THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

"Imperialism today is taking place in the context of...the 'universalization' of capitalism. It is not now primarily a matter of territorial conquest or direct military or colonial control. It is not now a matter of capitalist powers invading non-capitalist powers in order to bleed them dry directly and by brute force. Now it is more a matter of ensuring that the forces of the capitalist market prevail in every corner of the world (even if this means marginalizing and impoverishing parts of it), and of manipulating those market forces to the advantage of the most powerful capitalist economies and the United States in particular." ... "Military force is still central to the imperialist project, in some ways more than ever."-- Political scientist Ellen Meiksins-Wood, Z magazine Nov 1999, p26

 

COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS

Jan 07 03:51

Guess What? Lots Of Oil, Natural Gas In Gaza!

To find the real reasons behind conflicts and wars in this world, you need to follow some or all of four things: Money, blood, power or natural resources (usually oil or natural gas but it can be cobalt like in the Congo).

Oil is behind the conflicts in Darfur, Somalia and other similar places.

The war in Afghanistan was never about finding bin Laden. It was about uniting Afghanistan into a single government so a pipeline could be constructed to bring a million barrels a day from areas north of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia to markets (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sardi7.html).

We need to stop listening to what the "official" media tells us when it comes to conflicts and wars because the official media is corporate and government owned and/or controlled by government. Less than one percent of the "news" in the world today is reported and what is reported is usually heavily edited and slanted for propaganda purposes.

Jan 06 17:21

FEEL SORRY FOR US, OH PLEASE FEEL SORRY FOR US! WE ARE THE VICTIMS. HONEST!

Jan 06 16:19

Al Qaeda Vows Revenge for Gaza

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They are really scraping the bottom of the propaganda barrel.

How long before they dig up the dead guy and have Jeff Dunham scare us all with the corpse!

Jan 06 13:59

Where’s Osama?

How likely is it that Osama bin Laden, the defender of the oppressed Moslems, “the perpetrator of 9/11” as they tell us, would remain silent in the face of the Israeli massacre of the helpless Palestinians in Gaza? Asks Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich.

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Jan 06 13:55

Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Relinked at reader request.

Jan 06 10:55

Kissinger Calls For a New World Order

With the post-911 global gulag in place, the economy of the world looted, the idea of the nation state repudiated and replaced with a zionist thugocracy, China and Russia surrounded...the Mask is beginning to come off.

Jan 06 10:06

Flashback - How to spot an antisemitic hate crime hoax

The information below was collected from the book "Crying Wolf - Hate Crime Hoaxes in America" written by Laird Wilcox.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

I am relinking this because Israel is desperate to maintain its public image as victim-with-right-to-defend-itself-by-any-means in the current conflict, and as predicted earlier this week we are seeing a rash of so-called hate crimes, some of which at least appear to be more of the sorts of hoaxes used to bolster self-declared victimhoods in the past.

Truth is the first casualty of war. Be skeptical. as George Carlin stated, "The consensus reality is usually bullshit."

Jan 06 10:01

Gaza conflict sowing violence, attacks on Jews in Europe

Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza has sparked protests across Europe, and now there are signs that some of that sentiment is turning violent.

Assaults on Jews and arson attacks against Jewish congregations are being reported in a number of countries.

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And I'll bet many of them are hoaxes trying to build sympathy for poor little Israel.

Jan 06 09:26

Prominent Austin Activist Admits He Infiltrated RNC Protest Groups As FBI Informant

An Austin-based activist named Brandon Darby has revealed he worked as an FBI informant in the eighteen months leading up to the Republican National Convention. Darby has admitted to wearing recording devices at planning meetings and wearing a transmitter embedded in his belt during the convention.

Jan 06 08:57

Time To Tell The Truth About Israel ...Without Fear Of The Mind Police

The Thought Censors Don't Like It? Tough!

Jan 05 21:38

Yad Vashem: Nazi soap stories 'invention'

A Yad Vashem spokeswoman said there is no proof the Nazis made soap from human bodies during the Holocaust.

The sources said similar claims have been made in the past regarding soap made from Jewish bodies, including soap found last year in the Nahariya cemetery. In that case the soap was determined not to have been made from human remains.

In 1990 samples from several soaps claimed to have been made from Jews were sent for DNA testing at Tel Aviv University. Likewise, those tests determined the soaps did not contain human fats.

Jan 05 15:49

ISRAELI ZIONISTS GUILTY OF DELIBERATELY HAVING ISRAELIS KILLED AND MAIMED TO PROVIDE EXCUSE TO ATTACK GAZA.

Strong circumstantial evidence is slowly emerging into the mainstream media that confirms that, far from Hamas provoking Israel, it has been Israel that has been deliberately provoking Hamas into rocketing and mortaring southern Israel specifically in order to provide a casus belli for Israel to attack the Gaza. In doing so, this makes Israel guilty of using its own people as ‘victims’ for political purposes.

Jan 05 15:38

Holocaust survivor escaped with gems

Mengele injected chemicals into her eyes in an attempt to change their color and forced her to remain in a cold room for days. He injected viruses under Zisblatt's fingernail and surgically experimented on her to find a way to remove the numbers tattooed on her arm. Afterward, he ordered the nurse to administer a lethal injection to both girls, but the nurse worked for the underground and was able to free them, one of many miracles Zisblatt experienced.

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Oh brother, here we go again...

Jan 05 13:16

Terrorists could use 'insect-based' biological weapon

Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.

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"We need a 'terror-sect tax' to fund further research!!! Really. We DO!!!"

Jan 05 09:51

The New McCarthyism

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I know this is permanently linked at the top of this page, but I decided to relink here in the body because Israel's propaganda machine is already cranking up to wreck the careers of celebrities who have spoken out against the war in Gaza.

So, it is fitting to remind ourselves that as the corporate media villainizes these courageous individuals, that history will recall them as heroes.

Jan 05 09:30

Madoff Chasers Dug for Years, to No Avail

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was examined at least eight times in 16 years by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators, who often came armed with suspicions.

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Someone with a great deal of power protected Madoff.

Jan 05 08:43

Rome's Jewish Chairman inadvertently exposes Zionist trick!

Pacifici explains that the Italian Jewish community agreed with the Israeli ambassador on keeping a "low profile"at this time. "I can assure you - writes Pacifici - that the decision to send medicine to Palestinian and Israeli children was taken only for media purposes, and was only used for our struggle which will start on Monday in the media to support Israel". Pacifici announces that on January 10th there will be a "mega-event" with 1,500 personalities chosen together with the Israeli ambassador in order to "explain Israel's reasons and its right to make this war".

Pacifici explains that the Roman Jewish community did not spend "even one Euro" for the medicine, which was donated by "an international Jewish organization" and guarantees that "in any case not one piece of medicine will get to Gaza unless it has been authorized by the Government of Israel".

Jan 05 08:25

Voice of the White House December 31, 2008

“The real story of the Bernie Madoff rip-off is being kept under official U.S. lock and key since it has become very evident that most of the stolen funds were sequestered in Israeli banks and with the active connivance of top Israeli government officials. Of the 50 billions, give or take, that this scumbag made off with, about 40 are still safe in Israel and will remain secret under current Israeli laws. Because of Madoff’s Jewish political and social connections in the United States, the two SEC “investigations” into allegations of improprieties in his business methodology, were deliberately sequestered.

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"We'll just stick the taxpayers with the losses, like last time. They won't do anything about it. They never do!" -- Official White Horse Souse

Jan 05 07:56

Vandals hit Knoxville Jewish Temple, Synagogue

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Right on cue!

Jan 04 22:50

Gaza: Gang on rampage in Golders Green

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This reeks of a staged incident.

Jan 04 19:02

BREAKING NEWS : Agents Provocateurs in anti-Israeli clashes?

It is reliably reported to World Press Network that some of the hooded demonstrators on yesterday's anti-Israeli demonstrations were speaking Hebrew. They were seen being aggressive and throwing objects at the police.

This is likely to indicate they were Israeli Agents Provocateurs.

Who would have guessed this possible ?

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Tomorrow we should see spray-painted swastikas start to show up as Israel plays for more pity.

Jan 04 18:22

The plain truth about glorious Carbon Dioxide

It is time to rebuke everyone attempting to foist the global warming hoax and carbon taxes on the United States and the rest of the world. It is time let Congress and the White House know that Americans will not be ruled by laws that have no scientific merit.

Jan 04 18:16

Motorists' habits spur call for tax increases

Charles Whittington, chairman of the American Trucking Associations, which supports a fuel tax increase as long as the money goes to highway projects, said Congress may decide to disguise a fuel tax hike as a surcharge to combat climate change.

"Cough up, suckers!"

Jan 04 09:08

JFK assassination: Secret Service Standdown

Watch as the two secret service men assigned to protect president Kennedy's motorcade are ordered to stand down just minutes before entering Dealey Plaza. They are obviously not happy about being given these orders. It brings up another question: Where was NORAD on 9/11, who was in charge and why?

Jan 04 08:14

THE LAVON AFFAIR

In 1954, Israeli agents working in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including a United States diplomatic facility, and left evidence behind implicating Arabs as the culprits. The ruse would have worked, had not one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to capture and identify one of the bombers, which in turn led to the round up of an Israeli spy ring.

Some of the spies were from Israel, while others were recruited from the local Jewish population. Israel responded to the scandal with claims in the media that there was no spy ring, that it was all a hoax perpetrated by "anti-Semites".

But as the public trial progressed, it was evident that Israel had indeed been behind the bombing. Eventually, Israeli's Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was brought down by the scandal, although it appears that he was himself the victim of a frame-up by the real authors of the bombing project, code named "Operation Susannah."

Jan 04 08:03

France braced for 'rebirth of violent left'

Despite claims of exaggeration, government reports insist a new generation of extremists will soon launch a wave of sabotage and bombings

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... just in time to take their minds off of the collapsing economy!

Jan 03 21:11

FLASHBACK - Dov Zakheim and the Missing Trillions.

What is the most outrageous piece of news that isn’t being discussed? I would venture to say it is the strange tale of Dov Zakheim and the missing trillions. I hear all kinds of numbers. I hear 2.3 trillion from Rumsfield and I hear about one trillion that Zakheim can’t explain. Still, you’ll need to check the dates of Zakheim’s days in the saddle as Pentagon Comptroller and then you can wonder to your hearts content. There’s no doubt the money is gone and there’s no doubt about who should know where it went but…what do I know? I know one trillion dollars is a lot of money. Isn’t one trillion dollars a million million? Zounds!!!

Jan 03 13:11

Propaganda war: trusting what we see?

Israel has tried to take the initiative in the propaganda war over Gaza but, in one important instance, its version has been seriously challenged.

The incident raises the question of how to interpret video taken from the air.

Israel released video of an air attack on 28 December, which appeared to show rockets being loaded onto a truck. The truck and those close to it were then destroyed by a missile.

It turned out, however, that a 55-year-old Gaza resident named Ahmed Sanur, or Samur, claimed that the truck was his and that he and members of his family and his workers were moving oxygen cylinders from his workshop.

This workshop had been damaged when a building next door was bombed by the Israelis and he was afraid of looters, he said.

The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem put Mr Sanur's account on its website, together with a photograph of burned out oxygen cylinders.

Jan 03 06:50

Killing hope: coverup of the 2004 election

Any hope of prosecuting the perpetrators of the stolen 2004 presidential election ended when Mike Connell died Dec 19 in a plane crash. As reported in Raw Story “Connell is a long-time GOP operative, whose New Media Communications provided web services for the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Republican National Committee and many Republican candidates.”

Jan 02 19:49

Israel Claims Success In War Spin

“Whenever Israel is bombing, it is hard to explain our position to the world,” said Avi Pazner, Israel’s former ambassador to Italy and France, and one of the officials drafted in to present Israel’s case to the world media. “But at least this time everything was ready and in place.”

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You just go on telling yourself that, Avi. Just go on telling yourself that.

Jan 02 19:14

THE DR. GOEBBELS OF ISRAELI PROPAGANDA UNLEASHES LIES AND DECEIT.

The Dr. Goebbels of Israeli propaganda, Yardin Vatikai, chief of the Israeli Zionist’s propaganda office known as the National Information Directorate (NID), has his work cut out as he attempts to justify and lie Israel’s way out of accusations by the people of the world that Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

Jan 02 12:52

The Lie That Justifies Mass Murder: "Hamas Hit Us First"

Those who have been inside Gaza know Israel struck first, and Hamas’s response is only a token for lack of serious armaments. On December 29, 2008, on CNN, A united Nations official in Gaza, an English woman named Karen, stated she has lived in Gaza for six years, and whose job it is to organize distribution of UN purchased food. She set a Zionist friendly reporter straight. His loaded question was, “do the Gazans know that only Hamas is to blame for their sufferings?”

Jan 01 22:18

Special spin body gets media on message, says Israel

Israel believes its has won broad international support in the media for its actions in Gaza thanks to its PR strategy, which through a new body has for months been concerned with formulating plans and role-playing to ensure that government officials deliver a clear, unified message to the world's press.

The body, known as the National Information Directorate, was set up eight months ago following recommendations from an Israeli inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war. Its role is to deal with hasbara - meaning, in Hebrew, "explanation", and referring variously to information, spin, and propaganda.

The directorate's chief, Yarden Vatikai, said: "The hasbara apparatus needed a body that would co-ordinate its agencies, coordinate the messages and become a platform for co-operation between all the agencies that deal with communication relations and public diplomacy."

Jan 01 20:07

Unraveling The Myth of Al-Qaida

It is a CIA creation. It was shaped by the agency to serve as a substitute “enemy” for America, replacing the Soviets whom the Islamist forces had driven from Afghanistan.

Jan 01 12:06

What Crap!

Them poor little Russians (sob), the got it so bad (choke) under that bad ol' Putin (sniffle). He is so mean and bad (spittle-drool)! What crap.

Jan 01 08:24

Map supplier seeks to overturn Fort Dix verdict

"It is indisputable that the government failed to produce any direct evidence that the defendant Tatar had any conversation whatsoever with Mohamad Shnewer, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka or Shain Duka, which would support any finding that a conspiracy existed in which there was a plan to attack Fort Dix or any other American military base and kill American soldiers," Sparaco wrote.

The lawyer said the judge should overturn the guilty verdict against Tatar, a Turkish immigrant who could face life in prison or hold a new trial for him.

"There exists a serious danger that an innocent person has been wrongfully convicted by the jury," Sparaco said in his legal filing.

Dec 31 18:34

Revenge attack? Israelis shot in Denmark

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... or staged hoax to try to build sympathy for Israel?

Dec 31 18:10

Mukasey's recommendation of exec privilege to hide Cheney transcript revealed

The seven-page letter (pdf), dated July 15, argues that disclosure of such records would hinder future presidents' ability to receive guidance from their advisers because Cheney's conversations detailed internal White House deliberations. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested the transcripts along with other documents related to its investigation into the leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

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That headline should have read: "Mukasey's recommendation of exec privilege to hide Cheney's venal contempt for the intelligence community, and to destroy Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame."

Dec 31 17:23

Nasrallah: The Gaza solution lies in Egypt

We should not be reassured by such claims that Israel cannot fight on two fronts at the same time. It has fought on 3 and 4 fronts in the past. This must make the Lebanese government, army and people as well as the Lebanese resistance more attentive and cautious not to be tricked by such statements. For instance, one issue is of the missiles discovered eight days ago and just before the military attack on Gaza! I would like to ask: Who placed these missiles where they were before the war began?

Dec 31 14:29

Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert B. Stinnett

There are several main topics of interest here:

(1) The US plan to provoke Japan to fire the first shot, so as to motivate an isolationist US public to join the war against Germany

(2) US intercepted Japanese Bomb Plot Grids for Pearl Harbor, but did not warn Kimmel

(3) Vacant Sea: US clears shipping out of the path of the Japanese carrier force, to prevent accidental discovery

(4) Myth of the radio silence of the Japanese carrier force

(5) US moved its aircraft carriers & modern warships away from Pearl Harbor, leaving only old ships to be sunk by the Japanese attack

Dec 31 10:03

Official: Pakistani confesses to Mumbai attacks

A militant arrested in Pakistan has confessed involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and is giving investigators details of the plot, a senior Pakistani government official said Wednesday.

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"And we only had to hold the torch to his genitals for 2 minutes to get him to say that, so it simply MUST be true!" -- Official White Horse Souse

Dec 31 09:40

Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy

New research and newly highlighted information assembled by Baker presents at least the strong possibility that Bush was involved in assassinating President Kennedy, and that Bush was involved in staging the Watergate break-in

Dec 31 09:27

ISRAEL TRYING TO SPREAD THE WAR INTO IRAN.

Israel's envoy to the U.S., Sallay Meridor, on Tuesday blamed Iran for the situation in Gaza.

"What you see in Gaza is made by Iran - it's funded by Iran, the terrorists are trained by Iran, it's supplied by Iran, the know-how to create short range rockets is Iranian, he said. "As an octopus, Iran has proxies in region and beyond the region, and at the same time they?re moving towards nuclear weapons."

"This is not a separate Israeli problem or a threat to Israel, this is very well-connected to the threat in Mumbai, Be'er Sheva, or God forbid, NYC, and we can defeat it only if we stand together determined not to let those terrorists to kill citizens and destroy our way of life. You must act against a terror if you want to give peace a chance," he said, adding: "We are making efforts to make sure that whatever humanitarian aid wants to get to Gaza will get into Gaza."

Dec 31 04:01

Information War: Strike a decisive blow

http://www.giyus.org/

I strongly suggest not clicking the above link, but copy and pasting it into a new window as your browser may reveal the referring link, alerting GIYUS of who you are, possibly banning you.

This is the so-called Megaphone program, they send instructions to their "information warriors" to attack sites like this one. These guys are quite low level, but their numbers flood a site making it seem like they have the dominant opinion and flooding out the signal with noise. Luckily for us, our enemy is stupid as this program makes no distinction of friend or foe. Use this to locate sites that are under attack and retaliate.

They also have another useful forum. This contains their so called "talking points" which they cut and paste:

http://forum.giyus.org/smf/

Dec 30 20:28

As Another Memoir Is Faked, Trust Suffers

In media circles, there is a joke about facts that are too good to check. This week Oprah Winfrey and the New York publishing industry stumbled on yet another unverified account in the form of a Holocaust survivor who said his future wife had helped him stay alive while he was imprisoned as a child in a Nazi concentration camp by throwing apples over the fence to him.

The story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat, who said they reunited years later on a blind date in New York, turned out to be fabricated, and over the weekend the publisher of his memoir, “Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived,” canceled the February release of the book.

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Trust is the nursery of deception.

Dec 30 15:07

FDR Pearl Harbor Conspiracy

film investigates theorys on pearl harbor and possible conspiracy(s) there has been much debate as to how and why the United States had been caught unaware, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans and related topics. Some argue that various parties knew of the attack in advance and may even have let it happen or encouraged it in order to force America into war. film includes issues of The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate and others.

Dec 30 14:58

Gaza Attack: The Spin

Dec 29 15:07

False Memoir of Holocaust Is Canceled

A man whose memoir about his experience during the Holocaust was to have been published in February has admitted that his story was embellished, and on Saturday evening his publisher canceled the release of the book.

Dec 29 14:45

Flashback: Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon

THOMAS RICKS, REPORTER, "THE WASHINGTON POST": I think it will be. But I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon.

Dec 29 14:43

FLASHBACK: Fake rocket attack

On the afternoon of February 7, rockets rained down on the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, and were immediately described by Israeli police as Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Later in the same day, the attack was described as the result of 'human error' involving a failed test by an Israeli weapons manufacturer in the area.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

As Israel screams that they are being attacked by someone, remember that Israel has a habit of shooting missiles at itself to justify attacking their neighbors.

Remember the rockets found in Lebanon pointed at Israel last week?

Dec 29 14:25

View From a Palestinian Leader: Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood

The bloodiest single day in Palestine since the War of 1967 is far from over following on Israel's promised that this is 'only the beginning' of their campaign of state terror. At least 290 people have been murdered thus far, but the body count continues to rise at a dramatic pace as more mutilated bodies are pulled from the rubble, previous victims succumb to their wounds and new casualties are created by the minute.

What has and is occurring is nothing short of a war crime, yet the Israeli public relations machine is in full-swing, churning out lies by the minute.

Dec 29 11:33

Israel Warns America Yet Again–There’s “Hell To Pay” For Not Attacking Iran

Speaking recently at a conference at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel’s Minister of Defense Ehud Barak sternly warned his audience (and the world at large) that “If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States,” specifying that if the Islamic Republic built “even a primitive nuclear weapon” similar to the one used in “destroying Hiroshima” that she would “not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America.”

Dec 29 09:12

Did Madoff Move $100 Billion to Israel?

As more info comes in regarding the Madeoff scheme, news from several sources say that Madeoff and his clients were the largest bank account holders listed on a computer disk leaked by a Swiss bank worker regarding US persons with hidden Swiss bank accounts.

Dec 29 09:04

Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship

Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.

But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.

Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

The revelation that the Lusitania was indeed carrying weapons when sunk should underscore the reality that Americans are lied to by the US government and it has been going on since before you were all born!

Therefore, there is no such thing as history which is beyond question, or history that does not need re-examination. Whether it is the arms that existed on Lusitania, or the nuclear arms that Saddam did NOT actually have, the US Government rules you with lies and deception and everything you have ever been taught by the state schools and the media must be suspect.

Dec 29 08:41

False Holocaust love story was to 'bring happiness' to world

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..,. and make a few bucks, of course!

Dec 29 08:17

Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story

"Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat's story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp.

"I question why I never questioned it. I believed it; it was an incredible, hope-filled story."

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Relinked because so many people keep sending this to me.

As for the "other kind" of emails screaming that I am an anti-Semite ("Rivero" is a Sephardic name, BTW), yes there is a real reason to post all these articles about holocaust books that turn out to be fakes, including the above, "Fragments: Memories of a Childhood", "Painted Bird", and "Misha". Even that venerable icon of holocaust worship, "The Diary of Anne Frank" has come into doubt, both because of the ball point pen (unavailable to Anne during the war) used to write portions of the original manuscript, and the emergence of records of a lawsuit by a ghost writer hired by Otto Frank to turn the pieces of legitimate writings by his daughter into a salable propaganda commodity.

The point is this. In the middle of all these revealed hoaxes, there seems to be a total dearth of memoirs that can survive a close examination. Elie Weisel's book has come under suspicion of being fictional. Emilie Schindler, Oskar's widow, said that the film "Schindler's List" was filled with lies. And the famous sketch of three executed Jews by Simon Wiesenthal was revealed as having been traced from a photograph of three German soldiers shot for desertion!


Wiesenthal's drawing.


The original photo.

Right now, with Tzipi Livni insisting that Israel is not killing civilians in Gaza even as the bodies of children pile up, it is clear that Israel has a very tenuous relationship to truth. And Israel gets by with their by-way-of-deceptions only because good people will not point out the lies.

Dec 28 19:27

The Anne Frank Diary Fraud

The Western world has for some years hem made aware of a young Jewish girl through the medium of what purports to he her personally written story, "Anne Frank's Diary." Any informed literary inspection of this book has shown it to have been impossible as the work of a teenager.

A noteworthy decision of the New York Supreme Court confirms this point of view, in that the well known American writer, Meyer Levin, has been awarded $50.000 to be paid him by the father of Anne Frank as an honorarium for Levin's work on the "Anne Frank Diary."

Dec 28 17:27

Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story

It's the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world.

"Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat's story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp.

"I question why I never questioned it. I believed it; it was an incredible, hope-filled story."

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Are they ALl hoaxes?

Dec 28 11:49

FLASHBACK: The Translation of Wiesel's 'Night' Is New, but Old Questions Are Raised

The publisher and the translator of a new English-language edition of "Night," Elie Wiesel's harrowing account of life in the Nazi death camps, said yesterday that the new edition corrects several small factual errors in the previous translation, including a reference to the author's age when he entered the camps.

Oprah Winfrey's choice of "Night" as the next selection for her television book club on Monday immediately sent the book to the top of national best-seller lists.