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Jul 26, 2011

This is a very important conference!!!

 

http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/

Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion

This is a very important conference!!!

http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/

September 10-11, 2011

Freiburg, Germany

Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we  often face rigid and concrete boundaries that clearly suppress free and creative discourse. We  somehow grasp what we are allowed to say but are also conscious of a variety of thoughts we better keep unsaid.

Yearning for humanism and willing to bring a change about,  the conference seeks to liberate the contemporary ideological, spiritual, cultural and political discourse. We will try to identify the mechanisms that stifle freedom of speech, with the hope that sometime soon, we will be able to say what we think and to mean what we say. 

The conference 'Palestine, Israel and Germany - Boundaries of Open Discussion' will elaborate on some 'contentious' topics such as suppression of truth, history, narration, mainstream-media complicity and media coverage, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism vs. criticism of Israel and responsability. We will also try to show practical solutions for Palestinian self-determination. 

Issues to do with boundaries of discourse will be located as key elements in a long overdue consciousness shift.   

Don´t miss the opportunity to listen and to discuss on these issues with some of the most creative writers and commentators!

 
Gilad Atzmon History, Truth and Integrity 
Ramzy Baroud A Gaza Story: Challenging History through Narration 
Ibrahim El-Zayat Antisemitism and Islamophobia 
Alan Hart The Mainstream Media´s Complicity in Zionism's Suppression of the Truth of History 
Evelyn Hecht-Galinski How much Criticism of Israel should it be? 
Hajo G. Meyer Germany's Second Capital Sin 
Ken O´Keefe Boundaries of Discourse – Practical Solutions for Self-Determination in Palestine 
Sabine Schiffer Media Coverage of the Middle East
 
Exhibition of graphic arts Viqar Ali & David Borrington

10th September at 21:00 a concert by Moamen Khatib (oud), Gilad Atzmon (sax & clarinet)  & Frank Harrison (piano). From 23:00 till late,  Arabian night with DJs from Palestine.

Location: Jos Fritz Café
Wilhelmstr. 15/1
79098 Freiburg

www.josfritzcafe.de

 

11th September

10:00-20:00- talks & discussions

Location: Bürgerhaus Zähringen
Lameystr. 2
79108 Freiburg

Contact details and registration: cafepalestine@sin-nom.com

 



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Fwd: [shamireaders] Neocon, not nationalist

 

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From: israel shamir <israel.shamir@gmail.com>
Date: July 26, 2011 5:17:00 PM EDT
To: readers <shamireaders@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [shamireaders] Neocon, not nationalist
Reply-To: shamireaders-owner@yahoogroups.com

 

An important correction by a leading British nationalist saying: Breivik is not a nationalist, nor a member of Far right, not even a racist: he is a crazy Neocon. There are no far right Masons.

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From: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Date: 26 July 2011 17:19
Subject: Your Telegraph article
To: "Dr. Matthew Goodwin" <matthew.goodwin@nottingham.ac.uk>


Dear Dr. Goodwin,

I noted your article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday.

Was it rejected by Searchlight for being too thrown-together, speculative and badly-researched?

I thought you might like to see an item I have posted to my Electronic Loose Cannon list, which includes the text of an e-mail I sent to the Editor of the Telegaph yesterday evening outlining just some of the errors and, I have to say, deliberate mendacities, contained in your article.

I'm sure the Telegraph will wish to go with your mendacities and that my letter will not see the light of day — at any rate in its pages...... But as to elsewhere, who can say?

Sincerely,

Martin Webster.
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From: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Date: Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:10
To: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Subject: Mass murderer Brievik a Neo-Con - NOT a nationalist
[Attachment: YouTube delete Breivik's video.jpg]


Breivik the Neo-Con – Media disinformation goes up a gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxNaP-C6JMk

Above is the URL for the video uploaded by the Norwegian Neo-Con mass-murderer
Anders Behring Breivik shortly before his killing spree.

The clip has been hurriedly
deleted by YouTube.
[See attached screen shot taken on Monday 25th July 2011 at 12:25pm UK time.]

Jewish pressure undoubtedly achieved that deletion. Jewry does not want the generality of gentiles to know what the
Jerusalem Post was ready to convey to its Israeli readership. That report, plus Breivik's own writings before they were expunged from the web, make clear the following:

So far from being a "nationalist", Breivik was a Neo-Con who advocated both support for Israel and murderous hostility to Muslims, not just in Europe but in Palestine and elsewhere. So far from being a "racist", he explicitly opposes "multi-culturalism" not "multi-racialism". He believed that Afro-Asians should be allowed to settle in Norway and elsewhere in Europe, just so long as they were not Muslims.

He also demanded positive support — not just a civilised toleration — for homosexuality. In addition to all of this, he was a keen Freemason. We can tell this because he posted a photo of himself, in full Masonic regalia, on his Facebook page. (The expression on his face in this and other photographs of himself, and the poses that he adopted, are all indications of his raging narcissism.)

This range of ideological ingredients do not feature in the manifesto of any authentic European / white nationalist movement, past or present.

Breivik's Neo-Con views were explicit in his original Facebook entry but that, like his YouTube posting, has been hurriedly deleted. However, his Facebook entry was soon after replaced by another, different entry in his name, but
in English!

All these frenzied efforts to hide what Breivik really was (including a decision by the Judge at his first hearing today to hold the session in secret without any press or public observers) has been matched by an equally frenzied campaign by the mainstream media — especially the BBC here in Britain — to depict Breivik as a
"far right" .... "racist" .... "extreme nationalist" .... "neo-Nazi", etc.

In tandem with that media misrepresentation is a campaign to suggest that further legal steps must be taken and new laws contrived to restrict free speech for those who argue against the imposition on European nations of a multi-racial society. The multi-racial society in Britain has no democratic legitimacy because it was never put to and approved by the electorate in any general election. We were never asked. When we protested, the Westminster traitors adopted the repressive Race Relations Act which had been drafted for them and circulated by the Board of Deputies of British Jews under the title:
The Group Libel Bill.

The writings pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish Breivik indicates that he was aware of the contradictory state of affairs whereby much of Jewry in the Diaspora actively campaign in favour of mass coloured immigration into European heartlands yet in Israel treat the indigenous Palestinian-Arab population with a barbaric form of genocidal ethnic-cleansing not dissimilar to the treatment of the North American 'Red Indians' during the 19th century.

Breivik was clearly driven insane by Neo-Con propaganda and sought to replicate the kind of race-hatred inspired massacre which have been perpetrated by his Israeli heroes against the Palestinians on a regular basis since before "Israel" was even proclaimed. The fact that he should select as his victims nearly 100 of his fellow Norwegians, most of whom were teenagers, is evidence enough to demolish media lies that he was a "nationalist".

Martin Webster.
 

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http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=230762
Jerusalem Post – Sunday 24th July 2011 – 18:37

'Norway attack suspect had anti-Muslim, pro-Israel views'
1,500 page manifesto credited to Breivik, accused of killing spree, lays out
worldview including extreme screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism.
by Ben Hartman

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who killed nearly 100 people in a combined terror attack Friday that included car bombings in Oslo and a shooting rampage at an island summer camp, held fiercely anti-Islamic and pro-Israel views, according to a 1,500 page manifesto he uploaded before his killing spree Friday.

In the 1,500-page tome, which mentions Israel 359 times and "Jews" 324 times, Breivik lays out his worldview, which includes an extreme, bizarre and rambling screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism and venomous attacks on Marxism and multi-culturalism.

