80 Child Pornography - nakedness and its limits

(1) Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft's monopoly
(2) Child Pornography - nakedness and its limits
(3) Attention to Jewish domination "makes you and your subscribers look like anti-Jews"
(4) Op-ed: Jimmy Carter on One State Solution
(5) Naked Photos at U.S. Embassy in Kabul
(6) Israel's military rabbis - Israeli soldiers "sons of light" v Palestinians "sons of darkness"
(7) Ahmadinejad "a Jew and a Freemason"
(8) Israel to mark produce grown in Settlements after Marks & Spencer massive return
(9) How does Israel decide who gets a visa to Ramallah?
(10) 9/11 The Hard Evidence Tour - Sydney November 2009
(11) The Hard Evidence....Melbourne & Brisbane

(1) Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft's monopoly

From: dgw <dgwest7@gmail.com> Date: 06.09.2009 11:20 AM

Open Office is a series of open source applications, in the same vein as Firefox.
Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer provide the equivalent of Word, PowerPoint, Excell, Access and others.

I find them at least the equal of the expensive Microsoft alternatives.

Open Office is completely free, and updated regularly. http://www.openoffice.org

(2) Child Pornography - nakedness and its limits

From: Dave <dakersting@earthlink.net> Date: 06.09.2009 02:40 AM

Based on a very successful lifetime in minors' rights issues (see http://www.kidsheadquarters.org):

When children are involved in 'porn versus art', the entire issue is one of consent – having nothing at all to do with the jaded, dodgy adult definitions of 'porn' versus 'redeeming content' versus 'art' etc. Children or minors – people whose age deprives them of political representation – are not politically or socially qualified to give away anything important, including their rights to privacy.

Minors have a right to be naked in some times and places. Adults have a right to take photographs of naked children. But no adult has any right to publish a photograph of a naked child, until the child grows old enough to give adult consent to publication.

Any adult who comes across photos of naked children or any photos of children which might violate their rights to privacy should voluntarily choose not to participate in the violation of privacy. Adults should be aware of their social responsibilities in such matters. If they are not aware, they risk legal problems.

Yet confusion on this point is extreme – since the discourse is controlled by the media, which stand to gain from 'freedom' to exploit children. Examples of malignant sexual nude exploitation of children as a form of mainstream public entertainment include Franco Zeferelli's 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Pretty Baby,' 'Wish You Were Here,' a great deal of David Hamilton's trite photography, and countless other unprotested mainstream examples.

Sexual abuse of children as a form of mainstream entertainment – without a blip of censure from the churches, the feminists, the 'Child Protection' racket, the teachers, child-psychologists, government attorneys, etc – is one of the foremost 'dead giveaway' issues which prove total cluelessness across the entire political, social, and cultural spectrum. That conclusion is verified by every in-depth study of this problem.

Comment (Peter M. 090909):

About 1972 I spent a couple of months at a village of the Aroma tribe of Papua New Guinea, about three days east of Port Moresby by oceangoing canoe (powered by outboard motor).

You may have heard of Bronislaw Malinowski's book The Sexual Life of Savages. It was a study of the culture of the Trobriand Islands - to the east of Aroma, but with a similar lifestyle. These people weren't really "savages".

Trobriands Descent was matrilineal. Meaning that women were not the property of men; they didn't even accept the idea of Paternity at all. In the event of Divorce, the woman got the kids, but the man did not have to pay - after all, they weren't officially his. His place in their life was taken by their mother's brother (ie their uncle).

In Aroma, all children, before the age of puberty, went naked. Completely naked. At the age of puberty, boys donned a pair of shorts, and girls wore a grass skirt over a pair of panties (but were topless). These were quite attractive people.

Every afternoon, at the end of their day's work in the gardens etc, the girls removed their grass skirts, and went for a swim (at the beach) in their panties.

I had never experienced public nakedness before. But it was very natural. They weren't conscious of it, so (after a few days) neither was I.

Those naked children demonstrated one thing very clearly - there are TWO sexes. Not one (unisex). Not Five or Six (as the Gay/Transgender/Intersex people say).

Just two. It was as obvious as the Male and Female plugs on electrical powercords.

Aroma teenagers were free to have sex, just like our teenagers today. But by around age 24, all young Aroma men and women got married. Single motherhood was not tolerated within their culture.

Malinowski could never figure out how come Trobriand girls didn't get pregnant, even though "there were no virgins".

The pornographic pictures flooding the internet, of naked teenage girls, are not like the natural nakedness of those Aroma children.

Firstly, the naked children, being pre-pubescent, were not sexually conscious; so, they did not arouse sexual feelings in anyone else either.

There were no perverts around, and no pedophiles, because sex was available (I assume) with older (post-pubescent) young people.

Once the Aroma children became sexually conscious, they stopped going naked.

In the case of the pornographic pictures, these girls ARE sexually conscious, and they are displaying their private parts in ways they may regret later in life.

Sex is most interesting when something is left to the imagination. But that's the opposite of Pornography - it knows no limts.

The reason we have gone from one extreme to another - from Prudery to License - is that we've abandoned the Christian religion and even Western Civilization; thus there's no agreed basis for imposing limits. East Asian societies, on the other hand, retain their Confucian strong state.

The Highlands peoples of Papua New Guinea are Patrilineal and Patriarchial. I thought that Aroma women were much happier; they are the happiest women I've ever encountered.

(3) Attention to Jewish domination "makes you and your subscribers look like anti-Jews"

From: patrick <patrickh@ymail.plala.or.jp> Date: 06.09.2009 07:10 AM

> Yahoo! in Jewish hands
> Behind the Net: PayPal,Goog,Facebk,Wiki,Yah,MySp,eBay
> The Jewish (Zionist?) hand behind Internet

It seems to me that you send out a lot of stuff that makes you and your subscribers look like anti-Jews. (I will not use the foolish word "anti-Semite" which really should be "anti-Semitist" or "anti-Semenist" , i.e. against any idea of a holy seed or sacred semen.)

The item below is a good example of what I mean. Is there really any problem with the fact that Jews own all the Internet firms listed, or all the major American newspapers, TV stations, or movie studios. No, there is not. Jews are not guilty of their successes but only of their crimes. And they are not collectively guilty but only as individuals.

If you want to criticize specific Jews, then you should concentrate only on the crimes of individual specific Jews. There are certainly enough of such serious crimes.

Thank you,
Patrick Henry McNally

Comment (Peter M.):

The Trots and Zionists insinuate that all who point the finger at Jewish dominance are Nazis.

But, apart from Hitler, Jewish dominance was attested by:

Karl Marx
Benjamin Disraeli
Mikhail Bakunin
Dostoievsky
Solzhenitsyn
Stalin

Were they all closet Nazis? Were they irrational, or did they just see the reality?

If Google, Facebook, eBay, Paypal and Yahoo are Jewish-run, why is it impermissible to say so?

More to the point, who points it out? Why doesn't Chomsky - the New Left's expert on the Media - notice it? Why are the Trots silent?

Would we notice if these bodies were in Moslem hands?

(4) Op-ed: Jimmy Carter on One State Solution

From: ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@Gmail.com> Date: 08.09.2009 02:01 AM

The Elders' View Of the Middle East

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090402968.html

By Jimmy Carter
Sunday, September 6, 2009

During the past 16 months I have visited the Middle East four times and met with leaders in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. I was in Damascus when President Obama made his historic speech in Cairo, which raised high hopes among the more-optimistic Israelis and Palestinians, who recognize that his insistence on a total freeze of settlement expansion is the key to any acceptable peace agreement or any positive responses toward Israel from Arab nations.

Late last month I traveled to the region with a group of "Elders," including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Mary Robinson of Ireland, former prime minister Gro Brundtland of Norway and women's activist Ela Bhatt of India. Three of us had previously visited Gaza, which is now a walled-in ghetto inhabited by 1.6 million Palestinians, 1.1 million of whom are refugees from Israel and the West Bank and receive basic humanitarian assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Israel prevents any cement, lumber, seeds, fertilizer and hundreds of other needed materials from entering through Gaza's gates. Some additional goods from Egypt reach Gaza through underground tunnels. Gazans cannot produce their own food nor repair schools, hospitals, business establishments or the 50,000 homes that were destroyed or heavily damaged by Israel's assault last January.

We found a growing sense of concern and despair among those who observe, as we did, that settlement expansion is continuing apace, rapidly encroaching into Palestinian villages, hilltops, grazing lands, farming areas and olive groves. There are more than 200 of these settlements in the West Bank.

An even more disturbing expansion is taking place in Palestinian East Jerusalem. Three months ago I visited a family who had lived for four generations in their small, recently condemned home. They were laboring to destroy it themselves to avoid much higher costs if Israeli contractors carried out the demolition order. On Aug. 27, we Elders took a gift of food to 18 members of the Hanoun family, recently evicted from their home of 65 years. The Hanouns, including six children, are living on the street, while Israeli settlers have moved into their confiscated dwelling.

Daily, headlines in Jerusalem newspapers say that certain areas and types of construction would be excluded from the settlement freeze and that it would, at best, have a limited duration. Increasingly desperate Palestinians see little prospect of their plight being alleviated; political, business and academic leaders are making contingency plans should President Obama's efforts fail.

We saw considerable interest in a call by Javier Solana, secretary general of the Council of the European Union, for the United Nations to endorse the two-state solution, which already has the firm commitment of the U.S. government and the other members of the "Quartet" (Russia and the United Nations). Solana proposes that the United Nations recognize the pre-1967 border between Israel and Palestine, and deal with the fate of Palestinian refugees and how Jerusalem would be shared. Palestine would become a full U.N. member and enjoy diplomatic relations with other nations, many of which would be eager to respond. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad described to us his unilateral plan for Palestine to become an independent state.

A more likely alternative to the present debacle is one state, which is obviously the goal of Israeli leaders who insist on colonizing the West Bank and East Jerusalem. A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. By renouncing the dream of an independent Palestine, they would become fellow citizens with their Jewish neighbors and then demand equal rights within a democracy. In this nonviolent civil rights struggle, their examples would be Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.

They are aware of demographic trends. Non-Jews are already a slight majority of total citizens in this area, and within a few years Arabs will constitute a clear majority.

A two-state solution is clearly preferable and has been embraced at the grass roots.

Just south of Jerusalem, the Palestinian residents of Wadi Fukin and the nearby Israeli villagers of Tzur Hadassah are working together closely to protect their small shared valley from the ravages of rock spill, sewage and further loss of land from a huge settlement on the cliff above, where 26,000 Israelis are rapidly expanding their confiscated area. It was heartwarming to see the international harmony with which the villagers face common challenges and opportunities.

There are 25 similar cross-border partnerships between Israelis and their Palestinian neighbors. The best alternative for the future is a negotiated peace agreement, so that the example of Wadi Fukin and Tzur Hadassah can prevail along a peaceful border between two sovereign nations.

The writer was the 39th president. He founded The Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization focused on global peace and health issues.

(5) Naked Photos at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

From: ummyakoub <ummyakoub@yahoo.com> Date: 07.09.2009 12:16 AM

Whistleblower Says Bosses Required Sex Acts for Guards Seeking Best shift, Promotion

Kabul U.S. Embassy Guard: Sexual Deviancy Required for Promotion

By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and KIRIT RADIA

Sept. 2, 2009

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8474937

Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, according to one of 12 guards who have gone public with their complaints.
 In an interview with ABC News for broadcast tonight on the "World News with Charles Gibson," the guard, a U.S. military veteran, said top supervisors of the ArmorGroup were not only aware of the "deviant sexual acts" but helped to organize them.

"It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate," said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties.

"They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted," said the guard, spoke on condition that ABC News not publish his name. The State Department said it was investigating the allegations and the circumstances surrounding the photographs which show naked and barely clothed men fondling one another. The guard who spoke with ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year and a half.

The State Department renewed its contract with ArmorGroup to provide security at the Kabul embassy last month even though there have been a series of complaints about its performance.

In June 2007, the State Department warned "the security of the US embassy in Kabul is in jeopardy" because of "deficiencies" on the part of ArmorGroup.

Similar complaints were raised at a Senate hearing in June 2009 by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).

Sam Brinkley, vice-president of the ArmorGroup's corporate parent Wackenhut Services, defended the company's performance in Kabul.

"We are a guard company that prides itself in doing missions well," Brinkley testified.

Wackenhut did not immediately return requests for comment.

Naked Photos at U.S. Embassy in Kabul

The photographs of the naked parties all involve one of four shifts assigned to the embassy, Charlie Shift, according to the guard who spoke with ABC News.

He said other shifts tried to complain about the activities but were ignored by officials from corporate headquarters who visited Kabul.

"It was demeaning, it was humiliating and that was the whole point of it all," the guard said.

Asa Eslocker and Anna Schecter contributed to this report.

(6) Israel's military rabbis - Israeli soldiers "sons of light" v Palestinians "sons of darkness"

From: Kenneth Rasmusson <rasken@kulturservern.se> Date: 09.09.2009 12:24 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8232340.stm

2009/09/07

The rise of Israel's military rabbis

Israel's army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel's wars are "God's wars".

by Katya Adler BBC Newsnight, Israel

Military rabbis are becoming more powerful. Trained in warfare as well as religion, new army regulations mean they are now part of a military elite.

They graduate from officer's school and operate closely with military commanders. One of their main duties is to boost soldiers' morale and drive, even on the front line.

This has caused quite some controversy in Israel. Should military motivation come from men of God, or from a belief in the state of Israel and keeping it safe?

The military rabbis rose to prominence during Israel's invasion of Gaza earlier this year.

Some of their activities raised troubling questions about political-religious influence in the military.

Gal Einav, a non-religious soldier, said there was wall-to-wall religious rhetoric in the base, the barracks and on the battlefield.

As soon as soldiers signed for their rifles, he said, they were given a book of psalms.

And, as his company headed into Gaza, he told me, they were flanked by a civilian rabbi on one side and a military rabbi on the other.

"It felt like a religious war, like a crusade. It disturbed me. Religion and the army should be completely separate," he said.

'Sons of light'

But military rabbis, like Lieutenant Shmuel Kaufman, welcome the changes.

In previous wars rabbis had to stay far from the front, he says. In Gaza, they were ordered to accompany the fighters.

"Our job was to boost the fighting spirit of the soldiers. The eternal Jewish spirit from Bible times to the coming of the Messiah."

Before his unit went into Gaza, Rabbi Kaufman said their commander told him to blow the ram's horn: "Like (biblical) Joshua when he conquered the land of Israel. It makes the war holier."

Rabbis handed out hundreds of religious pamphlets during the Gaza war.

When this came to light, it caused huge controversy in Israel. Some leaflets called Israeli soldiers the "sons of light" and Palestinians the "sons of darkness".

Others compared the Palestinians to the Philistines, the bitter biblical enemy of the Jewish people.

Israel's military has distanced itself from the publications, but they carried the army's official stamp.

Still, army leaders insist their rabbis respect military ethics and put their private convictions aside. They say the same about the new wave of nationalist religious solders joining Israel's fighting forces.

'Religious duty'

I visited an orthodox Jewish seminary near Hebron in the West Bank. It is one of an increasing number of religious schools that encourage taking the Jewish Bible to the battlefield.

All students at the seminary choose to serve in Israel's combat units while statistics suggest less ideologically driven Israelis are avoiding them. This has made headline news in Israel.

The 19-year-olds I spoke to at the seminary told me religious soldiers like them can make the army behave better and become "more moral".

They believe it is their religious duty to protect the citizens of Israel, the Jewish state. The Lord commands it, they said.

The students' seminary is built in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

If President Barack Obama gets his way, Israel will eventually evacuate most settlements.

They are illegal under international law and Palestinians claim the territory as part of their future state. But for the religious soldiers the West Bank is part of land given to the Jews by God.

Gal Einav thinks many soldiers will refuse to close settlements down.

The settlement issue could well tear the army apart, he told me, adding that most of his officers were settlers these days.

"If it comes to a clash between political orders from Israel's government and a contradictory message from the rabbis, settlers and religious right-wing soldiers will follow the rabbis," he said.

Threat of 'Jihad'

Israel's military leaders strongly disagree.

Brig Gen Eli Shermeister is the army's chief education officer.

He admits some mistakes were made in the past but says the right balance has now been found with the military rabbis.

He insists Israel's military commanders are the only ones in charge of the soldiers' spirit.

"The moral code of Israel's army is clear. We judge soldiers in the light of this code. Nobody can create another moral code. [Certainly] not a religious one."

But Brig Gen Shermeister's predecessor describes what he sees as clear and worrying changes within the military.

According to Reserve Gen Nehemia Dagan, what is happening in the army is far more dangerous than most Israelis realise: "We (soldiers) used to be able to put aside our own ideas in order to do what we had to do. It didn't matter if we were religious or from a kibbutz. But that's not the case anymore.

"The morals of the battlefield cannot come from a religious authority. Once it does, it's Jihad. I know people will not like that word but that's what it is, Holy War. And once it's Holy War there are no limits."

Many religious Jews object to the type of preaching heard during Israel's recent Gaza operation.

They say it perverts the true teachings of Judaism as well as contradicts Israel's military code.

Day to day, Israel's army mainly operates in civilian areas - in Gaza, the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.

The influences that Israeli soldiers are exposed to are extremely significant.

How they view the Palestinians who live here is likely to affect the way they use their power and their weapons.

Watch Katya Adler's film on rabbis in the Israeli army on Newsnight on Monday 7 September 2009 at 10.30pm on BBC Two, then afterwards on the Newsnight website.

(7) Ahmadinejad "a Jew and a Freemason"

From: Shahriar Mazandi <s@mazandi.com> Date: 09.09.2009 01:40 PM

It may surprise you to discover that Mr Ahmadinejad, president of Iran is not only not a muslim but a jew and a freemason. His real name is Saborjhian which cannot be islamic as it ends in -ian. No muslim name has this ending.

You can look this up in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadinejad

Also:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SiyasetMeydani/message/57048
http://illuminazi.blogspot.com/2009/06/freemasons-guiding-chaos-in-iran.html
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/ahmadinejad-may-have-a-kosher-secret-his-sleeve
http://www.abravenewsworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=150&Itemid=42
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2174372/posts

(8) Israel to mark produce grown in Settlements after Marks & Spencer massive return

Weissglas: Decision to mark settlement produce followed M&S massive return

Haaretz Mon., September 07, 2009

By Amiram Cohen

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112572.html

Israel decided to mark produce grown in the settlements after the British chain Marks & Spencer returned millions of dollars in products, Dov Weissglas, former advisor and bureau chief to prime minister Ariel Sharon, revealed yesterday.

Weissglas, who was giving a speech at a cultural event in Ramat Hasharon, said Israel had been ignoring the European Union and European Economic Area (EEA) demand that it mark such products out of "national pride, and based on the position that all our producers are citizens of Israel, and we must not yield to the political discrimination Europe was demanding."

"This pride evaporated when Sharon learned that millions of dollars worth of goods had been returned by Marks & Spencer.

He called up Ehud Olmert, who was then minister of industry and trade, and ordered him to begin marking the products in keeping with European demands," Weissglas said.

Euro-exports

The Europeans said Israel's export agreements with the EEA do not include the occupied territories, and therefore all goods produced there must be taxed at 15 percent, unlike other Israeli products.

If Israel maintained its refusal to mark settlement produce, all Israeli exports to Europe would be taxed, they said.

This would mean that Israeli products would not be able to compete in Europe, which buys two-thirds of Israeli exports, worth $18 billion a year.

Weissglas said Sharon decided to begin evacuating the occupied territories as early as 2002, out of the recognition that no other country, including Israel's top allies, supports the settlement project.

"Only one state out of 188 supports the settlement project, and that's Israel. The world doesn't care about historic rights, it cares about reality. The reality is that there are 2 million Palestinians living in the territories, but only 300,000 Israelis."

Weissglas said Israel is dependent economically on Europe, and militarily on the United States. "$4 billion, a quarter of all American military aid, goes to Israel.

Without Europe and the States we'd be like the Palestinians, surviving on $200 a month," he said.

"Now that we've left the Gaza Strip, we will give back the rest of the territories sooner or later, and every single settler will have to leave," he said.

(9) How does Israel decide who gets a visa to Ramallah?

From: Kristoffer Larsson <kristoffer.larsson@sobernet.nu> Date: 09.09.2009 06:53 PM

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113057.html

How does Israel decide who gets a visa to Ramallah?

By Amira Hass

Sven Ouzman, a 39-year-old archaeologist from South Africa, violated the terms of his "Palestinian Authority only" visa six times, when unintentionally and for lack of choice, he drove on roads under full Israeli control, between Palestinian Authority enclaves in the West Bank.

Ouzman, who was attending a conference of the World Archaeological Congress in Ramallah last month, was late for a lecture he was scheduled to deliver on the evening of August 9. He had arrived at the Allenby Bridge crossing on Saturday morning, August 8, after having passed through passport control on the Jordanian side and entering the Israeli-controlled area, but the Israel Airport Authority employees demanded he come back the next day. When he asked them why, "they were very rude and would not reply," Ouzman said this week by phone from South Africa.

Acquaintences later told him that such arbitrariness is standard on the Israeli side. Ouzman returned to Amman for the night. In the morning, he spent about two hours on the Jordanian side and about another nine hours on the Israeli side. "Then began a long process, go there, come here, lots of questions I found offensive, and a lot of waiting, especially waiting," Ouzman said.

Ouzman, is on the faculty of the ethnography and archaeology department of Pretoria University, and also teaches archaeology in prisons. He said that at the Allenby Bridge crossing he recalled an anthropological lesson he learned from teaching in prison, where the authorities intentionally break the monotony and shout at prisoners to disorient them. He suggested that this is similar to what he encountered at the Israeli-controlled border.

"They are all very young. You wonder what training they got; you can't get angry at them, they just obey orders," Ouzman said.

At one point, Ouzman showed officials at the Allenby Bridge his invitation to the archaeology conference, and gave them the phone number of one of the organizers, Adel Yahya from Ramallah. The clerks called Yahya, and asked for the list of conference participants. Ten guest lecturers (out of about 20) had come through Allenby, three of whom were Turkish citizens. Two of the Turkish nationals were refused entry, Yahya said, and the third received a "Palestinian Authority only" visa. A Portuguese guest lecturer also received a "Palestinian Authority only" stamp. These two, along with Ouzman, could not participate in the tour in Silwan, Jerusalem, guided by the archaeologist Dr. Rafi Greenberg.

Haaretz's query as to why some visitors receive regular visas, while others receive "Palestinian Authority only" stamps, went unanswered.

Ouzman shortened his trip by two days due to his restrictive visa. However, in some cases, the damage is much greater: the Palestinian Authority-only visa ruined the research plans for L., a British scholar who had spent time at Bir Zeit University over the summer.

L. received a one-day visa for Israel from the Civil Administration, and set up a meeting at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem to request a regular visa. "Once [the Interior Ministry official] noticed the visa on my passport saying 'Palestinian Authority only,' she screamed that I shouldn't be in Israel and yelled at me for entering without a visa. I tried to explain that this is why we are here, and that I have work to do in Israel as well as the West Bank. She didn't listen, and said angrily that I have to leave and go back to the West Bank."

L. told the clerk he had a one-day visa, and that he comes to the country at least twice a year and always received a regular visa. L. said the clerk spoke to someone over the phone, still sounding very angry.

"Then she told me that [her superior] said I shouldn't be in Israel because I don't have the proper visa, and that if I insisted on applying for a full visa at the ministry I could do so but that I would be denied the visa on the spot," L. said.

The Interior Ministry said it does not have representatives at the Allenby Bridge crossing.

The Israel Airports Authority said, "Israel Airports Authority employees fulfill their function in keeping with directives while maintaining the dignity of the travelers and insuring a proper level of service. The authority supervises the employees by means of a variety of methods. Stamps are given by border supervisors only (who are not authority employees)."

The Negotiation Support Unit, which advises the PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department, prepared an opinion paper on the Israeli visa policy, which was sent to consulates and foreign missions. The opinion stated: "Third states whose nationals are subjected to such illegal policies have an obligation to object once the facts are made known to them and their nationals ask them to respond or to take action. Choosing not to object would imply third states' acceptance of Israel's unlawful acts, in violation of third states' duty of non-recognition [of these acts.]"

(10) 9/11 The Hard Evidence Tour - Sydney November 2009

From: John Cameron <blackheathbooks@internode.on.net> Date: 08.09.2009 05:35 AM

Sydney
Day 1 - The Hard Evidence (Main Event)
Saturday, 14th of November

Speakers: Richard Gage (AIA) www.AE911Truth.org, Dr Steven Jones
www.STJ911.org, Janice Matthews www.911Truth.org, William Rodriguez
(TBC) www.william911.com plus many more!
Cost: Adult $60/Concession $30 - Press and poor free on request

Day 2 - Truth in Action (Activist Forum)
When: Sunday, 15th of November
For more information, call (toll-free) 1300 153 372
Contact John Bursill on +61 414 878 499
email: johnbursill@gmail.com

(11) The Hard Evidence....Melbourne & Brisbane

From: John Cameron <blackheathbooks@internode.on.net>
Date: 08.09.2009 05:41 AM

The Hard Evidence Tour Downunder 2009
Melbourne
Tuesday, 17th of November
Speakers: Richard Gage (AIA) www.AE911Truth.org, Paul Mason (Structural Engineer), John Bursill (Aircraft Engineer)

Brisbane
When: Thursday, 19th of November

For more information, call (toll-free) 1300 153 372
Contact James via E-mail: joneill@qldbar.asn.au