Saturday, June 12, 2010

Flotilla raid Israeli myths debunked

Hoax: Video Showing Heavy Weapons Discovered on Mavi Marmara is a Fraud


A video has been racing around the Internet — purportedly showing heavy weapons discovered behind bags of flour on the Mavi Marmara. The find would serve to justify the lethal raid on the flotilla to Gaza and some posters have asked why no uproar? The answer is because the video is a fraud — it shows a boat that was actually searched in 2009.

The video is often accompanied by the same text, which was posted by a commenter on this blog:
This video shows that during the unloading of the Marmara boat in the port of Ashdod, behind the bags of flour were boxes of heavy weapons and ammunition: mortars, artillery shells, bazookas, without counting a trunk where more than one million euros was found intended for Hamas. This video should be widely distributed as evidence of why the IDF Naval commandos were dispatched to intercept the six vessels including the M/S Mavi Marmara. One wonders what is aboard the Irish vessel, the M/S. Rachel Corrie, that Israel will intercept sometime today when it approaches the Naval blockade line off the coast of Gaza. Clearly the Turkish AKP Islamist government is complicit in permitting this military cargo to be loaded on the ‘peaceful’ Free Gaza Flotilla. Please distribute this video widely. If you had any doubt about what was on the flotilla, here is the video. The French explains that the arms on display were hidden behind sacks of grain.
There appears to be a conscious misinformation campaign afoot. The people who originally posted this video obviously knew it was false but wanted to mislead viewers. They succeeded.

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Torture and Research Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama

by Stephen Lendman

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June 12, 2010

Nazi and imperial Japanese doctors performed horrific human experiments on unwilling subjects. At Auschwitz and other death camps, Josef Mengele, Carl Clauberg, Herta Oberheuser, Karl Brandt, Aribert Heim and others conducted ones involving freezing temperatures, toxic chemicals and gas, sterilizations, high altitudes, radiation, electroshock, starvation, amputations, bone, muscle and nerve transplants, and numerous other atrocities called crimes of war and against humanity at Nuremberg.

At its infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists did their own, involving vivisections, germ and other forms of biological warfare, toxic chemicals, and other atrocities causing severe pain, disease and certain death. Yet in 1945, General Douglas MacArthur agreed secretly with Dr. Shiro Ishil to turn over 10,000 pages of human experimentation information in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Justice for their victims was denied.

Today and since the early 1950s, CIA operatives conducted physically harsh and psychologically crippling mind control experiments, turning human beings into mush, a topic this writer addressed earlier, accessed through this link:

In addition, for decades, CIA and other US agencies experimented illegally with human subjects, including:
  • in 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads conducted radiation and cancer cell injection experiments;
  • in 1932, Tuskegee Syphilis Study doctors infected 200 black men with the disease, followed their progression, and let them die untreated;
  • in 1940, 400 Chicago prisoners were infected with malaria to test experimental drugs;
  • numerous human radiation experiments have been conducted on unwitting subjects;
  • VA hospital patients were used as human guinea pigs;
  • chemical and biological agents were released in US cities, and other similar experiments were conducted;
  • US military personnel have been given experimental vaccines and other drugs, known to be toxic;
  • numerous experiments with human subjects tested mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and other dangerous substances;
  • others injected radiation into newborns, placed mentally ill patients in giant refrigerators, infected children with hepatitis, performed surgeries without anesthesia, subjected prisoners to plague, infected them with cholera, injected soldiers with plutonium (the most toxic known substance) as part of the Manhattan Project, used children, prisoners, and the mentally ill for ghastly experiments; and
  • at US torture prisons, horrific tortures and illegal medical experiments continue being used on unwilling subjects.
New Physicians for Human Rights Report
Founded in 1986, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) "mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. (It also) investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them" in conflict zones, US prisons, and offshore detention facilities where torture is routinely practiced.

Its newly released report, "Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program" examines Bush administration practices post-9/11, saying:
In its aftermath, new "human intelligence collection programs" were initiated, using "an unknown number of people suspected of having links to terrorist organizations."

Most all accusations were bogus, yet detainees were subjected to horrific waterboarding, forced nudity, sleep deprivation, temperature extremes, stress positions, prolonged isolation, and other horrific abuses, regarded as illegal under international and US law at all times, under all conditions, with no allowed exceptions. Nonetheless, Bush administration officials claimed procedures used were "safe, legal and effective" enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs).

Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyers redefined practices "by establishing legal (torture) thresholds....which required medical monitoring (to ensure ones) for severe physical and mental pain" weren't crossed...."

In other words, medical professionals participated in illegal torture experiments by monitoring, collecting and analyzing results, to be used in subsequent interrogations, in violation of unequivocal US and international law, including Geneva's Common Article 3 prohibiting:
  • "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture:
  • outrages of personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;"
  • carrying out sentences or executions "without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples;" and
  • caring for the wounded and sick, including by an impartial body like the ICRC "offer(ing) its services to the Parties to the conflict."
Condoning or participating in torture grievously breaches medical ethics and the 1975 World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Tokyo "Guidelines for Physicians Concerning Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Relation to Detention and Imprisonment," stating:
  • in all cases, at all times, "physician(s) shall not countenance, condone or participate in" torture or any other forms of abuse;
  • they "shall not use nor allow (their) medical knowledge or skills, or health information" to be used to aid interrogations in any way;
  • they "shall not be present during any procedure during which torture or any other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (are) used or threatened;"
  • they "must have complete clinical independence" in treating persons for whom they're medically responsible; and
  • WMA encourages the international community and fellow physicians to support medical professionals who face "threats or reprisals resulting from a refusal to condone" all forms of torture and abuse."
Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions states:
"Persons engaged in medical activities shall neither be compelled to perform acts or to carry out work contrary to, nor be compelled to refrain from acts required by, the rules of medical ethics or other rules designed for the benefit of the wounded and sick, or this Protocol."
PHR's report examined three illegal and unethical medical practices:
  • monitoring to "design, develop, and deploy (new) waterboarding procedures;"
  • the effects of "simultaneous versus sequential" interrogation procedures to determine the "susceptibility of the subjects to severe pain;" and
  • the effects of "sleep deprivation (to establish) enhanced interrogation....sleep deprivation policy."
Research purposes were to gain increased information, ostensibly assure pain levels remained within legal thresholds, and most important to provide legal cover against possible incrimination, using doctors to verify no harm was done.

PHR's report shows health professionals weren't just complicit in torture, they also participated in research and experimentation on detainees in US custody.
In other words, human beings were (and still are being) used as guinea pigs. Public documents prove it, including memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and the CIA's Office of Inspector General Special Review of the Agency's Enhanced Interrogation Program.

Relevant Laws Governing Research and Experimentation, Using Human Subjects
US 45 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 46.1029d (2005) defines research to mean:

"....a systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Activities which meet this definition constitute research for purposes of this policy, whether or not they are conducted or supported under a program which is considered research for other purposes."

The same regulation defines human subject research as:
using "a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains:

1. data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or

2. identifiable private information."

In all cases, subject protections, informed consent, direct benefit to the participants, and an institutional review board (IRB) approval are required. 

Otherwise, human subject experimentation breaches the Nuremberg Code and other internationally recognized regulations and ethical guidelines. In addition, doing so constitutes a crime of war and/or against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

No information indicates that the Bush administration sought or received formal authorization for its practices. Also, neither the CIA or DOD ever filed a waiver for informed consent, as required by federal regulations.

In addition, the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) made public a formal research protocol. However, DOJ memos and other government documents reveal a classified medical monitoring program, involving "the meticulous collection and analysis of data to derive generalizable knowledge," relating to the "safety" and effects of torture techniques.

However, under US and international law and accepted medical ethics, non-clinical human experimentation, with or without subjects' consent, is impermissible. "In fact, the 'enhanced' interrogation techniques are premised on the infliction of mental (and physical) harm, so" experiments to make them safe and effective are legally and ethically groundless and indefensible.

