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The Men Who Knew Too Much?

NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece
Adamo Bove and Costas Tsalikidis: Both uncovered a secret bugging system and both met untimely ends.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3305

“The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

About the rammed-through-Congress-real-quick USA PATRIOT Act – which might also be called The Non-White USA PATRIOT Act since its chief authors were non-White, i.e., two Asians and one Jew [1]. Why are non-Whites writing laws in a White republic?”

Ok. I give up. Who were the two Asians and one Jew?
Hmmm. I thought Specter, Gonzales and Ashcroft were to blame. One jew, one mestizo, and one coonservative coonfederate republicoon.

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

By ALBERT McKEON, Telegraph Staff
[email protected]

Published: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006

A Republican candidate for this area’s congressional seat said Wednesday that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/108240131/-1/business

‘Survivor’ to Divide Teams Along Racial Lines

By BILL CARTER
Published: August 24, 2006

For the first time since it went on the air in 2000, the hit CBS reality television program “Survivor” will divide its teams — or tribes, as they are known on the show — along racial lines.

For the first half of the series this fall, four teams of five members will be made up of blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and whites. They will compete in weekly challenges against each other, and the losing group will have to vote out a member of its own team.

Mark Burnett, the series producer, said in a telephone interview yesterday that the decision to organize the teams by race was made in group discussions with CBS executives and was in no way intended to promote racial divisiveness.

“In America today,” Mr. Burnett said, “I really don’t believe there are many people who hate each other because of their race. But even though people may work together, they do tend in their private lives to divide along social and ethnic lines.”

Mr. Burnett noted that in many cities, members of ethnic groups tended to cluster in neighborhoods. “In New York you will find areas like Little Afghanistan,” he said. “Maybe in the year 3010, when we’re all coffee-colored, it really will make no difference. But right now, it is what it is.”

Mr. Burnett said that “Survivor” and other shows had often been criticized for a lack of ethnic diversity. “We’re always hearing about how we only have two token blacks on the show,” he said. And the predominance of whites has been reflected in the show’s applicants, with more than 80 percent of them white, he said.

For the new contest, Mr. Burnett said, the show reached out to social and church groups to bring in more applicants of different backgrounds. He said the results had been gratifying. “We got so many good people we expanded the number of contestants to 20 instead of the usual 16,” he said.

Both CBS and Mr. Burnett acknowledged that the new format could be criticized. “I know it’s going to be controversial,” he said. “I’m not an idiot.”

In a statement, CBS said it “fully recognizes the controversial nature” of the format change. But it expressed confidence in the program’s ability to handle the situation sensitively.

The change leaves CBS open to charges that it was done to increase the ratings for “Survivor,” which, while still a hit, has had a diminished audience in recent years. In addition, in the new television season, CBS is facing a serious new challenge on Thursdays, the “Survivor” broadcast night. ABC has moved its strongest drama, “Grey’s Anatomy,” to Thursday nights at 9 to oppose CBS’s top show, “CSI.” ABC has also placed its most promising new series, “Ugly Betty,” on Thursday at 8 to compete with “Survivor.”

But Mr. Burnett said he was not making the change as a ratings strategy. “We have hardly been hurting in the ratings,” he said, noting that “Survivor” still attracted about 17 million viewers a week last season.

Instead, he called the move “an interesting social experiment.”

“I don’t think it would be valid in the regular modern world,” Mr. Burnett said. “But this is suddenly a very different playing field. People here are playing for a million dollars. They’re going to want to know if you’re going to vote them out. Or if they’re hungry, they’ll want to know if you know how to catch a fish. They’re not going to care if you’re green or Martian.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/business/media/24survivor.html?_r=1&ref=television&oref=slogin

New Book Reveals Darker Chapters In Hasidic History

Allan Nadler | Fri. August 25, 2006

Of all the literary genres to emerge from the 19th-century Haskala, or Hebrew Enlightenment, one of the most popular was anti-Hasidic satire. And the most notorious of these parodies was “Megaleh Temirin” (“Revealer of Secrets,” Vienna 1819), a ribald lampoon written by Joseph Perl that recounts a series of desperate, bungled attempts by fanatic Hasidim to seize and suppress a dangerous anti-Hasidic German book that they feared had the potential to inflict great harm on their revered rebbe and their sect.

Now, almost two centuries later, life is imitating satire. The twisted intrigues invented by Perl to highlight the Hasidim’s fear of critical inquiry into their closed world is today playing itself out on the ultra-Orthodox street, from Jerusalem and Bnai Berak to New York, Antwerp and Montreal. This time, however, the fearsome book is neither satire nor polemic, but a serious work of scholarly inquiry by Israel’s leading historian of Hasidism.

“Neehaz ba-Svakh: Pirkei Mashber u-Mevucha be-Toldot ha-Hasidut” (“Caught in the Thicket: Chapters of Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism”), written by David Assaf, chair of Tel Aviv University’s Jewish history department, appeared in Israel just three months ago, but it has already generated fierce controversy. Indeed, although the book, which is in Hebrew, can be ordered from the publisher, it cannot be easily obtained in bookstores. According to reliable sources, who insist on anonymity, several tri-state area dealers of Orthodox books, as well as a few in major Canadian and European cities, are stocking limited copies of Assaf’s explosive book “under the counter” — selling them only to their trusted elite clientele, contingent on a strict promise that the transaction remains a secret.

As is so often the case with controversial literature, those who claim to be most offended are usually the ones buying, reading and simultaneously trying to repress the books in question. Indeed, raucous exchanges about Assaf’s work have sprouted on a variety of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Internet sites and blogs, in both Hebrew and English. The interlocutors on these blogs include some distinguished Hasidic scholars and librarians, as well as average readers. The complaints range from the rude (“Assaf’s book is like a fart in a cowshed: barely noticed and soon forgotten”) to the ridiculous (“Look how low Merkaz Zalman Shazar [Assaf’s publisher], named for the President of Israel who was himself a Hasid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, has fallen”). But the most common critique is an ad hominem attack on Assaf’s personal integrity and level of religious commitment. “For those people like David Assaf, the things we call Yiddishkayt he has no understanding of because he is not a frummer yid,” one commenter wrote on Mentalblog.com. Or, as another more succinct writer, who happens to be a respected Hasidic librarian, put it, “[Assaf] is a vile creature blinded by hate.” So, what’s all the fuss about?

The purpose of Assaf’s book is to revisit and clarify some of the most shocking episodes in the history of Hasidism, events that have been deliberately suppressed or extensively distorted for apologetic purposes by Hasidic historiography. The book consists of seven chapters, each of which examines in great depth some very embarrassing oddities of Hasidic life — some of which have long been known to historians of Hasidism. But Assaf has now clarified them by extricating the kernels of historical truth not only from Hasidic hagiography but also — and this seems to have gone right over the heads of his Orthodox critics — from Hasidism’s enlightenment, or enlightened opponents, who often distorted the same events for their own purposes.

The chapter that has created by far the most Internet chatter concerns the conversion to Christianity in 1820 of Rabbi Moshe Schneerson, the youngest son of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyadi, venerated founder of Chabad/Lubavitch. In it, Assaf offers a complete history of the efforts at distortion and repression by Lubavitcher apologists, horrified by the conversion of their founder’s son, and by their enlightened opponents, who could not have been more delighted by it.

Let’s begin with the Hasidim. Although this tragic episode has not been unknown to historians, neither has it exactly been part of the standard official history of this most high-profile of Hasidic dynasties. In fact, the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson, in his published chronicle of Chabad history went so far as to deny that the conversion ever took place. According to Schneerson’s hagiographical account, Rabbi Moshe was compelled to engage in a theological disputation with the Catholic priest of his town, in which he was of course victorious, and then was forced to flee for his safety. Rabbi Moshe, according to Schneerson’s account, spent the remaining years of his life as a lamed-vovnik — the classic anonymous saint of rabbinic mythology — and was buried anonymously in the Ukrainian shtetl of Radomysl.

As Assaf demonstrates, this fanciful tale has no historical basis whatsoever. Instead, Assaf concludes that Rabbi Moshe’s conversion is best explained as a result of the well-documented, though unspecified, mental illness [If you oppose the jews, you’re mentally ill – even if you’re a jew] from which he suffered since childhood. And he offers proof. As he explains, while searching the Belorussian State Archives in Minsk, historian Shaul Stampfer recently came across a treasure trove of documents verifying Rabbi Moshe’s apostasy — including a letter of intention to convert that was addressed to the Catholic Priest of the Belorussian town of Ula (where Moshe served as rabbi), and his actual baptismal certificate, dated July 4, 1820. For the skeptical, Assaf includes reproductions of these documents in his book and adds that it is almost certain that shortly after his conversion to Christianity, the rabbi was consigned to St. Petersburg’s famed mental hospital, Obuchovskaya, where he died.

While the story of Rabbi Moshe’s apostasy may be the lightning rod for much of the indignation provoked among Chabad apologists, the most vulgar document published by Assaf is quite clearly the tale recounting the “fall” of the famed founder of Polish Hasidism, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Horowitz (1745-1815), popularly known as the khoyze, or seer, of Lublin. What is known is that sometime during the celebration of Simchat Torah in 1814, the severely inebriated seer fell, or more likely jumped, out the second-story window of his room above the Hasidic shtibl where he held court. Like the affair of Rabbi Moshe’s conversion to Christianity, Hasidic hagiography has managed to transform what was either a drunken mishap or a deliberate suicide attempt into a mystical affair signifying a failed attempt to hasten the messiah’s arrival.

But Hasidism’s critics would have nothing of such fanciful explanations. What really happened, according to a Haskalah rendering of this sad episode in a hitherto unpublished and uncensored version of Sefer Nekiyut U-Ferishut (“The Book of Cleanliness and Abstinence”) preserved in Perl’s archives — which Assaf has now published for the first time — the seer of Lublin became so drunk that he had to leave his Hasidim so he could “crash” for a while in his upstairs bedroom. At one point during the night, he got up to urinate — out of the window, of course — and with his “holy scepter in his hand” he fell into the septic pool that lay beneath. Later that night, two Hasidim who went out to “use” the cesspool found their holy master there, holding on to his erect penis — a pre-Cialis phenomenon that they could interpret only as a sign of the seer’s prophetic powers. (Or as mockingly described in this version: “They approached him, turned him over and found that his bris had remained faithful to him and steadfast in his hand, and thus proclaimed: ‘Aha! Let this be a miraculous sign to the House of Israel. So the word went forth from Lublin that Rabbi Isaac was among the prophets.”). [Kikes – if they weren’t wrecking nations, we could store then in zoos and charge fees.] The rabbi never recovered from his injuries and died later that year, not surprisingly on the fast day of the Tisha B’Av.

Assaf judiciously rejects both the apologetic, messianic explanation of the Hasidim and the satirical, polemical misuse of the khoyze’s drunken fall by the Maskilim. Instead, he proposes that this was the second suicide attempt by Rabbi Horowitz, who was famously prone to long periods of depression. Based on clearly authentic Hasidic sources, Assaf reveals that many years before his 1814 window jump, the khoyze tried to throw himself off a mountaintop near the town of Lizensk and was saved from certain death only when his hiking companion, Rabbi Zelke of Grodzitsk, grasped his gartel in the nick of time. (Could the midair gartel suspension of the khoyze have inspired bungee-jumping ? Assaf leaves this question to future generations of Hasidic historians.)

Many Americans were shocked earlier this year by the revelations of intense intra-Hasidic violence that accompanied the battle for leadership of Satmar Hasidism between the respective followers of rabbis Aharon and Zalman, after the death of their father, Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum. But next to Assaf’s chapter on the violent persecution of Bratzlaver Hasidim of the mid 19th century, perpetrated mainly by rabbis David Twersky of Talne and Yitzhak Twersky of Skver, contemporary Satmar skirmishes appear quite tame. In addition to their anti-Bratzlav activities, Assaf recounts the general tendency of the Talner and Skverer Hasidim to use intimidation and a variety of violent means, including death threats, rock throwing, home invasions and hostile synagogue takeovers, to “conquer” a string of shtetls in the southern Ukraine in the mid 1860s. The violence got so bad that the tsarist government was finally compelled in 1868 to issue a law prohibiting Hasidic rebbes in the Ukraine from extending their leadership beyond their own towns. But as Assaf documents, the persecution of Bratzlaver Hasidim continued even after the Holocaust, in Jerusalem and Brooklyn in the 1970s and ’80s.

