Jerry Kirk [of The Gathering Offering on RBN] and Peter
Neise present remedial prescriptions… for agitprop.
You Are A Human Animal
- Mickey Mouse Club
Portrait of Walt
Disney, 1 January 1954 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Walt Disney: “You are a
human animal!”
By Alfred Adask
TV: Mind Control
Programming
Is Dangerous To Your
Health
By The Health Coach
Money & Life
trailer
By Katie Teague
Also: rapproachment
rapprochement
n.
A reestablishing of cordial relations, as
between two countries.
The state of reconciliation or of cordial
relations.
[French, from
rapprocher, to bring together : re-, re- + approcher, to approach (from Old
French aprochier; see approach).]
In international
relations, a rapprochement, which comes from the French
word rapprocher ("to bring together"), is a re-establishment of cordial
relations, as between two countries. In the political scene of an individual
country rapprochement means the bringing together of diverse political factions
as, for example, during metapolitefsi in Greece. Other examples of its use are
the mending of relations between the United States under Richard Nixon and the
People's Republic of China from 1972 onwards. Additionally, the period known as
détente or 'relaxation' between the United States and the Soviet Union during
the 1970s was a time of rapprochement.
Rapprochement
also refers to a human developmental milestone usually occurring between 15 to
24 months. The child moves away from and then returns to the mother for
reassurance (Mahler).
In the Jointness type of object relation the individuals (children
and adults) jointly determine the extent of rapprochement between themselves,
while each of them is sensorily attentive to the strangeness and the
separateness that the other represents for him.
defenestration
n.
An act of throwing someone or
something out of a window
[From DE- + Latin fenestra, window]
Defenestration is the act of throwing
someone or something out of a window. The term was coined around the time of an
incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618. The word comes from the Latin de-
(down or away from) and fenestra (window or opening). Likewise, it can also
refer to the condition of being thrown out of a window, as in The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch.
The act of defenestration connotes
the forcible or peremptory removal of an adversary, and the term is sometimes
used in just that sense; it also suggests breaking the windows in the process
(de- also means removal). Although, defenestrations can be fatal due to the
height of the window through which a person is thrown or throws oneself or due
to lacerations from broken glass, the act of defenestration need not carry the
intent or result of death.
Origin of the term
The term originates from two
incidents in history, both occurring in Prague. In 1419, seven town officials
were thrown from the Town Hall, precipitating the Hussite War. In 1618, two
Imperial governors and their secretary were tossed from Prague Castle, sparking
the Thirty Years War. These incidents, particularly in 1618, were referred to
as the Defenestrations of Prague and gave rise to the term and the concept.
Notable defenestrations
in history
See also: Category: Deaths by
defenestration
Historically, the word defenestration
was used to refer to an act of political dissent. Notably, the Defenestrations
of Prague in 1419 and 1618 helped to trigger prolonged conflict within Bohemia
and beyond. It is said that some Catholics ascribed the survival of those
defenestrated at Prague Castle in 1618 to divine intervention.
Other notable events in Prague's
history include the defenestration of the Old-Town portreeve along with the
bodies of seven murdered New-Town aldermen in 1483, and the death in 1948 of
politician Jan Masaryk, whose body was found in the courtyard of the Foreign
Ministry, below his bathroom window. A 2004 police investigation into his death
concluded that, contrary to the initial ruling, he did not commit suicide, but
was defenestrated, most likely by Czechoslovak Communists and their Soviet NKVD
advisers for opposing the February 1948 Communist putsch.
http://www.sociology.org/columnists/michael-sosteric/abuse-syndrome-learned-helplessness-face-global-oppression/
Sociology.org
http://www.sociology.org/columnists/michael-sosteric/abuse-syndrome-learned-helplessness-face-global-oppression/
Sociology.org
The Abuse Syndrome – learned helplessness in the face of global oppression
You think we live in a functioning democracy? You think you’re a
powerful actor in a sea of democratic choice? Think again. According to
this psychologist we are nations of people broken by a socialization
process that teaches passivity, fear of authority, and a-social
competition, a medical process that applies chemical straitjackets to
the emotional sequelea of oppression, and a psychological establishment
that pathologizes children who refuse to conform.
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed
do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a
demoralization happened in the United States?
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been
screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of
obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
Can anything be done to turn this around?
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being
screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them?
Yes. It is called the “abuse syndrome.” How do abusive pimps,
spouses, bosses, corporations, and governments stay in control? They
shove lies, emotional and physical abuses, and injustices in their
victims’ faces, and when victims are afraid to exit from these
relationships, they get weaker. So the abuser then makes their victims
eat even more lies, abuses, and injustices, resulting in victims even
weaker as they remain in these relationships.
Does knowing the truth of their abuse set people free when they are deep in these abuse syndromes?
No. For victims of the abuse syndrome, the truth of their passive
submission to humiliating oppression is more than embarrassing; it can
feel shameful — and there is nothing more painful than shame. When one
already feels beaten down and demoralized, the likely response to the
pain of shame is not constructive action, but more attempts to shut down
or divert oneself from this pain. It is not likely that the truth of
one’s humiliating oppression is going to energize one to constructive
actions.
Has such a demoralization happened in the U.S.?
In the United States, 47 million people are without health insurance,
and many millions more are underinsured or a job layoff away from
losing their coverage. But despite the current sellout by their elected
officials to the insurance industry, there is no outpouring of millions
of U.S. citizens on the streets of Washington, D.C., protesting this
betrayal.
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose U.S. wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the taxpayer bailout of the financial
industry, yet only a handful of U.S. citizens have protested these
circumstances.
Remember the 2000 U.S. presidential election? That’s the one in which
Al Gore received 500,000 more votes than George W. Bush. That’s also
the one that the Florida Supreme Court’s order for a recount of the
disputed Florida vote was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in a
politicized 5-4 decision, of which dissenting Justice John Paul Stevens
remarked: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the
identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the
identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confidence
in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.” Yet, even
this provoked few demonstrators.
When people become broken, they cannot act on truths of injustice.
Furthermore, when people have become broken, more truths about how they
have been victimized can lead to shame about how they have allowed it.
And shame, like fear, is one more way we become even more
psychologically broken.
U.S. citizens do not actively protest obvious injustices for the same
reasons that people cannot leave their abusive spouses: They feel
helpless to effect change. The more we don’t act, the weaker we get. And
ultimately to deal with the painful humiliation over inaction in the
face of an oppressor, we move to shut-down mode and use escape
strategies such as depression, substance abuse, and other diversions,
which further keep us from acting. This is the vicious cycle of all
abuse syndromes.
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been
screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of
obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?
Maybe.
Shortly before the 2000 U.S. presidential election, millions of
Americans saw a clip of George W. Bush joking to a wealthy group of
people, “What a crowd tonight: the haves and the haves-more. Some people
call you the elite; I call you my base.” Yet, even with these kind of
inflammatory remarks, the tens of millions of U.S. citizens who had come
to despise Bush and his arrogance remained passive in the face of the
2000 non-democratic presidential elections.
Perhaps the “political genius” of the Bush-Cheney regime was in their
full realization that Americans were so broken that the regime could
get away with damn near anything. And the more people did nothing about
the boot slamming on their faces, the weaker people became.
What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?
The U.S. government-corporate partnership has used its share of guns
and terror to break Native Americans, labor union organizers, and other
dissidents and activists. But today, most U.S. citizens are broken by
financial fears. There is potential legal debt if we speak out against a
powerful authority, and all kinds of other debt if we do not comply on
the job. Young people are broken by college-loan debts and fear of
having no health insurance.
The U.S. population is increasingly broken by the social isolation created by corporate-governmental policies. A 2006 American Sociological Review
study (“Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion
Networks over Two Decades”) reported that, in 2004, 25 percent of
Americans did not have a single confidant. (In 1985, 10 percent of
Americans reported not having a single confidant.) Sociologist Robert
Putnam, in his 2000 book, Bowling Alone, describes how social
connectedness is disappearing in virtually every aspect of U.S. life.
For example, there has been a significant decrease in face-to-face
contact with neighbors and friends due to suburbanization, commuting,
electronic entertainment, time and money pressures and other variables
created by governmental-corporate policies. And union activities and
other formal or informal ways that people give each other the support
necessary to resist oppression have also decreased.
We are also broken by a corporate-government partnership that has
rendered most of us out of control when it comes to the basic
necessities of life, including our food supply. And we, like many other
people in the world, are broken by socializing institutions that
alienate us from our basic humanity. A few examples:
Schools and Universities: Do most schools teach
young people to be action-oriented — or to be passive? Do most schools
teach young people that they can affect their surroundings — or not to
bother? Do schools provide examples of democratic institutions — or
examples of authoritarian ones?
A long list of school critics from Henry David Thoreau to John Dewey,
John Holt, Paul Goodman, Jonathan Kozol, Alfie Kohn, Ivan Illich, and
John Taylor Gatto have pointed out that a school is nothing less than a
miniature society: what young people experience in schools is the chief
means of creating our future society. Schools are routinely places where
kids — through fear — learn to comply to authorities for whom they
often have no respect, and to regurgitate material they often find
meaningless. These are great ways of breaking someone.
[ad#article]Today, U.S. colleges and universities have increasingly
become places where young people are merely acquiring degree credentials
— badges of compliance for corporate employers — in exchange for
learning to accept bureaucratic domination and enslaving debt.
Mental Health Institutions: Aldous Huxley predicted
today’s pharmaceutical societyl “[I]t seems to me perfectly in the
cards,” he said, “that there will be within the next generation or so a
pharmacological method of making people love their servitude.”
Today, increasing numbers of people in the U.S. who do not comply
with authority are being diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated
with psychiatric drugs that make them less pained about their boredom,
resentments, and other negative emotions, thus rendering them more
compliant and manageable.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is an increasingly popular
diagnosis for children and teenagers. The official symptoms of ODD
include, “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests
or rules,” and “often argues with adults.” An even more common reaction
to oppressive authorities than the overt defiance of ODD is some type
of passive defiance — for example, attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD). Studies show that virtually all children diagnosed with
ADHD will pay attention to activities that they actually enjoy or that
they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids are having a good time and in control, the “disease” goes away!
When human beings feel too terrified and broken to actively protest,
they may stage a “passive-aggressive revolution” by simply getting
depressed, staying drunk, and not doing anything — this is one reason
why the Soviet empire crumbled. However, the diseasing/medicalizing of
rebellion and drug “treatments” have weakened the power of even this
passive-aggressive revolution.
Television: In his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
(1978), Jerry Mander (after reviewing totalitarian critics such as
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jacques Ellul, and Ivan Illich) compiled a
list of the “Eight Ideal Conditions for the Flowering of Autocracy.”
Mander claimed that television helps create all eight conditions for
breaking a population. Television, he explained, (1) occupies people so
that they don’t know themselves — and what a human being is; (2)
separates people from one another; (3) creates sensory deprivation; (4)
occupies the mind and fills the brain with prearranged experience and
thought; (5) encourages drug use to dampen dissatisfaction (while TV
itself produces a drug-like effect, this was compounded in 1997 the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration relaxing the rules of prescription-drug
advertising); (6) centralizes knowledge and information; (7) eliminates
or “museumize” other cultures to eliminate comparisons; and (8)
redefines happiness and the meaning of life.
Commericalism of Damn Near Everything: While
spirituality, music, and cinema can be revolutionary forces, the gross
commercialization of all of these has deadened their capacity to
energize rebellion. So now, damn near everything – not just organized
religion — has become “opiates of the masses.”
The primary societal role of U.S. citizens is no longer that of
“citizen” but that of “consumer.” While citizens know that buying and
selling within community strengthens that community and that this
strengthens democracy, consumers care only about the best deal. While
citizens understand that dependency on an impersonal creditor is a kind
of slavery, consumers get excited with credit cards that offer a
temporarily low APR.
Consumerism breaks people by devaluing human connectedness,
socializing self-absorption, obliterating self-reliance, alienating
people from normal human emotional reactions, and by selling the idea
that purchased products — not themselves and their community — are their
salvation.
Can anything be done to turn this around?
When people get caught up in humiliating abuse syndromes, more truths
about their oppressive humiliations don’t set them free. What sets them
free is morale.
What gives people morale? Encouragement. Small victories. Models of
courageous behaviors. And anything that helps them break out of the
vicious cycle of pain, shut down, immobilization, shame over
immobilization, more pain, and more shut down.
The last people I would turn to for help in remobilizing a
demoralized population are mental health professionals — at least those
who have not rebelled against their professional socialization. Much of
the craft of relighting the pilot light requires talents that mental
health professionals simply are not selected for nor are they trained
in. Specifically, the talents required are a fearlessness around image,
spontaneity, and definitely anti-authoritarianism. But these are not the
traits that medical schools or graduate schools select for or
encourage.
Mental health professionals’ focus on symptoms and feelings often
create patients who take themselves and their moods far too seriously.
In contrast, people talented in the craft of maintaining morale resist
this kind of self-absorption. For example, in the question-and-answer
session that followed a Noam Chomsky talk (reported in Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,
2002), a somewhat demoralized man in the audience asked Chomsky if he
too ever went through a phase of hopelessness. Chomsky responded, “Yeah,
every evening . . .”
If you want to feel hopeless, there are a lot of things you could
feel hopeless about. If you want to sort of work out objectively what’s
the chance that the human species will survive for another century,
probably not very high. But I mean, what’s the point? . . . First of
all, those predictions don’t mean anything — they’re more just a
reflection of your mood or your personality than anything else. And if
you act on that assumption, then you’re guaranteeing that’ll happen. If
you act on the assumption that things can change, well, maybe they will.
