Divining the News (DTN)

This is part of a comment left on a mondoweiss article:

Judaism evolved sophisticated and complex control mechanisms to keep Jews in the fold.

This involved racial and social indoctrination, but it also needed a good P.R. cover to keep the more idealistic young from rejecting the Jews as just another tribe of parochial bigots, and to point non-Jews towards as a red-herring. Hence it came up with phony feel-good concepts like Tikkun Olam that ostensibly “proved” Jews were a more moral, enlightened and evolved people, (and were on a sacred mission) but it’s all illusion and spin, as demonstrated by the facts on the ground that anyone with even one eye open can plainly see by observing collective Jewish behavior and its manifestations.

ED www.libertariantoday.com/

I think the above describes Israel, Zionism and the religious neocon philosophy, all of which is actively pursued.

There were three UK deaths this week. And an official wounded tally of 340 since the start. The UK is about to boost its troop strength to 8,000, double that of Iraq.
Obama’s Brezinski says raising troop levels in Afghanistan IS A BIG MISTAKE.

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES [DEATHS]:

United States 560

Britain 112

Canada 88

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 75

TOTAL: 900

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.
Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures

Deaths do not include contractors / mercenaries.

These comments are on Iraq but they equally apply to Afghanistan.:

As numerous studies have, by now, made clear, the abject failure of the American occupation of Iraq came about in significant measure because the Department of Defense sent a remarkably privatized military filled with incompetent amateurs to Baghdad to administer the running of a defeated country. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (a former director of the CIA) has repeatedly warned that the United States is turning over far too many functions to the military [] both the military and the intelligence services have turned over far too many of their tasks to private companies and mercenaries.

…our government is no longer capable of accurately assessing what is going on in the world [] because its intelligence agencies are so open to pressure, penetration, and manipulation of every kind.
From The Asia Times

The increasing need for helicopters is because of a deteriorating situation.

British forces are so short of helicopters in Afghanistan and Iraq that they are considering renting them from other countries, or even from the controversial US security contractor Blackwater.
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10 days ago Obama said the Afghan situation was “precarious and urgent” that’s what the military must have told him.

Murray Brewster, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA – Canada will lease up to eight Russian-built helicopters to ferry supplies around the battlefield in Afghanistan until it gets new U.S. choppers, says Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

It is a stopgap measure meant to get Canadian army supply convoys off the bomb-laced roads of Kandahar, where explosives have been taking an increasingly deadly toll.
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A deal, possibly worth $100 million, to lease of a flight of uninhabited aerial vehicles – or UAVs – from MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. and Israeli Air Industries Ltd. was expected to be approved this week by the federal cabinet.

The Neocons still are setting the agenda. We are still reduced to discussing what they will or will not do (Iran). Yet more and more people are distancing themselves from the Neocons.
In an IPS article on Joe Klein. “Neocon Flap Highlights Jewish Divide”, Jim Lobe says:

M. J. Rosenberg, a former AIPAC staffer now associated with the moderate Israel Policy Forum, expressed the hope that commentators would stop equating neo-conservatism with Judaism and start treating it as a political movement subject to political criticism.

“Although most neocons are Jews, few Jews are neocons,” he wrote Wednesday. By equating the two groups, “[the neocons] want Americans not to follow the trail of war-mongering that leads not to Jews but to them”.

And good Jews who spoke out, who said war mongering isn’t necesarilly Jewish, are no longer so much in the wilderness:

When it comes to Israel, it’s usually best to avoid official versions of every event. Lying has become a full-time business.
Old post on Antony Loewenstein’s blog

But an Israeli is unlikely to be outspoken, unless it is in his or her profession (politician or journalist). In the meantime there is an order of a military chain. Of somehow trying to exersize personal judgement, while sacrificing for country and ancestors (Statehood and Religion).

As Edmund Burke said, “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.”

As the banks crash, people become homeless, vaccinations incapacitate people.
We at least can discuss the endless possibilities of war with Iran.
This in itself is a crime. While the US nation and it’s generation are wasted on killing and bankrupting, we are also reduced to discussing the hypothetical: a war or not another war.

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Edit August 17th, I think while the above is true, I missed the argument, please see here for more: http://morris108.wordpress.com/?s=dual+loyalties

Joe Klein at Time Blog: Excerpt:

I don’t think a war with Iran is coming, thank God, but this time I am not going to pull any punches. My voice isn’t very important in the grand scheme of things, but I’m going to do my job–and that means letting you know exactly where I stand and what I believe. I believe there are a small group of Jewish neoconservatives who are pushing for war with Iran because they believe it is in America’s long-term interests and because they believe Israel’s existence is at stake. They are wrong and recent history tells us they are dangerous. They are also bullies and I’m not going to be intimidated by them.

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General Implodes

FDIC Failed Banks

Failed Credit Unions

• St. Luke Baptist Federal Credit Union
• Huron River Credit Union
• Green Tree Federal Credit Union
• Sharebuilders Federal Credit Union

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Corporate U.S. Flag

Trade in your Stars-and-Stripes for a Brands-and-Bands and declare independence from corporate rule.

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Economic Forecasts:

America’s house price time bomb

Ms Trainer says she feels no moral obligation to go on paying a loan on a property that is going to go on losing her money. She says her friends support her decision. …

The trend of people now positively choosing to walk away because it makes financial sense to do so is a worrying new development. …

This is becoming a tsunami of voluntary defaults

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7529277.stm

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The empire is afraid of being shamed.
And the empire is bringing shame on everyone.
With a zealousness to spread lies
and put paid to all alternatives.
That its grip is fraying is certain

Who wants to do business with darkness?.
As the green blooded monster dies, only the innocent are dying.
And everyone else vultures off of the monsters tunnel vision, its blindness.
To make a myth a reality has created a crazed people.
Causing suffering and despair, all for a dynasty.
One loss after another.
Everything is measured in losses!

Stooping lower and lower in the pursuit of allies.
The clock says: alienating everyone!
The only victories are lies.
Never truths.
Don’t mix war with anything, this is the outcome.
If the people of Europe or America thought they could overthrow the rulers and their wars and spin. They would be on the streets. That day will come.

Footnote, To put it in more real terms:
Russia’s Gazprom has all of Libya’s oil output and most of central Asia’s Gas.
China has Algeria, Angola, Chad and Sudan and Yemen’s oil.
Venezuela and Iran are anything but America’s friend.
And whatever oil concessions the US extracts from Iraq, the pipelines are at the mercy of its enemies, in perpetuity.
All the US oil executives in the Bush administration ended up with, is very little.
And the bad name for the hidden supporters is not so hidden.
One moral to the story: Corporations are inferior to state owned/governed enterprises.

Fascism is often described as subservience to corporatism.

The issue of foreclosures, with an estimated near 3 million for both 2008 and 09. These are families that will have to move, either to a cheaper home, a rented property, a caravan, a car, or be homeless. Presumably many families will break up from the stress. Yet this is capitalism at work. The laws are designed to protect capital and our dog eat dog way of life.

Yes a piecemeal housing bill has just been passed that will buy time for maybe 5 percent of these homeowners.

Yet on reflection it is hard to understand how uprooting people and families can be of any benefit to society at all. I doubt if there is any alterior motive, like, for example force them into the military.

It is all seen as a way of protecting the banks and the economic system.
How can uprooting millions be good for the system? It isn’t even a social revolution, like the agricultural or industrial revolution, it isn’t a system in transition like in the fall of communism.

It is pure and simple capitalism. The moneyed bankers and home loans associations needing to balance their books, which is any way impossible. And hardly a new idea to be heard from anyone anywhere, only Ron Paul is suggesting a revolution.

Presumably Britain will be facing a similar crisis. Yet I am sure they will make more effort to alleviate the suffering, and also not enough.
And back to the US, the government is waging wars to help Americans. And the banks are all indebted to foreigners. What a sham!

When the gap between rich and poor increases that is when trouble starts.
The rich lobbies that are the US Govt are sewing the seeds of revolution themselves.

By contrast, there are likely to be 2.5 million to 3 million foreclosures in both 2008 and 2009. This means that the housing bill will likely help less than five percent of the families facing foreclosure over the next two years, leaving 95 percent of this group out of luck.

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf Saturday said he is concerned over the Nato forces attack in Pakistani tribal areas and warned a U-S think-tank that no such attacks will be tolerated in future, and Pakistan reserves the right to retaliate. Talking to a senior advisor of the US think-tank Dr Hormon Olmen in Rawalpindi, President Musharaf asserted that the Afghan-based Nato forces are not being attacked from the Pakistani soil nor is any cross-border activity taking place from here. According to sources, the President reiterated that a stable Afghanistan in the interest of Pakistan and said baseless allegations against Pakistan could affect the war on terror. Dr. Olmen told the President that the Pak-Afghan border security is a joint responsibility of both the countries and a cooperation between them is the need of the hour.

From: http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/July08/26/02.htm

H/T www.whatreallyhappened.com

 

And America taught the Pakistanis how to arm the Taliban…

It is as if we are playing into the hands of the Islamic predictions. From the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JG23Df01.html

The Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan is viewed by global militants as a part of the promised battles of Khurasan (ancient Khurasan comprising mostly Afghanistan, the Pakistani tribal areas and parts of Iran), hinted at in the Prophet Mohammad’s sayings concerning the End of Time battles.

It is believed the militants of Khurasan will eventually win this battle and then go to the Middle East (the Land of Two Rivers is said to be Iraq and Syria) to support the armies of the promised Mehdi to fight against the anti-Christ in Palestine. Based on this theory, jihadi websites are calling on Muslims to support the Afghan jihad instead of going to Iraq. But the revival of al-Qaeda in the Pakistan region will provide a new lifeline for the Iraqi resistance as newly trained fighters from Afghanistan can go to Iraq when fighting slows in the winter months in Afghanistan.

The war on terror is increasingly focused on pakistan. Obama reflected the growing reality that Afganistan is not winnable: He at least acknowledges that it is not being won.

Conditions in Afghanistan are “precarious and urgent,” Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama warned in an interview aired Sunday as he renewed his call for an immediate increase in US troops there.

So we can all watch the crises multiply and the US/NATO expand the war effort. Whether it is the neocons or the Obama replacement.

There are almost daily reports of collateral damage from aerial bombardment, lots of civilian casualties, quite often wedding parties etc.

In the first week of July, … The US-led coalition forces described the operation as a precision air strike … investigations revealed that the air strike had in fact bombed a wedding party, killing 50, including the bride.

There are very disturbing photos from the effects of DU on Afghanis. DU is a part of the weapons being used by the US/NATO: (DU = Depleted Uranium)

http://www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com/page10.html

A footnote:

The Taliban are old allies of The Saudis

Saudi Arabia has a long history of bankrolling Pakistan, and the Taliban. With all the Muslim populations hating the war on terror, one wonders about the loyalty of the Saudis.

The House of Saud … bankrolled Pakistan’s military and intelligence services in fighting their war in Afghanistan against the Russians….

The Saudi wealth is now overflowing and Asia Times in the same article states:

Saudi Arabia has been slowly pushing the US to capitulate its Turkish fiefdom.

The Asia Times article plays on the Saudi fear of Iran, this might be a misnomer.

The war on terror will likely unite all the Muslims together, the Gulf states and Turkey. That all Muslims should be united without borders is the essence of Islam. Ironically Saddam Hussein, like many Arabs believed in one pan Arab nation.

The US is now so indebted to the Saudis, to rescue its banks and buy its bonds. The Saudis can run circles around the US, they have the wealth to buyout Turkey and support Pakistan.

Many in the United States contend that Wahhabism is itself the root of Sunni Muslim violence and terrorism.

Short of a world war, the only solution is to abandon the war on terror, and the hatred of the Muslims. And by way of kharma and irony probably adopt some Sharia law.

And we in the west need to shed our criminal rulers. And they think they are patriots ????

This is pretty strong language! It smells as if it has been officially released. Combined with Pakistans continued refusal to allow US/NATO operations on its soil. It is the talk of a country cornered and ready for war. Boluchistan is mentioned, and part of which is also in Iran. This can only push Pakistan into Iran’s arms.

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Are their designs to return Baluchistan to its former borders (see maps at end)?? – Oh dear!

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No one accuses Israel lightly.

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From The Times of India:

LAHORE: Indian and Israeli intelligence agencies have ganged up to stir trouble in Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have alleged.

The agencies, in a report to the government quoted by Online news agency, have asked it to take “ample measures” to combat terrorism allegedly linked to Indian diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and Indian and Israeli spy outfits.

“Intelligence agencies have warned the government that Indian and Israeli missions along the Pak-Afghan border are involved in terrorist activities,” the news agency said quoting reliable sources.

It added: “Certain evidence also indicates that Israeli and Indian missions are behind the recent acts of terrorism in Balochistan.”

The obvious reference was to a terrible bomb blast in a mosque in the Balochistan capital Quetta this month that killed dozens of people and led some Pakistani officials to suspect an “Indian hand”.

Online quoted “sources” as telling the government that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israeli’s Mossad intelligence agency were hand in glove against Pakistan.

“The sources revealed that RAW, Mossad and Khad (the former Afghan secret service) have regrouped after 23 years and are planning to launch terrorist activities in Pakistan,” it said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/102714.cms

H/T http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

Punishing the messenger

The shooting at
A handcuffed Palestinian
Is not exceptional.
What is exceptional
Is that it was photographed.

Clearly, for every act
Of photographed harassment
There are dozens
Which are not photographed.

It is also clear
That the army
Will neither investigate
Nor punish.
And that the father
Of the girl photographer
Was arrested.

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