UKRAINIAN REBELS LAY MINES TO KEEP OBSERVERS FROM MH17 - GUESS WHO'S GUILTY

Alexander Hug, deputy head for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's monitoring mission in Ukraine, looks on next to armed pro-Russian separatists on the way to the site in eastern Ukraine where the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed. OSCE never reached the site. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Almost two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was blown out of the sky, the remains of some passengers are feared rotting in the 32 C midsummer heat, deepening the frustration of relatives desperate to recover the bodies of their loved ones.

Fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels has kept away international police charged with securing the site, a sprawling area of farmland and villages. And until it's secured, there is no way for forensic experts to recover the bodies or gather debris for analysis.

Even the rebels -- who initially oversaw the collection of more than 200 of the 298 bodies in a disorganized, widely criticized effort -- have stopped their work, saying attacks from the Ukrainian military have forced them to focus on defending themselves.

It remains unclear exactly how many bodies remain and what condition they are in after being exposed for so long to the elements. Dutch officials are adamant there are still bodies to be recovered, and Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said repeatedly that bringing them back is his government's top priority.
 
But Dutch officials were gloomy Wednesday about the prospects of reaching the site any time soon.
 
"We don't expect the security situation to improve enough over the next few days to make this possible," said Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the Dutch-led recovery mission.
 
Two crucial pieces of evidence -- the flight recorders -- have already been retrieved and analyzed, however.
 
The U.S. and Ukrainian governments say the Boeing 777 was brought down July 17 by a Russian-made missile fired by eastern Ukraine's pro-Moscow separatists. The separatists deny it; Russia denies providing the Buk missile launcher and says the Ukrainian military may have shot the plane down.
 
After the investigative team's failure to reach the site on Wednesday, the United Nations called on both sides in Ukraine's grinding civil conflict to cease hostilities in the area.

'The families of the victims of this horrific tragedy deserve closure and the world demands answers.'- UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric

"The families of the victims of this horrific tragedy deserve closure and the world demands answers. International teams must be allowed to conduct their work," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
 
In their latest attempt to get to the wreckage zone, observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe left in two vehicles from the rebel-held city of Donetsk but got only as far as the city's outskirts.
 
The observers talked with rebels and turned back after being "warned of gunfire on the route and in the surrounding areas," the Dutch said in a statement.
 
Recent offensives by the Ukrainian army have enabled it to take back swaths of territory from the rebels. But the fighting has edged ever closer to the crash zone.
 
"We are still waiting and it is a miserable process," said Jasmine Calehr, the grandmother of two Dutch brothers who died in the crash
 
International observers say wreckage has been cut, moved or otherwise tampered with.
 
Of the 298 who died, 194 were Dutch citizens, and Ukraine has asked for their government's help in investigating the crash. Thirty-seven were from Australia. A total of 227 coffins have been flown to the Netherlands for identification and investigation.
 
Despite her mounting frustration, Calehr said she did not want investigators to go unless it was safe.
 
"Other people are not supposed to risk their lives," she said. "But that there is nobody strong enough to put pressure on a bunch of rebels is very painful."

A man walks past wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine earlier this month. OSCE observers were turned back on Wednesday. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Ukrainian government security spokesman Andriy Lysenko added to security concerns Wednesday by accusing the separatists of mining the approaches to the area. Even if rebels leave, he said, it will take time to remove the mines and make the area safe for investigators.
 
Meanwhile, the head of Ukraine's security services revealed what he said was fresh satellite imagery proving Russia had created a major cross-border corridor for the delivery of military equipment to the rebels.
 
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said other photographs showed burn marks from rockets fired at Ukrainian troops from a position two kilometers inside Russian territory.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-clashes-prevent-visit-to-mh17-debris-site-1.2722294

FORMER PALESTINIAN TERRORIST DENOUNCES HAMAS AT RISK TO HIS OWN LIFE

 

 

Mosab Hassan Yousef, interviewed on July 24th, 2014 on CNN.

Mosab Hassan Yousef is the eldest son of one of the founders of Hamas, Sheik Hassan Yousef, the spiritual leader of the organization on the West Bank.

As a youth, Mosab was arrested by the Israelis for involvement in terrorism.

In prison, he came to realize the true evil of Hamas.

In time, he renounced Islam, chose to become a follower of Jesus, and became a double agent for the Israeli secret services (Shin Bet) working to thwart Hamas terror attacks.

Later, he emigrated to the United States where he wrote a best-selling book, "Son of Hamas," warning about the dangerous of Hamas and telling his own journey out of Radical Islam.

Now, with Hamas engaged in a brutal, deadly war with Israel, Mosab - a remarkably courageous young man - is again speaking out against the radical Islamic terror group of which he used to be a key operative and rising future leader.

Hamas is a "cancer" in the Middle East," Mosab told radio host Mark Levin this week. The terror group does not represent the Palestinian people. "All they care about is conquest….They believe everyone is unclean and they are clean…..They are a radical force that are sending Palestinians to death on a daily basis."

"Hamas does not care about the lives of the Palestinians, does not care about the lives of Israelis, or Americans," Mosab told CNN this past week. "They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship."

"Hamas is not seeking coexistence [with Israel]," he noted. "Hamas is seeking conquest and taking over."

He said the goal of Hamas isn't not simply to destroy Israel but to build an Islamic caliphate on the rubble of every country in the region.

His book was turned into a documentary film, "The Green Prince," that recently won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is also being turned into a feature film.

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/son-of-hamas-speaks-out-against-the-radical-islamic-terror-group-of-which-he-was-once-a-top-operative/

SOMALI WOMAN KILLED FOR NOT WEARING THE VEIL - MURDER IN GOD'S NAME

 

 

Al-Shabab is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia

 

 

Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.

Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they say.

The militants had ordered her to put on a veil, and then killed her after returning and finding she was still not wearing one, the relatives said.

An al-Shabab spokesman denied the group had killed the woman.

Al-Shabab does not fully control the area where she was living, he added.

The capital, Mogadishu, is controlled by the weak UN-backed government

Relatives, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals, told the BBC that Mrs Yarow was killed at about 07:30 (04:30 GMT).

She was shot twice and died instantly, they added.

She is survived by her husband and children, the relatives said.

Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, imposes strict rules of behaviour, including dress codes for men and women.

BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the fact that al-Shabab has denied killing Mrs Yarow suggests that rogue elements within the group may have been responsible for her death.

It is also possible that al-Shabab wants to distance itself from the shooting because it is likely to provoke a strong public reaction, she says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28564984

NOTE: I could not connect with this site:

CHRISTIAN IN SOMALIA WHO REFUSED TO WEAR VEIL IS KILLED

www.somalimission.org/.../95-christian-in-somalia-who-refused-to-wear-veil-is-killed.html ‎ - CHRISTIAN IN SOMALIA WHO REFUSED TO WEAR VEIL IS KILLED. 'Moderate' Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian. ... members of Suna Waljameca for not wearing a veil, symbolic of adherence to Islam.

 

GAMBOLI - TONY HARPES - MONTREAL ARTIST

 

 

Does anyone have a picture or any information about Montreal artist Tony Harpes aka Gamboli? He was a fascinating man and a brilliant artist.

 

Tony drew caricatures of interesting Montrealers. He created a wonderful drawing of my husband, Cliff Carter, Mr. Nostalgia of RCA Records, while Cliff was at Biddles Jazz club in Montreal in the early 1980's. The picture appeared in the Montreal Gazette.

 

Gamboli was very well known in Montreal. His work appeared often in The Gazette, but I have not been able to find anything about him online except for a brief obituary. There was so much more to that man, and I would like to let the world know about him.

ISRAEL SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES - AYATOLLAH TELLS MUSLIMS TO ARM GAZA

 

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday called on Muslims from around the world to help arm Gaza Palestinians in their fight against Israel.

The call by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was his latest such message during the ongoing war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel.

Khamenei claims that while Israel and America seek to disarm Hamas, Iran says "the opposite ... the Muslim World has a duty to arm the Palestinian nation by all means."

Iran, a staunch Hamas ally, does not recognize Israel and supports militant anti-Israeli groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group.

Iran does not recognize Israel and has considered the Jewish state its archenemy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed monarchy and brought clerics to power

Khamenei spoke at a prayer ceremony in Tehran as Shiite Iranians marked the beginning of Eid al-Fitr holiday that follows the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iran-leader-calls-arming-gaza-fight-israel

SANE PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE AND LET LIVE - BUT HOW CAN YOU REASON WITH FANATICS?

 

 

How can you make peace

With people who teach their children

To kill, 
And to love death?

 

How can you reason

With people who

Blame God for the atrocities,

They are committing ?

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203291/Children-raised-hate-America-Shocking-picture-boy-holding-gun-anti-US-riot-Lebanon.html

 

MINDANAO - A JAPANESE COMPANY IS TURNING ISLAMIST REBELS INTO FARMERS

 

 

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

 

Isaiah 2.4

Philippines – A Japanese company is growing buckwheat, popularly known in Japan as "soba," in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur on Mindanao island with an aim of exporting to Japan starting later this year.

Takeyoshi Sumikawa of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Mindanao, Inc. said Nissey Delica Corp., a leading soba producer in Japan, tied up with local groups Datu Paglas-Japan Development Initiatives Inc. and Manabilang Services Inc. for the growing of soba in the uphill, Muslim-dominated municipality of Bumbaran.

The project is also getting support from Unifrutti Philippines, which has a vast banana and pineapple plantation in the province.

While Sumikawa said the soba plantation is still in the experimental stage, the initial harvest is projected to be sufficient to begin producing soba noodles in Japan before the year ends. If the plan pushes through, it will be the first time for Japanese consumers to taste Philippine-grown soba.

Soba noodles, which are prepared in various hot and cold dishes, are very popular and easily available in Japan, as well as in Japanese restaurants around the world including in those in Philippines. Sumikawa said the minerals contained in soba make it a very healthy food.

Sumikawa, who also serves as an adviser of the company, said that Nissey Delica wants to produce as many as 300 tons of soba in the Philippines next year.

"And I think that might be possible because we already have enough seeds," he said, speaking in an interview over the weekend at the soba plantation.

Sumikawa, who has been in Mindanao for seven years already engaging initially in the banana fiber business, recalled how soba seeds were scattered randomly at a small piece of land in Bumbaran for trial growing nearly three years ago.

"I feel that the soil and climate here is different. And indeed, it was a very successful test. We put only 1 kilogram of soba seeds, and the harvest was 30 kg. In Japan, the best harvest is only up to 20 kg," he said.

The soba plantation area is situated some 1,200 meters above sea level, with an average temperature of 25 C.

Prior to this, the group tried to grow soba in Datu Paglas town in the neighboring province of Maguindanao. But for four and a half years, the attempt was futile.

"Nissey Delica almost gave up because of this failure. So, we moved to Bumbaran," Sumikawa said.

Citing the strong demand for soba in Japan at 100,000 tons a year, most of which are being sourced from the United States, China and Russia, Sumikawa said producing soba in the Philippines can provide a good alternative, promising even a competitive price against those sourced from Japan and the United States.

"We are still at the experimental stage now with our 30-to-40- hectare plantation. But we are targeting to eventually have a 500-hectare plantation, which can therefore produce 1,000 tons per year if we harvest twice within the year," he said.

Antonio Carlos of Unifrutti Philippines disclosed that so far, the Kumamoto variety of soba seeds provided by Nissey Delica yielded the best quality from those that were tested in Bumbaran. The Miyazaki and Kagoshima varieties were not as good, he said.

From the Philippines, the harvested soba seeds will be sent to a flour mill in Kumamoto, and Nissey Delica will make them into noodles for distribution to a popular convenience outlet in Japan.

Sumikawa said the soba project is expected to provide additional livelihood opportunities for local farmers and even Muslim rebels who are now expected to lay down their arms after a peace agreement was signed with the government on March 27.

In an interview at one of the villages of Bumbaran, Momin Omadan said he is willing to finally hang his uniform as commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the rebel group that negotiated the peace deal with the government, if he is given the chance to grow soba on his family's farmland.

"I can retire from the MILF if I start a soba plantation. When you're already old, you can't be a combatant anymore," the 60-year-old rebel said.

"Soba is something new to us, but it won't be difficult for us to grow it with the proper training. Soba will contribute to our lives because, as far as I know, it will only take three months to harvest it, unlike bananas that take a year," he added.

Omadan has been working for Unifrutti Philippines as a banana plantation supervisor during the last 10 years even as he retained his active membership with the MILF.

A combatant since 1981, Omadan admitted being skilled with M16 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons — skills he is passing on to his male children and other younger rebels until the complete implementation of the peace deal.

"It's important for us, MILF rebels, to have livelihood. When the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro was signed, I told myself that I should stop fighting under the MILF because I'm getting old and I'm getting tired. I'm preparing myself to retire so that I can have time with my children and teach them the right path so they don't follow my life. I don't want them to be combatants anymore," said the father of nine and grandfather of 18.

Ordinary farmer Kashan Panambulan also expressed approval of the soba because it grows fast and can be harvested sooner than corn, which he is used to planting.

"We are willing to grow soba as long as payment continues," Panambulan said, disclosing that the current agreed price for soba from the farm is around 20 pesos ($0.44) per kilo.

Sumikawa was confident that security is no longer a concern in the area where the soba plantation is located and predicted the peace agreement between the Muslim rebels and the government will have positive impacts on the project.

He saw no problem with availability and cost of labor, and instead voiced hopes that the weather will cooperate come planting time and that electricity supply in the area will be ensured so that storage of the soba harvest will not be a problem.

By Ronron Calunsod, Kyodo News

http://www.sabahanews.com/world/japanese-company-grows-soba-in-southern-philippines/

ARE CABLE AND SATELLITE COMPANIES INTERFERING WITH FREE TV ?

 

I receive many U.S. TV channels with rabbit ears and a converter box, but there is always interference that breaks my picture (and sound) into jigsaw pieces. Are cable or satellite companies deliberately interfering with free TV reception to FORCE the public to buy their services? If so, isn't that a criminal offence under federal law?

 

 

Robert Anstee July 10, 2014 at 1:01 pm

The policy of not protecting the U.S stations being received here is a form of coercion that directly benefits the cable and satellite companies and hurts the consumer. Add to this the fact that there is no advertising of the reality that there are tv signals available freely over the air and that the general public is being deliberately kept in the dark. These actions force people into the clutches of these price goughing conglomerates. I've had both cable and satellite before so I know firsthand how these services force people to buy bundles of mostly useless channels just to have the one or two that you really want. There is no protection and education here for the consumer. Many customers to my store are stunned over the picture quality of the Sony in the store and don't know what an antenna is ! The NAB in the U.S. has stated that there are almost 60 million people relying on over the air antenna for their tv watching. The problem here is that there is suppression of the truth with regards to FREE TV.

Robert Anstee July 10, 2014 at 4:46 pm

ABC 22 was originally offered channel 16 by the FCC when the switch to digital was made but they refused it. If they had accepted there would have been no
no issues with reception. Their choice was strictly a monetary one as ABC and FOX have the same owner and their two channels are the weakest on Mount Mansfield. The channel allocations were poorly thought out when the digital switchover came as cross-border reception wasn't taken into consideration. No doubt they receive our signals there as well. As for FOX reception here, it was a surprise to me when the tower shut down that I could receive them so well. I was under the impression that they were directing their signal to the South and West. The July 7th shut-down proved that there is something else at play here.

Robert Anstee July 12, 2014 at 3:21 pm

I don't think that companies like Bell or BCE should own tv stations or networks, it's ethically wrong. They have TOO much control now, they decide what goes out free over the air and what goes through their cables. They now control production and distribution. The television networks and broadcasters should be independent oc the cable and satellite companies. Many channels that are on these services could be broadcast freely over the air. As for ABC and FOX here, they operate on a welfare budget. The FOX station in Buffalo New York is operated under different management and puts out 1000kw.

The general public don't know about OTA because newspapers like the Gazette don't print any articles on the subject. Companies like Shaw, Videotron, and Bell advertise in the Gazette and would prefer that people remain ignorant about antennas. They don't want the public to be educated as that would jepordize their monopolies....

Fagstein Post author  To be clear, Industry Canada does protect stations from interference, but only within their authorized contours. So Montreal stations are protected here, but stations from adjacent markets like Burlington/Plattsburgh, Ottawa, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières are not protected in Montreal. Not allowing adjacent channels in adjacent markets might not be practical considering the number of stations and number of available channels.

http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/07/07/mount-royal-tower-work/comment-page-1/

BEWARE; THE POISON OF THE "ELDERS OF ZION" IS STILL BEING SPREAD

 

What are "The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion"?

The war that the Nazis waged against the Jews was not just a war of physical annihilation. It was an international war of propaganda to convince the rest of the world of the evils of Judaism. One of the primary weapons that the Third Reich used for this international effort was a forgery known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." It is claimed that the Protocols are the minutes of a meeting of Jewish leaders at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, in which Jews plotted to take over the world. The Protocols are a complete forgery most of which was copied from an obscure satire on Napoleon III by Maurice Joly called "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel" ("A Dialogue in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli").

The story of the Protocols starts with a chapter in a novel called "Biarritz" by a German bureaucrat named Hermann Goedesche writing under the pseudonym "Sir John Retcliffe" (sometimes altered to "Sir John Readcliffe" in later literature). Goedesche was an anti-Semite in the middle of the 19th century who believed in a conspiracy between Jews and Masons to dominate the world. One chapter of the novel, titled "In the Jewish Cemetery in Prague" relates a speech by a Rabbi named Eichhorn or Reichhorn which reveals a Jewish plot against European civilization. Although it was part of a novel, it was printed separately as an anti-Semitic pamphlet in Russia as early as 1872. It was widely circulated as a truthful account for the rest of the 19th century and represents the precursor of the Protocols. It is still occasionally attached to current editions of the Protocols.

The Protocols were actually written in Paris sometime between 1895 and 1899 by an agent of the Russian secret police Pytor Ivanovich Rachovsky, who is known to have forged other documents for the various intrigues in which he took part. While the Protocols are overtly anti-Semitic it is believed that the Russian minister of finance, Sergei Witte, was also a target of the Protocols. At the time Witte was the leader of the movement to modernize Russia and limit the influence of the old Russian aristocracy. The Protocols attempt to discredit Witte's reforms of the Russian economy by linking Witte's program to a Jewish plot to destroy western civilization.

The Protocols, as they are usually published, are divided into twenty-six separate chapters each of which are a lecture on how to subvert western civilization, although some versions, including the first in Englsh, did not have this division. The "program" set forth in the Protocols is vague and generalized. The Protocols advise, for example: "Therefore in governing the world the best results are obtained by violence and intimidation, and not by academic discussions." (Protocol 1). Some are just silly. One Protocol (23) advocates making people unhappy by passing laws prohibiting drunkenness. The Protocols are vigorously anti-democratic as well. Protocol 25 advises: "Several members of the seed of David will prepare Kings and their successors, who will be elected not by right of inheritance but by their own capabilities. These successors will be initiated in our secret political mysteries and plans of governing, taking great care that no one else should acquire them."

The parochial political controversies that sparked the writing of the Protocols was soon forgotten but the anti-Semitism remained. The Protocols were first published in full by Sergei Nilus, another agent of the Russian secret police, in 1905. Nilus, who might have been one of the authors of the Protocols, became their main promoter; he circulated several editions of the Protocols in Russia as part of an campaign of anti-Semitism. While the early publications of the Protocols were in Russia, it was spread to the rest of Europe by Russian expatriates after the fall of the Tsars in 1917, where they claimed that it provided proof that the Jews were behind the Russian Revolution. Another expatriate Russian, Boris Brasol, brought it to the United States around 1920 where it became the core of Henry Ford's anti-Semitic program. By the time Nilus died in 1930, Europe had been saturated by millions of copies of the Protocols. It had also been exposed as a forgery.

The Protocols reached Germany sometime around 1918. One of those who brought them to Germany was Alfred Rosenberg, an Estonian of German heritage who first encountered the Protocols when a student in Moscow. According to Rosenberg a stranger entered his room, placed the book on the table and silently departed. Whether his tale was true or not, Rosenberg soon became an anti-Semite convinced of the authenticity of the Protocols. When he fled Raval (now Talinn) in the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution, he took the Protocols with him.

In Germany Rosenberg soon became involved with a mystical group that was a precursor to National Socialism known as the Thule Society where he frequently lectured about the Protocols. Rosenberg was there to explain the mysteries of the Protocols when Adolf Hitler appeared on the stage of right-wing politics in 1921. Rosenberg was at Hitler's side during the attempted putsch in Munich in 1923. By then the Protocols had become one of the central themes of Nazi thought. The Protocols were the basis for much of Mein Kampf, and Rosenberg's book The Myth of the 20th Century became the most important exposition of Nazi philosophy.

It was already known that the Protocols were a forgery when Hitler received his first copy. The exposure of the forgery began as soon as the

	London Times, August 16, 1921

Protocols began to appear in western Europe but the coup de grâce occurred in 1921, one year after the Protocols were first published in Great Britain. In August, 1921, the Times of London printed a devastating exposure of the forgery by printing extracts from the Protocols side-by-side with the passages from Joly's book that had been plagiarized. From that point, the Protocols were dismissed by thinking people everywhere. It did not, however, stop the wide circulation of the Protocols by Russian expatriates and later by Hitler. Even the decision by a Swiss court after consultation with three experts (one appointed by the publisher) in May, 1935 did not affect the distribution of the Protocols by the Third Reich.

The anti-Semitic agitation of the Nazis was international in scope. The Protocols was the chief weapons used in the propaganda campaign against the Jews. Under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, the Protocols were translated into many other languages and the world was flooded with cheap editions of the forged document. With Henry Ford's "The International Jew" (also based in large part on the Protocols), it became the staple text for the anti-Semitism exported by the Nazis around the world. In Mein Kampf, Hitler described the importance of the Protocols to his program of anti-Semitism:

... To what extent the whole existence of this people is based on a continuous lie is shown incomparably by the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, so infinitely hated by the Jews. They are based on a forgery, the Frankfurter Zeitung moans and screams once every week: the best proof that they are authentic. What many Jews may do unconsciously is here consciously exposed. And that is what matters. It is completely indifferent from what Jewish brain these disclosures originate; the important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty they reveal the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims. The best criticism applied to them, however, is reality. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this book will at once understand the screaming of the Jewish press. For once this book has become the common property of a people, the Jewish menace may be considered as broken.

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf (München: Zentralverlag der N.S.D.A.P. Franz Eher Nachf., G.M.B.H., 1935). Volume 1; Chapter XI: Nation and Race (pp. 307-308; Mannheim translation).

Wie sehr das ganze Dasein dieses Volkes auf einer fortlaufenden Lüge beruht, wird in unvergleichlicher Art in den von den Juden so unendlich gehaßten "Protokollen der Weisen von Zion" gezeigt. Sie sollen auf einer Fälschung beruhen, stöhnt immer wieder die "Frankfurter Zeitung" in die Welt hinaus: der beste Beweis dafür, daß sie echt sind. Was viele Juden unbewußt tun mögen, ist hier bewußt klargelegt. Darauf aber kommt es an. Es ist ganz gleich, aus wessen Judenkopf diese Enthüllungen stammen, maßgebend aber ist, daß sie mit geradezu grauenerregender Sicherheit das Wesen und die Tätigkeit des Judenvolkes aufdecken und in ihren inneren Zusammenhängen sowie den letzten Schlußzielen darlegen. Die beste Kritik an ihnen jedoch bildet die Wirklichkeit. Wer die geschichtliche Entwicklung der letzten hundert Jahre von den Gesichtspunkten dieses Buches aus überprüft, dem wird auch das Geschrei der jüdischen Presse sofort verständlich werden. Denn wenn dieses Buch erst einmal Gemeingut eines Volkes geworden sein wird, darf die jüdische Gefahr auch schon als gebrochen gelten.

Aus Mein Kampf: Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion. Aus 11. Kapitel: Volk und Rasse - Erster Band: Eine Abrechnung.

Even today the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is one of the principal propaganda weapons of anti-Semitism. In the United States it continues to be circulated by the Christian Identity movement, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. It is still distributed by those who deny the Holocaust as well. The Institute for Historical Review - the intellectual center of the movement denying the Holocaust - continues to sell the Protocols and it is still used to attack Jews. Ernst Zündel, who states openly that he is an admirer of Hitler and claims the Holocaust never happened, still repeats the lies of the Protocols:

Could it be that word is out that, according to the Protocols of the Wise Elders of Zion, the New World Order is soon going to be locked in place, with Israel the hub of power and the United States its dedicated slave?

http://www.lebensraum.org/ english/zgrams/zg1997/zg9709/970912.html

Nor is the United States the only country and English the only language where the Protocols are still being distributed as fact. The Protocols are available in virtually every European country. Translated into Arabic, the Protocols have become a standard text for anti-Semitism in the Middle East. Translated into Japanese, millions of the copies of the Protocols are still being distributed around the Pacific Rim.

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has become a lie that will not die, no matter how often it is exposed as a forgery.

Where to start your research

Norman Cohn, "Warrant for Genocide" Serif Press (1967, 1996) is the most complete history of the Protocols.

Albert Lee, "Henry Ford and the Jews" Stein & Day (1980) explains how they were used by Henry Ford and distributed throughout the world.

Michael Barkan, "Religion and the Racist Right" University of North Carolina Press (Revised Edition; 1997) explains how the Protocols influenced the Christian Identity movement.

D. Sklar, "The Nazis and the Occult" Dorset Press (1977, 1989) explains the connection between the Thule Society and Nazi thought.

The text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and several articles about it can be read at: http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/protocols.html.

OBVIOUS TRUTH ABOUT THE SHOOTING DOWN OF MH17 OVER UKRAINE

 

 

Based on details revealed on

News reports from all over the world -

 

The missile went straight up;

The Malaysian plane went straight down.

 

And where it all landed

Everyone knows.

 

But politics require "He said, He said"

And the debate will go on and on and on ...

While the victims' families suffer,

And more people die.

 

Who benefits?

 

 

HUBERT HUMPHREY - THIS HONOURABLE MAN TRIED TO BRING HONOUR TO GOVERNMENT

 

 

 

Hubert Humphrey spent most of his life doing what was right, often swimming against powerful tides. Under the thumb of Lyndon Johnson, he lost his halo for a while, but he came back and tried again to make government honourable, because he was an honourable man. - 

 

Phyllis Carter

 

 

"I was among more than a thousand people who watched, laughed, gasped, and wept at Mick Caouette's Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible during a screening in Minneapolis. It is a powerful film about arguably the most important United States Senator of the 20th century whose great personal courage shaped the world we live in. 

"This is far more than just the riveting account of  an exuberant  public figure whose life was marked by both triumph and tragedy; it also is an important and fresh  exploration of  American history."  -  

Bill Moyers

 

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -  

Hubert Humphrey

 

Excerpts from the PBS documentary
Hubert Humphrey - The Art of The Possible

HUBERT HUMPHREY: Mr. Chairman, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans, I realize that, in speaking in behalf of the minority report on civil rights, that I'm dealing with a charged issue, with an issue which has been confused by emotionalism on all sides of the fence.

I feel I must rise at this time to support the minority report – a report that spells out our democracy, a report that the people of this country can and will understand, and a report that they will enthusiastically acclaim on the great issue of civil rights. ...

ROGER WILKINS, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER: Those people were bad people. And we had spent our lives being powerless. You know? We'd spent our lives being powerless in the face of their power, their craftiness and their determination to keep us submerged in American life.

So, this was for us a morality play of the greatest dimension. And, oh, Hubert was our knight in shining armor. ...

NARRATOR: In November of 1948, Harry Truman won a historic upset. And making history of his own, Hubert H. Humphrey became Minnesota's first Democratic senator.

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Being a romantic and idealistic person, when he went to Washington in 1948, I think he probably felt that this was going to be "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," and this place of marble monuments that was just waiting for him to come there and change the world, and crusade. And very quickly, his dreams and idealism collided with reality.

NARRATOR: The reality was a Senate dominated by the same Dixiecrats Humphrey had angered with his civil rights speech the summer before. And they would not go easy on Hubert Humphrey.

HUMPHREY: After all, I had been the destroyer of the Democratic Party, the enemy of the South. Hubert Humphrey, the quote, end quote, "nigger lover."

But I never felt so lonesome and so unwanted in all my life as I did in those first few weeks and months as United States senator. ...

SONG: So vote for Hubert, Hubert Humphrey, the president for you and me.

HUMPHREY: I love this nation. I think it ought to set a great example for the whole world, really to cast a beacon of light and of enlightenment, and of hope and of peace of the entire nation. And the president must speak for the nation, giving the philosophy and the fundamentals of our democracy and what we stand for.

And then, he must be able to mobilize action and carry out these programs, so that the dream can be fulfilled.

NARRATOR: While it is generally believed that John Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the first televised debate, Humphrey and Kennedy met months earlier.

HUMPHREY: In 1960, I had the opportunity to expose America to a number of my ideas. I was determined that Kennedy adopt as many of my proposals and policies as possible.

JOHN F. KENNEDY, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This week, I had the opportunity to debate with Mr. Nixon. I feel that I should reveal that I had a great advantage in that debate. And I'm not referring to anyone's makeup man.

(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

The advantage that I had had was that Mr. Nixon had just debated with Khrushchev, and I had debated with Hubert Humphrey. And that gave me an edge. ...

LAMB: So, I assume there was never a time when this wasn't going to be a positive look at Humber Humphrey's life.

CAOUETTE: No. Well, I started out otherwise. But I started out, really wanted to look for all sides of his personality. But, you know, we interviewed 52 people, and I couldn't find anyone who didn't like him. I mean, they just – they were all in love with him. And it seemed like the closer they got to him, the more they liked him.

And it was really difficult to – and that's hard, by the way, to do a story about someone who's a good person. It's much easier if there's, you know, affairs and murders, and all kinds of other things. It's much more sensational. But I couldn't really find much.

He had flaws, and he made mistakes, but he wasn't, you know, basically on the inside. In fact, I asked Bill Moyers, did he do anything bad. He said, "I can't say anything bad about him, because he wasn't a bad person."

LAMB: Yes, Bill Moyers is quoted in your piece as saying, he's "one of the greatest legislators in American history."

CAOUETTE: Yes.

LAMB: What's that – where does that come from?

CAOUETTE: Well, he had his hand, one way or another, in 1,000 bills over 10 years. So, I believe I came up with one every three days, or something, it amounts to.

And, you know, it affects pretty much everything in our life. I mean, everything that – every piece of legislation that's now affecting our lives really came from somewhere – Hubert Humphrey was involved in one place or another. ..

NARRATOR: President Johnson saw the Senate as a battleground. And victory would come only after a long, bitter fight.

But Humphrey insisted on a new, softer strategy that would change the legislative game.

HUMPHREY: To break a filibuster was almost an impossible task, because he'd been majority leader of the Senate, and had attempted to break filibusters himself.

BILL MOYERS, JOURNALIST: To see how things get done in American politics, you need to study very closely what Hubert Humphrey did in the Senate in 1964, with that Civil Rights Act.

UNIDENTIFIED STAFF MEMBER: … wanted to know, to see if we would try to get …

MOYERS: He had regular strategy meetings. He organized a newsletter. He had people on watch all of the time. He enlisted one colleague in the Senate to focus on each title of the bill. He was brilliant in the way he organized his forces to challenge the filibuster and press the argument. ...

NARRATOR: The showdown caught the public's attention. But no cameras were allowed in the Senate. So, Humphrey and Thurmond agreed to take a piece of the debate to a television audience.

HUMPHREY: And we know that fellow Americans who happen to be negro have been denied equal access to places of public accommodation, denied in their travels the chance for a place to rest and to eat.

THURMOND: It's not public accommodations. It's invasion of private property. This will lead to integration of private life.

HUMPHREY: In the City of Birmingham, Alabama, up to 1963, there was an ordinance that said that, if you were going to have a restaurant, and you were going to permit a negro to come in, you had to have a seven-foot wall down the middle of the restaurant dividing the white from the colored.

Now, how foolish this is? And isn't that an invasion of private property …

THURMOND: Senator, we live in a country of freedom. And under our Constitution, a man has a right to use his own private property as he sees fit.

We must remember that this bill creates no jobs. So, therefore, whose jobs are these negroes, the minority, going to take? Other negroes' jobs, or white people's jobs?

HUMPHREY: Well, the main thing that we ought to press on them is to get it. The delay is going to be disastrous.

NARRATOR: After two months, Humphrey was exhausted and worried, feeling pressure from both the president and civil rights leaders.

Finally, Everett Dirksen broke his silence with 22 amendments.

When civil rights leaders demanded a tougher stand, Humphrey pleaded for patience, and took Dirksen into a one-on-one, closed door session.

Two weeks later, they surfaced with the bill intact, and Dirksen in the spotlight.

HUMPHREY: And I, for one, want to publicly express my respect and admiration for you, and my sincere thanks for what I call service beyond the call of duty, and putting country ahead of every other consideration.

SEN. EVERETT DIRKSEN, REPUBLICAN MINORITY LEADER: I could say as much for you, my friend.

HUMPHREY: Thank you. Thank you, Everett. ...

TED VAN DYK, ASSISTANT IN THE JOHNSON WHITE HOUSE: We looked to a really kind of equal partnership. And in the first few days, we thought it would be that way, and we were going to be a part of everything. And, of course, then events intervened, including most dramatically, Humphrey's break with Johnson in a Cabinet meeting on Vietnam.

NARRATOR: Only days into the new administration, the Viet Cong attacked an American base in Pleiku. And Johnson called a Cabinet meeting to sanction the bombing of North Vietnam.

ROBERT MANN, AUTHOR: Johnson was not looking for advice, but validation. And it was actually Johnson looking for ratification of what he'd already decided. He goes around the room and asking all these people, his advisers, to tell him what they think about this decision to launch these attacks. And Humphrey announces that he thinks that it's a mistake.

NARRATOR: Johnson was furious with him. And the bombing of the North began.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Congress gave us this authority in August 1964. To do whatever may be necessary – that's pretty far reaching. That's – the sky's the limit.

NARRATOR: While there may have been no limits on Johnson's expansion of the Vietnam War, there would now be limits on his vice president.

MOYERS: I knew him intensely for those years of the '60s. And that was the most tortured period of his life, as he was trying to be vice president, serving the president who was taking us to war in Vietnam – even as he had misgivings as an independent thinker.

NARRATOR: After their public disagreement, Humphrey was frozen out of all discussion of Vietnam.

Johnson cut off his privileges, reduced his staff, censored his speeches, tapped his phones and ordered his own staff not to speak to him. ...

WILKINS: He was luminous in his optimistic belief in the possibilities of reforming America. And he loved people. There was just a palpable humanity in that man.

NARRATOR: At Christmas, his family installed a toll-free 800 number in his home, so he could call hundreds of friends and say good-bye.

And on Friday, the 13th of January, 1978, Hubert Humphrey died peacefully at his lake home in Minnesota.

As his body lie in state in Washington, 60,000 average Americans braved freezing cold temperatures to say good-bye...

http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1324

PAKISTANI MOB MURDERS WOMAN AND YOUNG GRANDDAUGHTERS FOR FACEBOOK POST

 

 

A Pakistani mob killed a woman and two of her granddaughters after a member of the religious minority group she belonged to was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook, police have said.

Rioting erupted in the city of Gujranwala late last night following claims that an Ahmadi Muslim had posted a blasphemous photo on to the social networking site.

The dead, including a seven-year-old girl and her baby sister, were Ahmadis, who consider themselves Muslim but believe in a prophet after Mohammed.

 

 

Police arrive after the houses of a religious minority group were torched by a mob following accusations of blasphemy, in Gujranwala, Pakistan

 

 

Rioting erupted in the city of Gujranwala late last night following claims that an Ahmadi Muslim had posted a blasphemous photo on to the social networking site, police have said

A police officer, who declined to be identified, said the youth accused of making the Facebook post had not been injured.

A law passed in 1984 in Pakistan declared Ahmadis non-Mulims and they are considered by many in Pakistan to be heretics.

Under Pakistani law, they are banned from using Muslim greetings, saying Muslim prayers or referring to his place of worship as a mosque.

According to police, violence broke out in the town of Gujranwala, 140 miles southeast of the capital, Islamabad, following an altercation between young men, one of whom was an Ahmadi accused of posting 'objectionable material'.

A police officer told Reuters: 'Later, a crowd of 150 people came to the police station demanding the registration of a blasphemy case against the accused.

'As police were negotiating with the crowd, another mob attacked and started burning the houses of Ahmadis.'

PERSECUTION OF AHMADI COMMUNITY

The Ahmadiyya (Ahmadi) community are persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere and are considered non-Muslims under Pakistani law.

Their status as 'non-Muslim' is recorded on their passports and they can be jailed for several years if they are caught 'posing as a non-Muslim'.

The Ahmadi differ from mainstream Islam in that they do not believe Muhammad is the final prophet.

There are several Muslim clerics who preach that a man who kills an Ahmadi earns a place in heaven.

In 2012, 20 Ahmadis were murdered, up from 11 in 2009.

Police official Zeeshan Siddiqi has said the victims died of suffocation and that another woman miscarried during the riots and was in hospital.

Salim ud Din, a spokesman for the Ahmadi community, said it was the worst attack on the community since simultaneous attacks on Ahmadi places of worship killed 86 Ahmadis four years ago.

'Police were there but just watching the burning. They didn't do anything to stop the mob,' he said. 'First they looted their homes and shops and then they burnt the homes.'

The police officer said they had tried to stop the mob.

Accusations of blasphemy have rocketed in Pakistan - from one in 2011 to at least 68 last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

About 100 people have been accused of blasphemy this year.

Human rights workers say the accusations are increasingly used to settle personal vendettas or to grab the property of the accused.

The Ahmadiyya (Ahmadi) community are persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere and are considered non-Muslims under Pakistani law.

Their status as 'non-Muslim' is recorded on their passports and they can be jailed for several years if they are caught 'posing as a non-Muslim'.

The Ahmadi differ from mainstream Islam in that they do not believe Muhammad is the final prophet.

There are several Muslim clerics who preach that a man who kills an Ahmadi earns a place in heaven.

In 2012, 20 Ahmadis were murdered, up from 11 in 2009.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708230/Pakistani-mob-kill-woman-two-young-granddaughters-member-religious-sect-belonged-posted-blasphemous-comment-Facebook.html

 

THE CHURCH AND A DISTRICT ATTORNEY HELPED THIS PRIEST GET AWAY WITH MURDER

 

 

Justice is frequently delayed and delayed and delayed - and thereby denied - by the powers that be. As a victim of the police in Montreal, Canada, I am particularly concerned about injustice anywhere.

 

In this case in Texas, for decades the church and a district attorney have protected a priest, John Feit, against charges that he raped and brutally murdered a young woman, Irene Garza, as he was counselling her in his rectory. Instead of reporting the crimes to the police, the priests shifted Feit around from one monastery to another.

 

The church usually covers up the sins of priests, but has anyone asked what the district attorney, Rene Guerra, had to gain by ensuring there would be no justice in this case year after year - for decades? What kind of "justice system" allows one man to prevent justice from being carried out against a rapist murderer? It seems to me D.A Guerra has been determined to protect Feit all along. But why? What's in it for him? Has anyone asked?

 

Earlier, John Feit had attempted an assault on another young woman as she prayed in church. In that case the woman escaped and identified John Feit as her assailant.

 

Justice delayed is justice denied  - as usual. In this case a prime witness, the priest, Joseph O'Brien, has since died and the only other strong witness is the 85 year old retired monk, Dale Tacheny. Nothing will be done to bring any kind of justice to the Garza family until 2015, and then only if Dale Tacheny is still here on earth to testify. Delay and delay and delay .... 

 

Phyllis Carter

Crime Victim in Montreal.

 

 

More than 50 years after the murder of 25-year-old Texas beauty queen Irene Garza, her family continue the fight to bring her suspected killer, a former Catholic priest, to justice before the 81-year-old retiree outruns the clock.

In April 1960, the young school teacher and former Miss South Texas was found lying in a canal in her hometown of McAllen after having disappeared the day before Easter.
A devout Catholic, she had gone to Sacred Heart Catholic Church to give confession to Father John Feit, a bespectacled 27-year-old visiting priest.

 

 
Shocking crime: Irene Garza, who was Miss South Texas, was found dead lying in a canal in her hometown around Easter 1960. A Catholic priest who heard her final confession, Rev. John Feit, has been a person of interest but was never arrested

"Changed man": John Feit, 81, is now a grandfather who lives in a retiree community in Scottsdale, Arizona, Feit was immediately a suspect in Garza's death because 23 days earlier he had been found guilty of attacking another young woman at a nearby church. He did not serve any jail time and was fined $500.

When questioned by police, Feit offered various stories regarding his whereabouts on the night of the murder. Asked to explain the scratches on his hands, the 27-year-old said he got hurt while climbing into his home after getting himself locked out.

But Feit was never arrested in the Garza case and was quietly transferred to a monastery before leaving the priesthood in the late 1960s.

Garza's relatives, who have spent the last 50 years pressing the authorities to charge Feit with murder, believe that District Attorney Rene Guerra has been a part of a cover-up to keep the former clergyman out of prison.

Now a stooped, white-haired grandfather, Feit continues to live a comfortable life in an upscale neighborhood in Scottsdale, Arizona. He has vehemently denied ever killing Garza in interrogations with police and interviews by the media, including most recently CBS News' 48 Hours.

The Garza murder has become a political issue. The victim's family have emerged as supporters of Ricardo Rodriguez, a candidate for Hidalgo County District Attorney who will seek to unseat the 32-year incumbent Guerra.

'Our current district attorney imparts justice on his arbitrary beliefs as when he tells someone that justice will be dispensed when pigs fly,' Rodriguez told a crowd of voters.

Grilled: Feit was questioned in Garza's death but has never been charged. Her family believes local officials covered for him because of his religious title. The aspiring district attorney was referring to a remark allegedly made by Guerra to Garza's cousin, Lynda De La Vina.

Recalling her encounter with the prosecutor, Miss De La Vina said: 'he put his finger in my -- in my face and said, you know, "You will never get an indictment. You'll get one when pigs fly."'

Irene Garza, a brunette beauty crowned Miss All South Texas Sweetheart, was first in her family to graduate from high school and go to college.

 

 

Second victim: Three weeks before the tragedy, Maria America Guerra was attacked by a man inside a church; she later identified her assailant as Father Feit. The Mexican-American woman became a grade school teacher who often used her own money to buy supplies for her students.

The elegant, eye-catching woman was last seen alive heading to confession on the night of April 16, 1960. She never returned.

Her borrowed car was found the next morning near the church. Two days later, someone spotted Irene's leather purse, one of her high-heeled shoes and a piece of her white lace veil.

The alarming discoveries set off a massive search in the county, which ended five days after Garza's disappearance when her body was fished out of an irrigation canal.
The young woman was fully dressed, but her underwear was missing and the buttons on her blouse were undone.

The autopsy found that Garza had been struck with a blunt object and then suffocated. The medical examiner also determined that the 25-year-old woman had been raped while comatose.

Three weeks before the tragedy, Maria America Guerra was kneeling at the communion rail inside a church in neighboring Edinburg when a man in horn-rimmed glasses and priestly attire came up from behind, grabbed her and tried to gag her.
Guerra, however, was able to fight off her assailant and escape.

After Garza's murder, Guerra was shown Feit's photo in a lineup and recognized him as her attacker. But the priest escaped with only a light fine after the jury became deadlocked.

When the cold case was reopened in 2002, two witnesses came forward to investigators to say Feit allegedly confessed to them.

 

 

Garza's relatives have continued the fight to get justice for her, even more than 50 years after the crime

 

 

Tragic moment: Five days after her disappearance, Miss Garza's body was found in an irrigation canal; she was fully clothed buy missing underwear and with her blouse unbuttoned

De La Vina, who was 9-years-old when the crime occurred, said it was unthinkable to accuse a priest of such a horrific crime.

'We were accusing a priest that -- in those days priests were infallible, ' said De La Vina.

Another relatives, Noemi Sigler, was only 10-years-old when Garza was killed.
'It was impossible for a priest to do such a deed. I mean, if you thought of it, that would be sacrilegious.'

Sigler believes police protected Feit at the time because of his religious authority.
'I don't know whether it was out of respect for the church or anger or fear, I have no idea,' she said.

Later, Noemi Sigler learned from her father, a deputy sheriff, that he had been ordered by his superiors to turn over the Garza case files and stop investigating her murder.
Both cousins refused to let the case die even as Feit went to a monastery and the case grew cold.

Garza's cousins, Noemi Sigler, left, and Lynda De La Vina, were both children when she was murdered but continued to investigate the case on their own until it was reopened by authorities in 2002

When officials began their new investigation in 2002, two witnesses came forward to offer new evidence against Feit.

One priest, Joseph O'Brien said he worked with Feit at Sacred Heart and told Sigler that Feit confessed to the murder. But the cleric has since passed away.

The other witness was Dale Tacheny, who served as a monk and was Feit's spiritual adviser when he was in the Missouri monastery.

Tacheny said Feit confessed to killing a young woman around Easter.

 

Feit was immediately a suspect in Garza's death because he had recently been arrested for assaulting another young woman at a nearby church

Feit said he offered to take the woman to the rectory, Tacheny said, where Feit allegedly sexually assaulted her, bound and gagged her, fondled her breasts, and put something over her head.

'That's what he did,' said Tacheny, who said Feit more shocking details in his alleged confession.

The former monk said Feit told him he took Garza to a separate location, where he was living, and hid her there, bound in a bathtub with a bag over her head, overnight.

Tacheny recalled that Feit had allegedly told him that as he was leaving to go to church next morning, he heard Garza say, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe."'

 

Garza died the next day when she apparently suffocated.

 

This is Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas where Feit worked when Garza was murdered

He asked Feit why he was living at a monastery and not in prison. ' "The church protected me, the people in the church, my superiors, protected me," ' Tacheny quoted Feit as saying.

'I believe he killed her,' said Tacheny. 'I had no doubt about it because he said he did.'
But District Attorney Guerra, chose not to arrest Feit because he did not find the two new witnesses credible.

Guerra insisted that after more than half a century, the case against Feit is 'untriable.'

In March 2004, Guerra assigned two prosecutors to handle the case, but Feit was never subpoenaed, and the two main witnesses were never called to give their testimony in person.

That summer, the grand jury declined to indict John Feit for the murder of Irene Garza.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571269/Irene-Garza-murder-The-81-year-old-grandfather-priest-exiled-accused-murder-beauty-queen-53-years-ago-victims-family-claim-did-it.html

MAJOR FLAW IN WESTERN JUSTICE - DEFENSE LAWYERS HAVE NO SHAME OR FEAR

 

Lawyers who defend criminals -

Knowing they are guilty -

ARE criminals.

 

But western law protects criminals,

And criminal lawyers,

While victims have to struggle

For justice.

 

With enough money and influence, 

Criminals can get away with any crime.

The laws allow all sorts of opportunities

To make justice almost impossible.

 

Where is our hope?

 

DEADLY SUPERBUG IS SPREADING IN U.S. HOSPITALS

 

While people in Africa are dying of the horrible Ebola virus, America is facing another menace.  P.C.

Cases of the contagious and deadly "superbug" known as CRE increased five-fold in community hospitals from 2008 to 2012 in the Southeastern U.S., according to a new study.

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And while the actual number of patients discovered was low—305—the worry is that CRE infections are under-reported and threaten health care facilities nationwide, said one of the report's authors. CRE is an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that usually strikes people in hospitals, nursing homes and other health centers.

"This is a wakeup call for hospitals on how to detect the disease," said Dr. Joshua Thaden, one of the leading authors for the study published in the August issue of the medical journal, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

"And the reason this is very serious is because of the high mortality rate (50 percent) of CRE," Thaden explained. "The fact that we're seeing an increase is concerning."

The study was conducted at 25 community hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia from January 2008 through December 2012.

MRSA found in firehouses

Adding to the concern is a report published last month that found another superbug, MRSA, at firehouses in Washington state.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health tested 33 firehouses for the presence of MRSA. The bug was found at 19 of those firehouses on ambulances, trucks and on kitchen surfaces.

Twelve crews reported having at least one member who had gotten an infection requiring medical care. No deaths have been reported.

Dr. Allison Bartlett, an infectious disease specialist with La Rabida Children's Hospital in Chicago, said it's no surprise the bacteria was found where it was.

"Living in close quarters and a lack of frequent cleaning of high-touch surfaces likely all contribute to the high rates of bacterial contamination," she said.

MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and is another drug-resistant bacteria. It causes a range of illnesses, from skin and wound infections to pneumonia and bloodstream infections that can cause sepsis and death.

Anyone can get MRSA through direct contact with an infected wound or by sharing personal items, such as towels or razors, that have touched infected skin.

There are more than 80,000 cases of MRSA detected each year in the U.S., with a reported 11,285 deaths.

"Developing new drugs is important, but the bacteria could end up resisting them as well." -Dr. Joshua Thaden, study author

CRE, is the acronym for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Because the various strains of the bacteria are mostly resistant to antibiotics, it's known as a superbug.

CRE can be transferred from a patient to the hands of the care provider, like a doctor or nurse, and from their hands to another patient. An estimated 9,300 people in the U.S. are infected by CRE every year, resulting in around 600 deaths.

All in all, there are at least 2 million illnesses reported each year from the various superbugs, resulting in more than 23,000 deaths, according to the CDC.  

Since most CRE cases—and even some MRSA infections—usually start in health care facilities, pressure has been mounting in hospitals to do a better job of tracking them, said Dr. Cristie Columbus, vice dean for Texas A&M College of Medicine.

"Many of them have adopted new laboratory guidelines for improving detection," she said.

Columbus said that once infections have been detected, proper infection control, like patient isolation, needs to be implemented.

Why they're spreading now

Medical experts say that the overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has led to the spread of superbugs.

That overuse is likely to continue in animals after a panel of the U.S. Second Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration does not have to consider banning the practice of feeding antibiotics to animals that are not sick.

The appeals court overturned two district court rulings in cases brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups. The suits sought to prompt the FDA to stop the routine use of certain antibiotics in healthy animals unless drug manufacturers proved the safety of such use.

Antibiotics are often used in livestock as a preventive measure. Eighty percent of all the antibiotics sold in the United States are used in livestock production.

There are calls for stronger antibiotics to deal with the superbug spread. However, that's likely to just continue the vicious cycle of drug resistance, said Thaden, a Boston-based specialist in infectious disease.

"Developing new drugs is important, but the bacteria could end up resisting them as well," he said.

—By CNBC's Mark Koba

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE CHRISTIAN TO TAKE ON HIS SPIRIT - TEACHING CHILDREN PEACE

 

 

While fanatics teach their children to love death,

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203291/Children-raised-hate-America-Shocking-picture-boy-holding-gun-anti-US-riot-Lebanon.html

 

 

Musalaha summer camp

Brings Jewish and Muslim children together

To enjoy life

 

 

Musalaha's Children's Summer Camp is a unique program that brings Israeli and Palestinian children together in a neutral, friendly camp setting and focuses on building friendships with the 'other' at a young age. They begin the reconciliation process as they learn to break down stereotypes of the other side and sit at meal times, play water games, engage in activities and study the Bible together. They walk away from these camps learning new phrases and songs in Hebrew and Arabic, share cabins, become agents of change even at a young age and leave having made new friends. We also invite Sudanese refugee children to participate as the children learn to be around other groups of people who are living in both Israeli and Palestinian societies.

Summers are a very intense time for us here at Musalaha. We host three summer camps every year, and the summer months are always a bit tense and crazy.  Whether it's more phone calls, a larger group of volunteers, or a huge increase in crafts and supplies, our offices are busier than any other time of the year. To add to it, this summer was met with much anxiety and fear due to the conflict in Gaza. Some thought it was just another round of rockets and raids, and that it would end quickly, but sadly we see that it has turned out to be so much more.

Each year church teams from the USA and Europe come to help out with our summer camps. This year we were grateful to have the youth group from St. Peter's Church in Haliwal, Bolton assist the staff at our Beit Sahour camp for Palestinian children. Not only were they a huge blessing, but they were also blessed in working with the children, meeting the families, and touring some of the holy sites. We also expected to have two teams from the USA come for our Israeli-Palestinian camps. Due to the current situation, the groups were concerned, and after many phone calls, listening to the media, and the escalation we are currently seeing, the two church groups cancelled. With the exception of a few volunteers who came a few weeks earlier, we were going into our summer camps greatly understaffed.

But, concern for the situation did not only come from those abroad, but also from us within the office. We spent much time in prayer, consideration, and weighing the costs of having the camp. We asked ourselves questions such as; will the parents send their children? How will the children react to sirens? How will the staff respond in an emergency situation? Our daily prayer for the children came from Psalm 57:1, "Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by."

What didn't help was the fact that many summer camps throughout the country either cancelled or postponed their camps. So, we sought advice from the Ministry of Education and the Homefront Command. We informed them of the location of the camp, and both assured us that we should go ahead with the camps while taking regular safety precautions. There were a few cancellations from some children, but the vast majority came as planned.

For me, it was interesting to see different aspects of fear. For some it was the rockets; for the Palestinian parents, even those who had sent their children in the past, it was the fear of kidnappings following the murder of the Palestinian teenager. I had to assure them that it would be okay. Nevertheless, we thank God for his protection and covering for our children these last two weeks at camp.

On Wednesday, I visited the camp with one of the Israeli Jewish parents whose son has been involved with Musalaha for some time and is now serving as a counselor. As we drove up, we wondered how the children would relate to one another in the midst of the conflict in the country. When we arrived, we both marveled at how much they enjoyed themselves and were playing with one another.

We both shared how we desire to see a camp like this spread to all parts of the country. He said, if only Arab children could meet Jewish children and know that they are not monsters and Jewish children could meet Arab children and learn that they are not monsters then that is enough for me and there is hope for the future. Thinking of the camp ending today, one of the children said, "I wish I could stay in this camp forever [rather] than go home to war." This camp is a snapshot of what our reality could be, living and fellowshipping with each other.  These children set an example of what our future can be, if only we adults would bring this message to our communities.

I would like to thank the many people who prayed, supported, and worked at our summer camps. To our counselors for their two weeks of dedication and especially our Youth Project Coordinator, Shadia Qubti who had the camp upon her shoulders 24-7. It was this group of people who are the true heroes this summer.

By Salim J. Munayer, Ph.D
Musalaha Director

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