Opening up a southern front on Turkish government from Cyprus

Opening up a southern front on Turkish government from Cyprus

The reformist Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a new problem from its southern flank in its efforts to rid Turkey of its "deep state" Ergenokon network. Turkish hard-line rightist Dervis Eroglu has narrowly won the presidential race in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, an entity that the Erdogan government would like to see join Greek Cyprus in a loose federation, thus paving the way for Turkey's accession into the European Union.

Eroglu's narrow win over leftist incumbent Mehmet Ali Talat will only serve to embolden those Ergenekon forces in Turkey and North Cyprus that thrive in the status quo of a bifurcated Cyprus and a Turkey on the outside of the EU. The Turkish Cypriot election also provides Israel and its eastern European gangster tycoons who are involved in casinos and money laundering in a secure enclave with a murky legal status -- North Cyprus --where casinos lure Turkish gamblers from the mainland where gambling is illegal.

Eroglu insists on a sovereign North Cyprus -- a two-state solution -- a stance that is rejected by Greek Cyprus, Greece, the EU, and the Turkish government. However, North Cyprus has always benefited by the quiet support of another pariah state in the region -- Israel -- and that support will likely increase since Eroglu is at odds with the government in Ankara and Erdogan has criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

As long as Israelis are able to freely run hotel/casino complexes in North Cyprus, the proceeds can be laundered into funding Ergenekon activities in North Cyprus, as well as mainland Turkey. North Cyprus's accession into a Cypriot federation that would be covered by EU law put the casino and money laundering interests of Israel and its Ergenekon friends in jeopardy.

The North Cyprus casinos, which at last count numbered some 70, primarily draw Turks from the mainland, followed by Greek Cypriots, Israelis, and Europeans. The original law permitting casinos in North Cyprus was enacted in 1975, following North Cyprus's uniateral declaration of independence, but casino tourism did not gain momentum until the late 1990s when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his family began to cut lucrative casino deals on the West Bank and Cyprus. Israel, like mainland Turkey, bans gambling.

In 2003, Greek Cypriot authorities deported Israeli tourists whose Israeli tour operator concocted a scam in which the Israelis claimed they were holidaying in Larnaca, in Greek Cyprus, when, in fact, they were traveling by bus across the UN Green Line to North Cyprus to gamble. Greek Cyprus only permits legal betting on horse races and football matches.

Israeli casino flights now touch down at Antalya, on the Turkish mainland, before flying on to North Cyprus.

Israeli businessman Roni Kuperberg owns the Chateau Lambousa casino, west of Kyrenia, the major port city of northern Cyprus. Israel's Ofer Grou, owned b Israeli businessman Sami Ofer, announced plans in 2007 to build a hotel casino complex at Girne in North Cyprus.

One major Israeli player in North Cypriot gambling is Teddy Sagi. In 1999, Sagi and three other Israelis, Elad Cohen, Rami Beinish, and Amnon Ben-Zion, started Playtech, a provider of on-line gambling software that primarily used software programmers in Estonia. Sagi is a convicted stock fraudster, having been convicted of fraud in the 1996 "Discount affair," a stock manipulation scheme.

In 2009, Playtech Cyprus, Ltd. began providing casino equipment to a new Bucharest casino owned by Africa-Israel Investments, Ltd, owned by Israeli multi-billionaire Lev Leviev.

The North Cyprus connection to Ergenekon was highlighted in 2006 when an armed clash broke out in the enclave between gangs loyal to two casino owners. One of the parties was reported to have been Yasar Oz, a suspect in the Ergenekon network exposed in the Susurluk car crash incident in 1996, in which documents related to Ergenekon first surfaced.

Israel's grand designs in the Middle East can be seen in the flag devices it encourages in surrounding terriitories: Left to right: Israeli flag, flag of the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," and the flag that the neocons attempted to impose on U.S.-occupied Iraq.

The New Biology: Where Mind and Matter Meet

The next great advance in biology will change more than science textbooks - it will revolutionize the way you live your life.

Dr. Bruce H. Lipton explains, "In the past, we've been taught that living beings are like machines run by biochemicals and DNA. What we now know is that our entire biology is shaped by the intelligence of each of our fifty trillion cells. And the single most important way to influence them is through the energy of our beliefs."

In this lecture and in his book, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles, Bruce Lipton explains the stunning new discoveries that have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. He shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts.

Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.....

Time travel experiment demonstrates how to avoid the grandfather paradox",

but it admits....

"The scientists noted that their experiment cannot test whether an actual CTC obeys their new theory, since it is currently unknown whether CTCs exist at all."

