Saturday, November 6, 2010

Germany Funded Rabbi Training?!

The German government have been subsidising the training of rabbis for several years, but the interior ministry recently announced that it would only fund Liberal rabbis from now on.

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Anger as Germany cuts funding to Orthodox Jews


The German government has ignited a row with the country's Orthodox Jews after
it stopped funding the training of Orthodox rabbis.

Anger as Germany cuts funding to Orthodox Jews


"They like Liberal Jews because they are seen as easygoing, not reminding
them all the time about anti-Semitism and the Shoah [Holocaust],"
Stephan Kramer, the secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in
Germany, told the paper.


Since the Second World War, Germany has been trying to re-establish a Jewish
presence in the country. There are now some 120,000 Jews living in Germany,
and many are Orthodox.


An official at the interior ministry said that the government gives £4.3m each
year towards rebuilding Jewish life in Germany and said that the government
was not discriminating against any denomination.

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Rare WW2 Photos - Dunkirk

Rare photos taken by a German soldier of the devastated beaches of Dunkirk after the evacuation have been found 70 years on by the family of a British war veteran.

The pictures were taken a few hours after 330,000 Allied soldiers were rescued from the beaches by an armada of little ships having been defeated by the Nazis.

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Dunkirk: Astonishing images from a German soldier's photo album
This image, taken just hours after 330,000 Allied soldiers were rescued, shows masses of abandoned rifles on the Dunkirk beaches

This image, taken just hours after 330,000 Allied soldiers were rescued, shows piles of rifles abandoned by the British Expeditionary Force on the Dunkirk beaches



Abandoned tanks on the road to Dunkirk show the aftermath of chaos and confusion

French tanks lie abandoned on the road to
Dunkirk showing the chaos and confusion faced by retreating forces

Sunk shipping in Calais during world war II

Sunk and badly damaged shipping can be seen in this image from the harbour in Calais. The port was to suffer further devastation four years later during the Normandy landings



Germans examine a washed up torpedo in the set of some 200 astonishing pictures

German soldiers examine a massive torpedo washed up on a beach in northern France. The image is one of 200 in the photo album



Chaotic scene of abandoned vehicles at Dunkirk.

Scores of abandoned trucks and cars give a sense of the chaos faced by Allied troops as prepared to evacuate

On this occasion the soldier, known only as Richard, takes a photograph of Hitler just before he signs an autograph. The soldier wrote to his relatives: 'The family dream has come true. I could have touched him'

On this occasion the soldier, known only as Richard, takes a photograph of Hitler just before he signs an autograph. The soldier wrote to his relatives: 'The family dream has come true. I could have touched him'





A chilling smile from Joseph Goebbels (left), the Nazi propaganda minister, and the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini aboard a train are images also included in the remarkable photo album

A wrecked British fighter plane lies mangled on the beach at Dunkirk

A wrecked British fighter plane lies mangled on the beach at Dunkirk



German troops examine a beached British ship with a giant hole in it

A German soldier poses in front of the wreckage of a beached ship as others move closer to inspect the damage



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German guns train their sights on Britain

German guns train their sights across the Channel towards Britain

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Friday, November 5, 2010

NAKED Bookshelves!!!


US Props Up Yet Another Unelected Government!

Yet another propped up unelected, non democratic US stooge/Quisling style 'government' again with their duel foreign passports [not yet stolen by Mossad] parachute in with dubious loyalties!!!

Should the US not bit the bullet and get Hamas and president Carter to organise a TRULY democratic election!?

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U.S. and Iran Prop Up Unconstitutional Gov in Iraq

Yet another propped up unelected, non democratic US stooge/Quisling style 'government' again with their duel foreign passports [not yet stolen by Mossad] parachute in with dubious loyalties!!!

Should the US not bit the bullet and get Hamas and president Carter to organise a TRULY democratic election!?

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

DAM!

USA!

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The Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshoni River at Cody , Wyoming ....

It's the downstream face of the dam and those dots are bighorns WALKING ACROSS IT.  They're licking the surface - salt, maybe?

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Fable of the Porcupine

It was the coldest winter ever.  Many animals died because of the cold.  The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together.  This way, they covered and protected themselves; but, the quills of each one wounded their closest companions even though they gave off heat to each other. 

