Monday, June 15, 2009

Obama, the Islamophobic Anti-Semite

At the back dropped of a road sign, two agreeable men stand next to posters showing US President Barack Obama dressed in a Canaanite Qufiyyeh headdress which is reminiscent of the late global terrorist mass murderer Yasser Arafat and which the posters designated Obama as an ‘anti-Semitic, Jew-hater;’ due to Obama’s constant bombardment of anti-Semitic remarks on 14 June 2009; near the town of Bethlehem.

On into the late evening, anti-Obama protests from every facet of the Jewish and Muslim community resonated their feelings of Obama’s Nazi-style mistreatment, genocidal tendencies towards an ancient people and there country.


This comes at a time with the ever growing heat of animosity towards the continuous tyrannical US foreign policies of the Obama administration, but the outright racism and religious persecution of the Jewish people and the Islamic Ummah; not just in Israel herself, but across the whole spectrum.

As to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have delivered his foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University on the same day in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv; had nothing to do with the protests nor the posters, it was strictly coincidental and nothing more.

As Muslims and Jews are apart of the fabric of the world, we have the same human right’s as everyone else; to live in peace, without threat’s, lies or bloodshed by the US and there conspirator’s.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

100 Days a Grim Reminder

Obama's 100 days of legacy a grim reminder of the past.
US's Various Shades of the Great Depression Poverty

US President Barack Obama is being compared to former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was a known Nazi financier who not only bankrupted the US in his day to do so; but was a perpetrator with Adolf Hitler that created the Holocaust in Europe with one of the most notorious, barbaric horrendous cases of genocide to ever have occurred in history.

While Americans suffered the most severe poverty, during what was known as the Great Depression; where Roosevelt may have been a great orator towards a New Deal, in reality he cared less for the American welfare. But Nevertheless, Roosevelt bathed in what he considered the luxury persona of the White House; not unlike what the Nazi regime did when they confiscated the finest homes in Europe.

US President Obama looks at a portrait of former assassinated US President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 p.m.(CST), on 22 November 1963; which has been considered by many Americans, as the greatest US governmental (internal) conspiracy in American history.

In 1991, director and producer Oliver Stone made a movie called, "JFK;"apparently with this conspiracy premise, in mind.

Around 600 troops attended the US President's address in Baghdad, Iraq; as the Iraqi genocide within the country continues.
US President Obama greets California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (who's family where Austrian Nazi's during WW2) and his wife Maria Shriver before the Governor's Dinner.

Obama Toots His Own Horn

Let’s not forget so soon, of Obama’s over zealousness towards tooting his own horn as far as every facet of the media goes and his public persona; his brashness is most unbecoming.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Japan’s Sanctions and US War of Occupation

For the Honorable People of Nippon

Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989)

In Japanese mythology, the origins of the imperial family are believed to be a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasau.

In 1946, as a term for peace with the US, Emperor Hirohito had to declare that he was not a god or relinquish according to Shinto teachings of being a living spirit (Kami).

According to Shinto belief’s, the emperor is considered a living god, was seen as the symbolic and literal father of the family of the Japanese people.

US Occupation in Government

From 1945 until 1952 under US President Harry S. Truman, Japan was occupied by the US formally; which they where further forced to change the Japanese government system, with a democratic constitution to gain some resemblance of Independence; also creating limited power to any emperor.

6 August 1945, Hiroshima

Hiroshima was hit by the US with the dropping of an atomic bomb where most of the city was destroyed and while the estimated death toll varies it is estimated at 140,000 civilian deaths.

Then on 9 August, a second US atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which with this bombing the death toll was estimated at 80,000 civilian deaths.

The health effects of these two atomic blast’s are still causing numerous health conditions within the generations and with these two atomic blast’s where the first recorded use of any type atomic bomb.

War and US Sanctions

What brought Japan into war to begin with was a severity of sanctions imposed on them by the US government under then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Which in 1940, US banned the sale of fuel (oil), iron and steel from entering Japan; extending to a total ban by 1941.

These imposed sanctions on Japan especially towards oil supply caused Japan an overwhelming concern over the very survival of their country. Within this sever situation, General Tojo Hideki made a decision to go to war; on 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, sinking the American fleet there.

From here Japan spread out to what became known as the entering of World War 2.

US Continued Imposed Occupation and Cultural Changes

As to the first US or Western changes to the Japanese culture occurred during the formal occupation between 1945 until 1952, with the influx of overbearing, morally uncouth US GI’s and this occupation system is still informally occurring even today; with continued oppressive injection by the US government.

It should be further expressed, while the English word of occupation for this country is Japan; the actual name of this country is called, Nippon in the language of the country.

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The Atomic Bomb Factor


The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 rose some 18 kilometers (11 miles) above the bomb's hypocenter.

When the US was in collaboration and financing Nazi German, they also where receiving certain technology; especially by scientist’s in creation of Atomic factors. With one Nazi German scientist in particular, who was borrowed from Germany into the US, the creation of the atomic bomb came about.

The first test explosion and just prior to the attack on Japan occurred at a location 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is now White Sands Missile Range, headquartered near Alamogordo; on 16 July 1945 and the test was named "Trinity."

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Off the Record: The California Dream

Come to California
There are jobs of plenty
And land is cheap.
Every working man can have his own house and inside every house a happy all-American family.
You can have all this and who knows…you may even be discovered…become a movie star or at least see one.
Life is good in California...It is paradise on earth…that is what they tell you, anyway. Because they are selling and image…they’re selling it through movies, radio and television.


You think California was the Garden of Eden, but the underbelly always has had its serpent, with felony crime, corruption, prostitution and drugs.

Just as the clean fresh face Mid-Western girl’s who got of the bus in plenty, with star’s glittering in their eye’s with the hope of becoming that next big movie star and as far as she ever got on a Hollywood lot of fame and fortune; is some director’s office sofa or ending up along prostitution row, only to die from a drug over-dose, other unmentionables; to ending up on some vacant lot dead, all cut up like Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) and this was her only walk to fame’s headlines of the butchering, with no solid lead of the killer.

A mug shot of Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) by Santa Barbara police, after her arrest for underage drinking, on 23 September 1943; prior to her murder.

Or those fresh faced young men stepping of the bus from who knows where, with the same star twinkles in their eyes and end up a slap boy for some up and coming politician or lawyer; slapped and tickled homosexual play toy. To later, be tossed away on some trumped-up charge like a ‘kiddy rapper beef;’ heading for (San) Quentin or the “Q;” with yet, just the possibility of just getting their throat sliced from ear to ear.

But less we forget, it was all done with champagne luxury style…which in reality until the economic bust, California became one of the most expensive states to live in; other then New York City….so let’s keep this on the GT and very Hush-Hush with the same old tabloid rag.

Places called “Hoovervilles,” named after former US President Herbert Hoover sprang up during the Great Depression as people lost their jobs and homes; besides the shanty towns, there where an overwhelming amount of what was called “transit camp’s,” which many consisted of nothing more then tent cities. In 2009, American’s are living in what is now being termed as “Obamavilles;” after current US President Barack Obama.

Obamaville: The tents and other makeshift homes have sprung up in the shadow of Sacramento's skyscrapers

Today, tents are once again springing up in the city of Sacramento. But this time it is for people with no hope and no prospects.


Obamaville: The tent city is already home to dozens of people, many left without jobs because of the credit crunch

Those who have lost their jobs and homes and have nowhere else to go are constructing makeshift shelters on the site, which covers several acres.

As many as 50 people a week are turning up and the authorities estimate that the tent city is now home to more than 1,200 people.

In a state more known for its fantastic wealth and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, the images have shocked many Americans.

Conditions are primitive, with no water supply or proper sanitation.

Many residents have to walk up to three miles to buy bottled water from petrol stations or convenience stores.

Obamaville: Ben Cardwell, carries supplies to his tent at a homeless settlement

Obamaville: Tammy Day, a homeless woman, cooks potatoes on a campfire at the site

At other times, charity workers arrive to hand out free food and other supplies.

Joan Burke, who campaigns on behalf of the homeless, said the images of Americans living in tents would shock many.

'It should be an eye- opener for everybody,' she said. 'But we shouldn't just be shocked, we should take action to change things, because it's unacceptable.

'It is unacceptable that in this day and age we have gone back to a situation like we had during the Great Depression.'
Obamaville: Keith and Tammy Day cook dinner

Authorities in Sacramento, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's family in Austria where of the Nazi Party at Adolph Hitler’s height of in fame; at his office, admit the sight of families living in such poverty is not pretty.

The city's mayor Kevin Johnson said: 'I can't say tent cities are the answer to the homeless population in Sacramento, but I think it's one of the many things that should be considered and looked at.'

Foreclosure rates last year rocketed by 327 per cent, with up to 500 people a day losing their home.

Coupled with massive job cuts that have seen one in ten workers laid off, many people who once enjoyed a middle class existence are now forced into third world conditions.

Former car salesman Corvin and his wife Tena are among the newest residents of the tent city.
Obamaville: Tent city residents queue up to receive supplies handed out by a local charity
The couple, who are in their fifties, lost their home and jobs around the same time.

With homeless shelters full in Sacramento, they had little choice but to use what savings they had left to buy a tent.

The couple admit they have yet to tell their grown-up children about their hand-to-mouth existence.

Tena said: 'I have a 35-year-old son, and he doesn't know. I call him, about once a month and on holidays, to let him know that I'm well and healthy.
Many of those who have found themselves homeless worked in the building trade.

But with no new home builds and as many as 80,000 people losing their job every month, there is little chance of employment.

'He would love me anyway, but I don't want to worry him.'

US President Barack Obama jaunts jubilantly on stage as he arrives to speak about education at the 19th Annual Legislative Conference of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington, 10 March 2009. The song under the photograph above was called. “Where in the Money,” which came out in 1933 as a propaganda tune in retrospect as a mockery of how dire the condition’s actually where during the Great Depression. The song was first featured in the film called; “The Gold Digger’s of 1933” and was presented by a chorus line of scanty dressed women.

As these tent cities will continue to grow in the weeks, months and years ahead with no prosperity in sight. US President Barack Obama’s previous stimulus package fund’s finding its way out of the country for such thing’s as there terrorism genocide increase and troop build-up in Afghanistan or to fund various military contracts for their global initiatives on they’re domination projects for example or for such pet projects as $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Iowa, $2 million to promote astronomy in Hawaii and $381,000 for music programs at New York City’s Lincoln Center.

But yet, the American people have to stand and wait and wonder what sorrows will still becoming there way, as the poverty problem continues to balloon somewhere out past the stratosphere.

Update:

13 March 2009

As to the Obamaville’s in Sacramento which are seen in the above photograph's, it has been reported while these camps are acquiring 50 to 100 people a day with no other place to live or no other foreseeable place to go; that US President Barack Obama’s solution for these particular camps was to order the city of Sacramento to evict all these tent resident’s from their present location.

As to the present living conditions which are deployable and unsafe health hazard with no sanitation or water for instance and having to in most instances to cook over dug holes made into a type of grill to cook what ever a person can"hope to find," instead of Obama helping these American’s; he has found a way to increase their misery.

These camps are also being considered worse, than any fourth world country.

Nevertheless, as to the US commenting of being a safe investment in the world, is nothing but arrogance; as the country plummet’s further into despair.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

“The Bank Owns It”

In this 23 February 2009 file photo, a bank owned sign blows in the wind in front of a home; in Antioch, California.

During the 1930’s Great Depression with the overwhelming amount of foreclosures of not just homes, but farms; it became as a deluge of hardship for the banking system along with financial runs by customer’s to the point; that it was common to see a closed sign on a bank that had failed.

The phrase, “The Bank Owns It;” was a common thing said during the 1930’s Depression as a former owner stood outside there yard because it became illegal to enter his former property, in part because of the sorrow of the former homeowner or a passerby damaging the property as it lay silent for no one could afford to claim or buy the property with the overwhelming amount of unemployment and no one had a dime.