Instances of Illegal and Unethical Human Subject Research and Experimentation
Medical personnel involvement in waterboarding was undertaken to "disguise a universally recognized torture tactic as a 'safe, legal and effective' interrogation" technique. One CIA guideline directs participants to record:

"....how long each application (and the entire procedure) lasted, how much water was applied (realizing that much splashes off), how exactly the water was applied, and if a seal was achieved, if the naso-or oropharynx was filled, what sort of volume was expelled, how long was the break between applications, and how the subject looked between each treatment."

In his 2005 "combined techniques" memo, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven G. Bradbury told Acting CIA General Counsel John A. Rizzo that experimentation determined that waterboarding healthy subjects, subject to defined limitations, is "medically acceptable."

A later version, "Waterboarding 2.0," came after CIA developed and tested an intentionally harmful practice, using medical monitoring for cover.

Health professionals also analyzed data based on observed enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) on 25 detainees, performed to determine subjects' susceptibility to severe pain.

"This investigation had no direct clinical health care application, nor was it in the detainees' personal interest nor part of their medical management." It was conducted solely to argue that the EITs in combination wouldn't make subjects more susceptible to pain, to justify their use.

Human Research and Experimentation Purposes
PHR cited three:
(1) to learn how EITs should be deployed as interrogation torture techniques designed to be "safe (and) effective," or, in other words, an impossible combination.

(2) to calibrate the pain level caused by techniques used to keep it from crossing the threshold defined as torture, the idea being to defend interrogators against possible crimes. OLC lawyers defined torture as causing "long-term" mental or physical "pain and suffering," enough to cause organ failure or death.

(3) to craft legal defenses against charges of torture, arguing that medical monitoring removes the element of intent, necessary to prove to pursue successful torture prosecutions under US law.
"But in attempting to legitimize the crime of torture, the lawyers left those who authorized and performed the research open to the charge of illegal human experimentation," as well as an unconscionable medical ethics breach.

Human Experimentation and Human Subject Protections
Under George Bush, torture became official US policy, a topic this writer addressed in July 2008, accessed through this link:

By executive orders, presidential findings, memoranda, memos, and other documents, Bush's "doctrine of presidential prerogative" made everything permissible, supplemented by Congress enacting laws like the Military Commissions Act - called the "torture authorization act" by exempting CIA torturers from prosecution.

The law amended the 1966 War Crimes Act (defining them as breaches of Geneva that unequivocally prohibits torture), made it retroactive to 1997, with language banning:

"The act of a person who subjects, or conspires or attempts to subject, one or more persons within his custody or physical control to biological experiments without a legitimate medical or dental purpose and in so doing endangers the body or health of such person or persons."

The new language lowered the bar on experimentation through a loophole permitting so-called "legitimate" kinds, unrelated to detainees' well being.

Yet human subject protections are codified in US law (45 CFR 46.101-46.124 - 2005) as well as codes of professional conduct - collectively called the Common Rule, applying to all federally funded human experimentation, including CIA and DOD practices.

None may be conducted without subjects' consent and unless safe and beneficial to their welfare. Research and experiments amounting to torture clearly are not, and thus violate US and international law as well as established medical ethics.

Despite Obama's January 22, 2009 executive order prohibiting most "enhanced interrogation techniques" and his rhetoric at the time, he's continued the most extreme Bush administration abuses, (including so-called "safe, legal and effective" ones) - what PHR concluded are crimes of war and against humanity. Claiming health professionals protect detainees through systematic monitoring "is not only inherently contradictory but also a perversion of centuries of health professional ethics."

PHR calls on the White House and Congress to investigate thoroughly and hold those involved accountable. It also recommends restoring previous War Crimes Act language, and urges strict policies be adopted that prohibit all forms of torture and improper treatment as well as ensuring the human rights of all those in US custody.

Final Comments
Under George Bush, torture became official policy. It remains so under Obama throughout America's offshore gulag on US bases, ships, facilities of complicit allies, and other secret locations worldwide.

He also absolved CIA torturers from prosecution, saying he wants to look forward, not back, so will do anything to protect them and the worst of their practices, denying their victims justice like his predecessor and those before him.

It's America's longstanding practice - exonerate the guilty, punish the innocent, and trash the rule of law and common decency. Obama succeeds with the best of them in upholding an unprincipled, degenerate tradition.

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Margaret Sanger and the eugenics movement

By Rebecca R. Messall 

On a Sunday dedicated to honoring motherhood, May 11, 2010, the Denver Post chose to celebrate everything glaringly responsible for preventing or terminating motherhood. And, to someone like me who is slightly older than the "Pill" and who was 18 at the time of Roe v. Wade, the appearance of the Post's Mother's Day article was curious because there is much more that people should know about the threesome of Margaret Sanger, the "Pill" and Planned Parenthood, the nations' largest abortion provider.

Margaret Sanger belonged to an organization called the American Eugenics Society, organized in the early 1900's. Members from the American Eugenics Society actually formed Sanger's original group whose name was changed to Planned Parenthood, but even the latter's first three presidents were officers or members in the AES, including Alan Guttmacher. Sanger is listed as a member in 1956 under her then-married name, Mrs. Noah Slee.

Later called social biology, genetics, and population control, eugenics was a "scientific" endeavor born from evolutionary biology. It was never confined to state-sponsorship under Communists and Socialist dictators. Eugenics operated quite openly in the United States, England and around the world. The efforts of the American Eugenics Society resulted in many states passing laws to sterilize more than 63,000 Americans. Several states passed official apologies in the 1990's. The eugenics movement, particularly Margaret Sanger, ranted against the Catholic Church for opposing eugenic legislation and ideology.

Leaders of the American eugenics movement were later troubled that Hitler tarnished the word "eugenics;" however, they did not abandon the quest for a thoroughbred stock of humans, such as Margaret Sanger herself touted. They simply chose new words to describe eugenics. As recently as 1968, one of the leading evolutionary biologists and an officer in the American Eugenics Society, Theodosius Dobzhansky, said that the word "genetics" meant the same thing as "eugenics" and commended the goals of eugenics. The control of reproduction remained the primary goal of eugenics in order to improve the human gene pool. Throughout its existence Planned Parenthood has been a key tool to reduce or eliminate births among blacks, other minorities and the disabled.

The Post's Mother's Day article typifies the popular narrative, which was really a sophisticated marketing campaign so good that no one questions it. Almost never, anyway. It sought to convince women to become customers of a then-unpopular product by convincing them that, prior to the commercial launch of the Pill in the 1960's, our mothers and grandmothers were veritable slaves to their wombs, their husbands and the very concept of marriage.

Coincidentally, of course, legal abortion also covered up the "Pill's" failure rate. In the new movie, "Blood Money," former abortionist Carol Everett says her abortion facility intentionally passed out low dose birth control pills to increase the likelihood of customer pregnancies and those money-making back-up abortions.

In the 70's, one of the messages was that women had a singular duty not to add another child to a polluted, war-torn mad, mad world which would be blown up at any minute by nuclear war. However, the other sub-text, the one where evil should have been blatantly denounced if media, politicians, academia and the rest of us had not been so - to put it charitably - timid, was the pronouncement that disabled and minority children were particularly "unwanted" and specially targeted for elimination through abortion and the parallel development of genetic tests for destructive uses.

Now, nearly all Downs Syndrome babies are terminated before they are born, as part of a public policy by the U.S. Supreme Court laid down in Roe and reiterated again and again. Pro-life leader Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. writes, "Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness."

Largely, the eugenics/population control movement has been powered by huge trusts with billions of dollars in global assets. As investment vehicles, they likely receive income from corporations engaged in a global distribution of birth control pills, IUDs, patches, injections and so forth. If so, their capital holdings, dividends and bonuses are gilded by U.S. taxpayer funding for the system of product distribution, funding appropriated as a quid pro quo from politicians grateful for the campaign donations. Money talks. Blood money.

Rebecca R. Messall is a practicing attorney in Denver. She is the author of the article, "The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade," Fall 2004 Human Life Review (New York). 

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Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies to Attack Iranian Nuke Sites

LONDON — Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defenses to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times of London reported Saturday.

In the week that the U.N. Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defense sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass without hindrance, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defense systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defenses will return to full alert.

“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a U.S. defense source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [U.S.] State Department.”

