Dear friends,
The Burmese protests are widening, the international response is building--and the Burmese generals are panicking. Today, the Burmese junta banned gatherings of more than 5, and sent thousands of troops to take control of the streets -- but still the monks and protesters march. Desperate officers have beaten, tear-gassed and fired on their own people, reportedly shooting five monks in Rangoon.
The next 36 hours are crucial. Leaders have called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council-- but only a decisive initiative will prevent a massacre like the one from 1988. Already, 75,000 people from 192 countries have signed our emergency global petition. Please forward this email to others who haven't yet signed--they can click below to add their name, and we'll send an updated petition to the Chinese government and the UN Security Council members every day:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/h.php/?cl=20594121
We're calling for UN powers--above all China, which holds the economic strings of the Burmese regime--to apply decisive pressure now to stop the violence, and to broker a peaceful transition. If they fail to do this, the massacres will be sudden.
The protesters have declared they will not back down. The Burmese have showed their courage. The scenes fill our television screens--now the world must act.
In hope,
Paul, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Galit and the whole Avaaz team
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
CONFERENCE CALL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 @
Just three days following the 9th Circuit Court's dismissal of the Corrie v. Caterpillar case, 19-year old Mahmoud Al Khafafi was brutally murdered by a bulldozer near Al Bureji Camp in central
Act now to respond to these continued human rights atrocities!
The US Campaign will host a conference call Wednesday night, Sept 26 at
We will be joined by Cindy Corrie, who will update us on the recent dismissal of the Corrie v.
The conference call will conclude with strategic steps for member groups and local communities who want to respond to the continued human rights violations committed by Caterpillar, Inc.
Please RSVP to attend this call. Space is limited!
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Christian hate message cartoons going unchallenged in the Eureka Reporter
The Editor of the Eureka Reporter should be ashamed of himself because he is allowing his paper to promote hatred of Muslims with a constant barage of anti-Muslim cartoons such as the one above.
It is this kind of irresponsible yellow journalism that fooled Americans into supporting another Vietnam type of unwinable war in order to make a tiny elite group of capitalists war exploiters rich besides making Americans hated by huge numbers of peoples in Muslim countries in the Middle East and around the world.
Mr. Simmons, who really has blood on their hands, gobs of it, if not Americans in Iraq? Who is guilty of militarily invading another people's country not their own if not Israelis in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon? Where is Iran invading America or any nation on earth?
You say Iran is supplying arms to Iraqi insurgents? You do know that the U.S. is the world's largest weapons supplier? Where do you think all those weapons end up? In the hands of U.N. peace-keepers? I don't think so.
It's time to stop promoting hatred of Islam and Muslims with your derogatory cartoons, Mr. Simmons. You are doing a great disservice to both truth and peace in the world by abusing your media responsibilities.
Monday, September 24, 2007
The people of Burma are rising--and they need our help.
From Avaaz. organization.
Dear friends,
After decades of brutal dictatorship,
C
Today over 100,000 people are on the streets of Rangoon, more around the country. When protesters last marched in 1988, the military massacred thousands.
the people of Burma are rising--and they need our help.
But this time it can be different--if only the world stands with the marchers. The United Nations summit starts today in New York. Let's raise an emergency global campaign, demanding they press the Burmese generals to negotiate rather than crush the demonstrators. We'll deliver it to Security Council members--particularly China's Hu Jintao, until now the military junta's protector--and to media at the UN this week. Sign our emergency petition supporting the peaceful protests in Burma--click here, then spread the word:
Clicking below will add your name to this petition to Chinese Premier Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council:
"We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and democracy in Burma. We pledge to hold you accountable for any further bloodshed."
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/f.php?cl=20212314&signup=1
For decades the Burmese dictatorship fought off pressure--imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages in the provinces, bringing miseries from forced labour to refugee camps. One-third of children under 5 now suffer malnutrition; millions are down to one meal a day.
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, overwhelmingly respected in Burma, began marching and chanting prayers. The protests spread--now they're growing by tens of thousands every day, as ordinary people, even celebrities and comedians join in. They've broken the chains of fear and given hope to 52 million Burmese.
However, this hope is hanging by a thread. While hesitating to attack the respected monks, the regime is reported to be organising violence. Demonstrators have already been beaten, shots have been fired.
This is one of those moments where the world can make the difference: standing shoulder to shoulder with the Burmese people, helping to shine a dissolving light on tyranny. Let's call on powers at the UN--in particular, China (next year's Olympics host)--to warn the generals that violence will have the gravest consequences, and the time has come for change.
People power is rising through the streets of Burma today. Let the demonstrators know the world is with them. Click here to sign the petition, then tell everyone you know:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/f.php?cl=20212314&signup=1
In hope,
Paul, Pascal, Graziela, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team
PS: The government has just threatened the monks--here's an Associated Press article: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iy-MfhLN9Q7MwtQ1VlrvexLjr2dA
And we've just heard this from the international Burma Campaign: the military has reportedly ordered a battalion of soldiers to shave their heads, pose as monks and operate as agents provocateurs. This might be the first first step towards a bloody crackdown. See http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/ for more background.
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Avaaz.org is staffed by a global team of campaigners operating on 3 continents. We have administrative offices in London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Please direct mail to our NY office at 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001 U.S.A.
Dear friends,
After decades of brutal dictatorship,
C
Today over 100,000 people are on the streets of Rangoon, more around the country. When protesters last marched in 1988, the military massacred thousands.
the people of Burma are rising--and they need our help.
But this time it can be different--if only the world stands with the marchers. The United Nations summit starts today in New York. Let's raise an emergency global campaign, demanding they press the Burmese generals to negotiate rather than crush the demonstrators. We'll deliver it to Security Council members--particularly China's Hu Jintao, until now the military junta's protector--and to media at the UN this week. Sign our emergency petition supporting the peaceful protests in Burma--click here, then spread the word:
Clicking below will add your name to this petition to Chinese Premier Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council:
"We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and democracy in Burma. We pledge to hold you accountable for any further bloodshed."
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/f.php?cl=20212314&signup=1
For decades the Burmese dictatorship fought off pressure--imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages in the provinces, bringing miseries from forced labour to refugee camps. One-third of children under 5 now suffer malnutrition; millions are down to one meal a day.
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, overwhelmingly respected in Burma, began marching and chanting prayers. The protests spread--now they're growing by tens of thousands every day, as ordinary people, even celebrities and comedians join in. They've broken the chains of fear and given hope to 52 million Burmese.
However, this hope is hanging by a thread. While hesitating to attack the respected monks, the regime is reported to be organising violence. Demonstrators have already been beaten, shots have been fired.
This is one of those moments where the world can make the difference: standing shoulder to shoulder with the Burmese people, helping to shine a dissolving light on tyranny. Let's call on powers at the UN--in particular, China (next year's Olympics host)--to warn the generals that violence will have the gravest consequences, and the time has come for change.
People power is rising through the streets of Burma today. Let the demonstrators know the world is with them. Click here to sign the petition, then tell everyone you know:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/f.php?cl=20212314&signup=1
In hope,
Paul, Pascal, Graziela, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team
PS: The government has just threatened the monks--here's an Associated Press article: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iy-MfhLN9Q7MwtQ1VlrvexLjr2dA
And we've just heard this from the international Burma Campaign: the military has reportedly ordered a battalion of soldiers to shave their heads, pose as monks and operate as agents provocateurs. This might be the first first step towards a bloody crackdown. See http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/ for more background.
.562245-]
Avaaz.org is staffed by a global team of campaigners operating on 3 continents. We have administrative offices in London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Please direct mail to our NY office at 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001 U.S.A.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Palestine: democracy not Zionism
A decent two-state solution to the 'Palestinian problem' has become impossible.
By John V. Whitbeck
from the September 14, 2007 edition
Christian Science Monitor
eddah, saudi arabia -
With some sort of "meeting" or "conference" to kick start the peace process now being touted by the Bush administration, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region and the world of solving the "Palestinian problem."
However, if this problem is ever to be solved, it must be redefined. Those who truly seek justice and peace in the Middle East must dare to speak openly and honestly of the "Zionism problem" – and then to draw the moral, ethical, and practical conclusions that follow.
When South Africa was under a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial regime, the world recognized that the problem was the ideology and political system of the state. Anyone outside the country who referred to the "black problem" or the "native problem" (or, for that matter, to the "white problem") would instantly have been branded a racist.
The world also recognized that the solution to that problem could not be found either in "separation" (apartheid in Afrikaans) and scattered native reservations (called "independent states" by the South African regime and Bantustans by the rest of the world) or in driving the settler-colonial group in power into the sea. Rather, the solution had to be found – and to almost universal satisfaction was found – in democracy, in white South Africans growing out of their racial-supremacist ideology and political system and accepting that their interests and their children's futures would be best served in a democratic, non-racist state with equal rights for all who live there.
The solution for the land which, until it was literally wiped off the map in 1948, was called Palestine is the same. It can only be democracy.
The ever-receding "political horizon" for a decent two-state solution, which, on the ground, becomes less practical with each passing year of expanding settlements, bypass roads, and walls, is weighed down by a multitude of excruciatingly difficult "final status" issues. Israeli governments have consistently refused to discuss these final-status issues seriously, preferring to postpone them to the end of a road which is never reached – and which, almost certainly, is intended never to be reached.
