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Subject: resuscitating Boas: battle between WASP bigots and jew liars
Here.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Anthropologists Act to Revoke 1919 Censure of Franz Boas, a Key
Figure in the Field
By DAVID GLENN
Atlanta
The American Anthropological Association moved on Thursday to right
an 85-year-old wrong done to a pioneer in the field and a founder of
the association. At its annual meeting, the group voted to rescind
its censure of Franz Boas.
The controversy dates from December 1919 when, amid a bitter dispute
about patriotism, espionage, and scientific ethics, the group's
governing council censured Boas, then a professor at Columbia
University and probably the country's best-known scholarly
anthropologist. He had been among the association's founders, in
1903.
But in the aftermath of World War I, he angered many of his peers by
making sharp-tongued criticisms of anthropologists who had covertly
served as U.S. spies in Latin America.
Now the association would like to make posthumous amends. On Thursday
afternoon, scholars attending its conference here provisionally voted
to renounce the 1919 censure. In a nonbinding 59-to-0 vote, they
approved a resolution that removes the censure and affirms that it
is "immoral for scientists to use their professional identity as
cover for governmental spying activities."
"This is an issue that has to be revived from generation to
generation," Leni M. Silverstein, one of the resolution's authors,
said in an interview on Wednesday. Ms. Silverstein, a visiting
scholar at Northwestern University, pointed out that similar debates
arose during the Vietnam War and are likely to arise again in
relation to the conflicts in Iraq and Central Asia. (The
association's 1970 meeting was riven by allegations that American
anthropologists had secretly provided guidance to U.S. military
operatives in Thailand.)
Thursday's vote was only advisory because the business meeting lacked
a quorum. It is likely that the association's executive board will
put the question to the entire membership in a mail ballot next year.
The resolution is expected to win by a comfortable margin.
The immediate cause of Boas's censure was a letter that he published
in the December 20, 1919, issue of The Nation. In his letter he
announced that he had learned that "a number of men who follow
science as their profession, men whom I refuse to designate any
longer as scientists, have prostituted science by using it as a cover
for their activities as spies."
Boas did not name names, but among the small circle of American
anthropologists it was clear that he was referring to an espionage
ring organized in 1917 by Sylvanus G. Morley, a leading Maya scholar
who was then affiliated with Harvard University's Peabody Museum. The
ring's primary task was to search for reputed German submarine bases
in Mexico and Central America, but it also developed hundreds of
pages of intelligence on Mexican political figures and German
immigrants in the region.
On December 30, two weeks after Boas's letter appeared, the
association's council -- meeting, as it happened, in the Peabody
Museum -- voted, 20 to 10, to censure him. Among the complaints
raised at the meeting was that Boas had endangered field researchers
around the world by revealing that some of them worked as spies.
That particular allegation enraged Boas, who believed that it was
spies like Morley and his colleagues, not their critics, who were
actually casting a shadow on field researchers.
In an interview on Wednesday, David H. Price, an associate professor
of anthropology at St. Martin's College, said two distinct but
overlapping questions are at stake here. The first is whether
anthropologists should ever use their scholarly credentials as cover
for covert espionage. That question, Mr. Price believes, is clear-
cut: It should never be done.
The second question, Mr. Price said, is whether anthropologists
should ever offer their expertise, even openly and transparently, on
behalf of a war effort. Mr. Price is writing a book on the roles
played by American anthropologists during World War II, and he said
that this question is much more complex.
Even on behalf of a war widely regarded as just, Mr. Price said,
anthropologists should think very carefully about the ethical
implications of working with government agencies. At least one
anthropologist who had conducted fieldwork in Japan in the 1920s, for
example, later offered his insights on Japanese society to U.S.
military planners. The war against Japanese imperialism may have been
justified, Mr. Price said, but that scholar's informants of the 1920s
did not invite him into their homes with the expectation that he
would be gathering information about how to kill them more
efficiently 20 years later.
Mr. Price said that he was pleased by the resolution to renounce
Boas's censure, but he also hopes that the association will take up
the question of espionage in a more direct, less symbolic way. The
group could strengthen its ethical regulations against espionage, he
said.
"I've done fieldwork in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East," Mr.
Price said. "And people often ask me who I'm really working for. I
would like to be able to tell them that not only am I not a spy, but
that it would be against my organization's principles for me to be a
spy."
Some historians have suggested that the censure of Boas was only
nominally about his letter to The Nation. In a 1968 essay, George W.
Stocking Jr. of the University of Chicago argued that the censure
should be understood as the product of a decades-long dispute between
physical anthropologists and Boas's subfield of cultural
anthropology. In 1919 that quarrel was especially heated.
Baldly racist biological anthropologists -- including Madison Grant,
author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916) -- then sat on the
National Research Council's Committee on Anthropology, and they
regarded themselves as bitter enemies of Boas and his relatively left-
wing disciples. There may also have been a degree of anti-German
prejudice at work. Boas was a German immigrant, and several of the 10
scholars who voted against his censure in 1919 were of German and/or
Jewish ancestry. The 20 scholars who voted for the censure, by
contrast, included some with close ties to Grant's "Galton Society,"
a eugenicist organization whose membership was restricted to "native
Americans."
But the picture was actually more complicated, and morally ambiguous,
than that, according to David L. Browman, a professor of anthropology
at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Browman, who is skeptical
of the effort to "uncensure" Boas, suggests, in a letter to be
published in a forthcoming issue of Anthropology News, that in 1919
Boas was skillfully jockeying to win research funds for his
department at Columbia.
Boas actually knew of 10 anthropologists who had acted as World War I
spies, not just the 4 he mentioned in his Nation letter, Mr. Browman
alleges. Moreover, Mr. Browman says, Boas had known of the spying
since 1917 but had chosen not to make a fuss until it served his
political purposes.
Mr. Browman concludes by pointing out that Boas remained an important
leader of the association for many years after 1919, and yet his
peers did not choose to renounce the censure. "They understood the
real issues involved," he writes. "Far be it for us, nearly a century
later ... to rewrite history to suit our own current political
biases."
Most members of the group, however, appear to be pleased with the
effort to rehabilitate Boas.
"Many people in the association feel that the reasons Boas spoke out
are reasons they might want to speak out about contemporary issues,"
said Regna Darnell, a professor of anthropology at the University of
Western Ontario and the author of a book about Boas, in an interview
on Tuesday. "Therefore we should go back and look at the political
activism of our founders," she said. "There's a tradition of
courage."
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/12/2004121701n.htm
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Subject: scratch a jew, find a fraud
Himmler's Poznan speech deliberately mistranslated by jews
The Poznan speech uses the word "extirpation". Some early translation
use "extirpation, extermination" in place of the German word
extirpation, later translations just use "extermination". This single
instance of a German official advocating "extermination" is a simple
fraudulent translation.
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Subject: major tragedy strikes
Giant Tsunami of AIDS hits America
BOSTON, MASS (AMERICAN NEWS SERVICES) - A giant tsunami of AIDS hit the east and west coasts of the United States simultaneously today, causing numerous casualties and uncountable human suffering. The wave impacted at 8:03.32 EST, when most people were preparing for their 45-minutes commutes to work.
Immediate submissive and passive behavior followed, culminating in a rolling pile of writhing bodies engaged in all forms of anal sex and gay fellatio. Further, the atmosphere around California outleast became "downright fruity," according to Governor Arnold Schwarzeneger, who quickly followed his statement with a glance at the polls and, "But we support that, of course."
A tsunami is a rolling undersea wave created by a massive shock or earthquake, and can race across the ocean floor at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour before being channeled upward by the slanted coastline, producing waves up to 50 feet tall that come crashing down on helpless victims.
"I have asked the President to declare a state of emergency and impose martial law," said New Jersey acting governor Richard J. Codey. "Federal aid alone can address this devastating event, and with any luck, they'll be wearing well-cut matching uniforms." As he said this to a press conference, a ripple of delighted sighing passed through the audience.
AIDS, or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, is a disease which attacks the body's defenses against disease and turns them against the body itself, much as a submissive philosophy encourages one to pity one's enemies and turn the other (glutteal) cheek. Originally called GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Disease, the disease was named AIDS after gay groups objected, threatening the paychecks of doctors and researchers alike.
In New Jersey, the giant wave caused vast demographic shifts toward lifestyles centered around submissive sexuality, in addition to outbreaks of lisping and Village People impersonators, and the City Courthouse to turn bright pink. "I think it's safe to say we're in a New America," said Codey. "The old America was boldly asserting oneself against the frontier, but the New America is being ready to take any good-looking cock that comes along deep into your digestive tract."
Hispanic groups massed on the Mexican border and prepared to surge across into a newly-receptive America, while boatloads of Haitians, who have more experience with AIDS than any other group except young gay urban professionals, circled near the coastline of American cities selected by The Jewish Review as "most tolerant." On boat 3417, refugee and freedom fighter Mbeko Hassan Washington Khan said, "America is about opportunity, and while the orifice is open, we are taking ours!"
As Federal Emergency Management Association workers, dressed in bright pastels, descended upon the afflicted area with sushi, condoms, lubricant and lime jell-o, lawmakers gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss the New American outlook. "Gone are the days of manly self-assertion, domination and warfare," said Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). "We're talking openly with the Iraq resistance about simply opening a franchise for our government and importing sexy men who can't grow moustaches."
The disaster took an unusually high toll, said Codey, because when the wave reared up on the coastline, most victims took refuge in churches and leftist coffee bars, where the greatest concentration of the wave hit. "They were destroyed in exactly the places they saw as refuge," wept Codey. "I can only empathize."
Reaction was mixed worldwide. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder expressed surprise. "I'm amazed it was even noticed, since Americans have been passive whiny queens bitching in front of their televisions since 1944 or so," he said. In Israel, Prime Minister and Rassenfuehrer Ariel Sharon sent his best wishes to America, saying, "Israel has always had a wonderful submissive partner in the United States."
Asked if he thought the "New America" would be able to sustain its submissive lifestyle without going bankrupt, Schwarzeneger began a lengthy monologue about the need to cut funding for internal programs while not raising taxes but, after whisperings with his advisor, put on a rainbow warrior(tm) ribbon and said simply, "Yeth."
On Wall Street, trader W.J. "Bruce" Willingsworth (formerly Bill "Chunk-Style" Willingsworth) looked pensively to the sky and said, "With change, comes great opportunity, and none of us in the financial community want to miss out. We're lucky it wasn't an ice age, because that would leave only the strong surviving, depriving us of passive sexual partners."
http://www.gnaa.us/pr.phtml?troll=gnaa-tsunami
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Subject: avoiding fast food
thanks alex for the comments about advertising and the B grade bluegill,
that was sprayingly funny.
fast food is a waste of money indeed. if a person likes that kind of crap
its just as easy to make and take from home. for example: I bought some
bratwurst patties-- Johnsonville, round, like hamburgers, but tastier -- for
about $4 for 6. expensive! and then hamburger buns for a buck. $5. out of
that, some mustard and six slices of cheese from the fridge, and twelve
pickles, I had two breakfasts and two lunches that would have cost $20 if
ordered from the fast food outlets.
De-jew our lives we must.
Tim K
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Subject: Coulter says no to jew Franken
Ann Coulter on Jew Al Franken, interview:
Would you do a TV show with Al Franken?
"No, hes physically repulsive..."
http://observer.com/pages/world.asp
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Subject: Apollonian responds
To Alex at VNN, patriots and revisionistics:
Response To "Whoever" (A Secret Jew?)
(Apollonian Jan, 05)
Below text, copied fm VNN Readers' ltrs section of 5 Jan deserves something of a response fm me. My comments follow copied text:
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Subject: von Hoffmeister, Prozak
Dear Mr. Linder
I've read another right-on-the-mark *unfavorable* comment on this Hoffmeister character. Good to see I'm not the only one who can see through this blockhead.
Look, just a bit of friendly advice from someone weathered in philosophy and related matters for decades: get rid of this nitwit! No, I mean really. He must be some army-left-over, sergeant something. I had hardcore Marxist-Leninist friends with 95-IQs who had a better grasp of social dynamics than this fool.
