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Here are a couple of video’s I thought y’all might enjoy.
First, my favorite artist of all time -- no one sings it like Marvin Gaye -- you’ll need to click on the YT link to listen. Worth the time.
And who can forget this Wedding Entrance, the best evah! 53M have viewed it to date.
And although my girl Whitney struggles these days, this song is so inspirational and right now, I need a little bit of inspiration.
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I thought I’d bring this post over to the new thread -
Submitted by Just Me on 2010/07/08 at 2:28pm
If there was ever ANY question about how gentiles are looked upon by many in Israel, THIS article on bestselling book should put that question to rest.
BOOK ABOUT KILLING GENTILE CHILDREN BECOMES BESTSELLER IN ISRAEL. (Nov 11, 2009)
“OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel”
“He argues that goyem (a derogatory epithet for non-Jews) may be killed if they threaten Israel.”
“Shapiro, who heads a small Talmudic school at the settlement of Yitzhar near Nablus, claims his edict “is fully justified by the Torah and the Talmud.”
“Shapiro’s views on how Palestinians and non-Jews in general ought to be treated according to Jewish religious law (halacha) are widely looked at as representing the mainstream not the exception in Israel.”
YOU BET IT IS!
Still think we must stand by Israel? Still okay with sending your hard earned dollars to a country who promotes this kind of racism?
More here:
http://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/book-about-killing-gentile-children-becomes-bestseller-in-israel/
HEADS UP – SHERIFF MACK IS ON ALEX JONES RIGHT NOW
http://www.infowars.com
Helen,
Thanks for Marvin and Whitney — two talents that have made the world a better place.
Keep your chin up. Human beings have infinite reserve.
venice – thank you for your kind and very true words. i’ve been looking for a reason to post Marvin’s video for months now. he was so soulful and touched anyone and everyone who ever listened to his music. and that video with the kids just smiling…make’s me feel happy.
Venice,
interesting read on China and their gold. Thank you for the link. Wondered what your thoughts were.
I wasn’t surprised to see the headline (CNN) of the call for a new reserve currency. We knew this was coming. Both Russia and China have openly called for it in recent months. The fact the UN openly called for it, to me, seems to be right on target with what we’ve been hearing on the collapse of the dollar by the elite. Other “signs” appearing in the news fit with the bigger picture of what’s to come.
Listening to Mike Rivero who just said Charles Rangel is proposing legislation the would demand US citizens from 18 to 42 would be required to serve in the military – just like Israel.
Sounds like they’re bringing back the draft. This is absolutely absurd!
Hi JustMe,
First principle:
China, perhaps more than other countries, will never openly declare their intent. Their aim for success strongly depends on this. Hence, I believe China will amass as much gold as possible, and not aim to use it as the main reserve currency. Of course. Like they say it’s too expensive to move around and there isn’t enough of it. But it will form IMO a significant part of a reserve currency and that is their intent.
Second principle:
They will attempt to bring the U.S. dollar down slowly (it would be a calamity otherwise and certainly not in their interest). As the dollar is inversely connected to gold they will try to put the brakes on a rising gold.
Third principle:
They will insist on pacific, nonconfrontational negotiations. They will pursue cultivating this international negotiating style because they hold many of the financial trump cards, though clearly not enough (yet). Otherwise their natural inclination for a dictatorial style would automatically surface.
Nice to see all of you again.
Just a note- I am still here. Off to a show in the morning. Art shows, baseball, company, and my sister- she has been ill. They took 6 inches of muscle from her thigh to test at Mayo- prayers welcome).
I am trying to keep up. Read here when I can, either too early or too late to chat. Rangle, though, has me pissed. As a mother of three, he can kiss my ass. All these “Call to Glory” or “Modern Warfare” video games are nothing more than desensitization and conditioning tools for these war freaks!
Prairie,
Sorry to hear about your sister. I’ve probably missed some of her story, but to be testing at the Mayo, the diagnosis is clearly dubious. I will keep her in my thoughts.
Venice,
She is fortunate to live in Minnestoa, but you are right about the diagnosis not being known. Thank you for the conern. Was a nice surprise to see your posts here at Helen’s.
Isreali police destroying vegetable fields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmcnG_Bt8o&feature=player_embedded
Good morning, all
Prairie, was wondering about you and your family. So sorry to hear your sister is ill. Please keep us updated and know she will be in our thoughts and prayers.
I was angry, too, when I heard about the proposed draft legislation – AND can you believe the age range. That’s the prime of a man’s life, although now that I type that I don’t think it was gender specific. I’ll have to read up on that. Sadly, they’ll be so many out of work, the military/gov’t will be the only place “hiring.” That’s what they want, too.