Just as marriage is vastly less complicated than divorce, democracy is vastly less complicated than partition. A democratic post-Zionist solution would not require any borders to be agreed, any division of Jerusalem, anyone to move from his current home, or any assets to be evaluated and apportioned. Full rights of citizenship would simply be extended to all the surviving natives still living in the country, as happened in the United States in the early 20th century and in South Africa in the late 20th century.
The obstacle to such a simple – and morally unimpeachable – solution is, of course, intellectual and psychological. Traumatized by the Holocaust and perceived insecurity as a Jewish island in an Arab sea, Israelis have immense psychological problems in coming to grips with the practical impossibility of sustaining forever what most of mankind views as a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial regime founded upon the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population.
Indeed, Israelis have placed themselves in a virtually impossible situation. To taste its bitter essence, Americans might try to imagine what life in their country would be like if the European settlers had not virtually exterminated the indigenous population and if almost half of today's American population were Indians, without basic human rights, impoverished, smoldering with resentment, and visible every day as the inescapable living evidence of the injustice inflicted on their ancestors.
This would not be a pleasant society in which to live. Both colonizers and colonized would be progressively degraded and dehumanized. The colonizers could, rationally, conclude that they could never be forgiven by those they had dispossessed and that no "solution" was imaginable. So it has been, and continues to be, in the lands under Israeli rule.
Perhaps the coming "meeting" or "conference" will be the last gasp of the fruitless pursuit of a separation-based solution. Perhaps those who care about justice and peace and believe in democracy can then find ways to stimulate Israelis to move beyond Zionist ideology toward a more humane, hopeful, and democratic view of present realities and future possibilities.
No one would suggest that the moral, ethical, and intellectual transformation necessary to achieve a decent one-state solution will be easy. However, more and more people now recognize that a decent two-state solution has become impossible.
It is surely time for concerned people everywhere – and particularly for Americans – to imagine a better way, to encourage Israelis to imagine a better way, and to help both Israelis and Palestinians to achieve it. It is surely time to seriously consider democracy and to give it a chance.
• John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer who has advised the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel, is author of "The World According to Whitbeck."
By John V. Whitbeck
from the September 14, 2007 edition
Christian Science Monitor
eddah, saudi arabia -
With some sort of "meeting" or "conference" to kick start the peace process now being touted by the Bush administration, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region and the world of solving the "Palestinian problem."
However, if this problem is ever to be solved, it must be redefined. Those who truly seek justice and peace in the Middle East must dare to speak openly and honestly of the "Zionism problem" – and then to draw the moral, ethical, and practical conclusions that follow.
When South Africa was under a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial regime, the world recognized that the problem was the ideology and political system of the state. Anyone outside the country who referred to the "black problem" or the "native problem" (or, for that matter, to the "white problem") would instantly have been branded a racist.
The world also recognized that the solution to that problem could not be found either in "separation" (apartheid in Afrikaans) and scattered native reservations (called "independent states" by the South African regime and Bantustans by the rest of the world) or in driving the settler-colonial group in power into the sea. Rather, the solution had to be found – and to almost universal satisfaction was found – in democracy, in white South Africans growing out of their racial-supremacist ideology and political system and accepting that their interests and their children's futures would be best served in a democratic, non-racist state with equal rights for all who live there.
The solution for the land which, until it was literally wiped off the map in 1948, was called Palestine is the same. It can only be democracy.
The ever-receding "political horizon" for a decent two-state solution, which, on the ground, becomes less practical with each passing year of expanding settlements, bypass roads, and walls, is weighed down by a multitude of excruciatingly difficult "final status" issues. Israeli governments have consistently refused to discuss these final-status issues seriously, preferring to postpone them to the end of a road which is never reached – and which, almost certainly, is intended never to be reached.
Just as marriage is vastly less complicated than divorce, democracy is vastly less complicated than partition. A democratic post-Zionist solution would not require any borders to be agreed, any division of Jerusalem, anyone to move from his current home, or any assets to be evaluated and apportioned. Full rights of citizenship would simply be extended to all the surviving natives still living in the country, as happened in the United States in the early 20th century and in South Africa in the late 20th century.
The obstacle to such a simple – and morally unimpeachable – solution is, of course, intellectual and psychological. Traumatized by the Holocaust and perceived insecurity as a Jewish island in an Arab sea, Israelis have immense psychological problems in coming to grips with the practical impossibility of sustaining forever what most of mankind views as a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial regime founded upon the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population.
Indeed, Israelis have placed themselves in a virtually impossible situation. To taste its bitter essence, Americans might try to imagine what life in their country would be like if the European settlers had not virtually exterminated the indigenous population and if almost half of today's American population were Indians, without basic human rights, impoverished, smoldering with resentment, and visible every day as the inescapable living evidence of the injustice inflicted on their ancestors.
This would not be a pleasant society in which to live. Both colonizers and colonized would be progressively degraded and dehumanized. The colonizers could, rationally, conclude that they could never be forgiven by those they had dispossessed and that no "solution" was imaginable. So it has been, and continues to be, in the lands under Israeli rule.
Perhaps the coming "meeting" or "conference" will be the last gasp of the fruitless pursuit of a separation-based solution. Perhaps those who care about justice and peace and believe in democracy can then find ways to stimulate Israelis to move beyond Zionist ideology toward a more humane, hopeful, and democratic view of present realities and future possibilities.
No one would suggest that the moral, ethical, and intellectual transformation necessary to achieve a decent one-state solution will be easy. However, more and more people now recognize that a decent two-state solution has become impossible.
It is surely time for concerned people everywhere – and particularly for Americans – to imagine a better way, to encourage Israelis to imagine a better way, and to help both Israelis and Palestinians to achieve it. It is surely time to seriously consider democracy and to give it a chance.
• John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer who has advised the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel, is author of "The World According to Whitbeck."
Never Doubt That a Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Neocons Can Destroy the World
(If We Let Them)
Coleen Rowley
From the Huffington Post
I don't think this is what Margaret Mead had in mind but I admit it was the first thought that popped into my mind when I saw this composite photograph and read some of the accompanying blog commentary on DownWithTyranny! back on August 9th (a portion of which follows):
Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Scooter Libby
John Bolton, Eliot Abrams, Robert Kagan, Michael Ledeen, William Kristol, Frank Gaffney Jr.
The above "Dirty Dozen" are listed as the top 12 Neocons in America. They are enabled by the secondary tier of Neocons: Senator Joe Lieberman, Charles Krauthammer, John Podhoretz, Ted Koppel, Kenneth Pollack, Daniel Pipes, Max Boot, David Horowitz, Ron Silver, Jackie Mason . . . [Editor's Note: What's in italics is taken directly from the prior blog pieces at DWT! and Kick! Making Politics Fun. I therefore do not take credit or blame for the accuracy or completeness of their lists. In fact one can quickly spot a few omissions--James Woolsey, for instance, who is often publicly described as "neoconservative" but who didn't make the listing. Also if I had written this myself, I would have certainly inserted some qualifiers like "mostly"; as in "Neocons are (mostly) conservative Jewish journalists and politicians..."]
Neocons believe that the United States should not be ashamed to use its unrivaled power-- forcefully if necessary-- to promote its values around the world. Some even speak of the need to cultivate a US empire. Neoconservatives believe modern threats facing the US can no longer be reliably contained and therefore must be prevented, sometimes through preemptive military action.
. . . Neocons are conservative Jewish journalists and politicians linked to the Right-wing Israeli Likud who support United States corporate, political, cultural and military imperialism with the use of preemptive World War if necessary-- without ruling out preemptive nuclear strikes-- to rid themselves of the Muslim Menace. This is understandable, but it is also the worst example of foreign policy in American history.
No matter. Time and time again, this group, going back to their beginnings, even before their Project for the New American Century in 1997, has shown the power of truly persistent and well organized Machiavellianism. When the more pragmatic Iraq Study Group, for instance, said the war on Iraq was not going well, Robert Kagan's brother Frederick got busy cranking out "Surge" strategy and naturally the neocon's idea prevailed against the combined intelligence of almost all other American foreign policy and military experts. A few months later, when surge news wasn't looking so rosy, the group sent neocon second stringer Kenneth Pollack and his buddy O'Hanlon on a day-or-two trip to Iraq to generate fresh propaganda to save the surge. Cheney praised their efforts liberally and, what d'ya know, the surge immediately turned into a long-term escalation.
No matter what you may think of their ideology or ethics, one cannot help being shocked and awed at the ability of this relatively small group to control the papers and politics of our country against all odds and against all reality. So they are hardly ready to Rest In Peace despite such predictions after the 2006 elections --see Salon article "Neoconservatism-RIP" for good analysis but lousy prediction. They have, in fact, proven so pre-eminently powerful that their next apparent task of rolling out this new campaign for pre-emptive massive bombing of Iran, seems nothing but a formality, a cakewalk if you will. Yes, while the rest of us mere mortals were caught up in the real reality of these first two terrible war quagmires, the neocons were already bent on making a third new war our reality.
They've given the ticket this time to first string and first-rate warmonger Michael Ledeen, with his "Iranian Time Bomb" book set to hit the airwaves and newsstands conveniently enough on the eve of 9/11. Folks may recall Ledeen as being the neocon with all that curiously coincidental but never quite proven connection to the forgery of documents about Saddam's seeking yellowcake uranium in Niger, the forged documents that Bush used to lie us into pre-emptively invading Iraq; that led to Plamegate and one other neocon (Scooter Libby's) conviction and pardon. The FBI of course couldn't solve the underlying mystery of the crude forgery. And how much do you want to bet that author Ledeen's talking head will not face one question on any news shows about his probable role in the yellowcake misadventure as he argues for new and improved war?
Sadly, you don't find hardly anyone asking the hard questions or exposing the neocons' "noble lies" except on blogs like DWT! (and Kick! which was DWT!'s original source for first and second tier neocons)--those not afraid of being politically incorrect (and, it goes without saying, from bloggers unafraid of being smeared as anti-Semite which is this "cabal's" preferred method of suppressing those who would expose them). The original blog piece, by the way, continued with the insight that "Neocons differ from old school conservatives in that they are so consumed with bombing the crap out of people all over the world that they have little inclination to bother with the social issues of guns, abortion, homos, religion and race. I suppose they could be considered the Vikings version of Rockefeller Republicans."
So do we all stand here, like helpless bystanders awaiting more world destruction from these Viking pillagers and plunderers? Or do we remember some wisdom learned the hard way, from the sign on the Holocaust Museum: "Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." And, similarly phrased by Albert Einstein: "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." These quotes certainly don't mean that any one bystander is worse than any particular perpetrator. All they mean is that the perpetrators are few in number while the bystanders are many and could easily stop the perpetrators if they only tried.
On page 362 of the Epilogue of his insightful book Chain of Command, Seymour Hersh asked the question back in 2004 that I predict will become the major question all historians will have to answer: "How did they do it? How did eight or nine neoconservatives who believed that a war in Iraq was the answer to international terrorism get their way? How did they redirect the government and rearrange long-standing American priorities and policies with so much ease? How did they overcome the bureaucracy, intimidate the press, mislead the Congress, and dominate the military? Is our democracy that fragile?"
Historians may soon have to extend this question to include neocon-produced war on Iran. Their answer will probably not be that democracy was that fragile. Only that we had too many bystanders. Who preferred to shut their windows and close their ears so they wouldn't hear as our poor democracy was being strangled in the alley. Just like Kitty Genovese.9/11 - the big cover-up?
From the U.K. Guardian
by Peter Tatchell
September 12, 2007 10:30 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/911_the_big_coverup.html
Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history.
What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of what happened on September 11 2001.
The chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, respectively Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, assert in their book, Without Precedent, that they were "set up to fail" and were starved of funds to do a proper investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the federal aviation authority;
and that this obstruction and deception led them to contemplate slapping officials with criminal charges.
Despite the many public statements by 9/11 commissioners and staff members acknowledging they were repeatedly lied to, not a single person has ever been charged, tried, or even reprimanded, for lying to the 9/11 Commission.
From the outset, the commission seemed to be hobbled. It did not start work until over a year after the attacks. Even then, its terms of reference were suspiciously narrow, its powers of investigation curiously limited and its time-frame for producing a report unhelpfully short - barely a year to sift through millions of pages of evidence and to interview hundreds of key witnesses.
The final report did not examine key evidence, and neglected serious anomalies in the various accounts of what happened. The commissioners admit their report was incomplete and flawed, and that many questions about the terror attacks remain unanswered. Nevertheless, the 9/11 Commission was swiftly closed down on August 21 2004.
I do not believe in conspiracy theories. I prefer rigorous, evidence-based analysis that sifts through the known facts and utilises expert opinion to draw conclusions that stand up to critical scrutiny. In other words, I believe in everything the 9/11 Commission was not.
The failings of the official investigation have fuelled too many half-baked conspiracy theories. Some of the 9/11 "truth" groups promote speculative hypotheses, ignore innocent explanations, cite non-expert sources and jump to conclusions that are not proven by the known facts. They convert mere coincidence and circumstantial evidence into cast-iron proof. This is no way to debunk the obfuscations and evasions of the 9/11 report.
But even amid the hype, some of these 9/11 groups raise valid and important questions that were never even considered, let alone answered, by the official investigation. The American public has not been told the complete truth about the events of that fateful autumn morning six years ago.
What happened on 9/11 is fundamentally important in its own right. But equally important is the way the 9/11 cover-up signifies an absence of democratic, transparent and accountable government. Establishing the truth is, in part, about restoring honesty, trust and confidence in American politics.
There are dozens of 9/11 "truth" websites and campaign groups. I cannot vouch for the veracity or credibility of any of them. But what I can say is that as well as making plenty of seemingly outrageous claims; a few of them raise legitimate questions that demand answers.
Four of these well known "tell the truth" 9/11 websites are:
1) Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which includes academics and intellectuals from many disciplines.
2) 250+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' a website that cites over 250 pieces of evidence that allegedly contradict, or were omitted from, the 9/11 Commission report.
3) The 911 Truth Campaign that, as well as offering its own evidence and theories, includes links to more than 20 similar websites.
4) Patriots Question 9/11, perhaps the most plausible array of distinguished US citizens who question the official account of 9/11, including General Wesley Clark, former Nato commander in Europe, and seven members and staffers of the official 9/11 Commission, including the chair and vice chair. In all, this website documents the doubts of 110+ senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement and government officials; 200+ engineers and architects; 50+ pilots and aviation professionals; 150+ professors; 90+ entertainment and media people; and 190+ 9/11 survivors and family members. Although this is an impressive roll call, it doesn't necessarily mean that these expert professionals are right. Nevertheless, their scepticism of the official version of events is reason to pause and reflect.
More and more US citizens are critical of the official account. The respected Zogby polling organisation last week found that 51% of Americans want Congress to probe President Bush and Vice-President Cheney regarding the truth about the 9/11 attacks; 67% are also critical of the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the bizarre, unexplained collapse of the 47-storey World Trade Centre building 7 (WTC7). This building was not hit by any planes. Unlike WTC3, which was badly damaged by falling debris from the Twin Towers but which remained standing, WTC7 suffered minor damage but suddenly collapsed in a neat pile, as happens in a controlled demolition.
In a 2006 interview with anchorman Evan Soloman of CBC's Sunday programme, the vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, was reminded that the commission report failed to even mention the collapse of WTC7 or the suspicious hurried removal of the building debris from the site - before there could be a proper forensic investigation of what was a crime scene. Hamilton could only offer the lame excuse that the commissioners did not have "unlimited time" and could not be expected to answer "every question" the public asks.
There are many, many more strange unexplained facts concerning the events of 9/11. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be puzzled and want an explanation, or to be sceptical concerning the official version of events.
Six years on from those terrible events, the survivors, and the friends and families of those who died, deserve to know the truth. Is honesty and transparency concerning 9/11 too much to ask of the president and Congress?
What is needed is a new and truly independent commission of inquiry to sort coincidence and conjecture from fact, and to provide answers to the unsolved anomalies in the evidence available concerning the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Unlike the often-stymied first investigation, this new commission should be granted wide-ranging subpoena powers and unfettered access to government files and officials. George Bush should be called to testify, without his minders at hand to brief and prompt him. America - and the world - has a right to know the truth.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Stop Caterpillar
Join us September 26 to discuss
Next Steps in the National CAT Campaign!
Next Steps in the National CAT Campaign!
Following the US Campaign’s National Conference, plans are underway for an exciting CAT campaign in the coming year. Next Wednesday night, we’ll be joined by a representative from the Rachel Corrie Foundation to update us on recent developments in the Corrie v. CAT Appeal. We will then discuss current plans and strategize our next steps.
We need the help and commitment of our Member Groups to continue to make this campaign successful, so please bring your energy and creativity to the call!
Join us at 9:00 PM EST on Wednesday, September 26 to hear about these plans and to strategize for the National CAT campaign this Fall.
Please RSVP to attend this call. Space is limited!
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Jesus is God!
Uh oh, something happened to me two nights ago and I know I'll never be the same again. God came to me in another one of my periodic epiphanies only this time God told me who It was when I asked. God never did this with me before and only guided me to discovering the original God Most High, EL Elyon, as He was recorded by ancient Canaanites and ancient Hebrews.
For 28 years I thought I was in service to EL but the night before last God came to me when I asked if Jesus really was God now and told me in mental communion that, "Yes", It was Jesus. Jesus gave me the words to write down to mark the encounter which I woke up and read the next day.
"The Son and the Name are the same. Jesus is the Name of God."
Why not "EL" I wondered and Jesus told me why. EL is too weak an understanding of the true Godhead. In fact, all the invisible high gods, EL, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Thor, Odin, Brahman, etc. were all too weak to guide all humankind. God had to set the example here on earth. God had to come down to earth and leave a record which God did, the manifold record of Jesus Christ.
Goodness is God and God is Jesus. Gone is my former belief that Jesus was not God but the main Emanation from God. Now I know Jesus is God's name for all humanity as Jesus gave the description of God's will on earth for all humankind. When gods remain in their heavens they cannot reach the human mind directly. Jesus is the face of God that reaches you directly.
Now I know why God has kept me poor for so long because if I had been successful financially, I would have immediately published my new Gnostic Christian theology book that would have gotten the Message all wrong. God is Good! But now I have my work cut out for me going back and discovering how this new information fits or doesn't fit with what I had learned before.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Hasbara and Hafrada
(Israeli Hebrew words for propaganda and separation)
From Mazim Qimseyeh
Palestinian human rights activist and author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan"
Up until now and while leading Democratic and Republican elites debate “managing” Iraqi
lives (orientalist racism at its worst), some 4% of Iraqis were killed and 17% made
refugees/internally displaced in the past four years. This would be equivalent to killing
12 million and displacing over 50 million US citizens. I discussed elsewhere the role of
the Israel lobby in pushing for the war on Iraq (1).
This lobby represented by the Israel Hasbara (propaganda) Committee is now fretting about
Jewish intermarriage and lack of identification with Zionism or the state of Israel (2).
As someone who is "intermarried", I ask what is wrong with assimilation and
intermarriage? This reminded me that Yaakov Herzog, close advisor to four Israeli Prime
Ministers, wrote:
“We are not a normal people, we are not free from the Galut (exile)
burden and we are not accepted by the world ...
Political Zionism maintained that the concept of ‘people who dwell alone’ is, in fact, an abnormal condition. In reality, the concept of ‘people who dwell alone’ is the natural condition of the Jewish people.” (3).
He was wrong in characterizing political Zionism because most political Zionists believed
in segregation and that was the whole idea of a "Jewish State".
He is also wrong to blame the whole world for the Zionist tribalistic mentality which exists out of its own desires to be separate and treat any non-Jew with contempt.
It is the same idea that lets Zionists express that the world is always "against us" and privately claim to each other that any support they get is because of their might and muscle.
Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, titled his letter of July 30, 2006 to friends and supporters
of AIPAC "Look what you've done".
He explained: "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life...the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel'sactions... only ONE nation in the world came out and flatly declared:
Let Israel finish the job.. That nation is the United States of America--and the reason it had such a clear, unambiguous view of the situation is YOU and the rest of America Jewry....How do we do it?
... decades of long hard work which never ends."
Wether Jewish or not, if you are human and is concerned with human rights, you would
reject ideas of segregation/separation (Hafrada in Hebrew) and adopt ideas of coexistence,
assimilation, and justice. To do that you would recognize things being shielded by
censorship (from Zionists in many media outlets).
Here are just some more recent and relevant news and writings on the subject of the lobby and censorship.
1) A chair of a history department writes on the attempts to use the card of anti-semitism
to silence debate on Campus. He titles his article: "On Being Called An Anti-Semite
in Montana:
Is booking a critic of the Israel lobby to speak on your campus anti-Semitic?". Prof. Richard Drake concludes:
"In a democratic society, all government policies must stand for public inspection. This is true whether liberal Democrats or conservative Republicans are in charge. With both of our political parties and the media sharing the same basic ideas about foreign policy, especially in the Middle
East, we need a place where the assumptions of the status quo encounter a stern testing,
not a happy-faced tribute. The university should be that place" (4)
2) Mrs Clinton wants to get Jewish votes and money and to do that, she thinks she has to
court the right-wing fascist elements of the Zionist movement. So she emphasizes her
strong support of apartheid Israel:
“Hillary Clinton believes that Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned.”
I urge everyone to write to remind her that Jerusalem is illegally occupied and that no state has a right to be Jewish (or Muslim or Christian).
Human rights demand that states be states of the citizens who live in them regardless of their religion.
3) George Bisharat explain that there is "A double standard on academic freedom in
the Middle East" and how the lobby tries to silence debate in Academia (5)
4) Dick Cheney, who was and may still be a board member of the "Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs", is pushing for a war on Iran just like he and Wolfowitz
and Perle and Faith and Ledeen and other neocon Zionists pushed for a war on Iraq (See
6).
Ledeen just published a book vilifying Iran.
5) A gentlemen was asking questions of Senator Kerry and was tackled, attacked and tasered
by police. The media did not tell you that he spoke only for 1 minute 20 seconds of his
allotted 2 minute time.
They also did not tell you that only when he asked if Kerry was a member of the secret Skull and Bones Society that he was tackled. The video is posted here:
http://www.attytood.com/ (continued segment where he asks police not to taser him is
here http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5692).
They were worried where he might be going with a line of questioning that started by the fact that Kerry let Bush steal the 2004 elections. Here is what Bush said at AIPAC convention just before the election Bush vs Kerry (talks made while Israel was committing war crimes and crimes against humanity):
"The United States is strongly committed, and I am strongly committed, to the
security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state...Israel is a democracy and a friend and has
every right to defend itself from terror."
Kerry said exactly the same at AIPAC and here is what Joe Lieberman said of Kerry: "John Kerry has always stood with our crucial ally, Israel. During his 20-year Senate career, John has compiled a perfect record of pro-Israel votes, through his votes on economic aid, military security or the location of the U.S. Embassy. And John Kerry has had the courage to face down leaders who promote anti-Semitism. He has flown with the Israeli Air Force and seen from the cockpit how
vulnerable Israel is. Simply put, Israel can rely on John Kerry."
6) "The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations" is pushing for
Iran confrontation just like they did with the Iraq confrontation before 2003 (7).
7) Congressman Moran is being targeted by the lobby for speaking the truth. The
Washington Post titles their article "Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again: U.S. House
Democrat Said Pro-Israel Lobby Promoted War".
He was attacked by the lobby but defended by Rabbi Lener of Tikkun. Moran stood his grounds stating "I think Mr. Halber is being disingenuous in suggesting that the AIPAC board has not been strongly supportive of military involvement in Iraq and now in Iran" (8).
The 19th century notions of oppression, separation, and the use of propaganda to hide the
facts led to atrocities of WWI, WWII, and many others.
It has no place in the 21st century.
References
1) http://www.qumsiyeh.org/connectingthedotsiraqpalestine/
2) http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/120320072
3) Yaakov Herzog, "Am Levadad Yishkon-A People Who Dwells Alone-" Tel-Aviv:
Sifriat Maariv, 1975, pp. 58-59, Cited in MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL M Volume61, No. 1, WINTER
2007
4) http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/SO/Feat/Drak.htm
5) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.boycott17sep17,0,4476313.story
6) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml
7) http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/
8) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402171.html
From Mazim Qimseyeh
Palestinian human rights activist and author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan"
Up until now and while leading Democratic and Republican elites debate “managing” Iraqi
lives (orientalist racism at its worst), some 4% of Iraqis were killed and 17% made
refugees/internally displaced in the past four years. This would be equivalent to killing
12 million and displacing over 50 million US citizens. I discussed elsewhere the role of
the Israel lobby in pushing for the war on Iraq (1).
This lobby represented by the Israel Hasbara (propaganda) Committee is now fretting about
Jewish intermarriage and lack of identification with Zionism or the state of Israel (2).
As someone who is "intermarried", I ask what is wrong with assimilation and
intermarriage? This reminded me that Yaakov Herzog, close advisor to four Israeli Prime
Ministers, wrote:
“We are not a normal people, we are not free from the Galut (exile)
burden and we are not accepted by the world ...
Political Zionism maintained that the concept of ‘people who dwell alone’ is, in fact, an abnormal condition. In reality, the concept of ‘people who dwell alone’ is the natural condition of the Jewish people.” (3).
He was wrong in characterizing political Zionism because most political Zionists believed
in segregation and that was the whole idea of a "Jewish State".
He is also wrong to blame the whole world for the Zionist tribalistic mentality which exists out of its own desires to be separate and treat any non-Jew with contempt.
It is the same idea that lets Zionists express that the world is always "against us" and privately claim to each other that any support they get is because of their might and muscle.
Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, titled his letter of July 30, 2006 to friends and supporters
of AIPAC "Look what you've done".
He explained: "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life...the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel'sactions... only ONE nation in the world came out and flatly declared:
Let Israel finish the job.. That nation is the United States of America--and the reason it had such a clear, unambiguous view of the situation is YOU and the rest of America Jewry....How do we do it?
... decades of long hard work which never ends."
Wether Jewish or not, if you are human and is concerned with human rights, you would
reject ideas of segregation/separation (Hafrada in Hebrew) and adopt ideas of coexistence,
assimilation, and justice. To do that you would recognize things being shielded by
censorship (from Zionists in many media outlets).
Here are just some more recent and relevant news and writings on the subject of the lobby and censorship.
1) A chair of a history department writes on the attempts to use the card of anti-semitism
to silence debate on Campus. He titles his article: "On Being Called An Anti-Semite
in Montana:
Is booking a critic of the Israel lobby to speak on your campus anti-Semitic?". Prof. Richard Drake concludes:
"In a democratic society, all government policies must stand for public inspection. This is true whether liberal Democrats or conservative Republicans are in charge. With both of our political parties and the media sharing the same basic ideas about foreign policy, especially in the Middle
East, we need a place where the assumptions of the status quo encounter a stern testing,
not a happy-faced tribute. The university should be that place" (4)
2) Mrs Clinton wants to get Jewish votes and money and to do that, she thinks she has to
court the right-wing fascist elements of the Zionist movement. So she emphasizes her
strong support of apartheid Israel:
“Hillary Clinton believes that Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned.”
I urge everyone to write to remind her that Jerusalem is illegally occupied and that no state has a right to be Jewish (or Muslim or Christian).
Human rights demand that states be states of the citizens who live in them regardless of their religion.
3) George Bisharat explain that there is "A double standard on academic freedom in
the Middle East" and how the lobby tries to silence debate in Academia (5)
4) Dick Cheney, who was and may still be a board member of the "Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs", is pushing for a war on Iran just like he and Wolfowitz
and Perle and Faith and Ledeen and other neocon Zionists pushed for a war on Iraq (See
6).
Ledeen just published a book vilifying Iran.
