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13-04-11 More on lying in military procurement

 
The cases of the Partiot and Iron Dome missile systems are not unique at all.

Such cases should be deemed coporate welfare galore, and they also reflect widespread corruption in the DoD.

jz

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The $400 Billion Military Jet That Can't Fly On Cloudy Days

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 05:53 PM PDT

The $400 Billion Military Jet That Can't Fly in Cloudy Weather 100th F-35 Being Built, None Yet Operational In January, the Lockheed Martin production facility in Fort Worth, Texas, reported it was...

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13-04-11 A letter from a ghost - Palestinian Samer al-Issawi on his 8th months on hunger strike in Israel

The letter ends: 

"Israelis, I am Samer al-Issawi. Hear my voice, the voice of remaining time - mine and yours. Release yourselves from greedy power hunting. Don't forget those you have incarcerated in prison and camps, between the iron doors that imprison your consciousness. I'm not waiting for a prison guard to free me, I'm waiting for the one who frees you of my memory."

Needless to say, the above is equally applicable to Americans and the hunger strikers in GITMO.  The difference is that in Israel there is direct contact between Israelis, who oppose the treatment of Palestinians, like al-Issawi, and the Palestinians.

The original letter was written in Hebrew.  The Palestinian leadership used the time spent time behind bars to educated itself, gain academic degrees, etc.

Haaretz, the oldest and most respectable newspaper in Israel, is a unique creature - with an editorial page that champions Human Rights, and a strong business section.

The edior, Aluf Benn, and the publisher, the Schocken family, should be recognized for their courage.  Haaretz is routinely in court, due to efforts to silence it. Accordingly, from my experience, the limit is publishing news regarding corruption of the Israeli courts.

The contribution of generations of the Schocken family, refugees from Nazi Germany, to Israeli and Jewish culture is enormous: Through Haaretz, through the Schocken book publishing, through lifetime support of SY Agnon (later literature Nobel Prize winner), and through its library of medieval Jewish manuscripts.

JZ

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A letter from a ghost

Samer Issawi has sustained his hunger strike for 8 months and counting. Israel is bored.

By Gideon Levy | Apr.11, 2013 | 10:07 AM 

A group of exceptional Israeli women started visiting Samer Issawi in Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot a few days ago. They are not being allowed into his room, but they open his door holding out flowers and call out words of encouragement until the guards drive them away.

Issawi has been on a hunger strike for the past eight months. His fate is stirring up the West Bank and boring Israel. He was released as part of theGilad Shalit deal and returned to prison after the Israeli authorities claimed he broke his release terms.

In 2002 he was sentenced to 26 years in prison and now Israel wants to keep him in jail until his death, or the end of his prison term, whichever comes first.

On Tuesday Issawi wrote a letter to the Israelis. It is one of the most bloodcurdling documents I have ever read. From a sense of deep identification and shame, which is no less deep, I wish to use this stage to publish an abbreviated version of it.

"... I've chosen to write to you: intellectuals, academics, writers, lawyers, journalists and activists in civilian Israeli society. I invite you to visit me in hospital and see me, a skeleton cuffed and bound to the bed. Three exhausted prison guards, who eat and drink beside my bed, surround me. The guards follow my suffering and weight loss. From time to time they glance at their watches and ask: How does this body still survive? Israelis, I'm looking for an educated one among you who has passed the stage of the shadows and mirrors game. I want him to look at me as I lose my consciousness. Let him wipe the gunpowder from his pen, the shooting sounds from his mind, and see my face's features etched in his eyes. I will see him and he will see me. I will see how tense he is about the future and he will see me, a ghost clinging to his side and not leaving.

"Perhaps you will be asked to write a romantic story about me. You will testify I was a creature of whom nothing remained but a skeleton, breathing and choking from hunger, losing consciousness now and then. And after your cold silence, my story will be an achievement to add to your resume. When your students will grow up they will believe the Palestinian died of hunger ... Then you can celebrate your cultural, moral supremacy with a death ritual."

"I am Samer al-Issawi, 'one of them Arabs' in your army's terms. That Jerusalemite you locked up for no good reason but that he decided to leave Jerusalem to the city's outskirts. I will be put on trial twice because the IDF and the Shin Bet security service rule your state and all the rest of society hides in a fortress ... to evade the explosion of my suspicious bones.

"I haven't heard a single one of you intervene or try to silence the voice of strengthening death, while you've all turned into grave diggers, military uniform wearers - the judge, the writer, the intellectual, the journalist, the merchant, the academic, the poet. And I cannot believe an entire society has become the wardens of my death and life, defenders of the settlers who persecute my dreams and trees.

"Israelis, I'll die satisfied. I won't be driven off my land and homeland ... you won't enter my spirit that refuses to give in ... maybe now you'll understand that a sense of freedom is stronger than a sense of death. Don't listen to your generals and to the dusty myths. The defeated will not remain defeated and the victor will not remain victorious. History is not measured only in battles, massacres and prisons, but in stretching out a hand in peace, to yourselves and to the other.

"Israelis, I am Samer al-Issawi. Hear my voice, the voice of remaining time - mine and yours. Release yourselves from greedy power hunting. Don't forget those you have incarcerated in prison and camps, between the iron doors that imprison your consciousness. I'm not waiting for a prison guard to free me, I'm waiting for the one who frees you of my memory."

This is the man Israel insists on keeping locked up and is leaving to die. Israel is indifferent and complacent, nobody opens his mouth, nobody protests but a handful of women, one of whom, Dafna Banai, passed this letter to me.

13-04-11 California's corrupt judges - Richard Fine new video (#4)

Richard Fine is a bit stuck on the corruption of the LA Superior Court and California judiciary, and its minute details.  But as he himself has documented, how corruption of the California courts is patronized by the US courts, up to SCOTUS and US DOJ...  Regardless, Richard Fine's place in the annals of this struggle is indisputable.

The key sentence and the take home message is "it may take an earthquake of WE THE PEOPLE".  jz

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William WAGENER has uploaded Richard FINE - #4, Change Calfornia from Corrupt State to an HONEST State in 2 moves Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YlxRs36ys8U Richard FINE - #4, Change Calfornia from Corrupt State to an HONEST State in 2 moves by William WAGENER Richard FINE, who spent 18 months in solitary Confinement of L.A. Jail, finishes his speech on how to CHANGE California from a Corrupt State to an Honest Judiciary. by going to County Supervisors, and demanding the County stop paying BRIBES to judges from the county, and ONLY let them receive their $178,000 State Salary, and NO $57,000 county bribe money... this should be a NO brainer, But with Corrupt State Senators like Darrel Steinberg, and the L.A. TImes silent on the FINE case, it may take a earthquake of WE THE PEOPLE just to bet the NEWS out... What is SBx-211 passed in February 2009, and WHY?

13-04-11 Obama's 'War on Whistleblowers'

Groundbreaking 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes Obama Admin's Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists

Robert Greenwald's new documentary sheds light on how far the national security state will go to keep its secrets.

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April 9, 2013  |  

 

 

 

 

The 9/11 attacks on America did not just launch Washington’s war on terrorism; they launched a new White House war on whistleblowers, first under President George W. Bush and then under President Barack Obama, according to a bold new documentary directed by filmmaker Robert Greenwald.

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State traces how two of the most powerful and secretive Washington power centers—the Pentagon’s military-industrial complex and Internet era’s national security state—ran amok after 9/11 and declared war on a handful of whistleblowers who went to the press to expose lies, fraud and abuses that meant life or death for troops and spying on millions of Americans. It explores why Obama, who promised the most transparent administration, became the most secretive president in recent decades and even more vindictive to intelligence-related whistleblowers than George W. Bush.  

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13-04-11 Fukushima - ongoing crisis with no end in sight

Radioctivity has no borders...

The new leak marks the third of seven underground radioactive water pools that are leaking since Saturday, and follows two failures of the plant's cooling system in a month.

The New York Times reports:

The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant halted an emergency operation Tuesday to pump thousands of gallons of radioactive water from a leaking underground storage pool after workers discovered that a similar pool, to which the water was being transferred, was also leaking.

At least three of seven underground chambers at the site are now seeping radioactive water, leaving the Tokyo Electric Power Company [TEPCO] with few options on where to store the huge amounts of contaminated runoff from the makeshift cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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13-04-10 Stanley Fischer for Chairman of the Fed? Fischer, like his student Bernanke, places banks above the law

Fischer placed Israeli banks above Israeli law, and with it is likely to leave after him in Israel a ticking banking crisis bomb.  His disregard for the rule of law is no different than his student Bernanke's.

Fischer with his newly acquired Israeli ID in 2005. A 2012 Petition to the Israeli Supreme Court claims that that Fischer substituted his newly acquired loyatly to the State of Israeli and its law with loyalty to another nation and its law and/or loyatly to financial institutions and their interests. 

View as PDF: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135118590/

Tel Aviv, April 10 - recent reports, [1] including comments by Paul Krugman, appeared to seriously consider the possible nomination of Stanley Fischer for Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Current Federal Chair Ben Bernanke, who was a student of Stanley Fischer, leaves his office in 2014.

Such reports cite Fischer's success in shielding Israel from the current global financial crisis.

The idea is misguided, in part for lack of understanding of Fischer's conduct as Bank of Israel's Governor.

The evidence shows that Fischer uncoditionally subjected Israeli banks to US law - FATCA - even before the law was made  enforceable in the United States. [2,3]

With it, Fischer effectively subjected Israeli banks to the notoriously corrupt US banking regulation, undermined the rule of law in Israel and Israeli sovereingty.  

Moreover, Fischer did not do so by issuing corresponding banking regulations.  Instead, Fischer permitted and encouraged Israeli banks to fabricate their own FATCA regulations, and enforce them too. [3]

Accordingly, Petition filed with the Israeli Supreme Court - to compel Fischer to perform his duties and enforce Israeli banking regulation, pursuant to Israeli law - claimed that Fischer substituted his newly acquired loyatly to the State of Israeli and its law with loyalty to another nation and its law and/or loyatly to financial institutions and their interests. [4]

The petition was subjected to fraud on the court.  [5]

Corruption of the US courts in banking related matters is central to the current financial crisis in the United States. [6]

Combined, the evidence shows that under Fischer's tenure in Israel, conditions have been established that are condusive to a US style financial crisis.  

In short:  Fischer is likely to leave after him in Israel a ticking banking crisis bomb.  Moreover, his conduct in Israeli in this respect is no different than his student Bernanke's approach to banking regulation and the rule of law in the United States, with its disasterous outcome.

LINKS:

[1] 13-04-02 Who will be the next Fed chair? Here are Wonkblog’s odds_Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/02/who-will-be-the-next-fed-chair-here-are-wonkblogs-odds/

13-02-19 Paul Krugman doesn't think Fischer has edge to be picked to head the U.S. Federal Reserve_Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/business/paul-krugman-doesn-t-think-fischer-has-edge-to-be-picked-to-head-the-u-s-federal-reserve.premium-1.504407

[2]  12 10 29 FATCA - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (2011) - Wikipedia and Forbes articles

http://www.scribd.com/doc/111468857/

[3] 13-02-06 Attorney James Jatras opinion in re: Bank of Israel's Stanley Fischer's January 27, 2013 FATCA Response Letter
http://www.scribd.com/doc/124247597/
[4] 12-10-23 PRESS RELEASE – Petition alleges Bank of Israel Fischer patronizes criminality at Bank HaPoalim, BM
http://www.scribd.com/doc/110868267/
[5]  13-03-04 Press Release: FATCA, Stanley Fischer, and altered records of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128638635/
[6]  12-09-04 Zernik, J., "Design and Operation of the Electronic Record Systems of the US Courts are Linked to Failing Banking Regulation", Data Analytics 1:83-93 (2012)
http://thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=data_analytics_2012_3_50_60059

13-04-10 Leaders of the Israeli Occupy movement on trial

A small crowd waiting for the beginning of the hearing.  Eventually, many were not permitted in the hearing room.

On the right - Yigal Rambam

Moshe Cohen - bearing a tatoo "Not nice guys" [Lo Nehmadim - jz] on his arm.  The saying, by former Prime Minister Golda Meir, referring to the social protesters in Israeli in the 1970s has become the slogan of social protest.

Receipt given to Gaia Or for a t-shirt, saying "Not nice guys", which was confiscated by the Tel Aviv court guards.

10-04-10 Another day in the Tel Aviv court for leaders of the Israeli Occupy movement, among them - Daphni Lif, Moshe Cohen and 7 others. Separately, a hearing was conducted today for another leader of the Israeli Occupy movement - Yigal Rambam.
Unprecedented corruption of the Israeli courts over the past decade, under the tenure of Ahraon Barak and Dorit Beinisch as Chief Justicees of the Supreme Court, is central to socio-economic conditions in Israel today.
Assistant Presiding Judge of the Tel Aviv Court, Varda Alsheikh, was caught falsifying her own court records.  Repeated demands by that Israeli Bar Association that Alsheikh be removed from the bench were diregarded.  She hears many of the largest financial institution default cases in the Tel Aviv court.

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13-04-09 America Officially Dickensian, Jailing People for Years for Unpaid Debt

Debtors' Prisons were common in Engliand and in the US up to the 19th century. Charles Dickens criticized the practice in his book Little Dorrit. By the 20th century, the notion of jailing people, who cannot pay their debts, was considered backwards, bordering on the absurd. Now, they are back in fashion in the US... Another sign of our times...

America Officially Dickensian, Jailing People for Years for Unpaid Debt

Kathleen Geier, The Washington Monthly

The corpse of Charles Dickens must be spinning like a whirling dervish.

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13-04-09 Wikileaks released Kissinger cables...

Kissinger: The illegal we do immediately; unconstitutional takes longer

WikiLeaks releases 1.7 million archived records from 1970's shedding light on global diplomatic history
By Natasha Lennard
April 08, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"Salon" -  News organizations around the world who have partnered with Wikileaks over the Kissinger Cables are already digging up a number of significant stories.

The late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi may have been a middleman for an arms deal in the 1970s, according to diplomatic cables searched by The Hindu newspaper. Gandhi was employed by Swedish group Saab-Scania to help sell its Viggen fighter jet reportedly because of access to his mother Indira Ghandi  – prime minister at the time. In his press conference Monday, Julian Assange said this revelation is shaking Indian politics, as the Ghandi family still dominates India’s ruling party.

Meanwhile, one cable dated October 18, 1973 sent to Washington by the US embassy to the Vatican reveals that the Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as “Communist propaganda.”

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13-04-97 Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists

Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists

Joe Wright
Activist Post

Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don't always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of a domestic terrorism movement and not even know it.

On Friday, the Los Angeles Times posted an article attempting to define a domestic terrorist movement consisting of as many as 300,000 Americans. Some are even labeled as non-violent "paper terrorists".

Is there a more Orwellian term than "non-violent terrorist"?  If you can think of one please share it in the comments below.

They refer to this so-called terror group as "sovereigns, zealots who refuse to recognize government authority in virtually any form."

When attempting to further define and identify individuals in this movement, some very broad and dangerous stereotypes appear.

"Sovereigns believe U.S. currency has no value but recognize precious metals as valid currency," wrote the LA Times, much like the US Constitution does.

"A central tenet of the sovereigns movement is that its adherents believe they owe no income taxes," also much like the Constitution forbids.

What's more, federal and state law enforcement are being trained that anyone who disobeys their commands falls into this terrorist movement and may pose a violent threat to them.

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