Messrs. Rosen and Weissman are accused of getting classified documents from a Pentagon analyst, Messr. Franklin, and then passing those documents to Israeli “diplomats” and “journalists”.
Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee employees facing charges of revealing classified information won a procedural victory June 20, when a federal appeals court ruled against the prosecution’s request to lower the burden of proof in their upcoming trial and against attempts to hold the trial behind closed doors.
The ruling was applauded by several Jewish groups, marking a slight shift in the position of the organized Jewish community, which until now has generally avoided making its voice heard on the case.
Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, the two traitors, were indicted in 2005 for giving away classified information to israel. The two former Aipac officials are accused of receiving classified information from Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin and passing it on to Israeli diplomats and journalists. A final trial date for the investigation, which became public in August 2004, has not yet been set.
I don’t understand what the matter is with the courts. These are traitors. Hang them. And Ban AIPAC.
AIPAC is an organization whose main, sole, and only function is to promote Israel and Israeli goals in American life - including the TV, radio, newspapers - but also, perhaps most importantly, exerting great pressure on our elected (and yet to be elected to other, more powerful positions) politicians.
DId you know the shocking thing? The national anthem of the state of Israel is sung at AIPAC conferences, and it was only stopped in 2005, because… of the two AIPAC spies being arrested by the FBI, and singing an Israeli national anthem when two AIPAC high ranking members were tried for betraying USA’s secrets to Israel… “would raise suspicion of Dual Loyalty” according to Rosner’s blog.
But the Americans are uninformed about this trial, AIPAC and the role of the pro Israel Lobby, and so the singing of the Israel national anthem was resumed at AIPAC conventions, and Americans continue to die and come back without arms, legs, eyes, fingers… from Iraq… and soon Iran.
Taking classified, secret documents from the Pentagon, and passing them to Israeli spies, is not treason - because American and Israeli interests are the same.
And you know what is the funniest thing in all of this? –> The American Court system agrees!!!
This is madness. The United States of America has been hijacked. The neocons have destroyed what America stood for, and defended all these years. The whole world laughs at American ignorance…
There is a story out in Taipai Times, Taiwan, that has linked the rise of the oil price in the international makes to a similar decline in the value of US dollar.
The rapid rise in the price of oil and the sharp depreciation of the dollar are two of the most noteworthy developments of the past year. The price of oil has increased by 85 percent over the past 12 months, from US$65 a barrel to US$120. During the same period, the dollar fell by 15 percent relative to the euro and 12 percent against the yen. To many observers, the combination of a falling dollar and a rise in oil prices appears to be more than a coincidence.
There is another article in FrontLineThoughts.com which has analyzed the problem to many speculators on the Wall Street. There was a shortfall in the supply of oil as well, as no country was ready to accept the Iranian oil.
While a large part of this week’s rise in oil was short covering (you can tell that from open positions), the supply of oil was down 7% from last year, even with demand beginning to fall.
The supply from Iran was hampered, as Iran is storing Oil in rented Oil Tankers.
For a few weeks now, observers have noticed that Iran is leasing tankers and storing oil in them. At about $140,000 a week or so, that is expensive storage. They have a problem selling their oil. Their oil is not very high-quality, and there are only a few places that can take it and refine it. India, China, and the US are among the countries with refineries that can take Iranian oil.
There was another problem with the speculative boom on the Wall Street that has caused the reduction in the supply of Oil. George Friedman of Stratfor says
“Today we started checking on how many tankers Iran had, and soon discovered that there is a serious tanker shortage. Lease prices have soared in the past few weeks. It is clear there are a lot of speculators betting that oil is going to rise to $150 or so and are willing to pay very high prices for keeping the oil on the seas waiting for higher prices. It is a speculative boom.”
Now isn’t that a disturbing sign. These speculators and hedge funds should be lined up and shot for trying to profiteer from poor, wary consumers.
Whats in store for the Future?