Sources in Saudi Arabia say it is common knowledge within defense circles in the kingdom that an arrangement is in place if Israel decides to launch the raid. Despite the tension between the two governments, they share a mutual loathing of the regime in Tehran and a common fear of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. “We all know this. We will let them [the Israelis] through and see nothing,” said one.

The four main targets for any raid on Iran would be the uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and Qom, the gas storage development at Isfahan and the heavy-water reactor at Arak. Secondary targets include the lightwater reactor at Bushehr, which could produce weapons-grade plutonium when complete.

The targets lie as far as 1,400 miles (2,250km) from Israel; the outer limits of their bombers’ range, even with aerial refuelling. An open corridor across northern Saudi Arabia would significantly shorten the distance. An airstrike would involve multiple waves of bombers, possibly crossing Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Aircraft attacking Bushehr, on the Gulf coast, could swing beneath Kuwait to strike from the southwest.

Passing over Iraq would require at least tacit agreement to the raid from Washington. So far, the Obama Administration has refused to give its approval as it pursues a diplomatic solution to curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Military analysts say Israel has held back only because of this failure to secure consensus from America and Arab states. Military analysts doubt that an airstrike alone would be sufficient to knock out the key nuclear facilities, which are heavily fortified and deep underground or within mountains. However, if the latest sanctions prove ineffective the pressure from the Israelis on Washington to approve military action will intensify. Iran vowed to continue enriching uranium after the UN Security Council imposed its toughest sanctions yet in an effort to halt the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which Tehran claims is intended for civil energy purposes only. President Ahmadinejad has described the UN resolution as “a used handkerchief, which should be thrown in the dustbin”.

Israeli officials refused to comment yesterday on details for a raid on Iran, which the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has refused to rule out. Questioned on the option of a Saudi flight path for Israeli bombers, Aharaon Zeevi Farkash, who headed military intelligence until 2006 and has been involved in war games simulating a strike on Iran, said: “I know that Saudi Arabia is even more afraid than Israel of an Iranian nuclear capacity.”

In 2007 Israel was reported to have used Turkish air space to attack a suspected nuclear reactor being built by Iran’s main regional ally, Syria. Although Turkey publicly protested against the “violation” of its air space, it is thought to have turned a blind eye in what many saw as a dry run for a strike on Iran’s far more substantial — and better-defended — nuclear sites.

Israeli intelligence experts say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are at least as worried as themselves and the West about an Iranian nuclear arsenal.Israel has sent missile-class warships and at least one submarine capable of launching a nuclear warhead through the Suez Canal for deployment in the Red Sea within the past year, as both a warning to Iran and in anticipation of a possible strike. Israeli newspapers reported last year that high-ranking officials, including the former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have met their Saudi Arabian counterparts to discuss the Iranian issue. It was also reported that Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad, met Saudi intelligence officials last year to gain assurances that Riyadh would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets violating Saudi airspace during the bombing run. Both governments have denied the reports.
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"Arrest me, I'm a terrorist"

June 11, 2010

Bethlehem - Ma'an - Responding to US Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) call for the arrest and prosecution of "any US citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla," several American activists "turned themselves in" Thursday - at Sherman's office.




"Arrest me, I'm a terrorist," said one of the activists, several of whom were affiliated with the Free Gaza Movement, Gaza Freedom March, Code Pink, and Freedom Flotilla, when the group arrived at Rep. Sherman's Capitol Hill office to make themselves available for arrest. 



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Posted by codepink at 11:14 am
June 11, 2010
commentsCOMMENT NOW!
“Arrest Me, I am a Terrorist”

Americans who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “terrorists.”

Col. Ann Wright (ret.), a former U.S. diplomat, Gaza Freedom March organizer, and a passenger aboard the recent Freedom Flotilla, stated that: “Nine aid workers were murdered by Israeli commandos, and more than fifty were wounded. I want to look Brad Sherman in the eye and see if he has any sense for the gravity of this situation. If Sherman wants to have us arrested – we’ll be there.”

Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) has publicly called for the arrest and prosecution of “any U.S. citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla” under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Rep. Sherman serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and chairs the subcommittee on terrorism and nonproliferation.

According to Rep. Sherman: “[It's] absolutely illegal for any American to give food, money, school supplies, paper clips, concrete …so I will be asking the Attorney General to prosecute any American involved in what was clearly an effort to give items of value to a terrorist organization.”

Rep. Sherman also stated that he was planning on working with the Department of Homeland Security to make sure all non-U.S. citizens aboard the Flotilla would be permanently barred from entering the U.S. This list includes Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, former UN assistant secretary general Denis Halliday, as well as a number of parliamentarians and government officials from Ireland, Britain, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, and Israel.
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FBI investigate peace activist

By Paul Woodward on June 11, 2010
At a recent protest in San Francisco, Zionists hurled insults at peace activists and also issued threats such as this:
You’re all being identified, every last one of you…we will find out where you live. We’re going to make your lives difficult..we will disrupt your families…
It would appear that there are Zionists in Austin, Texas, who share the same sentiment and have decided to enlist the services of the FBI in order to pursue their political agenda.
What other plausible explanation can there be as to why the FBI came to question the mother of five shown in this video? She is a part-time registered nurse and part-time peace activist whose only form of “suspicious” behavior is that she has participated in protests calling for justice in Palestine.

Aletho News adds:
Israel is (as usual) taking revenge on the Palestinian relatives of activists onboard. Those who seek to non violently oppose Zionist policies of Apartheid violence are having loved ones interrogated by the Shabak. – Link

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Ten Ways Zionists Would Spin BP Disaster

by Allan Dershevitz (not Alan Dershewitz pictured here)



Inspired by the Israeli Foreign Ministry's adroit and deft handling of the Flotilla Massacre, transforming a seeming public relations fiasco into a defining moment of Zionist virtue, bravery, and heroism, I have compiled a ten point plan to help BP spin its way out of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Fiasco.
 

1. The oil rig actually had been commandeered by a radical Islamist group to use as a missile launch site to attack the US, so out of selfless benevolence BP was forced to blow it up. In fact, BP stands for Brave Patriots.

2. Oil is now available freely to all who wish to extract it for themselves from the ocean water. The blowout actually is a great act of charity on the part of BP to the peoples of the US and Mexico. (BP stands for Beloved People.)

3. The New World now boasts its own Black Sea to rival the one between Russia and Turkey. (BP stands for Black Pool.)

4. Turning the sea black is a sign of BP's broader commitment to affirmative action. (BP stands for Black Power.)

5. BP workers were inspecting the rig, but the rig resisted and forced the workers to blow it up. (BP stands for Bold Police.)

6. The disaster has brought a much needed economic revival to impoverished Gulf states. The influx of reporters and cameramen, coast guard personnel, government officials, and lawyers, has been a great boon to the local economy. (BP stands for Break Poverty.)

7. The disaster has removed the media spotlight from other problem areas around the world, increasing American's (false) sense of security. (BP stands for Believers' Paradise.)

8. The disaster was an act of God provoked by America's criticism of Israel regarding its suppression of Palestinian human rights. (BP stands for Bad Palestinians.)

9. The disaster resulted from America's failure to bomb Iran, which lies next to the Persian Gulf and near the Black Sea, so God turned the "Gulf" "black" as a sign of His anger. (BP stands for Bomb Persia.)

10. America's lip-service support of black-hearted Palestinian Islamic terror groups caused the Gulf of Mexico miraculously to turn black as a sign of God's wrath. (BP stands for Bash Palestine.)

Friday, June 11, 2010

Random Babblings Of A Crazed Zionist

Here's a message from a YouTube user I received this morning when checking my mail.  This guy is hilarious, but it's sad at the same time some people actually think like this.