 

After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen.  So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. 

Wisely, they decided to go back to being together.  This way they learned to live with the little wounds that were caused by the close relationship with their companion, but the most important part of it, was the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to survive.   

 

Therefore: The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but the best is when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities. 

 

The Moral of the story! 

LEARN TO LOVE THE PRICKS IN YOUR LIFE.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Female Pimp to Female Escort

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The Year My Girlfriend Was a Prostitute and I Was Her Pimp


My girlfriend decided to become an escort to pay the bills. When she got her first gig, I knew that she would need someone to do security and didn't hesitate to volunteer myself.

One time, she explained to me that the client was worried about her “and the dark, mysterious stranger who dropped her off and picked her up.” He wanted to save her from me, wished he could propose to her and get her out of this life. And without any sense of irony, less than half an hour later, he begged her to do bareback, complained about how expensive she was, and asked her to reduce her already incredibly low rates.

I laughed off the image of me as a pimp. She wasn’t about to disclose to him that the dark mysterious stranger was her girlfriend, nor point out that if she needed saving from anyone it would be guys like him. However, I later discovered that he wasn’t the only one who would label me with that image. What I was doing was legally considered pimping.

I knew that doing security could get me in trouble with the police, but I didn’t realize until after she’d stopped doing escort work that while prostitution is a misdemeanor, what I was doing was “promotion of prostitution,” the legal term for pimping, and it’s a felony. The law is written really broadly to cover “any conduct that institutes, aids, or facilitates an act or enterprise of prostitution.” Under that definition, even providing emotional support to a sex worker could be construed as a felony pimping by an overzealous District Attorney.

In fact, it was when she realized that I could be at risk -- and knowing the abuses I’d be likely to face as a trans woman in prison -- that she became determined to leave the profession. And almost exactly a year after she had begun escorting, she stopped. I know it was the right decision for her. But we were both resentful of the emotional blackmail the situation presented her with.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Zionist LIES of Continuing Economic Siege of Gaza

Gisha wants to remind people that the maritime blockade, long in effect, is an inseparable part of the land siege of Gaza and cannot be discussed separately. Gisha says it has official documents, based mainly on High Court of Justice responses to petitions, and the open statements of senior officials, showing the siege was not imposed merely out of security concerns "but also out of a desire to put pressure on the civilian population ... by hindering its progress, cutting its income, reducing its resources and harming its way of life, to bring pressure to bear on the Hamas government."

Paralyzing the economy of Gaza is part and parcel of "economic warfare," Gisha states in its letter to the Turkel Commission.

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  • 11.10.10



Otherwise Occupied / The palace lie on Gaza


The nine Turkish dead of the Gaza flotilla have left a legacy of finding out the truth about the blockade on the Strip





By
Amira Hass
Mavi Marmara

The nine "Turkish" dead on the flotilla to Gaza have succeeded where other flotillas failed, including the "Jewish" flotilla of two weeks ago. Through their deaths, the nine bequeathed to us an ongoing debate over the policy of blockading the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Ministry: "Traffic has increased significantly. The number of trucks coordinated with the Palestinian Authority normally reaches the current maximum capacity of 250 trucks per day."


More correct, says Gisha: The goods that entered constitute only 38 percent of the demand. According to Oxfam, the number of trucks that were permitted to offload goods at the end of September (634 ) is 22 percent of the average number from before June 1997.

Foreign Ministry: "The International Monetary Fund estimates the GDP growth in the first half of 2010 (as compared with the first half of 2009 ) at 16 percent in the Gaza Strip."


More correct, according to Gisha: The growth data noted in the IMF report are connected with the fact that the comparative period of the previous year constitutes a very low base as a point of comparison, because of [Operation] Cast Lead attack. The per capita GDP in Gaza is still 40 percent lower than it was in 1994.

Foreign Ministry: "A number of projects have been implemented or are currently in different stages of implementation. [One of these is] the delivery of containers to serve as classrooms, a United Nations project."


More correct: Children in UNRWA schools have to study in these containers, which are boiling hot in the summer and freezing in the winter, because Israel has not permitted the entry of building materials for 100 new schools that UNRWA wishes to build in Gaza.