In the long run, the price of oil is invariably going to increase according to experts @ InvestorInsight.com
David Galland points out that Mexico, which supplies 14% of US oil, is likely to be a net importer of oil by the middle of the next decade, as their internal demand increases and production decreases. Iran will be a net importer within six years for the same reasons. Russia’s oil exports are down this year, as are Mexico’s. Energy costs are going to rise in the next decade, and maybe much sooner.
One reason for this rise of Oil price is Demand-Supply situation. We hit a peak in production in 2005. Since then, the production has been declining at the rate of 3% a year, whereas the demand is rising 3% a year. There has been no major Oil-field discovery in the last 4 decades. Another problem is that the value of USD in international markets is crashing. So, we can’t afford to buy fuel.
The cost of Oil has doubled in terms of Euros in the last 5 years, whereas it has tripled in terms of US$ in the same period. There is no denying of the fact that the purchasing power of common man has declined sharply, all thanks to the Federal Reserve.
For Gas to reach $10 per gallon, Crude would have to be priced at $300 per barrel. It won’t happen unless the value of USD Greenbacks crashes in the International markets and everyone stars dumping dollars and they become worthless.
It is a distinct possibility that the value of dollar would crash soon. The United States has been exporting paper currency in order to import products and services from Asia and Europe. They no longer produce a lot of stuff in the United States any more. It is a service-run economy, and when the dollar crashes, gas will hit 10$ per gallon, and the ensuing hyper-inflation will take down the Stock-markets and all the savings.
Ron Paul is the only guy who can save America from Total Collapse…
The Oil price would come down in the short term. It cannot stay up there unless the Corporations want it to stay up there. But in the long run, here ain’t no way we can prevent a huge increase in Crude oil.
In 2005, total worldwide energy consumption was 500 EJ (= 5 x 1020 J) with 86.5% derived from the combustion of fossil fuels. Out of that, about 180 EJ is obtained directly from Oil, 120 EJ from Coal and 110 EJ from Natural Gas. The Industrial world depends very heavily on Fossil fuels.
Maybe Shale Oil and Tar sands can be used to ratchet-up production of oil, in effect quadruple the total oil produced. But this is not going to happen, because producing oil this way is very expensive.
Allegedly there are 1.5 to 1.7 trillion barrels of oil in the Colorado Green River valley, in the form of Oil Shale. The last attempt to recover this oil was thwarted by a sudden drop in oil pricing caused by Saudi Arabia increasing production.
Companies existing purely for shale oil recovery went bankrupt. Major oil companies stopped their losses by abandoning the project. The price of oil is very sensitive to production quantities. A 1% shortage causes far more than 1% price increases, and visa versa. Increasing oil supply by tapping the shale oil could cause serious price drops, making the whole enterprise unprofitable.
At the present time, only Canada has a large-scale commercial tar sands industry.
Alberta sits atop the biggest petroleum deposit outside the Arabian peninsula - as many as 300 billion recoverable barrels and another trillion-plus barrels that could one day be within reach using new retrieval methods. (By contrast, the entire Middle East holds an estimated 685 billion barrels that are recoverable.) But there’s a catch. Alberta’s black gold isn’t the stuff that geysered up from Jed Clampett’s backyard. It’s more like a mix of Silly Putty and coffee grounds - think of the tar patties that stick to the bottom of your sandals at the beach - and it’s trapped beneath hundreds of feet of clay and rock.
It is basically a mining operation to extract this oil and it adversely affects the environment. And not to forget the production cannot be raised to the level where it becomes unprofitable for the companis in business.
Today, you can basically pump out a barrel of oil from Iraq for less than 1$, and it sells for $125+ in the international market. Now, thats what I’d call a “Ginormous” profit.
That is why, Corporations who don’t want to lose their profits are keeping a close eye on the production of oil. The banking cartel is going hand-in-hand with these people. There is not enough funding for alternatives to the present carbon-based fuel, which is unsustainable.
