War And Peace

Terrorism Is In Eye Of Beholder

July 31, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Global power is shifting away from the US and European empires. So both are howling with rage over the thought of anyone besides themselves having nuclear bombs. Also, revolutions and riots break out all over the place as bombs go off as 'terrorists' struggle with various empires. And all empires hate terrorism at home and LOVE it when they are doing it to unarmed or poorly armed peasants and natives. Colonization is good if European or Americans are colonizing Palestine or Ireland but no good if the Chinese move to Africa or if Africans seek to come to the US or European empires! And torture and nuclear armaments are all over the news as we look exactly like the Soviet Union.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader May Be in Afghanistan

The leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, according to group leaders and Iraqi intelligence officials, a possible further sign of what Iraqi and U.S. officials call growing disarray and weakness in the organization.

U.S. officials say there are indications that al-Qaeda is diverting new recruits from going to Iraq, where its fighters have suffered dramatic setbacks, to going to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they appear to be making gains.

Despite fighting civilians and various tribal people and peasants over the last 200 years, the US still doesn't get it. All insurgencies operate under on principal: strike and run. When the empire puts on too much pressure, move onwards to a new local and repeat. Huge empires can end up on wild goose chases across the centuries. These can be cheap or expensive chases. It is all up to the people at the center of the empire to decide if this is a golden opportunity for corruption or if it is something serious.

Chasing insurgents in circles across the globe is, for the present US military/industrial complex, a fun and lucrative game. Vast fortunes are being assembled as the military does everything in its power to make this chase after barely armed civilians as expensive as humanly possible. This is why tremendously expensive bomber jets and spy planes that cost many billions of dollars are being used to fire missiles or drop bombs that are hideously expensive on tents occupied by women and children or bombing a lunar landscape or terrorizing whole cities and alienating the populace.

Absolutely no one from the President of the Empire of the USA down to the lowliest soldier is cost cutting. No one is counting up the costs of this expensive exercise in imperial powers. No one is trying to see if it might be a waste of time and money, bombing civilians from the air. The entire concept of the 'war on terror' has really been a front in the much more important and real war: the seizure of maximum finances from the US empire itself. This is why these wars are lost. Like clockwork. At no time do we ever win a war against a recalcitrant people. The illusion of victory lures the US population into supporting these endless, hideously expensive enterprises that gain us exactly nothing.

For our expensive empire's expansion simply means we must spend more and more. Since everything under the sun in the Pentagon has been 'privatized' this means these wars are all about profits, not any sane evaluation of the value or cost of various enterprises. The thing being sold to the American people is, if we only can run down and kill off or buy off all terrorists, we will be safe. The lunacy of this proposition is obvious: this month, we have seen a very strong up-tick in global terrorist bombings.

From China to Russia, from India to Sri Lanka, in Africa, in the Middle East, in Pakistan, in all the countries we are seeking to control via military force, we see a rise in 'terrorism'. This week, England announced that the true terrorists are not Muslims but Catholic Irish! HAHAHA. Back to one's roots. Always, this was the real terror for the Crown. Ireland and Scotland as well as Wales were early targets of Royal imperial interests. So, 1,000 years later, it continues. This durability shows us that military force cannot stop 'terrorism'. Imperial policies, on the other hand, cause this terrorism.

After all, why are Catholic Irish angry with British Crown colonialism? That is a very long story. For example, my own clan was given a hunk of Ireland by Queen Anne. We gave it up during the Troubles beginning with the mid-19th century. Hanging onto these estates proved to be too expensive. So one retreats. All over this planet, the ruling elites of Britain, France and Spain claimed giant hunks of the earth for themselves and over the centuries, outraged natives fought back, sometimes passively but also sometimes quite explosively. The only time this stops is if the empire gives up. Right now, England insists on occupying a huge hunk of Ireland. Thus, the terror and Troubles continues.

Palestinians: IDF troops wound 9 at boy's funeral in West Bank

Israel Defense Forces troops wounded nine Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 11-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said.

They said the troops had shot the casualties with rubber bullets while fighting stone-throwing protesters. A 18-year-old Palestinian was hit in the head by a rubber bullet and doctors described him as brain dead.

An initial Border Police investigation has found that Ahmed Moussa , 11, who was killed at a West Bank protest on Tuesday, died from a live round fired by one of the security force's troops.

Ahmed Moussa died during a confrontation with Israeli security forces on Tuesday in the West Bank village of Na'alin. Villagers have been protesting for months against Israel's separation fence.

The latest ugly reports from the latest European attempts at conquering natives, appropriating their lands and destroying them as a people. Like the Crown of Britain, the wealthy Jewish supporters of invading Palestine are extremely ruthless and brutal. They hope that they can live in 'peace' while oppressing a huge number of people. They hope that the natives will 'forget' the past and not bring it up in the future. After 1,000 years, the Irish or the Palestinians will finally figure out that alien invaders have a right to occupy and control their homelands. Then they go away, somewhere far away. Like, colonize Australia or North America. Or maybe, Africa?

Indeed, in the British press this month, there is outright hysteria about nearly a million Chinese moving to Africa. In France, Spain and Italy as well as England, there is fury about several million Africans seeking to come to Europe! Oh my! An invasion! Stop it! HAHAHA. The fears about Africans coming to Europe is pure racism. Millions and millions of Europeans invaded the entire planet and ruthlessly annihilated, enslaved or suppressed the rest of humanity including China itself. In 1800, China didn't colonize England, just for example. Now that the people who were enslaved, colonized and oppressed are now reversing the flow. They are moving into the former or present empires that rule the earth.

Imagine if a million Iraqi refugees, caused by the US/UK colonial invasion, were to move to England and the US? So far, less than 10,000 have been allowed into the heart of the global empire! We will not let in more than a tiny trickle.

Olmert not confident of peace deal this year

(CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not believe a peace accord with the Palestinians can be reached by the end of the year, according to a senior Israeli official. Speaking to parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Olmert said Monday that Jerusalem's status was the main hurdle in the way of reaching such an agreement, according to the official, who attended the committee meeting.

Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed a joint statement in November at a U.S. summit for Middle East peace, pledging to work toward securing a peace agreement by the end of this year. The Bush administration has repeatedly said it believes a peace deal can be achieved by the end of President Bush's final term in office.

Olmert is resigning because he is corrupt. He is corrupt in exactly the same way our own empire is corrupt. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska of 'Bridge to Nowhere' fame, is finally being hauled into court because his corruption was finally totally obvious. The people of Alaska are fearful the flow of easy IOU Federal money will slow down. Accustomed to getting a free ride, they worry that fiscal restrictions will be placed on them. No longer able to tap into the endless wealth of endless debt at the heart of the empire, they will not have huge financial gains from Steven's corruption.

Israel is corrupt because they, too, have tapped into the endless IOU supply system in Washington, DC. The Jewish lobbies have so utterly infected everyone there with corruption, from top to bottom, they now have gained the ability to redirect public funding from the US citizens to their pet country, Israel. As the red ink mounts, these powerful, rich lobbyists can't talk about cutting spending at all. For then the topic of cutting the #1 recipient of US funding, Israel, comes up. So money is spent on the politicians to NOT talk about balancing the budget.

Every time, by the way, they do talk this way, enraged voters besiege them to cut off Israel. So mum is the word these days. Israel assassinates its leaders if they negotiate too much. Israel's domestic politics is very chaotic so they alway can fall back on the excuse, they have no leaders and therefore, can't negotiate anything. This will not win in the end. The Palestinians know they are in a battle to the death just like the Irish knew this. Starvation, privation, denial of property rights, savage military suppression and yet, a thousand years later, the Irish battle onwards and so will the Palestinians.

Like with the Irish who used to fight each other before the British Crown invaded, this suppression and supplanting of natives is driving them together into a much stronger political entity. Despite the present split of Hamas versus PLO, Hamas will win in the end due to the fact that the PLO is a paid entity of the US empire. And quite unpopular because of this. The 'peace' the US seeks in Palestine is identical to the 'peace' England wants with the Irish: for them to shut up, go away and let the occupation become legitimate and eternal. A hopeless desire.

Ahmadinejad Condemns World Powers for Atomic Arsenals

(Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized the world's most powerful countries for expanding their atomic arsenals while attempting to stop the progress of other nations toward ``peaceful nuclear energy.''

``The expansion of nuclear arms by oppressing powers is continuing and other nations' peaceful nuclear activities are being condemned by these very countries through accusations that they are being aimed at constructing nuclear weapons,'' Ahmadinejad said in a speech aired live on state television.

England is upgrading its nuclear arsenal. They cling to this arsenal so they can imagine they are an empire and global power capable of menacing China or Brazil. Oops. China has nukes! Well, at least they can menace Brazil. This is very, very expensive. The British economy is on the ropes and going down, fast. Yet the imperial rulers there insist on keeping up the fiction of global domination no matter what. Who is menacing Britain?

THE IRISH! They don't have nukes! Britain thinks the Irish are the greater danger. Yet, money is spent on nuclear bombs. I'm absolutely certain that if Queen Anne had nuclear bombs, she would have dropped them on Dublin back in 1740. And King George III would have done the same to Boston, absolutely. The world's biggest empires insist on clinging to nuclear bombs and feel no compunction about threatening others with these weapons.

Nonaligned countries back Iran's nuclear program

(AP) — More than 100 nonaligned nations backed Iran's right to peaceful uses of nuclear power on Wednesday, an endorsement sought by Tehran in its standoff with the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

The decision came as supreme Iranian leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei pledged to continue the country's nuclear program.

Senior Iranian officials depicted the support from a high-level conference of the Nonaligned Movement as deflating claims by the U.S. and its allies that most of the international community wanted Iran to stop enrichment.

