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July 23, 2006
THE BLOG IS BACK
Sorry about the downtime.
Posted by not sam at July 23, 2006 9:27 PM
Comments
woo hoo the bolg is back
i'm a super genius
Posted by: chole at July 23, 2006 9:38 PM
Call nine one one.
The Rajah is hyperventilating.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 9:53 PM
Frost !!
It's fascist media propaganda brothel
everywhere !
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 9:57 PM
yawn...
well there goes the neighborhood
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 10:03 PM
Geez, I never thought working toward
a cease fire bringing an end to death and
destruction would fall out of vogue, but
apparently war monger Bush Inc. fascists
like guts and blood on the street,
I'll play stupid, sure, OK, why not
the more dead bodies the better
they are like a compost pile for
a lasting peace.
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 10:08 PM
woo hoo the bolg is back i'm a super genius
Posted by: chole at July 23, 2006 09:38 PM
hahahaha!
Chole noticed that the blog was back on
I was like
Im going to wait a few, to see what's up
Chole is like, no way, be the first poster
Im like, um no. Only LOSERS would post this quickly...
He's like ok.
AND THEN HE POSTED.
My apologies...we share the same IP.
:)
YAY!
The bloggie is back! And Im right under Nobs
oh hee
Posted by: conbo at July 23, 2006 10:10 PM
The bloggie is back! And Im right under Nobs
oh hee
Posted by: conbo at July 23, 2006 10:10 PM
don't be getting fresh with me...it's too damned hot for any of that kind of nonsense
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 10:13 PM
LEBANON:
"UN and Other Humanitarian Agencies Step Up Relief"
----------------
Excerpts:
"As the number of people fleeing Lebanon rises along with the number of displaced people, the UN and other aid agencies are gearing up to assist the needy.
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR is planning a multi-million dollar operation for the region.
Two other UN agencies, the UN's Children's Fund, UNICEF, and the World Health Organisation, WHO, say they are planning to provide emergency medical kits to hospitals, as well as generators and fuel to hospitals and schools where displaced people in Lebanon are sheltering.
'Over-crowding in school shelters and lack of access to safe water poses a threat of acute respiratory infections, water-borne diseases and the spread of contagious diseases such as measles.
Urgent medical supplies and some nutritional support will be needed to support displaced families...as 400,000 people have fled their homes,' said a UNICEF statement."
==========================
LINKS:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54733&SelectRegion=Middle_East
To support UNICEF:
http://www.unicef.org/support/index.html
To support UNHCR:
Posted by: Star Vox at July 23, 2006 10:18 PM
It's fascist media propaganda brothel, posted by AJAX... SNIFF..SNIFF SMELLS like NAZI GERMANY BRO!
Posted by: khama at July 23, 2006 10:18 PM
"... direct talks with Syria would be pointless ..."
True, talking with Bush Inc. fascists
is a waste of time, the best you can hope for
is Bush Inc. making a joke about BBQ'd pig
and then rubbing your shoulders while
humping the back of your chair,
they do have a point.
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 10:19 PM
For masochists only....
There's a Brady Bunch marathon on TV Land til 6 AM (EST)...
Posted by: GG 4.33 at July 23, 2006 10:26 PM
SMELLS like NAZI GERMANY BRO!
Posted by: khama at July 23, 2006 10:18 PM
There is that heady aroma in the air
isn't there ?
It's a fine line between throwing civilians
into big ovens and encouraging your "ally"
to blow them into bloody, meaty, dead torsos.
But these days we let Bush Inc. war monger fascists
say that is the birthing process for a new
Middle East.
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 10:26 PM
For masochists only....
There's a Brady Bunch marathon on TV Land til 6 AM (EST)...
Posted by: GG 4.33 at July 23, 2006 10:26 PM
not unless you buy me dinner and then get me drunk first...
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 10:31 PM
Kind of a nice sociology test. Who are the most blog dependant? Was that message from Sam? Weening the pups off the blog? I love it!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 10:32 PM
Hey guys
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 23, 2006 10:34 PM
"... pin point attacks ..."
that blow up several city blocks
and the civilians in them, well,
I guess it depends on how big
the point of your pin is ?
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 10:34 PM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2006 10:32 PM
dependant?...No just looking for a break from working on my own site...how about you?
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 10:34 PM
!
Spoink!
!
tanks Mark!
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 23, 2006 10:41 PM
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 23, 2006 10:45 PM
'Mafia Cops' want out before retrial
Convicted "Mafia Cop" Louis Eppolito wants to live in his own home in Las Vegas if he is granted bail Tuesday by the federal judge who dismissed a large part of the racketeering case against him.
In court papers filed last week by his attorney Joseph Bondy, Eppolito, 57, is asking that he be released on his earlier $5 million bail package. Eppolito, and his former ex-NYPD partner Stephen Caracappa, 64, are seeking release following the stunning decision by Brooklyn federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein in late June to throw out the heart of the murder and racketeering convictions against them.
Despite the jury convictions of Eppolito and Caracappa for their roles in eight gangland murders, Weinstein found insufficient evidence to support the racketeering murder verdict.
Both defendants had been accused of working for the Luchese crime family while they were cops in the late 1980s. Weinstein said the statute of limitations for the conspiracy had expired. The judge also called for a retrial on a narcotics conspiracy charge.
Federal prosecutors are appealing the decisions and said they expect Weinstein to be reversed.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 23, 2006 10:50 PM
Notice Hitlers in head scarfs want help
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:51 PM
I wonder how many actors and comedians are Jews??
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:52 PM
Franken Jew?? Garaffilo Jew ??
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:53 PM
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Posted by: Star Vox at July 23, 2006 10:54 PM
This is the time libs run wild
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:54 PM
I guess jews in Hollywood should be dead LOL
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:56 PM
How is Shehaqn doing on that hunger strike LOL!
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:57 PM
Shehan dead yet LOL
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:58 PM
L@L,
My Conexant Soft56K V92 modem is still connecting (and apparently through-putting) at 26.4 Kbps.
A friend's laptop connected, variously, at 47 through 54 Kbps.
We ran a timed speed test on both computers via a freebie available on the net. It verified that mine was running much slower than his.
So. The lines are fine. The service provider is hunky-dory. Something in the software of my modem is corrupted or AWOL or sumthin'. We (and I) have checked the settings a zillion times and they seem to be correct. (Didn't delete/dis-install and reinstall the modem in Windows, though.)
We also messed around with the driver on my modem, removed and reinstalled the physical modem and ditched recent commands suggested by my Telco/ISP tech support geeks (all were chokers/slower-downers) but the performance is unchanged.
(Bait opens trench coat): "Wanna see my Modem Log?"
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 10:59 PM
Wanna see some pictures of the burnt bodies of lebanese kids sith101?
That'll cheer you up huh?
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:02 PM
ditched recent commands suggested by my Telco/ISP tech support geeks (all were chokers/slower-downers) but the performance is unchanged.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 10:59 PM
Cranky, get yourself a little clear ringing bell
and ring it above your computer, the ringing of
the bell will clear your computer's CPU and
allow it to process more clearly.
you can go here and play this for your CPU
and its modem:
Posted by: Ajax
at July 23, 2006 11:06 PM
(Bait opens trench coat): "Wanna see my Modem Log?"
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 10:59 PM
--
You picked up some spyware in your gay porn downloads. Need a quality anti-spyware prog. None of the cheapass crap you try to get by with.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:06 PM
Got any dirty pictures of your wife?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:09 PM
You picked up some spyware in your gay porn downloads. Need a quality anti-spyware prog. None of the cheapass crap you try to get by with.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2006 11:06 PM
the voice of experience chimes in
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:09 PM
Libs are like Hitler they hate jews
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:10 PM
No, but i can email you some of yours!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:10 PM
Air America people that are jews??
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:11 PM
the voice of experience chimes in
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:09 PM
Been there, done that. He's lucky that is all he got!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:11 PM
There are Air Americans that are Jews
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:12 PM
Got any dirty pictures of your wife?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2006 11:09 PM
No
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2006 11:10 PM
I'll sell ya some.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:12 PM
Got any Pics of Liberal holly Wood Jews??
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:13 PM
Libs are like Hitler they hate jews
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:10 PM
no really...wanna see the charred blackened corpse that are the result of Israeli bombing in Lebanon?
I've got all kinds of links for you
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:14 PM
I can't figure out how, or if, old modem logs can be referenced?
I remember a power outage a few weeks ago (sunny skies...one of those "out of the blue" blinkers) that shut me down.
It would be interesting to see when the faster connections ended and the consistently slow connections began.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 11:14 PM
I guess jews in Hollywood should be dead LOL
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 10:56 PM
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 23, 2006 11:14 PM
Got any Pics of self hating Holly Wood Jews?? Liberals LOL!!
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:15 PM
Ya cheap dumb bastard. It is spyware!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 23, 2006 11:15 PM
hee! spyware?
hahahahahahahahaa!
from using a gates OS?
(snicker!) linux pretty easy now...
has been for more than 3 years.
was a lil geeky before.
last malware in the
wild was 99 !
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 23, 2006 11:15 PM
Got any Pics of Liberal holly Wood Jews??
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:13 PM
You don't wanna see what the Israelis are doing?...Why is that?...
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:16 PM
Notice how far Ari America is going LOL!
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:17 PM
Savage has more listners then Air America LOL!
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:18 PM
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 23, 2006 11:15 PM
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:19 PM
Savage has more listners then Air America LOL!
Posted by: sith101 at July 23, 2006 11:18 PM
The lowest common denominator...
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:20 PM
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Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:21 PM
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 253
July 24, 2006 - Instant Massage Edition
It's a case of Prez Gone Wild this week as George W. Bush (1,2) gets fresh with his hands - and his veto pen. Elsewhere, Mike DeWine (5) fails to exploit 9/11 properly, John Gosek (6) goes to prison, and James Inhofe (9) explains global warming.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 23, 2006 11:34 PM
Hasta la vista baby
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 23, 2006 11:34 PM
Sith101's off his meds again.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 23, 2006 11:35 PM
It looks like the trolls were more eager than the regulars to get the blog back online.
I, for one, believe the blog should have a zero tolerance for racism, anti-semitism, etc.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 23, 2006 11:35 PM
this site is apache..it has been successfully attacked with denial of services attacks...
does that count as to what you are talking about Mr. Nobody?
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 23, 2006 11:38 PM
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 23, 2006 11:38 PM
newp
Posted by: Nobody at July 23, 2006 11:43 PM
>>It's a case of Prez Gone Wild this week as George W. Bush (1,2) gets fresh with his hands - and his veto pen. Elsewhere, Mike DeWine (5) fails to exploit 9/11 properly, John Gosek (6) goes to prison, and James Inhofe (9) explains global warming.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 23, 2006 11:34 PM
Damn, Bush is a freakin' whore! Marrying the Saudi Prince last year, now he's touching or kissing everyone he comes in contact with.
I suppose he's desperate for contact, what with his wife sedated most of the time.
Still, it's not like he's thrown up on anyone, like his daddy did to the Japanese prime minister.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 23, 2006 11:53 PM
Bush: 'Racism still lingers in America'
Bush Greeted by NAACP With Silence and Ironic Applause
Bush attends first NAACP convention after skipping last 5
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 23, 2006 11:56 PM
Hi SeaCat!
how are you?
I hope you are not mad because Miho stopped picking on you,
I told her to knock it off, you might not like the attention.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 23, 2006 11:56 PM
I can't figure out how, or if, old modem logs can be referenced?
I remember a power outage a few weeks ago (sunny skies...one of those "out of the blue" blinkers) that shut me down.
It would be interesting to see when the faster connections ended and the consistently slow connections began.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 23, 2006 11:14 PM
____________
[dr channels L@L]:
Are you still running on and on about yer damn who's on who modem down who first?
GEE-zus Kee-RIST, man.
All right. Lemme address this issue once 'n for all so's ever'thing's neat 'n clear.
Screw electron microscopes, K?
If you were to obtain, say, an atomic force microscope, and then, say, you patiently went to work examining every single cell in my entire fucking body -- right down to the single strands in my DNA -- you could not find, no matter how long you looked nor how hard you labored, the tiniest particle of atomic interest residing in me that gives a shit about your modem problems.
Hope that helps.
Your friend,
L@L
[diagnosis on the house; no charge]
Posted by: dr channels L@L at July 23, 2006 11:59 PM
Naw, I thought it was cute.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:01 AM
Konservative Talk Radio Host: You Were Right; I Was Wrong - Bush One of Worst Ever
After five years of carefully watching George W. Bush I've reached the conclusion he's either grossly incompetent, or a hand puppet for a gaggle of detached theorists with their own private view of how the world works. Or both.
Presidential failures. James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Jimmy Carter, Warren Harding--- the competition is fierce for the worst of the worst. Still, the damage this President has done is enormous. It will take decades to undo, and that's assuming we do everything right from now on. His mistakes have global implications, while the other failed Presidents mostly authored domestic embarrassments.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 12:02 AM
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 253
Posted by: Kevin © at July 23, 2006 11:34 PM
He insults and ignores customers, plus his shakes are LOUSY!
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 12:03 AM
in ther seattle PI's comment blog there is a poster named y `Peachinski'...
Hmmmm, I wonder...is there a connection?
SeaCat?
I'm looking at you!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:03 AM
wha....wha.....wha.... L@L is messing with Cranky's modem, and it's NOT the porn site Crank visits? Wow, I have been extremely misinformed. Guess you can't believe everything you read here on the blog.
BTW, who's the new "not sam"?
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:06 AM
By Doug McIntyre
Host, McIntyre in the Morning
Talk Radio 790 KABC
I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than Grant. I also believe a case can be made that he's the worst President, period.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 12:06 AM
Naw, I thought it was cute.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:01 AM
are you sure?
you've seemed a little distant lately.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:09 AM
>>`Peachinski'...
I wished I HAD thought of it, Chubby. I think it's YOU!
[eyes you right back]
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:09 AM
BTW, who's the new "not sam"?
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:06 AM
___________
Ahem.
Don't you mean not-not sam.
(I smell a round of knock-knock jokes in the offing.)
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 12:10 AM
I really don't understand how Carter can possibly rank as one of the worst presidents.
I mean, history proves his presidency was sabotaged by re[ublican insiders, CIA, etc.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:11 AM
>>, Chubby. I think it's YOU!
well, there IS a chubbybubba ther. and that guy's keyboarding is as bad as mine!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:13 AM
Hiya Nobs. You have an answer for the question yet? I figure its been about 40 hours, you should be ready to answer now.
Oh, and I would like to thank the nic stealing troll who thought they would answer for me after I left. I did find that amusing. :)
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:15 AM
>>>are you sure?
you've seemed a little distant lately.
Posted by: Ç????ÿ?ß???å???? at July 24, 2006 12:09 AM
====
No no no,
I was/am having some problems with my new macbook, which has to go in for repairs. Today I turned on my old emac, still reliable as always, and am blogging from that.
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with you (you know I adore you) or anyone else here.
If it did, I would say so.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:16 AM
Also last week I performed my first wedding ceremony, and spent quite a bit of time preparing for it.