Wait for a while, demand would soften, and the price of oil would be within comfort limits for a while…
Have you ever wondered how much money exists on earth?
It must be a whole lot, right? After all, so much of it changes hands - or rather, bank accounts - on a daily basis.
But, if there is so much money out there - WHY IS IT NEVER ENOUGH?
How does it come into existence?
And are there any limits to how much of it can be issued?
This 47 minute video answers these and so many more questions that NEED to be answered, but that you didn’t know need to be asked.
I cannot overstate how important it is that you watch this video and that you pass it on to EVERY HUMAN BEING you come in contact with.
It is your consideration for your fellow man and your generosity - not with your money, but with your time and your knowledge - that can make the difference between saving humanity or letting it continue to barrel towards self-destruction.
But, first, some important quotes from some thoughtful men.
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
- Kenneth Boulding, Economist
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“I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use of its own money . . . I believe that the time will come when people will demand that this be changed.
I believe the time will come in this country when they will actually blame you and me and everyone else connected with Congress for sitting idly by an permitting such an idiotic system to continue.”
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, there is no human relation between master and slave.”
–Leo Tolstoy
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“The inability of the Colonists to get the power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.”
–Benjamin Franklin
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“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for over forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright light of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government.
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
–David Rockefeller in an address to Trilateral Commission meeting, 1991
It’s up to you and me and every other person who reads this post to make sure that the bright lights of publicity finally shine on this colossal scam.
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Thanks, Erospolier, for sharing it with us.
Hillary cites “Assassination” as the reason for not quitting the race
Today, Hillary Clinton claimed she wasn’t quitting th race because there may be an assassination attempt on Obama, just like Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June 1992.
Is Hillary calling for the assassination of Barack Obama?
Hillary Clinton has moved to the “DARK SIDE” for trying to incite a catastrophic event by referencing to “assassination” of a front-runner.
There is a raging debate over this issue on Reddit
The Paulunteers are all ready to take the fight for Liberty to the Republican National Convention in September 2008. In this GOP convention, we demand that Dr. Ron Paul be allowed to participate, to speak the truth about the problems the United States is facing, and how it has been hijacked by the Neocons and the Military-Industrial Complex.
What is needed is less government, less taxes, no policing the world, and MORE LIBERTY… to allow people to make their own decisions rather than a Nanny State telling its citizens what to do.
Just months from now, Ron Paul will make history in Minneapolis-Saint Paul!
Photo of the victims of the Israeli massacres at Sabra-Shatilla Lebanon refugee camps
Israel: Founded On Terror By Rev. Ted Pike
Zionist-dominated mainstream media vividly portrays Israel as a tiny embattled nation seeking peace in a sea of Arab hostility. 1 Arabs, we are told, commit acts of terror while Israel only resorts to violence out of self-protection. The facts of history paint a very different picture.
Far from deploring terror, Israel has sanctioned terror to seize and expand its territory since its beginnings. In 1944, Zionist leaders in Israel faced two alternatives. They could continue to allow the British and Arabs to occupy Palestine , who would continue to pressure Israel to concede a Palestinian state. Or they could drive both British and Arabs out. Israelis chose the latter.
Members of the Zionist ruling elite and their clandestine terrorist enforcers–the Jewish Agency, Hagana, Irgun and the Stern Gang–began to exert every possible terrorist means to dominate Palestine . Their strategy was simple: the more respectable Zionist establishment would take the “high road” and officially disavow terrorism. Meanwhile, Zionist terrorists would commit any crime needed to disrupt British occupation and to panic Arabs into flight. The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, available in most university libraries, documents from British records more than five hundred violent or terrorist incidents against Palestinians and the British occupation between 1939 and 1948. These included bombings, booby traps and landmines, kidnappings and torture of prisoners, bank robberies, murders of Arabs, and assassinations of police and British officials. 2
Chief terrorists were David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and later, Ariel Sharon. Begin headed Irgun, and Shamir led the Stern Gang. They cooperated intimately with the highest political body of the Zionist establishment, the Jewish Agency, and the popular Zionist resistance army, Hagana. Ben-Gurion headed Hagana and later the Jewish Agency. 3
After 1944–when Ben-Gurion formally rejected the British plan for partition of Palestine into Jewish/Arab states–most Israelis, particularly the young, favored expulsion of British and Arabs.
