[political-research] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Globalists created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global State
Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:47:15 +0200Subject: [SPY NEWS] Globalists created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global Statehttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=LIV20060719articleId=2757Globalists created Wahhabi Terrorism to Destroy Islam and Justify a Global Stateby David LivingstoneJuly 19, 2006Serendepity The 'House' of Saud no more Islamic than Billy GrahamFollowing the dictates of Hegelian dialectic, the Globalists have created two antagonizing forces, the "Liberal-Democratic" West, against Terrorism, or "political Islam", to force us into the acceptance of their final alternative, a New World Order.The West and Islam have had a long era of compatibility, but this history has been denied to foster the myth of a "Clash of Civilizations". In order to inflame the sentiments of the West against Islam, our attention has been focused on the specter of fanatical Wahhabism, and more specifically, its most notorious exponent, Osama bin Laden.However, as outlined in an excellent article by Peter Goodgame, The Globalists and the Islamists, the Globalists have had a hand in shaping and financing all the terrorist organizations of the twentieth century, including the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas of Palestine and the Afghan Mujahideen. But the history of their duplicity dates farther back still, to the 18th Century, when British Freemasons created the Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia itself, to further their imperialistic objectives.That a British spy by the name of Hempher was responsible for shaping of the extreme tenets of Wahhabism was mentioned in a Turkish work, Mir'at al-Haramain, by Ayyub Sabri Pasha between 1933-1938. British policy in its colonies often involved the creation of deviant sects, in order to Divide and Conquer, as was the case with the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in India in the nineteenth century.The details of this conspiracy are outlined in a little known document by the name of The Memoirs of Mr. Hempher published in series (episodes) in the German paper Spiegel, and later in a prominent French paper. A Lebanese doctor translated the document to the Arabic language and from there on it was translated to English and other languages.The document is a first-hand account by Hempher of his mission for his government, which sent him to the Middle East to discover ways to undermine the Ottoman Empire. Among the vices the British were to promote were racism and nationalism, alcohol, gambling, fornication and tempting Muslim women to uncover themselves.But most important was the strategy to "insert heresies into Muslims' creedal tenets and then criticize Islam for being a religion of terror." To this purpose, Hempher located a particularly corrupt individual by the name of Mohammed Ibn Adbul Wahhab.To understand the brand of fanaticism that Wahhabism inculcated, it is first necessary to recognize that Islam called upon all Muslims, regardless of their race or nationality, to see themselves as brothers in faith. The killing of another Muslim was strictly forbidden.However, as part of their strategy of Divide and Conquer, the British hoped to pit the Arab Muslims against their Turkish brothers. The only way to do so was to find a loophole in Islamic law whereby the Arabs could declare the Turks as apostates.Abdul Wahhab was the instrument by which the British were able to insinuate this vile idea into the Muslims of the Arabian Peninsula. Basically, Wahhab contrived the idea that, simply by the trivial act of offering prayers to saints, their Turkish brethren had forfeited their faith, and therefore, that it was permitted to kill all who refused to adhere to his reforms, and to enslave their women and children. But that included the entire Muslim world, except for his small misguided band of followers.But the Wahabbi movement was insignificant without the allegiance of the Saudi family, who, despite claims otherwise, were descended from Jewish merchants from Iraq. Orthodox jurists of the time branded the Wahhabis as heretics and condemned their fanaticism and intolerance. Nevertheless, the Wahhabis then demonstrated their contempt for their pretended faith by indiscriminately slaughtering Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The Wahhabis then set about destroying all the holy tombs and burial grounds. They stole the Prophet's treasure, which included holy books, works of art and innumerable priceless gifts sent to the city during the previous thousand years. The leather and gilt bindings of the Islamic holy books they had destroyed were used to make sandals for the Wahhabi criminals.The Ottoman Sultan brought an end to the first Wahhabi rebellion in 1818, but the sect revived under the leadership of the Saudi Faysal I. The movement was then somewhat restored until once again destroyed at the end of the nineteenth century.After WWI, the former regions of
[political-research] Israel Celbrates King David Hotel Massacre (and the Lavon Affair)
I'm appending a link and the article re Israel's celebration of the King David Hotel massacre in which future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Irgun murdered 92 innocent British, Palestinian and Jewish civilians. A similar celbration was held last years to celebrate the false-flag terrorist bombings against U.S. and British targets in Egypt that became known as the Lavon Affair. http://www.hsje.org/israel_honors_9_egyptian_spies.htm Guess who was behind the false-flag attack on the USS Liberty, the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center Bombing, September 11, and innumerable atrocities commited against the United States and other Western powers over the past decades. === British anger at terror celebration http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2277717,00.htmlBy Ned Parker and Stephen Farrell The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah "terrorists" in Lebanon, Britain has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish "act of terrorism" against British rule 60 years ago this week. The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British rule, that killed 92 people and helped to drive the British from Palestine. They have erected a plaque outside the restored building, and are holding a two-day seminar with speeches and a tour of the hotel by one of the Jewish resistance fighters involved in the attack. Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador in Tel Aviv, and John Jenkins, the Consul-General in Jerusalem, have written to the municipality, stating: "We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to the loss of many lives, to be commemorated." In particular they demanded the removal of the plaque that pays tribute to the Irgun, the Jewish resistance branch headed by Menachem Begin, the future Prime Minister, which carried out the attack on July 22, 1946. The plaque presents as fact the Irgun's claim that people died because the British ignored warning calls. "For reasons known only to the British, the hotel was not evacuated," it states. Mr McDonald and Dr Jenkins denied that the British had been warned, adding that even if they had "this does not absolve those who planted the bomb from responsibility for the deaths". On Monday city officials agreed to remove the language deemed offensive from the blue sign hanging on the hotel's gates, though that had not been done shortly before it was unveiled last night. The controversy over the plaque and the two-day celebration of the bombing, sponsored by Irgun veterans and the right-wing Menachem Begin Heritage Centre, goes to the heart of the debate over the use of political violence in the Middle East. Yesterday Mr Netanyahu argued in a speech celebrating the attack that the Irgun were governed by morals, unlike fighters from groups such as Hamas. "It's very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action," he said. "Imagine that Hamas or Hezbollah would call the military headquarters in Tel Aviv and say, `We have placed a bomb and we are asking you to evacuate the area'." But the view of the attack was very different in 1946 when The Times branded the Irgun "terrorists in disguise". Decades later, Irgun veterans are unrepentant. Sarah Agassi, 80, remembers spying in the King David Hotel. She and a fellow agent posed as a couple. They danced tangos and waltzes, sipped whisky and wine while they cased out the hotel. On the day her brother and his fellow fighters posed as Arabs delivering milk and brought seven milk churns, each containing 50kg of explosives, into the building. Ms Agassi waited across the street until her brother rushed out. She said that she then made the warning call to the British command in the hotel. Sitting in the luxurious hotel lobby, she expressed no regret. "We fought for our independence. We thought it was the right way . . . If I had to fight for Israel, I swear even now I would do anything." TWO VERSIONS The original wording: The Hotel housed the Mandate Secretariat as well as the Army Headquarters. On July 1946 (sic) Irgun fighters at the order of the Hebrew Resistance Movement planted explosives in the basement. Warning phone calls had been made urging the hotel's occupants to leave immediately. For reasons known only to the British the hotel was not evacuated and after 25 minutes the bombs exploded, and to the Irgun's regret and dismay 91 persons were killed. The amended version . . .Warning phone calls had been made to the hotel, the Palestine Post and the French Consulate, urging the hotel's occupants to leave immediately. The hotel was not evacuated, and after 25 minutes the bombs exploded. The entire western wing was destroyed,
