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Link – Anti-Semitism, Politically Malignant Narcissism, Fascist Manipulation

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry. I don’t mean a critical approach to Israeli policies or to the ham-fisted government currently in charge in this country, but a belief that to some extent the Jews of Israel are a symbol of the world’s ills, particularly those connected to nationalism, militarism, colonialism, and racism—an idea quickly becoming one of the central elements of the “progressive” Western zeitgeist, spreading from the European left to American college campuses and intellectuals, including journalists.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/ – 11/30/2014.

When it comes to Israel (and the “Joooooos”), manipulation may lay on the other side of conformance.

Related:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/01/israeli-watchdog-ngo-monitor-censored-by-ap-and-other-major-outlets/ – 12/1/2014.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348191/EXCLUSIVE-KGB-operation-seeded-Muslim-countries-anti-American-anti-Jewish-propaganda-1970s-laying-groundwork-Islamist-terrorism-U-S-Israeli-targets.html – 6/25/2013.

Pacepa, Ion Mihai and Rychlak, Ronald J. Disinformation. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013.

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Link to Recommended Review of Karen Dawisha’s _Putin’s Kleptocracy_

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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Dawisha takes Freeland’s realization one step further. She is arguing, in effect, that even before those nefarious rules were written, the system had already been rigged to favor particular people and interest groups. No “even playing field” was ever created in Russia, and the power of competitive markets was never unleashed. Nobody became rich by building a better mousetrap or by pulling himself up by his bootstraps. Instead, those who succeeded did so thanks to favors granted by—or stolen from—the state. And when the dust settled, Vladimir Putin emerged as king of the thieves.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/18/how-he-and-his-cronies-stole-russia/ – 12/18/2014.

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Vidlink – “The Regime in Syria Must be Pluralistic and Democratic” – Adunis

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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(Posted by MEMRI on YouTube 11/24/2014; interview date: 8/10/2014).

Update December 1, 2014: MEMRI Source Location

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4629.htm —

“#4629 – Syrian Poet Adonis: Progress Impossible in the Arab World without Separation of Religion and State
Sky News Arabia (U.K./Abu Dhabi) – August 10, 2014 – 04:24

Imprisoned in Syria in the mid-1950s as a result of his beliefs, Adunis settled abroad and has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature,[2] he has been regularly nominated for the award since 1988[3] and has been described as the greatest living poet of the Arab world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adunis

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Link – Cultural Genocide – West Papua Struggle – 2013 Report

30 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Papua New Guinea

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Responding to the uprisings which surrounded the 1977 general elections in Papua, several military operations were launched in the Papuan highlands around Wamena. The response caused a further breakdown in the Papuan–Indonesian relations which had fallen apart at that time. The operations resulted in mass killings of, as well as violence against civilians. The stories of survivors recall unspeakable atrocities including rape, torture and mass executions.  Estimations of the number of persons killed range from 5,000 up to tens of thousands. The research done for this report is consistent with these numbers, although restricted access to the area and ongoing intimidation of witnesses makes it difficult to confirm an upper limit of the number of victims.

http://freewestpapua.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AHRC_TheNeglected_Genocide-lowR.pdf (2013)

The Neglected Genocide – Human rights abuses against Papuans in the Central Highlands, 1977 – 1978

Related:

http://akrockefeller.com/media/the-road-to-home-documentary-about-west-papua-independence-leader-benny-wenda/ – 8/29/2014.

Despite assurances made to the contrary, there is nothing under the pacific sun that is new regarding Indonesia’s deadly and demoralizing tactics used to terrorize anyone who would dare exercise any small amount of press freedom.

http://akrockefeller.com/news/indonesias-message-to-journalists-report-on-papua-go-directly-to-jail/ – 9/15/2014.

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Link – Anti-Semitism – Lawfare

28 Friday Nov 2014

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If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will be open season on anyone who campaigns against anti-Semitism — any Jewish group, any pro-Israel group, even anyone who criticizes radical Islam. It is a national gag order, which will have the effect of silencing and punishing critics of anti-Semitism.

This ruling doesn’t just affect my rights. It’s a setback for freedom for everyone.

http://www.ezralevant.com/ive-lost-my-lawsuit-but-im-going-to-appeal-heres-why/ – 11/28/2014.

Links – Disinformation – Daily Beast, IB Times

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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At least two major media outlets have this week reported the shocking statistic that 40 percent of of Palestinian children detained in Jerusalem have been sexually abused by Israeli police. There’s only one problem – the statistic is entirely fabricated.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/26/exposed-us-media-outlets-daily-beast-and-international-business-times-publish-false-accusation-of-israeli-police-sexually-abusing-palestinian-children/ – 11/26/2014.

In this case, IMEMC lied, as it often does. And lazy, stupid reporters like Creede Newton and Tabatha Kinder repeated the lies of an anti-Israel propaganda outlet without spending five minutes to check the facts independently.

So we have Western reporters outdoing an already suspect “rights group” in libeling Israel because they cannot do the most basic things reporters are supposed to do. One would expect that a true reporter would at the very least check out who the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club is to begin with, and look up their actual report, rather than mindlessly parrot the lies of IMEMC.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/daily-beast-and-ibtimes-lie-in-report.html#.VHdcitLF98E – 11/26/2014.

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Link – Iran and Israel – Expressions of Courage Against the Installation of Fear

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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These days in our country, news is not good: to be a communist, to be a Christian (especially a Moslem converted to Christianity), to be a Zoroastrian or a Jew, to be a liberal or a secular … they are all castaway.

Even Moslems don’t have much security. The only accepted Moslems are those who are not reformist, not followers of Interuniversalism, not a Gonabadi Sufi, not an independent journalist, not a Moslem wanting separation of religion and politics, not an independent lawyer, and not anyone critical of state policies…

Indeed, with these designations, is there any Iranian who is safe from being detained for sure?

http://iranpresswatch.org/post/11197/ – 11/25/2014.

KGB/FSB –> VEVAK?

If it looks, walks, and talks like  . . . and jails, tortures, and murders . . . .

For reference on this blog, see the “Russian Section“.

What binds the courageous?

Quite possibly, the rejection of the bannered anti-Semitism of the piratical bastards who have infantilized, intellectually poisoned, suffocated and subjugated millions of their own constituents by lying — by way of deception and pandering — and by applying mafia methods in service to their own breathtaking criminal aggrandizement.

The world’s unrelenting focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an injustice to tens of millions of victims of tyranny and terrorism in the Middle East. As we speak, Yazidis, Bahai, Kurds, Christians and Muslims are being executed and expelled by radical extremists at a rate of 1,000 people per month.

How many resolutions did you pass last week to address this crisis?

http://www.factualisrael.com/full-transcript-video-israeli-ambassador-statement-unga-question-palestine/ – 11/26/2014.

The bond of the free?

Compassion | Empathy | Justice | Humility | Inclusion | Integrity

Perhaps a little courage helps as well, for today’s enemy of humanity has set out to destroy justice and hope.

Additional Reference

“One agents [STET] tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methods”.  Iran Focus, May 22, 2005.

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