Foreign Ministry: "In July, 2,457 exit permits [from Gaza] were issued."


More correct: This number is less than 1 percent of the number of people who exited in September 2000. The "less than one 1 percent" means a lack of access to the West Bank from the Gaza Strip - the substance of the siege. A report by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights on the week of September 28 to October 6, sums up the situation: A total of 621 people left via the Erez crossing that week. Of these, 140 were patients receiving medical treatment in Israel or the West Bank and the 135 people who accompanied them. Fifty-seven were Palestinian merchants and another 26 were defined as businessmen, and 56 Palestinian residents of Israel (generally those who have first-degree relatives in the Gaza Strip ). There were also foreign residents who crossed over: 11 diplomats, 19 journalists. And there were 169 employees of international organizations (some of them foreigners, others Palestinian ). In addition, another eight lucky Gazans headed for abroad after receiving rare permission to cross over at Erez.

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Breaking the Silence nominated for EU peace prize

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  • 12.10.10



Breaking the Silence nominated for EU peace prize


Breaking the Silence documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza; right-wing group calls on parliament members not to let it win award.





By
Nir Hasson
























Photographs depicting humiliation of Palestinian detainees by soldiers.

Photographs depicting humiliation of Palestinian detainees by soldiers. The photos were published Tuesday by Breaking the Silence.

Breaking the Silence, which documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza, has been nominated for a European Parliament prize for defenders of human rights.

Parliament member Daniel Cohn-Bendit, president of the European Greens-European Free Alliance and a leader of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, said Breaking the Silence was nominated because "the Greens/EFA group wants to recognize the bravery of all the individuals involved who work to shed light on the injustices of the Israeli occupation and ensure Israeli society does not simply turn a blind eye."

While "Israel is a democracy, it nonetheless takes enormous courage to speak out and break through the taboos and prejudices surrounding the Israeli occupation," he said.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Rent-A-Crowd!!!

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Wednesday - North Korea

North Korean soldiers attend festivities to congratulate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on his re-election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Jeonseung (Victory) Plaza in central Pyongyangin this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency. Slogans read "Hurray for the revolutionary ideology of the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung !" ( bottom L) and "Hurray for the great leader comrade Kim Jong-il !" (bottom R)

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Unhappy Girls! Not a Smile!


Sunday, October 10, 2010

Keeping females out of the US military may have been correct, They feared females in the military would humanise their killing machine or destroy US society. The army is just as brutal so their society is brutalised too. http://amplify.com/u/c85k

AlterNet: VERY DARK Side of US Military's History.

There is a dark -- seldom acknowledged -- thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests abroad in the 20th Century or fighting the "war on terror" over the last decade.



The American people [chose to] are largely oblivious to this hidden tradition because most of the literature advocating state-sponsored terror is carefully confined to national security circles and rarely spills out into the public debate, which is instead dominated by feel-good messages about well-intentioned U.S. interventions abroad. Over the decades, congressional and journalistic investigations have exposed some of these abuses. But when that does happen, the cases are usually deemed anomalies or excesses by out-of-control soldiers.

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Surprise -- The Very Dark Side of U.S. History







Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. It just ain't so.

"They were scalped; their brains knocked out; the men used their knives, ripped open women, clubbed little children, knocked them in the head with their guns, beat their brains out, mutilated their bodies in every sense of the word." [U.S. Cong., Senate, 39 Cong., 2nd Sess., "The Chivington Massacre," Reports of the Committees.]

"The entire population outside of the major cities in Batangas was herded into concentration camps," wrote historian Stuart Creighton Miller. "Bell's main target was the wealthier and better-educated classes. … Adding insult to injury, Bell made these people carry the petrol used to burn their own country homes." [See Miller's "Benevolent Assimilation."]

For those outside the protected areas, there was terror. A supportive news correspondent described one scene in which American soldiers killed "men, women, children … from lads of 10 and up, an idea prevailing that the Filipino, as such, was little better than a dog. …

"Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to 'make them talk,' have taken prisoner people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later, without an atom of evidence to show they were even insurrectos, stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down as an example to those who found their bullet-riddled corpses."