Defending our country is one thing, OCCUPYING another country for nefarious reasons is completely different. As I wrote on the prior thread, our men/women are simply pawns in the game. Likened to the “avatars” in the video games you spoke about.
Gotta read this article – AND the excellent comment posted by someone in Australian.
The article is about a church in England (CMJ) with ministries spread around the world (key point) spewing the Zionist propaganda of the superiority of Jews under the guise of Christianity. It’s a quick read and Stuart Littlewood does an excellent job of attacking the hypocrisy points by point. It’s a real eye opener.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/07/holy-mackerel-christians-must-love-and-defend-israelis-preaches-church-mission/
Venice,
thank you for your comments on the articles.
Yes, I remember our conversations from before about China “letting us down easy” with their dumping the dollar. Which makes sense. Seeing the headline on the CNN article makes me wonder if the UN could care less about giving them time to divest themselves. A bullying tactic because China is, as the other article indicates, manipulating and therefore retains some control. All I know is it will make one crazy trying to stay ahead of all this and read between the lines.
Correction to my post @8:32 (sorry it’s still a bit early)
CMJ isn’t a church in England, as I incorrectly stated. The situation that Stuart is writing about comes from an article he found in a parish magazine about the director of CMJ. The director of “The Church’s Ministry among Jewish people” (CMJ) was giving a talk to a study group from the church in England about “Jesus being the Jewish Messiah.” The bombshell is CMJ was adopted as the official ministry of the Church of England in 1995. This one will make blood shoot out of your eyes.
IS ANOTHER ZIONIST FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON THE HORIZON? –– you decide.
I’d say based on the number of Israelis that “survived” the 9/11 event this is a sure bet.
On 9/11, 4,000 Israelis (not American Jews) reported to be in and around the Pentagon and the World Trade Center stayed “home” allegedly warned in advance, in part by Odigo, a Israeli instant messaging company. As reported in the New York Times the final tally of the number of Israelis who died in the WTC attack was only one (other reports are three). A pretty amazing number considering New York is the center of world wide Jewish financial power and the WTC is at its epicenter.
“The National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued a general advisory Thursday calling on all Israelis traveling abroad to increase alertness, citing a “concrete, high risk” of terrorist attacks.
While the warning was aimed at all Israelis traveling overseas, the bureau mentioned in particular businessmen and former public officials as possible targets.
Citing solid intelligence, the bureau explained that “threats continue to exist against Israelis abroad, particularly business people and former officials of the security apparatus who are at a high risk for kidnapping or murder.”
Israeli travelers are asked to keep on high alert, to turn down unplanned business offers and to avoid secluded areas.”
snipped from:
http://www.factsnotfairies.blogspot.com/
Helen,
funny – you have google ads on the front page of none other than B. Boxer video and also William Kristol and his standing with Israel crap. You think it’s a conspiracy? LOL
hehehe, JM, could very well be a conspiracy. LOL
Prairie, you’ve been missed. Sounds as though your hands are rather full.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your sister. We’re here for you.
Just reading on Wayne Madsen’s site this a.m. – He has an article posted in the member’s only area I found interesting about McChrystal. Looks like the Rolling Stone article was intentional. Madsen refers to it as a situation of McChrystal “firing himself.”
Seems this is the only way these high ranking officials feel they have of getting away from these policies and commanders they disagree with.
Madsen compares this to Admiral William Fallon’s firing after his interview published in Esquirer magazine admitted he opposed the Bush admin’s plans to attack Iran. Strangely enough Petraeus, referred to as the neocon’s favorite general, is the one chosen to replace both of these men, while both Fallon and McChrystal were forced to resign by Robert Gates.
Madsen reports that Petraeus is nothing more than an arm chair general – having spent “more time in neocon think tanks being indoctrinated on US global control than on the battlefield with the war fighters.” And, both Petraeus and Gates are nothing more than the “GLOBAL extenders of U.S. military power.” (emphasis mine)
He predicts the next flag rank officer to fall may be Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen – who opposes any military attack on Iran.
Direct quote about Mullen from Wayne Madsen Report article, “Although he has been careful to make nice publicly with the Israelis, Mullen told the Israeli military leadership in July 2008 not to launch a “USS Liberty Part II” to provoke a US-led war against Iran. The Israelis attacked the US Navy intelligence collection ship, USS Liberty, during the 1967 Six Day War in what some believe was a “false flag” attack designed to pin the blame for the attack on Egypt. After that ploy failed, Israel and its supporters in the Lyndon Johnson administration launched a major cover-up, one that exists to this day.”
So, could get interesting…
Excellent article on infowars
BANKSTERS ARE COMING FOR YOUR RETIREMENT NEXT.
http://www.infowars.com/banksters-are-coming-for-your-retirement-next/
The video posted with the Banksters article above is well done. So easy a 4th grader could understand.
