel in which many Israeli Jews were prepared to open their minds to the wise words of one of their own - Avraham Burg. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the speaker of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. By the end of his term in that office he was a leading advocate of the idea that Israel and a viable Palestinian state could coexist in peace. In August 2003 he wrote a most remarkable essay which was published in its original Hebrew by Yediot Aharonot and subsequently newspapers in Europe and America.
His lead point was that Israel had to “shed its illusions” and choose between “racist oppression and democracy.” The Jewish people, he wrote, “did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programmes or anti-missile missiles. We were supposed to be a light unto nations. In this we have failed.”
And the following is what Burg had to say about Israel’s need to change course and the choices:
Here is what the prime minister should say to his people: the time for illusions is over. The time for decisions has arrived. We love the entire land of our forefathers and in some other time we would have wanted to live here alone. But that will not happen. The Arabs, too, have dreams and needs.
Between the Jordan and the Mediterranean there is no longer a clear Jewish majority. And so, fellow citizens, it is not possible to keep the whole thing without paying a price. We cannot keep a Palestinian majority under an Israeli boot and at the same time think ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East. There cannot be democracy without equal rights for all who live here, Arab as well as Jew. We cannot keep the territories and preserve a Jewish majority in the world’s only Jewish state - not by means that are humane and moral and Jewish.
Do you want the greater land of Israel? No problem. Abandon democracy. Let’s institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages.
Do you want a Jewish majority? No problem. Either put the Arabs on railway cars, buses, camels and donkeys and expel them en masse - or separate ourselves from them absolutely, without tricks and gimmicks. There is no middle path. We must remove all the settlements - all of them - and draw an internationally recognised border between the Jewish national home and the Palestinian national home. The Jewish law of return will apply only within our national home, and their right of return will apply only within the borders of the Palestinian state.
“Do you want democracy? No problem. Either abandon the greater land of Israel, to the last settlement and outpost, or give full citizenship and voting rights to everyone, including Arabs. The result, of course, will be that those who did not want a Palestinian state alongside us will have one in our midst, via the ballot box. (Here, I note, Burg was being less than explicit about the consequences of Greater Israel giving full citizenship and voting rights to everyone. At the point not too far into the future when the Palestinian Arabs outnumbered the Jews of Greater Israel, Zionism would be voted out of existence. Palestine would effectively be de-Zionized, opening the door to One State for all).
The prime minister should present the choices forthrightly: Jewish racism or democracy. Settlements or hope for both peoples. False visions of barbed wire and suicide bombers or a recognised international border between two states and a shared capital in Jerusalem.
In my view Judt’s assumption that Israel “would” be obliged to acknowledge its limits if the Jews of Europe and America took their distance from it is questionable. Why? It’s rational, based on reason, and Israel’s deluded leaders are beyond reason. They are never going to shed their illusions and present the choices for Israel’s Jews in the terms outlined by Burg.
But the main argument for European and American Jews distancing themselves from the Zionist state and its policies is self-interest. By demonstrating that they were not complicit in Zionism’s crimes, they would be playing their necessary part in preventing anti-Israelism from being transformed into anti-Semitism.
But even if self-interest (in the context above) is the direction in which most European and American Jews might move, events on the ground suggest to me that the time left for them to decide whether or not to actually distance themselves from Israel is running out. And here is my brief summary of why.
Given their determination to keep for all time much if not all of the occupied West Bank (despite what they sometimes say to the contrary for propaganda purposes), Israel’s leaders have got to find a way to defuse the ticking, demographic time-bomb of occupation (the coming of the day when the Palestinians will outnumber the Jews of Greater Israel).
The evidence of the past 44 years is that Israel’s leaders believed they could do it in one of two ways.
One was by making life hell for the occupied Palestinians in the hope that very many of them would either give up their struggle in despair and accept crumbs from Zionism’s table - a few disconnected Bantustans which they could call a state if they wished; or, better still, abandon their homeland and seek new lives elsewhere. Neither of those two things happened or are going to happen.
The other was having in place a compliant, puppet, Palestinian leadership which could be bullied and bribed, with American assistance, into forcing its people to accept crumbs from Zionism’s table. It might be that Israel’s leaders still hope they can make this scenario work with Palestinian “President” Abbas or his successor, but it won’t work.
And that will leave them, Israel’s leaders, with only one way of defusing the demographic time-bomb of occupation - creating a pretext to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan, Syria or wherever. The final ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
I think that will be Zionism’s final solution to its Palestine problem. I also think that such an event will guarantee that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism is transformed into anti-Semitism, meaning, as Harkabi warned, that Jews throughout the world will pay the price of Israel’s “misconduct”.
I’ll end by re-asking my headline question and giving it an explicit answer.
Is Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against the Jews) inevitable? Yes unless the Jews of Europe and America distance themselves from the Zionist monster before it’s too late to do so.
Professor Arthur Butz : IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION
Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.
1. A Short Introduction to the Study of Holocaust Revisionism
1. I see three principal reasons for the widespread but erroneous belief in the legend of millions of Jews killed by the Germans during World War II: US and British troops found horrible piles of corpses in the west German camps they captured in 1945 (e.g. Dachau and Belsen), there are no longer large communities of Jews in Poland, and historians generally support the legend.
2. During both world wars Germany was forced to fight typhus, carried by lice in the constant traffic with the east. That is why all accounts of entry into the German concentration camps speak of shaving of hair and showering and other delousing procedures, such as treatment of quarters with the pesticide Zyklon. That was also the main reason for a high death rate in the camps, and the crematoria that existed in all.
3. When Germany collapsed in chaos then of course all such defenses ceased, and typhus and other diseases became rampant in the camps, which quartered mainly political prisoners, ordinary criminals, homosexuals, conscientious objectors, and Jews conscripted for labor. Hence the horrible scenes, which however had nothing to do with "extermination" or any deliberate policy. Moreover the west German camps involved were not the alleged "extermination camps", which were all in Poland (e.g. Auschwitz and Treblinka) and which were all evacuated or shut down before capture by the Soviets, who found no such scenes.
4. The "Final Solution" spoken of in the German documents was a program of evacuation, resettlement and deportation of Jews with the ultimate objective of expulsion from Europe. During the war Jews of various nationalities were being moved east, as one stage in this Final Solution. The legend claims that the motion was mainly for extermination purposes.
5. The great majority of the millions allegedly exterminated were east European, not German or west European, Jews. For that reason study of the problem via population statistics has been difficult to impossible, but it is a fact that there are no longer large communities of Jews in Poland. However the Germans were only one of several parties involved in moving Jews around. The Soviets deported virtually all of the Jews of eastern Poland to their interior in 1940. After the war, with Polish and other Jews pouring out of the east into occupied west Germany, the Zionists moved large numbers to Palestine, and the US and other countries absorbed many Jews, in most cases under conditions making impossible a numerical accounting. Moreover the Polish borders were changed drastically at the end of the war; the country was literally moved west.
6. Historians generally support the legend, but there are precedents for nearly incomprehensible blindness on the part of scholars. For example throughout the Middle Ages even the Pope's political enemies conceded his false claim that the 4th century Emperor Constantine had ceded rule of the west to the Pope, although all knew very well that Constantine had been succeeded by more emperors. Near unanimity among the academics is especially suspect when there exist great political pressures; in some countries Holocaust revisionists have been prosecuted.
7. It is easy to show that the extermination legend merits skepticism. Even the casual reader of the Holocaust literature knows that during the war virtually nobody acted as though it was happening. Thus it is common to berate the Vatican, the Red Cross and the Allies (especially the intelligence agencies) for their ignorance and inaction, and to explain that the Jews generally did not resist deportation because they did not know what was in store for them. If you add all this up you have the strange claim that for almost three years German trains, operating on a continental scale in densely civilized regions of Europe, were regularly and systematically moving millions of Jews to their deaths, and nobody noticed except for a few of our Jewish leaders who were making public "extermination" claims.
8. On closer examination even those few Jewish leaders were not acting as though it was happening. Ordinary communications between the occupied and neutral countries were open, and they were in contact with the Jews whom the Germans were deporting, who thus could not have been in ignorance of "extermination" if those claims had any validity.
9. This incredible ignorance must also be attributed to Hans Oster's department in German military intelligence, correctly labeled "the veritable general staff of the opposition to Hitler" in a recent review.
10. What we are offered in evidence was gathered after the war, in trials. The evidence is almost all oral testimony and "confessions". Without the evidence of these trials there would be no significant evidence of "extermination". One must pause and ponder this carefully. Were trials needed to determine that the Battle of Waterloo happened? The bombings of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The slaughter in Cambodia? Yet this three year program, of continental scope, claiming millions of victims, requires trials to argue its reality. I am not arguing that the trials were illegal or unfair; I am arguing that such historical logic as the legend rests on must not be countenanced. Such events cannot happen without generating commensurate and contemporaneous evidence for their reality, just as a great forest fire cannot take place without producing smoke. One may as well believe that New York City was burned down, if confessions to the deed can be produced.
11. Detailed consideration of the specific evidence put forward in support of the legend has been a focus of the revisionist literature and cannot be undertaken here, but I shall mention one point. The claim of the legend is that there were no technical means provided for the specific task of extermination, and that means originally provided for other purposes did double duty in improvised arrangements. Thus the Jews were allegedly gassed with the pesticide Zyklon, and their corpses disappeared into the crematoria along with the deaths from "ordinary" causes (the ashes or other remains of millions of victims never having been found).
12. Surely any thoughtful person must be skeptical.
http://mccormick.northwestern.edu/directory/profiles/Arthur-Butz.html
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4 - U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agree : No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
The Intel Hub
By Madison Ruppert
February 25, 2012
Despite the repeated statements made by United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta which have clearly indicated thatIran is not developing nuclear weaponsand the analysis of the American intelligence community, the heated anti-Iranian rhetoric never seems to let up.
Indeed, it has even been reported by none other than the New York Times that intelligence analysts in America have yet to find any hard evidence indicating that Iran has even decided to construct a nuclear bomb.
American intelligence assessments have continued to be congruent with the 2007 intelligence report which clearly concluded that Iran had in fact completely abandoned their nuclear program years before (scroll to the bottom of the article to read the embedded report).
According to anonymous U.S. officials, this assessment was reinforced by the 2010 National Intelligence Estimate and “it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.”
So, how can the governments of the United States and Israel continue to ignore their own intelligence agencies and nonsensically push forward with the effort to go to war with Iran?
If nothing else, it has become painfully clear that our so-called leaders are ignoring any and all contrary evidence which might weaken their war effort and making the relentless push towards war.
Given that American intelligence agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have concluded that the Iranian nuclear weapons program was likely halted all the way back in 2003 and Panetta himself has debunked the Iranian nuclear myth, it becomes evident that they have no interest in the truth.
To make matters even worse, it appears that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an agency of the United Nations (UN) has now become little more than a tool of the warmongering factions of Western governments.
Recently the IAEA claimed that Iran had actually accelerated their nuclear program, increasing their production of highly enriched uranium and refused to answer some of the agency’s key questions about their program.
In their report issued Friday, the director-general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, said that their inspectors continue “to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Apparently Amano and the IAEA know better than one of the best funded and arguably the most powerful intelligence community on the planet.
“As Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation … the agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,” Amano stated.
To any thinking person, this statement should be laughable. That’s like me saying that my neighbor cannot provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared thirty foot tall spiders in his garage, and therefore I cannot conclude that my neighbor is peaceful.
If the IAEA is worried about “undeclared nuclear material and activities” they should be focusing their efforts solely on Israel, not Iran.
According to Reuters, even though the IAEA’s report was far from conclusive and the preponderance of the American intelligence community has dismissed the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program, the latest report from the nuclear agency “will further inflame Israeli fears the Islamic Republic is pushing ahead with atomic bomb plans.”
“The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency gives added proof that Israeli beliefs are true” about Iran’s nuclear program, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, according to AFP.
My favorite part of that statement is the usage of the world “beliefs,” since that is exactly what it is. It is not based on fact or logic but instead blind faith and a belief that Iran is this bloodthirsty, genocidal nation relentlessly seeking nuclear weapons.
Of course, none of that is true but apparently Netanyahu has no interest in the truth, either.
“Iran is pursuing its nuclear program with no end in sight. It is enriching uranium to 20 percent, totally ignoring demands by the international community,” Netanyahu also said.
Israeli leadership – especially Netanyahu – pointing to the demands of the international community is painfully ironic. Israel regularly rejects the opinion of the international community in their oppression of Palestinians, raids on humanitarian aid flotillas and more.
The White House has also jumped on the report as more fuel for the anti-Iranian fire. They stated that Iran was in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions with their nuclear enrichment efforts, even though their own intelligence assets have said that there is no weapons program.
“When combined with its continued stonewalling of international inspectors, Iran’s actions demonstrate why Iran has failed to convince the international community that its nuclear program is peaceful,” Tommy Vietor, the White House National Security Council spokesman said.
The problem here is that Vietor is not speaking for the international community; he is merely speaking for the National Security Council – the same group that makes the call to murder American citizens without charge or trial.
There is no arguing against the reality of the Iranian nuclear program and their efforts to enrich nuclear fuel.
However, the problem arises when one makes the leap of faith required to come to the conclusion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons or their program is anything other than peaceful.
Iran is a sovereign nation and as such, the West has absolutely no right to tell them that they cannot pursue peaceful nuclear technology.
Thanks to the American intelligence community, yet another blow to the anti-Iranian propaganda has been dealt but obviously the leaders of the Western world care not about these facts.
Hopefully the real international community can take note of the truth and ignore the insane delusions of our so-called leaders who are making the relentless push to bring us to war.
This article originally appeared on End the Lie
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5 - TEN Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
February 23, 2012
By leading anti-war activist David Swanson, author of Day Break and War Is A Lie, who runs the websites DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org.
1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
2. My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
3. Iraq didn’t go so badly. Considering how lousy its government is, the place is better off with so many people having left or died. Really, that one couldn’t have worked out better if we’d planned it.
4. When we threaten to cut off Iran’s oil, Iran threatens to cut off Iran’s oil, which is absolutely intolerable. What would we do without that oil? And what good is buying it if they want to sell it?
5. Iran was secretly behind 9-11. I read it online. And if it wasn’t, that’s worse. Iran hasn’t attacked another nation in centuries, which means its next attack is guaranteed to be coming very soon.
6. Iranians are religious nuts, unlike Israelis and Americans. Most Israelis don’t want to attack Iran, but the Holy Israeli government does. To oppose that decision would be to sin against God.
7. Iranians are so stupid that when we murder their scientists they try to hire a car dealer in Texas to hire a drug gang in Mexico to murder a Saudi ambassador in Washington, and then they don’t do it — just to make us look bad for catching them.
7. b. Oh, and stupid people should be bombed. They’re not civilized.
8. War is good for the U.S. economy, and the Iranian economy too. Troops stationed in Iran would buy stuff. And women who survived the war would have more rights. Like in Virginia. We owe Iranians this after that little mishap in 1953.
9. This is the only way to unite the region. Either we bomb Iran and it swears its eternal love to us. Or, if necessary, we occupy Iran to liberate it like its neighbors. Which shouldn’t take long. Look how well Afghanistan is going already.
10. They won’t give our drone back. Enough said.
Israel backing down from Iran threats
By Michael Carmichael
Global Research, February 22, 2012
Israel is backing down from her threats to bomb Iran.
In a scathing loss of face for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, diplomatic sources in Israel have revealed that President Shimon Peres will meet privately with President Obama at the White House before - repeat before Netanyahu.
High level sources in Israel have just leaked a sanitized version of the President's plan to the Israeli press. But, there is much more to the story. In his meeting at the White House, Peres will inform Obama that Netanyahu has performed poorly in his handling of the Iran nuclear crisis and that bellicose statements from the Prime Minister's cabinet have been both self-intimidating and self-destructive.
Then after meeting with Peres, Obama will address AIPAC and finally meet with Netanyahu to counsel him on the sad fact of the self-inflicted damage to the diplomatic credibility of his right-wing government. More on the diplomatic kabuki in due course.
According to a report in Haaretz, by Yossi Verter (February 22, 2012), entitled Peres to tell Obama Israel should not strike Iran soon,
"officials say President reportedly feels recent threats by Israeli spokesmen are unnecessary warmongering, believes Iran issue should be handled by superpowers. ...
President Shimon Peres is expected to tell U.S. President Barack Obama early next month that he does not believe Israel should attack Iran in the near future.
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Peres told officials that there is no point in what he called the "unceasing self-intimidation" being voiced by senior Israeli spokesmen. This is what he intends to tell Obama.
Peres has told officials that the recent threats by Israel are unnecessary warmongering and that Israel should leave the Iran issue to the superpowers, first and foremost the United States.
Peres leaves for the United States on Tuesday, and the following Sunday he is to meet with Obama in Washington on the sidelines of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
Peres' meeting with the U.S. president will take place a day before Netanyahu meets with Obama. Netanyahu will arrive in Washington after a visit to Canada.
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When Obama meets with Netanyahu, he will already know what Peres thinks - information he will use in his meeting with Netanyahu.
Peres is expected to tell Obama that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is still the best Palestinian partner with whom to reach a peace agreement.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview yesterday that Israel will not bow to U.S. and Russian pressure in deciding whether to attack Iran.
Speaking on Channel 2, Lieberman rebuffed suggestions that warnings against striking Iran would affect Israeli decision making, saying the decision "is not their business."
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6 - Syria : Rogue Elements Rampant
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research, February 26, 2012
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." (J.EdgarHoover, 1895-1972.)
Smelt any proverbial rats, lately? If not, you have not been paying attention, there are plenty about.
Consider for instance this: "Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now" and "must step aside …” Hilary Clinton (Asia Times, 9th February 2012.)
“I strongly condemn the Syrian government's unspeakable assault … and I offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones. Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now. He must step aside …” said President Barack Hussein Obama. (i)
Yet responsibility for US victims, in their hundreds of thousands, spanning Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, in Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, are wholly unaccountable – and uncounted..
Responsibility for tyrannicide (including the horrific, state sponsored assassinations of Osama bin Laden and others, Libya’s Head of State, Colonel Quaddafi, have, seemingly entered a Presidential memory hole.)
"This (Syria’s) is a doomed regime as well as a murdering regime. There is no way it can get its credibility back either internationally or with its own people”, Britain’s little Foreign Secretary, William Hague, chimed in obediently, from the Washington script, on Sky News.
“Because the regime is so intransigent, because it is conducting ten months unmitigated violence and repression – more than 6,000 killed, with 12,000 or 14,000 in detention and subject to every kind of torture and abuse – it is driving some opponents to violent action themselves”, concluded Hague.
Hypocrisy reigns supreme. Walking distance from Hague’s office: “living in style and protection”, is Bashar Al Assad’s Uncle Rifaat, under whose Defence Brigades onslaught killed up to perhaps thirty thousand people in the city of Hama, which was also partially destroyed, Falluja style. The thirtieth anniversary of a truly terrible event is commemorated today, 25th February. (See Robert Fisk, Independent, 25th February 2012.)
Of Libya, in March 2011, Obama stated: "Going forward, we will continue to send a clear message: The violence must stop. Muammar Gaddafi has lost legitimacy to lead, and he must leave. Those who perpetrate violence against the Libyan people will be held accountable. And the aspirations of the Libyan people for freedom, democracy and dignity must be met.”(ii.)
An anomaly (apart from the script similarity): In Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, deaths resultant from US-UK and “allied” actions are: “impossible to verify”, by Washington and Whitehall.
Indeed, this month, the (UK) Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence, issued a Report, after an Inquiry in to operations in Libya, stating that: “Britain has no way of knowing how many civilians died in the Libyan conflict as a result of Nato bombing.” (iii)
Back in March 2011, however, the exact figure of Quaddafi’s victims was “known.” Coincidentally, it was also exactly 6,000, stated a “political analyst” - using remarkably State Department-similar phraseology.(iv)
As under Saddam Hussein in Iraq (with no diplomatic presence) in Libya and now little in Syria - with no point of contact bar, seemingly, a satellite dish fitter, in Coventry, England, alleged to be the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” - exact death and casualty figures are always miraculously available.
A new nemesis appears on the horizon – or “Arab street”- and precise numbers are trumpeted. Yet when Western forces, “Viceroys”, “Intelligence” services, “mentors” and myriad, general meddlers, mercenaries and marauders pitch up, murder and occupy, none are available.
Of course no proposed invasion (sorry, “humanitarian intervention”) regime change and accompanying mass slayings would be complete without forces of a wicked tyrant switching off electricity to babies incubators.
For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”)produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”, a “Kuwaiti with first hand knowledge of ... her tortured land.”
“I volunteered (tears) at the Al Addan Hospital .. I saw the Iraqi soldiers ..with guns, they took fifteen babies out of incubators, left them on the cold floor and took the incubators.”
Strangely, no one asked why she didn't pick them up and wrap and tend to them, or checked who she really was.
She was the daughter of Saud al Sabar, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to US. The incubators story of course, was a complete fabrication.
October 10th 1990, Amnesty presented evidence against Iraq with Hill and Knowlton at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Capitol Hill. Amnesty International trustingly endorsed the incubator story. Apparently never investigating who “Nayirah” was, and in a charged situation, whether propaganda might not be rampant.
“Amnesty US Executive Director, John Healey, compounded the incubator baby story in testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on 8th.January 1991. The carpet-bombing of Iraq began nine days later.”(v)
Amnesty, enjoined by Human Rights Watch, are amongst the most enthusiastic champions of Syrian intervention and onward to Armageddon. Glen Ford writes all you ever need to know.(vi)
The first Syria incubator baby story surfaced last August. “Syrian government troops”, had cut the electricity. It was quickly exposed as beyond questionable.(vii)
Another one came up on 8th February (viii) with numbers varying from eighteen poor mites, to a subsequent eighty. With both tales, as the Iraq version, no distraught parents, extended family, were found, no funeral gatherings, then the stories, too, quietly vanished.
Coincidentally, the current Speaker of the eighty eight Member Arab Inter-Parliamentary union, which backs intervention in Syria, is Kuwaiti, Ali Al-Salem Al-Dekbas, calling for all Syria’s Ambassadors to be expelled, confrontation with Russia over her stance - and in remarkable US-speak, for swift intervention, to stop the Syrian government “killing (their own) people.” (Reuters, 4th February 2012.)
The new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, is Suzanne Nossel, formerly Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for International Organization Affairs, at the State Department. She has also previously worked for Human Rights Watch.
She: “… has launched several campaigns against Iran, Libya and Syria.”(viii)
The allegation that Kuwait gave Amnesty $500,000 for backing the Iraq incubator baby story has never gone away. But the little island, famously once called:”An oil company posing as a state”, with population just 2,595,628 (July 2011) which includes 1,291,354 non-nationals, also has powerful American-proxy clout.
In 1999, an agreement was signed between the USA and Kuwait for a permanent US force to be stationed there, in twelve facilities (there are a further eight “spares”, seemingly not currently in use.)
The agreement for the bases, incidentally, was named: “Operation Desert Spring.”(x)
Here is a further coincidence. In March 2010, Libya was voted, near unanimously, on to the UN Human Rights Committee, after a glowing Report on human rights progress. After a ferocious campaign by Geneva based UN Watch(xi) not only were they expelled from it, but nineteen months later, their country lay in ruins, their leader lynched and most of his family dead.
Last November, Syria was elected to the Committee and the fifty eight Member Arab board added their votes to the country’s place on UNESCO panels.
UN Watch railed that: “Western democracies, unanimously elected Syria to a pair of Committees – one dealing directly with human rights issues – even as the Bashar al-Assad regime maintains its campaign of violence against its own citizens.“ Syria’s Committee places, as Libya before it, died a death.
Amnesty’s Ms Nossel, unsurprisingly, has spoken at a number of events with UN Watch Director, Hillel Neuer, a Montreal born attorney, whose career has included serving as a judicial law clerk for Justice Itzhak Zamir, at the Supreme Court of Israel.
In March last year, there seemed a glimmer of hope that the US and “allies”, would back away from repeating the tragic disaster that was unfolding in Libya – and had already struck Afghanistan and Iraq.
Secretary of State Clinton committed on CBS (27th March 2011) that the US would not intervene in the way it had in Libya.
Now, it seems, a miracle is needed, as it emerges Saudi Arabia and Quatar are among those subsidizing insurgents with vast sums – as French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe announced that the EU is about to further tie the government’s hands, by freezing the assets of the Syrian Central Bank, from 27th February. Syria is already under a crippling raft of sanctions.(xii) France was, of course, one of the leading and most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the destruction of Libya.
At the same “Friends of Syria” Conference in Tunis (24th February 2012) UK Foreign Minister William Hague declared that the UK recognized the insurgents and Hilary “We came, we saw, he died” Clinton called Russia and China:”despicable”, for their veto at the UN, which may well have blocked further “intervention.”
The US said it will consider military assistance to the insurgents – a representative of them said they were already receiving “western aid.”
With “friends” like these, Syria certainly needs no enemies.
The US has, of course, “despicably”, vetoed thirty five UN peace Resolutions relating to the Middle East(xiii) including on“Operation Cast Lead”, the 2008-2009 Israeli Christmas-New Year onslaught on Gaza, and Israel’s 2006 blitzkrieg of Lebanon.
A “new world map.”
Chillingly, no outrage, or cries of “despicable” has been given to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement, in Switzerland, the day before the Tunisia conference, that there: “would be no Lebanon in the new world map.”(xiv)
He stated, further, that an Israeli strike against Lebanon would be supported by the United States and Gulf States countries.
There surely is a wildlife park of elephants in the room. Given George W. Bush’s “Crusade”; the belief by extreme right Israeli circles in their control of the Middle East: “from the Nile to the Euphrates” and General Wesley Clark’s revelations of 2007, that the Pentagon planned:“(taking) out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran”, there is an obvious question, sparked by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s confidence over a Lebanon attack:
Are these AIPAC and Israel’s wars?
Notes
i. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/04/obama-condemns-unspeakable-assault-in-syria/?hpt=hp_t2
ii. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2057191,00.html
iii. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/295199/20120208/nato-libya-civilian-death-toll-mps.htm#ixzz1lzVEfpgS
iv. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/168203.html
v. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0520083989 (For timely reminder that propaganda sells wars, well worth revisiting. A crash course.)
vi. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29422
vii. http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/how-cnn-helped-spread-hoax-about-syrian-babies-dying-incubators
viii. http://bikyamasr.com/56287/18-babies-killed-in-syrias-homs-as-power-cut/
ix. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-state-departmentfake-ngo-conflict-of.html
x. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Kuwait
xi. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24151
xii. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-sanctions-imposed-on-syria
xiii. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
xiv. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/228277.html
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Tarpley - False Flag Alert -
Blaming Assad For NATO Murders
The Kids Are Already Dead, Slain
By NATO Death Squads
By Webster Tarpley
2-24-12
A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad's forces. These children are already dead, and have been killed by NATO death squads. The goal is to create an atmosphere of hysteria at the Tunis "Friends of Syria" conference today Friday, which otherwise threatens to be a fiasco due to the boycott by Russia, China, and Lebanon, and due to the fragmented nature of the Syria opposition. Please spread this story as fast as you can as a highest priority False Flag Alert. --Webster Tarpley
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7 - Syria : Clinton Admits USA On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilise Assad Government
By Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham
Global Research, February 27, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has acknowledged that Al Qaeda and other organizations on the US “terror list” are supporting the Syrian opposition.
Clinton said: “We have a very dangerous set of actors in the region, al-Qaida [sic], Hamas, and those who are on our terrorist list, to be sure, supporting – claiming to support the opposition [in Syria].” [1] (Click here to watch video)
Yet at the same time, in the above BBC interview the US Secretary of State repeats the threadbare Western claim that the situation in Syria is one of a defenceless population coming under “relentless attack” from Syrian government forces.
There is ample evidence that teams of snipers who have been killing civilians over the past year in Syria belong to the terrorist formations to which Clinton is referring to.
As Michel Chossudovsky points out in a recent article: “Since the middle of March 2011, Islamist armed groups – covertly supported by Western and Israeli intelligence – have conducted terrorist attacks directed against government buildings, including acts of arson. Amply documented, trained gunmen and snipers, including mercenaries, have targeted the police, armed forces as well as innocent civilians. There is ample evidence, as outlined in the Arab League Observer Mission report, that these armed groups of mercenaries are responsible for killing civilians. While the Syrian government and military bear a heavy burden of responsibility, it is important to underscore the fact that these terrorist acts – including the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children – are part of a US-NATO-Israeli initiative, which consists is supporting, training and financing ‘an armed entity’ operating inside Syria.” [2]
The admission at the weekend by Hillary Clinton corroborates the finding that armed groups are attacking civilians and these groups are terroristic, according to US own definitions, and that the situation in Syria is not one of unilateral state violence against its population but rather is one of a shadowy armed insurrection.
Clinton’s admission retrospectively justifies the stance taken by Russia and China, both of which vetoed the proposed UN Security Council Resolution on 4 February, precisely because that proposal was predicated on a spurious notion that the violence in Syria was solely the responsibility of the Al Assad government.
Clinton also acknowledges in the BBC interview that there is “a very strong opposition to foreign intervention from inside Syria, from outside Syria” – which tacitly concedes the fact that the Syrian population is aware that the so-called oppositionists within their country are Al Qaeda-affiliated mercenaries.
Meanwhile, the US Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have separately issued statements that they are willing to send arms to Syria to support the insurrection against the Damascus government. Given the still substantial popular support for the government of Bashir Al Assad, such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar towards a fellow Arab League member state signifies an unprecedented interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Indeed, legal opinion could argue that it constitutes a self-indicting act of international aggression.
Besides, such a declaration by Saudi Arabia and Qatar of being willing to arm Syrian insurrectionists, can be seen as a cynical cover for what is already taking place. It is known that the Gulf monarchical states are already supplying weapons illicitly to the self-styled Syrian Free Army, along with Turkey and Israel.
So far, the US is officially maintaining the fiction that it is not involved in supplying arms to Syria even though Washington has demanded “regime change” and in spite of evidence that Western covert forces, including American, British and French operatives, are actively engaged with the opposition groups.
It is richly ironic that the unelected fundamentalist Sunni regimes of the Persian Gulf are supporting Al Qaeda affiliated groups within Syria purportedly to “bring about democratic reforms”. This is the same dynamic that prevailed in Libya where the overthrow of that country’s government by Western and Gulf Arab powers has now led to a collapse in human rights and social conditions.
