Xymph, you are extremely foolish to take seriously anything Alan Dershowitz says.
It sounds more than half-true, Xymph. How come you didn't include a reference to the c-theory that he was targeted because of an investigation he was/had been involved with regarding Lucky Larry's financial dealings before, during and since 911?
I generally agree with RB's view on Derchowitz, but in this case the only input attributed to him are statements typical of a defense lawyer engaging in routine damage control. Funny thing is it's probably Spitzer who should be wary of him rather than Xymph, given his apparent hierarchy of loyalties.
The reason why Mrs. Spitzer advised her husband to not resign is because, as Governor, he would have fewer opportunities to "run around" on her.
Her advice also signaled that she intends to remain married to her philandering husband.
Mrs. Spitzer is no fool. She knows all about the benefits of the "Hillary Effect". Victimhood has its advantages.
Spitzer could never have become preznit anyway, the caped-crusader-of-Gotham crap is really old now and can no longer get you even near the White House. These are not the days of Theodore Roosevelt or Thomas Dewey. No doubt the banks did get him. So what?
if you're into video verité, raw story have a two minute helecopter video of the crashed crane in new york:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/
moc...a_03152008.html
"Crane collapse devastates Manhattan"
talk about hyperbole...
there was a definite pattern of negligence on that site, several complaints had been made in feb and early mar:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/
moc...e_03152008.html
Neighborhood residents said they had complained to the city several times about the construction at the site, saying crews worked illegal hours and the building was going up too fast. City Building Department records showed that on March 4, a caller told officials that the upper portions of the crane appeared to lack the proper number of safety ties attaching it to the building. A city inspector visited the site and determined on March 6 that no violation was warranted. Another call questioning the crane's safety was dismissed as unwarranted by another inspector in February. (op cit)
That's very good, Xymph.
I haven't followed the story myself, rather hoping that Wall St will disappear from the financial page of the world's history, before they wipe us all off the map.
this is good, though the brussels journal is not my cup of tea usually:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3083
john laughland making fun of sarkoczy or however you spell it.
according to haaretz, the paris book fair has been closed, following a bomb threat, when peres had only just opened it. I can't find any details tho
The book fair was inaugurated Thursday night by Israeli president, Shimon Peres.
Who leaked Spitzer's name may not be as important as the timing: Right after Admiral Fallon's resignation, and just as the Fed bails out the big offenders in the subprime mortgage lenders scandal.
Mostly it has to do with the election; a nice change from foot-tapping Republicans in public toilets.
17:57 Thousands forced to evacuate Paris book fair due to bomb threat (Haaretz)
that went onto the haaretz ticker thirty-six minutes ago, and so far, if you google "paris book fair" you don't get any reports of this.
Angela smears on lipstick:
German leader visits 60 years after birth of Israel
The reciprocal visit will be headlined as follows:
Jewish leader visits 60 years after death of Germany
I have been struggling with my hebrew verbs. can anyone think of any languages in which verbs are not the hardest things?
by the way, on the plus side, the foreign services institute course that I am following does something which no other hebrew course or textbook I know of has done, namely, teach you the basics of the language entirely using phonetic spellings with english characters, so that you learn to SPEAK the language accurately before you start worrying about reading and writing it.
poor nico, he gets so worked up he makes me sound like a boy scout.
We Are Change BLOCKS footage from Haupt getting almost arrested for 3rd time. ask luke, sabrina and co. why they block footage of them, having me arrested again after harrassing me.
some brainwashed alexjonesling fatto ith glasses accused me of being on some payroll and asked me how it does feel to "save my soul". Then i almost assaulted him. They called 9 cops on me and i had to leave again. We Are Change blocks comments at youtube and they support WarCriminal Alex Jones. I was angry that Ryan didnt show up in time with our camera, especially when i freaked out and the cops showed up. I told them these are the 'truthers' who also getting accused of being behind the Times Square Bomb. i plan an own sequel of waterboarding TV now. Violence is different from Transgression Satire. Luke is some dangerous scumbag who belongs in jail. I might skip ground zero for 1 or 2 weeks. even comedy isnt worth for that scum; after we had to leave some new food donation arrived at Warren12 -from Japan!!..
both no-planers and planehuggers should be ashamed of their ongoing co-abuse and political ignorance, also regarding AlexJones. I will testify against Luke, Les, AJones, PJones, DRG and co. in the future, should justice take some place. meanwhile get the footage online, for everyone to decide. we have some angels on our side, but you side with SATANICA. eat my rotten diarrhea and tell fatglassy to stroke himself...
http://www.haloscan.com/comments...466692/?
a=48839
He makes a valid point, actually - WeAreChange is pretty much aligned with Alex Jones & Co.
A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is generated by banks, in some cases, at a $2,500 level. Depends on the bank's internal policy. Big brother, anyone?
aha - but the delay is suspicious:
PARIS (AP) — Paris police say a book fair honoring Israeli writers is being evacuated after a bomb alert.
Police officials said Sunday guests at the Paris Book Fair were asked to leave the premises at around 5 p.m. No other details were immediately known. Israeli writers are the guests of honor at the 28th edition of France's most important annual book show, which runs March 14-19.
The DC Madam says that the communication and financial records of escort services is the new political weapon of choice.