5) A gentlemen was asking questions of Senator Kerry and was tackled, attacked and tasered
by police. The media did not tell you that he spoke only for 1 minute 20 seconds of his
allotted 2 minute time.
They also did not tell you that only when he asked if Kerry was a member of the secret Skull and Bones Society that he was tackled. The video is posted here:
http://www.attytood.com/ (continued segment where he asks police not to taser him is
here http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5692).
They were worried where he might be going with a line of questioning that started by the fact that Kerry let Bush steal the 2004 elections. Here is what Bush said at AIPAC convention just before the election Bush vs Kerry (talks made while Israel was committing war crimes and crimes against humanity):
"The United States is strongly committed, and I am strongly committed, to the
security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state...Israel is a democracy and a friend and has
every right to defend itself from terror."
Kerry said exactly the same at AIPAC and here is what Joe Lieberman said of Kerry: "John Kerry has always stood with our crucial ally, Israel. During his 20-year Senate career, John has compiled a perfect record of pro-Israel votes, through his votes on economic aid, military security or the location of the U.S. Embassy. And John Kerry has had the courage to face down leaders who promote anti-Semitism. He has flown with the Israeli Air Force and seen from the cockpit how
vulnerable Israel is. Simply put, Israel can rely on John Kerry."
6) "The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations" is pushing for
Iran confrontation just like they did with the Iraq confrontation before 2003 (7).
7) Congressman Moran is being targeted by the lobby for speaking the truth. The
Washington Post titles their article "Moran Upsets Jewish Groups Again: U.S. House
Democrat Said Pro-Israel Lobby Promoted War".
He was attacked by the lobby but defended by Rabbi Lener of Tikkun. Moran stood his grounds stating "I think Mr. Halber is being disingenuous in suggesting that the AIPAC board has not been strongly supportive of military involvement in Iraq and now in Iran" (8).
The 19th century notions of oppression, separation, and the use of propaganda to hide the
facts led to atrocities of WWI, WWII, and many others.
It has no place in the 21st century.
References
1) http://www.qumsiyeh.org/connectingthedotsiraqpalestine/
2) http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/120320072
3) Yaakov Herzog, "Am Levadad Yishkon-A People Who Dwells Alone-" Tel-Aviv:
Sifriat Maariv, 1975, pp. 58-59, Cited in MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL M Volume61, No. 1, WINTER
2007
4) http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2007/SO/Feat/Drak.htm
5) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.boycott17sep17,0,4476313.story
6) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml
7) http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/
8) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402171.html
HCDCC to endorse Bush's call for war with Iran
SLNews Service
September 18th, 2007
In a move sure to surprise many long term liberal Democrats, the HCDCC, after giving Pat Higgins their Progressive anti-Arkley mantel of righteousness, decided Monday in another closed door session on the full moon to completely abandon any humanitarian or democratic considerations from other liberal Democrats voicing opposition to Bush's wars. The HCDCC now has joined the local Zionist Khazar Kult Krazies lobby in their support of President Bush's call for war with Iran.
Realizing that the Zionist goal for Israel's complete hegemony in the Near East coupled with permanent ties to the country they control, America, is in jeopardy because of the failure of the war in Iraq, Zionists are now working extra hard to sell a greater American-led war in the Middle East with Muslims, this time with Iran, which of course is another Muslim enemy nation of Israel.
Right now Zionists have captured France with their Khazar Kult voice, Bernard Kouchner, speaking up strongly for war with Iran. In America Hillary and Obama are silent on Iran knowing that if they oppose the Zionist agenda they can be brought down as easily as Bill Clinton was with the young Khazar Kult temptress.
We will never know what sorts of economic pressures have been applied to governments daring to think rationally about Islam and Islamic nations, oil and human rights. But we do know what sorts of pressures are being applied here in Humboldt County by Zionists KKK to turn what has been consistently a peace-oriented political organization in Humboldt County since the Vietnam War into another soap-box and platform to sell the Zionist war with Middle East enemies of Israel.
On Humboldt County's most popular political blog site which Zionists have captured lock, stock and barrel, Eric the liberal lawyer and grand shill for the local Zionist con game, promotes war with Iran in the fine print of his double-think postings.
And with Eric, the SoHum Parlance Zionists sales team, Zionons and anti-Muslim, pro-Israel Andy Stunich, are given as much space as they need to sell local Progressives on war with Iran.
And another pin in the Zionist Khazar Kult Krazies map is placed securing another intellectual venue in order to guide any community debate away from rational conclusions about starting another war in the Middle East and who will pay for it and who will die for it.
September 18th, 2007
In a move sure to surprise many long term liberal Democrats, the HCDCC, after giving Pat Higgins their Progressive anti-Arkley mantel of righteousness, decided Monday in another closed door session on the full moon to completely abandon any humanitarian or democratic considerations from other liberal Democrats voicing opposition to Bush's wars. The HCDCC now has joined the local Zionist Khazar Kult Krazies lobby in their support of President Bush's call for war with Iran.
Realizing that the Zionist goal for Israel's complete hegemony in the Near East coupled with permanent ties to the country they control, America, is in jeopardy because of the failure of the war in Iraq, Zionists are now working extra hard to sell a greater American-led war in the Middle East with Muslims, this time with Iran, which of course is another Muslim enemy nation of Israel.
Right now Zionists have captured France with their Khazar Kult voice, Bernard Kouchner, speaking up strongly for war with Iran. In America Hillary and Obama are silent on Iran knowing that if they oppose the Zionist agenda they can be brought down as easily as Bill Clinton was with the young Khazar Kult temptress.
We will never know what sorts of economic pressures have been applied to governments daring to think rationally about Islam and Islamic nations, oil and human rights. But we do know what sorts of pressures are being applied here in Humboldt County by Zionists KKK to turn what has been consistently a peace-oriented political organization in Humboldt County since the Vietnam War into another soap-box and platform to sell the Zionist war with Middle East enemies of Israel.
On Humboldt County's most popular political blog site which Zionists have captured lock, stock and barrel, Eric the liberal lawyer and grand shill for the local Zionist con game, promotes war with Iran in the fine print of his double-think postings.
And with Eric, the SoHum Parlance Zionists sales team, Zionons and anti-Muslim, pro-Israel Andy Stunich, are given as much space as they need to sell local Progressives on war with Iran.
And another pin in the Zionist Khazar Kult Krazies map is placed securing another intellectual venue in order to guide any community debate away from rational conclusions about starting another war in the Middle East and who will pay for it and who will die for it.
Resist the Khazar Kult!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The misguided and dangerous Children of Abraham
Once again one of the Children of Abraham is acting like a child. This time it is the Muslim child of Abraham. Once again Muslims act not as adults but as vicious children who when armed with weapons become a real menace to society.
I'm talking about the recent Muslim bounty put on the head of the Swedish cartoonist who made another cartoon parody of Muhammad. Evidently, Muslim fanaticism didn't learn a thing from the last episode of anti-Muhammad cartoons from the Danes.
The Muslim world is still acting as ignorant and dangerous children when they allow any of their membership to react with violence to criticism of their religious leader. Their behavior only marks the ability of Abrahamic religionists to reduce themselves to savage imbeciles.
This is the major problem of Abrahamic religionists in general, Muslims are only acting out a 21st Century version of the 2500 year-old problem.
Even the Christian version failed to overcome the inherent propensity of Abrahamic religionists to wreak murder and mayhem onto the world like no other human religious set of believers have ever done anywhere on earth.
The Muslims are our time's most glaring public example of how Abrahamic religions can and do produce adults running around acting like spoiled rotten children who have to get their way or throw tantrums.
When these spoiled rotten children have knives, or AK-47's, or F-16 fighter jets, and act out their tantrums we get dead bodies, sometimes thousands of them at one time.
I am a Christian myself but yet I do not identify with the Children of Abraham because my Christian tradition is Gnostic Christian and follows the Gnostic solitary path unassociated with any of the organized Abrahamic religions.
Because many Gnostic Christians like myself refused to believe Jesus was a god, Gnostic Christianity wais not recognized as “Christian” by Pauline Christians. It is still not recognized yet Gnostic Christianity is the only Christian theology that parted ways with the Abrahamic tradition.
Pauline Christianity is of course the Christianity the world knows because Pauline Christianity is what Roman Emperor Constantin used to re-unite the failing pagan Roman Empire under the new religion of Catholicism based on Paul's teachings and not Jesus.
Power politics and a successful purge of almost all early Gnostic texts by the Roman Catholic bishops did the trick of fooling the world that there was only one type of Christian belief. How the world has suffered for this fraud!
Luckily, God has come to the rescue of us Gnostics by guiding historians and archaeologists to those ancient sites and their previously buried or otherwise hidden old Gnostic texts. God is resurrecting Gnosis by recovering the ancient historical truth that Gnostic Christians and their traditions really did exist as a significant part of the early Christian communities in the ancient Near East.
You may think that I am plugging my personal faith because that is what people do but I'm not. I'm a social critic and also a spiritual visionary and both contribute to my urging of all Abrahamic religionists to re-examine their belief systems in light of the reoccurring pattern of unnecessary Abrahamic religious violence inflicted on the world and in light of the historical facts that have resurfaced again.
There exists a set of historical “coincidences” that prove to anyone with intelligence that there is serious reason to doubt the whole Abrahamic religious tradition that began with the Jewish stories in the Old Testament.
