1063 Yemen offers a Ceasefire to Saudi Arabia

Yemen offers a Ceasefire to Saudi Arabia

Newsletter published on September 22, 2019

(1) 911 Mossad involved but Madsen not always reliable
(2) Saudis may accept Yemen offer of Ceasefire
(3) Yemen offers a Ceasefire to Saudi Arabia
(4) Israel spied on Trump - Giraldi
(5) Israeli intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms' anything
Russia has done - Chomsky
(6) Chomsky says Israel interferes in US elections - Democracy Now
(7) Giraldi: The Jewish state is no friend
(8) Latino migrants are ok - they assimilate
(9) White Privilege cf Jewish Control

(1) 911 Mossad involved but Madsen not always reliable

Subject: Re: Shamir 911 Mossad fantasy
From: Jeffrey Blankfort <jblankfort@earthlink.net>

Hello Peter,

I once interviewed Madsen but over the years I had doubts about some of
his information so take what he says with many grains of salt. There are
more questions than answers about 9-11, the biggest conspiracy theory
being the official narrative put out by the government. I have been more
interested in the WTC than the Pentagon hit where there seems to have
been no visual evidence that it was a hit by a plane. I learned not long
ago that the cameras on the freeways that day which ordinarily would be
on the Pentagon were all turned away that day--this info came through a
close friend from some state official who thought that this was curious.
Re the WTC, there is no question in my mind about Mossad being involved
but it simply could not have carried it out without cooperation at the
highest level of the Cheney White House.

Funny, but I remember seeing, over and over, two of the alleged
hijackers passing through the doors at Logan Airport, but never seeing
the rest of them which would be suspicious because if they had been at
the airport(s), there would have been photos of all of them. My friend,
Ron Bleir, argues that there were no planes.

Best,

Jeff

(2) Saudis may accept Yemen offer of Ceasefire

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/09/us-ships-more-air-defense-systems-that-do-not-work-to-saudi-arabia.html

September 21, 2019

U.S. Ships More Air Defense Systems That Do Not Work To Saudi Arabia

The Washington Post notices Russia's offer to sell its air defense
systems to Saudi Arabia. It does not like that ...

Some 5,000 additional workers are now racing to repair the damage. It
will still take weeks if not months to get everything up and running again.

Saudi Arabia had to delay oil deliveries to Asian customers. Some will
receive heavy oil grades instead of the light sweet crude they ordered.
Deliveries to Bahrain were halted completely. Deliveries to Saudi
refineries were cut. Saudi Arabia bought additional gasoline and
kerosene from the international markets as its own refineries received
less crude oil than needed. Saudi citizens report of a lack of gasoline
and a video show long queues in front of a local gas station.

The air defenses surrounding Abqaiq proved to be ineffective. That may
have been because they were shut off. But it is doubtful that the
systems, even if it had been on alert, would have made any difference.

The U.S. made Patriot system in question was built as an air defense
system against fighter jets. It was later upgraded to give it some
capability against ballistic missiles. But even its latest iteration is
not capable of defeating smaller drones or low flying cruise missiles.

While the Washington Post writer recognizes that the Patriot system can
cover only one third of the horizon and fails to detect smaller low
flying objects he still asserts that it is better than the systems
Russia makes ...

The Patriot system does not work. It is one of those typical U.S. big
ticket items that enrich the owners of the defense industry but are of
little combat value.

The U.S. is now sending more soldiers to Saudi Arabia with more Patriot
systems and additional Terminal High Attitude Aera Defense, or THAAD,
systems. Neither of these can protect against drones or cruise missiles
like those that were used in the attack on Abqaiq. The whole operation
is useless security theater.

When the U.S. attacked Syria with 105 cruise missiles the Russian
equipped Syrian army managed to shot down 71 of them. The cruise
missiles that got through were aimed at undefended targets.

The Russian base in Syria was attacked several times by swarms of
drones. All were taken down by either electronic countermeasures or by
short range air defense systems. The long range S-400 have not engaged
because there was no situation yet where they were needed.

What Saudi Arabia needs is a layered defense systems similar to the one
Syria deploys. It requires point defense systems like Pantsyr-S1 and
medium range defense systems like the BUK-2. Long range defense systems
like the S-400 can be added to protect against high flying bombers and
against ballistic missiles. Electronic countermeasure like the Krasuha-4
system can be added to suppress radio commanded missiles and drones.

No western country can provide such a modern layered system. If the
Saudis really want to defend their country they will have to buy the
Russian stuff. But the U.S. is unlikely to allow that.

That makes it more likely that the Saudis will accept the ceasefire the
Yemeni Houthi just offered to them (machine translation):

In a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the September 21
revolution, President of the Supreme Political Council Mehdi Mashat
launched a peace initiative in which he called on all parties from all
sides of the war to seriously engage in serious and genuine negotiations
leading to a comprehensive national reconciliation that does not exclude
anyone from injecting blood. In the interest of the remaining bonds of
brotherhood and to overcome the higher national interests.

He announced the cessation of the targeting of Saudi territory by flying
planes, ballistic missiles, wings and all forms of targeting.

"We are waiting for the same or better greetings in a similar
announcement to stop all forms of targeting and aerial bombardment of
our Yemeni territory and reserve the right to respond if this initiative
is not met," he said.

We will have to wait to see how the Saudi clown prince reacts to that
offer. If he rejects it the Houthi will surely remind him that his oil
exporting desert country is a target rich environment.

Posted by b on September 21, 2019 at 17:02 UTC

(3) Yemen offers a Ceasefire to Saudi Arabia

https://www.almasirah.net/details.php?es_id=45095&cat_id=3

Sept 21, 2019 in Arabic; translation:

In a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the September 21
revolution, President of the Supreme Political Council Mehdi Mashat
launched a peace initiative in which he called on all parties from all
sides of the war to seriously engage in serious and genuine negotiations
leading to a comprehensive national reconciliation that does not exclude
anyone from injecting blood. In the interest of the remaining bonds of
brotherhood and to overcome the higher national interests.