In one passage, he lashes out at the Western media, which he accuses of unfairly focusing on the wrongdoing of Jews.

"Western Journalists again and again systematically ignore serious Muslim attacks and rather focus on the Jews," he wrote.

Breivik also took a jab at leftwing Jews.

"Jews that support multi-culturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism as they are to us," he continued.

"So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists."

He also stated that Israel is the homeland for Jews largely due to the persecution suffered by Jews at the hands of Muslims, saying "if one acknowledges that Islam has always oppressed the Jews, one accepts that Israel was a necessary refuge for the Jews fleeing not only the European, but also the Islamic variety of anti- Judaism."

The manifesto also serves as a call-to-arms, of sorts, in which Breivik lays out his reasons for launching the attack, focusing on what he described as the importance of nationalism and the growing scourge of Islam in Europe.

Entitled "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence," the document states: "as we all know, the root of Europe's problems is the lack of cultural self-confidence [nationalism] ...

this irrational fear of nationalistic doctrines is preventing us from stopping our own national/ cultural suicide as the Islamic colonization is increasing annually ...You cannot defeat Islamization or halt/reverse the Islamic colonization of Western Europe without first removing the political doctrines manifested through multiculturalism/ cultural Marxism."

Breivik did, however, note that he doesn't hate Muslims in any fashion and that "I have had several Muslim friends over the years, some of which I still respect."

He also expressed his sympathy for the people of Serbia, and blasted Norway's support of the 1999 NATO-bombing campaign on Serbia that stopped the expulsion of Kosovar Albanians by Serbian forces.

In addition, he expressed his disgust at his government's awarding of "the Nobel peace prize to an Islamic terrorist [Arafat] and appeasers of Islam."

Breivik sneers at those who would spare the lives of women, and in an especially chilling instruction writes, "once you decide to strike, it is better to kill too many than not enough, or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike. Explain what you have done [in an announcement distributed prior to operation] and make certain that everyone understands that we, the free peoples of Europe, are going to strike again and again."

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Norway police say killer behind 1,500 page manifesto  <http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=230732>

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From: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Date: Monday, 25 July 2011 21:51
To: The Editor - Daily Telegraph <dtletters@telegraph.co.uk>
Cc: Benedict Brogan <benedict.brogan@telegraph.co.uk>
Subject: Breivik a Neo-Con

Sir:

Dr. Matthew Goodwin's article "We can no longer ignore the threat from extreme Right-wing groups" (
Daily Telegraph, Monday 25 July) was a concoction of allegations, not facts, which had evidently been cobbled together in a hurry.

The Norwegian alleged mass murderer Anders Breivik was not an "extreme Right-wing" character as that term is understood Britain. He is a species of exotic conservative known as a "Neo-Con".

This was made plain in an article in yesterday's
Jerusalem Post (
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=230762 ) which quotes him as saying: "Jews that support multi-culturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism as they are to us .... So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers, against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists / multiculturalists."

Breivik posted his thoughts quite frequently on the web site "document.no" (
<http://www.document.no/> ) which is run by Hans Rustad, who is Jewish. Rustad has published an extensive collection of Breivik's posts. In one he attacks the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang as being "racist" and "anti-gay". In another he called the English Defence League — which has a Jewish Division complete with a rabbi — "an embarrassment" because it "lacks ideological training".

Breivik was hostile to "multi-culturalism" but not to "multi-racialism", which are quite distinct concepts. He did not oppose all non-European immigration into Norway and other European nations but only people who are Muslims.

In addition to all this, he was a keen Freemason. (The
Telegraph's photo of him in Masonic regalia cropped out his apron).

None of these ideological ingredients are included in the profile of authentic "far Right" (i.e. racial-nationalist) movements of the 20th and 21st centuries anywhere in Europe or north America.

Yours sincerely,

Martin Webster.
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Martin Webster

[snip — full postal address supplied]

Mobile: 07932 049019
<martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>

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From: <dtletters@telegraph.co.uk>
Reply-To: <dtletters@telegraph.co.uk>
Date: Monday, 25 July 2011 21:51
To: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Subject: Re: Breivik a Neo-Con

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk>

The Editor wishes to acknowledge your e-mail with thanks.

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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/24/3088679/norway-killer-espoused-new-right-wing-pro-israel-philosophy
JTA – Sunday 24th July 2011
  
Norway killer espoused right-wing philosophy
by Toby Axelrod
   
BERLIN - The confessed perpetrator in the attack in Norway that killed at least 76 people espoused a right-wing philosophy against Islam that also purports to be pro-Zionist.

Anders Behring Breivik is charged with detonating a car bomb outside  Oslo's government headquarters, which houses the office of Norwegian  Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, that killed eight people and of shooting and killing at least 68  mostly young people at a political summer camp on nearby Utoya Island. The July 22 massacre reportedly was the the worst attack in Norway since the end of World War II.

In numerous online postings, including a manifesto published on the day of the attacks, Breivik promoted the Vienna School or Crusader Nationalism philosophy, a mishmash of anti-modern principles that also calls for "the deportation of all Muslims from Europe" as well as from "the West Bank and the Gaza Strip."

According to the manifesto, titled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" and published under the pseudonym Andrew Berwick, the Vienna School supports "pro-Zionism/Israeli nationalism."

Breivik listed numerous European Freedom Parties and neo-Nazi parties as potential allies because of their anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim stance, and mentioned that right-wing populists like Dutch politician Geert Wilders "have to condemn us at this point which is fine. It is after all essential that they protect their reputational shields."

Among the potential allies he listed for Germany were the three largest neo-Nazi parties -- the National Democratic Party, Deutsche Volksunion and Republikaner. In Holland, Wilders' Freedom Party topped the list, and the British National Party topped a long list of potential supporters in the United Kingdom.

European right-populist parties increasingly have been waving the flag of friendship with Israel, as well as expressing vehement opposition to Europe's multicultural society.

Last month, after it emerged that German-Swedish far-right politician Patrik Brinkmann had met in Berlin with Israeli Likud Party lawmaker Ayoub Kara, who is deputy minister for development of the Negev and Galilee, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Kara be prevented from making further trips abroad. According to Ynet, Lieberman accused Kara of meeting with neo-Nazis and causing damage to Israel's image. Brinkman said he had reached out to Israeli rightists hoping to build a coalition against Islam.

In postings on the website Document.no that appear to be by Breivik, the poster pondered whether one could "accept the moderate Nazis as long as they distance themselves" from the extermination of the Jews.

The words of right-wing populist politicians "are dangerous, it allows them to radicalize," Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism in Europe and the Holocaust at Touro College Berlin and the Free University Berlin, told JTA in a phone interview.

"It is a tactical viewpoint of the rising populist right-wing to use this kind of identification, or forced identification with Israel, to be accepted," he said. "They say, 'Our enemies are not any more the Jew ... the real enemy as you can see all over the world is Islam, and not only Islam, but the Islamic person.' This is the new, great danger."

Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told JTA that "in the recent years we have witnessed the phenomenon of radical rightists proclaiming their sympathy for Jews and their support for Israel, also in Germany," adding that "In many cases, it is clear that this is no more than a PR maneuver to create an air of respectability."

"Whatever 'support' for Israel Anders Behring Breivik may have had in his abominable mind, it is not any kind of support we want," Kramer said.

One day after the attack, members of Norway's small Jewish community gathered at the Synagogue of Oslo to pray for the survivors.

"We also pray that the authorities will be less naive on security issues and threats," businessman Erwin Kohn, newly elected head of the 750-member Jewish community, said in a telephone interview from Oslo.

