A seeming swarm of layoffs from all corners. Epic Aircraft & Jeld-Wen should come as no surprise. But Cascade Heatlhcare? That stuff is supposed to be immune, right?
No, seems when you do not have money, that visit to the doctor that used to be required can become "elective" pretty quick. You won't see a lot of folks out China Hat Road way clogging St Chas waiting rooms.
Nope, nothing is immune, not healthcare, not recreation, nothing. We've seen store closings of little guys (Westside Video, Bond Street Market, childs clothing seller Bonkerz), big guys (Office Depot, Linens N Things), and we'll see more in the near future of all kinds (Gottschalks, Cessna, City of Bend, The Bulletin, Les Schwab).
Retail is just the "face" of a slowing economy. There's plenty of "back office" type businesses closing; little public face, but quite a few jobs lost just the same. Even our little local Gubmint is in a constant state of layoffs.
We're at 10% unemployment, businesses are closing so fast it's hard to keep count, we've watched our local medians drop from $396,000 to $226,000. OK, this is the shit storm this blog has been yammering on about for 2 years as INEVITABLE. It's here. This is it. And NO, it is not even close to ending. The damage is not even close to being done.
So what would you do, if your own personal life looked this shaky? Do you fall back on (hopefully) saved up reserves? Do you keep piling up the money in a Federally Insured bank account, if you're lucky enough to still have a job? Do you scale back your eating out? Do you scale back the wine from $40/bottle to $15? Do you actually, God forbid, start cutting some of this stuff out entirely?
Or, do you borrow to the last of your ability and buy a new SUV? Do you expend the last of your reserves on building a fence around your back yard? Do you go for broke, and throw it all down on a new investment house with negative cash flow for as far as the eye can see?
See, to me, the answers to these questions are just ridiculous. It's pretty obvious. You STOP spending. OK, you do that whether you still have an income source or not. There are some people who do this innately. They're called Rich People. Well, they are at least financially insulated. People I know who are doing well right now have been saving their pennies. And I mean pennies. They don't make a King's Ransom. But they do save, quite a bit more than most people. They aren't really "cheap", they just have "lean" tastes.
But not our City Council. Not our local Paper. No.
No, they are advocating that we all spend as much as we can as fast as we can.
Yeah, we'll get great stuff, like a shed to house our broken down bus fleet. Or some blown up rock out in the Juniper Ridge badlands.
Costa is trying to convince us that we should run out and BUY cars with incentives that actually don't exist West of the Rockies. And by gum, with medians in the low $200's, "Some interest rates also at historic lows, could drive buyers back into Bend market".
Uh huh. Read the piece, and you'll find that "Some" interest rates applies to Bill Gates' FICO, not yours. Costa just doesn't get it.
Brucey posted in the comments that we're getting 100+ NOD's a week. That's 100 people (well, maybe not quite, but you get the idea) who will not be able to buy shit on credit for 7-10 years. You can lower the rates to ZERO (or less), and these people WILL NOT get extended one cent.
The Fed can (and has) pushed the interest rate/monetary policy string as far as it can (rates at 0%), and nothing has changed. What's funny is that this country is simply returning to "normal". We're returning to fairly "normal" credit restrictions.
But there's the rub. For about 7-8 years we extended credit to "non-normals", people who could NOT afford it. No income to afford the debt service. So how did it go on for all those years? Easy, simply "co-mingle funds", ala Summit 1031. Make "refi" money your New Income Stream. All that nasty old loan debt, is replaced by an even bigger loan, and what's great, is I Get Paid To Do It! Old $350K loan replaced by $500K refi loan and 2 years from now with a crooked appraisers help, I get another $175K, ad infinitum. Presto, Huge Income, No Work, Forever.
Well, the Minsky Moment arived on this Enormous Teetering Edifice, and the whole thing began toppling the middle of last year. And NO WHERE did it stand taller, grander, more magnificently than Bend Oregon. No where. It literally DEFINES this place. Scam piled on graft piled on deceit piled on fraud piled on schemes.
No where in the USA is the local economy more exposed to the crushing forces overwhelming our national economy than right here. I've said it before, Sit Back And Witness The Horror, Ladies And Gents. You are about to see an entire small city rip itself to pieces.
The Hollern/Moss/Costa Triad is crumbling. Hollern drank the Kool-Aid and bought Ironhorse & Yarrow. Moss financed that, and much, much more. Costa is in a 100% Dead industry, and is desperately trying to hold the buggy-whip edifice that is The Bend Bulletin together.
Again, you are about to witness a town completely implode on itself like nothing that has happened to any major town in the USA in 80 years. It's going to happen right here. This town will be the stuff of Legendary Collapses. This town will be the stuff of future editions of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds".
You're seeing it now. Our unemployment rate is at 9.9%. That's just amazing, but it will get Far Worse. It's going to get worse than you or I thought possible. The Viscious Cycle of the Great Deleveraging will take down HALF this town.
Of course, Costa will tell you with the Last Dying Breath of The Bulletin that Aspe... errrr uh, sorry, Bend is made up almost completely of multi-millionaire transplants from Saudi Arabia, Dubai or somewhere, and so employment doesn't really apply to this place.
Ummmm, OK, a little test. I work for a living. Do you work for a living? Do most of the people you know work for a living? Of course, I do know retirees around here. But not many, certainly not many in proportion to the number of people I know who Have To Work For A Living. This is a WORKING TOWN. Employment DOES matter.
And Bend has NEVER had a decent employment base. This place is built on low-wage shit jobs. And those are being lost in waves. No big deal, it's always been that way. But now we're losing the small, core base of family-wage level jobs. Fuck Gottschalks, we're losing jobs at St Chas & Les Schwab corporate.
Head over to BendBB (anon proxy ONLY!), and check out recent price changes. Used to be that you'd see only a few price cuts in the double digits. Now their practically ALL double digit percentage cuts in price. And it's worse than it appears. Some of those homes have been flipped between Realtors like the crack-whores of RE that they are. Desert Skeeze listings can be counted on to have changed hands several times.
When you look at the DOLLAR CHANGE in prices, you are looking at INCOME REDUCTIONS. These reductions USED to be INCOME GAINS, and these gains fueled Deschutes County growth for the better part of 30 years. This place slowly but surely went from one of the most undervalued to The Most Overvalued RE market in the country. The whole REFI-AS-INCOME game was played NOWHERE more intensely than it was here. And it was played far, FAR longer. In fact, a very precious few can attest to even pretend to remember the Bad Old Days of the laste 70's. This Game has been going on for 3 DECADES in Deschutes County. Not 5 years. Not 10 years. 30 YEARS.
Don't think the Great Unwinding will be over here when the rest of the USA is done, it won't. Here's the point:
There won't be a recovery here. Not in the way you think about it.
Remember last year, early, when the market started cracking here? People who dodged the bullet renting (Timmy, etc) started talking about buying at fantastically lower prices? Like "$250K"?
OK, so we all know NOW that is a suckers game. It's become clear. But that Speculative Mindset is STILL HERE. The idea that I will BUY AT THE BOTTOM in Bend.
And what? What comes after? It's unspoken, but it's there...
Yes. That little SPECULATIVE VOICE that tells you that YOU will make a great deal on a house... and then... the market will recover... AND YOU WILL GET RICH! Yeah!
OK, this very vague and almost unspoken mindset subtley infects EVERYONE HERE. Everyone reading this blog probably has some deep-seated desire to scoop up the bargain of a lifetime at what seems to be a ridiculous bargain prices.
BEWARE. OK. This is NOT going to happen.
Here's a little chart from the Jap Bubble:
You can see that once the collapse began, it was still going strong 17 YEARS later. Bend is going to have a Hockey Stick decline. It'll fall for years & years. And then it'll just flatline. Dead as a doornail, no Big Recovery, no Return to Normal, no Speculation, no Good Times.
The malls will be half empty, as will downtown. Most of the STD's ringing the Eastside will have been sold off piecemeal, and will have weed-infested half-built shitshacks sitting on them. HALF the retail will CLOSE. HALF the restaurants will close, at least. Cascade Business News is GOING TO CLOSE. The Bulletin is GOING TO CLOSE. Either Lowes or Home Depot will close. All these consumerist fueled nightmares are going down.
There isn't going to be a recovery here. It'll be like living in a depressed little version of Detroit, where the Heyday is over. Never to return. You will need your little shit job to pay for the little shit house on your little shit lot. And you will not make any money EVER on it. EVER.
I'm telling you folks, you will NOT recognize Bend in 10 years. Many, if not most won't be able to recognize it, cuz you'll have left.
OK, if you are thinking of buying RE, I ask you to think again. We're NOT EVEN CLOSE to fair value. Values are PLUMMETING. Rent-to-own ratios are STILL ridiculous. This town is going to go bankrupt. Industry & retail are being GUTTED as we speak. We're in a precarious period where it looks like a place you'll "want to be" for the long haul. But it's not going to be for long. Would you want to live in inner city Detroit at any price?
Because that's what Bend is becoming. And medians BOUGHT at $225K will seem like a HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE ERROR in judgement 7-10 years from now. Medians aren't going to $125K for no reason. They are going there, and they will STAY THERE, for abundant reasons.
No local incomes to support anything more. Burns-style entertainment. No restaurants. No fun places. Completely uncertain job prospects. No opportunity. Just straight depression. You WILL NOT want to be here.
What to do:
- Keep renting. Do NOT buy.
- Pile up the cash. Don't BUY ANYTHING.
- Cling to a paycheck as long as you can. If it's already gone, YOU LEAVE town.
- List your EXCESS RE Now. And you mark it down BELOW MARKET. It'll be 20% lower in 12 months.
- Start looking for INCOME PROSPECTS outside of Bend. Keep your eyes open.
- Sell your cars. Sell your other toys. Sell your crap. Keep the money.
Speculative Bend is done. Over. We're in Survival Bend now. No one makes DEALS anymore. No sexiness, no flash. What 's befallen Summit 1031 will BEFALL THIS TOWN. Utter collapse, with NO HOPE OF RECOVERY EVER.
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Time to find more useful sites, I guess.
I say this not in anger but sadness.
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Good ridden's dunc ( Ned Kiss Ass Flanders ) you and fucking HBM have promised to leave for fucking years, you both OWN already your own MODERATED sites, and but you keep coming back here?
WHY?
This DEMANDING Homer to moderate this site is endless, its been going on forever, its about a interesting as 'nofollow'
But no-follow has been solved, with the bendmoron mirror.
The ISRAEL SHEEEEEET will end when ISRAEL quits being assholes,
The purpose of this blog is to debate the bend economy, but 90% of the time HBM posts the top is that were a bunch of vile assholes, and he writes the same shit about this group over at the sore-eye.
You got to fucking admit before the AIPAC shit got tossed nobody got into a fucking conniption.
The truth must be told, that Summit-1031 dumped a ton of money into Zion-Ministries, that its big part of Bend, that Merkley and Wyden (OR SEN) are both owned by AIPAC.
http://www.tsweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=106&Itemid=153
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So there you go, get homer to book-mark the above, and anybody that wants to be deleted and moderated by HBM 24/7 can be happy. Shit we already have the BEBB board moderated by rdc/bendbb, there are so many paradises already.
Why the fuck does free speech and non-moderation ( CONTROL ) fucking drive HBM into a fucking AIPAC conniption?
Because Swizter, Miller, ... et-al are AIPAC whores and they want everyone to be moderated but themselves.
Want to see where HBM moderation will lead?? Just visit the top link and read the 'controlled' HBM topical drivel that his world permits.
Seems like Dunc's blog is fine the way it is.
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Dunc never deletes anything, the problem is four hours can go by between approval and latency kills discussion, it must be real time.
Like it or not for some reason all the dogs come back to this rock, and freedom is the reason.
The dog-cops ( hbm, rdc, ... ) will always be around, but they already have their sites where they can delete all content.
Pretty common nowadays on lots of blogs. And yes, some people have to moderate or lose all readers as the troll dominates.
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Yeh, heavens know that Buster & Homer have always made it priority one to make this place comfy for newbies, we invited them to party's, and never call names, ... Loving people and making them feel comfortable is why we have so many people here and we all like each other, ... right?
FUCK YOU. We have always said what we feel here about everything, if you can't handle it then go to the one of the 99% of the blogs in BEND that are censored.
Why is it that HBM ( anonymous ) has declared war on this blog?? He has demonized this site for six months at the SORE-EYE, and now ...
HOMER doesn't give a FUCK about what anyone thinks, and he knows that moderation ( CONTROL/CENSORSHIP ) will kill this fucking rock, and the REAL fucking people who can't handle the TRUTH would love to see this group disband.
Lastly, its been forever that Tim, Lava, or Quim have had anything interesting to say why is that?
Marge isn't even herself anymore, she was paranoid months ago, and now her BIO is full on, ... nothing is ever as it appears to be.
HELL FOR two months we had to put up with BRUCE&DUNC post 200 messages / day about the GREAT OREO, ... it was NAUSEATING, but NOBODY ever called for censorship, DUNC actually had a fucking nervous break-down.
Today the PUSSY try's to be house of reason. Even the PUSSY's site is NOT moderated, and still nobody ever touches it.
For what ever reason, people like to PISS on BB2, just let it be, and if you can't handle it, go somewhere else.
If it's real buster and not fake troll buster, post fucking links to the Gaza crap.
We can get Gaza crap anywhere. Where's the unmoderated Bend stuff?
Where's the unmoderated Bend stuff?
The truth must be told, that Summit-1031 dumped a ton of money into Zion-Ministries, that its big part of Bend, that Merkley and Wyden (OR SEN) are both owned by AIPAC.
Sadly BEND is a major source for Israel. Debating the BEND-ECONOMY, and refusing to DISCUSS the crooks behind it, and where all the fucking profit went.
FUCK YOU, we're going to debate the economy, we're going to debate BEND. Summit-1031 just imploded, and the people behind it run the biggest zion-ministry in the country, oh but we can't talk about that.
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.
Some call it a conspiracy theory but Wyden and Merkley go out of their way to project that they're owned by AIPAC.
Westside Christian & Zionism is the BIGGEST fuck CON in BEND, oh but we can't talk about that.
Tell you KUNTS what, lets just make a list of what's not allowed to discuss.
Somebody here has already suggested that, that we should have 'rules'.
I don't like it either, we followed the BEND BUBBLE up, and this is the way down.
TONS of BEND money was grifted by 1031 and given to AIPAC, this is all part of the fucking BEND-BUBBLE puzzle.
Can't handle it? Then go read the BULL-SHIT, and suck COSTA DICK, or hang with HBM and pick butt hairs.
The PUSSY & HBM, and DUNC, ... have all told us MANY times that 'why' isn't important.
Who, what, when, where, and WHY is journalism.
A newspaper and a journalist should have NO fucking friends.
Today the Nation and BEND is ran by AIPAC. AIPAC runs most US journalism. AIPAC wants to control this blog.
FUCK YOU.
When good men remain silent, ... thats how all fucking dictatorships begin.
This is NOT about being anti-semitic.
AIPAC ain't Jewish, its about MONEY & THEFT, and nothing else.
Mob banks, Mob bank hits, ... yes the MOB runs Bend, and BEND is a MOB town,
"Dunc never deletes anything, the problem is four hours can go by between approval and latency kills discussion, it must be real time."
This is true.
And I'm way more obsessive than most.
Sometimes just the ability to delete is enough.
But, yeah, the immediacy is a big deal.
I don't see this as a censorship issue, but an annoyance issue. It's like porn; I can't define it, but I know it when I see it....
This will make Buster go nuts, but what if there was a way to keep people to one nickname, one sign on name. That would do alot to relieve the confusion. Just knowing its fake bruce, I could scroll down his jewish/arab crap.
No censorship, just the ability to tune out the griefers.
How about this.
How about you find a life dunc, and something else to do with your time other than being a mother hen for blogsite's to which you don't control.
I propose that from now on we all call ourselves Dunc, and only discuss 'Griefing'.
We all take turns using the moniker 'hbm', perhaps Dunc ( Ned Flanders ) is jealous that nobody uses his name. That's why we all use 'bruce', and lots of people use 'marge'. Dunc is just pissed that nobody uses his DP ( dunc pussy ).
What is it about the Pussy's? HP,BP,DP??
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Griefers differ from typical players in that they do not play the game in order to achieve objectives defined by the game world. ...
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10 tips to deal with cyberbullies and griefers who try to hassle or intimidte you or your kids when you play online games.
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A griefer, is generally accepted as a person who derives enjoyment from being obstructive, diminishing the enjoyment of others, preventing the enjoyment of ...
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Yes once upon a time in BB2 world we all got along, and all sucked each other dick, and all played the game dunc-reality game according to dunc's rules.
Sure Dunc, ...
Your rules suck dick, most of the time just like HBM your not even entertaining, most likely cuz you don't know how to laugh, your just too fucking serious.
IT's not a fucking GAME NED-FLANDERS go face fuck yourself on an auto exhaust pipe.
The first fucking rule of BB2 game-land, is there are no fucking rules.
HBM too, can't handle it? Then go to BEBB, or SORE-EYE, where they play games to your world-view.
Long ago I decided that the reason that BEND went to SHIT, is because of people like HBM & DUNC. Old timers that only care about themselves. Dunc's agenda is to take nickels from tourists, HBM's game is to fuck with PUG's. They're all playing their own world-game.
That's the beauty of online, you all can create your own 'second-life', I simply don't see BB2 melding to your world-view reality boyz.
Lastly, your right I am a CYBER-BULLY I blame BEND being fucked way more on DUNC & HBM than I do on homer or apu.
Dunc could have gotten involved and chose not to, and HBM well he just skimmed money on the rise like all the other old timers who fucked Bend.
Should their noses be rubbed in shit 24/7?? HELL-YES,...
Like the link between S-1031 and zion-ministry's, this shit should be rubbbed in BEND's nose 24/7, like producing Suterra Zyklon-B, and spraying on calis, this shit should be rubbed in BEND-NAZI noses 24/7, ...
I am a Griefer.
Like the link between S-1031 and zion-ministry's, this shit should be rubbbed in BEND's nose 24/7, like producing Suterra Zyklon-B, and spraying on calis, this shit should be rubbed in BEND-NAZI noses 24/7, ...
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Nazi's don't like being reminded their nazi's 24/7, ... tough shit, I have to live with the SHIT-HOLE you have made of Bend 24/7, ...
FUCK YOU BASTARDS
Your rules suck dick, most of the time just like HBM your not even entertaining, most likely cuz you don't know how to laugh, your just too fucking serious.
I'd laugh if you were even remotely funny. But you aren't. You tend more towards the really fucking stupid side of life. Can't deal with life so it's just childish insults.
Original Buster, are you the one posting the crazy shit under Bruce's moniker?
Yes or Fucking NO?
If so, WTF man?! Keep it simple as it's getting tiresome.
Hey big boy what are you doing??
This is the BB2 rock, we don't allow, pitbulls, doby's, or aire-dales to piss here, we only allow toy poodles,
That's it ALL Pussy's are poodles, like tony-blair, ...
Sorry, but the BB2 rock allows all breeds of dogs to piss, don't like it? Then go find another rock.
Can't deal with life so it's just childish insult..
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Tell us about your life mr.anonymous to quote the great pussy.
What is so fucking self important about your life that we can't be child like?
I want you to tell us.
>>>Sorry, but the BB2 rock allows all breeds of dogs to piss, don't like it? Then go find another rock.
I for one 100% agree with that statement. The thing is the gaza crap just went way, way, way too far. I mean if you've spent any amount of time around here you expect too far to happen daily. But the way way way too far was too much. It was just plain stupid and I can get stupid elsewhere.
First of all, I have no interest int Source website. I got deleted once early and I've never felt like going back. Left a bad taste in my mouth, because it seemed extremely arbitrary.
>>The truth must be told, that Summit-1031 dumped a ton of money into Zion-Ministries, that its big part of Bend, that Merkley and Wyden (OR SEN) are both owned by AIPAC.
OK, say it fucking once. Or put it ALL on your blog, over and over and over and then link to it.
There are no rules here, but you're spamming, and spamming drives people away. It's just fucking boring. I fell asleep reading it, slid sideways out of my chair, and hit my head on a space heater. I could have been killed! Have you no mercy?
It really seems like troll stuff to intentionally drive people away. People come to read about Bend. You're getting worse than Bruce with the national/international stuff. That works as seasoning, not as the main course.
Have I said anything interesting lately? Maybe not, but isn't it less boring of me not to say anything when I don't have anything to say? I really like Shakespeare. Should I start posting the text of all his plays? It's relevant. Everything he ever said is relevant to everything.
Now, you said so much I didn't even manage to catch how Gaza is relate to Bend. Something about 1031. I have no idea, because there was so much copypasta in there.
Years ago we described how it would be when Bend went into the toilet. HOMER had a clue he said "you will not want to be here", ...
I always said it would be a return to the best of times.
LEAVE
That's always been rule #1, rub shit into your fucking nose, until you fucking leave.
We're there today, Bend is in a fucking free fall how do you all like it??
There was a time that bashing cali's called for 'censorship' today that doesn't even raise an eyebrow at BEBB.
Bend is going to collapse into a fucking hellish shit-hole, and there is a lot folk to be held their feet to the fire for creating this collapse.
What is so fucking self important about your life that we can't be child like?
You don't have kids do you? See, riding bikes, goofing around, curious about the world are great child like behaviors. Being a bully on the playground, not being able to play with others, only able to toss out insults. Those are traits that a parent needs to work with the child to help them become active members of a community. If you were my child you'd be banned from the internet until you learned a bit of respect for the world around you.
There are no rules here, but you're spamming, and spamming drives people away. It's just fucking boring. I fell asleep reading it, slid sideways out of my chair, and hit my head on a space heater. I could have been killed! Have you no mercy?
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So fucking what? Is it just my old age?? I mean I have published newspaper's newsletters, and I never gave a fuck about circulation. I would rather find one person who agreed than have 10k dick-heads read or pay.
So fucking what if we drive people away, and truth be told, and you shit-heads no it, but this SITE is up, now that the fucking mirror has made this SITE public to the world, we're getting fresh fish to fuck.
We could be talking about BEND, but no we're discussing who is the most fucking boring.
But to me the most boring intellectual discussion is this we're pushing people away, my fucking gawd, when I write its the last fucking thing I think about, why is this so fucking important to have people love you?? It's like the BP, APU are you to be TP (TIM PUSSY???).
One mans spam is another mans ham, shall we all from now on point out how pathetically boring each other is, my fucking GAWD does anybody notice that every fucking SUNDAY homer says the exact same fucking this "THIS IS IT BEND IS DEAD".
ALL of BB2 is SPAM by definition, so now we're going to select content by 'quality of material', that would reduce this blog to a BIG ZERO.
Look at HBM on the eye-sore its 24/7 99% bashing PUG-SMITH who is GONE. Whats the fucking point?? Guess what I don't care, ...
Look at the BPussy, its daily-kos 24/7 it never ends, ... who fucking cares,
We're all bores so fucking what?
If you were my child you'd be banned from the internet until you learned a bit of respect for the world around you.
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If your were my parent I would have to do something to you that would put me in prison the my entire life, so I would just run-away, ... because parents like you aren't worth going to prison for.
I'm Bart Simpson Fuckhead. Can't handle that fact? Then go find another rock to piss on.
Great so now we have left the BEND-ECONOMY, and its personal insult 24/7 post tuesday DEJA-VU, just like old times on BB2.
That's the amusing thing on this board, as soon as taboo subjects are discussed, then everyone bitches that we're not talking Bend, and then as soon as we go back to Bend, personal attacks end.
That's why long ago I tuned out ALL personal attacks on this board, and just way what I wish, about what I wish, when I wish, and FUCK what anybody else thinks.
Back in 2006 cali-bashing was a crime on these blogs, and you caught hell, ... everything is relative, today somebody trying to discuss how the BEND FRAUD moved MILLIONS $$$ of Bucks to AIPAC catches hell, in time it will not raise an eye-brow, ... always been this way, always will.
What is so fucking self important about your life
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Waiting, we want to know, ... tell us
Last month you were Bart. This week.
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The thing is the gaza crap just went way, way, way too far.
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Well the problem is you have the real pussy publishing shit on 'gaza'.
My angle is different, my angle is the BEND FRAUD ( 1991-2008 ) cash being funneled to AIPAC.
If you only see 'gaza', then your either a fucking idiot, or watching way too much TV.
I don't even own a fucking TV, so I have no fucking idea what you people are seeing.
Gaza to me is just a symptom of US insanity.
BEND is one of the MOST insane city's in the USA.
Gaza is a 'product' of the BEND boom. Bend money has made AIPAC drunk with power, as they now control virtually all the POL's in the USA.
It wasn't me that posted all the Gaza shit, that fact that you would reduce it all to gaza says more about you than the subject.
Buster, it isn't about taboo subjects. It's about you being tiresome.
You're going to lose the last friends you have here.
The funny part about stupid people is the fact they typically are too stupid to realize they are that stupid. This week is a classic example of such. Pork Chop has come up with his Israel, Nazi, Summit 1031 theories that are just so fucking stupid and you know he isn't smart enough to know how stupid it is. Thus the trouble with stupid.
Another option is a site without pre-approval, but the ability to go back later and delete comments that are irrelevant.
Paul-doh obviously doesn't want to do that, and I respect that.
Probably still the problem of waiting to read until the stupid comments are deleted loses the immediacy.
Best solution. Buster. Shut up.
A journalist should have no 'friends'.
A newspaper should have no 'friends'.
Lastly, with 'friends' like Ned Flanders, who the fuck needs enemy's.
My reason for being here was always to learn & share.
Now that all you fucks are groveling in doom its not fun anymore to just bash stupid fucking cali's.
Now that Made-Off's are reaping Billions, and funneling the money to AIPAC, ... Now that AIPAC has taken those BILLIONS, and used it to purchase the US political system, its not funny, ...
Fuck you Ned.
I rarely read your blog, I can tell the first line whether its an interesting subject or a bore, but do I rub that into your face no, its irrelevant.
What's interesting is that now that there is a clear track that Bend funds were funneled to AIPAC from the Bend fraud, and I want to talk about it, that there is this fucking DEMAND for censorship, that is what I find fascinating.
I have never been to your shop, unlike most the KUNTS here, and homer hasn't either, don't assume that all people are like you.
As you have known from day-one here I will be the last man standing.
Lastly, I'm glad all you KUNTS today are showing your real selves. You don't want to discuss BEND, and never have, you just want to feed your own fucking egos. See I dont' care about my ego, that's why I'm anonymous.
>>>It wasn't me that posted all the Gaza shit, that fact that you would reduce it all to gaza says more about you than the subject.
No it does not. It says what Tim said about it. You posted your theory regarding AIPAC and money and I'm ok with that. It's a theory and it's been said. Then the rest of the week it's been ad nauseam of ridiculous posts. Thus it all gets blurred and your point is lost. And I certainly don't come here to refine my middle east knowledge.
Israel, Summit 1031 theories
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It's interesting that state of oregon records linking S1031 and zionist-ministry's is theory, a conspiricist I guess would call it a public record.
First it was 'gaza' of which I have no interest, that is real-pussy's peeve, ... then its theory's, of which I'm only interested in public record, ....
Keep digging your selves deeper bitches, and maybe if you get bored we can talk about Bend.
Since the fall of 2006 this site has been about ad-nauseum ridiculous posts why now is the sphincter tight grasshoppers??
Isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? To speak of banning ridiculous repetition.
You posted your theory regarding AIPAC and money and I'm ok with that. It's a theory and it's been said.
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Yes, and BEBB called all rumors of S1031 as innuendo, and homer made big fun of it all.
There are many things going on this town that most of you shallow minded kunts don't have the time to think about or the desire, its little wonder why you even come back here?
I would rather this site be two people who had ideas than 20+ Gadflys who talk shit and circle-jerk.
Dunc, apu, ... lava, quim, ... all self reinforce circle-jerk, maybe your lives are fucked? Your making the BPussy these days look like a 'real man'.
Most of you bore the fucking shit out of me because you never say anything, and when you do its in fucking code, ... nobody reads this site, nobody cares about this site, its about sharing information.
But none of you ever have anything to share, except what we all have which is the ability to google-search "bend news".
Talking about fucking bores.
I'm not going away, and I'm going to keep writing whatever the fuck I want to write about.
If you want to READ BULL, you know where to find it.
BEM long ago said "we're redundant" yes even in 2007 spring, there was really nothing left to be said, today what I find interesting is the collapse of bend, and where the money is going.
I have no fucking idea what the rest of you are interested, this place is like a water-cooler where losers hang-out to bullshit on the bosses time.
I just want people to engage in debates about 'what is bend', and often the only kunt here that can do it is the bpussy.
I admit I'm relieved to find out it's buster, and not some buster impostor.
Oh, goody, the Chimp is going to finally say goodbye to all of us lucky Americans.
Tune in NOW.
