If you don’t believe me that Jewish media moguls are consciously trying to undermine the morals of the black and white goyim (non-Jews), please take a look at this screenshot from the website of Haaretz Newspaper, Israel’s largest “liberal” outlet:
Before you get frothy, the title is not mine. Itbelongs to Haaretz. The writer is one Josh Lambert.
The subtitle: “Brilliant actors like Larry David and Sarah Silverman are challenging America’s powerful religious, family-friendly culture and asserting their Jewishness by glorifying obscenity.”
Now I know there are many Jewish readers here, and that they run more on the Torah-believing side than the secular. I’d like to ask their opinion about Lambert’s piece.
Is it, as the subtitle declares, as asservation of secular Judaism to “glorify” obscenity? We can take it as read that it is not a claim to orthodox or conservative religious Judaism.
Before answering, let’s look deeper into the piece.
“In a tidy coincidence, two separate videos went viral last week, demonstrating that American Jews’ love affair with obscenity is still going strong. Sarah Silverman talks about being visited by Jesus Christ, who asks her to spread a message about women’s reproductive rights…” By “reproductive” Silverman means, of course, non-reproductive.
Lambert is claiming that “American Jews” have a “love affair with obscenity”. Is that so? Again, I take it he must mean Jews as a culture or race and not religion.
As far as I know, only Silverman has publicly called herself a “dirty Jew,” purring the words alluringly in her 2005 performance film “Jesus Is Magic,” but David’s gleeful, exuberant and inimitable spewing of obscenities suggests he might not exactly mind being thought of as a dirty Jew, either. In my recently published book, “Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture,” I explain why, beginning in the late 19th century, American Jews have found the explicit representation of sex, and four-letter words, so very useful. The answers vary: Some Jews use obscenity to fight anti-Semitism, while others use it to rewrite traditional Jewish stories in a contemporary idiom.
How obscenity can “fight” and not cause “anti-Semitism” is anybody’s guess, but rewriting traditional stories in an obscene way can only be seen as blasphemous. No?
“If you watch cable television and listen to podcasts, you might think that there’s no longer any regulation of obscenity”, yet Lambert goes on to lament that there are still anti-obscenity laws on the books, particularly in broadcasting.
Lambert is unhappy that Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska, a Christian, sponsored the Communications Decency Act, which attempted to control obscenity on line. Lambert fails to tell readers the act was neutered by the ACLU.
What Lambert does remember is that “the senator introduced into the Congressional Record letters of support for his proposal from Evangelical groups like the Christian Coalition and the Family Research Council.” Well, and so he did. That organizations against smut should have something to say on the subject shouldn’t be surprising.
The contemporary Christian right has a much more complex and self-aware relationship with American Jews [now]…Today’s anti-porn organizations, even if funded by Christians, often seek out Jews to sit on their boards — though mostly they attract only very marginal rabbis and other Jewish crackpots.
I can’t tell if he means “marginal rabbis” or only those Jews against porn are “crackpots”. Can you?
Somehow Lambert isn’t pleased with deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, because Scalia said “small-town broadcasters…[with their] down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big-city folks [and the] foul-mouthed glitterati from Hollywood.” This is, of course, observationally true and known by everybody.
Scalia did not, of course, go so far as to suggest that the one demographic group most insistently associated both with American “big-city” life and with “Hollywood” — Jews — tend to speak more obscenely than other Americans. If he had wanted to, though, he could not have a better illustration of his hypothesis than Larry David and Sarah Silverman.
So Lambert thought he caught a whiff of “anti-Semitism”, but then he substantiated Scalia’s point with prime examples. He then says:
These Christian campaigns against obscenity…may help to explain why, in a media environment in which the representation of sex and the use of taboo language smacks increasingly of banality, brilliant performers like David and Silverman continue not only to assert their Jewishness emphatically, in virtually every one of their performances, but also to glory in and glorify the use of such language.
There it is again. Lambert equates (secular) Jewishness with obscenity. He closes with this.
Especially because the Christian right goes to such great lengths to demonstrate that Jews should not feel excluded from its initiatives — who loves Jews nowadays more than the Christian right, right? — identifying oneself as a “dirty Jew” in 21st-century America is one way to signal your opposition not just to the banalities of the market-driven family-friendly culture, but also to the nation’s most powerful socially, religiously and politically reactionary movement.
Evangelicals, the largest group on the Christian right, go out of their way to include and support Jews. This is true, as most know. But “dirty Jew[s]” rebel—and should, Lambert implies—against the “family-friendly culture” also beloved by Evangelicals. If he is right, then shouldn’t the Christian right turn its back on secular Jews who on purpose and by design“glorify” in obscenity, blasphemy, porn, and other matters inimical to Christianity? Or would that only bring charges of “anti-Semitism”?
David Duke -- I Need Your help to Expose These Jewish Lies !
David Duke on Nicki Manaj. Exposing Zio Media Lies!
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Dr. Duke’s criticism of Nicki Minage had nothing to do with criticism of police. My Real Comments on Nicki Manaj — by Dr. David Duke.
Once again Zio Media Lies!
In recent days my comments on the destructive nature of gangsta rap and rapper Nicky Minage upon millions of both black and white youth have gone viral in the music industry.
On of the first leading rap music websites, HipHopdx literally quoted the comments I made on my radio show word for word for their readers. You can read them below. It was not an attack on black rappers, it was a broadside attack on the Jewish moguls of music and the mainstream media and their promotion of the horrific messages of the music.
The black rap fan audience, reading my actual words on HipHopDX, overwhelmingly supported my position, posting comments on that article that I was spot on in my analysis of the Jewish role in exploiting and harming the black community. This is especially remarkable considering the Jewish media’s constant portrayal of my over 37-year-old ties to the Klan. Still, my words were so obviously true and powerful they couldn’t help but agree.
Over the next few days the story went viral, with the Jewish-controlled media outlets controlling the debate. They didn’t want to publicize my assertion the music industry is in fact controlled by Jews. So they tried to make out that my opposition to Minaj was based on her race rather than the filth she produces for the Jewish moguls.
So the lies began to flood the Zio media.
Lie 1. It was reported I said that blacks didn’t invent rap. In truth I have had many articles that condemned destructive gangsta rap (which could also be called “zio-rap”).
I certainly think that blacks created the musical form called rap. What I say is that Jewish moguls promoted the most destructive and sickening, violence and drug drenched, obscenity drenched version of rap music, and this has so damaged blacks and all the rest of us. Lie 2. After this happened The Raw Story, The Root and other Jewish controlled publications began circulating the lie that I attacked Nicki Minaj after she supported the demonstrations against the police. Great misdirection on their part I must say. Make blacks hate me so much they don’t see the truth of what I am saying.
The truth is that I attacked Minaj and the zio-gangster rap before the Rolling Stone story that allegedly talks about her views on the police brutality. At that time I had no knowledge of her position on that subject and it is entirely irrelevant to my criticism of her and the Jewish moguls who support her. Nevertheless, TheRoot.com asserts that “during Duke’s radio show, he made reference to that interview.” And the interview didn’t even post to Rolling Stone’s website until AFTER my show!
My comments that it was because of her comments in Rolling Stone of which I had no knowledge, had nothing to do with my condemnation of Jewish controlled gangsta rap. I literally said blacks can’t even blamed for its mass promotion by the music moguls and the mainstream media.
Lie 3. Some Jewish media in attempt to get the black people reading the articles to hate me suggested that I haven’t attacked white degenerates such as Lady Gaga. In fact, repeatedly in my videos and words I have attacked her and the Jewish media moguls for the promotion of her sickening values to our young people. Jewish-controlled Hollywood produced videos of her in Christian garb with a huge Red Christian cross in something like a nun’s habit on her — as she participates in gang sex!
So the message was that David Duke is anti-black so don’t listen to me about the Jewish exploitation and impact on the black community.
I have repeatedly pointed out the pinnacle of the music industry in America is completely controlled by Zionist, racist Jews, just as the movie industry is. I have had dozens of articles about the horrific impact of the Jewish-controlled entertainment industry on our nation. Movies today specifically aimed at the biggest numbers of movie goers, young people, are filled with sick violence, degenerate sex, promotion of drug and alcohol use, and sexual behavior more worthy of Bonobo monkeys than loving and caring human beings.
How many millions of people have had their lives destroyed by this glorification of drugs, alcohol, sexual license and porn, and of course criminality and thuggery, violence? How many millions of blacks have gone to prison because of this mass media promoted lifestyle, or had their lives destroyed by drugs?
Here are my words as shown in HipHopDX.com
“Take a look at Gangster Rap,” he said. “Take a look at constant chronic media talking about Gangster Rap, elevating and making exciting Black criminality, thuggery, promoting drugs, promoting all sorts of sexual abuse, abuse of women.
The videos for Black rappers and so forth show women at their feet, sucking their toes or God-knows what else. Just being practically slaves to Black males. You take a look at it, the media in this country…and it’s for white people too. European-Americans are affected by it too, but Black people have been really affected by it.
This Black, so-called Gangster Rap and this other disgusting and degrading degenerate music which is the most popular music among the Black people and a good sector of the white people. Just look at the Nicki Minaj. I don’t even want you to look at it, it’s so horrible. You will never hear more of the ‘n-word,’ more words about ass…God knows I’m not going to say all the things they say. Every kind of filthy word. Every kind of filthy, violent drug-promoting material. It’s just absolutely sickening.
…And the guy that produces all that, one of the Jewish producers, in fact, the entire music industry is absolutely controlled by the Zionists, the Jewish extremists, the same ones in the media that support Israel and basically pervert our country and the interest of America for that of Israel…
One of the Jewish producers was boasting about the fact that every one of the Top 10 Billboard songs were those he (Zionist music mogul Lucian Grainge) controlled. So, I tell ya, even Rap music (it’s popularity) is not something that Blacks reallywere responsible for. It was the Jewish record producers who promoted this degenerate and sick music.
On other shows and on my website I have stated although rap is not music I like, that it is primarily an expression of black culture, I have said repeatedly that the problem with gangsta rap is not primarily its musical style, but its toxic promotion to young blacks and whites of violence, drugs, thuggery, criminality and sexual degeneracy as well as disrespect and abuse of women, and racist hatred against white people.
By presenting this sick, degenerate lifestyle as the essence of blackness, the Zio-record industry has devastated the black community and the black family. This is the kind of culture is promoted not only by the Jewish music bosses but the rest of the Zio-media. In effect, the Jewish promotion of pornographic, violent, drug glorifying gangster rap destroys more black young people than the few shot by white police.
Here are quotes from rap fans on HipHopdx about my statements in the article:
I really feel uncomfortable when I agree with everything the KKK leader says.
letha I agree with him. These people have used our talents and creativity to promote self-hatred. The Irritated Genie has discussed the role of small hats in his lecture. Go to youtube and listen. These people have not been a real friend to us, but they have enriched themselves from our backs.
Jarrad Hurley He is right when he calls nicki Minaj a piece of ****. She clearly is. She should be sucking dicks for money, not given a platform to express her stupid self. She can **** off with that big gaping ass of hers.
Sensaye Sixkiller I can’t even argue with anything he said man, that’s the sad part. He’s right. Rap music and urban culture can’t even be defended any more. Rap music is not in it’s infancy anymore. It’s been around long enough where it should be evolving and progressing, and it’s not. It’s just a cesspool of ignorance, with the exception of a very small percentage of artists. There’s no regard whatsoever for the listeners, who are mostly kids. Everyone has totally absolved themselves of responsibility for their material, their people, and their community. Everyone is too absorbed with their own sense of self-importance to care about anything. “I’mma get dish money shun, **** everybody”. Anonymous
He seems to be more angry at jewish people than Nicki Minaj
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You’re right about Dr Duke. I’m a Muslim convert married to a Pakistani and with plenty of friends of all colours. Nothing about David Duke offends me, he is right and a wise decent human being also.
DETROIT SLIM Duke is totally right on this. dave he absolutely right! and on and on……………………………….
If you don’t believe me that Jewish media moguls are consciously trying to undermine the morals of the black and white goyim (non-Jews), please take a look at this screenshot from the website of Haaretz Newspaper, Israel’s largest “liberal” outlet:
In a tidy coincidence, two separate videos went viral last week, demonstrating that American Jews’ love affair with obscenity is still going strong. Sarah Silverman talks about being [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahdR6aHQvMQ"]visited by Jesus Christ[/ame], who asks her to spread a message about women’s reproductive rights (“We’ve got to legislate that ****,” the comedienne said, mocking conservatives who want to use the law to limit women’s health care options), while a [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxRH-zYcIA"]a fan-produced supercut[/ame] strung together three minutes of uninterrupted insults by Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
As far as I know, only Silverman has publicly called herself a “dirty Jew,” purring the words alluringly in her 2005 performance film “Jesus Is Magic,” but David’s gleeful, exuberant and inimitable spewing of obscenities suggests he might not exactly mind being thought of as a dirty Jew, either.
Now if that is not consciously trying to undermine the morals of the black and white goyim, what is?
Their conscious destruction of family-friendly culture destroys both blacks and whites in America. And by the many comments from black rap fans shown above, it is obvious that most black people as well as most white people agree with my position of the vile direction of gangsta rap by the Jewish masters of media!
If I said Jews are purposefully trying to destroy family-friendly culture and that Jewish media figures were “asserting their Jewishness by glorifying obscenity” I would be called a vicious anti-Semite. But, this is what their own newspapers say. This truth truth is for their consumption not for African, Asian or the European people’s knowledge, otherwise we might ask why do we let them destroy the healthy values of our culture.
Why do we have to take the rule over 98 percent of the people by the 2 percent who are “asserting their Jewishness by glorifying obscenity” ?
Now you know why the Jewish controlled mainstream media puts Minage on the red carpet and promotes the Zio music industry’s toxic poison to our precious children. Message from Dr. Patrick Slattery:
We need your help to counter these ZIO MEDIA LIES
Look at these lying publications below! Contact these sources and post refutations of the lie that Dr. Duke opposes Nicki Minaj simply because she opposes police brutality. With absolutely no evidence they made this statement and headline to divert people, especially young people from the truth about Jewish music control.
By Dr. Patrick Slattery – As we have reported already on this website and on our show, bizarre lies about Dr. Duke’s criticism of Ziomedia-promoted rapper Nikki Minaj have been going viral on websites and public media. We need your help to set the record straight. Please post POLITELY worded comments to the offending websites. Letters asking for retractions and apologies would also be welcome. Feel free to use your own words, but here are the main points:
Dr. Duke’s criticism of Nicki Minaj had nothing to do with criticism of police.
It was reported Dr. Duke said that blacks didn’t invent rap. What he said is that Jewish moguls promoted the most destructive and sickening, violence and drug drenched, obscenity drenched version of rap music, and this has so damaged blacks and all the rest of us, thus blacks should be blamed for it.
For those requesting a retraction and apology, a letter along these lines would be useful: “Your article erroneously accused David Duke of attacking Nicki Minaj for having spoken out against police brutality. In fact, Dr. Duke’s criticism of *Minaj is based on the obscene and depraved content of her music videos, and is completely unrelated to her comments about police brutality. In fact, Dr. Duke’s critique was made prior to the publishing of Minaj’s statement about the police. We regret our mistake and apologize to Dr. Duke.” Here are some of the offending websites (but there are no doubt many more):
*** I ignore all so-called friends and family of little or no compassion who scavenge the net, pick up ready-made greetings by others, and send them to me without any personal message of sincere concern and affection for me or for human suffering! They all know I hate that, but they always do it! *** P.S. With extremely few exceptions!
BAFS
Friday, 25 October 2013 - KIRAN JAVED, THE RED VIRGIN RE-INCARNATED - La Vierge Rouge réincarnée - BRENDON LEE O'CONNELLby Ghyslaine ROC
The Syrian intelligence possesses an audio recording of conversation between Daesh terrorists and US military prior to the Washington-led coalition's airstrikes on the government troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People's Council of Syria said Monday.
"The Syrian Army intercepted a conversation between the Americans and Daesh before the air raid on Deir ez-Zor", Hadiya Khalaf Abbas said as quoted by the Al Mayadeen broadcaster.
The head of the Syrian parliament added during her visit to Iran that after the coalition's airstrikes on the government troops US military directed terrorists' attack on the Syrian army.
Syrian state television reported that 43 people, including children, were killed by an air strike carried out by US-led coalition on the Jumaili neighborhood in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which is controlled by Daesh.
May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-) Skepticism and critical thinking is not panacea, but can help to understand the world better
“As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.”
AMERICA’S WAR FOR THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST A Military History By Andrew J. Bacevich Illustrated. 453 pp. Random House. $30.
In the opening chapter of his latest book, the military historian Andrew J. Bacevich blames Jimmy Carter, a president commonly viewed as more meek than martial, for unwittingly spawning 35 years of American military intervention in the Middle East. Bacevich argues that three mistakes by Carter set precedents that led to decades of squandered American lives and treasure.
First, Carter called on Americans to stop worshiping “self-indulgence and consumption” and join a nationwide effort to conserve energy. Self-sacrifice, he argued in what is now widely derided as Carter’s “malaise speech,” would free Americans from their dependence on foreign oil and “help us to conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country.”
The President came across as more hectoring pastor than a visionary leader, Bacevich argues in “America’s War for the Greater Middle East.” His guileless approach squandered an opportunity to persuade Americans reeling from high foreign oil prices to trade “dependence for autonomy.”
Carter’s second mistake was authorizing American support to guerrillas fighting a Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan, a move that eventually helped fuel the spread of radical Islam. Finally, in a misguided effort to counter views that he was “too soft,” Carter declared that the United States would respond with military force to any outside effort to seize Persian Gulf oil fields. “This statement, subsequently enshrined as the Carter Doctrine, inaugurated America’s war for the greater Middle East,” Bacevich writes.
This book, Bacevich’s eighth, extends his string of brutal, bracing and essential critiques of the pernicious role of reflexive militarism in American foreign policy. As in past books, Bacevich is thought-provoking, profane and fearless. Assailing generals, journalists and foreign policy experts alike, he links together more than a dozen military interventions that span 35 years and declares them a single war. Bacevich analyzes each intervention, looking for common themes from Carter’s late 1970s missteps to Barack Obama’s widespread use of assassination by drone strike today.
Washington’s penchant for intervention, Bacevich contends, is driven by more than America’s thirst for oil or the military-industrial complex’s need for new enemies. In addition to these two factors, he argues that “a deeply pernicious collective naïveté” among both Republicans and Democrats spawns interventions doomed by “confusion and incoherence.”
The ultimate responsibility for the United States’ actions lies with an “oblivious” American public engrossed in “shallow digital enthusiasms and the worship of celebrity,” Bacevich writes. Americans support freedom, democracy and prosperity in other nations, he tells us, as long as they get the lion’s share of it.
“Ensuring that Americans enjoy their rightful quota (which is to say, more than their fair share) of freedom, abundance and security comes first,” Bacevich says. “Everything else figures as an afterthought.”
Bacevich’s argument is heavy-handed at times, but when he writes about military strategy, he is genuinely incisive. Citing numerous examples, he convincingly argues that destructive myths about the efficacy of American military power blind policy makers, generals and voters. The use of overwhelming lethal force does not immediately cause dictators or terrorists to turn tail and run, even if that’s what politicians in Washington want to believe. Rather, it often leads to resentment, chaos and resistance.
A presumption that using military power signified to friends and foes that Washington was getting serious about a problem diminished the role of diplomats and diplomacy. “ ‘Getting serious’ also implied a preference for uniforms over suits as the principal agents of U.S. policy,” Bacevich writes. “Henceforth, rather than military power serving as the handmaiden of diplomacy, the reverse would be true.”
In another repeated mistake, triumphalist American commanders prematurely declare victory without realizing that their opponent has simply withdrawn to fight another day as a guerrilla force, as occurred in Afghanistan in 2001. They also personalize the enemy, wrongly assuming that the removal of figures like Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Muammar Qaddafi will instantly end conflict.
From Somalia in 1993 to Yemen today, American commanders and policy makers overestimated the advantage American military technology bestows on them. And most crucially of all, the United States has failed to decide whether it is, in fact, at war.
“In the war for the greater Middle East, the United States chose neither to contain nor to crush, instead charting a course midway in between,” Bacevich writes. “Instead of intimidating, U.S. military efforts have annoyed, incited and generally communicated a lack of both competence and determination.” The historical forces at work in the Middle East are different from the dynamics that led to American victories in World War II and the Cold War. American officials have failed to understand that. What’s more, a deluded Washington foreign policy establishment believes that an American way of life based on “consumption and choice” will be accepted over time in the “Islamic world.”
But it is here, in his description of the “Islamic world,” that Bacevich stumbles. What is missing in this book about “the greater Middle East” are the people of the greater Middle East.
Bacevich’s most highly developed Muslim character in these pages is Saddam Hussein. The former Afghan president Hamid Karzai is a distant second. Beyond those two, the rest of the world’s estimated 1.6 billion Muslims come across as two-dimensional caricatures.
And so Bacevich lumps together vastly different nationalities — from Bosnians to Iraqis to Somalis — often referring to all of them primarily as “Muslims.” The dizzying complexities of each country’s history, politics, culture, resources and rivalries are missing. And when it comes to how “Muslims” view the world, Bacevich veers into the simplistic essentialism that he accuses Washington policy makers of following.
Bacevich suggests that in the “Islamic world” lifestyles based on “consumption and choice” might not work. Such broad-brush statements might well be considered simplistic and even bigoted if applied to other faiths. Can one contend that a “Christian world,” “Hindu world” or “Jewish world” exists? Are such generalizations analytically useful? Do the world’s hundreds of millions of Muslims practice their faith identically?
As a result of this essentialism, Bacevich glosses over a vital point about the Middle East today: A historic and brutal struggle between radicals and modernists for the future of the region is underway. One can argue that the United States has no place in that fight, but making sweeping generalizations about Muslims as Bacevich does limits our understanding of the forces at work in the region. It also plays into the hands of extremists who seek to divide the world by faith.
In the most troubling passage of the book, Bacevich breezily questions pluralism itself. “According to one of the prevailing shibboleths of the present age, this commingling of cultures is inherently good,” he writes. “It fosters pluralism, thereby enriching everyday life. Yet cultural interaction also induces friction, whether spontaneously generated or instigated by demagogues and provocateurs.”
We do live in a dangerous world, but it is also an inevitably interconnected one. The commingling of cultures cannot be stopped. Nor should it be.
For all that, Bacevich is right that the United States’ reflexive use of armed intervention in the Middle East is folly. An unquestioning faith in military might and an underinvestment in diplomacy has tied Washington in a policy straitjacket. Bacevich’s call for Americans to rethink their nation’s militarized approach to the Middle East is incisive, urgent and essential.
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NY Times (AP):Virginia Gun Rights Activists Vow to Fight New Restrictions
NY Times: Official: Gun Sanctuary Resolutions Have 'No Legal Effect'
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There's a storm brewing down in the divided state of Virginia. On one side, we have the gun-grabbing, post-birth baby-killing, Communist Governor Ralph Northam and the new Demonrat legislative majority poised to assume control in January 2020. Standing in opposition to the Red tyrant are thousands of citizens, over 100 towns, and the majority of county sheriffs who have announced their intention to disobey the new gun laws soon to be imposed, and declared their counties as “Second Amendment Sanctuaries.”
As of now, Northam and his Demonrat goons haven't shown any signs of backing down on their announced enforcement of a whole slew of coming "gun control"™ laws -- including enhanced universal background checks, a ban on "assault weapons"™ and "red flag" laws that would allow the "temporary" removal of guns from someone whom the "authorities" deem to be "dangerous."
1. The tyrant Ralph Northam. // 2. His gun-grabbing scheme has stirred up the good ol' boys of rural Virginia. // 3. The rural counties in red have all declared their defiance. The Demonrat base is mainly located in the urban and "diverse" areas.
The Marxist mask is off. Soros' wholly-owned demons in the state where CIA-Langley is based don't give a whiff about "public safety." No. Northam and his greasy gang of Globalists are only concerned about centralizing power, and disarming the rural White men in preparation for the round-up and slaughter which all commies pray (to Satan) to see one day.
Also being targeted are pro-gun police officers. Marxist Millennial Demonrat Legislator Lee Carter, 32, has sponsored a bill which would punish any cop who “willfully refuses to perform the duties of his employment” with termination. That particular piece of tyranny was filed just days after Northam threatened the counties and towns that adopted the Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions Northam:“If we have constitutional laws on the books and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be consequences, but I’ll cross that bridge if and when we get to it.”
1. Demonrat Assemblyman Lee Carter wants to cleanse Virginia law enforcement of all good cops who refuse to go after innocent gun owners. // 2. Tranny Assemblyman -- woman -- thing Danica Roehm, 35, is another outspoken gun-grabber. // 3. CIA crisis actor Chris Hurst, 32, whose fiance was fake-killed on live TV is also a member of Virginia's demonic delegation.
In addition to the hand of Soros (cough cough) in Virginia, billionaire Bolshevik Michael Bloomberg(cough cough) dropped $2.5 million to help the statehouse become narrowly Democrat (a 21 to 19 state Senate & 55 of 100 seats in the House of Delegates.) The incoming Demonrats, seized on that narrow majority to announce coming prohibitions on the sale, transfer and possession of “assault weapons” and standard magazines. Violating the measure would be a state felony -- which means that law abiding citizens who currently own these firearms would have to surrender them to the "authorities."
There is even talk among some Demonrats of calling out the National Guard to handle the rebellion and enforce the intended confiscation. Should that happen, expect the situation to blow up. In a way, to quote Thomas Jefferson, the Virginian father of the Declaration of Independence, some bloodshed of both "tyrants and patriots" would be necessary to water the "tree of liberty." But we suspect that at some point, Northam will blink. The whole country would explode if Demonrats started arresting or even killing the patriots of Virginia -- and Trump would have the perfect pretext to intervene on behalf of the Second Amendment activists.
We'll be keeping an eye on this dangerous drama down in Virginia. Stay tuned, and Happy New Year!.
America's three most significant Founding fathers were all Virginians. L-R: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
Jefferson on liberty: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure."
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Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today that the Governor of Virginia is not going to back down to the NRA gun nuts who are threatening to defy gun control laws.
Boobus Americanus 2: Good. It's about time someone stood up to the gun lobby.
St. Sugar: Bring it on, Boobuss. Bring it on!
Editor: As much as I don't want to see good people get hurt or killed, an armed rebellion -- led by police and military patriots -- may be the only way out.
We need to begin by quickly summarizing what just happened:
General Soleimani was in Baghdad on an official visit to attend the funeral of the Iraqis murdered by the US on the 29th
The US has now officially claimed responsibility for this murder
The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has officially declared that “However, a severe retaliation awaits the criminals who painted their corrupt hands with his and his martyred companions’ blood last night“
The US paints itself – and Iran – into a corner
The Iranians simply had no other choice than to declare that there will be a retaliation. There are a few core problems with what happens next. Let’s look at them one by one:
First, it is quite obvious from the flagwaving claptrap in the US that Uncle Shmuel is “locked and loaded” for even more macho actions and reaction. In fact, Secretary Esper has basically painted the US into what I would call an “over-reaction corner” by declaring that“the game has changed” and that the US will take “preemptive action” whenever it feels threatened. Thus, the Iranians have to assume that the US will over-react to anything even remotely looking like an Iranian retaliation.
No less alarming is that this creates the absolutely perfect conditions for a false flag à la “USS Liberty“. Right now, the Israelis have become at least as big a danger for US servicemen and facilities in the entire Middle-East as are the Iranians themselves. How? Simple! Fire a missile/torpedo/mine at any USN ship and blame Iran. We all know that if that happens the US political elites will do what they did the last time around: let US servicemen die and protect Israel at all costs (read up on the USS Liberty if you don’t know about it)
There is also a very real risk of “spontaneous retaliations” by other parties (not Iran or Iranian allies). In fact, in his message, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has specifically declared that “Martyr Suleimani is an international face to the Resistance and all lovers of the Resistance share a demand in retaliation for his blood. All friends – as well as all enemies – must know the path of Fighting and Resistance will continue with double the will and the final victory is decidedly waiting for those who fight in this path.” He is right, Soleimani was loved and revered by many people all over the globe, some of whom might decided to avenge his death. This means that we might well see some kind of retaliation which, of course, will be blamed on Iran but which might not be the result of any Iranian actions at all.
Finally, should the Iranians decide not to retaliate, then we can be absolutely sure that Uncle Shmuel will see that as a proof of his putative “invincibility” and take that as a license to engage in even more provocative actions.
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If we look at these four factors together we would have to come to the conclusion that Iran HAS to retaliate and HAS to do so publicly.
Why?
Because whether the Iranian do retaliate or not, they are almost guaranteed another US attack in retaliation for anything looking like a retaliation, whether Iran is involved or not.
The dynamics of internal US politics
Next, let’s look at the internal political dynamics in the US:
I have always claimed that Donald Trump is a “disposable President” for the Neocons. What do I mean by that? I mean that the Neocons have used Trump to do all sorts of truly fantastically dumb things (pretty much ALL his policy decisions towards Israel and/or Syria) for a very simple reason. If Trump does something extremely dumb and dangerous, he will either get away with it, in which case the Neocons will be happy, or he will either fail or the consequences of his decisions will be catastrophic, at which point the Neocons will jettison him and replace him by an even more subservient individual (say Pence or Pelosi). In other words, for the Neocons to have Trump do something both fantastically dangerous and fantastically stupid is a win-win situation!
Right now, the Dems (still the party favored by the Neocons) seem to be dead-set into committing political suicide with that ridiculous (and treacherous!) impeachment nonsense. Now think about this from the Neocon point of view. They might be able to get the US goyim to strike Iran AND get rid of Trump. I suppose that their thinking will go something like this:
Trump looks set to win 2020. We don’t want that. However, we have been doing everything in our power to trigger a US attack on Iran since pretty much 1979. Let’s have Trump do that. If he “wins” (by whatever definition – more about that further below), we win. If he loses, the Iranians will still be in a world of pain and we can always jettison him like a used condom (used to supposedly safely screw somebody with no risks to yourself). Furthermore, if the region explodes, this will help our beloved Bibi and unite US Jewry behind Israel. Finally, if Israel gets attacked, we will immediately demand (and, of course, obtain) a massive US attack on Iran, supported by the entire US political establishment and media. And, lastly, should Israel be hit hard, then we can always use our nukes and tell the goyim that “Iran wants to gas 6 million Jews and wipe the only democracy in the Middle-East off the face of the earth” or something equally insipid.
Ever since Trump made it into the White House, we saw him brown-nose the Israel Lobby with a delectation which is extreme even by US standards. I suppose that this calculation goes something along the lines of “with the Israel Lobby behind me, I am safe in the White House”. He is obviously too stupidly narcissistic to realize that he has been used all along. To his (or one of his key advisor’s) credit, he did NOT allow the Neocons to start a major war against Russia, China, the DPRK, Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, etc. However, Iran is a totally different case as it is the “number one” target the Neocons and Israel wanted strike and destroy. The Neocons even had this motto“boys go to Baghdad, real men go to Tehran“. Now that Uncle Shmuel has lost all this wars of choice, now that the US armed forces have no credibility left, now is the time to restore the “macho” self-image of Uncle Shmuel and, indeed, “go to Tehran” so to speak.
The Dems (Biden) are already saying that Trump just “tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox“, as if they cared about anything except their own, petty, political goals and power. Still, I have to admit that Biden’s metaphor is correct – that is exactly what Trump (and his real bosses) have done.
If we assume that I am correct in my evaluation that Trump is the Neocon’s/Israeli’s “disposable President”, then we also have to accept the fact that the US armed forces the Neocon’s/Israeli’s “disposable armed forces” and that the US as a nation is also the Neocon’s/Israeli’s “disposable nation”. This is very bad news indeed, as this means that from the Neocon/Israeli point of view, there are no real risks into throwing the US into a war with Iran.
In truth, the position of the Dems is a masterpiece of hypocrisy which can be summed up as follows: the assassination of Soleimani is a wonderful event, but Trump is a monster for making it happen.
A winner, no?
What would the likely outcome of a US war on Iran be?
I have written so often about this topic that I won’t go into all the possible scenarios here. All I will say is the following:
For the US, “winning” means achieving regime change or, failing that, destroying the Iranian economy.
For Iran, “winning” simply means to survive the US onslaught.
This is a HUGE asymmetry which basically means that the US cannot win and Iran can only win.
And, not, the Iranians don’t have to defeat CENTCOM/NATO! They don’t need to engage in large scale military operations. All they need to do is: remain “standing” once the dust settles down.
Ho Chi Minh once told the French “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win“. This is exactly why Iran will eventually prevail, maybe at a huge cost (Amalek must be destroyed, right?), but that will still be a victory.
Now let’s look at the two most basic types of war scenarios: outside Iran and inside Iran.
The Iranians, including General Soleimani himself, have publicly declared many times that by trying to surround Iran and the Middle-East with numerous forces and facilities the US have given Iran a long list of lucrative targets. The most obvious battlefield for a proxy war is clearly Iraq where there are plenty of pro and anti Iranian forces to provide the conditions for a long, bloody and protracted conflict (Moqtada al-Sadr has just declared that the Mahdi Army will be remobilized). But Iraq is far from being the only place where an explosion of violence can take place: the ENTIRE MIDDLE-EAST is well within Iranian “reach”, be it by direct attack or by attack by sympathetic/allied forces. Next to Iraq, there is also Afghanistan and, potentially, Pakistan. In terms of a choice of instruments, the Iranian options range from missile attacks, to special forces direct action strikes, to sabotage and many, many more options. The only limitation here is the imagination of the Iranians and, believe me, they have plenty of that!
If such a retaliation happens, the US will have two basic options: strike at Iranian friends and allies outside Iran or, as Esper has now suggested, strike inside Iran. In the latter case, we can safely assume that any such attack will result in a massive Iranian retaliation on US forces and facilities all over the region and a closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Keep in mind that the Neocon motto “boys go to Baghdad, real men go to Tehran” implicitly recognizes the fact that a war against Iran would be qualitatively (and even quantitatively) different war than a war against Iraq. And, this is true, if the US seriously plans to strike inside Iran they would be faced with an explosion which would make all the wars since WWII look minor in comparison. But the temptation to prove to the world that Trump and his minions are “real men” as opposed to “boys” might be too strong, especially for a president who does not understand that he is a disposable tool in the hands of the Neocons.
Now, let’s quickly look at what will NOT happen
Russia and/or China will not get militarily involved in this one. Neither will the US use this crisis as a pretext to attack Russia and/or China. The Pentagon clearly has no stomach for a war (conventional or nuclear) against Russia and neither does Russia have any desire for a war against the US. The same goes for China. However, it is important to remember that Russia and China have other options, political and covert ones, to really hurt the US and help Iran. There is the UNSC where Russia and China will block any US resolution condemning Iran. Yes, I know, Uncle Shmuel does not give a damn about the UN or international law, but most of the rest of the world very much does. This asymmetry is further exacerbated by Uncle Shmuel’s attention span (weeks at most) with the one of Russia and China (decades). Does that matter?
Absolutely!
If the Iraqis officially declare that the US is an occupation force (which it is), an occupation force which engages in acts of war against Iraq (which it does) and that the Iraqi people want Uncle Shmuel and his hypocritical talking points about “democracy” to pack and leave, what can our Uncle Shmuel do? He will try to resist it, of course, but once the tiny figleaf of “nation building” is gone, replaced by yet another ugly and brutal US occupation, the political pressure on the US to get the hell out will become extremely hard to manage, both outside and even inside the US.
In fact, Iranian state television called Trump’s order to kill Soleimani “the biggest miscalculation by the U.S.” since World War II. “The people of the region will no longer allow Americans to stay,” it said.
Next, both Russia and China can help Iran militarily with intelligence, weapons systems, advisors and economically, in overt and covert ways.
Finally, both Russia and China have the means to, shall we say, “strongly suggest” to other targets on the US “country hit list” that now is the perfect time to strike at US interests (say, in Far East Asia).
So Russia and China can and will help, but they will do so with what the CIA likes to call “plausible deniability”.
Back The Big Question: what can/will Iran do next?
The Iranians are far most sophisticated players than the mostly clueless Americans. So the first thing I would suggest is that the Iranians are unlikely to do something the US is expecting them to do. Either they will do something totally different, or they will act much later, once the US lowers its guard (as it always does after declaring “victory”).
I asked a well-informed Iranian friend whether it was still possible to avoid war. Here is what he replied:
Yes I do believe fullscale war can be avoided. I believe that Iran can try to use its political influence to unite Iraqi political forces to officially ask for the removal of US troops in Iraq. Kicking the US out of Iraq will mean that they can no longer occupy eastern Syria either as their troops will be in danger between two hostile states. If the Americans leave Syria and Iraq, that will be the ultimate revenge for Iran without having fired a single shot.
I have to say that I concur with this idea: one of the most painful things Iran could do next would be to use this truly fantastically reckless event to kick the US out of Iraq first, and Syria next. That option, if it can be exercised, might also protect Iranian lives and the Iranian society from a direct US attack. Finally, such an outcome would give the murder of General Soleimani a very different and beautiful meaning: this martyr’s blood liberated the Middle-East!
Finally, if that is indeed the strategy chosen by Iran, this does not at all mean that on a tactical level the Iranians will not extract a price from US forces in the region or even elsewhere on the planet. For example, there are some rather credible rumors that the destruction of PanAm 103 over Scotland was not a Libyan action, but an Iranian one in direct retaliation for the deliberate shooting down by the USN of IranAir 655 Airbus over the Persian Gulf. I am not saying that I know for a fact that this is what really happened, only that Iran does have retaliatory options not limited to the Middle-East.
Conclusion: we wait for Iran’s next move
The Iraqi Parliament is scheduled to debate a resolution demanding the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. I will just say that while I do not believe that the US will gentlemanly agree to any such demands, it will place the conflict in the political realm. That is – by definition – much more desirable than any form of violence, however justified it might seem. So I strongly suggest to those who want peace that they pray that the Iraqi MPs show some honor and spine and tell Uncle Shmuel what every country out there always wanted from the US: Yankees, go home!
If that happens this will be a total victory for Iran and yet another abject defeat (self-defeat, really) by Uncle Shmuel. This is the best of all possible scenarios.
But if that does not happen, then all bets are off and the momentum triggered by this latest act of US terrorism will result in many more deaths.
As of right now (19:24 UTC) I still think that there is a roughly 80% chance of full scale war in the Middle-East and, again, will leave 20% of “unexpected events” (hopefully good ones).
PS: this is a text I wrote under great time pressure and it has not be edited for typos or other mistakes. I ask the self-appointed Grammar Gestapo to take a break and not protest again. Thank you
About a decade ago, I happened to be talking with an eminent academic scholar who had become known for his sharp criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East and America’s strong support for them. I mentioned that I myself had come to very similar conclusions some time before, and he asked when that had happened. I told him it had been in 1982, and I think he found my answer quite surprising. I got the sense that date was decades earlier than would have been given by almost anyone else he knew.
Sometimes it is quite difficult to pinpoint when one’s world view on a contentious topic undergoes sharp transformation, but at other times it is quite easy. My own perceptions of the Middle East conflict drastically shifted during Fall 1982, and they have subsequently changed only to a far smaller extent. As some might remember, that period marked the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and culminated in the notorious Sabra-Shatila Massacre during which hundreds or even thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered in their refugee camps. But although those events were certainly major factors in my ideological realignment, the crucial trigger was actually a certain letter to the editor published around that same time.
A few years earlier, I had discovered The London Economist, as it was then called, and it had quickly become my favorite publication, which I religiously devoured cover-to-cover every week. And as I read the various articles about the Middle East conflict in that publication, or others such as the New York Times, the journalists occasionally included quotes from some particularly fanatic and irrational Israeli Communist named Israel Shahak, whose views seemed totally at odds with those of everyone else, and who was consequently treated as a fringe figure. Opinions that seem totally divorced from reality tend to stick in one’s mind, and it took only one or two appearances from that apparently die-hard and delusional Stalinist for me to guess that he would always take an entirely contrary position on every given issue.
In 1982 Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon launched his massive invasion of Lebanon using the pretext of the wounding of an Israeli diplomat in Europe at the hands of a Palestinian attacker, and the extreme nature of his action was widely condemned in the media outlets I read at the time. His motive was obviously to root out the PLO’s political and military infrastructure, which had taken hold in many of Lebanon’s large Palestinian refugee camps. But back in those days invasions of Middle Eastern countries on dubious prospects were much less common than they have subsequently become, after our recent American wars killed or displaced so many millions, and most observers were horrified by the utterly disproportionate nature of his attack and the severe destruction he was inflicted upon Israel’s neighbor, which he seemed eager to reduce to puppet status. From what I recall from that time, he made several entirely false assurances to top Reagan officials about his invasion plans, such that they afterward called him the worst sort of liar, and he ended up besieging the Lebanese capital of Beirut even though he had originally promised to limit his assault to a mere border incursion.
The Israeli siege of the PLO-controlled areas of Beirut lasted some time, and negotiations eventually resulted in the departure of the Palestinian fighters to some other Arab country. Shortly afterward, the Israelis declared that they were moving into West Beirut in order to better assure the safety of the Palestinian women and children left behind and protect them from any retribution at the hands of their Christian Falangist enemies. And around that same time, I noticed a long letter in The Economist by Shahak which seemed to me the final proof of his insanity. He claimed that it was obvious that Sharon had marched to Beirut with the intent of organizing a massacre of the Palestinians, and that this would shortly take place. When the slaughter indeed occurred not long afterward, apparently with heavy Israeli involvement and complicity, I concluded that if a crazy Communist fanatic like Shahak had been right, while apparently every mainstream journalist had been so completely wrong, my understanding of the world and the Middle East required total recalibration. Or at least that’s how I’ve always remembered those events from a distance of over thirty-five years.
During the years that followed, I still periodically saw Shahak’s statements quoted in my mainstream publications, which sometimes suggested that he was a Communist and sometimes not. Naturally enough, his ideological extremism made him a prominent opponent of the 1991 Oslo Peace Agreement between Israel and the occupied Palestinians, which was supported by every sensible person, though since Oslo ended up being entirely a failure, I couldn’t hold it too strongly against him. I stopped paying much attention to foreign policy issues during the 1990s, but I still read my New York Times every morning and would occasionally see his quotes, inevitably contrarian and irredentist.
Then the 9/11 attacks returned foreign policy and the Middle East to the absolute center of our national agenda, and I eventually read somewhere or other that Shahak had died at age 68 only a few months earlier, though I hadn’t noticed any obituary. Over the years, I’d seen some vague mention that during the previous decade he’d published a couple of stridently anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist books, just as might be expected from a hard-line Communist fanatic, and during the early 2000s I started seeing more and more references to these works, ironically coming from fringe sources of the anti-Semitic Far Right, thereby once again proving that extremists flock together. Finally, about a decade ago, my curiosity got the better of me and clicking a few buttons on Amazon.com, I ordered copies of his books, all of which were quite short.
My first surprise was that Shahak’s writings included introductions or glowing blurbs by some of America’s most prominent public intellectuals, including Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and Edward Said. Praise also came from quite respectable publications such as The London Review of Books, Middle East International, and Catholic New Times while Allan Brownfeld of The American Council for Judaism had published a very long and laudatory obituary. And I discovered that Shahak’s background was very different than I had always imagined. He had spent many years as an award-winning Chemistry professor at Hebrew University, and was actually anything but a Communist. Whereas for decades, Israel’s ruling political parties had been Socialist or Marxist, his personal doubts about Socialism had left him politically in the wilderness, while his relationship with Israel’s tiny Communist Party was solely because they were the only group willing to stand up for the basic human rights issues that were his own central focus. My casual assumptions about his views and background had been entirely in error.
Once I actually began reading his books, and considering his claims, my shock increased fifty-fold. Throughout my entire life, there have been very, very few times I have ever been so totally astonished as I was after I digested Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, whose text runs barely a hundred pages. In fact, despite his solid background in the academic sciences and the glowing testaments provided by prominent figures, I found it quite difficult to accept the reality of what I was reading. As a consequence, I paid a considerable sum to a young graduate student I knew, tasking him to verify the claims in Shahak’s books, and as far as he could tell, all of the hundreds of references he checked seemed to be accurate or at least found in other sources.
Even with all of that due diligence, I must emphasize that I cannot directly vouch for Shahak’s claims about Judaism. My own knowledge of that religion is absolutely negligible, mostly being limited to my childhood, when my grandmother occasionally managed to drag me down to services at the local synagogue, where I was seated among a mass of elderly men praying and chanting in some strange language while wearing various ritualistic cloths and religious talismans, an experience that I always found much less enjoyable than my usual Saturday morning cartoons.
Although Shahak’s books are quite short, they contain such a density of astonishing material, it would take many, many thousands of words to begin to summarize them. Essentially almost everything I had known—or thought I had known—about the religion of Judaism, at least in its zealously Orthodox traditional form, was utterly wrong.
For example, traditionally religious Jews pay little attention to most of the Old Testament, and even very learned rabbis or students who have devoted many years to intensive study may remain largely ignorant of its contents. Instead, the center of their religious world view is the Talmud, an enormously large, complex, and somewhat contradictory mass of secondary writings and commentary built up over many centuries, which is why their religious doctrine is sometimes called “Talmudic Judaism.” Among large portions of the faithful, the Talmud is supplemented by the Kabala, another large collection of accumulated writings, mostly focused on mysticism and all sorts of magic. Since these commentaries and interpretations represent the core of the religion, much of what everyone takes for granted in the Bible is considered in a very different manner.
Given the nature of the Talmudic basis of traditional Judaism and my total previous ignorance of the subject, any attempt on my part of summarize some of the more surprising aspects of Shahak’s description may be partially garbled, and is certainly worthy of correction by someone better versed in that dogma. And given that so many parts of the Talmud are highly contradictory and infused with complex mysticism, it would be impossible for someone like me to attempt to disentangle the seeming inconsistencies that I am merely repeating. I should note that although Shahak’s description of the beliefs and practices of Talmudic Judaism evoked a fire-storm of denunciations, few of those harsh critics seem to have denied his very specific claims, including the most astonishing ones, which would seem to strengthen his credibility.
On the most basic level, the religion of most traditional Jews is actually not at all monotheistic, but instead contains a wide variety of different male and female gods, having quite complex relations to each other, with these entities and their properties varying enormously among the numerous different Jewish sub-sects, depending upon which portions of the Talmud and the Kabala they place uppermost. For example, the traditional Jewish religious cry “The Lord Is One” has always been interpreted by most people to be an monotheistic affirmation, and indeed, many Jews take exactly this same view. But large numbers of other Jews believe this declaration instead refers to achievement of sexual union between the primary male and female divine entities. And most bizarrely, Jews having such radically different views see absolutely no difficulty in praying side by side, and merely interpreting their identical chants in very different fashion.
Furthermore, religious Jews apparently pray to Satan almost as readily as they pray to God, and depending upon the various rabbinical schools, the particular rituals and sacrifices they practice may be aimed at enlisting the support of the one or the other. Once again, so long as the rituals are properly followed, the Satan-worshippers and the God-worshippers get along perfectly well and consider each other equally pious Jews, merely of a slightly different tradition. One point that Shahak repeatedly emphasizes is that in traditional Judaism the nature of the ritual itself is absolutely uppermost, while the interpretation of the ritual is rather secondary. So perhaps a Jew who washes his hands three times clockwise might be horrified by another who follows a counter-clockwise direction, but whether the hand-washing were meant to honor God or to honor Satan would be hardly be a matter of much consequence.
Strangely enough, many of the traditional rituals are explicitly intended to fool or trick God or His angels or sometimes Satan, much like the mortal heroes of some Greek legend might seek to trick Zeus or Aphrodite. For example, certain prayers must be uttered in Aramaic rather than Hebrew on the grounds that holy angels apparently don’t understand the former language, and their confusion allows those verses to slip by unimpeded and take effect without divine interference.
Furthermore, since the Talmud represents a massive accretion of published commentary built up over more than a millennium, even the most explicit mandates have sometimes been transformed into their opposites. As an example, Maimonides, one of the highest rabbinical authorities, absolutely prohibited rabbis from being paid for their religious teaching, declaring that any rabbi who received a salary was an evil robber condemned to everlasting torment; yet later rabbis eventually “reinterpreted” this statement to mean something entirely different, and today almost all rabbis collect salaries.
Another fascinating aspect is that up until very recent times, the lives of religious Jews were often dominated by all sorts of highly superstitious practices, including magical charms, potions, spells, incantations, hexes, curses, and sacred talismans, with rabbis often having an important secondary role as sorcerers, and this even remains entirely true today among the enormously influential rabbis of Israel and the New York City area. Shahak’s writings had not endeared him to many of these individuals, and for years they constantly attacked him with all sorts of spells and fearful curses aimed at achieving his death or illness. Many of these traditional Jewish practices seem not entirely dissimilar to those we typically associate with African witch-doctors or Voodoo priests, and indeed, the famous legend of the Golem of Prague described the successful use of rabbinical magic to animate a giant creature built of clay.
If these ritualistic issues constituted the central features of traditional religious Judaism, we might regard it as a rather colorful and eccentric survival of ancient times. But unfortunately, there is also a far darker side, primarily involving the relationship between Jews and non-Jews, with the highly derogatory term goyim frequently used to describe the latter. To put it bluntly, Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis occasionally stating this well-known fact. In 2010, Israel’s top Sephardic rabbi used his weekly sermon to declare that the only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews and do work for them. The enslavement or extermination of all non-Jews seems an ultimate implied goal of the religion.
Jewish lives have infinite value, and non-Jewish ones none at all, which has obvious policy implications. For example, in a published article a prominent Israeli rabbi explained that if a Jew needed a liver, it would be perfectly fine, and indeed obligatory, to kill an innocent Gentile and take his. Perhaps we should not be too surprised that today Israel is widely regarded as one of the world centers of organ-trafficking.
As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict. Such dogmas are certainly ironic given the widespread presence of Jews in the medical profession during recent centuries, but they came to the fore in Israel when a religiously-minded military doctor took them to heart and his position was supported by the country’s highest religious authorities.
And while religious Judaism has a decidedly negative view towards all non-Jews, Christianity in particular is regarded as a total abomination, which must be wiped from the face of the earth.
Whereas pious Muslims consider Jesus as the holy prophet of God and Muhammed’s immediate predecessor, according to the Jewish Talmud, Jesus is perhaps the vilest being who ever lived, condemned to spend eternity in the bottommost pit of Hell, immersed in a boiling vat of excrement. Religious Jews regard the Muslim Quran as just another book, though a totally mistaken one, but the Christian Bible represents purest evil, and if circumstances permit, burning Bibles is a very praiseworthy act. Pious Jews are also enjoined to always spit three times at any cross or church they encounter, and direct a curse at all Christian cemeteries. Indeed, many deeply religious Jews utter a prayer each and every day for the immediate extermination of all Christians.
Over the years prominent Israeli rabbis have sometimes publicly debated whether Jewish power has now become sufficiently great that all the Christian churches of Jerusalem, Bethleham, and other nearby areas can finally be destroyed, and the entire Holy Land completely cleansed of all traces of its Christian contamination. Some have taken this position, but most have urged prudence, arguing that Jews needed to gain some additional strength before they should take such a risky step. These days, many tens of millions of zealous Christians and especially Christian Zionists are enthusiastic advocates for Jews, Judaism, and Israel, and I strongly suspect that at least some of that enthusiasm is based upon ignorance.
For the last two thousand years, Jews have almost invariably existed as small, relatively weak minorities living in the lands of others, whether Christian or Muslim, so a religious doctrine so unswervingly hostile to outsiders has naturally presented considerable obstacles for peaceful co-existence. The solution to this dilemma has been based on the divine mandate to preserve Jewish life and well-being above all else, superseding almost all other religious considerations. Thus, if any of the behaviors discussed above are considered likely to stir up resentment from powerful Gentile groups and put Jews at risk, they must be avoided.
For example, the prohibition against Jewish physicians treating the illnesses of non-Jews is waived in the case of powerful non-Jews, especially national leaders, whose favor might provide benefits to the Jewish community. And even ordinary non-Jews may be aided unless some persuasive excuse can be found to explain such lack of assistance since otherwise the vengeful hostility of their friends and relatives might cause difficulties for other Jews. Similarly, it is permissible to exchange gifts with non-Jews but only if such behavior can be justified in strictly utilitarian terms, with any simple expression of friendship towards a non-Jew being a violation of holy principles.
If the Gentile population became aware of these Jewish religious beliefs and the behaviors they promote, major problems for Jews might develop, so an elaborate methodology of subterfuge, concealment, and dissimulation has come into being over the many centuries to minimize this possibility, especially including the mistranslation of sacred texts or the complete exclusion of crucial sections. Meanwhile, the traditional penalty for any Jew who “informs” to the authorities on any matter regarding the Jewish community has always been death, often preceded by hideous torture.
Much of this dishonesty obviously continues down to recent times since it seems very unlikely that Jewish rabbis, except perhaps for those of the most avant garde disposition, would remain totally unaware of the fundamental tenets of the religion that they claim to lead, and Shahak is scathing toward their apparent self-serving hypocrisy, especially those who publicly express strongly liberal views. For example, according to mainstream Talmudic doctrine, black Africans are traditionally placed somewhere between people and monkeys in their intrinsic nature, and surely all rabbis, even liberal ones, would be aware of this religious doctrine. But Shahak notes that the numerous American rabbis who so eagerly worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black Civil Rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s strictly concealed their religious beliefs while denouncing American society for its cruel racism, presumably seeking to achieve a political quid pro quo beneficial to Jewish interests from America’s substantial black population.
Shahak also emphasizes the utterly totalitarian nature of traditional Jewish society, in which rabbis held the power of life and death over their congregants, and often sought to punish ideological deviation or heresy using those means. They were often outraged that this became difficult as states grew stronger and increasingly prohibited such private executions. Liberalizing rabbis were sometimes murdered and Baruch Spinoza, the famous Jewish philosopher of the Age of Reason, only survived because the Dutch authorities refused to allow his fellow Jews to kill him.
Given the complexity and exceptionally controversial nature of this subject matter, I would urge readers who find this topic of interest to spend three or four hours reading Shahak’s very short book, and then decide for themselves whether his claims seem plausible and whether I may have inadvertently misunderstood them. Aside from the copies on Amazon, the work may also be found at Archive.org and also a very convenient HTML copy is freely available on the Internet.
My encounter a decade ago with Shahak’s candid description of the true doctrines of traditional Judaism was certainly one of the most world-altering revelations of my entire life. But as I gradually digested the full implications, all sorts of puzzles and disconnected facts suddenly became much more clear. There were also some remarkable ironies, and not long afterward I joked to a (Jewish) friend of mine that I’d suddenly discovered that Naziism could best be described as “Judaism for Wimps” or perhaps Judaism as practiced by Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
There may actually be a deeper historical truth behind that irony. I think I’ve read here and there that some scholars believe that Hitler may have modeled certain aspects of his racially-focused National Socialist doctrine upon the Jewish example, which really makes perfect sense. After all, he saw that despite their small numbers Jews had gained enormous power in the Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, and numerous other countries throughout Europe, partly due to their extremely strong ethnic cohesion, and he probably reasoned that his own Germanic people, being far greater in numbers and historical achievements could do even better if they adopted similar practices.
It’s also interesting to note that quite a number of the leading racialist pioneers of 19th century Europe came from a particular ethnic background. For example, my history books had always disapprovingly mentioned Germany’s Max Nordau and Italy’s Cesare Lombroso as two of the founding figures of European racism and eugenics theories, but it was only very recently that I also discovered thatNordau had also been the joint founder with Theodor Herzl of the world Zionist movement, while his major racialist treatise Degeneration, was dedicated to Lombroso, his Jewish mentor.
Even as late as the 1930s and afterward, international Zionist groups closely cooperated with the Third Reich on international economic projects, and during the world war itself one of the smaller rightwing factions, led by future Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir, actually offered a military alliance to the Axis Powers, denouncing the decadent Western democracies and hoping to cooperate against their mutual British enemies. The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black, 51 Documents by Lenni Brenner, and other writings have documented all these facts in detail, though for obvious reasons they have generally been ignored or mischaracterized by most of our media outlets.
Obviously the Talmud is hardly regular reading among ordinary Jews these days, and I would suspect that except for the strongly Orthodox and perhaps most rabbis, barely a sliver are aware of its highly controversial teachings. But it is important to keep in mind that until just a few generations ago, almost all European Jews were deeply Orthodox, and even today I would guess that the overwhelming majority of Jewish adults had Orthodox grand-parents. Highly distinctive cultural patterns and social attitudes can easily seep into a considerably wider population, especially one that remains ignorant of the origin of those sentiments, a condition enhancing their unrecognized influence. A religion based upon the principal of “Love Thy Neighbor” may or may not be workable in practice, but a religion based upon “Hate Thy Neighbor” may be expected to have long-term cultural ripple effects that extend far beyond the direct community of the deeply pious. If nearly all Jews for a thousand or two thousand years were taught to feel a seething hatred toward all non-Jews and also developed an enormous infrastructure of cultural dishonesty to mask that attitude, it is difficult to believe that such an unfortunate history has had absolutely no consequences for our present-day world, or that of the relatively recent past.
Furthermore, Jewish hostility toward non-Jews may have often served the interests of others, and helped determine the economic role they played, especially in European countries, with this factor having been obscured by widespread ignorance of the underlying religious tenets. As most of us know from our history books, political rulers with little sympathy for their subjects sometimes restrict military power to a relatively small group of well-rewarded mercenaries, often of foreign origins so that they will have little sympathy for the population they harshly repress. I strongly suspect that some of the most common traditional economic niches of European Jews, such as tax-farming and the arrenda estate-management system of Eastern Europe, should be best understood in a similar light, with Jews being more likely to extract every last penny of value from the peasants they controlled for the benefit of their local king or lords, and their notorious antipathy for all non-Jews ensuring that such behavior was minimally tempered by any human sympathy. Thus, we should not be surprised that Jews first entered England in the train of William the Conqueror, in order to help him and his victorious Norman lords effectively exploit the subjugated Anglo-Saxon population they now ruled.
But states in which the vast majority of the population is oppressed and dominated by a thin slice of rulers and their mercenary enforcers tend to be much weaker and more brittle than those in which rulers and ruled share common interests, and I believe this is just as true for economic enforcers as for military ones. In many cases, lands reliant upon Jewish economic intermediaries, notably Poland, never successfully developed a native middle class, and often later fared quite poorly against their nationally-unified competitors. Spain was actually one of the last countries in Europe to expel its Jews, and over the next century or two reached the peak of its military and political glory. Prof. Kevin MacDonald’s controversial books on Judaism have also extensively argued that rulers who seem to have been more concerned for the well-being of their subjects also tend to be the ones more likely to be labeled “anti-Semitic” in modern history books, and his volumes are now easily available in my selection of HTML Books:
In 2009, Gene Expression blogger Razib Khan interviewed eminent evolutionary theorist David Sloan Wilson on the group selection ideas that have been his major focus. During this hour-long discussion, the theories of MacDonald became a major topic, with Wilson seeming to take them quite seriously, and pointing out that within the scientific framework “parasitism” has a simple technical definition, namely the exploitation of the large by the small. Unsurprisingly, the video record of such extremely touchy subject matter was quickly truncated to just the first 11 minutes, and eventually completely removed from both YouTube and BloggingHeadsTV. But it still at least partially survives in archived form:
In recent years, the history of Jewish expulsions from various European societies over the last thousand years has received considerable attention. The total number is somewhat disputed but almost certainly in excess of 100, with the 1930s policies of Hitler’s Germany being merely the most recent example, and Wired Magazine provided an interesting graphical presentation of this large dataset in 2013. Given these unfortunate facts, it may be difficult to point to any other group so consistently at bitter odds with its local neighbors, and the religious details provided by Shahak certainly make this remarkable historical pattern far less inexplicable.
A very even-handed but candid description of the behavior pattern of Jewish newcomers to America was provided in a chapter of a 1914 book on immigration groups by E.A. Ross, one of America’s greatest early sociologists. Ross had been one of the towering Progressive intellectuals of his era, widely quoted by Lothrop Stoddard on the Right while still so highly regarded by the Left that he was named to the Dewey Commission to adjudicate the conflicting accusations of Trotsky and Stalin and also received glowing praise in the pages of the Communist New Masses. His dismissal on political grounds from Stanford University led to the formation of the American Association of University Professors. Yet his name had so totally vanished from our history books I had never even encountered it until beginning work on my content-archiving project, and I would not be surprised if that single chapter from one of his many books played a major role in his disappearance.
Jews spent two thousand years living as a diaspora people, and their tightly-bound trans-national colonies provided them with a uniquely effective international trading network. Since their religious traditions regarded slavery as the natural and appropriate lot of all non-Jews, both ideological and practical factors combined to apparently make them some of the leading slave-traders of Medieval Europe, though this is hardly emphasized in our histories. Closer to home, in 1991 the Black Nationalists of The Nation of Islam published The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, which seemed to persuasively document the enormous role Jews had played in the American slave-trade. In 1994, Harold Brackman published a short attempted rebuttal entitled Ministry of Lies under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, but I found his denials much less compelling. I very much doubt that most Americans are aware of these historical facts.
Throughout most of my life, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was generally regarded as the greatest Russian literary figure of our modern era, and after reading all of his works, including The First Circle, Cancer Ward, and The Gulag Archipelago, I certainly concurred with this assertion, and eagerly absorbed Michael Scammel’s brilliant thousand page biography. Although Russian himself, many of his closest friends were Jewish, but during the 1980s and 1990s, whispers of his supposed anti-Semitism began floating around, probably because he had sometimes hinted at the very prominent role of Jews in both financing and leading the Bolshevik Revolution, and afterward staffing the NKVD and administering the Gulag labor camps. Late in his life, he wrote a massive two-volume history of the tangled relationship between Jews and Russians under the title Two Hundred Years Together, and although that work soon appeared in Russian, French, and German, nearly two decades later, no English translation has ever been authorized. His literary star seems also to greatly waned in America since that time, and I only very rarely see his name mentioned these days in any of my regular newspapers.
Samizdat versions of major sections of his final work may easily be located on the Internet, and a few years ago Amazon temporarily sold a 750 page hard copy edition, which I ordered and lightly skimmed. Everything seemed quite innocuous and factual, and nothing new jumped out at me, but perhaps the documentation of very heavy Jewish role in Communism was considered inappropriate for American audiences, as was the discussion of the extremely exploitative relationship between Jews and Slavic peasants in pre-revolutionary times, based on liquor-dealing and money-lending, which the Czars had often sought to mitigate.
When a ruling elite has limited connection to the population it controls, benevolent behavior is far less likely to occur, and those problems are magnified when that elite has a long tradition of ruthlessly extractive behavior. Enormous numbers of Russians suffered and died in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, and given the overwhelmingly Jewish composition of the top leadership during much of that period, it is hardly surprising that “anti-Semitism” was deemed a capital offense. Kevin MacDonald may have been the one who coined the term “hostile elite,” and discussed the unfortunate consequences when a country comes under such control.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, reborn Russia soon fell under the overwhelming domination of a small group of Oligarchs, almost entirely of Jewish background, and a decade of total misery and impoverishment for the general Russian population soon followed. But once an actual Russian named Vladimir Putin regained control, these trends reversed and the lives of Russians have enormously improved since that time. America’s media organs were overwhelmingly friendly toward Russia when it was under Jewish Oligarchic rule, while Putin has been demonized in the press more ferociously than any world leader since Hitler. Indeed, our media pundits regularly identify Putin as “the new Hitler” and I actually think the analogy might be a reasonable one, but just not in the way they intend.
Sometimes it is much easier to notice obvious patterns in a foreign country than in one’s own. In the early 2000s I read The Master Switch, a widely-praised history of modern communications technology by Columbia University professor Tim Wu, who has subsequently become a leading Internet-rights activist. I found the account fascinating, with so many stories never before known to me. However, I couldn’t help but notice that all the powerful mass-media technologies of our modern world–film, radio, and television–had been invented and pioneered by Gentiles, mostly of Anglo-Saxon origin, but in each case control was seized by ruthless Jewish businessmen, who sometimes destroyed the lives and careers of those creators. By the 1950s, nearly all of America’s leading concentrations of electronic media power—with the sole major exception of Disney Studios—were solidly in Jewish hands. In an open society such as ours, these are the central levers of political influence, and over the next generation or so, America’s long-dominant and heavily Anglo-Saxon ruling elite was replaced by a mostly Jewish one, a development I alluded to in my long Meritocracy article of a few years ago.
Critics today of all backgrounds bemoan the total impoverishment of so much of America’s once comfortably affluent middle class, noting that some sixty percent of the American population today possesses less than $500 in readily available savings. A younger generation has been reduced to permanent debt-servitude by ruinous student loans, while the the newspapers report that the opioid drug epidemic has claimed a dreadful toll in lives and family-breakdown even while Wall Street and other elite sectors of the financialized economy are richer than they have ever been before. There are certainly many different explanations for this sad economic trajectory, including technological change, growing international competition, and shifts of political power in the American system of government. But it does sometimes seem like a substantial fraction of our population has been reduced to a 21st century version of the drunken, ignorant, exploited, indebted, impoverished, and immiserated Slavic peasantry of the Jewish-dominated Pale of Settlement, and a striking graph produced by the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates that a very sharp economic inflection point occurred in the early 1970s, right around the time that the aforementioned ethnic transformation of our ruling elites was fully under way.
Contrary to widespread popular belief, it is not actually illegal to be a “Nazi” in America, nor are Nazis prohibited from owning property, even including media outlets. But suppose that the overwhelming majority of America’s major media concentrations were owned and controlled by Nazis of a particularly fanatical type. Surely that might have serious consequences for the course of our society, and especially that fraction of the population viewed with considerable disfavor under Nazi doctrine.
One important point to consider in the abbreviated history of Hitler’s Third Reich was that although the ruling Nazi elite was often quite harsh and extreme in its behavior, well over 98% of the population it ruled prior to the outbreak of war consisted of Germans, the particular group which that ruling elite most sought to benefit and uplift in all possible ways, and despite the obscuring cloud of retrospective propaganda, this goal seems to have largely been achieved. In 2004, Counterpunch published a column by the late Alexander Cockburn, its redoubtable editor, noting the tremendous success of Hitler’s peacetime economic policies, and in 2013 that same webzine carried a much longer column focused entirely on this same subject, citing the analysis of Henry C.K. Liu, whose Chinese background provided him greater critical distance. Indeed, during most of the 1930s Hitler received widespread international praise for the great success of his domestic economic and social achievements, making the cover of Time Magazine on numerous occasions and even being named its Man of the Year for 1938. By contrast, I suspect that a population that was some 98% non-German but ruled by those same fanatically pro-German leaders might have fared far worse.
Most of these disheartening facts that have so completely upended my understanding of reality over the last decade could not possibly have come to my attention until the rise of the Internet, which partially broke centralized control over the distribution of information. But many other people surely must have known large portions of this important story long before that, and recognized the very serious consequences these matters might have for the future of our society. Why has there been so little public discussion?
I believe one factor is that over the years and the decades, our dominant media organs of news and entertainment have successfully conditioned most Americans to suffer a sort of mental allergic reaction to topics sensitive to Jews, which leads to all sorts of issues being considered absolutely out of bounds. And with America’s very powerful Jewish elites thereby insulated from almost all public scrutiny, Jewish arrogance and misbehavior remain largely unchecked and can increase completely without limit.
I’ve also sometimes suggested to people that one under-emphasized aspect of a Jewish population, greatly magnifying its problematical character, is the existence of what might be considered a biological sub-morph of exceptionally fanatical individuals, always on hair-trigger alert to launch verbal and sometimes physical attacks of unprecedented fury against anyone they regard as insufficiently friendly towards Jewish interests. Every now and then, a particularly brave or foolhardy public figure challenges some off-limits topic and is almost always overwhelmed and destroyed by a veritable swarm of these fanatical Jewish attackers. Just as the painful stings of the self-sacrificing warrior caste of an ant colony can quickly teach large predators to go elsewhere, fears of provoking these “Jewish berserkers” can often severely intimidate writers or politicians, causing them to choose their words very carefully or even completely avoid discussing certain controversial subjects, thereby greatly benefiting Jewish interests as a whole. And the more such influential people are thus intimidated into avoiding a particular topic, the more that topic is perceived as strictly taboo, and avoided by everyone else as well.
For example, about a dozen years ago I was having lunch with an especially eminent Neoconservative scholar with whom I’d become a little friendly. We were bemoaning the overwhelmingly leftward skew among America’s intellectual elites, and I suggested it largely seemed a function of our most elite universities. Many of our brightest students from across the nation entered Harvard and the other Ivies holding a variety of different ideological perspectives, but after four years departed those halls of learning overwhelmingly in left-liberal lock-step. Although he agreed with my assessment, he felt I was missing something important. He nervously glanced to both sides, shifted his head downward, and lowered his voice. “It’s the Jews,” he said.
I do not doubt that much of the candid analysis provided above will be quite distressing to many individuals. Indeed, some may believe that such material far exceeds the boundaries of mere “anti-Semitism” and easily crosses the threshold into constituting an actual “blood libel” against the Jewish people. That extremely harsh accusation, widely used by stalwart defenders of Israeli behavior, refers to the notorious Christian superstition, prevalent throughout most of the Middle Ages and even into more modern times, that Jews sometimes kidnapped small Christian children in order to drain their blood for use in various magic rituals, especially in connection with the Purim religious holiday. One of my more shocking discoveries of the last dozen years is that there is a fairly strong likelihood that these seemingly impossible beliefs were actually true.
I personally have no professional expertise whatsoever in Jewish ritual traditions, nor the practices of Medieval Jewry. But one of the world’s foremost scholars in that field is Ariel Toaff, professor of Jewish Renaissance and Medieval Studies at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, and himself the son of the Chief Rabbi of Rome.
http://www.israelshamir.net/BLOODPASSOVER.pdf
In 2007, he published the Italian edition of his academic studyBlood Passovers, based on many years of diligent research, assisted by his graduate students and guided by the suggestions of his various academic colleagues, with the initial print run of 1,000 copies selling out on the first day. Given Toaff’s international eminence and such enormous interest, further international distribution, including an English edition by a prestigious American academic press would normally have followed. But the ADL and various other Jewish-activist groups regarded such a possibility with extreme disfavor, and although these activists lacked any scholarly credentials, they apparently applied sufficient pressure to cancel all additional publication. Although Prof. Toaff initially attempted to stand his ground in stubborn fashion, he soon took the same course as Galileo, and his apologies naturally became the basis of the always-unreliable Wikipedia entry on the topic.
Eventually, an English translation of his text turned up on the Internet in a PDF format and was also placed for sale on Amazon.com, where I purchased a copy and eventually read it. Given those difficult circumstances, this work of 500 pages is hardly in ideal form, with most of the hundreds of footnotes disconnected from the text, but it still provides a reasonable means of evaluating Toaff’s controversial thesis, at least from a layman’s perspective. He certainly seems an extremely erudite scholar, drawing heavily upon the secondary literature in English, French, German, and Italian, as well as the original documentary sources in Latin, Medieval Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Indeed, despite the shocking nature of the subject matter, this scholarly work is actually rather dry and somewhat dull, with very long digressions regarding the particular intrigues of various obscure Medieval Jews. My own total lack of expertise in these areas must be emphasized, but overall I thought Toaff made a quite persuasive case.
It appears that a considerable number of Ashkenazi Jews traditionally regarded Christian blood as having powerful magical properties and considered it a very valuable component of certain important ritual observances at particular religious holidays. Obviously, obtaining such blood in large amounts was fraught with considerable risk, which greatly enhanced its monetary value, and the trade in the vials of this commodity seems to have been widely practiced. Toaff notes that since the detailed descriptions of the Jewish ritualistic murder practices are very similarly described in locations widely separated by geography, language, culture, and time period, they are almost certainly independent observations of the same rite. Furthermore, he notes that when accused Jews were caught and questioned, they often correctly described obscure religious rituals which could not possibly have been known to their Gentile interrogators, who often garbled minor details. Thus, these confessions were very unlikely to have been concocted by the authorities.
Furthermore, as extensively discussed by Shahak, the world-view of traditional Judaism did involve a very widespread emphasis on magical rituals, spells, charms, and similar things, providing a context in which ritualistic murder and human sacrifice would hardly be totally unexpected.
Obviously, the ritual murder of Christian children for their blood was viewed with enormous disfavor by the local Gentile population, and the widespread belief in its existence remained a source of bitter tension between the two communities, flaring up occasionally when a Christian child mysteriously disappeared at a particular time of year, or when a body was found that exhibited suspicious types of wounds or showed a strange loss of blood. Every now and then, a particular case would reach public prominence, often leading to a political test of strength between Jewish and anti-Jewish groups. During the mid-19th century, there was one such famous case in French-dominated Syria, and just before the outbreak of the First World War, Russia was wracked by a similar political conflict in the 1913 Beilis Affair in the Ukraine.
I first encountered these very surprising ideas almost a dozen years ago in a long article by Israel Shamir that was referenced in Counterpunch, and this would definitely be worth reading as an overall summary, together with a couple of his follow-up columns, while writer Andrew Hamilton offers the most recent 2012 overview of the controversy. Shamir also helpfully provides a free copy of the book in PDF form, an updated version with the footnotes properly noted in the text. Anyway, I lack the expertise to effectively judge the likelihood of the Toaff Hypothesis, so I would invite those interested to read Toaff’s book or better yet the related articles and decide for themselves.
The notion that the world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine has often been misattributed to the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington, and over the last fifteen-odd years I’ve sometimes begun to believe that the historical events of our own era could be considered in a similar light. I’ve also sometimes joked with my friends that when the true history of our last one hundred years is finally written and told—probably by a Chinese professor at a Chinese university—none of the students in his lecture hall will ever believe a word of it.
REVELATION 16:12 (EUPHRATES) “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates: and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” EUPHRATES-means rushing water. Isaiah 17:12; “Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!” This is the rushing waters of last day’s lies and deception. Satan was kept from this last days rushing of lies but now the pit has opened. Revelation 20:3; “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” Thousand years the gospel flourished with no lies or deception then Satan was loosed to bring on the rushing waters of deception. All we have left now is this little season. Jesus Christ put him in the pit at his death. 2 Peter 3:8; “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Lies and deception for the last days. Isaiah 17:11; “In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.” Isaiah 66:4; “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine, eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” Choose your delusion well. What would that be? Israel as the chosen people. Israel inhabits the spirit of hell and is now importing it under the old covenant. They imported it to the Romans and brought in the spirit of death. And it led to the death of Christ. It will again.
DEUTERONOMY 27:17 (coveting other people’s property) “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.” THIS TALKS OF THE TAKING OF SOMETHING THAT IS NOT YOURS. Genesis 13:15, 16; “For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.” No one has the right to take someone else land or possessions. Has this happened today? A great example would be Israel taking land that Palestinians once lived on. The promise to Abraham was fulfilled in Christ. Galatians 3:16; “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, AND TO THY SEED, which is Christ.” Ezekiel 36:24, 26; “For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” This land is the new heart and new spirit of Jesus Christ. Joshua 11:23, 21:43-45. The land promise was fulfilled in the time of Joshua. WHERE DOES THE BIBLE JUSTIFY PROPERTY THEFT? God does not want us to conquer or control others. Genesis 3:24; “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” This was God’s property not theirs. There are certain laws that God has laid down for his children to follow yet we see today broken laws with no Godly restraint. When Godly restraint is removed we see lost sovereignty done little by little where slavery comes in, in all shapes and colors. Slavery to make money and then to war. We see seduction, deceiving and manipulating people in all walks of life taking what is not theirs and reducing many to a slave life.
"Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations."
- Ezra Pound, "What is Money For?"
Broadcast from Rome / March 15, 1942 (Pound is addressing England)
The enemy is Das Leihkapital(loan capital). Your Enemy is Das Leihkapital, international, wandering Loan Capital. Your enemy is not Germany, your enemy is money on loan. And it would be better for you to be infected with typhus, and dysentery, and Bright’s disease, than to be infected with this blindness which prevents you from understanding how you are undermined, how you are ruined.
The big Jew is so bound up with this Leihkapital that no one is able to unscramble that omelet. It would be better for you to retire to Darbyshire and defy New Jerusalem, better for you to retire to Gloucester and find one spot that is England than to go on fighting for Jewry and ignoring the process.
It is an outrage that any clean lad from the country — I suppose there are still a few English lads from the country — it is an outrage that any nice young man from the suburbs should be expected to die for Victor Sassoon, it is an outrage that any drunken footman’s byblow (bastard child) should be asked to die for Sassoon.
As to your Empire, it was not all of it won by clean fighting. But however you got it, you did for a time more or less justify keeping it, on the ground that you exported good government or better government than the natives would have had without England.
You let in the Jew and the Jew rotted your empire, and you yourselves out-jewed the Jew. Your allies in your victimized holdings are the bunyah, you stand for nothing but usury.
And above metal usury; you have built up bank usury, 60% against 30 and 40%, and by that you will not be saved. Corrupting the wholeearth, you have lost yourselves to yourselves.
And the big Jew has rotted every nation he has wormed into. A millstone. Well, an exceptionally good swimmer might conceivably be cast into the sea with a stone tied round his neck. He might perhaps untie it. If he were a Scotchman, he would remember his jackknife, before being thrown overboard.
You seem to remember nothing. It were better you were infected with typhus. As to federal union, or JEW/nion. There is no question of race in Streit’s proposition. It is as proposed a union of slaves, under jewry. Offered by liars and abettors of thieves.
You have stolen land from your late Allies, and land slips from your control. The only conquests of Britain and Rosenfeld are conquests from their alleged allies.
All right, say that Franklin Delany swipes all South America — to what end? And ruin the United States of America while he is doing it. What’s that to you? It is not England’s salvation. Will you ever look at the story of empire? You are not even in the mercantile system, you are in a fake mercantile system, not even mercantile. It was for a time called mercantile or the mercantilist system and defined as considering the happiness of a nation to consist in the amount of money it owned, and its process to consist in stealing, welching, pouching the greatest possible amount of same (i.e., of money) from other nations.
That defines the usury system, the only system Anglo Saxons have known or used in our time.
And it will not save you. NOR will Judaized Russia. Nor will the Kahal, the Jew’s central committee of bleeders. WHAT is their system? Unvarying, cheap goods, sweated out of cheap labor, dung dust hurled on the world, the world conceived as sweat shop, to hell with the 8-hour day, down with abundance. Dumping sweated goods, dumped against any and every nation that pays a just price for labor. That is your ally.
And in your past a trail of blood and of infamy. You bought Hessians to kill your own blood in America. You bought ’em from a stinking feudal overlord, who was in the hands of the Rothschild; that is History. You stirred up the American savages against your own kin in America. But now Eden and Cripps have called in the Muscovite, to bum and destroy all Eastern Europe, and kill Finland, for the sake of the stinking Jews nickel mines.
Your infamy is bound up with Judaea. You can not touch a sore or a shame in your empire but you find a Mond, a Sassoon, or a Goldsmid. You have no race left in your government.
God knows if it can be found still scattered in England.
It must be found scattered in England. The white remnants of England, the white remnant of the races of England must be found and find means to cohere; otherwise, you might as well lie down in your grave yards.
You have for years had cheap goods dumped in from Russia. Your alliance with Moscow will bring no relief to that wound. Your Jews have ruined your home manufactures. Loans from the city of London, loans to the Orient, interest paid in cheap cotton goods, loans to the South American countries, interest paid in beef from the Argentine, and ruin of English grazing. The laws of durable government have been known from the days of King Wen. When empires go to rot, they go to rot for known reasons.
The Times, Telegraph, Manchester Guardian, are there to conceal these reasons. Your press is an infamy, has been throughout our time.
The laws of durable government have been known fromthe days of King Wen, and when the Roman Empire perished it perished from the same follies that your kikes, your Rothschilds, Beits, Sieffs, Schiffs, and Goldsmids have squirted into your veins.
Cheap grain dumped from Egypt, ruin of the Italian farming, usury, and more usury, that is the answer.
For two centuries, ever since the brute Cromwell brought ’em back into England, the kikes have sucked out your vitals. A mild penetration, for ahundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your nobility? You had at least the semblance of control; you had, let us say, some influence with the Lords of Judaea as long as they wanted your titles, as long as Levy Levinstein Lawson wanted to be addressed as Lord Burnham. You could turn the worst edge of their avarice, or rather you could turn it off, the upper or huppar clawses; and turn it onto the peer. As you did without mercy.
But when the same scroungers have moved over to New York City, how will you manage ’em? The same bloody minded extortioners, or theirdescendants. The same financial houses. The same Rothschilds who plotted with Sherman, and Vandergould to kill the American nation, who betrayed the United States in the sixties. Head office in London, agents in the U.S. of America.
Now the address is altered. Main office in Wall Street and Cohen in London. You send Willie over to spy on us. You send 5000 usurers’ pimps over to Washington and give special passports, diplomatic, to inveigle the United States into your plans to get cannon fodder from Idaho and from Iowa to weld your slaves cellar on Europe. And this time you get dumped into the ash can.
You have even forgotten your Kipling. Pig Baldwin has forgotten his cousin; if his obscene and treacherous mind ever grasped the meaning of Rudyard’s stories. Let me recall one passage to the sow face:
“The Americans,” wrote Rudyard, “obligingly slaughtered each other in order that the Czechoslovaks might inherit Boston Common.” Cras tibi, tomorrow is your turn. Damn it all, you slaughtered the flower of Englandin the Boer War. Then in 1914 in the first three months, the best of you went out and got slaughtered.
. . .been seen only too clearly. And your foul papers, the filth of your newsprint has been subsidized to keep your minds off it.
A dirty bit of meat by the name of Gollancz has used your book trade to conceal it. You have almost no means of communication. When a Brooks Adams writes five volumes that would help you to see it, six copies reach England. You have lost the health of the mind. God knows how the scattered handful of Englishmen still in England can still speak one with another.
I see no remedy in your parliament. I don’t mean as parliament. I mean in the personnel. It is your problem. You do not now even elect your own parliament. Whether with an election you could get anything save old dead meat, I do not know. During the last war a few men had a glimmer of instinct. On whatever formula, they called it pacifism. Was it? All of ’em I ever met were pugnacious. Was it an instinct to save the butt end of the race by not fighting? Is it a mistake to combat Germans by force?
Is there a race left in England? Has it any will left to survive? You can carry slaughter to Ireland. Will that save you? I doubt it. Nothing can save you, save a purge. Nothing can save you, save an affirmation that you are English.
Whore Belisha is not. Isaccs is not. No Sassoon is an Englishman, racially. No Rothschild is English, no Strakosch is English, no Roosevelt is English, no Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Khan, Baruch, Schiff, Sieff, or Solomon was ever yet bom Anglo-Saxon.
And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you have murdered your empire, and it is this filth that elects your politicians.
You have lost your tradition. You have not even learned what Lord Byron told you. You are, as even that foul rag the Times tells you, a little late in making a start.
In the year 1942 Anno Domini, there is only one start you can make. And that is a start toward being England. A refusal to be a province of Israel, or an outpost of Yankee-Judaea.
*** END OF SCRIPT ***
Oh that is some good stuff. Tell it, Mr. Pound. Tell it!.
In his Italy-based radio broadcasts, Ezra Pound named the names of the biggest Globalist Jews in the USA and England.
1. "Sir" Victor Sassoon // 2. Bernard Baruch // 3. Henry Morganthau // 4. Anthony Gustav de Rothschild
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We got a lot of positive feedback after quoting the great Ezra Pound in our recent "Who Murdered England?" piece (here) -- so we figured, why not do a whole piece on this forgotten literary legend? And here it is ---
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a world-renown expatriate American poet who, when it came to writing, emphasized the importance of clarity, precision and, most of all, economy of language. Pound worked as a literary editor in London during the early 20th century, where he mentored and helped to promote now famous contemporaries of his, such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway. Angered by Britain's role in starting World War I and disillusioned by the aftermath, Pound left for Italy in 1924. He blamed the war on Jewish finance capitalism, and embraced the fascism of Italy's new leader, Benito Mussolini. Later on, Pound expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. As you might expect, media outlets such as Time Magazine began taking cheap shots at the ex-pat literary genius. A 1933 article smeared Pound as:"a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children."
Fine and famous writers such as Frost, Elliot, Hemingway and Joyce came to Pound for literary coaching. How is it that their name recognition and awards, as the years passed, came to exceed that of Ezra Pound's? They are all honored on U.S. postage stamps (Joyce in his native Ireland), but Pound the master never was.
Ezra Pound
1885-1972
WHY WAS EZRA POUND ERASED FROM HISTORY?
By Mike King
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Friends of Eustace Mullins Society * (RIP 1923 - 2010)
A team of young employees of the club is preparing for the New Year. They plan to hold an interesting and cheerful holiday, but, to the misfortune of the guys, they are taken by the director of the club Ogurtsov - the bureaucrat, the letterhead and the cronus. Having gathered everyone in his office, he tells in detail about his "vision" of how it is right and useful to spend a New Year's Eve. Organizers understand that Ogurtsov is going to present a cocktail from the amateur performance and party meeting to the guests of the club instead of the holiday. And then the youth decides to circumvent the near-by boss by cunning to organize a real New Year's ball.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BUT LET US NOT FORGET THOSE AROUND THE WORLD SUFFERING AND BEING SACRIFICED TO STRANGE GODS UNDER THE NEW SATANIC WORLD ORDER!
PALESTINE, THE SINAI VOLCANO GOD VULCAN SENT ARABIAN MOSES ONLY TO HIS ARAB CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN ARABIA, AND UNTIL YOU FIND YOURSELF A BETTER GOD, THE GOD,
OR BETTER CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND HUMANS, YOU ARE DOOMED UNDER THE YOKE OF ZIONISM AND FREEMASONRY!
Saturday, 16 August 2014
THE BIBLE CAME FROM ARABIA, HOMELAND OF ABRAHAM AND ISRAELITE PROPHETS.
KAMAL AL SALIBI FRENCH DR. NURDIN AL-MUSTAQIM (REVERT TO ISLAM)
Makar Sankranti Makara Sankranti or Maghi, is a festival day in the Hindu calendar, dedicated to the deity Surya(sun). It is observed each year in the lunar month of Magha which corresponds with the month of January as per the Gregorian calendar and is a day the people of India celebrate their harvest.[3][4][5] It marks the first day of the sun's transit into Makara (Capricorn), marking the end of the month with the winter solstice and the start of longer days.[3][6]
(Wikipedia)
Makara Sankranti
Also called
Magha Môkôr Sôngkrānti Mela Maghi Bhogi
Type
Festival of Harvest, welcome longer days, sun worship
Celebrations
Kite flying, bonfires, fairs, surya puja in river, feast, arts, dance, socialization
Date
14 or 15 January (Depends on Hindu Calendar Correlation)
Makara Sankranti[7] is one of the few ancient Indian festivals that has been observed according to solar cycles, while most festivals are set by the lunar cycle of the lunisolar (चंद्र– सौर) Hindu calendar.[6]Being a festival that celebrates the solar cycle, it almost always falls on the same Gregorian date every year (January 14/
The festivities associated with Makar Sankranti are known by various names, such as
The Magha Mela, according to Diana L. Eck (professor at Harvard University specializing in Indology), is mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharat.[13]
Many observers go to sacred rivers or lakes and bathe in a ceremony of thanks to the sun.[13]
Every twelve years (marking one complete revolution of Jupiter around the Sun) the Hindus observe Makar Sankranti with one of the world's largest mass pilgrimages, with an estimated 40 to 100 million people attending the event.[13][14][15]
At this event, then they say a prayer to the sun and bathe at the Prayaga confluence of the River Ganga and River Yamuna at the Kumbha Mela,[13] a tradition attributed to Adi Shankaracharya.[16]
This significance of Surya is traceable to the Vedic texts, particularly the Gayatri Mantra, a sacred hymn of Hinduism found in its scripture named the Rigveda.
Makara or Makar Sankranti is celebrated in many parts of Indian subcontinent with some regional variations. It is known by different names and celebrated with different customs in different Indian states and South Asian countries:
You don't have to agree with all that Bill Cooper discusses. You just have to get "freedom".* It's not just a buzz word. When I was dragged from my house by police on four separate occasions for "offending" people - including an Israeli intelligence asset, Stephen Lieblich, when I called him a "Katsa" or case officer for Israeli Intelligence - I got to know intimately how fleeting "freedom" can be. JEWISH COMMUNITY ORGANIZER POLICE STATEMENT (He was upset I called him an Israeli spy) They raided my house. Admitted to be searching for information on Jet Propulsion Laboratories. I lost my home, my university placement to re-do my Nursing Registration. This is unheard of. Now ask why you have never heard of me?
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Police would shake my hand and apologise...but the grinding wheels of the state ground on... Maybe when America is plunged into chaos this year you will learn what "freedom" *really means and how our ancestors from the UK, Europe and the US shed their blood so that institutions would be formed to allow peaceful change - that Americans cannot be bothered using. Americans, like ALL the so called "West" cannot engage in long term lobbying and affect the political process. If they cannot change the world with one letter to their congress person or one tweet - they give up. Its to hard! No one cares! They sit all day online, lining up with self evident GOVERNMENT/DEEP STATE groups whining about how terrible it all is...this is the definition of insanity. No, its not hopeless, you're just a fat lazy, demoralized slob coward. Ultimately it gets down to simple laziness. Nothing more, nothing less. I've been by myself for ten years.** Performing miracles with little to no help. Face to face with the state. I did not always behave well, and could have done things very differently, but I'm very proud I have stuck it out. I feel this year will be the end for me. ***
Adam Green will continue to build his you tube channel and sell hats and coffee mugs and t shirts with his friend Alex Jones and Morphoneus. This is what it's come too - Bone Broth, staged events, "buy my t-shirt". What a f'ing joke. Thank God Bill Cooper never had to see how bad it would become.**** He was killed***** in November 2001 in what appeared a "set up" to arrest him, which led to his death by police firearms. May he rest in peace.
*"freedom"? The only way to get freedom, is TO FIGHT FOR IT!
**"I've been by myself for ten years"
Son, I've been by myself for 52 years!
***I feel this year will be the end for me. ???
****It was already extremely bad, but Bill did not see that as he was wrong about many things, including his "Bible"! I knew Bill when he was spending all his money posting thousands of letters to inform the sheeple and survived an assassination attempt on his life by the FBI, but he was blind not to understand that the MILITIA was not to be trusted because they were hypocrites and cowards, which I knew for a long time because I and the entire Muslim nations around the world (nearly 2 billion of humanity!) were among the victims of his BOGUS FATHERLAND, the USA Corporation of the Jewish Bank Gangsters of the Judean State known as the City of London in the United Kingdom of Jacob (Israel)!
***** Bill was murdered by a Jewish Sheriff by the name of GOLDSMITH! (Check it!) He was called the most dangerous radio host in America by that Zionist pervert William Jefferson Clinton.
Yes, Bill, WHO SOLD US ALL TO THE JEWS AND THE FREEMASONS? Decadent and Zionist Christendom!
But, getting back the country"WITHOUT BLOODSHED" is just a vain dream! And to do what? What "Columbus" and his likes did to the Natives?
What Bill did not realise and see was that the sheeple were already wide awake, but lazy, hypocrites, cowards, racist, practicing religions based on lies, and did not give a damn about the TRUTH!
His greatest mistake (like so many other fighters!) was to think he was immortal!
Like all audiences, Bill's audience only expected to be entertained, and when he was murdered, they did not rise up against the system ("their country")! What happened to GOLDSMITH? Yet, JUDEA showed the world how to destroy the most advanced (civilised) nation in Europe, GERMANY, allied with the decadent Christians, the Atheists, and the Bolsheviks, at the cost of over 60 million lives!
~ IT'S NOT FREEDOM, BUT FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM!
~ TRUTH IS USELESS WITHOUT FREEDOM!
~ WITHOUT FREEDOM AND TRUTH, THERE CAN NEVER BE JUSTICE!
~ WITHOUT GOD (NOT CHRIST!) THERE CAN NEVER BE A MORAL WAY OF LIFE!
BAFS
Wednesday 5 February 2020
P.S. Read what happened to "Kenneth O'Keefe"! Who can we really trust?
From Plato's "Logos" to Philo's "Logos" and John’s “Logos”!
Jewish Egyptian PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA: "Now the image of God is the Word [Logos], by which all the world was made."
In the 30 books comprising roughly 850,000 words “Philo” of Alexandria wrote that have been preserved, he never mentioned Jesus or the crucifixion, or the resurrection or the ascension or the apostles once.Only fragments of his writings are preserved. He was quoted by early Christian Greeks such as Origen and Clement.
In anonymous JOHN 1:1-9, the unidentified Greek author (a Greek Stoic immersed in the philosophy of Plato?) plagiarised Philo who died in 50AD, by writing:
“In the beginning was the Word [Logos] and the logos was God...all things were made through the "Logos"“
In Islam, the Word was NOT GOD, but GOD’S!!!
“How did a transcendent God communicate with the world? Here, a term from the Stoics proved most useful. According to Philo, "Logos"– Greek for "word" or "reason"– equated to divinereason. The Logos or Wordemanated from the ineffable God and communicated with his creations. Thus it was the Logos that spoke to Moses from the burning bush, and it was the Logosthat infused the righteous High Priest.”
Genesis 1:15After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; your reward shall be very great."
ONLY ISLAM IDENTIFIED THE “WORD” by which God created everything: KUN.BE.KUN FA YA KUN.BE AND IT IS!Corresponding to the Torah’s LET THERE BE!KUN was God’s WORD, but NOT GOD HIMSELF like the Christians claimed!
But, as ARABIAN Israel started a racist religion excluding part of their own ARABIAN family labelled ARABS while they called themselves ISRAEL and much later, JEWS, the Christians who had adopted racist Israel ignored and demonised the Arabs too, to this very day!
Consequently, the JEWS appropriated God’s reward promised to Abram (or Avram, a wrong pronunciation, which later became ABRAHAM known to Arabs as IBRAHIM).Later, the Christians too would appropriate that reward, excluding the “ARABS” who later came up with ISLAM, as a perfection of both Israel’s Judaism and Israel’s and Greco-Roman Christianity!
The Racist Hindutva Cinema (later called Bollywood or Mollywood because Indians have little imagination!) made a film played mainly by Hinduised Muslims, including the director, songwriter, music director, and the male singer.The Hinduised Muslims, to please their Hindu masters (monsters!), deliberately distorted History by showing that the "Great" Mughal Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar was unable to find a single Muslim wife at all in the entire land of Hindustan or Mongolia, China, and had to marry a practicing Hindu Princess that he allowed to worship other gods in his own Palace.
When he realised that his Shirki Hindu wife was barren and that all her Gods were not helping her to conceive, he went barefoot in the desert to worship a known Muslim Saint, and asked God through the Saint for a child.When he returned, his Hindu wife miraculously (like Sarah in the Torah!) conceived a boy Nuruddin Muhammad Salim (JAHANGIR) who soon would start getting drunk in the Palace as an under ten-year-old child under the care of his practicing Hindu mother.Wow!So, the angered father and Emperor HAKBAR sent him away and out on the battlefield to come back when he was an adult!No women are shown to be with him!Hindu Hakbar's punishment!
When he came back, deprived of his father's and mother's love for more than 10 years, the good-for-nothing Prince immediately got involved with a Court prostitute Anarkali, shown as a practicing Muslimah!When Hakbar learned about it, a war started between the Hindu father and his Muslim son!Nobody is shown working in the film except a rebellious stone sculptor!
Hakbar is never shown to pray, but is shown to have exclusively Hindu generals in his army, government, and entourage. He is shown to put HINDU HINDUSTAN above everything else, including above God (what Hindutva wants today!) and his own son!So, he was the first real PATRIOTof Hindustan before the British conquered his land because his government and other governments were too busy with prostitutes, drinking, and dancing !When some Muslims are shown in the shitty film called MUGHAL-E-AZAM, THE GREAT MUGHAL, they are silent, or prostitutes, transvestites (LGBT), etc.
Yet, the film was the greatest Hindu production of the time, although nobody spoke Hindi Sankriti in the film, only or mainly PERSIAN URDU, the lingua franca of the time, and the official language of Hindustan that Britain would abolish later on.The Tamil and English versions of the film were scrapped! It was Holy Hindu Shit in great splendour, and Hindustanis loved it, and my father took us to watch it without realising that ten years later he would put his own Muslim Prince Basheer Ahmad in a similar situation with a girl he himself had chosen for him, 16-year-old SHIRIN, still a student, but who we learned after the engagement was barren!But, Basheer was a dignified human being, a man of honour and integrity, and would not break the engagement as advised or ordered by his father.So, the war started and never ended to this very day, that is, 52 years later with most of his apostate siblings having had a roe to play in it!
WIKIPEDIA
Mughal-e-Azam had the widest release of any Indian film up to that time, and patrons often queued all day for tickets. Released on 5 August 1960, it broke box office records in India and became the highest-grossing Indian filmof all time, a distinction it held for 15 years. By some accounts, Mughal-e-Azamremains the highest-grossing Indian film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
NO MATTER OUR RELIGION, WE WILL ALWAYS BE BORN A NATURAL HUMAN, HOPEFULLY!
Tu Hindu banéga na Musalmaan banéga, INSAAN ki aulad insaan banéga!
Whether you are born a Hindu or a Muslim, you will always be born a HUMAN! (But, today with Artificial Intelligence, we never know!)
Sung by the one and only MUHAMMAD RAFI, A TRUE UNIVERSAL MUSLIM!
(I watched that film "DHOOL KA PHOOL" (Flower n the Dust?) in Moscow in 1965, dubbed in Russian)
IS DESTROYING OUR ASIAN-AFRICAN, PERSIAN-ARAB MUSLIM-HINDUSTANI (HINDI-URDU) HERITAGE! THEY ARE TRYING HARD TO WIPE OUT ALL ISLAMIC CIVIISATIONAL INFLUENCES IGNORING THAT WE WERE AND ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE BY LABELLING ALL MUSLIMS AS FOREIGNERS UNLESS THEY PLACE THE RACIST 'HINDU' STATE BEFORE ISLAM!
BAFS
DRAW A PICTURE OF MUHAMMAD, ASKED THE TEACHER TO HER STUDENTS!
The new Prophets and Saints of the French Secular Theocratic Judeo-Masonic and Zionist Republic
JEHOVA HU AKBAR!
YVES SAINT LAURENT ET PIERRE BERGÉ– LES PROPHÈTES ET LES SAINTS DE LA LAÏCITÉ – DES PERVERS, HOMOSEXUELS, SADO-MASOCHISTES ET PÉDOPHILES, CANONISÉS PAR LA FRANCE LAÏQUE, SIONISTE, JUDÉO-MAÇONNIQUE, SES MÉDIAS PROSTITUÉS, ET LES SYNAGOGUES DE SATAN (SYNAGOGUES ET ÉGLISES COMPRIS), SANS OUBLIER DALIL BOUBAKEUR ET SA CLIQUE!
Drogues, sadisme, pédophilie, témoignage de Fabrice Thomas, amant de Bergé/Saint Laurent
Cette interview de Monsieur Fabrice Thomas, auteur du livre Saint Laurent et moi : une histoire intime, paru début octobre 2017 aux éditions Hugo Doc, est véritablement exclusive tant la chape de plomb des médias mainstream concernant son livre choc est lourde et efficace1.
Actuellement, alors que tous les médias - papier, télévision et radio - ne cessent de parler des accusations d'agressions sexuelles contre Harvey Weinstein ou Monsieur Tariq Ramadan, pas la moindre ligne n'est consacrée au livre de Monsieur Fabrice Thomas, aucune interview n'a été réalisée. On imagine que cette censure a pour cause trois points importants :
* on ne touche pas à Pierre Bergé qui est devenu ces dernières décennies le pape infaillible de la république ;
* deuxièmement, Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent fait partie du patrimoine culturel français ;
* enfin, il est assez suicidaire pour ces médias de s'attaquer à Yves Saint Laurent Beauté - propriété de L'Oréal - qui représente une manne financière publicitaire très importante.
À l'instar de Bernard Arnault qui n'a pas apprécié que l'on parle de ses finances dans l'enquête des "Paradise Papers" et qui a sanctionné le journal Le Monde en retirant les pages de publicité de tout le groupe LVMH dont il est le président.
Monsieur Fabrice Thomas a été l'amant aussi bien de Pierre Bergé que de Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent, il a fréquenté ce couple près d'une dizaine d'années. Il nous explique dans cette interview, mais également dans son livre, que la condition sine qua non pour travailler au service de Pierre Bergé -- condition n'apparaissant pas, bien entendu, dans le contrat de travail -- était de coucher avec lui, ce qu'il appelle "le petit manège". L'auteur décrit Pierre Bergé comme un personnage maléfique adepte du sadisme le plus cruel et le plus pervers. Il décrit dans son livre des séances de"dressage" sadomasochiste dans lesquelles, il finissait par uriner sur ses esclaves (On a vu d'ailleurs un retweet de Monsieur Pierre Bergé concernant une photo de "Golden Shower" (cf. photo de droite). Nous apprenons également dans ce témoignage que Monsieur Pierre Bergé était un occultiste, adepte de magie sexuelle, ayant comme livre de chevet Magia Sexualis de Pascal Bewerly Randolph !
Il sera également question dans ces révélations des comportements à risque du couple Bergé-Saint Laurent qui cumulait frénétiquement les amants sans jamais se protéger avec des préservatifs (Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent étant un consommateur des backrooms les plus sordides de la capitale) ! Ce qui n'a pas empêché Monsieur Pierre Bergé d'être l'ambassadeur français du Sidaction et de « prodiguer » sur le plateau de Paul Amar dans l'émission Revue et Corrigé de France 5, des leçons de morale à un prêtre camerounais sur la nécessité du port du préservatif !... Se procurer nos livres :
We don't have to speculate as to how this event is going to be used. It has already started. Sources, transcript and download links: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/charl...
There are already certain aspects of this story that make me feel it is worthy of further investigation.
1. If this is in central Paris, one of Europes busiest capitol cities, why then from footage shot from a rooftop is there NO OTHER VEHICLES DRIVING ON ANY OF THE STREETS?
2. Why did the attackers feel confident enough of thier getaway that they didnt even speed off from the scene?
3. Why was it security forces were happy for the french President to go the scene so soon after the incident when we are being told the whereabout of the attackers is unknown?
4. After recent attacks with vehicles on pedestrians in the run up to xmas, why did the police send officers on bikes to a location already know to be a target for islamic extremists?
Just some of the questions that need answering in my opinion.
Is this fake or real? it would be ridiculous of me to say either way, or to dismiss anything at this time.
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Paris "Charlie Hebdo" attack": another Zionist false flag?
Just one month ago, France set off a stampede when its lower house voted to recognize Palestine. Now Palestine is in the International Criminal Court, poised to take down Israel for genocide.
Suddenly "Islamic terror strikes France." Is Paris being punished for its pro-Palestine vote?
In late 2013, Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Tribunal found Israel guilty of genocide. A few months later, Malaysian planes started falling out of the sky.
In 2011, Norway's Labor Party's youth wing was poised to impose a complete blockade on Israel. Suddenly the entire leadership of the Party's youth wing was slaughtered in a professional operation falsely attributed to a lone nut, Anders Breivik.
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Kevin calls in to RBN's Outcast Radio with Don Campbell, where islamophobes have been poisoning the anti-NWO discourse; then tries to interview Patrick Poole (see his press release below); and finally spends forty minutes discussing the Paris shootings and related matters with Rodney Shakespeare.
CITY OF LIGHT HIT BY ISLAMIC DARKNESS
A MASSACRE AT A
BASTION OF FREE SPEECH
RADICAL ISLAM IS REJOICING
ISLAMIC PARIS ATTACK GUEST: Patrick Poole, is a national security and terrorism correspondent for PJMedia.com.
I posted this piece yesterday, but it was mysteriously taken down overnight; VT appears to have been hacked. So I had to re-post from a back-up. Sorry to all the people whose comments were erased. This must be an important story if the bad guys have to hack VT to try to stop it as it goes viral.
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor False Flag Weekly News just finished a special report on the Charlie Hebdo spectacular in Paris: Also check out the links to the stories we covered. I also did a special radio show on Charlie Hebdo, including a verbal battle with neocon propagandist Patrick Po…
Sir Malcolm Rifkind has requested data from the US to learn the extent of British intelligence’s involvement in the CIA’s torture program. The UK government’s...
I posted this piece yesterday, but it was mysteriously taken down overnight; VT appears to have been hacked. So I had to re-post from a back-up. Sorry to all the people whose comments were erased. This must be an important story if the bad guys have to hack VT to try to stop it as it goes viral.
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor False Flag Weekly News just finished a special report on the Charlie Hebdo spectacular in Paris: Also check out the links to the stories we covered. I also did a special radio show on Charlie Hebdo, including a verbal battle with neocon propagandist Patrick Po…
Paris "Charlie Hebdo" attack": another Zionist false flag?
Just one month ago, France set off a stampede when its lower house voted to recognize Palestine. Now Palestine is in the International Criminal Court, poised to take down Israel for genocide.
Suddenly "Islamic terror strikes France." Is Paris being punished for its pro-Palestine vote?
In late 2013, Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Tribunal found Israel guilty of genocide. A few months later, Malaysian planes started falling out of the sky.
In 2011, Norway's Labor Party's youth wing was poised to impose a complete blockade on Israel. Suddenly the entire leadership of the Party's youth wing was slaughtered in a professional operation falsely attributed to a lone nut, Anders Breivik.
Police investigators search for evidence during an operation in the eastern French city of Reims, January 8, 2015.
By KEVIN BARRETT
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo would never have been caught had they not made one fatal mistake: They conveniently left an ID card in their abandoned getaway car.
Since when did criminals leave their identification cards in abandoned getaway cars?
An ordinary citizen, taking no precautions, might accidentally leave a wallet or purse in their parked car. I have driven automobiles approximately 50,000 times in my life, and I think my wallet might have slipped out of my pocket and fallen into the crack between the driver’s seat and the door...once.
What are the odds that skilled terrorists who have just carried out an ultra-professional special-forces style attack will accidentally leave their ID card in the abandoned getaway car? Answer: Effectively zero. So why are police reporting an event that cannot have happened? Assuming that French police really did find “terror suspect” Said Kouachi’s ID card in an abandoned getaway car, that ID card must have been planted by someone wishing to incriminate Kouachi. Even the legendary French idiot detective, Inspector Clouseau, could not fail to make this thunderingly obvious inference. The discovery of Kouachi’s ID does not implicate him; it exonerates him. It shows that he is an innocent patsy who is being framed by the real perpetrators of the attack.
Police and intelligence agencies routinely plant evidence to support false narratives, convict innocent people, and exonerate themselves. American police who kill unarmed citizens often plant a gun on the corpses to support their claims of having killed in self-defense. Such throw-down guns, which the police call “ham sandwiches,” are kept in police locker rooms and carried in police cars in case they are needed.
Likewise, throw-down ID cards and other “incriminating” documents are routinely used by the military, intelligence, and special forces professionals who orchestrate false flag operations. Consider the ludicrously-obvious planted evidence used in the mother of all false-flag operations: the September 11th, 2001 inside job.
Intelligence agents planted not just one, but two “magic suitcases” designed to incriminate Mohamed Atta, the innocent patsy framed for the crimes of September 11th. According to Der Spiegel’s book Inside 9/11: What Really Happened, the first Atta suitcase was handed to German police by a self-described “good Samaritan burglar.” The so-called burglar claimed to have stolen Atta’s suitcase during the course of a burglary and discovered terrorism-related information in it. As an honorable citizen, this kind-hearted burglar felt compelled by his conscience to deliver the suitcase to the authorities.
According to Der Spiegel, the German police, not being fools, knew that the self-styled burglar was not really a burglar at all, but an intelligence agent planting fake evidence against Atta. Der Spiegel quotes German police as saying: “The only question is, which intelligence agency was he working for?” (“CIA and Mossad,” answered former German Intelligence Minister Andreas Von Bülow in his book The CIA and September 11th.)
Despite its absurd origins, this suitcase full of fabricated documents provides virtually the only purported evidence supporting the official story of Atta’s supposed terrorism-related activities in Germany. Aside from the good Samaritan burglar’s suitcase, it seems that the original Egyptian Atta – the one in Germany – was a gentle, shy, sensitive, soft-spoken architecture student with no connections to terrorism of any kind. Yet the “Atta” who made a spectacle of himself in Florida before 9/11, staging memorable public scenes while all but wearing an “I am an al-Qaeda terrorist” sign around his neck, was a coarse, obscene, violent loudmouthed braggart who dated strippers, disemboweled kittens, and spoke fluent Hebrew.
The Hebrew-speaking Atta’s second and better-known “magic suitcase” was the one he allegedly checked in on his early morning flight from Portland, Maine to Boston on September 11th, 2001. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, the suitcase was miraculously preserved and delivered to the authorities when it somehow failed to make the transfer from Atta’s Portland-to-Boston commuter flight onto Flight 11, which Atta supposedly piloted into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Had the suitcase been transferred as it should have been, we are told, it would have been destroyed in a fireball at the World Trade Center.
This magic suitcase provided the only evidence allowing authorities to identify the alleged 19 hijackers within 24 hours of the event. (None of the 9/11 passenger lists contained any Arab names; no airline employees remember having ticketed or boarded any of the alleged hijackers; and none of the hundreds of security cameras at Boston’s Logan Airport, Washington D.C.’s Dulles Airport, or Newark Airport took a single authenticated frame of any of the 19 Arabs blamed for 9/11.)
This suitcase not only contained a list of the 19 patsies, but also Atta’s supposed last will and testament. (Why would a suicide hijacker check his will onto a doomed plane?) Britain’s dean of Middle East journalism Robert Fisk has ridiculed Atta’s alleged will, pointing out that it begins with a botched bismillah: “In the name of God, myself, and my family...” No Muslim would ever write such a thing. As Fisk suggests, the document purporting to be Atta’s will must have been forged by an incompetent intelligence agent. The suitcase was obviously planted.
And that is not just Robert Fisk’s opinion. Seymour Hersh, the dean of American investigative journalism, quotes a senior US intelligence source as saying, with regard to Atta’s magic suitcase: “Whatever trail was left was left deliberately—for the FBI to chase.”
Atta’s two magic suitcases are not the only examples of clumsily-planted 9/11 evidence. Another is the “magic passport” of alleged 9/11 hijacker Satam al-Suqami. That passport, looking as pristine as the “magic bullet” of the JFK assassination, was allegedly discovered by an anonymous individual, with no chain of custody, near the two flat spots of smoking ground where two 110-story towers somehow exploded into very fine dust.
But Atta’s magic suitcases, the magic passport, beside the most pathetically-planted 9/11 item of them all: The “Fatty Bin Laden confession video” supposedly discovered in December 2001 by an anonymous US soldier in Jalalabad, and delivered with no chain of possession to be brandished by the Bush Administration as supposed proof of Bin Laden’s guilt.
Professor Bruce Lawrence, a respected expert on Bin Laden, has categorically stated of this video: “It’s bogus!” Lawrence adds that his many acquaintances in the US intelligence community’s Bin Laden units know that the video is bogus – but are afraid to say so in public, because they are afraid of the implications of Bin Laden’s innocence.
These and other examples show that the intelligence agents who orchestrate false-flag terror spectacles often do not even bother to disguise the blatantly-fabricated nature of the planted evidence used to implicate patsies.
So we should not be terribly surprised when the French police tell us – with a straight face – that a highly professional fleeing terrorist would leave his ID card in an abandoned getaway car.
KB/MKA
KEVIN BARRETT
Columnist
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009). His website is www.truthjihad.com.
Dans les trois « posts » réunis ci-dessous, Norman G. Finkelstein, historien et politologue américain, référence internationale sur le conflit israélo-palestinien, réagit à l’affaire « Charlie Hebdo » de manière brève mais éloquente.
Juif, enfant de rescapés du ghetto de Varsovie et d’Auschwitz, le reste de sa famille ayant disparu dans les camps nazis, Norman Finkelstein avait déjà dénoncé l’incroyable arriération de la France en ce qui concerne l’éveil politique et la liberté d’expression, notamment la liberticide loi Gayssot (cf. cet extrait vidéo comportant le fameux « Que dire d’un pays qui considère BHL comme un philosophe ?! »).
L’engagement de Norman Finkelstein pour la cause palestinienne lui a coûté son métier et sa vocation. Parce qu’il avait minutieusement démonté un ouvrage pro-israélien d’Alan Dershowitz, un BHL américain qu’il révéla comme une imposture, Norman Finkelstein fut victime d’une cabale orchestrée par ledit Dershowitz, suite à laquelle il perdit son poste d’enseignant à l’Université De Paul de Chicago. Depuis, malgré son parcours universitaire exceptionnel (Doctorat à Princeton, Professeur dans plusieurs Universités américaines, auteur et conférencier de renommée internationale), il n’a pas pu retrouver de poste.
La publication nazie Der Sturmer, éditée par Julius Streicher, était connue pour ses caricatures antisémites obscènes.
Imaginez qu’une paire de frères juifs, éperdus de douleur face à la mort et à la destruction qui s’étaient abattues sur le peuple juif, aient fait irruption dans les bureaux du journal et assassiné des membres de son personnel. Elèverions-nous au rang de martyrs et de héros ceux qui ont choisi de se moquer des croyances profondément ancrées dans les consciences d’un peuple souffrant et méprisé ; de dégrader, rabaisser, insulter et humilier les Juifs à l’heure de leur épreuve, alors que le monde qu’ils avaient connu se désintégrait tout autour d’eux ? Imaginez qu’un million de Berlinois se soient mobilisés pour pleurer les pornographes politiques. Applaudirions-nous à cette manifestation de solidarité ? Streicher a été condamné à mort durant le procès de Nuremberg. Il n’est pas rapporté que beaucoup de personnes dans notre Occident éclairé aient versé des larmes. *** Désolé, Charlie Par Norman G. Finkelstein Article original : http://normanfinkelstein.com/2015/01/12/sorry-charlie%E2%80%8B/ Lundi 12 janvier 2015
Après le massacre de 1000 musulmans par le dictateur égyptien Sissi en un seul jour, le journal Charlie Hebdo a publié ce titre (image de gauche) : « Le Coran c’est de la m*** : Ca n’arrête pas les balles ». Est-ce que l’image de droite, sur laquelle on peut lire « Charlie Hebdo, c’est de la m*** : Ca n’arrête pas les balles » est inclus dans la liberté d’expression, ou est-ce considéré comme un propos offensant par le monde « épris de liberté » ? *** Je suis… Gaza Norman G. Finkelstein | 10 janvier 2015
[Après un périple extrêmement ardu, un groupe d'enfants de Gaza a pu réaliser son rêve et se présenter sur la scène de l'émission populaire Arabs Got Talent, bouleversant d'émotion jury et télespectateurs (voir cet article détaillé).] Vidéo postée par N. Finkelstein (Traduction : Sayed 7asan) Source: Sayed Hasan
BROTHER MARK GLENN'S ADVICE ABOUT ANTI MUHAMMAD MOVIE
BROTHER MARK GLENN’S ADVICE ABOUT ANTI MUHAMMAD MOVIE
Anti-Islam movie, West’s conspiracy against Muslim world: Analyst
Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:15PM GMT
Interview with Mark Glenn, from the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement
So the notion that this is a conspiracy source, absolutely this [yes]. It was done to inflame the Islamic world so as to further propagandize the West into making war against the Middle Eastern countries."
Outrage and anti-US sentiment are growing across the Muslim world over the controversial movie that insults Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Anti-US demonstrations, which began on September 11 over the anti-Islam film, have been held across the Muslim world, with protesters storming US embassies and torching US flags.
Over a dozen people have already been killed in protests since the release of the film.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Glenn, from the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, to further discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV:Mr. Glenn, protests are gaining momentum around the world and more and more people are coming to this belief that this move, this insulting movie, was more likely to be a deliberate act of conspiracy.
Glenn: Yes, I think that is exactly what it was and I think that the people responsible for putting this together, their reasons for doing it are self-evident. They want the world to witness these uprisings and these protests taking place as a means of defaming Islam and painting the Muslims as violent, irrational people.
You know (blipped) … is saying this that the Christian in the West because it is not my religion that has been attacked in this per se but when I would counsel those in these, [all I want to do] is to take a step back and to understand that what they are doing by participating in these things is that they are giving their enemies all of the ammunition that they need in order to take Islam as a violent, irrational religion followed by violent irrational people and all of this being on a course in order to justify the military brutality that has taken place in the past, that is taking place now and will take place in the future if these evil doers are given a free hand to do it.
So the notion that this is a conspiracy source, absolutely this [yes]. It was done to inflame the Islamic world so as to further propagandize the West into making war against the Middle Eastern countries.
Press TV:So what you are saying is that actually this was a conspiracy for Muslims to play in the hands of their enemies. Well, there are questions also surrounding the timing of the insulting movie, its coincidence with 9/11 and the US elections is also a month to go there.
Glenn: Yes, absolutely. You know, in 11 years since 9/11, there have been no terrorist attacks in the United States. And so the American people are beginning to ask questions: Why are we still at war? Why are young people so being set off to fight in these theatres such as Iraq and Afghanistan? You know, Osama bin Laden is dead; there have been no terrorist attacks; we are going bankrupt fighting these wars. Perhaps it is time to bring our troops home and to go back to peace and prosperity.
And so these organized pro-war interests, Zionist interest, organized Jewish interest-- whatever you want to call them-- they have to from time to time remind the American people why they are going bankrupt fighting these wars and why they should continue to go bankrupt fighting these wars and so that is exactly what this entire stunt in making this movie was all about, was to bring the American people back to the morning of 9/11 of 2001 and also in order to set the stage for further military action, unfortunately, against your own country of Iran.
I think that this entire debacle that is taking place that the main bull’s-eye in this thing, I mean the big agenda here that is being pushed is to prepare the mind of the American people so that they will sign on to increase military adventures against Iran.
AHK/MSK/JR
P.S.Many lives were lost uselessly after Jewish sponsored renegade Salman Rushdie released his SATANIC VERSES attacking Muhammad and Muslims and blaspheming Islam!For outraging Muslims around the world and causing the deaths of many, Salman Rushdie was knighted by the Freemasonic and Druidic German Squatter Queen of B’rit’ain!B’rit in “Hebrew” means Covenant or Contract and the B’rit’ish monarchs retrace their roots to King David, the Lion of Judah and the Jewish Qabbalah. (BAFS)
I contemplate my recent trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran and ask myself who wants war between America and Iran. I quickly surmise that it is not the American people, nor the Iranian people, but globalists (international bankers and their multinational beneficiaries). They control Israel, the American media and most of our politicians…and by extension our foreign policy.
My journey to this exotic and little understood land began with an invitation to “New Horizon – The First International Independent Filmmakers Festival”. It was a conference and festival held in Tehran from September 2nd through September 7th. Filmmakers and intellectuals from around the world attended. It was one of the most stimulating experiences that I have ever had and an effective bridge between diverse cultures and perspectives – with the purpose of promoting truth, justice, liberty, and peace.
This initiative was undertaken, not by America or other world leaders, but by a country unfairly besieged with sanctions and threats of war. My observations were in stark contrast to the perceptions of most Americans. What I experienced was a devout country with a love of God, family, and nation – and an uncompromising respect for the noblest of human endeavors.
As I write this, a giant, beautiful book, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, lies next to me. Khayyam’s wonderful poems have survived the test of time and are a testament to the normally peaceful spirit of the Persian people. This treasure was given to me by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Inside its back cover, he inscribed the following for me (transcribed from Farsi):
In the name of God who loves human beings.
My dear brother:
I, you, we and all of us are pursuing truth and happiness for human beings, which is unfortunately a victim of world powers.
This is a historical opportunity to undermine all inhuman relations and put an end to prejudices, which have questioned the truths and separates them, to build a new beautiful world based on love, justice and beauty.
This is a historical and certainly achievable objective. It only needs our hands, minds and hearts to join each other.
I pray Great God to bless you, who love humanity and wish success for all. I hope to meet you in a better future.
(signed) M. Ahmadinejad September 8, 2012
I found President Ahmadinejad to be a humble man with a firm handshake and intense, intelligent eyes. Despite his courteous and dignified bearing, he has been regularly berated, and routinely misrepresented, by a controlled western media. Is their demonization justified, or has he been targeted as the lone political figure standing against Zionist powers? This is my attempt to represent truths, such that the world might have a better understanding of Iran, its people, and its leadership.
The Iranian people are similar to Europeans in appearance…a beautiful people, poised and kind. Their women wear clothing which modestly cover them, but in elegant fashion and with serene faces that are usually exposed. They return smiles and are not treated as second class citizens, as we have been conditioned to believe. In fact, they outnumber men in higher education enrollments. There is no profanity and women are safe on any Tehran street – at any time of day or night. The influences of western civilization have not been totally removed, but the Iranians resist the decadence of cultural-Marxism. I attribute this largely to their faith and love of family. I was surprised to discover that the Islamic faith actually honors Jesus and Christianity. However, through Zionist media control, policy dictates, and other manipulations, the Christian world is incessantly convinced that Muslims should be our enemies and that we should be theirs.
Muslims look with jaundiced eye upon the outrageous media lies and perpetual assaults on their faith and culture. Hollywood’s promotion of twisted films can provoke extremist reactions, and we are then led to believe that Muslims are all radicals. We never question the bizarre promotion of these divisive, Zionist inspired productions, or the actions of multinational interests in the internal affairs of sovereign Islamic nations. Were we to look honestly at the many false portrayals, we would see remarkable similarities to how our Christian communities have also been assaulted – increasingly with contempt and disrespect by these same Zionist and Cultural Marxist propagandists. They seek a globalist new world order – devoid of the diversity and freedoms associated with independent nation states.
As I wandered from the festival grounds to meet people on the streets, I found them to be most helpful and without animosity – despite my obvious American nationality. I enjoyed their exotic food and came to appreciate the craftsmanship of their products. The only negative sensation that I had was in witnessing the mad house traffic situation in Tehran. A city of 15 million, it has grown faster that it’s infrastructure. Despite this, the city is thriving with new construction and beautiful parks and monuments – which reflect a noble and accomplished people. The Iranians seemingly love Americans, but are rightly concerned and critical of our irrational and invasive government policies. The common response seems to be “why would your country want to attack us?”
The current condemnation of Iran is supposedly due to the possibility that they may develop nuclear weapons. We should all work for a world free from nuclear threat, but the sovereignty of nations must also be respected. Iran is signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has opened their facilities for inspection, declaring their interest is for energy development only. No evidence to the contrary has been shown, and Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei condemns nuclear weaponry – actually declaring a “Fatwa” against them – as it is contrary to their nation’s faith. However, Israel, their chief accuser (and architect behind the campaign to falsely accuse Iraq of possessing “weapons of mass destruction”), is believed to possess over 300 nuclear weapons. Israel is not signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has no intention of sharing information or opening their facilities for inspection – yet America continues to march to their fanatical war drums against others. Why is there no pressure on Israel to meet the same standards and why are we imposing “sanctions” against a nation that has done us no wrong? It is a preliminary act of war, and only imposed because Israeli lobbies demand it of our lap-dog politicians, who incredibly serve Zionist interests rather than the American people.
Iran is a strategic rival for regional hegemony in the resource rich middle-east and has stood strong for Islamic unity. They also courageously and most justifiably call for an end to the Palestinian occupation – the ruthless suppression of an enslaved people, largely funded by America. There is no greater injustice than that being perpetrated against the Palestinian people. World condemnation, through the United Nations is consistently blocked by U.S. actions on the Security Council. As a result, the Non Aligned Nations Movement (NAM) is growing as an alternative to the UN. Its recent success is not generally reported in Western media, but 120 nations came together in Tehran the week before the New Horizon Film Festival – in unity and in opposition to the evils of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The Secretary General of the United Nations even attended, as well as observers from Russia and China. The Palestinian occupation and Israeli aggressions (including “false flag” operations against other nations) are at the root of the discontents for Zionism.
As President Ahmadinejad gave me copy of Khayyam’s works, I gave him copy of my western motion picture, “Jericho”, and my political book, “Our Vision for America”. When I asked him what messages I might convey to the American people, he indicated “truths” and “Iran’s desire for peace”. Through lies and evil acts, Globalists and Zionists falsely portray Iran, as they seek conflict between nations. I later told him that our State Department should be meeting with Iran’s leaders and not depending on the initiatives of private citizens, like me. However, I hope that he and the Iranian people take hope in the prospect that many patriotic Americans are awakening to the evils that have consumed us, even while our politicians continue to betray the otherwise good spirit and traditions of the American people. Growing numbers seek answers that might save America and truly promote world peace.
Americans do not want war, and are beginning to realize that our politicians, of both major parties, initiate these actions against the wishes of the American people – and in accord with the intrigues of international bankers and their Zionist agents. It is time we stopped them by creating alternatives in politics, and in media. Iran sees the need and is taking appropriate initiatives, and so should America.
I went to Iran to promote the prospects for producing “False Flag”, a critically important motion picture. I returned to America more committed than ever to produce this political thriller and, through commercial entertainment, help awaken a sleeping America. Vital truths must be revealed so that new evils are not perpetrated against the people of America and Iran, with destructive effects resonating throughout the world. I also return committed to building a viable third party, which will represent traditional working class Americans, rather than perpetuating a corrupt two party system, which serves special global interests. God willing, my answer to the courageous efforts of President Ahmadinejad is “I also hope to meet you in a better future”.
Merlin Miller is a West Point graduate, US Army veteran, engineer, writer, filmmaker (www.Americana-Pictures.com) and 2012 Presidential candidate (www.MerlinMiller2012.com)
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Nothing could incite more anti-semitism than an unprovoked attack by isreal on Iran that drags the US into war! Netanyahu’s name will be equated as a 21′st century Hitler! I hope the Isreali people do something to rein him in before Isreal is destroyed….forever!
Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei condemns nuclear weaponry – actually declaring a “Fatwa” against them – as it is contrary to their nation’s faith.
This is one truth that has always been kept away from the public: THAT ISLAM FORBIDS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
CHAPTER I – “TEACHER, WHAT GOOD MUST I DO…? ” (Mt 19:16)
– Christ and the answer to the question about morality
“Someone came to him…” (Mt 19:16)
6. The dialogue of Jesus with the rich young man, related in the nineteenth chapter of Saint Matthew’s Gospel, can serve as a useful guide for listening once more in a lively and direct way to his moral teaching: “Then someone came to him and said, ‘Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?’ And he said to him, ‘Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments. ‘He said to him, ‘Which ones?’ And Jesus said,
‘You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honour your father and mother; also, You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
The young man said to him, ‘I have kept all these; what do I still lack?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me’” (Mt 19:16-21).13
BAFS: Note that in the very First Commandment (God’s, not Jesus’s!) the Pope has changed the word KILL into that of MURDER, which is the correct translation as made by the “Hebrews” or today’s JEWS. For nearly 2,000 years Rome had preached the wrong religion.
Now, Catholics are allowed TO KILL, but not MURDER! So, KILLING Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians and other defenceless nations on earth amounts just to KILLING which is no more stressed as before!
This position of Rome is in contradiction with Saint Paul’s teachings who got rid of the Mosaic Law, nailing it to the Cross! And, by that one magical stroke, the Pope has also got rid of the doctrine of TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, which was a fallacy anyway!
Until Christians do not start thinking BY THEMSELVES and not stop listening blindly to Churches and Popes, they will never be obeying God’s Commandments!
Thank God, in Islam, we do not need Churches or Popes to tell humankind what to believe or not and what to do or not.
But, after Council Vatican II, Rome and the Churches worldwide sold out to Zionism and the International Jewish Mafia!
#6 by B.A.Frémaux-Soormally on September 20, 2012 – 12:33 pm “Thank God, in Islam, we do not need Churches or Popes to tell humankind what to believe or not and what to do or not.”
SATAN: But, can’t you see, you fool, that even when Muslims know EXACTLY what to believe and what to do, they still believe in and do the wrong things, EXACTLY the way I want things to be done! I have got them all EXACTLY where I want, those stupid Godly Christians and Godly Muslims, those hypocrites and money-loving fake Believers, those cowards and treacherous Paradise lovers?
BAFS: Unfortunately, I do see what you mean, O Master of this wretched world! But, let’s see what your adversary God has in store for His own Creation, the Good, the Evil and the Ugly! Isn’t it strange that you the Devil should obey God faithfully by doing the maximum of evil on earth and mislead His creation whereas Believers in God would disobey Him to such an extent that they now face total annihilation?
SATAN: So, tell me, you Earthling, WHO IS THE BEST OF PLANNERS, God or Me! Who is greater, God or me?
BAFS: Are you serious, O Master of this world? Do you want me to blaspheme? But, as you say, they well deserve their fate, don’t they? All our good and saintly people are being murdered one by one and we keep drinking Coca-Cola, watching television, football, and sing to the tune of the Kosher Nostra! Whole nations of nice people that were never contaminated by the diabolical West have now completey disapperared.
SATAN: This is nothing, just wait and see!
BAFS: Well, I will wait no more as my time is almost up and I leave it to our progeny if there will be any left with good health, a free mind and humanity in their heart.
BAFS Thursday 20th of September 2012
Actress in anti-Muslim movie sues for its removal online; sues filmmaker for fraud
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - An actress who appears in the anti-Muslim film that has sparked riots in the Middle East is suing the filmmaker for fraud and slander and suing Google to try to get the movie’s trailer removed online.
Cindy Lee Garcia’s lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles claims the actress was duped by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man behind “Innocence of Muslims” who has been forced into hiding since its 14-minute trailer rose to prominence last week. She was unaware of the film’s anti-Muslim content and said the pages of the script she received had no mention of the prophet Muhammad, according to her complaint.
The lawsuit states Garcia responded to an ad and thought she was appearing in an ancient Egyptian adventure film, which was altered to give it an anti-Islamic message.
“The film is vile and reprehensible,” Garcia’s attorney, M. Cris Armenta, wrote in the document.
“This lawsuit is not an attack on the First Amendment nor on the right of Americans to say what they think, but does request that the offending content be removed from the Internet,” the complaint states. Garcia’s attorneys plan to seek an injunction against the film Thursday in a Los Angeles court.
Garcia has received death threats since the trailer began drawing attention, and her suit states she no longer is able to visit her grandchildren as a result. It has also harmed her reputation and caused “shame, mortification, and hurt feelings,” the suit states.
An email sent to Google seeking comment was not immediately returned. The search giant owns YouTube and has blocked users in Saudi Arabia, Libya and Egypt from viewing the “Innocence of Muslims” trailer. It has also blocked the video from being viewed in Indonesia and India because it violates laws in those countries.
A man who answered the phone at the law offices of Steven Seiden, who represents Nakoula on any criminal repercussions he may face, declined comment. He said Seiden does not represent Nakoula, who is on probation for a bank fraud case in which he opened 600 fraudulent credit accounts, in civil matters.
According to the terms of his probation, Nakoula was allowed to only access websites with the permission of probation officials and for work purposes. It is unclear who uploaded the film to the site.
The lawsuit also names Sam Bacile, an alias that Nakoula gave to The Associated Press after the trailer was linked to protests that have since killed at least 30 people in seven countries, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
“Charlie Hebdo” is a weekly French satirical pornographic magazine for perverts and popular atheist consumption, sold freely in all newspaper outlets and within easy reach of teenagers.
It is said to be “satirical” magazine only because France is ruled by the Devil himself, the morally bankrupt Judeo-Christian, Judeo-Protestant, and Laïque (Secular) Marxist left, and Israelist Jews like Laurent Fabius (former Prime Minister of Zionist France who is now drumming for war against Iran!) and Nicolas Sarkozy (former Knesset puppet President of Zionist France who too wants war with all Arabs and all Muslims worldwide).
The same Israelist Jew Laurent Fabius teamed up with Communist Gayssot and passed Fabius-Gayssot Law outlawing any criticism of the Holocaust (or of Israel), but is in favour of “freedom of speech” when Islam, Muslims and Arabs are demonised and the French populace is incited to hatred and violence against Muslims in France and worldwide! Or when the Pope and Catholics are demonised.
“Charlie Hebdo” is a weekly satirical pornographic magazine even if most depictions are cartoon like.Literature deemed as pornographic does not have to be illustrated with real photographs of male and female prostitutes or whores to de described as pornographic!“Charlie Hebdo” started as Hara-Kiri (a satirical porn magazine, which was banned), then Hara-Kiri Hebdo Weekly which was banned again.
In one of the Hara-Kiri issues, on the cover John Paul II was shown (having sex?) with naked or half naked nuns, but I cannot confirm the details of the cover depiction.
However, I still have a copy of Hara-Kiri Hebdo which I purchased for 10 francs (£1 then in English money) in Gare-du-Nord during one of my travels (sold to any Tom, Dick and Harry!), Hara-Kiri Hebdo, Wednesday, Number 3 released at the time of the European orchestrated mass rape of Muslim women and girls in Bosnia Herzegovina in the nineties.The European Union was then led by British Prime Minister John Major and the Europeans were behind the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Balkans at the behest of Israel and the US.
On the cover of that Hara-Kiri issue we see some 20 cartoons of naked women being raped and with sperm all over their body, front and back, and the title: “SERBS MORE POWERFUL THAN PATRICK BRUEL!Patrick Bruel is a French Jewish Supremacist!
The cover depicts a Cartoon Serb Soldier with a huge naked male organ shouting:
“Send me more sperm.My balls are empty!”
And, the raped Muslim women coming and screaming:
“more…continue, please…more…more…oh yes, more…yea…oh yea…yes, yes more…yes, continue, please…for heaven’s sake, put it in again…”
On page 3 of the same issue, we see the photographs of the editor of Hara-Kiri Georges Bernier aka “Professor Shoron” and of three naked women holding their legs up and showing their genitals wide open with a caption saying they were “authentic” Bosnian women with banners attached to their legs saying:
We demand courting before the act
Our body is not a motorway
Down with penetrations by surprise
This is the type of filth that Jewish Zionist France enjoys with the blessings of the Catholic Church and the Vatican and of the entire West!
Now, you must have a clear idea of what “Charlie Hebdo” really is!
As for the demonstrations of outrage in public with the burning of flags, I am totally against, but it is impossible to prevent some more vulnerable people (like in all countries, Muslims or not) from feeling so outraged as to commit some irrational acts.Anyway, it is not because of such public demonstrations of anger that make the West go and bomb Muslim countries and plunder their wealth!
Bon appétit with the French Jewish Marxist porn!
BAFS
P.S.THIS IS WESTERN CIVILISATION!
Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/FileMon, Oct 1, 2012
Competitors in Brazil's Miss Bum Bum pageant wait to record a TV program in Osasco, a surburb of Sao Paulo, on September 24. Brazil's upcoming municipal elections are being overshadowed by the online contest, which seeks to find the cutest female behind
France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing crude, lewd caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Wednesday’s issue of the provocative satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were firebombed last year, raised concerns that France could face violent protests like the ones targeting theUnited States over an amateur video produced in California that have left at least 30 people dead.
The drawings, some of which depicted Muhammad naked and in demeaning or pornographic poses, were met with a swift rebuke by the French government, which warned the magazine could be inflaming tensions, even as it reiterated France’s free speech protections.
The principle of freedom of expression “must not be infringed,”Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, speaking on France Interradio.
But he added: “Is it pertinent, intelligent, in this context to pour oil on the fire? The answer is no.”
Anger over the film “Innocence of Muslims” has fueled violent protests from Asia to Africa. In the Lebanese port city of Tyre, tens of thousands of people marched in the streets Wednesday, chanting “Oh, America, you are God’s enemy!”
Worried France might be targeted, the government ordered its embassies, cultural centers, schools and other official sites to close on Friday — the Muslim holy day — in 20 countries. It also immediately shut down its embassy and the French school in Tunisia, the site of deadly protests at theU.S. Embassy last week.
The French Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning urging French citizens in the Muslim world to exercise “the greatest vigilance,” avoiding public gatherings and “sensitive buildings.”
The controversy could prove tricky for France, which has struggled to integrate its Muslim population, Western Europe’s largest. Many Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad should not be depicted at all — even in a flattering way — because it might encourage idolatry.
Violence provoked by the anti-Islam video, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, womanizer and child molester, began with a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, then quickly spread toLibya, where an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead.
In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Obama administration believed the French magazine images “will be deeply offensive to many and have the potential to be inflammatory.”
“We don’t question the right of something like this to be published,” he said, pointing to the U.S. Constitution’s protections of free expression. “We just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it.”
In a statement, Arab League chief Nabil Elarabi called the cartoons “provocative and disgraceful” and said their publication added complexity to an already inflamed situation. He said the drawings arose from ignorance of “true Islam and its holy prophet.”
A lawsuit was filed against Charlie Hebdo hours after the issue hit newsstands, the Paris prosecutor’s office said, though it would not say who filed it. The magazine also said its website had been hacked.
Riot police took up positions outside the magazine’s offices, which were firebombed last year after it released an edition that mocked radical Islam.
Chief editor Stephane Charbonnier, who publishes under the pen name “Charb” and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons.
“Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he told The Associated Press. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Quranic law.”
He said he had no regrets and felt no responsibility for any violence.
“I’m not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs,” he said. “We’ve had 1,000 issues and only three problems, all after front pages about radical Islam.”
The cartoonist, who goes by the name Luz, also was defiant.
“We treat the news like journalists. Some use cameras, some use computers. For us, it’s a paper and pencil,” he said. “A pencil is not a weapon. It’s just a means of expression.”
A small-circulation weekly, Charlie Hebdo often draws attention for ridiculing sensitivity about the Prophet Muhammad. It was acquitted in 2008 by a Paris appeals court of “publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion” following a complaint by Muslim associations.
The magazine has staked out a sub-genre in France’s varied media universe with its cartoons. Little is sacred, and Wednesday’s issue also featured caricatures of people as varied as Clint Eastwood, an unnamed Roman Catholic cardinal who looked a bit like Pope John Paul II and French President Francois Hollande, a staple.
At the demonstration in Lebanon, Nabil Kaouk, deputy chief of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, warned the United States and France not to anger Muslims.
“Be careful of the anger of our nation that is ready to defend the prophet,” he said. “Our hearts are wounded and our chests are full of anger.”
Nasser Dheini, a 40-year-old farmer, said instead of boosting security at its embassies, France should close down the offending magazine.
“Freedom of opinion should not be by insulting religions,” said Dheini, carrying his 4-year-old son Sajed.
Outside the magazine’s Paris offices, a passer-by wearing a traditional Muslim tunic said he was neither surprised nor shocked by the cartoons. He criticized France’s decision to close embassies and schools for fear of protests by extremists.
“It gives legitimacy to movements that don’t have any,” said Hatim Essoufaly, who was walking his toddler in a stroller.
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Egypt Issues Arrest Warrants for Terry Jones and Anti-Islam Filmmaker
On Tuesday, Egypt’s general prosecutor issued eight arrest warrants for anti-Muslim U.S. pastor Terry Jones, producerNakoula Basseley Nakoula and six other Coptic Christiansassociated with the incendiary film Innocence of Muslims, the The prosecutor’s office says the seven men and one woman could face the death penalty and are charged with “harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam and spreading false information.” It’s not clear where the other Coptic Christians live (an names them as Adel Riad, Morris Sadek, Nabil Bissada, Esmat Zaklama, Elia Bassily, Ihab Yaacoub and Jack Atallah) but the prosecutor says they are outside of Egypt at the moment. Meanwhile Jones and Nakoula live in the free lands of Florida and California, respectively, where it’s not a crime to make or promote a movie that depicts the prophet Muhammad as an effete homosexual.
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However, that doesn’t mean their security situation isn’t a major legal headache for U.S. officials. As the U.S. is in a tricky position. “If the government were to overtly protect Nakoula, it could be seen by some as tacit approval of the film, and further enflame protests. Leaving him to fend for himself could have deadly consequences. There are examples of violence against others who have written or spoken against Muhammad.” So far, the government has offered some assistance, in the form of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies escorting Nakoula to a meeting with probation officials in the dead of night.
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One would assume the U.S. would reject any Egyptian extradition request on First Amendment grounds, which could inflame Egyptian sentiment further. As Lawrence Rosenthal, a professor at Chapman University’s School of Law, . ‘‘The thing that makes this particularly difficult for the United States is that … we treat what most of us would refer to as hate speech as constitutionally protected speech and Americans don’t appreciate, I think, how unusual this position seems in the rest of the world.” You can say that again.
View PhotoAnti-Islam Film: Seventeen Killed in Pakistan
Pakistani officials said 17 people have been killed in protests against an anti-Islam film - including a dozen in Karachi.
The fatalities came as demonstrations swept across the world on Friday over a US made film denigrating the Prophet Mohammed. At least 47 people have died overall in violence linked to the movie, including the US ambassador to Libya.
:: Pakistan Tens of thousands protested around the country after the government encouraged peaceful protests and declared a national holiday - "Love for the Prophet Day". But demonstrations turned violent as police and protesters clashed in several Pakistani cities – including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Five people were killed in Peshawar and 12 in Karachi. One of the dead was identified as Mohammad Amir, a driver for a Pakistani television station, who was killed after police opened fire on rioters torching a cinema in Peshawar. The United States has paid for adverts on Pakistani television which show US President Barack Obama and US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton denouncing the film. But the president has also suggested Islamist extremists are manipulating the protests for their own ends. "What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage of the video was used as an excuse by extremists to see if they could directly harm US interests," he said.
:: France Meanwhile, security has been tightened in France after a satirical magazine published drawings featuring the Prophet Mohammed naked. French authorities declared street protests had been banned and interior minister Manuel Valls said there would be a crackdown if the ban was challenged. "There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up," he said. Charlie Hebdo magazine has said the cartoons were merely designed to satirise the international furore over the film, and the pictures have yet to cause public disorder in France. But French embassies, schools and cultural centres have been shut in 20 Muslim countries, on orders from French authorities, and the magazine's offices have been put under police guard. Mohammed Moussaoui, leader of the French Muslim Council, described both the film and the cartoons as "acts of aggression". But he appealed to French Muslims not to take to the streets to protest.
:: Germany Several hundred people gathered in the city of Freiburg in southwest of Germany to protest the film. Police banned inflammatory slogans. Some carried banners saying: "The dignity of the Prophet Muhammad is our dignity." The Interior Ministry postponed a poster campaign aimed at countering radical Islam among young people due to tensions caused by the US-made video. Posters for the campaign - in German, Turkish and Arabic - were meant to go on display in German cities with large immigrant populations on Friday, but are being withheld because of the changed security situation.
:: Iraq About 3,000 people, mostly followers of Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim groups, protested against the film and French cartoons in Basra. Demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, chanting "death to America" and "no to America."
:: United Kingdom Some 100 people gathered near the Bullring in Birmingham on Friday afternoon, although the motive of the protest is unclear. No violence has been reported.
:: Bangladesh About 10,000 Bangladeshis took to the streets of Dhaka, outside the country's National Mosque, shouting slogans and carrying placards. A mock coffin of President Obama was burnt and a mock execution was held of the creator of the film Innocence Of Muslims. The protesters also set fire to a French flag as they carried placards stating "Obama, you are a cheater!" and "Protest the disgrace of Prophet Muhammed!" About 90% of Bangladesh's 153 million people are Muslims.
:: Sri Lanka In the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, up to 2,000 Muslims were reported to have burnt effigies of Mr Obama One of the protest organisers, Mujibur Rahman, said Muslims in Sri Lanka "have come to the streets today to join with Muslims all over the world" to protest against the film's insults to Islam and Prophet Mohammed. He threatened to continue protests if the "US fails to ban this film and arrest its creators".
:: North Africa Tunisian authorities banned all demonstrations on Friday and in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed last week, but protests were being planned. Lebanese Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites took part in protests in the southern port city of Sidon, where Sunni clerics called "a day of rage" against insults to the Prophet Mohammed but urged followers to contain their anger to inside the mosques.
:: Lebanon Thousands gathered in the Bekaa valley for the latest in a series of protest rallies organised by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Protesters carried the yellow Hezbollah flag.
:: Malaysia About 3,000 Muslims marched on the US embassy, burning an American flag topped with the Jewish Star of David. Although there was no violence, angry demonstrators declared their willingness to sacrifice their lives to defend the honour of the Prophet Mohammed and warned "there will be consequences" over the film. "We will not allow the prophet to be insulted. We are willing to sacrifice our lives and property," said Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, an official with the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, which spearheaded the march.
:: Indonesia Indonesians staged anti-French and anti-American protests in the capital Jakarta. Protesters gathered outside US and French embassies, which were closed on the Muslim holy day amid fears of violence. Demonstrators targeted American fast food outlets, and there were minor scuffles with police. In Medan, North Sumatra province, dozens of protesters from the hardline Islamic Defenders Front burnt an American flag outside the US consulate.
:: Afganistan About 900 people have gathered for a protest against the film in the capital, Kabul, chanting "death to America" and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and an American flag. A few hundred demonstrators also protested inside a mosque in the eastern city of Ghazni. The protests were peaceful.
#9 by MJ on September 21, 2012 – 1:28 pm “Basheer so true, this along with the firing of the generals are good moves by Egypt.” DEAR MJ Salaam Thanks for the observation. As you know I have been spending quite some time interviewing and speaking to Satan himself, and I enjoy doing it, but this woman is worse than Satan. Miss Leigh Sales has hate written on her face and every word she utters is full of lies, hate, disinformation and venom. Of course, Brother Mustafa is not a “preacher of hate”, and Miss Leigh knows this very well as she has gone through the ‘pain’ to find out whether he was preaching hate or not. Strangely enough, she should have known this was not true, but by some kind of (Jewish) miracle all she found was one fake website, most probably set up by MOSSAD, Jews or Zionists, with totally fabricated statements that Brother Mustafa confirms are not from Hizb ut Tahrir, and which she almost defiantly ‘handed over’ to him as HER evidence. And, she really did not seem concerned in the least that she was wrong, or caught up using disinformation live, when Brother Mustafa said “this does not look like our website”. Her main concern was exclusively about Jews and Israel. “ERADICATING ISRAEL AND PURIFYING THE EARTH OF JEWISH FILTHS”. That is certainly hateful, isn’t it? This is all she could come up with as evidence, a fake website! She does not give a damn about Muslims, about their suffering, about them being exterminated by the millions, starved, persecuted, exiled, tortured, demonised, and raped, and so on. “DO YOU THIK THAT JEWS SHOULD BE ERADICATED?” This is all she is interested in, and she even condones the slaughter the West and the Jews (like Bernard Henri Lévi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Laurent Fabius…) carried out in Libya because she argues Colonel Ghaddafi committed the capital crime of “not doing a great job for its citizens”! On the good side, Brother Mustafa managed to say without being interrupted (which shows that Miss Leigh is not that vicious!) what Hizb ut Tahrir and I have been saying for decades now, that WE NEED TO ESTABALISH A KHILAAFAH AND SHARI’A LAW IN OUR OWN MUSLIM LANDS! Miss Leigh proves that she is just another stooge for Israel and the Jews or Jewish interest by trying to insinuate that Br Mustafa was condoning the killing of the US ambassador. Her logic stinks. After admitting that she heard Br Mustafa say on a Youtube video: “American ambassadors should not be in Muslim countries. They should leave and go home.”, which he confirms, she asks Br Mustafa if he was saying THEREFORE THAT THE US AMBASSADOR WAS ASKING FOR IT BECAUSE HE WAS THERE, which, of course, he was not saying! Lastly, our brave Miss Leigh seemed so concerned about a child carrying a sign saying: “BEHEAD ALL THOSE WHO INSULT PROPHET MUHAMMAD!” But, she shows no concern at all about all the Muslims that the West is beheading, bombing, killing, holocausting, on a daily basis. But, I bet if Brother Mustafa would explain himself and Hizb ut Tahrir policy independently, no mainstream media would air it at all, including her. Yet, on the whole, we have to give the she-devil her due, as she allowed Brother Mustapha to say what he wanted to say and toned down her aggressiveness near the end. So, she is not that bad after all, and may even make a good Muslimah, insha’Allah! I am glad to see our Brother Mustafa keeping his calm. I would not have been able to. But, my initial remark (which I have removed) was that our Brother Mustafa was a blooming idiot for exposing himself and Muslims to ridicule like our Br Dr Tariq Ramadan does so often. This nonsense about “peaceful protest” by calling for street picnics where the innocent gets injured and even killed should stop! Sixteen got killed today FOR NOTHING in Pakistan! Why not PEACEFUL BOYCOTT INSTEAD? I went shopping to buy wholemeal sliced bread several times, but each time I found it had E471 in its ingredients, which is en anzyme obtained either from pork (cheaper to make) or beef. So, I did not buy it. Out of all the drinks they sell in the shops, I buy only juices pressed from fruits and with no artificial junk like aspartame. I try to avoid meat as much as possible because meat is a killer and eat as ‘natural’ as possible although I have not far to go in life. My grand daughters want me to live longer and I pray to God to give me health to be able to take care of them as long as possible! I do not waste food or money and do not buy junk like most City Muslims do! So, protesting is picnic (in my view) while boycotting hurts the usurious Jews and the war mongers EXACTLY where it should! Now, it is useless to protest when we support Muslim governments that are members of the Zionist United Nations Dictatorship! We will not be able to establish the Khilaafah as long as we bow down to UN dictates! Without the Khilaafah, Islam will remain in the gutter and Muslims will continue to be exterminated! Thanks again. Salaam. Basheer
Islamophobia is modern day racism. Insulting someone and calling it freedom of speech. Like the CNN, whose ignorant recent poll was no different than if they were to ask the Jews about the Holocaust or the Africans about Slavery. If there are laws in place to protect people from anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia, then why is Islamophobia accepted?
The sacrilegious film “Innocence of Muslims” that mocked Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and Islam has profoundly hurt the sensitivities of Muslims and sparked violent protests all over the world. It has renewed the debate about sanctity of religion and controversial approaches towards freedom of speech. What is freedom of speech and expression? Does it allow humiliation of any divine religion, its prophet, its faith, and values that are perceived sacred by the followers of that religion? If it does allow all such things then why freedom of expression has always been used against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)? These are a few questions frequently raised by Muslims across the world. Muslims have been protesting against the movie, at some places protests are staged in a peaceful way while in most states these have turned violent, such as the killing of American diplomats in Libya and the burning of public and private property and loss of innocent lives in Pakistan. This is not the first time when blasphemous act has been committed against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), there has been a chain of events, at first books were written to defame the Prophat Muhammad (PBUH), then caricatures were drawn in Denmark and other European newspapers and now a malicious attempt has been made to produce a sacrilegious movie. This movie has followed by publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the Frenchmagazine Charlie Hebdo that have added fuel to anti-Western sentiments in Muslims. In the post 9/11 era the wrong image of Islam has been portrayed in the Western societies and it is considered as a threat to Western civilization. New terminologies are being introduced that are being associated with Islam such as radicalization, extremism, fundamentalism, Islamic terrorism and Islamophobia. People like Sam Bacile are representing the so-called Islamophobia, the filmmaker has deliberated focused on fermenting violence. Filmmakers should have anticipated that it will create unrest and violence in Muslim societies because for the Muslims, love for Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has been considered as part of the faith. Veneration of all prophets of Allah is a fundamental principle of faith in Islam. If we see what has been the reaction of Muslim states it becomes obvious that Muslim masses are protesting against blasphemy of their religion but their leaders are silent. They have not raised a collective voice. Unfortunately, there is lack of will on the part of Muslim leaders to project a common cause. Criminalizing the defamation of religion has been on the agenda of OIC for some time but it could not get support from the western liberal democracies. At present, Turkey is heading the OIC, but it is not yet clear that organization has consulted with its members to bring a resolution to ban blasphemy. OIC member states must get agreed on a common agenda that UN should declare blasphemy as a criminal offence and should present their case from a unitary platform so that it could have a forceful effect. If denial of holocaust has been prohibited by law in majority of Western states to respect the sensitivities of 13 million Jewish population then why indifferent laws and practices against over 1.5 billion Muslim population? It is our right to protest against such attacks on our religion but the protest should be staged in a peaceful manner. Our Prophet (PBUH) stood for peace in his whole life. If we resort to violent means and destruction of our own property then we may not be able to highlight the noble cause to which each one of us is duty bound to raise our voice. Western notion of freedom of speech and expression can not be accepted in its current form. There should be a clear distinction between what constitutes free speech and what will be considered as hate speech against any religion. Turkish Prime Minister has rightly said that free speech comes with boundaries, “Freedom of thought and belief ends where the freedom of thought and belief of others starts”. UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon referring to anti-Islam movie has also made it clear that the right of freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others’ values and beliefs can not be protected, it can only be guaranteed and protected as a fundamental right when it is used for common justice, and common purpose. To promote interfaith harmony, it is the duty of Western governments to take this issue seriously and to come up with some proposals that could address the discriminatory law of freedom of expression and could differentiate between freedom of speech and blasphemy.
Insults, incitement and Islam
Across the Muslim World there is rightly outrage and hurt at the latest calculated attack on Islam, in the form of the film trailer Innocence of Muslims. All who hold human rights and moral decency close to their heart share their indignation. Freedom of speech is a basic human right, protected under Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states 1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. And 2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression. Rights enshrined in law that are nevertheless denied to many, rights supposedly honoured in democratic countries. Expressions of free speech that are little more than propaganda, that consciously incite hatred and spark acts of violence are rightly restricted under the very law that protects our freedom of expression. Article 20, paragraph 2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. Innocence of Muslims The deliberately amateurish film with no real narrative portrays the Prophet Mohammed as a violent and lascivious fool. It is cheaply made, poorly acted and directed, and as a piece of filmmaking it is to be dismissed out of hand, but as The Guardian 17/09/2012 put it “the really sinister thing is that all this ham-fistedness and crassness is an important sense deliberate. It has to look like propaganda for the provocation to be effective.” The actors claim they did not know what the film was about, or it’s purpose and some speak of suing the producers. The BBC reports, “One actress featured in the film said she had no idea it would be used for anti-Islamic propaganda and condemned it.” Offensive dialogue that insults Islam and the Prophet Mohammed has been crudely added after filming. The trailer was written and produced in the USA by Nakoula Basseley, a Coptic (Egyptian) Christian living in California, who drafted much of the script whilst serving a prison sentence for fraud. And directed, according to Gawker “by a 65-year-old schlock director named Alan Roberts …. He’s the creative vision behind soft-core porn classics like The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.” Whether a full film version exists is speculation, the trailer however has done its toxic, destructive work. Basseley says his wife’s family paid for the film, but it is still unclear how it was funded or what the cost was. Whatever the amount, it is hard to justify any expense at all on a film rooted in such prejudice and hatred, which serves no purpose other than to hurt and insult Muslims throughout the World, reinforce negative stereotypes, incite violence and fuel division. The film is as The Guardian 17/09/2012 state “a bigoted piece of poison calculated to inflame the Muslim world… it might be risible were it not for the ugly Islamophobia which it promotes and whose effects are now being seen around the world.” Intended fury The film has unsurprisingly prompted widespread protests throughout the World. On the 11th September In Cairo protesters scaled the walls of the embassy, pulled down the US flag and called for the expulsion of the US ambassador to Cairo. In Libya the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American staff members were killed in the American embassy in what appears to have been an unrelated pre-planned military style attack, as The Observer 16/09/2012 comments “The murder of US diplomats was not carried out spontaneously, but by a jihadist militia that wanted to kill Americans on the 9/11 anniversary.” Protests directly triggered by the offensive, degrading film, have since taken place in countries with large Muslim populations, sadly causing as the BBC 14/09/2012 reports more loss of life. “Three people were killed when the US embassy in Khartoum was attacked, Sudanese state radio said. In Tunisia, two people were killed after crowds breached the US embassy compound in Tunis. There was one death in Egypt and one in Lebanon.” In Yemen hundreds of students demonstrated in the capital Sanaa and demanded the US ambassador be expelled, thousands waved flags on the streets of Beirut and chanted “America hear us – don’t insult our Prophet.” The Guardian 17/09/2012 reports that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah has “called for new demonstrations to express outrage at a film that denigrates Islam and the prophet Muhammad. “Prophet of God, we offer ourselves, our blood and our kin for the sake of your dignity and honour,” Nasrallah told supporters who chanted “death to Israel” and “death to America” at a rally in the southern Shia suburbs of Beirut.” The Philippines Indonesia, usually calm Qatar, Afghanistan, London, Kashmir, all have witnessed demonstrations and in Pakistan access to You tube has been blocked by the government, the Prime Minister, rightly describing the film as “”blasphemous.” Such is the deep-seated feeling amongst the people of the Muslim community. An open wound has been deliberately inflamed and the people cry out in anger and frustration. Free speech or incitement The film and the reaction to it, has prompted much to be written and spoken about unrestricted free speech and the dangers of censorship. Writing in The Observer Nick Cohen argues that, “Nothing, however vile, justifies censorship. Even in the hardest of cases such as this anti-Islamic film, the old arguments against censorship remain the best.” The observation of basic human rights is the foundation for any democratic society and free speech is a fundamental requirement. Where it is absent totalitarian control of one kind of another becomes possible, perhaps inevitable. There are though many methods of control and restriction of freedoms, both crude and subtle. Is for example the manufacturing of consent, a form of sociological coercion commonplace in America (and elsewhere) compatible with freedom and/or democratic principles of independent thinking and participation. Noam Chomsky, “the anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious, and for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.” The ‘Great Beast’ is of course us – the 99%. The making and distribution of this film is not an expression of freedom of any kind, it contributes nothing of value to the political environment or social discourse and has no artistic merit. The Anna Lindh Foundation reinforces this view in their statement made on 16/09/12, asserting “Innocence of Muslims is an inflammatory pamphlet, the distribution of which – on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th – cannot be abridged to a manifestation of freedom of expression.” International law, acting as a guide and aid to clarity of thinking, states there are limits to free speech. Where such expression is clearly based on racial or religious hatred and incites violence, then it is illegal and the perpetrators subject to prosecution. For where the law is infringed consequences follow – something Israel should be made aware of. What is crucial is the motive. If something is spoken, written, painted, drawn, filmed etc. with the premeditated intention of causing offense, because it is rooted in hatred of one kind or another it is outside the law. Freedom of expression is indeed a fundamental human right, but it does not stand alone, or above other related rights, such as human dignity and mutual respect. All need to coexist and indeed all are indivisible. Unless the filmmakers of Innocence of Muslims are completely naïve or plain stupid, they would have known that producing a film in which the Prophet Mohammed is portrayed, as a violent, promiscuous simpleton would inevitably cause offense and would probably result in violent demonstrations. Therefore the film breaches international guidelines on free speech, and should be banned, its makers charged and prosecuted. Al Jazeera 14/09/2012 quote the filmmaker Danny Schechter, whose view on the film is clear: “It is very political from beginning to end. It’s not about free expression; it’s about propaganda. The film is incitement – it’s not information, it’s not filmmaking and it’s really intended as a technique of war-making.” What good can possibly come from continuing to allow such a distasteful film to be circulated? It serves no purpose other than to provoke further potential violence. Enabling Muslims to be marginalized and demonized once more, constructing some perverse justification for continued American and Israeli intimidation, aggression and the spreading of paranoia. Allowing this film to be shown or not has little to do with censorship and/or free speech, and to reduce this issue to such notions is a convenient, distraction, fabricated in order to avoid discussing the filmmakers intention and the underlying causes of Islamists hurt and anger, which arise largely out of American foreign policy. Simmering resentment “the safeguard of justice” Opinion amongst large numbers of Islamists throughout the Muslim World towards America is overwhelmingly negative. The Pew Research Center found in a recent survey that “There remains a widespread perception that the U.S. acts unilaterally and does not consider the interests of other countries. In predominantly Muslim nations, American anti-terrorism efforts are still widely unpopular.” In fact according to the Pew report only 15% of Muslims have confidence in President Obama, approve of his foreign policies and hold favorable views of America in general. Pew state, “In a number of strategically important Muslim nations, America’s image has not improved during the Obama presidency.” In fact it has deteriorated, as US policies throughout the region continue to cause consternation amongst large numbers of Muslims, (and of course more widely). American support for Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, which violates a host of international and indeed national laws and contravenes numerous UN resolutions, is perhaps top of the list. Followed by the Iraq war US involvement in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen, long running proxy wars in Somalia, and US support for what the BBC call ‘friendly dictators’. Add confinement without trial, abuse and torture in Guantanamo and Bagram prisons, the burning of the Qur’an by US soldiers in Afghanistan and Florida Pastor Terry Jones and disrespecting the dead bodies of Afghans. The list is indeed long and damning, and so it goes on. The recent demonstrations were simply sparked by the film Innocence of Muslims; it was of course not the root cause of the protests. As the BBC 15/09/2012 state “we are witnessing profound anti-Americanism, dormant for much of last year, fused with religious extremism – with the controversial Innocence of Muslims film merely a trigger.” Of course extremists were involved they never miss an opportunity, their violent actions distorting the events feeding prejudice and creating a convenient diversion from the issues. US ideals of peace justifying conflict All violence is to be condemned and the attacks that caused deaths and injuries resulting from these protests are no exception, they should not be allowed to take centre stage though, and it must be stated that the vast majority of actions undertaken have been peaceful and without incident. The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) says in relation to the protests that “the vast majority of Muslim public opinion has expressed its anger to the release of the film peacefully and individually, and the Arab governments of the region have reiterated their commitment with cultural inclusiveness while condemning the attacks to diplomatic delegations.” To speak with solemnity and shock, calling for justice against the perpetrators of violence as US officials have, is expected and indeed right, albeit hypocritical and reactionary. In order to create peace however it is necessary to remove the causes of conflict, in this case those causes are complex and not confined to one poorly made deeply offensive film. Offensive let us add, not just to Muslims, who are understandably enraged, but to all right minded men and women respectful and tolerant of others beliefs and cultures. American foreign policy is seen by many to be that which seeks to extend the influence and maximize the power of America, safeguard their interests at the expense of others and the natural environment and support criminality – Israel comes to mind. Such distasteful American foreign policies go back decades, as Noam Chomsky states in The Guardian “Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the US in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.” A perception proved to be correct. Ideologically driven, rooted in a desire to export worldwide an American version, or vision, of democracy, which they claim to be the highest ideal for all. The attitude is that when all follow America’s lead on matters relating to economics, politics, religion and social affairs, peace will inevitably follow, and not until. With this doctrine in mind America has sought to dominate the world, repeatedly making war in the name of peace. Peace though is beyond ideology. For peace to envelop our world as men ad women everywhere hope, there must be tolerance, cooperation and understanding of others, not ideological imposition – of any kind. The equitable sharing of natural resources, of knowledge, ideas and experience will create justice. Dissipating mistrust and resentment leading to peace and a natural movement towards unity that encourages the greatest possible diversity enriching the lives of us all.
Occidental double standards
The recent outrage by the Muslim Ummah protesting against a low budget blasphemous movie produced in theUSAand the West’s condemnation of the remonstration of the Islamists depict occidental double standards. The US State Department assures the Muslims that the sacrilegious film was not sponsored by it. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during her meeting with her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, made it clear that the protests that had turned violent and, sadly, resulted in loss of life, cannot be tolerated. She admitted that there is provocation, and theUShad made clear that it does not in any way support provocation. She reiterated that theUSadministration found the video, which is at the core of this series of events, offensive, disgusting and reprehensible. Unfortunately, the West displays double standards in its dealing. Terry Jones, a small time pastor of Dove World Outreach Centre, a small nondenominational Christian church inGainesville,Florida, had his 10 minutes of fame when he burnt copies of the Holy Quràn. His despicable act was condemned, but no legal action was taken against him. The Danish caricatures ridiculing Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) were in bad taste and violently protested by the Muslim Ummah, but no legal action was taken against the cartoonist, who caused mental agony to billions of Muslims all over the globe. Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses, was revered by the West although his blasphemous book was reviled by the Muslims all over the globe. Now similar revulsion has been caused by the profane film, which would have gone unnoticed if the producer had not taken pains to translate it in Arabic and post it on YouTube. The sad aspect is that all these heinous acts causing mental anguish to Muslims for defaming their beloved Prophet (PBUH) are brushed aside by the West under the ‘Freedom of Speech Act’. It is, indeed, doublespeak when the punishment for the denial of Holocaust ranges to imprisonment of one up to 10 years in a number of Western countries. Nudity is permissible but in some Western countries, Muslim women covering their heads with scarves can be punished or sacked from their jobs or expelled from educational institutions. InDenmark, the construction of magnificent palaces, citadels and mansions is permissible, but the domes of mosques are prohibited. Smoking at public places is prohibited as it is injurious to health, but the onslaught of venomous comments against a religious entity is permissible under freedom of speech. InGermany, Hitler’s Mein Kampf is banned, but books preaching hate and odium against Islam are tolerable. It is high time that the Occident reviews its laws against blasphemy and the reviling of other religions. On the other hand, Muslims, and especially Pakistanis, need to rein in our anger.September 21, 2012, was declared as the day of ‘Love for the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’, but it turned into a day of expressing extreme hatred, violence and aggression. The same Holy Prophet (PBUH), whom we revere and whose Sunnah (teaching and practices) we are ordained to follow, were conveniently forgotten. The Prophet (PBUH) was a paragon of love and virtue. He decried violent behaviour and forgave even those who caused him physical harm. Against this backdrop, Pakistanis, who attacked and burned a church, cinema houses, looted ATMs, torched cars and petrol pumps, only caused damage to their own country. They lost an ideal opportunity to display to the world that their sentiments had been hurt. By giving vent to their emotions through violent acts, they only revealed their barbaric nature and brought Islam a bad name. No wonder, an Indian student has taunted that India does not need to build Pakistan-specific Agni and Prithvi missiles —- “just produce a blasphemous movie, post it on YouTube and in retaliation, Pakistanis will destroy their own country.”
Brazil moves against Google over videos
A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to remove an anti-Islam video that prompted violent protests across the Muslim world, while an elections court has ordered the arrest of a Google executive after the popular video-sharing service failed to remove a video attacking a mayoral candidate. Tuesday’s decision by a state court in Sao Paulo, home to a large Middle Eastern immigrant community, came just hours after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff criticised “Islamophobia” in Western countries in a speech at the UN. In a statement, the court said Judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the video-sharing site ten days to remove videos of the film, “Innocence of Muslims”. After that, it will face fines of $5,000 a day for every day the clips remain accessible in Brazil. The case against the controversial film was brought by a Brazilian Muslim group, the National Islamic Union, against Google Inc, the owner of YouTube, for posting on the internet a film it said was offensive and a violation of the constitutional right to freedom of religion. Miranda said the case juxtaposed freedom of expression and the need to protect individuals or groups of people from action that might incite religious discrimination. Miranda concluded that banning something illegal should not “offend” freedom of thought and expression, according to the ruling posted online by Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. It was not the only Brazilian court ruling against Google on Tuesday. Earlier, an elections court ordered the arrest of Google’s most senior executive in Brazil after the company failed to take down YouTube videos attacking a local mayoral candidate. Google is appealing the order, which follows a similar decision by another Brazilian election judge. In that case, a judge found another senior executive responsible for violating local election law. That decision was overturned last week. The legal challenges underline broader questions about Google’s responsibility for content uploaded by third parties to its websites. Fifteen people were killed in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video on Friday. People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made by a 55-year-old California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Muslim leaders condemn Islamophobia at UN General Assembly
Muslim leaders have called on the Western countries to stop spreading Islamophobia and blasphemy in their communities, challenging US President Barack Obama’s defense of freedom of expression. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Obama condemned the “violence and intolerance” which has erupted across the world over a blasphemous anti-Islam film produced in the United States. He also stated that the removal of such sacrilegious videos or offensive publications from the Internet would be a violation of the US constitution, which “protects the right to practice free speech.” Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono challenged Obama’s speech, saying the insulting movie was another example of religious defamation.
Yudhoyono stressed that freedom of expression is “not absolute” as according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “everyone must observe morality and public order.”
He also called for the establishment of an international “instrument to effectively prevent incitement to hostility or violence based on religions or beliefs.” In addition to Yudhoyono, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari asked the UN to take actions against the “incitement of hate” against Muslims. “Although we can never condone violence, the international community must not become silent observers and should criminalize such acts that destroy the peace of the world and endanger world security by misusing freedom of expression,” Zardari said during his speech at the General Assembly. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounced the anti-Islam movie and said, “The menace of Islamophobia is a worrying phenomenon that threatens peace and co-existence.” The Muslim world has been boiling with anti-Western sentiments over a blasphemous film named Innocence of Muslims, which insults Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). Muslim protesters across the globe demand the US government apologize to the Muslims and punish those behind the blasphemous act.
Freedom of Speech - Double Standards?
Dr Amjid Muhammad
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In other words there is a fine balance between the freedom of speech and the freedom to offend. Freedom of speech is curtailed if it dishonours unjustifiably or if it can cause harm to the wider public. The Muslim would argue that the west, when it applies this principle to Islam, does so with an element of prejudice. It fails to consider the unjustifiable attack on the reputation of the Prophet Muhammad, or the public disorder that such expressions can lead to. In a world which is increasingly resembling a global village, the later must surely come into consideration.
Embassies are razed, diplomats are lynched, protesters have marched with unbridled aggression from east to west. The Islamic world and the West once again finds itself at loggerheads arising from two conflicting principles, the right of 'freedom of speech' against the right to 'defend one's honour'. What ensues is a repetitive discourse occurs between the two.
The argument a Liberal-Secular puts forward is that he can say what he wants without the Muslim having the right to be offended. He will then further propose that Muslims should be mature enough to handle such insults. The Muslims would argue that it is well understood that the freedom of speech is not absolute. Exceptions have always been made against blasphemy. Why then, the Muslim would argue, that these exceptions do not apply when Islam or its Prophet are in question?
The right to freedom of expression has been articulated both in the UN’s Universal declaration of Humans Rights as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), however it is well understood that this concept is not absolute. The ICCPR states that restrictions are imposed to "respect of the rights or reputation of others" or "for the protection of national security or of public order...". Even within the United States, the most liberal in terms of freedom of expression due to its Constitution's First amendment, defamation and censorship laws exist.
In other words there is a fine balance between the freedom of speech and the freedom to offend. Freedom of speech is curtailed if it dishonours unjustifiably or if it can cause harm to the wider public. The Muslim would argue that the west, when it applies this principle to Islam, does so with an element of prejudice. It fails to consider the unjustifiable attack on the reputation of the Prophet Muhammad, or the public disorder that such expressions can lead to. In a world which is increasingly resembling a global village, the later must surely come into consideration.
There are many examples which highlight the inconsistency in which the freedom of speech is applied in the west, which implies an underlying prejudice against Islam and Muslims.
The Holocaust perpetrated against the Jews is a dark page in human history. Muslims sympathize with the many innocent lives that were lost during the Nazi era. Nevertheless Holocaust deniers do exist. These Holocaust deniers are not given the freedom to express themselves across 17 European nations in which it is considered a crime. The EU further advocates an optional maximum term of three years in jail to all member nations for denying or grossly trivialising crimes such as the Holocaust. The Muslim will ask why is the balance here towards suppression and not expression? What makes denial of the holocaust a crime while insulting a Prophet of God is not?
Staying in Europe, in 2007 a Swiss court convicted Doğu Perinçek, a Turkish politician, of racial discrimination because he denied the Armenian Genocide. In his defence he argued that he had a right to freedom of expression and added, "I have not denied genocide because there was no genocide". It is a crime in Switzerland to deny the Armenian Genocide and this was also the case in France until recently. Muslims see only duplicity in this.
We just have to look at events over the last week to further strengthen the case of prejudice against Muslims.
In the UK, an advert showing a pregnant nun having ice-cream was banned because according to The Advertising Standards Authority, “it mocked Roman Catholic beliefs”. The Muslim will ask why its ok to mock Islamic beliefs but not Roman Catholic ones?
Again in the UK, a Muslim teenager was charged with “sending a grossly offensive communication”. The teenager posted on facebook, “all soldiers should die and go to hell" two days after 6 British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan. The judged ruled that the comments were "derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory" and understandably so. The Muslim however will ask why "derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory" comments against Islam go punished while a Muslim is punished when Western sentiments are offended?
The French take the cake though. In the country where the cartoons demeaning the Prophet are considered acceptable, protesting against these cartoons is not. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, "There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up”. We are not even allowed to express our objections via peaceful and recognized democratic avenues?
Even in Australia, Senator Cory Bernardi was forced to resign as Tony Abbot’s personal parliamentary secretary because of his perceived homophobic comments; but when he called for banning the burqah or an end to multiculturalism, his leader or party did not see the need to censure him.
It seems, at least from a Muslims point of view, that if a value in question is closer to Western culture, the balance between the freedom of speech and its curtailment shifts towards the latter while in the case of an Islamic value such as the honour of the Prophet Muhammad, the opposite holds true. This inconsistent and perhaps even biased application of this value only compounds the hurt Muslims feel when Islam or any of its symbols are demeaned. This perspective towards understanding the reaction of Muslims towards recent events has long been overlooked.
Virtuous speech is not speech itself, but the impact it has on oneself and others. This is why freedom of speech has its boundaries defined in law. Perhaps it’s time for the West to be equal in its interpretation of this principle and to legislate against mocking Islam and its Prophet, at least for the sake of a more harmonious global village.
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West wages all-out war against divine religions, spiritual values: Activist
Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:27PM GMT
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Interview with Mr. Manfred Petritsch, finance expert and international activist
Well, I think they are trying to… We have to see this as a general picture of a war against spirituality. That means, they are not particularly attacking Islam, but they are attacking spirituality as a whole." So what they are doing now is shifting the focus, after they have finished off Christianity, they are now attacking Islam. But the whole war is against spirituality as a whole."
A blasphemous anti-Islam film from the US followed up with insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from France shows a Western attack on Islam.
This last week in yet another anti-Muslim move, a French magazine published a caricature of the prophet of Islam (PBUH), sparking more outrage in the Muslim world and with no stoppage or condemnation by France or any other Western governments.
Press TV has interviewed Mr. Manfred Petritsch, an international activist and prominent finance expert. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: 1.3 billion people… Muslims. And we have this new wave of attack on Islam. These people, these Western countries, the Western people, those who are attacking Islam - Who are these people and why is it they are doing so?
Petritsch Well, I think they are trying to… We have to see this as a general picture of a war against spirituality. That means, they are not particularly attacking Islam, but they are attacking spirituality as a whole.
The attack against Christianity has been happening already since a long time and Christianity is more or less destroyed.
So what they are doing now is shifting the focus, after they have finished off Christianity, they are now attacking Islam. But the whole war is against spirituality as a whole.
You see, these blasphemous attacks are happening against Christianity all the time, but nobody is doing anything anymore because society and also the people who represent the Christian church are not putting up a fight anymore. They have lost and now they are shifting focus to Islam to also try to destroy their spirituality.
Press TV: We saw in the United States the blasphemous film that sparked tensions and protests all across the world. The US Ambassador to Libya was killed; more than 40 people across the world were killed in those protests.
And right in the midst of all these protests and tensions, France allows a person, a magazine, a publisher to print another set of blasphemous material, this time cartoons insulting the prophet of Islam. And yet the French authorities did not do anything to stop that although they knew that it might create further tension in the world - they didn’t stop that.
At the same time, they stopped the French magazine that published nude pictures of the British princess. So, what is going on here? Why is this happening, why the disparity?
Petritsch Well, this shows you exactly the double standard the West operates in many ways. So if it is against what they want then they of course stop it, like the photos of the princess, which is of course, wrong to invade her personal life.
But how can the insult of a whole religion be less important than the personal feelings of one person?
So, on the one hand the same government or the same system in France closes down a magazine because of nude pictures, but on the other hand allows insulting cartoons against a whole religion. And this shows how the West always uses double standards, in many ways… This exposes it, that what they are doing is a lie.
Press TV: Do you think the attacks will continue - the attacks on Islam?
Petritsch As I said before we are talking about a war against spirituality… You see, a lot of people believe that the cause for all this protest is the film. But I think it’s not the film, the film was just the ignition point.
There was a whole explosive mixture existing because of the American foreign policy or the foreign policy of the West as a whole against all Islamic countries; against the war they are fighting; against this double standard they are doing; against the killer drones, which are killing hundreds of civilians.
And all this explosive mixture was there and now the film came along and was the ignition point. So I think the people are not protesting specially against the film, they are protesting against the whole attitude of the West towards the Islamic countries.
Press TV: The issue of human rights particularly the issue of European countries talk more often than not about the issue of human rights in terms of, they want those countries that they say violate human rights to be brought to justice and they themselves say that they are the biggest advocates of human rights in the world.
A lot of people say that the sanctions against Iran that primarily affect ordinary people in the country; they say these sanctions are in essence in violation of human rights of the Iranian people. What do you think?
Petritsch Absolutely. Anybody who reads the Charter of the United Nations sees that sanctions must not cover, for instance, medical supplies or food and things like that. That means anything that touches the basic human rights of people you cannot sanction, right?
But they are doing it, so they are violating not only their own laws, but also the laws of the United Nations. But who is there to take them to court? That is a big problem, you know.
Press TV: You come from Switzerland. Switzerland is part of the countries that are imposing sanctions against Iran. Is that something legal in terms of the Swiss Constitution, the Swiss internal laws?
Petritsch: No. The Swiss government is acting illegally because Switzerland and the spirit of Switzerland, is based on neutrality. That’s what Switzerland is all about. And it’s about humanitarian aid. That’s also why the Red Cross has its headquarters there, and UNICEF and all these humanitarian organizations.
So what the Swiss government is doing by blindly following the sanctions of the United States and of the EU is, in my opinion, definitely breaking the laws and the spirit of Switzerland.
That is not correct because they’re taking sides, and Switzerland does not take sides -- it always helps, normally, people who are suffering. And I know that the Iranian people are suffering because of these sanctions.
Press TV: How does Switzerland explain, justify the sanctions against Iran?
Petritsch: The Swiss Foreign Ministry and the government say that they cannot step out of line, out of this NATO policy. They cannot be something different because otherwise they will suffer themselves.
But I think that the Swiss politicians should have enough backbone to say to the EU and NATO countries ‘you can do what you want, but we have our own policies’.
Press TV: Switzerland is not taking independent policies?
Petritsch: No. That is a big problem that a lot of people see, that more and more, Switzerland is losing its independence, its own free decision-making, its neutrality. This has a couple of reasons:
First, the reason is that we are, in Switzerland, under huge pressure from the outside because we are surrounded by NATO countries and by EU countries. So you can imagine being a small island in this sea, we are under huge pressure - just like Iran.
They don’t like independent countries. They don’t like countries that don’t follow their policies. So this is a huge pressure. The problem is that our government is collapsing to these pressures and they shouldn’t do that.
Press TV: Let’s talk about a different topic, the issue of terrorism in the world. Militants, insurgency, a lot of al-Qaeda fighters, al-Qaeda insurgents who have been fighting American and NATO forces in the past 11, 12 years, these people are now fighting in Syria against the Syrian government.
When they fight in Afghanistan, they are called insurgents, they are called terrorists. When they fight in Syria, they are called freedom fighters. How does that sit in terms of double standards in the way that the West is looking at these people, the same people, but different titles when it comes to different countries?
Petritsch: Well, here we have again the proof that the West works with double standards. So for the West, there is good terrorism and bad terrorism.
Good terrorism is the terrorism, which works against their enemies, and they use it. Bad terrorism is the one, which works against themselves.
Turkey is a very good example. Turkey allows bases for al-Qaeda terrorists, training camps where they’re supplied with weapons, and then sent to Syria to cause terror. But at the same time, the government fights terror, which comes from the outside, from Iraq, from the PKK.
Here we have a perfect example of how on the one hand they support terrorism when it is to their own good; and on the other hand, they fight it when it is against them. This shows how the West always uses double standards in many ways.
Press TV: Is there anything else that you wanted to discuss?
Petritsch: I would like to say to your viewers that Iran has many friends in the West who are realizing more and more that the way Iran is treated is wrong. Also, that there is a completely wrong picture about Iran out there.
The reason is that the Western media purposely is showing the wrong picture about how the Iranians are, what they think, what they want.
I hope that with more and more information, we can open up the minds of the people more so that they understand that what their governments are doing is wrong against Iran.
We are fighting here an information war. The question is, who will win this information war? We are up against a huge enemy with endless resources, who control all the media and therefore they can show this wrong picture. The question is can we counter that?
On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 am, two masked gunmen forced their way into the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. They killed twelve people, including the editor Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, seven other Charlie Hebdo employees, and two National Police officers, and wounded eleven others. Motive for the attack: The newspaper has attracted worldwide attention for its scurrilous depictions of the prophet Muhammad. The attacks now appear to have ended after 72 hours of carnage. A total of twenty people were killed at four locations between 7 and 9 January, including the three suspects. At least twenty-one others were injured, some critically. The attacks are the deadliest act of terrorism in France for fifty-four years. The remaining staff of Charlie Hebdo announced that publication was to continue as usual, with plans for a print run of one million copies for the next week’s issue, rather than its typical 60,000. (See here) To many observers, the Charlie Hebdo shootings would appear to have all the hallmarks of a false flag attack. There are many unanswered questions. Even as we write, events on the ground are changing. Watch this spot for further developments.
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“Okay, let’s be clear. I am not Muslim. I oppose terrorism. I don’t even support the death penalty. I oppose violence as a means to make a political or ethical point. I fully support freedom of speech, including critical speech and humor. But this morning I am most definitely NOT Charlie. In fact, I am disgusted and nauseated by the sick display of collective hypocrisy about the murders in France. Here is why: The folks at Charlie Hebdo had it coming!”
When I read those words in an article called I am NOT Charlie, by an author who calls himself “the Saker”, I gave a sigh of relief. Why? Because it turns out I wasn’t the only one to have entertained such dangerous thoughts that could get me put away as a potential Al Qaeda sympathizer. There were other people, perhaps millions of them all over the world, who thought just like me. Like the Saker, I too am not a Muslim. I am a Roman Catholic Christian. I also believe firmly in freedom of speech. “Feel free to say whatever you want,” I like to advise. “Have total freedom to say what you want. But be prepared to accept the consequences of free speech.” If you wish to spit in Islam’s face, do so—at your peril. If you wish to insult the Prophet Mohammed, or Jesus Christ, or the Buddha, or anyone else for that matter, feel free to do so—and take the consequences of your folly. Spit and be spat upon. Kill with vicious words and be killed by guns. Hate your neighbor and expect to be hated in return.
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It is the morning of Thursday, 8 January.
I am confronted by a shelf of newspapers in a busy department store. This is in London, England, one of the three capitals of the Empire of Evil, the other two being Washington and Tel Aviv.
I hear the murmurs of people around me. They are outraged. Their cheeks are flushed, their hands are bunched into fists. Their eyes are red with rage and their lips are quivering. They want to kill someone. Who? You guessed it: they want to kill 1.6 billion Muslims!
Here are the newspaper headlines that are whipping us all into a froth of hysteria:
“Attack on Freedom”— The Times.
“War on Freedom” — The Daily Telegraph.
“An Assault on Democracy”— The Guardian.
“NON! A policeman is murdered in cold blood for defending free speech. This evil in the name of Islam MUST STOP!” — The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, the man who introduced topless titillation to Britain in the form of sleazy page-three girls. I turn to page 3 to check if the usual luscious lady, flashing her tits, is still there. She isn’t. The poor darling has been banished to page 9 to make room on page 3 for a dose of screaming hysterics and concentrated Islamophobia.
“Massacred in minutes—Britain on red alert as jihadis shoot 12 dead in Paris.” — The Daily Express, owned by Jewish tycoon Richard Desmond who made his fortune selling porn magazines and who dined at Downing Streets on more than one occasion with Britain’s war criminal Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Whew, no wonder the seething crowds around me are baying for Muslim blood! “Kill the bastards! Wipe out the dirty ragheads! Fuck the Palestinians! Let’s bomb Iran!” Ah, words of music to the Zionist press which have done their job only too well!
And here was this man, “the Saker”, saying that the French cartoonists who had been killed in the Paris Massacre had been asking for it.
“The folks at Charlie Hebdo had it coming!”he has the nerve to say. “I am NOT Charlie!”
Wow, what a lunatic! If he’d said that in front of these frothing maniacs, queuing up to buy their newspapers and seething with anger over Muslims, they would have torn him apart. I bought six papers, composing my face into a mask of icy indifference, as if I too wanted to knock off the nearest turban and dance with delirium over a mound of Qur’ans.
This is how one survives in a police state: by pretending that one’s indoctrination by the state has been successful.
I am a zombie . . . please don’t kill me!
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The Saker writes: “Check out the caricature which one of the folks who got murdered yesterday had just posted. The text reads: “Still no terrorist attacks in France — Wait, we have until the end of January to send you our best wishes!”
“There is an expression in Russian: spitting in somebody’s soul,” the Saker continues. “It fully applies here. Muslims worldwide need to be unambiguously clear about that. They take blasphemy very, very seriously, as they do the name of the Prophet and the Quran.
If you want to really offend a Muslim, ridicule his Prophet or his Holy Book. That is not a secret at all. And when Charlie Hebdo published their caricatures of the Prophet and when they ridiculed him in a deliberately rude and provocative manner, they knew what they were doing: they were very deliberately and deeply offending 1.6 billion Muslims all over the world. Oh, and did I mention that in Islam blasphemy is a crime punishable by death? Well, it turns out that of 1.6 billion Muslims exactly three decided to take justice into their own hands and kill the blasphemous Frenchmen, deliberately blaspheming — one a Jew and the rest all nice little Zionists on the payroll of international Jewry. (Phrase in italics added by Lasha Darkmoon). You don’t have to be Muslim or to approve of the death penalty for blasphemy to realize that this was inevitable and that this has nothing to do with Islam as a religion. Offend any group as large as 1.6 billion people and sooner or later you will find 2-3 people — call them “fanatics” if you will — who will resort to violence to make you pay for it. This is a statistical inevitability. (See here)
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE’S NEW FREEDOM FIGHTER
“What is going on here?” the Saker asks rhetorically. He thinks the Paris massacre is the French government’s version of 9/11. It gives them the pretext they need to intimidate and torture France’s 4.7 million Muslims and confiscate their Qur’ans. Assuming this terrorist act was done by Muslims—something, incidentally, we have no right to assume right now—how many Muslims deserve to be arrested and tortured? The answer is three Muslims, at the very most, assuming you believe in torture like the Americans and Israelis. How many Muslims had nothing to do with this act and are absolutely innocent? I will tell you: 1.6 billion Muslims minus three. That’s a lot of innocent Muslims.
“I am disgusted beyond words,” the Saker concludes, “[with these people] who made their money spitting in the souls of billions of people and then dared them to do something about it. And I am under no illusion whatsoever about the fact that cui bono clearly indicates that the French regime either organized it all, or let it happen, or, at the very least, intends to make capital out of it. But most of all I am disgusted with all those who play along and studiously avoid asking the right questions about all this. I guess they really are “Charlies”, all of them. I am not.
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I fully agree with everything the Saker has said. At the risk of getting myself hated for exercising my freedom of speech, I would like to add a few points to the Saker’s courageous analysis. He is much to be commended for refusing to shed crocodile tears for this bunch of impudent scoundrels who made a living out of mocking 1.6 billion people and trampling on their most cherished values. This I will say: if you keep goading people to a pitch of frenzy by ridiculing their religion and insulting their honor, sooner or later you will get your teeth smashed in. And deservedly so. Among the French cartoonists killed in Paris recently, I learn that one was a Jew and all the rest were devout Zionists blowing the trumpet for Israel. That’s interesting. Let’s observe a minute’s silence and shed a few (hopefully genuine) tears for these “heroes” of free speech. After all, they didn’t deserve to be killed just for spitting in people’s faces for a living and smirking contemptuously, “Hey, this is freedom of speech! Aren’t we brave!” Insulting the prophet Mohammed in the name of free speech appeared to be their constant delight. For which they were paid, and paid quite generously, by those who have a vested interest in whipping up Islamophobia. Mocking Christianity was also part of their agenda, much to the delight of international Jewry, their principal paymasters, who offered them both moral and financial support in their “satirical” undertakings — “hate speech” when used against Jews. but “satire” and “courageous free speech” when directed at Muslims and Christians, the Jews’ most hated enemies.
A correspondent Greg Bacon writes: “Hedbo’s cartoons make me vomit, especially the one showing Jesus Christ sodomizing God the Father and the Holy Ghost sodomizing Jesus Christ. That’s not comedy, it’s vulgar, obscene porn. I’m not into religion, but that’s disgusting.” He forgets to mention the obvious: that all this is a direct and vicious attack on Christianity by an organization financed by Jews.
The Jewish comedienne Sarah Silverman, the nice young lady who likes humping dogs and licking their anuses in various video skits—see here—and who gets many a cheap laugh by insulting Christianity in America, would have been a great hit with these satirical French journalists. They would have loved her for saying, “I hope the Jews DID kill Christ! I’d fucking do it again—in a second!”
Sarah Silverman, exercising her right of “free speech.”
Ask yourself: would a Christian comedian be allowed to mock the Holocaust in the same way? Sarah, thank your lucky stars that Christian jihadists haven’t blown your brains out! No chance of that ever happening, I guess, since Christians believe in turning the right cheek when the Jew strikes the left one. Christianity has its uses, it seems. It keeps Christians docile and submissive and makes them only too happy to acquire virtue by being kicked around.
Freedom of speech is indeed precious. Maybe insulting the prophet Mohammed will soon be made compulsory in order to drive all Muslims crazy. And then, when they have predictably reacted with rage to our constant provocations, we will have the perfect excuse we need to pull their beards, knock off their turbans, trample on their Qur’ans, obliterate Syria and Iran, grab hold of Middle Eastern oil, and, finally, allow our favorite country, Israel, to expand its borders from the Nile to the Euphrates. Note one thing, my friends: this freedom of speech, which is so very precious and of which we make such a fetish, does not include freedom to criticize Israel or question the Holocaust.
Make one satirical comment about Auschwitz, or express doubts about six million Jews dying in gas ovens, and you will end up behind bars in 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Romania.
You may mock Jesus Christ as much as you want, but you must not mock Anne Frank. Poke fun at Christ carrying his Cross—no problem!—but don’t dare to breathe a word about Anne Frank’s sacred ball point pen! The French cartoonists who died recently (God rest their souls) never satirized Auschwitz. They would never have dared to expose “The Diary of Anne Frank” (see cartoon opposite) as a fake, by pointing out that much of it had been written with a ballpoint pen, invented only in 1951, whereas Anne Frank had died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945 and so couldn’t possibly have written the entire book herself. Nor did these courageous French “martyrs for free speech” ever have the guts to criticize the war crimes of Israel. Oh no, they thought the Israelis were doing a fine job slaughtering women and children in Gaza like flies—like this Palestinian child here, her face half blown off by an Israeli sniper. These cowardly cartoonists kept all their scorn for the prophet Mohammed and the Lord Jesus Christ, much to the delight of the Jews whose dirty work they did so well and whose contemptible mercenaries they remained to their last dying breath.
Yes, they had it coming! They were asking for it! For blowback. For their just deserts. For the iron law of karma to take effect. — “The wheel has come full circle, I am here!”
But shush! be quiet! don’t say it out too loud! Or you will suddenly learn the bitter truth: that only those who wear the iron boot have the right to free speech: to mock you and trample on all you hold dear, and that if you try and avenge your honor and smash the dirty bastards back in the teeth—heaven help you! Terrorist, die!We’ll rip your fucking heart out! We’ll torture you to death! So much for free speech, my friends. Free speech for them. For the rest of us, silence.
Dr Lasha Darkmoon (b.1978) is an Anglo-American ex-academic with higher degrees in Classics who lives and works in England. She is also a poet, translator, and political columnist on various websites. Her own website, Darkmoon.me, is now within the top 1 percent of websites in the world according to the Alexa ranking system. Most of her political essays can be found at The Occidental Observer, The TruthSeeker, and at VeteransToday. Many of her articles and poems, in addition, have been translated into several languages. In her spare time, Lasha likes to read, swim, listen to music, and take long walks in the country.
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I am NOT Charlie
By The Saker
January 08, 2015 "ICH" - Okay, let's be clear. I am not Muslim. I oppose terrorism. I don't even support the death penalty. I loathe Takfirism. I oppose violence as a means to make a political or ethical point. I fully support freedom of speech, including critical speech and humor.
But this morning I am most definitely NOT Charlie.
In fact, I am disgusted and nauseated by the sick display of collective hypocrisy about the murders in France. Here is why:
Charlie Hebdo for the Darwin Awards
The folks at Charlie Hebdo had it coming. Here is what I wrote about them in September 2012 when they published their famous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed: Worthy of the Darwin Awards, if you ask me. Excellent, the “gene pool” of the French “caviar-Left” badly needs some cleaning". Today I fully stand by my words.