"Don't mess with us, we have your resignation on file".
here is a rather odd article by thierry meissan, the 911-ist who wrote "l'effrayable imposture", which was practically the first '911 book':
http://voltairenet.org/
article15...icle155950.html
like so many conspirologists he brings no evidence for his claim that fallon single-handedly and secretly negotiated with russia and china.
Verbs are the sore point with all semitic languages. That does not apply to most language families. Why not try Chinese if you're getting discouraged?
Best to learn the alphabet thoroughly in the very beginning. It's only a mauvais quart d'heure.
both alphabets, which are somewhat like our capital letters and small letters but not quite, in that you can write entirely in the script form and it looks like pitman's shorthand - but don't worry, spironitza took care of that part, using traditional teaching techniques such as arrogance, dogmatism, etc.
the tricky aspect there is the spelling, which is of course not 'phonetic' at all, but follows complicated rules of its own - and this raises a really interesting question : the way my course works, I learn e.g. to conjugate a verb using the phonetic, english-character spelling in the texbook, and the audio files provided, to learn the pronunciation. At a subsequent point, I have to learn the spelling rules, in the direction of going from the phonetic concept of the word to the written concept, rather than vice versa. Is this better or worse?
let me put it this way : a spelling rule can be articulated in either of two directions ; you can say
"spell the 'ch' sound with a 'x' in this case but with a 'k' in that one"
or you can say
"pronounce the 'x' in this case like a 'ch' but like a 'k' in that one" (just to use random examples).
it seems to me that learning the spoken form of the language should precede learning its spelling, in the real world, where I listen to hebrew radio, hebrew music, etc., but I fully intend to read the hebrew language press as well eventually.
How nice:
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.co...for-
mccain.html
'Sen. John McCain plans at least one campaign event on his week-long congressional trip to Europe and the Middle East: a March 20 fundraiser in London. An invitation sent out by the campaign says the luncheon will be held at Spencer House, St. James's Place, "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon Nathaniel Rothschild." '
I insist that learning the alphabet first will save you ten times the time and trouble later.
but i told you, I learned them. the problem is the spellings of everything.
pumpkinhead, check the comments at the original of that mccain-rothschild story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...7_Comments.html
Those you can pick up as you go - but never use transliterations, they are poison.
I agree, but in this case there is one aspect to transliterations that may be of interest - one way of making some sense of the so-called "book of enoch" produced by dr john dee and edward kelley would be to look at least partly for transliterated hebrew. for instance, since my text uses 'x' for the 'ch' sound, i get words that look splendidly occult - zaxiax, kinda thing
Thousands fled the Paris book Fair in Porte de Versailles on Sunday, after French police were tipped off to a bomb threat on the premises. The venue was reopened shortly after evacuation, as police said the alert was apparently an empty threat. French radio reported that other fairs taking place at the massive Porte de Versailles exhibition complex in southern Paris had also been evacuated. No other details were immediately available.
At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border on Sunday, state-run Pakistan Television said. The strike destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, according to a local tribesman. Seven missiles were fired in the strike in the tribal area of South Waziristan, the television report said. The missiles were fired by an unmanned drone, local tribesman, Rahim Khan, told The Associated Press. At least two hit and destroyed the home of a local militant leader and Taliban sympathizer who goes by the single name Noorullah, Khan said.
And then we wonder why pizza joints frequented by expats are being hit in Pakistan. More to come.
Spitzer was probably too clever for his own good. He should have frequented more down-scale hostesses, those that run your charge card thru a machine that says "Joe's Garage and Auto Repairs". In this age of charge cards, even medium-sized cash transactions arouse suspicion.
To be an Enrolled Agent with the IRS is no big deal. It's akin to becoming a notary.
I think the dee-kelley effect is caused by reading a phonetic transcription as if it were a transliteration, but in that case it means that something akin to time travel must have been in use, since the concept of transliterating hebrew into latin characters using conventions like 'x' for 'ch' is a very very modern concept.
I mean, the science of phonetics was only invented in th eninteenth century, wasn't it? so therefore there cannot have been phonetic transcriptions of hebrew lying around in the seventeenth centruy waiting to be misinterpreted. It must be the other way round : they must be transliterations (using 'x' for 'ch' or vice versa, because transliteration is a purely convention-based exercise) - then the occultists come along and try to read them phonetically, as invocations, at which purpose they work perfectly because they are so suggestive and surrealistic and unlike any real language but sort of super hebraic sounding.
someone has tried to examine some of the liber logaeth enochian here:
http://members.aol.com/AJRoberti...oberti/
loag.htm
this is not the same as the enochian used in the angelic calls, incidentally.
also, there are no word breaks at all in the originals - the person at that link has broken them up into what seem to him like 'words'.
kassandra, I don't think those in power in the west are wondering why pizza joints frequented by expats are being hit in Pakistan - I think that is the desired reaction - the whole nature of this world war of the rich against the poor is that the rich countries goad the inhabitants of the poor countries into violence. In that sense, 'pseudo-gangs' doing false flag ops are hardly needed, as provocateurs can simply supply weapons to all the furious locals they happen to meet and then use the result as proof of 'al qaeda'.
RB, simplest verbs: Italian, French & Esperanto.