Did any of you note that one of the most powerful people in the city, John Russell, the guy behind Juniper Ridge and all the other urban redev districts, is no longer an employee of the city?
Nice makeup Chimpy has on. Is that a sunburn or what?
He looks like he has some disease we haven't been told about. Like Jobs.
Here's one for you Buster, straight from the liberal Israeli press of Haaretz:
As convention kicks off, Democrats say U.S. Jews will overcome fears of Obama
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Obama, Democratic convention
DENVER - As the Democrats prepared to open their convention in the Mile High City on Monday, senior delegates voiced confidence that skeptical U.S. Jews will come to know Barack Obama in the campaign's home stretch and overcome their suspicions over his positions on Israel and related issues.
"Today Barak Obama is less known than he will be in 9 weeks," Steven Grossman, former national chairman of both the Democratic National Committee and AIPAC, told Haaretz.
According to Grossman, American Jews "still don't know him well. If every American Jew had a possibility to talk to Barak Obama, they would agree with him on most of the issues. That's what Thursday night is for, that's what elections are for," he said, in a reference to Obama's scheduled speech accepting the party's nomination.
"I've been president of AIPAC for 4 years, and I devoted my life to those relations, and he has the ability to articulate those values to American people, to be able to say: 'It's important to strengthen the Israeli-American relationship.'"
A number of prominent delegates said the choice of Senator Joe Biden would provide a strong boost to Obama support among American Jews. "For Jews he's a mishpucheh," Oregon Senator Ron Wyden said of Biden, using the Yiddish version of the Hebrew word for family.
"Biden will help to persuade Jews who are skeptical," New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg told Haaretz. "His support for Israel is widely known. Any skepticism that Obama won't support Israel is wrong, because no president can ignore Israel, it's too important. And the best thing for Israel is a strong America."
Congresswoman Shelly Berkley of Nevada, praising the choice of Biden as helping to re-invigorate the party, dismissed as "nonsense" speculation that tensions stemming from the hard-fought primary campaign would ultimately harm party unity.
"Joe Biden helps the ticket, especially with Jewish community, I've received calls from across the country, from my Jewish supporters, from L.A. to Florida and New York, they?re thrilled that Joe Biden was [chosen.]
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In the case of Iran, "I think we can see strong and growing support for tough sanctions," Wyden told Haaretz.
Although the percentage of Jews in the U.S. population is small and appears to be declining, the Oregon Democrat said the influence of the Jewish community remains strong in American politics.
"There are so many Jewish voters in the key states - actually I think their importance is greater rather than diminished."
Former AIPAC leader Grossman acknowledged that "There will be some who will never accept Obama and his [vice-presidential] choice."
But while "The Republican Jewish coalition might find anything to criticize," Grossman said, "I think that you're losing credibility constantly criticizing."
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What planet does Chimpy live on?
>>>Marge isn't even herself anymore, she was paranoid months ago, and now her BIO is full on<<<<
What the heck is wrong with my Bio?
At least I am not angry anymore. Maybe you liked the anger better.
Well, onto Bend..Or maybe I shouldn't talk about Bend...I think you only chat about Gaza now.....Snoooooooore.
How about some halfway throught the month RE stats.
Jan 09 to date:
Residential SFR only, 25 sold at $232k median.
Dec 1-15th, 30 sold at $242k median.
Jan 1-15 2008, 28 sold at $337 median.
Pending sales to close sometime in the future = 106 at $236k median.
Looks like prices will stay about the same for the next month or 2 and we can expect to sell 50+ a month. There are some investors in the market buying the bottom market home for rentals. Dumb, why can't they wait til it goes down another 80K? The market is saturated with rentals.
I think I have licked all of my RE wounds and won't play anymore. Who needs it. Maybe I'll walk the fat dogs more.
I am not paranoid! I am a realist and thus I prepare for the future which does not include RE.
"Here's one for you Buster, straight from the liberal Israeli press of Haaretz:"
Jesus, Bruce. You got some weird co-dependent shit going on with Buster.
Can't you guys get a room?
(Oh thank god, he's stopped screaming. I wonder if I poke him if he'll scream again.....)
Buster, you'll like this. For anyone interested in the Israeli leash on the US, it's worth reading.
An excerpt:
"Extensive evidence now exists, too, that Begin’s preference for a Reagan victory led Israelis to join in a covert operation with Republicans to contact Iranian leaders behind Carter’s back and delay release of the 52 American hostages until after Reagan defeated Carter in November 1980.
In his book and in sworn testimony about this so-called “October Surprise” controversy, Ben-Menashe asserted that then-vice presidential candidate George H.W. Bush personally participated in a key meeting in October 1980 in Paris. Bush denied that claim at two press conferences in 1992 but was never questioned under oath in any formal government investigation."
You all want to be the wagger or the waggee? Want to be wagged until the rest of the world has no respect for us? Want to make sure we are on the short end of 171-6 UN votes just a few weeks ago?
Oh, that last already happened. Just a few weeks ago. Again. The the US voted along with Israel, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau to let Israel settle the occupied territories, while 171 countries voted for Israel to remove its settlements. Including everyone other one of our allies, from Australia to Switzerland on Dec. 18, 2008. Do you think that affects others view of us? Do you think if we in Bend get to be known as a white-power, Zionist town, foreign investors will want to buy anything here?
As I stated on DKos earlier today:
"So let me reiterate: the IDF was told that 700+ people were sheltering at the site, that full tanker trucks were in one building, along with hundreds of tons of food and medicine waiting to be delivered.
And the IDF bombed them with white phosphorus, burning everything.
Such actions are simply immoral."
And that's the side we are on.
I've stopped responding to Buster.
If you are going to have a battle of wits, be sure your opponent is armed.
Shut the fuck up about Israel/Gaza people!!!!!!
JESUS!!!!!
Re: I wonder if I poke him if he'll scream again.
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Dunc, he's just off getting more beer.
I am pissed that our nation has been hijacked to defend Israel's colonial ambitions. And will rant on occasion. Especially if it relates to Bend.
If you export anything, this issue affects you. Especially if you are trying to do business in the Arab mideast, one of the few areas with some money right now.
Buster has a point on the Westside/Moss's Christian home schooling angle. Westside sponsors pro-Israel "learning" trips, you can see the upcoming one here, led by the pastor and his wife.
On Neuman and 1031's I'm not so sure. The data doesn't show any political contributions from Mark Neuman in Bend. It would be nice if Buster would document any link.
I'll shut up about Israel when it doesn't affect my export work...
I've stopped responding to Buster. If you are going to have a battle of wits, be sure your opponent is armed.
Ditto.
My daddy also used to say, "Never get into a pissing contest with a skunk." I haven't always followed his advice, unfortunately.
It's also pointless to argue with stupid and/or insane people. You can never win because they don't know when they've lost.
this place is like a water-cooler where losers hang-out to bullshit on the bosses time.
That's rich, coming from somebody who posts about 500,000 words a week here.
Bruce I like you. I respect that you actually are out trying to do things. We may not agree on issues but whatever. It takes two sides to make a trade. But here it is......ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT? Are you so fucking tone death as to what we've been saying all afternoon? Buster has his issues but fuck man...posting that is just plain stupid ass shit.
Re: You can never win because they don't know when they've lost.
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Perception. A key point. Some perceive reality, some have their own views on the subject.
But what is "reality"? CNN or Al Jazeera? The BULL or the SORE?
Re: ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT?
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Perception.
I don't think so. I just go forward.
I do physical interactive stuff, film from beautiful places that you can literally run or ride through. Places like Qatar are definite targets. The fitness rooms in the five-star hotels.
And they are very, very unhappy with our pro-Israel stance.
That last is an understatement.
If your were my parent I would have to do something to you that would put me in prison the my entire life, so I would just run-away, ... because parents like you aren't worth going to prison for.
Funny. Are you one of those liberal pussy parents that doesn't believe in disciplining your kids? Or are you DRW no teeth type that simply ignore your kids? One of the two.
Bruce.
Honestly.
Are you going to change a damn thing?
At all?
We just got done yelling at Buster about it:
Shut up!
>>>And they are very, very unhappy with our pro-Israel stance.
You are tone death. Fine. Bruce we know they are very very unhappy. I'm unhappy. Lots of people are unhappy. WHY THE FUCK DO YOU POST IT HERE TO ENCOURAGE THE SHIT? Why? Is it you can't read?
Ah fuck it. If you don't get it then it's like was said earlier. It's the stupids that don't realize they are the stupids.
Q, this is what a much of the world sees in their news:
"A crowd gathers, shrouded in gas, smoke and dust. In the front stand eight young fathers, each holding a white swaddled bundle of what used to be a son, a daughter. For a few moments there is no screaming, no chanting or crying, but a moment of quiet and stillness that presses one to wonder just whom has been granted the greater mercy, the toddler who caught the snipers bullet, or the young father, who will have to find some way to live beyond this moment?
A young boy sits on the sidewalk beside his mother. She is propped up against the wall of a collapsed building and her life is bleeding out all over the sidewalk. It is spattered on his face and smeared on his shirt. She uses the last of her strength to lift her arm and clutch his cheek in her palm and then she is gone. He rests his head in his hands and cries. He is all alone.
The camera zooms in on the scene of a freshly detonated building, a civilian home. A little girls brown curly hair covered in dust and eyes wide open is all that can be found of her. Her mother wails and pulls her hair while her father frantically searches among the rubble for the rest of his daughter, where could she be? I whisper again, “you will be made whole again in Paradise. Run to the angels”.
What amazing faith. What strong devotion that a father loses his mother, father, wife and eight children, that this man before anything can assert, “God is Great, Thank God for Everything”. He holds his child, now still and ashen, he smothers him with kisses and then gently pulls back the sheet to expose two bullet holes in his chest. He then tenderly places the child beside his brother and again, pulls the sheet back of his youngest son to reveal a single snipers bullet to the chest. He can barely compose himself and he moans to the sympathizing camera man, “God is Great, Thank God for Everything”.
An old and wrinkled Imam so lovingly cradles a little girl’s lifeless body, as if mishandling her now could inflict more pain, he mumbles a benediction and gently lies her beside her sisters and her brothers in the mass grave. I try to comfort her, saying, “Finally, a place of safety. Rest beside your sister. Your brother. Put your fears to rest and meet your beloved Prophet and the many of your little friends who have fallen before you.”
Hospitals, schools, mosques, civilian homes, UN shelters, all worthy targets. Doctors, medicines, food and water, truckloads of relief from all corners of the world line up for miles at the Egyptian border but they are refused entry. Security is high, food is scarce, water is completely gone.
Faith seems to spring forth in the strangest of moments. For me, it seems to be coming full circle out of desperation and in agony, for the sake of the snow-white souls of the many bloodied and dismembered innocents of Gaza.
UN workers coordinate with Israelis to get civilians to safety inside a UN school. Hundreds are tucked inside the mutually agreed safe haven. Soon after, the school comes under Israeli fire. Bruised and battered refugees stare Satan in the face, clad in his fatigues. Hundreds wounded, scores dead, many lost and unaccounted for."
Just because we don't see it doesn't mean that it doesn't affect the worlds' view of the US and it's main ally Israel.
They fucking hate this.
This blog is like digging thru shit looking for diamonds.
This week all shit no diamonds.
And its getting worse. Fuck!
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Status
Status report for July 2008
Are we making progress?
July 20, 2008
A lot of people ask me if we're making progress in stopping the crime network behind 9/11.
I have this timeline of the early part of the 9/11 "truth movement", and this page is a status report of what I see as of today.
Background information; attitudes have changed since 2001
In 2001 there was tremendous anger towards Arabs and sympathy for Israel. However, the Internet allowed ordinary citizens to analyze the 9/11 attack rather than depend on television or newspapers for information.
We discovered the Jewish involvement in 9/11, and we used the Internet to expose this Jewish crime network to the world.
Unfortunately, the few of us in 2002 who mentioned that Israel was involved in the 9/11 attack were insulted as anti-Semites and Nazis. Most Americans couldn't believe that it was possible for the peaceful, loving Jews to commit such horrendous crimes.
Most of us grew up believing that the Jews were innocent victims of thousands of years of anti-Semitism, and that they become victims over and over because of jealousy and because Jews are too peaceful to fight.
“We didn't fight the Nazis because we Jews are too peaceful and loving to kill anybody.
We couldn't even kill Jesus. We had to get the Romans to do it for us! That's proof of how peaceful we are!”
The Jews use their control of the media and schools to give Goyim children the impression that Jews are sweet, adorable people who need our protection.
However, in the years since 2001, people around the world looked at the evidence, and today there are millions of people who know that a global Jewish crime network is responsible for the 9/11 attack.
Once we discovered that the Jews were lying to us about 9/11, the Jews became the Emperor in the story of the Emperor And His New Clothes.
The wonderful image that the Jews created for themselves has been permanently destroyed.
Some of us wondered what else the Jews were lying about, and so we looked into other issues, such as Zionism, the banking system, the Holocaust, the attack on the USS Liberty, and the Apollo moon landing. Soon we were spreading information about how the Jews are lying to us about those issues, also.
Millions of us now know what many Jews really are; namely, selfish, diabolical, dishonest, sexually disturbed, neurotic, violent, criminals who take advantage of our tendency to trust and help other people.
The Jews refer to us as gullible fools, but it is the Jews who are disgusting, not us. And every day thousands more people discover this information about the Jews. Anger of Israel and Zionism is increasing around the world, and there's nothing the Jews can do to stop the information about them from spreading to more people. Their technique of killing us, threatening us, crying about anti-Semitism, and pouring out propaganda will only fuel our anger.
Their kidnapping of the Bollyn family didn't do them any good; actually, it helped a lot of people realize how diabolical and disgusting the Jews really are.
It's been more than one year since Christopher Bollyn has been "hiding". How can anybody continue to believe that the Bollyn family is merely hiding? It's becoming obvious that they have been kidnapped by the Jews.
If you don't know who Bollyn is, I have this page
Learn their techniques!
One of their successful tricks is to stimulate our emotions to trick us into feeling sorry for them. The Jews have perfected the art of imitating helpless children.
“We've been victims of anti-Semitism for 6000 years.
Please help us! Be our hero!
P.S., I wuv you!”
This technique is effective on women because it stimulates their mothering emotions. It's effective on men because it stimulates our emotions to be a father who protects his family.
Example: Dr. Henry Makow, Ph.D
In this article for 17 July 2008, Makow claims that Zionism is a conspiracy against Jews!
Guess who he claims is involved in the conspiracy to destroy the Jews.... No, it's not the Nazis, or the Islam-o-fascists, or the Neocons... He blames the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers!
Is anybody dumb enough to believe his idiotic theory? Probably not, but he's not trying to appeal to your intellect. He's trying to stimulate your emotions. This is the typical Jewish trick of imitating an innocent, helpless child in order to stimulate your mothering or fathering emotions.
“I'm an innocent little Jew! The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers tricked us into becoming Zionists because they hate Jews! They're bad people! Will the brave, courageous Americans protect us innocent Zionists from those anti-Semitic monsters?”
Henry Makow is a columnist for Rense.com, and that should be enough to make you suspicious of him.
Makow's website: savethemales.ca
The Jews praise us and encourage patriotism
Our natural tendency is to assume that a person who admires us is our friend. The Jews use this trick all the time to discourage the soldiers and their families from asking questions about the war. The Jews referred to the soldiers as heroes. Here is a Canadian newspaper that published an opinion with the title "He died for a good cause":
nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=670365
Most people never wonder, "Why is the media promoting these idiotic articles rather than providing us with serious analyses of the war, the 9/11 attack, and other issues?"
Most people assume that people in the media are simply naive, but since their job is investigating events, they should know more than the rest of us. You should assume everybody in the media is a member of the crime network until proven innocent.
Remember the wedding of Ty Ziegel? Did you ever wonder who the photographer was? Did you ever wonder why so many Jews promoted his wedding?
Ziegel got a lot of publicity, and he met lots of famous people, such as John McCain.
The Jews used him as a prop to encourage patriotism and fool the Americans into believing that they were dying and suffering because we are heroes. After the Jews were finished using Ty Ziegel, they ignored him. He has since been divorced, but only a few articles were written about it because he no longer serves a useful purpose to the Jews.
The photographer who made Ty Ziegel famous is Nina Berman. She works with National Geographic, another publication that lies to us about 9/11, the Apollo moon landing, and lots of other Jewish crimes.
Get into the habit of asking yourself, "Who are these people in the media? Why should we trust them? And why are so many of them Jews?"
On my page of previous headlines here I have a link to an article in which the British media promoted the wedding of a British soldier just like the American media promoted the wedding of Ty Ziegel.
Exact same trick; different nations. Will the Goyim ever learn?
Don't let the media get away!
The evidence is overwhelming that the media companies are dominated by Jewish criminals and Goyim who are willing to work for the Jews. Don't let the media fool you into thinking that they are innocent victims of the Bush administration, or the corporations, or the CIA. They are lying to us in order to protect the Jewish crime network.
Everybody in the media must be investigated and dealt with like every other criminal. Don't allow them to get away with their crimes. You shouldn't even purchase the Jewish publications. We should drive them to bankruptcy.
Don't fall for the patriotism trick
The type of patriotism that the Jewish criminals encourage is actually blind obedience. The Jews don't want us to look critically at our leaders or their policies.
It's acceptable for ordinary people – who can't think very well – to give blind obedience to their leaders, but people who claim to be intelligent should realize that the only way to improve a nation – or improve an airplane, a refrigerator, or computer software – is to look critically at it!
So, are we making any progress?
To determine if we're making progress in exposing and destroying the Jewish crime network, just look at the Jews. We can't see anything in improving with the world, but we can see that we're making progress in defeating the Jewish crime network by noticing how they've changed their behavior since 2001. Specifically, they are now struggling to maintain control of us.
One of their techniques for controlling us is to have thousands of agents around the world, each appearing to be an independent investigator. Each agent has a slightly different opinion. The Jews don't care which of their agents we follow, as long as we follow one of their agents.
“9/11 was an inside job. Follow me to my website and I'll tell you stories about George Bush, who is a member of a secret society, and his family helped the Nazis!”
As people discover the Jewish involvement in 9/11, the Holocaust, the attack on the USS Liberty, etc., the Jewish agents become under pressure to discuss the Jewish involvement in these crimes.
The Jews are in a very difficult situation right now. If they openly talk about the Jewish involvement in these crimes, they will help us expose the Jews, but if they ignore the Jewish involvement, they will make it obvious that they are members of the Jewish crime network.
Alex Jones is a good example of how the situation has changed dramatically since 2001. He is now under so much pressure to admit that Israel was involved in 9/11 that his supporters recently posted the following video to convince us that he is indeed admitting Israel's involvement. Notice the description of the video:
Many people claim Alex Jones is a Zionist and never talks about Israel... This is for you.
youtube.com/watch?v=78BRRMmGWNM
People all over the world have noticed that Alex Jones is trying to protect Israel and Zionism, which is why they created the video, but that video only proves that the Zionist Jews are desperate to counteract the growing awareness that Alex Jones is a Zionist agent.
If you watch Jones over a span of many months, you'll notice that most of his time is spent blaming other people, such as the Rockefellers or the "Globalists".
One of his more amusing interviews was with Jordan Maxwell in which Maxwell tries to convince us that it is the "Teutonic Zionists" who are responsible, not the Jewish Zionists:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZfMwK0kCccI
If nobody falls for that trick, perhaps he will try blaming the world's problems on the Celtic Zionists, or the Hillbilly Zionists.
Every month the pressure increases on the Zionist agents to talk about the Jewish involvement in crimes, but there's a limit on how far they can go before they start hurting themselves.
Furthermore, the people who promote Jewish agents are also under pressure. People are starting to become suspicious of the thousands of websites that promote Webster Tarpley, Alex Jones, Daryl Bradford Smith, Michael Savage, Arriana Huffington, Daily KOS, and thousands of other suspicious people.
I promoted Alex Jones and Dave von Kleist in my video about 9/11. But it is now 2008, and it's rather obvious today that almost everybody in this truth movement is a liar. I advise you to be suspicious of every website and person who continues to promote the "truth seekers" who have shown themselves to be liars. Don't assume those people are naive.
Which Jews are part of the crime network?
It's obvious that thousands – probably millions! – of Jews are involved to some extent with the international Jewish crime network, and possibly millions of Goyim are also working with these Jewish criminals, but many of us know of at least one person with some Jewish ancestry who doesn't seem to be involved with Judaism or Zionism. So which Jews are part of the crime network? Which Jews should be arrested?
I think some of the smarter Jews realize that now that the Internet has allowed us to expose them, some Jews must be blamed for 9/11, the Holocaust, and their thousands of other crimes. And I think there is a fight occurring right now between the Jews in regards to who is going to take the blame.
There seems to be a tremendous attempt today by the Zionist Jews to put all the blame on the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the "bankers", the monarchies of Europe, the Freemasons, and the "Corporations".
“Jew-Fight” !
Zionist Jews
vs.
Banking Jews
Don't let them fool you!
Every Jew must be investigated!
Consider every Jew guilty until proven innocent.
Earlier I mentioned that Henry Makow is claiming that the Zionist Jews are innocent victims of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, and below are some other recent examples. Please try to understand their tricks so that you are not fooled by them. Don't allow any Jewish criminal to get away!
Dr. Harrell Rhome
In this article for 17 July 2008, Rhome shows another technique that the Jews use; namely, confusion. He tries to confuse the issue of whether the Zionists helped the Nazis during World War 2, or whether Nazis helped the Jews.
Perhaps his next article will be whether the Zionists helped Al Qaeda do 9/11, or whether Al Qaeda helped the Zionists do it.
Notice also that his article is difficult to read. This is not because he's a bad writer. It's because the article wasn't written to inform us of an intelligent concept; rather, it was written to confuse us and spread propaganda. Whenever you find an article that's difficult to read, you have to consider the possibility that it's propaganda.
Jeff Rense is one of the people who promotes his articles, and Rense also interviewed him again on 21 July 2008. That should be enough to make you suspicious of Rhome.
If you need more reasons to be suspicious, Rhome is a member of the "Corpus Christi Wicca Witches Druids, etc... Meetup Group". Here is a screen image:
witches.meetup.com/1480/members/5155118/
Note: I had to provide a screen image of that website because as I was writing this article and verifying that the links were correct, I discovered that the page had vanished. Rhome either quit that organization of Witches and Druids, or they moved his page. A copy of the page is still in the Google cache here. Fortunately, I saved a screen image because I suspected that the criminal Jews were going to delete it now that they are increasing his publicity.
If you need more reasons to be suspicious of Rhome, he is one of the editors of The Barnes Review (I have their list here). They are part of the American Free Press, which I complain about here.
Rhome's website: gnosticliberationfront.com
Alex Jones and Bob Chapman
Bob Chapman is a very frequent guest now with Alex Jones and other radio shows. This is not because he enjoys doing radio shows! Rather, it is a sign that the Zionist Jews realize that they are being exposed, and so they're calling out their troops to pump out more propaganda.
His website is: theinternationalforecaster.com
I have this page to help you understand Alex Jones, but here is a recent attempt in which he and Bob Chapman try to blame the world's problems on the Illuminati and the bankers. Can you see the deception in their conversation?
Jones-Chapman-15July2008.mp3 only 262 kb
Also, notice in that audio excerpt that Jones is promoting Dr. Stanley Monteith, a radio host. I was a guest on Monteith's show a couple times, but the last time (perhaps a year ago), some of the people calling in to the show brought up the Zionist involvement in 9/11. Monteith defended Israel for a while, but he soon became so frustrated that he announced that the show was over, and he disconnected me.
The Money Masters video
As I pointed out in my 9 July 2008 update for the Money Masters video, Bill Still and Pat Carmack, who created the video, are protecting crimes by Israel and Zionist Jews. They expose only the Rothschilds and other banking Jews.
Update November 2008: Pat Carmack separates himself from Bill Still.
The Money Masters has excellent information about the banking system and the Rothschilds. It's a clever trick to direct anger towards the Rothschilds. But is it clever enough to allow the Zionist Jews to go free? Not if you help us spread information about these criminal Jews.
Andy Hitchcock
Hitchcock created a nice timeline of the Rothschild family, but as I mentioned at this page, I've come to the conclusion that his reason for exposing the Rothschilds is to shift the blame away from the Zionist Jews.
This would explain why Hitchcock continues to be a good friend and supporter of Daryl Bradford Smith.
If you don't know about Smith, I have this.
Lets's drown the Jewish rats!
The Jewish crime network has been exposed, and there's no way for them to regain their secrecy or restore their wonderful image.
Their crime network is sinking, and there's nothing they can do to stop it.
The only option the Jews have now is to trick us into thinking that only a few Jews are criminals. So, learn their tricks and don't let any of them get away! And tell other people about this trick.
Don't believe the nonsense from Jeff Rense, Daryl Smith, or the other "truth seekers" that "only a few Jews" are criminals. It takes more than a few Jews to manipulate the world's media, schools, police departments, militaries, and governments. I suspect that almost all Jews are involved in this crime network to some extent.
Our only protection against their tricks is to demand that everybody be investigated. No exceptions!
InvestigateTheTruthSeekers.htm
We are winning!
We don't see the world improving, but we can see that the Jewish crime network is failing. After we get rid of the Jewish crime network, then we have the opportunity to start making significant improvements to the world.
So don't give up hope. Don't become depressed when your mindless family members and relatives ignore or insult you.
Do we need the majority on our side?
The majority of people are not going to get involved in making the world a better place. Furthermore, most people probably believe the Jewish propaganda that they pick up from the television. However, most people are passive, not active.
If a fight breaks out between the Jews and the rest of us, the majority of people might hope the Jews win, but they're not going to do anything to help the Jews. Rather, they will behave exactly as they did when Christopher Bollyn was hauled away by the police for no sensible reason. Specifically, they will peek out of their window, and then they will go back to their television, beer, and ice cream.
This brings up another very important point. When the Jewish crime network is finally destroyed, we would be fools to let the majority of people tell us what to do with the world. The decisions of what to do should be made by those of us who helped make the world a better place.
“Hey! I didn't get involved in the fight against the Jews because your websites and videos were confusing. You did a terrible job of providing information. And your attitudes are bad. It's your fault. I have a right to get involved in the discussion of what to do with the world!”
The majority of people have proven themselves to be hopelessly incompetent, irresponsible, and selfish. We should not let them determine the future of the world. Don't feel sorry for them. We've been struggling for years to help them, and a lot of people have died, suffered permanent injuries, and been kidnapped in the process.
The LA Times has the video, and they are sitting on it, and they will not release it.
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RUSH: This hypnotic induction that the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons has put out, I've now double-checked this. The people most susceptible to neurolinguistic programming are young people and highly educated people. They're considered to be especially susceptible to hypnosis. Now, I find it interesting, too, that many Jewish voters are supporting Obama. He is a candidate who has been endorsed by Hamas, has been called The Messiah by Calypso Louie Farrakhan, has been endorsed by Rashid Khalidi -- and of course the chairman of the parliament of Iran. The parliament leader in Iran has also endorsed Obama, and so maybe it is hypnosis.
When you watch his thing tonight, I want you to watch it with a new perspective. I want you to watch it in a different context. I want you to watch it in the terms of understanding socialism as explained as a very benevolent thing and something that benefits everybody. I guarantee you, you will hear Obama in an entirely different light. Now, speaking of this guy Khalidi. The Los Angeles Times has video of Obama praising Rashid Khalidi, who is a professed supporter of Hamas and Palestinians. He hates Jews, and he hates Israelis, and he hates Israel. The LA Times did a story on this back in April. There was a dinner honoring this guy, and Obama toasted him, and they won't release the video!
Now, bloggers are offering laid-off LA Times workers money. The LA Times laid off 75 people yesterday. A bunch of people are offering a lot of money to former LA Times workers to somehow release this tape. The mainstream media is not interested. This is huge! The media, in the tank for Obama, is suppressing it. The more it gets out that it's being suppressed and the more people desire to see this and hear about what it is, it's going to pose a big problem for Obama as we've now got, what, six days to go before the election. It's a serious thing who this guy is. They've been able to keep a lot of it under wraps. Here is, by the way, speaking of that, an Associated Press video report of a Palestinian, Ibrahim Abu Jayab, campaigning for Barack Obama.
REPORTER: Like many of Barack Obama's supporters, Ibrahim Abu Jayab is working the phones in the final days before the election in an effort to court undecided voters. (phone rings) But Abu Jayab himself won't be casting a vote for his candidate. He's making his calls from his home in the Gaza Strip.
JAYAB: (unintelligible)
REPORTER: He says he thinks Obama can bring peace to the Middle East. The 24-year-old college student learned a few words of English and cold-calls random Americans, leaving messages asking for their support.
JAYAB: I am Abu Jayab from Gaza Strip.
REPORTER: He's hoping the effort shows the world that there are young people in Gaza who want peace and are doing everything they can to achieve it.
