http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3968
U.S. Congress approves
$600 million for Israel
Al-Jazeera.com – December 25, 2005
The U.S. congress approved Friday the transfer of 600 million dollar in aid to Israel for joint defense projects, in addition aid Israel receives from America, Haaretz Daily reported.
The aid approved will be used to fund joint security projects between Israel and the U.S, according to media reports.
The main component in the package, according to the Jerusalem Post, is the Arrow anti-missile system, a collaborative project between Israel Aircraft Industries and Boeing.
Congress provided 133 million dollars for the arrow, 45 million more than what the U.S. government requested for this project, so that the extra money be used to increase the pace of the production of the Arrow components in the U.S, and thus enable Israel complete its anti-missile shield.
Also some $10 million will be invested in developing a missile capable of intercepting short-range missiles.
It was reported earlier this month that Israel successfully tested its Arrow anti-missile system, in response to what the Defense Ministry officials described as the mounting threat of ballistic missiles in the region.
The 600 million dollar aid package also includes funding armor tiling for Bradley personnel carriers, for aircraft decoy systems and for the Hunter and Pioneer unmanned air vehicles, the Post stated.
"Congress is continuing its strong support for cutting-edge defense programs, which benefit the United States and Israel and strengthen their strategic partnership," said Josh Block, spokesman for AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobby, which accelerated the approval of the package.
www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10401
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[source:Radio Islam]
'and if any one believes in Allah, ((Allah)) guides his heart (aright): for Allah knows all things'. [Quran:64:11]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Preparing for War With Iran?
Steve Sellery
September 29, 2005
Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, made a strong case that the Bush administration is preparing to take the war to Iran in a speech he gave at the United Church on the Green in New Haven on Sept. 17 before an attentive crowd of about 250.
The gathering, sponsored by Squeaky Wheel Productions, Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine, WPKN and the Yale Coalition for Peace, was perfectly timed. Ritter spoke the day before the visit of Cindy Sheehan, the mother who still wants President George W. Bush to tell her why her son died. In his speech, titled "Parallel Deceptions: The Bush Agenda for War in Iraq and Iran," Ritter made it clear that her son died because of deceptions by the Bush administration that led to the Iraq war and that are preparing us for war in Iran. It is all laid out in the Wolfowitz-Cheney gang's document "Project for a New American Century" where the neocons plan for military domination of the Middle East.
Scott Ritter is an imposing man. Big and burly, he still looks like the Marine Corps leader who led a dozen men in combat. He began his speech by remarking wryly that he could never have imagined being sponsored by peace groups. He was and is a military man, a card-carrying member of the American Legion. "I still believe in war," he said. "It's just that this is an illegal war and every day it takes us further from our goals of peace."
Ritter's controlled anger at the Bush administration was apparent. This is not the anger of a peacenik, but of a military man who has been deceived by his leadership. "It's not the fault of the military men on the scene in Iraq," he said. "They are just taking orders. When you and your 12 men are face to face against the enemy, you have to focus on staying alive and winning your mission. The military men and women are doing what we as a country have asked them to do."
"Iraq is a nation on fire," Ritter asserted. "And our troops are the fuel that feeds that fire." Make no mistake about it, he added, today is the best day that we are going to have in Iraq. It is only going to get worse. Why not get out of Iraq on the best day? We do not need to wait until it gets worse.
Ritter summed up the current Iraq conflict as an "illegal" war that is the result of a decade of deception by the U.S. government and the CIA. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the U.N. Resolution called for the removal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. This was done. Colin Powell, who was then Joint Chief of Staff of the military, told the president not to take over Iraq because we did not have a plan for managing the aftermath; and without a plan there would be ethnic bloodshed. Bush took his advice. The CIA told the president that with economic sanctions, we could squeeze the Iraqis until they deposed Saddam Hussein. The CIA thought it would take six months.
Weapons of mass destruction were used as a justification for the economic sanctions on Iraq after Kuwait was liberated. But, Ritter noted, the first Gulf War came close to destroying all of Iraq's capabilities. These were only "high school-like programs" to develop WMD, Ritter said. However, the U.S. government hyped up the threat to make the economy collapse so that Hussein would be thrown out. Bush signed the order to the CIA that made getting rid of Saddam Hussein goal No. 1.
During the run up to the Iraq War, the Iraqis were letting arms inspectors into the country, Ritter explained. The Iraqis said they had destroyed much of their capabilities. Ritter said inspectors had evidence of most of the destroyed capabilities, but they could not verify the last remaining weapons. "It's impossible to prove a negative," he said. "The CIA kept saying that some remained and at the time we could not prove them completely wrong. Now we know.
"The CIA said there were 140 SCUD missiles in Iraq and we proved them wrong," he added. "The CIA reduced that number to 14 missiles and said they would not budge from that number. And they were right about one thing--they never budged from that number. But it was politically motivated from the beginning."
On to Iran. Ritter maintains that the Bush administration plans to go to war with Iran over its nuclear energy program. Our government says we can't trust the Iranians because an oil rich nation does not need nuclear energy. But in 1976 (when Donald Rumsfield was Secretary of Defense and Dick Cheney was the Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford's presidency), the Shah of Iran told the United States that he needed nuclear energy to diversify his country's energy program for security reasons, in case the Persian Gulf were militarily blocked or if there was massive damage--natural or manmade--to its oil wells. The U.S. government agreed with the Shah's logic then, but has since changed its position, because, as Ritter noted, the neocon strategy is for regime change throughout the Middle East, despite the fact that the same people who once approved of Iran's nuclear energy program, are now opposed to it.
Iran has been complying with all international laws in regards to international inspections of its nuclear energy program. There is no legal way to oppose it, so the Bush administration is saying that it's a front for weapons of mass destruction, according to Ritter. If the United States asks Iran to shut down its nuclear energy program, and this request goes to the U.N. Security Council, Russia and China have said that they will oppose the request. In that scenario, Ritter said, the United States can fall back on Bush's Sept. 17, 2002 New Security Agreement and say that U.S. security is threatened and that the only solution is war.
Ritter said that one reason we cannot find a way out of the Iraq War is that so many members of Congress voted for the war and are afraid to change their position. The only solution is for the American people to vote out of office every elected official--Republican or Democrat--who refuses to change his or her position to one of immediate withdrawal. This includes Democrats like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joseph Biden, who are sticking by their pro-war positions as they run for president. Until we purge all of these people from office, they will send us to war in Iran, Ritter predicted.
Following his speech, Ritter took questions from the audience. One person asked about the permanent military bases in Iraq. Ritter said that the United States started with 120 military bases and is consolidating them to 40 with the plan to consolidate further to 14 and then to four major bases outside of the population zones. Iraq will become our "lily pad" in the Middle East, he said. It will allow us to withdraw our troops from Saudi Arabia, but still provide us with the capability to strike in Iran, Syria, etc. However, the Iraqi people want us out of their country completely, he said. They will not accept these permanent American military bases.
A second person asked Ritter what he could tell his high-school-aged children. Ritter responded, "I have two girls, 12-year-old twins. We need to make this world safe for them and their children. When I speak at high schools around the nation, I tell the students that my generation has failed them. Yes, we have failed them. They should not listen to us, because we have created a world of permanent war, and because we lie to them on a regular basis. Do not trust your government, I tell them. Trust yourself. Question authority. Take responsibility for the world. Take action. Only you can save the world."
recruiting Europe For Bush's War On Iran
War Without End for Israel
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The Coming Jewish War on Iran for Israel
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The Decline and Fall of America
Preparing for War With Iran?
Who Rules Hollywood And us TV Today?
[Source: Radio Islam]
September 29, 2005
Scott Ritter, former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, made a strong case that the Bush administration is preparing to take the war to Iran in a speech he gave at the United Church on the Green in New Haven on Sept. 17 before an attentive crowd of about 250.
The gathering, sponsored by Squeaky Wheel Productions, Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine, WPKN and the Yale Coalition for Peace, was perfectly timed. Ritter spoke the day before the visit of Cindy Sheehan, the mother who still wants President George W. Bush to tell her why her son died. In his speech, titled "Parallel Deceptions: The Bush Agenda for War in Iraq and Iran," Ritter made it clear that her son died because of deceptions by the Bush administration that led to the Iraq war and that are preparing us for war in Iran. It is all laid out in the Wolfowitz-Cheney gang's document "Project for a New American Century" where the neocons plan for military domination of the Middle East.
Scott Ritter is an imposing man. Big and burly, he still looks like the Marine Corps leader who led a dozen men in combat. He began his speech by remarking wryly that he could never have imagined being sponsored by peace groups. He was and is a military man, a card-carrying member of the American Legion. "I still believe in war," he said. "It's just that this is an illegal war and every day it takes us further from our goals of peace."
Ritter's controlled anger at the Bush administration was apparent. This is not the anger of a peacenik, but of a military man who has been deceived by his leadership. "It's not the fault of the military men on the scene in Iraq," he said. "They are just taking orders. When you and your 12 men are face to face against the enemy, you have to focus on staying alive and winning your mission. The military men and women are doing what we as a country have asked them to do."
"Iraq is a nation on fire," Ritter asserted. "And our troops are the fuel that feeds that fire." Make no mistake about it, he added, today is the best day that we are going to have in Iraq. It is only going to get worse. Why not get out of Iraq on the best day? We do not need to wait until it gets worse.
Ritter summed up the current Iraq conflict as an "illegal" war that is the result of a decade of deception by the U.S. government and the CIA. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the U.N. Resolution called for the removal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. This was done. Colin Powell, who was then Joint Chief of Staff of the military, told the president not to take over Iraq because we did not have a plan for managing the aftermath; and without a plan there would be ethnic bloodshed. Bush took his advice. The CIA told the president that with economic sanctions, we could squeeze the Iraqis until they deposed Saddam Hussein. The CIA thought it would take six months.
Weapons of mass destruction were used as a justification for the economic sanctions on Iraq after Kuwait was liberated. But, Ritter noted, the first Gulf War came close to destroying all of Iraq's capabilities. These were only "high school-like programs" to develop WMD, Ritter said. However, the U.S. government hyped up the threat to make the economy collapse so that Hussein would be thrown out. Bush signed the order to the CIA that made getting rid of Saddam Hussein goal No. 1.
During the run up to the Iraq War, the Iraqis were letting arms inspectors into the country, Ritter explained. The Iraqis said they had destroyed much of their capabilities. Ritter said inspectors had evidence of most of the destroyed capabilities, but they could not verify the last remaining weapons. "It's impossible to prove a negative," he said. "The CIA kept saying that some remained and at the time we could not prove them completely wrong. Now we know.
"The CIA said there were 140 SCUD missiles in Iraq and we proved them wrong," he added. "The CIA reduced that number to 14 missiles and said they would not budge from that number. And they were right about one thing--they never budged from that number. But it was politically motivated from the beginning."
On to Iran. Ritter maintains that the Bush administration plans to go to war with Iran over its nuclear energy program. Our government says we can't trust the Iranians because an oil rich nation does not need nuclear energy. But in 1976 (when Donald Rumsfield was Secretary of Defense and Dick Cheney was the Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford's presidency), the Shah of Iran told the United States that he needed nuclear energy to diversify his country's energy program for security reasons, in case the Persian Gulf were militarily blocked or if there was massive damage--natural or manmade--to its oil wells. The U.S. government agreed with the Shah's logic then, but has since changed its position, because, as Ritter noted, the neocon strategy is for regime change throughout the Middle East, despite the fact that the same people who once approved of Iran's nuclear energy program, are now opposed to it.
Iran has been complying with all international laws in regards to international inspections of its nuclear energy program. There is no legal way to oppose it, so the Bush administration is saying that it's a front for weapons of mass destruction, according to Ritter. If the United States asks Iran to shut down its nuclear energy program, and this request goes to the U.N. Security Council, Russia and China have said that they will oppose the request. In that scenario, Ritter said, the United States can fall back on Bush's Sept. 17, 2002 New Security Agreement and say that U.S. security is threatened and that the only solution is war.
Ritter said that one reason we cannot find a way out of the Iraq War is that so many members of Congress voted for the war and are afraid to change their position. The only solution is for the American people to vote out of office every elected official--Republican or Democrat--who refuses to change his or her position to one of immediate withdrawal. This includes Democrats like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joseph Biden, who are sticking by their pro-war positions as they run for president. Until we purge all of these people from office, they will send us to war in Iran, Ritter predicted.
Following his speech, Ritter took questions from the audience. One person asked about the permanent military bases in Iraq. Ritter said that the United States started with 120 military bases and is consolidating them to 40 with the plan to consolidate further to 14 and then to four major bases outside of the population zones. Iraq will become our "lily pad" in the Middle East, he said. It will allow us to withdraw our troops from Saudi Arabia, but still provide us with the capability to strike in Iran, Syria, etc. However, the Iraqi people want us out of their country completely, he said. They will not accept these permanent American military bases.
A second person asked Ritter what he could tell his high-school-aged children. Ritter responded, "I have two girls, 12-year-old twins. We need to make this world safe for them and their children. When I speak at high schools around the nation, I tell the students that my generation has failed them. Yes, we have failed them. They should not listen to us, because we have created a world of permanent war, and because we lie to them on a regular basis. Do not trust your government, I tell them. Trust yourself. Question authority. Take responsibility for the world. Take action. Only you can save the world."
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War Without End for Israel
How Jewish Zionists undermined the US
The Coming Jewish War on Iran for Israel
Israel's War Deadline - Iran in the Crosshairs
U.S. Congress approves $600 million for Israel
Neoconservatism's Jewish Origins and Jewish Agenda
FOR ISRAEL - U.S. planning new Mideast war
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The Decline and Fall of America
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Who Rules Hollywood And us TV Today?
[Source: Radio Islam]
US WARS FOR JEWISH DOMINATION AND FOR ISRAEL
The Decline
and Fall of America
By: Frosty Wooldridge
January 30, 2006
By the time the Roman Empire died in 476 AD, few noticed, few cared and few stood up to do anything about it. If you look at America today, exactly the same events that collapsed the Romans accelerate within our borders in the early part of the 21st century.
Rome was a Republic that morphed into an empire. It began in Italy and quickly conquered most of the known world. Its power spread from the Middle East, Africa and most of Europe. Its armies numbered 300,000 soldiers that attacked lesser nations at will. But soon, the most powerful civilization on earth ruptured, bled and died.
Does this sound like the nation you live in? The United States was once a Republic, but today, our military bases penetrate as an empire in dozens upon dozens of countries around the world. Our president and Congress provoke wars on sovereign nations at will: Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq and potentially Iran. The United States morphs into world conquests without end. America hemorrhages with the same calamities that destroyed Rome.
In his brilliant book, “The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians,” Peter Heather examines the exact cause of Rome’s death.
He writes, “The Romans were deeply embroiled with war in the East the Persian empire. Emperor Valens was forced to admit Gothic hordes. All went well until food supplies ran short and tempers flared. From the Gothic War until the fall of Rome, continuous pressure from the Huns forced more barbarians into the empire. Eventually, the immigrants grew more powerful than existing Roman authority.”
Two major conditions caused the loss of Rome: they allowed uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric of their civilization. Immigrants grew more powerful while exercising their own character of their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second, vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held and even the Roman population, once outnumbered, was no match for hostile immigrants.
For you history buffs, our 21st century situation at the Rio Grande River mirrors the Roman Empire at the Danube River in 350 AD. The Romans failed their country by not stopping the immigrants and as can be seen nightly, tens of thousands of illegal aliens swim or wade across America’s Rio Grande on the border of Mexico
Fast forward to 2006. Today, well over 35.2 million foreign born legal l immigrants live in our country and this number exceeds 2 ½ times the 13.5 million that came to America in 1910. Since 1964, immigrants and their children have driven population growth in the US population from 194 million to 299 million. That’s an addition of 106 million people in 40 years.
From January 2000 to March 2005, a whopping 7.9 million legal and illegal immigrants settled into the United States. Over half of those immigrants arrived as illegals in that five year period.
According to Dr. Steven Camarata, “Immigrants at Mid-Decade: December 2005,” www.cis.org, 31 percent of adult immigrants lack high school diplomas. Immigrant heads of households utilize a whopping 29 percent of welfare programs. The average illegal alien household head costs US taxpayers $2,700.00 in welfare benefits annually over and above any taxes he/she pays or does not pay. The poverty rate of immigrants and their children stands at 18.4 percent which is 57 percent higher than American citizens. Immigrants and their children account for one in four persons living in poverty. One-third of immigrants lack health insurance, which accounts for millions visiting ER wards at taxpayer expense as mandated by the Federal Government.
As the educational drop out/flunk out rate of 65 percent of illegal alien students in Denver Public Schools, May 2005 illustrates our national crisis--the low educational attainment of immigrants results in low wages that causes millions of them to tap into welfare programs, crime, drugs, anchor babies and resultant public assistance. They bring us such rituals as female genital mutilation of baby girls, horse tripping from Mexican charros, cock fighting, dog fighting and Santeria from African immigrants, which is beheading of animals for sacrifice.
From the disease free nation we once were, we can expect even more consequences. Immigrants brought us over 16,000 cases of tuberculosis in the past five years, which spreads across our country. They arrived with 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. They carry thousands of cases of hepatitis ‘A’ and that is only the tip of the diseases imported into this country by illegal aliens.
Take a peek under the human riptide tearing at the fabric of America. You’ve read the costs and consequences in my previous columns. If it appears I’m ear marking legal and illegal immigrants negatively, I AM in the regard that they no longer benefit our country. Why accept immigrants unless they help us instead of overrun and financially destroy our own citizens? Ignoring the impact to this society’s likely collapse does not sit well with me. Each of you reading this column experiences these consequences in your town or state every day.
As stated, the two factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot and do not speak English. Millions work under the table without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals without paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans. They fracture our country.
A glance back at 10,000 fire bombed cars and riots of Paris, France in October and race fights in Sydney, Australia last month should have awakened Americans. However, much like the Roman citizens that laughed and cheered at the weekly games of slaughter in the Coliseum—modern day Americans swill beer while madly pushing their remotes and fill our football stadiums for the weekly mayhem on the gridiron. “It’s happening in Paris, but that’s not America,” one guy told me.
Listen buddy, football is great but if you don’t have a viable society, what do you have? Ask Nero and all who partied while he fiddled and Rome burned.
All the while, 7,000 to 10,000 illegal aliens according to Time Magazine, pour across our borders every night of the year equaling 3,000,000 annually. They number over 15 to 20 million and there is no end to the line that grows by 85 million desperately poor added to the world yearly. Add another one million slipping into our nation legally each year and that equals a whopping 4,000,000 bodies. Remember: when the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation, it is a recipe for the destruction for ANY civilization.
If you do the math, at the current rate of legal immigration, in 44 years by 2050, we’ll see another 44 million legal immigrants added to our country at the minimum. We’ll add another 125 million illegal alien immigrants at three million sliding across our borders annually. Added to that, our own population momentum of one million added to whatever numbers of millions of immigrant births yields a horrific, and I do mean--a nasty future.
To bring it into sobering if not terrifying focus: Texas adds 12 million by 2025; California adds 20 million by 2035; Arizona adds four million by 2050; Colorado adds four to six million by 2050. What is the one thing those states lack? WATER! Resource depletion eventually forces any citizen to conscious focus! Why wait until the crisis manifests itself? The USA adds another 300 million just past mid century. Did our immigrating all these people help the world? Not a chance! The world expands from 6.4 billion to a predicted low of 7.9 billion or a high of 9.8 billion by 2050.
Who then is in charge of the decline and fall of America? George Bush today and for another three years. He is worse than Emperor Valens. Congress is Bush’s main accomplice. Together, they make Nero look brilliant. For the past 40 years, Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Reform Act ‘Katrina-ized’ our demise by opening the flood gates. Bush aims to deluge Mexico into America by destroying our border sovereignty. Much like the Roman games that killed over one million men at the Coliseum for sport, Bush distracts us with war games in Iraq and Afghanistan. He rules by fear instead of reason, i.e., mass distraction. He’s broken our financial system with outrageous debt. He’s exported our jobs to China and India. He’s broken most of the U.S. Constitution into pieces worse than Humpty Dumpty.
Much like Rome, the great Middle Class of America suffers the invasion first hand, but much like Emperor Valens or Nero, along with the Roman senate, they ignored it until too late. All suffered the loss of their civilization at the end as the hostile immigrant invaders burned Rome.
If you can’t see this thing coming, and most Americans don’t, you will at some point. If you don’t step up and speak out and take action, your children will pay for your lack of courage. If you think the legal immigrants in Paris, France were nasty, just wait until our illegal immigrants spring into action at some point in the future. It’s only going to take a spark to set them off. The ensuing conflagration will place our civilization in the history books right along side Rome’s.
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and Fall of America
By: Frosty Wooldridge
January 30, 2006
By the time the Roman Empire died in 476 AD, few noticed, few cared and few stood up to do anything about it. If you look at America today, exactly the same events that collapsed the Romans accelerate within our borders in the early part of the 21st century.
Rome was a Republic that morphed into an empire. It began in Italy and quickly conquered most of the known world. Its power spread from the Middle East, Africa and most of Europe. Its armies numbered 300,000 soldiers that attacked lesser nations at will. But soon, the most powerful civilization on earth ruptured, bled and died.
Does this sound like the nation you live in? The United States was once a Republic, but today, our military bases penetrate as an empire in dozens upon dozens of countries around the world. Our president and Congress provoke wars on sovereign nations at will: Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq and potentially Iran. The United States morphs into world conquests without end. America hemorrhages with the same calamities that destroyed Rome.
In his brilliant book, “The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians,” Peter Heather examines the exact cause of Rome’s death.
He writes, “The Romans were deeply embroiled with war in the East the Persian empire. Emperor Valens was forced to admit Gothic hordes. All went well until food supplies ran short and tempers flared. From the Gothic War until the fall of Rome, continuous pressure from the Huns forced more barbarians into the empire. Eventually, the immigrants grew more powerful than existing Roman authority.”
Two major conditions caused the loss of Rome: they allowed uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric of their civilization. Immigrants grew more powerful while exercising their own character of their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second, vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held and even the Roman population, once outnumbered, was no match for hostile immigrants.
For you history buffs, our 21st century situation at the Rio Grande River mirrors the Roman Empire at the Danube River in 350 AD. The Romans failed their country by not stopping the immigrants and as can be seen nightly, tens of thousands of illegal aliens swim or wade across America’s Rio Grande on the border of Mexico
Fast forward to 2006. Today, well over 35.2 million foreign born legal l immigrants live in our country and this number exceeds 2 ½ times the 13.5 million that came to America in 1910. Since 1964, immigrants and their children have driven population growth in the US population from 194 million to 299 million. That’s an addition of 106 million people in 40 years.
From January 2000 to March 2005, a whopping 7.9 million legal and illegal immigrants settled into the United States. Over half of those immigrants arrived as illegals in that five year period.
According to Dr. Steven Camarata, “Immigrants at Mid-Decade: December 2005,” www.cis.org, 31 percent of adult immigrants lack high school diplomas. Immigrant heads of households utilize a whopping 29 percent of welfare programs. The average illegal alien household head costs US taxpayers $2,700.00 in welfare benefits annually over and above any taxes he/she pays or does not pay. The poverty rate of immigrants and their children stands at 18.4 percent which is 57 percent higher than American citizens. Immigrants and their children account for one in four persons living in poverty. One-third of immigrants lack health insurance, which accounts for millions visiting ER wards at taxpayer expense as mandated by the Federal Government.
As the educational drop out/flunk out rate of 65 percent of illegal alien students in Denver Public Schools, May 2005 illustrates our national crisis--the low educational attainment of immigrants results in low wages that causes millions of them to tap into welfare programs, crime, drugs, anchor babies and resultant public assistance. They bring us such rituals as female genital mutilation of baby girls, horse tripping from Mexican charros, cock fighting, dog fighting and Santeria from African immigrants, which is beheading of animals for sacrifice.
From the disease free nation we once were, we can expect even more consequences. Immigrants brought us over 16,000 cases of tuberculosis in the past five years, which spreads across our country. They arrived with 7,000 cases of leprosy in the past three years. They carry thousands of cases of hepatitis ‘A’ and that is only the tip of the diseases imported into this country by illegal aliens.
Take a peek under the human riptide tearing at the fabric of America. You’ve read the costs and consequences in my previous columns. If it appears I’m ear marking legal and illegal immigrants negatively, I AM in the regard that they no longer benefit our country. Why accept immigrants unless they help us instead of overrun and financially destroy our own citizens? Ignoring the impact to this society’s likely collapse does not sit well with me. Each of you reading this column experiences these consequences in your town or state every day.
As stated, the two factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot and do not speak English. Millions work under the table without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals without paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans. They fracture our country.
A glance back at 10,000 fire bombed cars and riots of Paris, France in October and race fights in Sydney, Australia last month should have awakened Americans. However, much like the Roman citizens that laughed and cheered at the weekly games of slaughter in the Coliseum—modern day Americans swill beer while madly pushing their remotes and fill our football stadiums for the weekly mayhem on the gridiron. “It’s happening in Paris, but that’s not America,” one guy told me.
Listen buddy, football is great but if you don’t have a viable society, what do you have? Ask Nero and all who partied while he fiddled and Rome burned.
All the while, 7,000 to 10,000 illegal aliens according to Time Magazine, pour across our borders every night of the year equaling 3,000,000 annually. They number over 15 to 20 million and there is no end to the line that grows by 85 million desperately poor added to the world yearly. Add another one million slipping into our nation legally each year and that equals a whopping 4,000,000 bodies. Remember: when the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation, it is a recipe for the destruction for ANY civilization.
If you do the math, at the current rate of legal immigration, in 44 years by 2050, we’ll see another 44 million legal immigrants added to our country at the minimum. We’ll add another 125 million illegal alien immigrants at three million sliding across our borders annually. Added to that, our own population momentum of one million added to whatever numbers of millions of immigrant births yields a horrific, and I do mean--a nasty future.
To bring it into sobering if not terrifying focus: Texas adds 12 million by 2025; California adds 20 million by 2035; Arizona adds four million by 2050; Colorado adds four to six million by 2050. What is the one thing those states lack? WATER! Resource depletion eventually forces any citizen to conscious focus! Why wait until the crisis manifests itself? The USA adds another 300 million just past mid century. Did our immigrating all these people help the world? Not a chance! The world expands from 6.4 billion to a predicted low of 7.9 billion or a high of 9.8 billion by 2050.
Who then is in charge of the decline and fall of America? George Bush today and for another three years. He is worse than Emperor Valens. Congress is Bush’s main accomplice. Together, they make Nero look brilliant. For the past 40 years, Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Reform Act ‘Katrina-ized’ our demise by opening the flood gates. Bush aims to deluge Mexico into America by destroying our border sovereignty. Much like the Roman games that killed over one million men at the Coliseum for sport, Bush distracts us with war games in Iraq and Afghanistan. He rules by fear instead of reason, i.e., mass distraction. He’s broken our financial system with outrageous debt. He’s exported our jobs to China and India. He’s broken most of the U.S. Constitution into pieces worse than Humpty Dumpty.
Much like Rome, the great Middle Class of America suffers the invasion first hand, but much like Emperor Valens or Nero, along with the Roman senate, they ignored it until too late. All suffered the loss of their civilization at the end as the hostile immigrant invaders burned Rome.
If you can’t see this thing coming, and most Americans don’t, you will at some point. If you don’t step up and speak out and take action, your children will pay for your lack of courage. If you think the legal immigrants in Paris, France were nasty, just wait until our illegal immigrants spring into action at some point in the future. It’s only going to take a spark to set them off. The ensuing conflagration will place our civilization in the history books right along side Rome’s.
Write for that 28-point action letter to stop this nation-destroying madness at www.frostywooldridge.com. Check out Mark Edwards' "Wake Up America" talk show on 50,000 watt KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on the worldwide Internet at www.thewakeupamericafoundation.com. Also, check out www.alipac.us at 1 866 329 3999;
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
'655,000 Iraqis killed since invasion'
The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today.
Guardian
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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The Ottoman Empire's Just and Tolerant Rule
In 1514, Sultan Selim captured Jerusalem and the surrounding area, and some 400 years of Ottoman rule in Palestine began. As in other Ottoman states, this period would enable Palestine to enjoy peace and stability despite the fact that adherents of three different faiths were living alongside each other.
The Ottoman Empire was administered by the "nation (millet) system," the fundamental feature of which was that people of different faiths were allowed to live according to their own beliefs and legal systems. Christians and Jews, which the Qur'an calls the People of the Book, found tolerance, security, and freedom in Ottoman lands.
The most important reason for this was that, although the Ottoman Empire was an Islamic state administered by Muslims, it had no desire to force its citizens to adopt Islam. On the contrary, it sought to provide peace and security for non-Muslims and to govern them in such a way that they would be pleased with Islamic rule and justice.
Other major states at the same time had far more cruder, oppressive, and intolerant systems of government. Spain could not tolerate the existence of Muslims and Jews on Spanish soil, two communities on which it inflicted great violence. In many other European countries, Jews were oppressed just for being Jews (e.g., they were forced to live in ghettoes), and were sometimes the victims of mass slaughter (pogroms). Christians could not even get along with each another: the fighting between Protestants and Catholics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries turned Europe into a bloody battlefield. The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was one result of this conflict. As a result of that war, central Europe became a battleground, and in Germany alone, 5 million people (one-third of the population), perished.
In contrast to these brutalities, the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim states established their rule upon the Qur'anic commands of tolerant, just and humane administration. The reason for the justice and civilization displayed by Umar, Saladin, the Ottoman sultans, and many Muslim rulers, which is accepted by the West today, was due to their faithfulness to the Qur'anic commands, some of which are as follows:
God commands you to return to their owners the things you hold on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with justice. How excellent is what God exhorts you to do. God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (Qur'an, 4:58)
O you who believe, be upholders of justice, bearing witness for God alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are rich or poor, God is well able to look after them. Do not follow your own desires and deviate from the truth. If you twist or turn away, God is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 4:135)
God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from being just toward them. God loves those who are just. (Qur'an, 60:8)
If two parties of the believers fight, make peace between them. But if one of them attacks the other unjustly, fight the attackers until they revert to God's command. If they revert, make peace between them with justice and be even-handed. God loves those who are even-handed. (Qur'an, 49:9)
There is a phrase used in politics such that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This means that everyone who acquires political power becomes somehow morally corrupted by the ensuing opportunities. This really applies to most people, because they shape their morality according to social pressure. In other words, they avoid immorality because they are afraid of society's disapproval or punishment. Authority grants them power, however, and decreases the importance of these social pressures upon them. As a result, they become corrupt or find it ever more easy to compromise their own morality. If they possess absolute power (and thereby become dictators), they may try to satisfy their own desires in any way.
The only human examples to which the law of corruption does not apply is people who sincerely believe in God, embrace religion out of fear and love of Him, and live according to that religion. Given that their morals are not defined by society, not even the most absolute form of power can affect them. God states in a verse:
Those who, if We establish them firmly in the land, will perform prayer and pay charity tax, and command what is right and forbid what is wrong. The end result of all affairs is with God. (Qur'an, 22:41)
In the Qur'an, God presents Dawud, peace be upon him, as an example of the ideal ruler, explains how he judged with justice between those who came to ask for his judgment and how he prayed with complete submission to God. (Qur'an, 38:24)
The history of Islam, which reflects the morality that God teaches Muslims in the Qur'an, is full of just, merciful, humble, and mature rulers. Since Muslim rulers fear God, they cannot behave in a corrupt, proud, or cruel manner. Of course there were Muslim rulers who became corrupt and departed from Islamic morality, but they were exceptions to and deviations from the norm. Thus Islam proved to be the only belief system that has produced a just, tolerant, and compassionate form of government for the last 1,400 years.
The land of Palestine is a testament to Islam's fair and tolerant governance, and bears the influence of many different faiths and ideas. As reported earlier, the governments of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, Umar, Saladin, and the Ottoman sultans were such that even non-Muslims consented to them. This period of fair administration lasted until the twentieth century when, with the end of Muslim rule in 1917, the region was plunged into chaos, terror, bloodshed, and war.
Jerusalem, the center of three religions, experienced the longest period of stability in its history under the Ottomans, when peace, abundance, and prosperity reigned there and throughout the empire. Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and their various denominations, worshipped as they pleased, honored their own beliefs, and followed their own customs and traditions. This was possible because the Ottomans ruled with the belief that bringing order, justice, peace, prosperity, and tolerance to their lands was a sacred obligation.
Many historians and political scientists have drawn attention to this fact. One of them is Columbia University's world-famous Middle East expert Professor Edward Said. Originally from a Christian family of Jerusalem, he continues his research at American universities, far from his homeland. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, he recommended resurrecting the "Ottoman nation system" if a permanent peace is to be built in the Middle East. In his own words,
A Jewish minority can survive the way other minorities in the Arab world survived… it worked rather well under the Ottoman Empire, with its millet system. What they had then seems a lot more humane than what we have now.14
Indeed, Palestine never witnessed another "humane" administration once Ottoman rule ended. Between the two world wars, the British crushed the Arabs with their divide-and-conquer strategy and simultaneously empowered the Zionists, who would later prove antagonistic even to them. Zionism incurred the Arabs' wrath, and, from the 1930s on, Palestine became the scene of clashes between the two groups. Zionists formed terrorist groups to fight the Palestinians, and, shortly thereafter, began attacking the British as well. Once Britain threw up its hands and abandoned its mandate over the region in 1947, the clashes turned into war and the Israeli occupation and massacres (which continue to this day) began in earnest.
In order for the region to enjoy "humane" rule once again, Jews must abandon Zionism and its goal of a "Palestine exclusively for the Jews," and accept the idea of sharing the land with Arabs on equal terms. Arabs, for that matter, must abandon such un-Islamic goals as "driving Israel into the sea" or "putting all Jews to the sword," and accept the idea of living together with them. According to Said, this means reviving the Ottoman system, which is the only solution that will allow the region's people to live in peace and harmony. This system may create an environment of regional peace and security, just as it did in the past.
Foot Notes:
14. An Interview with Edward Said by Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz, August 18, 2000.
[Source: Harunyahya: Palestine]
The Crusaders' Savagery and Saladin's Justice
While Palestine's Jews, Christians, and Muslims were living together in peace, the Pope decided to organize a crusade. Following Pope Urban II's call on 27 November 1095 at the Council of Clermont, more than 100,000 Europeans set out for Palestine to "free" the Holy Land from the Muslims and find the fabled wealth of the East. After a long and wearying journey, and much plundering and slaughter along the way, they reached Jerusalem in 1099. The city fell after a siege of nearly 5 weeks. When the Crusaders moved in, they carried out a savage slaughter. All of Jerusalem's Muslims and Jews were put to the sword.
In the words of one historian: "They killed all the Saracens and the Turks they found ... whether male of female."10 One of the Crusaders, Raymond of Aguiles, boasted of this violence:
Wonderful sights were to be seen. Some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are normally chanted ... in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.11
In 2 days, the Crusader army killed some 40,000 Muslims in the barbaric manner just described.12 The peace and harmony in Palestine, which had lasted since Umar, ended in a terrible slaughter.
The Crusaders made Jerusalem their capital and established a Latin Kingdom stretching from Palestine to Antioch. But their rule was short-lived, for Saladin gathered all of the Muslim kingdoms under his banner in a holy war and defeated the Crusaders at the battle of Hattin in 1187. After this battle, the two leaders of the Crusader army, Reynald of Chatillon and King Guy, were brought into Saladin's presence. He executed Reynald of Chatillon, who had become infamous for the terrible savagery he had committed against Muslims, but let King Guy go, as he had not committed similar crimes. Palestine once again saw the true meaning of justice.
Three months after Hattin, and on the very same day that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had been taken from Mecca to Jerusalem for his night journey through the heavens, Saladin entered Jerusalem and freed it from 88 years of Crusader occupation. In contrast to the Crusaders' "liberation" of Jerusalem, Saladin did not touch one Christian in the city, thereby turning aside their fear that they would all be massacred. He merely ordered all Latin (Catholic) Christians to leave Jerusalem. The Orthodox Christians, who were not Crusaders, were allowed to stay and worship as they chose.
Karen Armstrong describes the second capture of Jerusalem in these words:
On 2 October 1187 Saladin and his army entered Jerusalem as conquerors and for the next 800 years Jerusalem would remain a Muslim city. Saladin kept his word, and conquered the city according to the highest Islamic ideals. He did not take revenge for the 1099 massacre, as the Qur'an advised (16:127), and now that hostilities had ceased he ended the killing (2:193-194). Not a single Christian was killed and there was no plunder. The ransoms were deliberately very low ... Saladin was moved to tears by the plight of families who were rent asunder and he released many of them freely, as the Qur'an urged, though to the despair of his long-suffering treasurers. His brother al-Adil was so distressed by the plight of the prisoners that he asked Saladin for a thousand of them for his own use and then released them on the spot... All the Muslim leaders were scandalised to see the rich Christians escaping with their wealth, which could have been used to ransom all the prisoners… [The Patriarch] Heraclius paid his ten-dinar ransom like everybody else and was even provided with a special escort to keep his treasure safe during the journey to Tyre.13
In short, Saladin and his army treated the Christians with great mercy and justice, and showed them more compassion than their own leaders had.
After Jerusalem, the Crusaders continued their barbarity and the Muslims their justice in other Palestinian cities. In 1194, Richard the Lionheart, who is portrayed as a great hero in British history, had 3,000 Muslims, among them many women and children, treacherously executed in the Castle of Acre. Although the Muslims witnessed this savagery, they never resorted to similar methods. Rather, they abided by God's command: "Let not the hatred of a people (who once) obstructed you from the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgress..." (Qur'an, 5:2) and never used violence against innocent civilians. In addition, they never used violence unnecessarily, not even against the defeated Crusader armies.
Crusader savagery and Muslim justice once more revealed a historic truth: An administration built upon the principles of Islam allowed people of different faiths to live together. This fact continued to be demonstrated for 800 years after Saladin, particularly during the Ottoman period.
Foot Notes:
10. “Gesta Francorum, or the Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem,” trans. Rosalind Hill, (London: 1962), p. 91. emphasis added
11. August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye-Witnesses and Participants (Princeton & London: 1921), p. 261. emphasis added
12. Krey, The First Crusade, p. 262.
13. Armstrong, Holy War, p. 185. emphasis added
[Source: Harunyahya: Palestine]
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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