Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Zionist Gang that Bankrupted General Motors



Ezra Merkin became a controlling owner of Israel's Bank Leumi shortly before he got his hands on GMAC in 2006. Here he shakes the hand of the notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon as he hands him a check for $500 million. Ehud Olmert (center) held secret meetings in New York City on September 10, 2001. Merkin's private Israeli bank has a branch in Switzerland that contains billions of stolen dollars held in secret numbered accounts....

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General Motors did not fall due to natural forces. Like the twin towers on 9-11, GM was taken down. Like 9-11, GM was sabotaged from the inside. The corporate raiders who took down GM are part of the same network of Jewish Zionists who brought down the World Trade Center.

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The bankruptcy of General Motors (GM) is very similar to the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Both catastrophic events are described in the controlled media as having occurred due to natural forces, while actually they are both the results of sabotage carried out by insiders. In both cases, the people who brought down the operation were Trojan Horses, people who had bought their way into positions of control in order to destroy them. The people behind the destruction of GM and the WTC are corporate raiders of the worst kind.

General Motors did not simply collapse as a result of market forces; it was bankrupted by corporate raiders who had infiltrated the company and taken control of its finances. Likewise, the evidence indicates that the twin towers of the World Trade Center did not collapse due to the stresses associated with the plane crashes; they were prepared in advance to be demolished using extremely powerful explosives, including tons of nano-thermite, or super-thermite. This was facilitated by the people who had obtained control of the towers shortly before 9-11, namely Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy.

What is most remarkable is that these events are closely related. The same people are involved in the conspiracy to plunder and destroy both the World Trade Center and General Motors. This article identifies some of the key people and reveals the strategy behind the destruction of one of America's oldest companies.

BANKRUPTING GENERAL MOTORS

General Motors Corp. filed for bankruptcy on June 2, 2009, as the Zionist-run Obama administration provided unprecedented federal funding and oversight. The bankruptcy filing by GM was the third-largest in American history and the largest ever in U.S. manufacturing. Now that GM is facing restructuring, its assets will be taken over for pennies on the dollar. The notorious corporate raider Carl C. Icahn, for example, is reportedly looking at taking over Delphi Chassis Systems.

So, how did GM go bankrupt? If one looks at the sales figures for GM, it simply does not make sense. In 2007, GM was the largest producer of vehicles in the world, manufacturing 13 percent of the total, and had the largest slice of the U.S. car and truck market with 23.4 percent of domestic sales.


In 2007, GM led in global production and U.S. market share. Graphics from Wikinvest.

Globally, GM sold 9.4 million cars and trucks in 2007, an increase of 3 percent over 2006. GM's 2007 tally was, in fact, the second best global sales total in the company's 100-year history and marked the third consecutive year the company had sold more than 9 million vehicles. That doesn't sound like a company on the brink of collapse, does it? In its 100-year history GM had been through much worse downturns, such as the Great Depression and the Second World War, yet GM managed to survive and thrive. What is so different about the management at GM in the past few years that it caused America's biggest auto manufacturer to go into bankruptcy despite three consecutive bumber years of global sales?

George Richard (Rick) Wagoner became president and chief executive officer of GM on June 1, 2000. The value of GM stock started the month of May 2000 at its peak of over $93 per share. The day Wagoner became CEO the stock finished at $69.81. By the end of the year it was worth less than $51 per share. GM stock had fallen to about $35 when Wagoner was elected chairman on May 1, 2003. Why promote a CEO who was clearly taking the company down the drain?

Despite the falling stock price, Wagoner remained CEO and chairman of GM until March 29, 2009. Under Wagoner's leadership GM suffered more than $85 billion in losses -- losing $82 billion in the last 4 years! Why wasn't Wagoner replaced earlier? How was GM selling more cars than ever but losing more and more money? It simply doesn't make sense.


Were his hands tied? Rick Wagoner (center) with Mark Neporent (left), COO of Cerberus, and Eric Feldstein (right), chief executive of GMAC and treasurer of General Motors Corp. This photo is from the 2006 announcement of the Cerberus deal for a majority stake in GMAC in which Bernard Madoff's partner-in-crime, J. Ezra Merkin, became chairman of GMAC. Is Wagoner responsible for $85 billion in losses at GM - or was he just a useful idiot?

In 2008, GM sold 8.35 million cars and trucks globally under the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM's largest market is the U.S., followed by China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, and Germany. Despite three years of record sales, GM lost $18.8 billion during the first 6 months of 2008; by late October, its stock had dropped 76 percent, and it was considering a merger with Chrysler.

At the time the GM-Chrysler merger was being considered, Chrysler was primarily owned (80.1 percent) by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., headed by Stephen A. Feinberg and Jacob Ezra Merkin. Cerberus is named after the mythological three-headed dog of Hell. It should be noted that Feinberg and Merkin also controlled General Motors Acceptance Corp. (GMAC), the financial services branch of GM.

GM sold 51 percent of GMAC in 2006 to Feinberg's private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, and Jacob Ezra Merkin became chairman of GMAC. Had the merger gone through, Feinberg and Merkin would have probably become majority owners of both GM and Chrysler. This appears to have been the plan. Feinberg and Merkin, the owners of GMAC, had plundered and conspired to bring down GM so that they could take it over.

When Cerberus gained control of GMAC, they hurt GM's domestic sales by raising the credit requirements for car loans. Feinberg and Merkin reportedly raised the credit requirements so high that they caused a very sizable chunk of sales to be lost due to customers' inability to secure financing. Cerberus reportedly used this tactic to pressure GM into selling or trading their remaining stake in GMAC.


Ezra Merkin became a controlling owner of Israel's Bank Leumi shortly before he got his hands on GMAC in 2006. Here he shakes the hand of the notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon as he hands him a check for $500 million. Ehud Olmert (center) held secret meetings in New York City on September 10, 2001. Merkin's private Israeli bank has a branch in Switzerland that contains billions of stolen dollars held in secret numbered accounts.

Merkin is clearly a criminal. He is one of the key players of the multi-billion dollar criminal fraud carried out by Bernard Madoff. Merkin secretly diverted untold billions to Madoff's fraudulent investment fund. One of Merkin's funds lost $1.8 billion of investor cash with Madoff. Merkin was seen as "the Golden Boy controlling the Golden Goose."

Feinberg and Merkin were also controlling co-owners of Israel's Bank Leumi, which had been privatized in 2005 under finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bank Leumi also has off-shore banks and a branch in Switzerland in which billions of dollars are held in secret numbered accounts.

It was reported on December 30, 2008, that the U.S. Treasury would provide $6 billion more for GMAC, headed by Merkin and the extremely secretive Feinberg. Feinberg is so secretive his Who's Who biography says he is deceased!


Stephen A. Feinberg, Ezra Merkin's partner-in-crime.

The U.S. Treasury was reportedly buying a $5 billion stake in GMAC and lending $1 billion to GM. This "loan" was in addition to $13.4 billion of taxpayer dollars the Treasury had already lent to GM and Chrysler LLC. Once again, a plundered and bankrupted company was being "bailed-out" with taxpayer funds.

Merkin had been chairman of GMAC since November 2006. GMAC reportedly lost nearly $8 billion while Merkin was in charge. Despite Merkin's huge losses at GMAC and his involvement in the Madoff criminal scam, the U.S. government evidently had no problem providing billions of taxpayer dollars to Merkin, whose Ariel Fund was one of the largest funds feeding billions to Bernie Madoff's financial black hole. Madoff reportedly "lost" some $50 billion, or more.

Jacob Ezra Merkin, orthodox Jew and devoted Zionist, finally resigned as chairman of GMAC on January 9, 2009. How was Merkin allowed to remain in control of the privately-held GMAC operation for so long despite his history of financial fraud?

WHO RAN GMAC?

GMAC is a very interesting operation. A wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors since 1919, GMAC provided customers with more than $1.4 trillion in credit to finance more than 162 million vehicles. Originally designed to provide financing for people buying GM vehicles, it branched out into other fields, such as real estate. GMAC Commercial Mortgage (GMACCM), for example, provided the funds for Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy to take over the World Trade Center in July 2001. The towers served as the collateral. GMAC Commercial Mortgage sold $563 million in bonds backed by a loan to Silverstein Properties for its purchase of the towers. If Silverstein and Lowy were part of the conspiracy to destroy the World Trade Center, the people controlling GMACCM would probably also be. Who was controlling the purse strings at GMAC in 2001 when Silverstein was negotiating to obtain control of the World Trade Center?


Larry Silverstein, here with his daughter Lisa, made billions of dollars from the destruction of the World Trade Center. He is the former chairman of the UJA-Federation of New York, the largest Zionist fund-raising organization in the world.

At GMAC, the person in charge of the money was Eric A. Feldstein, born in Brookline, Mass. in 1959. Feldstein had worked in the office of the treasurer at GM Corp. from 1981-91 and was regional treasurer in Europe from 1991-93. In 1993, he returned to New York as assistant treasurer. In March 1996, he was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of GMAC and chairman of the GMAC Mortgage Group, where he oversaw corporate activities responsible for general finance, audit, and worldwide borrowings.

Feldstein became treasurer of General Motors in November 1997, and was elected vice president the following month. In June 2001, Feldstein was named General Motors' vice president, finance, and corporate treasurer. When GM and GMAC failed in 2008, Feldstein went to work for Feinberg and Merkin at Cerberus, joining the team named after the three-headed dog of Hell. At Cerberus, Feldstein was made executive vice president.


Eric Feldstein, the treasurer of GM, laughs with Rick Wagoner and Mark Neporent, COO of Cerberus, as the Zionist-run fund took majority control of GMAC. By this point, GM was well on its way to losing $85 billion - all during Feldstein's term as GM corporate treasurer and vice president in charge of finance.

Eric Feldstein is the son of Donald Feldstein, a high-ranking member of a number of Zionist organizations in New York and New Jersey. The elder Feldstein is one year older than Larry Silverstein and has a long history of leadership in the same Zionist organization as Silverstein. Donald Feldstein was an executive director of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation Jewish Philanthropies in New York City from 1976-81. This is the huge Zionist fund-raising organization that Larry Silverstein headed as the chairman of the board and where he is an honorary board member. The connection between Donald Feldstein and Larry Silverstein at this Zionist organization certainly played a role in Eric Feldstein's decision to use GMAC money to back Silverstein's bid for the World Trade Center. It is through such Zionist organizations like the UJA-Federation and the secretive order of B'nai B'rith, an international organization of Jewish Freemasons, that the Zionist network functions. In this way actions and decisions that affect whole nations can be made without anyone outside the "community" being aware.

GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp., under the leadership of Donald Feldstein's son, provided an $800 million loan to fellow Zionists Silverstein and Lowy to back their bid for the soon-to-be privatized World Trade Center in the summer of 2001. This privatization deal, initiated by the Zionist Ronald Lauder and managed by Lewis Eisenberg of the Port Authority, was finalized at the end of July 2001. The WTC complex was finally put into private hands – Zionist hands – only 6 weeks before it was demolished and pulverized with super-thermite.

FELDSTEIN JOINS ETON

After being fired from GMAC, Eric Feldstein went to work for Cerberus in March 2008. Three months later he became CFO at Eton Park Capital Management. Eton Park is a hedge fund run by 42-year-old Eric M. Mindich, formerly with Goldman Sachs, and Alan R. Batkin, the vice chairman of the fund. Batkin, 64, is the senior partner at Eton Park. Although Feldstein lost billions as the head of GMAC and was fired because he had destroyed the 90-year-old company, Mindich and Batkin made him chief financial officer at Eton Park. Feldstein's colossal failure at GMAC evidently did not bother them. He was clearly being rewarded for a job well done.

Alan Batkin, the vice chairman at Eton Park, is very highly connected. Batkin was, for example, vice chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc. from 1990 through 2006. It is, however, his executive positions at some of the biggest companies of Israel, such as Israel Discount Bank (IDB) and Discount Investment Corporation, Ltd., that reveal the intense Israeli character of Eton Park. (The IDB has been privatized and is also closely tied to the Madoff scam.)

Alan R. Batkin is a member of the board of governors of Tel Aviv University and is treasurer of PEC Israel Economic Corp. (part of Discount Investment Corporation, Ltd.) where he has served as CEO, president, and director. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Orama Ltd. (a venture capital firm founded in 1999 to support companies in the Israeli technology sector; a subsidiary of IDB Group, Ltd.)

From 1972 to 1990, Batkin was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, where he a Managing Director for 14 years. Batkin has been, since 1999, a director of Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (OSG), which owns and manages a large fleet of transatlantic oil tankers. As a director of OSG, Batkin works with Solomon Merkin, the brother of Jacob Ezra Merkin. Their father, Hermann Merkin, was one of the owners of the company along with the Recanati family of Israel Discount Bank. Batkin is also vice chairman and a director of Hasbro Inc. since 1992.


Solomon Merkin

Batkin was a director of Infinity Broadcasting Corp. since April 1992. Infinity provided popular talk radio with a distinctly pro-Israel point of view. Foremost among Infinity's talk show staff was Howard Stern, a vulgar and controversial radio personality. Other national radio performers employed by Infinity included Don Imus, Larry King, G. Gordon Liddy and Rush Limbaugh. Infinity merged with CBS Radio in 1997.

Alan Batkin is a scion of the intensely Zionist Batkin and Tenzer families and the son of Stanley Irving Batkin, a leading Zionist figure since the 1930s. Stanley Batkin is a recipient of Israel's Prime Minister's Medallion (1974) and the City of Jerusalem Medal (1976). These awards are given to Zionists for extraordinary service to Israel. The elder Batkin has served, since the founding of the state of Israel, as an executive of the following organizations (among many others): the Zionist Organization of America; the State of Israel Bond Committee; the Jewish Theological Seminary; State of Israel Bonds; Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science; Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Inc.; and Yeshiva University Museum.