Smek could be right about learning spelling first - but I doubt it. Mastery of language has 3 distinct, separate and sequential stages.
1. Learning to speak it guarantees that only basic essential words and grammatical structure are learnt to begin with. This becomes the reliable and expandable database.
(99% of language learning, by everyone, began with rudimentary speech. So it's a method you are already familiar with).
2. Learning to read is made easier if one began with #1 because one then has a point of reference and a place in one's mind to keep new words.
N.B. We DO NOT spell when we read. We recognise every word as a PICTURE or IMAGE. Fast readers recognise phrases.
3. Learning to write requires an established ability in #1 and #2. Spelling is relatively unimportant in the early stages and can always be improved as one progresses. Hopefully, logical spelling rules or patterns will emerge during #2, keeping in mind that English has the most inconsistent spelling of them all.
drones are cheap and pretty low tech, only matter of time before they come home to roost.
no need for 19 arabs the next time.
SAR's trigger is getting ever more itchy, $10000, $2500, ..., $1.
The real purpose of SAR is to sound alarm any time someone has a positive balance, because there can be no slavery without debt, anything else is un-American, Homeland $ecurity must investigate.
lobro, those supersonic cruise missiles are also pretty cheap and fly right by customs at damn near mach 3.
all smekhovo said was learn the alphabet(s) first - not the spellings.
hebrew spellings are not much more self evident than english ones, in my subjective opinion. For instance there are three totally mute consonants, and no amount of gossiping viva voce will tell me where to put them.
2052 years ago today, on the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was assassinated... uri avnery, grousing yesterday about barak
http://
www.informationclearingho...rticle19550.htm
HW - N.B. We DO NOT spell when we read. We recognise every word as a PICTURE or IMAGE. Fast readers recognise phrases.
That's the adult experienced reader's method. The best method of teaching reading to youngsters is phonetic (letters = sounds); the worst method is the 'look-say' where youngsters are taught to recognise the word by its look.
Curiously enough, I hear words by their spelling, i.e. I visualise the spoken word by its letters, in a way. Also, I don't agree that english spelling is god-awful. Most of it is phonetic, with a bunch of exceptions that one learns in primary school. Considering that english grammar is fairly straightforward, a few tricky spellings, which usually have logical connections to origins and linkages, are merely a few mild mental gymnastics.
Anglo-Saxon Anarcho-Traditionalism and the Spontaneous Order of English Spelling
http://lewrockwell.printthis.cli...ml&
partnerID=10
The Shin Bet's Web site now features recruitment blogs by four hi-tech spies. Israel's domestic intelligence agency shed some of its shadowy mystique three years ao when it went on-line at www.shaback.gov.il in a bid to draw new applicants. This week, the Web site got a new page -- www.shin-tech.org.il -- where four Shin Bet computing experts discuss what they like about their jobs. The Hebrew-language texts are sparing on details, with only silhouette portraits of the authors, whose names are withheld. Security sources said the Shin Bet hopes the blogs will help win over recruits from the private hi-tech industry. (JTA)
McCain was joined on his Iraq trip by two close political allies, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The three senators also are visiting Israel, London and Paris.
rowan, if you're into hebrish verbs, you sure know what it means in imperative when you say to somebody that they are 'bnai mavet' (as far as i'm concerned, that's what they all are).
marked for death
I could be wrong there, but I seem to recall it is the phrase the army use to refer to people they have listed for targeted assassination.
Literally it means "sons of death", though, so if one didn't have any other clues one would be tempted to translate it with the attractive, morbid phrase "gallows birds".
or am I completely wrong? is this another "bnai"?
Patrick Grimm sez Spitzer was taken down because he wrote an op-ed denouncing the Bushco obstruction of the 50 states' efforts to halt sub-prime lending.
How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers
(The following oped by Eliot Spitzer was published barely a month prior to the unfolding scandal and his demise as Governor of the State of New York. Does the scandal bear any relationship to Spitzer's intent to reveal the criminal nature of the subprime mortgage scam and the role of the Bush adminstration. Was the scandal intended to silence Eliot Spitzer?)
By New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
The Washington Post
Feb. 14, 2008
Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers' ability to repay, making loans with deceptive "teaser" rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks. These and other practices, we noticed, were having a devastating effect on home buyers. In addition, the widespread nature of these practices, if left unchecked, threatened our financial markets.
Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners. In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers.
More from Rense.com via:
http://www.libertyforum.org/show...sb=5&o=21&
part=
here is the original spitzer article referred to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...8021302783.html
notice the link to the 268 comments to it posted there.
It will be intriguing to see whether Spitzer joins the cabinet of Obama or whoever wins 2008. The NY Lieutenant Governor is a black guy, if that has any bearing on OHB's choices for, say, U.S. Attorney General. Spitzer stepping down from NY Gov means that he is available, and may have regained respectability indeed even sympathy by then.
I read ALL the comments, but only the half-dozen or so you see at the top come this month and reflect the downfall of spitzer.
