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Israel - Two Thousand Years of Lies - Sixty Years of State Terrorism

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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Wed, 14 May 2008 15:07 EDT

A few years ago, when my book The Secret History of the World was published, I rashly promised that volume 2 would soon be completed and ready for publication. After all, I pretty much knew what I wanted to zoom in on - the topic of Moses and the creation of Judaism - and I already had a good hypothesis and had tons of supplementary support material. I even had a title: The Horns of Moses (triple entendre!) It should be a piece of cake, I thought. And so, I sat down to write.

I had a pretty good flow going, Moses was coming to life on the computer screen, and then... well, then I started to have doubts. I knew that I knew a lot about Moses from the theological point of view and from the point of view of a lot of alternative research. I even knew a lot of what the scholars knew - the people who spend their lives studying and analyzing the Biblical texts. But I still felt uneasy. So, I went searching for more source materials and discovered that there was a whole lot more I needed to read before I could complete this project. That's pretty much what I have been doing for the past year or two: reading stuff that nobody except specialists ever reads, and collecting piles of data.




Coffee

Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

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Laura Knight-Jadczyk
SOTT.net
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:45 EDT

Jabberwocky
©Rodney Matthews

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings." (Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll, 1872, jabberwocky)

In the last installment of my series about comets and asteroids, I quoted John Lewis of the University of Arizona who said:

Astronomy books and papers far too numerous to cite offer the assurance that "no one has ever been killed by a meteorite."

We now know, from that article, that this is very far from the truth. We also know that we do stand in some peril at the present time and that our governments seem to be concealing that fact, lying to us, distracting us, and generally making sure that the resources that they collect from the masses are not used on behalf of those masses, but rather to enrich and ensure the survival of that small minority of pathological individuals at the top; in short, we're all being royally screwed.

In that last article, I also quoted some excerpts from a couple of news items that expose the fact that science is controlled and manipulated by politics. It has, apparently, become something of a scandal during the Bush Administration. Scientific reports have been censored, suppressed and falsified particularly in regards to health and environmental research. Anthony Robbins, professor of medicine at Tufts University and former director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, came right out and said that the White House itself has been directly involved in the suppression and falsification of science. Kurt Gottfried, professor of physics at Cornell University and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists informs us that "the public and Congress have often been deprived of accurate and candid scientific information." (Top Scientists Want Research Free From Politics)




Vader

US: At least 245 cases of taser deaths between June 2001 and June 2007, but don't talk about it!

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SOTT Editors
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Mon, 12 May 2008 16:29 EDT

Well, it looks like something fishy is going on with a topic that has been in the news for quite awhile now: deaths due to Tasers.

We begin our little story with an article from NorthCountryGazette.org:

Pinellas County Taser Deaths - Excusable Or Not?

June Maxam
North Country Gazette
7 May 2008

Between June 2001 and June 2007, there were at least 245 cases of deaths of subjects soon after having been shocked using Tasers. Of these cases, in seven cases, medical examiners said tasers were a cause or a contributing factor or could not be ruled out as a cause of death.

In 16 cases, coroners and other officials stated that a taser was a secondary or contributory factor of death.

In dozens of cases, coroners cited excited delirium as cause of death. Excited delirium has been questioned as a medical diagnosis.

Several deaths occurred as a result of injuries sustained in struggles. In a few of these cases, head injury due to falling after being shocked contributed to later death.

In 2005, a medical examiner ruled for the first time that a taser was the primary factor in a death. [...]

Fabulous. If you put the headline together with the text, it sounds like Pinellas County, FL is a veritable hotbed for Taser Deaths. So what's the big deal? The day after we posted this article under our Fair Use Policy, we received an e-mail as follows:




War Whore

Signs Economic Commentary for 12 May 2008

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Donald Hunt
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Mon, 12 May 2008 07:23 EDT

EC120508_democracity Summary: The price of oil shot up last week by more than 8%. Various reasons have been trotted out for the rise in oil prices, but none of them seem to account for it. Oil prices have almost exactly doubled in the past year ($62.51 on May 11, 2007) at a time when supplies are plentiful and the world economy is weakening. A year ago, by comparison, gold was at $672 an ounce.

Clearly we are seeing a commodity bubble nourished by the huge influx of money available to speculators from central banks, but oil has been rising so much faster lately that we can only conclude that insiders think the United States and Israel are about to embark on a suicidal course of attacking Iran, Syria and Lebanon in the remaining months of Bush's term. Analysts are not directly saying this in the context of oil prices, though, preferring to use euphemisms such as "geopolitical fears"...




