Bradblog lies again, censors criticism of anti-semitism and manipulates its audience

Bradblog are at it again.

When Brad Friedman and others working for Bradblog are unable to respond to arguments they simply traduce the commentator, resort to personal insult, manufacture lies and finally censor any right of reply. This happens even as they make such a deal about how the MainStreamMedia operates in such a fashion. Bradblog likes to pretend it has much higher standards, but it doesn't. It has far lower standards.

I'll post what was deleted from the thread over at Bradblog later. Essentially Brad Friedman denied ever deleting criticism of anti-semitism but when the evidence was presented, he deleted it and prevented my posting any further responses. Brad and Canning proceeded to traduce my character and completely misrepresented my position, whilst taking measures to prevent my having a right to reply. Hypocrites / liars / manipulators.

The evidence I'd posted against Bradblog follows - it's only a partial illustration of behaviour at Bradblog, but make no mistake - such behaviour is characteristic of BradBlog, whatever they might say by way of denial. Why else would they delete the evidence instead of simply mocking it viciously as they usually do to any criticism?
Let the reader decide? Sure.....

The charge against BradBlog is that it iundulges anti-semitism, even using a moderator whom promotes sources and content from Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Ford's "International Jew", William Pierce, Willis Carto etc. Bradblog has repeatedly censored such claims - even censoring the evidence when it was given at their request. Shameful.

The evidence which Bradblog asked for but deleted follows. The content essentially comprises illustrations of what Bradblog censors, and what it indulges (extreme anti-semitism):

http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-posted-this-at-bradblog-will-they.html


http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/08/bradblog-hypocrisy.html

http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/08/insight-bradblog-censorship.html

If one follows the links given in those posts, one can clearly see that Bradblog has been censoring criticism of anti-semitism, even as they deny it. On the other hand, Bradblog indulges anti-semitism, giving those whom hold some despicable views "free-rein".

The following provides further evidence against Bradblog: charges of hypocrisy over "demonisation" and "dehumanisation" which Bradblog makes a deal about exposing, but which they indulge, protect through censorship, and transmit (through their comments section and associated venues). The following evidence refers to interactions with Big Dan's Big Blog which is/was frequented by a coterie of posters at Bradblog, including Brad's moderator "Agent99". What is Brad doing associating with such people? How come these people find BradBlog so sympathetic to their views? How come Bradblog employs a moderator (!) whom hangs with such people and whom hold such repulsive (anti-semitic/fascist) views. People pushing anti-semitism are embraced whilst those criticising it are censored, traduced and banned. Some standard, huh?


http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/08/deleted-at-big-dans-big-blog.html

http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/08/banned-from-big-dans-big-blog.html

http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/08/big-dans-big-blog.html

http://the-last-blog-left.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-is-what-big-dans-big-blog-deletes.html

More here.

I'll post the deletions from the latest episode of censorship later. Just for the record, like....

Rivero claims proxy-registrars are for "cointel" (!!!!!)

Nevermind that sooooo many of the links Rivero provides go to domains registered with Go-Daddy's proxy-registrar? HAHA. Rivero was even sponsored by one - ProgressiveIndependent.com


I found this one elsewhere too:


Interesting, no?

Rivero links to racism (?) at Palestinian-Intifada.com

Rivero linked to an article at intifada-palestine.com written by Khalid Amayreh.

An Epitome of the Israeli Jewish Society

The article starts with the despicable photos taken by the female Israeli military/prison warder, and moves to suggest it epitomises "Israeli Jewish Society".

Here's a definition of epitome:

a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class.

Here's the author, asserting that the vileness of those photos epitomises the entire jewish/israel society:

Well, I don’t know if the Gestapo behaved similarly with Jewish detainees in the course of the Second World War. What is sufficiently clear to me though is that this woman’s sick behavior, especially her invocation of Zionism as a justification for her brutal sadism, is by no means an isolated case in a society suffering from a deep collective psychosis.

This is why it is safe to assume that this type of behavior represents the modus operandi in the Israeli occupation army as well as throughout the Israeli Jewish society as a whole.