This was also during the time that the American Nazi Parties where on the Adolph Hitler “goose-step” march, as such people as former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not just financing the “Final Solution;” along with Prescott Bush (grandfather to former US President George W. Bush), with many others giving the Nazi global domination handshake and waving the 'iron' flag at rallies.

Jewish Holocaust, also known as “Final Solution”

Then as the US government plummeted deeper into the financial and political global domination devastating destruction Jewish Holocaust abyss; we got the propaganda version about face; of World War two.

As the United States in 2009, stands at the threshold of this stand still of that time of ‘dust bowl tears;’ as a forgotten home owner see’s his lost home being racked with the weather and to say, “The bank owns it!”

As always, the US is on the march bankrupting their own country and the world, as the death toll globally continues to climb into triple digit record numbers; as the Jewish and Islamic people watch the death viewed around them from the US strangling grip and the global community watches the bread being grabbed from there very mouth‘s, by US Uncle Sam's hands.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

New Memorial Remembers the Roma

Jewish artist Dani Karavan (L) and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit attend the symbolic opening of construction of the new memorial to the Roma, also known as Gypsies; who horribly perished at the hands of the Nazis during World War II, on 19 December 2008 in Berlin, Germany. The memorial, designed by Karavan, will stand near the Reichstag.

At least 500,000 Romanies were murdered by the Nazis, as part of what became known as the " Final Solution" or what further became known as the Jewish Holocaust; where untold numbers of various nationalities died during this black mark upon humanity.

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

US President Bush Attends Saban Forum 2008


For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 5, 2008

Audio
THE PRESIDENT: John, thank you very much. I thought for a minute you were going to say I was your favorite rabbi, but -- (laughter.)

I appreciate you giving me a chance to come. I, too, want to thank Mr. Saban for his vision and for sponsoring this forum. I am honored to be with you. Madam Secretary, thank you for joining us. Justice Breyer, I am pleased to see you yet again. I thank Ambassador Indyk. Minister Mofaz, it's good to see you, sir, and I appreciate you being here for this Forum

I want to thank the members of Congress who have joined us, members of the diplomatic corps, and of course, the distinguished guests.

The Saban Forum is one of the world's premier venues for discussion on the Middle East. I thank you for the debate you provoke, and the differences you have made. And I'm honored to be with you.

Over the past eight years, I have had the privilege to see the Middle East up close. I have stood on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and I've hiked the cliffs of Masada. I've enjoyed dinner in the desert of Abu Dhabi, and prayed at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I have looked into the eyes of courageous elected leaders from Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories. I have been convinced that no region is more fundamental to the security of America or the peace in the world than the Middle East.

This evening, I'll share some thoughts on our policies in the region these past eight years, and our vision for the future -- a Middle East where our friends are strengthened and the extremists are discredited, where economies are open and prosperity is widespread, and where all people enjoy the life of liberty that is the universal gift of an Almighty God.

From our earliest days as a nation, the Middle East has played a central role in American foreign policy. One of America's first military engagements as an independent nation was with the Barbary pirates. One of our first consulates was in Tangiers. Some of the most fateful choices made by American Presidents have involved the Middle East -- including President Truman's decision to recognize Israel 60 years ago this past May.

In the decades that followed that brave choice, American policy in the Middle East was shaped by the realities of the Cold War. Together with strong allies in the Middle East, we faced down and defeated the threat of communism to the region. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the primary threat to America and the region became violent religious extremism. Through painful experience, it became clear that the old approach of promoting stability is unsuited to this new danger -- and that the pursuit of security at the expense of liberty would leave us with neither one. Across the Middle East, many who sought a voice in the future of their countries found the only places open to dissent were radical mosques. Many turned to terror as a source of empowerment. And as a new century dawned, the violent currents swirling beneath the Middle East began to surface.

In the Holy Land, the dashed expectations resulting from the collapse of the Camp David peace talks had given way to the second intifada. Palestinian suicide bombers struck with horrific frequency and lethality. They murdered innocent Israelis at a pizza parlor, or aboard buses, or in the middle of a Passover Seder. Israeli Defense Forces responded with large-scale operations. And in 2001, more than 500 Israelis and Palestinians were killed.

Politically, the Palestinian Authority was led by a terrorist who stole from his people and walked away from peace. In Israel, Ariel Sharon was elected to fight terror and pursue a "Greater Israel" policy that allowed for no territorial concessions. Neither side could envision a return to negotiations or the realistic possibility of a two-state solution.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Saddam Hussein had begun his third decade as the dictator of Iraq -- a reign that included invading two neighbors, developing and using weapons of mass destruction, attempting to exterminate Marsh Arabs and many Kurds, paying the families of suicide bombers, systematically violating U.N. resolutions, and firing routinely at British and U.S. aircraft patrolling a no-fly zone.

Syria continued its occupation of Lebanon, with some 30,000 troops on Lebanese soil. Libya sponsored terror and pursued weapons of mass destruction. And in Iran, the prospect of reform was fading, the regime's sponsorship of terror continued, and its pursuit of nuclear weapons was largely unchecked.

Throughout the region, suffering and stagnation were rampant. The Arab Human Development Report revealed a bleak picture of high unemployment, poor education, high mortality rates for mothers, and almost no investment in technology. Above all, the Middle East suffered a deep deficit in freedom. Most people had no choice and no voice in choosing their leaders. Women enjoyed few rights. And there was little conversation about democratic change.

Against this backdrop, the terrorist movement was growing in strength and in ambition. Three decades, violent radicals had landed painful blows against America -- the Iranian hostage crisis, the attacks on our embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103, the truck bombing of the World Trade Center, the attack on Khobar Towers, the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the strike on the USS Cole.

And then came September the 11th, 2001, when 19 men from the Middle East carried out the worst attack on the United States since the strike on Pearl Harbor 67 years ago this weekend. In the space of a single morning, 9/11 etched a sharp dividing line in our history. We realized that we're in a struggle with fanatics pledged to our destruction. We saw that conditions of repression and despair on the other side of the world could bring suffering and death to our own streets.

With these new realities in mind, America reshaped our approach to the Middle East. We made clear that we will defend our friends, our interests, and our people against any hostile attempt to dominate the Middle East -- whether by terror, blackmail, or the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. We have carried out this new strategy by following three overriding principles.

First, we took the offense against the terrorists overseas. We are waging a relentless campaign to break up extremist networks and deny them safe havens. As part of that offensive, we pledged to strengthen our partnership with every nation that joins in the fight against terror. We deepened our security cooperation with allies like Jordan and Egypt, and with our friends in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia, long a breeding ground for radicalism, has become a determined partner in the fight against terror -- killing or capturing hundreds of al Qaeda operatives in the Kingdom. We dramatically expanded counterterrorism ties with partners in North Africa. And we left no doubt that America would stand by our closest ally in the Middle East -- the state of Israel. (Applause.)

Second, we made clear that hostile regimes must end their support for terror and their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, or face the concerted opposition of the world.

This was the approach we took in Iraq. It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11. In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 of our people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction.

It was clear to me, it was clear to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, that was a risk we could not afford to take. So we went back to the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously passed Resolution 1441 calling on Saddam Hussein to disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences. With this resolution, we offered Saddam Hussein a final chance to comply with the demands of the world. And when he refused to resolve the issue peacefully, we acted with a coalition of nations to protect our people and liberated 25 million Iraqis.

When Saddam regimes -- regimes fell -- when Saddam's regime fell, we refused to take the easy option and install a friendly strongman in his place. Even though it required enormous sacrifice, we stood by the Iraqi people as they elected their own leaders and built a young democracy. When the violence reached its most dire point, pressure to withdraw reached its height. Yet failure in Iraq would have unleashed chaos, widened the violence, and allowed the terrorists to gain a new safe haven -- a fundamental contradiction to our vision for the Middle East.

So we adopted a new strategy, and deployed more troops to secure the Iraqi people. When the surge met its objective, we began to bring our troops home under the policy of return on success. Yesterday, building on the gains made by the surge, the democratic government of Iraq approved two agreements with the United States that formalize our diplomatic, economic, and security ties and set a framework for the drawdown of American forces as the fight in Iraq nears its successful end.

After 9/11, we also confronted Libya over its weapons of mass destruction. The leader of Libya made a wise choice. In 2003, Colonel Ghadafi announced that he would abandon his weapons of mass destruction program. He concluded that the interests of his people would be best served by improving relations with America, and Libya turned over its nuclear centrifuges and other deadly equipment to the United States.

The defeat of Saddam also appears to have changed the calculation of Iran. According to our intelligence community, the regime in Tehran had started a nuclear weapons program in the late-1980s, and they halted a key part of that program in 2003. America recognized that the most effective way to pursue -- persuade Iran to remove its nuclear weapons -- renounce its nuclear weapons ambitions was to have partners at our side, so we supported an international effort led by our allies in Europe. This diplomacy yielded an encouraging result, when Iran agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment.

Sadly, after the election of President Ahmadinejad, Iran reversed course and announced it would begin enriching again. Since then, we've imposed tough sanctions through United Nations resolutions. We and our partners have offered Iran diplomatic and economic incentives to suspend enrichment. We have promised to support a peaceful civilian nuclear program. While Iran has not accepted these offers, we have made our bottom line clear: For the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Third, America identified the lack of freedom in the Middle East as a principal cause of the threats coming from the region. We concluded that if the region continued on the path it was headed -- if another generation grew up with no hope for the future, and no outlet to express its views -- the Middle East would continue to simmer in resentment and export violence.

To stop this from happening, we resolved to help the region steer itself toward a better course of freedom and dignity and hope. We're engaged in a battle with the extremists that is broader than a military conflict, and broader than a law enforcement operation. We are engaged in an ideological struggle. And to advance our security interests and moral interests, America is working to advance freedom and democracy as the great alternatives to repression and terror.

As part of this effort, we're pressing nations across the region -- including our friends -- to trust their people with greater freedom of speech, and worship, and assembly. We're giving strong support to young democracies. We're standing with reformers, and dissidents, and human rights activists across the region. Through new efforts like the Middle East Peace Partnership Initiative and the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative, we're supporting the rise of vibrant civil societies.

We're also advancing a broader vision that includes economic prosperity, quality health care and education, and women's rights. We've negotiated new free trade agreements in the region, supported Saudi Arabia's accession to the World Trade Organization, and proposed a new Middle East Free Trade Area. We have signed Millennium Challenge agreements with Jordan and Morocco to grant American assistance in return for anti-corruption measures, free market policies, and investments in health and education. We're training Middle Eastern schoolteachers, translating children school books into Arabic, and helping young people get visas to study here in the United States.

We're encouraging Middle Eastern women to get involved in politics, and to start their own businesses, and take charge of their health through wise practices like breast cancer screening. Efforts like these extend hope to the corners of despair, and in this work we have had a lot of help, but no finer ambassador of goodwill than my wife, Laura Bush. (Applause.)

Finally, to advance all the principles that I've outlined -- supporting our friends, and pressuring our adversaries, and extending freedom -- America has launched a sustained initiative to help bring peace to the Holy Land. At the heart of this effort is the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. I was the first American President to call for a Palestinian state, and support -- and build support for the two-state solution has been a top priority of my administration.

To earn the trust of Israeli leaders, we made it clear that no Palestinian state would be born of terror, we backed Prime Minister Sharon's courageous withdrawal from Gaza, and we supported his decision to build a security fence, not as a political border but to protect the people from terror.

To help the Palestinian people achieve the state they deserve, we insisted on Palestinian leadership that rejects terror and recognizes Israel's right to exist. Now that this leadership has emerged, we're strongly supporting its efforts to build institutions of a vibrant democratic state.

With good advice from leaders like Former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Generals Jones, Dayton, Fraser, and Selva, the Palestinians are making progress toward capable security forces, a functioning legal system, government ministries that deliver services without corruption, and a market economy. In all our efforts to promote a two-state solution, we have included Arab leaders from across the region, because we fully understand that their support will be essential for the creation of a state and lasting peace.

