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Wake Up From Your Slumber, Here and Now

This is a joint TiU-TFC (Nov.9) audio, a very good listen

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Israel is not a tolerant society: US State Department

Israel drastically fails to meet all requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a US State Department report issued on Saturday.

The report, written by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, indicates that Israel is discriminating against Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians, women, Bedouins, and even Reform Jews, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday.

Israel does not treat ethnic groups on equal terms and also does not show any respect toward certain holy sites and other historic sites, the document added.

It went on to say that although a 1967 Israeli law calls for the protection of all holy sites in Jerusalem Al-Quds, the Israeli government does not show due respect toward non-Jewish sites and does not even officially recognize non-Jewish sites as holy places.

In addition, as Israel is neglecting several Muslim and Christian holy sites, they are subject to exploitation by Israeli authorities and real estate entrepreneurs, the report noted.

Seeking HELP for a Bethlehem University Christian Student

On Wednesday, 28 October 2009, we learned that Ms. Berlanty Azzam, a Bethlehem University student studying business administration and translation, was arrested by the Israeli military.

On Thursday, 29 October 2009, we spoke with Berlanty via mobile phone and learned that on Wednesday night at 11:00pm the Israeli military loaded her into a military jeep - blindfolded and handcuffed - and moved her from Bethlehem to Gaza - against her will.

Since August 2005, Berlanty, a 21 year old Christian woman, has been a student at Bethlehem University. "Since 2005, I refrained from visiting my family in Gaza for fear that I would not be permitted to return to my studies in the West Bank," said Berlanty. "Now, just two months before graduation, I was arrested and taken to Gaza in the middle of the night, with no way to finish my degree." Berlantyis scheduled to complete her bachelor degree in December 2009.

Why was she removed from Bethlehem (in the West Bank and not in Israel) and taken to Gaza? Just because her address in the Israeli-controlled Population Registry is listed in the Gaza Strip- but she lives in Bethlehem and has done so since the year 2005.

We need your help. Berlanty needs your help. What can you do to help?

RIGHT NOW, please send an email to:

Ø The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Avigdor Liberman): sar@mfa.gov.il This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Ø The Israeli Minister of Religious Affairs (Mr. Yaakov Margi): yakovm@dat.gov.il This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Ø Your elected representatives in your home country.
Let them know that you demand that the Israeli military immediately return Berlanty Azzam to Bethlehem so that she can resume and complete her last few weeks of studies to complete her bachelors degree at the Vatican-sponsored Bethlehem University.
Visit our website (www.bethlehem.edu) and Gisha (www.gisha.org) for more updates.

May God Bless You!

West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel

Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The King's Torah" that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.

Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs.

"It is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation," he wrote, adding: "If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments - because we care about the commandments - there is nothing wrong with the murder."

Several prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Yithak Ginzburg and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, have recommended the book to their students and followers.

Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein says firm is doing 'God's work'

Right:  Would this innocent face lie?

Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS), has put an unusual spin on the bank's activities. He says his firm is doing "God's work." This may seem like an audacious statement coming from a man whose company has been harshly criticized for planning to give many of its employees multi-million pay packages just a bit more than a year after the collapse of the credit markets. 

Blankfein told The Times of London, "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. We have a social purpose." That is, of course, a social purpose that comes at a very steep price; it charges huge fees for raising money and handling M&A transactions, even if they eventually fail.

American Passport Holders Found With Illegal Arms, Photgraphing Sensitive Buildings

Note - Holders of American passports can also be dual citizens of, for example, Israel.

ISLAMABAD – Four American citizens were caught red-handed by Capital Police in the early hours of Tuesday for photographing sensitive buildings. All four were dressed in traditional Afghan outfits and were found to be in possession of illegal weapons and explosives.

According to details, police personnel deployed here at Nawaz Chowk, sector F-8, intercepted two suspicious vehicles in the early hours of Tuesday. During the search, police recovered weapons from their custody. The riders of these vehicles were found to be American citizens. They were all dressed as Afghans.