Kohn added that it appeared that no one in the Jewish community was injured or killed in the attack, but "we are affected just the same as the Norwegian society in general."

On the reports about Breivik's online postings, he offered his concerns.

"You have many others who are in the same ballpark, being scared of multiculturalism," Kohn said, adding that Breivik's alleged pro-Zionism is a sham. "We don't need such friends, we don't need such friends."

Serge Cwajgenbaum, secretary general of the European Jewish Congress, in a call from France said that Breivik "is not pro-Israel -- he is anti-Muslim.

"It is a national catastrophe," he said, "and we share the sadness of the sorrow of the families."

German journalist Ulrich Sahm reported on the pro-Israel Israelnetz.com website that many of the youths who survived the massacre said they thought the killer, dressed as a police officer, was simulating Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the occupied territories. They believed that "the cruelty of the Israeli occupation" was being demonstrated to them, Sahm wrote.

Meanwhile, Israel on Saturday night condemned the attacks in Oslo.

"Nothing at all can justify such wanton violence, and we condemn this brutal action with the utmost gravity," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "We stand in solidarity with the people and government of Norway in this hour of trial, and trust Norwegian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for this heinous crime."

Israeli President Shimon Peres called the king of Norway, Harald V, to express condolences. "Your country is a symbol of peace and freedom. In Israel we followed the events over the weekend in Norway and the attack on innocent civilians broke our hearts. It is a painful tragedy that touches every human being. We send our condolences to the families that lost their loved ones and a speedy recovery to the wounded. Israel is willing to assist in whatever is needed," Peres said, according to his office. 

The king thanked Peres for his phone call and for the expression of Israeli solidarity.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visited Norway last week and was told that Oslo will recognize Palestine, but not immediately. 

While much attention in Norway has been focused on the threat of Muslim extremism, the threat from the far right was generally considered to have abated.

Kohn noted that anti-Semitism in the country remains a serious problem. A recent study of 7,000 Norwegian teens showed that more than half of youth of all backgrounds, whether Christian or Muslim, use the word "Jew" as an expletive.

Anecdotally, Kohn said, "one-third of the Jewish kids in our schools have experienced harassment ... but not from one specific group."




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Israeli orchestra to play Wagner piece in Germany

 


Israeli orchestra to play Wagner piece in Germany
July 25, 2011

(JTA) -- The Israel Chamber Orchestra will perform a composition by Richard Wagner in Germany, breaking an Israel taboo against playing the anti-Semitic composer's music.

The ensemble will play "Siegfried's Idyll" on Tuesday in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth at an annual festival devoted to Wagner's work. Wagner, who lived from 1813 to 1883, is buried in Bayreuth, where festivals celebrating his operas have long been held.

Since its founding, Israel has had an unofficial ban against playing music by Wagner, whose anti-Semitism was public. His music and writings were long admired by Hitler and featured in Nazi propaganda.

From an early age Hitler was a devoted follower of Wagner and drew on the composer's work to build his own ideology. He attended the Bayreuth festival every summer from 1933 to 1939.

"At the age of twelve," Hitler wrote in "Mein Kampf," "I saw ... the first opera of my life, 'Lohengrin.' ... I was addicted. My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth Master knew no bounds."

In 2000, Israel's Lezion Orchestra, led by Holocaust survivor Mendi Rodan, played Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," and in 2001, members of the Knesset called for a ban on performances by David Barenboim after the Argentina-born Israeli pianist and conductor performed a piece from "Tristan and Isolde."

Dan Erdmann, a clarinetist in the Israel Orchestra, told Haaretz that "We have tried to treat the delicate points with sensitivity, and I hope in the future we will play [Wagner] also in Israel."

"However," he added, "the conflicts and emotions associated with the history of Wagner are exactly those which make it special for us."

Out of respect for the public dispute, the ensemble chose not to rehearse the piece within Israel, and the performance was made optional for its members. All but one of the orchestra's 36 members is participating.

The orchestra's concert also will include works by Israeli composer Zvi Avni, as well as Germany's Felix Mendelssohn and Austria's Gustav Mahler, both of whom were banned by the Nazis.

Roberto Paternostro, the orchestra's conductor and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, believes that the taboo's time is coming to an end, although he believes not enough time has passed for an Israel performance.

"The aim in 2011 is to distinguish between the man and his art," he said.

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, condemned the performance as "an act of moral failure and a disgraceful abandonment of solidarity with those who suffered unspeakable horrors by the purveyors of Wagner's banner."

"Artists, like all persons, must be held accountable for their propagation of hate against humanity."






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Supreme Court won't review drug patent deal

 

Supreme Court won't review drug patent deal

By Reuters
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 -- 8:25 am

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that drug companies can pay rivals to delay production of generic drugs without violating federal antitrust laws.

The justices refused to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that upheld the dismissal of a legal challenge to a deal between Bayer AG and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's Barr Laboratories. Bayer paid Barr to prevent it from bringing to market a version of the antibiotic drug Cipro.

When the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal, as in the Cipro case, it is not a ruling on the merits of the dispute and it does not set a national precedent.

The Cipro deal, involving Bayer's 1997 settlement of patent litigation with Barr, was challenged by a number of pharmacies, which appealed to the Supreme Court. More than 30 states and various consumer groups supported the appeal.

The Federal Trade Commission has opposed such deals and has supported legislation pending in Congress to prohibit such settlements, which it says have increased in recent years.

The FTC has also taken companies to court for so-called "reverse payment" deals, where brand name companies pay generic drug firms to stay out of the market.

Richard Feinstein, head of the FTC's antitrust division, said the deals cost American consumers billions of dollars per year in higher drug costs.

In the Cipro case, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the pharmacies without comment. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan did not take part in considering the case.

The New York-based appeals court, in its ruling last year, cited its similar 2005 decision involving the drug Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, infertility and other conditions. The Supreme Court declined to review that case.

The Supreme Court case is Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co v. Bayer AG, No. 10-762.

(Reporting by James Vicini and Diane Bartz; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, John Wallace, Gary Hill)

Supreme Court won't review drug patent deal

REUTERS
Reuters US Online Report Domestic News

Mar 07, 2011 17:28 EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court let stand a ruling that drug companies can pay rivals to delay production of generic drugs without violating federal antitrust laws.

The justices refused to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that upheld the dismissal of a legal challenge to a deal between Bayer AG and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's Barr Laboratories. Bayer paid Barr to prevent it from bringing to market a version of the antibiotic drug Cipro.

When the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal, as in the Cipro case, it is not a ruling on the merits of the dispute and it does not set a national precedent.

The Cipro deal, involving Bayer's 1997 settlement of patent litigation with Barr, was challenged by a number of pharmacies, which appealed to the Supreme Court. More than 30 states and various consumer groups supported the appeal.

The Federal Trade Commission has opposed such deals and has supported legislation pending in Congress to prohibit such settlements, which it says have increased in recent years.

The FTC has also taken companies to court for so-called "reverse payment" deals, where brand name companies pay generic drug firms to stay out of the market.

Richard Feinstein, head of the FTC's antitrust division, said the deals cost American consumers billions of dollars per year in higher drug costs.

"I am confident that it's only a matter of time before the Supreme Court takes up this important issue and puts a stop to these anti-competitive deals between branded drug makers and generic competitors," he said.

In the Cipro case, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the pharmacies without comment. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan did not take part in considering the case.

The New York-based appeals court, in its ruling last year, cited its similar 2005 decision involving the drug Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, infertility and other conditions. The Supreme Court declined to review that case.