Last fall at Annapolis, Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab leaders came together at an historic summit. President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert agreed to launch direct negotiations on a peace agreement. Nations around the globe, including many in the Arab world, pledged to support them. The negotiations since Annapolis have been determined and substantial. Secretary Rice has encouraged both sides by hosting a series of trilateral meetings. And while the Israelis and Palestinians have not yet produced an agreement, they have made important progress. As they stated to the Quartet, they have laid a new foundation of trust for the future.

On this issue -- and on our overall approach to the Middle East these past eight years -- America has been ambitious in vision, we have been bold in action, and we have been firm in purpose. Not every decision I've made has been popular, but popularity was never our aim. Our aim was to help a troubled region take the difficult first steps on the long journey to freedom and prosperity and hope. Some have called this idealistic, and no doubt it is. Yet it is the only practical way to help the people of the Middle East realize the dignity and justice they deserve. And it is the only practical way to protect the United States of America in the long term.

As with any large undertaking, these efforts have not always gone according to plan, and in some areas we've fallen short of our hopes. For example, the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected. The reluctance of entrenched regimes to open their political systems has been disappointing. There have been unfortunate setbacks at key points in the peace process -- including the illness suffered by Prime Minister Sharon, the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections, and the terrorist takeover of Gaza.

Despite these frustrations and disappointments, the Middle East in 2008 is a freer, more hopeful, and more promising place than it was in 2001:

For the first time in nearly three decades, the people of Lebanon are free from Syria's military occupation. Libya's nuclear weapons equipment is locked away in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Places like the UAE and Bahrain are emerging as centers of commerce. The region -- the regime in Iran is facing greater pressure from the international community than ever before. Terrorist organizations like al Qaeda have failed decisively in their attempts to take over nations. They're increasingly facing ideological rejection in the Arab world.

Iraq has gone from an enemy of America to a friend of America, from sponsoring terror to fighting terror, and from a brutal dictatorship to a multi-religious, multi-ethnic constitutional democracy. Instead of the Iraq we would see if a Saddam Hussein were in power -- an aggressive regime vastly enriched by oil, defying the United Nations, bullying its Arab neighbors, threatening Israel, and pursuing a nuclear arms race with Iran -- we see an Iraq emerging peacefully with its neighbors, welcoming Arab ambassadors back to Baghdad, and showing the Middle East a powerful example of a moderate, prosperous, free nation.

The most vexing problem in the region -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- there is now greater international consensus that at any point in modern memory. Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs recognize the creation of a peaceful, democratic Palestinian state is in their interests. And through the Annapolis process, they started down a path that will end with two states living side by side in peace.

In fits and starts, political and economic reforms are advancing across the Middle East. Women have run for office in several nations and been named to important government positions in Bahrain and Oman and Qatar, the UAE and Yemen. Trade and foreign investment have expanded. Several nations have opened up private universities, and Internet use has risen sharply. Across the region, conversations about freedom and reform are growing louder. Expectations about government responsiveness are rising. And people are defying the condescending view that the culture of the Middle East is unfit for freedom.

There are still serious challenges facing the Middle East. Iran and Syria continue to sponsor terror. Iran's uranium enrichment remains a major threat to peace. Many in the region still live under oppression. Yet the changes of the past eight years herald the beginning of something historic and new. At long last, the Middle East is closing a chapter of darkness and fear, and opening a new one written in the language of possibility and hope. For the first time in generations, the region represents something more than a set of problems to be solved, or the site of energy resources to be developed. A free and peaceful Middle East will represent a source of promise, and home of opportunity, and a vital contributor to the prosperity of the world.

Those who ask what this future will look like need only look around. We see the new story of the Middle East in Iraqis waving ink-stained fingers, with Lebanese taking to streets in the Cedar Revolution. We see it in women taking their seats in elected parliaments, and bloggers telling the world their dreams. We see it in the skyscrapers rising above Abu Dhabi, and living --thriving Middle Eastern businesses that are now connected to the global economy. We see it in a Saudi king sponsoring an interfaith dialogue, Palestinian reformers fighting corruption and terror, and Israelis who love their ancient land, but want to live in peace.

These are striking images, and they do point the way to a brighter future. I believe the day will come when the map of the Middle East shows a peaceful, secure Israel beside a peaceful and democratic Palestine. I believe the day will come when people from Cairo and Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, to Damascus and Tehran, live in free and independent societies, bound together by the ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade. The day will come when al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas are marginalized and then wither away, as Muslims across the region realize the emptiness of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause.

Earlier this year, I laid out this vision in my address to the Israeli Knesset, and then in my address to the World Economic Forum in Egypt. It was not a Jewish vision, or an Arab vision, or an American vision. It is a universal vision. It unites all who yearn for freedom and peace in the Middle East. And if we lead, and if we persevere, and if we keep faith in our ideals, that vision will become a reality someday.

Thanks for letting me come, and God bless. (Applause.)

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Oppression: Standing Behind the Fence

Guantanamo Bay (Detention) Concentration Camp

by HRM Deborah

As a valuable resource of history shadowed into modern times is the accusations of Nazism being accused by those who are actuality guilty of this act of barbarism towards certain facets of humanity, which did started before the Jewish Holocaust of the 1930’s and 1940’which is still occurring to this very day; the only difference which is not much, is the more wide spread attacks on the Islamic community or as before, anyone who opposing the Nazi ideology.

It is a well known fact the U.S. President George W. Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush, along with certain other financers where the major contributors of funding to Adolph Hitler and with Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ what thought to be throttled as of 1945; one truly need’s to understand this is not the case, but something that is a more sinister continuation within US.

All the US secret camps, the ones that have been built within the US and especially for example the most famous Guantanamo Bay Detention Center; which in all reality has all the earmarks of a Concentration Camp right down to what may never be fully known of as the numbers of dead that are mysteriously buried there.

People speak of AIPAC and people within the US being Pro-Israel which in actuality it is being found to actually be a cover for US Nazism and while one may ask if Nazism occurred after World War 2 the answer is actually, NO. One may find reference to this with the American Nazi Bunds’ which while some will say they where executed for Nazism, this is actually not quite the case.
Pro-Nazi German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden. New York, United States, 20 February 1939. It is estimated that 50,000 American’s attended this rally and not necessarily of German descendent; but to support the Nazi ideology. It is said that one of the attendee’s at this rally was then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt* (FDR [1933 to 1945 ]), which may be a further understanding of why Roosevelt was not so quick to enter into the European war and help the Holocaust detainee’s.

Up until this year, with the ending of the war in Palestine the Jewish people where slaves with the extension of the ‘Final Solution’ by the US’s part during World War 2 and what may not be readily known accept for references I have made previously that the true Palestinians have always been with the Jewish people as apart of this extermination solution.

Who may very well be behind this very old ‘Final Solution’ fence, anyone! But the main target’s have been true Palestinians and the Jewish people along into our more modern times, is anyone that is Muslim; which came with the ideological birth of Islamophobia.

Within Palestine itself the US collaborators towards aiding in this 'Final Solution,’ is global terrorist Interpol fugitive Mahmoud Abbas and his organization; on the outside is the main bulk of the US itself towards the whole of the global community to finalize this goal and to remove anyone as in World War 2 for example that get’s in the way. This is why some dignitaries for example have received death threats or other types of illegal attacks from something that may seem small to court litigation in some cases stemming from the US, with front men such as the case that occurred towards Jewish PM Ehud Olmert and that Olmert was never guilty of the charges posed against him; but it was an attempt to remove him from office because of him helping all those within Palestine and helping to end the war. Which there been references within previous writing of mine, that I too have been maltreated because of trying to do good for everyone, especially within my country; not withstanding of my part in ending the war.

As to in many cases the US Nazi party that works heatedly in the field of media propaganda, to out right pointing fingers at innocent people, the bird will eventually fly over and lay a cake on the US’s clean hair.

But the major problem is after this many years, when will these type of heinous crimes be over and everyone can breath again without standing behind the fence of oppression and death?

Further Reading

Guantanamo Bay (Detention) and Concentration Camp's:

Concentration Camps in America?

The Children in Guantánamo

U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000

Note:

*There where a handful in the US military during this time period that wanted to enter the European war for two years to help the Holocaust detainee’s, but where told to stand down and where refused to go by Roosevelt. This was explained by a first hand account of one of the former US military veterans, many years ago. It is further thought by the one that gave the first hand account, that many people in the concentration/extermination camps could have been saved if they had been allowed to go in; within this two year period.

It should be further understood, that not all American’s at this time knew Nazism was on US soil, but some of these same men later joined this ideology to further initiate the same tactic’s on US and foreign soil that occurred during the 1930’s Holocaust as is seen today. Some of the method’s of torture for example, I understand that has been used on myself and was explained in the above article.

To not further forget the untold extensive numbers of Islamic, Jewish martyrs and Christian (Helpers) that many are also martyrs for trying to save Muslims and Jews, which one was a very pious old Church of Christ minister (when I was four years old, he was murdered for saving the life of my mother and myself); since 1945, that is still occurring to this very day.

For example, the American Commandos not of Indian nationality; who stormed across Mumbai, India murdering Jews in there wake, reported today and apparently including also the murders of 22 foreigners — two of them happened to be Americans (A former Brooklyn Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi and his wife). Which the Jewish people where not allowed to render aid to the victims nor stop the American Commandos from there further killing spree, it was further reported; in this further extent of the Holocaust and not to ever forget these new martyrs along with those who came before.

Nevertheless, what comes to mind and I understand about respecting the laws of other countries, but I contend I do not understand why the Jewish people or any true Palestinian citizen (excluding the criminal illegal Canaanites)could not help those who where being slaughtered in India or to help capture the perpetrators of this heinous crime? Hopefully in the very near future, this type of situation can be rectified; as is allowed of those from other countries when there people are in trouble especially this type and I am very adamant on this and should be set right immediately.

Update:

The estimated count of the victim’s of the Mumbai, India American commando terrorist attack (not people from Pakistan as claimed by the Americans) are those killed at least 195 people, with 610 people rescued from the two hotels and also Nariman House. The main targets of this attack, where people who where of the Jewish religion.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Bush launches last-minute deregulation push

White House moves to relax many rules covering private industry

U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walk's hurriedly from the Oval Office to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on 31 October 2008; in Washington, DC, amidst the huge crowds of angry economic protestors that would apear to wish Bush's head on a guillotine, of what would be shades of the French Revolution (1789–1799) . Bush is traveling to the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland to spend the weekend.

31 October 2008
By
R. Jeffrey Smith

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.

'Last-minute assault'
"They want these rules to continue to have an impact long after they leave office," said Matthew Madia, a regulatory expert at OMB Watch, a nonprofit group critical of what it calls the Bush administration's penchant for deregulating in areas where industry wants more freedom. He called the coming deluge "a last-minute assault on the public . . . happening on multiple fronts."

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: "This administration has taken extraordinary measures to avoid rushing regulations at the end of the term. And yes, we'd prefer our regulations stand for a very long time — they're well reasoned and are being considered with the best interests of the nation in mind."

As many as 90 new regulations are in the works, and at least nine of them are considered "economically significant" because they impose costs or promote societal benefits that exceed $100 million annually. They include new rules governing employees who take family- and medical-related leaves, new standards for preventing or containing oil spills, and a simplified process for settling real estate transactions.

While it remains unclear how much the administration will be able to accomplish in the coming weeks, the last-minute rush appears to involve fewer regulations than Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, approved at the end of his tenure.

Burst of activity
In some cases, Bush's regulations reflect new interpretations of language in federal laws. In other cases, such as several new counterterrorism initiatives, they reflect new executive branch decisions in areas where Congress — now out of session and focused on the elections — left the president considerable discretion.

The burst of activity has made this a busy period for lobbyists who fear that industry views will hold less sway after the elections. The doors at the New Executive Office Building have been whirling with corporate officials and advisers pleading for relief or, in many cases, for hastened decision making.

According to the Office of Management and Budget's regulatory calendar, the commercial scallop-fishing industry came in two weeks ago to urge that proposed catch limits be eased, nearly bumping into National Mining Association officials making the case for easing rules meant to keep coal slurry waste out of Appalachian streams. A few days earlier, lawyers for kidney dialysis and biotechnology companies registered their complaints at the OMB about new Medicare reimbursement rules. Lobbyists for customs brokers complained about proposed counterterrorism rules that require the advance reporting of shipping data.

Bush's aides are acutely aware of the political risks of completing their regulatory work too late. On the afternoon of Bush's inauguration, Jan. 20, 2001, his chief of staff issued a government-wide memo that blocked the completion or implementation of regulations drafted in the waning days of the Clinton administration that had not yet taken legal effect.

"Through the end of the Clinton administration, we were working like crazy to get as many regulations out as possible," said Donald R. Arbuckle, who retired in 2006 after 25 years as an OMB official. "Then on Sunday, the day after the inauguration, OMB Director Mitch Daniels called me in and said, 'Let's pull back as many of these as we can.' "

Clinton's appointees wound up paying a heavy price for procrastination. Bush's team was able to withdraw 254 regulations that covered such matters as drug and airline safety, immigration and indoor air pollutants. After further review, many of the proposals were modified to reflect Republican policy ideals or scrapped altogether.

Seeking to avoid falling victim to such partisan tactics, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten in May imposed a Nov. 1 government-wide deadline to finish major new regulations, "except in extraordinary circumstances."

That gives officials just a few more weeks to meet an effective Nov. 20 deadline for the publication of economically significant rules, which take legal effect only after a 60-day congressional comment period. Less important rules take effect after a 30-day period, creating a second deadline of Dec. 20.

OMB spokeswoman Jane Lee said that Bolten's memo was meant to emphasize the importance of "due diligence" in ensuring that late-term regulations are sound. "We will continue to embrace the thorough and high standards of the regulatory review process," she said.

Environmental regulations
As the deadlines near, the administration has begun to issue regulations of great interest to industry, including, in recent days, a rule that allows natural gas pipelines to operate at higher pressures and new Homeland Security rules that shift passenger security screening responsibilities from airlines to the federal government. The OMB also approved a new limit on airborne emissions of lead this month, acting under a court-imposed deadline.

Many of the rules that could be issued over the next few weeks would ease environmental regulations, according to sources familiar with administration deliberations.

A rule put forward by the National Marine Fisheries Service and now under final review by the OMB would lift a requirement that environmental impact statements be prepared for certain fisheries-management decisions and would give review authority to regional councils dominated by commercial and recreational fishing interests.

An Alaska commercial fishing source, granted anonymity so he could speak candidly about private conversations, said that senior administration officials promised to "get the rule done by the end of this month" and that the outcome would be a big improvement.

'Wildly unpopular'
Lee Crockett of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Environment Group said the administration has received 194,000 public comments on the rule and protests from 80 members of Congress as well as 160 conservation groups. "This thing is fatally flawed" as well as "wildly unpopular," Crockett said.

Two other rules nearing completion would ease limits on pollution from power plants, a major energy industry goal for the past eight years that is strenuously opposed by Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups.

One rule, being pursued over some opposition within the Environmental Protection Agency, would allow current emissions at a power plant to match the highest levels produced by that plant, overturning a rule that more strictly limits such emission increases. According to the EPA's estimate, it would allow millions of tons of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, worsening global warming.

A related regulation would ease limits on emissions from coal-fired power plants near national parks.

A third rule would allow increased emissions from oil refineries, chemical factories and other industrial plants with complex manufacturing operations.

These rules "will force Americans to choke on dirtier air for years to come, unless Congress or the new administration reverses these eleventh-hour abuses," said lawyer John Walke of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

But Scott H. Segal, a Washington lawyer and chief spokesman for the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, said that "bringing common sense to the Clean Air Act is the best way to enhance energy efficiency and pollution control." He said he is optimistic that the new rule will help keep citizens' lawsuits from obstructing new technologies.

Jonathan Shradar, an EPA spokesman, said that he could not discuss specifics but added that "we strive to protect human health and the environment." Any rule the agency completes, he said, "is more stringent than the previous one."


Commentary:
Readers Digest version of what Bush is doing, which is creating numerous federal deregulations to destroy the Unites States in every facet he can think of; internally.


To further explain, it would be as if the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion of 1986 occurred in the US, both in cost to human lives and the environment. Which this type of scenario would also very possibly affect or include environmentally, Canada and Mexico; at least with the devastating hazardous pollution standards that this type of situation would create. To even possibility not just considering global warming, but atmospheric affects globally.

On other issue’s it appears Bush would be destabilizing the whole of the US and creating further upgrades towards totalitarian rule or a akin neighbor of Nazism; which Bush had been doing with creating his legendary anti-terrorism laws and certain others during the majority of his presidency. Indeed big brother would be watching, even if an American took a sneeze.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's Tour Slovakia

British Queen Elizabeth II shakes hand with Sir Nicolas Winton, who saved more than 600 Czech and Slovak Jewish children from the Nazis during the WW II, before an official state dinner organised by Slovak President and First Lady, on 23 October 2008;in Bratislava, Slovakia. The Queen and the Duke are on a two day tour of Slovakia at the invitation of President Ivan Gasparovic.

It is so wonderful to see such warmth and happiness in my cousin these days, it also makes me so very happy too; for as the saying goes, ‘when one smiles, the whole world smiles.’

Nevertheless, I hope her and her husband are having a very pleasant state visit.

As to Sir Nicolas Winton presence, this is the first time I knew of your name and I do apologize, because a man that save 600 people from such a horrible situation should be commended and never forgotten.

As to President Slovak Ivan Gašparovič and his lovely wife Silvia inviting everyone, I wish to send warm greetings and much kindness for there thoughtfulness of organizing such and wonderful event.

Nevertheless, it should be said, that I have noticed lately such exceptional people doing such remarkable heart warming things that seem to make the world alot happier and much brighter; by each and ever turn of there kindness.

Of all the amazing things I notice these days, one thing that keeps coming to mind; from little seed’s planted here and there, great and beautiful fruit tree’s grow.