The other chapters are profiles of a number of complex and troubled Hasidic rabbis, some of whom ended up leaving the fold. Assaf has also published for the first time a number of explosive manuscripts that have languished, unexamined, in both European and Israeli archives for almost two centuries. The very last, and most moving, of his seven chapters includes the full text of a shocking letter sent in 1910 by the deeply depressed young rebbe of Shpikov, Yitzhak Nachum Twersky — scion of the most distinguished Ukrainian Hasidic dynasty, which included the rebbes of Tchernobyl, Skver and Talne — to a Warsaw writer, Yaakov Dineson. On the eve of his marriage to the Belzer rebbe’s daughter, whom he had never met, the despondent young Twersky was clearly desperate, if unable, to escape his “tiny and ugly” Hasidic world:

“I send you my portrait…as I wanted you to see and comprehend the terrible dissonance and distance between my inner life and my outer world….I despise the people around me, loathing their way of life…I have good taste and love beauty but I am obliged to wear the clothes of the uncivilized: A long silk kapoteh down to my feet, and a shtreimel of tails — that is our badge of shame….And what a terrible thought to think where I am now going. To a ‘harem’ in the town of Belz….Coerced to marry a woman from there, my gloomy life here with all its black darkness will seem bright by comparison.”

As it turns out, Rabbi Twersky’s marriage to the Belzer rebbe’s daughter was a happy one, and he not only remained in the hasidic fold but also became a revered rebbe in his own right; however, many of the other Hasidic lives discussed in Assaf’s remarkable book proceeded far less blissfully.

Assaf is not satisfied with verifying and clarifying the obscure scandals and crises of Hasidic history; equally important are the incredible lengths to which the internal chroniclers of Hasidic history have gone to censor, repress or recast these scandals. Assaf’s book effectively constitutes a double-barreled assault on the apologetic narrative of Hasidic historiography and the exaggerated misuses of these embarrassing episodes by modernizing Jewish historians to discredit Hasidism entirely, both of which have molded the lives of Hasidic rebbes according to false stereotypes.

The real importance of Assaf’s research is the extent to which it complicates the hitherto regnant accounts of Hasidic history, both the romantic and the polemical. By examining the inner demons and doubts that tormented a variety of hasidic leaders, torments that evoked a wide spectrum of responses, from conversion and suicide, to alienation and despair, Assaf enriches our understanding of the hasidic world. far from disdaining his subjects, assaf succeeds finally in humanizing them by cutting through the apologetic mythologies of the hasidim and the polemical mockery of their opponents and demonstrating the natural frailties of even the most pious and revered of men.

Allan Nadler is a professor of religious studies at Drew University.

[Good lord, what a shit-people the dirty hassids are.]

JEWISH GENETIC DISEASES (WELL, SOME OF THEM)

Genetic Diseases? Yes. But Must We Call Them ‘Jewish’?

Sander Gilman | Fri. August 25, 2006

The extraordinary science of genetics, which is in the process of describing the very nature of our natures, is still in its infancy. The claims made for genetics, a science as narcissistic as any infant, generally outstrip the science’s ability to define or treat genetic illnesses. Yet there is an undeniable power in the notion that some people carry within them the seeds of their own and their children’s illnesses. But there is also a risk: In a world of interrelated databanks and insurance that can be canceled at a moment’s notice, would anyone want to be labeled as “at risk”? Is there any benefit to being a member of a collective that is seen as suffering from its very own genetic diseases?

When it comes to Jews, even the best of the recent work on genetic inheritance is tainted with the idea that Jews constitute a “race” and not a peoplehood. The curse of racial theory and its culmination in the Shoah should make us ever vigilant about the misappropriation of scientific claims as applied to “the Jews,” even when it is sweetened with praise. In a much-discussed study published last year, three University of Utah anthropologists suggested that Jewish “superior” intelligence was the result of the selective “inbreeding” of Jews. The study proceeded to link the “genetics of intelligence” with the prevalence of “Jewish genetic diseases.” The authors wrote: “Perhaps most of the characteristic Ashkenazi genetic diseases fall into this category. Selection has imposed a heavy human cost: not crippling at the population level, cheaper than the malaria-defence mutations like sickle cell and G6PD deficiency, but tragic nonetheless.” Jews may be smart, but the cost is that they are an “ill people.” Of course, being an “ill people” was also a charge made by 19th-century antisemitic science.

Are the Jews an “ill people”? Well, there is a history to this. In the United States, the National Foundation for Jewish Genetic Diseases has identified nine genetic diseases as “being the most common among Jews of Eastern European or Ashkenazi descent.” The diseases include Tay-Sachs; Bloom’s syndrome, in which about 10% of those affected also have diabetes; Canavan disease, a progressive neurological disorder; dystonia, which affects movement control; Fanconi anemia, which often leads to leukemia; familial dysautonomia, a disease of the nervous system; Gaucher disease, a metabolic disorder; Niemann-Pick disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, and the most recently discovered “Jewish” genetic disease, mucolipidosis, a neurological disorder. Labeling these diseases “Jewish,” especially in the public press, has created the impression that mainly “Jews” (defined variously as an ethnic, religious or biological group) carry and manifest them. The reality, however, belies this claim. A collective can’t carry a disease; only individuals can.

Medical genetics today offers little but the identification of potential risk for such individuals. As Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton show in their new book, “The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease” (Johns Hopkins), the pitfalls associated with genetic testing (fear, absence of choice) may often outweigh the advantages. The boundaries surrounding these diseases are seen to be absolute, even though there are, for example, regular reports of cases of Tay-Sachs beyond the “Jewish” community, as the disease is also present in non-Jewish communities in Louisiana and Quebec.