Once again, Syria is indicating the same alignment of allies: Washington, London and other NATO powers comfortably in bed with Sunni/Salafist tyrants and terrorists, claiming to be supporting democratic freedom and human rights.
Of course, the real agenda has nothing to do with either democratic freedoms or human rights – as the awry alignment of allies clearly indicates. Rather, this is about Washington and its proxy powers trying to engineer regime change throughout the Arab World and beyond to conform to geopolitical objectives, principally the control of raw energy. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria are but a sequence of stops on a global roadmap of permanent war that also swings through Iran. Russia and China are the terminal targets.
Washington is evidently prepared to use any means necessary to assert this agenda: illegal wars, death on a massive scale, possibly triggering global war and the use of nuclear weapons. But surely the most preposterous mask is the “war on terror”, when it is seen – from the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – that Washington is now openly collaborating with the supposed “terrorist enemy” to bring about regime change in desired countries.
If somehow the weasel words from Washington could be taken at face value, then if it were serious about wanting regime change to facilitate democracy, human rights and world peace, the first regime that pre-eminently qualifies for such change is Washington itself.
Notes
[1] Transcript of Clinton interview on BBC, 26 February, 2012:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1202/S00690/interview-with-kim-ghattas-of-bbc.htm
[2] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29234
Russian Secret Services : U.S., NATO, GCC Arm Syrian Rebels Through Iraq, Lebanon And Turkey
Global Research, February 25, 2012
Itar-Tass - 2012-02-24
MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) — Armed groups of Syria’s opposition from the rebel force known as the Syrian Liberation Army get more and more weapons from abroad, a source in Russia’s secret services told Itar-Tass on Friday.
“Huge batches of small arms and munitions for the Syrian Liberation Army’s troops are supplied from Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, but unofficially, not through these countries’ governments,” the source said. “The supply list includes submachine guns, machine guns, sniper rifles and antitank grenade launchers.”
Russia’s military expert, Lieutenant General Leonid Sazhin told Itar-Tass that “the scenario that has already been developed and administered by the United States and their NATO allies, mainly by France, Britain and Turkey, as well as the monarchy regimes from the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, in particular Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is being implemented in Syria.”
“This scenario was developed taking into account recent events in Libya, Egypt and other countries of the region with only one reservation – the lack of the UN Security Council resolution needed for the West. In fact, we see an unannounced military interference of some NATO member-states and countries of the region into Syria’s domestic affairs, who side with one of the conflicting parties – the armed opposition,” he said.
Sazhin noted that in addition to the Syrian National Council Syria’s refugees and army deserters in Turkey create a military structure - Supreme Revolutionary Council – led by Syrian army general Mustafa Ahmed al-Sheikh, who deserted to neighbouring Turkey.
“The main task of the Supreme Revolutionary Council is to coordinate actions of the armed opposition on the Syrian territory and to engage to its ranks new members both in Syria and beyond its borders to oust Bashar al-Assad exclusively through the use of force,” he said.
“As concerns weapons supplied to the troops of the Syrian Liberation Army, most of them were in service with the armed forces of former members of the Warsaw Treaty. After the countries joined NATO and re-equipped its troops with NATO’s samples, weapons were collected and piled up at storage facilities and depots, from where they are now taken and flow to Syria,” he said.
The expert did not rule out that some weapons can be fake Soviet weapon systems.
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8 - Ales Bialiatski : legally a convicted criminal, ideologically a “human rights activist”
aletho
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin
Dissident Voice
February 24th, 2012
Excerpt
On the 8th of August as plans for the siege of Sirte in Libya were underway, American senator John McCain was already signaling that Belarus would be America’s next target for regime change. McCain referred to the imprisonment of Ales Bialiatski, the so-called “human rights” activist arrested by the Belarusian authorities for fiscal fraud in 2011.
Bialiatski is the vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights, (Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme) a sub-organisation of which provided the United Nation’s Human Rights Council with false information in February 2011 accusing the Libyan government of “massacres” in Benghazi.
This false information served as a pretext for a war of aggression that led to the killing of tens of thousands of people, reducing a prosperous socially-oriented economy to rubble and imposing a corrupt foreign-selected dictatorship against the wishes of the Libyan people.
The barbaric destruction of the Libyan Jamahirya should serve as a sufficient lesson to any intelligent person of what NATO countries mean by “human rights,” “democracy,” and the “rule of law.”
Amnesty International’s condemnation of Bialiatski’s prosecution, without showing any proof of a miscarriage of justice on the part of the Belarusian courts, shows that the so-called “human rights” organization is more concerned with providing moral legitimacy for the foreign policy objectives of Western governments than protecting human rights.
Bialiatski was arrested by the Polish and Lithuanian police for fiscal fraud on intelligence supplied to them by Interpol. He was not arrested for his political opposition to the Belarusian government. This is not the first time Amnesty International has falsely accused Belarus of human rights violations and it is unlikely to be the last.
Since Bialiatski’s imprisonment, the Polish government has moved to prevent further Interpol arrest warrants issued from “undemocratic” countries. This is rather farcical coming from a state where wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt could land you in jail!
The human rights charade is now becoming so ridiculous it is likely to backfire in the long term. Regime change specialists such as Canvas, a US funded colour revolution training centre based in Belgrade, are now orchestrating stunts involving the use of naked women protesting outside the KGB headquarters in Minsk. Behaviour of this kind would get one arrested in any country.
However, the point of the exercise is, in fact, to get arrested, film it and thereby embarrass the KGB. But the KGB, being an intelligence agency, have pre-empted their plans and the silly nudists have only succeeded in catching a cold and providing light entertainment for pedestrians, all in the cause of the “revolution.”
That Amnesty International should hold openly take sides in favour of US-funded pseudo-dissidents should not surprise us. After all, the head of Amnesty International USA Suzanne Nossel is a former assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the man they call Dr. Stranglove, former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski is also a former board member of the same human rights organisation.
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9 - Anti-Assad Propaganda Assault Heats Up With Claims of WMDs
The Intel Hub
By Madison Ruppert
February 25, 2012
A U.S. Army chemical weapons crew takes samples from an M55 rocket. (Photo credit: U.S. Army)
Yesterday, Wired blog Danger Room’s senior reporter Spencer Ackerman put out a piece that reads like pure propaganda that lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
Ackerman even draws the obvious parallels between Saddam Hussein, although he fails to point out that maybe this is exactly like Iraq and Syria doesn’t have any chemical weapons at all.
He claims that the United States is becoming increasingly worried “about his apparent stockpiles of mustard gas and nerve agents.”
What exactly is an “apparent stockpile” anyways? I think Ackerman might have been more accurate in saying “alleged and unsubstantiated accusations of stockpiles” but seeing as he is clearly serving an agenda with his piece, no such qualifying language is included.
The Wall Street Journal has previously reported on the United States and allied nations increasing their surveillance of Syria’s alleged chemical and biological weapons stores, although officials have repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that these stockpiles are in danger of being overrun.
Ackerman attempts to make the reader fearful by writing, “Picture the looting and scattering of Moammar Gadhafi’s rockets or Saddam’s ordnance, only this time with stuff that attacks your lungs and digestive tract.”
That’s really scary and all, Ackerman, but where’s the proof of these weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)? Instead of providing any, he goes on to continue the propagandizing.
He points to a piece by Josh Rogin (who he identifies as a friend) in Foreign Policy which alleged that the U.S. State Department has begun to coordinate with Syria’s neighbors to prepare for the handling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses.”
The existence (or lack thereof) of Syria’s chemical weapons program is based solely on belief, which Rogin has to admit himself in writing, “Syria is believed to have a substantial chemical weapons program,” instead of a more concrete statement like, “Syria has a substantial chemical weapons program.”
Rogin also points to Syria’s refusal to open facilities to the IAEA that were supposedly part of their nuclear weapons program, although as recent events have made clear, the IAEA has become a political tool of the West and not an impartial nuclear watchdog.
Hilariously, an anonymous official told Rogin, “It’s an exponentially more dangerous program than Libya. We are talking about legitimate WMDs here — this isn’t Iraq. The administration is really concerned about loose WMDs. It’s one of the few things you could put on the agenda and do something about without planning the fall of the regime”
Actually, this is exactly like Iraq. In fact, the parallels are so numerous it is almost laughable to try to separate them. In both cases the American government is putting forth unsubstantiated claims of WMDs and then saying we have to do something about it before it’s too late.
Ackerman concludes his article by saying that it is unlikely that the United States will arm the rebels, even though there is evidence that they are already being armed by outside entities as you can see in the news report from last year below:
He also says that “invasion” looks even less likely, although he does not address the potential “intervention” which actually looks more likely by the day, although of course this would be done under the label of a “peacekeeping force.”
However, Ackerman does point to the possibility of “using crack troops to quietly and swiftly snatch chemical weapons before they’re looted, or pursue those who loot them,” pointing to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) as the likely perpetrator of such an operation.
All I can say is I hope people aren’t gullible enough to keep eating up the government’s unsubstantiated claims of weapons of mass destruction, especially given the push to confront Syria that has been so unrelenting for months now.
This should be a clear indicator to the astute observer of world events that something else is afoot here.
This article originally appeared on End the Lie
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10 - Taking the Republicans Seriously
Posted By Justin Raimondo On February 23, 2012
I was hoping never to have to write about the Santorum surge, yet I knew, in my hearts of hearts, it was meant to be. After all, the more Newt Gingrich talked – and talked, and talked – the more likely even Republican primary voters were to be repulsed by the vastness of his self-regard. It was inevitable that the Gingrich bubble would burst, and the next logical place for the thoroughly neoconized – that is, lobotomized — conservative “mainstream” to go is certainly not Ron Paul.
Santorum inherited those voters by default. For these people, the Iraq war never happened, or, if it did, it occurred in an alternate universe where the Iraqis pelted us with rose petals upon our arrival, instead of a hail of bullets, just like Richard Perle and the gang said they would. They have learned nothing since the Bush era: frozen in time, they are the party’s zombies, cheering the slogans of a long discredited cause. Santorum and Romney are competing for the Republican undead vote, with the latter doing his best to prove his pro-war credentials. The military option in Iran, said Romney during what was billed as the final debate, is not just “on the table – it’s in our hand.” Well, not quite yet, Mitt: you haven’t got your finger on the trigger just yet. And god willing you never will.
Yet Santorum manages to out-warmonger even this, boasting that he went up against George W. Bush in pushing “crippling sanctions” on Iran, and pointing to his campaign to fund Iranian exile groups – money he claims has been cut by the evil Obamaites, who are more than glad to fund the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya. Santorum scores extra points for implicitly pandering to the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim meme: although we probably won’t see him signing on to the theory that Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, that part of Santorum’s debate performance was a dog whistle aimed in the direction of outright loons.
Like Michele Bachmann, whose penchant for making up “facts” may have had something to do with her campaign’s early demise, Santorum just doesn’t know what he’s talking about:
“When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It’s now 60 percent of the budget.
”Some people have suggested that defense spending is the problem. When I was born, defense spending was 60 percent of the budget. It’s now 17 percent. If you think defense spending is the problem, then you need a remedial math class to go back to.”
In 1958, when Santorum was born, defense spending was 38 percent of the total budget: it’s now 58 percent if you count the interest on the military spending portion of total federal outlays and the costs of past wars, including veterans’ benefits and medical care. The “official” figure is 20 percent, so the Senator doesn’t even get that right. I understand what launching a presidential campaign on a shoestring entails, but if he’s going to make this one of his talking points, couldn’t he at least do a few minutes of pre-debate Googling?
It was amateur hour on the debate stage in Arizona on Wednesday night, and Santorum was far from alone is playing loose with the facts. Both Romney and Santorum have taken up thisHezbollah-in-Latin-America theme, a campaign talking point that stands right up there with the most far out of Laurie Mylroie’s fantasies and the Niger uranium forgeries in terms of credibility. Yet that hasn’t stopped the neoconservatives from pushing this idea for years, with little or no real evidence to back it up: indeed, the lack of evidence provides plenty of space for pure speculation, which is what they’re best at. You can be sure that when some right-wing “anti-terrorist” expert pontificates before a congressional committee, they’re bound to bring up the alleged “Hezbollah training camp” that supposedly exists on Margarita Island, a small, balmy island off Venezuela’s north coast. With its low-growing vegetation, small size, and paths well-worn by the inhabitants, Margarita Island is as unlikely a place for a terrorist training camp as, say, Fire Island. It would be discovered five minutes after being set up: the sound of shots would echo through the inlets and coves like thunderclaps. As Michele Salcedo put it in the Florida Sun-Sentinel:
“Recently, Gen. James T. Hill, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that ‘radical Islamic groups associated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Gamaat and others’ are ‘operating out of ….. locales, like Margarita Island off Venezuela.’
“Hill has never visited the island.
“The net fishermen, small-business owners, bank presidents and government officials who call Margarita Island home say Hill is all wrong. They would like him to take a drive around the island and through the peninsula to see what they already know.
“Strangers would have a hard time hiding here. The rough, low-growing vegetation offers no cover. Munitions explosions would echo off the mountains and amplify off the water. The coves and inlets are as familiar to the people who live here as the creases in their weather-worn faces. A dozen flights wing to and from Caracas each day, giving passengers on board a birds-eye view of the peninsula.”
The Romney-Santorum theme of a looming Latin American jihadist threat is a narrative that defies refutation for the simple reason that there is zero evidence to support it. When one boils down these reports, such as one issued by the American Enterprise Institute, the most one can say is that Hezbollah’s fundraising activities are international in scope and include contributions from some sources in Latin America. This is a very far cry from setting up operational centers and “terrorist training camps,” but that doesn’t deter the authors of this particular narrative, who aren’t interested in evidence, only in scaremongering. In short, the whole thing is a complete fabrication, on the same level as the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim meme. All of which makes it hard to take the two leading Republican candidates seriously.
The complete lack of any thoughtfulness should be worrying to those few Republicans left who care about such things. “The world is more dangerous,” says Romney. “It is not safer.” Yes, after a decade of constant warfare, after invading and occupying two Muslim countries and striking from Somalia to Pakistan, we are definitely much less safe – but whose fault is that? Romney would escalate the very policies responsible for increasing the danger to all Americans.
On the question of regime change in Syria, Romney and Santorum are in total agreement, declaring we ought to arm the rebels, along with Turkey and the Saudis. Why this wouldn’t turn intoanother Libya, neither bothered to say, although I wouldn’t want to be the one who started the Santorum-is-a-secret-Muslim meme, now would I?
The foreign policy portion of this debate underscored the fundamental unseriousness of the leading Republican candidates. Their fundamental dishonesty – are we really going to abjure any cuts in the military even if it means bankruptcy? – imbues these debates with an air of childishness: one feels as if one has been teleported back in time, to one’s high school election for class president. As the only adult onstage, Ron Paul shone in comparison.
The problem is that we’ve become a nation of babies: total narcissists who believe the world not only revolves around us, but that the laws of economics and of common sense itself are subject to our whims. In such a world, one can indeed have an empire and a welfare state and never have to worry when the bills come due – because, after all, babies don’t pay bills, do they?
This was Paul’s lament Wednesday night, when he said, in a tired voice: well I’ve tried the moral argument, and all the other arguments, and I haven’t gotten anywhere, so maybe the economic argument will work. I’m paraphrasing Paul, but in essence he said: “We’re broke, and we can’t afford all these wars.”
I’m afraid not even the economic argument will work on these “free market” Republicans. The reason it won’t work is because the Republican party is committed to permanent warfare as a matter of high principle, one that trumps economics, and everything else, including the laws of morality. Paul invokes the spirit of Robert A. Taft, but that strain of Republicanism is long since dissipated into political insignificance – although the Paul campaign may be a harbinger of its revival, Paul’s showing in the primaries hasn’t yet demonstrated that.
Polls show a good part of Paul’s support – which we can translate, for our purposes, into support for anti-interventionism – comes from independents, young people, and swing voters leaning Democrat. In short, it comes from precisely those voters who will be deciding the next election – not from Republican base voters, whose foreign policy views are frozen in time and impervious to rational argument.
Speaking of being impervious to rational argument, I see the Santorum camp is floating the rumor that Romney is offering Paul the vice presidential slot in return for an “alliance.” This is much like the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim rumor in that it cannot be refuted – because there’s nothing to refute. As I’ve pointed out before, Paul has attacked Romney often and hard: there’s nothing to this “alliance” other than the overworked imagination of one Washington Post reporter and, now, Team Santorum. We’re even hearing it may be Rand Paul, Ron’s son and the freshly-elected Senator from Kentucky, who’s up for the vice presidency. Since this possibility is contingent on Ron and/or Rand actually, you know, endorsing Romney, such a scenario seems highly unlikely, to put it mildly.
What’s funny is that the Santorum camp – and the political reporters pushing this non-story so strenuously – are utterly clueless about what drives the Paul campaign. It’s been so long since they’ve seen an honest politician at the head of a principled movement that they can’t even understand the concept. Ideologically, the Paulians are light years removed from all the other candidates, and no amount of cajoling – or bribes – will bring them into the fold. No, not even the prospect of Rand Paul a heartbeat away from the presidency, which isn’t going to happen in any event.
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The Big One Cometh – February 19th, 2012
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The Pentagon’s Lie Machine – February 14th, 2012
What Now? – February 12th, 2012
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11 - Brutal Bahraini State Terror
By Stephen Lendman
February 26, 2012
For over a year, Saudi and Al-Khalifa monarchy security forces terrorized nonviolent protesters. Thousands braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture and disappearances.
Washington’s very much involved. Bahrain’s the home of America’s Fifth Fleet. Millions of dollars in aid’s provided. So are weapons, including armored vehicles, bunker buster missiles, wire-guided ones, and more. A Pentagon statement said:
They’ll “improve Bahrain’s capability to meet current and future armored threats. Bahrain will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense.”
In fact, Bahrain faces no external threats. Except for Western/Israeli-targeted Syria, Iran, and Lebanon, neither do other Middle East states. Yet Washington’s selling fighters, missiles, and other advanced weapons to regional allies.
In late December, a Saudi F-15 fighter deal was announced worth nearly $30 billion. Other plans include Iraq weapons sales worth around $11 billion. Israelis, of course, get billions of dollars in aid annually, including America’s most advanced weapons and technology. At the same time, Washington’s belligerently expanding its Middle East footprint.
Thousands of Iraqi troops remain. Others were repositioned. Kuwait contingents increased. Libyan bases are planned, and close ties continue with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and other regional states for future air, ground, and naval combat missions.
Notably, Bahraini activists published photos showing US troops training state security forces in crackdown tactics. In addition, former New York/Philadelphia/Miami Police chief John Timoney’s involved.
Occupy Miami organizer Mohammed Malik told Press TV he’s currently training Bahraini forces. His record includes repressive crackdowns against Miami global justice protesters, Philadelphia ones at the 2000 Republican National Convention, and other brutality in New York. For years, he terrorized city residents where he worked.
On February 16, London Guardian writer Ryan Devereaux headlined, “John Timoney: the notorious police chief sent to ‘reform’ forces in Bahrain,” saying:
For three decades, he was New York City police chief before heading up Philadelphia and Miami departments. He was hired along with former UK assistant top cop John Yates.
Timoney critics cite years of “police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering, and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.”
His methods include “pepper spray, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, Tasers, electrified shields, batons,” beatings, and mass arrests. Florida ACLU executive director Howard Simon called his Bahrain presence “extremely unsettling. I’m concerned for the people of Bahrain with Timoney directing how police there are controlling crowds.”
On February 15, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said brutal crackdowns continue. Saudi and Bahraini security forces attack nonviolent protesters daily. Stun grenades, shotguns, water cannons, and tear gas are used. When fired in closed places, it’s asphyxiating.
On February 7, six US citizens were arrested. Held in police custody for days, they were deported in handcuffs for the duration of their Bahrain/London flight.
On February 17, Press TV reported “a fierce overnight crackdown on anti-regime protesters across several regions of the country.” Manama, Daih, Ma’ameer, Sitra, Sehla and other areas were attacked.
Earlier in the day, police used water cannons against thousands protesting a teenage boy’s death. In Jidd Hafs, he died of severe burns inflicted while demonstrating peacefully.
Women were also assaulted. Homes were raided. Since February 2011 protests erupted, mass arrests, deaths, torture, imprisonments, and other abuses followed.
On February 17, Amnesty International (AI) issued an “urgent action” for “scores” of activists arrested on February 14, saying:
Police attacked, beat and arrested them. Their faces and legs showed signs of abuse. In custody, families have no contact with loved ones. Authorities freely torture and inflict other forms of abuse.
On February 17, Human Rights First said Mahdi Abu Deeb and Jaleela Al Saman (Bahrain Teachers Association president and vice president) will appeal their lawless military court convictions for protesting peacefully.
In custody, they were “tortured and ultimately convicted of unfounded charges and sentenced to prison by the discredited Bahrain military court.” Hundreds of others faced the same abuse.
“Bahrain’s crackdown and these baseless prosecutions continue as the United States considers a new military transfer to Bahrain.” Obama’s moving swiftly to approve it instead of condemning state terror.
Bahrain’s a valued ally. While hypocritically vilifying Assad for confronting Western-backed insurgents, Washington facilitates Al-Khalifi brutality.
A Final Comment
In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. Since mid-February 2011, major ones erupted. Thousands of Bahrainis challenged repressive Al-Khalifa rule nonviolently. Anti-government demonstrations continue daily.
In mid-March, Saudi forces invaded guns blazing. With Bahraini police, they’ve terrorize protesters repressively, including women, children, doctors, journalists, human rights activists, and foreign observers.
On February 13, 2012, Bahrain chief of public security General Tariq Al-Hassan said police presence would continue to confront “unlawful or violent acts of sabotage” even though none whatever are committed.
Despite extreme security force brutality, Bahrainis remain scrupulously nonviolent. Nonetheless, they’re brutally attacked. Minority Sunnis violate majority Shia rights. Bahrainis demand change. The monarchy yields nothing. Washington extends support.
King Hamad blames Iran for fomenting protests. So do Saudis for growing unrest in the kingdom. Heightened tensions suggest likely belligerent intervention ahead. At issue is replacing Tehran’s government with a repressive pro-Western one like in Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab League states.
Throughout the region, Washington backs state terror to achieve it. It’s official policy for unchallenged regional dominance, no matter the body count, vast destruction and human misery.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.S/small>
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Posted on Class War Films on February 23, 2012
Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
Nightmare and insanity are akin: mysterious and involuntary states that skew and distort objective reality. One wakens from nightmare; from insanity there is no awakening.
Whether Americans live in the one state or the other is the paramount question of this era.
For two hundred years Americans have been indoctrinated with a mythology created, imposed and sustained by a manipulating cabal: the financial elite that built its absolute control on the muscle and blood, good will, ignorance and credulity, of its citizenry.
America began with the invasion of a populated continent and the genocide of its native people. Once solidly established, it grafted enslavement of another race onto that base.
With those two pillars of state firmly in place it declared itself an independent nation in a document that nobly proclaimed the equality of all mankind.
In that act of monumental hypocrisy America's myth had its beginning.
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A Constitution was written that came to be regarded as American Holy Writ. Its central purposes were to defend private property and suppress mass democracy. It has fulfilled both those mandates beyond the wildest dreams of its creators.
Once the existing oligarchy was secure in law and native people largely exterminated, the ruling class increased its wealth and power fantastically in the 19th century, using the government as its enabler, exploiting to the limit the device of chartered corporations.
With its phenomenal money power, the financial elite began to use the military to expand its sway beyond the continent. Regions, territories, islands, and whole countries were annexed, invaded, and possessed outright, their peoples crushed, suppressed, and ruled.
Because ordinary Americans, like any people, need to believe that whatever the ruling elite undertakes in their nation's name must be essentially benevolent, noble in purpose and justified in fact, the myth had to be radically modified for imperial expansion.
The foundational story was that Americans had come to a howling wilderness teeming with godless savages and, through invincible strength of character and purity of purpose, had tamed the land and honorably earned the right to possess their bountiful home.
In the era of extra-territorial expansion that version was polished to justify and ennoble imperialism. The new corollary was that America could not ignore colonialist brutality but was obliged, by the Manifest Destiny that led us to civilize our own continent, to carry our mission into barbaric darkness wherever tyranny created abuse and suffering.
A national myth that absolutely binds the loyalty of a people to its government must be a subtle and powerful elixir that elevates and aggrandizes that people's self-regard. National policy will then appear to be an extension of its superior citizenry's inchoate will, and the basis for a justified arrogance toward the lesser world.
The simple, powerful myth of America's altruistic and heroic benevolence, shaped and maintained by the financial/political power elite, infused Americans with a deep and outrageously hubristic sense of racial superiority that, mobilized behind various imperial enterprises, has given all such adventures the character of a quasi-religious crusade. In this way insatiable imperialism acquires the apparent moral perfection of a syllogism.
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With WWII, the world was reconfigured. American Capitalism emerged supreme from the horror that had virtually wrecked its capitalist partners. The Soviet Union, though, having absorbed by far the greatest devastation from Nazi Germany, had astonishingly risen above its ruin to become the leading challenger to America as a world power.
This challenge was not competitive, it was systemic: Soviet Communism was a direct threat to American hegemony in that it categorically refuted the philosophical basis of Predatory Capitalism. Grounded in Marx and Lenin, it attacked Capitalism's inherent evils, monstrous inequities and flagrant injustices that, exacerbated by speculation, exploitation and fraud, would destroy it. And it promoted world revolution to that end.
This face-off of giants in the Cold War necessitated further refinement of the American myth. Now, instead of simply intervening in situations where despotism or tyranny required America to forcefully implant our just and ethical democracy, America had to become the shield and bulwark of the sacred capitalist system in which "free enterprise" was magically and increasingly identified with democracy and equally to be defended.
This version prevailed through many surrogate confrontations around the globe in the era of Mutually Assured Destruction and survived even the debacle of Vietnam, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the propaganda stream became ever more intense and pervasive. On radio and television Americans were subjected to an unrelenting barrage of hyper-patriotism in which American moral superiority was a given, and America's self-touted courage, generosity and decency were its unchallengeable proofs.
The implosion of the Soviet Union left America, in its own terminology, the "Sole Superpower in a Unipolar World." This, however, did not result in diminution of the myth. The practical effect of having no doomsday enemy -- China couldn't plausibly be cast in that role then -- was to supercharge it by increasing its element of pure, hubristic ego. America was no longer just called upon to defend the "Free World" from monstrous heresy; it was now, by virtue of its universally acknowledged, beatific "exceptionalism," required to oversee and police it in the interests, and for the benefit, of lesser nations.
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"Power corrupts," said Lord Mahan, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
When the only rival and counterweight to American power disintegrated there was a sense within the American power elite that the opportunity existed, for the first time in history, for one country to absolutely dominate and effectively control the entire world.
This consensus was expressed in a policy statement composed by a cadre of major right-wing political players representing massive corporate capitalist interests called the Project for a New American Century. This triumphalist manifesto laid out a plan for absolute American access and control of essential resources and raw materials worldwide, to be guaranteed by the military which would enforce Full Spectrum Dominance.
The American Myth, which had seemed to have lost momentum and its animating principle in the totally unexpected so-called Cold War "victory," was now re-energized with a less defensive and reactive essence, and given the glowing radiance and patina of a true and, for the first time, self-professed and articulated, imperial mission.
The attack on the Towers, an unimaginable provocation, was the trigger mechanism for the explosive launch of the effort to impose that imperial model in practice on the world.
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It has been without question the most spectacular failure in the history of American misadventure. After a decade marked by the waste of trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives, the stunning bankruptcy of our internally burglarized nation, and a consequent recession more fundamentally damaging than the Great One, Imperial America has nothing to show for the botched folly of its arrogant overreach but unequivocal disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with no end of madness in sight.
An impartial observer would have to say that the hypnotic hold of the American Myth on the loyalty of the people has led only to disgrace and disaster, and set a direct course to inevitable imperial decline and ruin. That would be inarguable on any rational basis, but it entirely mistakes the motive for, and the purpose of, the myth. The American Myth was never intended to serve the interests either of our country or of our people: it was created solely to buttress, shield, and exalt the ruling financial class. It has done that with astonishing and unbroken success that staggers the imagination from our earliest days.
The massive looting of Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan war funding to enrich the Corporate Tyranny -- for that is what it has become -- is on a unique scale of its own, without anything remotely comparable to its flagrant obscenity in the whole long history of war.
Neither the Pentagon nor any branch of the U.S. government can give any accounting whatever of the many billions of tax-generated dollars that have vanished, evaporated. There is no doubt but that beyond the outrageously inflated, no-bid contracts handed to giant corporate favorites with their preposterous guaranteed profits, much of the money was simply stolen in bulk by, through, or in spite of the military, and distributed among thieves and accomplices, some of it on huge pallets...for convenience, presumably.
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While this wholesale robbery was going on under the oversight of the military abroad, the Corporate Tyranny had evolved a whole set of impenetrably complex devices for the generation of money without any economically productive source or result at home.
The sole driving force and purpose of Capitalism is the realization of profit. According to that calculus, reducing production costs increases profit margin. This leads to the obvious conclusion that as production costs near zero, profit is maximized.
There is no provision for social good in Capitalist theory. Corporations, created to optimize business opportunity through efficient specialization, were originally required to operate for public benefit but that provision was quickly finessed and forgotten.
American law courts have always favored corporate concentrations of wealth since they, like the Congress, exist to serve the moneyed interests. The American Myth was created to provide cover for the financial oligarchy to exploit the country and the citizenry, and the judiciary has consistently cooperated in ruling for corporations against the people.
Indeed, without ever considering the question in law, the Supreme Court long ago endowed corporations with "personhood," that is with all rights of human beings under our Constitution. The way this travesty occurred -- the slipshod by-product of an obliquely related case -- shows that the court preferred to incorporate this perversion of the plain intent of the 14thamendment as an unexamined assumption rather than risk an eventual test which would unquestionably have created violent public outrage.
Given the collusion of Congress and the courts in securing legal invulnerability for the Corporate Tyranny and the principle that the only duty of corporations is maximization of profit, it was not surprising that megabanks, huge brokerage houses, giant insurance conglomerates, gilded hedge funds and the credit agencies pretending to certify their work, all engaged in massive and systemic fraud and deception for just that purpose. The result was the crash of '08, the recession, and the stunning and unprecedented rescue and bailout of the biggest banks, investment houses, and insurance and credit conglomerates with taxpayer dollars. So much for the hallowed Invisible Hand of the Free Market....
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The last decades have seen two related mega-trends in American geopolitical mechanics, both with dire effects on the power of the American Myth. First, what belief the world at large had in it has been shattered by a catastrophic series of imbecile and irretrievable military failures and disasters, which has caused erosion of its efficacy at home. Second, in response to this, the State has made increasingly crude efforts to boost the Myth's waning power by the imposition of totalitarian methods of surveillance, intimidation and coercion on the American people to a degree unprecedented in scope and scale.
The whole clanking, medieval apparatus of Homeland Security that has sprouted like an enormous poison fungus since 9/11 with its brutal police state mindset; the odious Patriot Act with its flagrant subversions of the Bill of Rights; the endless, fantasy-based terror-peddling of the prostitute corporate media with its clowns and harpies churning irrational fear and anger in the uninformed: all this grim, repressive endeavor is a concerted attempt to distract Americans from the real causes of their injury, abuse, and oppression.
And yet, even with the American Myth now totally and irreparably blown full of holes and exposed demonstrably for the tissue of lies, deceptions and frauds that it has always been, it somehow keeps its phenomenal hold on the great mass of the American people. The tragic reality is that, for the majority, their own identities have been so deeply and thoroughly infused with the myth that to disbelieve it is to disbelieve in themselves.
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So the American Myth is dead, and yet it lives on in its deadness, horribly masking our crapshot economy, our bankrupt debtors' prison of a society, our Ghost Dance charade of kabuki democracy, while typhoons of impending social, economic and ecological disaster build their enormous, lightning-charged thunderheads above the dark future before us.
And what is it that the dead Myth still imperfectly obscures for Americans? What is outside and beyond the opaque wall of faltering, failing dishonesty and deception? What is the horror that the shoddy, tattered Myth has so long and so effectively concealed?
It is the world that has suffered unrelieved exploitation by the violence of our imperialist mania. It is the many wrecked and pillaged economies financially looted by our imposed predatory capitalist austerity regimes. It is the teeming hundreds of millions of starved, deprived and dying children sacrificed to Wall Street commodities gaming. It is the multitudes of humble, innocent, ignorant people, barely surviving in absolutist and dictatorial regimes propped up in their barbaric cruelty by our military while our banks siphon off the profits left after arming their brutal police and armies and bribing their ruling Kings, Sheikhs or Generals. It is the millions of dead and maimed in the raped populations of simple tribal people whom our indiscriminately murderous juggernaut has left in its bloody wake in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is the appalling legacy of hate and repulsion, disdain and fear, that America has earned with its appalling hegemonist villainy in every corner of the world.
And at home, what is it we Americans have been so complicit in hiding from ourselves in our devotion to the perverse legend that has come to inhabit our souls like a succubus?
It is the millions of us with no work and no hope in middle age whose jobs and homes have been devoured by the heartless fraud machine of Wall Street. It is the trashed and demolished weed-lots of our major cities eroding in crumbling, fire-gutted ruin. It is the many towns and cities with industries shut down and factories deserted or dismantled and shipped overseas. It is our decaying, disintegrating public schools, our bankrupt states and counties, our overtaxed, antiquated public transportation systems, our obsolete, dissolving infrastructure, our bloated, irrational prisons complex, our punishing and inadequate health care disaster, and over it all, the repressive mechanism of our police state, armed and empowered, ready for use against the American people themselves.
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This is where we are. The great question now is whether we as a nation can awaken from this long historic nightmare and face the terrifying and exhilarating prospect of living in the full light of reality without the false props and dishonest constructs of a hoodwinked, herded and dishonored people or, whether we have internalized the falsity and disease to such an extent that it has become an organic, overmastering form of insanity?
In 1846, Henry David Thoreau, offended to his soul by the injustice of the American government's invasion of Mexico, protested it and went to jail for his convictions. Later, in his essay On Civil Disobedience, he said this:
"If injustice is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
To attempt to break the hold of the American Myth will be a titanic, daunting challenge. To even begin to openly rebel against the might of the National Security State will require the courage to face much more than official disapproval and denunciation. Imperial America will not respond to even the most peaceful and orderly protest with anything less than hard police repression and the level of punishment will rise in relation to the scope and seriousness of the action undertaken.
Small protests will have no effect and will be meaningless. Organized mass events, when they occur, will draw the whole fiercely and brutally motivated National Security State apparatus down upon themselves. Americans, excepting those of our underclass who have felt it, have no experience with violent police or military repression. Those who commit peaceful civil disobedience -- a first and innocent tactic of serious protest -- will swiftly find out to their cost how it works. In a National Security State that has excised and eradicated all defensive laws and regulations intended to prevent abuse of the public, whatever the State does is legal. To such a pass have we in America come as a result of our long historic indoctrination in serving our financial elite, our Ruling Class.
To achieve any redemption for Americans, to make possible any more just, humane and life-honoring society, will require complete abandonment of the system of Predatory Capitalism. If offers no prospect of reform or improvement and we have all been witness to the idiocy of the so-called "democratic process" in action for generations now.
America is nearing the greatest crisis point in its history and the terrific cataclysm, when it happens, will determine the future our country is to have. If we cannot, in dominating numbers, rise to reject the heartless, mindless, soul-less machine of Imperial Predatory Capitalism, we will be condemned to a fascistic command and control horror in which human beings are mere possessions of the State, units of production or service, and then perhaps not even that, as excess population in that brave, new world nay be eliminated.
That end is not inevitable. We are not lost. We are not even defeated because to this moment we have not engaged. We have not honored our responsibility as human beings. We have not risen to defend our humanity. We have let ourselves be ruled.
All around the world the thunder of vast and immeasurable discontent can be heard and felt. In Egypt and Spain, Jordan and Greece, Iraq and Sudan, Afghanistan and Ireland, Latin America, the Far East and Africa, the legitimate anger of humanity is expressing itself against the dead and killing hand of Predatory Capitalism and its agencies of violence. And here, in America, so long trapped and encapsulated, frozen like a fly in amber in a false religion of state idolatry, the anger is deep, widespread, and growing.
It is up to those who know and care to lead. As Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls." Nothing is guaranteed us. That can't matter. We cannot be concerned with odds or outcomes. We cannot let the Machine of Injustice grind on. We must oppose it with all the moral force we own. We must act with quiet courage to confront a vicious tyrannical system that is destroying the earth, its life, and its people. We must put our lives on the line to oppose it.
The Nightmare Machine of rapacious exploitation has overthrown humanity's decency and reason and its bloody inhuman treason flourishes over us. This must be ended.
Let your life be a friction now to stop the Machine.
See also -- The Century of the Self -- How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
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VIDEO'S
13 - Syrian Rebels Captured With Israeli Weapons
Syrian Rebels Captured With Israeli Weapons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qgznlLHb-44
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Let-Your-Life-Be-a-Frictio-by-Press-Release-120224-99.html
The Real Power Behind the New World Order (Full Documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgnCaWsFXaQ&feature=related
Child Sexual Abuse Cover-Up in Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__pl_AV3Lo
Jews planning another internet shutdown on their feast of "Purim"
http://www.infowars.com/kill-switch-fbi-could-shut-off-internet-for-thousands-on-march-8-to-eradicate-virus/
Illuminati Astrology and 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkwBjLG1ULA&feature=related
No More Americans to Die for Jewry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxzZY4JycY&feature=player_embedded
Dr. Pierce on how Judaism has destroyed White, Christian civilization
http://vimeo.com/37147833
2-minute video: FOX edits, fakes applause for John Bolton pro-war response
The 2-minute video is a public meeting of former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton responding to a US war veteran’s question. The video shows that FOX then edits-out the audience response to replace it with applause from a different person’s question. The proof is that the...
29-second Orwellian video: FOX News: “US has moral authority to annihilate Iran because they’re evil”
video here. This is Orwellian language in action. Mr. Carlson states that because the US has moral authority (we’re the good guys) and do not seek hegemony, the US can destroy Iran (and all its people?) in a pre-emptive strike because they’re evil (the bad guys). This...
Kriegslügen gegen Syrien - Christoph Hörstel im Interview mit Russia
Today - YouTube_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLg5xrGvJhs)
(_http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLg5xrGvJhs_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLg5xrGvJhs) )
talks about what is happening in syria....tags in german, but video is in
english
Who Said Israel Has A Right To Exist?
Israel & Palestine - The So-Called Right To Exist
Zionist Christians should read Revelation 2:9 & 3:9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUViCujPRnA&feature=related
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14 - New York's U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules MERS's Business Model Is Illegal
L. Randall WrayProfessor of Economics and Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri–Kansas City
Feb. 16, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/new-yorks-us-bankruptcy-c_b_824167.html?view=print
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/new-yorks-us-bankruptcy-c_b_824167.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Grossman has ruled that MERS's business practices are unlawful. He explicitly acknowledged that this ruling sets a precedent that has far-reaching implications for half of the mortgages in this country. MERS is dead. The banks are in big trouble. And all foreclosures should be stopped immediately while the legislative branch comes up with a solution.
For some weeks I have been arguing that MERS is perpetrating foreclosure fraud all across the nation. Its business model makes it impossible to legally foreclose on any mortgaged property registered within its system -- which includes half of the outstanding mortgages in the US. MERS was a fraud from day one, whose purpose was to evade property recording fees & to subvert 5 centuries of property law. Its chickens have come home to roost.
Wall St. wanted to transform America's housing sector into the world's biggest casino and needed to undermine property rights to make it easier to run the scam. The payoffs were bigger for lenders who could induce homeowners to take mortgages they could not possibly afford. The mortgages were packaged into securities sold-on to patsy investors who were defrauded by the "reps and warranties" falsely certifying the securities as backed by top grade loans. In fact the securities were not backed by mortgages, and in any case the mortgages were sure to go bad. Given that homeowners would default, the Wall St. banks that serviced the mortgages needed a foreclosure steamroller to quickly and cheaply throw families out of the homes so that they could be resold to serve as purported collateral for yet more gambling bets. MERS -- the industry's creation -- stepped up to the plate to facilitate the fraud.
The judge has ruled that its practices are illegal. MERS and the banks lose; investors and homeowners win.
Here's MERS's business model in brief. Real estate property sales and mortgages are supposed to be recorded in local recording offices, with fees paid. With the rise of securitization, each mortgage might be sold a dozen times before it came to rest as the collateral behind a mortgage backed security (MBS), and each of those sales would need to be recorded. MERS was created to bypass public recording; it would be listed in the county records as the "mortgagee of record" and the "nominee" of the holder of mortgage. Members of MERS could then transfer the mortgage from one to another without all the trouble of changing the local records, simply by (voluntarily) recording transactions on MERS's registry.
A mortgage has 2 parts, the "note" and the "security" (not to be confused with the MBS) or "deed of trust" that is usually just called the "mortgage". The idea behind MERS was that the "note" would be transferred from seller to purchaser, but the "mortgage" would be held by MERS. In fact, MERS recommended that the "note" be held by the mortgage servicer to facilitate foreclosures, but in practice it seems that the notes were often lost or destroyed (which is why all those Burger King Kids were hired to Robo-sign "lost note affidavits").
At each transfer, the note & mortgage are supposed to be "assigned" to the new owner; MERS claimed that because it was the "mortgagee of record" and the "nominee" of both parties to every transaction, there was no need to assign the "mortgage" until foreclosure. And it argued that since the old adage is that the "mortgage follows the note" and that both parties intended to assign the notes (even if they did not get around to doing it), then the Bankruptcy Court should rule that the assignments did take place in some sort of "virtual reality" so that there is a clear chain of title that allows the servicers to foreclose.
The Judge rejected every aspect of MERS's argument. The Court rejected the claim that MERS could be both holder of the mortgage as well as nominee of the "true" owner. It also found that "mortgagee of record" is a vague term that does not give one legal standing as mortgagee. Hence, at best, MERS is only a nominee. It rejected MERS's claim that as nominee it can assign notes or mortgages -- a nominee has limited rights and those most certainly do not include the right to transfer ownership unless there is specific written instruction to do so. In scarcely veiled anger, the Judge wrote:
"According to MERS, the principal/agent relationship among itself and its members is created by the MERS rules of membership and terms and conditions, as well as the Mortgage itself. However, none of the documents expressly creates an agency relationship or even mentions the word "agency." MERS would have this Court cobble together the documents and draw inferences from the words contained in those documents."
Judge Grossman rejected MERS's arguments, saying that mere membership in MERS does not provide "agency" rights to MERS, and agreeing with the Supreme Court of Kansas that ruled "The parties appear to have defined the word [nominee] in much the same way that the blind men of Indian legend described an elephant -- their description depended on which part they were touching at any given time."
He went on to disparage MERS's claim that since in legal theory the "mortgage follows the note", the Court should overlook the fact that MERS separated them. He stopped just short of saying that by separating them, MERS has irretrievably destroyed the clear chain of title, although he hinted that a future ruling could come to that conclusion:
"MERS argues that notes and mortgages processed through the MERS System are never "separated" b/c beneficial ownership of the notes and mortgages are always held by the same entity. The Court will not address that issue in this Decision, but leaves open the issue as to whether mortgages processed through the MERS system are properly perfected and valid liens. See Carpenter v. Longan, 83 U.S. at 274 (finding that an assignment of the mortgage without the note is a nullity); Landmark Nat'l Bank v. Kesler, 216 P.3d 158, 166-67 (Kan. 2009) ("[I]n the event that a mortgage loan somehow separates interests of the note & the deed of trust, with the deed of trust lying with some independent entity, the mortgage may become unenforceable")."
That would mean not only the end of MERS, but also the end of the banks holding unenforceable mortgages because they were not, & cannot be, "perfected". MERS & the banks screwed up big time, and there is no "do over" -- there is no valid lien on the property, so owners have got their homes free and clear.
There have been numerous court rulings against MERS -- including decisions made by state supreme courts. What is significant about the US Bankruptcy Court of New York's ruling is that the judge specifically set out to examine the legality of MERS's business model. As the judge argued in the decision, "The Court believes this analysis is necessary for the precedential effect it will have on other cases pending before this Court". In the scathing opinion, Judge Grossman variously labeled MERS's positions as "stunningly inconsistent" with the facts, "absurd, at best", and "not supported by the law". The ruling is a complete repudiation of every argument MERS has made about the legality of its procedures.
What is particularly ironic is that MERS actually forced the judge to undertake the examination of its business model. The case before the judge involved a foreclosed homeowner who had already lost in state court. The homeowner then approached the US Bankruptcy Court to argue that the foreclosing bank did not have legal standing because of MERS's business practices. However, by the "Rooker-Feldman" doctrine (or res judicata), the US Bankruptcy Court is prohibited from "looking behind" the state court's decision to determine the issue of legal standing. Hence, Judge Grossman ruled in the bank's favor on that particular issue.
Yet, MERS's high priced lawyers wanted to push the issue and asked for the Judge to rule in favor of MERS's practices, too. So while MERS won the little battle over one foreclosed home, it lost the war against the nation's homeowners. The Judge ruled against MERS on every single issue of importance. And it was MERS's stupid arrogance that brought it down.
As I predicted 2 weeks. ago, MERS would be dead within weeks. Judge Grossman has driven the final stake through its black heart. The half of America's homeowners whose mortgages are registered at MERS have been handed a "get out of jail free" card. Wall St. has no right to foreclose on their property. The tide has turned. It won't be easy, but homeowners in those states with judicial foreclosures now have Judge Grossman on their side. Those in the other states (just over half) will have a tougher time because they can lose their home before they ever get to court. But the law is still on their side -- foreclosure by members of MERS is theft -- so class action lawsuits may be the way to go.
MERS is dead, but can the banks survive? There are two separate issues. First, there are the "reps and warranties" given by the mortgage securitizers (Wall St. investment banks) to the investors (pension funds, GSEs, PIMCO, and so on). We now know that a quarter to a third of the mortgages bundled to serve as backing for the securities did not meet stated quality. Worse, we also know that the banks knew this -- they hired third parties to undertake "due diligence" to check quality. This was not done to protect the investors, rather, the purpose was to strengthen the bargaining position of the securitizers, who were able to reduce the prices paid for the mortgages. Now, the investors are suing the banks for restitution--forcing them to cover the losses and buy-back the bad mortgages at original price. To add insult to injury, even the NYFed is suing them. That is a lot like having your parents sue you for their inadequate parental oversight of your behavior.
The second issue is that the mortgages backing the securities were supposed to be placed in Trusts (affiliates of the securitizing banks), with the Trustee certifying not only that the mortgages met the reps and warranties but also that the documents were up to snuff and safely locked away. We know they were not. As mentioned above, MERS told the servicers to hold the notes, and many or most of them were destroyed or lost. Further, the notes were separated from the mortgages -- making them null and void. In any case, they are not at the Trusts. This means the MBSs are not backed by mortgages, meaning the MBSs are unsecured debt. MERS's business model ensures that. So, again, the banks must take back the fraudulent securities -- paying off the investors.
What can Wall St. do? Well, I suppose the "help wanted" signs are already up at MERS and Wall St. banks: "Needed: Burger King Kids to Robo-sign forged quasi-professional-looking docs". The problem is that even with tens of thousands of Robo-Kids, Wall St. will not be able to pull off a vast criminal conspiracy on the necessary scale. Think about it: 60M mortgages, each sold ten times, means 600 million transactions and assignments that have to be forged. MERS's documentation was notoriously sloppy, relying on voluntary recording by members. The Robo-Kids would have to go back through a decade of records to manufacture a paper trail that would convince now-skeptical judges that there is a clear chain of title from the first recording in the public record through to the foreclosure. It ain't going to happen.
The only other hope is that Wall St. can call in its campaign contribution chips and get Congress to retroactively legalize fraud. That is what they do in those dictatorships that protestors are now bringing down in the Middle East. Is Washington willing to take that risk, just to please its Wall St. benefactors?
The court document is available here. It is terrific reading.
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15 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
The American "TC" Saga - Part 1 - INTRODUCTION
The American "TC" Saga - Part 2 - STATE
The American "TC" Saga - Part 3 - CHURCH
The American "TC" Saga - Part 4 - FAMILY
The American "TC" Saga - Part 5 - ECONOMY
The American "TC" Saga - Part 6 - SCHOOL
The American "TC" Saga - Part 7 - MEDIA
The American "TC" Saga - Part 8 - CORPORATIONS and LAW
The American "TC" Saga - Part 9 - CORPORATE STATE
The American "TC" Saga - Part 10 - GLOBAL CONTROLLERS
"Toxic Obama" - the latest failed Presidency
Barry Soetoro the Blackface Alfred E. Neuman
The New World Order Feudal Enslavement System
Fatalistic Reality and Election Futility
No Labels = the Ignorant Middle
Davos Elites Enjoys the Global Depression
The Rule of Gold after the Financial Collapse
Bretton Woods II - The Final Enslavement of Mankind
NOVO ORDO SECLORUM - NeoCon Hell on Earth
Agenda 21 in New York State - Home Rule and Article X
Liberty for the Ron Paul Generation
Federal Reserve is a Cache of Stolen Assets
Obamacare is a Public Requiem by Supreme Decree
Edgar Steele and the National Defense Authorization Act
Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
BREAKING ALL THE RULES
BREAKING ALL THE RULES Forum
Totalitarian Collectivism
"The privatization of public services and functions manifests the steady evolution of corporate power into a political form, into an integral, even dominant partner with the state." -- Sheldon S. Wolin
Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
Stricken with a terminal disease, the decline of traditional society is unavoidable. For decades, the political institutions that fostered a Republic based upon individual liberty and responsibility fade into fond memory. Defenders of all that made America a shining example of human freedom are attacked and ridiculed for holding onto a moral and ethical system that is based upon the dignity of every individual. Most will blame the failure of this decay on the politicians that willfully pander to the masses with the next generation of social welfare programs. While defining a politician as a scoundrel, deserving damnation, seems obvious; the underlying source of the decay that eats away the culture comes from various directions.
The trends toward despotism are visible for all to see. Most prefer their blinded vision because accepting the lethal condition might require some proactive response. The idea that a single dictator will seize power and rule as a tyranny seems foreign to many plebeians. Yet, the daily news that flows from the corporate mass media build upon the absence of real reporting and fundamental truth that ignores, denies and substitutes meaningless stories for earth shattering events.
Therefore, the significance of the concept, inverted totalitarianism, as defined bySheldon S. Wolin deserves examination.
"It is all politics all of the time but a politics largely untempered by the political. Party squabbles are occasionally on public display, and there is a frantic and continuous politics among factions of the party, interest groups, competing corporate powers, and rival media concerns. And there is, of course, the culminating moment of national elections when the attention of the nation is required to make a choice of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives. What is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly organized, single-minded interests rabidly seeking governmental favors and overwhelming the practices of representative government and public administration by a sea of cash."
Watch the Sheldon Wolin You Tube interview for a summary of his viewpoint.
For an in-depth study of Mr. Wolin’s ideas, review Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. He asks the following questions:
"Does a demos have a future in the age of globalization, instant communication networks, and fluid borders? Is the notion of "a" demos as asingle, compact body with a "will" and an identity that persists overtime at all possible or even a coherent notion in the age of the political bloggers? Is there time for a more authentic politics, more reflective of the pluralistic character of reality?"
He defines democracy as,
"Democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men and women can recognize that their concerns are best protected and cultivated under a regime whose actions are governed by principles of commonality, equality, and fairness, a regime in which taking part in politics becomes a way of staking out and sharing in a common life and its forms of self-fulfillment. Democracy is not about bowling together but about managing together those powers that immediately and significantly affect the lives and circumstances of others and one’s self."
The power influence of the transnational corporation dampens any idealistic notion that democracy is coming from the voices of the people. Momentous influence comes through the propagandist media message. The corporate economy dictates the parameters of the public debate. Trivia replaces the profound. Spending drives a lust for meaningless ingestion of poisonous consumption. The shaping of the popular culture is meant not just to dumb down the public but also to confer a normalcy for accepting the mundane. Rejecting the historic dialogue of the nature of man and the role of a just government is replaced with a diet of manufactured "dependency rights" and "entitlements".
From Fugitive Democracy: Sheldon Wolin and contemplating the local, the following quote offers an insight on the nature of political apathy that relegates one to accept a mad culture which is devoid from reality.
"In the emerging political economy, Wolin discerns an "anti-political" movement that coordinates the corporation and the state in a drive toward Superpower—that is, "an expansive system of power that accepts no limits other than those it chooses to impose on itself" (p. xvi). As this ‘postmodern’ political economy tends toward Superpower, those in positions of authority demand a new form of citizen: the imperial citizen. Sheldon Wolin reminds us of American president George W. Bush during the tense moments after September 11th, 2001, who exhorted the people to show their citizenship through consumption: "unite, spend, and fly" (590). This pastoral concern by the president emblemizes the postmodern power of the political economy as it reconstitutes "civic culture" as a flattened plane detached from the dynamic structures of Superpower’s soveriegn handle of world affairs. The best thing citizens can do is prove their patriotism by submitting to the authority of the established powers without a word of protest or difference (thus the encouragement to "unite"). Rather than spending unnecessary time and energy worrying about the changing shape of common life—of the networks that bind us to near and distant neighbors—the postmodern citizen faces the multiplicity of demands and choices available at the local Starbucks as she scrolls through the latest bids on ebay while listening to music on her iPod as she waits for the latest iTunes song to upload on her iBook. With so much to do, why worry ourselves with what our representatives are paid to do? This is the imperial citizen according to Superpower—a free-floating, apolitical subject, moved by the television pulse from the security of home to the perpetual satisfaction of shopping malls. "Superpower needs an imperial citizen," writes Wolin, "one who accepts the necessarily remote relationship between the concerns of the citizen and those of the power-holders, who welcomes being relieved of participatory obligations, and who is fervently patriotic." (565)."
The imperial citizen is truly a fool. The imperium that surrounds the disengaged participant in the latest escalation of self-imposed slavery, is the ultimate result of the corporate/state.
Progressive author and pundit, Chris Hedges adds his vantage point in the video,Inverted Totalitarianism: Brand Obama and the Corporate State.
Hedges’ talent for ripping apart the corporate state in all its horror is well established. However, his clarion voice goes unheard in the corridors of real power. The economy dictates the marketplace that is available for sale. The advertisement is the message that is acceptable to believe. And the limits upon one’s ability to think and act rationally is controlled by the inverted totalitarianism that is of our own making.
Blaming external forces for all the ills of circumstances begs the issue. As long as passive individuals accept their subservient plight, the tyrants of the establishment culture will exploit the sheeple at every turn. Our unique existence justifies resistance to every form of tyranny that comes our way. Notwithstanding, this basic human and natural right; most citizens succumb to the mind meld of limited expectations.
The frightful consequences on the totalitarian society rest upon the shoulders of each person who refuses to challenge the system. Resisting immoral authority is your primary civic duty. Our avowed responsibility is to abolish the corporate/sate and global governance that enslaves the planet.
A disconnect of left leaning progressives, from the historic context of natural law principles, is a core reason why a coalition of anti establishment advocates fails. Common dreams must become practical beliefs. As long as the utopians refuse to accept the lessons and validity of genuine conservative philosophy, the divide and conqueror tactics of the despotic New World Order will continue.
The economic implosion of the last few years is undeniable. The consolidation of power marches on because ordinary people obey repressive authority. Sadly, the indifference towards one’s own self-respect is the prime result of the sick popular culture. The abandonment of Western Civilization is almost complete, but is not final. Totalitarianism is a crime against humanity. It is up to you to do your civil disobedient duty.
SARTRE – February 26, 2012
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16 - Opening A New Theater of War In The North American Homeland
The Intel Hub
By Saman Mohammadi – Contributing Writer
January 25, 2012
State of Emergency Communique #1: America, Canada, and Mexico are financially and mentally colonized nations. But financial fraud and media propaganda are no longer enough to keep the people down. Due to the political awakening across the continent the need for the boots has come.
“It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as continuous as it has been unheralded.” – Professor Peter Dale Scott, “War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis,” Global Research, February 23, 2011.
“They take our tax money and then militarize the police, and use the regular military against us.” – Alex Jones, “Military Industrial Complex has declared war on the US,” Russia Today, January 19, 2012.
“It’s not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (Constitutionally-protected) American territory for long, long stretches of time. Homeland Security doesn’t have a particular system in mind. Right now, it’s just soliciting “industry feedback” on what a formal call for such a “Wide Area Surveillance System” might look like. But it’s the latest indication of how powerful military surveillance technology, developed to find foreign insurgents and terrorists, is migrating to the home front.” – Spencer Ackerman, “Homeland Security Wants To Spy On 4 Square Miles At Once,” Wired, January 23, 2012.
“There is a genuine, dangerous disconnect between the Washington foreign policy apparat and the broad American people as a whole. And I think you saw evidence of this on February 15 (2003), when there were peace demonstrations in as many as 300 American cities. And I think that there is a real difference between what I call the American oligarchy, which now pretty much controls not only the White House but the Congress and the Supreme Court, and the American democracy.” – Lewis Lapham, “Lewis Lapham’s attack on American plutocracy,” Allan Gregg’s YouTube Channel, January 20, 2011, (Original broadcast: March 2003).
“How low have we sunk, Mr. Obama? You portray yourself as a man of honor and a defender of constitutionalism, but you have opened the gates to lawlessness and authoritarian rule.” – Philip Giraldi, “Creating American Terrorists,” The Council For The National Interest, January 19, 2012.
“A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent.” – Dana Gabriel, “The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter,” Be Your Own Leader, December 11, 2011.
“All the power and policy of man cannot continue a system long after its truth has ceased to be acknowledged, or an establishment long after it has ceased to contribute to utility. It is equally vain, as to expect to preserve a tree, whose roots are cut away. It may look as green and flourishing as before for a short time, but its sentence is passed, its principle of life is gone, and death is already within it.” – Anna Letitia Barbauld, Selected Poetry & Prose, pg. 275-276.
The process of global state-building has been going on for a long time. At the mid-way point of the existence of the American republic the U.S. Constitution came under attack and America’s national sovereignty was destroyed by international banks and corporations.
The U.S. Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788, but by 1900 it was already coming undone by traitors from within Washington and ambitions bankers from beyond her shores who invaded America with suitcases full of money instead of armies and tanks.
From 1900 to 1912 they engineered various financial crises in order to consolidate financial and political power. The bought off media misdirected public attention away from their criminal actions and towards an anti-capitalism/anti-free market narrative.
Then in 1913 the Federal Reserve Act effectively ended constitutional rule in the United States and recolonized the American people.
Under the Act, the power to create and lend money, which is the greatest power a government can have, was repossessed by the private bankers connected to the British aristocracy who were defeated by the American founding fathers and the American people in America’s First War of Independence.
I say “First” because it is clear that a Second War of Independence needs to be fought in the 21st century against the private bankers and the fascist multinational corporations connected to them that have robbed America blind and destroyed its social fabric.
But this time the pawns with the guns drawn are not foreign imperial troops, nor are they gentlemanly soldiers in red coats. The pawns in the 21st century American police state are ruthless and arrogant scum who have been trained to smash in faces and pull out eyeballs.
Police officers pepper sprayed university students in the face on a bright sunny day when everything seemed relatively peaceful and orderly. Imagine what these lawless goons in uniform will do to ordinary citizens and protesters when martial law is declared, order in the streets is gone, and mobs roam through stores like wild dogs.
When Martial Law is declared and social order breaks down, North America will become the battlefield that the military and civilian planners in Washington intended it to be all along. Indefinite detention centers will come into use. Also, the war on the Internet and free press will turn very real and very deadly.
I expect that Middle Eastern war zones will look pretty tame by comparison to some of the war zones on the North American continent. After all, the land of the gun can only be pacified by the gun.
All the police state laws since the false flag 9/11 attacks have contributed to the process of global state-building and the establishment of a universal slave grid system.
The unstated objective of this new international system is permanent bondage of the people. The criminal and Satanic elite want to gain complete control of the planet and human destiny. According to historian Webster Tarpley, radio host Alex Jones, and others, large pockets of the middle class and the underclass will be exterminated under this system of mass death.
This is where Homeland Security comes in. It has been set up as an extrajudicial killing and spying machine. But its undercover anti-democratic and eugenicist operations are being concealed behind false narratives like the war on terror and false aims like domestic security.