Okay, the only rational choice, given those alternatives, is to forget
pessimism.”
A major component of the craft of maintaining morale is not taking
the advertised reality too seriously. In the early 1960s, when the
overwhelming majority in the U.S. supported military intervention in
Vietnam, Chomsky was one of a minority of U.S. citizens actively
opposing it. Looking back at this era, Chomsky reflected, “When I got
involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, it seemed to me impossible
that we would ever have any effect. . . So looking back, I think my
evaluation of the ‘hope’ was much too pessimistic: it was based on a
complete misunderstanding. I was sort of believing what I read.”
An elitist assumption is that people don’t change because they are
either ignorant of their problems or ignorant of solutions. Elitist
“helpers” think they have done something useful by informing overweight
people that they are obese and that they must reduce their caloric
intake and increase exercise. An elitist who has never been broken by
his or her circumstances does not know that people who have become
demoralized do not need analyses and pontifications. Rather the
immobilized need a shot of morale.
This article originally appeared in Alternet.org and appears here without permission, but in solidarity and support.
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Mind Control Moves into
Battle
Ed Chiarini's website
Thirty Years' War
(1618–1648)
The Thirty Years' War was one of the
greatest and longest armed contests of the early modern period. Some historians
have argued that it was a series of separate wars that happened to overlap in
time and space rather than one coherent sequence of military campaigns in which
a clearly defined set of issues was at stake throughout. If one looks at the
Thirty Years' War in a European context, there is some truth in this argument.
However, in central Europe, in particular in the Holy Roman Empire, the
military and political events of the thirty years between the defenestration of
Prague in May 1618 and the signing of the Westphalian peace treaties in October
1648 formed one continuous conflict and were in fact already perceived as such
by most contemporaries.
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
For the outbreak of the war the
deepening crisis of the Holy Roman Empire was of crucial importance. The crisis
had a constitutional and political as well as a religious dimension. The
emperor's prerogatives had never been clearly defined; a ruler who knew how to
exploit his considerable informal powers of patronage could enjoy a great deal
of authority, but a weak monarch could easily be reduced to a mere figurehead.
This was very much Rudolf II's (ruled 1576–1612) fate during the last decade of
his reign. The aging emperor, who was increasingly mentally unstable, was
distrusted by both Catholics and Protestants. Moreover, he had managed to
antagonize his own family. The power vacuum created by the collapse of his
authority enabled ambitious princes such as Maximilian I, the duke of Bavaria,
or Frederick V, the elector palatine, to pursue their own agenda. Their
attempts to exploit the simmering religious conflict in Germany, which found
its expression in the foundation of the Protestant Union, led by the
Palatinate, in 1608 and the Catholic League (Liga), led by Bavaria, in 1609,
were bound to undermine peace and stability. Germany had in the past been
largely spared the horrors of religious warfare, thanks to the Religious Peace
of Augsburg (1555). However, many problems had been left unresolved in 1555,
such as the status of the ecclesiastical principalities that were ruled by
Protestant prince-bishops, and of ecclesiastical property confiscated and
secularized after 1555. The status of the Calvinists, who almost all Catholics
and many Lutherans wanted to exclude from the benefits of the peace settlement
as heretics, was also controversial. Initially the Imperial Chamber Court
(Reichskammergericht) —one of the two highest law courts in Germany—had managed
to settle disputes between the religious antagonists, but from the 1580s onward
it became increasingly paralyzed, and the Imperial Diet (Reichstag) equally
failed to provide a forum for compromise. The confessionalization of politics,
culture, and society in the later sixteenth century had in fact created a
climate of all-pervasive distrust that made such a compromise almost
impossible. The enthusiastic adherents of both Counter-Reformation Catholicism
and the eschatological worldview that most Calvinists and some Lutherans
subscribed to saw the outbreak of armed conflict in the long run as both
inevitable and even to some extent desirable.
{Read more at link
above…}
Amazon.com
The Electric Meme
A New Theory of How We
Think
By Robert Aunger
(2010)
Book Description
From biology to culture to the new
new economy, the buzzword on everyone's lips is "meme." How do
animals learn things? How does human culture evolve? How does viral marketing
work? The answer to these disparate questions and even to what is the nature of
thought itself is, simply, the meme. For decades researchers have been
convinced that memes were The Next Big Thing for the understanding of society
and ourselves. But no one has so far been able to define what they are. Until
now.
Here, for the first time, Robert
Aunger outlines what a meme physically is, how memes originated, how they
developed, and how they have made our brains into their survival systems. They
are thoughts. They are parasites. They are in control. A meme is a distinct
pattern of electrical charges in a node in our brains that reproduces a thousand
times faster than a bacterium. Memes have found ways to leap from one brain to
another. A number of them are being replicated in your brain as you read this
paragraph.
In 1976 the biologist Richard Dawkins
suggested that all animals -- including humans -- are puppets and that genes
hold the strings. That is, we are robots serving as life support for the genes
that control us. And all they want to do is replicate themselves. But then, we
do lots of things that don't seem to help genes replicate. We decide not to
have children, we waste our time doing dangerous things like mountain climbing,
or boring things like reading, or stupid things like smoking that don't seem to
help genes get copied into the next generation. We do all sorts of cultural
things for reasons that don't seem to have anything to do with genes. Fashions
in sports, books, clothes, ideas, politics, lifestyles come and go and give our
lives meaning, so how can we be gene robots?
Dawkins recognized that something
else was going on. We communicate with one another and we get ideas, and these
ideas seem to have a life of their own. Maybe there was something called memes
that were like thought genes. Maybe our bodies were gene robots and our minds
were meme robots. That would mean that what we think is not the result of our
own creativity, but rather the result of the evolutionary flow of memes as they
wash through us.
What is the biological reality of an
idea with a life of its own? What is a thought gene? It's a meme. And no one
before Robert Aunger has established what it physically must be. This elegant,
paradigm-shifting analysis identifies how memes replicate in our brains, how
they evolved, and how they use artifacts like books and photographs and
advertisements to get from one brain to another. Destined to inflame arguments
about free will, open doors to new ways of sharing our thoughts, and provide a
revolutionary explanation of consciousness, The
Electric Meme will change the way each of us thinks about our minds, our
cultures, and our daily choices.
The Field
The Quest for the
Secret Force of the Universe
By Lynne McTaggart
(2003)
Description
A book which gives scientific proof
of the paranormal. Psychic activity, remote viewing, the power of prayer and
homeopathy are all discussed in this book which The Ecologist called 'one of
the most thought-provoking reads of the year', and which has already gained an
almost cult following. Sales Handles: * A highly readable scientific detective story
which reveals how 'the Field' a vast cobweb of energy connecting everything in
the universe, past and present, is responsible for many of the most profound
human mysteries How psychics can read the future and the past; how remote
viewing works -- and how such techniques have been used by the CIA; how energy
healing works; why homeopathy works and all sorts of other mysteries are
explored by the frontier scientists Lynne McTaggart has interviewed.
Fanatic For Jesus
Putting a ‘Face to
Faith’: Religious Syncretism
Jonathan Turley
Propaganda 103: The
Word Changes, The Word Remains The Same
G. Edward Griffin
Interview Of Yuri Bezmenov
Mass Resistance
The citizens of
Massachusetts have had enough! End judicial tyranny, homosexual
"marriage", and homosexual activist recruitment of our children in
the public schools! Preserve our Judeo-Christian heritage, the Culture of Life,
and free speech! CAUTION: We deal openly and graphically with the Culture of
Death. R-rated subject matter. (They produce it, we report it.)
Media blackout biggest
protest the world has ever seen in Mexico!
National Endowment for
Democracy
History
Channeling Reality
"Battle of Ideas
and Systems"
Keith Payne: AFPC
Speech March 10, 2008
John Stadtmiller's
historic show
John talks to Peter
Neise lawman07@live.com about the
creation of the world’s biggest trust, as in the Federal Reserve System, in
1913 and the bankruptcy of the USA in 1933.
NOTE: This is a historic show! 4-13-12
Please pass it around
to everybody who is still under the impression we are free, and elections
matter!
Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Rigor, Relevance and
Relationships, The New 3R’s to Get to a Caring Economics
What if Higher Order
Thinking=Deliberate Confusion?
The Jewish Chronicle
Freier
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
Freier is a key concept in
understanding Israeli society and psyche. It is best translated as mug or
sucker. The freier is the one who waits patiently in line at the supermarket
and would not dream of leaving his trolley to zip around the aisles for the
last few vital items.
The freier in the army is the one who
asks the "she'elat kitbag" (kitbag question, another crucial term;
the sergeant orders everyone to run three times around the base, to which the
freier queries innocently, "Is that with or without our kitbags?").
There is some argument about the
precise origin of the expression. One theory is that it comes from freier in
German and Yiddish, a bachelor or suitor, but also came to mean a prostitute's
client. Wikipedia suggests that it comes from freiherr, gentleman or minor
nobility in German. This reflects the perception that the German immigrants to
Israel were fastidious about keeping the rules, and so most likely to be made
freiers.
In politics, freier is used to deride
the policy of giving land, money and guns to the Palestinians while receiving
nothing but Kassam rockets fired on Israeli towns in return. After the
Annapolis meeting, bumper stickers appeared reading "Peace, yes; Freiers,
no!"
Some English-speaking immigrants in
Israel take pride in being called freiers. We may have arrived too late to
drain the swamps, but our contribution to Zionism is to show that you can still
make it here without pushing in post office queues.
HAAERTZ
Thou shalt not be a
freier
It doesn't just seem
that the term freier (sucker), or more exactly - the abysmal fear of being a
freier - is a completely Israeli matter.
It doesn't just seem that the term
freier (sucker), or more exactly - the abysmal fear of being a freier - is a
completely Israeli matter. Several local researchers have investigated the
Israeli institution of "the non-freier" in depth. One of them, Dr.
Linda-Renee Bloch of Bar-Ilan University, explains that the term, which has
Germanic roots, exists in other languages, including Russian, German, Polish
and Romanian. But in some of them, its meaning is completely different. Even in
other places where it describes someone whom others can easily fool, the
concept of freier is not a cultural symbol like it is in Israel. Even the
English word "sucker" doesn't play as central a role. During her
research, Bloch collected more than 1,000 articles that mention being a freier.
In Haaretz alone, the word has appeared more than 1,000 times in the last
decade.
Identify the speaker of the following
quote:
"It's shocking to hear boastful
and haughty words like: 'Laws are meant to be circumvented.' How many times
have we heard people who've returned from trips abroad, who make fun of the citizens
of the countries they visited, because they act like nerds: They stand in line,
they make sure to pay. They look at these citizens as freiers. They're not the
freiers, we're the freiers. I searched but didn't find, Mr. Speaker, a
linguistic parallel in any language to the Israeli term 'freier.'"
The speaker was then-prime minister
Ariel Sharon, at the Knesset in May 2001, discussing the collapse of the
Versailles wedding hall in Jerusalem, which killed 23 people.
"'Don't be a freier' is
practically the 11th commandment of the Israeli," wrote Haaretz's Benny
Ziffer in 2006. How has such a great fear of being a freier developed in
Israel, of all places? Bloch explains that this is due, among other reasons, to
a desire to be free of the image of the Jew in exile. She says there are five
attributes of Israeli character that come together to create the culture of
"just don't be a freier": a particularly strong ego and sense of
honor, avoidance of law and rules, individualism without responsibility, competition
and machismo. There are some people, she adds, who are prepared to kill in
order not to come out as freiers. She cites examples of murders for purely
negligible reasons, like a fight over dogs or an argument over a lounge chair
on the beach.
Bloch thinks it's no coincidence that
the word "freier" has remained in the realm of slang rather than
becoming an official Hebrew word. She believes the term has been pushed to the
sidelines, which allows people to "ignore its malignant
implications."
Eran Gur, one of Bloch's students,
sent a letter to the Academy of the Hebrew Language at the beginning of this
month, writing: "Greetings, Academy of Language. I would like to know why
the word 'freier' or 'frier,' a word widely used on a day-to-day basis ... does
not merit a mention at the Academy of Language, and has not become part of the
Hebrew language."
Keren Dubnov wrote on behalf of the
academy that "the word 'freier' is slang borrowed from Yiddish, and is not
suitable in cases other than spoken speech."
Bloch first realized that importance
of the term in Israeli consciousness when she began researching American
immigrants and discovered that the word appeared repeatedly in her interviews
with them.
"The immigrants think that
they're seen by the Israelis as freiers, and they carry that mark with a
certain pride," she notes. "They're prepared to be freiers to show
that there's no need to push, that there's no need to honk, that there's no
need to cheat on your taxes. After all, they can't be pioneers like in the
olden days, so being freiers is their contribution."
The newspaper Shiluv (Integration),
which was published in English by the Immigrant Absorption Ministry in 2002,
explained to immigrant parents that in order for their children to function at
school and in the army, they should not to be too sensitive. The children have
to learn not to be freiers, it said, adding: You might find that they become
more assertive and less polite than you would have hoped.
The Los Angeles Times reported in
1997 that the fear of being a sucker plays a role in every element of life,
from performing the most routine task to making peace between countries.
Does the freier ideology really
influence Israeli policies related to peace and war? It appears so. Thus, for
instance, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told students at a Ma'aleh
Adumim school in 1998: "We are not freiers. We don't give without
receiving."
The desire not to be a freier is also
one of the reasons that people who get entangled in serious scandals in Israel are
prepared to accept any humiliation, as long as they get to stay in their seats
a little while longer.
