Mateel Video College Proposal

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The Mateel Video College Proposal

(1984)

As someone who has had a fairly long on and off again involvement in various alternative projects, many of which were focused on or around some sort of alternative college of New Age ecological education and lifestyles*, I believe this new VideoCollege approach may be just the thing needed to bring these alternative community college plans into reality without going into enormous expenses and complex organization.

This "Mateel VideoCollege" proposes a new type of educational service that could provide a source of inexpensive yet highly professional and accredited learning and skills training for as many students (of all ages) as our educational organization could handle. In other words, thus far this new service has NO serious competition anywhere in America. Yes, there are some organizations that produce and market videocassette instruction tapes in their own particular areas of expertise (mostly in the personal growth and self-help therapy fields), but at present there is no single college of videocassette instruction offering a wide range of education and skills training that could eventually match the broad curriculums of major colleges and universities. We could be the first to do so and only our development funding would limit how extensive and successful this Mateel VideoCollege could become.

This Mateel VideoCollege doesn't require a campus. It only needs a large cassette library, a computerized indexing, record-keeping, mailing, and bookkeeping system and office space, video and sound recording equipment and trained crews to run them, videocassette duplicating equipment, a minimum staff of workers and business/educational managers, and a large national advertising budget offering our courses in all major magazines, newspapers, and other ad display outlets.

Videocassettes are "in" these days and all the necessary electronic hardware exists throughout the nation. Instant local video "classrooms" could be set up wherever a VCR unit can be used. The student viewer doesn't need to live near any college or university to receive top instruction. Homes, libraries, schools, and private video-rooms anywhere in America would be the "campus" of the Mateel VideoCollege.

Our Mateel VideoCollege would send out trained video-recording crews to tape the nation's top teachers and artisans at work doing what they expertly do and are known for. Video-recording means the student not only receives verbal instruction but also visual demonstrations to reinforce each part of a particular learning series.

Editing the final tape programs insures the student gets only concise instruction, free of unrelated discourse or distraction. The video instructor doesn't have to worry about "off days" and can put her or his very best teaching style forward which will not only help keep students from becoming bored but will also compress lecture times down to fewer, but more quality-filled hours of instruction.

VideoCollege cassette courses would offer teachers and professionals an added, if not primary, source of income by receiving royalties from the sales and rentals of their taped programs.

Courses offered would be geared to meet student interests and professional degree requirements in addition to the Mateel's emphasis on ecological alternative social, political, economic, technological, cultural, and personal instruction specialization. With the whole sense dimensional advantage of audio-visual presentation over verbal instruction alone, the Mateel VideoCollege could provide perhaps a superior overall learning experience for most students. Videocassette learning will allow each student to learn at their own individual pace. There would be no "class" to keep up with or held back by. And, of course, the main advantage to the Mateel VideoCollege system would be its low, low cost to students compared with the staggering costs of attending college, universities, and even trade schools these days.

Well, this is the proposal. We have the credentialed staff to make it "official" and trained video-recording technicians living right here to begin operation if we can fund it. Our community also has more than its share of experts in many different skill areas that this organization could provide a channel to make a living off their professional talents.

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Gardenville

Below is posted my Gardenville proposal written in 1992 and later offered to Bob McKee and the original Community Park organizers who never responded. The proposal contains a way that could have funded it as well as providing jobs for SoHum residents outside of growing pot.

Gardenville
(1992)

"Gardenville" is the name given for a state-of-the-art energy efficient, ecologically designed cooperative "new town" or village complex centered around an educational "eco-tourist" resort complex and school of sustainable lifestyle technology and culture. The cooperative community structure could be based on a combination of "Habitat for Humanity" low-cost financing and "Co-housing" models that seem to give the best aspects of shared and independent living.

The school would develop and teach ecological living methods and would use the resort facilities to house students in the Fall, Winter and Spring rainy season, while "eco-tourists" would use the same resort facilities during the Summer tourist season.

This model community would provide testing grounds for the development of our dreams of community self-sufficiency as it also gives us economic outlets for our creativity and healing arts with our own permanent arts and crafts Renaissance Village and Healing Arts health spa resort.
The time is right for this project as many folks who settled in our community hills are now having to face the fact that homesteading is not work for one’s retiring years. A mix of generations, a school of ecological living, an eco-tourist resort, and all the supporting services needed for them will generate a new and large source of revenue for all of the Southern Humboldt (Mateel) community while it gives us a vehicle to use and teach our best alternative community ideas and ideals for a better world.

Palco Bankruptcy

The threat of Palco bankruptcy two years ago prompted our reviving the Heartlands Project which aims to reclaim local ownership of Pacific Lumber Co. through the only financing mechanism that can overcome the tremendous debt load Maxxam has placed on Palco ownership.

I hope Mark Lovelace and other environmental activists do the right thing this time around and help Native Americans help save Palco as a viable and sustainable timber company so that hundreds of Palco workers can remain employed. Too often we've seen environmental activists more concerned with their own environmental or political career paths to want to help local Native Americans at Bear River achieve their medicine man's wonderful vision of creating a sanctuary for all Native American tribal spiritual and cultural leaders within the beauty of ancient redwood groves of recovered tribal ancestral land. Now is the time to help Native Americans step in with a means to save Palco properties from liquidation.

We would like to hear something positive from Humboldt Watershed Council, EPIC, ISF, and any environmentalists who want keep PL lands from subdivision as well as keeping Palco viable into the future as a commercial timber company employing hundreds of Humboldt citizens in an employee owned and operated new and diversified Pacific Lumber Co.

Lack of spiritual consciousness is the reason SoHum has decayed

Hank Sims in the NCJ and on eric's blog a discussion has been raised about the vitality of Southern Humboldt County. Having moved away from that community years ago because of lack of affordable housing for low income people and having experienced the negative impact of marijuana growing on family members' lives, I must add this observation: SoHum has lost it's initial back-to-the-land vision because making money with pot overran spiritual ties to the land.

Pot growing ruined everything when the prices went sky high making successful growers far richer than anyone else in the community. Once Humboldt's superior marijuana reputation spread in the West Coast counterculture, local land prices began to jump making buying land no longer an option for those with less capital saved or earned in local work. Rising prices just priced many of us non-growing local activists out of SoHum, e.g. Jentri and myself.

Now SoHum is facing its own created reality: it has driven away the cream of the crop of activists and is now left only with “professionals” and privatized “community” organizations like the Community Credit Union where jobs seem secured for life leaving no room for local youth to move up within SoHum available jobs or the Mateel Community Center gutted by years of privatized exploitation of community cultural interests.

If SoHum wants to revitalize itself it will have to get religion one way or another as it was spiritual identification with the life of the land that originally spurred the back-to-the-land movement that initiated SoHum community as a seed for developing a better, less materialistic and more cooperative world tomorrow. SoHum didn't respect the spiritual power it was given.

Why is the Eureka Reporter editor using his paper to promote Zionism?

Almost every other day the Eureka Reporter runs cartoons in which Arab Muslims are portrayed as vicious and/or stupid low-lifes armed with guns or strapped with bombs. This unfair portrayal of Arabs is the editor's racist policy against Muslims that doesn't deserve the light of day in Humboldt County.

Now the editor is running a series by Rabbi Daniel Lapin promoting Zionist collusion with Christians by urging Christians to fight back against anti-Christian activism he sees rampant in America. Rabbi Daniel Lapin's concern is about as hypocritically cynical as religionists can get, considering the only reason he or any Zionist Jewish person is concerned about Christians is their fear that Christians will not keep supporting the Zionist cause of establishing Israel by pushing Palestinians out of their own land. What Rabbi Lapin is leaving out is the intense anti-Christian activism going on in Israel and Hollywood studios owned under Jewish ownership such as Lion's Gate Films and Miramax, the distributors for such movies as “Dogma” which thoroughly attacks Catholic and Christian sensibilities, e.g. having the Christian cross replaced by the “Buddy Christ”, a totally dorkish cartoon figure meant clearly to belittle the founder of Christianity.

As for Israel, Christians lose out there altogether if they want to practice their faith. Look what a former Israeli editor for Time magazine wrote about anti-Christian policies in Israel.

“On Dec. 29, 1977, Christians in Israel and the occupied territories protested a new law passed by the Israeli parliament making it illegal for missionaries to proselytize Jews. Protestant churches charged that the law had been “hastily pushed through parliament during the Christmas period when Christians were busily engaged in preparing for and celebrating their major festival.” The law made missionaries liable to five years’ imprisonment for attempting to persuade people to change their religion, and three years’ imprisonment for any Jew who converted. The United Christian Council complained that the law could be “misused in restricting religious freedom in Israel.”

Nonetheless, it came into force on April 1, 1978, prohibiting the offering of “material inducement” for a person to change his religion. A material inducement could be something as minor as the giving of a Bible. Although the Likud government of Menachem Begin assured the Christian community that the law applied equally to all religions and did not specifically mention Christians, the United Christian Council of Israel charged that it was biased and aimed specifically at Christians since only Christians openly proselytized. Council representatives also cited anti-Christian speeches made in the parliament during debate on the law. Parliament member Binyamin Halevy had called missionaries “a cancer in the body of the nation.”

The next year Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, considered a political moderate, issued a religious ruling that copies of the New Testament should be torn out of any edition of a Bible owned by a Jew.”

The writer goes on to many incidents of Israeli anti-Christian acts through the years, acts like yeshiva rabbinical students spitting on Catholic priests in Jerusalem which continues to occur because the most holy book of rabbinical Judaism, the Talmud, is rife with anti-Christian pronouncements. Below are printed only a few of scores of anti-Christ, anti-Christian statements of rabbis found in the Talmud:

Abhodah Zarah (15b) -- Suggest Christians have sex relations with animals.

Abhodah Zarah (22a) -- Suspect Christians of intercourse with animals.

Schabbath (145b) -- Christians unclean because they eat accordingly

Iore Dea (198, 48). -- Clean female Jews contaminated meeting Christians.

Kerithuth (6b p. 78) -- Jews called men, Christians not called men.

Makkoth (7b) -- Innocent of murder if intent was to kill Christian.

Orach Chaiim(225, 10) -- Christians and animals grouped for comparisons.

Midrasch Talpioth 225 -- Christians created to minister to Jews always.

Zohar II (64b) -- Christian idolators likened to cows and asses.

Eben Haezar (44,8) -- Marriages between Christian and Jews null.

Zohar (I, 131a) -- Idolatrous people (Christians) befoul the world.

Iebhammoth (61a) -- Jews called men, but not Christians called men.

Choschen Ham(183,7) -- Keep what Christian overpays in error.

Choschen Ham(226,1) -- Jew may keep lost property of Christian found by Jew.

Babha Kama (113b) -- It is permitted to deceive Christians.

Abhodah Zarah (54a) --Usury may be practiced upon Christians or apostates.

Iore Dea (159,1) -- Usury permitted now for any reason to Christians.

Babha Kama (113a) -- Jew may lie and perjure to condemn a Christian.

Babha Kama (113b) -- Name of God not profaned when lying to Christians.

Zohar (1,160a). -- Jews must always try to deceive Christians.

Iore Dea (158,1) -- Do not cure Christians unless it makes enemies.

Hilkkoth Akum (X,1) -- Do not save Christians in danger of death.

Choschen Ham(388,15) -- Kill those who give Israelites' money to Christians

Sanhedrin (59a) -- `Prying into Jews' "Law" to get death penalty

Hilkhoth Akum(X,2) -- Baptized Jews are to be put to death

Iore Dea(158,2)Hag. -- Kill renegades who turn to Christian rituals.

Choschen Ham(425,5) -- Those who do not believe in Torah are to be killed.

Zohar (I,25a) -- Christians are to be destroyed as idolators.

Sepher Or Israel 177b -- If Jew kills Christian commits no sin.

Zohar (II, 43a) -- Extermination of Christians necessary sacrifice.

Hilkhoth Akum(X,1) -- Make no agreements and show no mercy to Christians

Rabbis of course will deny these verses are operative in the present but that is not true as Israeli policies towards Christians shows. In complete agreement with the Talmudic directive for Jews, Rabbi Lapin is following Zohar 1, 160a, deceiving Christians so that they will continue to support Israel when Israel continually violates international law and even when Israel's apartheid policy towards Palestinians has been condemned by ex-President Jimmy Carter, a real Christian as opposed to George Bush, who cynically uses Christians and Christianity as a cover for his Neo-con collusion with Zionists Presidential advisors directing U.S. foreign policy towards increasing war against the enemy states of not America, but Israel.

Praise for Carlson Electronics move to Arcata?

The Carlson move to Arcata just shows again how SoHum, even with excess capital probably more so than any other such rural community in the U.S., has no local community consciousness when it comes to economic self-sufficiency. Spend the money on buying more land for growing more pot, (more sales for r.e. and more work for lawyers), or spend it on suv's, trips to Bali, anything but plow it back into the SoHum community. Why do SoHum activists continue to turn a blind eye towards their huge hypocrisy of using pot growers for funding their orgs but no saying a word against the continuing selfishness of pot growers, most of who's incomes vastly exceed their clients in the cities and schools? Because they do not want to bite the hand that feeds them.

Neterei Karta Jewish anti-Zionism

Many Gentiles are unaware that ultra-orthodox Jews oppose Zionism and modern Israel and have done so for nearly a hundred years-long before Israel was established by U.N. mandate.
Here is a sample of their thinking re the consequences of Zionism.

'Zionists Were Spiritually And
Physically Responsible
For The Holocaust'
Excerpted From An Article By Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann - Australia
1-8-7

"Spiritually and Physically Responsible " From its' inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and openly declared that all Jews loyal to G-d should stay away from it like one would from fire. They made their opinions clear to their congregants and to the general public. Their message was that Zionism is a chauvinistic racist phenomenon which has absolutely naught to do with Judaism. They publicly expressed that Zionism would definitely be detrimental to the well being of Jews and Gentiles and that its effects on the Jewish religion would be nothing other than destructive. Further, it would taint the reputation of Jewry as a whole and would cause utter confusion in the Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Judaism is a religion. Judaism is not a race or a nationality. That was and still remains the consensus amongst the rabbis. We were given the Holy Land by G-d in order to be able to study and practice the Torah without disturbance and to attain levels of holiness difficult to attain outside of the Holy Land. We abused the privilege and we were expelled. That is exactly what all Jews say in their prayers on every Jewish festival, "Umipnay chatoenu golinu mayartsaynu" - - "Because of our sins we were expelled from our land". We have been forsworn by G-d - "Not to enter the Holy Land as a body before the predestined time", - "not to rebel against the nations", to be loyal citizens, not to do anything against the will of any nation or its honour, not to seek vengeance, discord, restitution or compensation; "not to leave exile ahead of time." On the contrary; we have to be humble and accept the yoke of exile. To violate the oaths would result in "your flesh will be made prey as the deer and the antelope in the forest," and the redemption will be delayed. (Talmud Tractate Ksubos p. 111a). To violate the oaths is not only a sin, it is a heresy because it is against the fundamentals of our Belief. Only through complete repentance will the Almighty alone, without any human effort or intervention, redeem us from exile. This will be after G-d will send the prophet Elijah and Moshiach who will induce all Jews to complete repentance. At that time there will be universal peace. All of the leading Jewish religious authorities of that era predicted great hardship to befall humanity generally and the Jewish People particularly, as a result of Zionism. To be a Jew means that either one is born to a Jewish mother or converts to the religion with the condition that he or she make no reservations with regard to Jewish Law. Unfortunately there are many Jews who have no inkling whatsoever as to the duties of a Jew. Many of them are not to blame, for in many cases they lacked a Jewish education and upbringing. But there are those who deliberately distort the teachings of our tradition to suit their personal needs. It is self understood that not just anyone has the right or the ability to make a decision regarding the philosophy or law of a religion. Especially matters in which that person has no qualification. It follows then that those individuals who "decided" that Judaism is a nationality are to be ignored and even criticized. It is no secret that the founders of Zionism had never studied Jewish Law nor did they express interest in our holy tradition. They openly defied Rabbinical authority and self-appointed themselves as leaders of the Jewish "nation". In Jewish history, actions like those have always spelled disaster. To be a Jew and show open defiance of authority or to introduce "amendment" or "innovation" without first consulting with those officially appointed as Jewish spiritual leaders is the ideal equation to equal catastrophe. One can not just decide to "modernize" ancient traditions or regulations. The spiritual leaders of contemporary Judaism better known as Orthodox rabbis have received ordination to judge and interpret matters pertaining to the Jewish faith. These rabbis have received their rights and responsibilities and form a link in the unbroken chain of the Jewish tradition dating all the way back to Moses who received the Torah from Almighty G-d Himself. It was these very rabbis who, at the time of the formation of the Zionist movement, foresaw the pernicious outcome that was without a doubt lined up. It was a man possessing outstanding Judaic genius, and a level of uncontested holiness who enunciated the Jewish stance regarding Zionism. Grand Rebbe TeitelbaumThis charismatic individual, the Rebbe of Satmar, Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, did not mince any words. Straight to the point he called Zionism "the work of Satan", "a sacrilege" and "a blasphemy". He forbade any participation with anything even remotely associated with Zionism and said that Zionism was bound to call the wrath of G-d upon His people. He maintained this stance with unwavering bravery from the onset of Zionism whilst he was still in Hungary up until his death in New York where he lead a congregation numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Grand Rabbi Teitelbaum, scion to a legacy of holy mystics and Hassidic Masters unfortunately had his prediction fulfilled. We lost more than six million of our brothers, sisters, sons and daughters in a very horrible manner. This, more than six million holy people had to experience as punishment for the Zionist stupidity. The Holocaust, he wept, was a direct result of Zionism, a punishment from G-d. IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT ALL THE SAGES AND SAINTS IN EUROPE AT THE TIME OF HITLER'S RISE DECLARED THAT HE WAS A MESSENGER OF DIVINE WRATH, SENT TO CHASTEN THE JEWS BECAUSE OF THE BITTER APOSTASY OF ZIONISM AGAINST THE BELIEF IN THE EVENTUAL MESSIANIC REDEMPTION. But it doesn't end there. It wasn't enough for the Zionist leaders to have aroused the wrath of G-d. They made a point of displaying abysmal contempt for their Jewish brothers and sisters by actively participating in their extermination. Just the idea alone of Zionism, which the rabbis had informed them would cause havoc, was not enough for them. They made an effort to pour fuel on an already burning flame. They had to incite the Angel of Death, Adolf Hitler. They took the liberty of telling the world that they represented World Jewry. Who appointed these individuals as leaders of the Jewish People?? It is no secret that these so-called "leaders" were ignoramuses when it came to Judaism. Atheists and racists too. These are the "statesmen" who organized the irresponsible boycott against Germany in 1933. This boycott hurt Germany like a fly attacking an elephant - but it brought calamity upon the Jews of Europe. At a time when America and England were at peace with the mad-dog Hitler, the Zionist "statesmen" forsook the only plausible method of political amenability; and with their boycott incensed the leader of Germany to a frenzy. Genocide began, but these people, if they can really be