These coincidences tend to seriously show all three Abrahamic religions to be based on a major religious fraud.The fraud is that Abraham was even a human being let alone a “Hebrew” or the Patriarch of Judaism, Pauline Christianity, and Muhammad's Islam.
Abraham was a Jewish makeover of the Hindu Vedic god of Creation, Brahma. Brahma is one of the three top gods in the Hindu trinity of gods, with Vishnu being the “Sustainer” god and Shiva, the “Destroyer” god.
Abraham's wife, Sarah, in the Old Testament story, is a makeover of Sarasvati, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge and Brahma's consort in the Hindu Vedic religious mythology.
The Hindu goddess Sarasvati is named after the Sarasvati River in India that produced one of the first Hindu Vedic civilizations. The Sarasvati river dried up between 6000 and 4000 years ago forcing the Brahman worshiping community there out. Where did they go?
Abraham is thought to have traveled from the land of the “Caldeans” in present day Iraq somewhere around 2200 B.C. to 1800 B.C., just about the tail end of the Sarasvati River drying up. Oddly, while there exist thousands of temples in India dedicated to Vishnu and Shiva, there is only one temple dedicated to Brahma. Where did the Brahma worshipers go?
The ancient Sarasvati River had a main tributary called the Ghaggar-Hakra River. This river still exists. In the story of Abraham, Abraham's wife Sarah, has a handmaiden named Hagar, a perfect combination of Ghaggar and Hakra.
In the story of Abraham, God changes Abraham's name from Abram to Abraham. God changes Sarah's name as well. She was originally called Sarai. An alternate spelling of “Sarasvati” is Saraisvati.
In the story of Abraham, Abram more or less pimps Sarai, his wife, to an Egyptian Pharaoh to whom he tells the still controversial lie that Sarai was not his wife but his sister. It wasn't a lie because in the Hindu Vedic original story, Saraisvati was Brahma's sister. Those ancient pagan gods frequently committed incest.
In the story of Abraham, there is a mysterious king of Salem named Melchizedek who confers the first eucharist celebration honoring Abraham. In the Hindu Vedic myths there was a legendary prince with magical powers named Melik-Sadaksina. “Melik” in Sanskrit means “king” and “melech” pronounced the same way in Hebrew means “king”.
There is a linguistic scholar who has traced Sanskrit traditions all through the Abrahamic stories. For example, his research reveals that the mysterious “Caldeans” of Mesopotamia were probably known as “Kal Devas” in India, i.e. priests of the Hindu goddess Kali.
The India connection to the Jews has been noted throughout history but of course with Abrahamic religionists running our world and in control of historical documentation, this information is not in circulation where it would utterly destroy the intellectual foundations of Judaism, Pauline Christianity and Islam.
But now you know it. Now you know why only the Gnostic Christian tradition carries the true stamp of God's wisdom. Only Gnostics knew that Jesus Christ divorced believers in God Most High from the religion of Judaism.
Paul had no patience for Jesus' wisdom or teaching and Paul's protege, Mark wrote the basic New Testament story that reconnected Jesus to the Jewish traditions and beliefs in tribal myths instead of true history.
Pauline Christians never learned that Jesus found the true God Most High while his fellow Jews were mistaking their tribal war god Yahweh for EL Elyon, God Most High.
To anyone who researches the roots of Abrahamic religious stories in earlier pagan mythologies and to anyone who has read the findings of Israeli archaeologists it is impossible to accept the major Bible stories as anything other than tribal myths of origin.
After searching diligently for over a hundred years now, looking for physical evidence for Solomon's Temple or the Exodus and failing to find any traces at all, these archaeologists have come to the conclusion the Exodus was just a Jewish myth too as well as David and Solomon's supposed Great Israel kingdoms. Great kingdoms leave monuments and artifacts and there are no traces of David's or Solomon's.
Only children will continue to believe in myths as being real. I urge all Christians, all Jews, all Muslims to grow up, become real adults and abandon ancient and dangerous myths of men for true spiritual commitment to God, a God who leads you to truth and not lies.
God Most High leads me to truth and I therefore urge all Abrahamic believers to abandon their false Abrahamic faiths and follow the way of Gnosis of God Most High for gnosis truly does lead you to truth and not lies that when believed, have produced and still produce Abrahamic believers capable of the most un-Godly acts imaginable.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Steven Morris--Candidate for Humboldt Bay Harbor Commission
| Harbor district candidate in favor of developing port, rails |
| by Cerena Johnson, 9/14/2007 |
| Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District, District 2 candidate Steven Morris has a vision for Humboldt Bay — and if elected, he intends to “get things moving.” Morris, a Fortuna resident, moved to Humboldt County about a year ago from San Jose. A computer specialist, Morris owns and operates A2ZPC4U Computers and works for United Indian Health Services. Although Morris has only been in the area a short time, he has become interested in political processes within the county, and frequents local government and planning meetings. Morris’ campaign for harbor district commissioner is entirely self-funded — he does not accept contributions or identify endorsers, and instead relies on word of mouth to inform others of his platform. This enables him to avoid relying on special interests, he said, while trying to work with as many different groups as possible with an open mind. “We need to all start talking to each other,” he said. “I definitely believe in a people-first approach.” Morris identifies himself most closely as an independent and says he seeks a balanced approach to management with environmentally safe port development. “I think it will increase commerce,” he said, as well as bring in jobs. Morris said he is in favor of developing the railroad, as well as a rail trail. A lot of the necessary components to develop the bay are already in place, he said. “I’m hoping to expedite a lot of things that are all ready to go,” he said. Morris said the marina can be developed to receive other types of ships and could be enhanced for mixed residential and commercial use while maintaining character and adhering to responsible development. He also said he would like to see the public land in the marina rededicated to American Indians. Morris has been involved in numerous organizations and is a member of the Fortuna and Eureka chambers of commerce. Morris said if he does not get elected, he will try again the next time around. “Actions speak louder than words,” he said. The school district/special district election will take place Nov. 6. |
NRA and Republicans want to be able to go on killing condors
"Another Shot in Ammo Battle: State Fish and Game Commission Member Quits, Citing Pressure Over Condor Protection.
By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Sep. 14--A growing political battle over restricting lead hunting ammunition claimed a high-profile victim Thursday with the resignation of R. Judd Hanna from the California Fish and Game Commission.
Hanna submitted his resignation to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday morning. In an e-mail to supporters, obtained by The Bee, Hanna said he was told to leave by the Schwarzenegger administration following pressure from the National Rifle Association.
The commission has been debating whether to restrict lead hunting ammunition to protect the endangered California condor and other wildlife. The NRA has been a leading opponent, claiming such limits could prevent some people from hunting and open the door to additional ammo restrictions.
The Bee reported Thursday that 34 Republican legislators wrote Schwarzenegger on Monday, urging him to remove Hanna from the commission. They claim he was "not being impartial" in the ammo debate.
"It's not about me, it's about the condor and it's about the NRA hijacking the system," Hanna, 66, told The Bee on Thursday in a telephone interview. "And it's a shame because I'm not only a hunter, I'm a Republican."
Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear would not say whether Hanna was asked to resign. The administration, he said, does not comment on personnel matters. But he did respond to the NRA accusation.
"In general, I can tell you the NRA and any other group never has any undue influence on the governor," McLear said. "He always leads and makes decisions based on principle."
NRA officials in California did not respond to several requests for comment.
Commissioners serve at the governor's pleasure and can be removed at any time.
Hanna, a Tehama County farmer, was appointed to a six-year term on the commission by Schwarzenegger in February. He is a retired Navy pilot, Vietnam War veteran, duck hunter, fisherman and former real estate developer. He also serves on the board of the California Wildlife Foundation and the Lassen Park Foundation. He also contributed to Schwarzenegger's 2006 campaign.
But Republicans didn't like the way Hanna did his own research on the lead ammo issue. In their letter to the governor, legislators complained that he distributed a 167-page document on the subject to other commissioners at an Aug. 27 meeting, and that his notes on the document suggest he decided to support restrictions.
In the e-mail obtained by The Bee, Hanna said he was simply following guidance given to the commission by its attorney. That advice, he said, obligated commissioners to share any information that contributes to their decision-making process.
"I have done a thorough job and listened respectfully to all sides," Hanna wrote. "The evidence is overwhelming. Lead from ammunition is the primary cause of illness and death in the ... California condor."
Bullets and shotgun pellets made of lead are believed to be responsible for poisoning and killing numerous rare California condors. Birds ingest the projectiles when they feed on carcasses and entrails left behind or lost by hunters.
In July, 45 leading condor scientists and toxicologists signed a statement asserting that a "robust chain of evidence" indicates lead ammunition poisons condors.
But the NRA and a few other hunting groups believe the evidence isn't clear. They think the lead that is poisoning condors could be coming from garbage the scavengers also eat, or from the environment.
Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, said Hanna's departure emphasizes why legislation is often needed to protect wildlife in California.
Nava is the author of Assembly Bill 821, the Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act, which would restrict lead ammunition in specific areas of condor habitat. It awaits the governor's signature.
"The future of this endangered species is much too important to be left in the hands of a politicized agency, as this clearly is," Nava said. "The signal that it sends to the Fish and Game commissioners is that if they support a reasonable restriction on lead ammunition, their job is in jeopardy."
Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, wrote the letter to the governor that was signed by 33 other Republicans in the Legislature. He did not respond to calls for comment from The Bee. Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, also did not respond to a request for comment. His district includes much of the condor's habitat.
Attempts to reach other members of the Fish and Game Commission also were unsuccessful."
Do you want to back lead bullets or save California condors? The political power of the NRA is really damn scary when they can force a concerned environmentalist out of office.
By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Sep. 14--A growing political battle over restricting lead hunting ammunition claimed a high-profile victim Thursday with the resignation of R. Judd Hanna from the California Fish and Game Commission.
Hanna submitted his resignation to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday morning. In an e-mail to supporters, obtained by The Bee, Hanna said he was told to leave by the Schwarzenegger administration following pressure from the National Rifle Association.
The commission has been debating whether to restrict lead hunting ammunition to protect the endangered California condor and other wildlife. The NRA has been a leading opponent, claiming such limits could prevent some people from hunting and open the door to additional ammo restrictions.
The Bee reported Thursday that 34 Republican legislators wrote Schwarzenegger on Monday, urging him to remove Hanna from the commission. They claim he was "not being impartial" in the ammo debate.
"It's not about me, it's about the condor and it's about the NRA hijacking the system," Hanna, 66, told The Bee on Thursday in a telephone interview. "And it's a shame because I'm not only a hunter, I'm a Republican."
Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear would not say whether Hanna was asked to resign. The administration, he said, does not comment on personnel matters. But he did respond to the NRA accusation.
"In general, I can tell you the NRA and any other group never has any undue influence on the governor," McLear said. "He always leads and makes decisions based on principle."
NRA officials in California did not respond to several requests for comment.
Commissioners serve at the governor's pleasure and can be removed at any time.
Hanna, a Tehama County farmer, was appointed to a six-year term on the commission by Schwarzenegger in February. He is a retired Navy pilot, Vietnam War veteran, duck hunter, fisherman and former real estate developer. He also serves on the board of the California Wildlife Foundation and the Lassen Park Foundation. He also contributed to Schwarzenegger's 2006 campaign.
But Republicans didn't like the way Hanna did his own research on the lead ammo issue. In their letter to the governor, legislators complained that he distributed a 167-page document on the subject to other commissioners at an Aug. 27 meeting, and that his notes on the document suggest he decided to support restrictions.
In the e-mail obtained by The Bee, Hanna said he was simply following guidance given to the commission by its attorney. That advice, he said, obligated commissioners to share any information that contributes to their decision-making process.
"I have done a thorough job and listened respectfully to all sides," Hanna wrote. "The evidence is overwhelming. Lead from ammunition is the primary cause of illness and death in the ... California condor."
Bullets and shotgun pellets made of lead are believed to be responsible for poisoning and killing numerous rare California condors. Birds ingest the projectiles when they feed on carcasses and entrails left behind or lost by hunters.
In July, 45 leading condor scientists and toxicologists signed a statement asserting that a "robust chain of evidence" indicates lead ammunition poisons condors.
But the NRA and a few other hunting groups believe the evidence isn't clear. They think the lead that is poisoning condors could be coming from garbage the scavengers also eat, or from the environment.
Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, said Hanna's departure emphasizes why legislation is often needed to protect wildlife in California.
Nava is the author of Assembly Bill 821, the Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act, which would restrict lead ammunition in specific areas of condor habitat. It awaits the governor's signature.
"The future of this endangered species is much too important to be left in the hands of a politicized agency, as this clearly is," Nava said. "The signal that it sends to the Fish and Game commissioners is that if they support a reasonable restriction on lead ammunition, their job is in jeopardy."
Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, wrote the letter to the governor that was signed by 33 other Republicans in the Legislature. He did not respond to calls for comment from The Bee. Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, also did not respond to a request for comment. His district includes much of the condor's habitat.
Attempts to reach other members of the Fish and Game Commission also were unsuccessful."
Do you want to back lead bullets or save California condors? The political power of the NRA is really damn scary when they can force a concerned environmentalist out of office.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
SHARCs at it again
According to today's Eureka Reporter Eureka City Councilman Larry Glass is going to file charges against Rob Arkley for their little spat at the Warfinger. Evidently being angry and actually shoving someone who's done dirt to your family and is in your face is prime political meat for the small minds that run Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee.
As many of you may remember, I once tried to breach the SHARC takeover of the HCDCC by drawing attention to the direct connection between Local Solutions and HCDCC, the sharing of the same building, the sharing of the same head officers, which meant HCDCC was in the hands of a paid political lobbyist group and still is as far as I can tell.
I call them "SHARCs" and that stands for SoHum/Arcata activists who try to control everything political in Humboldt County. They don't have the majority's interests in mind, certainly not the majority of Democrats in Humboldt County yet they "own" HCDCC because they are very well organized and quite able to mount political campaigns positive sometimes but viciously negative at all times against anyone who dares buck the SHARC political agenda of closing down as much of Humboldt County to free enterprise as they can.
SHARCs can't stand freedom or initiative that does not tow the politically correct anti-corporate party line. SHARCs will try to destroy anyone who stands up to their big-city political tactics of smearing the bejesus out of their opponents, using slander and dirty tricks just like Glass is pulling now and Salzman pulled before, it's the mark of people who care not a whit about community but only about their own political ambitions.
SHARCs swim in the Green sea that connects Southern Humboldt pot-grower supported radical activist organizations with the ever present abundance of naive but concerned college young people at HSU and CR. This alliance produces the endless community political wars that keep Humboldt County from ever really uniting and moving forward as a team effort.
I don't know about you but I don't like being bitten by SHARCs. They're a menace to individual and community life.
As many of you may remember, I once tried to breach the SHARC takeover of the HCDCC by drawing attention to the direct connection between Local Solutions and HCDCC, the sharing of the same building, the sharing of the same head officers, which meant HCDCC was in the hands of a paid political lobbyist group and still is as far as I can tell.
I call them "SHARCs" and that stands for SoHum/Arcata activists who try to control everything political in Humboldt County. They don't have the majority's interests in mind, certainly not the majority of Democrats in Humboldt County yet they "own" HCDCC because they are very well organized and quite able to mount political campaigns positive sometimes but viciously negative at all times against anyone who dares buck the SHARC political agenda of closing down as much of Humboldt County to free enterprise as they can.
SHARCs can't stand freedom or initiative that does not tow the politically correct anti-corporate party line. SHARCs will try to destroy anyone who stands up to their big-city political tactics of smearing the bejesus out of their opponents, using slander and dirty tricks just like Glass is pulling now and Salzman pulled before, it's the mark of people who care not a whit about community but only about their own political ambitions.
SHARCs swim in the Green sea that connects Southern Humboldt pot-grower supported radical activist organizations with the ever present abundance of naive but concerned college young people at HSU and CR. This alliance produces the endless community political wars that keep Humboldt County from ever really uniting and moving forward as a team effort.
I don't know about you but I don't like being bitten by SHARCs. They're a menace to individual and community life.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Defeat the Khazar genetic inheritance!
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I want to thank Eric for pushing this Zionist issue because I've been learning a lot and have come to some new conclusions. Talking with a local friend who, like me, has Ashkenazi ancestry, but is Christian, we're getting somewhere on what is really going on with Zionism and Anti-Zionism.
I am not anti-Zionist but anti-Khazionist. I am not anti-Judaism but anti-Khazionism. I not anti-Israel but anti-Khazarland being re-established in Palestine for the defeated Khazar kingdom. And it's not ideological, or culturally driven, but genetically driven because the Khazars froze their Hun genes in the 8th century with the Jewish prohibition against intermarriage with Gentiles. So it's never been the Jewish genes at all that were the problem or the Jewish religion or even Zionism. It's that fucking Khazar aggressive Hun genes driving a distorted Judaism that you just don't see historically with Semitic Jews, i.e. Sephardic Jews in our times who are mellow and get along with their non-Jewish neighbors wherever they've lived historically.
So, I love Jews but those of us with Ashkenazi genes in us would do well to follow God's lead which is dilution of the Khazar gene inheritance with inter-marriage to non-Khazars. And that's been happening "naturally" in the Jewish community since Israel was established. Ashkenazi Jews are voluntarily intermarrying with (non-Khazar) Gentiles.
Israel is God's way of telling the world about the genetic problem because "Israel" is now a code word for the new Khazar Kingdom, created by Khazar Ashkenazi Jews for Khazar Ashkenazi Jewish domination which is also happening in Israel. The Khazar/
Ashkenazi genetic inheritance makes for the more aggressive Jewish fanatical agenda and willingness to break Torah with warfare to accomplish the Jewish goal.
I know some of you will throw you hands up and cry "racism!" but we have to be scientific about this because it's time for Ashkenazis to understand why they periodically get clobbered from negative reaction by non-Ashkenazis. It's not about Judaism at all. It's about selective breeding for aggressive characteristics. We see in our animal breeds all the time. Why wouldn't aggressive genes be passed on in a frozen gene pool? That's the problem!
And God's Final Solution is what's already happening--intermarriage with non-Ashkenazis plus world focus on the Khazar problem through world focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And before anyone puts the Hitler label on me, Hitler's Final Solution was the Khazar method. Check his geneology which is of course disputed by Khazar Kult promoters, e.g. Eric and his using Dr. Hammer's genetic findings promoting Dr. Hammer's Khazar Kause of Khazarland instead of Palestine under the Khazar flag,
No "facts" promoting Khazarland should go uncontested. These so-called genetic "proofs" of Near Eastern Semitic genes in European Jews are nothing but a ruse to make us all forget about the real important genetic inheritance which is the dominant genes. In this case, Khazar genes. And as soon as the Khazar kingdom converted to Judaism, they didn't give up their warrior ways at all but put to field one of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages largest mercenary armies. Add selective breeding for brains and you get very aggressive smart people. So 2% of the population ends up fielding a majority of socio-economic centers of power wherever they go in the world. Look at the current Khazar war going on in Humboldt County--Khazar dominated enviros/Progs vs. non-Khazars for control of power and influence position.