Yet there are diseases that do seem to be limited to Eastern European Jews. The case of familial dysautonomia can be taken as almost paradigmatic. The Web site of the Familial Dysautonomia Hope Foundation has made the link explicit: “Our logo shows a small case ‘fd’ to reflect the medical expression of the autosomal recessive nature of FD genetics. The letters are in an upswept Star of David to symbolize our optimism for the future; the Star of David in recognition of the predominantly Jewish inheritance of this disorder (our ‘founder,’ who had the first mutation several hundred years ago, undoubtedly lived in a Polish shtetl).” Dysautonomia thus becomes a “Jewish” disease, and all its sufferers become part of an extended family, an imagined community linked by their common ancestor, who happened to be a Jew. But why a Jew? Because in Central Europe and in Russia, Jews rarely, if ever, felt themselves to be Polish or Russian. Had they, would we speak of familial dysautonomia as a “Polish genetic disease”? Probably not. We would speak of it as being limited to the offspring of a specific individual and as a mutation that appeared first in a specific location.

One mother of a child with familial dysautonomia wrote to me that she saw a particularly “Jewish” difficulty in constructing such an extended, public family: “My armchair theory is that Jewish families have some difficulty accepting children who do not have a bright future (as opposed to, in general, Catholic families). In the Hasidic community, kids with FD are often ‘hidden’ (according to the main doctor who treats the disorder).” This strikes me as a problem intimated in the Utah study. What do you do with genetic diseases that create Jews who are other than “smart”?

A historical model for the dangers of speaking about “Jewish diseases” can be found in the story of diabetes. For hundreds of years it was understood as being transmitted within specific groups (in the scientific language of the 19th century, “races”) such as blacks and Jews. Diabetes is a good case study for such questions because it is a disease that has two forms, one of which is clearly transmitted genetically; the other may be present as a genetic predisposition — with a strong environmental factor. In the 19th century, when this distinction was not understood, labeling blacks or Jews as diabetic races was a means of labeling these groups as inferior. Even Jewish scientists at the turn of the century accepted the racial stigmatization of diabetes. Rather than being seen as a disease of individuals, diabetes was the fault of “the Jews.” Diabetes as the “Jewish disease” became a curse on all Jews, and part of the anxiety about being Jewish or having Jewish ancestry. These things have a way of shifting; today, the general consensus is that diabetes is not a particularly Jewish illness.

“Race” has reappeared today in categories such as “Jewish genetics diseases,” as if the pseudoanthropological definitions of race of the 19th and 20th centuries are identical with the idea of genetic cohorts in contemporary science. While any individual Jew may show the impact of any number of genetically transmitted diseases, “Jewish” or not, binding this evident fact to a homogenous biological definition of a Jew leads to misrepresentations and potentially bad medicine. The desire to draw clear lines between different populations is perhaps intrinsic to human nature. The need to define and control is built into all social groups as central to their self-definition. But, in the long run, it is probably better if Jews are spared the label of being an “ill people,” and for all individuals, Jewish or not, to undergo genetic testing to at least identify those potential illnesses that they or their children may have, independent of their self-definition as “Jews.”

Sander Gilman, the author of more than 70 books, is a distinguished professor of the liberal arts and sciences at Emory University.

http://www.forward.com/articles/genetic-diseases-yes-but-must-we-call-them-%e2%80%98jew/

QUESTION?: WHAT CITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS A POPULATION OF 1,111,300 & HAS 280 BROTHELS, THAT FORCIBLY FLESH PEDAL’S GENTILE WOMEN FROM EASTERN EUROPE? ANSWER:

http://shankradioworldwide.typepad.com/shankradio_world_wide/2006/08/kosher_brothels.html

CHUTZPAH!

Jews want UN to pay for Lebanon damages

NSNS Friday, 18 August 2006

Remember the famous example of chutzpah? A brat kills both parents and then begs the judge for mercy because he’s an orphan!. Now, after all the wanton death and destruction caused by Israeli aggression against Lebanon and all the billions in damage to its civilian infrastructure and environment— after all of this, the Jews have the unmitigated nerve, the unmitigated gall, not only to blame someone else for their own foul deed, but to ask that other party to PAY for what they themselves have done!

Take a look at this one just in from the horse’s mouth:

Petition wants U.N. reparations for Israel

Pro-Israel advocates launched a petition calling on the United Nations to provide reparations to Israel for damage caused by Hezbollah.
The petition says the “U.N. Security Council failed to discharge its obligation. It allowed Hezbollah to entrench itself in southern Lebanon and to spread its terror to the people of Lebanon.”

As of Thursday afternoon, the petition had garnered more than 34,000 signatures.

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4255

HWR!

Continuing the fight for a better world —

NEW ORDER
Dept E
PO Box 270486
Milwaukee WI 53227
http://www.theneworder.org

Iran will fire ballistic missiles on Israel if attacked cleric – Yahoo! News

I THINK IT WOULD BE WORTH IT’S WEIGHT IN TOMANS (IRANIAN MONEY), IF TEL AVIV WEST & TEL AVIV EAST WOULD ATTACK IRAN. THIS WOULD GIVE IRAN A GREAT EXCUSE TO POUND THAT SHITTY little COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH BALLISTIC MISSILES…..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060815/wl_afp/mideastconflictiranwarn_060815083253

About time for the Slavic peoples to wheedle some reparations out of the
“former” Judeo-Soviets…

http://www.scripophily.net/easterneurope.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/boxing/5240622.stm

All Four Heavyweight Boxing Champions are White

RePortersNoteBook memo:

I think it’s hilarious that Eastern Europeans now hold all four heavyweight
boxing titles and suddenly nobody’s ever heard of the sport. Boxing is
dominated by economic have-nots. Eventually, Eastern Europeans will catch up economically and assuming African-Americans will still be economically discriminated against, will again dominate the heavyweight division.

START:

Maskaev is WBC heavyweight champ
August 13, 2006

Kazakhstan-born Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the last round to win the WBC heavyweight title in Las Vegas.

Rahman, who was the lone US-born world champion, trailed narrowly on points going into the final round and was stopped with 43 seconds left.

