WESTERN SAVAGERY INDO-CHINESE, IRANIAN, IRAQI, PALESTINIAN, SYRIAN, LIBYAN ... HOLOCAUSTS
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Gilad Atzmon Interview (Part 1)
Uploaded on 4 Dec 2011
Veronica
Keen of the Montague Keen Foundation, interviews Gilad Atzmon about his
popular new book, The Wandering Who? (A Study of Jewish Identity
Politics)
Veronica Keen is the wife of the late Montague Keen, a prominent academic and researcher with the Society for Psychical Research in London, England.
The interview, in two parts, was recorded in November 2011.
www.montaguekeen.com
www.gilad.co.uk
Veronica Keen is the wife of the late Montague Keen, a prominent academic and researcher with the Society for Psychical Research in London, England.
The interview, in two parts, was recorded in November 2011.
www.montaguekeen.com
www.gilad.co.uk
Gilad Atzmon Interview (Part 2)
Uploaded on 4 Dec 2011
Veronica
Keen of the Montague Keen Foundation, interviews Gilad Atzmon about his
popular new book, The Wandering Who? (A Study of Jewish Identity
Politics)
Veronica Keen is the wife of the late Montague Keen, a prominent academic and researcher with the Society for Psychical Research in London, England.
The interview, in two parts, was recorded in November 2011.
www.montaguekeen.com
www.gilad.co.uk
Veronica Keen is the wife of the late Montague Keen, a prominent academic and researcher with the Society for Psychical Research in London, England.
The interview, in two parts, was recorded in November 2011.
www.montaguekeen.com
www.gilad.co.uk
BUT, NONE IS COMPARABLE YESTERDAY, NOW OR EVER TO THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST (SHOAH)!
PARIS, CAPITALE DU DAJJAL (ANTICHRIST)- par Yahia Gouasmi
WESTERN SAVAGERY
Lest We Forget–The Children of ‘the Iraqi Hiroshima’
source–vice.com
LONG
LIVE WESTERN ILLUMINATI ANGLO-AMERICAN APARTHEID ETHNIC CLEANSING AND TERRORIST
ENTITY CALLED ISRAEL!!!
NEW Torture Photos: US Soldiers Raped, Sodomized Prisoners
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By Tom Eley
In
an interview with the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph published
Wednesday, former US General Antonio Taguba said that photographs the
Obama administration is seeking to suppress show images of US soldiers
raping and sodomizing Iraqi prisoners. Taguba, who conducted the
military inquiry of prisoner abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in
2004 after some photos of US soldiers torturing prisoners became
public, said that among the photos are images of soldiers raping a
female prisoner, raping a male detainee, and committing “sexual assaults
on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and
phosphorescent
tube,” according to the Telegraph.
Gen. Taguba said even the description
of the photos is explosive. “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape
and every indecency,” Taguba said. “The mere description of these
pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.”
Taguba’s revelations expose the deceit
of President Barack Obama’s claim, used to justify the photos’
suppression, that they “are not particularly sensational, especially
when compared to the painful images that we remember from Abu Ghraib.”
In all, it is believed that there are some 2,000 photographs depicting
about 400 cases of US military personnel torturing Iraqis and Afghans at
seven military prisons. The Bush administration, and now Obama, have
sought to block publication of the images.
Obama also claimed that “the most
direct consequence of releasing them…would be to inflame anti-American
public opinion and to put our troops in greater danger.” While this may
likely be true, the criminal nature of the US occupation of Iraq and
Afghanistan is already well known by the nations’ populations, who have
died and been made refugees in the hundreds of thousands since being
invaded in 2003 and 2001, respectively. Indeed, this claim only exposes
the true nature of the US occupations: they have never been about
establishing democracy, but aimed at stamping out resistance to US
control of the strategically important nations through mass bloodletting
and terror, the historical modus operandi of every imperialist
occupying power.
However, the central reason Obama has
chosen to fight the photos’ release is that top US generals announced
their opposition to their publication. The generals’ intervention came
in the midst of increasingly open dissension from the ranks of the
military-intelligence apparatus over Obama’s handling of “the war on
terror.” After Obama released four Bush administration legal memos
justifying torture, a campaign, spearheaded by Bush Vice President Dick
Cheney, was launched, appealing to the military brass and spies. Obama
responded by promising he would block any investigation of the previous
administration’s carefully crafted and controlled torture policies. He
then reversed an earlier decision to not appeal a judge’s ruling in
response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) freedom of
information lawsuit launched in 2004, which demanded the release of
dozens of the torture photos.
An Obama Pentagon spokesman denied
that the suppressed images depict rape, while a carefully worded
statement seemed to indicate other photos depict precisely such actions.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Telegraph “has completely
mischaracterized the images…. None of the photos in question depict the
images that are described in that article.” Whitman did not specifically
deny Taguba’s claims.
Obama claims that the torture depicted
in the photographs was committed by “a small number of individuals,”
and that those “involved have been identified, and appropriate actions
have been taken.” Here we may safely assume Obama is referring to a
small handful of rank-and-file soldiers.
But what of the high-ranking officers
who oversaw, endorsed and most likely ordered the torture and rape of
prisoners? If there are 2,000 photographs of prisoner torture that fell
under the control of the Pentagon, how many more cases were not
photographed? It is clear that the torture and rape of prisoners went
far beyond the actions of “a few bad apples.” This torture and sexual
humiliation of prisoners—up to and including rape—can only be described
as the systematic policy of the US military and Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), sanctioned at the highest levels of government. Indeed,
the generals’ opposition to further publication of the photos is likely
based in part on their own association with the crimes.
The policy of torture came from higher
still, however, as recently released Justice Department legal memos and
other evidence show. Various forms of torture, including forced nudity
and sexual humiliation were studied, justified, and individually
approved by top White House and congressional officials. A US Senate
Armed Services Committee report issued in April reveals that Bush
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally approved 15 “harsh
interrogation” methods. A version of Rumsfeld’s document was used,
verbatim, at Abu Ghraib, according to the report. (See “Bush, top
cabinet officials monitored torture of detainees”)
In his Telegraph interview,
Taguba solidarized himself with Obama’s decision to suppress the photos.
Taguba’s own investigation in 2004 was in fact a partial cover-up. He
later admitted that he was ordered to confine his investigation to
low-ranking military police, although he was aware that high-ranking
generals had “extensive knowledge” of the torture. And though he was
aware of the photographic evidence of torture and rape at the time,
Taguba’s report made no mention of them.
Because his report was not a total
whitewash, however, the Bush administration forced the major
general into retirement in 2007. He has since described the actions of
the Bush administration in Iraq as war crimes. “There is no longer any
doubt that the current administration committed war crimes,” Taguba
wrote in the forward for a report by Physicians for Human Rights. “The
only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to
account.”
The photographic evidence of rape
substantiates evidence Taguba gathered in his investigation, which only
became public due to another freedom of information lawsuit. For
example, in a sworn deposition Kasim Mehaddi Hilas said he witnessed US
military personnel raping a boy. “I saw [a US military translator rape] a
kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very
bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard
screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw
[the soldier] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in
the little kid’s **** and the female soldier was taking pictures.”
The sworn deposition also described
the anal rape of prisoners with phosphorescent tubes and police clubs,
as well as the use of wire in sexual torture.