The number plates on both vehicles (IDM 2030 & LG 501) were found to be fake. The police personnel called for backup when the Americans refused to allow them to search the car. High Ranking Capital Police officials reached the site within minutes and had the vehicles searched, recovering 2 M-16A1 rifles, 2 handguns and 2 hand-grenades.

The police held the American citizens in custody for an hour before the Interior Ministry interefered and had them released without charge even as preliminary investigation was being carried out.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/28-Oct-2009/Nabbed-with-illegal-arms-again

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/islamabad-americans-dressed-as-afghans-caught-with-illegal-weapons-and-explosives/

Ayn Rand on Israel

 

Arabs: Savages that resent the civilized Israelis.  So sayeth the guru, Ayn Rand.

When Ayn Rand spoke at the Ford Hall Forum she frequently got asked about Israel – whose supporters are anything if not vociferous – during the question and answer periods, which were open to any question. 

Her reply would go along the following lines: I support Israel; though Israel is a socialist country, [2]  in that region of the world Israel is the vanguard of civilization.

In other words, the gray of Israel is white compared to the surrounding near-black of Arabia. There is something to be said for that kind of argument, but of course it fails when the gray gets dark enough. 

Did Ayn Rand know how dark Israel really was? The year she wrote her essay, 1975, was long before Israeli torture came to light in the 1993 New York Times exposé, over 20 years after her death. 1975 was long before Israel’s massacre of Beirut in 1982, the year of her death. [3] 

Ayn Rand believed that Israel was America’s ally. Did she know how treacherous Israel really was? 1975 was long before the exposure of the Pollard Affair in 1985, three years after her death. Not to mention the USS Liberty attack (though it occurred in 1967 it was not made public until 1980), and many other acts by Israel against America. [4] And long before the publication of such exposés as Victor Ostrovsky’s By Way of Deception (1990) and Ari Ben-Menashe’s Profits of War (1992).

It is far more probable that Ayn Rand was ignorant of Israel’s brutality and deceit than that she thought Israel’s brutality and deceit were comparatively unimportant.

Still, she must be held partly responsible for her ignorance. With some effort even in 1975 one could break through the cloud of propaganda thrown out by Israel and its worshippers. Her mistake was surrounding herself with people like Leonard Peikoff, and – very likely – relying on their research, or lack of it. [5]

Even if Israel were truly civilized and our ally, it would not justify forcing American citizens to pay for Israel’s support. Ayn Rand did not have John Galt say:

“I swear – by my life and my love of it – that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine ... uh ... except in the case of Israel.”

Israel is no exception, and one would like to think Ayn Rand did not make it one. She was mistaken about the nature of Israel and sincerely believed that helping the Israeli government was in our interest. A mistake preserved in amber which ARI’s (Ayn Rand Institute) supporters bring forth at every opportunity. [6] 

Source:  Ayn Rand Institute Watch

Palestinians take down parts of nazi_jew wall

Palestinian youths have tipped over a part of Israel's separation wall in the occupied West Bank during a demonstration which marked the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Some 300 Palestinians and left-wing activists attended the demonstration in the village of Naalin, Ynet reported on Friday.

They held banners reading "No matter how tall, all walls fall."

According to the demonstrators, a 6-meter (20-foot) high section of the wall was taken down.

"Twenty years ago, no one imagined that the monstrosity that divided Berlin would ever be taken down, but it took only two days to do it," said Muhib Hawaja, a protester attending the rally.

Israeli police however dispersed the crowd by firing tear gas and rubber bullets. Some of the demonstrators were wounded, according to the report.

Israel began the construction of the barrier in 2000 despite the fact that the International Court of Justice had declared the project illegal.

It confiscated thousands of acres of Palestinian lands for constructing 723 km (454 miles) of a barrier of steel and concrete walls, fences and barbed wire.