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-grandfather-paradox.html

Demonstrating an unknown unknown, maybe....LOL

I personally believe that time and physics flow only one direction in this part of Creation, and we will never establish otherwise. I believe it is within our capability, were it our evolutionary destiny, to actually learn how to disassemble all of Creation into its constituent protons, neutron, quarks, muons higgs boson particles and a few other bits I'm not up on yet....

I am skeptical that unlike the "qubits’ from the THEORY, wherein a "qubit cannot kill its former self", our actual selves, whatever THEY are comprised of, would not survive our feat of deconstruction.

Although its my experience that consciousness, whatever it is, can operate and apparently perceive faster than the speed of light, I do not believe it can be physically surpassed in this Creation, which tends against efficient time travel unless a currently unknown physics emerges, as it concentrates on the physical movement or quantum parallel teleportation of the corporeal subject to the cosmic speed limit.

Be nice if the paradox could be worked out, we're sure to have a few snafu's once we enable ourselves to start fooling with time!

The New Biology: Where Mind and Matter Meet, pt. 1

The New Biology: Where Mind and Matter Meet, pt. 2

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Prepare to go down the rabbit hole. ;)

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"The Great Silence" - Stephen Hawking & Others Look at Why Life Has Yet to be Discovered Beyond Earth

Click image to enlarge to 1280 x 1002. Image Credit: www.astro.columbia.edu/~astrobio/ProjectsII.html.

"The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they are out there and to consider the manner in which this may impinge upon human society." -- Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: New Scientist, via The Daily Galaxy

One of the greatest philosophical and scientific challenges that currently confronts humanity is the unsolved question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for or contact with such civilizations.

The 14-billion-year age of the universe and its 130 billion galaxies and a Milky Way Galaxy with some 400 billion stars suggest that if the Earth is typical, should be common. Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, discussing this observation with colleagues over lunch in 1950, asked, logically: "Where are they?" Why, if advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in our Milky Way galaxy, hasn't evidence such as probes, spacecraft, or radio transmissions been found?

As our technologies become ever more sophisticated and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence continues to fail, the "Great Silence" becomes louder than ever. The seemingly empty cosmos is screaming out to us that something is amiss. Or is it?

Using a computer simulation of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, proposed an answer to the Fermi Paradox. Bjork proposed that an alien civilization might build intergalactic probes and launch them on missions to search for life.

He found, however, that even if the alien ships could hurtle through space at a tenth of the speed of light, or 30,000km a second, - NASA's current Cassini mission to Saturn is gliding along at 32km a second - it would take 10 billion years, roughly half the age of the universe, to explore a mere four percent of the galaxy.

Like humans, alien civilizations could shorten the time to find extra-terrestrials by picking up television and radio broadcasts that might leak from colonized planets. "Even then," he reported, "unless they can develop an exotic form of transport that gets them across the galaxy in two weeks it's still going to take millions of years to find us. There are so many stars in the galaxy that probably life could exist elsewhere, but will we ever get in contact with them? Not in our lifetime."

The problem of distance is compounded by the fact that timescales that provide a "window of opportunity" for detection or contact might be quite small. Advanced civilizations may periodically arise and fall throughout our galaxy as they do here, on Earth, but this may be such a rare event, relatively speaking, that the odds of two or more such civilizations existing at the same time are low.

In short, there may have been intelligent civilizations in the galaxy before the emergence of intelligence on Earth, and there may be intelligent civilizations after its extinction, but it is possible that human beings are the only intelligent civilization in existence "now." "Now" assumes that an extraterrestrial intelligence is not able to travel to our vicinity at faster-than-light speeds, in order to detect an intelligence 1,000 light-years distant, that intelligence will need to have been active 1,000 years ago.

There is also a possibility that archaeological evidence of past civilizations may be detected through deep space observations — especially if they left behind large artifacts such as Dyson spheres.

Perhaps... but in our search for life and intelligence we have to keep in mind that the Milky Way Galaxy is two or three times the age of our Solar System, so there are going to be some societies out there that are millions of years, maybe more, beyond ours, which may have proceeded beyond biology—that have invented intelligent, self-replicating machines and it could be that what we first find is something that's artificially constructed if we have the ability to recognize it as such. It may very well be that our greatest discovery will be that the very nature of alien communication will prevent our being able to communicate with it.

In his famous lecture on Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?"

If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of life on Earth is correct, Hawking says "there ought to be many other stars, whose planets have life on them. Some of these stellar systems could have formed 5 billion years before the Earth. So why is the galaxy not crawling with self-designing mechanical or biological life forms?"

Why hasn't the Earth been visited, and even colonized? Hawking asks. "I discount suggestions that UFO's contain beings from outer space. I think any visits by aliens, would be much more obvious, and probably also, much more unpleasant."