Here is the short list of Zionist atrocities from 1944 to the present:
• Assassination of Lord Moyne on November 6, 1944 . Under orders from Yitzhak Shamir, terrorists of the Stern Gang shot Lord Moyne, British resident minister. Purpose: To drive the British from Palestine .
• The King David massacre, July 22, 1946 . Begin’s Irgun terrorists, with encouragement from Ben-Gurion’s Hagana, blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem , murdering 92. Purpose: Destroy British records that proved the highest members of the Zionist government backed anti-British terrorism. 4
• British sergeants hanged, July 12, 1947 . Begin, Shamir, and Haganah authorized kidnapping and hanging of two British sergeants, booby trapping their bodies and mining the area. During this time, Shamir sent many letters and package bombs to British officials. 1947 also included multiple cases of kidnappings (including brutal floggings of British soldiers) by Jewish terrorists.
• The Semiramis Hotel massacre, January 5, 1948 . Jewish Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and Haganah leaders blew up the Seramis Hotel in Jerusalem , killing 20 and wounding 17. Purpose: Terrorize Arabs into fleeing Israel . 5
• Deir Yassin massacre, April 9, 1948 . Begin’s Irgun soldiers killed 250 sleeping Arab villagers at Deir Yassin, a suburb of Jerusalem . “25 pregnant women were bayoneted in their abdomens while still alive. 52 children were maimed under the eyes of their mothers and then were slain and their heads cut off.” 6 “…Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun gang, himself admitted on December 28, 1950 in a press interview in New York, that the Deir Yassin incident had been carried out in accordance with an agreement between the Irgun and the Jewish Agency and Haganah.” 7 Begin was always proud of what he had done, considering Deir Yassin a legitimate military target. Irgun trucks drove throughout Judea , announcing by loudspeaker to hundreds of thousands of Arabs that unless they fled Israel they would meet the same fate. Deir Yassin and subsequent terrorist acts precipitated flight of more than 800,000 Arabs from Palestine . In town after town Zionist soldiers drove Palestinians out, usually killing any person who delayed or attempted to take any possessions with them. Arab towns were bulldozed, replaced with Jewish communities. 8 Begin comments on the level of Palestinian terror generated by Irgun’s massacre at Deir Yassin. “Out of evil, however, good came. This Arab propaganda spread a legend of terror amongst Arabs and Arab troops, who were seized with panic at the mention of Irgun soldiers. The legend was worth a dozen battalions to the forces of Israel .” 9 Israel exiled these unfortunates to concentration camps in Lebanon , the West Bank , and Gaza , refusing to allow them repossession of their land and property or adequate compensation. 10 This is the seminal cause of international Arab terrorism and the Mid-East conflict that rages today.
• Assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, September 17, 1948 . This killing by the Stern Gang was on orders of Shamir. Purpose: To sabotage UN efforts to create a Palestinian state.
• Massacre at Dawayma, October 29, 1948 . Israeli soldiers killed between 80 and 100 men, women, and children in Dawayma, a suburb of Haifa . Purpose: Intensify terror generated by Deir Yassin and compel the remaining Palestinians to leave Israel. 11
• Massacre at Kibya, October 14, 1953 . In an atrocity condoned by the highest levels of the Israeli government and military, Ariel Sharon led 700 crack paratroopers to attack the Jordanian town of Kibya . They slaughtered 75 innocent men, women, and children primarily by locking families in their homes and blowing them up. 12 Purpose: Collective punishment to avenge the alleged killing of a single Jewish family.
