RSSA funny thing starts to happen when an aggrieved minority starts to complain too much about “police brutality” and the government then starts trying to appease them by throwing a few cops in jail for “overreaction.” The police then start to avoid such “professionally dangerous interactions” by simply ignoring crime while they patrol these neighborhoods.
Oakland, California is probably the longtime US capital of this sort of aggrievement. There have been constant calls there over the years for the type of “justice” that this writer desires. The police in Oakland have routinely responded to outbursts of this type of pressure by either not patrolling or by driving through black neighborhoods with their eyes straight ahead while the very abundant criminal activities taking place around them are simply ignored. Local crime increases significantly while claims of police brutality head the other direction.
Paris, France gives us a good example of what can happen next. The police there responded to constant calls for “justice” emanating from the mainly Moroccan suburbs that ring this city by simply turning them over to local warlords to control. The police will not even enter them now unless forced to.
Maybe the author of this article is advocating the same sort of local control. After all, probably the safest place to walk the streets in the Chicago area during the 1920s and 1930s was Cicero, Illinois which was then under the control of Al Capone.
The Black Muslims will probably be open to such an arrangement. Give sharia a chance!
This has been the case in many areas of America for decades at least. Back in the 1980's, I was a very poor young college student and lived in the worst part of the town that was then "Murder Capital of America." There were daily stabbings and shootings on my street. My rental house, occupied by myself and two other nearly as crazy young white guys, was a drop of white in a sea of Africans. I've had guns pointed at me several times but, as I said, I was nuts then and nothing scares Africans more than a crazy white guy.
The police will not even enter them now unless forced to.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get more interesting it has just been revealed that Google has been involved in regime change in Syria.
My overall impression, after reading both the article and the following comments is extreme pessimism.This is because people still don’t seem know the exact reasons why Jews were expelled from all those countries in the past. These people must think that these expulsions were simply the result of Christian, religious based, anti semitism.
If these very same readers would go to the effort of buying E. Michael Jones’ monumental opus The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit they would quickly come to the conclusion that Jews were expelled, time after time, after having simply wreaked financial pillage on the communities they inhabited.
A couple of examples (out of many):
1) Jews were forced out of England in 1290, but not because any animosity on the part of King John. In fact, he wanted them to stay because they made so much money for him. They did this by getting him to require licenses for various activities (taverns, brothels, tax collecting, certain trades) and ignoring the usurious loaning of money that was forbidden by the church. Only Jews had to financial resources, to buy these licenses which King John apparently profited handsomely from. of. These licenses ended up being nothing more than a frontal attack on the nascent English, middle class, gentile merchants.
When the English aristocracy, which had started to succumb to usurious loans, demanded that Jews be exiled, King John required the aristocrats to come up enough money to compensate him for the money he would lose for exiling these Jews. After much research, I found that the amount he demanded (and got) was around 250,000 pounds (of silver), an absolutely astounding amount when you consider that only 2,000 Jews lived in England at the time and a person could apparently live a middle class existence on 5 to 7 pounds a year. This meant that every Jew was worth approximately 1000 pounds to King John. (the equivalent of the living expenses for a year of 200 people. )
2) Jews in pre Partition Poland (before 1772)had become so powerful that they had mercenary armies more powerful than the civil authorities. Jews even had what amounted to an entirely autonomous country within Poland. It had become so bad for Polish peasants that a Jew could kill one of them without any repercussions, (much as is the case of Palestinians in Palestine today.) Jews reached this level of power much as they did in England up until 1290: by getting the monarchy to issue licenses for various activities that only Jews, because of their ability to pool money, were only capable of buying. Again, these licenses gave them rights over taverns, brothels, certain trades, and the ignoring laws about the the usurious loaning of money at interest.
The most flagrant example of this manipulation were the so called “arendarships” which were contracts to manage the properties of the aristocracy. Again, only Jews were capable of bidding on these arendarship because of the ability to pool their money. Arendarships were supposedly sold at public auctions but the bids were fixed beforehand because the Talmud apparently forbid Jews from bidding against each other in public auctions with gentiles. These sort of arrangements resulted in the horrendous exploitation of Polish peasant because the peasant were no longer working under the restraints imposed on the gentile aristocrats by the Catholic Church. It wasn’t just rich Jews who were involved in such exploitation. It has been estimated that at one time 85-95% percent of Jews had financial shares in various arendarships.
During this era the gentile middle class virtually disappeared in Poland because they simply couldn’t compete with of the financial manipulation of monopolies controlled by the Jews. It got so bad that even the Catholic Church itself started turning over the control of its properties to the Jewish “arendars” because of the increased profits that resulted.
The Russian czar specifically attempted to end such exploitation of Polish gentiles after The First Partition by forcing Jews into The Pale of Settlement. The Jews never forgave the czar for this and their continuing grievances were made apparent in the overthrow of the czar in 1917.
Is this sort of economic warfare now taking place in the USA. Yes, under its latest terminology called hedge funds.
I tend to ignore people like Talese who are so much a part of the NYC literary establishment.
I wonder if the NYT is reporting about the Icelandic banker who were put in jail for fraud and are now being released after just serving a fifth of their sentences.
https://www.rt.com/news/338869-iceland-imprisoned-bankers-free/
I think that Putin is doing this to lessen the chances of a coup against him.
Russia after all still has a Rothschild controlled (i.e private) central bank which shows that Putin still doesn’t have as strong a position as he would probably like. He also know that there is still a sizable number of people in the Russian hierarchy who favor the west over Russian interests. Putin has apparently been warned that a move against the privately controlled central bank by him would result in repercussions that make the present day sanction pale in comparison.
I get the feeling that this latest reorganization is a response to something that recently happened or is about to happen which made Putin want to solidify his position and cordon off those in the military he considers disloyal and most likely on the western payroll.
If Putin is truly as smart as people claim, he must have finally come to the conclusion that he can never really be in control of the political situation in Russia if a privately controlled central bank continues to control the money supply there.
He probably has looked back in history and has come to the conclusion that a privately controlled central bank can dispose of obstreperous politicians on a mere whim if it chooses.
Just ask George H. W. Bush, a blue blood that The Lobby never really trusted, what he thinks about the very mysterious rise in the interest rates that the Fed imposed in 1992 which severely weakened the economy and led to his defeat in the upcoming election.
This rise was probably part of the punishment heaped upon the senior Bush for not having succumbed to pressure from the Israel Lobby and gone after Saddam Hussein after the first Iraq war.
Bill Clinton proved to be much more amenable to the demands of The Lobby. Just ask Madeline Albright about who exactly pushed for the murderous and illegal sanctions on Iraq that ended up being imposed by her and Bill.
My idea of a a dream debate would involve Finkelstein having to face off against Gilad Atzmon because such an encounter would require Finkelstein to justify positions that areoften , basically, totally irrational.
Such an encounter would be truly revealing. Finkelstein, who has never been known to have a smile on his face or even the remotest semblance of a sense of humor would be facing off against Atzmon who always seems to have a a smile and a truly great and absolutely unflappable sense of humor. This is what makes Atzmon’s debating skills truly formidable.
Just such a debate would reveal an interesting fact about the two of them. Finkelstein still proudly (and often) claims his Jewishness while Atzmon claims to be a “former Jew” because he came to the conclusion that Judaism is a concept so nebulous (is it a religion? a nationality? or an ethnicity?) as to be basically indefensible by any rational measure.
The BDS movement would point out is another clear example of the differences between the two of them. While Finkelstein might not support BDS, the leadership of the BDS movement supports him in spirit. Atzmon, on the other hand, is enemy number one of the BDS movement because of his repeated claims that BDS is under Israeli control. Alison Weir’s recent blacklisting by BDS is only the most recent example of this overweening influence by it supposed “enemy.” BDS also, interestingly enough, criticizes him because of Atzmon’s claim that Organized Judaism (OJ) as exemplified by Zionism and Israel is inherently racist.
Finkelstein complains about not being given air time any longer on Amy Goodman’s program any longer. This shows he still doen’t get it. Maybe he should take a look at this video involving Alison Weir and Jeff Blankfort about Goodman’s and Chomsky’s roles as long time Zionist gatekeepers.
BDS is based on a strange concept. It only seek boycotts of products made in the occupied territories. This deliberate flaw makes it inherently ineffective . Why doesn’t it seek sanctions on all Israeli products?
True, especially as it disproportionally affects Pal employese in Israeli/Pal joint enterprises.
BDS is based on a strange concept. It only seek boycotts of products made in the occupied territories. This deliberate flaw makes it inherently ineffective .
Maybe so, yet what then explains Adelson's opposition to it?
Atzmon, on the other hand, is enemy number one of the BDS movement because of his repeated claims that BDS is under Israeli control. Alison Weir’s recent blacklisting by BDS is only the most recent example of this overweening influence by it supposed “enemy.”
No they are not, but the overlap in that Vann Diagram is enormous. Most anti-Israel rhetoric is so divorced from reality as to be in the realm of stupid, and / or motivated by antisemitism. Usually and.
The options for anti-Israel opinion are not restricted to anti-Semitism or stupid.
RE: – “Israel only survives because of eleventy bijillion dollars from the United States.”
Fact: US aid to Israel is 3 billion dollars annually, every penny of which must be sent back to the US to purcahse US manufactured equipment. This $3 billion represents less than 2 percent of Israel’s GDP. In the full scale wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973 Israel stood alone and still won.”
Actually, the amount of money that Israel get from the US is far, far greater. I have heard that it might be as much as $20 billion or more per year..
Among the other ways that Israel is able to bleed the American taxpayer are:
1) Israel is given supposedly surplus US military equipment for free. It then sells these items on the international market and gets to keep the money. Some of these items are not really surplus or obsolete but are items simply diverted illegally out of current stock by supporters working in the US government. Israel has conducted a brisk trade in these item with every tin horn third world dictator in the world. China has been a particularly active buyer of such goods.
2) Israeli companies are given preferential access to US military contracts for items ranging from high tech computer hardware and software to things as mundane as recreational items such as plastic garden sheds? They regularly swipe these contracts from American companies who are often able to produce these itmes at lower cost. Senator Diane Feinstein has always been a particularly active promoter of such preferential contracts.
3) Israel, unlike other US aid recipients, is only obliged to spend a small percentage of the aid money it gets on American made goods. Israel is also the only country that gets its entire financial aid package in January so it can collect interest on it for the rest of the year. The aid money given to other countries is divided up and only given in monthly or quarterly allotments.
4)Donations made to Israel by American are tax deductible which results in the loss of considerable tax revenue to the US government. Apparently even money donated to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) by such well known Americans like Larry Ellison of Oracle Corporation (rumored to be as much as $33 million) and Michael Dell of Dell Computer ($1.5 million) is deductible. This is supposedly because the money is isn’t donated directly to the military but to the IDF “Foundation.” whatever that is.
5) Because of a particularly odious piece of legislation nicknamed the “Cranston Amendment” (named after the late California senator Alan Cranston), Israel, unlike other countries, does not have to pay back large loans made to it by the US government. Nobody really knows the full amount of these “free” loans.
Thanks in part to this continuing largess on the part of the American taxpayer, Israelis on government assistance apparently get $6 thousand more in welfare funds annually that their similarly distressed American counterparts.
I would like to correct some wong information I posted earlier.
Larry Ellison of Oracle computer “only” donated $10 million dollars to the IDF group.. Michael Dell of Del computers contributed $1.8 million. The total raised during the “gala” was $33 million. The name of the organization that hosted this fathering was “The Friends of the IDF”, not “The IDF Foundation.”
Read about it here.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hollywood-gala-raises-a-record-33-million-for-idf/
Do these contribution mean that American are defacto supporting the pensions of IDF soldiers?
I was reading in this article with some interest until I came upon this little clunker:
“It may be appropriate here to note the monetary madness of the eurozone not having a central bank to monetize budget deficits to spend into the economy to help it grow. That is the proper function of a real central bank, from the Bank of England to the U.S. Federal Reserve System. European voters are being frightened by junk economics claiming that only commercial banks should create money and credit, not central banks. The reality is that central banks can create the money to fund health programs without inflating the economy. What would inflate health care costs, especially proper care for the elderly, would be privatization and a relinquishing of health policy to the large corporations best in a position to profiteer.”
Does this mean Hudson wants these countries to institute the same sort of central banking systems like those found in the US and UK which are owned by private banks working in secret to benefit mostly themselves and not the society as a whole? Their control of the money supply allows them to exert often nefarious control (in secret) over politics which gives them the ability quickly dispose of politicians who anger them by raising interest rates before elections. This allows these central banks to stall economic recoveries and depose incumbent politicians, particularly presidents or prime ministers. The Fed did this to George Bush Senior in 1992 perhaps because GHWB was then still in hot water with the Israel Lobby for simply standing up, admittedly feebly, for American interests in Iraq and elsewhere in the Mideast.
The left wing and left wing politicians have always had a rather intense love affair with the Federal Reserve Bank because the Fed has been the source of the deficient funding for all the social programs that they loves so much (just as many,if not most, Republican politicians love in in turn for its deficit funding of the defense industry) They don’t want this funding to be curtailed in any manner. This is the reason left wing politicians in particular have been the main opponents of any sort of reform of the Fed or even the simple auditing of it. In addition, the Fed now has some new fans. We stock speculators now love it to death because of the low margin interest rates (1.5%) we now receive which push up stock prices. The continuing low inflation that Hudson loves so much has devastated those formerly middle class retirees who depend on bank and bond interest to fund their retirements.
As regards the rest of Hudson’s article, I don’t believe in trying to reinvent the wheel. Single payer systems seem to work in the rest of the world and ours doesn’t and threatens to (further) bankrupt us. It’s as simple as that. American politicians have been fighting over health funding systems for well over fifty years and during this period only the health industry seem to have benefited from this continuing malaise. I am simply getting tired of hearing about it.
The forced integration of schools nationwide was the result of court cases initiated by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU) which had been under Jewish control since its original gentile founders (Roger Baldwin et.al.) had been purged for opposition to the growing influence of the Communist Party in the organization in the early 1940s.. What occurred in San Francisco in particular during this era of busing is both curious and illustrative . The Jews who pushed for integration through groups like the ACLU must have somehow thought (or known) that they would be excluded from it once it came into effect.
San Francisco, up to the period of this busing, had had three academic high schools: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Lowell. For decades all of these three schools had produced thousands students who were accepted at all sorts of high level universities including places like the Ivy leagues and Stanford. Lowell, one of the three high schools, was a magnet for one particular type of student , Jewish. It was so heavily Jewish that I know of someone who transferred out of Lowell to Lincoln High School in the late 1950s specifically because he claimed that his social life was being curtailed the many Jewish girls there wouldn’t date gentile males. (Interestingly the Jewish males were able to date the much more accepting protestant girls. ) Lowell was in effect a defacto Jewish public high school with large percentages of both Jewish students and teachers.
When busing came around a curious thing happened, It was suddenly decided without any public input that Lowell would henceforth be considered the primary high school for college bound students in the city with strict admission criteria to be instituted while Washington and Lincoln were left to accept the bused students and then be left essentially to their own devices (i.e neglected). In the following years both Lincoln and Washington ended up essentially falling apart academically and becoming more and more violent , disrupted, and ghetto like. Lincoln in particular suffered the most from this neglect. I remember seeing police cars almost constantly were circling it during school hours during this period.
This situation continued for several decades before Jews in particular started to feel the pinch of competition from an increasing number of even more academically motivated Chinese. This resulted in an increasing number of Jews who were no longer able to get into Lowell and whose parents then had to choose between the problem ridden Washington or Lincoln high schools or MUCH much more expensive private schools or (gasp) strict Catholic high schools. The recently arrived Russian Jewish emigres in particular were in a quandary because they were simply unable to pay these private school fees. What to do?
It was only then when a move was made to clean up both Lincoln and Washington High Schools.. This was done by, among other things, instituting far more advanced placement classes there, taught by much better teachers,transferring the worst of the teachers and large scale booting out the worst of the trouble makers by pushing them into the newly set up, so called “charter schools” ( the worst of which are essentially nothing more than crypto reform schools with just as active a police presence.) Lincoln and Washington have apparently finally got their full maintenance budget restored as well. So much for integration. Things have improved greatly since then but Lincoln is particular has never really overcome the problems of the past because the Chinese still hold it in such low repute because of it (very) violent past.
At the same time as the aforementioned changes in the high schools occurred another interesting event happened. With Jewish parents in the main leadership roles, the toniest neighborhood of San Francisco, Pacific Heights, tried to preserve its local public elementary school, Ulysses Grant, from busing. What was interesting was that many of these these very same, very liberal Jewish parents had been among the main financial backers of the ACLU which had pushed busing in the first place. Somehow these Jews thought they they would be spared its effects of integration while only the gentile lumpen proletariat would experience it. What hypocrisy.! These parents tried to prevent the busing of their children by using their considerable financial and political muscle and access to the best legal representation. The ultra liberal San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). tolerated these uppity white folks for a while but then became irritated. A solution was needed.
The school district suddenly decided to bulldoze down the up-to-now beautifully maintained and stately Grant School. It was did it quickly and thoroughly leaving only a totally vacant lot after the bulldozers left. Not even the smallest remnant of a foundation remained. End of problem. The Pacific Heights students now had no choice but to go to another (thoroughly integrated) public school, right! Not quite. Virtually all of these now school-less students were transferred just as as rapidly to private or Catholic schools. Since then, the wealthiest parents in the city no longer had any vested interest in public school their interest in funding them with additional tax increases suddenly waned significantly. They still don’t send their children to public schools. Just like NYC.
Interesting note: I was driving around provincial France in the early 1980s in a rental car while staying in youth hostels and camping. In a small, remote french village I decided to camp in the local campground. The french girl behind the counter at the office counter there spoke to me in very good idiomatic English.I asked her how she had learned such good English. She replied that she had been an exchange student in the United States the previous year.. I asked her where and she replied “San Francisco.” I then asked her what high school she had attended. She replied “Abraham Lincoln.” I asked her what she thought of Abraham Lincoln High School. She summed up her opinion in just four words, “It was very violent.” Nothing else was added. This was the most lasting impression she had about an American school.
Lowell's collection of old yearbooks reads like a chronicle of the American dream, with photographs capturing the sons and daughters of immigrants on their way to becoming American luminaries. Journalist Pierre Salinger got his diploma here, as did cartoonist Rube Goldberg, sculptor Alexander Calder, animal researcher Dian Fossey, biographer Irving Stone, and former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown. The school has produced Nobel Laureates, members of Congress, ambassadors, business tycoons, and a host of college presidents and prominent judges, including U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, whose peers in the class of 1955 had the foresight to dub him "most likely to succeed."
A substantial number of Lowell students leave the school each year because they feel burned out or believe transferring elsewhere will bolster their grade-point averages and their college-admissions prospects. Because black and Hispanic students are the most likely to leave, and Chinese-Americans usually stay, the school's attrition patterns hinder its efforts to maintain diversity.
The school's efforts to maintain a diverse student body are also stymied by the fact that successful black and Hispanic applicants have been less likely than those from other groups to enroll. Xochitl Benson, a senior from the city's Excelsior District, says many children in her heavily Hispanic neighborhood are afraid to apply to Lowell because "they don't think they will be able to handle it."
If Lowell's admissions requirements are biased in favor of blacks and Hispanics, it hardly showed last month during an open house for the school's parents. Almost all of the families that toured the building that night were Asian or white.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1995/04/05/28lowell.h14.html
For its first 100 years, Lowell mainly took in Italians from North Beach, Irish kids from south of Market Street, and a widely distributed population of Jewish children whose forebears had escaped persecution in Europe. The school also enrolled many Japanese-American children from the old homes around Fillmore Street, but that community was virtually wiped out by the nation's internment policy during World War II.
As of 1955, most of the seniors in the Lowell yearbook had last names like Byrne, Fabiano, and Helmsdoerfer. A decade later, reforms in the nation's immigration laws opened the Golden Door to more non-Europeans and began to change the face of San Francisco and its schools. Chinese, especially, flocked to the city, moving from Chinatown out into the city's mostly white Richmond and Sunset districts and other areas. By 1980, Lowell's enrollment had become overwhelmingly Asian--and nearly half Chinese--and the yearbook listed dozens of Chows, Lees, and Wongs.
The Bay Area's shipyards had been drawing large numbers of African-Americans to the city ever since the 1940's. Their children, however, tended to be concentrated in public schools with reputations quite opposite to that of Lowell.
The comments about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book “Two Hundred Years Together” are a hoot.
The reason that this book has never been translated into english had nothing to do with whether it was good or bad. Rather it was because Organized Jewry staged an intense, all out campaign to make sure it was never translated into english and published. To prevent even the slightest potential of this having even the slightest chance of occurring, word went out widely among Russian translators both in the US and Europe that having any contact whatsoever with the book’s original Russian edition would have dire professional consequences. Similar threats were obviously issued to publishers as well.
The only other writers in my memory who suffered such all out attacks were “incorrect” authors like Israel Shahak, Israel Shamir, Gilad Atzmon,and E. Michael Jones. However, Shahak and Atzmon were finally successful in getting printed, Shahak by Pluto Press a few decades ago, Atzmon by Zero Books more recently.
Even these two brave publishers continue to be very wary of of Solzhenitsyn’s last book however. Perhaps small imprints like these two are becoming increasingly gun shy. Michael Jones has been forced to self publish very specifically because of Jewish pressure.
The fact that certain books aren’t published often has nothing to do with whether they will sell or not. Rather it has more to do with whether their publishers are willing to endure and can survive the threats made to their businesses that come with such publications. Some very heavy threats must have been issued to make “Two Hundred Years Together” unavailable.
Boy, the IMF/banker trolls out in force. If you were listen to them, you would get the idea that cunning and shifty old Greece had managed to to pull one on banks that must have been run by country bumpkins.
Let’s get this straight right now, historically hardily anyone has ever managed to put one over on these banking leeches.
Before even making the first of these loans these banks sent very bright, extremely well paid appraisers to carefully ascertain to the penny exactly what the potential assets of Greece were to if default occurred. These banks already knew about the dubious tax collection structure and the liabilities of the Greek government but made the loans anyway. In fact the dubious financial structure of of Greece made the banks even more desirous of making these loans because they knew that default would be inevitable.
Greece is in debt for one reason. Banks, being the high level, slightly more respectable loan sharks they are, absolutely love to make to make loans to asset rich governments that they know can’t repay them. These dubious loans are made specifically with the intention of eventually seizing the assets of those dumb enough to accept them. If you don’t believe this, read John Perkins’ classic book about how this is done.
These banks have been screwing over third world countries for decades using these types of loans. We are only hearing about this process now because it is occurring to Greece, a western country. Resistance is usually futile. Banks invariably push aside the real reformers and put their own people in control using the process of well honed “color revolutions” which are actually defacto coups. They did it in Greece and more recently they did it in Argentina.
It is only when default occurs that the really immense profits become possible. Then, grossly undervalued assets are seized by banks. At the same time, something else invariably happens, taxpayers of western countries are asked to bail out these dubious loans to prevent potential financial panics threatened by these banks. In the rare case that a country is able to recover financially, the previously grossly under appraised assets that were seized by the banks are then sold back to the government at grossly over appraised prices.
Ask any Silicon Valley venture capitalist why the process of making often dubious loans can be so immensely profitable. For every successful Google or Facebook there are probably twenty companies which have had their assets stripped after succumbing to the terms of such loans.
They *knew* beforehand that the loans they were making could never be repaid - not would not but could not possibly - and that is precisely why they made the loans.
These banks already knew about the dubious tax collection structure and the liabilities of the Greek government but made the loans anyway.
The eventual fate of Syria was actually determined way back in the nineteenth century with the rise of the Zionist movement.
The flag of Israel reveals all this for all to see. The flag has a blue star of David at its center with two blue stripes at its top and bottom. The blue stripes signify the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the west and the Nile River to the east. This is Eretz (greater) Israel.
For the last one hundred and fifty years, the plan of the Zionist movement has been to expand its control between these two rivers because the Zionists have always known that water (not oil) controls destiny in the Mideast.
I can’t understand people fail to grasp this concept. The fifty one people on this list certainly understand it and also realize that their future success in government depends on it.
Once Syria falls, Egypt is next.
there's that anti-Semitism again Pat..
Have we not fought enough wars in this Godforsaken region?
not "questionable" Pat, but down right demonic
It is our policy that appears questionable.
uum. duh!
Why are we trying to bring down Assad, anyhow?
Ah, the old, discredited myth about oil makes a reappearance.
Its never been about the oil. It isn’t the reason now in Syria just as it wasn’t in 2003 when it was claimed that the oil companies were behind the invasion of Iraq. The oil companies never wanted any of these previous military campaigns and they don’t want one now in Syria. (If the lust for oil was such a driving force in any of these conflicts why was Israel successfully push so hard in 2001 for the attack on Afghanistan which had little or no oil.)
Its all about the water and Eretz (Greater) Israel: the desire of Israel to control the territory, politics, and water between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the west and the Nile River in the east. (This doesn’t ignore the fact that Israel wouldn’t also mind, as a secondary benefit, getting control of this region’s oil in the process. )
After all, Israel is now presently giving us an example of how this control will be exerted in the future. The oil rich, Kurdish area of Iraq centering around Kurkik is now essentially a Israeli colony ruled by a faux government made up of a coterie of Kurdish Jews brought in from
Israel for the purpose. It is and patrolled by the IDF forces dressed in civilian clothes to fool the (not normally very) suspicious members of the media about their presence. Needless to say, the area around Kurkik is the ONLY peaceful part of Iraq because of this Israeli control. As far as I know Israel is the ONLY country that actually benefited from the Iraq war. This despite the fact of its not actually having to fight in it.) If the present Syrian regime were to fall, Syrian Jews will then be imported from Israel to Damascus to form the new government just as they were in Kurkik.
Israel’s constant desire to expand is already straining its supply of water. Any present day expansion requires that Israel make increasing use of their its very expensive to operate desalination plants. These plants already necessitate a huge and unsustainable government subsidization, (probably using funds gotten from US taxpayers).
And expansion is definitely in Israel’s plans for the future. The concept behind Eretz Israel requires that all of world’s Jewry will be relocated to Israel in the future (probably even if force is required to do this). This means that additional land (and water) will then be required to accommodate these additional six million plus citizens. Israel is already too crowded to handle such a huge influx of new citizens.
The control the land between these two great rivers solves both these problems.
The thing to constantly keep in mind is that Eretz Israel and lebensraum should be considered synonyms. The concept of Eretz Israel didn’t originate out of some crackpot fringe group. Instead, it has always been an integral part of to Zionism. Rothschild himself believed in it 1917 when the Balfour Declaration was conceived under his auspices.
Don’t think for a second the remain crowd is going to simply give in without an absolutely brutal fight. Its going to get very ugly folks. Every blackmail-able member of Parliament is about to get a call from their Mossad masters to sabotage the referendum. The remain crowd will even sink the UK stock market and economy if that is required to void this referendum.
This is because Brexit is not only a threat to banker control of the UK and the rest of the EU but also to to NATO itself because the EU is vital for NATO’s cohesion and funding. The EU is also an major enforcer of of the US led sanctions on both Russia and Iran. With Brexit all this starts to fall apart,
Am I pessimistic: decidedly so.
There is not one elected government in the (north) western world that has ever been able to successfully stand up to the Rothschild bankers (other than tiny Iceland). Don’t expect this to change unless another Charles de Gaulle suddenly appears (which is highly unlikely).
If you think I am exaggerating, think back a few decades to the election of nationalist Jorg Hiader to head Austria. The EU, along with the Jewish Lobby, simply demanded that his election be voided. After intense pressure the brave politicians in Austria simply caved and consigned Haider to the blacklist (Jorg Hiader was to later get his (final ) reward for his presumption in the form of a very mysterious car accident.)
There have been very times in the 20th century where parts of the media actually had some integrity. CNN once had it long ago.
I remember when Ted Turner first started CNN in the early 1980s and Americans were first exposed to television that actually presented both sides of political debates and true impartiality in its coverage of our foreign affairs. This was quite startling considering that this had never really happened before in my lifetime. (I was born in the early 1940s).
But this was not to last because of the threat that this presented to the shadow government. Turner ended up losing his network just as many in the past had done when they presented such a threat: loans were suddenly called and Turner was mysteriously denied access to ways torefinance them. As a result the AOL merger was the only way out for Turner. Turner always regretted losing his network.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/world/ted-turner-amanpour-interview/
The same sort of debt bondage has recently resulted in dual citizen Haim Saban, the Democratic Party’s biggest financial supporter and fanatical supporter of Israel, being able to take over both the previously black owned network BET and the Spanish language channel UNO. Since their takeovers both networks have become slavishly subservient versions of the Jerusalem Post in foreign policy and the present day homomanical CNN or PBS in social policy.
This sort of total censorship in the mainstream media in the US goes back well over a hundred years. I remember reading something published by Henry Ford in the 1920s in which it was mentioned that a Chicago publisher friend of Ford”s (Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune?) had angered the shadow government by a little too much truthfulness about the forces which had pushed for US entry into World War One (and had profited so enormously from it such as The Copper Cartel). This sin was compounded by a little too much truthfulness about who the Bolsheviks and their supporters actually were.
Representatives of the shadow government met with this publisher and told him if he crossed them again they would simply cut off of his absolutely vital access to newsprint (newspaper paper) to print his newspaper on. This threat was viable because this group had by then been able to get almost total control of the pulp mills that made newsprint. This publisher was able to just fend off these threats by the skin of his teeth at that time but was eventually forced to toe the line by threats against his advertisers. Threats against advertisers are the most effective tool that the shadow government is able to use to force compliance in the mainstream media that they don’t already own.
Did I somehow just wake up and find that this is April Fool’s Day yet again. That would explain the gist of this article.
Is the author of this article actually claiming that some sort of daylight actually now exists between the Neocons and the Israeli government. That is simply ridiculous because the Neocons are required to supply slavish support of the Israeli government in order to retain their all important access to the mainstream media. If they were in fact to cross the Israelis and their lobby in any way they would be immediately Sobran-ized. Kristol and Krauthammer would instantly become non-persons just like Norman Finkelstein or Gilad Atzmon.
Any seeming rapprochement between Putin and Netanyahu should be treated the same way we now treat the smiling photographs that were taken of Hitler and Stalin together in the late 1930s at the same time both were supporting opposing sides of the civil war in Spain: shams.
Putin knows full well that Israel is supporting ISIS in its attempts to overthrow the government of Assad in Syria . He knows that Israel supplies arms and logistical support to the rebels through its ally Turkey. Putin knows that Israel supplies medical crews to treat wounded ISIS soldiers. He also know that the US supports the attempts to overthrow Assad only because of pressure by the Israel Lobby.
Putin also know that Israel is a significant factor in the push for continuing the economic sanctions against his country. If Israel were really trying to improve its relations with Russia it would use its domination of the mainstream media in the USA and Europe to call for their end. Instead, the media is as hostile towards Russia as ever as we are now witnessing in its active support of the further humiliation of Russia by excluding it from the Olympics. This is a repeat of the pettiness exhibited by the media when it repeatedly attempted to sabotage Russia’s hosting of the recent Winter Olympics.
Absolutely brilliant. Maybe the best political piece I have ever read. This guy should be a columnist, not just a commenter.
Anybody like Bacevich, who has virtually unlimited access to the mainstream media should be treated very warily. Heck, even a very politically correct, crypto Zionist like Amy Goodman of the program Democracy Now considers him a reliable source.
Last I checked, "Hypocrisy Now!", was distinctly to the left of the "mainstream media", as was Mother Jones, which published a piece by Bacevich in which he uses, apparently without irony, the fake, propaganda term "Islamophobia":
Anybody like Bacevich, who has virtually unlimited access to the mainstream media should be treated very warily. Heck, even a very politically correct, crypto Zionist like Amy Goodman of the program Democracy Now considers him a reliable source.
Didn’t Mearsheimer and Walt disprove a decade ago that oil wasn’t the main reason that the US has intervened in the Mideast after 2001. It’s like Mr. Whitney trying to revive this old mummy of an idea. he and Noam could make a good team.
Here’s a hint for the uninformed about what is actually going on. Google up a picture of Israel’s flag. Notice the Star of David in the middle of it and then the blue stripes on the top and the bottom of it. The blue stripes signify the the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the east and the Nile River in the west. The area between these two blue stripes signifies the long standing idea of an Eretz (Greater) Israel. The idea of Israel controlling this area(and its water) goes all the way back to the origins of Zionism in the nineteenth century and in the Torah and Talmud long before that.
The ultra orthodox Jews who are now increasingly influencing Israeli politics are absolutely fanatical about their support of this concept. The Left wing Israelis who provided a counter to it are simply leaving Israel in droves as the ultra orthodox increasingly flex their political and social muscles.
It has never been to the benefit of the US to get involved in these Mideast Wars for no other reason than that wars are always just too costly and hence too inflationary. The US does it simply because it is required of it as a mere vassal state to Israel. (Google Mike Rivero’s essay: “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” for an eye opening explanation of how wars only benefit, in the end, banks and not the supposed victors of these wars.)
Conclusion:
Zionists and their forebearers have always hoped to congregate all of the world’s Jews together within one geographical entity and for this its needs far more territory and far more water water. Hence the necessity to include the Tigris and Euphrates and Nile Rivers within the borders of Eretz Israel. The resulting control of the oil in these lands is just icing on the cake.
And it is for this concept alone that American soldiers and the native inhabitants of these countries die.
Putin is now throwing big monkey wrench into what was thought to be a well laid plan. Hence all the hatred for him. I hope he employs a very good food taster.
The case of “white” George Zimmerman and the “innocent” Trayvon Martin is particularly interesting.
George Zimmerman, in fact, is so dark that wouldn’t have looked out of place in any Mexican village and yet the media still chose to describe him as “white.” This made this shooting simply another example of “white racism.”
The pictures of George Zimmerman that were taken immediately after the shooting are quite revealing . It took a long time for the first pictures of of the injuries inflicted on Zimmerman to finally come out in the MSM. The first ones that finally appeared showed him after having been treated and cleaned and stitched up by by medical personnel, either at the scene or at an emergency room afterwards.
In these very sanitized photos we still see some still obvious serious injuries to the back of Zimmerman’s head that showed that Martin had apparently been on top of Zimmerman and had been on top of Zimmerman while banging the back of his head into the pavement. No wonder Zimmerman was upset when he shot Trayvon.
The lack of blood in these pictures however made Zimmerman’s injuries appear less serious than they might have been. In fact this picture was finally probably but reluctantly distributed by the media specifically to downplay the actual extent of Zimmerman’s injuries.The writer of this comment apparently feels that Zimmerman should have let Martin continue to bang his head on the ground to prove that he wasn’t a racist.
Then, another picture finally suddenly appeared after an even longer delay. It was not distributed by the MSM however, I personally discovered it during an internet search.It showed Zimmerman’s head right after the attack and before treatment. The back of his head was absolutely covered in a huge amount of blood, maybe as much as a half or full pint When I first saw it I was reminded me of one of the more gruesome wound you see in war movies.. Trayvon had in fact apparently been beating the hell out of the weak and puggy Zimmerman. Very few people have ever been shown this far bloodier picture since it never appeared in the MSM.. The MSM had totally censored it. This bloody picture was undoubtedly a major factor in Zimmerman being acquitted at his criminal trial.
Then the question must be what exactly was Zimmerman doing out there in the first place bothering outstanding citizens like Trayvon? Was he walking around just to be mean to black folks?
Actually , he was a member of a “neighborhood watch” group that was attempting to counter a staggering rise in the number of black on white crimes that were occurring with increasingly frequency against the non black members of the Ferguson community. I seem to remember that there had been over 2400 property crimes and physical attacks in recent times committed n this middle class, racially mixed neighborhood. by the members of the nearby ghetto. I remember reading that some white residents reported having been burglarized five (or more) times over a fairly short period of time . Zimmerman was patrolling simply because of this increasing crime wave was making living in Ferguson for whites simply untenable. The white folks were desperate. Hence the citizen patrols.
But it was already simply too late, It was increasingly futile and dangerous for him to even be making his patrol rounds and the MSM has now made this futility complete. Now Ferguson has become yet another failed black majority community, sor of like a mini east Oakland. The whites have now apparently disappeared but only after having sold their houses at firesale prices.
Ferguson??? Zimmerman and Trayvon were in Sanford, Florida.Replies: @silly billy
Then the question must be what exactly was Zimmerman doing out there in the first place bothering outstanding citizens like Trayvon? Was he walking around just to be mean to black folks?
Actually , he was a member of a “neighborhood watch” group that was attempting to counter a staggering rise in the number of black on white crimes that were occurring with increasingly frequency against the non black members of the Ferguson community. I seem to remember that there had been over 2400 property crimes and physical attacks in recent times committed n this middle class, racially mixed neighborhood. by the members of the nearby ghetto. I remember reading that some white residents reported having been burglarized five (or more) times over a fairly short period of time . Zimmerman was patrolling simply because of this increasing crime wave was making living in Ferguson for whites simply untenable. The white folks were desperate. Hence the citizen patrols.
Ferguson??? Zimmerman and Trayvon were in Sanford, Florida.Replies: @silly billy
Then the question must be what exactly was Zimmerman doing out there in the first place bothering outstanding citizens like Trayvon? Was he walking around just to be mean to black folks?
Actually , he was a member of a “neighborhood watch” group that was attempting to counter a staggering rise in the number of black on white crimes that were occurring with increasingly frequency against the non black members of the Ferguson community. I seem to remember that there had been over 2400 property crimes and physical attacks in recent times committed n this middle class, racially mixed neighborhood. by the members of the nearby ghetto. I remember reading that some white residents reported having been burglarized five (or more) times over a fairly short period of time . Zimmerman was patrolling simply because of this increasing crime wave was making living in Ferguson for whites simply untenable. The white folks were desperate. Hence the citizen patrols.
Sorry. My mistake. This is starting to happen frequently that so often I am starting to get my thugs and their abodes mixed up.The figures for the crime rate in Trayvon’s and Zimmerman’s town are correct however.
Colonel Karen U. Kwiatkowski has detailed quite extensively the Neocon takeover of the American military way back at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003. She, along with possibly thousands or more loyal, patriotic American officers were, in effect, purged at this time and forced into early retirement.
Now our military leaders, just like our servile Washington politicians, know that opposing the dictates of Israel can have severe career consequences both before and after retirement.
Retired officers considered unfriendly to Israel will definitely not be getting any of those plush lobbying jobs or advisory positions.
As usual, it’s always cui bono.
Upcoming US tour schedule of Israel’s number one enemy, Gilad Atzmon:
There is a belief underlying this article that is totally false.
It is that the USA is in control of its own foreign policy. Anybody who believes this better either read or re-read John Mearsheimer’s and Stephen Walt’s book about the forces behind our various forays into Iraq starting probably with George H. W. Bush’s original invasion in 1991.
Israel wants the current government in Syria destroyed, just as it did the governments of Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan previously. The US, being a mere vassal state of Israel, cannot challenge this demand anymore than a vassal state of the Roman Empire could seriously challenge the demands of the central government in ancient Rome without the potential of disastrous consequences. The US now exists only as Israel’s enforcer.
The philosophical architect of all this Israeli hegemony is curiously unknown. Read about him here:
Google: “Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi” to see what is planned for our own future.
Then go on Lasha Darkmoon’s website to find a detailed, two part explanation of what this all means to the rest of us with the details that the highly sanitized Wikipedia entry on this fellow omits.
The most influential person you have never heard of who is, incidentally, both the architect of the European Union and the plan for open borders: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi,
Few have ever heard of him despite his incredible influence.
http://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/
These points clearly are racist and anti-Semitic, though the terms operate in slightly different ways. The point is, though, that they are also perfectly reasonably points reflecting reasonable judgements about the world that are evidence based (and open to rebuttal, if you could find people willing to bother to try to do so rather than just shout them down as "hate speech", try to censor them, and if possible get you rendered unemployable or even imprisoned merely for writing them).
Whatever credibility BLM has is wasted when they embrace the cause of thugs like Michael Brown, a six-foot-four 265-pound monster who robbed a convenience store and beat up a clerk before trying to wrestle a gun away from a cop. If the loudmouths really cared about black lives they would work to convince their buddies to stop shooting each other, since that is overwhelmingly where most blacks are killed and they might also think a bit about reducing the horrific levels of violent crime that seems to be part and parcel of their manhood ritual, which is why cops target them in the first place.
BLM is, of course, in part a creation of a heavily Jewish national media which rushes to promote causes that are acceptably progressive.
The leaders of the BLM seeming to be suffering from either amnesia or just very short memories.
If I remember right, decades ago, the original Black Panthers managed to get themselves firmly on the path to oblivion when they also came out in favor of the Palestinians rights.
Then the members of the “radical chic” cult of previous supporters like Leonard Bernstein suddenly lost all interest in the Panthers. The previously supportive media took a similar about face and suddenly became increasingly hostile to the group it had once heavily publicized.
The mention of BLM’s supposed support for the Palestinians might be a deliberate attempt made by “those in control” to signal that BLM has outlived its usefulness (and its fund worthiness) and is now to be shunned as the result of being (gasp) antisemitic, the last cardinal sin.
The irony is that while we criticize the MSM while we are the same time reluctant to cut the cable and end the newspaper subscriptions. We, in effect, are subsidizing out own demise.
Ask any Trump supporter, even the most fanatical ones, if he or she is willing to end their cable TV subscriptions if this meant ending their ability to watch live sports shows ( for the men) and the afternoon talk fests like Ellen or Judge Judy (for the women and the gays). They will look back at you with eyes full of abject horror.
The average American or European now either knows or has an inkling that the MSM is utterly corrupt but they are not about take any positive action to challenge it if such an action would shorten their viewing hours and, god forbid, force them to actually have to with talk with their children rather than having their TV as a babysitter/substitute parent.
They will still watch their shows and buy the items advertised on them and by doing so subsidize the viewpoints that will result in their soldier sons coming home in body bags.
Sad but true.
RE: “Neither blacks nor Mexicans run the U.S. The U.S. is run by females, for the benefit of females, with a (shrinking) cadre of Emasculated Males fronting the whole satanic show. ”
Guess again. I get the impression that many here haven’t read Ron Unz’s essay “The Myth of Meritrocracy.” In this essay Unz show that the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action programs at certain universities aren’t racial minorities but are in fact Jews.” The greatest losers other than the white Gentiles seem to be Chinese students.
Granted, the average Jew has probably a ten point I.Q. advantage on the average white Gentile but this fact cannot explain how Jews have managed to become a third of Ivy League students body at places like Harvard or Princeton. This is a statistical impossibility. There might be many smart Jews out there but there are far more bright Gentiles vying for the same number of spots in these universities..
When the affirmative action rubric started to be used by college admission committees to lessen the use of non subjective, quantifiable test scores as a criteria for college admission, it allowed admission committees at universities to use much more subjective criteria for admissions. One of these new criteria came to be based on private, not government, outside pressure.
Interestingly enough, some of the greatest beneficiaries of this much more subjective criteria for admission haven’t been just the smart Jews but were the dumb Jews as well.. Jesuit universities (places like DePaul and the University of San Francisco for example) now give preference to the dimmer Jewish applicants simply because Jews and Jewish groups have become some of their principal principal financial contributors. As a result of the power of these purse strings, board members at these schools (who also just happen to be members of the of The Anti Defamation League) now have complete veto power over the appointment of social science professors at places like DePaul and USF. Such is this power, only carefuly chosen Jewish professors are allowed to be publicly critical of Israel at these schools. (Stephen Zunes presently fulfills this function at USF.) Given equal qualifications, Jewish professors are now given preference over even Catholic professors for employment because Jews have gotten defacto control of both the employment and the tenure committees at schools like these two. Gentile professors at these schools know this is going on but are powerless and too timid to prevent it.
Is this a new phenomenon? Hardly. I recently read about a small but well funded department of government in the prewar Weimar Republic in Germany in which all fifty position just happened to be occupied by Jews. There are similar examples of this “odd” over representations in departments of the early Bolshevik government (like the Cheka) which lasted until Stalin got wise and began his purges in the late 1930s. Arthur Koestler mentions in his writings how astonished he was to find that Gentiles had been entirely purged from upper management of Vienna’s best known major newspaper by the mid 1920s.
Google: Norman Finkelstein for an example of this veto power in action.
Anybody who thinks that the bias on the part of the NYT and WaPo is anything new is naive. Neither newspaper was ever even remotely unbiased.
The NYT and the WaPo both covered up the genocide occurring under the Communists in Russia from 1917 onward. In the 1930s the NYT actually won a Pulitzer Prize for deliberately covering up the slaughter of millions of people by the Communists all over Russia but in the Ukraine specifically (Google: Holmador) .
Many have demanded that the NYT give this prize back because of the deliberate bias and communist leanings of Walter Duranty, the NYT’s reporter there. Trump should make a similar demand.
WaPo is owned by Amazon.com chairman and mega billionaire Jeff Bezos. This newspaper is still able to operate despite its tremendous financial losses because it is subsided out of Amazon.com’s tremendous profits. Consider this the next time you make an online purchase.
Consider this also the next time you buy coffee. Howard Shultz, the chairman of Starbucks coffee and it principal shareholder went out his way to promote Hiliary Clinton’s candidacy. He not only made large contributions ot her campaign, he even used his coffee cups for advertising it. His social activism had previously been seen when he used his infuence to essentially de-Christian-ize Christmas at Starbuck’s locations. Strangely enough, he is also an avid supporter of Israel despite its inherent parochialism and outright racism towards non Jews.