Introducing Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, Hector Maldonado, short clip and has some good things to say about eligibility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6ig4uTWPI&feature=player_embedded
LOOKING FOR A TAX WRITE OFF?
While most of our rightful tax deductions have been eliminated, and we’re guaranteed that more and more will be eliminated as this economy continues to falter, it seems those that donate to the building of illegal settlements in Israel still enjoy their tax break.
What? Haven’t heard of this “legal” deduction for an illegal activity in a foreign country? Not many have.
Here is an article from The Washington Post last year about it. Of course, what would we expect from those that write the tax codes here being pro-Israel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502800.html
THE PHOTOS NO ONE SHOWED TO “O” – these images that someone painstakingly put together to show the parallels of Germany 1940 and Israel 2009-10 need no explanation. Haunting.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/the-photos-no-one-showed-to-obama/
Prairie,
that video of the damn Israeli soldiers and workers destroying the vegetable fields makes me so angry. For a people that supposedly survived the tragedy of the holocaust they certainly have no regards for human life. What goes around comes around – perhaps for these bast*rds again! And they will have brought it on themselves.
How can any Christian – anyone that passes themselves off as Christian – condone or justify this? Brainwashed Christians, obviously.
wow! haunting says it all.
THE NEWS MEDIA
Because deception is a fundamental technique of warfare, military organizations have sought control over war-related information virtually since the dawn of human history.
The Chinese writer Sun Tzu put it well in his classic work, The Art of War: “All war is based on deception,” he wrote. “Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are near. Offer the enemy a bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him.”
In modern times, deception has always employed two fundamental stages: censorship followed by propaganda. Censorship deprives the public and enemies of accurate information about what is taking place. Once this information vacuum has been created, propaganda is injected into this conceptual void, thus creating a false but entirely believable picture of events. In the age of mass media, this simply couldn’t be achieved without the assistance of major news organizations, journalists, and other communication outlets. Thus, governments nearly always appeal to these organizations for help in this complex task.
The British Empire, which once ruled much of the planet, was for some centuries among the most skilled practitioners of this dark art. Unlike revolutionary America, imperial Britain never embraced the notion of a free press, since centralized control of news and information was essential to its global deception activities.
According to Philip Knightly, author of The First Casualty: From Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, Britain was so skilled in the use of propaganda during World War I that it became a major inspiration for the later efforts of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The keystone to British deception plans was always a close but clandestine working relationship with newspaper publishers and other media organizations…
snipped from:
http://www.ae911truth.org/news/41-articles/313-the-news-media-at-war.html
EXPOSED: The Truth About Israel’s Land Grab
Jewish settlers, who claim a DIVINE right to the whole of Israel, now control more than 42 per cent of the occupied West Bank, representing a powerful obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state, a new report has revealed.
The jurisdiction of some 200 settlements, illegal under international law, cover much more of the occupied Palestinian territory than previously thought. And a large section of the land has been seized from private Palestinian landowners in defiance even of an Israeli supreme court ruling, the report said, a finding which sits uncomfortably with Israeli claims that it builds only on state land.
…[I]srael has built bypass roads, erected new checkpoints, and taken control of scarce water resources to the benefit of the settlers. (WITH AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS – TAX DEDUCTIBLE DOLLARS) The measures have effectively created Palestinian enclaves within the West Bank, the report said.
Under international law, any Jewish settlements built on occupied territory are illegal. These include all the settlements in the West Bank, and thousands of Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, the Arab-dominated sector of the city annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six Day War. The international community still regards East Jerusalem as occupied territory. Despite firm commitments from successive Israeli governments to dismantle illegal outposts built after 2001 and to cease expansion of the settlements, Israel has provided millions of dollars worth of incentives to encourage poorer families to move into the West Bank. Some 300,000 settlers live in the West Bank….(all emphasis mine)
Snipped from:
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=9619
PRESBYTERIANS PRESS FOR END TO US AID TO ISRAEL
Finally! We need more Christian religions to stand up to the atrocities being committed against humanity. Cutting off aid is not only necessary, but it is the LEGAL thing to do. Right now, under international laws, it is ILLEGAL for the U.S. to fund these crimes against humanity.
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/09/presbyterians-press-for-end-to-us-aid-to-israel/
Now that I think about it, the Methodists recently called for action against Israel, too. I think it was a boycott of goods. Can’t remember exactly. Would be great to get others onboard.
IF AMERICANS KNEW –– Came across this site and thought I’d post the link here.
Loaded with good information about what’s going on in the Middle East, in particular Israel/Palestine. I know many of us are trying to wrap our heads around all this, knowing that is driving much of what goes on here in the United States. Our economy is directly affected by the situation in the Middle East.
I opened the pdf booklet about the cost of aid to American taxpayers. Though the figures are from 1998, it’s still very relative. (More current figures are shown under the tab “US Taxes.”)
Unbeknownst to me we are also sending a chunk of change to other countries – referred to as “periphery” in the booklet (pg 17) related to the goings on in Israel. We send aid to Egypt just to “keep the peace.” You’ll also remember our own Army Corp of Engineers is there now working hard to build an underground steel wall to eliminate tunneling. As of 1998, the aid sent to Israel plus the aid to Egypt accounted for more than half of the U.S. bi-lateral foreign aid budget world-wide. Let that one soak in a minute.
This aid coming out of mine and your pocket is for the benefit of Jews only. No Muslim, or Christian, according to the article, benefit from any aid we send. Did you hear that? NO CHRISTIAN. What’s wrong with this picture?
Here’s a quote from the booklet:
…”Israeli citizenship is not available to the Muslim and Christian Palestinians driven from their homes in Israel in 1948, nor to their descendants. But a Jew, BORN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, can have Israeli citizenship for the asking.” (emphasis mine)
Have a look at all the other great info on this site:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
R/T VIDEO – MADSEN ON THE RUSSIAN SPY SWAP
What “O” knew and when did he know it?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6eYyyG9bY&feature=player_embedded
this is a must read. it explains a lot about how gullible our Security officials really are – http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/hundreds-of-fbi-dea-and-ice-agents-fall-victim-to-ponzi-scheme/19547371
Can’t remember if I posted this article here or not. From WAYNE MADSEN REPORT earlier in the week. I apologize if I did.
Seems like the Gaza Flotilla massacre has impacted the politics in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Who knew that Costa Rica would have a Zionist as their Vice President. Another coup d’etat, like the recent one in Honduras that ousted Zelaya, is about to take place this time targeting Noriega.
July 6, 2010 — Coast Guard dispatching ships and personnel to Costa Rica to threaten Nicaragua
“After conducting its successful coup d’etat in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, the imperialistic Barack Obama administration is now bent on ousting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by massing a huge U.S. Coast Guard and Marine Corps presence in neighboring Costa Rica, a base of operations for Reagan administration-backed CIA operations in the 1980s in support of the Nicaraguan contras.
Costa Rican government officials, including President Laura Chinchilla, Vice President Luis Lieberman Ginsburg, Security Minister Jose Maria Tijerino, counter-narcotics commissioner Mauricio Boraschi, and the Costa Rican Congress agreed to Operation Joint Patrol, which will see 7,000 US Marines, 46 mainly U.S. Coast Guard vessels, and 200 helicopters and 10 combat aircraft descend on Costa Rica, which does not have a military force, from July 1 to December 31.
At a time when the Coast Guard vessels could be used to assist in the clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, they will be used in an operation widely believed to be targeting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, which incurred the ire of Israel and its Zionist ally in San Jose, Costa Rica, Vice President Lieberman, by severing relations with the Tel Aviv regime over the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla.
The official reason for Operation Joint Patrol is to combat drug trafficking but few in the Costa Rican opposition and in Nicaragua believe that to be the sole reason. The Joint Patrol operation is being likened to Plan Colombia, which has targeted the governments of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa from Colombian territory. The Costa Rican opposition has denounced Chinchilla’s government for militarizing Costa Rica.
It is also believed by WMR’s sources in Costa Rica that Costa Rican Vice President Lieberman, a noted Zionist, has arranged for Israeli special forces to enter Costa Rica in order to participate in operations directed against the government of Nicaragua.”
Helen,
unbelievable!
This is the same % of return promised by all the other crooks – 8 to 10%. This doesn’t happen in the real world. The best you can hope for is 4-5% on occasion 7%, at least that’s what the gurus I have listened to over the years say. So, if one doesn’t have the extra cash to play the “slots” in the Wall Street casino, he said you were better off with the security of a general savings account. Max Keiser and Bob Chapman say the crooks who make this kind of return are the ones connected with “high speed” trading computers. All others who manage yours and my money have to follow the traditional trading methods.
Looks like the Jews in NY turned out to give Netanyahu a warm welcome. LOL Great to see all these photos of this group standing up to the crimes being committed by his radical right-wing leadership.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/photo-essay-netanyahus-not-so-warm-welcome-in-new-york/
here’s the link to the Methodist Church boycott of Israel – The Methodist Church moves for peace against Israeli terror state – http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/10/methodists-vote-to-boycott-israel/
so if i understand what you are saying is correct, these individuals knew they were taking part in a ponzi scheme of which they likely protected? now that’s just disgusting!
Helen,
No, I’m not saying that exactly. I’m saying, IMHO, if one is approached with the promise of this kind of return they should know it’s a scam because the only ones that make that kind of return are the chosen few using the ones (brokers/firms) connected to the high-speed trading computers – the big guys like Goldman Sachs, etc.
oh my – the heat appears to have been turned up several notches in the last seven days
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The events of the past week are difficult to understand, and impossible to tolerate. I am advised and understand that the Lienholders executed a foreclosure and management takeover Fri-Sat 2-3 July of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, and of Bank of America in Charlotte, NC.
They “cleaned out” both banks of people working for the opponents and cleared toxic debt [including derivatives] off the bank balance sheets. Accordingly, they took DB out of the control of Angela Merkel and opponents in Germany, and they took BOA out of all possible control by the opponents in this country. As a result of these actions, it was expected that the World Global Settlement funds could be distributed this week.”
http://worldreports.org/news/296_worst_financial_terrorism_sabotage_in_history
Helen,
thanks for the link. I thought I remembered it was the Methodist that first issued a boycott. Of course, Israel has introduced legislation to make it a CRIME (LOL) for anyone to boycott Israel.
Just saw an article on Mondoweiss where Barney Frank is calling for a cut in foreign military aid…to everyone EXCEPT Israel. Excuse me while I look for a barf bag.
Helen,
can you elaborate a bit more on the article from World Reports?
gotcha BUT if you know this, and you’re not one of the chosen few, then surely these agents knew it. wonder what it’s like to be chosen?
Helen,
I believe you’re right in what you’re saying – they had to have known. You know the old saying – if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I wouldn’t want to be a slave to the trade-offs of being the “chosen.”
basically, the dollar transfer aka the Refunding Programme debacle continues to be obstructed by Bush Sr, Obama and Panetta.
the Queen visited NY this last week as you know. the real reason for her trip was to sign the necessary documents to release the funds. you see, the lienholders who have effectively taken over management of the two laundering banks – BOA and Deutsche – are controlled by Sr. Sr. is one of three directors – Putin and I believe Kohl, don’t quote me. The banks were put into foreclosure by this act.
It’s a short and concise read.
ANOTHER GREAT ARTICLE BY JEFF GATES –– great insights from the author that exposed both of the McCains’ involvement in the cover-up of the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. Comments are good, too.
THE ADORATION OF BIBI NETANYAHU (and so much more)
“What we witnessed this week at the White House was words of praise for the leader of a government that has strategically deceived the U.S. for more than six decades. Yet President Obama assured us that he now “trusts” a spokesman for Israel’s ultra-right Likud Party.”…
…That’s a non-starter for the “Israelites” who consider themselves Chosen—by a god of their own choosing. That self-proclaimed status entitles them to take land that their G-D gave them thousands of years ago. No one could make this up; they truly do believe this. Truly.
Obama then declared a renewed commitment to the U.S.-Israeli “special relationship,” proclaimed again an “unshakable bond” with the Zionist enclave, and assured Tel Aviv there was no shift in U.S. policy on Israel’s nuclear arsenal, a stance profoundly out of synch with our professed support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Tehran take note.
• Do you find yourself wondering for whom Barack Obama is working?
• Are you confused about just whose interests he represents as our president?
• You are not alone. No one is more concerned than U.S. military commanders.
The Obama Adoration meant even more bad news for senior Pentagon personnel. Obama’s behavior was particularly galling for those aware of the common pro-Israeli source of the phony intelligence that induced us to war on false pretenses.
How much longer will U.S. commanders be willing to order that Americans die for Jewish extremists? Knowing the depth of corruption and complicity within our civilian leadership, to whom do military commanders owe their allegiance?
When our command and control system is this corrupted at the top, what then for those who took an oath to defend this nation from all enemies, both foreign and domestic?
Has our entangled alliance with religious extremists eroded U.S. democracy from the inside out? Are our military leaders obliged by their Constitutional oath to challenge the remnants of democracy in order to restore it?
snipped from:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/07/jeff-gates-the-adoration-of-bibi-netanyahu/
Thanks, Helen. I thought it odd the Queen visiting NY on a whim. LOL
Out of curiosity, what do you foresee this leading to? And, does this have anything to do with the recent call for personal info on bank accounts of British citizens and other EU citizens? Of course, it’s all under the guise of counter-terrorism.
HEALTH CARE LAW’S MASSIVE, HIDDEN TAX CHANGE
Have to laugh at this statement (below) given the facts in the article I posted recently on the prior thread about Haim Saban and Rupert Murdoch’s deal with Michael Eisner’s for FOX Family Worldwide. A billion and a half dollar deal of which Saban paid ZERO taxes on his gains.
Yeah, just go after the little people by generating all these extra 1099 forms and hiring new agents to process them, and forget about the obvious tax cheats like Saban.
“The IRS estimates that the federal government loses more than $300 billion each year in tax revenue on income that goes unreported.”
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_care_tax_change/
You can find info on Heim Saban, worth the time to get to know him, on bollyn dot com
Homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover oil damage to homes. So, if you live in an area that isn’t considered a flood zone and don’t carry flood insurance and you sustain damage – in this case oil damage – from a hurricane, too bad!
FEMA says only flood insurance will cover the damage. And, FEMA now underwrites all flood insurance policies.
http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/98142719.html
Helen, looks like this is still going strong. You posted an article about this a while back didn’t you?
These folks are my heros! They can’t be bought like the slime, political whores in D.C. can.
CALIFORNIA DOCKWORKERS REJECT MEETING WITH ISRAELI COUNSUL –– and continue to block the unloading of an Israeli Zim Lines cargo ship at the Port of Oakland.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11384.shtml
I’ll tell you what, JM, after reading the posts about the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches coupled with this ongoing blockage by California’s dockworkers, I have this little itty bitty ray of hope that folks truly are awakening to who our real foreign and domestic enemies are. As these seeds grow others will follow their lead.
Given the fact that there are some 3000+ oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, why would it not be standard practice to offer a clause in insurance policies to protect homeowners of oil related matters? This makes little sense to me.
Prairie and JM – here’s the press release to the Israeli IDF destruction of Palestinian vegetable gardens this past week. Thought you’d want to know the rest of the story.
For Immediate Release – Al Khalil – Hebron – CPT – Israeli Border Police Destroy Vegetable Fields in Al Baqa’a Valley – July 7, 2010 – Israeli border police destroyed several Palestinian fields in Al Baqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on July 6, 2010, directly impacting the livelihood of more than one hundred Palestinians. Landowners said that Israeli border police and the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO), responsible for the coordination of Palestinian civilian affairs in Area C, began implementing the destruction at around 8:30am. Israeli authorities, with the assistance of hired labor, damaged fields of vegetables and destroyed the irrigation systems of those fields.
When international peace activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams arrived in the area at 11:30am, about 20 workers hired by the Israeli border police and DCO had cut and disposed of the irrigation pipes laid in two fields. The fields each measured 10 dunams (approximately 40 acres) and included tomatoes, eggplant, cauliflower, and beans. In addition to dismantling the irrigation pipes, the workers also cut the twines that were holding up each tomato plant. A matriarch of the family, Aratiki Karim, said, “These tomatoes are for the kids, for the babies, to feed the kids and to sell them to buy other food for the kids.” The Palestinian farmers had planted the tomato plants nearly three months ago and the tomatoes were only 20 days from being ready for market.
The border police, DCO, and hired laborers then moved to another field further along Route 60 in the Al Baqa’a Valley to perform the same procedure. The border police blocked the junction between the residential zone and the nearby fields, shooting tear gas and sound bombs to prevent Palestinians from going to the area where the hired workers were removing more irrigation pipes.
Several women and children suffered from tear gas inhalation and required hospitalization. Badran Mohammed Jabber, looking out onto his destroyed fields uttered in exasperation, “I have spent 43 years under the Israeli reign of terror. I have lived my life in fear, I never know what the Israelis will do tomorrow. They have destroyed my land, they have destroyed my life, and these fields are my life.”
This is not the first time Israeli authorities have destroyed crops and irrigation equipment in the Al Baqa’a Valley.
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2010/07/08/learn-about-israeli-terrorism-in-this-video#more-9142
Thanks, Helen, for the update.
I can’t imagine how they could endure this for so many years. Based on what I’ve been reading, their hospitals have been under assault, too. Many deprived of supplies, equipment and even electrical power.
Are you mad hearing and reading about this, add to that knowing our dollars fund this kind of terroristic activity? I am. That is why I post about it. This has gone on since the 6 Day War in 1948. Which was a land grab by the radical right-wing Likud of which Bibi is the leader.
I hope you are right and we are seeing a little ray of hope for these people. For the record, many Palestinians are CHRISTIANS, for those Christians who may think they are getting what they deserve.
Helen,
there’s a video on PressTV website that I can’t get to open up on my computer. I don’t have the right application. The title says enough. Egypt bans entry of Greek medical doctors into Gaza. I thought that Egypt has agreed to open the borders.
Now I’m wondering what they’ll do when the Gaza aid flotilla organized by Gaddafi’s son arrives there from Libya?
Here’s a link for the Libya aid flotilla story:
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=80432
Found a old video on an earlier attempt by Libya back in December of 2008, to send a humanitarian aid ship to Gaza. That ship was “intercepted” by Israelis and redirected. Wonder what happened to the supplies?
So, this isn’t the first attempt by Libya. This should be very interesting.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1202038-israeli-navy-turns-back-a-libyan-humanitarian-aid-ship-to-gaza
I pulled the Haartz article up at the sanfran site and saw no PressTV link – this was the beginning of the article though – “A Libyan aid ship will head to Gaza’s port in the coming hours and will not be diverted, Palestinian Legislative Council member Jamal Al-Khudari and Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi told the Palestinian news agency Ma’an on Saturday.
Al-Khudari, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, told Ma’an that he had been in constant contact with the organizers of the ship, who are expected to bring 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza despite an Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory. “
Helen,
Sorry, I probably confused you. Since I can’t post two links in one entry I just talked about the PressTV video – didn’t post the link.
Helen, here’s one for you
IRAQ IS AMERICA’S GAZA – wow!
http://intifada-palestine.com/2010/07/iraq-is-americas-gaza/
The next time you turn on your water faucet to shower or simply get a glass of water think about this…..
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11373.shtml
I’ll never forget when we first invaded Iraq how we stole artifacts and other antiquities from their museums. I’m sure these priceless pieces of Babylonian history are adorning the homes of Soros, Rockefeller’s, Bushies, Rothschild’s and more. I literally wept when this story began to unfold simply b/c such artifacts are so important to the people’s past. These other statistics are startling. I guess the only thing we haven’t done in and to the Iraqi people is send over the Army Corp of Engineers to build walls, eh?
HEADS UP – WAYNE MADSEN INTERNET RADIO SHOW
Today – Saturday
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 CENTRAL
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?page_id=3
Helen,
I don’t doubt it that those artifacts are adorning the homes of those elitists.
It’s disgusting to know that Bush began planning the invasion within days of him entering the White House – well before 9/11 – and that Blair was told by his own attorney general the war was NOT legal.
Helen, et al
here’s an interesting (ane lengthy) article by Michael Chossudovsky on the U.S. Support to Israel.
He contends that, “there are indications that the US was consulted at the highest levels regarding the nature of the military operation directed against the flotilla. Moreover, in the wake of the attacks, both the US and the UK unequivocally reaffirmed their support to Israel.”
He also talks about Rahm’s trip there a week prior to the attacks, as well as the situation with Iran. It’s worth the time to read it.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20086
GOTTA LOVE THIS ONE –
THE THREE STOOGES GO TO ISRAEL
…”So where does that leave us? Any good gambler would look at his cards and fold. Not so with the U.S. and Israel. These two never leave the table because they believe they have an endless supply of money to cover even the most foolish bet. The U.S. is in it to win it, and you won’t find a sympathetic or reasonable shoulder to cry on from either end of the political spectrum; they are both afflicted with the same mental illness.”
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=9621
Wayne Madsen’s show tonight is a replay from April – but…it’s on Turkey and it’s deep state expose that Madsen was a part of. If you didn’t hear it previously it is good.
Wayne’s show was reporting from the Gulf. He’s in NOLA this week investigating what the hell is really going on down there. It was a good show and he could have gone on longer. Too bad he ran out of time.
Helen,
That’s weird. When I tuned in it was from April. WTH? Glad you listened to it. I’ll have to catch it on the archives.
Okay, even more weird. I went to the archives for todays broadcast and I get the April 17th show AGAIN. Don’t know how you got the current one, Helen. Consider yourself lucky. I wanted to tune in today for that very reason. I knew he was in the Gulf. Ugh!
not only did I listen but I also got into talk. LOL
Wow Helen, I’m so impressed! I haven’t been here for awhile and you’ve really hit the road running. Good for you and your site, great to see. I’ll be back!
Thanks, DABIG, I look forward to many good comments from you and others in the future. Truth is our goal no matter how difficult it is to digest. That is all we are about. Onward, my friend, and enjoy the popcorn!!!
Morning, All
ran across this video to share here.
WHAT AN HONEST SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION HEARING SOUNDS LIKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6snnaY_brI&feature=player_embedded#!
Helen, et al
just rec’d a video I ordered in the mail yesterday – “THE SECRET OF OZ.” It’s a follow-up to the video “Money Masters,” which was excellent and should be mandatory for every American citizen to watch.
Evident by just the first 30 min of the video, we have NEVER been free from the claws of Britain. Not financially, as shown in “OZ” and certainly not legally, as you’ve shown, Helen, in your recent posts on Sgt Harrington’s discovery comparing military/civil law and codes.
I encourage all here to buy and watch “The Secret of OZ.” Actually, I plead with all here to watch it. Joseph Farrah, Peter Schiff, Ellen Brown author of Web of Debt, and others are cast.
There’s so much information about the not only the financial history of this country and how it shaped the country’s history at any given time. I understand it offers solutions for our current situation. I haven’t finished watching it yet, but know that I’ll have to watch it again & again to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
Very well done. A MUST WATCH!
Here’s a link to an interview of Bill Still – the narrator – with Alex talking about the new documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDswHOfib9A
WAKE UP AMERICANS –– by Paul Balles, July 11, 2010
“When will the American public wake up to the fact that Israel controls America? If the public doesn’t wake up, Israel will destroy America.”… (we’re well on our way)
“Americans must have their heads in the sand to continue to believe that “Israel is a bastion of democracy”. Israeli political geographer Oren Yiftachel makes it clear that Israel is an ethnocracy that serves one ethnic group well and the other badly.”…
Perhaps Ariel Sharon’s message to Peres said it best; “Every time we do something, you [Shimon Peres] tell me America will do this and will do that… I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
- Ariel Sharon
Snipped from:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/07/call-for-american-declaration-of-independence-from-israel/
THE CIA/LIKUD SINKING OF JIMMY CARTER
They always say if you want to see the future, look at the past…seems to ring true again in this case with Jimmy Carter & now surely “O.” No matter that it was the Chicago Jews that got him into office – in particular one Betty Salzman.
I, as others, had only heard the negatives of President Carter – the negatives the media made sure we heard. He was a bad president. He was weak. He had a meltdown while in office, etc. Recently, I’ve been reading exactly why he was destroyed in the media – the Zionist media.
He didn’t cow down to Israel, and he wanted PEACE in the Middle East. Wow! Now there’s a concept. Peace. A concept irrational to Israel’s radical right-wing Likud party. They want dominance. Fearing Carter would push for a Palestinian state on West Bank lands, in his second term, land the Likud’s considered their divine territory, the good ole boys in the CIA and the Likud leaders got busy and shut him down. As we can all see from a basic timeline of Israel’s attacks on surrounding countries since the 1948 “6 Day War,” there isn’t much land they don’t consider “divinely theirs” for the taking.
Here’s an excerpt from the article – well worth the read. Part of the ongoing process of “re-education” for all of us who may have been just a little asleep at the wheel back then. LOL
“Too many powerful interests do not want the American people to accept even the possibility that U.S. intelligence operatives and a longtime ally could intervene to oust a president who had impinged on what those two groups considered their vital interests. To accept that scenario would mean that two of the great fears of American democracy had come true — George Washington’s warning against the dangers of “entangling alliances” and Harry Truman’s concern that the clandestine operations of the CIA had the makings of an “American Gestapo.” It is far easier to assure the American people that no such thing could occur, that Israel’s Likud — whatever its differences with Washington over Middle East peace policies — would never seek to subvert a U.S. president, and that CIA dissidents — no matter how frustrated by political constraints — would never sabotage their own government. But the evidence points in that direction, and there are some points that are not in dispute. For instance, there is no doubt that CIA Old Boys and Likudniks had strong motives for seeking President Jimmy Carter’s defeat in 1980. Inside the CIA, Carter and his CIA Director Stansfield Turner were blamed for firing many of the free-wheeling covert operatives from the Vietnam era, for ousting legendary spymaster Ted Shackley, and for failing to protect longtime U.S. allies (and friends of the CIA), such as Iran’s Shah and Nicaragua’s dictator Anastasio Somoza. As for Israel, Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin was furious over Carter’s high-handed actions at Camp David in 1978 forcing Israel to trade the occupied Sinai to Egypt for a peace deal. Begin feared that Carter would use his second term to bully Israel into accepting a Palestinian state on West Bank lands that Likud considered part of Israel’s divinely granted territory…”
http://truth11.com/2010/07/12/the-cialikud-sinking-of-jimmy-carter/
********NEW POST: POSTED W/PERMISSION: ENOUGH WITH THE PROFIT AND POWER DRIVEN PATRIOTS!*************
IS THE IMF ABOUT RADY TO MUSCLE U.S. TAXPAYERS?
If you haven’t seen the youtube videos of what they’ve done to countries like Jamaica and Argentina I suggest you search the archives of Helen’s site. She posted the documentaries a few months ago. Well worth the watch. The IMF is ruthless in their loan payback terms. They care not whether you’ll be able to ever repay the loan – they simply want to own you forever! Nothing more than loan sharks. Now, it looks like the U.S. is falling prey to one of their own.
…”It appears there is a serious play in motion, by the elite, to tax the hell out of Americans. The IMF is obviously the front muscle organization that is going to lead the charge. Once the mid-term elections are over, American tax payers are going to be muscled, the way the IMF now muscles third world peasants”
rest of article here:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/07/is-imf-about-ready-to-muscle-us.html
Helen,
Here’s an excellent must read article entitled “Will Washington’s Failures Lead to a Second American Revolution?”
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=OTM4NTI5Ng%3D%3D
MacPUBLIUS
The answer is a resounding YES! And this revolution is being intentionally being provoked. Hope all is well.