Sherlock

The Pictures We See - Do You Get the Picture?

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Grim and Jonny Radar
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Sun, 11 May 2008 13:46 EDT

Let's try an experiment. Think of opinions you may have formed, beliefs that may have arisen due to one or a group of photographs that were distributed in the media. When you saw those images, did you feel anger, bitterness, or even hate? Were you elated, joyous, or perhaps confused? Were you compelled to somehow change the way you perceived the world based on the emotions that were triggered by an image?

Now imagine for a moment that a certain number of photographs in the media - let's say half, for the sake of this experiment - are forgeries. Would you be compelled to re-evaluate that position if you had learned said photograph was false?




Manipulation

Obsessive Sarkosis: The new neurosis

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Sott Editors
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Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40 EDT

La Sarkose obsessionnelle
©Unknown

French psychiatrist Serge Hefez has written a book about the ever-present character of the French president in the minds of the French, La Sarkose obsessionnelle.

The following is a translation of a description that appeared on the French news site rue89:

After a year of familiarization, how to stop being Sarkointoxicated?

by HUBERT ARTUS | Rue89 | 06/05/2008

[...] Smoking Narcissism is bad for your health

"When I think of him, I feel overwhelmed by an obscene substance of which I am unable to rid myself."




Hourglass

Signs Economic Commentary for 5 May 2008

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Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 05 May 2008 07:46 EDT

WWII Poster: Food is a Weapon Summary: Recent rises in the price of energy and food cause the most anxiety among the general public. Not only are food prices higher, but surpluses are disappearing.

Since ancient times, one of the main functions of urban republics was to stockpile food surpluses for use in times of famine. The scary thing now is that with sophisticated supply chain distribution systems, there is really very little extra food.

The problem is much bigger than just food for poor people; it could easily become a cut-throat scramble for short supplies among the well-off. In fact, we may be seeing the beginning of the predicted resource wars...




Alarm Clock

Golden Nuggets - Sexing Up An Iranian War

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Joe Quinn
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Sun, 04 May 2008 09:47 EDT

How many Muslim lives can you get for a "golden nugget"?

Back in 2003, after the start of the Iraq invasion, then chairman of the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and current head of British overseas intelligence agency MI6, requested that "ten golden nuggets" be included in the US-backed Iraq Survey Group's report on WMD's in Iraq.

golden nugget
©Worldofrockhounds

"Golden nuggets", as it turned out, was Mr. Scarlett's euphemistic term for "lies" and included several deliciously bogus claims:




Butterfly

JFK Spins From the Grave

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Scott Ogrin
SOTT.net
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:11 EDT

JFK speaking at podium

One of my favorite stories from recent memory is of a particular French pal of mine. He voted for Socialist candidate Segolène Royal in the last election. Of course, he pretended that he actually liked and had voted for now President Sarkozy, simply because that's what he thought everyone else wanted. He didn't want to stand up for his views and beliefs - he wanted to go along with the crowd. Now that Sarko's approval rating is at a whopping 28%, he has revealed his actual vote, no doubt again to go along with the crowd. You see, that is exactly the problem...

Why do we do silly things like that? Are we so afraid of standing up for what we believe in that we will sacrifice our own convictions and maybe even our own soul just to ensure we're accepted by others? If so, where does it end?

So what do we do about all this? That's a very popular question nowadays. And I think JFK just might have the answer...




Alarm Clock

Signs Economic Commentary for 28 April 2008

(Comments)
Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:05 EDT

Egypt Price Riots
©2008 AP Photo/Hossam Ali
Egyptians protest in Cairo on April 6th over rising food prices and deteriorating economic conditions

Summary: Oil and food topped this week's economic news. In the case of oil, all the saber-rattling over Iran doesn't make much sense. But then, neither does spending trillions of dollars on the invasion and occupation of Iraq - at least from an economic standpoint.

As for food, riots abound as Asian rice producers have been curtailing exports so as not to infuriate their own populations who are facing real difficulty from higher rice and other food prices. The curtailed exports lead to even higher prices, which increases the pressure on other countries to cut exports. The rise in the price of food and energy in the United States is leading to a political crisis there as well, which could lead to the uprising against the globalizing elite and the corporations...




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