The Supreme Court case is Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co v. Bayer AG, No. 10-762.

(Reporting by James Vicini and Diane Bartz; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, John Wallace, Gary Hill)

Source: Reuters US Online Report Domestic News

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Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics by John J. Mearsheimer: Books

 

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Leaders-Lie-International-Politics/dp/0199758735/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

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...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

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

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Alan Hart: Norway’s monster and THE question [1 Attachment]

Norway's monster and THE question

By Alan Hart

How much was the mind of Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many web sites?

In his summary of what the monster had stated behind closed doors in court, Judge Heger said he had argued that he wanted to create "the greatest loss possible to Norway's governing Labour Party", which he accused of failing the country on immigration and opening the door to the "Muslim colonization" of Norway and all of Europe.

There could not have been a more effective way of inflicting at a single stroke a great loss than gunning down many members of the Norwegian Labour Party's youth wing, the Workers Youth League (AUF), which was assembled on Utoya Island.

Two days before the massacre there, and as Gilad Atzmon has researched and noted, the AUF's leader, Eskil Pedersen, gave an interview to DagbladetNorway's second largest tabloid newspaper. In it he said: "The AUF has long been a supporter of an international boycott of Israel but the decision of the last Congress demands that Norway impose a unilateral economic embargo on the country... I acknowledge this is a drastic measure but I think it gives a clear indication that, quite simply, we are tired of Israel's behaviour." (My own view is that behind closed doors all Western governments, including the one in Washington D.C. in the person of President Obama, are tired of Israel's behaviour).

There are two things we know for sure.

One is that Breivik is fanatically anti Islam and pro Zionism.

The other is that Zionism's propaganda machine has been set to work at full speed, day and night, eight days and nights a week, to demonize, discredit and destroy all who are calling and campaigning for Israel to be boycotted.

From the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust to the present, Zionism's success in selling its propaganda lies as truth is the reason why the search for peace based on an acceptable amount of justice for the Palestinians has been, and remains, a mission impossible.

I describe the Israel-Palestine conflict as the cancer at the heart of international affairs which threatens to consume us all. It's bad enough that Zionist propaganda has prevented a cure for it, but if now that same propaganda is inspiring Europeans in Europe to slaughter their own, the future is very, very frightening.

I don't know the answer to my headline question but I think investigators in Norway, prosecutors and psychiatrists, must dig deep enough to find it.

 




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Jul 25, 2011

Re: TC/ Jürgen Graf 22 July 2011 The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a scholar: Dr Christian Lindtner and Holocaust Revisionism

 

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From: Michele Renouf <ladymrenouf@tellingfilms.co.uk>
Date: July 25, 2011 5:51:01 PM EDT
To: Fredrick Toben <toben@toben.biz>, juergen graf 
Cc: "'Michael'" <reporternotebook@gmail.com>, "'Christian Lindtner'" <lindtner@dr.com>

Subject: Re:TC/ Jürgen Graf  22 July 2011 The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a scholar:  Dr Christian Lindtner and Holocaust Revisionism

Dear Juergen and Fredrick (rgs to cc and bcc)

Good to hear from you!

One point please to note: 

the Teheran Committee itself was not set up, as Dr Lindtner describes it, with "a fact-finding role"... and thereby perhaps hangs your assumption that it was for "promotion of revisionist research".  Actually the TC was set up to gather together a second, all-sides Conference (and in this way, it could be said to promote interest in normalising the revisionist method to include "Holocaust" Revisionism).

For this endeavour, in my capacity as a TC member, I publicly (on TV in a two man show) invited Prof Norman Finkelstein to participate at the next Conference.  He refused. (The programme can be viewed via my website at www.jewishrepublic.com )

I then (privately) invited Israel Shamir but he too refused.  

I sought funds for another Conference but found my potential donor had changed his mind.  Thus, since it was becoming clear that this was actually a one-man Committee with only one activist (whose chairman Dr Ramin had dropped off the radar), I had to conclude that for the present the TC must needs fall dormant (though never dead).

One beneficial consequence of the Teheran Committee (and my continued involvement in archiving the trials of revisionists across Europe) was the successful campaign to defend Fredrick Toben from the outrage of his arrest and attempted extradition from London.  I am grateful to Fredrick for allowing me to instruct his defence (in methods I had learned from interviewing Dr Herbert Schaller) and I was very pleased to have been able to take part in that success, which severely hampered the German state's effort to extend the writ of its debate-denying law across the continent.  (For an account please view my film-doc "Arresting Opinions" via Youtube and www.jailingopinions.com

Best wishes
Michele


On 23 Jul 2011, at 16:01, Fredrick Toben wrote:

 
 
Jürgen Graf  22 July 2011
 

The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a scholar:

Dr Christian Lindtner and Holocaust Revisionism

 

When I visited Copenhagen in 1997 and 1998, I had several lengthy discussions with Danish revisionist Dr. Christian Lindtner, a Sanscrit scholar and expert in the history of Buddhism. Lindtner impressed me with his extraordinary knowledge of classical languages, and he seemed to be thoroughly familiar with the revisionist arguments. Therefore I was very glad when I learned in December 2006, during the Holocaust Conference in Tehran, that he had been chosen as a member of the committee for the promotion of revisionist research. (Later this committee turned out to be completely useless, as it did strictly nothing.)
In the meantime, Lindtner has come, or pretends to have come, to the conclusion that Holocaust Revisionism is „a moral and intellectual aberration" and „chutzpah". On 20 July 2011, he stated in an e-mail to Dr Fredrick Toben.
 
„I hope that you will find the time to study the two huge books about the German Ordnungspolizei by Wolfgang Curilla (2006 & 2011). His admirable research is based on original German sources. It can no longer be denied that more than four million Jews were murdered by various units of German police etc. Hence the time has come to face the fact that Holocaust revisionism, or denial, is simply irresponsible CHUTZPAH".
 
In a second e-mail to Toben, dated July 21, Lindtner raised the ante:
„I have now studied these [Curilla's] and other books by the best German scholars for several years, and of course I am certain that one can rely on their research. As a classical philologist, I recognize traditional German scholarship when it is at its best. The claim that Leichenkeller 1 in Krema II was not a gas chamber is also a case of chutzpah. As you are aware, Bischoff wrote to Kammler 29 January 1943 that it was a Vergasungskeller, and the two engineers from Topf &Söhne (Karl Schultze and Fritz Sander, 17 February 1943) called it a Gaskeller. […] The lacking holes can also easily be explained. When Leichenkeller 1 was blown up, the holes, i. e. the edges of the holes, would have been the first to be blown away by the enormous pressure seeking to'escape'.  The evidence for gas vans is also convincingly established. It is also chutzpah to say: ‚No holes, no holocaust' – as if the shooting of millions of Jews had nothing to do with the Endlösung! So, for these and many other reasons, it is now my firm conviction that Holocaust Revisionism is a moral and intellectual aberration. […] My claim is serious: Denial is chutzpah. […] Now we understand why Himmler said to the generals in Sonthofen, 21 June 1944: ‚Es ist gut, dass wir die Härte hatten, die Juden in unserem Bereich auszurotten.' [It is good that we were tough enough to exterminate the Jews in our sphere of influence.] He goes on to say that the Weiber and Kinder [women and children]were also murdered. […] Himmler was honest, and we have to be honest as well."
 
I will now analyze Lindtner's arguments point after point.
 