Hawking continues: "What is the explanation of why we have not been visited? One possibility is that the argument, about the appearance of life on Earth, is wrong. Maybe the probability of life spontaneously appearing is so low, that Earth is the only planet in the galaxy, or in the observable universe, in which it happened. Another possibility is that there was a reasonable probability of forming self reproducing systems, like cells, but that most of these forms of life did not evolve intelligence."

We are used to thinking of intelligent life, as an inevitable consequence of evolution, Hawking emphasized, but it is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes.

Intelligence, Hawking believes contrary to our human-centric existece, may not have any long-term survival value. In comparison the microbial world, will live on, even if all other life on Earth is wiped out by our actions. Hawking's main insight is that intelligence was an unlikely development for life on Earth, from the chronology of evolution: "It took a very long time, two and a half billion years, to go from single cells to multi-cell beings, which are a necessary precursor to intelligence. This is a good fraction of the total time available, before the Sun blows up. So it would be consistent with the hypothesis, that the probability for life to develop intelligence, is low. In this case, we might expect to find many other life forms in the galaxy, but we are unlikely to find intelligent life."

Another possibility is that there is a reasonable probability for life to form, and to evolve to intelligent beings, but at some point in their technological development "the system becomes unstable, and the intelligent life destroys itself. This would be a very pessimistic conclusion. I very much hope it isn't true."

Hawkling prefers another possibility: that there are other forms of intelligent life out there, but that we have been overlooked. If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, Hawking warns,"we should have be wary of answering back, until we have evolved" a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage,' Hawking says "might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don't think they were better off for it."

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Michio Kaku: Alien Life Top Secret on Coast to Coast

Michio Kaku and much of the civilian scientific community think that alien life should be top secret, even if it's found light years away in outer space. Imagine if they were here already. Do you think the governments and the scientists would tell us?

The origins of the HOBEIKA family

آدميون نحن ولنفس الأصل ننتمي فكيف نهنأ بالعيش والغير يألم

The name hobeika comes from the village of Beit Habbak in the region of Byblos. This Habbaki family is originally from the prestigious “Chemor” family of Kfarhata-Zgharta. The Chemors of Kfarhata have the title of Sheiks. They were the governors of Akoura in the mountains of Byblos between 1211 and 1633 and the rulers of Zgharta-Zawiya between 1641 and 1747. Their ancestors were the Ghassanids, a Christian tribe that dwelled in the Arabian Peninsula. After being displaced from Yemen because of a natural disaster, they settled in the Houran region of Syria. They have allied themselves to the Byzantines as protectors of the South. Past the Islamic conquest of the region, they sought refuge in Lebanon. Their first stay was in Akoura (Byblos district) then they moved to Kfarhata in 1641. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, some troubles occurred between the Sheiks Chemor and the Daher family. As a result a member of the Chemors was compelled to flee the village and take refuge in a small over sighted village in the uphill of Byblos, Beit Habbak. He went there with his four sons and his unique daughter. The latter got married with the son of a commoner although her family did not accept it. Her brothers had killed her husband and were once again obliged to run away from the village. The first one went to the mountainous village of Baskinta and because he was coming from Beit Habbak, he was called “Habbaki” which with time became “Hobeika”. The second one, Ferjane Chemor, had the courage to stay in Beit Habbak. Today, his offspring is known as the family “Ferjane”. The last two brothers, Farhat and Gharios went to the suburbs of Beirut where water is available and citrus trees are abundant. Farhat Chemor is today survived by a large family in Hadath today known as the family “Farhat”. Gharios Chemor went to Chiyah in 1757. His son Antoun took the name of his father as his family name like his uncles. We don’t know if Antoun had brothers or sisters but we are sure that he had two sons: Fares (confirmed on the 19 April 1849) and Youssef (confirmed in 1852).


There is a book in Arabic on the origin and genealogy of the HOBEIKA family, written by Monseigneur Boutros Hobeika in Baskinta. It's in Arabic and very few copies remain in circulation today....( I have one ) Monseigneur Boutros Hobeika lived in Baskinta between the late 1880s and the 1950s....[ Avec l’école fondée par sa grâce monseigneur Boutros hobeika en
1906 et devenue en 1947 le Collège Saint Pierre des Frères des ecoles Chrétiennes a Baskinta . ]


Interesting link to KSA...where our "Tribe" might have come from.... prior to landing in North Lebanon, Jbeil, Mount Lebanon, the South and the Beqaa....



Abar al Hubaykah, Saudi Arabia......



http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/saudi_arabia/map/p233009/abar_al_hubay
kah.html

لبنان الوطن

لبنان الوطن

آدميون نحن ولنفس الأصل ننتمي فكيف نهنأ بالعيش والغير يألم

.لبنان حلبة ملاكمة بين القوى المحلية والاقليمية والدولية

أي وطن هذا الوطن الذي تحاولون إقناعنا به ....
أيّة صيغة تلك الذي تبحثون عنها ولم تجدوها منذ الإستتقلال حتى اليوم ....
أيّ دين هذا الذي تتكلّمون عنه ....