The rape of Iraqi boys by US military
personnel is corroborated by other evidence. Journalist Seymour Hersh,
who played a critical role in breaking the Abu Ghraib story in 2004, has
evidently seen all of the photos, and is aware of video footage
depicting rape. He has not written publicly on their content, but a 2004
speech he gave to the ACLU indicates the sheer horror of the US
military’s methods:
“Some of the worst things that
happened you don’t know about, okay?” Hersh said. “The women were
passing messages out saying, ‘Please come and kill me, because of what’s
happened,’ and basically what happened is that those women who were
arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The
boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst, above all,
of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government
has. They are in total terror. It’s going to come out.” In another
speech, quoted by Rick Pearlstein, Hersh spoke of “horrible things done
to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.”
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The unfathomable crimes depicted in
the photos arise inexorably from the project of aggressive wars based on
lies. As such, they are the flip side of the conspiracy against the
democratic rights of the American people. Both arise from the deepening
crisis of US capitalism, which the ruling elite seeks to offset by
seizing hold of key resources and strategic advantage over its rivals.
One can only react with horror.
Contained in the stories and images of the torture of defenseless
prisoners, some of them boys and women, is the true face of US
imperialism, which finds no crime beneath its dignity in its effort to
subjugate Iraq and Afghanistan. Just as the Vietnam War conjures up
images of napalmed children fleeing US soldiers, and Nazi Germany
invokes images of emaciated prisoners near death, the images of sexual
torture will forever be associated with the American “war on terror.”
In acting to suppress the images and
protect the torturers, Obama has made himself an accomplice in these
crimes. Moreover, in the absence of criminal investigation, there is
every reason to believe that similar crimes continue.
We can no longer in good conscience trust the politicians
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US Produced Sarin Gas Used in Syria
Apr 14, 2014
American Journalist and Researcher Jeffrey Silverman said that chemical weapons used by rebels in Syria were transferred by sea from Georgia's US-controlled Laboratory, in a new revelation that proves chemical attacks in Syria are committed by foreign-backed militants.
Jeffrey
Silverman said in an interview with Veterans Today website that US
Department of Defense operates a network of labs in Georgia and that
they have an offensive capacity.
On August 27, 2013 the famous American political investigator and principal editor of the ex-US State Department and intelligence service publication Veterans Today, Gordon Duff, published an article entitled "US Contractors Cited for Syrian Chemical Attacks," and a video entitled "Syrian Gas Attack Proof Syrian Army Has No Involvement."
The commentary to the video states, "The video which you are watching right now was filmed in Syria and shows the chemical weapons which were sent from Georgia. The US is standing behind all this. Former US Senator Richard Lugar is the person whose assistance made it possible to transport weapons from Georgia via Turkey into Syria, with the support of the United States and Turkey… A US chemical weapons program supplies the Syrian rebels with weapons of mass destruction. A team of investigators has determined that chemical weapons were supplied from this region, which is under US control. They followed the trail of these chemical weapons to the Georgian Republic. Turkish Army subdivisions transported them to Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in Syrian territory.
Journalists Jeffrey Silverman and Lika Moshiashvili are credited with having discovered the secret and illegal operations taking place in the US-controlled Central Reference Laboratory (CPHRL) in the Tbilisi suburb the Alekseevka Settlement."
In another context Silverman said, "The truth will soon be exposed as to why so much money (was spent) on this lab, 300 million dollars in total, and how the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have used Georgia to supply chemical and conventional weapons to terrorists … basically that Al-Qaeda is America’s best friend. Turkey is even the main subcontractor to the construction of the bio lab here in Tbilisi. That is not a happenstance!"
Silverman said that Gordon Duff provided him with the information that prove chemical weapons were transported into Syria from Georgia, and added that this information also confirmed by his own sources. "He stated, Based on reliable sources, that chemical weapons were being transferred by sea from Georgia to Syria. They have human intelligence sources who find and track such materials…"
"This is a team of American veterans who found out that the supply of chemical weapons in Syria was performed from outside, via Turkey," Silverman added.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930125000262
On August 27, 2013 the famous American political investigator and principal editor of the ex-US State Department and intelligence service publication Veterans Today, Gordon Duff, published an article entitled "US Contractors Cited for Syrian Chemical Attacks," and a video entitled "Syrian Gas Attack Proof Syrian Army Has No Involvement."
The commentary to the video states, "The video which you are watching right now was filmed in Syria and shows the chemical weapons which were sent from Georgia. The US is standing behind all this. Former US Senator Richard Lugar is the person whose assistance made it possible to transport weapons from Georgia via Turkey into Syria, with the support of the United States and Turkey… A US chemical weapons program supplies the Syrian rebels with weapons of mass destruction. A team of investigators has determined that chemical weapons were supplied from this region, which is under US control. They followed the trail of these chemical weapons to the Georgian Republic. Turkish Army subdivisions transported them to Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in Syrian territory.
Journalists Jeffrey Silverman and Lika Moshiashvili are credited with having discovered the secret and illegal operations taking place in the US-controlled Central Reference Laboratory (CPHRL) in the Tbilisi suburb the Alekseevka Settlement."
In another context Silverman said, "The truth will soon be exposed as to why so much money (was spent) on this lab, 300 million dollars in total, and how the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have used Georgia to supply chemical and conventional weapons to terrorists … basically that Al-Qaeda is America’s best friend. Turkey is even the main subcontractor to the construction of the bio lab here in Tbilisi. That is not a happenstance!"
Silverman said that Gordon Duff provided him with the information that prove chemical weapons were transported into Syria from Georgia, and added that this information also confirmed by his own sources. "He stated, Based on reliable sources, that chemical weapons were being transferred by sea from Georgia to Syria. They have human intelligence sources who find and track such materials…"
"This is a team of American veterans who found out that the supply of chemical weapons in Syria was performed from outside, via Turkey," Silverman added.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930125000262
IF AMERICANS KNEW,
BUT THEY ALREADY KNOW!
Dear Friends,
CounterPunch has just published Alison Weir's article (posted at the end of this message):
The article reveals that a special day has
been set aside to honor a religious leader whose teachings included
statements that Jews are allegedly a different species than non-Jews and
that non-Jews were created to serve Jews.The article describes how such teachings impact Palestinians living – and dying – under Israeli occupation and invasion.
One of Alison's main sources for the article was Israeli professor Israel Shahak, who was praised by diverse writers, including Edward Said and Noam Chomsky.
Yet, today almost no one knows of Shahak's important work. We hope you'll read Alison's detailed article and share it with others. And then you may wish to contact your Congressional representative and suggest that it's time to choose a new person to honor on "Education and Sharing Day."
Best wishes,
The If Americans Knew team
The Extremist Origins of Education and Sharing Day:
Why is the US Honoring a Racist Rabbi?
by ALISON WEIR
If things proceed normally, President Barak Obama will soon proclaim
April 11, 2014 “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” Despite the
innocuous name, this day honors the memory of a religious leader whose
lesser-known teachings help fuel some of the most violent attacks
against Palestinians by extremist Israeli settlers and soldiers.
Congress first passed a Resolution honoring Schneerson in 1975. Three years later a Joint Congressional Resolution called on President Jimmy Carter to proclaim “Education Day, U.S.A.” on the anniversary of Schneerson’s birth. The idea was to set aside a day to honor both education and the alleged educational work of Schneerson and the religious sect he headed up.
Carter, like Congress, dutifully obeyed the Schneerson-initiated
resolution, as has every president since. And some individual states
are now enacting their own observances of Schneerson’s birthday, with Minnesota and Alabama leading the way.
Schneerson has been praised widely for a public persona and organization that emphasized “deep compassion and insight,” worked to bring many secular Jews “back” into the fold, created numerous schools around the world, and had offered, in the words of the Jewish Virtual Library, “social-service programs and humanitarian aid to all people, regardless of religious affiliation or background.”
However, there is also a less attractive underside often at odds with
such public perceptions. And some of the more extreme parts of
Schneerson’s teachings – such as that Jews are a completely different
species than non-Jews, and that non-Jews exist only to serve Jews – have
been largely hidden, it appears, even from many who consider themselves
his followers.
Who was Rabbi Schneerson?
Schneerson lived from 1902 to 1994 and oversaw the growth of what is now the largest Jewish organization in the world. The religious movement he led is known as “Chabad-Lubavitch,”
(sometimes just called “Lubavitch” or “Chabad,” the name of its organizational arm). Schneerson was the seventh and final Lubavitcher “Rebbe” (sacred leader). He is often simply called “the Rebbe.”
Founded in the late 1700s and originally based in the Polish-Russian town of Lubavitch, it is the largest of about a dozen forms of “Hasidism,” a version of Orthodox Judaism connected to mysticism, characterized by devotion to a dynastic leader, and whose adherents often wear distinctive clothing. (Spellings of these terms can vary; Hasid is also written as Hassid, Chasid, etc.)
There is an extreme cult of personality focused on Schneerson himself. Some followers consider him the Messiah, and Schneerson himself reportedly sometimes implied this was true. Some Lubavitch educators consider him divine, making such claims as, “the Rebbe is actually ‘the essence and being [of God] … he is without limits, capable of effecting anything, all-knowing and a proper object of worshipful prostration.”
While many secular Jews and Jews from other denominations disagree with its actions and theology, Chabad-Lubavitch is generally acknowledged to be a powerful force in Jewish life today. According to a 1994 New York Times report, it is “one of the most influential and controversial forces in world Jewry.”
There are approximately 3,600 Chabad institutions in over 1,000 cities in 70 countries, and 200,000 adherents. Up to a million people attend Chabad services at least once a year. Numerous campuses have such centers and the Chabad website states that hundreds of thousands of children attend Chabad summer camps.
According to the Times, Schneerson “presided over a religious empire that reached from the back streets of Brooklyn to the main streets of Israel and by 1990 was taking in an estimated $100 million a year in contributions.
In the U.S., the Times reports, Schneerson’s “‘mitzvah tanks’ – converted campers that are rolling recruiting stations whose purpose is to draw Jews to the Lubavitch way – roamed streets from midtown Manhattan to Crown Heights. And the Lubavitchers’ Brooklyn-based publishing house claimed to be the world’s largest distributor of Jewish books.”
Non-Jewish souls ‘satanic’
While Chabad sometimes openly teaches that “the soul of the Jew is different than the soul of the non-Jew,” Schneerson’s specific teachings on this subject are largely unknown.
Quite likely very few Americans, both Jews and non-Jews, are aware of Schneerson’s teachings about the alleged deep differences between them – and about how these teachings are applied in the West Bank and Gaza.
Let us look at Schneerson’s words, as quoted by two respected Jewish professors, Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in their book Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (text available online here. This book, praised by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, and many others is essential reading for anyone who truly wishes to understand modern day Israel-Palestine. (Brackets in the quotes below are in the translations by Shahak and Mezvinsky.)
Some of Schneerson’s rarely reported teachings:
“The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: “Let us differentiate.” Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of “let us differentiate” between totally different species.”
“This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world … The difference in the inner quality between Jews and non-Jews is “so great that the bodies should be considered as completely different species.”
“An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness.”
“As has been explained, an embryo is called a human being, because it has both body and soul. Thus, the difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish embryo can be understood.”
“…the general difference between Jews and non-Jews: A Jew was not created
as a means for some [other] purpose; he himself is the purpose, since the substance of all [divine] emanations was created only to serve the Jews.”
“The important things are the Jews, because they do not exist for any [other] aim; they themselves are [the divine] aim.”
“The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews.”
Most people don’t know about this aspect of Schneerson’s teaching because, according to Shahak and Mezvinsky, such teachings are intentionally minimized, mistranslated, or
hidden entirely.
For example, the quotes above were translated by the authors from a book of Schneerson’s recorded messages to followers that was published in Israel in 1965. Despite Schneerson’s global importance and the fact that his world headquarters is in the U.S., there has never been an English translation of this volume.
Shahak, an Israeli professor who was a survivor of the Nazi holocaust, writes that this lack of translation of an important work is not unusual, explaining that much critical information about Israel and some forms of Judaism is available only in Hebrew.
He and co-author Mezvinsky, who was a Connecticut Distinguished University Professor who taught at Central Connecticut State University, write, “The great majority of the books on Judaism and Israel, published in English especially, falsify their subject matter.”
According to Shahak and Mezvinsky, “Almost every moderately sophisticated Israeli Jew knows the facts about Israeli Jewish society that are described in this book. These facts, however, are unknown to most interested Jews and non-Jews outside Israel who do not know Hebrew and thus cannot read most of what Israeli Jews write about themselves in Hebrew.”
In Shahak’s earlier book, Jewish Religion, Jewish History, he provides a number of examples. In one, he describes a 1962 book published in Israel in a bilingual edition. The Hebrew text was on one page, with the English translation on the facing page.
Shahak describes one set of facing pages in which the Hebrew text of a major Jewish code of laws contained a command to exterminate Jewish infidels: “It is a duty to exterminate them with one’s own hands.” The English version on the facing page softened it to “It is a duty to take active measures to destroy them.’”
The Hebrew page then went on to name which “infidels” must be exterminated, adding “may the name of the wicked rot.” Among them was Jesus of Nazareth. The facing page with the English translation failed to tell any of this.
“Even more significant,” Shahak reports, “in spite of the wide circulation of this book among scholars in the English-speaking countries, not one of them has, as far as I know, protested against this glaring deception.”
Praised by Said, Chomsky, etc., Shahak is almost unknown today
This pattern of selective omission, it seems, applies to Shahak himself, whose work is largely unknown to Palestine activists today, even though he was considered a major figure in the struggle against Israeli oppression of Palestinians, and his work was praised by diverse writers.
While Shahak was alive, Noam Chomsky called him “an outstanding scholar,” and said he had “remarkable insight and depth of knowledge. His work is informed and penetrating, a contribution of great value.”
Edward Said wrote, “Shahak is a very brave man who should be honored for his services to humanity … One of the most remarkable individuals in the contemporary Middle East.” Said wrote a forward for Shahak’s Jewish History, Jewish Religion.
Catholic New Times said: ‘This is a remarkable book …[It] deserves a wide readership, not only among Jews, but among Christians who seek a fuller understanding both of historical Judaism and of modern-day Israel.”
Jewish Socialist stated: “Anyone who wants to change the Jewish community so that it stops siding with the forces of reaction should read this book.”
The London Review of Books called Shahak’s book “remarkable, powerful, and provocative.”
Yet, very few Americans today know of Shahak’s work and the information it contains.
American tax money & Jewish Extremism in Palestine
If they did, it’s hard to believe that Americans would allow $8.5 million per day of their tax money to be given to Israel, where such teachings underlie a powerful minority that is disproportionately influential in governmental actions.
Nor is it likely that a fully informed American public would allow donations to religious institutions in Israel that teach supremacist, sometimes violent doctrines to be tax-deductible in the U.S.
One organization raised over $10 million tax-deductible dollars in the U.S. in 2011 alone – removing money from the U.S. economy and enabling illegal, aggressive Israeli settlements in Palestine. And some of this money went to benefit individuals convicted of murder – including the murderer of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The New York Times obituary on Schneerson reported that Schneerson was “a major political force in Israel, both in the Knesset and among the electorate,” but failed to describe the nature of his impact.
One of a sprinkling of writers willing to publicly discuss Shahak and
Mezvinsky’s findings is Allan Brownfeld, who is less reticent.
Brownfeld is editor of the American Council for Judaism’s periodical Issues and contributor to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
In a review of Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Brownfeld describes Schneerson’s views on Israel:
“Rabbi Schneerson always supported Israeli wars and opposed any retreat. In 1974 he strongly opposed the Israeli withdrawal from the Suez area. He promised Israel divine favors if it persisted in occupying the land.”
Brownfeld reports that after Schneerson’s death, “[T]housands of his
Israeli followers played an important role in the election victory of
Binyamin Netanyahu.
Among the religious settlers in the occupied territories, the Chabad
Hassids constitute one of the most extreme groups. Baruch Goldstein, the
mass murderer of Palestinians, was one of them.”
Another such Chabad Hassid is Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg (also sometimes
written as “Ginzburg” and “Ginsburgh”), who studied under Schneerson in
Crown Heights and who heads up a major Chabad institution in the West
Bank.
Ginsburg praised Goldstein, the murderer of 29 Palestinians while they were praying, and considers all non-Jews subhuman.
In his book Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple? Inbari states, “[Ginsburg] claims that while the Jews are the Chosen People and were created in God’s image, the Gentiles do not have this status and are effectively considered subhuman.”
Professor Inbari, an Israeli academic who now teaches in the U.S., writes that Ginsburg’s theological approach continues “certain perceptions that were popular in medieval times.”
“For example,” Inbari writes, “the commandment ‘You shall not murder’ does not apply to the killing of a Gentile, since ‘you shall not murder’ relates to the murder of a human, while for him the Gentiles do not constitute humans.”
Inbari reports, “Similarly, Ginzburg stated that, on the theoretical level, if a Jew requires a liver transplant to survive, it would be permissible to seize a Gentile and take their liver forcefully.”
While the mainstream American press almost never reports this kind of information, an April 26, 1996 article in Jewish Week by Lawrence Cohler reported on Ginsburg’s teachings, including their problematic roots in Jewish texts.
Cohler quoted Greenberg’s concerns: “‘There’ll be a statement in Talmud… made in circumstances where it’s purely theoretical, because Jews then never had the power to do it,’ he explained. And now, he said, ‘It’s carried over into circumstances where Jews have a state and are empowered.’”
A rabbi associated with Ginsburg coauthored a notorious Israeli book, The King’s Torah, which claims that Jewish law at times permits the killing of non-Jewish infants. American donations to the Chabad school Ginsburg heads up, and that published the above book, are tax-deductible in the U.S. Ginsburg, who endorses the book, teaches classes throughout Israel, the U.S. and France.
Such extremism is opposed by the majority of Israelis, and major Jewish religious authorities condemn it, a Chief Rabbi, for example, stating: “’According to the Torah, every man is created in God’s image.”
Yet, such extremist views continue to exert a powerful influence.
Israeli military manuals echo extremist teachings: “kill even good civilians”
Israeli military manuals sometimes replicate extremist teachings. For
example, a booklet authored by a Chief Chaplain stated, “In war, when
our forces storm the enemy, they are allowed and even enjoined by the
Halakhah to kill even good civilians…” Such teachings by the IDF rabbinate were prominent during Israel’s 2008-9 attack on Gaza that killed 1,400 Gazans, approximately half of them civilians. (The Palestinian resistance killed nine Israelis during this “war.”)
Lendman writes, “In 2007, Israel’s former chief rabbi, Mordechai Elyahu, called for the Israeli army to mass-murder Palestinians:
“If they don’t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill 1000. And if they don’t stop after 1000, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don’t stop we must kill 100,000. Even a million.”
Lendman reports that some extremist Israeli rabbis teach that “the ten commandments don’t apply to non-Jews. So killing them in defending the homeland is acceptable, and according to the chairman of the Jewish Rabbinic Council:
“‘There is no such thing as enemy civilians in war time. The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save them…. A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail.’”
Lendman writes, “Rabbi David Batsri called Arabs ‘a blight, a devil, a disaster…. donkeys, and we have to ask ourselves why God didn’t create them to walk on all fours. Well, the answer is that they are needed to build and clean.’”
Another such rabbi is Manis Friedman, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi inspired by Schneerson who served as the simultaneous translator for a series of Schneerson’s talks. (Friedman is currently dean of a Jewish Studies institute in Minnesota.)
A 2009 article in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reports, “Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad.
“But Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when he was asked how he thinks Jews should treat their Arab neighbors.”
In Moment magazine’s article, “Ask the Rabbis // How Should Jews Treat Their Arab Neighbors?”
Friedman answered:
“I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral.
“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).”
Lendman reports, “Views like these aren’t exceptions. Though a minority, they proliferate throughout Israeli society…”
They also, Lendman notes, work to prevent peace in Israel-Palestine.
Shahak and Mezvinsky note that when the book containing Schneerson’s statements quoted above about Jews and non-Jews was published in Israel, he was allied to the Labor Party and his movement had been provided “many important benefits” from the Israeli government.
In the mid-1970s Schneerson decided that the Labor Party was too moderate and shifted his support to the more right-wing parties in power today. The authors report, “Ariel Sharon was the Rebbe’s favorite Israeli senior politician. Sharon in turn praised the Rebbe publicly and delivered a moving speech about him in the Knesset after the Rebbe’s death.”
Roots in Some Early Texts
Brownfeld decries the fact that few Americans are properly informed
about the fundamentalist movement in Israel “and the theology upon which
it is based.”
Teachings that Jews are superior and gentiles inferior were contained
in some of the earliest Hassidic texts, including its classic text, “Tanya,” still taught today.
Brownfeld quotes statements by “the revered father of the messianic
tendency of Jewish
fundamentalism,” Rabbi Kook the Elder, and states
that these were derived from earlier texts. [Kook, incidentally, was
also an early Zionist,
who helped push for the Balfour Declaration in England before moving to
Palestine. He was the uncle of Hillel Kook, an agent who went by the
name “Peter Bergson” and created front groups in the U.S. for a violent
Zionist guerilla group that operated in 1930s and '40s Palestine.]
Brownfeld quotes Kook: “The difference between a Jewish soul and
souls of non-Jews—all of them in all different levels—is greater and
deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of
cattle.”
Shahak and Mezvinsky state,
“One of the basic tenets of the Lurianic Cabbala is the absolute
superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and
body. According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely
for the sake of Jews; the existence of non-Jews was subsidiary.”
Shahak and Mezvinsky write that it is essential to understand these beliefs in order to understand the current situation in the West Bank, where many of the most militant West Bank settlers are motivated by religious ideologies in which every non-Jew is seen as “the earthly embodiment” of Satan, and according to the Halacha (Jewish law), the term ‘human beings’ refers solely to Jews.”
Israeli author and former chief of Israeli military intelligence Yehoshafat Harkabi touches on this in his 1988 book Israel’s Fateful Hour.
Harkabi writes that while such extremist beliefs are not “widely dominant,” the reality is that “nationalistic religious extremists are by no means a lunatic fringe; many are respected men whose words are widely heeded.”
He reports that the campus rabbi of a major Israeli university published an article in the student newspaper entitled “The Commandment of Genocide in the Torah,” in which he implied that those who have a quarrel with Jews “ought to be destroyed, children and all.” Harkabi writes that a book by another rabbi “explained that the killing of a non-Jew is not considered murder.”
Brownfeld writes, “Although messianic fundamentalists constitute a relatively small portion of the Israeli population [most Israeli settlers are motivated by the subsidized lifestyle US tax money to Israel provides], their political influence has been growing. If they have contempt for non-Jews, their hatred for Jews who oppose their views is even greater.”
Brownfeld cites the murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who had started to make peace with the Palestinians, writing that it was just one “in a long line of murders of Jews who followed a path different from that ordained by rabbinic authorities.” Brownfeld reports that Shahak and Mezvinsky “cite case after case, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.”
The authors report, “It was usual in some Hasidic circles until the last quarter of the nineteenth century to attack and often to murder Jews who had reform religious tendencies…”
They quote a long article by Israeli writer Rami Rosen, “History of a Denial,” published by Ha’aretz Magazine in 1996. This article, which cannot be found online, at least in English, is also cited in the book Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination, by Israeli professor Ehud Sprinzak.
In his Ha’aretz article Rosen reported: “A check of main facts of the [Jewish] historiography of the last 1500 years shows that the picture is different from the one previously shown to us. It includes massacres of Christians; mock repetitions of the crucifixion of Jesus that usually took place on Purim; cruel murders within the family; liquidation of informers, often done for religious reasons by secret rabbinical courts, which issued a sentence of ‘pursuer’ and appointed secret executioners; assassinations of adulterous women in synagogues and/or the cutting of their noses by command of the rabbis.”
While Rosen’s article may seem shocking, in reality, it simply shows
that members of the Jewish population, like members of Christian,
Muslim, Hindu, and diverse other populations, have at times committed
atrocities, sometimes allegedly in the name of their religion. The
difference, as Shahak and Mezvinsky point out, is that such information
is largely covered up in the U.S. Such cover-ups, however, don’t make
facts go away. They merely bury them, where they smolder and at times
eventually lead to exaggerated perceptions.
U.S. media rarely report that some extremist Israeli settlers are intensely hostile to Christians, and in one instance threatened
peace activists who came to the West Bank to participate in nonviolent
demonstrations, “We killed Jesus and we’ll kill you, too.” There is also
a record of official hostility. For example, a few years ago an Israeli
mayor ordered all New Testaments to be rounded up and burned.
Schneerson’s “schools”
While Schneerson is honored on national “Education” days, the reality
is that the elementary schools he created often failed to teach
children “basic reading, writing, spelling, math, science and history,”
according to a graduate.
In his article “National Education Day and the Education I Never Had,”
Chaim Levin reports on his experience at the Chabad school “Oholei
Torah” (Educational Institute Oholei Menachem) in Crown Heights, New
York – the site of Chabad’s world headquarters:
The goal of such schools, Levin writes, was to produce “schluchim,” missionaries who would promote Chabad all over the world.“I have profound respect for the late Rebbe and his legacy. However, I remember very clearly those talks that [Schneerson] gave – the ones we studied every year in elementary school about the unimportance of ‘secular’ (non-religious, formal) education, and the great importance of only studying limmudei kodesh (holy studies). As a result of this attitude, thousands of students were not taught anything other than the Bible throughout our years attending Chabad institutions.”
Meanwhile, he notes, “Failure to provide basic formal education
cripples children within Chabad communities. We cannot ignore the harm
done…” Levin writes, “Until this day, Oholei Torah and many other Chabad
schools — particularly schools for boys and a few for girls in Crown
Heights and in some other places — do not provide basic formal
education.”
In his 2000 article, Brownfeld writes that Shahak and Mezvinsky’s book should be “a wake-up call “to Americans, particularly Jewish supporters of Israel.”
Fourteen years later, however, very few people are aware of these
books and their powerful information, and U.S. tax money continues to
flow to Israel. The main author, Israel Shahak, is now dead, as is
Edward Said; Noam Chomsky rarely, if ever, mentions him; and Shahak’s
co-author, Norton Mezvinsky (uncle of Chelsea Clinton’s husband), is a member of a Lubavitch congregation in New York.
In many ways, little seems to have changed since 1994, when
Congressmen Charles Schumer, Newt Gingrich, and others introduced
legislation to bestow on Schneerson the Congressional Gold Medal. The
bill passed both Houses by unanimous consent, honoring Schneerson for
his “outstanding and lasting contributions toward improvements in world
education, morality, and acts of charity.”
And in two weeks, Americans will be officially called on to observe a
day that honors Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and the Lubavitcher
movement.
That is, unless masses of people contact
their Congressional representatives to demand a whole new direction: a
“National Education and Sharing Day” that honors an individual who
values education, and who believes that all people – in the words of the
Declaration of Independence – are created equal.
Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest. Her book, Against Our Better Judgment: How the U.S. was used to create Israel,
contains additional information on Rabbi Kook’s family connection to
American front groups for Israeli terrorists. (Kook was unusual in his
support for political Zionism; most Jewish religious leaders at the time
considered the movement heretical). Weir is NOT the British historian.)
“We need to know immediately whether ministers misled parliament over CIA torture on British soil,”
"UK court ruled that Belhaj could not sue MI6 as it would harm “national interests,”"
Pressure mounts on UK over CIA’s ‘black site’ jail in Indian Ocean
A human rights group is urging Britain’s Foreign office to “come clean” over claims that a British-administered island in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, was used as a secret "black site" detention center by the CIA.
“We need to know immediately whether ministers misled parliament over CIA torture on British soil,”
Cori Crider, strategic director at Reprieve, a legal action charity group, said in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.
“If the CIA operated a black site on Diego Garcia, then a string of official statements, from both this and the last government, were totally false,” Crider said.
The letter followed a report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee that Britain had allowed the US to run a “black site” prison on Diego Garcia to secretly hold suspects without accountability. The Diego Garcia prison held some “high-value” detainees and was operated with the “full cooperation” of the British government, US officials familiar with the Senate report said.
“Were ministers asleep at the wheel? Or, as the report suggests, have we been lied to for years?” Crider wrote.
Reprieve is also representing Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, a rebel military commander and opponent of the late Libyan leader, Mohamed Gaddafi, who was arrested in Malaysia and rendered to Libya, allegedly via Diego Garcia, in a joint US-UK intelligence operation.
“The Foreign Secretary must urgently clarify whether the CIA ran a secret prison on Diego Garcia, and whether our clients Abdel-Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar were among its victims,”
Crider said.
Belhaj became Tripoli's military commander in 2011, after the rebels took over the capital and ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In 2004 Belhaj – the then-leader of the anti-Gaddafi Libyan Islamic Fighting Group – and his wife were detained by US intelligence officers at Bangkok airport, Thailand, when they were to fly to London to claim asylum.
Belhaj was then returned to Libya, allegedly due to a British tip-off, where he was tortured and jailed for almost six years, until Gaddafi was ousted.
Belhaj claims the UK helped the US to arrange his rendition. He launched legal action against the UK government, the former head of counter-terrorism at intelligence agency MI6, Mark Allen, and then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
"The first time I heard that I had gone through a place called Diego Garcia was when I was told by the head of the Libyan intelligence, Moussa Koussa, during my first interrogation session in a prison outside Tripoli," Belhaj said. “[Moussa Koussa] told me that he knew, and that the plane had landed on an island in the Indian Ocean called Diego Garcia.”
The case could "jeopardize this country’s international relations and national security interests," said Peregrine Simon, a British High Court judge.
"The government must come clean about the UK's role in this dirty affair," Polly Rossdale, deputy director at Reprieve, told The Observer on Sunday.
For years, the British government consistently denied that any detainees were held at Diego Garcia or that a secret CIA prison ever existed there. They only admitted in 2008 that two rendition flights carrying detainees stopped for refueling on Diego Garcia in 2002. “The US government confirmed that there have been no other instances in which US intelligence flights landed in the UK, our Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies, with a detainee, on board since 11 September 2001,” UK Foreign Office minister David Liddington told the UK parliament in 2011.
The recent revelations about “the secret prison” are hugely troubling for the UK government as they spark questions about the UK's relationship with the US.
Apart from the news about the CIA secret black site, the US Senate also found that the CIA purposely deceived the US Justice Department to attain legal justification for use of torture techniques. It also found that the CIA distorted how many detainees it held in “black site” prisons throughout the world and how many were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques” many amount to torture.
The Committee and the CIA have in recent weeks gone back and forth with accusations of spying, meddling, and misrepresentation, highlighting an on-going feud between the agency and the Committee since the Senate probe began in 2009.
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED, MAYBE
BUT MARTYR MILTON WILIAM COOPER AND I KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SHEEPLE NEVER LEARN!
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Former Eastenders Actress Blames Terminal Eye Cancer On Decades Of Sunbed Use
Mum-of-one Debi Gibson started using sunbeds without protective goggles as a teen and reckons that’s why she’s developed eye cancer
By Sophia Moir | Yahoo Lifestyle – 10 hours ago
A
former model and actress has called for a ban on sunbeds after she
developed terminal eye cancer from 20 years of unprotected use.
The mum-of-one started using sunbeds when she was 14 and opted not to wear protective goggles so she didn’t have any tan lines.
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She’s now calling on them to be banned so that at least ‘something good’ can come out of her death, as she leaves behind her husband Darren and seven-year-old daughter Sienna.
'I want something good to come out of my death. All this because I wanted to be brown. I would like sunbeds to be banned,’ said 42-year-old Debi Gibson from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
'I am going to have to leave my daughter behind. She knows it all. She doesn't understand everything, she just knows that mummy is going to go to heaven soon, that mummy has a nasty disease called cancer and it is going to kill her.'
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Debi – who has appeared on Eastenders and on-stage in Evita – had to have one of her eyes removed after being diagnosed with eye cancer in October 2012 and has been told the cancer is terminal after the disease spread to her liver.
She stopped using sunbeds in 2005 and after hearing horror stories of people dying of cancer – but it was too late after decades of using sunbeds.
In April 2012, she was told she had a choroidal melanoma, a very rare type of eye cancer that affects just one in six million people.
Chemotherapy failed to kill the cancer and a year later, surgerons removed her left eye.
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It was in early 2014 that she was given the news that the cancer had spread to her liver and was now terminal.
'There is this pressure when you are modelling or in the acting profession to be the perfect colour. I saved up the money myself when I was 14 to buy a sunbed and had it at my parents' house,’ she said.
'I used it all the time, back then there weren't any guidelines around, people thought this was the safest way to tan.
'I eventually became a personal trainer at a gym and I used to use the sunbed there as well.
'They came with goggles, but those left you with ugly tan lines so I didn't use them, I never thought that would kill me.
'I moved to London when I was 18 to become an actress and a model. There was so much pressure to look tanned, I went through that with the film industry.
'Then around 2005, there was a lot of bad press around sunbeds, so I stopped using them.
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'In 2012 I woke up and found everything was blurry, I went to my doctors and he sent me to the hospital.
'They did a scan and sat me down and told me that half of my eye was covered in a tumour.
‘It's rare, only around one in every six million people get it, the doctors said it is only seen in sunny countries and they only thing they could think caused it was my use of sunbeds without the protection.
'They tried chemo but eventually they told me it hadn't worked as they had hoped.
'I was already going blind at this point, so it felt easier when they told me they were going to take the eye out.
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'It happened pretty quickly. They told me I needed the operation in the October, and it was removed in the November. It was a horrendous time.
'Then after about a year I went back for another scan and they told me it had spread to my liver and I was going to die.
'The doctor gave me eight weeks to live, which runs out next week.'
'At first I went mad, completely mad, I pulled my daughter straight out of school and we all went on holiday.
'But after a little while I came to terms with it. The doctors have me on a trial drug and are giving me chemo to shrink the tumour. That could give me months or years more time.'
Her husband Darren Gibson said that his wife ‘never seems scared’ but then again she is an actress.
'It has been horrendous. Nurses have been coming out to see her from the Douglas Macmillan Hospice and they have been fantastic,’ he said.
'Debi is an amazing woman. She never seems scared, I'm sure she's struggling inside sometimes, but she is an actress.'
[Five healthier alternatives to sun beds]
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED, MAYBE
BUT MARTYR MILTON WILLIAM COOPER AND I HAVE KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SHEEPLE NEVER LEARN!
"She said: "I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father's mentality was 'keep calm and carry on."
"So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn't grieve. I didn't cry at her funeral. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16."
Peaches Geldof Found Dead Aged 25 - Last Tweet Was About Her Mum
RIP Peaches #TooYoung
By Julia White | omg – 1 hour 3 minutes ago
The showbiz world was in shock tonight at the news that mum-of-two Peaches Geldof has been found dead at just 25.
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Police were called to the home of the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates near Wrotham, Kent at 1.35pm this afternoon.
The socialite, who has two young children, was pronounced dead by South East Coast ambulance service.
A spokesperson for Kent Police said it was being treated as an "unexplained sudden death" and that police were working to establish the cause.
Peaches' father Bob Geldof this evening released a statement confirming the death saying: "Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
[Twittersphere awash with celebs paying tribute to Peaches Geldof]
"What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?"
Peaches, who had been out in public as recently as last week at a fashion event in London, had been absent from her social media channels for 24 hours.
But her last tweet, 23 hours ago, referenced her mum, Paula Yates, who died nearly 14 years ago in September 2000.
She simply tweeted: "Me and my mum" alongside a picture of the two of them when she was a child.
Police were called to the home of the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates near Wrotham, Kent at 1.35pm this afternoon.
The socialite, who has two young children, was pronounced dead by South East Coast ambulance service.
A spokesperson for Kent Police said it was being treated as an "unexplained sudden death" and that police were working to establish the cause.
Peaches' father Bob Geldof this evening released a statement confirming the death saying: "Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
[Twittersphere awash with celebs paying tribute to Peaches Geldof]
"What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?"
Peaches, who had been out in public as recently as last week at a fashion event in London, had been absent from her social media channels for 24 hours.
But her last tweet, 23 hours ago, referenced her mum, Paula Yates, who died nearly 14 years ago in September 2000.
She simply tweeted: "Me and my mum" alongside a picture of the two of them when she was a child.
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Peaches has two sons,
Astala, who is set to be two on April 21 and Phaedra, whose first
birthday will be on April 24, with her husband Thomas Cohen.
Musician Thomas said in a statement tonight: "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons.
"I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts everyday. We shall love her forever."
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The blonde had married the lead singer of the South Easte London band S.C.U.M on September 8 2012 at a church in Davington, where her mother's funeral took place.
She was previously married to rock musician Max Drummey but they separated in 2009 after a six-months.
Peaches, who was born in 1989, spent most of her life in the media eye after launching her career writing a column for Elle magazine aged just 15.
She contributed to The Telegraph and the Guardian as well as TV shows including OMG! with Peaches Geldof on ITV2.
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She lost her mother when she was 11 and in an interview with Elle Magazine two years ago revealed she struggled to cope.Musician Thomas said in a statement tonight: "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons.
"I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts everyday. We shall love her forever."
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The blonde had married the lead singer of the South Easte London band S.C.U.M on September 8 2012 at a church in Davington, where her mother's funeral took place.
She was previously married to rock musician Max Drummey but they separated in 2009 after a six-months.
Peaches, who was born in 1989, spent most of her life in the media eye after launching her career writing a column for Elle magazine aged just 15.
She contributed to The Telegraph and the Guardian as well as TV shows including OMG! with Peaches Geldof on ITV2.
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She said: "I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father's mentality was 'keep calm and carry on.
"So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn't grieve. I didn't cry at her funeral. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16."
Peaches Geldof Was Found Dead With Baby Son Phaedra By Her Side
Her husband raised the alarm when she didn't answer her phone
By Jennifer Ruby | omg – 15 hours ago
She was tragically found dead on Monday morning.
And now it's been revealed that Peaches Geldof's 11-month-old son Phaedra was actually WITH her when she passed away.
The little one was found playing close to his mum when the star's body was discovered after her husband Thomas Cohen raised the alarm after frantically trying to call the house.
[ Peaches Geldof 'May Have Had Eating Disorder' Before Death Claims Doctor ]
The sad situation bizarrely mirrors the death of her mother Paula Yates back in 2000 - who was found dead with her four-year-old daughter Tiger Lily playing beside her.
According to The Sun,
musician Thomas had spent the night away from their Kent home with
their eldest son, Astala, but became panicked when he couldn't reach her
by phone.
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A source told the paper: "Phaedra was by her side most of the time, even when she was sleeping. At the very least, there can be some comfort that she wasn't by herself when she died."
But although the little 'un was with her mother the whole time, he is probably too young to have realised what was happening.
The source added: "The hope is that Phaedra is so young he wasn't aware of what was going on. The most important thing is that he's OK.
"It is devastating for Tom that he wasn't there but it couldn't have been avoided."
The circumstances are eerily similar to the way her famous mum was found 14 years ago - discovered in her home by a family friend, with her youngest by her side.
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Peaches' former nanny Anita Debney, who is also Phaedra's Godmother, is the latest person to pay tribute to the star.
On Thursday she wrote on Instagram: "She has been the greatest joy, the greatest blessing, the most tender part of my heart and soul. I loved her through the good times and the bad. We struggled and survived the darkest of times.
"I never lost faith in her spirit and strength. Always held out my hand to help her when she struggled and fell. She overcame so much and my love and appreciation of her indomitable spirit never wavered."
She continued: "The joy we shared in her beautiful babies was so deep and meaningful and filled both of our hearts with love and devotion.
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"She blossomed in motherhood and excelled at raising the sweetest, happiest babies in the world. She was passionate in her zeal to speak up for the needs of babies everywhere and lives have been changed because of that.
"What a wonderful legacy she has left to the world. My darling girl. You almost made it."
After an inconclusive postmortem (???), Peaches' body has now been released to her family, with the funeral expected to take place at in Kent.
Peaches Geldof and her
sister Pixie were in the spotlight from an early age thanks to their
famous mum Paula Yates, who was married to their dad Bob Geldof until
1996.Copyright [Getty]
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED, MAYBE
BUT MARTYR MILTON WILIAM COOPER AND I HAVE KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SHEEPLE NEVER LEARN!
Utah woman arrested after 7 dead babies found
PLEASANT
GROVE, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman accused of killing several babies she
gave birth to over 10 years was arrested Sunday after police discovered
seven tiny bodies stuffed in separate cardboard boxes in the garage of
her former home.
Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes 35 miles south of Salt Lake City say they were shocked by the accusations and perplexed that the woman's older children still living in the home didn't know their mother was pregnant or notice anything suspicious.
Officers responded to a call Saturday from Huntsman's estranged husband about a dead infant at the home, police Capt. Michael Roberts said. Officers then discovered the six other bodies.
Roberts declined to comment on a motive and what Huntsman said during an interview with investigators. He said it wasn't clear if she has an attorney. Huntsman was booked Sunday into the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. It wasn't immediately clear why there were six counts and not seven.
Family and neighbors identified the estranged husband as Darren West, who has been in prison on drug-related charges.
The spokesman said police believe West and Huntsman were together when the babies were born, but West isn't a person of interest at this time.
"We don't believe he had any knowledge of the situation," Roberts told The Associated Press.
Asked how the husband could not have known, Roberts replied, "That's the million-dollar question. Amazing."
The babies' bodies were sent to the Utah medical examiner's office for tests, including one to determine the cause of death. DNA samples taken from the suspect and her husband will determine definitively whether the two are the parents, as investigators believe.
Police say West was cleaning out the garage when he made the grisly discovery at the house owned by his parents in a city of about 35,000 people at the foot of snow-capped mountains. It's a nondescript, newer home with a brick facade and a star ornament hanging by the door. Several police cars blocked the entrance to the house Sunday evening as officers milled about with the belongings from the garage strewn across the front lawn.
Late Sunday, West's family issued a statement saying they were in a "state of shock and confusion."
"We are mourning this tragic loss of life and we are trying to stay strong and help each other through this awful event," the statement said before asking for privacy.
West pleaded guilty in federal court in 2005 to two counts of possessing chemicals intended to be used in manufacturing methamphetamine, court records show. In August 2006, he was sentenced to nine years in prison, but appealed the term three times. He maintained his innocence and said he never had any intention to manufacture meth. It's unclear when he was released.
Neighbors told the AP they were shocked and horrified by the accusations of what went on inside the home. None of them even knew Huntsman was pregnant in recent years.
The family members seemed like nice people and good neighbors, said Aaron and Kathie Hawker, who live next door.
Huntsman moved out several years ago, leaving her three daughters, one teenager and two young adults, to live alone, the Hawkers said. They weren't sure where Huntsman has since been living.
Years ago, Huntsman baby-sat the Hawker grandchildren and they were friendly with each other.
"It makes us so sad, we want to cry," Kathie Hawker said. "We enjoyed having them as a neighbor. This has just blown us away."
Aaron Hawker said he talked with West on Saturday morning. He told Hawker he was cleaning out the mess in the garage.
"Two hours later, suddenly we had all these policemen here," Aaron Hawker said.
Fred Newman, a neighbor whose cousin is the husband's mother, said he's perplexed how the three oldest daughters living there didn't know about what police say was going on. He said the girls didn't always park their cars in the garage, but did sometimes in the cold winter months.
"What's shocking is the three older ones living there and not noticing that their mother was pregnant,"
Newman said.
He said he has used his snow-blower to clean off the driveway of the home and the young women would thank him.
The girls were normal youngsters, coming and going often, neighbor Vickie Nelson said.
"It's shocking and kind of morbid and strange," Nelson said as he looked across the street at the garage from her from lawn.
Roberts said the case has been "emotionally draining" and upsetting to investigators. He was at the home when the bodies were discovered.
"My personal reaction? Just shocked. Couldn't believe it. The other officers felt the same," the 19-year police veteran said.
"They got more and more shocked each box they opened," Roberts said.
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Griffith reported from Reno, Nev. Associated Press writer Annie Knox in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED, MAYBE
BUT MARTYR MILTON WILIAM COOPER AND I HAVE KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SHEEPLE NEVER LEARN!
PAKISTANI CANNIBALS
A convicted cannibal has been arrested after a young boy's head was found at his home during a police raid.
Arif has admitted he and Farman cooked and ate the dead body after his brother stole the corpse from a cemetery, according to police.
The pair, who live in the small town of Darya Khan in central Pakistan, around 180 miles (300km) south of the capital Islamabad, had previously served two years in jail for cannibalism in a case that shocked the country.
Police said the brothers, arrested in 2011, had dug up more than 100 corpses from the local graveyard and eaten them.
They were only released last year.
District police chief Ameer Abdullah said: "Residents informed police after a stench emanated from the house of the two brothers.
"We raided the house on Monday morning and found the head of a young boy.
"We have arrested one of the brothers, Mohammad Arif, and are conducting raids for the arrest of the other brother."
Police were searching nearby graveyards to see if they had been disturbed.
There is no specific law against cannibalism in Pakistan so, as in the 2011 case, Arif has been charged with desecrating a dead body and public order offences.
In the previous case, police found the body of a 24-year-old woman who had recently died of cancer at the men's house - without a leg, which they had eaten.
THE SAME MONSTERS WHO STARVE AND BOMB OUR CHILDREN PRETEND TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF, BUT WHERE IS LAURA BUSH WHO WANTED TO SAVE AFGHANI WOMEN FROM THE TALIBANS!
Isn't it strange that I have not seen the religion of the school girls mentioned anywhere?
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED, MAYBE
BUT MARTYR MILTON WILIAM COOPER AND I HAVE KNOWN FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SHEEPLE NEVER LEARN!
Sir Bob Geldof speaks publicly for first time since daughter Peaches' death
He talks about plight of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
Bob Geldof has spoken about the plight of the Nigerian schoolgirls taken hostage by terrorists.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the death of his daughter Peaches, Sir Bob told Channel 5 news that he hoped the girls could be returned to their parents.
But he said a celebrity campaign currently flooding social media with posts using the hashtag: #BringBackOurGirls, was unlikely to help.
Michelle Obama, Angelina Jolie, Malala Yousafzai and Hillary Clinton are among those lending their support to the social media campaign, which encourages military intervention to recover the girls who were kidnapped from their school by Boko Haram rebels in north-east Nigeria.
The Live Aid campaigner said: "The problem with media like this, is that everyone wants to do something, but sometimes you just can't. There is a great feeling of frustration.
"The US, the UK and several EU states, the Russians - they know about counter terrorism.
"If there is someone out there who could help – maybe some sort of technological bounty I don't know - but it will not stop the problem, it may find the girls and hopefully they are alive and could be reunited with their parents, but it won't stop the problem."
TV presenter Peaches died aged 25, last month. The mother-of-two was discovered at her home in Wrotham, Kent and in an echo of her mother Paula Yates's 2000 overdose, it is believed heroin played a role in her death.
The inquest opened in Gravesend, Kent, but after a short statement by the police, was adjourned until July. Bob issued a public statement after Peaches' death - but this is the first time he has addressed the wider world since his daughter's tragic death when he called her 'the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us'.
The #BringBackOurGirls campaign refers to the kidnapping of 276 girls from their school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, on April 14. Nigerian Police are now offering a £300,000 reward to anyone who can help them find the missing children.
Des enfants forcés de s’excuser pour le terrorisme dans une vidéo choc
[N.B. Many photographs, illustrations, videos have mysteriously vanished from this post as well as from other posts!]
- Publié le : mardi 10 février
- Mots-clés : International; Pays-Bas; Tuerie à Charlie Hebdo
- Commentaires : 58
- Source : rts.ch
Une vidéo provocante montrant des enfants qui s’excusent pour des actes terroristes récents a été diffusée aux Pays-Bas cette semaine. Sous le titre #Letsunite (unissons-nous), la vidéo d’AbdelKarim El-Fassi veut susciter le questionnement sur la notion de "culpabilité par association".
L’idée est de montrer comment des communautés sont la cible de critiques injustifiées lors d’attaques terroristes. Après les attentats de Charlie Hebdo, il a par exemple été demandé aux musulmans de condamner l’acte terroriste.
Estime de soi atteinte
Ces exigences ont fait réagir le réalisateur hollandais qui transpose la manoeuvre sur de jeunes enfants, faisant paraître la chose choquante. Les images montrent comment l’estime de soi et la confiance sont endommagées.
Cinq enfants sont persuadés de s’excuser pour des crimes qu’ils n’ont pas commis parce qu’ils sont blonds comme Anders Breivik ou parce qu’ils ont un chapeau comme les frères auteurs de l’attaque de Charlie Hebdo.
Exposed! Dutch Intellectuals 'Apologize to Putin' for LIES on MH17, Syria, Ukraine!
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Published on 3 Sep 2014
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Much Love ~ Divine Justice
A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
Much Love ~ Divine Justice
A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
[N.B. Many photographs, illustrations, videos have mysteriously vanished from this post as well as from other posts!]
"paid for by Saudi Arabia"???
Why add this load of BS to this???
Dear Mr. President Putin,
Please accept our apologies on behalf of a great many people here in the Netherlands for our Government and our Media. The facts concerning MH17 are twisted to defame you and your country.
We are powerless onlookers, as we witness how the Western Nations, led by the United States, accuse Russia of crimes they commit themselves more than anybody else. We reject the double standards that are used for Russia and the West. In our societies, sufficient evidence is required for a conviction. The way you and your Nation are convicted for 'crimes' without evidence, is ruthless and despicable.
You have saved us from a conflict in Syria that could have escalated into a World War. The mass killing of innocent Syrian civilians through gassing by ‘Al-‐Qaeda’ terrorists, trained and armed by the US and paid for by Saudi Arabia, was blamed on Assad. In doing so, the West hoped public opinion would turn against Assad, paving the way for an attack on Syria.
Not long after this, Western forces have built up, trained and armed an ‘opposition’ in the Ukraine, to prepare a coup against the legitimate Government in Kiev. The putschists taking over were quickly recognized by Western Governments. They were provided with loans from our tax money to prop their new Government up.
The people of the Crimea did not agree with this and showed this with peaceful demonstrations. Anonymous snipers and violence by Ukrainian troops turned these demonstrations into demands for independence from Kiev. Whether you support these separatist movements is immaterial, considering the blatant Imperialism of the West.
Russia is wrongly accused, without evidence or investigation, of delivering the weapons systems that allegedly brought down MH17. For this reason Western Governments claim they have a right to economically pressure Russia.
We, awake citizens of the West, who see the lies and machinations of our Governments, wish to offer you our apologies for what is done in our name.
It’s unfortunately true, that our media have lost all independence and are just mouthpieces for the Powers that Be. Because of this, Western people tend to have a warped view of reality and are unable to hold their politicians to account.
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/vie...
Please accept our apologies on behalf of a great many people here in the Netherlands for our Government and our Media. The facts concerning MH17 are twisted to defame you and your country.
We are powerless onlookers, as we witness how the Western Nations, led by the United States, accuse Russia of crimes they commit themselves more than anybody else. We reject the double standards that are used for Russia and the West. In our societies, sufficient evidence is required for a conviction. The way you and your Nation are convicted for 'crimes' without evidence, is ruthless and despicable.
You have saved us from a conflict in Syria that could have escalated into a World War. The mass killing of innocent Syrian civilians through gassing by ‘Al-‐Qaeda’ terrorists, trained and armed by the US and paid for by Saudi Arabia, was blamed on Assad. In doing so, the West hoped public opinion would turn against Assad, paving the way for an attack on Syria.
Not long after this, Western forces have built up, trained and armed an ‘opposition’ in the Ukraine, to prepare a coup against the legitimate Government in Kiev. The putschists taking over were quickly recognized by Western Governments. They were provided with loans from our tax money to prop their new Government up.
The people of the Crimea did not agree with this and showed this with peaceful demonstrations. Anonymous snipers and violence by Ukrainian troops turned these demonstrations into demands for independence from Kiev. Whether you support these separatist movements is immaterial, considering the blatant Imperialism of the West.
Russia is wrongly accused, without evidence or investigation, of delivering the weapons systems that allegedly brought down MH17. For this reason Western Governments claim they have a right to economically pressure Russia.
We, awake citizens of the West, who see the lies and machinations of our Governments, wish to offer you our apologies for what is done in our name.
It’s unfortunately true, that our media have lost all independence and are just mouthpieces for the Powers that Be. Because of this, Western people tend to have a warped view of reality and are unable to hold their politicians to account.
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/vie...