Posted by terres on June 13, 2009
An internally displaced girl who fled a military offensive in the Swat valley region stands with her ration of bread at the UNCHR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Sheikh Yaseen camp in district Mardan, northwest of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, June 11, 2009. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro. Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted by terres on June 10, 2009
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[And if there was no war, hell we could create one!]
How could he say that and get away with it? Unless he is convinced that the majority of us, “we the people,” believe Arabs are terrorists and the jews are our “saviors.”
But judging by the people’s recent awakening, and their responses to both the bombing of USS Liberty by Israeli forces and the controlled demolition of WTC towers on 9/11 by the jewish mafia and other supporters of Israel, the rabbi has scored a number of own goals.
Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi has also grossly miscalculated the average ‘gentile’ (goyim) appreciation of the seriousness of the traditional jewish plot which, as reiterated put by the rabbi, “to fight a moral war [sic] is the jewish way.”
Based on what is said in Torah, which the evil rabbi repeats, we know the jews won’t stop their killing orgy until they have killed not only every Arab men, women and children (and cattle), but every gentile (goyim), like you and I, and our families (and animals), too, in the US, Europe, Asia and elsewhere … They have built a massive stockpile of nuclear bombs (warheads and very many “suitcase bombs” that are currently unaccounted for), which would be used to blow most of our cities to smithereens.
Below are some of the comments made by Chabad-Lubavitch Manis Friedman the Nazi rabbi from HELL:
Chabad rabbi: Jews should kill Arab men, women and children during war
By Nathaniel Popper, The Forward
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad.
“But Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when he was asked how he thinks Jews should treat their Arab neighbors.”
“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle),” Friedman wrote in response to the question posed by Moment Magazine for its “Ask the Rabbis” feature.
Friedman argued that if Israel followed this wisdom, there would be “no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war.”
“I don’t believe in Western morality,” he wrote. “Living by Torah values will make us a light unto the nations who suffer defeat because of a disastrous morality of human invention.”
Friedman’s use of phrasing that might seem more familiar coming from an Islamic extremist has generated a swift backlash. The editor of Moment, Nadine Epstein, said that since the piece was printed in the current issue they “have received many letters and e-mails in response to Rabbi Friedman’s comments – and almost none of them have been positive.”
Friedman quickly went into damage control. He released a statement to the Forward, through a Chabad spokesman, saying that his answer in Moment was “misleading” and that he does believe that “any neighbor of the Jewish people should be treated, as the Torah commands us, with respect and compassion.”
But Friedman’s words have generated a debate about whether there is a darker side to the cheery face that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement shows to the world in its friendly outreach to unaffiliated Jews. Mordecai Specktor, editor of the Jewish community newspaper in Friedman’s hometown, St. Paul. Minnesota, said: “The public face of Lubavitch is educational programs and promoting Yiddishkeit. But I do often hear this hard line that Friedman expresses here.”
“He sets things out in pretty stark terms, but I think this is what Lubavitchers believe, more or less,” said Specktor, who is also the publisher of the American Jewish World.
“They are not about loving the Arabs or a two-state solution or any of that stuff. They are fundamentalists. They are our fundamentalists.”
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a regular critic of Arab extremists, said that in the , “We are not immune to having these views. There are people in our community who have these bigoted, racist views.”
But, Foxman warned, Friedman’s views are not reflective of the Chabad rabbis he knows. “I am not shocked that there would be a rabbi who would have these views,” Foxman said, “but I am shocked that Moment would give up all editorial discretion and good sense to publish this as representative of Chabad.”
A few days after anger about the comment surfaced, Chabad headquarters released a statement saying that, “we vehemently disagree with any sentiment suggesting that Judaism allows for the wanton destruction of civilian life, even when at war.”
The statement added: “In keeping with Jewish law, it is the unequivocal position of Chabad-Lubavitch that all human life is G-d given, precious, and must be treated with respect, dignity and compassion.”
In Moment, Friedman’s comment is listed as the Chabad response to the question “How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?” after a number of answers from rabbis representing other Jewish streams, most of which state a conciliatory attitude toward Arabs.
Epstein said that Friedman was “brave” for stating his views so clearly.
“The American Jewish community doesn’t have the chance to hear opinions like this,” Epstein said, “not because they are rare, but because we don’t often ask Chabad and other similar groups what they think.”
The Chabad movement is generally known for its hawkish policies toward the Palestinians; the Chabad Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, rejected peace accords with the Palestinians. Rabbi Moshe Feller, the top Chabad rabbi in Minnesota, said that the rebbe taught that it is not a mitzvah to kill, but that Jews do have an obligation to act in self-defense.
“Jews as a whole, they try to save the lives of others,” Feller told the Forward, “but if it’s to save our lives, then we have to do what we have to do. It’s a last resort.”
Friedman is not a fringe rabbi within the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He was the English translator for the Chabad Rebbe, and at the rebbe’s urging, he founded Beis Chana, a network of camps and schools for Jewish women. Friedman is also a popular speaker and writer on issues of love and relationships. His first book, “Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore?” was promoted with a quote from Bob Dylan, who Friedman brought to meet the rebbe.
On his blog and Facebook page, Friedman’s emphasis is on his sympathetic, caring side. It was this reputation that made the comment in Moment so surprising to Steve Hunegs, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council: Minnesota and the Dakotas.
“Rabbi Friedman is a best-selling author who addresses some of the most sensitive issues of the time,” Hunegs said. “I intend to call him and talk to him about this.”
But Shmarya Rosenberg, a blogger and critic of Chabad who lives a few blocks from Friedman in Minnesota, says that the comment in Moment is not an aberration from his experiences with Friedman and many other Chabad rabbis.