Homeland Security’s tyrannical reach also extends into Canada. The usurpation of Canada’s national sovereignty by political and corporate elites means Canada, like America, is a wilderness without laws and institutions.
We are witnessing the re-colonization of the North American continent. This time around, however, the colonizers do not speak a foreign language.); ?–> We are witnessing the re-colonization of the North American continent. This time around, however, the colonizers do not speak a foreign language.
Dana Gabriel highlighted the consolidation of political power and natural resources by the plutocrats in North America on December 11, 2011, in an article called, “The Pretext for a North American Homeland Security Perimeter”:
On December 7, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the Beyond the Border Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Action Plan. The new deal focuses on addressing security threats early, facilitating trade, economic growth and jobs, integrating cross-border law enforcement, as well as improving infrastructure and cyber-security.
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While the perimeter agreement is being sold as vital to the safety and prosperity of Canadians and Americans alike, there is little doubt that it will mean a tradeoff between sovereignty and security. Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights. As both countries move forward, perimeter security will be further defined and dominated by American interests. This could force Canada to comply with any new U.S. security measures, regardless of the dangers they may pose to civil liberties. A North American Homeland Security perimeter goes well beyond keeping people safe from any perceived threats. It is a means to secure trade, resources, as well as corporate interests and is a pretext for control over the continent.
Things will get messy once the people in America and Canada wake up and discover that both countries have been colonized by international banks and corporations behind their backs.
In a state of martial law, dissidents, bloggers, fact-based journalists, anti-war activists, gun owners, Occupy Wall Street activists, and Tea Party activists will all be deemed “domestic terrorists” and taken away into secret dungeons by the brainwashed pawns of the global corporatist state.
Tom Burghardt wrote on October 11, 2008, in his article, “Militarizing the “Homeland” in Response to the Economic and Political Crisis”:
Wholesale spying on activists by the Pentagon’s now defunct Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), as well as revelations that State police agencies in Maryland routinely spied on antiwar organizers, shared this information with the National Security Agency and classified them as “terrorists” in government-run databases, are viewed as exemplary means to “keep the rabble in line”–and under wraps, if necessary.
A highly-disturbing report by Christopher Ketchum in the May/June 2008 issue of Radar Magazine, outlined how the top secret Main Core database linked to Continuity of Government contingency planning, “includes dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.”
Reporting in July for Salon, investigative journalist Tim Shorrock was told by a source that Main Core is “‘an emergency internal security database system’ designed for use by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law. Its name … is derived from the fact that it contains ‘copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community’.”
Those who still believe that the criminal hijackers of our governments, “won’t order the military and police to shoot to kill dissidents and protesters,” are stuck in la la land.
They can’t see that North America is already being treated by the elites and government authorities as a theater of war. They can’t see that the mouse traps have been laid and that the maze of slavery has been designed to the last detail.
Staying blind doesn’t make the political crisis go away or the reality of war and tyranny disappear into the background of life.
A reckoning is coming. There is no sense in remaining blind to it.
Saman Mohammadi in an indepdent journalist and frequent Intel Hub Contributor, he also writes on his own blog, The Excavator.
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17 - Intervention, Reloaded
Posted By Nebojsa Malic
On February 23, 2012
Empire Studios’ Syrian Sequel
Syria is just like Kosovo, argued one interventionist two weeks ago, on the pages of the War Street Journal. According to Fouad Ajami, both involve a brutal dictator oppressing innocent civilians, and the Empire ought to act the same way, bypassing the U.N., and — to borrow a phrase from the late Richard Holbrooke — bombing for peace.
Sadly, Ajami’s “logic” is shared by much of the interventionist camp. It appears that film and television aren’t the only industries that have run out of ideas, relying instead on remakes and “reboots.” Though at the time it was a near-disaster averted only through last-minute subterfuge, it is easy to see how Bill Clinton’s evil little war might be mistaken for a splendid success following the megaflops that were Iraq and Afghanistan. Furthermore, Obama’s administration being a revival of Clinton’s, it’s no surprise that last year in Libya they green-lit a sequel.
Trouble is, this is 2012, not 1999 — and intervention cinema is being shunned by both the critics and the box office.
The Land of Blood and Failure
A perfect example is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which opened in the U.S. in December and finally premiered in Bosnia and Croatia last week. The preachy and derivative film is a “dreary slog,” as one critic described it: “Subtlety and understatement become collateral damage as Jolie drives her points home as forcefully as possible and the film devolves into a grubby melodrama that fails to edify or entertain.”
Most critics agree, even as they give politically correct praise to Jolie’s assumptions about the Bosnian War. For example, a highly favorable review in The Atlantic loves Jolie’s politics but chides her for lack of subtlety. The sledgehammer approach certainly didn’t work on American moviegoers, who would rather watch a 3D tribute to a German choreographer.
Alas, that has not stopped Jolie in fancying herself a screenwriter, director, and even international diplomat (in the Holbrooke vein, at least). Following a worshipful reception in Sarajevo, she gave an interview to Al-Jazeera Balkans (video), in which she not only demonstrated an appalling ignorance of Bosnia’s history, but also used her war porn to advocate an intervention in Syria.
“Syria has gotten to the point where some form of intervention is absolutely necessary,” pontificates Jolie, proceeding to reminisce about the beauty of Damascus and proclaim that this is no time to ask who and why, but to “do something” to “stop the civilians being slaughtered.”
Well, she is a member of the CFR…
Whatever Jolie’s failings as a diplomat, screenwriter, and director, though, her acting chops are still in fine form. She’s a perfect example of hysteria politics, straight out of Central Casting.
Facts vs. Narrative
Jolie may actually believe her film is faithful to the reality of the Bosnian War, but it bears more resemblance to the apocalyptic reporting by the glory-hound Western media, which for years tripled the death tolls of the conflict, counted tens of thousands of soldiers as “civilians,” and ignored the jihad angle entirely — to name just three of its many sins.
Yet those are the very sins we see repeated today when it comes to reporting about Syria. How many of the civilians being supposedly massacred are actually armed and masked rebels? How many have actually died, and how much of the death toll is just plain propaganda? How come the bleeding hearts don’t care when the “unarmed civilians” actually murder clerics preaching peace? And what about terrorists in rebel ranks? Let’s not forget that much of the Syrian “news” last year was provided by an American blogger posing as a Syrian lesbian. As usual, when facts get in the way of the interventionist narrative, they are either trampled or tossed aside.
Especially galling is the interventionist prattle about civilians and the supposed care for their well being. Who do they think is going to get killed by the “liberating” bombs? Perhaps they believe in the miraculous transubstantiation of anyone killed by the Empire into an enemy combatant?
Whenever Imperial ordnance atomizes a wedding party, a refugee column going the wrong way, or just plain civilians minding their own business (the nerve!), the first response is to deny everything. Once that’s no longer possible, spokesmen say “terribly sorry” and the planes (or drones) keep bombing. It never occurs to the interventionists that this callous disregard of common decency may have something to do with the missing gratitude of the “liberated.”
How About Kosovo, then?
Not only have the myths about Bosnia and Kosovo contributed to needless bloodshed there, they have also been used to bolster arguments for murder elsewhere, from Iraq to Libya and now Syria. Invoking Kosovo to justify an attack on Syria was predictable. Yet what is going on in Kosovo is actually the best argument against the laptop bombardiers.
Four years ago, the ethnic Albanian provisional government set up under NATO occupation declared Kosovo an independent country. The “Republic of Kosovo” is a bit of a joke in many respects, but the few Serbs who have managed to survive in the province aren’t laughing. Over a thousand have been murdered since the beginning of the occupation in 1999, while some were carved up for body parts. In 2004, a three-day pogrom compared to Kristallnacht raged across the province, while most NATO “peacekeepers” stood by or hid in their bunkers.
Western talk of “human rights” and a multi-ethnic future is science fiction to the Serbs. Most of Kosovo is now completely Albanian, with the few remaining Serbs surviving in ghettos guarded by NATO troops and barbed wire. In the north of the province, several counties have successfully resisted Albanian occupation and have refused to recognize the “independent” government. Last summer, the regime in Pristina tried to conquer them; they said no.
In their peaceful standoff against the combined might of NATO, EU, the U.S., and even the quisling government in Belgrade, they’ve been gassed, shot at, and smeared in the press but have remained steadfast. Last week, they held a referendum — on the anniversary of Serbia’s 1804 rebellion against the Ottoman Empire — in which they overwhelmingly rejected the self-proclaimed independent Kosovo. Over 75% of registered voters showed up at the polls, a remarkable feat given that the entire area was blanketed by several feet of snow and ice, the worst winter in recent memory.
Yet what is the reaction of the Empire to civilians nonviolently protesting to protect their right to life, liberty, and property? Do the self-anointed champions of democracy and human rights applaud the Serbs of Kosovo? Are columnists lining up to support peaceful dissent against the government, whether in Belgrade or in Pristina? Think again.
Mainstream Western reports dismiss the Serbs as “nationalists” who “want close relations with Russia and are against joining the EU,” quote Belgrade quislings who declare the vote irrelevant or harmful, or obsess over the anniversary of “independent” Kosovo.
A Question of Power
So, alleged civilians allegedly being murdered are cause enough to reject the entirety of international law — except when it’s the Empire and its clients doing the murdering, because then it is magically OK. Democracy is the embodiment of virtue, but only the Empire gets to decide who is a democrat and what is democratic. Sovereignty and territorial integrity apply to Bosnia and “Kosovo,” but not to Serbia or Russia. And so on.
Interventionism isn’t about principles; it’s about power. Even champions of intervention admit that Syria isn’t being bombed yet because that would be too difficult. That doesn’t mean they won’t try. The “American Century” may be over, but the imperialists haven’t gotten the memo.
Read more by Nebojsa Malic
A House of Sand and Fog – February 10th, 2012
Return to the Fold – January 26th, 2012
Tides of Darkness – January 6th, 2012
Fallout – December 23rd, 2011
EUphoria – December 9th, 2011
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18 - Armed attack on Catholic monastery in Syria
Feb 26, 2012
For the first time in the history of the conflict in Syria, an armed attack has been made on a Catholic monastery, reported Vatican Radio on Saturday.
About 30 armed men wearing masks attacked the monastery, founded by Jesuit from Italy Paolo dell'Olio. Attackers demanded money and weapons. According to the abbot, no one was killed or wounded.
"However, it is strange that the attackers sought weapons in a monastery, known as a center of dialogue and reconciliation between Muslims and Christians," - said the monk.
According to the Catholic Archbishop of Damascus, maronite Samir Nassar, the situation in the country is spiraling out of control as the armed opposition spreads its influence to different regions of the state.
According to him, in actual fact Syria is becoming the arena of international conflict of political, military and economic interests.
(RIAN)
Jordanian MP Warns of Foreign Plots in Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of the Jordanian parliament warned about certain countries' plots and attempts to create turmoil and tension in Syria, and stressed the necessity for the continuation of the reforms initiated by President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab state.
"I think that the Syrian government has started reforms and seeks to materialize the people's demands and they should resort to talks and negotiations to (settle) their differences in ideas," Vasfi al-Ravashedah told FNA on Saturday.
"I think that a foreign conspiracy is underway (in Syria) to annihilate Assad's government," he added.
Earlier this month, Assad appeared on state TV to declare that a referendum on the new constitution will be held on February 26.
Under the new charter, freedom is 'a sacred right' and 'the people will govern the people' in a multi-party democratic system based on Islamic law, the state television reported.
The document allows multiple political parties to compete in elections for the legislature, sets a limit of two seven-year terms on the president, and eliminates a clause that guarantees political supremacy to Assad's Ba'ath Party, according to copies of the draft circulating in the Syrian press.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but the US and Israeli plots could spark some new unrests in certain parts of the country.
Syria slams "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia
Tags: protests in Syria, Politics, Syria, News, World
Feb 26, 2012 00:25 Moscow Time
Photo: EPA
Syria has condemned the "Friends of Syria" conference, held in Tunis, branding it a meeting of the "enemies of Syria", reported Reuters news agency Saturday.
"Syria condemns all calls to finance armed groups, which can lead to support for terrorism and harm the interests of the Syrian people," – it is said in an urgent message, broadcast on state television.
Participants of the "Friends of Syria" conference, which took place on Friday in the capital of Tunisia, called for new sanctions against the regime of Bashar Assad and an immediate end to all violence in the country.
In addition, they recognized the opposition Syrian National Council as a "legitimate representative of the Syrian people seeking peaceful democratic change" and promised the opposition "effective support".
(RIAN)
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19 - Syria grants Red Cross access to Homs
Feb 25, 2012
Moscow welcomes the Syrian authorities’ decision to allow the International Red Cross staff to visit the city of Homs where clashes between armed opposition and government troops are still going on, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov declared on Saturday.
He stressed in his Twitter blog that providing humanitarian aid to the people of Homs is the most important objective at the moment.
On Saturday, by agreement with the Syrian authorities, the Red Cross began the evacuation of civilian population from that city. Women and children were the first to be evacuated. The Red Cross is also holding negotiations with all the parties to the armed conflict on the subject of delivery of humanitarian aid to the regions worst hit by the hostilities.
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20 - A dozen bankers are destroying civilization and governments don't care
By lila york (about the author)
opednews.com
The Katrina debacle was a warm-up act. So was the mortgage fraud with its 30 million foreclosures and resultant homelessness. So is the lifetime indebtedness of young people seeking a college degree. What is ahead is more of the above, multiplied by a million. What US banks did to third world countries for decades they are now doing to the people of western industrialized nations - including our own. Just as bankers lured millions into home loans they could not afford with malice aforethought, those same bankers lured nations into loans they could not afford. That is what they do and always have done. It was easier to ignore when those nations were Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. (See John Perkins' must-read book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". You will forgive me if I have omitted nations - the CIA and the bankers are relentlessly busy). Now many of those nations are prospering and free of indebtedness to US bankers - probably forever. (They barter oil for other commodities in order to avoid the US dollar completely). So what was a greedy banker to do? He had to find new victims.
At the center of this Armageddon are the banks on the dole from the Federal Reserve: JP Morgan (and its investment arm, Morgan Stanley), Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo, all of whom trade derivatives worth more than the GDP of the entire world. Their modus operandi is to lure nations into low-interest loans they know with certainty cannot be repaid, thus forcing bankruptcy and allowing them to storm in like a flock of vultures and seize every asset the nation has - every mine, railroad, monument and public utility - at pennies on the dollar; then driving up prices for a massive profit, forcing the population into ruinous poverty. That scenario was instigated and played out in every country listed above , beginning in the 1960's and is being enacted now. Greece is only the most recent carcass. Next on their list: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, France and finally, the United States, where the Fed has finally done it - printed money in excess of the entire GDP of America. (As of January of this year, the national GDP was 15 trillion and 816 million dollars; the national debt rose to 15 trillion plus 65 billion dollars.) Fed policy is confusing, even for those who follow it, but suffice it to say that if all of that newly- created cash had not been siphoned into stock and commodity speculation - ending up in the Cayman Island bank accounts of corporate CEO's and bankers - but instead had gone into the economy - jobs, education, clean energy and infrastructure - the entire debt situation would look much better, since millions more Americans would be paying income taxes and be off of the food stamp rolls.
Rate of money creation by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Rate at which money reaches the economy by Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis
Instead it is in the stock market, oil speculation and US treasuries. That is where they put it. The nefarious purpose of this blatant act is not to "stimulate the economy" (since little of it was invested in the economy) but to allow members of Congress and corporate insiders to sell out of their stock holdings at record highs (which they are doing) assuring them of infinite wealth, before the market crashes again, as it always does after these rigged market rises. Wonder why gasoline is now 4 dollars a gallon when world demand is in fast decline? It is the Fed. Again. Free dollars drive up the price of everything priced in it. (Free to bankers only. The rest of us pay between 8% and 30% for those same dollars) Dodd-Frank supposedly outlawed Goldman's oil speculation plots, but the law is not enforced. Why? Because the Republican House of Representatives refused to provide the funds to the regulatory body charged with enforcing the law. Their Plan B, their ace in the hole when all of this money printing fails? Global war, initiated by the bombing of Iran. Hey, it worked in 1940, didn't it? Doesn't war always end recessions?
Where is this plot headed? What is their final, final objective? Wealth in the trillions for that handful of white guys and slavery for the rest of us. In the end, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs will own every inch of real estate and every hard asset on the planet. That is their objective. They will become the new Hitlers and Mussolinis of the planet, dictating their will to governments. They are well on their way. As European nations fall to bankruptcy they are sucking up the spoils of their financial war. Corporations now pay Chinese workers a dollar a day instead of paying union labor in the US a living wage. They have imported tech workers from India at half-price and Mexican labor to supplant the last unskilled workers left in the U S. The only remaining obstacle to the total enslavement of Americans is the public sector unions - unions that represent the only jobs that cannot be shipped to the slave factories of Asia. Look at the number of Republican state legislatures and Republican governors erasing those unions from existence at record speed, as they ram through "right to work for pennies" laws. They are not going to stop until every last nurse, teacher and policeman is working for a dollar a day, confirming a new normal of impoverished misery for America. Advanced college degrees will soon only be held by the children of the richest .01% of Americans. And the ultimate coup - The Fed stated in comments of its last meeting that it is planning to devalue the dollar by another 33% over the next twenty years. Mind you the dollar has already lost over 30% of its value, so that totals up to a 63% loss of purchasing power over a thirty year period.Translation: A Depression economy coupled with hyperinflation driving up the cost of living to unseen levels.
Okay. What do we do about this? Are we all just helpless pawns in this scenario, doomed to horrible lives? First of all, understand that A) the bankers at the center of this are evil and immoral and do not care a whit for the future of the planet or anybody on it. (See Thom Hartman's article on why CEO's and bankers get paid millions to do middle class jobs: Because they are sociopaths); and B) Nobody in Congress, the White House or the courts is interested in stopping them. They own Congress, the White House and the courts, so forget petitions and phone calls to your reps. They don't care either. (There are exceptions - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, for one, described the bank bailout as a "financial coup d'etat" carried out in the middle of the night without consent of Congress). I would go further. It was a hold-up. Hank Paulsen pointed a gun at Barney Frank's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless he handed over every last dime in the United States Treasury. When the House voted down the bailout, he held true to his threat and tanked the Dow another 700 points overnight. In the end, Paulsen got every last dime in the US treasury. And since he was not required to account for what he did with it, we can only assume it went to bonus pay for the bankers who destroyed the lives of 350 million Americans.
So what do we do? The obvious solution is to throw most elected reps out of office in the next election. That assumes that voters are allowed to vote, which means voters must carry the specific forms of photo ID their state now requires; and that assumes that electronic voting machines without paper receipts are actually counting votes and not making up numbers out of fantasy. (To vote at all in the state of Georgia is a total waste of time. There has not been an honest election in Georgia in twelve years.) That also assumes that the vote totals will not be wired into Republican National Headquarters to be altered before they are published, as happened in the 2004 presidential election. Big assumptions.
We need Tahrir Square. I recall a segment on CNN when Occupy Wall Street first hit the media. A reporter on the scene was asked, "Is this Tahrir Square?" He responded, "Oh, no. Nothing like that. Just a bunch of frustrated kids. Nothing to worry about". Nothing for who to worry about? The bankers at Goldman Sachs? Yes, that is what he meant. We need to give them something to worry about. They actually are terrified of us, the people. Why else cancel Posse Comitatus and build all of those concentration camps around the country? Why else pass legislation nullifying all rights guaranteed to the people by the US constitution, including habeas corpus and the right to a trial? Yes, we need to give them something to worry about. How many millions in the street will that take? Many. Many millions. And all of that must happen before this next election. If the relatively discrete demonstrations of the Occupy movements changed the conversation in Washington and led Obama onto a new path, what would a Tahrir Square accomplish? Much more.
And there must be demands. Not only "break up the banks " but shut them down and send the bankers to prison. Not only limit corporate bribes to campaigns, but remove ALL money from the electoral process and enact a law providing for publicly-funded elections. Not "reform" gerrymandering but eliminate it; Not add paper receipts to voting machines, but throw out ALL voting machines installed since Bush's hilariously-named "Help America Vote Act" corrupted the electoral system. Return to mail-in ballots or hand-written, hand-counted ballots, ballots that must be counted with representatives of all candidates present. Lastly we must dissolve the Federal Reserve and return to sound money printed by the US Treasury, not by a small group of private banks.
If we could accomplish those goals, before the election, we would not have to eliminate lobbyists because they would disappear. There would no longer be a reason for them to exist. As it currently stands, to call America a democracy is a joke and a lie. The people have NO say whatsoever - about any decision made in government. The corruption of all three branches of the US government is total and endemic. They are rotten and drowning in maggots. We need to get our say back. We need a real democracy. Will that take a full-out revolution? I hope not, but it might. And we all must be prepared for that. Or leave. If we, the people, lose this battle and they, the bankers, win, it will hardly be worth staying alive.
Lila York is a choreographer and activist. She has traded the markets since 1990.
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21 - Satanic Possession
By Kaj Krinsmøe
When a satanic monster like Mr. Tony Blair is proposed as the European Union's first President it is symptomatic of how dark Illuminati forces and estranging political development is taking possession of the European Union. It is the New World Order which is already a crime against humanity.
The Bilderberg group is a front for the political assembly in the City (London). In fact global usury and Jewish Supremacism constitute neo-British Imperialism. This was set up many years ago when Joseph Rettinger, a Krakow Jew, approached Prins Bernhard of Holland and persuaded him to take a lead. Joseph Rettinger was paid by CIA and became a Catholic. And earlier yet, when Mr. Arthur Balfour, as Foreign Secretary, 1917, sent his Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild, the monstrous Masonic/Illuminati conspiracy gained great advantage. Jews in GB knew that they were being set up and compromised by the usurers in City, who would exploit Zionist ideology. But the media-controlled majority-mind was focused on the First World War. Great Britain thus became committed to support the Zionist State.
Adolf Hitler, trained at the British Army's center at Tavistock, Devon, England, in 1912, persecuted the Jews to create Israel. In much the same manner Europeans are now becoming committed in a satanic political nexus, the European Union, that they have no comprehension of and that only their corrupted democratic leaders have voted for. These political whores are entirely controlled by the Illuminati assets of global usury.
Mr. Blair is an asset of the intermarried British Imperialism and Jewish Supremacism that manifestly has been cultivated in City for a hundred years, at least, with Israel as a vital fighting wing. When Mr. Blair and former President Bush are not being prosecuted for crimes against humanity in the International Court in Holland, this shows what monstrous corrupt and collusive international administration prevails. The USA and its privately owned central bank, Federal Reserve, is another vital aspect of British Imperialism. America has fought world wars for British Imperialism. The British fought two major wars for the usurers in City, only becoming poorer and poorer for it, whilst the usurers in the City grew richer.
The British were confused by the ideology that Mr. Marx served up. Indeed Mr. Marx supplied the synthetic opiate that served the interests of global usury. When international usurers financed the Bolshevik Revolution this reveals how finance is used to disrupt cultures and acquire political/economic power. Mr. Marx wrote extensively about the problems of capital but he didn't mentioned usury which is the element of finance that cause, and is used, to create boom and bust economic cycles. And Mr. Marx put wage earners up against their employers. Yet, both employers and employees are at the mercy of and exploited by usurious predatory finance. Ideological flimflam and cultural subversion has prevented the employees and employers from seeing their common interests. Why else would international usurers finance ideologies?
When international politics is dominated and manipulated by usurers it is because the lick-democratic politicians are corrupted and co-opted. The European Union is managed by the whores of usury.Mr. Blair has already been paid a million dollars to integrate the Zionist State, Israel, in the European Union. His track record shows that he is a possessed political asset. And when Mr. Blair converted to Catholicism some years back this divulges how Masonic assets are used to subvert what integrity may still be intact in Catholicism. The present Pope is a Masonic asset. Before he goes on a state visit to Israel, he takes a holyday in Austria, this is where the present Black Pope (Father General) lives.
Jews began using Catholicism early in the 1500s, less than two generations after the Jews were thrown out of Spain, by starting The Jesuit Order and they put a pious Basque priest up as the first Father General, Ignatius Loyola. The second and third Father General, were Jews. One of their first "good works" was to teach children on Sicily to read and write. During the Middle Ages the Jews, largely excluded from the self-sufficient and wealthy feudal communities, noted that people who could not read and write had more intuition than the dolts who could. This is where mechanistic European thinking started and the ruthless logic culminated with an intellectual dolt like Immanuel Kant.
Within the first 100 years of the Jesuit Order, the Jesuits were in secret control of virtually all political activity in Europe, partly by using the confessional to extract information. And the Jesuit Order evolved as the world's most efficient intelligence organ. At one point Jesuits virtually controlled Japan and they were thrown out. One of their credos declared that the holy goal justifies foul means. Pious Catholics knew that this was a moral perversion, but by then the Jesuit Order was well established. Gradually the Jesuit Order faded into the background in a more and more secular world and their social/political activity was superseded by a political communism, and the communists reminded the world that the revolutionary goal justifies the foul means. Communism was a Jewish front and Catholicism is being subverted to become a satanic Masonic front for City.
The sinister legacy and the foul means of the Western world are blatantly demonstrated in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Palestine. The European Union is a facile moral bog that serves the hegemony of the New World Order which issue from City. And Mr. Blair is a living symptom of this criminal order of dark horses that possess Europe more and more trenchantly. The new Europe is a socialistic phenomenon. Just as Israel was cultivated by humanistic sentiments and socialists, so the European Union is developing in the environment of socialism. It is no coincidence that Jean Monnet worked in London when he master minded the European Union on Socialist lines. He said that a Federal European Government would prevent the nations fighting each other. Was he unaware that it was the international Illuminati bankers who were behind the wars and the ideologies that tore communities apart? Glibly he sophisticated the ideological temple that has attracted legions of bureaucrats and although international usurers don't own the European Central Bank, their predatory practice is almost as pernicious in Europe as on Wall Street.
Greed for work-free assets is a satanic obsession which usurers and Socialists live high on.Without their European and American assets, Jewish Supremacism, ruling the world from Jerusalem, is not feasible. This will be engineered by religious and economic parameters and incentives, and by the corrupt lick-democratic leaders in Europe who flourish in hedonistic hilarity and the cognitive dissonance generated by media whores.
Kaj Krinsmøe
Abildgade 15, 1.th.
8200 Aarhus
Denmark
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22 - It pays to be an FBI Terrorist Bomber
February 21, 2012
By the FES Admins
What's that you say; it's “sour grapes” from Edgar Steele's family and supporters when they observe that FBI informant Larry Fairfax soon faces release from his barely 24-month incarceration? Sorry, it goes much deeper than sour grapes when the facts are compared, as we'll see in a moment.
It's likely most readers of this piece already know the back-story, but if not, please visit the Free Edgar Steele web site for more info. In brief, north Idaho's Edgar Steele is framed by his handyman Larry Fairfax in a fabricated “murder-for-hire” plot; the “System” jails Fairfax with a hand-slap sentence; the “System” efficiently denies Steele any resemblance of a fair trial or justice with the judge repeatedly saying: “Don’t do anything to make the government look bad” and convicts him of all counts; Steele, age 66, is serving 50 years. Fairfax will be released in about 3 months from the date of this writing.
Let's observe the facts about the life of Fairfax as the tool of the Amerikan FBI and court system...
During the past 20-some months, Mr. Fairfax has been a general-population inmate. During the same time frame, Mr. Steele has been subjected to special solitary confinement, mail interception, loss of client-attorney privacy and minimal access to medical support.
Mr. Fairfax admitted he put the bomb on Mr. Steele's wife Cyndi's SUV with intent to murder her and confessed in court that he assembled and attached the device. Mr. Steele was charged with “possession of an explosive device with intent to kill” when the evidence proved he never possessed the components to construct any bomb.
Mr. Fairfax – given a sweet-deal by the Federal prosecution – was never charged with attempted murder or any charge that could result in a serious 10-year sentence. Mr. Steele's efforts to prove his complete innocence by analysis of critical evidence was derailed at every turn by a Judge and Prosecution who are, by federal law, entitled to receive bonus pay for convictions.
Mr. Fairfax was assigned to a facility in western Washington and has now been transitioned into a residential reentry center (RRC) , which rivals some decent hotel environments, for the remaining few months of his sentence.
Mr. Steele, designated as a low security, non-violent risk, has been sent to southern California, to a high security facility with jet fuel in the ground water that causes Astrocytoma, a spine and brain forming tumor without cure, that kills its victims and is seriously suspect, if not ultimately lethal, to the health of inmates.
It's unknown if Mr. Fairfax has received visits from his family (a long day's drive from his north Idaho home). It's known that Mr. Steele is denied contact of any form with his wife, because the Bureau of Prisons is concerned about some fictitious “danger” to the security of the facility.
In his transitional halfway house, the federal government says: Mr. Fairfax will receive employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance, and other programs and services in a safe, structured, supervised environment. In his distant prison, Mr. Steele continues to be denied attorney-client privacy and his correspondence is opened without his knowledge, is monitored, and sometimes “lost” before he ever gets it.
When released in a few weeks, Mr. Fairfax may return to his 'ole stomping grounds. If Cyndi Steele remains at her home, only a few miles away from her ex-handyman-bomber, she is worried about her own safety and security because the federal government stated that they would “NOT provide her any protection, whatsoever.” (So much for “victim protection”.) She feels forced to move away from their home of 15 years in order to secure her own safety from the FBI confidential informant, who is the FBI’s asset and tool that facilitated this whole, sordid fiasco because the SPLC demanded that the FBI bring Edgar Steele down. What the Hey? Fairfax needed money to pay up the foreclosure on his house and a way to cover up his theft of $45,000 in silver bullion, so one hand was washing the other.
These points and others have nothing to do with “sour grapes.” These points have everything to do with the side of Amerikan corruption you happen to fall on. For all the bumbling, all the private court “sidebar” conversations to which Mr. Steele was excluded, all the glaring misconduct in the courtroom, all the US Marshall heavy-handedness handling Mr. Steele, our government has the armed thugs and money to intimidate anyone and the motivation to silence whichever citizen they select. How soon will you or I be next to get the “Steele Treatment"?
We remain outraged at Mr. Fairfax receiving a paltry 2 year sentence for his crimes, due to the “System” (Government) not charging him with "attempted murder" for planting a bomb on a vehicle that literally endangered thousands of lives. What terrorism is the FBI really protecting us from?
There is no question whatsoever that Mr. Steele – jailed for speaking politically incorrect truth – has been targeted to be an example and a warning to others. Let’s face it, Mr. Steele is nothing more than a political prisoner.
The Steele camp lost the skirmish, sorry to say, but, we will win the battle.
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23 - THE NEXUS OF EVIL part 10
Introduction Alex James
http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/
Philip Jones died of cancer in Dec 2009. However, his blog remains.
As George Orwell concluded in 1984: “War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable...”
The Illuminati know full well that at the root of all wars, conflicts, and all forms of corruption lies man's distancing himself from the true religious moral values, and this in itself explains why they have spent so much time, money and effort in defaming and de-constructing true belief.
The `Endgame` for this insane agenda, is a One World Global Communitarian[4] State, of demonic proportions, with a culled and reduced population of micro-chipped slave workers, whose every movement and thought will be monitored by a Big Brother apparatus the like of which even George Orwell [his famous book is 1984 published in 1948] could not have imagined.
“By wielding inordinate financial and political power, the plan of the Illuminati is to foment a global war, or World War III, from which will emerge, out of the ashes of the expired civilizations of our time, like a phoenix from the fire, a New World Order. The coming confrontation is being presented as a Clash of Civilizations, between the Liberal Democratic West and Islamic fundamentalism.” David Livingstone inTerrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History (Paperback) by David Livingstone (Author)
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By all standards, the United States Government has been conducting a form of warfare against the people of Iran. In his speech to the Middle East on June 4, President Obama mentioned that "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government." So here we have the president of the United States actually admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government, while the United States is in the very midst of trying to overthrow the current Iranian government.
It now seems that the term `Democratic` infers nothing more, than establishing a regime's "pro-western" credentials in these cases.
As `super power` conflict returns after a long absence, South Ossetia is only a taste of things to come in Brzezinski's Grand Chess game of `Who's Going To Rule The World.`
To speak of saving Palestine from the Zionists is to speak simultaneously of one's hope for a worldwide liberation [from the yoke of Zionists]. The Palestinian `cause' does not signify the simple reconquest of a patch of territory occupied by aggressors. It is not even about peace and war; Its implications go much further.
The Rothschilds support those Jews who have fallen prey to the deceptive gnostic and occultic teachings of Cabalism, who in turn promote the Illuminati controlled Zionist movement.
After Prime Minister of England, Lord Asquith, was deposed in 1916, because he had opposed Zionist interests, David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization, as well as Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour of the Round Table, were placed in power.
In his expose of the Rothschilds Dynasty, Fritz Springmeier wrote:
"...the six-pointed star [had] made its way from Egyptian pagan rituals of worship, to the goddess Ashteroth and Moloch, to King Solomon when he went into idolatry," says, Graham. "Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft [including Arab magicians, Druids, witches and Satanists], astrology (in which It was no new thing), through the Cabala to Isaac Luria, a Cabalist, in the 16th century, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, to Zionism, to the Knesset of the new State of Israel, to the flag of Israel and Its medical organization equivalent to the Red Cross."
So what is the ultimate goal of Zionism? David Ben-Gurion, a Zionist leader, tells us:
"With the exception of the U.S.S.R. as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an International police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents."
Simply stated, Zionism (with Rothschild support) promotes a New World Order. The Rothschild control of Israel is immense. The Luciferian Rothschilds completely dominate Israel. They help Lucifer's Empire control the world’s resources, the world’s nations and the world’s religions. They are an institution in the conspiracy and if one looks carefully, the path of their destructive reign can be followed through the history of the past three centuries.
The Nexus Of Evil : Part Ten (A Pre-emptive Strike On Humanity) The Conclusion. By Philip Jones 16th September 2009.
Foreword.
When the concepts and ideas which formed the initial `skeleton` of this series began to formulate and take shape in my mind, my goal by article's end was to to illustrate how the `Nexus Of Evil,` created by the Illuminati, has by use of divide and rule, and the Hegelian Dialectical formula, caused otherwise good and decent human beings to fear and even hate each other, for no other reason than being different. Christianity, Islam and Judaism each have the same root origin, and share the worship of the same God. And yet in this the first decade of the 21st century, they are lining up against each other once again, in wars of aggression, stage-managed and manipulated by an ancient and malevolent secret force literally `hell bent` on world domination.
It is all too easy for an extended article such as this, to lose its way, so in order to avoid such digression and deviation from the `script,` I reasoned that an `anchor` was needed. I remembered a booklet I had read some years ago by a now deceased Swedish born South African journalist named Ivor Benson[1], entitled `This Age Of Conflict.`
It is true to say that Mr. Benson's short and concise expose of what many term the `Global Agenda,` had a profound affect on my view of the world I lived in. It is from that booklet that the above diagram originates, and it is that simple illustration of the `Nexus Of Evil` which has credibly provided the required `anchor.`
This series of articles has drawn upon many research sources, but two stand out as having been critical in helping me to assemble the necessary research material and information. The late Mr. Benson's is one, and the other is Canadian historian and author, David Livingstone's `Terrorism And The Illuminati.`[2]
The latter is without doubt the `Bible` of this field of investigation, and I would recommend that anyone wishing to truly understand the dangerous world events now taking place, not only read the book, but refer to it frequently as a means of staying focused, and not becoming sidetracked by the multitude of often conflicting theories and hypotheses, put out by some researchers with not always sincere intentions.
I would like to belatedly thank Mr. Benson for his many excellent articles and books on contentious subjects most writers avoid, and David Livingstone for his superb book and his always prompt and helpful advice whenever I have found it necessary to contact him. All other source material drawn from, is listed with thanks in the reference section below each individual part.
Introduction.
During the course of this series, our path has traversed that 150 year time period which Ivor Benson quite correctly termed an `Age Of Conflict, ` unprecedented in human history. From the middle of the 19th Century to the present day, humankind has been subjected to an almost uninterrupted sequence of terrible and catastrophic wars, which have decimated the global population, and twice during the 20th Century caused slaughter and destruction on a scale hitherto unimagined. A Third Global Conflagration would most certainly bring the mass of humanity to the very brink of annihilation.
Research has shown clearly that this `Age Of Conflict,` is no accident. In fact, there exists a `blueprint` for what has happened, in the form of a letter written by Free-masonic Grand Master Albert Pike, to fellow Mason and Luciferian, Giuseppe Mazzini back in the 19th Century[3] where he outlined his plans for three world wars, the third being a `Clash of Civilisations, ` between the Islamic World and the West.
So far, everything has gone exactly according to Pike's plan, and since the tragedy of September 11th 2001, it has not been too difficult to identify the means by which the Illuminati are manipulating the Dialectic towards a Third Global War, by maneuvering the Zionist puppet government of the USA and its allies, into a major confrontation with the nations of Islam, which will then inevitably spill over and draw Russia China, Pakistan and India and thereafter the whole world into the conflict.
The `Endgame` for this insane agenda, is a One World Global Communitarian[4] State, of demonic proportions, with a culled and reduced population of micro-chipped slave workers, whose every movement and thought will be monitored by a Big Brother apparatus the like of which even George Orwell could not have imagined.
In the previous part, we examined the aftermath of 9/11 and the carnage being wrought by the `allied` occupation forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here in this concluding `episode,` we will look at the likely `flashpoints` which could give the Washington `War Hawks` the pretext they need, to launch their `Operation Armageddon,` and finally draw our conclusions accordingly.
For the past two years, all indications have been, that the Islamic Republic Of Iran was next on the Zionist `hitlist, ` so it will be to that ancient land and civilisation which we must now turn our attention.
A Warning to Iran.
The American invasion, occupation, subjugation and destruction of a modern, scientifically and culturally advanced civilization, such as existed in Iraq, is only the prelude to what the people of Iran can expect if the US-Zionist `hawks` in Obama's regime decide that the time is right and a military attack is launched. The impending threat to the people of Iran and its cultural and scientific foundations, has been conspicuous by it absence from the narrative among the affluent Iranian student protesters and their US-funded NGO's during their post-election so called `Lipstick Revolution' protests.
They should not forget that in 2004, educated and sophisticated Iraqis in Baghdad consoled themselves with a fatally misplaced optimism that “at least we are not like Afghanistan.” The same elite are now to be found in squalid refugee camps in Syria and Jordan, and their country now resembles Afghanistan, more closely than anywhere else in the Middle East. The chilling promise of President Bush in April 2003 to transform Iraq in the image of “our newly liberated Afghanistan” has been fulfilled, and reports that the US Administration advisers had reviewed the Israeli Mossad policy of selective assassination of Iranian scientists should cause the pro-Western liberal intellectuals of Tehran, to seriously ponder the lesson of the murderous campaign that has virtually eliminated Iraqi scientists and academics during 2006-2007.
The conquest of Iraq has resulted in the destruction of a modern secular republic. The cultural wasteland that remains is controlled by gangsters, swindlers, mercenary thugs posing as `Iraqi officers', tribal and ethnic cultural illiterates and corrupted religious figures. They operate under the guidance and direction of West Point graduates holding `blue-prints for empire', formulated by graduates of the Ivy League Academies on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, eager to serve the interests of American and European multi-national corporations, and ultimately, wittingly or not the Illuminati Agenda.
The Iranian people should take Michael Ledeen[5] at his word, and should be viewing events in neighbouring Iraq with not a little trepidation.
An Arc Of Crisis : Return To Iran.
"Never believe anything until it's officially denied," British writer Claud Cockburn.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski thought he could use the Iranian government, including the Iranian Shiite mullahs as part of an `Arc` of resistance[6] from Egypt eastward against Soviet expansionism. When `students` supported by Khomeini took over the U.S, Embassy in Tehran, it presented a crisis. However, as Robert Dreyfuss notes:
"Along with the threat from Khomeinism, some U.S. policy makers also saw opportunity...using the Islamic `right` to undermine the Soviet Union in its own empire, deep in Central Asia....The twin Islamic movements in Iran and (Muslim Brotherhood linked organizations like Al Qaeda in) Afghanistan, inspired Brzezinski and Bill Casey (President Reagan's CIA director) to pursue the Islam-in-Asia ('arc-of-Islam') theme aggressively."
Brzezinski developed a plan of financial and other means of support for Afghanistan, hoping to lure the Soviets into involvement in a `quagmire` there, and as history records, the Soviets obliged and invaded in December 1979. After this, Zalmay Khalilzad[6] (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq), a neo-conservative RAND strategist, wrote a paper explaining "the Khomeini regime also poses risks to the Soviets. The change of regime has encouraged similar movements in Iraq and Afghanistan, and might even affect Soviet Muslim Central Asia."
Perhaps it is useful at this time to remember that according to a map prepared by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government meeting in London in 1952, when the World Government comes into being, U.S. forces would be patrolling Central Asia (e.g., Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.). Brzezinski at Mikhail Gorbachev's first State of the World Forum in 1995 said:
"We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."
This is the same strategy proposed by Cecil Rhodes' Association of Helpers member P. E. Corbett in Post-War Worlds (1942) and its fruits can been seen in the EU, NAU and other Superstate projects currently under-way.
Since the Iranian election of June 12th this year, barely a day has passed without mass global media coverage of what has been depicted as another tumultuous event in Iranian history. Elections whose results are challenged as being dubious, have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. Many countless Americans and with much justification, believe that the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen by the Republicans, and not just inside the voting machines and in the counting process, but prior to the actual voting as well, with numerous Republican Party dirty tricks designed to keep poor and black voters off voting lists or away from polling stations.
That large numbers of people did not take to the streets day after day in protest, as they have in Iran, is not something Americans should be proud of. Perhaps if the CIA, the Agency for International Development (AID), several US government-run radio stations, and various other organizations supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (which was created to serve as a front for the CIA, literally) had been active in the United States, as they have been for years in Iran, major street protests would have taken place in the US.
In 1953, when the CIA overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, they paid people to agitate in front of Mossadegh's residence and elsewhere and engage in acts of violence; some pretended to be supporters of Mossadegh while engaging in anti-religious actions. And it worked, very well.
Since the cessation of hostilities following the end of World War II, one US government or another, on behalf of the Illuminati agenda, has seriously intervened in some thirty elections around the world. Adding a new twist this time, the State Department asked `Twitter` to postpone a scheduled maintenance shut-down of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran, helping to mobilize protesters.
In recent years, the United States has been provocatively patrolling the waters surrounding Iran with warships, halting Iranian ships on the pretext to check for arms shipments to Hamas, or other equally spurious and illegitimate reasons. It has been financing and "educating" Iranian dissidents, used Iranian groups to carry out terrorist attacks inside Iran, kidnapped Iranian diplomats in Iraq, abducted Iranian military personnel from inside Iran, thereafter transporting them to Iraq. It has been spying and recruiting within Iran, and has manipulated Iran's currency and her international financial transactions, and imposed various economic and political sanctions against the country.
By all standards, the United States Government has been conducting a form of warfare against the people of Iran. US President Barack Obama said with a straight face on June 23rd:
"I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran's affairs. Some in the Iranian government [have been] accusing the United States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the elections. These accusations are patently false and absurd."
In his speech to the Middle East on June 4, President Obama mentioned that "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government." So here we have the president of the United States actually admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government, while the United States is in the very midst of trying to overthrow the current Iranian government. If you can think of a better example of hypocrisy, let me know.
So what is all the fuss about over the Iranian election and street protests anyway? For public consumption at least, the announced winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is currently sharing time with Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, as Washington's `public enemy number one.` This `honour` has been `bestowed` for not sufficiently respecting the `Empire` and its Israeli partner-in-crime; indeed, Ahmadinejad is publicly one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy in the world. Can anything be that simple though in the grand web of Illuminist machinations?
This `default` response seems to be `built in,` to Washington's world view and the fact that whilst Mousavi,[13] (Ahmadinejad's main opponent in the election and very much supported by the protesters), was prime minister back in 1981-89, he was largely blamed for the attacks on the US embassy and military barracks in Beirut in 1983, which took the lives of more than 200 Americans, and also for the 1988 truck bombing of a US Navy installation in Naples, Italy, that killed five persons.
It simply cannot be, that no one in the Obama administration knows of Mousavi's background?
Despite his anti-American terrorist deeds, and just because he's opposed to Ahmadinejad, Time magazine calls Mousavi a "moderate", and goes on to add: "It has to be assumed that the Iranian presidential election was rigged," offering as much evidence as the Iranian protesters, i.e., none at all. It cannot of course be proven that the Iranian election was totally honest, but the arguments given to support the charge of fraud are not very impressive, such as the much-repeated fact that the results were announced very soon after the polls closed.
For decades in various countries election results have been condemned for being withheld for many hours or days. It was contended that some kind of dishonesty must be going on behind the scenes during the long delay. So now we're asked to believe that a species of dishonesty must be going on, because the results were released so quickly. It should be noted that the ballots listed only one electoral contest, with but four candidates.
Phil Wilayto, American peace activist and author of a book on Iran, has observed:
“Ahmadinejad, himself born into rural poverty, clearly has the support of the poorer classes, especially in the countryside, where nearly half the population lives. Why? In part because he pays attention to them, makes sure they receive some benefits from the government and treats them and their religious views and traditions with respect. Mousavi, on the other hand, the son of an urban merchant, clearly appeals more to the urban middle classes, especially the college-educated youth. This being so, why would anyone be surprised that Ahmadinejad carried the vote by a clear majority? Are there now more yuppies in Iran than poor people?”
Since both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are members of the establishment, neither is seen as being any threat to the Islamic theocracy, and the election can be seen on the surface at least, as the kind of power struggle you find in virtually every country. But that is not the issue here. The issue is Washington's long-standing goal of regime change. If the exact same electoral outcome had taken place in a country that was an ally of the United States, how much of all the accusatory news coverage and speeches would have taken place?
In fact, the exact same thing did happen in a country that is an ally of the United States, three years ago when Felipe Calderon appeared to have stolen the presidential election in Mexico, and there were daily protests for more than two months; but the American and international condemnation was virtually non-existent compared to what we see today in regard to Iran, where Iranian leaders undertook a recount of a random ten per cent of ballots and recertified Ahmadinejad as the victor.
So what does all of us tell us? Well at least for now, Ahmadinejad is fulfilling his dialectical role as the antithesis to Washington's thesis. As in all the major conflicts, military or political, for at least the past century and a half or so, the Iranian election has been one stage-play in a global drama being played out in the media and educational faculties, whilst the reality of the situation is very different. The recent elections in Iran are almost certainly dialectical, with both thesis ( Ahmadinejad) and antithesis (Mousavi,) either knowingly, which I believe likely, or not, being played off against each other for the benefit of the masses, whilst the Illuminati puppet masters pulling all the strings, seeking to impose their synthesis on the unsuspecting Iranian populace.
That synthesis to be presented in the shape of a less radical liberalising of Iranian society than Mousavi's platform, yet more so than anything Ahmadinejad might have offered, and more to the point, moving an Islamic society ever closer the point where western secular influences can begin to rot away at the heart, body and soul of Iranian life from within, thereby weakening the nation viewed as the `West's` most formidable adversary in any `Clash of Civilisations, ` with Islam.
One thing's for certain; The sticky fingers of the CIA are in there somewhere, along with their `playmates` Mossad, working to undermine and subvert Iranian Society from within, whilst the `war hawks` in Washington make their preparations for the Zionist invasion of Persia and the probable spark which ignites WWIII.
The Grand Chess-Game: Central Asia, The Caucasus And The Encirclement Of Russia.
The outcome of the recent six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most appalling hypocrisy from western politicians and their bought and paid for media. As the `Chatterers` waxed indignation against Russian imperialism and brutal dis-proportionality, former US vice-president `Big Dick` Cheney, faithfully supported by the UK's Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered". George Bush denounced Russia for having "invaded a sovereign neighbouring state" and threatening "a democratic government". Such an action, he insisted, "is unacceptable in the 21st century".
Could these by any chance be the leaders of the same governments that in 2003, invaded and occupied , the sovereign states of Afghanistan and Iraq on false pretences at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives? Or even the two governments that blocked a ceasefire in the summer of 2006 as Israel pulverized Lebanon's infrastructure and killed more than a thousand civilians in retaliation for the capture or killing of five soldiers?
You'd be hard pressed to recall after all the fury over Russian aggression that it was actually Georgia that began the war in the first place, with an all-out attack on South Ossetia, supposedly to "restore constitutional order" – or put another way, establish its rule over an area it has not controlled since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nor, were there, amid the outrage at Russian bombardments, more than the very briefest of references to the atrocities committed by Georgian forces against citizens it claims as its own in South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali.
Several hundred civilians along with Russian soldiers operating under a 1990s peace agreement, were killed there by Georgian troops during the offensive; "I saw a Georgian soldier throw a grenade into a basement full of women and children," one Tskhinvali resident, Saramat Tskhovredov, told reporters.
Both the current Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and his predecessor, came to power in western-backed coup d'Etats, the most recent having been labelled the `Rose Revolution.` Saakashvili was then initially rubber-stamped into office with 96% of the vote before establishing what the International Crisis Group recently described as an "increasingly authoritarian" government, violently cracking down on all opposition dissent and the independent media last November.
It now seems that the term `Democratic` infers nothing more, than establishing a regime's "pro-western" credentials in these cases.
The long-running dispute over South Ossetia - as well as Abkhazia, the other contested region of Georgia - is the inevitable consequence of the breakup of the Soviet Union. As in the case of Yugoslavia, minorities who were happy enough to live on either side of an internal boundary that made little difference to their lives, feel quite differently when they find themselves on the wrong side of an international state border.
Problems such as these would be problematic enough to settle through negotiation in any circumstances, but when one adds to the cooking `pot` the determined and forcible US promotion of Georgia as being a pro-western, anti-Russian forward base in the region, along with its efforts to bring Georgia into NATO, the routing of a key Caspian oil pipeline through its territory aimed at weakening Russia's control of energy supplies, and the US-sponsored recognition of the independence of Kosovo - whose status Russia had explicitly linked to that of South Ossetia and Abkhazia - and conflict was inevitable.
The CIA has in fact been closely involved in Georgia since the Soviet collapse. But during the Bush administration, Georgia became a fully fledged US satellite; its forces are armed and trained by the US and Israel, and it has the third-largest military contingent in Iraq - hence the US need to airlift 800 of them back to fight the Russians during the Ossetia clash.
Saakashvili's links with the neo-conservatives in Washington are particularly close: the lobbying firm headed by former US Republican candidate John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has been paid nearly $900,000 by the Georgian government since 2004.
But underlying the conflict has also been the US administration's wider, explicit determination to enforce American global hegemony and prevent any regional challenge, particularly from a resurgent Russia. That aim was first spelled out when Cheney was defence secretary under Bush's father, but its full impact has only been felt as Russia has begun to recover from the disintegration of the 1990s.
Over the past decade, NATO's relentless eastward expansion has brought the western military alliance hard up against Russia's borders and deep into former Soviet territory. American military bases have spread across eastern Europe and central Asia, as the US has helped install one anti-Russian client government after another, through a series of CIA sponsored revolutions. Now the Obama administration is preparing to site a missile defence system in eastern Europe, transparently targeted at Russia.
By any sensible reckoning, this is not a story of Russian aggression, but of US imperial expansion and a ever tighter encirclement of Russia by a potentially hostile power. That a stronger Russia has now used what happened in South Ossetia in order to put a check on that expansion, should hardly come as a surprise. It is not difficult to deduce why Saakashvili launched the attack; of course, he was being `egged on` by his `Warhawk,` friends in Washington.The plan however spectacularly backfired, at tragic human cost.
In spite of the US regime's attempts at `tough talk,` the war also exposed the limits of US power in the region. As long as Georgia's independence is respected - best protected by opting for neutrality - that should be no bad thing. American unipolar domination of the world has squeezed the space for genuine self-determination and the return of some counterweight in the form of a resurgent Russia has to be welcomed.
But the process of adjustment also brings huge dangers. If Georgia had been a member of NATO, this conflict would have risked a far sharper escalation. That would be even more obvious in the case of Ukraine - which recently gave a warning of the potential for future confrontation when its pro-western president threatened to restrict the movement of Russian ships in and out of their Crimean base in Sevastopol.
As `super power` conflict returns after a long absence, South Ossetia is only a taste of things to come in Brzezinski's Grand Chess game of `Who's Going To Rule The World.`
The Zionist Factor.
Zionism is both alien and illegitimate in origin. It is a hegemonist and nationalist project rooted and nourished on what could be called the imperialist impulse towards expansion and domination. The founding fathers of the Zionist adventure were not believers in Judaism, not even in its distorted, rabbinical form: they were in essence pragmatists and Kabbalists who exploited the Judaic heritage as a means to achieve their nationalistic goals. All this, moreover, was done within the broader context of Western strategic hopes for the destabilizing and enfeebling of the Islamic world.
Because Zionism's progenitors were European in their training and mental orientation, and members of the same secret societies, they did not find it difficult to reach an understanding with Western politicians, exploiting their own financial power through their extensive and committed Diaspora, until the Zionist agenda became subsumed under the more general objectives of nineteenth-century European imperialism. The idea of inserting an alien polity into the very heart of the Islamic world, which would exhaust its resources and obstruct any attempt at reforging Muslim unity, proved immediately appealing to European policy-makers in thrall to a Luciferian agenda, and served well the new Western orientation which was ostensibly materialistic, secular, and obsessed with the idea of territorial expansion.
The Centrality Of The Palestine Issue.
It could be said that Palestine and its people have provided the Zionists and Neo Imperialists with a `prototype` model for what we are now seeing in Afghanistan and Iraq, and unless the `Hawks` in the US are either unseated, which is unlikely, or suddenly develop hearts and consciences, which is even more so, then we can reasonably expect similar hostile action in Iran and again in the Caucasus in the foreseeable future.
So Zionism though nationalist in theory can also be seen to be imperialist and malevolent in its practical application.
It can further be perceived as being hostile to every element rooted in ethical and religious principles. It both represents and serves the new existential ethos which transforms the human race into 'marketing' and 'geopolitical' units, which can be deployed, rewarded or punished by the `Hidden Powers` that be, who are accountable to no-one save themselves.
Zionism then, nurtured by and in turn nurturing this global pseudo-secular civilization, represents a secular onslaught on the very heart of Islamic civilisation. The Islamic project, by contrast, is its polar opposite, representing perhaps, the last great hope that human civilization can be rescued from the worship of the Luciferian credo, being foisted incrementally on the global population in the shape of the erroneous political doctrine known as democracy.
To speak of saving Palestine from the Zionists is to speak simultaneously of one's hope for a worldwide liberation. The Palestinian `cause' does not signify the simple reconquest of a patch of territory occupied by aggressors. It is not even about peace and war; Its implications go much further. For to strike at Zionism in Palestine is to strike at the Luciferian enemy in its new citadel, which it has constructed at the centre of the world, in the very heart of the Muslim nation, in a land which has always been of unlimited strategic and spiritual fecundity. The `West,` as a civilization, seems set to extend its influence into the heartland of the Islamic World,` all the better to destroy the surviving traces of spiritual resistance which have remained intact there, and finally to obliterate man's remaining hopes for the rebirth of a civilization which is qualitative and humane, rather than quantitative and perversely malevolent.
Once more we are caught in the pernicious, suffocating and deadly embrace of the Hegelian Dialectic.
The reality is that the Zionist project, being violent, aggressive, and secular, is formidable in its potency. Its power can only be exhausted by mobilizing the resources of those people around the world who have identified the malevolence which stalks our planet and are willing to join in solidarity with the entire Muslim nation in its efforts to resist the monster in our midst.
These resources I speak of are not merely of a military nature; they extend also to worlds as disparate as thought, art and economics. They are also, and pre-eminently, spiritual: demanding a return to the principles of renunciation, repentance, piety, reliance on God, yearning for the ultimate meeting with Him, the spirit of Islamic fraternity, selflessness, and the certainty that the final victory shall go to God and all believers. No project undertaken on this tremendous scale can be 'regional,' or 'Palestinian,' or Arab.' It is far broader. It represents nothing less than a struggle which is at once cultural, Islamic, Christian and Judaic in its pure form. We must, therefore, light the fires of longing, resistance, and sacrifice everywhere on earth. For Palestine will not be retrieved until there is struggle against oppression in all its forms throughout the world.
Lucifer, The Rothschilds And The House Of Zion.
In the ancient world, it was said that all roads lead to Rome. Nowadays, no matter where one turns whilst in the process of investigating the One World Conspiracy, the same can be said of the Rothschilds[8]. Inevitably, their name crops up, and equally inevitably when it does so, the slur of `Anti Semite` is applied to the researcher involved. But the Rothschilds are not Semitic and what's more, neither are they Judaic either!
The Rothschild relationship with the Jews is deceptive. The family stance is publicly "pro-Jewish", and they have given abundant charity to Jewish causes. But their support of the Jewish people has, in most cases, been used for the sole purpose of controlling and profiting from the Jew's misfortune. The Rothschilds have often been called, the `Royal Family` of the Jews. Many leading Rothschilds have been dubbed "King of the Jews". But what kind of Judaism do the Rothschilds support? Do they support the orthodox Jews who believe in the Old Testament and are waiting for the return of the messiah? No.
Do they support Messianic Jews who believe Jesus Christ was the messiah who came to save all men? No. The Rothschilds support those Jews who have fallen prey to the deceptive gnostic and occultic teachings of Cabalism, who in turn promote the Illuminati controlled Zionist movement. Not all Zionists are part of the conspiracy, but their leaders are, and the ultimate leaders of the Zionists have been the Rothschilds. I am disappointed by some researchers, who automatically coin the conspiracy a "Jewish" one.
Recently, I was assailed by one fellow researcher following an article I had penned regarding the pornography industry. “It's The Jews Stupid,” said he, and no amount of documented evidence to the contrary would alter his stance. He is not alone in this assertion that all the world's ills can be attributed to JEWS.
Having read at length the work of Fritz Springmeier, Henry Makow and David Livingstone, it is clear that the Rothschilds are participators in Cabalism, Jewish Sabbatism, and or Frankism, all of which are involved in witchcraft. This belief is strengthened by the Rothschild’s use of the occultic Seal of Solomon as a family symbol. The city in which the Rothschilds originated, Frankfurt, was deeply `anti-Semitic,` and hostile to Jews*[7] See Note.
The first principle of the House of Rothschild was to amass wealth, and the liberation of the Jewish people from oppressive restrictions contributed indirectly to this end, since it would facilitate intercourse with the rest of the world, and thereby increase the possibility of financial gain, which in turn would serve to increase its power.
The `Father's of Israel.`
During the Rothschild's funded slaughter that was the Crimean War, the small Jewish community in Jerusalem found itself isolated from all outside support. This resulted in near starvation. The first Baron Edmond de Rothschild's father James, set up the James Mayer de Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem in response to this problem. Edmond took over his father's interest in Palestine. When the Russian Jews fled the Czar’s pogroms in the 1880’s Edmond began to finance the Russian Jew’s attempts to establish colonies in Palestine, It is clear that he was an advocate of Zionism, his charities were not only aiding the persecuted, but were promoting the concept of a return the "homeland".
The man who set up the first Zionist Congress was Theodor Herzl. He attempted to get the support for his plans to "restore the Jewish state" from the Rothschilds but many members of the family were opposed to Zionism. Although Edmond supported Herzl’s cause, he felt that the plan should not be implemented to soon, and should rather be accomplished by stealth. He was further concerned that Herzl would annex for himself Rothschild power and influence over the slowly forming Jewish state.
The Baron continued to support his own colonies and though Herzl was socially supported because his ideas facilitated Rothschild power in Palestine, he was not allowed to implement his plans. The Baron was in affect a dictator who expected the colonists to obey him without question.
Following his death, Herzl was succeeded as President of World Zionism by David Wolffsohn and thereafter by Otto Warburg. In 1914 Edmond travelled to Palestine where he was hailed as the "prince returning to his people". Later the Baron Rothschild told Weizmann: "Without me Zionism would not have succeeded, but without Zionism my work would have been struck to death."
The next Rothschild to embrace Zionism was - Lionel Walter, the second Lord Rothschild. The Balfour declaration, which declared England’s support of the creation of a Jewish homeland, was addressed to Lord Rothschild II. Lord Rothschild also received the documents of support from the League of Nations. Charles T. Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society, sent a letter to Lord Rothschild praising his work towards the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
Among its other calculated aims, a further purpose of the Illuminati orchestrated First World War, was to cause the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, in order to free the land of Palestine from its grasp, thereby leading to the creation of the Zionist state of Israel. After Prime Minister of England, Lord Asquith, was deposed in 1916, because he had opposed Zionist interests, David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization, as well as Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour of the Round Table, were placed in power.