1. Wolfgang Curilla and the German Ordnungspolizei
 
Firstly, I readily acknowledge that I have not read the two books by Wolfgang Curilla. Together with two other revisionists, I plan to write a study on the Einsatzgruppen question; if this project materializes (which is far from certain because it would require considerable funds we are still lacking), we will undoubtedly have to read these books. Now let us have a look at what the websitebuecher.de says about the first of them, Die deutsche Ordnungspolizei und der Holocaust im Baltikum und in Weissrussland 1941-1944(Schöningh, 2006):
 
„Die Ordnungspolizisten waren für die Deportation oder Ermordung der über zwei Millionen jüdischen Opfer in der Sowjetunion mitverantwortlich. W. Curilla beschreibt den Einsatz der Ordnungspolizei erstmals flächendeckend für das Baltikum und Weissrussland. Als Quellen dienten ihm neben der zeitgenössischen Überlieferung eine Fülle von grossenteils bisher unveröffentlichten Dokumenten und Zeugenaussagen aus weit über 100 Strafverfahren gegen NS-Täter in der Bundesrepublik, in Österreich und der damaligen DDR."(The members of the Ordnungspolizei were jointly responsible for the deportation or murder of the more than two million Jewish victims in the Soviet Union. W. Curilla gives a comprehensive description of the activities of the Ordnungspolizei in the Baltic states and White Russian. In addition to contemporary documents, his sources were hitherto largely unpublished documents and eyewitness reports from far more than 100 trials of National Socialist perpetrators in the Federal Republic, Austria and the former German Democratic Republic.)
So Curilla's sources were contemporary documents such as the „Ereignismeldungen" of the Einsatzgruppen, plus post-war trials against "National Socialist perpetrators". This is indeed the kind of evidence the Holocaust historians routinely adduce. Raul Hilberg does the same thing in his three-volume classic The Destruction of the European Jews. We will soon see what these sources are worth.
 
2. The lack of forensic evidence for the alleged mass murders
 
Let us assume that the Holocaust historians are right and that the Germans indeed killed more than two million Jews in the Soviet Union. If this were the case, there would be a huge amount of material evidence. When the Germans discovered the bodies of 4,143 Polish officers shot by the Soviets at Katyn, they flew in an international commission, consisting of physicians from no fewer than 12 countries, to inspect the site of the crime and to carry out autopsies. They then published a detailled forensic report about the massacre.[1] Some months later, the Germans did the same thing after finding the bodies of 9,432 Ukrainians murdered by the NKVD at Vinnitsa before the war, inviting no fewer than eight local and six foreign commisions to verify the facts.[2] The National Socialist propagandists used the grisly discoveries for a very successful anti-Bolshevist campaign.
Now according to the Holocaust historians and the august Sanscrit scholar Dr. Christian Lindtner, the German murdered more than two million Jews in the Soviet Union alone. This figure is about 140 times higher than the combined toll for Katyn and Winnitza. Surely the Soviets followed the German example and flew in international commissions to repay their adversaries for the shame of Katyn and Winnitza with interest and compounded interest? Surely at the Nuremberg trial they showed films about the exhumation of hundreds of thousands of bodies? No, they did not.
This did not mean that the Soviets had not dug up any mass graves containing the bodies of victims of the Germans, or that they had not carried out any autopsies. Such investigations had indeed taken place, however their results were not widely publicized because they belied the phantastic exaggerations of Soviet propaganda. The following three examples will amply suffice to illustrate this point:
In August 1944, three graves containing a total of 305 bodies were detected by the Red Army near the former labour camp Treblinka I, about 2 kilometers from the alleged "extermination camp" Treblinka II.[3]
1.In January 1945, after the liberation of Auschwitz, the Soviets found a masse grave containing 536 bodes.[4]
2.On the site of the former concentration camp Salaspils in Latvia the Soviets discovered 564 bodies.[5] This did not prevent their propagandists from brazenly claiming that no fewer than 101.000 people had been murdered at Salaspils.[6] Today's Holocaust historians, such as the Latvian Hinrichs Strods and the Germans A. Angrik and P. Klein, put the Salaspils death toll at 2.000-3000.[7] If the higher of these two figures is correct, the Soviets had exaggerated the number of victims by more than 30 times – just as they did at Auschwitz (4 million[8] versus the real figure of about 135.500[9]), Majdanek (1,5 million[10] versus the real figure of between 42.200 and 50.000[11]) and Sachsenhausen (840.000[12] versus the real figure of slightly over 20.000[13]).
In other words, the Soviet forensic investigations only proved that many people (Jews and non-Jews) had indeed died in German captivity, and that the German had indeed carried out executions – something no serious revisionist has ever disputed. They did not produce a shred of evidence for the large-scale massacres claimed by Soviet propagandists, Jewish and German Holocaust historians and Danish Sanscrit scholars.
 
3. The "Aktion 1005"
 
According to Holocaust lore, in June 1942 Heinrich Himmler ordered SS-Sturmbannführer Paul Blobel to erase the traces of the massacres in the East. Being his master's obedient servant, Blobel formed a special kommando with the code denomination 1005. This Kommando had to dig up the mass graves and to remove the corpses. Blobel and his men travelled to all occupied territories to fulfill their ghastly task.
The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust shows a map with the most important locations where these activities are supposed to have transpired. This is a huge area which extends from north to south across approximately 1,500 kilometers and from west to east across some 1,300 kilometers.[14] On this gigantic territory, Blobel and his team are supposed to have dug up many hundreds of graves and to have removed the bodies of the victims without leaving the slightest documentary or material traces! One really has to be a Holocaust historian or a Sanscrit scholar to believe such a rubbish.
One example will suffice to show the overwhelming absurdity of this fairy tale. In late 1941, the Germans are supposed to have shot and buried 27.800 Jews in the outskirts of Riga. Blobel and his Kommando could not possibly have erased the traces of the mass grave, because such graves, whether full or empty, are easily discernible on air photographs owing to the altered configuration of the territory. (This method has been sucessfully applied in Bosnia and other places.) Could Blobel's men at least have removed the corpses? Theoretically yes, but this would have been a very difficult task indeed:
They would have had to remove millions of bones and bone fragments;
-          They would had to remove (27,800 x 30 =) 834,000 teeth (we assume that each of the hypothetical victims had two teeth lacking);
-          They would have had to remove (27,800 x 2,5 =) 69,500 kilograms of body ashes (we assume that the victims had an average weight of 50 kg; the ashes left after cremation correspond to 5% of the body weight) plus a much bigger amount of wood ashes.
Of course, the 27.800 Jews allegedly murdered near Riga represented only 1,3% , or less, of the alleged total of at least two million Jewish victims! Even if the Blobel boys had been supermen, they could never ever have accomplished such a task.
It goes without saying that the splendid German scholars whose works Lindtner has studied so diligently and who, in his distinguished opinion, embody "traditional German scholarship at its best" never give a thought to such irksome facts. Like Lindtner himself, they are "paper historians" (an apt term coined by Robert Faurisson) who are living far from the physical reality of things in their world of documents and books.
It suffices to read Jens Hoffmann's book about the "Action 1005"[15] to realize that the whole tale is exclusively based on "eyewitness evidence", "confessions" and post-war trials where such "eyewitness evidence" and "confessions" formed the sole basis of the accusation.
 