RUSH: So we've got a guy in Gaza, the Gaza Strip making cold calls for Obama! He doesn't know much English so he's obviously calling in his native tongue. I don't know what it is, but who the hell is he calling, to do cold calls for Obama? (impression) "Abu Jayab from Gaza Strip," and then after that what does he say? "Vote for Obama! Vote Obama! Votobama! Votobama!" Probably that. "Votobama! Votobama! Votobama!" Who's paying for this? Have you checked your credit card lately, folks? (laughs) Have you found, like one woman did, $174,000 charged to your credit card? Oh, yeah! Mark Steyn has the story. One woman, just one, had $174,000 charged to her credit card. People using not her name, but just her credit card number. She ended up not being charged for it, but the Obama people got the money, and nobody knows where it's coming from. This is just one example; this is just one person.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
"John McCain's campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003. The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian," says Ben Smith of The Politico as I read from his account here.
"[T]he video could, among other things, show how Obama responded to a poem recited at the party accusing Israel of 'terrorism' and warning of consequences for US support for Israel, which [McCain spokesman Michael] Goldfarb described as 'hate speech.' 'The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job...'" Now, there's also something interesting about this tape. This party in 2003 features testimonials, encomiums, by many of Khalidi's allies, friends, and buddies. Obama is there. He was an Illinois state senator. Bill Ayers was supposedly there in 2003. It was sponsored by the Arab-American Action Network, AAAN, which had been founded by Khalidi and his wife Mona, formerly a top English translator for Arafat's press agency.
Now, the LA Times has the video, and they are sitting on it, and they will not release it. Now, who knows? We're left now to speculate why they won't release it, beyond media bias, beyond being in the tank. Maybe they don't want see it. Obama is crafted this whole thing, "Ayers is just a guy lives in my neighborhood. Oh, I thought he was rehabilitated." Well, here, if he's there and on video in 2003, just five years ago. That puts the lie to everything Obama said about the guy. Plus, you add to the content of what this dinner was about, celebrating a Jew hater! And if Bernardine Dohrn happened to be there? They all signed the guest book or something, maybe not a guest book. The signatures are said to be on some acknowledgement of greatness for this Khalidi guy, and he is a friend of Obama's. He's not some guy who just happens to live in the neighborhood. So the McCain campaign is now demanding that the LA Times release this.
Hey, I have an extra 100 Million and want to pay for OREO"S inaguration..or should I give it to TARP...or maybe to Gaza...or some home grown reeeaaaly needy group. The PRINCE is about to be crowned at what expense?
Anyone?
But what is "reality"? CNN or Al Jazeera? The BULL or the SORE?
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This is your reality buster
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The Gaza Conflict and the Limits of International Law.
A number of people have already accused Israel of breaches of international law, and even war crimes, going so far as to argue that an international tribunal should be established and assigned the task of trying suspected war criminals. If I had a dime for every imagined war crimes tribunal that never came to fruition…. The international law issues are serious but largely irrelevant, however.
Others (including Kevin Jon Heller and Marko Milanovic) have set out the issues well. Here are the high points:
1. Jus ad bellum. Gaza is not a state. It’s not clear what it is—occupied territory? Mandate? If it’s not a state, the UN charter does not forbid an attack. Even if it were, the UN charter would not forbid an attack as long as Israel’s attack is in self-defense—which it appears to be, so far.
2. Jus in bello. Can there be a war between a state and a non-state entity? Yes! And most people think the regular laws of war apply. The laws of war forbid the deliberate killing of civilians, but so far no one has proved that Israel has deliberately killed civilians. That leaves the proportionality rule, which bars an attack that causes civilian casualties (or property damage) that are “disproportionate” to the attack. Unfortunately, no one knows what proportionality means. Can you drop a bomb on a Hamas leader that might or will kill a nearby civilian? Two civilians? Ten? A thousand? Does it matter how important the leader is? Whether he has taken refuge in a densely packed area? There are no settled answers to these questions.
3. Human rights. Ideally, the Israelis enter Gaza and arrest the rocket shooters and their leaders, try them, and convict them if they are guilty. In practice, this is impossible. Human rights law does not prohibit the use of violence when ordinary law enforcement practices are inadequate.
So where does this leave us? There is no evidence that Israel has violated international law, though perhaps it has, or will. So why so many calls for investigations and tribunals for Israelis? And what of Hamas? Why doesn’t anyone want to set up a tribunal for those guys?
This brings us to the question of relevance. No one cares whether Israel has violated international law or not, except for a handful of law professors. For its more mainstream critics (as opposed to those who think it has no right to exist), Israel has acted wrongly by mistreating Palestinians over decades, and has only itself to blame for Hamas’s rocket attacks. It shouldn’t have squeezed Hamas in the first place; it ought to negotiate a settlement with Hamas now. On this view, Hamas is just another national liberation movement, like the African National Congress under Apartheid, which can’t be blamed for using violence to overthrow its oppressors. For Israel’s defenders, Israel has every right to defend itself against a bunch of violent terrorists.
The glory of the laws of war was the separation of jus ad bellum (the laws that govern the conditions under which one goes to war) and jus in bello (the laws that govern conduct during a war). Your soldiers must comply with jus in bello rules regardless of whether the war itself is legal or not, or morally justified or not. But people do not think this way. The bombing of Dresden and London were not moral equivalents in historical memory: Dresden was payback, plus it helped weaken an infinitely more odious government. As so often happens, when law and people’s moral intuitions diverge, people ignore the law. When the law is international law, and so there is no independent enforcement machinery for implementing the law, governments that are sensitive to public opinion will ignore the law and try to enforce public opinion.
People around the world see the pictures of smashed houses and bleeding children and, rightly or wrongly, blame Israel. European governments worry about their restive Muslim populations. Israel has law on its side in this battle but that does not matter because it is losing the public relations war and, one way or another, Israel will find the law closing in on it because the law is what the other states say it is. In the long term, this could mean diplomatic isolation; Israel is dangerously dependent on the support of one fickle nation that is looking for a way to reestablish its international bona fides.
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare homepage | All's Well That Ends Well | Act 1, Scene 1
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SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black
COUNTESS
In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.
BERTRAM
And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death
anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to
whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.
LAFEU
You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,
sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times
good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose
worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather
than lack it where there is such abundance.
COUNTESS
What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?
LAFEU
He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose
practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and
finds no other advantage in the process but only the
losing of hope by time.
COUNTESS
This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that
'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was
almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so
far, would have made nature immortal, and death
should have play for lack of work. Would, for the
king's sake, he were living! I think it would be
the death of the king's disease.
LAFEU
How called you the man you speak of, madam?
COUNTESS
He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was
his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.
LAFEU
He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very
lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he
was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
could be set up against mortality.
BERTRAM
What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?
LAFEU
A fistula, my lord.
BERTRAM
I heard not of it before.
LAFEU
I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman
the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?
COUNTESS
His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that
her education promises; her dispositions she
inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where
an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with pity; they are virtues and
traitors too; in her they are the better for their
simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
LAFEU
Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
COUNTESS
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.
HELENA
I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
LAFEU
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to the living.
COUNTESS
If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess
makes it soon mortal.
BERTRAM
Madam, I desire your holy wishes.
LAFEU
How understand we that?
COUNTESS
Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father
In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,
That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,
Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;
'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,
Advise him.
LAFEU
He cannot want the best
That shall attend his love.
COUNTESS
Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.
Exit
BERTRAM
[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in
your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable
to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
LAFEU
Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of
your father.
Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU
HELENA
O, were that all! I think not on my father;
And these great tears grace his remembrance more
Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
I have forgot him: my imagination
Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.
I am undone: there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart too capable
Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:
But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?
Enter PAROLLES
Aside
One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;
And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,
That they take place, when virtue's steely bones
Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
PAROLLES
Save you, fair queen!
HELENA
And you, monarch!
PAROLLES
No.
HELENA
And no.
PAROLLES
Are you meditating on virginity?
HELENA
Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me
ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how
may we barricado it against him?
PAROLLES
Keep him out.
HELENA
But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,
in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some
warlike resistance.
PAROLLES
There is none: man, sitting down before you, will
undermine you and blow you up.
HELENA
Bless our poor virginity from underminers and
blowers up! Is there no military policy, how
virgins might blow up men?
PAROLLES
Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be
blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with
the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It
is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to
preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
increase and there was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost
may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is
ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!
HELENA
I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.
PAROLLES
There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the
rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,
is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible
disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:
virginity murders itself and should be buried in
highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate
offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,
much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very
paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of
self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose
by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make
itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the
principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!
HELENA
How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?
PAROLLES
Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't
while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
now. Your date is better in your pie and your
porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,
your old virginity, is like one of our French
withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,
'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;
marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?
HELENA
Not my virginity yet [ ]
There shall your master have a thousand loves,
A mother and a mistress and a friend,
A phoenix, captain and an enemy,
A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--
I know not what he shall. God send him well!
The court's a learning place, and he is one--
PAROLLES
What one, i' faith?
HELENA
That I wish well. 'Tis pity--
PAROLLES
What's pity?
HELENA
That wishing well had not a body in't,
Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,
Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,
Might with effects of them follow our friends,
And show what we alone must think, which never
Return us thanks.
Enter Page
Page
Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.
Exit
PAROLLES
Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I
will think of thee at court.
HELENA
Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.
PAROLLES
Under Mars, I.
HELENA
I especially think, under Mars.
PAROLLES
Why under Mars?
HELENA
The wars have so kept you under that you must needs
be born under Mars.
PAROLLES
When he was predominant.
HELENA
When he was retrograde, I think, rather.
PAROLLES
Why think you so?
HELENA
You go so much backward when you fight.
PAROLLES
That's for advantage.
HELENA
So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;
but the composition that your valour and fear makes
in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.
PAROLLES
I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee
acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the
which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize
thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's
counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon
thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and
thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When
thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast
none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,
and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.
Exit
HELENA
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
What power is it which mounts my love so high,
That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
To join like likes and kiss like native things.
Impossible be strange attempts to those
That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
What hath been cannot be: who ever strove
So show her merit, that did miss her love?
The king's disease--my project may deceive me,
But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.
Exit
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That's it.
I'll check back on Sunday to see if Paul-doh has posted.
And BRUCE (sorry, I posted Paul earlier) when you quit poking your big brother Buster, maybe he'll quit hitting you and pulling on your pig tails.
Forest,
Who would have guessed the non-pussy's would have gone women first? I was an airman first.
I love peace, I would be out of a job with peace.
Mother Flanders,
Dunc, just left click on the long BS posts, on the name at the top. Like I just did on the post in front of yours.
It rolls up and goes away. Making it easy to ignore.
Hey bitches I have been up in Canada for a week, doing an annual on bush-planes and fish boats here in Big Bay getting ready for spring.
Just got back.
All I can say is, thanks cuz I love it when folks do buster when buster is out of town.
Everyone is Buster, Everyone is Pussy, Everyone is Marge, Everyone is Homer, ... Everyone is my son brucePussy.
Regardiing the Pussy's like HP, TP ( timmy twat ), and wannabe pussy's, sure in days your OR-BOMB-EO will drop cargo on Bend.
Imitation in Bend is the sincerest form of bend-flattery.
Bring it ON!!!
Re: ... Everyone is my son brucePussy.
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When the going gets weird, the weird get gone. Or something like that...
Not that I'll go anywhere. I hate moving. I like fighting for making a basically good place work, not running to the next cool place.
So be it.
Troops, I love this shit. I mean Homer is busy, and the Pussy finally got revenue, and the bilbo-buster has annuals on his bush-planes & fishin boat's up in big bay, and I'm gone 1-2 weeks from this group, and it's like gone fuck ISRAEL 24/7.
Pleeeeeeeze big-boyz this is BEND Orygun. Did fucking Pape & Friedmand die or something while I have been absent? I mean you would think that CACB had gone below $5, they way this town is sounding.
I thought we had at least til 2012 before the fuckin town went in the toilet.
p.s. the Big-Bay Salmon are incredible right now, this system is the first window in months I have been able to fly down south.
Buster may have a point on the "...doing Buster while Buster is gone..." thing. But how do we fucking know? Trying to determine authorship from words and CAPS rather than the name at the top of a comment. It really sucks.
Man up, assholes. Be like me, Timmy, Q, Dunc, hb, Butter, etc., and put your fucking name on your crap.
If you don't, it just gets ignored.
"Extensive evidence now exists, too, that Begin’s preference for a Reagan victory led Israelis to join in a covert operation with Republicans to contact Iranian leaders behind Carter’s back and delay release of the 52 American hostages until after Reagan defeated Carter in November 1980.
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BP I worked with Delta Force Founder Charlie Beckwith, as I'm a special forces guy from Vietnam.
Charlie who did the October Surprise was denied access to helicopters that would operate in the desert sand. In fact just tonight I was talking to an old army ranger at D&D who also trained under Beckwith, and he felt that Beckwith should have demanded better equipment. But I was there, and I was there on Beckwith's deathbed, and what these RAYGUN kunts don't understand is that RAYGUN Spy's sent them in there knowing the mission would fail.
Beckwith ( founder of DELTA FORCE ) didn't care who was prez, he was a soldier's soldier, but because the Republicans forced copters on them that failed in the sand, the entire rescue mission failed, even tonight I had a hard-core talk with an old army-ranger and he said Beckwith should have demanded good equipment but then as now ( RUMSFELD ) we were told to use the equipment that the army had give us.
So, Yes PUSSY your 100% RIGHT, I have NO knowledge of why your bringing tears to an old farts eyes, except to yes, CARTER when in there with the best team of the day, and TEAM RAYGUN sabatoged the OP, what's most interesting is to this day pro-raygun library people defend raygun as pro ameriKKKan, ... but lets be honest had CARTER pulled off the rescue RAYGUN would have been history, and so would all the POST 1980's KLEPTOCRACY, so yes pussy I don't know how or why you bring this shit up when you do ... but your 100% correct.
It's crazy that you brought this up, cuz just tonight I was debating this with an 80 yr old special forces guy, and he still thinks its Beckwith's fault for NOT demanding desert equipment, I didn't argue with the guy, knowing it was futile, and besides, he relished the outcome that RAYGUN went on to become Prez.
See with you KUNTS I'll argue shit, but with other old farts person to person, what's the fucking point.
Please somebody get the Pussy & Buster a room at the rainbow motel and shut them up.
Marge,
I think that this site could make INTL News on this black-jew thing.
It turns out that OREO's granny was Jewish, and momma too,
Of course we all know its the womb that makes baby Jews, so momma OREO bred a black-jew, so it's not any longer a magic-negro running the USA.
Now Its a Magic-Black-Jew running the USA.
You heard it first here, ... and find it very interesting.
Yes PUSSY your 100% RIGHT, I have NO knowledge of why your bringing tears to an old farts eyes, except to yes, CARTER when in there with the best team of the day, and TEAM RAYGUN sabatoged the OP, what's most interesting is to this day pro-raygun library people defend raygun as pro ameriKKKan, ... but lets be honest had CARTER pulled off the rescue RAYGUN would have been history, and so would all the POST 1980's KLEPTOCRACY, so yes pussy I don't know how or why you bring this shit up when you do ... but your 100% correct.
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It's wild we're in totally different dimensions of time & space and you bring up this shit, but the hostage rescue failure had a major effect on my view of ameriKKKa.
Buster may have a point on the "...doing Buster while Buster is gone..." thing. But how do we fucking know? Trying to determine authorship from words and CAPS rather than the name at the top of a comment. It really sucks.
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Pussy, slow down big-boy, you have only been here for little over a year, but prior to your appearance people here had long been doing 'buster'.
I think doing 'bruce' is new, I just hope folks start doing 'dunc' and 'marge', of course I think a lot are already doing Marge, but more need to do 'dunc' to make the tabla-rasa interesting.
The latest from Investigating Obama reports the possibility of a "found" divorce decree, filed by Barack H. Obama, Sr., showing that he and Ann Dunham had "one child under the age of eighteen, born in Kenya."
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Not much a fucking thing to do with BEND, but GIVEN that BEND $$$ MONEY is what made it all AIPAC possible, its very BEND.
SO anne Dunham was a Jewess and she gave birth to Barack Obama, and that make him Jewish by defn, and thus AIPAC's little fucking boy.
Netanyahu waits
(after waiting patiently)
in the wings of doves
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I think doing 'bruce' is new, I just hope folks start doing 'dunc' and 'marge', of course I think a lot are already doing Marge, but more need to do 'dunc' to make the tabla-rasa interesting.
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Yet another anonymouse speaks.
Who cares. Don't have the nads to actually put a name, even if it isn't your real name, on your BS?
Mr. tabla-rasa Realtor(TM), nice to see you are reading enough to know a few of the names.
What is your real name?
'Bring it On Boyz'
I would like nothing more than a dozen busters & pussys taking on BB2, as nobody else here has anything else to say.
So bring it on, your free to be Buster or BrucePussy 24/7.
Gratzi.
Re: 'Bring it On Boyz'
Yet another fucking anonymouse pussy.
Pathetic.
Of course I think a lot are already doing Marge if you know what I mean. But how do we fucking know? Not much a fucking thing to do with BEND.
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It really sucks, but GIVEN that BEND $$$ MONEY is what made it all AIPAC possible, its very BEND.
Netanyahu waits
(after waiting patiently)
in the wings of doves
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Good fucking POINT, missed by dumbfucking simple minded of Bend.
But Netanyahu gets over 90% of his $4$ cash from a Schnitzer of PDX who just happens to control the worlds supply of surplus steel. Small fucking world after all.
GLAD someone on this site has their eye on the ball.
Blogger LavaBear said...
Bruce I like you. I do physical interactive stuff, I wonder if I poke him if he'll scream again.
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But what is "reality"? We may not agree on issues but whatever. Some perceive reality, some have their own views on the subject. It takes two sides to make a trade. I don't think so. I just go forward.
I think doing 'bruce' is new, I just hope folks start doing 'dunc' and 'marge', of course I think a lot are already doing Marge, but more need to do 'dunc' to make the tabla-rasa interesting
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Doing bruce is just a variation on the doing buster theme. Replace buster with bruce.
But simpleton minds like Dunc's can't take it. That was why Dunc had a nervous breakdown. He was arguing with two or three anony's at the same time, and then buster took over, but the other two were fairly good busters and did add fuel to the fire, and poor Dunc found himself in a hall of mirrors, and lost his mind.
Dunc can't argue against words and ideas, he has to argue against a person. So he tries to conjure up a face to put in his mind to attach to a name, preferably not an 'anonymous' name.
Poor Dunc. And hbm. learn to deal with it.
"and poor Dunc found himself in a hall of mirrors, and lost his mind. "
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That is one funny sentence.
I was online when Dunc lost his marbles. It was one scary afternoon, I tell you.
Yet another fucking anonymouse pussy.
Pathetic.
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Yes, BP, you speak the truth.
All anonymous comments must be banned, except from he who is anonymous.
We must have adherence ... all must have a handle.
Even myself. From here forward, I, anonymous, have selected, and hereby reserved the handle "anonymous". Nobody else may ever comment under the anonymous handle, and then all comments from anonymous will be from me.
There. That was simple.
"There. That was simple."
And now, I am going out to a later dinner.
Nobody else may comment using the anonymous handle.
I will see you troops in the morning.
Good night.
Anonymous over and out.
The Politics of the Gaza Massacre
Forget Hamas - it's all about the home front
by Justin Raimondo
If you're looking for the cause of the most recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinians – over 300 killed so far, and many more wounded – forget Hamas. The real casus belli is politics, in Israel and America.
On the Israeli front, elections loom large. The current Israeli government is enormously unpopular, and – with polls showing a massive swing to the right – this latest "incursion" is its last attempt to shore up their sagging power base. The rightist surge in Israel has been building for a long time, with the settler movement gaining momentum and the Likud Party likely the chief beneficiary – in which case there will be no chance of a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question, no matter how evenhanded President Barack Obama turns out to be.
Speaking of Obama, the real focal point of the Israeli assault isn't Gaza – it's Washington, D.C. The whole point of this exercise in futility – which will not create a single iota of security for Israel, will not topple Hamas, and will not prove any more successful than the second Lebanese war – is to set the terms by which the Israelis will deal with the incoming U.S. president. Before he even gets a chance to appoint his Middle East team, his special envoys and advisers, the Israelis will have sabotaged the peace effort they can clearly see coming – and put the Americans on notice that whatever "change" is in the air will have to be to Israel's advantage. In short, the Gaza massacre is a preemptive strike against the prospect of American intervention on the Palestinians' behalf, or, at least, a more evenhanded policy framework.
I won't bother answering the "talking points" of Israel's powerful lobby in the U.S. – the Palestinians are terrorists, they deserved what they got, those missile barrages fired in recent weeks (in which not a single Israeli was killed) were ample provocation, etc. The whole world knows that none of these have anything to do with the latest Israeli military action.
The entire operation is, instead, part and parcel of a long-standing concerted campaign by the Israeli government to further marginalize and drive out the remnants of the Palestinian people who still cling tenaciously to what's left of their land. It is a policy of military and economic warfare, aimed at making life impossible for the Palestinian helots.
As the new Sparta of the Middle East runs roughshod over the laws of morality and basic human decency, Israel's amen corner in the U.S. is going into overdrive in an effort to prettify one of the ugliest incidents in a decade of unmitigated cruelty and brutality. All the familiar "progressive" voices – with certain sterling exceptions – are suddenly stilled: we hear nothing from our Democratic politicians, those fabled agents of "change," except expressions of support for Israel's war crimes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declares that Israel has "the right to defend itself," without deigning to inform us as to whether the Palestinians have the same right. Given her record as AIPAC's most reliable congressional ally, who can always be counted on to echo the Israel-first party line, one assumes not. Powerful foreign affairs committee chair Howard Berman concurs, as does our about-to-be-sworn-in chief executive.
Appearing on Face the Nation, Obama's chief adviser, David Axelrod, averred that "we have only one president at a time" – a consideration that hasn't stopped the world's most famous community organizer from publicly organizing the biggest raid on the U.S. Treasury in American history. In any case, as the Huffington Post put it, Axelrod "did reaffirm Obama's commitment to the 'special relationship between the United States and Israel' in a way that suggested general sympathy for the Jewish state's actions."
For all those hysterical ultra-Zionists in both Israel and the U.S. who thought Obama's election would be disastrous to the Zionist project, and their own efforts to expand it beyond its historic borders, let this be an object lesson in the danger of jumping to unwarranted conclusions. If they'd listened before they jumped – or paid attention to what they read on Antiwar.com – they would have realized how utterly misplaced their paranoia would turn out to be. Obama has been in the Israel Lobby's back pocket from the beginning, as his speech to AIPAC – a masterstroke of groveling – made all too clear.
Like all U.S. presidents since Bush the Elder, this one is committed to maintaining and elaborating on our Israel-centric Middle East policy, of which the Iraq war was only the most dramatic chapter. Obama may have opposed that particular war, but he will do nothing to reverse its consequences, the most dramatic of which appears to be the unleashing of the Israeli military machine on the region. First it was Lebanon, followed by the buzzing of Syrian airspace and the bombing of an alleged "nuclear facility" that turned out to be an ordinary weapons dump. Now we have the end of "disengagement" in Gaza and the opening up of a new front in Israel's relentless war of expansion.
It is a war that has been financed by U.S. tax dollars and fought with American weapons, with the active collaboration and support of our government. We have paid for the radical expansion of the Israeli "settlements" by armed bands of ultra-nationalist fanatics, Israel's version of the Taliban. Indeed, Israeli opinion is moving rapidly in the radicals' direction, and the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right Likud Party in the upcoming election is virtually assured – with even more extreme elements waiting in the wings for their moment.
As the leaders of a settler colony implanted in the midst of Arab lands, the founders of the Israeli state were faced with a conundrum from the very start. No matter how enlightened and progressive the early settlers considered themselves, they could not escape their status as unwanted interlopers, the advance guard of what was essentially a foreign invasion. Living in their utopian kibbutzes and thinking they were constructing an egalitarian paradise, what they were really building was a rigidly hierarchical society, a caste system with the settlers and their descendants at the top, arranged in tiers according to their origins in the "diaspora," with the Palestinians at the very bottom – a displaced underclass forcibly segregated and routinely subjected to Israeli state violence.
Like a caged lion, grievously wounded, which nevertheless manages to roar and occasionally strike out – however ineffectually – at its tormentors, the Palestinian people are unbowed.
The Israelis – and the U.S. – rail against Hamas as a gang of terrorists, yet most of the governments of the region started out as "terrorist" gangs. Two were called the Irgun and the Haganah, the revolutionary movements that carried out attacks on civilians, including the British as well as the Arabs, in their battle to establish the state of Israel. Hamas will do no more, and no less, in their bid to establish a Palestinian state.
If nothing else, this fresh paroxysm of Israeli aggression ought to debunk, once and for all, the neocon talking point that democracies never go to war with each other. Yet here we have a country that styles itself an island of Western-style liberalism in a sea of Oriental despotism going to war with the only other democratically elected government in the immediate vicinity. Whatever the military outcome of the present conflict – in all likelihood a stalemate – this is a big political victory for Hamas, which ordinary Palestinians see actively defending them against the rampaging Israelis. The moderates on the West Bank are undercut, once again, and that has always been the Israeli strategy.
Their first target was the decidedly secular Palestine Liberation Organization, which they did everything to destroy and undercut – even to the point of providing legal status and covert funding to Hamas. These followers of radical Islamist preachers began as a religious association, formally registered with the Israeli authorities. Hamas was encouraged as a potentially more compliant competitor with the PLO. Another case of blowback, with a vengeance.
Having given birth to the monster of Hamas, the mutant offspring of occupation and dispossession, the Israelis will be forgiven if they refuse to acknowledge the family resemblance. Yet it is unmistakable. Both Israel and Hamas-stan are the spawn of religious and ethnic exclusivism and messianism, their leaders fanatics armed with state power. There are differences, of course, a major one being that one side is funded to the tune of $3 billion a year and supported unconditionally by Washington, while the Palestinians – shot at by their fellow Arabs as they try to cross the border into Egypt – stand pretty much alone.
This latest bloody chapter in the tragic history of the region is being written because all the main protagonists benefit: the Israelis, Hamas, and radicals of all stripes, especially those groups aligned with al-Qaeda. As in the case of the Iraq war, bin Laden's narrative of an Israeli-Crusader invasion intent on stamping out Islam is seemingly verified as blood flows freely in the streets of Gaza.
The Israeli rampage is not in our interests, and the longer it continues the more it threatens the already tenuous position of U.S. troops in Iraq, endangering them by inflaming the local populace, which is vehemently pro-Palestinian. The Israeli blitz is sending shockwaves through the region that could upset several apple-carts of U.S. construction, including the regime in Egypt, the pro-U.S. Jordanian monarchy, and especially our rambunctious Iraqi protectorate, where anti-U.S. sentiment is not so quietly building.
Quite naturally, the Israelis care not a fig for any of this. That's what's so "special" about the much-vaunted "special relationship" between Israel and the U.S., in which Uncle Sam plays the part of the henpecked husband who always gives in to the demands of his battle-ax of a wife, no matter how extravagant or unreasonable.
If American interests in the region are to be served, then this unhealthy relationship has to change. Yet it won't change until and unless the political power of the Israel Lobby is broken on the home front. If it takes the prospect of World War III to bring us to that point, it will be far too high a price to pay – yet one that seems increasingly unavoidable.
poor Dunc found himself in a hall of mirrors, and lost his mind.
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Yes, and then too he called for censorship, so all would be smooth for the simple and feeble minded of Bend, and homer saw that it was good, and continued to allow all tongues to ramble incoherently.
I was online when Dunc lost his marbles. It was one scary afternoon, I tell you.
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Yeh, I remember that day will live in Bend infamy, 1/2 a dozen people visited his shop with flak-jackets.
The whole town thought he had gone postal.
'Mirrors' please get a life, at most its just '7' that's considered a simple number of avatars to process right??
Since Israel launched its massive, deadly, and completely asymmetric blitzkrieg against the impoverished population of the Gaza Strip, an operation that represents a continuation of Zionist policy since the British mandate period and has so far left over 900 Palestinians dead including some 400 women and children, Ohio Congressman and two-time presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has carried on his practice of consistently speaking truth to power, reprimanding both Israel for its criminal behavior and the United States government for enabling it. In addition to sending letters of protest to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Kucinich has also made numerous public statements about the massacre, and on January 7, he rose to his feet on the House floor to deliver the following words:
Wake up America. We have trillions for a war machine and banks while our government stands by and sniffs at the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, where Israel is blocking aid for wounded Palestinians. […] Today U.S. tax dollars, U.S. jets and U.S. helicopters provided to Israel are enabling the slaughter in Gaza. The [Bush] Administration enables Israel to press forward with the attack against defenseless civilians; blocks efforts promoting a cease-fire at the UN; and refuses to make Israel comply with conditions that arms shipments not be used for aggression. Israel is going to receive $30 billion in a ten-year period for military assistance, without having to abide by any humanitarian principles, international laws or standards of basic human decency. Wake up America.