Sources and Recommended Reading:


Bollyn, Christopher, "The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House," November 6, 2008


Bollyn, Christopher, "Update on Madoff's Guilty Plea," March 12, 2009


Bollyn, Christopher, "Who is Bernard Madoff, the man behind the $50 billion fraud?" updated March 24, 2009


General Motors Data, Wikinvest


General Motors' U.S. Sales History, Domestic Brands, 1908-2008, Automotive News, June 1, 2009


General Motors' Top Ten Markets in Europe, 2008"Obama gambles on reviving GM from bankruptcy," Reuters, June 2, 2009

MEMRI'S MISTRANSLATION


Things Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not do:

1) deny the Holocaust;
2) say that Israel should be wiped off the map;
3) develop a nuclear weapons program

Intro

With the Iranian election results disputed (a dispute that the incumbent will likely win), I think it’s important to revisit the American conventional wisdom about the Iran and its president. Suspicious sources and a lazy media echo-chamber have instilled many misconceptions into the American public’s mind about Iran. This is worrisome because such misconceptions leave the American public vulnerable for the type of hawkish manipulations that led us into the Iraq war, and so for that reason US attitudes towards Iran need reexamining.

Nuclear Weapons Program

Top among the controversies surrounding Iran is the issue of their nuclear development. One goal of Iran’s energy policy is to use nuclear energy for domestic energy needs so that more of Iran’s oil supplies can be diverted for foreign sale.

In developing their domestic nuclear energy program Iran has often skirted certain IAEA regulations, with the ostensible reason being that strict adherence to the rules has allowed the US to sabotage nuclear development contracts forged between Iran and other countries. This evasion of IAEA directives has been the primary basis on which Iran has been accused of having a nuclear weapons program.

However, in 2007, part of a United States National Intelligence Estimate was leaked that concluded that Iran had not worked on a nuclear weapons program since 1993. Ironically, Iran’s first nuclear weapons programs was facilitated by America in the 1950s.

“Vanish from the page of time” vs. “wiped from the map”

Since he was elected in 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has received much criticism on his comments regarding Israel. The most famous of these was given in a speech called “A World Without Zionism” in which he quoted a line from Ayatollah Khomeini.

An improper English translation painted him as calling for Israel to be “wiped from the map.” When word got out there was an international uproar. As it happens, in Persian there is no such idiom. More accurate translations read “The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem must [vanish from] the page of time.”

The focus of the speech was a hopeful vision of a world free from Western oppression of Muslims, and, in context, it is clear that this is not policy—much less a military threat. In fact, Iran has never made a military threat against Israel. Israel has against Iran, though—many, many times.

Holocaust Denial

Ahmadinejad has also met sharp international criticism over his comments on the Holocaust. The widespread and misleading allegation is that he denies that the Holocaust ever occurred.

It is undoubtedly true that Ahmadinejad has raised some uncomfortable questions about the Holocaust. Indeed, in December 2006, he even convened a conference to explore historical evidence for the Holocaust, and he also occasionally referred to people making “a myth” of the Holocaust.

However, as Iran Specialist Professor Shiraz Dossa states, while Ahmadinejad’s “rhetoric has been excessive and provocative,” he“has not denied the Holocaust or proposed Israel’s liquidation. What Ahmadinejad has questioned is the mythologizing, the sacralization, of the Holocaust.”

Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory statements are all in the context of the Palestinian struggle. The questions are put in terms of skepticism towards the Holocaust’s use in justifying Zionist colonialism in Palestine. The intellectual exploration, undoubtedly born of a deep, sometimes justified, mistrust for the West, has never crossed the line into outright denial of the Holocaust.

When such statements have been conflated with anti-Semitism, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly clarified his position with statements like “creating an objection against the Zionists doesn’t mean that there are objections against the Jewish.”

Conclusion

Undoubtedly, the recent election dispute in Iran leaves one questioning the democratic scruples of the country’s leadership. Ahmadinejad’s Iran is far from the idyllic liberal democracy. But, however great the fervor for Ahmadinejad’s opponent, one need be careful not to lose sight of how unfairly Western caricatures of Iran have influenced attitudes toward the incumbent worldwide—a habit long in the making and likely slow to change.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Mir-Hossein Mousavi's Iran/Contra Connection?



What do Michael Ledeen (the American 'neo-conservative'), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (the Iranian presidential candidate of 'chagne') and Adnan Khashoggi (the opulent Saudi Arabian jet-setter) have in common?

They are all good friends and associates of Manuchehr Ghorbanifar (an Iranian arms merchant, an alleged MOSSAD double agent, and a key figure in the Iran/Contra Affair, the arms-for-hostages deals between Iran and the Reagan administration). In one or two, at most three, degrees of separation, these people hung out in the same circles and very likely drank to the same toasts.

You can find all kinds of trivia about Ghorbanifar in the Walsh Report on the Iran/Contra affair. In Chapter 8, for example, we learn:
"Ghorbanifar, an Iranian exile and former CIA informant who had been discredited by the agency as a fabricator, was a driving force behind these proposals [for arms-for-hostages deal];" or, "Ghorbanifar, as broker for Iran, borrowed funds for the weapons payments from Khashoggi, who loaned millions of dollars to Ghorbanifar in "bridge financing'" for the deals. Ghorbanifar repaid Khashoggi with a 20 percent commission after being paid by the Iranians," (see: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_08.htm).
Here is a bit from an article by Time magazine that shows Ghorbanifar's circle of associates; it is from a January 1987 cover story (The Murky World of Weapons Dealers; January 19, 1987):
"By [Ghorbanifar's] own account he was a refugee from the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which confiscated his businesses in Iran, yet he later became a trusted friend and kitchen adviser to Mir Hussein Mousavi, Prime Minister in the Khomeini government. Some U.S. officials who have dealt with Ghorbanifar praise him highly. Says Michael Ledeen, adviser to the Pentagon on counterterrorism: "[Ghorbanifar] is one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known." Others call him a liar who, as one puts it, could not tell the truth about the clothes he is wearing," (emphasis added).
This second bit is from Chapter 1 of Walsh Iran/Contra Report: (http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_01.htm)
"On or about November 25, 1985, Ledeen received a frantic phone call from Ghorbanifar, asking him to relay a message from [Mir-Hossein Mousavi] the prime minister of Iran to President Reagan regarding the shipment of the wrong type of HAWKs. Ledeen said the message essentially was "we've been holding up our part of the bargain, and here you people are now cheating us and tricking us and deceiving us and you had better correct this situation right away.''
[...]
"In early May, North and CIA annuitant George Cave met in London with Ghorbanifar and Nir, where the groundwork finally was laid for a meeting between McFarlane and high-level Iranian officials, as well as financial arrangements for the arms deal. Among the officials Ghorbanifar said would meet with an American delegation were the president and prime minister [Mousavi] of Iran and the speaker of the Iranian parliament," (emphasis added).
And to remind how Michael Ledeen became involved in the Iran/Contra affair in 1985, here is a bit from Chapter 15 of Walsh Report (http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_15.htm):
"[McFarlane] authorized Michael A. Ledeen, a part-time NSC consultant on anti-terrorism, to ask Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to check on a report that the Israelis had access to good sources on Iran. By early August 1985, Ledeen's talks had led to a direct approach by Israeli officials to McFarlane, to obtain President Reagan's approval to ship U.S.-supplied TOW missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages in Beirut. McFarlane said he briefed the President, Regan, Shultz, Weinberger, Casey and perhaps the Vice President about the proposal in July and August 1985.40 McFarlane said that Casey recommended that Congress not be informed of the arms sales."
There you have it. Now, I'm no investigative journalist, so I'll leave it to the professionals to dig deeper into this.

But, I do have to wonder aloud: Seeing how we cannot ignore his 'neo-con' credentials and that Michael Ledeen maintained his very good relations with Ghorbanifar, (who at least used to be) a good friend of Mir-Hossein Mousavi (the 'candidate of change' in the Iranian presidential elections); and given the support that Mousavi's candidacy has been receiving from the American 'moderates', maybe this kind of 'change' is the 'regime change' the Americans have had in mind for Iran?

Monday, June 15, 2009

The Judeo-Christian oxymoron or the real clash of civilizations


The Judeo-Christian oxymoron or the real clash of civilizations

Andrew Winkler, The Rebel Media Group

Whenever it comes to the dreadful Mid-East conflict, Zionst controlled media and politicians like to invoke Judeo-Christianity as opposed to radical Islam. It’s one of those deliberately misconstrued expressions that Jews like to use in order to confuse and manipulate us. They know very well that what the term ‘Judeo-Christianity’ implies, a common Judeo-Christian heritage does not exist.

Christian churches as we know them are the last thing that Jesus had on his mind when he lead his revolt against the oral traditions of the Pharisees. What after the destruction of the Jerusalem temple was codified as the mother of all hate literature, the Babylonian Talmud, was nothing short of a Satanic heresy of the Old Testament or Torah.

Real nature of Christianity

When killing Jesus didn’t stop his followers from challenging the Pharisees, one of their top inquisitors, Apostle Paul, came up with the brilliant idea of redirecting their missionary efforts towards the Gentiles. To make the new ‘faith’ more palatable for Gentiles and less of a threat to the Pharisees, Paul and his fellow moles incorporated all sorts of popular elements from other religions. The Egyptian Isis cult became the model for the Christian adoration of the Virgin Mary, Jesus miracles are copyright infringements of the tales of the Greek God Hercules, and Roman Mithraism was ruthlessly gutted for the layout of Christian churches, liturgies and even the celebration of Jesus’ birth. In fact it was common practice for Christians to simply kick the Mithrais people out of their temples and convert them to churches.

Christianity is Judaism minus the oral tradition of the Pharisees plus lots of features stolen of competing Mediterranean religions. The only part that Christians, Jews and – let’s not forget – Muslims supposedly share, have effectively been abandoned by the Jews, even though they will never admit that.. The Pharisees and – their modern descendents – the rabbis have always been quite frank about the fact that they are putting “the Law”, that is their perverted re-interpretations of the Torah, above “God’s word”.[1]

In spite of this brilliant strategy of the Pharisees, of fighting off Jesus’ challenge, Christianity, their own creation, was still making inroads amongst Jews. Too harsh and hateful was the rabbinic oppression and too attractive Jesus proposition of universal love and forgiveness. That’s why they had to create a competing faith, Islam, designed to destroy or weaken the Christian threat. Muslims all over the world are amazed by the rapid victory of the faithful troops against the collapsing Roman Empire.[2] What they don’t realize is that this victory was financially and politically engineered by Jewish bankers. This also explains why Jews had such a privileged position in the Arab and Ottoman empires and were routinely entrusted with the day to day running of the countries.

When the Catholics kings of Spain forced the Jews to convert or move to Holland, things massively changed. Suddenly there was a whole group of rich and powerful Jews who no longer could profit from helping the Muslim rulers to oppress the local Christians. So they quickly destroyed the Muslim monopoly on the profitable slave and spice trade, which is how European colonialism came about. The raise of England and Holland was the direct result of the Spanish decision to kick out the Jews.

The Jew-engineered cock fight between Christians and Muslims continued. When England converted from coal fired to oil fired war ships, it was deemed necessary to take over control of Arab oil. The Young Turks movement of crypto-Jews were created and bankrolled by London bankers, with the sole purpose of destroying the Ottoman Empire. To upset Western Christians with the Turks, a massive genocide was organized on Christian Armenians. The Zionist movement was lobbied to choose Palestine as location for the future Jewish State. Germany was enticed to enter into a war with England to put pressure on the Brits to help the Zionists fulfill their dream of Greater Israel, which conveniently extends from the Euphrates to the Nile. When Britain gave in to the pressure in the Balfour declaration, Germany’s Jews did their bit to sabotage the German war effort.

The raise of Hitler

The only problem was how to bully enough European Jews into moving to Palestine to effectively control the Middle-East.. That’s why Hitler came along, the real father of the Jewish State. His raise to power was bankrolled by Jewish bankers. The last thing he was going to do is kill all European Jews. Rounding up the Jews and imprisoning them into concentration camps was done for two reasons: to protect them from the Allied terror bombing and to prepare for their emigration to the future state of Israel. The Nazis in cooperation with the Jewish press did a wonderful job at making Europe’s Jews feel unwelcome, even fear for their lives.

The war on terror

A lot of people argue whether the war on terror is a war for oil or a war for Israel, as if their was a difference. For the Jewish bankers war is business and business is war. The meeting rooms of Jewish corporations are called ‘war rooms’ for a good reason. Jewish business predators like Bill Gates are known for their aggressive ‘take no prisoners’ approach and have no qualm about profiteering from war. The Jew-engineered clash of civilizations is nothing but the latest version of the two thousand year old Jewish war for profit. It’s time for Christian and Muslim families to learn their lessons and stop providing the cannon fodder for the Jews.

Footnotes:

[1] Even without the Pharisean heresies, the Torah is quiet a piece of work. It’s full of lust for blood, cruel punishment and genocide against the perceived enemies of the Chosen ones. You’d think you can’t top that kind of hatred, until you study the Talmud. If you don’t believe me on that matter, I suggest you read Michael Hoffman’s “Judaism Discovered”.

[2] Jews don’t really learn from their mistakes. Their tendency of creating new enemies to fight old enemies they created themselves always bites them in the back, like it does today with Hezbollah and Hamas, which were supposed to weaken the PLO.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

The History of the Financial Crisis


Here are a few quotes which may explain at least part of what's going on financially:


“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
- President James Garfield (he was assassinated within 4 months).

"If the people only understood the rank injustice of our Money and Banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson

“[Banks] do not really pay out loans from the money they receive as deposits. If they did this, no additional money would be created. What they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits to the borrowers' transaction accounts."
- 1960s Chicago Federal Reserve Bank booklet entitled “Modern Money Mechanics”

"You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates, all bears the endless burden of unrepayable debt and usury...[the Colonial Scrip was issued] with our money [with no interest owed to anyone.]”
- Benjamin Franklin, explaining to the British parliament why the American colonies were prosperous while Britain experienced rampant unemployment and poverty.

"[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War."
- Benjamin Franklin

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
- John Adams

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
- Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the Government, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks."
- John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States

"There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by…corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses."
- James Madison

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions They are not… they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will”.
-Congressman Charles McFadden, Chairman, House Banking and Currency Committee, June 10, 1932

“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements….The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States… The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.”
- Congressman McFadden, quoted in the New York Times (June 1930)

"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
- Franklin D Roosevelt

“This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.”
-Robert Hemphill, Credit manager of Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta.

“The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, ‘friends of paper money. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from England and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system. Through ignorance, but moreover, because of apathy, a small, but wealthy, clique of power brokers have robbed us of our Rights and Liberties, and we are being raped of our wealth. We are paying the price for the near-comatose levels of complacency by our parents, and only God knows what might become of our children, should we not work diligently to shake this country from its slumber! Many a nation has lost its freedom at the end of a gun barrel, but here in America, we just decided to hand it over voluntarily. Worse yet, we paid for the tyranny and usurpation out of our own pockets with “voluntary” tax contributions and the use of a debt-laden fiat currency!”.
-Peter Kershaw, author of the 1994 booklet “Economic Solutions” “I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs … we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country… we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected”.
-John Danforth, Republican Senator from Missouri, in an interview in The Arizona Republic on April 22, 1992

These statements were made during hearings of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, September 30, 1941.

Members of the Federal Reserve Board call themselves “Governors”. Governor Eccles was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board at the time of these hearings.

Congressman Patman: “How did you get the money to buy those two billion dollars worth of Government securities in 1933?”

Governor Eccles: “Out of the right to issue credit money.”

Patman: “And there is nothing behind it, is there, except our Government’s credit?”

Eccles: “That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.”

Congressman Fletcher: “Chairman Eccles, when do you think there is a possibility of returning to a free and open market, instead of this pegged and artificially controlled financial market we now have?”

Governor Eccles: “Never, not in your lifetime or mine.”

"The privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man....
- Franklin Roosevelt

"I care not what puppet (sits on) the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British empire, and I (when he ran the Bank of England) control the British money supply."
- Nathan Rothschild

Caveat: Most - but not all - of the quotes have been verified as historically accurate. For background on many of the quotes, see this.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

L'Etat palestinien est inévitable



L'Etat palestinien est inévitable! Elle a été revendiqué même par l'ONU en 1947 avant la création de l'Etat d'Israél en 1948!
Obama ne fait que rappeler les résolutions du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU durant les dernières années.
Même les dirigeants sionistes ont même fini par reconnaitre ses vérités, des années aprés qu'eux même ont participé à la création de cet Etat, dont le premier responsable du Congrés juif international, Nahum Goldmann, qui dans son ouvrage qui reste d'actualité "Ou va Israël"? insiste sur la nécessité de sa création?
Liserz cet ouvrage, il est trés intéressant.

Pour ce qui est de la sémantique de "L'Etat juif" je vous recommande un livre trés intéressant du Professeur israélien Schomo Sand, intituté "Comment le peuple juif fut inventé"?
Dans un extrait révélateur, sans écrit :"Les juifs forment-ils un peuple? Contrairement à une idée perçue, la diaspora ne naquit pas de l'expulsion des hébreux de Palestine, mais de conversions successives en Afrique du Nord, en Europe du Sud et au proche Orient.".
Ces idées contenus dans ce livre intéressant, à mon humble connaissances historiques, remettent en cause globalement en détail, les thèses des idôles du Sionisme international, à leur tête bien sur son fondateur Théodor Hertzel!

Les détails contenus dans ce livre de Sand, selon ma première lecture, ébranlent parfaitement un des fondements de la pensée des sionistes, particulièrement la thèse qui voulait dire que "les juifs soient les descendants du royaume de David".
Selon Sand qui remet en cause cette "croyance juive" mais ne remet pas en cause comlétement la légiitimité de l'existance et de la souveraineté de l'Etat d'Israél,; cependant celui-ci se discrédite, soutient-il, par son caractère exclusivement ethnique, engendré par le "racisme" des idéologues sionistes.

Sand poursuit "Tout israélien sait, sans l'ombre d'un doute, que le peuple juif existe depuis qu'il a reçu la Torrah dans le Sinaï, et qu'il en est le descendant direct et exclusif (..) D'ou vient cette interprétation de l'histoire juive? Elle est l'oeuvre, depuis la seconde moitie du XX siècle, de talentueux reconstructeurs de l'histoire, du passé, dont l'imagination fertile a inventé, sur la base de morceaux de mémoire religieuse, juive et chrétienne, un enchaînement généalogique continu du peuple juif".

Selon toujours Sand, les historiens sionistes n'ont cessé, depuis, de réitérer ces "vérités bibliques", devenus nourriture quotidienne de l'éducation nationale. Mais voila qu'au cours des anées 1980, "la terre tremble, ébranlant ces mythes fondateurs de l'idéologie sionistes"!.
Contrairement aux idées véhiculées par les icônes du Sionisme, sand écrit "Les découvertes de la nouvelle archéologie contredisent la possibilité d'un grand exode au VIII siècle avant notre ère (..) A défaut d'un exil depuis la Palestine romanisée, d'où viennent les nombreux juifs qui peuplent le pourtour de la Méditerranée dès l'antiquité? De la révolte des Maccabées au IIe siècle avant notre ère, à la révolte de Bar-Kokhba, au IIe siècle après J.C, le judaïsme fut la première religion prosèlyte. les Asmonéens avaient déja converti de force les Iduméens du sud de la Judée et les Iturée de galilée, annexés au "peuple d'Israél".
Des vérités historiques qui demandent plus d'attention.

Le livre de Sand est à lire surement....


Jewish bankers have created all the wars in history.

This one in Iraq, especially. All the big wars of the last two
centuries. All the brushfires happening now. Perhaps you have lost
someone in one of these wars.

Perhaps not. Either way, you should know why they happen, because it
is your ignorant support that allows them to needlessly kill millions
of innocent people.

You have been deceived as to the reasons for these wars, your opinion
shaped by the limiting and slanting of all the information you have
received throughout your life, but most especially from the varied
categories of popular media (principally TV). It turns out that every
single one of these categories is controlled by Jews, from your
first-grade schoolbook to your post-graduate dissertation. And above
all, don't forget Hollywood, which has shaped the world mind in a
savagely Jewish way.

H.G. Wells said humankind's mental and moral progress stopped in the
1770s. That was when Meyer Rothschild began to capture the world's
finances with the fortune he made off the American Revolutionary War,
the first formula fracas in which both sides were funded by the same
source. This formula has been followed ever since, by which the
central banks buying the corruption of politicians enables them to
fleece the populace without regard for any kind of life, especially
human. This predatory and primitive penchant perhaps is the basic
human drive, but it has by no one been so ruthlessly and efficiently
practiced as by the current Jewish network of international banks and
funds, which are the depraved offspring of Rothschild and the Jewish
philosophy.

Why it is impossible for Jews to tell the truth

For a Jew to tell the truth about his heritage, he would have to admit
he is a poseur, pretending to be a citizen of one country or another
but really part of a secret cult plugged into the power structure that
has been created in every country using fraud, bribery, blackmail and
murder.

For a Jew to tell the truth about his heritage, he would have to
confess that his holy book slanders the ideal personality of Jesus
Christ in the most pornographic ways, and justifies doing the most
horrible things to people simply because they are not Jews. Jewish
teachings of both the Torah and Talmud preach a genocidal philosophy
of excrement and blood that will eventually destroy them, because the
gift always returns to the giver.

For a Jew to honestly tell what his tribe has done to the world would
cause him to be instantly murdered by the crowd, because he has
prostituted your daughters, killed your children, and ruined your
life's work .... no matter who you are .... if you're not a Jew. There
are many non-Jews who take the payoff, and participate in the millions
of deliberately diversionary trails that have greatly assisted the
Jewish cause, but if you're a Jew, you wouldn't want to talk about
them much, either, because, as the Talmud says, a Jew who reveals
Jewish secrets to a non-Jew must be killed. Actually, it says both of
them must be killed. It is that kind of book, and that kind of people.

