by Tyler
Durden 06May2013 -
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-06/story-inequality-us-past-present-and-future
In this far-reaching documentary, we are first treated to
a history lesson from the early 80s to the present day - a
story of lust, debt, and largesse; from Reagan deficits to
cell phones to day trading to real estate... and then 2008
is explained (as reality started to peek through). The
clip projects the next few years - from failed bond
auctions to QE9 and social unrest - "but it
doesn't have to be this way," the narrator
notes. Breaking Inequality is a documentary film about the
corruption between Washington and Wall Street that has
resulted in the largest inequality gap in the history of
America.
It is a film that exposes the truth behind the
single event that occurred back in the early 70's that
set us off on this perilous journey that we are
currently on. The inequality gap is presently the worst
that it has ever been and there is no solution in place to
repair this crippling problem.
No country in the history of the world has ever
remained a super power without a middle class and
the road we are currently traveling doesn't include this
all-important segment of the population. The old saying
"As goes the middle class... so goes the nation" holds
true even more today than ever.
We live in a world where governments can create as
much money as they want in order to fund all kinds of
wasteful projects, wars, handouts, and banker bailouts.
The current system by design has transferred the wealth
from average everyday Americans to an elite few who care
not about the majority.
We have to change our destiny or the middle class will
cease to exist in the United States of America.
Breaking Inequality exposes the truth behind the root of
the problem and it provides a solution to help end it -
starting at around 17:00
Spend 28 of your hard-earned minutes to
understand how we got here, why any future predicated
on the past is untenable, and what the solution could
be...
Labor Zionist-NAZI Collaboration
by Barry Chamish
http://www.barrychamish.com/Newsletters_2014/labor_zionist_nazi_collaboration.html
Please
differentiate me from the Jew haters spreading the story on
the Internet that because Israel parked an old Boeing 777 in
its territory that it, naturally, was behind the
still-to-be-explained disappearance of an Air Malaysia
passenger jet. A very pro-Israel writer sent e the text of
Lenni Brenner's book, Lenni Brenner 51 Documents Zionist
Collaboration with the Nazi, and I pass it on to you.
I have known about Brenner for years but I chose not to
publicize him, doubting his motivation. In simpler terms, I
believed he was driven by Jewish anti-semitism, a version of
the Israel-Behind-Air Malaysia mentality. The problem is,
whatever motivates him, his basic facts are not wrong. Only
his conclusions are, and they lead to deceptive reasoning.
For instance, he cites the murder of Chaim Arlozorov in 1933
at length, as a crime of the righteous opposition to Labor
Zionism, the Herut. Here is my accurate history: In 1932,
there were three branches of Zionism; Labor, Herut and the
Orthodox. In the same year, over 250 organizations
represented the Jews of Germany. That same year, Labor
presented a deal to the Nazis that by 1934, would see the
Herut and Orthodox removed from the Zionist shadow
government of Israel, and reduce the number of organizations
representing German Jews to one: Labor Zionism. The deal
became The Transfer Agreement. The Labor Zionists promised
the Nazis to end worldwide sanctions and boycotts against
their regime, in return for making life impossible for
German Jews, forcing them to emigrate to Palestine. Herut
got wind of the atrociously immoral agreement and fought it
tooth and nail. To nip revolt in the bud, the Labor
negotiator of the agreement, Chaim Arlozorov was murdered in
Tel Aviv, and Herut was blamed for long enough to provide an
excuse to remove them from power. This misconception led to
the very misguided deduction that all Jews were working with
their soon-to-be murderers. Allow me to elaborate: Those who
have read Perfidy by Ben Hecht know that Kastner was the
Jewish Agency employee sent to Hungary to "save" Jews.
Working hand in hand with Adolph Eichmann, Kastner saved
3,000 friends and family and aided the Nazis in the
extermination of the other 400,000. As Eichman proudly
acknowleged: In 1955, hiding in Argentina, Eichmann
discussed Palestine and Kasztner on tape. After his capture
in 1960, Life magazine published excerpts. On the kibbutz in
1937, he; "did see enough to be very impressed by the
way the Jewish colonists were building up their land. I
admired their desperate will to live, the more so since I
was myself an idealist. In the years that followed I often
said to Jews with whom I had dealings that, had I been a
Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist. I could not
imagine being anything else. In fact, I would have been
the most ardent Zionist imaginable."("Eichmann
Tells His Own Damning Story," Life [28 November 1960],
p. 22) He described Kasztner as; "a
fanatical Zionist. He agreed to help keep the Jews from
resisting deportation -- and even keep order in the
collection camps -- if I would close my eyes and let a few
hundred or a few thousand young Jews emigrate illegally to
Palestine. It was a good bargain. For keeping order in the
camps, the price of 15,000 or 20,000 Jews -- in the end
there may have been more -- was not too high for me. And
because Kastner rendered us a great service by helping
keep the deportation camps peaceful, I would let his
groups escape."("I Transported Them to
the Butcher," Life [5 Dec. 1960], p. 146)
And within that observation is the reason Adolph Eichman,
locked in a sound-proof box, was the only Nazi ever
convicted by an Israel court. Yes, the peace-loving Labor
Zionists who brought Israel the suicidal Oslo Accord with
the PLO in 1994, were up to same tricks that murdered the
"useless" religious and right-wing Jews in the '40s. I am
not alone is this reaching this sad conclusion. There exists
a school of proud Jews that won't let this determination
disappear from our history, and as unlikely as it seems, are
fighting to save us from the next massacre. Read my book, Shabtai
Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust, or Rabbi Marvin
Antelman's, To Eliminate The Opiate, add the newest
contribution to the disaster reportage in David
Livingstone's, Black Terror White Soldiers, and never forget
the classic tragedy as movingly told in Perfidy by Ben
Hecht, for more awful details. In the meantime, here is the
Brenner misreading that all Zionists conspired with the
Nazis to utterly and cruelly destruct those Jews who
disagreed with their dastardly scheme, including most of my
family. I will never forgive Labor Zionism. Ever. Below is
Lenni Brenner. Learn from the raw facts and not from the
unprofessional conclusions: Lenni Brenner 51 Documents Zionist
Collaboration with the Nazi
"Agreement for Transferring Property from Germany to
Palestine: Details of the Three Million Mark Agreement",
The Zionist Record, South Africa, September 20, 1933
The World Zionist Organization's collaborationist policy
came to full frail in its Ha Avara or Transfer agreement
with the Nazis. The conditions of the pact changed over the
"30s, always in favor of the Hitlerites, Berlin, August
31stThe Ministry of Economic Affairs has today published the
full text of the decree providing for the transfer of Jewish
property from Germany to Palestine. The decree, which is
numbered 54, and is dared August 28th, states that an
agreement was concluded "with the Jewish bodies concerned,"
for "promoting Jewish emigration to Palestine by releasing
the necessary sums without putting excessive strain upon the
foreign currency funds of the Reichsbank, and at the same
time for increasing German exports to Palestine." The
Reichsbank is for this purpose opening two special accounts
for the Bank of Temple Society, it states, in favor of the
Anglo-Palestine Bank. Special account No. 1, which is
limited to three million marks, may be used for paying in
investment sums of more than fifteen thousand marks for
buying German goods, and the amount paid in will be credited
to the emigrants in Palestine pounds by the Anglo-Pales tine
Bank. Special account No. 2 is designed for payments by
German Jews who wish to invest in Palestine now, but are not
intending to emigrace there until later. Anyone is allowed
to pay in up to fifty thousand marks, also for the purpose
of buying German goods, the amount being payable in
Palestine. It is explicitly emphasized that these accounts
cannot be used for other purposes than for investment in
Palestine. A special Trustee Corporation has been founded
for advising prospective emigrants.
Text of The Agreement
Berlin, September 1st - The full text of the decree issued
by the federal Minister of Economic Affairs setting outthe
terms of the agreement said to have been concluded "with
interested Jewish quarters" to make possible the Transfer
abroad of property belonging to German Jews, mainly to
Palestine, is published here by the Boersen Courier and
reads as follows: (1) Transfer of property to Palestine. (a)
Transfer of amounts exceeding 15,000 marks necessary for
establishing a means of existence. In order to promote the
emigration of German Jews to Palestine by allocating the
requisite sums, without unduly straining the exchange
reserves of the Reichsbank, and at the same time to increase
German exports to Palestine, an arrangement has been
concluded with the participating Jewish bodies on the
following lines: Emigrants who have obtained the sanctions
of the Emigration Advisory Office that they require sums in
excess of the minimum amount of £1,000 necessary for the
admission to Palestine to enable them to establish
themselves in Palestine may within the limits of this
sanction obtain permits to pay an amount in excess of this
sum of 15,000 marks into a Special Account No. I to be
opened by the Reichshaupthank in the Bank of Temple Society,
Ltd., in favor of the Jewish Trust Corporation to he
established in Palestine (andpending the establishment of
this Trust Corporation, in favor of the Anglo-Palestine
Bank,Ltd.). This Special Account No. 1 for which, together
with a second Special Account No. 2 a total amount of three
million marks is envisaged, will be administered by the
Temple Bank as a trust account for the Jewish Trust
Corporation referred to. The account will be used for the
purpose of paying for exports of German goods to Palestine.
"The New Jewish Statesmanship", Labor Palestine,
February 1934
Labor Zionist Moshe Beilinson had previously represented
Italian Zionism in pledging loyalty in the '20s to
Mussolini's new Fascist regime. Now the editor of the daily
Davar could soar to new heights, defending the pact with the
head devil... The meaning of the new policy is: the transfer
of the Jews of Germany to Palestine. It is only for the sake
of this that all those painful renunciations were made; it
is only for the sake of this that the delegates to the
Eighteenth Congress repressed their natural feelings.
"Between the Lines", The Daily Bulletin, March 8, 1935
Many Zionists opposed the ZVfD/WZO collaborationists. Boris
Smolar, chief European correspondent for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, the Zionist news service, spoke for
them.
Zionist Overtures to Nazism
Die Juedische Rundschau, official organ of the Zionist
Organization in Germany, has more than once been criticized
for its overtures to the Nazi government. It has been
pointed out more than once that this organ, while expressing
the views of the Zionists in Germany, acts in contradiction
with the interests of the general Jewish population in the
Reich and with the attitude of world Jewry towards the Nazi
regime. The overture, which this official organ of the
Zionists in Germany has just made, demanding from the Nazi
government economic equality only, at a time when world
Jewry demands the restoration of full rights for German
Jews, will again give ground for anew criticism of the
German Zionist Organization, which is responsible for the
views expressed in the Juedische Rundschau...The Zionist
organ in Berlin has long been criticized for its overtures
to the Nazi regime. It has been suspected that these
overtures are made merely in order to prevent any
persecution of Zionism in Germany. Whether this suspicion is
correct or not is actually not of importance. The important
thing is that the Nazi government takes the Zionist
overtures quite seriously, especially since the barter
agreements were concluded between Palestine and Germany...
Tel Aviv, 1936
Gustav Krojanker, an editor at the oldest European Zionist
publisher, emigrated to Palestine in 1932, and continued to
advocate full collaboration with Nazism for the Hitachduth
Olei Germania, the German Immigrant Association. What is the
process achieved through "Haavara"? (Transfer) Jewish
property-houses, factories, shops-takes the form of
possessions which cannot readily be packed up and brought to
Palestine. It is essential to realize them in cash, and in
turn to convert the cash into movables, e.g., merchandise. A
Jew owning a house may exchange its value for the purchase
of machinery so as to establish a factory in Palestine. That
is the only method of transferring property and, as
explained above, the sole possibility at a time when
transfer of assets is proceeding on a larger scale. But the
individual cannot always choose this method. The house may
belong to a widow who needs no machinery, or the owner may
be unable to predetermine a safe economic pursuit in
Palestine, and so forth. That is where "Haavara" steps in.