"Resigning is taking
responsibility," says Bloch. "It's similar to apologizing, and these
are 'freier' behaviors - especially if you can assign the responsibility to
someone else, the 'freier on duty.'"
Who were or are the big freiers of
Israeli politics? Yitzhak Rabin, who resigned after the bank scandal? Benny
Begin, who resigned and disappeared from public life just because he lost the
elections and discovered he had no public support for his views? By contrast,
it seems that choosing the anti-freier of all time will be far easier.
President Moshe Katsav appears to have no real competition in this category,
both because of the nature of the allegations against him and because of his
determination to remain at the scene of the alleged crime.
{Note: Be sure to read the comments
at the above link ~Lark}
Henry Makow
Criticism of Israel Not
Kosher!
Veterans Today
Happy Birthday, Agent
Smith
“What happened to my life and to my mother’s life from that
point on belongs in the annals of James Bond meets The Bates Motel.”
By Janet Phelan
(July 7, 2010) – Today is the
birthday of someone you have probably never heard of. The name he goes by—Jack
Smith—is as humdrum and unremarkable as is his stated profession—a color
corrector at a digital imaging company in Los Angeles, IMAGIC.
Smith lives in a two story condo on a
quiet street in W. Hollywood at 7911 W. Norton. It is an attractive, older
Spanish-type building. At last report, he was driving an older Taurus. But
Smith is hardly your everyday techie. Smith is in reality an agent for one of
the alphabet soup intelligence agencies and his job at IMAGIC, which according
to a Department of Defense source, handles DOD projects, is only one of his
professions. He also sets people up to be killed.
I was first approached by Jack Smith
back in October of 2000, when he answered my personal ad which ran in the LA
Weekly. I was forty eight, divorced and looking for something really special.
What I didn’t expect was for a killer to show up on my doorstep.
Forbes
Ron Paul and Rand
Paul's 'Technology Revolution' Isn't Revolutionary. Neither Is Internet
Freedom.
By James Poulos
There’s a new manifesto in town. Ron
and Rand Paul are the proud new supporters of the Campaign for Liberty’s “The
Technology Revolution,” a document designed to help move the Pauls and their
agenda more than a few clicks away from the bricks-and-mortar world of the Fed
and into a more expansive — and popular — domain.
That’s a savvy move, even though the
criticism leveled at the manifesto isn’t unfair. The critics might be forgiven
for expecting ideological purity from Team Paul on all things internet, but the
reality of the realm where tech and government meet is daunting enough that
even the Pauls’s sweeping propositions have a modest flavor. The politics
expressed in “The Technology Revolution” is far more prudential than it
appears.
In fact, the most misleading thing
about the manifesto is its revolutionary language. The internet may continue to
be a revolutionary technological development. But even the most powerful sea
changes in the mechanics of everyday life may do little more than just refine
our perspective on what remain durably fixed ideas and ideals. Internet freedom
is not different in kind from meatspace freedom. Like it or not, it’s fitting
that Ron and Rand Paul’s take on the politics and policy of the ‘net accepts
more than a little of the current, government-created regulatory environment.
Taking a vigilant, principled stand against new regulation alone is of such
great importance that no one — not even a libertarian crusader and his Senator
son — should be expected to dilute this mission by riding off in the other
direction, toward a reform of current regulations that were present at the
creation of the telecom world we live in.
In short, as I put it not long ago,
telecom embarrassingly reveals that, in at least some huge sectors of the
economy, we’re stuck with crony
capitalism:
The fact of the matter is that we’re hardwired into a
national information system that is just about completely dependent on big
government and the military-industrial complex, which are now tightly woven
together technologically. For issues that arise under these circumstances, the
influence of money on politics is a side note. The big telecom companies ‘get
away with’ overcharging relative to the theoretical alternatives because
they’re alternatives only in theory. [...] Because government is hardwired into
our tech infrastructure, crony-like and cartel-like arrangements with a handful
of big corporate players are inevitable.
They’re just as baked into the cake.
The good news, I’ve argued, is that markets
can move on from these disappointing facts of life. But they won’t be able
to do so if the foes the Pauls identify in their manifesto have their way. Is
it hypocrisy to choose to array a liberty coalition against new regulations
while bracketing what’s baked in the cake? Not at all. Is it revolutionary?
It’s better to call it counter-revolutionary!
To be sure, the drafters of “The
Technology Revolution” complicate things with their rhetoric. Tech geniuses may
have created “new markets in ways never before imagined in human history,” but
the internet is not “the single greatest catalyst in history for individual
liberty and free markets.” (That distinction still goes to the Protestant
Reformation.)
And, with the end of unlimited
data plans nigh — thanks, government spectrum hogs — someone will have to
turn their attention to the way regulatory sins present at the creation of the
telecom industry are causing problematic new arrangements to be promulgated
today. But there’s little indication that Ron and Rand’s approach to the whole
matter of internet freedom is worse than any other available approach. Despite
its purple prose, it’s a fundamentally conservative document — not in the sense
that it supports greed-headed monopolies and cartels, but in the sense that it
treats policy innovation as more an enemy of human innovation than a friend.
That’s not an excuse to stand pat as yesterday’s regulatory environment
continues to give rise to more complex and more restrictive rules about how
Americans and other humans can utilize telecommunications. But it is a
legitimate place to start — and, perhaps, the only place to start.
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Tunguska, Tesla and
technosis
Nikola Tesla
had a plan to light up the whole Atlantic Ocean
with a dim
glow so ships wouldn't crash into each other in the dark.
By John Kaminski
Technosis, first cousin
to psychosis, is the mental disease caused by thinking every question in life
can be answered by technology.
Tesla, of course, was
the forgotten genius whose inventions were developed into most of the
electrical appliances we know today. But Tesla also brought something into the
world that was so dark, so powerful, that the powers that be have kept it under
lock and key ever since.
Tunguska, a vast
expanse of virgin forest in central Siberia, was the site of a mysterious
planet-shaking explosion in 1908 that was never satisfactorily explained.
Variously described as a meteor or an alien spacecraft exploding over Russia,
Oliver Nichelson writes convincingly that a desperate Nikola Tesla likely
caused this event with a "death ray" launched from his laboratory on
Long Island.
Which takes us back
to technosis: the reliance upon technology to cure our every ill without a
second thought as to its impact on all life itself.
Like the
international drug cartel or the wacko sex habits of Washington politicians,
Tesla's energy implications are never discussed in the mainstream public except
as some trivial curio for conspiracy theorists.
The growing
contemporary awareness of Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) rests on
the legend of his Wardenclyffe laboratory that went to ruins after J.P. Morgan
cut off funding for his project to provide free electricity for everyone on
Earth.
Speculation on this
matter leads to the epiphany that all the wars of the 20th century were
unnecessarily conducted by men who valued the continuing sale of oil and
petrochemicals more than they did the contentment of every living human.
Consequently, they bear the guilt for the many million deaths accrued in
constant wars over control of oil fields — it rests on the heads of those who
stifled Tesla's ideas.
The dark side of
Tesla's knowledge was removed for safekeeping by the intelligence agencies when
they killed the lonely and abandoned old inventor in a New York hotel room in
1943 and took all his papers for further study.
From this Pandora's
box of cutting edge science came the silent weapons for quiet wars. These have
produced a lifetime's worth of unanswered questions, such as:
• Are UFOs and crop
circles produced in studios?
• Is HAARP based on
Tesla principles?
• What about those
sudden plane crashes, where the engine just shuts off?
• Freak storms?
Strange sounds? Earthquakes and directed arc-lightning caused forest fires?
Weather wars?
Nichelson writes:
An English engineer,
J.H. Hamil, offered the American army plans for producing "an invisible
ray capable of stopping airplanes and automobiles in midflight," invented
by a German scientist. The ray device was said to have been used the previous
summer to bring down French planes over Bavaria. Hamil noted, however, that
"the fundamental work was done by Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs about
30 years ago. He built a powerful electrical coil. It was found that the
dynamos and other electrical apparatus of a Colorado fuel company within a 100
yards or so were all put out of business.
Hamil believed the
Tesla coil scattered rays which short-circuited electrical machinery at close
range. Laboratories all over the world, he added, were testing methods of
stepping up the Tesla coil to produce its effects at greater distances.
"Working on an entirely different principle," Hamil said, "the
German scientist has succeeded in projecting and directing electrical
power."
Nichelsen recounts
the scene:
In the period from
1900 to 1910 Tesla's creative thrust was to establish his plan for wireless
transmission of energy. Undercut by Marconi's accomplishment, beset by
financial problems, and spurned by the scientific establishment, Tesla was in a
desperate situation by mid-decade. The strain became too great by 1906-1907
and, according to Tesla biographers, he suffered an emotional collapse. In
order to make a final effort to have his grand scheme recognized, he may have
tried one high power test of his transmitter to show off its destructive
potential. This would have been in 1908.
The Tunguska event
took place on the morning of June 30th, 1908. An explosion estimated to be
equivalent to 10-15 megatons of TNT flattened 500,000 acres of pine forest near
the Stony Tunguska River in central Siberia. Whole herds of reindeer were
destroyed. Several nomadic villages were reported to have vanished. The
explosion was heard over a radius of 620 miles. When an expedition was made to
the area in 1927 to find evidence of the meteorite presumed to have caused the
blast, no impact crater was found. When the ground was drilled for pieces of
nickel, iron, or stone, the main constituents of meteorites, none were found
down to a depth of 118 feet.
Several explanations
have been given for the Tunguska event. The officially accepted version is that
a 100,000 ton fragment of Encke's Comet, composed mainly of dust and ice,
entered the atmosphere at 62,000 mph, heated up, and exploded over the earth's
surface creating a fireball and shock wave but no crater. Alternative
explanations of the disaster include a renegade mini-black hole or an alien
space ship crashing into the earth with the resulting release of energy.
In 1915, Tesla
appeared to end the mystery, when he said,
It is perfectly practical to transmit electrical
energy without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have
already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible. ... But
when unavoidable [it] may be used to destroy property and life. The art is
already so far developed that the great destructive effects can be produced at
any point on the globe, defined beforehand with great accuracy.
What mental patient,
forever trapped in an asylum by antipsychotic medications that only take him
further from himself, would be in as bad a situation as we are in, fighting
wars that might well exterminate all humankind, over nuclear power and oil, two
substances that never would have been used at all if Nikola Tesla had had his
way?
And what
incomprehensibly large bomb — created by the Frankenstein midwives of Tesla's
original instructions —now stares at us coldly from the future, silently
waiting to go off?
Tesla's
Wireless Power Transmitter and the Tunguska Explosion of 1908
John Kaminski is a
writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, constantly trying to figure out
why we are destroying ourselves, and pinpointing a corrupt belief system as the
engine of our demise. Solely dependent on contributions from readers, please
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NY Daily News
Libertarianism goes way
beyond GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul; the movement is experiencing a
rebirth, and represents a bloc of swing voters this fall
The Libertarian Party
was founded in the Vietnam War-era, but the political viewpoint goes back to
Colonial America
Black's Law Dictionary
Revealed as Hoax
5-28-03
Montreal, PQ (Reuters) - Sarah Medhurst (nee Black) shocked
journalists and legal scholars at a press conference held at the Black family
estate Monday when she revealed that Black's Law Dictionary, a highly regarded
legal reference text, was originally written as a joke by her eccentric great
grandfather Henry Campbell Black.
Medhurst appeared
unapologetic, suggesting that the Black family had never tried very hard to
keep it a secret. "Have any of you actually taken the time to read it?”
she asked, flipping open the renowned text. “Look at page 840 for instance.
'John-a-Nokes'? Or how about page 347? 'Correality – the quality or state of
being correal." She then cast a challenging look around the room.
Medhurst admitted
that the entire Black family has participated in the century-long ruse, working
together to generate content for the ever-expanding text. She credits her Uncle
Bertrand with developing one of their most successful filler techniques:
"We created more than 30 new entries just by using the word 'actual'.
Actual agency - see agency. Actual allegiance - see allegiance. Actual
authority - see authority. And on and on - you get the idea."
Medhurst admits that
the family started to get lazy in later editions, at times resorting to
stealing terms from other dictionaries. "I remember one time my brother
pulled 'Le Roi' (literally: "the king") right out of his
French-English dictionary to meet the deadline for the 5th edition while on a three-week
ski trip in the French Alps." She claims the ploy has been used sparingly,
however, and that the family put a stop to the practice when her brother
started bringing the Official Scrabble Dictionary to editorial meetings.
Henry Campbell Black
had never intended - or even imagined - that his dictionary would become the
authoritative source for legal terminology. "My great granddad had
actually written the text for an upcoming firm skit night", Medhurst
explains. "It was his way of showing how convoluted and, well, pompous the
legal profession had become." The dictionary became an instant hit,
however, and Henry Black's comedic intentions went unnoticed. When the money
started to roll in, Black elected to pursue a highly lucrative career in legal
publishing instead of becoming a marginally talented prop comic.
Yahoo! Answers
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Yes it was, Sarah Medhurst (nee
Black) shocked journalist and legal scholars at a press conference held by the
Black family estate when she revealed that her great Grand Father, Henry
Campbell Black originally wrote his law dictionary as a Hoax. If you will type
(history of blacks law dictionary) into the search bar at the top of the
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Real Jew News
The Stupid American
‘Goy’
By Brother Nathanael Kapner
Dear Real Jew News Family,
Growing up in Judaism I often heard
Jews referring to Gentiles as “Stupid Goys.”