115 nations to be exact. And this is nearly half of the planet earth. Not one of them have nuclear bombs. The two that do have these bombs, Pakistan and India, both show the utility of such weapons. The US constantly demands the right to bomb natives and peasants in Pakistan. And Pakistan says 'No.' End of story. If they had no nukes, the US and UK would not hesitate for even one minute to bomb, bomb, bomb Pakistan! This is why I say, if the major imperial powers refuse to disarm, everyone should have at least one nuclear bomb. That would stop a lot of border wars, incidentally. Look at Pakistan and India: no longer a problem with each other or with China! They now negotiate everything.

The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly - even preemptively - with conventional and nuclear weapons.

The strike plan was known as Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 8022 and first entered into effect in the summer of 2004 to provide the president with a prompt, global strike capability against time-urgent and mobile targets.

CONPLAN 8022 was the first attempt to operationalize the “Global Strike” mission assigned to U.S. Strategic Command in January 2003. The mission was triggered by new White House guidance following the terrorist attacks in September 2001 and fear of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Lack of leadership and definition has since placed Global Strike in limbo, with little progress and prompt effects instead being incorporated into other existing strike plans. “Global Strike” is now described as a much broader mission synonymous with the “New Triad” first articulated by the Bush administration’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review.

Periodically, the military in the US empire plot WWIII. Then, someone sane comes along and looks in horror at the script and rips it up. When Bush unilaterally said, we have the right to make preemptive nuclear strikes on not only China and Russia but anyone, the world gasped. Since that day, the Russians and Chinese have cheerfully told all their neighbors, this is the new global war policy and they have set up systems to accommodate the US in this matter. The loud warnings that if the US even thinks about attacking two of some of its biggest lending banker nations, Europe and Japan will vanish in a nuclear firestorm has started big pushes by our allies to kill this program.

So it was killed to the relief of Europe and Japan. But this doesn't make headline news in the US nor is there any sane analysis about this matter in the major media which is up and down the line, totally war mongering and pro-violence.

(CNN) -- The White House on Monday predicted a record deficit of $490 billion for the 2009 budget year, a senior government official told CNN.

The deficit would amount to roughly 3.5 percent of the nation's $14 trillion economy.

The official pointed to a faltering economy and the bipartisan $170 billion stimulus package that passed earlier this year for the record deficit.

I include this as a perfect example of how the media lies by omission. The US deficit grew massively because we have the most expensive military on earth and they are spending an absolute fortune on chasing civilians and bombing civilians. And the supplementary funds for this cost far more than the stupid 'stimulus' package which was not even a tax cut but rather, a deferral of paying taxes. But rare is the article that mentions our bloated and misdirected military spending when talking about our deficits! And never, ever is Israel mentioned. Let's look at one of a million examples of this waste and wild spending:

U.S. Says Contractor Made Little Progress on Iraq Projects

The U.S. government paid a California contractor $142 million to build prisons, fire stations and police facilities in Iraq that it never built or finished, according to audits by a watchdog office.

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) said Parsons of Pasadena, Calif., received the money, part of a total of $333 million but only completed about one-third of the projects, which also included courthouses and border control stations. The inspector general's office is expected to release two detailed audits today, evaluating Parsons's work on the contract, which is worth up to $900 million.

"Far less was accomplished under this contract than originally planned," the inspector general wrote. "Millions of dollars in waste are likely associated with incomplete, terminated and abandoned projects under this contract." Auditors did not give a dollar figure of how much had potentially been wasted, but they said Parsons got about 10 percent -- or $11.3 million -- of the $108 million of award fees it could have received.
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But now the prison -- known as Kahn Bani Sa'ad Correctional Facility -- sits unfinished and dilapidated. Local residents have derisively nicknamed it "the whale." At one of the buildings, the second floor is without a roof. Gray cement walls jut up in the sky. There is no plumbing or electricity. Windows have not been put in, and walls are unpainted. Roads in the complex remain unpaved.

A report came out this week that none of our bridges are being fixed! Another story was, Bush and his gang want to privatize the entire Eisenhower Freeway system and turn it into all toll roads owned by the Chinese and the Arab oil lords! We are going broke, our nation is falling apart and we are lining the pockets of a million leeches who want to be Daddy Warbucks.

Parson's Military Installations and Ranges

Since the company's founding in 1944, Parsons has expanded its professional and contractual relationships with Department of Defense (DoD) clients. Personnel with secret and top secret security clearances are skilled in developing one-of-a-kind, first-of-a-kind solutions for classified programs.

Parsons has participated in virtually every missile defense system, including the National Missile Defense, Space Defense Initiative, MX-Peacekeeper/MX, Minuteman, Safeguard, Sentinel, and Nike.

We are the leading contractor for ordnance site studies and clearance, currently conducting projects dealing with explosive ordnance throughout the U.S. and abroad. Parsons has developed innovative approaches to digital data collection and integrated geophysics, global positioning systems, and geographic information systems to cost-effectively analyze ordnance contaminated sites, conduct risk assessment, and detail areas for cleanup for anticipated land use.

Parsons has significant experience in military operations and all of the technical disciplines that support range sustainability. Our engineering, environmental, and planning staffs bring unique skills and experience together in an integrated approach.
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We are committed to maintaining a safe and healthy construction-site environment. The objective of our conscientious, well-trained employees is to conduct operations effectively and efficiently through a system designed to prevent workplace accidents, injuries, and illness. We achieve this objective through a combination of concerned management and responsible and knowledgeable supervision.

Parsons extensive experience with heavy rigging, land and water transportation, and computerized material control management all add up to cost-effective solutions for projects of all sizes and complexity.

Note how this corrupt, venal corporation that lines many pockets in DC boasts about being 'cost effective'! HAHAHA. Arrest them all. And confiscate their profits. Use this to balance the budget. If we do this to all the entities feeding off of the corrupt Pentagon, we will not only see the budget deficit reduced to zero, we might even afford to fix our own nation instead! Gads! Why aren't either of our Presidential candidates suggesting this?

Indeed. Anyone talking this way gets no media attention or is attacked mercilessly.

China Imports Workers to Build Embassy in U.S., Sparking Anger

(Bloomberg) -- To the touchy, tense relationship between global superpowers, add this gritty irritant: As Washington's unemployment rate rose, China brought over hundreds of laborers to build its U.S. embassy.

China has been using an aging motel in Washington for three years to house the army of workers who built the $250 million granite and glass embassy, which at 345,500 square feet is one of the city's largest. Now, with the embassy scheduled to open tomorrow, some labor officials and lawmakers are being less than diplomatic in their criticism.

``This is outrageous,'' says Mark Levinson, chief economist at Unite Here!, a union representing 450,000 industrial, textile and hotel employees nationwide. ``When the U.S. is in a recession and Chinese imports are flooding into the U.S., the Chinese should be using American workers.''

This is too childish, by the way. The Chinese trusted us in the past and for example, when they ordered Boeing jets for the President of China, they found the CIA had wired in a host of spy equipment systems! When Russia insisted on building our embassy during the Cold War, they also riddled it with spy stuff! And so on. The Chinese cannot let us build them anything. Or we will riddle it with spy stuff. End of story. About spying, I NEVER had as much trouble with my telephone service as when the Chinese leaders lived with me. Gads. I was lucky anything worked right. Periodically, I would scold the State Department about this. The Chinese always went out to make important phone calls, of course. On top of this, the Chinese secret police spied on their own people. It got rather messy at one point. I had to eject one of the Chinese officers because he annoyed me too much.

The Military-Industrial Complex
by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt

Several inferences can be drawn from Shorrock's shocking expos?. One is that if a foreign espionage service wanted to penetrate American military and governmental secrets, its easiest path would not be to gain access to any official U.S. agencies, but simply to get its agents jobs at any of the large intelligence-oriented private companies on which the government has become remarkably dependent. These include Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), with headquarters in San Diego, California, which typically pays its 42,000 employees higher salaries than if they worked at similar jobs in the government; Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation's oldest intelligence and clandestine-operations contractors, which, until January 2007, was the employer of Mike McConnell, the current director of national intelligence and the first private contractor to be named to lead the entire intelligence community; and CACI International, which, under two contracts for "information technology services," ended up supplying some two dozen interrogators to the Army at Iraq's already infamous Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. According to Major General Anthony Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib torture and abuse scandal, four of CACI's interrogators were "either directly or indirectly responsible" for torturing prisoners. (Shorrock, p. 281)

HAHAHA. Quite. Note that both Russia and China are not this stupid. And a stupid empire doesn't last long, does it? There is corruption in both Russia and China but if this corruption extends to foreigners taking over the system like we have here, people are executed. Here, the media lies about this level of alien corruption and attacks anyone who dares to mention that the US is being corrupted by aliens. The business of CACI torturing people is interesting. Private KGBs litter our nation.

Statement Regarding Baseless CCR Lawsuit 5/7/08

CACI will not try this baseless lawsuit in the press. We reject emphatically this latest plaintiff's allegations and claims. After nearly four years, plaintiffs' counsel, Susan Burke, Shereef Akeel and the Center for Constitutional Rights, are perpetuating baseless allegations against CACI as part of their "big lie" propaganda campaign. From day one, CACI has rejected these prepostorous allegations and intends to vigorously defend itself and vindicate the company's good name.

While Ms. Burke's and Mr. Akeel's politically driven agenda and specious accusations always create a few news headlines, court cases are based on facts and the facts are on our side.

After numerous and thorough government investigations, no CACI employee or former employee has been charged with any misconduct in connection with CACI's interrogation work in Iraq. CACI has unequivocally renounced the abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison and has cooperated fully in all government inquiries of this matter. CACI does not condone or tolerate illegal or inappropriate behavior by any employee when engaged in CACI business.