Present at the first official meeting of the Political Committee were Lord Rothschild, James de Rothschild, the son of Edmund de Rothschild of Paris, former owner of Rothschild colonies in Palestine, and Sir Mark Sykes. There, the future mandates of Palestine, Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Arabia, then still forming parts of the Ottoman Empire, were discussed in detail.
The Hegelian Dialectic- A Rational For Genocide.
After the cessation of hostilities in 1918, Britain ruled Palestine, and the Rothschilds ruled Britain. Also, a bulk of unpaid debts to the Rothschilds by the failed Ottoman Empire gave the family even more control over Palestine. Then came Hitler. According to Walter Langer, a psychoanalyst who wrote the book `THE MIND OF ADOLF HITLER,` the demonic German leader was a grandson of a Rothschild. Adolf’s father, Alois Hitler, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. It was generally supposed that the father of Alois Hitler was Johann Georg Hiedler. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home ... where Alois was born."
It is believed that Hitler (who was a creation of the Luciferians) attacked Austria first, in order to destroy the Austrian records that proved his Jewish ancestry.
Remember the six-pointed star was the symbol of Moloch and Ashteroth.
Cui Bono? Who benefits. They do: Israel, The UN, the slur of `Anti Semite` to quell opposition and promote Jewish victim status, etc. etc.
Few Jews unfortunately will tolerate any discussion on this subject. After World War II, the U.N., granted Israel its statehood. Weizmann was the first president of Israel’s Knesset (which was built with Rothschild money). The occultic hexagram is on the Knesset, and is also displayed on the Jewish flag.
In his expose of the Rothschilds Dynasty, Fritz Springmeier wrote:
"...the six-pointed star [had] made its way from Egyptian pagan rituals of worship, to the goddess Ashteroth and Moloch, to King Solomon when he went into idolatry," says, Graham. "Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft [including Arab magicians, Druids, witches and Satanists], astrology (in which It was no new thing), through the Cabala to Isaac Luria, a Cabalist, in the 16th century, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, to Zionism, to the Knesset of the new State of Israel, to the flag of Israel and Its medical organization equivalent to the Red Cross."
So what is the ultimate goal of Zionism?
David Ben-Gurion, a Zionist leader, tells us:
"With the exception of the U.S.S.R. as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an International police force. All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents."
Simply stated, Zionism (with Rothschild support) promotes a New World Order. The Rothschild control of Israel is immense. The Luciferian Rothschilds completely dominate Israel. They help Lucifer's Empire control the world’s resources, the world’s nations and the world’s religions. They are an institution in the conspiracy and if one looks carefully, the path of their destructive reign can be followed through the history of the past three centuries.
The Nexus Of Evil - The Road To Armageddon Or A One World Utopian Control Zone.
What follows is based on current trends as they unfold and on an understanding of the policy objectives of the Luciferian elite. This hypothesis is not unique to myself and is only one of several possible `doomsday` scenarios generally agreed upon by most if not all serious students of the New World Order.
A Nation's borders are ultimately defined by its military competence. All of the U.N. edicts and conventions are meaningless without the ability to enforce its will militarily upon recalcitrant nations. It is likely that the E.U. super-state will acquire its necessary army through incremental-ism, sometimes referred to as the `ratchet` system since there is no mechanism in place to repeal E.U. laws. The monumental geo-political restructuring needed however, to bring all nations under a world army will require something quite spectacular.
Think-tanks, university grants and bribes are not enough to bring about global government. The league of Nations and the United Nations were forged from the heat of the first and second world wars. Global government will be the fall-out from World War III. There is a three pronged strategy being played out, masquerading as the Global War on Terror. Firstly, America's super-power status will be destroyed.
This will partly be achieved in carrying out the second tactic which is to bring uncooperative nations, especially those in the Middle East, under U.N. control. America's military might will be exhausted by invading Third World nations and setting up U.N. protectorates. Thirdly, threatened or actual conflict between nuclear powers will persuade all nations to surrender their military power to the U.N. thereby permanently relinquishing their sovereignty.
This is why the West has given nuclear technology to North Korea and China. At this point, before hundreds of cities are annihilated, there will be an emergency U.N. conference. The agreement reached will be to surrender control over all weapons of mass destruction to a U.N. agency. The submission of all conventional armed forces to U.N command will follow. Eventually all military forces will be U.N. 'Peace Keeping' forces, whose purpose is to enforce the U.N. hegemony over rogue states.
If this sounds a little fantastic, consider this: NATO exercises for enforcing U.N. embargoes on breakaway states have already begun. The first exercise of NATO'S Response Force took place between 11th and 26th September 2003 in Galloway, Scotland. This was a 'crisis response' operation called 'Exercise Northern Lights' in which the mission was enforcing a U.N. arms embargo on a recently formed country.
A second exercise took place in Turkey on 20th November 2003. According to the NATO website, "the forces rescued and evacuated the U.N. staff and civilians, established an embargo, engaged in counter-terrorist operations and a show of force".
Like American and European politicians, the Russians and Chinese oligarchs are happy to play their part in this farce because they also dream of international governance. Former party bosses are happy to assume the new role of 'World Controllers' in the eastern regions of the Brave New World. The neo-Liberal/Conservative (Communitarian) government in the Whitehouse, like almost all previous administrations, is 100% committed to the globalist plan to destroy the independence of the U.S.. Once completed, the Donald Rumsfeld-initiated NATO Response Force will put the boot behind the imperial decrees the `Death Star` wishes to impose on rebel colonies.
The policy of weakening the U.S. military really began in earnest under Bush Sr. during the first Gulf War. 300,000 of the 700,000 troops deployed in that conflict are now seriously ill with Gulf War Illness. They are being denied cheap and effective medical care for no apparent reason.
Former Consultant to the Defence Department, Dr Garth Nicolson, estimates that at least 25,000 have died since the war ended. The others face permanent disability and destitution. Major Doug Rokke was the U.S. Army's depleted uranium project director in 1994-95 who has since campaigned tirelessly to expose the devastating health effects of DU munitions.
The report he has obtained from the U.S. Veterans Administration states that by August 2004, it had awarded permanent disability compensation to almost 280,000 U.S. troops who served in the Gulf region between August 1990 and May 2004. Meanwhile, the Veterans Administration refuses to acknowledge that there is a Gulf War Illness, preferring to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder.
The cause of Gulf War Illness is multi-faceted, invariably linked to depleted uranium munitions, experimental vaccinations and exposure to chemical and biological weapons. All of these factors lead back to the Western military-industrial complex controlled by the elite, whose ultimate goal is to destroy America militarily and economically. The troops who served in the first Gulf War have almost all been cycled out of the military, so the poor new recruits currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan know little or nothing of their appalling fate. The policy seems to be to give troops a limited operational lifespan, after which they are killed or incapacitated to make way for the next round of cannon fodder. Meanwhile hundreds of billions of dollars are being bled from U.S. taxpayers to finance this destruction. As George Orwell concluded in 1984:
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable...”
Conclusion – A Righteous Alliance.
It has by now, been well enough documented, that the doom laden events occurring worldwide were planned long ago, and that the `blueprint` for global conquest outlined by Albert Pike appears well on course for realisation. In this series of articles, I have tried to show how through an alliance of intellect and money, the former inevitably in the service of the latter, the dark forces of Magic in the form of the Illuminati and their co conspirators, have captured all the positions of power throughout the nations of the world and are intent on driving humanity to the point of no return. But does it have to be that way?
The Hegelian Dialectic is literally killing us. It is the means by which we are manipulated to do their murder and their bidding. We are divided and conquered because of it. It is only by stepping out from their Dialectical Trap that we can hope to foil their plans, and finally rid the world of a malevolent force which has haunted mankind since the dawn of time.
As I have written in this article, for the Illuminati, the means to achieving their `ends` is a fomented clash between the West and Islam sometime in the the near future. That is the main theme of Samuel Huntington's thesis of the `Clash of Civilisations.` But the truth is that there should be no question of any such clash between Islam and Western civilisation, because the Judeo-Christian belief that forms the basis of Western civilisation, is in actuality in complete harmony and alliance with Islam, not in conflict with it. It is in the Luciferian Creed of the Illuminati one finds the conflict!
As people who believe in right over wrong, good over evil, and those who love God and follow His revelations, let us all rally to a common formula - `faith.` When all good people, be they Muslim, Christian or Jew, rally together in this way; when they understand that they are friends not enemies, when they see that the real enemy is the Luciferian Illuminati, then the world will become a very different place. The fighting that has raged for ages, enmities, fears - and the `false flag` terrorist attacks on innocent people- will then come to an end, and a new civilization based on love, respect and peace can be established upon this `common formula.`
However, achieving this goal depends on our identifying the methods used by our enemies to manipulate and control us; namely, the Hegelian formula, and thereafter the promoting of secularism, thereby bringing about a decline in religious morality and decency. Once we understand this, we can begin eradicating their ideological basis. The fact that the law of the strong, which is the Satanic model, prevails throughout the world, is wholly responsible for our fraught situation, for this attitude is as a virulent contagion, and engenders a social model based only upon self-interest.
Even more seriously, it has replaced acceptance, love, sympathy, compassion, and cooperation with conflict, greed, and dispute. This is not man's intrinsic nature, but the result of a perverse and intensive programmed way of thinking and being, which only serves the Luciferian cause, whilst at the same time aiding our own spiritual impoverishment and material enslavement.
In the present environment of hardship and troubles, sincere Jews, Christians, and Muslims must be even more accepting, conciliatory, complementary, and respectful of each other. They should not forget that unity, togetherness, and cooperation will bring success, and that dispute, argument, and conflict bring nothing but division and weakness, rendering our divided efforts ineffectual in the face of the menace which confronts us. The current situation demands the immediate formation of such an alliance.
The Illuminati know full well that at the root of all wars, conflicts, and all forms of corruption lies man's distancing himself from the true religious moral values, and this in itself explains why they have spent so much time, money and effort in defaming and de-constructing true belief.
Historically, the perverse interpretations of certain insincere individuals working on behalf of the malevolent force, allegedly in the name of a religion, have influenced the mass of people who had insufficient knowledge of the true religious ethic. And this has caused them to commit acts that were totally inappropriate in terms of said religious ethic. The solidarity of believers gains ever greater importance in the face of people who believe in the necessity of solving disagreements and problems by violent means, and those who routinely persecute people with oppressive and despotic implementations.
Every Christian, Muslim or Jewish believer, and all those who have understanding, are obliged to do his or her utmost to struggle and strive to end the `blight` on the lives of humanity caused by the Nexus Of Evil. It is right for those who believe in God, who try to gain His approval, who have surrendered to Him, whose hearts are bound to Him, who praise Him, and who essentially defend the same values, to act in partnership. Sincere believers should and must unite in order to live according to the moral values of their maker, and to unseat from his throne, the dark `Lord` of disaster and carnage, so that for the first time in all of history, men and women can live the lives meant for them by God, and not the lives perverted for them by Lucifer.
Comments to : true_brit58@hotmail.co.uk and http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/
Reference:
1] http://www.historiography-project.com/jhrchives/v13/v13n3p21_benson.html
2] http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/node/35
3] http://www.rense.com/general86/pikeknew.htm
4] http://righteousalliance.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-feudalists-eu-communitarian-agenda.html
5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen (See also Part 8 in this series)
6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
7] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_khazar.htm
*Note: The term Anti Semite implies one is anti Semitic. The vast majority of `Jews` (97%) today originate in Khazaria, not Palestine. In fact, the true Semites are to found in the Arab peoples of the Arabian Peninsula.
8] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild16.htm
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/rothschild.htm
9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
Essential Reading :
The Police State Roadmap by Michael Nield http://www.policestateplanning.com/id19.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14464
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14779
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14672
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14538
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14870
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14642
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24 - Teachers : How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution?
“Law” based on the dictates of a leader is exactly what Nazi Germany had
By Carl Herman
Global Research, February 25, 2012
Washington's Blog - 2012-02-24
We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken by tyrannical government.
The two-minute video here is Defense Secretary Panetta claiming US law allows assassinating Americans if government merely says an American is guilty of a crime. Acts upon what the leader says at any given time rather than limited power under law is the etymology of dictatorship. “Law” based on the dictates of a leader is exactly what Nazi Germany had; their word for leader was fuhrer.
The 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution promise that if the government is to seize you, let alone assassinate you, they have to follow due process to secure persons’ unalienable rights:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury (that means a jury of one’s peers, not the dictatorship of “the leader”)… nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;…
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury…, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
Department of Defense Chief Counsel Jeh Johnson spoke to Yale’s law school and repeated the claim of government authority to dictate any American as a “terrorist” or “terrorist supporter” and be assassinated. This is in Orwellian contradiction to 5th Amendment rights that government cannot deprive you of your life without the above explicit due process. Importantly, Mr. Johnson, the War Department’s top “legal” voice, had more to say: government-dictated assassinations cannot be legally challenged through US courts.
President Obama instructed Justice Department lawyers to defend unlimited warrantless searches in Orwellian violation of the 4th Amendment. Such searches could be claimed as evidence of “supporting terrorism” and then not subject to review after assassination.
The 2006 Military Commissions Act and 2012 NDAA “legislated” dictatorial authority to declare any person a “terrorist supporter,” seize such persons, and hold them indefinitely and without rights.
President Bush and VP Cheney previously claimed that controlled drowning (waterboarding) is an acceptable method to interrogate and receive confessions, despite US courts’ unanimous rulings that this is torture and that the US hanged WW2 Japanese authorities for its use.
These policies to crush dissent protect US obvious violation of war law to engage in current Wars of Aggression. The publicly-stated “reasons” for these wars are tragic-comic lies easily proved as such with a few moments’ attention.
This is US “law” in our world of the present, and in “emperor has no clothes” obvious violation to the Bill of Rights for all persons (not just citizens).
If we just used “nation x” and “government official y said” for the above facts, and students identified them as examples of the US form of government, we would be horrified at their fundamental confusion, yes? We have other names for such forms of government.
Americans who receive their “news” from the six mega-corporations that dominate ~90% of “reporting” will never view clearly-stated facts of the above topics. The CIA disclosed to the Senate Church Committee that they had 400 persons working with the largest US media market to spin stories favorable to administration policies. The facts argue this is still active practice.
Colleagues in education: how are you teaching US War Crimes and destruction of the US Constitution?
Or, do you ignore these changes as you suffer from cognitive dissonance, American Exceptionalism, or the “Big Lie” (and here)? Is it that you haven’t heard about them clearly through the “news” you receive? Or can you ethically stand that government claims for Bill of Rights removals is indeed constitutional?
If you can refute any of the above facts I present as objective, I’d really like to hear the argument. I worked with 200-300 policy briefs for 18 years, and am deeply practiced for factual documentation meant to withstand academic and political challenge; I assert that what both parties’ leadership and corporate media publicly state is paper-thin propaganda on the above topics. Don’t believe me, read this to see for yourself how the New York Times “reported” about the largest meeting of heads of state (presidents, prime ministers, royalty) in world history to save a million children’s lives every month. When you’ve read how this story was obfuscated and buried after the sections on style, travel, and corrections, ask and answer to yourself how that can be explained in any other rational way other than supporting a political agenda consistent with this article’s facts for American neocolonialism (domestic and foreign control by an oligarchy/1% for their own benefit).
Actually, such policies and “news” manipulation have been US business as usual for some time (andhere).
I can provide documentation among literally hundreds of professional and “hobby” journalists, but you’ll have to look and think for yourself.
Upon confirmation of these facts, how are you teaching US War Crimes and destruction of the US Constitution?
Part 1: Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher explains
Part 2: How a government teacher easily proves Occupy’s claim of US War Crimes
Part 3: How an economics teacher presents Occupy’s economic argument, victory
Part 4: Why everyone should Occupy US 1% corporate media: they lie
Important history that makes crimes in the present easy to see and understand:
Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now (6-part series)
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25 - Roy Tov : Anne Frank’s Cult Backfires
Posthumously Baptized
On February 18, 2012, Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank, a German-born Jew who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was posthumously baptized by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic. This was disclosed by Helen Radkey, a former member of the church, who told the Huffington Post that she discovered Frank's name on a database open only to Mormons. Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal and his parents were similarly honored.
Anne Frank’s Cult
“The horror, the horror.” Joseph Conrad could have finished a story taking place in a kibbutz, a community resembling the described in Heart of Darkness. I described in the past how we—high school students in a Jordan Valley kibbutz—had been brainwashed with stories about our grandparents having been made into soap. No human DNA was ever found in the infamous soap bars; it was just another scary Israeli soap-opera. Another key topic in our indoctrination into constant fear was the story of a young girl named Anne Frank.
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born in 1929 in Frankfurt and died in early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen. She is one of the most renowned Jewish victims of the Holocaust due to her diaries. These were discovered and published after the war with the name The Diary of a Young Girl. Over time she became an important topic in Israeli high schools, to the extent that some history classes seem to be dedicated to a Cult of Anne Frank.
Back in 1998, shortly after a disastrous visit to Zurich, I was invited again by Dow Chemical to a conference in Amsterdam. Upon my return to Israel, everybody asked if I had visited the Anne Frank House. Anything else was irrelevant, despite my never having had noticed the Anne Frank Altar at the office. During the Defensive Shield Operation, I met Dutch citizens standing at Bethlehem’s northern entrance. They were there day after day, giving flowers and postcards to the soldiers. Some of the postcards featured the picture of the revered Mademoiselle Frank. These people couldn’t understand who the aggressor was. They were blind to Palestinian victims. They had fallen victims to an ideological weapon called “Anne Frank.” This weapon—and similar ones—has been coldly used to self-portray the State of Israel as a victim. Yet, in October 2009, it was defined by the UN General Assembly as a terror inflicting entity. I’m sure most Dutch have been educated on Christian values and know for sure the value of Compassion and Love, but they were applying it toward the bloody butchers.
For a long while, the new cult worked out quite fine for its false priests. However, it was bound to backfire.
Proxy Baptism
Baptism is one of the most recognized events of a Christian life. It symbolizes the transition of the person baptized into Christianity, though it is not essential, as one of the non-baptized thieves crucified with Jesus was told: Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). Most mainstream Christian denominations, including Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist churches, do not accept posthumous baptism (also known as proxy baptism, because a living person, acting as proxy, is baptized on behalf of a deceased person). This has to do with the acceptance of the conversion; the dead person obviously cannot consent to the event. This consent is so important, that in churches where baptism of children is accepted, the child is required to pass a confirmation ceremony once he—or she—is old enough to understand what he is doing; then he declares his faith, which was the part missing during the original event.
However, other interpretations exist. With respect to proxy baptism, the most notorious one belongs to the Latter Day Saints movement, often referred to as Mormons. They believe posthumous baptism by proxy allows deceased persons to receive the Gospel in the afterlife. The church believes departed souls can then accept or reject the baptismal rites. Since they recognize also the Book of Mormon as holy, and do not accept the Nicene Creed (a short summary of Christian beliefs dating back to the 4th century), there is no other way but referring to them as a sect. Accordingly, Christian and Mormon baptisms are not mutually recognized.
Judaism also doesn’t recognize baptism. That is to the extent Orthodox Jews won’t recognize a Jewish convert to Christianity as such. “It’s just a bit of meaningless water,” I’ve heard Haredim saying while referring to the baptism issue. Yet, reality is different, with proxy baptisms being openly criticized over the Hebrew media. The fact is that Orthodox Jews are particularly offended by this, especially with respect to Holocaust victims, to the extent that the baptism of Holocaust survivors was barred by a 1995 agreement with the mainstream church. Yet, the agreement didn’t include the Mormons.
Queen Elizabeth
An easy way of controlling a civilian population is unifying it behind a leadership figure. In their endless envy of Jesus, states often manipulate historical and political figures so that they would mimic the unifying capabilities of Christianity. A remarkable example of this was Queen Elizabeth I, who following a long Catholic-Protestant schism in her kingdom unified it by becoming the Virgin Queen and Head of the Church of England. This was an undisguised attempt to portray herself as Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. Did she design the strategy, or was she convinced by Walsingham, the Machiavellian father of all Western security services? We’ll never know for sure.
Eventually, someone in the Jewish camp noticed that after a few hundred years the strategy worked quite fine. As a precaution—they didn’t want a living queen—they chose an already dead virgin. Shortly after, the Cult of Anne Frank began. Sadly, there was no way the State of Israel could claim monopoly on a German girl who died several years before its foundation. It was just a matter of time until she would be adopted by others; consequently, she was a few days ago. It is just a matter of time until “new and recent analyses” would disclose signs she was in fact a Christian, or a Mormon, or whatever the manipulating entity behind the event desires. Israel tried to play God; it backfired.
Mademoiselle Frank, let me apologize. We all struggle for freedom. Not for a single one, but for all freedoms promised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some people are using you—and others—as an excuse for robbing them from us. Thus, please take no offense, but I’ll skip your writings, even if you were proxy-baptized.
The Day Israel Died
The Goldstone Report was an important milestone. Until it was published and adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council, I was extremely careful while referring to Israel as a terror state.
“Yehudon!” Open Letter to Justice Goldstone
Justice from the Hip
The Day Israel Died
The Devil's Own
The Palestinian Kristallnacht
Calling for International Intervention in Israel
Vetoing the American Veto
Finally, Justice Goldstone got a prize and the opportunity was used to explore certain Jewish Values.
A result of this attack was Gaza's Freedom Flotilla:
Convergence: Freedom Flotilla, Palestinian Independence and Israel as a Failed State
Corroboration of Killing
From Aloni to Zuabi: Flotilla Attacks
The Ugandans Attack
On the Devil's Advocate and Gaza's Flotilla
Napo Beats Bibi
White Washing War Crimes
Turkel: On Dark Ages and Lesser Evil
Isolating Israel: Flotilla Aftermath
On Shayetet 13, State Terror and Gaza’s Freedom Flotilla
Freedom Flotilla to Gaza: on a Pirate Nation
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26 - The Satanic Core of Libertarianism
Posted on truther on February 26, 2012
De Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees demonstrates that Satanism is at the core of Libertarian doctrine and Austrian economics.
It’s the same old story: “liberate” your basest impulses, i.e. “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.“
“Essentially, two seemingly opposed forces advance the same goal: a worldpolice state governed by an oligarchy of billionaire Satanists.”
by Memehunter
(henrymakow)
In Proof Libertarianism is an Illuminati ploy, we covered the Jewish Money Power’s ongoing involvement in Libertarianism.
In The “Catholic” Wing of Libertarianism, we explored the Jesuit a.k.a. Illuminati connections with Libertarianism.
In this article, we explore the Illuminati creed at the root of Austrian economics and Libertarianism : Satanism.
The obscure hero of Libertarianism : Bernard de Mandeville
Born in Rotterdam in 1670, Bernard de Mandeville came to England in the wake of William of Orange’s accession to the throne. A doctor by profession, Mandeville became better-known as a satirist. More importantly, Mandeville was also a Satanist, linked with the Blasters and Hell-Fire Clubs of 18th-century England.
Although Mandeville’s name has been all but erased from contemporary mainstream economical discourse, many free-market thinkers lavish glowing praise on his insights.
In a lecture delivered at the British Academy in 1966, Friedrich von Hayek extolled Mandeville as a “mastermind” and “great psychologist” whose theories anticipated those of David Hume, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin, and praised his poem The Fable of the Bees as a “remarkable” work.
According to Hayek, Mandeville’s ideas “returned to economic theory” through the work of Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School by way of 19th-century German historian Friedrich von Savigny.
Ludwig von Mises also paid tribute to Mandeville in his Theory and History, observing that
“He [Mandeville] pointed out that self-interest and the desire for material well-being, commonly stigmatized as vices, are in fact the incentives whose operation makes for welfare, prosperity, and civilization.”
Even John Maynard Keynes, surely not an Austrian, recognized Mandeville as one of his main precursors inThe General Theory of Employment and Money.
These days, Austrian economist Gary North introduces The Fable of the Bees on his website as “the most important poem in the last 300 years”.
But what is so special about the Fable of the Bees that this fairly obscure poem, and its author, could have inspired such eulogies from Hayek, Mises, and Keynes?
Good comes from evil, and other perversions
Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits was published in 1705, but was reworked and supplemented with abundant commentary over the next 25 years.
In his writings, Mandeville argues that liberty represents man’s uninhibited pursuit of his basest material and carnal instincts. Rather than being evil, selfishness and licentiousness lead to prosperity.
According to Mandeville, this is “the grand principle that makes us social creatures, the solid basis, the life and support of all trade and employment without exception”.
(left, Talk of a Romney-Paul ticket. Romney: “I’m not concerned about he poor…”)
Influenced by Mandeville, Adam Smith came to the conclusion that self-interest is the pillar of a prosperous society. Hayek and Mises went even further. They railed against altruism and solidarity as hindrances to a society’s economic success.
Of course, Smith is right to identify the added value brought by the division of labor and to point out that producers and sellers are primarily motivated by self-interest. But that does not mean that self-interest should be the fundamental principle of civilization. This is plain evil and the antithesis of what civilization is all about.
Mandeville also claimed that a nation’s wealth was predicated on the maintenance of an underclass of poorly educated laborers.
Following in Mandeville’s hoof steps, Mises emphasized that “men are born unequal and that it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization.”
The “Right to Allow your Child to Die”
To his credit, anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard distanced himself from Mandeville’s ideology. However, the same Rothbard advocated that parents have “a legal right not to feed [their] child, i.e., to allow it to die”, and for the emergence of a “free market in children”.
Since Rothbard’s system denies that humans have moral obligations to each other, he rejects aggression (the “non-aggression principle”) but allows outright neglect, to the point of causing death.
This is the evil outcome of taking libertarian ethics to their logical extreme. Clearly, the “non-aggression principle” is necessary but not sufficient to design a just and humane society.
Satanic Ideologies in Modern Libertarianism
Below are three well-known quotes.
Satanist Alastair Crowley’s Law of Thelema reads thus:
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”.
Libertarian novelist Ayn Rand’s mouthpiece Howard Roark proclaims in The Fountainhead:
”Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”
Finally, a passage from Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, who admired Rand’s elitist stance:
”The ultimate end of action is always the satisfaction of some desires of the acting man. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people’s aims and volition.” (Human Action)
Beyond differences in wording, and even though Mises’s version is more nuanced than Crowley’s or Rand’s, these three extracts are essentially saying the same thing.
Now, it is one thing to point to similarities between Satanism and Libertarianism, but, Satanist propaganda is actually at the core of the Libertarian doctrine and of Austrian economics.
The Satanic-Libertarian connection is very much alive today. Libertarian candidate Ron Paul, a self-avowed Rand admirer, may strike the right chord on many topics, but he has been linked to the Illuminati and has been seen displaying Satanic hand signs.
The Satanic Dialectic
The Austrian School is not the only economic school infected with Satanism, far from it. Like Hayek, Keynes was a member of the infamous Fabian Society. He was also known as a child molester. Karl Marx was himself a Satanist.
In fact, Socialism, Zionism, and Satanism were originally joined at the hip: 19th-century Jewish activist Moses Hess, an influential precursor of modern Zionism, was also an early proponent of socialism and a collaborator of Marx. It was Hess who initiated Marx and Engels into Satanism.
The end goal of all these ideologies is domination by a transnational, oligarchic, Satanic elite. Marxism andAustrianism both oppose nationalism and support free trade.
Mises’ collaborator, the arch-Zionist, Jesuit-trained, high-ranking Freemason Richard Coudenhove-Kalergisummarized the Illuminati dialectic thusly:
“The fight between Capitalism and Communism over the inheritance of the beseeched blood aristocracy is a fratricidal war of the victorious brain aristocracy, a fight between individualistic and socialist, egoist and altruist, heathen and Christian spirit.
The general staff of both parties is recruited from Europe’s spiritual leader race [Führerrasse] the Jews.”
Essentially, two seemingly opposed forces advance the same goal: a world police state governed by an oligarchy of billionaire Satanists.
Rising Above the Illuminati Dialectic
To be sure, Austrian economics and Libertarianism have introduced useful concepts in both ethics and modern economic theory. The same can be said about Keynes and Marx. Illuminati ideologies always contain some savory morsels of truth, in order to make the Satanic deception more effective.
In rising above this Illuminati dialectic, our challenge is to digest these nuggets of wisdom, and spit out the evil lies and half-truths that defile them.
In the end, the real war waged by the Illuminati is a spiritual one. It is not merely about which monetary system is conducive to prosperity or which economic model is optimal. It is not solely about which political system is superior. It is, at heart, a battle between God and the Devil, for our souls.
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27 - Northwestern's Intellectual Hall of Shame
by Jacques Le Vangie
With great pleasure we award the 2012 Intellectual Hall of Shame prize to the president emeritus and sixty faculty members of the department of Electronics Engineering of Northwestern University for their cowardice in failing to defend their stance against revisionist historian Arthur Butz, also of the same university.
Ladies and gentlemen of Northwestern, its time to trade your mortarboards for dunce caps!
In 1976, Butz published The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry. In December 2005 Butz congratulated Iranian president Ahmadinejad after the latter gave a speech about the Holohoax, writing, “I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues [the fabrication of the Holocaust], and regret only that it was not a Western head of state.”
In response, Northwestern president Henry S. Bienen condemned Butz, writing that, “There is no question that the Holocaust is a well-documented historical fact.” In addition, sixty members of Butz's department signed a letter of condemnation against Butz. Bienen touted the great variety of Holocaust programs at his university, to further distance Northwestern from Butz and his personal views.
Last week, a KYR reader suggested that, in place of condemning Butz, Bienen might have sponsored a debate between Butz and his opponents, and in that way uphold the principle of free speech on university campuses. But that debate never took place, Butz was simply condemned, his opponents perhaps claiming victory simply by assuming the overwhelming superiority of evidence in favor of their position.
Until now.
Six years later, Bienen has retired from his presidency, and is now president emeritus, but far from retired: he holds positions on the Council of Foreign Relations as well as many boards of major corporations. Moreover, Bienen continues to serve in many governmental capacities, which include a stint as a CIA analyst. Today he enjoys a broad array of connections in academia, government and business.