“What he’s saying is the standard normal view of a Chabadnik,” Rosenberg said. “They just don’t say it in public.”
For his part, Friedman was quick to modify the statement that he wrote in Moment. He told the Forward that the line about killing women and children should have been in quotes; he said it is a line from the Torah, though he declined to specify from which part. Friedman also said that he was not advocating for Israel to actually kill women and children. Instead, he said, he believed that Israel should publicly say that it is willing to do these things in order to scare Palestinians and prevent war.
“If we took this policy, no one would be killed – because there would be no war,” Friedman said. “The same is true of the United States.”
Friedman did acknowledge, however, that in self-defense, the behavior he talked about would be permissible.
“If your children are threatened, you do whatever it takes – and you don’t have to apologize,” he said.
Friedman argued that he is different from Arab terrorists who have used similar language about killing Jewish civilians.
“When they say it, it’s genocide, not self-defense,” Friedman said. “With them, it’s a religious belief – they need to rid the area of us. We’re not saying that.”
Feller, the Chabad leader in Minnesota, said that the way Friedman had chosen to express himself was “radical.”
“I love him,” Feller said. “I brought him out here – he’s magnificent. He’s brought thousands back to Torah mitzvah. But he shoots from the hip sometimes.”
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Posted by terres on June 9, 2009
The wife of a victim killed during clashes between police and natives, cries at the morgue in Bagua June 7, 2009. Peruvian troops searched for missing police and patrolled towns in the Amazon on Sunday after 60 people died in clashes with Indian tribes opposed to President Alan Garcia’s plans to mine and drill oil in the jungle. An indigenous leader said 40 protesters were killed and the government said 23 members of the security forces perished in two days of battles over Garcia’s push to lure billions of dollars in foreign investment to the rainforest. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil. Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted by terres on June 6, 2009
Up to 50 people have been killed in clashes between the security forces and indigenous people in the Amazon region in Peru.
The violence erupted as security forces tried to end fuel and transport blockades in Peru’s Amazon region, which the indigenous groups began in April.
Indigenous protesters fighting logging and drilling blocked a road in northern Peru on Friday as police tear gas hung in the air. (June 5, 2009). Photo: AP. Image may be subject to copyright.
The fighting reportedly occurred at a jungle highway near the town of Bagua, about 1,000km (600 miles) north of the capital, Lima.
The indigenous people in the Amazon region oppose plans by the government to open up communal jungle lands for oil exploration, logging, mining and large-scale farming.
Indigenous leaders said their campaign was a peaceful demonstration, however, the police using helicopters opened fire on demonstrators.
The government of president Alan Garcia, who authorized Peru’s military forces to support the police in the ongoing dispute, accused the Indians of “falling to a criminal level.”
Under Peru’s constitution the country’s mineral and hydrocarbon deposits are owned by the state, and president Garcia has declared that the benefit should go to all Peruvians [sic.]
Based on previous experience in the region, the indigenous people correctly maintain that the new laws will only make it easier for foreign corporations to exploit their land and the natural resources.
“In the case of oil, for instance, at least 58 of the 64 areas secured by multinational companies for oil exploration overlay lands titled to indigenous peoples, according to a study last year by scientists from Duke University.” The NYT reported.
“Now we have a government resorting to using military force to spearhead development of the Amazon,” said Paul McAuley, an environmental activist in the Amazonian city of Iquitos. “This cannot be a strategy that is sustainable.”
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (born May 23, 1949 in Lima, Peru) is the incumbent President of Peru; he won the 2006 elections on June 4, 2006, having previously served his first term as President from 1985 to 1990.
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez. Photo: Peru govt. Image may be subject to copyright.
According to studies of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics and the United Nations Development Programme, around the start of his presidency, 41.6% of Peruvians lived in poverty. During his presidency, this percentage increased by 13% ( to 55%) in 1991. García also made an attempt to nationalize the banking and insurance industries. He incurred the wrath of the International Monetary Fund and the financial community by unilaterally declaring a limit on debt repayment equal to 10% of the Gross National Product, thereby isolating Peru from the international financial markets.
The economic turbulence exacerbated social tensions in Peru and contributed in part to the rise of the violent rebel movement Shining Path, which launched the internal conflict in Peru and began attacking electric towers, causing a number of blackouts in Lima. The García administration unsuccessfully sought a military solution to the growing terrorism, allegedly committing human rights violations which are still under investigation. These include the Accomarca massacre, where 47 campesinos were gunned to death by the Peruvian armed forces in August 1985, the Cayara massacre (May 1988) in which some thirty were killed and dozens disappeared, and the summary execution of more than 200 inmates during prison riots in Lurigancho, San Juan Bautista (El Frontón) and Santa Bárbara in 1986. According to an official inquiry, an estimated 1,600 forced disappearances took place during García’s presidency. His own personal involvement in these events is not clear. García was allegedly tied to the paramilitary Rodrigo Franco Command, which is accused of carrying out political murders in Peru during García’s presidency. [Wikipedia]
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Posted by terres on June 5, 2009
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James Purnell, Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary, stepped down from Gordon Brown’s cabinet, calling on the British Prime Minister to “stand aside.”
In his letter to Mr Brown, Purnell said he owed it to the Labour Party to “say what I believe no matter how hard that may be.”
He wrote: “I now believe your continued leadership makes a Conservative [Party] victory more, not less likely. That would be disastrous for our country.”
He added: “I am therefore calling on you to stand aside to give our party a fighting chance of winning. As such I am resigning from government.”
