Middle East Madness
mediamatters.com
8 Dec 2005
mediamatters.com
8 Dec 2005
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association (AFA), used the occasion of the December 5 broadcast of AFA Report, his daily program on AFA-operated American Family Radio (AFR), to suggest that some members of the religious right would withdraw support for Israel if a prominent activist against anti-Semitism did not cease his criticism of it.
During the broadcast, Wildmon stated that Anti-Defamation League (ADL) President Abraham H. Foxman "got himself kind of in a bind" by criticizing the religious right. "[T]he strongest supporters Israel has are members of the religious right -- the people he's fighting," Wildmon said. "[T]he more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' "
Comment: Comment: Again and again we pick up clues that the Zionist anti-anti-Semitism policies are creating real anti-Semitism. This is a dangerous situation for everyone, especially for Jews. An example is found in a recent blog we found where the author writes:(scroll down to
"What Is Behind The Tide Of Historians Being Arrested?"
So, the strangest thing of all is that, as a result of the arrest of FOUR HISTORIANS in the same year, I got curious and started to read what it was they were writing and saying, and darned if they dont have some serious evidence that the Holocaust - as it is presented and promoted: a uniquely Jewish tragedy - is a FRAUD.
Youd think that whoever was behind this law would figure those kinds of things out! It would be far more effective to just use ridicule or unseen pressures to silence people like Zundel, Irving, Verbeke and Rudolf. I think that the Powers That Be do that kind of thing all the time. I mean, look at what happened to Karen Silkwood? She was just going to rat on safety violations at a Nuke plant.
So, nope. I think there is something even more insidious to this business of arresting so-called Holocaust Deniers. I think it is a subtle ploy on the part of somebody to draw attention to their work and the only result of that will be to turn more and more people against Jews.
Either that, or whoever is behind this action is stupider than I thought.
The anonymous blogger has a point, one which we have tried to emphasize again and again. We tremble for the fate of the Jews if this groundswell of resentment continues to grow.
9 Dec 2005
Whatreallyhappened.com
9 Dec 2005
Whatreallyhappened.com
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, Bush screamed back. Its just a goddamned piece of paper!
The Constitution isn't just a piece of paper or parchment. It's a contract; the original contract with America. It's the contract you yourself swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend against all enemies both foreign and domestic. You attached your name to that promise. You swore that oath before a judge of the United States Supreme Court, with your hand on a bible. That isn't just scenery for the cameras. Swearing an oath before a judge carries legal obligations with that oath, and legal penalties for breaking that oath.
Comment: A psychologically normal, highly intelligent person called to high office experiences doubts as to whether he can meet the expectations and seeks the assistance of others whose opinion he values. At the same time, he feels nostalgia for his old life--freer and less burdensome--to which he would like to retutn after fulfilling his obligations. [...]
In any society in this world, psychopathic individuals and some of the others deviants create a ponerogenically active network of common collusions, partially estranged from the community of normal people. ... They are aware of being different as they obtain their life-experience and become familiar with different ways of fighting for their goals. Their world is forever divided into "us and them" their little world with its own laws and customs and that other foreign world full of presumptuous ideas and customs in light of which they are condemned morally.
Their sense of honor bids them cheat and revile that other human world and its values. In contradiction to the customs of normal people, they feel non-fulfillment of their promises or signatures is customary behavior. They also learn how their personalities can have traumatizing effects on the personalities of those normal people, and how to take advantage of this root of terror for purposes of reaching their goals. ... [
Political Ponerology, Andrew Lobaczewski]
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
I dont give a goddamn, Bush retorted. Im the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.
Mr. President, one aide in the meeting said. There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, Bush screamed back. Its just a goddamned piece of paper!
Ive talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution a goddamned piece of paper.
2005-12-09
Middle East Online
2005-12-09
Middle East Online
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
IAEA chief says military solution to Irans nuclear issue would be completely counterproductive.
OSLO - The head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Friday warned against the possibility of a military strike against Iran if it refuses to abandon its alleged nuclear weapons ambitions.
"I don't believe there is a military solution to the issue" at this time, ElBaradei said in Oslo where he is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday.