Defending the tactics, the correspondent noted that "it is not civilized warfare, but we are not dealing with a civilized people. The only thing they know and fear is force, violence, and brutality." [Philadelphia Ledger, Nov. 19, 1900]

"The campaign against the Huk movement in the Philippines … greatly resembled the American campaign of almost 50 years earlier," historian Gates observed. "The American approach to the problem of pacification had been a studied one."

While psy-war included propaganda and disinformation, it also relied on terror tactics of a demonstrative nature. An Army psy-war pamphlet, drawing on Lansdale's experience in the Philippines, advocated "exemplary criminal violence -- the murder and mutilation of captives and the display of their bodies," according to Michael McClintock's Instruments of Statecraft.

"The psy-war squad set up an ambush along a trail used by the Huks," Lansdale wrote. "When a Huk patrol came along the trail, the ambushers silently snatched the last man on the patrol, their move unseen in the dark night. They punctured his neck with two holes, vampire-fashion, held the body up by the heels, drained it of blood, and put the corpse back on the trail.

"The special tactic of these squadrons was to cordon off areas; anyone they caught inside the cordon was considered an enemy," explained one pro-U.S. Filipino colonel. "Almost daily you could find bodies floating in the river, many of them victims of [Major Napoleon] Valeriano's Nenita Unit. [See Benedict J. Kerkvliet, The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines.]

"I recall a phrase we used in the field, MAM, for military-age male," Powell wrote in his much-lauded memoir, My American Journey. "If a helo [a U.S. helicopter] 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."

But disclosure of the full story was blocked near the end of the first Bush administration when senior Pentagon officials working for then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ordered the destruction of most Project X records. [See Robert Parry's Lost History.]

To counter Indonesia's powerful Communist Party, known as the PKI, the army's Red Berets organized the slaughter of tens of thousands of men, women and children. So many bodies were dumped into the rivers of East Java that they ran red with blood.

"To make sure they didn't sink, the carcasses were deliberately tied to, or impaled on, bamboo stakes," wrote eyewitness Pipit Rochijat. "And the departure of corpses from the Kediri region down the Brantas achieved its golden age when bodies were stacked on rafts over which the PKI banner proudly flew." [See Rochijat's "Am I PKI or Non-PKI?" Indonesia, Oct. 1985.]

The fruit tasted far more bitter to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, however. In 1975, the army of Indonesia's new dictator, Gen. Suharto, invaded the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. When the East Timorese resisted, the Indonesian army returned to its gruesome bag of tricks, engaging in virtual genocide against the population.

"We saw with our own eyes the massacre of the people who were surrendering: all dead, even women and children, even the littlest ones. … Not even pregnant women were spared: they were cut open. …. They did what they had done to small children the previous year, grabbing them by the legs and smashing their heads against rocks. …

"The comments of Indonesian officers reveal the moral character of this army: 'We did the same thing [in 1965] in Java, in Borneo, in the Celebes, in Irian Jaya, and it worked." [See A. Barbedo de Magalhaes, East Timor: Land of Hope.]

Some Reagan operatives were not shy about their defense of political terror as a necessity of the Cold War. Neil Livingstone, a counter-terrorism consultant to the National Security Council, called death squads "an extremely effective tool, however odious, in combatting terrorism and revolutionary challenges." [See McClintock's Instruments of Statecraft.]

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Nazi Fascist non-Democratic Loyalty Oath to Zionist state

Nazi oath: I swear: I will be faithful and obedient to the leader of the German[Israeli] state and people, Adolf Hitler, to observe the law, and to conscientiously fulfil my official duties, so help me God!

Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi:"Israel has proven that it is not equal and is a democracy for Jews and not for Arabs,"

"The government of Israel has become subservient to Yisrael Beiteinu and its fascist doctrine," said Tibi. "No other state in the world would force its citizens or those seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to an [religious]ideology."

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  • 10.10.10



MK Tibi: Israel is a democracy for Jews, but not for Arabs


Controversial loyalty oath passes by majority despite divisions in cabinet; amendment was promised by Netanyahu to Yisrael Beiteinu in coalition agreements.





By
Haaretz Service
United Arab List Ta’al MK Ahmed Tibi

United Arab List-Ta’al MK Ahmed Tibi.


Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi was quick Sunday to condemn the Cabinet's approval of a controversial proposal requiring non-Jews seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

"The government of Israel has become subservient to Yisrael Beiteinu and its fascist doctrine," said Tibi. "No other state in the world would force its citizens or those seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to an ideology."

"Israel has proven that it is not equal and is a democracy for Jews and not for Arabs," he added.

Herzog told Haaretz late Saturday that the resounding support for such an amendment showed that "fascism was devouring the margins of society."


"We are on a most dangerous slippery slope,"

"This law will not assist us as a society and a state. On the contrary, it could arm our enemies and opponents in the world in an effort to emphasize the trend for separatism or even racism within Israel," Rivlin said.

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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Transfer/Ha'avara Agreement between Nazi & Zionists

Collaboration between the Nazis and Zionists, resulting in the elimination of the non Zionist Jews.

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The Transfer Agreement


Newscast about the launch of the controversial book about Nazi-Zionist collaboration. Admission that boycott of jewish stores was for only one day, April 1, 1933!

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Friday, October 8, 2010

US Veto on Security Council will be bypassed!!!

Turkish victims' lawyers say the involvement of Turkey with the Mavi Marmara, sailing under the flag of the Comoros Islands give the court with jurisdiction with both countries being members of the ICC, so bypassing the expected USA veto on the UH Security Council!

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Gaza flotilla attack: calls for international criminal court to step in

Turkish victims ask international criminal court to pursue Israeli gunmen over raid on ship

Israeli navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the Gaza blockade

The international criminal court is being urged to prosecute members of the Israeli defence force for the raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Turkish victims have formally requested an investigation, the Guardian has learned.

"The attack on the flotilla occurred in international waters, which directly violated many parts of international law as well as international public and criminal law," said Ramazan Ariturk, a partner at Elmadag Law Office, the Turkish legal body that is representing the Turkish victims and the human rights group IHH. "The crimes committed by Israeli Defence Forces should be prosecuted and the International Criminal Court is the sole authority which is able to do that."

There is mounting pressure on Israel after a UN report into the incident, in which nine Turkish activists were killed, accused Israel of violating international law.

The report, published last month, said Israel "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality" during the raid on the flotilla and it "constituted grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law".

The likelihood of Israel being prosecuted for its actions in Gaza has long attracted controversy. Last year a group of leading lawyers publicly accused Israel of war crimes following Operation Cast Lead, citing the blockade and destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza as evidence.

Neither Isreal nor the Palestinian territories are parties to the Rome statute, which established the international criminal court. An investigation of incidents involving the two countries is possible only after a reference from the UN security council.

But the Turkish victims' lawyers say the involvement of Turkey with the Mavi Marmara and the fact it was sailing under the flag of the Comoros Islands give the court with jurisdiction. Both countries are members of the ICC.

"Based on the overwhelming volume of materials and evidence in our possession, amassed since the date of the incident itself, including expert opinions obtained from prominent specialists in international criminal law, we are of the view that the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla involves crimes which fall unambiguously within the jurisdiction of the court," the letter says.

The victims' calls were backed up last week by Desmond da Silva, a QC and former UN war crimes prosecutor who said there were technical grounds for asking the ICC to intervene.

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ZIONIST COLLABORATION with HITLER ELIMINATED NON-ZIONIST JEWS

