Four Realms Beneath the Jews: Talking Animals, Dumb Animals, Vegetables and Minerals *

Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Redress


Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (MERIA)

Israel’s racist rabbis: wave of edicts urge “Hate the gentile”

Jonathan Cook views the vile racism disseminated by prominent Israeli rabbis, from edicts prohibiting the renting of homes to gentiles, to justifications for murdering Palestinian babies, to utterances defining non-Jews as talking animals and equating them with donkeys whose sole purpose is to serve Jews.

Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles”. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders. Jews should first warn, then “ostracize” fellow Jews who fail to heed the directive, the rabbis declared.

The decree is the latest in a wave of racist pronouncements from some of Israel’s most influential rabbis.

In October, Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed, delivered a ruling, signed by 17 other rabbis in the city, telling Jewish residents not to sell or rent property to members of the country’s Palestinian Arab minority, who make up a fifth of the population.

Goyim [non-Jews – gentiles]
were born only to serve us…
Imagine that your donkey would
die, you’d lose your income.
[The donkey] is your servant…
That’s why he [the gentile] gets
a long life, to work well for the
Jew.” - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,
spiritual leader of Shas, part
of Natanyahu’s [...] coalition

His followers turned words into deeds by attacking Arab students in the city and threatening to burn down the homes of Jewish landlords renting to the students.

Similar edicts have recently been backed by dozens of rabbis in Tel Aviv and nearby Bnei Brak, a suburb of 150,000 mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews. They have threatened to “expose” any Jews who rent to “foreigners” – in this case, a reference to migrant workers and African refugees who are crowded into neglected neighbourhoods in the centre of the country.

After many weeks of silence on these declarations, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was finally forced to issue a condemnation yesterday, describing the rabbis’ call as undemocratic and contradicting the bible, which, he said, called for Jews to “love the stranger”.

Nonetheless, racism in Israel is increasingly enjoying high-level sanction among the most influential sectors of the religious establishment.


Corporate Media's Version of Economic Justice

Stephen Lendman

Besides misreporting on Obama capitulating to Republicans, major media op-eds and editorials expressed support for a deal only the devil and super-rich love.

On December 7, a New York Times editorial headlined, "Voting for an Odious Tax Deal," saying:

No matter how disgraceful, "Democrats should vote for (it), because it is the only one they are going to get....Without this bargain, income taxes on the middle class would rise. Unemployment insurance for millions of Americans would expire. And many other important tax breaks for low-and middle-income workers (wouldn't) be possible."

False! Democrats control the White House and have large House and Senate majorities. At issue is why aren't they using it for responsible legislation, helping middle and lower income Americans, not super-rich constituents with more already than they need.

The Times, however, worries that "If angry Democrats blow up the deal, they will be left groping for something better in a new Congress where they have far less influence than they have now. The middle class and the unemployed would be seriously hurt."

False again! The 112th Congress convenes on January 3, 2011. Democrats have between now and then to enact whatever they wish, with or without Republican support.


Warmist can't take the heat

Andrew Bolt


Climate change scientist and 2007 Australian of the Year
Professor Tim Flannery / AAP Source: AAP

Andrew Bolt interviews Professor Tim Flannery.

Question: How has Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery got away with it for so long?

Answer: Because he seems nice.

Oh, and because journalists just won't hold our leading global warming spruiker to account for his litany of dud predictions, exaggerations, falsehoods and bizarre conflicts of interest. But on Wednesday - and give him credit - he wandered into our studio at MTR 1377 for some reason best known to himself. Was it a false confidence, born of years of near unquestioned adulation? Was it that being named Australian of the Year in 2007 made him feel above any pesky but-but-butting from the few media sceptics? Or was it - as the following transcript suggests - that Flannery, now head of the Rudd Government's Coast and Climate Change Council, has an eerie ability to forget inconvenient truths about his past finger-wagging?

Whatever. What we do know is that our chat this week was the first time I can recall that Flannery, the highly influential author of The Weather Makers and chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, has been confronted at length.

Read on, to see how even this giant of warming alarmism dealt with it. You may well then wonder if the great warming scare of the past decade would ever have taken off had more journalists fact-checked the wilder claims and predictions of not just Flannery, but other professional scaremongers such as Al Gore, David Suzuki, Peter Garrett, Rob Gell and Bob Brown.