UN special police units have stormed the main UN court in northern Kosovo, retaking it from Serbs who had forcibly occupied the building three days earlier. Members of Kosovo's UN police force and Nato peacekeepers fired teargas on Monday as they clashed with about 1,000 Serbs who gathered in front of the courthouse after the raid in Mitrovica. At least three UN vehicles were attacked and one set on fire as protesters broke doors and freed around 10 Serbs detained in the court raid, witnesses said. Police said an explosion wounded three officers and two Nato soldiers during the heavy clashes, while others were hurt in the fighting. Witnesses said several demonstrators - lobbing stones and firecrackers at police - were also injured. The Mitrovica hospital director, Milan Ivanovic, said at least 100 people had been treated for the effects of tear gas. More than 500 mainly Ukrainian UN police were involved in the dawn operation, Reuters news agency said.
The Kremlin has been bugged.
Here's the weird shit for this week; the "ducks" (12 million strong) that I mentioned turned out to be more diabolical than previously thought and this is sick shit. By "ducks" I mean the fake populace proletariat people that slowly become the population of a country through mass murder, what have you.
Here was the master plan--oh and it's a sickie.
Through our congresses and state houses across the US things were already being arranged for them--bear with me it takes a little explanation.
What their intent was was to make the urban areas more and more violent through drugs (and this was in the US mind you) make the wilderness areas, rural areas, so rural you couldn't live there through green ecology innitiatives (or banning living there outright through extreme regulations to save the environment, meaning it costs you more to live out there through bureaucracy should you so choose to live "woodsy"). And make the suburaban areas home sweet deathcamp.
Now listen up because this is real stuff. Bush dropped interest rates for them, what this does is puts people in suburban housing even though it jacks up the price of housing and even rent. Now his intent was obviously the "buy and flip" type schematics as that is well in more keeping with the Republican Party platform ideas.
Now before I go on let me get into this fake population and what they are. They do two things reportedly as told to myself, eat cereal and shoot people (blacks for the Vicente Fox regime to come--he's dead now actually, all three of them). This I'm reporting are the American ones and these people are all over the world, Holland, Germany, Canada and so on. These people in America are freckle faced jews, the roughly 8 million, living in the United States and Canada and what they do is clean out urban areas and seemingly quaint suburban areas through murder. They don't just ruin urban areas they actively kill, and this is as reported again and again, for food stamps a good portion of the time. I can't imagine that either but it apparently does have a standing factual basis as that scenario comes up again and again. The kids were mostly all killers. They would go off to "Arkansas" (some camp still yet to be discovered) to get their first kills. The kills they made were all blacks, kids usually if not specifically youngsters entirely. I told you how they got these people before. They drive by (or up),see if these blacks want to go "hang-out" and get them high and it's off they go whereever and they do not come back. They kidnap and murder them for a socialist ideal that was explained to me recemntly and this strategem could have well happened here in the US quite easily.
Mak ethe eco-croud sensative to people going out to live rurally or woodsy. Destroy the inner cities with extreme violence through letting people out of prisons and loading up the streets with drugs. And then thirdly lowering interest rates so that
Palast refers to Spitzer's recent bang-on attack connecting Bush Administration regulatory skullduggery directly to the sub-prime crisis, but this was published well after Spitzer was in the sights of law enforcement officials. - Xym.
Palast & Xym. refer to the same WaPo op-ed, but I'm not convinced the point is: this was published well after Spitzer was in the sights of law-enforcement officials.
... in the sense that the spooks & snoops have probably had tabs on the guy for years, so it's the timing of the bust only a month after the op-ed that is so suspicious. In effect Spitzer was saying that Bushco are economic criminals of the highest order, at a time that the crimes are now being revealed.
That would earn a speedy smackdown from the Cheney-Rove office. He was lucky not to have been defenestrated.
Yeah but... now Spitzer can be ruined and depressed and feel so guilty that he jumps off a balcony or walks under a falling crane. (That was all his fault too.. you know? I bet he is feeling horrible about at this very moment)
That would have been more complicated as the successful Governor of NYC.
I'll continue--lowering interest rates so that suburban home buying shot straight through the roof, putting "whites" (goy) right in their killingzone.
The heart of the plan was total annihilation, 'can't live in the woods' as the government will restrict it and it's too hard. 'Can't live in the cities' it's too violent and through interst rates being low move people all out suburban and then as proposed open up a factory of some sort and HELLO DOVER.
This has happened before here, where are the residents of New York state? There is really no Delaware anymore? This is not unlikely and this was graaaaaandscale--8 million slovenly gun-toting druggie-weird families on the secret march. 2 million hispanic jews, fake Irish (Israelis or Russians or something, who sometimes have freckles), people claiming to be Armenian in Canada that are about as Armenian as I am an elephant. The world over 12 million strong.
You've seen their homes, house in shambles, clothes on a clothesline that have been there for a month. newspapers in the sink--shit like that. That is how they are instructed to live. To eat cereal at a dirty kitchen table and go out and shoot people. 40 percent of them are in and out of incarceration and the real truth is no one knows them. It's like a scummie mystery as to who they are but they are everywhere.
Weirder than that the homes houses all have the same smell sort of. Milleau ode de Baby ka ka and rotting food with the window open--know what I mean? It's not filth as we would know it, it's fruitloops and pampers.
the pleasures of Reuters online stack can be sublime, like today:
Item #2 (1 hour, 33 minutes ago):
Dow briefly turns higher on JPMorgan bounce
Item #1 (32 minutes ago):
Bear fire sale sparks financial rout
i have nothing but respect for the sharp and incisive minds of the analysts covering the markets, not even the weatherman can match them.