It is a society that has come to view the Palestinians as “objects for abuse” rather than “human beings.” This is what makes Israeli soldiers so callously and so nonchalantly and haphazardly murder innocent Palestinians in the streets, in schools, and playgrounds in Gaza.
SOURCE

Emphasis added.

Der Sturmer? Crikey. Of course Israelis are killing innocent children at playgrounds all the time.....aren't they? It's a matter of policy, isn't it? Sure. And who is actually being dehumanised in those paragraphs? The picture is of Israelis as some zombified military menace - Zio-drones? So who is being dehumanised here? And isn't this racism - at least anti-semitism? The writer specifically says An Epitome of Israeli-Jewish society.

Here's their own list of contributors:

Prominent Contributors:

Alan Hart
Alan Sabrosky
Anthony Lawson
Aijaz Zaka Syed
Debbie Menon
Frank Lamb
Hesham Tillawi
Jeff Gates
James Petras
Maidhc O Cathail
Paul Balles
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Tim King
Joe Mowrey
William A. Cook
Antoine Raffoul
Stuart Littlewood
Khalid Amayreh
Dr. Elias Akleh
Bishop Donald R. Corder
Dr. Lawrence Davidson


Also Featured Writers:

Allison Weir
Ali Abunimah
Ayman T. Qadar
Elias Akleh
Grant Smith
Richard Falk
Tammy Obeidallah
Jeffrey Blankfort
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Justin Ramiando
John Trafficant
Mary Rizzo
Mohmed Khodr
Omar Barghouti
Philip Giraldi
Ramzy Baroud
Raymond Deane
Stuart Littlewood
Terry Arnold
Dr. Bouthaina Shabaan
Glenn Greenwald

If one takes a look here, it can be seen they are still using images known to be of highly questionable authenticity:


That image comes from a series (from Qana) and they are discussed here::

2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.

This is where the Reuters scandal started: with bloggers noticing that some of the images showing the aftermath of the July 30 air raid on Qana looked fishy. There are by now dozens of different photographs from that day whose authenticity has been seriously questioned, so all I can present here is a small representative sample.

Rivero lying cunt repeats lies about Ariel Sharon

Mike Rivero, the filthy antisemtic lying cunt repeats his claims that:

Israel has committed an act of war, attacking a US-flagged ship and Americans in international waters; the same crime and for the same reason that Japan attacked US-flagged ships and Americans in 1941. The present government's pathetic roll-over to the attacking nation should end any doubts that Ariel Sharon was not kidding when he stated "We the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it!"

Rivero - the RonPaul supporting Hypocrite

Today Rivero claims:

Corporations are entities which have no conscience.

Therefore, it is critical to the economic health of a country that appropriate government regulation protect its people from corporate abuse.

Tell it to RonPaul, you moron! You know, the guy you supported for President!? The radical free-marketeer, neo-liberal wanker you supported the last 2 years! Tell it to your friend and employer, Alex Jones? Sheesh.

This coming from Rivero! An anti-socialist, anti-government type, whom believes taxes are illegal! So, if not a capitalist, and not a socialist, what is he? FASCIST.

Yet more Rivero lies (it's endless!)

Rivero doesn't believe Al Qaida exists - he believes it is a product of US/Israeli governments. In fact Rivero appears to believe all terrorism is a product of the same nexus of interests - US and Israel. But really Rivero believes in the Hitlerite idea of World Jewish Conspiracy.

Here's Rivero claiming Al Qaida is fake. The irony is that his quote is fabricated - Robin Cook never said these words.

Fake Al Qaeda

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
SOURCE: Mike Rivero's WRH

Michael Rivero is a nazi-sympathising, anti-semitic liar. That's why he won't sue if you say it - he knows he is.

Here's Wayne Madsen reporting the same lie.

Seriously, why do people have to invent quotes? Why can't they take the least bit of diligence to find out if they even said these things? They either can't be bothered -- why believe them? --- or they know they're lying -- why believe them?

More provocations - Women sent to break military blockade

Here's the comments made at WRH about this provocation through exploitation of women:

1-justice
Oh they'll definately sink it now!