It is the intermediary which takes Jewish funds paid over in
Germany and purchases for cash the merchandise anybody needs
in Palestine. The proceeds are then paid over to the
recipients who went to Palestine and they invest the money
in Palestinian enterprise. In effect, "Haavara" arranges for
the conversion of Jewish houses, factories, and shops in
Germany into new Jewish property in Palestine: not
necessarily in the form of houses, factories, and shops once
more, but as Jewish land, Jewish settlements, Jewish
labor...To include oneself within the transfer process, to
open new possibilities, to guide that transfer to Palestine,
are political tasks of first-class magnitude. It is the
political task of Zionism today...Under these circumstances
there would be no sacrifice of honor in securing an
agreement between Germany and Jewish institutions whereby
opportunities would be created for transferring capital and
a large- scale immigration enabling a practicable and speedy
liquidation of the Jewish problem in Germany. Moreover,
Zionism can approach Germany as a claimant, since contrary
to other countries Palestine is proposing a mass migration
in which there are numbers of people without means, and
establish a healthy proportion between capital and human
material..Under these circumstances there would be no
sacrifice of honor in securing an agreement between Germany
and Jewish institutions whereby opportunities would be
created for transferring capital and a large-scale
immigration enabling a practicable and speedy liquidation of
the Jewish problem in Germany. Moreover, Zionism can
approach Germany as a claimant, since contrary to other
countries Palestine is proposing a mass migration in which
there are numbers of people without means, and establish a
healthy proportion between capital and human material....
The choice lies within our grasp: Destruction in Germany,
and hard abnegation for Palestine; that is what they call
"honor"-or redemption from Germany and a flourishing Jewish
homeland-the "national treachery" of which we are being
accused...
Call of Youth, January 1936
The Havorah has thus established a credit with the
Reichsbank. It then obtains orders for the German
merchandise in Palestine and arranges to pay for these
orders with its Reichsbank credit, thus obtaining cash in
Palestine and satisfying the merchandise clause of the
agreement. The Transfer Agreement prevents the country from
being flooded with German merchandise, since goods come in
only as there is need for them. It is the only method
whereby a German Jew can withdraw more than £1000 of his
fortune. Besides, it provides (through Account I) moneys
which are invested in the national funds of Palestine...
There is still another aspect to the question. Because so
many German products enter Palestine the market is flooded.
New markets are needed. So the German consul in Egypt is
approached by the "Havorah" to help sell "Havorah" goods to
the Egyptians and is thereby promised especially low prices.
The same is done in other countries neighboring to
Palestine. Palestine thus becomes the official scab-agent
against the boycott in the Near-East.
Palestine Post, January 15, 1936
Berlin. Tuesday-A bold demand that the German Zionist
Federation be given recognition by the Government as the
only instrument for the exclusive control of German Jewish
life was made by the Executive of that body in a
proclamation today. All German Jewish organizations, it was
declared, should be dominated by the Zionist spirit...
The Congress Bulletin, January 24, 1936
American Jewish Congress, a leading pro-Zionist
organization. Once a leading Zionist, and President of the
Berlin Jewish Community, Kareski discovered the
"compatibility" between Hitlerism and Zionism and then
voluntarily joined the Secret Service of the Reich. He
became the Jew who made Hitlerism his Jewish nationalist
faith. He openly declared-in Goebbels' "Angriff"-the
Nuremberg Laws to be a "blessing to the Jews." Who but
Kaieski was to be entrusted with implementing the Nazi-made
cultural autonomy for Jews?
The New Palestine, September 17, 1937
It should be known that during the last four and a half
years, not even one Jew was seen or received by any member
of the Nazi Government to consider a political question. We
dealt only with the officials of the ministries and the
police, with the Gestapo, the Jewish department of Goebbel's
ministry or with the ministry for economic affairs (on the
problems of transfer)... It was very difficult for the
Zionists to operate. It was morally disturbing to seem to be
considered as the favored children of the Nazi Government,
particularly when it dissolved the anti-Zionist youth
groups, and seemed in other ways to prefer the Zionists. The
Nazis asked for a "more Zionist behavior." Prinz
(1902-1988)head of the AmericanJewish Congress, definitely
thought that Zionism could and should come to an
accommodation with Nazism. Prinz: Oh, we thought, in
our discussions with intellectuals in the SS movement,
that the time would come when they would say, "Yes, you
live in Germany, you are Jewish people, you are different
from us, but we will not kill you, we will permit you to
live your own cultural life, and develop your own national
capacities and dreams." We thought, at the beginning of
the Hitler regime that such a very frank discussion was
possible. We found among the SS intellectuals, some people
were ready for such a talk.
David Yisraeli, The Palestinian Problem in German
Politics 1889-1945 (Hebrew), Bar-Ilan University, Appendix
(German):
The Zionists were always more eager to extend their
relationship than the Nazis. It was therefore the Haganah,
the military arm of the Jewish Agency (de facto the Labor
Zionist militia), that obtained permission to negotiate
directly with the SS. A Haganah agent, Feivel Polkes arrived
in Berlin on February 26, 1937 and was assigned Adolf
Eichrnann as his negotiating partner. Their conversations
were recorded in a report by Eichmann's superior,
Franz-Albert Six, found in files captured by the Americans
after World War 11. In 1983, I met Yoav Gelber, a scholar at
Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust center. I asked what he
knew of Polkes: "The Haganah archives refuses to let me see
his file." On October 3, I went there and asked custodian
Chaim Zamir to see the file: "There is no file." "But Yoav
Gelber says that you would not let him see the file." "There
is no file because it would be too embarrassing..." The
above-mentioned Jew, Feivel Polkes, who is active as a
central figure in the Jewish intelligence service, Haganah,
was known here while visiting Berlin between February 26 and
March 2, 1937, as referred by DNB correspondent Dr.
Reichart. In connection with the contact made with him at
that time, it was found that Polkes is well acquainted with
all important matters occurring in the Jewish world. A plan,
in coordination with Gestapo (II/B 94), was formulated to
enlist Polkes as a steady source of information for the
Security Service. He stated that he is ready to serve
Germany and supply information as long as this does not
oppose his political goal. Among other things, he is ready
to stand by the interests of German foreign policy in the
Middle East. He will try to find the German Reich the oil
sources without affecting British spheres of influence, all
on the condition that Germany will assist Jewish immigration
to Palestine, and on condition that Germany also ease the
monetary regulations for these Jewish emigrants. In
connection with other queries, he let it be know that he
knew the men and the background of the Gustloff murder...
For the work of contacting him, we especially suggest SS
Group Leader Eichmann of Department 11/112, who was in
charge of the previous discussion with Polkes in Berlin, and
was invited by the latter to visit the Jewish colonies in
Palestine as his guest...Polkes can be given the following
assurances.
Pressure can be put on the Reich Representation of the
Jews in Germany in such a way that those Jews emigrating
from Germany will go exclusively to Palestine and
nowhere else. Such a measure lies entirely in the German
interest and is already prepared thru measures of the
Gestapo. At the same time, Polkes' plans to create a
Jewish majority in Palestine would be aided through this
measure.
Those Jews arrested under suspicion of working for the
Haganah would be freed.
Additionally, money could be made available to Polkes
for his services.
After talking with Assessor Wilmanns of the Reich Economic
Ministry, who is an expert on Palestine Transfer affairs,
1,000 Reichmarks for 3/4th of a year would be available thru
the Transfer service, so that the Gestapo Security Service
would not have any further costs...
The Holocaust, John Mendelsohn (Ed.)
On October 2, 1937, the liner Romania arrived in Haifa with
two "journalists," aboard, Herbert Hagen and his junior
colleague, Eichmann. They met Feivel Polkes, who showed them
Haifa from Mount Carmel and took them to visit a kibbutz.
Jewish Frontier, March 1942
Labor Zionist Greenberg details the development of Zionist
internalized anti-semitism. The fashion for Zionist speakers
(including the writer) is to declare from the platform that
"to be a good Zionist one must first be somewhat of an
anti-Semite." One can sense this attitude in some of
Pinsker's writings: there is a great deal of it in Syrkin
and in Borochow, the two main theoreticians of the Labor
Zionist movement; A. D. Gordon, the author of the idea of
the Religion of Labor (Dat Ha-Avoda) wrote, in a spirit of
extreme contrition, about the national sins of the Jews
which must be atoned for by manual labor; I. H.Brenner, the
nearest to Dostoyevsky in Hebrew literature, indulged in a
masochistic self-flagellation. To this day Labor Zionist
circles are under the influence of the idea that the Return
to Zion involves a process of purification from our economic
uncleanliness. Whosoever does not engage in so-called
"productive" manual labor, is believed to be a sinner
against Israel and against mankind.
Der Angriff (The Attack), Berlin, September 27, 1934 -
LEOPOLD VON MILDENSTEIN
A Zionist convinced the Baron, to write a pro-Zionist piece
for the Nazi press. He visited Palestine as the six months
guest of the WZO and wrote a 12-part series for Der Angriff,
the Nazis' chief party organ. To commemorate his expedition,
Propaganda Minister Goebbels had a medal struck: on one side
the swastika, on the other the Zionist star...
Jewish Chronicle, London, January 3, 1936
Georg Kareski joined the German Revisionists after Hitler
came to power, seeing them as the potential equivalent of
the successful Nazis. Indeed the Nazis allowed only the
"State Zionists" the right to wear uniforms, indoors.
The American Hebrew , February 21, 1936
The ZVfD bitterly fought the Revisionists for the Nazis'
patronage. The Nazi Commissioner for Jewish Cultural
Affairs, Herr Hinkel, has given an important interview to
the official Nazi newspaper, Rote Erde. Herr Hinkel began by
enumerating the many "favors" which the Nazi regime has done
for the Jews by establishing the special Jewish "Kulturbund"
to look after their cultural interest. He then explained
that owing to the shortage of special Jewish dramas, the
Kulturbund was obliged to produce also non- Jewish dramas.
It was unfortunate that this was necessary, but the Nazis
were "generous" and did not make unnecessary difficulties
for the Jews. The most important part of the interview,
however, dealt not with the Kulturbund, but with Zionism.
Towards the end of the interview, Herr Hinkel said: "I have
consciously allowed the Zionist movement to exert the
strongest influence upon the cultural and spiritual
activities of the Kulturbund because the Zionists as the
'Racial Jews' have at least given us formal guarantees of
cooperation in acceptable form." ###
Anonymous - The Plan is now Live
Our World: Lessons from the embassy takeover
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
09/12/2011 22:39
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=237719
Until last weekend, both the Israeli Left and the US
foreign policy establishment believed the situation in
Egypt was not significantly worse than it had been under
deposed president Hosni Mubarak
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We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend’s mob
assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the six
Israeli security officers who were on the brink of being
slaughtered were rescued at the last moment and spirited
out of the country. If the Egyptian commandos hadn’t
arrived on the scene at the last moment, the situation
would have been too explosive for a sober-minded
assessment of the rapidly deteriorating situation with our
neighbor to the south.
Any assessment of the weekend’s events must begin by
recounting a few key aspects of the assault. First, this
was the second mob attack on the embassy in so many weeks.
During the first assault, an Egyptian rioter scaled the
20-story building where the embassy is housed, tore down
the Israeli flag, and threw it to the frenzied mob below
which swiftly burned it. Rather than being arrested for
the crime of assaulting a foreign embassy, the rioter was
embraced as a hero by Egypt’s military regime. The
governor of Giza awarded him an apartment and a job.
Second, for six hours after the assault on the embassy
began on Friday evening, Israel’s leaders tried
desperately to contact the leaders of the Egyptian
military junta to request their intercession on behalf of
the trapped security officers.
Field Marshal Muhammad Tantawi refused to speak with
either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu or Defense
Minister Ehud Barak.
Third, Egyptians authorities refused to intervene to save
the lives of the Israeli security officers until after the
Americans intervened directly on their behalf.
That is, Israel’s entreaties, and Egypt’s international
legal obligations were insufficient to move the Egyptian
authorities to act to save the embassy personnel from the
mob. Only the apparent threat of direct US action against
Egypt convinced them to act.
The behavior of the Egyptian mob and military junta alike
served as a wake-up call for two key constituencies.
Until last weekend, both the Israeli Left and the US
foreign policy establishment believed the situation in
Egypt was not significantly worse than it had been under
deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
Most Israelis awoke to the fact that Israel’s border with
Egypt is no longer a peaceful one three weeks ago. After
the Egyptian-Palestinian terror cell infiltrated Israel
from Sinai on August 18 and massacred eight Israelis on
the highway to Eilat, most Israelis recognized that
relations with Egypt had been ruptured.
But until the weekend, Israel’s Left insisted there was a
distinction between the lawless Sinai and the more orderly
situation in Cairo. They argued that all that was needed
to calm the situation in Sinai was for the military junta
to assert its authority in Sinai as it does in the rest of
Egypt. Hence, the Left argued that it is in Israel’s
interest to amend the peace treaty and allow the Egyptian
military to remilitarize the Sinai.
Since the weekend, these claims have been notably absent
from the discourse. After the Egyptian military allowed
the mob to take over the embassy, residual leftist faith
in the junta’s moderation and commitment to the peace with
Israel is swiftly evaporating.
As for the Americans, unlike Israel, American foreign
policy hands from across the conservative- liberal divide
supported the mob in Tahrir Square that called for
Mubarak’s overthrow. The Americans hailed Mubarak’s demise
as a triumph of liberal democratic forces in the Arab
world. But in the aftermath of the weekend’s assault on
the embassy, voices from across the political spectrum in
the US are calling for a reassessment of US relations with
Egypt.
For his part, Obama’s willingness to intervene on behalf
of the besieged security guards at the embassy was
probably not divorced from his assessment of the political
fallout likely to ensue from the slaughter of Israeli
embassy guards by the Egyptian mob.
In such an event, the American public would immediately
equate Obama’s support for the “democratic, revolutionary”
mob against longstanding US ally Mubarak with his
predecessor Jimmy Carter’s support for the “democratic,
revolutionary” Iranian mob against the US-allied Shah of
Iran in 1979.
The fact that Obama recognizes the political significance
of the developments in Egypt signals that he too may be
willing to consider adopting a different policy towards
Egypt in the months to come.
All of this is important.
In the absence of a reassessment of the situation in
Egypt by the Israeli Left and the American policy
establishment alike, the chance of anyone adopting
rational policies towards the strongest Arab state would
remain small.
Any rational policy must be based on an accurate
assessment of the dynamics of the post- Mubarak political
situation. Specifically, is the junta part of the mob or
is it simply unable or unwilling to manage it? Apparently
it is a bit of both.
Like its treatment of the rioter who tore the Israeli
flag from the embassy building two weeks ago, the regime’s
arrest in June of Ilan Grapel, the dual Israeli-American
citizen, on trumped-up espionage charges is an example of
the junta acting as part of the mob.
On the other hand, the regime’s decision to try Mubarak
and his sons in contravention of Tantawi’s solemn pledge
to Mubarak is an indication that Tantawi and his generals
are led by the mob.
As for Grapel – and to a lesser degree Mubarak – the US’s
ultimate success in forcing the junta to rescue the
Israelis trapped at the embassy demonstrates that the US
still has significant leverage against Egypt. When it is
sufficiently adamant, Washington can force the junta
change its behavior.
It is not clear how much this leverage is dependent on
continued US financial and military assistance to Egypt.
Obviously, an assessment of its significance should guide
any US consideration of reducing or cutting off that aid.
As for Israel, the mob’s ability to determine the course
of events in Egypt and the junta’s refusal to stand up to
the mob on Israel’s behalf is a strong indication that the
peace treaty is doomed. After the junta stood back and
allowed the mob to storm the embassy, it is impossible to
believe the junta will defy the mob’s demand to abrogate
the treaty.
The fact that the treaty is doomed doesn’t mean that
Israel will immediately find itself at war with Egypt –
although the prospect can no longer be ruled out. The US’s
continued leverage against the regime – like NATO’s
leverage against Turkey – may very well convince the
Egyptians to maintain a ceasefire with Israel.
On the other hand, US leverage may end after November’s
elections. The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies are
expected to win a parliamentary majority and the
presidency.
Given the explosiveness of the situation, it is
imperative that the US not repeat its rush to action from
January where without considering the consequences of its
actions, Washington hurriedly sided with the Tahrir Square
mob against Mubarak. The US shouldn’t support elections or
oppose them. It shouldn’t cut off aid or increase it. It
shouldn’t condemn the junta or embrace it.
The Americans should simply monitor the situation and
prepare for all contingencies.
As for Israel, it must prepare for the possibility of
war. It must increase the size of the IDF by adding a
division to the Southern Command. It must train for desert
warfare. It must expand the Navy.
Thankfully, all Israeli personnel were safely evacuated
from Cairo. But this happy circumstance must not blind
anyone to the dangers mounting in Egypt.
A story of an Island and
a Whale by Rabbi YY Jacobson
Art: Jacek Yerka
Two old Jewish men are standing in front of the Czar's
firing squad.
The officer asks them if they would like a final
cigarette.
One of them says, "No, I don't smoke, and you can drop
dead."
The other whispers in his ear, "Shhh, Yankle, don't make
trouble."
The Whale The latest developments in Egypt
have become a source of concern in Israel. The Jewish State
is in doubt whether the new emerging powers in Egypt will
honor the cold peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, signed
three decades ago. This only underscores yet once again the
vulnerable position of Israel, and how its very existence is
still questioned. A revolution so inspiring and uplifting in
the land of the Pharaohs, but Israel's right of existence is
still not a simple matter.
Let us reflect a bit on this.
One of the great Talmudic sages related the following
episode:
Once, while on a ship, we came to what we assumed was a
large island, since we saw on it sand and growing grass. We
disembarked the ship, went on to the island, built a fire,
and cooked our meal. Yet what we assumed to be an island was
really a fish. When the fish felt the heat, he rolled over
and we were plunged into the water. Had the ship not been
nearby, we would have drowned. -- Talmud Bava Basra 73b.
What is the meaning behind this absurd Talmudic tale,
related by one of its great sages, Rabba the son of Bar
Chana?
According to some of the great Talmudic commentators, this
tale captures, in intriguing metaphor, one of the most
essential truths about Jewish history, particularly one
relating to the holiday of Purim, which will be celebrated
in a few weeks. The Journey From the moment they stood at
Mt. Sinai more than three millennia ago, the Jewish people
have been traveling on a lone and long journey. Their
destination is a world healed, redeemed and reunified with
its Creator; a society cleansed from ego-centricity, hatred
and bloodshed; a universe permeated with moral and spiritual
awareness, filled with "the knowledge of the Divine as the
waters cover the sea" (in the words of the prophet Isaiah
chapter 11). The Torah and its Mitzvos serve as their
blueprint for this courageous voyage in a vast and seemingly
endless sea.
Yet the waters have often become increasingly tumultuous and
the voyage discouraging, if not apparently futile. So when
in the midst of their journey they observed what seemed to
be an island of serenity, an oasis of tranquility, a respite
from a miserable fate, many of them abandoned the "ship" of
Jewish consciousness and commitment for the perceived
blessings of freedom and happiness.
The era in which the Purim story occurred was a classical
example of this pattern. The king was married to a Jewish
woman; large segments of Jewish society assimilated into
Persian culture; the Jewish establishment played a pivotal
role in the economical and political structures of the
Persian Empire. The community had been invited to the royal
feast and given status as equal citizens. In reciprocity,
the Jews learned how to "behave;" how to become integrated
and law abiding citizens. They did not demand kosher food or
kosher wine at the feast, nor did they create any other
waves that would disturb the equilibrium and make them stand
out as Jews.
Seventy years after being expelled from their ancient
homeland, their Temple being burnt to the ground, many of
them had abandoned the old ship, secure in their belief that
they have reached an island of serenity; they finally "made
it." Identity Crisis Throughout history, the
struggle of Jewish identity and our relationships with the
world around us has become so challenging, that it often
caused us to redefine ourselves from within. Jean-Paul
Sartre claimed in his Sur le Question Juif that the only
thing Jews had in common was that they were the victims of
hate. It is not Jews who create anti-Semitism, he said, but
anti-Semitism that creates Jews. Arthur Koestler wrote:
"Self-hatred is the Jews patriotism." Franz Kafka said:
"What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have
anything in common with myself."
Time and time again we have been lured into the faith that
if we abandon the "ship" of Judaism-of Torah and Mitzvos-we
would gain acceptance among the brotherhood of mankind. "Be
a man in the street and a Jew at home," was the 19th century
slogan by the Enlightened Jews in Western Europe. If only
Jews weren't so Jewish we would have less anti-Semitism, so
went the theory.
The past three centuries have produced a dazzling variety of
movements, ideals and solutions to the age-old "Jewish
problem," offering islands of hope for a people tormented by
persecution and targeted for abuse. The Enlightenment
(Haskalah) came to "civilize" us and allow us free entry
into European society; the Marxists and Socialists promised
to create a utopia for us and all of mankind; Zionism's goal
was to grant us a State, a national identity, and thus cure
anti-Semitism once and for all; Reform came to make us
acceptable to the non-Jewish society and to inculcate us
with humanistic values; secularism came to free us from the
burdens of tradition which have supposedly hindered our
progress and happiness.
All of these attempts have been brilliantly captured in that
ancient Talmudic tale: Once, while on a ship, we came to
what we assumed was a large island, since we saw on it sand
and growing grass. We disembarked the ship, went on to the
island, built a fire, and cooked our meal. Disillusionment Yet, ironically, the end of
the Talmudic tale also came to be:
What we assumed to be an island was really a fish. When the
fish felt the heat, he rolled over and we were plunged into
the water. Had the ship not been nearby, we would have
drowned.
Each time we came to feel comfortable on the island, and we
began at last to live out our latent dreams, the "fish"
turned over and threw us back into the raging waters. In the
days of Purim, when the Jews felt that they had successfully
integrated into mainstream culture, under the very nose of a
Jewish queen-the king was persuaded to issue forth a plan of
genocide for the Jewish people.
Assimilation never cured prejudice. Not in the days of
Purim, nor at any time in the future. It didn't even in 15th
century Spain, where Jews converted to Christianity and yet
still suffered from persecution under the vicious doctrine
of limpieza de sangre ("purity of blood"), the forerunner of
modern racial anti-Semitism. It didn't in 20th century
Germany where Jews were often "more German" than the
Germans. It didn't in the Modern State of Israel constructed
as a secular democracy.
The historical truth remains that none of the above
movements achieved their stated goals. The Holocaust made
mockery of Jewish integration in the general humanistic
world; Zionism created the State of Israel, which we cherish
deeply, but only exacerbated the problems of anti-Semitism
and still struggles to provide security for its citizens.
Israel still needs to fight for its "right" to exist. Stalin
"cured" us of the "paradise" of Marxism and Socialism; the
Enlightenment apparently did not sufficiently civilize us;
secularism has deprived generations of direction and
meaning, leaving our youth thirsty for identity and purpose
(1). Our Hope "Had the ship not been nearby, we
would have drowned," is how the Talmudic sage concludes the
episode. What saved us during the time of Purim - and what
has guaranteed our existence throughout our long and
difficult history - was not forfeiting our identity and
surrendering our truth; it was our animated relationship
with the living G-d, the creator of heaven and earth, and
our dedication to His Torah and Mitzvos that has allowed us
to survive and thrive, till we reach the culmination of the
voyage, speedily in our days (2).
1) Interestingly, the metaphor employed in the Talmudic tale
is the fish. What the travelers felt was an island was
really a fish waiting to plunge them into the waters. The
zodiac sign for the month of Adar is Pisces, fish (mazal
dogim.) As the book of Esther relates, the Persian Minister
Haman chose a day in the month of Adar (the 13th) to
exterminate the Jewish people (Maharsah to Bava Basra 73b).
Conversely, what is unique about fish? They must remain
submerged in their natural element of water to survive. So
too, the Jewish people must remain in their habitat of Torah
and Mitzvos for their continued existence (see Talmud
Berechos 61a).
2) This essay is based on the commentary of the Maharsah
(Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Eidels) to Talmud Bava Basra 73b and
on other sources.
RFID chips and Privacy
ScienceDaily
(Nov. 25, 2008) — A research article published in the
current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual
Property Management suggests that Big Brother could be
opening a privacy and security Pandora's Box if human
rights, particularly regarding data protection are not
addressed in the design of new RFID applications.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found
tagging everything from groceries and clothing to the
experimental swipe-free credit cards used to pay for those
goods. In library cards, warehouse inventories, and
under-skin pet tags. They are also used for prisoner and
parole tags, in hospital patient wristbands, and in smart
passports.
According to Eleni Kosta and Jos Dumortier of the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, the benefits of
RFID technology in innovation are beyond question.
However, the threats posed to personal privacy should be
taken into account at the design phase of the
applications. Their increasingly widespread deployment
means individuals do not necessarily know when, how and
what kind of information about them is being transmitted
at any given time from an RFID in a passport, in their
shopping bags, or even when they visit the library.
RFID tags are powerful devices for use in a wide array of
applications: stock inventory, logistics, security
finance, buildings, and across international borders.
However, they provide a seemingly innocuous medium for the
collection and transmission of personal data, as well as
the ability to track the movements of people.
The European Union has already recognized some of the
concerns being raised. A recent European Commission
report, "Communication on RFID" emphasized that privacy
and security should be built into RFID information systems
before their widespread deployment. Moreover,
European legislation on data protection applies to RFID
technology when it entails the processing of personal
data, Kosta and Dumortier point out. However, it is not
always clear whether or not information stored on or
transmitted via an RFID tag is personal data.