What are you doing to keep cool, chubby? I envision you running through the neighbor's sprinklers, or setting up a slip and slide in your side yard.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:19 AM
"What we're seeing here ... are the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do, we have to be certain that we are pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one."
-- Condoleeza "completely abdicated my duty on 9/11, but somehow forgot to resign!; then bought shoes in NYC while New Orleans drowned! now I can't even figure out what my job is or why it's important!" Rice
...............
Rapture Ready forum re: "birth pangs" of Armageddon since 9/11
... Having told His disciples which characteristics would not indicate the end of the age, Jesus turned to the questions themselves; He begins with the third one about the sign that would mark the end of the age (Matthew 24: 7-8; Mark 13:8; Luke 21:10-11).
According to all three Gospels, the sign of the end of the age is said to be when nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. This act will be coupled with famines and earthquakes in various places, which Messiah clearly stated would be the beginning of travail.
The term travail means “birth-pang,” referring to the series of birth-pangs that a woman undergoes before giving birth.
The prophets pictured the last days as a series of birth-pangs before the birth of the new Messianic Age.
Yeshua is saying that the beginning of travail (the first birth-pang and the sign that the end of the age has begun) is when nation rises against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
.......
Posted by: digby at July 24, 2006 12:19 AM
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 12:20 AM
...or setting off fire alarms so sprinklers would go off.
Stuff I would do if I didn't have a basement to hole up in.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:21 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:15 AM
You've been answered more than once and refuse to acknowledge it.
I'm not going to play your "say my name" bullshit games muck...You lied and that's that.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:21 AM
>>I really don't understand how Carter can possibly rank as one of the worst presidents.
and if they want to go into all that malaise nonsence...have they ever considered all that `economic strife' was by design?
a little tantrum from big business, "How dare you regulate my industry, my polutants! HOW DARE YOU!!!
We'll have massive layoffs to prove our point! if you don't deregulate,RIGHT NOW, we'll hold our breathe till we turn blue! WE'LL LEAVE THE COUNTRY! WE'LL TAKE OUR TOYS AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!"
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:21 AM
If it did, I would say so.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:16 AM
OK, I know you aren't shy about such things.
more tact full than many around here. I truly admire that.
tact is kinda a new thing for me ;)
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:24 AM
>>According to all three Gospels, the sign of the end of the age is said to be when nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. This act will be coupled with famines and earthquakes in various places, which Messiah clearly stated would be the beginning of travail.
oh good grief, are people so freaking ignorant that they think nation's haven't risen up against nations ever before in the whole entire history of humankind?
Would these rapturist please name me a time when nations WEREN'T rising up against each other, or earthquakes and famines didn't exist?
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:25 AM
//I'm not going to play your "say my name" bullshit games muck...You lied and that's that.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:21 AM
//
I see, so you still refuse to answer the question. I don't dislike you Nobs, but I think you are in some weird warped little world of thinking. From what I have gathered from you over the last 2 years:
Israel does not have the right to exist...
The Holocuast is a great exagerration...
The Israelis were the ones behind 9/11...
The Israelis were behind this blunder in Iraq...
Al-Qaeda are Israeli agents....
The Israelis invaded Lebanon and that's why the soldiers were attacked and kidnapped....
The Israelis control world governments and banks and all the money and power...
Do you see a pattern here?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:27 AM
"Here's a news flash: Linux can be secure, but it by no means is always secure. A default installation of most of the common distributions will result in a hacked system in practically no time. Overworked or inexperienced admins don't install patches in a timely manner, if at all. They leave vulnerable services running when they're not needed. They use weak passwords or fail to change them regularly. The list goes on and on."
i was talking malware not vulnerabilities or bad Admin eh?
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 12:27 AM
//You've been answered more than once and refuse to acknowledge it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:21 AM//
I don't equate dodges with answers. Sorry if that's what you're used to. Homie don't play this shit.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:28 AM
(Coney Island-WABC, July 23, 2006) - Police have few clues in the mysterious murder of a woman in Brooklyn
The victim's body was discovered in a stairwell on the 10th floor of a building on Surf Avenue in Coney Island. Authorities say the woman suffered blunt trauma to her head.
There are no suspects in the murder. The victim's identity has not been released.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 12:28 AM
Also last week I performed my first wedding ceremony, and spent quite a bit of time preparing for it.
What are you doing to keep cool, chubby? I envision you running through the neighbor's sprinklers, or setting up a slip and slide in your side yard.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:19 AM
I have a top floor apartment that faces east...it was 90 in here before 9 am.
there isn't much I can do except open the windows and sit infront of a fan.
I envy your cool concrete basement coolness.
I'd lay one the bare concrete naked if I could.
No wonder I never get invited anywhere.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:29 AM
>>tact is kinda a new thing for me ;)
Posted by: Ç????ÿ?ß???å???? at July 24, 2006 12:24 AM
oh I didn't say I had tact. I would just tell you if you bothered me, is all. I know you are a decent guy, and would listen to me if I had something to say. That's the first thing. The second thing is I would say something because I don't see how I could expect you to read my mind.
If I thought you were a nutcase, I wouldn't bother. But, although we don't always see eye to eye on everything, I still value you enough to be honest with you.
I thought the Miho thing was really cute. And I really love your sense of humor.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:32 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:27 AM
I never said that israel has no right to exist
The holocaust may indeed be exagerated considering that the red cross reports attribute most deaths to yellow fever.
Not just the Israelis but to assume that they never do any wrong is insane. Israel has an insane right wing the same as we do.
No other country had any security interests in Iraq aka only Israel was threatened by Iraq...We certainly weren't.
Israel has been caught faking as Al qaeda more than once.
The Israelis did invade Lebanon before any soldiers were captured.
It's not just the Israelis but more those that do control those things.
Do you see a pattern in your denial of facts and mispresenting me? I certainly do.
I can link to everything I've said and all you have is to sit there and call me an antisemite and a racist all the while lying about my position.
You're a lowlife muck.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:35 AM
Do you see a pattern here?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:27 AM
News Consumer is posting stuff from the world weekly news...ya think he thinks thatpaper is legit?
I don't think Nobs believes everything he links, but likes to read a variety of stuff, maybe to keep abreast of what others are thinking?
anyway, I kinda like the blog better when people aren't getting their noses out of joint about stuff.
we all know nobody's pugnacious blogging style, probly best not to tease the guard dog,
and you, Nobs>
STAY!!!
Good boy. settle down,
If you are good we'll spray you with a hose later
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:36 AM
>>I'd lay one the bare concrete naked if I could.
No wonder I never get invited anywhere.
Posted by: Ç????ÿ?ß???å???? at July 24, 2006 12:29 AM
===
er...but remind me never to invite you to my basement.
Have you tried going down to the water below Lincoln Park? There's a really great park not too far from the junction called Lowman Beach. There's shade trees and grass... good place to keep cool.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:37 AM
It looks like the trolls were more eager than the regulars to get the blog back online.
I, for one, believe the blog should have a zero tolerance for racism, anti-semitism, etc.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 23, 2006 11:35 PM
I see the chatroom was down for quite a while and you were the last one to post...
thought maybe you snapped and killed everyone.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 12:38 AM
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:36 AM
Ummm...my sources on these subjects are quite legit.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:38 AM
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:32 AM
I think tact is something we generally notice when others have more of it than one's self.
unless, unless ne is a troll or a neo-con
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:39 AM
What are you doing to keep cool, chubby? I envision you running through the neighbor's sprinklers, or setting up a slip and slide in your side yard.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:19 AM
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(Even now, the Bubba is preparing a nearby hillside for the arrival of his eBay-purchased Boeing 707 surplus escape slide.)
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 12:40 AM
Man throws urine in construction protest
NEW YORK, July 23 (UPI) - A tenant at a New York City building is in Housing Court after throwing urine onto construction workers below his apartment, the New York Post reported.
Eric Fuchs, who has been in Housing Court many times for non-payment of rent, allegedly tossed his urine off the 10th floor balcony of his apartment to protest the construction below.
Condo conversion has been underway at 230 Riverside Drive, an elegant building with spectacular views of the Hudson. Recent renovations have made it possible to charge as much as $800,000 for a one-bedroom apartment .
The building was completed in 1930 before the skyrocketing of Manhattan real estate prices. Lately, the dust and noise from construction have generated complaints from many of the rent-control tenants, but Fuchs has definitely taken it the farthest.
"He hates the construction," one building employee said of Fuchs. "He's been battling it for a long time."
After police were called on several urine-dumping incidents, building management filed an injunction in Manhattan Supreme Court to prevent Fuchs from throwing bodily fluids or other objects from his balcony.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 12:41 AM
(Even now, the Bubba is preparing a nearby hillside for the arrival of his eBay-purchased Boeing 707 surplus escape slide.)
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 12:40 AM
It was a deal! Only Used Once!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 12:43 AM
//I never said that israel has no right to exist//
You did once about a year ago. I guess you'll only be happy when I go search through the blog to find it. You're going to find out I have a very good memory Nobs. Of course, you could dispell that all and tell me that Israel has a right to extist, but you haven't, and you won't. Will you Nobs? You can type it out. It might cuase you pain for a little while, but in the end won't you be happy to know that you have just acknowledged that all people have a right to exist?
//The holocaust may indeed be exagerated considering that the red cross reports attribute most deaths to yellow fever.//
And here we go....
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:43 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:43 AM
No muck I didn't...repost it then you lying son of a bitch.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:44 AM
But use it at your caution! it's a bitch to fold up after play!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 12:45 AM
and muck...I don't like and don't recognize your right to exist...
At no point did I ever wish dissolution on any people...perhaps indiiviiduals like yourself that should step the fuck off my planet but never any "group" of people.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:46 AM
what was it?
93 degrees?
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 12:46 AM
//News Consumer is posting stuff from the world weekly news...ya think he thinks thatpaper is legit?
I don't think Nobs believes everything he links, but likes to read a variety of stuff, maybe to keep abreast of what others are thinking?//
Yeah, ask Nobs about his linking to Louis Farrakhans web site on how it must have been the Jews that carried out 9/11. He was quite adamant about that being a legitimate source for his theory on the subject.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:36 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:46 AM
Ummm...my sources on these subjects are quite legit.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:38 AM
I wasn't talkin about this discussion particularly.
generally, I stop reading your discussions at the first sign of an insult.
once one of the gets loose, from you or the other guy, it goes down hill real fast.
It is a trigger, of sorts. the insults trigger an angry thing,disrespect, etc...It's normal reaction, I suppose, but I'm hoping to stay away from the anger, you've seen what happens when I am angery (note: see last 2 or three sheets)
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:46 AM
//Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:43 AM
No muck I didn't...repost it then you lying son of a bitch.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:44 AM
//
You can easily shut me up and get me to say I'm wrong about you with one little answer. Does Israel have the right to exist?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:48 AM
//The holocaust may indeed be exagerated considering that the red cross reports attribute most deaths to yellow fever.//
Do tell. Tell us how many Jews were murdered in the holocuast. You've done it before. Tell me again about the great exaggeration it is.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:50 AM
does Israel have some real assholes running it that are greedy and full of hate?
do most israelis have a balanced view with global perspectives?
better questions, closer to reality muckie...
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 12:51 AM
farakhan?...Nope...legit news services dumbfuck
Suspects `filmed New York atrocities'
There are reports five men suspected of being involved in the attack on the World Trade Centre set up cameras to record the atrocity.
Five Israelis detained for "puzzling behavior" after WTC tragedy
By Yossi Melman
FIVE Israelis who had worked for a moving company based in New Jersey are being held in U.S. prisons for what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has described as "puzzling behavior" following the terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York last Tuesday. The five are expected to be deported sometime soon.
Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence.
Five men detained as suspected conspirators,/a>
Staff Writer
ABOUT eight hours after terrorists struck Manhattan's tallest skyscrapers, police in Bergen County detained five men who they said were found carrying maps linking them to the blasts.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:51 AM
//Not just the Israelis but to assume that they never do any wrong is insane. Israel has an insane right wing the same as we do.//
I never said they don't have wacko parties within themselves. But you'll never say Hizbollah is a whacko party within Lebanon either, will you?
//No other country had any security interests in Iraq aka only Israel was threatened by Iraq...We certainly weren't.//
Iraq=The Jews did it.
//Israel has been caught faking as Al qaeda more than once.//
Al-Qaeda=Jews. Who was behind 9/11 Nobs? Say it again, you've said it before.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:53 AM
Do tell. Tell us how many Jews were murdered in the holocuast. You've done it before. Tell me again about the great exaggeration it is.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:50 AM
I posted links mucky that questioned the 6 million number mucky including the red cross report of the day...which you discarded out of hand...supposedlyy because the red cross is anti semetic.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:54 AM
official high was 95 today, probably neared 100 in the apartment this morning till I got the draft blowing through.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:54 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:53 AM
you're twisting shit muck...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:55 AM
//does Israel have some real assholes running it that are greedy and full of hate?//
They sure do.
//do most israelis have a balanced view with global perspectives?
better questions, closer to reality muckie...
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 12:51 AM//
Good questions Jimmy, but not when you're talking to someone who already has a hatred for a whole country.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:55 AM
Well, I'll just leave you boys to your fun/pissing contest.
I'm out~
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle at July 24, 2006 12:56 AM
But use it at your caution! it's a bitch to fold up after play!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 12:45 AM
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Caption: Airport personnel search for two rare, orange Anaconda's that escaped earlier that day.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 12:57 AM
I think to equate Jews with Israel is a mistake,
It is very concievable that Israel and the US teamed up to pull off 911.
whay is it so easy to think the neocons did it alone?
you should admit that the Zionists have as much to gain as anyone else.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 12:57 AM
But Adam Pearlmen is his REAL name! Adam is the grandson of the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993, much as AIPAC has been caught up in the more recent spy scandal.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:58 AM
//I posted links mucky that questioned the 6 million number mucky including the red cross report of the day...which you discarded out of hand...supposedlyy because the red cross is anti semetic.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:54 AM
//
Tell me again how many Jews do you think died in the holocaust? Ay one point you were on the verge of denial that it even happened. I was happy to see you quickly change your mind on that stance. So yellow fever killed most of them in those camps....Okay. So how many were killed by the Nazis?
Oh, and you might try to answer that whole does Israel have a right to exist question somewhere in there as well. I know it hurts, but you can do it.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:59 AM
Good questions Jimmy, but not when you're talking to someone who already has a hatred for a whole country.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:55 AM
I don't hate any country fuckface...You're really got to stop putting words into my mouth.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:59 AM
Oh, and you might try to answer that whole does Israel have a right to exist question somewhere in there as well. I know it hurts, but you can do it.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:59 AM
I don't and never have had a problem with israel existing you lying piece of offal...
I don't know why you think that it's kosher to stand here and lie your ass off without backing your shit up and then questioning me like you're the lord high inquisitor...
you're just a troll muck...that's all you are.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:02 AM
Ask Nobs on this as well...The whole world is saying, even Muslim governments, that Hizbollah went into Lebanon and took the soldiers. Will Nobs believe that? No. It must have been the Jews who invaded. He found three whole links from that day from some obscure news sources, but that was all it took to convince him. No matter what the rest of the world, or even Hezzbollah for that matter, have to say.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:03 AM
//that Hizbollah went into Lebanon//
Should've been "went into Israel"...
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:04 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:03 AM
back your shit up...link it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:04 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:51 AM
They actually talk about those guys in this ...Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
They were detained and found not to to be involved in any way with 9/11. Watch it yourself .. ya don't need to take my word for it.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:05 AM
Caption: Airport personnel search for two rare, orange Anaconda's that escaped earlier that day.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 12:57 AM
Hum ...[Wil scratches head .. wonders.. Is that where they came up with the idea for "Snakes on a Plane"???]
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:06 AM
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:07 AM
// don't and never have had a problem with israel existing you lying piece of offal...//
So you do acknowledge their right to exist? If so, I'll back off and say I am wrong then. And take back every nasty thing I've said about you. So, you are ackowledging they have a right to exist then?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:07 AM
They were detained and found not to to be involved in any way with 9/11. Watch it yourself .. ya don't need to take my word for it.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:05 AM
how did they know to set up the cameras that day?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:08 AM
So you do acknowledge their right to exist? If so, I'll back off and say I am wrong then. And take back every nasty thing I've said about you. So, you are ackowledging they have a right to exist then?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:07 AM
How about you just kill yourself instead?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:10 AM
//you're just a troll muck...that's all you are.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:02 AM
//
Why, becuase I disagree with "you"? This isn't the Nobs blog, you have your own personal little blog you can call that. Why are you so sensitive to call everyone who might disagree with you on something a troll? Weren't you the one who made the famous statement over here on herding cats?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:11 AM
Tell us how many Jews were murdered in the holocuast. You've done it before.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 12:50 AM
___________
There's Noah bizness like Shoah bizness.
Posted by: Simon Wiesenthal at July 24, 2006 1:11 AM
lotta BS about the Iz/leb blowup, this seems to be the straight shot on what happened recently:
"The coup attempt that started a war: Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, its causes and consequences. By Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar 16 July 2006 Posted: 20-07-2006 , 12:39 GMT
...On June 8, the Israeli army assassinated the recently appointed Palestinian head of the security forces of the Interior Ministry, Jamal Abu Samhadana, and three others. On June 13, an Israeli plane fired a missile into a busy Gaza City street, killing 11 people, including two children and two medics. On June 20, the Israeli army killed three Palestinian children and injured 15 others in Gaza with a missile attack. On June 21, the Israelis killed a 35-year old pregnant woman, her brother, and injured 11 others, including 6 children. Then came the Israeli capture of two Palestinians.
The next day (June 25) militants raided the Israeli army post at Kerem Shalom near Gaza and captured an Israeli soldier. They demanded the release of Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails in exchange for the Israeli soldier. Israel refused to negotiate and responded with an overwhelming show of force, destroying bridges, electric power generators, and generally, heavily damaging the civilian infrastructure of Gaza. Later the army invaded Gaza and cut it into half.
Now the stage was set for a Palestinian coup. Already by July 7th the news media were reporting of the Israel’s moves to remove Hamas by force. According to Israeli military analysts the move into Gaza and the arrest of Hamas legislators were the first step in an Israeli plan to induce the collapse of the Palestinian government. Among those arrested were eight members of Hamas' 23-member Cabinet and 20 of the 72 Hamas members of the 132-seat parliament.
... A later report by Jerusalem Post confirmed the cooperation of Mahmoud Abbas with the Israelis in staging a coup. According to Jerusalem Post, on Tuesday 12th July, Mahmoud Abbas had called an emergency meeting of dozens of top Fatah officials to discuss the taking over of the government. The meeting was called in the wake of Israel's military strikes in the Gaza Strip and the massive c
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 1:13 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006
Mucky...
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:13 AM
//So you do acknowledge their right to exist? If so, I'll back off and say I am wrong then. And take back every nasty thing I've said about you. So, you are ackowledging they have a right to exist then?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:07 AM
How about you just kill yourself instead?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:10 AM
//
Yeah, classic Nobs. Type it. You can do it! I'm rooting for you Nobs!
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:13 AM
Ihear it was 114º today in Hillboro OR.
I think that is down in waitng for cicero's neighborhood?
So I'm not going to complain too much about the heat.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:14 AM
Israel 'would accept' peace force
Israel has said it is prepared to accept a European peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon providing it is robust and has a strong mandate.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made the announcement after his government met envoys from Germany, France and the UK.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives on Monday for talks with Israeli leaders.
She said there was an "urgent" need for a ceasefire but that it was also vital that any such arrangement would last.
"It is very important to establish conditions under which a ceasefire can take place," she told reporters as she flew from Washington.
"It is important to have conditions that will make it also sustainable."
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:15 AM
if the majority report radio show folds
why does sam want to retain this blog
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:15 AM
------Gaza Strip and the massive crackdown on Hamas. Mahmoud Abbas, according to some of the participants, briefed them on the latest political and security developments and asked them to be prepared for taking over the power. “At the meeting, Abbas made it clear that Fatah would soon "resume its role as the defender of the Palestinian national interests" to fill the vacuum created by the Israeli crackdown on the Hamas government and its representatives. When Abbas talks about the "next phase," he is clearly referring to the post-Hamas era. He and his aides are certain that the time is ripe to overthrow the Hamas regime under the pretext that its presence in power is harmful to the Palestinians' national interests. With eight of its members imprisoned in Israel and the rest in hiding, the six- month-old Hamas government of Ismail Haniyeh has effectively been paralyzed”
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 1:15 AM
Nasrallah defiant
Israeli air strikes killed at least eight people in Lebanon on Sunday while rocket attacks on Israel by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah killed two people.
A senior United Nations envoy, Jan Egeland, has strongly condemned Israel's bombing of Beirut.
An Italian UN military observer was wounded during fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah inside Lebanon.
At least 362 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and 37 Israelis - about half of them civilians - have been killed since the violence erupted 13 days ago.
The crisis was triggered by the capture of two Israeli soldiers on 12 July by Hezbollah which is demanding a prisoner exchange with Israel. The Israelis withdrew from south Lebanon in 2000.
Israel has since vowed to destroy the group's ability to launch rockets at its territory.
But Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon would not succeed.
"Any Israeli incursion will not have political results unless it achieves any of the announced goals, most importantly to stop the bombardment of Zionist settlements," he told As-Safir newspaper.
"I assure you that this will goal will not be achieved."
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:15 AM
Do penitentiaries in Washington have air-conditioning?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:16 AM
Oh Fuck! Maybe it wasn't .. Shit! I watched that and then the documentary "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" on Cinemax on the same night.
It might have been there that they talked about those guys .. lemme see if I can find a video of that. It is a very good documentary. Talks about the fact a lot of the people who died at the WTC were Jewish ..
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:16 AM
//Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 01:13 AM//
Jimmy, if this was all about Gaza that would be a different story, and I'm sure the rest of the world would be giving world wide condemnation. Hizbollah has nothing to do with Gaza, or Sunni Muslims for that matter.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:16 AM
Crucial talks to open on Kosovo
Formal talks to decide the future status of Kosovo begin in Vienna on Monday involving political leaders from Serbia and Kosovo itself.
Kosovo, technically still part of Serbia, has been run by the international community since the end of the war in 1999.
These are the most important talks over its future since Nato bombing forced the Serb army out in 1999.
They are being brokered by United Nations Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari.
The prime ministers and presidents of Serbia and Kosovo will be present - the first time such high-level delegations have met since the conflict.
Both sides are expected to set out their future visions of the province and agree on a timetable for future negotiations.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:16 AM
Hey Willow,
There's a statue across the Hudson in Jersey City that has a nice view of the west side of lower Manhattan. That's where all those photo's were taken of the WTC on 9/11. There are bencehs and tables where people can sit and take in the view.
Out of frame to the right (south) are Liberty Island & Ellis Island. Farther south is Staten Island and the Verrazanno Bridge. Brooklyn is on the other side of Manhattan across the east river. Further north on the east side is Queens. The Bronx is to the north just above Manhattan.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 1:17 AM
THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON
http://english.bna.bh/?ID=47348
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:17 AM
well when we're not bickering,
we do have some dam fine bloggies,
thats why.
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 1:17 AM
Caption: Airport personnel search for two rare, orange Anaconda's that escaped earlier that day.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 12:57 AM
____________
Airline officials were quoted as saying: "Fortunately our airplanes have a fully stocked larder of rats, so we feel confident it's just a matter of time before we can stop sending in the search parties."
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 1:18 AM
if the majority report radio show folds
why does sam want to retain this blog?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:15 AM
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There's Noah bizness like Shoah bizness.
Posted by: Simon Wiesenthal at July 24, 2006 01:11 AM
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Next question?
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 1:19 AM
well when we're not bickering,....
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 01:17 AM
and when might that be?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:19 AM
Yeah, classic Nobs. Type it. You can do it! I'm rooting for you Nobs!
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:13 AM
Look...You lied...You will lie again...I do not like you...I was serious is my recommendation.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:20 AM
Hum ...[Wil scratches head .. wonders.. Is that where they came up with the idea for "Snakes on a Plane"???]
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:06 AM
the new FFA rflight regulations state I have to wear jockey shorts so that my trouser snake doen't get loose and startle the other passengers.
passengers like Samuel Jackson
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:20 AM
well,
i'm out til things get a bit more pleasant here.
good luck! love ya all
Posted by: Sunshine Jim at July 24, 2006 1:22 AM
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:22 AM
//Next question?//
why does sam want to retain this blog
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:22 AM
Next question?
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 01:19 AM
____________
I considered an islands-style nickname for Simon "Shoah Me the Money" Wiesenthal, but then declined.
I reckoned I had pushed bad taste about as far's it was improper for one post.
Posted by: dr (spreading bad taste out over many posts) at July 24, 2006 1:23 AM
does this blog exist for us
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:24 AM
If Sam leaves AAR I think it will just be a matter of time before this place is shut down.
He'll find new employment and have no reason to fart around with this.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:24 AM
Ihear it was 114� today in Hillboro OR.
I think that is down in waitng for cicero's neighborhood?
So I'm not going to complain too much about the heat.
Posted by: �ħűБъ�۞�űБъ�řąċħ at July 24, 2006 01:14 AM
*melting*
Yeah, that's where I live. Too hot to blog, just lurking by once in a while.
Gonna post the tunes I left at Shell's alt blog all at once, but I won't post anything for a while after, so that way you have time for 'em.
;)
Hope it's cooler in your neck of the woods, man.
---
Birdland, Manhattan Transfer
Lullaby Of Birdland, Ella Fitzgerald
Birdland, Weather Report
Unchained Melody, The Righteous Brothers
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Platters
Return To Pooh Corner, Kenny Loggins
Cheek To Cheek, Ella Fitzgerald (I think)
I Feel You (Live), Depeche Mode
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 1:24 AM
to tell the truth, Hezbollah's offer to drive the Israelis to the sea doesn't seem like such a bad thing on a hot day like today.
I wish someone woulda drove me to the beach today...
;P
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:25 AM
The whole world says that Israel is in the right?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:26 AM
how did they know to set up the cameras that day?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:08 AM
It was The Protocols of The Edlers of Zion" by Mark Levin .. sorry. Watched them within hours of each other.
As far I as remember .. the woman who called it in said they were celebrating .. or 'animated' jumping up and down on the roof of a van .. the cops came and took them away (this is the 5 young Jewish men I am talking about) and there wasn't any mention of cameras that I remember in the documentary. They were detained and then released and I believe sent back to Israel.
Lemme see if it is on On Demand for Cinemax .. if it is .. I can record it for you so you can see it. It was very interesting .. it also talked about the rise in the publication of the Protocols in Arab nations since 9/11. Apparently the popular belief over there is it was Israel who did it and Osama Bin Laden was innocent. Of course, that leads one to wonder if Israel was also responsible for the Embassy bombing and also the USS Cole attack?? (In case you are wondering .. I think not.)
See Muck .. this is why my grandmother's family fled Germany and converted to the Catholic faith when they got to America and never mentioned the Jewish backround until I dug it up when I researched her family tree .. to save me from being accused of being involved in 9/11. Now I am just complicit in the molestation of little boys ...
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:26 AM
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:26 AM
first I wouldn't put much stock in that elders of zion shit...second they left a lot out of the video obviously...have you considered reading any of the above posted links?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:27 AM
//The Protocols of The Edlers of Zion" by Mark Levin//
that was a great well-balanced documentary
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:28 AM
Posted by: dr (spreading bad taste out over many posts) at July 24, 2006 01:23 AM
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dr's spread: I Can't Believe It's Not Better.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 1:29 AM
It's not on from 2:50 AM to 4:30 tonight/this morning on ThrillerMax (why I don't know but I am just happy I found it!!) .. . I can grab a tape and record it for you if you wanna see it... Just let me know.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:30 AM
does this blog exist for us
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:24 AM
It's probably more like an advertising marketing survey the station uses to calculate audience size.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 1:30 AM
>>She said there was an "urgent" need for a ceasefire but that it was also vital that any such arrangement would last.
>>"It is very important to establish conditions under which a ceasefire can take place," she told reporters as she flew from Washington.
>>"It is important to have conditions that will make it also sustainable."
Funny how the our diplomacy lacked direction in all of this mess...until the Saudis told GW qhat to do...
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:32 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:32 AM
first I wouldn't put much stock in that elders of zion shit...second they left a lot out of the video obviously...have you considered reading any of the above posted links?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:27 AM
Mark Levin did it .. He's Jewish. I think I can trust him .. he's a homie after all. ; )
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that was a great well-balanced documentary
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:28 AM
I really liked it. I thought Mark Levin was very funny and did a great job with what was no doubt a very off-putting subject for him as a Jewish person.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:33 AM
"Sincerely hoping you don't let me down"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:33 AM
if the majority report radio show folds
why does sam want to retain this blog?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:15 AM
it is cheaper than hiring Crank as a joke writer...
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:33 AM
British anger at terror celebration
The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence
Israel celebrates the act of terror carried out against the British (and initially blamed on Arabs).
The British are understandably annoyed.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:33 AM
Britain bakes in a series of heatwaves, as corporate executives in the water industry pray for more of the same
Water is life. It is also money. Amid last week’s soaring temperatures, water also emerged from the shadows of other popular drinks to become one of the fastest growing commercial “brands” in the world. It may fall free from the heavens, but the sale of H2O is making people rich.
As temperatures nudged up to the 37C mark last week, executives behind companies selling bottle water metaphorically rubbed their hands in glee.
“For every degree the temperature rises above 14C, sales of water increase by 5.2 per cent,” said Richard Lamming, of the British Soft Drinks Association. “This means that at 28C sales of water double.”
He is not alone in praying for continued sunshine. Companies selling bottled water last week reported the biggest sales increase in the history of the industry – with 26 million bottles sold last week alone, a rise of 80 per cent on the same week last year.
