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Star of David

1948 "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" - Zionism's Jewish enemy

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© UnknownAl-Nakba,the catastrophe of the Palestinian people who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, lands, and villages by the Zionists before and after the creation of the State of Israel on May 15th 1948!
Last week, in the first programme of this series, viewers were invited to get to know me and how it was that I became aware of the difference between the lies and truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine.

My first guest is an Israeli who now lives in reluctant exile here in the UK. He is - Professor Ilan Pappe.

Professor Ilan Pappe is Israel's leading "new" or "revisionist" historian. The terms new and revisionist really mean "honest". The title of his latest book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, says everything about his integrity and commitment to the truth of history. As well as his passion for justice.

One of very many revelations in Ilan's latest book is in the form of a statement made by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father, in a letter to his son. It was written in 1937. "The Arabs will have to go", Ben-Gurion wrote, "but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as war."

Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism's version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn't until he went to England to continue his academic studies that he had access to documentation which enabled him to understand that Zionism's version is a propaganda lie.

For his books and his public speaking, Ilan is respected and admired by many people around the world with the exception, of course, of supporters of Israel right or wrong and Zionists in particular.

Video posted November 04, 2009


Snakes in Suits

Sarkozy: Ex-wife's new autobiography reveals the real man behind the public mask

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A former wife of ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy has claimed that when the pair split her friends immediately moved to divorce their husbands in the hope of ensnaring the former French president.

But their hopes were dashed when Mr Sarkozy married Carla Bruni following a whirlwind romance of just 80 days.

Cecilia Attias, 55, who left him for another man just as he became head of state in 2007, will publish her long-awaited autobiography next month.

In the book, extracts of which were published in Le Point and Elle magazine, the former first lady reveals that she felt compelled to leave the 11-year marriage because she felt after his 2007 election victory that he had 'sort of forgotten me'.

Dollar

Obamacare: A Deception

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The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of "Obamacare" - the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the insurance companies but not for you.

Obamacare was formulated on the concept of health care as a commercial commodity and was cloaked in ideological slogans such as "shared responsibility," "no free riders" and "ownership society." These slogans dress the insurance industry's raid on public resources in the cloak of a "free market" health care system.

You will learn how to purchase a subsidized plan at the Exchange, what will happen when income and family circumstances change during the year or from one year to the next, and other perils brought to you by Obamacare. It is one of the most important articles that will be posted on my website this year. Americans will be shocked to learn the extent to which they have been deceived. The legislation neither protects the patient nor are the plans affordable.

Snakes in Suits

Watch congress give a standing ovation to the Capitol Police for shooting to death an unarmed mother in front of her 1-year-old

In a disgusting display of mental illness watch this video of the entire U.S. House of Representatives applauding the Capitol Police gunning down an unarmed woman.


Control Panel

NSA leaker Edward Snowden seems to be another false hero created by intelligence and media circles

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© The GuardianNSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, is seen in this still image taken from video during an interview by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong Kong June 6, 2013. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on July 5, 2013 in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs.
It seems as if we are getting new information about the National Security Agency (NSA) and the extent of its spying and surveillance programs on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. Ever since Edward Snowden the former NSA contractor leaked a myriad of secret documents exposing these programs, we hear more and more about just how wide spread the NSA's activities have been.

But who exactly is Edward Snowden?

This is a question that not very many people have asked. Much of what has been revealed by Snowden only confirms what many have been saying about the NSA for well over a decade. The only difference is that prior to the Snowden leaks, people who talked about the extent of the NSA's surveillance programs were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Now it is an accepted fact that the NSA spies on and collects data on almost anything you could possibly imagine.

Despite this, there is something very fishy about the Snowden narrative when you take into consideration his alleged background with the U.S. Army, the CIA and other government institutions. Not to mention the comical events that transpired after he fled the country to Hong Kong and later Russia. He just has the look and feel of a character invented by media hype and propaganda. Although we'll never know his true intentions, it is highly probable that these leaks were allowed on-purpose so the U.S. government could indirectly reveal to the world the full extent of the NSA's capabilities. This possibility is worth considering since a press conference announcing these activities would not be a workable course of action. With dissent on the rise and independent voices in the alternative media doing severe damage to the credibility of the U.S. government, these leaks may have been sanctioned as a way to discourage free speech and growing dissent against American imperialism.