"In order to achieve a common approach towards RFID
technology at the
European level, a unified interpretation of what is
perceived as personal data is necessary," the team
explains. "When information about an individual, such as
name, age and nationality, is directly stored in an RFID
tag, it is beyond doubt that it qualifies as personal
data."
However, there are many instances when the information
seemingly cannot be directly linked to an individual, but
by linking the RFID tag number to a back-end database can
be correlated with a credit card payment, for instance,
and so provide indirect identification of the individual.
"In this case, even if the data seem anonymous at first
sight, the processing falls under the scope of application
of the Data Protection
Directive, as the data can be easily linked to the credit
card data", the team explains. Even vaguer are the cases
when the information on the RFID tag cannot be linked to
an actual person, or at least significant effort is needed
for a link to be made.
The team counter the argument that honest citizens have
nothing to fear from RFID. "A surveillance society where
RFID tags reveal personal information and enable the
tracking and tracing of the individuals, shall be
contested, as every law-abiding citizen should be free
from any kind of monitoring," they say.
An immigrant family shops at the local Supermarket.
Did you know that your bank, credit card company,
insurance company, brokerage, and other companies you do
business with can legally sell the personal information
they collect from you to telemarketers, direct mailers,
retailers, and others? Is it okay with you if these
companies sell your social security number, credit card
spending habits, account balances, or monthly income
information to companies that want to use the information
to target the people who are most likely to purchase their
products or services?
The privacy notices you've no doubt been receiving in the
mail from financial institutions you do business with
probably ended up in your trash can, a move that you may
come to regret unless you act quickly. These notices were
NOT junk mail. Federal law now requires companies that
collect personal information about you to give you the
option to refuse to allow them to sell your personal
information. But if you don't "opt-out" by responding to
the notices or contacting these companies directly, your
personal information can be sold to anybody willing to pay
the price.
In some cases, those willing to pay the price have been
criminals who illegally used the information to run scams
where millions of dollars of bogus charges were charged to
credit cards.
Your right to opt-out is limited, due to flaws in the law
that do not protect consumers, but it is still worthwhile
to opt-out. It's also worthwhile to write to your
Congressional representatives to let them know that you
expect them to pass legislation that will better protect
the privacy of consumers.
If you're among the millions of Americans that tossed
these privacy notices in the trash, you can still protect
your personal financial information by contacting each of
the financial institutions you do business with and
instructing them NOT to disclose information about you to
non-affiliated companies. Privacy Rights Now offers a
sample form letter on their site that you can use or
adapt.
When you open new accounts at financial institutions, or
when a financial institution you do business with changes
its privacy policies, you'll receive privacy notices in
the mail. To protect your privacy, follow the instructions
in the notices (you may have to complete a form or call a
toll-free number).
When cataclysmic occurrences happen in the world the Yid
must take careful note and do teshuvah. When they happen
back to back then taking note is insufficient. We need to
speedily make changes in our lives for time is of essence.
What transpired in Japan is just mind boggling. First they
experienced a deadly earthquake, then a massive
destructive tsunami, followed by a nuclear disaster and
contaminative fall out, climaxing with volcanic eruptions.
Each one of these catastrophes by itself would have been
enough to send a message to Am Yisrael. How much more so
when compounded like this! If you are not thinking and
doing teshuva you must be living on another planet for
there cannot be any other excuse for one’s
procrastination. Let us see if we can help the teshuva
process along with an explanation of these current
incredible devastations.
There are four elements in creation: fire, wind, water
and earth אש רוח מים עפר . Although these elements take on
physical dimensions, their source is very high with
spiritual roots. The sefarim explain that the gematriah of
אש רוח מים עפר is identical to the four angels מיכאל
גבריאל רפאל נוריאל. These four elements are rooted in the
four letters of Hashem’s name. Adam Harishon when he ate
from the Aitz Hadaas lowered the spiritual level and
dimensions of these four elements causing to evolve from
each one the four exiles as explained in detail in the
Shem Mishmuel Teruma 76.
These four elementsl might seem for a while a fixed
component of nature. However, our emunah is that they are
all being constantly controlled by Hashem and can be
altered at any given moment. When Hashem makes war He can
utilize all of these elements to do His will and command.
This is hinted in the passuk איש מלחמה ה’ the word איש is
gematriah 311 which is the same gematriah as the first
letter of each of the four elements ארמע. What we have
witnessed in the last few days is the fulfillment Hashem
eesh milchama. First an earthquake which corresponds to
the element of earth, then a tsunami which parallels the
water element, then a meltdown whose radiation is carried
by the wind and finally a volcanic eruption which
corresponds to fire.. Hashem’s revenge on the Japanese
people, whether because they were allies with the Nazis in
WW2 or because they incarcerated and cruelly treated three
innocent Yiddishe neshamos whose innocence is clear to all
except for their kangaroo court, was all enveloping
utilizing all the elements to demonstrate His decisive
omnipotence. No man made advanced technology could stop or
even slow the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdown and
volcano. Everyone stood helpless, stunned and paralyzed as
Hashem with one swift blow used His elements to
demonstrate as He did to Pharaoh in Mitzrayim that in
merely seconds what seems to be one’s reality is no
longer. One’s past present and future literally went down
the drain in seconds right in front of one’s eyes.
If you saw any of the videos of just the tsunami alone,
one would be awestruck as everything appeared so make
believe as mere toy houses, cars and boats being tossed
and swirling in a muddy bathtub and then totally
disappearing from sight. Unfortunately the devastation,
every part of it, was real leaving in its path despair,
hopelessness, grief, irreparable damage and loss. The 9.0
magnitude quake also shifted Eastern Japan towards North
America by about 13 feet. Thirteen is gematriah echad
referrring to Hashem who is the one and only. His
signature and seal were imprinted on these cataclysmic
events.
Every action must pass through a judgment. Shlomo
Hamelech says in Koheles כי את כל מעשה האלקים יבא במשפט על
כל נעלם אם טוב ואם רע . Even deeds that only Hashem knows
the doer’s intentions also pass before a judgment. If for
good then there will be reward. If for bad then there will
be punishment and retribution using the four elements.
This is hinted in the words of the passuk אם רע which is
the acronym of the four elements אש מים רוח עפר . Forget
about the world waking up and learning the lesson that
Hashem is sending them. More is expected from Klal Yisrael
who must wake up and pay close attention to this ongoing ”
mussar shiur” of Hashem. At this point of time we must
ascertain that we channel our fears to the One who is
causing them - Hashem. What a tragic and wasted
opportunity to have presently a misplaced fear like this
following article posted: “While Japan continues to deal
with the aftermath of last Friday’s devastating earthquake
and tsunami, and has yet to recover from one of the
greatest disasters in its history, Israelis fear a
shortage in the ingredients of one of their favorite
dishes: Sushi.”
As we read this Shabbos parshas Zachor, the Torah
describes them as ולא ירא אלקים they did not fear Hashem.
They heard of Hashem’s manipulation of nature in the ten
plagues followed by the splitting of the Red Sea and they
remained unaffected. It is therefore that they received
the eternal punishment of total annihilation. Yisrael
because they were ירא אלקים were able to defeat the לא ירא
אלקים. In the aftermath of these disasters everyone must
honestly ask himself to which camp does he fall into.
Each of the four elements symbolizes a galus,. The
horrific destruction brought on by these four elements
symbolizes a vicarious undergoing of all four destructive
exiles. Daily we witness the kingdoms of the Middle East
toppling one after another. Moshiach is past being on his
way. He is here standing at our doorstep. The only
question is are we going to let him in now. That door of
entry is the door of teshuva. Don’t let us wait even
another second. Last week we have seen that it only takes
one second for one’s realities to completely disappear.
Gut Shabbos
Rav Brazil
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Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor's Message for Japan: 'Run
Away as Quickly as Possible'
Dana
Kennedy Contributor
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/22/chernobyl-cleanup-survivors-message-for-japan-run-away-as-qui/
Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those
directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a
35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia,
in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to
report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern
Ukraine.
It was just four days after the world's biggest nuclear
disaster spewed enormous amounts of radiation into the
atmosphere and forced the evacuation of 100,000 people.
Manzurova and her colleagues were among the roughly 800,000
"cleaners" or "liquidators" in charge of the removal and
burial of all the contamination in what's still called the
dead zone.
Courtesy of Natalia Manzurova Natalia Manzurova, shown here
in 1988 in the "dead zone" of the Pripyat, is one of the
relatively few survivors among those directly involved in
the cleanup of Chernobyl.She spent 4 1/2 years helping clean
the abandoned town of Pripyat, which was less than two miles
from the Chernobyl reactors. The plant workers lived there
before they were abruptly evacuated.
Manzurova, now 59 and an advocate for radiation victims
worldwide, has the "Chernobyl necklace" -- a scar on her
throat from the removal of her thyroid -- and myriad health
problems. But unlike the rest of her team members, who she
said have all died from the results of radiation poisoning,
and many other liquidators, she's alive.
AOL News spoke with Manzurova about the nuclear disaster in
Japan with the help of a translator on the telephone Monday
from Vermont. Manzurova, who still lives in Ozersk, was
beginning a one-week informational
tour of the U.S. organized by the Beyond Nuclear
watchdog group.
AOL News: What was your first reaction when you
heard about Fukushima? Manzurova: It felt like déjà vu. I felt so
worried for the people of Japan and the children especially.
I know the experience that awaits them.
But experts say Fukushima is not as bad as
Chernobyl.
Every nuclear accident is different, and the impact cannot
be truly measured for years. The government does not always
tell the truth. Many will never return to their homes. Their
lives will be divided into two parts: before and after
Fukushima. They'll worry about their health and their
children's health. The government will probably say there
was not that much radiation and that it didn't harm them.
And the government will probably not compensate them for all
that they've lost. What they lost can't be calculated.
What message do you have for Japan?
Run away as quickly as possible. Don't wait. Save yourself
and don't rely on the government because the government
lies. They don't want you to know the truth because the
nuclear industry is so powerful.
Courtesy of Natalia Manzurova Natalia Manzurova, now 59, has
suffered a variety of ailments since she worked at
Chernobyl, but she says she is the only member of her team
still alive.When you were called to go to Chernobyl,
did you know how bad it was there?
I had no idea and never knew the true scope until much
later. It was all covered in secrecy. I went there as a
professional because I was told to -- but if I was asked to
liquidate such an accident today, I'd never agree. The
sacrifices the Fukushima workers are making are too high
because the nuclear industry was developed in such a way
that the executives don't hold themselves accountable to the
human beings who have to clean up a disaster. It's like
nuclear slavery.
What was your first impression of Chernobyl?
It was like a war zone where a neutron bomb had gone off. I
always felt I was in the middle of a war where the enemy was
invisible. All the houses and buildings were intact with all
the furniture, but there wasn't a single person left. Just
deep silence everywhere. Sometimes I felt I was the only
person alive on a strange planet. There are really no words
to describe it.
What did your work as a liquidator entail?
First, we measured radiation levels and got vegetation
samples to see how high the contamination was. Then
bulldozers dug holes in the ground and we buried everything
-- houses, animals, everything. There were some wild animals
that were still alive, and we had to kill them and put them
in the holes.
Were any pets left in the houses?
The people had only a few hours to leave, and they weren't
allowed to take their dogs or cats with them. The radiation
stays in animals' fur and they can't be cleaned, so they had
to be abandoned. That's why people were crying when they
left. All the animals left behind in the houses were like
dried-out mummies. But we found one dog that was still
alive.
Where did you find the dog and how did he survive?
We moved into a former kindergarten to use as a laboratory
and we found her lying in one of the children's cots there.
Her legs were all burned from the radiation and she was half
blind. Her eyes were all clouded from the radiation. She was
slowly dying.
Were you able to rescue her?
No. Right after we moved in, she disappeared. And this is
the amazing part. A month later we found her in the
children's ward of the (abandoned) hospital. She was dead.
She was lying in a child's bed, the same size bed we found
her in the kindergarten. Later we found out that she loved
children very much and was always around them.
How did working in the dead zone begin to affect
your health?
I started to feel as if I had the flu. I would get a high
temperature and start to shiver. What happens during first
contact with radiation is that your good flora is depleted
and the bad flora starts to flourish. I suddenly wanted to
sleep all the time and eat a lot. It was the organism
getting all the energy out.
How much radiation were you subjected to?
We were never told. We wore dosimeters which measured
radiation and we submitted them to the bosses, but they
never gave us the results.
But didn't you realize the danger and want to leave?
Yes, I knew the danger. All sorts of things happened. One
colleague stepped into a rainwater pool and the soles of his
feet burned off inside his boots. But I felt it was my duty
to stay. I was like a firefighter. Imagine if your house was
burning and the firemen came and then left because they
thought it was too dangerous.
When did you discover the thyroid tumor?
They found it during a routine medical inspection after I
had worked there several years. It turned out to be benign.
I don't know when it started to develop. I had an operation
to remove half the thyroid gland. The tumor grew back, and
last year I had the other half removed. I live on (thyroid)
hormones now.
Why did you go back to Chernobyl after getting a
thyroid tumor?
Right around the time of my operation, the government passed
a law saying the liquidators had to work for exactly 4 1/2
years to get our pension and retire. If you left even one
day early, you would not get any benefits.
Really? That seems beyond cruel.
It's why the nuclear industry is dangerous. They want to
deny the dangers. They kept changing the law about what
benefits we'd get because if they admitted how much we were
affected, it would look bad for the industry. Now we hardly
get any benefits.
Did your health worsen after you finally finished
work at Chernobyl?
I was basically disabled at 43. I was having fits similar to
epileptic fits. My blood pressure was sky high. It was hard
to work for more than six months a year. The doctors didn't
know what to do with me. They wanted to put me in a
psychiatric ward and call me crazy. Finally they admitted it
was because of the radiation.
by Alan
M. Dershowitz February 19, 2013 at 1:15 pm Among
those being considered to succeed Pope Benedict XVI is a
notorious anti-Semite, Cardinal Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga
of Honduras. His name has appeared on various media short
lists and his photograph was featured, along with other
possible candidates, on the front page of the Miami Herald.
He was also under consideration the last time around, and
his Latin American heritage is considered a plus this time.
He is very charismatic and popular in his home country and
was recently invited to speak to Latino Catholics in the
United States. To put it most simply, Rodriguez Maradiaga is
an out and out Jew-hater. He has said that "the Jews" are to
blame for the scandal surrounding the sexual misconduct of
priests toward young parishioners! The Jews? How did
Rodriguez Maradiaga ever come up with this hair-brained
idea? Here is his "logic." He begins by asserting that the
Vatican is anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian (as he says it
should be). It follows, therefore, that "the Jews" had to
get even with the Catholic Church, while at the same time
deflecting attention away from Israeli injustices against
the Palestinians. The Jews managed to do this by arranging
for the media—which he says they control—to give
disproportionate attention on the Vatican sex scandal.
Listen to Rodriguez Maradiaga's own words:
"It certainly makes me think that in a moment in
which all the attention of the mass media was focused on
the Middle East, all the many injustices done against the
Palestinian people, the print media and the TV in the
United States became obsessed with sexual scandals that
happened 40 years ago, 30 years ago. Why? I think it's
also for these motives: What is the church that has
received Arafat the most times and has most often
confirmed the necessity of the creation of a Palestinian
state? What is the church that does not accept that
Jerusalem should be the indivisible capital of the State
of Israel, but that it should be the capital of the three
great monotheistic religions?"
Rodriguez Maradiaga then goes on to compare the Jewish
controlled media with "Hitler," because they are
"protagonists of what I do not hesitate to define as a
persecution against The Church." The prime media culprit in
Rodriguez Maradiaga's bizarro world is the Boston Globe,
which has won numerous journalistic awards for its exposure
of the sex scandal and cover up. The Globe is owned by The
New York Times, which is controlled by the Sulzberger
family. Hence the Jewish conspiracy. The problem (among so
many) with this cockamamie theory is that the Jewish
community of Boston was very close to, and admiring of,
Cardinal Bernard Law, who presided over the archdiocese
during the scandal. Cardinal Law had built bridges between
the Catholic and Jewish communities of Boston, and when the
scandal was exposed by the very un-Jewish Boston Globe, the
Jewish community remained largely supportive of Law. None of
the leading media critics, lawyers or politicians who railed
against the church were Jewish. Most were Catholic. But that
didn't matter to the bigoted cardinal, who -- along with
other classic anti-Semites -- believes that if there is a
problem, "the Jews" must be to blame for it. As James
Carrol, the distinguished columnist for the Boston Globe who
is himself a Catholic, has characterized Rodriguez
Maradiaga's "crackpot" mindset: "when the church has a
problem—here is the oldest move of all—blame the Jews." When
asked whether he wanted to reconsider his attack, Rodriguez
Maradiaga replied: "I don't repent... sometimes it is
necessary to shake things up." He later promised Abe Foxman
of the Anti-Defamation League that he wouldn't repeat his
conspiratorial nonsense, but he has refused to publicly
apologize or "repent." The Vatican has rightly called
anti-Semitism a "sin," and yet an unrepentant sinner is on
the short list to become the leader of the Catholic Church.
Is it because the other cardinals are unaware of Rodriguez
Maradiaga's anti-Semitism? Unlikely, because he has made no
secret of his bigotry against the Jews. Or is it because not
enough of them care as much as they should? As a Jew, I have
no standing to, or stake in, whether the new pope is
conservative or liberal on Catholic doctrine, but I and all
other people who care about Catholic-Jewish relations do
have standing and a major stake in assuring that an
anti-Semite is never considered for such a high calling.
Just as there was a universal outcry when the former Nazi
Kurt Waldheim was elected to the presidency of Austria, so
too should there be a universal outcry if this cardinal,
whose rants could comfortably have been published by Der
Stürmer, were to be elected head of the Catholic Church. If
Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga were to be elected pope, much
of the good work done by recent popes in building bridges
between the Catholic Church and the Jews would be
endangered. This should not be allowed to happen. The
campaign against this bigot must begin now before his
candidacy develops more traction.
The Holocaust didn’t occur because of Hitler but because of
the Church. Hitler merely built upon the policies of the
Church and drove them to their logical conclusion. Of course
I am familiar with the idea that but for Christianity, the
Holocaust wouldn’t have happened, but wasn’t fully aware of
the debt owed by Hitler to precedents set by the Church for
the details of his policies, including the final solution.
R. Hilberg’s classic The Destruction of European Jews
provides the link. Hiberg begins his introduction with these
words:
The German destruction of the European Jews was a
tour de force; the Jewish collapse under the German
assault was a manifestation of failure. Both of these
phenomena were the final product of an earlier age.
Anti-Jewish policies and anti-Jewish actions did
not have their beginning in 1933. For many centuries,
and in many countries, the Jews have been victims of
destructive action. What was the object of these
activities? What were the aims of those who persisted
in anti-Jewish deeds? Throughout Western history,
three consecutive policies have been applied against
Jewry in its dispersion.
The policies referred to included 1) conversion, 2)
expulsion and 3) extermination. The first and second were
often accompanied by the threat of execution; all of which
were sanctioned by the Church. Hilberg explains:
The first anti-Jewish policy started in the fourth
century after Christ in Rome. In the early 300’s, during
the reign of Constantine, the Christian Church gained
power in Rome, and Christianity became the state
religion. From this period, the state carried out Church
policy. For the next twelve centuries, the Catholic
Church prescribed the measures that were to be taken
with respect to the Jews. Unlike the pre-Christian
Romans, who claimed no monopoly on religion and faith,
the Christian Church insisted upon acceptance of
Christian doctrine.
For an understanding of Christian policy toward Jewry,
it is essential to realize that the Church pursued
conversion not so much for the sake of aggrandizing its
power (the Jews have always been few in number), but
because of the conviction that it was the duty of true
believers to save unbelievers from the doom of eternal
hellfire. Zealousness in the pursuit of conversion was
an indication of the depth of faith. The Christian
religion was not one of many religions, like other
religions. It was the true religion, the only religion.
Those who were not in its fold were either ignorant or
in error.
The Jews could not accept Christianity. The same might be
said of Islam, though it allowed Jews and Christians,
“peoples of the book”, to be dhimmis and pay a tax, Jizya”,
for the privilege. The Church also imposed a similar tax on
Jews.
In the very early stages of the Christian faith, many
Jews regarded Christians as members of a Jewish sect.
The first Christians, after all, still observed the
Jewish law. They had merely added a few non-essential
practices, such as baptism, to their religious life. But
this view was changed abruptly when Christ was elevated
to godhood. The Jews have only one G-d. That G-d is
indivisible. He is a jealous G-d and admits of no other
G-ds. He is not Christ, and Christ is not He.
Christianity and Judaism have since been irreconcilable.
An acceptance of Christianity has since signified an
abandonment of Judaism.
With patience and persistence, the Church attempted to
convert obstinate Jewry, and for twelve hundred years,
the theological argument was fought without
interruption. The Jews were not convinced. Gradually the
Church began to back its words with force. The Papacy
did not permit pressure to be put on individual Jews;
Rome never permitted forceful conversions.
However, the clergy did use pressure on the whole.
Step by step, but with ever widening effect, the Church
adopted “defensive” measures against its passive
victims. Christians were “protected” from the “harmful”
consequences of intercourse with Jews by rigid laws
against intermarriage, by prohibitions of discussions
about religious issues, by laws against domicile in
common abodes. The Church “protected” its Christians
from the “harmful” Jewish teachings by burning the
Talmud and by barring Jews from public office.
And yet it is the Jews who are always attacked for their
separateness.
The clergy was not sure of its success – hence the
widespread practice, in the Middle Ages, of identifying
proselytes as former Jews, hence the inquisition of new
Christians suspected of heresy, hence the issuance in
Spain of certificates of “purity” (limpieza) signifying
purely Christian ancestry, and the specification of half
new Christians, quarter new Christians, one-eighth new
Christians, etc.
Hitler’s racial purity laws found their antecedent and
precedent in these laws. And so did his order that Jews
identify themselves by wearing a yellow Star of David.
Efforts to convert the Jews were spectacularly unsucessful,
even aided by all the restrictions placed on the Jews.
Too much had been invested in twelve hundred years of
conversion policy. Too little had been gained. From the
thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the Jews of
England, France, Germany, Spain, Bohemia and Italy were
presented with ultimatums which gave them no choice but
one: conversion or expulsion.
In 1542 Martin Luther rejected the authority of Rome and
started the Lutheran Church. He, too, hated the Jews. He and
others who broke away from Rome became known as Protestants.
There followed hundreds of years of war between Catholics
and Protestants. At the end of the Eighteenth Century, the
French Revolution took place, a by-product of which was the
liberation of the French Jews, who thereafter enjoyed equal
rights. The armies of the revolution, headed by Napoleon,
spread the values of “liberte, fraternite and egalite” to
the east, including in Germany and Italy. With the defeat of
Napoleon in 1815, the Bourbons in France kept the liberating
legislation, but the monarchs in Germany and Italy cancelled
it. Nevertheless, Jews embraced the belief, after a taste of
liberation, that full equality was the inevitable corollary
of the emerging secular-political order throughout Europe.
In Germany, Reform Judaism was founded and in Russia and
Poland, Jews flocked to the Communist banner. But many
segments of society remained deeply anti-Semitic, leaving
many Jews to conclude that the promise of “liberte,
fraternite and egalite” was a pipe dream even though the
society was now secular. And so was born the the movement
for the Auto-Emancipation of the Jews, which became known as
Zionism. Jews had to reconstitute themselves as a nation in
their own land. In Christian Europe, the Jews had only to
convert to be accepted. The Christians were against the
practise of Judaism. In secular Europe, the Jews themselves
were rejected as a race. Thus, conversion was not open to
them. But expulsion or emigration was still available. Thus
millions of Jews the Pale of Settlement beginning in 1880
emigrated well into the nineteen thirties. Hitler searched
in vain for a country to which to expel Germany’s Jews, but
no one wanted them. In 1942 he instituted the final
solution, extermination. R. Hiberg in his masterful
study, argues:
if we analyze that singular massive upheaval, we
discover that most of what happened in those 12 years,
1933 to 1945, had already happened before. The Nazi
destruction process did not come out of a void, it was
the culmination of a cyclical trend beginning in the
Fourth Century in Rome.
During the conversion era, the Church said, “you have no
right to live among us as Jews”. Then in the
segregation/expulsion process, “you have no right to live
among us” and finally in the extermination process, “you
have no right to live”.
These progressively more drastic goals brought in
their wake a slow and steady growth of anti Jewish
action and anti-Jewish thinking…. The German Nazis then,
did not discard the past, they built upon it. They did
not begin a development, they completed it. In the deep
recesses of anti-Jewish history we shall find many of
the administrative and psychological tools with which
the Nazis implemented their destruction process. In the
hollows of the past we shall also discover the roots of
the characteristic Jewish response to an outside attack.
To better understand this statement, Hilberg presents a
table of Canonical Law restricting the Jews beginning in the
Fourth Century opposite which he places similar Nazi
measures. Then writes:
No summation of Canonical Law can be as revealing as a
description of the Rome ghetto, maintained by the Papal
State until the occupation of the city by the Royal
Italian Army in 1870. A German journalist who visited
the city in its closing days, published such an account:
“To rent any house or business establishment outside
the ghetto boundaries, the Jews needed the permission of
Cardinal Vicar. Acquisition of real estate outside the
ghetto was prohibited. Trade or industrial products or
goods were prohibited. Higher schooling was prohibited..
The professions of lawyer, druggist, notary, painter and
architect were prohibited. A Jew could be a doctor
provided he confined his practice to Jewish patients. No
Jew could hold office. Jews were required to pay taxes
like everyone else and, in addition, the following: 1) A
yearly stipend for the upkeep of the Catholic officials
who supervised the Ghetto Finance Administration and the
Jewish Community Organization, 2) A yearly sum of 5250 lira for Casa Pia for
missionary work among Jews, 3) A yearly sum of 5250 lira to the Cloister of the
Converted for the same purpose. In return the Papal
State expended a yearly sum of 1500 lira for welfare
work. But no state money was paid for education or the
care of the sick.”
Hiberg also provided a table of Pre-Nazi and Nazi
Anti-Jewish Measures. As can be seen, the destructive
process was at work in Germany long before the Nazis came to
power. But all this in no way is meant to excuse Hitler.
After the Holocaust, the manifestations of anti-Semitism
became very subdued. It was not "cool" to express such
feelings in any way. Unfortunately, the haters began
expressing the anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism. These
expression are now commonplace and the hatred of Israel is
growing exponentially. As a result, the movement to
exterminate Israel has become very strong. But we Jews will
survive that too
The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming
an endangered species. The politicians are not
telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is
certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is
that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for
workers in the United States. In the old days, when
the big corporations that dominate our society did well,
that also meant good things for American workers since
those corporations would need more of us to work for
them. But in the emerging one world
economic system that our economy is being merged into,
those corporations have other choices now.
For instance, the big corporations can now choose to
limit the number of "expensive" American workers that they
employ by shipping millions of jobs to the other side
of the world. And from their perspective, it
makes perfect sense. They can make much bigger
profits by hiring people on the other side of the planet
to work for them for less than a dollar an hour. If
they can get good production out of those people, then why
should they hire Americans for ten to twenty times as
much, plus have to give those Americans health insurance
and other benefits?
Another major factor in the slow, agonizing death of the
American worker is technology. We live during a
period when technology is advancing at a pace that is
almost unimaginable at the same time that it is steadily
becoming cheaper and cheaper. That means that it is
going to become easier and easier for companies to replace
workers with robots and computers. As I have written
about previously, it is being projected
that our economy will lose millions of jobs to technology
in the coming years. Yes, some of us will still be
needed to help build the robots and the computers, but not
all of us will. And of course the overall general
weakness of the economy is not helping matters
either.
The American people inherited the greatest
economic machine in the history of the world, and we
have wrecked it. Decades of very foolish decisions
have resulted in the period of steady economic decline
that we are experiencing now.
America is simply not the economic powerhouse that it
once was. Back in 2001, the U.S. economy accounted
for 31.8 percent of global GDP. By 2011, the U.S.
economy only accounted for 21.6 percent of global
GDP. That is a collapse any way that you want to
look at it.
Today, American workers are living in an economy
that is rapidly declining, and their jobs are
steadily being stolen by robots, computers and foreign
workers that live in countries where it is legal to pay
slave labor wages. Politicians from both political
parties refuse to do anything to stop the bleeding because
they think that the status quo is working just great.
So don't expect things to get better any time soon.
The following are 10 amazing charts that demonstrate the
slow, agonizing death of the American worker...
As you can see, wages as a percentage of GDP are hovering
near an all-time record low. That means that
American workers are bringing home a smaller share of the
economic pie than ever before.
#2 Average Annual Hours Worked Per
Employed Person In The United States
We are an economy that is rapidly trading good paying
full-time jobs for low paying part-time jobs. The
decline in average annual hours worked that we have
witnessed represents the equivalent of losing millions of
jobs. There has been an explosion of "the working poor" in the
United States, and this trend is probably only going to
accelerate in the years to come.
As you can see, there are less Americans working in
manufacturing today than there was in 1950 even though the
population of the country has more than doubled since
then. The United States has lost more than
56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001, and yet
our politicians stand around and do nothing about it.
This is one of my favorite charts. It shows that
there has been absolutely no employment
recovery at all since the end of the last
recession. The percentage of working age Americans
that have a job has stayed under 59 percent for 44 months
in a row. How much worse will things get when the
next major economic downturn strikes?
This is how the Obama administration is getting the
"unemployment rate" to magically go down. They are pretending that millions
upon millions of Americans simply do not want to work
anymore. As you will notice, the decline of the
labor force participation rate has accelerated greatly
since Barack Obama entered the White House.
The average amount of time that it takes an unemployed
worker to find a new job has declined slightly, but it is
still far above normal historical levels. It is a
crying shame that it takes the average unemployed worker
two-thirds of a year to find a new job, but this is the
new economic reality that we are all living in.
Since there are not enough jobs for all of us, and since
our wages are not rising as rapidly as the cost of living
is, a whole bunch of us are falling behind on our
mortgages. As you can see, the mortgage delinquency
rate has only dropped slightly and is still way, way above
typical levels.
American workers also don't have enough money to go out
and buy new homes either. Yes, new home sales have rebounded slightly this
year, but we are nowhere near where we used to be.
Millions of American families continue to resort to going
into debt in a desperate attempt to make ends meet.
After a slight interruption during the last recession,
consumer credit once again is growing at a frightening
pace.
Since there aren't enough jobs for everyone, why aren't
more Americans trying to start their own businesses?
Well, the reality of the matter is that the government has
made it exceedingly difficult to start your own business
today. Taxes, rules, regulations and red tape are
choking the life out of millions of small businesses in
the United States. As a result, the percentage of
self-employed Americans is at a record low.
As all of these long-term trends continue, the middle class will
continue to shrink, poverty in America will
continue to explode and government dependence will
continue to rise.
Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a
plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was
announced in 1983,[6]
and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified
crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the
top 10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of
its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a
process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company
on biotechnology.
Monsanto was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry
business model to agriculture, using techniques developed
by Genentech
and other biotech drug companies in the late 1970s in
California.[7]
In this business model, companies invest heavily in
research and development, and recoup the expenses through
the use and title="Biological patent">biological
patents.[8][9][10][11]
Monsanto's application of this model to agriculture, along
with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system
of plant breeders' rights
in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary
practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop
plant varieties.[12]
Its seed patenting model has also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity.[13][14][15]
Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which
include its litigation and its seed commercialization
practices[16]),
its current and former agbiotech products, its lobbying of
government agencies, and its history as a chemical
company, have made Monsanto controversial.
Monsanto chemist John E. Franz invented glyphosate in 1970.[63]
Monsanto is the largest producer of glyphosateherbicides in the United States
through its Roundup product line,
which is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf
weeds and grasses that compete with commercial crops.
Monsanto's last commercially relevant United States patent
on glyphosate expired in 2000, and glyphosate is now
produced by many companies in the US and around the world.
As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides represent about
10% of Monsanto's yearly revenue.[64]
In 2007, glyphosate was the most used herbicide in the US
agricultural sector, with 180 to 185 million pounds
(82,000 to 84,000 tonnes) applied, and the 2nd most used
in home and garden market where users applied 5 to 8
million pounds (2,300 to 3,600 tonnes); additionally
industry, commerce and government applied 13 to 15 million
pounds (5,900 to 6,800 tonnes).[65]
While glyphosate has been approved by regulatory bodies
worldwide and is less toxic than all the herbicides it
replaced,[66]
concerns about its effects on humans and the environment
persist.[67][68]
As of 2012, Monsanto's line of seed products includes
agricultural seeds and vegetable seeds.
Many of Monsanto's agricultural seed products are
genetically modified for resistance to herbicides, such as
glyphosate. Monsanto sells glyphosate under the brand,
"Roundup" – Monsanto calls these seeds "Roundup Ready".
Monsanto's introduction of this system (planting
glyphosate-resistant seed and then applying glyphosate
once plants emerged) provided farmers with an opportunity
to dramatically increase the yield from a given plot of
land, since this allowed them to plant rows closer
together.[69]
Without it, farmers had to plant rows far enough apart to
control post-emergent weeds with mechanical tillage.[69]
Farmers have widely adopted the technology – for example
over 90% of maize (Mon 832), soybean (MON-Ø4Ø32-6),
cotton, sugar beet, and canola planted in the United States
are glyphosate-resistant, as described in the GM crops article.
Monsanto has also developed a Roundup Ready wheat (MON 71800)
but it ceased development in 2004 due to concerns from
wheat exporters about rejection of GM wheat by foreign
markets.[70]
As of 2009, the overall Roundup line of products
including the GM seeds represented about 50% of Monsanto's
business.[71]
The patent on the first type of Roundup Ready
crop that Monsanto produced (soybeans) expires in 2014.[72]
Monsanto has broadly licensed the patent to other seed
companies that include the glyphosate resistance trait in
their seed products.[73]
About 150 companies have licensed the technology,[74]
including Syngenta[75]
and Dupont/Pioneer.[76]
In addition, Monsanto invented and sells agricultural
seeds that are genetically modified to make a crystalline
insecticidal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis,
known as Bt. In 1995 Monsanto's potato plants producing Bt
toxin were approved for sale by the Environmental
Protection Agency, after having approved by the U.S.
FDA, making it the first pesticide-producing crop to be
approved in the United States.[77]
Monsanto has subsequently developed Bt maize (MON 802, MON 809, MON 863, MON 810), Bt soybean,[78]
and Bt
cotton.
Monsanto also produces seed that has multiple
modifications, also known as "stacked traits" —for
instance, cotton that make one or more Bt proteins and is
resistant to glyphosate. One of these, created in
collaboration with Dow, is called SmartStax. In 2011 Monsanto
launched the Genuity brand for its stacked-trait products.[79]
As of 2012, the agricultural seed lineup included Roundup
Ready alfalfa; Roundup Ready canola; cotton with Bt,
Roundup Ready, or both traits; sorghum hybrids; soybeans
with various oil profiles, most with the Roundup Ready
trait; Roundup Ready sugarbeet; and a wide range of wheat
products, many of which incorporate the nontransgenic
"clearfield" imazamox-tolerant[80]
trait from BASF.[81]
Two patents have been especially important to Monsanto's
GM soybean business; one expired in 2011 and another
reissued patent expires in 2014.[82]
The expiration of the second patent will mean that
glyphosate resistant soybeans will be "generic", which has
generated a great deal of discussion in the soybean
industry.[83][84][85][86]
In 2012 Monsanto was the world's largest supplier of
vegetable seeds by value, selling $800m of seed. 95% of
the research and development for vegetable seed is in
conventional breeding and the company is concentrating on
improving the taste of several vegetables.[55]
According to their website they sell "4,000 distinct seed
varieties representing more than 20 species".[87]
Former products
Polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs)
Until it stopped production in 1977, Monsanto was the
source of 99% of the polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) used by U.S. industry.[26]
The PCBs were sold under trade names such as Aroclor and
Santotherm; the name Santotherm is still used for
non-cholorinated products.[88]:396
PCBs are a persistent organic
pollutant, and cause cancer in animals and likely in
humans as well, among other health effects;[89]
PCBs were initially widely welcomed due to the electrical
industry's need for durable, safer (than flammable mineral oil) cooling and
insulating fluid for industrial transformers and
capacitors. PCBs were also commonly used as stabilizing
additives in the manufacture of flexible PVC coatings for
electrical wiring, and in electronic components to enhance
the heat and fire resistance of the PVC.[90]
They were known to be highly toxic from the beginning, but
it was assumed that they would be contained in the
products in which they were used. However, as leaks of
transformers occurred, and toxicity problems arose near
factories, their durability and toxicity became widely
recognized as serious problems. PCB production was banned
by the U.S. Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.[26][91][92]
United States
In the late 1960s, the Monsanto plant in Sauget, IL. was
the nation's largest producer of PCBs, which remain in the
water along Dead Creek in Sauget. An EPA official referred
to Sauget as "one of the most polluted communities in the
region" and "a soup of different chemicals"[93]
In 2002, the Washington Post
carried a front page report on Monsanto's legacy of
environmental damage in Anniston, Alabama, related
to its legal production of PCBs. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit
pending at that time provided documentation showing that
the local Monsanto factory knowingly discharged both mercury and PCB-laden waste
into local creeks for over 40 years.[94]
In another story published in 2002, the New York Times
reported that during 1969 alone Monsanto had dumped 45
tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco
Creek which supplies much of the area's drinking water,
and that the company buried millions of pounds of PCB in
open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant
and surrounding neighborhoods.[95]
In August 2003, Solutia and Monsanto agreed to pay
plaintiffs $700 million to settle claims by over 20,000
Anniston residents related to PCB contamination.[96]
As of 2012, Monsanto is associated with 11 "active" Superfund sites and 20 "archived"
sites in the US, in the EPA's Superfund database.[97]
Monsanto has been sued, and has settled, multiple times
for damaging the health of its employees or residents near
its Superfund sites through pollution and poisoning.[98][99]
United Kingdom
A UK
government report showed that 67 chemicals,
including Agent Orange derivatives,
dioxins and PCBs exclusively
made by Monsanto, are leaking from the Brofiscin quarry,
near Groesfaen in Wales, an unlined porous quarry that
was not authorized to take chemical wastes. It emerged
that the groundwater had been polluted
since the 1970s.[100][101]
The government was criticised for failing to publish
information about the scale and exact nature of this
contamination. The UK Environment Agency
estimated that it would cost £100m to clean up the site,
called "one of the most contaminated" in the UK.[102]
Monsanto developed and sold recombinantbovine somatotropin
(also known as rBST and rBGH), a synthetic hormone that increases milk
production by 11–16% when injected into cows.[103][104]
In October 2008, Monsanto sold this business, in full, to
Eli Lilly for a price
of $300 million plus additional consideration.[105]
The use of rBST has been controversial, with respect to
its effects on cows to which it is administered and with
respect to the milk produced by those cows.[106]
In some markets, milk from cows that are not treated with
rBST is sold with labels indicating it is rBST-free; this
milk has proved popular with consumers.[107]
In reaction to this, in early 2008 a pro-rBST advocacy
group called "American Farmers for the Advancement and
Conservation of Technology" (AFACT),[108]
made up of dairies and originally affiliated with
Monsanto, formed and began lobbying to ban such labels.
AFACT stated that "absence" labels can be misleading and
imply that milk from cows treated with rBST is inferior.[107]
The organization was dissolved in 2011 but its website is
still accessible.[109]
Pipeline products
Along with other ag-biotech companies, Monsanto has been
working on developing drought-resistant GM crops.[110]
As of 2013, Monsanto's new product line, the "Xtend Crop
System" was undergoing regulatory review.[111]
The system includes seed genetically modified to be
resistant to glyphoase and dicamba, and an herbicide product
including those two active ingredients.[111]
In May 2013 the US Department of Agriculture announced
that additional reviews of the Xtend soybean would be
conducted due to issues of possible environmental damage
and effects on public health not presented by glyphosate
alone.[112]
Genetic use restriction technology, colloquially known as
"terminator technology", produces plants that have sterile
seeds. If put into use, it would prevent the spread of
those seeds into the wild. It also would prevent farmers
from planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to
repurchase seed for every planting, although they also
need to do this for hybrid seeds, because
second-generation seeds are inferior, and in cases of
patented transgenic seeds, where patent-holders like
Monsanto enter into contracts with farmers who agree not
to plant harvested seeds as a condition of purchase.
Terminator technology has been developed by governmental
labs, university researchers, and companies, sometimes in
collaboration and sometimes independently.[113][114][115]
The technology has never been known to have been used
commercially.[116][117]
Rumors that Monsanto and other companies intended to
introduce terminator technology have caused protests, for
example in India.[118][119]
In 1999, Monsanto pledged not to commercialize terminator
technology, and has kept that pledge on its website to the
present day.[116][120]
The Delta and Pine Land Company intended to commercialize
the technology,[115]
but D&PL was acquired by Monsanto in 2007.[121]
Animal genetics
In the 2000s Monsanto entered into the pig breeding
business via a subsidiary, Monsanto Choice Genetics. It
exited the business in 2009 when it sold that business to
Newsham Genetics LC in November, divesting itself of "any
and all swine-related patents, patent applications, and
all other intellectual property".[58]
Monsanto is notable for its involvement in high profile
lawsuits, as both plaintiff and defendant. It has been
involved in a number of class action suits, where fines
and damages have run into the hundreds of millions of
dollars, usually over health issues related to its
products. Monsanto has also made frequent use of the
courts to defend its patents, particularly in the area of
agricultural biotechnology, as have other
companies in the field, such as Dupont Pioneer[122][123]
and Syngenta.[124
Sherrie Wilcox photo of FEMA coffins outside of Atlanta
When retired FBI agent, the now deceased Ted
Gunderson, reportedly told a gathering of militia
members that the federal government had set up 1,000
internment camps across the country, I had no trouble
believing his statement because there is ample
documentation to support his statement (e.g. REX
84, Operation
Garden Plot and now the NDAA). However, when
Gunderson reported that the federal government was storing
over 500,000 caskets outside of Atlanta, I also knew he
was accurate on this point because Sherrie
Wilcox found the evidence in the adjacent photo.
However, when I heard that Gunderson was accusing the
government of storing 30,000
guillotines, I thought he had lost his mind.
Why Would the Government Want to Store
Guillotines?
Gunderson told various patriot groups that the
guillotines were being stored for the day that the
government declares martial law and moves in to round up
and execute American dissenters. Gunderson prophetically
told patriot groups that the federal government was going
to keep track of all of us. The last statement has indeed
proven accurate given the recent Snowden/NSA scandal.
Can somebody please explain to me why the government
would need to order 30,000 guillotines? For what legitimate
purpose could these tools of execution be utilized?
Off With Their Heads
The
guillotine was invented by a Frenchman named Dr.
Guillotine. The guillotine reached the height of its
popularity when it was mainly used in the French
Revolution to eliminate any potential opposition from
people with “dangerous ideas.”
The guillotine has never been used inside of the United
States. The United States has executed people by firing
squad, hanging, the electric chair and lethal injection.
The US has never executed a convicted criminal through the
use of the guillotine.
Given these facts, then why in God’s good name would this
government import 30,000 guillotines as Gunderson claimed?
Oh, I know that some of the sheep are now looking up from
the ground and have just said “there aren’t are any
guillotines in the United States.” Then please tell
me, sheep of America, why did Representative Doug
Teper, of the Georgia Legislative
Assembly (Democrat) introduced a bill which will
supplant the method of execution, the electric chair, with
the guillotine?
Organ Harvesting?
Doug Teper (D)
Have you ever heard the allegations which accuse some
doctors, primarily in China, of killing patients in order
to sell their organs on the black market? After you read
the following paragraphs, you may conclude that those
rumors are true. When Representative Teper was asked
about his motivation to exclusively use the guillotine to
execute death row inmates, he said, it would allow for
death-row inmates as organ
donors. The very spooky Teper further reasoned that
the “Blade makes a clean cut and leaves vital organs
intact.” I will be happy to let this statement speak
for itself. Below is a draft of the legislation.
1- 8 The
General Assembly finds that while prisoners
condemned to
1- 9 death may wish to donate one or more of their
organs for
1-10 transplant, any such desire is thwarted by
the fact that
1-11 electrocution makes all such organs
unsuitable for
1-12 transplant. The intent of the General
Assembly in enacting
1-13 this legislation is to provide for a method
of execution
1-14 which is compatible with the donation of
organs by a
1-15 condemned prisoner.
SECTION 2.
1-16 Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 17
of the Official Code of
1-17 Georgia Annotated, relating to the death
penalty generally,
1-18 is amended by striking in its entirety Code
Section
1-19 17-10-38, relating to death sentences
generally, and
1-20 inserting in lieu thereof the following:
1-21 “17-10-38. (Index)
1-22 (a) All persons who have
been convicted of a capital
1-23 offense and have had imposed upon
them a sentence of death
1-24 shall, at the election of the
condemned, suffer such
1-25 punishment either by
electrocution or by guillotine. If
1-26 the condemned fails to make an
election by the thirtieth
1-27 day preceding the date scheduled
for execution, punishment
1-28 shall be by electrocution.
1-29 (b) In all cases in which
the defendant is sentenced to be
1-30 electrocuted executed, it shall
be the duty of the trial
1-31 judge in passing sentence to
direct that the defendant be
-1- (Index)
LC 21 3643
2- 1 delivered to the
Department of Corrections for
2- 2 electrocution execution at a
state correctional
2- 3 institution designated by the
department.”
SECTION 3.
2- 4 Said article is further amended by
striking in its entirety
2- 5 Code Section 17-10-44, relating to death
chamber apparatus
2- 6 and related matters, and inserting in lieu
thereof the
2- 7 following:
2- 8 “17-10-44. (Index)
2- 9 The Department of
Corrections shall provide a death
2-10 chamber and all necessary
apparatus, machinery, and
2-11 appliances for inflicting the
penalty of death by
2-12 electrocution or by guillotine.”
Where would the proposed Georgia Legislature guillotines
have come from unless Gunderson was correct in that 15,000
are being stored in Montana and 15,000 are being stored in
Georgia?
An Efficient Killing Machine
Has anyone bothered to do the math? A single guillotine
reportedly can chop off the heads of about 100 people per
hour. In one hour, the federal government has the capacity
to execute as many as three million people. In one ten
hour day, 30 million people could be executed by way of
the guillotine.
Other Alphabet Soup Agents Speak Out
Annie DeRiso and Bill Pawelec
Ted Gunderson is not the only former alphabet soup agent
to tell all about guillotines. The late Bill
Pawelec, ex-CIA, was a close friend of mine and eventually
became the significant other of the News Director for The Common
Sense Show, Annie DeRiso. Pawelec told both
Annie and I on several occasions that guillotines were
being stored on several military bases. The late A.C.
Griffith, ex-NSA, said the same on more than one occasion
on my talk show. In light of these confirmations from
known and from public sources, as well as the proposed
legislation of Rep. Teper to introduce the use of
guillotines on American soil, I believe that there is no
question that the story is true.
Implications
We already know that the Department of Homeland Security
has purchased 2.2 billion rounds of ammunition to go with
their purchase of 2700 armored personnel carriers.
Do you realize that this is enough ammo to fight a
war for about seven years and that there are enough DHS
personnel carriers to allocate over 50 per state? Can you
imagine if they were concentrated in their distribution
patterns? This would be the equivalent of an invading army
as DHS goes from house to house and seizes dissidents by
the millions and America will soon have their own version
of the French Revolution
Since this story broke, I have asked the question why
guillotines? I have talked to several of my off-the-record
sources and the consensus is frightening. Everyone
that I have spoken to agrees that the guillotine is highly
efficient. Most everyone I have talked with stated
that organ harvesting will indeed be even a bigger
business and the guillotine is the most efficient killing
machine to that end. Some of my sources stated that the
next phase of the transhumanism experiments and
developments requires a severed human head to facilitate
the mixing of humans and animals into one sentient being.
Further, futuristic DARPA robots will have human heads
after the initial purge and subsequent executions (see
photo below). This makes sense because after the
head is severed, the eyes blink and signs of life continue
for up to a minute. This would allow a team to “freeze”and
to preserve the head for whatever purpose. And just as
frightening, I was told that some of Satanic rituals
require severed human heads and we know the global elite,
in large part, are indeed Satanists.
Can you tell the real person from the DARPA produced
robot? Will human looking robots replace interim human
slaves?
I can understand people being skeptical about the
guillotines because my first reaction was to reject the
notion under my personal veil of cognitive dissonance.
Yet, the emerging facts speak for themselves.
Although I did not know Gunderson personally, I did know
Bill Pawelec as a close friend and I was well acquainted
with Griffith. And even if Pawelec and Griffith were
jointly mistaken on this issue, how would one explain away
Teper’s efforts to introduce the guillotine into the
Georgia justice system?
The end game implications are frightening. When we add
the topic of guillotines to what we already know about 2.2
billion rounds of DHS ammo and 2700 armored DHS personnel
carriers, why should this be so hard to believe? How can
take the fact that DHS has armed to the teeth against
Americans and are planning to murder us in horrific ways
as anything but a declaration of war?
Be prepared to be shocked as you watch the following
chilling report on the possession and intent of the
military with regard to the use of guillotines.
The 64 million dollar question is who is the government
planning to use these guillotines on? Perhaps the
following scripture from Revelations speaks to this point.
And I saw thrones, and they
sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.
Then I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word
of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image,
and had not received his mark on their
foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”Revelation 20:4
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/13/2013 19:43 -0400
Edward Snowden may be America's persona most non
grata in the entire world, but he has an insurance
policy against "accidents": a treasure trove of supposedly
damaging secrets about the US that will hit the public
domain if something were to happen to the 30 year old
whistleblower. A trove is so damaging that according to
Glenn Greenwald, Snowden "poses more of a
threat to the U.S. than anyone in the country’s
history." Well, maybe a threat to the
"government" which now only represents the interests of
various corporations and Wall Street, but certainly not to
what the US was supposed to be before it was
hijacked by special interests, lobbies and the creature
from Jekyll Island.
In an interview
with Argentinian newspaper La Nacion, The Guardian's
journalist who first broke the Snowden story, said that
"Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to
the U.S. government in a minute alone than anyone else has
ever had in the history of the United States.
Asked if he was afraid that Snowden might be killed,
Greenwald said: “If something were to happen, those
documents would be made public. This is your insurance
policy," according to The Hill.
"The U.S. government should be on your knees
every day praying that nothing happens to Snowden,
because if something happens, all information will be
revealed and that would be their worst nightmare,"
Greenwald added.
As noted
earlier, it is Latin America, China and Russia that
is the model "axis" for Greenwald, as only those countries
are not afraid to stand up to US bullying and
intimidation. That this bipolar distribution of world
powers will likely define world events for the years to
come is certainly something to keep in mind.
Greenwald said the asylum offers from Latin America
showed that the U.S. was less intimidating to certain
countries around the world.
“Only a few countries, including several in Latin
America, China and Russia, have challenged the U.S., have
realized that America is no longer in a position of
strength as it did before with the rest of the world, and
that the rest of the countries do not have to obey their
demands as if it were an imperial order,” Greenwald said.
Of course, resolving the Snowden "situation" does not
have to be terminal: the 30 year old would likely survive
some 40-50 years in maximum security penitentiary if
preserving his life was of tantamount importance:
something the US legal system, responsible for such smash
hits as Eric Holder, would have no problem with.
Still, the consistent critic of U.S. intelligence
policies also said that Snowden’s position was dicey,
and that the leaker needed to stay out of U.S. custody –
given how “extremely vindictive” American officials have
proven.
The American judicial system, Greenwald said, "cannot
be trusted when it comes to people accused of
endangering the national security. The judges do
everything they can to secure convictions in these
cases."
"Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to
the U.S. government in a minute alone than anyone else has
ever had in the history of the United States," said the
NATION Greenwald, 46, and since these latitudes write
regularly on international security issues have made him
famous, winner of several distinguished awards.
Today, the New Yorker, a former lawyer, is in the eye of
the storm. Lawmakers in Washington want to put him on
trial, spies of various countries seek Snowden secret
information shared with him last month in Hong Kong and he
still sent from Moscow through an encrypted email system.
He knows he's being watched and that their conversations
are monitored. They even steal the laptop from
her boyfriend Rio, of your own home.
Three men wait in the lobby of the hotel Royal Tulip
with credentials of a congress of osteoporosis which the
custodian has no idea. Are they really doctors or are
following Greenwald? Appearances are deceptive.
- Does Snowden's decision to stay in Russia
while achieving come to Latin America?
-Yes, the most important thing is not to end in U.S.
custody, which proved extremely vindictive government to
punish those who reveal uncomfortable truths, and in whose
judicial system can not be trusted when it comes to people
accused of endangering the national security, the judges
do everything they can to secure convictions in these
cases. It would be immediately put in prison to cover the
debate that helped generate, and end the rest of his days
behind bars.
- Russia gives security guarantees?
-Not many countries in the world that have the ability
and willingness to defy U.S. demands. But Russia is one of
those countries and it has been good so far.
- Beyond the revelations about the spying
system performance in general, what extra information
has Snowden?
-Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to
the U.S. government in a minute alone than anyone else has
ever had in the history of the United States. But that's
not his goal. Its objective is to expose software that
people around the world use without knowing what they are
exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to
surrender their rights to privacy. It has a huge number of
documents that would be very harmful to the U.S.
government if they were made public.
- Are you afraid that someone will try to kill
him?
It's a possibility, although I do not bring many
benefits to anyone at this point. Already distributed
thousands of documents and made sure that several people
around the world have their entire file. If something were
to happen, those documents would be made public. This is
your insurance policy. The U.S. government should be on
your knees every day praying that nothing happens to
Snowden, because if something happens, all information
will be revealed and that would be their worst nightmare.
- Can Latin America be a good shelter for
Snowden?
-Only a few countries, including several in Latin
America, China and Russia, have challenged the U.S., have
realized that America is no longer in a position of
strength as it did before with the rest of the world, and
that the rest of the countries do not have to obey their
demands as if it were an imperial order. In Latin America
feels a natural sympathy for the United States, yet there
is a great resentment for specific historical policies of
Washington toward the region. What happened to the plane
of Evo Morales in Europe caused a strong reaction, was
treated as if Bolivia was a colony and not a sovereign
state.
-From Snowden shared documents with you, there
is much more information related to Latin America?
Yes For each country that has an advanced communications
system, such as from Mexico to Argentina, there are
documents that detail how the United States collects the
traffic information, the programs that are used to capture
the transmissions, the number of interceptions are
performed per day, and more. One way to intercept
communications is through a telephone corporation in the
United States that has contracts with telecommunications
companies in most Latin American countries. The important
thing will be to see what the reaction of the various
governments. I do not think that the governments of Mexico
and Colombia do much about it. But maybe those of
Argentina and Venezuela itself willing to take action.
At the time of this writing, the US sits upon the edge of
the biggest depopulation event in US history. No, I am not
talking about the roll out of martial law, mass
incarceration into detention centers under the NDAA, nor
am I speaking about the commencement of WWIII. The biggest
threat the largest amount of Americans comes in the form
of a Trojan Horse. What should be helping Americans to
thrive and prosper into old age, is already beginning to
be used as a weapon of mass destruction against the
American people.
On January 1, 2014, Obamacare takes effect and the
death curve among certain populations is going to
skyrocket over the next several years. The coming
healthcare cataclysm has been deliberately planned with
you as their intended victim.
A Small Taste of What’s Coming
Soon, government appointed stooges, such as the director
of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, will be
making all of our important healthcare decisions. It might
behoove us to ask what kind of person and professional is
Kathleen Sebelius since she will soon have the complete
power of life and death over every American citizen.
To better examine the fine character of Sebelius, let’s
take a look at a healthcare case of a ten year old girl, Sara
Murnaghan, who is dying of cystic fibrosis. Sebelius
gives America a preview of what lies ahead for many of us.
Ten-year-old Sara needs an adult/adolescent lung
transplant and this is her only chance of survival.
However, Sara is prohibited from being put on the
transplant list because the qualifying age to be put on
the list is 12 years of age. Several doctors have
proclaimed that if she were be put on the list, she would
survive.
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebilius has the authority to issue a waiver and
permit Sara to be added to the list. Sebilius has the
power of life over death over young Sara’s life and she
said “no” in what has become a one person death panel for
Sara.
Even former US Attorney and current Congressman from
Pennsylvania, Patrick
Meehan has said that Sebelius has the authority to
grant the exemption. Yet, Sebilius has issued other such
exemptions. It seems that Sarah is just not the right 10
year old. Of course health care exemptions are made every
day for friends and supporters of the President. However,
Sara just does not carry enough political weight to sway
Sebelius.
America, Kathleen Sebelius is the woman who will be
making many administrative decisions about the future of
your health care. I think most of agree that her handling
of this transplant case does not inspire confidence. But
wait, it gets worse, far worse.
You Are A Marked Person
You have an assassin that has the proverbial bullet which
displays your name. How many of you have ever heard of the
IPAB? I would be willing to bet that 99% of the country
will never have heard to the IPAB. It stands for the Independent
Payment Advisory Board and they are going to be
behind the demise of many Americans in the near future.
The IPAB is an unelected panel which will determine who
gets treated and what age. Sebelius
is serving as the director has been quoted as stating that
the majority of IPAB membership cannot consist of medical
practitioners.In other words, unqualified, non-medical
professionals will be making health care decisions which
could determine your fate and the fate of your loved ones.
At a time when many Americans have been angered by the
abuses at the Internal Revenue Service, the National
Security Agency and the Justice Department, the
introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board
into health care merits special scrutiny. It is important
to note that the IPAB is accountable
to nobody. Smells like Sebelius
is attempting to pull a fast one over on the American
people. And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Another reprehensible element in the plethora of
unaccountable, dictatorial organizations which will ration
our health care is the United
States Preventive Services Task Force
(USPSTF). This is an unelected independent group of
national experts in prevention and evidence-based
medicine. The term “treatment denied because it has been
declared to be experimental” will soon become a much
more popular refrain from health care providers.
Under national healthcare, the USPSTF
will determine whether your doctor will be able to
diagnose you with what diseases and what treatments are
allowable and will be made available to your as well as
what age patients are still eligible for treatment.
Rationing Enrollment in Obamacare for
Pre-Existing Conditions
Didn’t Obama campaign on not permitting treatment to be
denied based upon pre-existing conditions? You bet he did
and like so many other things coming out of his mouth, he
was lying.
A pre-existing condition health insurance program
established by Obamacare is already in financial trouble
and is seeking to control costs even before the program is
unveiled. The Health and Human Services Department, there
is Sebelius rearing her ugly head again, has stopped
enrolling any new people in the program, according
to an audit by the General
Accountability Office. In addition, to further
control spending, Sebelius
has directed the program to shift more of the costs onto
the current participants. We are now witnessing just how
free is Obamacare as the pre-existing conditions group is
having its out of pocket costs increased even before the
program commences.
Rationing of healthcare is also occurring in 16 states
which have set a limit
on the number of prescription drugs that they will cover
for Medicaid patients. Seven of those states, according to
Kaiser Health News, have already enacted
these limits in just the last two years in anticipation of
the roll out of Obamacare..
Death Panels
It turns out that Palin was correct, there really are
death panels, who will possess the power of life and
death. Those with chronic illnesses and the elderly will
be the first set of victims. The IPAB
has accurately been identified as a death panel because so
many have called for it to have health care rationing
powers and because its decisions could result in
cost-cutting measures that deny lifesaving medical
treatment.
The IPAB will decide, for example, whether a 55-year-old
cancer patient will get chemotherapy
treatment, or will they be given a pain pill and sent home
to die. Under Obamacare, younger patients take precedent
over older people. Obama czar, Cass Sunstein has said
as much. Sunstein is also in favor of various eugenics
policies through such unspeakable policies as embracing,
as policy, post-birth “abortions” (i.e. murder) of
“defective” children up to the age of three.
Even the Nazi’s were not as inhumane as Sunstein. The
Nazis were publicly forthcoming for their perceived need
to ration healthcare when it came to what they called “useless
mouths.” Kissinger used the term “useless eaters” to
describe those that should be done away with under this
draconian form of Fabian Socialism. Under Hitler, 300,000
people were exterminated in German hospitals through
lethal injection. Under Obama’s plan, this number will
seem miniscule by comparison.
In recent remarks to the Accuracy In Media conference,
“ObamaNation: A Day of Truth,” Betsy McCaughey stated
that the regulations and cuts in Obamacare law would
directly cause the deaths of 35,000 hospital patients who
otherwise might have survived. Many think that this number
might climb ten-fold per year. And we are just
beginning to learn about specific age-related exemptions
for treatment. You see, there is the version of the law
that Obama managed to get through both houses which uses
very nebulous language. Then there is the administration
of the same law and manifestation of these policies.
And please remember that many doctors are leaving the
profession because of this thinly veiled flavor of Obama
based eugenics. By 2020, the US is projected to have a
shortage of 80,000 doctors. By 2025, that number is
expected to grow to a national shortage of 130,000
doctors. And with specialists and general practitioners
being paid the same under Obamacare, why would any doctor
spend the extra money to become trained in various
healthcare specialties if they will not make any more
money? So, even if Obamacare was not about creating
treatment exclusions, finding a doctor and managing the
wait time could prove to be an insurmountable challenge.
This is only the tip of the iceberg and, yet, the sheep
continue to march on to their final resting place.