He announced the cessation of the targeting of Saudi territory by flying
planes, ballistic missiles, wings and all forms of targeting.

"We are waiting for the same or better greetings in a similar
announcement to stop all forms of targeting and aerial bombardment of
our Yemeni territory and reserve the right to respond if this initiative
is not met," he said.

We will have to wait to see how the Saudi clown prince reacts to that
offer. If he rejects it the Houthi will surely remind him that his oil
exporting desert country is a target rich environment.

web@almasirah.tv

www.almasirah.net

(4) Israel spied on Trump - Giraldi

http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-spies-and-spies-and-spies/

Israel Spies and Spies and Spies

This time the target was Donald Trump

PHILIP GIRALDI o SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Here we go again! Israel is caught red handed spying against the United
States and everyone in Congress is silent, as are nearly all the
mainstream media which failed to report the story. And the federal
government itself, quick to persecute a Russian woman who tried to join
the NRA, concedes that the White House and Justice Department have done
absolutely nothing to either rebuke or punish the Israeli perpetrators.
One senior intelligence official commented that "I’m not aware of any
accountability at all."

Only President Donald Trump, predictably, had something so say in his
usual personalized fashion, which was that the report was "hard to
believe," that "I don’t think the Israelis were spying on us. My
relationship with Israel has been great…Anything is possible but I don’t
believe it."

Ironically, the placement of technical surveillance devices by Israel
was clearly intended to target cellphone communications to and from the
Trump White House. As the president frequently chats with top aides and
friends on non-secure phones, the operation sought to pick up
conversations involving Trump with the expectation that the
security-averse president would say things off the record that might be
considered top secret.

The Politico report, which is sourced to top intelligence and security
officials, details how "miniature surveillance devices" referred to as
"Stingrays" imitate regular cell phone towers to fool phones being used
nearby into providing information on their locations and identities.
According to the article, the devices are referred to by technicians as
"international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers,
they also can capture the contents of calls and data use."

Over one year ago, government security agencies discovered the
electronic footprints that indicated the presence of the surveillance
devices around Washington including near the White House. Forensic
analysis involved dismantling the devices to let them "tell you a little
about their history, where the parts and pieces come from, how old are
they, who had access to them, and that will help get you to what the
origins are." One source observed afterwards that "It was pretty clear
that the Israelis were responsible."

The Israeli Embassy denied any involvement in the espionage and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adroitly and predictably lied regarding the
report, saying "We have a directive, I have a directive: No intelligence
work in the United States, no spies. And it’s vigorously implemented,
without any exception. It is a complete fabrication, a complete
fabrication."

The Israelis are characteristically extremely aggressive in their
intelligence gathering operations, particularly in targeting the United
States, even though Trump has done the Netanyahu government many favors.
These have included moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, withdrawing
from the nuclear deal and sanctioning Iran, recognizing Israeli
sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and looking the other way as Israel
expands its settlements and regularly bombs Syria and Lebanon.

Israel’s high-risk spying is legendary, but the notion that it is
particularly good at it is, like everything having to do with the Jewish
state, much overrated. Mossad has been caught in flagrante numerous
times. In 2010, an undercover Mossad hit team was caught on 30 minutes
of surveillance video as it wandered through a luxury Dubai hotel where
it had gone to kill a leading Hamas official. And the notion that Mossad
and CIA work hand-in-hand is also a fiction. Working level Agency
officers dislike their reckless Mossad counterparts. Newsweek magazine’s
"Spy Talk" once cited a poll of CIA officers that ranked Israel "dead
last" among friendly countries in actual intelligence cooperation with
Washington.

The fact is that Israel conducts espionage and influence operations
against the United States more aggressively than any other "friendly"
country, including tapping White House phones used by Bill Clinton to
speak with Monica Lewinski. Israeli "experts" regularly provide alarmist
and inaccurate private briefings for American Senators on Capitol Hill.
Israel also constantly manufactures pretexts to draw the U.S. into new
conflicts in the Middle East, starting with the Lavon Affair in
Alexandria Egypt in 1954 and including the false flag attack on the
U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. In short, Israel has no reluctance to use its
enormous political and media clout in the U.S. to pressure successive
administrations to conform to its own foreign and security policy views.

The persistent spying, no matter what Netanyahu claims, is a very good
reason why Israel should not receive billions of dollars in military
assistance annually. Starting in 1957, Israel’s friends stole enriched
uranium from a Pennsylvania refinery to create a nuclear arsenal. More
recently we have learned how Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood
producer/billionaire born in Israel, arranged the illegal purchase of
800 krytron triggers to use in the production of nuclear weapons. The
operation also involved current Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The existence of a large scale Israeli spying effort at the time of 9/11
has been widely reported, incorporating Israeli companies in New Jersey
and Florida as well as hundreds of "art students" nationwide. Five
"dancing" Israelis from one of the companies were observed celebrating
against the backdrop of the twin towers going down.

While it is often observed that everyone spies on everyone else,
espionage is a high-risk business, particularly when spying on friends.
Israel, relying on Washington for billions of dollars and also for
political cover in international fora like the United Nations, does not
spy discreetly, largely because it knows that few in Washington will
seek to hold it accountable. There were, for example, no consequences
for the Israelis when Israeli Mossad intelligence officers using U.S.
passports and pretending to be Americans recruited terrorists to carry
out attacks inside Iran. Israelis using U.S. passports in that fashion
put every American traveler at risk.

Israel, where government and business work hand in hand, has obtained
significant advantage by systematically stealing American technology
with both military and civilian applications. The U.S. developed
technology is then reverse engineered and used by the Israelis to
support their own exports. Sometimes, when the technology is military in
nature and winds up in the hands of an adversary, the consequences can
be serious. Israel has sold advanced weapons systems to China that
incorporate technology developed by American companies.

The reality of Israeli large-scale spying in the United States is
indisputable. One might cite Jonathan Pollard, who stole more highly
classified information than any spy in history. And then there were
Ben-Ami Kadish, Stuart Nozette and Larry Franklin, other spies for
Israel who have been caught and tried, but they are only the tip of the
iceberg. Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report
called "Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage." The 2005
report states "Israel has an active program to gather proprietary
information within the United States. These collection activities are
primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and
advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable
armaments industry." It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic
methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information.

A 1996 Defense Investigative Service report noted that Israel has great
success stealing technology by exploiting the numerous co-production
projects that it has with the Pentagon. It says "Placing Israeli
nationals in key industries …is a technique utilized with great
success." A General Accounting Office (GAO) examination of espionage
directed against American defense and security industries described how
Israeli citizens residing in the U.S. had stolen sensitive technology to
manufacture artillery gun tubes, obtained classified plans for
reconnaissance systems, and passed sensitive aerospace designs to
unauthorized users.

The GAO has concluded that Israel "conducts the most aggressive
espionage operation against the United States of any U.S. ally." In June
2006, a Pentagon administrative judge ruled against a difficult to even
imagine appeal by an Israeli denied a security clearance, saying that
"The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial
espionage in the United States." FBI counter intelligence officer John
Cole has also reported how many cases of Israeli espionage are dropped
under orders from the Justice Department., making the Jewish state’s
spying consequence free. He provides a "conservative estimate" of 125
viable investigations into Israeli espionage involving both American
citizens and Israelis that were stopped due to political pressure.

So, did Israel really spy on Donald Trump? Sure it did. And Netanyahu
is, metaphorically speaking, thumbing his nose at the American president
and asking with a grin, "What are you going to do about it?"

(5) Israeli intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms' anything
Russia has done - Chomsky

Chomsky seems to be reversing his previous claim that Israel was merely
a sheriff of the US - Peter M.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/israel-us-elections-intervention-russia-noam-chomsky-donald-trump-a8470481.html

Israeli intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms' anything Russia
has done, claims Noam Chomsky

The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as
climate change

Andrew Buncombe New York  @AndrewBuncombe

Monday 30 July 2018 19:19

Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of "brazenly"
interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any
efforts that may have been carried out by Russia.

In comments in which he accused much of the media of concentrating on
stories he considered marginal and ignoring issues such as the
"existential threat" of climate change, the 89-year-old linguist said in
much of the world, the US media’s focus with Russia’s alleged
interference in the 2016 was "a joke".

"First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our
elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs
in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly,
brazenly and with enormous support," he said.

Speaking to Democracy Now, Mr Chomsky added: "Israeli intervention in US
elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done, I mean,
even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes
directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks
to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the
president’s policies - what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015."

In March 2015, at the invitation of then Republican House Speaker John
Boehner, and assisted by Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the joint houses of
Congress about the yet to be signed Iran nuclear deal. He did so without
formally informing the White House, something said to have infuriated
Barack Obama, whose administration would the following month join a
seven-party agreement to limit Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons ambitions.

In a speech to Congress that was boycotted by more than 50 Democrats, Mr
Netanyahu made clear his opposition to the deal.

"This deal won’t be a farewell to arms," said Mr Netanyahu, to loud
applause. "It would be a farewell to arms control. And the Middle East
would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear tripwires. A region where small
skirmishes can trigger big wars would turn into a nuclear tinderbox."

Benjamin Netanyahu supports US rejection of Iran nuclear deal: 'Israel
has opposed Iran's nuclear deal from the start' Attacking Mr Obama
proposal of dealing with Iran, he added: "We must all stand together to
stop Iran’s march of conquest, subjugation and terror."

Mr Chomsky said Mr Putin had never made such a speech to Congress, which
political observers said was unique in the way a foreign leader so
acidly attacked the policy of the US government.

"Did Putin come to give an address to the joint sessions of Congress
trying to…calling on them to reverse US policy, without even informing
the president," he said.

"And that’s just a tiny bit of this overwhelming influence. So if you
happen to be interested in influence of- foreign influence on elections,
there are places to look. But even that is a joke."

The power of the pro-Israel lobby has long been one of the contentious,
and disputed, issues in Washington. In 2007, John Mearsheimer and
Stephen Walt, published The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which
described the lobby as "loose coalition of individuals and organisations
who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction".

The coalition includes groups such as the powerful American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a US-based pro-Israel lobbying group
this year has spent $1.75m to promote pro-Israel policies.

The group’s annual convention is a frequent stopping off point for
politicians seeking election or reelection, and Mr Netanyahu has
addressed it several times. In 2016, top speakers included Vice
President Joe Biden, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton,
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Governor John Kasich,
Senator Ted Cruz, and Speaker Paul Ryan.

The group’s website says: "The mission of AIPAC is to strengthen,
protect and promote the US-Israel relationship in ways that enhance the
security of the United States and Israel."

Neither the Israeli Embassy in Washington or AIPAC immediately responded
to enquiries about Mr Chomsky’s claim.

In his comments to Democracy Now, Mr Chomsky said the media was
"focusing on issues which are pretty marginal. There are much more
serious issues that are being put to the side".

"Of all Trump’s policies, the one that is the most dangerous and
destructive, in fact poses an existential threat, is his policies on
climate change, on global warming," he said.

"That’s really destructive. And we’re facing an imminent threat, not far
removed, of enormous damage. The effects are already visible but nothing
like what’s going to come."