Posted by: akaMAT at July 24, 2006 1:35 AM
I really liked it. I thought Mark Levin was very funny and did a great job with what was no doubt a very off-putting subject for him as a Jewish person.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:33 AM
The orignal source "the protocols" is a fabrication...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:35 AM
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 01:30 AM
THIS SHITS ME
all this 2nd guessing
no straight answers
(phoey)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:35 AM
It's not on from 2:50 AM to 4:30 tonight/this morning on ThrillerMax (why I don't know but I am just happy I found it!!) .. . I can grab a tape and record it for you if you wanna see it... Just let me know.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:30 AM
Oy! Proof-reading is apparently a lost art for me!
It's not on On Demand ... HOWEVER .. it is on from 2:50 AM to 4:30 AM tonight ... : /
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:35 AM
dr's spread: I Can't Believe It's Not Better.
Posted by: Crank Bait at July 24, 2006 01:29 AM
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Are you questioning the right to exist of my hot-cross puns, sir?
Are you saying they, like short people, got no reason to live?
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 1:36 AM
//Look...You lied...You will lie again...I do not like you...I was serious is my recommendation.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:20 AM
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Do you hate me now? O RLY? Does it kill you that much to say Israel has the right to exist? So let's hate it. How many Jews do you think died by the Nazis during the exaggerated holocaust? You've done it before, you can do it again.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:36 AM
Eleven per cent of all bottled water sold in the UK is "other purified water", otherwise known as "table water". This is effectively reprocessed tap water. The most notorious example of this was the failed attempt by Coca-Cola to market its Dasani brand of water. Once it became publicly know that the water was glorified tap water, sales dropped and the company quietly dropped the brand. Ms Jacobius admits that there are still restaurants that try to pass it off as natural mineral water and charge their customers a premium for it.
Manufacturers and retailers refuse to disclose the real costs of producing bottled water or their profit margins, but figures provided to The Independent on Sunday by Euromonitor show how profitable the business has become. In 2005, the total manufacturers sold their product for was £1.06bn. Retailers sold that product on to the public for £1.9bn - almost double what they paid for it.
Yet the millions of Britons buying bottled water may be best off sticking with tap water, according to industry commentators. Mary Carmichael, brand news editor at The Grocer magazine, said: "You are paying for packaging and image. The companies have done a very good job in giving an image to brands. It is still H2O at the end of the day."
However, data from market analyst Mintel shows that the proportion of people drinking bottled water increased from just over a third in 2000 to more than half in 2004. Since 1997, the average yearly spend per person on bottled water has more than doubled to £31.90.
Posted by: akaMAT at July 24, 2006 1:37 AM
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 01:33 AM
i'm serious
no cutsey-poo answers, please
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:37 AM
The orignal source "the protocols" is a fabrication...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:35 AM
Ya .. trust me .. I know. That and the pogrommes drove my Grandmother's family from Germany in the late 1800's! They came to America - converted to Catholicism and never looked back.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:37 AM
Note that after this incedent the propaganda campaign of "al qaeda in palestine" stopped dead...
Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs'
December 8 2002
Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday.
The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.
"The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the Palestinian territories," said the official, on condition of anonymity.
He said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (military) aggression in the Gaza Strip."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:38 AM
>>it is cheaper than hiring Crank as a joke writer...
What is minimum wage down ther in MO, Crankie?
well, that doesn't matter since Olld man Seder pays piece work. 10¢ a joke!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:38 AM
>> 10¢ a joke!
oh, crap.
now dr's going to expect a raise!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:39 AM
[one for star-struck garofalo-heads]
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Famous people caught in the act of being regular Joes
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:39 AM
["LOL SUNDAY!" continues]
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Country Songs for the Homeless
Including unforgettable hits like: "The Voices in My Head Told Me You've Been Cheatin'"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:43 AM
no cutsey-poo answers, please
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:37 AM
well, I must be on the wrong blog, then...
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:43 AM
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 01:43 AM
and no "SNARKS"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:44 AM
Ya .. trust me .. I know. That and the pogrommes drove my Grandmother's family from Germany in the late 1800's! They came to America - converted to Catholicism and never looked back.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:37 AM
What's more of an issue is that Israel is controlled by the same right wing mentality that we are controlled by...Matter of fact Israel is what this country will become if the right wing maintains power in this country...They feed their citizens a diet of fear and hatred from cradle to grave...
If I say that the US is doing wrong I'm a hater of americans...right?
If I say that Israel is doing wrong then I want the jews eradicated...wtf is with that?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:45 AM
//If I say that Israel is doing wrong then I want the jews eradicated...wtf is with that?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:45 AM
//
So, how many Jews died in the exaggerated holocuast Nobs?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:47 AM
I don't know about that jest.com website.
there's just something about it...
how do I know there news is fully veted?
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:47 AM
So, how many Jews died in the exaggerated holocuast Nobs?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:47 AM
Look it up ya freak.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:48 AM
i'm too depressed to jest, chubbs
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 1:50 AM
If I say that the US is doing wrong I'm a hater of americans...right?
If I say that Israel is doing wrong then I want the jews eradicated...wtf is with that?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:45 AM
pretty much more of the same.
watching meet the press this morning...who was it that said `we're all Isrealis now?"
He was a neocon, a W cabinet member maybe?
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:50 AM
How many Romani died in the holocaust muck and why don't you give a shit about them?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:51 AM
Josh Bolten, chief of staff
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:52 AM
Rural migrant worker sets himself on fire on Tiananmen Square
Sunday, July 23 2006 @ 09:13 AM PDT
Contributed by: WorkerFreedom
Asia
A rural migrant worker set himself on fire on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 20 July reportedly due to unpaid wages.
Wang Cong'an, a 53-year-old native of Jiangsu province in eastern China, doused himself in gasoline and set himself ablaze in the middle of this popular tourist destination at 8:44 AM on Thursday, according to the Agence France-presse which quoted a faxed statement from the local police.
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Paramilitary attacks University of Oaxaca
Radio Universidad de Oaxaca reports that a strongly armed paramilitary commando tonight tried to take radio facilities which covers the ongoing popular mobilizations in Oaxaca. The aggression was repelled and paramilitaries fled while shooting with intend to kill.
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Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 1:53 AM
Katyn Massacre Memorial Jersey City
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 01:17 AM
(Sorry for the horrifying delay!)
That's an amazing Scuplture - beautiful(in terms of it's precision of getting right to the heart of the feeling that day) and horrifying all at the same time.
I cannot imagine what it was like to see it in person that day, either across in New Jersey, on Staten Island, from Brooklyn or in the heart of Lower Manhattan. I was screaming in my living room .. I can only imagine what it was like occuring there in front of your eyes.
It breaks my heart to this day .. it really does. I lost one very close friend and alot of people I dealt with on a daily basis. (Might not seems like much - feeligs through non-physical contact .. but I feel he same way about you guys.) I knew about their families, births, deaths, about their marriages, good and bad, new cars they bought, new houses, who lived in Manhattan .. who had kids and lived in Brooklyn or in New Jersey. And watching them die on TV was horrifying enough. I cannot imagine I could have lived with actually seeing, hearing and smelling it in person. Frankly, I would have died from the memory after time. I find at times I can't even handle what little I saw on TV.
You are an amazing person, NC. God bless you for what you did down there.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:54 AM
A FACTUAL APPRAISAL OF THE "HOLOCAUST" BY THE RED CROSS.
No Evidence Of Genocide
One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).
Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:54 AM
In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day. So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 1:55 AM
MR. BOLTEN: The view of the president is that Israel has a right to defend itself, and that, in support of that, the administration needs to support U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which says that the democratically-elected government of Lebanon should control its entire territory, and Hezbollah should release its control, particularly of, of southern Lebanon. So the administration will support the efforts to put that Security Council resolution firmly in place.
MR. RUSSERT: But my question is does the president agree with the Israeli ambassador that Hezbollah should be totally eliminated?
MR. BOLTEN: It would be great if Hezbollah were, were completely gone, but the important part right now is that Hezbollah be put into a situation where they can no longer effectively threaten Lebanon’s southern neighbor, Israel.
MR. RUSSERT: But isn’t the United States encouraging Israel to eliminate Hezbollah? Have we not sent them accelerated, precision munitions and bunker, bunker-buster bombs?
MR. BOLTEN: We’ve got a long-standing military and diplomatic close alliance with Israel, so there shouldn’t be any surprise that the, the U.S. government is providing munitions to them. But...
MR. RUSSERT: But we’re accelerating the delivery.
MR. BOLTEN: I believe that’s correct, that the, the administration—more in the ordinary course of things, as the, as the Israelis have requested munitions—is providing them. But that’s, that’s the nature of the relationship. Remember, stepping back here, this crisis was created by a terrorist attack, ongoing now, by Hezbollah against the sovereign territory of Israel. We’re going to help our ally defend itself.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:55 AM
How can I look it up, when it's all a Jewish plot and exaggeration to you, no matter what the numbers say. I want to see your source and your numbers, FREAK.
You parrot a group I will not mention, but you sure do sound like. So how many died in the exaggerated holocuast Nobs?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:56 AM
MR. RUSSERT: Lawrence Kaplan in The New Republic describes this as a proxy war. And let me read to you his thoughts. “America’s proxy war. The administration views the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as a classic case of great-power brinkmanship—in this case, pitting the United States against Iran. ... The Bush team has spent many more hours encouraging Israel than constraining it. The administration, after all, has no more use for Hezbollah than Israel. ... The administration views [Hezbollah] as a crucial proxy for Iran.” Is this a proxy war?
MR. BOLTEN: I don’t think so. This is, this is a situation in which Israel is, is trying, I believe, to live at peace with its neighbors to, to protect its own territory and citizens, and the United States is going to support them in that. This is not, this is not a place to fight a proxy war against Iran, although Iran bears a substantial burden of responsibility for the, the despicable behavior of Hezbollah and needs to be held to account.
MR. RUSSERT: But it is day 12, the United States has not called for a cease-fire, the United States has accelerated munitions to Israel. Haven’t we given Israel a green light to go in there and destroy Hezbollah?
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 1:58 AM
A VAST auditorium being used to house emergency aid in Beirut lay empty last night as relief agencies criticised Britain and other Western countries for their lame response to Lebanon’s worsening refugee crisis.
Lebanese officials told The Times yesterday they expected to have to cope with 1.2 million displaced people — a third of the country’s population — as thousands more families fled their homes at the weekend.
The United Nations will make an urgent appeal today after a warning by Jan Egeland, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator, that Lebanon needed $100 million immediately to avoid “a humanitarian catastrophe”.
Fuel and emergency stockpiles of medicine are running low across the country.
At Beirut harbour, frustrated aid workers watched a flotilla of warships and chartered ferries sail in empty to pick up more stranded foreigners, lamenting that these ships could have carried drugs, blankets, tents and generators.
An Italian warship, the San Giorgio, delivered two ambulances, water purifying kits, protein biscuits and other supplies, and a French-chartered ferry Nato ration packs, but both still had acres of unused space on board.
Alexandre Giraud, who works for the French charity Première Urgence, said: “It’s a shame these huge ships come in so lightly loaded. Aid is very, very slow and the coordination on the ground here is a tremendous problem.”
Yesterday Israel rejected an ambitious plan sponsored by the UN to move thousands of tonnes of aid using three sea routes to the ports of Sidon, Tripoli and Beirut, a safe road corridor stretching from Syria in the north to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, and an air bridge.
Charities are finding it hard to hire truck drivers to carry the aid as they are scared that their convoys will be targeted by Israeli aircraft. The first Red Cross convoy to head to stricken towns in southern Lebanon at the weekend said that it had been fired upon.
Among those waiting on the dockside for the first trickle of aid to arrive was General Yahyeh Raad, the head of Lebanon’s Relief High Commission. “I don’t think the world has realised we need a lot of help and we need it now,” he said. “We ha
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:58 AM
The Spanish Anarchists, Through A Participatory Lens. by Dave Markland
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But what were these collectives and self-managed factories actually like? How was work organised and carried out? How was consumption organised? More to the point: What can the experiences of the Spanish comrades teach us about goals, vision, tactics and strategies? That is, before we adopt pages from the anarchist play book, we would do well to critically examine the contexts and outcomes of those plays.
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The Challenge of Mondragon by George Benello
In the Beginning . . . .
The Basque region of Spain has, in recent years, seen the rise of a system of cooperatives that is unparalleled in its dynamism, growth, and economic impact on a region. The system, which spreads throughout the surrounding Basque region, is named after Mondragon, a town in the mountains of Guipuzkoa Province near Bilbao, the place where the first cooperatives started. Since its start over thirty years ago, it has gained an international reputation, with similar models now being developed in England, Wales, and the United States. While its explicit connections to the anarchist tradition are unclear, the Mondragon system is an example of liberatory organization which, like its predecessors in the Spanish Civil War, has achieved success on a scale unequaled in any other part of the world.
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Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 1:58 AM
From Nobs link...
//The following post has status hidden:
A FACTUAL APPRAISAL OF THE "HOLOCAUST" BY THE RED CROSS.
by NoEvidenceOfGenocide • Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 at 7:09 AM
No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]
The Jews And The Concentration Camps:
A Factual Appraisal By The Red Cross.
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Do any of you actually read the shit this man posts? Or do you all just take what he says as gospel?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:58 AM
i'm serious
no cutsey-poo answers, please
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:37 AM
For the same reason I still cry about people I never met in person who died. People get under your skin .. you tend to want to keep communications open with them. You can't tell me that you don't think Sam doesn't read "The Days of Our Majority Report Lives"!!
We serialize this puppy .. we are gonna make "Desperate Housewives" look like puppet theatre! (Sorry ..I have to give you a cutesy answewr .. I am on the verge of serious assed tears here!)
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 1:59 AM
At an entertainment complex, built next to the city’s docks, wealthy businessmen gathered with Lebanese ministers yesterday to try to speed up the relief operation. In the cavernous hall three in the Beirut Exhibition and Leisure Centre, a few dozen pallets of food and medical aid lay in one small corner, a testament to how little help Lebanon has received.
Yesterday Mr Egeland visited a makeshift refugee camp in Sanayeh Gardens, one of Beirut’s biggest parks, and found that the conditions for the 1,200-plus people forced to sleep outside were squalid.
Many of the families complained that his 20-minute visit did little to ease their immediate suffering.
Hala Salloub, 21, sat on a pile of mattresses in the fierce sunshine shaking her head in despair as her two young children complained of feeling unwell in the scorching heat.
“I don’t know where my husband is,” she said. “He went to collect some more of our family. We left a message we were here so we don’t want to leave before he finds us, but it’s miserable.”
Mrs Salloub felt that Mr Egeland’s appearance would do nothing to ease her plight. The dozens of families crammed alongside her on the parched grass were similarly unimpressed by the aid effort.
The situation has become so desperate that even long-established Palestinian refugee camps are taking in people made homeless by the attacks.
Mr Egeland also visited Dahiyeh, a residential district and reported Hezbollah stronghold, south of Beirut’s city centre, and was stunned by the scale of destruction. The area had been pummelled by six more missile strikes in the first daylight attacks on the capital for several days.
Further south, Abdul-Rahman al-Bizri, the mayor of Sidon, said nothing had reached the city. “We have had no supplies — not from the rest of Lebanon, nor from other nations,” he said. “We are on our own.”
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 1:59 AM
I'm not done with you yet...
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 1:59 AM
MR. BOLTEN: Here’s what we said to Israel, is that we support Israel’s right to defend itself. We’ve also encouraged the Israelis to exercise the most extreme caution possible under the circumstances to minimize civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. And we’ve also tried to do everything we can to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis that your reporter was talking about at the top of the, at the top of the broadcast. That’s what Secretary Rice is going to be talking about. All of, all of those things, ameliorating the humanitarian crisis, getting a sustainable cease-fire, and then hopefully we can turn promptly to efforts—international efforts in assisting Lebanon with its reconstruction.
MR. RUSSERT: Ken Mehlman, who ran President Bush’s re-election effort in 2004, now chairman of the Republican Party, gave a speech on Tuesday to the Christians United for Israel. And this is what Mr. Mehlman said, “We stand for Israel because their war is our war too. ... Today we are all Israelis.” Does the president believe that this is our war?
MR. BOLTEN: The president believes that, that all freedom-loving people deserve support. That’s in Israel, in Iraq, everywhere around the world. And that all those who will stand with us to reject terror and support freedom deserve our, our support. And that’s, that’s our effort in the, in the Middle East. That’s our effort in Iraq and that’s our effort around the world.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:00 AM
LONDON - Iraq has completed repairs to one of two sabotaged oil pipelines that export crude from its northern fields to Turkey and aims to restart the flow this week, Iraq’s oil minister said on Sunday.
“We completed the repairs today,” Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told Reuters in London. “We hope to restart it very soon. This week.”
Shahristani is trying to restore Iraq’s dilapidated oil industry, the country’s main source of the hard currency needed to rebuild its economy.
The industry needs billions of dollars of investment to overhaul infrastructure and boost output after years of sanctions, war and mismanagement.
Iraq hopes to boost exports from the giant Kirkuk oilfields in the northern part of the country further next month when it will have completed repairs on the second parallel pipeline, Shahristani said.
The pipelines to Kirkuk have been mostly unusable due to sabotage since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Both pipelines were fractured in the most recent attack on July 9. The attacks forced Iraq to halt sales of Kirkuk crude from Turkey.
In the weeks before that attack, Iraq had sold 8.5 million barrels of Kirkuk crude from Ceyhan, boosting total exports to match their highest levels since October 2004 in June at 1.8 million barrels per day.
Iraq has tried to boost security along the line by placing it in the protection of the army. Prior to that, security was in the hands of a special dedicated force and attacks were frequent.
When the line is down, the country relies exclusively on exports of around 1.5 million barrels per day from its southern Basra terminal.
Iraq’s daily oil output is currently 2.5 million barrels per day, but it is aiming to boost production to 2.9 million by the year end and may even reach 3 million, Shahristani said.
“We aim for 2.9 million (barrels per day), and with a little bit of luck maybe we can reach 3 million,” he said.
The oil minister also said he was confident that a new hydrocarbon law that will allow foreign investment to flow into the industry will be passed by the end of the year.
“I can’t say exactly when it will pass bec
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:00 AM
Do any of you actually read the shit this man posts? Or do you all just take what he says as gospel?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:58 AM
look up the original red cross documents dickhead I posted those too and you walked right past them with your nose held high and your head up your ass.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:01 AM
Becuase it needs to be re-iterated:
//From Nobs link...
//The following post has status hidden: A FACTUAL APPRAISAL OF THE "HOLOCAUST" BY THE RED CROSS. by NoEvidenceOfGenocide • Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 at 7:09 AM
No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]
The Jews And The Concentration Camps: A Factual Appraisal By The Red Cross. //
Do any of you actually read the shit this man posts? Or do you all just take what he says as gospel?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:58 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:01 AM
MR. RUSSERT: But is Mr. Mehlman right? Is their war our war?
MR. BOLTEN: We are allies and we will support Israel in its—in exercising its right of self-defense, but at the same time we’ll do everything possible to, to make sure that, that the, the crisis there has minimum possible impact on, on civilians that, that can possibly be sustained.
MR. RUSSERT: But in terms of the Arab world when the chairman of the Republican Party, close friend of the president, says, “Today we are all Israelis,” what single message do you think that sends?
MR. BOLTEN: The message, the message it should send is that we will support freedom-loving people who reject terror and we are, we are doing that as much as standing by the Israelis as we are by standing by the free national unity government in Iraq who, who are, after all, Arabs.
MR. RUSSERT: So an attack on Israel is an attack on the United States?
MR. BOLTEN: Well, that’s, that’s generally true with respect to allies is that that’s the nature of an alliance, is that an attack on an ally has to be considered an attack on your ally as well. But like I say, that, that doesn’t apply exclusively to the Israelis. That, that applies to, to Arabs, it applies to our European allies and it applies to our allies all over the world.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:02 AM
Jerusalem - Israeli officials believe they have approval from the United States to keep up attacks on Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon for at least another week, an Israeli newspaper said on Sunday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to leave for the Middle East on Sunday for talks on resolving the crisis, but Israel's main ally has resisted growing calls for a ceasefire.
"Senior officials believe Israel has an American nod to continue operations against Hizbollah at least until next Sunday," the Haaretz newspaper said on its Web site.
U.S. officials in Israel were not immediately available for comment on the report.
Israel's onslaught in Lebanon to cripple Hizbollah, after the group abducted two soldiers from Israel on July 12, has claimed 355 lives, mostly civilians. Hizbollah attacks and rockets have killed 34 Israelis.
The United States has stressed the need to tackle what it sees as the root cause of the conflict -- Hizbollah's armed presence on Israel's border and the role of its allies, Syria and Iran.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:02 AM
Sunday 23 July 2006
Washington - The Democratic Party moved toward the most significant changes in its presidential nomination process in 30 years on Saturday, a rewriting of its election-year calendar for 2008.
The party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, in a decision that is likely to alter fundamentally the way the party chooses its nominee, voted for early contests in two new states - a caucus in Nevada and a primary in South Carolina. Party officials said the change was almost certain to be ratified by the Democratic National Committee next month.
The immediate effect would be to decrease the influence of Iowa and New Hampshire, the two states that have started - and some party officials argued, unfairly dominated - the nominating process since 1976.
The change was resisted by officials in New Hampshire, which would be sandwiched between a caucus on the Saturday before its famous primary and another primary on the next Tuesday. Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, warned in a private letter to Democratic officials that the state party might defiantly try to invoke a New Hampshire state law to move the primary earlier.
Republican Party officials said that they were watching the Democratic maneuvering closely, and that it was likely, but not certain, that Republicans would also change their calendar along these same lines.
The change was applauded by Democrats who have long argued that the current system gave too much power to two states that were economically, geographically and ethnically not representative of the nation. In turning to Nevada and South Carolina, Democrats said they were looking to give blacks, Hispanics and union members more of a say in the selection of the nominee.
By calling for contests in the West and the South, Democrats were looking forward to the general election of 2008, prompting candidates to raise an early flag in two regions of the country that are critical to the outcome of presidential elections, but where Democrats have been flagging. President Bush won Nevada with a 2.5 point margin over his Democratic opponent, Senator John Kerry, in 2004.
The cost, many analysts said, could be the los
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:03 AM
//No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]//
From your very own link Nobs. It looks like they've updated it for you.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:03 AM
NOURI AL-MALIKI, the Iraqi Prime Minister, will meet Tony Blair in London today to discuss the crisis in Baghdad, where the new leader’s much-touted security plan has failed to stem the bloodshed that is dragging the city to the point of breakdown.
As he flew out of his embattled capital yesterday at least 63 people were killed in bomb attacks and a dozen were shot dead in relentless drive-by shootings or kidnapped and murdered.
Mr al-Maliki, a Shia conservative who came to power in May, initiated his Baghdad security plan more than a month ago. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers flooded the city in a last-ditch effort to stop sectarian warfare that claimed more than 3,000 lives last month alone. Mr al-Maliki will meet Mr Blair, as well as Margaret Becket, the Foreign Secretary, and Des Browne, the Defence Secretary.
On Tuesday he will arrive in Washington to discuss with President Bush fresh ways of curbing the killing, including deploying additional US troops in the capital — a significant turnabout for the US military, which had hoped to move its forces out of Iraqi cities and hand over security to local troops. As the bombings demonstrated yesterday in the militant Shia Baghdad district of Sadr City and the tense northern oil city of Kirkuk, the country is still mired in violence that appears to be getting worse.
In Sadr City, a stronghold of the al-Mahdi Army militia led by the radical Shia cleric Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, a van full of explosives blew up at a market outside a police station, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 70.
Soon afterwards another bomb went off in front of the district town hall, killing eight more people.
Hours later another car bomb killed 21 people and wounded almost 100 in Kirkuk, a tense ethnic mixture of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen that is claimed by the nearby autonomous region of Kurdistan as its future capital.
The attacks appeared designed to provoke further violence. The Sadr City blast followed a night of fighting between US troops and Shia death squads believed to be affiliated to the al-Mahdi Army militia. After hours of gunfire the coalition forces freed two Iraqi hostages.
As well as the
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:03 AM
Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.
A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:03 AM
Do any of you actually read the shit this man posts? Or do you all just take what he says as gospel?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:58 AM
_____________
I take it as gospel. Yours, too, muck.
Tx. for asking.
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 2:04 AM
The gap between rich and poor is unfortunately an old story.
It is the stuff of parables and literature. It is a force in social history and political economy, from electoral campaigns to reform movements and revolutions.
But in the United States today, there's a new twist to the familiar plot. Income inequality used to be about rich versus poor, but now it's increasingly a matter of the ultra rich and everyone else. The curious effect of the new divide is an economy that appears to be charging ahead, until you realize that the most of the people in it are being left in the dust. President Bush has yet to acknowledge the true state of affairs, though it's at the root of his failure to convince Americans that the good times are rolling.
The president's lack of attention may be misplaced optimism, or it could be political strategy. Acknowledging what's happening would mean having to rethink his policies, not exactly his strong suit.
But the growing income gap - and the rise of the super-rich - demands attention. It is making America a less fair society, and a less stable one.
I. The Growing Divide
Anyone who has driven through the new neighborhoods filled with "McMansions" that have arisen near most cities, or seen the brisk business that luxury stores are doing, has an anecdotal sense that some Americans are making a lot of money right now.
But there is no need to rely on anecdotal evidence.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:04 AM
From your very own link Nobs. It looks like they've updated it for you.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:03 AM
the red cross is antisemetic?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:04 AM
Thomas Piketty, of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley recently updated their groundbreaking study on income inequality (pdf), and their findings are striking.
The new figures show that from 2003 to 2004, the latest year for which there is data, the richest Americans pulled far ahead of everyone else. In the space of that one year, real average income for the top 1 percent of households - those making more than $315,000 in 2004 - grew by nearly 17 percent. For the remaining 99 percent, the average gain was less than 3 percent, and that probably makes things look better than they really are, since other data, most notably from the Census Bureau, indicate that the average is bolstered by large gains among the top 20 percent of households. In all, the top 1 percent of households enjoyed 36 percent of all income gains in 2004, on top of an already stunning 30 percent in 2003.
Some of the gains at the top reflect capitalism's robust reward for the founders of companies like Microsoft, Google and Dell. But most of it is due to the unprecedented largesse being heaped on executives and professionals, in the form of salary, bonuses and stock options. A recent study done for the Business Roundtable (pdf), a lobbying group for chief executives, shows that median executive pay at 350 large public companies was $6.8 million in 2005. According to the Wall Street Journal, that's 179 times the pay of the average American worker. The study is intended to rebut much higher estimates made by other researchers, but it does little to quell the sense that executive pay is out of whack. As the Journal's Alan Murray pointed out recently, the study's calculation of executive pay is widely criticized as an understatement because, as a measurement of the median, it is largely unaffected by the eight or nine-digit pay packages that have dominated the headlines of late.
Rich people are also being made richer, recent government data shows, by strong returns on investment income. In 2003, the latest year for which figures are available, the top 1 percent of households owned 57.5 percent of corporate wealth, generally dividends and capital gai
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:05 AM
////No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]////
That doesn't bother you though, does it?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:05 AM
What's more of an issue is that Israel is controlled by the same right wing mentality that we are controlled by...Matter of fact Israel is what this country will become if the right wing maintains power in this country...They feed their citizens a diet of fear and hatred from cradle to grave...
If I say that the US is doing wrong I'm a hater of americans...right?
If I say that Israel is doing wrong then I want the jews eradicated...wtf is with that?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:45 AM
Well.. granted .. it;s really only important to me .. hence the long two part post on One More Meaningless Blog I did the other day about it. But .. still and all .. the teeny tiny amount of potential jewish blood in me would be enough to send my ass to the gas chamber if we were in Nazi Germany.
As for the American Hater bit .. no. I don't thinkthat makes you an America hater at all.
As for the Israel bit, I got into it with Muckie because I think what Israel is doing is fucking bullshit and they are way wrong. Again .. liek I said in my audio post at "Meaningless" .. no one can tell me it's cool to blow the shit out of innocent civilians when we are talking about the folks who tracked down the scumbags responsible for Munich. I am pissed off they can't use the same precision to strike at Hezzbollah rather than kill innocents.
So .. I am on your side .. believe it or not .. in the Is Israel way wrong debate.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 2:05 AM
//I take it as gospel. Yours, too, muck.
Tx. for asking.
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 02:04 AM
//
LOL!!!
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:06 AM
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think tank, compared the latest data from Mr. Piketty and Mr. Saez to comprehensive reports on income trends from the Congressional Budget Office. Every way it sliced the data, it found a striking share of total income concentrated at the top (pdf) of the income ladder as of 2004.
* The top 10 percent of households had 46 percent of the nation's income, their biggest share in all but two of the last 70 years.
* The top 1 percent of households had 19.5 percent (see graph).
* The top one-tenth of 1 percent of households actually received nearly half of the increased share going to the top 1 percent.
These disparities seem large, and they are. (Though the latest available data is from 2004, there are virtually no signs that the basic trend has changed since then.) The top 1 percent held a bigger share of total income than at any time since 1929, except for 1999 and 2000 during the tech stock bubble. But what makes today's disparities particularly brutal is that unlike the last bull market of the late 1990's - when a proverbial rising tide was lifting all boats - the rich have been the only winners lately. According to an analysis by Goldman Sachs, for most American households - the bottom 60 percent - average income grew by less than 20 percent from 1979 to 2004, with virtually all of those gains occurring from the mid- to late 1990's. Before and since, real incomes for that group have basically flatlined.
The best-off Americans are not only winning by an extraordinary margin right now. They are the only ones who are winning at all.
The result has been, as Andrew Hacker, a political science professor at Queens College, has observed in a recent article in the New York Review of Books, "more billionaires, more millionaires and more six-figure families."
