Israeli paper calls for war on Iran

To show the true, murderous derangement of Israeli culture, one must see the articles being published by its media outlets.

Haaretz, which is Israel's preeminent left wing paper, published an article by Ari Shavit today titled "Facing an Iranian winter".

In it, the prospect of a US attack on Iran in the winter by the Bush administration, before an assumed President Obama takes office, is contemplated. The article describes a hypothetical decision by the Bush administration to attack Iran as

"without precedent and without legitimacy. It will be perceived as the final, delusional trumpet blast of a raving religious administration."

So far so good. Looks like Haaretz understands the dire consequences of such an attack. The article then begins explaining how Bush and Cheney might rationalize such an illegitimate move:

"That logic might lead the president and his second-in-command to the conclusion that if they do not act, neither will Obama. If Obama does not act, Iran will become a nuclear power. And if Iran goes nuclear, evil will win."

Kind of stupid logic if you ask me, especially when you consider that Iran has absolutely no chance of developing a nuclear arsenal that could ever change the balance of power in the region (Israel would win nuclear war against Iran), but the article is pointing out that this is potentially the Bush administration's logic, not any reasonable people's.

The writer of the article then reveals the extant of his maliciousness and immorality with this startling and remarkably dim-witted assertion:

"There is a genuine possibility that Bush will end his miserable presidency not with a whimper, but with a bang. The scenario is a wild one..

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In the long run, the wild scenario is good for Israel, as it is good for the United States. A nuclear Iran will endanger Israel's existence, the stability of the Middle East and the welfare of the West. An Iran stripped of nuclear ability will allow the Middle East to become more moderate; it will enable the West to uphold its values and perpetuate its way of life for a long time to come."

So after making it clear how illegitimate a US attack on Iran would be -that only unreasonable people without regard for the will of the American nation would carry it out- the article concludes that this attack would still be good for Israel and the US. The writers' conception of morality and its proper role in guiding policy seems totally deficient. The writer sees no contradiction between an action being wrong and his view that it should be promoted as "good for Israel".

How many more people need to die to assuage the paranoid Israelis' fears that a potential competitor could threaten its power monopoly? If this is the kind of article being published by Haaretz, it's clear that Israeli culture is insane and totally oblivious to its own murderous intentions.

Jewish nationalist plot to obstruct Justice thickens

Here is an excellent article from the Homo Sapien Underground blog, about how Israel supporters are working to bury the esponiage case against AIPAC officials using money from the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

The Industrial Devolution

The phenomenon occurring in the West can best be described as the Industrial Devolution, exactly the opposite process that occurred in the Industrial Revolution. Rather than wages increasing, capital accumulating, and manufacturing expanding, real wages are declining, peoples' capital is being whittled away through consumption, and the manufacturing base is disappearing.

Let's look at what is happening to America in more detail:

Since 1971, real median income for the 25-34 demographic has actually declined. This effectively means that despite all of the new technologies created since 1971, things like the internet, mobile phones, and multi-GHz computer processors, the lives of this generations' young are harder than they were for the young that lived in 1971.

The average savings rate has reached historical lows, now in the negative. This can be seen in the following chart:



People are spending more than they have, to buy products from merchants based in East Asia. East Asia is under going its own industrial revolution, complete with rising standards of living, mobility, and increased life expectancy, while America is traveling the road to serfdom.

Every election cycle more plans to fix what previous plans created are peddled by the same political class. These plans are enriching the political class like never before:

Washington is all about the money, he writes. In 2005, the Census Bureau listed seven suburban counties around the capital as among the 20 richest in the country. And it’s not just Republicans cashing in on their service. “Upon leaving office,” he notes, “more than half of the senior officials in the Clinton administration became corporate lobbyists.”
-New York Times

Meanwhile political ignorance is overwhelming the ability of the populace to control its destiny.

Every cycle, a new savior is peddled by the political class, be it Obama, Clinton, or McCain, offering a different version of economic salvation, while promoting policies that fundamentally are exactly the same as that of their predecessors, with the only difference between them being cosmetic. Meanwhile, Washington's dirty little secret is ignored:



When someone like Ron Paul does arrive, someone who tells the truth and offers the correct prescription, he is systematically sidelined by the media, who have long ago cross-pollinated with the political class:

"For a variety of reasons, some of them are obvious and some of them are mysterious, Ron Paul gets less coverage than he does raise money, and he gets less coverage than he gets votes. We can go on and on about this. There is no doubt, it’s an objective fact, that the press has decided Ron Paul is not a viable candidate."
-Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism

The forces that have overtaken the West stem from our own failure to maintain cultural harmony. We have pitted ourselves against one another, too fixated on winning the various political/social blood feuds we find ourselves in to look out for the national interest. We have tried, using various ideologies -be they black empowerment, feminism, environmentalism, evangelism, conservatism, or multi-culturalism- to find absolution, but none have brought America into harmony.