Warning: This does contain some explicit language. 

mjconnollyIII
  
DECEIVED AND BEING DECEIVED, SO IT IS THE LAST DAYS..!
DECEIVED AND BEING DECEIVED, SO IT IS THE LAST DAYS..!
HEY DECEIVED,
WHAT DO I DO YOU ASK? WELL I FEED THE HUNGRY, I PRAY FOR ISRAEL, I AM A ZIONIST BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE PROMISES OF MY FATHER WHO IS "YHWH" FOR ZION, YOU DECEIVED ARE A PART OF ZION AND YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW IT..! THE "QUODOSH" IS WITH ME WHICH IS A BETTER WORD FOR HOLY, SUCH AS "HOLY" SPIRIT, "I AM" SEPERATED FROM THE WORLD, I AM IN ZION EVEN AS I WRITE..! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL IN THE3 LAST DAYS DUDE? YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANBOUT PROPHECY CONCERNING ISRAEL AND YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT ZION IS, YOU ARE DEFF DUMB AND BLIND TO THE REAL ZION NBECAUSE OF HATE, YOUR PERSONAL HATE WELLL I HAVE NEWS FRO YOU BUDDY AND ITS SIMPLE, YOUR HATE FOR ZION WILL DESTROY ONLY YOU AND NOT ZION..!

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE DEAD RAISED TO LIFE BY THE POWER OF THE "QUODOSH SPIRIT", THE HOLY SPIRIT? I HAVE TWICE COMMANDED THE DEAD TO RISE IN THE NAME OF YESHUA / JESUS AND THE DEAD DID RISE, ENTIRE HOSPITALS FROSE AND DOCTORS HAD THEIR MINDS BLOWN, NURSES, TECHS, AND JANITORS ALL KNEW WHAT HAPPEND AND TWO HOSPITALS CAME TO A STAND STILL..!

JESUS / YESHUA IS STILL THE KING OF THJE JEWS BUDDY, RE,MEMBER THAT JESUS WAS SENT TPO THE JEWS FIRST , REMEMBER JESUS SAID TO A SAMARITAN WOMAN, A NON JEW, A GOYUM, "SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS..!" WHERE DOES IT SAY IN THE BIBLE THJAT THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HJAS CHANGED HIS MIND..? YES JESUS DID HAVE A ISSUE WITH JEWISH LEGALISM THEN AND NOW ONLY REMEMBER THAT IT IAS THE LORD WHO HEARDENED THEIR HEARTS, THE LORD HEARDENED THEIR HEARTS SO THAT YOU CAN BE SAVED BUT NOT ALL JEWS HAVE HARDEND HEARTS..! I HAVE ISRAELI JEWISH FRIENDS, FORMER IDF MEMBERS AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS I LOVE THEM MORE THAN I WILL EVER LOVE YOU DUDE.! IN FACT I DOUBT THAT YOU AND I COULD EVER BECOME FRIENDS, YET I AM FRIENDS WITH HARD CORE ISRAELI COMBAT VETS...!

I AM A AMERICAN ZIONIST VET, VIETNAM, BUT I AM CLOSER TO ISRAELI VETS THAN AMERICAN VETS, NOW WHY IS THAT..?

THE SO CALLED PALESTINIANS ALL MUST PERISH AND THEY WILL SOON, READ PSALM 83..! FIRST THEY ALL HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CURSE ISRAEL AND THEY CLAIM ISRAEL AS THEIR OWN LAND AND CALL THE JEWS TRESPASSERS, BUDDY THE LORD IS ALSO A MAJOR KILLER, HE HAS NO PROBLEMS WITH GENOCIDEAND ITS GENOCIDE THAT IS COMING ON THE PALESTINIANS, ALL OF THEM, MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THIS GENOCIDE IS COMING VERY QUICK, VERY, VERY QUICK BUDDY SO YOU HAD BETTER GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOU OWN ASS, WASH OFF YOUR OWN SHIT FROM YOUR FACE AND START ON A CRASH COURSE OF BIBLE STUDY..!

BITCH, YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHO JESUS IS AND YOU ARE CALIMING TO DO HIS WORK, I HKOW A COUPLE HARVARD GRADUATES AND THEY ARE HARVARD GRADUATED IDIOTS, SO WHAT IF THE PEOPLE YOU MENTIONED SEND THEIR KIDS TO HARVARD, WHAT WRONG, DO YOU DESIRE TO BE A HARVARD GRADUATED IDIOT ON TOP OF THE IDIOT THAT YOU ARE NOW..? PEOPLE STUDY VERY HAR5D TO BE IDIOTS, IDIPOTS ONLY GO TO COLLEGE TO GET POLISHED UP, WE HAVE ALL SEEN POLISHED ROCKS HAVE WE NOT BUT ALL THEY ARE IS POLISHED ROCKS...! PUTTING GOLD PAINT OF LABRADOR RETRIEVER DOG SHIT DOES NOT MAKE IT GOLD, GO AHEAD AND STEP IN IT TO PROVE THE FACT, THE ODOR, AHH YES, FTRESH DOG SHIT, DESTROYS THE ILLUSION, YOUR ILLUSION / DELUSION..!

DECEIVED, DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE LORD HIMSELF KNOWS WHO THE GOLD PAINTED DOG SHIT ON THIS PLANET ARE??? HEY IN YOUR BOOK GOD MUST BE A STUPID GOD AND HE NEEDS YOUR HELP TO FIGURE THINGS OUT, GOD REQUIRES YOUR ADVICE DOSN'T HE?

DO YOU KNOW THAT I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK IN HELL ABOUT YOUR OPINION..! OH, I WILL LISTEN TO YOU BUT YOU SEE I AM FREE, THE SON OF GOD HIMSELF HAS SET ME FREE, HE DID IT HIMSELF THROUGH THE WATER AND FIRE BAPTISM, I ONLY BELONG TO JESUS, MY ONLY, ONLY, ONLY FATHER IS "YHWH", YOU FIND OUT USING YOUR COMPUTER WHAT AND WHO YAHWEH IS AND IN YOUR OWN STUDY WHAT YOU WILL LEARN WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD YES..!", AND THE "YES" YOU UTTER FROM YOUR OWN LIPS WILL LAST FOREVER...!

TO DATE MISTER DECEIVED YOU HAVE NO IDEA AS TO WHO JESUS ACTUALLY IS, YOU ARE A OUTSIDER, YOU ARE DECEIVED, YOUR HATE FOR THE JEWS WILL ONLY KILL YOU AND NOT THEM, HITLER ATTEMPTED TO KILL ALL THE JEWS AND GERMANY WAS DESTROYED IN THE PROCESS, IFN FACT ISRAEL EXIST TODAY AS A SOVERIGN NATION BECAUSE OF HITLER AND THE NAZIS, HITLER DID ISRAEL A FAVOR..! YOU BETTER WAKE UP DUDE AND REALISE THAT THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS AND BEFORE HIM YOU TODAY STAND AS A CLOWN...!

YOU BRAG ON YOURSELF BECAUS YOU HAVE A VIDEO UP ON YOU TUBE THAT IS A YAWN, YAWN, BORING PIECE OF SHIT, WHO ACTUALLY CARES, DOES YOUR GOD DAMNED VIDEO CHANGE LIVES DRAMATICLY, DOES IT FEED THE HUNGRY, DOES YOUR VIDEO GIVE SIGHT TO THE BLIND, DOES YOUR PATYHETIC VIDEO MAKE CRIPPLES WALK, DOES YOUR DUNB VIDEO PUT A COAT ON SOMEONE WHO IS FREEZING IN THE WINTER..? DOES YOUR VIDEOSTOP A ABORTION THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN..? DOES YOUR VIDEO HEAL A BROKEN MARRIAGE, OR DOES YOUR VIDEO GIVE HOPE AND JOY TO THE BROKEN HEARTED..! PEOPLE DO DIE FROM BROKEN HEARTS, THEY NEVER DIE FROM BROKEN BRAINS..! HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL YOUR STUPID VIDEO CONVINCE THAT THEY THROUGH THE MESSIAH CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, EVEN MOST CHRISTIANS ACTUALLY DO NOT BELIEVE IT, THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT "LIVE IT"..!

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT BY GOD I DROVE A 1969 VW BEETLE THRPOUGH A MOUNTAIN IN MALIBU CALIFORNIA WITH A GIRL AS A PASSINGER WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME? WELL THE ANSWER IS "NO" YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE ME AND YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE ME, WELL FUCK YOU BUDDY, I DID DRIVE MY VW THROUGH A MOUNTAIN IN MALIBU CALIFORNIA WITH A GIRL BY THE NAME OF KATHY LEITH AS MY PASSENGER, NOT A SCRATCH ON THE MIDNIGHT BLUE PAINT JOB ON THAT CAR...!