• Massacre of Kafr Kassim, October 29, 1956 . 51 men, women, and children were murdered by Israeli troops as they returned to their villages in the evening after work. 13 more were severely wounded by the gunfire. Purpose: Terrorize Palestinians into not siding with Egypt in case of war. 13
• Massacre of USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 . Israel ’s jet fighters and torpedo boats repeatedly attempted to sink US intelligence monitoring vessel USS Liberty during the 1967 Israel/Egypt war. They killed 34 and wounded 171 American sailors. Purpose: Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan ordered the attack ostensibly to protect Israel ’s intelligence communications, even though the war was virtually over. 14
• Libyan airliner massacre, February 21, 1973 . Straying over Israeli-controlled Sinai air space, a Libyan 727 commercial airliner was intercepted by Israeli fighters and, despite the clearest identification, shot down, killing 106. Purpose: Flexing Zionist power against Libya . 15
• Massacre in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, Beirut , Lebanon , September 23, 1982 . Gen. Ariel Sharon and Yitshak Shamir, in cooperation with “Christian” Phalangist forces sealed all exits and provided aerial flares, illuminating the slaughter of up to 2,750 men, women, and children, according to a body count by the committee of the Red Cross. Purpose: collective punishment of Palestinians. 16
What About Arab Terrorism?
It was inevitable that Zionism’s threatened and actual expulsion of Arabs from land the Arabs occupied from the seventh century should incur hostility – even terrorism. Jews of Hebron were massacred by Arabs in 1929. The Arab revolt in Palestine beginning in 1936 resulted in acts of violence against many Jews, followed by anti-Jewish mistreatment during the 1948 war. Suicide bombings and rocket attacks continue against Israel in recent years.
Who is most at fault? Consider this: If someone, claiming divine right to occupy your house and land, drives you from them, condemning you and your children to a distant, arid concentration camp for generations, would you resort to violence?
There is only one word that describes the one who displaced you. Aggressor. The Palestinians, fanatical and terrorist as many have become, are nevertheless defenders of ancient rights and territories that have been horrifically violated. They are victims hitting back.
Becoming “Civilized” Terrorists?
During the past 40 years, Israel’s continuing atrocities are justified as “collective punishment” of the Palestinian people. Israel’s attack on Lebanon in 1982, described by Israel as such punishment, killed over 19,000 innocent men, women and children. Under Sharon’s invasion of the West Bank under Sharon in 2002, whole villages were attacked with Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters, with occupied homes shelled by tanks or bulldozed over. 4,185 Palestinian men were seized, beaten, jailed. The number of dead is still uncertain since Sharon would not allow western observers to document the aftermath. 17 Israel’s present policies in the West Bank and Gaza, routinely killing large numbers of innocent men, women and children, remain full of atrocities.
I have also written about one of the greatest atrocities Israel still indulges in: the systematic and fiendish torture of many thousands of Palestinian prisoners, incarcerated, most without trial, in Israeli prisons. 18
After leaders of the Third Reich committed atrocities against the Jews during World War II, they were tried, hanged and buried, both physically and under the contempt of humanity. The opposite happened to the bloody and arrogant terrorists of Israel. Ben-Gurion, Begin, Shamir, and Sharon were all elected to leadership of the nation. This reflected the anti-Palestinian, terrorism-friendly mentality of many Israeli voters. 19 The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem documents, from United Nations records, more than 650 attacks by Jewish settlers and the Israeli military against Arabs between 1948 and 1998. 20
Shamefully, evangelical Christians have given uninterrupted support to Israel’s terrorist leaders. Evangelicals believe God brought to birth the state of Israel by divine assistance at every stage. Actually, statehood (i.e. expulsion of the British and Arabs) was made possible by massacre – starting at Deir Yassin. Yet there has never been an atrocity in Israel searing enough to alienate Christian idealism, or even prompt criticism from major evangelical leaders. Dr. Jerry Falwell said Begin was a “man of God.” George Bush described Sharon as a “man of peace.”
What kind of a god would establish a nation on terror? A god who is as evil as the devil.