By removing Gorden Brown from office, the establishment make it easier for David Milliband, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, to leap closer to the seat of “power,” thus fulfilling a Talmudic prophesy.
Born in London (1965), David Miliband is the elder son of Polish-born Marion Kozak and the late Belgian-born Marxist [Trotskist] Ralph Miliband.
The day after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Miliband was appointed Foreign Secretary.
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Posted by terres on June 4, 2009
PLA soldiers, with guns pointing at the students on TAM, stand in front of the Great Hall of the People. The gun fire from one of the guns can be seen in the picture. Source: mascr015.gif . Image may be subject to copyright.
Tanks and a dead body on Tiananmen Square at dawn of June 4th. Source: mascr003.gif . Image may be subject to copyright.
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Posted by terres on June 3, 2009
“A military investigation has concluded that American personnel made significant errors in carrying out some of the airstrikes in western Afghanistan on May 4 that killed dozens of Afghan civilians, according to a senior American military official.” NYT said.
Rules? What Rules?
“The official said the civilian death toll would probably have been reduced if American air crews and forces on the ground had followed strict rules …”
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Posted by terres on May 27, 2009
The following article was posted at ConsortiumNews.com and is mirrored here because of its public information value.
By Robert Parry
May 25, 2009
http://consortiumnews.com/2009/052509.html
That was apparent again during Powell’s May 24 interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” as Powell juxtaposed himself as the reasonable Republican in contrast to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who vowed last week that there was “no middle ground” in the “war on terror.”
Pimping for attack on Iraq. Mass murderer Colin Powell holds a model vial of anthrax at the United Nations Security Council on February 5, 2003 to support his argument that Iraq most likely possessed WMDs. A few weeks later, on March 20, 2003, United States invaded Iraq.
The press coverage of Powell’s CBS appearance focused on his reaffirmation of his membership in the Republican Party – after Cheney and talk show host Rush Limbaugh suggested that he should or had already left the party – and on Powell’s reasonable talk about the GOP’s need to be “more inclusive.”
Given far less attention was Powell’s disingenuous response to Bob Schieffer’s question about the ex-Secretary of State’s knowledge regarding “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which the International Committee of the Red Cross and virtually all other objective observers say constituted torture.
Powell, who was a member of President George W. Bush’s Principals Committee which oversaw the interrogation policies, claimed to have been kept mostly out of the loop. He asserted that while the techniques “were outlined” at meetings he attended, he was “not privy” to the legal memos authorizing the abusive treatment, nor many other details.
“I think it was unfortunate but we had a system that kept that in a very compartmented manner,” Powell said. “And so I was aware that these enhanced interrogation techniques were being considered. And they were judged not to be torture at the time.”
Powell also repeated the all-purpose Cheney-Bush excuse for all manner of sins: “9/11.”
“Facing the possibility of a 9/11, you had to give some — some flexibility to the CIA,” Powell said. “It’s easy now in the cold light of day to look back and say, you shouldn’t have done any of that.”
Outside the CBS News’ Washington offices after the interview, media analyst Sam Husseini asked Powell what he knew about the torture of al-Qaeda suspect Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who made false claims linking Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al-Qaeda, lies that Powell then cited in his infamous pro-invasion speech before the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003.
“I don’t have any details on the al-Libi case,” Powell responded.
When asked when he learned that some of the bogus evidence had been extracted by torture, Powell said, “I don’t know that. I don’t know what information you’re referring to. So I can’t answer.”
Told that the information had been publicly discussed by Powell’s former chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell answered, “So what?” [See Consortiumnews.com’s “How Torture Trapped Colin Powell.”]
So what was it? Did Powell participate in the Principals Committee as it – according to some reports – “choreographed” the torture sessions or didn’t he? Did he favor giving the CIA “some flexibility” or did he object to the abusive techniques, including the near-drowning of waterboarding, that he says “were judged not to be torture”?
For a Washington press corps that has been up in arms challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the CIA obscured key details of the harsh interrogations from congressional leaders, it was impressive to see how little skepticism was evinced by Powell’s claim of ignorance from his seat on Bush’s Principals Committee.
On CBS, Powell deflected attention from his dubious torture explanation by boldly rejecting one of the new absurd “wedge” issues developed by the Republican Right, that it would be dangerous to bring accused terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States for trial or incarceration. But Powell then maneuvered himself back to the “center” by also criticizing President Barack Obama’s handling of the Guantanamo issue.
While saying that the Guantanamo prisoners could safely come to the United States, Powell faulted Obama for not moving faster on the prison closing and “frankly giving enough time to opponents of it to marshal their forces as to why we shouldn’t do this.”
Glass-House Stone Throwing
But second-guessing by Colin Powell represents the classic case of a glass-house resident throwing stones. Throughout his career – dating back more than four decades – Powell has almost always taken the route of least resistance that pointed toward the top, but his actions have, in hindsight, failed the test of history.
From his whitewash investigation of My Lai-related complaints as a young Army officer to his key role giving legitimacy to George W. Bush’s presidency and the Iraq War, Powell almost always did what was best for his career, not for his country.
In the 1960s, during Powell’s two tours in Vietnam, he never joined with other U.S. military officers who risked their careers to warn their superiors about the brutal and self-defeating strategies that, eventually, ended up costing the lives of 58,000 Americans and millions of Indochinese.
Indeed, in his memoir, My American Journey, Powell justifies many of the worst tactics, such as burning down Vietnamese villages and shooting unarmed peasants from helicopters, acts that objectively would constitute war crimes.