classified as members of the human race, sat back. "No Shame" President Roosevelt convened the Evian conference July 6-15 1938, to deal with the Jewish refugee problem. The Jewish Agency delegation headed by Golda Meir (Meirson) ignored a German offer to allow Jews to emigrate to other countries for $250 a head, and the Zionists made no effort to influence the United States and the 32 other countries attending the conference to allow immigration of German and Austrian Jews. [Source] On Feb 1, 1940 Henry Montor executive vice-President of the United Jewish Appeal refused to intervene for a shipload of Jewish refugees stranded on the Danube river, stating that "Palestine cannot be flooded with... old people or with undesirables." [Source] Read "The Millions That Could Have Been Saved" by I.DombIt It is an historical fact that in 1941 and again in 1942, the German Gestapo offered all European Jews transit to Spain, if they would relinquish all their property in Germany and Occupied France; on condition that: a) none of the deportees travel from Spain to Palestine; and b) all the deportees be transported from Spain to the USA or British colonies, and there to remain; with entry visas to be arranged by the Jews living there; and c) $1000.00 ransom for each family to be furnished by the Agency, payable upon the arrival of the family at the Spanish border at the rate of 1000 families daily. The Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey received this offer with the clear understanding that the - Exclusion of Palestine as a destination for the Deportees was based on an agreement between the Gestapo and the Mufti. The answer of the Zionist leaders was negative, with the following comments: a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees. b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a "Jewish State" at the end of the war. c) No ransom will be paid This response to the Gestapo's offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber. These treacherous Zionist leaders betrayed their own flesh and blood. Zionism was never an option for Jewish salvation. Quite the opposite, it was a formula for human beings to be used as pawns for the power trip of several desperadoes. A perfidy! A betrayal beyond description! In 1944, at the time of the Hungarian deportations, a similar offer was made, whereby all Hungarian Jewry could be saved. The same Zionist hierarchy again refused this offer (after the gas chambers had already taken a toll of millions). The British government granted visas to 300 rabbis and their families to the Colony of Mauritius, with passage for the evacuees through Turkey. The "Jewish Agency" leaders sabotaged this plan with the observation that the plan was disloyal to Palestine, and the 300 rabbis and their families should be gassed. On December 17, 1942 both houses of the British Parliament declared its readiness to find temporary refuge for endangered persons. The British Parliament proposed to evacuate 500,000 Jews from Europe, and resettle them in British colonies, as a part of diplomatic negotiations with Germany. This motion received within two weeks a total of 277 Parliamentary signatures. On Jan. 27, when the next steps were being pursued by over 100 M.P.'s and Lords, a spokesman for the Zionists announced that the Jews would oppose the motion because Palestine was omitted. [Source] On Feb. 16, 1943 Roumania offered 70,000 Jewish refugees of the Trans-Dniestria to leave at the cost of $50 each. This was publicized in the New York papers. Yitzhak Greenbaum, Chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, addressing the Zionist Executive Council in Tel Aviv Feb. 18 1943 said, "When they asked me, "Couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said NO! and I say again, NO! ...one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance." On Feb. 24, 1943 Stephen Wise, President of the American Jewish Congress and leader of the American Zionists issued a public refusal to this offer and declared no collection of funds would seem justified. In 1944, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People called upon the American government to establish a War Refugee Board. Stephen Wise testifying before a special committee of Congress objected to this proposal. [Source] During the course of the negotiations mentioned above, Chaim Weizman, the first "Jewish statesman" stated: "The most valuable part of the Jewish nation is already in Palestine, and those Jews living outside Palestine are not too important". Weizman's cohort, Greenbaum, amplified this statement with the observation "One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe". And then, after the bitterest episode in Jewish history, these Zionist "statesmen" lured the broken refugees in the DP camps to remain in hunger and deprivation, and to refuse relocation to any place but Palestine; only for the purpose of building their State. In 1947 Congressman William Stration sponsored a bill to immediately grant entry to the United States of 400,000 displaced persons. The bill was not passed after it was publicly denounced by the Zionist leadership. [Source] These facts are read with consternation and unbearable shame. How can it be explained that at a time during the last phase of the war, when the Nazis were willing to barter Jews for money, partly because of their desires to establish contact with the Western powers which, they believed, were under Jewish influence, how was it possible one asks that the self-proclaimed "Jewish leaders" did not move heaven and earth to save the last remnant of their brothers? On Feb. 23, 1956 the Hon. J. W. Pickersgill, Minister for Immigration was asked in the Canadian House of Commons "would he open the doors of Canada to Jewish refugees". He replied "the Government has made no progress in that direction because the government of Israel....does not wish us to do so". [Source] In 1972, the Zionist leadership successfully opposed an effort in the United States Congress to allow 20,000-30,000 Russian refugees to enter the United States. Jewish relief organizations, Joint and HIAS, were being pressured to abandon these refugees in Vienna, Rome and other Europiean cities. [Source] The pattern is clear!!! Humanitarian rescue efforts are subverted to narrow Zionist interests. There were many more shocking crimes committed by these abject degenerates known as "Jewish statesmen", we could list many more example, but for the time being let anyone produce a valid excuse for the above facts. Zionist responsibility for the Holocaust is threefold. 1. The Holocaust was a punishment for disrespecting The Three Oaths (see Talmud, Tractate Kesubos p. 111a). 2. Zionist leaders openly withheld support, both financially and otherwise, to save their fellow brothers and sisters from a cruel death. 3. The leaders of the Zionist movement cooperated with Hitler and his cohorts on many occasions and in many ways.