Maskaev’s victory means fighters from ex-Soviet countries hold all four major belts at heavyweight.

Maskaev, who became a US citizen in 2004, was upset at Rahman being dubbed “America’s Last Line of Defence”.

“I believed up to the last minute I could win this fight,” said the
37-year-old Maskaev.

“I got used to him as the fight wore on and I knew with three rounds left, I
had to win them all to win the fight.

“I’m proud of where I come from, but I consider myself a Russian-American. This is a message to everyone: European fighters are tough.”

Maskaev, a former Russian Army officer, entered the fight on a 10-bout
winning streak, albeit mostly against unimpressive competition.

But the father of four earned a mandatory title shot with a persistence that
prompted his promoters to compare him to 1930s’ champion, James J Braddock, the famed “Cinderella Man”.

Maskaev knocked Rahman, 33, into the lap of a television commentator when the two last met in 1999 and the rematch was nearly as dramatic.

Rahman came out of the blocks the quickest and landed big right hands in the first, second and fourth rounds.

Maskaev took the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds with a superior workrate
before Rahman surged back in the eighth.

However, Maskaev enjoyed a second wind in the ninth and caught his opponent with a stunning left hook at the end of the penultimate round.

Maskaev led 106-103 on judge Jerry Roth’s scorecard entering the 12th, while Anek Hongtongkam favoured Rahman 106-103.

Glenn Trowbridge had Maskaev ahead 105-104, leaving Rahman in need of a 12th-round victory to force a draw.

Sensing victory, Maskaev sent Rahman down with a big right in the opening stages of the final round.

Rahman struggled to his feet but was unable to even keep his guard up as
Maskaev continued his vicious assault, prompting referee Jay Nady to wave the contest off.

Rahman claimed the punch that staggered him occurred while Nady was telling the fighters to break, but still blamed himself for the defeat.

“I put my hands down, and he caught me with a shot,” Rahman said.

“I never thought that he would be taking the world title out of Las Vegas
tonight. I’m going to have to watch the tape and see what I did wrong.

“I think American heavyweights are a little spoiled, make too much money too quick and lose sight of the grand prize which is to win the title and keep it.”

Rahman won the undisputed heavyweight crown in 2001 with his stunning
knockout of Lennox Lewis, but lost it seven months later when Lewis knocked him out in a rematch.

He became a champion for the second time after Vitali Klitschko’s retirement and his first title defence was a draw with James Toney in March.

Russia’s Nikolay Valuev is the WBA champion, Wladimir Klitschko of the Uk
raine has the IBF crown and the WBO’s title-holder is Serguei Lyakhovich of Belarus.

Rudolf Hess statement:

“… I shall not defend myself against accusers,
whom I deny the right to level charges. I shall
not argue about accusations dealing with things
that are internal German matters and therefore
are no business of outsiders.

“I shall not comment on remarks intended to sully
the honor of myself or German people as a whole.
I consider such aspersions of our opponents as
a badge of honor.

“For many years of my life, I was granted the honor
of serving under the greatest son whom my people
has produced in its thousand-year history.

“Even if I could, I would not erase this period from
my life. I am happy to know that I have done my
duty toward my folk, my duty as a German, as a
National Socialist, as a true follower of the Führer.

“I regret nothing. If I were to begin all over again,
I would act again as I did — even if I knew that what
awaited me in the end was the stake at which I was
to be burned alive. It makes no difference what men
may do to me. One day I shall stand before the
judgment seat of the Eternal. To Him I shall answer;
and I know that He will pronounce me innocent.”

— CONCLUDING STATEMENT
before the Allied show trial, Nuremberg, 1946

Interesting video of someone holding a “Mel Gibson was Right” sign at an
anti-war rally and being surrounded by “anti-racists” screaming at him.

Interesting to consider what a strategy for dealing with this should be…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0eBaLuLRHI&mode=related&search=

Mamhout Ahmadinejad, you gotta love the guy!

Since three days he is also blogging at:

http://www.ahmadinejad.ir (also with English section)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4790005.stm

The site was down the first day due to too many visitors, but now it is back with a bang!

Guess what, apparantly the site is targetting visitors with Israeli IP-addresses with Trojan-like viruses ;-)))

Read more here:

http://olehgirl.blogspot.com/2006/08/pres-ahmadinejad-trying-to-infect.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/ahmadenijad_blog_contains_a_li.html

Five accused of hate crime after confrontation

The Janesville Gazette

ADL trained PIGS arrest three White men & a White woman…

http://www.gazetteextra.com/hatecrime081106.asp

August edition of Right Now!

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The August edition 2006 of Right Now!

Contents

A political primal scream – Editorial
Greek Fire – interview with Taki – Derek Turner
The limitations and implications of economics – interview with Ezra
Mishan – Derek Turner
Personal statement by Frank Ellis
Dancing with death – Hirsi Ali – – Roger Kershaw
The road to Byzantium – Luxury Arts of Antiquity
A Bahraini resident looks at democracy in the Arab world
Liberal internationalism as a biological phenomenon – Robert Henderson
Cameron. council houses, and the white man’s burden – Stuart Maclean
The death of civil society – with apologies – Joan Northam
Book reviews
The joy of diversity – Robert Henderson
John Bull
Overlooked Briitain
Letters

Sample article

*Liberal internationalism as a biological phenomenon*

Robert Henderson looks at the behaviour of Western elites through the
prism of evolutionary theory

Liberal internationalist elites have fractured societies which
previously enjoyed a high degree of racial and cultural homogeneity by
permitting the
mass immigration of the racially and culturally different. They have
undermined national security and reduced domestic employment
opportunities by removing protection for their own agriculture, commerce
and industry. They have wilfully suppressed their own cultures through
manipulation of the education system in particular and public policy
generally. They have engaged in a ceaseless propaganda conducted through
the mass media which diminishes the native culture and promotes the
interests of minority groups. They have dissolved national democratic
control by entrapping their countries in treaties such as those which
empower the EU, NAFTA, the WTO and the UN, the consequence of which is
to greatly restrict the scope for national action.