ضربتمونا على خدّنا الأيمن فدرنا لكم الأيسر ....
أيّة مسيحيّة تلك التي تدّعون مسيحيّة " جماهير القوّات " التي تحطّم رؤؤوس البشر وسيّاراتهم بالعصي والحجار والسكاكين ....
تناسيتم حتى التي ضبطت في ذات الفعل وحاولوا رجمها ....
فمن كان منكم بلا خطيئة فليرميها بحجر .... ولم يوجد من يدينها ....
أيّة ديانة تلك التي تأمركم بضرب وقتل الأبرياء حتى ولو كانوا أعداءكم ؛ ألم تقرأوا فعلاً الإنجيل ؟
أحبّوا أعداءكم ، باركوا لاعينيكم ، صلّوا لأجل الذين يسيئون أليكم ....
وتتكلّمون عن الدين والله والمحبّة ....

وتذهبون إلى الكنائس والجوامع ودور العبادة ....
أيّ دين هذا الذي تدّعون وعنه تدافعون ؟؟ أيّ إله هذا الذي أمركم بالقتل والردّ على التظاهرات ضد الظلم والفساد بالرصاص والقنص والضرب والتكسير ....
أيّ إسلام هذا الذي يدعوكم لأن تحقدوا على الآخرين وتتناسون ما قيل لأهل مكّة بعد العودة إليها وبالنصر المبين ....
ماذا تروني فاعل بكم .... أخ كريم وابن أخ كريم .... فقال لهم إذهبوا فأنتم الطلقاء ....
لم ينتقم لحمزة عمه ولا لأقاربه ولا لكرامته وشرفه وعزّته ؛ بل الإنتقام هو المسامحة وهي الوحيدة التي تعيد العزة والكرامة والشرف ....
أيّة أديان تلك التي تشوّه حقوق الناس وتجعلهم عبيداً للزعماء والمتموّلين من كل المذاهب والطوائف ؟؟؟
المال لغة العصر .... وعصب الفكر ....
فأين هي تعاليم الأديان السماويّة التي تدعونا جميعاً للمحبّة والمسامحة ....
والعيش الذي لا يشوبه ضغن ومكر وخبث وتعالي وفساد ....
كلّكم بدون استثناء تتكلمون عن الفساد والإهدار لأموال الدولة....

فماذا فعلتم لإيقاف هذا الهدروقطع دابر الفساد ؟؟!!
كلكم تتكلّمون عن الوحدة الوطنيّة وإذاعاتكم وكل وسائل إعلامكم سخرتموها ليل نهار للشحن المذهبي والطائفي وكل يدّعي أنّه يدافع عن الله ؛ والله وللأسف أقول وبالصوت الملآن ؛ الله بريئ من جميع المحرّضين وأصحاب الفتن ....
الله بريئ من جميع القتلة والمعتدين على أملاك الناس ومستبيحي أعراضهم ....
الله بريئ من الجميع والله ليس بحاجة لأحد أن يدافع عنه بل هو الذي قال لكم ولجميعكم الله يدافع عنكم وأنتم صامتون ....
فهلا صمتم وأسكتم أصوات إذاعاتكم المنظورة والمسموعة ....
تحالفتم جميعاً مع بعضكم ووقفتم خلف الأبواب تسترقون السمع متى يقتتل الشيعي مع السني...
ومتى يقتتل المسيحي مع المسيحي ومتى تنهار قوائم الدولة حتى تلك التي فصلتم قياساتها على أحجامكم بقوانين إنتخابيّة تناسب كل واحد منكم ....
لم تريدوها أن تعمر وتستمر لأن بطونكم وجيوبكم لها مخازن تمتد من الأرض إلى السماء فلا ولن تشبعوا بالرغم من داء السمنة التي تعانون منه جميعكم وهذا ليس جديداً علينا ....
نعرفه منذ قيام الدولة التي تدّعون بأنها تؤمن العيش المشترك ....
أي عيش مشترك هذا الذي تنادون به وتدّعون الدفاع عنه وأنتم لا تستطيعون أن تعطوا حقوق الوطن والمواطنين ....
فالوطن هو مشاع لكم والحق ليس عليكم بل الحق كل الحق على هؤلاء الذين جعلوا الوطن مشاعاً وسلعة لأمثالكم ....
الشعب ليس هنا والوطنيّون ينامون على حرير وكلما وصل أحدهم إلى فوق نسي أصله ....
وتناسى أن هناك شعبا يجوع يعرى وشعبا يموت بحثاً عن حبة دواء لطفل أو طفلة مريضة ....وهذا الذي ادعى يوما انه منا
ينعم بقصور أورثتها له أيادي سود عبثت ومنذ الإستقلال بدماء وأرزاق هذا الشعب المسكين ....
ليس هناك شعب في العالم يصفق لجلاديه وليس هناك شعب في العالم يستميت من أجل فاسد أو سارق أو خائن للعهد ....
عهد الوطن والشعب ....