4. "Eywitness evidence" and "confessions"
 
The Holocaust scholars will object that in American custody Blobel himself confessed having erased the traces of the massacres. He indeed did so[16], but such confessions were not worth the paper they were written upon. As an American commission reported in 1949, confessions had frequently been extorted by barbarous torture.[17] A well-known case is Rudolf Höss, who after three days of merciless beating by a British torture team lead by the Jew Bernard Clark confessed to having gassed 2,5 million Jews up to November 1943.[18]
Not all defendants made their declarations under duress; there were more refined methods as well. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, former SS-Obergruppenführer and Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Russland-Mitte, stated at the Nuremberg trial that in early 1941, Heinrich Himmler had said at the Wewelsburg that the purpose of the coming campaign in Russia would be the reduction of the Slavic population by 30 million.[19] Now let us take a look at von dem Bach-Zelewski's fate.[20] According to the official "holocaust" story, he was one of the worst criminals. He is said to have ordered the aforementioned murder of 27,800 Jews near Riga and the massacre of tens of thousands of Soviet civilians. Under these circumstances, one would assume that he was certainly put on trial and sentenced to hang after the war, but precisely this did not happen. In Nuremberg he was used as a witness for the prosecution and then released. Obviously this lenient treatment was the reward for having made statements as the one quoted above, which allowed the allies to accuse the Germans of having planned not only the total extermination of the Jews, but also a horrific genocide of tens of millions of Slavs. It is true that von dem Bach-Zelewski was later tried by the West German justice, but not for his alleged role in the "holocaust" or the slaughter of Soviet citizens. He was tried for two murders he – really or allegedly - had committed in 1934.
Even more important than the allied post-war trials were the court proceedings against "Nazi war criminals" in the Federal Republic of Germany. As we have seen, W. Curilla bases his accusations against the Ordnungspolizei primarily on the documentation of these trials. As a matter of fact, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that most of the "evidence" for the holocaust was fabricated by the West German justice. To prove this, we only have to point to the fact that in his chapter about the "killing centers", Raul Hilberg's most important source is Adalbert Rückerl's Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungslager im Spiegel deutscher Strafprozesse (National Socialist extermination camps in the mirror of German court proceedings); Hilberg quotes this book, which exclusively relies on eyewitness evidence and confessions, no fewer than 41 times.[21]
 
It is obvious that torture was not used in West Germany. The courts of the puppet state basically pursued the same strategy as the Allied had done in the case of von dem Bach-Zelewski. Those defendants who admitted the alleged mass murders were often meted out a lenient treatment, while those who "stubbornly denied" the crime could not hope for mercy. At the Sobibor trial in Hagen (1965/1966) four defendants "convicted" of aiding and abetting with others the murder of between 15,000 and 79,000 persons got surprisingly mild sentences of three and four years imprisonment respectively.[22] The defendants Schütt and Unverhau, who had been "convicted" of aiding and abetting with others the murder of 86,000 and 72,000 persons respectively, were even acquitted.[23]This proves that these trials were primarily seen as an instrument to establish the judicial notoriety of the alleged mass murders.
It is true that some defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment (after all, the Jews wanted their pound of flesh!), but if they feigned repentance, most of them could hope for pardon. Karl Frenzel, who at the Hagen trial had got a life term for aiding and abetting with others the murder of at least 150,000 persons and for the murder of nine persons, was released on appeal in 1981.[24] Although his life sentence was later confirmed, Frenzel did not have to return to prison, the reason almost certainly being that in 1984 he had admitted the alleged mass murders at Sobibor in a conversation with former Sobibor detainee Toivi Blatt.[25]
As we see, it was quite easy for the courts of "democratic" West Germany to obtain the desired confessions. For the communist regime of East Germany, this was certainly not difficult either. So much for the "scientific basis" of the "German scholarship" Dr. Lindtner so fervently admires!
 
5. The Einsatzgruppen Reports
 
As proof for the alleged huge slaughter in the occupied Eastern territories, first and foremost are cited the so-called "Ereignismeldungen" (event reports) of the four Einsatzgruppen. These documents fall in the period from June 1941 to May 1942 and mention numerous massacres, with victims occasionally numbering in five digit figures. The "Ereignismeldungen" were supposedly found by the Allies in the Berlin RSHA. That the Germans let this sort of incriminating material fall into the hands of their enemies is strikingly odd.
The alleged slaughter of 33,711 Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev is the most notorious massacre ascribed to the Germans on the Eastern Front. This figure appears in an Einsatzgruppen report from 7 October 1941.[26] According to the established version of the facts, these 33,711 Jews were shot and their bodies thrown into the ravine of Babij Yar on 29 September 1941. But the first witnesses told completely different stories: The massacre was perpetrated on a graveyard, or near a graveyard, or in a forest, or in the very city of Kiev, or on the shores of the Dnepr. As to the murder weapon, the early witnesses spoke of rifles, or machine guns, or submachine guns, or hand grenades, or bayonets, or knives; some witnesses claimed that the victims had been put to death via lethal injections whereas others asserted that they had been drowned in the Dnepr, or buried alive, or killed by means of electric current, or squashed by tanks, or driven into minefields, or that their skulls had been crushed with rocks, or that they had been murdered in gas vans.[27]Now that is what we call good, solid evidence, is it not, Dr. Lindtner?
When the Red Army approached Kiev, the Germans allegedly dug up the mass graves and burnt the bodies. This work was reportedly finished on 28 September. But two days before, on 26 September, Babi Yar was photgraphed by a German reconnaissance aircraft. The air photo shows no fires, no open graves and no traces of human activity.[28]  After the Soviets had reconquered Kiev, a commission inspected Babi Yar and made a couple of photographs. The only discernible things on them are a pair of old shoes and some rags.[29]Irrefutable proof for the murder of 33,711 Jews, is it not, Dr. Lindtner?
So the report from 7 October 1941, which mentions an imaginary slaughter, is a fraud. This means that all other Einsatzgruppen reports are equally suspect from the beginning.
 
6. Documentary evidence that there was no extermination policy in the East either
 
Had the Germans planned the physical extermination of the Jewish population, they would of course have killed children and old people first; able-bodied adults would perhaps have been temporarily spared, because they could have been used as slave-laborers. As a matter of fact, solid documentary evidence shows that Jewish children and old people were not exterminated. The following four examples will illustrate this:
   - On 5 June 1942 there were about 9,000 Jews living in the ghetto of Brest (White Russia). Among them there were 932 old people over 65 (the oldest one was 92) and more than 500 children under 16.[30]
   - In an unknown month of the year 1943, 225 children under the age of 16, plus some old people of up to 86 years of age, were living in the ghetto of Minsk (White Russia).[31]
   - At the end of May 1942 there were many old people living in the ghetto of Vilnius (Lithuania); the oldest one, a woman by the name of Chana Stamleriene, had been born in 1852. There were also 3,693 children under 16.[32] The angel of death was not hovering over these Jewish children: As we learn from an "Anthology of holocaust literature," more than 20 schools were founded in the first year of the existence of the ghetto. In October 1942 between 1,500 and 1,800 children were studying at these schools, and in April 1943 school attendance became compulsory.[33]
   - In the summer and autumn of 1944 many Jews of various nationalities (also Hungarian Jews who had been previously deported to Lithuania and Latvia to work for the German army) were transferred from Riga and Kaunas to the Stutthof concentration camp, east of Danzig. On 26 July 1944 1,983 Jews, most of them Lithuanian ones, arrived at Stutthof. 850 of them were under 15 years old[34]which means that the oldest ones had been 12 when the Germans conquered Lithuania in the summer of 1941.
All this proves that the shootings committed by the Einsatzgruppen, the Ordnungspolizei and the SS in no way possessed the scope ascribed to them by the court historians.
 