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The Ayn Rand Cult on the Issue of Palestine and Israel

The Palestinian Victims?
Monday, April 22, 2002
By: Robert Tracinski
From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

When a whole society lionizes terrorists and accepts them as its leaders--what right do they have to complain when their wish for blood and death is granted?

As Israel pulls out of the West Bank--a foolish move that will only allow Palestinian terrorists to regroup--the media is being flooded with piteous tales about Palestinian victims, who, we are told, are innocent civilians.

But a glance at the stories coming out of the West Bank gives us a flavor for this "innocence."

The bulk of the current news stories are coming from Jenin, a major center of Palestinian terrorism where Israeli troops encountered the fiercest resistance. A typical story is from Khadra Samara, who is quoted in at least three separate newspaper accounts. She complains that her family was forced to flee when the Israelis bulldozed her home. Her instant response: "I was so furious, I felt like committing a suicide bombing against the Israelis." more at this link

The Moral Case for Supporting Israel
by Yaron Brook

Since its founding in 1948 Israel has been under siege--courageously fending off hostile neighbors while defending itself against Arab terrorists. In a Mideast dominated by Arab monarchies, theocracies and dictatorships--Israel is a free country standing as the lone bastion of Western civilization in that region. Yet for decades Israel has faced growing international pressure--often led by the United States--to compromise with its enemies, and act against its self-interest. In this talk, Dr. Brook argues that the United States should unequivocally support Israel's effort at self-defense; that allowing Israel to rid itself of terrorist and foreign military threats is in America's best interests. Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do. source

Funny thing, supporting a religious state (Namely Israel. Palestine is not a religious state) does not fit in with Rand's view on religion:

PLAYBOY: "Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life?"

RAND: "Qua religion, no—in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason."

["Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand," Playboy, March 1964. ]

Americans Go On Food Stamp Diet

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Study: Half of All US Children Will Get Food Stamps

A new study has concluded that nearly half of all US children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood. Researchers say the fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher. The lead author of the study, Mark Rank, said, “This is a real danger sign that we as a society need to do a lot more to protect children.” Children on food stamps are at risk for malnutrition and other ills linked with poverty. In 2008, over 28 million Americans received food stamps in an average month. About half of the recipients were under the age of sixteen.

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The violent mutiny at Fort Hood spun into a fiction story by Zionists, Pentagon & MSM liars to promote Islamophobia & Neo-Communist/Fascist agenda

When I heard of the news about Fort Hood, my reaction was shock and disbelief that fatalistic violence occurred on a U.S. military base. And for what motive? Why would a Jordanian-descent man with an Arabic-sounding name be fingered as a guilty-before-proven innocent spree shooter suspect, who happens to be a psychiatrist?

Inevitably, Mainstream Media jumped into this tragedy with subtle gun control propaganda (total disarmament by revocation of constitutional rights) in full throttle.

For an alternative view of the tragedy, the post (at the bottom) has been salvaged for posterity before chance of memory-hole. That hypothesis may make sense because of the "redacted and quietly suppressed reports" there were the shooters numbered between 3 or 5 with the arsenal of assault weapons to destroy and maim the victims, which is not possible with (as reported by lying Mainstream Media) just a handful of semiautomatic pistols that require rotation of full magazine clips in rapid succession to annihilate as many targets as possible in just a few minutes of stunning shock of a sudden attack that transpired in panic, terror and chaos.

I know this from a minimal experience handling and target-shooting variety of pistols at the target range. Dropping the empty magazine clip to replenish with another full clip (8 to 12 combat bullets per clip) slammed in to fire with working precision (not jamming) takes a lot of practice to execute competently. It may not be possible to achieve with rigid determination in the midst of stress and chaos of violence. It takes steel-cold determination to commit an act of violence and mayhem that cause mortal wound and critical injury like this.

The cruel bullying of conscientious objectors who refuse to deploy by ultra-nationalist fanatics caused the mutinous few to rebel by striking at the core of the American imperialist machine with the furious counterstrike of violence. This is the act of fatalistic desperation by exerting psychological force to turn on the bullies. Whatever happened to the real perpetrators is hereto not known, whether they are captured or dead.