I myself, being a sensitive Jewish
boy, never used this derogatory term by referring to non-Jews as “Goys.”
I still don’t use this term but ONLY
when showing how and why Jewry uses it.
I am now almost 62 years old, a
convert to the Orthodox Church, and although I eschew “Jewish ways,” I cannot
help but seeing objectively why Jewry sneers at the “dumb goys” and why Jewry
knows how easily the “stupid goys” can be controlled.
Most Americans believe what the
Jews–WHO OWN THE MEDIA–tell them and accept as “truth” simply because they “saw
it on TV.”
(Celente’s “presstitutes” and Paul
Craig Roberts’ “corporate elitists” are NOT the owners of the MSM…JEWS are!)
See Below.
Jews themselves do not watch much TV
especially the immoral rot of homosexuality and lesbianism they themselves produce.
And Jewish children are in their
rooms doing their homework assigned to them by their teachers AT PRIVATE
SCHOOLS preparing to be CEOs at Goldman Sachs.
I’ll never forget when a homosexual
movie came to Jewish Brookline MA when I was working and living there as a
straight-commissioned very successful salesman.
I pointed out the marquee to a
religious Jew saying, “Isn’t it disgusting seeing this sexual perversion portrayed
in the heart of Brookline?”
The religious Jew answered
sneeringly, “Who cares? This is for the Goyim, not us.”
You see, the ‘Goyim’ have been
corrupted and receive LIES from Jewry to the point where they cannot oppose the
machinations of Jewry with its wars, its political supremacy, its destruction
of their liberties via the war on terror hoax.
Why? Because sinners cannot fight
sin, the unrighteous cannot fight unrighteousness, the corrupted cannot fight
the corrupt.
Lieberman and Chertoff, the JEWS who
run Homeland Security understand this about the “goyim.” (The alleged lesbian
Napolitano, contrary to Alex Jones calling her “Big Sis,” is nothing more than
a puppet of these two Jews.)
That’s why the FEMA camps will have
government-subsidized fries, wide-screen TV’s, and R-rated movies.
You see, the Stupid American ‘Goy’
will accept the loss of his liberties and even his house and paycheck. (Jews
know this about the ‘goyim.’ That’s why so many Gentiles are willing to live in
the back seat of their cars and Tent cities without knowing that the JEWS on
Wall Street sent their jobs to China and India.)
But for the American ‘Goy’ to give up
his fries, football, and soft porn, this is simply out of the question.
+Brother Nathanael Kapner
Publisher, Real Jew News @
For More See:
America’s
Doomed Economy @
The Futility Of
American Elections (Proving that JEWS own the Media) @
AND:
“How
Jews Think” @
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The Eternal Jew (1940)
WWII propaganda film
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Times of Israel
Jews DO
control the media
This article
was written under an assumed name.
We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor.
Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that
we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish
politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or
piece of art, we inevitably say something like, “Did you know that he was
Jewish?” That’s just how we roll.
We’re a driven group,
and not just in regards to the art world. We have, for example, AIPAC,
which was essentially constructed just
to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we brag about
it. Again, it’s just what we do.
But the funny part is
when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts to spout stuff like, “The
Jews control the media!” and “The Jews control Washington!”
Suddenly we’re up in
arms. We create huge campaigns to take these people down. We do what we can to
put them out of work. We publish articles. We’ve created entire organizations
that exist just to tell everyone that the Jews don’t control nothin’. No, we
don’t control the media, we don’t have any more sway in DC than anyone else.
No, no, no, we swear: We’re just like everybody else!
Does anyone else (who’s
not a bigot) see the irony of this?
Let’s be honest with
ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control
the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big
movie production companies it’s almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV
show, whether it be “Tropic Thunder” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is rife with
actors, directors, and writers who are Jewish. Did you know that all eight
major film studios are run by Jews?
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
(photo credit: CC BY-SA Angela George/Wikimedia Commons)
But that’s not all. We
also control the ads that go on those TV shows.
And let’s not forget
AIPAC, every anti-Semite’s favorite punching bag. We’re talking an organization
that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. I’ll never forget when
I was involved in Israeli advocacy in college and being at one of the many
AIPAC conventions. A man literally stood in front of us and told us that their
whole goal was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they
would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I am, an
idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who wants to do
some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally talking about infiltrating
the government. Intense.
Now, I know what
everyone will say. That everyone tries to lobby. Every minority group and every
majority group. That every group has some successful actors and directors. But
that’s a far call from saying that we run Hollywood and Madison Avenue. That
the Mel Gibsons of the world are right in saying we’re deliberately using our
power to take over the world. That we’ve got some crazy conspiracy going down.
Okay. Fine. So some of
that is kooky talk.
But let’s look at it a
bit deeper.
Maybe it’s true:
everyone lobbies. Maybe it’s true there are actors of every ethnicity out
there. But come on. We’re the ones who are bragging about this stuff all the
time. Can’t we admit that we’re incredibly successful? Can’t we say it to the
world?
I’ll give my theory for
why Jews don’t want to talk about their control of the media.
First of all, as much
as Jews like to admit that so many of them are successful, and that so many of
them have accomplished so much, they hate to admit that it has to do with
they’re being Jewish. Maybe they’ll admit that it has something to do with the
Jewish experience. But how many Jews will admit that there is something
inherently a part of every single one of them that helps them to accomplish
amazing things?
The ADL chairman, Abe
Foxman, was interviewed in a great article about the subject and he said that
he “would prefer people say that many executives in the industry ‘happen to be
Jewish.’” This just about sums up the party line.
The truth is, the
anti-Semites got it right. We Jews have something planted in each one of us
that makes us completely different from every group in the world. We’re talking
about a group of people that just got put in death camps, endured pogroms,
their whole families decimated. And then they came to America, the one place
that ever really let them have as much power as they wanted, and suddenly
they’re taking over. Please don’t tell me that any other group in the world has
ever done that. Only the Jews. And we’ve done it before. That’s why the Jews
were enslaved in Egypt. We were too successful. Go look at the Torah — it’s
right there. And we did it in Germany too.
This ability to
succeed, this inner drive, comes not from the years of education or any other
sort of conditional factors, but because of the inner spark within each Jew.
Now, the reason groups
like the ADL and AIPAC hate admitting this is because, first of all, they are
secular organizations. Their whole agenda is to prove that every Jew is the
same as every other person in the world. I cannot imagine a more outlandish
agenda. No, we’re different. We’re special.
And clearly, that whole thing about
big Jewish noses was totally blown out of proportion. (illustrative photo: Abir
Sultan/Flash 90)
Of course, people hate when anyone says this. They assume
that if you’re saying that Jews are special, it somehow implies that they’re
better.
To be honest, I’m not
really sure what the word “better” even means. What I do know is that being
special simply means a person has a responsibility to do good.
I think that’s the real
reason most Jews are so afraid to admit that there’s something inherently
powerful and good about them. Not because they’re afraid of being special. But
because they’re afraid of being responsible. It means that they’re suddenly culpable
when they create dirty TV shows that sully the spiritual atmosphere of the
world. It means that things can’t just be created for the sake of amusement or
fun or even “art.”
Suddenly, we can’t
screw up the world.
The interesting thing
is that Jews have done so much for the world in so many other ways. They’ve
moved forward civil rights; they’ve helped save lives in Darfur, Haiti and just
about everywhere else.
But that’s not enough.
Fixing the world physically is only half the battle.
Our larger battle, the
harder battle, is elevating the world spiritually. And this is what the people
that fight with every inch of their soul to prove that Jews are just the same
as everyone else are afraid of. It means that we can no longer just “express
ourselves.” We’ll have to start thinking about the things we create and the way
we act. It means we’ll have to start working together. It means we’ll have to
hold one other, and ourselves, to a higher standard.
The time has come,
though. We no longer have to change our names. We no longer have to blend in
like chameleons. We own a whole freaking country.
Instead, we can be
proud of who we are, and simultaneously aware of our huge responsibility — and
opportunity.
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Denis Rancourt's
Struggle For Justice
By Stephen Lendman
Here are some of the
advantages of the using the Riegel Exchange System
• It provides another stream of
income
• It bridges the 'money gap' between
the skills/offers/talents/gifts of sellers on the one hand and the
wants/needs/requirements of buyers on the other. Conventional money usually
can't bridge this gap because its supply is limited or non-existent.
• It builds community
• RES 'money' is abundant and can
never be in short supply
• RES 'money' can never be in
oversupply and cause inflation
• It is democratic: it returns 'money
power' to the people
• It allocates credit democratically
• It eliminates usury. Its money is
'free' (i.e. interest free)
• It keeps wealth where it is created
• It eliminates cheating, theft and
fraud (of money)
• It provides a support network
• It eliminates the problem of
sellers not being paid for what they supply
• It reconciles the accounts of
buyers and sellers immediately
• It promotes honesty because one can
never 'run out of money'
• It levels the playing field:
everyone starts from zero and those who deliver real value to others are the
ones who get 'rich', not those who deliver nothing but acquire their wealth by manipulating
the currency
• It gives local suppliers preference
• It eliminates the waste of
transporting goods from all over because its focus is local
• It destroys the notion that the
source of money is a job: the source of money is the delivery of value from one
entity (person, company etc.) to another
• It streamlines transactions and
eliminates wasted effort (e.g. sending accounts, debt collecting)
• It mobilizes the real wealth of a
community: The knowledge and skills of its people is the real wealth of a
community
• It fosters self-reliance and self
esteem
• It fosters social justice and
equality
• And many, many more...
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Next World TV
Localshare
Tired Of The Old Crusty
Consumer Culture?
Localshare is a website that allows
you to share goods and services with others in your community. Think of it as
creating a massive lending library, organized online, with everyone who also
wants to share stuff in your neighborhood.
Everything from tools, to music
instruments to camping gear to cookbooks can be listed as gifts, shares, for
barter, for sale, or for rent.
This video features the founder of
Localshare, John Nicoll, with all the stuff he's sharing himself. He defines it
as "$14,000 of value that he is opening up to his friends and
neighbors."
He gives a passionate and clear
explanation for why we need this NOW!
"Americans throw away 90% of
everything they buy within 6 months...(by participating in the Share Economy)
you're exercising your power to create a different culture that is fun and
sustainable... and you end up receiving so much because there are resources all
around you." he says.
From the Localshare website: "A
values-based, sustainable culture and economy is slowly, organically, and
joyfully being born. It’s rooted in local economics, local food webs, low
impact living and integrated local relationships - from your friends and
neighbors to local businesses and farms. LocalShare provides tools for the
growth and integration of your local culture and economy."
See www.localshare.org to sign up!
--Bibi Farber
Here Is a List of Global Taxes
Proposed by the United Nations Last Week
TURF to lawmakers:
'Public private partnerships don't work for roads'
Reveals TxDOT's plans
to resurrect the Trans Texas Corridor
July 05, 2012|By Todd
Walker | Channel 2 News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
— Several electronic road construction signs around Anchorage were hacked late
Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to the state Department of
Transportation.
Signs that normally
display closure and detour information, like the one on Minnesota Drive near
100th Avenue, were changed to read “Impeach Obama.” That particular sign wasn’t
fixed until sometime between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Thursday.
It happened because
DOT says it doesn't lock the boxes on the signs that hold the message control
pad.
Construction managers
say sign-hacking has never happened before, so they never thought to lock the
boxes.
DOT says that changed
this morning, and now all of them will be locked.
“I'm sure somebody
thought it was a pretty funny joke but we try to convey a lot of important
information with these signs,” said Tim Croghan, a regional construction
engineer for DOT.
Tamara Douglas snapped
a picture of the sign message around 6 a.m. Thursday.
Iron Curtain Encircles
Latin America; USA Next
US after large-scale
war in Middle East: Analyst
US slave of extremist
Likud Zionism in Mideast: American author
Clinton reduced to
absurd bluff on Syria impasse
Bullying, Bluster And
Imperial Arrogance 101
By Stephen Lendman
Homeland Security
Science and
Technology
Human Factors /
Behavioral Sciences Division
Hot Spots of Terrorism
and Other Crimes in the United States,
1970 to 2008
January 31, 2012
---
About This Report
The authors of this
report are Gary LaFree, director of START and professor of criminology at the
University of Maryland, and Bianca Bersani, assistant professor of sociology at
the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Questions about this report can be
directed to Gary Lafree at garylafree@gmail.com
This report is part
of a series sponsored by the Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division,
Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in
support of the Counter-IED Prevent/Deter program. The goal of this program is
to sponsor research that will aid the intelligence and law enforcement
communities in identifying potential terrorist threats and support policymakers
in developing prevention efforts.
This material is
based upon work supported under Grant Award Number 2008ST061ST0003 from the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security made to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism - START, www.start.umd.edu - at the University of
Maryland. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the
authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official
policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security or START.
Netanyahu says Russia
and Israel on same page over Iran threat
In extremely brief
statement, Putin says Jerusalem and Moscow share ‘friendly ties’
US Department of
State
Rule of
Law
In May 2011, our Presidents announced
the establishment of the Rule of Law Working Group to promote enhanced cooperation between the U.S.
Department of Justice and Russian Ministry of Justice. Topics for discussion
within this Working Group include judicial assistance in civil cases,
corrections, pretrial detention, service of process, alternatives to detention,
and asset recovery.
Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace
U.S.-Russia Bilateral
Presidential Commission
White House.gov
FACT SHEET: U.S.-Russia
Bilateral Presidential Commission
The two Presidents
agreed to create a Bilateral Presidential Commission, which they will chair and
Secretary of State Clinton and Foreign Minister Lavrov will coordinate. The Commission will include the following
working groups. Additional working
groups will be created and announced in the coming months, along with
sub-groups under each working group as appropriate. Secretary Clinton will travel to Moscow in
the fall for the first meeting of the Commission coordinators.
Commission Co-Chairs:
President Dmitry A. Medvedev, President Barack Obama
Commission Coordinators:
Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Hillary Clinton, Secretary
of State
DEATH BY CHINA
From best-selling
author and filmmaker, Peter Navarro, comes DEATH BY CHINA, a
documentary feature that pointedly confronts the most urgent problem facing
America today – its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a
rapidly rising China. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally
subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared,
more than 25 million Americans can’t find a decent job, and America now owes
more than 3 trillion dollars to the world’s largest totalitarian nation.
Through compelling interviews with voices across the political spectrum, DEATH
BY CHINA exposes that the U.S.-China relationship is broken and must be fixed
if the world is going to be a place of peace and prosperity.
Peter Navarro
is the co-author of Death by China and a business professor at the Merage
School of Business, UC Irvine. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard, is a
gifted public speaker, a CNBC contributor, and is the author of several
best-selling books on economics and investments.
Greg Autry
is the co-author of Death by China and serves as Senior Economist with the
American Jobs Alliance. He writes and speaks on China, space, economics, investing,
and business strategy.
Read Blog Entries by
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry at above link
Keith Payne: AFPC
Speech 3-10-08
At ECLAC, Chinese
Premier Proposes High-level Cooperation Forum with Latin America and the
Caribbean
He stated that the Community of Latin
American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has enabled the region to increase its
strength of cohesion, action and influence.
(26 June 2012) In order to deepen
strategic relations with the region, today the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
proposed the creation of a China-Latin America cooperation forum and the
establishment of a regular dialogue mechanism with the troika of Foreign
Ministers from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) -
with a first meeting due to be held during 2012.
The Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia
Bárcena, welcomed Wen Jiabao on behalf of the Commission. From ECLAC, he then sent out a message to the
Latin American and Caribbean region on the occasion of his official visit to
Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
In his ECLAC speech, the Chinese
Premier put forward concrete proposals for cooperation in areas such as food
security, innovation, science and technology and sustainable development.
Wen Jiabao announced the creation of
a cooperation fund for the region with an initial input of 5.0 billion dollars
to promote, inter alia, the development of the manufacturing industry, as well
as a credit line of 10.0 billion dollars to boost infrastructure cooperation
through the Bank of China.
Activist Post
Agenda 21: How
Globalist Domination Happens on a Local Level
The U.N. Deception
Here Is a List of
Global Taxes Proposed by the United Nations Last Week
The UN
"reform" bandwagon: UN supporters on the left and UN critics on the
right are uniting in calls to "reform" and "strengthen" the
UN. Try this instead: the UN is unreformable so dump it!
By William F. Jasper
Rehmat's World
"There is no
compulsion in religion," – Holy Qur'an
Israelis: People raised
on hatred
Israel - Land Of
Inequality And Injustice
By Stephen Lendman
The Occidental
Observer
Who are the Jews?
Legacy: A Genetic
History of the Jewish People
The Occidental
Observer
Traditional Jewish
Ethics
A recurrent theme
here is the contrast between the moral universalism of the West versus Jewish
moral particularism. Moral universalism is a corollary of individualism: Groups
have no moral standing. Stealing doesn’t become right depending on what group the
victim belongs to.
But Jewish ethics is
based fundamentally on the group status of perpetrator and victim. It’s okay if
the victim is from a different group. And within the group, ethics is
structured so that the group as a whole benefits: What’s good for the Jews.
Dennis Praeger has a
nice column on traditional Jewish moral particularism (“Can Halachah ever be
wrong?“).
The Magnes Zionist
Self-Criticism from an Israeli,
American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective
Religious Zionist and
Progressive on Palestine–Part One
The Magnes Zionist
Progressive and
Religious Zionist -- Part Two
The Magnes Zionist
National Service for
Palestinian Israelis?
Who Controls America?
When Victims Rule: A
Critique of Jewish Pre-Eminence in America
The Ethnic Cleansing of
Palestine
By Ilan Pappe
(2007)
Homeland Security News
Wire is proud to announce IDGA’s Biometrics & Identity
Management Summit (August 20-22 in Arlington, VA) - the only conference of its
kind anywhere in the world.
This unique summit
features keynote presentations from all the leading government agencies forging
the future of biometrics, including: US-VISIT, BIMA, DARPA, FBI, NIJ, and
JIEDDO COIC.
Delegates can expect
a two day conference with a pre-conference focus day that will educate them on
the latest advancements in biometric technologies and the tactical
implementation of this technology in areas including: Law enforcement (local,
state and federal), intelligence, public safety, national security and the
military.
The Cutting Edge
Reuters
Many Wall Street
executives says wrongdoing is necessary: survey
(Reuters) - If the
ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes were to go out with his lantern in search of
an honest man today, a survey of Wall Street executives on workplace conduct
suggests he might have to look elsewhere.
A quarter of Wall
Street executives see wrongdoing as a key to success, according to a survey by
whistleblower law firm Labaton Sucharow released on Tuesday.
In a survey of 500
senior executives in the United States and the UK, 26 percent of respondents
said they had observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the
workplace, while 24 percent said they believed financial services professionals
may need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct to be successful.
Sixteen percent of
respondents said they would commit insider trading if they could get away with
it, according to Labaton Sucharow. And 30 percent said their compensation plans
created pressure to compromise ethical standards or violate the law.
"When misconduct
is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of
our entire financial system is at risk," Jordan Thomas, partner and chair
of Labaton Sucharow's whistleblower representation practice, said in a
statement.
The survey's release
comes as the fallout from Barclays PLC's (BARC.L) Libor-rigging scandal
continues and other banks including Citigroup Inc (C.N), HSBC Holdings PLC
(HSBA.L), Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS.L) and UBS AG (UBSN.VX) await
the outcome of an industry-wide probe.
Business Insider
JAMES KUNSTLER: We're
Entering A Dangerous New Period In History
News that that a swarm
of termites deep inside the British banking system have been fiddling the
interbank interest rates (LIBOR) for years in order to systematically vacuum a
few billion pence off the exchange floors for themselves is the latest blow to
the credibility of the global money system - and probably a fine overture to a
looming climactic implosion of the gigantic, creaking, smoldering, reeking,
duck-taped edifice of broken promises, booby-trapped hedge obligations,
counterparty follies, central bank euchres, sovereign flim-flams, and countless
chicanes too various, dark, and deep to smoke out.
Next, we'll probably
hear that Lloyd Blankfein over at Goldman Sachs has been tinkering with the
rotation of the earth in order to gain a few micro-milliseconds of advantage in
his firm's high frequency trading rackets. After all, back in 2008 Lloyd
himself claimed to be "doing God's work."
{Read more at the
above link…}
The Billionaire and the
Fugitive
The story of how Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan worked with
Israeli intelligence. An exclusive excerpt from 'Confidential: The Life of
Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan.'
In Hollywood, Arnon
Milchan is best known as the billionaire producer of films like Pretty Woman
and LA Confidential, and as the owner of Fox-based New Regency. But there is another
Arnon Milchan, as Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman reveal in their new biography, Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent
Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan.
For the first time,
the writers expose how in the mid-1960s, while still in his early 20s, Milchan
was recruited by Israel’s secretive spy agency, LAKAM; how he became a key
operative for Israel’s top master spies, Benjamin Blumberg and Rafi Eitan, and
a confidant of such powerful Israeli politicians as President Shimon Peres and
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and how he participated in a web of complex
undercover schemes to procure armaments for his country.
In this adaption from
their book, they detail Milchan’s controversial relationship with American
aerospace engineer Richard Smyth, a friend who became a fugitive after the U.S.
accused him of illegally smuggling nuclear-bomb triggers to Israel. We pick up
the two men’s story in May 1985.
Arnon Milchan was
nervous, very nervous. He had just received a phone call at his Paris apartment
from a Newsweek reporter seeking his reaction to the stunning indictment of Dr.
Richard Kelly Smyth, president of California-based Milco Ltd.—an Israeli
intelligence front company—for shipping krytrons to one of Milchan’s Tel Aviv
companies.
Krytrons are sophisticated
triggers for the detonation of nuclear bombs. According to Smyth, Milchan’s
company had pushed him hard for the krytrons and knew perfectly what they were
for—even though it was illegal to export them from the U.S. without a U.S.
State Department munitions license. Milchan’s Heli Trading Ltd. had ordered 14
shipments totaling 810 krytrons from 1979-82. Now U.S. Customs and the FBI had
moved in and the entire Milco operation was in jeopardy. Milchan feared that a
politically ambitious and publicity-hungry U.S. prosecutor would come hunting
for him, he told us.
After a short
conversation with the Newsweek reporter, in which Milchan pleaded ignorance, he
booked the first available flight to Tel Aviv. Within hours, TV crews were camped
in front of his penthouse and the phone was ringing off the hook.
Israeli-American
movie producer Arnon Milchan (center) with Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon
Peres (left) and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2005
(David Silverman / Getty Images)
There was one call he
could not avoid—from his mother, Shoshanna. “Everyone is calling my son an arms
dealer,” she said, bursting into tears. “It’s embarrassing.”
Arnon was devastated.
“Mother, it’s not
like I’m instigating wars in third-world countries and shipping them guns,” he
told her. “I’m doing this to help our country.”
***
Milchan first met
Smyth in 1968, when U.S.-based defense contractor Rockwell Inc. sent its newly
appointed vice president to Tel Aviv to downgrade relations, under pressure
from the Arab world.
Smyth was a senior
engineer who had grown up in rural Oklahoma and struggled to put himself
through school, obtaining a B.S. in physics from Caltech as well as a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering and mathematics from USC. Along the way, he’d gotten
married and fathered five children.
In his early 40s, he
couldn’t be more different from the flamboyant figure he now met at the Tel
Aviv airport. Tall, athletic and rich, Milchan was only 24 years old but had
already made a mark in Israel, where he had taken over his late father’s
fertilizer company and transformed it from near-bankruptcy to mega-million
success.
'I am restrained from recommending any
single individual for our highest defense-related honor,' Shimon Peres told us,
'but undoubtedly Milchan is worthy of such an acknowledgement.'
As Milchan grew the
business, he had come to the attention of up-and-coming politician Shimon
Peres, who introduced Milchan to Benjamin Blumberg, nicknamed Israel’s “prince
of silence,” the head of LAKAM (a Hebrew acronym for the Science Liaison
Bureau). LAKAM’s very existence was unknown to the United States at the time.
Milchan’s recruitment
in the 60’s was gradual. “It was almost a glamorous thing to be involved,” he
acknowledged in a March 5, 2000 60 Minutes interview. “Everybody looked to me
as a James Bond.” He confirmed his involvement to us in a November 2009
interview at his offices on the 20th Century Fox lot, one of a number of
meetings we had with him between August 2009 and March 2010.
Confidential: The Life of Secret
Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon, Arnon Milchan by Meir Doron and Joseph
Gelman. 310 pages. Gefen Books.
Netanyahu implicated in
nuclear smuggling from U.S. — big story in Israel
The Israeli press is
picking up Grant Smith's revelation from FBI documents that Benjamin Netanyahu
was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear triggers out of the
U.S. in the 80s and 90s.
Arutz Sheva, the
nationalist Israeli press:
Declassified FBI documents from a 1985-2002
investigation implicate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an initiative to
illegally purchase United States nuclear technology for Israel’s nuclear
program.
Netanyahu was allegedly helped by Arnon
Milchan, a Hollywood producer with ties to Israeli prime ministers and U.S.
presidents.
The original story
was broken by Grant Smith at antiwar.com, "Netanyahu worked inside nuclear
smuggling ring":
On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially
declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002
investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli
Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S.* The
newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was convicted of
running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the
smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the
smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as
Israel’s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling
network’s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing “Project Pinto.”
The Hebrew paper
Ma'ariv, in translation:
According to FBI documents released by the
United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was involved in smuggling in
the 70s from the U.S. components of Israeli nuclear program, and assisted by
the businessman Arnon Milchan, who according to previous publications was a
former Mossad agent.
The documents, declassified in part by the
FBI after partial classification removed, describe the findings of the
investigation has been performed between the years 1985 to 2002 on about how a
network of front companies a U.S. security firm illegally smuggled equipment
used for weapons seeds out of the U.S.
”Jews Don’t have To Go
Through TSA”: Homeland Security’s Janet Napolitano
“To learn who rules
over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
— Voltaire
Zen-Haven.dk
Mark Zuckerberg Awarded
CIA Surveillance Medal
Well, now it is official. Mark
Zuckerberg was not so smart after all, but just fronting for the CIA in one of
the biggest Intelligence coups of all times.
But there remains one small problem,
the CIA is not supposed to monitor Americans. I guess we will hear more on that
soon from the lawyers once the litigation gets cranked up.
Personally I will be more interested
in how this is going to affect the stock offering and shares as all Americans
should own the entity that has been spying on them.
And then there are the SEC full
disclosure regulations and penalties. It’s bonanza time for the lawyers.
Could the loophole the CIA used be
that, ‘you aren’t being spied on if you are willingly posting everything a
repressive regime would love to have on your Facebook account, with no threats,
no family hostages, no dirty movies or photos that could be released?
But enough with the lead in. Let’s
take you directly to our source where you can get it straight from the sources
mouth, including seeing Zuckerberg getting his award.
Close your FACEBOOK Account!