7. The "Vergasungskeller" Letter
 
Basically it is quite possible to reject the "western half" of the Holocaust story ("Shoa by gas") and to accept the "eastern half" ("Shoa by bullets"). This is precisely what a clever person wishing to save at least a part of the myth would do: While the revisionists have pointed out numerous impossibilities in the gassing story, there is nothing technically impossible about a mass shooting. But for the Jews this kind of semi-revisionism is totally inacceptable because the gas chambers are an absolutely central element of the legend. For this very reason Lindtner, who fully identifies with the Jewish version of the events and even uses Jewish newspeak (he calls revisionism "denial"!), defends not only the myth of the "millions of Jews shot in the East", but the Auschwitz gas chamber myth as well. This is an unspeakably foolish thing to do, because together with Majdanek, Auschwitz is the most untenable part of the lie, its Achilles heel if there ever was one. In order to demonstrate the historical reality of the alleged gassings, Lindtner quotes a well-know document, the "Vergasungskeller" letter. On 29 January 1943 the chief of the Central Construction Office of Auschwitz, Karl Bischoff, stated in a letter to SS-Brigadeführer Hans Kammler:
 
"Das Krematorium II wurde unter Einsatz aller verfügbaren Kräfte trotz unsagbarer Schwierigkeiten und Frostwetter bei Tag- und Nachtbetrieb bis auf bauliche Kleinigkeiten fertiggestellt. Die Öfen wurden im Beisein des Herrn Oberingenieur Prüfer der ausführenden Firma, Firma Topf u. Söhne, Erfurt, angefeuert und funktionieren tadellos. Die Eisenbetondecke des Leichenkellers konnte infolge Frosteinwirkung noch nicht ausgeschalt werden. Dies ist jedoch unbedeutend, da der Vergasungskeller hierfür benützt werden kann."[35] (Crematorium II has been completed, by using all available manpower, in spite of extreme difficulties and severe frost and by running day and night shifts. The ovens were fired up in the presence of senior engineer Prüfer of the contracting firm, Messr. Topf & Söhne, and function perfectly. The planking of the reinforced concrete ceiling of the corpse cellar could not yet be stripped because of the effect of the frost. This is, however, of no importance, because the gassing cellar can be used for this intent.)
For the Holocaust historians, this letter proves that Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium II in Birkenau was used as a homicidal gas chamber.
This thesis was severely criticized by Jean-Claude Pressac; in Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers he wrote:
 
"The affirmation, solely based on the letter of 29 January 1942, that the term 'Vergasungskeller' referred to a homicidal gas chamber installed in the Leichenkeller 1 (corpse cellar) of Krematorium II, was irresponsible, for even if 'gas chamber' were correct, there was no evidence that it was a 'homicidal' one."[36]
So even Pressac concedes that this letter does not prove the existence of a homicidal gas chamber in Krematorium II. Carlo Mattogno explains the letter in the context of the epidemic of spotted fever which was the main cause of the frighteningly high mortality in Auschwitz. Quoting numerous documents, Mattogno argues that the SS planned to install a provisional Zyklon B delousing chamber in the Leichenkeller 1 of Krematorium II.[37] This project never materialized.
 
 
8. The Missing Holes
 
A key argument against the alleged homicidal gassings in the corpse cellar of Krematorium II is the fact that the four round holes in the ceiling, through which the Zyklon B was reportedly introduced into the "gas chamber", do not exist. To this argument, Lindtner objects:
 
"The lacking holes can also easily be explained. When Leichenkeller 1 was blown up, the holes, i. e. the edges of the holes, would have been the first to be blown away by the enormous pressure seeking to'escape'."
 
This is ridiculous. The roof of Leichenkeller 1 survived the demolition of the crematory relatively well; the two irregularly shaped holes, one of which was not even cleared from the steel reinforcement rods, which were simply bent backwards, were not "blown away" at all. So how could four big round holes in the very same ceiling simply disappear?
 
9. The Gas Vans
 
Lindtner has the audacity to claim:
 
"The evidence for gas vans is also convincingly established."
 
The problem is that no such van has ever been found. Nobody has ever seen a blueprint, or a photograph, of these mythical vehicles.[38] The Holocaust historians regularly refer to two documents allegedly proving the use of homicidal gas vans, the „Just document"[39] and the Becker document"[40], but as French revisionist Pierre Marais has irrefutably demonstrated in his vitally important study about the subject[41], these documents are grotesque forgeries. But perhaps Dr. Lindtner has not found the time to read this book because he was too busy studying the „German scholars"!
 
10. Himmler's alleged speech to his generals in Sonthofen on 21 June 1944
On 21 June 1944, Heinrich Himmler reportedly told his generals in Sonthofen that the SS had done well to exterminate the Jews, including the women and the children. For Lindtner, this alleged speech corroborates the exterminationist position.
As a matter of fact, the European Jews had not been exterminated. In France, 75% of the Jewish population, and 90% of the Jews which French passports, were not deported at all.[42] In most other countries under German control, the percentage of deportees was considerably higher, but countless documents prove that, while large numbers of Jewish concentration camps inmates died as a result of the conditions in the camps, there was no extermination policy. On 27 July 1944 the administration of Auschwitz compiled a statistics about the prisoners "temporarily quartered in the camp of the Hungarian Jews." The document shows that until that date 3,138 Hungarian Jews had received medical treatment at the camp hospital. 1,426 of them had undergone surgical operations.[43](According to the Holocaust story, a huge number of Hungarian Jews were gassed at Auschwitz between 15 May and 9 July 1944. While not a single of these alleged gas chamber murders is confirmed by a German document, the medical treatment of 3,138 Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz until 27 July is indeed documented.) As Polish historian Henry Świebocki reports, no fewer than 11,246 prisoners underwent surgery at Auschwitz between 10 September 1942 and 23 February 1944.[44] A very strange "extermination camp" indeed, is it not, Dr. Lindtner?
In its English language edition, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on 18 April 2004 that there were still 687.000 "Holocaust survivors" around – which means that there must have been several millions in 1945. How does this fact square with an extermination policy, Dr. Lindtner?
 
11. The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a scholar
The arguments adduced here are not new. All of them can be found in revisionist books and journals Lindtner cannot possibly pretend not to know. These books and journals are available in English and German, two languages Lindtner reads as fluently as his Danish mother tongue. But in order to justify his about-face, Lindtner prefers to ignore this literature and to rely on the works of dogmatic and bigotted court historians who, in their burning hatred of the National Socialist system, violate every principle of scientific historiography and gladly endorse any rubbish as long as it incriminates Adolf Hitler and the evil Nazis.
In the past I felt respect for Christian Lindtner, in spite of the fact that I by no means shared his views about the origins of Christianity. Now I feel nothing but contempt for him.
 
References
[1] Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, Berlin 1943.
2 Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza, Berlin 1944.
3 Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-115-11, p. 13.
4 Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-108-21.
5 Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-93-21, p. 15-18.
6 Wikipedia, Russian entry for „Salaspils".
7 Wikipedia, German entry for „Salaspils".
8 URSS-008.
9 Carlo Mattogno, „Franciszek Piper und die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz", Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung 1/2003.
10 IMT, volume VII, p. 590.
11Jürgen Graf and Carlo Mattogno, Concentration Camp Majdanek. A historical and technical study,Theses & Dissertation Press, Chicago 2003, chapter 4. www.juergen-graf.vho.org/articles/zur-revision-der-opferzahl-von-majdanek.html.
12IMT VII, p. 416, 417, 644.
13 Carlo Mattogno „KL Sachsenhausen. Stärkemeldungen und ‚Vernichtungsaktionen', Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung2/2003.
14 Israel Gutman (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York 1990, vol. I, entry „Aktion 1005".
15 Jens Hoffmann, „Das kann man nicht erzählen". Wie die Nazis die Spuren ihrer Massenmorde im Osten beseitigten, Konkret Verlag, Hamburg 2008.
16 NO 3842. NO-3947.
17 E. van Roden, „American Atrocities in Germany", The Progressive, February 1949.
18  Rupert Butler, Legions of Death, London 1983, p. 235 f.. Robert Faurisson, „How the British obtained the confessions of Rudolf Höss",Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 7, no. 4 (Winter 1986/1987).
19 IMT, Volume IV, p. 535/536.
20 Jürgen Graf, The Giant with Feet of Clay. Raul Hilberg and his standard work about the Holocaust, Theses & Dissertation Press, Capsha 2001, chapter VII, 1.
21 Jürgen Graf, Thomas Kues, Carlo Mattogno, Sobibor. Holocaust Propaganda versus Reality, The Barnes Revue, Washington 2010, p. 183.
22 Idem, p. 185.
23 Idem, p. 397.
24 Stern, No. 13, 22 March 1984.
25 R-102.
26 Herbert Tiedemann, "Babi Yar: Critical Questions and Comments," in: Germar Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003, pp. 501-528.
27 John Ball, Air Photo Evidence, Delta (B. C.) 1992, p. 107, see also J.C. Ball, "Air Photo Evidence," in. G. Rudolf (ed.), ibid., pp. 269-282, here p. 273f.
28 Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 128-132 (photo album).
29 Raisa Tschernoglasova, Трагедия евреев Белоруси в 1941-1944 годах; Minsk 1997, p. 274 f.
30 Judenfrei! Свободно от евреев, Minsk 1999, p. 289 f.
31 Vilnius Ghetto. List of prisoners, Volume 1, Lietuvos valstybinis muziejus, Vilnius 1996.
32 J. Glatstein, I. Knox, S. Marghoses (ed)., Anthology of Holocaust Literature, Atheneum, New York 1968, p. 90 f.
33 Archiwum Muzeum Stutthof, I-IIC-3.
34 Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu, BW 30/34. p. 100.
35 Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1989, p. 142, quoted according to Carlo Mattogno, Le camere a gas di Auschwitz, effepi, Genova 2010, p. 47. Retranslation from the Italian.
36 C. Mattogno, Le camere a gas di Auschwitz, op. cit., p. 47 f.
37 An alleged photograph of a gas van can be found in Gerald Fleming's book Hitler und die Endlösung (Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden and Munich 1982) But in 1945 a Polish commission, which inspected this van, had come to the conclusion that it had only be used to transport furnitue. Carlo Mattogno, Il campo di Chelmno fra storia e propaganda, effepi, Genova 2009, p. 49-51.
38 Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 58/871.
39 PS-501.
40 Pierre Marais, Les camions à gaz en question, Polémiques, Paris 1994.
41 Serge Klarsfeld, Le mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, Paris 1978.
42 Gosudarstevenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-108-32, p. 76.
43 Henry Świebocki, „Widerstand", in: Auschwitz. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers, vol. IV, Oświęcim 1999, p. 330.
 
 


[1] Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn, Berlin 1943.
[2] Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Winniza, Berlin 1944.
[3] Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-115-11, p. 13.
[4] Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-108-21.
[5] Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-93-21, p. 15-18.
[6] Wikipedia, Russian entry for „Salaspils".
[7] Wikipedia, German entry for „Salaspils".
[8] URSS-008.
[9] Carlo Mattogno, „Franciszek Piper und die Zahl der Opfer von Auschwitz", Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung 1/2003.
[10] IMT, volume VII, p. 590.
[11] Jürgen Graf and Carlo Mattogno, Concentration Camp Majdanek. A historical and technical study,Theses & Dissertation Press, Chicago 2003, chapter 4. www.juergen-graf.vho.org/articles/zur-revision-der-opferzahl-von-majdanek.html.
[12] IMT VII, p. 416, 417, 644.
[13] Carlo Mattogno „KL Sachsenhausen. Stärkemeldungen und ‚Vernichtungsaktionen', Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung2/2003.
[14] Israel Gutman (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Macmillan, New York 1990, vol. I, entry „Aktion 1005".
[15] Jens Hoffmann, „Das kann man nicht erzählen". Wie die Nazis die Spuren ihrer Massenmorde im Osten beseitigten, Konkret Verlag, Hamburg 2008.
[16] NO 3842. NO-3947.
[17] E. van Roden, „American Atrocities in Germany", The Progressive, February 1949.
[18] Rupert Butler, Legions of Death, London 1983, p. 235 f.. Robert Faurisson, „How the British obtained the confessions of Rudolf Höss",Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 7, no. 4 (Winter 1986/1987).
[19] IMT, Volume IV, p. 535/536.
[21] Jürgen Graf, The Giant with Feet of Clay. Raul Hilberg and his standard work about the Holocaust, Theses & Dissertation Press, Capsha 2001, chapter VII, 1.
[22] Jürgen Graf, Thomas Kues, Carlo Mattogno, Sobibor. Holocaust Propaganda versus Reality, The Barnes Revue, Washington 2010, p. 183.
[23] Idem, p. 185.
[24] Idem, p. 397.
[25] Stern, No. 13, 22 March 1984.
[26] R-102.
[27] Herbert Tiedemann, "Babi Yar: Critical Questions and Comments," in: Germar Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003, pp. 501-528.
[28] John Ball, Air Photo Evidence, Delta (B. C.) 1992, p. 107, see also J.C. Ball, "Air Photo Evidence," in. G. Rudolf (ed.), ibid., pp. 269-282, here p. 273f.
[29] Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 128-132 (photo album).
[30] Raisa Tschernoglasova, Трагедия евреев Белоруси в 1941-1944 годах; Minsk 1997, p. 274 f.
[31] Judenfrei! Свободно от евреев, Minsk 1999, p. 289 f.
[32] Vilnius Ghetto. List of prisoners, Volume 1, Lietuvos valstybinis muziejus, Vilnius 1996.
[33] J. Glatstein, I. Knox, S. Marghoses (ed)., Anthology of Holocaust Literature, Atheneum, New York 1968, p. 90 f.
[34] Archiwum Muzeum Stutthof, I-IIC-3.
[35] Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu, BW 30/34. p. 100.
[36] Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1989, p. 142, quoted according to Carlo Mattogno, Le camere a gas di Auschwitz, effepi, Genova 2010, p. 47. Retranslation from the Italian.
[37] C. Mattogno, Le camere a gas di Auschwitz, op. cit., p. 47 f.
[38] An alleged photograph of a gas van can be found in Gerald Fleming's book Hitler und die Endlösung (Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden and Munich 1982) But in 1945 a Polish commission, which inspected this van, had come to the conclusion that it had only be used to transport furnitue. Carlo Mattogno, Il campo di Chelmno fra storia e propaganda, effepi, Genova 2009, p. 49-51.
[39] Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 58/871.
[40] PS-501.
[41] Pierre Marais, Les camions à gaz en question, Polémiques, Paris 1994.
[42] Serge Klarsfeld, Le mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, Paris 1978.
[43] Gosudarstevenny Arkhiv Rossiskoj Federatsii, Moscow, 7021-108-32, p. 76.
[44] Henry Świebocki, „Widerstand", in: Auschwitz. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers, vol. IV, Oświęcim 1999, p. 330.

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