[political-research] The Israel Lobby and Christian Armageddonists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5193092.stm Evangelical Christians plead for Israel By Richard Allen Greene BBC News, Washington A week into one of the most severe crises the Middle East has seen in years, Israel is getting an influx of support from an unusual source. More than 3,400 evangelical Christians have arrived in Washington to lobby lawmakers as part of the first annual summit of Christians United for Israel. Delegates have come from all 50 states and have 280 meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Pastor John Hagee said. Pastor Hagee, the main organiser, said the event was the first of its kind. For the first time in the history of Christianity in America, Christians will go to the Hill to support Israel as Christians, he said. The event was planned months ago, and is not a direct response to the ongoing violence in the region. But the military conflict certainly makes our meeting more significant, Pastor Hagee said. The thousands of Christians in Washington - who came and are staying at their own expense - will be urging the US government not to restrain Israel in any way in the pursuit of Hamas and Hezbollah, he said. We want our Congress to make sure that not one dime of American money goes to support Hamas and Hezbollah or the enemies of Israel. Gift from God John Hagee is the pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and a long-time fervent supporter of Israel. John Hagee says 40 million Americans back his views In common with many American evangelicals, he believes that God gave the land to the Jewish people and that Christians have a Biblical duty to support it and the Jews. His latest book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World, interprets the Bible to predict that Russian and Arab armies will invade Israel and be destroyed by God. This will set up a confrontation over Israel between China and the West, led by the anti-Christ, who will be the head of the European Union, Pastor Hagee writes. That final battle between East and West - at Armageddon, an actual place in Israel - will precipitate the second coming of Christ, he concludes. It is not clear how many evangelicals believe literally in those type of prophecies. Research by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life last year found that evangelical Christians were more likely to support Israel than any other religious group in America besides Jews. And there are far more evangelicals in America than Jews - estimates suggest that they represent about a quarter of the US population. (Jews make up about 2%.) Two in three evangelicals believe that the establishment of the state of Israel fulfils Biblical prophecy, the survey found. And what they see in the news only reinforces their faith, according to Timothy Shah, a scholar at the Pew Forum. When they see what's going on in the Middle East, a whole range of enemies arrayed against God's people, they see God's word being played out on their television sets, he said. They see Israel triumphing over its enemies as proof that God's promises remain. 'Huge influence' Evangelical Christian support for Israel is not a new phenomenon, Mr Shah said, pointing out that there were Christian Zionists lobbying for a homeland for the Jews in Ottoman Palestine in the 19th Century. What has changed is the movement's level of political involvement, said Nancy Roman, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Washington programme. Part of what is happening is that the evangelical community in the US is becoming more engaged in the political process, she said. Whereas the church used to counsel people not to engage in politics, many churches are now counselling the opposite. It's important and it will have a huge influence on foreign policy over time, she added. Backing irredentists Michelle Goldberg is deeply concerned about that influence. She is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, which argues that a significant strain of conservative Christianity is working to undermine fundamental American rights and freedoms. She said the movement was just as dangerous in foreign policy. Christian Zionism is responsible for American support for some of the most irredentist Israeli positions, she said, such as support for settlement-building. She said evangelical Christians had substantial influence on US Middle East policy - more so than some better-known names such as Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Rosa Highwater came in response to a call from God The influence of Hagee is to make the American public support the government's completely one-sided, hawkishly pro-Israel stance. These groups have much more influence than Aipac or the so-called Israel lobby. Pastor Hagee himself said his group potentially had more clout than Jewish pro-Israel groups. When a congressman sees someone from Aipac coming through the door, he knows he represents six
[political-research] A Handful of Neocons Are Instigating a Wider War - by Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9354 July 20, 2006 A Handful of Neocons Are Instigating a Wider War Will Americans join Iraqis, Lebanese, and Palestinians as neocon victims? by Paul Craig Roberts What explains the indifference of the Bush administration to the slaughter of civilians in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza? As of the morning of July 19, Israeli bombardments of Lebanese civilian residential districts and public infrastructure have murdered 300 Lebanese, wounded 1,000, and displaced 500,000. The Lebanese prime minister said that Israel's attack has caused unimaginable losses and that his government will seek compensation from Israel. In Gaza, Israel has murdered scores of Palestinian civilians in the past few days. In Iraq, the civilian daily death toll has risen above 100. These dead are not Hezbollah militia. They are not Hamas militia. They are not al-Qaeda or Sunni insurgents. They are civilians. Frustrated by Hezbollah, Israel is lashing out at hapless civilians, knowing that the U.S. will protect Israel from UN Security Council condemnation. Frustrated by Sunni insurgents, the U.S. has instigated sectarian strife. Bush has stonewalled the UN, our European allies, and the Lebanese prime minister, all of whom are calling and pleading for Bush to pressure the Israelis to stop their cowardly slaughter from the air of Lebanese civilians. The Guardian reports that Bush gave Israel the green light to attack Lebanon and has given Olmert another week to pound Lebanon. U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice has announced that she will go to the Middle East to resolve the crisis when it is appropriate. Apparently, the appropriate time is not when people are dying and a country, which had only just recovered from the last Israeli invasion, is again being bombed into rubble. How many more war crimes must Israel commit before Bush and Condi Rice put aside their indifference? On July 19, the Israelis turned their air attack on the Christian area of Beirut. The Lebanese Christians can thank the American evangelical Rev. John Hagee, who has thrown his 18,000 member Texas church behind Israeli aggression. Bush cannot claim public support for his indifference. As of noon July 19, 800,000 people had participated in CNN's Quick Vote, with the result that 55 percent oppose Israel's attack on Lebanon. This result is despite the fact that U.S. television reporting explains the news from the Israeli perspective. Similarly, in Israel a survey published by Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth showed 53 percent of Israelis polled said Israel should hold negotiations to secure the release of the Israeli soldier captured in Gaza, while 43 percent backed a military operation. A poll taken by the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reports that 28 percent of Israelis believe Israel should immediately stop bombing Lebanon, compared to 7 percent who believe that the bombing should continue until the captured soldiers are freed, and 14 percent who believe bombing should continue until Lebanon agrees to disarm Hezbollah – a task that Israel's invasion has made more impossible than ever. If these polls are reliable, one can conclude that the U.S. and Israeli populations are more moral, and more concerned with human life, than are the leaders of the two countries. Neither can Bush claim that he is supporting Israel because he is Israel's friend. If Bush were Israel's friend, he would not have given a green light to Israel's aggression, which will create more hatred of Israel. As a number of Israeli writers have pointed out, Israel has shown tooth and claw to its Arab neighbors for decades to no avail. Writing in Ha'aretz, Yitzhak Laor notes that Israel's problems are not the result of insufficient bombing and destruction of Arab populations. Yet, once again Israeli militants are enlarging the circle of hostilities, including harming civilians. What Israel's 'strategists' have to offer is the destruction of yet another country. Laor says the Americans can do this in Iraq with less consequence for themselves, because the Americans do not intend to live in this region. Israelis cannot afford to show only tooth and claw to their neighbors, because we do live here. It sometimes seems Bush goes beyond indifference to contentment with the slaughter of Muslim civilians. Bush has even come across as gleeful as if he is on a dove hunt in a baited Texas field where joy resides in the killing of countless birds. Many Muslims believe that Bush and Israel see them as animals to be slain. On July 17, neocon John Bolton, Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the UN, gave credence to this Muslim belief when he announced that Israelis killed by terrorists were more important than the Lebanese civilians killed by Israel. Bolton said that there is no moral equivalence between Lebanese civilians killed by Israel and Israeli civilians killed by Muslim terrorists: It's
[political-research] Re: Lou Dobbs Crosses the Israel Lobby
This is part of the real story. The poverty is the basis on which the islamists operate. They built hospitals and create help-networks. This is no doubt the main reason why people elect them. I somehow doubt that the ideology that tries to bring democracy to the ME is prepared to care for the poor masses. There are simply no approaches for dealing with this in our economic universe. Quite the opposite. So the compassionate face feels indeed like propaganda. I commented by the way on CTRL on the Revelation issue. I thought I sent it, but it never showed up. We know now that the original source was Jewish, but do we know anything about the text tradition it belongs in? Could it have been some kind of parody of Eastern mythology? There seem to have been analogies with other eastern tales. -b Lebanon's lack of wealth is matched by the Palestinians -- three out of every four Palestinians live below the poverty line. Yet the vast majority of our giving in the region flows to Israel. This kind of geopolitical inconsistency and shortsightedness has contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict that the Western world seems content to allow to perpetuate endlessly. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/18/dobbs.july19/index.html It is extremely rare to see anyone in the mainstream media address the points that Lou Dobbs raises in this article -- one is amazed that Dobbs has been able to survive in this world for as long as he has. He deserves, like Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, to be commended for his extraordinary courage, and to be given maximum backup and support. He's up against the most ruthless and vindictive lobby on the planet, one which specializes in assassinations, black ops, blackmail, dirty tricks and similar methods to bully opponents into submission. Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM ~- Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Tom Tomorrow is a Prophet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_alladdress=364x1676496 __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] Grabbing the Third Rail (Mearsheimer and Walt)
Grabbing the Third Rail Interview:Two professors respond to the backlash over their controversial paper on the Israel Lobby. Stephen Walt and John MearsheimerBy Paige Austin July 18, 2006 Every piece of scholarship carries risks. But for Harvard Professor Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, the potential fallout from their paper "The Israel Lobby," published in the March 23 edition of the London Review of Books, was more dangerous than most. Declaring that the extent of the U.S.-Israel alliance had "no equal in American political history," the professors posed a distinctly uncomfortable question: "Why has the U.S. been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?" continued ... [Mother Jones] __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] Fwd: [panopticage] Was Leo Strauss democracy's best friend?
Phillip Darrell Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: "Phillip Darrell Collins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:53:03 -Subject: [panopticage] Was Leo Strauss democracy's best friend? The Letter Scott Horton Was Leo Strauss democracy's best friend? In a letter written at the time of his emigration, Strauss describes his political principles - Fascist, Authoritarian, Imperialist"We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific." Leo Strauss, Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958) In the last several months, the New York Times has run four pieces defending Leo Strauss from his critics. By comparison, the Times has run no pieces in which Strauss is actually criticized, which suggests an odd editorial posture. Indeed, the Times seems to have mounted a veritable campaign for the defense of the beleaguered Leo Strauss, which seems strange considering that he has been dead for over thirty years. These pieces are remarkably consistent. For one, each turns the very serious criticism of Strauss and his relationship with the American Neoconservative movement into a point of ridicule. The criticism is grossly distorted and key elements are misstated. For another, they present Strauss as a "liberal democrat," not in a domestic political context, but rather as a defender of the tradition of liberal democracy we associate with Locke, Hume and J.S. Mill. The Liberal Critique of StraussThe key criticisms of Straussian political thought are complex and difficult to summarize. There are a great number of liberal critics, but three seem to take the leading position: Shadia Drury, Stephen Holmes and Anne Norton (though Norton's work may more accurately be called a criticism of Straussians than of Strauss himself, a point which is true to some extent of all three). Of these, Holmes does the most convincing job of contrasting Strauss with the thinking of the liberal tradition, and his critique can be summarized as follows:(1) Strauss rejects the fundamental liberal idea that wide-open, uncensored public disagreement is a creative force, mobilizing decentralized knowledge and bringing it to bear on issues of public importance. Liberalism, above all, insists that the factual premises of the use of force must be tested in an open adversarial process, but Strauss's entire philosophical posture is a sarcastic rejection of this idea. For Strauss, knowledge belongs to a few - we know ahead of time who can and who cannot contribute something serious to a discussion. This "closed club" view of knowledge and debate with its essentially anti-democratic premise contributed to the atmospherics of the Bush drive to war against Iraq.(2) Strauss believed that the liberal-Enlightenment tradition was naïve, and in particular the notion of Enlightenment thinkers that "revelation" (religious myths and dreams) could be banned from politics (as noted below, this was the crux of Strauss' dissertation done under the great Neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer). For Strauss, this is impossible; the repressed will return; hence it is crucial for the secular few, the men of science, to bring religion into politics on their own terms. The American Neocons' bizarre alliance with America's Religious Right follows directly from this analysis.(3) One of the pillars of liberal democracy is the embrace of the Rule of Law, and the notion that no one, even the king or Executive, stands above the law. For Strauss this idea was foolishness. Strauss' critique can be seen in his writings on Plato and Xenophon, but their origin clearly lies with the Nietzschean criticism of Christianity as a slave morality designed to trick and "tie down" the natural geniuses. Strauss applies this criticism to law; law spells weakness; law is a trick of the weak to tie down the strong. Hence, Strauss applauds the decisive leader who acts outside of the law to achieve his goals. Nevertheless, the consequences of Strauss' dismissive attitude towards the Rule of Law can be seen today in the Neocon advocacy of jettisoning traditional norms of the law of armed conflict and in allowing the president to operate outside of clear criminal statutes (like FISA) as an aspect of his war-making powers.(4) Strauss always said that liberalism was unable to defend itself; that it must be defended, if at all, by non-liberals, willing to go outside the rules. This argument again has a firmly Nietzschean aspect. While Strauss seeks to cast it in terms of writers of classical antiquity, it is hard to read much of his writings without having an image of Carl Schmitt come to mind. Strauss would present himself as a "savior" of liberalism, but in the end, like Schmitt, one must fear that he would "save" liberal democracy by putting it to death.See Stephen Holmes, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993).Put simply, Strauss takes firm target at the core values of liberal democracy, and particularly the American variant. Before his arrival in America,
[political-research] Bruce Majors Sockpuppets: libertarianhope, ObjectivismDC, and majormovesre
Bruce Majors is a very obnoxious right-wing spammer who uses a large number of e-mail identities, and harasses leftists by forging e-mails in their name. Here are his current identities in the lists I subscribe to (he may have many more in other lists). I do not think he is razl dazl; they're just both in the fascism business and so have similar thuggish personalities. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] in [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Majors has previously used these identities (and many more are listed in the e-mails I've quoted below): [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's more info about him: http://groups.google.com/group/Coalitionforfreethoughtinmedia/msg/bae38c9412484a39?dmode=sourcehl=en http://groups.google.com/group/dc.housing/msg/840dd9bb0b30a222?dmode=sourcehl=en http://www.objectivistyellowpages.com/ This is his website, which now says, This domain has temporarily been disabled. To restore the domain, contact your Customer Support. http://www.brucemajors.com/ Some cached data from his site: Bruce Majors Phone: 202.486.3127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community where I live: West End/Kalorama Markets I serve: All of Washington, DC My business has expanded to the point that I am (and have been for some years) the top producer at RE/MAX and now have a staff of part-time assistants. This is from a real estate ad dated 14-JUL-06: Bruce Majors (202) 338 - 8900 Re/Max Allegiance--Washington D.C.- Georgetown Here are some messages about Majors' e-mail identity-theft/forgery activities against Lori Price and others a year ago: * Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lori R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:55:24 -0400 Subject: [911truthalliance] Bruce P. Majors is harassing Leftists. Do NOT email me again, Bruce P. [Moron] Majors. Your stealing my identity, harassing me, and using foul language is enough for you to lose your AOL account. Incidentally, *moron,* you misspelled 'Fascist,' how ironic. Everyone, please file a complaint with AOL about this Reichwing amoeba from the Cato Institute, [EMAIL PROTECTED], who has stolen numerous Leftists' identities, infiltrated their boards, and harassed them. From AOL's guidelines: You can forward reports of Internet e-mail abuse involving AOL Member accounts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://postmaster.aol.com/guidelines/junk.html Thank you, Lori Price CLG http://www.legitgov.org/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [A.K.A. Bruce P. Moron] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Identity theft... libel... or ? You silly facist bitch Do not tell me what screen name I can use or what I am free to say X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.163.170.104; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:13:36 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [205.188.157.35] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authentication-Results: mta106.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=aol.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) * Hi Lori The thief is Bruce Majors Report him to AOL He is a shill for the Cato Institute My main machine crashed but I think his non spoofed is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suzy * - Original Message - From: A friend To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: A few alias' of our friend Majors from the Cato Crew [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kathleen Diehard Dems Admin. and AOL troll * Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:56:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [CLG_Revolution_Tactics] The thief is Bruce Majors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lori if it is Bruce Majors then I've been having a running battle with him on [EMAIL PROTECTED] He is a REAL piece of work that one. What a F**wad. He should have been reported to yahoogroups when he threatened me last week. He said I should be shot for having a differing opinion than his when I called him on his posts!!! If he's stealing your name passing it around then SICK 'EM GIRL!!! I'll add my 2 cents too if need be. B.J. * Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lori R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lori R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:02:30 -0400 Subject: [the911coverup] Fw: A way to get brucepmajors Sorry for posting a long email thread... but I just *had* to forward these ideas, :) Thanks, Lori Price, CLG - Original Message - From: A friend To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:58 AM Subject: A way to get brucepmajors One way to get him good, especially if aol is not responding, ( and
[political-research] Re: The Israel Lobby and Christian Armageddonists
I don't know what's so unusual about Israel's support group -- nothing new. The Christian Armageddonists' sole motive is to bring about Armageddon, and that can only be done when Israel is given back to its chosen people. Doesn't matter that the two groups don't share the same religious beliefs, the Armageddonists will fix that when Christ returns. And the Israelites will take support where they can get it. A sort of shark/lamprey relationship. --- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5193092.stm Evangelical Christians plead for Israel By Richard Allen Greene BBC News, Washington A week into one of the most severe crises the Middle East has seen in years, Israel is getting an influx of support from an unusual source. More than 3,400 evangelical Christians have arrived in Washington to lobby lawmakers as part of the first annual summit of Christians United for Israel. Delegates have come from all 50 states and have 280 meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Pastor John Hagee said. Pastor Hagee, the main organiser, said the event was the first of its kind. For the first time in the history of Christianity in America, Christians will go to the Hill to support Israel as Christians, he said. The event was planned months ago, and is not a direct response to the ongoing violence in the region. But the military conflict certainly makes our meeting more significant, Pastor Hagee said. The thousands of Christians in Washington - who came and are staying at their own expense - will be urging the US government not to restrain Israel in any way in the pursuit of Hamas and Hezbollah, he said. We want our Congress to make sure that not one dime of American money goes to support Hamas and Hezbollah or the enemies of Israel. Gift from God John Hagee is the pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and a long-time fervent supporter of Israel. John Hagee says 40 million Americans back his views In common with many American evangelicals, he believes that God gave the land to the Jewish people and that Christians have a Biblical duty to support it and the Jews. His latest book, Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World, interprets the Bible to predict that Russian and Arab armies will invade Israel and be destroyed by God. This will set up a confrontation over Israel between China and the West, led by the anti-Christ, who will be the head of the European Union, Pastor Hagee writes. That final battle between East and West - at Armageddon, an actual place in Israel - will precipitate the second coming of Christ, he concludes. It is not clear how many evangelicals believe literally in those type of prophecies. Research by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life last year found that evangelical Christians were more likely to support Israel than any other religious group in America besides Jews. And there are far more evangelicals in America than Jews - estimates suggest that they represent about a quarter of the US population. (Jews make up about 2%.) Two in three evangelicals believe that the establishment of the state of Israel fulfils Biblical prophecy, the survey found. And what they see in the news only reinforces their faith, according to Timothy Shah, a scholar at the Pew Forum. When they see what's going on in the Middle East, a whole range of enemies arrayed against God's people, they see God's word being played out on their television sets, he said. They see Israel triumphing over its enemies as proof that God's promises remain. 'Huge influence' Evangelical Christian support for Israel is not a new phenomenon, Mr Shah said, pointing out that there were Christian Zionists lobbying for a homeland for the Jews in Ottoman Palestine in the 19th Century. What has changed is the movement's level of political involvement, said Nancy Roman, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Washington programme. Part of what is happening is that the evangelical community in the US is becoming more engaged in the political process, she said. Whereas the church used to counsel people not to engage in politics, many churches are now counselling the opposite. It's important and it will have a huge influence on foreign policy over time, she added. Backing irredentists Michelle Goldberg is deeply concerned about that influence. She is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, which argues that a significant strain of conservative Christianity is working to undermine fundamental American rights and freedoms. She said the movement was just as dangerous in foreign policy. Christian Zionism is responsible for American support for some of the most irredentist Israeli positions, she said, such as support for settlement-building. She said
[political-research] Fwd: [TD] Tomgram: Karen Greenberg on Bush's Redacted Reality
[Neoconservatism = Stalinism, KGB mentality, dictatorship, zero accountability and transparency, etc. Here we are seeing Straussianism in action. The neocons are deliberately and systematically destroying American democracy so that they can get on with their project of using American military power to destroy the enemies of a certain foreign government whose name is well known.]TomDispatch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:27:30 -0400From: "TomDispatch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [TD] Tomgram: Karen Greenberg on Bush's Redacted Reality a project of the Nation Institute To send this to a friend, or to read more dispatches, go to tomdispatch.com Tomgram: Karen Greenberg on Bush's Redacted Reality Imagine a government in which the names of those who worked as key aides in the office of the second (if not, arguably, the first) most important official in the country were not available. Oh gosh, there is such a government -- and it's ours. Journalist Robert Dreyfuss set out to do a report for the American Prospect magazine on the various individuals Vice President Cheney had gathered to help him run the most powerful vice-presidency in American history -- functionally, his own shadow National Security Council -- and when he called, asking for those names and their positions as well as possible interviews with them, here's what ensued: "His press people seem shocked that a reporter would even ask for an interview with the staff. The blanket answer is no -- nobody is available. Amazingly, the vice president's office flatly refuses to even disclose who works there, or what their titles are. We just don't give out that kind of information,' says Jennifer Mayfield, another of Cheney's angels.' She won't say who is on staff, or what they do? No, she insists. It's just not something we talk about.' The notoriously silent OVP [Office of the Vice President] staff rebuffs not just pesky reporters but even innocuous database researchers from companies like Carroll Publishing, which puts out the quarterly Federal Directory. They're tight-lipped about the kind of information they put out,' says Albert Ruffin, senior editor at Carroll, who fumes that Cheney's office doesn't bother returning his calls when he's updating the limited information he manages to collect."We're talking, of course, about the official to whom no major media outlet assigns a regular reporter, because the Veep's office releases, with great determination, no news to cover. Dick Cheney is, in this way, the poster boy for the Bush administration's most essential "sunshine" policy -- if at all possible, offer nothing to anyone, any time, anywhere, for any reason. Such examples of Bush administration secrecy can be multiplied more or less in the direction of the infinite. Stories of information suppression of all sorts are legion, but sometimes one image is worth a thousand examples of what's being kept from us. In this case, the image comes from Karen J. Greenberg, co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, who follows the endless stream of investigations and reports that have come from inside the U.S. government and the military in response to the plethora of scandals about torture, abuse, mistreatment, kidnapping, secret prisons, and the like. Tom The Color of "Transparency" Is BlackBy Karen J. Greenberg Imagine my disappointment. Two long-awaited Pentagon reports on detainee policy had finally reached public view: the Jacoby Report on Afghanistan and the Formica Report on Iraq, available as a result of Freedom of Information Act suits, like thousands of other pages of government reports on the war on terror. As the co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, a collection of the memos, reports, and interview logs related to Bush administration detainee policy, I was naturally eager to see those parts of the story that were unfortunately still classified at the time of the book's publication in December 2004. Both reports promised to contain new information about detainee policy. In June of 2004, Brigadier General Charles H. Jacoby, Jr. had submitted the results of his investigation into detainee operations and standards of detainee treatment in Afghanistan. In November of that year, Brigadier General Richard P. Formica had delivered his findings on command and control questions and allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq. Lieutenant General Richard Sanchez, Commander of the Multinational Force in Iraq and the military officer connected to the interrogation unit at Abu Ghraib, had commissioned Formica to determine whether or not U.S. forces in Iraq were in compliance with Department of Defense guidelines on detainee treatment. Click here to read more of this dispatch. You are currently subscribed to tomdispatch as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the
[political-research] On Leo Strauss's Hostility to Science
On Leo Strauss's Hostility to Science[Since Leo Strauss was an emotional cultist, who interpreted his narcissistic noodlings as divine truth, no wonder he was hostile to science, which is the most empirical and libertarian of human disciplines. Scientists are required continuallyto test their assertions against reality in the free and open marketplace of ideas. Straussians and neocons seek to dictate the truth, based on their emotional needs, not seek the truth by rational and objective methods. Since they can't survive in a culture of free speech and free inquiry,Straussians are naturally drawn to authoritarian and totalitarian political systems which they hope to control.]http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Leo_Strauss Fact-Value Distinction Rejected Strauss rejected or dismissed empirical social science and its findings in large part because he had not been trained to employ them and was therefore unable to make contributions to political science using the scientific method and statistical analysis. Like many scholars trained exclusively in the humanities, he was intellectually trapped in making claims for truth solely on the basis of the close reading of text and intuition. His rejection of the fact-value distinction served as cover for this disability. Strauss explained his rejection in terms of bad consequences. He was convinced that the fact-value distinction produces nihilism. In effect, he recommended rejecting an idea not because it was true or false in the sense of being an accurate statement about the world but because he disliked or feared where it might lead in the search for truth. Strauss's rejection is an example of the fallacy called "argument from adverse consequences." See page 212 of Carl Sagan's 1995 book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Random House. ISBN 039453512X. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] On the Israel Lobby and Christian Armageddonists