A former political scientist, Bienen specialized in African affairs, not exactly at the forefront of his field. Chalmers Johnson, a well-known political scientist from the University of California, used to describe Africa as an “economic basket case.” In that light, the field of African studies ranked low in academic status as well as in assignments for the US State Department, perhaps near the bottom of the list, just above studies of Ecuador or Paraguay.
Bienen did manage to write a few books during his years as a political scientist, but more than half of his books show a co-authorship or worse, an “edited by” credit. During his entire academic career, Bienen perhaps authored four books completely by himself – not exactly an impressive figure for thirty years of work.
Despite the paucity of academic achievement in Bienen's career, this writer took him at his word and emailed Bienen directly, with a cc to his administrative assistant, asking him to produce a little of that evidence that proves the Holocaust, the evidence he evidently has been hiding since 2006. A week has passed without response from Bienen or his his administrative assistant, so this writer assumes:
a. Bienen has no evidence to support his claims
b. Bienen finds academics too challenging to locate such evidence, even from among the great number of Holocaust education programs at his former university.
Realizing that Bienen would not respond, this writer changed tactics to include some sixty members of Butz's department, who had signed a letter condemning Butz for his views. This writer felt it fair game to request proof of the Holocaust from the signatories as well. While none of them are historians or political scientists, they still profess to be scientists and so a reasonable person would assume that such scientists would not sign their name to a statement for which they lacked evidence.
In this spirit, this writer sent emails to a number of the professors listed in the department directory, and by the end of this week, not a single professor had responded to the email, which requested irrefutable evidence of the Holocaust.
Therefore, Northwestern and its department of Electrical Engineering boasts one man of conscience and sixty cowards; one true scientist and historian, and sixty - one intellectual cowards who lack the courage of their convictions. Morever, these sixty - one pseudo – intellectuals claim academic and scientific status, yet in their condemnation of their colleague, Butz, not one of them bothered to look for irrefutable evidence of the Holocaust.
Not a single one of these putative scientists followed the scientific method in their attack on their colleague; as such, their condemnation of Butz amounted to nothing more than a witch hunt, the sort of witch hunt conducted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's and by the Puritans of Salem in the seventeenth century, or the European Inquisitions of the Dark Age, prior to the Enlightenment.
Thus we flunk them all, withdraw their tenure and academic titles and boot them out of respectable academia. Yet since Northwestern and its administration lack intellectual honesty and integrity, we realize that may never happen. Nevertheless, not a one of them deserves a place in academia, which speaks to the thoroughly corrupt character of American academia.
Given the geography of Northwestern, in northern Ilinois, not far from Skokie, with its high percentage of Jews, and Chicago, run by former Zionist Obama – handler Rahm Emmanuel, the campus certainly came under tremendous local pressure to toe the Zionist line. Like good Zionists, the professors perhaps received orders not to respond to emails such as the one sent by this author. One might even speculate that the Council for Foreign Relations has issued such a command, and Bieden was simply “following orders,” like a good Zionist, in ordering his underlings not to discuss the issue, for which there exists no irrefutable evidence.
The sheer silence from Northwestern speaks volumes about the evidence for the so-called “Holocaust” - there does not exist any scientific, irrefutable and undeniable evidence for such a historical event. The Holocaust never took place, which vindicates Butz's original position. Instead, we are left with the Holohoax, again supporting the position Butz asserted in 1976 – and the astounding complicity of the Jews in perpetrating the hoax for more than sixty seven years.
We can petition the Nobel Committee to award a prize to Arthur Butz for his intellectual courage in standing up to the intellectual morons around him for these thirty – six years. After all, Elie the Wiesel obtained his Nobel prize only after decades of Zionist lobbying of the Nobel Committee, despite the fact that the Wiesel lacks an Auschwitz tattoo on his left forearm, as all genuine Auschwitz inmates' bore.
The Northwestern Hall of Shame includes:
Henry S. Bienen
President Emeritus
Arthur Rubloff Building
375 East Chicago Avenue, Room 11-410
Chicago, Illinois 60611
hsbienen@northwestern.edu
Rita Mosevich
Assistant to the President Emeritus
phone: 312-503-7460
fax: 312-503-5388
r-mosevich@northwestern.edu
brenna.argall@northwestern.edu
aydin@eecs.northwestern.edu
rberry@eecs.northwestern.edu
birnbaum@cs.northwestern.edu
ychen@northwestern.edu
choudhar@eecs.northwestern.edu
pdinda@eecs.northwestern.edu
ddowney@eecs.northwestern.edu
robby@eecs.northwestern.edu
forbus@northwestern.edu
fortnow@eecs.northwestern.edu
freeman@eecs.northwestern.edu
m-grayson@eecs.northwestern.edu
dguo@northwestern.edu
ahaddad@eecs.northwestern.edu
hammond@eecs.northwestern.edu
nikos@northwestern.edu
hartline@eecs.northwestern.edu
henschen@eecs.northwestern.edu
sth@eecs.northwestern.edu
mh@eecs.northwestern.edu
michael-horn@northwestern.edu
ian@eecs.northwestern.edu
nickle@eecs.northwestern.edu
ismail@eecs.northwestern.edu
rjoseph@eecs.northwestern.edu
kao@eecs.northwestern.edu
aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu
kumarp@eecs.northwestern.edu
akuzma@northwestern.edu
cclee@eecs.northwestern.edu
linw@eecs.northwestern.edu
changliu@northwestern.edu
seda@eecs.northwestern.edu
memik@eecs.northwestern.edu
The remainder of Northwestern's shameful professors may be found on the Electrical Engineering department website, where these addresses are listed.
Please go ahead and email them, requesting scientific evidence for the Holocaust. Humiliate them for their cowardice, throw virtual rotten tomatoes at them and virtually spit in their faces.
The Wikipedia entry for Arthur Butz reads as follows:
In 1976, Butz published The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry. This book asserted that the Holocaust did not occur and had been deliberately fabricated to justify the creation of the state of Israel.
Butz summarized the book as follows:
1. The alleged slaughter of millions of Jews by the Germans, during World War II, did not happen.
2. The extermination allegation is properly termed a hoax, that is to say, a deliberately contrived falsehood. It was not at its source an honest misunderstanding or accidental falsehood.
3. The hoax had a Zionist provenance and motivation. That is, while some of the original obscure stories did not come from Zionist sources, the elevation to allegations repeated by the American and other governments, and major institutions, was due to Zionist circles within those countries, who acted with Zionist motivations.[4]
Some have argued that he was not fired because of academic freedom granted to tenured professors.[dubious – discuss][3]
Most recently, Butz attracted attention when he issued a statement in which he agreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that the Holocaust is a "myth." In a press release dated December 18, 2005, Butz wrote:
I congratulate him [Ahmadinejad] on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues [the alleged fabrication of the Holocaust], and regret only that it was not a Western head of state. His political remarks receive no comment on my side. By 'political remarks' I mean those that deal with questions of what ought to happen now.[5][3]
The press release was in response to a speech President Ahmadinejad gave, in which he quotes the following from Imam Khomeini, "This regime that is occupying Qods [Jerusalem] must be eliminated from the pages of history.".[6]
Sixty of Butz's colleagues from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty signed a censure describing Butz's Holocaust denial as "an affront to our humanity and our standards as scholars".[7] The letter also called for Butz to "leave our Department and our University and stop trading on our reputation for academic excellence."[7]
University President Henry S. Bienen issued a statement strongly rejecting Butz's positions and distancing the university from them:
Northwestern University Associate Professor Arthur Butz recently issued a statement commending Iranian President Ahmadinejad's assertion that the Holocaust never happened. Butz is a Holocaust denier who has made similar assertions previously. His latest statement, like his earlier writings and pronouncements, is a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people. While I hope everyone understands that Butz's opinions are his own and in no way represent the views of the University or me personally, his reprehensible opinions on this issue are an embarrassment to Northwestern.
There is no question that the Holocaust is a well-documented historical fact. The University has a professorship in Holocaust Studies endowed by the Holocaust Educational Foundation. Northwestern offers courses in Holocaust Studies and organizes conferences of academic scholars who teach in areas relating to the Holocaust. In addition, Northwestern hosts a summer Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. And most recently, a fellowship in the political science department has been established in my name by the Holocaust Educational Foundation. In short, Northwestern University has contributed significantly to the scholarly research of the Holocaust and remains committed to doing so.
Butz is a tenured associate professor in electrical engineering. Like all faculty members, he is entitled to express his personal views, including on his personal web pages, as long as he does not represent such opinions as the views of the University. Butz has made clear that his opinions are his own and at no time has he discussed those views in class or made them part of his class curriculum. Therefore, we cannot take action based on the content of what Butz says regarding the Holocaust - however odious it may be - without undermining the vital principle of intellectual freedom that all academic institutions serve to protect.
Henry S. Bienen
President[8]
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28 - The New Mediterranean Oil And Gas Bonanza
Part I - Israel’s Levant Basin - A New Geopolitical Curse ?
By F. William Engdahl*
Author of Century of War - Anglo-American Oil Politics
2-19-12
Recent discoveries of not just significant, but huge oil and gas reserves in the little-explored Mediterranean Sea between Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Syria and Lebanon suggest that the region could become literally a “new Persian Gulf” in terms of oil and gas riches. As with the old Persian Gulf, discovery of hydrocarbon riches could as well spell a geopolitical curse of staggering dimension.
Long-standing Middle East conflicts could soon be paled by new battles over rights to oil and gas resources beneath the eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Basin and Aegean Sea. Here we explore the implications of a gigantic discovery of gas and oil in offshore Israel. In a second article we will explore the implications of gas and oil discoveries in the Aegean between Cyprus, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Lebanon.
An Israeli Leviathan
The game-changer was a dramatic discovery in late 2010 of an enormous natural gas field offshore of Israel in what geologists call the Levant or Levantine Basin. In October 2010 Israel discovered a massive “super-giant” gas field offshore in what it declares is its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The find is some 84 miles west of the Haifa port and three miles deep. They named it Leviathan after the Biblical sea monster. Three Israeli energy companies in cooperation with the Houston Texas Noble Energy announced initial estimates that the field contained 16 trillion cubic feet of gas—making it the world's biggest deep-water gas find in a decade, adding more discredit to “peak oil” theories that the planet is about to see dramatic and permanent shortages of oil, gas and coal. To put the number in perspective, that one gas field, Leviathan, would hold enough reserves to supply Israel's gas needs for 100 years.
Energy self-sufficiency had eluded the state of Israel since its founding in 1948. Abundant oil and gas exploration had repeatedly been undertaken with meager result. Unlike its energy-rich Arab neighbors, Israel seemed out of luck. Then in 2009 Israel’s exploration partner, Noble Energy, discovered the Tamar field in the Levantine Basin some 50 miles west of Israel’s port of Haifa with an estimated 8.3 tcf (trillion cubic feet) of highest quality natural gas. Tamar was the world’s largest gas discovery in 2009.
At the time, total Israeli gas reserves were estimated at only 1.5 tcf. Government estimates were that Israel's sole operating field, Yam Tethys, which supplies about 70 percent of the country's natural gas, would be depleted within three years.
With Tamar, prospects began to look considerably better. Then, just a year after Tamar, the same consortium led by Noble Energy struck the largest gas find in its decades-long history at Leviathan in the same Levantine geological basin. Present estimates are that the Leviathan field holds at least 17 tcf of gas. Israel went from a gas famine to feast in a matter of months.
With the Tamar and now Leviathan discoveries, Israel was beginning to discuss how to become a major natural gas export nation as well as whether to significantly tax s and oil revenues and place it into an Israeli Sovereign Wealth Fund that would make long-term investments in the Israeli economy as China and many Arab OPEC nations do.
“The Levant Basin Province is comparable to some of the other large provinces around the world,” noted a spokesperson from the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy Resources Program. “Its gas resources are bigger than anything we have assessed in the United States.”
Perhaps sensing that major oil and gas discoveries were being confirmed with potential to change the geopolitics of the entire region, the USGS launched its first-ever estimate of the total reserves of oil and gas in the broad region encompassing the Eastern Mediterranean including the Aegean Basin offshore Greece and Turkey and Cyprus, the Levant Basin offshore Lebanon, Israel and Syria, and the Nile Basin offshore Egypt. Their conclusion was impressive to put it mildly.
The USGS, using all data from previous drilling and geologic surveys of the region concluded, “undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Levant Basin Province amount to 1.68 billion barrels of oil, and 122 tcf of gas. Additionally, according to USGS estimates, “undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Nile Delta Basin Province (bounded by the Nile Cone to the west, by Strabo to the north, by the Pytheus and Cyprus Trenches to the east and by the Levant Basin to the south) are estimated to be approximately 1.76 bbl (of oil), and 223 tcf of natural gas.”
The USGS calculated the total for the eastern Mediterranean as a whole currently at 345 tcf of gas and 3.4 billion barrels of oil. Suddenly the entire region is facing completely new geopolitical challenges and conflict potentials.
To put the numbers into perspective, the USGS estimates that Russia’s West Siberian Basin, the world’s largest known gas basin, holds 643 tcf of gas. As well, the Middle East and North Africa regions have several natural gas-rich areas, including the Rub Al Khali Basin (426 trillion cubic feet) in southwestern Saudi Arabia and Northern Yemen; the Greater Ghawar Uplift in eastern Saudi Arabia (227 tcf) and the Zagros Fold Belt (212 tcf) along the Persian Gulf and into Iraq and Iran.
Just months earlier, securing foreign gas was a national security priority of Israel as existing domestic gas supplies dwindled dangerously low. Further adding to the energy crisis were the so-called Arab Spring protests sweeping across Egypt into Libya in early 2011. The revolts toppled Mubarak, under whose regime Egypt had supplied some 40% of Israeli natural gas. With Mubarak toppled and the ban lifted on Egypt’s Islamic parties, especially the Muslim Brotherhood and the radical Salafist Al-Nour Party, the gas pipeline delivering Egypt’s gas to Israel was target of repeated sabotage and disruptions, the most recent February of this year in northern Sinai. Israel was becoming more than nervous about its future energy security.
Lebanon reaction fuels new frictions
Discovery of Leviathan by Israel in the waters offshore immediately triggered a new geopolitical conflict as Lebanon claimed that part of the gas field lay in Lebanese territorial waters in Lebanon’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Lebanon delivered maps to the UN to back its claim, to which Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman retorted, “We won’t give an inch.”
The fly in the Mediterranean energy soup is the fact that Israel, like the USA, has never ratified the 1982 UN Convention on Law of the Sea dividing world subsea mineral rights. The Israeli gas wells at Leviathan are clearly within undisputed Israeli territory as Lebanon affirms, but Lebanon believes the field extends over into their subsea waters as well. The Lebanese Hezbollah claims that the Tamar gas field, which is due to begin gas deliveries by the end of this year, belongs to Lebanon.
Washington has lost no time adding political gasoline to the natural gas dispute between Lebanon and Israel. In July of 2011 as Israel prepared to submit its own proposal to the UN as to where the offshore demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel should run, Frederick Hof, US diplomat responsible for special affairs regarding Syria and Lebanon, told Lebanon that the Obama Administration endorsed the Lebanese document, adding to the growing tensions reported since outbreak of the Arab Spring between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama.
Netanyahu has reportedly recently urged America’s eighth wealthiest person, his close friend Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson to pour millions directly into the campaigns of Republicans, including Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. It represents an unprecedented direct Israeli intervention into US presidential candidates’ campaigns, in order to try to defeat a second Obama term. New issues of control of the vast energy reserves being discovered off Israeli and Lebanese, Cypriot, Turkish and Greek shores will clearly play a growing role in one of the most entangled political regions on Earth.
In our next piece the added complication of oil and gas discoveries in the Aegean Sea will be examined.
*F. William Engdahl may be contacted via his website, "http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net" www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
Endnotes
Charles Levinson, Guy Chazan, Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel, The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2010, accessed in "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576049842786766586.html#printMode" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576049842786766586.html#printMode.
Offshore Energy Today Staff, Israel: Leviathan Holds More Gas Than Previously Estimated, Offshore Energy Today, December 19, 2011, accessed in "http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/israel-leviathan-holds-more-gas-than-previously-estimated/" http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/israel-leviathan-holds-more-gas-than-previously-estimated/.
AFP, Israel has enough gas 'to become exporter,' 29 December 2010, accessed in "http://www.france24.com/en/20101229-israel-has-enough-gas-become-exporter" http://www.france24.com/en/20101229-israel-has-enough-gas-become-exporter.
US Department of the Interior, Levant basin holds 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 20103014, March 2010-April 10, 2010.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Avi Bar-Eli and Itai Trilnick, Forecast Blackout Israel is about to run out of natural gas: Shortage expected to last at least until next year, when the Tamar gas field starts production, February 2, 2012, Haaretz, accessed in "http://english.themarker.com/forecast-blackout-israel-is-about-to-run-out-of-natural-gas-1.410513" http://english.themarker.com/forecast-blackout-israel-is-about-to-run-out-of-natural-gas-1.410513. See also Reuters, Blast Hits Gas Pipeline Between Egypt, Jordan, Israel, 4 February 2012.
Barak Ravid, US Backs Lebanon on Maritime Border Dispute with Israel, July 10, 2011, Haaretz.com
Reuters, Sheldon Adelson Probe: Donations From Casino Owner Could Embarrass Republican Candidates, February 8, 2012, accessed in "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/sheldon-adelson-donations-casino-probe_n_1263945.html?ref=email_share" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/sheldon-adelson-donations-casino-probe_n_1263945.html?ref=email_share. For more on the Adelson-Gingrich-Romney-Netanyahu connection see, Max Blumenthal, The Bibi Connection, January 12, 2012, accessed in "http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bibi-connection" http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bibi-connection.
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29 - Utah Bill : Videotaping a Factory Farm is Same as Assaulting a Police Officer
By Will Potter (about the author)
opednews.com
Utah is the latest state to consider new laws targeting undercover investigators who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms. A new bill would make photographing animal abuse on par with assaulting a police officer.
Rep. John Mathis calls undercover investigators "animal rights terrorists," and says video recordings that have brought national attention to systemic animal welfare abuses are "propaganda" and fundraising efforts.
The bill, HB187, targets anyone who videotapes or takes photograph on a farmer's property without permission. It creates the crime of "agricultural operation interference," a class A misdemeanor which is elevated to a third-degree felony on the second offense.
It comes at at time when the FBI has considered "terrorism" charges against undercover investigators.
Rep. Mathis' opening remarks at a hearing by the Utah House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee on February 14th are indicative of the good ol' boy network that is attempting to pass this legislation:
"It's fun to see my good ag friends in this committee," Mathis said. "" all my good friends are here."
Mathis, the sponsor of the bill, said animal protection groups are solely using their investigations as "propaganda" efforts for fundraising drives. He went on to claim that animal welfare reforms, such as allowing chickens to spread their wings, are actually "detrimental to the welfare of animals."
Exposing animal abuse is hurting animal welfare? Photography is terrorism? What Mathis leaves out is that these investigations have led to criminal charges against farm workers. Just this week, undercover video shot by Mercy for Animals at a Butterball farm resulted in six workers being charged with misdemeanors and felonies.
And a recent investigation by Compassion Over Killing (in Iowa, another state considering "Ag Gag" legislation) showed workers pushing herniated intestines back inside injured piglets, thencovering the wound with tape.
Only token gestures of opposition were made during the hearing, such as one representative voicing concerns that the bill could target people who take "pretty barn pictures."
But this bill isn't about pretty pictures.
This bill, and similar attempts in Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and New York, is to criminalize anyone who exposes abuses on factory farms.
These disproportionate penalties are solely motivated by the corporate interests affected by animal welfare reforms. As Rep. Craig Frank, a Republican, noted: this bill makes taking a photograph of a factory farm in Utah a third-degree felony on the second offense, the same as assaulting a police officer.
He called it a "Black Angus Ops" bill and questioned the need for new laws when trespassing is already a crime, but outside of making jokes he and the others on the committee offered no opposition.
In light of the recent criminal charges and systemic animal welfare violations, it's startling to hear Mathis and supporters say the bill is the same as punishing someone who leaves a video recorder "under you and your wife's bed."
This isn't about personal privacy. It's about corporations attempting to hide their criminal activity, deceive consumers, and deflect public scrutiny onto those who are dragging these abuses into the sunlight.
The committee voted 10-3 to move the measure as originally written to the full House. You can contact Utah representatives about HB 187 here.
Will Potter is an award-winning reporter who focuses on how lawmakers and corporations have labeled animal rights and environmental activists as "eco-terrorists." Will has written for publications including The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning (more...)
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30 - Chemtrail Whistle Blower Speaks, Part 1
The Intel Hub
By Luemas of People Beyond
February 26, 2012
Intel Hub Note: This article was submitted to us by a concerned citizen who spoke with a whistleblower and while many things put forward in this article can clearly be confirmed, others cannot and are being posted here in an attempt to further research into this subject.
BACKSTORY
About 4 years ago, through a series of synchronistic events, I ran into a very informed man. He had family involved high up in the alphabet soup agencies and showed me so much involving this delicate issue.
He found out that I was awake to the NWO which prompted the many conversations we had. He knew more than anyone I’ve known including the many researchers I’ve listened to throughout the years.
I too, am an autodidact and skeptical of anyone who portrays knowing so much about things most can’t get any info about. This was 4 years ago, and since then, from my own research, everything he said has checked out and proved to be very accurate.
We’ll just call this man Robert. He was very cutting edge and ahead of the times as far as knowledge. The writings below are what he said and described, in detail, about the chemtrail operations taking place across the world.
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MORGELLONS
This is a part of the puzzle that I hear very few talking about. It’s the hardest to conclude and most average system people would never buy it, but it remains extremely important.
He told me that what he called morgellons are polymer fibers which are found in chemtrail samples.
Besides heavy metals, people find these fibers in samples when looking at them under microscopes. Some are microscopic, some can be seen with the naked eye.
These fibers are found in countless people around the world so itʻs been theorized that everyone has them inside their body.The fibers are nano tech strands that grow and form a network inside our bodies.
When a person has morgellons disease itʻs because their bodies are rejecting this stuff and it grows out of their skin. Some people’s bodies don’t take to it and they have this kind of reaction. These poor victims are written off as nuts and hypochondriacs by the mainstream doctors.
The fibers combine in our bodies and form an antenna to HAARP and other machines. Morgellons form a network from our brains, down our spine, to our reproductive organs. It makes us one big antenna. Basically they cover all of our chakra points. This program is all about mind control and dumbing us down, I believe.
How this connects to HAARP and chemtrails:
They spray down the metals and fibers. We inhale or ingest them. HAARP is pulsing itʻs energy into the upper atmosphere and shooting back down into smaller antennas and transmitters like T.V. towers, cell phone towers, G.W.E.N. towers etc.
Then, this energy is re-directed into smaller devices such as computers, cell phones, smart meters, wireless internet, HDTV boxes and even ipods. (all these things run off of the same elf energy)
These devices are close to our bodies so they conduct with the charged fibers in us, in turn that helps the fibers build their self-replicating network.
Robert said another thing that feeds the “wire” (his other word for morgellons) is refined sugars. Notice how everywhere you go in this world thereʻs so much sugar in the food and everybody’s on their portable devices that constantly feed the morgellons.
Right now the effect this has on humans is more subtle but when they turn HAARP up we will get the full effect. Robert said they incrementally turn it up a little higher each time.
This also connects to weather control because they can move chemtrail clouds with these fibers to control cloud movement. Maybe move a storm where they want it etc.
Who knows how far taken we are by the wire because all of us have some in us. Very few are away from this process so itʻs hard to gauge where are natural state without all this is.
If you want some more information on the morgellon/ chemtrail connection, check out Clifford Carnicom’s in depth research. Pieces of this puzzle are everywhere if you are willing to look.
I have actually spit visible fiber material out doing an important detox that I will send separately from this document.
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WEATHER MODIFICATION
Robert said that most of the weather modification can be done with HAARP.
However, our atmosphere is charged or in a plasma state thanks to chemtrails. This is perfect to conduct pulse weapons to possibly create man-made disasters. I noticed from my own research that they often spray into a storm front.
One thing you can physically see is the HAARP clouds which look like the wireless internet symbol in the spray.
Robert said that they spray before a storm to help better rain these poisons into the plants and our skin pours.
Also, I think that all this crazy weather across the planet has to do somewhat with this massive accumulation of dumping non-stop for the last decade or more.
While some of the weather could be natural, caused by solar flares and other natural phenomena, it’s hard to say with this one.
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GEO-ENGINEERING
Everything he said matched what Michael Murphy has uncovered in his groundbreaking documentary, “What in the World are they Spraying.”
I’ve noticed weather has definitely been stranger than normal for at least the last seven years. I am a novice gardener but, I have noticed that my seeds have had a much harder time sprouting.
Another thing that Robert said is that they want to spray the wilderness as well because these metals and fibers can be seen on radar. Therefore, they can create a sort of the 3D image of areas which essentially makes hiding impossible.
I donʻt have much to add here other then some friends in California have told me that a lot of trees have this white mold stuff growing on them which is killing forests. If we were to take samples, they would most likely indicate that this is from the spraying.
One thing that chemtrails do is suck the oxygen levels from our environment. This effects anything alive. Imagine how it is in places like inner city Los Angeles where there are relatively no trees and just concrete for miles. Oxygen is already starved in these environments.
I personally don’t believe that they are trying to mitigate global warming with this. How can we make a good judgement until they clear all of this poison out of our skies?
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POPULATION CONTROL
It seems that they also spray pathogens like the desecrated red blood cells found in samples from Clifford Carnicomʻs work. A lot of people get sick after a spray day. I personally often feel sedated after heavy spraying. I didnʻt get to this subject with Robert because when the guy talked he was like a spouting encyclopedia.
When they spray, a lot of people across the islands suddenly have the same thing. No cold, but fatigue and upper respiratory illness. I have some kind of infection and I never get sick.
They probably would like to kill off as many people who have weak immune systems as they can. We could also be falling victim to barium poisoning as well. I wouldn’t put it past the elite to kill us off.
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PLANES
He said that most planes are run by remote control, not pilots. Others are flown by pilots who are chipped.
Locally here in Hawaii I know of a story where a lady visited a natural doctor we know who owns a health food store and it turns out that the Lady told the doctor she sprays the skies for the military. She told the doctor that she doesn’t know why she does it, she just does what she’s told.
She was seeing the natural doctor because she keeps getting sick.
Little to say here, but that’s a small lead.
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CONCLUSION:
Regardless of what a guy you’ll never meet named Robert said, this is how it is – use your own judgement and critical thinking. Most of the evidence is laid out in front of us, if one actually does the research.
Everyone has something they can contribute to help make others aware of something so huge, yet right above our heads. This is massive, and nobody is un-effected by it. If you choose to ignore it, it won’t go away and it will destroy our lives and the planet even quicker.
There are multiple programs being conducted. All are forms of playing God which is what the NWO is, satanists trying to be God over the planet.
Killing off our immune systems, killing off the natural world, replacing it with genetically modified seeds, completely manipulating our bodies, using us as antennas, and changing the weather, all makes one wonder what is the end goal of all of this?
What are they preparing us for? Full spectrum domination is for sure, that much we know.
There are some solutions that we can do to help our bodies. That will be outlined in part 2.
Luemas will be appearing on The Bob Tuskin Show to continue this in-depth investigation.
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31 - PETRUS ROMANUS : THE FALSE PROPHET AND THE ANTICHRIST ARE HERE
PART 5
By Thomas R. Horn
February 12, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
Rosemary’s (Petrus) Baby and the Priests Who Were Dying to See Him
In the 1968 horror film Rosemary’s Baby by director Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow plays Rosemary Woodhouse, a naive young housewife who agrees to become pregnant but through a series of spooky events comes to believe her husband has made a pact with eccentric neighbors Minnie and Roman Castevet (Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer) to use the unborn child in some sort of occult ritual.
On the night they have planned to try to conceive, Mrs. Castevet brings separate dishes of chocolate mousse to Rosemary and her husband Guy. Rosemary takes a few bites, but disliking the chalky under-taste, quietly throws it away. A few minutes later, she becomes dizzy and passes out. She then has what she thinks is a nightmare in which the Castevets and other neighbors are in her bedroom watching as she is raped by a demonic presence. The dream is so vivid she suddenly screams out, “This is no dream—this is really happening!” When she wakes, there are scratches all over her body, and her husband tells her that in order not to miss the opportunity for conception, he had engaged her body for sex while she slept.
[Note that Polanski had wanted his wife Sharon Tate to play the role of Rosemary, and Tate reportedly provided the idea for the key scene in which Rosemary is raped and impregnated. In tragic, real-life irony, on August 9, 1969, Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when she and her unborn child were brutally murdered by followers of Charles Manson—Susan Atkins and Tex Watson. When screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, who was at Sharon Tate’s home the night of the murders [and also murdered] asked Tex who he was and what he was doing there, Watson replied, “I’m the devil, and I’m here to do the devil’s business.”]
Following the horrific “nightmare” scene experienced by the movie character Rosemary, she learns she is pregnant and that the baby is due June 28, 1966 (666). The Castevets recommend an obstetrician named Dr. Abraham Sapirstein (Ralph Bellamy) who prescribes a daily “vitamin drink” for her, which he assures is good for her and the unborn child. Minnie Castevet gives her an odd-smelling “good luck charm” to wear, which also smells of the main ingredient in the vitamin drink—tannis root (a phonetic play on the term Satanas; Satan).
When before long Rosemary’s dear friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) notices her appearance becoming gaunt and hears her complaining of severe abdominal pains, loss of weight, and unusual cravings for raw meat and chicken liver (an ancient witches fertility prescription), he decides to research the “tannis root” concoction. Mysteriously, before he can share what he finds, he falls into a coma and dies, but not before waking up long enough to ask a friend to deliver a book on witchcraft—in which he has marked photographs and passages—to Rosemary, along with a cryptic message: “the name is an anagram.” From this, she deciphers that her neighbor Roman Castevet’s name is the anagram and that he is actually Steven Marcato, son of Adrian Marcato, a former resident and devoted Satanist.
Her suspicions grow as she becomes convinced that her husband and neighbors really are practicing witchcraft, and that somehow this involves her unborn child. Dr. Sapirstein and Rosemary’s husband Guy learn of her mistrusts, and tell her that neither she nor the baby will be harmed so long as she cooperates. Right after, she goes into labor and is sedated, and when she awakens, her baby is gone. She is told the infant died, but she hears a baby crying in another room at the apartment. Finding a secret door connecting her residence to the neighbors, she discovers a congregation gathered around her infant son. The baby boy’s eyes are frighteningly deformed, and she is told that her husband is not the father, that the child is the spawn of Satan.
Although Rosemary’s Baby is based on a novel, ritualized sexual magic is real and the plan to use it to incarnate the devil’s seed has had a long and curious history among Satanists, secret societies, freemasons, and even, according to some Catholic priests, the Vatican.
Highly guarded instruction manuals used by secretive Satanist organizations such as The Order of Nine Angels, the Church of Satan founded by Anton LaVey, and even further back by members of Ordo Templi Orientis including works by infamous 33rd-degree freemason, Aleister Crowley, have described how it is through sex that a being is brought into the world and housed in a body of flesh. Thus it is a mystical exercise that, when combined with magick rituals such as chanting of specific syllables to project proper vibrations (which open the inner mind and mesmerize the conscious mind), invite the nebulous spirit to fill the embryonic host. As the participating priestess lies upon the ground or upon the altar and is aroused by activity of the priest, copulation proceeds while the priestess visualizes the opening of a celestial gateway and Dark Chaos flowing out of it downward upon her, providing the mystical seed. Like the ancient Pythian of Apollo, the priestess is also at this moment a portal to the abode of dark gods.
Rocket scientist and cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jack Parsons, and his pal L. Ron Hubbard (Church of Scientology founder) were disciples of Aleister Crowley and recorded one such event called the “Babalon Working,” which they performed in hopes of incarnating the whore of Babylon—a demon child or gibborim—through a portal during ritual sex. Parsons later wrote that the ceremony was successful and that “Babalon is incarnate upon the earth today awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation.”[1]
According to Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 (widely considered the magnum opus of occultist Aleister Crowley), ritual magic sex can include (what sounds like) cannibalism and human sacrifice. Crowley says, “It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory.”[2]
As far back as 200 AD, the Christian apologetic work Octavius by Marcus Minucius Felix described apostate Christians participating in orgiastic rituals in a dark room while worshiping the head of adonkey and sacrificing a baby for the Host during Black Mass. Most experts believe similar activity has secretly continued throughout the ages, and that true “Hosts”—that is, the bread and grape wine used after consecration, which is, according to dogma, changed into the literal substance of the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ via transubstantiation—are given by Catholic priests, who have made diabolical pacts with Satanists, to the attendants of the Black Sabbath. Among highly placed Church experts who assert such activity is real and even occurs inside the leonine walls of the Holy See would be: Monsignor Luigi Marinelli (whose 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican sold one hundred thousand copies in just the first three weeks); exorcist and Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who in a speech at the Our Lady of Fatima 2000 International Conference on World Peace, charged high-ranking members of the Church hierarchy of being in league with “Satan”; and the late exorcist and maverick professor of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, eminent Catholic theologian and former Jesuit, Malachi Martin.
When the Manhatten magazine “The Fatima Crusader” asked Martin about the public alarm raised over Archbishop Milingo’s claim that high-ranking Vatican officials were “followers of Satan,” Martin replied, “Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and continues to have his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”[3] While a few have tried to discredit Martin by claiming that he was everything from a double agent for Jewish lobbying groups during Vatican II (to effect the final draft of Nostra Aetate, which would, among other things, absolve the Jews of the death of Jesus) to maligning him as an outright “pathological liar” (which the dead cannot defend themselves against), Malachi was in fact a close personal friend of Pope Paul VI and worked within the Holy See doing research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, publishing articles in journals on Semitic paleography, and teaching Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sacred Scripture.
In 1965, Paul VI granted Martin a dispensation from his Jesuit and priestly duties, and Martin moved to New York, where he dedicated himself to writing about—and sometimes speaking out on—a variety of issues stemming from the Second Vatican Council, to detailed insider accounts of papal history, Catholic dogma, and geopolitics. As a member of the Vatican Advisory Council and a formidable polyglot who could speak seventeen languages (not to mention being personal secretary to renowned Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea), Martin had privileged information pertaining to secretive church and world issues, including the Third Secret of Fatima, which Martin hinted spelled out parts of the plan to formerly install the dreaded False Prophet (Petrus Romanus) during a “Final Conclave.”
On this, Martin’s claim that an Illuminati-Masonic group made up of Western plutocrats called “The Assembly” or the “Superforce” had infiltrated the highest levels of Vatican administration and were working to bring about a New World Order, may have led to involvement by operatives of the same group concerning his untimely (some say “suspicious”) death in 1999.
This raises questions as well about John Paul I, who was elected pope in 1978 but who died only thirty-three days later (33 is an occult masonic marker). Shortly after becoming pope, John Paul I learned of cardinals, bishops, and high-ranking prelates that were Freemasons. He may have been murdered to keep him from exposing these men’s plans and/or to deter an investigation he had launched into the Vatican bank connected with Roberto Calvi, a Grand Orient Freemason and the Chairman of the Ambrosiano Bank, which the Vatican Bank was primary shareholder of. When in 1978 it was discovered that monies had been illegally laundered for the Mafia through that bank, Calvi fled Italy and three days later, the Bank’s shares crashed. One day after that, Calvi’s secretary conveniently committed suicide, and on June 18, Calvi himself was found hanging beneath the Blackfriar (connected to Freemasons) Bridge in London with a Masonic Cabletow around his neck and chunks of masonry (left as a symbol?) in his pockets. John Daniel says of this in Scarlet and the Beast: “At Masonic ritual murders, Masonic symbols are left at the scene for several reasons: (1) to show Masons that this was a Masonic murder; (2) to warn Masons to follow the Masonic code, or suffer like fate; and (3) to prove to Masonic paymasters that the “hit” was accomplished.”[4]
But was John Paul I, like Calvi may have been (and like Malachi Martin infers in Windswept House), murdered by a Masonic “Superforce” too large and too powerful for him to contain; one that Martin would later claim was behind the scenes, secretly working to use the Vatican to bring about a global Antichrist system? “Suddenly it became unarguable that now… the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it,” wrote Martin. “The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links—the network, in other words that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network.”[5]
We will continue the investigation into "Rosemary’s (Petrus) Baby and the Priests Who Were Dying to See Him" in the next entry...
[See the U-Tube clip above: Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here]
Click here for part -----> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
© 2012 Thomas Horn - All Rights Reserved
Footnotes:
1. Ronald L. Conte Jr., “The Future and the Popes,” Catholic Planet, November 14, 2004.
2. “Henry Edward Manning,” Wikipedia, last modified August 28, 2011
3. “Ultramontanism” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed. rev. ed. F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1667.
4. Cardinal Manning, The Present Crises of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, reprinted in 2007 under the title, “The Pope & the Antichrist” (Tradibooks, Dainte-Croix du Mont, France), 75.
5. Ibid., 79-80
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32 - Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
February 13, 2012
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlatedwith the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies linking it to decreased IQand infertility. In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries.
Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.
According to the authors of the study:
The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.
Amazingly, this is not the first report to come out on the dangers of water fluoridation; however, the United States government (along with other nations) has allowed for the continued fluoridation of the public water supply despite these key findings. In fact, the U.S. government has even gone on record stating that a reduction in water fluoridation needs to occur following the results of a massive study that found water fluoridation affected cognitive function to the point of lowering the IQ of children. It turns out that the announcement was little more than a public relations stunt to curtail the massive wave of activism that followed the findings.
Government Admits Dangers Yet Continues to Pump Fluoride Into Your Water Supply
Over 24 other studies have unanimously concluded that fluoride negatively impacts cognitive function. In addition to these 24 studies focusing on cognition, over 100 animal studies have linked fluoride to an increase in male infertility, diabetes, and a whole host of other health problems. In the latest study on cognition, it was found that that 28% of the children who lived in an area where fluoride levels were low achieved the highest test scores. This means that the children exposed to less fluoride scored normal or advanced, while only 8% of fluoridated children did the same. In fact, the safety precautions regarding sodium fluorideare quite telling themselves:
Risk and Safety Phrases.
R25 – Toxic if swallowed.
R32 – Contact with acid liberates very toxic gas.
R36/38 – Irritating to skin and eyes.
S1/2 – Keep locked up and out of reach of children.
S22 – Do not breathe dust.
S36 – Wear suitable protective clothing.
S45 – In case of accident or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice immediately (show the label whenever possible.)
But what about cavity prevention?
Since 1962 the government has recommended fluoride levels between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams per liter in the nation’s drinking water. Touted as an excellent cavity blocker, fluoride has been praised for its alleged power to prevent tooth decay and boost oral health. Research has now revealed that fluoride, the very substance that is supposed to prevent tooth decay, actually does nothing to prevent against cavities. In fact, vitamin D has been found to be significantly more effective in cavity prevention without the extreme side effects. Instead of damaging your body, vitamin D slashes your risk of just about everything fluoride consumption causes. According to the latest numbers, over 72 percent of Americans drink water treated with fluoride. Is it any wonder that cardiovascular disease rates are off the charts? Perhaps most concerning is the fact that fluoride does not even prevent cavities, which is the very reason legislators have pushed to keep it in the public water supply despite the links to deadly disease. Even if fluoride was found to prevent cavities, would it be worth the adverse effects? Fluoride should be completely removed from the international water supply, as it is a threat to public health. Until the proper legislation is passed, acquiring a high-quality water filter that removes fluoride is vital for the health perseverance of you and your family.
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33 - Eustace Mullins Exposed Dr. John Coleman In 1992
Real name : Joseph Pavlonsky - Profession : MOSSAD agent
According to the late, great Eustace Mullins, Dr. John Coleman (the name he goes by, anyway) not only lifted the materials he used in his books and lectures from both Mullins and Lyndon Larouche publications, but he also may have lifted material from the Anti-Defamation League…while working as a Mossad agent-agitator against America!
Check out below what Mullins had to say about Coleman back in 1992, and see if what Mullins said holds any water. Given that it’s from Mullins, I’d say it holds a glass that is over half-full.
Some Illuminating Background On The Character “John Coleman”, Agent-Agitator Finally Exposed
(Editor’s note: Regular readers will recall that much space in the 9/8/92 LIBERATOR was devoted to explaining an insipid array of attacks from one “Dr. John Coleman” aka John Clarke and likely actually one Joseph Pavlonsky, of Russian Khazarian origin. It seems that some of the excellent sources “Coleman” “borrowed” material from have seen fit to discuss this colorful character and in so doing, provide an illuminating — if sadly destructive — pattern of activity we would share with our readers. The following is an extract from an article purportedly by Eustace Mullins in Lawrence Patterson’s publication Criminal Politics for July or August of 1992.)
A specter is haunting the American conservative movement — a specter using an alias (among others) of Dr. John Coleman. Coleman bills himself as “the World’s Greatest Intelligence Expert — with secret but highly placed ties to British Intelligence.” He appeared out of the blue at a Bob White, Sound Monetary Conference meeting in Costa Rica in 1984.
With no sponsorship — other than the seminar sponsor, a Dr. Harold Brown — and no documentation, Coleman managed to convince the attendees that he was indeed one of the world’s important experts on international intelligence. He claimed to be privy to the most carefully guarded secrets of the individuals who clandestinely rule the world.
However, Coleman said he would share these secrets only if certain carefully observed guidelines were maintained. The most important of these was that he would never be asked to furnish any personal background information — any documentation or any source from which he obtained his “secret information.” Such restrictions would scream “confidence artist” to most people. But when he met James K. Warner (editor of the Christian Defense League newspaper) — in 1984, he justified his refusal to reveal background information on himself or his sources by claiming that “he was subject to assassination threats.”
He snared Jim Warner by confiding in him one of his closely guarded secrets — that his name was not Dr. John Coleman at all, but that it was, in fact, John Clark. Coleman stated that by giving Warner this private information, he was actually placing his life in his hands. As he was an accomplished confidence artist, Coleman convinced Warner that he should offer him a position. Warner responded to him by employing him as a writer for the Christian Defense League Report.
Coleman would send in material which indeed contained startling information (but was totally undocumented, [and] would soon win him an enthusiastic following among Warner’s readers. Coleman also supplied a great many audio tapes which were offered to Warner’s readers. Each of course supplying “secret information.” This began a five year relationship which proved to be filled with pitfalls for Warner, who was after all a small underfinanced businessman.
Not only did Coleman continue to refuse [to provide] any documentation, but he made frequent demands for salary increases…extra expenses for himself and his family…and advances on his salary which exceeded the projected totals of several years salary. Warner was in no position to meet these demands, but in his anxiety to retain Coleman, he dug deep into his own pocket and also issued frantic fund raising appeals for Coleman. The result was that Warner was nearly bankrupted and conservatives nearly lost an excellent source of out of print books and independent information.
It should be noted that it is a common technique for an infiltrator to attempt a financial raid on a host target — thereby rendering the host target unable to continue in business. An example of this would be the Rockefeller faction attempting to take over the National Rifle Association some 15 years ago with a grandiose plan which would have bankrupted the NRA…
Mullins Material Had To Be Discontinued… Or Else!
There were other problems which Coleman created for Warner. One of them was his continuous demands that Warner cease any articles or sell any books written by myself, Eustace Mullins. I had, in fact, been writing for Warner for more than a decade. Warner attributed this obsession to mere jealousy on Coleman’s part. In fact, it went much deeper.
Coleman’s vaunted sources of information were not secret at all, but were discovered by me in the process of reviewing his printed statements. Here are the results of my study: about 30% of his material was lifted from my own writings and about 70% was stolen from Lyndon Larouche publications. Principally, Coleman would rely on feature articles in the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. The material was simply rewritten by Coleman and crudely puffed up to five or six times its original length. Unfortunately, Warner never noticed.
Finally I became so concerned about the quantity of material lifted from the Larouche publications by Coleman that I decided to let Jim Warner know that his “new star” was lifting most of his “secrets” from Larouche publications.
Some months later, Warner received an indignant letter from the Larouche office, complaining about Coleman‘s plagiarism of the Larouche material. When Warner confronted Coleman, Warner was assured that it was simply an effort by the Larouche group to sow dissension. Coleman claimed he had only seen one copy of the Executive Intelligence Review in his life. Sometime later, when Coleman claimed to have left the country for South Africa, some of his effects were stored at the Warner warehouse. Among them, Warner found two boxes of well-thumbed issues of Larouche magazines. Sure enough, this proved to be the source of many of Coleman’s “British intelligence” connections. But Warner’s readers were trapped, and they were besieging him with requests that he bring Coleman into the public spotlight through meetings and seminars.
Coleman finally did appear at some meetings for a few months. But then, Warner was hit with still more demands for more loans and salary advances. He tried to find other employment for him, sending him off to a part-time job with a long time supporter,William Makinney, of Florida. Bill Makinney was lured by the promise that Coleman could make some extremely profitable deals for him. Later he was disappointed when Coleman arrived with his wife and son, and Coleman demanded the use of a Lincoln town car and memberships in the most exclusive Palm Beach Clubs and nightly meals in the most expensive restaurants.
Even worse he spent much of his time closeted in a room at Makinney’s home. He claimed to be making long distance phone calls to the head of the South African gov’t. Makinney was later unable to find records of any such phone calls in his billing. Soon Makinney asked him to leave and put him on a plane the sadder but wiser.
Warner was again assailed by constant demands for more money. Warner finally decided that the only way to meet the demands was to hold public meetings with Coleman as the star. Coleman, who had billed himself as the “World’s Greatest Orator” proved to be a lack luster speaker, who read in a dull monotone from his type written speech, The meetings were a failure. Meanwhile, Warner had purchased a car for Coleman’s use and a computer for Coleman’s use at a large home which Warner rented for him. Coleman rarely appeared at the Warner offices citing his fear of assassination.
What’s more, Warner discovered at the meetings, Coleman attempted to make financial deals for himself, showing no loyally to Warner whatsoever. Finally, Warner informed him that he was fired. Warner was required to obtain a warrant to cease the automobile and computer that were loaned to him. Then he realized that Coleman had obtained an illicit copy of his mailing list. Coleman began issuing appeals to Warner’s subscribers claiming that I had had him discharged in order to become an editor of another Warner publication.
Finally, Coleman showed in California where he was guest of one Dr. Arnold Geisbret, of Glendale, CA. Geisbret has an interesting background. He is an attendee at many rightwing meetings, including those of Lawrance Patterson’s National Bankruptcy Seminars. He would take copious notes and interrogate everyone that would talk to him. Geisbret, obviously, intended to collect as much information on the right-wing as possible. Coleman, meanwhile, went from one address to the other in California using Warner’s mailing list as a source of suckers.
At each resident, he would spin a spiteful tale of having been cruelly used by Jim Warner who had taken all of his money. Meanwhile, Coleman would make threatening calls to Warner informing him that he would launch a national campaign against him if he refused to make a financial settlement. Wishing to avoid legal problems, Warner settled a substantial sum of money on Coleman, all to no avail. Coleman not only launched a campaign of denunciation against Warner using his mailing list of subscribers, but he also began a surreptitious mailing campaign using pseudonyms to accuse Warner of sexual offenses and of being a double agent. These defamatory letters were also mailed to Warner’s mailing list.
Great Success… In Spreading Discord!
Coleman was achieving great success in spreading consternation and discord throughout the conservative network. I began to realize his true motives. Rather than a greedy confidence artist — with an ability to rewrite other’s materials as his own — it became obvious to me and to those that knew him, that he was more than likely a highly trained double agent, whose handlers would unleash the “attack dog” on an unprepared patriot community a step at a time. One source I have spoken with claimed that he has been trained in Israel by a Mossad unit — and had been known there as Joseph Pavlonsky.
We later discovered that he entered the United States on an English passport recorded by the INS as #A20211168 issued to “John Clarke.” Interestingly, when Warner accompanied him to get a driver’s license in Louisiana, he claimed he had applied for a social security number although none was forthcoming. Even though he had been in the United States for almost a decade, he had been driving in the Western states on a Louisiana license, and had never obtained a U.S. green card or work permit.
On To Carson City, Nevada…As “Space Commander”
Next comes Coleman’s employment with one George Green who operates a nonconformist publication titled Phoenix Journal Express which is supposedly representing the statements from a space being — (yes, we said space being) by the name of Gyorgos Ceres Hatonn!!
Hatonn is the claimed commander of a fleet of space ships from the galaxy of Pleiades. These spaceships have been deployed over the California border with Nevada for several years. This has proved to be convenient for all concerned because the people of Pleiades, interestingly enough, do not require a U.S. work permit from its employees. Coleman is now writing the material for Hatonn. Interestingly enough, he gives advice about International Banking, but amazingly, is always negative on Sterling denominated investments and, interestingly, Swiss banking as well.
Under the auspices of George Green’s Phoenix Journal Express, and America West publishers of Tehachapi, California, Coleman finally published his first and only book “The Committee of Three Hundred”. After examining this book, it has proven to be the usual amalgam of his borrowings from my various textbooks and, again, from the Larouche magazine.
The foreword to the book is very revealing. He again takes the opportunity to sow more dissension in the conservative movement. It is a vitriolic denunciation of the movement claiming it was “part of a carefully crafted and orchestrated program to discredit him (Coleman) and run by secret government agents and informers embedded in the so-called Christian right wing “identity movement”. The invective goes on at some length repeating the slanders of his previous circulated hate letters. The Committee of 300 contains nothing new and is an amalgam of others’ materials.
Material Lifted From the Anti-Defamation League!
Having reviewed the material of the anti-defamation league, I can say that Coleman’s smear attack in his foreword against the “so-called Christian right wing” is atypical material taken from the guide books of the anti-defamation league. His denunciation of the “identity movement” is also taken directly from ADL literature. For years the ADL has considered the “identity movement” its number one opponent and target in the United States.
A Potent Agitator… Working Against America!
Whatever the truth or falsity of the claims of Dr. John Coleman (alias John Clarke, alias Pavlonksy), it is clear that he is a potent agititor working among American conservative publishers. Lawrence Patterson has also had a brush with him and he has recently succeeded in taking in Colonel Arch Roberts, who ran a lengthy review of his book.
He has constantly sown seeds of discord and hate for his own devious purposes and will undoubtedly continue to pit patriot against patriot for as long as he is allowed to betray, impede and infiltrate without exposure. Hopefully, this article which has been submitted to Criminal Politics magazine of which I am a contributing editor, will help to expose John Coleman as a foreign agent.
http://thewhaler.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/eustace-mullins-exposed-dr-john-coleman-in-1992/
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34 - Why The Law Forbids The Medicinal Use of Natural Substances
Post date: Sunday, February 26th 2012 Sayer Ji
According to the FDA’s legal definition, a drug is anything that “diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease.”
The problem with this definition is that there are numerous substances, as readily available and benign as found on our spice racks, which have been proven by countless millennia of human experience to mitigate, prevent and in some cases cure disease, and which cannot be called drugs according to the FDA.
How can this be? Well, the FDA has assumed for itself Godlike power, requiring that its official approval be obtained before any substance can legally be used in the prevention and treatment of disease.
The FDA’s legal-regulatory control therefore is totalitarian and Napoleonic in construct; what it does not explicitly permit as a medicine is implicitly forbidden.
Historically the FDA has required new drugs undergo expensive and elaborate multi-phased clinical trials, which are out of the grasp of any ordinary interest who might want to demonstrate the efficacy of a non-patentable (and therefore unprofitable) herb, food or spice.
The average out-of-pocket cost for obtaining a new drug approval is US$ 802 million dollars,[1] and therefore an investor putting capital into bringing to market a substance that does not lend itself to market exclusivity and therefore cannot produce a return on investment, is committing economic suicide, if not also breaking the law. The investor actually has a legally-binding fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make a profit. And therefore, capital will not flow into any would-be commodity that can be produced or obtained with ease, including most things that grow freely on this Earth.
It is an interesting footnote in history that shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Congress declared that natural substances, e.g. water or salt, were God’s gift to mankind and that therefore products of nature should be limited in their patent protection. While this was a noble declaration, it has actually been used against those whose rights it would protect. It has forced private interests to synthetically alter natural substances -- for instance the burgeoning biotech field of recombinant DNA technology, i.e. genetically modified organisms (GMOs) -- for the sole reason that it guarantees them ownership/patent rights.
In fact, a medical system that legally requires it make a profit threatens to destroy and/or incriminate itself if non-patented, non-profitable natural substances or therapies are employed. It also results in so much collateral damage to those it purports to serve that it could rightly be called a modern form of human sacrifice.
As a result, instead of choosing prospective medicines logically: because they work, are easily accessible, and safe, billions of dollars flow in the exact opposite direction, capitalizing only those substances which are unnatural, and therefore while proprietary are almost invariably unsafe, and whose access and administration can be intensively controlled.
Has The Attempt To Co-opt Medicine Through the Drug-Based Model Undone Itself?
And yet, there is a silver lining to the story. Due to the fact that our bodies are ultimately constructed from the natural things (food, air and water), and obey very strict natural laws such as the well-known principle of chirality (handedness) – the fact that all amino acids in our body turn a beam of polarized light in the left-handed direction (L-lysine) and sugars to the right-handed direction (D-ribose)-- one cannot simply create biologically active, synthetic drugs arbitrarily, as a mistake in handedness (or similar property) could be fatal. Nature, therefore, still provides an elegant biomolecular architecture of irreproducible intelligence and complexity, from which synthetic analogs are modeled and/or derivatives are spun.
As a result, billions of dollars of drug industry and government money (i.e. tax payer money) flow into finding lead compounds for drug development. Nature is put on the rack, if you will, and her secrets teased from her through innumerable animal and test tube experiments, in order to find compounds that can then be converted into synthetic, patented drugs.
Inadvertently, some of the very same companies and interests which require that natural substances not receive the same drug-approval status as synthetic ones, are funding research that prove basic vitamins, foods and spices are as effective or more effective – and usually much safer – than the drugs they are developing to replace or supplant them.
This means that tens of thousands of studies do exist showing that natural substances may prevent and/or treat disease, at least in the in vitro (test tube) and animal models. These results oftenconfirm traditional uses in Ayurvedic, Chinese and other traditional systems of medicine, and therefore may be compelling enough for individuals or healthcare practitioners to use the information to inform their treatment decisions.
The Case For Curcumin In the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
The government biomedical and life sciences database known as Medline contains over 21 million published study citations, and is accessible to search through engines such as Pubmed.gov. 2.6 million of them contain reference to cancer. 115,000 of them remain after applying the “Complementary Medicine” filter. 2,625 of them can be found indexed on the GreenMedInfo.com database, referencing 612 natural substances of potential value. Turmeric, and particularly its polyphenolic constituent known as curcumin, which gives the spice its golden hue, is one of the most extensively studied natural compounds of all time, with 4588 references to it on the National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database known as Medline [as of 2.25.2012]. And yet, despite having been shown to have therapeutic value in over 500 disease states in animal and in vitro studies, it still has not been the subject of extensive human clinical research – for the reasons stated above.
GreenMedInfo.com, an open source natural medicine database, has indexed curcumin’s anti-cancer properties in over 50 cancers, with the top 10 most cancers researched in association with curcumin listed below.
Cancer
Number of Articles
Breast Cancer
58
Colorectal Cancer
23
Colon Cancer
51
Prostate Cancer
42
Pancreatic Cancer
24
Cancers: Drug Resistant
40
Lung Cancer
37
Liver Cancer
27
Cancer Metastasis
32
Skin Cancer
15
Sources: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/curcumin
As one can see curcumin holds great promise. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to possess simultaneously both chemoprotective/chemosensitizing and radioprotective/radiosensitizing properties, meaning it is capable of reducing the adverse effects on healthy cells caused by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as enhance the cancer-killing properties of these conventional therapies. It also has an exceptionally high margin of safety, at least an order of magnitude greater than commonly used conventional chemotherapy agents such as 5-fluoruracil.[2]Given these facts curcumin, at the very least, should be considered an ideal candidate for use as an adjuvant in integrative cancer care, and perhaps as a first-line treatment alternative to conventional chemo-agents.
For additional information on the remarkable research supporting the use of Turmeric and Curcumin in medicine, watch the video below. Join our Facebook research page on Turmeric for updates: Turmeric -- What The Research Reveals
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[1] http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/econ/dimasi2003.pdf
[2] Curcumin’s LD50 (lethal dose, 50%) in mice is at least 2,000 mg/kg, versus 5-fluorouracil 115 mg/kg, or
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35 - Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture
by Ethan A. Huff
(NaturalNews) After it was exposed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto back in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world's poor (http://www.guardian.co.uk). It turns out that the Gates family legacy has long been one of trying to dominate and control the world's systems, including in the areas of technology, medicine, and now agriculture.
The Gates Foundation, aka the tax-exempt Gates Family Trust, is currently in the process of spending billions of dollars in the name of humanitarianism to establish a global food monopoly dominated by genetically-modified (GM) crops and seeds. And based on the Gates family's history of involvement in world affairs, it appears that one of its main goals besides simply establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process.
William H. Gates Sr., former head of eugenics group Planned Parenthood
Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates Sr., has long been involved with the eugenics group Planned Parenthood, a rebranded organization birthed out of the American Eugenics Society. In a 2003 interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head of Planned Parenthood, which was founded on the concept that most human beings are just "reckless breeders" and "human weeds" in need of culling (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html).
Gates also admitted during the interview that his family's involvement in reproductive issues throughout the years has been extensive, referencing his own prior adherence to the beliefs of eugenicist Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that populations of the world need to be controlled through reproductive restrictions. Though Gates claims he now holds a different view, it appears as though his foundation's initiatives are just a modified Malthusian approach that much more discreetly reduces populations through vaccines and GMOs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus).
Gates Foundation has invested heavily in converting Asian, African agricultural systems to GMOs
William Gates Sr.'s association with Planned Parenthood and continued influence in the realm of "population and reproductive health" is significant because Gates Sr. is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/leadership/Pages/william-gates-sr.aspx). This long-time eugenicist "guides the vision and strategic direction" of the Gates Foundation, which is currently heavily focused on forcing GMOs on Africa via its financing of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
The Gates Foundation has admittedly given at least $264.5 million in grant commitments to AGRA (www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Documents/BMGFFactSheet.pdf), and also reportedly hired Dr. Robert Horsch, a former Monsanto executive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA back in 2006. According to a report published in La Via Campesina back in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly with Monsanto, and nearly 80 percent of the Gates Foundation funding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).
The same report explains that the Gates Foundation pledged $880 million in April 2010 to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs. GAFSP, of course, was responsible for providing $35 million in "aid" to earthquake-shattered Haiti to be used for implementing GMO agricultural systems and technologies.
Back in 2003, the Gates Foundation invested $25 million in "GM (genetically modified) research to develop vitamin and protein-enriched seeds for the world's poor," a move that many international charities and farmers groups vehemently opposed (http://healthfreedoms.org). And in 2008, the Gates Foundation awarded $26.8 million to Cornell University to research GM wheat, which is the next major food crop in the crosshairs of Monsanto's GM food crop pipeline (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).
If you control agriculture, you control the populations of the world
The Gates Foundation's ties with Monsanto and corporate agriculture in general speak volumes about its real agenda, which is to create a monopolistic system of world control in every area of human life. Vaccines, pharmaceuticals, GMOs, reproductive control, weather manipulation, global warming -- these and many other points of entry are the means by which the Gates Foundation is making great strides to control the world by pretending to help improve and save it.
Rather than promote real food sovereignty and address the underlying political and economic issues that breed poverty, Gates and Co. has instead embraced the promotion of corporately-owned and controlled agriculture and medicine paradigms that will only further enslave the world's most impoverished. It is abundantly evident that GMOs have ravished already-impoverished people groups by destroying their native agricultural systems, as has been seen in India (http://www.naturalnews.com/030913_Monsanto_suicides.html).
Some may say Gates' endeavors are all about the money, while others may say they are about power and control. Perhaps it is a combination of both, where Gates is still in the business of promoting his own commercial investments, which includes buying shares in Monsanto while simultaneously investing in programs to promote Monsanto.
Whatever the case may be, there is simply no denying that Gates now has a direct interest in seeing Monsanto succeed in spreading GMOs around the world. And since Gates is openly facilitating Monsanto's growth into new markets through his "humanitarian" efforts, it is clear that the Gates family is in bed with Monsanto.
"Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions," wrote Silvia Ribeiro in the Mexican news source La Jornada back in 2010.
"On the contrary, their 'donations' finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world ... Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM)."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org
http://english.pravda.ru
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eugenics_Society
http://www.naturalnews.com/033148_seed_companies_Monsanto.html
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