Euro Until the Endsieg

Toni Straka
The Prudent Investor

Breathless but futile discussions about the creation of a new layer of debt in the form of Eurozone bonds are going nowhere. Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone group of finance ministers, now clashes with France and Germany who both reject the proposal as it would raise their financing costs. On Thursday he said in Germany's main TV news "Tagesschau" that Eurozone governments would have to finance 40% of their debts via Eurozone bonds, which would lead to a northward conversion of German yields with their weaker Euro brothers in arms.

As the Euro dream has rapidly mutated into a nightmare for Greece and Ireland, with Portugal and Spain to follow for sure, I note a fatal tendency in EU circles to hold out for the Endsieg despite all the contrary evidence pointing to a not too distant disintegration of the common currency.

The term Endsieg was first coined by immortal social-libertarian Austrian politicial critic Karl Kraus in 1918 - he was the official Austria's pain in the a.. a century ago with his weekly newsletter "Die Fackel" - and was hijacked later by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

'Endsieg' became part of the Nazi doctrine before the ultimate downfall of the Third Reich: Temporary losses (including of civilian lives) notwithstanding, the 'Third Reich' would ultimately prevail, and thus any breakdown in allegiance to Nazi ideology was not to be tolerated. This conjuration of final victory became more desperate in 1943 when allied successes forced Germany onto the defensive. Joseph Goebbels still spoke about the 'Endsieg' as late as March 1945.

The Euro propaganda ministry in the European Central Bank in Frankfurt frantically tries to implant the similar wrong belief that all is right with the Euro. What charts do they watch?


TSA and the Limits of Partisanship

Will Offensicht
Scragged

The New York Times brings us the startling and unprecedented news that we're a somewhat polarized nation:

Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been president when the Transportation Security Administration decided to let Thanksgiving travelers choose between exposing their nether regions to a body scanner or enduring a private security massage. Democrats would have been outraged at yet another Bush-era assault on civil liberties. Liberal pundits would have outdone one another comparing the T.S.A. to this or that police state. (“In an outrage worthy of Enver Hoxha’s Albania ...”) And Republicans would have leaped to the Bush administration’s defense, while accusing liberals of going soft on terrorism.

While technically not "news" in the sense of being anything that we don't already know, this article does illuminate the awesome power of the partisan mindset. Republicans, whom one would expect to defend any weapon in the fight against terrorism, criticized the strip-search scanners as violating citizens' rights, while Democrats, who had complained bitterly against Mr. Bush's activities as intolerable violations of the Constitution, defended them as necessary to public safety. Perhaps Democrats are more willing to follow Bill Clinton's example and doff their duds?

The prison at Guantanamo Bay is an even more cynicism-inducing example. A few short years ago, imprisonment of terrorist illegal combatants on a military base in accordance with five hundred years of international military procedure was all the evidence needed to indict Chimpy McBushitler as the Worst President Ever. Now that there's a Democrat in the White House, all of a sudden Democratic leaders and most of their pundits have realized that it's OK to keep really dangerous bad guys locked up anywhere convenient as long as it takes.


Statement by WL Central

WL Central
WL Central

On November 13th 2010, Burma’s most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from house arrest. She had been confined to her house for almost 15 years. The event provoked an outpouring of feeling across the world. People rejoiced because she had been set free, and her great spirit of endurance was celebrated. And under this all, a great sigh, at the loss of hours and days and years of a life. She had done nothing wrong. Hers was the plight of a political prisoner.

On Tuesday 7th of December, Julian Paul Assange, after willingly meeting with the British police, was placed under arrest, and remanded in custody for a week, pending an extradition hearing.

On December 14th, then, almost exactly a month to the day from the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from Burmese house arrest, a court of the United Kingdom will decide whether it is going to play its own role in an expeditious slide by Western democracies, increasingly visible in the last two weeks, into the habits of authoritarian rule.

The allegations from Sweden provide the veneer of legality for a political imprisonment. In truth, Julian Assange is not being accused of “rape,” no more than Socrates was accused of “corrupting the youth of Athens.” The two women who are alleged victims did not allege rape - their story has been co-opted by the Swedish prosecutor to pursue Assange. At every single stage of this Swedish case there has been absurd and frightening departures from the norms of criminal procedure. A cursory examination of the history of the case reveals abundant and suspicious oversights.

Isolated, these irregularities might be attributed to incompetence. In aggregate, that explanation becomes less credible. They point resolutely towards the abuse of the Swedish criminal justice system for a political end: the suppression of Julian Assange at all costs.


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