On the Israel Lobby and Christian ArmageddonistsThe Israel lobby isn't simply manipulating Christian Armageddonists (and vice-versa). Major factions within the Israel lobby and the Zionist world, especially religious Zionists in the school of Rabbi Abraham Kook, are themselves Armageddonists, Jewish Armageddonists, to be exact.Christian Armageddonists view Armageddon as an instrument to produce a permanent global Christian dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Jewish Armageddonists view Armageddon as a means to create a permanent global Jewish dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Both parties are of course completely deranged and will no doubt at some point begin warring against one another.Many of the supposed secular neoconservatives are crypto-Armageddonists. The rhetoric of the PNAC and other neocon organizations is loaded up with themes straight from Armageddonist psychology -- world revolution, world domination, utopianism, global holy war, World War III, World War IV, clash of civilizations, etc. William Kristol, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen and their comrades are essentially Jewish Armageddonists, who are attempting to ignite a global conflagration as the necessary prelude to ushering in the messianic era -- an era in which they comprise the world-dominating Messiah.Jewish Armageddonists + Christian Armageddonists = Judeo-Christian Armageddonism, the most dangerous political movement in the history of the United States and of the world. These crackpots control the largest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in existence. The great majority of Christians and Jews oppose both Christian and Jewish Armageddonists, but for some reason their voices are not being heard in the contemporary American mainstream media. The most influential owners and controllers of the mainstream media, like Rupert Murdoch, appear to be Armageddonists themselves, who are promoting an Armageddonist agenda while censoring all dissenting voices. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/39272/ The Most Dangerous Alliance in the World By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. Posted July 20, 2006. The U.S. is helping to destroy Lebanon in its tacit support of Israel. After getting out of Lebanon, writer June Rugh told Reuters on Tuesday: As an American, I'm embarrassed and ashamed. My administration is letting it happen [by giving] tacit permission for Israel to destroy a country. The news service quoted another American evacuee, Andrew Muha, who had been in southern Lebanon. He said: It's a travesty. There's a million homeless in Lebanon and the intense amount of bombing has brought an entire country to its knees. Embarrassing. Shameful. A travesty. Those kinds of words begin to describe the alliance between the United States and Israel. Here are a few more: Government criminality. High-tech terror. Mass murder from the skies. The kind of premeditated action that the U.S. representative in Nuremberg at the International Conference on Military Trials -- Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson -- was talking about on August 12, 1945, when he declared that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy. The United States and Israel. Right now, it's the most dangerous alliance in the world. Of course, Israeli officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Hezbollah and Hamas. And Hezbollah and Hamas officials talk about murderous crimes against civilians by Israel. Plenty of real crimes to go around. At the same time, by any measure, Israelis have done a lot more killing than dying. (If you doubt that, take a look at the website of the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem and its documentation of deadly events.) In American media, the current mumbling about the need for restraint is little better than window-dressing for bomb-dropping. The prevalent dynamic is based on a chain of rarely spoken lies, however conscious or unconscious: none more important than the lie that a religion can make one life worth more than another; render a human death unimportant; elevate certain war-inflicted agonies to spiritual significance. Israel has overwhelming military superiority in both southern Lebanon and Gaza, the New York Times noted in mid-July. A pattern is deeply entrenched in U.S. media and politics: the smaller-scale killers condemned, the larger-scale killers justified with endless rationales. Stripping away the righteous rhetoric, media manipulation and routine journalistic contortions, what remains in joint U.S.-Israeli policy is the unspoken assumption that might makes right. Myths spin around as convenient. Israel ceremoniously withdraws from Gaza, only to come back with missiles and troops however and whenever it pleases. The West Bank also continues to be a place of subjugation and resistance. And, as W.H. Auden observed, Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return. The Israeli leaders who launched this month's state-of-the-killing-art air assault on Gaza and Lebanon had to know that many civilians would be killed, many others wounded, many more terrorized. The smug moral posturing that Israel's military does not target specific civilians is moldy political grist -- and, in human terms, irrelevant to the totally predictable carnage. There are terrorists who will blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives, President Bush said on July 13. Of course he was referring to actions by Hezbollah and Hamas. We're supposed to pretend that Israel does not also blow up innocent people in order to achieve tactical objectives. Israel calls itself a Jewish state, and its leadership often claims to represent the interests of Jewish people. Killers who terrorize often claim to be acting on blessed behalf of others of the faith. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus... By now, such demagoguery ought to be transparent. In the 40th year of Israel's unconscionable occupation of Palestinian territories, Israeli leaders have their agenda. What's ours? It should include clearly opposing the most dangerous alliance in the world. In the United States, evading the might makes right core of the alliance is easy. The dodge makes dropping bombs on Lebanon and Gaza that much easier for the Israeli government. As usual, you can hear it in the weasel-worded statements from even the better politicians on Capitol Hill. You can read it in New York Times editorials. Instead of saying that aggressive war by Israel is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy, the message is that aggressive war by Israel is accepted and embraced as an instrument of policy. Most of all, you can hear it in the silence. Norman Solomon is the author of the new book, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Save and share
[political-research] How Straussians Demonstrate the Cultism of Straussianism
How Straussians Demonstrate the Cultism of StraussianismWe have several earnest defenders of Leo Strauss here who have never quoted a single paragraph, sentence or phrase of Strauss, have never described his particular ideas, and have never directly answered the many well-informed criticisms that have been made of Strauss! Think about it: they actually care so little about the actual content of Strauss that they can't quote, describe or defend it.So: why emotionally defend Strauss under such circumstances? Apparently because he is associated with Israel, neoconservatives and Jews in some vague way that inspires mindless loyalty and patriotism among people who are unable to engage in critical thinking.I've mastered philosophers with much greater intellectual force and originality than Strauss. What is most remarkable about Strauss is the utter sterility and vacuum at the heart of his logorrhean noodlings. There's no there there. His writings shed light on nothing but his neurotic inability to come to terms with and adjust to the Enlightenment and the modern world.Interesting passage from an article on Strauss in this week's Forward:quoteA Revisionist [Jabotinskyite] Zionist since his teens, Strauss praised the creation of Israel as "the greatest blessing for Jews everywhere" "I was myself a political Zionist in my youth, and was a member of a Zionist organization. In this capacity, I occasionally met Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionists. He asked me: 'What are you doing?' I said, 'Well, we read the Bible, we study Jewish history, Zionist theory...we keep abreast of developments, and so on.' He replied: 'And rifle practice?' And I had to say, 'No.'"/quoteStrauss is supposedly being mildly self-ironic here.Well, gee whiz: most of the Jabotinskyites and Straussians in the neocon movement, like William Kristol and Douglas Feith, have never fired a rifle either -- they are all well-known for being chickenhawks who wouldn't dream of dirtying their hands by fighting for Israel as citizens and residents of Israel. They are quite adamant that Americans do their dirty work for them.It is no accident that Leo Strauss has acquired the particular disciples he has -- they reflect who he really is. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] Some Religious Fanatics Joyous Over Middle East Violence
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060720_religious_fanatics_rapture/ Apparently some religious fanatics ... see the Rapture as a silver lining to the current turmoil in the middle east and can barely contain their joy. Read some truly frightening messages posted to a Rapture Ready/End Times message board. (Harpers via BoingBoing.net) Harpers: Silver Linings and a Cross of Gold Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006. It turns out there’s an upside to the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah—if you’re waiting for the second coming of Christ. Here’s a selection of excited messages spotted over the last few days on the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat online bulletin board. By Ken Silverstein. Sources Praise God! We are chosen to be in these times and also watch and spread the word. Something inside me is exploding to get out, and I don’t know what it is. Its kind of like I want to do cartwheels around the neighborhood. * * * In another thread, someone brought up the fact that the kidnapping of the first Israeli soldier that started this whole thing was on June 25th and if you count from that day to August 3rd...it is *EXACTLY 40 days!* I find that to be a HUGE coincidence. * * * A question just popped in my head. Do you think children of around say 7 or 8 (but before the age of accountability) that have been indoctrinated up until that time by their parents religious beliefs will be raptured? . . . For example, would a 7 year old muslim be raptured? I know G-d will do right but I was just wondering everyone’s thoughts. I hate to think of kids being left here. * * * Got that dancing feeling on the inside of me. * * * This is the busiest I’ve ever seen this website in a few years! I have been having rapture dreams and I can’t believe that this is really it! We are on the edge of eternity!! link Comment #14554 by r on 7/20 at 4:06 pm This is John Nelson Darby’s legacy and that also that of Samuel Untermayer, who financed the Darbyist Bible, the Schoefield Reference Bible. Thanks to them, the worship of a foreign state is considered normal to many people in the United States, particularly to its present leadership. One would think that the worship of a foreign state would disqualify Bush from being president but I guess security and loyalty from their leaders to their own country are not big issues with Americans. Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM ~- Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search
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Re: [political-research] On the Israel Lobby and Christian Armageddonists
Sean:By "Christian Armageddonists" do you mean dispensationalists? If so, you could have said so. "Christian Armageddonists" as a vague term could refer to anyone who believes in some kind of a literal battle - physical or spiritual or both - as mentioned in Revelation 16: 16.Dispensationalists tend to believe in a literal battle at the end of the world or end of the age as described in Revelation 16: 13-16 and Revelation 19: 11-21 that is to occur at a place called Armageddon. But the dispensationalists generally think that the Hebrews or Jews are still God's chosen people, thoughmost Jewsrejected Christ with only a few accepting him. The dispensationalists reject the New Testament teachings that those who are in Christ are true Israel. The pre-Tribulation Rapture apostasy is dispensationalist, and maybe what you are calling "Christian Armageddonists" are those who believe in that pre-trib Rapture. But you have not said that and have left it open to include others who are not Rapture people.There are many Christiangroups and individuals who believe in the Millennium, think Christians will go through the Great Tribulation without being Raptured off the earth, and who do not allegorize almost all end time prophecyand who are not dispensationalists. Francis Schaeffer, the Christian writer who died in 1985, was one who believed in the Millennium and in many literal fulfillments of end time Bible prophecy, and yet hewas not a dispensationalist. You could be more explicit rather than talking about "Christian Armageddonists."Even if you are not a Chrtistian you could find out more about end time Christian or Protestant theology. BernardSean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On the Israel Lobby and Christian ArmageddonistsThe Israel lobby isn't simply manipulating Christian Armageddonists (and vice-versa). Major factions within the Israel lobby and the Zionist world, especially religious Zionists in the school of Rabbi Abraham Kook, are themselves Armageddonists, Jewish Armageddonists, to be exact.Christian Armageddonists view Armageddon as an instrument to produce a permanent global Christian dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Jewish Armageddonists view Armageddon as a means to create a permanent global Jewish dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Both parties are of course completely deranged and will no doubt at some point begin warring against one another.Many of the supposed secular neoconservatives are crypto-Armageddonists. The rhetoric of the PNAC and other neocon organizations is loaded up with themes straight from Armageddonist psychology -- world revolution, world domination, utopianism, global holy war, World War III, World War IV, clash of civilizations, etc. William Kristol, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen and their comrades are essentially Jewish Armageddonists, who are attempting to ignite a global conflagration as the necessary prelude to ushering in the messianic era -- an era in which they comprise the world-dominating Messiah.Jewish Armageddonists + Christian Armageddonists = Judeo-Christian Armageddonism, the most dangerous political movement in the history of the United States and of the world. These crackpots control the largest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in existence.The great majority of Christians and Jews oppose both Christian and Jewish Armageddonists, but for some reason their voices are not being heard in the contemporary American mainstream media. The most influential owners and controllers of the mainstream media, like Rupert Murdoch, appear to be Armageddonists themselves, who are promoting an Armageddonist agenda while censoring all dissenting voices. "No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps a-comin.' " Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonaldJames 5:1-6"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud (INCOME TAX), crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth." How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence
Re: [political-research] On the Israel Lobby and Christian Armageddonists
By "Christian Armageddonists" I am referring to true believers associated with Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, Mike Evans, Hal Lindsey and similar figures, who organize their mental and emotional life around the role of Israel in triggering Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. In my lexicon the term is pretty much synonymous with "Christian Zionists." I prefer it to "dispensationalists," which is a rather technical and arcane term that many people do not understand. "Armageddon" is a word that most people grasp instantly and which gets to the essence of the mindset.I find the distinctions you draw among these various groups to be very interesting, however, and I keep trying to understand more about these various movements. Please contribute your knowledge on these matters as you feel moved.My own bias on this subject: I think strong intuitions and imaginings of world destruction, world revolution, world salavation, world perfection and the like are built into our human DNA, are projections of our deepest human fears and hopes about life and the universe. I don't scoff at these feelings -- they are part of my emotional makeup too. I feel their resonance and power. But I do worry about destructive political movements which exploit these feelings, sometimes in infantile or sleazy ways.bernard pyron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sean:By "Christian Armageddonists" do you mean dispensationalists? If so, you could have said so. "Christian Armageddonists" as a vague term could refer to anyone who believes in some kind of a literal battle - physical or spiritual or both - as mentioned in Revelation 16: 16.Dispensationalists tend to believe in a literal battle at the end of the world or end of the age as described in Revelation 16: 13-16 and Revelation 19: 11-21 that is to occur at a place called Armageddon. But the dispensationalists generally think that the Hebrews or Jews are still God's chosen people, thoughmost Jewsrejected Christ with only a few accepting him. The dispensationalists reject the New Testament teachings that those who are in Christ are true Israel. The pre-Tribulation Rapture apostasy is dispensationalist, and maybe what you are calling "Christian Armageddonists" are those who believe in that pre-trib Rapture. But you have not said that and have left it open to include others who are not Rapture people.There are many Christiangroups and individuals who believe in the Millennium, think Christians will go through the Great Tribulation without being Raptured off the earth, and who do not allegorize almost all end time prophecyand who are not dispensationalists. Francis Schaeffer, the Christian writer who died in 1985, was one who believed in the Millennium and in many literal fulfillments of end time Bible prophecy, and yet hewas not a dispensationalist. You could be more explicit rather than talking about "Christian Armageddonists."Even if you are not a Chrtistian you could find out more about end time Christian or Protestant theology. BernardSean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On the Israel Lobby and Christian ArmageddonistsThe Israel lobby isn't simply manipulating Christian Armageddonists (and vice-versa). Major factions within the Israel lobby and the Zionist world, especially religious Zionists in the school of Rabbi Abraham Kook, are themselves Armageddonists, Jewish Armageddonists, to be exact.Christian Armageddonists view Armageddon as an instrument to produce a permanent global Christian dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Jewish Armageddonists view Armageddon as a means to create a permanent global Jewish dictatorship with its capital in Jerusalem. Both parties are of course completely deranged and will no doubt at some point begin warring against one another.Many of the supposed secular neoconservatives are crypto-Armageddonists. The rhetoric of the PNAC and other neocon organizations is loaded up with themes straight from Armageddonist psychology -- world revolution, world domination, utopianism, global holy war, World War III, World War IV, clash of civilizations, etc. William Kristol, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen and their comrades are essentially Jewish Armageddonists, who are attempting to ignite a global conflagration as the necessary prelude to ushering in the messianic era -- an era in which they comprise the world-dominating Messiah.Jewish Armageddonists + Christian Armageddonists = Judeo-Christian Armageddonism, the most dangerous political movement in the history of the United States and of the world. These crackpots control the largest arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in existence.The great majority of Christians and Jews oppose both Christian and Jewish Armageddonists, but for some reason their voices are not being heard in the contemporary American mainstream media. The most influential owners and controllers of the mainstream media, like Rupert Murdoch, appear to be
[political-research] Amnesty International on China Censorship
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-20-n20.html Excerpt: Amnesty International released a PDF titled “Undermining Freedom of Expression in China: The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google.” The paper accompanies the launch of the Irrepressible.info campaign. Following are excerpts from the paper, with permission (footnotes have been removed and can be found in the original document; partly, my emphasis). Although there are other Internet companies worthy of investigation for involvement and assistance in the Chinese government’s Internet censorship, as well as the suppression of dissent, the focus of this report is limited to Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. All three companies have, in one way or another, facilitated or colluded in the practice of censorship in China. Yahoo! has provided the Chinese authorities with private and confidential information about its users. This included personal data that has been used to convict at least two journalists, considered by Amnesty International to be prisoners of conscience. Microsoft has admitted to shutting down a blog on the basis of a government request. Google has launched a censored version of its international search engine in China. All three companies have demonstrated a disregard for their own internally driven and proclaimed policies. They have made promises to themselves, their employees, their customers and their investors which they failed to uphold in the face of business opportunities and pressure from the Chinese government. This raises doubts about which statements made by these organisations can be trusted and which ones are public relations gestures. Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM ~- Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Israel's War is Not America's War
[Comment: Current trends in Israel's relations with the rest of the world could quite easily lead to the biggest explosion of anti-Semitism in world history, and especially in the United States. Consider some of the obvious scenarios latent in the current mess.] http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51164 quote No, Kenny boy, we are not all Israelis. Some of us still think of ourselves as Americans, first, last and always And, no, Mr. Kristol, this is not our war. It's your war. /quote No, this is not 'our war' Patrick Buchanan Posted: July 20, 2006 8:36 p.m. Eastern My country has been torn to shreds, said Fouad Siniora, the prime minister of Lebanon, as the death toll among his people passed 300 civilian dead, 1,000 wounded, with half a million homeless. Israel must pay for the barbaric destruction, said Siniora. To the contrary, says columnist Lawrence Kudlow, Israel is doing the Lord's work. On American TV, former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the ruination of Lebanon is Hezbollah's doing. But is it Hezbollah that is using U.S.-built F-16s, with precision-guided bombs and 155-mm artillery pieces to wreak death and devastation on Lebanon? No, Israel is doing this, with the blessing and without a peep of protest from President Bush. And we wonder why they hate us. Today, we are all Israelis! brayed Ken Mehlman of the Republican National Committee to a gathering of Christians United for Israel. One wonders if these Christians care about what is happening to our Christian brethren in Lebanon and Gaza, who have had all power cut off by Israeli airstrikes, an outlawed form of collective punishment, that has left them with no sanitation, rotting food, impure water and days without light or electricity in the horrible heat of July. When summer power outrages occur in America, it means a rising rate of death among our sick and elderly, and women and infants. One can only imagine what a hell it must be today in Gaza City and Beirut. But all this carnage and destruction has only piqued the blood lust of the hairy-chested warriors at the Weekly Standard. In a signed editorial, It's Our War, William Kristol calls for America to play her rightful role in this war by countering this act of aggression by Iran with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Why wait? Well, one reason is that the United States has not been attacked. A second is a small thing called the Constitution. Where does George W. Bush get the authority to launch a war on Iran? When did Congress declare war or authorize a war on Iran? Answer: It never did. But these neoconservatives care no more about the Constitution than they cared about the truth when they lied into war in Iraq. Why wait? How about thinking of the fate of those 25,000 Americans in Lebanon if we launch an unprovoked war on Iran. How many would wind up dead or hostages of Hezbollah if Iran gave the order to retaliate for the slaughter of their citizens by U.S. bombs? What would happen to the 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, if Shiites and Iranian volunteers joined forces to exact revenge on our soldiers? What about America? Richard Armitage, who did four tours in Nam and knows a bit about war, says that, in its ability to attack Western targets, al-Qaida is the B Team, Hezbollah the A Team. If Bush bombs Iran, what prevents Hezbollah from launching retaliatory attacks inside the United States? None of this is written in defense of Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran. But none of them has attacked our country, nor has Syria, whom Bush I made an ally in the Gulf War and to whom the most decorated soldier in Israeli history, Ehud Barak, offered 99 percent of the Golan Heights. If Nixon, Bush I and Clinton could deal with Hafez al-Assad, a tougher customer than son Bashar, what is the matter with George W. Bush? The last superpower is impotent in this war because we have allowed Israel to dictate to whom we may and may not talk. Thus, Bush winds up cussing in frustration in St. Petersburg that somebody should tell the Syrians to stop it. Why not pick up the phone, Mr. President? What is Kristol's moral and legal ground for a war on Iran? It is the Iranian act of aggression against Israel and that Iran is on the road to nuclear weapons – and we can't have that. But there is no evidence Iran has any tighter control over Hezbollah than we have over Israel, whose response to the capture of two soldiers had all the spontaneity of the Schlieffen Plan. And, again, Hezbollah attacked Israel, not us. And there is no solid proof Iran is in violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which it has signed, but Israel refuses to sign. If Iran's nuclear program justifies war, why cannot the neocons make that case in the constitutional way, instead of prodding Bush to launch a Pearl Harbor attack? Do they fear they have no credibility left after pushing Bush into this
[political-research] Fwd: No More Infrastructure to Destroy Patrick McGr... - Rmail
Informed Comment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Informed Comment" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "No More Infrastructure to Destroy" Patrick McGr... - RmailDate: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:36:46 -0700"No More Infrastructure to Destroy" Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: ' Beirut is tense. Some people are expressing worries that things could get very difficult. The worse-case scenarios are on people's minds, but so far there is no sign of social disorder among Lebanese citizens. AUB's foreign faculty and staff are slowly being evacuated. The Americans were told they would be leaving today, but the plan was called off this morning. Now, it looks as if it will tomorrow. Apparently the scene at the port has gotten ugly at times, and there have been complaints about how things are being handled. A few of us will remain, for now at least. There are so many warships and cruiseliners in the sea in front of Beirut that it looks like a cross between the Battle of Midway and Aruba. AUB is moving medical staff and other essential personnel on to campus apartments as foreigners depart. The hospital is in desparate need of blood. The refugee problem is overwhelming. AUB is trying to do its part with the folks who have moved in from the southern suburbs. We understand that the Israelis have decided to stop hitting Lebanese infrastructure, perhaps because there no longer is any infrastructure. We know people are talking about the end game, but it is very difficult to imagine how this can end any time soon. Short of a massive ground invasion, Hezbollah cannot be destroyed; and Isreal has backed itself into a corner; if they stop, Hezbollah can claim victory. Hence the madness goes on. Eventually, people will have to talk to each other, but apparently only after a great deal more bleeding. Our Lebanese friends and colleagues are sad and angry. The future is becoming hard to imagine. The Fall Semester? I know people everywhere are doing what they can to help. Don't forget us. Patrick McGreevy' Click here to view the original Webpage. Sent using R|mail. Recommended Products: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[political-research] Lebanon left for dead By Pepe Escobar
THE ROVING EYE Lebanon left for dead By Pepe Escobar Lebanon is mired in a terrifying labyrinth of death and destruction. Beirut's airport is bombed. Israel has imposed a sea blockade. Other than privileged Westerners who are being evacuated by air or sea, people have overnight become refugees. They are plunged into an exodus of hundreds of thousands crammed on rickety rural trucks, overcrowded buses, Red Crescent convoys and even Mercedes with Saudi license plates on a mad dash through Lebanese back roads to Syria. Israel's lethal bombing is ubiquitous -
raining hell over family homes in the Bekaa Valley, over the Liban Lait milk factory on the road to Baalbek, over a Greek Orthodox church, over civilian trucks carrying rice and sugar near the Christian village of Zaleh, over a civil-defense building in Tyre, over a paper mill, over a packaging firm, over a pharmaceutical plant, over the Lake Qaraoun dam, over bridges, water reservoirs, electric plants, gas stations, ambulances, even over Beirut's main Christian neighborhood. Among the 300-plus killed so far in Lebanon, Israel has killed Canadians and Brazilians of Lebanese ancestry. None of these "targets" are military; this means the Lebanese could prosecute Israel for war crimes. Roberto Laurenti, the United Nations' man in Beirut, had to scream that the situation is "both alarming and catastrophic. There are about
500,000 people displaced already. The situation is extreme." So where is the much-vaunted "international community"? It is not listening. The figures don't lie. At the end of the eighth day of fighting, a total of 29 people had been reported killed on the Israeli side of the border, including 14 soldiers and 15 civilians. But the majority of Lebanese deaths have been civilian - and only a very few, less than a handful, according to any number of Lebanese-based news media, were Hezbollah military. Civilian Lebanese are thus being killed, in proportion to Israelis, at a rate of more than 10:1. This implies that Israel is not targeting Hezbollah, but above all Lebanon's infrastructure. Israel's war has nothing to do with Hezbollah's ideology, as the Israeli public relations machine spins non-stop; it's already configured as
collective punishment unleashed over the Lebanese civilian population. Israel officially ordered the entire population of southern Lebanon in essence to become IDPs (internally displaced persons). Southern Lebanon's population, overwhelmingly poor Arab Shi'ites, overwhelmingly supports Hezbollah. Hezbollah for its part may have fired about 1,000 Katyusha rockets toward Israel. Hezbollah may possess 12,000 rockets in total. At the current rate, it could keep firing rockets non-stop for more than two months - while Israel bombs Lebanon back to the Stone Age. The decision anyway has been made. According to diplomatic leaks in Washington, London and Brussels, the Israeli offensive will last at least for another week to 10 days. You deserve to die Although there is no direct evidence pointing to Iran and/or Syria behind
Hezbollah's strategy, US President George W Bush has blamed Syria ("What they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit" - as overheard during the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg on the weekend). Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his part has blamed Hezbollah as being in cahoots with Iran. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said there were no "conducive circumstances" for a ceasefire; she will land her Ferragamo-clad feet on Middle Eastern soil only when it's "appropriate", "necessary" and "helpful to the situation" (perhaps "appropriate" would mean the "international community" waiting until Lebanon is totally destroyed and hundreds or thousands more Lebanese are dead). At any rate, Lebanon is fast joining Bush's "democratic" Iraq. The latest UN report states that more than 3,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in June, and no fewer than 14,338 civilians
were killed in the first six months of 2006. The US ambassador to the UN, notorious neo-con John Bolton, believes "it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts". Israel's bombing for its part is "self-defense" that has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths". Translation: dead Lebanese civilians are collateral damage, expendable and not worth the life of a single Israeli. After all, the Israeli foreign minister had the gall to proclaim that "many civilians in southern Lebanon have Katyusha and other rockets under their beds". Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join Former Israeli congressman and committed pacifist Uri Avnery, on the Israeli website Gus Shalom, says that Israel's real
[political-research] WMR-More evidence Israel is using DU/chemical weapons in Lebanon
White House has rolled up Fitzgerald investigation Karl Rove email attack on Wayne Madsen Report More evidence Israel is using chemical weapons in Lebanonhttp://www.waynemadsenreport.com/THE NEWS "Jaded Tasks" available directly from the publisher. July 20, 2006 -- Patrick J. Fitzgerald. WMR has echoed the opinions of many legal experts in stating that the investigation of Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald in the CIA Leakgate scandal has been rolled up by the White House, specifically under pressure from Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff, Uber-Counsel and extreme right-winger David Addington. As evidence of the importance to which Fitzgerald attaches to his CIA Leakgate brief, consider where he was last Friday, while the Wilsons were announcing their law suit against Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Fitzgerald was in Chicago announcing the indictment of two men, Ross Marks and Charles Farinella. The indictment was not for any major white collar crime or political bribery case. Fitzgerald indicted the two men for illegally re-labeling 1.6 million bottles of Henri's salad dressing with 2004 "sell by" dates instead of the original 2003 dates.Patrick Fitzgerald's latest legal conquest: Ensuring no salad oil is anointed after its shelf life. While John Ashcroft's scalp is safe, the damage done to the CIA from the White House leak goes unpunished. While the Wilsons were announcing a law suit on a very serious case of the Bush White House purposely putting Valerie Plame Wilson and her covert CIA colleagues in extreme jeopardy, Fitzgerald was on top of the expired salad dressing caper. The Attorney General who appointed Fitzgerald to be U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, John Ashcroft, made a ritual in his office in the Justice Department of anointing himself with salad oil. Perhaps Fitzgerald wanted to ensure that in the future, Ashcroft uses an oil that has not passed its expiration date. There must be a biblical passage that states, "Thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil that has passed its shelf life."Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join July 20, 2006 -- WMR reported that the Israeli military was using poison gas on villages in south Lebanon. According to a former U.S. weapons expert who served in Iraq, the artillery shell in a photo taken in Lebanon (below) is a chemical weapon delivery device. It is being handled by an Israeli Defense Force soldier and Hebrew lettering can be clearly seen on the armored vehicle. Another chemical weapons shell of the same type can be seen lying on the ground to the right. It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian population.Media commentators have scoffed that Israel, with its relatively unique history, would ever use chemical weapons or poison gas in any war. It is precisely because of that perception that they are using such weapons. The deniability factor prevents the media from taking seriously the credible reports of banned weapons being used by the Israelis. Israel using chemical delivery weapons in Lebanon. Fuse and chemical canister can be clearly seen in photo of Israel Defense Force personnel in Lebanon. Drawing of chemical weapon is from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. July 20, 2006 -- WMR has been under an InfoWar/Psyops attack the last week. Someone has hijacked the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] and has been sending out email containing some personal information about this editor as well as outright falsehoods. This has all the hallmarks of a Karl Rove dirty trick. As I have mentioned in the recent past, Mr. Rove's private life has only received scant attention thus far from WMR. If the email spoofing and other attacks continue, that situation will change rapidly. See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking
[political-research] Israelis Commemorate Terror Bombing of King David Hotel
Israelis Commemorate Terror Bombing of King David Hotel 2 comment(s). British anger at terror celebration By Ned Parker and Stephen Farrell The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, Britain has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish act of terrorism against British rule 60 years ago this week. The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of British rule, that killed 92 people and helped to drive the British from Palestine.They have erected a plaque outside the restored building, and are holding a two-day seminar with speeches and a tour of the hotel by one of the Jewish resistance fighters involved in the attack. Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador in Tel Aviv, and John Jenkins, the Consul-General in Jerusalem, have written to the municipality, stating: We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to the loss of many lives, to be commemorated. In particular they demanded the removal of the plaque that pays tribute to the Irgun, the Jewish resistance branch headed by Menachem Begin, the future Prime Minister, which carried out the attack on July 22, 1946. The plaque presents as fact the Irgun's claim that people died because the British ignored warning calls. For reasons known only to the British, the hotel was not evacuated, it states.Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join Mr McDonald and Dr Jenkins denied that the British had been warned, adding that even if they had this does not absolve those who planted the bomb from responsibility for the deaths. On Monday city officials agreed to remove the language deemed offensive from the blue sign hanging on the hotel's gates, though that had not been done shortly before it was unveiled last night. The controversy over the plaque and the two-day celebration of the bombing, sponsored by Irgun veterans and the right-wing Menachem Begin Heritage Centre, goes to the heart of the debate over the use of political violence in the Middle East. Yesterday Mr Netanyahu argued in a speech celebrating the attack that the Irgun were governed by morals, unlike fighters from groups such as Hamas. It's very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action, he said. Imagine that Hamas or Hezbollah would call the military headquarters in Tel Aviv and say, We have placed a bomb and we are asking you to evacuate the area.But the view of the attack was very different in 1946 when The Times branded the Irgun terrorists in disguise. Decades later, Irgun veterans are unrepentant. Sarah Agassi, 80, remembers spying in the King David Hotel. She and a fellow agent posed as a couple. They danced tangos and waltzes, sipped whisky and wine while they cased out the hotel. On the day her brother and his fellow fighters posed as Arabs delivering milk and brought seven milk churns, each containing 50kg of explosives, into the building. Ms Agassi waited across the street until her brother rushed out. She said that she then made the warning call to the British command in the hotel.Sitting in the luxurious hotel lobby, she expressed no regret. We fought for our independence. We thought it was the right way . . . If I had to fight for Israel, I swear even now I would do anything. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2277717,00.html By : Incensed AmbadassedadorJulyFriday21st2006 Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. __._,_.___ Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss SPONSORED LINKS Business intelligence Competitive intelligence Market intelligence Emotional intelligence Military intelligence Critical thinking YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "political-research" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