"A Dramatic Deal with the Devil" that Hitler LOST. "The Dramatic Story of the PACT [COLLABORATION] Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine"

~~~Edwin Black

In 1984, "The Transfer Agreement" by Edwin Black won the prestigious Carl Sandburg Award for best nonfiction of the year, yet it used 'Pact' instead of 'Collaboration' throughout the book!!!

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During the first months of the Hitler regime, leaders of the Zionist movement concluded a controversial pact with the Third Reich which, in its various forms, transferred some 60,000 Jews and $100 million--almost $1.7 billion in 2009 dollars--to Jewish Palestine. In return, Zionists would halt the worldwide Jewish-led anti-nazi boycott that threatened to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. Ultimately, the Transfer Agreement saved lives, rescued assets, and seeded the infrastructure of the Jewish State to be.

Fiery debates instantly ignited throughout the pre-War Jewish world as rumors of the pact leaked out. The acrimony was rekindled in 1984 with the original publication of The Transfer Agreement--and has never stopped. Why?

In 1984, The Transfer Agreement won the prestigious Carl Sandburg Award for best nonfiction of the year. The work led to my syndicated investigative weekly column, "The Cutting Edge," which appeared for about two years in some 40 Jewish newspapers.

Back in 1978, as a brash, young journalist in Chicago from a Holocaust survivor family, the possibility of a Zionist-nazi arrangement for the sake of Israel was inconceivable. now, twenty-five years after the book's original publication, things have changed. The Jewish community has succeeded in spotlighting for the world the bloody horrors of the Holocaust

But the final leg of the journey I began when I first wrote The Transfer Agreement is not complete. not yet. The pain of that project empowered me to pursue those special villains, not those of the physical Holocaust, but the fiscal Holocaust--Ford and General Motors, Carnegie Institution and Rockefeller Foundation, and British Petroleum. These corporate icons all had their indispensible roles to play. IBM, which co-planned the Holocaust with the Third Reich, headed the list of collaborators and unindicted conspirators by virtue of its great weapon: information technology. From the painful pages of The Transfer Agreement emerged the determination to write IBM and the Holocaust, War Against the Weak, Banking on Baghdad, Internal Combustion, The Plan, and Nazi Nexus, as well as numberless articles touching on the topic. nor am I done.

These American corporations were the grand economic and technologic wizards of Germany's meteoric recovery and her high-velocity, industrialized destruction of the Jews. Only supported by the underpinnings of America's economic might was Hitler able to squeeze the Jews, confronting the Zionists with the painful necessity of engineering heartbreaking trade mechanisms with the devil.
Humanity has now seen that the corporate alliances and subsidiary masquerades that enabled Hitler have been perfected by Yahoo and Google in China, by China national Petroleum Company and French Total in Sudan, by nokia Siemens and thousands of other German firms in Iran.
But at the end of the journey, you too will understand that while the boycott against Hitler did not succeed, it did not fail. For without the worldwide effort to topple the Third Reich, Hitler would have never agreed to the Transfer Agreement. And without the Transfer Agreement, a precious human and financial remnant would not have been saved--a remnant indispensable to building the Jewish State.
An hour does not go by when the book and the topic is not debated, misused, and misquoted by the enemies of Israel and deniers of the Holocaust. A day does not go by when the staunchest defenders of Israel and the history of the Holocaust still find themselves unable to confront the realities confronted during the Hitler years by the victims and their struggling leaders
Among my Holocaust works, read it last.
few have been able to reliably answer the final question originally posited at the end of the 1984 edition: "Was it madness or was it genius?"
Edwin Black
Washington D.C.
July 04, 2009
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Squatter Camps/Settlements; Russian, tugs, illegal

"The [squatter] settlement enterprise has therefore run its course. It now represents an albatross that threatens to thwart the chance to achieve lasting peace and security."

...JPost

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West Bank Jewish settlements – enough already!


Julian Kossoff is a senior editor for Telegraph.co.uk. He previously worked at the Jewish Chronicle as a senior reporter. He has written extensively on race and religion.

An Israeli flag fluttering over a view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra (Photo: REUTERS)


Settlements, of which there are now hundreds, come in every shape, size and hue. From mini-cities – part Stevenage, part Stepford – such as Maale Adumim, to the wild West Bank fort at Hebron.


Many settlements are little more than dormitory towns for commuters who can’t afford family homes in Israel and have been enticed over the Green Line with generous state subsidies and a nudge-nudge-wink-wink, “don’t worry, we’ll never give it back.” Then there are the “Hilltop Youth,” fresh-faced, pious and prone to thuggery, whose DIY illegal encampments pock Judea’s shapely peaks, the fast-breeding “facts on the ground”.


There are settlements for the very religious and settlements for the totally secular. There are settlements for Russian immigrants and settlements for English speakers. There are even several little-publicised settlements whose inhabitants believe in peace and fostering good relations with their Palestinian neighbours.