Reuters
9 Dec 2005
Reuters
9 Dec 2005
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
JERUSALEM - Israel called Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "very dangerous" on Friday after he expressed doubt that the Holocaust occurred and suggested the Jewish state be moved to Europe.
"This was not a misstatement or a passing remark," Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told Israel Radio. "It is a systematic way of thinking which is intended to bring about the annihilation of the state of Israel."
Comment: Comment: The problem is, the Iranian president only said what a lot of people are thinking. It's not much different than most of the rest of the world saying, in a poll last year, that the United States posed a greater danger to global peace than terrorists.
The US and Israel are both Pathocracies just as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were.
Pathocracy is a disease of great social movements followed by entire societies, nations, and empires. In the course of human history, it has affected social, political, and religious movements as well as the accompanying ideologies
and turned them into caricatures of themselves
. This occurred as a result of the
participation of pathological agents in a pathodynamically similar process. That explains why all the pathocracies of the world are, and have been, so similar in their essential properties.
The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a new class within that nation. This privileged class [of pathocrats] feels permanently threatened by the others, i.e. by the majority of normal people.
That is why laws have been passed to "protect" Israel from what most normal people think.
A normal person deprived of privilege or high position goes about performing some work which would earn him a living; but pathocrats never possessed any practical talent, and the time frame of their rule has eliminated any residual possibilities of adapting to the demands of normal work. If the law of normal man were to be reinstalled, they and their kind could be subjected to judgments, including a moralizing interpretation of their psychological deviations; they would be threatened by a loss of freedom and life, not merely a loss of position and privilege. Since they are incapable of this kind of sacrifice, the survival of a system which is the best for them becomes a moral idea. Such a threat must be battled by means of psychological and political cunning and a lack of scruples with regard to those others inferior- quality people.
In general, this new class is in the position to purge its leaders should their behavior jeopardize the existence of such a system.
Pathocracy survives thanks to the feeling of being threatened by the society of normal people, as well by other countries wherein various forms of the system of normal man persist. For the rulers, staying on the top is therefore the classic problem of to be or not to be. [...]
The pathological minoritys attempts to retain power will thus always be threatened by the society of normal people whose criticism keeps growing. On the other hand, any and all methods of terror and exterminatory policies must therefore be used against individuals known for the patriotic feelings and military training; on the other, specific indoctrination activities such as those we have presented are also utilized. Individuals lacking natural feeling of being linked to society become irreplaceable in either of these activities. The foreground must again be occupied by cases of essential psychopathy, followed by those with similar anomalies, and finally by people alienated from the society in question as a result of racial or national differences.
The phenomenon of pathocracy matures during this period: an extensive and active indoctrination system is built, with a suitably refurbished ideology constituting the vehicle of Trojan horse for the process of pathologizing the thought of individuals and society. The goal is never admitted: forcing human minds to incorporate pathological experiential methods and thought patterns, and consequently accepting such rule. [
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The following question thus suggests itself: what happens if the network of understandings among psychopaths achieves power in leadership positions with international exposure? This can happen, especially during the later phases of the phenomenon. Goaded by their character, such people thirst for just that even though it would conflict with their own life interest
They do not understand that a catastrophe would ensue. Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing.[...]
The pathocracy finally realizes that it must find some modus vivendi or relations with the majority of society: After all, somebodys got to do the work for us.
There are other needs and pressures, especially from outside. The pathological face must be hidden from the world somehow, since recognition by world opinion would be a catastrophe.
Primarily in the interests of the new elite and its expansionary plans, a pathocratic state must maintain commercial relations with the countries of normal man. Such a state aims to achieve international recognition as a certain kind of political structural; it fears recognition in terms of clinical diagnosis.[...]
All this makes pathocrats tend to limit their measures of terror, subjecting propaganda and indoctrination methods to certain cosmetology and to accord the society they control some margin of autonomous activity, especially as regards cultural life. The more liberal pathocrats would not be averse to giving such a society a certain minimum of economic prosperity in order to reduce the irritation level, but their own corruption and inability to administer the economy prevents them from doing so. [...]
