Oct 6, 2011

7 Core Demands of Wall Street Protesters

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7 Core Demands of Wall Street Protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5bqdi0zcCI

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Tikun Olam : Israeli Foreign Ministry Fires Deputy Ambassador to U.S. Over Iran Leak, Original Haaretz Story Exposed for First Time

From: Richard Silverstein <richards1052@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:29 AM
Subject: Tikun Olam : Israeli Foreign Ministry Fires Deputy Ambassador to U.S. Over Iran Leak, Original Haaretz Story Exposed for First Time
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Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

October 6, 2011 10:18 PM

Israeli Foreign Ministry Fires Deputy Ambassador to U.S. Over Iran Leak, Original Haaretz Story Exposed for First Time

Two days ago, with the help of an Israeli source I broke a gag order concerning the arrest of a dubious suspect in the mosque burning in northern Israel, naming him as Yisrael Katz. Today, various Israeli media published portions of what I wrote (though only Yediot mentioned his name, and then strangely only his
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Fun stuff to read, tell and watch:

Now FREE to watch all 91 minutes: "Defamation," from Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BwJOehf1Xo

Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist By Nathaniel Popper. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3v6m88c

...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel. Link: http://tinyurl.com/3pltqg2

"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Mike Santomauro. *Anthony Lawson's Holocaust Video "were the Germans so stupid"... Link: http://tinyurl.com/44nsrco

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Mike Santomauro. Link: http://tinyurl.com/42z9p8o

Peace.
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The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation

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new essay by petras - Obama: The Assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki by Fiat - please confirm receipt

Obama: The Assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki by Fiat

James Petras

The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki a U.S citizen in Yemen by a CIA drone missile on September 30 has been publicized by the mass media, President Obama and the usual experts on al-Qaeda as “a major blow to the jihadist network founded by Osama bin Laden” US officials called Awlaki “the most dangerous figure in Al-Qaeda” (Financial Times Oct. 1 and 2, 2011).

There is ample evidence to suggest that the publicity surrounding the killing of al-Awlaki has greatly exaggerated his political importance and is an attempt to cover up the declining influence of the US in the Islamic world. The State Department’s declaration of a major victory serves to exaggerate US military capacity to defeat its adversaries. The assassination serves to justify Obama’s arbitrary use of death squads to execute overseas US critics and adversaries by executive fiat denying the accused elementary judicial protections.

Myths About al-Awlaki

Al-Awlaki was a theological blogger in a small, poor Islamic country (Yemen). He was confined to propagandizing against Western countries, attempting to influence Islamic believers to resist Western military and cultural intervention. Within Yemen, his organizational affiliations were with a minority sector of the mass popular opposition to US backed dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh. His fundamentalist group was largely influential in a few small towns in southern Yemen. He was not a military or political leader in his organization, dubbed by the West as “Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula” (AQAP). Like most of what the CIA calls “Al-Qaeda”, AQAP was a local autonomous organization, meaning that it was organized and controlled by local leaders even as it expressed agreement with many other loosely associated fundamentalist groups. Awlaki had a very limited role in the Yemeni groups’ military and political operations and virtually no influence in the mass movement engaged in ousting Saleh. There is no evidence, documented or observable, that he was “a very effective propagandist” as ex-CIA and now Brookings Institution member Bruce Riedal claims. In Yemen and among the mass popular movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain or elsewhere his followers were few and far between. One “expert” cites such intangibles as his “spiritual leadership”, which is as good a way as any to avoid the test of empirical evidence: apparently a crystal ball or a tarot read will do.

Given the paucity of evidence demonstrating Awlaki’s political and ideological influence among the mass movements in North Africa, the Middle East or Asia, the US intelligence agencies claim his “real influence was among English-speaking jihadi, some of whom he groomed personally to carry out attacks on the US.”

In other words Washington’s casting Awlaki as an “important threat” revolves around his speeches and writings, since he had no operational role in organizing suicide bomb attacks – or at least no concrete evidence has been presented up to now.

The intelligence agencies “suspect” he was involved in the plot that dispatched bombs in cargo aircraft from Yemen to Chicago in October 2010. US intelligence claims he provided a “theological justification” via e-mail for US army Major Nidal Malik’s killing of 13 people at Fort Hood. In other words, like many US philosophical writers and legal experts like Princeton’s Michael Walzer and Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, Awlaki discussed “just wars” and the “right” of violent action. If political writings and speeches of publicists are cited by an assassin as the bases for their action, should the White House execute, leading US Islamophobes like Marilyn Geller and Daniel Pipes, cited as inspiration by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Brevik? Or does their Zionist affiliation provide them immunity from Navy Seal assaults and drone missiles?

Even assuming that the unsubstantiated “suspicions” of the CIA, MI 16 and the Al Qaeda “experts” are correct and Awlaki had a direct or indirect hand in “terrorist action” against the US, these activities were absurdly amateurish and abject failures, certainly not a serious threat to our security. The “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s effort to ignite bomb materials on a flight to Detroit, December 25, 2009, led to roasting his testicles! Likewise the bombs dispatched in cargo aircraft from Yemen to Chicago in October 2010 were another bungled job.

If anything the Yemenite AQAP’s hopeless, hapless operational planning served to highlight its technical incompetence. In fact according to Mutallab’s own admission, published on NBC news at the time, Awlaki played no role in the planning or execution of the bomb attack. He merely served to refer Mutallab to the Al Qaeda organization.

Clearly, Awlaki was a minor figure in Yemen’s political struggles. He was a propagandist of little influence in the mass movements during the “Arab Spring”. He was an inept recruiter of English-speaking would be bombers. The claims that he planned and “hatched” two bomb plots (Financial Times, October 1 and 2, page 2) are refuted by the confession of one bomber and the absence of any corroboratory evidence regarding the failed cargo bombs.

The mass media inflate the importance of Awlaki to the stature of a major al-Qaeda leader and subsequently, his killing as a “major psychological blow” to world-wide jihadists. This imagery has no substance. But the puff pieces do have a very important propaganda purpose. Worse still, the killing of Awlaki provides a justification for extra-judicial state serial assassinations of ideological critics of Anglo-American leaders engaged in bloody colonial wars.

Propaganda to Bolster Flagging Military Morale

Recent events strongly suggest that the US and its NATO allies are losing the war in Afghanistan to the Taliban: top collaborator officials are knocked off at the drop of a Taliban turban. After years of occupation, Iraq is moving closer to Iran rather than the US. Libya in the post-Gaddafi period is under warring mercenary forces squaring off for a fight for the billion dollar booty. Al Qaeda prepares battle against neo-liberal expats and Gaddafi renegades.

Washington and NATO’s attempt to regain the initiative via puppet rulers in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Yemen is being countered by a “second wave” of mass pro-democracy movements. The “Arab Spring” is being followed by a “hot autumn”. Positive news and favorable outcomes for Obama are few and far between. He has run out of any pseudo-populist initiative to enchant the Arab-Islamic masses. His rhetoric rings hollow in the face of his UN speech, denying recognition of an independent Palestinian state. His groveling before Israel is clearly seen as an effort to bolster his re-election campaign financing by wealthy Zionists.

Diplomatically isolated and domestically in trouble over failed economic policies, Obama pulls the trigger and shoots an itinerant Muslim preacher in Yemen to send a “message” to the Arab world. In a word he says, “If you, the Arabs, the Islamic world, wont’ join us we can and will execute those of you who can be labeled “spiritual mentors” or are suspected of harboring terrorists.”

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Obama’s defense of systematic killing of ideological critics, denying US constitutional norms of judicial due process to a U.S citizen and in blatant rejection of international law defines a homicidal executive.

Let us be absolutely clear what the larger implications are of political murder by executive fiat. If the President can order the murder of a dual American-Yemeni citizen abroad on the bases of his ideological-theological beliefs, what is to stop him from ordering the same in the US? If he uses arbitrary violence to compensate for diplomatic failure abroad what is to stop him from declaring a “heightened internal security threat” in order to suspend our remaining freedoms at home and to round up critics?

We seriously understate our “Obama problem” if we think of this ordered killing merely as an isolated murder of a “jihadist” in strife torn Yemen … Obama’s murder of Awlaki has profound, long term significance because it puts political assassinations at the center of US foreign and domestic policy. As Secretary of Defense Panetta states, “eliminating home grown terrorists” is at the core of our “internal security”.