During his first tour in 1963, Powell describes his work as an adviser to a South Vietnamese army unit that systematically destroyed the homes and food stocks of villagers who were believed sympathetic to the Viet Cong.
“We burned down the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters,” Powell recalled. “Why were we torching houses and destroying crops? Ho Chi Minh had said the people were like the sea in which his guerrillas swam. …
“We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference did it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death?”
On his second tour in 1968, as an executive officer for the Americal Division, Powell was asked to investigate allegations from a distraught U.S. soldier who was aware of brutality committed by other Americal Division soldiers against Vietnamese civilians and captives. This complaint was an early official warning about the My Lai massacre, which an Americal unit had committed several months earlier.
However, for Colin Powell, it was another chance to impress the brass. Without interviewing the soldier, Cpl. Tom Glen, Powell simply accepted a claim from Glen’s superior officer that Glen was not close enough to the front lines to know what he was writing about.
After that cursory investigation, Powell drafted a response on Dec. 13, 1968, admitting no pattern of wrongdoing. “In direct refutation of this [Glen’s] portrayal,” Powell wrote, “is the fact that relations between Americal soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.”
Exposing My Lai
It would take another Americal Division veteran, an infantryman named Ron Ridenhour, to piece together the truth about the atrocity at My Lai. After returning to the United States, Ridenhour interviewed Americal comrades who had participated in the massacre.
On his own, Ridenhour compiled this shocking information into a report and forwarded it to the Army inspector general. The IG’s office conducted an aggressive official investigation, in contrast to Powell’s review. Courts martial were held against officers and enlisted men who were implicated in the murder of the My Lai civilians.
In his memoir, Powell did not mention his brush-off of Tom Glen’s complaint, but did include another troubling recollection that belied a statement in his 1968 report, in which he had denied that U.S. soldiers “without provocation or justification shoot at the people themselves.”
“I recall a phrase we used in the field, MAM, for military-age male,” Powell wrote. “If a helo spotted a peasant in black pajamas who looked remotely suspicious, a possible MAM, the pilot would circle and fire in front of him.
“If he moved, his movement was judged evidence of hostile intent, and the next burst was not in front, but at him. Brutal? Maybe so. But an able battalion commander with whom I had served at Gelnhausen [West Germany], Lt. Col. Walter Pritchard, was killed by enemy sniper fire while observing MAMs from a helicopter.
“And Pritchard was only one of many. The kill-or-be-killed nature of combat tends to dull fine perceptions of right and wrong.”
While it’s certainly true that combat is brutal and judgments can be clouded by fear, the mowing down of unarmed civilians in cold blood does not constitute combat. It is murder and a war crime.
Neither can the combat death of a fellow soldier be cited as an excuse to murder civilians. That was precisely the rationalization that the My Lai killers cited in their own defense.
A Murder Case
After returning home from Vietnam in 1969, Powell was drawn into another Vietnam controversy involving the killing of civilians. In a court martial, Powell sided with an Americal Division general who was accused by the Army of murdering unarmed civilians while flying over Quang Ngai province.
Helicopter pilots who flew Brig. Gen. John W. Donaldson had alleged that the general gunned down civilian Vietnamese almost for sport.
In an interview in 1995, a senior Army investigator from the Donaldson case told me that two of the Vietnamese victims were an old man and an old woman who were shot to death while bathing.
Though long retired – and quite elderly himself – the Army investigator spoke with a raw disgust about the events of a quarter century earlier. He requested anonymity before talking about the behavior of senior Americal officers.
“They used to bet in the morning how many people they could kill – old people, civilians, it didn’t matter,” the investigator said. “Some of the stuff would curl your hair.”
For eight months at Americal headquarters in Chu Lai during 1968-69, Powell had worked with Donaldson and apparently developed a great respect for this superior officer. When the Army charged Donaldson with murder on June 2, 1971, Powell rose in the general’s defense.
Powell submitted an affidavit dated Aug. 10, 1971, which lauded Donaldson as “an aggressive and courageous brigade commander.” Powell added that helicopter forays in Vietnam had been an “effective means of separating hostiles from the general population.”
In the 1995 interview, the old Army investigator told me that “we had him [Donaldson] dead to rights,” with the testimony of two helicopter pilots who had flown Donaldson on his shooting expeditions.
Still, the investigation collapsed after the two pilot-witnesses were transferred to another Army base and apparently came under pressure from military superiors. The two pilots withdrew their testimony, and the Army dropped all charges against Donaldson.
But this complex and troubling history of Powell’s time in Vietnam is routinely white-washed by Washington journalists who uniformly treat Powell with the respect owed a genuine war hero. The U.S. news media’s fawning over Colin Powell also has not been a victimless exercise.
By holding Powell up as a near-perfect hero, journalists have allowed Powell to steer public opinion at key moments – from his work containing the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s, to his political embrace of George W. Bush during the Florida recount battle in 2000, to his selling of the Iraq War in 2003, to his support for Bush’s second term in 2004. [For more details on Powell’s record, see our book Neck Deep.]
Now, at this late date, the Washington press corps doesn’t want to spoil its splendid narrative of Colin Powell’s heroic career by concentrating too much on his role on Bush’s Principals Committee as it oversaw torture.
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com. His two previous books, Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’ are also available there. Or go to Amazon.com.
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Posted by terres on May 25, 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says settlements in the occupied West Bank will be allowed to expand.
When Mr Netanyahu’s visited the US last week, he was told by President Barack Obama that all settlement activity must end, a message he has chosen to ignore.
“Israel has sanctioned 121 settlements over the years and Jewish settlers have put up an estimated 100 outposts since the early 1990s.” BBC reported.