DUDE, I COULD WRTE FOR HOURS ABOUT EVERYTHING THE LORD HAS SHOWN ME AND DONE FOR ME BUT YOU WOULD FIND IN BORING AND YOU WOULD REJECT ALL I COLD WRITE AS THE WRITINGS OF A LUNATIC BUT HERE I STATE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOUR MISSING AND IT IS YOU THAT IS THE LUNATIC..!

OPEN THE BIBLE THAT YOU REFUSE TO READ, GO TO 1 JOHN 2:15-17 AND READ THE WORDS IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES, HOPEFULLY YOUR SPIRIT WILL READ THOSE WORDS AND NOT JUST YOUR EYES...!

DUDE DECEIVED, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS NOW BECAUSE YOUR OWN DEATH APPROACHES VERY, VERY, VERY SOON, THEN WHAT, WHERE WILL YOU BE..?
TIME ITSELF WILL END SOON, YOU ARE YET A CREATURE OF TIME, WHAT MORE NEED BE SAID..?

PLEASE WATCH THE BELOW VIDEO FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH DECEIVED..!

6-11- 2010
THE VIPER

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

Dr. James P. Wickstrom
6-9-10
 

It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.  
 
What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf
 
 What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration.
 
  They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max.. Scientists confirming these findings cannot be named due to the above, but what they believe, they want to be known by all.
 
Take a U. S. map, lay it flat and measure inland just the minimum 50 miles of total destruction all around the Gulf of Mexico as to what you will read below.
 
The carnage to the United States is so staggering, it will take your breathe away.
 
Should what the scientists who are trying to warn everyone about be even close to being true... all of Florida will be completely destroyed as will everyone and everything on it.
 
You decide!! Everyone has the right to read what I have just written in this article, as well as to what is written below by the scientists who the Obama administration and BP are trying to shut up.
 
Please share with as many as you can.
 
 --Dr. James P. Wickstrom
 
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/05/learning/oilslickLN/oilslickLN-blogSpan.jpg
 
   SUMMARY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING
 
The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.
 
  The flow of oil and toxic gases is bringing up with it... rocks and sand which causes the flow to create a sandblasting effect on the remaining well head device currently somewhat restricting the flow, as well as the drilled hole itself.
 
  As the well head becomes worn it enlarges the passageway allowing an ever-increasing flow. Even if some device could be placed onto the existing wellhead, it would not be able to shut off the flow, because what remains of the existing wellhead would not be able to contain the pressure.
 
  The well head piping is originally about 2 inches thick. It is now likely to be less than 1 inch thick, and thinning by each passing moment. The oil has now reached the Gulf Stream and is entering the Oceanic current which is at least four times stronger than the current in the Gulf, which will carry it throughout the world within 18 months.
 
   The oil along with the gasses, including benzene and many other toxins, is deleting the oxygen in the water. This is killing all life in the ocean. Along with the oil along the shores, there will be many dead fish, etc. that will have to be gathered and disposed of.
 
  SUMMARY OF EXPECTATIONS
 
 At some point the drilled hole in the earth will enlarge itself beneath the wellhead to weaken the area the wellhead rests upon. The intense pressure will then push the wellhead off the hole allowing a direct unrestricted flow of oil, etc.
 
  The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.
 
  This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was. The temperature at that depth is near 400 degrees, possibly more.
 
  The water will be vaporized and turned into steam, creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor. It is difficult to know how much water will go down to the core and therefore, its not possible to fully calculate the rise of the floor.
 
   The tsunami wave this will create will be anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole.
 
    Depending on the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland, will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years.
 
(End of scientists information release.) From Tom Buyea FL News Service
 
 
Comment
Joseph Fasciani 
6-9-10
 
 
Jeff - As I wrote in the PS and Comment to another article, HS physics tells us that a liquid cannot be compressed. Period.
Perhaps this statement you posted, http://www.rense.com/general91/oilor.htm, will help the wake-up call.
 
As he points out:
 
The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.
 
If HS sheeple had elementary physics, chemistry, biology, botany, and zoology BEFORE leaving HS, the MSM could not hood wink so many so often.  -Joseph
 
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The Racial Supremacist State of Israel

Bill Gates Confronted on Eugenics by We Are Change

Honolulu Chief Elections Clerk Says Obama Not Born in Hawaii

Tim Adams was the Chief Elections Clerk for the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii, during the 2008 presidential election. As Chief Elections Clerk, he supervised a staff of 50 and had access to all the database to verify documents like birth certificates and birth places of campaign candidates.
On June 5, 2010, Adams was interviewed by James Edwards of the Political Cesspool radio show. Adams says unequivocally:
“Barack Obama was NOT born in Hawaii.”
,,
Adams is currently teaching in the graduate program of Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, (270) 745-0111. He’s listed, as Timothy Adams, in WKU’s faculty-staff directory, HERE. Timothy Adams is also listed as a Graduate Assistant of the English Department, HERE:
Timothy Adams
CH 20
(270) 745-5767
A big h/t to American Grand Jury & AGJ’s source, The Betrayal.
~Eowyn

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

My Disappointment With Mainstream Churches

by Katherine
(for henrymakow.com)



And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

-Revelations 18:4



I'm a woman, in my early fifties/unmarried and live in New Mexico.
I have never been against churches; just indifferent.  I never felt they were important, at all. But, I now understand that these places are not the way to go because they do all things the exact opposite of what God desires. 

I was awakened with a Spiritual 2X4 in July of 2005, shortly after the brutal torture/murder of Terry Schiavo, and it was none too gentle.  I was aware of incredible evil all around us, but now realized things were much worse than I had ever imagined.

God allowed me to see the entire conspiracy at once; and it was confirmed within 24 hours through research. After much research, I felt I had learned as much as I cared to. I wanted to learn from God and from Him only. I wanted Him to teach me how to maneuver through all of this lunacy.

A few days after I first realized and believed God manifested Himself as a Man, Lord Jesus Christ, people were telling me I had to go find a church. Though I was just as indifferent to churches as it gets, (not hostile), I realized the only reason I really wanted to find a church was to testify to them as to what's really going on with this world and today's church; false wars, false worship etc. etc.  My longing was for all of us to realize this:  it is futile to look to and depend on mankind for anything what-so-ever. Look to God for all of your spiritual teaching.  By the way, we can't even blink an eye without God.

The first church I chose was a Baptist church. At the time, through watching news and listening to those around me, I realized Terri's ordeal didn't register much at all with many Christians locally and nation-wide. I wanted to understand why there was this incredible deficit of understanding and compassion?  I wanted to give them information on what really happened to Terri.

When this particular pastor and I first met, this is what he said to me: "if you have any problems at all, don't come to me. I'm not that kind of pastor." I was not shocked but I was still amazed.

I decided to listen to one of his sermons. He sure sounded good and moved on the stage well. He taught his congregation typical false teachings; pre-trib rapture, going to war in God's Name, etc., etc. and they clung to every word.

Later on, I dropped off Scripture refuting everything he taught to "his" sheep. One of his Bible teachers accepted the verses; the pastor wasn't in.

A few days later, I received a phone call from the pastor. He told me that "if I ever set foot on his property, ("his" church), he would call the police and have me arrested.  That I was going against his doctrine."

These experiences with the 1st church were just a small beginning.

I came across a couple walking down an interstate each pushing a mountain bike with a large 'basket on wheels' filled with possessions. On the back of the second basket was a huge cardboard sigh that read Hope in Jesus. I u-turned for two reasons.

#1 These two people were obviously stranded.

#2 I was curious because of their sign.

I found out after speaking with them that their van's motor had burned out. They were in their mid-sixties, had eight bucks to their name and the wife was ill. They were walking to Ca. I wanted to assist them and I decided to do this exactly as the early Christians in the Book of Acts would have done.

I would go into town to visit various churches and tell each the entire story of this couple not leaving out a detail. I would then ask for donations to give to this couple. I also decided not to tell this couple what I'd be doing but that I would definitely be back to see them. I suggested to them, that in the meantime, they might write on their sign, 'COULD USE A RIDE'. They told me they would do that. I gave to them what I had in my wallet.  I was not working at the time. The only reason I mention this is not because I want to be thought of as "wow" isn't she great! But only to illustrate that I put into practice what I've learned from God. I really cringe to think I'd ever resort to bragging. Matthew 6:3-4.