The cover-up has been convened with an official story to blame a psychiatrist, of Arabic descent, who just cleaned his apartment to be readied for deployment without indication of behavioral problems that could lead to outburst of violence. They found the suspected 'patsy' -- alive. Not dead as initially reported. And on a golf course, 'violently' detained by MP and SWAT teams. 2.5 miles away from where the carnage occurred. The 'patsy' is wounded but in stable condition as reported, under military guard.

As far as the truth is concerned, whether it happened or not as described above, the truth has disappeared into the mist surrounded by lies and cover-up facilitated by the powers-that-be leading to Texas law enforcement agencies and Fort Hood officials under the thumb of the Pentagon in coordination with the compliant local and national media. The above hypothesis is what I suppose happened, even though it's difficult to discern with a degree of plausibility because of conflicting and contradictory reports, but I do not know if it's accurate. Just a wild guess. Mainstream media pundits and producers, law enforcement, Fort Hood Army officers, U.S. Government officials, and others complicit in the cover-up are lying through the teeth to pin the blame on a lone suspect, with predictable hysterical attack on Islamic culture & religion like Fox News Channel and right-wing neoconservative blogosphere do nowadays to influence public opinion to behave with extreme prejudice against Islamic practitioners in America and overseas.

This reeks of a cover-up with the mainstream media going wild, gleefully reporting on the horrific carnage with the pretension of an authoritatively moralistic view while simultaneously calling for national disarmament in eventual modification or repeal of the Second Amendment and state constitutional provision on citizen firearm and defense rights.

It began with psychological violence and bullying of conscientious objectors (who vehemently resisted deployment to Afghanistan on account of a wrong, protracted, misguided war that have no effect on favorable outcome but continuous occupation and destruction of Afghan civilian lives to ostensibly control the access to Eurasian/Caspian Sea oil) in the Army in Texas that devolved to a violent mutiny when psychological pain became overpowering to the perpetrators who lashed out because there is no way out other than dishonor to self as unwilling pawn and death.

The mainstream media have no interest to even consider this hypothesis. It is a crazy and implausible "conspiracy theory" that deserves scorn and dismissal in their neo-Fascist view. The public have been deliberately misled and willingly deceived by the compliant mainstream media that is more than happy to play ball with the "insiders" who know what really happened but would rather cover up humiliation than admit the facts outright pointing to mutiny.

Case in point: Similar massacres led to national banishment of firearms in the U.K. and Australia in the mid-90's, within months of each other. Cui bono?

Case in point again: The assassination (murder beyond reasonable doubt) of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and exaggerated claims about Jessica Lynch's ordeal as a rape victim-hostage in Iraq. Corrupt media, effectively called the Fourth Estate, played ball with the Pentagon in boldly lying and covering up the truth for maximum propaganda effect.

My take on Zionists' mammoth plan "Fortress Americas" hypothesis following de facto repeal of Second Amendment rights, dissolution of the U.S. Constitution, and established foothold of tyrannical power that destroys the remnants of liberty, property, personal freedom, and peace.

Mouser 11/06/2009

"In Washington, a senior U.S. official said authorities at Fort Hood initially thought one of the victims who had been shot and killed was the shooter. The mistake resulted in a delay of several hours in identifying Hasan as the alleged assailant."

The truth is probably something VERY different. For example:

'Two US privates John Smith and John Henry had been seeing a military psychiatrist major Hasan at Fort hood for a few weeks. Both privates said they were completely against the war of oppression in the middle east and would refuse to report for active duty if ordered to do so.

So the army put them both in therapy with Dr. Hasan. After more than five weeks of therapy both Christian privates were called to go to Afghanistan. Both privates warned they would not go and they would defend themselves with force if the army tried to force them to fight in a war they believed was morally wrong.

Yesterday fellow soldiers tried to surprise the two conscientious objectors but the privates were prepared and killed 12 soldiers who tried to force their way into the privates' barracks at Fort Hood.

During the melee their psychiatrist major Hasan, tried to talk the two privates into surrendering but he was shot twice.

Finally both privates were overcome and killed. Their psychiatrist major Hasan is in hospital recovering.

Officials of the military have spun the story to make it seem the privates' doctor (who has a muslim sounding name) was the perpetrator so that the public does not understand just how much resistance there is to the middle east war in the military rank and file.

The whole official Fort Hood cover story is 98% a lie - just like 9/11. Do you trust the main stream media for the truth in a story like this? Heck, for any story?

I do not.

Support the troops. End the war in the middle east and bring the troops home.

Now.

I.A.E.A. FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AT QOM, SO IT’S BACK TO ‘IRAN SUPPLIES WEAPONS TO HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH’ TO KICK OFF NEW WAR

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday that there’s nothing to worry about at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom. The news will not please the Zionist warmongers in Israel and their neocon fellow travellers in the US who insist that Iran has a ‘nuclear weapons program’ which, according to the Israelis, they want to use to ‘wipe Israel (and most of Palestine) of the map’.[1]

The Israeli Zionists and their neocon supporters in the US have been using the ‘Iran has a nuclear weapons program’ and the Iran wants to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ nonsense for some years now in the hope that they can drum up enough support from world-wide public opinion to justify attacking Iran in order to bring about a regime change there. But each time they beat their war drums and build it up to a crescendo where there could well have been an attack against Iran, along comes ElBaradei to rain on their parade by saying that there’s still no evidence of any Iranian ‘nuclear weapons program’. And each time that has happened, a pattern has emerged whereby Israel attempt to find some other casus belli to get at Iran via either Hezbollah in south Lebanon or Hamas in the Gaza Strip or both.

On several occasions during these past few years Israel has attacked both the Gaza Strip and south Lebanon on some Israeli-manipulated pretext or another in order to try and drag Iran into these wars thus providing an excuse to attack Iran directly with the help of the US. So far the Israelis have failed miserably.

But now it seems the Israelis might be up for another try at stirring up a war via Hamas or Hezbollah in the light of ElBaradei’s latest pronouncements about his findings at Qom.

Israel now claims that Hamas have secretly tested a new missile, supplied to them by Iran of course, with a range of around sixty miles which means Tel Aviv could be targeted. As a result, an article in ‘Ha’aretz’ today claims that Israel is preparing Israel for another assault against the people of the Gaza. On top of that, Israel has also claimed that a ship it stopped and hijacked on the high seas was delivering arms supplied by Iran destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon providing the possibility of another excuse to attack the people of Lebanon in the hope of escalating such a war to draw in Iran and the US.

Just as 114 states at the UN endorse the Goldstone report on Israeli warcrimes committed in the Gaza, the stage seems to be set for yet another act of murder and mayhem designed to get the US to attack Iran. The Israeli sense of timing is always immaculate.

ENDNOTE

[1] Israel has never explained how Iran intended to use its nuclear weapon against such a tiny nation as Israel without doing untold harm to the entire region including Irans allies; the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the people of south Lebanon. Nor has Israel ever explained how Iran hoped to avoid a retaliatory nuclear strike by either Israel or the US.

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I've been following that ship story very closely for the past 36 hours. I'm convinced it's a fraud, another ruse to sway the mouthbreathers and distract from Goldstone. What's real interesting is the Magically Mushrooming Cargo which started out as one container and has expanded to enough supplies for the Death Star. What's real funny is the missiles intended for Hezbollah are painted with "I. R. Iranian." --In English.

Hezbollah slams Ban's report as 'unjust'
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Are We Supposed to be Jealous of Wall Street's Easy Access to Swine Flu Shots?

Apparently the new "got to have it" item is a swine flu shot.  After all, those fat cats on Wall Street don't have to wait in line for theirs.  I wonder who thought this angle up to sell people on flu shots.  Satchi and Satchi?

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