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To: Thomas M. who wrote (9621)12/27/2005 12:02:20 PM
From: Emile Vidrine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 22250
 
Israel Seen as Paradise for Money Laundering

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In recent months, the authorities have been asked to investigate cash transfers linked to a $340 million insider-trading deal involving a Russian telecommunications company and to the huge money laundering scandal involving the Bank of New York. Last summer, the conviction of an Israeli crime boss in Miami for running a money laundering business for the cartel in Cali, Colombia, prompted renewed concern about the recycling of cocaine money here.

But the police and prosecutors here face an almost insurmountable problem: Money laundering is not a crime in Israel.

IT IS NO CRIME IT IS THE NATIONAL SPORT



To: Thomas M. who wrote (9621)12/28/2005 9:18:44 AM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
"No official in any country is above the law"
by Iqbal Jassat
(Wednesday December 28 2005 12:37:05 am)

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"...it is expected that Zionist lobbyists may invoke the usual refrain of “anti-semitism” in efforts to discredit the plaintiffs..."

If Gen Ya’alon had thought that retiring from the Israeli Defence Force after almost four decades of zealous military service, would allow him to gracefully spend his time without any cares, he miscalculated.

While in New York recently, his nightmare commenced when families of the victims of the Qana massacre charged him for war crimes and human rights violations in a US court.

The class action lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights [CCR] is in connection with the hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in the 1996 bombing of a United Nations compound in Qana, in the south of Lebanon.

Gen Moshe Ya’alon who retired in June 2005 as the IDF’s Chief of Staff, was then the head of the IDF Intelligence Branch, when the IDF deliberately and in clear violation of international humanitarian laws bombed a place crowded with civilians seeking refuge from Israeli attacks in neighbouring towns and villages.

CCR Attorney Maria LaHood said that despite knowing that hundreds of civilians had fled their homes to seek shelter at the UN compound, Ya’alon and the Intelligence Branch he headed then targeted its bombardment directly at the compound. “Almost ten years later, the hundreds of victims of the IDF shelling have an opportunity to seek justice.”

The April ’96 tragedy has become known as the Qana Massacre. In a military operation code-named “Grapes of Wrath”, Israeli forces directed the bombing, strafing and shelling of villages intended to force thousands of Palestinian inhabitants to flee their homes. The indictment alleges that forces under Ya’alon’s command were deliberately and wantonly attacking and killing internally displaced civilians in a clearly-marked UN compound.

This class action lawsuit in an American court follows an earlier charge –filed a week before – against a former Shin Bet chief, Avi Dichter for his role in dropping a one-ton bomb onto a residential block of flats in July 2002 which resulted in the death of a senior Hamas leader, Salah Shehadeh and fourteen civilians.

Both legal actions have been brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights in what is emerging to be a major setback for pro-Israeli pressure groups in the US. While it is expected that Zionist lobbyists may invoke the usual refrain of “anti-semitism” in efforts to discredit the plaintiffs, Judith Chomsky, a CCR Cooperating Attorney has firmly said that “No official in any country is above the law”.



To: Thomas M. who wrote (9621)12/30/2005 12:53:37 PM
From: Emile Vidrine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
Israel Uses Blatant Subliminal TV Techniques Against America

Ariel Sharon Proves How Israel Controls America
And US Vice President Dick Cheney does nothing to stop him…

Joe Vialls, 20 March 2002

On Tuesday US Vice President Dick Cheney visited Jerusalem. When he left America several days before, he was a man with a much publicized and very clear mission. Both sides in the Palestinian dispute were to be encouraged to desist from violence and sue for peace. Within 24 hours of his arrival, Cheney, representing the entire United States of America, was compromised and marginalized by the Israelis to the point where he looked and sounded like a village idiot.
Gone completely was his pride [and America’s with it], as Cheney announced that he would not be meeting Yasir Arafat unless and until the latter had implemented a truce. So, from America’s original declared position to talk to both sides about the conflict in Palestine, Cheney suddenly moved or was moved to a position where only the Israelis had a say.
It is of course complete lunacy to suggest that any conflict can be resolved evenly, if impossible pre-conditions are imposed on only one side. Perhaps most obscene of all was the very public way in which Ariel Sharon brought the US Vice President sharply to heel.
Using fairly crude subliminal techniques, Cheney was forced to take a visibly subordinate position at the news conference podium, and was then obliged to use two US marines in dress uniform to “help” him lay a wreath at some Holocaust memorial or other. Before explaining the significance of these actions, and for the interest of those not familiar with subliminal techniques, I am including four short paragraphs here from an earlier detailed report I wrote on the subject:
“Most readers have heard of basic subliminal suggestion, where an image is flashed on a movie or television screen so quickly that only the subconscious mind has time to see it. The technique was rife in the sixties, effectively culminating in an experimental version of the movie “Picnic” which was interlaced with subliminal messages at 1/3000th second every five seconds, alternately suggesting “Drink Coco Cola”, and “Hungry? Eat Popcorn”.
“Due to the embedded subliminal messages, Coke sales at the experimental movie house in Fort Lee, New Jersey, rose by a staggering 57.7 percent and popcorn sales rose by 18.1 percent. The frightening effectiveness of subliminal suggestion was thus proved scientifically, and American lawmakers promptly outlawed the techniques. After all, such techniques might be used by “The Commies” and had to be stopped to protect national security!”
“Legally thwarted in their ambition of directing human thought by use of subliminal input that could be detected by government inspectors, shrinks and psychologists alike searched the darkest recesses of their minds to find a way around the law.”
“This turned out to be easier than they initially thought, using a new technique known as “in-screen subliminal”. Basically what this means is that an object is placed in full view of the movie or television audience, but at the edge of their peripheral vision where the conscious mind is not focused. “
All subliminal techniques used during Cheney’s visit were of the “in-screen” variety, i.e. in full view but apparently secondary to the main event. Sharon and Cheney gave two news conferences, the first of which was at a Jerusalem hotel. You know the kind of thing: both speakers stand alongside each other at podiums of identical size holding their respective speech notes, while journalists shout questions at them.
Here there was a noticeable difference. Ariel Sharon’s podium was 30-40% larger overall [in all dimensions] than Dick Cheney’s, and also higher above the ground. This gave the unmistakable impression that Sharon was larger in stature than Cheney, and, by default, also more important. Under normal circumstances no red-blooded American would allow himself to be manipulated into such a blatantly subordinate position, but Cheney stood exactly where we was told. In short, the US Vice President showed all the public relations acumen and finely honed skills of a tethered goat in a paddock.
As yet I have not been able to isolate a video frame of these “rigged” podiums, which is a matter I will return to at the end of this report. However, this incident and the next gave huge credibility to Sharon’s claim broadcast by Israel Radio on 3 October 2001. At the time Sharon was berating Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Cabinet.
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
Next up came the obligatory visit to one of Israel’s many Holocaust memorials, where a figure wearing a shawl sings in a droning monotone while the awkward “guest” is obliged to dress up like a Jew and place a wreath next to an eternal flame. These many memorials are supposed to signify the hardship of the Jews during World War Two, while conveniently forgetting the 41 million Ukrainians slaughtered by Joe Stalin during roughly the same time frame. No one, it seems, gives a damn about the dead Ukrainians.
For Cheney’s visit at this most awkward juncture in history, things were just a little bit different. Instead of visiting by himself, Cheney had two tall and very impressive US Marine sergeants with him, in full dress uniform. First the Marines placed the wreath on the ground, then stood smartly to attention while Cheney bowed down to rearrange its position. It was at this precise point in time that the flashguns popped, creating a stark and everlasting image of the US Vice President bowing in front of the State of Israel. It was this subordinate image, and this image alone, that was peddled all over the world by the major news organizations.
Demeaning though the image may be in its simplest sense, it also has a much more profound meaning at the subliminal level. In every respect the two US Marine sergeants represent the entire United States military, standing as one behind the US Vice President, while he himself bows before the State of Israel.
The implications are obvious, especially as this was on the very same day that President Dubya Bush hinted for the first time, that US Forces might be deployed on Palestinian territory to assist the Israelis with their “problem”. Ariel Sharon was indeed correct when he told Foreign Minister Shimon Peres “We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
As things stand today, Israel has the US Administration firmly in its grip, and that Administration blatantly and obediently ignores more than 1000 Palestinian dead, many of them pulverized by Israeli heavy armor funded and provided by American taxpayers. Not only that. If Yasir Arafat leaves his own land in order to attend the Arab League Conference in Beirut, then almost unbelievably he may not be allowed back in by the Israeli occupation force. Reuters put it this way on 19 March:
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Tuesday Israel would give Palestinian President Yasser Arafat permission to leave the Palestinian territories and travel abroad if he implemented a U.S truce plan. Standing alongside visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney at a news conference, Sharon said this meant Arafat could be allowed to attend an Arab summit in Beirut later this month if he carried out the truce agreement known as the Tenet plan.
"I told the vice president that the implementation of the Tenet agreement will enable Mr Arafat to go outside the borders of the (Palestinian) territories and this has been decided by the cabinet," Sharon said. If the Tenet plan, drawn up by CIA Director George Tenet, is implemented, Arafat "may be able to go to Beirut. It's all a matter of days," Sharon said. He added that the Israeli government would have to decide whether to allow Arafat to return if his behaviour at the summit amounted to "incitement."
Many Americans might be wondering why George Tenet and the CIA are muddled up in this at all. Surely the Central Intelligence Agency is paid by US citizens to protect American national Security, to the exclusion of all others? Well yes, as a matter of fact it is, but there seems to be a small problem. The last time I checked, and this is nothing short of remarkably for a Christian country, the top five jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency were held by Jews. Under these extraordinary circumstances, it is unrealistic to expect George and his cronies to be even handed when dealing with their own kind.
Of the two known subliminal techniques mentioned above, the most subtle by far was the “mismatched podiums” at the news conferences, which may be why all full frame footage of the events has now been wiped off the news servers. This was “once only” subliminal, beamed at you in your living room quickly and efficiently. Once your brain had absorbed the unquestioned “superiority” of the Israelis, the footage was canned before you have a chance to realize you have been subliminally conned.
Because of this known technique, I routinely tape the news broadcasts every night, and then wipe the tapes later if there is nothing of interest. If there is something of interest I “grab” the frame with special computer equipment, and then post it on the Internet as a downloadable .jpg or .gif image. Or, to put it more accurately, I used to do this before our home was recently burgled and the entire computer system stolen.
This was not a random burglary by druggies looking for a quick fix, because there were more valuable and portable items in the house that were left untouched. Who took the system and why I would prefer not to speculate, but the theft has seriously hampered my work, because I simply cannot afford to replace it.
If anyone out there had a high speed IBM Compat Pentium 700+ with a video frame grabber [+ VHS PAL video recorder] they do not need, please send it to me at 45 Merlin Drive, Carine, Perth, Western Australia 6020. Email is homestead@bluemail.ch Normally I would not ask, but no one pays me for the work I do, so I can only hope there is someone out there who appreciates my efforts, and who may have loads of computer equipment (or cash) they do not need.
To the many religious fanatics and others who have sent me riveting emails promising very different and largely unwanted gifts including torture, a bullet through the head, bombs and other fascinating paramilitary exotica, please be sure to mark your packages “Hazardous Goods”, so that Australian Customs and Excise can immerse them in a bucket of water.

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