Various forces, each separate and fighting for its own identity, have torn the national identity apart, and turned America's political system into a sad farce.

The question is, what is the answer? How do we stop the devolution? Every one is too paranoid to become a follower of someone else's movement, but perhaps the ideology of liberty provides the room needed for big egos to coexist. The Ron Paul movement only asks that you respect others' liberty, social and economic, for the same from others in return, and this mutual respect binds its followers. Perhaps this sort of flexible and tolerant ideology is what can allow America to regain its national vigor, and propel America to another golden age of expansion.

Ron Paul in 3D

Check out this amazing video someone did of Ron Paul in 3D

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SECONDS FROM NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

“USS LIBERTY” was clearly painted on her stern. There could be no mistake as to who we were. Israel knew we were American and we knew we had been identified as American and friendly as the Israelis themselves have since admitted. They plotted us on their war table and made positive ID of our ship as the LIBERTY.

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The Most Evil Thing in the World

We know of a lot of evils in this world: US support for Saddam in the 1980's and the subsequent lies to get the US to invade Iraq in the 2000's, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet Gulags, the 18th century slave trade, etc, but none of them in my mind compare to something that is being carried out right now: the Social Security and Medicare scam.

How could I compare mass murder to the mismanagement of government retirement/health-care funds you ask? In the same way I compare the slave trade of the 18th century to that carried by the Roman empire 2000 years ago and conclude that the 18th century slave trade was a greater evil despite the one of the Roman Empire having been carried out on a far greater scale. I see it as the greater shortcoming of humanity relative to its moral potential at the time of the event. The 18th century civilization that had the capability to create Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and John Locke's belief in the equality of man is expected to function at a higher moral plane than that of Roman antiquity.

In this light, what is being done right now, as we speak, to every single American, is unfathomably evil. Every single day, this evil is being carried out, with the implicit consent of the majority of the population.

The government, under the guise of social welfare, has demanded that every individual hand over a portion of their income to the government Social Security Trust and Medicare Trust. Trillions of dollars have been taken by force -at the threat imprisonment- from millions of people, in the most developed and democratic nation in the world, the original Constitutional Republic.

The justification given for this violation of the citizens' individual liberty has been that the good that would come from the Social Security and Medicare programs would so outweigh the evil of using coercion, that on the balance it would be morally acceptable.

Instead, every year, as we speak, politicians, with the help of hundreds of thousands of their campaign aids, volunteers, and supportive media organizations, have been spending that Social Security and Medicare money on other programs, making it mathematically impossible for the United States government to ever provide Social Security and Medicare payments to all the people who were forced to contribute to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

Watch this video in which the Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker, says that the present Social Security and Medicare obligations of the government are impossible to fulfill due to decades of fiscal irresponsibility by politicians:



A nation that has a free press, the strongest and longest tradition of liberty and equal justice of any nation in the world, the most advanced communication network in the world, 24 hour news channels, and the greatest number of computers connected to the internet, is in effect watching passively, with eyes wide shut, as the political class steals in slow motion from generations of Americans. Over several decades, millions of people are being condemned to die a slow and painful death in poverty when they are too old and sick to work.

A nation as advanced as the United States has the benefit of having at its disposal a comprehensive record of human history and its many tragedies, as well as its many moral triumphs, to study and learn from, and yet it is simply consenting to this vile evil being carried out. Nothing in my mind is as evil as this.

Ron Paul says politicians afraid of AIPAC

Ron Paul speaking at the Arab American Institute Conference:

The sad part is, there is the get out of Iraq caucus, which is made up of really really hardcore left democrats, and many of them from the black caucus, and yet when they come up with some of these resolution, even they capitulate, and I ask them "you know this is war propaganda?" and they say "I know I know, but there's a limit how much we can take on AIPAC. There's just a limit to what we can do." They will back off.

Watch the clip at the 9:50 minute mark of this video: