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Star of David

Pariah state Israel: On course for Holocaust II...?

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This is the most controversial article the gentile me has ever written or is ever likely to write, but I believe that what I am going to say needs to be said and should be widely debated if the rising, global tide of "anti-Israelism" (I prefer the term anti-Zionism) is not to be transformed into anti-Semitism on a scale that could lead, in a foreseeable future, to Holocaust II, my shorthand for another great turning against the Jews.

I am, of course, aware that anti-Semitism is more than prejudice against and loathing even hatred of Jews just because they are Jews. Arabs are Semites, too. So anti-Semitism is prejudice against Arabs as well as Jews. In other words, Islamophobia, a monster on the prowl across America and Europe and licking its lips, is also a manifestation of anti-Semitism. That said my use of the term anti-Semitism in this article relates only to prejudice against and loathing even hatred of Jews just because they are Jews.

A clear, early warning that anti-Israelism could be transformed into anti-Semitism was given by Yehoshafat Harkabi, a former Director of Israeli Military Intelligence, in his book ISRAEL'S FATEFUL HOUR, first published in Hebrew in 1986 and in English two years later. (He started out as a rabid right-winger and a supporter of Menachem Begin, arguably the most successful terrorist leader of modern times. But he, Harkabi, subsequently broke with Begin and launched a blistering attack on the ideological mindset of the proponents of Greater Israel and the expansionist policies of the Begin and Shamir governments. Instead of the policy of not yielding an inch and waiting for the Palestinians to surrender, he advocated negotiations with the PLO to establish an independent Palestinian state. "Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories with their growing Arab population" is the first sentence on the back cover of his book).

Comment: Indeed, without an awareness of the psychopathy at the heart of Zionism, and of ponerology in general, most people will think with their emotions, not their heads. A real injustice -- the Israelis' genocide of the Palestinians -- will breed more injustices, against Jews, regardless of whether they supported the Zionist state and its policies or not. It's the responsibility of all of us -- Jews included -- to speak out against the Zionist monstrosity. But first, that means getting educated. Hart's book, Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, is a good place to start, along with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Joe Quinn's 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.


Windsock

Growing national unrest has many worried - even capitalists are talking about it

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© Jeff Roberson/Associated PressProtesters walk through a cloud of tear gas Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.
"You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when."

A few days before the dramatic events in Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrated so dramatically what decades of institutionalized inequality can do to a population, the economists at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services issued a report highlighting the dangers growing inequality holds for America's long-term economic growth.

More a research note summarizing findings on the topic than the presentation of new scholarship, the economists working for one of the premier institutions of American financial capitalism undoubtedly state that inequality is a clear and present danger to both the health of American society and the U.S. economy.

Something's happening here...

According to S&P's assessment, "extreme" levels of income inequality can harm growth over long periods of time, and in their view, the United States is approaching a level of inequality that is very near the threshold of being dangerous. As such, S&P says its 10-year growth forecast for the country has been lowered from 2.8 percent to 2.5 percent, noting that the country's economic prospects were much brighter five years ago than they are today.

A primary driver of this inequality, the rating agency continues, is growing disparities in education outcomes between rich and poor that are significantly dragging down overall growth rates. Indeed, S&P estimates that if the American workforce completed just one more year of schooling by 2021, "the resulting productivity gains could add about $525 billion, or 2.4%, to the level of GDP" relative to the agency's baseline prediction. Schooling - especially in terms of more Americans finishing college - is seen as crucial to lifting wages, incomes and well-being in the years ahead.

What's more, S&P goes on to challenge one of the most commonly held assumptions about growth held by the capitalist class in America: a rising tide inevitably lifts all boats. This, the agency's economists say, is not an accurate reflection of what is occurring in America today. Instead, in a country where the ultra-wealthy have captured an ever increasing segment of national income, the tide is merely lifting "a lifeboat carrying a few, surrounded by many treading water." Moreover, say these deeply conservative business economists, such a lifeboat "risks capsizing" the longer such a situation persists.

While not exactly a warning that revolution à la Marx might be around the corner, it is nonetheless a rather remarkable thing for those so close to the beating heart of Wall Street to say so openly and frankly. It is also a sentiment being echoed by others in our capitalist ruling class who are similarly disturbed by the possibilities opened up by an America that looks more like Mexico or Brazil than Western Europe. Consider, for instance, the open letter to "fellow zillionaires" penned by Nick Hanauer, a self-described "0.1%er" and serial entrepreneur who nonetheless warns that "the pitchforks are coming."