“Netanyahu’s defiant stance set the stage for a possible showdown with President Barack Obama, who, in talks with the new Israeli prime minister in Washington last week, pressed for a halt to all settlement activity, including natural growth, as called for under a long-stalled peace ‘road map.'” Reuters said.
“Half a million Jews live in settlement blocs and smaller outposts built in the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem, all territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.”
Palestinians regard the illegal occupation by the settlers “as a land grab meant to deny them a state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”
“The demand for a total stop to building is not something that can be justified and I don’t think that anyone here at this table accepts it,” Netanyahu told his cabinet, referring to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Reuters reporetd an official as saying.
“A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu’s government hoped to sidestep U.S. pressure by committing to uproot smaller hilltop outposts built without official authorization, a step also set by the road map.” Reuters said.
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Posted by terres on May 25, 2009
The following entry was posted at an affiliated blog and is mirrored here because of its human right aspect:
“Four men were arrested Wednesday night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y.,” New York Times headline said.
Immediate reaction #1: Aha, so the master plotter is a “graduate” of Frankfurt School and Authoritarian Personality!
The Authoritarian Personality, an influential theory of personality was developed by Frankfurt School’s Jewish intellectuals, who later moved to University of California, Berkeley. The Authoritarian Personality, a book of the same name, which was written by Theodor W Adorno, and published in 1950, makes all [non-Jewish] group affiliation as if they are caused by mental disorder [insanity.] Patriotism [except when it’s to the state of Israel,] religion [with the exception of Judaism], family [excluding Jewish families,] racial identity [Jewishness exempted,] loyalty [unless it’s to the state of Israel,] superstition, power and “toughness” [except when it’s used against the enemies of Israel,] destructiveness and cynicism [again, with the exception of Israel’s,] and “exaggerated concerns over sexuality” are regarded as signs of a dysfunctional, dangerous and defective “authoritarian personality.”
Further, drawing distinctions between the groups are considered illegitimate, and therefore all group loyalties, including close family ties are regarded as “prejudice.”
The Jewish intellectuals who founded the Frankfort School consider “anti-Semitism” a sign of mental illness. Adorno stipulates that the authoritarian is predisposed to “commitment to tradition,” among other traits, and combines “Anti-Semitism” and “Emotional Disorder [insanity]” as one of the same. In other words, if you are an “anti-Semite” you must necessarily be insane, too. And it follows [sic] that all insane people must be “Jew-haters.”
Why else would you plot to blow up TWO synagogues with “play clay,” and shoot down a military plane or two with “dud” Stinger missiles simultaneously?
Christopher Lasch, the well-known American historian, moralist and social critic, wrote:
Authoritarian Personality leads to the conclusion that prejudice “could be eradicated only by subjecting the American people to what amounted to collective psychotherapy – by treating them as inmates of an insane asylum.”
The Frankfurt School, otherwise known as the Institute of Social Research, was founded in Frankfurt, Germany, during the Weimar period by a Jewish millionaire but was closed down by the Nazis shortly after they took power. Most of its staff and Jewish intellectuals fled to the United States and the institute reconstituted itself at UC Berkeley. Headed by Max Horkheimer, the group’s top echelon were T.W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, all of whom had strong Jewish identities. Horkheimer made no secret of the partisan nature of the institute’s activities: ‘Research would be able here to transform itself directly into propaganda,’ he wrote.
“The men, all of whom live in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City, were arrested around 9 p.m. after planting what they believed to be bombs in cars outside the Riverdale Temple and the nearby Riverdale Jewish Center, officials said. But the men did not know the bombs, obtained with the help of an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were fake.” NYTimes article said.
Immediate reaction #2: Aha, the master plotter doubles as a “scriptwriter” for blue movies in his spare time.
Were did the accused get their training to plant bombs? Fake bombs, or not, how did the men know it was “safe” for them to handle the bombs? How did they trust their supplier? How did they know the bombs would work, since they didn’t buy it from Wal-Mart? Did they do a dummy run in the woods outside Newburgh?
“The arrests capped what officials described as a ‘painstaking investigation’ that began in June 2008 involving an F.B.I. agent who had been told by a federal informant of the men’s desire to attack targets in America. As part of the plot, the men intended to fire Stinger missiles at military aircraft at the base, which is at Stewart International Airport, officials said.” Said NYTimes.
Immediate reaction # 3. Aha, there’s more than one master plotter because the plot is stretched too thin, and about to lose grip.
You want a Stinger Missile? Ask Santa! Right a wish list and post it to Santa Clause, North Pole. Hang up your socks and wait. Remember, when Santa arrives, pretend you’re sleep. Don’t embarrass Santa by pulling on his false beard, or try to identify him. FBI entrapment agents are very shy and may spoil your wish.
“‘This latest attempt to attack our freedoms shows that the homeland security threats against New York City are sadly all too real and underscores why we must remain vigilant in our efforts to prevent terrorism,’ Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a statement. The mayor was expected to appear at 6:45 a.m. Thursday at the Riverdale Jewish Center morning services, joined by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.” Said NYTimes.
Immediate reaction # 4. Aha, did you also wonder where this was leading to?
Remember what Prof. Horkheimer said? He wrote: “Research would be able here to transform itself directly into propaganda.’
“The charges against the four men represent some of the most significant allegations of domestic terrorism in some time, and come months into a new presidential administration, as President Obama grapples with the question of how to handle detainees at the Guantánamo Bay camp in Cuba.” NYT said.
Immediate reaction #5: Aha, wondered when the Gitmo connection comes into crosshair.
Guantánamo Bay prison is the cabal’s ‘anti-terrorism’ sacred cow, and must not be allowed to shut down. President Obama cannot be seen as a mature president who could undo with a stroke of a pen, what Bush-Cheney gang have sacrificed the lives of more than 2 million Iraqis, Afghans… and Americans to set up!
“Rabbi Jonathan I. Rosenblatt, the senior rabbi at the Riverdale Jewish Center, a modern Orthodox congregation, said the police informed him on Wednesday evening that his synagogue was a target of the plot, as well as the Riverdale Temple, a Reform synagogue that is a short distance away, on Independence Avenue. The two buildings are about six blocks apart, each with a brick facade. Outside the synagogues on Wednesday night, the streets were eerily quiet.” Said NYT
Immediate reaction #6: Aha, the master-plotters must be the same guys who “got away” with the previous laughable false-flag scripts.
If the authorities knew that the bombs and the Stinger missile were fake, why did they have to disturb the pious Rabbi?
“Law enforcement officials identified the four men arrested as James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh. One is of Haitian descent, according to law enforcement officials, and at least three were United States citizens. They are all Muslim, a law enforcement official said.” NYTimes said, retracting an earlier print:
“Correction: May 22, 2009 [paragraph break] An article in some editions on Thursday about the arrests of four men suspected in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y., included erroneous descriptions from a law enforcement official about the men’s ethnic origins. One is a Haitian immigrant and the other three are African-Americans; none are of Arabic descent.”
“Mr. Cromitie had told the informant that he was upset about the war in Afghanistan and that that he wanted to “do something to America.” Mr. Cromitie stated “the best target” — the World Trade Center — “was hit already,” according to the complaint.” NYT added
Immediate reaction #7. Aha, maximizing propaganda value by reinforcing the validity [sic] of the official account of 9/11, which in turn reinforces other “terror plots.”
“Mr. Kelly told Jewish leaders Wednesday evening that the attackers planned simultaneous attacks, and the men planned to leave the bombs in the cars in front of the two synagogues, drive back to Newburgh and retrieve cellphone-detonating devices and then proceed with the attack on the air base— simultaneously shooting down aircraft while remotely setting off the devices in the cars.”
Immediate reaction #8. Aha, the plot is struggling to survive, now.
If you can’t see why, read what Mr Kelly told the Jewish readers again, until you realize why it came from a ridiculous plot based on a comic script.
“On Wednesday night, they planted one of the mock improvised explosive devices in a trunk of a car outside the temple and two mock bombs in the back seat of a car outside the Jewish center, the authorities said. Shortly thereafter, police officers swooped in and broke the windows on the suspects’ black sport utility vehicle and charged them with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use antiaircraft missiles.” NYT said.
“A federal law enforcement official described the plot as ‘aspirational’ — meaning that the suspects wanted to do something but had no weapons or explosives — and described the operation as a sting with a cooperator within the group.” NYT added.
Immediate reaction #9. Aha, this plot was also designed to serve as yet another reason for pushing the populace even further in the “big Brother” direction by making “thoughtcrime” an official crime.
How could anyone be arrested, other than for nuisance-making, for planting “play clay” under a car? Could Hollywood moviemakers, directors, actors and producers also be arrested for using fake weapons to “kill” millions of Jews and gentiles alike every year?
“‘It was fully controlled at all times,’ a law enforcement official said.” NYTimes article said.
“Stewart International Airport is used by the New York Air National Guard and United States Air Force, according to the complaint, and it stores aircraft used to transport military supplies and personnel to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Immediate reaction # 10. Aha, it had to be a classic FBI entrapment case!
If the FBI “informants” had not kindled the group’s aspiration, what must have been relentless encouragement for attempting to blow up a synagogue, fanning the flame of “motive” for the fake bombing; if they hadn’t facilitated the “means” by way of providing the money to buy the expensive fake weapons, explosives and all the necessary paraphernalia, instructions and training on how to use them; if they had not created the “opportunity” by way of providing information, connections and logistics, there would have been no Jewish casualties [!] and no one would have been arrested.
[Note: Let’s pretend for a moment the four patsies are not ex con, down-and-out junkies, who would go along with any idea, say anything, even confess to crimes they haven’t committed for the sake of getting their next fix, or have the charges dropped for possession. Did the FBI “brainwash,” or blackmail them?]
“This was a very serious threat that could have cost many, many lives if it had gone through,” Representative Peter T. King, Republican from Long Island, said in an interview with WPIX-TV. “It would have been a horrible, damaging tragedy. There’s a real threat from homegrown terrorists and also from jailhouse converts.” NYT said.
Oh, steady on, Rep King, it was just a fake Stinger missile. And don’t worry; FBI will never sell real explosives or functional Stinger missiles to would-be terrorists. [Could they?]
“Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said in a statement: ‘If there can be any good news from this terror scare it’s that this group was relatively unsophisticated, infiltrated early, and not connected to another terrorist group. This incident shows that we must always be vigilant against terrorism—foreign or domestic.’”NYT reported.
Thanks for making a smart remark, Senator. I ask you, could anyone other than a “relatively unsophisticated” group be so stupid to fall for this preposterous FBI entrapment script?
Whatever the outcome of this case, and whether or not the judge would throw out the case for anyone of the reasons described above, the purpose of this FBI publicity stunt was to score a point which may have a long-lasting subliminal effect on most people via the the following circular fallacy:
“ANTI-SEMITIC” people are INSANE and BECAUSE insane people are UNPATRIOTIC, therefore, “Jew-Haters” pose a grave danger to our national security!
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Posted by terres on May 22, 2009
See background: More Psychopaths in Uniform
And: Pvt Green Guilty of Rape and Murder, GW Bush Still Free
The Kentucky jury, who found Pvt Steven Green, 24, guilty on all 17 counts of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murder of her family, was unable to reach a unanimous decision on his punishment.
Four other soldiers who took part in the 2006 military-style rape and murder orgy in Iraq are serving sentences of between 5 and 110 years for their crimes.
Three of the soldiers had admitted holding down their victim, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, raping her and then murdering her, her parents and her younger sister at the family’s home in Mahmudiya before torching the building.
The fate of Pvt Green would probably be decided by a judge who would formally sentence the “Born-to- Rape-n-Murder soldier in September, 2009.
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Posted by terres on May 21, 2009
By Melody Petersen
Marine Corporal Michael Cataldi woke as he heard the truck rumble past. He opened his eyes, but saw nothing. It was the middle of the night, and he was facedown in the sands of western Iraq. His loaded M16 was pinned beneath him.
Cataldi had no idea how he’d gotten to where he now lay, some 200 meters from the dilapidated building where his buddies slept. But he suspected what had caused this nightmare: His Klonopin prescription had run out.
His ordeal was not all that remarkable for a person on that anti-anxiety medication. In the lengthy labeling that accompanies each prescription, Klonopin users are warned against abruptly stopping the medicine, since doing so can cause psychosis, hallucinations, and other symptoms. What makes Cataldi’s story extraordinary is that he was a U. S. Marine at war, and that the drug’s adverse effects endangered lives — his own, his fellow Marines’, and the lives of any civilians unfortunate enough to cross his path.
“It put everyone within rifle distance at risk,” he says.
In deploying an all-volunteer army to fight two ongoing wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on prescription drugs to keep its warriors on the front lines. In recent years, the number of military prescriptions for antidepressants, sleeping pills, and painkillers has risen as soldiers come home with battered bodies and troubled minds. And many of those service members are then sent back to war theaters in distant lands with bottles of medication to fortify them.
According to data from a U. S. Army mental-health survey released last year, about 12 percent of soldiers in Iraq and 15 percent of those in Afghanistan reported taking antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, or sleeping pills. Prescriptions for painkillers have also skyrocketed. Data from the Department of Defense last fall showed that as of September 2007, prescriptions for narcotics for active-duty troops had risen to almost 50,000 a month, compared with about 33,000 a month in October 2003, not long after the Iraq war began.
In other words, thousands of American fighters armed with the latest killing technology are taking prescription drugs that the Federal Aviation Administration considers too dangerous for commercial pilots.
Military officials say they believe many medications can be safely used on the battlefield. They say they have policies to ensure that drugs they consider inappropriate for soldiers on the front lines are rarely used. And they say they are not using the drugs in order to send unstable warriors back to war.
Yet the experience of soldiers and Marines like Cataldi show the dangers of drugging our warriors. It also worries some physicians and veterans’ advocates. “There are risks in putting people back to battle with medicines in their bodies,” says psychiatrist Judith Broder, M. D., founder of the Soldiers Project, a group that helps service members suffering from mental illness. Copyright author/news agency.
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Posted by terres on May 21, 2009
Once again Vatican spent millions of dollars, again, aided by the Irish government, to delay for nine years a 2,575-page report on the lives of thousands forced into sexual, physical and mental abuse.
“Campaigners for the abused believe that a measure of justice may finally be arriving – despite the church’s best efforts to keep the past a secret,” one report said.
The Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse report has revealed that for more than sixty years, from about 1930s to 1990s, “thousands of Irish children suffered soul-crushing lives of forced labor, beatings and molestation in spartan institutions run by Roman Catholic religious orders.”
“Most of the children were ordered into church care because of school truancy, petty crimes or because they were the offspring of unwed mothers. Many faced regimes of terror involving ritual beatings and intimidation. But until the investigation came along, thousands of survivors said they had nowhere safe to tell their stories – because swathes of Irish Catholic society sought to label them liars.”
The commission collected oral evidence from about 1,000 victims now in their 50s to 70s, most of whom “traveled back to Ireland from as far away as the United States and Australia – who described childhoods of terror and intimidation.”
“The Christian Brothers delayed the investigation for more than a year with a lawsuit that successfully defended their members’ right to anonymity in all references in the report – even in cases where individual Christian Brothers have already been convicted of sexual and physical attacks on children.”
“The Catholic Church’s practice of protecting the sexual predators in their parishes and schools, rather than the children who suffered at their hands, has fanned several waves of outrage in once-devout Ireland starting in the mid-1990s.”
“The damage done to the church’s reputation here has exceeded, in scope and political impact, even what happened in the United States, which suffered its own wave of abuse-cover-up scandals in the past decade.”
“Ireland’s first major pedophile-priest scandal, in 1994, triggered the collapse of a government. In 1999 former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern issued an apology for the state’s failure over decades to defend children’s rights in church-run facilities.”
“Ahern established both the fact-finding commission and a panel that has already paid out damages averaging nearly €65,000 each to 12,000 abuse victims. The taxpayer, not the church, has footed most of that bill.”
“The depth and duration of the abuse endured by our children in these institutions beggars belief,” said Maeve Lewis, executive director of an abuse-victims support group called One in Four, AP said.
The Commission interviewed 1,090 men and women who were housed in 216 institutions including children’s homes, hospitals and schools. They told of scavenging for food from waste bins and animal feed, of floggings, scaldings and being held under water. There were underwear inspections and in one case, a boy was forced to lick excrement from a priest’s shoe. Report
The Victims are now angered because the 9-year report despite its “damning” findings will not bring about prosecutions.
This is in part because the Christian Brothers [from Hell] “successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report.” BBC said.
The five-volume, 9-year study finds that “church officials encouraged ritual beatings and consistently shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest amid a ‘culture of self-serving secrecy.'”
“The commission found that sexual abuse was ‘endemic’ in boys’ institutions,” and that the church leaders were fully aware of what was going on. A report said.
And the Church doctrine remains UNCHANGED!
- Smite everyone who has a different religion because we don’t want the flocks going around wondering why there are so many shepherds!
- Slay all the indigenous people in the world because that’s how we can suppress spirituality, eliminate sustainable lifestyles and ensure “end times!” Besides, wee need their lands.
- Torture and burn all of their intellectuals at stake because we don’t like anyone asking questions or sowing the seeds of doubt in the sheeple’s mind!
- Forbid the flocks to plan their family and encourage them to f*ck like rabbits. The more children the merrier!
- Sodomize all of their children because that’s the only way we can ensure there would be enough new recruits in every generation to perpetuate the lie.
Oh, and don’t worry about paying off damages. I’ll provide an endless supply of money . . .
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The following is an incomplete list of Roman Catholic Church sex scandals since 1995, but does NOT include the crime of genocide they committed in Canada, the Canadian Holocaust.
— At that time there had been 107 convictions for sexual abuse in the Catholic Church there.
AUSTRIA – 1995 – The archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, was forced to retire after allegations that he had molested a schoolboy 20 years earlier.
– July 2004 – Austrian News magazine Profil ran pictures of priests kissing and groping seminarians studying for the priesthood at a Roman Catholic seminary in the St. Poelten diocese.
BRITAIN – July 2000 – The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, acknowledged he had made a mistake while in a previous post in the 1980s by allowing a pedophile to continue working as a priest. The priest at the center of the controversy, Father Michael Hill, was jailed in 1997 for abusing nine boys over a 20-year period.
FRANCE – March 2000 – A court sentenced Abbot Jean-Lucien Maurel to 10 years in prison for raping and sexually abusing three boys. The assaults dated to 1994-96, when Maurel was head of a school in the southern French department of Aveyron.
IRELAND – April 2002 – Brendan Comiskey, one of Ireland’s best-known priests, resigned as Bishop of Ferns over the way he had dealt with allegations of sexual abuse against a priest of his diocese, Father Sean Fortune. Fortune committed suicide in 1999 while facing 66 charges of sexual abuse.
March 2009 – John Magee, bishop of Cloyne in the south of Ireland since 1987, under fire for his handling of reports of sexual abuse in his diocese, quit his daily duties to deal with the inquiry.
POLAND – March 2002 – Archbishop Juliusz Paetz quit following accusations, which he denied, of sexually molesting young priests.
UNITED STATES – 2002 – Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law, the most senior Roman Catholic official in the United States, resigned over his handling of clergy sexual abuse.
— 2002 – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops directed each diocese to promptly investigate all allegations of sexual abuse.
— September 2003 – Boston Archdiocese agreed to pay up to $85 million to settle lawsuits filed by hundreds of people who said they were sexually abused by clergy.
— February 2004 – Independent researchers commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a report on alleged priestly sexual abuse of children in the United States. It said a total of 10,667 people accused priests of child sexual abuse from 1950 through 2002. More than 17 percent of accusers had siblings who were also allegedly abused. Among accusers, 46.9 percent said they had been abused numerous times.
— In a speech delivered shortly before he was elected pope, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said the Church had to clean out the “filth” in its ranks.
— In July 2007, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay $660 million to 500 victims of sexual abuse dating as far back as the 1940s in the largest compensation deal of its kind.
— In August 2008, Chicago’s Roman Catholic archdiocese announced it would pay $12.7 million to settle 16 claims of sexual abuse involving 10 former priests and a school principal. The Chicago church has settled more than 100 cases.
— In April 2008 Pope Benedict met victims of sexual abuse by priests during his visit to the United States in an effort to heal the scars. The U.S. Church has paid some $2 billion in settlement to victims since the scandal first broke in 1992.
Sources: Reuters/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; editing by Mark Trevelyan) © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved.
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Posted by terres on May 12, 2009
i. Intelligent humans don’t kill other people
ii. Unintelligent people can and do kill
iii. Training and arming unintelligent people to kill turns them into assassination machines. They become a deadly threat to everyone!
A US soldier shot dead five of his colleagues at Camp Liberty, a base near the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday.
The US President Barack Obama was said to be “shocked and deeply saddened to hear the news from Camp Victory this morning.”
A U.S. Army soldier from Killer Troop, Third Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment works out with a barbell made from spare car parts at Combat Outpost Rabiy in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2008. AP photo. Image may be subject to copyright.
But why? Did he expect a different outcome in Iraq and Afghanistan?
“Any time we lose one of our own, it affects us all,” Colonel John Robinson, a US army spokesman reportedly said.
[Them ragheads don’t mean a thing to any of “us!”]
A soldier at work.
This news came just a few days after a jury in Kentucky found former US soldier, Steven Green, 24, guilty of rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, and murder of her parents and younger sister.
Of the other reported cases that spring to mind was the case of another soldier who killed two officers and wounded 14 others at a camp in Kuwait in 2005.
Of course these are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of other cases of murder and rape of not just the Iraqis and Afghans, but of own “comrades in arms,” that remain unreported.
Operation Iraqi Freedom!
Here’s a sobering reminder of the illegal Iraqi occupation:
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Fundamental Human Rights 