Here the results of searching for God's Called out people:

The first church, quite a large church, donated out of petty cash. I was happy that they did donate!

At the second church, the secretary asked me if I was a member of their church. I told I was not. She refused my request without consulting with the pastor. I asked her if she would please call the pastor. She stated that he was unavailable. I asked her if she would please donate to help this couple. She refused. She then asked me: "what if you return to these people and they're not there? I simply told her : I'll bring back your money to you. She refused for the final time. I told her as I was leaving that it was people like her and her church that cause many to run away from God. And did she ever hear of or read the Book of Acts?

At the third church, the pastor donated out of his own pocket. Again, I was happy that there was a donation.

At the fourth church, I was told the pastor had gone for a jog. I waited outside. While waiting, I related the story to several coming from and going into the church. One lady was very leery, but did give me two bucks.

As I shook hands with the woman, the pastor came jogging in. There were several people milling about as I approached the pastor. I was grateful that some had pitched in and was excited as I related to this pastor the story of the couple. I told him I was going to various churches to get help from them. I also related to him of the disheartening attitude of some in the church. He listened and then beckoned with his index finger to come inside. I followed him. My excitement only rose as I thought that some still listened to and obeyed God. I believed I was going to get further help for this couple. WRONG! As soon as he got me inside, he started screaming at me. He went on and on, in a derogatory manner, of how so many people off the streets, like me came to him begging for money. "Do you think I'm going to take money from my charities and give them to you?" He ranted on and on.  The more he did, the worse he got. I must say, though I knew through my learning of how it is with today's church, I was still shocked and could not speak for his screaming. He then threatened to call the police. After the third time of threatening to call the police, I told him to go right ahead. We stood looking at each other and he started to usher me to the door. When I got outside, I finally found something substantial to say. I turned around, looked him in the eyes and told him that he had anti-christ spirit in him and he didn't even know it. He didn't say a word. I didn't find this experience enjoyable but I knew that what was shown to me must be confirmed.

A little after 5p I started back to find this couple. It would soon be getting dark. I scoured every nook and cranny along the interstate but couldn't find them. I stopped off at a truck stop that they might have visited. I asked about them and was told that they were there and that they had asked about me. I kept on for 70 miles until I came to the next town. I stopped in at several churches and shelters to see if they were there. I looked around for about an hour. They must have found a ride because I never met up with this couple. The next day, I returned the $35.00 to the donors.

Revelation 17:5
  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

On denominations: How can we be of 'one mind' and 'one accord' with thousands of denominations all "teaching" their "own brand of doctrine" which has nothing at all to do with God and Heaven.

When one points out the following: BE OF ONE MIND AND ACCORD; Philippians 2:2-5, 1Corinthians 12:25-26, the teachers/preachers/etc. will tell you that it applies to someone else's "church".

Lord Jesus Christ, Himself Desires to Teach you: John 5:39-40

How to arrive at nothing but TRUTH: seek only Him 24/07.

If one understands the Day of Visitation, one will understand you don't have to die and then "go to Heaven"; Heaven is here, now and upon us. God is pouring His Spirit upon ALL FLESH. It's up to each individual to listen and learn; while here on earth. It's that simple! Joel 2:28 Act 2:17

As unbelievable as it sounds, Heaven is here, now, upon us if we loose our own "widom" and traditions.

EYEWITNESSES: ISRAEL ATTACKED ALL THE SHIPS VIOLENTLY

By Rev. Ted Pike with Christina Elford
9 June 10

Survivors of Israel’s attack on the "Free Gaza" flotilla are now sharing their accounts of the atrocities that took place in international waters. The eyewitness testimony of passengers from all five ships plainly contradicts Israel’s claim that its commandos merely acted in self-defense ("In their own words: Survivor testimonies from flotilla 31 May 2010").

What Really Happened?

- Free Mediterranean : "Commandos were already using teargas and firing live ammunition as they hit the deck,” says Michalis Grigoropoulos, a peace activist from Greece. “We did not resist at all, we couldn't even if we had wanted to... Then they used electroshock weapons on some activists."

- Challenger I : Fiachra O Luain, from Ireland, "I saw what they did. I was on the bow of the Challenger I and there was live gunfire straight away from below and from the helicopters. One of the men was shot in the head. Another man was shot with a bullet right between his eyes at point blank range."

American Huwaida Arraf says, "They started beating people. My head was smashed against the ground and they stepped on my head. They later cuffed me and put a bag over my head. They did that to everybody."

Shane Dillon of Ireland describes the commandos using "stun guns, tasers, assaulting people with the butt ends of rifles, pushing people to the ground and standing on them."

Alex Harrison, UK activist: "We saw the helicopter come down and we heard the beginnings of the opening of live fire. I didn't fully take in that they were using live fire… but it began to sink in that… they were using live fire."

Dr. Fintan Lane , from Ireland: "When they boarded our boat, we resisted entirely peacefully. I sat on the floor and tried to reason with them, but the Israeli commandos physically attacked us. Fiachra O Luain was dragged around the ground and I had a gun pointed in my face by a screaming commando. His mania was so intense that I genuinely feared for my life."

- Sfendoni: American Structural Engineer Gene St. Onge says, "I was kicked in the head… The captain was being pulled and hit. He sustained rather serious injuries… He had a punctured ear drum, a neck injury, and a back injury… I was thrown on the deck a couple times… a Libyan Arab living in Europe was hit with a butt end of a rifle in his right eye. He fell to the deck. He was writhing in pain, trying to get away, but he was continually being kicked. When I saw that, I tried to get to him. I was screaming, 'Leave him alone!' I kept getting pushed back. Finally I tried to cover him. At that point I was hit with a rifle or something. I was bleeding. And I was restrained with handcuffs."

- Sophia : Henning Mankell of Sweden recalls, “They were very aggressive... There was an older man in the crew, he was perhaps a little slow and they shot him in the arm with an electric gun which is very, very painful."

- Mavi Marmara: German parliamentarian Annette Groth described the experience as being "like war... They had guns, tasers, some type of teargas and other weaponry, compared to two-and-a-half wooden sticks we had between us."

On this ship, nine activists were shot to death.

Brazilian filmmaker Iara Lee says, "We expected them to shoot people in the legs, to shoot in the air, just to scare people, but they were direct.... It was unimaginable."

Sarah Colborne of the UK says, "The Israeli forces handcuffed members of the activist's medical team who were sent to help treat the injured. It was terrifying… If you talked they pointed a gun at you."

Hanin Zoabi, minister Israeli Knesset, says, "The Israeli navy fired on the ships five minutes before commandos descended from ropes that dangled from helicopters."

Jamal El-Shayyal, a journalist from Al Jazeera relates, "as this attack started I was on the top deck and within just a few minutes there were live shots being fired from above the ship where the helicopters were. The first shots that were fired were some sort of sound grenades. There was some teargas that was fired as well as rubber-coated steel bullets…. The live bullets came roughly about five minutes after that… There was definitely fire from the air because one of the people who was killed was clearly shot from above… the bullet targeted him at the top of his head. There was also fire coming from the sea as well. Most of the fire initially from the sea was teargas canisters and sound grenades. But then it became live fire. There is no doubt from what I saw that live ammunition was fired before any Israeli soldier was on deck."

Brutality Continues

Hanin Zoabi and Sarah Colborne attempted to get medical help for the wounded but were ignored and forced to retreat. The wounded eventually bled to death.

The passengers of the "Free Gaza" flotilla say the violence and brutality did not end when the ships were seized. Upon arrest, all passengers were stripped of their personal belongings, including cell phones, laptops, and cameras. They were denied access to restroom facilities and some were beaten and brutalized.

American Huwaida Arraf tells of her experience in custody, "They forced me into a police van, literally, by pulling me up by my hair and my hands and feet and beating me in order to get me into the van. They drove me out of the port, stopped the car at some point-I'm not sure where because I was a little bit disoriented after being punched in the face and jaw, and then they just opened the door and threw me out of the van."

In light of the survivors' first-hand accounts, Israel's claim of "provoked" violence and "self-defense" is clearly a charade. Henning Mankell, the Swedish passenger on the Sophia, says plainly, "I think the Israeli military went out to commit murder.... If they had wanted to stop us they could have attacked our rudder or propeller, instead they preferred to send masked commando soldiers to attack us. This was Israel's choice to do this."

Israel jammed all telecommunications from flotilla members before and after the raid, bullying itself into the only position to explain its point of view—for the better part of a week. But it is increasingly clear that all the vessels were boarded violently. Survivors report live gunfire from Israeli gunboats and helicopters before boarding. Even though most passengers did not resist, Israel's commandos were violently abusive to peace activists on all the vessels. Such rough treatment occurred, according to some survivors, practically up until they exited the country. Janet Coburn, an American Jewish retired math teacher, says, "We occasionally saw passengers beaten by the Israelis before they were put on the planes."

Dr. Fintan Lane reiterates, "Ken O'Keefe… suffered a severe beating at the hands of security officials at Tel Aviv airport before boarding, and his injuries were so bad that he had to be hospitalized in Tel Aviv."

Israel uses video taken of resistance to their commandos on the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, to assert that the flotilla activists provoked violence. But it takes no imagination to believe the resistors, having heard and seen Israel violently subdue the other ships in the convoy, were intent on preventing it from doing the same. The Turkish activists were determined to avoid more violence on their larger ship with many passengers—a much more difficult ship for Israel to subdue. They obviously planned and took defensive action with such weapons as they could muster—sticks, rods, kitchen knives, etc. —even grabbing pistols from Israelis and shooting back.

It's significant that during the first week of this controversy, the world press, including Christian media, was choked with statements giving only Israel's point of view. Now that the survivors are able to speak, the largely Jewish and pro-Israel Christian big media, especially in America, seem unwilling to give them a forum-as if the world is not interested in their testimony.

The whole truth is now clear. Israel's attack was violent, cruel, and vindictive to nearly 700 idealists from 20 countries intent on a mission that was peaceful, humanitarian, and high-minded. Most activists responded passively, but were brutally treated nonetheless. Others, knowing full-well what was coming, responded in self-defense. Would you have reacted passively—or as the defenders of the Mavi Marmara?

Anyone with any moral conviction, courage, and loyalty to the safety of his fellow ship-mates is entitled to have done as those defenders. As far as I am concerned, the nine slain Turks are heroes.

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Are the defenders of ‘Antisemitism’ losing their edge ?

By Debbie Menon

Mis-use of anti semitism - Carlos Latuff


A year ago, Americans were reluctant to discuss Zionism or anti-Zionism or read the stuff, even “moderate  Arabs and Muslims” (whatever that means) , shied away from the communities around these two camps and lacked the strength to support the few that might have had, the guts to stand up and confront real controversy.

There are hundreds of journalists who would not want to go within twenty miles of an anti-Zionist for fear of being castigated as questionable and “controversial characters” because this was how most of the rest of the Industry responds to them (the Messenger) against what had become a very successful adhominem attack intended to destroy their effectiveness by attacking their credibility.  He is an… (fill in the blanks with any epithet you wish to choose from the (Anti Defamation League ) ADL’s List Of Epithets Recommended For Use In Order To Destroy The Credibility of Critics.

Therefore, one could rarely ever quote or identify an anti-Zionist, eg: Israel Shamir, but simply crib from his message, the truth and logic of his arguments, and present them as a weapon in defense of the truth.

On the other hand, American-Israeli academicians and historians have spent a lifetime knowingly or unknowingly academically helping the Zionists. Now in the past one year there seems to be a growing awareness in the U.S. and the world and ADL (Anti Defamation League) have started crying Wolf  LOUD… “anti-semitism” as they call it has been on the rise.  It is obviously NOT anti-Semitism, even though they have always called it that and, for decades it has successfully stilled a lot of legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies.  I think the world is becoming aware that this is not Anti-Semitism, anti-racism, or any of the bigotry terms which ADL, The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and the other “defenders,” including their legal staffs who bring suit, and political arm-twisters who force legislation throughout the world have been calling it, and we are just hearing more reasonable and legitimate criticism of a system which ought to be criticised and discussed more openly in public, in the public interest.

And, I believe we are seeing and hearing more of it because more of the public are realizing this daily.

And, I also believe that the “defenders.” are screaming like stuck pigs and those “defenders”  are using the only tools they know how, which have worked so well for so many years, but which are rapidly losing their edge from overuse, mis-use and abuse, the misapplied and false charges of slanderous bigotry and anti-semitism.

The Zionists are so powerful, they will use all means at their disposal to stem this groundswell .  But, they are now, standing on a slippery slope and it is hurting them to feel that they are losing their footing. We can expect to hear a lot more screaming, smoke, loud noises and even some blood, bombs and gunfire from them before they allow themselves to be swept from the pinnacle of Mount Zion.  I agree with some of the Jewish doomsayers that when it happens it is going to be a very bad day for Jews, and many of the innocent few, are going to suffer in the backlash against the criminal many who have perpetrated this outrage against the rest of the world for so long. But, they tolerated it and permitted it, in their name for so long, the same as have Americans tolerated and permitted America’s criminal history for the past decades in the name of their ideals of Freedom and Democracy.

As for all those little deceptive news websites and channels mushrooming out of London pedaling anti-Muslim propaganda, like the Financial Crisis tsunami, it is merely a matter of time before the chickens are all headed home to roost, and before they are all back in the henhouse, and scrambling for what little room there is on the roosts for so many of them.

Foxman, the ‘national’(?) director, who has led the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) since 1987, told an audience at the City Club of Cleveland in April 2009,  he sees lack of outrage over anti-Semitism – “Violence in the Middle East along with worldwide economic distress have combined to produce the biggest explosion of anti-Semitism globally that we have witnessed since World War II,” he said. He wants to know where the outrage is over this bigotry against Jews.

“I don’t hear it,” he said.

Abraham Foxman is right.  There is indeed a rise in anti-Semitism.

The problem is world-wide, and it’s becoming more problematic every day.

He doesn’t hear it?

Perhaps ‘the World’ does not agree with him that we are seeing “the biggest explosion of anti=semitism globally that we have witnessed since WWII.”

Or, perhaps they do not agree with what he calls anti-Semitism.

Or, perhaps they are all anti-Semitic!

Or, could it be, heaven forbid, that they consider whatever he sees as an “anti-Semitic” reaction justified by Israeli behaviour? Most Israelis are not Semites, anyway and that includes Foxman.

Foxman, a Holocaust survivor recognized for his leadership combating bigotry, said the absence of outrage echoes a question he has about the Holocaust.

“Why was the world silent? The world knew what was happening. To know that they [world leaders] knew, is a very haunting fact. Wherever people stood up to say ‘no,’ people lived,” he said.

Ironically the same applies to the fate of the Palestinians today. Mr. Foxman?

“Hamas wants to exterminate Israel, Foxman said, and no country in the world but Israel is challenged over its legitimacy and right to exist.”

I doubt that, which State in the Middle East has nuclear weapons ? and I just offhand cannot think of any other country whose existence is illegal and unjustified, and against all International law.

Foxman said: Any violence in the Middle East is normally accompanied by a rise in anti-Semitism, “this time it was an outburst of anti-Semitism that none of us thought was out there.”

Perhaps the darling, self-hating jew, Norman Finkelstein, should send him his recent book titled: “This Time we went too far” And perhaps Foxman could tell the world how far is too far and when will it end?

“Fuelling the emotions was the economic crisis that stirred a separate strain of hatred, he said. A scapegoat was needed, and “very quickly it was the Jews,” Foxman observed.  “You wonder about the anti-Semitic snickers and comments about Jews and money…”

Just look at the titans of Wall Street (all Jews) AIG (Mr. Alan Greenberg), Bernie Madoff, The junk Bond King Michael Milkin, Ivan Boesky.  Israel Shamir correctly advocates:  Hang ‘Em High! “They were proud that the financial charts of the US and of the world were drawn up in a small room by Henry Paulson of the Treasury, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve, by Maurice Greenberg of AIG.  They built their world surrounded by Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman sachs, Marc Rich, Michael Milken, Andrew Fastow, George Soros, et al.  Their exciting new world of Lexus and Nexus was glorified by Tom Friedman of the New York Times.  They gave the Nobel prize in Economics to Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton, proud borad of directors of the now infamous Long Term Capital Management hedge fund that was bailed out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the tune of $ 3.6 billion. President Bush rewarded them for their unaccountability by releasing them from the burden of taxation. let them pay now for all the fun they had.”

And, what about Israel spying on U.S. (Jonathan Pollard), Or a Jewish Congresswoman Jane Harman trying to interfere with the prosecution of two individuals caught by the U.S. spying. Or the Israeli law that permits any Jew a safe haven in Israel for any crime and cannot be deported.  With every passing day, the revelation of the true nature of Israel’s Zionist expansionist ambitions, their barbaric and treacherous foreign policy toward not only Palestine and Lebanon, but the rest of the world, which includes identity theft of foreigners and counterfeiting of foreign passports, violations of and outrages against, other friendly and allied nations’ sovereignty and murder by the hand of their clandestine agents  in other sovereign countries, in broad daylight, have begun to shake up and weaken the foundations of the monolithic monument to  “Jewish Suffering and Sacrifice”, which they have erected to rally popular world support for and sympathy with their insidious depredations against all gentiles.

And what was done when Israel assaulted the unarmed US Navy ship,  USS Liberty killing 34  American sailors, and injuring 172 out of the 277 onboard ?  Israel said it was a mistake and Israel apologized,  just like Israel bombs the UN outpost in Lebanon and Israel said it was a mistake.

The U.S. (taxpayer) pours billions into Israel every year as the result of a very well organized effort by Israeli-Americans to control their foreign policy. Israeli interests control their media, such as, their film industry, their print industry, retail outlets, scrap, munitions. Even an Israeli company owns TAS the security operation at American airports.

These pre-emptive Wars for Israel, that are being fought in the Middle East with American money, American military and American men and women are not in the best interest of America. They have if anything, weakened America’s standing and ruined America’s image in the world, which now President Obama is supposedly trying to ‘Change’ if he can!

Foxman further states it’s vital that the International Community make the distinction between Judaism and Zionism in public.

Since the Zionist do not, it is difficult to do so in the same room as them. They assure you that all of the peoples in the barrel are the same, and then criticize you for calling all of the apples in the barrel bad if you point out that there is one bad one amongst them in the bushel.

Foxman says it’s more important than ever that the underlying causes of anti-Semitism be addressed?

It is even more important that the powers of this minority group in the U.S. be addressed, and restrained, in currying special favor and legislation to further “Israel First” interests.

Here’s an ADL study that found 35 million Americans to be ‘blatantly anti-Semitic’ and diatribes decrying the activities of The Palestine Solidarity Movement and others on campuses as “hate crimes” and anti-Semitic, also a “hate crime,” yet they make no mention of the ADL involvement in the campus assaults that have destroyed the career of Prof. Norman Finkelstein, and Prof. William Robinson and many other professors, and shutting down free and open discourse in American University lecture rooms, and reading lists.

Read  Americans Divided By Hate Crimes Bill by  Karin Friedemann

“The meat of the hate crimes bill is a $10 million grant for the establishment of  a federally funded surveillance center” says Karin.

Guess who will receive all of this money, and be placed in charge…

You got it!  Who is in charge of everything else in America?

Selective Law, for selective enforcement, against or for selective groups is not a solution.  It becomes the problem.  Such a Law is, on the surface, unconstitutional.  Will the Supreme court ever find this in some ruling?   We should live so long!

In the name of Freedom of Speech, they are shutting down all freedom of speech, except speech of which they approve. And, they are using U.S. Taxpayer money with which to do it!

It is incredible that the one thing that Democrats and Republicans can unite on in Congress is, blind allegiance to the Israel Lobby AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee).

Or, actually not that incredible, because they demonstrate exactly what anyone who speaks out against Israeli policy toward Palestinians has faced for years.  Jews who support the peace camp are described as “self-hating Jews” and non-Jews are told that they are “anti semites.”


It is not really “anti-Semitism anyway,” of which they speak when they use the term as an epithet to counter criticism of all things Jewish, Israeli, Zionist or Judaic.  It is “anti-Semitism” when they themselves criticize Palestinians and Arab Muslims of the Middle East who are more Semitic than most of the “Jews” living in the world, and particularly those who have migrated to Israel from the Diaspora, who are not Semites at all but primarily Ashkenazi from Eastern Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus Region and many people of many other ethnic origins.

In fact, if we wished to identify the greatest “anti-Semites” in the world we would have to recognize those so-called “Jews” who use such derogatory and demeaning racist epithets against people who criticize almost anything having to do with Israel, Zionism and Judaism but who condemn almost everything about Palestinians, and Middle Eastern Arabs and Muslims, who are about the only remaining people of Semitic origins in the world.

The use of the term “Anti-Semitism” is just another example of how language has been twisted and distorted to wring the most effective and psychological and emotionally damaging impact from it, as in the case of their misuse of the word “Holocaust.”

Dr. Yakov M. Rabkinis Professor of History at the University of Montreal said—“To fight antisemitism, it is crucial to dissociate Jews and Judaism from the State of Israel and its behaviour. Our parliamentarians should affirm the right of all Canadians to criticize Israel like any other country in the world, without the fear of being labelled antisemitic. This would be a sure way to rid Canada of the scourge of antisemitism, new and old”

His recent book, A Threat from within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism (Fernwood), has been translated to eight languages and nominated for the Governor General Award.

It is all a juggling act with words.  Most of it illusion!  Literary, or vocal sleight of hand!

Yes, World gullibility has strangled Palestine, as well as the rest of the world, also. But, as I have been saying, this is NOT just about Palestine.

Palestine is simply a preamble. But, it is a preamble in which we can clearly see the pattern and tactic which are being deployed for and in pursuit of a program of World domination of a World Empirical force through infiltration of governments and ownership of Media..

Territory is prime Israeli objective in the Middle East. They have never drawn, claimed or defined an actual “boundary” or border for Israel.  In fact, they deny even the “between the two great rivers.” scheme proposed in their scriptures as their “plan.”

But, as I have said before, that when Israel exceeded even the bloodihandedness of the Nazi regime in their treatment of the Palestinians, they lost the moral high-ground forever, and all chances of making a peaceful settlement of any nature with the Palestinian people.

They are no longer negotiating, or dealing with a “Palestine Government” or government body of any sort.  

They have successfully destroyed that as an entity by reducing Fatah to a quisling puppet token, and failure to acknowledge Hamas, which they have denied for so long that it would be impossible to do so now.  There is no one else left with whom to “negotiate” or deal anymore except the Palestinian people, and every Palestinian, whether he was before Gaza or not, is now a “Resistance warrior” and “Freedom Fighter.”

There can be no peace talks anymore!  They have gone past the point where it is even a viable point for discussion.

Yes, Israel has self-destructed, and all we have to do now is wait until it buries itself in time, as the world will insist.

I like the metaphor about building houses of cards on sand, which is exactly what Elie Wiesel and his rolly “Holocausters” have done in complete disregard of the basic principles of propaganda set forth by their master propagandist, Herr Goebbles, from whom they learned their trade, that all lies postulated in propaganda must be based on at least one grain of undeniable and unequivocal truth.

Houses of lies built of such insubstantial material not only lack the framework to hold them up for long, but are completely transparent for everyone to see the lack of structure, and witness all the conniving, canoodling, and such which goes on within, and might best be cadivelled and kept behind closed doors.  Once Dorothy drew aside the veil of the Wizard, his magical powers ceased to exist.

Thus it is with those who, like Elie Wiesel, build their houses of cards on sand, their dress of wholecloth.  All the pretence and bluster they may profess will not hold the structure very long.

The most gentle eastern breeze out of Palestine will eventually come and blow it all away, scattering the cards, and lifting the skirts of the Emperor’s transparent dress, disclosing the absurdities he has thought secret all these years.

Fortunately, they are bungling, and it is obvious to even the most dense at the table that they were dealing from a crooked deck.

How many times must world leaders watch them fumble the cards before they learn that they cheat and cannot be trusted?

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