Any war waged by a pathocratic nation has two fronts, the internal and the external. The internal front is more important for the leaders and the governing elite, and the internal threat is the deciding factor where unleashing war is concerned. In pondering whether to start a war against the pathocratic country, one must therefore give primary consideration to the fact that one can be used as an executioner of the common people whose increasing power represents incipient jeopardy for the pathocracy. After all, pathocrats give short shrift to blood and suffering of people they consider to be not quite conspecific. [
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Pathocracy has other internal reasons for pursuing expansionism through the use of all means possible. As long as that other world governed by the systems of normal man exists, it inducts into and within the strivings of the non-pathological majority, thereby creating a certain sense of direction. The non-pathological majority of the countrys population will never stop dreaming of the reinstatement of normal mans system in any possible form. This majority will never stop watching other countries, waiting for the opportune moment; its attention and power must therefore be distracted from this purpose, and the masses must be educated and channeled in the direction of imperialist strivings. Such goals must be pursued doggedly so that everyone knows what is being fought for and in whose name a harsh discipline and poverty must be endured. This latter factor effectively limits the possibility of subversive activities on the part of the society of normal people.
The ideology must of course furnish a corresponding justification for this alleged right to conquer the world, and must therefore be properly elaborated. Expansionism is derived from the very nature of pathocracy, not from ideology, but this fact must be masked by ideology. [
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On the other hand, there are countries with normal mans governments wherein the overwhelming majority of societies shudder to think a similar system could be imposed on them. The governments of such nations thereupon do everything they can within the framework of their possibilities and their understanding of the phenomenon in order to contain its expansion. The citizens of those countries would sigh with relief if some upheaval were to replace this malevolent and incomprehensible system with a more human, more easily understood governmental method with whom peaceful coexistence would be possible
Such countries thus undertake various means of action for this purpose, their quality depending on the possibility of understanding that other reality. [...]
Approximately 6 % of the population constitute the active structure of the pathocracy, which carries its own peculiar consciousness of its own goals. Twice as many people constitute a second group: those who have managed to warp their personalities to meet the demands of the new reality.
This second group consists of individuals who are, on the average, weaker, more sickly, and less vital. The frequency of known mental diseases in this group is at twice the rate of the national average. We can thus assume that the genesis of their submissive attitude toward the regime, their greater susceptibility to pathological effects, and their skittish opportunism includes various relatively impalpable anomalies.
The 6 % group constitute the new nobility; the 12 % group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous.
Only 18 % of the countrys population is thus in favor of the new system of government.
The great majority of the population forms the society of normal people, creating an informal communications network. It behooves us to wonder why these people reject the advantages conformity affords, consciously preferring the opposing role: poverty, harassment, and curtailment of human freedoms. What ideals motivate them? Is this merely a kind of romanticism?
A person with a normal human instinctive substratum, good basic intelligence, and full faculties of critical thought would have a difficult time accepting such a compromise; it would devastate his personality and engender neurosis. AT the same time, such a system easily distinguishes and separates him from its own kind regardless of his sporadic hesitations. No method of propaganda can change the nature of this macro social phenomenon or the nature of a normal human being. They remain forever foreign to each other.
After a typical pathocratic structure has been formed, the population is effectively divided according to completely different lines from what someone raised outside the purview of this phenomenon might imagine, and in a manner whose actual conditions are also impossible to comprehend
. Pathocracy corrodes the entire social organism, wasting its skills and power.
Typical pathocrats take over all the managerial functions in a totally destroyed structure of a nation. Such a state must be short-term, since no ideology can vivify it. The time comes when the common masses of people want to live like human beings and the system can no longer resist.
Pathocracy is even less of a socioeconomic system than a social structure or political system. It is a macro social disease process affecting entire nations and running the course of its characteristic pathodynamic properties.
As long as we keep using methods of comprehending this pathological phenomenon which attempt to use political doctrines to define it, (even if those doctrines are heterogeneous to it) we will not be able to identify the causes and properties of the disease. A correspondingly prepared ideology will be able to cloak the essential qualities from the minds of scientists, politicians, and common people.
[
Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D.]
Khalid Amayreh
Aljazeera.net
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of fabricating a story about a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who planned to blow himself up.
The Israeli army said he was caught wearing an explosive belt at an army roadblock in the northern West Bank.
The boy, identified as Husam Abdu from Nablus, was shown on TV screens around the world, with an explosive belt strapped to his waist.
The Israeli army said the boy told interrogators that his dispatchers promised that he would have sex with 72 virgins in heaven soon after his death.
"We know for sure this is a fabricated story from A to Z. Would you believe that a 13 or 14-year old would agree to blow up himself in return for a hundred shekels which he would receive after his death?
"It seems to me that the Israelis are bad liars as well," said Yaqub Shahin, a director-general of the Palestinian Authority ministry of information.
Painting a 'terrorist' picture
In an interview with Aljazeera.net, Shahin accused Israel of seeking to justify slaughtering Palestinian children by spreading the false impression that they are used as human bombers.
"Their [Israel's] goal is to besmirch Palestinian childhood so that when they slaughter the children, the world won't feel sorry for them," he said.
Arab Knesset member Muhammad Baraka has also voiced "serious doubts" about the veracity of the Israeli narrative.
Comment: Coming back to today's story then, given the IDF's track record, it is very possible that today's events were simply more smoke and mirrors, designed to confuse the Israeli people, and the rest of the world, about the real nature of Israeli government and military agression against the Palestinian people. The simple fact is that people like Sharon and Netanyahu need a constant threat to justify their war of attrition on the Palestinian people, and they have long since understood that they only way to provide the level of "terrorist" threat they need, is to create it themselves. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a cold, hard, and very easily provable, fact.
So the next time you catch yourself, or someone you know, thinking that Israeli or American aggression in the Middle East is justified, understand that you have been carefully manipulated to think this way, and that you are in fact supporting terrorism rather than taking a conscientious stand against it.
Speaking of manipulating the population to believe in the "reality" of Islamic terror, yesterday we ran the story about Rigoberto Alpizar, who was shot dead by an air Marshall at Miami airport because, it was claimed, he ran off the plane and stated that the had a bomb in his bag. As we predicted yesterday, this accuracy of this official story is now being questioned...
www.chinaview.cn 2005-12-09 23:07:20
www.chinaview.cn 2005-12-09 23:07:20
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Friday that Israel must prepare solutions "other than diplomatic" in the face of Tehran's persistent advancement of its nuclear program.
"The right move would be to let a diplomatic approach guide us, but we must also prepare other solutions," Mofaz said on a campaign tour for the Likud leadership primaries in Tel Aviv.
Associated Press
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Hawara Checkpoint, West Bank -- The Palestinian teenager in the oversized red jersey approached Israeli soldiers, who had received a tip about a suicide bomber at this crowded checkpoint yesterday. Suddenly the soldiers saw something bulge under his top. The Israelis dashed behind concrete barricades, pointed their guns at the youth and ordered him to stop.
Comment: In the immediate aftermath of this "attempted suicide bombing" over 18 months ago, it was revealed that the Israeli army had manufactured the entire event:
Ireland On-LIne
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Israeli troops today caught a Palestinian teenager who had strapped explosives to his body, the army said.
The boy was spotted at an army checkpoint in the West Bank and raised suspicions because he was wearing a heavy jacket on an unseasonably warm day.
Soldiers stopped the teenager, and discovered two metal cans filled with explosives and shrapnel taped to his body.
The teenager was arrested, and the cans were destroyed by an army bomb squad, the army said.
Comment: Hmmm...now where have we seen this before?...
Friday, 9 December 2005, 13:27 GMT
BBC News
Friday, 9 December 2005, 13:27 GMT
BBC News
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said the world is losing patience with Iran over its nuclear programme.
Comment: Comment: Looking at the other stories today about Iran and comments made by its new president, one wonders whether the "world's" losing patience with Iran over its nuclear program may not be related.
The article above is suggestive of the idea that the whole nuclear question in Iran is being used to rein the country in because of its politics in other areas.
Now, that is really just too far-fetched an idea!
Not.
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