He added: "These are the kinds of issues that should be under
discussion. Instead…here is a focus on what I believe are marginalia."

(6) Chomsky says Israel interferes in US elections - Democracy Now

It would be better if Chomsky explicitly admitted that his earlier
claim, that Israel was merely a sheriff, was wrong - Peter M.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_mass_media_obsession

Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being
Covered in the Trump Era

STORYJULY 27, 2018

The New York Times reports special counsel Robert Mueller is
scrutinizing President Trump’s tweets as part of Mueller’s expanding
probe into Trump’s ties to Russia. This latest revelation in the Mueller
investigation is part of a nearly 24-hour stream of headlines about
Trump, Russia and the administration’s various scandals. But is the
mainstream media missing the real stories amid its obsession with
"Russiagate"? For more, we speak with world-renowned political
dissident, linguist, author and professor Noam Chomsky on media
manipulation in the Trump era.

Transcript

AMY GOODMAN: We continue our interview with Noam Chomsky, world-renowned
dissident, linguist and author, now in Tucson at the University of
Arizona. [...]

NOAM CHOMSKY: [...] So, take, say, the huge issue of interference in our
pristine elections. Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An
issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the
world, that’s almost a joke. First of all, if you’re interested in
foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have
done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what
another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli
intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians
may have done, I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of
Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the
president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to
undermine the president’s policies—what happened with Obama and
Netanyahu in 2015. Did Putin come to give an address to the joint
sessions of Congress trying to—calling on them to reverse U.S. policy,
without even informing the president? And that’s just a tiny bit of this
overwhelming influence. So if you happen to be interested in influence
of—foreign influence on elections, there are places to look. But even
that is a joke. [...]

(7) Giraldi: The Jewish state is no friend

Why Confronting Israel Is Important

Aug 15 2018 / 12:21 pm

The Jewish state is no friend

By Philip Giraldi

I am often asked why I have this "thing" about Israel, with friends
suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to
instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The
problem with that formulation is that the so-called "special
relationship" with Israel is itself the result of terrible national
security and foreign policy choices that is sustained by pervasive
political and media corruption, so any honest attempt to examine the one
inevitably leads to the other. Most talking heads in the media avoid
that dilemma by choosing to completely ignore the dark side of Israel.

Israel – not Russia – is the one foreign country that can interfere with
impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is
immune from criticism. It is also the single most significant threat to
genuine national security as it and its powerful domestic lobby have
been major advocates for the continuation of America’s interventionist
warfare state. The decision to go to war on false pretenses against
Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Jews in the
Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of
thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the American taxpayer $7
trillion dollars when all the bills are paid. That same group of mostly
Jewish neocons more-or-less is now agitating to go to war with Iran
using a game plan for escalation
<https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/08/israel-trump-administration-iran-sanctions-ayatollah-regime.html>
prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic.

And I can go on from there. According to the FBI, Israel runs the most
aggressive spying operations against the U.S. among ostensibly
"friendly" nations
<https://www.newsweek.com/israel-flagged-top-spy-threat-us-new-snowdennsa-document-262991>,
frequently stealing our military technology for resale by its own arms
merchants. Its notable successes in espionage have included the most
devastating spy in U.S. history Jonathan Pollard, while it has also
penetrated American communications systems and illegally obtained both
the fuel and the triggers for its own secret nuclear weapons arsenal.

Israel cares little for American sovereignty. It’s prime ministers
<https://www.veteranstoday..com/2014/01/11/burying-sharon/> Ariel Sharon
and <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mA23bFrvkE> Benjamin Netanyahu
have both boasted how they control the United States. In 2001, Israel
was running a massive secret spying operation directed against Arabs in
the U..S. Many in the intelligence and law enforcement communities
suspect that it had considerable prior intelligence regarding the 9/11
plot but did not share it with Washington. There was the spectacle of
the "dancing Shlomos," Israeli "movers" from a company in New Jersey who
apparently had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attack and danced and
celebrated as they watched the Twin Towers go down.

Jewish power, both in terms of money and of access to people and
mechanisms that really matter, is what allows Israel to act with
impunity<http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/understanding-jewish-power/>,
making the United States both poorer and more insecure. A well-funded
massive lobbying effort involving hundreds of groups and thousands of
individuals in the U.S. has worked to the detriment of actual American
interests, in part by creating a permanent annual gift of billions of
dollars to Israel for no other reason but that it is Israel and can get
anything it wants from a servile Congress and White House without any
objection from a controlled media.

Israel has also obtained carte blanche political protection from the
U.S. in fora like the United Nations, which is damaging to America’s
reputation and its actual interests. This protection now extends to the
basing of U.S. troops in Israel to serve as a tripwire, guaranteeing
that Washington will become involved if Israel is ever attacked or even
if Israel itself starts a war. The current U.S.. Ambassador to the U.N.
Nikki Haley is little more than a shill for Israel while America’s
Ambassador in Israel David Friedman is an open supporter of Israel’s
illegal settlements, which the U.S. opposes, who spends much of his time
defending Israeli war crimes
<https://www.npr.org/2018/05/14/611097603/u-s-ambassador-to-israel-defends-response-to-gaza-protests>.

And here on the home front Israel is doing damage that might be viewed
as even more grave in Senator Ben Cardin’s attempt to destroy First
Amendment rights by making any criticism of Israel illegal
<http://americanfreepress.net/they-disagree-on-everything-but-israel/>.
The non-violent Israel Boycott movement (BDS) has already been
sanctioned in many states, the result of intensive and successful
lobbying by the Israeli government and its powerful friends.

So if there is a real enemy of the United States in terms of the actual
damage being inflicted by a foreign power, it is Israel. In the recent
Russiagate investigations it was revealed that it was Israel, not
Russia, that sought favors from Michael Flynn and the incoming Trump
Administration yet Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidently not
chosen to go down that road with his investigations, which should
surprise no one
<http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/russiagate-becomes-israelgate/>.

Noam Chomsky, iconic progressive intellectual, has finally come around
on the issue of Israel and what it means. He has always argued somewhat
incoherently that Israeli misbehavior has been due to its role as a tool
of American imperialism and capitalism. At age 89, he has finally
figured out that it is actually all about what a parasitic Israel wants
without any regard for its American host, observing on "Democracy Now"
that
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/israel-us-elections-intervention-russia-noam-chomsky-donald-trump-a8470481.html>

..take, say, the huge issue of interference in our pristine elections.
Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An issue of overwhelming
concern in the media. I mean, in most of the world, that’s almost a
joke. First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our
elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs
in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly,
brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in U.S.
elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done… I mean,
even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes
directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks
to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the
president’s policies – what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015….

Politicians are terrified of crossing the Jewish lobby by saying
anything negative about Israel, which means that Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu always gets a pass from the American government, even when he
starves civilians and bombs hospitals and schools. Netanyahu uses
snipers to shoot dead scores of unarmed demonstrators and the snipers
themselves joke about their kills without a peep from Washington, which
styles itself the "leader of the free world."

Just recently, Israel has declared itself a Jewish State with all that
implies. To be sure, Israeli Christians and Muslims were already subject
to a battery of laws and regulations that empowered Jews at their
expense but now it is the guiding principle that Israel will be run for
the benefit of Jews and Jews alone. And it still likes to call itself a
"democracy."

A recent television program illustrates just how far the subjugation of
America’s elected leaders by Israel has gone. British comedian Sacha
Baron Cohen is featured on a new show called "Who is America?" in which
he uses disguises and aliases to engage politicians and other luminaries
in unscripted interviews that reveal just how ignorant or mendacious
they actually are
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/18/what-sacha-baron-cohen-taught-us-about-republicans-and-israel/?utm_term=.effb0de058de>.
Several recent episodes remind one of a February 2013 Saturday Night
Live skit on the impending confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of
Defense <https://mondoweiss.net/2013/02/security-national-television/>.
A Senator asks Hagel. "It is vital to Israel’s security for you to go on
national television and perform oral sex on a donkey… Would you do THAT
for Israel?" A "yes" answer was, of course, expected from Hagel. The
skit was never aired after objections from the usual suspects.

Baron Cohen, who confronted several GOP notables in the guise of Colonel
Erran Morad, an Israeli security specialist, provided a number of clues
that his interview was a sham but none of the victims were smart enough
to pick up on them. Cohen, wearing an Israeli military uniform and
calling himself a colonel, clearly displayed sergeant’s stripes. Hinting
that he might actually be a Mossad agent, Cohen also sported a T-shirt
on which the Hebrew text was printed backwards and he claimed that the
Israeli spy agency’s motto was "if you want to win, show some skin."

Cohen set up Dick Cheney by complimenting him on being the "the king of
terrorist killers" before commenting that "my neighbor in Tel Aviv is in
jail for murder, or, as we call it, enhanced tickling." Morad went on to
tell Cheney that he once waterboarded his wife to check for infidelity
and then convinced the former Vice President to sign a "waterboarding
kit" that "already had" the signatures of Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel
Sharon and Demi Lovato.

Another more spectacular sketch included a Georgia state senator Jason
Spencer who was convinced to shout out the n-word as part of an alleged
video being made to fight terrorism
<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-georgia-drops-pants-uses-racial-slur-sacha-baron-n893736>.
After Cohen told Spencer that it was necessary to incite fear in
homophobic jihadists, Spencer dropped his pants and underwear, before
backing up with his exposed rear end while shouting "USA!" and
"America!" Spencer also spoke with a phony Asian accent while simulating
using a selfie-stick to secretly insert a camera phone inside a Muslim
woman’s burqa.

In another series of encounters, Cohen as Morad managed to convince
current and ex-Republican members of Congress — to include former Senate
majority leader Trent Lott — to endorse a fictional Israeli program to
arm grade school children for self-defense
<https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Sacha-Baron-Cohen-exploits-Americans-fetishization-of-Israel-563204>.

Cohen’s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXeMoBPSDk> footage included a
former Illinois congressman and talk radio host named Joe Walsh
<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/joe-walsh-guns-toddlers-video-sacha-baron-cohens-who-is-america-1127295>
saying: "The intensive three-week ‘Kinderguardian’ course introduces
specially selected children from 12 to 4 years old to pistols, rifles,
semiautomatics and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars. In less than a
month — less than a month — a first-grader can become a first grenade-er."

Both controversial Alabama judge Roy Moore and Walsh were fooled into
meeting Cohen to attend a non-existent pro-Israel conference
<https://forward.com/schmooze/405293/joe-walsh-baron-cohen-lured-me-to-an-interview-with-a-fake-pro-israel/>
to accept an award for "significant contributions to the state of
Israel." Representative Dana Rohrabacher, meanwhile, also was
interviewed and he commented that, "Maybe having young people trained
and understand how to defend themselves and their school might actually
make us safer here." And Congressman Joe Wilson observed that "A
3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a
‘Hello Kitty’ pencil case at it."

Cohen’s performance is instructive. A man shows up in Israeli uniform,
claims to be a terrorism expert or even a Mossad agent, and he gains
access to powerful Americans who are willing to do anything he says. How
Cohen did it says a lot about the reflexive and completely uncritical
support for Israel that many American politicians — particularly
Republicans — now embrace. This, in a nutshell, is the damage that
Israel and its Lobby have done to the United States. Israel is always
right for many policymakers and even palpably phony Jews like Colonel
Morad are instantly perceived as smarter than the rest of us so we’d
better do what they say. That kind of thinking has brought us Iraq,
Libya, Syria and the possibility of something far worse with Iran.

Israel routinely interferes in American politics and corrupts our
institutions without any cost to itself and that is why I write and
speak frequently regarding the danger to our Republic that it poses. It
is past time to change the essentially phony narrative. Israel is
nothing but trouble. It has the right to defend itself and protect its
interests but that should not involve the United States. One can only
hope that eventually a majority of my fellow American citizens will also
figure things out. It might take a while, but the ruthless way Israel
openly operates with no concern for anyone but itself provides a measure
of optimism that that day is surely coming.

(8) Latino migrants are ok - they assimilate

The only issue is the numbers - Peter M.

http://www.unz.com/freed/immigration-and-teething-pains/

Immigration and Teething Pains

At Last, A Reasonable Voice

FRED REED o SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I have often pointed out that the Dissident Right, fervently disliking
Latinos, criticizes Hispanics for all sins real or imagined but never
says what policies it favor toward the tens of millions American
citizens of Latin-American descent. I have to retract. Recently John
Derbyshire, the star writer at the anti-immigrant site Vdare.com, has
stated clearly and even eloquently that he favors assimilation. Thus:

This country can only work—can only be a country worth the name—under an
ethic of relentless assimilation. You settle here, you Americanize
yourself, for which the very first step is to master English, so you can
join in the national political conversation. John Quincy Adams
understood that. My immigrant wife understood it.

This is not just a wise position. It is the only wise position. If the
United States is to have a chance of coalescing into a workably amicable
polity, it needs to absorb the newcomers. They are not going to go away.
Endlessly attacking them, often nonsensically, sometimes dishonestly,
always with a grinding undercurrent of racial hatred, is not a recipe
for domestic tranquility. Yet this is exactly what the Dissident Right does.

The immigrant wife John speaks of is Chinese, which is at least
reasonable and in my view desirable, the Chinese being an impressive
people. Also very pretty in their female variety, which doesn’t hurt.
Apparently Derbyshire has remained married to her for thirty-three
years, which is un-American and grounds for revoking his citizenship. I
suspect without knowing that he gets vulgar comments from ill-bred
weblouts as a race traitor. Me too. Pueden chingarse.

But back to business. Suppose the Dissident Right, instead of snuffling
around after defects of Latinos like truffle pigs on the hunt, asked how
to make the best of a situation that, good, bad, or undecided, can’t be
changed? Suppose it asked what might be said good of them. Or even,
"What things have we been told about them that aren’t quite true, or at
all?" Or–I’m going off the deep end here–what are the prospects of
successful assimilation?

Of the Latinos, it is as easy to find pros as cons. The Latino birth
rate in the US is way down. (In Mexico itself, 2.19 births per woman.
Source: CIA WorldFactbook). In the second generation on, they speak
English. I don’t know Mexican literacy in the US, but in Mexico it is at
95 percent (Source: CIA WorldFactbook). They do not burn cities, loot
stores in flash mobs, or engage in gang attacks on whites. There is no
Brown Lives Matter. They intermarry. They serve in the military. They
don’t do race riots. They start businesses. They work.

There are good reasons for wishing that the Latinos had not come.
America doesn’t need the population, assimilation is expensive, and any
immigrants inevitably provoke hostility. Conservative businessmen make
things worse by deliberately giving American jobs to illegals to make
more money. (Which, by the way, is illegal.) The objections of the
Dissident Right are not always frivolous or merely loutish.

Yet there is a certain automatic, predetermined quality to the
antipathy. Judging by the comments that I get, men tend to be far more
hostile than women, conservatives than liberals, Republicans than
Democrats, the old than the young, the unschooled than the educated,
those who have traveled little than those who have traveled much. This
supports the common observation that conservatives tend to be
robotically tribal, and liberals, robotically universalist. I suspect
that that if God sent his angels flying to earth, the Right would try to
shoot them down. If he sent a plague of cobras, liberals would bid them
welcome and try to include them.

My impression, though it is no more than an impression, is that people
of North European origin tend to be more hostile to Latinos than those
of southern European, plausible since Mexican culture is more
Ibero-Italian than Nordic.

Trump has said that America is not getting Mexico’s best. This is true.
Cardiac surgeons and software engineers do not swim the Rio Bravo to
pick oranges. If they did, assimilation would take a few hours. The
Mexican middle and professional classes behave as everybody else’s–mow
the lawn, go to work, buy a house, send the kids to university. If the
immigrants fit this description, they would have no reason to come to
America and considerable reason not to given the chaos into which the
country sinks.

But they are not educated. They tend at very best to be high-school
grads and usually well below. This makes assimilation more difficult but
no less necessary. The choice is to ghettoize a fifth of the country.
How bright is this? Does the country need more Detroits and Baltimores?

Yet it is exactly what the Dissident Right seems to want. When someone
suggested a program to help immigrants go to college, I found one of the
anti-immigrant leaders saying approximately, and angrily, "They sneak
into our country illegally and then want to go to school on our dime.
Assimilation? Keep them as far from Americans as possible."

But the great majority are legal or, usually, citizens and increasingly
born and raised in America. For how many years should we regard them as
internal enemies? Encouraging their entrance into the middle class, what
is left of it, is not charity but self-preservation, much in the
national interest whether the Dissident Right likes it or not. Left to
themselves, Latinos will do rise on their own, and are doing it, but
anything that speeds the process is good for America. Better that
Eduardo have a landscaping business or restaurant and be taxed than that
he live on welfare for lack of an alternative.

Encouragement should not include affirmative action, which engenders
racial hostility. It is one thing to help qualified students, quite
another to pump out inadequates of whatever kind

Illegal aliens are a special case that requires nationally
self-interested examination. The crucial question of course is whether
they can be gotten rid of. If tomorrow morning all illegals could be
deported to somewhere, that would be that. Since they are unlawfully
present, there could be no legal objection.

But if they cannot be gotten rid of? This seems to be the case.
Depending on your politics there are between ten and thirty million
illegals, or more if you forgot to take your medication. Does anyone see
the slightest chance of their eviction? Trump threatened to deport
"millions," and then forgot about it a week later. We can fantasize
about massive military sweeps, or death camps, or what Reagan would have
done, yes. But…the realistic chance of ten to thirty million deportations?

If the illegals are in the country to stay (they mostly are) what then?
The Dissident Right rages furiously against amnesty, but does not rage
furiously in favor of a better idea. Without amnesty, illegals will
remain an underclass until they die of old age. On the other hand an
amnesty might encourage further illegal entry. What now? Growling and
fizzing are not a program.

Dissident Righters can grind their hair and pull their teeth as desired,
complain endlessly of the very real difficulties of assimilation, but it
is the only practical real, even patriotic, solution.

Other Stuff

Regarding the attacks on the Saudi oil business: it is a miracle that it
hasn’t happened long before. A couple of decades ago, in my guise as a
tech writer, I wrote about Aerosonde, a European company that made small
unmanned airplanes, guided remotely or by GPS, for scientific purposes:
tracking whales, flying into volcanic calderas, that sort of thing.

The planes had, I think, a fifty cc motor and carried something like a
five-pound payload of cameras and whatnot. As a demonstration they
launched one from somewhere in Europe and it arrived within fifteen feet
of its destination somewhere in North America.

Big model airplanes are cheap, as are GPS receivers. Everybody’s
cellphone has one. Even five-pound charges going off on targets like the
US Capitol, control towers at airports, or other easily imagined targets
would raise hell. Terrorism for the masses. Well, someone seems to have
thought of this.

How do you defend against swarms of thirty-pound plastic airplanes that
cost a thousand dollars each? How many million-dollar (or whatever)
Patriot missiles do you expend against cheap targets before you run out
of million dollar Patriot missiles? Note that a country typically has
many, many more high-value targets than can be defended.

Write Fred at jet.possum@gmail.com

(9) White Privilege cf Jewish Control

http://www.unz.com/article/one-third-of-american-workers-pay-is-being-stolen-heres-how/

One-Third of American Workers Pay Is Being Stolen. Here's How

PAUL TRIPP o SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

If you’re a member of the working class, 1/3 of your pay has been stolen
from you.

You would think this would be front page news every day until the
problem is fixed. Not only is that a huge amount of money for a huge
portion of the country, but you would expect our left leaning media to
be all over this. There is no better evidence that capitalism, at least
in its current state, is failing. If the left actually cared about the
working class, if the wave of cultural Marxism that has spread through
academia and the media was actually about the plight of workers
oppressed by a distant and uncaring elite, no fact would be repeated
more often than this.

And yet, aside from a handful of articles – such as one from the New
York Times in 2011, and another from The Atlantic in 2015 – the issue
hardly gets mentioned by the media. And even when it is mentioned, it is
often editorialized in a way that distorts the problem and hides its
root cause, if not outright lied about by a media with an agenda that
has little to do with helping actual workers.

The evidence for the theft of 1/3 of the working class’ pay comes
primarily from a left wing think tank called the Economic Policy
Institute, and comes from a comparison of productivity growth in the
economy vs the average hourly pay of non-management workers. Their graph
shows that worker pay increased steadily at basically the same rate at
productivity from the 1948 until 1972. In 1972, productivity was up
92.2% from where it was in 1948 while the average worker’s hourly
compensation was up 91.3%. From 1972-3, productivity rose to 97.0%
higher than its 1948 value while pay fell to only 91.0% higher than it
was in 1948. Productivity and pay both fell from 1973-4, but
productivity rose again from 1974-5 while pay declined for another year,
widening the gap between productivity and pay growth to over 10% for the
first time since 1948, a gap which would never close again.

Pay then rose more slowly than productivity for the rest of the 70s,
fell during the 80s and early 90s, grew slowly again during the dotcom
boom of the late 90s when productivity grew far more rapidly, and
stagnated again for most of the 00s. Then from 2008-09, pay rose sharply
by almost 8% of its 1948 value. In other words, during the housing
market collapse, when wealthy investment bankers were losing a lot of
money (and before they got it back during the bailout), workers’ hourly
compensation jumped up faster than productivity for the first time in
decades – though not by nearly enough to close the gap, as productivity
had risen by more than 100% more than pay by 2008. After the bailout,
pay stagnated again, though according to many sources pay is increasing
under Trump at a faster rate than it did for most of the past few decades.

However, for some reason, both the Economic Policy Institute’s current
graph and the New York Times graph put a line through 1979 to divide the
era of regular pay growth and pay stagnation, despite the gap having
grown to about 15% by then. It would seem that 1972-3, when pay growth
stagnated and then fell for the first time in decades, would be a better
place to put the line – and indeed, that is where The Atlantic’s graph
(and some older versions of EPI’s graph) put it. Is there a reason for
this obfuscation? [...]

Other theories include the rise of automation, increased female
participation in the workforce, and corporate greed. [...]

There was a major change in the way our economy is run that occurred in
the early 1970s, just before worker pay stopped growing. That change
occurred in 1971, just before pay stagnated from 1972-3. From 1944-1971,
an international monetary agreement called Bretton Woods tied the value
of the dollar (and many other currencies around the globe) to the value
of gold, limiting the Federal Reserve and banking industry’s ability to
manipulate the money supply. During the Bretton Woods years, changes in
the money supply and value of the dollar were primarily driven by market
forces rather than by the decisions of bankers and economic elites. The
Bretton Woods years overlap so perfectly with the period when worker pay
kept up with productivity growth that the glaring lack of any mention of
it by any of the think tanks and media outlets – left, right, or center
– that have written about the gap between pay and productivity says a
lot about the dishonesty of our media and academics.

Is Federal Reserve policy really capable of causing such a major
economic shift? It certainly seems to be. [...]

It’s clear that Bretton Woods and the era when supply and demand ruled
the market coincided with the steady rise of worker pay, while the era
of Federal Reserve policy dominating the market has coincided with
stagnant worker pay and wealth redistribution to the rich. [...]

Remember that it was Paul Volcker who was both instrumental in ending
Bretton Woods, enabling the rise of the Fed’s dominance of the economy
and redistribution of wealth, and who oversaw the largest decrease in
worker pay in the past half century. There’s one other thing you need to
know about Paul Volcker, something that will help answer the question of
who controls Fed policy and where the money is going. Paul Volcker
shares something in common with four other recent Federal Reserve chairs
during the period of wage stagnation and with an extremely
disproportionate number of billionaires – Volcker was hereditarily
(though not religiously) Jewish. Arthur Burns, who became chairman of
the Federal reserve in 1970, the year before Volcker convinced Nixon to
end Bretton Woods, was the first Jewish Federal Reserve chairman since
World War 2 and ran the Fed through most of the 70s. Volcker took over
the Fed in 1979 and was followed by three more Jews in a row: Alan
Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and Janet Yellen. While it may be tempting to
blame ties to corporate or banking interests instead, only Volcker and
Greenspan had any history of working in corporate banking prior to
working at the Fed; Burns, Bernanke, and Yellen had mostly academic and
government advisory experience before their appointments to Federal
Reserve chair. Last year, Trump appointed the first non-Jewish Fed chair
since the 1970s, and that year was one of the best years for wage growth
since the 1970s.

Just how wealthy have the Jews become while controlling our central
bank, the most powerful financial regulatory agency in the country? Most
estimates of Jewish wealth (including Jewish sources) find that over 1/3
of American billionaires are Jewish in a country that is less than 2%
Jewish, meaning you’re roughly 20 times as likely to be a billionaire if
you’re Jewish than if you’re not. That overrepresentation is even
greater at the top, where 5 of the 10 richest Americans are Jewish
according to the Times of Israel. Coincidentally, Jews are
overrepresented among the billionaire class by about the same amount as
the portion of the working class’ pay that’s missing from their checks.
And according to one estimate, Jews were 23% of the billionaire class in
1987; that year, workers were losing about 20% of what they should have
been getting paid based on their productivity according to EPI, about
the same percent as Jewish overrepresentation among the billionaire
class. As the rich have gotten richer while the working class have
gotten robbed, the rich have also gotten more Jewish.

Of course, not all Jews benefit from the Fed’s theft of the working
class. Rather, it’s more likely that there is a Jewish financial cartel
in much the same way there are Mexican drug cartels, an Italian mafia,
Islamic sex slave grooming gangs and terror networks, and many other
gangs whose identity is based partly on ethnic and religious
affiliation. Volcker, as someone who both was and was not Jewish, was
the perfect patsy – he was ethnically Jewish enough to be part of the
tribe, but any backlash against him for his role in ending Bretton Woods
and reducing worker pay could be deflected away from the Jewish
financial cartel because he was a practicing Christian. Not all Jews
have to be a part of this financial cartel for the people responsible
for stealing 1/3 of the American working class’ pay to be Jewish, and
those that aren’t should be just as upset about the actions of those
that are as anyone else. While the idea of a Jewish financial cartel may
come off as conspiratorial to some, two of the biggest news stories of
the past year – Jeffrey Epstein and NXIVM – have been about Jewish
billionaires (the Bronfmans in the case of NXIVM) running pedophilic sex
slave trading networks which they used to blackmail and manipulate the
rich, famous, and powerful. It’s not much of a stretch to assume that
part of the reason why they needed those criminal networks was to help
cover up an even bigger ongoing crime.

But it is possible, if unlikely, that there is no Jewish financial
cartel. In that case, however, the resulting assumption seems much worse
for the Jewish people – that five different Jewish Federal Reserve
chairs simply happened to accidentally oversee the stagnation of the
American working class’ pay as Jewish investment bankers capitalized on
their fiscal policies after more than two decades of solid worker pay
growth under non-Jewish Fed chairs. If that’s the case, a five for five
record of screwing over the working class is more than enough evidence
that Jews should never be allowed near the halls of financial power in
the United States ever again. But, as many lower and middle class Jews
are hurt just as much by the financial theft that’s been going on for
decades, it would be far better to investigate the possible existence of
the Jewish financial cartel and focus our attention on the people
directly responsible for robbing a majority of Americans first, rather
than directing our ire at all Jews.

Regardless of whether or not this Jewish financial cartel exists, a few
things should be clear. First, the Federal Reserve needs a full audit
and investigation to determine how corrupt the institution has become
and whether they are directly enriching particular members of the
billionaire class or just accidentally creating the kind of economy
where rich and often Jewish investment bankers profit while the rest of
us stagnate. Second, we need to seriously consider changing our monetary
system, whether that means returning to a gold standard, a pseudo-gold
standard such as Bretton Woods, or some other form of stable currency
that limits the inflationary and wealth redistribution power of the
banking industry. Third, Jewish control of our financial (not to mention
political) institutions must be dismantled in much the same way our
Jewish media and academics talk about dismantling white privilege,
regardless of whether the problem turns out to be a specific criminal
cartel comprised mostly of wealthy and powerful Jews or whether the
problem turns out to be that the nature of the Jewish people is to
manage the economy for the good of investment bankers and upper
management, rather than for the good of the workers who produce and
distribute the things we all rely on to survive and thrive. Americans
deserve an economy that works for us as much as we work for it.