While Kucinich’s urgent pleas seem to have fallen mostly on deaf ears, he has managed to arouse the ire of at least one pro-Israel organization. Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder of the Washington-based NGO The Israel Project, chastised the Ohio Congressman saying, “He is not a friend of Israel; he doesn’t understand the security concerns of the Israeli people; he doesn’t understand what it’s like to live under rockets that are coming down constantly. If Dennis Kucinich were at all consistent with what voters wanted, he would be the president-elect as opposed to one of many people who tried to be the president-elect.”
But what exactly is it that American voters want? Do they, as Ms. Mizrahi insinuates, fully support Israel’s wanton destruction of the defenseless in Gaza? Do the American people truly stand behind the butchery of innocents including police school graduates, ambulance drivers, and sleeping children?
Despite the entirely slanted and dishonest coverage the calamity has hitherto received by mainstream media outlets in the United States, it turns out that, contrary to what Ms. Mizrahi would have us believe, a substantial segment of the American population does not actually support Israel’s criminal actions. A recent Rasmussen poll has found that Americans are almost evenly split on the issue with 41 percent against the operation compared to 44 percent in favor.
The divide, of course, is even starker when examined along party lines; while some 62 percent of Republicans polled support Israel’s actions, a clear majority of Democrats oppose them by a 24 percent margin. One can only assume that, were the treatment of the ongoing calamity by the mainstream US media not so horribly skewed against the Palestinian victims, these numbers would reveal an even stronger rejection of Israel’s iron-fisted militancy by the American people.
Unfortunately, opposition to Israel’s shock and awe campaign by a majority of Democratic voters does not translate into action or even rhetoric by Democratic leaders. In this respect, Kucinich stands virtually alone amongst a party of Democrats — or, for Denis Perrin, a party of “Savage Mules” — who seem to be vying with their Republican colleagues to see who can best cater to the demands of Washington’s pro-Israel lobby.
President-elect Barack Obama, whose entire campaign hinged on the vague notions of hope and change, has refused to weigh in on the subject, claiming that he is not in any position to take a stand until after taking office on January 20. Anyone with any degree of influence or power who remains silent while masses are slaughtered is a coward, and indeed, Obama’s shirking of responsibility in this time of upheaval and gross injustice is cowardly in the extreme. Moreover, the fact that he felt free during the primaries to ponder invading Pakistan and did not hesitate to condemn the recent attacks in Mumbai only reveals the extent of his hypocrisy.
In recent days, both houses of Congress have passed resolutions expressing the utmost approval for Israel’s aggressive acts with overwhelming bi-partisan support. These shameful resolutions represent two of the first acts of the new Congress. The contentiously worded resolution passed by the House of Representatives expresses “vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with secure borders, and recognizes its right to act in self-defense to protect its citizens against Hamas’s unceasing aggression” and calls on all countries “to lay blame both for the breaking of the ‘calm’ and for subsequent civilian casualties in Gaza precisely where blame belongs, that is, on Hamas.” Only five congressmen voted against the measure: one Republican (Ron Paul) and four Democrats (Kucinich, Gwen Moore, Nick Rahall, and Maxine Waters).
The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has celebrated both of these legislative victories by posting on its website a 104-page pdf file containing quotes from over one hundred American politicians — including such leaders as Representatives Steny Hoyer and Barney Frank and Senators Evan Bayh, Bob Casey Jr., Christopher Dodd, Dick Durbin, and Bill Nelson — who support Israel’s “right to self-defense” against the downtrodden and dispossessed in Gaza. The voices gathered together on this document are almost identical in the intensity of both their boisterousness and their ignorance, and one can be forgiven for being unable to distinguish between Republicans and Democrats. Once again, it seems that AIPAC has provided further evidence to Jack London’s disparaging characterization of lobbies as “peculiar institution[s] for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people’s interests.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi — once so feared and vilified by the right — has proven herself to be lockstep behind the Israeli occupiers, saying that the Gaza Strip “cannot be allowed to be a sanctuary for attacks on Israel” and that “[t]he United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally.” Similarly, California Congressman Henry Waxman proclaimed that “Israel’s operation in Gaza is an act of self defense. It is a blatant double standard for those who criticize Israel to expect any nation to stand idle as its cities and citizens are indiscriminately shelled.”
By placing the blame for the current escalation of violence squarely at the feet of Hamas and the Palestinians, our elected Democratic representatives are repeating that old charade of blaming the victim for the actions of the victimizer. In the words of New York Congressman Joseph Crowley, “Hamas had a choice this past December: extend the cease-fire or continue hostilities. They chose war over peace.” Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. too has weighed in on the conflict saying, “We in the United States must continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in support of our friend and ally Israel as it defends itself against Hamas’ unrelenting rocket attacks from Gaza.”
Can our Congressmen be any further removed from reality? Unfortunately, it appears that they can. In one of the more revealing statements of support, New York Congressman Eliot Engel points to cultural affinity between the United States and Israel as a justification for his pro-Israeli sympathies. On the House floor, he declared, “I rise this afternoon in support of the beleaguered people of the State of Israel. I rise in support of the only democracy in the Middle East. I rise in support of the country in the Middle East that has the same values that our great country, the United States of America, has: principles of democracy and principles that are so important to every man, woman and child.” Apparently for Mr. Engel, the people of Gaza living under Israel’s iron heel do not share such values, and his callous dismissal of them only goes to prove Howard Zinn’s assertion that “[i]t is easier to explain atrocities if they are committed against infidels, or people of an inferior race.” The late Samuel Huntington would be proud.
Not to be outdone by their colleagues in the House, our country’s Democratic Senators have likewise risen up to express their solidarity with the occupational forces. New York Senator Charles Schumer finds it “naïve and unrealistic that some say Israel should ’sit down and talk’ to Hamas, a group sworn to Israel’s annihilation, that broke the recent ceasefire by flinging missiles at Israeli cities.” Similarly, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez communicated his support for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza by way of an analogy: “If I am sitting in New Jersey, and rockets are landing around my house, near my children, and near our schools, my number one goal, my immediate goal, is to stop the rockets. So in December of 2008, Israel sent its military to Gaza to achieve a direct goal: stop the rockets.”
One cannot look to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for any courageous leadership on the issue. Reid, who cosponsored last week’s Senate resolution condemning Hamas, was recently featured as a guest on NBC’s Meet the Press. During the course of his interview, he expressed his solidarity with Israel saying that the Israelis “gave it [Gaza] to the Palestinians as a gesture of peace, and all they got are a bunch of rockets in return.” When asked if he was “in sync with the Bush administration” regarding the conflict, Reid responded succinctly: “Yes, I am.”
In his classic text The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon wrote that “the European masses must first of all decide to wake up, put on their thinking caps, and stop playing the irresponsible game of Sleeping Beauty” if the criminal and racist practice of colonialism were ever to end. The same can also be said today of those in the United States who seem to believe that the answer to today’s problems lies in the triumph of one establishment party over the other on election day. The shameful Democratic response to the ongoing bloodbath in Gaza illustrates this point; it is a tragic reminder that the two-party political system of the United States is fundamentally flawed. In the words of Congressman Kucinich, perhaps the sole voice of reason and integrity remaining the Democratic Party, “Wake up America.”
Obama's chief adviser, David Axelrod, averred that "we have only one president at a time" – a consideration that hasn't stopped the world's most famous community organizer from publicly organizing the biggest raid on the U.S. Treasury in American history. In any case, as the Huffington Post put it, Axelrod "did reaffirm Obama's commitment to the 'special relationship between the United States and Israel' in a way that suggested general sympathy for the Jewish state's actions."
The little black-jewish-nigger-oreo a coward? No, pls tell me it ain't so.
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President-elect Barack Obama, whose entire campaign hinged on the vague notions of hope and change, has refused to weigh in on the subject, claiming that he is not in any position to take a stand until after taking office on January 20. Anyone with any degree of influence or power who remains silent while masses are slaughtered is a coward, and indeed, Obama’s shirking of responsibility in this time of upheaval and gross injustice is cowardly in the extreme. Moreover, the fact that he felt free during the primaries to ponder invading Pakistan and did not hesitate to condemn the recent attacks in Mumbai only reveals the extent of his hypocrisy.
Many of us have made remarks about Zionists that are causing concern that we are encouraging hatred of Jews, or that we are disguising our "anti-Semitism" as anti-Zionism. So let's look at such as issues as:
What is "Zionism"?
If Zionism is good for Jews, why are some Jews, such as JewsAgainstZionism.com, condemning Zionism?
Since Jews are permitted to condemn Zionism, why can't goyim?
What is anti-semitism, and how does it differ from anti-Zionism?
What is "Zionism"?
The word was created in 1890 by Nathan Birmbaum to refer to his goal of creating a nation for Jews.
However, because violence is used to create Israel, the word Zionism has become closely associated with images of dead Palestinians, suicide bombers, the attack on the USS Liberty, the 9-11 attack, and numerous other violent acts. This gives the word Zionism an unpleasant image.
In order to make Zionism appear more pleasant, some Jews give it a more vague, confusing definition.
For example, try to make sense of this explanation of a Zionist from the World Zionist Organization. If you can handle that article, you might want to look at their other articles on Zionism.
To confuse the issue, Orthodox Jews who belong to Jews Against Zionism wrote this article. They tell us that "Zionism thrives on anti-Semitism".
They want to get rid of Zionism. Are they anti-semitic? Or are they simply better educated about Jews and Zionism than most people?
If goyim create a web site called GoysAgainstZionism.com, would the site be "anti-Semitic"?
I shall define Zionism
After asking a dozen Jews what Zionism and anti-Semitism is, you will be more confused than before you started.
I suggest we will give the word its original meaning, which is an organization of Jews whose goal is to create a nation for Jews.
There are a lot of Christians who want to help Israel become established, so some people refer to them "Christian Zionists". However, I doubt that Theodor Herzl and the other Jews who started the Zionist movement had any intention of allowing Christians, Muslims, or other goyim to be equal members of Israel. Therefore, I would not describe the goyim who support Israel as "Zionists". Instead, I think a more accurate description for them is useful idiots.
Zionism is alive and thriving
Some Jews are aware of the unpleasant aspects to the word "Zionism", so they claim that Zionism ended in 1948 when Israel became established. They insist that there are no more Zionists in the world today; therefore, complaining about Zionism is as absurd as complaining about the Roman army.
However, Israel is not self-sufficient yet. Therefore, it does not make sense to say that Zionism ended in 1948. Israel is still in its developmental stages, so Zionism is still very active.
Israel requires billions of dollars every year from America and Europe. Also, Israel is still hiding behind America's military, as well as using America's military to destroy Arab nations.
The Zionists are still working very hard to ensure the river of money flows into Israel. They also work very hard to control the American and European media. They suppress serious critics of Zionism, which is why so few Americans realize that many Jews are complaining about Zionism.
The Zionists also struggle to to fool us into believing that Israel is a friend of America, and that we are providing freedom to the Iraqi people by bombing them.
In reality, the Zionists are using the American soldiers as attack dogs.
Since Israel is not ready to survive on its own, Zionism will be active for a long time in the future. Furthermore, since Iran, Syria, and other nations are serious, potential enemies of Israel, hundres of Zionists around the world may be struggling as you read this to find a way to fool the Americans into destroying those nations.
Is it wrong
to complain about Zionism?
If we define Zionism as the struggle to create Israel, then complaining about Zionism is complaining about the struggle to create Israel. This has nothing to do with Jews, Catholics, atheists, or any other race or political party. Therefore, anti-Zionism is not anti-Jew.
If a group of Mormons decide to create a nation for themselves in New Zealand, am I required to provide financial, emotional, and military support? Is Cindy Sheehan required to send her children to New Zealand to help develop the Mormon nation? If I complain that I do not want to support the creation of a Mormon nation, am I anti-Mormon?
If a group of Catholics decide to create a nation for themselves in Palestine, am I required to provide them with financial, emotional, and military support? Is Cindy Sheehan required to send her children to Palestine to help develop the Catholic nation? If I complain that I do not want to support the creation of a Catholic nation, am I anti-Catholic?
A hundred years ago a group of Jews decided to create Israel in Palestine. Why should any of us be required to support their activities? Why are we anti-Semitic when we complain that we are tired of giving tax money to Israel? Why should Cindy Sheehan be required to send her children to die for Israel?
Many Jews have no desire to support Israel, and if they can oppose Israel, so can us goyim.
Or, if opposing the creation of Israel is "anti-Semitic", then there is nothing wrong with being anti-Semitic.
The Goyist Movement
In the 1890s the Zionist movement was established to create the nation of Israel. If they can do this, why can't I?
I am officially announcing the Goyist Movement to create a new homeland in North and South America for intelligent goys. I want the Israeli army to drive all of the stupid goyim from North and South America. I also want Israelis to provide billions of dollars a year for my new nation. If the Israelis refuse to help me, they are anti-Goyist.
I want hate crime legislation to arrest Israelis who criticize the Goyist Movement. Anti-Goyism is a serious crime, so I am starting the Goyish Defense League (the GDL) to protect the innocent Goys from the evil anti-Goyicks.
Do I hate Jews for
destroying Europe and America?
Before the Zionists get mad at me, let me provide some more details on how I look at the world's situation.
As I try to explain in other documents, such as this one, life is a competitive struggle, and I am not interested in feeling sorry for the losers or hating the winners.
If you were to see a cat catch a mouse, play with it a while, and then eat it, would you hate the evil cat for torturing the innocent mouse?
How is the human world any different? I see Zionists constantly outsmarting Europeans, Russians, Americans, and Australians.
I see the Zionists as being analogous to an organization of cats who work together to catch thousands of stupid, unorganized mice. Why should I feel sorry for the mice? Why should I hate the cats?
Sure, you can complain that the Zionists are often committing immoral acts, and using all sorts of deceptive and treacherous methods to achieve their goals. But so what? Nobody is forcing the stupid goyim to fall for their treachery. If all the goyim were like me, the Zionists would have to find some other group to exploit.
Hundreds of millions of Europeans and Americans are being eaten by a few thousand Zionists, but is it accurate to say the reason is because the Zionists are evil? It is more accurate to describe the majority of Europeans and Americans as too mentally defective to take care of themselves and their nations.
I will not cry for the Europeans or the Americans if their nations are taken over or destroyed by Zionists, nor will I hate the Zionists.
As I describe in that previously mentioned document, the European immigrants to North America took the land from the natives. Today the goyim are in the position of the Native Americans, and the Zionists are the pioneers who are developing a nation for themselves at our expense.
When I was a child it was common for children to play a game called "Cowboys and Indians". A hundred years from now -- if Israel gets established and dominates the world -- Israeli children may play a game called the Zionists and Goyim.
Many thousands of years ago the people in the Iraq and Egypt were the most advanced societies on the planet.
They had a written language, arithmetic, and cities, while everybody else on the planet was living like animals. But their success lasted for only a few centuries.
For a while the Greeks were advanced, but that did not last long. Then the Romans became advanced, but that did not last long, either.
Eventually the Europeans rose to dominance, and at the end of World War II, America found itself in the position of world leader. But today we find Europe and America are disintegrating.
Why should I feel sorry for any of these failed societies? Feeling sorry for a nation will not help that nation, and it will not help me. Pity does not help anybody.
Why should I cry
for people who ignore me?
I spent a lot of time and effort trying to explain to people that the World Trade Center towers were blown up with explosives, and I tried to explain numerous other scams, but the majority of people ignore me, or ridicule me. Why should I feel sorry for them when they get eaten by Zionists?
I do not hate the Zionists. Rather, I am astounded by the pathetic mental qualities of the majority of American and European goyim. Very few goyim can think properly. All they do is entertain themselves. A few times I even wondered, "How am I related to these idiot goys? Or am I actually a Jew, and I was mixed up at the hospital by the stupid, goy nurses?"
The problems of America and Europe are self-inflicted. For example, consider the media. Many goyim complain that the Jews control the media, but as I explain in other documents, the Jews are not forcing us to buy the New York Times, Newsweek, or Scientific American. The dumb goyim are doing this voluntarily. And they purchase these publications even though I repeatedly tell them to stop funding the people who lie to them.
Nothing I say seems to have an effect. I could teach arithmetic to a dog faster than I could help the average goy.
The issue of illegal immigration is another example. Americans complain that millions of Mexicans are coming into the nation illegally every year. However, it does not take much intelligence to realize that they are coming into this nation because there are jobs everywhere for them.
Nobody is forced to hire illegal aliens. The American people are doing this voluntarily, but they refuse to take responsibility for their behavior. The hypocrisy and selfishness is incredible.
As an example, when Arianna Huffington was living in Santa Barbara, she was accused of having an illegal alien helping her to raise her child. Since Huffington was born wealthy, she cannot use the excuse that she was too busy working to care for her children. How can this nation take care of itself when the people who provide guidance are such selfish hypocrites?
Eventually the Mexicans will dominate America, but I will not feel sorry for the American people, nor will I hate the Mexicans.
What are we struggling for?
On one of his radio shows, Daryl Smith brought up the question, "What are we struggling for?" This is an important issue that everybody should consider before they try to expose 9/11, the Kennedy assassination, the attack on the USS Liberty, the Dyncorp sex slaves, or other crimes.
Why are we risking our lives to expose these crimes? Why are we working so hard and spending so much time and money to expose these crimes? Are we doing this for the mindless goyim who ridicule us as "conspiracy nuts"?
Some of the goyim have already tried to turn us into the FBI on the grounds that we are terrorists.
For example, an American woman showed several 9/11 videos to her visiting relatives. One of them asked if she could borrow the videos. Weeks later, when asked when she would return the videos, she was told that the videos were in Washington, DC. She sent them to the government as evidence that we are all terrorists.
If it were legal for Americans to arrest "terrorists", many of us would have been put in jail long ago by our relatives and neighbors. Are we struggling to help these imbeciles?
Is it surprising that a small handful of Zionists can get control of this nation? How many Americans have a brain that is functioning properly? How many of them are capable of discussing issues? How many of them can face reality?
A man sent me an e-mail complaining about one of my documents. Among other things, I told him that he should look into the Apollo moon landing, and I gave him a link to my Science Challenge. His response was:
I hate to brag, but I have a degree in physics (and in Computer Science, but certainly not in PolySci), and I can disagree with you endlessly on it.
If my science challenge is flawed, then show me the evidence. Boasting about a college degree is not providing evidence.
Sweep the USA in the trash and start over
Most Americans believe that the nation will improve if we remove George Bush from the presidency, but that will not do anything to make America a better place. Even with a different president, we still have the same crummy cities, the same corrupt and greedy corporations, the same corrupt unions, the same crummy school system, and the same crummy media.
Daryl Smith says that America needs a Mulligan, which is a golfing expression to start over. I agree. America is hopeless. We need to learn from our mistakes and redesign this nation. We need new attitudes, a better method of selecting government leaders, and a better school systems.
I am not struggling to keep America as it is and merely replace George Bush with John Kerry or Al Gore. Rather, I would like to see the nation become better. With the technology we have today, we can make an incredible world for ourselves. We no longer have to rush out every day to search for food and water. We could have beautiful cities, beautiful trains, wonderful gardens, and healthy food to eat.
I am not struggling to help the stupid goyim. Rather, I am hoping to reach that small number of goyim whose brains are functioning properly, and who would like to make a better world.
Israel's relentless air attacks on a besieged Gaza, which have killed over 1,000 Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of homes, continue to take place away from the gaze of the international news media.
A country that claims to be the only multi-party democracy in the Middle East, Israel has barred all foreign journalists from entering Gaza, triggering strong protests not only from the United Nations but also from human rights groups and media organisations.
Speaking from Beirut, Mohamad Bazzi, a journalism professor at New York University, told IPS there are hundreds of journalists from around the world who have gathered in Israel trying to get access into Gaza.
Without access to the battlefield, they are having a difficult time verifying the claims by either side, he said.
"As the fighting continues and the civilian death toll rises in Gaza, the United Nations has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe and the world still does not have a full picture of the extent of that crisis," said Bazzi, who is also a board member of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA).
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) fired off a strong letter of protest last week to Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak criticising the restrictions on the international media.
"By preventing journalists from covering its military offensive in Gaza, Israel is betraying its own democratic principles. It is also denying the world access to fact-based reporting," says CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.
He said Israel has a long history of allowing international journalists to cover conflicts.
"Why is it now restricting all access to a conflict zone? What is the legal basis for this restriction on the free movement of journalists?" he asked.
According to the CPJ, the Foreign Press Association in Israel appealed the ban to the Supreme Court, which suggested a compromise that would allow a small group of international journalists to file pool reports from Gaza.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) apparently agreed to allow eight journalists in through the Erez crossing in northern Gaza, but later scrapped the plan, "supposedly for security reasons, even as relief workers and others were admitted into Gaza".
"Although crossings have been opened more than once since the Israeli offensive on Gaza started, no journalists have been allowed to enter," Simon complained in his letter to Barak.
The letter also said there were more than 900 media personnel, mostly working for international news outlets, already in Israel who have been barred from crossing into Gaza for safety reasons.
"Israel has barred its own citizens from entering Gaza for the past two years, citing security fears. But the ban on international journalists is less than two months old and had been enforced sporadically until the latest military offensive," said Simon.
Meanwhile, the only 24-hour reporting has come from the Al-Jazeera satellite channel, whose reporters were present in Gaza long before the fighting began.
Bazzi told IPS that Israel has a history of a free and vibrant press, with news outlets that often challenge their government.
"Israel also has a history of allowing journalists to cover conflicts," he added.
During the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon from 1982 to 2000, the IDF took international journalists into the occupied zone.
And during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, journalists had access to the battlefield.
"This is the first time that Israel has banned all access to a conflict zone. Israel has not provided a legal basis or an adequate explanation for this ban on journalists," Bazzi added.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka has urged the Israeli government to provide "immediate access for international media into Gaza" and reminded the Israelis of the right to information enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
An equally strong protest has come from the director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura, who also condemned the killing of a journalist on the first day of the Israeli offensive against Gaza.
Basel Faraj, a cameraman for the Algerian TV network ENTV and the Palestine Broadcasting Production Company, died from wounds following an Israeli air strike.
Matsuura called on Israel "to allow local and international media professionals to report on events" in Gaza.
But these protests have had no positive response from Israel, which has continued with its devastation of Gaza minus international media scrutiny.
On Thursday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "outraged" that another artillery shell had landed in a U.N. compound in Gaza even as he was on a visit to Israel.
Following his protest, Barak admitted it was "a grave mistake" and assured the secretary-general that "extra attention" would be paid to U.N. facilities, a frequent target of Israeli attacks, in the future.
Besides the rising death toll, mostly women and children, the casualties also include some 4,000 injured in the 19-day fighting between Israel and Hamas.
"I am sorry to report that the tragic horror continues, and will continue until the guns fall silent," John Ging, director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, told reporters early this week.
Ging said his U.N. agency would continue to call for a media presence in Gaza "not only because the truth must be told, but also because those making important decisions must be able to base their information on the facts."
Both the United Nations and the humanitarian community in Gaza regretted the absence of a "vibrant and impartial press corps on the ground", Ging added.
"and poor Dunc found himself in a hall of mirrors, and lost his mind. "
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What's most sad is that these were the own words of our censor himself, he that wants the power to censor all of us lost his mind when he had follow a thread of more than two people engaging in a conversation.
"and poor Dunc found himself in a hall of mirrors, and lost his mind. "
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What's most sad is that these were the own words of our censor himself, he that wants the power to censor all of us lost his mind when he had follow a thread of more than two people engaging in a conversation.
Can't you read you jackass. Nobody gives a shit about your rants. Get off this fuckin' blog.
Inquiries with people uninvolved in the spat between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveal that his version of the lead-up to America's vote on last week's Security Council resolution is closer to the truth than hers.
Last Wednesday, the only proposal on the council's table was a completely one-sided Libyan resolution. Since it was clear to everyone that the United States would veto it, Israel had no reason to worry. But then, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, a former senior World Bank official, decided that this was the moment to make use of his Washington connections.
Fayyad persuaded the Americans to support a softened version of the resolution, which called for a prompt cease-fire, hoping that such a resolution would speed up the ongoing truce talks. He asked the British and French for help, and they agreed. Rice signaled her French and British counterparts, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband, that she was on board.
European diplomats, UN officials and a senior PA official all said Thursday that as of last Friday night it was clear to almost everyone that the U.S., like the other 14 Security Council members, would vote for the softened resolution. They said Rice had promised as much to her European colleagues.
In Jerusalem, however, officials went to sleep thinking the Americans had only agreed to support a 48-hour humanitarian cease-fire. At 1 A.M., final confirmation came from New York: The U.S. had promised that no cease-fire resolution would be brought to a vote any time soon. An hour and a half later, however, it became clear that not only was the Security Council due to vote on a cease-fire resolution at any minute, but Rice had ordered America's UN ambassador to support it. Olmert promptly telephoned U.S. President George Bush to complain about Rice's behavior and demand that he restrain her. What Bush said to Rice remains unknown. What is known, however, is that the U.S. suddenly changed its vote from "yes" to "abstain."
The whole story would have ended well had Olmert behaved like a responsible adult and restrained his own impulses. Even his close associates admit that he would have done better to skip the public boasting about how he persuaded Bush to overrule Rice. Quite aside from the fact that this embarrassed the U.S. administration, Olmert's associates understand all too well that this story merely provides fresh ammunition to those who claim the Jews are the ones who really control America.
I'm an old man, what do I know?? But what I know is that some Nazi's here with Condoms that want to Fuck our Great Country in the Ass talk about being Progressives, ... The mother of Progressives in the USA, is Mother-Jones, and what does she say about the OREO?? ..
Obama at AIPAC
Some key take-aways from Barack Obama's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) today:
I will bring to the White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with ensuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. ...I will ensure Israel can defend itself from any threat, from Gaza to Tehran. ...
As president I will use all elements of American power to pressure Iran. I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything.
That starts with aggressive, principled tough diplomacy with clear eyed understanding of our interests. We have no time to waste. ... We have tried limited, piecemeal talks, outsourced to other parties. It has not worked. It is time for the US to lead ....
I have no interest to sit down just for sake of talking. But as president I would be willing at time and place of my choosing, if and only if it advances the interests of the United States. It is time once again to make diplomacy succeed.
(Choice to Iran will be clear). If you abandon your nuclear program, your support for terrorism, and your threats to Israel, there will be economic incentives. If you refuse, we will ratchet up the pressure.
(And it will be clear to the world) that the Iran regime is the author of its own isolation, and that will strengthen our hand -- with allies, Russia, China ...
(A contact in the room observed that Mccain got a better reception two days ago. "Applause on Obama's Iran comments was very lackluster - and the cheers seemed to largely come from the student delegation there.")
Here's a full transcript of Obama's remarks as prepared for delivery (.pdf).
Highlights from liveblog of Obama speech below:
Extraordinary night last night. I want to publicly acknowledge Hillary Clinton for extraordinary race that she has run. ...She has made history alongside me for the past 16 months.
Provocative emails circulating around Jewish community in country. Let me know if you see this guy Barack Obama because he sounds pretty scary.
Today I will be speaking from my heart as a true friend of Israel.
I know that when I visit AIPAC, I am among friends, good friends. Friends who share my strong commitment that bond between US and Israel unbreakable today, unbreakable tomorrow, unbreakable forever ....
One of many things I admire about Aipac is fight for this cause from the bottom up .... to make sure bond between Israel and the US is rooted in more than our shared national interests, rooted in shared values and stories of our people. As president, I will work with you to ensure that this bond that is strengthened.
First became familiar with Israel when I was 11 years old. Had a camp counselor, who was American Jew, but he had lived in Israel. Faith family and culture, year after year, generation after generation. Story made powerful impression on me. I had grown up without a sense of roots. My father from Kenya, left when I was two. My mother white, from Kansas. In many ways I did not know where I came from. Understood Zionist idea that there is always a homeland at center of our story. I also learned about horror of the Holocaust, and terrible urgency it brought to need for state of Israel. My grandfather served in World War II, for months when he came home from Germany, he was in shock. ...
Like Eisenhower, each of must bear witness... We must mean what we say when we speak the words 'never again.' (sustained applause)
Just a few years after liberation of camps that David Ben Gurion established state of Israel. Just and necessary. Sixty years later, we cannot relent, we cannot yield, and as president I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security. (applause)
Not when maps across Middle East that don't acknowledge Israel's existence, not when rockets raining down on Sderot. ....
I have long understood Israel's quest for peace and need for security. Never more than travels two years ago when went to Israel, flying on IDF helicopter, .....talked to people who never wanted something more simple and more elusive than secure future for their children.
I am proud to be part of strong, bipartisan consensus that has vowed to stand by Israel in face of all threats. That is a commitment Mccain and I share. Support for israel goes beyond party in this country.
But part of our commitment must be speaking up for Israel's security when Israel is at risk. None of us can be satisfied that [recent] foreign policy has made Israel more secure. Hamas controls Gaza. Iraq wrong war - Iran more dangerous. Iran emboldened and poses greatest strategic threat to US and Israel in a generation.
Question is how to move forward. There are those who would continue and intensify this failed status quo. Ignoring evidence our recent foreign policy has been dangerously flawed. Then there are voices that blame Middle East conflict for all region's extremism. Those that threaten Israel threaten us.
I will bring to White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel's security.
That starts with ensuring Israel's qualitative military advantage.
Will ensure Israel can defend itself from any threat, from Gaza to Tehran.
As president I will implelement a Memeorandum of Understanding to provide $30 billion in [defense] investments to Israel - not tied to any other nation.
I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself at the UN and around the world. (applause)
Real security can only come through lasting peace. That is In Israel's national interest, in America's national interest, and in the Palestinian peoples' interest. (applause)
I will help achieve the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. And I won't wait until waning days of my presidency. I will take an active role to advance cause of peace from start of my administration (applause). ...
There is no room at the negotiating table for terrorist organizations. (applause) That is why I opposed allowing Hamas to run in 2006 presidential elections. Israel and the Palestinian Authority warned us, but this administration pressed ahead. The result is Gaza controlled by Hamas.
Egypt must cut off smuggling of weapons into Gaza.
Israel can also advance cause of peace by taking appropriate steps consistent with its security to ease freedom of movement - at checkpoints - as it agreed to do with Bush administration at Annapolis.
Israel's security is sacrosanct. It is non negotiable.
Palestinians need a state that is contiguous and cohesive and enables them to prosper. But any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, secure in its borders, and Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, secure and undivided.
No illusions any of this will be easy. Most Israelis and Palestinians want peace.
US must be strong and consistent partner in this process, help committed partners achieve progress.
Threats to Israel start close to home but do not end there.
Syria has taken dangerous steps in pursuit of WMD which is why Israeli action entirely justified to end that threat.
Also believe US has responsibility to support Israel''s effort to renew peace talks with Syrians. We should never force Israel to negotiating table. But neither should we block negotiations when Israeli leaders think they serve Israeli interests.
Success requires full enforcement of UN SC res: It is time for reckless Syrian behavior in Lebanon to come to end.
(Iran)
There is no greater threat to Israel or peace than Iran. This audience is made up of both Republicans and Democrats. The enemies of Israel should have no doubt: regardless of party, Americans stand shoulder to shoulder in support of Israel's security.
The Iran regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across region. It pursues nuclear capability that could start arms race and... its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map.
My goal will be to eliminate this threat.
Just as we are clear eyed about threat, we must be clear about barriers to effective policy.
We knew in 2002 that Iran was a threat - supporting terrorism, etc.... Instead we ignored it and invaded Iraq.
When I opposed the war I knew it would fan flames of extremism in Middle East. It has.
US and Israel are less secure (because of Iraq invasion).
McCain and I differ on that.
Iran has strengthened its position (because of US policy in Iraq). Those are the facts and they cannot be denied
Refuse to continue policy that has made US and Israel less secure (applause)
McCain offers false choice. ... I reject his logic because there is a better way.
Keeping all our troops in Iraq is precisely what strengthens Iran. It's a policy for staying, not a policy for victory.
I have proposed phased redeployment of our troops for Iraq. Get out as carefully as we got in carelessly.
As president I will use all elements of American power to pressure Iran. I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything (sustained applause).
That starts with aggressive, principled tough diplomacy with clear eyed understanding of our interests. We have no time to waste.
We have tried limited piecemeal talks - outsourced to other parties. it has not worked. Time for the US to lead (applause). ...
I have no interest to sit down just for sake of talking. But as president I would be willing at time of place of my choosing if and only if it advances the interests of the United States. (play on Rice's speech).
Time once again to make diplomacy succeed.
(Choice to Iran will be clear).
If you abandon your nuclear program, your support for terrorism, and your threats to Israel - there will be economic incentives.
If you refuse, we will ratchet up the pressure.
(And it will be clear to the world that that) Iran regime is the author of its own isolation, and that will strengthen our hand -- with allies, Russia, China, etc.
(ticks off support for every element in Iran counterproliferation act. including ban on gas imports.)
I introduced legislation a year ago to divest from Iran..... For some reason, McCain never signed on. Anonymous senator blocks the bill. It is time to pass this into law. So we can tighten sanctions on the Iranian regime. We should also tighten sanctions on Iranian banks and other assets....
We must reduce our dependence on oil. And Bush policies have driven up the price of oil. And we can join Israel to develop alternative sources of energy. (applause, applause, applause)
We should work with Israel - increasing scientific collaboration and joint R/D - surest way to ensure leverage is to stop bankrolling the Iranian regime.
There should be no doubt: I will always keep the threat of military action to defend our security and our ally Israel. Do not be confused.
Sometimes there are no alternatives to confrontation. If we must use military force, we are more likely to succeed and have more support at home and abroad if we have exahusted our diplomatic options. That is the change we need in our policy.
Tikkun Olam....obligation to repair this world.....American Jews are committed to social justice.....
(Jewish Americans joined African Americans in leading civil rights movement. ...)
Their legacy is our heritage. We must work together ... Jews and African Americans ... to end prejudice and combat hatred in all its forms. Join our voices together - and in doing so even the mightiest enemies will fall down. Now is the time to be vigilant to be facing down every foe. Just as we move forward in seeking future of peace.
Now is the time to stand by Israel as it writes the next chapter. ...
Now is the time to join together in the work of repairing this world.
Thanks everybody, God Bless You.
Can't you read you jackass. Nobody gives a shit about your rants. Get off this fuckin' blog.
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FUCK YOU.
When good men remain silent, ... thats how all fucking dictatorships begin.
Mob banks, Mob bank hits, ... yes the MOB runs Bend, and BEND is a MOB town,
Quite aside from the fact that this embarrassed the U.S. administration, Olmert's associates understand all too well that this story merely provides fresh ammunition to those who claim the Jews are the ones who really control America.
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Move along, and pls whoever post this cease, or HBM & Dunc will suck your marrow when dead.
Move along.
And so AIPAC still continues to run the US and the world looks on in astonishment as 303 million Americans meekly accept instructions from this counter democratic pressure group the (original) American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. Not only do they accept instructions on how to run their country but they allow their valuable tax dollars to be used to support the AIPAC agenda. As Bush and Rice jump so do ordinary Americans in what is claimed to be a democracy. I guess my concept of democracy is a little different from the American model.
Today what's good for AIPAC is good for ameriKKA, and if you don't like it, fuck you your going to die.
Even here in Bend Orygun, notable for nuttin except dimwits who bought worthless desert swamp land and dumb fucking 'christian bank tellers running Cracker Ass Banks'.
But WHERE did all the profits go?? Where is all the money?'
Where is all the S-1031 money that was used to front Zion-Ministry??
Where is all the money that MOSS used to front Christian Zionism Home Schooling?
Who the fuck put Moss, Neuman, Lyons, ... and others in positions that they could do fiduciary harm??
What's new now with OREO & Change, is that BUSH & RICE have to act stupid and say "What me an AIPAC whore??"
But OREO, like our Wyden or Merkley, they actually wear their AIPAC ownership on their sleeve as insiders in world dominion.
U.S. Muslims Call Obama “House Nigger”
Obama openly talking about understanding Zionism: “And I understood the Zionist idea that there is always a homeland at the center of our story.”
“SubhanAllah, and Muslims voted for this Zionist Kafir House Nigger?”
“As one brother had put it, Obama is a shiny toy in a child’s playground; everyone gets distracted by it and forgets the main issues. He plays the role of a Dajjal (deceiver) extremely well.”
The above is from one U.S. black muslim website, one of many that have popped up expressing a lot of dismay toward Obama, because he does appear to be siding with the Zionist Jews. Zionism, simply put, is a Jewish belief in their destiny to have a homeland, Israel, or “Zion”. Obamas choice for Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is a Jewish Zionist and this is driving our Negro skinhead, redneck muslims nuts.
Obama is a lawyer. A very successful lawyer. This should tell anybody that he’s a very skilled liar, because all lawyers are liars. Depraved dishonesty and an utter lack of conscience are a requirement of the trade.
Keep that in mind whenever you read or hear anything he says. It’s what he actually does that matters and being an attorney, he plays every angle he can latch onto. This includes sucking in tons of money from foreign muslims to get elected, promising anybody anything as long as he can do it privately, that will give him some sort of advantage, and trying to please everyone who has a lot of power, or has something he wants.
Deceiver. I agree. Sounds like the black muslim whitey-haters are waking up. Obama is going to do what he deems most expedient. He’s a house nigger and he’ll go whichever way the wind blows.
A small but significant trial balloon went up late last year when Charles Winters received a presidential pardon. Winters delivered three converted World War II B-17 bombers to the nascent Israeli armed forces in the late 1940s. Co-conspirators Herman Greenspun and Al Schwimmer were fellow operatives within a vast network of nonprofit front organizations stealing, reconditioning, and smuggling surplus WWII arms [.pdf] scheduled to be scrapped under President Truman's War Assets Administration. Greenspun personally stole 58 crates (weighing 35 tons) of .30 and .50 caliber machine guns from the U.S. military for shipment from Hawaii to the Middle East in violation of the 1939 Neutrality Act. Mainstream media has generally portrayed Winters' posthumous pardon as "setting the record straight." His hometown newspaper trumpeted that Winters was "on the wrong side of the law, but on the right side of history."
Those concerned about the portrayal of Israel's history, including Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg, are among the many prominent individuals and organizations that lobbied for Winters' pardon last year. A similar coalition is pushing for the last-minute pardon of not only two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act, but also Israel's most notorious spy. Former U.S. naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison a quarter century ago for selling some of America's most closely held national defense secrets to Israel. As the final deadline looms, President Bush should carefully consider whether executive clemency for lawbreaking in the name of Israel achieves positive benefits or merely encourages ever more audacious challenges to the rule of law in America.
How Barack Obama learned to love Israel
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2007
(EI Illustration)
I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago. He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking 'if only a man of this calibre could become president one day.'
On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago. It had been much anticipated in American Jewish political circles which buzzed about his intensive efforts to woo wealthy pro-Israel campaign donors who up to now have generally leaned towards his main rival Senator Hillary Clinton.
Reviewing the speech, Ha'aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner concluded that Obama "sounded as strong as Clinton, as supportive as Bush, as friendly as Giuliani. At least rhetorically, Obama passed any test anyone might have wanted him to pass. So, he is pro-Israel. Period."
Israel is "our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy," Obama said, assuring his audience that "we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs." Such advanced multi-billion dollar systems he asserted, would help Israel "deter missile attacks from as far as Tehran and as close as Gaza." As if the starved, besieged and traumatized population of Gaza are about to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Obama offered not a single word of criticism of Israel, of its relentless settlement and wall construction, of the closures that make life unlivable for millions of Palestinians.
There was no comfort for the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who live in the dark, or the patients who cannot get dialysis, because of what Israeli human rights group B'Tselem termed "one cold, calculated decision, made by Israel's prime minister, defense minister, and IDF chief of staff" last summer to bomb the only power plant in Gaza," a decision that "had nothing to do with the attempts to achieve [the] release [of a captured soldier] nor any other military need." It was a gratuitous war crime, one of many condemned by human rights organizations, against an occupied civilian population who under the Fourth Geneva Convention Israel is obligated to protect.
From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)
While constantly emphasizing his concern about the threat Israelis face from Palestinians, Obama said nothing about the exponentially more lethal threat Israelis present to Palestinians. In 2006, according to B'Tselem, Israeli occupation forces killed 660 Palestinians of whom 141 were children -- triple the death toll for 2005. In the same period, 23 Israelis were killed by Palestinians, half the number of 2005 (by contrast, 500 Israelis die each year in road accidents).
But Obama was not entirely insensitive to ordinary lives. He recalled a January 2006 visit to the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona that resembled an ordinary American suburb where he could imagine the sounds of Israeli children at "joyful play just like my own daughters." He saw a home the Israelis told him was damaged by a Hizbullah rocket (no one had been hurt in the incident).
Six months later, Obama said, "Hizbullah launched four thousand rocket attacks just like the one that destroyed the home in Kiryat Shmona, and kidnapped Israeli service members."
Obama's phrasing suggests that Hizbullah launched thousands of rockets in an unprovoked attack, but it's a complete distortion. Throughout his speech he showed a worrying propensity to present discredited propaganda as fact. As anyone who checks the chronology of last summer's Lebanon war will easily discover, Hizbullah only launched lethal barrages of rockets against Israeli towns and cities after Israel had heavily bombed civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon killing hundreds of civilians, many fleeing the Israeli onslaught.
Obama excoriated Hizbullah for using "innocent people as shields." Indeed, after dozens of civilians were massacred in an Israeli air attack on Qana on July 30, Israel "initially claimed that the military targeted the house because Hezbollah fighters had fired rockets from the area," according to an August 2 statement from Human Rights Watch.
The statement added: "Human Rights Watch researchers who visited Qana on July 31, the day after the attack, did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. Similarly, none of the dozens of international journalists, rescue workers and international observers who visited Qana on July 30 and 31 reported seeing any evidence of Hezbollah military presence in or around the home. Rescue workers recovered no bodies of apparent Hezbollah fighters from inside or near the building." The Israelis subsequently changed their story, and neither in Qana, nor anywhere else did Israel ever present, or international investigators ever find evidence to support the claim Hizbullah had a policy of using civilians as human shields.
In total, forty-three Israeli civilians were killed by Hizbullah rockets during the thirty-four day war. For every Israeli civilian who died, over twenty-five Lebanese civilians were killed by indiscriminate Israeli bombing -- over one thousand in total, a third of them children. Even the Bush administration recently criticized Israel's use of cluster bombs against Lebanese civilians. But Obama defended Israel's assault on Lebanon as an exercise of its "legitimate right to defend itself."
There was absolutely nothing in Obama's speech that deviated from the hardline consensus underpinning US policy in the region. Echoing the sort of exaggeration and alarmism that got the United States into the Iraq war, he called Iran "one of the greatest threats to the United States, to Israel, and world peace." While advocating "tough" diplomacy with Iran he confirmed that "we should take no option, including military action, off the table." He opposed a Palestinian unity government between Hamas and Fatah and insisted "we must maintain the isolation of Hamas" until it meets the Quartet's one-sided conditions. He said Hizbullah, which represents millions of Lebanon's disenfranchised and excluded, "threatened the fledgling movement for democracy" and blamed it for "engulf[ing] that entire nation in violence and conflict."
Over the years since I first saw Obama speak I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at which Edward Said was the keynote speaker. In 2000, when Obama unsuccessfully ran for Congress I heard him speak at a campaign fundraiser hosted by a University of Chicago professor. On that occasion and others Obama was forthright in his criticism of US policy and his call for an even-handed approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The last time I spoke to Obama was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing.
As he came in from the cold and took off his coat, I went up to greet him. He responded warmly, and volunteered, "Hey, I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front." He referred to my activism, including columns I was contributing to the The Chicago Tribune critical of Israeli and US policy, "Keep up the good work!"
But Obama's gradual shift into the AIPAC camp had begun as early as 2002 as he planned his move from small time Illinois politics to the national scene. In 2003, Forward reported on how he had "been courting the pro-Israel constituency." He co-sponsored an amendment to the Illinois Pension Code allowing the state of Illinois to lend money to the Israeli government. Among his early backers was Penny Pritzker -- now his national campaign finance chair -- scion of the liberal but staunchly Zionist family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain. (The Hyatt Regency hotel on Mount Scopus was built on land forcibly expropriated from Palestinian owners after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967). He has also appointed several prominent pro-Israel advisors.
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama listen to Professor Edward Said give the keynote address at an Arab community event in Chicago, May 1998. (Photo: Ali Abunimah)
Obama has also been close to some prominent Arab Americans, and has received their best advice. His decisive trajectory reinforces a lesson that politically weak constituencies have learned many times: access to people with power alone does not translate into influence over policy. Money and votes, but especially money, channelled through sophisticated and coordinated networks that can "bundle" small donations into million dollar chunks are what buy influence on policy. Currently, advocates of Palestinian rights are very far from having such networks at their disposal. Unless they go out and do the hard work to build them, or to support meaningful campaign finance reform, whispering in the ears of politicians will have little impact. (For what it's worth, I did my part. I recently met with Obama's legislative aide, and wrote to Obama urging a more balanced policy towards Palestine.)
If disappointing, given his historically close relations to Palestinian-Americans, Obama's about-face is not surprising. He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him in power. Palestinian-Americans are in the same position as civil libertarians who watched with dismay as Obama voted to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act, or immigrant rights advocates who were horrified as he voted in favor of a Republican bill to authorize the construction of a 700-mile fence on the border with Mexico.
Only if enough people know what Obama and his competitors stand for, and organize to compel them to pay attention to their concerns can there be any hope of altering the disastrous course of US policy in the Middle East. It is at best a very long-term project that cannot substitute for support for the growing campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions needed to hold Israel accountable for its escalating violence and solidifying apartheid.
Now Bend Morons, you have to understand the power of money. Carter in his book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" , pg 209, "...(I)n the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned, voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media..." In other words, Zionists dominate the US media. "At the same time, political leaders and news media in Europe are highly critical of Israeli policies, affecting public attitudes." "Citizens in 15 European nations, indicate that Israel was considered to be the top threat to world peace."
In Arron David Miller’s book, “The Much Too Promised Land”, he states that “no ethnic group has the power and focus of the American-Jewish community.” “Today you cannot be successful in American politics and not be good on Israel.” London review of books, The Israel Lobby , by John Mearsheimer(U of Chicago)and Stephen Walt(Harvard U) (book endorsed by former Carter Security Advisor Brzezinski)“Thanks in part to the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections, the Lobby also has significant leverage over the executive branch. Although they make up fewer than 3 per cent of the population, they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates ‘depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 per cent of the money’. And because Jewish voters have high turn-out rates and are concentrated in key states like California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, presidential candidates go to great lengths not to antagonize them.”
See the boasting by the Jews in Neil Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and Hoberman and Shandler’s Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting.
It is a litmus test that every candidate to the US Congress and the presidency have to go through; to prove unwavering loyalty to Israel, loyalty to America is always secondary. Those running for public office in the US can disagree on host of issues; from the war in Iraq to gay marriage, but dare any of them disagrees with Israel (We all know what happened to President Carter when he voiced a mild criticism of Israel). The loyal Israeli dogs in the media are waiting to tear apart the reputation of any candidate or public office holder who does not agree with Israel 100%. Candidates, as Obama just did, have to step on their conscious, lie, distort the truth and praise Israel as a pure democracy. They have to pledge the US treasury to support the illegal Israeli occupation of Arab Lands and its daily violation of international law. They have to be willing to send our soldiers to fight and die for Israel (as in Iraq, and the upcoming attack on Iran). They have to promise to make enemies around the world just to appease Israel. No candidate for public office in the US can afford to offend Israel. Those who do will be mollified by the media. Their political careers will be destroyed and the little mishaps, if any, in their past political lives will be displayed, amplified and distorted day and night in the so-called mainstream media.
American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has a sole mission: To spy on America for Israel, -as did AIPAC member’s Larry Franklin, Stephen Rosen and Keith Weissman- and to destroy those who criticize Israel. Yet AIPAC is not registered as a foreign government’s lobby, as the US law requires.
Those who believe that AIPAC intimidates its opponents by leveraging the Jewish vote (2% of total Voters) or the vast Jewish political contributions to the process are only partially correct. The preferred weapon of choice at AIPAC’s disposal is the army of Jewish and non-Jewish reporters who pledged total loyalty to Israel for ideological or career-enhancing reasons. These loyal attack dogs can ruin the career of any politician in matter of days if dared to challenge any of Israel’s multiple fallacies.
Take John McCain’s initial acceptance of Rev. Hagee’s endorsement. McCain admitted doing so because Hagee’s strong support for Israel. Using the Jewish vote argument does not make mathematical sense in this case. Hagee called the Catholic Church “Great Whore” and “False Cult System” and this is profoundly offensive to Catholics. Yet, McCain chose to please 2% of the voters (Jewish) at the expense 20% of the voters (Catholics). How could 2% of the voters trump the 20%? It can only happen when the 2% have clout that is far more proportional to their numbers. AIPAC uses this clout in the so-called mainstream media to blackmail and destroy the critics of Israel. This is precisely what we have witnessed today at the AIPAC’s Annual Conference. Our spineless politicians were standing in line in false pretence praising Israel; trying to safeguard their political careers. First, it was Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, and then McCain, all clamoring to please Israel at the expense of our own national interest.
American pragmatism in regards to Israel would demand that an American president has a concrete and consistent “national security strategy” designed for the United States of American and not the State of Israel. This does not exist today and Obama’s comments suggest that he will also fail to fulfill this necessity.
Consequently the United States is compromised from security standpoint because the US cannot operate as a just “sovereign” from a hegemonic point of view. The position of the US in regards to Israel is compromised because the “Security of Israel is sacrosanct”, which means that the security of Palestinians or Lebanese or Syrians or Jordanians or Egyptians or Iraqis and so on are not—their security is defined by the whim of Israel or as we have seen in Iraq the whim of the President.
In response to Obama’s comment in regards to Israel’s security being sacrosanct, we might have hoped to hear that their security must respect human rights and fall with in the bounds of international law and that they state their case before the UN. That Israel is not respected in the UN, is not built on anti-Semitism, though there undoubtedly is anti-Semitism to be found, the real issue has more to do with Israel’s actions in regards to the rights of Palestinians in general and because they are armed with atomic weapons they are in breach of the laws governing the nonproliferation of atomic weapons. In other words Israel’s WMD contradict the National Security Strategy of President Bush.
It is this denial of responsibility by the leadership of our nation that lacks all form for pragmatism. If security in the Middle East were the sacrosanct policy of the United States government then there would peace in the Middle East. So what one must find out is who is it that “wins” by this state of perpetual war and chaos? Certainly not us—because we stand on the very doorstep of total bankruptcy! Those who can be viewed as the winner—whose trail can be discovered by following the money—are the real enemies and they can be contained!
The existence of Israel is one thing; the imprisonment of entire people is altogether something else. That cannot be called “security” and it cannot not defended—not even by those who envision themselves as the “chosen people” of God. Israel with its history of the holocaust seems to be almost oblivious to its state sanctioned policies of “ethnic cleansing” and “ethnic imprisonment” or more properly termed “apartheid”—perhaps Jews believe its okay when they do it—maybe it is time for a Palestinian version of QBVII? We are at any rate not speaking of “sacrosanct” but rather perversion. If the US is going to obtain a state of pragmatism as opposed to a position of dogmatism then Israel will have to be told a few things they do not want to hear.
More critically, if the Jewish lobby threatens American interests then the Jewish lobby will in the long run be crushed and the conditions for this are rising rapidly. This can occur if the US dollar becomes so weak that the US begins to crumble and then there will arise American politicians that will blame the collapse of US power on Jews—these politicians will at first be unpopular but as the depression thickens they will win power. Jews perhaps ought to recognize that they do not really have any place to run other than the US (well there is of course Israel but undermining the US is part and parcel to undermining the future of Israel), which because they serve two masters, it will be argued that they are undermining us at the expense of Israel—which ultimately means that they are undermining the nation (Israel) they love as well.
Regardless, Israel operates as it does because it has no constraints placed on it by the US—ironically this is because American leadership “appeases” Israel. I say ironically because it is the recent accusations by President Bush and would be President John McCain who argue that Obama’s willingness to talk to the alleged “enemy” is guilty of appeasement. Such statements by the President and the would be president McCain merely show that these men do not understand “power” but rather represent the minds of provincial dogmatists. Thus when Israel takes it upon itself to invade Lebanon over the kidnapping of two soldiers and a few rockets it is totally out of proportion to “the threat”. Still the invasion was allowable because there is no American foreign policy constraint in place saying—if you take any unilateral military action you will be punished. A combination of the EU and the US does have the power to tell Israel either you behave as though you belong to this world or else you will pay financially. The price of Israel’s failed invasion and their inability to “conquer” Lebanon ought to send alarm bells in regards to Israel’s hawkish standpoint.
The pragmatics of the US in regards to the Middle East is obvious. American interests are to a high degree the same as that of the world—stability in the region means a constant price on oil, which again enhances sound principles for global stability and prospering trade and a constant price on oil means that which regulates its price are normal economic forces (war is not a normal economic force)—for example that the value of the dollar is strong (in parity with the Euro) and inflation in the US is low. The role of the US is not to be Israel’s little shoe shiner boy, but rather to be the master of diplomacy so that if peace is to be created then all parties in the Middle East must be brought together and a deal hammered out. Thus when Bush decided to attack Iraq he punishes the world as well as Americans and when Israel attacks Lebanon they too punish the world because it destabilizes the region and it increases the animosity towards the US because the world knows that Israel takes the action it takes with the blessings of America written all over it—so much for bringing democracy to the middle east. It also fuels Arabs with grounds to jack up the price of oil.
The BS that it is impossible to create a Palestinian State is simply not true. But the alternative to a Palestinian state is that Israel becomes a true democracy as opposed to a “Jewish State” for Jews and become a Democracy for People. Then the walling in of Palestinians would be undemocratic. Such a situation would mean that Palestinians vote as citizens of Israel and as such entitled to all of the rights entitled to Israelis. This would mean that policing the people with tanks and machine guns would also be illegal and the assassinations would be illegal and that people cannot simple be held indefinitely or tortured but would have to be arrested using “evidence” and in general Israel would have to abide by such principles as “habeas corpus” and “due process”. So Democracy in Israel wouldn’t be Democracy for Jews and Prison for Palestinians but rather Democracy for both.
Instead we have an apartheid regime that hides behind American cowardice—with the exception of Jimmy Carter who is refusing to appease Israel—here appeasement means that Israel is not held accountable for its apartheid policies. Thus had the US not appeased Israel then the “unilateral” invasion of Lebanon would have been met with immediate sanctions against Israel or appeasement is allowing Israel to have nukes while Iran is to be hunted down like a stray dog—or if we recalled Saddam Hussein’s “unilateral” invasion of Kuwait was met with immediate retaliation by the US while the total destruction of Lebanon by Israel was met with a 30 billion dollar paycheck complements of Uncle Sam.
It does seem that Obama has through his statements already undermined his credibility in future negotiation in the Middle East if he so happens to win the presidency. Still and in spite this obvious weakness, he’ll get my vote
since jews are only 2% of US population but owns over 40% of wealth,
are they the fittest? funny thing is they practice rand-ist
capitalism to make as much money as they can--banks, finance,
hollywood, media, technology, drugs, law, medicine, music industry,
ownership of sports franchises, retail, etc--but then promote
socialism--so as to hog 'social justice' themes and to control
government as well. so you have cutthroat hollywood jews who will
make and sell any movie to make billions off of us in the most crass
way.. then promoting liberal and even leftist agendas.
how do you explain this, stever? you are for meritocracy, yet the
main beneficiaries of meritocratism--the jews--prefer leftism and
liberalism as ideology. those who seek to rise highest, are most
ambitious, wanna enter the elitest of the elite, are hungry for most
power and money...
those people are for 'equality'. of course, they don't be equal to
us. they wanna have more power than us and then only impose their
idea
of 'equality' on us dumb goyim.
that's where Obama comes in. superrich jews bought off a radical so
they can control 'people's movement' too.
another reason why jews love obama: obama owes the jews, and so he
will have to side with israel. somewhere down the line, muslims are
are gonna say 'obama, you jew-ass kissing nigger'. then, the jewish
press will say, 'look, all you negroes, those muslims and arabs
called
obama a nigger'. that way, jews hope that blacks will come to side
with jews over muslims.
on the one hand, jews are superrich and most powerful among us. but,
they are also greedy for 'victimhood' and sympathy, so they wanna
maintain their 'victim' status. since they are rich and powerful,
this
is a hard sell today. so, jews promote holocaustery(never mind what
they did as communists) and try to associate with victim groups like
the negroes. problem is lots of blacks don't like jews. many blacks
see jews as hustlers and exploiters of blacks. and, many blacks
have
come to sympathize more with muslims and palestinians. but, if obama
is pro-israel and if muslims call him 'nigger' over that fact, the
jewish media can have a field day. jewish media will say, 'look, we
jews love obama but muslims called him nigger'. gee, maybe blacks
may
side more with jews than with muslims...
jews are so sneaky, but they don't fool me.
stever, capitalism is owned by jews now. if you want power for your
people, you better go with national socialism(not National Socialism
as in Nazism). Also, libertarianism is stupid for whites because
it's
about atomized individuals. white folks must unite into a racial,
cultural, and militant community. individualism must exist within
that
community, not as some abstract independent principle. We are
nothing
outside culture and heritage and race and nation. by 'national
socialism', i don't mean anti-capitalism but a mix of capitalism and
socialism for the good for the racial/cultural community you belong
to
(like how the Irish used government in big cities to gain and hold
power).
you can't keep playing fair with jews since jews don't play fair with
you. you said it's fine for jews to be smart and make tons of money.
you never complained. you congratulated them for their rand-ian
success. so, what do these super successful jews do? they call YOU a
greedy 'racist' pig and say we need liberalism, political
correctness,
open borders, and etc to destroy your white ass.
jews are for jewish power, blacks are for black powers, mexers are
for
mexican power, asians are for asian power. it's time for whites to
stop talking about color blindness and so on. all that is dead. at
one time, liberals and left championed color blind ideals against
white privilege, but now the liberals, leftists, and people of color
are for tribal and group power--and their numbers are rising while
white numbers are falling. so, it's time for whites to think of white
power. all this individual libertarian shit is nowhere. indeed, it
serves the interests of the left and people-of-color because while
they are united, all those libertarian white boys are atomized clods
whose greatest passion in life, 'leave me alone to smoke my bud'.