Contrary to the image foisted upon the public by Susan Burke and Shereef Akeel, CACI provided qualified, dedicated professionals who were called to serve in highly stressful and very dangerous conditions and received good performance reviews for the work they did. We invite people to read the newly released book – Our Good Name – which documents public statements, government reports, and sworn testimony before Congress and the courts, and provides a factual account of CACI's role at Abu Ghraib prison. The book, Our Good Name, cites reputable sources in the public record. We did not do what Ms. Burke and some in the press did – cite anonymous sources, quote those with a political agenda against the war, or make outrageous allegations without facts.

The book – Our Good Name – is the definitive account of what our company went through during the Abu Ghraib controversy and sets the record straight concerning the interrogation work we were asked to perform in Iraq.

Yes, they hire only experts from the Vatican. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition except for the Opus Dei members of the Supreme Court.

Documents Released by the CIA and Justice Department in Response to the ACLU's Torture FOIA

Memo Dated January 28, 2003, from CIA to OLC
Contains "communications from the CIA to OLC on a matter in which the CIA requested legal advice from OLC" and shows that CIA interrogators were permitted to use both "Standard Techniques" and "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" and that in each CIA interrogation session in which an Enhanced Technique was employed, a "contemporaneous record" was created setting forth, among other things, "the nature and duration of each such technique employed" and "the identities of those present."

Memo Dated August 4, 2004, from CIA to OLC
Contains "communications from the CIA to OLC on a matter in which the CIA requested legal advice from OLC" and shows that CIA interrogators were told that the Justice Department had concluded that certain interrogation techniques, "including the waterboard," did not violate the torture statute. The document also indicates that CIA interrogators were told to take into account the possibility that their actions would ultimately be subject to judicial review.

Memo Dated August 1, 2002, from OLC to CIA
Memo "advising the CIA regarding interrogation methods it may use against al Qaeda members," and includes information "regarding potential interrogation methods and the context in which their use was contemplated." The document also discusses "alternative interrogation methods," a phrase that was echoed by President Bush in a September 2006 speech promoting the Military Commissions Act. Though heavily redacted, the document shows that the Justice Department authorized alternative interrogation methods after concluding that "those carrying out these procedures would not have the specific intent to inflict severe physical pain or suffering" or "to cause severe mental pain or suffering." The memo explains: "Prolonged mental harm is substantial mental harm of sustained duration, e.g. harm lasting months or even years after the acts were inflicted upon the prisoner." The memo also includes this sentence: "Your review of the literature uncovered no empirical data on the use of these procedures, with the exception [redacted]." The memo is signed by Jay Bybee, who also signed the "organ failure" memo issued to the CIA the same day, and who is now a federal appellate judge.

Years ago, I once had an extended debate with a Russian woman about the KGB. She denied they tortured people. I, personally, knew victims of this torture! So as I brought forward one case after another of torture AFTER 1980 [She did admit Stalin tortured people] she simply denied it all. So it is here: the entire planet knows we torture Muslims as well as tasering, beating and intimidating Americans. 'Interesting question', as Kerry said when a student was then tortured for asking these questions about the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati. HAHAHA. There is no Illuminate! And if you ask, you get tasered right in front of one of them.

But then, Kerry is also a Skull and Bonesman and thus, approves of torture. They do this to each other, after all, in between praying to Geronimo's skull for total power over all humanity.

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Tear Down That US Deficit Wall Of Red Ink!

July 26, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

War and money are intertwined like two snakes on a staff. The US government is still the free-wheeling, free spending entity today that it was yesterday, last year and since WWII. The US public is literally pushed hard to support this warmongering by the media. And the Pentagon conspires with the media to lie about wars, lie about war spending and to not cover important war-related news. The true battlefields are not visible to the average US voter. Just look at the curious case of Obama and his talk about 'walls' in Berlin: the US is stuck on Cold War imagery yet is one of the major wall builders on earth.

US Congressional Panel Hears Testimony on Case for Bush Impeachment

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate, introduced formal impeachment resolutions in the House of Representatives, listing numerous actions by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and appeared as a witness at Friday's hearing:

"The decision before us is whether Congress will endorse with its silence the methods used to take us into the Iraq war. The decision before us is whether to demand accountability for one of the gravest injustices imaginable. The decision before us is whether Congress will stand up to tell future presidents that America has seen the last of these injustices, not the first," he said.

Since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has drawn sharp criticism from within her party for refusing to endorse formal impeachment proceedings against the president.

Although Kucinich presented his resolutions on the House floor, each was turned back to the House Judiciary Committee.

This is making virtually no news here in the US. Only 450 international news outlets are carrying the story of Kucinich's long haul towards trying to impeach Bush and Cheney for lying us into a war that is destroying our nation. In other words, since 90% of the news outlets carrying this story are either foreign or 'fringe' US media, the US public isn't very engaged in this business even though a simple majority would like to see Bush and Cheney sent to prison. Public support cannot exist in a vacuum. The isolation and suppression of this story would be complete if we had no internet to break the embargo.

Here is the only Daily Kos article from on the 24th, about the hearings:

Finally, there was the tactic eventually employed to greater effect by Kucinich, taking advantage of the rules permitting any Member of the House to bring a resolution directly proposing impeachment to the floor at any time as a highly privileged motion, and forcing the Speaker to designate a time within two days after the motion is noticed for its consideration. That gave Kucinich the ability to threaten, after his Cheney resolutions were ignored by the Judiciary Committee, to follow up his first Bush resolution with a second one if the Committee didn't act within 30 days. In theory, he could have threatened an even shorter timeline for the second one, or indeed to bring one every single day until he got what he was looking for. But with that being clear to everyone, granting the hearing (but refusing to call it an impeachment hearing) must certainly have seemed the simplest solution. Especially if you can schedule them for a Friday when there are no votes in the House, so that fewer people will want to stick around to participate or follow along.

When historians write the obituary for the US, this story will be a top example as to the futility of democracy in a corrupted imperial system. Across the board, the US has been unable to cope with the concept of empire. We saw the GOP deliberately destroy the concept of impeachment with the goofy attempt on Clinton over the most trivial of issues. The system of stopping imperialist powers such as the Independent Prosecutor concept was utterly destroyed and both parties terminated this weak check on imperial powers.

When the Democrats swept into power in the House and Senate, although by a very slim margin, the Democratic leadership wanted the people to suffer as much as possible so dissatisfaction with the Republican faction's rule would heighten and the Democrats could then sail into power without promising much except to keep the status quo intact. No need to offer even the slightest change of imperial course. Just to continue onwards as we have in the past.

The Republicans were and still are totally irresponsible. They certainly were instrumental in clipping imperial power during the Clinton years, they prevented government spending to the point that for the ONLY time in the last 35 years, we had ONE year of solvency! But that was all fake. They did that so they could gain power and with this, loot the nation openly. So the instant a Republican took the imperial throne, wild overspending doubled and trebled. Now, we can 'change course' but the red ink is still very much there and up to our necks.

Anti-socialist spending Republicans love the idea that we are too broke to care for Americans! But this has several bad sides: angry Americans, the bankruptcy of our government leading to both external and internal collapse, and of course, the end of capitalism which depends on socialist systems to survive.

When the media wanted to impeach Nixon, I remember the daily hammer blows against him. This political theater was motivated by some very dark forces. We learned this year that 'Deep Throat' was an FBI agent, Mark Felt, for example.

Hoover died in his sleep and was found on the morning of May 2, 1972. Tolson was nominally in charge until the next day when Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray III as acting FBI director. Tolson submitted his resignation, which Gray accepted. Felt took Tolson's post as Associate Director, the number-two job in the bureau.[20] Felt served as an honorary pallbearer at Hoover's funeral.[21]
On the day of his death, Hoover's secretary for five decades, Helen Gandy, began destroying his files. She turned over twelve boxes of the "Official/Confidential" files to Felt on May 4, 1972. This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information. Felt stored them in his office, and Gray told the press that afternoon that "there are no dossiers or secret files. There are just general files and I took steps to preserve their integrity." Felt earlier that day had told Gray, "Mr. Gray, the Bureau doesn't have any secret files", and later accompanied Gray to Hoover's office. They found Gandy boxing up papers. Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at anything. Gandy retained Hoover's "Personal File" and destroyed it.[22] When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said, "There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't." At the same hearing Gandy claimed that she had destroyed Hoover's personal files only after receiving Gray's approval. In a letter submitted to the committee in rebuttal of Gandy's testimony, Gray vehemently denied ever giving such permission. Both Gandy's testimony and Gray's letter were included in the committee's final report.[23]
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Despite initial suspicions that other agents, including Angelo Lano, had been speaking to the Post,[1] in a taped conversation on October 19, 1972, Haldeman told the president that he had sources, which he declined to name, confirming Felt was speaking to the press. "You can't say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there's a real concern. Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . . If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything." [37] Haldeman also reported that he had spoken to White House counsel John W. Dean about punishing Felt, but Dean said Felt had committed no crime and could not be prosecuted.

As our empire turns increasingly Sovietized, it is interesting to revisit the Nixon impeachment. He won his previous election in a total landslide, heavily assisted by the media. The Vietnam war was VERY unpopular at this point. But the press, as always, supported warmongering, not the opposite. Nixon's secret plan to end the war was to go off to Mao's China. This was in an election year! The media totally approved of this. While in China, Bush stood on the Great Wall and gave a speech about how all walls should be torn down between peoples. This was to be his 'echo' of the famous JFK speech in Berlin a decade earlier. Indeed, talk about walls is standard US fare when overseas as we shall examine soon here in this article.

The thing here is that Hoover had huge 'dirty' files about all the top people in the US. All of which was obtained under cover of 'protecting America from communists' but none of which had anything to do with protecting anyone but Hoover and his ideological allies. The fact that Felt first read these and then disposed of them is significant. For this was at the dawn of the period of time when the world's top empires all ended up in the hands of spies and spooks. For example, if Felt was a Putin, he would have preserved these files and used them to move into power. It is notable that once Felt saw all these files, Nixon's troubles began to increase.

This still doesn't explain why the media went after a 'popular' president. In truth, the fear that anti-war Democrats might take over the White House on the eve of the 1973 Arab/Israeli Jewish war was, I would suggest, a very powerful motivation for the media to deep six a potentially popular candidate. We can see very clearly today that pro-war candidates are the only ones allowed to run the US empire. I remember clearly how, after the Arab/Israeli war, suddenly the charges about 'the Imperial Presidency' suddenly was in the news. And the tag put on Nixon was that HE was the imperialist, not the military/industrial complex.

Why Nixon was destroyed by our media is still a murky story. We can make many guesses. One might be the wage/price controls of 1971 and the sudden ending of the gold peg---these might have rocked someone's yachts. Right before the election of 1972, Nixon did two interesting things: he made the farmers happy by selling our grain to the Soviet Union and he pulled all the troops out of Vietnam even as he expanded the air war. All of this made chicken soup out of the so-called 'Cold War.' The military industrialists saw the writing on the wall.

I really can't prove any case here so far. It is just astonishing to see the US repeating nearly exactly all the news stories from back then, today. We are trapped in this time/space loop that is totally ridiculous. Only difference from the Nixon years and today is the entire US economic and financial systems is now bankrupt. Back to today: the media in the 60's and 70's was willing to show us war carnage openly and seriously. Today, this is all censored. And back then, the US was still the 'leader of the free world' due to real fear that communism might spread while today, the communists are the capitalists and the free west is in near total lockdown.

‘Impeach Bush for lying about Iraq’

A former Democratic presidential candidate, Kucinich said Congress needed to ask: “what responsibility does the president and members of his administration have for that unnecessary, unprovoked and unjustified war?"

He said his call for impreachment in the House of Representatives "drew an audible reaction from the audience and support from fellow Congressmen".

This is news story is from Russia. HAHAHA. Not the US. I would suggest the entire military/industrial automatons in Congress will never dare impeach an emperor due to war lies, fake attacks like the one that launched the Vietnam War. No one will EVER be punished for obvious war crimes. The criminal imperial organization must not be sullied. Nixon was impeached for very stupid, small things. Not his many war crimes like his illegal secret war against Cambodia, just for one glaring example. LBJ should have been impeached and put on trial, too.

But this will never happen. If Kucinich went after silly, useless stuff, then we might see a Clinton-style impeachment. Nixon's record of being unpopular has been long surpassed by Bush, Cheney AND CONGRESS. This is a collapse in legitimacy that is very serious and should be the topic of discussion in the media, HAHAHA. No. This collapse in public support for the imperial systems is not mentioned at all by wealthy media owners seeking to corrupt Congress even further. This is why yesterday's editorial by the Wall Street Journal amused me greatly. Does this have something to do with the new Jewish owners of the Wall Street Journal pushing people's buttons? We suspect something is afoot here and it isn't pretty.

Both on the left and the right, there is a big problem for us if we go 'partisan'. This prevents UNITY ON ISSUES. Both parties exploit the differences to prevent left and right from uniting against the warmongering parties. For frankly, both the GOP and DNC are military/industrial supporters who are in love with red ink.

I have many, many differences with the libertarian right wing. But I also have an important point of unity: stopping the wild imperial spending and warmongering. Yet, instead of the left and libertarians uniting, this is all fractured due to other, lesser, ideological issues. Which everyone clings to even as our collective ships sail right into WWIII and the Apocalypse.

Obama's Berlin speech appears to resonate with crowd

He didn't break into German, but he spoke of tearing down walls of division, and the crowd loved it.

Tens of thousands of Germans, along with some resident Americans, filled Berlin's Tiergarten park to hear Barack Obama talk about the U.S., Europe and their shared visions and challenges. It was a remarkable turnout for the lazy days of late July, when most Germans are more focused on summer vacations than foreign politics.
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"I doubt that Obama is the messiah, but I hope that, if he gets elected, there will be some essential change in foreign and security policy," said Martin Wegner, a 38-year-old software engineer who joined the Obama fans -- some of whom had to wait hours to clear security checks.

"I hope Obama brings freedom back to the U.S. -- freedom that has been given up so quickly with the security measures after 9/11," Wegner said.

Reagan went to the Berlin Wall and stupidly said, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' True, the Germans themselves, tore it down after paying Gorbachev huge sums of money to remove Soviet troops from East Germany. But Reagan got the credit for all this even though the tearing down of the wall took the US totally by surprise and the money paid to Gorbachev was opposed by the US State Department. That wall was so useful for our empire! We regretted its loss.

Obama went to Israel which is busy building walls all over Palestine, locking the natives in tiny ghettos. These walls are HUGE. They are the Berlin Wall all over the place! Obama went to the Wailing Wall but didn't visit any of the many walls erected by Jews using US funds. He didn't go to Gaza and yell, 'Mr. Olmert, TAKE DOWN THIS WALL!!!' Nope.

These walls are OK! On top of this, the wall the US is busy building across the US southern border with Mexico is never mentioned, either. Everyone wants walls torn down except for walls restraining third world people. Those, we want to raise EXACTLY LIKE THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. It was to keep 'barbarians' out. One wall that really matters is the one that surrounds the island nation of Japan: trade barriers. The US has led the push to remove these barriers and is now being swamped by other exporting nations. The US trades more and loses in this matter and there is no talk in the media about raising some sort of barriers to stop the flood if imports pouring into this nation, destroying our economy.

McCain: bin Laden could face Nuremberg-like justice

He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don't think we'd have any difficulty in devising an international -- internationally supported mechanism that would mete out justice. There's no problem there."
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When asked if as president he would move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee unequivocally stated, "Yes." Asked when, he said, "Right away."

Years and years of corruption in our elections has now brought us to this: our foreign policy is written in Israel and our Presidential candidates are spending more time trying to please the Israeli Jews than American voters. American voters don't give a hoot where our embassy in Israel is. They care about high gas prices. Our political leaders pretend to worry about high gas prices but do everything they can to insure these prices are high due to our wayward diplomacy and support of ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land.

And Nüremberg trials again! HAHAHA. Bin Laden's crimes are no different from US Presidential war crimes! But our political leaders can't help it. We must pretend we are clean and the Nazis and various others who are defeated by the US/UK/G7 empire are evil and deserve to die. This childish form of justice is pure 'might makes right' and is more Mafia than some sort of international justice system.

Iraq war's total cost nearing Vietnam's price tag

The new report by the Congressional Research Service estimates the U.S. has spent $648 billion on Iraq war operations, putting it in range with the $686 billion, in 2008 dollars, spent on the Vietnam War, the second most expensive war behind World War II. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. has doled out almost $860 billion for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world.

All estimates, adjusted for inflation, are based on the costs of military operations and don't include expenses for veterans benefits, interest on war-related debts or assistance to war allies, according to the nonpartisan CRS.

The report underscores how the price tag has been gradually rising for the war in Iraq, which began in March 2003. In late 2002, then-White House budget director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.

This astonishing news is a headline! But the body of the story mitigates the headline in funny and totally dishonest ways. Comparing this stuff to GDP is a trick. The US GDP has grown, yes, but the issue of war has to always be tied into the red ink problem and worse, the selling of red ink to China and Japan! This is NOT mentioned. Also, this news is not tied into general Pentagon military spending! We are not just at war with the Iraqis or just the Afghanis, we are at war with all Muslims in the Middle East. So we must include military spending we give for free to Israel, just for one glaring example. The military support of all the Arab despots also is not included in these numbers. Parking most of our fleet near the Gulf of Persia is not part of all these numbers. Just like leaving out the cost of our fleet hanging out of Vietnam is part of Vietnam war spending!

Here are the report's estimated costs of major wars, in 2008 dollars, and their costs as a percentage of GDP in each of their peak years:

_American Revolution: $1.8 billion; GDP figure not available

_War of 1812: $1.2 billion; 2.2 percent

_Civil War, Union: $45.2 billion; 11.3 percent

_Civil War, Confederacy: $15.2 billion; GDP figure not available

_World War I: $253 billion; 13.6 percent

_World War II: $4.1 trillion; 35.8 percent

_Korean War: $320 billion; 4.2 percent

_Vietnam War: $686 billion; 2.3 percent

_Gulf War: $96 billion; 0.3 percent

_Iraq war: $648 billion; 1 percent

_Afghanstian/Global war on terror: $171 billion; 0.3 percent

_Post 9/11 domestic security: $33 billion; 0.1 percent

_Post 9/11 operations: $859 billion; 1.2 percent

This is so devious! The Vietnam War was over several countries, not just in Vietnam! Yet, the War on Terror is broken down into smaller bits to minimize the cost to our GDP. Adding up just the numbers here, the truth is, the War on Terror is costing us a minimum of 2.6% of our GDP. This is GREATER than the Vietnam War! This is why it always pays to read the raw data being used by liars and swindlers. When it comes to war money talk, lies pour out faster than patriotic propaganda. On top of this, the dire effects on our economy when these wars END is never mentioned. The fact is, we see a sudden surge in inflation. For example, the Cold War basically ended when Nixon sold wheat to Russia and kissed Mao's ass. US spending on war dropped rapidly after Nixon withdrew troops from Vietnam.

Inflation then took off. Tricks used to contain this inflation failed badly. US spending on wars against Muslim peasants is still continuing. But it doesn't feed the military/industrial complex. There are not enough bombs or high-cost equipment being destroyed fast enough! If we expand this war mess into Iran, the percentage of GDP being used up with warmongering will be far over 5%. Fatally over 5%. This requires rationing and enforced savings like in WWI, WWII and the Korean War.

4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images

The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

The US is entertained by increasingly graphic, brutal and bloody movies and TV shows. We are very addicted to warmongering entertainments. We cheer blood and death and laugh at this misery. But real blood, real gore is hidden from view. We don't want to see what we are doing overseas. The veil of secrecy, the fog and night of propaganda lies means there is no outrage, not feelings about what mayhem we are creating. This is coupled with the total elimination of any news about Jewish war crimes in Palestine. No matter how hideous, these are never mentioned in US media.

I am amazed we learned about torture! The business of how our nation turned into clones of the Soviet/Nazi systems screams for impeachment of Bush and his gang who are proven to ask for torture of prisoners! Yet that barely makes the news. And is seldom discussed.

Ex-insurgents Want More Money, or Else

AFP
The Iraqi officer leading a U.S.-financed anti-jihadist group is in no mood for small talk -- either the military gives him more money or he will pack his bags and rejoin the ranks of al-Qaeda.

"I'll go back to al-Qaeda if you stop backing the Sahwa (Awakening) groups," Col. Satar tells U.S. Lt. Matthew McKernon, as he tries to secure more funding for his men to help battle the anti-U.S. insurgents.

Our empire basically is paying various Muslims to not attack us. Everyone in that part of the planet either hates or disrespects us. Ditto, Asia, for that matter. Poland wants the US to protect them from Russia but also wants us to PAY them for the privilege of protecting them! Everyone is lined up to line their pockets. Japan wanted us to move our bases out of Okinawa but they wanted us to pay for this by taking out loans with the Bank of Japan! Everyone, rich or poor, wants us to pay them to be part of our empire. This is not included in the GDP drag of our empire! In truth, it is well over 10% of our GDP is used this way, protecting our imperial buddies as well as suppressing a billion Muslims. It is not worth this expense! Why?

We are running in the red by the same amount. Eliminate this and we might right our ship. The libertarians are certain about this. Why can't we all fight together for this one thing?

Military says US troops killed Iraqi editor's son

The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle this week in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The military said Arkan Ali Taha was hit when soldiers came under heavy gunfire from a passing taxi and shot back. The boy was riding in the cab and the driver was later taken into custody, the statement said.

The father said his son was not involved with extremist groups and didn't know how to use weapons. He said the boy had hired the cab to bring a set of keys to the newspaper.

We are shooting down the sons of many Iraqi officials this month. This is the 'surge' at work. The surge is NOT done. It continues. Oil is now flowing from northern Iraq because the elaborate pipe protection system is finished and we can use Praetorian guards to watch it for the oil companies...AT OUR EXPENSE. Not one drop of this oil is paying us for guarding this oil.

Here is an old Obama story about Iran Kitty and how we have to scratch ourselves to death:

Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran

By Tom Mackaman
1 October 2004

Obama told the Tribune, “[T]he big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to, if any, are we going to take military action?”

Answering his own question, Obama said, “I hope it doesn’t get to that point. But realistically, as I watch how this thing has evolved, I’d be surprised if Iran blinked at this point.”

Obama advanced a racist argument for attacks on Iran and Pakistan. Making a comparison between the “Islamic world” and the Soviet Union, he argued that the religious outlook of Iranians and Pakistanis made them less prone to compromise and reason and more warlike.

Not only are we in this mythology about how unreasonable Muslims are compared to say, Chinese or Russian communists, everyone is anxious to re-write history. Throughout the Cold War until Nixon suddenly forced by greater economic forces, ended the Cold War, the Russians and Chinese were propagandized as unfeeling, unthinking suicidal totalitarian war mongers. We couldn't negotiate with them, talk with them, visit with them or anything. Then, quite suddenly, Nixon did all this! The missile treaties appeared exactly in tandem with the US economic deterioration!

The US today is not repeating this. As we deteriorate, we continue. This is due to it being very lucrative for our allies as well as the ruling elites who have invested heavily in military industries and matters. And the Jews want a huge, very expensive military machine backing them up as they battle the Palestinians and ward off their neighbors who hate them for obvious reasons. Europe wants this because they are terrified of Russia's embrace that is slowly encircling Western Europe in a commodity embrace. They desperately need a warmongering, nutty US to be their club to hammer the Russians in negotiations.

China and Russia eye energy deals

China and Russia will launch high-level talks aimed at encouraging energy co-operations, beginning with a visit to China by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, the Chinese government said today, after years of frustrated deal-making over oil and gas.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told Reuters that Sechin would visit China on 26-27 July for talks with Vice Premier Wang Qishan.

Liu called the launch of the two nations' vice premier-level "energy negotiations mechanism" an important step that would help them "jointly plan energy cooperation."

But talks between Russia, with its abundant reserves of oil and gas, and China, with its constant thirst for steady energy supplies, have yielded limited progress so far, largely because the two heavyweights disagree on pricing.

The dance of Russia and China is like two scorpions mating. And they will mate. This is a threat to Europe and the US. And we can't stop this.

Chavez Offers His Hand and Heart

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Meiendorf Castle and, several hours later, Chavez met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the residence at Novo-Ogarevo. Kommersant special correspondent Andrey Kolesnikov observed that Chavez reached an agreement with the president on large Russian oil company’s development of the rich mouth of the Orinoco River and then continued on to talk about sales of Russian military hardware with the prime minister.

Chavez raised his hands up when he saw Medvedev, but he didn’t try to hug him, obviously recalling the bitter experience about a year ago of having Putin slip through his arms. When Chavez had arrived from Minsk, where he and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held meetings and jostled each other for several days, he apparently expected the same reception he got in Belarus from a kindred spirit.

Both Russia and China are using the US weakness to deeply invade our 'sphere of influence' we had since the Monroe Doctrine. This will only get worse as our empire goes bankrupt.

Russian bombers could haunt US borders

Airbases in Latin American countries can ensure the 'permanent presence' of Russia's strategic bombers near US borders, says a Russian general.

"The flight to the US (from southern Russia where the bombers are based) takes about 10 hours and even with two mid-air refuelings the aircraft can spend only 1.5 hours near the US coast," Ria Novosti quoted Army General Pyotr Deinekin as saying. He added that using Latin American bases compensates for the difficult logistics of airborne refueling and allows for a near permanent airborne presence in close proximity to the US.

The general made the remarks in reference to Moscow's alleged intention to station the bombers in Cuba, Venezuela and even Algeria as a reprisal against US missile plans in Europe.

Tit for tat. Far from seeing an international consensus we have a deteriorating situation due to weak US finances. WWII expanded US industries and after WWII, our industries were giants that strode the planet. This series of small wars is destroying our industries. And we grow weaker, not stronger. So GDP is meaningless when talking about wars. The Vietnam war's expenses ended up destroying our industrial base when the war ended. Japan and Germany saw theirs grow as the Cold War ended. Ours died. This is worthy of examination. And is not being talked about at all.

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Israelis Come Before US Voters In This Election

July 23, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Both McCain and Obama are in a race to Armageddon, Bush continues to menace Iran. The world price of oil is dropping though, so I presume this is all bluster to please the Israeli taskmasters who control the US media and Congress. The rest of the world knows this is all fake. The two US candidates are in the very embarrassing position of being forced to desert the US in its hour of agony and rush over to Israel to swear fealty. This is treason. But since the media heaps praise on them the more they do this, neither one gets any negative numbers from such obvious pandering. I want both men to move to Israel since this is their sole concern anyhow. Yup.

Obama Meets Israeli and Palestinian Leaders

Mr. Obama, who shuttled between morning meetings at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. Wearing a white yarmulke, he rekindled a flame and paused for a few moments of quiet reflection as he laid a wreath on a tomb that contains ashes from Nazi extermination camps.

“At a time of great peril and promise, war and strife, we are blessed to have such a powerful reminder of man’s potential for great evil, but also our capacity to rise from tragedy and remake our world,” Mr. Obama said after visiting the memorial. “Let our children come here, and know this history, so they can add their voices to proclaim “never again”. And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims but also as individuals who hoped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
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“The most important idea for me to reaffirm is the historic and special relationship between the United States and Israel,” Mr. Obama said as he arrived here on the latest leg of a weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe. “One that cannot be broken. One that I have affirmed throughout my career and one that I will intend to not only continue but actually strengthen in an Obama administration.”

Seig Heil! Sieg Heil! We all will tie our entire diplomacy and the welfare of the US to this ethnic cleansing scheme. Obama knows that there is a lot of very bad blood between the Jewish and black communities at home. This isn't being addressed. He figures, the black community will vote for him even as he avoids making even the smallest promises to them. All his major promising efforts are focused mainly on the wealth Jewish community that has a stranglehold on our media. Like McCain, he knows that any friendliness in the press will vanish in a flash the instant the owners suspect the candidate won't totally grovel at their feet.

This is why I sense that most Americans don't respect our political leaders. They are not leaders, they are dogs on a chain. On top of the US public not respecting our chained leaders, neither does anyone ruling any country. The idea that we are led by buffoons, jerks, idiots and drunks pleases our enemies no end. I remember when people running for president had to go about America appealing to various voting blocks. But imagine if someone was running and had to go to Mexico and swear fealty to Mexican expansionist aims in say, Central America or the Caribbean? And then announce that all Mexicans could be dual citizens and cross borders without hinderance and more: vote in both elections? Isn't this just impossible to imagine?

It is around the corner! As with any lousy system, once one group gets to do something very naughty, everyone wants the same rights. The entire concept of being able to swear fealty to two countries is pure madness. During much of the primary season, Hillary Clinton and a headlock on the Jewish money vote. Even with this, she ran deep in the red. The media storyline was all about how poor white workers in the rust belt/ Appalachian sectors were for Hillary. In reality, the struggle for power was in the media. At no point did the media hound Hillary to quit due to running deeply in the red. Never in my life have I seen the media honor and promote a candidate running so deep in trouble. Often, when talking about the election, only videos of her or pictures of her were used. This is a classic clever ploy that 'wipes out' the image of candidates the media wants to remove.

They do this all the time. They did this to me! They do this to anyone like Ron Paul, for example. The camera will pan right past him and linger on the crowd, for example. Or if there is a desire to hide popularity, the crowd won't be shown. Just like when they wanted to stop Howard Dean's candidacy, they eliminated the sound of the crowd roaring for him to keep on running and televised only his hoarse answering yell. Then, the media tools went on and on about how stupid he sounded. When Al Gore debated Bush, Bush stumbled, made hideous sucking, slurping sounds from fear and at one point, Gore sighed as he was stuck in this horrible, stupid debate.

The media seized on this one thing and hammered it home. This was due to Bush promising the Jewish lobby the moon. He delivered, in spades, by the way. Even when he went to the UN to promise the Muslims Palestine, he had a secret deal going whereby this would be prevented at all costs. This is why things got progressively worse in Palestine after 9/11.

War crime suit filed against Israelis

A Palestinian human rights group has brought war crime charges against former high ranking Israeli officials in a Spanish court.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed lawsuit in the National Criminal Court of Spain against the Israeli officials who authorized the al-Daraj bloodshed.

The list includes former Israel's war minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, his former military advisor Michael Herzog, former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, and former air force commander Dan Halutz, Ma'an News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The National Criminal Court of Spain has agreed to consider the case for further examination that may lead to a formal prosecution. Those charged would then be arrested upon entering the Spanish territory if the case is won by the Palestinians, the news agency added.

The Spanish court is not alone in hearing a case against the Israeli war criminals; the courts of Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand had all previously accepted cases against the Israeli military.

But not here! The payroll in Israel is paid by US taxpayers. The IDF's entire fund is funded by the US. Israel's economy has grown by over 5% a year these last 5 years. Ours has grown only 3% or less. And now, ours is shrinking and Israel's is still growing. The US government is cutting budgets left and right while doubling the money flowing to our masters in Israel. The entire will of Congress is bent on this. Congress struggles to raise funds for US children but when a bill comes poking along to double aid to Israel, it sails through without a hitch.

The pretense that the US cannot find money drops like a rock. Suddenly, money flows like the River Nile. Indeed, money for occupations of Muslim neighbors also flows! Nonstop. Only what, 4 in the House and 2 in the Senate oppose any of this? INSANE. Nor are there any headlines about this strange situation: nearly a trillion dollars this last 8 years spent in the Middle East while telling us we can't fund schools at home?

THIS IS TREASON. We will starve American children so we can control the entire Middle East at tremendous expense is treason.

From the Press TV article:

McCain once again laid out his policy toward Iran, but now there is doubt about whether the candidate knew exactly which country he was referring to, as

In another interview with ABC's Good Morning America the Arizona senator raised eyebrows once again when he talked about the Iraq-Pakistan border, excluding Iran which is located between the two countries
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“But I have to look you in the eye and tell you that the United States of America can never allow a second Holocaust,” said the candidate, who has among his staunch supporters figures like John Hagee.

A leader of the US evangelical movement, Hagee, has said that Hitler acted as God's agent, and that the Holocaust was the will of God.

The media has been attacking Hagee like crazy lately. They are cutting him from the herd of Apocalyptic believers and leaving him out in the cold. McCain is OK with this because NOW he doesn't need Hagee. NOW, there are no more choices for the millions of Christians lusting to see all the Jews killed by their Jesus. Now, they have to vote to send our money to Israel and for them to send their children to die in wars against Muslims. All, while getting nothing in return. As the price of oil has totally ravaged our economy, the media has been immensely clever to blame the Muslims for this, not our warmongering. Like a drunk trying to navigate home in the fog, the US public stumbles along, being yanked forwards by the media.

Now that Obama is locked in his dog carrier crate along with McCain, we will be allowed to pick whichever one the media wants us to allow into the White House. Since the public is fed up with the Bush regime, the media figures it has to be Obama. So the next step is to have a running mate who will prevent Obama from changing direction when in office. Probably a Zionist in the House will be chosen. Like Hoyer Stenys, a dual citizen. Just like they used Lieberman with Gore. Lieberman showed no stomach for fighting off the good deal that Bush and Cheney offered AIPAC. This is why the Lieberman/Cheney debate was no debate at all but a love fest with Lieberman kissing up to Cheney.

U.S. military says Iraq troop "surge" has ended

The remaining troops from that brigade departed over the weekend, leaving just under 147,000 American soldiers in Iraq, the spokesman said.

"The final elements of the surge brigade have now left, getting out a few days ahead of schedule," he said.

The U.S. military had 20 combat brigades in Iraq at its peak in 2007, with troop levels around 160,000-170,000.

The current number is well above the 130,000 troops in Iraq when Bush ordered the deployment in January 2007. The Pentagon said last February it expected 140,000 troops to be in Iraq once the five brigade drawdown had finished.

HEADLINE CLASH! The headline is about how the 'surge' ended but in the end of the story, it is admitted that the surge continues! Gads. 10,000 troops left behind means the surge continues, eh? This is typical of the confused, misinformation poured out by our main media outlets. I used to read 'Pravada' in translation when I was young. It was quite similar. Just enough truth in a story so it was slightly believable. So it is here: the truth can be put in the story so they can say, with a straight face, 'We aren't liars'. But this is false. They know that the headline beats all. So this is often where the lies are concentrated.

Realists Urge Bush to Drop Iran Precondition
by Jim Lobe

Two of Washington's most prominent foreign policy graybeards praised Saturday's direct participation in multinational talks with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but called on the administration of President George W. Bush to drop his demands that Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment program as a precondition for broader negotiations.

Retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser under Republican presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who held the same post under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, urged Bush to go further by offering immediate rewards to Tehran in exchange for such a freeze.

And both men warned that repeated U.S. threats to use military force against Iran were counterproductive and strengthened hard-line forces in the regime led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They said an actual military attack – whether by the U.S. or by Israel – would likely be disastrous for U.S. interests in the region.

This story made the Antiwar.com news pages but not the NYT. This is another 'Pravda' trick: to simply not report news at all. The US media owners conspire to do this constantly. The internet is a problem for them, of course, we can read news all over the planet. But most Americans don't bother doing this. So mindlessly, they are herded along. Missing vital facts means an ignorant public is made the laughing stock of the entire planet. We are supposed to be a global empire. And we are viewed as just so many dupes and fools.

For this reason alone, it is vital to NOT allow ANYONE to lead us by the nose! Just for the sake of appearances, we have to show independence. We are NOT independent of Israel. Not at all. Before the Iraq adventure, many an astute former official in the State Department and the Pentagon came out of the shadows of retirement to beg us not to do this invasion. Now, we see a repeat. And of course, they are not heard by the US public nor are they debated by pro-war Zionists. They, like myself, are kept in the dark.

And this darkness will be Stygian if we go to war with Iran. Literally, the US will shut down. Oil rationing, raging inflation and the possible collapse of all our finances, bankruptcy and starving children begging on street corners and perhaps WWIII and the destruction of all our cities? This should be debated and quite loudly.

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US Moral Sniping At China Is Insane

July 22, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The United States has become totally unglued from reality. Today's insane editorial from the New York Times attacking China over police matter and free press is a typical example. The US resembles more and more the worst aspects of the Soviet Union and we demand China act differently from us? Also, another war criminal is caught in Europe but Bush was not arrested. Jane Meyer talks about how the war on terror morphed within a day into a war against whistle blowers, CIA undercover women and other matters. Bush wants to now declare war on al Qaeda. HAHAHA. And two former bitter enemies, Russia and China finally fix old border disputes and are now totally at peace and united in the next step of the struggle for power: the destruction of US finances.

China’s Unreality TV

To win the right to host the Games, Beijing promised to expand press freedoms for foreign reporters and implied that opening China to the world would help expand human rights more generally.

We will never know whether China’s leaders intended to keep their word. What we do know is that the International Olympic Committee, corporate sponsors and governments around the world should have held China to its word. They have not, and China has read their silence as complicity.

When we hosted the Olypmics here, no one mentioned the harassing of foreign reporters. Back then, the new Soviet system of the Homeland Security used its powers to prevent reporters from entering, who said things our dictators didn't want us to hear. These pesky reporters suddenly couldn't get visas and if they got one, were searched and their computers and cameras confiscated and then they were trailed and given every possible difficulty. The NYT refused to report on this. I learned of it only by going to the overseas media.

China censors the internet. China censors my own news service, just for example. The Chinese rulers are not nice people. But they are not stupid. They don't go about the planet bellyaching about censorship while doing the same censorship at home. The NYT censors lots and lots of international news as well as domestic stories. For example, the day the Times carried a propaganda piece about Tel Aviv, the world was discussing the lastest IDF war crimes. Not one of these crimes ever makes the headlines in the NYT. Only pro-Jewish stories make headlines.

This internal censorship is far more insidious than the Chinese overt forms of censorship. All the Chinese people, just like Russians back in the Soviet Union days, knew there was no 'truth' in Pravda. But the US goes about the planet, all huffy and puffy about press freedoms. Yet if any non-mainstream media reporters show up at inopportune times to film or record events like the brutal suppression of any anti-globalism demonstrations, they are arrested, beaten and their cameras destroyed. None of this, of course, makes the mainstream news. So the pretense of being in a 'free' country can continue despite the truth.

The lying bastards who own the NYT:

Corporate sponsors for the Games seem determined to look the other way. Most world leaders, including President Bush, also have been too silent. We accept Mr. Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremonies, but we see no sign that he got anything for it .

Mr. Bush has correctly denounced the genocide in Darfur and is pressing for international sanctions on Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe over brutally stealing last month’s presidential election. China, however, continues to enable both Mr. Mugabe and Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Just last week, Beijing faulted the world court prosecutor for bringing charges of genocide against Mr. Bashir for his role in Darfur’s many horrors, and it vetoed an American-backed United Nations Security Council resolution to put sanctions on Mr. Mugabe and his henchmen.

HAHAHA. Like a dog with a bone, the Zionists cannot let go of Darfur. It is their last and only refuge. I want Bush and HIS henchmen arrested, too! And the 'many horrors' in Darfur: PALESTINE! How about that, guys? The NYT obviously thinks that treating as dogs Palestinians peacefully demonstrating or EVEN THROWING ROCKS is OK. I have been in demonstrations where rock throwing happened. Shooting and killing rock throwers is wrong. These are unarmed civilians! They killed rock throwers in America during the Vietnam War, just for example. That was wrong.

What is even worse is how the US cheers anti-government demonstrations that become murderous mobs if they are happening in China! If people riot there, the US demands the Chinese not act like the US or Israeli governments. The Chinese have to be gentle and kindly. But the US and Israel can be as brutal as they wish. The US has shot dead unarmed demonstrators early on in Iraq, for example. School children throwing their sandals at our soldiers who occupied their school were shot dead! This barely made a ripple in the US media. I heard of it via foreign media. Then there are all the many dead reporters in Iraq shot dead by US soldiers! Al Jazeera filed a formal complaint about this with international authorities. Who did absolutely nothing to the US.

Grandly, the bloody ship of state sails onwards. We choose to ignore all this because we want to be pure as driven snow. Of course, the history of the US is very bloody just like any empire. But singling out China for abuse is pure insanity.

Here is a very old skit from the Carol Burnett Show about airline security before Chertoff took over and turned it into a total nightmare:

More and more Americans despise traveling by air due to the fear, harassments and terrorizing going on in US airports. One lady who objected verbally to a deep-level search was suddenly grabbed by a bunch of Homeland Security goons who beat her so badly, she was hospitalized. Others are tasered to death or die in custody. Anyone even slightly irritating these Soviet-trained goons is instantly bashed about and arrested! So people duck their heads and scurry past the skin heads who now run our airports.

2 Die in Bus Blasts in Southwest China

Two public buses exploded during the Monday morning rush hour in the city of Kunming, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others in what the authorities described as deliberate attacks as China is tightening security nationwide and warning of possible terrorist threats in advance of next month’s Olympic Games.
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Beyond the escalating internal disturbances, the authorities are warning that foreign terrorist groups may be plotting to disrupt the Olympics. Chinese officials have singled out the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement and say they destroyed 41 training bases and arrested 82 people.

“Intelligence reports show the group has been planning to carry out terrorist attacks during the Games,” Ma Zhenchuan, director of Olympic security, told China Central Television.

Oh dear, there is terrorism inside China! Why, if people are blowing up buses, this calls for eliminating our civil rights! The government must be strong to protect us! If this happens in England, putting up spy cameras all over the place, spying on people at home, bugging all phones and monitoring all communications, holding people without trial in secret prisons and torturing them: all OK! But not for China, of course. Since when has communist China become the bell weather for human rights?

Author: Officials against torture memo feared wiretaps, physical danger

According to Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, two top lawyers in the Justice Department who attempted to push back against the authorization of torture by Vice President Cheney's staff became so paranoid that they worried they were being wiretapped and even feared they might be in physical danger.

Mayer told the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe that Cheney's staff took advantage of 9/11 to enhance presidential power and that -- in the words of Republican lawyer and former 9/11 Commission director Philip Zelikow -- "fear and anxiety were exploited by fools and zealots."
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Mayer pointed out that "two of the top lawyers in the Bush administration, Jim Comey who was the number two in the Justice Department and Jack Goldsmith who ran the Office of Legal Counsel, were trying really hard to put the country back on what they thought was a legal footing when it came to how to treat prisoners. They were trying to take away the torture memo and replace it with something that was more responsible."

"As they were working on this," Mayer continued, "they became so paranoid that the vice president's office was either trying to push back in some way -- they thought they might be being wiretapped, they thought they might be in physical danger. The fights were that intense. I can't tell you how passionate and hard-fought these fights were inside this government."

HAHAHA. The War on Terror is really a war of terror. Just like the War on Drugs morphs into protecting and expanding the drug production of Afghanistan's opium crops and Columbia's cocaine fields! The Gitmo trials are beginning. Kangaroos put on better shows than this goofy mess. We are trying to condemn to death bin Laden's chauffeur? How about killing his hair dresser? Or maybe his tailor? How about torturing and murdering his chef??? Masseuse? Talk about infantile and stupid. This mockery of international war crimes trials is very emblematic of our entire moral collapse.

Bush law chief seeks war declaration on al Qaeda

(Reuters) - Congress should explicitly declare war against al Qaeda and write new rules for legal challenges by terrorism suspects following a Supreme Court ruling on the rights of Guantanamo prisoners, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Monday.

Mukasey urged Congress to pass such legislation as the first U.S. war crimes trial got under way at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where prisoners in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism are held in a detention center condemned internationally for harsh treatment.

Democrats in control of Congress and civil rights groups reacted coolly to Mukasey's proposals, saying they would avoid judicial oversight and stack the deck in favor of the administration.

HAHAHA. This has to be the stupidest news story on earth. NOW Bush wants to declare war on a loosely organized gang that inspires peasant revolutionaries across the planet? No nation that oppresses Muslim peasants likes al Qaeda. And al Qaeda has an agenda: to bring the Apocalypse on. This dovetails with millions of US citizens who want the Apocalypse to happen, too, so they can fly to Heaven and meet Jesus who will recoil in horror and send them away again.

Both China and Russia have been fighting the Muslims far longer than the US. Like, for a thousand years. So they expected the US to cooperate with them in this enterprise after 9/11. Instead, the US parked nuclear missiles right next to Russia's front door and has been kicking China in the shins whenever China acts like Israel or the US. Now, both are totally fed up and are united as one force. They have revenge in their minds.

Israel fears scathing U.S. report on its West Bank policies

The United States security coordinator for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, retired general James Jones, is preparing an extremely critical report of Israel's policies in the territories and its attitude toward the Palestinian Authority's security services.

A few copies of the report's executive summary (or, according to some sources, a draft of it) have been given to senior Bush Administration officials, and it is reportedly arousing considerable discomfort. In recent weeks, the administration has been debating whether to allow Jones to publish his full report, or whether to tell him to shelve it and make do with the summary, given the approaching end of President George Bush's term.

Jones was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice following the Annapolis peace conference last November. His assignment was to draft a strategic plan to facilitate stabilization of the security situation, as a necessary accompaniment to Israeli-Palestinian final-status negotiations. In this context, he assessed the PA security forces in the West Bank, whose reform is being overseen by another American general, Keith Dayton. Jones has visited the region several times...

This is the latest example of 'news that Israeli Jews may read but which is kept secret from the US populace'. As usual, the Jews may debate all sorts of contentious issues in private but the US is locked outside of this discussion thanks to the hard efforts at censorship by Jewish media owners. Geeze, guys, stop it, will ya?

Here is yet another report that AIPAC has to suppress. A great number of the Bilderberger participants are Jewish media owners who conspire to keep these conspiratorial planning sessions private. They are very good at mocking people and suppressing information. They also work with DARPA and the black ops people in the CIA to mislead people with FAKE conspiracy stories. So people who can see one obvious conspiracy are then led off the cliff by totally loopy stories that make them go insane. Tracking the ruling elites is very difficult because of all the fairy dust thrown in people's eyes.

Palestinians: West Bank settlers fired makeshift rockets at us

Two makeshift rockets landed harmlessly outside Palestinian villages in the West Bank on Monday, residents said, accusing neighboring settlers of launching an attack.

A source in the security establishment described the Palestinian report as incorrect.

Residents of the villages of Odala and Awarta, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, said two rockets were fired from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar. A Reuters Television cameraman saw a projectile, about 45 centimetres long, burning in a field.

This Haaretz story won't make the NYT, either. The mythology that the 'settlers' are innocent and being attacked is pure bunk as any outside observers know already. But it is central to the NYT and other US media story lines. No way can the truth appear, ever. Not even the allegations of abuse. We know these settlers are extremely nasty neighbors who shoot and beat Palestinians with impunity since no one in the settler community is ever arrested, charged or imprisoned. Laws are for Palestinians, not Jews.

War crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic arrested in Serbia

Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men, was arrested yesterday 13 years after he was first indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal.

The 63-year-old war crimes suspect faces genocide charges for his role in the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War, and for organising the siege of Sarajevo which claimed 12,000 lives.

Arrest Bush, Blair, Cheney and all their minions. Arrest their chauffeurs and hair dressers, too. Arrest their chefs and others who service them. Arrest all of Congress and all their associates including their babysitters, children's playmates and anyone who has any commerce with them. Isn't all this utterly pathetic?

China says Russia to return disputed border land

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signed the agreement after meeting his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, to discuss the eastern part of the 2,700-mile border.

"I would like to especially emphasize the border agreement we signed today. This means that our international border has been demarcated in its entirety," Lavrov said.

"From a legal point of view we have created the preconditions for the border to become a link of stability, openness, mutual benefit, friendship and cooperation," he said.

Quickly, China and Russia are securing their borders. China, in particular, is going around making peace with everyone. Serious diplomatic negotiations straightening out all historic past uncertainties are being ruthlessly solved, one by one. The huge issue of Taiwan is being resolved, too. China has just twisted the US arms dealer's arms to nix deals with Taiwan. The Chinese are moving rapidly to consolidate everything so they can become the next super power. Reforming the banking system, changing the legal system and in general, consolidating power is being pushed rapidly for the Chinese know the US is going to tip into bankruptcy very soon now that the US government announced it will back over $3.7 trillion in Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debt on top of the Treasury sucking up all the bad business from Wall Street investors. The status of the US debt has taken a very serious downturn this month. The point spread is growing. The premium demands are rising. This is very bad.

We should be focused on the consequences of going bankrupt. We can't view this as a happy ending, 'Wow, we stuck the Chinese, Japanese and Russians with bad debts, HAHAHA.' This is pure insanity.

Time for the US to snarl and snap at Iran Kitty who in turn, will claw our face up even more! The price of oil has stopped dropping.

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IDF Shoots Tied Up Palestinian Demonstrator

July 21, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The Al Jazeera video taken by a young girl showing the Israeli Defense Forces shooting a demonstrator who was tied up and blindfolded is making the rounds of the entire planet outside of the US. As per usual, there is zero mention here. Instead, the Jewish family who owns the New York Times has a big article about the loving atmosphere in Tel Aviv. Why, even the Muslim Immans are happy there and think all is hunky dory! All the world leaders in the West are hiking to Israel to swear allegiance but Brown of England adds, Israel should stop expanding their segregated Jews-only neighborhoods. Israel then announces they will build a Non-Jew ghetto/community! The very first. Since all Non-Jews are not allowed to build anything in that place. And Condi Rice orders all embassies to refuse to serve or help Obama as he travels.

From Al Jazeera:

An Israeli human rights group has just released graphic video footage obtained during clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators protesting against the separation barrier on the West Bank. The video has sparked outrage, as it shows what appears to be an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian at close range. Al Jazeera's Emma Hayward reports

Like so many IDF crimes, this is irrefutable. And like with the US, no one high up will be punished. When rulers and generals unleash military soldiers to commit brazen crimes, they are GUILTY. Hitler and his buddies didn't kill hardly anyone, themselves. They simply allowed, enabled or secretly ordered these crimes! But we hung them anyway! This is international law. After all, we are now seeking to hang the head of Sudan for just these reasons. I say, hang everyone! All such criminals starting of course, with the ones in the US.

The unarmed civilians in the Occupied Territories have a right to demonstrate against a criminal military occupation! They have a right to demand the elimination of those many thousands of exclusive communities the Jews are building inside the West Bank. They have the right to petition the occupying forces to demand civil rights. They are CIVILIANS. Not that Israeli Jews or Americans in Muslim nations think two seconds about the civil rights of civilians! We idolize the French Resistance. We romanticize the American Plains Indians. We honor our Revolutionary Fathers and their guerilla warfare. The very word comes from the Spanish fighters who resisted, behind the lines, the Napoleonic occupation of Spain. The history of invasions and occupations is filled with the heroic stories of civilians resisting tyranny.

Even armed resistance of Israeli occupation of Palestine is HONORABLE even when it imitates Lawrence of Arabia and blows up train lines or storms cities! This must never be forgotten.

This latest atrocity is like all the others: unarmed demonstrators who are not even throwing rocks are shot at close range and beaten brutally. When some unarmed women rushed to come between the IDF and people the IDF were shooting, the IDF shot all the women without mercy. This sort of medieval siege warfare is ongoing in the Middle East and quite brutal. The fact that we are funding all this is an international outrage as well as domestic outrage. As the US begins to fall apart, internally, we are still sending many billions to Israel's Jews while telling cities in the US to drop dead.

From the Jewish owners of the New York Times comes this funky story: THERE’S room for everyone in Tel Aviv.

I’m riding bikes along the beach with my friend James. James is 12, and moved to Tel Aviv from New York with his Israeli mother two years ago.

“That’s the separated beach,” James tells me matter-of-factly, pointing at a group of some 30 Orthodox men on the edge of a placid, gorgeous Mediterranean not far from the Hilton. I read a sign that states: “The Separated Beach. Bathing days for women: Sun, Tues, Thurs. Bathing days for men: Mon, Wed, Fri.” Then, pointing at a different group of men just 50 yards down the sand, James adds, “And that’s the gay beach.”

A couple of hours later, eager to see what other strange bedfellows I’ll find huddled on the edges of the water, I conduct an informal census: I walk the two miles or so of beach from the Orthodox section all the way down to Jaffa, the old Arab port of Tel Aviv. Just south of the gay section I find a stretch of sand-and-sun worshipers that I instantly dub the Ambiguous Male Friendship beach; just south of that I find the I Hate What I’m Wearing beach. I walk farther, and proceed to find concentrations of, variously, surfers, young families, volleyball players, Ethiopians, hippie drummers and irritable girlfriends.

This story clashes with the first story and I intend this. The US is NOT being fed the first story. The NYT insures that we all see this second story. In this little piece of open propaganda, the NYT shows happy Jewish bridal couples, a Jewish surf bum, it talks about how this Muslim Imman on the beach is laughing and saying, all people must live in peace even though he is on a segregated beach! My, takes me smack dab back to my childhood in the segregated South! Including the, 'Negro who thinks segregation is jim dandy!'

The Jewish reporter for the Times could have asked the Imman, 'Do you want all the Jews who have come since 1948 to go away?' Of course, this would open a door to the obvious answer which is a loud, 'Yes!' So, content that the Imman approves of the present segregated community, the reporter sets out to have fun with fellow Jews and obviously, remain oblivious about the horrors a few miles away, the ones that are making some global news, sort of. Here is the number of papers covering the first story about gross human rights violations by the IDF:

Virtually none, of course. And in the US? Obviously none. It won't be shown over and over on the evening news, will it? Commentators won't be yelling, 'This is an outrage! The ICC should prosecute this!'

Israel to build new Arab city

ISRAEL plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948.

The proposal for the city, whose location has still to be determined, was made by Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit and approved by the cabinet yesterday, local media reported.
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"Israel has never built a new Arab or Palestinian village within its borders. It would definitely be the first," said Suhad Bishara, a lawyer with Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel.

Israeli Arabs remain divided on the question of whether the construction of the new city is the best response to their growing housing crisis, with some fearing the new project could lead to further segregation.

"This is a way for them to ease the pressure on Jewish settlements and towns," Mr Bishara said.

"Within the Arab community I doubt this is what we need."

So the Jewish invaders are now going to give a building permit at last, to the 'Negroes' in their community? Of course, they will do this only in a ghetto. Which will be used to depopulate the countryside. All the small villages that didn't empty out when Jewish terrorists massacred Muslims will now be emptied out, one by one, and the residents moved to this brand new ghetto. I know this is the plan, I was Mrs. Levy for many years and got an earful of what goes on from close up in the NY Jewish community.

Britain's Brown demands end to Israel settlements

In his first trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories as Britain's leader, Brown repeatedly stressed that economics are key to Mideast peace, and said Israel should ease travel restrictions in the West Bank that have hindered commerce.

But his strongest comments were reserved for the settlements: "I think the whole European Union is very clear on this matter: We want to see a freeze on settlements."

If the US government and the European Union wanted this all they have to do is defund Israel. Israel has a 5% growth rate thanks to all the goodies pouring in. They don't have a budget deficit because they don't pay for much of anything, anymore. Israel as zero intention of stopping the invasion of the West Bank. They are 100% intent on this, have been since 1890 and will be for as long as they can, will be doing this. The plan is for the Palestinians to vanish.

Here is an email I got today concerning all this:

Feel free to email the editor:

editor@think-israel.org

Seriously, these people are heartless and painfully self-centered. They cannot imagine they are criminals or are endangering the entire Jewish community by acting like Nazis! It just baffles me no end. Jews in America were huge supporters of civil rights in the US itself. This was because they wanted to live here free and clear and have the same rights as the Christian majorities. This meant supporting the concept of civil rights for everyone. But once they go this, they are now tempted to shift gears and begin to support racism and foul religious bigotry here in America. This is due to getting away with this in Israel. This is a grave danger to not only all minorities in the US but to Jews, themselves! They will have their dual citizenship passports revoked! I see this coming right around the corner.

Night before Obama flies abroad, Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates

The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a cable to US missions forbidding them from holding events for presidential candidates or arrange meetings for them.

Rice issued no such cable prior to foreign excursions by presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

In a cable sent late Thursday, according to a copy leaked to the Washington Times, Rice enjoined American diplomats to treat the candidates as "members of Congress visiting in personal or semi-personal capacities," but "with additional restrictions based on rules related to political activity."

"Provide de minimis assistance to the candidate with logistical arrangements," said the cable, according to the Times. "If the campaign staff wants to rent a bus for press, tell them where they can rent a bus."
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Rice didn't issue the same demands in advance of travel by Sen. McCain. McCain visited the Middle East four months ago -- but officials told the paper they didn't make similar demands because he was part of an "official congressional delegation."

To the back of the bus with you, Obama! Gads. This is so nakedly political! It turns out that Obama is with other Senators. This is not only insulting, it is