21 November - Remembering the Path of War in Today's News

Image by moggs oceanlane via FlickrA Nation Covered in Ash

Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill

 Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.

ctivist group DemandProgress, which is running a petition against the bill, argued the powers in the bill could be used for political purposes. If the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is found to be hosting copyrighted material, for instance, access to WikiLeaks could be blocked for all US Internet users, they suggested.

A group of academics, led by Temple University law professor David Post, have signed a petition opposing COICA.

"The Act, if enacted into law, would fundamentally alter U.S. policy towards Internet speech, and would set a dangerous precedent with potentially serious consequences for free expression and global Internet freedom," Post wrote in the petition letter (PDF).

"Blacklisting entire sites out of the domain name system," explained the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF), a privacy and digital rights advocate group, is a "reckless scheme that will undermine global Internet infrastructure and censor legitimate online speech."

Image by ElectronicFrontierFoundation via Flickr 

North Koreans Unveil Vast New Plant for Nuclear Use

The speed with which it was built strongly suggests that the impoverished, isolated country, which tested its first nuclear device in 2006, had foreign help and evaded strict new United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed to punish its rejection of international controls.

A delegation of American experts that included Dr. Hecker has already reported that it confirmed satellite photographic evidence of another new advance by the North — a light-water reactor being built on the site of a facility the country had dismantled as part of an agreement with the international community to end its nuclear weapons program.

The White House is clearly eager to use the new information to show that North Korea, in violation of United Nations mandates, continues to make significant progress toward advancing its nuclear program, even though it remains under international sanctions for its past violations.

( Go for it : Spheres of InfluenceImage via Wikipedia

The USA has been at war with Korea through proxy war in South Korea for what, 58 years now without adhering to any agreements it makes to induce North Korea to stop using nuclear power - which is basically the way the USA/UK have perverted and trashed the Nuclear nonProliferation Treaty ; Third Pillar assuring unhampered use of peaceful civilian technology notwithstanding.  If a better demonstration exists that United States/United Kingdom/UN Security Council policies of sanctions, economic warfare, and propaganda fearmongering has instead spurred them to show that they can retaliate for nuclear aggression in kind  I would like to see it. And I'm sure Iran will be taking notes of the outcomes despite its greater interest in getting the Israeli nuclear threat gone. 

Nor is it likely that China has forgotten that it was her interest in preserving North Korea as a buffer zone and throwing out US led UN forces from North Korea that caused the everlasting stalemate. Adding expanding NATO resources openly to the US beck and call since is not likely to provide any reassurance lulling them into a false sense of security.  Taiwan is still a bone of contention as well.

A reality check that I have noted before

• "1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto
  "2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.)

  Russia to monitor nuclear programs jointly with NATO — Medvedev

  ( Anyone who has read 'The Guns of August' should recall the role of interlocking 'defensive' treaties in initiating World War I - The Great War. And it's only 10 days since the cautions of Remembrance Day...'Lest We Forget'  I added a piece from Doug's Darkworld that includes a shot of the beach landing in Normandy.  And for any youngsters who don't have a clue about these old stories, they are fine reading. 

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  GORDON DUFF: Are Terrorists Supplying Our Airport Scanners?

  ( I think the answer should be 'Yes!' TSA is Reich government fearmongering from Fatherland Security aka 'Homeland' Security. And don't bother telling me I am making unwarranted references to Hitler. Who do you think backed Him way back when?

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  The New Great Game

  The Greater Indian Ocean - a region that stretches “eastward from the Horn of Africa past the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent, all the way to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond."

  Although it became something of a strategic backwater during the cold war, this maritime domain is emerging as the global system’s center of gravity. Through it pass huge tankers carrying a large fraction of the world’s energy. At its western end, from Somalia to the monarchies of the Persian Gulf to Iran and Pakistan along the shores of the Arabian Sea, lie the main sources of Islamist extremism. Most important of all, it is in the Indian Ocean that the interests and influence of India, China and the United States are beginning to overlap and intersect. It is here, Kaplan says, that the 21st century’s “global power dynamics will be revealed.”

   

  'Lost Canadians' seek citizenship at home

  Tessier found out she was stateless when her older sister applied for a driver's license in Manitoba, a process that requires proof of citizenship. The sisters appeared before a parliamentary committee studying the cases of "lost Canadians" in 2007.

  The committee was moved by their stories and offered the pair a special grant of citizenship. Her sister took it, but Tessier refused, on the grounds that if she deserves citizenship, so do all the others facing the same hardship.

  "They've not done the right thing," said the B.C. resident, who now has a British passport. "I'm waiting for them to do the right thing."

  
  

   

Marine whistleblower Franz Gayl: Security clearance removal is retaliation

Senators called him a hero for disclosures that helped get heavily armored vehicles known as MRAPs to the battlefield.

Copyright Expansion Through Misinformation Has Gone On A Long Time... And It Involved Pimps & Ferrets

 Alan Wexellat points us to the news that Anderson has now redone the paper as a book, and has released Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States under a Creative Commons license.

 

The financial and human costs of the tough on crime agenda

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Related articles

• Wyden's service to the net (ridenbaugh.com)
• Understanding COICA, America's horrific proposed net-censorship bill (boingboing.net)
• COICA - This Is Not The Way To Deal With Internet Infringing (lockergnome.com)
• The Case Against COICA (descentintodarkness.wordpress.com)
• Senator: Web Censorship Bill A 'Bunker-Busting Cluster Bomb' (wired.com)

15 October - Lessons from a Time of Crisis

Haaretz.com

Why did Adolf Hitler hate the Jews?

Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews stemmed from his belief that they "stole" victory from the country in the First World War, according to a newly published book titled "November 9: How World War One Led to the Holocaust."

"The core of his hatred lies at the defeat of Germany in WWI," the book's author Joachim Riecker told the Daily Telegraph, "where Hitler blamed the Jews for defeat of the country, the collapse of the monarchy and the ruination of millions."

History Learning Site > Adolf Hitler

Hitler worked within the Education Department of the army and his task was to lecture returning soldiers on the dangers of communism, socialism and pacifism. Senior officers were impressed with Hitler's skills as a speaker. It was at this time that the corporal, who was a loner, discovered his greatest talent - public oratory. The gas attack Hitler had suffered had affected his vocal chords and he spoke in a manner that few had heard before. 

In September 1919, Hitler visited, as a V-Man, a meeting of the German Workers' Party. The party name indicated that it had socialist leanings with its "workers'" tag. It was, in fact, an extreme, anti-Semitic, anti-communist, right wing nationalist party led by Karl Drexler. At Hitler's visit, it only had 40 members. Hitler informed the army that it posed no threat to Germany. After this visit, Hitler joined the party as it seemed to represent all that he believed in. He quickly became the party's propaganda officer.

In early 1920, the party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) which quickly got corrupted to 'Nazi' by both enemies and supporters alike. Hitler wrote out the party's beliefs in the so-called 25 Point Party Programme. This party programme was a curious mixture - right wing nationalism; anti-capitalism; anti-socialism; anti-wealth etc. 

This rag-bag mixture would have been laughable in normal circumstances but Germany was not in normal circumstances. The NSDAP played on the Germans hatred of the Treaty of Versailles (which it said it would ignore); the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back.

In a 1920 leaflet, the NSDAP blamed 300 bankers and financiers throughout the world for dictating policy to the world and holding it to ransom. 

 Political obscurity beckoned for the Nazis.

They were saved by an event out of their hands - Wall Street Crash of October 1929. This event was crucial to the Nazis. The Americans called back the money they had loaded Germany in 1924 and 1929 (the Young Plan). Germany had no money to invest in her economy. The growth from 1924 to 1929 had been somewhat of an illusion as a great deal of the money invested had been from overseas loans - primarily America. Money borrowed had to be paid back. In October 1929, Germany was left effectively bankrupt - again.

The impact of the Wall Street Crash took time to impact Germany. Unemployment was not a major issue for 1929. But by September 1930 it was.

September 1928	650,000 unemployed
September 1929	1,320,000 unemployed
September 1930	3,000,000 unemployed
September 1931	4,350,000 unemployed
September 1932	5,102,000 unemployed
January 1933	6,100,000 unemployed

Those unemployed turned to the one party and party leader untainted by the chaos of Weimar Germany - Adolf Hitler. 

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Adolf/Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber - his psychology and development

It is rare to find any author who can report Hitler without a panicky effort to tell the reader what a dreadful monster beyond any human comprehension is the subject or, alternatively, attempt to justify the fellow in pursuit of some new moronreich. Not withstanding this, I must declare that, following Churchill, I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.[1]
My objective is to focus on just who Hitler was

His observations of the use of anti-Semitism as an effective political tool[10] by local politicians such as Karl Lueger and Georg Ritter von Schönerer. Often, Hitler uses the word ‘jew’ as a general insult or expression of opposition, commonly identifying ‘jews’ with both ‘capitalism’ and ‘Marxism’ in the same sentence and elsewhere with three ‘vices’: democracy, pacifism and internationalism.
 Anti-Semitism was a handy, ‘fashionable’ and a widespread cultural affectation in Germany. Without civil strife and cultural anti-Semitism, Nazism was very marginal; only with both did it gain power.
The attacks upon ‘Jews’ enabled the vast appropriation of assets to pursue war aims and to reward cronies at various levels. These attacks also provided a ready source of slave labour. Much of the assets were laundered through the Swiss banking system.

Hitler is clearly a more complex and intelligent individual than the ‘run of the mill’ mass-murderer. However, he remains often a rather dull and sleazy character, like many a modern dictator or criminal gang leader; but he was a consummate politician and a very perceptive leader and manipulator. He is as often under estimated by those who fall over themselves to rubbish him as he is over estimated by neo-nazis.
Hitler’s administration has been credited with applying ‘Keynesian’-type solutions[19] to the chaos existing in Germany prior to his being raised to Chancellor[19a]; and this is probably a reasonable assessment. Hitler started his government during a low ebb in German economic fortunes. World-wide problems were aggravated in part by the foolish behaviour of the Allies after the First World War. Hitler probably gave confidence to the masses; but some believe recovery was already under way and that statistics were widely falsified .
Hitler and his prime revolutionary conspirators had their attitudes formed by catholic teaching. Authoritarianism is at the very core of the Church of Rome, so it is hardly surprising that such an attitude permeated the perspective of catholic politicians. The mixture of authoritarianism and anti-Semitism generated an explosive mix in Hitler’s Germany.
Jews are the historic scapegoats of the Catholic Church. Catholicism is a Jewish schism. As is widespread with schisms, bitterness is common. WW1 and WW2 were much about rivalries between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, another long-term religious schism. Both forms of christianism make scapegoats of Jews.
A series of Weimar government leaders (Chancellors), who steadily centralised power, paved the way for Hitler’s eventual power grab.



I have read Ford’s shallow and scurrilous attacks on the Jews, and they tell far more about Henry than they do about Jews. Just about every supposed ‘criticism’ could be read as a means of distancing himself from his own actions, his guilt feelings, by projecting his own weaknesses on others. Virtually all the accusations Ford makes of ‘the Jews’ directly fit parts of his own behaviour.
Parts of these writings by Ford are directly plagiarised by Hitler in Mein Kampf, written later.

The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party[33] What we now call a party manifesto.[34]
1	We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.
2	We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles[35] and St. Germain[36] shall be abrogated.
3	We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population.
4	Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman.
5	Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.
6	The right to choose the government and determine the laws of the State shall belong only to citizens. We therefore demand that no public office, of whatever nature, whether in the central government, the province, or the municipality, shall be held by anyone who is not a citizen.We wage war against the corrupt parliamentary administration whereby men are appointed to posts by favour of the party without regard to character and fitness.
7	We demand that the State shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. If it should not be possible to feed the whole population, then aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.
8	Any further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.
9	All citizens must possess equal rights and duties.
10	The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all.Therefore we demand:
11	That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
12	Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13	We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
14	We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
15	We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
16	We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalisation of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small trades people, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.
17	We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation[37] of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.
18	We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
19	We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.
20	In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.
21	The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centres, by prohibiting juvenile labour, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.
22	We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.
23	We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a German press, we demand: (a) All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens. (b) Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language. (c) All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich. Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.
24	We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race. The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the principle: COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD
25	In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations. The formation of professional committees and of committees representing the several estates of the realm, to ensure that the laws promulgated by the central authority shall be carried out by the federal states. The leaders of the party undertake to promote the execution of the foregoing points at all costs, if necessary at the sacrifice of their own lives. Adolph Hitler: War Hero, Street Cleaner, Prostitute or Secret Agent: A Psychohistory Analysis Hitler wasn’t insane and didn’t rant and rave because he was mentally ill. In 1912 he was brainwashed at his grandfather’s Society for Psychical Research (SPR) most likely at the British Military Psych-Ops War School at Tavistock in Devon and in Ireland. This is a piece of evidence well known to any historian who wasn’t concerned with sanitizing Hitler’s image and who had bothered to interview his sister-in-law, Bridget. Greg Hallett ("Hitler Was A British Agent") puts Hitler in England from 1912-1913, a fact corroborated by Bridget in her book "The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler"(1979). His sister-in-law describes Hitler as completely “wasted” when he arrived at her Liverpool home baggage-less. "I had an idea he was ill, his color was so bad and his eyes looked so peculiar," she wrote. "He was always reading, not books, but little pamphlets printed in German. I don't know what was in them nor exactly where they came from." (pp. 29,35) Hallett says these pamphlets were Psych-Ops training manuals. That would explain Hitler’s classic symptoms of mind control (MK-Ultra) when he rants, raves and sweats during his famous speeches. [Appendix A] Psychohistory: “the science of historical motivation" ( A term used in Isaac Asimov's famous 'Foundation Trilogy', where it is put to work to safeguard a designed future caused by a secret Foundation, which shepherds mankind after the collapse of interstellar Empire; foreshortening the inevitable period of ruin. Many years later The Three B's - Bear,Benford and Brin - each added a novel to the collection from the professor's notes under the heirs' conditions, by invitation. I shouldn't be surprised if there aren't recipes from 'Stars End' - Trantor - by now. ) Psychohistory “the science of historical motivation" and the principle of methodological individualism. Broadbeck; Danto; Mandelbaum World War II and the human rights violations committed by the SS shaped the “dispositions and beliefs” of the historians and researchers when they wrote about the evils of Nazi Germany during the period from 1939-1945. But without a framework and a theory to explain Hitler’s background and inconsistent behavior before and during the war, historians have no choice but to ignore the incongruities in Hitler’s life and make him “out to be more than he was.” “Hitler fought bravely in the war and was promoted to corporal and decorated with both the Iron Cross Second Class and First Class.” John Toland [1] Without a connection of the 55 million deaths and the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in History to the creation of the state of Israel in 1947, then Hitler’s “bravery” as well as all of the following is treated as superfluous irrelevant and anomalous information: The Holocaust Fact: Hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed and otherwise perished during the Second World War as a direct and indirect result of the harsh anti-Jewish policies of Germany in concentration camps. Disputed fact: Revisionist scholars' such as Faurisson, Butz 'and best selling British historian David Irving write: “There is no evidence for the systematic extermination of six to eight million Jews in concentration camps.” Doctor Kubovy, from the Tel Aviv "Documentation Center", admitted in 1960 "There is no document signed by Hitler, Himmler or Heydrich which speaks of exterminating the Jews... and in 1981, Walter Laqueur, author of The terrible secret, admitted: "Until now, we have never found Hitler's order to destroy the European Jewish community, and in all probability the order was never given." There is no order because Hitler used the term Entfernung of the Jews – removal or expulsion. ( We're skirting a peculiar fact of life here. 'Holocaust Denial' is officially hatemongering : so much so that it was convenient to deliberately conduct an interview with Ahmadinejad which purports to frame him as a Holocaust Denier....available in YouTube under 'Holocaust.'  Yet if you actually play the clip...it is Jennings  acting as if he has done that and claiming it is so, like a prosecutor/magician playing an act of deception on inattentive observers. His patter is a masterpiece of deception. What did Ahmadinejad really say ? That Israel the nation devalues the Holocaust upon Jews by playing on it as justification to do the same to Palestinians : and that as an event of historical importance, it deserves the very best in documentation and historical study. Stupid asides elsewhere also note allegations that Ahmadinejad too is partly Jewish...perhaps semi-plausible in a country which is a traditional Jewish refuge. ) Without the connection of WW1, WW2, Adolph Hitler and the Holocaust to The Modern State of Israel, then for Toland, historians and scholars it was choice between: A street cleaner who enjoyed having women defecate on him while taking over the world with the help of George H.W. Bush’s father. [10] Or The grandson of a Rothschilds who killed 55 million people for no apparent reason, other than a psychotic love for wars and suffering. Therefore John Toland chose to make Hitler “more credible than he was” (sanitize) rather than confuse the world.