Same goes for 'Apollonian' and his frothing-at-the-mouth sputtering of judaic-this, talmudic-that, appallingly idiotic treatment of the "subjective" -- as if the so-called 'subject', too, were not yet another brilliant Western invention, in all its Baudelarian glory. Go down sub-Saharan Africa, and the first thing you'll notice is a heart-rending shortage, even absence, of *subjects*, dammit! The subject is the profoundest subset of those objects called 'primates'.
(Just in which church of inbred ignor-anuses do these fools learn their analytic-philosophical fundamentals? The subject may well be the most critical Western object.) . . .
* * * * * * * *
So here's my response to "whoever's" (quite possibly a kike, I suspect) above-copied babbling: Who do u think u're kidding, comrade? My discussion of objective-subjective refers to the slight matters of metaphysics and epistemology--as regarding the standard of truth and knowledge of reality. If "whoever" (kike-brains) really has or had anything to say, such "whoever" should rather have said it. To wit, kike brains, why not just say what is u think is so "profound" or "critical" about "subject"?--u pathetic little shit. Kikes are so clever, aren't they?
Objective-subjective has to do with the nature of reality--does it exist? If reality does exist, is it objective, meaning is it the same thing for everyone (every "subject," u idiot)? Or is reality whatever the Jews, for example, say it is, hence subjective, u brainless ignorant moron, "weathered in philosophy and related matters for decades"? And such matter of metaphysics and epistemology go back to Aristotle and Plato. History is determined largely by the cultural cycles guided by, basically, Aristotle or Plato and the treatment of such subjective-objective theme. Check Spengler's Decline of the West.
Thus Rousseau and Kantian subjectivism of eighteenth century, excused and pretexted upon moralism, perverted Western rule-of-law and Constitutionalism leading to socialism/statism and Rothschild/Jew fractional-reserve "banking" through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which presently, through the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries, fuels the Orwellian world-empire in guise of the present United Nations, for foremost example. Such is the tragic manifestation of Western hubris in the Spenglerian Decline of the West.
For another example, "hate-crime" laws are utterly and grossly obvious subjectivist monstrosities and perversions meant only for the specific purpose of suppressing dissent and harassing and terrorizing the citizenry. One of the fundamental problems for our present racial/cultural struggle is the simple destruction of rule-of-law--getting it back is critical.
Subjectivism and the concommitant cultural confusion is the basis for the existence of that ruling fraud known as the Federal Reserve Bank (the "Fed") by which the money supply is horrifically COUNTERFEITED and the Jews installed and instituted as ultimate slave-masters and cadre. Judaism is the very worship of subjectivism, literally (worship of a "god" which worships the kikes, holding them as "apple of ["god's"] eye"). Thus the Torah is "interpreted" subjectivistically--Talmudistically--for the sake of kikes, by authority of the rabbis. "God," then is to be worshipped and understood according to the rabbis. Hence the Jews effectively worship the rabbis.
"[F]rothing-at-the-mouth sputtering"?--which u find "appalling"?--u brainless, total fool. U only need a leg to stand on, u shit-for-brains punk. Do u have anything of real substance to actually say, aside fm dropping Baudelaire's name and then indicating something vaguely to be evoked, evidently, by means of "Africa," of all idiotic things, by which the kike's "heart" is so "rent"?
CONCLUSION: Finally punk, u rather give away ur distinctive Judaic tendencies when u mention (parenthetically) the word, "inbred," don't u?--u stinking kike-mentality. Put this in ur pipe and smoke it, punk. I'm so honored u try so hard to discredit me, u clever little kike-mentality. When we remove the Fed, kikes are cooked. Thanks for all ur attn.
Sincerely, A., combat-scholar/theologian-of-giftedness, Christian-patriot
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Subject: jew Yaakov Markus
The Story of Yaakov Markus
Quoted from Maxim Ghilan How Israel Lost Its Soul, Penguin Books (1974) p179:
'Yaakov Markus was born in Berlin on 22 November 1927 to a non-Jewish mother
named Mathilde Markus and to a Jewish father. He came to Israel and in the
fifties was drafted to serve in the 1956 Sinai campaign. He was killed there and buried provisionally at the Shelah Military Cemetery. Later this cemetery was abolished and the dead were transferred to other permanent graves. Yaakov
Markus's bones were to be interred - as Jewish custom stipulates for Gentile dead - 'beyond the pale', that is, behind a small stone fence cordoning off a piece of the Haifa cemetery.
'In this plot were buried other non-Jewish fighters, pilots and technicians
who lost their lives helping Israel win her independence in 1948 and preserving
it in the years that followed. Markus's parents did not accept the
Rabbinate's ruling. They wanted their son to be granted the same honor as the rest of his fallen friends - burial in the Military Cemetery. General Goren, the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Army - a visionary racist who wanted the conquest of both banks of the Jordan, advocated a religious state and tried to modernize religion for that purpose - was not in the country. The bereaved parents appealed directly to the Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, who had to make a special ruling for them. Markus was finally buried in the same row as his fallen friends.
But so that 'his bones should not be mingled with theirs', as Meshulam
Schlesinger, Director of the Military Cemetery, put it, his grave was set somewhat apart.
'Meshulam Schlesinger officially stated that the corpse of Yaakov Markus had
been circumcised after his death, to allow it to lie beside the Jewish
fighters. This was later denied no less officially by the Ministry of Defense. But the grisly and macabre atmosphere surrounding the case has done much to deepen public concern.'
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Subject: jew writes
You have let your imagination get in the way of the facts. The Jews in this country are your best friends.
Ed. Note: Your best friends are the nazis. Don't believe the hype. They show you who you are. With friendws like jews, we don't need enemies, but we've got 'em, a few hundred million more than before Israel existed.
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Subject: jew Sack
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n1p-9_Sack.html
Behind An Eye for An Eye
Revenge, Hate and History
A Talk by John Sack
About the author
John Sack is one of America's most eminent literary journalists. His
reporting over more than half a century, from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, has appeared in such periodicals as Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He has been a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, as well as CBS News bureau chief in Spain. He is the author of nine non-fiction books, including M, Lieutenant Calley: His Story, and Company C, as well as An Eye for an Eye.
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Subject: jew Jared Diamond
For your "enjoyment":
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/diamond.html
Diamond is an interesing fellow. A noted race-denier, I've read
where he's commented on the possibility of Israel using DNA testing
to see "who's really a Jew." A google search can dig that up, if
needed.
So, he's a bit of a hypocrite.
In other words, he's a Jew.
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Subject: Wal-Mart, no friend of the white man
Alex,
For those who think Wal*Mart is owned and operated by Whites, I got
a little story for ya. One day, a few years back before I became an
open racist, I was working for a regional civil engineering firm here in
Wal*Mart's backyard. We were hired to design the site for one of their
many new stores - they build about 300 per year, I'm told. Anyway, the
project manager and myself went to the Wal*Mart HQ in Bentonville,
Arkansas to meet with their staff engineer about the project. Well, I
bet you couldn't guess the race of the brilliant fellow who held one of
the most comfortable engineering positions in North America. That's
right, he was a big, fat nigger. Really, a rather obese, gangster type.
This position requires virtually no work, as the hired regional
consultants do all the engineering, the nigger's job is simply to
oversee the local firms and do who knows what.
While we were in the belly of the beast, I was able to take in a bit of
the Wal*Mart culture which many folks here have described as bizarre,
but the thing that struck me the most was how this "Professional
Engineer" was openly oogling all the young, White, female office
workers. We would be talking about some aspect of the project and he
would be interrupt to let us know how he'd like to "tap that ho that jus
walked by," or some such nigger speak. I didn't really get it at the
time, but now I recognize that the jiggaboo must have really been having
a great time rubbing it into Whitey's face. So, for the record, that is
what Wal*Mart is all about. The people who run the place are as jewed
as any other.
Thanks for all your efforts,
Joe S.
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Subject: the only good nigger is a dead nigger, except for the smell
beast be fibbin' an' shit:
Here.
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Subject: this fall, itz hakenwear!
Fascists had the coolest uniforms.
Here.
Nazis probably had the best. If you think about it, Nazis had great designs (the swastika on down), great color schemes, Manhattan-style heavy use of black, list goes on. I guess this is why queers get giddy over Nazi style. I think what it is, really, is Aryan elegance and power, reflected on the visual plane. Ain't a damn thing wrong with lookin' good, I figure. Clean and cool is part of what Aryan is all about. Fat, short, hook-nosed and ugly is what Jewish is all about. It shows.
Douglas Wright
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Subject: Mueller letter
Dear Fellow Patriot!
Is anyone as fed up with the Tsunami coverage as I am?
It's like Eli Wiesel is advising the media on the
stories of survival!:
"Dog saves 7-year old"
"3-year old girl saved by holding on to a bush"
"Dolphin brings home two baby boys"
"Lost boy re-united with father"
David Irving reports that several pictures of the
Asian Tsunami are fakes. They are the pictures of a
similar catastrophe that happened in China.
Sandra Bullock, Hollywood celebrity, gave $ 1 million
to help the victims of the Tsunami.
Has the whole country gone crazy? Does anyone believe
that the survivors will see a dime of that money? Even
if they do? What are they going to do with it? Hang it
around their neck?
Naturally, the Christian bashers chimed in by asking
where was God?
President George W. Bush appointed his father and
President Clinton to take the lead in the Tsunami
rip-off scam. Who says that the disaster wasn't Mother
Nature's way of population control? Especially in that
part of the world. Even the rabbits are jealous of
them.
However, we here in California did get a break from
the Tsunami hysteria, when Congress member Robert
Matsui died. For a whole day, the entire California
media was mourning the loss of the Japanese-American.
He was the son of parents who survived the American
concentration camps. Matsui became the champion for
all Japanese internment camp survivors and convinced
Congress to pay reparation. Sure, he was a total
liberal, however, he was my Congressman for more than
15 years. I've met the Congressman three times and it
was then that I realized why Adolf Hitler favored the
Japanese. Efficient, hard working, and absolutely
disciplined. He always responded to neighborhood
issues. Never, ever did he not answer my questions or
wasn't willing to meet with me personally.
For those who think that this was a good thing -
beware! Because Matsui's death has opened the
continuum of Sacramento's "Oberjude" Darrell
Steinberg's political career. The timing is just
absolutely frightening. Steinberg was just termed out
of the California Assembly. He was powerful, he is
also a member of B'Nai Brith and his occasional visits
to Israel are well known. Special election will be in
March and Darrell Steinberg is the front-runner. As
Assemblyman, Steinberg was representing the same
district as Congressman Matsui. It is a sure win for
the Democrats. Steinberg is responsible for the
Holocaust Museum in Sacramento and will be a great
danger to holocaust revisionism and free speech, if
elected to the House.
Sorry for the digression - now back to the Tsunami
hysteria. A little research with the Red Cross turns
out to make European Americans the vast majority of
contributors to the Tsunami rip-off. The black
community gave hardly any money, and the Asian
community was only represented by the Buddhists. Not a
dollar was received from the Latino community.
However, the Jewish community has their own
organizations, which people can donate to.
By the time it is all over, the survivors of the
Tsunami should all be very, very rich. Of course not!
The money will go to rebuild. You can guess who is
already in line to collect millions to rebuild. So you
bet that your "Tsunami Dollars" will end up in the
pockets of some Jewish contractor.
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And again, I found this great piece at
http://vanguardnewsnetwork.com
I would not use his choice of words, but Mr. Crane is
right on the money.
[START]
New Years Resolutions
by George Crane
It's the little things that count ....
1. WAL-MART. The PC jews-media and newspapers afraid
to lose their advertising refer to the behemoth
euphemistically as "big box stores" in editorial
comments from readers, as if nobody will notice. I've
not been inside for more than two years now. Tearing
out the "little guy" out of our White downtown is only
a small part of it. Until WAL-MART buys at least half
of its big warehouse goodies from our local creators,
and from fellow Americans, I'll not give them another
goddam dime! Fini! And I've lived without Sam Walton's
racial sell-out economics just fine, thank you. If I
have to, I'll be much happier making my own wood
furniture (and other products) myself! There's nothing
in Sam's China shop that I can't find elsewhere or
make (or grow) myself!
