141 China to leave America behind in 5 years; Israeli infiltration in Shanghai - Gilad Atzmon

(1) China to leave America behind in 5 years; Israeli infiltration in Shanghai - Gilad Atzmon
(2) Compensation for their ancestors' "unique" suffering
(3) Septic tank standoff ends peacefully in Kiryas Joel
(4) Spammers hit by $15.75m in fines

(1) China to leave America behind in 5 years; Israeli infiltration in Shanghai - Gilad Atzmon

From: WVNS <ummyakoub@yahoo.com> Date: 20.10.2009 06:23 PM

Autumn in Shanghai

by Gilad Atzmon

Monday, October 19, 2009

http://gilad.squarespace.com/writings/autumn-in-shanghai-by-gilad-atzmon.html

Shanghai is modernity in action, it is up for business, its many staggering new high-rise buildings, spear the imagination as well as the sky. It is saturated with festive almost unreal glamour, it is soaking in wealth, it is overwhelmingly proud and yet, it is humane, very humane in fact. It is habitable, it is relatively quiet, it feels safe, it welcomes you on board. It is the Western Metropolis wannabe, yet it is in the East.

I was advised before my journey that Shanghai is not exactly a 'cultural shock', quite the opposite; one seems to have met Shanghai in one's urban fantasy a long time before landing there. Shanghai is in fact the incarnation of the Western urban dream: it is an astonishing materialisation of everything the Western metropolis is claiming to be. In parts it is the embodiment of the urban imagery; it is what New York was aiming at but somehow failed to reach. In other parts, it is the ultimate urban tranquillity of a Parisian tree-lined avenue with small bars and cosy cafés. It offers everything a big city can offer in terms of culture, entertainment, business and food yet it is totally sympathetic to its visitors and inhabitants.

I was teaching jazz in China this week and performed at the Shanghai Jazz Festival, Though I was pretty busy with my students, Jazz combos, concerts and other musical commitments, I tried to absorb as much as I could. I travelled around, tried to meet local people and to grasp this miracle. I, for instance, visited the Shanghai Music Fair, probably the biggest music fair in the world.

China is now the biggest producer of Western musical instruments. And guess what, they are making some unbelievably good saxophones out there. I have tried and reviewed Chinese saxophones in the past. For some reason I was always pretty convinced that the many Chinese brands were made by one or two manufacturers. Somehow, all contemporary Chinese saxophones and clarinets follow a very similar design and they are all equally good. In the music fair I realised that I was totally wrong. There are actually many small Saxophone manufacturers and they are all very good at it. The Chinese manufacturers whom I met were actually seeking criticism. In a very modest manner they would ask for your honest opinion of their different models. They just want to make it better. They want to improve.

China is a financial miracle. It is about to surpass Japan as the world's second largest economy. It is expected to leave America behind within the next five years and to become the world's largest economy. China is the largest producer of most industrial and agriculture products. In spite of the ongoing Western criticism of China's political structure and its one party system, the success of China proves that its political system and economic model maybe far more efficient than anything Western democracies can offer. Unlike the crumbling English Speaking Empire and other Western service economies, China is a productive society and it is ruled by a single "People's Party". Rather than copying the Western economic model and value system, China adopted some Western advantages, modified them and integrated them into its own economic model and social system.

China and Israel

In my Shanghai visit I stayed in a rather fancy Western hotel. Already on my arrival just after checking in, while attending the tourist desk, a familiar golden Menora * shined at me from one of the tourist brochures. I picked it up, "The Jews in Shanghai", it said: the story of 30.000 Jews who found shelter in Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. I guess that you can no longer imagine a metropolis on this planet unless it has some relevance to the Holocaust or the Jews. Visitors to Shanghai have a lot to choose from: temples, sight seeing, shopping, new developing markets, food, Chinese folklore and of course even a bit of 'Shoa business'. I honestly believe that no one, except a few Jews, is interested in the historical role of Shanghai in the Holocaust. And yet, the brochure was there for a reason. Many Israelis and Jews are visiting Shanghai in the last two decades, as China and Shanghai are the future and the Israelis know it very well.

In the breakfast at the hotel I could hear a lot of Hebrew. They were not Israeli tourists. They were actually 'selling and buying'. They were meeting local businessmen already at 8.00 am. But it wasn't just business. The Israeli infiltration is noticeable on every possible level.

In the bus that picked us up to go to the festival's stage, we found an Israeli flag hanging under the driver's front mirror. A quick inquiry with the assistance of our English speaking stage manager revealed that the band to play before us was an Israeli Dixieland band. I may as well mention that I myself have lived in Britain for 15 years, I travel around the world with musicians from many different parts of the world and I have never seen a single musician leaving nationalist souvenirs anywhere. For Israeli artists, so it seems, leaving their Star of David is apparently a common practice.

I soon realised that I knew those Israeli Dixieland musicians, they were actually my old friends from Israel. Some of them were my teachers and mentors others had been playing in my band. Two of them were very close friends of mine at the time. Needless to say that it was very exciting to meet them after so many years. In fact they were very good at what they were doing. They could play the music and they clearly mastered the Dixieland style. On stage I heard one of my old friends telling the Chinese audience, 'here we are, 60 years for the People's Republic of China, 61 years for the Jewish State and all we really want is peace.' Such a simple message, we the Jews and you the Chinese all share one simple belief.

The Israeli horn player may not have realised that a few hours earlier the People's Republic of China voted in favor of adopting the Goldstone report at the Human Rights Council. As far as China is concerned, Israeli war crimes should be further investigated.

However, it is common knowledge that most if not all Israeli art exports are sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israeli artists are operating as messengers of the Zionist propaganda and Hasbara lies. It is a pretty simple concept: as the IDF drops White Phosphorous on Palestinians or starves others, Israeli artists travel the world spreading a 1960's message of 'Sex, Love and Peace'. Needless to say, the people around me didn't really buy it.

Zionism, as we learn from Herzl and his too many followers, is all about tracing the bond between the Jewish national interests and world dominating powers. China is no doubt the rising power; it is in fact a rising sensation. In just one week in China I saw for myself the intensity of the Israeli activity on the ground.

As we all know, some naive peace activists around put all their cards on a possible growing rift between Israel and the USA. They forget that Israel can easily change its leagues as they did rather often in the past. Israel is always building relationships with rising powers. The Israelis have already invested some enormous energy on India and China.

A lot of China's success story is because it is run by a very unique People's party political system. It is a miracle because it somehow manages to restrain hard capitalism with a unique socially orientated system. It is a big question whether there is room in this system to accommodate Israel, a bourgeoisie nationalist philosophy based on racial supremacy and choseness in general.

*Menora- a seven-branched candelabrum that is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people

(2) Compensation for their ancestors' "unique" suffering

From: WVNS <ummyakoub@yahoo.com>  Date: 19.10.2009 09:29 AM

Professor MacDonald on Taking the Gloves Off and Criticizing Jewish Extremism

Talking with Jews (or not)
By Dr. Kevin MacDonald
2/10/2009http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-talk.html

A topic that is not discussed enough is the screaming, in-your-face, hostile aggression that people must withstand when they dare to trample on Jewish sensibilities. I am not talking about the sophisticated rationalization one sees in the op-ed pages of the mainstream media, or even the smear techniques of organizations like the ADL or the SPLC. We are talking about interpersonal aggression. There is something absolutely primal about it.

Now comes a refreshingly frank blog post by Karin Friedemann, an ethnically Jewish anti-Zionist. She notes the "violent intolerance" that defenders of Israel show towards people with different opinions:
American Jews are actually being trained since childhood to interact with non-Jews in a deceitful and arrogant manner, in coordination with each other, to emotionally destroy Gentiles and Israel critics in addition to wrecking their careers and interfering with their social relationships. This is actually deliberate, wicked, planned behavior motivated by a narcissistic self-righteous fury….

The problem is that Gentiles are taught through emotional pressure and violence via the media and the school system to be very sensitive to Jewish suffering so when a Zionist becomes outraged at them for challenging their world view, the Gentile really has to fight against his own inner self in a huge battle against his "inner Jew" making him feel inadequate and intimidated. But the Jew doesn't care how much he or she hurts others. Jews only care about what's good for the Jews. …

I once reduced a 50 year old man to hysterical sobbing tears because I told him gently and lovingly that Jews were not that unique. I just told him the Jews, like everyone else, have had good times and bad times. Times when they were slaughtered and other times when they slaughtered others. Just like everyone else. Guess what he did next. He emotionally abused me in an insulting way and then cut off all further communication. Jewish behavior is so predictable that it's truly scary. …

If you mention cutting off the money or if you mention the possible compromise of living with Palestinians as equals in one state they become very angry and start using bullying tactics, unless they have some reason to fear you, in which case they shun you and complain about you to the authorities, try to get you arrested or try and destroy your career or social status through character assassination. …

Zionists all believe in the myth of "1000 years of Jewish suffering" and feel that the world owes them compensation for their ancestors' "unique" suffering. It's a criminally insane viewpoint. They cope with the contradictions between their belief that they are the good guys and what Jews are actually doing to their neighbors, both in the Middle East and in the US, by developing mental health issues. Most Zionists are functional schizophrenics.

My take:

– These tactics are not restricted to critics of Zionism. As one who has experienced a barrage of hostile email from my faculty colleagues, I can certainly attest to this. A correspondent sent me the following recently:

I have encountered many liberal, politically correct Jews who react vociferously (almost violently) to the most innocuous comments about any topic related to Israel or Jews. One Jew upon my mentioning that my wife and I had been to Russia spent several minutes virtually frothing at the mouth about Russians. Another upon hearing me say I was sympathetic to the problems of the Palestinians demanded to know who I was and how dare I say such a thing. Often zero tolerance for any difference in opinion.

– The media constantly present images of Jewish suffering-most recently the endless glut of Holocaust movies. But the media ignore instances, such as the early decades of the USSR and now in Greater Israel, where Jews have inflicted horrible suffering. Right now I am reading E. Michael Jones' The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Effect on History. It is striking to read his account of Jewish violence against non-Jews in the ancient world, particularly the persecution of Christians whenever Jews had the power to do so. Long before Christians had any influence on Roman policy, Christians' complaints about Jews were not stereotypes based on historical memory but resulted from direct experience with Jews: "Origen understood that Jewish calumny helped to cause Christian persecution, and that Jewish hatred was a fact of life for the Christians, continuing unabated after the repeated defeats of Messianic politics" (i.e., the defeats of Jewish rebels at the hands of the Romans in 70 and 135 ad) (p. 69). This is the basis of my concern on what will happen to whites when Jews become part of a hostile elite in white-minority America.

– Non-Jews absorb these media images and as a result feel inadequate, emotionally intimidated. Eventually they identify with the aggressor, much like a browbeaten hostage or, as Friedemann suggests, an abused spouse. Or they maintain their friendships but studiously avoid talking about anything related to Israel. Non-Jews do the bidding of their "inner Jew" because they have internalized images of Jewish suffering. They therefore aid and abet Jewish brutality and aggression.

– Non-Jews who persist in criticizing the organized Jewish community are threatened with loss of livelihood and social ostracism. As I noted in a previous article the organized Jewish community does not believe in free speech. It is important to keep in mind that when Jews were dominant in the first decades of the Soviet Union, the government controlled the media, anti-Semitism was outlawed, and there was mass murder of Christians and the destruction of Christian churches and religious institutions.

As Friedemann notes, the situation is nothing less than a sign of serious mental health issues for the mainstream Jewish community: "Most Zionists are functional schizophrenics."

I think this is what happens when people who deal with Jewish issues finally realize that there is no hope for dialogue and begin to think of what to do next. Honest people finally realize that when it comes to critical issues like Israel and multicultural America, the divisions among Jews are an illusion. (Friedemann herself has renounced her Jewish identity.) As Friedemann's husband, Joachim Martillo, notes, "Jews, who want to be decent human beings, have no choice but to renounce being Jewish and serve the anti-Zionist struggle (right now)."

Exhibit A for this right now is the murderous Israeli invasion of Gaza. We know (see, for example, John Mearsheimer's article in The American Conservative) that this invasion occurred after a prolonged period when Israel restricted supplies into Gaza and then attacked tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. We know that the invasion was designed to "to inflict massive pain on the Palestinians so that they come to accept the fact that they are a defeated people and that Israel will be largely responsible for controlling their future."
The tone of Mearsheimer's article suggests a dramatic shift in attitude where the usual inhibitions on public discourse are finally beginning to fall, even for a respected academic:

There is … little chance that people around the world who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling punishment that Israel is meting out in Gaza. … [D]iscourse about this longstanding conflict has undergone a sea change in the West in recent years, and many of us who were once wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and the Palestinians are the victims.

The gloves are coming off. This is what happens when smart and honest people who work hard to get the scholarship right are nevertheless smeared as anti-Semites guilty of the vilest misdeeds. Not surprisingly, Abe Foxman - a premier defender of the racial Zionist status quo in Israel - devoted an entire book to smearing Mearsheimer and Walt. Quite simply, there is no point to talking to such people or taking seriously what they say about us.

We know that the government of Israel is firmly in the hands of the racial Zionists - followers of Vladimir Jabotinsky and his view of the racial distinctiveness and superiority of the Jewish people. Indeed, the only question in the Israeli election is which brand of racial Zionism will form the next government. One knows that racial Zionism has completely won the day in Israel when Kadima - the party of Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and the Gaza invasion - is now described by Benjamin Netanyahu as the party of the left. (The LA Times dutifully calls it "centrist" but, as Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery writes, Livni "cries to high heaven against any dialogue with Hamas. She objects to a mutually agreed cease-fire. She tries to compete with Netanyahu and [Avignor] Liberman with unbridled nationalist messages.") Indeed, Netanyahu's only worry is that the openly racist Liberman - a disciple of the notorious Meir Kehane - will take away too many votes from Likud.

The situation is analogous to a US election where Pat Buchanan is the candidate of the far left. (I can dream.)

Avnery analogizes the election to a joke where a sergeant tells his men: "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you are going to change your dirty socks. The bad news is that you are going to exchange them among yourselves."

Once again we see at work the general principle that within the Jewish community, the most extreme elements carry the day and pull the rest of the Jewish community with them. As I noted in "Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism," "over time, the more militant, expansionist Zionists (the Jabotinskyists, the Likud Party, fundamentalists, and West Bank settlers) have won the day and have continued to push for territorial expansion within Israel. This has led to conflicts with Palestinians and a widespread belief among Jews that Israel itself is threatened. The result has been a heightened group consciousness among Jews and ultimately support for Zionist extremism among the entire organized American Jewish community."

The fanatics keep pushing the envelop, forcing other Jews to either go along with their agenda or cease being part of the Jewish community. Ominously, if elected, Netanyahu promises that a top priority will be "harnessing the U.S. administration to stop the threat" of Iran's nuclear program.

Incidentally, E. Michael Jones (The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Effect on History, p. 42ff) has expanded this argument to the ancient world. He shows how the Jewish community was pulled in the direction of fanaticism by the Zealots who expelled the followers of Jesus from the synagogue and adopted a disastrous path of revolution against Rome, leading ultimately to the defeats of 70 and 135 a.d.
A good example of the schizophrenia described by Friedemann comes from the fact that around 80% of American Jews voted for Obama but around the same percentage blames Hamas for the escalation of violence and believes that the Israeli response was "appropriate."

These results of the poll on the Gaza invasion were proudly announced by Abraham Foxman of the ADL, an organization that is one of the principal forces in promoting a post-European America. The Jewish left is a pillar of multi-cultural America but strongly supports racial Zionism in Israel.

This same schizophrenia was on display at a recent presentation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles by Chris Hedges and Mark Potok - he of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The program dealt with the usual bogey-men of the organized Jewish community: Christian fundamentalists, skinheads, David Duke, and (I am gratified to report) The Occidental Quarterly. In a comment on the alliance between Christian conservatives and Zionists, an audience member mentioned (to stifled applause) that "There are Jewish fascists." But the moderator, Ian Masters, saved the day when he stated that "the vast majority of American Jews are secular and liberal" - a comment that brought much applause, presumably because it reassured the many Jews in the audience that they weren't like THOSE Jews. For his part, Potok, that stalwart warrior against white America, expressed his support for what he sees as a beleaguered Israel on the verge of apocalypse at the hands of the Arabs. Schizophrenia indeed.

The politicians who are running Israel are, if anything, more racialist and nationalist than anything even remotely on the horizon in American or European politics. As Avnery notes:

In every other country, Liberman's program would be called fascist, without quotation marks. Nowhere in the Western world is there a large party that would dare to advance such a demand [to annul the citizenship of Arabs]. The neo-fascists in Switzerland and Holland want to expel foreigners, not to annul the citizenship of the native-born. …

When Joerg Haider was taken into the Austrian cabinet, Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna in protest. But compared to Liberman, Haider was a raving liberal, and so is Jean-Marie le Pen. Now Netanyahu has announced that Liberman will be "an important minister" in his government, Livni has hinted that he will be in her government, too, and Barak has not excluded that possibility.

The optimistic version says that Liberman will prove to be a passing curiosity. … There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.

So I have a suggestion for the Foxmans, the Potoks, the neoconservatives, and the secular Jewish liberals of the world: If you want to fight racism and ethnic nationalism, start in your own backyard. And my suggestion for the rest of us is to get rid of what Friedemann calls the "inner Jew." I know it's hard to do. But once you tune out the screaming hostility (and assuming you don't fear losing your job), it's easy. Just don't expect a pleasant or rational conversation.

Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University-Long Beach.

(3) Septic tank standoff ends peacefully in Kiryas Joel

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/10/septic-tank-standoff-in-kiryas-joel-678.html

By Chris Mckenna

Times Herald-Record

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091022/NEWS/910229961

Posted: October 22, 2009 - 5:41 PM

KIRYAS JOEL — The battle over utility connections to a dissident synagogue had been raging for a couple weeks, ever since Kiryas Joel's main congregation shut off the services and the opposition group found a way to restore them, in an improvised fashion.

The skirmishes went on and on. Someone from the main group boarded a hydraulic lift and sliced the electrical cord running to the shul from a neighboring property to provide power.

The dissidents taped the pieces together.

So it came as little surprise Thursday when retribution rolled around the corner of the building in the form of a backhoe, sent by the main congregation to remove two septic holding tanks the dissidents had buried outside to provide temporary sewer service.

A riot has begun, dissident leader Joseph Waldman exclaimed by cell phone, as his fellow congregants swarmed around the backhoe, spectators gathered and state troopers converged on the site.

The two sides are at war over the house of worship, which has operated for more than 25 years in a former apartment attached to the back of main congregation's giant, stone synagogue on Garfield Road.

A trial court and then an appeals court have ruled that the dissidents must seek belated approval from the village to use the former residence for prayer. But what is disputed now is whether the main congregation was entitled to block utilities and which side owns the land where the holding tanks were placed.

Hence the backhoe.

By the time a trooper and state police sergeant arrived, the backhoe had ripped out a metal fence, and young men were clinging to its bucket to prevent further destruction.

The backhoe came courtesy of developer Sol Ekstein, son of David Ekstein, president of the main congregation, Yetev Lev.

Standing beside it, Ekstein first lied to a reporter about his name – “Bernie Frish” – and then lied about ripping out the mangled fence, which his driver readily admitted doing when asked.

A two-hour standoff ensued. Finally, the elder Ekstein and Waldman were summoned to the nearby state police barracks to meet with a commander. Waldman called from there with a victorious message.

“God was with us!” he said. “Nothing is going to be touched.”

Shortly afterward, he stood smiling outside the synagogue, yalmulke pulled forward jauntily on his head, white shirt sleeves rolled up. His fellow congregants were singing and clapping as the backhoe pulled away.
cmckenna@th-record.com

(4) Spammers hit by $15.75m in fines

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/919548/spammers-hit-by-15-million-in-fines

19:44 AEST Fri Oct 23 2009

Two companies and three individuals have been hit with penalties totalling $15.75 million for contravening the Spam Act, the first court action taken against unsolicited SMS messages.

The fines were handed down in the Federal Court in Brisbane on Friday.

Mobilegate Ltd and Winning Bid Pty Ltd were found to have contravened the Spam Act and the Trade Practices Act 1974 in August 2009.

Three individuals - former Winning Bid director Simon Anthony Owen, current Mobilegate director Tarek Andreas Salcedo and Winning Bid employee Glenn Christopher Maughan - were also found responsible for the breaches.

The case was the Australian Communications and Media Authority's (ACMA) first court action taken against unsolicited SMS messages.

ACMA acting chairman Chris Cheah said it was a significant outcome for all mobile phone users.

"The maximum penalties provided for under the Spam Act are very high," he said.

"The substantial penalties imposed by the court in this case show that spam will not be tolerated in Australia."

ACMA launched proceedings against eight respondents in the Federal Court in December 2008, alleging contraventions of both acts in relation to premium SMS chat services.

It alleged the respondents were engaged in a scheme to obtain mobile phone numbers from members of dating websites, using fake member profiles to send commercial electronic messages by SMS.

It was alleged that after the numbers were obtained, unsolicited messages were sent to the mobile phone numbers offering to chat via SMS using services described as the Safe Divert or Maybemeet services.

ACMA claimed the chat was not offered by genuine members of dating websites but employees of Mobilegate and Winning Bid and consumers were charged up to $5 per message.

When users questioned whether the messages were from a real person, it was claimed they were told that it was a real person who was using the Safe Divert service to keep their mobile phone number private.

"The conduct of these respondents was particularly malicious and deceitful as it deliberately and systematically preyed upon vulnerable people, offering false hope and expectations," Mr Cheah said.

ACMA estimates the scheme generated more than $2 million in proceeds.

A further hearing is scheduled for November 30 in relation to allegations against the remaining three respondents - Glenn Christopher Maughan, Scott Mark Moles and Scott Gregory Phillips.

The Spam Act 2003 regulates emails, SMS messages, MMS messages and instant messaging messages.

The Act states that commercial electronic messages must have the recipient's consent, clearly identify accurate information about the organisation and contain unsubscribe options.

The penalty provisions came into force in 2004 when Australia was ranked 10th in spam-relaying countries for email, according to the Sophos list.

For the 2008 calendar year, Australia fell to 32nd.

In the only other court proceeding brought by ACMA under the Spam Act, the Federal Court in 2006 penalised Clarity1 Pty Ltd and Wayne Mansfield a total of $5.5 million for sending unsolicited emails and using harvested address lists.