As Alon Ben-Meir, a professor of international relations at NYU, wrote in the Jerusalem Post:


Settlement construction in the West Bank has historically served four main objectives: greater security, a stronger connection to ancient biblical lands, a better way of life for residents and pressure on the Palestinians to accept the reality of Israel’s existence. Today, each of these goals has been largely met. The settlement enterprise has therefore run its course. It now represents an albatross that threatens to thwart the chance to achieve lasting peace and security.

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Levy: Israel, North Korea, Burma, against non-violence Nobel Laureate

If the court indeed upholds the disgraceful act then [the world] know not only what we've become - that this is how we treat those who advocate non-violence - but that our [Nazi] court system is also a collaborator in the treachery and is tainted to the teeth.

It was a spectacle that could only have taken place in Israel, North Korea, Burma and Iran - the state imprisoning and deporting a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Peace Prize Laureate Calls For Vanunu Freedom

Peace Prize Laureate Calls For Vanunu Freedom

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 19: Irish 1977 Nobel peace prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire smiles while watching Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu during their press conference December 19, 2004 in Jerusalem. Corrigan came to Israel to support Vanunu's call for his unconditional freedom and to advance worldwide efforts to release him from the security restrictions placed on him by the Jewish state following his release from prison in April 2004. Vanunu served an 18-year sentence, mostly in solitary confinement, for revealing secrets of Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor.
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Woodward: Military Mouthpiece, Stooge, Fraud!

Woodward granted CIA director George H.W. Bush a pass by excluding him from accounts of Iran-Contra, which occurred while the notorious intriguer was vice president under the notoriously hands-off Reagan.

He wrote several largely sympathetic books about Junior's (mis)handling of Iraq and Afghanistan before switching to the prevailing wisdom.

There was NO Deep Throat. It was a devise conjured up by the MILITARY as a daisy chain of disinformation as they sabotaged Nixon's effort at PEACE with China. Military don't do PEACE! Nixon had to go. Nixon was FIXED by Woodward and his military handlers.

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Bob Woodward's Dark Side -- Famed Reporter Carries Water for the Pentagon


A crucial aspect of Bob Woodward's career that has been ignored by most of the media: Woodward is the military's man, and always has been.

In June of 2009, Woodward traveled to Afghanistan with General Jim Jones, President Obama's National Security adviser, to meet with General Stanley McChrystal, then the commander of forces there. Why did Jones allow this journalist to accompany him? Because Jones knew that Woodward could be counted on to deliver the company line--the military line. In fact, Jones was essentially Woodward's patron. 

In September of last year, McChrystal (or someone close to him) leaked to Woodward a document that essentially forced President Obama's hand. Obama wanted time to consider all options on what to do about Afghanistan. But the leak, publicizing the military's "confidential" assertion that a troop increase was essential, cast the die, and Obama had to go along. Nobody was happier than the Pentagon--and, it should be said, its allies in the vast military contracting establishment.

The website Firedoglake chronicled the developments in a pungent essay:

    Apparently General McChrystal and the Petraeus cabal aren't willing to wait for their Commander in Chief to set the strategy. Prior to the President's interviews, McChrystal's people were already telling journalists that they were "impatient with Obama" as Nancy Youssef reported. This "Power Play," as I mentioned last night, included a veiled threat that McChrystal would resign if he didn't get his way.


    And sure enough, just hours after the Commander in Chief was on the airwaves, somehow McChrystal's classified report hit the Washington Post compliments of Bob Woodward no less.


    Wow, what a coincidence!

Simply put, Woodward is the military's man, and always has been.

For almost four decades, under cover of his supposedly "objective" reporting, Woodward has represented the viewpoints of the military and intelligence establishments. Often he has done so in the context of complex inside maneuvering of which he gives his readers little clue. He did it with the book Veil, about CIA director William Casey, in which he relied on Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a rival of Casey's, as his key source. (Inman, from Texas, was closely identified with the Bush faction of the CIA.) The book was based in part on a "deathbed interview" with Casey that Casey's widow and former CIA guards said never took place.

Typically, Woodward uses information he gets from his main sources to gain access to others. He then gets more secrets from them, and so on down the line.  His stature--if that's the word--as a repository of this inside dope has been key to the relentless success machine that his media colleagues have perpetuated. The New York Times review of his Obama book laid out the formula:

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