2. OPRAH. Look at that "studio audience"! How often do
you see White males in there? Why is it that White
women have made this constant nigger-promoter
tool-of-the-jews into a multi-millionairess? Could she
have done it in Nigeria or Zaire, rather than spitting
on our people? If you tune in or buy from the sponsers
(rather than curse them, in writing, with the ridicule
they deserve), then you are part of the decadent
problem. Be a part of the solution, White man and
woman: Cut off 'Oprah' contamination for good from
your household in 2005. And good riddance.
3. COKE and PEPSI ... both supported cheating White
children at the U. of Michigan out of a life and a
future in their own country! Coke and Pepsi paid
expensive banks of (jew?) lawyers to file briefs in
support of affirmative action before the ZOG Supremes
("Supreme" Court, which includes two jews out of only
nine judges, so far). I have not bought a COKE product
of any kind in more than four years. Not a single
PEPSI in about three years. The longer I go, the
easier it gets!
4. THE TODAY SHOW. Such an easy one. Let's see, reward
jew-NBC for its daily morning dose of jew Lauer,
nigger Al, mixed-Jap Anne, and daffy "perky"
"$100-million contract" Katie Couric of suspect
jew-connections (or previous marriage to that doctor)?
No way in hell! Our TV boxes in future will hire White
males. Our TV boxes in future will make a point of
hiring White male veterans (with SS officers and NCO's
getting well-earned preference!). I've often thought
that, without the insidious destructiveness of the
eternal jew, Couric's salary in particular could be
used instead to hire 100 White men, as
head-of-households, at $1 million each! (And they
would do a better job of journalism.) But that would
be in a healthy, self-ruled White society, wouldn't
it?
...
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More from Veteran Polish revisionist Dana Alvi:
[START]
Re: Morel
Hello .....[Cut],
Thank you for this.
It was in 1996 that Poland made the request for
Morel. I have quite a collection of materials on this
subject, - see also
http://www.papurec.org.
PAPUREC and several individuals supported the request
by letters to the Polish Commission.
......[Cut]..... Additionally, we felt at the time
that the Polish Commission was luke warm in their
pursuit and the German equivalent even weaker.
When John Sack published his book "AN EYE FOR AN EYE",
anticipating that Jews would quash it, I prepared a
large box of addressed evelopes with flyers announcing
the book .... [Cut] ... After waiting for some months
for the promised stamps, I got impatient and threw the
box with contents out.
I donated a copy of "AN EYE FOR AN EYE" to a local
library ... [Cut] ... For some years, I was the only
borrower of this book from the library, - I don't
know whether it is still there.
The urgency for Poles to be informed about Sack's book
was that some Germans in the USA were publicising
about the camps and Morel as Polish. Indeed, there
are photos showing Morel in a Polish military uniform.
Besides, Morel murdered Poles as well in the
JudeoCommunist camps after 1945. Morel was never in
Auschwitz and the supposed number of his family
members wiped out by the Germans is a regular Jewish
claim. Morel was a "partisan" in the Lublin area, - I
have a book with a published copy of a certificate
signed by Mieczyslaw Moczar, - "Anthology on Armed
Jewish Resistance 1939-1945" (1986) by Isaac Kowalski,
page 249. Jewish "partisans" did not fight the
Germans but were robbing, raping and murdering Poles.
Morel's brother Icek was killed by Polish partisans
in a battle. Poles in Poland have records of Morel's
history, it is again an opportune time to publish it.
In reaction to John Sack's speech at a Revisionist
Conference, I requested publicly that in his speeches
he makes clear that Morel murdered Poles as well as
Germans. He gave me a copy of his speech delivered at
that Conference. I can share it with anyone
interested. John Sack died a few years ago.
Best regards,
Dana
[END]
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From Bocage, a column by John Kaminski:
[START]
The next steps
Essential maneuvers to forestall Armageddon
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
Of course, far too few people comprehend the depth of
the decay, the advanced state of the disease. When you
willingly and happily participate in a program meant
to deceive and destroy you, it is doubly difficult to
first realize and second admit you've been had.
Then, when you finally do realize and admit your
future has been rendered substantially dimmer by a
small group of utterly conscienceless rich white men
whose demented, inbred families have ruled the whole
world from behind the scenes for probably five hundred
years and maybe much longer, and you turn to the
authorities you trust for protection from this
suddenly discovered psychological tsunami, you
learn another hard lesson. They are not on your side.
The real purpose of the police is not to protect the
public, it is to protect the bankers and politicians
who quite literally own the public, especially when
that astonished and outraged populace realizes it has
been betrayed, and attempts to turn on its keepers.
The cops and the judges and the senators and the
mayors will not be on your side, because they derive
their authority as well as their affluence from the
perverse plunderers who seek to wring every last penny
from the hapless human herd they control and
manipulate.
That is also the purpose of foreign wars, to keep the
public distracted from noticing the crimes that are
taking place right before their eyes while they
enthusiastically cheer their so-called enlightened
system and continue to boast they live in the best
country in the world.
So, those who are paying at least nominal attention to
the malfunctions of the world and the inconsistencies
of all these facetious public explanations that
ever-so-small percentage of socially responsible
humans knows what the problems ARE. The question I
keep getting and the words on the lips of those
aghast people who want to stop the mass murders and
mass poisonings being inflicted in their names, is
what
can we do?
Here's what?
Capture control of the currency.
Without this step, freedom can never be real, because
no truly humane system of governance can ever be
implemented as long as the same greedy crooks retain
control of the world's money. As long as ordinary
people have no input into how that money is used,
denominated, accumulated or distributed, the chances
for peace in the world and happiness for its people
are absolutely nil.
At present, more than 90 percent of the world's
wealth, in a world of six billion people, is
controlled by less than 10,000 individuals, mostly
from two dozen families who can trace their bluebloody
lineage back many hundreds of years. At the head of
the line is the Rothschild family, which controls all
the others. It has been estimated that the aggregate
Rothschild wealth is at a minimum 5,000 times greater
than the annual gross national product of the United
States, although it's difficult to calculate, because
the Rothschild octopus (and its loyal lieutenants of
the Rockefeller family) literally own the U.S. money
supply, the Federal Reserve, and all the major banks
of the Western world.
Many communities around the country, such as Ithaca,
N.Y., have already begun implementing their own
alternative currency systems, but the vast majority of
Americans are trapped in a financial system that will
consume the assets of almost everyone should it ever
collapse, or sag significantly, an event which many
knowledgable observers think is imminent.
So when Bush the Younger drops a quick $78 billion on
Iraq to be split up among his rich corporate friends,
this is mere pocket change to the Rothschilds, about
the size of a decent dinner tip relative to the
immoral profit it will bring from the deaths of
thousands of innocent victims.
The world's people and most especially Americans
need to realize that to these people, you are nothing
more than an expendable ant, to be crushed without
thinking should you get in their way. With all of
the inexplicably irresponsible spending done by the
Bush administration, that day is rushing towards us
headlong. Perhaps its only weeks away.
And following this train of thought you begin to
realize that it doesn't really matter how you cast
your vote for president. And I'm not talking about
vote fixing, or the computerized rigging of the
elections. These combined examples of criminal fraud
in Florida and Ohio are actually irrelevant
distractions, because in an American presidential
election, it doesn't matter who wins because the same
people always stay in power. It has been that way
throughout the 20th century, since the international
bankers seized control of the American money supply in
1913.
Of course, merely contemplating the capture of the
world's money supply means considering the complete
disintegration of the world's financial networks,
which are inextricably intertwined with the cancerous
Rothschild octopus, and rescuing control of the
currency from these criminals would result in the
instant collapse of almost every government on Earth.
Who would accomplish such a fantastic feat? Who would
control the new system? Would the world revert into
piratical barbarism? Probably. But that's what we have
now, only with a smile for the cameras, which are
owned by the pirates in control.
This process, should it make any headway, would take a
century or more, and be accomplished gradually, as
states around the world recalibrate their objectives
from pure profit to sensible self-sufficiency and
actualized independence.
Of course, with heartless predators like the United
States manipulating all these little countries into
bankruptcy at every opportunity, there would be
difficult times. But they would not be as difficult as
the situation now, where the New York and London banks
immorally reap the lion's share of profits for the
labor of most of the people on the planet.
The tradeoff has always been security or liberty. Ben
Franklin still has the last word on this: Those who
give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Sooner or
later, we all have to bite the bullet and decide that
we don't want to be slaves to the Rothschilds and
Rockefellers, or it's curtains for freedom.
Which leads us to the second essential step toward
promoting real freedom in the world ...
Identify the real power structure.
Some silly Americans thought they actually had a
choice during the 2004 elections. Right, ace, with two
guys from the same college fraternity as the choices.
Which makes all this handwrung consternation about
Ohio
recounts as useless as the peace demos prior to
America's invasion of Iraq.
Bulletin to all Americans (and whomever else may care
to listen): we are well past the point where
influencing public opinion is going to stop the people
in control of practically the whole world from doing
exactly what they want to do.
The main difference between the Vietnam-era protests
and what happened in the late winter of 2003 was that
the entire media spectrum in the United States had
been locked down by the corporations, which was not
the case in the 1960s. The anti-Vietnam protests
succeeded in bringing the war back home because it got
on TV. That is definitely not happening today.
Most Americans don't know that U.S. troops had orders
to kill everyone in Fallujah, whether old and infirmed
or young and harmless, or that we essentially
destroyed the whole city (and for no particular
reason).
Even though a lot of Americans are becoming suspicious
that everytime Rumsfeld's boys need a justification
for some new atrocity, they just trot out a new Osama
bin Laden video, whose on-cue performances have
helped many people reach the horrifying realization
that the U.S. war on terror was created in Washington,
and bin Laden, who was once known as Tim Osman, is
definitely on the U.S. payroll.
But then, identifying who the real players are has
always been difficult in media-drugged, flag-waving
America, which is thumping the world to death with its
unopened Bibles.
If you think George Bush or Dick Cheney is running the
show, then you are woefully undereducated which is
the mental status of most people in America.
Notable midwife to tyranny Henry Kissinger is the
chief lieutenant of David Rockefeller, who is the
American commisar of the Rothschild empire, which runs
just about everything. There are no real enemies,
only those created by the powers that be to create the
chaotic conditions to both cull the population and
profit from the sales of weapons to both sides. It has
been that way throughout the 20th century, and
doubtless long before.
Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany were funded by Jewish
bankers in America and England. The Bush family was
one of the primary benefactors of these maneuvers.
They are trusted stooges of the big money players
Queens Elizabeth and Juliana and Sofia and the
banking giants of both Wall and Fleet streets. John
Kerry's Jewish father was a CIA agent and he married a
Forbes girl (the Forbes family, with Jewish ties,
being
one of the richest criminal American families of the
19th century, profiting from both slavery and drug
sales to China).
Maybe, if you have the time, and any interest in your
own freedom, you should to a little reading.
So you begin to see, when people ask me, What can I
do? to oppose or combat this insanity that has
wrapped itself around America's spinal cord like some
demonic Stargate Goa-uld, it's difficult to toss back
quick answers. Certainly supporting Dennis Kucinich
didn't get us very far, did it?
We didn't get into this mess overnight, and it won't
end for a long time, if ever. In the meantime, because
of the lack of attention and cultivation of naivete
and gullibility over time, we are deep into a
tyrannical scenario where we do not have control over
our own lives and have placed people in charge of our
welfare who mean to kill off many millions of us,
simply to make their own situation more comfortable.
This assessment can no longer be in doubt.
So what can we do?
How about you tell me?
Tell me true, noble citizen. What ARE you going to do
when they come for you?
When the judges pronounce you a terrorist for
participating in a peace demonstration and revoke your
citizenship, what will you do? If you're a good boy,
they may put you on probation for life and let you
work in a McDonald's, or maybe Wal-Mart.
When the police decide to search your house because
you contributed to a Muslim charity, and you decide to
pull out your contraband AK-47 that you bought in a
gun show in Texas, are you going to duke it out with
them? Like Bill Cooper? Hell, they'll just fentanyl
the whole neighborhood. What will your thought be with
that last choking breath of yours? That you live in
the best country in the world?
What will you do if they put you in a camp where
nobody comes out? Petition your Congressperson? My
Congressperson is Katherine Harris, as perfidious a
felon as exists in any penal system. Don't count on me
taking this route.
So what that you know you can't get an iota of truth
from your TV or your local newspaper. So what that you
know the vote was shamelessly stolen in Ohio,
guaranteeing the ratcheting up of endless war. So what
that you know we are being poisoned by chemtrails,
insufficiently tested pharmaceuticals, and
radioactivity spawned by America's own devil weapons.
The question on the table is ... what will you do when
they come for you?
For me there is only one logical answer.
Shut down the government NOW, before we no longer have
a chance to do it all.
But it won't happen. I received an e-mail from my
friend Blaga in Bulgaria today, mired in her New World
Order imposed poverty (she calls it USraeli
occupation) and pining for happier days under
predictable and relatively benevolent (in her
estimation) Communist leadership.
She included snips of Milton Mayer's famous anti-Nazi
polemic, They Thought They Were Free. Yes, Mayer was
a Jew, but I'm thinking he had no inkling of the
Nazi-like menace Jewish Israel and the Zionist U.S.
would become today. At least, you can't hear it in his
prosaic lament, chillingly appropriate for the
situation in America today.
"This separation of government from people, this
widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so
insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even
intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or
associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real
social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real
reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not
see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process
of
government growing remoter and remoter.
(snip)
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see
exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is
true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last,
but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the
next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion,
thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will
join with you in resisting somehow.
(snip)
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or
hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.
That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of
the whole regime had come immediately after the first
and the smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have
been sufficiently shocked ....
(snip)
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were
ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The
burden of self deception has grown too heavy .... The
world you live in your nation, your people is not
the world you were in at all. The forms are all there,
all untouched, all reassuring .... But the spirit,
which you never noticed because you made the lifelong
mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed.
Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the
people who hate and fear do not even know it
themselves .... Now you live in a system which
rules without responsibility even to God. The system
itself could not have intended this in the beginning,
but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go
all the way.
(snip)
"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what
you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what
you haven't done (for that was all that was required
of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember
those early meetings of your department in the
university when, if one had stood, others would have
stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a
matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this
one rather than that. You remember everything now, and
your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised
beyond repair.
(snip)
"What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did.
Or "adjust" your principles. Many tried, and some, I
suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live
the rest of your life with your shame. This last is
the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to
heroism: shame. I said nothing. I thought of nothing
to say.
(snip)
And so away went your freedom ....
(snip)
..... and one gray day, your life ....
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast
of Florida. His frequent Internet essays have been
collected into two anthologies, the latest of which is
titled The Perfect Enemy. He also wrote The Day
America Died: Why You Shouldn't Believe the Official
Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001, a
48-page booklet aimed at those who cling to the belief
that what the U.S. government said about that tragic
day was the truth. For more information go to
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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HB:
Lieber Walter,
we cracked up about that Starbucks coffee that "tastes
like hot water run through a string of coffee beans.
We have one suggestion: Just call the Chosen
"avaricious" (not stinking)
[END]
Walter F. Mueller
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Subject:
Nominations for the 2005 Schlomo Award
Asking to be a participant in the selection of this award has proven to be
more than a mere response to a challenge. A broad view of the evidence
suggests that we should be given greater flexibility due to the unique evil
genetic aspects involved.
The perimeters of mankind's adversary not only includes the characteristics
of his species, history of usury, speculation and war mongering. Of
consideration must be his damage to regional populations and his general
threat to the continued existence of mankind.
Finding a winner involves cross cultural recognition. It comprises
perceptional language capabilities and the social consequences of being in
the environment of the enemy of mankind.
One can fantasize about picking a winner. However, how does one determine
the minimum requirements when considering that the nemesis has crippled
entire nations, cultures, values and religions? Are the cold blooded
killers of Pal women and children to be too insignificant for the award?
Let no man forget that he has been the steam engine that created the evils
of both capitalism and communism. He has invented the junk bond king and
taken our property. He brought us the French Revolution and gave millions a
Workers' Paradise. He took Serbia's 1,200 Kosovo and taught us the value of
occupation and free elections
It is impossible to calculate his regional accomplishments. For example,
the poverty that has resulted from the Geremek and Kwasniewski regime in
Poland. Then there's Putin. Although he tried to regulate the nemesis'
transnational power, we can only adjudicate the theoretical aspects of the
trillions of dollars taken from the Russian proletariat by the so called
Russian oligarchy.
Then there are the written descriptions of Primakov the former KGB chief who
now works for the CIA. And, what about the former KGB personnel that now
runs the so called international Russian mafia? How about the peace makers
in the Middle East or those responsible for extracting over a trillion
dollars from the American citizens for the foreign entity referred to as
America's best friend? What about Wolfowitz or Perele?
I am not the only one to be confused by this very important issue. I have
taken the nomination sheet below and shown it to retired journalists,
retired authors and retired university professors. I have shown it to
former employees of think tanks and presented it to individuals in four of
our local Polonian-American clubs.
No one could come up with a worthy candidate due to the extreme and
unimaginable genetic evil that emanates from so many candidates worthy of
this award. An official of our city's German-American club suggested that a
documented sheet be composed with perimeters. This certificate, for voting,
should be presented globally over the internet. It should be accessible in
several major languages. It should be distributed over the web with a
clearing house so that votes can be accrued after a 90 day period.
Lastly the clever mind responsible for this award should have the respect of
all fair minded men and women. To allow this worthy initiative to fall by
the way side would be more than a crime.
B
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Nominations for the 2005 Schlomo
Nominations are underway for the coveted Schlomo, awarded annually to
Jewish-American deadbeats who combine absolute lack of talent and
intelligence with unbelievable chutzpah and whose schmoozing and
Jewish networking take them to heights they could never imagine if
they weren't Jewish. Despite all the talk about Jewish Nobel Prize
winners, American Academe is filled with schlomos, to say nothing of
Hollywood, public service, and most white-collar professions in the
U.S. The Schlomo represents the elite of American society today.
Previous nominations for the Schlomo include Jewish-American writer
Jerzy Kosinski, who left communist Poland (how in the heck did he do
that?) to establish himself in the U.S. as a successful writer,
though his command of the English language was minimal, and Monica
Lewinsky, whose thong underwear and talent for fellatio propelled her
into a successful career as professional victim. Winners receive a
handsome hand-painted plaster figure topped by a two-and-a-half inch
long cicumcised penis.
America's Schlomos are outrageous! Tell us about the Schlomos in
your workplace and neighborhood!
zebrzydowice
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Subject: jew Prager, in full cant
Better Answers: The Case for Judeo-Islamic Values, Part
By Dennis Prager
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 4, 2005
With this first column of 2005, I inaugurate a periodic series of columns devoted to explaining and making the case for what are called Judeo-Christian values.
There is an epic battle taking place in the world over what value system humanity will embrace. There are essentially three competitors: European secularism, American Judeo-Christianity and Islam. I have described this battle in previous columns.
Now, it is time to make the case for Judeo-Christian, specifically biblical, values. I believe they are the finest set of values to guide the lives of both individuals and societies. Unfortunately, they are rarely rationally explained -- even among Jewish and Christian believers, let alone to nonbelievers and members of other faiths.
So this is the beginning of an admittedly ambitious project. Vast numbers of people are profoundly disoriented as to what is good and what is bad. Just to give one example: Take the moral confusion over the comparative worth of human and animal life.
The majority of American students I have asked since 1970 whether they would save their dog or a stranger have voted against the stranger.
A Tucson, Ariz., woman in late 2004 sent firefighters into her burning home telling them that her three babies were inside. The babies for whom the firemen risked their lives were the woman's three cats.
The best-known animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), funded by the best educated in our society, has launched an international campaign titled "Holocaust on your plate," which equates the barbecuing of millions of chickens with the cremating of millions of Jews in the Holocaust. To PETA and its supporters, there is no difference between chicken life and human life.
Only a very morally confused age could produce so many people who do not recognize the immeasurable distance between human and animal worth. We live in that age.
We do in large measure because values based on God and the Bible have been replaced by secular values. The result was predicted by the British thinker G.K. Chesterton at the turn of the 20th century: "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything."
Ed. Note: But then Chesteron was a Christian bigot, wasn't he? Better said, if you believe in God you'll fall for anything. But I don't really need to cite evidence, do I? Go fish! Beat those dirty reality boys!
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Subject: whites outbirthed by shitskins in Arizona
Here.
Hispanic births pass Anglos' in Arizona
Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 4, 2005 12:00 AM
More Arizona babies were born to Hispanic women in 2003 than to their White, non-Hispanic counterparts, another reflection of the state's fast-growing Hispanic population.
That could explain how Jose became the most popular boy's name in the state last year, nudging aside Jacob and the long-running No. 1, Michael.
Ed. Note: Note the casually dismissive Anglo - most Aryans are not of Anglo descent, and would never refer to themselves that way.
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Subject: jew kikes about Steele column
yep...a disgraced [if you disagree with a jew you're automatically 'disgraced' or 'discredited'], neo-nazi attorney who NEVER seems to win his cases (I wonder why?)...now THERE'S a credible person to (mis) quote the Talmud!
Eddy Steele, based on the uber-paranoia and hilarity of his "writings," is clearly mentally deranged and ill (not to mention one ugly little gellatenous piece of shit)
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Subject: Prozak on "Anti-Semitism"
Dear VNN,
Mr. Prozak's piece on classical music entitled "Anti-Semitism" contains at least two errors. (I say "at least" because I did not finish the article.) Glenn Gould was not a Jew and Wilhelm Furtwaengler was not a member of the Nazi party. It is a dirty thing to be a Jew and high praise to be a member of the NDSAP, so one should take great care not to falsely assign people to either category. Gould, by the way, is a perfectly respectable English name often purloined by Jews, probably because it is one letter away from "gold."
T.C. Lynch
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Subject: jew jewing about, what else?, being a jew
Diaspora
Homelands in Exile
by Frédéric Brenner
HarperCollins, 508 pp., $100
FUNNY, BUT I DO LOOK JEWISH, at least to myself, and more and more so as the years go by. I'm fairly sure I didn't always look Jewish, not when I was a boy, or possibly even when a young man, though I have always carried around my undeniably Jewish name, which was certainly clue enough. But today, gazing at my face in the mirror, I say to myself, yes, no question about it, this is a very Jewish-looking gent.
The article "Types, Anthropological" in the old "Jewish Encyclopedia" (1901-1906), written at a time when the Jews were anthropologically still considered a race, notes that "persons who do not have the Jewish expression in their youth acquire it more and more as they grow from middle to old age." True enough in my case, apparently, though much material in the rest of the article now seems comically antique: such as that Jews commonly wear their hats on the back of their heads because of the need to put their phylacteries on their foreheads, or have posture of a kind known as the "ghetto bend" from studying Talmud so relentlessly.
The remainder of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" article, which is accompanied by illustrations ("Composite Portrait of Ten Jewish Lads, New York"), works around the notion that the precise nature of the Jewish expression "is very difficult to determine with any degree of certainty or accuracy." Admitting all exceptions--Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, "was not distinctively Jewish [in appearance], all observers drawing attention to his resemblance to the Assyrian rather than to the Jewish type"--the article nonetheless insists there is a "Jewish expression."
AGAINST MUCH SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to the contrary, I happen to believe there is one, too. Noses used to be considered the defining Jewish physical characteristic--"chosen noses," in the phrase I myself sometimes use. High arching, aquiline, hooked, long, nostril-flaring, sometimes bump-bearing noses have generally been taken for Jewish. My own nose is fairly regular, in shape and in size, though its straight bridge now seems a touch high and it has become a tad beaky and, in profile, begins to seem more prominent.
I somewhere read the phrase "Jewish ears," implying large and fleshy appendages, and, if such Jewish ears exist, these I indubitably have. My ears have always stuck out, but now they seem to be growing larger, in proportion to my head, and a bit pointy into the bargain. Gershom Scholem, the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, had such ears. So, more famously and pointily, did Franz Kafka, giving him the look of a bat, or other member of the order Chiroptera.
Where I think I may look most Jewish is in the eyes. Once dark brown, my eyes are now more mottled, even containing bits of blue. The skin over my right eye is beginning to sag slightly--my mother's right eye did something similar late in her life--and my eyebrows are growing grayer and bushier, more unruly. But it's the look in my eyes that strikes me as most Jewish: It seems to me worldly, not to say a trifle world-weary, melancholy, if not mildly depressed.
The human face, we now know, is not symmetrical, a fact that painting seems to capture better than sculpture. Of my two sides, the right is the more lined, weather-beaten, battered-looking. I think of this side of my face as even more Jewish than my left side, which, to be sure, I don't exactly think of as Swedish. Am I equating suffering here with looking Jewish? I hope not, because not only have I never knowingly suffered in America for being Jewish, but I also take genuine pleasure in thinking myself a Jew, or member of what I, perhaps chauvinistically, prefer to think the most lively minority group in the United States.
A man named Sam Profettas, a Greek Jew from Salonika, photographed in 1991 by Frdric Brenner for "Diaspora," his two-volume photographic study of Jews, has the face I may have a chance of attaining. Mr. Profettas has thin lips, deep-sunk, pouch-underlined eyes, a straight but prominent nose, and no fewer than seven deep furrows in his forehead, with white hair brushed straight back. If I can survive another fifteen or so years, I shouldn't at all mind having a face approximating his, thoughtful, ironic, melancholic.
If one of the contributors to the text volume of Brenner's "Diaspora" were asked to read a photograph of my face, he might well find in it a longing to return from my post-exilic existence in America. How perfectly, absolutely, delightfully wrong he would be! Proudly Jewish though I may be, pro-Israel though I shall always remain, I have never wished to live anywhere else than in America. I can recall one evening in Jerusalem, awaiting the performance of Shlomo Mintz and the Jerusalem Music Center Chamber Orchestra, thinking that everyone else in this room could, theoretically, be Jewish. Rather than feeling that I was home at last among my people, I thought how, given a choice, I preferred instead to be among a small minority in a larger, free country. Perverse? Idon't believe so; this position might even be considered a natural one for a writer who longs for objectivity, which is to say to be a little distanced from the life around him.
A French social anthropologist, Frdric Brenner has been photographing Jews in their diasporic condition over the past twenty-five years, in what began as a search, as it was described in a New York Times article about him, for "the quintessential Jew." He has photographed Jews in fifteen republics of the old Soviet Union, in Yemen, India, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Greece, Tunisia, New York, along the Amazon, in Brazil, Argentina, China, Hong Kong, Africa, Germany, Holland, and most other countries of Europe. Among other things, "Diaspora" demonstrates the demographic ubiquity, if not everywhere the density, of Jews worldwide and in countries where they are often deeply rooted and not in the least cosmopolitan.
BRENNER MIGHT BE CALLED the Jewish Diane Arbus, if Miss Arbus herself weren't Jewish (having been born a Nemerov, sister of the poet Howard). He has, that is to say, a taste for the stark and even the freakish; grotesquerie seems to light his fire. He provides photographs of a midget Jewish hatter in the Ukraine, rabbinic couples (men and women rabbis) on beds together at a bargain furniture store in New York, a Jewish drag queen stretched along the sandy ground in Johannesburg, South Africa. Some of his photographs are distinctly "in your face," or, to use the pro-football term, "smash mouth." An example of this aspect of his work is seen in a photograph of ten defiant-looking young female rabbis and cantors at the Jewish Theological Seminary, in prayer shawls with phylacteries, or tefilin, wrapped round their forearms. None of Brenner's photographs carry titles or captions, but this one might have been entitled "Not Your Mother's Judaism."
The photograph in this book for which I do not possess a proper introductory adjective--shocking? devastating? desolating?--is one of six Jewish women from Los Angeles with their blouses off who have had mastectomies (five single, one double). I am not sure how one is supposed to react to this photograph. Powerful it is; that is beyond question. But to what end? How was Brenner able to get the women to pose for it? They sit at a table, each holds the hands of the women on both sides of her. Some attempt a smile, but without much success. "Posing for this picture with these women was a very intense experience," one of them remarks, and then, alas, breaks off into psycho-babblish jabber about meditation and the sense of connection required to summon the bravery for allowing the photograph. One can perhaps see the possibly cathartic effect of having done so. Only the motives of the photographer are really in question here.
Is iconoclasm part of Brenner's project? One picks up bits of anti-Israeli feeling, for example, in some of his photographs. A set of photos, takenroughly a decade apart, shows a perhaps six-year-old, earlock-wearing Yemeni Jew, Lewi Faez, studying a Jewish book in his grandfather's jewelry workshop, a room that does not seem far advanced above a cave. Years later Brenner photographed the sixteen-year-old and now married Lewi Faez and his wife and infant child in a nearly empty modern apartment in Israel in a manner meant to suggest his loneliness in his new country--the implication here being that Yemen, with all its primitiveness, may have been better. The camera, it is said, does not lie, but the man behind it can have his devious subtexts and political agendas.
THE TEXT--contained in the slenderer of the two volumes of "Diaspora"--includes what Brenner calls "Voices," or commentaries on smaller versions of many of the full-page, sometimes two-page-wide photographs found in the photographic volume. The "voices" are in fact brief passages written by novelists, poets, historians, scholars, and critics stirred by particular photographs; sometimes these passages entail a reading or interpretation of the photograph, sometimes they occasion autobiographical sorties suggested to them by the photographs. The passages written by Andr Aciman (a Jew born in Alexandria, Egypt), Julius Lester (an African-American who many years ago converted to a Judaism he takes seriously), and Tsvi Blanchard (an American orthodox rabbi) are easily the most penetrating. Jacques Derrida, a Jew born in Algeria, is interesting only when he is autobiographical and is otherwise his old charmless, obscurantist self. The Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, another frequent "Voices" contributor, is reliably disappointing. Thousands of words are in this text volume that aren't worth a single one of Brenner's pictures.
As for that quintessential Jew, Brenner allows that he has never found him and suggests, as does the impressive variety of his photographs, that he may not exist. Who might he be? Surveying the immensity of Jewish types, might he be the philosopher Martin Buber, the gangster Meyer Lansky, the comedian Woody Allen, the sports announcer Howard Cosell, the operatic singer Beverly Sills?
Is the authentic Jew an earlock-wearing, tsitsit-on-the-undergarments-bearing Hasid in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, a merchant originally from Iraq living in Calcutta, a Marrano praying in an attic in Portugal, a golfer in plaid pants and peach-colored shirt teeing off at the Lakeshore Country Club in Glencoe? The answer is of course all and none of the above.
And yet Jews remain, at least to most other Jews, identifiably, unmistakably Jewish. "Gaydar" is a word, formed from "radar," that describes the ability to discern a gay man, especially one attempting to pass as heterosexual. If there is an equivalent power of discernment that allows one to spot Jews, even where they do not conform in any obvious or even subtle way to stereotypical notions of the Jew--let us call this "Jewdar"--I like to think I possess it in reasonably good working order.
I feel that I can see through the occasional name change, cosmetic surgery, or sad attempts to pass oneself off as something other than Jewish that come within my purview. "Ah, a landsman," lights up on the screen in my mind when I encounter a person I take to be Jewish. A name can sometimes be more suggestive of Jewishness than physical appearance. Names, too, can give to Jews an odd sense of worldwide connectedness. Brenner, in this collection, provides Cohens from Venezuela, Kushners from Birobidzhan, Aarons from Calcutta, Bermans from Paris, and Hershs and Freys from Antwerp.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I have always wondered what it might be like not to be Jewish but to have a Jewish-sounding name--Sarah Jacobson, Norman Davis, Mark Steyn--and often be taken for Jewish. First, there would be the worry that someone might hold your being Jewish (when you're not) against you; and, second, there is the discomfort entailed in getting special treatment from another Jew or philo-Semite because that he or she thinks you are someone you are not. I once saw a man who was a dead ringer for the old actor Cesar Romero wearing a bright red T-shirt with bold white lettering that read "I Am Not Cesar Romero." Perhaps people with Jewish-sounding names ought to wear T-shirts, or at least carry business cards, that read, "I'm Sidney Ross, But Not Really Jewish." Glenn Gould, whose name and face and manner all falsely suggest Jewishness, could have used such a T-shirt.
The first time he saw troops from the Israeli Army, so in shape and formidable did they seem, Jackie Mason claims that he thought they were actually Puerto Ricans. One of the points Brenner attempts to make in "Diaspora" is that it's no longer so easy to tell Jews from non-Jews. In the photographs that he took of Jews in Italy, for example, especially those of men, none looks especially Jewish: They seem purely Roman or Venetian or Florentine. Yet my Jewdar rings even when I gaze upon most of the Chinese Jews in his photographs from Beijing. Brenner seems to play off this point with a photograph of a group of black and Hispanic moving men seated by a truck in Palm Beach, Florida, on which is written the company's name: Nice Jewish Boys. Only one actual Jewish boy, Jerry Burnstein, the driver of the truck and perhaps one of the owners, is in the picture. "Gee," remarks Julius Lester of this photograph, "but they don't look Jewish." What--or on whom--is the joke here?
BRENNER SUPPLIES a variety of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, and his selection of photographs emphasizes more the distinction between them than between German and Eastern European Jews (both of whom are Ashkenazic). The rivalries and little snobberies among these three divisions of Jewry are themselves of humorous interest to those who consider themselves connoisseurs of Jewishness. Traditionally, the German Jews held themselves to be above--more assimilated, more cultured--Eastern European Jews, while the Sephardi Jews, who were exiled from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, held themselves to be more aristocratic and hence above both. Some of them even claim the cachet of having been exiled in 1492 in the same way that some old-line American WASPs used to claim coming over on the Mayflower.
Eastern Jews referred to German Jews as yekkes, probably from the German word for "jacket" and a metonym for the notion that the stiffer, more formal German Jews never took off their suit jackets. What is the difference between a virgin and a yekke? an old joke asked. The answer was that a yekke remained a yekke. In a novel called "Caf Berlin" by Harold Nebenzal, I came across the amusing generalization that the real division between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews is that no true Sephardi, at least one raised in the Middle East, can abide gefilte fish, an Ashkenazi dish. An often-disputatious people, the Jews, and never more so than among themselves.
Brenner frequently attempts to score subtle jokes with his photographs. His better ones usually come by way of the settings he arranges for many of his subjects. Consider his photograph of fourteen Jewish shrinks, in a tight grouping off to the left, shot in the library at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Books and busts and photographs of Sigmund Freud are scattered throughout the room.
But dominating all--even the fourteen shrinks--is a large psychoanalytic couch at the picture's center, which, in the context of the photograph, resembles a mastless Egyptian boat. Might this couch stand for the boat that all these shrinks, still working away at their now quite dead ideas, seem to have missed? I don't know the state of Brenner's belief in psychoanalysis--though anyone who has read my previous sentence now knows the state of mine--and so I could be wrong about my interpretation of this photograph. But the brilliance of his arrangement makes it certainly possible, amusing, and, to me at least, persuasive.
Another of Brenner's photographs has sixteen actors all in Groucho Marx makeup and poses. Tsvi Blanchard remarks that "this photograph nearly convinced me that Groucho Marx was the official logo of Jews in exile." Underlying this is the notion of the Jew as someone who is skeptical, quick in response, verbally menacing. The Jew as witty radical is also suggested, for almost all the Marx Brothers' movies are attacks on what were once established American WASP institutions: Ivy League higher education, the opera, first-class ocean travel, thoroughbred racing.
The New York Jew may be a spin-off from the Groucho, wise-guy-son-of-recent-immigrants Jew. When you're in love the whole world's Jewish, was an old joke line. Closer to the truth is that when you're in New York, everyone seems Jewish, sometimes including Irish cops and Italian priests. By their combination of knowingness and aggressiveness--a combination that is not everybody's cup of caviar--is how New York Jews are generally characterized. Among the earliest anti-Semitism I encountered as a boy came from Chicago Jews returning, in the early 1950s, from Miami Beach, saying that the chief thing wrong with the place was that, as far as they were concerned, it had too many New York Jews. I have myself been taken for a New York Jew, and once read, in a biographical note accompanying an essay of mine reprinted in a college reader, that I had attended CCNY and then Columbia, when I've never set foot in either. Funny, I don't seem to myself New Yorkish.
BUT THERE IS ALSO the cerebral Jew (J. Robert Oppenheimer), the sensitive artistic Jew (Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Horowitz--this one comes in handsome and homely versions), the genius Jew (Albert Einstein), the infuriating Jewish woman (Barbra Streisand, she should only mind her own business), the Rebecca-by-the-wells beautiful Jewess (Marisa Berenson), and a full typology of other Jews, enough and more than enough, really, to go round.
Frdric Brenner's point is precisely that there may be no quintessential, authentic, absolute Jew. He makes this point, over and over, by showing Jews in unexpected connections. A photograph of the members of a Jewish motorcycle club in their leather and on their bikes before a synagogue is a notable example. Another is a Chaplinesque little Jewish man, with yarmulke and cane and cavalry mustache and bemused smile, standing against a blank wall in Calcutta. More in his smash-face mode, he provides a picture of a Passover ceremony at a maximum security women's correctional facility in Bedford Hills, New York; in case you missed the message, this photograph says, there are dangerous Jewish criminals and they aren't all Jewish men, either.
Brenner does not emphasize the Holocaust in this collection, though it was Hitler who sent more Jews off into a second diaspora than did the Romans when they destroyed the Second Temple. One extraordinary photograph, shot from above, shows a circle of twelve women, six Holocaust survivors, back to back, arms entwined with their lesbian daughters'.
What, one has to ask, is the moral of this picture: You survive the Holocaust, and you still get a lesbian for a daughter? Or might Brenner have intended that women who have gone through the Holocaust and lesbians, mother and daughters in this instance, share equal status as victims? I fear that our photographer intends the politically correct, drearier, and much more boring second interpretation.
MOST OF BRENNER'S PHOTOGRAPHS in Israel are not of the appealing Israeli young that characterize the place for many of us but of Hasidic Jews. Tsvi Blanchard remarks of a photograph of two, dark, bespectacled, spindly-legged Hasids: "How curious this is! We can only imagine the Jew as people we do not wish to be." Whether in the Catskill Mountains, Mea Shearim, on 47th Street in New York, at a study or dining table, or out in an open field, the Hasidim bring their complete world with them, which perhaps accounts, at least in part, for why they are as photogenic as any subject going.
Brenner provides a rigged up photograph of Jewish American celebrities, each appearing in a nineteenth-century gold gilt frame, out of which some place a hand or even their full head. The people in the photograph range from Henry Kissinger to the swimmer Mark Spitz, from Isaac Stern to Betty Friedan, from Philip Roth (the frame in which he appears is set horizontally on the ground) to Lauren Bacall. Different as they all are in the quality of their minds and outlook, all look distinctly Jewish. Saul Bellow, who also appears in this photograph, here resembles nothing so much as an ancient parrot, but, it must be added, a distinctly Jewish one.
"Over time," Tsvi Blanchard remarks, "Brenner's work will increasingly undermine our conscious belief that there is only one way to be Jewish." Perhaps so. Hasidic Judaism harks back to the eighteenth century. Much modern Judaism, in its liberal strain, makes a conscious attempt to be as inclusive as possible; a visit to many Reform Jewish synagogues today can sometimes make one feel as if one has just attended a platform session of the McGovern wing of the Democratic party. Above all there reigns the paradox that, as some branches of Judaism make more and more concessions to modernity--female rabbis being the most notable step in this direction--more and more young Jews seem to be returning to Jewish orthodoxy. Go, as the Jews say, figure.
AND YET . . . and yet . . . and yet . . . despite and perhaps because of all this, why is it that I continue to feel that I can recognize a Jewish face at twenty paces, no matter what its possessor's politics, nationality, personal history? "Numbers of Jews are found," the "Jewish Encyclopedia" notes, "who possess none of the characteristics here noted, and yet are recognizable as Jews."
Jews come in all shapes and sizes, tastes and temperaments. They can be garish and vulgar, pushy and wild, sensitive and cerebral, artistic and conservative, but they are rarely dull, except of course when trying to pass themselves off as something other than Jewish. Sometimes I think I can have had no better luck than to have been born Jewish, even though I am in my religious belief a pious agnostic and far from a sedulous practitioner of the Jewish religion. At other, rarer times, the complication of being Jewish seems heavy, or "fraught," as is nowadays said, and what it is fraught with, I believe, is the feeling of never quite feeling altogether at home anywhere.
"What are you doing here?" is a question that plays somewhere in the back of every Jewish person in whatever country he or she takes up residence. ("A Jew," Andr Aciman remarks "is always someone about whom one asked: Why on earth isn't he where he belongs?") The pressure of history makes it a tough question to block out. It was supposed to have been put to rest with the founding of the State of Israel, but, just now, a good part of the world seems to be asking the Israelis and their nation precisely this question: What are you doing here?
Aggressiveness can sometimes mask this feeling of outsiderishness on the part of Jews, sometimes irony can attempt to do the same thing. And on occasion, so can a measured distancing of oneself from full participation in the life around one. But anyone dedicated to being a person on whom little is lost will notice it playing somewhere in the expression of almost all Jews. Careful scrutiny will inevitably reveal that, funny, but they really do look Jewish.
Joseph Epstein is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard.
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Subject: you can say it in regard to animals...but not human animals
"There are many ways to fight back against the problem of invasives," says de Poorter. "It can't be stressed how important it is to do something about the invasive species you already have, as well as prevent more from coming in."
Here.
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Subject: EMJ at work on book documenting age-old jew practice of sexual subversion
Yes indeed, Michael Jones is working on a book about
the long -- very long -- history of Jewish cultural
and sexual subversion, opposition to Christianity, and
fomenting of sexual revolution. What is of particular
interest is just how far back
Jewish cultural/sexual subversion really goes. Most
of us are probably accustomed to thinking that serious
Jewish intellectual and political subversion didn't
really get going until the 19th Century, as MacDonald
shows in The Culture of Critique. But if Jones is
right, Jews have been fomenting sexual revolution for
centuries and centuries before they began developing
subversive intellectual systems, at least since the
time of Simon Bar Kokhba, one of the figures that will
get a good deal of coverage in Jones' forthcoming
book.
Jones' articles on Jewish issues that are currently
being serialized as cover-stories in Culture Wars will
eventually become chapters in his book. It should be
excellent: a sort of 'pre-history' of Jewish
subversion to those of us accustomed to thinking that
it all began with Marx and Freud.
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Subject: Mexico declares war on U.S.
Here.
Mexico issues illustrated migrant guide
Critics claim book encourages illegal migration
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Posted: 7:31 PM EST (0031
GMT)
This page of the "Guide for the Mexican Immigrant"
explains the rights of migrants who are detained.
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- The Mexican government is
distributing a comic-book guide that warns would-be
migrants about the perils of crossing illegally into
the United States and offers tips to stay safe --
enraging some advocates of stricter immigration
policies in the United States who argue the booklet
encourages illegal migration.
About 1.5 million copies of the pocket-size book
titled "Guide for the Mexican Immigrant" were
published by Mexico's Foreign Relations Department and
distributed as a free supplement in comic books
popular with adults that are sold throughout the
country. The booklets are also available online and at
Mexican consulates in the United States.
The comic book's introduction shows an illustration of
three men huddling by riverbank bushes accompanied by
the statement, "This guide is intended to give you
some practical advice that could be of use if you
already have made the difficult decision to seek new
job opportunities outside your country."
Each year, as would-be migrants start considering a
trip north, the Mexican government launches radio or
television campaigns to inform them about the risks
they'll face along the U.S.-Mexican border.
This year, the Foreign Relations Department decided to
add the guide as a way of "trying to provide the
information directly" in the would-be migrants' home
communities, said Geronimo Gutierrez, the department's
deputy secretary for North American affairs. "Once
they reach the border, it's very difficult for them to
change their minds."
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Subject: Deetroit, where niggers run free and civilization be mad crumblin'
Kwame done be managin' tings right, homedawg. Word:
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/finances5e_20050105.htm
Kwame:
Here.
Detroit be illin' wit 214m shortfall. Detroit has lost ONE MILLION residents since the '50s. Why? Because humans don't want to live around animals.
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Subject: South = hate region; Confederate flag is hate cloth
jewing the South
http://www.thephora.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6633
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Subject: Webster from Mueller letter
Martin Webster:
[START]
Dave,
Thanks for your recent e-mail and forwardings.
I have heard from Tony Hancock that on 30th December
2004 the Police raided the home of Chris Brayshaw, the
National Treasurer of the BNP (until some unspecified
date in April 2004) regarding the non-presentation of
independently audited accounts to the Electoral
Commission.
I have seen no media publicity about this as yet. The
Asian earthquake and resultant tsunami has completely
taken over the media's attention and so the BNP
incident may have been squeezed out.
I am informed that for several weeks past the BNP's 1
per minute "information" line has been assuring
callers that the party's accounts, independently
audited by Chartered Accountants, have been presented
to the Electoral Commission as required by law. The
Police raid on the BNP's Treasurer would seem to
indicate that the reassurances from the party
leadership to their members may not be accurate.
Chris Brayshaw, I understand, resigned from his post
as BNP National Treasurer, in APRIL 2004. The accounts
were due to be filed with the Electoral Commission in
JULY 2004.
Brayshaw's resignation was not announced to the BNP
membership until AFTER the Euro and local elections in
JUNE 2004. That resignation, as we now know, has not
affected his legal responsibility for presenting
independently audited accounts to the Commission.
Griffin, via the BNP web site, is attempting to
suggest that the late or non presentation of accounts
is due to the fact that Barclays Bank, then HSBC Bank,
dumped the BNP as customers. This cannot be right.
The accounts were due to be presented in JULY 2004.
Barclays did not dump the BNP until mid JUNE 2004 - by
which time the account should have been completed and
in the hands of auditors.
Because of non-presentation and because the law
requiring all parties standing in elections to present
such accounts is new, the Electoral Commission granted
the BNP one or two extended deadlines, the final one
being 31st December. So much for the the BNP line that
the raid is all part of "state oppression'!
Accounding to a Barrister well known in Nationalist
circles, one of the reasons why the BNP could not find
one firm of independent auditors throughout the entire
United Kingdom to "sign off" the BNP accounts is
because (as one example of many) the BNP had in
excesss of 30 persons on full or part-time employment,
but there did not seem to be evidence of any
established or regularised PAYE, tax or National
insurance arrangements for these people.
Scrutiny of such issues is not, as Griffin's
"spin"-masters suggest, "state harrassment", but the
same auditing and taxation supervision that is
required of any local fish-and-chip shop!
Watch out for the next 'Electronic Loose Cannon' -
which I hope Neil may post (at least in part) to
balance to stuff he posts from Peter McCallum, who
merely redirects 'spin' from the BNP web site direct
from the BNP web site!
I think it good that Neil wishes to cover the BNP's
activities, but I feel he should cover the saga from
more than one direction, otherwise his readers will be
misinformed and will come in for some unpleasant
surprises concerning matters about which they should
have had earlier notice.
For four years now I have been issuing bulletins
stating that Griffin & Co are crooks in the area of
financial management; liars and hypocrites in the area
of "personal morality"; and willing to water-down the
fundamental precepts of racial-nationalism in order to
improve their standing in the eyes of the enemy media
and Establishment.
For doing this I have been denounced as a "liar" and
my information and commentary rejected as "sour
grapes".
What will these people have to say now? More of the
same, I expect, because there is only one thing worse
than being WRONG in the eyes of many Nationalists -
and that is being RIGHT! They only want to hear "good
news", poor dears!
As I say: watch out for the next 'Electronic Loose
Cannon'!
Regards,
Martin.
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Subject: monkey Mandela's son died of Q-RID
Here.
Breaking Taboo, Mandela Says Son Died of AIDS
By John Chiahemen
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one of Africa's most
committed campaigners in the battle against AIDS, announced that his only
surviving son had succumbed to the disease on Thursday.
Makgatho Mandela, 54, died in a Johannesburg clinic where he had been
receiving treatment for more than a month. His wife Zondi died in 2003 from
pneumonia.
"I announce that my son has died of AIDS," the 86-year-old Nobel Peace
laureate told a news conference, urging a redoubled fight against the
disease.
"Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to
make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come
out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS. And people will stop
regarding it as something extraordinary," said a frail-looking Mandela,
surrounded by his grandchildren and other family members.
Mandela's announcement of his personal AIDS tragedy challenged the
widespread taboo which keeps many Africans from discussing an epidemic which
now infects more than 25 million people across the continent.
In South Africa, which with some five million HIV/AIDS infections has the
highest AIDS caseload in the world, the disease kills more than 600 people
each day, activists say.
Despite the mounting death toll, few public figures in South Africa or other
African countries have personally come forward to say that AIDS has affected
them or their families.
Deaths from the disease are usually attributed to a "long illness,"
pneumonia, or other secondary causes.
Veteran opposition leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party
helped to break the silence last year when he announced that two of his
children had died from AIDS-related causes.
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Subject: America Inc.'s retaining
HOW TO RETAIN DIVERSE EMPLOYEES
make sure banana trays stay full. lots of colorful baubles for the she-woolies. casual friday not enough. "get your zoo on" fridays better.
Retention of people of color and women is a key issue for progressive companies. On January 10, 2005 DiversityInc will present a Web-based seminar (Webinar) including key metrics, strategies, and insights used by Top 50
Here.
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Subject: no room for stars 'n' bars in Nigger Nation, just bars and bars
Vanderbilt 'Confederate' Dorm Case Opens
A state appeals court heard arguments Wednesday over whether Vanderbilt University can remove the word "Confederate'" from a dormitory the United Daughters of the Confederacy helped build in the 1930s.
The Tennessee chapter of the group claims the university's effort to drop the first word from Confederate Memorial Hall violates decades-old contracts, but Vanderbilt claims the contracts are no longer valid.
The judges, who did not say when they will issue a ruling, had strong words for both sides.
"You're arguing social values and making the courts be the tough guy," Judge William Cain said when a Vanderbilt attorney argued the university is completely different than it was in 1934. "The court is faced here with a bilateral contract and not an academic freedom."
Presiding Judge William C. Koch Jr., however, highlighted weaknesses in the heritage group's case, including that parts of the deal were oral and that some of the contract documents entered as evidence were not signed.
"You've put your flags up and marched into battle without ammunition," Koch said.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy, which has 1,300 members in Tennessee and 25,000 nationwide, gave one-third of the cost of the $150,000 building in 1935 as part of a series of contracts with Peabody College. Peabody merged with Vanderbilt in 1979.
In 2002, Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee cited school diversity efforts when he decided to rename the dorm Memorial Hall.
The word "Confederate'' has stirred debate at the private liberal-arts university since the residence hall was renovated in 1988. Critics call it offensive in the face of an increasingly diverse student body and faculty, but Confederate heritage groups say the name change is an attempt to rewrite history and reject Southern culture. (AP)
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Subject: discussion for D.C. area readers
A panel discussion over Tom Wolfe's book "I Am Charlotte Simmons" will be held at IWF's Washington, DC, headquarters on the evening of January 18. IWF Senior Editor Charlotte Hays will moderate the panel, which will feature David Brooks, John Derbyshire, Michael Dirda, and Christina Hoff Sommers.
Light refreshments will be provided at 5:00 p.m., and the discussion will begin at 5:30.
Please RSVP by email to info@iwf.org.
For additional information, go to:
http://www.iwf.org/events/event_detail.asp?EventID=71
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Subject: Amber Oberholtzer heroically kills nigger attacking her friend
Google "Amber Oberholtzer" quick before story is disappeared
Amber Oberholtzer, up here in the san francisco area, was in a group of
3 people about to be ratpacked by 7 blacks. Three blacks ganged up on
one of the males in her group and had him on the ground. Amber acted
quickly, stabbed two of the blacks, putting one in the hospital and one
in the grave, thus saving her own live and those of her group of three.
It appears the story is being allowed to die, no word on TV, radio,
newpapers, etc. But her heroism should not be allowed to die! Thus I
break silence to tell you, don't let her heroism die. ORION! alex.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/010405_nw_teen_killed.html
Grieving Classmates Of Teen Killed In SF Create Web Site
Jan. 4 (BCN) Grieving friends of Frankie Mead, a Novato High School junior killed in San Francisco on New Year's Day, have created a Web site in his honor.
At http://www.frankiemead.tk, dozens of people have posted memories of the 16-year-old's high school, middle school and even preschool days.
"You'd make class more fun, with your jokes, side comments, and the famous fart machine," one entry reads.
"It was just two days ago we were at the gym shooting around," wrote a fellow basketball player. "It seemed like an everyday thing. But now I realize how lucky I am."
Frankie was stabbed to death during a fight outside a Denny's restaurant on Beach Street, according to San Francisco police.
Police said Frankie and at least four of his friends were assaulting a young man outside the restaurant around 5:55 a.m. Saturday. Amber Oberholtzer, a 21-year-old from Elk Grove, allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed two of the group that included her male companion's attackers: first a 15-year-old girl, then Frankie.
The girl is expected to survive her injuries, police Sgt. Neville Gittens reports. Frankie died at the hospital a few hours after the fight.
Oberholtzer was arrested when she and her friends returned to the fight scene, Gittens said. The young man who was assaulted also was questioned, but he was later released and no further arrests are expected, according to Gittens.
Oberholtzer will likely be arraigned on charges of homicide and attempted homicide today or Wednesday, police said.
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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/010505_nw_teen_killed.html
Woman Held In Novato Teen's Stabbing Death Released
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Mead was stabbed to death after an argument outside a Denny's restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf.
(ABC7)Jan. 5 (BCN) A 21-year-old woman has been released from police custody after being held on suspicion of fatally stabbing a Novato teenager in San Francisco on Saturday.
Amber Oberholtzer of Elk Grove was being held on suspicion of killing Frankie Mead, 16, after an argument outside a Denny's restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf, police said.
Shortly before 6 a.m. on New Year's Day, two groups started arguing before Oberholtzer allegedly stabbed Mead and another girl, San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
The second victim is expected to survive.
After the incident in the 400 block of Beach Street, police said Oberholtzer fled in a taxi but returned a short time later to the restaurant, where she was taken into custody.
She was released on Tuesday night, according to district attorney's spokeswoman Debbie Mesloh.
The San Francisco district attorney's office is waiting for a complete investigation into the incident before making a decision about charging any suspects, according to Mesloh.
It is believed that additional witnesses may have been present on the evening of the stabbing, and anyone with information is urged to contact the police tip line at (415) 575-4444.
Ed. Note: Note the deliberate mischaracterization here by the "reporter." It follows the same lines of the Minnesota "reporters" who turn Bang-Bang Vang's murder of six White men into a "clash" between a man and some hunters. Not the slightest hint is given in the "news" story that the woman was protecting her friends from an attack initiated by the niggers. The media are controlled by jews bent on your physical elimination, white man. There's no cute way to put it. The jews attack your culture and your genes with INTENT TO KILL. Remember, jews and cowardly white "reporter" tools, "I was just following orders" will not be acceptable at Nuremberg II.
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Subject: Talmud denial, a grow world problem that needs to be tracked by the State Department
Hi Bruce,
You cannot refute the quotes I attributed to the Talmud at http://ourworld.cs.com/nonzion/id41.htm because they're true, and you know it. In fact, the actual pages are linked to many of these quotes, and what isn't can be found at www.come-and-hear.com.
Your merely citing someone else's purported bogus quotes attributed to the Talmud and then saying I somehow also believe it doesn't prove anything, except that you can create a straw man and blow it over. But I hear that you and Dan are good at "blowing" things, so this might be expected.
The Babylonian Talmud quoted by Faurisson is the valid reference, not this excited Jew.
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Subject: ignore warnings, then whine for aid: the non-white way, itz
Leading Geologist Gave Repeated Quake/Tsunami Warnings
By Jonathan Leake
Times Online.co.uk 1-4-5
A leading geologist repeatedly warned Indonesian officials that an earthquake and tsunami would soon strike their shores, it emerged this weekend.
Kerry Sieh, professor of geology at California Institute of Technology, has been studying the region for nearly a decade.
Last July he became so concerned at the likely massive loss of life that he printed and distributed 5,000 posters and brochures around some of the islands later hit by the earthquake.
He addressed church congregations and schools to tell people what to do in an earthquake. His main advice was for people to live away from shorelines.
Sieh had been due to meet Indonesian officials last month to discuss a wider education programme but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute because the officials said they had no money.
Two weeks ago he expressed his fear that a big earthquake and tsunami were overdue in the region at a conference in San Francisco.
Sieh said this weekend: "No one can predict exactly when an earthquake will happen but it was clear that this area was at relatively high risk and such an event would definitely happen one day.
"We told them it would kill people, wreck infrastructure and destroy livelihoods. But our warnings were falling on deaf ears.
"My team and I decided to bypass the national and local government and start warning people directly. I hope our efforts saved some lives."
Ten years ago Sieh installed monitors on islands off Sumatra. His research focused on the Mentawai Islands, a chain 100 miles south of the epicentre of the Boxing Day quake. Communication has not been re-established with the islands since the tsunami.
At his speech to the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, he pointed out that, historically, such events have occurred in clusters.
Sieh believes this means another quake could be on the way: "There is some evidence that the stresses on the tectonic plates south of the epicentre may now have increased and raised the chances of another major earthquake."
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Subject: defense damaged by JEWAID, i.e., aggressive war on Iraq
Jews helping foot most of 30 million gala GOP party for Bush 2nd term to celebrate their fucking cokehead alcoholic draft dodger silver spoon puppet. Where the hell does this fuckup get his strong "resolve" convictions from? Even daddy Bush didnt want to attack Iraq and take out Saddam to upset the balance of power for the Iranian Shiites and Scowcroft gone who hates the little neocon puppet dumbfucker terrorist killer GW.
January 06, 2005
Rising cost of war: the FA22 fighter will be cut back to shave $10.5 billion of the defence bill
[Meaning: America is left deeper in debt and worse defended because our blood and treasure is used to benefit ISRAEL FIRST]
War blows $60bn hole in US plan for military
From Tim Reid and Roland Watson in Washington
THE cost of the Iraq war has forced Donald Rumsfeld to slash plans for a high-tech military of the future in order to focus on the more mundane and urgent task of providing his present-day US Army with tanks and body armour.
The rising cost of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with a record US budget deficit, has forced the US Defence Secretary to make nearly $60 billion (AUS31.8 billion) in cuts to advanced weapons programmes for the US Air Force and US Navy, and even to President Bush's cherished missile defence programme, while increasing US Army spending.
An internal defence budget proposal for 2006 recommends that the cuts take place over six years. The programmes most affected are for fighter aircraft and new warships, once seen by Mr Rumsfeld as the future of the American military. They include the next generation of nuclear submarines, a stealth navy destroyer and an advanced air force fighter jet. In contrast, increases for ground forces, which he had hoped would become less relevant for the 21st-century US military, are to soak up $25 billion more Pentagon spending than had been anticipated. Pentagon officials said that the shift had been forced on them by the military costs of Iraq and Afghanistan, which are running at $5 billion a month.
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Subject: jews try to shut down jew-crit in Oregon
Wild accusations of anti-Semitism stoke fears, squelch debate
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/01/05/ed.col.beres.0105.html
January 5, 2005
Guest Viewpoint: Wild accusations of anti-Semitism stoke fears, squelch debate
By George Beres
Eugene is a university town, so it's natural to ask: From what does "academic freedom" need to be protected?
The threats always have been there, but never more pronounced than today, according to a Dec. 25 Associated Press article suggesting that higher education is facing a simultaneous effort by a loose coalition of attackers - conservative extremists, Christian fundamentalists and pro-Israel lobbyists.
Many of us safe in the shelter of Oregon mistakenly identify such attackers as cranks. They supposedly are all "out there somewhere," as in the case of a discredited New York Post columnist, Daniel Pipes. He wrongly accused University of Oregon instructor Doug Card of teaching anti-Semitism in his sociology classes.
I have awakened to the unhappy reality that Pipes clones are alive and flourishing in our midst.
The Dec. 2 Register-Guard reported a settlement of Card's lawsuit against Pipes. I wrote Card not to congratulate him, but to commiserate about a result that served Pipes' purposes. Pipes and his fellow defendant, Jonathan Schanzer, changed their original criticism of Card, now saying, "He does not condone extremism in the classroom."
Yet Pipes exploited the propaganda value of the situation by getting Card to publicly condemn anti-Semitism, as if the professor harbored secret views to the contrary. He also got him to condemn professors who use their classrooms to promote anti-Semitism, as if that were some common cancer on the campus.
What those public comments accomplished was to strengthen efforts to mislead the public about alleged anti-Semitism by college teachers. That fits with what I've observed of Pipes' efforts to create a culture of suspicion in society, stemming from instructions given nationwide for letters to the editor to be written labeling as anti-Semitic anyone who criticizes policies of Israel.
I've observed a related controversy on the UO campus as a member of the Pacifica Forum, created to discuss issues of peace and its absence. We have met on or near the campus for more than a decade. Participation is open to all.
A year ago, one of our guests went to our sponsor, the Wesley Foundation, accusing the forum of having anti-Semitic programs. The foundation asked us to find another location. Pacifica was given no opportunity to confront its accuser. The sponsor wished to risk no "complications," and Pacifica had to leave.
The forum returned to campus to meet on Fridays in the Erb Memorial Union, because the Survival Center generously gave nominal sponsorship to Pacifica. Within weeks, the accuser confronted the center's student board with the same groundless charges. The center reacted without exploring the validity of the complaint. When Pacifica was granted a brief meeting with the board, the students said their decision was based on a Pacifica exhibit pamphlet, which suggested that some Jews were guilty of self-victimization.
Did Pacifica endorse that claim? Or was it in the exhibit to illustrate demonization of Jews, which Pacifica opposes? The Survival Center will never know, because it did not ask. It was reacting to intimidation. The facts made no difference.
The Survival Center and the Wesley Foundation are well-meaning, and generous with sponsorship. There was no smallness on their part in evicting Pacifica Forum.
But there was fear - fear of further pressure from a tiny minority that alleges discrimination even in the absence of provocation. That minority wields power through fear.
The tactic is used with equal effectiveness by Christian fundamentalists whose growing control of the federal administration is a strange variety of churchly proselyting - converting a supposedly godless democracy into a theocracy.
The strategy is to reject dialogue - a means fine-tuned by the propaganda of Pipes and his fellows who seek to insulate Israel from criticism from any source.
Professor Card and the Pacifica Forum are among local victims of that panic-mongering.
The true victim is freedom of expression made voiceless when attacked with the weapon of fear by those with self-serving motives.
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Subject: jew Diamond's latest is boring
http://www.iSteve.com/05JanA.htm#jared.diamond.collapse
Jared Diamond didn't used to be so boring: Jared Diamond has a new book out called Collapse about societies that have collapsed due to environmental disasters such as deforestation. It's a useful topic, but in the large scheme of things, a minor one, which is why Diamond spends so much time on famously trivial edge-of-the-world cultures like the Vikings in Greenland and the Polynesians on Easter Island. But Diamond is so good at getting publicity that the fact that ecology has little to do with the reason most societies collapse will likely be overlooked. The main reason you don't see many Carthaginians or Aztecs or members of other collapsed civilizations around these days is they got beat in war, as Edmund Creasy's famous 1851 book "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World" makes clear.
Diamond wasn't always so pompously dull. Over a decade ago, Jared Diamond wrote a fascinating book called The Third Chimpanzee that collected his Discover columns and other articles. It didn't make too much of a splash, perhaps because it was politically incorrect in a lot of places, so then he wrote a much duller book entitled Guns, Germs, and Steel, which purported to once and for all Disprove Racism, and he has been a fixture as a speaker at the higher priced sort of conferences ever since.
Although, as far as I can tell, he only lectures, never debates. I've never heard of him ever allowing himself to be dragged into a debate. I met him after he gave a speech at Mike Milken's big annual confab. We were chatting nicely until I asked him a tough question about what he didn't mention in his Guns, Germs, and Steel -- Wouldn't different agricultural environments select for different hereditary traits in locals? -- I went on to mention how James Q. Wilson's The Marriage Problem has a couple of chapters on how tropical agriculture in West Africa affects family structures. And, thus, wouldn't the kind of man that would have the most surviving children be different in an agricultural environment where he doesn't need to work too much to support them than in an agricultural environment where he does?
Now, Diamond has spent a lot of time birdwatching in New Guinea, so he knows all about what tropical agriculture selects for. And he has no intention of touching that tar-baby with a ten-foot pole. So, he grabbed his stuff and literally dog-trotted at about 5 mph out of the auditorium!
Jared Diamond wasn't always such a tedious phony. GC over at GNXP.com has uncovered an early Jared Diamond article in prestigious Nature about a hilariously politically incorrect topic. Personally, I don't have any first-hand experience with the topic, so I couldn't give you my opinion on the validity of Diamond's findings on racial differences in testicle sizes, but Diamond seems pretty fascinated by the question.
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has more on Collapse.
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Subject: The Kings Depart
Alex,
I recently went to the regional library to check out a book titled "The Kings Depart." Imagine my small surprise when I found out this book no longer exists in the library system. But then this should really be no surprise a'tall in an age where the FBI can legally track the books your read. This is probably one of the best books I have ever read about pre-Nazi, Weimar Germany. The entire cast of Jewish, Communist International, characters like Rosa Luxembourg and Kurt Eisner are carefully identified and analyzed in this book. I find it interesting that author Richard Watt also wrote "Dare Call It Treason," but again, when you read this book that will come as no surprise.
This is an excellent book for those who want to understand just how the Jewcomintern worked its wiles on a moribund Germany. At the time Germany was convulsing from revolution and economic chaos due to the post war atrocities imposed by the allied "victors." The author makes the reasons abundantly clear why Hitler rose to power and describes the cultural climate that provided the necessary support. What few today understand about this era was just how close the Jewcomintern actually came to achieving another Soviet style revolution in Germany. Yet due to their proximity to the newly butchered Russia, the German people were well aware of just what another murderous Jewcom revolution meant to the German citizen. It was this understanding that resulted in the mighty backlash against the German Jewcomintern and allowed Hitler to make his gains. Without this direct knowledge of the Soviet Jewcomintern by the German public, the outcome of the Jewcom's revolution would have no doubt been far more successful in its political assault.
Therein lies a valuable lesson for those in America who desire change, there will be no revolution before its time. It was not simply the hard economic times that led to Hitler's rise, but the twin specters of starvation and a murderous Jewcomintern seizing power that awoke the people to the understanding that they had little left to lose by backing Hitler and undoubtedly had everything to lose should the Jewcom's revolution be successful. When you contrast the political and economic climate of Weimar Germany to modern America, and when you consider the political and economic lessons the Jewcoms have learned over the past 80 odd years, it becomes readily apparent that whatever happens to America, it will be far, far, different then what happened in Weimar Germany.
Regards,
Arch Stanton
Ed. Note: I've never heard of that book but it sounds well worth reading. Certainly many Anglomaniacs, anti-Germans as well as outright jews find it convenient to pretend Hitler came out of nowhere, and that jews were just innocent fellow Germans trying to make their honesty jewy way. Great letter, Arch. If anybody has a copy of this book, please forward it and I'll put it online.
PS - Here are a few other interesting reviews on this book
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The sub-title of this book is 'The Tradegy of Germany: Versailles and the German
Revolution'. It was first published in 1968 but has recently been re-published in
paperback. The book covers the period from the armistice that ended World War
I (November 11, 1918) to the signing of the Versailles treaty about seven months
later (June 28, 1919). During this period Germany was swept by repeated
revolutions from the left and counter-revolutions from the right. These ended
finally in the establishment of the weak and unstable Weimar Republic but also
(and ominously) in the founding of the Nazi party and the beginning of the career
of Adolf Hitler. While Germany was in chaos, the leaders of the victorious
nations (Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France and Woodrow
Wilson of the United States) lead the discussion in Paris of the terms of the treaty
that was to be imposed on Germany. It is generally agreed today that the
Versailles treaty was a dreadfully botched job and that in the end it made almost
inevitable the emergence of a revengeful and vicious Germany and then World
War II. How all of this came about is a fascinating and horrifying story which
Richard Watt tells with enormous skill and verve. In 530 meticulously researched
pages, he has written the single most exciting history book I have ever read. It is
a page-turner, a book I could hardly bear to put down. I have only one critical
comment to make. It seems to me that this period of Bolshevik revolutions in
Germany and also elsewhere especially in Hungary lead to something else other a
a nationalistic fury and a desire for revenge. It lead to a sharp increase in
anti-semitism. The holocaust itself, which would have been unthinkable in
pre-war central Europe, became not only thinkable but perhaps likely after 1919.
This view, I should stress, is my own only. At any rate it is a subject that Watt
has chosen perhaps wisely not to address.
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This is a very fair, balanced, extremely readable history of the the last years of
WW1, the various revolutions and mutinies in 1918 and 1919 (mainly in
Germany, but also Hungary,etc.)and the grand finale of the Versailles Treaty.
When reading this book, one cannot help but agree with the thoughts of Jan
Christian Smuts, who very accurately predicted the great and horrible events of
the next 25 years. Apparently, Pres. Wilson did not carry out his lofty ideals in
the end, Lloyd George had serious second thoughts (persuaded in part by Smuts),
and Clemenceau remained angry and adament. This is among the few books that
I've read that tells about all sides of the story. The six weeks between the first
Versailles meeting (on the 4th anniversary of the Lusitania attack), and the final
signing are especially well done here. I never realized that the Allies were on the
verge of attacking Germany if the Treaty was not signed ASAP. We also forget
that the Allied naval blockade continued for about 6 months after the Armistice,
resulting in the deaths of thousands of German children. It did not end until the
final signing of the Versailles treaty.In short, a whale of a good book!
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The failure of diplomacy and politics which was the Treaty of Versailles is often
said to have led directly to the 2nd World War.This book is about the German
socialist revolution after WWI but has a much larger significance. In order to
better illuminate the reasons for the revolution, the author spends maybe half the
book describing the whole end-of-war scene, what was happening with the
Allies, and the whole Treaty of Versailles process. The emphasis is on the
diplomatic and political task of making the peace, and boy, if you've ever looked
down on the arts of diplomacy and politics, this story is a real eye-opener! For
example, after the German monarchy collapsed, the leading legitimate political
party was the Majority Socialists. They were the only ones left to take over and
try to steer the country out of chaos. Their legitimacy lay in the fact that they
had been handed the reins by the previous monarchical government, and so
could rule according to German law. Unfortunately, one of the leaders ran out to
a balcony, and yelled to the crowds, "Long live the German Republic!" which
was a horrible mistake -- it implied that the old, monarchical laws no longer
applied, and that the Majority Socialists had no legal standing anymore. Also
fascinating is the role that American President Wilson's fussy, exacting,
professorial temperament had in the failure, and the unfortunate fact that the
German diplomat the Majority Socialists sent to represent them was a lousy
public speaker. And did you know the French believed all along that there would
soon be another war with Germany? This was why they insisted on extracting so
much land and money from the Germans, a punitive move which only made the
2nd World War all the more inevitable. The book is full of such fascinating
examples. I am not a history student and generally have to read books on history
laboriously, one chapter at a time, forcing myself to pay attention. Although this
is real, undiluted, non-romanticized history, it is so well written that, after
finishing every chapter, I wanted to go onto the next. The author is an excellent
writer, great at character description and at suspense, though not in the least
showy or overly present as a narrative voice. I plan to read every book of his I
can get my hands on.
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The author sought books on the German Revolution of 1918-1919; finding none,
he wrote this one. The failure of the German military to win the war by 1918
produced mutinies, revolution, and the end of their Second Empire by October
1918. A new republic was proclaimed, and the Armistice led to the treaty of
Versailles. While the Kaiser fled to Holland, his military remained as a wanted
burden to the new republic: it alone could suppress the revolutions breaking out
all over Germany. This left them as the striking force fro a republic that they
despised; eventually they cam |