Comment: All the studies in the world won't make a difference to the 1%. They wishfully believe that life will go on as it has, and furthermore, they are perfectly entitled to it. A rude awakening is not far away.


Bad Guys

Is Michael Brown a martyr?

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© HUY MACH/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/APLesley McSpadden and Louis Head, the mother and stepfather of Michael Brown, on August 9th.
Michael Brown is dead. Eighteen years old, a young man gunned down - not just shot - by police in his neighborhood in Ferguson, Missouri.

Brown's experience earns international attention not because he is dead, but because of sustained outrage, first by his grieving family, then over video available from bystanders, then by people in his community denied answers, then by shocked citizens around the county.

Extrajudicial killing of Black Americans, especially our young men, is common today. Many pass unnoticed. So, why the attention to this murder?

Comment: Thank you for dying a horrible death before you had a chance to live the miserable, thankless life that most all Americans, especially minorities, live? His murder is tragic, and falling into a pit of sentimental nonsense, instead of seeking the answers as to what causes a society to reach such a state of decay, does nothing but show how tragic the situation truly is.


Pistol

Chicago goon cops shoot two teens to death after they refuse to drop their guns

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Two teens were shot to death by Chicago police in two separate incidents on Sunday after they refused to drop their guns and pointed them at officers, police and a police union spokesman said on Monday.

In the first incident, gang enforcement officers responded to a complaint of armed men on a west side block. When officers arrived, one of the men fled into a passageway and drew a handgun from his waistband, police said in a statement.

The suspect, 19, ran up a back staircase of a building, according to police union spokesman Pat Camden. An officer ordered the man to drop his gun, but he pointed it in the officer's direction, and the officer shot him, police said.

Comment: Great, let only all the crazy trigger-happy goon cops carry guns so that the rest of us have no defense against them! About now it's a great time to resurface this excellent SOTT focus about gun rights and control in America:

Liars, Gun Control and Money in a Culture of Violence


Roses

Maryland man shot 3-year-old daughter and slit her throat before fatal shootout with police

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A Temple Hills, Maryland man slashed his 3-year-old daughter's throat, then shot and killed her before leading police on a car chase that ended in a fatal shootout.

According to CBS Baltimore, 38-year-old Frederick Roy Miller shot and wounded two other people in the rampage, which took place on Saturday.

Police Chief Mark Magaw said in a press conference that Miller, a Marine veteran, was engaged in a custody battle with his ex-wife. On Saturday, Miller went to the home where his daughter, Laila Miller, lived with her two primary caretakers, her maternal grandfather and great-grandmother.

Miller shot the two adults, one in the driveway in front of the house, and left with the child as neighbors looked on in horror.

Police pursued Miller in a high-speed car chase that ended in a hail of bullets. When Miller was confirmed dead, police converged on the car and found Laila Miller bleeding from a gash in her throat and with a bullet wound to the head.

Black Cat

Demented MMA fighter who savagely beat ex-girlfriend sez oppression of men is worse than slavery

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A mixed martial arts fighter accused of battering his porn actress former girlfriend complained that American men suffered even worse than Jews under Nazi Germany or African slaves in the U.S.

War Machine, who legally changed his name in 2008 from Jon Koppenhaver, was arrested Saturday in the brutal assault of his ex-girlfriend, Christy Mack, and reality TV star Corey Thomas. Mack suffered broken bones, missing teeth, and a ruptured liver in the attack.

The cage fighter, who has been imprisoned twice previously, claimed he attacked the pair in self-defense.

During his last incarceration, in 2010 on a San Diego assault conviction, War Machine wrote a weekly "prison blog," reported the Daily Telegraph, that outlined his complains about prison life.

"Me and a couple other guys have been waging war on these 2 loud, obnoxious *ssholes who love to yell and bang their door all day and night," War Machine wrote. "Our weapon of choice by default, is of course sh*t bombs... LMAO! We have been bombing their cells twice/day for 4 days straight and since the Deps hate them too, they don't even clean it out, they let them sit in sh*t for HOURS at a time."

Comment: Unfortunately, this guy really believes what he's saying. Another gem from this psychopathic cretin: Real men rape

"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." - Andrew M. Lobaczewski

To learn more about why our society has devolved into such barbarism, read Political Ponerology.

See also: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes


Stormtrooper

California family says 'out of control' cops arrested disabled daughter for bloodshot eyes

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A Hesperia, California family accused county law enforcement of mistreating their 25-year-old disabled daughter and arresting her on drug-related charges despite being alerted to her condition, the Victorville Daily Press reported.

"I'm a retired fire captain and this is just the most outrageous thing I've ever heard in my life," the woman's father, Steve Olsen, was quoted as saying. "I am a total supporter of law enforcement, but this was wrong. This was out of control."

Olsen's daughter, Kylee Olsen, was arrested on Friday by San Bernardino County sheriffs deputies. At the time, Kylee, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, reportedly told officers she had "special needs."

"They stopped me when I was getting on the bus," she said. "They asked me when I had last used meth and I said I had never used it. They said my pupils were completely red and put me in the back of the car. I was really scared. I didn't know what to do."

She reportedly responded by blaming a combination of allergies and antibiotics for her eyes' reddish appearance. A family friend, Elizabeth Newman, told the Daily Press that because of her condition, Kylee Olsen has the "mental capacity of a teenager, [and] the emotional capacity of a small child."

Police would not comment on the case, but Steve Olsen told the newspaper that an officer called him Friday night following his daughter's arrest on a "drug sweep" and told him she was taken in under suspicion of using methamphetamine. She was charged with "being under the influence of a controlled substance" before being released shortly after midnight on Saturday. She also reportedly took a drug test, which came up negative, and has no criminal record.

"It's like arresting a 5-year-old kid," Steve Olsen was quoted as saying. "If the guy could not figure out that she has disabilities he is just an idiot. This one is just so obvious."

Heart - Black

Another victim of police brutality: LAPD ignores asthmatic mans' call for help, tosses him face-down in cell to die

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According to two recently released reports, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) knowingly ignored pleas from a suspect with asthma who said he couldn't breathe.

The suspect, Jorge Azucena, later died in custody of the LAPD.

The Los Angeles Times reports that a LAPD Sergeant told Azucena, "You can talk, so you can breathe."

Of course, anyone having serious asthma attack can still verbalize their distress, which the LAPD ignored.

"There should not be any question that when somebody in custody is heard to say 'I cannot breathe,'" Robert Saltzman, of the civilian Police Commission, told CBS Los Angeles. "The officers should [have] promptly call for an ambulance."

Comment: Whatever the police do, seldom do they suffer any consequences. As a result they have become more bold and more violent. Any encounter with the American police is a dangerous one.

Goon cops have gone wild all over America
Why have police in America turned into such ruthless thugs?


Heart - Black

Effects from conscience-less politicians: New York's homeless pushed deeper into the shadows

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© Zafirah Mohamed Zein/IPSMen line up to receive food distributed by Coalition for the Homeless volunteers at 35th St, FDR Drive, in New York City.
Joe sits on newspapers spread on the sidewalk by the entrance to midtown's Grand Central Station. His head rests in his hands, only looking up when coins from passersby clink into his paper cup.

"A shelter is like a prison without guards," he says, when asked why he was out on the street. "I'm done with them."

"A few things happened after the war. The government just forgot about me. Not only just me but a lot of others too." -- Don, a Vietnam veteran

The 36-year-old says "people who just got out of jail" steal from others in the bathroom and violence is rampant, as shelter staff members turn a blind eye. Throughout the conversation, Joe holds tight to his backpack, making sure it stays close.

While accurate figures for New York's unsheltered homeless are hard to come by, the thousands sleeping on the streets are in addition to the 53,615 people - a record-breaking figure not seen since the Great Depression - who enrolled in the city's shelter system in January this year. Yankee Stadium would not be able to seat all of them.

Pistol

Kansas police officer(s) shot unarmed suicidal teen 16 times as family begged them not to

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Family members of a teen who was shot at least 16 times by police in Ottawa, Kansas said this week that the 18-year-old was unarmed and suicidal when he was gunned down.

Brandy Smith told KCTV that police were there when her nephew, 18-year-old Joseph Jennings, had tried to kill himself with pills last week.

"Tonight is the night goodbye everyone!!!!! It was truly a good ride! And I'm sorry for who I might of hurted (sic) and people that I may of offended, But I love all my family and I hope you don't hold this against me," he reportedly wrote on Facebook before trying to overdose.

About 10 minutes later, Jennings swallowed 60 pills. And Smith said two officers took him to Ransom Memorial Hospital.

Jennings survived, and was released from the hospital two days later. But only three hours after that, he was on a "suicide mission" when he walked to Orscheln Farm and Home, according to his aunt.

Smith recalled that around six officers responded, and two of them had helped save Jennings' life by taking him to the hospital after his overdose just days before.