How Zionist's are trying to kill Jimmy Carter's book

I am posting Mazim Qimsiyeh's request for supportive signatures here in his Amazon
dispute that demonstrates how Zionists do their thing:

1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for CNN.
2) Action: boycott Amazon
3) Question/commentary: How much will big oil companies pillage from Iraq??
(I could use some help in the math!)
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1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for CNN.  Here
is a video of him advocating Israeli perspecives on a Panel with Norman
Finkelstein before he became CNN employee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI

2) Action: (I wrote to Jeff Bezos and a Jesse Jensen, executive customer
relations ecr@amazon.com responded that they are keepingv the review.  I
wrote back saying Amazon lost a good customer and that I am informing my
listserve.  I also bought four copies of Carter’s book at Costco- MQ). FWD
from Henry Norr: For several weeks now Amazon.com has been running the full,
1636-word text of a totally negative review of Jimmy Carter's "Palestine:
Peace Not Apartheid" on the page where it sells the book
http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/0743285026/sr=8-1/qid=1168/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2193402-4648137?ie=UTF8&s=books

Because this is totally out of line with their normal format and in
contradiction to their self-interest in selling copies, and because their
CEO, Jeff Bezos, has flatly turned down requests from me and other customers
for more balanced treatment of the book, it seems clear that this is either
a deliberate political statement on the part of Amazon's leaders or an
abject concession to pressure from Zionist zealots. Whatever you think of
the Carter book, its publication is an important event, and it's
unacceptable for Amazon to be trying to discourage sales of it.

Since the letters didn't work, I've created an online petition protesting
what Amazon is doing and threatening to cancel my account there. It's at
http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html . I hope you'll not
only check it out and sign it, but also pass along copies of this message or
one of your own to friends and family and to all possible e-mail lists.

If you agree that Amazon is out of line on this, but you're uncomfortable
with anything in the petition, or you're not willing to pledge to close your
account, or you don't have an account to begin with, you can send your own
message  directly to Bezos at jeff@amazon.com.
In fact, even if you do sign the petition, it wouldn't hurt to send him
e-mail in addition.
Most important, though, is to spread the word to as many people as possible.
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How much money will big oil companies make in Iraq, how much money and blood
will US citizens lose?

Can those with economic background or research skills give me a better
picture of this issue.  These are my rough calculations based on bits and
pieces of information on oil production costs, royalties etc.

According to a study by Prof R. Dobie Langenkamp (Director, National
Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute University of Tulsa College of
Law):

“Iraq has reserves of at least 112 billion barrels. The significance of this
number is often overlooked.  Imagine all the oil reserves in the U.S., the
North Sea, China, the Caspian Sea, and West Africa all combined under one
jurisdiction.  This oil is not to be found under high seas in 1,000 feet of
water or more, in arctic snows, in equatorial jungles or in third world
conditions  where men and material must be brought in from great distances.
Iraq’s oil is on land in a flat, temperate, geographically compact area and
at a depth which is commonly drilled without  difficulty.  Iraq is not a
third world country and possesses considerable experience and skill in
petroleum development.”(www.beg.utexas.edu/energyecon/documents/
behind_the_gas_pump/Langenkamp_FullPaper.pdf)

Iraqi oil production costs are the lowest anywhere but of course do not
include security because that is picked up not by the oil companies but by
US taxpayer funded; as one retired general put it, the US army has become
corporate mercenaries paid by tax payers.  So far we have spent $400 billion
for securing Iraq and that is not counting billions more separate issues.
Projects like the separately funded $600 million US “embassy”: a large US
city that will serve to house all the 8000 imperial employees of the US who
will use it as a base not just to control/manage Iraq but be the epicenter
of US power in West Asia.  The cost of production in Iraq for oil companies
is estimated at $1/barrel.  But even if one doubles that to $2 and the
current price of Iraq crude on the market is $52-60/barrel, this means that
at a minimum there are $50 per barrel profit. It is not clear where this
money has gone in the past nearly four years (roughly $150 billion in
profit, perhaps congress will find the guts to investigate?) but I am more
interested in a forward looking projections/understanding.

The draft oil bill pushed by the US (and mentioned in Bush’s speech) offers
Big oil companies production rights for 20 years at a mere 12.5% royalties
to the Iraqi government
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1576593,00.html) .  The delay
in approval is not about whether to accept the 12.5% (this was not
negotiable) but about how to divvy up the 12.5% among the provinces (as Bush
clearly pointed out)! The US imposed that number of 12.5% based on deep see
royalties on US oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico but this is a rip-off
because:
1) Deep see drilling costs about 20 times higher than surface drilling
2) American and British oil companies pay significant local tax and incur
significant other expenses (e.g.; on environmental issues0 that they do not
have to do in Iraq.
3) US law promotes sharing of US natural resources with US companies not
foreign companies.

OK so this leaves the oil companies with roughly $44/per barrel.  But what
about exploration costs you say: well much of Iraq oil is located in well
designated and discovered areas and close to the surface, the cost would be
minimal.  But even if it triples the cost to $3 , that would still leave
$43/barrel profit.  OK say $40 to account for the $100-500 million executive
pays of these companies/administration etc.  At a minimum of 3 million
barrels per day production, this is $120 million per day profit or $43,800
million per year or $876 billion for the 20 years at a minimum (if no new
field development happens).  But this is assuming production remains as is.
Iraq actually has reserves estimated at 120-300 billion barrels.  Taking an
intermediate/low level of 150 billion barrels and an extraction rate of
2/3rd means roughly 100 billion barrels total x $44/barrel profit, that
means $4.4 TRILLION. The bottom line is that it appears the Big oil
companies are about to make between $1 to $4.4 trillion over the next 20
years if Bush succeeds in his plan (he says “win in Iraq”).  If he fails,
that money could be used for the Iraqi people AND the security for oil
company profits would Corporate greed would not be watered by US and Iraqi
blood and fertilized by our taxes. For those with backgrounds or research
skills, I would love to have more information or corrections to this
guestimation of the oil loot. Email me.

Addendeum: the following link a brief history of Iraq oil policy under the
leadership of Kassem before CIA asset Saddam Hussain tried to assainate hjm
and later Baath party with Saddam being key succeded in ousting him.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/5873nation.htm
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Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://qumsiyeh

Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran

The Sunday Times January 07, 2007

Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.

Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

“As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,” said one of the sources.

The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad’s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years.

Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.

Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.

Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world.

Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iran’s nuclear programme:

# Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment

# A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels

# A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb

Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.

The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.

Robert Gates, the new US defence secretary, has described military action against Iran as a “last resort”, leading Israeli officials to conclude that it will be left to them to strike.

Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets. Three possible routes have been mapped out, including one over Turkey.

Air force squadrons based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, have trained to use Israel’s tactical nuclear weapons on the mission. The preparations have been overseen by Major General Eliezer Shkedi, commander of the Israeli air force.

Sources close to the Pentagon said the United States was highly unlikely to give approval for tactical nuclear weapons to be used. One source said Israel would have to seek approval “after the event”, as it did when it crippled Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Osirak with airstrikes in 1981.

Scientists have calculated that although contamination from the bunker-busters could be limited, tons of radioactive uranium compounds would be released.

The Israelis believe that Iran’s retaliation would be constrained by fear of a second strike if it were to launch its Shehab-3 ballistic missiles at Israel.

However, American experts warned of repercussions, including widespread protests that could destabilise parts of the Islamic world friendly to the West.

Colonel Sam Gardiner, a Pentagon adviser, said Iran could try to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for 20% of the world’s oil.

Some sources in Washington said they doubted if Israel would have the nerve to attack Iran. However, Dr Ephraim Sneh, the deputy Israeli defence minister, said last month: “The time is approaching when Israel and the international community will have to decide whether to take military action against Iran.”