And thanks for hours of guffaws, guys, you truly earned that 1/2 mil/yr.
i suspect the int'l jew finds it even funnier, laughing all the way from the bank.
by all accounts, the Project for New American Century may undergoing a revision ...
b.o., mildew ... fruitloops and pampers.
lmao. I managed some low rent apartments for a while and that is just tooo damn graphic.
Bear fire sale has to be part of the grand scheme. Stock drops from 160 to 2 dollars and then J P Morgan picks it up from there, FED bailout money. They make an insider killing and a bunch of investers get hosed... again.
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- UN police withdrew from the northern half of the Kosovar town of Mitrovica and UN civilian workers were evacuated after peacekeepers ousted Serb protesters from a courthouse, prompting clashes. Security duties have been assumed by NATO troops, Kosovar police spokesman Veton Elshani said in a phone interview from the capital, Pristina. An explosion near the courthouse just before 10 a.m. local time today injured three UN police officers and two NATO soldiers, he said. Small- arms fire was also being directed at the security forces. The violence in the Serb enclave began after UN and NATO forces stormed the courthouse at around 5:30 a.m. The building was taken over Feb. 14 by Serbs protesting Kosovo's declaration of independence from the government in Belgrade. Dozens were arrested in today's raid, the UN said in an e-mailed statement. "United Nations civilian personnel are being removed from northern Mitrovica," UN spokesman Russell Geekie said by phone from Pristina. "They haven't been all evacuated yet."
Afghanistan is still roiling, as is Iraq, but W. is serene. “Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever,” he said, echoing that great American philosopher Dan Quayle, who once told Samoans, “Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/1...ion/
16dowd.html
I wonder if Dalton (and kassie) side with the Ukrainians against the Serbs.
re zionit palast:
Greg Palast, a "Chomsky for Dummies" and "a slim Michael Moore", emerged as an apologist for the Jews and an accuser of greedy WASPs and Arabs.
Greg Palast, the left wing of the Lobby
By Israel Shamir
I always had a problem with Greg Palast. Apparently this critic of Bush and Blair, an opponent of the war in Iraq, who wrote for the Guardian and the Observer is a man on our side, a good left-wing guy. He is apparently against the corporations, against the neoliberal setup; some of his ideas are surely good. He is considered “Chomsky for Dummies” [“more accessible than Chomsky”, his publisher-suggested quote from a newspaper] and he has a good class attitude, for instance: “The world’s three hundred richest people are worth more than the world’s poorest three billion. The market’s up, but who is the market? The Gilded One Percent own 4/5th of the nation’s stocks and bonds.” His philippics against Bush (“an evil sonovabitch”) are as fiery as those of a preacher in a mosque in my neighbourhood, and this is not a fault in my eyes. He is equally outspoken against the war in Iraq. What else could one ask from a guy?
But at the second sight, there were small alarums. He was against Bush and passionately – for Gore and Kerry. As if Gore and Kerry would keep the US troops out of Iraq. As if Gore and Kerry would pass the spoils of three hundred richest men to the poorest three billion. He claimed that Bush administration covered up… “Saudi financing of terror”. This smacked of a familiar claim - that the US made a mistake to attack Iraq - instead of Saudi Arabia, or Iran. He disliked America, his native land, with too strong a passion. “Antisemite is one who dislikes Jews too much”, quipped Yael Lotan, an Israeli writer. The same goes about America: it’s quite all right to dislike the superpower, but do not dislike it too much, it’s bad for your karma.
Palast wrote: “The United States is ugly. [It is] a numbing repetitive vortex of sprawled Pizza Huts, Wal-Marts, Kmarts, the Gap, Jiffy Lubes, Kentucky Fried Chickens, Starbucks and McDonald’s up to and leaning over the Canyon wall.” In my view, this is too much. Even if your mother – and one’s native land should be as important as your mother – is ugly, you do not say it, not even think it.
Palast’s unequivocal support for unlimited immigration was not inspired by his compassion to les miserables of the Third World (also an erroneous position, in my view, but still comprehensible), but by his profound disdain of the ordinary local indigenous native. Characteristically, in his Best Democracy Money Can Buy Palast argues with a London cockney cabby, whether England should accept millions of refugees and asylum seekers. The cabby was horrified by his multiculturalist attitude, by his indifference to local culture and tradition. But Palast pooh-poohed “the cabby’s fear of losing his English identity. Face it, Shakespeare’s dead. England’s cultura
I think israel shamir is a total fraud.
re Shamir
His criticism of Palast is right on immigration but wrong on least-common-denominator American subculture
(McDonald's Wal-Mart etc)
And this is sophistry
This smacked of a familiar claim - that the US made a mistake to attack Iraq - instead of Saudi Arabia, or Iran.
most of essay deleted by haloscan
". He claimed that Bush administration covered up… “Saudi financing of terror”. This smacked of a FAMILIAR claim - that the US made a mistake to attack Iraq - instead of Saudi Arabia, or Iran."
zionits make/have made both claims
I LIKE SHAMIR (BLANKFORT HAS A COMMENT AT END OF ESSAY.
I like blankfort, so I shall go and read whatever he has to say if you provide the link.
give us the URL then.
meanwhile look at the at least four ways this spins the facts:
Stock Markets Stabilize Following Early Tumble - Jittery investors dumped financial shares on news of a government-backed buyout of venerable investment bank Bear Stearns (WaPo)
robert novak is on the spitzer case:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/
No...ehind_0317.html
this is all that novak actually says himself, though:
Predicting Spitzer's departure
Republican political operative Roger Stone, Eliot Spitzer's longtime antagonist, predicted his political demise more than three months in advance. "Eliot Spitzer will not serve out his term as governor of the state of New York," Stone said Dec. 6 on Michael Smerconish's radio talk show. He gave no details. Spitzer's entrapment by federal authorities investigating a prostitution ring raised speculation that Stone, with a 40-year record as a political hit man, somehow was behind it. In truth, Stone had nothing to do with the investigation and said he had not heard about it when he made a prediction based on his general view of Spitzer.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/
nov...novak16.article
i just type in title(or close) and author:
Greg Palast, the left wing of the Lobby
By Israel Shamir
and here is the gossip columnist's account of what this person stone actually said:
GOP schemer predicts more shakeups ahead
Ellis Henican
March 12, 2008
http://www.newsday.com/news/
colu...,5345252.column
"I didn't make him go to a prostitution ring," said the most famous and ruthless Republican dirty trickster who still walks the earth. "He did that all on his own." Stone said that even before I asked if his hand was somehow in Spitzer's latest trouble. I figured, somehow or another, it had to be. "No comment on that," Stone said. "I will say I knew it was coming. That's why I wasn't too upset about the results of the special election," where a Democrat grabbed a supposedly safe Republican State Senate seat, leaving Democrats just one vote shy of control. Conversations with Stone often go like that. Always cocky. A little cryptic. Leaving you wondering about more. With a guerrilla-politics resume that goes all the way back to Richard Nixon, Stone's fingers have been in some of the most dastardly Republican schemes of the past 40 years, up to and including the Florida 2000 presidential recount. He helped rich guy Tom Golisano make high-priced mischief in the previous governor's race. He returned to Albany last year on the dime of Senate boss Joe Bruno. Desperate to keep his tiny Republican majority in the Senate, Bruno figured Stone could help. And he helped, until he had to quit when a voice that sounded awfully like his turned up making threats on the governor's father's voice mail. But Stone never really left. He set up a 527 political-hit committee. He's been shopping anti-Spitzer stories for months. He's been warning darkly about some "really ugly" stuff to come. Even though there's no evidence he sent the governor to a hooker or made the Bush Justice Department follow up on a banking tip, he's been energetically working to undermine the governor. And he may not be done. "Everything's about to change," Stone said. Well, sure. Of course it is. Spitzer, mortally wounded, will almost certainly have to resign. Standing ready to take his place and make double-big history, too, Lt. Gov. David Paterson would be the first black governor of New York - and the first nearly blind one. That wasn't what Stone meant. "My work isn't done there," he said. "Just watch." Is he just playing mind games? Is history about to go haywire again? I'll just say this much, knowing Roger Stone. Watch your back, David Paterson. Watch your back.
from postman patel (to your right):
"New $1 Dollar Bill launched today - Extra security feature - everyone is marked $5 Dollars
You will find you can use it just like the OLD $1 Dollar Bill - buys the same , gas, groceries, ice cream .... Throw your OLD ones away now they are virtually worthless."
sad but true. gift of greed.
probably need to find another job. understand the army is hiring.
I don't know what Palast says on the subject, but Ameerica could have and should have become energy-independent of Saudi twenty years ago, and should long since have cut off alliances with Saudi, Egypt and Israel.
When you combine all that with Palestinians having told me unanimously the Saudis condescend to them in manifestly striking ways
(and despite any opinions I myself might have on the Saudis) I can't
necessarily be bothered by Palast on the subject from what you have offered here.
I think israel shamir is a total fraud.
you may well be right but i am still bouncing off left gatekeepers like a drunk on a slalom course.
give me some red flags, i have no problem identifying many others, such as palast, amy goodman, naomi klein, etc.
basically, the term "big oil" or "establishment" is a dead giveaway for a gatekeeper keeping aipac cozy under his thongs but if shamir is also one, he has migrated to a new level of subtlety.
if he can fool both shlomos and me, he's good.
also, "peace palestine" bullshit makes me retch, it should be "revenge palestine".
See what happens to Americans that are under the watchful eye of the jewish lords. See what you are missing, Iraq. Soon your religeous and political leaders will be caught with their pants down, and it just won't be Iraqis getting jammed in the ass by your friends in America.
New info--Carlyle Group is nothing but a front for a slush fund attained through sale of stock connected to Nasa contracts, it's bull-shitty nothin'. They make meager investments here and there (mostly shut down now) and that's how they hold onto the money aside from switching the monies from bank to bank (Swiss cheese). George Bush Sr had no involvement from what I can tell.
Okay now as far as the spelling testing that is going on, here's the next step after outing them and they are pretty damn docile now--the jews ten months to a year from now need to be able to talk about these groups and what they actually do--it's hardcore. Not for about ten months or so though but the truth can come out eventually. There is no connection to Russia as most intel thinks, the actual connection to Russia was set up by them, let's say "Bill", and he's gone. Those are the inner city smutties or whatever they are and we are making mm-some headway.
They can talk about Gene Simmons, Castillos, arms at whore houses, Phillipines, wars like Bosnia, weapons that don't work, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Soldiers of Fortune, human eating, various fables in circa, the Mier, children in Spam, Castleberry's Chili (human), Stauffer's, "Merry" Kitchen corned beef hash (please don't ask but Ted Nugent owns it sort of--no info on Pemmican beef jerky, assumed to be horse), Kids underneath Laker stadium (all kids know this one and it's true, released and safe now in California), Ballpark Franks and Marge Shott (nightmares), DO NOT EAT RELISH WITH GREEN WATER (never know), Jimmy Dean human sausage, Proscuito (Sicillians know what it is sort of--nevermind, it's not made anymore. They have a saying in mob circles about not wanting to be "Proscuito this week"), Hellman's mayonaise (old women), Brat-wurst (there is, nor ever was there any such sausage as a Bratwurst ever--totally made up--Brat-wurst),Head cheese (actual head meat from warzones), There is no such thing as wheat bread (blood in dough). Wood in bread, Wonder Bread as the only thing they produce that doesn't have anything wrong with it (Wonder why we did that--all jews know that expression), heroin in Celestial Seasonings tea, class of '64 (if you know the story), Julliard (Jew-yard), illterate lawyers, Montessoris and guns, and all that weird stuff but for now stay in hiding and wait a year or so to do it. People won't believe it. People killing their own kids at camps, who owns Nynex, this stuff is so incredulous it will only be banned out of fear.
Now as far as the illiteracy factor, which keeps them from writing, get a ghost writer to do it. This stuff and whatever else you know, can in about ONE YEAR or so can come out.
Get the jews to talk and they will tell you some and let them know that in a years time they can come out semi-public about some of what they know and have experienced. One year though and the field will be almost entirely clear for it.
1 year.
http://minx.cc/?post=257959
is Obama going down on the "Jewish question" via his preacher?
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com...assive-
gas.html
Zionist objects to little Switzerland dealing with big bad iran.
that minx post is simon pure zionism, isn't it?
BTW: You know what else Wright and his church hates, apart from whites, Jews, and America? "Middleclassness."
Hey, keep the whites and America out of that, minx, we ain't your buffer against big black dudes no more.
Stand up and fire your spitballs in plain sight.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...in3946322.shtml
buy it or not, the seminal new bin Laden takes shape?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...in3943728.shtml
Israeli reaction after getting a proper femme wristslapping by Bush and Condi.
Baitullah Mehsud looks strikingly like Jesus Christ, another one whom U.S. intelligence officials [would] call "one of the most dangerous people on the planet.".
Chetroff would undoubtedly agree with that.
Someone from lewrockwell.com didn't really like Spitzer because, back in the day, he did something really awful to one of the girls by taking down Martha Stewart.
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At the end of the day it was a cruel yet wonderful irony that this arrogant, moronic Hahvaaard man had his throne yanked out from under him just as he had ascended on it. He fell flat on his face in front of 300 million Americans because he wasn’t man enough to keep it in his pants and show a little of what we adults call self-control.
Few things are as sweet as revenge publicly inflicted on the deserving. I hope this trough of the Eliot Wave brings a smile to Martha Stewart’s face and a spring to her step. I know it sure did for mine.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/giles...es/
giles23.html
why I think shamir is a fraud? I think his conversion to orthodox christianity has made him into a fraud. before that conversion, some people found him more interesting, not less:
http://www.jewishtribalreview.or...rg/
hussain2.htm
(i checked with her and she confirmed she was talking about him here).
this market crash is really affecting the english broadsheets - I just looked at the web editions of all four of them in quick succession - guardian, independent, times, and telegraph - and all four of them present the clear impression of having been written by idiots, for idiots, and rather carelessly too.
scott ritter admits that he provided a deliberate leak of what turned out to be a false positive finding of VX in iraqi shell fragments, that went immediately to chalabi:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/
i...nner_with_ahmed
POST MORTEM FOR CARLYLE
The politically-connected Carlyle Capital hedge fund was wheeled into ICU on Thursday unable to make a measly $400 million margin call. Carlyle boasted a $21.7 billion portfolio of AAA-rated residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. So where's the money?
The fund had leveraged its $670 million in equity to 32 times its value. Now the stock has lost over 90 per cent of its value and has defaulted on $16.6 billion of its debt. About $5.7 billion of the defaulted debt has been sold, the Carlyle Group said Thursday.
What is interesting here is the fact that “$5.7 billion of the defaulted debt has been sold” but Carlyle still couldn't pay its paltry $400 million margin call? Why?
Is the $5.7 billion the estimated face-value of the Freddie Mac bonds? If that is the case---and I suspect it is---then we have discovered something very important, that even triple A rated mortgage-backed bonds are worthless. That's a very scary prospect for the many banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and retirement funds that are currently holding trillions of dollars of these toxic MBS. They could be worth zero, which means we could see a rash of defaults and bankruptcies unlike anything in history.
