<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010</id><updated>2012-01-30T18:43:24.081-05:00</updated><category term='return'/><title type='text'>xymphora</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3992</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3736778770346470072</id><published>2012-01-30T10:09:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T10:14:52.369-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, January 30, 2012</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120127/16312617573/using-wikileaks-to-figure-out-what-government-redacts.shtml"&gt;Using&lt;/a&gt; Wikileaks To Figure Out What The Government 'Redacts'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;"Chris Dodd &lt;a href="http://www.metafilter.com/111911/Chris-Dodd-threatens-Obama-over-SOPAPIPA"&gt;threatens&lt;/a&gt; Obama over SOPA/PIPA"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120125/04252517536/elected-officials-asked-to-return-hollywood-money-following-dodds-threats.shtml"&gt;Elected&lt;/a&gt; Officials Asked To Return Hollywood Money Following Dodd's Threats"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are admitting it is not 'lobbying' but pure bribery.&amp;nbsp; "We petition the Obama administration to:&lt;br /&gt;Investigate Chris Dodd and the MPAA for &lt;a href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribery-after-he-publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv"&gt;bribery&lt;/a&gt; after he publicly admited to bribing politicans to pass legislation."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120125/03500717535/hollywood-astroturf-group-releases-ad-saying-it-needs-sopa-to-shut-down-megaupload-five-days-after-megaupload-is-shut-down.shtml"&gt;Hollywood&lt;/a&gt; Astroturf Group Releases Ad Saying It Needs SOPA To Shut Down Megaupload... Five Days After Megaupload Is Shut Down"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course,&amp;nbsp; 'Hollywood' is the code word gentiles have to use when referring to Jewish Billionaires.&amp;nbsp; Solution:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html"&gt;Kill&lt;/a&gt; Hollywood"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30362.htm"&gt;Bush&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; Obama? Israeli assassinations and US Presidents" by Alison Weir.&amp;nbsp; Adler's sin wasn't calling for the assassination of an American President, it was letting the cat out of the bag about Jewish plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mel Gibson: Temple Tries to &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/27/mel-gibson-temple-anti-semitic-contribution/#.TyawsUjld8G"&gt;Shake&lt;/a&gt; Him Down!"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson-for-reparations/"&gt;California&lt;/a&gt; Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3736778770346470072?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3736778770346470072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3736778770346470072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-january-30-2012.html' title='Monday, January 30, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8851842338327978457</id><published>2012-01-28T07:28:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T07:28:43.589-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, January 28, 2012</title><content type='html'>The concentration camp guard (was I the first to start calling him that?):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/more-on-jewish-mccarthyism-and-neo-nazi-smearing-last-post-i-hope/252125/"&gt;By&lt;/a&gt; the way, I don't consider "former Israeli prison guard" a "gross phrase," just so Ackerman understands. It's an inaccurate phrase -- I wasn't a guard, I was a military policeman (the actual title of my position was "prisoner counselor," believe it or not, which meant that I saw after the culinary, hygiene and medical needs of the prisoners, but I also, on more than one occasion, actually did give advice to Palestinian prisoners on how to apply to college in America -- I stressed that the essay portion of any application would be an easy home run for any of these Intifada prisoners. A few of them did end up at universities here).&amp;nbsp; "&lt;/blockquote&gt;So he was some kind of guidance counsellor?&amp;nbsp; Supremacists never get the fact that you simply can't spin the kind of vile behavior in which they routinely engage into something less repulsive.  It reminds me of how the Israelis proudly showed Condi Rice around the West Bank, thinking how they must have seemed to her like world-class humanitarians, when all she saw was the racist oppression of the Old South.  Being brought up as a group supremacist actually causes cognitive impairment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/27/alternative-classrooms-may-not-be-as-inclusive-as-they-claim-to-be/"&gt;Alternative&lt;/a&gt; classrooms may not be as inclusive as they claim to be" The world's worst newspaper takes up much of its front page with an attack on the teaching of truth in the Ontario education system on the basis that young Jews are dismayed by the truth.&amp;nbsp; Note the attempt to hide their very specific problem in a larger political issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have noted over and over, once it became clear that the Americans couldn't be forced to start yet another War For The Jews against Iran, it became necessary for the Jewish warmongers to do a 180 degree turn in order to deflect questions from Israelis wondering why nothing was being done about the imminent holocaust:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/01/26/israel-is-not-about-to-attack-iran-and-neither-is-the-united-states-get-used-to-it/"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; Isn’t Going to Attack Iran and Neither Will the United States".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/27/obama_administration_selling_new_arms_package_to_bahrain"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt; administration using loophole to quietly sell arms package to Bahrain"&amp;nbsp; This isn't the work of Ronald Reagan or George Bush, but the sainted Batty, champion of the military-industrial complex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ron Paul predictions in &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLd_H3AZCA&amp;amp;sns=fb"&gt;2002&lt;/a&gt;.......Still think he's crazy?"&amp;nbsp; Paul is wrong about inflation because the dollar's status as the world reserve currency means the printing presses can print the money required to fight all the many, many, many Wars For The Jews without causing the hyperinflation you would normally expect to see.&amp;nbsp; Once the world reserve currency status is lost - and it is being severely threatened by the Sanctions For The Jews against the innocent people of Iran - Americans need to get ready to replace their pocketbooks with wheelbarrows.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8851842338327978457?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8851842338327978457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8851842338327978457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-january-28-2012.html' title='Saturday, January 28, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5769187800035510832</id><published>2012-01-27T09:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T09:15:27.725-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday, January 27, 2012</title><content type='html'>Obama and other American politicians need Jewish Billionaire money to win elections.&amp;nbsp; Of course, the money comes with onerous conditions, including bowing down to Israel (in an &lt;a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/26/barack-obamas-unbreakable-bond/"&gt;embarrassing&lt;/a&gt; way) and fighting Wars For The Jews.&amp;nbsp; The bottom line is that the money is needed to win elections.&amp;nbsp; If one of the onerous conditions, say attacking Iran, was to triple gas prices in the United States, completely negating even the slightest possibility of reelection for a sitting President, the money is useless and can no longer be used to manipulate the President.&amp;nbsp; Thus, the limits of Jewish power.&amp;nbsp; Since Israel can't attack Iran, and the United States can't be forced to attack Iran through money control of its President, we enter the danger zone of an Israeli false flag attack on the United States in order to trick Americans into attacking Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, what the Jewish Billionaires received as the consolation prize will end up destroying the United States almost as quickly:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/iran-sanctions-backlash.html"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; sanctions backlash– oil buyers ditch dollar"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The machine' in Egypt:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Egyptians were &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/military-meme-tracker/"&gt;infected&lt;/a&gt; by the idea of overthrowing their dictator.&lt;br /&gt;And now, these researchers claim, they’re getting close to developing tools that can track the spread of infections like these.&lt;br /&gt;With funding from the Office of Naval Research, a team at Aptima, Inc. is developing software that’d do more than just scan Twitter for trending topics. Instead, it’d mine the web, including news stories, social networks and blogs, to extract topics and phrases that are gaining traction online. Then, the software would keep tabs on how the conversations proliferate, both geographically and over time.&lt;br /&gt;The software would use epidemiological modeling to chart the discussions and their&amp;nbsp;trajectory. It’s a strategy often used in public health initiatives to figure out where an illness started, and how it spread: Epidemiologists use collections of data to make educated guesses about causality; which health and environmental factors, for example, contributed to an outbreak in a given community.&lt;br /&gt;Applied to online discourse, epidemiological models would essentially treat uprisings like illnesses. They’d pull apart a web conversation (the author of the post, the site where it was published, the comments that ensued) and try to figure out which parts contributed most readily to the spread of a revolutionary message" &lt;/blockquote&gt;Democracy is an illness, and the Pentagon has the cure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would Elliot Abrams be accusing Sheldon Adelson's best pal Newt of &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/newt-gingrich-called-reagan-foreign-pol"&gt;blasphemy&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"How A Rabbinic Ban On &lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/01/how-a-ban-on-bugs-led-to-the-creation-of-christianity-567.html"&gt;Bugs&lt;/a&gt; May Have Led To The Creation Of Christianity" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unspeakable &lt;a href="http://i.imgur.com/YtPMm.jpg"&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5769187800035510832?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5769187800035510832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5769187800035510832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/friday-january-27-2012.html' title='Friday, January 27, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3807874584731699586</id><published>2012-01-26T11:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T11:17:34.875-05:00</updated><title type='text'>False Flag Nation</title><content type='html'>Via &lt;a href="http://lataan.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-was-us-that-suggested-to-israelis.html"&gt;Lataan&lt;/a&gt;, a story - conveyed by an Israeli using the &lt;i&gt;False Flag Times&lt;/i&gt; - from the Israelis that the CIA chief in Tel Aviv asked the Israelis to attack the USS Liberty (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/will-israel-attack-iran.html?pagewanted=8&amp;amp;_r=1"&gt;Almost&lt;/a&gt; 45 years ago, on May 25, 1967, in the midst of the international crisis that precipitated the Six-Day War, Amit, then head of the Mossad, summoned John Hadden, the C.I.A. chief in Tel Aviv, to an urgent meeting at his home. The meeting took place against the background of the mounting tensions in the Middle East, the concentration of a massive Egyptian force in the Sinai Peninsula, the closing of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the threats by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to destroy the State of Israel.        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;In what he later described as “the most difficult meeting I have ever had with a representative of a foreign intelligence service,” Amit laid out Israel’s arguments for attacking Egypt. The conversation between them, which was transcribed in the document Amit passed on to me, went as follows:        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “We are approaching a turning point that is more important for you than it is for us. After all, you people know everything. We are in a grave situation, and I believe we have reached it, because we have not acted yet. . . . Personally, I am sorry that we did not react immediately. It is possible that we may have broken some rules if we had, but the outcome would have been to your benefit. I was in favor of acting. We should have struck before the build-up.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Hadden: “That would have brought Russia and the United States against you.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “You are wrong. . . . We have now reached a new stage, after the expulsion of the U.N. inspectors. You should know that it’s your problem, not ours.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Hadden: “Help us by giving us a good reason to come in on your side. Get them to fire at something, a ship, for example.”&lt;/span&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “That is not the point.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Hadden: “If you attack, the United States will land forces to help the attacked state protect itself.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “I can’t believe what I am hearing.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Hadden: “Do not surprise us.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “Surprise is one of the secrets of success.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Hadden: “I don’t know what the significance of American aid is for you.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;Amit: “It isn’t aid for us, it is for yourselves.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;That ill-tempered meeting, and Hadden’s threats, encouraged the Israeli security cabinet to ban the military from carrying out an immediate assault against the Egyptian troops in the Sinai, although they were perceived as a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Amit did not accept Hadden’s response as final, however, and flew to the United States to meet with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Upon his return, he reported to the Israeli cabinet that when he told McNamara that Israel could not reconcile itself to Egypt’s military actions, the secretary replied, “I read you very clearly.” When Amit then asked McNamara if he should remain in Washington for another week, to see how matters developed, McNamara responded, “Young man, go home, that is where you are needed now.”        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div itemprop="articleBody"&gt;From this exchange, Amit concluded that the United States was giving Israel “a flickering green light” to attack Egypt. He told the cabinet that if the Americans were given one more week to exhaust their diplomatic efforts, “they will hesitate to act against us.” The next day, the cabinet decided to begin the Six-Day War, which changed the course of Middle Eastern history.        &lt;/div&gt;Amit handed me the minutes of that conversation from the same armchair that he sat in during his meeting with Hadden. It is striking how that dialogue anticipated the one now under way between Israel and the United States. Substitute “Tehran” for “Cairo” and “Strait of Hormuz” for “Straits of Tiran,” and it could have taken place this past week."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The USS Liberty was attacked on June 8, 1967.&amp;nbsp; The Six-Day War ran from June 5 to 10, 1967.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hadden was almost certainly an 'America-firster', who worked &lt;a href="http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.samsonoptionhersh.18.htm"&gt;against&lt;/a&gt; the Israeli nuclear bomb program and the traitorous Israeli-firsters who stole the uranium required.&amp;nbsp; On the other hand, he confirms the 'green light' theory (see Appendix II to this &lt;a href="http://www.thelibertyincident.com/docs/liberty-intelligence.pdf"&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;), and has stated he believes the attack was a mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why is Israel bringing this up through its house organ, the &lt;i&gt;False Flag Times&lt;/i&gt;?&amp;nbsp; Paul &lt;a href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/26012012-how-to-start-a-war-with-iran-oped/"&gt;Woodward&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Bergman writes: “Since 1967, the unspoken understanding that America should agree, at least tacitly, to Israeli military actions has been at the center of relations between the two countries.”&lt;br /&gt;The telling of the Amit-Hadden exchange, seems like a way of signalling that as far as Israel is concerned, come the time that it decides to launch an attack on Iran, the United States has no choice but to “agree.” Indeed, Israel is happy to point to the history of U.S. complicity in Israel’s acts of war, including the willingness of an American official to invite an Israeli instigated attack on a U.S. ship in order to fabricate a justification for entering a war.&lt;br /&gt;In other words, transposing the 1967 incident to the current context, the Israelis want to insinuate that if the U.S. Fifth Fleet is attacked by “Iran” in the coming months and Israel covertly has a hand in this attack, then in truth Israel will merely be “helping” the United States to do what it wants to do at a time when domestic political considerations prevent Washington from being open about its intentions.&lt;br /&gt;The irony about Hadden’s invitation in 1967 is that in some sense the Israelis did pick it up two weeks later. But rather than engineer an “Egyptian” attack on a U.S. ship, the Israelis attacked the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident"&gt;&lt;i&gt;U.S.S. Liberty&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; claiming they thought it was an Egyptian ship.&lt;br /&gt;Was Israel punishing the U.S. for its neutrality in the Six-Day War — knowing that it could do so with impunity because the U.S. could not suffer the embarrassment that would have been caused by revealing the CIA’s willingness to sacrifice Americans?" &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The aircraft carriers in the area are sitting ducks for an Israeli attack, and America-firsters should get them out of there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3807874584731699586?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3807874584731699586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3807874584731699586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/false-flag-nation.html' title='False Flag Nation'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6981966211977603681</id><published>2012-01-25T10:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T10:51:14.123-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Koch-Paul conspiracy</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/24/former-gaddafi-stronghold-rejects-government"&gt;Former&lt;/a&gt; Gaddafi stronghold rejects Libyan government's authority"&amp;nbsp; There is no reason to believe that this 'revolution' created by carpet bombing and NATO troops in Tripoli would hold once NATO stepped away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/111314089359991626869/posts/HQJxDRiwAWq"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; was MegaUpload really shut down?"&amp;nbsp; Jewish Billionaires don't like competition and control the American government so&amp;nbsp; . . . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A &lt;a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/23/a_forward_strategy_of_freedom"&gt;Forward&lt;/a&gt; Strategy of Freedom"&amp;nbsp; "Yes, you can be a neoconservative, and still be &lt;a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/24/yes_you_can_be_a_neocon_and_still_be_wrong"&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Oil embargo on Iran a &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA26Ak01.html"&gt;conundrum&lt;/a&gt; for Europe"&amp;nbsp; The Freezing-In-The-Dark-For-The-Jews strategy of European leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/which-side-are-you-on-ron-part-1/"&gt;Which&lt;/a&gt; side are you on, Ron? Part 1"&amp;nbsp; The big smoking-gun evidence that Ron Paul is just a front for the Koch Brothers . . . Ron Paul was once at an event at which David Koch gave a speech!&amp;nbsp; Hell, they are also both old white American men.&amp;nbsp; Isn't that proof enough of the Koch-Paul conspiracy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/153881/why_does_mitt_romney_want_to_keep_his_tax_returns_from_the_bain_years_under_wraps?page=1"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; Does Mitt Romney Want to Keep His Tax Returns From the Bain Years Under Wraps?"&amp;nbsp; Mitt has to keep his taxes hidden not just for himself, but for his whole class, the 1%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Headline of the week:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://culturalpropertylaw.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/unesco-removes-neo-nazi-dance-from-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/"&gt;UNESCO&lt;/a&gt; Removes Neo-Nazi Dance from Intangible Cultural Heritage List"&amp;nbsp; When I read the headline all sorts of bizarre thoughts occurred to me - what does a 'neo-Nazi dance' look like?&amp;nbsp; does it involve goose stepping? how the hell did it get on a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List? - but the content of the article is equally weird.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6981966211977603681?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6981966211977603681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6981966211977603681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/koch-paul-conspiracy.html' title='The Koch-Paul conspiracy'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2885581921378138796</id><published>2012-01-23T09:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T09:25:52.277-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas</title><content type='html'>Alexander Cockburn &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/20/here-he-comes-again/"&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt; about Sheldon Adelson's financing of Newt Gingrich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Some things don’t change in American politics, and rich people sitting in Las Vegas with pots of cash is one of them. Joel McCleary, a friend, remembers fund-raising in Las Vegas when he was working for the Jimmy Carter campaign in 1976. The crucial Pennsylvania primary was coming up and the Carter people (their chief fundraiser was Morris Dees) needed a big wad of cash&amp;nbsp; for the final push against Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington,&amp;nbsp; known as “the senator from Boeing,” also running for the Democratic nomination and favored by powerful labor chieftains in Pennsylvania.&lt;br /&gt;Joel was told the go-to guy for untraceable campaign cash was Hank Greenspun, publisher of the &lt;i&gt;Las Vegas Sun&lt;/i&gt;. Greenspun was a notoriously tough egg, former gun-runner for the Haganah, the man who, in the midst of the Cold War witch hunts, outed Senator Joe McCarthy in the &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt; as a homosexual. Joel was told to act manly. Greenspun duly received him in his office. “Why the hell&amp;nbsp; should I get money for Jimmy Carter?” he asked.&lt;br /&gt;“Because Jimmy Carter is going to be president,” Joel answered boldly, “and if you don’t support his campaign he’ll fuck you.”&lt;br /&gt;Greenspun told Joel to come back in two hours. He returned to find Greenspan sitting at a table surrounded&amp;nbsp; by other toughs. In the middle of the table was a paper bag. “So the Baptist fuck wants money,” Greenspun growled, as he pushed the bag over to Joel. “Remember, this comes from the state of Israel. Don’t you ever forget it"&lt;/blockquote&gt;There is a &lt;a href="http://www.jfklancerforum.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&amp;amp;forum=3&amp;amp;topic_id=38004&amp;amp;mode=full"&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; at JFK Lancer on Breck Wall, who worked in Jack Ruby's club and &lt;a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=GDKvanJwbDsC&amp;amp;pg=PA366&amp;amp;lpg=PA366&amp;amp;dq=david+ferrie+breck+wall&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=0pK6kObDrO&amp;amp;sig=dn7Yu_QfbUjLLNxGRLuRbtB9pf8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=3mcdT9OtDubE0AG06snnCw&amp;amp;ved=0CEcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false"&gt;met&lt;/a&gt; with David Ferrie in Galveston the day after the assassination.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.jfklancerforum.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&amp;amp;forum=3&amp;amp;topic_id=38004&amp;amp;mode=full#94344"&gt;Posting&lt;/a&gt; by Russ Tarby (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="dcmessage"&gt;"entertainer Breck Wall died Nov. 15, 2010, in Las Vegas,&lt;br /&gt;after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We may never know what he was really doing in Galveston on Nov. 23, 1963...pity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we DO know that by 1964, he had his partner, Joe Peterson, had earned decent gigs in Vegas with their show "Bottoms Up," &lt;br /&gt;and later appeared on national television on "Hollywood Palace" variety show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;despite it's low-class nature and decidedly mediocre performers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;"Bottoms Up" continued running in one form or another in Sin City for more than four decades. Curious...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Russ Tarby"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/-bottoms-up-revue-comedian-breck-wall-dies-at-75-108292299.html"&gt;Forty&lt;/a&gt; years of gigs for keeping your mouth shut.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2885581921378138796?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2885581921378138796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2885581921378138796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-happens-in-vegas-doesnt.html' title='What happens in Vegas doesn&apos;t necessarily stay in Vegas'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6344015596943349002</id><published>2012-01-23T08:26:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T08:26:45.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, January 23, 2012</title><content type='html'>"The Pirate Bay Press Release On SOPA: We Are The &lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120119/12273017472/pirate-bay-press-release-sopa-we-are-new-hollywood.shtml"&gt;New&lt;/a&gt; Hollywood"&amp;nbsp; I suppose you've noticed that 'Hollywood' is a euphemism for the Jewish Billionaires.&amp;nbsp; We seem to be in a kind of death match with the Jewish Billionaires, both with respect to their over-grasping and their tricking us into fighting their immoral wars.&amp;nbsp; The anti-SOPA protest was successful because the tech companies, who were hoping to make money by drafting on the greed of the Jewish Billionaires, were embarrassed into grudgingly supporting freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-january-21-2012.html#comment-417708920"&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; by robjoe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Jeffrey Goldberg :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This doesn't mean that I didn't, as a soldier, refuse orders, except those orders I found to be illegal and/or immoral (there's a wider berth for this in the Israeli army."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English isn`t my first language. Is he saying that he refused orders, except those he found to be illegal or immoral?"&lt;/blockquote&gt;English is my first language, but I can't make any sense of it either. It is quite a piece of work to come from a professional writer.&amp;nbsp; There is at least a triple negative, and perhaps a quadruple negative.&amp;nbsp; It does seem to say that he refused all orders except those he found to be illegal or immoral.&amp;nbsp; This makes perfect sense, as all orders from the IDF, by definition, are both illegal and immoral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4107/murdochs-homeland"&gt;Murdoch's&lt;/a&gt; Homeland"&amp;nbsp; Extremely well done ultra-ultra-ultra-Zionist propaganda.&amp;nbsp; I recommend it highly (in the conspiracy line, I also like &lt;a href="http://io9.com/5876028/possibly-the-coolest-episode-of-person-of-interest-this-season"&gt;Person&lt;/a&gt; of Interest, which is coming into its own by piling up multiple layers of paranoia, and we know governments are already using 'the Machine', although it doesn't yet work except to frame innocent Muslims).&amp;nbsp; Well done, as the 'terrorist' is depicted as a sympathetic character with justified motives, and the CIA agents trying to stop him are depicted as both completely evil and completely incompetent.&amp;nbsp; Nevertheless, at the end of the program viewers are left with a completely Islamophobic message.&amp;nbsp; Unusual subtlety from the Jews, who &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/9019394/Jewish-man-arrested-after-posting-swastikas-on-doors.html"&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-01-11/news/30613445_1_investigators-source-insurance-scam"&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; usually subtle (interesting forensic sociology here:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/01/11/anti-semitic_midwood_vandalism_may.php"&gt;From&lt;/a&gt; day one, cops didn't believe that it was an anti-Semitic incident because you never see Swastikas and KKK signs together")!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hitler takes &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/downfall-hitler-reacts#scotland"&gt;down&lt;/a&gt; yet another politician.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6344015596943349002?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6344015596943349002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6344015596943349002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-january-23-2012.html' title='Monday, January 23, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2808824456748364102</id><published>2012-01-21T12:04:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T12:04:29.026-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, January, 21, 2012</title><content type='html'>Glenn Greenwald asks the concentration camp guard a &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/a-question-from-glenn-greenwald-updated/251705/"&gt;mischievous&lt;/a&gt; question.&amp;nbsp; The concentration camp guard, of course, dodges it (I'm no traitor, but I'm sure an oath of loyalty to the only country you care about - the very one you just finished fleeing to - would be one of the high points of your life, never to be forgotten).&amp;nbsp; Actually, once you've deserted your own country to fight in the armed forces of another, the idea that you are loyal to the first country, even after you've sneaked back to spend your time fooling the first country into fighting wars for the second, is nothing short of hilarious.&amp;nbsp; By the way, the concentration camp guard is starting to pull his punches a bit about the slaughter of the innocent citizens of Iran.&amp;nbsp; Is he starting to fear a future American treason trial (with no Israel to flee to)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Dual loyalty' is an &lt;i&gt;outrageous&lt;/i&gt; insult to any Jew.&amp;nbsp; How could sumpremacists be loyal to anyone other that the supreme group?&amp;nbsp; There is nothing 'dual' about the loyalty of the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jordanian &lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2012/01/prince-hamza-waiting-in-wings.html"&gt;conspiracy&lt;/a&gt; theory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media deception on Syria:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/16/the-newsfakers/"&gt;Newsfakers&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"The use of web-based &lt;a href="http://justworldnews.org/archives/004250.html"&gt;disinformation&lt;/a&gt; by the 'west'"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"There is a genuine, in-country network of activists who seek real democratic reform and who're working for it using mass nonviolent organizing. But there are also all kinds of opportunistic networks piggybacking on that movement, most of them based in or directed from outside the country... Among them are the openly violence-using people of the Free Syria Army. And though some people in the exile-based Syrian National Council claim that the role of the FSA is merely to "station armed people around mass demonstrations in order to protect the demonstrations", that has never been a tactic endorsed by any genuine nonviolent mass movement. Indeed it is tactic that's almost guaranteed to escalate the situation and cause far more casualties among the unarmed than if only nonviolent moral suasion/reproach is brought to bear on the regime's forces.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;We should not kid ourselves by imagining that there is no opportunistic exploitation of the Syrian situation underway, being undertaken by a whole range of anti-Damascus forces-- some sectarian (as in the case of Qatar or Saudi Arabia; also, quite possibly, Turkey), and some pro-Zionist, or anyway easily exploited by Syria's longterm opponents in the Zionist movement in Israel and in the 'west'."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30289.htm"&gt;Most&lt;/a&gt; Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western media"&amp;nbsp; The poll is weak, but the size of mass rallies confirms its results.&amp;nbsp; No big surprise:&amp;nbsp; the average Syrian has only to look at Libya to see what the future will be like under the rebels.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;"Bush’s CIA director: We determined attacking Iran was a &lt;a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/19/bush_s_cia_director_we_determined_attacking_iran_was_a_bad_idea"&gt;bad&lt;/a&gt; idea"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145175694/legal-scholar-jim-crow-still-exists-in-america"&gt;Legal&lt;/a&gt; Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"In her book &lt;i&gt;The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness&lt;/i&gt;, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. She says that although Jim Crow laws are now off the books, millions of blacks arrested for minor crimes remain marginalized and disfranchised, trapped by a criminal justice system that has forever branded them as felons and denied them basic rights and opportunities that would allow them to become productive, law-abiding citizens.&lt;br /&gt;"People are swept into the criminal justice system — particularly in poor communities of color — at very early ages ... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes," she tells &lt;i&gt;Fresh Air&lt;/i&gt;'s Dave Davies. "[The young black males are] shuttled into prisons, branded as criminals and felons, and then when they're released, they're relegated to a permanent second-class status, stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement — like the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, the right to be free of legal discrimination and employment, and access to education and public benefits. Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.""&lt;/blockquote&gt;It is nothing less than appalling that anyone self-identifying as a 'progressive' in the United States would even consider the possibility of voting for anyone other than Ron Paul, the only candidate in either party who proposes to put an end to this mass systematic racism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ted Rall:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.gocomics.com//tedrall/2012/01/20?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uclick%2Ftedrall+%28Ted+Rall+-+GoComics.com%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"&gt;Which&lt;/a&gt; of the following actions is wrong?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2808824456748364102?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2808824456748364102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2808824456748364102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-january-21-2012.html' title='Saturday, January, 21, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1798563230189668002</id><published>2012-01-19T10:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T10:11:06.879-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thursday, January 19, 2012</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/israeli-drones-are-reported-spying-on-turkey-for-the-kurdish-group-pkk.html"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; drones are reported spying on Turkey for the Kurdish group PKK"&amp;nbsp; I find it odd that Turkish foreign policy, which was doing extremely well when the only country Turkey really hated was Israel, has now completely and suddenly collapsed into the worst possible mess. The end of the current Syrian government could be a key step in the creation of Greater Kurdistan, something Turkish foreign policy planners definitely don't want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"U.S. Strategic Command Mysteriously &lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5877257/us-strategic-command-mysteriously-deletes-russian-mars-spacecraft-tracking-data"&gt;Deletes&lt;/a&gt; Russian Mars Spacecraft’s Tracking Data After Sabotage Accusations"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instructive Barak &lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/01/from-very-urgent-to-very-far-off-how-come.html"&gt;redact&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; What happened?&amp;nbsp; Geithner, discussing Iran with the Chinese, learned that Chinese has 437 ways of saying 'fuck you' (of course, the Americans didn't take that sitting down, so we see some payback:&amp;nbsp; "U.S. ambassador: Political situation in China 'very, very &lt;a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/18/us_ambassador_political_situation_in_china_very_very_delicate"&gt;delicate&lt;/a&gt;'").&amp;nbsp; That gave Barry an excuse to give to his owners, the Jewish billionaires, on the necessity of backing off on Iran, which then required Barak to change his tune so it didn't seem like a defenseless and friendless Israel was going to face imminent nuclear annihilation, causing an entire country to simultaneously romney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of which:&amp;nbsp; "To &lt;a href="http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2012/01/to-defecate-in-terror-mitt-romney-gets.html"&gt;defecate&lt;/a&gt; in terror: Mitt Romney gets Google-bombed"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1798563230189668002?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1798563230189668002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1798563230189668002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/thursday-january-19-2012.html' title='Thursday, January 19, 2012'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1535794205077649497</id><published>2012-01-18T07:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T07:56:57.699-05:00</updated><title type='text'>They have a toothpaste for that</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2012/01/16/how-not-to-react-to-provocations-from-iran/"&gt;Fang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/a-dangerous-postponement-in-israel-us-defense-drill/251477/"&gt;pain&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; 'Provocations from Iran'?!&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;From Iran&lt;/i&gt;?!!&amp;nbsp; It is simply impossible to describe the length and bloodiness of the fangs on these guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But wait!&amp;nbsp; A &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/pentagon-israeli-us-missile-exercise-postponed-at-israels-request/251512/"&gt;comforting&lt;/a&gt; cover story.&amp;nbsp; "Joint US-Israel drill called off by Netanyahu, to Washington's &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21656/"&gt;surprise&lt;/a&gt;"&amp;nbsp; Hilarious!&amp;nbsp; The Jew-controlled mainstream media had hidden the exercise from Americans, but for Israelis it was the next best thing to dropping white phosphorous and cluster bombs on children.&amp;nbsp; Netanyahu would &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; have called it off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long-term effect of the American sanctions:&amp;nbsp; extremely bad for Americans, quite good for Iran (and China):&amp;nbsp; "The &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA19Ak03.html"&gt;myth&lt;/a&gt; of an "isolated' Iran".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young people today only see Jews doing monstrous and depraved things.&amp;nbsp; HH is said not to have liked Jews.&amp;nbsp; Therefore, the rehabilitation is inevitable:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hipster-hitler--2"&gt;Hipster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/234954-hipster-hitler--2"&gt;Hitler&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To &lt;a href="http://spreadingromney.com/"&gt;romney&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1535794205077649497?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1535794205077649497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1535794205077649497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/they-have-toothpaste-for-that.html' title='They have a toothpaste for that'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7376679994317479611</id><published>2012-01-16T12:46:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T12:49:01.686-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The posting about masquerades</title><content type='html'>The joint Israeli-Jewslave military exercise in Anti-Assimilation Land has been 'postponed' due to &lt;span class="articleBody"&gt;'&lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21652/"&gt;budgetary&lt;/a&gt; constraints'&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; As we all know, the Jews and their American Jewslaves are famously frugal over spending American money on military matters!&amp;nbsp; It looks like the Pentagon is straining at the shackles, a little.&amp;nbsp; We can't forget that an attack on Iran would wreck the United States (and what's with putting three aircraft carriers in line to be sunk?). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/01/is-the-false-flag-piece-a-false-flag.html"&gt;Is&lt;/a&gt; The "False Flag" Piece A False Flag?"&amp;nbsp; Does it really matter if the Jews did it, or their American Jewslaves under direct Jewmaster orders?&amp;nbsp; The Americans have absolutely no national interest in blowing up Iranian scientists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/new-york-times-in-panic-over-facts/"&gt;New&lt;/a&gt; York Times In Panic Over ‘Facts’"&amp;nbsp; The spirit of Judy Miller lives on.&amp;nbsp; Just keep retyping the propaganda, and don't ask any questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is either Jack Lew's &lt;a href="http://blog.thedaily.com/post/15676226691/that-loop-scrawl-is-what-president-obamas-new"&gt;signature&lt;/a&gt;, or his method of evoking the Golem (or both).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/ron-paul-debate-flushes-out-gender-baiting-libertarian-hypocrites-masquerading-as-progressives.html"&gt;Ron&lt;/a&gt; Paul Debate Flushes Out Gender-Baiting Right Wing Opportunists Masquerading as Progressives" (with useful outing of &lt;i&gt;Raw Story&lt;/i&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"It should not be controversial to point out that the Democratic party uses identity politics as a cover for its policy of selling out the middle class to banks and big corporate interests, just on a slower and stealthier basis than the right. And we’ve seen the identity card used in a remarkably dishonest manner in this Ron Paul contretemps." &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/ron-paul-debate-flushes-out-gender-baiting-libertarian-hypocrites-masquerading-as-progressives.html#comment-598649"&gt;Comment&lt;/a&gt; to the above article by 'Marianne':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"In casual conversation, friends have labeled me a 'progressive'. I am white and female.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I would vote for Ron Paul over any other Republican or Democrat currently in the field today. On some issues, I think RP is an absolute loon, but I look at his positions in totality, and I can say he’s a loon with principals. I suspect he is a homophobe. I find his opinions on abortion hypocritical when compared with his views on liberty and self determination.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;But in the days of mass incarceration, private run prisons, the stripping of US citizens of their citizenship (new measure just introduced by Lieberman), endless wars on drugs &amp;amp; other flavors of the day, the killing of US citizens abroad without due process, the possibility of indefinite detention of US citizens, creeping police brutality as battlefield urban warfare techniques come back home to be used in US cities, he is the /only/ candidate to speak to these issues. And he’s the only candidate I agree with.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I will hold my nose, vote for him, and ignore his likely homophobia and my disagreement with his views on a woman’s liberty to choose her medical care."