Beyond the boundaries of their own countries, these elites have inflated
through aid the populations of Third World countries beyond that which
their societies can naturally support. In addition, the traditional
social and economic arrangements of these countries are eroded by direct
Western political interference and trade rules which encourage cash
crops over farming to feed their own people. The consequence of all this
is an ever growing number of people in the developing world who have a
desperate urge to move to the rich West, something made ever easier by
the liberals’ support, tacit or open,

for continuing mass immigration into the West. At the same time, the
populations of the liberal elites’ own countries are falling and are
ever more vulnerable to the effects of the mass immigration being
promoted by the elite. The necessary eventual consequence is the
effective colonisation of Western states by immigrants.

The declining birthrates of the West are themselves the fruit of liberal
elite decisions to permit abortion on demand, actively to promote the
feminist agenda and to create economic circumstances which discourage
reproduction; for example, it is increasingly difficult for a family in
Britain to be raised on a single average male wage.

The relaxation of trade barriers weakens their own countries and leave
them ever more vulnerable as they become progressively less
self-sufficient, while promoting the wealth and self-sufficiency not
merely of other states comparable in size, but states – particularly

India and China – whose individual populations exceed the combined
populations of Europe and North America.

Western elites are doing just about everything an organism should not do
to protect itself: allowing large numbers of those outside the social
group to enter the group’s territory, removing resources from their
territory and giving those resources to those outside the group and,
most bewilderingly, assisting competitor groups to expand their
population whilst restricting their own.

Why are liberal elites exhibiting such ostensibly self-destructive
behaviour? The answer may lie in the fact that elites think of
themselves as a separate group, a group which extends beyond national
and cultural boundaries. There is nothing new in this. The medieval
aristocracies of Western Europe thought themselves part of a chivalric
whole. The putative advantage to the elites of international elite
solidarity is that it allows them to weaken their dependence upon their
immediate (native) populations.

*How elites evolve*

England provides a model of how elites can survive through evolution for
a very long time. From the 14th Century onwards, the general trend was
to broaden the elite. In the long term, the inexorable movement was
towards parliamentary government and from monarchical power. During this
development the wishes of the masses were largely but not entirely
ignored – the masses made their presence felt through rioting (the
historian Lewis Namier memorably described the government of 18th
Century England as “aristocracy tempered by riot”).

As the franchise broadened, the masses were able to exercise an ever
larger degree of democratic control, because politics was still national
and a political party had to respond to the electors’ wishes. The
elite resented this control over their behaviour and looked around for a
way to diminish democratic influence. They found the means to do it in
internationalism.

In a sovereign country, politicians cannot say this or that cannot be
done if it is practical to do it. That is a considerable block on elite
misbehaviour. So the elites seem to have decided that the way round this
unfortunate restraint on their misbehaviour was to commit their
countries to treaties which would remove the opportunity for the
electorate to exercise control over policy. In the British case, the
most notable example is the Treaty of Rome and the subsequent treaties
which have tied Britain into the EU. Vast swathes of policy are no
longer within the control of the British parliament because of these
treaties. Add in the treaties tying Britain to the UN and the WTO and
the commitment of every mainstream British party to them, and democratic
control has essentially gone. What has happened in Britain is mirrored
to a lesser or greater degree throughout the West.

*Does liberal internationalism make evolutionary sense?*

Assuming the ultimate biological imperative for any organism is to pass
on as many of its copies of its genes as possible to future generations,
the liberal elites might seem to have a considerable advantage because
the richer and more powerful the person the greater the potential for
more and better quality mates and consequent offspring. The problem with
this argument is that elites in the West do not breed prolifically and,
indeed, have on average fewer children than those of the native masses
whom they despise. Cultural norms have seemingly subverted biology.

But cultural norms are ultimately an expression of biology, so how has
this occurred? I will offer this hypothesis: there is a strong natural
selfishness in the individual. This is held in check to a greater or
lesser degree by the social arrangements of a society. A society which
emphasises tradition will rein in selfishness. Such societies will have
a strong sense of ‘tribe’ and frequently a religion which emphasises
the need to have children, demands charitable behaviour and threatens
punishment in an afterlife. There will also be an absence of any easy
means of contraception – and quite probably a religious ban on it –
strictly enforced marriage and the lack of a welfare state. All of these
things will reinforce social cohesion and the immediate interdependence
of individuals on one another.

Such societies are anathema to the modern liberal mind, whose perfect
society is one from which national feeling has been leached and whose
members are held together by only a shared sense of ‘rational’
desires, such as a fair justice system and a good material standard of
living. Having no sense of tribe they will not see it as a duty to
reproduce.

Having easy access to contraception, they can copulate at will, yet have
few children. They even have an ideology which tells them that having
children is simply a ‘life choice’. Selfishness is made respectable.
A society has been created in which the restraints on selfishness have
been loosened too far. The consequence is that the liberal elite behave
in a way to satisfy themselves at the expense of their descendants.

*What counts as ‘biological fitness’ in human beings?*

All organisms other than man pass on their genes in the most obvious and
straightforward way. The organism breeds and its descendants breed or do
not breed. In animals which engage in extensive parental care, what
might be called cultural inheritance plays a part in the transmission
process with members of the species varying in their ability to nurture
their offspring. The young of such animals rely on the example of their
parents and, in the case of social animals, other adults to acquire many
of the tactics needed to survive.

But even the biologically fittest of the most socially advanced
non-human animal cannot pass on an advantage to their offspring which in
any way approaches that which a human can pass to their children.
Indeed, man’s behaviour in passing non-genetic advantage from one
generation to the next is so radically different from that of any other
organism that it may be the biological imperatives which drive the rest
of the natural world have been subordinated to this immense ability to
pass on non-genetic advantage. This ability is driven by the unique
nature of man, who consciously identifies how advantage may be gained
and passed on. Biological fitness in humans may be predominantly the
ability to pass on non-genetic, rather than genetic, advantage.