If you love all humanity and want to end the I-P madness let's all become anti-Khazionists and stop anti-Judaism, anti-Zionism by giving Judaism and Zionism back their honorable names. I am anti-Khazionism. I am pro-Zionism because I'm Christian.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
How it's done--Christian religious intolerance in action
"Pentecostal African Christians evangelists are helping to wipe out remaining traces of how Africans worked, played, and prayed in the distant past."Next time you hear of outrage over Muslims destroying other religious sacred sites remember this photo.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine?
Historian and author Michael A. Hoffman II of RevisionistHistory.org has unearthed this photo of a Ukrainian statue depicting "Ukrainian Prince Sviatoslav's defeat of the Khazar army, 968 A.D. (note the hexagram on the Khazar soldier's shield)" The Magen David was used in Jewish Kabbalistic rituals in the Middle Ages, but only became universally 'Jewish' in the 19th century when adopted by the Zionist movement as their national symbol.
by Jason Collett, 2003-11-09
What title-deeds do the Jews of today actually have to the land of 'Israel'? The idea that a people can possess some kind of ethnic ancestral right to a territory supposedly vacated by their forebears some millenia previously, implying a right in perpetuity, can have no legal basis. Or otherwise Americans of European ancestry, to name just one group of people, will have to pack their bags.
According to Dr Alfred Lilienthal in his book The Zionist Connection
But there is a further issue, which also (yet again!) demonstrates the fundamentally questionable foundations of Zionism.
Jews are actually not even the modern descendents of the Israel of the Biblical Old Testament:
According to both the early-20th-century popular historian H.G.Wells and the Hungarian-Jewish intellectual and author Arthur Koestler, amongst numerous others, the people known today as Jews are primarily the descendents of a Turkish tribe known as the Khazars. The Khazars have no historical connection to Palestine. They converted to Judaism between 620 and 740AD, and have no genetic connection to biblical Israel, and hence to the narratives of the Bible and the "Holy Land". Koestler actually devoted an entire book called The Thirteenth Tribe
Does it matter? Does world peace matter? Do the human rights of a violently oppressed people matter? Does anything but sport and television sitcoms matter?
Arthur Koestler was by no means the first to draw attention to this particular issue. He quotes from 20th-century works on the subject by, amongst others, Professors A.N.Poliak of Tel Aviv University, D.M. Dunlop of Columbia University in New York, and J.B. Bury of Cambridge University. The courageous Jewish anti-Zionist commentator Dr Alfred Lilienthal raised the issue 50 years ago and has continued to do so for decades. In fact, the famous H.G.Wells in the early 1920s in his popular Outline of History described the Jews as "a Turkish people" and stated that "[to the] Jewish Khazars ... are to be ascribed the great settlements of Jews in Poland and Russia" (Chap. XXXII:8) and "The main part of Jewry never was in Judea, and never came out of Judea" (XXIX:1).
Lord Moyne, the British secretary of state in Cairo, declared on June 9, 1942, in the House of Lords that the Jews were not the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and that they had no "legitimate claim" on the Holy Land. A proponent of curtailing immigration into Palestine, he was accused of being "an implacable enemy of Hebrew independence." (Isaac Zaar, Rescue and Liberation: America's Part in the Birth of Israel, New York: Bloch, 1954, p. 115).
On November 6, 1944, Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Stern Gang led by Yitzak Shamir, latter to become premier of Israel. (This assassination was not unique in the history of Zionism. In September 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, appointed by the UN as mediator between the Zionist settlers in Palestine and the native Palestinians, was murdered on orders from the same Yitzhak Shamir <../cia/cia_terr.html>. Count Bernadotte was the head of the Swedish Red Cross and had risked his life to save thousands of Jews from German concentration camps. This set a precedent and encouragement for the Zionist use of assassination as a convenient political instrument, which the US and European governments have in effect condoned since then.)
Much old documentary evidence exists on the subject of the Khazars dating from the ninth and tenth centuries and earlier — from Arab, Byzantine, Hebrew, Russian and other sources. The conversion of the Khazars to Judaism is described in the so-called 'Khazar Correspondence' dating from the tenth century between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish chief minister of the Caliph of Cordoba in Spain, and Joseph, the king of the Khazars. In this the king traces the ancestry of his people not to Shem, father of the Semites, but to Japheth, Noah's third son. The Book of Genesis (10:2,3) itself also describes Ashkenaz as a descendent of Japheth, rather than Shem. In other words, the Jews are not a Semitic people, but their contempt for the Arab world and their bitter and violent war of dispossession against the Palestinian Arabs could be termed anti-Semitic.
The Khazars were formerly well known as a powerful people who, at their peak, 'controlled or exacted tribute from some 30 different nations and tribes' (Koestler), and were the supreme masters of the southern half of eastern Europe for more than a century. The Caspian Sea is still known today in Arabic as Bahr-ul-Khazar, 'the Khazar Sea'. These people controlled trade on the Dnieper, the Don and Volga Rivers between the Swedish Vikings, known as the Rus (the founders of Russia) in the north, and Byzantium-Constantinople (capital of the Eastern Roman Empire), Persia and Arabia in the south. The extent of trade along these rivers is indicated by the very large number of Arab coins, approximately 50,000 found, strangely enough, in Sweden and dating from Viking times.
After their conversion to 'Judaism', a religion based primarily on the teachings of the Pharisees and the Talmud, the Khazars adopted circumcision and became known as the 'Jewish Khazars' and then later simply as 'Jews'. Before the conversion, the 'Jewish' population of the entire region was sparse; afterwards, understandably, it suddenly became large. Writing in the 10th century, the Muslim chronicler Muqaddasi says 'In Khazaria, sheep, honey and Jews exist in large quantities' (Koestler p. 43).
After being defeated by the Rus around 965 AD, the power of the Khazars waned, and a gradual migration commenced westwards and northwestwards into Eastern Europe — the Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. Koestler shows that Yiddish (the former Jewish lingua franca of eastern Europe which is classed as a German dialect) developed not in Germany but in Poland as an amalgam of German, Hebrew and Slavonic (Russian and Polish) — the strong German basis of the language being the result of the German social and cultural prominence in the main cities of Poland in medieval times (Koestler Chapt. VII:3). Hebrew itself was only used for liturgical and rabbinic-scholastic purposes, not for everyday communication. No archaeological or other evidence exists of the use in biblical times of the six-pointed 'star of David', the emblem of the Ashkenazi Jews and the Israeli state, and the yarmulke, the skullcap worn by Jewish males, likewise has no biblical foundation. So neither the use of Hebrew nor the star of David nor the wearing of the yarmulke indicate any historical connection with the territory. Koestler says: "The historical evidence ... indicates that the bulk of Eastern Jewry — and hence of world Jewry — is of Khazar-Turkish, rather than Semitic, origin" (p. 175).
This of course poses various interesting questions on many issues, including that of the violent and manipulative Jewish takeover of Palestine during the last century. The reason these questions are not asked is that the story of the Khazar conversion is generally so little known. The academic, church and media establishments generally have shown no interest in correcting such an awkward and fundamental misperception, the source of so much suffering and spilt blood. They consider the issue to be unimportant or potentially dangerous in spite of the shocking human-rights outrages that the mainly Khazar-descended 'Israelis' and their Khazar-descended international Zionist supporters have perpetrated against the native people in Palestine over the last century.
Is there any doubt about the issue?
The British journalist Douglas Reed, former chief Central European correspondent of the Times, in 1950 wrote "The Eastern European Zionists are not Semites (though the Arabs are), have no semitic blood, and their remote forefathers never trod Palestinian earth."
Mr Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish industrialist born in New York, wrote in the Economic Council Letter published there of October 15 1947: "These Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor a historic connection with Palestine. Their ancestors were not inhabitants of the Promised Land. They are the direct descendants of the people of the Khazar Kingdom. The Khazars were a non-semitic, Turko-Mongolian tribe."
Mr Freedman was challenged, unwisely, by a Zionist objector. He invited his challenger to go with him to the Jewish Room of the New York Public Library. There they could together examine the Jewish Encyclopaedia volume I pp. 1-12, and the published works of Graetz, Dubnow, Friedlander, Raisin and many other noted Jewish historians, which, as well as other non-Jewish authorities, "establish the fact beyond all possible doubt." (Somewhere South of Suez, 1950, pp. 349-350.)
If the Khazar account is untrue, we can be sure that a swift and comprehensive rebuttal would have followed Koestler's book and Lilienthal's long-standing allegations, let alone those of H.G.Wells. Can anyone name the book or books in which such a rebuttal appeared?
To confuse the Jews of today with the Hebrews of the Bible is like believing that the Cherokee 'Indians' not only follow the Hindu religion but will eventually return in triumph to the valley of the sacred Ganges.
The author may be reached at colletts@mweb.co.za
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Posted September 6, 2007 | 11:59 PM (EST)