Let me tell you something, when Adolf Hitler started his party, they had only four members. Only reason for Jewish power is that Jews own mass Medias, banks and two main parties. Jewish power is not real, its artificial, and when these effects will fade away, then Jews are in great danger. Internet is dangerous for Jews, because they don’t control it yet.
If I was what you just said, why then my blog is monitored by ADL and other Jewish organizations? Why Jews harass me and send death threats to me by mail?
Starve a troll guys.....
How about Scientology? That's some crazy shit.
Does anybody read the long cut and paste rants that are plastering this site?
Why don't you anti/pro Israeli faggots meet at a coffee shop and stop boring the rest of us with all your bullshit.
Signed,
The real anonymous.
>>Does anybody read the long cut and paste rants that are plastering this site?
Haha. Of course not. Who would read all that?
It's like someone used the bathroom and left the PR/Newswire faucet on.
When someone is trying to make a point, they are discriminating in what they post, so that they can have a chance to influence people.
Boring people with copypasta is not effective.
Someone's trying to do something here, and it has nothing to do with promoting an idea.
Tagged and ready to sell
One long insipid piece about BEND PR.
They're actually BRAGGING about it. It's a NEWS STORY on BEND PR.
Even myself. From here forward, I, anonymous, have selected, and hereby reserved the handle "anonymous". Nobody else may ever comment under the anonymous handle, and then all comments from anonymous will be from me.
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Well, that worked well... NOT!
Evidently, somebody else stole my 'anonymous' handle since last night, and commented using my 'anonymous' handle.
Just for the record, those comments were not mine.
But now, troops, I am back. To swim another day, through the vapid swamp of Zionist Cut-n-Paste, in search of a few small nuggets of wisdom.
Visit Bend. Be insipid.
Quimby said...
Starve a troll guys.....
January 15, 2009 10:41 PM
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There's the one pearl (ok, nugget) of wisdom that I was searching for.
Starvation is a good thing.
Cali is screwed:
California might issue IOUs for tax refunds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California might delay tax refunds to more than 10 million taxpayers or even issue IOUs because the state is running out of money, authorities warned Wednesday.
It would be the second time the state has issued IOUs on tax refunds since the Great Depression, but the first time it would be felt widely because the delay comes in the middle of tax season.
The most populous state in the nation has a $41.6 billion deficit, and finance officials project the state will run out of cash in late February. The state controller will make a decision about the refunds by Feb. 1.
For Cheryl Hubbard, 62, a home care worker from Pasadena, a missing tax refund would throw another wrench in her already tight budget. She said her schedule at her $8-an-hour job has already been slashed by half because of the budget crisis.
"If we can't get our tax refunds, we can't pay our bills," said the grandmother, who is planning to use her refund this year to fix her car.
The state returned $10.7 billion to individuals and businesses last year, according to the Franchise Tax Board. The average state refund was $853 for individuals and $13,284 for businesses.
It's best for people expecting refunds to file early, said Lon Sobel, a professor at Southwestern Law School. But one of the forms that some need to complete their taxes, Form 1099, could be coming two weeks later this year, hampering attempts to file early, he said.
State Controller John Chiang has not said whether he will delay or issue IOUs on tax refunds. But Taylor noted that IOUs could bear up to 5 percent in interest costs to the state.
For two months in the summer of 1992, when lawmakers were embroiled in a fight over the state budget, California issued IOUs for many payments it had to make, including tax refunds and state worker paychecks.
State employees who received IOUs successfully sued, arguing that it violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. But few taxpayers felt the pinch because it happened in July, months after the majority of residents file their income taxes.
Issuing IOUs now could also invite lawsuits from individual taxpayers, said John Eastman, dean of the law school at Chapman University and an attorney who has represented anti-tax groups.
Eyewitness Account of Israeli Shelling of UN Gaza Compound
Date : 16/1/2009 Time : 14:35
NEW YORK, January 16, 2009 (WAFA)- At about 10 a.m. local on, the first Israeli shell, from a tank or artillery, crashed into the United Nations main centre in Gaza City Thursday, an hour after 700 Palestinians fleeing intense fighting crowded into the compound and UN officials informed Israeli liaison officers of the dangers of shelling in the area and that shrapnel was coming into the buildings.
“Before the direct strike, we were told, ‘yes we’ve registered that the shrapnel’s coming into your compound, we know the dangers, we’ve informed the operational people on the ground, don’t worry, you won’t be hit’,” the Gaza Director of Operations of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) John Ging, told a news conference in New York, speaking by video link from ground zero.
After the strike on the 20th day of the Israeli offensive launched with the stated aim of ending Hamas rocket attacks into Israel, the Agency, which supplies aid to 750,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza, half the total population, redoubled its liaison efforts.
“We were highlighting that there were great dangers, particularly and noteworthy that we had five trucks full of fuel ready since early morning to be dispatched to re-supply various centres and also water pumping stations and sewage pumping stations and we alerted the Israeli Forces of their exact location,” Mr. Ging said.
Within an hour there was a large explosion and fire erupted in the workshop area where the trucks were parked. As the trucks were moved, six other rounds were fired into the same area and international staff identified them as burning like phosphorous.
“It looked like phosphorous, it smelled like phosphorous and it burned like phosphorous, so that’s why I’m calling it phosphorous,” Mr. Ging said, speaking 60 metres from the first explosion at the vocational training centre, and 150 metres from the second, voicing amazement that only three people were injured in both incidents.
“The place went up in flames. Our workshop was the part that was hit most severely. It went on fire, as did part of the warehouse. Of course, we had to take cover until we got reassurances that there wouldn’t be further firing...There were exploding petrol tanks in the garage itself,” he added, noting that the fire service took two hours to arrive because of the fighting in the area.
“Unfortunately, it was too late to save the warehouse where we had hundreds of tons of food and medicine that were to be dispatched today to our centres, the health centres and food centres.”
It took six hours to get the fire under control and it was still smouldering hours after that. Israel said it was responding to Hamas fire from the vicinity of the UNRWA headquarters. Mr. Ging stressed that there were no militants in or firing from the compound, calling for an independent investigation.
But he emphasized that the Israeli liaison officers with whom UNRWA works are “very sincere, very conscientious and very hard-working” and were obviously passing on the details and trying to reassure the UN.
“It presents us with a new challenge,” he said of the shelling. “This was the hub of our operations, the nerve centre of our operations… But of course we have to adapt to the new challenge and we’re opening up other warehouses outside the compound so that we can keep the operation going…
“The bottom line is of course that the humanitarian plight of the people continues to necessitate our efforts here, we have to keep going notwithstanding the dangers and the risks but also the new challenges that we face. I would put it to you this way, that we had a first hand experience here today in this compound of what the poor people of Gaza have been living with on a daily basis for the last 20 days and nights,” he added.
“So our appeal is not just for the safety of the UN staff and compounds and locations and convoys but even more important, the civilian population, the innocent men, women and children who continue to die and be killed in this conflict and injured in unacceptable numbers by any measure and of course the scale of destruction continues, you would expect when built-up areas are subjected to artillery and tank fire.”
The local visitor association’s tagline, “Bend Sux Caca” conveys a message to the public that has a deeper resonance than the meaning of the words alone.
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Yes, three more nuggets of wisdom. True words are hard to argue with.
Convey a message.
Deeper resonance.
Meaning of words.
Drunc McGeary said...
Eyewitness Account of Israeli Shelling of UN Gaza Compound
Date : 16/1/2009 Time : 14:35
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Aha...
So, now when Dunc is sick at home and bored, he goes online to argue with Butter, buster, pussy and the host of anonys, and Dunc magically transforms into... Drunc!
Like a super hero or something...
One long insipid piece about BEND PR.
They're actually BRAGGING about it. It's a NEWS STORY on BEND PR.
...
Yes, and nobody will read it, because its long, and can be found in a bathroom, and lacks ideas that can be found on TV.
"Leaving on jetplane"
"Seen it once"
"Visit, but you'll not want to stay long",
"If its tourist season, why are they all still alive?"
"I Bend"
"Bend, Solitude for a price"
"It's your reality"
"Oregon's biggest ghost town"
When someone is trying to make a point, they are discriminating in what they post, so that they can have a chance to influence people.
...
Apu,
When the fuck have you ever made a point? Discrimination? Ok, you used to be a loser reporter, and now your a loser something else. Why you bother to show up here everyday and pick on Bend in the abstract is bizarre. You say you have children, but you don't give a fuck about Bend.
When have you ever had a desire to influence anything? Sure long ago from the 'paper' you towered over all with your "paper sword", but quickly learned it was min-wage.
Today you appear here at BB2, and 2-4 times a day drop some insipid comments in code. Big guy, very influential.
A true clone of myself Ned Flanders.
Influencing people in Bend? Now there is an oxymoron, how to you influence a bunch of greedy grifters? A better question is why? The only preferential impulse in my mind would be a good kick in the butt and show them the door back to california.
You are an insipid simpleton if you think this rock is or was ever influential.
It's odd that only now are the old regular bores here starting to tell one another how to behave in the playground, and make rules of all things.
How fucking bizarre.
It would be the second time the state has issued IOUs on tax refunds since the Great Depression
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Another tax on morons.
Who the fuck pays the IRS more than is due? ( Or state taxman )
So we have another 'tax' on stupid cali's, who would have guessed.
How about the old 'atlas shrugged' idea of just laying all dim gov-workers off, and then no cost?
The IOU the backbone of the modern public/private theft.
Long ago AIPAC (KKR JUNK BOND FRONT) looted almost all private pensions in the USA by buying companys, and stealing the pension cash and replacing with IOU's. By the 1990's KKR had litterally ran out of private companys to rob, the private pension was gone, from defined benefit to 'managed'.
The beauty of the system was that PUBLIC pension unions were the largest holder of KKR paper, they know all about substituting real money for IOU's.
So now here we are in 2009, and public employees of calis and giving the citizenry the IOU paper directly, so they can pocket the tax refund deposits and pay their salary and pension.
"If we can't get our tax refunds, we can't pay our bills," said the grandmother, who is planning to use her refund this year to fix her car.
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This is horrible if granny can't fix her car, then she can't leave CALI and CUM to Bend and retire, then I'll not sell any granny comic porn, and Ill starve.
We must do something. The time to act is now!!!!
Cali's are my best customer, and endless stream of cali's is what keeps Bend Comics alive.
No tax refunds means no Bend vacation.
OK. I admit it. I have nothing to say.
I'll all snark and no useful information.
I don't even have any piss for the rock, so I fake it by pouring some Gatorade on it now and then.
PDX another 'BEND FEEDER' completely fucking imploding, ...
PDX prices tumble, backstory on Sienna
Posted by Ryan Frank, The Oregonian January 15, 2009 10:05AM
Categories: Real estate news daily
Olivia Bucks/The OregonianArchitects Gary Reddick, (right) co-owner of the firm, and designer Jeff Lamb (left) will launch a smaller firm.
I'm trying to wrap up a story for this weekend. So here's a quick and dirty top 5 list for you.
Send story ideas and investigative tips: ryanfrank@news.oregonian.com, 503-221-8519.
1. RMLS report shows prices down 16 percent from peak: The global financial crisis and sagging consumer confidence continued to slam the Portland-area housing market in December when home prices tumbled back to December 2005 levels, according to a report released today. Read more.
2. Sienna Architecture Co. CEO on closing: Gary Reddick on the firm that began in 1951: "There's no attempt here to spin it otherwise than the move coming in response to an economic change of climate. We've been working all over the world: China, Vietnam, Jordan, Dubai. But that work has in all cases diminished and in others come to a screeching halt." Brian Libby has more from today's O.
3. Prices fall but no tax relief: Steve Law reports in the Portland Tribune on Oregon's odd tax system and the impact in market with declining values. The result: In a up market, your taxes don't rise as fast as they could. In a down market, your taxes don't fall either. The reason: The tax assessed value is typically 30 to 50 percent less than the market value. So if prices fall just 15 percent, your taxes won't fall. Law reports that about 2,700 property owners appealed their tax bills up from 1,078 last year. But most of those appeals likely won't prevail. Read more.
4. Condo owners v. the first-floor bar: The folks in the Elizabeth Lofts Condominiums continue their ongoing battle with the bar flys below in at Trust. This from a recent Oregonian story: Owners at a Pearl District condo building are suing the restaurant and bar below them, claiming it is noisy and continues to stay open past midnight. In a lawsuit filed in November, the owners association at the Elizabeth Lofts Condominiums say they had reached an agreement in October 2007 with "Trust . . . A Lounge," at Northwest Ninth Avenue and Everett Street, but that Trust breached that agreement. The agreement stated that the Trust agreed to close "no later than 12 a.m. on each day of the week" and that patrons wouldn't smoke on the lounge's patio, among other terms. The suit asks a court to order the business to close by midnight.
5. King of U.S. housing aid: Whatever your politics, you have to agree that Barney Frank is one of the great Washington characters. The New Yorker profiles him in the Jan. 12 issue. I haven't read it yet but my pod-mate Rich Read says it's a great read. It's worth knowing more about the guy who is shaping the TARP, part 2. Read the profile.
I don't even have any piss for the rock, so I fake it by pouring some Gatorade on it now and then.
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We call it 'cali' piss, but a true sniffer knows sugar beet and dye.
Condo owners v. the first-floor bar
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It doesn't matter where you are CONDO == LAWSUITS
Always have always will.
Ergo we may propose that lawyers invented the condo, given that Bend Condo sales are what makes COVA,CORA,COBA tick-tick, ... We already know that team-1031 a who's who of Bend lawyers, ... were in the thick of developing condo lots.
More lawsuits, ...
I love Bend.
German pol decries ‘Jewish-Negro’ alliance
January 11, 2009
NEW YORK (JTA) -- A far-right politician in Germany characterized Barack Obama’s election as "the American alliance of Jews and Negroes."
The American Jewish Committee’s office in Berlin condemned the remarks made by Juergen Gansel, a deputy from the National Democratic Party, in a statement titled "Africa conquers the White House." Deirdre Berger, the office’s director, said she was shocked by Gansel’s "open expression of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism."
The far-right National Democrats are not represented in the Parliament but do hold two seats in two states in eastern Germany. The party’s anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant platform has attracted a following among disaffected youth and the unemployed, according to Deutsche Welle news.
In his statement, Gansel also condemned Germans’ enthusiasm for Obama.
"Many people in the ‘diverse’ republic of Germany have been swept up in Obama fever, which resembles an African tropical disease," he said.
I was wondering around at my wifes bookstore and found this jewel.
Black Jews
Monday, Sep. 27, 1937
In Jerusalem one day last week a young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized, for Jews in Jerusalem as well as for Jews the world over, the end of Judaism's most solemn ten-day period of penitence.
With Rosh Hashonah last fortnight began the Jewish new year, according to the Jewish calendar the 5,698th since the Creation. For Orthodox Jews Yom Kippur, the last 24 hours of the ten-day observance, was a Day of Atonement, the only one of the year on which Mosaic law prescribes abstention from food and drink. Not comparable to any Christian celebration, Yom Kippur meant prostrations for the devout, an effort at self-purification based upon the concept that God was casting up for the year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving—the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai.
Among the 2,000,000 Manhattanites who observed high holy days during the past fortnight were some 600 black Jews in Harlem. Of these a few are converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa—chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that he in particular is of the Tribe of Judah since he bears racial markings mentioned in the Bible—a gap between his upper front teeth, big toes that overlap his foretoes. Although only 600 Harlemites go to Rabbi Matthew's synagog, he believes the Harlem Jewish community numbers some 3,500, basing his figures on hospital records of circumcised Negroes. Currently another Jewish Negro synagog is being built near Westbury. L. I., by the Moorish Palestine Talmud Torah. on land donated by Aaron Jacob.
* Originally the shofar was used to summon the Jews not only to festivals, but to battle.
Now if we could only get a photograph of Obama's penis.
Unless you live in Bend, you probably know that Barney Frank is going to re-write TARP in his own image, ... lets review who Frank is, and who he is owned by.
Have You Lost Your Mind or Just Been Bought Out by AIPAC?
By KATHLEEN M. BARRY
Congressman Barney Frank
2252 Rayburn H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Barney Frank,
While you were espousing the freedom of speech and democratic principles of Israel to the House of Representatives on June 18, 2006, were you thinking of Hedy Epstein, the 84 year old Holocaust survivor and American who recently travelled to Israel and visited with Palestinians there? In your proclamation about the freedom in Israel which you mistakenly represented as the only democracy in the Middle East, were you thinking of how it felt for Hedy to be approached by Israel’s security force when she was leaving the country to return to the US and told she is a terrorist. Were you thinking of how the guards had turned their badges around so that she could not get their names while they forced Hedy to undress, while they penetrated her body, because she is a terrorist, because she met with Palestinians, because she listened to them. Is that the freedom you wish to applaud? To hear how it felt from Hedy herself, if you care, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC37pFQ8tyg .
I know you were not thinking of Professors like Nadera Shaloub Kevorkian, a noted scholar from Hebrew University, awarded for her outstanding research, a recipient of the Golda Meir award even though Golda Meir told us that “there are no Palestinians.” I know you were not thinking of her and how she is subjected to dehumanized searches, seen her children’s photos trampled on by the security, her undergarments twirled like flags in the air for all to see, had her computer and cell phone seized each time she travels outside her country of birth to the many lectures she is invited to give and for the numerous honors bestowed on her. Of course, to Israel and therefore to the American government she would be considered a terrorist. Why? because she is a Palestinian. That is why I know you were not thinking of her when you were standing before the US House of Representatives proclaiming Israel’s democracy as a model of freedom and diversity.
The blatant overt racism against Palestinians I saw in Israel harkened me back to the pre-civil rights US. The guilt-by-association with Palestinians that is alive and thriving in Israel today recalls US McCarthyism. Oh, it is true that women’s rights in Israel have improved and so have gay rights. But to treat that as diversity in the face of the extreme racism that drives the county against Palestinians is for an American Congressman not only dishonorable, but unjust and immoral.
Have you lost your mind or have you just been bought out by AIPAC? I stand with the multitude of Americans who look forward to the day when you and other Representatives and Senators bought by AIPAC discover that your loyalty is really to the United States and to global justice. With all that you have stood for over the years, I expected so much more from you.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Barry, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
>>> I fake it by pouring some Gatorade on it now and then.
At least you could do Old English 800 or Mad Dog or something classy like that. But no, you go all gansta on us and drop Gatorade.
How Bend's Propaganda Machine Works
By Dr. James Zogby
January 16, 2009
Published by the Arab-American Institute.
As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war. This has been an essential component in Israel's early success and in its ability to prolong fighting without U.S. pushback. Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war, Israel fights on this front as vigorously and disproportionately as it engages on the battlefield.
Here's how they have done it:
1. Define the terms of debate, and you win the debate. Early on, the Israelis work to define the context, the starting point, and the story line that will shape understanding of the war. In this instance, for example, they succeeded by constant repetition, in establishing the notion that the starting point of the conflict was December 19th, the end of the six-month ceasefire (which Israel described as "unilaterally ended by Hamas"). In doing so, they ignored, of course, their own early November violations, and their failure to honor their commitment in the ceasefire to open Gaza's borders. They also ignored their having reduced Gaza into a dependency, a process which began long before and continued after their withdrawal in 2005. Because they know that most Americans do not closely follow the conflict and are inclined to believe, as the line goes, "what they hear over and over again," this tactic of preemptive definition and repetition succeeds.
2. Recognize that stereotypes work. Because, for generations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been defined with positive cultural images of Israel and negative stereotypes of Palestinians, Israel's propagandists have an advantage here that is easy to exploit. Because the story has long been seen as "Israeli humanity confronting the Palestinian problem," media coverage of any conflict begins with how "the problem" is affecting the Israeli people. As Golda Meir once put it, "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we can never forgive them for making us kill their children." And so, it was not surprising that, despite the disproportionate suffering of the Palestinians, media coverage attempted to "balance" the story, giving an extensive treatment, with photos of anguished and fearful Israelis and the impact the war was having on them. Early on, when media treatment mattered most, Palestinians were reduced, as always, to mere numbers or objectified as "collateral damage."
3. Anticipate and count on your opponent's blunders. Hamas' stupidity played into Israel's strategy. From the outset, Israel could count on the fact that Hamas would launch rockets and issue the kind of threats that Israel could then parley into sympathy in the West. Knowing that these would most certainly come, and could be exploited, was an advantage in their propaganda war.
4. Be everywhere, and say the same thing--and make sure your opponents remain as invisible as possible. Israel begins each war with a host of English-speaking spokespersons (many born in the West) available at any time for every media outlet (it's no accident, for example, that Israel has an "Arab" Consul General in Atlanta--that's where CNN is). The work of their propaganda operation, which spreads multiple spokespersons in venues across the United States with consistent talking points, guarantees success. At the same time, they are able to deny media access to Gaza, only allowing the Western reporters to operate near the war zone under IDF supervision, guaranteeing Israel the opportunity to shape every aspect of the story while removing the possibility of independent verification of the horror unfolding in Gaza.
5. Give no ground. Since half of the story will be determined by what political leaders say and do, the political apparatus in Washington is also pressed into service, ensuring that White House and Congressional leadership will "toe the line." Statements issued by Congress, therefore, reflect the talking points and, together, the Israeli spokespersons, the political commentators, and the Congressional statements serve as echoes of one another
6. Deny, deny, deny. When events and reality break through, contradicting the Israeli-established narrative, creating stories that run counter to the imposed story line, the propaganda machine works overtime to deny, deny, deny (saying quite boldly, "Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?"), and/or concoct a counter-narrative that shifts the blame ("We didn't do it, they made us"). In this instance, that means asserting that the death of Palestinian civilians is always the fault of someone else, or that reporters or their opponents are staging the photos of grief (as if to say, "Arabs don't really grieve like we do").
7. The last refuge.... When all else fails, point to a few examples of outrageous anti-Semitism, generalize them, suggesting that that is what motivates critics. It stings, and may be over-used, but it can silence or put critics on the defensive.
Slate asks "Who the Fuck is Obama"?
Criticisms, Political Pressure and Barack Obama
By Glenn Greenwald
January 16, 2009
Published by Salon.com.
Barack Obama's announced intentions on ABC News this Sunday regarding Guantanamo sparked substantial objections from civil liberties and human rights advocates. The result of those objections? From The New York Times:
President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, people briefed by Obama transition officials said Monday.
Not only did Obama advisers quickly leak that Obama planned to do that--something he made no mention of on ABC or at any time before that--but they also made known that they have all but rejected the principal plan urged by the pro-war, anti-civil-liberties Brookings Institution and like-minded comrades (such as former Bush official Jack Goldsmith) for a Congressionally-authorized scheme of preventive detention to empower the President to indefinitely detain Terrorists inside the U.S. without having to charge them with any crimes:
In addition, people who have conferred with transition officials said the incoming administration appeared to have rejected a proposal to seek a new law authorizing indefinite detention inside the United States. . . .
In formulating their policy in recent weeks, Obama transition officials have consulted with a variety of authorities on legal and human rights and with military experts. Several of those experts said the officials had expressed great interest in alternatives to the military commission system, like trying detainees in federal courts, and appeared to have grown hostile to proposals like an indefinite detention law.
Why did Obama advisers rush forth on Monday to ensure publication of articles like this one with new announcements for Obama's plans for closing Guantanamo? The reason seems rather obvious, but in case it isn't, the NYT spells it out:
The president-elect drew criticism from some human rights groups Monday who said his remarks suggested that closing Guantánamo was not among the new administration's highest priorities. . . . .
Several said the officials appeared concerned that a proposal for a new law authorizing indefinite detention would bring the new administration much of the criticism that has been directed at the Bush administration over Guantánamo. A former military official who was part of a series of briefings at the transition headquarters in Washington said the officials had spoken about the indefinite detention proposal as a way of creating a "new Guantanámo someplace else."
There are still many vital details left unaddressed, beginning with what Obama meant in the interview when he spoke of the need for authority--what he called a new "process"--to detain accused Terrorists even when the evidence against them is "tainted." Critically, the NYT article does not indicate what Obama's views are regarding the largest concern prompted by his Sunday comments: namely, whether he favors the commonly advocated policy (also urged by Brookings/Goldsmith ) to create, upon the closing of Guantanamo, a new so-called "national security court" or other type of judicial process that allows "tainted" evidence (including torture-induced confessions) to be introduced, whereby the "new court" would--as Brookings/Goldsmith euphemistically put it--"reduce the burdens on and dangers to ordinary civilian courts and employ nimbler evidentiary and classification rules."
As the ACLU's Anthony Romero is quoted as pointing out in this morning's NYT article:
The devil is in the details. Just like we need specifics on an economic recovery package, we need specifics on a justice recovery package.
For those reasons, these new Guantanamo announcements are very far from a guarantee that Obama will do the right thing here. Still, these leaked responses to Sunday's criticisms are an important step forward, and they underscore the reasons why it is so vital to express criticism of Obama when he deserves it.
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Politicians, by definition, respond to political pressure. Those who decide that it's best to keep quiet and simply trust in the goodness and just nature of their leader are certain to have their political goals ignored. It's always better--far better--for a politician to know that he's being scrutinized closely and will be praised and supported only when his actions warrant that, and will be criticized and opposed when they don't.
Right this moment, there are enormous pressures being exerted on Obama not to make significant changes in the areas of civil liberties, intelligence policy and foreign affairs. That pressure is being exerted by the intelligence community, by the permanent Pentagon structures, by status-quo-loving leaders of both political parties, by authority-worshipping Beltway "journalists" and pundits (such as the ones who wrote the wretched though illustrative "What Would Dick Do?" cover story for this week's Newsweek).
If those who want fundamental reform in these areas adopt the view that they will not criticize Barack Obama because to do so is to "help Republicans," or because he deserves more time, or because criticisms are unnecessary because we can trust in him to do the right thing, or because criticizing him is to "tear him down" or "create a circular firing squad" or "be a Naderite purist" or any of those other empty platitudes, then they are ceding the field to the very powerful factions who are going to fight vehemently against any changes. Do you think that those who want the CIA to retain "robust" interrogation and who want the federal surveillance state maintained, or want a hard-line towards Iran and a continuation of our Middle East policies, or who want to maintain corporate-lobbyist-domination of Washington, are sitting back saying: "it's not right to pressure Obama too much right now; give him some time"?
It's critical that Obama--and the rest of the political establishment--hear loud objections, not reverential silence, when he flirts with ideas like the ones he suggested on Sunday. This dynamic prevails with all political issues. Where political pressure comes only from one side, that is the side that wins--period.
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We just witnessed the results of that dynamic with the ugly spectacle last week of a virtually unanimous Congress approving a completely one-sided Israel/Gaza Resolution. That Middle East war is an issue which, whatever else one might want to say about it, generates intense controversy, division and passion around the world. But not in the U.S. Congress. There, virtually the entire Congress (510 of the 535 members)--from the furthest left precincts of the Democratic Party to the furthest right-wing of the Republican Party, from all four corners of the U.S. and everywhere in between--looked at this war and just-so-happened to reach the same exact conclusion: not only is Israel 100% in the right, but the U.S. should involve itself publicly and squarely on Israel's side.
Does anyone actually believe that, in the absence of extremely effective political pressure, 510 ideologically diverse members of Congress--at exactly the moment when worldwide opposition to the Israeli assault is growing in response to documented civilian horrors--would all have jointly decided that Israel was right to bomb and invade Gaza and that it is in America's interests to insinuate itself on Israel's side? Even Governors, such as Democrat Martin O'Malley of Maryland, ludicrously popped up to follow the pro-Israel script.
That happens for one clear reason: because one side of the debate (the AIPAC faction) is strong and aggressive in its criticisms and pressure tactics and the other side (the faction wanting an even-handed U.S. approach) is not. Over the weekend, Juan Cole described this dynamic perfectly:
Europe has ceded dealing with the Israelis to the United States.