فهل يستفيق شعب لبنان وينزع عن نفسه الجهل والتجهيل وقناع المذاهب والطوائف وزعاماتها إلى الأبد ....
ليبقى لبنان وليس من أحد فوق القانون والدولة ....
الوطن أمانة فمتى نستردّ هذه الأمانة ....
أيها اللبناني أي لبنان تريد ؟! ألبنان الشيعي أم السني أم المسيحي أم العلوي و الحبل على الجرار ؟

My heart is in the East, and I am at the ends of the West...;
How can I taste what I eat and how could it be pleasing to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Lebanon lies beneath the fetter of the Cedars, and I am in the chains of Europa?
It would be easy for me to leave all the bounty of USA –
As it is precious for me to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary...

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Is it any surprise that “Muslim and Christian clergymen have repeatedly registered their displeasure, claiming civil marriages would serve to disintegrate traditional close family ties and threaten the foundations of matrimony.”

Clergymen’s influence and control would diminish in that case, or so they perceive. The reality is that religion becomes stronger and moves towards a base of true believer when people have a choice. Clergymen would rather have atheists be forced into a religious marriage ceremony, hypocritically, and then live a life in fiat of the church/mosque than limit their flock to the true believers and “compete” to inspire non-believers to believe and join. By the way, Israel has the same problem...

These practices and other similar ones basing politics and social order on religion are, in my opinion, at the root of many a country’s problem, particularly in the Middle East. The French revolution overthrew, along with the king, the church influence and, to this day, we see an aversion towards the church because of its historical alliance with the rule of the king. Compare this to the United States where freedom of religion coupled with separation of church and state formed pillars of the foundation of the state...

Church/mosque/temple goers in the U.S. are true believers and religion thrives without interfering with politics. Maybe the revolution in Lebanon should be against such religious edicts. Perhaps the campaign by the youth to end confessionalism is a very good start in Lebanon....

لماذا تنجح إسرائيل ولماذا يفشل العرب؟

حاولت في زياراتي المتعددة للأراضي المحتلة وإسرائيل أن أبحث عن الإجابة على أرض الواقع. وحاولت في تعاملاتي مع الساسة أو رجل الشارع الإسرائيلي أن أفهم أين تكمن نقطة التفوق.

ووصلت - ولا أدعي هنا الصواب - بالتجربة إلى أن «الفرد» الإسرائيلي ليس فيه أي شيء مميز عن أي إنسان عربي تعاملت معه في القاهرة أو الرباط أو بيروت أو أبوظبي.

إذن أين مركز القوة في هذا المجتمع؟

أعتقد أنه «الانتماء الجماعي» لفكرة الدولة العبرية.

«الانتماء» قد يكون لأسباب توراتية دينية، أو لفكرة الوطن التاريخي لشعب مشرد، أو للحفاظ على مشروع وطني لإقامة دولة قومية موحدة ليهود العالم.

هذا الانتماء يجعلك ترى طلاب وطالبات الثانوية والجامعة وهم يرتدون الملابس العسكرية ويقومون بدور ضباط الجوازات في المطارات الإسرائيلية، وتراهم وهم في خدمة التجنيد الإجباري، وفي بناء وحراسة المستوطنات.

«الانتماء» لفكرة الدولة، هو «المشترك الأعظم» الذي يجمع هؤلاء الذين جاءوا من شتات الأرض. ورغم أن هذا المجتمع شديد الطبقية والعنصرية والفئوية والانقسام العرقي بداخله، فإنه فيما يختص بمشروع الدولة يصبح على قلب رجل واحد.

ورغم أن التلفزيونات والإذاعات العربية تعتبر الأكثر إنتاجا للأغاني الوطنية التي تتغزل في حب الوطن، فإننا من أكثر دول العالم التي يسعى فيها الشباب إلى تجنب التجنيد الإجباري، ويقوم فيها رجال الأعمال بتوطين ثرواتهم في البنوك الأجنبية، وتمتد فيها طوابير طلب الهجرة أمام سفارات العالم!

يا له.. من انتماء

David Ray Griffin’s lecture at Boston University

Please watch David Ray Griffin’s lecture at Boston University on April 11, 2009 (9/11, Time For a Second Look) . Dr. Griffin meticulously presents the case for a new investigation of the 9/11 attacks–the 9/11 Commission Report on the “official” conspiracy theory is full of contradictions and apparent lies.