For a Jew to tell you the real truth, he would have to tell you that
the greatest Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, said the all those
so-called human beings who are not Jewish must be either killed or
enslaved, and he was only echoing the many toxic tractates of the
Talmud, which drone on endlessly about the need to kill or enslave all
those who are not Jews.

What most non-Jews do not realize is that this objective has just
about been completely accomplished, and the stupid, sleeping,
exploited non-Jewish populace does not even realize it.

This is the true status of human evolution.

The Marrano phenomenon guarantees the doom of Jews ...

The term "Marrano" was coined for Jews who fled Spain and Portugal
during the Middle Ages after being forced to convert to Christianity.
Few people today really understand the the Inquisition was staged by
the Roman church to identify Jews who only pretended to convert, hence
also the term "conversos."

Such distinguished names as John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt
and Fidel Castro are descended from Marrano Jews, who escaped to other
countries (principally the Muslim Ottoman Empire) in order to avoid
persecution. The persecution occurred because Jews tend to take over
societies in which they live because of their superior aptitude in
controlling money and media. This enables them to falsify history and
enslave non-Jews, which is why they have been kicked out of some 78
countries over the course of human history.

But the Marrano phenomenon has a much wider application in our
contemporary world. The recent revelations that such well-known
politicos as John Kerry, Madeleine Albright and Wesley Clark - they
all recently "discovered" they had Jewish ancestors - typifies the
disingenuousness by which Jews hide their identities. But no longer is
this done to escape persecution. Now the purpose is more to conceal
their true purpose, which is to take control of societies in which
they pretend to be citizens.

In America, this has long been accomplished. The wars in which America
has lost so many sons and daughters were all engineered by Jewish
puppeteers controlling American presidents. Take note of the names -
Edward Mandel House (Wilson), Bernard Baruch (Franklin Roosevelt),
Henry Kissinger (Nixon), and Richard Perle/Paul Wolfowitz (the
Bushes).

This is why the rest of the world regards the U.S. as a Jewish
country, with no compassion and no honesty.

Germans have pretty much lost their ethnic identity to Jews who have
usurped their family names. This has also happened to the English,
whose landscape names - Brooks, Rivers, Hills, etc. - as well as
mineral names - gold, silver, diamond - have been expropriated by Jews
to conceal their real identities.

The result of all these deceptions is this. Jews absolutely cannot be
trusted to tell the truth - about their names, about their history, or
about their intentions.

As we attempt to detox the insanity that is destroying the world, we
need to put Jewish lies at the top of our list.

The Jews are truly doomed for their perfidy, and politicians in Israel
have claimed that if any nation attempts to destroy the insane Jewish
nation of Israel, Jews will take the rest of the world with them with
their not-so-secret nuclear arsenal. This may be the only truth the
Jews, in their long and sordid history, have ever told.

The End Game


This falls in the “you had better take it seriously” category, as it is the continuation, or End Game, of the New World Order. It also explains every President’s obsession with the destruction of law and civil liberties. The mass murder of four billion is better carried out by a fascist state than one with civil liberties. Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot were just sideline warm ups.

Overpopulation is a primary concern of the elite, and it was the subject of a recent clandestine meeting of billionaire “philanthropists” in New York. Elitists veil their agenda with the humanitarian rhetoric of the need to naturally reduce world population by means of contraception and education, whereas in reality, as we have exhaustively documented, their program has its origins in the inhumane pseudo-science of eugenics which first flourished in Britain, and the ideology of racial and genetic superiority that was later adapted by the Nazis with the aid of Rockefeller funding.

Why? Peak Oil.

This was all laid out in 2004 by Micheal Ruppert in Crossing The Rubicon, which masterfully ties oil, Wall Street, drugs, and accurately predicted the housing and credit crisis all in a book on 9-11. In it, he considers the elites motivations.
There are many factors that the rulers of the American Empire now have to manage as they read their own delusional map of the world. They have to:
  • apportion dwindling resources among competitors, some of whom possess nuclear weapons;
  • maintain and expand their control over enough of the oil and gas remaining to ensure their global dominance and maintain order among the citizens of the Empire;
  • simultaneously manage a collapsing global economic system, made possible by hydrocarbon energy and in which the growing population is demanding more things that can only be supplied by using still more hydrocarbon energy;
  • acknowledge that they cannot save their own economy without selling more of these products;
  • control the exploding demand for oil and gas from engineered recessions and wars that break national economies;
  • hide the evidence that they are systematically looting the wealth of all the people on the planet –even their own people– in order to maintain control;
  • maintain a secret revenue stream to provide enough off the books capital for the purpose of providing themselves a distinct economic and military advantage, improving their technological posture, and funding covert operations;
  • repress any dissent and head off any exposure of their actions;
  • convince the population that they are honorable so they can maintain control after oil supplies have dwindled to the point of energy starvation.

It’s the first bullet on dwindling resources and the extermination of two thirds of the planets human population.

How important are hydrocarbons for food production are skid mark one recognized oil expert puts it this way:” if the fertilizers, partial irrigation, and pesticides were withdrawn, corn yields for example would drop from 130 bushels per acre to about 30 bushels.” Well that’s bad news in more ways than you can think. The same applies in varying degrees to any crop: week, alfalfa, lettuce, celery, onions, tomatoes; anything that commercial agricultural produce is. Oil and gas are irreplaceable in the world is in to continue pumping out enough food to feed 6.5 billion people. And that says nothing about the additional 2.5 billion people that are projected to be here before the middle of the century. Organic farming and promote culture is responsible and respectful of nature and may ultimately be nearly as productive as hydrocarbon-based agriculture. But the infrastructure is not in place to implement it. You could ask several billion people to stop eating for your O2 while we switch over to work out the bugs. Do you want to volunteer? Would you volunteer your children? So what about all the evil cattle, pigs, and chickens that feed on grain and corn.

The chart says it all. Human population growth goes hand in hand with oil, more accurately cheap oil. It’s a party the former cannot attend without the latter, and that one is getting scarce. The planet can’t feed us all post peak oil, and the elites know and hide this.

In May 2001 a statement from the national energy policy produced by Vice President Cheney’s national energy policy development group (NEPDG) and could further at the pending crisis:

America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s. Estimates indicate that over the next 20 years, US oil consumption will increase by 33%, natural gas consumption by well over 50%, and the demand for electricity will rise by 45%.

U. S. energy consumption is expected to increase by about 32% by 2020. Between 2020 and 2000, US natural gas demand is projected by the energy information administration to increase by more than 50%.

Yet we produce 39% less oil today than we did in 1970 the year of peak production in the US, leaving us ever more reliant on foreign suppliers in our present course, America 20 years from now will import nearly 2 of every three barrels of oil a condition of increased dependency on foreign powers it did not always have America’s intentions at heart.

But it gets more heartless than that, as Sir Charles Olton Darwin wrote in 1952.

The fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores of coal and oil that have been accumulating in the earth during hundreds of millions of years… It is to be hoped that before then other sources of energy will have been developed… Without considering the detail here, it is obvious that there will be a very great difference in the ways of life…. With a convenient substitute for the president feels is found or not there will be no doubt that there will be a great change in ways of life this change may be justly called a revolution but it differs from the preceding ones in that there is no likelihood of its leading to increased population, but even perhaps the reverse.