The people of the United States have ceded dealing with the Israelis to the US Congress.
The US Congress generally abdicates its responsibilities when faced with large powerful single-issue lobbies such as the National Rifle Association, the Cuban-American pro-boycott organizations, and the Israel lobbies.
So Congress has ceded Israel, and indeed, most Middle East, policy to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its myriad organizational supporters, from the Southern Baptist churches to the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. The Israel lobbies take their cue on what is good policy from the Israeli government and the Likud Party.
So, US Israel policy is driven by . . . the Israeli rightwing. That is why Congress voted 309 to five to support Israel's war on the people of Gaza, with 22 abstaining.
If those who get angry whenever Obama is criticized have their way--and as anyone who writes about political issues knows, there is a small though quite substantial and vocal minority who get angry when they read criticisms of Obama--the Israel dynamic that Cole describes will drive every issue.
Just as Congressional Democrats have known for the last eight years, Obama will know that there is only a price to pay when he acts contrary to the Republican and Beltway "centrist" agenda, but no price to pay when he acts contrary to the agenda of his most ardent supporters (because they won't criticize him, because to do is to "tear him down," "help Republicans," act like a Naderite purist, etc. etc. etc.). That meek and deferential attitude--aside from being a wildly inappropriate and even dangerous way to treat a political leader--also ensures that one is irrelevant and taken for granted and one's views easily ignored.
When Obama does things that warrant praise--when he appoints someone like Dawn Johnsen as OLC Chief, or defies Beltway demands by going outside of the intelligence community to find his CIA Director--he should be praised. When he does things that warrant criticism--such as going on national television to talk about the need for a special process to allow the use of "tainted" evidence against Guantanamo detainees, or when he openly contemplates naming someone as CIA Director who supports rendition and torture, or when he votes in favor of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty--he should be vigorously criticized. When he makes statements without any apparent basis--such as Sunday's assertion that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons--he ought to be made to account for that claim and show evidence for it. That's just basic accountability for a political official.
Like all politicians, Obama is not intrinsically good. Good things don't happen by virtue of the mere existence of his presidency. His presidency will be good only and exactly to the extent that he does good things. Pressure and criticisms make his doing those good things more likely (there is a quote from FDR, which I cannot find but am certain commenters will quickly cite, where FDR privately instructed his supporters to publicly criticize him for not doing X so that he would be able to do X more easily).
Obama is about to become one of the world's most powerful political leaders, if not the single most powerful. He begins with sky-high approval ratings, his political party in control of Congress by a large margin, and enjoys reverence so intense from certain quarters that such a loyal following hasn't been seen since the imperial glow around George Bush circa 2002. He's not going to crumble or melt away like the Wicked Witch if he's pressured or criticized. The far more substantial danger is that he won't be pressured or criticized enough by those who are eager to see meaningful changes in Washington, and then--either by desire or necessity--those are the voices he will ignore most easily.
UPDATE: The benefits of having a very smart, informed and active comment section can't be overstated. The very first commenter here points to this:
FDR was, of course, a consummate political leader. In one situation, a group came to him urging specific actions in support of a cause in which they deeply believed. He replied: "I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it."
Those who adopt the "stop-criticizing-Obama" mentality renounce that vital instrument for influencing the outcome of political events.
UPDATE II: At The Washington Monthly, Hilzoy amply documents why the one issue left unresolved by the Obama/Guantanamo leaks to the NYT--namely: whether to create a special, new process to allow use of "tainted evidence" against Guantanamo detainees--may be the most important issue of all. She argues eloquently why doing so would be a catastrophic decision. Obama, as reflected by his Sunday comments, is clearly contemplating something like that, and it's because of issues like this one that it's so vital that pressure on Obama be maintained, criticisms of him be voiced when merited, and praise be expressed only when earned.
There are no shortage of blogs and websites devoted to giddy cheerleading and constructing hagiographies for Obama, and those who dislike being exposed to criticisms of Obama will, in just eight short days, have still another ideal website to frequent. By contrast, this won't be a very good place to visit for those seeking that.
At least you could do Old English 800 or Mad Dog or something classy like that. But no, you go all gansta on us and drop Gatorade.
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I just wack off and blow a wad of hook-nosed slanted head jew cum when I'm here, no piss for me, I leave these folks the see.
Name Change: Lava Court Tenement now to be Putnam Ghetto
01/15/09 Bend
One of Bend's most prominent former citizens will be honored through the naming of a vibrant new condominium, rental housing and retail complex located in the heart of the downtown. Co-developers Housing Works and KemperCo, LLC today announced their joint mixed-use affordable housing community formerly designated as Lava Court will now be called Putnam Pointe after George P. Putnam.
Putnam was a former mayor of Bend and the publisher and editor of the Bulletin in 1912 and 1913. Scion of a prominent New York publishing family, he was an author, an Arctic explorer, and the promoter and husband of Amelia Earhart. He left Bend to become the private secretary for Governor James Withycombe in 1915. Putnam built an Oregon newspaper empire that included the Medford Mail Tribune and Salem's Capital Journal, later the Statesman Journal.
Because of the significant impact of this long-awaited mixed-use development will have for future generations, Housing Works and its partners wanted a name for the project that would add meaning to the community and honor Bend's past generations.
"George Putnam literally shaped Bend and shaped Oregon," said Laura Cooper, Chair of the Housing Works' Board. "He brought attention to this region with vision that was amazing for its time. The project has similar ambitions for attracting positive attention to and shaping the future of the community in bold and innovative ways."
The development is located on the corner of Lava Road and Oregon Avenue in Bend's downtown. Putnam Pointe is an innovative blend of commercial space and housing options including eleven for-sale condominiums. It has been recognized by Bend 2030 as consistent with that organization's vision for a well planned city.
Community discussion of the need to develop affordable workforce housing began in 2001 with the release of the City of Bend Affordable Housing Task Force's "Report to the Community". One of the report's recommendations was to increase the supply of affordable housing in the city through new construction. After meeting with various community leaders and with the support of the City of Bend, Housing Works developed a plan to construct workforce housing in the downtown core.
The developers of Putnam Pointe are Housing Works and KemperCo, LLC, an award winning Portland-based real estate developer. The organizations providing funding for the mixed-use building are the City of Bend, Bend Urban Renewal Agency, Oregon Housing & Community Services, Bank of the Cascades, Enterprise Community Investments, Inc., the Network for Oregon Affordable Housing, Housing Works, KemperCo, LLC, and the Hayden Enterprises Giving Fund.
Construction of Putnam Pointe began in February 2008 and is expected to be complete in April of 2009. The top floor condominiums, however, are scheduled to be offered for sale on February 21st through a lottery process. On the day of the lottery, applicants who meet the income requirements, agree to the long-term affordability terms and agree to owner-occupy the unit will receive 3 tickets to put in for the condominium of their choice. The first person selected for each of the units will then have the opportunity to enter into a purchase and sales agreement. For more details on qualifying to purchase a condominium and participation in the lottery process, contact Housing Works at 323-7411 or see the Lofts' web site at www.putnamlofts.com.
Wow some would call this anti-semitism, but the truth about ameriKKKa really hurts, just like here in BEND-ORYGUN, most lack a heart, a mind, or a soul.
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That happens for one clear reason: because one side of the debate (the AIPAC faction) is strong and aggressive in its criticisms and pressure tactics and the other side (the faction wanting an even-handed U.S. approach) is not. Over the weekend, Juan Cole described this dynamic perfectly:
Europe has ceded dealing with the Israelis to the United States.
The people of the United States have ceded dealing with the Israelis to the US Congress.
The US Congress generally abdicates its responsibilities when faced with large powerful single-issue lobbies such as the National Rifle Association, the Cuban-American pro-boycott organizations, and the Israel lobbies.
Yawwwwwnnnnnnnn...
Hmmm, ....
Strrrrrrrrrreeeeetttchhhhhh, ....
Hmmmmm, ...
(Oh, more Gaza shitfest.)
Yaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnn!!!!
I think I'll go back to sleep now.
Wake me when it is Sunday morning.....
Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc., unable to work out a sale of the company, said Friday it will go out of business _ closing its 567 U.S. stores and cutting 30,000 jobs.
The nation's second-biggest consumer electronics retailer is the latest casualty of an unprecedented pullback in consumer spending that has driven other brands such as KB Toys, Mervyns LLC and Linens 'N Things into bankruptcy. Experts believe there will be more to come.
Damn, in a few more months we won't have any place to buy our Chinese shit from!
Co-developers Housing Works and KemperCo, LLC today announced their joint mixed-use affordable housing community formerly designated as Lava Court will now be called Putnam Pointe after George P. Putnam.
I don't mind them naming it after Putnam but "Pointe" is ridiculous. And what the hell is it the pointe of? It's not on the pointe of anything. I simply can't see the pointe to this.
Hey Timmy, why can't we see stars in pictures taken of Earth from the Apollo missions?
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/as13-60-8591HR.jpg
(Nothing to do with Bend, just curious...)
Re: "The top floor condominiums, however, are scheduled to be offered for sale on February 21st through a lottery process. On the day of the lottery, applicants who meet the income requirements, agree to the long-term affordability terms and agree to owner-occupy the unit will receive 3 tickets to put in for the condominium of their choice. The first person selected for each of the units will then have the opportunity to enter into a purchase and sales agreement."
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Now that is particularly rich.
What is the BULL's spin going to be if no one enters the "lottery"?
>>Hey Timmy, why can't we see stars in pictures taken of Earth from the Apollo missions?
You can see from the picture that it was cloudy that night.
Great snark.
Israel shells house of physician talking to Israeli media, kills his family.
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=610095&sid=126
We are going to be the most hated people in the world.
tim said...
>>Hey Timmy, why can't we see stars in pictures taken of Earth from the Apollo missions?
You can see from the picture that it was cloudy that night.
?? We better not start on the Apollo moon hoax. This blog can barely handle the current Gaza crisis. Better stick with pussy farts and camel toe photo shots.
>We better not start on the Apollo moon hoax
I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.
Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, twenty one, checkers, and chess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
See you in heaven if you make the list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Moses went walking with the staff of wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Newton got beaned by the apple good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are you having fun?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Here's a little agit for the never-believer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a little ghost for the offering. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling (wrestling bears). Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Bigger than we thought? Are they talking about Homer's dick?
The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 16, 2009
The U.S. government, recognizing that the banking crisis is larger than originally thought, is laying the groundwork for a second phase of its rescue attempt with plans to tackle the toxic assets gumming up the system.
Officials at the Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., in consultation with the incoming Obama administration, are discussing a range of options, according to government and transition officials. One plan would create a government bank that would buy up bad assets. Another would standardize efforts to have the government guarantee banks' assets against further losses.
As you know Eckert is a good old Jewish family name but did you know about 'Jewish Mormons'??
I'm a cannanite, and we from the same tribe as Moroni, gaps between my teeth and webbed feet exactly like in the bible, well the old testament.
Ergo I can't be anti-semite because I'm a Jewish Mormon.
Why does everybody ignore me??
My name may be McGeary, but I too come from a family of 'Irish Jews'.
I can trace my ancestry back to Cannanites, and we have gapped teeth enlarged second toes exactly as described in the bible.
Thus I too cannot be construed an anti-semite by this board.
Europe has ceded dealing with the Israelis to the United States.
The people of the United States have ceded dealing with the Israelis to the US Congress.
The US Congress generally abdicates its responsibilities when faced with large powerful single-issue lobbies such as the National Rifle Association, the Cuban-American pro-boycott organizations, and the Israel lobbies.
What out the comic union is about to become the number PAC in the USA.
The U.S. government, recognizing that the banking crisis is larger than originally thought, is laying the groundwork for a second phase of its rescue attempt with plans to tackle the toxic assets gumming up the system.
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The first phase was xmas bonuses and payback to elect OREO.
Now that the first $350B is bend gone, we'll have to start now working on what we promised to do the first time.
Its fucking critical, we only got 3 more days, or we can't blame BUSH!!!!!!!!
I resemble this remark
Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that Mormon Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that he in particular is of the Tribe of Judah since he bears racial markings mentioned in the Bible—a gap between his upper front teeth, big toes that overlap his foretoes.
The Bend-1031 boyz 100% fund the HAGEE team, so dear to Bend Oregon, aka Westside Church.
Apr 27,2007
Iran: The religious right's new bugbear
by Bill Berkowitz
Are conservative Christian evangelicals gearing up to join the attack-Iran brigade?
As the launching of the Iraq War marked its fourth anniversary on March 19, it is worth remembering that during the lead up to the invasion a number of conservative evangelicals voiced their support for the war: Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, maintained that Bush's action met criteria for a just war; the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents several dozen denominations encompassing more than 30 million American evangelical Christians, openly supported the war; Mike Evans, who heads the aggressively pro-Israeli Jerusalem Prayer Team, pointed out that war with Iraq could be a "dress rehearsal for Armageddon," the fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy.
These days, while the Bush Administration and beltway neoconservatives doggedly crank up the volume against Iran, they are again being joined by several notable conservative Christian evangelical leaders.
Hagee Leading the Charge
Pastor John Hagee
On Sunday March 11, Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel, received a rousing reception during his address at the opening dinner plenary of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference.
Hagee warned the crowd that "Iran poses a nuclear threat to the State of Israel that promises nothing less than a nuclear Holocaust." Hagee claimed that the situation is like 1938, only "Iran is Germany and [President Mahmoud] Ahmedinejad is the new Hitler."
Hagee added: "We must stop Iran's nuclear threat and stop it now and stand boldly [with] Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East."
A few weeks earlier, Hagee met with Senator John McCain, a leading contender for the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination. Hagee has been leading the charge of conservative Christian evangelicals urging President Bush to deal more robustly with Iran.
"Hagee's appearance at AIPAC indicates the growing organizational strength of the Christian Zionist lobby for apocalyptic war and the rise of corresponding Jewish factions both within AIPAC and within Israeli politics that are pushing for dramatically expanded war in the Mideast," Bruce Wilson, the co-founder of Talk To Action, told me in an e-mail interview.
John Hagee, the pastor of the 18,000-member San Antonio, Texas-based Cornerstone Church and the head of a multi-million dollar evangelical enterprise, "seems to believe such a conflict is both inevitable and necessary," The Jewish Week noted in early March.
Hagee, who founded Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a Christian Zionist lobbying group last year, is the author of a number of Christian-themed novels, as well as the recent "Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World," which maintains that biblical prophecy is currently playing itself out in the Middle East.
"The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching," Hagee wrote in "Jerusalem Countdown." "Just before us is a nuclear countdown with Iran followed by Ezekiel's war (as described in Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39), and then the final battle -- the battle of Armageddon."
In a recent series of articles focused on Hagee, Talk to Action's Bruce Wilson described him as someone that "has built a career on aggressive support for hard right to fringe right Israeli politics and is now making inroads towards convincing the mainstream American Jewish community that he and CUFI are the best tactical allies Jews and Israel can expect to find."
"Pastor John Hagee's warmly received AIPAC speech illustrates the extent to which political leaders who espouse ideology that in the 1960's was considered to be scandalously close the extreme end of the political spectrum can now expect to broadcast their views from a national stage," Wilson told me.
Recruiting Evangelical Allies for a Showdown Against Iran
Joel Rosenberg is another conservative Christian evangelical advocating some type of Bush Administration action against Iran. In late February, Rosenberg, who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, reported on his website that a number of conservative Christian evangelical leaders were beginning to show an interest in Iran, particularly as the situation in the Middle East relates to passages in the Bible.
Rosenberg's latest novel, "The Ezekiel Option," is "about the threat of a Russian-Iranian alliance to destroy Israel based on the Biblical prophecies found in the Book of Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39." These prophecies "describe what Bible scholars call the war of Gog and Magog. Russia and Iran form a military alliance with Lebanon, Syria and a group of other Middle East countries to destroy Israel in what Ezekiel described as the last days."
In January, during a trip to the Middle East, Rosenberg said that he "brief[ed] several hundred Arab and Iranian pastors and evangelical leaders on the latest geopolitical developments in the region," and that he taught "on Ezekiel 38 and 39 ... prophecies that most Christian leaders in the region are unfamiliar with."
Back home, Rosenberg has discovered a growing interest in developments in Iran amongst evangelical Christian leaders. While flying to New Mexico he "happened to sit next to" Focus on the Family founder Dr. Jamews Dobson, one of the most politically powerful conservative evangelical leaders in the U.S. Dobson, who "had been in Washington for meetings with high level administration officials to discuss Iran, Iraq and the latest developments in the Middle East," told Rosenberg that he was becoming more "concerned about the Iranian nuclear threat, and has been studying Ezekiel's prophecies."
Rosenberg also reported that Kay Arthur, a "world renowned Bible teacher," had also developed an interest in "the military alliance ... between Russia and Iran and how this might relate to Ezekiel's prophecies." Arthur recently invited Rosenberg to her headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, "to teach on the Biblical description of the `War of Gog and Magog' and to record a series of radio and TV programs to explain these prophecies in light of current events."
He also "spent several days with a team of Iranian Christian pastors" that "have a satellite television ministry which is seen by between 4 and 7 million Iranian Shiites every day." Rosenberg discussed "Bible prophecies about Iran with them and help[ed] them develop a plan to communicate `God's love and plan for Iran' through their live satellite broadcasts, as well as figure out how to answer the many phone calls and emails they are sure to get from inside Iran once such programs are broadcast into the country."
According to Rosenberg, the Iranian Christian pastors "see a showdown with Iran coming, and they feel passionately about reaching their fellow Iranians with the good news of Christ's love."
"Will there be a war in the region this year or next?" While acknowledging that "it's too it's too early to say," Rosenberg claimed that 2007 is "the Year of Decision." President Bush and Congressional leaders "will need to decide soon just how they're going to handle the Iranian nuclear threat," [and] Church leaders also need to decide just how they are going to handle the Iranian threat, as well ... after all, time is short, and the stakes are high."
Last July, at Christian United For Israel's coming out party in Washington, D.C., John Hagee stated that "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West ... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation ... and [the] Second Coming of Christ."
During a September 18, 2006 interview with WHYY's Terry Gross, Hagee talked about the Russian/Iranian alliance that for the past ten years has been "plot[ing] and plan[ning] Israel's destruction." Hagee charged that "Iran's nuclear weapons have been produced with Russian scientists. The Islamic Arabs are using the Roadmap to Peace to get all of the land of Israel they can get. And when Israel finally says, `Enough!' you're going to see the beginning of the implementation of Ezekiel's war in 38:39. The critical point is the church is raptured before this war begins. I am telling you that makes this message one of the most thrilling prophetic messages you've ever heard in your life. You could get raptured out of this building before I get through finished preaching. We are that close to the coming of the Son of Man."
In a statement Jane Hunter and Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, co-founders of the website JewsOnFirst.org, said that "Hagee's call in his speech for victory for Israel and America (which appears to refer to Iran) is not necessarily the call for military victory which his audience might have heard (a chilling prospect nonetheless). Hagee's "victory" is coded language for Armgadeddon, which Christian Zionists see as the end-times battles set in Israel, when Christians are raptured to heaven and Jews lose -- unless they're happy to convert."
If President Bush unleashes a pre-emptive military strike against Iran, there is little doubt that Pastor Hagee and Joel Rosenberg will be standing behind him.
Ahhhhh, coded messages just like this board, so a 'win for israel' is not peace what it really means is that israel is destroyed and baby-jeebus comes to BEND to pickup the entire 1031 flock of fraud parasites, all 80k, ...
-> Good Shit
In a statement Jane Hunter and Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, co-founders of the website JewsOnFirst.org, said that "Hagee's call in his speech for victory for Israel and America (which appears to refer to Iran) is not necessarily the call for military victory which his audience might have heard (a chilling prospect nonetheless). Hagee's "victory" is coded language for Armgadeddon, which Christian Zionists see as the end-times battles set in Israel, when Christians are raptured to heaven and Jews lose -- unless they're happy to convert."
I see it now, I see the light, it didn't matter about taking out the $10M loan from clients, cuz baby-jeebus will be here by Jan-20, 2009, to take us all to heaven, ..
Hagee's "victory" is coded language for Armgadeddon, which Christian Zionists see as the end-times battles set in Israel
Re: ...the toxic assets gumming up the system.
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Also known as bets gone bad. Fucking take the loss like a man, assholes. Man up.
Oh, I forgot, you just want us taxpayers to bail you out and make sure you get your fucking annual bonus.
I'm starting to agree with Buster that Obama is just Bush with blackface on. Fucking disgusting. Our country is on the way out.
PS Just met our new mayor. Be afraid, very afraid. It might be time to think about moving on.
>> Also known as bets gone bad. Fucking take the loss like a man, assholes. Man up.
NO SHIT! Gee Mr. Bank Manger, I can't pay my mortgage because I have some toxic assets clogging up my system....can you print me some money please?
Thieving bastards....there is NO OTHER EXPLANATION.
PS Just met our new mayor. Be afraid, very afraid. It might be time to think about moving on.
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Yes, the Mayor has much influence over the quality of your life here in Bend.
And Obama has much influence over your life in America. And Obama has become Bush the 3rd, so you really should be going.
May I suggest Mexico? If you don't get shot by drug lords, you could get a nice tan. And Trudy could find a nice job to support you.
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May I suggest Mexico? If you don't get shot by drug lords, you could get a nice tan. And Trudy could find a nice job to support you.
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Another friendly Realtor(TM) that wants to build our way out of this mess?
Another friendly Realtor(TM) that wants to build our way out of this mess?
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Nope.
Just another old geezer trying to do his small part in moving the riff-raff along...
Just keeping the immigrants from Utah immigrating to other locales more suitable for their ilk....
But the Realtor slam is a might bit creative, cretin. That one was also used on the Gaza-Israel troll with the spam-fest-appalooza....
I was playing with my dick tonight and blew a wad on the wall and it said 'hbm'. What does it mean??
FUCK ME, I'm FROM BEND
January 15, 2009
Dear Mt. Bachelor Season Pass Holders:
Since my last letter at the end of November we have been through quite a stretch. One of the latest openings in our history, epic mid-December snow fall and conditions, the windiest and stormiest holiday period in recent memory, a historic ice storm, and by the end of the MLK holiday weekend what will be nearly two weeks of high pressure, sunshine, and warm temperatures – today reminds me more of April than January. It's just another ho hum winter in Central Oregon!
In this letter I will give you an update on our safety and conduct initiative, share some of the feedback we have received, and review season pass use and turnstile tips and guidelines.
Safety & Conduct Initiative
In general, I have been pleased to see the level of awareness and consideration displayed by so many of our guests and staff. However, there have been several dozen infractions documented so far this season (primarily related to closed areas for lift work and avalanche control, and conduct issues within lodges and lift lines). This tells me we have much more work to do communicating the expectations. I believe as we continue to educate, build awareness and hold guests and staff accountable for their actions we will see our measurable performance in this area improve. I thank everyone in advance for their continued assistance helping us provide a safe, comfortable and enjoyable environment for all when they visit Mt. Bachelor.
Your Feedback
The good: more timely lift openings and fewer stops, improvements in guest service, grooming (alpine & Nordic), friendlier and more helpful staff, better snow removal, accurate online snow and weather reports, flow and maintenance of terrain parks, holding guests and staff accountable to conduct expectations, cleanliness, renewed focus on safety, lift maze organization at Pine Marten and Sunrise, parking organization, food quality, variety and value.
The bad: snow removal at times over the holiday, lift lines/crowding when Westside lifts are down due to weather, phone snow report timing, moving terrain parks to Chipper, elimination of the late morning Super Shuttle run, not enough bump runs, frozen web cams and weather instruments, lift maze organization at Skyliner and Outback on busy days.
The ugly: power outages 12/29 and 1/1, our coordination of the response to the power outages, lift grease falling from terminals and towers in the rain.
We hear you. We have made many changes and there will likely be more as we make best efforts to improve the overall experience at Mt. Bachelor, but we know not every decision or initiative will be perfect, or an immediate success. We are working hard to evaluate and tweak how things work and get done so we can achieve the end goals of being more efficient while we make this a truly wonderful place to ski and ride. Please keep the feedback coming – send us a note at info@mtbachelor.com with your observations and comments.
This season we have instituted more consistent lift ticket and season pass checking. We are experiencing a heightened degree of season pass misuse than in the recent past. The penalties for misuse of a season pass are severe, including financial restitution, suspension or revocation of pass privileges for up to two years, and criminal prosecution. Mt. Bachelor has a zero tolerance policy regarding season pass/lift ticket misuse, fraud and theft of services. As such, effective immediately, we require all season passes and lift tickets to be clearly visible, easily accessible and made readily available for inspection by Lift Access staff at every lift for every ride on the mountain, and by Nordic staff upon their request. Clear plastic armbands are available at the season pass office in the Guest Services Building in West Village, base area lifts and the Nordic Center desk for those who did not receive one this fall. This consequence is a result of the actions of a small group of people, but it is a necessary inconvenience if we are to improve the situation. Again, thank you in advance for your cooperation in this effort.
Here's to a snowy and safe return to winter. If you have questions, thoughts or comments, please feel free to drop us a note at info@mtbachelor.com.
Thank you for being a Mt. Bachelor season pass holder.
See you on the slopes,
Dave Rathbun
President & General Manager
Mt. Bachelor, Inc.
Re: But the Realtor slam is a might bit creative, cretin
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Hardly creative at all. But I should have known better, because Realtors(TM) want people to stay, not leave.
So what are you doing to make our little city any better than a dust bowl?
>So what are you doing to make our little city any better than a dust bowl?
Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
So what are you doing to make our little city any better than a dust bowl?
Are you serious?? LOL
Come BP, I know that even you know how to read!!!
Okay, now this time read it more s-l-o-w-l-y:
Just another old geezer trying to do his small part in moving the riff-raff along...
Just keeping the immigrants from Utah immigrating to other locales more suitable for their ilk....
...like shootin fish in a barrel!
From KOHD
>>Gas Prices Raise in Bend
Like donuts, I guess. Must be yeast in the gas.
The end is near, everybody steal from everybody, Jeebus is coming soon, the rapture will happen in Days the end days in Israel are here, and baby Jeebus will take us to heaven. Take all the money you can from 1031 clients it will not better in heaven
Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionism
By Max Blumenthal
January 2009
Washington, DC
Max Blumenthal: With little to lose and everything to gain, Obama has lifted high the cross. But are there invisible strings attached?
Over the past months, the White House has convened a series of off-the-record meetings about its policies in the Middle East with leaders of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel's expansionist policies is "a biblical imperative." CUFI's Washington lobbyist, David Brog, told me that during the meetings, CUFI representatives pressed White House officials to adopt a more confrontational posture toward Iran, refuse aid to the Palestinians and give Israel a free hand as it ramped up its military conflict with Hezbollah.
The White House instructed Brog not to reveal the names of officials he met with, Brog said.
CUFI's advice to the Bush Administration reflects the Armageddon-based foreign-policy views of its founder, John Hagee. Hagee is a fire-and-brimstone preacher from San Antonio who commands the nearly 18,000-member Cornerstone Church and hosts a major TV ministry where he explains to millions of viewers how the end times will unfold. He is also the author of numerous bestselling pulp-prophecy books, like his recent Jerusalem Countdown, in which he cites various unnamed Israeli intelligence sources to claim that Iran is producing nuclear "suitcase bombs." The only way to defeat the Iranian evildoers, he says, is a full-scale military assault.
"The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," Hagee wrote this year in the Pentecostal magazine Charisma. "Israel and America must confront Iran's nuclear ability and willingness to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons. For Israel to wait is to risk committing national suicide."
Despite his penchant for extreme rhetoric, or perhaps because of it, Hagee endeared himself to key members of the Israeli right. With the help of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who once spoke at a massive pro-Israel fundraiser at Cornerstone Church, Hagee has raised at least $8.5 million for Israeli social work projects. And as a result of Hagee's influence in the Lone Star State, reflected by his enormous wealth--he reportedly rakes in more than $1 million a year from his television ministry--and his close relationship with the previously omnipotent and now disgraced former House majority leader Tom DeLay, Washington's Republican leadership is just a phone call away.
Hagee recently united America's largest Christian Zionist congregations and some of the movement's most prominent figures--including the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Gary Bauer and Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher instrumental in launching Republican Ken Blackwell's gubernatorial campaign--under the banner of CUFI, creating the first and only nationwide evangelical political organization dedicated to supporting Israel. Hagee says he would like to see CUFI become "the Christian version of AIPAC," referring to the vaunted pro-Israel group rated second only to the National Rifle Association as the most effective lobby in Washington.
But while Hagee is the public face of CUFI, he remains tethered to his ministry in the Texas plains, far from the wheeling and dealing of inside-the-Beltway culture. To advance his agenda on the Hill, Hagee has tapped David Brog, a seasoned and articulate lawyer who has been Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter's chief of staff, and who boasts myriad connections in Republican Washington. Besides Brog's political acumen, there was another characteristic Hagee found appealing: He is Jewish.