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Progressive obsession with some of the craziest of Paul's ideas intentionally - and in extreme bad faith - neglects to mention that most of his ideas require constitutional amendments he will never get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Antiwar.com – Your &lt;a href="http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/antiwar-com-your-best-source-for-antiwar-news/"&gt;Best&lt;/a&gt; Source for Antiwar News?"&amp;nbsp; Speaking of outing, the warmongering of &lt;i&gt;Antiwar&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The &lt;a href="http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/antiwar-com-your-best-source-for-antiwar-news/#comment-655"&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; by altheo on Global Research is also spot on - Global Research is constantly using Chomskyesque bullshit about American Imperialism to cover for Zionism (watch out for anything that refers to alleged American plans and uses the word 'encircling', a word which might as well be a Jewish war prayer).&amp;nbsp; Note that the comments - well, except for the ones trying to throw up obfuscating smoke&amp;nbsp; - &lt;i&gt;very carefully&lt;/i&gt; work around the problem that all or almost all of these warmongering offenders happen to be Jewish and Zionist.&amp;nbsp; It would be very odd if the big conspiracy didn't try to infiltrate all obstacles, especially where the infiltration can be masked by a rather gaudy anti-Zionist front.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/bohemian-grove-toy-set/"&gt;Bohemian&lt;/a&gt; Grove Toy Set"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7376679994317479611?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7376679994317479611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7376679994317479611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/posting-about-masquerades.html' title='The posting about masquerades'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4623265433377335559</id><published>2012-01-15T07:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T07:20:20.060-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Water from the Litani River</title><content type='html'>The attacks on Iran and Syria are about the Jews stealing the water from the Litani River in Lebanon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2006 Jewish slaughter of completely innocent civilians in Lebanon - an altercation that left them defeated in an embarrassing way by Hezbollah - was an attempt by that band of thieves and murderers known as Jews to steal south Lebanon and its water.&amp;nbsp; That band of thieves and murderers known as Jews need the water for the agricultural and industrial expansion planned by the tiny group of oligarchs who run Israel.&amp;nbsp; That band of thieves and murderers known as Jews are group supremacists, and thus couldn't accept that Hezbollah could have defeated them fair and square.&amp;nbsp; Hezbollah must have cheated!&amp;nbsp; The cheating was material support by the Iranian government mostly funneled through Syria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus that band of thieves and murderers known as Jews have planned a two-pronged attack.&amp;nbsp; First, they have started a civil war in Syria.&amp;nbsp; The intent isn't regime change - they quite like Assad and his inability to recover the stolen Golan Heights.&amp;nbsp; Rather, it is a form of blackmail.&amp;nbsp; That band of thieves and murderers known as Jews will allow Assad to have Syria back, and call off the civil war, if Assad agrees to cut ties with Iran and Hezbollah.&amp;nbsp; Assad is smart enough to know that bands of thieves and murderers aren't to be trusted, and has resisted the blackmail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, that band of thieves and murderers known as Jews want regime change in Iran.&amp;nbsp; The problem is how.&amp;nbsp; They tried sponsoring the Green Movement, and tried to create a civil war in Iran, but failed, largely due to the fact that the group they supported were widely seen to be Zionist stooges.&amp;nbsp; Israel is incapable of attacking Iran, and hasn't been able to fool the Americans into yet another War For The Jews as this War For The Jews, unlike all the many, many previous Wars For The Jews, would cause the almost instant loss of literally trillions of dollars of wealth to the American 1%.&amp;nbsp; On top of this, any kind of bombing attack on Iran would not only not cause regime change, but would actually permanently entrench the current Iranian regime in power.&amp;nbsp; Ironically, bombing Iran would start the Iranian nuclear bomb program which that band of thieves and murderers and liars known as Jews claim is the reason for the attack on Iran.&amp;nbsp; Doubly ironically, a bombing attack on Iran would likely unleash the Hezbollah rockets on Israel, starting the mass exodus of Jews with an IQ over 100 which will lead to the end of the land of thieves and murderers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it is all about stealing the water from the Litani River in Lebanon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4623265433377335559?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4623265433377335559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4623265433377335559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/water-from-litani-river.html' title='Water from the Litani River'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1235639915029463611</id><published>2012-01-13T05:27:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T05:27:52.273-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The terrorist attacks in Iran</title><content type='html'>Iran needs to get in front of these terrorist attacks against nuclear physicists.&amp;nbsp; The attacks are always made using two people on a motorcycle attaching the bomb to the car with magnets.&amp;nbsp; The terrorists obviously know whose car to attack, and the movements of that car.&amp;nbsp; They must have insiders at the universities where the physicists work to associate each targeted physicist with a particular vehicle, and are trailing the cars from the universities.&amp;nbsp; In order to catch the terrorists, Iranian authorities will have to start covertly following these cars themselves (they may even consider dummy cars).&amp;nbsp; All they need to do is catch one pair of terrorists to break the terrorist network and determine who is behind the attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My guess:&amp;nbsp; MEK being run by the CIA, working for their Jewish masters to create the idea that there must be a nuclear bomb program or else there would be no reason to kill all these scientists and passersby.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1235639915029463611?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1235639915029463611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1235639915029463611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/terrorist-attacks-in-iran.html' title='The terrorist attacks in Iran'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3780290897081541147</id><published>2012-01-11T06:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T06:34:35.453-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Flying slaves</title><content type='html'>"The &lt;a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/the-love-trapezoid/"&gt;Love&lt;/a&gt; Trapezoid" by David R. Kotok:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"If you can take your eyes off the primary election coverage, watch Geithner.  The US is engaged in a love trapezoid.  The four corners are Beijing, Teheran, Tokyo, and Washington.  Treasury Secretary Geithner is the Obama Administration’s front person.  Track the news for the names of the other agents.&lt;br /&gt;This is a very serious time.  The pieces are linked.  Some bullets as you watch the news flow.&lt;br /&gt;1. The US faces the pressure of follow-through on Iran sanctions.  Iran is an exporter of oil to Asia.  Japan is dependent on imported oil.  China is not self-sufficient.  One part of this trapezoidal geometry is about oil.&lt;br /&gt;2. Iran is feeling the heat from sanctions.  The US wants to tighten them.  It cannot do so without help from Asian “friends.”&lt;br /&gt;3. China and Japan are each buyers of US Treasury securities.  They each help finance the American fiscal deficit and the ongoing current-account deficits.  They each want to diversify their reserves.  They are not sellers, but they are reluctant additional buyers.  This is truer for China than for Japan, but it is true in both cases.&lt;br /&gt;4. China is glacially proceeding toward world reserve-currency status.  It gradually allows its currency to strengthen against the dollar.  It follows a policy that is fully rational for the Beijing oligarchs.  It shrugs off political threats from Washington politicians (Schumer, Graham) who love to bash China while talking to their American constituents.  China understands our political processes and our weaknesses.  However, China also understands “realpolitik” and uses it.  They learned US use of realpolitik from Nixon and Kissinger.  Expect them to smile publicly but put some very intense private heat on Geithner.&lt;br /&gt;5. Japan faces enormous economic pressure and sees the yen strength as now threatening.  In order to weaken the yen, it must acquire other currency holdings in large quantity.  (See the Cumberland website, www.cumber.com, for G4 central bank charts, and flip to those on the Bank of Japan.  You will be able to observe how Japan expanded its balance sheet several years ago and subsequently contracted it.  We expect them to expand it in 2012 as they seek to arrest yen strength.)&lt;br /&gt;6. Japan is negotiating with China so that it may acquire reserve debt instruments denominated in Chinese currency.  Beijing likes this because it is a step toward achieving world reserve-currency status.  Geithner now worries, because the trend points toward a gradual and long-term weakening of the US position, as the world’s second (China) and third (Japan) largest economies maneuver their global positions.&lt;br /&gt;7. Our Asian friends know that the US election cycle creates maximum vulnerability for the United States.  That also makes circumstances more dangerous and raises risk profiles.  Europe is of no help to us, given its internal crises.&lt;br /&gt;We recall that a three-legged stool is a stable form.  A four-legged stool is less stable.  A four-legged stool with a trapezoidal top is least stable.  Especially when one of the legs is Iran.&lt;br /&gt;Watch Geithner in Asia and the news flow.  Read between the lines, since the public statements will all be scripted and self-serving.  Risk is high.  Also, stay overweight energy.  We are."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57355518-503544/poll-among-gop-hopefuls-romney-fares-best-against-obama/"&gt;Poll&lt;/a&gt;: Among GOP hopefuls, Romney fares best against Obama" Headline notwithstanding, Paul and Romney are in a virtual dead heat, and either could beat Barry (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a two-point lead against President Obama in a potential general election matchup, according to a new CBS News poll.&lt;br /&gt;The survey found that Romney is the only GOP candidate to hold a lead over the president in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, though Texas Rep. Ron Paul trails by just one point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Both Romney's lead over Mr. Obama - 47 percent to 45 percent - and Mr. Obama's lead over Paul - 46 percent to 45 percent - are within the survey's three percentage point margin of error.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://pulsemedia.org/2012/01/10/book-excerpt-michael-ignatieff-the-lesser-evil/"&gt;Book&lt;/a&gt; excerpt–Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Though certainly not on the same scale as the mass emigrations, ethnic cleansing, and pogroms of 19th-century Russia, the “extraordinary” measures that Michael Ignatieff would endorse post-9/11 were as intrinsically linked to Islamophobia as his great-grandfather’s were to anti-Semitism." &lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5874931/who-wants-to-buy-the-new-republic"&gt;Who&lt;/a&gt; Wants to Buy The New Republic?"&amp;nbsp; No longer useful to stir up Wars For The Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Anti-Muslim &lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/01/09/gatineau-aylmer-mosque-anti-muslim-slur.html"&gt;slurs&lt;/a&gt; aimed at 2nd Gatineau mosque"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/06/illegal-workers-ordered-out-of-country"&gt;Illegal&lt;/a&gt; workers ordered out of country" Comment by &lt;a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/06/illegal-workers-ordered-out-of-country#comment-403229651"&gt;PraiseAlfie11&lt;/a&gt; directed to the reporter:&lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;Kelly,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are SO close to a major story.  Trace all those companies back to the people behind them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These people are in every shopping centre I have been to, be it in MTL, Ottawa or Toronto.&lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;and by &lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/06/illegal-workers-ordered-out-of-country#comment-403333133"&gt;Just_saying101&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;I had somebody put some of that "Dead Sea" cream on my arm at Carlingwood Mall and I broke out in a rash.&amp;nbsp; It's Biological Warfare..........just saying....      &lt;span class="dsq-commenter-name"&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;and by Kim &lt;a href="http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/01/06/illegal-workers-ordered-out-of-country#comment-405613054"&gt;Smith&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"They are all TERRORIST spies from the fascist theocracy of Apartheid israel. They should all be shot dead for compromising Canadian and U.S. national security just as Oslama Bin Obama has American citizens killed without charge, trial or DUE PROCESS!" &lt;/blockquote&gt;"Ron Paul: the &lt;a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/01/07/ron-paul-the-venn-diagram.html"&gt;Venn&lt;/a&gt; diagram" (originally from a source, &lt;i&gt;Mother Jones&lt;/i&gt;, I try not to link to)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/all-of-area-mans-hard-work-finally-pays-off-for-em,26957/"&gt;All&lt;/a&gt; Of Area Man's Hard Work Finally Pays Off For Employer" and "I Thought We'd Have Flying &lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-thought-wed-have-flying-slaves-by-now,27000/"&gt;Slaves&lt;/a&gt; By Now" (by George Washington)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3780290897081541147?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3780290897081541147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3780290897081541147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/flying-slaves.html' title='Flying slaves'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8590377214503357384</id><published>2012-01-10T08:02:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T08:05:50.130-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jews discussing their favorite thing</title><content type='html'>"Ron Paul’s antiwar position is &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/ron-pauls-antiwar-position-is-simpleminded.html"&gt;simpleminded&lt;/a&gt;" by Jerome Slater.&amp;nbsp; Slater calls Ron Paul a 'simpleminded fool on 90% (at least)             of the issues'.&amp;nbsp; Slater probably would be well advised not to throw this insult around too carelessly.&amp;nbsp; Note the comments, which easily and thoroughly eviscerate Slater.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ron Paul’s foreign policy should be &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/ron-pauls-foreign-policy-should-be-embraced.html"&gt;embraced&lt;/a&gt;" by David Samel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Completely oblivious, Slater doubles down:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/just-wars-and-civilian-casualties.html"&gt;Just&lt;/a&gt; wars– and civilian casualties"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only good to come out of this Era of the Wars For the Jews - as future historians will call this troubled time - is the certainty that there are no such thing as 'Just Wars'.&amp;nbsp; The wars we have seen and will see, at least until Israel is gone, consist of a massively technologically and militarily superior bully slaughtering civilians on a mass scale until the central government of the victimized country gives up to avoid more civilian slaughter. These 'wars' are all massacres.&amp;nbsp; There is nothing even arguably just about any of them, and it is a tribute to the moral decline of 'progressives for carpet bombing' that they are completely unable to understand what has happened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The depravity of 'progressives' is exemplified by the argument itself - 'I can't vote for Paul as he would not have supported one or more of my favorite wars'.&amp;nbsp; Can they hear how morally bankrupt this makes therm sound?&amp;nbsp; Do they have scrapbooks with pictures of gory civilian casualties to drool over?&amp;nbsp; They might as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, in today's grim era all wars are morally repugnant, and no decent and moral person could support any of them, going back decades (I'd argue that American involvement in WWII was also wrong, but I don't have to, so I won't).&amp;nbsp; It is hilarious that the professional left won't stop claiming Ron Paul is a racist, when Paul is alone in being against the Wars For The Jews (the most obvious manifestation of the racism of the United States outside its borders) and the war on drugs (the most obvious manifestation of the racism of the United States inside its borders).&amp;nbsp; Ron Paul could spend his days chanting 'Nigger' at the top of his lungs and he still would be profoundly less racist than any other Republican candidate, or even the sainted Barry himself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8590377214503357384?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8590377214503357384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8590377214503357384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/jews-discussing-their-favorite-thing.html' title='Jews discussing their favorite thing'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7406730003455697225</id><published>2012-01-09T09:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T09:06:02.486-05:00</updated><title type='text'>War profiteer 'progressives'</title><content type='html'>The American 'progressives' are having trouble digesting the truth:&amp;nbsp; "Naked Capitalism, 'A Home for All Sorts of &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/naked-capitalism-a-home-for-all-sorts-of-bircher-nonsense.html"&gt;Bircher&lt;/a&gt; Nonsense'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened is that American 'progressives' were quite happy to ride along on the wave of the success of American big business/war profiteers.&amp;nbsp; The civil rights movement - propelled to some extent by integration in the military fighting in WWII and Korea - allowed big business to integrate blacks into the economy, thus increasing the consumer base and the size of the work force (and thus helping to lower labor costs, although the reduction was hidden by the boom in the economy).&amp;nbsp; Feminism was intended to integrate women into the work force for similar reasons.&amp;nbsp; Needless to say, big business support for illegal immigration has a similar basis.&amp;nbsp; All the while, the United States was on a war economy footing.&amp;nbsp; The tax base continued to grow, and with appropriate taxation policies filled the government coffers with the money needed to reduce poverty, build the education system, fund health care, etc, etc.&amp;nbsp; All was good, but it was all based on this unholy alliance between big business and big government, led entirely by the economic interests of big business.&amp;nbsp; The model for this alliance was the military-industrial complex (and Eisenhower famously saw into the &lt;a href="http://www.h-net.org/%7Ehst306/documents/indust.html"&gt;future&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we think of think tanks now, we of course think of institutions intended to fool Americans into fighting Wars For The Jews.&amp;nbsp; Back in the golden era of progressivism, the think tanks produced all sorts of progressive ideas, and they were almost all funded by big business.&amp;nbsp; All these progressive ideas expanded government, and the economy, and thus were good for big business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything has changed, but the 'progressives' failed to notice.&amp;nbsp; The big tax base was built on a war economy &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; a real economy.&amp;nbsp; The capitalists hollowed out the real economy, sending the wealth creation offshore, leaving the United States with just a war economy.&amp;nbsp; It is thus increasingly easy for the Jews to fool Americans into wars for the sole purpose of building Anti-Assimilation Land (aka, Israel).&amp;nbsp; Big business found it could use the think tanks to produce the lying basis for the end of regulations and the complete destruction of the taxation system.&amp;nbsp; The American government is now essentially funded using printing presses, a habit which can only continue as long as the American dollar is the &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; world reserve currency, a happy state which is soon to end (largely caused by pressures created by all the Wars For The Jews - as an example, carefully watch the fallout from the economic pressures being put on Iran and the rest of the world by the Jew-controlled American government).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Signing on with big business, and, in particular, the big business of war, to fund progressive politics may have been a good idea at the time.&amp;nbsp; It is no longer a possible model.&amp;nbsp; The United States is collapsing at an accelerating rate, and more Wars For The Jews will increase the rate of decline (and a War For The Jews against Iran would surely turn the United States into a third-world country instantly).&amp;nbsp; The combination of hollowed out tax base and no effective taxation on corporations and the rich means there is no longer any money to fund social programs or fix infrastructure.&amp;nbsp; The current situation is just the logical conclusion of a system engineered to look out solely for the economic interests of big business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you look at other places that have problems from time to time - Europe or Japan - you see problems caused by corrupt politicians looking out for the interests of banksters.&amp;nbsp; These are problems that pass if the underlying economic footing is strong.&amp;nbsp; With the United States, all I see is an economy addicted to war profiteering and the printing press.&amp;nbsp; There is no politician who will be permitted to win who proposes to change any of this (and Obama is the quintessence of a war profiteer 'progressive').&amp;nbsp; The United States, as I have said before, is fucked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7406730003455697225?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7406730003455697225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7406730003455697225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/war-profiteer-progressives.html' title='War profiteer &apos;progressives&apos;'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2138376582672764876</id><published>2012-01-07T08:46:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T08:47:38.708-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, January 7, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/01/05/ott-gatineau-mosque-vandalism-graffiti.html?cmp=rss"&gt;Harper&lt;/a&gt; condemns Gatineau mosque attack"&amp;nbsp; Scroll down for graffiti pictures (the first door picture was big and at the top of the article when I first saw it, but the CBC probably feared being shut down).&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Gatineau+police+investigate+latest+mosque+vandalism+hate+crime/5953786/story.html"&gt;Gatineau&lt;/a&gt; police investigate latest mosque vandalism as hate crime" (more pictures of the same thing)&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Vandal+hits+Gatineau+mosque+second+time+week/5954464/story.html"&gt;Vandal&lt;/a&gt; hits Gatineau mosque second time in week"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/01/06/quebec-mayor-israel-face-a-face.html?cmp=rss"&gt;Quebec&lt;/a&gt; mayor under fire for anti-Israel remarks"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://lefti.blogspot.com/2012/01/demonizing-syria-no-matter-how.html"&gt;Demonizing&lt;/a&gt; Syria, no matter how laughable"&amp;nbsp; It is extremely unlikely - well, impossible - that the Syrian government is conducting 'false flag' bombings &lt;i&gt;against itself.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; There are too many other possible targets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lying, and then covering up the lying:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=40900"&gt;Alert!&lt;/a&gt; The New York Times Misleads About Iran’s Nuclear Program"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4454"&gt;NYT&lt;/a&gt; Misleads Readers on Iran Crisis"&amp;nbsp; This program of lying the United States into yet another War For The Jews isn't just lying.&amp;nbsp; It is High Treason, and I hope that the requisite punishment is eventually administered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AIPAC, and its catamites in Congress, against everybody else in the world:&amp;nbsp; "The US-Iran &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NA07Ak01.html"&gt;economic&lt;/a&gt; war" by Pepe                               Escobar (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Forget about oil at an                               accessible $50 or even $75 a barrel. The price of                               oil may be destined to soon reach $120 a barrel                               and even $150 a barrel by summer, just as in                               crisis-hit 2008. OPEC, by the way, is pumping more                               oil than at any time since late 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So                               what started as an Israeli-concocted roadside                               improvised explosive device has now developed into                               a multiple economic suicide bombing targeting                               whole sections of the global economy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No                               wonder the chairman of the Iranian parliament's                               national security and foreign policy commission,                               Ala'eddin Broujerdi, has warned that the West may                               be committing a "strategic blunder" with these oil                               sanctions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translation: as it goes, the                               name of the game for 2012 is deep global                               recession. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;First Washington leaked that sanctions on                               Iran's central bank were "not on the table". After                               all, the Obama administration itself knew this                               would translate into an oil price hike and a                               certified one-way ticket for more global                               recession. The Iranian regime, on top of it, would                               be making more money out if its oil exports.                               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Still, the Bibi-AIPAC combo had no trouble                               forcing the amendment through those Israel-firster                               Meccas, the US Senate and Congress - even with US                               Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner expressly                               against it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amendment just passed may                               not represent the "crippling sanctions"                               vociferously demanded by the Israeli government.                               Tehran will feel the squeeze - but not to an                               intolerable level. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Yet only those irresponsible                               people at the US Congress - despised by the                               overwhelming majority of Americans, according to                               any number of polls - could possibly believe they                               can take Iran's 2.5 million barrels of oil a day                               in exports off the global market with no drastic                               consequences for the global economy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asia                               increasingly will need more oil - and will                               continue to buy oil from Iran. And oil prices will                               keep flirting with the stratosphere. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So                               why did Obama sign it? For the Obama                               administration, everything now is about electoral                               calculus. Those terminal wackos in the Republican                               presidential circus - with the honorable exception                               of Ron Paul - are peddling war on Iran the moment                               they're elected, and substantial swathes of the                               American electorate are clueless enough to buy it.                               &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one, though, is doing some basic math                               to conclude the American and European economies                               certainly don't need oil flirting with the $120                               level if some minimal recovery is in the cards.                               &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from that                               self-defeating, terminally in crisis euro/North                               Atlantic Treaty Organization bunch, everyone and                               his neighbor will be bypassing this                               Israeli-American declaration of economic war:                               &lt;br /&gt;- Russia already said it will circumvent it.                               &lt;br /&gt;- India is already paying for Iranian oil via                               Halkbank in Turkey.&lt;br /&gt;- Iran is actively                               negotiating to sell more oil to China. Iran is                               China's second-largest supplier, only behind Saudi                               Arabia. China pays in euros, and soon may be                               paying in yuan. By March they both will have                               sealed an agreement about new pricing. &lt;br /&gt;-                               Venezuela controls a bi-national bank with Iran                               since 2009; that's how Iran gets paid for business                               in Latin America.&lt;br /&gt;- Even traditional US allies                               want out. Turkey - which imports around 30% of its                               oil from Iran.&lt;br /&gt;- Will seek a waiver exempting                               Turkish oil importer Tupras from US                               sanctions.&lt;br /&gt;- And South Korea will also seek a                               waiver, to buy around 200,000 barrels a day - 10%                               of its oil - from Iran in 2012. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China,                               India, South Korea, they all have complex two-way                               trade ties with Iran (China-Iran trade, for                               instance, is $30 billion a year, and growing).                               None of this will be extinguished because the                               Washington/Tel Aviv axis says so. So one should                               expect a rash of new private banks set up all                               across the developing world for the purpose of                               buying Iranian oil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington wouldn't                               have the balls to try to impose sanctions on                               Chinese banks because they will be dealing with                               Iran. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, one's got to                               praise Tehran's balls. After a relentless campaign                               of covert assassinations; abductions of Iranian                               scientists; cross-border attacks in                               Sistan-Balochistan province; Israeli sabotage of                               its infrastructure, with viruses and otherwise;                               invasion of territory via US spy drones; non-stop                               Israeli and Republican threats of an imminent                               "shock and awe"; and the US sale of $60 billion of                               weapons to Saudi Arabia, still Tehran won't balk.                               &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tehran has just tested - successfully -                               its own cruise missiles, and in the Strait of                               Hormuz of all places. Then when Tehran reacts to                               the non-stop Western aggressive barrage, it is                               blamed with "acts of provocation". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Last                               Friday, the New York Times editorial board was                               totally in love with the Pentagon's threats                               against Iran, as well as calling for "maximum                               economic pressure". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;The bottom line is                               that average Iranians will suffer - as average,                               crisis-hit, indebted Europeans will also suffer.                               The US economy will suffer. And whenever it feels                               the West is getting way too hysterical, Tehran                               will keep reserving the right to send oil prices                               skyrocketing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;The regime in Tehran will                               keep selling oil, will keep enriching uranium and,                               most of all, won't fall. Like a Hellfire missile                               hitting a Pashtun wedding party, these Western                               sanctions will miserably fail. But not without                               collecting a lot of collateral damage - in the                               West itself. &lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jews have guaranteed there will not be a recovery from this depression, all for some meaningless dick-waving.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2138376582672764876?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2138376582672764876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2138376582672764876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/saturday-january-7-2011.html' title='Saturday, January 7, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3862244067052684972</id><published>2012-01-06T09:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T09:58:15.871-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Creating and correcting the record</title><content type='html'>Creating and correcting the record:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/65339.html"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; fulfill Quartet’s request. Israelis don’t. Guess who ‘Washington Post’ blames?"&amp;nbsp; Making lemons into lemonade through outright lying.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-york-times-covers-syria.html"&gt;New&lt;/a&gt; York Times covers Syria"&amp;nbsp; Stretching thousands into hundreds of thousands.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/01/ny-times-again-lies-about-wmd-now-in-iran.html"&gt;NY&lt;/a&gt; Times Again Lies About WMD - Now in Iran"&amp;nbsp; They had to apologize for the outright lies about WMD in Iraq (leading, and intended to lead, to a disastrous War For The Jews) - now they are back at it again as if Judy Miller never existed.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/228838-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic"&gt;My&lt;/a&gt; Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" (correction is at the bottom of the page &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/navigating-love-and-autism.html?_r=2"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;nbsp; Fastidious, if Wars For The Jews aren't being promoted.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3862244067052684972?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3862244067052684972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3862244067052684972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/creating-and-correcting-record.html' title='Creating and correcting the record'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5261376525319283006</id><published>2012-01-05T11:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T11:16:58.552-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Somebody has gone missing</title><content type='html'>The American mainstream media is shamelessly reporting the results of the Iowa caucuses as if it was an amazing &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt;-way tie.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://memebase.com/2012/01/04/internet-memes-this-is-photobomb-ron-paul-4-eva/"&gt;Somebody&lt;/a&gt; has gone missing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/pauls-challenge-to-progressives.html"&gt;Weiss&lt;/a&gt; likes Ron Paul in the race, but only on the condition that it is certain he has no chance of winning.&amp;nbsp; Of course, that condition means that Paul's anti-war stance will have absolutely no effect on American politics, and the series of Wars For The Jews can continue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/rick-perlstein/forget-iowa"&gt;Forget&lt;/a&gt; Iowa: GOP Always Nominates 'Next in Line'"&amp;nbsp; The fix is in.&amp;nbsp; It has to be your &lt;b&gt;turn&lt;/b&gt; to win (to prevent outliers like Goldwater or Paul).&amp;nbsp; Question:&amp;nbsp; based on this Republican nomination race, whose turn will it be next time?&amp;nbsp; After the first black president, perhaps Rick Santorum can be the first mentally retarded president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5261376525319283006?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5261376525319283006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5261376525319283006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/somebody-has-gone-missing.html' title='Somebody has gone missing'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3040522667010232928</id><published>2012-01-04T10:13:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T10:13:44.009-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I consider it a form of pleasure.</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/28/christmas-in-the-radiation-zone/"&gt;Christmas&lt;/a&gt; in the Radiation Zone"&amp;nbsp; It is depressing that Japan, the one place in the world you would think would be equipped to deal with a nuclear disaster, has given up.&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://enenews.com/local-japan-official-found-with-shotgun-blast-to-chest-lectured-against-nuclear-power-after-fukushima"&gt;Local&lt;/a&gt; Japan official found with shotgun blast to chest — Lectured against nuclear power after Fukushima"&amp;nbsp; Experiment:&amp;nbsp; get in a car behind the steering wheel with an unloaded shotgun, and try to shoot yourself in the chest in such a way that the shotgun ends up outside the car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/02/9890603-coastal-villages-in-nigeria-protest-as-crude-oil-washes-ashore"&gt;Coastal&lt;/a&gt; villages in Nigeria protest as crude oil washes ashore"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/fishing-suspended-nigeria-cleanup-after-offshore-shell-spill-continues.html"&gt;Fishing&lt;/a&gt; Suspended in Nigeria As Cleanup After Offshore Shell Spill Continues"&amp;nbsp; Shell refuses to help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/border-police-train-israeli-teens-to-detain-illegal-palestinian-workers-1.405091#"&gt;Border&lt;/a&gt; Police train Israeli teens to detain illegal Palestinian workers":&amp;nbsp; "I consider it a form of pleasure. It simply provides me with values, and I love the action."&amp;nbsp; Apparently a &lt;a href="http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/jewishlife/JewishStellaDiana.htm"&gt;traditional&lt;/a&gt; hobby of Jewish children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sheldon &lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/21/393391/sheldon-adelson-the-deep-pockets-behind-newt-gingrich/"&gt;Adelson&lt;/a&gt;: The Deep Pockets Behind Newt Gingrich"&amp;nbsp; Why is Adelson throwing money away on a hopeless cause?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://chrisinmaryville.net/so-who-is-behind-the-ron-paul-attacks.html"&gt;So&lt;/a&gt; Who Is Behind The Ron Paul Attacks?"&amp;nbsp; Neocon warmongers - &lt;a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies"&gt;Foundation&lt;/a&gt; for Defense of Democracies - don't like Ron Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/01/flatbush-jewish-journal-clips-sun-moon-345.html"&gt;Flatbush&lt;/a&gt; Jewish Journal Clips Sun, Moon"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3040522667010232928?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3040522667010232928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3040522667010232928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-consider-it-form-of-pleasure.html' title='I consider it a form of pleasure.'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-393406086025754324</id><published>2012-01-02T09:16:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T09:16:29.747-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The journal of scorpion fighting</title><content type='html'>"Haredim: Don't &lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/01/haredim-dont-divide-beit-shemesh-123.html"&gt;Divide&lt;/a&gt; Beit Shemesh":&amp;nbsp; The ever-so-slightly-less-insanely-violent Orthodox Jews who live in Beit Shemesh don't want Bibi to divide it into insane (Orthodox) and sane (everybody else) sections as they fear that the ever-so-slightly-more-insanely-violent Orthodox Jews, deprived of their usual targets of violence, will then go after the ever-so-slightly-less-insanely-violent Orthodox Jews.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;FailedMessiah.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - the journal of scorpion fighting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2012/01/chart-of-day-is.html"&gt;Chart&lt;/a&gt; of the day is... "&amp;nbsp; Big, big win for the people of Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2011/12/snl-writer-who-committed-suicide-was.html"&gt;SNL&lt;/a&gt; Writer Who Committed Suicide (?) Was A Strong Critic Of Israel And Fan Of What Really Happened":&amp;nbsp; "More wars for Israel, our rulers. Probably Syria soon."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/has-america-ever-sent-troops-to-fight-for-israel/250249/"&gt;Has&lt;/a&gt; America Ever Sent Troops to Fight for Israel? (UPDATED)"&amp;nbsp; Talk about comedy writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://io9.com/5869362/the-man-who-told-the-internet-hed-come-from-the-future"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; Man Who Told the Internet He’d Come from the Future"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'd forgotten about the &lt;a href="http://maydaymystery.org/mayday/"&gt;Mayday&lt;/a&gt; Mystery, but it is still going &lt;a href="http://maydaymystery.org/mayday/recent.html"&gt;strong&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"kim jong-il &lt;a href="http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/"&gt;looking&lt;/a&gt; at things"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-393406086025754324?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/393406086025754324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/393406086025754324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/journal-of-scorpion-fighting.html' title='The journal of scorpion fighting'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7988274187319733003</id><published>2012-01-01T10:22:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-01T10:22:54.681-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The 'progressives' and Paul</title><content type='html'>Ron Paul is a terrible embarrassment to American 'progressives' as their opposition to his campaign demonstrates how deeply reactionary they really are.&amp;nbsp; In particular, Paul highlights the the dominant neo-liberal strain in American progressivism of supporting the financing of war. War financing is the heart of the modern American apparatus of state, and the state is what creates social programs and enforces modern progressive social order.&amp;nbsp; This is particularly true as the business base of the country is hollowed out, leaving the business of war - and the printing of money - as the only financial basis left to support social programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Matt Stoller: Why Ron Paul &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challenges-liberals.html"&gt;Challenges&lt;/a&gt; Liberals" (my emphasis in red - &lt;b&gt;this article is important&lt;/b&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"And as I’ve drilled into Paul’s ideas, his ideas forced me to acknowledge some deep contradictions in American liberalism (pointed out years ago by Christopher Laesch) and what is &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;a long-standing, disturbing, and unacknowledged affinity liberals have with centralized war financing&lt;/span&gt;. So while I have my views of Ron Paul, I believe that the anger he inspires comes not from his positions, but from the tensions that modern American liberals bear within their own worldview.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;Paul is deeply conservative, of course, and there are reasons he believes in those end goals that have nothing to do with creating a more socially just and equitable society. But then, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;when considering questions about Ron Paul, you have to ask yourself whether you prefer a libertarian who will tell you upfront about his opposition to civil rights statutes, or authoritarian Democratic leaders who will expand healthcare to children and then aggressively enforce a racist war on drugs and shield multi-trillion dollar transactions from public scrutiny.&lt;/span&gt; I can see merits in both approaches, and of course, neither is ideal. Perhaps it’s worthy to argue that lives saved by presumed expanded health care coverage in 2013 are worth the lives lost in the drug war. It is potentially a tough calculation (depending on whether you think coverage will in fact expand in 2013). When I worked with Paul’s staff, they pursued our joint end goals with vigor and principle, and because of their work, we got to force central banking practices into a more public and democratic light.&lt;br /&gt;But this obscures the real question, of why Paul disdains the Fed (and implicitly, why liberals do not), and the relationship between the Federal Reserve and American empire. &amp;nbsp;If you go back and look at some of libertarian allies, like Fox News’s Judge Napolitano, they will answer that question for you. Napolitano hates, absolutely hates, Abraham Lincoln. He sometimes slyly refers to Lincoln as America’s first dictator. Libertarians also detest Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;What connects all three of these Presidents is one thing – big ass wars, and specifically, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: #e06666;"&gt;war financing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; If you think today’s deficits are bad, well, Abraham Lincoln financed the Civil War pretty much entirely by money printing and debt creation, taking America off the gold standard. He oversaw the founding of the nation’s first national financial regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which chartered national banks and forced them to hold government debt to back currency they issued. The dollar then became the national currency, and Lincoln didn’t even back those dollars by gold (and gold is written into the Constitution). This financing of the Civil War was upheld in a series of cases over the Legal Tender Act of 1862. Prior to Lincoln, it was &lt;i&gt;these&lt;/i&gt; United States. Afterwards, it was &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; United States. Lincoln fought the Civil War and centralized authority in the Federal government to do it, freeing slaves and transforming America into one nation.&lt;br /&gt;Libertarians claim that they dislike Lincoln because he centralized authority in the Federal government. Of course, there is a long reconstructed white supremacist strain that hates Lincoln because he was an explicitly anti-racist President, and they hate the centralized authority and financing power that freed the slaves and turned America increasingly into more racially equitable society. This strain can be exploited by the creditor class, who also disliked how slavery – which they saw as a property right rather than a labor and human rights issue – was destroyed by state power. History, of course, has a nasty way of mocking us about long-held fights we thought were over. The conflict between labor/human rights and property rights continues today. Or as Carl Fox said in the movie &lt;i&gt;Wall Street&lt;/i&gt;, “The only difference between the Pyramids and the Empire State Building is the Egyptians didn’t allow unions.” Without even getting into globalization, prison labor legally &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/prisoners-body-armor/"&gt;makes body armor&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &lt;a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/%28S%28p3dnmy55zb1k3355ts53dzna%29%29/displayNews.aspx?newsid=147&amp;amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1"&gt;products for victoria’s Secret, Starbucks, and Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;. State centralized power can prioritize labor rights over property rights, and for this reason, creditors are wary of it.&lt;br /&gt;On to Woodrow Wilson. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Wilson signed the highly controversial Federal Reserve Act in 1913; originally, the Federal Reserve system was supposed to discount commercial and agricultural paper. Government bonds were not really considered part of the system’s mandate. But what happened the next year? Yes, World War I. And Wilson, who ran on the slogan “he kept us out of war” in 1916, started a long tradition of antiwar Democratic Presidents who took America to war&lt;/span&gt; (drawing the ire of among others Helen Keller, but garnering the support of union leader Sam Gompers who argued it was a “people’s war”). Wilson also implemented a wide variety of highly repressive authoritarian measures, including the Palmer Raids, the Espionage Act of 1917, and the use of modern PR techniques by government agencies. For good measure, Wilson was an unreconstructed white supremacist (even a bit out there for the time) and sent many antiwar opponents to jail. In the monetary arena, Wilson’s new Federal Reserve system began discounting government bonds. Like Lincoln, he had set up a tremendous war financing vehicle to centralize capital flows and therefore, political authority. In many ways, Wilson set up the rudiments of America’s police state, and did so arguably to help a transatlantic Anglo-American banking elite. Here, one can argue that libertarians are wary of centralized financing and political authority for liberal reasons – the ACLU was founded after the Palmer raids.&lt;br /&gt;And finally, we come to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s Fed is a bit more complex, because he did centralize monetary authority using wartime emergency powers, but he did so in peacetime. FDR abrogated gold clause contracts, seized the domestic supply of gold, and devalued the currency. He constrained banks with aggressive regulation and seizures of insolvent banks, saving depositors with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He also used the RFC to set up much of what we know today as the Federal government, including early versions of disaster relief, small business lending, massive bridge and railroad building, the FHA, Fannie Mae, and state and local aid. Eventually, the government used this mechanism to finance college and housing for veterans with the GI Bill. Since veterans were much of the population right after World War II, effectively this was the first ever near-national safety net. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;FDR also fused the liberal and union establishments with the corporate world, creating the hybrid “military-industrial” complex that is with us to this day&lt;/span&gt; (see Alan Brinkley’s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-Reform-Deal-Liberalism-Recession/dp/0679753141"&gt;“End of Reform”&lt;/a&gt; for a good treatment of this process).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Later, this New Deal financing apparatus was used to finance the munitions industry and America’s role in World War II.&lt;/span&gt; At one point, the RFC owned eight war material producing subsidiaries, including the synthetic rubber industry. Importantly, FDR had the Fed working for him. The Fed kept interest rates pegged at an interest rate set by Treasury, and used reserve requirements to manage inflation. This led to a dramatic drop in inequality, and &lt;a href="http://prospect.org/article/federal-reserve-we-need"&gt;unemployment sank to 1% during World War II&lt;/a&gt;. In 1951, the Fed, buttressed by what Tom Ferguson calls “conservative Keynesian” corporate leaders, broke free of this arrangement, under the Treasury-Fed Accord, leading to the postwar monetary order. That accord is where the vaunted “Federal Reserve Independence” came from.&lt;br /&gt;Now, if you’re a libertarian, and you believe that centralized power is dangerous, then it’s obvious that state control over finance and mass mobilization of social resources for warfare or other ends are two sides of the same coin. If you fear social spending, you could also be persuaded to believe that any financing mechanism for mass social spending is problematic. Creditors might just dislike the possibility of any state power centers that could challenge their hegemony and privilege labor/human rights over their property rights, though they do support captive state systems they control. If you are a white supremacist, centralized power can easily be viewed as a threat to racial homogeny, since historically it has acted as such in the past. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;But if you are against war, or you believe that a centralized state is likely to act in an unjust or repressive manner (as it also has in the past), then war financing is a reasonable target.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Modern liberalism is a mixture of two elements. One is a support of Federal power – what came out of the late 1930s, World War II, and the civil rights era where a social safety net and warfare were financed by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and the RFC, and human rights were enforced by a Federal government, unions, and a cadre of corporate, journalistic and technocratic experts (and cheap oil made the whole system run.) America mobilized militarily for national priorities, be they war-like or social in nature. And two, it originates from the anti-war sentiment of the Vietnam era, with its distrust of centralized authority mobilizing national resources for what were perceived to be immoral priorities. When you throw in the recent financial crisis, the corruption of big finance, the increasing militarization of society, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the collapse of the moral authority of the technocrats, you have a big problem. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Liberalism doesn’t really exist much within the Democratic Party so much anymore, but it also has a profound challenge insofar as the rudiments of liberalism going back to the 1930s don’t work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;This is why Ron Paul can critique the Federal Reserve and American empire, and why liberals have essentially no answer to his ideas, arguing instead over Paul having character defects.&lt;/span&gt; Ron Paul’s stance should be seen as a challenge to better create a coherent structural critique of the American political order. It’s quite obvious that there isn’t one coming from the left, otherwise the figure challenging the war on drugs and American empire wouldn’t be in the Republican primary as the libertarian candidate. To get there, liberals must grapple with big finance and war, two topics that are difficult to handle in any but a glib manner that separates us from our actual traditional and problematic affinity for both. War financing has a specific tradition in American culture, but there is no guarantee war financing must continue the way it has. And there’s no reason to assume that centralized power will act in a more just manner these days, that we will see continuity with the historical experience of the New Deal and Civil Rights Era. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;The liberal alliance with the mechanics of mass mobilizing warfare, which should be pretty obvious when seen in this light, is deep-rooted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we’re seeing on the left is this conflict played out, whether it is big slow centralized unions supporting problematic policies, protest movements that cannot be institutionalized in any useful structure, or a completely hollow liberal intellectual apparatus arguing for increasing the power of corporations through the Federal government to enact their agenda. Now of course, Ron Paul pandered to racists, and there is no doubt that this is a legitimate political issue in the Presidential race. But the intellectual challenge that Ron Paul presents ultimately has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with contradictions within modern liberalism."&lt;/blockquote&gt;It is difficult not to think of Bill and Barry as you read the history.&amp;nbsp; Note that all the 'progressives' commenting on this article try to change the subject, just as Stoller suggested they would.&amp;nbsp; I like to call American progressives 'progressives for carpet bombing', and their recent support for the imperialist slaughter in Libya is completely in character for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/progressives_and_the_ron_paul_fallacies/singleton/"&gt;Progressives&lt;/a&gt; and the Ron Paul fallacies" by Glenn Greenwald:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The thing I loathe most about election season is reflected in the central fallacy that drives progressive discussion the minute “Ron Paul” is mentioned. As soon as his candidacy is discussed, progressives will reflexively point to a slew of positions he holds that are anathema to liberalism and odious in their own right and then say: &lt;i&gt;how can you support someone who holds this awful, destructive position&lt;/i&gt;? The premise here — the game that’s being played — is that if you can identify some heinous views that a certain candidate holds, then it means they are beyond the pale, that no Decent Person should even consider praising any part of their candidacy.&lt;br /&gt;The fallacy in this reasoning is glaring. The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested. He has slaughtered civilians — Muslim &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/05/asleep-in-afghanistan.html" target="_blank"&gt;children&lt;/a&gt; by the dozens — not once or twice, but continuously in &lt;a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-30/politics/30095838_1_al-qaeda-qaeda-somalian-islamist" target="_blank"&gt;numerous nations&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/us-drone-strikes-pakistan-waziristan" target="_blank"&gt;drones&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/7806882/US-cluster-bombs-killed-35-women-and-children.html" target="_blank"&gt;cluster bombs&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and other &lt;a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/gen_mcchrystal_weve_shot_an_amazing_number_of_peop.php" target="_blank"&gt;forms of attack&lt;/a&gt;. He has &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/u_s_takes_the_lead_on_behalf_of_cluster_bombs/"&gt;sought&lt;/a&gt; to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs. He has institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for &lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/08/30/aclu-sues-obama-administration-over-alleged-assassination-plot/" target="_blank"&gt;assassination-by-CIA&lt;/a&gt;, far from any battlefield. He has &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer" target="_blank"&gt;waged&lt;/a&gt; an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth. He rendered permanently irrelevant the War Powers Resolution, a crown jewel in the list of post-Vietnam liberal accomplishments, and thus enshrined the power of Presidents to wage war even in the face of a &lt;a href="http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/112/house/1/493" target="_blank"&gt;Congressional vote&lt;/a&gt; against it. His obsession with secrecy is so extreme that it has become &lt;a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/2011-review-year-secrecy-jumped-shark" target="_blank"&gt;darkly laughable&lt;/a&gt; in its manifestations, and he even worked to &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/06/01/photos_8/"&gt;amend&lt;/a&gt; the Freedom of Information Act (another crown jewel of liberal legislative successes) when compliance became inconvenient.&lt;br /&gt;He has &lt;a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-cheney-fallacy" target="_blank"&gt;entrenched&lt;/a&gt; for a generation the once-reviled, once-radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism powers of indefinite detention, military commissions, and the &lt;a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/expert_consensus_obama_aping_bush_on_state_secrets.php" target="_blank"&gt;state secret privilege&lt;/a&gt; as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law. He has shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability. He has &lt;a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/156997/obamas-drug-war" target="_blank"&gt;vigorously prosecuted&lt;/a&gt; the cruel and supremely &lt;a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war" target="_blank"&gt;racist&lt;/a&gt; War on Drugs, &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/07/12/137791944/obama-cracks-down-on-medical-marijuana" target="_blank"&gt;including&lt;/a&gt; those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason. He has empowered thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, &lt;a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/11226640/1/obama-wants-schneiderman-to-back-off-banks-report.html" target="_blank"&gt;efforts to shield&lt;/a&gt; mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/07/13/goldman/"&gt;endless roster&lt;/a&gt; of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists. He’s &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/covert-war-us-iran/story?id=15174919" target="_blank"&gt;brought&lt;/a&gt; the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/middleeast/30iht-politicus30.html" target="_blank"&gt; brink&lt;/a&gt; of far greater hostilities. He has made the U.S. as &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15014037" target="_blank"&gt;subservient&lt;/a&gt; as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government. His support for some of the Arab world’s &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/middleeast/with-30-billion-arms-deal-united-states-bolsters-ties-to-saudi-arabia.html" target="_blank"&gt;most repressive regimes&lt;/a&gt; is as strong as ever.&lt;br /&gt;Most of all, America’s National Security State, its Surveillance State, and its posture of endless war is more robust than ever before. The nation suffers from what &lt;i&gt;National Journal&lt;/i&gt;‘s Michael Hirsh &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/slow-dance-obamas-romance-with-the-cia/238849/" target="_blank"&gt;just christened&lt;/a&gt; “Obama’s Romance with the CIA.”&amp;nbsp;He has created what &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/washingtonpost/status/151862588878225408" target="_blank"&gt;just dubbed&lt;/a&gt; a vast drone/killing operation,” all behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and without a shred of oversight. Obama’s steadfast devotion to what Dana Priest and William Arkin &lt;a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/" target="_blank"&gt;called&lt;/a&gt; “Top Secret America” has severe domestic repercussions as well, building up vast debt and deficits in the name of militarism that create the pretext for the “austerity” measures which the Washington class (&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-debt-talks-obama-offers-social-security-cuts/2011/07/06/gIQA2sFO1H_story.html" target="_blank"&gt;including&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/11/obama-medicare-eligibility-age_n_894833.html" target="_blank"&gt;Obama&lt;/a&gt;) is plotting to impose on America’s middle and lower classes.&lt;br /&gt;The simple fact is that progressives are supporting a candidate for President who has done all of that — things liberalism has long held to be pernicious. I know it’s annoying and miserable to hear. Progressives like to think of themselves as the faction that stands for peace, opposes wars, believes in due process and civil liberties, distrusts the military-industrial complex, supports candidates who are devoted to individual rights, transparency and economic equality. All of these facts — like the history laid out by Stoller in that essay — negate that desired self-perception. These facts demonstrate that the leader progressives have empowered and will empower again has worked in direct opposition to those values and engaged in conduct that is nothing short of horrific. So there is an eagerness to avoid hearing about them, to pretend they don’t exist. And there’s a corresponding hostility toward those who point them out, who insist that they not be ignored.&lt;br /&gt;The parallel reality — the undeniable fact — is that all of these listed heinous views and actions from Barack Obama have been vehemently opposed and condemned by Ron Paul: and among the major GOP candidates, only by Ron Paul.&amp;nbsp;For that reason, Paul’s candidacy forces progressives to face the hideous positions and actions of their candidate, of the person they want to empower for another four years. If Paul were not in the race or were not receiving attention, none of these issues would receive any attention because all the other major GOP candidates either agree with Obama on these matters or hold even worse views."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Of course, as Greenwald lists things progressives aren't supposed to notice, he fails to list the Jewish blackmail of the United States by control of the Fed, and the fact that all the wars the Americans are blackmailed into fighting are Wars For The Jews.&amp;nbsp; For Greenwald, Paul is a useful &lt;i&gt;candidate&lt;/i&gt;, but not a plausible or desirable President.&amp;nbsp; He is just a goad to remind Barry he has to do better.&amp;nbsp; Too bad it won't work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7988274187319733003?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7988274187319733003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7988274187319733003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2012/01/progressives-and-paul.html' title='The &apos;progressives&apos; and Paul'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1514894480160469683</id><published>2011-12-31T09:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T09:06:29.152-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, December 31, 2011</title><content type='html'>Question:&amp;nbsp; If the Jews are using the Fed to blackmail the American government into fighting Wars For The Jews, why can't they force the Americans to attack Iran?&amp;nbsp; Answer:&amp;nbsp; The Jewish blackmail is to cut off the supply of money, thus causing total economic collapse.&amp;nbsp; Since the attack on Iran would also cause total economic collapse, the blackmail doesn't work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078822/Did-Nixon-gay-affair-Mafia-fixer-Forget-Watergate-A-new-book-claims-Americas-corrupt-President-hid-far-personal-scandal-.html"&gt;Did&lt;/a&gt; Nixon have a gay affair with a Mafia fixer? Forget Watergate. A new book claims America's most corrupt President hid a far more personal scandal..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078470/Teamsters-boss-Jimmy-Hoffa-buried-cement-General-Motors-HQ.html"&gt;Has&lt;/a&gt; one of America's most enduring mysteries been solved? Book claims Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa was buried in cement at General Motors' HQ"&amp;nbsp; A man who is buried in a lot of places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Theresa Ann &lt;a href="http://www.nampn.org/cases/bier_theresa.html"&gt;Bier&lt;/a&gt;":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Theresa Ann Bier of Fresno has not been seen since she and Russell "Skip" Welch, 43, reportedly became separated in the mountains after they had gone to look for Sasquatch, the legendary creature also known as Bigfoot. Welch was charged with abducting Theresa but the charge was later dismissed. Welch, a self-proclaimed student of Bigfoot, went camping with the girl in June near Shuteye Peak, about 25 miles northeast of Bass Lake, and was questioned by deputies when he returned without her. Welch's explanation was that Bigfoot had abducted her. Foul play is suspected."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps the all-time &lt;a href="http://www.weirdfresno.com/2010/05/man-claims-bigfoot-abducted-girl-while.html"&gt;winner&lt;/a&gt; in promoting an alternative theory of the crime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1514894480160469683?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1514894480160469683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1514894480160469683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-december-31-2011.html' title='Saturday, December 31, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2618910868334929236</id><published>2011-12-30T08:54:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T08:56:01.917-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The electable independent party candidate</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://instaputz.blogspot.com/2011/12/pointless-polling.html"&gt;Does&lt;/a&gt; anyone seriously believe Ron Paul is closer to the median voter than Barack Obama?"&amp;nbsp; Me.&amp;nbsp; I like &lt;i&gt;Instaputz&lt;/i&gt;, but Barry's the guy slowly turning up the heat on the frogs in the water in the pot on the stove.&amp;nbsp; I believe a coalition of Republicans, anti-war independent voters, and fed up Democrats, all voting for a very flawed candidate - but one who breaks the Jewish/Military Industrial Complex fatal stranglehold on the United States - can beat Obama (and save the country).&amp;nbsp; In an odd way, Ron Paul is the electable independent party candidate that everybody keeps talking about but nobody can find.&amp;nbsp; Of course, if he gets the Republican nomination somebody will shoot him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/james-petras-the-power-of-israel-in-the-us-2006/"&gt;Niqnaq&lt;/a&gt; on Petras' politically correct version of 'anti-Semitism' (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"I have been re-reading this, and I am not really happy with Petras’ analysis. Here is a representative quotation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;There is no crime, however terrible and perverse, that Israel commits that will not be supported by the respectable professors, investment bankers, journalists, surgeons, policy advisers, real estate moguls, lawyers, schoolteachers, and other ordinary folk who make up the activist base of the Major Organisations (i.e. the 52 components of CPMAJO).&lt;/blockquote&gt;Now what is wrong with this? What is wrong with it is that it systematically and explicitly presents the nonsensical theory that a bunch of middle-class nerds can set US mid-East policy simply because of their Jewish commitment. Petras has already established that 60% of Democrat and 35% of Republican party funding comes from Jewish sources. But even this is not really enough to hit the nail on the head: &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;what neither Petras nor anyone else except me, at least on the so-called ‘Left’, has dared to say is that any US government is existentially dependent on the Jewish bankers of the ‘Fed’ to keep printing worthless money to keep the country and its wars afloat. From his occasional references to ‘the economic crisis’, one could infer that Petras sees the Jewishness of the banking elite as quite unrelated to the problem of the US’ hysterical, totalitarian support for ‘Israel’. I on the other hand consider the ‘economic crisis’ to have been deliberately induced in order to establish totalitarian Jewish control over any prospective US governments, whatever their politics might be.&lt;/span&gt; I think Petras shows how a respectable Leftist can create what looks like a revelatory advanced position on the topic without actually moving a single inch closer to the solution (Petras is a university professor)."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The traditional right-wing attacks on the Federal Reserve are nonsense, but this conspiracy theory makes perfect sense.&amp;nbsp; Couple it with the fact that the Fed has intentionally managed the current crisis into an utter disaster in order to massively enrich the 1% (at the expense of actually fixing the problems), and I think it is time for a hanging party.&amp;nbsp; Without a hanging party, the United States, and much of the rest of the world, is doomed, and Ron Paul is the only guy who even knows what rope looks like.&amp;nbsp; Note how his isolationism and attacks on the Federal Reserve are connected.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2618910868334929236?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2618910868334929236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2618910868334929236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/electable-independent-party-candidate.html' title='The electable independent party candidate'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6314059230275413536</id><published>2011-12-29T09:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T09:50:31.719-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The isolationist</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://rightwingnews.com/election-2012/statement-from-fmr-ron-paul-staffer-on-newsletters-anti-semitism/"&gt;Statement&lt;/a&gt; from fmr. Ron Paul staffer on Newsletters, Anti-Semitism" by Eric Dondero.&amp;nbsp; This comes across as scrupulously fair, especially given the concluding paragraphs which show the author broke with Paul over his isolationism (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"It’s his foreign policy that’s the problem; not so much some stupid and whacky things on race and gays he may have said or written in the past.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist.&lt;/span&gt;  He denies this charge vociferously.  But I can tell you straight out, I had countless arguments/discussions with him over his personal views.  For example, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII.  He expressed to me countless times, that “saving the Jews,” was absolutely none of our business.  When pressed, he often times brings up conspiracy theories like FDR knew about the attacks of Pearl Harbor weeks before hand, or that WWII was just “blowback,” for Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy errors, and such.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would challenge him, like for example, what about the instances of German U-boats attacking U.S. ships, or even landing on the coast of North Carolina or Long Island, NY.  He’d finally concede that that and only that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust.  &lt;br /&gt;There is much more information I could give you on the sheer lunacy of his foreign policy views.  Let me just concentrate on one in specific.  And I will state this with absolute certainty:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Ron Paul was opposed to the War in Afghanistan, and to any military reaction to the attacks of 9/11.  &lt;/div&gt;He did not want to vote for the resolution.  He immediately stated to us staffers, me in particular, that Bush/Cheney were going to use the attacks as a precursor for “invading” Iraq. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt; He engaged in conspiracy theories including perhaps the attacks were coordinated with the CIA, and that the Bush administration might have known about the attacks ahead of time.  He expressed no sympathies whatsoever for those who died on 9/11, and pretty much forbade us staffers from engaging in any sort of memorial expressions, or openly asserting pro-military statements in support of the Bush administration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the eve of the vote, Ron Paul was still telling us staffers that he was planning to vote “No,” on the resolution, and to be prepared for a seriously negative reaction in the District.  Jackie Gloor and I, along with quiet nods of agreement from the other staffers in the District, declared our intentions to Tom Lizardo, our Chief of Staff, and to each other, that if Ron voted No, we would immediately resign.  &lt;br /&gt;Ron was “under the spell” of left-anarchist and Lew Rockwell associate Joe Becker at the time, who was our legislative director.  Norm Singleton, another Lew Rockwell fanatic agreed with Joe.  All other staffers were against Ron, Joe and Norm on this, including Lizardo.  At the very last minute Ron switched his stance and voted “Yay,” much to the great relief of Jackie and I.  He never explained why, but I strongly suspected that he realized it would have been political suicide; that staunchly conservative Victoria would revolt, and the Republicans there would ensure that he would not receive the nomination for the seat in 2002.  Also, as much as I like to think that it was my yelling and screaming at Ron, that I would publicly resign if he voted “No,” I suspect it had a lot more to do with Jackie’s threat, for she WAS Victoria.  And if Jackie bolted, all of the Victoria conservatives would immediately turn on Ron, and it wouldn’t be pretty.&lt;br /&gt;If you take anything from this lengthy statement, I would hope that it is this final story about the Afghanistan vote, that the liberal media chooses to completely ignore, because it doesn’t fit their template, is what you will report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;If Ron Paul should be slammed for anything, it’s not some silly remarks he’s made in the past in his Newsletters.  It’s over his simply outrageously horrendous views on foreign policy, Israel, and national security for the United States.  His near No vote on Afghanistan.  That is the big scandal.&lt;/span&gt;  And that is what should be given 100 times more attention from the liberal media, than this Newsletter deal."&lt;/blockquote&gt;After reading that, how could any decent and moral American not vote for Ron Paul?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6314059230275413536?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6314059230275413536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6314059230275413536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/isolationist.html' title='The isolationist'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5145521606038235703</id><published>2011-12-29T08:55:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T08:55:55.123-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thursday, December 29, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/28/why-america-cant-afford-its-military/"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; America Can’t Afford Its Military"&amp;nbsp; Makes perfect sense until you read this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Predictably, there is also a growing recognition that the million dollars a year it costs to keep one American soldier or Marine on station in Afghanistan makes no sense when, for a fraction of the cost, the U.S. Army and other federal agencies could easily protect America’s borders from the wave of criminality, terrorism and illegal immigration washing in from Mexico and Latin America."&lt;/blockquote&gt;So he's just another nut worried about the "wave of criminality, terrorism and illegal immigration washing in from Mexico and Latin America" who thinks that the US Army would make a swell police force on American soil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-28/chavez-u-s-may-be-behind-s-america-leaders-cancer.html"&gt;Chavez&lt;/a&gt;: U.S. May Be Behind Leaders’ Cancer":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"'Fidel always tells me, ‘Chavez be careful, they’vedeveloped technology, be careful with what you eat, they couldstick you with a small needle,’' the Venezuelan leader saidtoday. 'In any case, I’m not accusing anyone, I’m just using myfreedoms to reflect and issue comments on very strange eventsthat are hard to explain.'"&lt;/blockquote&gt;Americans will snark at this, but we know for a fact that the CIA did attempt such things to kill Fidel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://age-of-treason.blogspot.com/2011/12/roth-and-weiss-on-whats-best-for-jews.html"&gt;Roth&lt;/a&gt; and Weiss on What's Best for The Jews"&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The professional left - those who make a salary by pretending to be progressive - will keep telling us that Ron Paul is unacceptable as he sorta hangs out with white supremacists, yet the clear racial supremacism of the Jews - you know, the supremacism with violent, horribly destructive effects in the real world today - is fine.&amp;nbsp; Why the distinction?&amp;nbsp; Ah, but they'll say, white supremacism is a whole nother thing, as the white supremacists control all the institutions of power. Are they perhaps living in 1964?&amp;nbsp; Look around you.&amp;nbsp; It is not the hillbillies who are running the banks, the universities, the media, the governments.&amp;nbsp; The real problem isn't the violent supremacism, it is our complete insensitivity to real power relations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5145521606038235703?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5145521606038235703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5145521606038235703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/thursday-december-29-2011.html' title='Thursday, December 29, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-9001193569693364760</id><published>2011-12-28T09:39:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T09:39:47.979-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Progressive Paul</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/why-ron-paul-should-win-primaries.html"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; Ron Paul Should Win Primaries"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/12/the-empire-attacks-ron-paul/"&gt;Empire&lt;/a&gt; Attacks Ron Paul"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'progressive' sites are &lt;a href="http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/ron-pauls-book-christmas-gift-makes-republi"&gt;starting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5871268/follow-the-ron-paul-newsletter-twitter-for-140+character-bursts-of-horrific-racism"&gt;to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/freedom-oppress-why-ron-pauls-old-ra"&gt;attack&lt;/a&gt; Paul with a fury.&amp;nbsp; He scares the shit out of them, as he is the only Republican candidate that can hand Obama a big loss.&amp;nbsp; A coalition of Republicans, independents, and anti-war/anti-Israel (anti-war and anti-Israel are &lt;b&gt;exactly&lt;/b&gt; the same thing, and much, much, much more popular than the Jew-controlled media would have you believe, &lt;b&gt;but have never had anyone to vote for&lt;/b&gt;!) Democrats would flatten Barry like a steam roller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On issues outside of war, the war on drugs, and Israel, Paul's views are appalling.&amp;nbsp; However, as President, his nutty ideas are just ideas.&amp;nbsp; He can do little or nothing about them.&amp;nbsp; He can and would block all Wars For The Jews, the wars that are killing so many people and wrecking the United States.&amp;nbsp; For that reason alone, he is the obvious - and only - progressive choice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is telling that the 'progressives for carpet-bombing' and the Republican establishment both oppose Paul because he might win.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps they should just form a united front and call themselves the War Party.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-9001193569693364760?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/9001193569693364760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/9001193569693364760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/progressive-paul.html' title='Progressive Paul'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8541585581430124116</id><published>2011-12-27T09:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T09:57:27.271-05:00</updated><title type='text'>They're baaaaaack</title><content type='html'>My video driver has been acting up, and I've been in the malls, which explains the lack of posting.&amp;nbsp; Speaking of the malls . . . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/when-will-america-wake-up-to-that-fact-that-israelis-are-screwing-her/"&gt;WHEN&lt;/a&gt; WILL AMERICA WAKE UP TO THAT FACT THAT ISRAELIS ARE SCREWING HER?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4166255,00.html"&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;: Israelis arrested for illegal work" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/12/20/ottawa-gatineau-illegal-workers-immigration.html"&gt;Alleged&lt;/a&gt; illegal workers caught in Ottawa, Gatineau"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=5179&amp;amp;Itemid=53"&gt;15&lt;/a&gt; Israelis arrested in Gatineau" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/12/22/ns-illegal-kiosks-halifax.html"&gt;Accused&lt;/a&gt; ringleader of illegal workers in court"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/1057429--illegal-workers-told-to-leave-canada-this-weekend"&gt;Illegal&lt;/a&gt; workers told to leave Canada this weekend"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/12/21/ns-illegal-workers-arrests-halifax.html"&gt;Suspected&lt;/a&gt; illegal workers arrested in Halifax" - note the stress on the exploitation of the poor workers (haven't they suffered enough?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/45053-immigration-sweep-leads-11th-arrest-halifax"&gt;Immigration&lt;/a&gt; sweep leads to 11th arrest in Halifax"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://ronabbass.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/illegal-israeli-sales-agents-arrested-in-halifax-nova-scotia-canada/"&gt;Illegal&lt;/a&gt; Israeli Sales Agents (?) Arrested In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two cells, one in Halifax - lots of NATO activity - and one in Gatineau, presumably ripping off/spying on Ottawa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I can tell, this has not been reported in any Jew-controlled media in Canada, just by the 'anti-Semites' at the CBC and the independent Chronicle Herald, and by the Swedish-owned Metro free papers.&amp;nbsp; Considering the control Tel Aviv has over Harper, the arrests must have been a slip-up, part of the big anti-immigrant PR operation the Conservatives are working on (appealing to their 'base').&amp;nbsp; Someone forgot to tell the Immigration thugs that illegal Israeli immigrants are off-limits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had seen the heating pad booths, but didn't think anything of them except for noticing it was quite the rip-off (I used to see the booths selling junk like foam paper airplanes which were set up at local country fairs, presumably to steal dairy cow genetics, which is big around here).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I note that I saw a heating pad booth &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; the arrests, so the rip off/intelligence operation is still running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This combination of rip-off consumer sales operations (door-to-door art dealers, moving companies, locksmiths, and now heating pads) and espionage operations is unique to Israel.&amp;nbsp; From time to time gangs of pickpockets visit Canada from South America, and are always clearly identified by the media by which country they come from.&amp;nbsp; The Jews carefully &lt;a href="http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=5189&amp;amp;Itemid=53"&gt;protect&lt;/a&gt; their own when the criminal gangs are from Israel, and are also spies, so the gangs are never identified, and can continue to attack Canadians.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8541585581430124116?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8541585581430124116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8541585581430124116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/theyre-baaaaaack.html' title='They&apos;re baaaaaack'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7745579174412875942</id><published>2011-12-22T05:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T06:41:55.238-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Joie de Juif</title><content type='html'>They should just prohibit Palestinians from participating in everything, and be done with it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Swiss museum cancels competition after prize-sponsor Lacoste &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/french-museum-cancels-prize-rather-than-accept-lacostes-banning-of-palestinian-artist.html"&gt;rejects&lt;/a&gt; Palestinian artist"; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"UPDATE! Musée de L’Elysée suspends prize because Sansour barred as ”too &lt;a href="http://jfjfp.com/?p=27425"&gt;pro-Palestinian&lt;/a&gt;”"; and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;are you as surprised as I am at the real reason:&amp;nbsp; "Owner of Lacoste, which censored Palestinian artist, is major &lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/owner-lacoste-which-censored-palestinian-artist-major-donor-israel-zionist-causes"&gt;donor&lt;/a&gt; to Israel, Zionist causes"?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;It is not 'joie de vivre' they are worried about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breivik knows what the crocodile/alligator/gargoyle - or whatever the hell it is - means:&amp;nbsp; "Stop Anders &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/09/anders-breivik-clothes-lacoste-police"&gt;Breivik&lt;/a&gt; wearing our clothes, Lacoste reportedly ask police".&amp;nbsp; So if you don't want to be identified as an Islamophobe, you know what not to wear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Added:&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; "Artist Larissa &lt;a href="http://artinfo.com/news/story/754484/artist-larissa-sansour-speaks-out-about-her-ejection-from-the-lacoste-art-prize-for-being-too-pro-palestinian"&gt;Sansour&lt;/a&gt; Speaks Out About Her Ejection From the Lacoste Art Prize for Being "Too Pro-Palestinian""&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7745579174412875942?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7745579174412875942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7745579174412875942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/joie-de-juif.html' title='Joie de Juif'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6044307841179345459</id><published>2011-12-20T05:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T05:40:43.868-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Some good conspiracies today</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5868514/pentagon-tells-gizmodo-it-has-no-visual-evidence-of-bin-laden-raid-or-burial"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; Is What The Government Told Gizmodo About Osama Bin Laden’s Body"&amp;nbsp; So either the US government took no records of bin Laden's body, or they are outright lying on a Freedom of Information Act request.&amp;nbsp; Of course, if bin Laden was taken &lt;i&gt;alive&lt;/i&gt; to the American helicopter which promptly &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/08/obamaosama-propaganda.html"&gt;blew&lt;/a&gt; up, they wouldn't have any photos of bin Laden's body.&amp;nbsp; No need for a burial at sea, so no photos of it either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2011/12/16/how-maliki-and-iran-outsmarted-the-us-on-troop-withdrawal/"&gt;How&lt;/a&gt; Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the US on Troop Withdrawal"&amp;nbsp; I don't understand the 'outsmarted' part.&amp;nbsp; All the Iraqis did was remain steadfast in their insistence that the Americans leave.&amp;nbsp; Other countries should take note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Spoils of Iraq war &lt;a href="http://www.financialexpress.com/news/spoils-of-iraq-war-evade-us-and-uk/888704/"&gt;evade&lt;/a&gt; US and UK"&amp;nbsp; Ha! War For The Jews, bitches!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110683/The-Phantom-Time-Hypothesis"&gt;Phantom&lt;/a&gt; Time Hypothesis"&amp;nbsp; My favorite conspiracy theory.&amp;nbsp; The &lt;a href="http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/Phantom%20Time.HTM"&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; - with a list of supposedly outrageous conspiracy theories which embarrasses the writer and utterly wrecks his credibility - that the theory is Eurocentric and fails to take into account parallel time lines elsewhere, seems to miss the point.&amp;nbsp; No one is arguing that the time disappeared.&amp;nbsp; The argument is that the &lt;i&gt;European&lt;/i&gt; time line was intentionally messed up.&amp;nbsp; Other time lines are irrelevant.&amp;nbsp; Unless you can come up with a Chinese traveller in Europe at the relevant time, whose own trip could be dated using the Chinese timeline, the existence of a consistent Chinese timeline - itself debatable - has nothing to do with the missing Dark Ages thesis.&amp;nbsp; With respect to Mohammed, you have to recalibrate the relevant dates based on the new European calendar.&amp;nbsp; Islam still had all the time it needed to spread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"America.gov, Cognitive Infiltration, and Obama appointee Cass &lt;a href="http://dailycensored.com/2011/11/21/america-gov-cognitive-infiltration-and-obama-appointee-cass-sunstein/"&gt;Sunstein&lt;/a&gt;"&amp;nbsp; The official American government position is that the conspiracy involved in the death of JFK, a conspiracy endorsed by a Senate committee, is a myth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6044307841179345459?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6044307841179345459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6044307841179345459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-good-conspiracies-today.html' title='Some good conspiracies today'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8405270000371010502</id><published>2011-12-19T09:23:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T09:23:45.342-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, December 19, 2011</title><content type='html'>Asshole public intellectuals are &lt;a href="http://news.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/vaclav-havel-leader-of-velvet-revolution-dies.php"&gt;dropping&lt;/a&gt; like flies.&amp;nbsp; Slavoj Žižek better watch out for lightning bolts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bless their tiny black hearts, but the folks at &lt;i&gt;Debka&lt;/i&gt; are &lt;a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/hacked-cia-drone-iran-029/"&gt;hinting&lt;/a&gt; that the anti-Semitic organization known as the CIA is helping its pals in the Iranian government.&amp;nbsp; One can only hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greenwald is generally excellent, but he is Jewish, and thus &lt;a href="http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003585.html"&gt;incapable&lt;/a&gt; of telling the truth about certain key issues.&amp;nbsp; You have to read all Jewish writers, even the best ones, assuming they will lie about issues touching Jewish supremacism and the building of Anti-Assimilation Land.&amp;nbsp; They may have the best will in the world, but sadly, they just can't help themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sausage making news:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2011/12/treasure-hunters-lobbyists-rebuffed.html"&gt;Treasure&lt;/a&gt; Hunters' Lobbyists Rebuffed".&amp;nbsp; Very occasionally, the bad guys lose, but note the secret ways of lobbyists in making legislation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075649/David-Cameron-sacks-MP-Aidan-Burley-links-Hitler-stag-party.html"&gt;Cameron&lt;/a&gt; sacks 'foolish' MP who joined 'Hitler, Hitler, Hitler' stag party...as it is revealed that he was the one who hired groom's Nazi uniform"&amp;nbsp; I think it is hilarious that he tried to save himself by &lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;writing a long letter of apology to The Jewish Chronicle and planning a visit to the theme park at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Auschwitz.&amp;nbsp; Of course, there were &lt;i&gt;British&lt;/i&gt; victims of Hitler, but who gives a fuck.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/israel-is-incapable-of-taking-on-the-settlers.html"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; is incapable of taking on the settlers"&amp;nbsp; The concentration camp guard and Finkelstein are indistinguishable on the magically disappearing settler issue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;"In blow to Israel, French BDS activists &lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/blow-israel-french-bds-activists-acquitted-crime-calling-boycott"&gt;acquitted&lt;/a&gt; of crime in calling for boycott"&amp;nbsp; The latest Zionist trick is to use the courts to suppress objections to the Jewish land theft/murder program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8405270000371010502?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8405270000371010502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8405270000371010502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/monday-december-19-2011.html' title='Monday, December 19, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6151626143504116000</id><published>2011-12-17T08:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T08:54:05.585-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, December 17, 2011</title><content type='html'>"A Beginner’s &lt;a href="http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/11/beginners-guide-to-european-debt-crisis.html"&gt;Guide&lt;/a&gt; to the European Debt Crisis"&amp;nbsp; The Europeans are being fed the same big lie that was used on the Americans - the big banks are too big to fail and austerity falling on normal human beings is the only thing that can save the big banks, with the whole mess made worse by the fatally contagious nature of the world-wide web of derivatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/02/debt-slavery-%E2%80%93-why-it-destroyed-rome-why-it-will-destroy-us-unless-it%E2%80%99s-stopped/"&gt;Debt&lt;/a&gt; Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped":&amp;nbsp; "&lt;span&gt;A basic mathematical as well as political principle is at work: Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the fact that sanctioning the Iranian central bank will cause oil prices to rise for ordinary Americans, and add further damage to the delicate state of the American economy, the American Congress remains completely under &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/bought-and-paid-for-congress-passes-iran-sanctions-410-11.html"&gt;ZOG&lt;/a&gt;, and looks out for the Jewish Lobby before considering the interests of American voters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2011/12/13/israeli-africa-racism/"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it"&amp;nbsp; The English version of &lt;i&gt;Haaretz&lt;/i&gt; is an integral part of the public face of Zionism presented to non-Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/What+happened+to+the+Rothschild+Chardins%3f/24193"&gt;What&lt;/a&gt; happened to the Rothschild Chardins?"&amp;nbsp; Smells like a fraudulent insurance or reparations claim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A &lt;a href="http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/john_talbotts_paris/2011/09/a-word-on-wine-on-wednesday-fucksrkozycom.html"&gt;word&lt;/a&gt; on wine on Wednesday: Fucks@rkozy.com"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The internet - Reddit? -&amp;nbsp; is relentless with the screen &lt;a href="http://i.imgur.com/OKw0v.png"&gt;shots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6151626143504116000?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6151626143504116000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6151626143504116000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-december-17-2011.html' title='Saturday, December 17, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7091552867108279925</id><published>2011-12-16T08:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T08:10:39.400-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Some deaths are worth celebrating</title><content type='html'>It is funny that the monster Hitchens &lt;a href="http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-is-dead.html"&gt;died&lt;/a&gt; at the same time that the monstrous war he called for came to an end.&amp;nbsp; With all the things he wrote, the only thing he will be remembered for is that he was a neocon hanger-on.&amp;nbsp; Pathetic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, remember how the attack on Iraq was supposed to be all about oil?&amp;nbsp; Oh, and then when that didn't make any sense, it became all about all those American military bases.&amp;nbsp; The Americans left all those bases behind.&amp;nbsp; It was a War For The Jews.&amp;nbsp; That is all it was.&amp;nbsp; Don't let the Jews bullshit you, especially when the bullshit is to fool you into yet another War For The Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5868702/natos-lost-drone-had-its-gps-system-hacked-by-iranian-engineers"&gt;NATO’s&lt;/a&gt; Lost Drone Had Its GPS System Hacked By Iranian Engineers"&amp;nbsp; The leak of this story leads me to think that the infiltration was much worse than that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Military and Those &lt;a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/13/the-military-and-those-strange-threats-to-obama/"&gt;Strange&lt;/a&gt; Threats to Obama"&amp;nbsp; He's doing exactly what they want, but they are setting up a trail of 'carelessness' that might be useful to explain a future slip-up should he ever decide, for once, to do the right thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angry Arab on the Hezbollah drug bank story:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/12/hizbullah-in-new-york-times-drugs-and.html"&gt;Hizbullah&lt;/a&gt; in the New York Times: drugs and car salesman" and "&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/12/lebanese-canadian-bank-and-hizbullah.html"&gt;Lebanese&lt;/a&gt; Canadian Bank and Hizbullah".&amp;nbsp; The story is written in the purest Judy Miller style.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/gadfly/new-anti-semitism-smear-getting-old"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; "New Anti-Semitism" Smear Is Getting Old"&amp;nbsp; It has taken far too long, and cost too many lives and too much wealth, but the Number One trick of the Jews is finally starting to wear out.&amp;nbsp; Though I caution that this is a lite Zionist story floated, in part, to make you think the Jews can be trusted to solve their own problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A &lt;a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/revolution-against-resistance"&gt;Revolution&lt;/a&gt; Against Resistance?"&amp;nbsp; Syrian opposition leader announces that he, and the country he plans to lead, are 100% Jewslaves.&amp;nbsp; No, make that 110%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/12/bankers-dozen/"&gt;Banker’s&lt;/a&gt; Dozen"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7091552867108279925?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7091552867108279925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7091552867108279925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-deaths-are-worth-celebrating.html' title='Some deaths are worth celebrating'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4915080711350217552</id><published>2011-12-15T10:38:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T10:38:14.855-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lebanese-style pizza</title><content type='html'>Rather pathetic attempt at revenge for the Hezbollah counterintelligence work against the CIA:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/world/middleeast/beirut-bank-seen-as-a-hub-of-hezbollahs-financing.html?_r=2&amp;amp;hp=&amp;amp;pagewanted=all"&gt;Beirut&lt;/a&gt; Bank Seen as a Hub of Hezbollah’s Financing"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/12/the-hizbullah-drug-money-plot-makes-no-sense.html"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; Hizbullah Drug Money Plot Makes No Sense"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.thearabdigest.com/2011/12/no-nonsense-guide-to-cia-in-lebanon.html"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; no nonsense guide to the CIA in Lebanon!"&amp;nbsp; With the names of people who will be working in Virginia for the rest of their careers, perhaps delivering pizza (ask for extra drones).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebanese-style pizza is what you get around here, probably because all the pizza joints are owned by Lebanese.&amp;nbsp; It is not very good.&amp;nbsp; That may be why the CIA met at Pizza Hut.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4915080711350217552?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4915080711350217552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4915080711350217552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/lebanese-style-pizza.html' title='Lebanese-style pizza'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-186077279952871150</id><published>2011-12-13T10:03:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T10:03:41.634-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday, December 13, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/264481/20111209/30-major-u-s-corporations-paid-lobby.htm"&gt;30&lt;/a&gt; Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes, 2008-2010"&amp;nbsp; Cheaper to pay lobbyists than taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.newvoices.org/campus?id=0120"&gt;He&lt;/a&gt; still teaches, students still squirm":&amp;nbsp; “It makes me uncomfortable to know that he believes this.&amp;nbsp; When I found out, I found it really hard to pay attention to what he was saying.”&amp;nbsp; and:&amp;nbsp; &lt;span&gt;“How can someone so educated be so ignorant about something?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Western society complicit: Resurgence in antisemitism may lead to &lt;a href="http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=5227&amp;amp;Itemid=53"&gt;second&lt;/a&gt; Holocaust, Steyn says"&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;"'A &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072639/Tory-MP-Aiden-Burley-Nazi-stag-night-French-ski-resort.html"&gt;toast&lt;/a&gt; to the Third Reich!' Oxford-educated louts 'face prosecution' for dressing as Nazi and taunting French waiter... while Tory MP looked on"&amp;nbsp; "Tory MP Aidan Burley ‘extremely &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8949176/Tory-MP-Aidan-Burley-extremely-sorry-over-Nazi-themed-stag-party.html"&gt;sorry&lt;/a&gt;’ over Nazi themed stag party"&amp;nbsp; What is it about the British 1% and Nazi role playing?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/12/backlash-for-lowes-as-ads-pulled-from-muslim-show/"&gt;Lowe's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/lowes-apology-american-muslim-conservative.html"&gt;issued&lt;/a&gt; a version of the classic non-apology apology, you know, "We're sorry if some terrible failure in some of you caused you to feel unhappy at our perfectly reasonable actions".&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/lowes-faces-boycott-after-pulling-ads-from-tlc-show-on-muslims.html"&gt;Boycott&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Four more postings on the &lt;/span&gt;massacre at El Mozote from Tim's El Salvador Blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Mozote - Seeking &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-seeking-justice-in-spite-of.html"&gt;Justice&lt;/a&gt; in Spite of the Amnesty Law&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Mozote -- &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-funes-meets-with-victims.html"&gt;Funes&lt;/a&gt; meets with victims' families &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Mozote -- the &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-rebirth-of-hope.html"&gt;rebirth&lt;/a&gt; of hope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Mozote -- the &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-victims.html"&gt;victims&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;El Mozote -- 30th anniversary &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-30th-anniversary.html"&gt;commemoration&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span&gt;Somebody - I wonder who? - is hiding the truth:&amp;nbsp; "The Saudi Arab Spring &lt;a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/12/07/the-saudi-arab-spring-nobody-noticed/"&gt;Nobody&lt;/a&gt; Noticed"&amp;nbsp; Must be a conspiracy of all those Saudi princes who own/control all the major American media outlets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;The quiet intellectual revolt:&amp;nbsp; "'A &lt;a href="http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/12/a-dark-wind-is-blowing-through-the-country-.html"&gt;dark&lt;/a&gt; wind is blowing through the country' Tsipi Livni"&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-186077279952871150?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/186077279952871150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/186077279952871150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-december-13-2011.html' title='Tuesday, December 13, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8173085402137753193</id><published>2011-12-10T08:26:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-10T08:51:22.282-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, December 10, 2011</title><content type='html'>Step one:&amp;nbsp; "Philadelphia DA dropping &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/philadelphia-da-plans-news-conference-on-future-of-death-penalty-case-of-mumia-abu-jamal/2011/12/07/gIQAk9CEcO_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop"&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal in racially charged murder case"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of those wonderful police:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/?mid=5490"&gt;My&lt;/a&gt; Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan"&amp;nbsp; If government-paid thugs beat up the wrong guy, sometimes they get a &lt;a href="http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/patrick-meighan-writer-emfamily-guyem-"&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; editorial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Anti-Muslim Counterterrorism Training to Be &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5866490/anti+muslim-counterterrorism-training-to-be-scrapped-by-spring"&gt;Scrapped&lt;/a&gt; by Spring"&amp;nbsp; The explicitness of the hatred in these official training materials is wild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"New Zealand &lt;a href="http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/18957/"&gt;losing&lt;/a&gt; its independence under Key"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Venezuela Responds to "&lt;a href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6679"&gt;Slanderous&lt;/a&gt;" Accusations Made by Israel's Vice Prime Minister" (is the Vice Prime Mister responsible for Israeli vice?):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Yaalon accused Venezuela of working with Iran to create a “terrorist infrastructure” in Latin America that could “attack the interests of the United States or in the United States,” during his visit to Uruguay this week."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"Lowe’s Pulls Advertising from Muslim Reality Show After &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5866814/lowes-pulls-advertising-from-muslim-reality-show-after-bigots-complain"&gt;Bigots&lt;/a&gt; Complain"  My experience with Lowe's is that their marketing strategy is to charge at least 50% more than their competition for the same product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/iran-drone-plane-craft-385/"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed"&amp;nbsp; It would be most impressive if Iran managed this through computer hacking (which would explain why normal fail-safe destruction of the drone didn't occur).&amp;nbsp; The Jewish &lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21550/"&gt;message&lt;/a&gt; taken from this incident, to paraphrase only slightly:&amp;nbsp; Jews have to slaughter innocent, completely non-threatening gentiles - once again - as the Americans are pussies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8173085402137753193?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8173085402137753193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8173085402137753193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-december-10-2011.html' title='Saturday, December 10, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-289107915879878279</id><published>2011-12-08T13:09:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T13:31:34.343-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Are the Jews nuts?</title><content type='html'>It is simple.&amp;nbsp; Either Iran has a program to develop a nuclear weapon, or it doesn't.&amp;nbsp; If it does, here's Leon Panetta &lt;a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4937"&gt;answering&lt;/a&gt; Kenneth Pollack's question about a military attack on Iran (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Part of the problem here is the concern that at best, I think – talking to my friends – the indication is that &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;at best it might postpone it maybe one, possibly two years&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It depends on the ability to truly get the targets that they’re after.&amp;nbsp; Frankly, some of those targets are very difficult to get at.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That kind of, that kind of shot would only, I think, ultimately not destroy their ability to produce an atomic weapon, but simply delay it – number one.&amp;nbsp; Of greater concern to me are the unintended consequences, which would be that ultimately it would have a backlash and the regime that is weak now, a regime that is isolated would suddenly be able to reestablish itself, suddenly be able to get support in the region, and suddenly instead of being isolated would get the greater support in a region that right now views it as a pariah.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirdly, the United States would obviously be blamed and we could possibly be the target of retaliation from Iran, striking our ships, striking our military bases.&amp;nbsp; Fourthly – there are economic consequences to that attack – severe economic consequences that could impact a very fragile economy in Europe and a fragile economy here in the United States.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And lastly I think that the consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we have to be careful about the unintended consequences of that kind of an attack. "&lt;/blockquote&gt;If Iran doesn't have such a program - and it almost certainly does not, as both the Americans and the Jews know - then Zionist military aggression would be the best way to force the Iranians to start and accelerate such a program.&amp;nbsp; In other words, one way or the other, Zionist plans seem to be the best possible way to &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;ensure&lt;/span&gt; that Iran has a nuclear bomb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the Jews nuts?&amp;nbsp; Without a doubt.&amp;nbsp; We always have to remember that 'Iran talk' has nothing to do with Iran, and everything to do with the pressing need of a fascist military dictatorship to be in wars or talk about wars.&amp;nbsp; Israel can't manage this attack by itself, and they can't trick the Americans into doing it for them.&amp;nbsp; Panetta buried the reference to economic consequences, but that is the key (and separates, definitively, a War For The Jews against Iran from every other of the many Wars For The Jews, each one utterly ruinous to the United States, but not economically &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;deadly&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jews find themselves in a bit of a pickle.&amp;nbsp; They need to fight wars or talk about fighting wars in order to survive, but can find no wars to fight.&amp;nbsp; All the talk of wars is frightening Jews with IQs over a 100 to leave (explaining the bizarre and panicky campaign to convince American Jews to head for Israel where they and their families can eventually die under Hezbollah rockets - they left that part out).&amp;nbsp; Israel is fucked (lucky for everybody else).&amp;nbsp; 'Iran talk' is just a symptom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-289107915879878279?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/289107915879878279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/289107915879878279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/are-jews-nuts.html' title='Are the Jews nuts?'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7184370202768086676</id><published>2011-12-07T08:50:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T09:18:19.677-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, December 7, 2011</title><content type='html'>I have to say I'm enjoying the American government's series of lies concerning their missing drone:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/12/06/cia-nato-lied-to-press-about-lost-drone/"&gt;CIA&lt;/a&gt;, NATO Lied to Press About Lost Drone".&amp;nbsp; The &lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt; did its usual outstanding job at &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/after-drone-was-lost-cia-tried-a-head-fake/2011/12/06/gIQAJNrnZO_blog.html"&gt;retyping&lt;/a&gt; the CIA's blather.&amp;nbsp; The first two comments to the retyping job, by 'MarkThomason':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The head fake is aimed at us, the American electorate.  The Iranians know.  We are the ones being lied to."&lt;/blockquote&gt;and:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"To clarify, the Iranians know what they have. They know how they got it. That is what all of the head fake was about--only things the Iranians already knew, by definition--what they had and what they did to get it. "&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29901.htm"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; Stole Uranium from U.S., Report Will Show"  Old story, but topical given the American government's obsession with somebody's Middle East nuclear program:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Smith said the question of whether highly enriched uranium was diverted from Numec to Israel is all the more relevant now in view of current U.S. efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Why are we looking at nuclear weapons? Probably the biggest question that’s being asked in this town [Washington] right now is whether to get even more heavily involved in trying to suppress Iran’s nuclear program. And we think it’s extremely valuable to get the truth out about U.S. collaboration, intentional or not, in Israel’s program,” Smith said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/12/resilience-of-syrian-regime.html"&gt;Resilience&lt;/a&gt; of the Syrian regime"  Also, you don't risk your life for a chance at a much worse outcome.  Libya, and even perhaps Egypt, are models of the probable future which everyone in Syria can see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm wondering if an outside attack on Syria - a country which, unlike all recent victims of American aggression, can defend itself - is just what Assad needs to pull his country back together against a common enemy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-massacre-30-years-later.html"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-rufina-amaya-survivor.html"&gt;El&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-reporters.html"&gt;Mozote&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/12/el-mozote-us-role.html"&gt;massacre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7184370202768086676?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7184370202768086676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7184370202768086676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/wednesday-december-7-2011.html' title='Wednesday, December 7, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3047959534384358767</id><published>2011-12-06T12:32:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T13:17:07.068-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Drone intelligence</title><content type='html'>Damage control:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&amp;amp;id=news/awx/2011/12/05/awx_12_05_2011_p0-401894.xml&amp;amp;headline=Downed%20UAV%20Technology%20Already%20Dated"&gt;Downed&lt;/a&gt; UAV Technology Already Dated"&amp;nbsp; No wonder they keep slaughtering innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan based on drone intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tablet, which used to be reasonable, seems to be moving to becoming an ultra-right supremacist rag.&amp;nbsp; Hiring the concentration camp guard, then getting a minor 'libertarian' - managing editor of Vice magazine!; classy! - to do a drive-by &lt;a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/85379/busted/"&gt;slurring&lt;/a&gt; of a moral and decent man.&amp;nbsp; Shameful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/former-cia-directors-death-raises-questions-divides-family_n_1130176.html"&gt;Former&lt;/a&gt; CIA Director's Death Raises Questions, Divides Family"&amp;nbsp; Funny way to kill yourself - which explains why suicide was ruled out - but I guess suicide is better than murder.&amp;nbsp; Based on the comments, the Huffington Post has more extreme right-wing readers than the Free Republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2011/10/excerpt-from-manuscript-by-richard.html"&gt;Excerpt&lt;/a&gt; from Manuscript by Richard Bartholomew"&amp;nbsp; "Intellfirst" has been &lt;a href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4526&amp;amp;st=0&amp;amp;p=35121&amp;amp;#entry35121"&gt;identified&lt;/a&gt; as Air Force Colonel Delk Simpson, a man with a great &lt;a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/osimpson.htm"&gt;name&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I'd always be looking for conspiracy plotters in the group of high ranking, but disappointed in rank achieved, military and intelligence officials.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3047959534384358767?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3047959534384358767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3047959534384358767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/drone-intelligence.html' title='Drone intelligence'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-233385192920130747</id><published>2011-12-05T08:50:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T09:33:28.235-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, December 5, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/30/us-iceland-glitnir-idUSTRE7AT2UX20111130"&gt;Iceland's&lt;/a&gt; special prosecutor arrests former Glitnir CEO: media"&amp;nbsp; It is still not clear whether Iceland is on the right path or just more artfully scammed, but this is a good start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://warincontext.org/2011/12/04/iran-captures-lost-u-s-spy-drone-the-first-remote-hijacking/"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; captures ‘lost’ U.S. spy drone — the first remote hijacking?"&amp;nbsp; Of course, it probably just suffered a technical malfunction and crashed.&amp;nbsp; In any event, the Chinese and/or Russians should get a good look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/obama-wishes-the-jewish-state-would-disappear-says-petulant-bill-kristol.html"&gt;Kristol&lt;/a&gt; accuses Obama of wanting the Jewish state to disappear"&amp;nbsp; This is panicky and shrill, even for Kristol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Israeli ministers &lt;a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/12/201112502744931902.html"&gt;prickle&lt;/a&gt; at Clinton critique"&amp;nbsp; Even stranger, and as the usual backdoor channels apparently aren't working, the American Jewish Billionaires had Hillary deliver a message to the Israeli right to turn the crazy down a notch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"U.S. warns Palestinians: Stop &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-warns-palestinians-stop-leaking-content-of-quartet-talks-1.399364"&gt;leaking&lt;/a&gt; content of Quartet talks"&amp;nbsp; Palestinian leaks of their extremely reasonable positions are embarrassing the Americans:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The Palestinians presented the Quartet with two documents relating to the borders of a future Palestinian state and security arrangements with Israel in November, but the Quartet told the Palestinians that the documents would not be passed to the Israelis, according to the official.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quartet representatives told Saeb Erekat, head of the Palestinian negotiating team, that the proposals he presented were not relevant, because they had not been presented in direct talks with Israel, the official said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We continue to call for a direct exchange between the parties, starting with the preparatory meeting that leads to a presentation of proposals on territory and security. And that objective has not been met, but we're continuing to work towards that,” the official said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Americans have expressed displeasure with the Palestinians in part because of their refusal to engage in face-to-face talks with Israel. The Obama administration sees the Palestinian strategy of presenting proposals to the Quartet without engaging in direct talks as an attempt to change the rules of the game." &lt;/blockquote&gt;The Palestinians are refusing to play along with the Zionist/American farce that they are only allowed to participate in negotiations if they give up all negotiating points first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/12/nakba-denial-nyt-removes-the-word-expulsion-from-article-describing-palestinian-refugees.html"&gt;Nakba&lt;/a&gt; denial: ‘NYT’ removes the word ‘expulsion’ from article describing Palestinian refugees"&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sometimes the truth mistakenly appears, even where you would least expect it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111118/23080016837/more-people-realizing-that-fbis-big-wins-are-stopping-its-own-made-up-terror-plots.shtml"&gt;More&lt;/a&gt; People Realizing That The FBI's 'Big Wins' Are In Stopping Its Own Made Up Terror Plots" FBI means 'Frame-ups Before Integrity'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/was-there-coordination-between-homeland-security-and-police-departments-in-clearing-out-occupy-encampments/"&gt;Was&lt;/a&gt; there coordination between Homeland Security and police departments in clearing out Occupy encampments?&lt;/span&gt;"&amp;nbsp; Sensible.&amp;nbsp; Professional 'progressives' continue to quibble about this to a degree that seems out of proportion to the importance of the issue.&amp;nbsp; It reflects a much greater fear that OWS will deny Obama's reelection.&amp;nbsp; Next summer, the Republicans are going to try to portray the protesters as Commie hippies working for Obama.&amp;nbsp; At the same time, OWS might even turn into a Nader-like third party.&amp;nbsp; Say hello to President Newt.&amp;nbsp; Berry is vacuuming up so many millions of dollars from Wall Street for his reelection that the obligatory attempt by the professional 'progressives' to co-opt the movement is going to look silly.&amp;nbsp; Eventually - but maybe not in time to stop Obama's reelection - something has got to give.&amp;nbsp; The 'progressives' are shitting themselves over even a hint that Obama has been doing Wall Street's dirty work, as likely as it actually is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-233385192920130747?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/233385192920130747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/233385192920130747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/monday-december-5-2011.html' title='Monday, December 5, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-271758735383741722</id><published>2011-12-03T09:29:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T09:43:51.090-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The punishment for all the lying and bad faith is Israelification</title><content type='html'>"From Occupation to “Occupy”: The &lt;a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"&gt;Israelification&lt;/a&gt; of American Domestic Security"&amp;nbsp; The racist supremacism of the Jews is now promoted as the model for everyone.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, the American history of white supremacism makes it fertile ground for such vile nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Jewish journalist praising the concept of Israelificiation:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/opinion/cohen-doctrine-of-silence.html?_r=1&amp;amp;ref=opinion"&gt;Doctrine&lt;/a&gt; of Silence"&amp;nbsp; Needless to say, the real 'alternative' that Cohen can't possibly imagine is to stop fighting Wars For The Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The punishment for failing to face the facts while throwing the slur around at anyone who mentions the facts will be living in poverty in a completely fascist police state, in constant fear of 1) enemies legitimately seeking revenge, and 2) your own oppressive ultra-violent government.&amp;nbsp; I am going to enjoy the schadenfreude.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oddly enough, Israel, the inspiration for all the Evil, won't exist by that time.&amp;nbsp; People trying to explain to their children why they have to live like animals won't even be able to point to the root cause.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-271758735383741722?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/271758735383741722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/271758735383741722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/punishment-for-all-lying-and-bad-faith.html' title='The punishment for all the lying and bad faith is Israelification'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1663139201293429564</id><published>2011-12-02T08:49:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-02T09:43:04.168-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Explosions and spy rings</title><content type='html'>Crazy days in the Middle East:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Exclusive: Israeli Military &lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/11/23/exclusive-israeli-military-intelligence-caused-massive-explosion-in-hezbollah-south-lebanon-arms-cache/"&gt;Intelligence&lt;/a&gt; Caused Massive Explosion in Hezbollah South Lebanon Arms Cache"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the Israeli part of the story conclusively &lt;a href="http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/11/on-silversteins-implausible-drone-explosion-story.html"&gt;refuted&lt;/a&gt; by b&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silverstein doubles down:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/11/28/annals-of-israeli-blacks-ops-lebanon-and-iran-continued/"&gt;Annals&lt;/a&gt; of Israeli Blacks Ops: Lebanon, Iran Continued" and "&lt;a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/11/29/israeli-intelligence-officials-all-but-take-credit-for-isfahan-blast/"&gt;Israeli&lt;/a&gt; Intelligence All But Takes Credit for Isfahan Blast, Black Ops as Route to War"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Report: &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-mysterious-blast-in-iran-s-isfahan-damaged-key-nuclear-site-1.398671"&gt;Mysterious&lt;/a&gt; blast in Iran's Isfahan damaged key nuclear site"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;an earlier incident, with more credit taken, from Debka:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.debka.com/article/21496/"&gt;Suspicion&lt;/a&gt; in Iran that Stuxnet caused Revolutionary Guards base explosions" &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/21/hezbollah-uncovers-two-cia-spy-rings/"&gt;Hezbollah&lt;/a&gt; Stumbles on Bumbling CIA Spy Rings" "Iran and Hezbollah Caught All the CIA Spies at &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5861484/iran-and-hezbollah-caught-all-the-cia-spies-at-pizza-hut"&gt;Pizza&lt;/a&gt; Hut"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; "&lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ML01Ak01.html"&gt;Iran&lt;/a&gt; delivers major blow to the CIA"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silverstein appears to be a lite Zionist, but he is either working for Israeli extreme Zionist forces or has been duped by his sources, who have strung him along - and burnished his credibility - with a series of unimportant breaches of Israeli military censorship (which is silly in its strictness, but serves the purpose of shielding Bibi and the generals from certain embarrassing questions from the Israeli media).&amp;nbsp; Note how Silverstein claims to be against an attack on Iran - just like the concentration camp guard! - but yet continues to engage in 'Iran talk'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have said before, fascist military dictatorships - of which Israel is the best example at this time, and perhaps ever - need either wars or talk of wars.  They have been building up the supposed Iranian nuclear program, and yet are unable to do anything about it (or trick the Americans into doing anything about it).&amp;nbsp; Thus we are hearing lots of tall tales about the wonderful workings of Israeli intelligence to protect the Jewish people from yet another 'existential threat':&amp;nbsp; Stuxnet, blowing up things, killing nuclear scientists, etc.&amp;nbsp; It is likely the terrorism in Iran is the work of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Mujahedin_of_Iran"&gt;MEK&lt;/a&gt; - the only official 'terrorist' organization that is treated in Washington as a government in exile! - which is based mainly in France and the US, and thus is likely being run by the CIA and/or French intelligence.&amp;nbsp; The Jews can't do things so they take credit for things done by others.&amp;nbsp; Some of these things simply didn't happen (it doesn't help that the sole source is usually an anonymous Israeli intelligence source, which gains credibility by being washed through various media outlets), some were accidents, and some were terrorist operations by a crazed religious cult.&amp;nbsp; No Jews anywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, Iran and Hezbollah improve their counterintelligence skills, which should in the long run reduce the atrocities perpetrated against Iran and Lebanon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1663139201293429564?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1663139201293429564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1663139201293429564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/explosions-and-spy-rings.html' title='Explosions and spy rings'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5179316980361425940</id><published>2011-12-01T18:47:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T18:51:57.367-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The stoning of Paul</title><content type='html'>"Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From Presidential Debate, Saying He's Too "&lt;a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/01/republican-jewish-coalition-bars-ron-pau"&gt;misguided&lt;/a&gt; and extreme""&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5864345/jewish-group-wont-let-ron-paul-into-its-debate"&gt;Jewish&lt;/a&gt; Group Won’t Let Ron Paul into Its Debate"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will be amusing to watch this play out.&amp;nbsp; It seems that some Jews won't rest until Americans are better educated on some of the most serious problems facing the United States (despite the fact it is the Jew-controlled media that carefully hides those facts).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5179316980361425940?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5179316980361425940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5179316980361425940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/stoning-of-paul.html' title='The stoning of Paul'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3429195651504304014</id><published>2011-12-01T07:05:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T07:21:40.449-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reducing the settlement</title><content type='html'>I've been thinking more about the high weirdness of the World Socialist Web Site taking such an &lt;a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/kahn-n30.shtml"&gt;interest&lt;/a&gt; in the civil rights of one of the most powerful members of the oppressive class, one who is almost certainly a serial sexual predator of the worst order who will continue to offend until he is stopped.&amp;nbsp; Their excuse:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Strauss-Kahn is, of course, a representative of big business, no different from Sarkozy, Obama or any other capitalist politician in that respect. The warning to be made is that if such brutal treatment, and such a fabricated case, can be carried out against such an individual, what will the ruling elite prepare against individuals from the working class, who lack Strauss-Kahn’s access to millions of dollars and high-priced legal backing?"&lt;/blockquote&gt;is weak, almost comical.  If they wanted to take up the problem of deprivation of civil rights on a case-by-case basis there are millions of much more deserving cases, many of them actually &lt;b&gt;innocent, and of no further danger to society&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; They've been &lt;a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/pers-m19.shtml"&gt;using&lt;/a&gt; this bizarre excuse for some time now, and I suspect it has much more to do with the internal party politics of the French official 'left' than it has to do with using DSK as the poster boy for human rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DSK has much more serious and pressing legal problems in France, and I suspect his lawyers have told him he needs to clear up the civil suit in the US first.&amp;nbsp; The Epstein article is intended to &lt;b&gt;reduce the amount he - or rather, his enabling wife - will have to pay to the victim&lt;/b&gt; in New York.&amp;nbsp; It is nice to know the 'socialists' are helping out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3429195651504304014?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3429195651504304014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3429195651504304014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/12/reducing-settlement.html' title='Reducing the settlement'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2772264540768018639</id><published>2011-11-30T13:08:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T13:41:32.894-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Commies for the 0.01%</title><content type='html'>Curiouser and curiouser (politics makes strange bedfellows):&amp;nbsp; even the &lt;a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/kahn-n30.shtml"&gt;commies&lt;/a&gt; think rape victims are sluts.&amp;nbsp; And come on! - the head of the IMF may have raped one of your employees in your hotel.&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;Of course&lt;/b&gt; you phone the head office!&amp;nbsp; There is no need to start to see proof of a Sarko conspiracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note how sneakily this is written (my emphasis in red; I thought Martin was a straight shooter but there goes his reputation, and all for the head of the IMF!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The most extraordinary evidence brought forward in the Epstein article concerns the actions of Brian Yearwood, the hotel engineer, and an unidentified man, apparently a security agent of some kind, who are seen on the videotape accompanying Nafissatou Diallo to the security office where she reported the attack. About an hour afterwards, the security office placed a 911 call to the police—a delay which Epstein notes as peculiar and unexplained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Two minutes after the 911 call is placed, bringing the police into the case officially and ensuring the public vilification and humiliation of Strauss-Kahn&lt;/span&gt;, Yearwood and the unidentified man appear on a security videotape giving each other high-fives and performing what lawyers for Strauss-Kahn described as a victory dance. What were they celebrating?" &lt;/blockquote&gt;Actually, if you think it through, the hotel delayed phoning in order to &lt;i&gt;protect&lt;/i&gt; their important customer, and almost gave him the chance to flee the jurisdiction.&amp;nbsp; Then they turned right around and, with a lie about the missing phone, tricked DSK into being caught.&amp;nbsp; There are competing forces at work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/153245/the_strange_argument_that_dominique_strauss-kahn_was_set_up"&gt;Strange&lt;/a&gt; Argument That Dominique Strauss-Kahn Was Set Up":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Epstein makes much of the disappearance of DSK’s IMF BlackBerry. A “researcher” at the rival party who somehow has reliable access to such information has told DSK by text (to which Epstein inexplicably has access too) “that at least one private email he had recently sent from his BlackBerry to his wife, Anne Sinclair, had been read at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;acronym&gt;UMP&lt;/acronym&gt;&amp;nbsp;offices in Paris.&amp;nbsp;It is unclear how the&amp;nbsp;&lt;acronym&gt;UMP&lt;/acronym&gt;&amp;nbsp;offices might have received this email, but if it had come from his&amp;nbsp;&lt;acronym&gt;IMF&lt;/acronym&gt;&amp;nbsp;BlackBerry, he had reason to suspect he might be under electronic surveillance in New York.” Except that there was no need to have DSK surveilled in New York in order to access his email — an enterprising hacker could have hacked into the server without any access to the physical device."&lt;/blockquote&gt;This is an iffy paragraph - hacking into Blackberry's servers would be a major task, if not impossible (that's one reason why Blackberries are still used by security-conscious corporations in this age of Apple) - but the point about Epstein's info having to come from DSK himself is valid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are quite possibly competing conspiracies here, a set-up conspiracy and a counter conspiracy of which Epstein's article, and the mishandling of the charges by the New York prosecutor's office (Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.), are parts.&amp;nbsp; We're watching the tectonic plates of super-power grind against each other.&amp;nbsp; Even the commies are in on it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2772264540768018639?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2772264540768018639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2772264540768018639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/commies-for-001.html' title='Commies for the 0.01%'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4453849548385297647</id><published>2011-11-29T12:44:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T13:02:16.169-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dancing men</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/11/strauss-kahn-and-the-dancing-men.html"&gt;Strauss-Kahn&lt;/a&gt; and the Dancing Men"&amp;nbsp; Pretty good response to Epstein.&amp;nbsp; Epstein mixes the phone hack story - quite possible - with the dancing men story - improbable, and denied - to create a larger conspiracy (and Epstein's creation of conspiracies goes back to his writings on the JFK assassination, and does not reflect well on Epstein).&amp;nbsp; I still see absolutely no reason to doubt the story of the victim.&amp;nbsp; As I have already said, there may very well be a conspiracy, with the maid sent up unknowingly to meet a DSK who the conspirators knew was such an animal he would attack her.&amp;nbsp; In other words, even if he was framed (in a way), the frame-up still leaves him as some kind of monster (backed up by other stories of a lifetime of monstrous behavior that are still coming out).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The comment by 'ProfRoss' is probably correct:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"We have a different view of this overseas.  DSK's philandering was legendary within certain exclusive circles, and completely unknown to the general public.  Yes, there was a conspiracy at work here, but not of the usual sort.  There was a decision made here to reveal the truth, as opposed to conceal it.  The French let the NYPD do their dirty work.  DSK simply wasn't protected; there was no cover up." &lt;/blockquote&gt;If there was a conspiracy, who did it?  Lots of suspects.  Sarko?  The other possible candidates for the French 'left'?  Somebody with money in the game in Europe who didn't like the direction the IMF was taking?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4453849548385297647?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4453849548385297647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4453849548385297647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/dancing-men.html' title='Dancing men'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2524317659777805570</id><published>2011-11-29T05:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T06:17:38.930-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"I hate bullies and I love freedom fights"</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/editorials/10432-when-the-coffers-run-dry.html"&gt;When&lt;/a&gt; the Coffers Run Dry"&amp;nbsp; Jewish threats to -&amp;nbsp; completely illegally, but what else is new with Israel? - withhold Palestinian tax revenues until the slaves of the Jews do what the Jews want are always just threats, as the collapse of the Palestinian Authority collaborators would mean that the Jews would have to fulfil their obligations under international law to look after the subjects of their illegal occupation, plus 'police' them in their vicious violent supremacist way, all of which would provide terrible problems for the Jews.&amp;nbsp; The Palestinians can always call that bluff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/nbc-and-the-israel-lobby.html"&gt;NBC&lt;/a&gt; and the Israel lobby"&amp;nbsp; Of course, it is the finest distilled essence of 'anti-Semitism' to even think about suggesting that the Jews control the mass media for their own - violent racist supremacist - ends.&amp;nbsp; Yet they do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The new &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/27/1039207/-The-new-gilded-age"&gt;gilded&lt;/a&gt; age"&amp;nbsp; The craziest ideas have to be introduced gradually, and suddenly one day they become established 'common sense'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://bicyclebarricade.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/open-letter-to-chancellor-linda-p-b-katehi/"&gt;Open&lt;/a&gt; Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi"&amp;nbsp; It is too bad psychopaths are impossible to shame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/guardians-of-the-city-an-interview-with-neturei-kartas-rabbi-meir-hirsh.html"&gt;Guardians&lt;/a&gt; of the City: An interview with Neturei Karta’s Rabbi Meir Hirsh"&amp;nbsp; For those who think that the 'Good Jew' is a myth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots from Weiss today:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-stop-the-bully-adbusters-editor-kalle-lasn-on-occupy-wall-street-the-israel-lobby-and-the-new-york-times.html"&gt;‘It’s&lt;/a&gt; time to stop the bully’: Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn on Occupy Wall Street, the Israel lobby and the New York Times"&amp;nbsp; On dealing with the muck of being slurred by vicious violent group supremacists who control the mainstream media dialogue.&amp;nbsp; I don't think the Jews realize how much hatred - real hatred, not the phony kind denoted by 'anti-Semitic' - this constant bullying for vicious violent group supremacist ends is creating in moral and decent people.&amp;nbsp; The entire interview is good, the kind of questions and answers you never see, due to control by, and fear of, the you-know-whos and their shabbos goy enablers, but here is the concluding answer by Lasn:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"When I see Israel acting so arrogant and so tough—here’s one of the most powerful military forces in the world, they have nukes—and when I see them cordoning off Gaza the way they do and when they attack Gaza the way they did, it just fills me with rage because this is a powerful bully that is basically turning Gaza into kind of a turkey shoot.  I really see it in this kind of very visceral way, like how could they possibly get away with doing this?  For me, it’s almost a very black and white battle where, let’s stop arguing about who’s right and who’s wrong, let’s just take sides and start fighting for the human rights and the other rights that the Palestinians should have, and let’s not allow the bully to always win.  I mean, it’s time to stop the bully."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2524317659777805570?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2524317659777805570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2524317659777805570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-hate-bullies-and-i-love-freedom.html' title='&quot;I hate bullies and I love freedom fights&quot;'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1052692651668055415</id><published>2011-11-27T07:59:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-27T08:40:02.108-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday, November 27, 2011</title><content type='html'>The DSK PR &lt;a href="http://media.nybooks.com/strauss.html?pagination=false&amp;amp;printpage=true"&gt;whitewash&lt;/a&gt; campaign has begun (note the author is none other than Edward Jay Epstein - DSK only hires the best).&amp;nbsp; The weirdness:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"By the time Sheehan was called by the hotel at 1:03 &lt;acronym&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;, Diallo was seated on a bench in the hotel’s ground floor service area, just off the service entrance on 45th Street. Behind her was a “Dutch door,” with the upper half opened, that led to the hotel’s security office. Surveillance camera footage shows her entering the area with a tall unidentified man at 12:52 &lt;acronym&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;. She mains there until 2:05 &lt;acronym&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;. At 12:56, she is joined there by Brian Yearwood, the large, heavy-set man who is the hotel’s chief engineer. Yearwood had just come down from the presidential suite on the twenty-eighth floor, which he had entered at 12:51, according to the key records. Yearwood remained close to Diallo as she spoke to Adrian Branch, the security chief for the hotel, who remained behind the half-shut door of the security office. She can be seen gesturing with her hands for about four minutes, pointing to different parts of her body over and over again, suggesting she was telling and retelling her story.&lt;br /&gt;At 1:28, Sheehan, still on the way to the hotel, sent a text message to Yearwood. And then another text message to an unidentified recipient at 1:30. At 1:31—one hour after Diallo had first told a supervisor that she had been assaulted by the client in the presidential suite—Adrian Branch placed a 911 call to the police. Less than two minutes later, the footage from the two surveillance cameras shows Yearwood and an unidentified man walking from the security office to an adjacent area. This is the same unidentified man who had accompanied Diallo to the security office at 12:52 &lt;acronym&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;. There, the two men high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three minutes?  This "large, heavy-set man" &lt;b&gt;danced for three minutes&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15900885"&gt;Chavez&lt;/a&gt; repatriates Venezuela's foreign gold reserves"&amp;nbsp; After the brazen theft of Libyan assets - and I wonder who ultimately ended up with them? - no country should leave any assets in the hands of a financial institution connected to a country that is a NATO member.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American left - which is desperately trying to support Obama while pretending to be part of the 99% - is embarrassing itself badly:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Updated: The Shocking Truth About Naomi Wolf's &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/shocking-truth-about-factless-assertions"&gt;Factless&lt;/a&gt; Assertions" (here's Wolf's useful &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy?INTCMP=SRCH"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, attempting to make the financial corruption connections more direct).&amp;nbsp; Note the weak ad hominem attack on Phil Anschutz and the original story, which, as I have said, makes perfect sense (in fact, I'd fall over dead with amazement if there wasn't federal central organization of the attacks on the protesters, and the DHS is just the organization to coordinate it).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truth’ About the ‘Occupy Crackdowns’ Offers &lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153222/naomi_wolf%26acirc%3B%26euro%3B%26trade%3Bs_%26acirc%3B%26euro%3B%26tilde%3Bshocking_truth%26acirc%3B%26euro%3B%26trade%3B_about_the_%26acirc%3B%26euro%3B%26tilde%3Boccupy_crackdowns%26acirc%3B%26euro%3B%26trade%3B_offers_anything_but_the_truth"&gt;Anything&lt;/a&gt; but the Truth"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"#OccupySeattle Protester Who Claimed Miscarriage Has &lt;a href="http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/occupyseattle-protester-who-claimed-miscarr"&gt;Dubious&lt;/a&gt; History With The Truth"&amp;nbsp; This attack is directly based on the standard methodology of a Fox News attack, and indicates how far the American professional 'left' has fallen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Best Obama explanation buried &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/links-103011.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Atkins doesn’t get that Obama isn’t a Democrat or a Republican:  he’s just for himself.  The Democrat “thing” was a Chicago political necessity." &lt;/blockquote&gt;If you aim to be President and you are running your political life out of Chicago, you are going to have to pretend to be a Democrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Majority, Including Occupy and the Tea Party, &lt;a href="http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/11/25/the-majority-including-occupy-and-the-tea-party-agree-on-top-issues/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Technoccult+%28Technoccult%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"&gt;Agree&lt;/a&gt; On Top Issues"&amp;nbsp; One of the lines of the whores for the 1% is that the 1% can't do anything as it is impossible to know what the 99% want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Michael Hudson: Some Modest Proposals for &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/some-modest-proposals-for-reforming-the-u-s-financial-and-tax-system-2.html"&gt;Reforming&lt;/a&gt; the U.S. Financial and Tax System"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1052692651668055415?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1052692651668055415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1052692651668055415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/sunday-november-27-2011.html' title='Sunday, November 27, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6660339584986811648</id><published>2011-11-24T09:07:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T09:30:08.717-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thursday, November 24, 2011</title><content type='html'>I don't think &lt;a href="http://justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com/2011/11/josiah-thompson-on-umbrella-man.html"&gt;people&lt;/a&gt; are giving enough credit to the Morris/Thompson mini-documentary.&amp;nbsp; Neither is an idiot, and the Umbrella Man story is preposterous.&amp;nbsp; What conclusion can we draw from that?&amp;nbsp; Aren't all the Official Stories preposterous?&amp;nbsp; There are a number of short summaries of the final Official Story of the September 11 attacks that sound like a comedy routine.&amp;nbsp; Preposterousness seems to be part of the methodology of building a story that the Powers That Be think they can get away with, and they seem to be correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-calls-its-egyptian-expedition/45343/"&gt;Occupy&lt;/a&gt; Wall Street Calls Off Its Egyptian Expedition" (via the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/11/israels-dirty-hands-in-occupy-wall.html"&gt;Angry&lt;/a&gt; Arab&lt;/i&gt;; my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"After a tough week for protesters both in New York and in Cairo, Occupy Wall Street has stalled in planning&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-plans-egyptian-expedition/44890/"&gt;their trip to Egypt&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;citing logistical roadblocks and safety concerns.&amp;nbsp;A group of 20 delegates had already secured funding through a proposal passed by the General Assembly nearly two weeks ago and was excited to leave for Egypt on November 25, just in time for the country's parliamentary elections. But after being evicted from Zuccotti Park and scattered around the city, Kobi Skolnick, a 30-year-old &lt;span style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;Israeli-American&lt;/span&gt; and&amp;nbsp;one of the main organizers of the two-month trip — for which the protest movement had funded with &amp;nbsp;$29,000 — says that &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;they just didn't have time&lt;/span&gt; to get a plan together."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Hint:&amp;nbsp; there is no such thing as an Israeli-American (btw, how did the 'Israeli-American' issue even come up?).&amp;nbsp; There are Americans, and there are violent racist Jewish supremacists who attempt to pass as Americans for the purposes of running various supremacist schemes (and spring is definitely not in the air:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/arab-spring-is-moving-the-middle-east-backward-charges-netanyahu-1.397355"&gt;Arab&lt;/a&gt; Spring is moving the Middle East backward, charges Netanyahu").&amp;nbsp; When Occupy Wall Street fails, we'll know why.&amp;nbsp; One of the deals you get if you play along with Jewish supremacism is assistance in surveillance (it may be politically difficult to spy on your own people) and in the repression of political dissent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/22/violence-goes-to-college/"&gt;Violence&lt;/a&gt; Goes to College"&amp;nbsp; "Mark Ames: How UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi Brought &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/mark-ames-how-uc-davis-chancellor-linda-katehi-brought-oppression-back-to-greece%E2%80%99s-universities.html"&gt;Oppression&lt;/a&gt; Back To Greece’s Universities"&amp;nbsp; Why are university presidents so consistently &lt;b&gt;evil&lt;/b&gt;?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6660339584986811648?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6660339584986811648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6660339584986811648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/thursday-november-24-2011.html' title='Thursday, November 24, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2060167826577260957</id><published>2011-11-23T09:43:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T10:02:50.827-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Umbrella in the sun</title><content type='html'>The Errol Morris mini-&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/11/errol-morris-umbrella-man-jfk.html"&gt;documentary&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2011/11/john-updike-jfk-assassination-the-umbrella-man.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) on the Umbrella Man (Morris and Thompson are both heroes in their respective fields).&amp;nbsp; The various shooters couldn't see what was going on (but could easily see the umbrella).&amp;nbsp; The man was part of the spotting team, located right where the shots were to hit so he could immediately see when the fatal shot landed.&amp;nbsp; He could then signal for the shooting team to stop shooting.&amp;nbsp; They were to shoot until they received his signal to stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there a certain genius in coming up with the &lt;i&gt;least&lt;/i&gt; plausible excuse to explain what you were doing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some think the other member of the spotting team was Orlando &lt;a href="http://www.copweb.be/Orlando%20Bosch%20Avila.htm"&gt;Bosch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2060167826577260957?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2060167826577260957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2060167826577260957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/umbrella-in-sun.html' title='Umbrella in the sun'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6130593661845233742</id><published>2011-11-21T11:12:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T11:27:48.091-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"</title><content type='html'>In the spirit of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM"&gt;Kubrick&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp; "Gentlemen. You can't practice journalism in here. This is the Press Club!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/national-press-club-suspends-journalist-over-tough-questions-for-saudi-prince.html"&gt;National&lt;/a&gt; Press Club suspends journalist over tough questions for Saudi prince"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/national-press-club-suspends-journalist-asking-saudi-prince-tough-question#.Tsp4Kyo8nPr"&gt;National&lt;/a&gt; Press Club suspends journalist for asking Saudi prince a tough question"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MK22Ak01.html"&gt;Exposed&lt;/a&gt;: US press 'freedom'" (note that Tzipi got the same protection, which is probably not a coincidence, especially as the Saudis are now firm Israeli allies).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://husseini.posterous.com/journalist-questions-legitimacy-of-saudi-regi"&gt;Journalist&lt;/a&gt; Questions Legitimacy of Saudi Regime, Is Suspended from National Press Club"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1111/Press_Club_defends_suspension.html"&gt;quibble&lt;/a&gt; seems to be that he is not debased enough to be considered a 'journalist', which is probably true.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6130593661845233742?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6130593661845233742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6130593661845233742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/gentlemen-you-cant-fight-in-here-this.html' title='&quot;Gentlemen. You can&apos;t fight in here. This is the War Room!&quot;'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8826754429411784861</id><published>2011-11-21T10:38:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T11:08:56.226-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So it always goes</title><content type='html'>It's funny how the elites always overreact when even the slightest criticism is pointed in their general direction, and overreact in a way that is against their own class interest. If they did nothing, ignored the protests and ordered their controlled media to censor information on the protests, they might buy themselves some time, but they cannot accept the tiniest criticism of their class position, and thus do exactly what would be required to make the protests grow quickly.&amp;nbsp; Of course, just like in, say, Egypt, the elites know they aren't prepared to throw the tiniest bone to the 99%, so there is nothing they can do to pretend to care (in fact, the plan is to divert even more money to the 1% from the 99%).&amp;nbsp; It helps that the police - not to mention the mayors, university presidents, and the like - always turn out to be &lt;a href="http://jockohomo.tumblr.com/post/13082406884"&gt;subhuman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://catastrofe.tumblr.com/post/13079279542/un-dimanche-apres-midi-a-luniversite-de"&gt;buffoons&lt;/a&gt;, and can always be counted on to behave in a manner most likely to increase general outrage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so it always goes.&amp;nbsp; Relatively small protests, massive overreaction - and we haven't even begun to see the inevitable police murders of protesters yet - thus escalating the &lt;a href="http://filthybluecollar.tumblr.com/post/12980296025/those-in-power-send-us-to-hell"&gt;anger&lt;/a&gt; and increasing the number of active protesters, and so on.&amp;nbsp; As long as the anger and the source of the anger persists, the process is inevitable, and the lessons of history, even recent history, are completely lost on the elites and their buffoons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given how we know things work, can there be any doubt that the repression is orchestrated at the highest levels of government?&amp;nbsp; Why would the elites settle for anything less?&amp;nbsp; The 1% phone the guys at the top (of course!!!).&amp;nbsp; The Department of Homeland Security was set up with one purpose, and one purpose only, to foster Islamophobia in the United States so that Jews could kill people and steal their land in the Middle East.&amp;nbsp; However, once you set up an institution, and give it billions of dollars to do absolutely nothing useful, it needs to find a reason to justify its existence, and beating up 'hippies' fits the bill.&amp;nbsp; Obama-&lt;a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/153104/why_federal_officials_are_probably_not_coordinating_a_nationwide_crackdown_on_the_occupy_wall_street_movement"&gt;protecting&lt;/a&gt; notwithstanding, this is going to become more &lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/16/report-dhs-forces-spotted-at-occupy-crackdowns/"&gt;obvious&lt;/a&gt; as time goes on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8826754429411784861?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8826754429411784861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8826754429411784861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/so-it-always-goes.html' title='So it always goes'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-499451211077121494</id><published>2011-11-19T04:08:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T04:32:32.877-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That is impossible to sustain</title><content type='html'>"Henry Kissinger: Jews Are ‘Self-Serving &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5860938/henry-kissinger-jews-are-self+serving-bastards"&gt;Bastards&lt;/a&gt;’"&amp;nbsp; I should immediately note that you can't trust anything said by Henry the K, as his lies tend to reflect what he perceives his audience wants to hear, but one &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5860938/henry-kissinger-jews-are-self+serving-bastards?comment=44506929#comments"&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, by Gaza Calling, to this typically Jew-centric Gawker posting was interesting (and the reaction of the commentators to someone having the audacity to point out one of the most obvious Jewish tricks to provide more colonialists for Israel so predictable):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"&lt;span class="ctedit"&gt;The line about "rescuing Jews stuck behind the Iron Curtain from Soviet oppression" is simpleton talk.  In truth, Jews were among the most highly educated sector of the Soviet population and the whole issue about saving them was one of the biggest scams of the 20th century. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The smartest Russians, however, may have been those who stayed behind and through a backroom deal with Yelsin came into possession of all of Russia’s natural resources, making these "oligarchs" the greatest collection of thieves, perhaps, in all of history. That they were even more exclusively Jewish than were our neocons was only, of course, a coincidence, such as, for example, the Pope being Catholic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want read some fascinating Kissenger talk about the ME from the 70s...read this in full...  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meforum.org/1032/henry-kissinger-to-iraq-in-1975-we-can-reduce"&gt;[www.meforum.org]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;More interesting:  read the document at the link, a December 1975 memorandum of conversation between U.S. secretary of state Henry the K and Iraqi foreign minister Sa'dun Hammadi.  An example of the kind of lying, sprinkled with obvious truths, practiced by American diplomats, but packed full of zingers (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Hammadi: We, of course, have different views, and I will tell you why. Iraq is part of the Arab world. We believe the United States has been the major factor in building up Israel to what it is today.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: True.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: It was created in 1948 and could not have lived up to this day without the United States.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: The Soviet Union was active then, too.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: True. That is why there were some strained relations with the Soviet Union. Our good relations with the Soviet Union are only more recent. The Communists were not popular with the masses then. But the difference is you believe Israel is there to stay. We believe Israel was established by force and is a clear-cut case of colonialism. Israel was established on part of our homeland. You don't believe that. But that is not the whole story. Israel is now a direct threat to Iraq's national security.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: How to Iraq?&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: Israel has built up to a military power that can threaten Iraq, especially with the recent news that we read of the U.S. supplying sophisticated weapons. So it is not only the Arab world that is threatened, and Iraq being part of the Arab world, but Iraq itself. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;We think the U.S. is building up Israel to have the upper hand in the area. Even Lebanon—they say it affects Israel's security. A strong, powerful, nuclear Israel with the upper hand in the area. Whatever happens in the Arab world is interpreted as a threat to Israel. Even a change in government in Iraq would be interpreted that way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: My impression is if you change your government in Iraq, they won't object. [Laughter]. I understand your problem.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: This is my painting of the picture now—up to 1980. You say the United States is bringing all its weight to bring about a settlement. But this is a settlement, not peace.&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt; A new wave of troubles and clashes will start because Israel is not a state to stay within what they are. Because if there is an opportunity, they will expand. The record shows it. And they are supported by the biggest power in the area. What the United States is doing is not to create peace but to create a situation dominated by Israel, which will create a new wave of clashes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: I understand what you are saying. When I say we are willing to improve relations with Iraq, we can live without it. But it is our policy to move toward better relations. I think, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;when we look at history, that when Israel was created in 1948, I don't think anyone understood it. It originated in American domestic politics. It was far away and little understood. So it was not an American design to get a bastion of imperialism in the area.&lt;/span&gt; It was much less complicated. And I would say that &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;until 1973, the Jewish community had enormous influence&lt;/span&gt;. It is only in the last two years, as a result of the policy we are pursuing, that it has changed.&lt;br /&gt;We don't need Israel for influence in the Arab world. On the contrary, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Israel does us more harm than good in the Arab world.&lt;/span&gt; You yourself said your objection to us is Israel. Except maybe that we are capitalists. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;We can't negotiate about the existence of Israel, but we can reduce its size to historical proportions.&lt;/span&gt; I don't agree that Israel is a permanent threat. How can a nation of three million be a permanent threat? They have a technical advantage now. But it is inconceivable that peoples with wealth and skill and the tradition of the Arabs won't develop the capacity that is needed. So &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;I think in ten to fifteen years, Israel will be like Lebanon—struggling for existence, with no influence in the Arab world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You mentioned new weapons. But they will not be delivered in the foreseeable future. All we agreed to is to study it, and we agreed to no deliveries out of current stocks. So many of these things won't be produced until 1980, and we have not agreed to deliver them then.&lt;br /&gt;Our policy is to move our policy towards peace and to improve relations with the Arab world. Iraq is not a negotiator, but I think the policy of Egypt and Syria to improve relations with us helps us to bring pressure for a settlement.&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis like you better than [Egyptian president Anwar] Sadat because they like to put it in terms of a U.S.-Soviet problem. We don't want you to have unfriendly relations with the Soviet Union; we don't interfere in your relations with the Soviet Union. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;But basically, the Israelis prefer radical Arabs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #e06666;"&gt;If the issue is the existence of Israel, we can't cooperate. But if the issue is more normal borders, we can cooperate.&lt;/div&gt;We have moved toward normalization with others—except Libya. South Yemen, we will move towards.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: We are on the other side of the fence. We have the right to ask many questions.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: Please.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: Given the record, what can make us believe the United States won't continue the policy of the last twenty years of giving unlimited support.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: It depends on what you mean by unlimited support. One important change in America … Sabbagh was with me when I saw Faisal for the first time. I told him it would take a few years; we would have to move slowly. I have told all the Arabs this. It has now reached the point in America where attitudes have changed. When I testify to congressional committees, I face increasingly hostile questions about Israel. No one is in favor of Israel's destruction—I won't mislead you—nor am I.&lt;br /&gt;But the &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;support in the 1960s was $200-300 million. Now it is $2-3 billion. That is impossible to sustain.&lt;/span&gt; We can't even get it for New York.&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt; It is just a matter of time before there is a change—two to three years.&lt;/span&gt; After a settlement, Israel will be a small friendly country with no unlimited drawing right. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;It will be affected by our new electoral law, strangely enough. So the influence of some who financed the elections before isn't so great. This has not been so noticed. It will take a few years before it is fully understood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I think the balance in America is shifting. If the Arabs—if I can be frank—don't do anything stupid. If there is a crisis tied to the Soviet Union, groups in America could make it an anticommunist crusade.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: So you think the U.S. policy after a settlement wouldn't be the same?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: We want the survival of Israel but not dominating the area. No one can conquer the Arab world. Even if they take Damascus, Cairo, and Amman, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;you will be there, and Libya will be there.&lt;/span&gt; So if Israel wants to survive as a state like Lebanon—as a small state—we can support them.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: What is the Israeli thinking?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: First, they want to get rid of me. Because I made them go back. Second, in 1976, &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;they want to provoke the Arabs—in Lebanon, in Syria—because they think if there is war they can win and create great turmoil.&lt;/span&gt; Third,&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt; they want to pass legislation in America to antagonize as many Arabs as possible.&lt;/span&gt; So we get the anti-boycott, anti-discrimination, anti-arms sales legislation. They hope the Arabs will go back to a situation like 1967-1973 when the Syrians and Egyptians adopt an anti-American line. So they can say they are the only American friend in the Middle East. What they want is what you predict—that they be the only friend. We want other friends, to reduce that argument.&lt;br /&gt;Aide: Your Excellency, do you think a settlement would come through the Palestinians in the area? How do you read it? Is it in your power to create such a thing?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: Not in 1976. I have to be perfectly frank with you. I think the Palestinian identity has to be recognized in some form. But we need the thoughtful cooperation of the Arabs. &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;It will take a year or a year and a half&lt;/span&gt; to do it and will be a tremendous fight. An evolution is already taking place.&lt;br /&gt;Aide: You think it will be part of a solution?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: It has to be. No solution is possible without it. But &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;the domestic situation is becoming favorable. More and more questions are being asked in Congress favorable to the Palestinians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: Do you think a Palestinian state is possible?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: We don't exclude it as a matter of principle. You can't do it now.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: What about Palestinians who are now refugees? The Palestine area is now crowded—Gaza and the West Bank.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: They should have a choice, either to stay where they are or go to a Palestinian state.&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: You think some in, say, the Galilee area might choose to leave Israel and join the new Palestinian state?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: In Galilee?&lt;br /&gt;Hammadi: Arab Israelis.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: I have told friends that peace isn't a final end. Wars begin elsewhere between countries that are at peace. Only in the Middle East do wars begin between countries that are at war. But we support the existence of Israel. We draw the line at the destruction of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Aide: The Palestinians already put aside this idea. This is my personal view. Because the Israelis are trying to buy land in the Galilee area, and there is resistance. The Communist Party in the area is using it in the municipal elections. Is this because the Israelis are looking to the creation of a Palestinian state and want to buy this land?&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: It could be in their minds. I am not familiar with it.&lt;br /&gt;Aide: This is being used by the Communist Party in the area. The Israelis know you Americans are behind the idea of a Palestinian state.&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: We have to be careful and move gradually. The Israeli press accuses me. I have said we can't move to the Palestinians until they accept the existence of the State of Israel and Security Council Resolution 242. I have never excluded the recognition of the PLO; I have always tied it to recognition of Israel and 242. The implication is we will do something if they do recognize Israel and 242.&lt;br /&gt;Aide: Kaddumi says: "How can we recognize Israel if they don't recognize the PLO?"&lt;br /&gt;Kissinger: With all respect, what Israel does is less important than what the United States does."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-499451211077121494?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/499451211077121494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/499451211077121494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/that-is-impossible-to-sustain.html' title='That is impossible to sustain'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7744436672041318283</id><published>2011-11-16T12:23:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-16T12:48:02.673-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mubarak in Amerika</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://capitoilette.com/2011/11/15/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-admits-cities-coordinated-crackdown-on-occupy-movement/"&gt;Oakland&lt;/a&gt; Mayor Jean Quan Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement" and a &lt;a href="http://capitoilette.com/2011/11/15/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-admits-cities-coordinated-crackdown-on-occupy-movement/#comment-32"&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; by 'ahmedia':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Mubarak playbook… Night raid, media blackout… and coordinating assault  …"&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/15/did-feds-coordinate-occupy-wall-street-crackdowns/"&gt;Did&lt;/a&gt; Feds Coordinate Occupy Wall Street Crackdowns?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Update: 'Occupy' crackdowns &lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-minneapolis/were-occupy-crackdowns-aided-by-federal-law-enforcement-agencies"&gt;coordinated&lt;/a&gt; with federal law enforcement officials":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict "Occupy" protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night's move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI&amp;nbsp;and other federal police agencies.&lt;br /&gt;The official, who spoke on background to me late Monday evening, said that while local police agencies had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies, the ultimate decision on how each jurisdiction handles the Occupy protests ultimately rests with local law enforcement.&lt;br /&gt;According to this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local police agencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of tent cities, focusing on zoning laws and existing curfew rules. Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a&amp;nbsp;massive show of police force, including large numbers&amp;nbsp;in riot gear. In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentation suggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when the press was the least likely to be present."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/15/us-occupy-cooperation/"&gt;Mayors&lt;/a&gt;, police chiefs talk strategy on protests" (I think this is the &lt;i&gt;sanitized&lt;/i&gt; Official Story provided as a public service by the AP)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is push-back from the '&lt;a href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/16/about-that-dhs-coordinated-crackdown-on-zuccotti-park/"&gt;left&lt;/a&gt;' on this, based on the fear it is a right-wing attack against Obama (who left the country just before the multitude of simultaneous raids, no doubt a big coincidence).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7744436672041318283?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7744436672041318283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7744436672041318283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/mubarak-in-amerika.html' title='Mubarak in Amerika'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3233622768897619126</id><published>2011-11-15T08:07:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T09:15:49.420-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The 1%, hard at work</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/14/big-finance-moves-in/"&gt;Big&lt;/a&gt; Finance Moves In" by Mike Whitney:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have both been forced from office and replaced by representatives of big finance. Mario Monti, who will replace Berlusconi, was formerly the European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission and a member of the Bilderberg Group. He is also listed on Goldman Sachs board of international advisers.&lt;br /&gt;Lucas Papademos, who will replace Papandreou, was formerly the Vice President of the European Central Bank (ECB), and served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1980. He’s also been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998.&lt;br /&gt;It’s also worth noting that the ECB’s new president, Mario Draghi, is a trustee at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs."&lt;/blockquote&gt;I guess it is no time for subtlety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"'&lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&amp;amp;code=ARN20111115&amp;amp;articleId=27673"&gt;Vulture&lt;/a&gt; Capitalism': Iceland’s New Bank Disaster" by Olafur Arnarson and Michael Hudson and Gunnar Tomasson:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"After the September 2008 crash, Iceland’s government took over the old, collapsed, banks and created new ones in their place. Original bondholders of the old banks off-loaded the Icelandic bank bonds in the market for pennies on the dollar. The buyers were vulture funds. These bondholders became the owners of the old banks, as all shareholders were wiped out. In October, the government’s monetary authority appointed new boards to control the banks. Three new banks were set up, and all the deposits, mortgages and other bank loans were transferred to these new, healthier banks – at a steep discount. These new banks received 80 percent of the assets, the old banks 20 percent. &lt;br /&gt;Then, owners of the old banks were given control over two of the new banks (87% and 95% respectively). The owners of these new banks were called vultures not only because of the steep discount at which the financial assets and claims of the old banks were transferred, but mainly because they already had bought control of the old banks at pennies on the dollar. &lt;br /&gt;The result is that instead of the government keeping the banks and simply wiping them out in bankruptcy, the government kept aside and let vulture investors reap a giant windfall – that now threatens to plunge Iceland’s economy into chronic financial austerity. In retrospect, none of this was necessary. The question is, what can the government do to clean up the mess that it has created by so gullibly taking bad IMF advice?"&lt;/blockquote&gt;Funny that we're in the middle of a big &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/15/lessons-from-iceland-people-power?newsfeed=true"&gt;propaganda&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/key-lesson-iceland-crisis-let-banks-fail-003849604.html"&gt;blitz&lt;/a&gt; that Iceland did the right thing and is a model for us all, while it looks like a slightly more sophisticated defalcation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/you_are_the_98.html"&gt;You&lt;/a&gt; Are The 98%" (found via &lt;a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/11/you-are-the-98/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, with much better comments).&amp;nbsp; He sounds like an old man waving his cane at the kids and yelling for them to get off his lawn.&amp;nbsp; What all these guys don't understand is that their clueless reaction is one of the important results of the actions of the protesters.&amp;nbsp; In fact, it is the &lt;i&gt;reaction &lt;/i&gt;of the establishment - which is already involving violence - which is the key to the protest.&amp;nbsp; I did however like his comment on Naomi Klein, a problem, not a solution, just like Žižek, Krugman, Chomsky, and all the other elites who want to take charge/credit for what the people are starting to do:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Grant me that when Naomi Klein is invited to speak for the 99%, at least 45% are looking at each other like, wtf, who let Linda Tripp in here? "&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3233622768897619126?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3233622768897619126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3233622768897619126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/1-hard-at-work.html' title='The 1%, hard at work'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-275154093179135367</id><published>2011-11-14T11:12:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T11:27:32.304-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, November 14, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archaeologists-resume-work-at-contentious-worksite-of-jerusalem-museum-1.395417?localLinksEnabled=false"&gt;Archaeologists&lt;/a&gt; resume work at contentious worksite of Jerusalem museum":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Archaeologists have resumed excavating the Jerusalem site where the Museum of Tolerance is to go up, amid controversy surrounding the exhumation of skeletons in what had been a Muslim cemetery for nearly 1,000 years.          &lt;br /&gt;In addition to fielding objections to the museum site, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is sponsoring and financing the project, also has to contend with the recent resignation of the two architects who planned the museum. But for all the troubles, construction of the museum is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,797327,00.html"&gt;Police&lt;/a&gt; Find Gun Used in Unsolved Murder Series":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Police may be a step closer to solving one of the most mysterious murder series in German criminal history after a potentially crucial clue turned up in an investigation into another high-profile crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="spMInline"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The murder series involved execution-style killings of nine shop owners, eight of them of Turkish descent and one Greek, in cities across Germany between 2000 and 2006. The press dubbed the murders the "doner killings" because the victims were all small businessmen and included two kebab shop owners, a grocer, a tailor, a flower seller and a key cutter. The only link that police found between the murders was the weapon used -- a Czech-made Ceska 83 pistol with a 7.65 millimeter caliber.Now investigators suspect the killings may be connected to an ongoing case involving a trio of fugitive neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. Two of them, identified only as Uwe M. and Uwe B., robbed a bank in Eisenach a few days ago and then shot each other in a trailer. There, investigators later found a police-issue pistol that linked them to the murder of policewoman Michele Kiesewetter in 2007 in Heilbronn in eastern Germany. &lt;br /&gt;Their roommate and accomplice, Beate Z., is now in jail after handing herself in to police earlier this week. She is accused of blowing up the house where they lived in Zwickau. The trio was known to police in Thuringia because of their suspected bomb-making activities in the 1990s and connections to a far-right group known as the Thüringer Heimschutz." &lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/11/why_the_washington_post_wont_fire_jennifer_rubin/singleton/"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; the Washington Post won’t fire Jennifer Rubin"&amp;nbsp; While I admire the effort, i don't think Greenwald ever answers his own question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://dottech.org/ask-dottechies/24382/ask-dottechies-have-you-been-able-to-successfully-update-to-firefox-8/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dottechdotorg+%28dotTech.org+General+Feed%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"&gt;Have&lt;/a&gt; you been able to successfully update to Firefox 8?":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"I love Firefox. I first tasted Firefox via Firefox 2 and have been a loyalist since then, even with many of my friends and family defecting to the competition such as Chrome. However, Firefox is really starting to piss me off. Whereas Firefox used to be the standard in Internet browser excellence, it has now become a bloated, poorly coded piece of crap. I hate to say this but I find Firefox crashing on me as much, if not more, than Internet Explorer; not to mention how it bleeds memory like RAM grows on trees."&lt;/blockquote&gt;My attempt at Firefox 8 crashed &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; it loaded.  I'm now using the last semi-stable version, 5.0.1, with very few extensions, although I only use it if I have to.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-275154093179135367?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/275154093179135367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/275154093179135367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/monday-november-14-2011.html' title='Monday, November 14, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8652094683792133949</id><published>2011-11-11T10:06:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T10:19:16.586-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday, November 11, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fracking-industry-admits-to-employing-military-psychologial-operations-on-american-citizens-2011-11"&gt;Fracking&lt;/a&gt; Insiders Admit To Employing Military 'Psychological Operations' On American Citizens"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hilarious story of the day:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-spy-watchdog-quits/article2232306/"&gt;Canada’s&lt;/a&gt; top spy watchdog resigns" (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The head of the Security and Intelligence Review Committee, the watchdog for Canada’s spy agency, has resigned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arthur Porter had been appointed Canada’s top spy watcher by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year, but recently came under fire for doing business with a consultant who has surfaced in global arms deals and an alleged plot for a coup in Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his Nov. 9 resignation letter, Dr. Porter wrote that he remains a proud Canadian citizen for whom “integrity, honour and respect hold tremendous meaning.” But he told the Prime Minister he felt compelled to step down because “a scurrilous portrayal” of his business dealings “had the potential to tarnish” the Security and Intelligence Review Committee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Dr. Porter has submitted his resignation to me, and I have accepted it, effective immediately,” Mr. Harper said in a written response circulated by his office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The National Post reported this week that Dr. Porter struck a short-lived $200,000 business deal last year with &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Ari Ben-Menashe&lt;/span&gt;, a Montrealer who has published a memoir about his 1980s-era arms-dealing exploits. The globe-trotting consultant also has made international headlines for using a secret video camera to implicate a past client – Zimbabwe’s opposition leader – in a supposed coup plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Dr. Porter said he didn’t know about Mr. Ben-Menashe’s past when he entered a business arrangement with him.&lt;/span&gt; He also wrote a letter of recommendation for Mr. Ben-Menashe on Privy Council Office stationery as banks moved to shutter the consultant’s accounts."&lt;/blockquote&gt;I'm not really sure what a quasi-fascist state needs with a spy watchdog anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/us/politics/obamas-influential-mideast-envoy-to-resign.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp"&gt;Obama’s&lt;/a&gt; Influential Mideast Envoy to Resign"&amp;nbsp; Not a convincing resignation story.&amp;nbsp; The Jews are replacing him as head of the American government.&amp;nbsp; While he managed one of his jobs, ensuring that Middle East peace negotiations not occur on his watch, he was an abject failure on the other, tricking the stupid gentiles into fighting yet another War For The Jews against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/62489"&gt;UNESCO&lt;/a&gt; Lodges Complaint Over Haaretz Cartoon"&amp;nbsp; The famous Jewish sense of humor strikes again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8652094683792133949?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8652094683792133949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8652094683792133949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/friday-november-11-2011.html' title='Friday, November 11, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1772769415622211707</id><published>2011-11-10T07:08:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T07:08:30.341-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thursday, November 10, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/sarkozy-obama-netanyahu-liar.html"&gt;Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt; overheard telling Obama that Netanyahu is a 'liar'":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Obama was also reportedly heard asking the French president to try to persuade Palestinian leaders not to pursue membership of other U.N. agencies, because he would be required under U.S. law to withdraw funding for them.&lt;br /&gt;Palestinian leaders have said that they won’t be applying to join other U.N. organizations."&lt;/blockquote&gt;If the last sentence is true, the collaborator Abbas just couldn't resist one last betrayal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Annual &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-un-ambassador-attends-le-pen-meeting-by-mistake-1.393919"&gt;World&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://warincontext.org/2011/11/06/unholy-alliance-israels-right-and-europes-anti-semites/"&gt;Conference&lt;/a&gt; of Fascists, 'Accidental' Edition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Balfour’s &lt;a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/05/balfours-apartheid-legacy/"&gt;Apartheid&lt;/a&gt; Legacy" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honey &lt;a href="http://www.metafilter.com/109200/A-sticky-situation"&gt;conspiracy&lt;/a&gt; theory&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depending on the group identity of &lt;a href="http://culturalpropertylaw.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/france-battles-uk-gallery-for-stolen-old-master-painting/"&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/2011/11/france-seizes-painting-stolen-in-1818.html"&gt;Weiss&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8498981/Mayfair-art-dealer-Mark-Weiss-in-disgrace-after-admitting-poison-pen-campaign-against-rival-Philip-Mould.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), this might be sauce for the gander.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://memebase.com/2011/11/07/internet-memes-king-crab/"&gt;King&lt;/a&gt; Crab&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1772769415622211707?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1772769415622211707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1772769415622211707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/thursday-november-10-2011.html' title='Thursday, November 10, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5235714684407940538</id><published>2011-11-09T10:38:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T10:38:53.429-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, November 9, 2011</title><content type='html'>I'm wondering if the 'open &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5857308/obama-sarkozy-caught-bitching-about-israeli-pm"&gt;mike&lt;/a&gt;' was a scheme by Sarko and Barry to send a message to World Jewry, and the Jewish Billionaires in particular, about Bibi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More &lt;a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29658.htm"&gt;hilarity&lt;/a&gt; (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The report's summary says that since 'Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation, including by not implementing its Additional Protocol [to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty], the Agency &lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence&lt;/span&gt; of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.'"&lt;/blockquote&gt;This sounds like a good start on a proof for the existence of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/08/there%E2%80%99s-nothing-idealistic-about-the-one-state-solution/"&gt;There’s&lt;/a&gt; Nothing Idealistic About the One-State Solution" Both Cook and Neumann agree that the Jews will eventually agree to something sane; they just disagree on what that sane thing will be (one-state or two-state).&amp;nbsp; Both are wrong.&amp;nbsp; Anti-Assimilation Land has a magical hold on the collective Jewish Brain.&amp;nbsp; Israel is an evil that will have to be killed with fire, and that fire will come the next time the Jews decide to slaughter yet another group of innocent gentiles in yet another innocent and non-threatening country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5235714684407940538?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5235714684407940538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5235714684407940538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/wednesday-november-9-2011.html' title='Wednesday, November 9, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-221415217275549215</id><published>2011-11-06T09:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T09:29:44.292-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday, November 6, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-responds-to-controversy-over-gaza-flotilla.html"&gt;Occupy&lt;/a&gt; Wall Street responds to controversy over Gaza flotilla"&amp;nbsp; Translation:&amp;nbsp; we have a bad case of the Jews.&amp;nbsp; I guess they can kiss any intellectual/romantic/spiritual connection to Tahrir Square goodbye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More hilarity:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.thepointmag.com/2011/politics/libya-and-the-left"&gt;Libya&lt;/a&gt; and the Left".&amp;nbsp; He must not be talking about the 'Left' that was a big fan of carpet bombing, flagrant breaches of UN mandates, mass murder, and ass-rape of&amp;nbsp;Gadaffi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/27/bp-oil-spill-whistleblowers-and-experts-continue-to-mysteriously-die/"&gt;BP&lt;/a&gt; Oil Spill Whistleblowers And Experts Continue To Mysteriously Die"&amp;nbsp; Considering what we know BP has done and is doing, the odd murder here and there is no surprise.&amp;nbsp; The list would be more coherent if Ted Stevens wasn't on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/the-netanyahu-guide-to-middle-east-peace.html"&gt;Netanyahu&lt;/a&gt; Guide to Middle East Peace"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Could Jews become a &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056332/Palestines-UNESCO-membership-Could-Jews-minority-Israel.html?ito=feeds-newsxml"&gt;minority&lt;/a&gt; in Israel? Higher Palestinian birth rates could lead to power shift in one-state solution"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"'Hannibal' policy: Israel's plan to &lt;a href="http://www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0577.htm#Top"&gt;kill&lt;/a&gt; its own soldiers"&amp;nbsp; I'm certain the 2006 Jewish attack on Lebanon was started by sending Israeli soldiers over the border with the intent that they be killed.&amp;nbsp; The Jews are a hive, and each individual is just another worker bee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/11/the-pizza-party-toss-scene-in-breaking-bad.html"&gt;Pizza&lt;/a&gt; in 'Breaking Bad'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-221415217275549215?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/221415217275549215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/221415217275549215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/sunday-november-6-2011.html' title='Sunday, November 6, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2993367206241612018</id><published>2011-11-05T09:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-05T09:51:37.225-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran is on everybody's mind</title><content type='html'>Much as I hate the lite-ness of Uri Avnery, he is amusingly - and, I must say, obviously - correct about the latest spate of 'Iran talk':&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/03/why-israel-will-not-attack-iran/"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; Israel Will Not Attack Iran".&amp;nbsp; I'd worry when the Israelis are not making a big deal about it.&amp;nbsp; This recent outburst is the usual need for military dictatorships to talk about wars rather than face domestic problems, coupled with frustration at being snookered by Obama's clever 'terrorism' ruse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And speaking of which:&amp;nbsp; "U.S. &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-us-iran-20111104,0,6106373.story"&gt;backs&lt;/a&gt; away from sanctions on Iran central bank".&amp;nbsp; The only American sanction that actually would have bothered Iran is off the table!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208014.html"&gt;Saudi&lt;/a&gt; monarchy founder assured UK on Palestine"&amp;nbsp; Some Saudi princes are Zionists, some aren't, but the history of Saudi Zionism goes back a long way, and it would be interesting to know if the division is based on family origin (i. e., is there a secret Jewish strain in the Saudi royals?).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In any event, the 'Arab Spring' revitalized the Saudi Zionists led by Prince Bandar.&amp;nbsp; The counter-revolution is clearly Zionist-inspired, and is showing up in all manner of disagreeable ways.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2993367206241612018?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2993367206241612018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2993367206241612018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/iran-is-on-everybodys-mind.html' title='Iran is on everybody&apos;s mind'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3315879396528824092</id><published>2011-11-02T09:44:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-02T09:47:16.363-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It hits the fan</title><content type='html'>Republicans are of the opinion that international institutions consist of a bunch of hippies in drum circles figuring out ways to thwart American Imperialism.&amp;nbsp; Of course, the reality is that Americans are the most selfish group of bastards in the world, and wouldn't be in any international organization if it didn't advance the interests of American big business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palestinian initiative and American Jewslavery have combined to force the Americans to follow the Palestinians around, removing themselves from every international organization which the Palestinians manage to join.&amp;nbsp; This will mean that American big business will lose all the protections that these organizations provide. In a world where Americans have stopped making things, and rely for their prosperity on shuffling paper around and exploiting intellectual property rights. the lack of the protections provided by the international community is going to get &lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/unesco-funding-cut-over-palestine-vote-may-harm-us-economy/10548#.TrEkFCpALB9"&gt;very&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/you-lost-reporters-at-state-say-unesco-vote-isolates-u-s-from-world-opinion-and-possibly-from-intellectual-property-enforcement.html"&gt;interesting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3315879396528824092?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3315879396528824092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3315879396528824092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-hits-fan.html' title='It hits the fan'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8409398816024112971</id><published>2011-11-01T12:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T12:28:59.843-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Palestinian State</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/11/palestine-can-now-join-the-international-criminal-court/"&gt;Palestine&lt;/a&gt; Can Now Join the International Criminal Court"&amp;nbsp; The solid vote it got at UNESCO is evidence of international acceptance of Palestine as a state.&amp;nbsp; Note the comment (scroll down) by Chris2 (my emphasis in red):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Israel depends, for its existence, on the apathy of the American public, which as a backdrop, highlights the fanatical commitment of a lobby which is well financed but very short of constituents.&lt;br /&gt;AIPAC is only powerful because most American voters care so little about foreign policy that they lap up the most extraordinary nonsense about Israel and Cuba (as another example.)&lt;br /&gt;But all this is changing now. The Depression is biting very deeply in the States, quite apart from the fifty million families reduced to food stamps and an equal number without any medical insurance,, the latest Congressional figures show that half of the population lives in poverty or very close to it.&lt;br /&gt;In short people are beginning to ask what happened to the nation’s legendary wealth. And a very obvious part of the answer is that hundreds of billions have been spent pursuing the discredited policies of the Jabotinsky zionists. &lt;br /&gt;Israel is the keystone of the US ” security architecture” in western eurasia. The preservation of this colony, by increasingly complex and costly manouevres, by dividing its enemies, breaking up their states, betting heavily on three legged outsiders like the Saud family or the kleptocrat emirs in the Gulf, utterly discredited, worn out tyrants such as Jordan’s Hashemites and the latest sysyphusean labour, in the shape of replacing Mubarak with another Mubarak, has become the central obsessive work of the United States. All the power of the Pentagon, all the resources of the State Department are devoted, primarily, to strengthening Israel’s position.&lt;br /&gt;But the task is quite impossible: Israel spends all its energies (most of them derived from US taxpayers’ subsidies) to weakening its position. Ir refuses to contemplate the chance of making Peace while everything is in its favour. Instead of cashing in on its victories it pirouettes on a precipice and warns the world that it is endangered.&lt;br /&gt;And everything it does costs the Poor Bloody Punter in Peoria more money (an Iron Dome!) and the lives of more kids from the Appalachians, more R and D for Boeing and Lockheed and more billion dollart a year bases. Mr Karimov is just another element in the edifice of which Israel is the keystone. The prospect of war and peace in the Indian sub-continent is intimately linked with Pakistani alliances in the Gulf and Brahmin empathies with Zionists. Washington is a city obsessed with Israel.&lt;br /&gt;And Israel is but a tiny colony, a pumped up Southern Rhodesia, an Algerie with a dwarf root system. In the current burgeoning crisis in the United States the fact that the government has  earmarked about a trillion and a half dollars (and equivalently outlandish sums) annually for decades, simply to preserve Israel’s right to insult and humiliate all comers is going to require justification a little more profound than those currently on offer: 1/ That Europe’s Jews are the descendants of Palestinians exiled more than a millenium ago; 2/ That God wants the Jews to rally in the Holy Land so that they can be liquidated to prepare the way for the return of the Messiah. &lt;br /&gt;The story of the period of US superpowerdom is its weakness for fascism. It was that which lay behind the Cold War, the refusal to come to terms not only with a Soviet Union exhausted and eager to treat, but with the anti-fascist forces from Italy’s communists to Ho Chi Minh, Mao and North Korea, which gave rise to the Cold War, which ended with the boot being put in (to the cheers of Croatians fascists and their German friends) to the last Partisan legacy, Tito’s Yugoslav Federation. Throughout the Cold War the US nursed the poisonous remnants of the Nazi axis, protecting Franco and Salazar from their angry populations, cossetting ex-SS groups in every city in north and south America, employing fascists to hunt down communists…it is an old story. And &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the Jabotinsky zionists are the one fascist party which can claim uninterrupted continuity from the 1930s&lt;/span&gt;. The one fascist party that is, besides the original wellspring of fascism which is from the Southern States, the old alliance between vicious business interests and KKK racism, whose current form is the Republican Party, which was the segregationist Democracy of the Solid South and the New South. The principle of extreme inequality and forced labour which is the spectre haunting the modern world. &lt;br /&gt;Americans who cannot feed their kids, whose kids schools are broken down, unstaffed and unequipped, who are paying the world’s highest prices for pharmaceuticals, are losing their homes and are unable to find jobs, where BMW workers are earning $12 an hour (and are envied) are beginning to wonder why. &lt;br /&gt;It is in these circumstances that Palestine’s calls for peace and a just settlement will in future be examined, whether the Zionists like it or not."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Occupy Wall Street isn't anti-Semitic, but it is definitely not 'good for the Jews'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-aim-join-16-other-un-agencies-101437075.html"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; aim to join 16 other UN agencies":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"It's not just UNESCO: The Palestinians' top envoy in Geneva said Tuesday he believes that joining the U.N. agency for culture, education and science will "open the door" to joining 16 other U.N. agencies within weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ibrahim Khraishi, the top Palestinian envoy at the U.N. in Geneva, told The Associated Press that Palestinian diplomats are now planning to capitalize on Monday's landslide vote to allow the Palestinians into UNESCO by preparing papers to join the other U.N. agencies and a variety of other international organizations."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/hows-that-for-turnaround-time-us-cuts-off-funding-for-unesco.html"&gt;How’s&lt;/a&gt; that for turnaround time? — US cuts off funding for UNESCO" People criticize my intemperate and tendentious language, but when I say Jewslave, I &lt;i&gt;mean&lt;/i&gt; Jewslave.&amp;nbsp; It is simply not possible to deny it.&amp;nbsp; Watch the video!&amp;nbsp; To add to the surrealism of Jewslavery, Victoria &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland"&gt;Nuland&lt;/a&gt;, a Jew (naturally; a gentile might go squishy under the questioning - note how Nuland was &lt;b&gt;brought back&lt;/b&gt; from the Bush Administration just to deal with these sticky and embarrassing situations!), is married to ultra-neocon Robert &lt;a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Kagan_Robert"&gt;Kagan&lt;/a&gt;, co-founder with William Kristol of the . . . Project for the New American Century!&amp;nbsp; You really can't make this stuff up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2011/10/palestine-granted-full-unesco.html"&gt;Palestine&lt;/a&gt; Granted Full UNESCO Membership Despite US Threats":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Three hours later the US announced that it was cutting UNESCO funds to punish members for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;voting&lt;/span&gt; to grant full membership to the Palestinians. A US state department spokeswoman said a payment of some $60m (£37m) due next month would not be made, but said that while continued US funding was impossible, "the administration wanted to remain an active member of UNESCO". Anyone like to give a reason why they should? Perhaps all those nations whose stolen cultural property is sold there because they have no "1970 Convention article 9 MOU" might like to take a vote on whether the US has been as active as they could have been and whether it should stay if it's not going to pay. According to UNESCO's constitution, if a country is in arrears in its payments to UNESCO for more than two years, it could lose its voting rights in the body." &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8409398816024112971?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8409398816024112971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8409398816024112971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-november-1-2011.html' title='The Palestinian State'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4615528085143010191</id><published>2011-10-31T10:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T10:06:19.110-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Full membership</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/31/unesco-backs-palestinian-membership"&gt;Unesco&lt;/a&gt; grants Palestine full membership"&amp;nbsp; The Jewslave Americans basically told UNESCO they would destroy it if it did the right thing, but sometimes moral and decent people can't be stopped.&amp;nbsp; History will record this as the beginning of the end for Anti-Assimilation Land.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4615528085143010191?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4615528085143010191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4615528085143010191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/full-membership.html' title='Full membership'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-932100913915519511</id><published>2011-10-31T07:59:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T07:59:31.753-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, October 31, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=50080"&gt;European&lt;/a&gt; Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace"&amp;nbsp; What's the word?&amp;nbsp; Duh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love the headline:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Museum+panel+discusses+keep+Holocaust+stories+memories+alive+when+survivors+gone/5630611/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canwest%2FF295+%28Ottawa+Citizen+-+News+%2F+Ottawa+%26+Area%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"&gt;War&lt;/a&gt; Museum panel discusses how to keep Holocaust stories and memories alive when its survivors are gone"&amp;nbsp; Love the fact they held their conference at the War Museum. What use is the Jewish holocaust other than to provide cover for warmongers?&amp;nbsp; Love the fact that Irwin Cotler was a participant.&amp;nbsp; Needless to say, the point of such 'education' isn't to prevent future genocide &lt;b&gt;against&lt;/b&gt; the Jews, but rather to enable ongoing and future genocides &lt;b&gt;by&lt;/b&gt; the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More hilarity from 'Langley' Cole:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.juancole.com/2011/10/sefat-top-10-ways-ows-can-succeed-counsel-from-irans-green-movement.html"&gt;Sefat&lt;/a&gt;: Top 10 ways OWS can Excel: Counsel from Iran’s Green Movement"&amp;nbsp; Occupy Wall Street can sure learn a lot from a joint Mossad-CIA destabilization psyop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another really bad source of information/inspiration:&amp;nbsp; ultra-&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/07/14/zizek-and-the-gaza-flotilla/"&gt;Zionist&lt;/a&gt; Slavoj &lt;a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12188/the_violent_silence_of_a_new_beginning/"&gt;Žižek&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much better:&amp;nbsp; Van Dyke &lt;a href="http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/2011/10/van-dyke-parks-on-wall-street.html"&gt;Parks&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angry Arab (best advice of all):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/role-of-arab-intellectuals.html"&gt;Comrade&lt;/a&gt; Sinan got it right:&amp;nbsp; "The role of the intellectual may be shrinking into that of the micro-blogger or street organizer. To some, that is just fine. “I don’t think there is a need for intellectuals to spearhead any revolution,” says Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi-born poet and novelist who has written extensively on the Arab Spring and now teaches at New York University. “It is no longer a movement to be led by &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/sunday-review/the-arab-intellectuals-who-didnt-roar.html"&gt;heroes&lt;/a&gt;.”"&amp;nbsp; Exactly.&amp;nbsp; It is a good thing.&amp;nbsp; Let the intellectuals be marginalized."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Interesting &lt;a href="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7277059&amp;amp;postcount=469"&gt;posting&lt;/a&gt; on the Valerie Percy murder.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-932100913915519511?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/932100913915519511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/932100913915519511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/monday-october-31-2011.html' title='Monday, October 31, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8962608746744917209</id><published>2011-10-30T10:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T10:05:37.450-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday, October 30, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054382/Organ-trafficker-admits-buying-Israeli-kidneys-10-000-selling-U-S-120-000.html"&gt;NY&lt;/a&gt; organ trafficker admits buying kidneys in Israel for $10,000... and selling them in U.S. for $120,000":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;". . . anthropologist and organ trade expert Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who described Israel as a 'pariah' in the organ transplant world, has said in the past that many of the donors were desperately poor immigrants from eastern European countries such as Moldova, Romania and Russia."&lt;/blockquote&gt;"‘Guardian’ columnist apologizes for ‘anti-Semitic &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=243326"&gt;slur&lt;/a&gt;’":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleBody"&gt;A &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Guardian&lt;/span&gt; journalist has apologized after being accused of anti-Semitism following an article in which she maintained that Israel’s eagerness to bring home Gilad Schalit was based on a “Zionist” belief that the lives “of the chosen are of hugely greater consequence than those of their unfortunate neighbors.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deborah Orr, a columnist for the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Guardian&lt;/span&gt;, said in an article published last week, titled “Is an Israeli life really more important than a Palestinian’s?”, that the prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel, which led to the release of Schalit, “tacitly acknowledges acceptance of that obscene idea.”&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;The thousand-to-one ratio on the prisoner swap just proves the &lt;b&gt;generosity&lt;/b&gt; of the Jews.  I'll bet they'd give you two organs for the price of one, and even cheaper if they come from a Palestinian prisoner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coincidence theory:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2011/10/abc-and-cbs-news-both-cut-away-due-to-technical-difficulties-at-onset-of-oakland-police-violence/"&gt;ABC&lt;/a&gt; And CBS News Both Cut Away Due To Technical Difficulties At Onset Of Oakland Police Violence" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2011/10/quote-of-the-day-for-safsaf-and-kafr-qasim.html"&gt;Quote&lt;/a&gt; Of The Day For 29 October: Safsaf And Kafr Qasim"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/10/lattice-of-coincidence.html"&gt;Lattice&lt;/a&gt; of Coincidence":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"The zillionaire investor Warren Buffett has been famous for a long time, and he's always enjoyed superb press, even when he ought to be questioned more toughly -- for example, he owns 20% of Moody's, which was one of the ratings firms that failed so badly in the mortgage bubble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Part of the reason for his loving press coverage was that he made so many correct investment decisions (Americans love a winner), partly because he's an excellent prose stylist, and partly because he was sleeping with the owner of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/26905629/Warren_Buffett_Admits_Regret_Over_Wife_s_Departure_In_New_Biography_NY_Daily_News"&gt;Katharine Graham&lt;/a&gt;. I'd heard that mentioned in passing quite a few years ago, but Buffett confirmed it in 2008: He started having an affair with Graham, one of the most famous women in America, when he was 46 and she was 59. This apparently led to Buffett's wife moving to San Francisco with her tennis pro. (I know that sounds like a Joe Esterhazy screenplay, but I've actually seen the rich man's neglected wife takes up with the tennis pro thing happen in real life, so there's good reason why it's a movie cliche).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;That got me wondering whether there was any connection between Katharine Graham's late husband Phil Graham, the manic-depressive publisher of the Washington Post who killed himself in 1963, and Buffet's mentor, the Columbia finance professor and inventor of "value inventing," Ben Graham. It's all the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QKiYar9pI"&gt;Lattice of Coincidence&lt;/a&gt;, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In this case, nah. It turns out Ben Graham was born in London and was Jewish. Paul Graham was born in South Dakota and was not. Instead, Paul Graham was the older half-brother of Bob Graham, who was governor or senator of Florida for 26 years."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;On the '&lt;a href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=4b778ead404111a9c6b5d45bda26d192&amp;amp;showtopic=2935&amp;amp;view=findpost&amp;amp;p=89695"&gt;suicide&lt;/a&gt;' of Phil Graham (also &lt;a href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=4b778ead404111a9c6b5d45bda26d192&amp;amp;showtopic=2935&amp;amp;view=findpost&amp;amp;p=90598"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;! and &lt;a href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2935&amp;amp;view=findpost&amp;amp;p=91708"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8962608746744917209?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8962608746744917209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8962608746744917209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-october-30-2011.html' title='Sunday, October 30, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6236738985855648997</id><published>2011-10-29T04:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T04:33:53.691-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dray, etc</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8850509/Billionaire-French-hotelier-shot-dead-in-professional-hit.html"&gt;Billionaire&lt;/a&gt; French hotelier shot dead 'in professional hit'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Dray, one of the most prominent Jews in France, had been the subject of   threats in the past. His palatial villa – which was called Madrid – was   considered one of the most secure in the French capital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="thirdPar"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fourthPar"&gt;It was regularly surrounded by police and private security guards, and is   equipped with anti-intruder measures including cameras and infra-red alarms." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Reminds me &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/billionaire-who-blew-whistle-on-russian-cash-scandal-is-killed-in-monte-carlo-1130020.html"&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Safra"&gt;Safra&lt;/a&gt;, who died surrounded by security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an aside, an odd Safra story:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254867/Billionaire-Mikhail-Prokhorov-loses-36m-deposit-worlds-expensive-home.html"&gt;Russian&lt;/a&gt; billionaire loses £36m deposit he put down on the world's most expensive home... plus another £1m interest"&amp;nbsp; Hilarious:&amp;nbsp; Edmond J. Safra Center for &lt;a href="http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/"&gt;Ethics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=13534&amp;amp;alias=russian-donor-shot-in-france"&gt;Russian&lt;/a&gt; Donor Shot in France" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1484959/Edouard-Stern.html"&gt;Edouard&lt;/a&gt; Stern"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Stern"&gt;Édouard&lt;/a&gt; Stern"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-11-10/wall_street/29990034_1_cecile-brossard-defense-lawyers-afp"&gt;Watch&lt;/a&gt; Out: Woman With A Really Good Defense For Murdering Billionaire Bankers Is Free From Jail"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amschel_Mayor_James_Rothschild"&gt;Amschel&lt;/a&gt; Mayor James Rothschild"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6236738985855648997?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6236738985855648997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6236738985855648997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/dray-etc.html' title='Dray, etc'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2525208143902909818</id><published>2011-10-26T06:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T06:11:54.107-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Running around while Arab</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Almalki+Arab+running+around/5606164/story.html"&gt;Almalki&lt;/a&gt; 'an Arab running around'":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;"Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP's assessment of his terrorist threat was both wholly unfounded and clouded by racism.&lt;br /&gt;Almalki, a Carleton University graduate and father of six, spent 22 months in Syrian custody after his arrest on May 3, 2002. He was questioned based on faulty Canadian intelligence and tortured.&lt;br /&gt;Almalki on Tuesday released explosive new documents obtained under federal Access to Information legislation, which reveal that RCMP investigators had found nothing against him both before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.&lt;br /&gt;In an RCMP memo, dated Oct. 4, 2001, an investigator concludes: "O Div. (Ontario Division) task force are presently finding it difficult to establish anything on him other than the fact he is an arab running around."&lt;br /&gt;Despite that internal finding, the RCMP, in a letter to the Syrian intelligence agency, labelled Almalki "an imminent threat" to Canada's national security and linked him to al-Qaeda.&lt;br /&gt;That letter was issued on the same day, Oct. 4, 2001, that RCMP investigators admitted they had nothing on him."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2525208143902909818?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2525208143902909818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2525208143902909818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/running-around-while-arab.html' title='Running around while Arab'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2510355046269346053</id><published>2011-10-25T10:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T10:25:47.527-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday, October 25, 2011</title><content type='html'>"The &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/conrad-black/rupert-murdoch-news-corp-_b_1017372.html"&gt;Real&lt;/a&gt; Rupert Murdoch"  The psychopathic scumbags are turning on each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/revealed-uk-government-plotted-israel-lobby-ban-salah/10458#.Tqa9CSpEPBL"&gt;Revealed&lt;/a&gt;: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah"  Remember this was going on at the same time as the Jews were telling their Jewslave politicians to ruin international law in Britain by creating an exception to allow the entry to Britain of international war criminals, as long as they were &lt;b&gt;Jewish&lt;/b&gt; international war criminals. The lawyer for the government explains that the quote on which the anti-Semitism charge was based - the quote which had been &lt;b&gt;altered to add&lt;/b&gt; the anti-Semitism - was acceptable as evidence for the anti-Semitism charge as the fraudulent alteration had been reported on by a “respectable media outlet in&amp;nbsp;Israel”.&amp;nbsp; OK, then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://landandpeople.blogspot.com/2011/10/archaeologists-worldwide-urge-halt-to.html"&gt;Archaeologists&lt;/a&gt; Worldwide Urge Halt to “Museum of Tolerance” Construction on Ancient Muslim Cemetery"&amp;nbsp; Only savages would even think of building a museum to 'tolerance' on the graves of their enemies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/bachmann-gaddafi-may-be-still-power-if-i-wer"&gt;Bachmann&lt;/a&gt;: Gaddafi 'May Be' Still in Power If I Were President"&amp;nbsp; I believe that Bachmann is certifiably insane, but her voting record, and her stated positions on many of the most important issues, are in many ways far more progressive than most Democrats, and most so-called American progressives.&amp;nbsp; It is simply sad that this 'progressive' website is using her better instincts to make fun of her.&amp;nbsp; The United States is fucked for a very good reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/yates231011.html"&gt;Occupy&lt;/a&gt; Wall Street and the Celebrity Economists"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/occupiers_have_to_convince_the_other_99_percent_20111024/"&gt;Occupiers&lt;/a&gt; Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent"&amp;nbsp; While the celebrity economists and the sleazy Democrat operatives would certainly wreck Occupy Wall Street, there is simply no question that the quickest and easiest way to ruin it forever is to bring old Karl into the picture.&amp;nbsp; Why would anybody even suggest such a thing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;a href="http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2011/10/protestant-ethic-and-spirit-of.html"&gt;Protestant&lt;/a&gt; Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism A Mini-Tutorial Part One"&amp;nbsp; The circularity of 'experiments' by sociologists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2510355046269346053?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2510355046269346053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2510355046269346053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/tuesday-october-25-2011.html' title='Tuesday, October 25, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5426835521562740393</id><published>2011-10-23T09:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-23T09:47:01.127-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Unlikely alliance</title><content type='html'>Really excellent &lt;a href="http://farhakhaled.blogspot.com/2011/10/caroline-glick-cited-as-one-of-israeli.html"&gt;examination&lt;/a&gt; by Farha Khaled of some of the Islamophobic blogosphere.&amp;nbsp; Note the mix of white supremacists and Jews (who are by definition supremacists).&amp;nbsp; It shouldn't be a surprise that the two main groups of violent racist supremacists in the West should hate each other (at most one of them can be right!).&amp;nbsp; I know why the Jews are looking for white supremacist help.&amp;nbsp; What do the white supremacists get out of this unlikely alliance?&amp;nbsp; Probably a little Jewish billionaire money now and then, but that doesn't explain the current fascination of white supremacism with Islamophobia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5426835521562740393?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5426835521562740393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5426835521562740393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/unlikely-alliance.html' title='Unlikely alliance'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4604972511403475747</id><published>2011-10-22T08:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T08:10:54.980-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, October 22, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://pulsemedia.org/2011/10/20/terrorist-and-hostages/"&gt;Terrorist&lt;/a&gt; and Hostages":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"In this comment I’ve chosen my words carefully. I’ve called the Palestinian prisoners ‘hostages’ because they’ve been held as leverage for a ransom – the ransom being Palestinian submission. (This isn’t all; they’ve been held also to satisfy the narrative of Israeli innocence and Palestinian criminality). I’ve called the Israeli prisoners ‘terrorists’ because they operated in an organisation which applies physical and psychological violence against civilians for political purposes.&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis are the ethnic cleansers and the occupiers. The Palestinians are the refugees and the occupied. Zionist propaganda constantly obfuscates these simple facts. The Palestinians are the first victims of the propaganda, but Israeli Jews are also its victims, as the future will demonstrate."&lt;/blockquote&gt;It won't be long before a lot of these released heroes and freedom fighters will appear on the first Palestinian stamps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/connect-the-dots-in-02-nypd-began-training-in-israel-9-years-later-spying-against-nyc-muslims-exposed.html"&gt;Connect&lt;/a&gt; the dots: In ’02, NYPD began training in Israel; 9 years later, spying against NYC Muslims exposed"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cohen/cohen-eyeball.htm"&gt;Eyeballing&lt;/a&gt; David Cohen NYPD Intelligence Commissioner"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050487/CIA-officers-mystery-job-NYPD.html"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; is CIA officer working at NYPD? Mystery of role not taken on since after 9/11"&amp;nbsp; 'Minority Report' for Muslims (run by a Jew) plus completely illegal CIA involvement in domestic surveillance = planned false flag attack on NYC, possibly to take down Occupy Wall Street at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/10/doubts-about-gaddafis-reported.html"&gt;Doubts&lt;/a&gt; About Gaddafi's Reported Assassination"&amp;nbsp; We'll never know what happened, but it appears there were at least two people killed who looked like Gadaffi, one of which may have even been Gadaffi (or not).&amp;nbsp; The Americans couldn't afford the revelations during a Gadaffi trial, and didn't want to have to give Gadaffi a Milošević-style heart attack in jail during his trial, so the order was to kill him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4604972511403475747?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4604972511403475747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4604972511403475747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/saturday-october-22-2011.html' title='Saturday, October 22, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2580756960571485714</id><published>2011-10-21T08:59:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-21T08:59:46.038-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rachel Abrams</title><content type='html'>And yet when I say blood drips - or pours - from their fangs people call me names.&amp;nbsp; It is an outrageous thing to say . . . but only as it does not come close to doing justice to the &lt;a href="http://badrachel.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad.html?spref=tw"&gt;reality&lt;/a&gt; of these violent racist supremacists.&amp;nbsp; Remember that Rachel Abrams is completely &lt;a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/abrams_rachel"&gt;connected&lt;/a&gt; to the modern American Jewish meritocracy (if you can call it that).&amp;nbsp; The average American Jew allows people like this to speak for the entire community, and it is this two-faced trickery - maintaining plausible deniability on bearing responsibility for the violence and the mass outrages while secretly being very happy about what Israel and its apologists are doing - that is just starting to become an issue (see Atzmon, and the hysteria that his truth-telling has engendered).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2580756960571485714?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2580756960571485714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2580756960571485714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/rachel-abrams.html' title='Rachel Abrams'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6957075504380293517</id><published>2011-10-19T12:33:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T12:42:57.691-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, October, 19, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/19/pol-scoc-hyperlink.html"&gt;Internet&lt;/a&gt; links not libel, top court rules"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understand from the mainstream media that Israel got back a soldier - perhaps the best and most honorable soldier who ever lived - in return for a thousand of something.&amp;nbsp; I'm not sure what exactly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2011/10/world-suddenly-shocked-by-malnutrition-in-gaza-strip.html"&gt;World&lt;/a&gt; Finally Cares About Malnutrition In Gaza Strip"&amp;nbsp; The Hamas sense of humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finkelstein and Mearsheimer &lt;a href="http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/pathbreaking-scholars-norman-finkelstein-and-john-mearsheimer-speak-out-about-the-precarious-future-of-the-jewish-state/"&gt;talk&lt;/a&gt; about Israel.&amp;nbsp; Finkelstein is an optimistic lite Zionist on laughing gas, i.e., he still believes a two-state solution is possible, despite all the evidence to the contrary.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kevin MacDonald:  "&lt;a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/10/jews-and-the-occupy-wall-st-protests/"&gt;Jews&lt;/a&gt; and the Occupy Wall St. Protests: Bill Handel says 'My Tribe Controls Wall St.'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5851249/charming-brooklyn-retro-trend-women-in-the-back-of-the-bus"&gt;Charming&lt;/a&gt; Brooklyn Retro Trend: Women to the Back of the Bus"&amp;nbsp; I'm developing the ability to know what these articles are about just from the misleading headline.&amp;nbsp; Related:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/41/dtg_hasidicsidewalks_2011_10_14_bk.html"&gt;Walk&lt;/a&gt; this way! Yiddish sign orders women to move over"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://buzzaurus.com/?p=11452"&gt;Steve&lt;/a&gt; Jobs Karmic Relief"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6957075504380293517?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6957075504380293517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6957075504380293517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/internet-links-not-libel-top-court.html' title='Wednesday, October, 19, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2966653495514469681</id><published>2011-10-18T07:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T07:47:56.264-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday, October 18, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://watchingamerica.com/News/126047/elizabeth-warren-the-woman-awakening-the-american-left/"&gt;Elizabeth&lt;/a&gt; Warren, the Woman Awakening the American Left" &lt;i&gt;or&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/elizabeth-warrens-job-plan-war-with-iran.html"&gt;Elizabeth&lt;/a&gt; Warren’s Jobs Plan: War with Iran"&amp;nbsp; Warren's just another piece of shit.&amp;nbsp; You can see why the 99% have to stay well away from party politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The U.S. Now Uses More &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/usa-now-uses-more-corn-for-fuel-than-food-ethanol.php"&gt;Corn&lt;/a&gt; for Fuel Than Feed!"&amp;nbsp; Using corn for fuel is still the fucking stupidest idea that anyone has ever had.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A Protester’s Account of This Weekend’s Citibank &lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5850398/a-protesters-account-of-this-weekends-citibank-arrests"&gt;Arrests&lt;/a&gt;"&amp;nbsp; The geniuses who run Citibank - who of course deserve every cent of the billions they make in salary and bonuses as they are so good at running a bank - are apparently trying to lose all of their very lucrative retail customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/crisis-for-billionaires/"&gt;Crisis&lt;/a&gt; for Billionaires"&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I wonder how worried they are about this.&amp;nbsp; The assumption is always that the money is safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pure &lt;a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/76739/qa-edward-luttwak/?all=1"&gt;Evil&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We're fortunate that Luttwak and his ilk as such idiots, as it is their advice that is hastening the disappearance of the shitty little country and the end of the American Empire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2966653495514469681?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2966653495514469681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2966653495514469681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/tuesday-october-18-2011.html' title='Tuesday, October 18, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2646942373953737541</id><published>2011-10-17T08:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T08:21:35.053-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Monday, October 17, 2011</title><content type='html'>Weiss is the only writer I have read that &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/bill-kristol-we-need-to-hear-that-obama-has-gone-to-war-on-iran.html"&gt;understands&lt;/a&gt; what Obama is up to.&amp;nbsp; Just watch - the 'Iran talk' will continue, but before the next American Presidential election neither Israel nor the United States will have attacked Iran.&amp;nbsp; Obama's little trick will have worked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it a coincidence that the Brits &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049642/Was-Mossad-using-Fox-Werritty-useful-idiots-Ex-Ambassador-reveals-links-advisers-set-alarm-bells-ringing.html"&gt;mucked&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/global/gatzmon20111017"&gt;out&lt;/a&gt; the stable at the same time as the Obama trick?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A proposed demand for Occupy Wall Street":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/10/05/a_proposed_demand_for_occupy_wall_street/singleton/"&gt;So&lt;/a&gt; my immodest proposal is simply this: &lt;b&gt;Individuals and households in the bottom 99 percent who owe debt to any large financial institution that received federal government support during and after the 2008 crisis should see their debt forgiven.&lt;/b&gt;"&lt;/blockquote&gt;Makes perfect sense, is just, and would fix the economic problems that throwing billions at the banksters made worse.  So, it will never happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/News/tabid/178/nid/22978/language/en-US/Default.aspx"&gt;Israelis&lt;/a&gt; worried by anti-Semitic flavor of 'Occupy Wall St.' protests"&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/is-occupy-wall-street-anti-semitic.html"&gt;Is&lt;/a&gt; Occupy Wall Street anti-Semitic?"&amp;nbsp; Nobody ever pays attention to my excellent advise, but I would advise the Jews to shut up before somebody does the math and figures out what percentage of the worst offending financial institutions are run by Jews.&amp;nbsp; That is the kind of information some people might misunderstand!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In what, tens of thousands of links?, I have never been &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/il-pesce-puzza-dalla-testa.html#comment-336530971"&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; to remove one before.&amp;nbsp; The &lt;a href="http://www.parlafood.com/il-pesce-puzza-dalla-testa/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; is in the original post, and I've never asked for permission, or been asked for permission.&amp;nbsp; The best I can do is say I'm sorry and promise never  to read the source blog again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://memebase.com/2011/10/16/internet-memes-mad-world/"&gt;Mad&lt;/a&gt; World&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2646942373953737541?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/feeds/2646942373953737541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=862010&amp;postID=2646942373953737541&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2646942373953737541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2646942373953737541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/monday-october-17-2011.html' title='Monday, October 17, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5815129299229349182</id><published>2011-10-16T10:38:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T10:38:13.590-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Il Pesce Puzza Dalla Testa</title><content type='html'>The government &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.parlafood.com/il-pesce-puzza-dalla-testa/"&gt;agents&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.revealedrome.com/2011/10/indignati-rome-october-15-protests.html"&gt;provocateurs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; at work in Rome:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It all started when a group of masked youths wearing&lt;span id="more-11612"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; helmets descended on an otherwise peaceful demonstration, smashed storefronts, and set one car ablaze (the one in front of it would later catch fire and be incinerated). How these people were allowed to enter the crowd, how thousands of Italian police were seemingly unprepared for them, how the chaos and violence could have lasted so long while being perpetrated by so few is completely baffling. Unless, of course, these were thugs hired by the government to sabotage the demonstration in order to delegitimize it. In which case it makes perfect sense."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5815129299229349182?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5815129299229349182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5815129299229349182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/il-pesce-puzza-dalla-testa.html' title='Il Pesce Puzza Dalla Testa'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1997323141311133165</id><published>2011-10-16T10:18:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T10:22:26.516-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The sting</title><content type='html'>How the FBI got their hooks in the Iranian assassination plot patsy:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/local/local-terror-plot-suspect-described-as-more-a-1910853.html?printArticle=y"&gt;Williamson&lt;/a&gt; County records had also indicated an arrest for possession of a controlled substance, but officials said Wednesday that that was a mistake and Arbabsiar was never charged with that crime."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The charge was in &lt;a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/12/171408.html"&gt;March&lt;/a&gt; 2010.&amp;nbsp; The normal procedure would be to drop the charges in return for the patsy's 'help' in investigating the Mexican drug cartel.  Normally, a guy like Manssor Arbabsiar would never have the opportunity to meet with a high ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel.  Who does he think he is, Walter White?  The FBI would provide the introduction, to a guy who just happens to be a DEA informant.  The sting would be to convince the Mexican that Arbabsiar could provide the cartel with wholesale quantities of Iranian heroin.  In the middle of the two weeks of negotiations, the informant managed to make this seem like it was about an assassination plot, something that never would have even occurred to a guy like Arbabsiar (watch the two Gareth Porter &lt;a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/alleged-iran-assassination-plot-court-documents-suggest-a-set-up.html"&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt;, and read &lt;a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ15Ak02.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;).  The twist may be that somewhere along the line Arbabsiar decided he could scam his Iranian contacts into paying him a commission for the drug deal Arbabsiar knew would never go through (which would explain the payments made to him from a mysterious source, presumably prepayment of part of his commission for arranging the deal).&amp;nbsp; From Arbabsiar's point of view, the whole thing was about staying out of jail while making a little money on a phony drug deal.&amp;nbsp; The entire assassination plot was fed into the transcripts by the DEA informant.&amp;nbsp; If Arbabsiar went along with it, it was just to keep the drug deal in play long enough to collect money from Iran.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1997323141311133165?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1997323141311133165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1997323141311133165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/sting.html' title='The sting'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2447117836239189712</id><published>2011-10-15T10:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-15T10:08:28.363-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Banned</title><content type='html'>'Sean McBride' wrote in a comment:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"If you and xymphora are accusing me of being Gabriel . . ."&lt;/blockquote&gt;It takes a hell of a lot to get banned around here but one way is to obtusely misread what I've written or put words in my mouth, and the hasbara troll McBride is fatally guilty of both.  Gone!  I'm leaving the comments that are up, but if I see another one by 'Sean McBride' it will be removed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2447117836239189712?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2447117836239189712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2447117836239189712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/banned.html' title='Banned'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8496177328910220230</id><published>2011-10-14T20:52:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T20:52:51.373-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Creep</title><content type='html'>There was a posting on &lt;i&gt;Jews sans frontieres&lt;/i&gt; that I got on the rss feed but can't find on the blog, so here it is in case you missed it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The closet Nazis are coming out of the closet&lt;br /&gt;by Gabriel&lt;br /&gt;No.  Not really. They hide their poor little oppressed nordic posterior beneath internet handles, while their aluminum foil hat blocks the mind control exercized by us "cultural marxists" from reaching their mushed brain. The &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/discriminating-against-powerful.html" target="_blank"&gt;blob of excrement&lt;/a&gt; lodged underneath the handle "Xymphora" recommends to put me on a list for now, powerless as he is, for eventual "reckoning."&amp;nbsp; I'm guilty of describing in too much details how Atzmon fabricates history. I am confident I won't be put on the same list with Kevin Macdonald, who &lt;a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/10/a-dissident-meditation-on-jewish-identity-a-review-of-gilad-atzmons-the-wandering-who" target="_blank"&gt;graceously&lt;/a&gt; found the passage from &lt;i&gt;Mein Kampf &lt;/i&gt;that most clearly articulates Atzmon's contribution to the "study" of history.&lt;br /&gt;But Xymphora is wrong. This isn't about the &lt;i&gt;history &lt;/i&gt;of National Socialism. It is about the undergrowth of mould and slime that is proliferating in the interstices of modern barbarism, ready to done the blackshirt and do the "recknoning" as soon as the Master finally graces them with the attention to which they feel entitled. Until that happy moment they will have to satisfy themsevles with reading Atzmon. I can barely imagine how depressing that must be.&lt;br /&gt;I'm already on the shitlist. Put me on your list as well, creep. Ii's a distinction."&lt;/blockquote&gt;By the way, by 'reckoning' I don't mean any kind of violence.  I mean we'll be able to separate the Evil from the Good.  For one thing, the powerful won't be allowed to use phony claims of victimization in order to hide their victimizing.  They won't be able to keep tricking us into fighting wars and killing literally millions of people - and &lt;i&gt;millions&lt;/i&gt; of dead is the stakes we're talking about here, along with massive suffering, the end of international law, political oppression, etc, etc - so that a tiny group of supremacists may be able to build their ark in the Middle East to protect them from assimilation.  That sort of thing. The kind of thing that we creeps don't like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8496177328910220230?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8496177328910220230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8496177328910220230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/creep.html' title='Creep'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4499146915076846875</id><published>2011-10-14T14:27:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T14:28:01.165-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Heads up</title><content type='html'>If you were plotting a rather daring and alarming stunt against a common and bloodthirsty enemy, you'd want to explain things too, even if you are &lt;a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=65334"&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; in the habit of talking:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"U.S. officials, meanwhile, confirmed the Obama administration has had direct contact with Iran over the allegations. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, met with Iranian officials at Iran's mission to the U.N. on Wednesday - a highly &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/13/501364/main20120177.shtml"&gt;unusual&lt;/a&gt; contact for two countries that do not have diplomatic relations."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4499146915076846875?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4499146915076846875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4499146915076846875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/heads-up.html' title='Heads up'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8872179146896108030</id><published>2011-10-14T13:29:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T13:29:35.889-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Saving Iran</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/a-good-question-about-the-administrations-bomb-plot-accusation/246704/"&gt;The&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/14/obama_doubles_down"&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; are only answered if you see Obama's ridiculous phony Iranian assassination plot as part of the War Against The Jews.&amp;nbsp; It is a ploy, not to attack Iran, but to avoid attacking Iran.&amp;nbsp; The combo of the insatiable Jewish blood lust and Obama's weakness for Jewish billionaire money is a recipe for absolute disaster.&amp;nbsp; Obama gives the Jews a gift they cannot possibly refuse, but it is a poisoned gift.&amp;nbsp; Now, nobody can attack Iran until after the next Presidential election (though there will lots of fruitless talk about sanctions), when Obama won't need the Jewish money.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8872179146896108030?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8872179146896108030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8872179146896108030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/saving-iran.html' title='Saving Iran'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7920293832337678833</id><published>2011-10-14T07:27:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-14T07:27:16.793-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Discriminating against the powerful</title><content type='html'>Apropos of the discussion, &lt;a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-the-long-arm-of-israel.html"&gt;Atzmon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The truth of the matter is that Israel’s long arm is not necessarily just the Mossad as you may have thought. The title fits nicely to some of our so-called Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist stooges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Predictably, half a dozen Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists, who have been &lt;a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/06/gilad-atzmon-protocols-of-elders-of.html"&gt;terrorizing&lt;/a&gt; the Palestinian solidarity movement and activists for decades are also very unhappy with my new book &lt;a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/the-wandering-who/"&gt;The Wandering Who&lt;/a&gt;. This is understandable for my new book doesn’t just expose Zionist cultural and ideological morbidity, it also exposes the level of duplicity that is entangled with Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist discourse. The book depicts a clear ideological continuum between the ADL and the so-called Jewish progressive cells. In fact, The Wandering Who openly criticises any form of Jewish secular political discourse Zionist and anti Zionist for being racially oriented. Jewish political activism and identity politics are basically nothing but different forms of a racially exclusive political exercise."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Atzmon is concerned by the horror of what is being done by Jews to people in the Middle East and elsewhere.  Yet note how, through the miracle of 'anti-Semitism', this has been &lt;a href="http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/09/reply-to-brian-leiter.html"&gt;turned&lt;/a&gt; into a debate on the history of National Socialism!  Appalling.  Violent racial supremacists hide everywhere.  For now, while the Jews have the power, we need only keep a list of those who use the slur to enable the violence.  The reckoning will have to come later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an aside, and for entertainment purposes, watch how the Jewish model - protecting the predations of the ultra-powerful by claiming some kind of mythological bigotry - is applied by American capitalists, who are starting to suffer terrible 'discrimination' from the '99%'.&amp;nbsp; As usual, we are clueless when it comes to power.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7920293832337678833?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7920293832337678833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7920293832337678833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/discriminating-against-powerful.html' title='Discriminating against the powerful'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1047932029166090602</id><published>2011-10-13T10:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T10:29:13.077-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is a three-party conspiracy.  Israeli.  American.  Saudi.</title><content type='html'>It is a three-party conspiracy.&amp;nbsp; Israeli.&amp;nbsp; American.&amp;nbsp; Saudi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Saudis were pretending to be mad at the Americans over the American dismissal of the Palestinian statehood bid.&amp;nbsp; The release of the thousand Palestinian prisoners makes it look like the Saudis accomplished something, and helps to hide the newly revitalized post-Arab-Spring Saudi-Zionist alliance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Making the Saudis the supposed planned victims of the plot at the hands of the Iranians makes it seem necessary for the Saudis to arm themselves for self-defense against the obviously dangerous Iranians.&amp;nbsp; Thus, the Jews will unlock the slave-restraints from the American legislators long enough for them to approve the massive arms sale by the American Military-Industrial Complex to the Saudis.&amp;nbsp; The Americans will make their billions of dollars of profit, and the Saudi princes will enjoy the usual kickbacks for raping their country's treasury.&amp;nbsp; The recent uprisings in the Shi'ite areas of Saudi Arabia weren't a coincidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do the Jews get?&amp;nbsp; Jewish fangs are just aching - &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;aching&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - for the shedding of gentile blood in Iran through another American War For The Jews.&amp;nbsp; The Americans know that such a war would be the end of the American Empire.&amp;nbsp; Even though Obama is the most abject of Jewslaves, he has one card to play, and Panetta no doubt played it in talking to Bibi.&amp;nbsp; Some of the Jewish billionaires whose money Obama needs are lite Zionists, the kind of Hollywood Jew who fears the end of Israel in either the one-state solution or the fall of Hezbollah rockets in retaliation for yet another illegal attack on yet another completely innocent and non-threatening country.&amp;nbsp; Obama can credibly tell Bibi that while he'd love to prostrate himself even more to the wonders of Jewish money, he can't, because he also needs the money from the Hollywood Jewish billionaires.&amp;nbsp; Releasing the prisoners is a method of allowing the Jews to appear to be reasonable without actually having to give up anything in the negotiations which Abbas will be forced into, as part of the ongoing delay-and-steal-land plan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jews had to settle for the consolation prize, a patsy the Americans had been sitting on for a rainy day.&amp;nbsp; The phony and utterly ridiculous plot which was written up by some neocon - reminds me of Ledeen - included an attack on the Israeli embassy (over-egging the pudding?) and the typical neocon addition of the Mexican drug cartel, thus incorporating the neocon obsession with some kind of grand anti-Semitic Latin American/Arab conspiracy (the drug cartel reference is also supposed to help Holder with his spot of bother over providing arms to the Mexican drug cartels by emphasizing how dangerous to Americans they really are).&amp;nbsp; The phony plot will be used to attempt to increase international sanctions against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to what I've been reading everywhere, the American plan here isn't to start a war against Iran.&amp;nbsp; Just the opposite.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1047932029166090602?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1047932029166090602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1047932029166090602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/it-is-three-party-conspiracy-israeli.html' title='It is a three-party conspiracy.  Israeli.  American.  Saudi.'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5074358530308310836</id><published>2011-10-12T12:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T12:42:59.516-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A much more plausible story</title><content type='html'>I'll have more to say on the silly Americans and their Iranian assassination plot (though I have no reason to change anything I said yesterday and am even more convinced that this is the consolation prize for the fangs of the Jewish billionaires who really want a million dead gentiles in Iran), but in the meantime the Angry Arab has some more &lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/iranian-plot-in-us-more-info.html"&gt;info&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Actually, a phony plot by an opponent of the Iranian government hangs together quite well, unlike Holder's ridiculous story.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5074358530308310836?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5074358530308310836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5074358530308310836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/much-more-plausible-story.html' title='A much more plausible story'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8080974154475084997</id><published>2011-10-12T12:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T12:29:16.326-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Masada plan of the settlers</title><content type='html'>Must-read Jonathan Cook:&amp;nbsp; "The &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/12/the-price-of-torching-mosques/"&gt;Price&lt;/a&gt; of Torching Mosques":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The goal of the settler movement is to destroy any hope of a two-state solution, which is seen as limiting the Jewish people’s right to all of the land promised by God. Egged on by an ever larger number of rabbis, the hardliners in this camp are too blinkered to understand that Israeli leaders, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have already voided the peace process.&lt;br /&gt;It was no coincidence that the torching of Tuba’s mosque came in the wake of an application last month to the United Nations by Mahmoud Abbas to recognise Palestinian statehood. The Palestinian Authority president raised the stakes, and so too did the settlers – by this time including Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority, a fifth of the population, in their “price tag”.&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish extremists’ new strategy is apparently to stoke hatred and violence on both sides of the Green Line. As has been noted by Jafar Farah, the director of the Mossawa Center, an Arab Israeli advocacy group, the intention is to drain any residual support among Israeli Jews for a Palestinian state by persuading them that they are in an apocalyptic struggle for survival."&lt;/blockquote&gt;and:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"With no hope of statehood, Palestinians will have to devise their own new strategy for coping with the reality of an apartheid system in which the Jewish settlers become their permanent neighbours. Trapped in a single state ruled over by their occupiers, Palestinians are likely to draw on the experience of their cousins inside Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Israel’s Arab community has been struggling with marginalisation and subordination within a Jewish state for decades. They have responded with a vocal campaign for equality that has antagonised the Jewish majority and resulted in a wave of anti-Arab legislation.&lt;br /&gt;The two Palestinian communities, both confronting a harsher future under Israeli rule, have every incentive to develop a unified platform and struggle jointly – and more powerfully – against an overarching regime of Jewish privilege.&lt;br /&gt;Their response could be tit-for-tat violence – that is certainly what the settlers would prefer. But a more effective and likely long-term strategy is a civil rights movement much like the ones that fought against Jim Crow laws in the US and against apartheid in South Africa. A simple rallying cry, voiced to a world exasperated by Israel’s self-destructive behaviour, would be “one person, one vote”.&lt;br /&gt;Netanyahu and the settlers hope to subdue Palestinians with the establishment of a Greater Israel. But as the conflagration of mosques suggests, they may ultimately achieve the opposite. By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control. The price tag – this time demanded by Palestinians – will be high indeed for the Jewish supremacists."&lt;/blockquote&gt;The all-or-nothing logic of the settlers should be turned around to leave them with nothing (although I don't see the game playing out that far, as the Jews will commit another form of suicide first, by starting a war they can't win).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8080974154475084997?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8080974154475084997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8080974154475084997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/masada-plan-of-settlers.html' title='The Masada plan of the settlers'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-6839188949553523260</id><published>2011-10-11T15:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T15:43:37.426-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Plots and distractions</title><content type='html'>Quick thoughts on the alleged Iranian assassination plot:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Motive?&amp;nbsp; What possible reason would Iran have to do this?&amp;nbsp; What possible good could it do them?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Holder is in desperate, &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/11/earlyshow/main20118456.shtml"&gt;desperate&lt;/a&gt; need of a distraction.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;So is &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/11/gilad-shalit-prisoner-swap-deal?newsfeed=true"&gt;Bibi&lt;/a&gt;, if he lets out hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. 'Iran talk' is the default Israeli smoke screen.&amp;nbsp; Panetta just came back from telling Bibi he was on his own if he wants to attack Iran - the Jews saw Obama's UN speech and assumed they could get him to do &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt;, so they needed to be set straight - and I imagine the consolation prize for the Jewish billionaire donors is more harassment of Iran, necessitating some sort of reason.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;New York City?&amp;nbsp; What could possibly be going on in New York City that we need not pay attention to?&amp;nbsp; "Criminal charges will be brought in the Southern District of New York because a downpayment of $100,000 was wired through a bank located in the Southern District of New York, officials &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15266992"&gt;say&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;This time the government &lt;i&gt;agent provocateur&lt;/i&gt; without whom there would have been no plot was a DEA agent.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"&lt;a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/us-thwarts-alleged-iranian-government-assassination-plot/article2197504/?service=mobile"&gt;We&lt;/a&gt; will not let other countries use our soil as their battleground."&amp;nbsp; He really said that?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-6839188949553523260?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6839188949553523260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/6839188949553523260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/plots-and-distractions.html' title='Plots and distractions'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8119358804631498929</id><published>2011-10-11T11:27:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T11:27:13.757-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The beginning and the end</title><content type='html'>"The &lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/alison-weir/2011/10/10/the-real-story-of-how-israel-was-created/"&gt;Real&lt;/a&gt; Story of How Israel Was Created" by Alison Weir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The common representation ofIsrael’s birth is that the U.N. created Israel, that the world was infavor of this move, and that the U.S. governmental establishment supportedit. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect.&lt;br /&gt;In reality, while the U.N. GeneralAssembly recommended the creation of a Jewish state in part of Palestine,that recommendation was non-binding and never implemented by the SecurityCouncil. &lt;br /&gt;Second, the General Assemblypassed that recommendation only after Israel proponents threatened andbribed numerous countries in order to gain a required two-thirds ofvotes.&lt;br /&gt;Third, the U.S. administrationsupported the recommendation out of domestic electoral considerationsand took this position over the strenuous objections of the State Department,the CIA, and the Pentagon. &lt;br /&gt;The passage of the GeneralAssembly recommendation sparked increased violence in the region. Overthe following months the armed wing of the pro-Israel movement, whichhad long been preparing for war, perpetrated a series of massacres andexpulsions throughout Palestine, implementing a plan to clear the wayfor a majority-Jewish state.&lt;br /&gt;It was this armed aggression,and the ethnic cleansing of at least three-quarters of a million indigenousPalestinians, that created the Jewish state on land that had been 95percent non-Jewish prior to Zionist immigration and that even afteryears of immigration remained 70 percent non-Jewish. And despite theshallow patina of legality its partisans extracted from the GeneralAssembly, Israel was born over the opposition of American experts andof governments around the world, who opposed it on both pragmatic andmoral grounds."&lt;/blockquote&gt;She goes on to describe the details.The good thing about Israel's obvious and total illegitimacy is that it will be all the easier to wind the thing up when all the Jewish tricks finally sputter out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8119358804631498929?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8119358804631498929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8119358804631498929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/beginning-and-end.html' title='The beginning and the end'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5450947266401308657</id><published>2011-10-10T11:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T11:47:17.904-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The last place you'd look for the truth</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/if-united-states-leaves-vacuum-in-iraq-disliked-iran-may-not-fill-it.html?_r=1"&gt;Vacuum&lt;/a&gt; Is Feared as U.S. Quits Iraq, but Iran’s Deep Influence May Not Fill It":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"One aim of the American invasion here was to establish a moderate center of Shiite Islam, democratically inclined and oriented to the West, that would be a counterbalance to Iran’s system of clerical rule. However, something like the reverse seems to have happened. As Iran has used its political connections to hold great sway over Iraq’s leadership class, and has backed militias responsible for assassinations and attacks on American bases, it has been less successful wielding other mechanisms of power at a grass-roots level."&lt;/blockquote&gt;This is the 8th/9th step of the Zionist &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/07/zionist-plan-for-middle-east.html"&gt;plan&lt;/a&gt; for the Middle East.  It is odd to read it in so many words in the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;, which consistently suppresses such information (it sounds ridiculous as an &lt;i&gt;American&lt;/i&gt; goal when you consider how much money Americans spent on it).&amp;nbsp; Of course, the &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt; spent a considerable amount of time &lt;strike&gt;paying&lt;/strike&gt; finding people in Iraq to say bad things about Iran, downplaying the fact that Iran, and not Israel, won the American attack on Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also odd from the &lt;i&gt;NYT&lt;/i&gt;:&amp;nbsp; "&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/science/10anthrax.html?_r=2&amp;amp;hp"&gt;Scientists’&lt;/a&gt; Analysis Disputes F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case".&amp;nbsp; Now, if Ivins didn't do it (and could not possibly have done it), and Steven Hatfill didn't do it, and  Ayaad Assaad didn't do it, it was almost certainly an operation by the &lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2004/02/25/the-anthrax-mystery/"&gt;Camel&lt;/a&gt; Club (the two damning facts:&amp;nbsp; the letter accusing Assaad was written before the story was public but &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; the anthrax letters were mailed, and a member of the Camel Club was let into the Ft. Detrick lab at as time he had no business being there), a Zionist false flag attack intended to simultaneously threaten Democratic Senators into &lt;a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;amp;address=141x1719"&gt;passing&lt;/a&gt; the Patriot Act (the cornerstone of that War For The Jews known as the 'War on Terror'), while making it seem that it was another attack by Islamists.&amp;nbsp; Needless to say, this real terrorist attack - as opposed to those &lt;a href="http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts327.html"&gt;manufactured&lt;/a&gt; by the FBI - will never be honestly investigated, as it is simply politically impossible to reveal a Zionist false flag attack on the American government and people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5450947266401308657?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5450947266401308657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5450947266401308657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/last-place-youd-look-for-truth.html' title='The last place you&apos;d look for the truth'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4196195720390435733</id><published>2011-10-08T08:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-08T08:48:21.955-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday, October 8, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/uk-rewrites-war-crimes-law-israels-request/10446#.TpBC4SpEPBJ"&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt; rewrites war crimes law at Israel’s request"&amp;nbsp; You can see, again, how the Jewish mania to build Anti-Assimilation Land coupled with sheer Jewish money power has a far-reaching negative effect, this time another big nail in the coffin of international law.&amp;nbsp; The hammer for the nail is that we aren't even allowed to mention Jewish money power.&amp;nbsp; There was significant resistance from moral and decent people to this awful change in the law, and it must have required wave after wave of Jewish bribery/blackmail to force the special Law For The Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/07/trouble-in-the-kingdom/"&gt;Trouble&lt;/a&gt; in the Kingdom"&amp;nbsp; Cockburn buries the lede, the fact that the last stage of the &lt;a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/07/zionist-plan-for-middle-east.html"&gt;Zionist&lt;/a&gt; Plan for the Middle East is the break-up of Saudi Arabia.&amp;nbsp; And yet the Saudi princes continue to work for the Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs"&gt;What&lt;/a&gt; Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs"&amp;nbsp; Like almost all CEOs regarded as successful Jobs was clearly an out-and-out psychopath.&amp;nbsp; What is disturbing that the fanboys and the gadget freaks have turned him into a god.&amp;nbsp; No wonder everything is so fucked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://anonymousworks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-new-york.html"&gt;Occupy&lt;/a&gt; New York"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4196195720390435733?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4196195720390435733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4196195720390435733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/saturday-october-8-2011.html' title='Saturday, October 8, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5971872330945828617</id><published>2011-10-05T06:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-05T06:54:47.108-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wednesday, October 5, 2011</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2011/10/american-mid-east-terrorism-since-1981.html"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; Mid East terrorism since 1981"&amp;nbsp; Blum's partial list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com/2011/10/remember-mutilated-skinned-zaynab-al.html"&gt;Remember&lt;/a&gt; the 'mutilated &amp;amp; skinned' Zaynab al Husni?"&amp;nbsp; Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch working 24/7 to promote Zionist and American imperialism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontario &lt;a href="http://www.metafilter.com/108012/CROSS-DRESSING-FOR-SIX-YEAR-OLDS"&gt;election&lt;/a&gt; this week.&amp;nbsp; The Liberals, who were well behind the Conservatives, will almost certainly win at least a minority government.&amp;nbsp; The turning point was when the vile Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard attempted to &lt;a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/05/mcguinty-pandering-to-immigrants-blizzard"&gt;import&lt;/a&gt; American Tea Party xenophobia into Ontario.&amp;nbsp; It failed so badly that Blizzard turned around and &lt;a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/14/hes-mcguinty-light-blizzard"&gt;criticized&lt;/a&gt; the Conservative leader for following her lead without mentioning what she - and the Canadian version of the Koch Brothers she works for - was up to.&amp;nbsp; Unbelievable!&amp;nbsp; This is the second straight election in which the Conservatives have blown a sure win by running in Ontario as if they were running in Oklahoma.&amp;nbsp; They really need to fire their American advisers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My new favorite music &lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/they_might_be_giants_rip_torn.html"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; (beating up Normal Mailer is pretty good too).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5971872330945828617?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5971872330945828617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5971872330945828617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/wednesday-october-5-2011.html' title='Wednesday, October 5, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-7688652735148897861</id><published>2011-10-04T12:08:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-04T12:08:15.278-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Building those legends</title><content type='html'>Note how the Angry Arab was &lt;a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/10/two-american-hikers-in-iran.html"&gt;fooled&lt;/a&gt; into helping the Zionist spies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jews have had lots of time to build the legends of their operatives.&amp;nbsp; Both the three spies caught in Iran and the Jewish-American spy, Ilan Grapel, caught in Egypt had built impeccable 'liberal' reputations.&amp;nbsp; You take the right courses, attend the right rallies, say the right things to your friends, make the right postings on your blog.&amp;nbsp; All your life is directed to providing a convincing story to fool Americans.&amp;nbsp; When a Zionist operative is caught, the handlers can say 'that's impossible', he/she was pro-Arab, pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist, etc, etc.&amp;nbsp; Why would we be surprised over and over again that the Jews would be smart enough to provide this cover for their assets?&amp;nbsp; Even in their post-release press conference, the spies caught by Iran kept in character by mildly criticizing American policy towards Iran, all the while making the Iranian government seem like monsters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-7688652735148897861?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7688652735148897861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/7688652735148897861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/building-those-legends.html' title='Building those legends'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1023183169341959379</id><published>2011-10-02T06:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-02T06:32:28.131-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday, October 2, 2011</title><content type='html'>"The &lt;a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-of-oscar-romero-identified.html"&gt;killer&lt;/a&gt; of Oscar Romero identified"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110929/16075316140/fbi-successful-breaking-up-yet-another-its-own-plots-to-bomb-us.shtml"&gt;FBI&lt;/a&gt; Successful In Breaking Up Yet Another Of Its Own Plots To Bomb The US"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/american-hiker-freed-by-iran-has-israeli-father-1.386890"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; hiker freed by Iran has Israeli father"&amp;nbsp; I think it is precious that they are pretending they hid this from the &lt;i&gt;Iranians&lt;/i&gt; - who, of course, have good intelligence and would have known - when the real reason for the censorship was to hide the truth from the American people, as it would have muddied the propaganda use of the caught spies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A hands-free &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044222/A-hands-free-green-man--devout-Jews-cross-road.html"&gt;green&lt;/a&gt; man...so devout Jews can cross the road without breaking a religious law"&amp;nbsp; What &lt;b&gt;power&lt;/b&gt; looks like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1023183169341959379?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1023183169341959379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1023183169341959379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-october-2-2011.html' title='Sunday, October 2, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4880497042603747609</id><published>2011-10-02T06:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-02T06:21:37.964-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Another hasbara backfire</title><content type='html'>The Jews managed to turn a small exhibition of drawings by Palestinian children which would have been seen by a few hundred people into a &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/photos-of-the-crowd-at-the-opening-of-mecas-a-childs-view-from-gaza-exhibit.html"&gt;major&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/could-censorship-of-childrens-art-prove-a-turning-point.html"&gt;exhibition&lt;/a&gt; that will be seen by thousands.&amp;nbsp; Moral and decent people don't like to be pushed around.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4880497042603747609?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4880497042603747609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4880497042603747609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-hasbara-backfire.html' title='Another hasbara backfire'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-3904777239106543385</id><published>2011-10-01T10:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T10:11:58.378-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fear of falling</title><content type='html'>"&lt;a href="http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/middle-class-fear/"&gt;Why&lt;/a&gt; Middle-Class People Fear Tax Increases on the Rich":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"It’s usually assumed that the reason Americans specifically don’t want to see taxes raised on the rich is because, in spite of driving a defunct GM brand four-door, they think of themselves as the “&lt;i&gt;soon-to-be rich&lt;/i&gt;.” But a &lt;a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w17234"&gt;paper&lt;/a&gt; published in the National Journal of Economic Research in July suggests otherwise. They offer that it’s not hoping to be on top that makes us not want the wealthier to be taxed more – it’s the fear of being at the bottom. It’s referred to as “last-place aversion.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Economist&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21525851?frsc=dg"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt;, “In keeping with the notion of ‘last-place aversion,’ the people who were a spot away from the bottom were the most likely to give the money to the person above them: rewarding the ‘rich’ but ensuring that someone remained poorer than themselves.” &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;So taxing the rich isn’t about the fantasy that we’re going to someday be rich – it’s about the very real visceral fear of being, well, the poorest. If the government helps those below you, then they’ll be at your level – that’s the unfairness they’re afraid of."&lt;/blockquote&gt;More food for thought from that &lt;i&gt;Economist&lt;/i&gt; article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The differences in attitude towards redistributive taxes are not just between countries but also within them, and economists have several explanations as to why. When it comes to differences between countries, social cohesion plays a major role. Broadly speaking, countries that are more ethnically or racially homogeneous are more comfortable with the state seeking to mitigate inequality by transferring some resources from richer to poorer people through the fiscal system. This may explain why Swedes complain less about high taxes than the inhabitants of a country of immigrants such as America. But it also suggests that even societies with a tradition of high taxes (such as those in Scandinavia) might find that their citizens would become less willing to finance generous welfare programmes were immigrants to make up a greater share of their populations."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-3904777239106543385?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3904777239106543385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/3904777239106543385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/10/fear-of-falling.html' title='Fear of falling'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-2104039929804669207</id><published>2011-09-29T02:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T02:13:28.135-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Atzmon!</title><content type='html'>Obama gave his infamous UN speech - 'I'm a Jewslave and you are too' - to the American (and Israeli) people (or, rather, the American and Israeli Jews) on September 21.&amp;nbsp; That provides the context.&amp;nbsp; Obama abased himself so much it created a bit of a panic amongst the Zionists.&amp;nbsp; The over-the-top ultra Zionism from the President of the United States in what is perhaps the most embarrassing speech ever given by an American President, and one which the history books may mark as a turning point in American decline, provided the final confirmation of everything Walt and Mearsheimer has written on Lobby power (not to mention everything that Gilad Atzmon, not confined by the self-censorship required by academia, has written). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mearsheimer wrote a blurb for the latest &lt;a href="http://www.zero-books.net/book/detail/1657/The-Wandering-Who"&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; by Gilad Atzmon, "The Wandering Who?", and Adam Holland attempted another drive-by &lt;a href="http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2011/09/john-mearsheimer-supports-anti-semitic.html"&gt;smearing&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2011/09/mearsheimer-continues-to-defend-anti.html"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, the concentration camp guard couldn't &lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/john-mearsheimer-endorses-a-hitler-apologist-and-holocaust-revisionist/245518/"&gt;resist&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/a-mearsheimer-falsehood-and-other-reactions-to-atzmon/245711/"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walter Russell &lt;a href="http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/09/23/john-mearsheimer-dances-with-the-dark/"&gt;Mead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mearsheimer's conclusive &lt;a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/25/mearsheimer_responds_to_goldbergs_latest_smear"&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; to all the Zio-nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2011/09/26/3089598/mearsheimer-goldberg-atzmon"&gt;Mearsheimer&lt;/a&gt;, Goldberg, Atzmon" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the professional 'left' &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/gilad-atzmon-antisemitism-the-left"&gt;weighs&lt;/a&gt; in, complete with another drive-by smearing of those real progressives fighting for the rights of the oppressed, in this case, Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alison Weir &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/antisemitism-the-left"&gt;responds&lt;/a&gt; (Andy Newman picked a particularly unfortunate area in which to attack, given that the organ snatching allegations have all proven to be true, and then some!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Cook: &amp;nbsp; "The Dangerous &lt;a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/28/the-dangerous-cult-of-the-guardian/"&gt;Cult&lt;/a&gt; of the Guardian" (correctly ties the attack on Atzmon to the attempt by the Guardian to wreck Wikileaks).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A direct &lt;a href="http://leninology.blogspot.com/2011/09/zero-authors-statement-on-gilad-atzmon.html"&gt;attack&lt;/a&gt; on Atzmon from the professional 'left'.&amp;nbsp; I suppose the terrible intellectual decline of the 'left' is part and parcel of the terrible times in which we live.&amp;nbsp; There is simply no longer any credible opposition to evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/goldberg-vs-mearsheimer-by-gilad-atzmon.html"&gt;Goldberg&lt;/a&gt; vs. Mearsheimer" by Gilad Atzmon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"To be honest, it is somewhat amusing that an ex concentration camp&amp;nbsp;guard&amp;nbsp;like Goldberg should label me a ‘Hitler apologist’ or a &amp;nbsp;‘Holocaust denier’: after all, since Goldberg is an ardent pro-war Zionist who openly and enthusiastically supports a Jews-only, racist, expansionist state, it is clear that he is actually the one who is an advocate of a distinctly Nazi-like ideology and practice." &lt;/blockquote&gt;and:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"What is clear to the rest of us is that our Zionist detractors are fighting a lost battle. I really wonder what they hope to achieve: after all, those who have taken the time to actually read my work know very well that there is no hatred, no anti Semitism, and no racism in my entire body of work. Instead, I believe that truth is a dynamic process --&amp;nbsp;I believe in the power of reason and in free debate.&lt;br /&gt;If Jeffrey Goldberg has any dignity left at all, then he should start again -- He should apologise to Professor Mearsheimer, myself, the Palestinians, and to humanity.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He would do better to also try to present an argument, and if he actually has anything to say, he would be best advised to then learn how to argue and encounter in debate." &lt;/blockquote&gt;Level-headed reviews:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/middle-east/77-middle-east/10205-a-lingering-what-a-review-of-the-wandering-who-by-gilad-atzmon.html"&gt;Larudee&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.redress.cc/zionism/pjballes20110909"&gt;Balles&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/09/wandering-who-gildad-atzmons-look-at.html"&gt;Duff&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; William A. &lt;a href="http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=17115"&gt;Cook&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2011/September/12%20o/The%20Wandering%20Who,%20Gilad%20Atzmon,%20King%20of%20the%20Jews,%20Hated%20by%20All%20Jews,%20a%20Book%20Review%20By%20Shahram%20Vahdany.htm"&gt;Vahdany&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.zimoz.co.uk/news/culture/the-wandering-who-a-study-of-jewish-identity-politics/"&gt;Blakeley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One can only hope that all the Zionist nonsense will make Atzmon's book a bestseller. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-2104039929804669207?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2104039929804669207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/2104039929804669207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/atzmon.html' title='Atzmon!'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4264611434261555621</id><published>2011-09-25T05:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T05:21:47.529-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday, September 25, 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Lawrence of Cyberia&lt;/i&gt; with some &lt;a href="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2011/09/on-why-micronesia-opposes-palestinian-self-determination.html"&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"So, to get this clear: The United States, which once coerced members of the U.N. into establishing the Israeli half of the two state solution when no clear international consensus existed on that step, is today trying to coerce members of the U.N. into NOT establishing the Palestinian half of the two state solution, even though a strong international consensus exists in favor of this. And this is the same United States that for the last 20 years has been the sole mediator of a 'peace process' allegedly intended to lead to the establishment of that two state solution. Do you really wonder why that process has failed to deliver?"&lt;/blockquote&gt;Philip Giraldi:  "&lt;a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/09/21/biggest-losers-in-palestine-veto-the-american-people/"&gt;Biggest&lt;/a&gt; Losers in Palestine Veto? The American People":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Israel sees danger precisely because the Palestinian bid will do a couple of things that call into question some significant aspects of the status quo. First of all, since it will certainly pass with a huge majority in the General Assembly if the Palestinians opt to go that route, it will provide overwhelming international confirmation of Palestinian rights with the U.S. and Israel standing on the wrong side on the issue. It will also severely undermine Israel’s moral position, such as it is, and emphasize the illegality of the Israeli occupation of parts of the West Bank. The process is already illegal in the eyes of the rest of the world, including the United States, but it will be even less tenable if a convincing majority of the world’s countries recognize Palestine as a state with defined borders and a national identity.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Second, recognition of statehood carries with it recognition that the state exists within defined space, in this case the 1967 borders. This has enormous significance because those borders include many areas being colonized by the Israelis, as well as East Jerusalem. It means that any Israeli settlement that is on the other side of that border is considered completely illegal and that Israel is therefore a rogue state that is occupying and settling lands belonging to a neighboring state 44 years after the cessation of hostilities. Even the New York Times in an article on Sept. 10 regarding the recent unrest in Egypt, noting that Islamic groups were not involved, conceded that criticism of Israel has a basis in the widespread popular perception that “Muslims, Arabs, and indeed many around the globe believe Israel is unjustly occupying Palestinian territories, and they are furious at Israel for it.” The rejection of Palestinian statehood and the debate surrounding it will only heighten that sentiment.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If the Palestinians are in the United Nations as a full member or even with limited rights, they will have access to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they can take legal steps against Israel and against individual Israelis. Even though Israel doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the court, when it reaches the point where no senior Israeli government official, present or retired, can travel without concern over being arrested, it will have a major impact on how Israel sees itself and how the rest of the world sees Israel. The clear depiction of Israel as an occupying power in violation of the Geneva Conventions, to which most of the world’s nations are signatories, would also fuel the Israel divestment campaign, which is another major concern of the Israeli government, and also legitimately so, as it could have a serious impact on the Israeli economy.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Palestinians would also have recourse to other United Nations bodies. They would, for example, be able to appeal to UNESCO to stop the Israeli demolition of Muslim and Arab historical sites and the renaming of villages and other landmarks, a considerable benefit."&lt;/blockquote&gt;Abbas gave a very dignified, elegant and eloquent speech, and Bibi responded by making farting noises with his armpit (at least, I think it was his armpit).  A lot of the criticism of the Palestinian moves misses the fact that the Israelis have much of the Western world tied up as abject Jewslaves, and the Jews &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; intend  to negotiate anything.&amp;nbsp; Israel will die of its own hand, but it is the job of the Palestinians to provoke the Jews to jump off that cliff.&amp;nbsp; It is also extremely helpful to shame the Western Jewslaves into recognizing how silly they look.&amp;nbsp; When Obama gave his speech, he was naked on all fours, with a leather collar around his neck attached to a steel chain held by a Jew, eating dog food off the floor of the UN.&amp;nbsp; Keep that image in mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"'&lt;a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311848"&gt;Ground&lt;/a&gt; Zero' mosque opens without much controversy"&amp;nbsp; I wonder if the Grand Jewish Conspiracy ordered quiet on this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charles Percy, one of the first American politicians to challenge American Jewslavery, and one of the first to lose his seat because of it, has died.&amp;nbsp; His daughter's &lt;a href="http://wilmette.patch.com/articles/investigators-question-initial-stages-of-45-year-old-murder"&gt;murder&lt;/a&gt; is one of the great American &lt;a href="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12874"&gt;unsolved&lt;/a&gt; cases. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firefox 6 is completely &lt;a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&amp;amp;t=2302523&amp;amp;p=11241107"&gt;broken&lt;/a&gt;, but, as usual, it is almost a secret.&amp;nbsp; People just give up and move over to Chrome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4264611434261555621?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4264611434261555621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4264611434261555621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/sunday-september-25-2011.html' title='Sunday, September 25, 2011'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-4212969116764775012</id><published>2011-09-23T04:24:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-23T04:24:27.611-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The stick is a carrot, and the carrot is a stick</title><content type='html'>The Americans are threatening to cut aid to the Palestinians if Abbas goes ahead with the UN statehood bid.&amp;nbsp; This 'aid' is used to pay for corruption amongst Palestinian officials.&amp;nbsp; What's left pays for the police state to oppress Palestinians so Israel won't have to.&amp;nbsp; Cutting aid would benefit most Palestinians.&amp;nbsp; Some threat!&amp;nbsp; The stick is a carrot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to be amused at the casual treason of most American politicians:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/world/middleeast/house-gop-finds-a-growing-bond-with-netanyahu.html"&gt;When&lt;/a&gt; the Obama administration wanted to be certain that Congress would not block $50 million in new aid to the Palestinian Authority last month, it turned to a singularly influential lobbyist: Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;At the request of the American Embassy and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Netanyahu urged dozens of members of Congress visiting Israel last month not to object to the aid, according to Congressional and diplomatic officials. Mr. Netanyahu’s intervention with Congress underscored an extraordinary intersection of American diplomacy and domestic politics, the result of an ever-tightening relationship between the Israeli government and the Republican Party that now controls the House&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;.. . . &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;One of the members of Congress who attended the meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in August, Representative Michael G. Grimm of New York, a Republican, said that it was carefully explained to the delegation that the money would be used for training Palestinian police officers who work closely with the Israeli government.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Mr. Grimm said he felt more comfortable receiving the explanation from the prime minister than from Obama administration officials.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I think the credibility is different,” he said, “in the sense that this is his country and he certainly would not support something that would have negative effects within his country.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;The Israelis want the aid to continue as it is really just another part of the many billions of American dollars going to the Jews.&amp;nbsp; Obama's UN speech is the most embarrassingly subservient - not to mention mendacious from one end to the other - speech ever given by an American official before the UN.  Americans have never been so enslaved, and the world knows it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The carrot is even more ridiculous.  For decades, the Zionist plan has been to stall using bad faith negotiations and promises of further negotiations while it expands its illegal settlements each day. If Abbas backs down he gets . . . &lt;i&gt;more negotiations&lt;/i&gt;?&amp;nbsp; Along with a requirement to recognize the legality of the settlements and the Jewishness of the state of Israel?&amp;nbsp; You have got to be kidding me.&amp;nbsp; The carrot is a stick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck to the Palestinians on their big day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-4212969116764775012?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4212969116764775012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/4212969116764775012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/stick-is-carrot-and-carrot-is-stick.html' title='The stick is a carrot, and the carrot is a stick'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-5887394575479393181</id><published>2011-09-21T08:05:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-21T08:06:01.759-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Humiliation</title><content type='html'>"The &lt;a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011919102245537768.html"&gt;humiliation&lt;/a&gt; of Barack Obama"&amp;nbsp; I would think that a demonstration to the world that the Americans are just lowly Jewslaves is one of the main benefits of a Palestinian attempt at statehood before the Security Council.&amp;nbsp; It will be interesting to see what the UK and France do - will they hang the Americans out to dry by abstaining?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The usual question about &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-need-just-two-more-security-council-votes-in-bid-for-statehood-1.385604"&gt;Colombia&lt;/a&gt; - do the Jews pay the bribes in shekels or kilos?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It remains unclear what will happen, but the Americans are spinning &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestinians-still-lack-security-council-majority-for-statehood-un-sources-say-1.385661"&gt;like&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-un-palestinians-20110921,0,4194458.story?track=rss&amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+International"&gt;crazy&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; When was the last time the Palestinians had this much attention paid to them?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-5887394575479393181?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5887394575479393181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/5887394575479393181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/humiliation.html' title='Humiliation'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-8249655000276080375</id><published>2011-09-19T10:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T10:23:11.618-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Another generous offer</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/world/middleeast/palestinians-see-united-nations-appeal-as-best-option-available.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp"&gt;offer&lt;/a&gt; - note the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; used its two best Israeli Zionists to write this article - proffered by Dennis Ross (!) to Abbas on behalf of the American government (and the Europeans, bringing up the rear as the other Jew-slaves) to convince the Palestinians to drop their UN bid for recognition as a state was so laughable you have to wonder if it was intended to be an offer the Palestinians couldn't possibly accept.&amp;nbsp; Essentially, Abbas would give up, and in return the Palestinians would get to . . . recognize Israel as a Jewish state and legitimize all the settlements.&amp;nbsp; As difficult as it is to believe, that's the gist of the American offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the lites believe that the UN recognition as a state can be used to freeze the extent of Palestinian rights, and thus at least temporarily create the two-state solution that will be used to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel.&amp;nbsp; Therefore, the plan may very well be to force Abbas to obtain the state he wants.&amp;nbsp; Actually, the US veto will prevent the full state, leaving the Palestinians with years of legal wrangling over whether what they got is enough to accomplish anything practical.&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, the lite Zionists will argue that the semi-state is enough to terminate any possible Palestinian claims beyond the 1967 borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said all that, the Palestinians have no choice but to go for it.&amp;nbsp; They have to break the log-jam, and end the slow-motion land theft based on the infinite promises of future negotiations.&amp;nbsp; The fact that Jews have schemes is no reason to assume that the schemes will succeed.&amp;nbsp; This is the first time in a long time that the Palestinians have seized the initiative.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-8249655000276080375?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8249655000276080375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/8249655000276080375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-generous-offer.html' title='Another generous offer'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862010.post-1865264770320531699</id><published>2011-09-17T09:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T09:34:48.992-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hagueophobia</title><content type='html'>The Israeli-American-&lt;a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/seeks+limited+upgrade+Palestinians+status/5410445/story.html"&gt;European&lt;/a&gt; conspiracy is to foist an 'upgrade' in status on the Palestinians that would be less than full state status.&amp;nbsp; Why?&amp;nbsp; The details of their machinations prove that the real issue is that Bibi and his pals are terrified of The Hague:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-israel-will-agree-to-upgrade-of-palestinian-status-not-statehood-1.384716"&gt;Netanyahu&lt;/a&gt; continued his talks with U.S. envoys Dennis Ross and David Hale on Thursday, as well as Ashton and Quartet envoy Tony Blair, in an attempt to reach a compromise that would prevent an Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the UN. But no breakthrough was made, and the PA's appeal to the United Nations next week is regarded as inevitable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Netanyahu told his interlocutors that granting the PA the status of a state would allow the Palestinians to go to the International Criminal Court in The Hague over issues like settlement construction. "But as long as it is less than a state, I'm ready to talk about it," a source familiar with the conversation quoted him as saying. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of Netanyahu's advisers also said that Israel would not object to the PA's status being upgraded as long as it is not recognized as a state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both U.S. officials and Blair have been pressuring Ashton over the past few days to quash a French-Spanish initiative under which the EU's 27 members would unanimously support a General Assembly resolution upgrading the PA's status at the United Nations to that of a nonmember state. This initiative would give the PA the same status the Vatican now has. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In exchange, the PA would not ask the Security Council to grant it full UN membership or file charges against Israelis in the ICC. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashton, who had come to the region to gauge the parties' response to the French-Spanish initiative, did not even discuss it due to this pressure. Instead, without consulting the EU member states, Ashton raised a proposal of her own that conformed to Netanyahu's position. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under Ashton's proposal, the PA would be upgraded to a new legal status less than that of a state. Such a status currently does not exist at the United Nations, but would be created especially for this purpose. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This status would not give the PA the standing it would need to take Israelis to the ICC."&lt;/blockquote&gt;If the Collaborator-In-Chief Abbas falls for any of this, the Palestinians must hold an immediate collaboration trial and hang him on the spot, even if they have to tie the rope to the curtain rod of a New York City hotel room.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/862010-1865264770320531699?l=xymphora.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1865264770320531699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/862010/posts/default/1865264770320531699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/09/hagueophobia.html' title='Hagueophobia'/><author><name>xymphora</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