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Dick Cheney in Canada: Breakdown of the Rule of Law

Canada has some very progressive Human Rights laws which if enforced would prevent Canada from becoming a safe haven for war criminals.

by Joshua Blakeney

The Israeli-inspired destabilization of the Middle East provided an opportunity for the redundant Cold Warrior to make some retirement money through his shares in Halliburton. Cheney is thus a quintessential war profiteer.

Cheney is a credibly accused war criminal who, under Canadian law, ought to have been arrested or at the very least barred from entering Canada. Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act and Immigration and Refugee Protection Act apply to Cheney as a credibly accused war criminal and self-confessed torturer.

Canada has some very progressive Human Rights laws which if enforced would prevent Canada from becoming a safe haven for war criminals.

Protesters were not primarily protesting Cheney but rather were seeking to draw attention to the failure of Canadian law enforcement officials to uphold the rule of law in Canada.

Calgary of course is the city that George W. Bush visited for his first speaking engagement after leaving office (i.e. without diplomatic immunity). On the day of Bush's speech in Calgary, March 17, 2009, Splitting the Sky selflessly attempted a citizen's arrest on Bush.

Dick Cheney was peddling his new memoir entitled In My Time in which he perpetuates the cover-up of 9/11 and attempts to justify his criminal acts. Cheney's participation in the 9/11 incident and in the 9/11 wars seems to have been motivated by his involvement with Halliburton Corporation which lucratively rebuilds oil infrastructure when oil rich countries like Iraq are decimated.

The Israeli-inspired destabilization of the Middle East provided an opportunity for the redundant Cold Warrior to make some retirement money through his shares in Halliburton. Cheney is thus a quintessential war profiteer. Thanks to the politicization of Canada's law enforcement system Cheney was afforded impunity and was able to come to Canada to reap yet more profits from the sale of his new book.

These three videos depict the protests held in Calgary and Vancouver during Dick Cheney's recent visit to Canada. Cheney spoke on September 26th at the Vancouver Club and on September 27th at the Palliser Hotel in Calgary.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/05/dick-cheney-in-canada-breakdown-of-the-rule-of-law/

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Holocaust / Bittersweet Reunion of Righteous Gentiles

News 2 new results for Holocaust

Rare survivor attends Israeli memorial marking 70 years since Babi Yar massacre
Washington Post

By AP, JERUSALEM — With tears in his eyes, Michael Sidko laid a wreath of flowers at Israel's official Holocaust memorial during a solemn ceremony Thursday marking 70 years since a World War II massacre he barely escaped. ...
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Bittersweet Reunion of Righteous Gentiles
Jerusalem Post

By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN / THE MEDIA LINE Holocaust-era heroes who risked their lives to save Jews left Europe to make homes in Israel, but their numbers are dwindling. RAMAT YISHAI - Viktor Melenik, an 82-year-old bon vivant with a couple of medals pinned ...
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Steve Jobs fought Jewish journalism student

Steve Jobs fights Jewish journalism student

By Jennifer Lipman, September 21, 2010

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http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/38555/steve-jobs-fights-jewish-journalism-student

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Jewish success, Islamic stagnation

http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/jewish-success-islamic-stagnation/

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Jewish success, Islamic stagnation

by Chris Bertram on October 19, 2003

Unsurprisingly Mahathir Mohamad's speech to the Islamic summit has met with outrage in the blogosphere. And quite right too, since his remarks about the Jews are pretty vile. But there's a kernel of interest in what the bigot has to say. He's worried about the historical transformation of Islam's fortunes. After all, as he says:

The early Muslims produced great mathematicians and scientists, scholars, physicians and astronomers etc. and they excelled in all the fields of knowledge of their times, besides studying and practising their own religion of Islam. As a result the Muslims were able to develop and extract wealth from their lands and through their world trade, able to strengthen their defences, protect their people and give them the Islamic way of life, Addin, as prescribed by Islam. At the time the Europeans of the Middle Ages were still superstitious and backward, the enlightened Muslims had already built a great Muslim civilisation, respected and powerful, more than able to compete with the rest of the world and able to protect the ummah from foreign aggression. The Europeans had to kneel at the feet of Muslim scholars in order to access their own scholastic heritage.

More:

http://crookedtimber.org/2003/10/19/jewish-success-islamic-stagnation/

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