"I think while there are some differences between us as far as our religious views," Brog told me about Hagee, "what matters more, and what is of much deeper significance, is everything that we share. We share a love for Israel and a love for America. And we share an understanding of the war on radical Islamic terror, and that makes us brothers."
As Hagee's political point man, Brog has instantly emerged as an important operative on the Christian right and an effective advocate shielding the movement from institutional Jewish criticism whenever an evangelical leader makes a gaffe. After a series of wildly impolitic remarks by Pat Robertson, including the suggestion that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's descent into a comatose state was God's punishment for the Gaza withdrawal, Brog used an interview with the conservative National Review to defend Robertson as "a good man." When Anti-Defamation League president Abraham Foxman lambasted the Christian right as a dire threat to America's Jewish community, Brog scolded Foxman in a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed. "There are very serious threats facing American Jews today, and they have nothing to do with social conservatives," he wrote.
Thieving bastards....there is NO OTHER EXPLANATION.
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AIPAC contributed more than you folks and thus they own the sysytem, and thus MADE-OFF, well he made-off, and will never spend a night in jail.
It's funny reading all this shit to know that the NRA is more powerful than AIPAC.
Then how come 'we' as NRA members aren't the ones running the banks?? How come all the pols are all over themselves trying to prove who is more loyal to Israel??
If NRA was the #1 source of power in the USA, then NRA members by the fact of being armed, would be laying down the TARP terms, rather than having a who-is-who of AIPAC officials running the financial's.
Lastly, NRA, your only #1 as long as AIPAC wants to assert they're #2 in terms of raw political power in the USA.
If the NRA is #1, then why did OREO win?? Yeh, right.
Just another old geezer trying to do his small part in moving the riff-raff along...
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BP, just arrived, he hasn't even taken his boots off, and already thinks he owns this town, sort of reminds me of a carpet-bagger in the south post civil war, they all came from the north to get shit not tied down.
BP is look for something to steal, but hasn't found it yet, but soon we'll all know his grift.
Summit 1031 just pulled off the biggest heist of Bend wealth in history, and its important to know, who they were, and where the money went.
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Christian Zionists by We Hold These Truth’s test, but they would prefer to be called, evangelicals, dispensationlists, Judeo-Christians, or even "the Christian Right."
Unfortunately, their unity of purpose is confused about, and is not centered on Jesus' words; Jesus has to defer to the needs and desires of Israel. Because they enthrone Israel, Judeo-Christians have an endemic capacity to be misled on political issues, including war.
For instance they oppose abortion of unborn children, but never discuss or observe the violent killing of Arab children in a war zone, nor do they object to Israel's massive state sponsored abortion program. We have clearly explained their logic in a new DVD called The Roots of Christian Zionism.
World Zionism and its Neo-Con think-tanks have switched tactics of promoting fear of terrorism, as with Day911, to a new paradigm… fear and distrust of all Muslims, including the neighbor and his children. Christian Zionists are the most susceptible to this phobia.
The new Obama Administration will be under huge pressure from those who financed it to make only a show of downsizing the Iraq War. Neo-Conservatives who wrote The Project for the New American Century, calling for war in Iraq, and international banking interests will pressure Obama to continue and even escalate warring sanctions and occupations of Islamic states. He has already opined that he favors staying in Afghanistan, and Iraq will likely be stretched out.
Those Obama is considering for his key appointments seem to indicate the Jewish voters knew what they were doing when they voted for him, and Muslims may have been grasping at straws. Both these are small groups compared to the many millions of Christian Zionists who voted against Obama in fear.
No matter what Obama’s intent, we must not forget that he is a politician. And whatever is inside him will be pressed hard to be sublimated to the Neo-Conservatives. A key was his choice of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is a Zionist to the core.
One of the most bizarre tangents on Bend-Zionism, and the 1031 theft is that Moss of CACB run's the Zion 'home schooling' network, ...
IT ALL STARTED in the early 1980’s when I noticed that the academics of the American school was headed downward, and the education of my own children was being dumbed down. There was very little to turn to in those days. And private schools were so expensive. But after much searching, I finally found a private church school that my husband and I could afford for our 2 children.
At that time my girls were in the 2nd and 6th grades. And at the end of their school year, I pulled them out of the local public school and enrolled them in a private church school. In the early 1980’s home schooling was rare and virtuallly unknown, and it was not yet a household word.
Our girls attended the church school for 2 years. During the first year I was a staff Assistant Teacher. And the following year I became a staff Teacher and the school's Assistant Administrator. But there was more to come.
Within that year the Pastor of the school decided to close the school. And that meant that I needed to look again for a school for my children. I knew that I could not send my girls back to public school. So I did something that was unspeakable at that time. TEACH MY CHILDREN AT HOME. This was in the 80’s and at that time it was thought to be illegal. Now it is known to be legal in all states of the USA.
I suppose, you could say, that I am one of the PIONEERS of Homeschooling.
It was just a matter of time when families began to come to me and ask a lot of questions and wanted me to teach them to do the same for their children. It was then that I saw the need to begin an ACADEMY for Homeschooling children and their families, to make it easy for these children to enter into colleges and universities and to receive High School Diplomas.
YES… after many months Zion Academy of America became an official school and is now recognized across America as a leader in the field of education. Thousands of students have been enrolled, and many have graduated, attending various colleges and universities across America.
Zion Academy of America was conceived in 1985 and officially birthed in 1987. It's humble beginnings started in Fort Worth, Texas and operated locally for over 10 years. It is now nationally recognized distance learning school. Now located near Seattle, Washington, Zion Academy is serving student families across America and beyond it's borders.
Personally, our children graduated with honors from the program. Both children completed the College-Preparatory / Honors courses. Mikki, our oldest daughter, became a corporate executive assistant, married and gave us 2 beautiful granddaughters. She now works in Zion Academy as the Principal and Office Manager. Our youngest daughter married, and they have 4 children. She is Zion Academy's Admissions Counselor. All 6 grandchildren are in Zion Academy of America.
Zion Academy of America is high in its standard of academics. And I can personally attest to the excellence of the curriculum and that it works. Thousands of families have been blessed through Zion Academy of America. I hope and pray that you will be, too.
But the Realtor slam is a might bit creative, cretin. That one was also used on the Gaza-Israel troll with the spam-fest-appalooza....
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This is how&why the BP will always be our pussy, put him in a corner, and you become a Realtor, could be worse he could have called you an AIPAC-HO.
So why would Neuman want to run 'zion ministries' and 1031 at the same time?
Why would a busy banker like moss want to run 'zion home schooling'.
Why?
Christians are the biggest (dumb fucks ) suckers in the world, newbies usually meet people in a community via their kids and other parents.
When you control the church, and home school, then its easy to send them to the right 1031-exchange, and to the right bank, and donate to the right zionist group.
Press Releases
Umpqua Bank Acquires the Insured Deposits of Bank of Clark County, Vancouver, WA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 16, 2009
Media Contact:
LaJuan Williams-Dickerson
Office – 202-898-3876
Lwilliams-dickerson@fdic.gov
Bank of Clark County, Vancouver, Washington, was closed today by the Washington Department of Financial Institutions, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Umpqua Bank, Roseburg, Oregon, to assume the insured deposits of the Bank of Clark County.
Bank of Clark County will reopen on Tuesday, due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, as branches of Umpqua Bank. Depositors of the failed bank will automatically become depositors of Umpqua Bank. Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship to retain their deposit insurance coverage.
Over the weekend, customers of Bank of Clark County can access their insured deposits by writing checks or using ATM or debit cards. Checks drawn on the bank will continue to be processed. Loan customers should continue to make their payments as usual.
As of January 13, 2009, Bank of Clark County had total assets of $446.5 million and total deposits of $366.5 million. At the time of closing, there were approximately $39.3 million in uninsured deposits held in approximately 138 accounts that potentially exceeded the insurance limits. This amount is an estimate that is likely to change once the FDIC obtains additional information from these customers.
Umpqua will not assume the approximately $117.8 million in brokered deposits. The FDIC will pay the brokers directly for the amount of their insured funds.
Customers with accounts in excess of $250,000 should contact the FDIC toll free at 1-800-822-9247 to set up an appointment to discuss their deposits. This phone number will be operational this evening until 9:00 p.m., PST; on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., PST; and on Sunday from noon to 6:00 p.m., PST; and thereafter from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., PST.
Customers who would like more information on today's transaction should visit the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/clark.html. Beginning Monday, depositors of Bank of Clark County with more than $250,000 at the bank may visit the FDIC's Web page, "Is My Account Fully Insured?" at http://www2.fdic.gov/dip/Index.asp to determine their insurance coverage.
In addition to assuming the failed bank's insured deposits, Umpqua Bank will purchase $30.4 million of assets comprised of cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and loans secured by deposits. The FDIC will retain the remaining assets for later disposition.
The transaction is the least costly resolution option, and the FDIC estimates the cost to its Deposit Insurance Fund will be between $120 and $145 million. Bank of Clark County is the second FDIC-insured institution to be closed this year. Bank of Clark County is the first bank to fail in Washington since Emerald City Bank, Seattle, on July 2, 1993.
paul doh we are all about to burst our bubbles.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9PmrH0demA&feature=related
Umpqua Bank Issues Statement on News from FDIC
Umpqua Holdings Corporation to Acquire Insured Deposits of Bank of Clark County From FDIC
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: UMPQ), parent company of Umpqua Bank and Strand, Atkinson, Williams & York, Inc., today issued the following statement regarding the news that Umpqua Bank will assume approximately $186 million of insured deposits from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), acting in its capacity as receiver for Bank of Clark County.
“As one of the nation’s strongest community banks Umpqua is well positioned to acquire the insured deposits of Bank of Clark County from the FDIC,” said Ray Davis, Umpqua Holdings Corporation president and CEO. “As a community bank with a significant presence in Portland and Vancouver, Umpqua has always been committed to the financial health of the communities we serve. This is a critical opportunity to protect the insured deposits of Bank of Clark County customers.”
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So what kind of 'heads up' did we get on this??
Interesting that Umqua has been chosen as a winner by the choosers of winners and losers.
Top 5: Bank of Clark County shut down
Posted by Ryan Frank, The Oregonian January 16, 2009 20:22PM
Categories: Real estate news daily
Sorry for the late post today. I was in a race to finish up a story for the weekend about the state's response to the housing crisis. Look for it in the Sunday Business section.
For now, here's your Top 5 real estate stories for the day.
1. Washington state shuts down Bank of Clark County: My pod-mate Jeff Manning has the story. The bank's heavy investments in real estate helped drag it down. From Jeff's story: The bank was heavily exposed to the faltering real estate sector through loans to builders and developers. Construction and development loans accounted for more than 36 percent of the bank's total portfolio. Mike Worthy, the bank's CEO, said in early 2008 that the collapse of the residential sector was stunning in its speed, made worse by the widespread presence of speculators with hopes of flipping houses for big bucks. But he voiced confidence at the time that his bank would weather the storm. Read more.
2. Portland low risk for huge future price drop: The PMI Group Inc., the mortgage insurance company, reports the Portland region has a low risk of having lower home prices in two years. The risk of that occuring is 22 percent, the firm said. The firm didn't give figures for the Bend area but it's map shows it at a high risk for having lower prices in two years.
Read the report. (Hat tip to Salvador Del Cid)
3. Grim Oregon outlook for commercial construction: The DJC reports on state economist Tom Potiowsky's message to the AGC's annual business meeting in downtown Portland today: When it comes to commercial construction activity in Oregon, he said, "2009 is going to be tougher than 2008." Potiowsky hinted that the portion of the federal economic stimulus package expected to help the construction industry might not have as widespread an impact as some might hope. Read more.
4. Bank of America, once big winner, now in trouble: BofA once looked like the new titan. Now, CEO Kenneth D. Lewis faces of list of questions about his deal to take over Merrill Lynch. Read more from the Times.
5. DeFazio on TARP II: The outspoken Oregon congressman appeared on the radio show Marketplace again to talk TARP: You know, what did we get for $350 billion? I mean, that's the question my constituents are asking. And that's now the question my colleagues -- even those who supported it -- are asking. And we're talking about, right now, debating a bill to put very significant restrictions on the future expenditure of funds. If only they had put those conditions in at the time and not put in the sort of uber-loophole which gave Henry "Hank" Paulson the authority to do anything and everything he wanted to do with that money -- and he sure did. It's DeFazio at his best: When he's angry. Read more.
>>>Interesting that Umqua has been chosen as a winner by the choosers of winners and losers.
I'm wondering if they are angling to be too big to fail within the region with the quote: "financial health of the communities we serve." And the FDIC bought in.
There isn't a week that goes by without Umpqua being a player in the NOD's.
This is the earliest I found on Reuters at 9:30pm, .. EASTERN, ... wait til friday night, avoid the run-on-banks, and now til tues, ..
Washington state bank closes, Umpqua takes over
Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:33pm EST
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WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Regulators closed Vancouver, Washington-based Bank of Clark County on Friday, with Umpqua Bank assuming customers' insured deposits.
Bank of Clark County had $446.5 million in assets and $366.5 million in deposits, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said in a statement.
Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corp (UMPQ.O), agreed to assume insured deposits of the Bank of Clark County, which will reopen on Tuesday as branches of Umpqua Bank.
The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per account through 2009 and individual retirement accounts at insured banks.
But Bank of Clark County had about $39.3 million in uninsured deposits in 138 accounts that may exceed the insured limit, the FDIC said. It added that "is likely to change once the FDIC obtains additional information from these customers."
Customers with insured deposits can access their money over the weekend by check, teller machine or debit card, the agency said.
The bank's failure is expected to cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund between $120 and $145 million, it said. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Gary Hill)
When are we going to stop being the United States of the AIPAC?
[ AIPAC ain't Jewish, and they ain't Israel, they're 100% US nutcases ]
by W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
First, let's get some things straight. The AIPAC doesn't lobby (i.e., "dictate") for the State of Israel; they lobby ONLY for the lunatic right wing fringe of Israel. Said differently, they lobby for a gaggle of extremist, billionaire religious fanatics.
Israel's Labor Party, for example, is certainly not “represented” by the AIPAC, nor are internet sites like J Street (among MANY others!) who passionately speak for that large and honorable part of the Jewish Community (in and out of Israel) who want to end the bloodshed with diplomacy and compromise – not the rationalized genocide of the AIPAC.
This matter would be basically insoluble if the war mongering AIPAC was the true and complete voice of Israel, but the good news is that they aren’t. Indeed, this incredibly costly smoke-screen illusion is their ultimate power -- not their blood money bribes of nearly our entire government or murder in the name of God “justifications”.
If and when Americans finally take it in that a relatively small number of VERY rich and VERY right wing Israeli's are controlling the entire Middle East through their bought and paid for control of America's foreign policy, we should feel an indescribable shame that we have allowed our country to be reduced to an obedient pit bull of a relative handful of elite/fundamentalists from ANOTHER COUNTRY!
Surely, once a critical mass of patriotic Americans finally wakes up and sees the "neocon cabal" for what they were (and still are), we will tell them to take their blood money bribes and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
My God, do we still even know how to spell words like morality and rationality (obviously, our mouse-souled congress doesn't!), at the same time we allow ourselves to be bought body and soul by these ultra right wing fanatics?
Also, we should also NEVER forget that the State of Israel DIDN'T EVEN EXIST before Palestine was "internationally raped" by paper decrees in 1948 (a carry over of the infinitely arrogant and genocidal “British Empire”) which told them their country was no longer their country, but a host, merely, for (surprise! surprise) “another country”.
However, they keep being punished for remembering that fact – although you can be certain that even after a thousand years they will never forget it.
The extra layer of this tragic and unending blood bath is that not only does the American Congress bend over on cue for the AIPAC, but this lobby continues to successfully propagandize the B.S. that they are lobbying for the entire State of Israel and the entire Jewish Community.
However, they are merely lobbying for THEIR OWN AGENDAS, just like the KKK or skin head fascists would be lobbying for their agendas if they had brainwashed the planet that they are "America's voice". America's voice, hell! They're just a bunch of immoral barbarians who represent only a miniscule percentage of Americans -- and exactly the same thing is true for the AIPAC
Our end of this is to realize that our (DLC = RNC) "government" has mostly sold their souls to the AIPAC, so dealing with this Heart of Darkness is going to have to come from apolitical, activist, patriotic Americans.
And oh yes, please don't be taken in by the everlastingly recycled rationalization that unless we let them TOTALLY dictate America's foreign policy, Israel will be pushed into the sea (their favorite image, for some reason). "Pushed into the sea?" I think not since they have intimidated our government to load them up with several times over more atomic weaponry than the entire Islamic world combined!
Self evidently, Israel should be vigilantly self protective about a nuclear attack, but how realistically probable is such an event, since half the planet would be decimated in mater of hours if any country was insane enough to attempt it -- thanks to the mountainous stockpiles of “made in America” atomic nukes, etc.
Hence, it’s imperative to see that's not the only issue and never has been. The “other” issue was put into words by someone who objected to a much milder submission of mine that (God forbid!) suggested some real world "diplomacy" instead of this endless, lose/lose carnage.
His response (you better sit down for this) was that if the Palestinians really wanted diplomacy, why doesn't another Arab country just take them all into their country? Duh!
So even though before 1948, Palestine was 100% PALESTINE, this self righteous (and haven’t you noticed that all AIPAC “justifications” are always nauseatingly self righteous?) psycho was saying they should all “just leave” so the country can be totally Israel.
[ AIPAC ain't Jewish, CIA ain't christian, and Mossad ain't Jewish. ]
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Well, did the other shoe just drop and is THIS is secret agenda of the AIPAC?
Of course, none of this justifies murder in "either direction" (which is what makes it lose/lose for the pitiful political pawns of both groups), but it would be criminally naive to discount a TOTAL take over agenda of Palestine by extremist right wing Israeli's.
God willing, once Bush's "kill a Muslim for Christ" insanity no longer gives a green light to the AIPAC, Obama will supply a negotiated level playing field and this tragic horror show will finally come to some kind peaceful and even win/win resolution.
And THEN we'll kick the AIPAC out of America’s foreign policy decisions once and for all! Gee, wouldn't it be nice if AMERICAN'S determined their OWN foreign policy -- not a fraternity of billionaire religious fanatics from another country?
How ashamed our genius constitutional forefathers must be of us, since they constructed fire wall after fire wall to keep inviolate the Church and State separation, and here we are caving into exactly what they tried to protect us from -- except it's even worse since our government of elite dem/pug puppets (with courageous exceptions who prove the rule) keeps sucking up to an acronym from another country! Time to kick the bums out. Time to be AMERICANS again.
And time to give our very, very best shot to pouring oil on these infinitely troubled waters. My God, too much death, too much greed, too much mutual massacre . . . and too many dead and dying children.
Enough! Enough! Enough!
Christian Zionist 'BUSH' Lobby Gives Obama His Marching Orders
By Michael Collins Piper
THE POWERFUL JEWISH LOBBY in Washington is already issuing marching orders to President-elect Barack Obama. One of the most influential voices of the lobby has published an array of “working papers” designed to tell the president how he must maintain the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel, increase pressure on a variety of Arab and Muslim states that are perceived as dangers to Israel, and generally assure that Israel’s interests will always be first and foremost in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, not only in the Middle East but around the globe.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a particularly vocal force in the Jewish lobby, published an entire edition of its Journal of International Security Affairs (dated fall 2008), sending the official word to Obama. JINSA was founded by one Stephen Bryen who—along with a host of other well known names connected to JINSA—was once investigated by the FBI on charges of espionage for Israel.
A variety of articles in the journal addressing “Middle East Policy and the Next President” and “Iran, Iraq and Beyond,” make it clear that JINSA—best known as a nest of the infamous “neo-conservatives” who misdirected U.S. foreign policy during the outgoing Bush administration, sparking the war in Iraq and continuing to clamor for action against Iran—wants Obama to pursue Bush-style policies.
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AIPAC is particularly obsessed with using U.S. military and economic power to force Arab and Muslim nations to “reform” from within. Talk of “democracy” flows freely within AIPAC’s assorted essays, demanding that Israel’s neighbors conform to the Western version of democracy. But when the Palestinian people voted the Hamas movement into power in the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza strip, AIPAC and other elements in the Jewish lobby immediately began calling for the United States to reject that freely elected government.
Now, of course, Hamas is largely only in control of the beleaguered Gaza—which many refer to as “ghetto”— and the Palestinian statehood movement has been eviscerated, at least for now. This makes AIPAC and the lobby for Israel quite happy, for Israel has long encouraged U.S. policies—and helped create conditions—that have the effect of “divide and conquer” in the Arab and Muslim world.
Israel is not like any other nation in the world, in that it seems to thrive best (and enjoys the benefits of) having its neighbors quarreling among themselves and rent within. Other nations prefer neighbors that are peaceful and internally secure. Israel wants its neighbors in chaos, because this prevents them from waging war against Israel, either individually or united. And although in the wake of the debacle in Iraq, which led many Israelis and their allies in the United States to suddenly proclaim that the Iraq war should never have been waged, the fact is that Israel and its U.S.-based agents-in-place were the prime movers behind that war and it was Israeli intelligence that was providing what critics now recognize was the “bad intelligence” that led the Bush administration to “mistakenly” conclude that Iraq was working toward an assembly of nuclear weapons to rival that of Israel.
The Israelis and their American spokesmen evidently now believe that if they tell the “big lie” often enough—the lie that Israel’s interests played no part in orchestrating the debacle in Iraq—that it will make Americans forget that Israel was the foremost advocate of the war in the first place.
However, the evisceration of Iraq by the United States is part and parcel of a long-standing Israeli national security policy aimed toward “balkanizing” the Muslim world.
Yet, AIPAC, in its journal, is now working to perpetuate the myth of Iraqi nuclear weapons and suggesting that Iraq’s weapons were transported into Syria, another nation which has been on the “wish list for war” of Israel and its lobby in America. And AIPAC makes it clear that the destruction of Iran’s nuclear development program is a “must.”
AIPAC is not the only Israeli lobby unit sending the message to the new president. Commentary magazine, long affiliated with the American Jewish Committee, has—in recent issues—been trumpeting a similar bellicose refrain directed at Obama. The editorial director of the Jewish lobby journal is John Podhoretz, a longtime close personal and political associate of the ubiquitous William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard magazine, which is the most infamous voice of the neo-conservative, hard-line pro-Israel elements operating in the media, in the think tanks, and in official policy making and national security and intelligence circles in Washington.
Their fathers, Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, are two of the founding fathers of the neoconservative network, both Trotskyite Marxists who announced their “conversion” to conservatism during the latter days of the Cold War, banging the drum for intensified U.S. support for Israel.
A complete overview of the neo-conservative power structure and its rather bizarre origins in the days when American Jewish communists like Kristol and Podhoretz turned on the Soviet Union when then- Soviet chief Josef Stalin began moving against Jewish and Zionist elements inside Russia can be found in The High Priests of War and The Judas Goats, two works by this author.
Whether President Obama intends real change, as he promised, or whether he will advance the Israeli agenda (which saw its power expand exponentially in the Republican administration of George W. Bush) remains to be seen. But “the lobby” is making its voice heard and Obama knows that he better not ignore it.
Pussy the following is largely not true, ECKMANS money all came from her husband, he has bought her six prior elections in the last 25 years, cuz shes a bored house-wife, she 'black-mailed' Telfer to get the vote, as she had to be mayor. Trumor in the grape-vine is she'll be out in six months, as she always gets bored. She's a control freak, and right now 'MONEY MOMMAS' ( her big biz ) is bleeding so she's doing this for distraction, but she's a kept woman not unlike you, and she just jumps from hobby to hobby. Dangerous, no she's a joke.
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Former Mayor Kathie Eckman, who is trying to unseat Councilor Linda Johnson, has raised the most of any candidate: $19,446. More than a third of that money has come from Eckman and her husband, Paul, but a large amount has also come from a handful of political action committees, including the Bend Firefighters Association, Deschutes County Republican Central Committee, Central Oregon Association of Realtors and Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing, a builders’ group.
From AIPAC to the Cuban Exiles
Is Obama Turning Right?
By GREG KAFOURY
This week, Senator Barak Obama traveled to Florida and spoke to Jewish and Cuban-American audiences. In those speeches, he embraced the right-wing policy positions of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and the hard-line program of the most reactionary elements of the Cuban exile community.
Senator Obama was for many years considered pro-Palestinian, but a year ago when he spoke sympathetically about the suffering of Palestinian people, he quickly backed off his statements under pressure from the Israeli lobby. His surrender to AIPAC this week is particularly troubling because it comes at a time when more and more Americans - including Jewish Americans - are awakening to the fact that the Israeli lobby is a threat to both America and Israel, because its unwavering support for the expansion of colonial settlements and its resistance to serious peace negotiations serve to block the two-state solution which could otherwise be within reach.
Last year, George Soros wrote in the New York Review of Books that the power of the Israeli lobby should be challenged by the creation of a new Jewish lobby in America, one committed to peace and justice. Just such a group was recently formed in Washington, D.C., calling itself "J Street." Former President Jimmy Carter has warned that the occupation of Palestine is creating an Israeli apartheid.
On May 7, Carter appeared on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" and explained the need to negotiate with Hamas, negotiations that are opposed by the Israeli lobby and by the U.S. administration. He noted that Hamas prevailed in an internationally-supervised Palestinian election that had been sponsored by America and Israel. Carter pointed out that a recent Ha’aretz poll found that 64% of Israelis favor negotiations with Hamas. Yet Senator Obama has now fallen in line with AIPAC, ruling out negotiations with Hamas, and adopting the language of the Bush administration in calling Hamas a "terrorist organization."
Occupation invites resistance. To demand an end to resistance as the price of discussing the occupation is to invite endless casualties. As Ralph Nader has pointed out, the American media makes much of the primitive rockets fired at Israel by Palestinians, while minimizing the use of heavy weaponry and helicopter gun ships by the Israelis in Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on earth. Over the last year, Palestinian civilian casualties outnumber Israeli civilian casualties nearly 400 to 1.
In his speech to the Cuban exiles, Senator Obama said he was willing to meet Raul Castro, but declared that members of the exile community would have to have "a seat at the table." This is the sort of precondition which Obama had previously ruled out, and the likelihood of Castro sitting down with exiles is beyond remote. Obama said that the release of political prisoners would have to be on the agenda, yet the exiles' notion of who is a political prisoner consists largely of those who not only resisted the regime, but who took money from the American government, and coordinated their efforts with those who supported the overthrow of the regime. (See " Cuba: U.S. Diplomat is Accused of Delivering Cash to Opposition," N.Y. Times, 5/24/08.)
While Obama spoke in favor of allowing Cuban-Americans to more frequently visit their families in Cuba and to send money to them, these reforms are widely popular in the exile community. Most tellingly, Obama failed to oppose the Bush Administration's ban on ordinary Americans traveling to Cuba on educational tours, tours that until 2004 allowed thousands of Americans to visit Cuba, and to come to their own conclusions about the Cuban Revolution.
Worse yet, the same Senator Obama who only a year ago supported ending the embargo declared that the embargo would continue until Cuba knuckled under to American demands.
In 1959, Cubans overthrew a dictator who was in partnership with the Mafia and who allowed Cuban workers and natural resources to be exploited by giant American corporations. In response to their nationalizing American assets, the Cubans faced nearly fifty years of U.S. sponsored invasion, embargo, sabotage, terrorism, and attempts to assassinate their leaders.
Yet Obama spoke not a word of how the restrictions of political liberty in Cuba are linked to Cuba's struggle to maintain independence in the face of relentless attempts by a succession of U.S. administrations to use their great power to bring Cuba to heel.
Senator Obama spoke not a word of the accomplishments of the Cuban Revolution, the world-class health system, the high quality education, rural development, cutting edge research on infectious diseases, and the provision of thousands of Cuban doctors to the most disease-ridden, God-forsaken corners of the earth.
Senator Obama essentially gave the same kind of speech on Cuba that we have heard from American Presidents for the last fifty years. Where is the "change" that we have been waiting for, that we have been promised so repeatedly?
We have been down this road before. In 2004, progressives lined up behind Senator Kerry, and progressive organizations made no demands upon him. The anti-war movement folded its tents. After this early and unconditional surrender on the part of the American left, Senator Kerry moved sharply to the right .The Democratic Convention was militaristic in form and corporate in policy. The candidate who had called himself "anti-war" wound up running against Bush's war policy from the right, calling for tens of thousands more troops, and criticizing Bush for having pulled back from Falluja simply because of the massive civilian carnage. Yet for all of this appeasement of the right, Kerry lost the election. Shortly thereafter, Bush leveled Falluja, and four years later American forces have been bombing major cities in Iraq.
Greg Kafoury is a trial lawyer and political activist in Portland, Oregon. He can be reached at kafoury@kafourymcdougal.com.
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