I wish everyone much happiness, always. - HRM Deborah

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Jewish artifacts looted on Kristallnacht unearthed near Berlin

Hermann Goering


A Jewish investigative journalist and his crew discover mezuzahs, chiseled windowsills and armrests from destroyed synagogues at Brandenburg waste site; archeological dig required to recover all artifacts, reporter says

22 October 2008
by
Roi Mandel

A Jewish investigative reporter has discovered a large amount of personal and ceremonial artifacts which were looted from Jews during Kristallnacht in 1938.

The items have recently been unearthed by Yaron Svoray at a waste site the size of four soccer fields in Brandenburg, located north of Berlin.

Kristallnacht, also known as the "Night of Broken Glass" or the "Crystal Night pogroms," saw the destruction of more than 200 synagogues and the ransacking of tens of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes. During the Nazi pogrom 92 Jews were murdered and 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps.

The waste site is located in close proximity to the former home of Hermann Goering, who commanded the German air force (Luftwaffe) during World War II.
Jewish shops vandalized during Kristallnacht.

According to Svoray, the son of the waste site's watchman had told him that remnants from Kristallnacht were dumped there, and after learning of the possible importance of the artifacts from the director of the Kibbutz Lochmei Ha’ Getaot Museum, Simcha Stein, he returned to Germany with a group of volunteers.

"Within an hour of digging with our bare hands we found a bottle embossed with a Star of David," Svoray told Ynet. "We were very excited, because the chances of a bottle surviving a war are so slim.

"Forty meters (approx. 130 feet) from where we unearthed the bottle I discovered a huge metallic swastika. That's when I knew we had a major story on our hands," the journalist said.

Additional artifacts found by Svoray's crew included mezuzahs and chiseled windowsills and armrests from destroyed synagogues. A swastika-shaped ornament was also discovered.

The search for additional artifacts at the site is ongoing under the constant watch of bodyguards, this after Svoray complained of threats made on his life.

Svoray refrained from making his findings public for fear that the site would attract people looking to get their hands on Nazi treasures.

"There are no real treasures here, but there is still a danger that the site will turn into a circus of auctions organized by skinheads," he said, "the site is drawing more and more interest; people are starting to dig."

Svoray stressed that an organized archeological dig will be required in order to unearth all of the Jewish artifacts at the site.

The journalist also reported of a plan to erect a hunting museum in Goering's honor at the site. He said that so far his repeated efforts to scuttle the plan have failed.

Commentary:
For those archeologist’s on the site, is it possible to make it a closed site so others can not destroy the dig?

Furthermore, it is a hope that these archeologist’s find, all they where hoping for.

While I may not know everything from my studies, but it is thought anyone who has learned anything on the Jewish Holocaust; knows about, Kristallnacht.

In my opinion, this particular event of Anti-Semitism was like people went into some type of angry frenzy, due to the Nazi propaganda towards something that was not true.

This is why the use of the media to harm another, not only does mental damage, but does created things such as this, wars and some of the most horrible atrocities known to man; all in the name of a lie.

Furthermore, one can not help to think of the tens of thousands of lives that are lost though this very type of situation, not to mention like what the archeologist are doing; is very possibly finding the truth that may yet be told.

On a more personal note, while numerous events during the holocaust has greatly saddened me, Kristallnacht, has always been one of those extremely sad event’s that I will never forget.

Thinking of a time from my childhood when I first saw the Nazi identification mark on a woman’s holocaust survivor’s arm, for her arm extended a little from her sleeve and while it was obvious not to be something normal; a little time later, I asked my mother if she knew what happened to the woman’s arm.

She did explain to me, several thing’s about the Jewish holocaust and for a little time later in one neighborhood we where living for a time, I saw several people in various places with the same markings and for a young child; this is another event that never leaves one’s thoughts with the compassion I always felt, when I saw those identification markings.

What is even more interesting, is while I was learning the previous events, the Jewish and Arab Palestinians where still thrust in that unwanted, what became the 108 year war. I never had ill feelings towards anyone, just for a time as I have said before, the 'why' there was a war when it made no sense and as it has came to be known; I for one always wished for it to stop and it did.

As I do not know all the feelings of other people about the war ending this year, I do know, I am most grateful.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Probe: Jewish graves under Vilnius building?

The Great Synagogue Yard, Vilnius, 1920-1930

28 June 2008

By
DPA

VILNIUS - Israeli experts launched a 10-day research project yesterday to determine if newly constructed offices and apartments sit on an old Jewish cemetery in Lithuania's capital.

Questions about the site's past have caused international controversy. Lithuanian Jews, who opposed the construction work, say the site was a 15th century cemetery. Developers dispute their claim.

Protests from abroad include a letter from then-U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution condemning the construction on the possible cemetery site.

Last year, Jews from across Europe rallied in protest outside the headquarters of European Union institutions in Brussels.

Ponary near Wilno (Vilna)/Vilnius, Lithuania, Jewish victims of execution before the mass burial.

The Jewish community in Vilnius - called the Jerusalem of Europe - was almost wiped in the Holocaust during the World War II.

Czarist Russian authorities shut down the cemetery in 1831 and partly built over it. In the 1950s, the Soviets built a stadium and concert hall on part of the site, allowing the remains of the Vilna Gaon to be removed.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Will Nazi War Criminal Milivoj Asner Escape Justice?

Efraim Zuroff (C) director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) talks with Raimund Fastenbauer (R) Secretary-General of the Federal Association of the Jewish Religious Communities in Austria and Ariel Musicant (L) the president of the Viennese Jewish community before holding a press conference on 26 June 2008 in Vienna.

Austrian prosecutors are still examining psychiatric reports that say alleged Croatian Nazi war criminal Milivoj Asner is unfit to be questioned.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center and the media have questioned the validity of the findings and accused Austrian authorities of protecting former Nazi war criminals.

Asner is accused of having organized the deportation of Serbs, Jews and gypsies to Nazi concentration camps, where most of them died.


Milivoj Asner is even wanted by Interpol, under the war crimes act.

Under the circumstances, inshaallah he is brought to justice.

One thing I have always believed in is upholding the law, especially in cases of murder.

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