Rhode Island Cop Still
Employed Despite Conviction of Kicking Woman to Head
The Committee of 300
The "Committee of
300" now call themselves
"World Government
Founders for the NWO"
When Victims Rule. A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence
in America
The origin of
this volume rests simply in a question posed about the state of Israel:
"How can such an anti-democratic, ethnocentric, racist, and morally
bankrupt socio-political system (Zionism) be so grossly misrepresented as a
noble endeavor throughout modern America?" Originally conceived as a
traditional book, and a scholarly one, it was soon clear that no publisher
would ever be willing to produce so frank an investigation about its subject
matter. Above and beyond all other people, Jews, in western society, have been
popularly configured to be beyond the pale of public criticism. And this
censorship is zealously, militantly, enforced.
The title of this book is When
Victims Rule. A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence in America. This refers
to the popular notion that the Jewish people are historical victims, and victims
only (never oppressors, never exploiters), always persecuted, and always
scapegoats for irrational prejudice. People of Jewish heritage are irrefutably
pre-eminent, and often dominant, in many crucial areas of American popular
culture. The second part of the title refers to the paradoxical fact that Jews
in America are quite the opposite of victims: this project explores the
enormous Jewish representation in positions of power and influence in American
(and western) society, which serves towards codifying Jewish and Zionist legend
as fact. This investigation, analyzing traditional religious -- and secular
Zionist --Jewish identities, illustrates why this should be of serious concern
to all Americans, including Jews. Continued denial of the facts of history by
the Jewish community serves no one's best interest -- in the LONG term, least
of all their own. The facts of history cannot be denied, and dissimulated,
forever. (Note: Israel Shahak, Israel Shamir, Alfred Lilienthal, John Sack,
Norman Finkelstein, and a few others of Jewish heritage are among the scholarly
inspirations for this project. These men's courageously honest works are
trailblazers away from institutionalized Jewish hypocrisy. If they represented
the norm in the Jewish community, there would be no reason to write this book).
Vimeo
More Than Taboo
Because of the myth
of the "good war" millions have been pointlessly murdered by needless
interventionism. Without the Holocaust narrative WWII is nothing but another
colonial resource war. That is why no one can talk about the holocaust. it is
illegal in Europe and Canada and career suicide in America. This film is an
editing of about 9hrs of footage from two films one third of the holocaust and
also briefly people and the land. My own inserts are just to sum things up and
save time and crunch information down to a more digestible size. see this for
more www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com/
USA answers Europe
Attempt to Secure Rare Earth Elements
On July 5, 2012,
Europe published new rare earth elements’ policy; two days later, the USA
answered…
The Declaration of
Restoration
From a descendant of
James Madison
Please Help Us Foster
Gamble
By Clint Richardson
CAFR SCHOOL: How
Corporations Are Funded By Taxpayers
By Clint Richardson
Index of
/~chandlers/Talk radio/Joyce Rosenwald
Give Me Some Truth
Interview: Bruce G.
McCarthy of RBN’s Datum Line
Co-hosted by Melodee Hallett and Lark
In Texas
Pomeroy’s Equity
Jurisprudence and Equitable Remedies
UPDATE: Historical
Application to be Filed and Served Upon the Vatican, the Queen, & Others –
Court Directs Applicants in Chambers Today RE: Monday’s ex-parte Motion
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Secrets of the Federal Reserve
"BANKING CABAL
EXPOSED"!!
"TIME TO BREAK OUT
THE GUILLOTINE"!!
Recorded on July 4,
2012 using a Flip Video camera
LIBOR: the
“Mega-Scandal of All Mega-Scandals” is Upon Us
Consumerism as
Conditioning
America Has a
Dysfunctional Relationship
The Outer Bo: Hidden In
Plain Site
My Vlog
By
BoKnowsEntertainment
Rupert Cornwell:
Small-town USA lives on – if only in our imagination
Out of America: 'The
Andy Griffith Show' idealised simple rural values in a country that is
resolutely urban
Earthquakes since 1898
The Future of Free
Energy is here now!
The end of oil, coal
and nuclear pollution!
Which doctor would you
choose?
These twins treat
patients with chronic conditions - but one sticks to traditional medicine, the
other opts for the holistic approach
Tanya
The Tanya (תניא) is an early work of
Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad
Hasidism, first published in 1797. Its formal title is Likkutei
Amarim (ליקוטי אמרים, Hebrew, "collection
of statements"), but is more commonly known by its opening word, Tanya,
which means "it was taught in a beraita". It comprises five sections
that define Hasidic mystical psychology and theology as a handbook for daily
spiritual life in Jewish observance.
The Tanya is the main
work of the Chabad approach to Hasidic mysticism, as it defines its general
interpretation and method. The subsequent extensive library of the Chabad school,
authored by successive leaders, builds upon the approach of the Tanya. Chabad
differed from "Mainstream Hasidism" in its search for philosophical
investigation and intellectual analysis of Hasidic Torah exegesis. This
emphasised the mind as the route to internalising Hasidic mystical dveikus
(emotional fervour), in contrast to general Hasidism's creative enthusiasm in
faith. As a consequence, Chabad Hasidic writings are typically characterised by
their systematic intellectual structure, while other classic texts of general
Hasidic mysticism are usually more compiled or anecdotal in nature.
As one of the
founding figures of Hasidic mysticism, Schneur Zalman and his approach in the
Tanya are venerated by other Hasidic schools, although they tend to avoid its
meditative methods. In Chabad it is called "the Written Torah of
Hasidus", with the many subsequent Chabad writings being relatively
"Oral Torah" explanation. In it, Schneur Zalman brings the new
interpretations of Jewish mysticism by the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism,
into philosophical articulation and definition. This intellectual form syntheses
Hasidic Divine Omnipresence and Jewish soulfulness with other historical
components of Rabbinic literature, embodied in the Talmud, Medieval philosophy,
Musar (ethical) literature and Lurianic Kabbalah. The Tanya has therefore been
seen in Chabad as the defining Hasidic text, and a subsequent stage of Jewish
mystical evolution.
Chief Rabbi of Russia
Berel Lazar
Contents of the
Soncino Babylonian
Talmud
TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH
WITH NOTES, GLOSSARY
AND INDICES
UNDER THE EDITORSHIP
OF
RABBI DR. I. EPSTEIN
B.A., Ph.D., D. Lit.
FOREWORD BY
THE VERY REV. THE
LATE CHIEF RABBI
DR. J. H. HERTZ
INTRODUCTION BY
THE EDITOR
THE SONCINO PRESS
LONDON
These are the Sederim
("orders", or major divisions) and tractates (books) of the
Babylonian Talmud, as translated and organized for publication by the Soncino
Press in 1935 - 1948. The tractates available on the Come and Hear web page are
provided with hot links.
The English terms in
italics are taken from the Introductions in the respective Soncino volumes. A
summary of the contents of each Tractate is given in the Introduction to the Seder,
and a detailed summary by chapter is given in the Introduction to the Tractate.
There are about
12,800 printed pages in the Soncino Talmud, not counting introductions,
indexes, glossaries, etc. Of these, Come and Hear™ has put about 8050 pages on
line, comprising about 1460 files — about 63% of the Soncino Talmud. However,
this should in no way be considered a substitute for the printed edition, with
the complete text, fully cross-referenced footnotes, a master index, an index
for each tractate, scriptural index, rabbinical index, and so on. The sole
purpose for the presentation of this text is to provide full context for the
many things that are said and heard about the Talmud, and to invite further
study.
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Pane Andov 2012
Our Transformation is
underway…
‘Sufism For
Non-Sufis?’-Special Online Session with Dr. Sherman Abdul-Hakim Jackson
About the Book:
Few forms of
classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual
discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to
limit Islam’s deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the
religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world.
In his translation and analysis of Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-’Arus,
Sherman A. Jackson demonstrates that violent, lax, or rigid readings of the
texts of Islam are just as much a result of the state of spiritual health,
awareness, and fortitude of those who read and deploy them as they are of the substance
of the Qur’an, Sunna, and the teachings of Islam’s sages.
Sufism for
Non-Sufis?: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-’Arus shows the effort of a
renowned Sufi master (d. 1309 CE) to circumvent the controversies and
misunderstandings concerning Sufism to explain Islam’s tradition of devotional
rectitude, spiritual refinement, and purification of the self to the everyday
Muslim. To this end, al-Sakandari avoids virtually every aspect of Sufism known
to raise problems for opponents or non-adepts – theological, institutional,
even terminological – instead attempting to cultivate a proper relationship
with God, not merely intellectually or theologically but experientially and
psycho-dynamically. Written in the classical style of spiritual aphorisms, this
work is a treasure-trove of classical Islamic spiritual wisdom, free of all of
the usual barriers between Sufism and the common believer.
About Dr. Sherman Jackson
Dr. Jackson is the
newly appointed King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor
of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California. Sherman A. Jackson was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near
Eastern Studies, visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro American
Studies at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received his PhD from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has taught at the University of Texas at
Austin, Indiana University and Wayne State University. From 1987-1989 he served
as the Executive Director of The Center of Arab Study in Cairo, Egypt. He is
co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a former
member of The Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Shar’iah
Scholars Association of North America and a past trustee of the North American
Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is featured on the Washington Post Newsweek blog, “On
Faith”, and is listed by Religion News writers’ Association’s Religion Link as
among the top 10 experts on Al Islam in America. Sherman A. Jackson is a Professor
at the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of
Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California. He formerly the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern
Studies, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at
the University of Michigan.
He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the University of Texas
at Austin, Indiana University, Wayne State University and the University of
Michigan. From 1987 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of the Center of
Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo, Egypt. He is author of several books, including
Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn
al-Qarâfî (E.J. Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in
Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (Oxford, 2002), Islam and the
Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford, 2005) and Islam
and the Problem of Black Suffering (Oxford, 2009).Sufism for Non-Sufis (Oxford,
2012).
He has been featured
on the Washington Post-Newsweek blog, “On Faith,” as well as the Huffington
Post. In 2009 he was named among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world
by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, Jordan, and the Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He has also been
recognized by Religion Newswriters Association ReligionLink as among the top
ten experts on Islam in America.
Dr. Jackson is a
frequent contributor to Lamppost Productions! He has a number of articles and
videos on our site. His other exclusive online sessions with us are: “White
Supremacy” The Beginning of Modern Shirk” and “Islam and the Problem of Black
Suffering”
Summary Of My Teachings
Dr. J. S. Chiappalone
7-9-12
Since 1985 I have
published certain books which contain fundamental KEYS needed to understand
what is going on in society and provide a means of Making Sense of the Madness
which has gripped our planet.
The point that people
should be free to believe what they like, however, is emphasized throughout my
writings. Readers are urged to think for themselves at all times and only
accept that truth which resonates within them. It is stressed that such philosophical
and spiritual discourses are for the individual alone to assess and should be a
private matter at all times.
The concept of
personal accountability is prominent and many other realizations of what is
happening are fostered by the facts presented.
My writings point out
that nothing is as it seems in this world of illusion and that there have been
continuous efforts throughout history to prevent the Truth from being known in
its fullest. When one awakens sufficiently, one realizes that there has always
been a well-orchestrated conspiracy against exposure of the controlling Evil
Essence and Revelation of the Truth. The aim of the writings is to stimulate
certain people intellectually, philosophically and spiritually so that their
process of awakening can be facilitated.
{Read more at the
above link…}
Where was the gold?
By James Turk
I am an avid reader
of monetary history. Of late I have been focusing on the monetary events of the
1920s and 1930s. By learning from the maelstrom that riled the global financial
scene during those two tumultuous decades, I aim to better understand present
circumstances because there are many similarities between then and now.
I’ve just finished a
fascinating book published in 1955 entitled Confessions
of The Old Wizard. It is the autobiography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley
Schacht, whose improbable name reflects his North Schleswig ancestry and his
father’s admiration of an American newspaper editor.
For those not
familiar with him, Schacht is generally given credit for ending in 1923 the
Weimar Republic hyperinflation and putting Germany once again on a sound
monetary footing, commendable feats which earned him the nickname “The Old
Wizard”. He did this first as Commissioner of the Currency for the Finance
Ministry and thereafter as President of the Reichsbank. For these achievements,
he received worldwide acclaim as well as fame, if that word accurately
describes the popular attention and respect given to a skilled central banker.
Schacht’s
autobiography contains many stories and anecdotes, including those of his
meetings with dozens of famous people. But Schacht’s account of a meeting with
Benjamin Strong is one I found particularly important, shocking even.
Strong was president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from its creation in 1914 until his
death in 1928. Strong, Schacht, Montague Norman of England and Émile Moreau of
France were the most powerful and influential central bankers of their time.
Strong was in effect
the head of the Federal Reserve because the New York bank back then dominated
the system. Reforms in the 1930s diminished somewhat the power of the New York
bank, but to this day it remains vitally important because it alone of the 12
Federal Reserve banks transacts with other central banks. For example, there is
reportedly some Bundesbank gold stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York’s vault near Wall Street, which is it often said contains the world’s
largest accumulation of gold.
It is the same vault
Schacht visited during one of his trips to New York to meet with Benjamin
Strong. Here is how Schacht relates this remarkable event.
Another amusing
incident arose from the fact that the Reichsbank maintained a not
inconsiderable gold deposit in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Strong was
proud to be able to show us the vaults which were situated in the deepest cellar
of the building and remarked:
“Now, Herr Schacht,
you shall see where the Reichsbank gold is kept.”