Criminalizing criticism of Israel is the end of free speech

Criminalizing criticism of Israel is the end of free speech By Paul Craig Roberts

On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-Semitism worldwide.

To monitor anti-Semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews.

Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at the White House. As soon as he gets the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 passed, it will become a crime for any American to tell the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and theft of their lands.

It will be a crime for Christians to acknowledge the New Testament’s account of Jews demanding the crucifixion of Jesus.

It will be a crime to report the extraordinary influence of the Israel Lobby on the White House and Congress, such as the AIPAC-written resolutions praising Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza that were endorsed by 100 percent of the US Senate and 99 per cent of the House of Representatives, while the rest of the world condemned Israel for its barbarity.

It will be a crime to doubt the Holocaust.

It will become a crime to note the disproportionate representation of Jews in the media, finance, and foreign policy.

In other words, it means the end of free speech, free inquiry, and the First Amendment to the Constitution. Any facts or truths that cast aspersion upon Israel will simply be banned.

Given the hubris of the US government, which leads Washington to apply US law to every country and organization, what will happen to the International Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the various human rights organizations that have demanded investigations of Israel’s military assault on Gaza’s civilian population? Will they all be arrested for the hate crime of “excessive” criticism of Israel?

This is a serious question.

A recent UN report, which is yet to be released in its entirety, blames Israel for the deaths and injuries that occurred within the United Nations premises in Gaza. The Israeli government has responded by charging that the UN report is “tendentious, patently biased,” which puts the UN report into the State Department’s category of excessive criticism and strong anti-Israel sentiment.

Israel is getting away with its blatant use of the American government to silence its critics despite the fact that the Israeli press and Israeli soldiers have exposed the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the premeditated murder of women and children urged upon the Israeli invaders by rabbis. These acts are clearly war crimes.

It was the Israeli press that published the pictures of the Israeli soldiers’ T-shirts that indicate that the willful murder of women and children is now the culture of the Israeli army. The T-shirts are horrific expressions of barbarity. For example, one shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a crosshairs over her stomach and the slogan, “One shot, two kills.” These T-shirts are an indication that Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is one of extermination.

It has been true for years that the most potent criticism of Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians comes from the Israeli press and Israeli peace groups. For example, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and Jeff Halper of ICAHD have shown a moral conscience that apparently does not exist in the Western democracies where Israel’s crimes are covered up and even praised.

Will the American hate crime bill be applied to Haaretz and Jeff Halper? Will American commentators who say nothing themselves but simply report what Haaretz and Halper have said be arrested for “spreading hatred of Israel, an anti-Semitic act”?

Many Americans have been brainwashed by the propaganda that Palestinians are terrorists who threaten innocent Israel. These Americans will see the censorship as merely part of the necessary war on terror. They will accept the demonization of fellow citizens who report unpalatable facts about Israel and agree that such people should be punished for aiding and abetting terrorists.

A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. American university professors have fallen victim to the well organized attempt to eliminate all criticism of Israel. Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure at a Catholic university because of the power of the Israel Lobby. Now the Israel Lobby is after University of California (at Santa Barbara,) Professor Wiliam Robinson. Robinson’s crime: his course on global affairs included some reading assignments critical of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing the Obama Justice [sic] Department that it is anti-Semitic to accuse two Jewish AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying. The Israel Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped charges. Yet, Larry Franklin, the Department of Defense official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12 years and 7 months in prison.

The absurdity is extraordinary. The two Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is guilty of giving secrets to them! If there is no spy in the story, how was Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy?

Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves American rather than Israeli interests. It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda.

To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-Semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.

Most of Europe has already criminalized doubting the Holocaust. It is a crime even to confirm that it happened but to conclude that fewer than 6 million Jews were murdered.

Why is the Holocaust a subject that is off limits to examination? How could a case buttressed by hard facts possibly be endangered by kooks and anti-Semitics? Surely the case doesn’t need to be protected by thought control.

Imprisoning people for doubts is the antithesis of modernity....

The missing links in the so-called US Diplomacy

The missing links in the so-called US Diplomacy...

• The United States should spell out in detail its vision of an Arab-Israeli peace settlement, and declare that it was determined to resolve the conflict, not simply to manage it...

Between the War of Independence and the end of the 20^th Century.

Between the War of Independence and the end of the 20^th Century US foreign policy was largely grounded in domestic politics and reflected the real (as opposed to ideal) needs and aspirations of the American people. Paraphrasing von Clausewitz’s comment on war, one can indeed say that US foreign policy was then the continuation of domestic politics through other means.

All this changed in the first year of this century as a result of the convergence of two factors: one extraneous, namely the 9/11 terrorist attacks on US soil, the other internal, namely the rise to power in Washington of the Neocons, driven by ideas. Following which, for most of President George W Bush’s eight years at the White House, foreign policy was idea-driven, rhetoric replaced dialectics and, the sobering link with domestic politics having thus been severed, foreign policy became increasingly disconnected from the realities of the American polity and economy, it started free-wheeling on its own, and hubris finally set in.

Now, with a new President in place who has pledged to address, first and foremost, the American people’s real needs and aspirations, the time may be ripe to again make US foreign policy tributary of domestic realities. And what better foreign policy issue to start with, than the Middle East conflict. For, if there ever was a conflict driven exclusively by ideas and beliefs (i.e., driven by ideology), it is certainly the conflict in the Middle East.

If History has ever taught us anything, it is that beliefs and ideas are non negotiable. Everything else--land, territory, wealth, power, oil, gas, water supplies and even strategic positions—might be. Not so beliefs and ideas. Hence the unending Israeli-Palestinian (and, beyond it, Jewish-Moslem) conflict, which never was about sheer territory (territory that can be negotiated, as Israel’s restitution of the Sinai to Egypt suggests), but about a sacred (i.e., idealized) territory.

The majority of Israelis (and beyond them a substantial number of Jews from around the world) indeed strongly believe that Israel is the Promised Land given them by the Almighty, and that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish State; while most Palestinians (backed in this by a vast majority of fellow-Muslims across the world) equally strongly believe that Palestine is their rightful homeland, that they have a legitimate right to return to it, and that Jerusalem is theirs, rather than the Jews’. Such beliefs and ideas, whether grounded in truth or not, are non negotiable. And this helps explain why the Middle East conflict has hitherto remained unresolved.

No serious attempt can therefore be made at resolving the protracted Middle East conflict without first stripping it from its strong (and non negotiable) ideological undertones. More specifically:

(i) In a first phase, soil rights ought to supersede and replace blood rights. In other words, the land in Israel and in Palestine should belong to those who now live on it. Both Israel and the Palestinians and the latter’s Arab and Muslim sponsors should therefore rescind their respective Laws of Return that give, on the one hand, all Jews throughout the world the right to come and live in Israel, and, on the other hand, all Palestinians whose ancestors once lived in what is today Israel, the right to return to “their” home and “their” land. As of D-Day, therefore, and once both sides would have rescinded their Laws of Return, would be considered as Israeli citizens only those (whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Druze) whose homes and livelihoods would be in Israel on the day, to the exclusion of all others; and would be considered as being Palestinian citizens on D-Day only those whose homes and livelihoods happen be in the West Bank and in Gaza on the day, to the exclusion of all others...

(ii) In a second phase, the issue of the status of Jerusalem should be addressed and, while its sacred character should be preserved, its multi-denominational reality should also be recognized and then confirmed under international law. In other words, whereas the holy city of Jerusalem would remain the “eternal capital” of the State of Israel and should be recognized as such by Israel’s present foes, there is nothing to prevent it, in its very holiness, from concurrently being the eternal capital of a Palestinian State (or even “the eternal capital of the three monotheist religions”), however tenuous effective Palestinian (or international) control over the city might be. Only then, when the weight of ideas and ideology would have been lifted and life would have reasserted its rights, will the international community be able to tackle other issues such as security, peace treatises, refugees issues and the sharing of natural resources (fresh water reserves, offshore gas reserves). From being bones of contention, all these issues will then turn into as many common denominators.

All this can be made possible if the United States recognizes that its duty as world leader is not merely towards this or that idea or dream, however legitimate these might seem to be, but its duty is, first and foremost and exactly as is the case in America itself, towards life and all that exists: the real men, women and children, irrespectively of their nationality or creed, who now live in the Middle East region and who are all entitled to live in peace, dignity and security.

• The US goal should be a comprehensive peace: That is to say, there should be coordinated movement on the Syrian, Lebanese and the Palestinian tracks. Any attempt to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace while relegating a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a later date was bound to fail. Equally, focusing on the Palestinian track to the neglect of Syria was a recipe for failure. Although simultaneous movement on the two tracks might prove difficult, it had to be recognized that neither could reach closure without the other.

• The United States should overcome Israel’s well-known reluctance to negotiate with the Lebanese, the Palestinians and Syria at the same time. It should use its considerable leverage to bring Israel to the negotiating table -- in much the same way as former US Secretary of State James Baker managed to compel a reluctant Yitzhak Shamir, then right-wing prime minister of Israel, to attend the 1991 Madrid peace conference.

• The United States should insist on an immediate and total freeze of Israeli settlement expansion on the occupied West Bank. Without such a freeze, any Palestinian-Israeli negotiations would be futile.

• The United States -- together with the European Union, Russia and the UN -- should play an active role in talks on both tracks. Turkey might also play a useful role. These outside parties, with the US in the lead role, should stimulate negotiations, arbitrate between the parties, monitor implementation of agreements reached, and be ready to provide security guarantees if these are needed. The Palestinians and Syria should not be left to face Israel alone, since the imbalance of power is simply too great for a satisfactory conclusion to be reached.

• The United States should rein in Israeli militarism, rather than unleash it, as the Bush administration had done -- against Lebanon in 2006, against Syria’s alleged nuclear facility in 2007, and most recently against Gaza this past December and January. In particular, Washington should firmly prohibit any Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. What is the background to this last demand?

The destruction of Iraq by the United States has overturned the regional balance of power to Iran’s advantage. Iran has emerged as a regional rival to both Israel and the United States. Israel, in particular -- in spite of its own vastly superior nuclear capability -- regularly depicts Iran’s nuclear programme as an “existential threat,” which must be eliminated by force, if necessary.

Most of Iran’s Arab neighbors are undoubtedly concerned at the rise of Iran. A key debate in the Arab world today -- in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Lebanon, Egypt -- is how to contain and accommodate Iran’s rising influence. But any such worries are dwarfed by the fear of an Israeli strike against Iran, which could be catastrophic for the Arab Gulf states, as they would find themselves in the line of fire. Indeed, an Israeli-Iranian military clash could trigger a regional war and be devastating for Arab, American and Israeli interests.

• The Arabs dream of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East -- an improbable outcome in view of Israel’s determination to be the region’s sole nuclear power. But short of general nuclear disarmament, the Arabs would like the United States to embrace the goal of a regional balance of power, rather than guaranteeing Israel’s military edge over any Arab combination. The argument is that a balance of power keeps the peace, whereas an imbalance causes war, since the stronger power will always seek to impose its will by force on its weaker adversaries -- as the Gaza war has demonstrated only too clearly.

"Furyou Gaijin"

"Furyou Gaijin"

I do believe a little enforcement of mosaic law is in order...

After all, if Israelis are busy facing their own faith... they'll have less
time to ridicule others... http://www.tbrnews.org/Archive.htm

be sure and be completist in any holocaust bull...

include everything the vatican knows to be true. who was who, who helped
who, and who refused to help who....

Arms? nope. arms manufacturing packages.... case in point, the S300 airdefense

packages.....Russia, Iran, Israel.... and codes...passed to MOSSAD....

http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2608.htm#005

The Japanese Government has cultivated numerous contacts in the
American intelligence community, and these contacts have been
carefully sorted and catalogued by the U.S. counter intelligence
effort. Unfortunately for the Japanese, the attempted penetration of
the U.S. Government has be a gigantic waste of time and Yen. The
defeat of Japanese intelligence in the U.S. over the "New Political
Science" affair demonstrates the lack of serious intelligence work by
the Japanese Government in the U.S. despite the high priority that the
Japanese Government assigned to U.S. secrets. We can rest easy the
the Japanese will forever remain "Furyou Gaijin" in America.

Benjamin Netanyahu's American and other "roots"

February 12, 2009 -- Benjamin Netanyahu's American and other "roots"

The prospective right-wing Likud Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously served as Prime Minister, has significant American roots.

Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 but at the age of 14 his family moved to the United States. Netanyahu's father, Professor Ben-Zion Netanyahu, was an aide to Zionist fascist leader Zeev Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky represented Revisionist Zionism and was an admirer of the fascist polis of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Others within Jabotinsky's movement, such as Abba Ahimeir and Zvi Eliahu Cohen, were more enamored of the German National Socialists and their leader Adolf Hitler. In the book The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev, Cohen is quoted as saying: "Were it not for Hitler's anti-Semitism, we would not oppose his ideology. Hitler saved Germany."

The elder Netanyahu has taught at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, the University of Denver (where former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's father, Professor Joseph Korbel taught (his most-prized student being Condoleezza Rice), and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Benjamin Netanyahu lived in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia suburbs, and graduated from Cheltenham High School. Benjamin Netanyahu earned his B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and also studied at Harvard.

His American-born brother Lt. Col. Yehonatan Netanyahu was killed while leading Israeli commandos leading the rescue of Air France hostages in Entebbe, Uganda in 1976.

Benjamin, or Binyamin Netanyahu, may form a nationalist right-wing government with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman, an avowed anti-Arab racist who hails from the Russian-Israeli mob-infested former Soviet republic of Moldova. In that case, Israel will pose an even greater threat to peace and international law and order than in the past.

Netanyahu and Lieberman are merely extensions of the fascism and national socialism threads present in the Zionist movement when their political fore-bearers were arguing for a state of Israel. Jabotinsky, who died in 1940, saw that state as including Israel and what is today Jordan...

From the July 6, 1976 New York Times: