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Visigoth Kingdom in Spain: Rise and Fall / Christians, Jews, and Fakes / Jerez de la Frontera 711 Defeat Culmination of 300 Years of Preparation

2011-01-20T16:49:00.000-08:00

In the 300s, the Goths (an East Germanic tribal grouping) had been living in the fertile areas on the north shore of the Black Sea. The summers are beautiful, and the winters mild. It was an attractive neighborhood.

UNDER PRESSURE FROM EASTERN INVADERS

The Huns were Asian nomads. They had grown tired of the cold winters out on the steppes, and wanted to move in on the Gothic territories. The Goths wanted to stop them, and lost two kings in the wars.

MOVING WEST

While some stayed and fought, a large group decided it would be safer in the Roman lands. In 376, they traveled to the Danube river frontier, and asked to enter the empire.

WHEN THE GUESTS GET TOO COMFORTABLE

The Romans let them in, and soon found they had taken on a bigger problem than they thought. In 378, the Goths defeated Emperor Valens, the ruler of the eastern lands in the Roman Empire, along with two thirds of his army. (Peter Heather, The Goths, Wiley, 1996, p 1)

The Goths smelled weakness, so followed up with the storming of Rome on 24 August 410. (Peter Heather, The Goths, Wiley, 1996, p 2)

The climate in Italy was better. But when you get right down to it, the winters in Spain are even milder.

TAKING OVER THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

And so they moved into the territory now occupied by Portugal and Spain, together with the province of Narbonne (in France). Their center of empire was located in Toledo. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 304) The provinces included Gallaecia, Tarraconensis, Lusitania, Baetica, and Carthaginiensis.

TRADERS BRING VALUABLE COMMODITIES -- AND MORAL FILTH -- TO THE NEW EMPIRE

Jewish traders brought international commerce to the empire, but with this trade came problems: "the perfidious Jews attempt, when and wherever they can, secretly to pervert Christians and to attract them to the Jewish perfidy." (Bernard Gui, Practica Inquisitionis hereticae pravitatis)

WHEN PERVERSION FLOODS A NATION

"Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were set. The books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots. The plot usually ended with the male protagonists taking revenge, by raping and killing their tormentors."

"the Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. And with them comes a rekindled debate on the cultural representation here of Nazism and the Holocaust, and whether they have been unduly mixed in with a kind of sexual perversion and voyeurism that has permeated even the school curriculum." (Isabel Kershner, Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial, New York Times, 6 September 2007)

CHURCH COUNCIL ADDRESSES PROBLEM -- SORT OF

The atmosphere of perversion caused the Catholic church to act. At a council at Elvira in Andalusia in 306, the clergy decreed that Catholic women would not be allowed to marry Jews. Married Catholics who had sex with Jews could be punished. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 293)

SO THE KING HAD TO ACT

The church rules didn't solve the problem, so the civil authority was forced to act. In 506, King Alaric II took these actions: 1) Intermarriage of Jews and Christians was banned; 2) Jews were excluded from public office, since they were forbidden from having positions of power from which they could harm Christians; and 3) Jews couldn't build new synagogues. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 130)

TWO HUNDRED YEARS PASSED -- PROBLEM DIDN'T CHANGE

The laws of 506 didn’t have the desired effect. Consequently, the Third Council of Toledo in 589 prohibited the Jews yet again from having Christian wives or mistresses.

The Jews were a real problem in the Narbonne area (Septimania), which was scornfully referred to as a brothel of blaspheming Jews. The eight bishops in this area met in Narbonne in 589 to enact laws for the Jews. The laws had little effect. The Jews continued with their Zionist agitation, boldly displaying Hebrew signs in public. (Edward James, Visigothic Spain: New Approaches, Clarendon Press, 1980, p 224)

COULD BAPTISM CURE BLASPHEMY?

These laws didn’t do much good either, so King Sisebut (612 – 621) ordered all Jews to become Christians.

SERIOUS ABUSE OF CHRISTIAN SLAVES

The Goths thought it was wrong that Christians slaves should have to serve the perverted desires of their Jewish masters. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 294) One of the laws the Jews most disliked came from King Sisebut. He said the Jews couldn't own Christian slaves any longer. (Edward James, Visigothic Spain: New Approaches, Clarendon Press, 1980, pp 164, 165) If a law like this was really implemented, the Jews would have been out of work, since “medieval histories, if they mention Jews at all, refer to them almost exclusively as money-lenders or involved in slavery“. (Norman Roth, Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2003, p 189)

WHY NOT JUST BAPTIZE THEM?

King Sisebut was an “educated” king. He gave the Jews two choices: 1) leave the country (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 294), or get baptized (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 295).

One of Sisebut's rules was that if a Jew failed to get a child or servant baptized within one year,

INCENTIVE PLAN

the Jew would be punished with 100 lashes, lose all his possessions, and be expelled from the country. The laws were relatively effective, in that some 90 000 Jews got baptized. (Julius Furst, The Jews in Spain Under the Visigoths, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, November 1849)

THAT BAPTISM WATER DRIED OFF PRETTY QUICKLY

Getting Jews baptized was much easier than helping them to live a Christian life. While these Jews would publicly claim to be Christians, in secret they continued their Jewish rituals. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 131) So much so that the Seventh Council of Toledo denounced the "abominable and impious faithlessness of the Jews". (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 132)

King Reccesuinth passed the Law Code of 654. He tried to stop the judaizing. No more passover. No more ritual sex mutilation. No more ritual slaughter of animals. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 133)

King Recared I made laws prohibiting baptized Jews from offending against the Christian faith (blasphemy), as well as ritual sexual mutilation of children. (Julius Furst, The Jews in Spain Under the Visigoths, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, November 1849)

RELIGIOUS SUPERVISION

The Catholic leaders came together at the Ninth Council of Toledo in 654. They decreed that Jews had to spend all Christian feast days in the presence of the bishop so he could verify they were celebrating properly. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 133)

In 638, the Jews of Toledo promised to give up judaizing (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 137). But this didn’t happen. In 654, the baptized Jews promised not to associate with unbelieving Jews. They specifically stated that any Jew who went back to the old life could be stoned to death or burnt alive. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 138)

These promises were not meant sincerely, as King Ervig found the Jews had engaged in “perfidy and unfaithfulness”. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 135)

King Ervig banned celebration of the Sabbath and all other Jewish rituals. He decreed that the Jews could not work on Sundays or Christian feast days. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 133) He further required Jews to keep a copy of the royal laws on their person at all times. If they engaged in ritual sexual mutilation or ritual slaughter, Jews would be punished by 100 lashes. These measures were formally confirmed by the bishops at the XII Council of Toledo in January 681. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 134)

THE PERSISTENT PROBLEM OF JEWISH SLAVE TRADING

The laws were not respected, so in 694 it was decided that the Jews were no longer owners of the property they had. It was decreed, yet again, that Christian slaves were to be liberated. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 135)

The basis for the severe laws of 694 was that Jews were conspiring with external powers to overthrow the kingdom. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, pp 135 - 136) Naturally, the Jews denied this. The pretension was that they were loyal citizens. But they were lying.

TERRORISM A.D. 612

When a king was too strict with the Jews, he often died an untimely death. Like King Gundemar, whose reign lasted for only two years -- between 610 and 612. Another damaging factor was that the Jews were in the money business, and the princes were often in need. Like the gothic noble Froga, who supported the Jews for pecuniary reasons. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 137)

INFILTRATION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH

In 680, the baptized Jew Renegat managed to became the archbishop of Toledo. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 295) He called himself Julian, and ruled until 690.

These Jews pretended to be Christians. But when pressed to actually live according to Christian principles, the Jews were generally unable to do so. Rather than reform their lives, they took off for their ancestral home in north Africa. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 296)

JEWISH BETRAYAL

On arrival in north Africa, the Jews worked together with the Moslems to prepare an invasion of Spain. King Egika recognized this danger in 694, when he stated in Toledo: “We have recently learned from reliable sources that the Jews in Spain are working with Jews in other countries to conspire against the Christians.”

Arab historians all agree that the Jews, both inside and outside of Spain, helped to arrange the Islamic conquest of Spain. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 298) Jews traveled freely between Spain and North Africa, and spied on the Gothic armies and military arrangements.

They stirred up trouble in the Basque areas of northern Spain. When the Jews knew that King Roderic and his military were busy in the north,

JEWISH COMBAT TROOPS INVADE SPAIN

an Arab army commanded by Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed over to the Bay of Gibraltar. Things looked safe, so the main wave of Jewish fighters came over in a second wave commanded by Kaulan al Jahudi. These two armies, Jewish and Arab, marched off to Cordoba. (id., p. 299) Tarik ibn Ziyad was "a Berber recognized as Jewish of the tribe of Simeon". (Spanish-Jewish Chronology, http://sefarad.rediris.es/english/cronologia_english.htm)

On 19 July 711, the big battle took place at the mouth of the Rio Salado. The battle lasted six or seven days, and was decided

TREACHERY

when Jews arranged for a wing commander of the Gothic army to defect to their forces. This was the battle of Jerez de la Frontera. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 300)

JEWISH GARRISONS / MOP UP

In many cases, when the Arab soldiers had conquered a city, they left it in care of the Jews, and moved on to conquer other cities. Jews had always lived in cities, and they had their

OPENING THE GATES, JUST LIKE IN JERUSALEM

settlements in all cities of any commercially-significant size. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 298) Some cities seemed to have almost completely Jewish populations, like Granada and Lucena.

The reader is invited to compare this development with the aftermath of the 614 conquest of Jerusalem.

The Visigoths were driven out of their homes and palaces by those people they had sheltered and tolerated for hundreds of years. People who had claimed to be Christians. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p 131) The sort of people who had taken over management of the Catholic church in Toledo. (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 295) But had all the time been conspiring to damage and enslave the Christians (per King Egika cited in Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p 298).

Afghan War Consequences Come Home -- to the Congress

2011-01-12T13:46:00.001-08:00

Jews will be Jews, and so they gather together from holiday to holiday at the Congregation Chaverim in Tucson, Arizona.

POWER JEW

One of the Jews in attendance there was Gabrielle Giffords, a wealthy Jewess who had made it right into the Congress of the United States.

A country which is involved in an endless, very bloody war in Afghanistan.

GIFFORDS: AN UNPOPULAR WAR

The people don't like the war, so the drug business needs plenty of congress members to support this unpopular waste of the national treasure: "Today, President Obama is faced with the challenge of rallying public and congressional support for the mission in Afghanistan." (Gabrielle Giffords, Afghanistan war was worth fighting in 2001, still is today, 12 Oct 2009)

AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS DIE IN FAR-AWAY COUNTRIES

Jewish president Obama had a challenge, and Ms. Giffords was there to help: "This was a war worth fighting eight years ago and it remains so today." (Gabrielle Giffords, Afghanistan war was worth fighting in 2001, still is today, 12 Oct 2009)

DEVELOPMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN HAD HURT THE DRUG INDUSTRY FINANCIALLY

Back in 2001, Luke Harding could say "Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban rulers have dramatically ended the country's massive opium trade ... Western sources in Kabul yesterday confirmed poppy production in Afghanistan had virtually ceased. This follows an edict issued last year by the Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, declaring opium to be un-Islamic." (Luke Harding, World's opium source destroyed, The Observer, 1 Apr 2001)

Maybe a little war could change that?

WELL WORTH FIGHTING -- FOR THE DRUG BUSINESS

It did. 6900 tonnes of opium were produced in 2009. (UN says Afghan opium harvest down, Al Jazeera, 2 Sep 2009) "This was a war worth fighting eight years ago and it remains so today." (Gabrielle Giffords, Afghanistan war was worth fighting in 2001, still is today, 12 Oct 2009) After all, those anti-opium Taliban types are still fighting to clean up their country.

Congresswoman Giffords' war had so many financial benefits for the drug business. For these people, it was a war well worth fighting.

And the Jewish community prospered.

One of the happy Jews in Tucson was Amy Loughner, who also attended Ms. Giffords' synagogue. (http://www.whitenewsnow.com/forums/us-news-white-folks/13368-jared-loughner-jewish-but-his-synagogue-congregation-chaverim-hid-fact-america.html) Her son wanted to help keep the war going.

If he went to Afghanistan, he could do so much for the cause.

DRUG ADDICT

Only problem was, he was already helping too much. With drug consumption: "He didn't fail a drug test — he admitted to excessive drug use". Make that "a habitual drug abuser". (Mark Thompson, How Marijuana Use Aborted Jared Loughner's Military Career, Time, 10 Jan 2011)

The Afghan war had made so many more drugs available -- and affordable. This Jewish boy was supporting the cause.

And then they wouldn't let him into the army, where he could shoot so many civilians -- legally. In that war so well worth fighting (per Gabrielle Giffords, Afghanistan war was worth fighting in 2001, still is today, 12 Oct 2009).

JARED WOULD HAVE FIT RIGHT IN

A war in which American soldiers were "running a "kill team" that murdered Afghan civilians". "civilians were killed with hand grenades and guns and their deaths made to appear to be legitimate battlefield casualties." As one of the American soldiers put it, "Everyone just wants to kill people at any cost. They don't care. The Army is full of a bunch of scumbags I realized." (Chris McGreal, US military investigates 'death squad' accused of murdering Afghans, Guardian, 29 Dec 2010)

Jared felt so cheated.

And so he smoked dope. And got a gun. And got ready for revenge.

OLD TESTAMENT FANATIC

It was about this time that Jared was studying the Jewish scriptures: "For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death." Exodus 35:2

WITH ZEAL FOR THE TORAH

It came to his attention that fellow-Jew Giffords was working on the Sabbath, and causing her Jewish assistant Gabe Zimmerman to desecrate the holy day as well.

This was more than this zealous young Jew could stand. And so, on 8 January 2011, when Ms. Giffords should have been in synagogue, Jared implemented Exodus 35:2.

TRAGIC FRUITS OF RELIGIOUS FANATICISM

This Jew shot his apostate fellow Jews, and threw in some Christians as well.

This loss of life happened in Arizona because the army wouldn't take him for the killing fields in Afghanistan. There he could have joined the team that "just wants to kill people at any cost. They don't care." (Chris McGreal, US military investigates 'death squad' accused of murdering Afghans, Guardian, 29 Dec 2010) And then, instead of a trial and ten years in a mental hospital, he would have gotten promotions and medals.

Roald Dahl, English Writer, on Jews and Israel / From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Problems in Society

2010-12-30T12:56:00.001-08:00

Roald Dahl was a famous writer. While he is primarily remembered for children's books like the classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he also had some informed observations about what happens in society. Dahl advised there is "a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke a certain animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews." (Roald Dahl cited in D/onald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Simon and Schuster, 2010, p 511)

A TRAIT IN HIS CHARACTER

Mikhail Khodorkovsky used to be an oil tycoon. He has been convicted by a Russian court for "stealing almost $30 billion worth of the oil". (Nataliya Vasilyeva, Russian tycoon Khodorkovsky gets 6 more years, AP, 30 Dec 2010)

And there's been some animosity because of this massive theft?

There was. 14 years worth of it. That's the sentence that Russian judge Viktor Danilkin imposed on this Jew.

Roald Dahl's observation was accurate. But maybe just this once?

KING DAVID AND THE CONQUEST OF RABBAH

Years ago -- about 3000 years ago -- the great Jewish King David ruled in Jerusalem. He sent his army under the commander Joab to attack the city of Rabbah.

Joab had good success, and captured the royal fortifications and the water supply for the city. He sent word to King David to come and finish the job.

And so the Jewish King came. After a very brief battle with some very thirsty opponents David took the city. "And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance." (2 Samuel 12:30, Holy Bible) And this is "the trait in the Jewish character that does provoke a certain animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews." (Roald Dahl cited in Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Simon and Schuster, 2010, p 511)

But isn't it normal to take some plunder in war? Maybe.

What happened next was extremely perverse. "And he brought forth the people that were therein, and

KING DAVID AND THE SAUSAGE FACTORY -- SLICE, DICE, CHOP, AND THEN OFF TO THE OVENS

put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon." (2 Samuel 12:31, Holy Bible)

Roald Dahl wrote about a chocolate factory, where lots of treats for children were produced. But the Jewish King David had that trait in his character -- a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews." (Roald Dahl cited in Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Simon and Schuster, 2010, p 511) And sent his victims off to the sausage factory.

REACTION

Roald Dahl heard about what the Jews were doing in some wars: "we all started hating the Israelis". (Roald Dahl cited in Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, Simon and Schuster, 2010, p 510)

And it wasn't just Dahl.

NEW AMSTERDAM

Peter Stuyvesant managed New Amsterdam for the Dutch West India Company. "When the Jews arrived, Stuyvesant sought permission from Amsterdam to keep them out altogether. The Jews, he explained, were "deceitful," "very repugnant," and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ."" (Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 2)

TIMELESS WISDOM

Roald Dahl was a master of the written word, an ace pilot, and a man who had seen the world.

But most importantly, a man who spoke truth. His message is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago, 350 years ago, and all the way back to the time of King David. So the next time you hear about a case of bias and animosity, remember the lessons of Roald Dahl, Peter Stuyvesant, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and King David.

Julian Assange goes to School / When you expose too much truth, get ready for the third degree

2010-12-16T05:14:00.001-08:00

PUBLICITY FOR GOVERNMENTAL WRONGDOING

Julian Assasnge run the WikiLeaks website. "WikiLeaks deeply angered U.S. officials by beginning to publish its trove of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables". (Cassandra Vinograd, Julian Assange back in court to fight for bail, AP, 16 Dec 2010)

And what did the "U.S. Officials" do about this? Did they claim the cables were fabricated?

No. This was the real deal.

CORRUPT GOVERNMENT FIGHTS BACK

So President Obama "sent his spokesperson Robert Gibbs out to discredit the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange" reference

Assange was publishing all sorts of true, but extremely unflattering information about the nuts and bolts of Jewish President Barack Obama's government.

Maybe the boys could publish some very unflattering information about Julian Assange.

PUBLICITY FOR SEXUAL ADVENTURER

While Assange is a real expert with the internet and publicity, he can't keep his pecker in his pants. And so they decided to bait him.

THE WILLING, NO, MAKE THAT EAGER, "VICTIM"

"One of the women said in her statement to police that she was obsessed with meeting the tall, wiry man she had come to see as a hero of free speech — "interesting, brave and admirable."" (Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

BAITING THE HOOK

"For two weeks after seeing an Assange TV interview, the 27-year-old woman devoured news reports about him. Then one night, she Googled his name and learned he was giving a lecture in Sweden on Aug. 14.

The woman contacted the organizers and offered to do chores if she were allowed to attend. She turned up in a bright pink sweater and sat in the front row — looking out of place amid a sea of journalists in somber suits. The ice was broken when she agreed to buy a cable for Assange's computer.

She was invited to a post-lecture dinner, she said, and seated next to Assange. They flirted, she told police: At one point Assange hand-fed her cheese and bread. The police report says she found it "flattering."

"VICTIM" BRINGS "PREDATOR" INTO HER BED

She and Assange went to the movies, where she said they kissed. Two days later she brought him home." (Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

The second "victim" had also invited Assange into her bed. They were sleeping together. "In a London court Tuesday, a lawyer accused Assange of having unprotected sex with the woman while she was asleep.

Afterward, he stayed in the apartment for nearly a week." (Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE LIES

Since there is no allegation that the woman was drugged, there's no way Assange could have had sex with her while she was asleep. She would wake up.

And if there had been a nasty, forceful rape, she would have asked Assange to leave right away. But he stayed for another week in the apartment.

So why would "the boys" even bring such weak accusations?

WHEN MERE ACCUSATIONS ARE ENOUGH FOR A SMEAR

"Assange's Swedish lawyer, Bjorn Hurtig, claims the courts are stacked against defendants in sex cases and Assange essentially has to prove he is innocent." (Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

The rape allegations may not stick: "despite having the highest rate of reported sex offenses among 24 European countries — 47 per 100,000 citizens — Sweden sees only 10 percent of those cases lead to convictions, a 2009 European Commission-funded study found." (Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

But everyone has had a chance to see how the American government does business: "he sent his spokesperson Robert Gibbs out to discredit the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange". (Tom Hayden, Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding, The Nation, 28 Jul 2010)

"American"?

This isn't the first time these people have been troubled by a "tall, wiry man" who was "a hero of free speech". (as per Malin Rising, Assange rape case spotlights Sweden's liberal laws, AP, 8 Dec 2010)

THEY WERE LOOKING TO GET SOME DIRT ON THE TALL MAN

55And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.

BUT WEREN'T THERE THOSE TWO WOMEN IN SWEDEN

56For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

57And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

59But neither so did their witness agree together. (Mark 14, Holy Bible)

BUT ISN'T IT JUST FOR AN INTERROGATION, AND NOT A FULL CRUCIFIXION?

But supposedly they just want to interrogate him?

"A Swedish prosecutor has asked for a court order to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for questioning on suspicions of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.

Director of Public Persecution Marianne Ny said Thursday the reason for the request is that investigators have not been able to bring Assange in for an interrogation." (Sweden seeks to detain Assange in rape case, AP, 18 Nov 2010)

And what do these interrogations look like?

WHEN WITNESSES DON'T WORK OUT

63Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

64Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands. (Mark 14, Holy Bible)

Ah, that kind of interrogation. Its sounds just like a page out of the "secret prison program": "1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.

2. Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.”
(Brian Ross, Richard Esposito, CIA’s Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described – Sources Say Agency’s Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death, ABC, 18 Nov 2005)

THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH

If the "Swedish" prosecutors had enough to charge Assange, they would have done so long ago.

They don't. And so they need more.

BUT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT

Because the outcome has already been determined: "what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death." (Mark 14:64, Holy Bible)

And so they want him as a prisoner. In a facility where they can slap him. And where they keep the records of what was said -- or what they wish was said.

And if Assange says anything remotely like what they want to hear (or their recordtaker claims he did), well, "Where's that cross?"

Sack of Jerusalem 614 A.D.: Khusru Parviz and his 26000 Helpers

2010-11-16T01:49:00.000-08:00

"You say that you trust in your god. Why, then, has he not delivered Jerusalem out of my hands?" "Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not even able to save himself from the Jews, who slew him by nailing him to a cross." (Khusru Parviz cited in Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Macmillan and Co., 1951, p 482)

Khusru Parviz didn't like Christians.

"In A.D. 611 Khusru Parviz, taking advantage of the confusion, again invaded Syria, and after defeating a feeble Roman force sacked Antioch and Apamea. In the following year he invaded Cappadocia for the second time, and in A.D. 614 he took Damascus. From this centre his general in the ensuing year preached a war of extermination against the Christians, and being joined by a body of 26,000 Jews, he besieged, captured, and sacked Jerusalem, carrying off the "True Cross," which was regarded through Christendom as the most sacred treasure in the world." (Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, Macmillan and Co., 1951, p 482)

"It is said that no less than 90,000 Christians perished when Jerusalem fell." (Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099), Catholic Encyclopedia) “We should kill everyone here [in central Gaza]. Everyone here is a terrorist.” (Israeli Officer cited in Israeli Soldiers Confess to Murders in Gaza during Operation ‘Cast Lead’, Trends Updates, 21 Mar 2009)

"The Anastasis, Martyrion and other Christian sanctuaries were burned or razed to the ground. St. Helena's great relic of the Holy Cross was taken off to Persia in triumph.

WHY

The Jews as a reward for their help were allowed to do as they liked in the city." (Jerusalem (A.D. 71-1099), Catholic Encyclopedia)

“When entering a house we had to pull the door and start shooting inside, from floor to floor. I wondered how this can make sense.” (Israeli Soldier cited in Israeli Soldiers Confess to Murders in Gaza during Operation ‘Cast Lead’, Trends Updates, 21 Mar 2009)
2107 Christians were slaughtered at the sheep pool alone. (Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p 390)
1207 monks and nuns in the monasteries on the Mount of Olives were murdered in the same sweep. (Denys Pringle, The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p 72)

The Christian monk Strategios was living near Jerusalem at the time. In his detailed account, he explains how Jews living among the Roman Christians in the city of Jerusalem opened the gates to the invaders. (Ed. by Adam H. Becker and Annette Y. Reed, The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Mohr Siebeck, 2003, p 116)

Lung Cancer, Smoking, Alcohol, and the Secret Intelligence Service -- Secret work with tragic results / Worse than Guantanamo torture?

2010-11-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

Times are changing

“Centuries have rolled by, and they have been much less eventful than this year". (Slottsprest Claus Pavels late 1814 Statement cited in Edvard Bull, Klassekamp og Fellesskap 1920 – 1945, Norges Historie Vol. 13, J.W. Capellens Forlag AS, 1978, p 9)

MORE AND MORE "SECRET" SCAMS ARE BEING EXPOSED

This is the year when so many of the slave traders' scams have been brought to light. There was that "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan, which turned out to really be "Operation Enduring Slavery". In the import piece Wikileaks Publishes Proof of Massive U.S. Criminal Activity / Criminals get “Desperate”, we studied the great work of Julian Assange and Wikileaks in exposing this racket.

Wikileaks was doing their best, but it was this website which exposed the real reasons behind the Afghan war -- it was all about getting heroin produced.

"SECRETS" AND SURPRISE ARE CRUCIAL TO SUCCESSFUL SLAVE TRADING

The slave traders learned early on that surprise and deception were important tools in getting slaves: “To slave-traders rivers offered the final attraction that they could get their slaves by water-borne raids on communities unused to attack from that quarter.” (Alexander Murray, Reason and society in the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 1978, p 43)

This has become more and more difficult now that so much really important information is out there -- and getting read.

JOHN SAWERS THINKS HIS BUSINESS TACTICS ARE SECRET

John Sawers runs the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in England, a country that has been in on the Afghanistan heroin business from the early days. His secrets have recently come out in court:

BUT EVEN THE COURTS ARE LETTING THESE "SECRETS" OUT

"In February, a British court released secret evidence that a former British-based inmate of Guantanamo Bay,

"ENDURING FREEDOM" -- SLAVE TRADER STYLE

Binyam Mohamed, was subjected to “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment during questioning by US agents." (Alice Ritchie, Secrecy 'crucial' in keeping U.K. safe: MI6 chief, AFP, 28 Oct 2010)

Of course, not every slave is kitted out with earmuffs, eye blinders, and forced to kneel. There's still work that has to be done.

THE SLAVERY OF DRUG ADDICTION

Maybe there's another way to keep these slaves in bondage?

Of course. Its the world of addictions. From heroin to nicotine, the slave traders offer a full range of drugs which are effective in dulling the reasoning abilities of their slaves. That way, even though the scams are being exposed left and right, the drunk slaves just can't comprehend what's going on.

Drunk?

"Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday." "According to the scale, devised by a group of scientists including Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs." (Kate Kelland, Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin, Reuters, 1 Nov 2010)

THIS IS REALLY DANGEROUS -- "SO LET'S KEEP IT SECRET"

This is a significant danger. So what is John Sawers and the SIS doing about it?

They're trying to keep things secret: “Secrecy is not there as a cover-up. Secrecy plays a crucial part of keeping Britain safe and secure”. (John Sawers cited in Alice Ritchie, Secrecy 'crucial' in keeping U.K. safe: MI6 chief, AFP, 28 Oct 2010) He has his Secret Intelligence Service.

"Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that "aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy."" (Kate Kelland, Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin, Reuters, 1 Nov 2010)

John Sawers has his big building. There's plenty of torture going on. And he's doing something significant to keep people safe?

EVEN THE RESULTS OF HIS MANY WORKERS AND TORTURERS ARE SECRET

“Few know about the terrorist attacks we help stop”. (John Sawers cited in Alice Ritchie, Secrecy 'crucial' in keeping U.K. safe: MI6 chief, AFP, 28 Oct 2010) Not many people know about any positive results from all this secret work. Because there aren't any: "Alcohol and tobacco are legal for adults in Britain and many other countries". (Kate Kelland, Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin, Reuters, 1 Nov 2010)

The most dangerous drugs are openly trafficked to keep the slaves sedated in those "coalition" countries.

THERE WERE SOME COUNTRIES THAT RESTRICTED THIS DRUG PUSHING

Back in the old days, there were independent Dutch republics in South Africa. They had laws which "strictly forbade the sale of drink to natives." But then England -- John Sawers' country -- came and destroyed the Republics.

BRINGING IN SLAVERY FOR THE AFRICAN NATIVES

And they brought so many rights for the Negroes -- they could "buy liquor freely".

It was obvious to "the more decent members of the British community" that this program would severely harm the natives, since it involved "allowing the horde of Polish Jews to return to establish canteens for selling distilled damnation to the natives". (ed. William Stead, The Review of reviews, vol. 23, p 533)

DISTILLED DAMNATION

"The World Health Organisation estimates that risks linked to alcohol cause 2.5 million deaths a year from heart and liver disease, road accidents, suicides and cancer -- accounting for 3.8 percent of all deaths. It is the third leading risk factor for premature death and disabilities worldwide." (Kate Kelland, Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack, heroin, Reuters, 1 Nov 2010) "Almost all the Jews who lived in villages, and many of those who lived in towns, were leaseholders, innkeepers, and liquor sellers". (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 189)

Occasionally, a slave starts to wake up, and dream of freedom, but "Many smokers believe having the occasional cigarette allows them to refocus". (Going for a smoke? Don't forget to clock out, Reuters, 1 Nov 2010) To get refocused on working for money to buy more drugs from the slave traders:

HOW ADDICTIONS WORK

"in most parts of Poland the peasant was forced to purchase a fixed quota of liquor at the nobleman's tavern (which was usually leased to a Jew)". (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 190) “After studying at the University of Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and receiving a doctorate and a rabbinical diploma from the University of Budapest, he followed his own Zionist impulses and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received the university’s first doctorate, in 1936.” (Robert Thomas, Raphael Patai, 85, a Scholar of Jewish and Arab Cultures, New York Times, 25 Jul 1996)

"But debate on SIS's role is not well informed, in part because we have been so determined to protect our secrets." (John Sawers, Sir John Sawers's speech – full text, Guardian, 28 Oct 2010) (see at left)

The secrets are out. Millions in slavery. Plenty of torture in those "freedom" operations. While the most dangerous drugs are sold openly, and legally, in England.

"I want to answer two important questions: what value do we get from a secret overseas intelligence effort in the modern era? How can the public have confidence that work done in secret is lawful, ethical, and in their interests?" (John Sawers, Sir John Sawers's speech – full text, Guardian, 28 Oct 2010)

What value is there in a ready supply of dangerous drugs in the country? Drugs that kill millions.

For the slave traders -- invaluable.

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Canadian Special Forces Heroes on Frontlines: Operation Enduring Freedom Documents and Wikileaks

2010-10-19T08:41:00.000-07:00

A LONG-RUNNING TERROR WAR

The American special forces have been on the front lines of a terror war in Afghanistan for the longest time: "Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise:

BAITING THE RUSSIANS, RAMPING UP SERIOUS WAR

Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention." (Zbigniew Brzezinski, How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen, Counterpunch)

WHEN AMERICAN "HELP" COMES

The "aid" got a little less secret in October 2001, when America and its helpers launched their official invasion.

THE CREAM OF THE CROP

Their special forces troops moved around the country doing their thing. Units with names like Task Force 373. Oh, what elite soldiers!!!!

OUTFITTED WITH SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION

"One of the incidents reported in the leaked documents relates to an attempt to target Qarl Ur-Rahman, a Taliban commander, near Jalalabad.

SO SECRET -- THEY MOVE UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS

The Guardian reported: "As they approached the target in the darkness, somebody shone a torch on them.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

"A firefight developed, and the taskforce called in an AC-130 gunship, which strafed the area with cannon fire: "The original mission was aborted and TF 373 broke contact and returned to base. Follow-up Report: 7 x ANP KIA, 4 x WIA."

MURDERED THEIR HELPERS

"In plain language: they discovered that the people they had been shooting in the dark were Afghan police officers, seven of whom were now dead and four wounded."" (Andy Bloxham, Afghan war logs: the secret special forces hit squads hunting Taliban leaders, Telegraph, 26 Jul 2010)

You'll be thinking: That was pretty mean spirited of the coalition special forces.

A PACK OF SERIAL KILLERS

But it was more than mean: "Canadian military officer exposed as serial killer". (Charmaine Noronha, Canadian military officer exposed as serial killer, AP, 18 Oct 2010)

There's been a lot of this exposing going on lately.

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF ACCURACY

And all of these crimes being exposed actually happened?

We have some official confirmation: "The Pentagon on Monday asked media organizations not to publish any classified war files released by the WikiLeaks Web site, as the U.S. braces for the potential disclosure of hundreds of thousands of

"SECRET" = "CRIMINAL"

secret Iraq war documents." (Anne Flaherty, Pentagon asks media not to publish war leaks, AP, 18 Oct 2010)

Classified is a word the American government uses to describe criminal undertakings. Whether documents, units or operations -- if its classified, its dirty.

THE SERIAL KILLERS HAD IT ALL CLASSIFIED

Which brings us back to the start of all this destruction in Afghanistan: "But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul." (Zbigniew Brzezinski, How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen, Counterpunch)

BUT WITH THE INTERNET, CLASSIFIED MEANS EXPOSED

It used to be that the boys could pretend that their secrets were closely guarded. But that's all ancient history now.

Consider this revealing report:

BROUGHT AN INNOCENT MAN IN FOR TORTURE

"Meanwhile, NATO forces said a detainee captured in an operation in the south

DIED OF INJURIES INFLICTED BY ZEALOUS INTERROGATORS

was found dead in his holding cell Sunday. NATO said the man was being held in Kandahar province

THEY BEAT HIM SEVERELY

after being detained a day earlier, and

COVER UP IS UNDERWAY

the alliance is investigating the circumstances of his death." (Katherine Houreld, NATO claims it is choking off insurgents' supplies, AP, 18 Oct 2010)

Top that off with some tender personal moments in the life of a Canadian special forces trooper:

"New Years celebration:

Williams rung in the new year of 2009 by another home invasion with his now-familiar perversion and labeling his trophies "HNY" for happy new year.

He is seen in photos completely naked in the house, holding the make-up brush from a 15 year girl to his erect penis, which he appears to have left behind; "to be used again" said the prosecutor.

AND THE AFGHAN PEOPLE ASK THEMSELVES:

When will it end?

Each incident seems more perverse from the last, to the point where it gets difficult to describe in a public forum.

WELCOME TO THE ELITE WORLD OF CANADIAN SPECIAL FORCES

Finding a pair of pink and green striped panties in the bedroom of a 15-year-old girl with apparent blood stains, sends him into a frenzy.
He takes 70 photos of himself smelling, wearing and licking the panties.
12 more of him soiling them." (Live coverage: The trial of Col. Russell Williams LIVE, National Post, October 2010)

And now you know:

1) what "classified" information means;

2) how dangerous the Operation Enduring Freedom "holding cells" are;

3) what elite special forces soldiers are really like; and

4) why "The Pentagon on Monday asked media organizations not to publish any classified war files released by the WikiLeaks Web site". (Anne Flaherty, Pentagon asks media not to publish war leaks, AP, 18 Oct 2010)

Rick Sanchez, CNN, and Bigotry: Who Really Runs the Media?

2010-10-04T04:29:00.001-07:00

TALENTED FRONT MAN

Ricardo León Sánchez de Reinaldo presented "news" for CNN. He looks good (see at left) and speaks even better -- and that in both English and Spanish. Let's say a news source wanted to speak in Spanish. Rick could explain what they had to say.

After about 25 years on farm teams, Sánchez moved up to the big leagues in 2004. CNN.

And people liked him. So much so that he got a 2-hour show.

What a forum!

BUT "SOMEONE ELSE" NEEDED HIS SLOT

But his run at CNN "ended this week because the time slot is being filled by a new show featuring former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer". (David Bauder, CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot, AP, 1 Oct 2010) Mr. Spitzer's paternal grandparents were Galician Jews born in Tluste, Poland. His maternal grandparents were Jews born in the 1890s in Palestine.

"JON STEWART"

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz presents "news" on the Comedy Central channel.

HARASSESS CUBAN NEWS PRESENTER

"Stewart had frequently poked fun of Sanchez on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"". (David Bauder, CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot, AP, 1 Oct 2010) Stewart was born in New York City to a Jewish family. His older brother Larry Leibowitz is Chief Operating Officer of the New York Stock Exchange.

WAS THIS RACISM?

Rick Sanchez didn't enjoy this, and "said that Stewart is bigoted toward "everybody else that's not like him."" Interviewer Pete Dominick said that Stewart/Leibowitz was a "minority". (David Bauder, CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot, AP, 1 Oct 2010) And how could a "minority" possibly be bigoted?

WELL, WHO REALLY RUNS THE MEDIA?

Rick Sanchez observed that the media is run by Jews, so Mr. Stewart/Leibowitz was not a minority around places like CNN: "I'm telling you that everyone who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart" -- in short "the people in this country who are Jewish". (Rick Sanchez cited in David Bauder, CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot, AP, 1 Oct 2010)

And who would know better than Rick Sanchez? He's been around broadcast journalism for his entire career. He had six years at CNN. That should be long enough to figure out who runs things.

SPEEDY CONFIRMATION

And did Rick Sanchez speak truth? "CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez on Friday, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority." (David Bauder, CNN's Sanchez fired after calling Stewart a bigot, AP, 1 Oct 2010)

And the firing was directly related to what he had to say about the Jews?

"Rick Sanchez 'bigot' remarks regarding funnyman Jon Stewart got him fired from his CNN anchor spot." (Jack Ryan, Jon Stewart Slams Rick Sanchez, Fired For 'Bigot' Remarks, Post Chronicle, 4 Oct 2010)

AND NOW HE COULD GROVEL

"All he has to do is apologize to us, and we'll hire him back." (Jon Stewart/Leibowitz cited in Kevin Dolak, Stewart Jokes About Sanchez' Firing, ABC, 3 Oct 2010)

So now you too know who runs the media.

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Organ Trafficking in South Africa / Durban 2010

2010-09-20T09:05:00.001-07:00

A VERY PROFITABLE HOSPITAL COMPANY

Dr Richard Friedland runs hospital company Netcare. His company is very profitable, "growing annual profits at 20%-plus." (Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

WHICH LIKES TO DO BUSINESS IN "DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"

Dr. Friedland's company is "an emerging-market player". (Richard Friedland cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

An "emerging market" is "A foreign economy that is developing in response to the spread of capitalism and has created its own stock market." (http://www.answers.com/topic/emerging-markets)

"Own stock market"?

Not quite: "The invention of the stock exchange is also credited to Jewish financial talent. In Berlin, Paris, London, Frankfort and Hamburg, Jews were in control of the first stock exchanges, while Venice and Genoa were openly referred to in the talk of the day as "Jew cities" where great trading and banking facilities might be found". (Henry Ford, The International Jew - The World's Foremost Problem, The Dearborn Publishing Company, 1920, p 16)

Cities like Johannesburg, South Africa.

A GOOD PLACE FOR PROFITS

"Ja, look, most of the profits are still coming from South Africa. The margins are still here." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

"Know that wherever there is money there are Jews". (Montesquieu cited in Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 252)

BUT THERE IS DANGER

"it's a group you must watch carefully." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

It seems the public prosecutor's office took this advice, because "South Africa's biggest private hospital group was on Wednesday charged in connection with an alleged organ trafficking syndicate in which people's kidneys were transplanted to wealthy Israelis." (David Smith, Hospitals in South Africa charged over kidney transplant trafficking, Guardian, 16 Sep 2010) "most of the profits are still coming from South Africa. The margins are still here." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

Well, what kind of margins are we talking about? "Levy Izhak Rosenbaum is a "matchmaker", and bought organs for $10 000 from connected people in Israel, reselling these items for $160 000 in the United States." (Donald Boström, Våra söner plundras på sina organ, Aftonbladet, 17 Aug 2009) "Know that wherever there is money there are Jews". (Montesquieu cited in Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 252)

"Mr. Rosenbaum had arranged "quite a lot" of matches, and had never failed to satisfy a request." (Donald Boström, Våra söner plundras på sina organ, Aftonbladet, 17 Aug 2009)

A MOUNTAIN OF MONEY

"Netcare, which also runs hospitals in Britain, allegedly made more than 22m rand (£2m) from the scam, South Africa's Mercury newspaper said." (David Smith, Hospitals in South Africa charged over kidney transplant trafficking, Guardian, 16 Sep 2010) "most of the profits are still coming from South Africa." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

MASSIVE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

"Prosecutors say more than 100 illegal operations were conducted at a Netcare hospital in Durban between 2001 and 2003." "The Times of South Africa cited a charge sheet that included 109 counts of fraud and serious assault, as well as forgery and organised crime." (David Smith, Hospitals in South Africa charged over kidney transplant trafficking, Guardian, 16 Sep 2010) "the Jews who arrived would like to stay, but they were repugnant to the Inferior Magistrates (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with Christians)." (Peter Stuyvesant cited in Oscar Reiss, The Jews in Colonial America, McFarland, 2004, p 103)

"It's a group you must watch carefully." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

RUN EFFICIENTLY -- MINIMIZING COST OF MATERIALS

""Israeli citizens in need of kidney transplants would be brought to South Africa for transplants at St Augustine's hospital," the charge sheet read. "They paid kidney suppliers for these operations." The kidneys "were initially sourced from Israeli citizens, but later Romanian and Brazilian citizens were recruited as their kidneys were obtainable at much lower cost than those of the Israeli suppliers." (David Smith, Hospitals in South Africa charged over kidney transplant trafficking, Guardian, 16 Sep 2010)

"most of the profits are still coming from South Africa. The margins are still here." (David Shapiro cited in Alec Hogg, Netcare interim results: Richard Friedland - group CEO, Netcare, MoneyWeb, 17 May 2010)

WHY THEY LIKE POOR PEOPLE FROM "EMERGING MARKETS"

"The charge sheet said documents related to surgeries were forged to make it appear that the recipient and the donor were family members, a requirement of South African law. Israeli kidney suppliers were paid $20,000 while Brazilians and Romanians were paid $6,000, it said." (David Smith, Hospitals in South Africa charged over kidney transplant trafficking, Guardian, 16 Sep 2010)

THESE "MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH" WILL BUY AND SELL ANYTHING

And that's how it is with these men. If there's money to be made, they will make a market:

11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: 12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. Revelation 18

"The "originality of the Bible apart, even the friends of the Jews held that the Jewish character was bad and that it was formed by influences which went back to the early rabbis." (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 252) "Jews have specialized in commerce, and their religion has made the study of the Talmud a prime duty." (Arthur Ruppin cited in Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 377)

And this is what happens.

Albigensian Crusade and the 1209 Sack of Béziers

2010-09-06T17:30:00.000-07:00

When disaster strikes ...

New Zealand has experienced a 7.0 earthquake. About two-thirds of the houses in the Christchurch area have been damaged, but no one was killed by the quake.

The situation is serious, and a state of emergency remains in effect. Soldiers are in the downtown to prevent further incidents of looting.

Meanwhile, dozens of aftershocks continue to shake the city of 340 000. (L'état d'urgence prolongé après le séisme, RC, 6 Sep 2010)

Its a state of emergency when an earthquake damages houses, but doesn't kill anyone.

So what would you call it when a city is plundered, the inhabitants massacred, and the city set on fire?

While soldiers looked on.

Historians describe this phenomenon as the sack of Béziers, an especially bloody event in the Albigensian Crusade of 1209.

ORIGINS

In the earliest times, the region around this city was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, although ancient Egyptian artifacts have also been found in the area. (Robert Turcan, The cults of the Roman Empire, Blackwell, 1996, p 99) Known today as Languedoc, this place is well-suited for wine production. About 10 percent of the world wine supply is produced here.

Béziers was founded in the time of Cesar as Colonia (Julia) Baeterrae Septimanorum. (Ernest Desjardins, Géographie historique et administrative de la Gaule romaine, Volume 3, Hachette, 1885, p 70) The mild climate and fine wines led the Visigoths to settle here on their way from Rome to Spain. When the Jewish/Arab armies conquered Spain, they also took much of Languedoc, and stayed in the area between 720 and 752.

WEALTHY REGION

This area was "a prosperous and very influential region" located in the south of what is today France. (France Monthly, September 2005)

The sort of place where a Jew could make some money. So of course they came. The viscounts seem to have liked them, because like most kings, they were often in need of a loan.

OPENING THE DOOR

"The viscounts cherished the most kindly feelings for them, and the greater part of the Christian inhabitants, being Albigenses, lived on friendly terms with their Jewish fellow-citizens." (Richard Gottheil, Isaac Broydé, BÉZIERS, The Jewish Encyclopedia, 2002) Hie thee, gentle Jew. The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind." (Antonio cited inWilliam Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III)

VOICES OF WARNING

Of course, there were voices of warning: "The Bishop of Beziers introduced the custom of preaching inflammatory sermons every day from Palm Sunday to the second day of Easter, calling upon the Christians to avenge upon the Jews the crucifixion of Jesus; and the mob, under the influence of these addresses, that dwelt upon the passion of Jesus, used to arm itself with stones and attack and maltreat the Jews. This disturbance was repeated year after year, and the bishop bestowed his blessings upon the mob in each instance." (Heinrich Graetz, Max Raisin, Popular history of the Jews, Volume 3, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1919, pp 67, 68)

"If I can catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,

Even there where merchants most do congregate,

On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift," (Shylock cited in William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III)

SILENCING THE WARNING VOICES

The Jews had a PR problem. And they solved it in their customary manner: "On May 2d, 1160, an agreement was concluded according to which every priest who stirred up the people against the Jews should be excommunicated.

SPIN DOCTORS PAY TO SUPPRESS NEGATIVE INFORMATION

The Jews in return pledged themselves to pay four pounds of silver every year on Palm Sunday." (Heinrich Graetz, Bella Löwy, Philipp Bloch, History of the Jews, Volume 3, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1902, p 394)

TOTAL CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT

Once the solid preaching stopped, the Jews quickly took over the key public offices. Naturally, this included the judiciary and the tax farming and treasury operations.

They had power, but couldn't get their hands on all the wealth of all the Christians. Yet.

AND POWERFUL POSITIONS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

The baptized Jew Arnold Amalric (Jueri Lina, Under the Sign of the Scorpion, p 11), was moving up the career ladder in the Catholic church:
“Arnold Amalric, Abbott of Citeaux, abbot of Cistercian monastery of Poblet near Tarragona in Catalonia from 1196 until 1198. In 1198, he was installed as abbot of Grandselve, about 40km north of Toulouse, which was the wealthy mother house of Poblet and other Cistercian abbeys in the Midi, including Fontfroide. Remained there until election as Abbott of Citeaux and head of the Cistercian order in 1201. Appointed as senior legate by Innocent III in May 1204 to help Peter of Castelnau.” (Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998, p 16, footnote 4)

The Jews had their men in place, and now it was time to change ownership of the wealth of the city. Using the same method they did in Afghanistan, China, and Iraq.

War.

WHY NOT MAKE THAT A RELIGIOUS WAR?

It just so happened that many adherents of the Cathar religion were living openly in Languedoc. They disliked the pope, and didn't give him tithes or offerings. The pope wanted tithes; the Jews wanted the wealth of the city.

The pope could get soldiers -- all the soldiers he wanted -- if he called out a religious war, or crusade. And Jews know what to do once a war gets going.

But usually, you can't get a war going without giving the offenders some chance to compromise. And so the pope sent some missionaries to the Cathars. Just to give them a chance to pay up voluntarily.

The missionaries had lots of tithe money, so they could travel in style: servants, wines, fine furniture. The Cathars believed the way to salvation was through self-denial. So there was a clash of beliefs.

WANTED TO GET BACK TO THEIR PALACES

“The legates were weary of the task entrusted to them by the Pope and wished to abandon it, since they had achieved little or nothing in preaching to the heretics. Whenever they tried to preach to them, the heretics countered by pointing to the

A PACK OF HYPOCRITES

disgraceful behavior of the clergy and argued that if the legates wanted to reform the life style of the clergy, they would have to give up their preaching campaign.” (Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998, p 17)

THE BISHOP WANTS TO TRY HARDER

“To calm the concerns of the legates the Bishop gave this salutary advice: leaving everything else aside, they should concentrate more vigorously on their preaching; and they should counter the criticism of the ill-disposed by displaying humility in all their conduct; by following the example of the Divine Master and by generally imitating the ways of the Apostles in all respects. However, the legates did not themselves wish to take responsibility for such an initiative; instead they promised that if some acceptable authority were to set an example, they would most willingly follow it. What more?

BISHOP OF OSMA WOULD PRETEND TO BE POOR

At once the Bishop, that dedicated servant of God, put himself forward to show the way; he sent his household and wagons back to Osma and, content with a single companion left Montpellier together with Peter of Castelnau and Ralph.” (Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998, pp 17-18)

Now that the missionaries were pretending to be poor and humble, maybe they would be more successful?

ENCOUNTERS TOP CATHAR THEOLOGIAN

The Bishop of Osma and the monks arrived at the castrum named Servian, where they encountered Theodoric, previously known as William, a Frenchman. Theodoric was described in Catholic circles as “a son of perdition, the fuel of eternal hell-fire”. He was a man of noble descent. His uncle, a knight, had been condemned for heresy at a council in Paris, and later moved to Narbonne. Theodoric was “much admired and esteemed by the heretics”. (Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998, p 18)

SORE LOSERS

The pope’s men did what they could, and claimed victory in the debates. The Cathars in the area thought their man Theodoric won, so even though the papal legates claimed they won the debates, they made no headway with the heretics.

“It is also true that when the Albigensians spread and began to engulf larger and larger sections of the Southern French populace, Innocent dispatched special legates in the person of some Cistercians, but by their bearing and provocatively ostentatious way of living they only aggravated the situation.” (Walter Ullmann, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages, Methuan, 1974, p 219)

Even though the Bishop of Osma dispensed with luxury for a little while, the Cathars weren’t fooled. In fact, they were annoyed by the arrogance of the papal missionaries. Peter of Castelnau was one of the most arrogant of the lot. Sure he was pretending to be humble, but the locals hated him.

PRETEXT FOR WAR

“At this time Peter of Castelnau was travelling out of Provence on his pacing mule. He reached the Rhone at St Gilles, and there he excommunicated the count of Toulouse for supporting the mercenaries who were ravaging the countryside. Thereupon an evil-hearted squire, hoping to win the count’s approval, stepped like a traitor behind the legate, drove his sharp sword into his spine and killed him. The man fled at once on his fast horse to his home town of Beaucaire, where he had kinsmen.

Yet the legate raised his hands to heaven before he died and in the sight of all those present asked God to forgive this wicked man. This was while he was receiving communion at about cockcrow. Then he died, just as the day was dawning. His soul went to God the Father and they buried him at St Gilles with many a Kyrie Eleison sung and many candles burning.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 13).

While William of Tudela says that the Peter was killed by some squire, this could easily have been an “inside job”. The missionary approach hadn’t worked. Not even when the Bishop of Osma and Peter rode around on mules and played poor.

But now one of the Pope’s servants had been killed in the line of duty. Sure Peter of Castelnau had prayed for forgiveness for his killer. There were people in Rome, though, who saw opportunity in this situation.

BROTHER ARNOLD HAS AN IDEA

“You can be sure the pope was not pleased when he heard of his legate’s death. He grasped his chin in anger and called on St James of Compostela and on St Peter of Rome who lies in the chapel there. He spoke his anathema and then dashed out the candle. Brother Arnold of Citeaux was present, and so too were Mater Milo, that fine Latinist, and the twelve cardinals all in a circle. There it was they made the decision that led to so much sorrow, that left so many men dead with their guts spilled out and so many great ladies and pretty girls naked and cold, stripped of gown and cloak. From beyond Montpellier as far as Bordeaux, any that rebelled were to be utterly destroyed.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 13)

While Diego, the Bishop of Osma, had some ideas about “displaying humility in all their conduct; by following the example of the Divine Master and by generally imitating the ways of the Apostles in all respects” (per Peter de les Vaux-de-Cernay, Historia Albigensis, The History of the Albigensian Crusade, The Boydell Press, 1998, pp 17-18), Brother Arnold had other ideas:

“The Abbott of Citeaux, however, sat with his head bent. Then he rose and, standing by a marble column, said to the pope: ‘By St Martin, my lord, this talking is a waste of time! Come, have your letters written in good Latin, and then I can set off. Send them to France, to the Limousin, to Poitou, the Auvergne and Perigord; have the indulgence proclaimed here too and all over the world as far as Constantinople. Proclaim that any man who does not take the cross shall drink no wine, shall not eat off a cloth morning or night, shall wear neither linen nor hemp and when he dies shall lie unburied like a dog.’ He fell silent, and his advice seemed right to all who were there.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, pp 13-14)

The twelve cardinals liked the idea. Master Milo did. And so did the Pope. A full crusade.

AN ARMY IS RAISED

Proclaiming the indulgence was a big motivator. Soldiers could get their backlog of sins forgiven, and go to war with a license to sin. The sort of war “that left so many men dead with their guts spilled out and so many great ladies and pretty girls naked and cold, stripped of gown and cloak.” (per William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 13)

The army gathered, and set off into the field. "The crusading army was composed largely of contingents drawn widely from northern and central France." (Austin Evans, The Albigensian Crusade, A History of the Crusades, Volume II, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962, p 287)

THE CAMPAIGN STARTS

“This host condemned many heretics to be burned and had many fair women thrown in the flames, for they refused to recant however much they were begged to do so.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 18)

And who was leading the army? Naturally, the papal legate Brother Arnold Amalric (Austin Evans, The Albigensian Crusade, A History of the Crusades, Volume II, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962, p 287)

THE SET UP (BETRAYAL)

“When the viscount of Béziers heard the report and knew that the army had passed Montpellier, he mounted his thousand-shilling horse and rode into Béziers one morning at dawn before it was fully light.

Old and young, great and small, the citizens heard of his arrival and hurried at once to meet him. He told them to defend themselves with all their strength and said that they would very soon receive good support.

‘I must leave for Caracassonne’, he said, ‘they have been waiting for me there too long.’ That said, he rode out of the town.

THE JEWS KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN

The Jews of Béziers followed him, and the other inhabitants were left in great distress and anxiety.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 19)

But it was not the crusader army that captured Béziers. No, that job would be done by the ribaldi (scavengers and hangers-on) who attended the army. The "scavengers" "assaulted the walls on their own, broke into the city, opened its gates to the army, and wreaked terrible havoc on the inhabitants, orthodox and heretic alike." (Norman Zacour, The Children's Crusade, A History of the Crusades, Volume II, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962, p 327)

AND CLEANED UP

And after the scavengers got in, "There they took what houses they liked, and could have taken ten each if they had wanted to. They were in a frenzy, quite unafraid of death, killing everyone they could find and winning enormous wealth.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 21)

And who were these scavengers?

"The Jews are the scavengers of the world". (Henry Ford cited in Steven Watts, The people's tycoon: Henry Ford and the American century, Random House, 2005, p 381)

Needless to say, these non-Christian scavengers who took the city had no respect for the cross or the church:

“That is why they massacred them at Béziers, killing them all. It was the worst they could do to them. And they killed everyone who fled into the church; no cross or altar or crucifix could save them. And these raving beggarly lads, they killed the clergy too, and the women and the children. I doubt if one person came out alive. God, if it be his will, receive their souls in paradise! So terrible a slaughter has not been known or consented to, I think, since the time of the Saracens.”(William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 21)

And where this Jewish abbott and his fellow scavengers went, “Panic spread and the town blazed from end to end”. (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 21)

“On the day of St Mary Magdalene, 22 July 1209, Béziers fell to the Abbott of Citeaux and its inhabitants were massacred." (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 3)

By French knights? No. (per Norman Zacour, The Children's Crusade, A History of the Crusades, Volume II, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962, p 327) By French people period? No. They wouldn't be killing French priests loyal to the pope. Or, for that matter, all those women and children.

But there were plenty of scavengers around who knew the layout of the city. Who had which houses and valuables. After all, they'd been running the treasury and tax farming operations in the city for years.

And they were available, since "The Jewish community, interestingly enough, had already left the city, accompanying its viscount Raymond Roger, who had gone to organise the defence of Caracassonne.” (William of Tudela, The Song of the Cathar Wars, A History of the Albigensian Crusade, translated by Janet Shirley, Ashgate, 2000, p 3)

Afghanistan, Iraq Occupation: PR Problems Caused by Greed and Brutal Suppression of Local Dissent bigger than Julian Assange

2010-08-23T11:05:00.000-07:00

Julian Assange runs the Wikileaks website. It features thousands and thousands of authentic documents which show that the Radhan occupiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are really not too popular with the local people.

The Radhan enforcers (Pentagon), for their part, have accused Mr. Assange of raping some women in Sweden. "Anonymous" accusations, which upper management in the Swedish prosecution service quickly decided were false. (WikiLeaks founder accuses Pentagon over rape claims, The Gazette, 23 Aug 2010)

They're doing what they can about Wikileaks, but their PR problems are much bigger than one website.

THE BURDENS OF EMPIRE

The Radhan slave traders have a lot of power these days. They run Norway, the United States, and a host of other countries.

Some countries thought they could do their own thing. Countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine.

But the Radhan special forces showed them otherwise.

And so these Jews enjoy wealth and power.

But the tactics they used in their various takeovers have brought about a situation where no amount of money (or spin) can get the host peoples to like them.

DIRTY WARS, WITH DIRTIER OCCUPATIONS

Back on 8 May 1945, after a punishing, multi-year bombing campaign, they got the unconditional surrender of the Germans.

Unconditional? There would be no protection for the German people. And so every leader who could be found was cast into prison. Many were killed because of “crimes against humanity”. The conquerors wanted to make Germany a primitive, harmless country. Millions of Germans were starved to death to achieve this. (Egil Ulateig, De gode mot de onde, Forlaget Reportasje, 1999, p 37)

And that's how things went in Iraq. There was the usual, punishing bombing campaign. The surrender with no protections for the people. The leaders have been thrown into prison, with so many killed on grounds of "crimes" against humanity.

A PRIMITIVE, HARMLESS COUNTRY

And now, in a country which used to run its own oil business, and built its own rockets, the unemployment rate "is officially pegged at slightly over 20 percent, but believed to be much higher." (Tarek El-Tablawy, In porn, a story of Iraq's politics, AP, 23 Aug 2010)

The oil industry changed hands: "Rumaila, with an estimated 17.8 billion-barrel reserve, is considered the workhorse of Iraq's oil industry, producing about 1.1 million barrels per day. It was snapped up at the oil auction by British giant BP PLC teaming up with the China National Petroleum Corp." (Iraq's oil deals dominate PM election campaign, USAToday, 2 Mar 2010)

RESTLESS NATIVES

The victims of these takeover jobs are often unhappy with the occupiers. And so the bombs fall on the discontented. As they did in Gerani, Afghanistan, when the American special forces laid down a huge bombing which killed 150 civilians, including many children.

This repression leads to further discontent, and so the popular news media has no end of stories about brutal occupiers slapping down the aspirations of the local populations.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces like to talk about reconstruction projects and their local partners. And, at least in Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq, talk about those flourishing parliamentary democracies.

In Israel, there's an occupation. With bombings. But little talk of democracy.

The occupiers take the olive trees, the water resources, and the dignity of the local people.

So let's say that the Jewish soldiers are out on patrol, and catch an Arab who looks at them funny. What do they do?

"Palestinians are routinely handcuffed and blindfolded when they are arrested to stop them from trying to flee." (Diaa Hadid, On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab, AP, 16 Aug 2010)

When the Arabs in Palestine run into Jews, they want to FLEE!!

That sounds like a major PR problem.

The locals just don't like their occupiers.

But take a look at the Jewish soldier Eden Aberjil. Would you want to look at a face like that?

Back in 1756, Voltaire's huge article "Juifs" was published in Geneva. It "depicted the Jewish character as evil ever since Biblical times". (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, 1996, Wayne State University Press, p 228)

Looking at the pictures, there is some support for this contention.

Whether we're thinking of Germany, Afghanistan, or Norway, the tactics are almost always the same. There's a big war for "enduring freedom", lots of bombs fall, and so many civilians are permanently injured and killed.

"The hostility of Marx, scion of a long line of rabbis, to Jews and Judaism cannot be explained on the basis of his theories of history and society alone. Marx stated in an 1842 letter to Arnold Ruge that "the Israelite faith" was "repugnant" to him; ... and consistently equated Jews with capitalistic exploiters." (Raphael Patai, The Jewish Mind, 1996, Wayne State University Press, p 470)

In Afghanistan, the drug business is flourishin g. In Iraq, they've grabbed the oil. And if anyone gets in their way? Bombs and blindfolds.

This pattern of doing business was repugnant to Marx. And to me. And to most everyone else.

And that's why the Radhan slave traders have such big PR problems these days.

Love Parade Duisburg Murder of 19 People -- Who Did It?

2010-07-26T08:27:00.001-07:00

THERE WAS LOVE IN THE AIR

There's a lot of hate in this old world, so some people in Germany decided to launch a parade for love. They said.

Well, the public just ate this up. And so they came in masses. About 1.5 million people.

All for love.

And where was this huge manifestation of love?

HUGE GET-TOGETHER FOR LOVE FANS

At the old cargo terminal of the Duisburg train station. This was a convenient location for parade-goers, because they could ride the train in and avoid parking problems.

It was just a matter of walking through some tunnels, and they got into the party area.

AS LONG AS THE TUNNELS WERE OPEN

At some point, the pig force decided that the festival area was full. And blocked off the end of one of the tunnels. "Police commissioner Juergen Kieskemper said that just before the stampede occurred at about 5 p.m. (1500 GMT, 11 a.m. EDT), police closed off the area where the parade was being held because it was already overcrowded." (Michael Sohn, Vanessa Gera, 18 killed in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade, AP, 24 Jul 2010)

That is, the pig force closed off one end of the access tunnel. The other end was still open, and the people kept on coming -- masses of people. The air became scarce, and some people in the tunnel fainted away. Others were crushed:

SEVERE OVERCROWDING

Eyewitness Udo Sandhoefer told n-tv television that even though no one else was being let in, people still streamed into the tunnel, causing "a real mass panic."

"At some point the column (of people) got stuck, probably because everything was closed up front, and we saw that the first people were already lying on the ground," he said." (Michael Sohn, Vanessa Gera, 18 killed in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade, AP, 24 Jul 2010)

The pedestrian tunnel was packed. People were dropping like flies.

DELIBERATE MURDER / OR JUST NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE

And the pig force decided to open up their end of the tunnel, and save some lives?

Are you kidding?

These weren't your normal pigs. No, they were super pigs -- "special forces".

And what do special forces do?

They kill people.

Some of them on purpose: "U.S. spec-ops forces have targeted militants without trial". (Kimberly Dozier, US documents leaked online give inside look at war, AP, 26 Jul 2010)

And some of them by accident: "Afghans have been killed by accident". (Kimberly Dozier, US documents leaked online give inside look at war, AP, 26 Jul 2010)

The reader is referred to this in-depth study of a U.S. special forces hit in Syria which murdered eight Syrians, including several children.

So, was the Love Parade action really murder? "German prosecutors are investigating whether negligent manslaughter was involved in the deaths of 19 people killed in a crush at the Love Parade techno festival." (Dorothee Thiesing, German prosecutors probe 19 Love Parade deaths, AP, 26 Jul 2010)

Pigs will be pigs, and special forces will be special forces. The photos, and first video, show those super-tough heroes in action. With plenty of plastic bands at the ready to tie up people's hands.

Of course, with the 19 people killed, the plastic bands won't be necessary.

So, is this just another day in the annals of special forces warfare, or is it something more?

RAVE

"A rave party, more often just called a rave, also called free parties, is typically defined as an all-night dance event where DJs and/or other performers play electronic dance music and rave music. The slang expression rave was originally used by peoples of Caribbean descent in London during the 1960s to describe a party." "Opponents of rave parties have sought to outlaw them in numerous jurisdictions, citing illegal drug consumption and trafficking".(Rave, wordIQ.com)

THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS

And the Love Parade featured "electronic music" (per Rave, wordIQ.com)?

Of course it did. "Police blamed organizers and officials in Duisburg, an industrial city that gave the world's largest techno music festival a home". (Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

And it was "free"?

Of course "the event was free". (Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

And drugs were involved? "local police and firefighters expressed concerns early on about whether Duisburg was big enough to host over up to a million people or more, many of them possibly under the influence of alcohol or drugs." (Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

The firefighters tend to be decent people who save lives. The local police often care about their community. And they knew what was coming down the road.

COLOSSAL SCAM

But "somebody" threw a huge party. And it was all for free!!!! (Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

What a sacrifice. And at that for love. They claimed.

"the Chicago City Council decided "to crack down on wild rave parties that lure youngsters into environments loaded with dangerous club drugs, underage drinking and sometimes predatory sexual behavior," as the Chicago Tribune put it. The newspaper described raves as "one-night-only parties -- often held in warehouses or secret locations where people pay to dance, do drugs, play loud music, and engage in random sex acts." Taking a dim view of such goings-on, the city council passed an ordinance threatening to jail building owners or managers who allowed raves to be held on their property. Mayor Richard Daley took the occasion to "lash out at the people who produce the huge rogue dance parties where Ecstasy and other designer drugs are widely used." In Daley's view, rave promoters were deliberately seducing the innocent. "They are after all of our children," he warned. "Parents should be outraged by this."" (Jacob Sullum, Sex, Drugs, and Techno Music, reason.com, Jan 2002)

SPECIAL FORCES FOR SPECIAL SALES OF SPECIAL DRUGS

And who could provide security at an event where most of the money would be made from the sale of alcohol and other drugs?

Just the same people who provide security in the narco-state, where this sort of thing gets produced: “US Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton’s use of the term “narco state” to describe Afghanistan in a recent Senate testimony has caught the attention of her Afghan counterpart.” (Afghanistan protests Clinton’s description as ‘a narco state’, Gulfnews.com, 17 Jan 2009)

The sort of people who cracked down hard on Afghan anti-narcotics units: “Human rights groups are urging that mass gravesites in northern Afghanistan be immediately secured and investigated for evidence of possible war crimes involving United States military personnel. An Irish documentary maker has secretly filmed mass graves near the northern city of Mazar-e-sharif and interviewed witnesses who claim that container loads of prisoners were dumped in the desert. It’s alleged that most suffocated in the sealed containers, but those left alive were shot on the spot. Key aspects of his claims are backed up by a detailed report from the group Physicians for Human Rights.” (Tony Jones and Jonathan Harley, Mass grave discovered in Afghanistan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE, 19 Jun 2002)

The sort of crackdown that involved suffocation. Just like in the Duisburg rail station tunnel.

In a word -- special forces.

Things had gone badly in the tunnel. The 19 murdered love fans / drug addicts. And those 300+ injured.

Surely it was time to shut down this open-air drug market?

NO, BUSINESS MUST GO ON

"Police and organisers ordered the festival to continue as paramedics attempted to treat the casualties and a fleet of helicopters arrived to ferry the injured to hospital." (19 killed at Love Parade festival in Duisburg, Metro, 25 Jul 2010)

And so the sales went on throughout the night. By order of "special forces".

What a cynical group of men.

Let's check with DJ Motte:

"It's all about making money". "The organizers didn't show even the slightest sense of responsibility for people." (Matthias Roeingh cited in Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

And that's how it is. Whether we're talking cigarettes, cosmetics, junk food, or an open-air drug market in Duisburg, "It's all about making money". "The organizers didn't show even the slightest sense of responsibility for people." (Matthias Roeingh cited in Kirsten Grieshaber, Frank Augstein, Shock, blame after 19 trampled at German festival, AP, 25 Jul 2010)

"Eine teuflische Situation". (http://www.youtube.com/v/KIJ1xaGtUsM)

With security courtesy of those teuflische Special Forces.

Bray 1191 and King Philippe Auguste

2010-07-12T12:30:00.001-07:00

Champagne is a region in the north of France. There are plenty of Christians there. And back in 1191, in the city of Bray, one of these people was caught in the act of conducting an "aid flotilla". (as per Robert Booth, Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla sparks international outrage, Guardian, 31 May 2010)

The local Jews were incensed. And so they grabbed the Christian, bound his hands, put a crown of thorns on his head, and dragged him through the streets. And then they hanged him.

And all that on their festival of Purim.

MEANWHILE AT THE UNITED NATIONS

"In the early morning hours of Tuesday, the Security Council expressed deep regret at the loss of life and injuries resulting from the use of force during the Israeli military operation early on Monday in international waters against the convoy sailing to Gaza, and condemned those acts which had killed at least 10 civilians and wounded many more." (Security Council Condemns Acts Resulting in Civilian Deaths during Israeli Operation, Security Council, Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, New York, United Nations)

There was regret, but not enough to call the matter "barbaric" and "abhorrent". (as per Mark Toner cited in US appalled by 'barbaric' stoning plan in Iran, AFP, 8 Jul 2010)

DIDN'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING CONCRETE

The facts were not in dispute. But the UN thought an inquiry might sound good: "The UN secretary general called today for a multinational

BUT AT LEAST PRETEND TO DO SOMETHING

investigation of Israel's raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine dead but the proposal was swiftly rejected by the Israelis." "Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, told Fox News: "We are rejecting an international commission." (Harriet Sherwood, Amabassador to US dismisses Ban Ki-moon's suggestion but says Israel is willing to work with Washington, Guardian, 6 Jun 2010)

NOT THAT A COMMISSION COULD DO MUCH TO CHANGE THE PUBLIC FACTS

Of course, the facts are already out there. The boats were in international waters. The Jewish pirates had no legal right to board them. And the murdered sailors were shot down in cold blood: "Autopsy reports on the dead activists yesterday revealed that five had gunshot wounds to the head." (Harriet Sherwood, Amabassador to US dismisses Ban Ki-moon's suggestion but says Israel is willing to work with Washington, Guardian, 6 Jun 2010)

So why were the Jews so shy of an international commission?

It all goes back to 1191.

After the Jews had captured a Christian, bound his hands, put a crown of thorns on his head and dragged him through the streets of Bray, word got around to the King.

So Philippe Auguste travelled to Bray, accompanied by his royal soldiers.

And there he held a commission of inquiry.

Which resulted in the burning of 100 Jews.

So now you know why the Jews rejected the United Nations proposal for an international inquiry.

And you also know why they'd rather talk about the justice system in Iran than what happened in May 2010 in international waters.

Or, for that matter, Purim 1191 in Bray.

Abby Sunderland: High Waves, Long Voyage -- Minimizing Risk at Sea / Young Girl Chooses Safer Alternative

2010-06-28T21:09:00.000-07:00

Abby Sunderland is 16 years of age. And she likes to sail.

Most recently, she tried to make it around the world. Alone.

She did reasonably well. At first.

After a January 2010 departure from Marina del Rey, California, she made good time around South America, and even across the Atlantic Ocean.

But in the Indian Ocean she ran into some problems. On 10 June 2010, nine meter waves smashed the mast on her boat, and the fun was over.

And then communications were lost.

This is all really bad. Alone in the middle of the ocean. Storms. And just drifting.

Cause for panic?

Not at all.

Around the world, there are Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres. Like the one in Ostend pictured at left.

These centers monitor vessel traffic. And when there are problems, they manage the search and rescue efforts at sea.

When Sunderland's emergency beacons started signaling, the search and rescue operations started right away, and a plane set out from Australia to locate her boat. On 12 June 2010, a fishing boat picked her up.

And she was safe.

Over the centuries, so many boats have gone down. And there have been so many tragic deaths at sea.

But now mariners are well-looked after.

There's still some risk, but thanks to the coordinated efforts of search and rescue units around the world, the risk is minimized.

As Abby Sunderland puts it: "You can't eliminate risk, you can do a lot to minimize it but it's always there". (Abby Sunderland cited in Masha Macpherson, US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal, AP, 26 Jun 2010)

Sailors can still fall overboard and get eaten by sharks. Nasty storms can still strike. But the risk has been minimized. And yet another sailor has been rescued.

The ocean can be a wild and dangerous place. Lots of waves. Heat and cold.

And Abby Sunderland experienced some of all this. But after the rescue, she could say these problems "ended my trip but it didn't end my dream". (Abby Sunderland cited in Masha Macpherson, US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal, AP, 26 Jun 2010)

What a beautiful story!

BUT SO MANY GIRLS GET IN TROUBLE, AND NEVER GET RESCUED

Unfortunately, the MRCC network just handles rescue at sea. There are many more young girls who end up in trouble. Really bad trouble. The sort of thing where there is no rescue. No monitoring. Just the endless drudgery of -- SLAVERY. "A sobering new report from the State Department finds that more than 12 million people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution". (Liz Goodwin, More than 12 million are modern slaves, U.S. says, Yahoo News, 14 Jun 2010) Most people know about "forced labor" and prostitution. But they may not understand just what "bonded labor" is.

EVIL SLAVE TRADER TREATS "BONDED LABOR" AS PROPERTY TO BE BOUGHT AND SOLD

We turn to the pages of the Holy Bible. Abraham was one of the first Jews. He "had his bond servants, whose condition was similar to, or worse than, that of our slaves. He considered them as his property, to be bought and sold as any other property which he owned." (DeBow’s Review 9 (September 1850), pp 281–286)

CRUEL MUTILATION OF SLAVES

And when this wicked slave trader wasn't buying and selling human flesh, he dealt with his slaves in a cruel and perverse manner, mutilating their sexual organs. (Genesis 17, Holy Bible) A theme which Jewish film director Lars von Trier depicted in his grotesque film Antichrist (see here for full dimensions of this perversion). Medieval Jewish slave traders engaged in the same activities. Finally, the reader will enjoy a full-blown case study of a huge slave capture operation in 1212.

RAPE / SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF BONDED SERVANT

Abraham had married a nice Jewish girl. Her name was Sarai. And he made love to her on many occasions. But she just never could give him a child. (Genesis 16:1, Holy Bible) The wealthy slave trader Abraham had tons of money, but no offspring to take over the family business. His wife thought about this, and told him one day, Look, Abraham, I can't give you a baby, but I have this slave here. You can have sex with her, and get a baby that way. (Genesis 16:2, Holy Bible) The slave, Hagar, got pregnant by her owner Abraham.

And you'll probably be thinking: What crass exploitation. This trader doesn't just buy and sell slaves -- he also rapes them.

BITCHING AND BEATING

Well, that's all really bad stuff. But the story only gets worse. Sarai, the brutal Jewish wife of this Jewish slave trader, horribly abused the pregnant slave. (Genesis 16:6, Holy Bible)

That all happened a long time ago. Surely with modern technology things are getting better.

After all, if the MRCC network can track vessels around the globe, around the clock, surely they can do the same thing for girls?

NOT MUCH "VESSEL TRACKING" GOING ON IN THIS BUSINESS

"The State Department estimates that only 0.4 percent of all modern slavery victims were identified last year.

BECAUSE THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH MONEY ON THE TABLE

Human trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business — and will probably grow so long as global governments fail to crack down on it more forcefully." (Liz Goodwin, More than 12 million are modern slaves, U.S. says, Yahoo News, 14 Jun 2010)

A ROLE MODEL

Abraham was the Jewish pioneer in this business, and in Jewish religious circles, he has always been popular. And so

POPULAR CAREER

"many Jews sooner or later gravitated to human trafficking." And not just in Europe. Some Jews went from Portugal to Africa. "Such peoples, variously called degradados (degraded ones) or lancados (castoffs), found themselves in Africa without capital but not always without skills in commerce. Slave trading thus provided them with an opportunity to start life anew". (Richard Hull, Jews and Judaism in African History, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009, p 93)

After selling Natalee Holloway into slavery on Aruba, Jewish slave trader Joran van der Sloot found life in the islands uncomfortable. And so he "gravitated to human trafficking" (Hull, supra) in Netherlands, Asia, and even South America. He found himself in new countries. Often without capital, but never without the age-old Jewish "skills in commerce" (Hull, supra). And he used his skills "to start life anew" (Hull, supra). (full details here)

And now you know what a smart girl Abby Sunderland is. "You can't eliminate risk, you can do a lot to minimize it but it's always there". (Abby Sunderland cited in Masha Macpherson, US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal, AP, 26 Jun 2010)

She sailed alone into storms with 9-meter waves. Life was risky out there, but she minimized risk by avoiding casinos. And today, she's alive to tell the story.

Stephany Flores went to a casino. And talked with Jewish slave trader Joran van der Sloot. And went home with him.

When she finally wised up, and tried to escape, it was too late. The Jewish slave trader killed her.

High winds, huge waves, all alone out in the boat? That's risky.

But much less so than visiting a casino or nightclub and talking to Jewish slave trader Joran van der Sloot.

So dream on, Abby Sunderland!!

Stephany Flores Murdered / Radhaniya Slave Trader Got Careless with the Merchandise / Joran van der Sloot 's Business

2010-06-14T03:48:00.001-07:00

ON VACATION IN PERU

Mr. Joran van der Sloot makes his home in "a cell at the prosecutor's office" in Lima, Peru. (per Frank Bajak, Police: Dutchman says he knows Holloway location, AP, 11 Jun 2010) Of course, he doesn't stay inside all the time. Sometimes he goes out for walks, generally accompanied by full-sized policemen who know who to shoot.

BUSY SLAVE TRADER

Sometimes a slave trader needs a break from his stressful schedule, and so Joran is enjoying the brief down time.

"Reporter Peter De Vries has made a second hidden-camera expose on Dutch student Joran Van der Sloot". "

De Vries’ latest report, which was shown Sunday night on Dutch television, shows Van der Sloot telling someone posing as a sex-industry boss that he can get passports for Thai women and girls who think they are going to the Netherlands to work as dancers, DutchNews.nl reported.

Van der Sloot makes about $13,000 for every woman sold into prostitution in the Netherlands, De Vries claims." (Report: Natalee Holloway Suspect Involved in Thai Sex Trafficking, Fox News, 10 Nov 2008 )

This work can occasionally get complicated. Especially when Joran was trying to catch educated slaves. In places like Peru.

BASIC TACTICS OF THE SLAVE TRADER

In olden days, slave traders liked rivers: "To slave-traders rivers offered the final attraction that they could get their slaves by water-borne raids on communities unused to attack from that quarter." (Alexander Murray, Reason and society in the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 1978, p 43)

TAKING VICTIMS BY SURPRISE: TIRED, DRUNK, AND UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS

Slave trader van der Sloot thought things over carefully, and decided he could find his slaves at nightspots, when they were a little bit tired and drunk. Pretend to be romantic. Drug them. And ship them off to his customers. (Joran van der Sloot cited in Joran van der Sloot Goes 'On the Record' with New Natalee Holloway Story, On the Record w/ Greta, FOX, 25 Nov 2008)

And so, on the night of 29 May 2010, Joran showed up at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, Peru.

FINE-LOOKING PROSPECTIVE SLAVE

And such luck. He ran into "21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez". (Former suspect in Natalee Holloway case wanted in Peruvian murder case, CNN, 3 Jun 2010) She was a good-looking girl, with a nice smile. And the sort of body that could bring in at least $13,000 for slave trader Joran.

And another nice slave for his clients.

It seems the American FBI was in the market, and so they had given him a down payment of $25,000 in May of 2010. (Bo Dietl cited in Joran Van Der Sloot Got $25,000 from FBI Before Trip to Peru, Says Private Investigator, CBS, 9 Jun 2010) "Imperial officials (judices reipublicae) helped and encouraged Jewish slave merchants to break the laws that prohibited Jews from dealing in Christian slaves". (Bernard S. Bachrach, Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe, University of Minnesota, 1977, p 34)

With this kind of walking-around money, Joran had no problems in attracting women. He had enough for a nice hotel, casino visits, and cool clothes.

And, of course, some drugs to "soften up" the women. "Ricardo Flores said that police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel, and that inside, they found pills like those used in date rape cases." (Former suspect in Natalee Holloway case wanted in Peruvian murder case, CNN, 3 Jun 2010)

Surely he could find a special slave that would give the FBI solid value for their $25,000.

So there Joran was in the casino.

OPENING THE DOOR TO DANGER

And Stephany Flores decided to talk to him. "Women often start their hellish journey by choice". (Michael Specter, Contraband Women, New York Times, January 11, 1998) It was late, plenty of alcohol, and this woman went to a casino frequented by slave traders.

TYPICAL SLAVE TRADERS IN ACTION

Slave traders like the two Jews standing at left. On the cross you see a representation of one of their captives undergoing a "hellish journey". (as per Michael Specter, Contraband Women, New York Times, January 11, 1998)

But Joran wasn't wearing a turban, full beard, or robe in the casino.

How could Stephany recognize him?

Maybe there were more warning flags?

There were!!

Joran was pretending to be Dutch. Or, as People delicately puts it, he was "Dutch national Joran van der Sloot". (Tim Nudd, Report: Joran Van der Sloot Confesses to Peru Murder, People, 8 Jun 2010) There are plenty of real Dutch people out there. (as at right)

But then there are all those "Dutch nationals". That is to say, people with Dutch paperwork. Who tend to be from places like Surinam -- or Radhan: "During the ninth century, the Persian geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih described the prodigious trading network of Jews from Radhan, a neighborhood of Baghdad, who journeyed across North Africa and the whole Eurasian landmass from France and Spain in the west to India and China in the east, crisscrossing the continents from north to south.

HE COULD SPEAK BOTH DUTCH AND ENGLISH

These Radhanites had learned many of the languages spoken within this vast territory and traded in commodities as diverse as swords, brocade, eunuchs, and

AND LOVED NOTHING MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT OF SLAVE TRADING

slaves from the west, to spices, perfumes, and precious woods from the east. The Radhanites were fortunate to be able to

AND HAD EXCELLENT CONNECTIONS THROUGHOUT ASIA, EUROPE, AND SOUTH AMERICA

rely on the local knowledge of Jews living across both continents.

Middle Eastern Jews continued to participate extensively in international trade during the medieval period". (Myer Samra, Migration Patterns of Iraqi Jews in M. Avrum Ehrlich, Editor, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora - Origins, Experiences, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p 354)

And the period of May/June 2010. As we see from the case of "Jewish slave traders who dealt in Christian slaves" (as per Bernard S. Bachrach, Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe, University of Minnesota, 1977, p 39) -- slave traders like Joran van der Sloot.

SLEEPLESS BROWN EYES

A man who looks considerably different from the real Dutch pictured above. Joran has those eyes like Jewish film director/child rapist Roman Polanski: "He admits he was ‘fascinated’ by Polanski at the time. He has been told that he looks like him and there is a clear resemblance – the same sleepless brown eyes, the same fluid mouth and an attractiveness that stops short of being uncomplicatedly good-looking. But there was a family connection too: Amalric’s maternal grandparents came from the same Polish village as Polanski. They were Jewish and moved to France with Amalric’s mother at the outbreak of the Second World War (Amalric also appears in Un secret, a Second World War drama about a Jewish family).” (Elizabeth Day, The intellectual villain, Observer, 11 May 2008 )

How sleepless are those eyes?

NIGHT HUNTER

Very. This slave trader hunts his prey by night.

All night vigils like the one that netted him Natalee Holloway in 2005. A nice blond slave candidate. The story is that she "disappeared" while on vacation on Aruba. And so the FBI and police types looked all over for a dead body.

Dogs sniffed out the island. But found no body. (Natalee Holloway's Father Sends Search Dog to Aruba to Look for Daughter's Body, AP, 20 Mar 2009)

Because it wasn't there.

No, this girl had "disappeared" into that "prodigious trading network". (as per Myer Samra, Migration Patterns of Iraqi Jews in M. Avrum Ehrlich, Editor, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora - Origins, Experiences, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p 354) Or, as Joran puts it, he sold Natalee to one of his customers who was looking for a blond girl. For about $10,000. (Joran van der Sloot cited in Joran van der Sloot Goes 'On the Record' with New Natalee Holloway Story, On the Record w/ Greta, FOX, 25 Nov 2008)

She might be working in England. Or South America. Or, of course, Israel: "both Christian and pagan slaves from Gaul were transported by Jewish slave traders to Naples to be transhipped to the Near East". (Bernard S. Bachrach, Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe, University of Minnesota, 1977, p 34) Or maybe she got killed trying to escape.

JORAN IN ACTION IN PERU

Joran's customers had ordered a Peruvian girl. And put down plenty of money in advance. How could he bring home the goods?

How about bringing Stephany to his hotel, where she could be delivered to his customer? And he did this. And she went along.

But Joran dropped the ball.

He was addicted to caffeine, and went out for coffee. While he was out, Stephany checked him out on the web. And found out about the Holloway business.

And that was a warning flag that even she couldn't ignore.

"Flores, who met Van der Sloot at a casino where he was playing poker, had gotten hold of his laptop and discovered his connection to the Natalie Holloway murder in 2005 - for which the Dutchman has been a long-time suspect.

SLAVE TRIED TO ESCAPE

"I went to her and I hit her," he said, according to the newspaper. "She was scared, we argued and she tried to escape. I grabbed her by the neck and hit her."" (Michael Sheridan, Joran van der Sloot confession: Stephany Flores got too curious about me, so I killed her, New York Daily News, 8 Jun 2010)

If only Stephany Flores had gotten her information in time. But she didn't. And so this Jew killed her.

He thought about taking along the dead body of Stephany, but reconsidered. After all, when he left the hotel with a suitcase, but without paying, he could be stopped. So he left the body in his hotel room, and took off for Chile.

The police there captured him after a manhunt, and sent him back to Peru. (Police: Van der Sloot Took Coffee Break by Corpse, AOL News, 10 Jun 2010)

THE WORLD IS POORER, BUT ALSO RICHER

And so the world is one beautiful girl poorer.

But richer in warning flags.

Warnings to all those Thai girls who are considering a year of "dancing" overseas. And all those Peruvian girls who had been hanging out at casinos frequented by slave traders.

But weren't there warnings enough out there already?

"Not only did imperial officials cooperate with Jews to break the law with regard to Jewish ownership and trade in Christian slaves, but prelates such as the bishops of Cagliari and Luna did as well". (Bernard S. Bachrach, Early medieval Jewish policy in Western Europe, University of Minnesota, 1977, p 34, 35)

The government could have warned these girls. But they didn't.

The bishops knew better. But forgot to warn Stephany Flores and Natalee Holloway.

SUCH TRAGEDIES HAD HAPPENED SO OFTEN IN THE PAST

In April of 1370, Catherina, a converted Jewess, reported to the pastor of the Brusselse Sint-Catharinakapel that Jews had stolen the sacred host from the church. They punctured the host with their daggers, and it started to bleed.

The Jews got worried, and offered Catharina money to take away that bleeding host. She reported the crime, and the Jews confessed. (Ludo Abicht, Geschiedenis van de Joden van de Lage Landen, Meulenhoff, 2006, p 31) The penalty imposed by the judiciary was burning at the stake. Further investigation revealed a much broader conspiracy, and so all the Jews from Brussels and Leuven were burned as well. Since the desecration had obviously been planned in the synagogue, it was torn down, and replaced in 1436 by a Christian chapel. (Ludo Abicht, Geschiedenis van de Joden van de Lage Landen, Meulenhoff, 2006, p 32)

THE BOOKS ARE FULL OF SIMILAR CAUTIONARY STORIES

Stephany Flores had access to the excellent Biblioteca Municipal located in the Palacio Municipal on the Plaza de Armas in Lima. This library has a lot of good history books. Not to mention the Catedral de Lima, where there are plenty of pictures showing what the slave traders are capable of. And the web.

And now there is one more such story.

So rest in peace, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez.

Norsk Forbrukerrådet Kritiserer Social-Networking Site Personvern

2010-05-31T00:21:00.001-07:00

A WORLD IN TROUBLE

There's a lot of trouble in this old world. The thieves steal more and more, and get richer and richer. The poor suffer. And often starve.

SOLUTION ON THE WAY

But one day. Soon. These troubles will have an end. When the King comes.

31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

SOME WILL ENTER THE ETERNAL KINGDOM

33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' (Matthew 25, Holy Bible)

There was a group of forward-looking Christians who were interested in getting a place in the Kingdom. And so they said, Where can we find some brothers of Christ who are hungry?

Too easy.

There were plenty of them in Gaza.

Make that "blockaded Gaza". "Israeli Navy commandos attacked at least one of the six ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid for blockaded Gaza, killing at least 10 and wounding several dozen on board, according to an Israeli TV network and a lawyer for the activists' group." (Report: Israel attacks flotilla, 10 die, MSNBC, 31 May 2010)

A TRUSTING BAND OF OPTIMISTS

The Christian "flotilla was "fully prepared for the different scenarios" that might arise, and organizers were hopeful that Israeli authorities would "do what's right" and not stop the convoy". (Report: Israel attacks flotilla, 10 die, MSNBC, 31 May 2010)

After all, the Jews knew what adversity was like. They'd been hunted down in the Warsaw ghetto. After days of tough fighting. Hungry, thirsty, and defeated.

And so these missionaries trusted the Jews.

Was this the right decision? Let's see what Jesus had to say:

DON'T TRUST THEM

"[6] Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
[11] How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
[12] Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." (Matthew 16, Holy Bible)

Doctrine: "A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma." (http://www.answers.com/topic/doctrine) In other words, standard operating procedure.

And "Pharisees and of the Sadducees"? "A member of an ancient Jewish sect". (http://www.answers.com/topic/pharisees) "A member of a priestly, aristocratic Jewish sect". (http://www.answers.com/topic/sadducee) Some of these men are pictured at right interacting with Jesus.

So how can we know what the standard operating procedure is for these people?

Aside from works of art scattered around most Christian churches, there are frequent reports in the media that give us an inside view.

Most readers will be familiar with the popular site facebook, which "helps you connect and share with the people in your life". (see graphic)

Well, what kind of people might we be talking about? Oh, marketers. "Reach the precise audience you want with relevant targeted ads." (http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?src=awgl01) You just supply the site with information like where you live, how old you are, and what your interests are. And they can give you exactly the sort of advertising you need.

AND ITS ALL FREE

The users don't have to pay. And the companies act like they're free of legal constraints. Consumer Protection Norway explains that Facebook operates in a nearly law-less manner with respect to protection of personal data and user conditions, which are inaccessible and change regularly. "Forbrukerrådet mener Facebook opererer i et nærmest lovtomt rom i forhold til personvern og brukervilkår, der vilkårene er utilgjengelige og endres jevnlig." In short, the users are being deprived of their basic rights when they become Facebook members. (Marianne Siebke, Klager Facebook inn for Datatilsynet, NRK, 26 May 2010)

Hm. Deprived of basic rights. Does this sound a little bit like slavery?

"In his classic novel, 1984, George Orwell described a totalitarian society in which the government, referred to as the Party, had almost total control over the people. The supreme ruler of the Party was Big Brother. Posters announced that "Big Brother is Watching You". Telescreens droned endlessly with brainwashing propaganda about wondrous government programs. Coins, stamps, books, films, and banners proclaimed the three slogans of the Party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." (http://www.bigbrothergovernment.org/)

What better way to watch people than to know who they are and what they're thinking? And then send them exactly the "brainwashing propaganda" that will most appeal to them?

A BUSINESS BUILT ON TRUST

And why do people supply Mr. Zuckerberg's facebook with their information? "I don't know why." (Mark Zuckerberg cited in Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010)

Well, actually he did know: "They "trust me"". (Mark Zuckerberg cited in Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010)

And this trust is merited?

Let's check with Jewish (Why are jews so rich? Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is billionaire at 23. I've never met a poor jew. Have you?, Yahoo Answers) businessman Zuckerberg.

According to Mr. Zuckerberg, these people who trust him are "Dumb fucks". (Mark Zuckerberg cited in Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010)

Jesus was a very busy man during his brief stay on this earth. He spent a lot of time training his management and sales staff, as pictured at left. One of them was busy, and had to leave the training session. (as pictured at far right)

It was Judas, the Jewish treasurer of Jesus' operation. "[14] Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
[15] And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. [16] And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him." (Matthew 26, Holy Bible)

"When the Jews arrived, Stuyvesant sought permission from Amsterdam to keep them out altogether. The Jews, he explained, were "deceitful," "very repugnant," and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ."" (Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 2) "[16] And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him." (Matthew 26, Holy Bible)

You see, it was a matter of information. Jesus circulated publicly by day, but the Jewish leaders didn't want to make a scene. "And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way." (Mark 12:12, Holy Bible)

And so they had to pay thirty pieces of silver to get the information on Jesus.

With Facebook, things are different. Mr. Zuckerberg and his management team get all that information for free!! Since "They "trust me"". (Mark Zuckerberg cited in Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010)

And this trust is merited? The Forbrukerrådet doesn't think so. (per Marianne Siebke, Klager Facebook inn for Datatilsynet, NRK, 26 May 2010) "He asked the directors of the Dutch West India Company to "require them in a friendly way to depart" lest they "infect and trouble this new colony."" (Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 2)

Let's check back with Mr. Zuckerberg. What does he think of all these people who trusted him? According to Mr. Zuckerberg, these people who trust him are "Dumb fucks". (Mark Zuckerberg cited in Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010) "The Jews, he explained, were "deceitful," "very repugnant," and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ."" (Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 2)

Repugnant enough to blockade Gaza and kill 10 people bringing humanitarian aid. (Report: Israel attacks flotilla, 10 die, MSNBC, 31 May 2010)

AND SO THE KING WILL PUNISH THEM

41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat,

AND SHOT DOWN THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO FEED JESUS IN COLD BLOOD

I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and

BLOCKADED GAZA IS A HUGE PRISON FOR THE ARABS

in prison and you did not look after me.'
44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." (Matthew 25, Holy Bible)

Starving Gaza, ruining Iceland, the slaughter on Cyprus.

But those Christian missionaries still trust the Jews to do the right thing. (Report: Israel attacks flotilla, 10 die, MSNBC, 31 May 2010)

LIKE THEY DID IN 1585

"Back in 1585, a Jew named Joachim Gaunse served as the metallurgist and mining engineer for the ill-fated English colony on Roanoke Island. He conducted soil experiements in Carolina, returned to England a year later, and in 1589 was indicted as a Jew for blasphemy." (Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 1)

As usual the warning signs are all there. Forbrukerrådet knows. (per Marianne Siebke, Klager Facebook inn for Datatilsynet, NRK, 26 May 2010) Facebook founder Zuckerberg knows. And says. (per Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy, Business Insider, 13 May 2010)

But can a little bit of information really be that harmful? It all depends on who you've given it to:

"[45] Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
[46] Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
[47] And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. [48] Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
[49] And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
[50] And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him." (Matthew 26, Holy Bible) "The Jews, he explained, were "deceitful," "very repugnant," and "hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ."" (Peter Stuyvesant cited in Jonathan Sarna, American Judaism - A History, Yale University Press, 2004, p 2)

Katla and Eyjafjallajökull - When One Eruption Triggers Another / As with Volcanos, so with Banking Scams

2010-05-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted this year, producing some fire, and a lot of ash. The ash clouds drifted over large parts of Europe, interrupting air traffic.

The Katla volcano is located nearby, and is dormant. For now. This 1512m high volcano is big, and covered by the Mýrdalsjökull glacier. If Katla erupts, the heat will melt the ice, and that could cause large floods. (David Krekling, Island holder pusten for ikke å vekke Katla, NRK, 22 Mar 2010)

IF IT HAPPENS TO ONE, IT HAPPENS TO OTHERS

"Every time in recorded history that Eyjafjallajökull volcano has erupted, the much larger Katla volcano has also erupted." "Katla has erupted 16 times since 930, in 1755 exploding so violently that its ash settled on parts of Scotland. In 1918, Katla tore chunks of ice the size of houses from the Myrdalsjökull glacier atop it, sending them careening down its slopes and into the Atlantic on floods of melted glacier water." (Mark Sappenfield, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr 2010)

AND SO IT IS IN THE WORLD OF MONEY LENDING SCAMS

There have been at least 16 major scams in the world since 930. Situations where "trust" companies and banks took people's money, and then it disappeared.

The most recent eruption of such activity in Iceland was in the last 10 years, when Jewish bankers Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson presided over the ruin of Landsbanki, and a good portion of the Icelandic economy.

In another part of Europe, the same problems were pressing towards the surface. Down on the Mediterranean, where the olives grow so big, a country had been in need of money. And it was a good country:

"Ho, no, no, no, no; my meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient; yet his means are in supposition: he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another
to the Indies; I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a
third at Mexico, a fourth for England- and other ventures he
hath, squand'red abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but
men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves- I mean pirates; and then there is the peril of
waters, winds, and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,
sufficient. Three thousand ducats- I think I may take his bond." (Shylock cited in Act I, Scene 3, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

THREE THOUSANDS DUCATS? MAKE THAT 300 BILLION EUROS

The country had means. But the means were "in supposition". And so the banks took a bond, and loaned Greece some money. "Greece's debt has reached the highest level in its modern history, the country's deputy finance minister Philippos Sachinidis has said.

Mr Sachinidis said the country's debt stood at 300bn euros ($442bn; £272bn)." (Greece's debt reaches 300bn euros, BBC, 10 Dec 2009)

And then it became difficult for the Greek government to make payments on this massive mountain of debt.

AND SO IT WAS TIME TO MAKE SOME SAVAGE CUTS

And so some "cuts" were planned: "In return for rescue funds, Greece agreed to measures that the ADEDY civil servants union called “savage.” Greece will cut wages and freeze pensions for three years as well as increase the main sales tax to 23 percent from 21 percent." (Gabi Thesing, Flavia Krause-Jackson, Greece Gets $146 Billion Rescue in EU, IMF Package (Update1), Bloomberg, 3 May 2010)

"Enter the Duke, the Magnificoes, Antonio, Bassanio, and Gratiano, [Salerio, and others]

DUKE:
What, is Antonio here?

ANTONIO:
Ready, so please your grace.

DUKE:
I am sorry for thee; thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch Uncapable of pity, void and empty(5) From any dram of mercy.

ANTONIO:
I have heard
Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate,
And that no lawful means can carry me(10)
Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose
My patience to his fury; and am arm'd
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.

DUKE: Go one, and call the Jew into the court.(15)

SALERIO:
He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.

Enter Shylock

DUKE:
Make room, and let him stand before our face.
Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,
That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
To the last hour of act; and then, 'tis thought(20)
Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse, more strange
Than is thy strange apparent cruelty:
And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
(Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,)
Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,(25)
But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,
Forgive a moiety of the principal;
Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
That have of late so huddled on his back,
Enough to press a royal merchant down,(30)
And pluck commiseration of his state
From brassy bosoms, and rough hearts of flint,
From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd
To offices of tender courtesy.
We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.(35)

SHYLOCK:
I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;
And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn, To have the due and forfeit of my bond:
If you deny it, let the danger light
Upon your charter, and your city's freedom.(40)
You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh, than to receive Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that: But, say, it is my humour. is it answer'd?
What, if my house be troubled with a rat(45)
And I be pleas'd to give ten thousand ducats
To have it ban'd? What, are you answer'd yet?
Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;
And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,(50)
Cannot contain their urine: for affection,
Master of passion, sways it to the mood
Of what it likes, or loathes. Now, for your answer.
As there is no firm reason to be render'd,
Why he, cannot abide a gaping pig;(55)
Why he, a harmless necessary cat;
Why he, a woollen bagpipe,—but of force
Must yield to such inevitable shame,
As to offend himself, being offended;
So can I give no reason, nor I will not,(60) More than a lodged hate, and a certain loathing,
I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?"

(Act IV, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

AN APPEAL FOR A GENTLE ANSWER

Not all of the people in Greece are fond of the idea of these "savage cuts". (per Gabi Thesing, Flavia Krause-Jackson, Greece Gets $146 Billion Rescue in EU, IMF Package (Update1), Bloomberg, 3 May 2010) And so they have taken to the streets to demonstrate. "Thousands of protesters took to the streets Wednesday in a general strike to protest harsh austerity measures aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy." (Greek protest fire kills 3, CBC, 5 May 2010)

THEIR MESSAGE WAS SIMPLE

"Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too, That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice To the last hour of act; and then, 'tis thought(20) Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse, more strange
Than is thy strange apparent cruelty:
And where thou now exact'st the penalty, (Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,)
Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,(25)
But, touch'd with human gentleness and love" (The Duke cited in Act IV, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

AND THE ANSWER OF THE SYSTEM WAS EVEN SIMPLER

Blows. Beatings.

And the Greek government was behind the cuts? Well, not exactly.

BOUGHT POLITICIANS

There are some politicians in "the Greek parliament. After scuffling with police, chasing the ceremonial guards away from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and taking axes to the monument, hundreds tried to storm the building, screaming "let the bordello burn".
(Helena Smith, Greek bailout: Athens burns – and crisis strikes at heart of the EU, Guardian, 5 May 2010)

SHYLOCK MADE SOME DEMANDS

As MPs inside debated the draconian economic reforms that eurozone nations and the IMF have demanded in return for the biggest bailout in history,

WHICH ARE UNPOPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE

riot police outside fired off rounds of acrid teargas to keep the crowd at bay. "All of them are dirty and have eaten from the trough," said one man brandishing a large wooden club.

THE POLITICIANS WERE A PROBLEM

"Our politicians are squarely to blame and the

BUT THE WORST ARE ALREADY IN LONDON

worst of the culprits know it because they have fled the country." (Helena Smith, Greek bailout: Athens burns – and crisis strikes at heart of the EU, Guardian, 5 May 2010)

"Wealthy Greeks seeking a financial safe-haven have helped drive up the price of luxury house prices in London at the fastest pace in two years, a new report shows." (Wealthy Greeks snap up London properties in 'safe haven' buying, Telegraph, 5 May 2010)

And there they can keep company with Jewish bankers Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson, who found the atmosphere in Iceland just a little too hostile. They only ruined the country.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN GREECE

"People are being pushed to the hunger line. With the intervention of the IMF things have changed. We now have an explosion situation and no one knows what the limits of Greeks are, how far people will go to vent their spleen." (Makis Papadopoulos cited in Helena Smith, Greek bailout: Athens burns – and crisis strikes at heart of the EU, Guardian, 5 May 2010)

That's the IMF run by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Mr. Strauss-Kahn is, of course, Jewish. (Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Wikipedia)

AND IN LONDON

The Greek Jews are taking only the best houses: "Knight Frank, a high-end estate agency, said that Greeks now account for 6pc of all properties in the UK capital sold for more than £2m, double the level of a year ago." (Wealthy Greeks snap up London properties in 'safe haven' buying, Telegraph, 5 May 2010)

Draconian means "Exceedingly harsh; very severe". (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/draconian)

Those cuts demanded by Mr. Strauss-Kahn of the IMF are "Exceedingly harsh; very severe". (per Helena Smith, Greek bailout: Athens burns – and crisis strikes at heart of the EU, Guardian, 5 May 2010)

So how will things go with the people of Greece?

"I pray you, think you question with the Jew,
You may as well go stand upon the beach,
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
You may as well use question with the wolf,
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;(75)
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops, and to make no noise
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
You may as well do anything most hard,
As seek to soften that (than which what's harder?)(80)
His Jewish heart."
(Antonio cited in Act IV, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

And so the people of Greece can shout and demonstrate and remonstrate.

But at the end of the day, there is just one question they need to be asking.

A question which has been asked before:

"BASSANIO:: Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?"
(Act IV, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

Well, why indeed?

In Toledo, on Sunday, 19 July 1467, "a group of conversos invaded the cathedral during the high mass, shouting such things as 'Die, die, this is not a church but a congregation of the wicked and vile.'" (John Edwards, The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474-1520, Wiley, 2000, p 81)

"Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein testily told skeptical senators at a hearing Tuesday that clients who bought subprime mortgage securities from the Wall Street powerhouse in 2006 and 2007 came looking for risk "and that's what they got."" (Marcy Gordon and Tom Raum, Senate showdown puts Goldman's defense on display, AP, 28 Apr 2010)

The Jew Blankfein tells it like it is. People who came to his Jewish counting house were "looking for risk". Just as Antonio was "looking for risk". Just as the people of Greece were.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? (Proverbs 6, Holy Bible)

Can Pope Benedict fix a system which has consistently abused children since 1483?

2010-05-03T10:12:00.000-07:00

"Up to 7,400 barrels of crude oil a day could be spewing into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico after Tuesday night's explosion aboard the semi-submersible Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig caused it to capsize and sink Thursday morning." (Patrik Jonsson, Ecological risk grows as Deepwater Horizon oil rig sinks in Gulf, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr 2010) The spill spread quickly, and "turtles and other sea animals washed up dead along the coast as crews tried to use booms to contain the slick that threatens the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida." (Doug Simpson, With Oil Spill Spreading, BP Spreads Blame, AOL News, 3 May 2010)

There was a problem. Which just keeps spreading. And could get much worse. Killing many of the animals both in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the surrounding shores.

And that's how it is with the Roman church. They had a big problem. And it just kept spreading: "priests who sodomized and molested children for decades unchecked" (Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010) have been a feature of the Papist system since at least 1809, as shown here.

WHICH WILL BE REFORMED -- PROMISES THE POPE

But now, "With tears in his eyes, Pope Benedict XVI made his most personal gesture yet to respond to the clerical sex abuse scandal, telling victims the church will do everything possible to protect children and bring abusive priests to justice." (Victor Simpson, Tearful pope meets with sex abuse victims, promises 'effective measures' to safeguard children, AP, 18 Apr 2010)

So can the Jewish pope really launch a cleaner, safer children's program for his church?

Sometimes other Jewish businesses experience pressure, and they respond with plans to make their products safer.

SMOKING CIGARETTES IS REALLY DANGEROUS

"BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT) is to launch a controversial “safer cigarette” designed to cut the risk of smoking-related diseases such as cancer and heart failure by up to 90%.

SO THEY'LL OFFER YOU A NEW CIGARETTE!!

The cigarettes use tobacco treated to produce

WHICH STILL HAVE POISONS IN IT -- JUST LESS

lower levels of cancer-causing chemicals. They also incorporate a

CHECK OUT THOSE PRIESTS / CIGARETTE TOXINS MORE CAREFULLY

new type of filter said to remove more of the remaining toxins.

The company wants to launch the cigarettes in 2006 but has kept the move secret, knowing it would infuriate anti-smoking groups.

THERE ARE THOSE CYNICS OUT THERE

Campaigners will dismiss any attempt to reinvent cigarettes as a less harmful product as a cynical

A PLOY TO RECRUIT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE TO FEED THE MACHINE

ploy to recruit more smokers when the habit is already killing 114,000 Britons a year and the government is proposing curbs on smoking in public places."(Jonathan Leake, 'Safe cigarette' claimed to cut cancer by 90%, The Sunday Times, 6 Nov 2005)

YOU SEE, THERE WAS A POLICY OF COVERING THINGS UP

"Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn't challenge the Dublin church's policy of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests.

Bishop James Moriarty of Kildare is the third Irish bishop to resign in four months as a result of the Irish sex abuse scandal." (Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010)

BECAUSE THERE WAS EMBARRASSING MATERIAL

"In 1992, British American Tobacco had its Canadian affiliate, Imperial Tobacco Canada, destroy internal research documents that could expose the company to liability or embarrassment. Sixty of these destroyed documents were subsequently uncovered in British American Tobacco's files."

THEY FIGURED OUT THE SYSTEM WAS BAD

"Imperial Tobacco destroyed documents that included evidence from scientific reviews prepared by British American Tobacco's researchers, as well as 47 original research studies, 35 of which examined the biological activity and carcinogenicity of tobacco smoke. The documents also describe British American Tobacco

BUT THE POPE PROMISES THE CATHOLIC SYSTEM CAN BE MODIFIED

research on cigarette modifications and toxic emissions, including the ways in which consumers adapted their smoking behaviour in response to these modifications. The documents also depict a comprehensive research program on the

SO WHY NOT GET THOSE SLAVES ADDICTED

pharmacology of nicotine and the central role of nicotine in smoking behaviour. British American Tobacco scientists noted that "... the present scale of the tobacco industry is largely dependent on the intensity and nature of the pharmacological action of nicotine," and that "... should nicotine become less attractive to smokers, the future of the tobacco industry would become less secure."(Hammond, David, Chaiton, Michael, Lee, Alex, Collishaw, Neil, Destroyed documents: uncovering the science that Imperial Tobacco Canada sought to conceal, Canadian Medical Association Journal - CMAJ, Nov 2009)

Or make that, should participation in the children's ministration program become less attractive to your members, the future of the Catholic church would become less secure. And why not throw in all those high schools, football teams, and homes for the deaf.

THE REASON FOR BEING

Which brings us straight to the central question: If Jewish tobacco products are really bad, why should anyone use any form of them?

For the good of the user, or for the good of the company? Spending thousands on a cigarette habit over a life which will be shorter, and filled with disease and suffering doesn't help the addict.

But the business is oh so profitable.

No, if the system is bad, why use it at all?

The "abuse" is nothing new. Back in 1483, the first inquisitor general of the inquisition in Spain was Thomas de Torquemada. A man who had "at least" one Jewish grandmother. During his 15 years of service, he persecuted more than 114 000 victims. Of these, 10 220 were burned. (Peter de Rosa, Gottes Erste Diener – Die dunkle Seite des Papsttums, Droemer Knaur, 1989, p 212)

But wasn't that a long time ago?

The Catholic church has long been dominated by "Jews who only pretended to convert but continued to practice Judaism in private". (Damien Simonis, Spain, Lonely Planet, 2005, p 196)

A SYSTEM WHICH CONGRATULATES

"A letter confirmed by the Vatican on Thursday showed that a top Holy See official in 2001 went so far as to congratulate a French bishop for shielding a

THE PRIEST RAPED CHILDREN

priest who was convicted of raping and sexually abusing minors.

The Sept. 8, 2001 letter from Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then the head of the Vatican office in charge of priests, praised French

THE BISHOP PROTECTED THE RAPIST

bishop Pierre Pican for risking prison time to defend one of his priests.

Four days earlier, a French court gave Pican, then bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in northwestern France, a suspended prison sentence for concealing knowledge about the Rev. Rene Bissey. Bissey was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2000 for raping and sexually abusing 11 minors in the 1990s.

In the letter, Hoyos wrote: "I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest."" (Nicole Winfield, Pope breaks silence on abuse, urges repentance, AP, 18 Apr 2010)

Before 2010, there were plenty of warning flags, now there are more. The system of the Catholic church has been explained. Its business. A business which needs new customers all the time. Like the tobacco trade, its a harmful business. Which has hurt a lot of people.

Those sincere members might claim they didn't know. Because they didn't check history.

In Toledo, on Sunday, 19 July 1467, "a group of conversos invaded the cathedral during the high mass, shouting such things as 'Die, die, this is not a church but a congregation of the wicked and vile.'" And then the conversos battled Christians throughout the city, with plenty of looting and burning. (John Edwards, The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474-1520, Wiley, 2000, p 81)

And ever since, this attitude has been spreading. Like that oil spill in the gulf. And its damaged of lot of the living creatures in the eco-system.

So how can we decide who to believe? The conversos of 1467 or the converso of 2010?

The topic is religion. Christian religion.

So let's check with the founder:

"You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?" (Jesus cited in Matthew 7:16, Holy Bible)

And the fruit? A solid record of abuse. From the 1400s to 1809 to today. A system with "priests who sodomized and molested children for decades unchecked". (Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010)

Make that centuries.

Emicho von Leiningen vs. Arrogance and Hubris / Analysis of 1096 First Crusade / Thor Björgólfsson Learned Well

2010-04-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

DOING WELL UNTIL

Iceland used to be a prosperous country. But then they let in the usury crowd. And so they got a crisis. Which didn't happen all at once.

ENEMIES TOOK OVER

The people put their money in banks. The banks fell into foreign hands. Treated as celebrities in their homeland, Icelanders credit them with wresting financial control of the island from its ruling conservative elite". (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 )

And these foreign hands were sticky. "The first dollar billionaires to emerge from the tiny island of 300,000 inhabitants were Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson and his father, West Ham FC owner Björgólfur Gudmundsson. Björgólfur, who has convictions for false accounting and estimated wealth of $1.bn (£635m), built up his fortune in shipping." (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 )

AND PLUNDERED

And when the Icelanders awakened from their slumber, the billions were gone. "Only now have citizens of the volcanic island begun to suspect they have been sitting on a gigantic pyramid scheme". (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 )

Of course, there were plenty of warning signs, but they were, as usual in these cases, ignored.

AND NOW THEY FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT ALL

As a consequence, these people are now "Destitute and desperate". (per Marc Prel, Destitute and desperate, Icelanders opt for exile, AFP, 7 Apr 2010)

Yes, the people of Iceland have "such a bad feeling about what's happening here." (per Svanbjoern Einarsson cited in Marc Prel, Destitute and desperate, Icelanders opt for exile, AFP, 7 Apr 2010)

And sometimes, when things are getting really desperate, the common people come to resent the usurers.

NOT THE FIRST PLACE THIS HAS HAPPENED

Of course, the Jewish colony is Iceland is not the only one in the lands of the Europeans. No, there are "numerous Jewish colonies". (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 120) Colonies where the Jews were active in the "financial services" sector: "general medieval histories, if they mention Jews at all, refer to them almost exclusively as money-lenders or involved in slavery". (Norman Roth, Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2003, p 189) Colonies in places like Mainz. "The Jews here were especially hated, on account of their usurious customs, and famous for their wealth." (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121)

Or, as the Telegraph puts it: "Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires". (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 ) "The Jews here were especially hated, on account of their usurious customs, and famous for their wealth." (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121)

Billionaires.

WHEN RESENTMENT ERUPTS

In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland. Powerful forces had been building up below the surface, and when the molten rock shot out of the earth, it was quite a spectacle. Back in 1096, a group of Christians were on their way to a religious war. "At the head of the band was Emicho, Graf von Leiningen". (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 120) "In their journey the Rhine downwards they approached the towns chiefly inhabited by wealthy Jews". (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121)

"Chiefly inhabited"? That means business was run by these "wealthy Jews". (Is there any other kind?) "We are angry with the billionaire owners who ran the banks and pretty much everything else in this country".

And sometimes this anger moves beyond words: "An attack at Speyer resulted in the slaying of twelve Jews who refused to convert to Christianity". (S. Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Ktav Publishing House, 1996, p 4)

But that was in Speyer, where there were fewer Jews. Mainz was the center of Jewish commerce in the area, and less than 100km distant. Emicho and his army traveled there next. The Jews were running the city (per W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121), and wasted no time in sending their "law enforcement staff" to bar the gates. "It was all arrogance and hubris". (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 )

Emicho and the Christian forces were outside the city walls. The Jews and their bought politicians and police (per W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121) were inside the walls. (S. Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Ktav Publishing House, 1996, p 4)

Now you're probably thinking that there was a museum of Jewish culture, and maybe even a Guggenheim museum inside the walls. Surely the citizenry of Mainz loved their Jews, and would defend them?

Well, not quite. Since "The Jews here were especially hated, on account of their usurious customs, and famous for their wealth." (W.O. Horn, The Rhine: history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries, and towns, Williams and Norgate, 1872, p 121) And so "Emicho's arrival in Mainz was greeted by anti-Jewish riots within the barred gates of the city." (S. Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Ktav Publishing House, 1996, p 4)

Well, no problem. The Jews had a SWAT team, probably even a secret police force inside the walls.

And for a while, they tried to control the crowds. In the course of their efforts, "a Christian was killed". (S. Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Ktav Publishing House, 1996, p 4)

This displeased the Germans in the city even more, and so "Emicho's allies within the city opened the gates". (S. Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, Ktav Publishing House, 1996, p 4) Now Emicho and the Christian army entered the city. The Jews put up a stiff resistance, but the Christians were angry (as per Bjarni Brynjólfsson cited in Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 ), and "they killed the Jews, about 700 in number, who in vain resisted the force and attack of so many thousands." (Albert of Aachen cited in Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade: A New History, Oxford University Press, 2004, p 88)

LESSONS LEARNED / AND LESSONS NOT LEARNED

So have people learned anything in the succeeding 1000 years?

Absolutely!!!

The Jewish bankers "have now disappeared in times of trouble". (Bjarni Brynjólfsson cited in Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 ) The Jewish bankers in Mainz in 1096 knew full well there were "times of trouble" for their people. They could easily have disappeared. But "It was all arrogance and hubris". (Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 ) And so they stayed in the city with their pet politicians and police. And paid the price for all the years of usury, arrogrance and hubris when "In Mainz the entire Jewish community was massacred between 25 and 29 May by the army of Count Emicho of Leiningen, the most savage enemy of the Rhineland Jewry". (I.S. Robinson, Henry IV of Germany 1056-1106, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p 302)

And the people of Europe? Have they learned anything between 1096 and 2010? “We are angry with ourselves for being foolish and for not having listened to the voices that warned us about the recklessness of the banks.” (Bjarni Brynjólfsson cited in Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 ) "Among them was Alonso de Hojeda, a Dominican prior of Seville, who devoted all his energies to making the crown aware of the reality of the danger from Jews and false converts". (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: a historical revision, Yale University Press, 1998, p 43)

Foolish, destitute, desperate, angry.

And?

We'll never know.

Because these bankers "have now disappeared in times of trouble". (Bjarni Brynjólfsson cited in Rowena Mason, Iceland falls out of love with its billionaires, Telegraph, 19 Oct 2008 )

Pope Benedict XVI, Priest/Child Rape, and that Special Immunity / Napoleon, Col. de Lisle, and the 1809 Raid on the Madrid Inquisition / Real Abuse

2010-04-05T10:25:00.000-07:00

AVALANCHE OF SEX ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

So many men have come forward to say that Catholic priests "sexually abused" them. While most of the reports are somewhat vague, it sounds like the priests, who are all men, raped boys at their schools. Schools like St. John's School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

PEDOPHILE PRIESTS LOVE DEAF CHILDREN WHO CAN'T TALK

These positions were particularly popular among love-hungry priests, because many of the children can't talk at all. They just move their hands to communicate with sign language. A language most people don't understand.

So the evil priest could have his way, and word was slow to get out.

CHILDREN: THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT

"They were deaf, but they were not silent. For decades, a group of men who were sexually abused as children by the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin reported to every type of official they could think of that he was a danger, according to the victims and church documents.

JUST A SECRET BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM

Steven Geier said the priest who molested him as a boy told him he had to keep it a secret. Mr. Geier reported the abuse to three priests, including the Rev. Tom Schroeder.

They told other priests. They told three archbishops of Milwaukee. They told two police departments and the district attorney.

THEY TRIED TO TELL THEIR STORY

They used sign language, written affidavits and graphic gestures to show what exactly Father Murphy had done to them. But their reports fell on the deaf ears of hearing people." (Laurie Goodstein, David Callender, For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse, New York Times, 26 Mar 2010)

There was outrageous sexual perversion going between Catholic priests and children:

HIGH CATHOLIC AUTHORITY

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley runs the Catholic franchise in Boston. He says: "What is very clear to me -- and I think to all who are fair-minded -- is that Cardinal Ratzinger and later Pope Benedict has been dedicated to eradicating

"YES, THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH"

sexual abuse in the Church". (Lisa Wangsness, Cardinal O'Malley defends pope on abuse, Boston Globe, 2 Apr 2010)

But was it really abuse?

The word is defined as "Improper use or handling; misuse." http://www.answers.com/topic/abuse

There was lots of perversion and rape going on, but was it, in the context, improper?

There are plenty of state laws that speak against man/boy action. On the books.

But when Priest Murphy's students complained to the police, it turned out that another law was in play.

Obviously, if Priest Murphy was sodomizing these young boys, and it was really illegal, the police would have clipped his wings.

So what higher law was in play?

FRENCH SOLDIERS INVESTIGATE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN SPAIN

Back in 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte came to Spain. Col. De Lisle and the 117th regiment were sent to an inquisition building just outside Madrid. The facility was strongly fortified, and defended by soldiers of

RUN BY THE "HOLY OFFICE"

the Holy Office.

"Pope Benedict XVI was once dubbed "God's rottweiler"". "Before he became Pope he spent 24 years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - once known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition." (Profile: Pope Benedict XVI, BBC, 25 Dec 2009)

The experienced combat troops under Col. de Lisle had no problem taking the facility, and wanted to find out where the prisoners were kept. The staff on hand included the Inquisitor-General and a

WHEN MEN LIKE TO WEAR ROBES

number of priests in their official robes:

"Dressed in gold robes and shielded from a cool drizzle by a canopy, Benedict looked weary during much of the Mass, the highlight of a heavy Holy Week schedule." (Frances D'Emilio, Pope's immunity could be challenged in Britain, AP, 4 Apr 2010)

"drag queen n. Slang A man, especially a performer, who dresses as a woman." http://www.answers.com/topic/drag-queen

Gold robes don't come cheap.

And back in 1809, the Catholic church also had plenty of money to splash around. The apartments were splendidly furnished with altars, crucifixes, and candles in abundance.

And that was what life was like above ground in this "Holy Office" facility.

But where were those prisoners?

The Holy Office priests didn't want to say.

THEN AS NOW

"In a 2005 test case in Texas that involved alleged victims of sex abuse by priests, the Vatican obtained the intervention of President George W. Bush, who

SURE THERE'S SEX ABUSE, BUT THESE PEOPLE CLAIM IMMUNITY

agreed the pope should have immunity against such prosecutions because he was an acting head of a foreign state." "it would be almost impossible to strip the pope of his immunity now." (Paisley Dodds, Pope's immunity could be challenged in Britain, AP, 4 Apr 2010)

And so these laws are on the books, the perverts break those book laws, but get off -- because they have immunity.

Like they claimed back in 1809 in Madrid.

And so the French soldiers looked and looked. And finally found a hidden stairway under the marble floor (what else?) that led down to the "Hall of Judgment" and torture rooms. There were plenty of cells for the prisoners, some occupied by living victims, others by corpses in decay.

The living prisoners were 100% naked.

Why?

It made "abuse" so easy. The Holy Office staff could come down. Raise their robes in a flash, and work over the victims.

This story has been generally known for about 200 years. So the boys, and their parents have been warned.

""I warned them about all of this," declared

EMINENT JEWISH AUTHOR

author Christopher Hitchens, appearing on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night. "Nothing good can come of a church that has as its' slogan, 'Leave no child's behind.' And then they went and chose as pope the man who was personally responsible, in his dioceses, and institutionally responsible for the cover-up." (Stephen C. Webster, Hitchens: Pope Benedict wants ‘wiggle room’ for ‘rape and torture of children’, The Raw Story, 27 Mar 2010)

Would Holy Office Catholic priests really torture?

The French soldiers found the answer to this question. Down below, the torture facilities were well-equipped. So the French soldiers decided to test the devices -- on the Holy Office priests.

Col. de Lisle went back to Madrid, and got a lot of gunpowder. He put it under the building, and blew the facility.

The warnings were all out there. The information about the Madrid inquisition facility has been available for 200 years.

Which finally brings us to the answer to our question: Was it abuse?

The Holy Office had a facility in Madrid where victims were held naked and abused. Christopher Hitchens describes the priests' handling of children as rape and torture. (Stephen C. Webster, Hitchens: Pope Benedict wants ‘wiggle room’ for ‘rape and torture of children’, The Raw Story, 27 Mar 2010)

The priests were just following standard operating procedure. And if parents send their children into Holy Office facilities, Well, whose fault is that?

The priests lived in strict conformity to a code of conduct dating back to the palace in Madrid, and well beyond.

So was their behavior improper? It was just to be expected of them.

Well, who runs the "Holy Office of the Inquisition"? Pope Benedict did for 24 years. (Profile: Pope Benedict XVI, BBC, 25 Dec 2009)

And who got this office going -- back in the beginning?

In our groundbreaking study of the cruel destruction of Béziers, we learned that the Dominicans had been founded by Dominique de Guzman, a Spanish Jew working for the Catholic Church as the Canon of Osma. Guzman went on to found the religious order of the Dominicans in 1215. (Séjours Découverte en Pays Cathare, French Holidays 2007, http://www.vivresansfrontieres.com/French_Version/French_Holidays_FR/FH_Pays_Cathare_FR.html) "the Dominican order had won for itself a special position not only in the medieval Inquisition but also in the Spanish." (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: a historical revision, Yale University Press, 1998, p 159)

This wasn't too difficult for the Dominicans in Spain because they were in on the ground floor. In 1478, the half-Jew Torquemada started pushing hard for a permanent inquisition. (John Edwards, Ferdinand and Isabella - Profiles in Power, Pearson Education, 2005, p 72)

Which he was able to set up, and run for years:

"Thomas de Torquemada, first inquisitor-general of Spain, died the 16th of November 1498. The miseries which were the consequences of the system which he adopted, and recommended to his successors, justify the general hatred which followed him to the tomb, and compelled him take precautions for his personal safety." "the Pope himself was alarmed at his barabarity". (Juan Antonio Llorente, The history of the Inquisition of Spain: from the time of its establishment to the reign of Ferdinand VII, James M. Campbell & Co., 1843, p 28)

"Torquemada had Jewish blood". (The Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 1, 2002, p 863) As did the founder of his order. As did his successor Benedict.

How do we know?

We just look at where he goes to church -- in his free time, when he's not busy with the affairs of the Holy Office.

What? He still runs that branch of business? "the powers of the inquisition derived from the papacy". (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: a historical revision, Yale University Press, 1998, pp 158, 159)

"I know that the Jewish community makes a valuable contribution to the life of the city". (Pope Benedict cited in Pope makes historic visit to synagogue, USA Today, April 18, 2008 ) Just like the Jewish community did to the Dominican order in its establishment, and its takeover of Holy Office activities in Spain.

"Pope Benedict XVI made his first visit to a synagogue in the United states on Friday, accepting gifts and proclaiming his "respect and esteem" for the New York Jewish community." (Pope makes historic visit to synagogue, USA Today, April 18, 2008 )

IF HE HAD REALLY BEEN A CATHOLIC

There are plenty of Catholic churches in New York, but sometimes a converso has to go home and worship among his kinsmen.

WHEN A "GERMAN" POPE LOVES MATZO BREAD

"In the synagogue, two youths gave Benedict unleavened matzo bread and a copy of the Passover Haggadah text. The pope told them he would eat the matzo on Saturday,

AND ORDERS HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO JEWISH RITUALS

according to the Jewish ritual." (Pope Benedict XVI gets warm welcome at New York synagogue, Haaretz.com, April 19, 2008 )

WHICH HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED IN DETAIL BY AN EMINENT JEWISH EXPERT

"Professor Ariel Toaff is among Israel's and the world's senior researchers in medieval Jewish communities and the Italian Jewish community." (Bar-Ilan University Spokesman, BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY STATEMENT ON PROFESSOR ARIEL TOAFF'S RESEARCH REGARDING BLOOD LIBELS, IPR Strategic Business Information Database, February 12, 2007)

"Toaff discovered many cases of bloody sacrifices connected with the mutilation of children, the outpouring of blood and its baking in Matzo (unleavened Passover bread). The flood of blood accusations in the South Tyrol and upper Veneto at the end of the 15th century, were grounded in facts, according to Toaff’s research." (Marian Horvat, Bloody Passovers Reported by a Jewish Scholar, 4 Oct 2007)

As Senior Rabbi Schneier put it: "The image of the leader of the Catholic church standing in a synagogue with the rabbi, you don't have to say a word. It tells you what the statement is." (Pope Benedict XVI gets warm welcome at New York synagogue, Haaretz.com, April 19, 2008 )

These are the principal signs of judaizing :

speaking and reading Hebrew

participating in Jewish ceremonies

eating of unleavened bread

(per Helen Rawlings, The Spanish Inquisition, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, p 49)

On the Sabbath, the Jewish pope will enjoy his unleavened bread. Which he got at the synagogue while participating in Jewish ceremonies.

Speaking in Hebrew? Naturally! As a matter of course! (Levi Brackman, Warm welcome for Pope in US synagogue, ynet, April 19, 2008 ) "It is with joy that I come here, just a few hours before the celebration of your Pesah, to express my respect and esteem for the Jewish community in New York City," the German-born pontiff said, using the Hebrew word for Passover." (Levi Brackman, Warm welcome for Pope in US synagogue, ynet, April 19, 2008 ) "The king of the Jews will be the real pope of the universe, the patriarch of the international church". (Protocol 17)

These various friars and priests will tell you that they are Christians if you ask them. Even though they run around with a large cross around the neck.

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21, Holy Bible)

So ask yourself, is it the will of the Father in Heaven that victims of priestly abuse be held naked and tortured? In 1809 and in 2010?

WHEN DENIERS OF JESUS GET INTO THE CHURCH

"[4] For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
[5] I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
[6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

THIS SORT OF THING HAS BEEN HAPPENING ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE IN THOSE HOLY OFFICE FACILITIES AND SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF

[7] Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
[8] Likewise also these

DITTO

filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
[9] Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
[10] But these speak evil of those things which they know not:

BUT FATHER MURPHY WAS JUST DOING WHAT CAME NATURALLY TO HIM

but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
[11] Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

SURE THEY LIKE THEIR FEASTS AND MARBLE FLOORS -- AS THE EXPENSE OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS

[12] These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
[13] Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
[14] And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
[15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
[16] These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts". (Jude 1, Holy Bible)

"But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions - in part because the Christian Brothers successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.

Irish church leaders and religious orders all declined to comment Wednesday, citing the need to read the massive document first. The Vatican also declined to comment.

"WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS"

The Irish government already has funded a parallel compensation system that has paid 12,000 abuse victims an average of euro65,000 ($90,000). About 2,000 claims remain outstanding.

Victims receive the payouts only if they waive their rights to sue the state and the church. Hundreds have rejected that condition and taken their abusers and those church employers to court.

JUST LIKE IN THE WISCONSIN DEAF SCHOOL

Wednesday's report said children had no safe way to tell authorities about the assaults they were suffering, particularly the sexual aggression from church officials and older inmates in boys' institutions.

"The management did not listen to or believe children when they complained of

"These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear"

the activities of some of the men who had responsibility for their care," the commission found. "At best, the abusers were moved, but nothing was done about the harm done to the child. At worst, the child was blamed and seen as corrupted by the sexual activity, and

WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO MADRID IN 1809

was punished severely."

The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of the religious orders - that,

IT WAS JUST BUSINESS AS USUAL

in bygone days, people did not recognize the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin that required repentance." (Irish Report Details Catholic Child Abuse, CBS News, 20 May 2009)

Perverted priests have raped children on a massive scale. Around the globe.

Its rape. Its torture. (as per Hitchens, supra)

But its not abuse. Because "what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves." (Jude 1:10, Holy Bible) Numerous examples throughout history have been available for years. And if parents voluntarily send their children to places where the priests do "what they know naturally" (as per Jude 1:10, Holy Bible), the parents are to blame.

There are many, many serious Christians out there. They follow Jesus' commands, and will live him in Heaven for eternity.

But then there are all those false converts:

"Meanwhile, the discovery (and immediate burning) at Llerena in September 1467 of two conversos for practising Judaism seemed to confirm the religious insincerity of New Christians. Preachers made the most of such cases. Among them was Alonso de Hojeda, a Dominican prior of Seville, who devoted all his energies to making the crown aware of the reality of the danger from Jews and false converts". (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: a historical revision, Yale University Press, 1998, p 43) Like Domingo Núñez de Guzmán Garcés, Tomás de Torquemada, and Pope Benedict.

VATICAN COURT PREACHER: CRITICISM OF POPE OVER CHILD RAPE IS ANTI-SEMITISM

Raniero Cantalamessa is "Preacher of the Pontifical Household. He preached at Good Friday services in St. Peter's in Rome: "The use of stereotypes, the shifting of personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt remind me of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism". (Raniero Cantalamessa cited in Preacher compares attacks on pope to Jewish suffering, Reuters, 2 Apr 2010) They like to call themselves Christians, but when criticism comes for their priests' rape and torture of little children (per Christopher Hitchens cited in Stephen C. Webster, Hitchens: Pope Benedict wants ‘wiggle room’ for ‘rape and torture of children’, The Raw Story, 27 Mar 2010), well, the criticism is anti-Semitism. (per Raniero Cantalamessa cited in Preacher compares attacks on pope to Jewish suffering, Reuters, 2 Apr 2010)

And there is consensus. This pope has his house preacher, and his personal rabbi. Who agrees: "The image of the leader of the Catholic church standing in a synagogue with the rabbi, you don't have to say a word. It tells you what the statement is." (Senior Rabbi Schneier cited in Pope Benedict XVI gets warm welcome at New York synagogue, Haaretz.com, April 19, 2008 )

"Meanwhile, the discovery (and immediate burning) at Llerena in September 1467 of two conversos for practising Judaism seemed to confirm the religious insincerity of New Christians. Preachers made the most of such cases. Among them was Alonso de Hojeda, a Dominican prior of Seville, who devoted all his energies to making the crown aware of the reality of the danger from Jews and false converts". (Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: a historical revision, Yale University Press, 1998, p 43)

Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Eruption 20 March 2010 / First the Economy, Then the Mountains

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A MOUNTAIN

"The Eyjafjallajökull glacier is a 1666 m high glacier-capped stratovolcano. ... The icecap of the glacier covers a volcano (1666m in height) which has

BUT NOT YOUR ORDINARY MOUNTAIN

erupted relatively frequently since the Ice Age. The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 3-4 km and the glacier covers an area of about 100 km².

NOT SHAKING ALL THE TIME

In June 1994 an earthquake swarm lasting for nearly a month occurred below the active volcano Eyjafjallajökull in South Iceland. It is otherwise a relatively quiet volcano – although it is not listed as being inactive. Eyjafjallajökull erupted last in 1821-1823." (Eyjafjallajökull glacier, Nature, Visit South Iceland)

LOOKS LIKE ANY OTHER MOUNTAIN

People go by, and see a mountain covered with ice and snow. Like any other mountain.

AND SO YOU GET USED TO IT

Mountains are considered pretty permanent, and after a while people start thinking: that's just a part of the scenery. Something that has always been there.

The farmers graze their sheep on the plain below, and tourists come by to take pictures of that nice mountain.

Change it? Suspect it? No. That's nature. And we must protect the environment.

But then the volcano erupts. Not all the time. Maybe not for 200 years. Or maybe every 5 years.

Oh good! Such brilliant colors to watch.

A WONDER OF NATURE

The brightly colored substance is liquid rock. Its extremely hot, and so can flow like a river. Needless to say, people, animals, and houses in the way tend to destroyed.

Its called lava: "molten rock that issues from a volcano or from a fissure in the surface of a planet (as earth) or moon; also : such rock that has cooled and hardened". (lava, Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)

"Volcanoes are some of the most amazing natural formations in the world. When these sleeping powerhouses wake up they can literally blow their tops. As the ash and lava settles, any damage and destruction the eruption has left behind can be evaluated. In ideal circumstances,

PEOPLE ARE SAFE -- IF THEY WEREN'T TOO CLOSE

people and structures are protected at a safe distance and the firey beauty of the volcanic eruption can be observed, filmed and photographed." (6 Devastatingly Powerful Volcanoes, Webecoist)

OF COURSE, PEOPLE AREN'T ALWAYS AT A SAFE DISTANCE

"In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius completely destroyed the provincial Roman town of Pompeii.

IT LOOKED JUST LIKE ANY OTHER MOUNTAIN

It is doubtful that most citizens of Pompeii realized an active volcano lurked at their back door. Nor is it likely that anyone credited the volcano with the rich soil that made the land an Eden for farmers.

AFTER ALL, IT WAS A RICH COUNTRY

The prosperous residents of this provincial Roman city of 20,000 probably saw Vesuvius as just another beautiful mountain and their rich volcanic soil as a gift of the gods. Life was good, and it would go on just as it had for 1,000 years. If you would have told the average Pompeiian on the morning of August 24, AD 79, that his city would be completely wiped off the the map within 24 hours, he would have probably laughed in your face.

But Pompeii was obliterated, along with several other nearby towns.

AS USUAL, PLENTY OF WARNING SIGNS

Furthermore, nature had been more than generous with her warning signs. Clearly, disaster was imminent.

A great earthquake had rattled the area seventeen years before. Houses and temples collapsed. Statues toppled from their pedestals. People lay buried beneath the rubble.

TIME TO GET AWAY FROM THE DANGER?

The damage was so great that the Emperor Nero wondered out loud if Pompeiians should just abandon the place and be done with it. But the people of Pompeii were stubborn and proud. They started rebuilding immediately -- their magnificent forum, the ten temples to the gods, their theaters, their coliseum, their

PLENTY OF SHOPPING CENTERS TO BUY THOSE LEVI'S JEANS

shops and stores, and their homes. But it was a long process. Damage from the AD 62 was still visible when Vesuvius blew its top seventeen years later.

And there were other, more recent and telling signs of the coming disaster. Several small quakes shook the area in the days preceding the eruption. Wells dried up and springs stopped flowing.

PRODIGIES

Dogs howled and birds were strangely silent. But Pompeiians went about their daily business, oblivious to the rumblings under their feet or the strange behavior of their pets.

THERE WAS STILL TIME TO FLEE

Then, at about 1:30 on the afternoon of the 24th, there was a tremendous roar and a gargantuan column of flame, rocks, smoke and dust gushed from the summit of their beloved mountain. The lava plug capping the mouth of Vesuvius for a millennium finally surrendered to internal pressure. A half hour later Pompeii, six miles southeast of the crater, began to be pelted with fallout.

A pine tree-shaped cloud rose over the mountain and blocked the sun. Pumice pebbles, too light to do much damage, rained on Pompeii. Other rocks, as solid as bowling balls, killed a number of people. Ash sifted down on the cobbled streets at the astounding rate of six inches per hour.

Pompeiians took to their homes to escape the hurling missiles and choking ash. Residue piled up on relatively flat roofs causing buildings to collapse. Now the people of the city knew they must flee to safety. But where? Residents retrieved what valuables they could carry. Slaves bore their rich masters through the streets on sedan chairs. People, carts and livestock clogged the narrow streets. Some made their way toward the wharfs on Sarno River. Others headed into the surrounding countryside, as far away from the belching mountain as possible.

At dusk, 90 percent of the people of Pompeii had reached safety. Those still left,

"FOR WHATEVER REASON"

for whatever reason, still had plenty to time to escape -- and they probably would have done so without further hesitation if they had only known what future horror the mountain had in store.

Vesuvius had been erupting for about 10 hours.

JUST AS IN THE VIDEO ABOVE

Night showed a spectacular display of lightning amid the volcanic cloud spewing from the crater. At times, the dense cloud of ash, smoke, and stone towered 12 miles high. Strong winds aloft blew the material southeast toward Pompeii and nearby Stabiae. Another town at the foot of the volcano and even closer to the crater, Herculaneum, had been spared a heavy fall of ash because it was upwind.

AH, WE'RE SAFE

The residents thought they were safe.

NOT!

They weren’t.

Up until now, the heavy column laden with dust, ash and rock had been supported by the sheer force pushing out of the volcano. But, at about 11:30 p.m., that force was momentarily weakened. The superheated cloud collapsed upon itself and started to roll down the side of the mountain.

The leading edge of this avalanche was a fast-moving stream of hot ash and gases, hurtling downward at terrific speed. The second part was denser, consisting of pumice, rocks and soil, made liquid by temperatures that approached 750 degrees. The glowing cloud failed to reach Pompeii on the first try, but it easily engulfed Herculaneum. Every single soul remaining in the little resort town, by the sparking Bay of Naples, perished instantly.

An hour later, a second pyroclastic flow surged down the mountain. Again, it failed to reach Pompeii. But the steady rain of rocks and ash were getting to be more of a hazard than those at ground level were prepared to bear. Residents, still huddled in their houses, gathered what belongings they could collect and started out of the city. Yet, unbelievably, some still remained.

Four hours later, another surge roared down the mountain. This time, it was stopped at the north wall of the city. Then, at 6:30, a fourth surge broke though and swept through Pompeii, killing everyone who remained -- some estimates as high as 2,000. Pompeii had joined Herculaneum, 12 miles away, in death. Two further surges sealed the cities in an earthen tomb.

The eruption of Vesuvius lasted barely a day, but it’s devastation was complete. When survivors returned they found an alien landscape. Only the very tops of a few of the taller buildings barely poked through the ground. Pompeii was buried under nine feet of ash, and a deep, hard layer left by the surges. Herculaneum, much closer to the mouth of the volcano, was buried to a depth of 65 feet or more, in a deposit as tough as concrete." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

ICELAND WAS A PROSPEROUS LITTLE COUNTRY

"Iceland had ousted Norway from the head of the UN's league table of 177 countries that compared per-capita income, education, health care and life expectancy – which, at 80.55 years for males, was third highest in the world." Iceland had "free health and education systems, bought the most books, owned most mobile telephones per head, and included the highest proportion of working women in the world". reference

There were various eruptions of war, and dangerous scams going on over in Europe.

In countries like Visigoth Spain:

Visigoth Empire in Spain - Rise, Fall, and Lessons to be Learned

and in France:

Children's Crusade 1212 - Marseille / Arles Slave Traders Cash In on Religious Fanaticism

But the Icelandic "people and structures are protected at a safe distance and the firey beauty of the volcanic eruption can be observed, filmed and photographed." (as per 6 Devastatingly Powerful Volcanoes, Webecoist) Travelers could come with news of these catastrophes, and the people of Iceland could observe European events from a distance, and learn.

DIFFERENT AT FIRST

The Jews came to Iceland in 1625. Other than their singular appearance and unique morality, they seemed much like other people. "The prosperous residents of this provincial Roman city of 20,000 probably saw Vesuvius as just another beautiful mountain and their rich volcanic soil as a gift of the gods." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

BUT THE NATIVE POPULATION GOT USED TO THEM

And those Jews? Just another sort of people. Soon Icelanders were buying Jewish products.

Jacob Franco was one of the "Portuguese Jews". He was in the tobacco business in Copenhagen, and got the monopoly for supplying all the tobacco products to Iceland and the Faroes/Føroyar in 1704. There was some friendly rivalry amongst the Jews, so in 1710 Abraham Levin and Abraham Cantor got into the business as well. And, of course, this traffic in death stayed in Jewish hands. In 1731, Isak Cantor took over the family business. reference

AND IF YOU HAD TRIED TO WARN THEM?

If you would have told the average Iceland in 2000 that his country would be financially devastated within 10 years, he would have probably laughed in your face.

"If you would have told the average Pompeiian on the morning of August 24, AD 79, that his city would be completely wiped off the the map within 24 hours, he would have probably laughed in your face." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

BUT OF COURSE THERE WERE WARNINGS

Oh, there had been some warning signs: "Furthermore, nature had been more than generous with her warning signs. Clearly, disaster was imminent.

A great earthquake had rattled the area seventeen years before. Houses and temples collapsed. Statues toppled from their pedestals." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

People kept getting cancers from those cigarettes imported by Jacob Franco and his successors. And then there was the matter of Björgólfur Gudmundsson. He ran Hafskip. And looted the company, and took it under in a huge criminal fraud. reference And the Great Depression. And the smaller depressions. And Enron.

BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE WERE UNAFFECTED

"But the people of Pompeii were stubborn and proud. They started rebuilding immediately". (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

And the Icelanders thought, Oh my, These people have been hunted by Nazis, penned in camps, and forced to work. After all that intolerance, its time to just forgive and forget.

SINCE THESE PEOPLE WEREN'T "REALLY" JEWS

If the Icelandic people even thought about it. Because so many Jews had gotten baptized. Jews like Ludvig Mariboe. He had been born in 1781 in Copenhagen to Jewish parents. For business reasons, he pretended to be Christian. The Norwegians let him stay in the country after 1814 because they reasoned that he wasn’t really a Jew. (Oskar Mendelsohn, Jødenes historie i Norge gjennom 300 år, Bind I, Universitetsforlaget, 1969, p. 50) In Norway, he established many businesses. And sat in the national parliament between 1830 and 1833. And audited the books of the country between 1834 and 1839. Not to mention publishing the "liberal" newspaper Patrouillen. (Ludvig Mariboe, Wikipedia) A course of action so similar to that of Gutkind Hirschel / Gerhard Bonnier, who was doing about the same thing at the same time in Sweden. (documented here)

BUT THE WARNINGS INTENSIFIED

"And there were other, more recent and telling signs of the coming disaster. Several small quakes shook the area in the days preceding the eruption. Wells dried up and springs stopped flowing. Dogs howled and birds were strangely silent. But Pompeiians went about their daily business, oblivious to the rumblings under their feet or the strange behavior of their pets." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

Like "Icelanders" going to Russia. To the capital city of the Russian Mafia - St. Petersburg. And starting up a huge brewery firm. Supposedly in a foreign country. Which was not so foreign at all for Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson, a man who is at home in London (much of the time) when not in Cyprus, where he got his paperwork. reference

AND THEN THE MOUNTAIN STARTED BELCHING

Then England shut down the Icesave scam. reference And that was the last big warning.

"Four hours later, another surge roared down the mountain. This time, it was stopped at the north wall of the city. Then, at 6:30, a fourth surge broke though and swept through Pompeii, killing everyone who remained -- some estimates as high as 2,000. Pompeii had joined Herculaneum, 12 miles away, in death." (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment) And now Iceland has a "stricken economy". (Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010)

And so the Jewish bankers decided to lay off? Let the Icelanders alone after cleaning out the country? "Iceland's central bank cut interest rates by 50 basis points on Wednesday to ease pressure". (Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010)

They have the people under pressure. And now they are reducing the heavy burden of usury.

By 50 basis points!! That must be a lot.

"The Sedlabanki said it would lower its key seven-day collateral rate to 9.0 percent, and reduced other main rates also by 50 basis points ." (Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010) Oh, a 5% reduction.

While other countries are keeping their rates around zero, they've decided to keep the Vikings under heavy pressure. Usury of 9%.

THAT SURGE ROARED ON DOWN THE MOUNTAIN

"The implosion of the

AND BROUGHT DEATH TO ICELAND'S "FINANCIAL SYSTEM"

island's financial system also left it

VIKINGS LEFT HOLDING THE BAG FOR THOSE LONDON BANKERS - THEY WISH

owing Britain and the Netherlands around $5 billion which the two countries doled out to their savers who had lost money in high-yield online "Icesave" accounts." (Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010)

The people didn't see things that way. And so the government let them vote, and the people said, No, we already lost our money to the Jews, we're not going to pay anything more. reference

They may not want to pay directly, but the Jews always have a way -- high interest rates. Sooner or later they get what they're really after:

BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE KIND - THEY SAY

"This kindness will I show.

SETTING THE TERMS OF CREDIT

Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,
If you repay me not on such a day,

THE MONEY WOULD BE FINE

In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit

BUT WHY NOT MAKE IT FLESH

Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me."
(Shylock cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

WHEN THEY IGNORE THE WARNINGS -- REBUILDING THE CITY IN EASY RANGE OF DANGER

And the people of Iceland have figured this out? Expelled the Jews from their country?

Oh, no. They're just sad:

THEY ARE SO SAD

"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;

BUT CAN'T FIGURE OUT JUST WHAT CAUSED THEIR MISERY

But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself."
(Antonio cited in Act I, Scene I, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)

USED TO BE A RICH COUNTRY

As noted above, Iceland used to be a rich country. But then the economy got "imploded". They had handed over their "financial system" to foreigners.

BUT NOW THEY NEED CREDIT

"Aid promised by its Nordic neighbors and the International Monetary Fund is on hold until the "Icesave" dispute is solved." (Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010)

Dispute? The Jews in England and Netherlands want the Icelandic people to pay compensation for the monies looted by the Jews who lived, at one time, in Iceland, but now live in London. Again.

And "solved" (per Iceland's central bank cuts rates despite Icesave worries, Reuters, 17 Mar 2010)? Oh. Its just a matter of going down to the notary:

"Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Your single bond;"
(per Shylock cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

Seal a single bond. And then they can get more loans.

Interest free? Are you kidding?

Maybe just at a concessionary rate of 9%. But then again, maybe for more.

And if they can't pay it

"In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Express'd in the condition"
(per Shylock cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

Well, then comes that pound of flesh. (per Shylock cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)) Like the fisheries. The airline. And how about all the real estate on the whole island too.

What? That greedy?

Could these usurers and slave traders -- "medieval histories, if they mention Jews at all, refer to them almost exclusively as money-lenders or involved in slavery". (Norman Roth, Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2003, p 189) -- really be out to grab the whole island over a "debt" racked up by some Russian Mafia types -- who just happened to have sojourned in Iceland?

That's what they did with Hong Kong.

In the 1930s, zoologist Ernst Schäfer made several expeditions to Tibet and China.

In theory, he was looking for animals with fur and four legs. But the observations he made in China tell you everything about what happens when people like Antonio say:

"Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond
And say there is much kindness in the Jew."
(Antonio cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

The Chinese had been to the notary with Shylock: "Although the Nanking Treaty of 1842 did not specifically mention opium, it had the effect of informally sanctioning the British sale of opium and there-after discouraging the Chinese from much more than “sporadic punishment of opium offenders". (Spence 1992, 244)." (Keith McMahon, The fall of the god of money: opium smoking in nineteenth-century China, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, p 38)

And the consequences?

Ernst Schäfer saw it all "in

CENTER OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY

Hankow, an important junction on the Yangtze and often called China’s Chicago.

TURF CARVED UP

The British, French and Russians all had concessions here." (Chrisopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, p 47)

And the business model was one we've seen again and again in our case studies:

DRUG TRADE (AS USUAL)

"Hankow was the centre of the opium trade which

SLAVERY BUSINESS

had ensnared millions of Chinese in a prison of poverty and addiction."

THE EMPEROR HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE DRUG TRADE, SO THEY TOOK HIM DOWN

"Hankow had also been the condenser for nationalist passions that had

WITH A REVOLUTION (AS USUAL)

overturned the Manchu emperors in 1912.

SCENE OF AN EXTORTION SCAM

Further downstream was Nanjing. Here, a century earlier, the English

JEWISH

diplomat Sir Henry Pottinger had used his

FOREIGN MILITARY FORCES / FULL EXTORTION

formidable negotiating powers to force the fading Manchu dynasty to allow their empire to be opened up to

"HER TRADE"? SINCE WHEN WAS DAVID SASSOON A "SHE"?

her commerce and trade. Pottinger had also acquired the island of Hong Kong ‘in perpetuity’." (Chrisopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, P 47)

Hong Kong? Iceland? What's the difference. Its just a matter of some ledger entries down at the counting house.

You know, the one where Barabas manages his operation.

But how can you think of an island as being "fair flesh"?

"Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me."
(Shylock cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

There is another kind, of course.

A VIBRANT, MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

"A city of thirty-six nationalities, Shanghai was fractured by competing European powers
who had arrogantly divided the city between them, and by stark barriers between

WHERE "CERTAIN PEOPLE" HAVE THE MONEY

the rich and the near destitute." "Shanghai was wealthy and cosmopolitan, and it relished its talents for dissolution and sleaze.

FULL PERVERSION

Its clubs, opium dens and and brothels were infamous and promised to satisfy any vice.

THAT POUND OF FLESH

The white Russian girls who had been turfed out of Russia by the

DIDN'T KNOW JEWS WERE PURITANS

puritanical Bolsheviks were especially prized." (Chrisopher Hale, Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, p 45)

There are plenty of white Icelandic girls.

So now the country has some choices to make.

The people could follow Bassanio's example:

"You shall not seal to such a bond for me: I'll rather dwell in my necessity."
(Bassanio cited in Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

Or, of course, give in to Shylock's persuasion and make a trip down to the notary:

"ANTONIO

Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:
Within these two months, that's a month before
This bond expires, I do expect return
Of thrice three times the value of this bond.

SHYLOCK

O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;
If he should break his day, what should I gain
By the exaction of the forfeiture?
A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,
To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:
If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;
And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.

ANTONIO

Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.

SHYLOCK

Then meet me forthwith at the notary's; Give him direction for this merry bond, And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
See to my house, left in the fearful guard
Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
I will be with you.

ANTONIO

Hie thee, gentle Jew.
Exit Shylock
The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.

BASSANIO I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
(Act I, Scene III, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

Bassanio saw what was going on.

Antonio didn't. Like the people in Iceland whose economy has "imploded".

Of course, the warning signals were there:

"And there were other, more recent and telling signs of the coming disaster. Several small quakes shook the area in the days preceding the eruption. Wells dried up and springs stopped flowing. Dogs howled and birds were strangely silent. But Pompeiians went about their daily business, oblivious to the rumblings under their feet". (Vesuvius destroys Pompeii, essortment)

And then came destruction.

Icesave Referendum in Iceland 6 March 2010

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Icesave was the internet banking operation of Landsbanki. By offering high interest rates, this racket attracted lots of deposits in England and Netherlands. Money "disappeared", causing the collapse of the operation. England and Netherlands want the working people of Iceland to pay for the losses. But are careful not to mention the billionaires who ran this racket. This is the story of economic parasitism on a massive scale.

"Landsbanki – the National Bank of Iceland – was privatized a few years ago and sold to a father-son team, Björgólfur Guðmundsson and his son Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson." (Where are the owners of Landsbanki?, The Iceland Weather Report)

WIFE FROM SOLID JEWISH FAMILY

Mr. Guðmundsson married Thora Hallgrimsson. She was well connected: "Her father was head of Shell Iceland; one uncle was an ambassador to the United States in the 1940s, while another the prime minister on five occasions up to 1963. Her former husband, George Lincoln Rockwell, with whom she had four children, founded the American Nazi Party in 1959". (Jamie Jackson, He's the real thing, The Observer, 2 Sep 2007) Readers will want to learn about Shell's founder, who was involved in shipping, here.

SHIPPING MAGNATE CAUSES "NATIONAL SCANDAL"

Just like Mr. Guðmundsson, who came into ownership of "Hafskip was Iceland's second-largest shipping line before its collapse which became a national scandal." (Hafskip, Wikipedia)

And how could a shipping company "collapse"?

IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS

"In May 1986, police arrested Björgólfur Gudmundsson and serveral other executies of Hafskip in early-morning raids on their homes."

EXPERIENCED EMBEZZLER

"Björgólfur Gudmundsson was also charged with embezzling sums from the company's cheque accounts and charging personal costs to the company."

LOOTED ICELANDIC COMPANY HAFSKIP

"He was also charged with embezzling bills of exchange from the company's portfolio for his personal benefit." "Björgólfur and the other defendants were found guilty of these charges by the Icelandic supreme court judges - but only partly so.

COOKED THE BOOKS / AND NOT TOO SAD ABOUT IT

In preparation of the misleading first eight-month figures and full-year accounts of 1984, the defendants were found to have violated articles of the Companies Act, but not the more serious General Penal Code.

CONVICTED OF FRAUD

Björgólfur Gudmundsson was found to have violated the General Penal Code over several counts of embezzlement, two of which involved fraud." (Questions over Landsbanki's new shareholder, Euromoney, 1 Nov 2002)

MAJOR SOCIAL ILL IN JEWISH COMMUNITY

"An article by Professor Benjamin Akzin, a leading Israeli legal authority, can serve as the last and most recent example of the persistence of the concept of Jewish parasitism. One of the three major social ills which endanger the very existence of the State of lsrael (the other two being the social gulf between the Ashkenazi and the Oriental Jews, and the lack of devotion to the state and to the national vision the state is destined to realize), parasitism, Akzin says, has reached the dimensions of a mass epidemic. Its four major manifestations are: (1) The parasitism of those who spend their work ing hours trying to do as little as possible; (2) the parasitism of those who do not want to work at all and live on aid and charity; (3) the parasitism of those who engage in criminal activities and form a large "underworld" sector; and

DR. AKZIN CONDEMNS GUðMUNDSSSON'S CRIMES

(4) the parasitism of corruption and fraud." (Raphael Patai, The Jewish mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 460)

AND DR. AKZIN SPOKE OF KNOWLEDGE

"Israelis may remember Benjamin Akzin (1904-1985) as a distinguished academic who served as dean of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, president of Haifa University, and recipient of the 1967 Israel Prize."

WELL QUALIFIED / CERTIFIED

"After completing doctorates in political science and law at the universities of Vienna and Paris, the Latvian-born Akzin traveled to the United States in the 1930s to complete a third doctorate at Harvard." (Rafael Medoff, The man who wanted to bomb Auschwitz, The Jerusalem Post, 7 Jul 2004)

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES / LARGE UNDERWORLD SECTOR

As established by the Iceland courts, Mr. Guðmundsson has engaged in criminal activities. (Questions over Landsbanki's new shareholder, Euromoney, 1 Nov 2002) The "parasitism of corruption and fraud" (as per Benjamin Akzin cited in Raphael Patai, The Jewish mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 460) component has been well established, but what about underworld activity? (as per Benjamin Akzin cited in Raphael Patai, The Jewish mind, Wayne State University Press, 1996, p 460)

When the Russian industries were privatized, and other wealthy Jewish oligarchs like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were lining up billion-dollar fortunes, Mr. Guðmundsson and his son Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson came over from Iceland to help.

ICELANDIC TV: RUSSIAN MAFIA MONEY

"TV-station Stöd 2 asked yesterday on its evening news broadcast if it is Russian mafia money that's financing Icelandic expansion abroad.

The question was provoked by an article that appeared yesterday in the British daily Guardian titled "Next-generation Viking invasion" by Ian Griffiths (http://www.guardian.co.uk).

Prompted by rumors about Icelanders preparing a bid for British retailer Marks & Spencer, Griffiths, who was selected Business Journalist of the Year at the 2005 British Press Awards, asks "They've got the cash to buy big UK groups like M&S. But where does it come from?"

UNDERWORLD DIDN'T TROUBLE THESE MEN!

Griffiths finds the rags to riches story of three Icelanders in post-communist Russia incredible. While their

BUT ETHNIC RUSSIAN COMPETITORS WERE NOT SO LUCKY

competitors in St. Petersburg's mafia-ridden brewing business were being murdered or having their factories mysteriously burned down during the 1990's, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Magnús Thorsteinsson escaped not only unscathed out of Russia but also, they claim, with piles of money after selling their Bravo International brewery to Heineken for USD 400 million in 2002.

WAITED FOR THINGS TO CALM DOWN AFTER THE LAST FRAUD CONVICTIONS

Returning to Iceland in 2002, the threesome purchased a controlling share in state bank Landsbanki in a controversial sale." (Russian mafia financing Icelandic expansion abroad?, Iceland Review Online, 17 Jun 2005)

GLOBAL ORGANIZATION

"After avoiding any use of the term “Russian mafia” in the last few years, law enforcement personnel in Europe and elsewhere are now speaking about it again, noting that it includes “up to 300,000 people” and dominates the criminal world in many countries around the world, according to a Moscow investigative journalist." (Paul Goble, 'Russian Mafia' Abroad Now 300,000 Strong, Journal Says, The Moscow Times, 2 Mar 2010)

And this is something new? That came out of nowhere?

"During the ninth century, the Persian geographer lbn Khurradadhbih described the prodigious trading network of Jews from Radhan, a neighborhood of Baghdad, who journeyed across North Africa and the whole Eurasian landmass from France and Spain in the west to India and China in the east, crisscrossing the continents from north to south.

LEARNING MANY LANGUAGES - LIKE ICELANDIC, AND RUSSIAN

These Radhanites had learned many of the languages spoken within this vast territory and traded in commodities as diverse as swords, brocade, eunuchs, and slaves from the west, to spices, perfumes, and precious woods from the east. The Radhanites were fortunate to be able to rely on the local knowledge of Jews living across both continents." (Myer Samra, Migration Patterns of Iraqi Jews in M. Avrum Ehrlich, Editor, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora - Origins, Experiences, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p 354)

"After avoiding any use of the term “Russian mafia” in the last few years, law enforcement personnel in Europe and elsewhere are now speaking about it again, noting that it includes “up to 300,000 people” and dominates the criminal world in many countries

LIKE ICELAND AND ENGLAND

around the world, according to a Moscow investigative journalist." (Paul Goble, 'Russian Mafia' Abroad Now 300,000 Strong, Journal Says, The Moscow Times, 2 Mar 2010)

"Middle Eastern Jews continued to participate extensively in international trade during the medieval period" (Myer Samra, Migration Patterns of Iraqi Jews in M. Avrum Ehrlich, Editor, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora - Origins, Experiences, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p 354)

FROM MEDIEVAL PERIOD TO 2002

"Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the flamboyant head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and vice speaker of the Duma, says that none of this information justifies any suggestion that there is a Russian mafia operating abroad let alone implying that Moscow is somehow responsible for it.

“Yes,” Zhirinovsky acknowledges, “people from the republics of the former USSR really occupy an important position in the international criminal community, and in recent years this position can even be called a dominant one. But here is one ‘but’: Many of these people already have been living abroad for a long time” (Paul Goble, 'Russian Mafia' Abroad Now 300,000 Strong, Journal Says, The Moscow Times, 2 Mar 2010)

THOR BJORGOLFSSON ALREADY "LIVING ABROAD FOR A LONG TIME"

"Other notable foreigners calling London home include Iceland's richest citizen Thor Bjorgolfsson". (Mumbai is world's 7th largest billionaire city: Forbes, Press Trust of India, 6 May 2008 )

FOREIGN PASSPORTS

"and have exchanged Russian passports for foreign ones." (Paul Goble, 'Russian Mafia' Abroad Now 300,000 Strong, Journal Says, The Moscow Times, 2 Mar 2010) Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson uses Cyprus paperwork when traveling. "We learn that most of these Russian emigrés are Jews who claim persecution in Russia. They may be Jews, but the dons of the Russian Mafiya are also hardened ex-cons from the Russian gulag". (flakmagazine review of Red Mafiya by Robert I. Friedman (Little, Brown and Company))

RHADANIYA 2010

In other words, Mr. Björgólfsson has a philosophy of business not too unlike that of his brethren from Baghdad.

LEARNING BY EXAMPLE

He learned some things from his father, Mr. Guðmundsson. "He chose to go to the United States in 1986 rather than join the family firm, Hafskip, which was at the time embroiled in a financial scandal involving fraud and embezzlement." (Who is Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland's lone billionaire?, INVgr) That is, the fraud and embezzlement of his father. (Questions over Landsbanki's new shareholder, Euromoney, 1 Nov 2002)

Maybe Mr. Björgólfsson could plug into the Rhadhan network in the USA? He did.

AT HOME IN NEW YORK WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE

"In 1991, he graduated from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business." (Who is Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland's lone billionaire?, INVgr) "NYU was ranked the No. 1 private school in the most recent "Top 60 Schools Jews Choose" survey by Reform Judaism Magazine.

The university has the highest Jewish undergraduate population on the list with 6,000 students, followed by Boston University, Yeshiva University and Cornell University." (Lindsay Macklin, NYU is rated first for Jewish students, NYUNews.com, 14 Oct 2009)

WELL QUALIFIED FOR THE MONEY LENDING BUSINESS

Björgólfur Guðmundsson and his son Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson possessed impeccable credentials for the moneylending business. They had success in the alcohol trade. Cashed out. And were looking for more.

ICELANDIC/HEBREW COMPANY

And so they used "Samson eignarhaldsfelag ehf" to take control of Landsbanki. "Samson is an investment holding vehicle of Iceland's wealthiest family, led by Björgólfur Gudmundssons, who also serves as Landsbanki chairman". (New Landsbanki Íslands hf., answers.com)

The original Samson was also Hebrew (Judges 13:2, 24, Holy Bible):

MASS KILLING AND PLUNDER / CLEANED THEM OUT

"He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of their belongings and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle." (Judges 14:19, Holy Bible)

The Iceland government had fair warning of what these Jewish businessmen had in mind with their Samson project. And they went ahead and gave away the bank to the Samson crew anyway.

THOSE WARNING FLAGS

After four years of Samson (mis)management, Landsbanki was tottering. "Landsbanki's aggressive entry into the UK savings market in October 2006 was a response to mounting credit concerns about Icelandic financial institutions in the bond markets. Reports had begun to appear in financial circles, warning that these firms were heavily reliant on short-term funding from the wholesale bond markets, and that in the event of a shock they were too big for the state to bail out. Reflecting fears of trouble ahead, the cost of insuring bank bonds rose sharply." (Simon Bowers, How the Icesave crisis left British deposits in limbo, guardian.co.uk, 5 Mar 2010)

SAMSON TEAM GETS VERY RICH

"By 2007 Gudmundsson's fortune had propelled him and his son, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson – known as Thor – on to Forbes magazine's international billionaires list. Their joint control of Landsbanki meant Thor was said to be the 249th richest person in the world, with a fortune worth $3.5bn. His father was ranked 799th."

"SHYLOCK

When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--
This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
The third possessor; ay, he was the third--

ANTONIO

And what of him? did he take interest?

SHYLOCK

No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.
When Laban and himself were compromised
That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
In the end of autumn turned to the rams,
And, when the work of generation was
Between these woolly breeders in the act,
The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,
And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
Who then conceiving did in eaning time
Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.
This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:
And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not."
(Act I, Scene I, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

And so Björgólfur Guðmundsson and Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson were "blest".

But as these wealthy Jewish bankers were being blest, their bank was really short on cash.

THE BANK WAS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE

"Landsbanki's chief executive, Sigurjón Árnason, the architect of Icesave, explained in early 2007 how easy it had been to avert a wholesale funding crisis by turning to UK savers: "What we considered a permanent solution was simply not being as dependent on the financial markets.

RAKING IN THE DOUGH

"One solution is raising deposits ... We stumbled upon the idea to create internet accounts with higher interest rates than usual, which would in that way advertise themselves, since advertising is expensive ... All I have to do is to check at the end of the day how much money has come in – £50m was deposited only last Friday."" (Simon Bowers, How the Icesave crisis left British deposits in limbo, guardian.co.uk, 5 Mar 2010)

The Samson team knew what to do with this money. Junior had learned his lessons at NYU. Senior did the Hafskip job. And together they'd done that job in Russia with their friends and relatives.

Well, what did they do with the money?

FROM HAFSKIP TO ICESAVE

"Britain’s Serious Fraud Office will formally begin its investigation into the operations of the failed Icelandic banks Glitnir, Kaupthing and Landsbanki in the United Kingdom.

RADHANIYA

The investigation will especially focus on loans which several known individuals received from the banks, sources for The Observer within the SFO claim.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

Initial investigations have been underway since February into financial crimes and market abuses allegedly carried out by the banks, and the SFO has been collecting reams of information on the operations of the Icelandic banks in Britain." (SFO to begin formal Iceland investigation, IceNews, 14 Dec 2009)

AND THEN WORD GOT OUT

"In early October 2008, at the nadir of the global financial crisis,

GENERAL PUBLIC GETS INFORMATION IN 2008 THAT FINANCE EXPERTS HAD IN 2006

a vicious run on UK deposits began at Icesave, the online bank account operated by Landsbanki, amid

THE MONEY WAS GONE

international panic about the solvency of Icelandic financial institutions. It led to the website being shut down and savers left in the dark over the weekend. British retail depositors, charities, councils and other public institutions had

LOTS OF MONEY

£6bn they could not reach." (Simon Bowers, How the Icesave crisis left British deposits in limbo, guardian.co.uk, 5 Mar 2010)

"3 Samson said to them, "This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them." 4 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, 5

DESTROYED THE ECONOMY

lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves." (Judges 15, Holy Bible)

ENGLAND: CLOSING BARN DOOR AFTER HORSES HAVE RUN OFF

"The UK Treasury stepped in where Iceland refused to do so, with a full deposit guarantee for 229,000 British retail savers.

BUT SAMSON HAD ALREADY BURNED UP THE "STANDING GRAIN"

Meanwhile emergency laws were deployed to freeze Landsbanki assets in the UK." (Simon Bowers, How the Icesave crisis left British deposits in limbo, guardian.co.uk, 5 Mar 2010) Of course, there was money missing from Landsbanki in Iceland as well. And so "The island’s economy shrank an annual 9.1 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, the statistics office said on March 5, and contracted 6.5 percent in 2009 as a whole.

Household debt with major credit institutions has doubled in the past five years and reached about 1.8 trillion kronur ($14 billion) in 2009, compared with the island’s $12 billion gross domestic product, according to the central bank.

Icelanders, the world’s fifth-richest per capita as recently as 2007, ended 2009 18 percent poorer and will see their disposable incomes decline a further 10 percent this year, the central bank estimates." (Omar R. Valdimarsson, Icelanders Reject Icesave Bill in Referendum, Results Show, Bloomberg, 6 Mar 2010) "I will really harm them". (Samson cited in Judges 15:3, Holy Bible)

SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY

After the various governments took over the Landsbanki operations, there was a hole of at least 6 billion dollars. Money that people had put into the bank, but which was now "gone".

England and Netherlands want to collect $5.3 billion for the losses suffered when the Icesave racket went under. (Omar R. Valdimarsson, Icelanders Reject Icesave Bill in Referendum, Results Show, Bloomberg, 6 Mar 2010) We learned here about the management of England.

"BUT WE'LL NOT BOTHER OUR RADHAN BROTHER"

So it will come as no surprise that they are not bothering their Radhan brother Björgólfur Thór Björgólfsson, who lives in England, for the money. No, the Radhaniya would like the people of Iceland to pay this money.

But the people of Iceland don't want to. There was a vote on 6 March 2010, and at least 93% of the people said, No way!! "“Ordinary people, farmers and fishermen, taxpayers, doctors, nurses, teachers, are being asked to shoulder through their taxes a burden that was created by irresponsible greedy bankers,” said President Olafur R. Grimsson, whose rejection of the bill resulted in the plebiscite, in a Bloomberg Television interview on March 5."(Omar R. Valdimarsson, Icelanders Reject Icesave Bill in Referendum, Results Show, Bloomberg, 6 Mar 2010) "Indeed, general medieval histories, if they mention Jews at all, refer to them almost exclusively as money-lenders or involved in slavery". (Norman Roth, Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2003, p 189) The president of Iceland is Icelandic. He's calling the money lenders greedy.

The people don't want to be slaves.

SO WHAT DO ALL THESE BANKERS THINK OF THE ICELANDIC PEOPLE

"I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice.

WHEN THEY GET THEIR CHANCE -- WHICH THEY DID

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

I WONDER WHY

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate,
On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,
Which he calls interest.

SO WILL THEY FORGIVE AND FORGET?

Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him!"
(Shylock cited in Act I, Scene I, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare))

"Failure to reach an agreement on the bill has left Iceland’s International Monetary Fund-led loan in limbo and prompted Fitch Ratings to cut its credit grade to junk. Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s have signaled they may follow suit if no settlement is reached." (Omar R. Valdimarsson, Icelanders Reject Icesave Bill in Referendum, Results Show, Bloomberg, 6 Mar 2010) "Indeed, general medieval histories, if they mention Jews at all, refer to them almost exclusively as money-lenders or involved in slavery". (Norman Roth, Medieval Jewish civilization: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2003, p 189)

Or both.

Shell House Raid 1945 / Plenty of Evidence Destroyed, but Ample Evidence Left

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AN OIL BUSINESS OUTLET DOWNTOWN

There are a few filling stations in downtown Copenhagen / København. Like the Shell Station in Kampmannsgade, just up the street from the intersection with Vester Farimagsgade. Its located in an office building called Shell House.

IN AN OIL BUSINESS OFFICE BUILDING

"Shellhuset (Shell House) was completed in 1934". (Peter Madsen, Richard Plunz, The Urban Lifeworld, Routledge, 2002, p 160) The structure was built for the Shell Oil company. The Samuel brothers set up Shell Transport & Trading Co. in 1892. Their idea was to ship oil from the Rothschild oil fields around Baku to markets in Asia.

BASED OUT OF THE JEWISH CENTRAL IN THEIR HOMELAND ENGLAND

While Marcus Samuel made a lot of money in Asia, "his real desire was for the East End son of a Jewish trader to achieve lasting success in London.", center of the Jewish homeland in England. He had a lot of money, and in England you can buy just about anything, and so was running London as mayor by 1901. (Alan R. Elliott, Marcus Samuel’s Oil Excursion, Yahoo News, 22 Apr 2008 )

START OF THE MODERN OIL BUSINESS

Back in 1814, Silas Thorla and Robert McKee were drilling for salt in the area of Caldwell, Ohio. They struck oil. This interfered with the salt extraction. But in 1859, when a process for refining oil was discovered, it came to be used for lamp and heating oil. (http://www.noblecountyohio.com/thorlamckeewell.html)

Just forty-two years later, Jews had a dominant position in the business and had used this money to buy political power in London.

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK

In Denmark, the process did not go so quickly.

København is the principal city in the Kingdom of Denmark. The lands on which the city was built were originally property of the Crown. But about 1160, the land was transferred to the bishop Absalon by King Valdemar. By 1167, Absalon had built a small fortress at the location currently occuped by Christiansborg.

A GREAT CITY GROWS UP

By the time Absalon passed away in 1201, the small town Havn had grown up at the site. (Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen, København, læst og påskrevet: hovedstaden som litterær kulturby, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, p 10) The founder is commemorated with a golden statue on the front of Københavns Rådhus (Copenhagen City Hall) as shown at right.

And forty-two years later? It was still a Danish town. And even four hundred years later. It was a golden age with no cigarettes, cancer-causing cosmetics, or even "easy credit". After the mid-1400s, Norway was united with Denmark. They had the same laws, and there were still no Jews living in Denmark or Norway. Jews were specifically excluded from Hanse cities.

BUT THEN THE "PORTUGUESE" SHOWED UP

The Jews who came to Denmark called themselves Portuguese Jews. They soon aroused the indignation of the Christian population, so in 1569, Fredrik II issued the Fremmedlov to govern foreigners in the Kingdom. The law was simple.

ONE SOLUTION TO CRIME: FORCE THEM ALL TO BECOME CHRISTIANS

All foreigners in Denmark had to become Christians. If they didn't want to become Lutherans, they had to leave the country in 3 days. These measures were meant well, but didn’t hold long. The first Jewish settlement in Denmark took place in 1583 and 1584 in Altona. (Oskar Mendelsohn, Jødenes historie i Norge gjennom 300 år, Bind I, Universitetsforlaget, 1969, p 11)

Things got so far out of hand that by 1940, these people were running the tobacco, cosmetics, and oil businesses in Denmark. Running them up until April 9, 1940. The day that the Germans came.

THE WAR AGAINST TERROR

To coordinate the police suppression of crime, the Germans took over the Shell House on Kampmannsgade for their HQ.

One of the biggest problems the Danish and German police experienced was that many of the worst crimes, especially murder, were being coordinated from a foreign country -

COMING FROM TERROR CENTRAL

England. That's the place were Marcus Samuel and his team had already taken over power forty years ago.

Well, what kind of crimes are we talking about? Oh, things like shooting down civilians on the roads.

TERRORISM: the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=terrorism)

"Steadily increasing Allied air power produced another type of British operation, which also affected Denmark: so-called 'intruders' and 'rangers', which were flown in an increasing number from the summer of 1943.

ENGLISH AVIATORS DELIBERATELY MURDER DANISH CIVILIANS

These missions were carried out by powerful new long-range fighters: Mosquitoes and Mustangs. Although the Danes mainly experienced these missions through frequent machine-gun and canon attacks on Danish civilian traffic (the crews would report these attacks to be on 'staff cars', 'military vehicles', 'goods trains', etc.)". (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 328)

WHEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA REPORT THEIR BATTLEFIELD SUCCESSES

Hm. Where else have we heard about this tactic? "Ifølge den afghanske hæren er minst 20 antatte talibankrigere drept i kampene. Karzai ber nå soldatene om å gjøre alt de kan for å forsikre seg om at det faktisk er opprørere, og ikke sivilister, som blir drept." According to the Afghan puppet army, they've killed at least 20 assumed Taliban soldiers in combats.

"Assumed"? Karzai has requested the soldiers to do all they can to make sure that these are really rebels, and not civilians, who are being killed. (Storoffensiv i Sør-Afghanistan, NRK, 13 Feb 2010)

Maybe we have a picture of these soldiers in action? Of course. At right, you can see a brave American trooper confronting Afghan militants / foreign fighters.

"COLLATERAL DAMAGE" AND "ACCIDENTAL KILLINGS"

But maybe the terrorists were there to spread love and democracy, and just made some mistakes?

NO, THEY WERE OUT HUNTING

"the British top fighter 'ace', Wing Commander Braham, who flew a number of daylight sorties to Denmark, from March until June 1944, refers in his autobiography to Denmark as his 'happy hunting ground'." (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 329)

But surely they tried to attack Germans when they weren't busy murdering Danish civilians?

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM - FROM ENGLAND TO DENMARK

Of course: "Daylight intruders and rangers were used as a mere terror weapon against the Luftwaffe." (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 329)

THE CRIMES WERE DOCUMENTED

The German and Danish police forces maintained careful records of these, and many other, crimes. The records were stored at the police HQ in the Shell House on Kampmannsgade.

By March of 1945, most people could see that the active phase of the war was just about over. And some far-sighted men in London began to think.

Denmark was a nice, peaceful country. Jewish aviators like Wing Commander Braham had been hunting down and killing Danish civilians from the air. All these crimes were documented. And if the records came out after the war, it could injure their efforts to portray Jews as innocent victims, who were just there, and got persecuted solely on grounds of their religion.

The solution was just too easy. Destroy the records. In a special bombing raid!!

The Germans understood this logic, and so they put captured terrorists in holding cells on the top floor of the building. And the names?

FOR DANMARKS FRIHET

FALDT PÅ DETTE STED

P.V.T. AHNFELDT-MOLLERUP

kaptajn

CARL HAMMERICH

kontreadmiral
CARL HEINZ JOHANNES HECKE

løjtnant stud. jur.

HELMUTH BARTHOLDY JENSEN

premierløjtnant

MOGENS KORNERUP PRIOR

ingeniør

JØRGEN PALM PETERSEN

representant

OLE STANG

premierløjtnant

BARON WEDELL WEDELLS BORG

premierløjtnant

VED BOMBARDEMENTET

D. 21.3.1945

TOP PRIORITY - GET THOSE RECORDS DESTROYED

"The destruction of the Shell House was considered so important that

AND IF THEY MURDER THEIR OWN AGENTS AT THE SAME TIME?

it had to be done regardless of the fact that most prisoners would probably be killed." (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 338)

Karzai has requested the soldiers to do all they can to make sure that these are really rebels, and not civilians, who are being killed. (Storoffensiv i Sør-Afghanistan, NRK, 13 Feb 2010)

RITUAL SACRIFICE

Well, these terrorists were really rebels. They were the comrades in arms of the aviators who would murder them on 21 March 1945. "As the crews were briefed before take-off, it was 'Sacrifice of a few for the many'." And, needless to say, briefed that "Human lives do not play a big part". (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 338)

And so the boys took off. For a day of happy hunting. And they murdered their incarcerated agents. Along with 72 policemen on duty in the building. And managed to destroy those damning records.

And this much blood was enough to satisfy London? No, they took time to bomb a purely civilian target. The French school. Where "93 pupils were killed and 67 wounded". (Henrik Skov Kristensen, British Air Raids in Denmark during World War II, Britain and Denmark: Political, Economic and Cultural Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bo Bjørke, Claus Bjørn eds., Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, p 338)

Approximately two hundred people to destroy those damning records. And what about those Jews incarcerated on the top floor? Oh, they got a plaque.

Which tells succeeding generations that these men fell for Denmark's freedom!!

Yes, the London crowd came back to take charge in Denmark again. Now they didn't have to confine their sacrifice program to air attacks!! No, now they had the "freedom" to get those Danish people right back in total slavery.

How can this be? The press loves to talk about VE day, the liberation of Denmark, and the return of freedom.

Maybe a simple case study will show us just how this freedom works. This girl is pictured sitting at the entrance to Shell House. There at the intersection of Kampmannsgade and Vester Farimagsgade. Nice leather jacket, beautiful hair, stylish clothes. One cute creature.

And she's free? Not at all. Check that right hand. She's solidly in slavery to the tobacco business.

Back on 5 March 1688, Danish merchants (Kommerce-Kollegiet) complained to the king: Many poor German Jews had come to Denmark. They didn't bring much capital. And had gotten into the tobacco business. They have filled the country with bad products. These Jews engage in injurious commercial activities. (Henrik Carl Bering Liisberg, Chr. Augustinus, 11. maj 1750 - 11. maj 1900, Graebes Bogtrykkeri, 1900, p 27)

1688. 1945. 2010.

And plenty of Danish people are still being enslaved and killed.

For Denmark's freedom?

No, for the greed of those slave traders: "The Second World War is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism." (Rabbi Felix Mendlesohn, The Chicago Jewish Sentinel, 8 Oct 1942) And now you know what those fundamentals are.