While the staff looked
for the hiding place of the Reichsbank gold we went through the vaults. We
waited several minutes: at length we were told: “Mr. Strong, we can’t find the
Reichsbank gold.”
Strong was
flabbergasted but I comforted him. “Never mind: I believe you when you say the
gold is there. Even if it weren’t you are good for its replacement."
Shocking, isn’t it.
Clearly, it is bad enough that the Reichsbank gold could not be found nor,
according to Schacht’s account, did Strong offer to find it. But regardless whether
it could not be located due to bad recordkeeping by the Federal Reserve or
because the gold was not in the vault is not as significant as Schacht’s
nonchalant response to what he astonishingly calls an “amusing incident”. Where
is his outrage that the Reichsbank gold could not be located? Why is there no
worry about the disposition of the gold and its safety? After all, as President
of the Reichsbank, he had responsibility for all of its assets, of which gold
is by far the most important.
What can we learn
from this event? Schacht apparently considered friendship to other central
bankers and his membership in their exclusive club to be a higher priority than
his responsibility as guardian of a nation’s gold. Schacht did not question
Strong, so the actual location and true circumstances of the Reichsbank gold
remained unknown. This astonishing incident would not have occurred if the
Reichsbank had instead stored the gold in its own vault.
This article has also
been published at Smart Investor.
War on Health: FDAs
Cult of Tyranny
(Full Film)
Depopulation by Food
while making Profit
Two goals have been
set into motion. A group of people feel the only way to bring back balance to
the world is if there were fewer people. Thus, they envisage the need to
depopulate the world and conclude that the best way to do that is by poisoning
the food we eat while they make profits through the methods being introduced.
Is the world’s population really increasing at the rate that is being given to
us? Is it possible that these numbers are manipulated? What do people really
know about UN’s Codex Alimentarius and how guidelines are laid out to slowly
poison the people of the world? How much do we know about the undetectable or
barely detectable medical, nutritional and environmental interventions that are
taking place purely to reduce world population? The world is 7billion the goal
is to reduce that number by 90% into 500million, how is a good question but
unknown to us that plan has already been implemented!
We are told the world
is now 7billion. Is this a statistic we can accept? We know that populations
are declining in Western nations so much so that it is posing a security
threat. Thus, their anger with immigrants whose births are rising predicting a
possible takeover of these nations by immigrants one day. Immigrants are having
more babies and immigrant death rates are slower. Yet, look at the abortion
statistics the world over and do some calculations to see how far these figures
are actually believable. Is this another manipulation to enforce programs and
action plans?
Arable Land / Codex
Alimentarius
They say he who
controls food – controls the world. In 1997 Beijing Womens Conference, the head
of the UN food program said that Food would be used as a weapon against the people.
It is proving to be true. Global Multinational corporations do not want us to
know what is inside the food we are eating.
Thus, a major drive to enforce GM foods.
Eating GM foods will
change one’s DNA, make changes in the biological system etc. Once the GMO food
enters into one’s system people will become a slave to those that own the
pesticides that grow GM foods. GMO foods are not labeled because they do not
want to reveal what is inside. There are attempts to refer GMO as Biotechnology
foods which people use instead of organic. However, bio is not organic.
Countries that try to label GMO foods are politically pressured by US and its
allies. This is the real politics taking place.
All in all, GM crops
are a failure. They threaten the world’s food supply, they are toxic to the
environment and to humans and they serve no legitimate purpose in agriculture
other than to give complete control of food to a few multinational
corporations.
The WHO and the FAO
in 1963 created a Trade Commission called Codex Alimentarius at the request of
the United Nations. Codex has rules and guidelines for everything we consume
except for pharmaceuticals. Please look up www.codexalimentarius.net. In 1994,
Codex declared nutrients to be toxins. At the Stockholm Convention against
Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) in 2004, 177 countries agreed to ban 12
pollutants (POPs) 9 of which were pesticides. www.chn.pops.int (these were
Deildrin, Chlordane, DDT, Dioxin, Endrin, Furan, Heptachlar, Hexachlorbenzine,
Mirex, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Toxophene pesticide). However, the
implementation of Codex Alementarius on 31 December 2009 will mean that of the
9 forbidden POPs banned by 177 nations 7 will be brought back to use. Not many
who attend these international conferences care to divulge the truth because
they are bribed not to.
Under Codex every
animal used as meat/dairy have to be treated with Monsanto’s recombined bovine
growth hormone. For dairy this enables production growth by 10-15%. This
however, causes cancers of varying kinds. Under codex every animal must be
treated with growth hormones. Under codex all food must be irradiated (exposed
to radiation). Under this guideline 3billion deaths were being calculated
starting with 1billion from starvation. The next 2billion are targeted to die
from preventable diseases. This is how the depopulation countdown has started
and is currently happening at this very moment.
If there is plenty of
arable land why is there any need for genetically modified food?
There are only 4100 million acres (41m sq.km or 15m sq. miles)
of arable land. 5% of this land is
preserved as parks/wildlife and others leaving 33m sq.km to be used for
agriculture of which 16m sq.km is currently being used. Why is it then that a
billion people remain malnourished? Isn’t the problem in the manner arable land
is being used and what food should be grown that is the problem? In the US,
20-40% of agricultural produce is wasted. This is the same in most western
nations.
Global Warming
We are told that
chemtrails will solve global warming but in essence what is happening is that
there is a build up of toxins in our environment, in our bodies to a point when
it makes us sterile or fast-forwards our death. What is happening is that the
sky is being sprayed with aluminum oxide, strontium oxide and barium oxide –
these are making us sick, these are destroying natural plant life and the rich
soils on earth so that GMO foods can be promoted. This is geo-engineering
disguised as global warming and part of a depopulation plan by Henry Kissinger
in 1974 which led to birth control, euthanasia, eugenics, agent orange,
“creating” revolutions”, coups, disasters, famines and wars – every time a
nation did not comply to the will of those who thought they had the right to
rule the world. Naturally, it was mostly Third World nations that were
targeted. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf
While chemtrailing
pilots don’t know what they are actually doing, supermarkets don’t know that
food is irradiated, farmers don’t know why animals have to be injected by law,
even the doctors giving vaccines don’t know what’s really inside the vaccines
they are injecting to our bodies? Only a few bother to even search.
Incidentally, none of the medical reps know what they are promoting either. It
would be surprising if the politicians cared to find out in greater detail what
exactly is going on too? Often money becomes the component that keeps the truth
from becoming public.
AIDS
The possibility that
AIDS virus is a man-made bio-weapon is not ruled out. The gay experiment
started AIDS. In America it erupted after the government-sponsored hepatitis B
vaccine experiment using gay men as guinea pigs. The epidemic was created by a
retrovirus known by us as HIV and introduced as a new herpes-8 virus. This
caused Kaposi’s sarcoma – gay cancer. We are made to wrongly believe that AIDs
is a black man’s disease from Africa but no one cares to answer why AIDs was
first discovered in white gays in the US? HIV via hepatitis B deliberately
attempts to liquidate the gay community.
Flu/Virus etc.
Could this new range
of flus, virus’s be part of a new bio-weapon? Doctors certainly don’t know how
to diagnose and simply put it down to a virus/flu making the cure far more
dangerous than the infection. See the number of “visitors” to hospitals….and
who is profiting from providing the “cures” and how “safe” are these “cures”?
There is also
evidence to prove that swine pandemic is man-made. Novartis (the world’s
largest pharmaceutical company with over $53billion revenue) is said to be
guilty of conspiring with US “scientists” at the US Army Institute of Pathology
to create a “novel influenze” virus through “reverse engineering” released in
2009 to create an avenue to sell Novartis vaccines. Create the demand and
profit from the supply. The vaccine in reality is meant to create a virulent
deadly disease which is all part of a gameplan to depopulate the world.
Naturally the proprietary flu vaccine is protected by the patent granted under
“split influenza vaccine with adjuvants” in 2009. The “swine-flu” is a
recombinant consisting of A-strain bird flu (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1) and human
flu (H3N2) – this is the same component that killed millions in 1918. The 2009
swine flu could also be called bird flu because it is H5N1 (bird flu) and H1N1
(pig flu). WHO has been commissioned to use vaccines that would permanently
sterilize people. WHO was accused of involuntarily sterilizing 3m in
Philippines. H1N1 vaccine was designed to create permanent infertility –
pregnant women and children were to be given first.
Connections to world
bodies makes pharmaceutical companies richer. It is believed that 2/3 of funds
to the WHO come from global pharmaceutical companies. Would it then be a
surprise why WHO sanctions the production and use of vaccines that are being
developed by global pharmaceutical companies? Look up and see how SV40 virus
originating from dead monkeys was used knowingly for various vaccination
campaigns with those born between 1941 and 1961 thought to be at risk of being
infected with SV40 and will have 300% chances of developing cancer.
It appears big pharma
has a carte blanche to destroy the people of the world while making massive
profits and doling them amongst those that join the treachery!
Some quotes on
depopulation:
Dr. Eric R. Pianka a
scientist in his speech to the Texas Academy of Science in April 2006 advocated
the need to exterminate 90% of the population through airborne ebola virus but
the speech was ordered to be kept off the record.
“In the event that I
am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to
contribute something to solve overpopulation,” Prince Philip told Deutsche Press
Agentur in August 1988.
Former US Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger, still a leading member of the Bilderberg Group and
one of the eminences grise in American politics, who simply said: “The world
population must be reduced by 50 percent.”
Ted Turner explained:
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95 percent decline from
present levels, would be ideal.”
Bill Gates continues
to pour millions of dollars into high-risk geoengineering projects that purport
to offer a solution to global warming yet have been savaged by environmentalists
as potentially posing a greater threat than climate change itself. In 2010,
Gates was criticized for ploughing $300,000 dollars into a sea trial of
cloud-whitening technology which involved spraying clouds with microscopic
particles in an effort to make them reflect more sunlight, an experiment dubbed
“dangerous” by environmental campaigners – injecting sulphur into the
atmosphere could lead to “acid rain, ozone depletion or weather pattern
disruption.”
The only smart way to
counter these manipulations is to boycott the products of these companies and
in small ways to begin to grow one’s food in one’s own back yard if possible or
perhaps in groups and exchange so that we no longer become subject to toxins
that are being forcefully fed to us. Ideally, countries should be looking after
their farmers far better than what is happening especially in Third World
countries. Small countries like Sri Lanka are better placed to self-sustain
one’s food supply internally without allowing toxins in the form of foods coming
from overseas to poison our systems. How far those handling Agriculture are
aware or take interest in formulating a national plan is another question. But,
as a nation leaders need to take a pro-active role in ensuring the health of
our people comes first.
RAW FOOD NUTRITION
Forward by Professor
H. Leon ABRAMS
According to the
scientific research of palaeontologists, the human species has existed on Earth
for several million years. For over 99 % of this time, man was a
hunter-gatherer, until the end of the Palaeolithic era.
Palaeolithic man had
no choice but to choose his nutrients amongst whatever was edible and available
in his natural environment. As a hunter-gatherer, he ate plants and animals in
their natural state, as found in the wild. He followed the seasons when picking
fruit, which he consumed ripe, with nuts, berries, and wild plants. He ate
animals that he captured with his bare hands or with simple stone tools: small
and large game, birds, insects, worms, reptiles, fish, shellfish, eggs, and
even certain spiders. The remains of human skeletons from the Palaeolithic era
show that these people had practically no dental decay and that they were in
exceptionally good health. Their diet was obviously particularly healthy.
About 10 000 years
ago, man entered the Neolithic or agricultural era, which also saw the
development of the use of fire to prepare food, that is to say cooking. With
the advent of agriculture, man had to work harder than before to plant, grow,
and harvest cereals. With time, the quantity of cereals that were consumed
increased until they became man's main food (wheat, bread, biscuits, flour,
etc.). At the same time, the state of humanity's health deteriorated to such a
point that today, if we take dental decay and degenerative diseases as
indicators of a population's health, these disorders have become endemic.
With time, man learnt
to produce and preserve greater and greater quantities of food thanks to
agriculture, processing, preservation, and the preparation of food before
consumption. In doing so, he modified the nature and the quality of the food he
consumed and he considerably reduced its variety. For example, the staple food of
most human beings today is limited to wheat, rice, millet, sorgo, manioc,
potatoes, and beetroot, and even sometimes just one or two of these foodstuffs
in a given region. It should be noted that none of these products is consumed
in its natural state: all are cultivated and altered by heat (cooking) before
being eaten. In the Palaeolithic era, man consumed none of these foodstuffs or
very few of them.
Our Palaeolithic
ancestors ate a great variety of natural raw foods, without altering them, and
they apparently lived in good health on this diet, which remained practically
unchanged during the three or four million years of humanity's development.
As a result of our
hunter-gatherer origins, and because human genetics evolves very slowly, the
natural raw diet of our ancestors is undoubtedly the most ecological today,
still perfectly adapted to the human species. Modern scientific knowledge in
the field of anthropology and nutrition show that we can live better, easily
achieve better health and halt the current process of degeneration of the
species, simply, as this book proposes, by adopting a raw natural diet.
Pr. H. Leon ABRAMS
Pottenger's Cats: A
Study in Nutrition
By Frances Marion
Pottenger, Jr. MD
(1995)
A comparison of
healthy cats on raw foods and those on heated diets. Behavioral
characteristics, arthritis, sterility, skeletal deformities and allergies are
some of the problems that are associated with the consumption of cooked foods.
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Purdue: Food price hike
likely after long drought
INDIANAPOLIS — The
drought that’s hitting much of the Midwest this summer will hit consumers in
the pocketbook by next year, Purdue agricultural experts said Thursday.
The persistent hot,
dry weather has hit farm production in Indiana, the nation’s fifth-largest
producer of corn, harder than any other major corn and soybean producing state,
economist Chris Hurt said at a news conference in Indianapolis. The conditions
have shrunk corn and soybean production and dried up pastures where cattle feed
in summertime, Hurt said.
U.S. food prices tend
to rise when production decreases in major farm states and the drought is
likely to affect production in other breadbasket states too, he said.
The U.S. Agriculture
Department projects that food prices will rise by as much as 3.5 percent
starting late this year and into 2013. Everything from meat, margarine and milk
to baked goods, cereal and salad dressing will likely cost more, Hurt said.
And food prices were
already high in 2011, agricultural economist Corinne Alexander said.
Beef prices could
rise by as much as 10 percent through next year if ranchers lose many cattle to
heat stress or sell off portions of their herds to avoid the high cost of feed,
according to data produced by agricultural researchers at the Purdue
Cooperative Extension Service.
Richard Volpe, a USDA
research economist in Washington, D.C., said if herds shrink and overseas
demand grows, beef prices are bound to go up.
“We’re looking at
much higher meat prices until at least 2014,” Alexander said.
Hurt said the impact
on consumers will be even greater because incomes aren’t rising in line with
food prices. “The difficulty is that (food) is one of the necessities of life,”
Hurt said.
The Purdue research
cooperative forecasts that if the drought continues through August — and it
shows no sign of letting up — crop losses could be as great as they were during
the 1988 drought, when corn and soybean production plummeted by about 30
percent.
Food prices jumped by
more than 5 percent after the drought and by nearly 6 percent in 1989,
according to figures provided by Volpe.
Another factor will
be the ethanol industry, which is promised the first five billion bushels of
corn produced every year under federal law, Hurt said. If production drops as
much as expected, he said, “The issue we haven’t heard since 2008 is going to
come back — food versus fuel.” That could lead to a political battle in
Washington, he added.
The thunderstorms
that crossed Indiana in the last week didn’t do much to relieve the thirsty
soil, and a sweltering heat wave has engulfed much of the state with
temperatures climbing to 100 degrees or more.
The new U.S. Drought
Monitor report released Thursday showed nearly a quarter of Indiana is in
extreme drought, mostly in the southwestern part of the state Thursday’s report
listed 89 percent of the state as in at least moderate drought after Indiana’s
driest June on record..
Less than half of the
normal amount of rain has fallen across much of the state since May 1. The
parched conditions have been aggravated by a dry, mild winter and above-normal
temperatures.
Much of the west,
especially Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, also was in extreme drought,
according to the map.
Every day without
rain causes crop conditions to deteriorate, Purdue corn specialist Bob Nielsen
said, and some damage is already irreversible. Four to 6 inches of
precipitation over several weeks would be required to provide much relief, he
said.
“These droughts are
devilish things, and it’s hard to predict what’s going to break them,” Nielsen
said.
Paul Roberts: The End
of Food
The End of Food
Journalist Paul
Roberts, Author of "The End of Food" cautions us about the demise of
the modern food economy.
About the book (from
theendoffood.com):
In this carefully
researched, vividly recounted narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic
realities beneath modern food—and shows how our system for making, marketing,
and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of
consumers that system was built to serve.
At the heart of The
End of Food is a grim paradox: the rise of large-scale, hyper-efficient
industrialized food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than
at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns.
Our high-volume factory systems are creating new risks for food-borne
illness—from E. coli and Salmonella to avian flu. Our high-yield crops and
livestock generate grain, vegetables, and meat of declining nutritional
quality. Overproduction is so routine that nearly one billion people are now
overweight or obese worldwide—and yet those extra calories are still so
unevenly distributed that the same number of people—one billion, roughly one in
every seven of us—can't get enough to eat. In some of the hardest-hit regions,
such as sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of a single nutrient—vitamin A—has left
more than 3 million children permanently blind.
Meanwhile, the shift
to heavily mechanized, chemically intensive farming has so compromised the
soils, water systems, and other natural infrastructure upon which all food
production depends that it's unclear how long such output can be maintained.
And just as we've begun to understand the limits of our industrialized
superabundance, the burgeoning economies of Asia, where newly wealthy consumers
are rapidly adopting Western-style, meat-heavy diets, are putting new demands
on global food supplies.
Comprehensive and
global, with lucid writing, dramatic detail and fresh insights, The End of Food
offers readers new, accessible way to understand the vulnerable miracle of the
modern food economy. Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and
helps us prepare to make the decisions -- personal and global -- we must make
to survive the demise of food production as we know it.
Health Benefits of
Chlorella – The Disease Fighting Powers
The Remarkable Healing
Properties of Pumpkin Seed
Wild Russia: The Secret
Forest
National Geographic
Film
Next World TV
Biomimicry is Booming
Nature Is The Best
Teacher
Nature is the best
engineering and design teacher of all- it's been there for 3.8 billion years,
constantly evolving brilliant solutions.
The movement dedicated
to learning and aligning with this infinite wisdom is Biomimicry.
Biomimicry is a new
science that studies nature's models and then emulates these forms, processes,
and strategies to solve human problems. Sustainability is already a given,
because after all, nature has made all these systems work for 3.8 billion
years.
How does nature deal
with evenly distributing nourishment within a system for example? Ask a leaf or
the branch of a tree, and you will see established patterns, mathematical
formulas that nature makes use of time and again. The forms are there for us to
study, to learn from -- and to design in accordance with.
This video shines the
spotlight on what we learn from creatures of the sea.
Biomimicry is taught
at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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Greetings,
Please send out a
reminder notice about the Occupy Bohemian Grove
protest this Saturday to everyone you know. .
People can get the info at www.OccupyBohemiangorve.com
thanks
Peter
Occupy Activists Join
Social Justice Organizations to Protest the 1% at the Bohemian Grove July 14,
June 28, 2012
Media Contacts:
Susan Lamont: Peace
and Justice Center of Sonoma County: 707-575-8902
Attila Nagy: Occupied
Press/Prensa Ocupada North Bay: 707-795-1044
Peter Phillips: Media
Freedom Foundation/Project Censored:
707-874-2695
Mary Moore, Bohemian
Grove Action Network: 707-874-2248
Information at: www.occupybohemiangrove.com
Occupy groups from Santa
Rosa, San Francisco, Portland, Sebastopol, and Petaluma, are joining some
twenty other social justice activist organizations to protest the powerful
one-percent elites partying at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California July
14-29.
2,000-3,000 rich and
wealthy men have gathered every summer for 133 years in a private 2,800 acre
ancient redwood retreat to celebrate themselves with parties, entertainment,
and speakers. The men, Bohemian Club members and their guests, will hold a
cremation of care ceremony July 14, where they symbolically burn the cares of
the world before a giant owl in a bizarre annual ritual.
This year’s protest
against the gathering of the world’s political and economic elite is called
“Occupy Bohemian Grove, Expose the 1%.
Occupy groups across America, and increasingly the world, are working to
expose the one percent in control of global resources who are bringing human
rights repression, environmental destruction, and war to humankind.
The Fukushima Mothers
and Cindy Sheehan are joining the twenty-four co-sponsors for a Creation of
Care ceremony, speakers, and music, Saturday, July 14, at the Monte Rio
Amphitheater, just outside the gates of the Bohemian Grove. Kris Welsh will MC
the day, and Dennis Bernstein, host of Flashpoints on KPFA/Pacifica radio will
broadcast live from the event. Russia Today-TV with Abby Martin will film and
John Rees with No-Lies Radio will video-cast the day on the Internet.
The protest will
feature Occupy groups as well as other organizations including Code Pink, Peace
and Justice Center, ANSWER Coalition, Project Censored, Bohemian Grove Action
Network, Veterans for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Round Valley Indians for
Justice, and various others groups focused on key issues, such as climate change,
human rights, Palestine, Cuban Five, and a living wage. Representatives from
these organizations and more will speak joining in coalition to create a vast
cornucopia of care as a counter to the one-percent elites less than a mile
away. In addition to the speakers, the program at the amphitheater will include
musical performances by Dave Lippman, Teresa Tudury, Jim Ocean, Scott Gerber,
Attila Nagy, Keith Blackstone and the Hubbub Club.
Admission to the
Creation of Care is free. It will run from noon to 4 p.m. at the Monte Rio
amphitheater, which is located at 9925 Main Street in downtown Monte Rio.
Please see the
complete list of endorsements and speakers on our flyer.
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Open Letter to San
Francisco Bohemian Club
July 4, 2012
Mr. Robert J. Boesch
President San
Francisco Bohemian Club
624 Taylor Street
San Francisco, CA
94102
Dear Mr. Boesch,
Media Freedom
Foundation/Project Censored has joined a
coalition of some twenty-five social justice organizations and occupy
groups to protest the San Francisco Bohemian Club’s practices at your annual
summer encampments.
We are holding an
Occupy Bohemian Grove protest in Monte Rio on July 14, 2012. For publicity and
information on this event see: http://www.occupybohemiangrove.com/
Occupy groups from
five cities are involved in protesting your annual summer encampment of the
rich and powerful 1%. Given that it takes $588,000 in assets to be in the top
1% of the world richest people, we believe that a significant portion of your
members fit this category.
Our group has
attended the planning meetings for this protest, and want to inform you about
the days events and make some policy recommendations for the Club to consider.
The Occupy Bohemian
Grove coalition is planning a four hour public assembly from noon to 4:00 on
July 14. During that time there will be speakers, music and a creation of care
ceremony in opposition to your cremation of care and private talks by policy
elites at the Grove. KPFA radio will broadcast
live from Monte Rio, No Lies Radio will video feed the proceedings on the
internet, and Russia Today TV will be filming and interviewing activists.
We are not planning
or promoting civil disobedience or trespassing on Grove property as part of the
protest. We are not organizing a march on the Grove, as has been done in the
past. Some curious participants may walk up the Bohemian Highway to see your
gates.
Recommendations to
the San Francisco Bohemian Club in a time of Occupy the 1%.
Whereas:
The 2,000 acre
retreat, now privately held near Monte Rio, California, is in part an ancient
old growth redwood forest with trees over one thousand years of age and;
The San Francisco
Bohemian Club continues to exclude women from membership and;
Significant public
leaders in the world give private keynote addresses (chats) on a daily basis on
important policy issues, and;
The private
happenings inside the summer retreat boundaries face continuing unproven rumors
regarding nefarious behaviors and insider deals made by powerful elites.
We Recommend that:
1. The Bohemian Grove
recognize the rights of humankind to enjoy a fair share of the common heritage
of the ancient redwood forest by opening the Grove to tours on a regular basis
when club members are not assembled—
2. The Bohemian Club
begin a policy of admitting women and arranging the Grove to accommodate both
genders—
3. The lakeside chats
and other addresses by key policy officials be made public on-line and
transcripts prepared and published—
4. The Cremation of
Care ceremony be transformed into a building of unity of care in the world and
the ceremony be made public on-line—
5. The Bohemian Club
set up an on-line live feed from the main stage and field circle, as events are
occurring.
We strongly believe
in full transparency of public figures giving lectures to a select few men and
we believe that the privacy of your events is unnecessary in a time of
increasingly inequality between the 1% and the 99%.
We think that the San
Francisco Bohemian Club can demonstrate a belief in an open transparent
democratic society by simply changing a few of your historical policies. As
symbolic representatives of the top 1% in the world, it is time for you to
exercise a responsibility to help build a fair sharing of the world’s resources
starting with your own Club.
This letter has been
publicly released. We trust you will take our recommendations seriously.
Sincerely,
Peter Phillips
President Media Freedom Foundation
Mickey Huff
Director of Project Censored
Mary Lia
Fair Share of the Common Heritage
Andy Lee Roth
Associate Director of Project Censored
Bill Simon
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 71
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Dear Friend,
With our economy
struggling, some veterans are already having a hard time transitioning into the
civilian workforce. While there are
public and private efforts to help these veterans find jobs, too often they end
up unemployed for extended periods of time.
Our veterans chose a career in the service of our country and we need to
make sure they have every possible opportunity when they return from
combat.
Veterans have the
work ethic, the leadership and specialized skills that make them well-qualified
for positions in the private sector.
Unfortunately, bureaucratic red tape often delays veterans from
utilizing their unique talents and experience.
It is common for our veterans to discover that even though they have the
training to perform a wide variety of occupations when they leave the service,
businesses, states and even other departments of the federal government may not
recognize their training. This can delay
the transition for veterans by requiring them to undergo unnecessary
certification of their proven skills and prevents them from quickly moving into
the workforce. This is unacceptable, and
this week the House took action to stop these delays from happening.
With the passing of
the Veteran Skills to Jobs Act, veterans returning to
civilian life will have a smoother transition to jobs that match their
talents. This bill requires federal
agencies to streamline the licensing process for veterans seeking a private
sector job that that they have demonstrated they are qualified to do. Instead of requiring veterans to undergo a lengthy
and redundant training process to gain the skills that they already possess,
these agencies would simply issue licenses to trained, qualified veterans.
Seven states have
already taken the lead to fix this problem.
The Veteran Skills to Jobs Act is a common-sense
solution to a very serious bureaucratic problem. Matching veterans with federal licenses that
require their expertise is good for veterans and good for our economy. Be assured that I will continue working to do
all that I can to help veterans find careers that give them the opportunity to
succeed beyond their service and support their families.
Sincerely,
Kay Granger
Member of Congress,
12th District
Fort Worth, Texas |
Washington, D. C.