Comment: For additional perspective, we include here the text of Protocol 12 from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Psychopaths which deals with the media:
Protocol No. 12 - Control of the Press
  1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows -
  2. Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.
  3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall lay on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but they will attack exclusively points that we have predetermined to alter.We control the press.
  4. Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.
  5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the goy communities to such an extent they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what goy stupidity calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world [...]
  6. Let us turn again to the future of the printing press. Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures The instrument of thought will become an educative means in the hands of our government , which will no longer allow the mass of the nation to be led astray in by-ways and fantasies about the blessings of progress. Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest. [...]
  7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions. Before accepting any production for publication in print, the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.
  8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.
  9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.
  10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.
  11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.
  12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.
  13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.
  14. These attacks upon us will also serve another purpose, namely, that our subjects will be convinced to the existence of full freedom of speech and so give our agents an occasion to affirm that all organs which oppose us are empty babblers, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders. Only lies will be printed.
  15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it. [...]

    We shall have a sure triumph over our opponents since they will not have at their disposition organs of the press in which they can give full and final expression to their views owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.
  16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.
  17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.
  18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours.
  19. What we need is that, until such time as we are in the plenitude power, the capitals should find themselves stifled by the provincial opinion of the nations, ie. of a majority arranged by our agentur. What we need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.
  20. When we are in the period of the new regime transitional to that of our assumption of full sovereignty we must not admit any revelation by the press of any form of public dishonesty; it is necessary that the new regime should be thought to have so perfectly contended everybody that even criminality has disappeared. [...] Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.



Megaphone

Ecuador's president: Obama's exceptionalism talk reminiscent of Nazi rhetoric before WWII

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© Reuters / David MercadoEcuador's President Rafael Correa
US exceptionalism rhetoric poses extreme danger and is reminiscent of Nazi ideals and talk "before and during World War II," Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said in exclusive interview with RT Spanish.

Referring to US President Barack Obama's statement that "America is exceptional" because it stands up not only for its own "narrow self interest, but for the interests of all," Correa said: "Does not this remind you of the Nazis' rhetoric before and during World War II? They considered themselves the chosen race, the superior race, etc. Such words and ideas pose extreme danger," President Correa said on RT Spanish' Entrevista program.

As for cases of espionage in Latin America and the subsequent criticism from regional leaders, Obama said the US will try to respect the sovereignty of those countries "in cases where it will be possible."

At the recent UN General Assembly, Brazil launched a blistering attack on US espionage, saying it "is a breach of international law."

President Correa said the US will keep violating other countries' sovereignty, but this will eventually change.

"What Plato wrote in his [Socratic] dialogues more than 2,000 years ago is true. Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger. They are strong, that's why they will continue lying, violating other states' sovereignty, and breaching international law. But one day this unjust world will have to change," Correa said.

When asked about whether the UN headquarters should be moved out of the US, Correa replied "definitely yes." But, he pointed out that there are other things that carry more importance. For example, the headquarters of the American Convention on Human Rights is located in Washington, yet "the US did not ratify the Pact of San Jose, that is, the American Convention on Human Rights...but the headquarters of the organization is in the US and they finance their activities," Correa said. "This is outrageous and an example of a relationship the US established with developing countries in the form of subordination."

Stop

US shutdown puts free trade talks with EU at impasse

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The United States has no choice but to delay negotiations over a major free trade deal with countries in the European Union because of the partial federal government shutdown, the Obama administration has said.

Michael Froman, a US trade representative working within an agency of the same name (USTR), phoned European Union Trade Commissioner Karel Del Gucht Friday to inform the Belgian politician that US officials would not be taking a scheduled trip to Brussels next week to discuss future plans.

Washington and the EU were expected to meet for the second time on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, according to Reuters. The agreement will become the world's largest free-trade deal if it is signed when the shutdown is lifted.

Over 800,000 US government workers are temporarily out of work after negotiations over the federal budget ground to a halt in Washington earlier this week. More employees are likely to be placed on unpaid leave as the conflict drags on. Major government contractors, including Lockheed Martin, have begun announcing their own furloughs as the impact reverberates.

"USTR will work with the [European] Commission to craft an alternative plan that can begin once the US government shutdown ends," the USTR said in a statement.

Bad Guys

Syria infighting kills 19 near Turkish border

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At least 19 people have been killed in an outbreak of infighting among foreign-backed militants in Syrian towns along the Turkish border.

On Friday, heavy clashes took place between militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and those of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the town of Azaz, The Associated Press reported.

Members of the al-Qaeda-linked group also fought against Kurds around the town of Ras al-Ain, said a Kurdish activist, Bassam al-Ahmed.

According to opposition sources, 14 al-Qaeda-linked militants and four Kurdish gunmen were killed in the clashes.

An FSA member, who identified himself as Abu Raed, also said a soldier from the Northern Storm brigade, which is part of the foreign-backed group, was killed in Azaz.

Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. According to reports, the Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey -- are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.

In a recent statement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of Syrian refugees, who have fled the 30-month-long conflict, reached two million.

The UN refugee agency also said some 4.2 million people have also been displaced inside Syria since the beginning of the conflict in the Arab country.

Wine n Glass

This explains a lot: Rep. Alan Grayson accuses Republican congressmen of being drunk when shutting down the government

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© AP/Evan VucciU.S. Representative Alan Grayson

In a Tuesday interview, Rep. Alan Grayson charged that Republican House members have been literally intoxicated while casting votes on the continuing resolutions that set the stage for today's government shutdown. Noting "a number of public reports that you can smell alcohol on their breath as they're voting gleefully to shut down the government and create chaos," Grayson said that he had personally witnessed GOP colleagues smelling like alcohol. "Many of them seem loaded," said Grayson. The Florida congressman declined to name names, saying, "it's the usual suspects," but that he didn't "really feel like getting that personal with people."

A spokesperson for Speaker John Boehner did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Politico reporter Ginger Gibson tweeted Saturday that she could "smell the booze wafting from members as they walk off the floor."

Grayson said he thinks on-the-job alcohol consumption by GOP House members has "been a problem all year long."

"It's a fact we all have to live with," Grayson told Salon, "and it's making them violent and abusive towards America."

Grayson also blamed today's shutdown on Republicans' "anarchist ideology" and "blind hatred of government," saying they've become "the Captain Ahabs of 21st century American politics. Grayson had particularly harsh words for Speaker Boehner, who he said refused to allow a vote on a "clean CR" to avert a shutdown because "he enjoys his golf games with the president, and he doesn't want to lose that perk, and so he's desperate to maintain his relevance, and that means maintaining his position at all costs - even the kind of costs we're seeing now for the country." Grayson predicted that the shutdown, given its impact on veterans benefit applications, National Institutes of Health research, and Federal Drug Administration drug approvals, would lead "over time" to deaths.

The congressman said it seems President Obama "has learned from experience" about how to deal with the GOP, "and that's what needed to happen." But he panned the president's decision to bring JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, whose company is reportedly in negotiations on a legal settlement of up to $11 billion, to the White House Wednesday. "I think it would be more constructive to invite in the pope, or perhaps Putin," said Grayson.

A source told the Wall Street Journal that Dimon and other bank executives would be discussing their debt ceiling concerns.

"It's true in general that Wall Street dictates our economic policy," said Grayson, "but in this case neither Jamie Dimon nor anybody else from Wall Street seems to have been able to get the Republicans to understand the obvious resulting difficulties that would come from the largest debtor in the entire world suddenly defaulting on its debt." He told Salon that "many Republicans in the House still regard the United States defaulting on its debt as a good thing, despite the fact that they've had one presentation after another in their own caucus from Wall Street bigwigs explaining the utter chaos" that would result.

Grayson argued that while "reasonable people can disagree" about the merits of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, Republicans are using it "as an excuse to attack the ACA as a whole."

"When you talk to them privately," Grayson told Salon, "what you find is that if they could repeal Medicare they would. If they could repeal Medicaid they would," along with the requirement that emergency rooms treat patients who can't pay for care.

"They are literally offended by the idea that people would get the care they need to stay healthy or alive even though they can't afford it," charged Grayson. "They regard it as some kind of crime against nature."

USA

Flying saucers to mind control: 7 Declassified military & CIA secrets

A secret history

Government and military secrets can range from terrifying to amusing to downright absurd, but most are nothing short of intriguing. From a secret U.S. Air Force project to build a supersonic flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs, here are seven declassified military or CIA secrets.

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© Wikimedia CommonsVZ-9 Avrocar.
Project 1794

In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers.

The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.

The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million.

Project 1794 was canceled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).