According to Reuters: “Carlyle Capital shook financial markets last week after it was unable to offer more collateral to protect its $21.7 billion portfolio of residential-mortgage-backed bonds. The banks that had loaned money demanded more collateral, known as a margin call, to cover the gap between the previous value of the securities and their current, lower level.”
Again, this is a very small margin call for a fund of this size that's loaded with Triple A-rated securities. All we want to know is, what they got paid for their Fannie Mae bonds? How much? But the media is not reporting that critical bit of news.
Reuters offers this one revealing clue in a statement issued by Carlyle:
"Overall, it has become apparent to the company that the basis on which lenders are willing to provide financing against the company's collateral has changed so substantially that a successful refinancing is not possible.”
Ah-ha! “Refinancing is not possible”. Not possible at any price regardless of the quality or the rating. That is exactly what we wanted to hear.
Guess what; the subprime meltdown just got a whole lot bigger. As the massive cycle of deleveraging continues for the over-extended hedge funds; Triple A assets will be sold for merely pennies on the dollar sending the faltering banking system into a last, lethal swan dive. Good riddance.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.co...le-
capital.html
Berkeley's assessment of Shamir might be somewhat vitiated, however, by the probability he cannot name one(Eastern) Orthodox political comentator he finds interesting.
I don't see why.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
robe...ts03182008.html
The Empire is doomed, it might not even be able to do much more serious fighting, as feared in your wonderment as to why Fritz doesn't join it comment.
but, Ken, if the investors (interplanetary ghouls) are migrating to China, Japan, and Saudi, this is because those countries are also prepared to support "anti-communism"
you abjuring your former position that China was impermeable?
if I ever held it, then, I must be, but I don't recall being so sure.
well, check Icke for guidance.
Israel Shamir seems to spend more of his time attacking individuals who he considers to be not sufficiently anti-zio, than he spends attacking the zio kakistocracy itself.
He is the perfect Soviet jew, and his formal conversion to orthodoxy is icing on the cake -- you can take the jew out of Russia but you can't take Russia out of the jew.
yes, it's that russocentrism of his that makes him so oleagenous.
he's trying to for the strogonoff technique - he pours so much cream over you, you don't realise you are being diced into small segments.
then the "perfect Soviet Jew" wasn't such a bad dude. I don't beleive Kaganovich converted to the Church however.
Let's see how that may work ...
The only value I see for the stroganoff tecnique is to incite bloggers into a frenzy of energy sapping rage followed by hypoglycemia, as in "what can one do in face of such implacable evil"?
So, the Stroganoff troll pushes and another, rather more crude, openly ugly one like Abu pulls ...
Do you think that this is the scheme, Rowan?
But their bus is heading over the cliff because people have less and less to lose and the flesh-fly's winter approaches fast.
The sole reason for their survival as an evil entity is that so many butlers are frightened of blackmail, loss of benefits like jobs, bribes, etc.
the propaganda bosses last great try was with 911, to incite a false nationalism along the model of the worldwars, and regard how short it lasted, the real picture is leaking from the disaster area in ME, economies are shaking. It can be, that those who cry for a new war (iran) don't find followers willing to commit final suicide economically and morally; it seems obvious.
I was talking about israel shamir.
"But their bus is heading over the cliff.."
lobro | 03.19.08 - 5:59 pm | #
That reminds me...
A couple of weeks ago I posted something about that unique combination of clay and iron, the microchip.
"Speaking of computers,
None of this CDO shambles could have happened without what the Python
Horseman of the Apocalypse described as, "microchip technology".
(It was in answer to the question, "What's new?")
Grouping and allocating units with transactions along the way on such
a scale has only recently become possible with new database
technology.
You can see that they have been a little careless with their indexes
when they can't work back on the data.
As is the case with defaulting mortgages unable to be tied to holders
of the debt.
This makes legal recourse problematic.
I can imagine the recrimination taking place.
Every new territory has it's carpetbaggers and hired gunslingers etc.
Orderly development takes a back seat to getting rich quick.
http://www.haloscan.com/comments...918505/?
a=31704
Well I made a mistake, it was on "The Young Ones", not Python.
Berkeley, your perhaps impulsive post's wording on the subject leaves possible you believe a sincere conversion to Orthodoxy would make Shamir more of a fraud than an insincere one.
yeahyeah, i know you meant israel shamir.
but stroganoff approach should be a valuable tool for trolldom in general, no?
take the world-of-jews, for instance.
their historic and ever increasing nastiness is so damn obvious to anyone able to observe a naked king that there is no point in justifying it.
so, what a stroganoff troll does is to amplify their sins ad nauseam and never quit, just go on and on until fatigue sets in.
boxers know that enraging the opponent is a good tactic, to exhaust him into ineffectiveness.
having said that, i am not sure if shamir is genuine or not.
i suppose he is the reverse of madonna and should get equal benefit of doubt.
do edomites suspect madonna of being a trojan ho?
http://www.israelshamir.net/Left...t/
marxists2.htm
some against-the grain-commentary here.
I agree Ken.
Shamir makes sense, and I will judge him on that basis alone.
Like justice, truth is blind to one's ethnicity.
I think I can tell when someone is yanking my chain.