Just a stupid dare?
Let me ask you this: what would be the point of, say, taking a nap on train tracks? You don't have to "agree" with the train which will run you over, but it still will, won't it? What about taking a nap on train tracks specifically to make a point? To prove that the train is bad? To dare it? To make fun of it? Would that not be the height of stupidity? And yet, that is *exactly* what Charlie Hebdo did. I would even argue that that his how Charlie Hebdo made it's money, daring the "Muslim train" to run them over. You think I am exaggerating? Check out the caricature which one of the folks who got murdered yesterday had just posted. The text reads: "Still no terrorist attacks in France - Wait, we have until the end of January to send you are best wishes". The crazy person shown in the drawing is packing a Kalashnikov and wearing an Afghan "Pakol" - the typical "crazy Muslim" in Charlie Hebdo's world. Talk about a stupid dare...
"Spitting in people's souls"
There is an expression in Russian: spitting in somebody's soul. It fully applies here. Muslims worldwide have be unambiguously clear about that. They take blasphemy very, very seriously, as they do the name of the Prophet and the Quran. If you want to really offend a Muslim, ridicule his Prophet or his Holy Book. That is not a secret at all. And when Charlie Hebdo published their caricatures of the Prophet and when they ridiculed him the a deliberately rude and provocative manner, they knew what they were doing: they were very deliberately deeply offending 1.6 billion Muslims world wide. Oh, and did I mention that in Islam blasphemy is a crime punishable by death? Well, it turns out that of 1.6 billion Muslims exactly three decided to take justice in their own hands and kill the very deliberately blaspheming Frenchmen. You don't have to be Muslim or to approve of the death penalty for blasphemy to realize that this was inevitable and that this has nothing to do with Islam as a religion. Offend any group as large as 1.6 billion and sooner or later you will find 1-5 folks willing to use violence to make you pay for it. This is a statistical inevitability.
Are some victims more equal then others?
So 12 deliberately "soul spitting blasphemers" were murdered and all of France is in deep mourning. The media worldwide does such a good job presenting it all as a planetary disaster that many thousands people worldwide say "I am Charlie", sob, light candles and take a "courageous" stance for freedom of speech.
Crocodile tears if you ask me.
The Empire's freedom fighter
The fact is that the AngloZionists have carefully and lovingly nurtured, organized, armed, financed, trained, equipped and even directed the Takfiri crazies for decades. From the war in Afghanistan to Syria today these murderous psychopaths have been the foot-soldiers of the AngloZionist Empire for decades. But, apparently, nobody cares about their victims in Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Chechnia, in Kosovo, in Libya, in Kurdistan, in Iraq or elsewhere. There these liver-eating murderers are "freedom fighters" who get full support. Including from the very same media which today is in mourning over Charlie Hebdo. Apparently, in the western ethos some victims are more equal then others.
And when is the last time somebody in Europe shed a single tear over the daily murders of innocent people in the Donbass whose murder is paid for and directly directed by the western regimes?
How stupid do they think we are?
And then this. Even a drooling idiot knew that Charlie Hebdo was THE prime target for that kind of attack. And I promise you that French cops are not drooling idiots. Yet, for some reason, they were nowhere to be seen that day. Only a van with two (or one?) cop was parked nearby (hardly an anti-terrorist protection detail) and one poor cop was shot and then executed with an AK shot to the head while he was begging for mercy. Is this the best the French state can do?
Hardly.
So what is going on here? I will tell you what - the EU 1%ers are now capitalizing on these murders to crack down on their own population. Sarkozy already met Hollande and they both agreed that new levels of firmness and vigilance need to be implemented. Does that not reek of a French 9/11?
So no, I am most definitely NOT Charlie this morning and I am disgusted beyond words with the obscene display of doubleplusgoodthinking"solidarity" for a group of "caviar-lefties" who made their money spitting in the souls of billions of people and then dared them to do something about it. And I am under no illusion whatsoever about the fact that cui bono clearly indicates that the French regime either organized it all, or let it happen or, at the very least, makes maximal political use of it all.
But most of all, I am disgusted with all those who play along and studiously avoid asking the right questions about all this. I guess they really are "Charlies" all of them.
View PhotoParis Attack: Terror Raid Under Way In Reims
An anti-terror raid has been launched in north-eastern France after 12 people were killed during a gun attack on a newspaper office, according to reports.
AFP news agency reported that France's elite anti-terrorist unit had begun the raid in Reims on Wednesday night. Two brothers and a third man have been identified as suspects behind the attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris. The men have been named as French nationals Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, along with 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad. Police officials have said the suspects are linked to a Yemeni terror network. Follow live updates here Cherif Kouachi was reportedly convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping channel fighters to Iraq's insurgency. He was jailed for 18 months. Three masked gunmen stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which has previously been targeted over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed. They were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade during the attack on Wednesday morning. A major manhunt was launched after the men fled the scene in a black Citroen, which was later found abandoned in north-eastern Paris. They then hijacked a white Renault Clio and drove off in the direction of the Porte de Pantin - one of the main routes out of the French capital. The attackers called out their victims by name before opening fire during a morning editorial meeting. They were let inside the Charlie Hebdo building by a female employee who was threatened at gunpoint along with her daughter and forced to punch in a security code to allow them inside. The editor and a cartoonist for the newspaper, who went by the pen names Charb and Cabu , were among those killed. Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gilet announced revealed that contributor Bernard Maris was also killed. Two police officers were among the dead, including one assigned as Charb's bodyguard after he had received death threats and another who was shot in the head as he lay wounded on the ground outside the offices. French President Francois Hollande has declared a national day of mourning on Thursday. In a televised address on Wednesday he said: "We have to respond according to the crime, first of all by finding the authors of this infamy and we have to ensure that they are arrested, judged... and punished very severely. "We must also protect all public buildings... security forces will be deployed everywhere where there could be a threat. Our best weapon is our unity, the unity of all our citizens, nothing can divide us, nothing must separate us. Freedom will always be stronger than barbarism." Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of Drancy mosque in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, said: "These are criminals, barbarians. They have sold their soul to hell. This is not freedom. "This is not Islam and I hope the French will come out united at the end of this." An extra 3,000 police officers have been deployed on the streets in a massive security operation, according to reports, as the security threat level in France was raised to the highest level. Tens of thousands of people have staged silent protests in France and across the world in solidarity for the victims of the attack. Social media users have used the hashtag #jesuischarlie to show solidarity for the victims of the shooting, with the Charlie Hebdo website also using the image as its masthead. The shooting is one of the worst terror attacks in France in decades. In 1995, a bomb on a commuter train blamed on Algerian extremists killed eight people at the Saint Michel metro station in Paris.
Mohamed Merah, an al Qaeda-inspired gunman, killed seven people in Toulouse in 2012, including three French soldiers and three children.
Pictured: Two brothers who 'trained in Yemen as assassins' and a homeless teenager identified by police as suspects in Paris magazine massacre that left 12 dead
Masked gunmen storm Paris headquarters with AK-47s shouting 'Allahu akbar!' and 'the Prophet has been avenged'
Stalked building asking for people's names before killing the editor, three cartoonists and the deputy chief editor
Editor Stephane Charbonnier had famously shrugged off threats, saying: 'I'd rather die standing than live kneeling'
Horrific footage shows a police officer begging for his life before being shot in the head at point-blank range
Cartoonist Corrine Rey told how she cowered with her young daughter as she watched two colleagues gunned down
Killers fled in stolen car across eastern Paris after a 'mass shoot-out' with police officers and remain on the loose
Militants believed to be from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which was behind plane bomb plots in US and UK
Three suspects said to be all French citizens - a homeless teenage man aged 18, and two brothers aged 32 and 34
Newspaper had earlier posted a picture of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on its Twitter account
Publication's offices werefirebombed in 2011 for publishing satirical cartoon of Prophet Mohammed
White House had previously criticised Charlie Hebdo in 2012 for publishing its religiously sensitive cartoons
Two brothers were tonight named as being among the three suspects involved in a deadly terrorist attack on an anti-Islamist newspaper in France.
Said Kouachi, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, were identified along with Hamyd Mourad, 18, with all three from the Paris commuter town of Gennevilliers.
At least 100,000 people gathered across France tonight to back the Charlie Hebdo publication, as a huge manhunt was launched to find the attackers.
The suspected Al Qaeda militants massacred 12 people in Paris today - and among those slaughtered was a police officer as he begged for mercy.
Tonight, thousands of people went to Republique Square near the scene to honour the victims, holding signs reading 'Je suis Charlie' - 'I am Charlie'.
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Suspects: The three men were named as Said Kouachi (left), 34, his brother Cherif Kouachi (right), 32, and Hamyd Mourad, 18, of Gennevilliers
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Brutal execution: A police officer pleads for mercy on the pavement in Paris before being shot in the head by masked gunmen during an attack on the headquarters of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, a notoriously anti-Islamic publication
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Gunned down in cold blood: Horrific footage shows the injured police officer slumped on the pavement as two of the gunmen approach. In a desperate plea for his life, the officer slowly raises his hand towards one of the attackers, who callously shoots him at point-blank range
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'Massacre': The gunmen are seen brandishing Kalashnikovs as they move in on the injured police officer from their vehicle outside the office
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Vigil: People gather around candles and pens at the Place de la Republique in Paris in support of the victims after the terrorist attack
The three suspects were tonight said by Metronews to be all French citizens - a homeless teenage man, and two brothers in their thirties.
There were disputed claims that the three men had been arrested 100 miles away in Reims, following a report by Libération. This could not be verified.
Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Clad all in black with hoods and speaking French, the militants forced one of the cartoonists - at the office with her young daughter - to open the door.
Witnesses said the gunmen shouted 'we are from the Al Qaeda in Yemen', and 'Allahu akbar!' - Arabic for 'God is great' - as they stalked the building.
They were also said to have yelled 'the Prophet has been avenged', during what was France's deadliest post-war terrorist attack.
The attackers headed straight for the paper's editor and cartoonist, Stephane Charbonnier, killing him and his police bodyguard.
The security had been recruited to protect him after extremists firebombed the offices in 2011 over a satirical cartoon about the Prophet Mohammed.
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People gather in Toulouse tonight to show their solidarity for the victims of the attack by gunmen on the offices of the satirical publication
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Elsewhere: People gather at the Place Royale in Nantes to show their solidarity for the victims of the attack on the offices of the satirical weekly
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Standing together: People hold up pens and posters reading 'I am Charlie' in French as they take part in a vigil in Trafalgar Square, London
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People gather near candles lit to commemorate the victims of the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, in Lyon, central France
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'Not afraid': People gather to pay their respects for the victims of the terror attack against the satirical newspaper, in Paris tonight
A year later, Mr Charbonnier famously dismissed threats against his life, declaring: 'I would rather die standing than live kneeling.'
The militants also killed three other renowned cartoonists – men who had regularly satirised Islam – and the newspaper's deputy chief editor.
Despite a shoot-out with armed officers, the gunmen escaped in a hijacked car and remained on the loose this evening.
This left the French capital in virtual lockdown as police and soldiers flooded the streets to join the search.
President Barack Obama offered U.S. help in pursuing the gunmen, saying they had attacked freedom of expression.
But it also emerged that the White House had previously criticised Charlie Hebdo in 2012 over its Prophet Mohammed cartoon.
At the time it had said that the images would be 'deeply offensive to many and have the potential to be inflammatory'.
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Emergency: Police officers and firefighters gather in front of the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris today after gunmen stormed the building
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Critical: Firefighters carry an injured man on a stretcher in front of the offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo after the shooting
Faces of the victims: Among the journalists killed were (l to r) Charlie Hebdo's deputy chief editor Bernard Maris and cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut, aka Cabu, Stephane Charbonnier, who is also editor-in-chief, and Bernard Verlhac, also known as Tignous
Meanwhile, horrific footage emerged showing an injured police officer slumped on the pavement as two gunmen approached him outside the office.
In an apparent desperate plea for life, the officer is seen slowly raising his hand towards an attacker, who shoots him in the head at point-blank range.
Despite a fierce firefight with police, the men got away in a hijacked car, and, within an hour of the atrocity, appeared to have vanished without trace.
France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation.
President Francois Hollande called the bloodbath a 'barbaric attack against France and against journalists' and vowed to hunt down those responsible.
Jacques Myard, French MP with opposition party UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), said: 'We knew something would happen.
'The (security) services used to say to us it's not if but when and where. We know that we are at war.
'The Western nations - like Britain, France, Germany - we are at war.'
The Queen today sent her 'sincere condolences to the families of those who have been killed' in the attack.
And Prime Minister David Cameron described the murders as 'sickening'.
Tonight: French forensic experts and police officers examine evidence outside the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris
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At large: The gunmen are seen near the offices of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo before fleeing in a car. They remain on the loose
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Forensic experts examine the car believed to have been used as the escape vehicle by gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo office
Twitter users responded to the Charlie Hebdo massacre with an outpouring of solidarity using the hashtag #jesuischarlie, which is trending online.
By 4.15pm, nearly five hours after the attack, it had already been tweeted more than 250,000 times, according to one social analytics website.
Guy Verhofstadt, the President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe tweeted: 'A tragic day for the freedom of speech #jesuischarlie.'
Marches have also been organised through Paris and London in support of journalistic freedom.
As well as the AK47 assault rifles, there were also reports of a rocket-propelled grenade being used in the attack.
It took place during the publication's weekly editorial meeting at around 12pm (11am GMT), meaning all the journalists would have been present.
A young mother and cartoonist, known as 'Coco', who survived the massacre told how she had let the suspected Al Qaeda killers into the office.
Corrine Rey said she had returned from picking up her daughter from a nursery when she was confronted by two armed men wearing balaclavas.
'I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us,' said Ms Rey.
'They said they wanted to go up to the offices, so I tapped in the code,' said Ms Rey, referring to the digi-code security system on the interphone.
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A police photographer (partially hidden) works with investigators as they examine the impacts from machine gun fire on a police vehicle
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Life-threatening: An injured person is evacuated outside the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office
Ms Rey and her daughter hid under a desk, from where they saw two other cartoonists being executed.
'They shot Wolinski and Cabu,' she said. 'It lasted five minutes. I had taken refuge under a desk.'
Ms Rey said the men 'spoke French perfectly' and 'claimed they were 'Al Qaeda terrorists'.
Gunmen reportedly told another witness: 'You say to the media, it was Al Qaeda in Yemen.'
A police source told the Liberation newspaper the gunmen were asking for the Mr Charbonnier by name, shouting: 'Where is Charb? Where is Charb?'
The source added: 'They killed him then sprayed everyone else.'
Mr Charbonnier was included in a 2013 'Wanted Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam' article published by Al Qaeda propaganda magazine Inspire.
The latest tweet published by the newspaper's official Twitter account earlier in the day featured a cartoon of Abu Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State.
In it, he wishes everyone 'good health'. Cartoonists Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski were all also reported dead.
Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gilet later announced on Twitter that a contributor, Bernard Maris, was another of the victims.
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Shell-shocked: A woman cries outside the office. Witnesses reported hearing loud gunfire and at least one explosion during the attack
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Trail of destruction: Police inspect the damage after a collision between police cars at the scene during a firefight with Islamic militants
Meanwhile, there were reports of a car explosion outside a synagogue in Sarcelles, in northern Paris, just hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
The blast, at about 1.30pm GMT, is not thought to be connected to the massacre, according to Paris Metro which quoted the mayor of Sarcelles.
Florence Pouvil, a saleswoman at Lunas France on Rue Nicolas Appert, opposite the Charlie Hebdo offices, spoke of her shock at the attack.
She told MailOnline: 'I saw two people with big guns, like Kalashnikovs outside our office and then we heard firing. We were very confused.
'There were two guys who came out of the building and shot everywhere. We hid on the floor, we were terrified.
'They came from the building opposite with big guns. It has a bunch of different companies inside.
'Some of our co-workers work there so we were frightened for them. They weren't just firing inside the Charlie Hebdo offices.
'They were firing in the street too. We feared for our lives so we hid under our desks so they wouldn't see us.
'Both men were dressed in black from head to toe and their faces were covered so I didn't see them.
'They were wearing military clothes, it wasn't common clothing, like they were soldiers.'
ARE PARIS GUNMEN FROM YEMENI AL QAEDA CELL BEHIND PLANE BOMB PLOTS IN THE U.S. AND BRITAIN?
The gunmen being hunted by police over the Charlie Hebdo attack are believed to be from militant group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The group was established by Yusef al-Ayeri in 2003 in Saudi Arabia, but was forced to flee to Yemen after a series of attacks drove them back.
Yemen's weak government allowed the group to rally and gain members, though they are only thought to have around 400 troops today.
While their attacks initially focused on targets in the Middle East, such as an attempted suicide attack on Saudi Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, they quickly spread to Western targets.
On Christmas Day in 2009, they were implicated in the underwear bomb plot after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was discovered on a Detroit-bound plane trying to detonate liquid explosives in his underpants.
The following year AQAP also took responsibility for a plot to blow up two devices hidden inside printer cartridges loaded on to cargo planes travelling from Yemen to the United States.
One device was discovered during a stopover at East Midlands Airport in Britain, while another was uncovered in Dubai.
According to Stanford University the group is currently lead by Yemen-born Nasser al-Wuhayshi, who is an apprentice of Osama Bin Laden and was imprisoned for a time in Yemen, but escaped in 2006 along with 22 others.
The group has a global jihadist agenda. Like ISIS, they aim to create a single Arab caliphate, covering Pakistan Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and the Levant - the area encompassing Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Israel.
If today's attack is confirmed as coming from AQAP, it will be the first time the group has used lone-wolf style tactics, in which gunmen act alone or in small groups to attack targets.
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Benoit Bringer, a journalist with Agence Premiere Ligne, told the iTele network he saw several masked men armed with machine guns
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Carnage: A police official, Luc Poignant, said he was aware of one journalist dead and several injured, including three police officers
The New York Times reported that a journalist at the Charlie Hebdo office, who asked not to be named, texted a friend after the attack to say: 'I'm alive.
'There is death all around me. Yes, I am there. The jihadists spared me.'
Another witness, Gilles Boulanger, who works in the same building, told Itele: 'A neighbour called to warn me that there were armed men in the building and that we had to shut all the doors.
'And several minutes later, there were several shots heard in the building from automatic weapons firing in all directions.
'So then we looked out of the window and saw the shooting was on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, with the police. It was really upsetting. You'd think it was a war zone.'
French journalist, Stefan De Vries, told Sky News: 'There was protection at the door but they killed the police officers, they executed them and they started shooting in the offices.'
An unnamed eyewitness told the BBC World Service: 'When I arrived at the scene it was quite disturbing as you can imagine. There were several corpses on the floor.
'We saw the number of casualties was very high, so we just tried to help as we could - there were a lot of people down on the floor and there was blood everywhere.
'I'm very traumatised by this attack and everything and now we're in psychological hell where we're being attended to by professionals.'
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Terror: In footage filmed from a rooftop, people are seen running for cover as the gunmen rampage through the building
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A picture posted on Twitter appearing to show people taking refuge on the roof of the Charlie Hebdo office
Benoit Bringer, a journalist at the scene who works next door, took refuge on the roof of the building, which is in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
He said: 'There were very many people in the building. We evacuated via the roof just next to the office. After around ten minutes we saw two heavily armed, masked men in the street'.
Another witness said: 'There was a loud gunfire and at least one explosion. When police arrived there was a mass shoot-out. The men got away by car, stealing a car.'
A police official, Luc Poignant, said: 'It's carnage.'
After the shooting, hundreds of comments were posted on the Charlie Hebdo Twitter page, with one user, David Rault, writing: 'A sad day for freedom of expression.'
Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Gerard Biard escaped the massacre because he was in London.
He told France Inter: 'I am shocked that people can have attacked a newspaper in France, a secular republic. I don't understand it.
'I don't understand how people can attack a newspaper with heavy weapons. A newspaper is not a weapon of war.'
Targeted: A picture posted on Twitter reportedly showing bullets in one of the windows of the Charlie Hebdo offices
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High alert: French soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower after the Charlie Hebdo shooting as the militants are hunted across the city
Mr Biard said he did not believe the attack was linked to the newspaper's latest front page, which featured novelist Michel Houellebecq, who has previously sparked controversy with comments about Islam.
And he said the newspaper had not received threats of violence: 'Not to my knowledge, and I don't think anyone had received them as individuals, because they would have talked about it. There was no particular tension at the moment.'
A visibly shocked French President François Hollande, speaking live near the scene of the shooting, said: 'France is today in shock, in front of a terrorist attack.
'This newspaper was threatened several rimes in the past and we need to show we are a united country.
'We have to be firm, and we have to be stand strong with the international community in the coming days and weeks.
'We are at a very difficult moment following several terrorist attacks. We are threated because we are a country of freedom
'We will punish the attackers. We will look for the people responsible.'
Today, Mr Cameron said: 'We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.'
US President Barack Obama has condemned the 'horrific shooting', offering to provide any assistance needed 'to help bring these terrorists to justice'.
And United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: 'It was a horrendous, unjustifiable and cold-blooded crime.
'It was also a direct assault on a cornerstone of democracy, on the media and on freedom of expression.'
The British Foreign Office immediately updated is advice for travellers heading to Pairs, warning: 'There is a high threat from terrorism.'
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Defiant: Stephane Charbonnier, known by his pen name Charb, was editor of Charlie Hebdo, and gunned down by men with assault weapons
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Mr Charbonnier was named as one of nine men the extreme Islamist group were targetting (pictured centre right). Their photographs were printed alongside the caption 'a bullet a day keeps the infidel away'
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Tragic: Cartoonist Georges Wolinski was named by officials as one of those shot dead at the offices of Charlie Hebdo
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Lead cartoonist Jean 'Cabu' Cabut (left) was among the 12 massacred by terrorists in Paris today, along with Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac (right)
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Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gilet announced on Twitter that a contributor, Bernard Maris (above right) was another of the victims
It added: 'If you're in Paris or the Ile de France area take extra care and follow advice of French authorities.'
Luce Lapin and Laurent Leger, who have both worked at Charlie Hebdo, were using Twitter hours before the attack, with the most recent tweet posted by Lapin praising cartoonist Cabu.
It read: 'Cabu, a great man! And honest, he doesn't eat foie gras.'
While Leger's made a political point about taxes.
It said: 'Macron [French ministry of economy] wants more billionaires in France, the same that use tricks for not paying ISF [solidarity tax on wealth].'
Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the Union of French mosques, condemned the 'hateful act,' and urged Muslims and Christians 'to intensify their actions to give more strength to this dialogue to make a united front against extremism'.
It is believed to be the deadliest attack in France since 1961, when right-wingers who wanted to keep Algeria French bombed a train, killing 28 people.
The number of attackers was initially reported to be two, but the French Interior Minister later said security services were hunting three 'criminals'.
Bernard Cazeneuve added that Paris had been placed on the highest alert.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees, from the University of Buckingham, said: ‘The French have signally failed to keep their country safe.’
He told MailOnline: ‘We in the great western democracies could now be on the verge of a sustained series of Al-Qaeda-IS attacks, generated by the hold that Islamists have in many places in the world, not least the IS state itself.
‘We cannot appease this movement - we have to win the security war against it and contain it, otherwise big trouble lies ahead.
Location: Officers were involved in a gunfight with the men, who escaped in a hijacked car and sped away from the office towards east Paris
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'We have to be stand strong with the international community': A visibly shocked French President François Hollande arrives at the scene, where he promised to bring those responsible to justice
'100 LASHES IF YOU DON'T DIE OF LAUGHTER': HOW CHARLIE HEBDO HAS BECOME A BYWORD FOR ANTI-ISLAMISM
Charlie Hebdo has become a byword for offensive statements in France after taking several highly provocative swipes at Islam.
The newspaper once named Prophet Mohammed as its guest editor, published cartoons of the holy figure in the nude, and once renamed itself Sharia Hebdo with the cover slogan '100 lashes if you don't die of laughter'.
The controversy began in 2006 when the publication reprinted now-infamous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard.
When the images originally appeared they lead to days of protests across the Middle East and in Western cities. The decision to reprint the images landed the then-editor in court under anti-terror laws, though he was later acquitted.
The Hebdo offices were burned to the ground in 2011 when attackers used Molotov cocktails to start a blaze early in the morning of November 2.
There was nobody in the building at the time, and the target was instead thought to be the newspaper's computer system, which was completely destroyed.
Riot police were forced to stand guard outside the building for days following the attack, as the editors took a defiant stance, choosing to reprint the cartoon images multiple times.
In 2012 they again printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as a deliberately provocative gesture while violent protests were taking place across the Middle East.
The following year the newspaper's office again had to be surrounded by riot officers after they published a cartoon booklet depicting the Prohpet naked as a baby and being pushed in a wheelchair.
On the final page of the booklet there was a note from the editor, Stephane Charbonnier, saying the images were 'halal' because Muslims had worked on them, and that they were factually accurate as they had been derived from descriptions in the Koran.
The satirical publication, widely seen as France's answer to Private Eye, prides itself on a mixture of tongue-in-cheek reporting and investigative journalism.
Hebdo's current office building has no notices on the door to prevent a repeat of the attacks that have occurred in the past.
In an interview with De Volkskrant in January 2013, Mr Charbonnier revealed he had been placed under constant police protection for four months after one of the cartoon issues was published.
He shrugged off criticism that he was only publishing the images to gain notoriety for Hebdo, and insisted that he was instead defending the right to free speech.
Mr Charbonnier pointed out that the newspaper had poked fun at feminism, nuclear energy and homeland security, but the Islam issues always attracted the most publicity.
‘We need more and better intelligence-led activity at home and we need to defeat the IS state abroad.
‘It's not surprising that so many people in Europe are demonstrating against what they see as the Islamisation of Europe.
‘However, their target should not be the vast majority of European Muslims who want nothing to do with Islamism, but the political movement it has produced.
‘This isn't about religion or faith communities, it's about revolutionary politics and violence and only force can overcome it.’
The offices of the same newspaper were burnt down in a petrol attack in 2011 after running a magazine cover of the Prophet Mohammed as a cartoon character.
At the time, the editor-in-chief, Stephane Charbonnier, said Islam could not be excluded from freedom of the press.
He said: 'If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying.'
Mr Charbonnier, also known as Charb, said he did not see the attack on the newspaper as the work of French Muslims, but of what he called 'idiot extremists'.
The cover showed Mohammed saying: '100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter'.
This week's Charlie Hebdo also featured the author Houellebecq, whose new novel imagines Muslims taking over the French government in 2022.
Inside, there was an editorial, attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, and more cartoons - one showing the Prophet with a clown's red nose.
Depiction of the Prophet is strictly prohibited in Islam, but the newspaper denied it was trying to be provocative.
A firebomb attack gutted the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in November 2011 after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover.
HOW ATTACK ON CHARLIE HEBDO HQ UNFOLDED
10.28am - The satirical magazine updates its Twitter page with a cartoon of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In it, he wishes everyone 'good health'.
10.57am - The AFP news agency reports shots have been fired at the French weekly magazine, on Boulevard Richard Lenoir.
11.17am - Eyewitness accounts emerge showing the immediate aftermath of the scene.
11.22am - AFP confirms the first death as a result of the shooting. Three minutes later it confirms the death toll has risen to 10.
11.31am - President Francois Hollande is en-route to visit the magazine's offices shortly, officials say
11.36am - The death toll is increased to 11 and then to 12.
11.46am - Paris is put on maximum alert following the attacks.
11.49am - Prime Minister David Cameron condemns the attack: 'The murders in Paris are sickening. We stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.'
11.54am - Mr Hollande, in an address near the scene of the massacre, says the shooting was 'undoubtedly a terrorist attack'. He adds: 'We fight threats and we will punish the attackers.'
11.59am - The first tweet is posted containing the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie in solidarity with the victims, the magazine and its supporters.
12.26pm - French officials confirm gunmen who carried out the attack are still at large. At least two criminals are believed to be involved.
12.38pm - The White House condemns Paris attack in the 'strongest possible terms'.
1.30pm - AFP says dead include three cartoonists and editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb.
2.13pm - French internal minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 'three criminals' were involved in the attack. They remain at large.
Call them sheeple. Lemmings. Zombies. New World Order mind control slaves. Whatever you call them, the drooling dimwits chanting “we are Charlie” are the all-time greatest argument for Rockefeller-style eugenic euthanasia. (Which, incidentally, should start with the Rockefellers.) And don’t get me started on those “world leaders” who led the le défilé des idiots. These scumbag-psychopath “leaders” are the worst terrorists on earth. Take Netanyahu – please! Where are the black ski mask guys with AK-47s when we need them? Somebody call in a drone strike! But seriously, folks, it isn’t easy being a three-digit-IQ Muslim in a world full of one-digit-IQ infidels. Frankly, I’m getting tired of trying to explain things to people who should know better…a category that includes pretty much everybody who isn’t too stupid to live. It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it. First, this Charlie Hebdo thing (dramatic drum roll) is the most obvious freakin’ false flag imaginable. If inside jobs were hamburgers, this one would come with “the works” – throw-down ID in an abandoned getaway car, Police Commissioner conveniently suicided, intel-cutout patsies murdered, blatantly fake “terrorist kills cop” propaganda video…it doesn’t get any better (or should I say worse) than this.
But just because it was a false flag doesn’t mean that Muslims are always going to put up with obscene, blasphemous attacks on their Prophet. If you publish garbage like Charlie did, you are asking to get hurt…just like if I were to publish an obscene drawing of your mother or daughter or sister, only more so…MUCH more so. If you publish an obscene attack on my mother or sister or wife or daughter (assuming I had a daughter) I am going to be very, very angry with you…and you had best hope that I manage to control my anger…and, more pertinently, choose not to serve you a dish of cold revenge some day, perhaps years from now when you least expect it. You will be facing the same situation – except a whole lot more grievous – if you obscenely insult my Prophet. A whole lot of us Muslims are just that way. We’ll struggle all-out to control ourselves. Maybe 99% of us, or even 99.9%, will succeed. But if one day somebody loses it and goes off on you, you shouldn’t pretend to be surprised. Maybe you don’t hold anything sacred, not even your womenfolk’s honor. Or maybe there are certain “fighting words” that you’d feel compelled to avenge. Maybe I could walk up to you in a bar and start talking trash about your female family members and you’d turn the other cheek. Then again, maybe you wouldn’t. If I tried that, and got my ass kicked, or even got my ass shot, would you organize a million moron march in my memory? The thought of a million morons marching down the Champs Elysées carrying signs reading “Je suis Kevin”…c’est trop délicieux. So yes, many Muslims will grow very, very angry if you cross the line in obscenely attacking their prophet. That is a well-known fact…background knowledge for the psy-op specialists tasked with staging murderous PR stunts to keep the clash-of-civilizations a-clashing. And that’s how this false flag was arranged: Find some creep cartoonists who are practically begging for Muslims to come after them…and then dress up your blue-eyed (!) Special Forces guys in ski masks and stage a professional slaughter. Next, whip out the genocide propagandists and useful idiots. I have seen more out-and-out lies in the Charlie Hebdo propaganda stories than even I imagined the MSM could be capable of. A few examples from my favorite Mossadnik rag will suffice. The Huffington Post published a gargantuan genocidal big lie story: These Are The Charlie Hebdo Cartoons That Terrorists Thought Were Worth Killing Over. But that’s a lie. This story features only relatively inoffensive Charlie Hebdo cartoons. It leaves the really sick, obscene stuff out. People who read this mendacious Huffington Post piece, and who don’t understand that it was a false flag, are going to think that the Charlie Hebdo creeps were – as so many “house Muslims” disgustingly intone – “innocent.” Bullshit. They were vicious, evil, blasphemous pornographers pumping out genocide propaganda. And rather than being murdered by blue-eyed Special Forces officers dressed up as Wahhabis, they should have been tried, condemned, and hanged, whether for genocide propaganda in a secular courtroom, or for blasphemy in an Islamic one. (The genocide I am referring to, of course, is the 9/11-false-flag-triggered War on Islam, which has killed more than one million Muslims, ruined the lives of tens of millions, and aims at eradicating Islam in part by targeting its sacred symbols for blasphemous, pornographic annihilation.) HuffPost, a well-known Zionist mouthpiece, also published another Goebbels-style propaganda lie, this time by an author with a Muslim name. I am referring to Fathima Imra Nazeer’s sickening To Prevent Another Charlie Hebdo, Reconsider the Example of Muhammed. This airhead (or Mossad operative using an Islamic pen name) begins by invoking the “good Muslim vs. bad Muslim” dichotomy: “Many Muslims are rightfully outraged by the attack on Charlie Hebdo way more than they would ever be offended by some caricature of Muhammed. Unfortunately, there are some Muslims who are quick to justify this atrocity as well.” The “good Muslims” she cites are the pathetic, Guantanamo-terrorized house Muslims who are complicit in their own genocide; while her “bad Muslim” is the illiterate idiot Anjum Chaudary, London’s walking, talking advertisement for Islamophobia. This is a classic false dichotomy, like Bush’s “either you’re with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” And like Bush’s line, it was designed by Zionist psy-op specialists as part of the ongoing effort to delegitimize self-defense-while-Muslim. Nazeer then slanders the Qur’an, saying: “The Quran encourages the killing of ‘those who spread mischief’ against Allah and Muhammed.” That’s a big lie. If you follow her link, you’ll find it goes to a passage that might be roughly translated as: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against God and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment, “Except for those who repent before they fall into your power: in that case, know that God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” The passage – which was revealed in, and refers to, the context of a desperate defensive war – says nothing about “spreading mischief against Allah and Muhammad.” Instead, it clearly states that to merit capital punishment, the war criminal must be guilty of all of the following: *Waging war against God. *Waging war against God’s messenger. *Striving to cause corruption. (The Arabic word fasad indicates a very strong, extreme form of corruption; the word mischief, which connotes the naughty tricks of children, is light-years away from the correct meaning. In other words, the war criminal must be working really, really hard to do really, really terrible things.) Only a very uncharitable mufti would say that Nazeer, by viciously slandering the Qur’an and the Prophet in her lying article, was guilty of all of the three parts of this crime. If I were called for Islamic jury duty, I would vote to let her off with a reprimand. It could be that she has psychological problems, or perhaps her grotesque mistranslation is an innocent mistake. I’m joking, of course. There is no such thing as Islamic jury duty, and if there were, I would find a way to get out of it. But the Qur’anic passage Nazeer mistranslates is revealing. It suggests that in a desperate, defensive war to defend a community founded on the sacred, the worst crimes merit the harshest punishments…but that repentance and mercy are better than punishment. Which, like everything else in the Qur’an, displays its profound understanding of human nature. Any community founded on the sacred – and all communities are, one way or another – will fight to defend itself and what it holds sacred…and the more desperate the struggle, the more powerful and nastier the enemies, the more harshly will attempts at order-restoring justice be meted out. To take one historical example, when the US was collapsing from the Great Depression, it began executing people in far greater numbers than ever before or since. A decade later, the desperation felt by all the belligerent parties during World War II led to their committing unprecedented atrocities. Since the Western powers-that-be have forced the ludicrous official story of 9/11 down our throats – a story that 80% of Muslims worldwide know is a lie – we Muslims feel, rightly or wrongly, that we are in desperate straits. Over a million have been murdered for this lie. Tens of thousands have been tortured. Our religion is under genocidal attack. But we must not fight back by stupidly lashing out…and providing our enemies with the propaganda ammunition they seek. There is a famous “Muslim anger management” story: “Caliph Ali was once fighting in a war imposed on Muslims, and the chief of the Unbelievers confronted him. During the fight, the Ali was able to overcome his enemy, who fell on the ground and Ali was about to kill him. The enemy, knowing his fate, had no hope so he spit on the face of Ali. Ali immediately got up and left him alone. The man came running to him and asked, ‘You had a chance to kill me since I am a Polytheist; how come you didn’t use your sword?’ Ali said, ‘I have no personal animosity toward you. I was fighting you on behalf of God. If I had killed you after you spat on my face, then it would have become my personal revenge which I do not wish to take.’ That Unbeliever chief became a Muslim immediately.” If you insult my Prophet (or female family member) and I strike you out of anger, that is a failure on my part. A natural failure, one that we might hope and pray will not be judged too severely by the only Judge who counts; but a failure nonetheless. The greater jihad is the struggle for self-control, the struggle to be a better person. The lesser jihad is the struggle to defend the community…whether by force of arms, or by waging “the best jihad…(which) is a word of truth flung in the face of a tyrant.” Obviously we need a whole lot of both varieties these days.
Attentats : les thèses conspirationnistes se multiplient en Turquie et en Russie
En Turquie et en Russie, les théories du complot les plus folles foisonnent, appuyées parfois par des membres du gouvernement.
Au lendemain de la participation du Premier ministre turc, Ahmet Davutoglu, au rassemblement qui a eu lieu dimanche à Paris pour rendre hommage aux 17 victimes d’extrémistes islamistes, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, le président turc, a adopté un ton beaucoup moins consensuel, voire conflictuel. « La duplicité occidentale est évidente », a-t-il déclaré lors d’une conférence de presse organisée lundi soir, raconte le Financial Times . « En tant que musulmans, nous n’avons jamais pris le parti de la terreur ou des massacres : le racisme, les discours de haine, l’islamophobie sont derrière ces tueries », a lancé Erdogan. « Les coupables sont clairs : les citoyens français ont commis ce massacre et les musulmans sont blâmés pour cela », a-t-il ajouté. Et le président de se dire perplexe quant au manque d’efficacité des services de renseignement dans la traque des coupables.
Certes, les dirigeants politiques en Turquie ont à plusieurs reprises condamné les attentats perpétrés contre Charlie Hebdo, le supermarché juif et la femme policier. Mais un récit parallèle a émergé dans le pays, celui proféré par les théoriciens de la conspiration qui reportent la responsabilité des massacres sur les agences de renseignement étrangères plutôt que sur les islamistes radicaux.
Un phénomène similaire s’est produit en Russie, qui a envoyé son ministre des Affaires étrangères, Sergei Lavrov, la représenter à la marche parisienne de dimanche.
« Blâmer les musulmans »
Phénomène particulièrement inquiétant, certaines de ces théories ont été approuvées par des personnalités des gouvernements turc et russe, signe de la montée du ressentiment et de la suspicion envers l’occident de ces deux pays très importants sur le plan géopolitique dans un contexte de tensions extrêmes sur l’Ukraine et le Moyen Orient.
En Turquie, le « double jeu » affiché par certaines personnalités est « dangereux », a fait observer au Financial Times Aron Stein, du Royal United Services Institute, un think-tank britannique. Tolérer « les opinions les plus folles » de votre base politique pose problème pour les condamnations qui se « jouent à l’échelle internationale », a-t-il expliqué.
Melih Gokcek, le maire d’Ankara affilié au parti au pouvoir AK, a ainsi assuré lundi que « le Mossad (les services de renseignement israéliens, ndlr) est certainement derrière ces incidents ». Il a également lié les attentats survenus en France à la reconnaissance de l’Etat palestinien.
Ali Sahin, membre du Parlement turc et porte-parole du parti AK, la semaine dernière, a pour sa part indiqué qu’il soupçonnait que ces massacres aient été commis dans le but de « blâmer les musulmans et l’islam ».
Les Etats-Unis montrés du doigt
En Russie, certains commentateurs pro-Kremlin désignent clairement les Etats-Unis. Le Komsomolskaïa Pravda, l’un des principaux tabloïds de la Russie, a ainsi titré : «Les Américains ont-ils semé la terreur à Paris ? » et posté sur son site une série d’interviews qui expliquent pourquoi Washington aurait pu organiser les attentats. Par exemple, Alexander Zhilin, un officiel du Kremlin, a assuré qu'ils avaient été commis par les Etats-Unis en représailles des propos tenus par le président François Hollande, qui, le 6 janvier dernier, réclamait de l’UE la levée des sanctions contre la Russie. Selon lui, Washington a diligenté les attentats pour consolider « rapidement » les intérêts américains et européens en Ukraine.
D’autres ont fait resurgir une théorie du complot populaire en Russie selon laquelle les services de renseignement américains étaient à l’origine de toute une série d’attentats terroristes, du 11 septembre 2001 aux Etats-Unis aux tueries commises la semaine dernière à Paris.
« Depuis ces dix dernières années, ce que l’on nomme le terrorisme islamiste est sous le contrôle d’une des plus grandes agences de renseignement du monde », a affirmé pour sa part Alexei Martynov, directeur du think-thank International Institute for New States, à LIFEnews, un site Internet pro-Kremlin. « Je suis sûr que certains Américains sont responsables des attentats terroristes à Paris, ou en tout cas des islamistes qui les ont perpétré », a-t-il asséné.
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YES, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT ISLAM DOES NOT BAN IMAGES OF THE HOLY PROPHET MUHAMMAD, BUT WE SIMPLY CANNOT MAKE PICTURES OF HIM AS THIS WILL OPEN THE GATE TO ALL KINDS OF CARICATURES!
ISLAMICALLY THIS CANNOT BE PERMISSIBLE AS ANY PICTURE OF MUHAMMAD WILL BE A LIE AND BLASPHEMOUS AS THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF HIM MADE WHEN HE WAS ALIVE!
FURTHER, MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN KNOWN FOR CENTURIES AND TO THIS VERY DAY NOT TO HAVE LEARNED HOW TO DRAW OR TO DO ANYTHING CREATIVE ANYWAY!
AND THE CIA-SAUDI 'ISLAM' MUSLIMS PRACTICE TODAY IS NOT ISLAM AND THE GOD THEY WORSHIP IS NOT ALLAH, BUT SHAYTAAN!
N.B. THE DISPLAY OF THOSE PICTURES (LIES) ARE MEANT ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES!
The Charlie Hebdo killers were operating under a misapprehension. TOPKAPI PALACE LIBRARY
In the wake of the massacre that took place in the Paris offices ofCharlie Hebdo, I have been called upon as a scholar specializing in Islamic paintings of the Prophet to explain whether images of Muhammad are banned in Islam.
The short and simple answer is no. The Koran does not prohibit figural imagery. Rather, it castigates the worship of idols, which are understood as concrete embodiments of the polytheistic beliefs that Islam supplanted when it emerged as a purely monotheistic faith in the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century.
Moreover, the Hadith, or Sayings of the Prophet, present us with an ambiguous picture at best: At turns we read of artists dared to breathe life into their figures and, at others, of pillows ornamented with figural imagery.
If we turn to Islamic law, there does not exist a single legal decree, or fatwa, in the historical corpus that explicitly and decisively prohibits figural imagery, including images of the Prophet. While more recent online fatwas can surely be found, the decree that comes closest to articulating this type of ban was published online in 2001 by the Taliban, as they set out to destroy the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
In their fatwa, the Taliban decreed that all non-Islamic statues and shrines in Afghanistan be destroyed. However, this very modern decree remains entirely silent on the issue of figural images and sculptures within Islam, which, conversely, had been praised as beneficial and educational by Muhammad 'Abduh, a prominent jurist in 19th century Egypt.
In sum, a search for a ban on images of Muhammad in pre-modern Islamic textual sources will yield no clear and firm results whatsoever.
Figure 1. The Prophet Muhammad enthroned, surmounted by angels, and surrounded by his companions, Firdawsi, Shahnama (Book of Kings), probably Shiraz, Iran, early 14th century.
FREER/SACKLER MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
While Islam has been described as a faith that is largely aniconic—i.e., that tends to avoid images—figural imagery has nevertheless been a staple of Islamic artistic expression, especially in secular, private contexts (and today, Muslim majority countries are saturated with images, dolls, and other representational arts). Indeed, a variety of Muslim patrons commissioned illustrated manuscripts replete with figural and animal imagery from the 13th century onward.
Over the past seven centuries, a variety of historical and poetic texts largely produced in Turkish and Persian spheres—both Sunni and Shiite—include beautiful depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. These many images were not only meant to praise and commemorate the Prophet; they also served as occasions and centerpieces for Muslim devotional practice, much like celebrations of the Prophet’s birthday (Mawlid) and visitations to his tomb in Medina.
As a result, this visual evidence clearly undermines the premise that images of Muhammad are banned in Islamic law and practice, thereby providing us with a less ideologically divisive and more fact-based way to speak about a subject that has grown increasingly contentious ever since 2005.
Figure 2. Black ink sketch of the Prophet Muhammad enthroned, Iran, 14th century. STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN
Representations of the Prophet in Islamic traditions have varied over time, and they have catered to different needs and desires. During the fourteenth century, a number of Persian drawings and paintings depict Muhammad as an enthroned leader surmounted by angels and surrounded by his companions (figures 1-2). These images show the Prophet as a human messenger entrusted with divine revelation through the angelic figures that protect and accompany him.
At other times, medieval paintings depict Muhammad alongside other Abrahamic prophets, the latter frequently represented in 16th century illustrated copies of popular texts concerned with explaining the lives and tales of the prophets (qisas al-anbiya). In some instances, Muhammad is accompanied by Jesus Christ—revered as the Prophet ‘Isa in Islamic traditions—both of whom are said to have been seen in an apocalyptic vision by Isaiah (figure 3).
Figure 3. Isaiah’s vision of Jesus riding a donkey and Muhammad riding a camel, al-Biruni, al-Athar al-Baqiyya ‘an al-Qurun al-Khaliyya (Chronology of Ancient Nations), Tabriz, Iran, 1307-8. Edinburgh University Library. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
In other tales, especially those dedicated to narrating and illustrating the Prophet’s heavenly ascension (mi‘raj) from Mecca to Jerusalem and onward through the celestial spheres, Muhammad is depicted surrounded by the Abrahamic prophets as he sits in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (figure 4). In these medieval paintings, some of which were commissioned by a Sunni ruler in Iran, Muhammad is praised as the leader of his faith community, as the bearer of divine revelation, and as a messenger belonging to a long and respected line of monotheistic prophets.
Figure 4. The Prophet Muhammad sits with the Abrahamic prophets in Jerusalem, anonymous, Mi‘rajnama (Book of Ascension), Tabriz, ca. 1317-1330. TOPKAPI PALACE LIBRARY
After 1500, a major shift in representations of the Prophet occurs in both Persian-Shiite and Ottoman-Sunni lands. Muhammad’s facial features become covered by a white facial veil while his body is engulfed by a large gold aureole, visual devices that doubly stress his unseen, numinous qualities (figure 5).
Figure 5. The Prophet Muhammad receives revelations at Mount Hira, al-Darir, Siyer-i Nebi (The Biography of the Prophet), Istanbul, Ottoman lands, 1595-1596. TOPKAPI PALACE LIBRARY
While these more abstract depictions of the Prophet certainly show an emerging tendency to shy away from figural representation, they also praise the Prophet according to a metaphorical language that is a hallmark of Sufi (mystical) traditions found in both Sunni and Shiite spheres. Particularly interesting is a series of late 16th-century Sunni-Ottoman paintings of the Prophet’s biography (sira), in which Muhammad is shown confronting the very issue of idolatry as he approaches the Ka‘ba in Mecca (figure 6).
Figure 6. Ka‘ba, al-Darir, Siyer-i Nebi (The Biography of the Prophet), Istanbul, Ottoman lands, 1595-96. TOPKAPI PALACE LIBRARY
In this and other cases, the image of Muhammad is preserved in a pristine state, while the gold idol and its prostrating idolater have been rubbed away by the painting’s viewers. Here then, the problem is not so much the depiction of the Prophet, but rather paganism and polytheism, which are here visually excised in order to make symbolic way for a strictly monotheistic world order.
While images of the Prophet have waned since 1800, there nevertheless exist a number of modern and contemporary representations that reveal a rather unsteady, and thus not cohesive or uniform, approach to the production of Muhammad-centered imagery. While “blessed icons” of the Prophet made in Iran during the 19th and 20th centuries show Muhammad in his full corporeal form and touched by God through the symbol of the golden halo, depictions in Sunni and especially Arab lands remain largely abstract and show a clear preference for textual representations describing his physical attributes. Known as hilyas, these aniconic icons most recently have been printed in Turkey in the format of a state ID card.
As portable icons, these cards give details about Muhammad’s birth date and place as well as the date of his endowment with prophecy. Moreover, they depict the Prophet through three metaphors: the rose (known as the “rose of Muhammad”), his seal impression (reading “Muhammad is the Messenger of God”), and calligraphic renderings of his name in Arabic script.
The contemporary ID card of the Prophet highlights a number of issues that are of particular concern today. First, just last week these laminated hilyas were used as invitation cards for celebrations of the Prophet’s birthday in Turkey. At exactly the same time, ISIS suppressed all Mawlid celebrations in Iraq, and recently a document has revealed that Saudi Arabia has discussed plans to exhume the Prophet’s remains from his tomb in Medina, supposedly in order to prevent his worship.
Taken altogether, these images, sites and celebrations have one thing in common: namely, a very contemporary urge to erase various forms of devotion to the Prophet within discourses emanating from extremist and Salafi spheres. Such discourses, which present themselves as representing a “true Islam,” have been loudly present in the public sphere.
Couched as normative and thus representing a general consensus, they have the net effect of turning images of the Prophet into items that should not, in principle, exist. Theory and practice, along with fact and belief, find themselves at odds here, to say the least.
When one speaks of a “ban” of images of the Prophet in Islam, the negative repercussions are many. First, all doors to constructive dialogue on the topic are closed a priori, thus precluding a nuanced and apolitical discussion of historical Islamic images freed from the polarizing narratives of today. In addition, such images effectively become further endangered as a form of artistic heritage if merely speaking of and illustrating them is seen as a subversive, rather than a productive and reconstructive, act.
And so we must pose ourselves yet another question: why not celebrate this global artistic patrimony by flooding our eyes with beautiful images instead of unseemly cartoons? In so doing, such images will invite us to ponder, at least to a small degree, all that connects us as visual human beings, regardless of creed and conviction.
Christiane Gruber is associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Michigan. Her primary field of research is Islamic book arts, paintings of the Prophet Muhammad, and Islamic ascension texts and images, about which she has written two books and edited a volume of articles. She also pursues research in Islamic book arts and codicology, having authored the online catalog of Islamic calligraphies in the Library of Congress as well as edited the volume of articles, The Islamic Manuscript Tradition. Her third field of specialization is modern Islamic visual culture and post-revolutionary Iranian visual and material culture, about which she has written several articles. She also has co-edited two volumes on Islamic and crosscultural visual cultures. She is currently writing her next book, titled The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.
Respect for each other and our beliefs is the only way human kind will ever find peace, but the imperialists feed of the hate and greed they have created! It serves them very well each time a war starts, only the imperialists gain from war-war means more money and more power over the brain-washed masses!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0NLlwqGvc ABEL DANGER
Marcy: "divine timing"? Not that one again! I see Field's and David's pathetic moves to push Marcy into some top level Abel Danger function once they are gone or even before, but Marcy is seen being totally unable to be to the level in this pathetic trio venture! Let this be regarded as a constructive observation and not a vicious attack on Marcy or on Abel Danger for which I have great respect even if I do not feel comfortable with the religious bent being systematically used. "Jesus Calling", I wrote in vain, was more like New Age crap to me! Blind faith most probably and tribal (cultural or ethnic) instinct might explain their silence. BAFS P.S. My main interest in Abel Danger is what David calls investigating and analyzing TRUTH and FALSEHOOD!
GEORGE IBRAHIM ABDALLAH HAD SET UP URBAN GUERILLA LARF TO FIGHT ISRAELI INVASION OF LEBANON
The Canadian Embassy in Beyruth had authorised my wife and me to emigrate to Canada in the early 1970s following their own invitation.
But, Apartheid Israel bombed the Canadian Embassy, and I moved instead to France in 1975.
ZERO EVIDENCE!
ZERO EVIDENCE!
I was then managing the Windsor Hotel in Paris. My partner in business died in 1983.
I travelled to Paris in 1989, and went to cash a hotel bill. I was surprised to find out that the same agency that never paid their bill before, and that went bankrupt, had set up another agency (against the law), and owed us money again. When they recognised me, they kicked me and seriously injured my thigh with their heavy boots.
They were Lebanese Phalangists working for Apartheid Israel, and were hidden by the French government in Paris after the massacres they had committed in Shabra and Shatila back in Lebanon! I could do nothing as they were protected by the Parisian Police.
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF FRENCH INTELLIGENCE, YVES BONNET, SAID ABDALLAH SHOULD BE RELEASED!
Camarade Georges Ibrahim ABDALLAH, plus ancien prisonnier politique en France et en Europe. Il est maintenu en prison malgré les décisions de sa libération. Les Etats Unis est représentée comme partie civile contre lui. Il refuse de répondre au procès car il considère que la justice est loin d'être apolitique. Signons la pétition change.org/fr/pétitions/justice-libérez-georges-ibrahim-abdallah
#Actualité#Politique#Nationale - 23ème entretien rivarolien pour la fin janvier 2020, en présence de MM. Jérôme Bourbon et Florian Rouanet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A cause d'un problème purement technique (la très mauvaise qualité du son), nous avons dû supprimer la dernière vidéo mise en ligne le 23 janvier. En voici une nouvelle légèrement actualisée. Nous vous prions de nous excuser pour le désagrément occasionné. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Par ailleurs, la vidéo ayant été réalisée avant le décès de Roger Holeindre, nous parlerons de la disparition de ce grand Français dans la vidéo de février 2020. ABONNEMENT : ************************************************ http://boutique-rivarol.com/19-abonne...************************************************ https://rivarol.comhttps://integralisme-organique.com
Rivarol (hebdomadaire)
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Le nom du journal fait référence au pamphlétaire contre-révolutionnaire français Antoine de Rivarol, émigré en . Le journal porte en exergue une citation de Rivarol : « Quand les peuples cessent d'estimer, ils cessent d'obéir ».
Historique
Débuts et développement
René Malliavin[1], plus connu sous le pseudonyme de Michel Dacier, avait déjà fondé en le mensuel Questions actuelles qui devint dès Écrits de Paris, conçu comme un organe de résistance au « résistantialisme »[2] alors triomphant. Il milita pour l'amnistie des personnes visées par l'Épuration, dont il dénonça les « crimes ». Rivarol est l'héritier direct de La Fronde[3], brûlot d'extrême droite de Maurice Gaït, Julien Guernec, Antoine Blondin et Ben, à l'audience ultra-confidentielle et financé par l'industriel Philippe Wolf[4],[5]. Organe se présentant comme « antisystème » dès sa fondation, Rivarol a combattu la Ve République après la chute de la IVe. L'antisémitisme y est présent dès l'origine[6]. Rivarol soutient par ailleurs le « droit à la libre expression » des partisans du négationnisme[7], dont il se fait le relais régulier[8],[9]. Il lui arrive selon l'association belge RésistanceS de faire l'apologie d'anciens nazis[10]. L'une des originalités du titre au sein de la presse de droite radicale a longtemps été l'engagement européen de Rivarol dont les options de politique étrangère étaient proches de celles du Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP). Rivarol a notamment fait campagne pour la Communauté européenne de défense (CED), s'opposant ainsi à Jeune Nation. Son sous-titre initial, « Hebdomadaire de l'opposition nationale », est devenu ensuite « Hebdomadaire de l'opposition nationale et européenne » afin d'insister sur la dimension européenne du journal. Le vif intérêt que ce journal témoigne pour les mouvements nationalistes européens est un héritage de cette orientation pro-européenne. Rivarol est par ailleurs propriétaire du mensuelÉcrits de Paris, également fondé par René Malliavin, et qui fait figure de revue théorique. Ordre nouveau soutient un temps Rivarol en le vendant à la criée[11]. François Duprat, stratège d'Ordre nouveau et l’une des principales plumes de Rivarol, propose qu’Ordre nouveau rachète le journal à un montant de cent mille francs, mais l’affaire ne se fait pas[11]. Selon Nicolas Lebourg, « Rivarol détient le record de procès successifs pour offense au président de la République : un procès en 1962, huit en 1963 et un en 1964 »[11]. L'hebdomadaire, qui paraît le jeudi après-midi à Paris et le vendredi matin dans le reste de la France (la parution est avancée d'un jour, à partir de septembre 2013), a emprunté de manière mesurée le virage vers l'économie numérique, en proposant un abonnement électronique, par réception le mercredi après-midi (le mardi après-midi, à partir de septembre 2013) d'une version de l'hebdomadaire au format PDF, à un tarif moindre de celui de l'abonnement au journal imprimé. Devenu en 2010 directeur de publication de Rivarol, Jérôme Bourbon radicalise encore la ligne politique de l'hebdomadaire. Ses choix éditoriaux et ses méthodes de gestion entraînent le départ de plusieurs collaborateurs, notamment celui de la précédente directrice Camille Galic. Ayant racheté la totalité des parts de Rivarol, comme d'ailleurs d'Écrits de Paris[12], Jérôme Bourbon installe les rédactions des deux journaux dans son appartement parisien. Du fait des départs ou des décès de divers collaborateurs historiques, il devient le principal rédacteur de Rivarol, dont il écrit environ un tiers des articles[13]. Dans les années 2010, le tirage est de 5 000 exemplaires[11]. Parmi ses abonnements, Rivarol propose un abonnement propagande.[pertinence contestée]
À partir de 2005, les relations entre Rivarol et le Front national se dégradent quand Jérôme Bourbon publia le texte d'une conversation à bâtons rompus avec Jean-Marie Le Pen relative à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qu'il présente comme un entretien et qui, selon le président du FN, n'aurait pas dû être publié comme tel[14]. Jusqu'en 2010, Rivarol a apporté un soutien quasiment constant mais non sans critiques ponctuelles[15] au Front national, sans que ce journal ou ses collaborateurs soient pour autant membres de ce parti. En 2010, lorsque Jérôme Bourbon est devenu directeur de publication du journal, ce soutien critique s'est transformé en conflit violent, notamment à compter de la campagne pour l'élection du président du Front national, pendant laquelle le journal s'est montré particulièrement hostile à Marine Le Pen. Jérôme Bourbon a ainsi déclaré en 2010 : « Pour moi, Marine Le Pen est un démon, c’est l’ennemie absolue à tout point de vue, sur le plan moral, sur le plan politique, sur le plan intellectuel. C’est une catastrophe absolue, je n’ai aucune confiance en elle. C’est une révulsion totale, qui est réciproque d’ailleurs. » Pour lui, les proches de celle qui est alors vice-présidente du FN, sont « une bande de dégénérés ». Marine Le Pen déclare en décembre 2010 sur le plateau de Serge Moati : « Je suis opposée à voir revenir dans le FN des groupuscules radicaux, caricaturaux, anachroniques. Entre les catholiques intégristes, les pétainistes et les obsédés de la Shoah, ça ne me paraît pas cohérent. Le FN ne servira pas de caisse de résonance à leurs obsessions. » Ce à quoi Jérôme Bourbon répondra par une série d'articles virulents, accusant la nouvelle présidente du Front national de se rapprocher du « Système », et donc de trahir la cause du combat nationaliste dont Rivarol entend être un des héritiers les plus intransigeants. Jean-Marie Le Pen a, quant à lui, qualifié Jérôme Bourbon de « taliban hystérique »[16] ; ce dernier intitula son éditorial du 19 novembre 2010 « Le Pen veut tuer Rivarol ». En , un entretien accordé à Rivarol par Jean-Marie Le Pen entraîne la mise à l'écart du FN de ce dernier. Pour marquer le soixante-cinquième anniversaire de l'hebdomadaire, Jérôme Bourbon organise, le , un banquet auquel participent six cents personnes. Le journaliste Robin D'Angelo y note la présence de Alain Escada, Alexandre Gabriac, Henry de Lesquen, Hervé Ryssen ou Pierre Sidos. Jean-Marie Le Pen y évoque « la guerre contre Vichy [qui] n'a jamais cessé » ; est également invité Robert Faurisson, acclamé dans la salle aux cris de « Faurisson a raison », après un exposé de ses théories négationnistes[17],[18],[19].
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Plusieurs collaborateurs du journal ont été poursuivis et condamnés par la justice française, notamment pour « incitation à la haine raciale ».
Années 1950
Albert Paraz, contributeur régulier du journal, fut de nombreuses fois condamné : « condamnation aux dépens dans l'affaire Roure en novembre 1953, confirmée en appel le 11 février1954[20], condamnation pour diffamation et injure envers France-Soir dirigé par Lazareff dans un article de Rivarol du 10 au 16 juillet 1953, procès[21] contre L'Express en mai 1954[22] ».
En novembre 1955, la onzième chambre de la cour d'appel de Paris condamne René Malliavin, directeur de Rivarol, à 20000 francs d'amende pour recel de malfaiteur (un ancien de la Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme) et confirme les peines prononcées en première instance pour d'autres affaires (injure, diffamation, et refus d'insertion du droit de réponse)[23].
En février 1956, René Malliavin est condamné à 200 000 francs d'amende pour diffamation envers François Mitterrand (affaire des fuites) ; F. Mitterrand étant devenu garde des sceaux après le dépôt de sa plainte, il s'était désisté de l'action civile, renonçant ainsi aux dommages et intérêts[24].
Le 13 juin 1957, René Malliavin, directeur de Rivarol, et Albert Paraz, journaliste de cet hebdomadaire, sont condamnés, par la 17e chambre correctionnelle de la Seine, à 20000 francs d'amende chacun et à verser solidairement 50 000 francs de dommages-intérêts à L'Express, pour diffamation et injure[25].
Le 29 novembre 1959, René Malliavin, directeur de Rivarol, et Lucien Rebatet, collaborateur du journal, sont condamnés chacun à 50 000 francs d'amende pour diffamation contre Pierre Brisson, directeur du Figaro[26].
Années 1960
Le 25 juin 1965, René Malliavin est condamné à 2 000 francs d'amende par la 17e chambre correctionnelle de la Seine pour la publication d'extraits d'une Histoire de la Collaboration rédigée par Maurice-Yvan Sicard[27].
En mars 1966, la cour d'appel de Paris condamne (aggravant les peines prononcées le 10 novembre 1965 par la 17e chambre du tribunal de grande instance de la Seine) le directeur de la rédaction de Rivarol, René Malliavin, et Paul Rassinier, à quatre mois de prison avec sursis et cinq mille francs d'amende, pour diffamation envers Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier et Zysla Speter[28].
Années 1990
Le 27 mai1993, Marie-Luce Wacquez dite Camille Galic, directrice de publication de Rivarol depuis 1983, a été déclarée coupable du délit de provocation à la haine raciale pour un article dont elle est l'auteur paru dans Rivarol du 20 novembre1992, titré « Sous la botte des lobbys », et qui présentait notamment les Maliens comme « un cancer ». Elle sera condamnée en première instance à 10 000 francs français de l'époque d'amende et à verser 1 franc français aux parties civiles (LICRA, MRAP, Ligue des droits de l'homme). Marie-Luce Wacquez fera appel de cette décision, mais la 11e chambre de la Cour d'appel de Paris (section A) confirmera la condamnation de première instance le 24 novembre1993 en augmentant de 6 000 francs la somme à verser à chacune des parties civiles. Le pourvoi en cassation de Marie-Luce Wacquez est rejeté le 31 mai1994 par la Chambre criminelle de la Cour de cassation[29].
En avril 1994, Marie-Luce Wacquez et Françoise Pichard, dessinatrice, sont condamnées, par la 17e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris, à 15 000 F d’amende pour injure publique envers Laurent Fabius[30].
Le 8 novembre1994, Marie-Luce Wacquez a été déclarée coupable du délit de provocation à la discrimination, à la haine, ou à la violence raciale envers la communauté noire. Françoise Pichard, dite Chard, est reconnue coupable de complicité de ce délit. La première avait diffusé dans Rivarol du 4 mars1994 un dessin de la seconde représentant deux femmes enceintes, dont l'une, noire, se saisit de billets de banque qui semblent tomber du ciel, empêchant ainsi l'autre femme, blanche, de profiter à son tour de l'argent. La directrice de publication de Rivarol et la dessinatrice sont condamnées chacune à 20 000 francs français d'amende et à 1 franc français aux parties civiles (LICRA, MRAP, Ligue des droits de l'homme)[31].
Années 2000
Le 8 février 2008, la 17e chambre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris condamne Marie-Luce Wacquez et Jérôme Bourbon (journaliste à Rivarol) à 5 000 et 2 000 € d’amende pour avoir publié en 2005 un entretien de Jean-Marie Le Pen, où ce dernier déclarait, notamment, que l’Occupation n’avait pas été « particulièrement inhumaine ». Le 21 janvier 2009, la 11e chambre de la cour d’appel confirme ces condamnations[32]. Le 7 mai 2010, la Cour de cassation rejette la question prioritaire de constitutionnalité présentée par l’avocat de Rivarol[33]. Le 27 avril 2011, la Cour de cassation annule en revanche les condamnations pour vice de forme, et renvoie l'affaire devant la cour d'appel de Paris, qui confirme les peines, le 16 février 2012. Le 19 juin 2013, la Cour de cassation rejette le deuxième pourvoi[34], et le 13 septembre 2016, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme rejette le recours de Jean-Marie Le Pen[35].
Années 2010
Le 8 novembre 2010, le directeur de Rivarol, Jérôme Bourbon, a reçu une citation à comparaître devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris à la requête du Front national et de Jean-Marie Le Pen demandant la somme de 50 000 euros pour diffamation, plus les intérêts, plus les dépens, pour des propos tenus dans un article du 15 octobre 2010 intitulé «La tension continue à monter au Front national» et contenant de virulentes attaques contre Jean-Marie et Marine Le Pen. Le 9 décembre 2011, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné à trois cents euros d'amende avec sursis et un euro symbolique de dommages et intérêts pour diffamation envers Jean-Marie Le Pen[36].
En octobre 2012, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné, par la 17e chambre du tribunal de grande instance de Paris, à verser trois mille euros de dommages et intérêts à Marine Le Pen, pour injure publique[37].
Le 11 octobre 2012, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné à mille euros d'amende pour incitation à la haine raciale, à la suite d'un article d'Hervé Ryssen, paru dans Rivarol en janvier 2011, et à cinq cents euros d'amende pour un article du même Hervé Ryssen, paru en mars 2011[38].
Le 26 septembre 2014, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné à cent jours-amendes de quatre-vingts euros (ce qui signifie qu'il doit payer huit mille euros d'amende, sous peine d'un jour de prison par tranche de quatre-vingts euros non payée) pour incitation à la haine raciale contre les Juifs. La 17e chambre correctionnelle du tribunal de Paris estime qu'un passage du texte est « une apologie du IIIe Reich en la personne de son ministre de la propagande et de l'information, Joseph Goebbels », et qu'« en associant les juifs à l'impureté, à la pornographie, à la délinquance sexuelle, à l'amoralité, à la rapacité, à l'insolence de la richesse devant laquelle tout cède […], l'auteur de l'article, dont le but est évident, stigmatise les juifs et les désigne clairement à la vindicte des lecteurs. » Or, non seulement Jérôme Bourbon, en tant que directeur de la publication, est le principal responsable juridique, mais encore, relève le tribunal, il « ne se désolidarise aucunement d'un article qu'il a reconnu ne pas avoir lu avant de le publier et à propos duquel il a déclaré à l'audience : « Moi, rien ne me choque, il n'y a pas de quoi fouetter un chat, ce qui est dit est exact[39]. »
Le 4 décembre 2014, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné à deux mille euros d'amende, mille euros de dommages et intérêts à la Licra, cinq cents euros à la Ligue des droits de l'homme, la même somme à SOS-racisme et de nouveau cinq cents euros à chacune des trois associations, pour incitation à la haine raciale, à cause d'un article présentant le Conseil d'État comme « un tribunal rabbinique », puis affirmant que « nous vivons en pleine tyrannie juive » et que « nous sommes en effet dirigés, étouffés, opprimés par une minorité qui se croit tout permis[40] ». En novembre 2015, la cour d'appel porte l'amende à quatre mille euros[41].
Le 7 mai 2015, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné à deux mille euros d'amende avec sursis pour contestation de crime contre l'humanité, ayant publié un article de Vincent Reynouard (lui-même condamné à deux mois de prison ferme), qui contestait l'existence de la Shoah[42].
Le 14 décembre 2016, Jérôme Bourbon est condamné pour "contestation de crime contre l’humanité et provocation à la haine"[43], pour avoir tweeté notamment que des « photos ne constituent pas en elles-mêmes des preuves de l’existence des chambres à gaz homicides ». Il est condamné à 11.000 euros d'amende, majorés de 3.500 euros de frais de justice ainsi qu'à 5.000 euros de dommages et intérêts pour les parties civiles.[44]
Nous profitons du tintamarre médiatique autour de l'affaire Mila pour reposter cette vidéo qui n'était plus disponible malheureusement sur notre chaîne.
Après avoir attendu quelques jours pour laisser les esprits s’apaiser et l’affaire se refroidir, nous revenons ici sur l’histoire de Mennel Ibtissem, la chanteuse de l’émission télé-crochet de TF1« The Voice » d’où elle a été virée.
Nous savons depuis toujours qu’il ne faut pas grand chose au milieu médiatique ou politique parisien pour en faire des tonnes, mais là, nous avons largement dépassé et même pulvérisé tous les records précédents, donnant naissance à une véritable affaire d’État. À tel point que sur tous les plateaux télé ou radio, l’homme politique interviewé ne pouvait échapper à la sempiternelle question et devait livrer son opinion au sujet de cette affaire Mennel ! Un peu comme s’il n’y avait pas d’autres sujets éminemment plus préoccupants :
les 7 millions de chômeurs,
10 millions de pauvres,
1 SDF qui meurt chaque jour dans une rue de l’un des pays les plus riches au monde…
Nous allons donc revenir dans cette courte vidéo de 10 minutes sur les contradictions, les mensonges et les manipulations que nous avons relevés. Nous tenions aussi à faire un petit commentaire à propos du message ordurier laissé à Mennel Ibtissem par le boxeur Fabrice Quarteron.
Nous voulions juste lui rappeler qu’à une certaine époque il existait des grands hommes valeureux, comme Mohamed Ali, le sublime papillon qui n’hésitait pas à piquer comme une guêpe l’État américain, refusant d’aller tuer des Vietnamiens dans une guerre absurde qui n’était pas la sienne.
Aujourd’hui nous avons Fabrice Quarteron et ses 118 kg qui s’attaque à Mennel… Dommage !
Courte vidéo concernant le dernier buzz Bassem/Sadek qui nous sert de prétexte pour parler de rap et de Skyrock car ce genre d'histoire ne fera qu'augmenter l'animosité de certains - identitaires et extrême droite - envers l'islam alors que ces zigotos ne sont rien d'autre que le pur produit de la société moderne capitaliste et plus précisément de Skyrock, dirigée par le sataniste Pierre Bellanger.
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), From: "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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Washington DC: Millennial Blond girl voluntarily kisses the dirty boots of no less than seven Black street activists seeking "apologies" for slavery -- as her chump White boyfriend (who also kisses) looks on proudly.
The Suicidal Insanity of White Guilt
by Mike King
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Professor Frederick Lindemann Handler of Winston Churchill / Architect of Firebombing Genocide of Germans
"'Do you know,' he (Lindemann) asked, 'what the future historians will regard as the most important event of this age?’
‘Well, what is it?’
'It will not be Hitler and the Second World War; it will not be the release of nuclear energy; it will not be the menace of Communism.'
These negatives seemed very comprehensive. He put on an expression of extreme severity and turned down the corners of his lips: ‘It will be the abdication of the White man.’ Then he nodded his head up and down several times to drive home his proposition."
* The Prof’ -- R.F Harrod, McMillan, 1959. Page 261/2.
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The Lifeline Expedition is a group of virtue-signaling pseudo-Christian activists bringing together Africans, descendants of enslaved Africans and brain addled White libtards from the US and UK.
* The pathetic Whites on the "expedition" teams wear yokes, chains, and "so sorry" T-shirts to express apology for the role of their ancestors in the slave trade. (Shhhhh. Don't tell these ass-clowns that the slave trade was a Jewish monopoly. That would be "anti-Semitic," dontcha' now.)
A few honest Jewish scholars confirm that Loony Louie Farakhan is right about one thing: It was Jews, not Anglo-Saxons or Spaniards, that dominated the slave trade.
* These people need to kill themselves, before they can infect others.
* The first Reconciliation Walk to attract worldwide attention was part of the journey to the USA in 2004, which began in Maryland. Lifeline Expedition partnered with the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation (of 'Roots' fame) for the Reconciliation Walk.
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1. Students in the U.S., Canada and Australia are made to march in "Reconciliation Walks" to atone for their "sins" against other races. In time, we may see European kids marching to beg "forgiveness" from the Turd World invaders that they have opened their doors for. --- "Sorry for arousing you boys and making you rape us." // 2. Alex Haley -- the literary fraud who published the incendiary mega-hyped 1970's book turned TV Mini-Series "Roots" -- is a big promoter of Reconciliation Walks.
* In 2006, the Lifeline idiots issued an apology at the opening ceremony of the International Roots Festival in Gambia. Groveling apologies, on bended-knee, were given by English, French, German and American members of the touring libtards. The Vice President of the Gambia accepted their apology and released them from the yokes and chains.
1. Marching in Africa to seek "forgiveness" / 2. Officially "pardoned "in Gambia!
* The Expedition's self-hating antics have even been incorporated into the curriculum of predominantly White schools!
This is psychological CHILD ABUSE!
* Meanwhile, the epidemic of random Black on White hate crimes and the most ghastly torture-murder imaginable continues to quietly spread across the US, Europe, and South Africa. The media and the White Libtards won't talk about it. Where is the "so sorry" for these victims of the "people of color?"
1. 2007: Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were kidnapped, gang raped, sodomized with blunt objects, and torture-murdered by 5 Blacks. The national Fake News ignored the horror story. // 2. Christmas Eve, 2010: White boy Jonathan Foster was kidnapped and fried alive with a blowtorch by Mona Nelson. Again, silence. --- Plenty of stories like this worldwide are buried by the Jewish-Marxist-Globalist media.
In the New World Order, White lives do NOT matter!
Let us never forget who engineered this "abdication."
In cities across America, members of the "Black Hebrew Israelite" cult demand that Whites bow and kiss their boots as an act of contrition -- and a number of White libtards obediently comply!
Who is behind the War on Whites, and why? Read Planet Rothschild and learn!
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UTTERLY DISGUSTING!
THE JEWISH MAFIA IS BEHIND ALL THIS!
Let them try and ask a Muslim to do that for 9/11 and YOU WILL SEE!
UTTERLY REVOLTING!
The first slaves were White!
Slaves were themselves living in serfdom!
Whites were massacred wholesale when the Jews decided!
This is JOOLLYWOOD, not real life!
I warned Christians that I had to stop going to Church with my Catholic friends because ZIONIST ISRAEL HAD INVADED ALL CHURCHES IN FRANCE!
Zionist John Paul II went to Apartheid Israel in 2,000 and is responsible for all this crap inside the Church since his notorious Vatican II Council.
BAFS
Maybe it is the only way to WAKE UP the White people and make them take back what was theirs - DIGNITY, HONOUR, CHIVALRY, COURAGE, BRAVERY, NOBILITY, but they will get nothing without FIGHTING!
I feel so ashamed for them!It is not surprising as they already sell their women in Jewish brothels all over the world and abort their women to please the Jews!
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American Rachael Corrie was killed by an Israeli Defense Force bulldozer in Gaza, 2003.
The Iranian people named a street after her in Tehran. I visited there in January 2017 just after the street march for the funeral of former president Rafsanjani. The street is hard to find, just down the road from the Australian embassy. It is the only street on Google Maps that does NOT have the English language translation of the name out of Farsi, now why would that be? I was surprised to find there are no other video's or pictures of people visiting the street. If there are, please let me know. IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands also has a street named after him in Tehran. It is a sombre subject, but I could not find a point where I was not smiling in the video for the thumbnail.
Acc Name: Brendon L. O'Connell
Bank: St George Bank, Perth, Central Business District
The following was originally delivered in 2003 as a lecture to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., and was subsequently published as “Dignity and Solidarity” in Al-Hayat on July 2, 2003. In this essay, Said reflects poignantly and profoundly on the death of Rachel Corrie, an American activist who was killed earlier that year by an Israeli bulldozer driver while she was protecting a home from demolition in the Gaza Strip. This essay, a meditation on courage and commitment, was one of Said’s final publications before his death on September 25, 2003.
In early May I was in Seattle lecturing for a few days. While there, I had dinner one night with Rachel Corrie’s parents and sister, who were still reeling from the shock of Rachel’s murder on March 16 in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer. Mr. Corrie told me that he had himself driven bulldozers, although the one that killed his daughter deliberately because she was trying valiantly to protect a Palestinian home in Rafah from demolition was a 60-ton behemoth especially designed by Caterpillar for house demolitions, a far bigger machine than anything he had ever seen or driven. Two things struck me about my brief visit with the Corries. One was the story they told about their return to the United States with their daughter’s body. They had immediately sought out their U.S. senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both Democrats, told them their story, and received the expected expressions of shock, outrage, and anger and promises of investigations. After both women returned to Washington, the Corries never heard from them again, and the promised investigation simply didn’t materialize. As expected, the Israeli lobby had explained the realities to them, and both women simply begged off. An American citizen willfully murdered by the soldiers of a client state of the United States without so much as an official peep or even the de rigueur investigation that had been promised her family. But the second and far more important aspect of the Rachel Corrie story for me was the young woman’s action itself, heroic and dignified at the same time. Born and brought up in Olympia, a small city 60 miles south of Seattle, she had joined the International Solidarity Movement and gone to Gaza to stand with suffering human beings with whom she had never had any contact before. Her letters back to her family are truly remarkable documents of her ordinary humanity that make for very difficult and moving reading, especially when she describes the kindness and concern shown her by all the Palestinians she encounters who clearly welcome her as one of their own, because she lives with them exactly as they do, sharing their lives and worries, as well as the horrors of the Israeli occupation and its terrible effects on even the smallest child. She understands the fate of refugees, and what she calls the Israeli government’s insidious attempt at a kind of genocide by making it almost impossible for this particular group of people to survive. So moving is her solidarity that it inspires an Israeli reservist named Danny who has refused service to write her and tell her, “You are doing a good thing. I thank you for it.” What shines through all the letters she wrote home, which were subsequently published in the London Guardian, is the amazing resistance put up by the Palestinian people themselves, average human beings stuck in the most terrible position of suffering and despair but continuing to survive just the same. We have heard so much recently about the road map and the prospects for peace that we have overlooked the most basic fact of all, which is that Palestinians have refused to capitulate or surrender even under the collective punishment meted out to them by the combined might of the United States and Israel. It is that extraordinary fact that is the reason for the existence of a road map and all the numerous so-called peace plans before them, not at all because the United States and Israel and the international community have been convinced for humanitarian reasons that the killing and the violence must stop. If we miss that truth about the power of Palestinian resistance (by which I do not at all mean suicide bombing, which does much more harm than good), despite all its failings and all its mistakes, we miss everything. Palestinians have always been a problem for the Zionist project, and so-called solutions have perennially been proposed that minimize, rather than solve, the problem. All the main organs of the establishment media, from left liberal all the way over to fringe right, are unanimously anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian.The official Israeli policy, no matter whether Ariel Sharon uses the word “occupation” or whether he dismantles a rusty, unused tower or two, has always been not to accept the reality of the Palestinian people as equals nor ever to admit that their rights were scandalously violated all along by Israel. Whereas a few courageous Israelis over the years have tried to deal with this other concealed history, most Israelis and what seems like the majority of Americans have made every effort to deny, avoid, or negate the Palestinian reality. This is why there is no peace. Moreover, the road map says nothing about justice or about the historical punishment meted out to the Palestinian people for too many decades to count. What Rachel Corrie’s work in Gaza recognized, however, was precisely the gravity and the density of the living history of the Palestinian people as a national community, not merely as a collection of deprived refugees. That is what she was in solidarity with. And we need to remember that that kind of solidarity is no longer confined to a small number of intrepid souls here and there but is recognized the world over. In the past six months I have lectured on four continents to many thousands of people. What brings them together is Palestine and the struggle of the Palestinian people, which is now a byword for emancipation and enlightenment, regardless of all the vilification heaped on them by their enemies. Whenever the facts are made known, there is immediate recognition and an expression of the most profound solidarity with the justice of the Palestinian cause and the valiant struggle by the Palestinian people on its behalf. It is an extraordinary thing that Palestine was a central issue this year both during the Pôrto Alegre antiglobalization meetings and during the Davos and Amman meetings, both poles of the worldwide political spectrum. Just because our fellow citizens in the United States are fed an atrociously biased diet of ignorance and misrepresentation by the media—the occupation is never referred to in lurid descriptions of suicide attacks, the apartheid wall 25 feet high, 5 feet thick, and 350 kilometers long that Israel is building is never even shown on CNN or the networks (or is so much as referred to in passing throughout the lifeless prose of the road map), and the crimes of war, the gratuitous destruction and humiliation, maiming, house demolitions, agricultural destruction, and death imposed on Palestinian civilians are never shown for the daily, completely routine ordeal that they are—one shouldn’t be surprised that Americans in the main have a very low opinion of Arabs and Palestinians. After all, please remember that all the main organs of the establishment media, from left liberal all the way over to fringe right, are unanimously anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian. Look at the pusillanimity of the media during the buildup to an illegal and unjust war against Iraq, and look at how little coverage there was of the immense damage against Iraqi society done by the sanctions, and how relatively few accounts there were of the immense worldwide outpouring of opinion against the war. Hardly a single journalist except Helen Thomas has taken the administration to task for the outrageous lies and confected “facts” that were spun out about Iraq as an imminent military threat to the United States before the war, just as now the same government propagandists, whose cynically invented and manipulated “facts” about WMD are now more or less forgotten or shrugged off as irrelevant, are let off the hook by media heavies in discussing the awful, the literally inexcusable, situation for the people of Iraq that the United States has now single-handedly and irresponsibly created there. However else one blames Saddam Hussein as a vicious tyrant, which he was, he provided the people of Iraq with the best infrastructure of services like water, electricity, health, and education of any Arab country. None of this is any longer in place. It is no wonder, then—with the extraordinary fear of seeming anti-Semitic by criticizing Israel for its daily crimes of war against innocent unarmed Palestinian civilians or criticizing the U.S. government and being called “anti-American” for its illegal war and its dreadfully run military occupation—that the vicious media and government campaign against Arab society, culture, history, and mentality that has been led by Neanderthal publicists and Orientalists like Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes has cowed far too many of us into believing that Arabs really are an underdeveloped, incompetent, and doomed people, and that with all the failures in democracy and development, Arabs are alone in this world in being retarded, behind the times, unmodernized, and deeply reactionary. Here is where dignity and critical historical thinking must be mobilized to see what is what and to disentangle truth from propaganda. This is a parody of Hitlerian science directed against Arabs and Muslims, and we must be very firm so as not even to go through the motions of arguing against it. It is pure drivel.No one would deny that most Arab countries today are ruled by unpopular regimes and that vast numbers of poor, disadvantaged young Arabs are exposed to ruthless forms of fundamentalist religion. Yet it is simply a lie to say, as the New York Times regularly does, that Arab societies are totally controlled, and that there is no freedom of opinion, that there are no civil institutions, no functioning social movements for and by the people. Press laws notwithstanding, you can go to downtown Amman today and buy a Communist Party newspaper as well as an Islamist one; Egypt and Lebanon are full of papers and journals that suggest much more debate and discussion than these societies are given credit for; the satellite channels are bursting with diverse opinions in a dizzying variety; civil institutions are, on many levels having to do with social services, human rights, syndicates, and research institutes, very lively all over the Arab world. A great deal more must be done before we have the appropriate level of democracy, but we are on the way. In Palestine alone there are more than a thousand NGOs, and it is this vitality and this kind of activity that has kept society going, despite every American and Israeli effort made to vilify, stop, or mutilate it on a daily basis. Under the worst possible circumstances, Palestinian society has neither been defeated nor crumbled completely. Kids still go to school, doctors and nurses still take care of their patients, men and women go to work, organizations have their meetings, and people continue to live, which seems to be an offense to Sharon and the other extremists who simply want Palestinians either imprisoned or driven away altogether. The military solution hasn’t worked at all and never will work. Why is that so hard for Israelis to see? We must help them to understand this, not by suicide bombs but by rational argument, mass civil disobedience, and organized protest, here and everywhere. The point I am trying to make is that we have to see the Arab world generally and Palestine in particular in more comparative and critical ways than superficial and dismissive books like Lewis’s What Went Wrong? and Paul Wolfowitz’s ignorant statements about bringing democracy to the Arab and Islamic world even begin to suggest. Whatever else is true about the Arabs, there is an active dynamic at work because as real people they live in a real society with all sorts of currents and crosscurrents that can’t be easily caricatured as just one seething mass of violent fanaticism. The Palestinian struggle for justice is especially something with which one expresses solidarity rather than endless criticism, exasperated, frustrating discouragement, and crippling divisiveness. Remember the solidarity here and everywhere in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights. I want now to speak about dignity, which of course has a special place in every culture known to historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and humanists. I shall begin by saying immediately that it is a radically wrong Orientalist and indeed racist proposition to accept that, unlike Europeans and Americans, Arabs have no sense of individuality, no regard for individual life, no values that express love, intimacy, and understanding, which are supposed to be the property exclusively of cultures such as those of Europe and America, which had a Renaissance, a Reformation, and an Enlightenment. Among many others, it is the vulgar and jejune Thomas Friedman who has been peddling this rubbish, which has, alas, been picked up by equally ignorant and self-deceiving Arab intellectuals—I don’t need to mention any names here—who have seen in the atrocities of 9/11 a sign that the Arab and Islamic worlds are somehow more diseased and more dysfunctional than any other, and that terrorism is a sign of a wider distortion than has occurred in any other culture. We can leave to one side that, between them, Europe and the United States account for by far the largest number of violent deaths during the 20th century, the Islamic world hardly a fraction of it. And behind all of that specious, unscientific nonsense about wrong and right civilizations is the grotesque shadow of the great false prophet Samuel Huntington, who has led a lot of people to believe that the world can be divided into distinct civilizations battling against each other forever. On the contrary, Huntington is dead wrong on every point he makes. No culture or civilization exists by itself; none is made up of things like individuality and enlightenment that are completely exclusive to it; and none exists without the basic human attributes of community, love, value for life, and all the others. To suggest otherwise, as he does, is the purest invidious racism of the same stripe as people who argue that Africans have naturally inferior brains, or that Asians are really born for servitude, or that Europeans are a naturally superior race. This is a sort of parody of Hitlerian science directed uniquely today against Arabs and Muslims, and we must be very firm so as not even to go through the motions of arguing against it. It is the purest drivel. On the other hand, there is the much more credible and serious stipulation that, like every other instance of humanity, Arab and Muslim life has an inherent value and dignity, which are expressed by Arabs and Muslims in their unique cultural style, and those expressions needn’t resemble or be a copy of one approved model suitable for everyone to follow. We can leave to one side that, between them, Europe and the United States account for by far the largest number of violent deaths during the 20th century, the Islamic world hardly a fraction of it.The whole point about human diversity is that it is in the end a form of deep coexistence between very different styles of individuality and experience that can’t all be reduced to one superior form: this is the spurious argument foisted on us by pundits who bewail the lack of development and knowledge in the Arab world. All one has to do is to look at the huge variety of literature, cinema, theater, painting, music, and popular culture produced by and for Arabs from Morocco to the Gulf. Surely that needs to be assessed as an indication of whether Arabs are developed, and not just how on any given day statistical tables of industrial production either indicate an appropriate level of development or show failure. The more important point I want to make, though, is that there is a very wide discrepancy today between our cultures and societies and the small group of people who now rule these societies. Rarely in history has such power been so concentrated in so tiny a group as the various kings, generals, sultans, and presidents who preside today over the Arabs. The worst thing about them as a group, almost without exception, is that they do not represent the best of their people. This is not just a matter of the absence of democracy. It is that they seem to radically underestimate themselves and their people in ways that close them off, that make them intolerant and fearful of change, frightened of opening up their societies to their people, terrified most of all that they might anger big brother, that is, the United States. Instead of seeing their citizens as the potential wealth of the nation, they regard them all as guilty conspirators vying for the ruler’s power. This is the real failure, how during the terrible war against the Iraqi people, no Arab leader had the self-dignity and confidence to say something about the pillaging and military occupation of one of the most important Arab countries. Fine, it is an excellent thing that Saddam Hussein’s appalling regime is no more, but who appointed the United States to be the Arab mentor? Who asked the United States to take over the Arab world allegedly on behalf of its citizens and bring it something called “democracy,” especially at a time when the school system, the health care system, and the whole economy in America are degenerating into the worst levels since the 1929 Depression? Why was the collective Arab voice not raised against the flagrantly illegal U.S. intervention, which did so much harm and inflicted so much humiliation upon the entire Arab nation? This is truly a colossal failure in nerve, in dignity, in self-solidarity. With all the Bush administration’s talk about guidance from the Almighty, doesn’t one Arab leader have the courage just to say that, as a great people, we are guided by our own lights and traditions and religion? But nothing, not a word, as the poor citizens of Iraq live through the most terrible ordeals and the rest of the region quakes in its collective boots, each one petrified that his country may be next. How unfortunate the embrace of George W. Bush, the man whose war destroyed an Arab country gratuitously, by the combined leadership of the major Arab countries last week. Was there no one there who had the guts to remind George W. what he has done to humiliate and bring more suffering to the Arab people than anyone before him? And must he always be greeted with hugs, smiles, kisses, and low bows? Where is the diplomatic and political and economic support necessary to sustain an anti-occupation movement on the West Bank and Gaza? Instead all one hears is that foreign ministers preach to the Palestinians to mind their ways, avoid violence, and keep at the peace negotiations, even though it has been so obvious that Sharon’s interest in peace is just about zero. There has been no concerted Arab response to the separation wall, or to the assassinations, or to collective punishment, only a bunch of tired clichés repeating the well-worn formulas authorized by the State Department. Slowly, the situation is changing, and the old regime is passing and will gradually be replaced by a new set of emerging leaders all over the Arab world.Perhaps the one thing that strikes me as the low point in Arab inability to grasp the dignity of the Palestinian cause is expressed by the current state of the Palestinian Authority. Abu Mazen, a subordinate figure with little political support among his own people, was picked for the job by Arafat, Israel, and the United States precisely because he has no constituency, because he is not an orator or a great organizer or anything really except a dutiful aide to Yasir Arafat, and because, I am afraid, they see in him a man who will do Israel’s bidding. But how could even Abu Mazen stand there in Aqaba to pronounce words written for him, like a ventriloquist’s puppet, by some State Department functionary, in which he commendably speaks about Jewish suffering but then amazingly says next to nothing about his own people’s suffering at the hands of Israel? How could he accept so undignified and manipulated a role for himself, and how could he forget his self-dignity as the representative of a people that has been fighting heroically for its rights for over a century, just because the United States and Israel have told him he must? And when Israel simply says that there will be a “provisional” Palestinian state, without any contrition for the horrendous amount of damage it has done, the uncountable war crimes, the sheer sadistic, systematic humiliation of every single Palestinian, man, woman, and child, I must confess to a complete lack of understanding as to why a leader or representative of that long-suffering people doesn’t so much as take note of it. Has he entirely lost his sense of dignity? Has he forgotten that he is not just an individual but also the bearer of his people’s fate at an especially crucial moment? Is there anyone who was not bitterly disappointed at this total failure to rise to the occasion and stand with dignity—the dignity of his people’s experience and cause—and testify to it with pride, without compromise, without ambiguity, without the half-embarrassed, half-apologetic tone that Palestinian leaders take when they are begging for a little kindness from some totally unworthy white father? But that has been the behavior of Palestinian rulers since Oslo and indeed since Haj Amin, a combination of misplaced juvenile defiance and plaintive supplication. Why on earth do they always think it absolutely necessary to read scripts written for them by their enemies? The basic dignity of our life as Arabs in Palestine, throughout the Arab world, and here in America, is that we are our own people, with a heritage, a history, a tradition, and above all a language that is more than adequate to the task of representing our real aspirations, since those aspirations derive from the experience of dispossession and suffering that has been imposed on each Palestinian since 1948. Not one of our political spokespeople—the same is true of the Arabs since Abdel Nasser’s time—ever speaks with self-respect and dignity of what we are, what we want, what we have done, and where we want to go. Slowly, however, the situation is changing, and the old regime, made up of the Abu Mazens and Abu Ammars [Arafats] of this world, is passing and will gradually be replaced by a new set of emerging leaders all over the Arab world. The most promising is made up of the members of the Palestinian National Initiative; they are grassroots activists whose main activity is not pushing papers on a desk, or juggling bank accounts, or looking for journalists to pay attention to them, but who come from the ranks of the professionals, the working classes, the young intellectuals and activists, the teachers, doctors, lawyers—working people who have kept society going while also fending off daily Israeli attacks. Second, these are people committed to the kind of democracy and popular participation undreamed of by the Authority, whose idea of democracy is stability and security for itself. Lastly, they offer social services to the unemployed, health care to the uninsured and the poor, and proper secular education to a new generation of Palestinians who must be taught the realities of the modern world, not just the extraordinary worth of the old one. For such programs, the PNI stipulates that getting rid of the occupation is the only way forward and that in order to do that, a representative national unified leadership must be elected freely to replace the cronies, the outdated, and the ineffectiveness that have plagued Palestinian leaders for the past century. Only if we respect ourselves as Arabs and Americans and understand the true dignity and justice of our struggle, only then can we appreciate why, almost despite ourselves, so many people all over the world, including Rachel Corrie and the two young people wounded with her from the International Solidarity Movement, Tom Hurndall and Brian Avery, have felt it possible to express their solidarity with us. I conclude with one last irony. Isn’t it astonishing that all the signs of popular solidarity that Palestine and the Arabs receive occur with no comparable sign of solidarity and dignity from ourselves—that others admire and respect us more than we do ourselves? Isn’t it time we caught up with our own status and made certain that our representatives here and elsewhere realize, as a first step, that they are fighting for a just and noble cause, and that they have nothing to apologize for or be embarrassed about? On the contrary, they should be proud of what their people have done and proud also to represent them.
Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2003 in New York City. He is the author of 22 books which have been translated into 35 languages, including Orientalism (1978); The Question of Palestine (1979); Covering Islam (1980); The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983); Culture and Imperialism (1993); Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process (1996); and Out of Place: A Memoir (1999). Besides his academic work, he wrote a twice-monthly column for Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram; was a regular contributor to newspapers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and was the music critic for The Nation.
Cet épisode 63 de l'Actu au Scalpel revient sur l'affaire du coronavirus. Il sera question ici aussi bien de l'épidémie que du traitement médiatique assez lamentable de cette affaire. On reviendra également sur certains points de l'histoire qui vont nous aider à mieux comprendre ce qui se passe.
Doctors Kill 1,000,000 People Each Year In the U.S. Alone – Shocking Health Statistics
TLB Editors Note: The article you are about to read was originally published in 2015, but has not received the attention it surely needs. One of our pastimes here is to go through older publications, studies and articles to find the gems like this that truly need more daylight … thus we present this in the hopes it will awaken many to the dangers of modern medicine, dangers you would never be aware of if it were not for these great doctors, researchers and authors, as well as TLB’s propensity to go looking for forgotten gems of knowledge. The vital question to be answered is … if it was known to be this bad five years ago, what the heck is it like now … ??? Please read on!
Death by Medicine
By: Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD
Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
Until now, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about the dangers of conventional medicine. No one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed.
A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking.4 These researchers have authored a paper titled “Death by Medicine” that presents compelling evidence that today’s system frequently causes more harm than good.
This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.
The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)
We had intended to publish the entire text of “Death By Medicine” in this month’s issue. The article uncovered so many problems with conventional medicine however, that it became too long to fit within these pages. We have instead put it on our website (www.lef.org).
We placed this article on our website to memorialize the failure of the American medical system. By exposing these gruesome statistics in painstaking detail, we provide a basis for competent and compassionate medical professionals to recognize the inadequacies of today’s system and at least attempt to institute meaningful reforms.
Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs.
These attacks against natural medicine obscure a lethal problem that until now was buried in thousands of pages of scientific text. In response to these baseless challenges to natural medicine, the Nutrition Institute of America commissioned an independent review of the quality of “government-approved” medicine. The startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States .
The Nutrition Institute of America is a nonprofit organization that has sponsored independent research for the past 30 years. To support its bold claim that conventional medicine is America ‘s number-one killer, the Nutritional Institute of America mandated that every “count” in this “indictment” of US medicine be validated by published, peer-reviewed scientific studies.
What you are about to read is a stunning compilation of facts that documents that those who seek to abolish consumer access to natural therapies are misleading the public. Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives.
A definitive review of medical peer-reviewed journals and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.
Each year approximately 2.2 million US hospital patients experience adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medications.(1) In 1995, Dr. Richard Besser of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections to be 20 million; in 2003, Dr. Besser spoke in terms of tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually.(2, 2a) Approximately 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually in the US,(3) while approximately 8.9 million Americans are hospitalized unnecessarily.(4)
Iatrogenic: “Induced by a physician’s words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)”
As shown in the following table, the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US . By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer.(5)
Table 1: Estimated Annual Mortality and Economic Cost of Medical Intervention
Condition
Deaths
Cost
Author
Adverse Drug Reactions
106,000
$12 billion
Lazarou (1), Suh (49)
Medical Error
98,000
$2 billion
IOM(6)
Bedsores
115,000
$55 billion
Zakellis(7), Barczak(8)
Infection
88,000
$5 billion
Weinstein(9), MMWR(10)
Malnutrition
108,800
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Nurses Coalition(11)
Outpatients
199,000
$77 billion
Starfield(12), Weingart(112)
Unnecessary Procedures
37,136
$122 billion
HCUP(3,13)
Surgery-Related
32,000
$9 billion
AHRQ(85)
Total
783,936
$282 billion
Using Leape’s 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million(14) multiplied by the 14% fatality rate he used in 1994(16) produces an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined. Using this number instead of Lazorou’s 106,000 drug errors and the Institute of Medicine ‘s (IOM) estimated 98,000 annual medical errors would add another 216,000 deaths, for a total of 999,936 deaths annually.
Table 2: Estimated Annual Mortality and Economic Cost of Medical Intervention
Condition
Deaths
Cost
Author
ADR/Medical error
420,000
$200 billion
Leap(14)
Bedsores
115,000
$55 billion
Zakesslis(7), Barczak(8)
Infection
88,000
$5 billion
Weinstein(9), MMWR(1o)
Malnutrition
108,800
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Nurses Coalition(11)
Outpatients
199,000
$77 billion
Starfield(12), Weingart(112)
Unnecessary Procedures
37,136
$122 billion
HCUP(3,13)
Surgery-Related
32,000
$9 billion
AHRQ(85)
Total
999,936
$468 billion
(Webmaster’s Note: I rounded off the above figure of 999,936 to 1,000,000 for the title of this article).
The enumerating of unnecessary medical events is very important in our analysis. Any invasive, unnecessary medical procedure must be considered as part of the larger iatrogenic picture. Unfortunately, cause and effect go unmonitored. The figures on unnecessary events represent people who are thrust into a dangerous health care system. Each of these 16.4 million lives is being affected in ways that could have fatal consequences. Simply entering a hospital could result in the following:
In 16.4 million people, a 2.1% chance (affecting 186,000) of a serious adverse drug reaction(1)
In 16.4 million people, a 5-6% chance (affecting 489,500) of acquiring a nosocomial* infection(9)
In 16.4 million people, a 4-36% chance (affecting 1.78 million) of having an iatrogenic injury (medical error and adverse drug reactions).(16)
In 16.4 million people, a 17% chance (affecting 1.3 million) of a procedure error.(40)
Noscocomial: Taking place or originating in a hospital.
These statistics represent a one-year time span. Working with the most conservative figures from our statistics, we project the following 10-year death rates.
Table 3: Estimated 10-Year Death Rates from Medical Intervention
Condition
10-Year Deaths
Author
Adverse Drug Reaction
1.06 million
(1)
Medical error
0.98 million
(6)
Bedsores
1.15 million
(7,8)
Nosocomial Infection
0.88 million
(9,10)
Malnutrition
1.09 million
(11)
Outpatients
1.99 million
(12,112)
Unnecessary Procedures
371,360
(3,13)
Surgery-related
320,000
(85)
Total
7,841,360
Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history.
Our projected figures for unnecessary medical events occurring over a 10-year period also are dramatic.
Table 4: Estimated 10-Year Unnecessary Medical Events
Unnecessary Events
10-year Number
Iatrogenic Events
Hospitalization
89 million (4)
17 million
Procedures
75 million (3)
15 million
Total
163 million
These figures show that an estimated 164 million people—more than half of the total US population—receive unneeded medical treatment over the course of a decade.
INTRODUCTION
Never before have the complete statistics on the multiple causes of iatrogenesis been combined in one article. Medical science amasses tens of thousands of papers annually, each representing a tiny fragment of the whole picture. To look at only one piece and try to understand the benefits and risks is like standing an inch away from an elephant and trying to describe everything about it. You have to step back to see the big picture, as we have done here. Each specialty, each division of medicine keeps its own records and data on morbidity and mortality. We have now completed the painstaking work of reviewing thousands of studies and putting pieces of the puzzle together.
IS AMERICAN MEDICINE WORKING?
US health care spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2003, representing 14% of the nation’s gross national product.(15) Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be preventing and reversing disease, and doing minimal harm. Careful and objective review, however, shows we are doing the opposite. Because of the extraordinarily narrow, technologically driven context in which contemporary medicine examines the human condition, we are completely missing the larger picture.
Medicine is not taking into consideration the following critically important aspects of a healthy human organism: (a) stress and how it adversely affects the immune system and life processes; (b) insufficient exercise; (c) excessive caloric intake; (d) highly processed and denatured foods grown in denatured and chemically damaged soil; and (e) exposure to tens of thousands of environmental toxins. Instead of minimizing these disease-causing factors, we cause more illness through medical technology, diagnostic testing, overuse of medical and surgical procedures, and overuse of pharmaceutical drugs. The huge disservice of this therapeutic strategy is the result of little effort or money being spent on preventing disease.
UNDERREPORTING OF IATROGENIC EVENTS
As few as 5% and no more than 20% of iatrogenic acts are ever reported.(16,24,25,33,34)
This implies that if medical errors were completely and accurately reported, we would have an annual iatrogenic death toll much higher than 783,936. In 1994, Leape said his figure of 180,000 medical mistakes resulting in death annually was equivalent to three jumbo-jet crashes every two days.(16) Our considerably higher figure is equivalent to six jumbo jets are falling out of the sky each day.
What we must deduce from this report is that medicine is in need of complete and total reform—from the curriculum in medical schools to protecting patients from excessive medical intervention. It is obvious that we cannot change anything if we are not honest about what needs to be changed. This report simply shows the degree to which change is required.
We are fully aware of what stands in the way of change: powerful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, along with other powerful groups with enormous vested interests in the business of medicine. They fund medical research, support medical schools and hospitals, and advertise in medical journals. With deep pockets, they entice scientists and academics to support their efforts. Such funding can sway the balance of opinion from professional caution to uncritical acceptance of new therapies and drugs. You have only to look at the people who make up the hospital, medical, and government health advisory boards to see conflicts of interest. The public is mostly unaware of these interlocking interests.
For example, a 2003 study found that nearly half of medical school faculty who serve on institutional review boards (IRB) to advise on clinical trial research also serve as consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.(17) The study authors were concerned that such representation could cause potential conflicts of interest. A news release by Dr. Erik Campbell, the lead author, said, “Our previous research with faculty has shown us that ties to industry can affect scientific behavior, leading to such things as trade secrecy and delays in publishing research. It’s possible that similar relationships with companies could affect IRB members’ activities and attitudes.”(18)
MEDICAL ETHICS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE
Jonathan Quick, director of essential drugs and medicines policy for the World Health Organization (WHO), wrote in a recent WHO bulletin: “If clinical trials become a commercial venture in which self-interest overrules public interest and desire overrules science, then the social contract which allows research on human subjects in return for medical advances is broken.”(19)
As former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell struggled to bring greater attention to the problem of commercializing scientific research. In her outgoing editorial entitled “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?”
Angell said that growing conflicts of interest are tainting science and called for stronger restrictions on pharmaceutical stock ownership and other financial incentives for researchers:(20) “When the boundaries between industry and academic medicine become as blurred as they are now, the business goals of industry influence the mission of medical schools in multiple ways.” She did not discount the benefits of research but said a Faustian bargain now existed between medical schools and the pharmaceutical industry.
Angell left the New England Journal in June 2000. In June 2002, the New England Journal of Medicine announced that it would accept journalists who accept money from drug companies because it was too difficult to find ones who have no ties. Another former editor of the journal, Dr. Jerome Kassirer, said that was not the case and that plenty of researchers are available who do not work for drug companies.(21) According to an ABC news report, pharmaceutical companies spend over $2 billion a year on over 314,000 events attended by doctors.
The ABC news report also noted that a survey of clinical trials revealed that when a drug company funds a study, there is a 90% chance that the drug will be perceived as effective whereas a non-drug-company-funded study will show favorable results only 50% of the time. It appears that money can’t buy you love but it can buy any “scientific” result desired.
Cynthia Crossen, a staffer for the Wall Street Journal, in 1996 published Tainted Truth : The Manipulation of Fact in America , a book about the widespread practice of lying with statistics.(22) Commenting on the state of scientific research, she wrote: “The road to hell was paved with the flood of corporate research dollars that eagerly filled gaps left by slashed government research funding.” Her data on financial involvement showed that in l981 the drug industry “gave” $292 million to colleges and universities for research. By l991, this figure had risen to $2.1 billion.
THE FIRST IATROGENIC STUDY
Dr. Lucian L. Leape opened medicine’s Pandora’s box in his 1994 paper, “Error in Medicine,” which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).(16) He found that Schimmel reported in 1964 that 20% of hospital patients suffered iatrogenic injury, with a 20% fatality rate. In 1981 Steel reported that 36% of hospitalized patients experienced iatrogenesis with a 25% fatality rate, and adverse drug reactions were involved in 50% of the injuries. In 1991, Bedell reported that 64% of acute heart attacks in one hospital were preventable and were mostly due to adverse drug reactions.
Leape focused on the “Harvard Medical Practice Study” published in 1991, (16a) which found a 4% iatrogenic injury rate for patients, with a 14% fatality rate, in 1984 in New York State. From the 98,609 patients injured and the 14% fatality rate, he estimated that in the entire U.S. 180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury.
Why Leape chose to use the much lower figure of 4% injury for his analysis remains in question. Using instead the average of the rates found in the three studies he cites (36%, 20%, and 4%) would have produced a 20% medical error rate. The number of iatrogenic deaths using an average rate of injury and his 14% fatality rate would be 1,189,576.
Leape acknowledged that the literature on medical errors is sparse and represents only the tip of the iceberg, noting that when errors are specifically sought out, reported rates are “distressingly high.” He cited several autopsy studies with rates as high as 35-40% of missed diagnoses causing death. He also noted that an intensive care unit reported an average of 1.7 errors per day per patient, and 29% of those errors were potentially serious or fatal.
Leape calculated the error rate in the intensive care unit study. First, he found that each patient had an average of 178 “activities” (staff/procedure/medical interactions) a day, of which 1.7 were errors, which means a 1% failure rate. This may not seem like much, but Leape cited industry standards showing that in aviation, a 0.1% failure rate would mean two unsafe plane landings per day at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport; in the US Postal Service, a 0.1% failure rate would mean 16,000 pieces of lost mail every hour; and in the banking industry, a 0.1% failure rate would mean 32,000 bank checks deducted from the wrong bank account.
In trying to determine why there are so many medical errors, Leape acknowledged the lack of reporting of medical errors. Medical errors occur in thousands of different locations and are perceived as isolated and unusual events. But the most important reason that the problem of medical errors is unrecognized and growing, according to Leape, is that doctors and nurses are unequipped to deal with human error because of the culture of medical training and practice.
Doctors are taught that mistakes are unacceptable. Medical mistakes are therefore viewed as a failure of character and any error equals negligence. No one is taught what to do when medical errors do occur. Leape cites McIntyre and Popper, who said the “infallibility model” of medicine leads to intellectual dishonesty with a need to cover up mistakes rather than admit them. There are no Grand Rounds on medical errors, no sharing of failures among doctors, and no one to support them emotionally when their error harms a patient.
Leape hoped his paper would encourage medical practitioners “to fundamentally change the way they think about errors and why they occur.” It has been almost a decade since this groundbreaking work, but the mistakes continue to soar.
In 1995, a JAMA report noted, “Over a million patients are injured in US hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined.”(23)
At a 1997 press conference, Leape released a nationwide poll on patient iatrogenesis conducted by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which is sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA). Leape is a founding member of NPSF. The survey found that more than 100 million Americans have been affected directly or indirectly by a medical mistake. Forty-two percent were affected directly and 84% personally knew of someone who had experienced a medical mistake.(14)
At this press conference, Leape updated his 1994 statistics, noting that as of 1997, medical errors in inpatient hospital settings nationwide could be as high as 3 million and could cost as much as $200 billion . Leape used a 14% fatality rate to determine a medical error death rate of 180,000 in 1994.(16) In 1997, using Leape’s base number of 3 million errors, the annual death rate could be as high as 420,000 for hospital inpatients alone.
ONLY A FRACTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS ARE REPORTED
In 1994, Leape said he was well aware that medical errors were not being reported.(16) A study conducted in two obstetrical units in the UK found that only about one-quarter of adverse incidents were ever reported, to protect staff, preserve reputations, or for fear of reprisals, including lawsuits.(24). An analysis by Wald and Shojania found that only 1.5% of all adverse events result in an incident report, and only 6% of adverse drug events are identified properly.
The authors learned that the American College of Surgeons estimates that surgical incident reports routinely capture only 5-30% of adverse events. In one study, only 20% of surgical complications resulted in discussion at morbidity and mortality rounds.(25) From these studies, it appears that all the statistics gathered on medical errors may substantially underestimate the number of adverse drug and medical therapy incidents. They also suggest that our statistics concerning mortality resulting from medical errors may be in fact be conservative figures.
An article in Psychiatric Times (April 2000) outlines the stakes involved in reporting medical errors.(26) The authors found that the public is fearful of suffering a fatal medical error, and doctors are afraid they will be sued if they report an error. This brings up the obvious question: who is reporting medical errors? Usually it is the patient or the patient’s surviving family. If no one notices the error, it is never reported.
Janet Heinrich, an associate director at the U.S. General Accounting Office responsible for health financing and public health issues, testified before a House subcommittee hearing on medical errors that “the full magnitude of their threat to the American public is unknown” and “gathering valid and useful information about adverse events is extremely difficult.” She acknowledged that the fear of being blamed, and the potential for legal liability, played key roles in the underreporting of errors. The Psychiatric Times noted that the AMA strongly opposes mandatory reporting of medical errors.(26) If doctors are not reporting, what about nurses? A survey of nurses found that they also fail to report medical mistakes for fear of retaliation.(27)
Standard medical pharmacology texts admit that relatively few doctors ever report adverse drug reactions to the FDA.(28) The reasons range from not knowing such a reporting system exists to fear of being sued.(29) Yet the public depends on this tremendously flawed system of voluntary reporting by doctors to know whether a drug or a medical intervention is harmful.
Pharmacology texts also will tell doctors how hard it is to separate drug side effects from disease symptoms. Treatment failure is most often attributed to the disease and not the drug or doctor. Doctors are warned, “Probably nowhere else in professional life are mistakes so easily hidden, even from ourselves.”(30) It may be hard to accept, but it is not difficult to understand why only 1 in 20 side effects is reported to either hospital administrators or the FDA.(31, 31a)
If hospitals admitted to the actual number of errors for which they are responsible, which is about 20 times what is reported, they would come under intense scrutiny.(32) Jerry Phillips, associate director of the FDA’s Office of Post Marketing Drug Risk Assessment, confirms this number. “In the broader area of adverse drug reaction data, the 250,000 reports received annually probably represent only 5% of the actual reactions that occur.”(33) Dr. Jay Cohen, who has extensively researched adverse drug reactions, notes that because only 5% of adverse drug reactions are reported, there are in fact 5 million medication reactions each year.(34)
A 2003 survey is all the more distressing because there seems to be no improvement in error reporting, even with all the attention given to this topic. Dr. Dorothea Wild surveyed medical residents at a community hospital in Connecticut and found that only half were aware that the hospital had a medical error-reporting system, and that the vast majority did not use it at all. Dr. Wild says this does not bode well for the future. If doctors don’t learn error reporting in their training, they will never use it. Wild adds that error reporting is the first step in locating the gaps in the medical system and fixing them. Not even that first step has been taken to date.(35)
PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS ON IATROGENESIS
In a telephone survey, 1,207 adults ranked the effectiveness of the following measures in reducing preventable medical errors that result in serious harm.(36) (Following each measure is the percentage of respondents who ranked the measure as “very effective.”)
Giving doctors more time to spend with patients (78%)
Requiring hospitals to develop systems to avoid medical errors (74%)
better training of health professionals (73%)
Using only doctors specially trained in intensive care medicine on intensive care units (73%)
Requiring hospitals to report all serious medical errors to a state agency (71%)
Increasing the number of hospital nurses (69%)
Reducing the work hours of doctors in training to avoid fatigue (66%)
encouraging hospitals to voluntarily report serious medical errors to a state agency (62%).
DRUG IATROGENESIS
Prescription drugs constitute the major treatment modality of scientific medicine. With the discovery of the “germ theory,” medical scientists convinced the public that infectious organisms were the cause of illness. Finding the “cure” for these infections proved much harder than anyone imagined. From the beginning, chemical drugs promised much more than they delivered. But far beyond not working, the drugs also caused incalculable side effects. The drugs themselves, even when properly prescribed, have side effects that can be fatal, as Lazarou’s study(1) showed. But human error can make the situation even worse.
MEDICATION ERRORS
A survey of a 1992 national pharmacy database found a total of 429,827 medication errors from 1,081 hospitals. Medication errors occurred in 5.22% of patients admitted to these hospitals each year. The authors concluded that at least 90,895 patients annually were harmed by medication errors in the US as a whole.(37)
A 2002 study shows that 20% of hospital medications for patients had dosage errors. Nearly 40% of these errors were considered potentially harmful to the patient. In a typical 300-patient hospital, the number of errors per day was 40.(38)
Problems involving patients’ medications were even higher the following year. The error rate intercepted by pharmacists in this study was 24%, making the potential minimum number of patients harmed by prescription drugs 417,908.(39)
RECENT ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
More-recent studies on adverse drug reactions show that the figures from 1994 published in Lazarou’s 1998 JAMA article may be increasing. A 2003 study followed 400 patients after discharge from a tertiary care hospital setting (requiring highly specialized skills, technology, or support services). Seventy-six patients (19%) had adverse events. Adverse drug events were the most common, at 66% of all events. The next most common event was procedure-related injuries, at 17%.(40)
In a New England Journal of Medicine study, an alarming one in four patients suffered observable side effects from the more than 3.34 billion prescription drugs filled in 2002.(41) One of the doctors who produced the study was interviewed by Reuters and commented, “With these 10-minute appointments, it’s hard for the doctor to get into whether the symptoms are bothering the patients.”(42) William Tierney, who editorialized on the New England Journal study, said “… given the increasing number of powerful drugs available to care for the aging population, the problem will only get worse.”
The drugs with the worst record of side effects were selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and calcium-channel blockers. Reuters also reported that prior research has suggested that nearly 5% of hospital admissions (over 1 million per year) are the result of drug side effects. But most of the cases are not documented as such. The study found that one of the reasons for this failure is that in nearly two-thirds of the cases, doctors could not diagnose drug side effects or the side effects persisted because the doctor failed to heed the warning signs.
MEDICATING OUR FEELINGS
Patients seeking a more joyful existence and relief from worry, stress, and anxiety often fall victim to the messages endlessly displayed on TV and billboards. Often, instead of gaining relief, they fall victim to the myriad iatrogenic side effects of antidepressant medication.
Moreover, a whole generation of antidepressant users has been created from young people growing up on Ritalin. Medicating youth and modifying their emotions must have some impact on how they learn to deal with their feelings. They learn to equate coping with drugs rather than with their inner resources. As adults, these medicated youth reach for alcohol, drugs, or even street drugs to cope. According to JAMA , “Ritalin acts much like cocaine.”(43) Today’s marketing of mood-modifying drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft ® makes them not only socially acceptable but almost a necessity in today’s stressful world.
TELEVISION DIAGNOSIS
To reach the widest audience possible, drug companies are no longer just targeting medical doctors with their marketing of antidepressants. By 1995, drug companies had tripled the amount of money allotted to direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers. The majority of this money is spent on seductive television ads. From 1996 to 2000, spending rose from $791 million to nearly $2.5 billion.(44) This $2.5 billion represents only 15% of the total pharmaceutical advertising budget.
While the drug companies maintain that direct-to-consumer advertising is educational, Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe of the Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, DC, argues that the public often is misinformed about these ads.(45) People want what they see on television and are told to go to their doctors for a prescription. Doctors in private practice either acquiesce to their patients’ demands for these drugs or spend valuable time trying to talk patients out of unnecessary drugs.
Dr. Wolfe remarks that one important study found that people mistakenly believe that the “FDA reviews all ads before they are released and allows only the safest and most effective drugs to be promoted directly to the public.”(46)
HOW DO WE KNOW DRUGS ARE SAFE?
Another aspect of scientific medicine that the public takes for granted is the testing of new drugs. Drugs generally are tested on individuals who are fairly healthy and not on other medications that could interfere with findings. But when these new drugs are declared “safe” and enter the drug prescription books, they are naturally going to be used by people who are on a variety of other medications and have a lot of other health problems. Then a new phase of drug testing called “post-approval” comes into play, which is the documentation of side effects once drugs hit the market.
In one very telling report, the federal government’s General Accounting Office “found that of the 198 drugs approved by the FDA between 1976 and 1985… 102 (or 51.5%) had serious post-approval risks… the serious post-approval risks (included) heart failure, myocardial infarction, anaphylaxis, respiratory depression and arrest, seizures, kidney and liver failure, severe blood disorders, birth defects and fetal toxicity, and blindness.”(47)
NBC Television’s investigative show “Dateline” wondered if your doctor is moonlighting as a drug company representative. After a yearlong investigation, NBC reported that because doctors can legally prescribe any drug to any patient for any condition, drug companies heavily promote “off label” and frequently inappropriate and untested uses of these medications, even though these drugs are approved only for the specific indications for which they have been tested.(48)
The leading causes of adverse drug reactions are antibiotics (17%), cardiovascular drugs (17%), chemotherapy (15%), and analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents (15%).(49)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: ANTIBIOTICS
According to William Agger, MD, director of microbiology and chief of infectious disease at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI, 30 million pounds of antibiotics are used in America each year.(50) Of this amount, 25 million pounds are used in animal husbandry, and 23 million pounds are used to try to prevent disease and the stress of shipping, as well as to promote growth. Only 2 million pounds are given for specific animal infections. Dr. Agger reminds us that low concentrations of antibiotics are measurable in many of our foods and in various waterways around the world, much of it seeping in from animal farms.
Agger contends that overuse of antibiotics results in food-borne infections resistant to antibiotics. Salmonella is found in 20% of ground meat, but the constant exposure of cattle to antibiotics has made 84% of salmonella resistant to at least one anti-salmonella antibiotic. Diseased animal food accounts for 80% of salmonellosis in humans, or 1.4 million cases per year. The conventional approach to countering this epidemic is to radiate food to try to kill all organisms while continuing to use the antibiotics that created the problem in the first place. Approximately 20% of chickens are contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni, an organism that causes 2.4 million cases of illness annually. Fifty-four percent of these organisms are resistant to at least one anti-campylobacter antimicrobial agent.
Denmark banned growth-promoting antibiotics beginning in 1999, which cut their use by more than half within a year, from 453,200 to 195,800 pounds. A report from Scandinavia found that removing antibiotic growth promoters had no or minimal effect on food production costs. Agger warns that the current crowded, unsanitary methods of animal farming in the US support constant stress and infection, and are geared toward high antibiotic use.
In the US, over 3 million pounds of antibiotics are used every year on humans. With a population of 284 million Americans, this amount is enough to give every man, woman, and child 10 teaspoons of pure antibiotics per year. Agger says that exposure to a steady stream of antibiotics has altered pathogens such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staplococcus aureus, and entercocci, to name a few.
Almost half of patients with upper respiratory tract infections in the U.S. still receive antibiotics from their doctor.(51) According to the CDC, 90% of upper respiratory infections are viral and should not be treated with antibiotics. In Germany, the prevalence of systemic antibiotic use in children aged 0-6 years was 42.9%.(52)
Data obtained from nine US health insurers on antibiotic use in 25,000 children from 1996 to 2000 found that rates of antibiotic use decreased. Antibiotic use in children aged three months to under 3 years decreased 24%, from 2.46 to 1.89 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year. For children aged 3 to under 6 years, there was a 25% reduction from 1.47 to 1.09 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year. And for children aged 6 to under 18 years, there was a 16% reduction from 0.85 to 0.69 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year.(53) Despite these reductions, the data indicate that on average every child in America receives 1.22 antibiotic prescriptions annually.
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci is the only common cause of sore throat that requires antibiotics, with penicillin and erythromycin the only recommended treatment. Ninety percent of sore-throat cases, however, are viral. Antibiotics were used in 73% of the estimated 6.7 million adult annual visits for sore throat in the US between 1989 and 1999. Furthermore, patients treated with antibiotics were prescribed non-recommended broad-spectrum antibiotics in 68% of visits. This period saw a significant increase in the use of newer, more expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics and a decrease in use of the recommended antibiotics penicillin and erythromycin.(54) A ntibiotics being prescribed in 73% of sore-throat cases instead of the recommended 10% resulted in a total of 4.2 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions from 1989 to 1999.
THE PROBLEM WITH ANTIBIOTICS
In September 2003, the CDC re-launched a program started in 1995 called “Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work.”(55) This $1.6 million campaign is designed to educate patients about the overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics. Most people involved with alternative medicine have known about the dangers of antibiotic overuse for decades. Finally the government is focusing on the problem, yet it is spending only a miniscule amount of money on an iatrogenic epidemic that is costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
The CDC warns that 90% of upper respiratory infections, including children’s ear infections, are viral and that antibiotics do not treat viral infection. More than 40% of about 50 million prescriptions for antibiotics written each year in physicians’ offices are inappropriate.(2) Using antibiotics when not needed can lead to the development of deadly strains of bacteria that are resistant to drugs and cause more than 88,000 deaths due to hospital-acquired infections.(9) The CDC, however, seems to be blaming patients for misusing antibiotics even though they are available only by prescription from physicians.
According to Dr. Richard Besser, head of “Get Smart”: “Programs that have just targeted physicians have not worked. Direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs is to blame in some cases.” Besser says the program “teaches patients and the general public that antibiotics are precious resources that must be used correctly if we want to have them around when we need them. Hopefully, as a result of this campaign, patients will feel more comfortable asking their doctors for the best care for their illnesses, rather than asking for antibiotics.”(56)
What constitutes the “best care”? The CDC does not elaborate and ignores the latest research on the dozens of nutraceuticals that have been scientifically proven to treat viral infections and boost immune-system function. Will doctors recommend vitamin C, echinacea, elderberry, vitamin A, zinc, or homeopathic oscillococcinum? Probably not. The CDC’s common-sense recommendations that most people follow anyway include getting proper rest, drinking plenty of fluids, and using a humidifier.
The pharmaceutical industry claims it supports limiting the use of antibiotics. The drug company Bayer sponsors a program called “Operation Clean Hands” through an organization called LIBRA.(57) The CDC also is involved in trying to minimize antibiotic resistance, but nowhere in its publications is there any reference to the role of nutraceuticals in boosting the immune system, nor to the thousands of journal articles that support this approach. This tunnel vision and refusal to recommend the available non-drug alternatives is unfortunate when the CDC is desperately trying to curb the overuse of antibiotics.
DRUGS POLLUTE OUR WATER SUPPLY
We have reached the point of saturation with prescription drugs. Every body of water tested contains measurable drug residues. The tons of antibiotics used in animal farming, which run off into the water table and surrounding bodies of water, are conferring antibiotic resistance to germs in sewage, and these germs also are found in our water supply. Flushed down our toilets are tons of drugs and drug metabolites that also find their way into our water supply. We have no way to know the long-term health consequences of ingesting a mixture of drugs and drug-breakdown products. These drugs represent another level of iatrogenic disease that we are unable to completely measure.(58-67)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: NSAIDs
It’s not just the US that is plagued by iatrogenesis. A survey of more than 1,000 French general practitioners (GPs) tested their basic pharmacological knowledge and practice in prescribing NSAIDs, which rank first among commonly prescribed drugs for serious adverse reactions. The study results suggest that GPs do not have adequate knowledge of these drugs and are unable to effectively manage adverse reactions.(68)
A cross-sectional survey of 125 patients attending specialty pain clinics in South London found that possible iatrogenic factors such as “over-investigation, inappropriate information, and advice given to patients as well as misdiagnosis, over-treatment, and inappropriate prescription of medication were common.”(69)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY
In 1989, German biostatistician Ulrich Abel, PhD, wrote a monograph entitled “Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer.” It was later published in shorter form in a peer-reviewed medical journal.(70) Abel presented a comprehensive analysis of clinical trials and publications representing over 3,000 articles examining the value of cytotoxic chemotherapy on advanced epithelial cancer. Epithelial cancer is the type of cancer with which we are most familiar, arising from epithelium found in the lining of body organs such as the breast, prostate, lung, stomach, and bowel. From these sites, cancer usually infiltrates adjacent tissue and spreads to the bone, liver, lung, or brain.
With his exhaustive review, Abel concluded there is no direct evidence that chemotherapy prolongs survival in patients with advanced carcinoma; in small-cell lung cancer and perhaps ovarian cancer, the therapeutic benefit is only slight. According to Abel, “Many oncologists take it for granted that response to therapy prolongs survival, an opinion which is based on a fallacy and which is not supported by clinical studies.”
Over a decade after Abel’s exhaustive review of chemotherapy, there seems no decrease in its use for advanced carcinoma. For example, when conventional chemotherapy and radiation have not worked to prevent metastases in breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) along with stem-cell transplant (SCT) is the treatment of choice. In March 2000, however, results from the largest multi-center randomized controlled trial conducted thus far showed that, compared to a prolonged course of monthly conventional-dose chemotherapy, HDC and SCT were of no benefit, (71) with even a slightly lower survival rate for the HDC/SCT group. Serious adverse effects occurred more often in the HDC group than the standard-dose group. One treatment-related death (within 100 days of therapy) was recorded in the HDC group, but none was recorded in the conventional chemotherapy group. The women in this trial were highly selected as having the best chance to respond.
Unfortunately, no all-encompassing follow-up study such as Dr. Abel’s exists to indicate whether there has been any improvement in cancer-survival statistics since 1989. In fact, research should be conducted to determine whether chemotherapy itself is responsible for secondary cancers instead of progression of the original disease. We continue to question why well-researched alternative cancer treatments are not used.
DRUG COMPANIES FINED
Periodically, the FDA fines a drug manufacturer when its abuses are too glaring and impossible to cover up. In May 2002, The Washington Post reported that Schering-Plough Corp., the maker of Claritin, was to pay a $500 million dollar fine to the FDA for quality-control problems at four of its factories.(72) The indictment came after the Public Citizen Health Research Group, led by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, called for a criminal investigation of Schering-Plough, charging that the company distributed albuterol asthma inhalers even though it knew the units were missing the active ingredient.
The FDA tabulated infractions involving 125 products, or 90% of the drugs made by Schering-Plough since 1998. Besides paying the fine, the company was forced to halt the manufacture of 73 drugs or suffer another $175 million fine. Schering-Plough’s news releases told another story, assuring consumers that they should still feel confident in the company’s products.
This large settlement served as a warning to the drug industry about maintaining strict manufacturing practices and has given the FDA more clout in dealing with drug company compliance. According to The Washington Post article, a federal appeals court ruled in 1999 that the FDA could seize the profits of companies that violate “good manufacturing practices.” Since that time, Abbott Laboratories has paid a $100 million fine for failing to meet quality standards in the production of medical test kits, while Wyeth Laboratories paid $30 million in 2000 to settle accusations of poor manufacturing practices.
UNNECESSARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES
In 1974, 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries were performed, resulting in 11,900 deaths at a cost of $3.9 billion.(73,74) In 2001, 7.5 million unnecessary surgical procedures were performed, resulting in 37,136 deaths at a cost of $122 billion (using 1974 dollars).(3)
It is very difficult to obtain accurate statistics when studying unnecessary surgery. In 1989, Leape wrote that perhaps 30% of controversial surgeries—which include cesarean section, tonsillectomy, appendectomy, hysterectomy, gastrectomy for obesity, breast implants, and elective breast implants(74)— are unnecessary. In 1974, the Congressional Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce held hearings on unnecessary surgery. It found that 17.6% of recommendations for surgery were not confirmed by a second opinion. The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations extrapolated these figures and estimated that, on a nationwide basis, there were 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries performed annually, resulting in 11,900 deaths at an annual cost of $3.9 billion.(73)
According to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(13), in 2001 the 50 most common medical and surgical procedures were performed approximately 41.8 million times in the US. Using the 1974 House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations’ figure of 17.6% as the percentage of unnecessary surgical procedures, and extrapolating from the death rate in 1974, produces nearly 7.5 million (7,489,718) unnecessary procedures and a death rate of 37,136, at a cost of $122 billion (using 1974 dollars).
In 1995, researchers conducted a similar analysis of back surgery procedures, using the 1974 “unnecessary surgery percentage” of 17.6. Testifying before the Department of Veterans Affairs, they estimated that of the 250,000 back surgeries performed annually in the US at a hospital cost of $11,000 per patient, the total number of unnecessary back surgeries approaches 44,000, costing as much as $484 million.(75)
Like prescription drug use driven by television advertising, unnecessary surgeries are escalating. Media-driven surgery such as gastric bypass for obesity “modeled” by Hollywood celebrities seduces obese people to think this route is safe and sexy. Unnecessary surgeries have even been marketed on the Internet.(76) A study in Spain declares that 20-25% of total surgical practice represents unnecessary operations.(77)
According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics for 1979 to 1984, the total number of surgical procedures increased 9% while the number of surgeons grew 20%. The study notes that the large increase in the number of surgeons was not accompanied by a parallel increase in the number of surgeries performed, and expressed concern about an excess of surgeons to handle the surgical caseload.(78)
From 1983 to 1994, however, the incidence of the 10 most commonly performed surgical procedures jumped 38%, to 7,929,000 from 5,731,000 cases. By 1994, cataract surgery was the most common procedure with more than 2 million operations, followed by cesarean section (858,000 procedures) and inguinal hernia operations (689,000 procedures). Knee arthroscopy procedures increased 153% while prostate surgery declined 29%.(79)
The list of iatrogenic complications from surgery is as long as the list of procedures themselves. One study examined catheters that were inserted to deliver anesthetic into the epidural space around the spinal nerves for lower cesarean section, abdominal surgery, or prostate surgery. In some cases, non-sterile technique during catheter insertion resulted in serious infections, even leading to limb paralysis.(80)
In one review of the literature, the authors found “a significant rate of overutilization of coronary angiography, coronary artery surgery, cardiac pacemaker insertion, upper gastrointestinal endoscopies, carotid endarterectomies, back surgery, and pain-relieving procedures.”(81)
A 1987 JAMA study found the following significant levels of inappropriate surgery: 17% of coronary angiography procedures, 32% of carotid endarterectomy procedures, and 17% of upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy procedures.(82) Based on the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) statistics provided by the government for 2001, 697,675 upper gastrointestinal endoscopies (usually entailing biopsy) were performed, as were 142,401 endarterectomies and 719,949 coronary angiographies.(13) Extrapolating the JAMA study’s inappropriate surgery rates to 2001 produces 118,604 unnecessary endoscopy procedures, 45,568 unnecessary endarterectomies, and 122,391 unnecessary coronary angiographies. These are all forms of medical iatrogenesis.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES
It is instructive to know the mortality rates associated with various medical and surgical procedures. Although we must sign release forms when we undergo any procedure, many of us are in denial about the true risks involved; because medical and surgical procedures are so commonplace, they often are seen as both necessary and safe. Unfortunately, allopathic medicine itself is a leading cause of death, as well as the most expensive way to die.
Perhaps the words “health care” confer the illusion that medicine is about health. Allopathic medicine is not a purveyor of health care but of disease care. The HCUP figures are instructive,(13) but the computer program that calculates annual mortality statistics for all US hospital discharges is only as good as the codes entered into the system. In email correspondence, HCUP indicated that the mortality rates for each procedure indicated only that someone undergoing that procedure died either from the procedure or from some other cause.
Thus there is no way of knowing exactly how many people die from a particular procedure. While codes for “poisoning & toxic effects of drugs” and “complications of treatment” do exist, the mortality figures registered in these categories are very low and do not correlate with what is known from research such as the 1998 JAMA study(1) that estimated an average of 106,000 prescription medication deaths per year. No codes exist for adverse drug side effects, surgical mishaps, or other types of medical error. Until such codes exist, the true mortality rates tied to of medical error will remain buried in the general statistics.
AN HONEST LOOK AT U.S. HEALTH CARE
In 1978, the US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) reported: “Only 10-20% of all procedures currently used in medical practice have been shown to be efficacious by controlled trial.”(83) In 1995, the OTA compared medical technology in eight countries ( Australia , Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, and the US ) and again noted that few medical procedures in the US have been subjected to clinical trial. It also reported that US infant mortality was high and life expectancy low compared to other developed countries.(84)
Although almost 10 years old, much of what was written in the OTA report holds true today. The report blames the high cost of American medicine on the medical free-enterprise system and failure to create a national health care policy. It attributes the government’s failure to control health care costs to market incentives and profit motives inherent in the current financing and organization of health care, which includes such interests as private health insurers, hospital systems, physicians, and the drug and medical-device industries. “Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries” is the last report prepared by the OTA, which was disbanded in 1995. It also is perhaps the US government’s last honest, detailed examination of the nation’s health care system. An appendix summarizing this 60-page report follows this article.
SURGICAL ERRORS FINALLY REPORTED
An October 2003 JAMA study from the US government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) documented 32,000 mostly surgery-related deaths costing $9 billion and accounting for 2.4 million extra hospital days in 2000.(85) Data from 20% of the nation’s hospitals were analyzed for 18 different surgical complications, including postoperative infections, foreign objects left in wounds, surgical wounds reopening, and post-operative bleeding.
In a press release accompanying the study, AHRQ director Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, noted: “This study gives us the first direct evidence that medical injuries pose a real threat to the American public and increase the costs of health care.”(86) According to the study’s authors, “The findings greatly underestimate the problem, since many other complications happen that are not listed in hospital administrative data.” They added: “The message here is that medical injuries can have a devastating impact on the health care system. We need more research to identify why these injuries occur and find ways to prevent them from happening.” The study authors said that improved medical practices, including an emphasis on better hand washing, might help reduce morbidity and mortality rates. In an accompanying JAMA editorial, health-risk researcher Dr. Saul Weingart of Harvard’s Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center wrote, “Given their staggering magnitude, these estimates are clearly sobering.”(87)
UNNECESSARY X-RAYS
When x-rays were discovered, no one knew the long-term effects of ionizing radiation. In the 1950s, monthly fluoroscopic exams at the doctor’s office were routine, and you could even walk into most shoe stores and see x-rays of your foot bones. We still do not know the ultimate outcome of our initial fascination with x-rays.
In those days, it was common practice to x-ray pregnant women to measure their pelvises and make a diagnosis of twins. Finally, a study of 700,000 children born between 1947 and 1964 in 37 major maternity hospitals compared the children of mothers who had received pelvic x-rays during pregnancy to those of mothers who did not. It found that cancer mortality was 40% higher among children whose mothers had been x-rayed.(88)
In present-day medicine, coronary angiography is an invasive surgical procedure that involves snaking a tube through a blood vessel in the groin up to the heart. To obtain useful information, X-rays are taken almost continuously, with minimum dosages ranging from 460 to 1,580 mrem. The minimum radiation from a routine chest x-ray is 2 mrem. X-ray radiation accumulates in the body, and ionizing radiation used in X-ray procedures has been shown to cause gene mutation. The health impact of this high level of radiation is unknown, and often obscured in statistical jargon such as, “The risk for lifetime fatal cancer due to radiation exposure is estimated to be 4 in one million per 1,000 mrem.”(89)
Dr. John Gofman has studied the effects of radiation on human health for 45 years. A medical doctor with a PhD in nuclear and physical chemistry, Gofman worked on the Manhattan Project, discovered uranium-233, and was the first person to isolate plutonium. In five scientifically documented books, Gofman provides strong evidence that medical technology—specifically x-rays, CT scans, and mammography and fluoroscopy devices—are a contributing factor to 75% of new cancers.
In a nearly 700-page report updated in 2000, “Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population,”(90) Gofman shows that as the number of physicians increases in a geographical area along with an increase in the number of x-ray diagnostic tests performed, the rate of cancer and ischemic heart disease also increases. Gofman elaborates that it is not x-rays alone that cause the damage but a combination of health risk factors that include poor diet, smoking, abortions, and the use of birth control pills. Dr. Gofman predicts that ionizing radiation will be responsible for 100 million premature deaths over the next decade.
In his book, Preventing Breast Cancer, Dr. Gofman notes that breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the ages of 44 and 55. Because breast tissue is highly sensitive to radiation, mammograms can cause cancer. The danger can be heightened other factors including a woman’s genetic makeup, preexisting benign breast disease, artificial menopause, obesity, and hormonal imbalance.(91)
Even x-rays for back pain can lead someone into crippling surgery. Dr. John E. Sarno, a well-known New York orthopedic surgeon, found that there is not necessarily any association between back pain and spinal x-ray abnormality. He cites studies of normal people without a trace of back pain whose x-rays indicate spinal abnormalities and of people with back pain whose spines appear to be normal on x-ray.(92) People who happen to have back pain and show an abnormality on x-ray may be treated surgically, sometimes with no change in back pain, worsening of back pain, or even permanent disability. Moreover, doctors often order x-rays as protection against malpractice claims, to give the impression of leaving no stone unturned. It appears that doctors are putting their own fears before the interests of their patients.
UNNECESSARY HOSPITALIZATION
Nearly 9 million (8,925,033) people were hospitalized unnecessarily in 2001.(4) In a study of inappropriate hospitalization, two doctors reviewed 1,132 medical records. They concluded that 23% of all admissions were inappropriate and an additional 17% could have been handled in outpatient clinics. Thirty-four percent of all hospital days were deemed inappropriate and could have been avoided.(93) The rate of inappropriate hospital admissions in 1990 was 23.5%.(94) In 1999, another study also found an inappropriate admissions rate of 24%, indicating a consistent pattern from 1986 to 1999.(95) The HCUP database indicates that the total number of patient discharges from US hospitals in 2001 was 37,187,641,(13) meaning that almost 9 million people were exposed to unnecessary medical intervention in hospitals and therefore represent almost 9 million potential iatrogenic episodes.(4)
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE IN MEDICINE
Dr. Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was world-renowned, the most celebrated doctor of his time. He practiced in the Paris hospital La Salpetriere. He became an expert in hysteria, diagnosing an average of 10 hysterical women each day, transforming them into “iatrogenic monsters” and turning simple “neurosis” into hysteria.(96) The number of women diagnosed with hysteria and hospitalized rose from 1% in 1841 to 17% in 1883. Hysteria is derived from the Latin “hystera” meaning uterus.
According to Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, US medicine has a tradition of excessive medical and surgical interventions on women. Only 100 years ago, male doctors believed that female psychological imbalance originated in the uterus. When surgery to remove the uterus was perfected, it became the “cure” for mental instability, effecting a physical and psychological castration. Fugh-Berman notes that US doctors eventually disabused themselves of that notion but have continued to treat women very differently than they treat men.(97) She cites the following statistics:
Thousands of prophylactic mastectomies are performed annually.
One-third of US women have had a hysterectomy before menopause.
Women are prescribed drugs more frequently than are men.
Women are given potent drugs for disease prevention, which results in disease substitution due to side effects.
Fetal monitoring is unsupported by studies and not recommended by the CDC.(98) It confines women to a hospital bed and may result in a higher incidence of cesarean section.(99)
Normal processes such as menopause and childbirth have been heavily “medicalized.”
Synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not prevent heart disease or dementia, but does increase the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, and gall bladder attack.(100)
As many as one-third of postmenopausal women use HRT.(101,102) This number is important in light of the much-publicized Women’s Health Initiative Study, which was halted before its completion because of a higher death rate in the synthetic estrogen-progestin (HRT) group.(103)
CESAREAN SECTION
In 1983, 809,000 cesarean sections (21% of live births) were performed in the US, making it the nation’s most common obstetric-gynecologic (OB/GYN) surgical procedure. The second most common OB/GYN operation was hysterectomy (673,000), followed by diagnostic dilation and curettage of the uterus (632,000). In 1983, OB/GYN procedures represented 23% of all surgery completed in the US.(104)
In 2001, cesarean section is still the most common OB/GYN surgical procedure. Approximately 4 million births occur annually, with 24% (960,000) delivered by cesarean section. In the Netherlands, only 8% of births are delivered by cesarean section. This suggests 640,000 unnecessary cesarean sections—entailing three to four times higher mortality and 20 times greater morbidity than vaginal delivery(105)—are performed annually in the US.
The US cesarean rate rose from just 4.5% in 1965 to 24.1% in 1986. Sakala contends that an “uncontrolled pandemic of medically unnecessary cesarean births is occurring.”(106) VanHam reported a cesarean section postpartum hemorrhage rate of 7%, a hematoma formation rate of 3.5%, a urinary tract infection rate of 3%, and a combined postoperative morbidity rate of 35.7% in a high-risk population undergoing cesarean section.(107)
NEVER ENOUGH STUDIES
Scientists claimed there were never enough studies revealing the dangers of DDT and other dangerous pesticides to ban them. They also used this argument for tobacco, claiming that more studies were needed before they could be certain that tobacco really caused lung cancer. Even the American Medical Association (AMA) was complicit in suppressing the results of tobacco research. In 1964, when the Surgeon General’s report condemned smoking, the AMA refused to endorse it, claiming a need for more research. What they really wanted was more money, which they received from a consortium of tobacco companies that paid the AMA $18 million over the next nine years during which the AMA said nothing about the dangers of smoking.(108)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by physicians in practice,” began accepting tobacco advertisements and money in 1933. State journals such as the New York State Journal of Medicine also began to run advertisements for Chesterfield cigarettes that claimed cigarettes are “Just as pure as the water you drink… and practically untouched by human hands.” In 1948, JAMA argued “more can be said in behalf of smoking as a form of escape from tension than against it… there does not seem to be any preponderance of evidence that would indicate the abolition of the use of tobacco as a substance contrary to the public health.”(109) Today, scientists continue to use the excuse that more studies are needed before they will support restricting the inordinate use of drugs.
ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
The Lazarou study(1) analyzed records for prescribed medications for 33 million US hospital admissions in 1994. It discovered 2.2 million serious injuries due to prescribed drugs; 2.1% of inpatients experienced a serious adverse drug reaction, 4.7% of all hospital admissions were due to a serious adverse drug reaction, and fatal adverse drug reactions occurred in 0.19% of inpatients and 0.13% of admissions. The authors estimated that 106,000 deaths occur annually due to adverse drug reactions.
Using a cost analysis from a 2000 study in which the increase in hospitalization costs per patient suffering an adverse drug reaction was $5,483, costs for the Lazarou study’s 2.2 million patients with serious drug reactions amounted to $12 billion.(1,49)
Serious adverse drug reactions commonly emerge after FDA approval of the drugs involved. The safety of new agents cannot be known with certainty until a drug has been on the market for many years.(110)
BEDSORES
Over one million people develop bedsores in U.S. hospitals every year. It’s a tremendous burden to patients and family, and a $55 billion dollar healthcare burden. (7) Bedsores are preventable with proper nursing care. It is true that 50% of those affected are in a vulnerable age group of over 70. In the elderly bedsores carry a fourfold increase in the rate of death. The mortality rate in hospitals for patients with bedsores is between 23% and 37%. (8) Even if we just take the 50% of people over 70 with bedsores and the lowest mortality at 23%, that gives us a death rate due to bedsores of 115,000. Critics will say that it was the disease or advanced age that killed the patient, not the bedsore, but our argument is that an early death, by denying proper care, deserves to be counted. It is only after counting these unnecessary deaths that we can then turn our attention to fixing the problem.
MALNUTRITION IN NURSING HOMES
The General Accounting Office (GAO), a special investigative branch of Congress, cited 20% of the nation’s 17,000 nursing homes for violations between July 2000 and January 2002. Many violations involved serious physical injury and death.(111)
A report from the Coalition for Nursing Home Reform states that at least one-third of the nation’s 1.6 million nursing home residents may suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, which hastens their death. The report calls for adequate nursing staff to help feed patients who are not able to manage a food tray by themselves.(11) It is difficult to place a mortality rate on malnutrition and dehydration. The Coalition report states that malnourished residents, compared with well-nourished hospitalized nursing home residents, have a fivefold increase in mortality when they are admitted to a hospital. Multiplying the one-third of 1.6 million nursing home residents who are malnourished by a mortality rate of 20%(8,14) results in 108,800 premature deaths due to malnutrition in nursing homes.
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
The rate of nosocomial infections per 1,000 patient days rose from 7.2 in 1975 to 9.8 in 1995, a 36% jump in 20 years. Reports from more than 270 US hospitals showed that the nosocomial infection rate itself had remained stable over the previous 20 years, with approximately five to six hospital-acquired infections occurring per 100 admissions, a rate of 5-6%. Due to progressively shorter inpatient stays and the increasing number of admissions, however, the number of infections increased. It is estimated that in 1995, nosocomial infections cost $4.5 billion and contributed to more than 88,000 deaths, or one death every 6 minutes.(9)
The 2003 incidence of nosocomial mortality is quite probably higher than in 1995 because of the tremendous increase in antibiotic-resistant organisms. Morbidity and Mortality Report found that nosocomial infections cost $5 billion annually in 1999,(10) representing a $0.5 billion increase in just four years. At this rate of increase, the current cost of nosocomial infections would be around $5.5 billion.
OUTPATIENT IATROGENESIS
In a 2000 JAMA article, Dr. Barbara Starfield presents well-documented facts that are both shocking and unassailable.(12) The U.S. ranks 12th of 13 industrialized countries when judged by 16 health status indicators. Japan, Sweden, and Canada were first, second, and third, respectively. More than 40 million people in the US have no health insurance, and 20-30% of patients receive contraindicated care.
Starfield warns that one cause of medical mistakes is overuse of technology, which may create a “cascade effect” leading to still more treatment. She urges the use of ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes that have designations such as “Drugs, Medicinal, and Biological Substances Causing Adverse Effects in Therapeutic Use” and “Complications of Surgical and Medical Care” to help doctors quantify and recognize the magnitude of the medical error problem. Starfield notes that many deaths attributable to medical error today are likely to be coded to indicate some other cause of death. She concludes that against the backdrop of our poor health report card compared to other Westernized countries, we should recognize that the harmful effects of health care interventions account for a substantial proportion of our excess deaths.
Starfield cites Weingart’s 2000 article, “Epidemiology of Medical Error,” as well as other authors to suggest that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients in outpatient settings suffer an iatrogenic event leading to:
1. 116 million extra physician visits
2. 77 million extra prescriptions filled
3. 17 million emergency department visits
4. 8 million hospitalizations
5. 3 million long-term admissions
6. 199,000 additional deaths
7. $77 billion in extra costs(112)
UNNECESSARY SURGERIES
While some 12,000 deaths occur each year from unnecessary surgeries, results from the few studies that have measured unnecessary surgery directly indicate that for some highly controversial operations, the proportion of unwarranted surgeries could be as high as 30%.(74)
MEDICAL ERRORS: A GLOBAL ISSUE
A five-country survey published in the Journal of Health Affairs found that 18-28% of people who were recently ill had suffered from a medical or drug error in the previous two years. The study surveyed 750 recently ill adults. The breakdown by country showed the percentages of those suffering a medical or drug error were 18% in Britain, 23% in Australia and in New Zealand, 25% in Canada, and 28% in the US.(113)
HEALTH INSURANCE
The Institute of Medicine recently found that the 41 million Americans with no health insurance have consistently worse clinical outcomes than those who are insured, and are at increased risk for dying prematurely (114).
When doctors bill for services they do not render, advise unnecessary tests, or screen everyone for a rare condition, they are committing insurance fraud. The US GAO estimated that $12 billion dollars was lost to fraudulent or unnecessary claims in 1998, and reclaimed $480 million in judgments in that year. In 2001, the federal government won or negotiated more than $1.7 billion in judgments, settlements, and administrative impositions in health care fraud cases and proceedings.(115)
WAREHOUSING OUR ELDERS
One way to measure the moral and ethical fiber of a society is by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members. In some cultures, elderly people lives out their lives in extended family settings that enable them to continue participating in family and community affairs. American nursing homes, where millions of our elders go to live out their final days, represent the pinnacle of social isolation and medical abuse.
In America, approximately 1.6 million elderly are confined to nursing homes. By 2050, that number could be 6.6 million.(11,116)
Twenty percent of all deaths from all causes occur in nursing homes.(117)
Hip fractures are the single greatest reason for nursing home admissions.(118)
Nursing homes represent a reservoir for drug-resistant organisms due to overuse of antibiotics.(119)
Presenting a report he sponsored entitled “Abuse of Residents is a Major Problem in U.S. Nursing Homes” on July 30, 2001, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) noted that “as a society we will be judged by how we treat the elderly.” The report found one-third of the nation’s approximately 17,000 nursing homes were cited for an abuse violation in a two-year period from January 1999 to January 2001.(116) According to Waxman, “the people who cared for us deserve better.” The report suggests that this known abuse represents only the “tip of the iceberg” and that much more abuse occurs that we aware of or ignore.(116a) The report found:
Over 30% of US nursing homes were cited for abuses, totaling more than 9,000 violations.
10% of nursing homes had violations that caused actual physical harm to residents or worse.
Over 40% (3,800) of the abuse violations followed the filing of a formal complaint, usually by concerned family members.
Many verbal abuse violations were found.
Occasions of sexual abuse.
Incidents of physical abuse causing numerous injuries such as fractured femur, hip, elbow, wrist, and other injuries.
Dangerously understaffed nursing homes lead to neglect, abuse, overuse of medications, and physical restraints. In 1990, Congress mandated an exhaustive study of nurse-to-patient ratios in nursing homes. The study was finally begun in 1998 and took four years to complete.(120) A spokesperson for The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform commented on the study: “They compiled two reports of three volumes each thoroughly documenting the number of hours of care residents must receive from nurses and nursing assistants to avoid painful, even dangerous, conditions such as bedsores and infections. Yet it took the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Tommy Thompson only four months to dismiss the report as ‘insufficient.’”(121) Although preventable with proper nursing care, bedsores occur three times more commonly in nursing homes than in acute care or veterans hospitals.(122).
Because many nursing home patients suffer from chronic debilitating conditions, their assumed cause of death often is unquestioned by physicians. Some studies show that as many as 50% of deaths due to restraints, falls, suicide, homicide, and choking in nursing homes may be covered up.(123,124) It is possible that many nursing home deaths are instead attributed to heart disease. In fact, researchers have found that heart disease may be over-represented in the general population as a cause of death on death certificates by 8-24%. In the elderly, the overreporting of heart disease as a cause of death is as much as twofold.(125)
That very few statistics exist concerning malnutrition in acute-care hospitals and nursing homes demonstrates the lack of concern in this area. While a survey of the literature turns up few US studies, one revealing US study evaluated the nutritional status of 837 patients in a 100-bed subacute-care hospital over a 14-month period. The study found only 8% of the patients were well nourished, while 29% were malnourished and 63% were at risk of malnutrition. As a result, 25% of the malnourished patients required readmission to an acute-care hospital, compared to 11% of the well-nourished patients. The authors concluded that malnutrition reached epidemic proportions in patients admitted to this subacute-care facility.(126)
Many studies conclude that physical restraints are an underreported and preventable cause of death. Studies show that compared to no restraints, the use of restraints carries a higher mortality rate and economic burden.(127-129) Studies have found that physical restraints, including bedrails, are the cause of at least 1 in every 1,000 nursing-home deaths.(130-132)
Deaths caused by malnutrition, dehydration, and physical restraints, however, are rarely recorded on death certificates. Several studies reveal that nearly half of the listed causes of death on death certificates for elderly people with chronic or multi-system disease are inaccurate.(133) Even though 1 in 5 people die in nursing homes, an autopsy is performed in less than 1% of these deaths.(134).
OVERMEDICATING SENIORS
Dr. Robert Epstein, chief medical officer of Medco Health Solutions Inc. (a unit of Merck & Co.), conducted a study in 2003 of drug trends among the elderly.(135) He found that seniors are going to multiple physicians, getting multiple prescriptions, and using multiple pharmacies. Medco oversees drug-benefit plans for more than 60 million Americans, including 6.3 million seniors who received more than 160 million prescriptions. According to the study, the average senior receives 25 prescriptions each year. Among those 6.3 million seniors, a total of 7.9 million medication alerts were triggered: less than one-half that number, 3.4 million, were detected in 1999.
About 2.2 million of those alerts indicated excessive dosages unsuitable for seniors, and about 2.4 million alerts indicated clinically inappropriate drugs for the elderly. Reuters interviewed Kasey Thompson, director of the Center on Patient Safety at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, who noted: “There are serious and systemic problems with poor continuity of care in the United States .” He says this study represents only “the tip of the iceberg” of a national problem.
According to Drug Benefit Trends , the average number of prescriptions dispensed per non-Medicare HMO member per year rose 5.6% from 1999 to 2000, – from 7.1 to 7.5 prescriptions. The average number dispensed for Medicare members increased 5.5%, from 18.1 to 19.1 prescriptions.(136) The total number of prescriptions written in the US in 2000 was 2.98 billion, or 10.4 prescriptions for every man, woman, and child.(137)
In a study of 818 residents of residential care facilities for the elderly, 94% were receiving at least one medication at the time of the interview. The average intake of medications was five per resident; the authors noted that many of these drugs were given without a documented diagnosis justifying their use.(138)
Seniors and groups like the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) are demanding that prescription drug coverage be a basic right.(139) They have accepted allopathic medicine’s overriding assumption that aging and dying in America must be accompanied by drugs in nursing homes and eventual hospitalization. Seniors are given the choice of either high-cost patented drugs or low-cost generic drugs. Drug companies attempt to keep the most expensive drugs on the shelves and suppress access to generic drugs, despite facing stiff fines of hundreds of millions of dollars levied by the federal government.(140,141) In 2001, some of the world’s largest drug companies were fined a record $871 million for conspiring to increase the price of vitamins.(142)
Current AARP recommendations for diet and nutrition assume that seniors are getting all the nutrition they need in an average diet. At most, AARP suggests adding extra calcium and a multivitamin and mineral supplement.(143)
Ironically, studies also indicate underuse of proper pain medication for patients who need it. One study evaluated pain management in a group of 13,625 cancer patients, aged 65 and over, living in nursing homes. While almost 30% of the patients reported pain, more than 25% received no pain relief medication, 16% received a mild analgesic drug, 32% received a moderate analgesic drug, and 26% received adequate pain-relieving morphine. The authors concluded that older patients and minority patients were more likely to have their pain untreated.(144)
WHAT REMAINS TO BE UNCOVERED
Our ongoing research will continue to quantify the morbidity, mortality, and financial loss due to:
3. Carcinogenic drugs (hormone replacement therapy,* immunosuppressive and prescription drugs).
4. Cancer chemotherapy(70)
5. Surgery and unnecessary surgery (cesarean section, radical mastectomy, preventive mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, prostatectomy, cholecystectomies, cosmetic surgery, arthroscopy, etc.).
6. Discredited medical procedures and therapies.
7. Unproven medical therapies.
8. Outpatient surgery.
9. Doctors themselves.
* Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the 1940s. In December 2000, a government scientific advisory panel recommended that synthetic estrogen be added to the nation’s list of cancer-causing agents. HRT, either synthetic estrogen alone or combined with synthetic progesterone, is used by an estimated 13.5 to 16 million women in the US.(145) The aborted Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI) of 2002 showed that women taking synthetic estrogen combined with synthetic progesterone have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, with little evidence of osteoporosis reduction or dementia prevention. WHI researchers, who usually never make recommendations except to suggest more studies, advised doctors to be very cautious about prescribing HRT to their patients.(100,146-150)
Results of the “Million Women Study” on HRT and breast cancer in the UK were published in medical journal The Lancet in August 2003. According to lead author Prof. Valerie Beral, director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit: “We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, estrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these.”(151) We were unable to find statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease caused by HRT used by American women. Because the US population is roughly six times that of the UK, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade.
OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (OTA)
Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries, 1995.
General Facts
1. In 1990, US life expectancy was 71.8 years for men and 78.8 years for women, among the lowest rates in the developed countries.
2. The 1990 US infant mortality rate in the US was 9.2 per 1,000 live births, in the bottom half of the distribution among all developed countries.
3. Health status is correlated with socioeconomic status.
4. Health care is not universal.
5. Health care is based on the free market system with no fixed budget or limitations on expansion.
6. Health care accounts for 14% of the US GNP ($800 billion in 1993).
7. The federal government does no central planning, though it is the major purchaser of health care for older people and some poor people.
8. Americans are less satisfied with their health care system than people in other developed countries.
9. US medicine specializes in expensive medical technology; some large US cities have more magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanners than most countries.
10. Huge public and private investments in medical research and pharmaceutical development drive this “technological arms race.”
11. Any efforts to restrain technological developments in health care are opposed by policymakers concerned about negative impacts on medical-technology industries.
Hospitals
1. In 1990, the US had 5,480 acute-care hospitals, 880 specialty (psychiatric, long-term care, and rehabilitation) hospitals, and 340 federal (military, veterans, and Native American) hospitals, or 2.7 hospitals per 100,000 population.
2. In 1990, the average length of stay for 33 million admissions was 9.2 days. The bed occupancy rate was 66%. Lengths of stay were shorter and admission rates lower than other countries.
3. In 1990, the US had 615,000 physicians, or 2.4 per 1,000 population; 33% were primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics) and 67% were specialists.
4. In 1991, government-run health care spending totaled $81 billion.
5. Total US health care spending rose to $752 billion in 1991 from $70 billion in 1950. Spending grew five-fold per capita.
6. Reasons for increased healthcare spending include:
1. The high cost of defensive medicine, with an escalation in services solely to avoid malpractice litigation.
2. US health care based on defensive medicine costs nearly $45 billion per year, or about 5% of total health care spending, according to one source.
3. The availability and use of new medical technologies have contributed the most to increased health care spending, argue many analysts. These costs are impossible to quantify.
7. The reasons government attempts to control health care costs have failed include:
1. Market incentive and profit-motive involvement in the financing and organization of health care, including private insurers, hospital systems, physicians, and the drug and medical-device industries.
2. Expansion is the goal of free enterprise.
Health-Related Research and Development
1. The US spends more than any other country on health-related R&D.
2. In 1989, the federal government spent $9.2 billion on R&D, while private industry spent an additional $9.4 billion.
3. Total US R&D expenditures rose 50% from 1983 to 1992.
4. NIH receives about half of US government R&D funding.
5. NIH spent more on basic research ($4.1 billion in 1989) than for clinical trials of medical treatments on humans ($519 million in 1989).
6. Most of the clinical trials evaluate new treatment protocols for cancer and complications of AIDS, and do not study existing treatments, even though their effectiveness is in many cases unknown and questionable.
7. In 1990, the NIH had just begun to do meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Pharmaceutical and Medical-Device Industries
1. About two-thirds of the industry’s $9.4 billion budget went to drug research; device manufacturers spent the remaining one-third.
2. In addition to R&D, the medical industry spent 24% of total sales on promoting their products and 15% of total sales on development.
3. Total marketing expenses in 1990 were over $5 billion.
4. Many products provide no benefit over existing products.
5. Public and private health care consumers buy these products.
6. If health care spending is perceived as a problem, a highly profitable drug industry exacerbates the problem.
Controlling Health Care Technology
1. The FDA ensures the safety and efficacy of drugs, biologics, and medical devices.
2. The FDA does not consider costs of therapy.
3. The FDA does not consider the effectiveness of a therapy.
4. The FDA does not compare a product to currently marketed products
5. The FDA does not consider nondrug alternatives for a given clinical problem.
6. It costs $200 million in development costs to bring a new drug to market. AIDS-drug interest groups forced new regulations that speed up the approval process.
7. Such drugs should be subject to greater post-marketing surveillance requirements. As of 1995, these provisions had not yet come into play.
8. Many argue that reductions in the pre-approval testing of drugs open the possibility of significant undiscovered toxicities.
Health Care Technology Assessment
1. Failure to evaluate technology was a focus of a 1978 report from OTA with examples of many common medical practices supported by limited published data (10-20%).
2. In 1978, Congress created the National Center for Health Care Technology (NCHCT) to advise Medicare and Medicaid.
3. With an annual budget of $4 million, NCHCT published three broad assessments of high-priority technologies and made about 75 coverage recommendations to Medicare.
4. Congress disbanded NCHCT in 1981. The medical profession opposed it from the beginning. The AMA testified before Congress in 1981 that “clinical policy analysis and judgments are better made—and are being responsibly made—within the medical profession. Assessing risks and costs, as well as benefits, has been central to the exercise of good medical judgment for decades.”
5. The medical device lobby also opposed government oversight by NCHCT.
Examples of Lack of Proper Management of HealthCare
Treatments for Coronary Artery Disease
1. Since the early 1970s, the number of coronary artery bypass surgeries (CABGS) has risen rapidly without government regulation or clinical trials.
2.Angioplastyforsinglevesseldiseasewasintroducedin1978Thefirstpublishedtrialofangioplastyversus medical treatment was done in 1992.
3. Angioplasty did not reduce the number of CABGS, as was promoted.
4. Both procedures increase in number every year as the patient population grows older and sicker.
5. Rates of use are higher in white patients and private insurance patients, and vary greatly by geographic region, suggesting that use of these procedures is based on non-clinical factors.
6. As of 1995, the NIH consensus program had not assessed CABGS since 1980 and had never assessed angioplasty.
7. RAND researchers evaluated CABGS in New York in 1990. They reviewed 1,300 procedures and found 2% were inappropriate, 90% were appropriate, and 7% were uncertain. For 1,300 angioplasties, 4% were inappropriate and 38% uncertain. Using RAND methodologies, a panel of British physicians rated twice as many procedures “inappropriate” as did a US panel rating the same clinical cases. The New York numbers are in question because New York State limits the number of surgery centers, and the per-capita supply of cardiac surgeons in New York is about one-half of the national average.
8. The estimated five-year cost is $33,000 for angioplasty and $40,000 for CABGS. Angioplasty did not lower costs, due to its high failure rates.
Computed Tomography (CT)
1. The first CT scanner in the US was installed at the Mayo Clinic in 1973. By 1992, the number of operational CT scanners in the US had grown to 6,060. By comparison, in 1993 there were 216 CT units in Canada .
2. There is little information available on how CT scans improve or affect patient outcomes
3. In some institutions, up to 90% of scans performed were negative.
4. Approval by the FDA was not required for CT scanners, nor was any evidence of safety or efficacy.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
1. MRIs were introduced in Great Britain in 1978 and in the US in 1980. By 1988, there were 1,230 units and by 1992 between 2,800 and 3,000.
2. A definitive review published in 1994 found less than 30 studies of 5,000 that were prospective comparisons of diagnostic accuracy or therapeutic choice.
3. The American College of Physicians assessed MRI studies and rated 13 of 17 trials as “weak,” i.e., lacking data concerning therapeutic impact or patient outcomes.
4. The OTA concluded: “It is evident that hospitals, physician-entrepreneurs, and medical device manufacturers have approached MRI and CT as commodities with high-profit potential, and decision-making on the acquisition and use of these procedures has been highly influenced by this approach. Clinical evaluation, appropriate patient selection, and matching supply to legitimate demand might be viewed as secondary forces.”
Laparoscopic Surgery
1. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was introduced at a professional surgical society meeting in late 1989. By 1992, 85% of all cholecystectomies were performed laparoscopically.
2. There was an associated increase of 30% in the number of cholecystectomies performed.
3. Because of the increased volume of gall bladder operations, their total cost increased 11.4% between 1988 and 1992, despite a 25.1% drop in the average cost per surgery.
4. The mortality rate for gall bladder surgeries did not decline as a result of the lower risk because so many more were performed.
5. When studies were finally done on completed cases, the results showed that laparoscopic cholecystectomy was associated with reduced inpatient duration, decreased pain, and a shorter period of restricted activity. But rates of bile duct and major vessel injury increased and it was suggested that these rates were worse for people with acute cholecystitis. No clinical trials had been done to clarify this issue.
6. Patient demand, fueled by substantial media attention, was a major force in promoting rapid adoption of these procedures.
7. The major manufacturer of laparoscopic equipment produced the video that introduced the procedure in 1989.
8. Doctors were given two-day training seminars before performing the surgery on patients.
Infant Mortality
1. In 1990, the US ranked 24th in infant mortality of 38 developed countries with a rate of 9.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.
2. US black infant mortality is 18.6 per 1,000 live births, compared to 8.8 for whites.
Screening for Breast Cancer
1. Mammography screening in women under 50 has always been a subject of debate.
2. In 1992, the Canadian National Breast Cancer Study of 50,000 women showed that mammography had no effect on mortality for women aged 40-50.
3. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) refused to change its recommendations on mammography.
4. The American Cancer Society decided to wait for more studies on mammography.
5. In December 1993, NCI announced that women over 50 should have routine screenings every one to two years but that younger women would derive no benefit from mammography.
Summary
1. The OTA concluded: “There are no mechanisms in place to limit dissemination of technologies regardless of their clinical value.” Shortly after the release of this report, the OTA was disbanded.
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MARCH 2020
Mar. 2: U.S. to Withdraw from Afghanistan (EDITED in between { } BY BAFS)
March 2, 2020
American soldiers {STATE ASSASSINS}from the 101st Airborne Division in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, in 2013
NY Times: Taliban and U.S. Strike Deal to Withdraw American Troops From Afghanistan
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Finally, after nearly two whole decades, it looks as if Donald the Peacemaker {SON OF GOD? Field McConnell acclaimed him as the Messiah of the Christians!}-- in the face of Globalist / Neo-Con / Fake News opposition -- will soon be ending {ending? my foot!} the 5th inherited war or "cold war" of his 3-year-old presidency -- yet with not even a mention of so much as a nomination for the fake-ass Nobel Peace Prize ™(an "honor" which is actually reserved only for Globalists and Communists). The pacified {pacified?} hot-spots of the Trump Doctrine are:
1. The Korean Peninsula
2. Eastern Ukraine
3. Syria
4. The Asian Pivot (allied military encirclement of China) ... and now ...
5. The War in Afghanistan
One would think that all those superficial anti-war normies who protested the Iraq War -- as well as the silver-haired pony-tailed hippy vermin, now over the age 65, who protested the Vietnam War -- would all be singing the praises of Donald the Peacemaker by now. Evidently, the "give-peace-a-chance" crowd only opposes bloodshed when it is a Republican presiding over it -- and only embraces empty promises of peace when it is a Demonrat making them.Indeed, warmonger Obongo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ™ in 2009 (after just 10 months in office!){and the whole (with few exceptions) of US America swallowed this heap of shit!} solely on the basis of his calculated criticism of the Bush Doctrine.
Mending fences, making friends and ending Globalist conflicts all over the world --- yet Trump gets ZERO credit from the Fake News. {Except stopping the anus-licking of Apartheid Israel!}
As most of "youse guys" will surely recall (hard to believe that some of my college readers of today were still in diapers back then!), the seemingly endless Afghanistan War was triggered by the phony pretext of the September 11 false flag attacks of 2001. According to the official fairy tale, the Taliban {Taliban means STUDENTS! Talib is the singular!} government had to be removed for allowing Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network to safely plot the attacks from Afghanistan. {Another Judeo-Yankee joke!} Psychologically traumatized, hungry for blood, and totally under the spell of the Bush-Cheney cabal and Fake News, Boobus Americanus went along with the October invasion without so much as a flicker of critical thought. "USA! USA! USA!"{ISRAEL! ISRAEL! ISRAEL!} -- chanted the moronic mob. Who among us veteran truthers can forget the madness of those dark days of national insanity so brilliantly orchestrated by "the usual suspects?"
The "good war" in Afghanistan, though not as lethal nor as expensive as the disaster in Iraq, still cost American taxpayers $2 Trillion and took the lives of more than 3,500{a tricke} coalition troops (mostly Americans) and scores {HUNDREDS!} of thousands of Afghans since 2001. What a criminal waste of blood {blood is never wasted as it is always offered to Israel's God Moloch!} and money {The demons can afford to waste money WE GIVE THEM as they print it themselves!}! To put that $2 Trillion in perspective, that's about the equivalent of $6,000 stolen from every man, woman and child in the country -- all on the basis of a hoax. Actually, it's worse than that because much of that hefty sum was borrowed at compounding interest. Try stealing just a fraction of that money as a private citizen, and you'd end up in prison. But when our "public servants" commit such crimes, on a much grander scale, nothing happens to them. {RIGHT!}
1. The 9/11 false flag (CIA & Mossad) drove the public (as was planned) into temporary insanity.
// 2. Speaking from his base in Afghanistan, Osama Bin Bogeyman repeatedly and unequivocally denied any involvement with the 9/11 attacks. {BID DICK CHENEY walked into Al-Jazeera Headquarters in Dubai (?) with his Crypto-Jew (Arab) business partner (did they both not own it?) and had the interview with Bin Ladin dumped!}
// 3. The made-for-TV event prompted the naive NFL football star Pat Tillman to pause his sports career and volunteer for the U.S. Army. He ended-up being killed in Afghanistan in a strange "friendly fire" incident. Many believe that he had figured out the Iraq War was a scam, and was planning to use his fame to come home and speak out (a la Patton) against the wars. But he died soon after his transfer to Afghanistan. {He was an idiot! Anyway, nearly half the US population are idiots! Apparently, he never heard of Patton at all! Just like Herr Hitler never heard of Napoleon at all!}
Though this withdrawal deal is all good news {it can't be!}, the fact remains that U.S. troops aren't out yet. And as long as they remain, the Deep State, backed up by Sulzberger's Slimes and the rest of the Piranha Press, can still sabotage the process. Already, the sub-human scum at the Slimes are leaking out subtle negativity from their red rectums{and through their anuses or fecal or sexually-oriented orifices!} -- as the following recent headlines indicate:
NYT: (February 29): Why the Taliban Will Never Agree to a Real Peace Deal
NYT: (February 29): Is This Afghan Peace, or Just a Way Out?
NYT: (March 1): Afghan Peace Plan Faces First Roadblock: Releasing Taliban Prisoners
{THEY DO NOT HAVE A CAMP DAVID IN AFGHANISTAN?}
Bastards. Bloody demonic bastards. (((They))) lied us into the war --- {THEY can never lie us into war! We are ordered into war and we are paid for it!} then, after 18 & 1/2 bloody years, (((they))) whine about the human and financial toll of the war -- and now, as Trump attempts to finally withdraw, (((they))) pepper him with negative cheap shots.
{They must have had gold ingots or drugs in there!}
{"AMERICA LOVES YOU, MY KING!" They are not racists as they even show a BLACK woman moaning her ASSASSIN MERCENARY!}
{She is just saying: Damn you, John, you did not love me, love us! Why did you have to rape Afghani young girls and women and steal their gold like you did in Vietnam, and murder their babies and pregnant women?}
The 9/11 wars --- a waste of blood and treasure brought to you, in large part, by the evil, unaccountable Fake News filth at the New York Slimes.
Boobus Americanus 1: I read in the New York Times today that we may finally be pulling out of Afghanistan. Boobus Americanus 2: Well it's about time! Thank goodness for that. {But, they will pull in again at any time!} *St. Sugar: It wouldn't be happening had that nauseating bitch you voted for in 2016 become pressident, Boobuss! Editor: Braindead Boobus will never make such a connection -- and he will vote against Trump again this fall.
My daughter, Mierella Lorraine, and my son, Leroy Alexander, I'd take all your pains for you to have none, when I return, you'll have nothing to fear, I FUCKING PROMISE!
and CLICK HERE for the 9/11 Suspects playlist. TRANSCRIPT
DAN RATHER: “Some evil is just … it can’t be explained.” DAVID LETTERMAN: “Are these people happy? Are they joyous now? Are they celebrating? Thank God?” DAN RATHER: “Oh absolutely, they’re celebrating. There’s one report, this has not been confirmed but there is several eye[witness] reports that there was a cell, one of these cells across the Hudson River. And they got on the … this is the report and I emphasize that I don’t know this for a fact but there’s several witnesses who say this happened. They got on the roof of a building to look across, they knew what was gonna happen. They were waiting for it to happen and when it happened they celebrated. They jumped for joy.” (SOURCE: The Late Show with David Letterman – 09/17/01)
In the days after 9/11, while Ground Zero continued to smoulder, millions heard Dan Rather and various media outlets repeat vague and unconfirmed reports of arrests that took place that day. These rumors held that Middle Eastern men, presumably Arabs, were arrested in explosive-packed vans in various places around the city on September 11th, and that some had even been photographing and celebrating those events. What most do not realize is that those reports were not mere rumors, and we now have thousands of pages of FBI, CIA and DOJ reports documenting those arrests.
MARIA: “I grabbed my binoculars and I’m trying to look at the Twin Towers but what caught my attention was down there I see this van parked and I see 3 guys on top of the van. They seemed to be taking a movie and I could see that they were like happy and laughing. They didn’t look shocked to me, you know what I mean? They didn’t look shocked.” (SOURCE: The Five Dancing Israelis – 9/11/2001 – Our Purpose Was To Document The Event)
The men were spotted shortly after 8:46 AM, yet somehow at this early stage, just minutes after the first plane strike on the World Trade Center, they were already positioned in a parking lot in Liberty State Park, taking pictures of the towers and celebrating. They left the scene shortly after being spotted and at 3:31 PM the FBI issued an all points bulletin advising officers in the Greater New York area to be on the lookout for a “White, 2000 Chevrolet van…with ‘UrbanMovingSystems’ sign on back.” At 3:56 PM, the van was spotted traveling eastward on State Route 3 in New Jersey and pulled over by Officer Scott DeCarlo and Sgt. Dennis Rivelli of the East Rutherford police department. Inside they found five men: Sivan Kurzberg and his brother, Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner, and Omar Marmari.
BERNICE STEGERS: “A major terrorist man-hunt began and, just 6 hours after the attack, the van was stopped at a roadblock by patrolman Scott De Carlo.” SCOTT De CARLO: “We were asked to detain the van and the passengers. They were just removed from the vehicle, patted down for safety precautions and detained. “I think once the FBI arrived, one of them stated that they were on our side or something to that effect.” (SOURCE: The 9/11 Conspiracies – Ch 4)
According to the police report of the incident, Sivan Kurzberg told Officer DeCarlo: “We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.” Their official story: they were just Israeli tourists working for a moving company who had heard about the first World Trade Center strike and rushed to get a better view of the events.
BERNICE STEGERS: “They told interrogators they were working for Urban Moving, a shipping and storage firm run by an Israeli businessman, who often employed Israeli students without work permits. The men say there was an innocent explanation for what was found in the van. and their behavior on 9/11. They were, they say, ‘simply on a working holiday.'” PAUL KURZBERG: “We heard in the news that one of the plane was crashing down the buildings and we thought it was an accident at the beginning. So, we went up to the roof of Urban Moving and we saw the building burning.” YARON SCHMUEL: “There is a better view from a building in Jersey that is up a hill, straight-line to the World Trade Center. We decided to go up there, it’s 2-3 minutes from the office, stand over there and take some pictures. Everyone wants pictures like this in his camera.” (SOURCE: The 9/11 Conspiracies – Ch 4)
Although this narrative is still trotted out when the story of the dancing Israelis is raised in the media, it is an easily demonstrable lie. FBI reports confirm that the men were not taking somber pictures of a horrific event. When their 76 pictures were developed, they revealed the men had indeed been celebrating; smiling, hugging each other, and high-fiving. One of the pictures even featured Sivan Kurzberg holding a lighter up with the burning tower in the background. And these were no ordinary tourists. Oded Ellner had $4,700 stuffed into his sock. They lied to the police about where they had been that morning. They were carrying plane tickets for immediate departure to different places around the globe. The FBI confirmed that two of the men had ties to Israeli intelligence and came to suspect that they had indeed been on a mission for the Mossad. And of course, after returning to Israel Ellner claimed on national Israeli TV that they had been sent there “to document the event.”
ODED ELLNER (Translation): “And at that point we were taken for another round of questioning. This time related to us allegedly being members of Mossad. “The fact of the matter is, we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event.” (SOURCE: Inside Israel)
Their purpose was to “document the event”? But how could they possibly have known what “event” they were documenting at that point, before the second plane strike when those few who even knew about the situation had assumed it to be an accident or pilot error? And when did they arrive at the parking lot to “document the event” anyway? The FBI reports show how the men gave confused and often conflicting accounts of when and how they learned about what was happening and when they arrived at the parking lot. Oded Ellner even said they had arrived their shortly after 8:00 AM, which would have been 45 minutes before the attacks even began. This is in line with one of the eyewitnesses that had placed their Urban Moving Systems van at the parking lot at 8:00 AM [see page 33 here]. How could they have been in place and ready to “document the event” unless they knew what was about to happen? Anyway you cut it, this story is unbelievable. Men with documented connections to Israeli intelligence and working in the United States without appropriate permits were detained after having been caught celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center at a time when no one knew that the WTC strike was an attack. So surely these men are locked behind bars to this day, right? Surely they were transferred to Guantanamo and held without trial for 15 years as part of the “War on Terror,” weren’t they? No. They were immediately transferred to federal custody, held for 71 days, and then deported back to Israel. The owner of the “Urban Moving Systems” company that had employed them, Dominik Suter, was investigated by the FBI, too. They concluded that “Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation” and even seized records and computer systems from the company’s offices. When they went back to question him again on September 14th, he had fled back to Israel. And what about the dancing Israeli’s pictures themselves? The Justice Department destroyed their copies on January 27, 2014. And these intelligence agents on an intelligence mission who were there to “document the event” of 9/11 before anyone knew 9/11 was taking place? Don’t worry, they were just spying on Arab terrorists.
ELIZABETH VARGAS: “And while the FBI or certain sources might believe that in fact they were Israeli intelligence, they don’t believe that the US was a target. That they were actually investigating Muslim groups?” JOHN MILLER: “They believe if this was an intelligence operation by Israel, that it was focused on the Islamic groups and charities that raise money for groups that are considered by US Law Enforcement and others terrorist groups. You’ll note that after September 11th, the US moved on many of these groups with indictments, arrests, raids on their headquarters, something that hadn’t happened prior to this.” ELIZABETH VARGAS: “These are groups that Israel believe have been funding Hamas and other terrorists organizations?” JOHN MILLER: “Groups that are responsible for most of the suicide bombings there.” (SOURCE: ABC News 20/20 preview – June 21, 2002)
But this story is not merely preposterous on its face; even the implications of this story are themselves preposterous. If indeed the “official story” is a ridiculous lie, then are we to believe that these crack Israeli Mossad operatives who were presumably aware of the attack that was about to take place had been sent to photograph the burning tower from a parking lot across the Hudson River? And that these specially trained intelligence professionals on their super secret mission were celebrating, high-fiving and going out of their way to be noticed in performance of their task? This is equally preposterous. The only other possible conclusion is that these men were serving merely as a distraction. That they were not there to photograph for Israeli intelligence one of the most heavily photographed scenes in the world on that morning, but instead to be noticed and arrested as a way to divert attention from a much bigger and more sinister story. So if they were meant to distract from a bigger story, what story could that possibly be?
BRIT HUME: “It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation but later took responsibility for his work. Now, Fox News has learned some US investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the US. Who may have known things they didn’t tell us before September 11th. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a 4 part series.” CARL CAMERON: “Since September 11th more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained. Either under the new PATRIOT anti-terrorism law or for immigration violations. “A handful of active Israeli military were among those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the Unites States. “There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are “tie-ins” but when asked for details he flatly refused to describe them saying: “Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information.” “Asked this week about another sprawling investigation and the detention of 60 Israelis since September 11th, the Bush administration treated the questions like hot potatoes.” ARI FLEISCHER: “I would just refer you to the Department of Justice with it. I’m not familiar with the report.” COLIN POWELL: “I’m aware that some Israeli citizens have been detained. With respect to why they are being detained and the other aspects of your question, whether it’s because they are in intelligence services or what they were doing, I will defer to the Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that.” CARL CAMERON: “Beyond the 60 apprehended or detained and many deported since September 11th, another group of 140 Israeli individuals have been arrested and detained in this year. In what government documents describe as, “An organized intelligence gathering operation designed to “penetrate government facilities”.” Most of those individuals said they had served in the Israeli military, which is compulsory there, but they also had, most of them, intelligence expertise and either worked for AMDOCS or other companies in Israel that specialize in wiretapping. Earlier this week the Israeli Embassy here in Washington denied any spying against or in the United States.” BRIT HUME: “Carl, what about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on 9/11? How clear are investigators that some Israeli agents may have known something? CARL CAMERON: “Well it’s very explosive information obviously and there is a great deal of evidence that they say they have collected. None of it necessarily conclusive. It’s more when they put it all together a big question they say is, “How could they have not have known?”, almost a direct quote, Brit.” (SOURCE: Israeli software spying on US – FOX – Dec 2001)
The most phenomenal part of this report is not that it was eventually erased from the web by Fox News itself, but that it ever made it to the air at all. In December of 2001, Fox News investigative reporter Carl Cameron filed an explosive 4-part series that went in-depth into an Israeli art student spying ring that had been under investigation before 9/11, extensive Israeli wiretapping of sensitive US government communications, and the 60 Israeli spies that were detained in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Unsurprisingly, the story was quickly dropped and no mainstream journalists dared to continue probing into the matter. This is the real story of Israeli spies and 9/11; not some vague rumours about some dancing Israelis but an FBI dragnet that swept up the largest foreign spying ring ever caught red-handed on American soil. And although the FBI were convinced that these spies knew about 9/11 in advance, their investigations were stifled and the issue was swept under the rug. Rather than making Israel enemy number one in the war on terror, Israel remains to this day the US’ “most important ally.”
HILLARY CLINTON: “And if I’m fortunate enough to be elected President, the United States will re-affirm we have a strong and enduring national interest in Israels security.” (SOURCE: Hillary Clinton AIPAC Full Speech – March, 2016) DONALD TRUMP: “In 2001, weeks after the attacks on New York City and on Washington and frankly the attacks on all of us, attacks that were perpetrated by the Islamic fundamentalists, Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Israel to show solidarity with terror victims. I sent my plane because I backed the mission for Israel 100%.” (SOURCE: Donald Trump AIPAC Full Speech – March, 2016)
But perhaps this is understandable. After all, we all remember how Yasser Arafat gloated about 9/11 and said it was good for Palestinians, right? Oh wait, that wasn’t Yasser Arafat. It was Benjamin Netanyahu.
AMY GOODMAN: “The Israeli newspaper, Maariv, has reported Israels former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly said the September 11th attacks have been good for Israel. Netanyahu said: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.” (SOURCE:“Sept 11 was good for Israel” – Democracy Now – April 17, 2008) DONALD TRUMP: “My name is Donald Trump and I’m a big fan of Israel. And frankly a strong Prime Minister, is a strong Israel and you truly have a great Prime Minister in Benajim Netanyahu, there’s nobody like him. He’s a winner, he’s highly respected, he’s highly thought of by all. “And people really do have great, great respect for whats happened in Israel. “So vote for Benjamin, terrific guy, terrific leader, great for Israel.” (SOURCE: Donald Trump Endorsement for Prime Minister Netanyahu)
Given that the ultimate consequence of 9/11 was the beginning of a now 15 year long struggle to transform the Middle East, a struggle that the neocons that went on to populate the Bush administration had been openly advocating since the “Clean Break” policy paper in the mid-1990s, it isn’t hard to see how the September 11th attacks were indeed a boon for Israel. But information linking Israeli spies to advance knowledge of 9/11 remains “classified information.” In a world of true justice, the dancing Israelis and other Israeli spies with insider advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, who openly celebrated those attacks, would be the targets of the “war on terror,” not its beneficiaries.
39:53 - Renaissance carrolingienne et siècle de saint Thomas d'Aquin.
47:16 - Humanisme moderne de la Renaissance italienne.
55:21 - Contre le philanthropisme maçonnique et abstrait.
1:12:00 - Hellénisme allemand contemporain : l'excellence. 1:19:05 - Aujourd'hui : fascisme élitiste et populaire, l'honnête homme en conclusion.
1:28:35 - Questions des participants. Mots clés : Antiquité, Moyen âge, Renaissance, hellénisme, romanité, christianisme, humanisme, réalisme ou abstraction, nationalisme et internationalisme, théogonie, perversion maçonnique, fascisme élitiste et populaire, classique et modernité, honnête homme universel ; Moïse, Jésus-Christ, saint Basile de Césarée, Charlemagne, saint Thomas d'Aquin, Léon Daudet, Paul Valéry, Eugenio Garin, Werner Jäeger, Dom Lou, cardinal Faulhaber, occitanisme, etc. https://integralisme-organique.com/ca...
Pourquoi les Joututubers qui regardent et commentent ne partagent pratiquement jamais LA VÉRITÉ, mais ne font que promouvoir des dogmes dont les sources sont suspectes ou souvent prouvés basées sur des mythes ou des corruptions de textes anciens? J'ai posé cette question à de nombreuses personnes instruites anglophones et francophones: Qu'est-ce que l'Hellénisme? Je n'ai jamais obtenu une seule réponse exacte en 50 ans! Je ne la connais pas non plus, mais je me suis arrêté à Alexandre de Macédoine le Maudit (le Grand pour les occidentaux), qui, le premier avait hellénisé les sauvages grecs en obligeant ses généraux à épouser des femmes de "races" inférieures telles les Perses et les Arabes. Selon mes recherches, c'est Alexandre qui jeta les bases de l'Hellénisme.Les Écrits (archi-corrompus) d'Israël, dit Ancien Testament par les leaders helléno-chrétiens et catholiques dont la religion réformée d'Israël fut toute aussi fondée sur des Écrits archi-corrompus! Tous les Écrits en langues dites sémitiques furent interdites ou détruites. Et, d'une centaine d'évangiles (Bonnes Nouvelles), quatre furent choisies dont les auteurs furent totalement inconnus, et écrits longtemps après la disparition du Messie que Israël avait refusé de reconnaître. Entre 60 et 100 ans après! Pour prouver à quel point on nous a menti sur les "Grecs", je vais citer un seul exemple. Il en existe des milliers. Ce sont les Perses, les Arabes, et les Égyptiens (dits Sémites) qui apportèrent la CONNAISSANCE (science) aux Grecs. Il fut interdit aux Grecs de se rendre en Égypte avant la conquête de l'Égypte par les Perses. Et, ce fut en Égypte que les Grecs, y compris Socrate, obtinrent leurs connaissances (sciences) auprès des Prêtres de Écoles Mystiques ("Mystery Schools"), ais il leur fut interdit de mettre par écrit leur savoir, ce qui explique pourquoi il n'existe aucun écrit de Socrate. Tout initié devait être baptisé et circoncis avant.Je ne vais pas m'attarder car j'ai trop souvent à faire à des gens qui n'ont pas l'esprit ouvert (de vraies têtes de cochon - PIG HEADS)! Je ne cherche jamais à les offenser, tout comme Jésus, mais à les instruire en dépit d'eux-mêmes.Les Français qui se disent Chrétiens ont vendu leur âmes à la Mafia maçonnique, khazarienne et juifiste (Hervé Ryssen et autres), et ne sont Chrétiens que de nom, en général. Ils n'ont qu'à lire la VRAIE HISTOIRE DU MONDE pur se rendre compte que tout est mensonges à propos des "GRECS". Ce furent les Arabes qui leur donnèrent leur alphabet. HERODOTE fut un "BERBÈRE", et non un Grec! Quand ils vont s'apercevoir qu'ils furent dupés tout au long de leur propre histoire, à ce moment-là, certains vont comprendre, mais pas avant. Aristote avait seulement compilé et traduite des ouvrages égyptiens, mais la totalité de cette compilation lui ut trompeusement attribuée! Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy. George G. M. James, Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff VOL D'HÉRITAGE: La philosophie grecque est l'appropriation (le vol) de la philosophie égyptienne
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P.S. Ce texte est adressé strictement à Florian Rouanet!
Pouvez- vous communiquer sur quelle étude vous vous basez pour affirmer que l'écriture grecque tire son origine de l'arabe ? Vous parlez de la Vraie Histoire du Monde, qu'y a-t-il derrière ce titre ronflant ?
@FRÉMAUX SOORMALLY c'est un peu abscons cette réponse. Pour ma part je n'ai jamais élevé de pourceaux je ne savais pas qu'on pouvait leur jeter des perles. Si c'est vous qui avez fait cette découverte sur l'écriture grecque pourquoi la relayer alors dans un message YouTube et pas dans National Géographic ? Enfin, je préfère continuer mon ouvrage de Jacqueline de Romilly. Chacun ses références .
Ce n'est pas en vous opposant aux sources que j'ai donné que vous irez très loin en matière d'hellénisme : ne pas comprendre que Werner Jäeger doit être une référence pour nous est un très mauvais début. Ça ne m'étonne pas de la part d'un inculte et d'un bon à rien, complotiste dans son état d’esprit, de remettre en question la civilisation hellénique et le christianisme. L'hellénisme c'est la "Paideia", la culture et l'éducation grecques qui font que nous sommes hommes, et en effet, c'est Alexandre le Grand qui fit connaître au monde entier le nom des Grecs. Les Grecs sont les seuls à avoir fait naître la philosophie en soi, ayant ainsi élevé le continent européen comme on le sait, ce n'est pas un hasard s'il a dominé le monde entier. Autrement en quoi des "Arabes volés" seraient-ils ensuite au quatrième sous-sol de la technologie ? Ça ne tient pas la route. Et Socrate a bien laissé de nombreuses traces écrites, vous êtes frappadingue de remettre ça en question. Dans ce cas, les Perses et les Égyptiens n'ont jamais existé (mais j'en parle quand même), c'est très facile de raconter des bêtises.
@Alexandre Sanguedolce Eja camerata, merci bien pour le nom de cette auteure, elle a beaucoup rédigée sur la culture grecque. C'est fort intéressant et c'est autre chose que de dire que ça n'a pas existé ou que c'est Arabe en réalité.
@Florian RouanetFiston, ce n'est pas bien de manquer de respect à ton vieux Papa. Je suis aussi grand-père de 4 petits enfants victimes de cet "Humanisme Helléno-Chrétien" qui n'a existé que dans l'imagination raciste et dogmatique des églises, ces synagogues de Satan, qui ont hébergé toute une armée d'impérialistes sanguinaires et de pervers au long des siècles. Tu lis mal le français, fiston! M'accuser de m'être opposé "aux sources" que tu as données, c'est bien vilain, mon fils! Ensuite de m'insulter de la sorte en me traitant d'inculte et de bon à rien, complotiste, et j'en passe, n'est pas digne d'un chevalier d'une nation qui n'exista que pour la noblesse et l'aristocratie au dépens des masses traitées d'esclaves pendant de nombreux siècles. Aujourd'hui, prétendre de revenir à une nation qui n'a jamais existé ou qui a existé que dans la honte par manque, justement, d'humanisme! Mon protestantisme date de plus de quatorze siècles, et mon catholicisme n'est ni romain ni apostolique, cette bande de lâches et de traîtres qui abandonnèrent Jésus alors que ces ennemis le menèrent au bûcher! Helléno-Chrétien, comme les autres fanatiques (donc aveugles!), tu ne sais pas de quoi tu parles, mon fils, alors que l'Hellénisme a toujours pué le racisme, mais il est vrai que je ne sais pas grand'chose de cette appellation contrôlée de "chrétien" car je ne suis que christique catholique non romain et non apostolique!En anglais, nous sommes nombreux, parmi les "incultes"à appeler ce fameux Christianisme de "Churchianity", et les Chrétiens des fanatiques de la Synagogue de Satan qu'ils appellent "églises" sans trop savoir ce que veut dire ce terme. Mais, le devoir m'appelle car je dois voyager pour aller chercher mes deux petits qui ont plus besoin de moi que ces abrutis de Juiftube, mais pas toi, mon fils, car je te suis pas mal sur Rivarol! Mais, je suis en mesure de faire la leçon à ces abrutis de racistes et de Sionsites de Chrétiens "de souche" qui n'ont pas grand'chose à voir avec le Christ, comme, par exemple, "Riposte laïque", ou ce raciste de Henry de Lesquin ou ces 5 abrutis qui viennent de t'applaudir!Mais, je te remercie quand même, fiston, de m'avoir donné enfin l'occasion de me faire entendre même si je ne suis pas parvenu, comme d'habitude, à me faire comprendre. Florian, je t'aime quand même, mon fils!
TON PAPA CHÉRI, l'INCULTE!
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Ce samedi 7 mars 2020P.S. Mais, ne t'inquiète pas, fiston, tu es sur la bonne voie, et de vouloir voler de ses propres ailes sans Rivarol est peut-être une bonne chose, je l'espère!
Friday, 30 March 2012VERCINGÉTORIX, ALAIN SORAL, PHILIPPE PLONCARD D'ASSAC, RIVAROL, ET NOTRE FRANCE.
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix Les Grecs anciens sont des Aryens, ou des Indo-Européens, les premiers parvenus à la civilisation tout simplement. La langue grecque est complètement indo-européenne, l’Iliade est la charte même de l’esprit européen des temps païens, et dans l’art grec, on retrouve toute une anthropologie physique aryenne. Il y eut simplement un métissage avec les populations autochtones de la péninsule hellénique (les Pelages proprement dits) quand les aryens sont arrivés. Les Grecs anciens procèdent de ce métissage. L’aristocratie grecque a dû rester cependant un peu plus aryenne. Mais au lieu de lire des livres éculés comme Vacher de Lapouge, il faut lire « les Indo-Europeens » de Jean Haudry, bien plus étayés scientifiquement (éditions de la forêt).
Ok dac papy je ne voulais pas vous offenser. Cela dit, vous cumulez tous les chancres modernes du gauchisme, de l’anti européanité et de l’anti christianisme primaires. D’expérience, je sais qu’il est impossible de récupérer quelqu’un d’aussi fourvoyer et de borner. Vous mélangez tout sur l’humanisme, le racisme et la religion. Un racisme universel peut tout à fait être respectueux de l’ordre mondial. Et j’aimerais mieux ne pas être amalgamé par des boomers qui jouent aux radicaux bien longtemps après leurs jeunesses (voir les « dissidents » précités).
GAUCHISME : ce terme n’a jamais existé dans mon vocabulaire. Chaque pays occidental utilise une panoplie de termes différents pour décrire le même régime politique de gouvernance: la soi-disant démocratie, qui n’est pas d’origine grecque, mais les Européens, qui furent si pauvres en langues écrites, disons à partir du 14-15ème siècle, dès qu’ils avaient hérité la science arabe et musulmane, traduisirent absolument tout le savoir humain en langue grecque et latine, et, plus tard en d’autres langues européennes, et arrêtèrent ainsi l’Âge d’Or de la civilisation arabo-musulmane après Isabelle de Castille et atterrirent ainsi en « Amérique » visitée déjà par les Musulmans avant Christophe Colomb.Il m’est impossible de trop m’approfondir car la Sorbonne Nouvelle et Ancienne m’avaient empêché de continuer mes études car mes découvertes furent jugées non inexactes, mais inacceptables dans les domaines suivantes : 1. Histoire des États-Unis (Institut d’anglais)2. Français oral et écrit (Institut d’Anglais) – LA PARAPSYCHOLOGIE.3. Littérature anglaise (Institut d’Anglais) – LORD OF THE FLIES, RICHARD III.4. Macro-énonomie (Sorbonne) – Le Professeur Marzellier me donna raison toutefois. J’avais eu l’avantage d’avoir appris le grec et le latin (élémentaires) pour mes études de médecine dans le Caucase (la soi-disant origine des « races dites aryennes ») ! Donc. La révision et correction des mensonges enseignées dans ces matières furent interdites parce que les académies étaient toutes sous le contrôle des Marxistes, des Socialistes (GAUCHISTES/SINISTRES) anticatholiques, ainsi que toutes les institutions publiques, y compris l’État, les Églises, et les Cours dites de Justice. CHANCRES : comme les chancres syphilitiques qui ronge, et détruit tout ? Je ne peux cumuler des concepts auxquels je suis allergique ! A. Ce que nombre de Français ne savent pas c’est que l’EUROPÉANITÉ est une fabrication US américaine pour dominer le monde. L’Européanité est un concept raciste, racialiste, et nationaliste longtemps dépassé ! Mais, je suis à 100% pour ce concept car j’ai toujours été pour l’Unité nationale sans être un nationaliste car MA NATION, C’EST LE MONDE ! mais, c’est une utopie ! L’Europe de Bruxelles vient de bouffer la France sans que les Français ne bronchent alors que même certains s’en sont aperçus ! Un certain Asselineau, par exemple. B. Je suis CHRISTIQUE, donc, contre tous les Christianismes où le Christ est absent ! Ma dernière messe fut à l’Église de Neuilly-sur-Seine, et j’avais juré que je n’y remettrai jamais les pieds car j’ai vu de mes propres yeux et entendu de mes propres oreilles comme les églises catholiques furent vendues au Sionisme et à Israël de Terre (Eretz Israël), soit Israël de l’Apartheid, et comment le Vatican avait fait de même !C. Les autocrates et oligarques judaïques ont décrété que des gens comme moi ne peuvent jamais être pleinement FRANÇAIS, et ils nous ont surnommés FRANÇAIS-PAPIERS ! Quand je voulus renouvelé mon passeport, la Mairie de Neuilly refusa, et quand je me suis plaint, je me suis trouvé nez à menton avec un énergumène qui voulut même se jeter sur moi, et que j’avais alors failli gifler. En sortant, j’avais demandé à sa secrétaire pourquoi il était aussi enragé, et elle m’a répondu : Ne saviez-vous pas que Monsieur Sarkozy était JUIF ? J’avais compris sa fureur car suite à son refus j’avais mentionné Israël ou les Juifs qui avaient pris possession de Neuilly et voulaient certainement y mener un nettoyage ethnique comme ils le font en Israël ! Ce qui l’avait fichu en colère ! Disons, que je suis plutôt ANTI-JUIFISTE, mais non anti-christianiste car les VRAIS CHRÉTIENS sont mes Sœurs et mes Frères, non seulement de la foi, même s’ils se battent entre eux, et se haïssent, ce que j’ai vu entre Protestants US américains et Catholiques, mais aussi mes Frères et Sœurs de ‘Humanité. « Vous mélangez tout sur l’humanisme, le racisme et la religion. »En qualité d’ancien professeur de Biologie, je fus le seul à nier la classification par « races » se trouvant dans les livres scolaires car je n’en avais trouvé aucune preuve sauf celle d’une « RACE » unique ! Je fus entendu au Ministère de l’Éducation (Enseignement) à ce sujet dans les années 70! Quand vous aurez donné une date à chacun des termes que vous utilisez, humanisme, race, religion, vous comprendrez ma perspective de la VÉRITÉ HISTORIQUE ! « FOURVOYÉ », moi ? Il est évident que je l’ai toujours été, et c’est pourquoi j’ai toujours cherché ma voie, mais, quand je retrouve ma voie, ce qui m’a coûté énormément, je rencontre souvent d’autres dans l’égarement, mais qui se disent être sur la bonne voie sans se rendre compte de la gravité de leur égarement et aveuglement.« BORNÉ », moi ? Il est clair pour le premier-venu que je suis borné à mort par la VÉRITÉ RETROUVÉE, suite à de longues années de recherche et de combat depuis déjà l’âge de 14 ans, donc depuis un demi-siècle! Si la plupart des gens qui me lisent ne sont toujours pas contents, je n’y peux rien ! En qualité de directeur de l’Hôtel Windsor (1975-1988), j’en ai vu pas mal, vu que je travaillais AVEC (et non pour !) des hommes d’affaires juifs de tous les coins du monde, mais étant donné que des gens comme moi n’avaient AUCUNE LIBERTÉ dans cette France judéo-franc-maçonnique, il a fallu que je sois forcé de quitter la France pour pouvoir en parler. Cependant, mon premier livre de 800 pages « Nouvelle Perspective de l’Histoire de l’Humanité » fut effacé de mon ordinateur par un ex-soldat et Policier britannique qui devait réparer l’ordinateur en question. Les autorités ‘compétentes’ conclurent qu’un homme aussi « honorablement connu » à Chelmsford, un certain Denis Yates, ne pouvait avoir commis ce délit ou crime ! Mon deuxième livre de 1200 pages, abondamment illustré, « THE ALIEN BEGINNING AND END OF HUMANKIND » ne put être imprimé à Londres car la maison de publication (TA-HA) m’a confié par téléphone que c’était impossible car les Juifs la finançaient ! Oui, mon fils, je suis complètement ÉGARÉ sur une planète qui n’est pas la mienne, et je suis plus TÊTU qu’une mule, davantage qu’un certain Jésus de Nazareth, dit le Christ !Mais, je n’ai trouvé aucun médecin freudien pour guérir ma syphilis ou mes chancres, et sorcier ou spirite pour m’exorciser. Donc, je continue à puer la méchanceté, et à être habité par le diable, et dire que l’Église de MA France avait, en 1988, nommé quelques 500 exorcistes non pour exorciser, mais envoûter les Catholiques afin d’accomplir le mariage officiel des églises avec non seulement la franc-maçonnerie, mais aussi avec la Mafia talmudo-sioniste! Donc, quand j’entends des personnes bien intentionnées parler de Nation, cela me donne envie de vomir ! L’Église sioniste s’en fiche totalement ce qui peut arriver aux fidèles qui recherchent la vérité, la trouve, est se trouve ensuite persécuter, condamner à des amendes ou à la prison ! L’Église ne s’en indigne jamais alors que le Juif sort ses dents et griffes dès qu’on pointe du doigt toute suspicion de criminalité ou de perversion à l’égard d’un des leurs, même s’il n’est pas pratiquant ! Quand je vois le Catholique Vincent Reynouard forcé de s’exiler à Londres pour le restant de sa vie, je suis écœuré ! Enfin, c’est la vie ! Une certaine Anne Frémaux (« Ripostes laïques ») m’avait publiquement prévenu avoir informé sa Police ‘française’ contre mes écrits racistes et antisémitiques, le coup classique des Sionistes, mais je lui ai immédiatement cloué le bec en lui rappelant le compte en banque suisse et des lingots d’or d’un des leurs qu’un certain Garnier (fils illégitime d’un Pied-Noir, parait-il) a hérité entre 1983 et 1990 ! J’aime beaucoup et très sincèrement Jérôme Bourbon parce qu’il n’est pas catholique papiste, tout comme moi, et il est accusé par le Lobby Suprême (LICRA, CRIF, etc.) de RACISTE ANTISÉMITE, tout comme je n’ai cessé d’en âtre accusé, alors que plus de 80% de ces grandes gueules peuvent aisément être prouvés être des NON SÉMITES ! Je n’ai jamais rencontré quelqu’un de plus INCULTE que moi avec ma culture zoroastrienne, védique, arabe (Israël, Christ et Muhammad), russe, asiatique, africaine, et occidentale, mais non helléno-aryenne, plus spécialement germanique car la plus civilisée d’occident ! C’est dommage que maintenant l’Allemagne appartienne désormais, corps et âme, au Lobby ! CONCLUSION : Donc, fiston, aie un peu de compassion CHRISTIQUE pour ton pauvre PAPY qui a vu, je suis convaincu, beaucoup plus que nombre d’entre vous ! L’indifférence des autres « commentateurs » à mon égard ne fait que confirmer mes prises de position qui ne souffriront d’aucune défaillance, moi vivant, et sain d’esprit ! Même PHILIPPE PLONCARD D'ASSAC n’a pu me confronter! Je dois être complètement maboule. Je n’aurai peut-être pas trop l’occasion de communiquer avec toi, et je te souhaite bonne chance ! Jésus disait, selon certains, que la VÉRITÉ nous rendrait libre, mais moi je dis que sans combat, et sans liberté, la vérité est inutile !
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix je n’en ai pas l’impression en tout cas, un passionné d’histoire et d’Europe - et à la limite le dico à côté pour quelques mots - et ça le fait, on s’y retrouve !
FRÉMAUX SOORMALLY en gros « gauchiste » signifie celui qui se la joue progressiste tout en étant un bloqué mental sur toute une série de sujet, quand ce n’est pas pour tout remettre en question comme vous M. l’Indien ; toujours est-il que leur psychologie est fascinante.Les Arabes ont sans doute eu leurs heures de gloires, mais il est très loin ce temps-là, et encore.En effet il ne vaut mieux pas trop approfondir ce salmigondis historico-délirant. Même votre négation des peuples indo-européens est hallucinant, on pourrait appeler ça du vrai « négationnisme ».Idem sur l’européanité, vous êtes encore un sacré histrion politique, ce n’est pas une quelconque structure qui invente des concepts : l’Europe est ! Son identité, sa culture, sa civilisation est une réalité palpable ne serait-ce que par les héritages latins, germains et slaves - ou encore par la transfiguration du christianisme - qui la constitue pour l’essentiel de son héritage.En matière de racisme je vous rappelle qu’à l’heure actuelle les blancs sont les moins « racistes » tandis que tous les peuples dits du « Tiers-Monde » ont au moins l’instinct de survie raciale (mais peut être vouliez-Vous dénonce ledit « suprémacisme » ?). Le mot de race n’est pas forcément biologique, lisez donc les définitions du dictionnaire, ça me fait rire moi la peur des mots.Aussi, le monde est fait de nations, les nations ne nient pas le monde mais l’enrichit, le fait exister. Encore une fois : 100% gauchisme.La définition déiste ou christique ne suffit pas, auquel cas votre religion relèverait plus de votre subjectivité que du dogme, de la morale et de la doctrine en général. Et surtout, les catholiques sont papistes par définition, si Jérôme Bourbon rejette Bergoglio et tous les suppôts de Vatican II c’est tout simplement parce qu’ils ne peuvent pas être Papes par définition voyons !L’anti-judaïsme je veux bien, mais le complotisme débile non merci. Vincent Reynouard, qui est un charmant personnage, n’est hélas plus catholique depuis son « divorce ». Je reconnais que vous êtes un peu particulier tout de même, comme vous suivez ce que l’on appelle au sens large « la dissidence ».
@Florian Rouanet GAULOIS ET FRANCAIS, OÙ SONT NOS ARABES ET MUSULMANS D'ANTAN?SECTION ONEOBSERVATION NUMÉRO 1 Les Arabes et les Musulmans ont changé le Monde, SAUF LA GAULE, millésimée FRANCE!Mais, c'est vrai, Fiston, ma mère (illettrée) disait toujours que j'étais fou! Quand j'avais 67 ans, elle disait même vouloir me gifler (gentiment!), ici, à Londres, car nous n'étions pas d'accord sur certaines vérités concernant notre famille! Quand j'avais 43 ans, elle rendit visite à un sorcier à l'île Maurice (ancienne esclavagerie gauloise ou française!) pour tenter de guérir mon "entêtement"! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 2La capitale intellectuelle du savoir et des sciences fut Alexandrie sur une terre ARABE, appelée AEGYPTUS (MISR EN ARABE) par les Grecs qui gouverna l'ARABIE, et non en Grèce. Selon les Mythes, Aegyptus avaient des épouses et des enfants ARABES, PHÉNICIENNES, etc.), et non GAULOIS! Et, Aegyptus voulait dire NOIR car ce pays fut dirigés par des "SÉMITES" NOIRS (ARABOPHONES) de la région y compris d'Afrique! MAUROS veut aussi dire NOIR, et ils avaient apporté la civilisation en Espagne! BERBER voulait dire "BARBARES" ou SAUVAGES DE MUSULMANS!Des racistes et des menteurs prétendent toujours que la langue arabe naquit au sixième siècle, voulant dire ainsi que les ARABES ne parlaient jamais ARABE auparavant! Ce n'est point la VÉRITÉ CHRISTIQUE qui rendit la liberté aux Chrétiens, mais le MENSONGE SATANIQUE qui a emprisonné la plupart d'entres eux depuis près de 17 siècles! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 3 Répéter que je suis GAUCHISTE à 100%, alors que je viens de préciser que ce terme n'est pas dans mon vocabulaire? Donc, je ne tiens même pas à en parler car c'est la source de tous les maux de l'humanité! En plus, je suis DROITIER à vie quoique la GAUCHE me sert quand même, et j'en suis reconnaissant au BIG BANG! Relis ce que j'ai écrit, mon Fils! Je n'ai jamais été ni MARXISTE, ni SOCIALISTE, ni GAUCHISTE, ni PROGRESSISTE, ni LÍBÉRAL, ni ANTI-CATHOLIQUE, ni un ESCLAVE DU SYSTÉME POLITIQUE & JUDICIAIRE, ni un membre d'une ÉGLISE quelconque. Je n'ai jamais appartenu à un quelconque groupe religieux ou politique. Je suis un HOMME SOUVERAIN ET LIBRE DE LA TERRE, et je n'ai jamais voté de ma vie! Je suis un Capricorne de la Terre et de la Spiritualité! Les Musulmans christiques (tous les vrais Musulmans, Chrétiens, et autres semblables) ne sont ni européanistes, ni africanistes, mais tout simplement HUMANISTES! Relis ce que j'écrit, plus attentivement, Fiston, et surtout lis des ouvrages honnêtes!"...les académies étaient toutes sous le contrôle des Marxistes, des Socialistes (GAUCHISTES/SINISTRES) anticatholiques, ainsi que toutes les institutions publiques, y compris l’État, les Églises, et les Cours dites de Justice."OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 4C'est vrai, j'aime bien le ragoût, mais qualifier l'Histoire des Arabes et des Musulmans de " salmigondis historico-délirant" n'est pas très christique ni même très chrétien! Et, je suis plutôt végétarien!OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 5Me traiter de "bloqué mental" est tout le contraire de ce que je suis, et c'est bien cela qui fait peur et grincer des dents aux Freudiens!OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 6M. L'Indien? Fiston, j'ai presque envie de te gifler pour ton RACISME, mais je suis un bon PAPA! En 74 ans, c'est bien la toute première fois qu'on me traite d'INDIEN! Sur mes trois passeports, donc trois nationalités, ces ignorants ont du oublier cette remarquable identité indienne, plutôt hindoustanaise, mais pas nécessairement védique! Et, je ne parle même pas l'INDIEN, et je me demande pourquoi? L'invasion génocidaire et le racisme des barbares (sauvages!) de l'Occident? Sûrement!OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 7"Les Arabes ont sans doute eu leurs heures de gloires, mais il est très loin ce temps-là, et encore"Je vais t'acheter des jumelles, Fiston, car tu en as vraiment besoin! Ne vois-tu pas "LES ARABES ET LES MUSULMANS TERRORISER LE MONDE ENTIER EN 2020", y compris en Europe, et l'INVASION ISLAMIQUE, à en croire les médias, les églises de Satan, et les égarés? Il a fallu que j'atterrisse en Union Soviétique en 1964 pour constater la GLOIRE DES ARABES qui a persisté jusque dans les universités de Médecine où le CANON DE MÉDECINE d'IBN SINA était encore en usage, traduit en russe. Mon ami Gennady Popkov en avait une dizaine de volumes! Mais, les occidentaux ne pouvaient le savoir car ils avaient traduit toute la science des Arabes et des Musulmans en Latin et en Grec, y compris les noms de leurs savants, et en d'autres langues européennes, convaincus stupidement que tout ce savoir ne provenait que de l'occident alors que pratiquement tout venait d'Égypte, de la Maison de la Sagesse de Baghdâd, et plus tard de Cordoue. Le monde intellectuel d'alors apprenait et parlait ARABE! Mais, les Européens racistes, les Catholiques et les Chrétiens ignorants qui préfèrent le MENSONGE ne veulent rien savoir.À SUIVRE
@Florian Rouanet Il est triste de constater à quel point un grand nombre de ceux et celles qui se disent CHRÉTIENS FRANÇAIS propagent la HAINE DES MUSULMANS, DES ARABES, ET DE L'ISLAM par leurs mensonges et propagandes alors que des millions de Chrétiens et de Musulmans de par le monde sont liés fraternellement, menant le même combat contre le mal, quel qu'il soit! Ces Français sont très bien informés, mais ils ont fait leurs choix: le fanatisme et le racisme sélectif! C'est pourquoi je refuse de communiquer avec ces ignorants, ces fanatiques, et ces racistes de JOOTUBERS. Je ne prêche aucune religion, mais je suis en faveur des valeurs et de la sagesse héritées de toutes les religions de l'Histoire ancienne, et en faveur de l'UNITÉ DE L'HUMANITÉ TOUTE ENTIÈRE, excluant les MONSTRES et leurs COMPLICES, bien entendu!BAFS Hassen Rasool - The Royal Call to Prayer from The ancient Church of St Pancras, on Euston Road, London, United Kingdom on the 4th July 2018. - Karl Jenkins - The Armed Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSTNWRo5CY&t=13sP.S. Je ne vois plus la Section 2 de mes observations "GAULOIS ET FRANCAIS, OÙ SONT NOS ARABES ET MUSULMANS D'ANTAN!" ? J'ai du le reposter 2 fois!
@Florian Rouanet SECTION TWO SUITE ET FIN OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 8 Ma "négation des peuples indo-européens", de "l'européanité"? J'avais déjà démasqué les mensonges des Européens concernant leurs classifications de races, dont une classification moderne contenue dans le texte que j'enseignais dans les années 1971-1974. 1. Caucasoïde (ayant le plus joli crâne, tout comme les Européens!) 2. Négroïde 3. Mongoloïde 4. Sémitique Il y en avait d'autres: Australoïde, Capoïde, H. americanus, H. africanus, H. europaeus, H. asiaticus, H. monstrosus, et H. ferus (sauvages). Je n'y ai pas trouvé dans mes livres de RACE BLANCOÏDE sauf chez Manuel Valls l'Israélite! Donc, sois gentil, mon Fils, et permets-moi de DOUTER DE, NON DE NIER ou DE NÉGATIONISMER (NÉGATIONISER) cette classification de peuple "INDO-EUROPÉENS" car je m'y perds vraiment dans cet océan de mensonges! J'avais lu, il y a longtemps, que le linguiste Max Müller disait que la Mère de toutes les langues était l'ARABE, mais cette citation est introuvable sur Joogle! On ne parle que des trois langues sœurs "indo-aryennes" MORTES, le Sanskrit, le Grec et le Latin, mais de la langue mère, pratiquement rien! Il y en a bien un qui l'a dit, mais je me méfie de lui! Il se prend pour le MESSIE PROMIS! Max (honoré par l'Académie française!) et lui devaient sûrement être aussi débiles que moi! J'avais mis au défi le Juif sioniste, le Professeur Noam (Nahum) Chomsky et le fils de Rabbin Marc-Alain Ouaknine concernant la langue dite hébraïque, mais sans aucun succès. Le livre de Ouaknine sur le sujet est à jeter à la poubelle! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 9 Fiston, mon but n'est pas que tu changes de religion, mais que tu OUVRES LES YEUX! Car, ton "HISTRION" de PAPY peut aussi prouver que le Catholicisme romain et apostolique a très peu à voir avec ce personnage mythique de la légende militariste et impérialiste gréco-romaine dit helléniste! BAFS - « acteur jouant des farces grossières avec accompagnement de flûte » 1690 « mauvais acteur » 1819 « homme sans consistance, charlatan » « oracle »...). « mime; comédien, acteur »; « comédien, fanfaron, faiseur d'embarras ». Non, Fiston, je ne suis rien de tout cela! J'espère que tu es 'toujours' marié, et papa de petits chérubins, et que tu ne leur enseigneras que la VÉRITÉ! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 10 "les héritages latins, germains et slaves..." ET ARABES, mon fils! "- ou encore par la transfiguration du christianisme - qui la constitue pour l’essentiel de son héritage." J'ai vu de mes yeux où en est ce christianisme aujourd'hui, rien qu'à Paris: bordels, sex-shops, casinos, pédocriminalité, pédophilie, inceste, racisme sélectif, avortements, usure, mariages homosexuels, promotion et participations dans des guerres génocidaires, de pillage, et de conquêtes à travers le monde, et, en particulier le monde arabo-musulman, et que les dignes Gaulois tentent désespérément d'exporter à l'étranger, notamment Jacqus Chiracus! Il n'existe plus de NATION en France, mais que des intérêts judéo-capitalistes, franc-maçonniques, et satanistes! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 11 Je ne suis pas dogmatiste, moraliste, ou doctrinaire même si je trouve que sans MORAL, surtout celui du Divin, il ne peut y avoir de société saine et humaine! OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 12 "L’anti-judaïsme je veux bien, mais le complotisme débile non merci." Je suis déçu que tu sois aussi aveugle, mon Fils! Je ne suis pas ANTI-JUDAÏSTE car ma religion vient aussi des Enfants d'Israël! Qui c'est qui a inventé ces termes "JUDAÏSME" et "CHRISTIANISME" ? Existent-ils dans TA Bible? Mais, par contre, l'ISLAM existe bien dans le Livre Saint des Musulmans (KITAAB) adressé à toute l'humanité. OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 13 (nombre sataniste!) "Vincent Reynouard, qui est un charmant personnage, n’est hélas plus catholique depuis son « divorce »." DONC, BON POUR L'ENFER! Tu vois, Fiston, si tu embrassais la religion de ton Papy, tu bénéficieras d'un peu plus de compassion pour tes semblables! Je ne crois ni à l'Enfer, ni au Paradis célestes, car j'ai connu les deux, ici, sur terre, et ni à un Jugement Dernier, mais je respecte ceux et celles qui y croient tant qu'ils ne font de mal à personne ou à soi-même. Il est triste de constater que tu ne montres pas d'indulgence envers d'autres religions, d'autres "races", d'autres nations que la tienne! Mais, je t'aime quand même et prie le Bon Dieu (le Diable, s'il le faut!) pour que tu deviennes un membre de l'humanité et non d'une Secte raciste, paulienne, romaine ou européenne! Pour terminer, l'origine du mot EUROPE est ARABE; renseigne-toi! Et, arabe n'est pas une RACE, mais une mixture de types biologiques, pour qui la couleur (noire mauritanienne, noire maure, noire égyptienne...) ne compte pas. L'Islam a aboli le racisme de classe, de couleurs, ainsi que l'esclavage! Que nous rencontrons des "Musulmans" escrocs, voleurs, violeurs, racistes, esclavagistes, assassins c'est autre chose. Le seul pays autorisé à pratiquer l'esclavage fut les dictateurs saoudiens, des fanatiques d'une Secte wahhabite ou salafiste et des misogynes, mis au pouvoir par l'Occident en ARABIE CONQUISE ET OCCUPÉE, ainsi que le Brésil (pour dettes!) autant que je me rappelle. Et, KHAZAREL (Israël de l'Apartheid), autorisée elle à pratiquer le RACISME et le NETTOYAGE ETHNIQUE, et à créer un ÉTAT JUIF, donc THÉOCRATIQUE, sur des terres arabes et musulmanes volées, la PALESTINE! Et, ceci grâce aux Européens, USA, Canada, Australie, et leurs vassaux, sans oublier la GAULE-FRANCE! MON FILS, cela est un vrai plaisir de communiquer avec toi. J'ai passé tout mon après-midi à te parler, et j'entends Jésus (ou le Diable!) qui me dit: "Basheer, donne lui une fessée pour de bon! Qu'attends-tu?" Et, moi, de répondre: Fiston, je ne suis pas comme toi, Fils de Dieu, car tu n'es "pas venu apporter la paix (l'ISLAM) sur la terre; tu n'es pas venu apporter la paix, mais l'épée (LA CROIX)", à croire ces aveugles de Gaulois-Romains et les autres du même genre! [Pseudonyme Matthieu 10:34] Amen Je t'aime, quand même! BAFS Ce lundi 9 mars 2020 Addendum 1. Lorsque le Monde parlait Arabe (Complet) | Documentaire FR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGHA0FXyvHg (Les Musulmans d'alors ne savaient pas encore que les Égyptiens, les Mésopatamiens, et les Perses, furent les vrais dépositaires connus de la Connaissance du Monde, et que les Arabes (Phéniciens, Égyptiens, etc.) donnèrent leur ALPHABET à la Grèce. Il semble que les Hibirus (bandits arabes!) ont hérité leur dialecte ou langue dite hébraïque de l'Égyptien abjadique ou abgadique! ABJ ou ABG.) Mais, le plus parlée et plus perfectionnée des langues dites sémitiques par les occidentaux est sans conteste l'ARABE classique ABT (300 millions). Le Grec est d'origine sémitique ABG, mais le Latin se développe en ABC! Et, les jeunes Grecs que j'ai rencontré n'ont pas eu honte de dire qu'ils ont obtenu leur alphabet des "ARABES"! 2. Jean Pruvost évoque son livre «Nos ancêtres les Arabes» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfibl2KDYNs&t=8s 3. Lire obligatoirement "Le Soleil d'Allah brille sur l'Occident : Notre héritage arabe" de Sigrid Hunke 1997)
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GAULOIS ET FRANCAIS, OÙ SONT NOS ARABES ET MUSULMANS D'ANTAN?
SECTION ONE
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 1
Les Arabes et les Musulmans ont changé le Monde, SAUF LA GAULE, millésimée FRANCE!
Mais, c'est vrai, Fiston, ma mère (illettrée) disait toujours que j'étais fou! Quand j'avais 67 ans, elle disait même vouloir me gifler (gentiment!), ici, à Londres, car nous n'étions pas d'accord sur certaines vérités concernant notre famille!Quand j'avais 43 ans, elle rendit visite à un sorcier à l'île Maurice (ancienne esclavagerie gauloise ou française!) pour tenter de guérir mon "entêtement"!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 2
La capitale intellectuelle du savoir et des sciences fut Alexandrie sur une terre ARABE, appelée AEGYPTUS (MISR EN ARABE) par les Grecs qui gouverna l'ARABIE, et non en Grèce. Selon les Mythes, Aegyptus avaient des épouses et des enfants ARABES, PHÉNICIENNES, etc.), et non GAULOIS!Et, Aegyptus voulait dire NOIR car ce pays fut dirigés par des "SÉMITES" NOIRS (ARABOPHONES) de la région y compris d'Afrique!MAUROS veut aussi dire NOIR, et ils avaient apporté la civilisation en Espagne!BERBER voulait dire "BARBARES" ou SAUVAGES DE MUSULMANS!
Des racistes et des menteurs prétendent toujours que la langue arabe naquit au sixième siècle, voulant dire ainsi que les ARABES ne parlaient jamais ARABE auparavant!Ce n'est point la VÉRITÉ CHRISTIQUE qui rendit la liberté aux Chrétiens, mais le MENSONGE SATANIQUE qui a emprisonné la plupart d'entres eux depuis près de 17 siècles!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 3
Répéter que je suis GAUCHISTE à 100%, alors que je viens de préciser que ce terme n'est pas dans mon vocabulaire?Donc, je ne tiens même pas à en parler car c'est la source de tous les maux de l'humanité!En plus, je suis DROITIER à vie quoique la GAUCHE me sert quand même, et j'en suis reconnaissant au BIG BANG!Relis ce que j'ai écrit, mon Fils!Je n'ai jamais été ni MARXISTE, ni SOCIALISTE, ni GAUCHISTE, ni PROGRESSISTE, ni LÍBÉRAL, ni ANTI-CATHOLIQUE, ni un ESCLAVE DU SYSTÉME POLITIQUE & JUDICIAIRE, ni un membre d'une ÉGLISE quelconque.Je n'ai jamais appartenu à un quelconque groupe religieux ou politique.Je suis un HOMME SOUVERAIN ET LIBRE DE LA TERRE, et je n'ai jamais voté de ma vie! Je suis un Capricorne de la Terre et de la Spiritualité!Les Musulmans christiques (tous les vrais Musulmans, Chrétiens, et autres semblables) ne sont ni européanistes, ni africanistes, mais tout simplement HUMANISTES!Relis ce que j'écrit, plus attentivement, Fiston, et surtout lis des ouvrages honnêtes!
"...les académies étaient toutes sous le contrôle des Marxistes, des Socialistes (GAUCHISTES/SINISTRES) anticatholiques, ainsi que toutes les institutions publiques, y compris l’État, les Églises, et les Cours dites de Justice."
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 4
C'est vrai, j'aime bien le ragoût, mais qualifier l'Histoire des Arabes et des Musulmans de " salmigondis historico-délirant" n'est pas très christique ni même très chrétien! Et, je suis plutôt végétarien!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 5
Me traiter de "bloqué mental" est tout le contraire de ce que je suis, et c'est bien cela qui fait peur et grincer des dents aux Freudiens!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 6
M. L'Indien?Fiston, j'ai presque envie de te gifler pour ton RACISME, mais je suis un bon PAPA!En 74 ans, c'est bien la toute première fois qu'on me traite d'INDIEN!Sur mes trois passeports, donc trois nationalités, ces ignorants ont du oublier cette remarquable identité indienne, plutôt hindoustanaise, mais pas nécessairement védique!Et, je ne parle même pas l'INDIEN, et je me demande pourquoi?L'invasion génocidaire et le racisme des barbares (sauvages!) de l'Occident?Sûrement!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 7
"Les Arabes ont sans doute eu leurs heures de gloires, mais il est très loin ce temps-là, et encore"
Je vais t'acheter des jumelles, Fiston, car tu en as vraiment besoin!Ne vois-tu pas "LES ARABES ET LES MUSULMANS TERRORISER LE MONDE ENTIER EN 2020", y compris en Europe, et l'INVASION ISLAMIQUE, à en croire les médias, les églises de Satan, et les égarés?
Il a fallu que j'atterrisse en Union Soviétique en 1964 pour constater la GLOIRE DES ARABES qui a persisté jusque dans les universités de Médecine où le CANON DE MÉDECINE d'IBN SINA était encore en usage, traduit en russe.Mon ami Gennady Popkov en avait une dizaine de volumes!Mais, les occidentaux ne pouvaient le savoir car ils avaient traduit toute la science des Arabes et des Musulmans en Latin et en Grec, y compris les noms de leurs savants, et en d'autres langues européennes, convaincus stupidement que tout ce savoir ne provenait que de l'occident alors que pratiquement tout venait d'Égypte, de la Maison de la Sagesse de Baghdâd, et plus tard de Cordoue. Le monde intellectuel d'alors apprenait et parlait ARABE!Mais, les Européens racistes, les Catholiques et les Chrétiens ignorants qui préfèrent le MENSONGE ne veulent rien savoir.
À SUIVRE
SECTION TWO
SUITE ET FIN
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 8
Ma "négation des peuples indo-européens", de "l'européanité"?
J'avais déjà démasqué les mensonges des Européens concernant leurs classifications de races, dont une classification moderne contenue dans le texte que j'enseignais dans les années 1971-1974.
1. Caucasoïde (ayant le plus joli crâne, tout comme les Européens!)
2. Négroïde
3. Mongoloïde
4. Sémitique
Il y en avait d'autres: Australoïde, Capoïde, H. americanus, H. africanus, H. europaeus, H. asiaticus, H. monstrosus, etH. ferus (sauvages).
Je n'y ai pas trouvé dans mes livres de RACE BLANCOÏDE sauf chez Manuel Valls l'Israélite!
Donc, sois gentil, mon Fils, et permets-moi de DOUTER DE, NON DE NIER ou DE NÉGATIONISMER (NÉGATIONISER) cette classification de peuple "INDO-EUROPÉENS" car je m'y perds vraiment dans cet océan de mensonges!J'avais lu, il y a longtemps, que le linguiste Max Müller disait que la Mère de toutes les langues était l'ARABE, mais cette citation est introuvable sur Joogle!On ne parle que des trois langues sœurs "indo-aryennes" MORTES, le Sanskrit, le Grec et le Latin, mais de la langue mère, pratiquement rien!Il y en a bien un qui l'a dit, mais je me méfie de lui!Il se prend pour le MESSIE PROMIS!Max (honoré par l'Académie française!) et lui devaient sûrement être aussi débiles que moi! J'avais mis au défi le Juif sioniste, le Professeur Noam (Nahum) Chomsky et le fils de Rabbin Marc-Alain Ouaknine concernant la langue dite hébraïque, mais sans aucun succès.Le livre de Ouaknine sur le sujet est à jeter à la poubelle!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 9
Fiston, mon but n'est pas que tu changes de religion, mais que tu OUVRES LES YEUX!Car, ton "HISTRION" de PAPY peut aussi prouver que le Catholicisme romain et apostolique a très peu à voir avec ce personnage mythique de la légende militariste et impérialiste gréco-romaine dit helléniste!
BAFS - « acteur jouant des farces grossières avec accompagnement de flûte »
1690 « mauvais acteur »
1819 « homme sans consistance, charlatan »
« oracle »...).
« mime; comédien, acteur »;
« comédien, fanfaron, faiseur d'embarras ».
Non, Fiston, je ne suis rien de tout cela!
J'espère que tu es 'toujours' marié, et papa de petits chérubins, et que tu ne leur enseigneras que la VÉRITÉ!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 10
"les héritages latins, germains et slaves..." ET ARABES, mon fils!
"- ou encore par la transfiguration du christianisme - qui la constitue pour l’essentiel de son héritage."
J'ai vu de mes yeux où en est ce christianisme aujourd'hui, rien qu'à Paris: bordels, sex-shops, casinos, pédocriminalité, pédophilie, inceste, racisme sélectif, avortements, usure, mariages homosexuels, promotion et participations dans des guerres génocidaires, de pillage, et de conquêtes à travers le monde, et, en particulier le monde arabo-musulman, et que les dignes Gaulois tentent désespérément d'exporter à l'étranger, notamment Jacqus Chiracus!
Il n'existe plus de NATION en France, mais que des intérêts judéo-capitalistes, franc-maçonniques, et satanistes!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 11
Je ne suis pas dogmatiste, moraliste, ou doctrinaire même si je trouve que sans MORAL, surtout celui du Divin, il ne peut y avoir de société saine et humaine!
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 12
"L’anti-judaïsme je veux bien, mais le complotisme débile non merci."
Je suis déçu que tu sois aussi aveugle, mon Fils!Je ne suis pas ANTI-JUDAÏSTE car ma religion vient aussi des Enfants d'Israël!Qui c'est qui a inventé ces termes"JUDAÏSME" et "CHRISTIANISME" ?Existent-ils dans TA Bible?Mais, par contre, l'ISLAM existe bien dans le Livre Saint des Musulmans (KITAAB) adressé à toute l'humanité.
OBSERVATION NUMÉRO 13 (nombre sataniste!)
"Vincent Reynouard, qui est un charmant personnage, n’est hélas plus catholique depuis son « divorce »." DONC, BON POUR L'ENFER!
Tu vois, Fiston, si tu embrassais la religion de ton Papy, tu bénéficieras d'un peu plus de compassion pour tes semblables!Je ne crois ni à l'Enfer, ni au Paradis célestes, car j'ai connu les deux, ici, sur terre, et ni à un Jugement Dernier, mais je respecte ceux et celles qui y croient tant qu'ils ne font de mal à personne ou à soi-même.
Il est triste de constater que tu ne montres pas d'indulgence envers d'autres religions, d'autres "races", d'autres nations que la tienne!Mais, je t'aime quand même et prie le Bon Dieu (le Diable, s'il le faut!) pour que tu deviennes un membre de l'humanité et non d'une Secte raciste, paulienne, romaine ou européenne! Pour terminer, l'origine du mot EUROPE est ARABE; renseigne-toi!Et, arabe n'est pas une RACE, mais une mixture de types biologiques, pour qui la couleur (noire mauritanienne, noire maure, noire égyptienne...) ne compte pas.L'Islam a aboli le racisme de classe, de couleurs, ainsi que l'esclavage!Que nous rencontrons des "Musulmans" escrocs, voleurs, violeurs, racistes, esclavagistes, assassins c'est autre chose.Le seul pays autorisé à pratiquer l'esclavage fut les dictateurs saoudiens, des fanatiques d'une Secte wahhabite ou salafiste et des misogynes, mis au pouvoir par l'Occident en ARABIE CONQUISE ET OCCUPÉE, ainsi que le Brésil (pour dettes!) autant que je me rappelle.Et, KHAZAREL (Israël de l'Apartheid), autorisée elle à pratiquer le RACISME et le NETTOYAGE ETHNIQUE, et à créer un ÉTAT JUIF, donc THÉOCRATIQUE, sur des terres arabes et musulmanes volées, la PALESTINE!Et, ceci grâce aux Européens, USA, Canada, Australie, et leurs vassaux, sans oublier la GAULE-FRANCE!
MON FILS, cela est un vrai plaisir de communiquer avec toi.J'ai passé tout mon après-midi à te parler, et j'entends Jésus (ou le Diable!) qui me dit:
"Basheer, donne lui une fessée pour de bon!Qu'attends-tu?"
Et, moi, de répondre:
Fiston, je ne suis pas comme toi, Fils de Dieu, car tu n'es "pas venu apporter la paix (l'ISLAM) sur la terre; tu n'es pas venu apporter la paix, mais l'épée (LA CROIX)", à croire ces aveugles de Gaulois-Romains et les autres du même genre![Pseudonyme Matthieu 10:34]
Amen
Je t'aime, quand même!
BAFS
Ce lundi 9 mars 2020
Addendum
1. Lorsque le Monde parlait Arabe (Complet) | Documentaire FR
(Les Musulmans d'alors ne savaient pas encore que les Égyptiens, les Mésopatamiens, et les Perses, furent les vrais dépositaires connus de la Connaissance du Monde, et que les Arabes (Phéniciens, Égyptiens, etc.) donnèrent leur ALPHABET à la Grèce.Il semble que les Hibirus (bandits arabes!) ont hérité leur dialecte ou langue dite hébraïque de l'Égyptien abjadique ou abgadique! ABJ ou ABG.) Mais, le plus parlée et plus perfectionnée des langues dites sémitiques par les occidentaux est sans conteste l'ARABE classique ABT (300 millions).Le Grec est d'origine sémitique ABG, mais le Latin se développe en ABC!Et, les jeunes Grecs que j'ai rencontré n'ont pas eu honte de dire qu'ils ont obtenu leur alphabet des "ARABES"!
2. Jean Pruvost évoque son livre «Nos ancêtres les Arabes»
3. Lire obligatoirement "Le Soleil d'Allah brille sur l'Occident : Notre héritage arabe" de Sigrid Hunke 1997)
1.When Joseph walks into Egypt and became Prime Minister of the Pharaoh WHICH LANGUAGE DID HE SPEAK WITH THE EGYPTIANS???
2.When Abraham walked into Egypt and sold his SO BEAUTIFUL wife to Pharaoh as a prostitute (Pharaoh was waiting at the borders!), which language did they speak to the Pharaoh???
3. When Esther walks into Persia, the King married her (he did not know she was Jewish???) and kicked out all his Filthy Persian wives, what language did Esther speak with the Persians???
4. When Saul or Paul lived in Arabia, which language did he speak with the Arabs???
5. When Paul went to Syria, what language did he speak with the Syrians???
6.In what language did Paul and the Apostles of Jesus speak with the non Jews Romans and other Gentiles???
7. What language did Moses speak with the Hebrews of Goshem in Egypt???
8. When Moses married an Arab, what language did he speak to her and her family???
9. When Joseph and Mary fled to Egypt, which language did they speak with the Egyptians???
10.When the Arabian Volcano God of Mount Sinai talked to Moses, what language did He use???
11.What language did Adam and Eve speak in the Garden of Eden???
12.When and where did Jesus learn to read Hebrew???
13.What language did Palestinians speak under Roman occupation and before???
PURIM, OK TO CELEBRATE JEWISH GENOCIDE - 2015, ZIONIST BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON MUSLIMS.Wednesday, 25 March 2015
My Hindu Brother Suresh Nuckcheddy and his wife in 1991. Grand-Bassin, Mauritius.
EXCELLENT NEWS FROM ZIONIST HINDUTVA!
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From Bollywood to Hindutva Modiwood!
Films like Mission Kashmir, Haider and Dil Se have questioned India's political system.
But this legacy has changed in Zionist Modi's India!
I never stopped accusing India, now HINDUTVA, of wiping out its Persian, Mughal, and Muslim Past - just like Spain did or Khazarel is doing in Palestine!
Now, it is official!
HINDUISED Muslims deserve a chastisement for their betrayal of Islam, for their hypocrisy and cowardice!!!
INDIA, KHAZAREL (APARTHEID ISRAEL!) AND THE USA HAVE BEEN CARRYING OUT JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS FOR QUITE SOME TIME IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE MUSLIM WORLD WAS INDIFFERENT!
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in India. The relations between the two nations and its leaders are at an all-time high. But this visit comes after India cancelled a $500 million deal with Israel and voted in the UN against Trump's decision to make Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Will it still be business as usual?
Cet épisode 63 de l'Actu au Scalpel revient sur l'affaire du coronavirus. Il sera question ici aussi bien de l'épidémie que du traitement médiatique assez lamentable de cette affaire. On reviendra également sur certains points de l'histoire qui vont nous aider à mieux comprendre ce qui se passe.
Bill Gates Talks about Coronavirus-Like Epidemic in 2019 Netflix Documentary
Updated on Jan 31, 2020 at 8:11 am UTC by Teuta Franjkovic· 4 min read Photo: Netflix
In November Netflix released a documentary about the coronavirus-like epidemic and Bill Gates spoke there like a real Nostradamus. He said we should invest more in the development of vaccines against such diseases.
When last year in November, a documentary series episode from Netflix called “The Next Pandemic” came out – nobody actually didn’t give it too much importance. However, only a month after – boy, how it started to be popular. The episode describes the ways how viruses are spreading and evolving into epidemic situations. The story starts with traveling across India, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States and explains historical cases of pandemics like it was the Spanish flu of 1918 or Ebola and the bird flu.
Chinese Wet Markets are Batch of Disease
The point is that the documentary says that in wet markets in China, people are trading with various live animals who are then being slaughtered on sight by vendors who then sell meat to consumers. And, just to explain a bit. The author of this article has been traveling through Asia a lot. And I love food. And I’ve seen wet markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Taiwan – and they are all pretty normal and decent. Maybe a little bit dirtier because of the climate there, but nothing special. But I couldn’t go to mainland China wet markets. Wushu, Shenzhen and even Shanghai seem to be another culture.
In Humid Conditions the Virus Evolves
From eating pigeons and dogs and rats and lizards and bats – to not giving a damn about any hygiene, not to talk about any humanity when killing those animals at the spot. So yes. When Netflix describes the wet markets as a disease X factory – they couldn’t be more right. When you have such conditions (humidity, dirt, no water, no soap, blood, sun) it’s easy for any virus to mutate and spares to humans. The documentary says:
“This is a wet market in the Lianghua, China. Unlike markets in much of the West, where animals are already dead when they arrive, this wet market sells meat that’s very fresh. It’s killed on sight. That’s what makes it a disease X factory. Many different animal species are stacked on top of each other, their blood and meat mixed, before being passed from human to human. All the while, their viruses are mixing and mutating, increasing the odds that one finds its way to humans.”
The wet market from Netflix’s story is in fact totally similar to the seafood market in Wuhan where coronavirus evolved.
Snakes and Bats – the Main Culprits
Scientists believe that the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) comes from snakes and bats. Both animals were sold live in the Wuhan seafood market, which made humans vulnerable to the respiratory disease. Bats were “guilty” as well in the SARS outbreak in 2003. After several people were infected, it then transferred from humans to humans, causing a pandemic. On Thursday the newest information was that at least 170 people are dead and more than 7,000 cases have been confirmed in mainland China, as the Wuhan coronavirus spreads across Asia and the rest of the world. The coronavirus is spreading rapidly and scientists across the globe are rushing to find a vaccine for it. The latest news says that Russia will join China’s efforts to develop a vaccine for the deadly novel coronavirus in an effort to stop spreading the disease. A group of virologists in Australia also managed to replicate the coronavirus outside of China to help with diagnosis and help with efficient testing.
Bill Gates as Nostradamus
But, one player in Netflix’s documentary is a well-known billionaire Bill Gates who now sounds like a real live Nostradamus. He said that when a pandemic that the world has not seen before emerges, no matter the size, people regret not investing more for vaccines. Gates said:
“If a disease comes along that we haven’t seen before, typically it would take four or five years to come up with a vaccine against that disease. And new technologies might shorten those times.”
When a pandemic comes along of any size, we always look back and wish we invested more. The coronavirus, with its roots in Wuhan’s seafood market, eerily replicates previous virus outbreaks like the SARS virus that was also caused by live animal markets. The number of people that have been confirmed as infected by coronavirus has risen to well over 8,000, surpassing the SARS outbreak from 2002-2003 in that respect, but still with less reported deaths. The question remains on should scientists and institutions thought before on investing more in order to prepare for potential outbreaks modeled after SARS, and would that lessened the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Business, News, Personal Finance
Author: Teuta FranjkovicExperienced creative professional focusing on financial and political analysis, editing daily newspapers and news sites, economical and political journalism, consulting, PR and Marketing. Teuta’s passion is to create new opportunities and bring people together.
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The Most DISGUSTING Marketing in the World - Wuhan Market (Corona Virus)
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Connor Reed, a British man who works at a school in Wuhan, explains how it felt to have the Covid-19 coronavirus, discusses what life is like after 40 days in lockdown and how he thinks people in the UK would cope in similar circumstances.
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Doctors Kill 1,000,000 People Each Year In the U.S. Alone – Shocking Health Statistics
TLB Editors Note: The article you are about to read was originally published in 2015, but has not received the attention it surely needs. One of our pastimes here is to go through older publications, studies and articles to find the gems like this that truly need more daylight … thus we present this in the hopes it will awaken many to the dangers of modern medicine, dangers you would never be aware of if it were not for these great doctors, researchers and authors, as well as TLB’s propensity to go looking for forgotten gems of knowledge. The vital question to be answered is … if it was known to be this bad five years ago, what the heck is it like now … ??? Please read on!
Death by Medicine
By: Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD
Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard.
Until now, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about the dangers of conventional medicine. No one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed.
A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking.4 These researchers have authored a paper titled “Death by Medicine” that presents compelling evidence that today’s system frequently causes more harm than good.
This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.
The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)
We had intended to publish the entire text of “Death By Medicine” in this month’s issue. The article uncovered so many problems with conventional medicine however, that it became too long to fit within these pages. We have instead put it on our website (www.lef.org).
We placed this article on our website to memorialize the failure of the American medical system. By exposing these gruesome statistics in painstaking detail, we provide a basis for competent and compassionate medical professionals to recognize the inadequacies of today’s system and at least attempt to institute meaningful reforms.
Natural medicine is under siege, as pharmaceutical company lobbyists urge lawmakers to deprive Americans of the benefits of dietary supplements. Drug-company front groups have launched slanderous media campaigns to discredit the value of healthy lifestyles. The FDA continues to interfere with those who offer natural products that compete with prescription drugs.
These attacks against natural medicine obscure a lethal problem that until now was buried in thousands of pages of scientific text. In response to these baseless challenges to natural medicine, the Nutrition Institute of America commissioned an independent review of the quality of “government-approved” medicine. The startling findings from this meticulous study indicate that conventional medicine is “the leading cause of death” in the United States .
The Nutrition Institute of America is a nonprofit organization that has sponsored independent research for the past 30 years. To support its bold claim that conventional medicine is America ‘s number-one killer, the Nutritional Institute of America mandated that every “count” in this “indictment” of US medicine be validated by published, peer-reviewed scientific studies.
What you are about to read is a stunning compilation of facts that documents that those who seek to abolish consumer access to natural therapies are misleading the public. Over 700,000 Americans die each year at the hands of government-sanctioned medicine, while the FDA and other government agencies pretend to protect the public by harassing those who offer safe alternatives.
A definitive review of medical peer-reviewed journals and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good.
Each year approximately 2.2 million US hospital patients experience adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medications.(1) In 1995, Dr. Richard Besser of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections to be 20 million; in 2003, Dr. Besser spoke in terms of tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually.(2, 2a) Approximately 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually in the US,(3) while approximately 8.9 million Americans are hospitalized unnecessarily.(4)
Iatrogenic: “Induced by a physician’s words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment)”
As shown in the following table, the estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths—that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures— in the US annually is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is itself the leading cause of death and injury in the US . By comparison, approximately 699,697 Americans died of heart in 2001, while 553,251 died of cancer.(5)
Table 1: Estimated Annual Mortality and Economic Cost of Medical Intervention
Condition
Deaths
Cost
Author
Adverse Drug Reactions
106,000
$12 billion
Lazarou (1), Suh (49)
Medical Error
98,000
$2 billion
IOM(6)
Bedsores
115,000
$55 billion
Zakellis(7), Barczak(8)
Infection
88,000
$5 billion
Weinstein(9), MMWR(10)
Malnutrition
108,800
–
Nurses Coalition(11)
Outpatients
199,000
$77 billion
Starfield(12), Weingart(112)
Unnecessary Procedures
37,136
$122 billion
HCUP(3,13)
Surgery-Related
32,000
$9 billion
AHRQ(85)
Total
783,936
$282 billion
Using Leape’s 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million(14) multiplied by the 14% fatality rate he used in 1994(16) produces an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined. Using this number instead of Lazorou’s 106,000 drug errors and the Institute of Medicine ‘s (IOM) estimated 98,000 annual medical errors would add another 216,000 deaths, for a total of 999,936 deaths annually.
Table 2: Estimated Annual Mortality and Economic Cost of Medical Intervention
Condition
Deaths
Cost
Author
ADR/Medical error
420,000
$200 billion
Leap(14)
Bedsores
115,000
$55 billion
Zakesslis(7), Barczak(8)
Infection
88,000
$5 billion
Weinstein(9), MMWR(1o)
Malnutrition
108,800
—
Nurses Coalition(11)
Outpatients
199,000
$77 billion
Starfield(12), Weingart(112)
Unnecessary Procedures
37,136
$122 billion
HCUP(3,13)
Surgery-Related
32,000
$9 billion
AHRQ(85)
Total
999,936
$468 billion
(Webmaster’s Note: I rounded off the above figure of 999,936 to 1,000,000 for the title of this article).
The enumerating of unnecessary medical events is very important in our analysis. Any invasive, unnecessary medical procedure must be considered as part of the larger iatrogenic picture. Unfortunately, cause and effect go unmonitored. The figures on unnecessary events represent people who are thrust into a dangerous health care system. Each of these 16.4 million lives is being affected in ways that could have fatal consequences. Simply entering a hospital could result in the following:
In 16.4 million people, a 2.1% chance (affecting 186,000) of a serious adverse drug reaction(1)
In 16.4 million people, a 5-6% chance (affecting 489,500) of acquiring a nosocomial* infection(9)
In 16.4 million people, a 4-36% chance (affecting 1.78 million) of having an iatrogenic injury (medical error and adverse drug reactions).(16)
In 16.4 million people, a 17% chance (affecting 1.3 million) of a procedure error.(40)
Noscocomial: Taking place or originating in a hospital.
These statistics represent a one-year time span. Working with the most conservative figures from our statistics, we project the following 10-year death rates.
Table 3: Estimated 10-Year Death Rates from Medical Intervention
Condition
10-Year Deaths
Author
Adverse Drug Reaction
1.06 million
(1)
Medical error
0.98 million
(6)
Bedsores
1.15 million
(7,8)
Nosocomial Infection
0.88 million
(9,10)
Malnutrition
1.09 million
(11)
Outpatients
1.99 million
(12,112)
Unnecessary Procedures
371,360
(3,13)
Surgery-related
320,000
(85)
Total
7,841,360
Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history.
Our projected figures for unnecessary medical events occurring over a 10-year period also are dramatic.
Table 4: Estimated 10-Year Unnecessary Medical Events
Unnecessary Events
10-year Number
Iatrogenic Events
Hospitalization
89 million (4)
17 million
Procedures
75 million (3)
15 million
Total
163 million
These figures show that an estimated 164 million people—more than half of the total US population—receive unneeded medical treatment over the course of a decade.
INTRODUCTION
Never before have the complete statistics on the multiple causes of iatrogenesis been combined in one article. Medical science amasses tens of thousands of papers annually, each representing a tiny fragment of the whole picture. To look at only one piece and try to understand the benefits and risks is like standing an inch away from an elephant and trying to describe everything about it. You have to step back to see the big picture, as we have done here. Each specialty, each division of medicine keeps its own records and data on morbidity and mortality. We have now completed the painstaking work of reviewing thousands of studies and putting pieces of the puzzle together.
IS AMERICAN MEDICINE WORKING?
US health care spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2003, representing 14% of the nation’s gross national product.(15) Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be preventing and reversing disease, and doing minimal harm. Careful and objective review, however, shows we are doing the opposite. Because of the extraordinarily narrow, technologically driven context in which contemporary medicine examines the human condition, we are completely missing the larger picture.
Medicine is not taking into consideration the following critically important aspects of a healthy human organism: (a) stress and how it adversely affects the immune system and life processes; (b) insufficient exercise; (c) excessive caloric intake; (d) highly processed and denatured foods grown in denatured and chemically damaged soil; and (e) exposure to tens of thousands of environmental toxins. Instead of minimizing these disease-causing factors, we cause more illness through medical technology, diagnostic testing, overuse of medical and surgical procedures, and overuse of pharmaceutical drugs. The huge disservice of this therapeutic strategy is the result of little effort or money being spent on preventing disease.
UNDERREPORTING OF IATROGENIC EVENTS
As few as 5% and no more than 20% of iatrogenic acts are ever reported.(16,24,25,33,34)
This implies that if medical errors were completely and accurately reported, we would have an annual iatrogenic death toll much higher than 783,936. In 1994, Leape said his figure of 180,000 medical mistakes resulting in death annually was equivalent to three jumbo-jet crashes every two days.(16) Our considerably higher figure is equivalent to six jumbo jets are falling out of the sky each day.
What we must deduce from this report is that medicine is in need of complete and total reform—from the curriculum in medical schools to protecting patients from excessive medical intervention. It is obvious that we cannot change anything if we are not honest about what needs to be changed. This report simply shows the degree to which change is required.
We are fully aware of what stands in the way of change: powerful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, along with other powerful groups with enormous vested interests in the business of medicine. They fund medical research, support medical schools and hospitals, and advertise in medical journals. With deep pockets, they entice scientists and academics to support their efforts. Such funding can sway the balance of opinion from professional caution to uncritical acceptance of new therapies and drugs. You have only to look at the people who make up the hospital, medical, and government health advisory boards to see conflicts of interest. The public is mostly unaware of these interlocking interests.
For example, a 2003 study found that nearly half of medical school faculty who serve on institutional review boards (IRB) to advise on clinical trial research also serve as consultants to the pharmaceutical industry.(17) The study authors were concerned that such representation could cause potential conflicts of interest. A news release by Dr. Erik Campbell, the lead author, said, “Our previous research with faculty has shown us that ties to industry can affect scientific behavior, leading to such things as trade secrecy and delays in publishing research. It’s possible that similar relationships with companies could affect IRB members’ activities and attitudes.”(18)
MEDICAL ETHICS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE
Jonathan Quick, director of essential drugs and medicines policy for the World Health Organization (WHO), wrote in a recent WHO bulletin: “If clinical trials become a commercial venture in which self-interest overrules public interest and desire overrules science, then the social contract which allows research on human subjects in return for medical advances is broken.”(19)
As former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell struggled to bring greater attention to the problem of commercializing scientific research. In her outgoing editorial entitled “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?”
Angell said that growing conflicts of interest are tainting science and called for stronger restrictions on pharmaceutical stock ownership and other financial incentives for researchers:(20) “When the boundaries between industry and academic medicine become as blurred as they are now, the business goals of industry influence the mission of medical schools in multiple ways.” She did not discount the benefits of research but said a Faustian bargain now existed between medical schools and the pharmaceutical industry.
Angell left the New England Journal in June 2000. In June 2002, the New England Journal of Medicine announced that it would accept journalists who accept money from drug companies because it was too difficult to find ones who have no ties. Another former editor of the journal, Dr. Jerome Kassirer, said that was not the case and that plenty of researchers are available who do not work for drug companies.(21) According to an ABC news report, pharmaceutical companies spend over $2 billion a year on over 314,000 events attended by doctors.
The ABC news report also noted that a survey of clinical trials revealed that when a drug company funds a study, there is a 90% chance that the drug will be perceived as effective whereas a non-drug-company-funded study will show favorable results only 50% of the time. It appears that money can’t buy you love but it can buy any “scientific” result desired.
Cynthia Crossen, a staffer for the Wall Street Journal, in 1996 published Tainted Truth : The Manipulation of Fact in America , a book about the widespread practice of lying with statistics.(22) Commenting on the state of scientific research, she wrote: “The road to hell was paved with the flood of corporate research dollars that eagerly filled gaps left by slashed government research funding.” Her data on financial involvement showed that in l981 the drug industry “gave” $292 million to colleges and universities for research. By l991, this figure had risen to $2.1 billion.
THE FIRST IATROGENIC STUDY
Dr. Lucian L. Leape opened medicine’s Pandora’s box in his 1994 paper, “Error in Medicine,” which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).(16) He found that Schimmel reported in 1964 that 20% of hospital patients suffered iatrogenic injury, with a 20% fatality rate. In 1981 Steel reported that 36% of hospitalized patients experienced iatrogenesis with a 25% fatality rate, and adverse drug reactions were involved in 50% of the injuries. In 1991, Bedell reported that 64% of acute heart attacks in one hospital were preventable and were mostly due to adverse drug reactions.
Leape focused on the “Harvard Medical Practice Study” published in 1991, (16a) which found a 4% iatrogenic injury rate for patients, with a 14% fatality rate, in 1984 in New York State. From the 98,609 patients injured and the 14% fatality rate, he estimated that in the entire U.S. 180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury.
Why Leape chose to use the much lower figure of 4% injury for his analysis remains in question. Using instead the average of the rates found in the three studies he cites (36%, 20%, and 4%) would have produced a 20% medical error rate. The number of iatrogenic deaths using an average rate of injury and his 14% fatality rate would be 1,189,576.
Leape acknowledged that the literature on medical errors is sparse and represents only the tip of the iceberg, noting that when errors are specifically sought out, reported rates are “distressingly high.” He cited several autopsy studies with rates as high as 35-40% of missed diagnoses causing death. He also noted that an intensive care unit reported an average of 1.7 errors per day per patient, and 29% of those errors were potentially serious or fatal.
Leape calculated the error rate in the intensive care unit study. First, he found that each patient had an average of 178 “activities” (staff/procedure/medical interactions) a day, of which 1.7 were errors, which means a 1% failure rate. This may not seem like much, but Leape cited industry standards showing that in aviation, a 0.1% failure rate would mean two unsafe plane landings per day at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport; in the US Postal Service, a 0.1% failure rate would mean 16,000 pieces of lost mail every hour; and in the banking industry, a 0.1% failure rate would mean 32,000 bank checks deducted from the wrong bank account.
In trying to determine why there are so many medical errors, Leape acknowledged the lack of reporting of medical errors. Medical errors occur in thousands of different locations and are perceived as isolated and unusual events. But the most important reason that the problem of medical errors is unrecognized and growing, according to Leape, is that doctors and nurses are unequipped to deal with human error because of the culture of medical training and practice.
Doctors are taught that mistakes are unacceptable. Medical mistakes are therefore viewed as a failure of character and any error equals negligence. No one is taught what to do when medical errors do occur. Leape cites McIntyre and Popper, who said the “infallibility model” of medicine leads to intellectual dishonesty with a need to cover up mistakes rather than admit them. There are no Grand Rounds on medical errors, no sharing of failures among doctors, and no one to support them emotionally when their error harms a patient.
Leape hoped his paper would encourage medical practitioners “to fundamentally change the way they think about errors and why they occur.” It has been almost a decade since this groundbreaking work, but the mistakes continue to soar.
In 1995, a JAMA report noted, “Over a million patients are injured in US hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined.”(23)
At a 1997 press conference, Leape released a nationwide poll on patient iatrogenesis conducted by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which is sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA). Leape is a founding member of NPSF. The survey found that more than 100 million Americans have been affected directly or indirectly by a medical mistake. Forty-two percent were affected directly and 84% personally knew of someone who had experienced a medical mistake.(14)
At this press conference, Leape updated his 1994 statistics, noting that as of 1997, medical errors in inpatient hospital settings nationwide could be as high as 3 million and could cost as much as $200 billion . Leape used a 14% fatality rate to determine a medical error death rate of 180,000 in 1994.(16) In 1997, using Leape’s base number of 3 million errors, the annual death rate could be as high as 420,000 for hospital inpatients alone.
ONLY A FRACTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS ARE REPORTED
In 1994, Leape said he was well aware that medical errors were not being reported.(16) A study conducted in two obstetrical units in the UK found that only about one-quarter of adverse incidents were ever reported, to protect staff, preserve reputations, or for fear of reprisals, including lawsuits.(24). An analysis by Wald and Shojania found that only 1.5% of all adverse events result in an incident report, and only 6% of adverse drug events are identified properly.
The authors learned that the American College of Surgeons estimates that surgical incident reports routinely capture only 5-30% of adverse events. In one study, only 20% of surgical complications resulted in discussion at morbidity and mortality rounds.(25) From these studies, it appears that all the statistics gathered on medical errors may substantially underestimate the number of adverse drug and medical therapy incidents. They also suggest that our statistics concerning mortality resulting from medical errors may be in fact be conservative figures.
An article in Psychiatric Times (April 2000) outlines the stakes involved in reporting medical errors.(26) The authors found that the public is fearful of suffering a fatal medical error, and doctors are afraid they will be sued if they report an error. This brings up the obvious question: who is reporting medical errors? Usually it is the patient or the patient’s surviving family. If no one notices the error, it is never reported.
Janet Heinrich, an associate director at the U.S. General Accounting Office responsible for health financing and public health issues, testified before a House subcommittee hearing on medical errors that “the full magnitude of their threat to the American public is unknown” and “gathering valid and useful information about adverse events is extremely difficult.” She acknowledged that the fear of being blamed, and the potential for legal liability, played key roles in the underreporting of errors. The Psychiatric Times noted that the AMA strongly opposes mandatory reporting of medical errors.(26) If doctors are not reporting, what about nurses? A survey of nurses found that they also fail to report medical mistakes for fear of retaliation.(27)
Standard medical pharmacology texts admit that relatively few doctors ever report adverse drug reactions to the FDA.(28) The reasons range from not knowing such a reporting system exists to fear of being sued.(29) Yet the public depends on this tremendously flawed system of voluntary reporting by doctors to know whether a drug or a medical intervention is harmful.
Pharmacology texts also will tell doctors how hard it is to separate drug side effects from disease symptoms. Treatment failure is most often attributed to the disease and not the drug or doctor. Doctors are warned, “Probably nowhere else in professional life are mistakes so easily hidden, even from ourselves.”(30) It may be hard to accept, but it is not difficult to understand why only 1 in 20 side effects is reported to either hospital administrators or the FDA.(31, 31a)
If hospitals admitted to the actual number of errors for which they are responsible, which is about 20 times what is reported, they would come under intense scrutiny.(32) Jerry Phillips, associate director of the FDA’s Office of Post Marketing Drug Risk Assessment, confirms this number. “In the broader area of adverse drug reaction data, the 250,000 reports received annually probably represent only 5% of the actual reactions that occur.”(33) Dr. Jay Cohen, who has extensively researched adverse drug reactions, notes that because only 5% of adverse drug reactions are reported, there are in fact 5 million medication reactions each year.(34)
A 2003 survey is all the more distressing because there seems to be no improvement in error reporting, even with all the attention given to this topic. Dr. Dorothea Wild surveyed medical residents at a community hospital in Connecticut and found that only half were aware that the hospital had a medical error-reporting system, and that the vast majority did not use it at all. Dr. Wild says this does not bode well for the future. If doctors don’t learn error reporting in their training, they will never use it. Wild adds that error reporting is the first step in locating the gaps in the medical system and fixing them. Not even that first step has been taken to date.(35)
PUBLIC SUGGESTIONS ON IATROGENESIS
In a telephone survey, 1,207 adults ranked the effectiveness of the following measures in reducing preventable medical errors that result in serious harm.(36) (Following each measure is the percentage of respondents who ranked the measure as “very effective.”)
Giving doctors more time to spend with patients (78%)
Requiring hospitals to develop systems to avoid medical errors (74%)
better training of health professionals (73%)
Using only doctors specially trained in intensive care medicine on intensive care units (73%)
Requiring hospitals to report all serious medical errors to a state agency (71%)
Increasing the number of hospital nurses (69%)
Reducing the work hours of doctors in training to avoid fatigue (66%)
encouraging hospitals to voluntarily report serious medical errors to a state agency (62%).
DRUG IATROGENESIS
Prescription drugs constitute the major treatment modality of scientific medicine. With the discovery of the “germ theory,” medical scientists convinced the public that infectious organisms were the cause of illness. Finding the “cure” for these infections proved much harder than anyone imagined. From the beginning, chemical drugs promised much more than they delivered. But far beyond not working, the drugs also caused incalculable side effects. The drugs themselves, even when properly prescribed, have side effects that can be fatal, as Lazarou’s study(1) showed. But human error can make the situation even worse.
MEDICATION ERRORS
A survey of a 1992 national pharmacy database found a total of 429,827 medication errors from 1,081 hospitals. Medication errors occurred in 5.22% of patients admitted to these hospitals each year. The authors concluded that at least 90,895 patients annually were harmed by medication errors in the US as a whole.(37)
A 2002 study shows that 20% of hospital medications for patients had dosage errors. Nearly 40% of these errors were considered potentially harmful to the patient. In a typical 300-patient hospital, the number of errors per day was 40.(38)
Problems involving patients’ medications were even higher the following year. The error rate intercepted by pharmacists in this study was 24%, making the potential minimum number of patients harmed by prescription drugs 417,908.(39)
RECENT ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
More-recent studies on adverse drug reactions show that the figures from 1994 published in Lazarou’s 1998 JAMA article may be increasing. A 2003 study followed 400 patients after discharge from a tertiary care hospital setting (requiring highly specialized skills, technology, or support services). Seventy-six patients (19%) had adverse events. Adverse drug events were the most common, at 66% of all events. The next most common event was procedure-related injuries, at 17%.(40)
In a New England Journal of Medicine study, an alarming one in four patients suffered observable side effects from the more than 3.34 billion prescription drugs filled in 2002.(41) One of the doctors who produced the study was interviewed by Reuters and commented, “With these 10-minute appointments, it’s hard for the doctor to get into whether the symptoms are bothering the patients.”(42) William Tierney, who editorialized on the New England Journal study, said “… given the increasing number of powerful drugs available to care for the aging population, the problem will only get worse.”
The drugs with the worst record of side effects were selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and calcium-channel blockers. Reuters also reported that prior research has suggested that nearly 5% of hospital admissions (over 1 million per year) are the result of drug side effects. But most of the cases are not documented as such. The study found that one of the reasons for this failure is that in nearly two-thirds of the cases, doctors could not diagnose drug side effects or the side effects persisted because the doctor failed to heed the warning signs.
MEDICATING OUR FEELINGS
Patients seeking a more joyful existence and relief from worry, stress, and anxiety often fall victim to the messages endlessly displayed on TV and billboards. Often, instead of gaining relief, they fall victim to the myriad iatrogenic side effects of antidepressant medication.
Moreover, a whole generation of antidepressant users has been created from young people growing up on Ritalin. Medicating youth and modifying their emotions must have some impact on how they learn to deal with their feelings. They learn to equate coping with drugs rather than with their inner resources. As adults, these medicated youth reach for alcohol, drugs, or even street drugs to cope. According to JAMA , “Ritalin acts much like cocaine.”(43) Today’s marketing of mood-modifying drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft ® makes them not only socially acceptable but almost a necessity in today’s stressful world.
TELEVISION DIAGNOSIS
To reach the widest audience possible, drug companies are no longer just targeting medical doctors with their marketing of antidepressants. By 1995, drug companies had tripled the amount of money allotted to direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers. The majority of this money is spent on seductive television ads. From 1996 to 2000, spending rose from $791 million to nearly $2.5 billion.(44) This $2.5 billion represents only 15% of the total pharmaceutical advertising budget.
While the drug companies maintain that direct-to-consumer advertising is educational, Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe of the Public Citizen Health Research Group in Washington, DC, argues that the public often is misinformed about these ads.(45) People want what they see on television and are told to go to their doctors for a prescription. Doctors in private practice either acquiesce to their patients’ demands for these drugs or spend valuable time trying to talk patients out of unnecessary drugs.
Dr. Wolfe remarks that one important study found that people mistakenly believe that the “FDA reviews all ads before they are released and allows only the safest and most effective drugs to be promoted directly to the public.”(46)
HOW DO WE KNOW DRUGS ARE SAFE?
Another aspect of scientific medicine that the public takes for granted is the testing of new drugs. Drugs generally are tested on individuals who are fairly healthy and not on other medications that could interfere with findings. But when these new drugs are declared “safe” and enter the drug prescription books, they are naturally going to be used by people who are on a variety of other medications and have a lot of other health problems. Then a new phase of drug testing called “post-approval” comes into play, which is the documentation of side effects once drugs hit the market.
In one very telling report, the federal government’s General Accounting Office “found that of the 198 drugs approved by the FDA between 1976 and 1985… 102 (or 51.5%) had serious post-approval risks… the serious post-approval risks (included) heart failure, myocardial infarction, anaphylaxis, respiratory depression and arrest, seizures, kidney and liver failure, severe blood disorders, birth defects and fetal toxicity, and blindness.”(47)
NBC Television’s investigative show “Dateline” wondered if your doctor is moonlighting as a drug company representative. After a yearlong investigation, NBC reported that because doctors can legally prescribe any drug to any patient for any condition, drug companies heavily promote “off label” and frequently inappropriate and untested uses of these medications, even though these drugs are approved only for the specific indications for which they have been tested.(48)
The leading causes of adverse drug reactions are antibiotics (17%), cardiovascular drugs (17%), chemotherapy (15%), and analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents (15%).(49)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: ANTIBIOTICS
According to William Agger, MD, director of microbiology and chief of infectious disease at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI, 30 million pounds of antibiotics are used in America each year.(50) Of this amount, 25 million pounds are used in animal husbandry, and 23 million pounds are used to try to prevent disease and the stress of shipping, as well as to promote growth. Only 2 million pounds are given for specific animal infections. Dr. Agger reminds us that low concentrations of antibiotics are measurable in many of our foods and in various waterways around the world, much of it seeping in from animal farms.
Agger contends that overuse of antibiotics results in food-borne infections resistant to antibiotics. Salmonella is found in 20% of ground meat, but the constant exposure of cattle to antibiotics has made 84% of salmonella resistant to at least one anti-salmonella antibiotic. Diseased animal food accounts for 80% of salmonellosis in humans, or 1.4 million cases per year. The conventional approach to countering this epidemic is to radiate food to try to kill all organisms while continuing to use the antibiotics that created the problem in the first place. Approximately 20% of chickens are contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni, an organism that causes 2.4 million cases of illness annually. Fifty-four percent of these organisms are resistant to at least one anti-campylobacter antimicrobial agent.
Denmark banned growth-promoting antibiotics beginning in 1999, which cut their use by more than half within a year, from 453,200 to 195,800 pounds. A report from Scandinavia found that removing antibiotic growth promoters had no or minimal effect on food production costs. Agger warns that the current crowded, unsanitary methods of animal farming in the US support constant stress and infection, and are geared toward high antibiotic use.
In the US, over 3 million pounds of antibiotics are used every year on humans. With a population of 284 million Americans, this amount is enough to give every man, woman, and child 10 teaspoons of pure antibiotics per year. Agger says that exposure to a steady stream of antibiotics has altered pathogens such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staplococcus aureus, and entercocci, to name a few.
Almost half of patients with upper respiratory tract infections in the U.S. still receive antibiotics from their doctor.(51) According to the CDC, 90% of upper respiratory infections are viral and should not be treated with antibiotics. In Germany, the prevalence of systemic antibiotic use in children aged 0-6 years was 42.9%.(52)
Data obtained from nine US health insurers on antibiotic use in 25,000 children from 1996 to 2000 found that rates of antibiotic use decreased. Antibiotic use in children aged three months to under 3 years decreased 24%, from 2.46 to 1.89 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year. For children aged 3 to under 6 years, there was a 25% reduction from 1.47 to 1.09 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year. And for children aged 6 to under 18 years, there was a 16% reduction from 0.85 to 0.69 antibiotic prescriptions per patient per year.(53) Despite these reductions, the data indicate that on average every child in America receives 1.22 antibiotic prescriptions annually.
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci is the only common cause of sore throat that requires antibiotics, with penicillin and erythromycin the only recommended treatment. Ninety percent of sore-throat cases, however, are viral. Antibiotics were used in 73% of the estimated 6.7 million adult annual visits for sore throat in the US between 1989 and 1999. Furthermore, patients treated with antibiotics were prescribed non-recommended broad-spectrum antibiotics in 68% of visits. This period saw a significant increase in the use of newer, more expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics and a decrease in use of the recommended antibiotics penicillin and erythromycin.(54) A ntibiotics being prescribed in 73% of sore-throat cases instead of the recommended 10% resulted in a total of 4.2 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions from 1989 to 1999.
THE PROBLEM WITH ANTIBIOTICS
In September 2003, the CDC re-launched a program started in 1995 called “Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work.”(55) This $1.6 million campaign is designed to educate patients about the overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics. Most people involved with alternative medicine have known about the dangers of antibiotic overuse for decades. Finally the government is focusing on the problem, yet it is spending only a miniscule amount of money on an iatrogenic epidemic that is costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
The CDC warns that 90% of upper respiratory infections, including children’s ear infections, are viral and that antibiotics do not treat viral infection. More than 40% of about 50 million prescriptions for antibiotics written each year in physicians’ offices are inappropriate.(2) Using antibiotics when not needed can lead to the development of deadly strains of bacteria that are resistant to drugs and cause more than 88,000 deaths due to hospital-acquired infections.(9) The CDC, however, seems to be blaming patients for misusing antibiotics even though they are available only by prescription from physicians.
According to Dr. Richard Besser, head of “Get Smart”: “Programs that have just targeted physicians have not worked. Direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs is to blame in some cases.” Besser says the program “teaches patients and the general public that antibiotics are precious resources that must be used correctly if we want to have them around when we need them. Hopefully, as a result of this campaign, patients will feel more comfortable asking their doctors for the best care for their illnesses, rather than asking for antibiotics.”(56)
What constitutes the “best care”? The CDC does not elaborate and ignores the latest research on the dozens of nutraceuticals that have been scientifically proven to treat viral infections and boost immune-system function. Will doctors recommend vitamin C, echinacea, elderberry, vitamin A, zinc, or homeopathic oscillococcinum? Probably not. The CDC’s common-sense recommendations that most people follow anyway include getting proper rest, drinking plenty of fluids, and using a humidifier.
The pharmaceutical industry claims it supports limiting the use of antibiotics. The drug company Bayer sponsors a program called “Operation Clean Hands” through an organization called LIBRA.(57) The CDC also is involved in trying to minimize antibiotic resistance, but nowhere in its publications is there any reference to the role of nutraceuticals in boosting the immune system, nor to the thousands of journal articles that support this approach. This tunnel vision and refusal to recommend the available non-drug alternatives is unfortunate when the CDC is desperately trying to curb the overuse of antibiotics.
DRUGS POLLUTE OUR WATER SUPPLY
We have reached the point of saturation with prescription drugs. Every body of water tested contains measurable drug residues. The tons of antibiotics used in animal farming, which run off into the water table and surrounding bodies of water, are conferring antibiotic resistance to germs in sewage, and these germs also are found in our water supply. Flushed down our toilets are tons of drugs and drug metabolites that also find their way into our water supply. We have no way to know the long-term health consequences of ingesting a mixture of drugs and drug-breakdown products. These drugs represent another level of iatrogenic disease that we are unable to completely measure.(58-67)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: NSAIDs
It’s not just the US that is plagued by iatrogenesis. A survey of more than 1,000 French general practitioners (GPs) tested their basic pharmacological knowledge and practice in prescribing NSAIDs, which rank first among commonly prescribed drugs for serious adverse reactions. The study results suggest that GPs do not have adequate knowledge of these drugs and are unable to effectively manage adverse reactions.(68)
A cross-sectional survey of 125 patients attending specialty pain clinics in South London found that possible iatrogenic factors such as “over-investigation, inappropriate information, and advice given to patients as well as misdiagnosis, over-treatment, and inappropriate prescription of medication were common.”(69)
SPECIFIC DRUG IATROGENESIS: CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY
In 1989, German biostatistician Ulrich Abel, PhD, wrote a monograph entitled “Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer.” It was later published in shorter form in a peer-reviewed medical journal.(70) Abel presented a comprehensive analysis of clinical trials and publications representing over 3,000 articles examining the value of cytotoxic chemotherapy on advanced epithelial cancer. Epithelial cancer is the type of cancer with which we are most familiar, arising from epithelium found in the lining of body organs such as the breast, prostate, lung, stomach, and bowel. From these sites, cancer usually infiltrates adjacent tissue and spreads to the bone, liver, lung, or brain.
With his exhaustive review, Abel concluded there is no direct evidence that chemotherapy prolongs survival in patients with advanced carcinoma; in small-cell lung cancer and perhaps ovarian cancer, the therapeutic benefit is only slight. According to Abel, “Many oncologists take it for granted that response to therapy prolongs survival, an opinion which is based on a fallacy and which is not supported by clinical studies.”
Over a decade after Abel’s exhaustive review of chemotherapy, there seems no decrease in its use for advanced carcinoma. For example, when conventional chemotherapy and radiation have not worked to prevent metastases in breast cancer, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) along with stem-cell transplant (SCT) is the treatment of choice. In March 2000, however, results from the largest multi-center randomized controlled trial conducted thus far showed that, compared to a prolonged course of monthly conventional-dose chemotherapy, HDC and SCT were of no benefit, (71) with even a slightly lower survival rate for the HDC/SCT group. Serious adverse effects occurred more often in the HDC group than the standard-dose group. One treatment-related death (within 100 days of therapy) was recorded in the HDC group, but none was recorded in the conventional chemotherapy group. The women in this trial were highly selected as having the best chance to respond.
Unfortunately, no all-encompassing follow-up study such as Dr. Abel’s exists to indicate whether there has been any improvement in cancer-survival statistics since 1989. In fact, research should be conducted to determine whether chemotherapy itself is responsible for secondary cancers instead of progression of the original disease. We continue to question why well-researched alternative cancer treatments are not used.
DRUG COMPANIES FINED
Periodically, the FDA fines a drug manufacturer when its abuses are too glaring and impossible to cover up. In May 2002, The Washington Post reported that Schering-Plough Corp., the maker of Claritin, was to pay a $500 million dollar fine to the FDA for quality-control problems at four of its factories.(72) The indictment came after the Public Citizen Health Research Group, led by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, called for a criminal investigation of Schering-Plough, charging that the company distributed albuterol asthma inhalers even though it knew the units were missing the active ingredient.
The FDA tabulated infractions involving 125 products, or 90% of the drugs made by Schering-Plough since 1998. Besides paying the fine, the company was forced to halt the manufacture of 73 drugs or suffer another $175 million fine. Schering-Plough’s news releases told another story, assuring consumers that they should still feel confident in the company’s products.
This large settlement served as a warning to the drug industry about maintaining strict manufacturing practices and has given the FDA more clout in dealing with drug company compliance. According to The Washington Post article, a federal appeals court ruled in 1999 that the FDA could seize the profits of companies that violate “good manufacturing practices.” Since that time, Abbott Laboratories has paid a $100 million fine for failing to meet quality standards in the production of medical test kits, while Wyeth Laboratories paid $30 million in 2000 to settle accusations of poor manufacturing practices.
UNNECESSARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES
In 1974, 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries were performed, resulting in 11,900 deaths at a cost of $3.9 billion.(73,74) In 2001, 7.5 million unnecessary surgical procedures were performed, resulting in 37,136 deaths at a cost of $122 billion (using 1974 dollars).(3)
It is very difficult to obtain accurate statistics when studying unnecessary surgery. In 1989, Leape wrote that perhaps 30% of controversial surgeries—which include cesarean section, tonsillectomy, appendectomy, hysterectomy, gastrectomy for obesity, breast implants, and elective breast implants(74)— are unnecessary. In 1974, the Congressional Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce held hearings on unnecessary surgery. It found that 17.6% of recommendations for surgery were not confirmed by a second opinion. The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations extrapolated these figures and estimated that, on a nationwide basis, there were 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries performed annually, resulting in 11,900 deaths at an annual cost of $3.9 billion.(73)
According to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(13), in 2001 the 50 most common medical and surgical procedures were performed approximately 41.8 million times in the US. Using the 1974 House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations’ figure of 17.6% as the percentage of unnecessary surgical procedures, and extrapolating from the death rate in 1974, produces nearly 7.5 million (7,489,718) unnecessary procedures and a death rate of 37,136, at a cost of $122 billion (using 1974 dollars).
In 1995, researchers conducted a similar analysis of back surgery procedures, using the 1974 “unnecessary surgery percentage” of 17.6. Testifying before the Department of Veterans Affairs, they estimated that of the 250,000 back surgeries performed annually in the US at a hospital cost of $11,000 per patient, the total number of unnecessary back surgeries approaches 44,000, costing as much as $484 million.(75)
Like prescription drug use driven by television advertising, unnecessary surgeries are escalating. Media-driven surgery such as gastric bypass for obesity “modeled” by Hollywood celebrities seduces obese people to think this route is safe and sexy. Unnecessary surgeries have even been marketed on the Internet.(76) A study in Spain declares that 20-25% of total surgical practice represents unnecessary operations.(77)
According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics for 1979 to 1984, the total number of surgical procedures increased 9% while the number of surgeons grew 20%. The study notes that the large increase in the number of surgeons was not accompanied by a parallel increase in the number of surgeries performed, and expressed concern about an excess of surgeons to handle the surgical caseload.(78)
From 1983 to 1994, however, the incidence of the 10 most commonly performed surgical procedures jumped 38%, to 7,929,000 from 5,731,000 cases. By 1994, cataract surgery was the most common procedure with more than 2 million operations, followed by cesarean section (858,000 procedures) and inguinal hernia operations (689,000 procedures). Knee arthroscopy procedures increased 153% while prostate surgery declined 29%.(79)
The list of iatrogenic complications from surgery is as long as the list of procedures themselves. One study examined catheters that were inserted to deliver anesthetic into the epidural space around the spinal nerves for lower cesarean section, abdominal surgery, or prostate surgery. In some cases, non-sterile technique during catheter insertion resulted in serious infections, even leading to limb paralysis.(80)
In one review of the literature, the authors found “a significant rate of overutilization of coronary angiography, coronary artery surgery, cardiac pacemaker insertion, upper gastrointestinal endoscopies, carotid endarterectomies, back surgery, and pain-relieving procedures.”(81)
A 1987 JAMA study found the following significant levels of inappropriate surgery: 17% of coronary angiography procedures, 32% of carotid endarterectomy procedures, and 17% of upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy procedures.(82) Based on the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) statistics provided by the government for 2001, 697,675 upper gastrointestinal endoscopies (usually entailing biopsy) were performed, as were 142,401 endarterectomies and 719,949 coronary angiographies.(13) Extrapolating the JAMA study’s inappropriate surgery rates to 2001 produces 118,604 unnecessary endoscopy procedures, 45,568 unnecessary endarterectomies, and 122,391 unnecessary coronary angiographies. These are all forms of medical iatrogenesis.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES
It is instructive to know the mortality rates associated with various medical and surgical procedures. Although we must sign release forms when we undergo any procedure, many of us are in denial about the true risks involved; because medical and surgical procedures are so commonplace, they often are seen as both necessary and safe. Unfortunately, allopathic medicine itself is a leading cause of death, as well as the most expensive way to die.
Perhaps the words “health care” confer the illusion that medicine is about health. Allopathic medicine is not a purveyor of health care but of disease care. The HCUP figures are instructive,(13) but the computer program that calculates annual mortality statistics for all US hospital discharges is only as good as the codes entered into the system. In email correspondence, HCUP indicated that the mortality rates for each procedure indicated only that someone undergoing that procedure died either from the procedure or from some other cause.
Thus there is no way of knowing exactly how many people die from a particular procedure. While codes for “poisoning & toxic effects of drugs” and “complications of treatment” do exist, the mortality figures registered in these categories are very low and do not correlate with what is known from research such as the 1998 JAMA study(1) that estimated an average of 106,000 prescription medication deaths per year. No codes exist for adverse drug side effects, surgical mishaps, or other types of medical error. Until such codes exist, the true mortality rates tied to of medical error will remain buried in the general statistics.
AN HONEST LOOK AT U.S. HEALTH CARE
In 1978, the US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) reported: “Only 10-20% of all procedures currently used in medical practice have been shown to be efficacious by controlled trial.”(83) In 1995, the OTA compared medical technology in eight countries ( Australia , Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, and the US ) and again noted that few medical procedures in the US have been subjected to clinical trial. It also reported that US infant mortality was high and life expectancy low compared to other developed countries.(84)
Although almost 10 years old, much of what was written in the OTA report holds true today. The report blames the high cost of American medicine on the medical free-enterprise system and failure to create a national health care policy. It attributes the government’s failure to control health care costs to market incentives and profit motives inherent in the current financing and organization of health care, which includes such interests as private health insurers, hospital systems, physicians, and the drug and medical-device industries. “Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries” is the last report prepared by the OTA, which was disbanded in 1995. It also is perhaps the US government’s last honest, detailed examination of the nation’s health care system. An appendix summarizing this 60-page report follows this article.
SURGICAL ERRORS FINALLY REPORTED
An October 2003 JAMA study from the US government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) documented 32,000 mostly surgery-related deaths costing $9 billion and accounting for 2.4 million extra hospital days in 2000.(85) Data from 20% of the nation’s hospitals were analyzed for 18 different surgical complications, including postoperative infections, foreign objects left in wounds, surgical wounds reopening, and post-operative bleeding.
In a press release accompanying the study, AHRQ director Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, noted: “This study gives us the first direct evidence that medical injuries pose a real threat to the American public and increase the costs of health care.”(86) According to the study’s authors, “The findings greatly underestimate the problem, since many other complications happen that are not listed in hospital administrative data.” They added: “The message here is that medical injuries can have a devastating impact on the health care system. We need more research to identify why these injuries occur and find ways to prevent them from happening.” The study authors said that improved medical practices, including an emphasis on better hand washing, might help reduce morbidity and mortality rates. In an accompanying JAMA editorial, health-risk researcher Dr. Saul Weingart of Harvard’s Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center wrote, “Given their staggering magnitude, these estimates are clearly sobering.”(87)
UNNECESSARY X-RAYS
When x-rays were discovered, no one knew the long-term effects of ionizing radiation. In the 1950s, monthly fluoroscopic exams at the doctor’s office were routine, and you could even walk into most shoe stores and see x-rays of your foot bones. We still do not know the ultimate outcome of our initial fascination with x-rays.
In those days, it was common practice to x-ray pregnant women to measure their pelvises and make a diagnosis of twins. Finally, a study of 700,000 children born between 1947 and 1964 in 37 major maternity hospitals compared the children of mothers who had received pelvic x-rays during pregnancy to those of mothers who did not. It found that cancer mortality was 40% higher among children whose mothers had been x-rayed.(88)
In present-day medicine, coronary angiography is an invasive surgical procedure that involves snaking a tube through a blood vessel in the groin up to the heart. To obtain useful information, X-rays are taken almost continuously, with minimum dosages ranging from 460 to 1,580 mrem. The minimum radiation from a routine chest x-ray is 2 mrem. X-ray radiation accumulates in the body, and ionizing radiation used in X-ray procedures has been shown to cause gene mutation. The health impact of this high level of radiation is unknown, and often obscured in statistical jargon such as, “The risk for lifetime fatal cancer due to radiation exposure is estimated to be 4 in one million per 1,000 mrem.”(89)
Dr. John Gofman has studied the effects of radiation on human health for 45 years. A medical doctor with a PhD in nuclear and physical chemistry, Gofman worked on the Manhattan Project, discovered uranium-233, and was the first person to isolate plutonium. In five scientifically documented books, Gofman provides strong evidence that medical technology—specifically x-rays, CT scans, and mammography and fluoroscopy devices—are a contributing factor to 75% of new cancers.
In a nearly 700-page report updated in 2000, “Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population,”(90) Gofman shows that as the number of physicians increases in a geographical area along with an increase in the number of x-ray diagnostic tests performed, the rate of cancer and ischemic heart disease also increases. Gofman elaborates that it is not x-rays alone that cause the damage but a combination of health risk factors that include poor diet, smoking, abortions, and the use of birth control pills. Dr. Gofman predicts that ionizing radiation will be responsible for 100 million premature deaths over the next decade.
In his book, Preventing Breast Cancer, Dr. Gofman notes that breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the ages of 44 and 55. Because breast tissue is highly sensitive to radiation, mammograms can cause cancer. The danger can be heightened other factors including a woman’s genetic makeup, preexisting benign breast disease, artificial menopause, obesity, and hormonal imbalance.(91)
Even x-rays for back pain can lead someone into crippling surgery. Dr. John E. Sarno, a well-known New York orthopedic surgeon, found that there is not necessarily any association between back pain and spinal x-ray abnormality. He cites studies of normal people without a trace of back pain whose x-rays indicate spinal abnormalities and of people with back pain whose spines appear to be normal on x-ray.(92) People who happen to have back pain and show an abnormality on x-ray may be treated surgically, sometimes with no change in back pain, worsening of back pain, or even permanent disability. Moreover, doctors often order x-rays as protection against malpractice claims, to give the impression of leaving no stone unturned. It appears that doctors are putting their own fears before the interests of their patients.
UNNECESSARY HOSPITALIZATION
Nearly 9 million (8,925,033) people were hospitalized unnecessarily in 2001.(4) In a study of inappropriate hospitalization, two doctors reviewed 1,132 medical records. They concluded that 23% of all admissions were inappropriate and an additional 17% could have been handled in outpatient clinics. Thirty-four percent of all hospital days were deemed inappropriate and could have been avoided.(93) The rate of inappropriate hospital admissions in 1990 was 23.5%.(94) In 1999, another study also found an inappropriate admissions rate of 24%, indicating a consistent pattern from 1986 to 1999.(95) The HCUP database indicates that the total number of patient discharges from US hospitals in 2001 was 37,187,641,(13) meaning that almost 9 million people were exposed to unnecessary medical intervention in hospitals and therefore represent almost 9 million potential iatrogenic episodes.(4)
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE IN MEDICINE
Dr. Martin Charcot (1825-1893) was world-renowned, the most celebrated doctor of his time. He practiced in the Paris hospital La Salpetriere. He became an expert in hysteria, diagnosing an average of 10 hysterical women each day, transforming them into “iatrogenic monsters” and turning simple “neurosis” into hysteria.(96) The number of women diagnosed with hysteria and hospitalized rose from 1% in 1841 to 17% in 1883. Hysteria is derived from the Latin “hystera” meaning uterus.
According to Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, US medicine has a tradition of excessive medical and surgical interventions on women. Only 100 years ago, male doctors believed that female psychological imbalance originated in the uterus. When surgery to remove the uterus was perfected, it became the “cure” for mental instability, effecting a physical and psychological castration. Fugh-Berman notes that US doctors eventually disabused themselves of that notion but have continued to treat women very differently than they treat men.(97) She cites the following statistics:
Thousands of prophylactic mastectomies are performed annually.
One-third of US women have had a hysterectomy before menopause.
Women are prescribed drugs more frequently than are men.
Women are given potent drugs for disease prevention, which results in disease substitution due to side effects.
Fetal monitoring is unsupported by studies and not recommended by the CDC.(98) It confines women to a hospital bed and may result in a higher incidence of cesarean section.(99)
Normal processes such as menopause and childbirth have been heavily “medicalized.”
Synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not prevent heart disease or dementia, but does increase the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, and gall bladder attack.(100)
As many as one-third of postmenopausal women use HRT.(101,102) This number is important in light of the much-publicized Women’s Health Initiative Study, which was halted before its completion because of a higher death rate in the synthetic estrogen-progestin (HRT) group.(103)
CESAREAN SECTION
In 1983, 809,000 cesarean sections (21% of live births) were performed in the US, making it the nation’s most common obstetric-gynecologic (OB/GYN) surgical procedure. The second most common OB/GYN operation was hysterectomy (673,000), followed by diagnostic dilation and curettage of the uterus (632,000). In 1983, OB/GYN procedures represented 23% of all surgery completed in the US.(104)
In 2001, cesarean section is still the most common OB/GYN surgical procedure. Approximately 4 million births occur annually, with 24% (960,000) delivered by cesarean section. In the Netherlands, only 8% of births are delivered by cesarean section. This suggests 640,000 unnecessary cesarean sections—entailing three to four times higher mortality and 20 times greater morbidity than vaginal delivery(105)—are performed annually in the US.
The US cesarean rate rose from just 4.5% in 1965 to 24.1% in 1986. Sakala contends that an “uncontrolled pandemic of medically unnecessary cesarean births is occurring.”(106) VanHam reported a cesarean section postpartum hemorrhage rate of 7%, a hematoma formation rate of 3.5%, a urinary tract infection rate of 3%, and a combined postoperative morbidity rate of 35.7% in a high-risk population undergoing cesarean section.(107)
NEVER ENOUGH STUDIES
Scientists claimed there were never enough studies revealing the dangers of DDT and other dangerous pesticides to ban them. They also used this argument for tobacco, claiming that more studies were needed before they could be certain that tobacco really caused lung cancer. Even the American Medical Association (AMA) was complicit in suppressing the results of tobacco research. In 1964, when the Surgeon General’s report condemned smoking, the AMA refused to endorse it, claiming a need for more research. What they really wanted was more money, which they received from a consortium of tobacco companies that paid the AMA $18 million over the next nine years during which the AMA said nothing about the dangers of smoking.(108)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by physicians in practice,” began accepting tobacco advertisements and money in 1933. State journals such as the New York State Journal of Medicine also began to run advertisements for Chesterfield cigarettes that claimed cigarettes are “Just as pure as the water you drink… and practically untouched by human hands.” In 1948, JAMA argued “more can be said in behalf of smoking as a form of escape from tension than against it… there does not seem to be any preponderance of evidence that would indicate the abolition of the use of tobacco as a substance contrary to the public health.”(109) Today, scientists continue to use the excuse that more studies are needed before they will support restricting the inordinate use of drugs.
ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
The Lazarou study(1) analyzed records for prescribed medications for 33 million US hospital admissions in 1994. It discovered 2.2 million serious injuries due to prescribed drugs; 2.1% of inpatients experienced a serious adverse drug reaction, 4.7% of all hospital admissions were due to a serious adverse drug reaction, and fatal adverse drug reactions occurred in 0.19% of inpatients and 0.13% of admissions. The authors estimated that 106,000 deaths occur annually due to adverse drug reactions.
Using a cost analysis from a 2000 study in which the increase in hospitalization costs per patient suffering an adverse drug reaction was $5,483, costs for the Lazarou study’s 2.2 million patients with serious drug reactions amounted to $12 billion.(1,49)
Serious adverse drug reactions commonly emerge after FDA approval of the drugs involved. The safety of new agents cannot be known with certainty until a drug has been on the market for many years.(110)
BEDSORES
Over one million people develop bedsores in U.S. hospitals every year. It’s a tremendous burden to patients and family, and a $55 billion dollar healthcare burden. (7) Bedsores are preventable with proper nursing care. It is true that 50% of those affected are in a vulnerable age group of over 70. In the elderly bedsores carry a fourfold increase in the rate of death. The mortality rate in hospitals for patients with bedsores is between 23% and 37%. (8) Even if we just take the 50% of people over 70 with bedsores and the lowest mortality at 23%, that gives us a death rate due to bedsores of 115,000. Critics will say that it was the disease or advanced age that killed the patient, not the bedsore, but our argument is that an early death, by denying proper care, deserves to be counted. It is only after counting these unnecessary deaths that we can then turn our attention to fixing the problem.
MALNUTRITION IN NURSING HOMES
The General Accounting Office (GAO), a special investigative branch of Congress, cited 20% of the nation’s 17,000 nursing homes for violations between July 2000 and January 2002. Many violations involved serious physical injury and death.(111)
A report from the Coalition for Nursing Home Reform states that at least one-third of the nation’s 1.6 million nursing home residents may suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, which hastens their death. The report calls for adequate nursing staff to help feed patients who are not able to manage a food tray by themselves.(11) It is difficult to place a mortality rate on malnutrition and dehydration. The Coalition report states that malnourished residents, compared with well-nourished hospitalized nursing home residents, have a fivefold increase in mortality when they are admitted to a hospital. Multiplying the one-third of 1.6 million nursing home residents who are malnourished by a mortality rate of 20%(8,14) results in 108,800 premature deaths due to malnutrition in nursing homes.
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
The rate of nosocomial infections per 1,000 patient days rose from 7.2 in 1975 to 9.8 in 1995, a 36% jump in 20 years. Reports from more than 270 US hospitals showed that the nosocomial infection rate itself had remained stable over the previous 20 years, with approximately five to six hospital-acquired infections occurring per 100 admissions, a rate of 5-6%. Due to progressively shorter inpatient stays and the increasing number of admissions, however, the number of infections increased. It is estimated that in 1995, nosocomial infections cost $4.5 billion and contributed to more than 88,000 deaths, or one death every 6 minutes.(9)
The 2003 incidence of nosocomial mortality is quite probably higher than in 1995 because of the tremendous increase in antibiotic-resistant organisms. Morbidity and Mortality Report found that nosocomial infections cost $5 billion annually in 1999,(10) representing a $0.5 billion increase in just four years. At this rate of increase, the current cost of nosocomial infections would be around $5.5 billion.
OUTPATIENT IATROGENESIS
In a 2000 JAMA article, Dr. Barbara Starfield presents well-documented facts that are both shocking and unassailable.(12) The U.S. ranks 12th of 13 industrialized countries when judged by 16 health status indicators. Japan, Sweden, and Canada were first, second, and third, respectively. More than 40 million people in the US have no health insurance, and 20-30% of patients receive contraindicated care.
Starfield warns that one cause of medical mistakes is overuse of technology, which may create a “cascade effect” leading to still more treatment. She urges the use of ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes that have designations such as “Drugs, Medicinal, and Biological Substances Causing Adverse Effects in Therapeutic Use” and “Complications of Surgical and Medical Care” to help doctors quantify and recognize the magnitude of the medical error problem. Starfield notes that many deaths attributable to medical error today are likely to be coded to indicate some other cause of death. She concludes that against the backdrop of our poor health report card compared to other Westernized countries, we should recognize that the harmful effects of health care interventions account for a substantial proportion of our excess deaths.
Starfield cites Weingart’s 2000 article, “Epidemiology of Medical Error,” as well as other authors to suggest that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients in outpatient settings suffer an iatrogenic event leading to:
1. 116 million extra physician visits
2. 77 million extra prescriptions filled
3. 17 million emergency department visits
4. 8 million hospitalizations
5. 3 million long-term admissions
6. 199,000 additional deaths
7. $77 billion in extra costs(112)
UNNECESSARY SURGERIES
While some 12,000 deaths occur each year from unnecessary surgeries, results from the few studies that have measured unnecessary surgery directly indicate that for some highly controversial operations, the proportion of unwarranted surgeries could be as high as 30%.(74)
MEDICAL ERRORS: A GLOBAL ISSUE
A five-country survey published in the Journal of Health Affairs found that 18-28% of people who were recently ill had suffered from a medical or drug error in the previous two years. The study surveyed 750 recently ill adults. The breakdown by country showed the percentages of those suffering a medical or drug error were 18% in Britain, 23% in Australia and in New Zealand, 25% in Canada, and 28% in the US.(113)
HEALTH INSURANCE
The Institute of Medicine recently found that the 41 million Americans with no health insurance have consistently worse clinical outcomes than those who are insured, and are at increased risk for dying prematurely (114).
When doctors bill for services they do not render, advise unnecessary tests, or screen everyone for a rare condition, they are committing insurance fraud. The US GAO estimated that $12 billion dollars was lost to fraudulent or unnecessary claims in 1998, and reclaimed $480 million in judgments in that year. In 2001, the federal government won or negotiated more than $1.7 billion in judgments, settlements, and administrative impositions in health care fraud cases and proceedings.(115)
WAREHOUSING OUR ELDERS
One way to measure the moral and ethical fiber of a society is by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members. In some cultures, elderly people lives out their lives in extended family settings that enable them to continue participating in family and community affairs. American nursing homes, where millions of our elders go to live out their final days, represent the pinnacle of social isolation and medical abuse.
In America, approximately 1.6 million elderly are confined to nursing homes. By 2050, that number could be 6.6 million.(11,116)
Twenty percent of all deaths from all causes occur in nursing homes.(117)
Hip fractures are the single greatest reason for nursing home admissions.(118)
Nursing homes represent a reservoir for drug-resistant organisms due to overuse of antibiotics.(119)
Presenting a report he sponsored entitled “Abuse of Residents is a Major Problem in U.S. Nursing Homes” on July 30, 2001, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) noted that “as a society we will be judged by how we treat the elderly.” The report found one-third of the nation’s approximately 17,000 nursing homes were cited for an abuse violation in a two-year period from January 1999 to January 2001.(116) According to Waxman, “the people who cared for us deserve better.” The report suggests that this known abuse represents only the “tip of the iceberg” and that much more abuse occurs that we aware of or ignore.(116a) The report found:
Over 30% of US nursing homes were cited for abuses, totaling more than 9,000 violations.
10% of nursing homes had violations that caused actual physical harm to residents or worse.
Over 40% (3,800) of the abuse violations followed the filing of a formal complaint, usually by concerned family members.
Many verbal abuse violations were found.
Occasions of sexual abuse.
Incidents of physical abuse causing numerous injuries such as fractured femur, hip, elbow, wrist, and other injuries.
Dangerously understaffed nursing homes lead to neglect, abuse, overuse of medications, and physical restraints. In 1990, Congress mandated an exhaustive study of nurse-to-patient ratios in nursing homes. The study was finally begun in 1998 and took four years to complete.(120) A spokesperson for The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform commented on the study: “They compiled two reports of three volumes each thoroughly documenting the number of hours of care residents must receive from nurses and nursing assistants to avoid painful, even dangerous, conditions such as bedsores and infections. Yet it took the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Tommy Thompson only four months to dismiss the report as ‘insufficient.’”(121) Although preventable with proper nursing care, bedsores occur three times more commonly in nursing homes than in acute care or veterans hospitals.(122).
Because many nursing home patients suffer from chronic debilitating conditions, their assumed cause of death often is unquestioned by physicians. Some studies show that as many as 50% of deaths due to restraints, falls, suicide, homicide, and choking in nursing homes may be covered up.(123,124) It is possible that many nursing home deaths are instead attributed to heart disease. In fact, researchers have found that heart disease may be over-represented in the general population as a cause of death on death certificates by 8-24%. In the elderly, the overreporting of heart disease as a cause of death is as much as twofold.(125)
That very few statistics exist concerning malnutrition in acute-care hospitals and nursing homes demonstrates the lack of concern in this area. While a survey of the literature turns up few US studies, one revealing US study evaluated the nutritional status of 837 patients in a 100-bed subacute-care hospital over a 14-month period. The study found only 8% of the patients were well nourished, while 29% were malnourished and 63% were at risk of malnutrition. As a result, 25% of the malnourished patients required readmission to an acute-care hospital, compared to 11% of the well-nourished patients. The authors concluded that malnutrition reached epidemic proportions in patients admitted to this subacute-care facility.(126)
Many studies conclude that physical restraints are an underreported and preventable cause of death. Studies show that compared to no restraints, the use of restraints carries a higher mortality rate and economic burden.(127-129) Studies have found that physical restraints, including bedrails, are the cause of at least 1 in every 1,000 nursing-home deaths.(130-132)
Deaths caused by malnutrition, dehydration, and physical restraints, however, are rarely recorded on death certificates. Several studies reveal that nearly half of the listed causes of death on death certificates for elderly people with chronic or multi-system disease are inaccurate.(133) Even though 1 in 5 people die in nursing homes, an autopsy is performed in less than 1% of these deaths.(134).
OVERMEDICATING SENIORS
Dr. Robert Epstein, chief medical officer of Medco Health Solutions Inc. (a unit of Merck & Co.), conducted a study in 2003 of drug trends among the elderly.(135) He found that seniors are going to multiple physicians, getting multiple prescriptions, and using multiple pharmacies. Medco oversees drug-benefit plans for more than 60 million Americans, including 6.3 million seniors who received more than 160 million prescriptions. According to the study, the average senior receives 25 prescriptions each year. Among those 6.3 million seniors, a total of 7.9 million medication alerts were triggered: less than one-half that number, 3.4 million, were detected in 1999.
About 2.2 million of those alerts indicated excessive dosages unsuitable for seniors, and about 2.4 million alerts indicated clinically inappropriate drugs for the elderly. Reuters interviewed Kasey Thompson, director of the Center on Patient Safety at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, who noted: “There are serious and systemic problems with poor continuity of care in the United States .” He says this study represents only “the tip of the iceberg” of a national problem.
According to Drug Benefit Trends , the average number of prescriptions dispensed per non-Medicare HMO member per year rose 5.6% from 1999 to 2000, – from 7.1 to 7.5 prescriptions. The average number dispensed for Medicare members increased 5.5%, from 18.1 to 19.1 prescriptions.(136) The total number of prescriptions written in the US in 2000 was 2.98 billion, or 10.4 prescriptions for every man, woman, and child.(137)
In a study of 818 residents of residential care facilities for the elderly, 94% were receiving at least one medication at the time of the interview. The average intake of medications was five per resident; the authors noted that many of these drugs were given without a documented diagnosis justifying their use.(138)
Seniors and groups like the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) are demanding that prescription drug coverage be a basic right.(139) They have accepted allopathic medicine’s overriding assumption that aging and dying in America must be accompanied by drugs in nursing homes and eventual hospitalization. Seniors are given the choice of either high-cost patented drugs or low-cost generic drugs. Drug companies attempt to keep the most expensive drugs on the shelves and suppress access to generic drugs, despite facing stiff fines of hundreds of millions of dollars levied by the federal government.(140,141) In 2001, some of the world’s largest drug companies were fined a record $871 million for conspiring to increase the price of vitamins.(142)
Current AARP recommendations for diet and nutrition assume that seniors are getting all the nutrition they need in an average diet. At most, AARP suggests adding extra calcium and a multivitamin and mineral supplement.(143)
Ironically, studies also indicate underuse of proper pain medication for patients who need it. One study evaluated pain management in a group of 13,625 cancer patients, aged 65 and over, living in nursing homes. While almost 30% of the patients reported pain, more than 25% received no pain relief medication, 16% received a mild analgesic drug, 32% received a moderate analgesic drug, and 26% received adequate pain-relieving morphine. The authors concluded that older patients and minority patients were more likely to have their pain untreated.(144)
WHAT REMAINS TO BE UNCOVERED
Our ongoing research will continue to quantify the morbidity, mortality, and financial loss due to:
3. Carcinogenic drugs (hormone replacement therapy,* immunosuppressive and prescription drugs).
4. Cancer chemotherapy(70)
5. Surgery and unnecessary surgery (cesarean section, radical mastectomy, preventive mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, prostatectomy, cholecystectomies, cosmetic surgery, arthroscopy, etc.).
6. Discredited medical procedures and therapies.
7. Unproven medical therapies.
8. Outpatient surgery.
9. Doctors themselves.
* Part of our ongoing research will be to quantify the mortality and morbidity caused by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the 1940s. In December 2000, a government scientific advisory panel recommended that synthetic estrogen be added to the nation’s list of cancer-causing agents. HRT, either synthetic estrogen alone or combined with synthetic progesterone, is used by an estimated 13.5 to 16 million women in the US.(145) The aborted Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI) of 2002 showed that women taking synthetic estrogen combined with synthetic progesterone have a higher incidence of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, with little evidence of osteoporosis reduction or dementia prevention. WHI researchers, who usually never make recommendations except to suggest more studies, advised doctors to be very cautious about prescribing HRT to their patients.(100,146-150)
Results of the “Million Women Study” on HRT and breast cancer in the UK were published in medical journal The Lancet in August 2003. According to lead author Prof. Valerie Beral, director of the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit: “We estimate that over the past decade, use of HRT by UK women aged 50-64 has resulted in an extra 20,000 breast cancers, estrogen-progestagen (combination) therapy accounting for 15,000 of these.”(151) We were unable to find statistics on breast cancer, stroke, uterine cancer, or heart disease caused by HRT used by American women. Because the US population is roughly six times that of the UK, it is possible that 120,000 cases of breast cancer have been caused by HRT in the past decade.
OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (OTA)
Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries, 1995.
General Facts
1. In 1990, US life expectancy was 71.8 years for men and 78.8 years for women, among the lowest rates in the developed countries.
2. The 1990 US infant mortality rate in the US was 9.2 per 1,000 live births, in the bottom half of the distribution among all developed countries.
3. Health status is correlated with socioeconomic status.
4. Health care is not universal.
5. Health care is based on the free market system with no fixed budget or limitations on expansion.
6. Health care accounts for 14% of the US GNP ($800 billion in 1993).
7. The federal government does no central planning, though it is the major purchaser of health care for older people and some poor people.
8. Americans are less satisfied with their health care system than people in other developed countries.
9. US medicine specializes in expensive medical technology; some large US cities have more magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanners than most countries.
10. Huge public and private investments in medical research and pharmaceutical development drive this “technological arms race.”
11. Any efforts to restrain technological developments in health care are opposed by policymakers concerned about negative impacts on medical-technology industries.
Hospitals
1. In 1990, the US had 5,480 acute-care hospitals, 880 specialty (psychiatric, long-term care, and rehabilitation) hospitals, and 340 federal (military, veterans, and Native American) hospitals, or 2.7 hospitals per 100,000 population.
2. In 1990, the average length of stay for 33 million admissions was 9.2 days. The bed occupancy rate was 66%. Lengths of stay were shorter and admission rates lower than other countries.
3. In 1990, the US had 615,000 physicians, or 2.4 per 1,000 population; 33% were primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics) and 67% were specialists.
4. In 1991, government-run health care spending totaled $81 billion.
5. Total US health care spending rose to $752 billion in 1991 from $70 billion in 1950. Spending grew five-fold per capita.
6. Reasons for increased healthcare spending include:
1. The high cost of defensive medicine, with an escalation in services solely to avoid malpractice litigation.
2. US health care based on defensive medicine costs nearly $45 billion per year, or about 5% of total health care spending, according to one source.
3. The availability and use of new medical technologies have contributed the most to increased health care spending, argue many analysts. These costs are impossible to quantify.
7. The reasons government attempts to control health care costs have failed include:
1. Market incentive and profit-motive involvement in the financing and organization of health care, including private insurers, hospital systems, physicians, and the drug and medical-device industries.
2. Expansion is the goal of free enterprise.
Health-Related Research and Development
1. The US spends more than any other country on health-related R&D.
2. In 1989, the federal government spent $9.2 billion on R&D, while private industry spent an additional $9.4 billion.
3. Total US R&D expenditures rose 50% from 1983 to 1992.
4. NIH receives about half of US government R&D funding.
5. NIH spent more on basic research ($4.1 billion in 1989) than for clinical trials of medical treatments on humans ($519 million in 1989).
6. Most of the clinical trials evaluate new treatment protocols for cancer and complications of AIDS, and do not study existing treatments, even though their effectiveness is in many cases unknown and questionable.
7. In 1990, the NIH had just begun to do meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Pharmaceutical and Medical-Device Industries
1. About two-thirds of the industry’s $9.4 billion budget went to drug research; device manufacturers spent the remaining one-third.
2. In addition to R&D, the medical industry spent 24% of total sales on promoting their products and 15% of total sales on development.
3. Total marketing expenses in 1990 were over $5 billion.
4. Many products provide no benefit over existing products.
5. Public and private health care consumers buy these products.
6. If health care spending is perceived as a problem, a highly profitable drug industry exacerbates the problem.
Controlling Health Care Technology
1. The FDA ensures the safety and efficacy of drugs, biologics, and medical devices.
2. The FDA does not consider costs of therapy.
3. The FDA does not consider the effectiveness of a therapy.
4. The FDA does not compare a product to currently marketed products
5. The FDA does not consider nondrug alternatives for a given clinical problem.
6. It costs $200 million in development costs to bring a new drug to market. AIDS-drug interest groups forced new regulations that speed up the approval process.
7. Such drugs should be subject to greater post-marketing surveillance requirements. As of 1995, these provisions had not yet come into play.
8. Many argue that reductions in the pre-approval testing of drugs open the possibility of significant undiscovered toxicities.
Health Care Technology Assessment
1. Failure to evaluate technology was a focus of a 1978 report from OTA with examples of many common medical practices supported by limited published data (10-20%).
2. In 1978, Congress created the National Center for Health Care Technology (NCHCT) to advise Medicare and Medicaid.
3. With an annual budget of $4 million, NCHCT published three broad assessments of high-priority technologies and made about 75 coverage recommendations to Medicare.
4. Congress disbanded NCHCT in 1981. The medical profession opposed it from the beginning. The AMA testified before Congress in 1981 that “clinical policy analysis and judgments are better made—and are being responsibly made—within the medical profession. Assessing risks and costs, as well as benefits, has been central to the exercise of good medical judgment for decades.”
5. The medical device lobby also opposed government oversight by NCHCT.
Examples of Lack of Proper Management of HealthCare
Treatments for Coronary Artery Disease
1. Since the early 1970s, the number of coronary artery bypass surgeries (CABGS) has risen rapidly without government regulation or clinical trials.
2.Angioplastyforsinglevesseldiseasewasintroducedin1978Thefirstpublishedtrialofangioplastyversus medical treatment was done in 1992.
3. Angioplasty did not reduce the number of CABGS, as was promoted.
4. Both procedures increase in number every year as the patient population grows older and sicker.
5. Rates of use are higher in white patients and private insurance patients, and vary greatly by geographic region, suggesting that use of these procedures is based on non-clinical factors.
6. As of 1995, the NIH consensus program had not assessed CABGS since 1980 and had never assessed angioplasty.
7. RAND researchers evaluated CABGS in New York in 1990. They reviewed 1,300 procedures and found 2% were inappropriate, 90% were appropriate, and 7% were uncertain. For 1,300 angioplasties, 4% were inappropriate and 38% uncertain. Using RAND methodologies, a panel of British physicians rated twice as many procedures “inappropriate” as did a US panel rating the same clinical cases. The New York numbers are in question because New York State limits the number of surgery centers, and the per-capita supply of cardiac surgeons in New York is about one-half of the national average.
8. The estimated five-year cost is $33,000 for angioplasty and $40,000 for CABGS. Angioplasty did not lower costs, due to its high failure rates.
Computed Tomography (CT)
1. The first CT scanner in the US was installed at the Mayo Clinic in 1973. By 1992, the number of operational CT scanners in the US had grown to 6,060. By comparison, in 1993 there were 216 CT units in Canada .
2. There is little information available on how CT scans improve or affect patient outcomes
3. In some institutions, up to 90% of scans performed were negative.
4. Approval by the FDA was not required for CT scanners, nor was any evidence of safety or efficacy.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
1. MRIs were introduced in Great Britain in 1978 and in the US in 1980. By 1988, there were 1,230 units and by 1992 between 2,800 and 3,000.
2. A definitive review published in 1994 found less than 30 studies of 5,000 that were prospective comparisons of diagnostic accuracy or therapeutic choice.
3. The American College of Physicians assessed MRI studies and rated 13 of 17 trials as “weak,” i.e., lacking data concerning therapeutic impact or patient outcomes.
4. The OTA concluded: “It is evident that hospitals, physician-entrepreneurs, and medical device manufacturers have approached MRI and CT as commodities with high-profit potential, and decision-making on the acquisition and use of these procedures has been highly influenced by this approach. Clinical evaluation, appropriate patient selection, and matching supply to legitimate demand might be viewed as secondary forces.”
Laparoscopic Surgery
1. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was introduced at a professional surgical society meeting in late 1989. By 1992, 85% of all cholecystectomies were performed laparoscopically.
2. There was an associated increase of 30% in the number of cholecystectomies performed.
3. Because of the increased volume of gall bladder operations, their total cost increased 11.4% between 1988 and 1992, despite a 25.1% drop in the average cost per surgery.
4. The mortality rate for gall bladder surgeries did not decline as a result of the lower risk because so many more were performed.
5. When studies were finally done on completed cases, the results showed that laparoscopic cholecystectomy was associated with reduced inpatient duration, decreased pain, and a shorter period of restricted activity. But rates of bile duct and major vessel injury increased and it was suggested that these rates were worse for people with acute cholecystitis. No clinical trials had been done to clarify this issue.
6. Patient demand, fueled by substantial media attention, was a major force in promoting rapid adoption of these procedures.
7. The major manufacturer of laparoscopic equipment produced the video that introduced the procedure in 1989.
8. Doctors were given two-day training seminars before performing the surgery on patients.
Infant Mortality
1. In 1990, the US ranked 24th in infant mortality of 38 developed countries with a rate of 9.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.
2. US black infant mortality is 18.6 per 1,000 live births, compared to 8.8 for whites.
Screening for Breast Cancer
1. Mammography screening in women under 50 has always been a subject of debate.
2. In 1992, the Canadian National Breast Cancer Study of 50,000 women showed that mammography had no effect on mortality for women aged 40-50.
3. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) refused to change its recommendations on mammography.
4. The American Cancer Society decided to wait for more studies on mammography.
5. In December 1993, NCI announced that women over 50 should have routine screenings every one to two years but that younger women would derive no benefit from mammography.
Summary
1. The OTA concluded: “There are no mechanisms in place to limit dissemination of technologies regardless of their clinical value.” Shortly after the release of this report, the OTA was disbanded.
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Dead Newborn Infant Lies In Gutter Like Trash In China
Source: Marie Claire magazine, June 2001
A morning in the Chinese province of Hunan brings an unimaginable sight of cruelty and horror. Lying in the gutter of a bustling main road is the tiny, twisted body of a dead baby girl. She is naked, surrounded by only dirty pieces of hospital gauze. Buses and bicycles speed past the corpse, spraying it with mud.
Nameless and unwanted, the newborn’s been dumped by the roadside during winter. Few of the locals hurrying by give her a second glance. To them, she is just one of thousands of baby girls abandoned each year as a result of China’s ruthless one-child policy. “I think the baby had just died,” says a woman who was the only person to attempt to rescue the infant. “I touched her skin, and it was warm. Blood was still coming out of her nose.”
Under China’s strict family-planning laws, couples in urban areas are allowed only one child; couples in most rural regions can try for a second if their first-born is a girl. Those who have an illegal baby are subject to crippling fines, sterilization, and other severe penalties. To avoid punishment, many parents go to the desperate measure of deserting their illegal offspring. If their child is a girl--considered less valuable than boys in rural, traditional parts of China, like Hunan--the chances of this heartbreaking fate are immeasurably higher.
To the Chinese authorities, abandoned girls are merely worthless trash. “I called the emergency services, but nobody came,” says the woman who found this latest little victim. (For fear of official reprisal, she wishes to remain anonymous.) “The baby was lying right near the government tax office, so many people in government just walked past.” Eventually, an old man picked up the child, put her in a box, and dropped her in a garbage bin. When the police finally arrived, they showed no interest in investigating her death. They instead arrested the woman who’d tried to save her. “I took some photographs, because it was so terrible; the police were more worried about my pictures than the baby,” she says. The police only released the woman once she handed over her film.
The chilling death of this baby, and countless others like her, reveals the gross inhumanity behind the enforcement of China’s one-child policy. The world’s most populous country with 1.3 billion people, China introduced the policy in 1979 in response to a rapid increase in the birth rate under former leader Mao Tse-tung, and a fear that the exploding population couldn’t be fed. Today, China’s leaders claim that the policy has been a great success, preventing an extra 300 million births.
Most Chinese recognize the need to keep the birth rate down, but the government’s methods continue to cause untold misery. “What’s happening since the one-child policy was introduced as a national catastrophe,” says Wu Hongli a woman’s aid worker in Shanghai who does outreach work in rural communities. “So many families have lost their children and had their lives destroyed.”
While abandonment is shockingly common, say Wu, some parents who give birth “outside the plan” are so terrified of being caught, they even kill their child. “One father dropped his daughter down an old well so no one would ever know she existed.”
Each region in China has a target “birth quota” for the number of babies allowed to be born per year. Local government offices and state-owned factories appoint female staff to monitor every woman’s menstrual cycle. Before conceiving a baby, women must have a “birth permit”; those who don’t, or who’ve already given birth have their contraceptive usage monitored. Though condoms and the Pill are available, the most common form of birth control is the metal IUD; it’s inserted at government clinics and detectable by X-ray to ensure it hasn’t been removed without authorization.
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Officially, the state condemns the use of force or cruelty in enforcing quotas. But in practice, officials feel pressure to achieve low birth rates or face disgrace and demotion, causing many to resort to brutal tactics. Population officials, “abortion squads” regularly conduct midnight raids into the homes of women suspected of becoming pregnant illegally. These squads drag offenders into custody and detain them until they submit to an abortion, even if they’re eight to nine months pregnant.
Gao Xio Duan, a former population-control official who fled to America three years ago, spoke out about the methods used to terminate illegal pregnancies. Describing herself as a “monster”, she told a U.S. Congressional committee how she had helped doctors inject lethal formaldehyde into babies’ skulls during forced abortions. “I saw how the baby’s lips were sucking and how its limbs were stretching,” she said of one such instance. “Then the doctor injected the poison into its head, and the child died and was thrown in the trash.”
Some pregnant women try to avoid capture by going into hiding. But often, they return after the birth to find their homes burned to the ground and their other family members beaten or persecuted. In an extreme case last year, a man in Changsha, a Hunan province, died after being tortured for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of his pregnant wife. If couple successfully give birth to an illegal baby, the face further punishment, including fines of around 10,000 yuan ($1500)--seven times more than the average peasant’s annual income--compulsory sterilization, forced confiscations of property. Children born this way are denied schooling, medical care, and other social benefits.
Many peasants believe only sons can carry on the family line. “They think it greatly dishonors their ancestors if they don’t produce a male heir,” says outreach worker Wu Hongli. Also, daughters usually live with their husband’s family after marriage and are, therefore, considered a wasted investment. “Although the one-child policy allows many rural couples to have another baby if their first is a girl, it spells disaster if their second child is also female,” says Wu. Such unwanted girls are often dubbed “maggots in the rice”. In northeast China, one man was so distraught when his second-born was a girl that he smothered bother her and his other healthy daughter. “It is a sin not to have a boy. I will try again for a son when I get out of prison,” he told police.
In China’s modern cities, the traditional desire for boys has all but disappeared. But coupled with the one-child policy, its endurance in the country side is having devastating social consequences. An estimated 17 million girls are “missing” from the population nationwide. Infanticide and abandonment account for some of these lost females, with those who survive ending up in bleak state orphanages--if they’re lucky. Other factors include sex-selective abortion, which are technically outlawed, but are still readily available through the use of ultrasound for a small bribe. According to official figures, 97.5 percent of all aborted fetuses in China are female. Failure to register the birth of girl babies is another factor; it’s believed many parents hide their daughters, or sell them to infertile couples, thereby making them invisible to authorities.
The result is a chronic imbalance in the male and female populations. Already, millions of rural Chinese men are unable to find a wife. To overcome this, young girls who leave their villages to look for work are often tricked and drugged by traffickers and then sold to older single men in distant provinces, where they don’t even speak the same dialect. This imbalance is set to worsen, too. A decade ago, the birth records of boys versus girls in some countryside areas where two to one. Today, the ratio is often as high as an alarming six to one.
Still, the Chinese government remains committed to its one-child policy. Wu Hongli despairs over this situation. “Of course, population is a serious issue,” she says, “but so are human rights. The authorities are making no attempt to implement more humane family planning.” She also laments official apathy toward teaching the population about the equal value of baby girls. “Educational programs have had a lot of success in rural areas, but there is still a vast amount to be done. So many tragedies are ignored every day that it makes me want to cry. ”Looking at the anonymous baby girl whose brief life ended on a roadside only a few weeks ago, it’s impossible not to feel the same way.
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