The Israeli forces will be PISSED off that the 'scantily-clad' LEBANESE POP-STAR wasn't allowed to sail.

If Israel touches this Lebanese ship full of peace-activist ladies,then the US should NUKE ISRAEL!
God! Israel is such a criminal embarrassment to humanity.
In fact our 'Armada' should be ESCORTING the Lebanese ship through international,open waters,to Gaza,and PROTECTING IT from Israel.
You have no shame Israel or Obama!
06/20/2010 - 16:28

2-atrayou
Ladies first. I’m sure that these courageous women can show more strength than any other idea we could come up with. Thanks to the women. We all have a Mother and we all know that Mothers do not like the kinds of things that have been going on in Gaza. Go ladies , no force of human origin can stop you.
06/21/2010 - 01:03

No mothers in Israel, obviously. What will it be next - a boatload of small children, furry animals?

Consider what view the Lebanese, Islam, Rivero and these commenters have of Israel? They see it as a bloodthirsty, irrational, evil, militaristic gangsterism. And yet here they are, applauding the dispatch of shiploads of women (and previously children) to "break the blockade"! They can't see their own moral decrepitude? This is called using human shields. It's exploitation. At least the women won't wield iron bars quite so ferociously.

Rivero - bald deception

I was reading Rivero's essay on "fake terror" for the previous post. I saw something odd, and was going to raise it, but decided against it. But I've just read something else at his site - "a new WRH Exclsuive" (wooo)- which completely contradicts his earlier position.

Here's what he wrote years back, explaining how "fake terror" is supposedly used to manipulate public opinion, in this example America's entry to WW2:

Roosevelt needed an enemy, and if America would not willingly attack that enemy, then one would have to be maneuvered into attacking America, much as Marcus Licinius Crassus has maneuvered Spartacus into attacking Rome.

The way open to war was created when Japan signed the tripartite agreement with Italy and Germany, with all parties pledging mutual defense to each other. Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand.

The first step was to place oil and steel embargoes on Japan, using Japan's wars on the Asian mainland as a reason. This forced Japan to consider seizing the oil and mineral rich regions in Indonesia. With the European powers militarily exhausted by the war in Europe, the United States was the only power in the Pacific able to stop Japan from invading the Dutch East Indies, and by moving the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Roosevelt made a pre-emptive strike on that fleet the mandatory first step in any Japanese plan to extend its empire into the "southern resource area".

Roosevelt boxed in Japan just as completely as Crassus had boxed in Spartacus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to get it, and to do that they first had to remove the threat of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. There never really was any other course open to them.
SOURCE

Well, I wouldn't listen to Rivero for any history - why trust him at all. But notice the strength of his argument that Japan had no choice but to react USA provocation? I thought this was a pretty ridiculous view when I read it first, but look at this new post of Rivero's where he likens Israel's 'attack' on the flotilla to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? Look at how his ideological and tactical need dictates his view of history (and not the other way around):

Back in 1941, there was this foreign nation, Japan, which was illegally occupying other peoples' lands in China and Indonesia.

There were Americans in close proximity to that foreign nation, in the then-territory of Hawaii, and even though the Americans had not actually done much of anything, that foreign nation decided it had the right to attack and kill Americans just on the off chance that somewhere down the road, they might be in inconvenience.

Thus came about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
SOURCE

Some difference, huh?!! Sheesh. In the first one Rivero has to emphasis the US government's desire to enter war - and so Japan is cast as a poor trapped manipulated innocent. But in the second, so as to rhetorically attack Israel, Japan is cast as an aggressive, imperial power, which attacked the USA. Same events, completely different explanations - dependent on the propaganda needs of the moment. The guy is mentally ill if he doesn't recognise these contradictions. If he does recognise them (even only to himself), he's obviously working a propaganda agenda for which the truth is voluntarily and consciously disregarded as necessary.

Rivero on Terrorism. Islam and the far-right

If one's premises lead to a logical conclusion which is absurd, there's something wrong with your premises.

MR@WRH: Indeed, given that acts of terror undermine the very public support needed by the so-called "terrorists" to bring about change, it may be argued that there are in fact no genuine acts of terror; that they are all manufactured events to be blamed on the groups wishing to challenge the status quo.
SOURCE

But what if groups who want to obliterate the status quo actually undertake terrorism? It isn't impossible - indeed, it's ridiculous to assume it never happens and therefore it must all be manufactured. How stupid! Taking such a position removes all responsibility from terrorism itself - its political goals, its ideological content and the organisations/individuals which support and sustain it.

Rivero's conception is that 'all terorism is "fake terror"' - a complete absolving of responsibility, and a transference of it to....whom/what?:

"FAKE TERROR -
THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

Michael Rivero
It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need."

Is it? The oldest trick?

The Reichstag fire was a disaster for Communists because they received the blame for starting it, but it was a dream come true for Hitler and his cohorts as it allowed them to turn Germany into a dictatorship.

It seems clear though that the Communists were not responsible. But Rivero's next sentence runs:

Did the Bush administration try the same trick on September 11, 2001?

The victims of the 9/11 attacks have been disaster for Muslims because 19 Arabs were named as hijackers of the plane

[SIC] A poor sentence by Rivero, nevertheless, blaming 911 on "muslims" [who did do it*] is hardly the same as blaming communists for the Reichstag when they didn't do it! (*the evidence points to what it does - and nobody with any sense claims it was "muslims" who did it - the evidence points to radical, fundamentalist elements of Islam - which surely do not represent the entirety of Islam and all muslims, and cannot reasonably regarded as such. The charge is not "muslims did it" - but certain sections/sects/schools of Islam-ism......Al Qaida. That's what the evidence points to.]

Why should we accept all terrorism is "manufactured" based on such an argument? Communists didn't do the Reichstag therefore extreme Islam-ism-ists can't have done 911, nor Bali, nor London, nor Madrid! All terrorism is manufactured - it doesn't actually exist!

Rivero gives a hint of who he's suggesting really is responsible, and now it isn't a government administration as earlier suggested - it's morphing into something else:

"[The 911 attacks have] been a dream come true for the PNAC 'think-tank'"

PNAC is associated with 911 conspiracy, predominantly with a anti-Zionsit/anti-semitic slant. Israel/Jewish conspiracy. PNAC does have a lot of seemingly obvious pro-Israel influence, of course, but it also has a lot of Turkish influence. Several of the members are now registered as representing Turkish State Interests in USA.....Perle for example. [Doesn't that cause problems for Bill Kristol's WeeklyStandard etc? No?] The names that show up for PNAC - which conspiracists all know and associate with Israel - also show in Sibel Edmonds' accusations - but in association with Turkey! But no-one much notices. Rivero doesn't.....

MR: There can be only one reason for the above - 9/11 wasn't a surprise attack, it was a governmentally orchestrated "catastrophic and catalyzing event".

So, American and German (and Israeli!) governments are capable, if not compelled to produce 'fake terror'. But the Turkish state, Iran, Taliban, Al Qaida, cannot do so - they cannot/will not produce real terror. It just doesn't exist. This is fantasy.

MR: bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.

Bin Laden sounds like Rivero, then:

Rivero: The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Immediately following the 9-11 attacks the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to bin Laden. TV talking-heads, "experts", and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable.

Bin Laden: "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States."

Rivero does a good job for Bin Laden......and imagine if Rivero's completely wrong and Bin Laden is responsible? Rivero position looks pretty sick then. Look at his defence of Bin laden:

To date, the only shred of “evidence” to be uncovered against bin Laden is a barely audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find "lying around" in Afghanistan. How very convenient, and how very fake.

There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda "terrorist network" to these acts of terror, but there is a mountain of evidence, both hard and circumstantial, which suggests that Zionists have been very busy framing Arabs for terror plots against America.
SOURCE

Bin Laden is exonerated, and "Zionists" blamed instead.

Rivero's argument starts at the Reichstag and concludes "Jews did 911....!!"

Worth noting that Rivero here accepts the deceptiveness of Nazism to make his argument about extremes of Government deception - Reichstag, Gleiwitz radio station. But this doesn't seem to effect his view of the Holocaust, about which he all too keen to believe the Nazis and their apologists. Nor does it ever seem to impinge on his wider support for Nazism at all in any way. This seems a familiar theme amongst these crypto-fascist conspiracists -- they only criticise Nazism by inference, when they wish to make their targets look bad eg claims like "the government acts like the Nazis by blaming Muslims for 911", or, "Gaza is like Warsaw! A concentration camp!" etc. Suddenly concentration camps and the Ghettos are an historic fact!! At least one might expect so? Furthermore, most people making such complaints would happily turn the tables and subject their supposed enemies (the Jews) to the same. Such people don't oppose events or the status quo on principle - only their position within it. They're pissed because they're powerless - but they'd happily change places. No deep principle at work.

Michael Rivero: Let us consider that the war began with the attack on the USS Liberty. Let us freeze Israel's assets in the US the way Palestinian and Arab assets have been frozen. Let us treat suspected Israeli spies and terrorists the way suspected Arab spies and terrorist are treated.

This is very similar to Rivero's many calls for hackers to be sent to Guantanamo. Good enough for hackers, but an outrage for Islamic warriors? Hmmm.

Allen L Roland - Idiot

[from] Allen L Roland's Weblog

STOP THE ZIONIST PIRATES OF ISRAEL

Mazza poem

HEIL, ISRAEL !

" Stiffen your back and click your heels
and thrust your right hand to the Fuhrer
morphing into Netanyahu
and the Nazi crowds of Judah,
becoming their own murderers,
replacing their lost with living Gazans,
Palestine no longer theirs,
an open prison and sore surpassing
the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow,
Jewish sections now Arab quarters
rolling towards a final solution
like the tanks and bulldozers flattening
what life stands that slings a stone back
like David to Goliath, blinding his wrath,
children of another god
in name only, the creation
sentencing the killers to sterility
by depleted uranium
packed in the shower of bombs they dropped
whose radioactive response was blind,
attacking the organs of life on the wind,
leaving the future a two-state graveyard,
burying the Fourth Reich with its victims,
death by a remorseless reversal of history,
a universal amnesia as the
edifices crumble like Berlin
into a thousand years of dust. "

Let's make the world's outcry too loud to ignore. Join the petition for an international investigation into the raid, accountability for those responsible, and an immediate end to the blockade in Gaza ~ click to sign the petition, and then forward this message to everyone on your mailing list. http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_flotilla_8/?vl

Moshe Dayan, Israel’s most celebrated general, famously outlined the strategy he believed would keep Israel’s enemies at bay "Israel must be a like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother " but this mad dog is rabid and must be delt with immediately ~ even at the laughable risk of being called Anti-Semitic.
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Rivero - hypocrite

MR: Okay for Israel to blockade Gaza, but illegal for Arizona to protect their borders? Does this makes any sense to anyone?

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But Rivero supports Arizona immigration law. And opposes the blockade. Mexican workers are more dangerous than Grads?

Proof of anti-semitism? As featured at WRH

MR: Israel, alone among all other UN members, had two conditions placed on its membership, a right of return for Palestinians who lost their homes when Israel was created, and full compensation for those Palestinians who chose not to return. Israel has not complied with either condition.
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Israel, alone among all other UN members, had two conditions placed on its membership.

Is it only me that finds that odd? Clearly the bald fact of exceptionalism towards Israel doesn't register.

Rivero on Israel's jailing of "racists"

MR: One has to shake one's head at the overt,blatant racism, from one Jewish group in Israel against another at this point in the 21st century.
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CURT MAYNARD

But Israel is jailing people for this supposed "racism"!! The people being jailed say they were there were before the state of Israel and its laws - "Why should we submit to nation-state-law?" they ask. If these were Americans, not Jews, Rivero would be behind them, for their defiance of ThePowersThatBe - and their "right" to be racist. Instead Rivero sees just division..... [Odd amongst the people who he supposes rule the world with one voice and one mission? No? lol]

CURT MAYNARD!!! Home schooling!!! Libertarianism!!!!!! Where'd that go all a sudden, Rivero? CURT MAYNARD!!!!

Sibel Edmonds - After Flotilla

Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb
A Real 9/11 Cover-Up?

By DAVE LINDORFF - January 7, 2008

If a new article just published Saturday in the Times of London based upon information provided by US government whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, we have not only solid evidence of prior knowledge of 9-11 by high up US government officials, but evidence of treasonous activity by many of those same officials involving efforts to provide US nuclear secrets to America's enemies, even including Al Qaeda.

The Sunday Times reports that Edmonds, whose whistleblowing efforts have been studiously ignored by what passes for the news media in American news media, approached the Rupert Murdoch-owned British paper a month ago after reading a report there that an Al-Qaeda leader had been training some of the 9-11 hijackers at a base in Turkey, a US NATO alley, under the noses of the Turkish military.

Edmonds, who was recruited by the FBI after 9-11 because of her Turkish and Farsi language skills, has long been claiming that in her FBI job of covertly monitoring conversations between Turkish, Israeli, Persian and other foreign agents and US contacts, including a backlog of untranslated tapes dating back to 1997, she had heard evidence of "money laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons technology." But the Turkish training for 9-11 rang more alarm bells and made her decide that talking behind closed doors to Congress or the FBI was not enough. She had to go public.

Edmonds claims in the Times that even as she was providing evidence of moles within the US State Department, the Pentagon, and the nuclear weapons establishment, who were providing nuclear secrets for cash, through Turkey, to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, agencies within the Bush administration were actively working to block investigation and to shield those who were committing the acts of treason.

Pakistan's ISI is known to have had, and to still maintain close contacts with Al-Qaeda. Indeed, the Times notes that Pakistan's nuclear god-father, General Mahmoud Ahmad, was accused of sanctioning a $100,000 wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the attacks.

Edmonds claims, in the Times article, that following the 9-11 attacks, FBI investigators took a number of Turkish and Pakistani operatives into custody for questioning about foreknowledge of the attacks, but that a high-ranking US State Department official repeatedly acted to spirit them out of the country.

Edmonds was fired from her FBI translating job in 2002 after she accused a colleague of having illicit contact with Turkish officials.

If Edmonds' story is correct, and Al-Qaeda, with the aid of Turkish government agents and Pakistani intelligence, with the help of US government officials, has been attempting to obtain nuclear materials and nuclear information from the U.S., it casts an even darker shadow over the mysterious and still unexplained incident last August 30, when a B-52 Stratofortress, based at the Minot strategic air base in Minot, ND, against all rules and regulations of 40 years' standing, loaded and flew off with six unrecorded and unaccounted for nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.

That incident only came to public attention because three as yet unidentified Air Force whistleblowers contacted a reporter at the Military Times newspaper, which ran a series of stories about it, some of which were picked up by other US news organizations.

Yet in view of Edmonds' story to the London Times, alleging that there has been an ongoing, active effort for some years by both Al Qaeda and by agents of two US allies, Turkey and Pakistan, to get US nuclear weapons secrets and even weapons, and that there are treasonous moles at work within the American government and nuclear bureaucracy aiding and abetting those efforts, surely at a minimum, a major public inquiry is called for.

Meanwhile, there is enough in just this one London Times story to keep an army of investigative reporters busy for years. So why, one has to ask, is this story appearing in a highly respected British newspaper, but not anywhere in the corporate US media?

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His book of CounterPunch columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common Courage Press. Lindorff's newest book is "The Case for Impeachment", co-authored by Barbara Olshansky.
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01072008.html
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I've previously been struck by how Sibel Edmonds' claims were taken by the anti-semites of TheTroofMoovement: she actually accuses Turkey and Saudi Arabia, not Israel. Yet that's often how she's presented.

But in light of the flotilla fury, and the obviously newly provocative Turkey moving closer to Iran and away from NATO/Europe, and their possible sympathy and aid for all the IHH, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaida stuff, Edmonds' claims are suddnly much more interesting. For one thing, why Rivero ignores it?

Somehow, people like Rivero don't seem to want to know anymore? He's full-on in support of the Turks - as he is with any Islamic regime, no matter how hardline. Rivero has even been whooping about how great Ahmadinejad's threat of sending a flotilla was - as if starting a regional war was a step forward!

And here's Sibel Edmonds, one-time favourite of the Troofers, and what she's said is being ignored.

ETA: From Edmonds' present website (BoilingFrogs):

Recently released FBI documents prove the existence of highly sensitive National Security and criminal investigations of “Turkish Activities” in Chicago prior to September 11, 2001. These documents add further support to many of the allegations that former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has claimed, in public and in Congress, since 2002. The documents were released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request into an organization called the Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA), an organization repeatedly named by Ms. Edmonds as being complicit in the crimes that she became aware of when she was a translator at the FBI.
SOURCE

Compare that to what appears at WhatReallyHappened:

ZIONIST DOMINANCE IN THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY

The chiefs of staff for Barack and Michele Obama are both Ashkenazim from Chicago, long a center of foreign espionage. That fact was recently reconfirmed by Federal Bureau of Investigation translator Sibel Edmonds when, from FBI wiretaps, she documented the close working relationship between the Israel Lobby and U.S. officials with power over policy making in the Middle East, including Richard Perle, Wolfowitz understudy Douglas Feith and key members of Congress
SOURCE

It doesn't even mention Turkey! Or the fact that Chicago is centre of Turkish activity AND the Muslim Brotherhood.

Indeed, in a previous post I mentioned that a lawyer, who worked for Muslim Brotherhood connected organisations in CHICAGO(!) was apparently using WRH's email when asking for feedback on his essays. I can't yet see any reason to discount the fact Rivero is an extreme fundamentalist muslim supporter of radical Islam. Certainly he does absolutely nothing to criticise it, and every position he takes defends it, and pushes blame elsewhere. Bizarre.

Gaza a Giant Prison?

These pictures from Gaza have been recently published in The Guardian. They are quite astonishing to witness alongside all the fury and moral outrage generated by the idea that Gaza is a modern Warsaw Ghetto. That's a pretty insulting view, imo, used only to twist the knife of the Holocaust memory....as a malevolent and cruel reminder. I don't know what life in Gaza is really like, but nor do most people. Though one wouldn't imagine so to listen to them tell you how it is.

Anyway, these pictures are dramatic. Look at the health of the children in the photos. Look at the conditions - hardly a concentration camp. Of course, this is a very narrow view of Gaza, it would be ridiculous to take any group of pictures as representative. But that cuts both ways and is what people appear to be missing. These pictures make a sharp illustartion of that, I think.







Palestinian children play at a summer camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on a beach in Gaza City
Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Rivero out in the Open - and exposed

I had a ding-dong with Mr Michael Rivero of WhatReallyHappened website. It's a rare event for Mr Rivero to put himself in a position to face the public. Mr Rivero inhabits a world where he can usually control everything that's said.

Rivero had bragged he'd had a letter published in the Honolulu Advertiser (about America, Israel and the flotilla). Rivero had 'invited' his readers to thank the Honolulu newspaper, leaving their email for his supporters to click, and a link to the page on which doubtless they were 'supposed' to leave comments.

I took the opportunity and what followed was a 3 day rumpus of comments which ended at a total of some 370+ comments - it proved a very interesting and extensive review of Rivero and his methods. And of his ethics, and those of his "crowd".

Rivero is now trumpeting the exchange as one wherein he was using me as "target-practice", that I am a MegaPhoney, that I wanted to stifle debate about Israel to protect her from the least criticism. His hypocrisy and deceit is endless! (That's why he provides such a rich source of it.)

The thread at the Honolulu Advertiser is here.

Here's Rivero inviting his followers to back him up..... Rivero-Phonies?


The comments added by members(?) of WRH are here.
Notice the difference in tone between what 'the good members' of WRH say when they're at home compared to when they're in the public, as at the newspaper's comments board.

The single comment for this post of Rivero's says: "Would I be correct in assuming that ...this newspaper is not owned by a Ziotard?"

Here's Rivero again


I would invite anyone to read that thread and imagine that "Israel's MegaPhonies(!) piled-in". It was just me? A few other people kept some threads going, one apparently strong and very broadly anti-Islamist. But I was there on my own - Rivero invited people to comment.

I also invite anyone to assess whether my comments were without substance, not backed-up, As Rivero claims - completely falsely in my opinion, and in objective fact I would tender.

As for "anti-semitism" performing the same role as "communist" once did (in America) -- there's a major difference in the content and substance of the accusation. This just looks like a Nazi whom, on fear of exposure, is screaming McCarthyite!!

I mean, since when did Rivero cease using "Communist!" as an accusation? [The man can't say a word without contradiction]


Oh - now suddenly it's only one Mega-Phonie? And it (me) was "screaming". Right.

The WRH member comments are here, one of which revealingly says

Discernment

We can all agree there was an OBVIOUS difference between the postings of Michael Rivero and Curt. Throughout, it appeared that Michael was trying to state that "wrong is wrong" no matter who the perpetrators are (or were), whether they were Nazis, Zionists, Communists, Fascists, the American Government, etc. (This is THE consistent philosophy as demonstrated by the types of articles posted at WRH.)

Hmmmm, no. This is the basic fraud of WRH. It has a very narrow perspective - a peculiarly warped one at that - Hitlerite Jewish World Conspiracy, in a pathological fashion.

WRH does not represent various viewpoints, it has a very strict agenda which can be delineated through study. What is left out, and what gets in. (In my opinion, Rivero is fascist.....and increasingly he appears extreme Islamist. One can't put a rizzla-paper between Rivero and Bin Laden or HAMAS - though Bin Laden seems more prepared to take responsibility than Rivero will allow.)

and again


He was using me as target practice? Really? I thought I'd shown he was morally bankrupt, a liar and a fraud. Dangerous too.

and again


My "endless smears" of Rivero were actually serious accusations he couldn't refute, and which I would never have made without being certain of them. I don't call people liars in print without certainty - it'd be stupid to do so.

WRH comments page is here.

and again


My version runs more like:

Rivero LIES

I say he's a liar.

Rivero LIES AGAIN.

I say he's a liar.

etc.

WRH -- excusing rocket attacks on (Israeli) civilians

Usually hit empty fields? Usually?

That the rockets in HAMAS' possession are inaccurate is not a reason to excuse them. In fact it makes them worse, it means they're indiscriminate. Indiscriminate rocket attacks on civilians......excused. The Goldstone report called such attacks "war crimes". WRH calls them fireworks......

WRH - clever anti-Israel propaganda

WhatReallyHappened.com advertises:

Edward Peck: Israel "smearing" the opposition
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Here's the thing. I just got off a radio interview. One of the things that distresses me is the extent to which Israel has been successful in, for example, getting Americans to ask questions as to why the passengers on that big Turkish ship attacked the Israeli soldiers.

My emphasis. So, simply asking questions means one has fallen for Israeli manipulations - one has fallen under their spell and become a mouthpiece for Israel. Israel makes people ask questions. How dreadful. What pernicious corruption.

Don't ask questions - don't expose yourself as a dupe for Israel! Mad.

Lot's being said at the moment on the order of events around the Mavi Marmara situation. At least this article admits "the passengers on that big Turkish ship attacked the Israeli soldiers" - most everywhere omits this definite fact and claim it was the other way around.

There are so many suggestions that passengers were killed before the Israelis boarded and were attacked. There is no direct evidence for this at the moment, but people believe it. That's what I find interesting - that it's an objective fact we don't know what happened -- and yet people speak as if they already know. And how do their assumptions go? Well, there's an obvious keen-ness to reach conclusions which condemn Israel. Every detail reflects the same urge....all unknowns are simply assumed and - it seems to me - they unfailingly condemn Israel. That's my impression of the general reaction.

Moreover, raise a voice against it, and expect to get shouted down. Viciously too. A frightful climate. yuck.