Darwin’s observations were reinforced by geologist Walter Youngquist in 1999.

He wrote:

world population will have to adjust to a lesser food supplies by a reduction in population. Pimental and Pimental (1996) stated:” the nations of the world must develop a plan to reduce the global population from near 6 billion to about 2 billion. If humans do not control their numbers, nature will.” Because stopping and then turning around and freight train of population growth and only be done gradually, this is a project that should be started now (Colen, 1995). If it is not done famine is likely to ensue.

Now see how that 6 billion to about 2 billion works out to two thirds? Coincidence theory doesn’t persuade me, so I say it’s Trudeau’s two thirds. That’s the two thirds of you and me wiped off the face of the earth because the elites are too busy laughing at the crazy conspiracy theorists.

Revealingly, Trudeau said that elitists see Alex Jones as an annoyance but tolerate him because they believe Jones as well as Trudeau himself are, “desensitizing people to these realities,” - which in a way works to their benefit.

“I’ve been told that’s why I still get invited on the yachts,” added Trudeau.
Meanwhile back on my planet, round one, third from the sun, the beat goes on.

Geologist J. Hansen, among the first to raise the issue of a global oil crisis resulting in population overshoot and collapse, came to the same conclusion in

The Longage of Critters Problem”:

But when the above scenario seems inevitable, the elites will simply depopulate most of the planet with buy weapons. When the time comes, it will be the only logical solution to their problem. It’s a first strike tactic that leaves built-in infrastructure and other species in place and allows the elites to perpetuate their own genes into the foreseeable future.

So there it is, the mass murder of two thirds of us for which the crashing of the Soviet economy and the extermination camps of Hitler’s were just trial runs, all in the name of controlling what remains and perpetuating their power into the foreseeable future.

It’s really crystal clear if you just take the blinders off, which we had best do before the End Game becomes game over....

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Israel is controlled by religious fanaticism


by Shulamit Aloni for Ha'aretz

Not very long ago, during Rabbi Meir Kahane's racist rantings, the late writer and journalist Amos Elon gave me a copy of a letter Lord Rothschild sent to Herzl in August 1902. In the letter, Rothschild explains why he refuses to support the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. He writes that he "should view with horror the establishment of a Jewish colony pure and simple; such a colony would be Imperium Imperio; it would be a Ghetto with the prejudice of the Ghetto; it would be a small petty Jewish state, orthodox and illiberal, excluding the Gentile and the Christian."

Nevertheless, and despite phenomena like Kahane, the hope prevailed here over the years that Rothschild's harsh vision would prove false; that Israel would indeed "ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex," and "guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture," as stated in the Declaration of the Establishment of the State.

Time has passed and many heirs to Kahane have arisen - not only among a greedy and savage multitude but also among "the public's chosen representatives" in the Knesset and government. The latter are busy preparing blatantly racist laws and sending armed police to thwart Palestinian-initiated international cultural events because the regime believes the Arabs of the Land of Israel, the native Palestinians, are not worthy of being called human beings. According to the writers of these laws, the Arabs are certainly not entitled to human rights, not to mention a cultural and intellectual life, and never mind property, land and a home, because thousands of years ago God promised this land to Abraham and his seed.

Most regrettably and disgracefully, everything that Lord Rothschild predicted is coming to pass in our time. In our blackest dreams and in the hardest times since the struggle to establish the state, we never imagined that those who call themselves disciples of Ze'ev Jabotinsky would impose terror and fear here using deranged racist legislation. We never imagined that they would use the destruction of the court system to try to prevent any possibility of achieving social justice and a humane attitude. This is something essential in every democratic society toward every man, woman and child, irrespective of origin, race, religion and sex.

For 42 years we have been occupying, oppressing and stealing lands that are not ours. To be free in our land do we need to become thieving Cossacks, uprooters of trees, burners of fields and harassers of women, the elderly and the very young? "We have this land, we have it," goes the song, but what should have been said is "We have the power, we have it, we have the money, we have it, and we are allowed, we are," to starve an entire population, imprison it and annihilate it using air strikes, cluster bombs and white phosphorous. Because we are the lords of the land and God has chosen us to rule. For the shame of it.

"A unique people," wrote David Ben-Gurion. Alas, for that uniqueness. Instead of a Jewish and democratic state they have delivered us a Jewish state controlled by religious fanaticism, one that maintains the purity of the race. They have delivered a democracy in the most primitive sense - not the preservation of democratic values but rule by the demos, the populace that is dictating the transformation of Israel into a totalitarian ethnocracy.

Hooray for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman - they are eradicating everything we built, everything we dreamed about and everything we fought for.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

For 300 years Britain has outsourced mayhem. Finally it’s coming home

[It is a great day in the Western media when the British confess that their government is the biggest, longest-running criminal enterprise in human history. For humanity's sake let us pray that The Crown is finished.]

Opium, famine and banks all played their part in this country’s plundering of the globe. Now it’s over, we find it hard to accept

The past 15 years have produced the cash-for-questions racket, the Hinduja and EcclestoneBAE corruption probe, the cash-for-honours caper and the cash-for-amendments scandal. By comparison to the outright subversion of the functions of government in some of these cases, the is small beer. Any one of them should have prompted the sweeping political reforms we are now debating. But they didn’t. affairs, the lies and fabrications that led to the invasion of Iraq, the forced abandonment of the

The expenses scandal, by contrast, could kill the Labour party. It might also force politicians of all parties to address our unjust voting system, the unelected Lords, the excessive power of the executive, the legalised blackmail used by the whips, and a score of further anachronisms and injustices. Why is it different?

I believe that the current political crisis has little to do with the expenses scandal, still less with Gordon Brown’s leadership. It arises because our economic system can no longer extract wealth from other nations. For the past 300 years, the revolutions and reforms experienced by almost all other developed countries have been averted in Britain by foreign remittances.

The social unrest that might have transformed our politics was instead outsourced to our colonies and unwilling trading partners. The rebellions in Ireland, India, China, the Caribbean, Egypt, South Africa, Malaya, Kenya, Iran and other places we subjugated were the price of political peace in Britain. After decolonisation, our plunder of other nations was sustained by the banks. Now, for the first time in three centuries, they can no longer deliver, and we must at last confront our problems.

There will probably never be a full account of the robbery this country organised, but there are a few snapshots. In his book Capitalism and Colonial Production, Hamza Alavi estimates that the resource flow from India to Britain between 1793 and 1803 was in the order of £2m a year, the equivalent of many billions today. The economic drain from India, he notes, “has not only been a major factor in India’s impoverishment … it has also been a very significant factor in the industrial revolution in Britain”. As Ralph Davis observes in The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade, from the 1760s onwards India’s wealth “bought the national debt back from the Dutch and others … leaving Britain nearly free from overseas indebtedness when it came to face the great French wars from 1793″.

In France by contrast, as Eric Hobsbawm notes in The Age of Revolution, “the financial troubles of the monarchy brought matters to a head”. In 1788 half of France’s national expenditure was used to service its debt: the “American War and its debt broke the back of the monarchy”.

Even as the French were overthrowing the ancien regime, Britain’s landed classes were able to strengthen their economic power, seizing common property from the country’s poor by means of enclosure. Partly as a result of remittances from India and the Caribbean, the economy was booming and the state had the funds to ride out political crises. Later, after smashing India’s own industrial capacity, Britain forced that country to become a major export market for our manufactured goods, sustaining industrial employment here (and avoiding social unrest) long after our products and processes became uncompetitive.

Colonial plunder permitted the British state to balance its resource deficits as well. For some 200 years a river of food flowed into this country from such places as Ireland, India and the Caribbean. In The Blood Never Dried, John Newsinger reveals that in 1748 Jamaica alone sent 17,400 tons of sugar to Britain; by 1815 this had risen to 73,800. It was all produced by stolen labour.

Just as grain was sucked out of Ireland at the height of its great famine, so Britain continued to drain India of food during its catastrophic hungers. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis shows that between 1876 and 1877 wheat exports to the UK from India doubled as subsistence there collapsed, and several million died of starvation. In the North-Western provinces famine was wholly engineered by British policy, as good harvests were exported to offset poor English production in 1876 and 1877.

Britain, in other words, outsourced famine as well as social unrest. There was terrible poverty in this country in the second half of the 19th century, but not mass starvation. The bad harvest of 1788 helped precipitate the French revolution, but the British state avoided such hazards. Others died on our behalf.

In the late 19th century, Davis shows, Britain’s vast deficits with the United States, Germany and its white dominions were balanced by huge annual surpluses with India and (as a result of the opium trade) China. For a generation “the starving Indian and Chinese peasantries … braced the entire system of international settlements, allowing England’s continued financial supremacy to temporarily co-exist with its relative industrial decline”. Britain’s trade surpluses with India allowed the City to become the world’s financial capital.

Its role in British colonisation was not a passive one. The bankruptcy, and subsequent British takeover, of Egypt in 1882 was hastened by a loan from Roths­child’s bank whose execution, Newsinger records, amounted to “fraud on a massive scale”. ­Jardine Matheson, once the biggest narco-trafficking outfit in history (it dominated the Chinese opium trade), later formed a major investment bank, Jardine Fleming. It was taken over by JP Morgan Chase in 2000.

We lost our colonies, but the plunder has continued by other means. As Joseph Stiglitz shows in Globalisation and its Discontents, the capital liberalisation forced on Asian economies by the IMF permitted northern traders to loot hundreds of billions of dollars, precipitating the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Poorer nations have also been strong-armed into a series of amazingly one-sided treaties and commitments, such as trade-related investment measures, bilateral investment agreements and the EU’s economic partnership agreements. If you have ever wondered how a small, densely populated country which produces very little supports itself, I would urge you to study these asymmetric arrangements.

But now, as John Lanchester demonstrates in a fascinating essay in the London Review of Books, the City could be fatally wounded. The nation that relied on financial services may take generations to recover from their collapse. The great British adventure – three centuries spent pillaging the labour, wealth and resources of other countries – is over. We cannot accept this, and seek gleeful revenge on a government that can no longer insulate us from reality.

Why now? It’s not as if this is the first time Britain’s representatives have been caught out. The history of governments in all countries is the history of scandal, as those who rise to the top are generally the most ambitious, ruthless and unscrupulous people politics can produce. Pushing their own interests to the limit, they teeter perennially on the brink of disgrace, except when they fly clean over the edge. So why does the current ballyhoo threaten to destroy not only the government but also our antediluvian political system?

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Allowing Guilty Pleas and Death Penalties Without Trial for Alleged 9/11 Plotters Would Be the Ultimate Obstruction of Justice


The tin-pot dictator will not let the media talk to the American prisoner captured when his plane crashed.

The dictator says that the prisoner confessed to a horrible murder, and has pleaded guilty.

And so - the dictator announces - there will be no trial, just a death sentence. Indeed, the prisoner is Christian, and the dictator says that the prisoner has asked for martyrdom according to his religious beliefs.

Would the rest of the world believe this is fair?

Of course not. Moreover, world opinion would assume that the prisoner might very well be innocent of the murder charges, especially if it comes out that any confessions were made during extreme torture.

This is exactly the situation we have currently with the prisoners at Guantanamo.

As the New York Times reports:

The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have called martyrdom.

Raw Story clarifies that:

This option would principally be aimed at a group of detainees accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

This is not simply a ploy to cover up the fact that these prisoners were brutally tortured.

It is also a way to silence them forever, so that they can never tell what their real role was in the 9/11 attacks, and who they received assistance from, and how they were able to convince the mightiest military the world has ever known to stand down from standard air defense protocols on 9/11.

Does Innocence Matter?

Remember, most of those held at Guantanamo and tortured were actually innocent.

According to NBC news:
  • Much of the 9/11 Commission Report was based upon the testimony of people who were tortured
  • At least four of the people whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report have claimed that they told interrogators information as a way to stop being "tortured."
  • One of the Commission's main sources of information was tortured until he agreed to sign a confession that he was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ
  • The 9/11 Commission itself doubted the accuracy of the torture confessions, and yet kept their doubts to themselves

The self-confessed "mastermind" of 9/11 also confessed to crimes which he could not have committed. He later said that he gave the interrogators a lot of false information - telling them what he thought they wanted to hear - in an attempt to stop the torture. We also know that he was heavily tortured specifically for the purpose of trying to obtain false information about 9/11 - specifically, that Iraq had something to do with it.

Indeed, the Senate Armed Services Committee found that the entire U.S. torture program was geared around techniques specifically aimed at extracting false confessions (and see this).

This Would Be Unprecedented

Remember, allowing guilty pleas would not follow standard criminal or even military procedure. Normally, prosecutors in military trials are normally required to prove guilt in a trial even against service members who want to plead guilty.

And in normal American criminal trials, the judge has to make sure that the defendant understands that he is pleading guilty, that he has the capacity to understand what that means, and that he wishes to accept the consequences. But some of the prisoners have been tortured until they are literally crazy, and may not understand what they are pleading guilty to or even what the death penalty means.

Obstruction of Justice

In addition, the government has obstructed justice at every turn regarding 9/11. Indeed, even the 9/11 Commissioners themselves now say this:

  • The Commission's co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) "obstructed our investigation"
  • The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened". He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."

The torture sessions of the alleged 9/11 suspects were in fact videotaped, but the CIA illegally destroyed the videotapes, so that the extent of torture and the prisoner's actual words will never be known (and see this).

Allowing these prisoners to now be executed without trial would be the ultimate obstruction of justice. It would be just like killing the captured American Christian and putting him to death based upon his supposed "confessions" and his supposed wish to become a Christian martyr.

Indeed, the analogy would be closer to the current situation if the murder in the tin-pot dictator's country were suspicious (for example, if the dictator had received numerous warnings that the victim's life was in danger but had provided no protection), and if the dictator had used the murder as the main excuse to strip away all of the liberties and freedoms in his country and to launch several wars against other nations which he had long wanted to invade.

The world would obviously insist that the prisoner receive a fair trial both to establish his innocence or guilt and to see if the dictator's rationale for launching wars and crushing the rights of his people was an honest one.

The "messy problem" which the proposal seeks to dispose of is not simply the torture of the prisoners. It is also the fact that the government has no real evidence for its version of 9/11....because 9/11 is an inside job by the Siamese twins, CIA/MOSSAD+AMAN/OSP.....