It might be argued that inherited non-genetic advantage will dissipate
over the generations and that few families will maintain their privilege
over more than a few generations. But the genetic inheritance of a
family line is soon dissipated reducing by 50% per generation. In other
words, non-genetic inheritance is at worst no poorer a bet in
maintaining fitness than genetic inheritance and in some cases a
considerably better one, because the inherited advantage can be passed
through a larger number of generations than any meaningful genetic
legacy – there are aristocratic families in England today who descend
from nobles who came over with William the Conqueror in 1066.

If this is a correct interpretation of biological fitness in men, it
makes sense for elites to grab as much power, wealth and privilege for
themselves. But the haves must create social circumstances which allow
them to pass their non-genetic advantages to descendants. It is no good
enraging the have-nots to such a degree that they simply kill the haves
or take their privileges away or change the conditions of a society so
radically that the elite loses control. Yet the latter is precisely what
modern liberal elites appear to be doing.

*Can the liberal elite change?*

It is undoubtedly true that elites as a group only ever have one settled
principle, namely, to do whatever is necessary to secure their power,
wealth and privilege. It is also true that liberals have at the personal
level long feared the consequences of non-white immigration – /vide/ the
way they choose to live in very white worlds themselves – and since
911 have begun to openly acknowledge that heterogeneous societies are a
problem. Many probably want change. The difficulty is that by
internationalising their ideology through treaties and membership of
supranational bodies such as the UN and the EU and a commitment to
/laissez faire/ economics, the liberal elites have surrendered control
of their own individual national destinies and hence their power readily
to change matters.

To this must be added the sheer inertia which is built into an
international system which has grown since 1945 into an immense heap of
political and bureaucratic power and privilege. An international army of
politicians and bureaucrats have the most vested of interests in
maintaining the status quo.

Most important is the existence of large populations of unassimilated
and probably unassimilable recent immigrants and their descendants.
These populations manipulate the political process through their
increasing electoral power and the tacit threat of serious violence to
ensure further immigration from their respective groups, to influence
foreign policy (including foreign aid) and to maintain the practice of
allowing unimpeded remittances from the host country to the ancestral
country.

The liberal elites have seemingly adopted a suicidal strategy. By
forgetting the importance of the tribe or, rather, mistaking what the
tribe is – ie, their own national group – they have set themselves on
the road to oblivion. It might be likened to the evolutionary overshoot
of certain of the nautiloids, which evolved ever more convolutedly
spiralled shells until they became biologically unfit and finally
extinct. Evolution is not just about winners.

Robert Henderson writes /Right Now/’s “Joy of Diversity” column

Friends,
These are absolutely incredible quotes which pretty much explain the dangerous political situation the world is in! Maybe these quotations might help American friends better understand the Arabs and their outlook on politics and Israel.
Cherifa

http://www.crescentandcross.com/index.php?page=articles&subpage1=their_own_words

“The Marxist Zionists who rule Israel and the Marxist Zionists in America have been trying to trick the U.S. into a Middle East war on the side of Israel, and if more Americans are not made aware of the truth about Marxist/Zionist Israel, you can be sure that, sooner or later, those atheists who claim to be God’s chosen people will trick the U.S. into a Middle East war against the Arabs who in the past have always been America’s best friends.”

–Jack Bernstein, author of the book ‘The Life of an American Jew Living in Racist Marxist Israel.’

“The Mossad (Israeli Intelligence) was busy at the time preparing for Operation Brush Fire, aimed at getting the United States involved militarily in the Middle East in general and in the Gulf region in particular. By January 1989 the Mossad machine was busy portraying Saddam as a tyrant and a danger to the world. The Mossad activated every asset it had, from volunteer agents in Amnesty International to fully bought members of the US Congress…The media was supplied with “inside information” from “reliable sources” on how the crazed leader of Iraq killed people with his bare hands and used missiles to target Iranian cities. The Mossad wanted the Americans to do the work of destroying that gigantic army in the Iraqi desert so that Israel would not have to face it one day on its own border.”

–Ex-Israeli Intelligence officer Victor Ostrovsky, describing in his book ‘The Other Side of Deception’ how the Mossad maneuvered the American government and military into fighting Iraq in the first Gulf War.

“I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a time of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States.”

–Osama Bin Laden, September 2001

“Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”

–Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan

“Our armed forces are not the thirteenth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us, and I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.”

–Remarks of Martin Van Creveld, a professor of military history at Israel’s Hebrew University.

“All gentile children are animals.”
The Babylonian Talmud, Judaism’s most holy book, Yebamoth 98a
“Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat is and has been since 1990 –it’s the threat against Israel. And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don’t care deeply about that threat, and the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell.”

–Philip Zelikow, member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), which reports directly to the president.

“Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don’t suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us instead of feeling sorry. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a savage country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go wild, that we might start World War Three just like that, or that we might one day go crazy and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East. Personally, I don’t want to be any better than Harry Truman who snuffed out half a million Japanese with two fine bombs.”

–Ariel Sharon, 1982

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting off of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

–Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, May 1948

“The Jews I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many get murdered or mistreated as long as they themselves get special treatment. When they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin have anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment of the underdog.”

–US President Harry S Truman

“The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence was only a bluff, a deliberate lie which we developed after the war to justify our actions.”

–Israeli General Matityahu Peled

“Since the Mossad had all the security arrangements in hand, it would not be a problem in bringing the killers as close as they wanted to President Bush and then staging his assassination. In the ensuing confusion, the Mossad people would kill the ‘perpetrators,’ scoring yet another victory for the Mossad. With the assassins dead, it would be difficult to discover where the ‘security breach’ had been, except that several countries involved in the conference, such as Syria, were regarded as countries that assisted terrorists.”

–Ex-Israeli Intelligence officer Victor Ostrovsky, describing in his book ‘The Other Side of Deception’ how the Mossad planned to assassinate President George Bush at the Madrid peace conference in October of 1991 for the purpose of blaming it on Arab extremists.

“I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.”

–Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister and later a Prime Minister

“Never in her history has Israel had the luxury of having 500,000 foreigners fight her wars for her, until now.”

–Abba Eban, Foreign Minister to Israel, in reference to the 1st Gulf War.

“I’ve never seen a President –I don’t care who he is –stand up to the Jews. They always get what they want. If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms.”

–Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974

“Our goal is to break the West’s confidence in the existing Egyptian regime. This terrorism should cause arrests, demonstrations, and expressions of revenge. The Israeli origin should be totally hidden while attention should be shifted to any other possible factor. The purpose is to prevent economic and military aid from the West to Egypt.”

— Col. Benjamin Givli, the head of Israel’s military intelligence who outlined the purpose behind the wave of Israeli-orchestrated terrorist acts taking place in Egypt during 1954 in what came to be known as the Lavon Affair.

“I am a Jew, I am an Israeli, I am a Zionist, and I am both racially and intellectually superior to you, the non-Jew. For your lies, your pathetic stupidity, and your anti-Semitism, your people will suffer under the punishment of the world’s future super-power, Israel!”
“You seem to forget Israel’s nuclear capability. No country will risk getting hit with an atomic bomb, and therefore Israel’s survival is assured. We will also, at a certain point in the coming decades, finally realize the need to exercise ruthlessness, and will blow our Arab neighbors to kingdom come. I am sure you will have the joy of witnessing the first example of the latter policy, when Israel takes action against Iran (and perhaps also Syria) in the coming months.”
“Jews are superior to dirty-blooded non-Jews like you. While your ancestors were sleeping with the swine in the forests of Europe, my ancestors were building the city of Jerusalem. Israel will come to be the world’s newest superpower. It is our destiny, written in the prophecies of god, written in our ambitions, written in our blood!”
“Beware, for your kind will come to fear us. The coming 30 years will make your eyes twitch my gentile!”
“I am a Jew, you are not. I have the privilege of having god by my side, as well as the world’s supreme nation. Perhaps you do not yet see that the worst is awaiting your kind, in the face of the coming Islamo-Christian War, from which my kind will arise victorious.”
“I am only 14 years old, but I have enough wisdom to see that you are nothing but a piece of gentile filth. No matter, perhaps god will find it suitable that a terrorist attack will end your misery. I shall personally pray for it to be so.”

–Orri Joseph Avraham, an Israeli citizen

“In the name of God the Merciful and the Compassionate: Behold this promise to the people of Jerusalem of safe conduct for their persons, property, their churches, their healthy and their sick. Their churches shall neither be used by us as dwellings nor destroyed, and no constraint shall be exercised among them in religion nor shall any harm be done to any of them. This document is placed under the surety of God and the protection of the Prophet Mohammed, the Caliphs and the believers, on condition that the inhabitants of Jerusalem pay the jizya (tax) that is due from them.”

–The Treaty of Jerusalem, signed between Caliph Omar and the Christians of Jerusalem in 636 AD promising them that they would suffer no religious persecution under Muslim rule.

http://vonbluvensshow.blogspot.com/

The Vonbluvens Show website is back up as well
http://www.vonbluvens.org

GENTILEMEN, START YOUR PUKERS…

Special Message – Jesus the Immigrant

Published: 2/15/2006

We’re in the Sundays after Epiphany, that time after Christmas. What did Jesus and the Holy Family do right after Christmas? They became refugees, immigrating to Egypt, fleeing an oppressive government at home. If Egypt, for all of its pagan limits, had not received Jesus, Mary and Joseph and protected them, then our salvation would have been jeopardized. That’s why Christians have a peculiar slant on issues of immigration. We know the story of Jesus the refugee. Our Lord has commanded us to receive the sojourner, the alien within our gates, remembering that all of us were alienated from God until Jesus showed us hospitality.

Among Alabama United Methodists, we have had some of our most astounding evangelistic success among Spanish-speaking persons. These sisters and brothers not only found America but also Methodism. The recipient of this year’s Denman Evangelism award is one of our Spanish-speaking pastors who is being unfairly harassed by the INS, costing us much in church dollars to keep him working for Jesus in the U.S.

Alas, some politicians are attempting to make political hay by making life more difficult for the newest Americans by linking fear of immigration with fear of terrorism. In December the House of Representatives passed HR 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, despite the opposition of many churches. The bill is now in the Senate and may be considered by the Judiciary committee as early as March 2nd.

It looks to me like this bill is not only mean spirited but also that it fails to address comprehensive immigration reform. It doesn’t include any provision for a guest worker program, an earned legalization program, nor a reduction in the backlogs for family-based immigration. Instead, the bill criminalizes undocumented people for unlawful presence in the United States, and criminalizes people who work or volunteer with faith-based organizations like ours for helping someone in need, who turns out to be undocumented. Personally, I like the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (S.1033), introduced by Senators McCain (R-AZ) and Kennedy (D-MA). I have found helpful information at the faith based website: http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/action.html.

I urge all of you, as followers of Jesus Christ, the Immigrant, to examine this legislation, let your representatives know how you feel, and prayerfully consider how best to show Christian hospitality in your churches to our fellow immigrants.

William H. Willimon

http://www.northalabamaumc.org/bishop_column_detail.asp?TableName=oBishop_Sermons_Speeches_PWLDXP&PKValue=77

The bastard from Texas says that shitty little pariah state in the Middle East, has “defeated” Hezbollah. I guess you judeo-“Christians” are going to rejoice to this shit, huh? Remember you heaven bound boys & girls to send your hard earned money to Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, John Hagee or Jerry Falwell! Don’t get left behind, you rapture bunnies & don’t forget to pray for WWIII…Mike

http://www.nwitimes.com/articles/2006/08/15/ap/headlines/d8jgmn200.txt

“alex Says:

The 24th 2006f August, 2006 at 7:27 pm

Iran will fire ballistic missiles on Israel if attacked cleric – Yahoo! News

I THINK IT WOULD BE WORTH IT’S WEIGHT IN TOMANS (IRANIAN MONEY), IF TEL AVIV WEST & TEL AVIV EAST WOULD ATTACK IRAN. THIS WOULD GIVE IRAN A GREAT EXCUSE TO POUND THAT SHITTY little COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH BALLISTIC MISSILES…..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060815/wl_afp/mideastconflictiranwarn_060815083253”

I believe Iran also has Sunburst missiles. These would be deadly for the US fleet in the Persian Gulf, especially the carriers.