As income has become more concentrated at the top, overall wealth has also become more skewed. According to the latest installation of a survey (pdf) that the Federal Reserve has conducted every three years since 1989, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans accounted for 33.4 percent of total net worth in 2004, compared to 3
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:07 AM
II. A Brief History of Income Inequality
While it has long been the case that the rich do better than everyone else, it has not always been true that, in the process, the poor get poorer and the middle class gets squeezed. In post-World War II America, between 1947 and the early 1970's, all income groups shared in the nation's economic growth. Poor families actually had a higher growth in real annual income than other groups.
Part of the reason was a sharp rise in labor productivity. As workers produced more, the economy grew and so did compensation - wages, salaries and benefits (see graph). This link between productivity gains and income gains was not automatic. Government policies worked to ensure that productivity gains translated into more pay for Americans at all levels, including regular increases in the minimum wage and greater investment in the social safety net. Full employment was also a government priority. And, of course, unions were strong back then, giving workers bargaining power.
From the mid-1970's until 1995, the trend reversed. The gap between the rich and poor widened at a rapid clip. The upper echelons - generally the top 20 percent of American households - experienced steady gains, while families in the bottom 40 percent were faced with declining or stagnating incomes.
The growing divide coincided with a slowdown in productivity growth and a reversal in the government policies that had been promoting income equality. Legislators balked at raising the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit, a feature of the tax code that rewards the working poor by ensuring that work pays better than welfare. During the "supply side" era in the 1980's, fostered by the policies of Ronald Reagan, taxes became less progressive. The goal of full employment was eclipsed by a focus on inflation fighting that remains to this day.
As trade began to play an ever bigger role in the American economy, manufacturing jobs diminished and labor unions declined, reducing workers' clout in setting compensation. Regulatory laxness reached its apex in the fiscal disaster of the savings and loan meltdown, which drained public resources from socially and eco
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:07 AM
Communist Party of Venezuela ready to provide leadership in 21st Century Socialism
Speaking at the opening of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) Twelfth Congress, Venezuelan Executive Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel says the debate on 21st Century Socialism is of vital importance.
Rangel maintains that activists attending the Congress must remember their commitment to President Hugo Chavez Frias, namely that the Party is not made up of some kind of bureaucrats but members who are active in a process that creates a political identity, an ideology and a spirituality.
New Socialism is an urgent task that needs attending, Rangel argues, especially now that it's time to deepen the revolution.
"If the debate is not fully assumed, then the revolutionary process runs the risk of suffering turbulence and could regress to an unacceptable state."
...
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:07 AM
Sunday, July 23, 2006
TEHRAN, July 23, 2006 (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday told arch-foe Israel to "pack up" and move somewhere outside the Middle East, the state news agency IRNA reported.
"I advise them to pack up and move out of the region before being caught in the fire they have started in Lebanon," said Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be relocated elsewhere on the planet.
Iran refuses to recognise Israel and opposes any two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ahmadinejad has in the past called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or relocated as far away as Alaska.
Israel launched its offensive in Lebanon on July 12 after Shiite Hezbollah militiamen captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in attacks on the Israel-Lebanon border.
The Jewish state is also continuing with its attacks on the Gaza Strip, with the aim of retrieving a soldier snatched by Palestinian militants and stopping rocket fire.
"Zionists have launched their own destruction by attacking Lebanon," Ahmadinejad added, while accusing Britain and the United States of being "accomplices in this regime's crimes".
Iran, like Syria, has been accused of financing and arming Hezbollah but has always maintained it only gives "moral" support.
On Saturday, Ahmadinejad lobbied Muslims to be more active in seeking an end to Israel's continuing assault on Gaza and Lebanon.
In a show of support, scores of young Iranian boys and girls staged a support demonstration opposite the Lebanese embassy in Tehran carrying Lebanese flag and pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:08 AM
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:09 AM
India sends two more warships to Lebanon to evacuate 850 more
Monday July 24 2006 00:00 IST
PTI
NEW DELHI: As Israel intensified Air attacks and mounted limited land incursions into Lebanon, India today stepped up the evacuation of its stranded nationals from the embattled country by sending in two more warships to pull out another 850 people.
With this the total number of people brought out of Lebanon by sea has risen to 1458. There were an estimated 12,000 Indians in Lebanon before the hostilities erupted.
Two naval warships INS Mumbai and INS Brahmaputra, which were moved in the Mediterranean Sea off the Lebanese coast on Sunday entered Beirut harbour to evacuate the second batch of stranded Indians. INS Mumbai, officials said docked at Beirut Port for the second time this week at 0830 hrs local time and sailed off for Larnaca, in Cyprus with 440 Indian nationals.
Indian navy has four warships in the Mediterranean Sea tasked to carry out the evacuation of Indian nationals and INS Mumbai missile-destroyer is the largest of the four.
INS Mumbai was followed into the Beirut Port by INS Brahmaputra, which was to embark another 410 Indian nationals still waiting to be evacuated. Naval officials said that because INS Brahmaputra was a smaller warship and if need arose another warship INS Betwa would be sent to pull out all the remaining evacuees.
Besides, this some Nepalese nationals could also be evacuated as there has been a request from Kathmandu to help evacuate Nepalese nationals in Lebanon. From Larcana in Cyprus Air India would bring the Indian nationals back home in special flights.
According to an Air India spokesman the airlines would be running special flights to Cyprus every alternate day to bring back the Indians to Mumbai, Chennai and New Delhi.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:09 AM
I think Israel has taken things way too far, but I'm also looking at what is making some tick one way or the other. Just becuase you reach the same conclusion, doesn't mean you got there the same way.
That's what I'm pointing out on Nobs, and sorry, he's going to call me a troll? He parrots the same beliefs as the neo-nazis, but I'm the troll?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:10 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:10 AM
A. The Tax Wedge
Tax cuts are the most obvious example. The Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center computed the combined effects of tax cut legislation from 2001, 2003 and 2006. The tax cuts' contribution to the income gap was significant.
In 2006, the average tax cut for households with incomes of more than $1 million - the top two-tenths of 1 percent - is $112,000 which works out to a boost of 5.7 percent in after tax income. That's considerably higher than the 5 percent boost garnered by the top 1 percent. It's far greater than the 2.5 percent increase of the middle fifth of households, and fully 19 times greater than the 0.3 percent gain of the poorest fifth of households.
The disparities are driven by tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the most affluent. In 2006, for instance, a tax cut took effect that allows high income households - those with incomes above $200,000 - to take bigger write offs for their children and other expenses, like mortgage interest on a second home. And increasingly, tax cuts are aimed at allowing America's wealthiest families to amass dynastic wealth - estates to transfer from one generation to the next virtually untouched by taxes. The most obvious example is the gradual reduction in the estate tax that is scheduled through 2010 (and regular attempts to abolish the estate tax altogether). Another huge, though lesser noted example, is the law passed last May allowing all Americans to shelter money in a tax-favored Roth I.R.A. Under previous law, Roths had been off limits to wealthy Americans, precisely because the government did not want to help people amass big estates under the guise of saving for retirement. That sound principle has now been turned on its head.
B. The Assault on Programs for the Poor and Middle Class
Tax cuts are not the only policies widening the gap between the rich and other Americans. Earlier this year, President Bush signed into law a measure that will cut $39 billion over the next five years from domestic programs like Medicaid and food stamps, and $99.3 billion from 2006 to 2015.
The president and the Republican Congress have also done harm to the fina
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:10 AM
WILLOW
you're all heart
a special kind of gurl
if i had a million dollars, i'd give you $10,000
*
and everybody else
ever heard of links
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:10 AM
Do any of you actually read the shit this man posts? Or do you all just take what he says as gospel?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 01:58 AM
I am a bitch for MSM .. or atleast moderately respectable Independent News Organisations. So .. unless it is from a source that I feel is reputable.. I take everything here posted with a grain of salt. Hell .. even some of what I post!!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 2:11 AM
>>(see graph).
or maybe one of the .pdf's mentioned?
the standad protocaol is to supply a link to the article somewhrte along the line...
I was a bad eexample with the Bolton/Russert story.
I didn't give a link until the 5th of 5 posts.
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:11 AM
C. The Too-Easy Answer
When confronted with evidence of growing income inequality, Bush administration officials invariably say the answer is more and better education. "We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap," said Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman, in a typical retort last January when tax data showed an increasing concentration of wealth among the highest-income Americans.
Education is critically important to individuals, society, the economy and democracy itself, and deserves strong government support. But it is neither a satisfactory explanation, nor a remedy, for today's income inequality.
There is a strong correlation between one's level of education and one's earning power. The Bush administration is assuming that the correlation will continue to hold in an ever more globalized economy. Writing in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve, explains why that view may be mistaken:
"Other things being equal, education and skills are, of course, good things; education yields higher returns in advanced societies, and more schooling probably makes workers more flexible and more adaptable to change. But the problem with relying on education as the remedy for job losses is that 'other things' are not remotely close to equal. The critical divide in the future may instead be between those types of work that are easily deliverable through a wire (or via a wireless connection) with little or no diminution in quality and those that are not. And this unconventional divide does not correspond well to traditional distinctions between jobs that require high levels of education and jobs that don't."
There is already evidence that the benefits of education are not as straightforward as many people seem to believe they are. In his review of "Inequality Matters," a collection essays commissioned by Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization, Mr. Hacker, the Queens College political science professor, cited findings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to show that many college graduates now hold jobs that once required only a high s
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:11 AM
Hind sight is 20/20.
I shouldn't of drank that many.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:13 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 02:11 AM
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:13 AM
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 02:13 AM
Too good!
:)
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:14 AM
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/history-holocauste-020205?opendocument
This appears to verify the above article doesn't it?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:14 AM
//doesn't say 6 million here...
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/TIMELINE/camps.HTM
or here
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p335_Nordling.html
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:10 AM
//
2 unknown resources from the internet? Okay, you have me convinced. The Jews and Russian and American soldiers made the whole shit up. Good thing you found some unknown resources on the internet to say it didn't happen. If you found it on the internet, it must be true.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:14 AM
Civil Rights Hiring Shifted in Bush Era
By Charlie Savage
The Boston Globe
Sunday 23 July 2006
Conservative leanings stressed.
Washington -- The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by the Globe.
The documents show that only 42 percent of the lawyers hired since 2003, after the administration changed the rules to give political appointees more influence in the hiring process, have civil rights experience. In the two years before the change, 77 percent of those who were hired had civil rights backgrounds.
In an acknowledgment of the department's special need to be politically neutral, hiring for career jobs in the Civil Rights Division under all recent administrations, Democratic and Republican, had been handled by civil servants -- not political appointees.
But in the fall of 2002, then-attorney general John Ashcroft changed the procedures. The Civil Rights Division disbanded the hiring committees made up of veteran career lawyers.
For decades, such committees had screened thousands of resumes, interviewed candidates, and made recommendations that were only rarely rejected.
Now, hiring is closely overseen by Bush administration political appointees to Justice, effectively turning hundreds of career jobs into politically appointed positions.
The profile of the lawyers being hired has since changed dramatically, according to the resumes of successful applicants to the voting rights, employment litigation, and appellate sections. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Globe obtained the resumes among hundreds of pages of hiring data from 2001 to 2006.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:15 AM
*
Who calls her two-faced? Faces, she has three:
The first inscrutable, for the outer world
The second, shrouded in self-contemplation;
The third, her face of love
Once for an endless moment turned on me.
*
=Robert Graves, The Three-Faced"=
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:15 AM
again why is this blog here
who does it serve
if it's for us
then we need a moderator...
"tax-spamming freak" - BOUNCE - ZAP - GONE
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:15 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:14 AM
You know what .edu means don't you?
University of South Florida
and the second is from
The Institute of Historical Review
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:16 AM
According to this book I'm reading, Robert Graves was "raging with grief and jealousy of imagined rivals.." when he wrote that poem.
It was about one of his muses, named Margot.
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:17 AM
That guy is smart, big and strong.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 2:17 AM
Assamese writer wins peace prize
New Delhi: Eminent Assamese wri-ter Dr Indira (Mam-oni Roysom) Gosw-ami has added another laurel to her credit. She has been awarded the prestigious "Ambassador of Peace" prize by the Interreligious and International Federation of World Peace (IIFWP) recently. She has also been nominated for the membership of the Mongolian Peoples’ Federa-tion for World Peace, South Korea.
...
"I hope to work for my fellow beings and offer all possible help in enabling them to lead a better life. I would definitely like to dedicate my life for the establishment of a culture of peace, transcending racial, national and religious barriers. I prefer a world of peace, where the spiritual and material dimensions of life are harmonised," avers Indira. The author has a series of new ventures, including novels and poetry books, in the pipeline. She is also very enthusiastic about the new chapters she is planning to add to her autobiography, Adha Lekha Dast-avez (An Unfinished Biogr-aphy), which is regarded as a masterpiece in Assamese literature.
"Writing is in my blood, in my veins. Without my pen, I will die. With it, I am a free bird, to fly anywhere, to be anyone and to understand anything. With my writing, I want to spread the message of peace and harmony," adds the author.
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:19 AM
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 02:17 AM
apparently, he penned the C&W sensation
"The Voices in My Head Told Me You've Been Cheatin'"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:19 AM
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/history-world-war-2-overview-020205?opendocument
start looking.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:20 AM
"The Voices in My Head Told Me You've Been Cheatin'"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 02:19 AM
Funny...that's like one of the only posts that has stuck in my head since I got here...
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 01:43 AM
:)
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:21 AM
doesn't say 6 million here...
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/TIMELINE/camps.HTM
or here
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p335_Nordling.html
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:10 AM
Non-Combatant Deaths in WW II ... from Holocaust History.Org
I think it is a good and trustworthy site.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 2:23 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 01:24 AM
And this one....
helloooo.... WFC... :)
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:23 AM
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 02:21 AM
you mean to tell me
that this gem:
//C. The Too-Easy Answer
When confronted with evidence of growing income inequality, Bush administration officials invariably say the answer is more and better education. "We are starting to see that the income gap is largely an education gap," said Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman, in a typical retort last January when tax data showed an increasing concentration of wealth among the highest-income Americans.
Education is critically important to individuals, society, the economy and democracy itself, and deserves strong government support. But it is neither a satisfactory explanation, nor a remedy, for today's income inequality.
There is a strong correlation between one's level of education and one's earning power. The Bush administration is assuming that the correlation will continue to hold in an ever more globalized economy. Writing in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, Princeton economist Alan S. Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve, explains why that view may be mistaken:
"Other things being equal, education and skills are, of course, good things; education yields higher returns in advanced societies, and more schooling probably makes workers more flexible and more adaptable to change. But the problem with relying on education as the remedy for job losses is that 'other things' are not remotely close to equal. The critical divide in the future may instead be between those types of work that are easily deliverable through a wire (or via a wireless connection) with little or no diminution in quality and those that are not. And this unconventional divide does not correspond well to traditional distinctions between jobs that require high levels of education and jobs that don't."
There is already evidence that the benefits of education are not as straightforward as many people seem to believe they//
slipped you by
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:24 AM
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 02:23 AM
I prefer the ICRC
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:25 AM
So how many Jews died in the Holocuast then Nobs? And while you're at it, go on to the theories why those several thousand had to die. Did you know that many other thousands of .edu's say the opposite? But you will ignore those, won't you? You found the one you want, and bygum, it must be the truth! You just know it was another jewish plot, don't you?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:27 AM
//I prefer the ICRC//
you fool
the ICRC is a breeding ground for jews, fags, & gypsies
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:27 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:27 AM
according to the international commitee of the red cross...it wasn't 6 million and it wasn't from gas chambers...it was from typhus and starvation...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:29 AM
According to this book I'm reading, Robert Graves was "raging with grief and jealousy of imagined rivals.." when he wrote that poem.
It was about one of his muses, named Margot.
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 02:17 AM
______________
Margot's whack cargo inspires largo poetic argot.
(Is that how the muses transfigure the crucible of suffering into poetic justice?)
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 2:29 AM
Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.
A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:30 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 02:24 AM
Ya. Everything but the capital letter "C" anyway...
BUT!
Not the second time..now it's been read and noted since you re-brought it to my attention....
:)
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:30 AM
//according to the international commitee of the red cross...it wasn't 6 million and it wasn't from gas chambers...it was from typhus and starvation...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:29 AM
//
Oh, I see. So that let's you feel a whole lot better about it, don't it? And where were they starved at? And again, how many would you say died in the holocuast? You've said it once before, it shouldn't hurt you to do it again.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:32 AM
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 02:30 AM
that was not my intention, for you to read it
my intention went awry
i've cut my own throat
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:32 AM
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 02:29 AM
HAHAHAHA... :)
Yes...I think..but I'll let you know for sure after I look up the word 'argot'...
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 2:32 AM
Nobs, I really want you to consider this. Who do you think you sound like? I see a few groups you seem to share the same beliefs with, and I'd like to think you're not part of any of them.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:34 AM
Willow,
have you heard about Will Ferrel next movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/
due in AUgust!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:35 AM
Oh, I see. So that let's you feel a whole lot better about it, don't it? And where were they starved at? And again, how many would you say died in the holocuast? You've said it once before, it shouldn't hurt you to do it again.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:32 AM
Why don't you read the links?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:35 AM
Willow,
have you heard about Will Ferrel next movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/
due in AUgust!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/trailers-screenplay-E27888-10-2
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:36 AM
Nobs, I really want you to consider this. Who do you think you sound like? I see a few groups you seem to share the same beliefs with, and I'd like to think you're not part of any of them.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:34 AM
groups like the international comittee of the red cross?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:37 AM
//Why don't you read the links?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:35 AM
//
You're obviously not. Why would you post a link to an article that has this preceeding it:
////No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]////
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:38 AM
You are an amazing person, NC. God bless you for what you did down there.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 01:54 AM
My response was stoic.
I was trying to get through the day, weeks and months that followed.
I'm from here and I was down there. I've lived here my entire life. I've seen other equally horrific events here.
There has been no consideration in seeking out for purposes of posting the most graphic, horrific and controversial aspects of the events surrounding that day. Yet out of consideration for some here I am reluctant to post stories relating the banality of violence that takes place here normally. I've related some that have been published.
The photo and narrative was meant to evoke an understanding that the entire landscape in context has national, historic and symbolic value. It was one of the most photographed places in the world both before and after 9/11. It's normal for people to have camera's here.
There are other sides to this city. Sides that are rarely photographed or discussed that go beyond what has reciently defined this city to the outside world. Those are the sides of the city that New Yorkers live and die with everday and are never used to define the life that exists here to the outside world.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 2:38 AM
groups like history professors?...
F. H. HINSLEY, Master of St. John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge. In his detailed research, using decrypted German reports from Auschwitz, sent to Berlin, he reveals the following
"From the spring of 1942 until February 1943 ... The returns (reports) from Auschwitz, the largest of the camps with 20,000 prisoners, mentioned illness as the main cause of death, but included references to shootings and hangings. There were no references in the decrypts to gassing."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:38 AM
//groups like the international comittee of the red cross?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:37 AM
////No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]////
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:39 AM
rickybobby.com
gotta git ta bed, yall!
don't stay up fighting, kids.
tomorrow is a school day!
Posted by: ÇħűБъÿ۞ßűБъåřąċħ at July 24, 2006 2:40 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:38 AM
Ya...you can call it what you will but it is factual.
You have a problem with facts or the internatioal comittee of the red cross?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:40 AM
////No Evidence Of Genocide [This article has status - HIDDEN - due to it's racist and anti-semetic content - Nazis fuck off! - TBIMC]////
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:39 AM
Yeah that sounds like a real scholarly appraisal doesn't it?
Let's ask a red cross historian...
Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.
A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:43 AM
goodnight, chubbs
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:43 AM
//groups like history professors?...
F. H. HINSLEY, Master of St. John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge. In his detailed research, using decrypted German reports from Auschwitz, sent to Berlin, he reveals the following
"From the spring of 1942 until February 1943 ... The returns (reports) from Auschwitz, the largest of the camps with 20,000 prisoners, mentioned illness as the main cause of death, but included references to shootings and hangings. There were no references in the decrypts to gassing."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:38 AM
//
Nobs, you're not stupid. Why do you keep making stupid posts? So reports from the Nazis at Auschwitz said the Jews were all dying from illnesses, therefore that must be true.
Nobs, you are really insulting my intelligence now. So now the Nazis are good credible sources for you? I think you've been brainwashed, and brainwashed but good. Where do you pick up all your anti-semitic crap? Did you go purposely seeking this shit out?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:45 AM
From the dept. of bitchy digs:
"Margot the muse" got me to 'memberin' the old dig by Margot Asquith (wife of then-prime minister Herbert Asquith) on movie-star Jean Harlow.
Harlow was at a dinner party and kept addressing Margot Asquith as Margo[T] (i.e. pronouncing the hard 'T').
After a spell, Margot hadda bellyful and said to her: "No Jean, the "T" is silent, as in Harlow".
Posted by: dr at July 24, 2006 2:45 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:46 AM
International Red Cross Accused of Being "Used & probably controlled" by German intelligence during WWII
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the Detroit Free Press, August 30, 1996, p. 6A:
WWII documents bolster Nazi-Red Cross connection
By Arthur Spiegelman
Reuters
CHICAGO -- The International Committee of the Red Cross, which prides itself on being nonpolitical, is accused in previously secret World War II documents of being used and "probably controlled" at its highest levels by German intelligence.
The U.S. intelligence documents allege that ICRC representatives worked as agents conveying military information to Berlin, even using U.S. diplomatic mail to get material out. They also allege Red Cross pouches were used to ferry German assets into Switzerland and the group itself was used to smuggle German agents across European borders.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:47 AM
I prefer the ICRC
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:25 AM
I am not so sure I do ...
Sounds like they were less than on top of the Holocaust... by their own admission. So the ascertion that they know what killed victims of the holocaust when they weren'te ven allowed in the camps to see .. well.. rings kinda hollow.
Secondly, hate to be the asshole here .. but nothing in this supports this statement: "
The holocaust may indeed be exagerated considering that the red cross reports attribute most deaths to yellow fever."
I don't doubt people died of other things in the overcrowded, horrifying filth of the camps. I am just saying I am certain that regardless of that .. the Nazis were clearly unconcerned and therefore complicit in the deaths .. by firing squad, gas, experimentation, starvation, hyperthermia, hypothermia, disease - both environmentally caused and no doubt medically caused however. The Nazi's clearly wanted the Jews dead and they did a stellar job killing anywhere from 4.1 million to 6 million depending on whom you choose to believe.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 2:48 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:49 AM
Why are you so quick to believe the Nazis?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 2:49 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:45 AM
the sign in front of Aushwitz says 1.5 million and they're debating whether or not that should be reduced further as evidence only supports that number...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:49 AM
Why are you so quick to believe the Nazis?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 02:49 AM
I never quoted any nazis...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:50 AM
The International Comittee of the Red Cross confirmed the article posted...In court and under oath.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:52 AM
what does my picture of the blog
have to do with nazi's
*
try to keep the blog on a sexy keel
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 2:54 AM
Posted by: Nobody
Wow. I didn't know that you are the west coast Malloy.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 2:55 AM
You are kidding me!
Thoth/muck4doo is still on about the Jews being driven into the sea by Nobody?
Thoth, what are you trying to prove?
Never mind, and don't answer that.
Its seems to me that if you can prove that someone anyone (in this case Nobody) is the biggest jerk in the world, then you can justify your own assholishness on the blog and chalk it all up to your reaction to the insufferable idiot
you must be forced to share this chatroom with.
Having been on the recieving end of one of your
campaigns, I think I know whereof I speak.
Get a life. (Let the name calling and insinuating
comments begin.)
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 2:55 AM
Wow. I didn't know that you are the west coast Malloy.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 02:55 AM
You have a problem with the International Comittee of the Red Cross too?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 2:57 AM
I never quoted any nazis...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:50 AM
//F. H. HINSLEY, Master of St. John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge. In his detailed research, using decrypted German reports from Auschwitz, sent to Berlin, he reveals the following
"From the spring of 1942 until February 1943 ... The returns (reports) from Auschwitz, the largest of the camps with 20,000 prisoners, mentioned illness as the main cause of death, but included references to shootings and hangings. There were no references in the decrypts to gassing."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 02:38 AM //
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:00 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:00 AM
"Master of St. John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:01 AM
The blog is effin' HOT! :)
Nice A/O....
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:01 AM
//Its seems to me that if you can prove that someone anyone (in this case Nobody) is the biggest jerk in the world//
I don't believe that is so. I just think he is sadly mistaken in this case.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:02 AM
All I can say is that I have never said anything about Jews AT ALL and you showed me the same
treatment of single minded obsesiveness.
AND made up stuff about me that was not true,
that I was harrassing you, ect.
Just putting a little perspective on the situation.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:03 AM
I don't believe that is so. I just think he is sadly mistaken in this case.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:02 AM
me and the international comittee of the red cross under oath in a court of law...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:05 AM
c&p this url -
http://0o-paraziitte-o0.c0wb0ys.org/1186441.jpg
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 02:49 AM
___________
Sometimes a cigar is just a penis substitute.
Posted by: Dr. Pretty-Boy Freud at July 24, 2006 3:05 AM
The 1944 Peace Prize: Aid to Political Prisoners
In his report on the ICRC's work for prisoners of war, Castberg described the Red Cross inspections in the prisoner camps in detail. He also pointed out that the ICRC never directed a protest to the governments of the Axis powers, although there were certainly grounds for one. Castberg accounted for the ICRC policy as follows: "The Red Cross must be assumed to have found it wisest to exercise the utmost caution in order not to risk a breach of relations with Germany, which would have meant a complete halt to ICRC activities in Germany and German-occupied areas."
Castberg used the same explanation in describing the role of the Red Cross in relation to civilian prisoners. Until mid-1942 the Germans denied the ICRC any intervention on behalf of this group, claiming that this was a police matter not subject to the provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1929. Not until the winter of 1942-43 did the Nazis allow civilian prisoners to receive Red Cross parcels containing food and medicine. These parcels brought succour to at least some of the concentration camp prisoners.
Research carried out in the 1980s has probed the ICRC's relationship to Nazi Germany in light of the extermination of the Jews. Shortly after the Nazis had adopted their "final solution" to the "Jewish question" at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, the leaders of the International Red Cross were informed of their plans. That same autumn the leaders of the ICRC deliberated on whether they should publicly condemn the atrocities, but they chose to remain silent. The ICRC maintained its policy of caution in relation to the Nazis until the war was over, presumably because a public condemnation could result in reprisals against civilian and military prisoners. Moreover, cooperation between the Swiss government and Germany could be endangered. At worst it could have provoked military action against the neutral country of Switzerland.
When the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was commemorated in 1995, the President of the ICRC, Cornelio Sommaruga, said that the organisation was fully aware of the gravity of Holocaust and the necessity of keeping its memory alive, in
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:07 AM
When the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was commemorated in 1995, the President of the ICRC, Cornelio Sommaruga, said that the organisation was fully aware of the gravity of Holocaust and the necessity of keeping its memory alive, in order to prevent its recurrence. He apologised for the errors and shortcomings that the Red Cross could be blamed for with regard to the victims of the concentration camps
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/libaek/index.html
Right out of the horses mouth. Does that satisfy you Nobs?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:09 AM
Sometimes a cigar is just a penis substitute.
Posted by: Dr. Pretty-Boy Freud at July 24, 2006 03:05 AM
ROTFLMFAO.
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:09 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:07 AM
so you're saying that the icrc were collaborators with the nazis now?
omfg that's hilarious...why don't you link that gem so we can see who's saying it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:10 AM
//AND made up stuff about me that was not true, that I was harrassing you, ect.
Just putting a little perspective on the situation.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 03:03 AM
//
Drop it Conbo, maybe I'll go look for your drunken mexican posts later, but i really don't want to continue this with you.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:11 AM
Okay .. just for the sake of finding out .. how did the Jews die in the comcentration camps?
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:11 AM
//omfg that's hilarious...why don't you link that gem so we can see who's saying it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:10 AM
//
Already did.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/libaek/index.html
Are you calling them liars?
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:12 AM
//Sometimes// you don't have to google "erotica" etc
sometimes an "0o" will do just fine
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:12 AM
This comprehensive account from an entirely neutral source incorporated and expanded the findings of two previous works: Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946), and Inter Arma Caritas: the Work of the ICRC during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). The team of authors, headed by Frédéric Siordet, explained in the opening pages of the Report that their object, in the tradition of the Red Cross, had been strict political neutrality, and herein lies its great value.
google away...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:13 AM
Yeah, ok, Im racist too.
Whatever.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:13 AM
Ah, and you all thought Sunshine Jim's "Spoing!" was just an innocent greeting, didn't you?
Posted by: Dr. Pretty-Boy Freud at July 24, 2006 3:14 AM
death to Jews and Mexicans!
Olay, Kvell!
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:15 AM
//Inaction of the Red Cross
The International Red Cross did relatively little to save Jews during the Holocaust and discounted reports of the organized Nazi genocide, such as of the murder of Polish Jewish prisoners that took place at Lublin that the Red Cross discounted. At the time, the Red Cross justified its inaction by suggesting that aiding Jewish prisoners would harm its ability to help other Allied POWs. In addition, the Red Cross claimed that if it would take a major stance to improve the situation of those European Jews, the neutrality of Switzerland, where the International Red Cross was based, would be jeopardized. Today, the Red Cross acknowledges its passivity during the Holocaust, and has apologized for this.[1]//
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_Holocaust
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:15 AM
//google away...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:13 AM
//
Link please...
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:17 AM
look, alls i'm saying is
if it doesn't involve serendipity
you can shove it up satan's ass
that's all i'm saying.
that, and...
connie's a dangerous schitzophrenic
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:18 AM
//The International Committee of the Red Cross reaffirms “open door” policy on its role during and after World War II
The International Committee of the Red Cross has reaffirmed its “open door” policy towards researchers looking into the organization’s role during the Second World War and its aftermath, following the resurfacing of reports in the media that Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele tricked the ICRC into issuing him a travel document.
The ICRC document, which Mengele obtained by using a false name in Genoa (Italy) in 1949, enabled him to escape justice and flee to Argentina.
The ICRC had already brought similar cases to light several years ago, when it publicly announced that Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie had also obtained documents by using false identities.
Writing in the International Herald Tribune on 10 March 1992, Yves Sandoz, Director of the ICRC’s Department of Principles and Law, wrote: “These men [Barbie, Eichmann and Mengele] and their secret supporters took shameless advantage of a humanitarian service which benefitted half a million people, mostly survivors of concentration camps and refugees from Eastern Europe.”
In the wake of the Second World War and the mass population movements it caused, hundreds of thousands of people found themselves without legal documents, and sometimes with no nationality. Many wanted to start a new life on another continent. The ICRC helped tens of thousands of these people by giving them travel documents in accordance with guidelines agreed with the governments concerned.
In a number of cases this system was abused.
“We are committed to dealing as openly as possible with painful and regrettable experiences from the past”, said Yves Sandoz today. “We would not be human if we did not feel at least some of the anguish that survivors of Mengele’s experiments and their relatives must have felt when they heard how this evil man managed to escape justice in the chaos of post-war Europe.”
Just over three years ago, the ICRC opened its detailed and extensive collection of archives to researchers. Since then more than 150 academics, journalists and students have consulted documents released un
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:18 AM
The Red Cross: Three-Time Recipient of the Peace Prize...
Funny that they got the nobel peace prize for their work isn't it? Also funny is that the article agrees with the article that I posted nearly verbatim...Also funny is this line..."Research carried out in the 1980s"
Here's from the article I posted...sound familiar?
The Report admits that the Germans were at first reluctant to permit supervision by the Red Cross of people detained on grounds relating to security, but by the latter part of 1942, the ICRC obtained important concessions from Germany. They were permitted to distribute food parcels to major concentration camps in Germany from August 1942, and "from February 1943 onwards this concession was extended to all other camps and prisons" (Vol. 111, p. 78). The ICRC soon established contact with camp commandants and launched a food relief programme which continued to function until the last months of 1945, letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:19 AM
omfg that's hilarious...why don't you link that gem so we can see who's saying it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:10 AM
Since no one bothers to read my fucking links anyway .. allow me to post this ...
François Bugnion, the ICRC's Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement, reflects* on the organization's failure to react vigorously to the persecution of Jews by the Third Reich.
"There are times for speaking, and times when one would prefer to remain silent.
Words fail us before these images, which reflect both infinite suffering and depths of horror and cruelty, just as words fail us when we visit the sites where memories of persecution and genocide are preserved: Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, Auschwitz ...
What these images convey, first of all, is the boundless suffering of the persecuted, whose tragic itinerary started with race laws and ghettos and ended in extermination camps, leading from social exclusion to despoilment, hunger, cold, humiliation, deportation, the torment of the camps and, finally, death.
What these images also drive home is the particular cruelty of the persecutors, their absolute contempt for human life and the total perversion of moral values that is evident in their organized killing.
And as a staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, one is of course forced to come to terms with the failure of an organization whose mandate is to protect and assist war victims. ..."
From the link I post above from 5/11/02
But what the fuck .. you won't read this either.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:20 AM
This is straight from ICRC Nobs:
The International Committee of the Red Cross reaffirms “open door” policy on its role during and after World War II
The International Committee of the Red Cross has reaffirmed its “open door” policy towards researchers looking into the organization’s role during the Second World War and its aftermath, following the resurfacing of reports in the media that Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele tricked the ICRC into issuing him a travel document.
The ICRC document, which Mengele obtained by using a false name in Genoa (Italy) in 1949, enabled him to escape justice and flee to Argentina.
The ICRC had already brought similar cases to light several years ago, when it publicly announced that Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie had also obtained documents by using false identities.
Writing in the International Herald Tribune on 10 March 1992, Yves Sandoz, Director of the ICRC’s Department of Principles and Law, wrote: “These men [Barbie, Eichmann and Mengele] and their secret supporters took shameless advantage of a humanitarian service which benefitted half a million people, mostly survivors of concentration camps and refugees from Eastern Europe.”
In the wake of the Second World War and the mass population movements it caused, hundreds of thousands of people found themselves without legal documents, and sometimes with no nationality. Many wanted to start a new life on another continent. The ICRC helped tens of thousands of these people by giving them travel documents in accordance with guidelines agreed with the governments concerned.
In a number of cases this system was abused.
“We are committed to dealing as openly as possible with painful and regrettable experiences from the past”, said Yves Sandoz today. “We would not be human if we did not feel at least some of the anguish that survivors of Mengele’s experiments and their relatives must have felt when they heard how this evil man managed to escape justice in the chaos of post-war Europe.”
Just over three years ago, the ICRC opened its detailed and extensive collection of archives to researchers. Since then more than 150 academics, journalists and studen
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:20 AM
Hey Willow,
Are you still around?
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 3:20 AM
Just over three years ago, the ICRC opened its detailed and extensive collection of archives to researchers. Since then more than 150 academics, journalists and students have consulted documents released un
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:18 AM
All of which Thoth discounts entirely...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:20 AM
connie's a dangerous schitzophrenic
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 03:18 AM
Why would you say something like that?
Thats really mean. I hope your joking.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:20 AM
Just over three years ago, the ICRC opened its detailed and extensive collection of archives to researchers. Since then more than 150 academics, journalists and students have consulted documents released under the 50-year rule.
René Kosirnik, the head of ICRC’s Working Group on the Second World War, said: “As an institution that seeks to learn from its past, the ICRC is keen to supplement its own research with independent, external scrutiny.”
In recent years, after being supplied with a list of aliases used by war criminals and high-ranking Nazis who arrived in Argentina, ICRC researchers have discovered that at least ten of them received ICRC travel documents by deceitful means. They include Erich Priebke, Erich Müller and Gerhard Bohne.
“This is not an exact science”, said René Kosirnik. “All we can do is check whether we issued travel documents that correspond to the aliases we have been given. Some correspond precisely, others less so. What is certain is that we will search our files as thoroughly as possible and address the issues that arise.”
ICRC
Press release 99/09
17 February 1999
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/0093543C447FB306C1256B66005D10BA
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:21 AM
Unions and Israel
A letter from a rank-and-file unionist to CAW's President by Joe Emersberger and Buzz Hargrove
July 23, 2006
To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers)
July 19, 2006
Buzz,
Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community - including Harper's government - to kill as many people as it likes.
The corporate media has sold people on the lie that the crisis originated with the capture of a single soldier by Hamas militants based in Gaza. As always, Israeli expansionism is ignored and it is depicted as acting in self defence..Israeli strikes killed scores of civilians in Gaza in the weeks prior to the capture of the Israeli soldier. The day before his capture Israel kidnapped two civilians from Gaza. Worse, since 2000 Israel has implemented a murderous siege on Gaza that has tripled malnutrition among children according to conservative sources such as the UN and the World bank. It is important to note that Israel's economic strangulation precedes both the election of Hamas and the so called "withdrawal" from the Gaza.
It is worth remembering that Israel funded Hamas during its early days to undermine the PLO. Israeli policy has consistently placed expansionism above security. Contrary to much fantasy that has not changed in recent years.
Please reconsider your stand on CUPE's call for economic sanctions against Israel. The labour movement should be taking action.
Joe Emersberger Local 1498
*************
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:22 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 03:20 AM
i'm not joking
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:22 AM
//All of which Thoth discounts entirely...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:20 AM
//
Read above.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:22 AM
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:21 AM
Which means that the icrc were nazis right?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:22 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 03:20 AM
i'm not joking
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 03:22 AM
ok...
Why would you say something like that?
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:23 AM
Read above.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:22 AM
the artcle I posted quotes those archives...and they've even verified those quotes under oath in a court of law...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:24 AM
//Which means that the icrc were nazis right?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:22 AM
//
They collabareted with them. They kept their mouths shut when they saw evil going on. Kind of like what you expect me to do here.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:24 AM
In the course of the war, "The Committee was in a position to transfer and distribute in the form of relief supplies over twenty million Swiss francs collected by Jewish welfare organisations throughout the world, in particular by the American Joint Distribution Committee of New York" (Vol. I, p. 644). This latter organisation was permitted by the German Government to maintain offices in Berlin until the American entry into the war. The ICRC complained that obstruction of their vast relief operation for Jewish internees came not from the Germans but from the tight Allied blockade of Europe. Most of their purchases of relief food were made in Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:25 AM
The Crime of Lebanon and Palestine ... are Iran and Syria next in line?
by Stephen Lendman
By any interpretation of international law, Israel today is committing massive and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity against the defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon.
It's doing it with the full support and encouragement of the United States of America and the willful compliance of the West, most of the Arab world, the UN and the dominant corporate media worldwide acting as cheerleaders for the mass killing, crippling destruction, and commiseration of innocent civilians in Lebanon and the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
...
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:25 AM
And not only did they keep their mouths shut, they helped them escape.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:26 AM
//Why would you say something like that?//
you said, and i quote:
"Let the name calling and insinuating comments begin"
well,
you said it
(i would have said it anyway, but that's another story for another time)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:27 AM
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:28 AM
the artcle I posted quotes those archives...and they've even verified those quotes under oath in a court of law...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:24 AM
*********************************
It might be Nice if you could link to the actual archives .. because the evidence I am getting AND POSTING from the ICRC is pretty much saying exactly what Muckie is saying. The Red Cross feels that it - ITSELF - is responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust.
To wit - "There are times for speaking, and times when one would prefer to remain silent.
Words fail us before these images, which reflect both infinite suffering and depths of horror and cruelty, just as words fail us when we visit the sites where memories of persecution and genocide are preserved: Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, Auschwitz ...
What these images convey, first of all, is the boundless suffering of the persecuted, whose tragic itinerary started with race laws and ghettos and ended in extermination camps, leading from social exclusion to despoilment, hunger, cold, humiliation, deportation, the torment of the camps and, finally, death.
What these images also drive home is the particular cruelty of the persecutors, their absolute contempt for human life and the total perversion of moral values that is evident in their organized killing.
And as a staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, one is of course forced to come to terms with the failure of an organization whose mandate is to protect and assist war victims. ..."
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:29 AM
It's wrong Nobs (your beliefs in what happened during the holocuast), and I think it's time for you to do a little soul searching and really look into what happened.
It was real, it was ugly, and millions died. It isn't an exaggeration, it wasn't a plot to get Israel and all that other crap the conspiracy theory nuts put forth.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:29 AM
They collabareted with them. They kept their mouths shut when they saw evil going on. Kind of like what you expect me to do here.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:24 AM
No actually I wish that you'd step off my planet because she has an overabundance of stupid...to be exact...Collaboration?...the ICRC is nazis?
You're nuts.
"at least ten of them received ICRC travel documents by deceitful means."
"Josef Mengele tricked the ICRC into issuing him a travel document."
"In a number of cases this system was abused."
"Mengele obtained by using a false name in Genoa "
"These men [Barbie, Eichmann and Mengele] and their secret supporters took shameless advantage of a humanitarian service which benefitted half a million people, mostly survivors of concentration camps and refugees from Eastern Europe."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:29 AM
dear mr. & mrs. god
smite anyone whose posts are not light & fluffy!
thank you
and if you can swing a vulva my way
that would rock
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:29 AM
The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits there in April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries was a relatively privileged ghetto" (Vol. III, p. 75). According to the Report, "'The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions. From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich ... These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy. . . two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit" (Vol. I, p . 642).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:32 AM
But I'm the bad guy for calling a spade a spade. I don't care if the whole blog gets mad at me. I will cal bullshit when I see it, no matter who's feelings get hurt.
I'm out. Good night yall's, love yall's, and even you too Nobs. I don't think you're a bad person, but I do think you've been badly mis-informed.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:32 AM
"Edward R. Murrow on Buchenwald 4/15/45" 10:43
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 3:34 AM
//Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:29 AM//
That comes directly from the ICRC. Knock yourself out and go look at it. Good night Nobs.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 3:34 AM
night, mucky
thanks for calling //a spade a spade//
that's all one can ask...
HONESTY!
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:34 AM
Cries of "Viva Fidel!" and "Viva Cuba!" could be heard when the Cuban president’s plane touched ground, and the local TV station broadcast the event live.
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:35 AM
Annabelle Lee
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know),
In this kingdom by the sea
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we.
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride.
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Posted by: Edgar Allen Poetry at July 24, 2006 3:35 AM
It was real, it was ugly, and millions died. It isn't an exaggeration, it wasn't a plot to get Israel and all that other crap the conspiracy theory nuts put forth.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:29 AM
War is always ugly and bad shit happens every time...Wanna take a good close look at what's gone on in the middle east these last 50 years and we can talk about atrocity?...Now tell me why you don't give a shit about the Romani?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:35 AM
Cuban, US and Honduran Doctors Work Together on Medical Brigades to Honduras
“This brigade set a new standard for Americans to build foreign policy,” said Camp. “We don't need George Bush to set our foreign policy. Here in California we are building a new foreign policy by expanding our cooperative efforts between Cuban and U.S. doctors and Honduran graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine.”
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 3:36 AM
That comes directly from the ICRC. Knock yourself out and go look at it. Good night Nobs.
Posted by: Thoth at July 24, 2006 03:34 AM
I did and I actually read it unlike you obviously.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:37 AM
I can't speak for the blog
(i have too many OTHER personailties too, apparently)
but the only reason you have been upsetting me, Thoth, is because before tonight anyway, you have been a first class jerk to me on the blog.
Im just calling a spade a spade.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:37 AM
Do you think that Fox news invented media manipulation?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:38 AM
"Edward R. Murrow on Buchenwald 4/15/45" 10:43
http://www.otr.com/ra/murrow_buchen.ram
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 03:34 AM
One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:39 AM
NOBODY
[consider this a job interview]
if you were moderator of the blog
what would you tolerate
(even when you're having a bad hair day)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:40 AM
Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:41 AM
NOBODY
[consider this a job interview]
if you were moderator of the blog
what would you tolerate
(even when you're having a bad hair day)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 03:40 AM
I don't want the job.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:43 AM
//I don't want the job.//
is that because...
YOU'RE A HOLOCAUST DENIER
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:44 AM
look up the bombing of dresden.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:45 AM
In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day. So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:46 AM
YOU'RE A HOLOCAUST DENIER
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 03:44 AM
Ya .. as it turns out... he is. The IHR is a Holocaust Denying Organization!
Jesus Fucking Christ. Unbelievable!
You fucking evil prick. Anti-semitic asshole.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:50 AM
I think Air O was being serious there.
(Or at least thats what personailty 34.b is telling me.)
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:53 AM
Atleast I feel better knowing I was posting the truth from the actual ICRC site and not bullshit from Holocaust deniers and proclaiming it as truth.
At first I thought I was wrong .. I wasn't looking at the right part of the ICRC site .. no .. it turns out I was.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:54 AM
ok, i've managed to subdue my gloom a tad
so if anybody wants me
i'll be in the "where there smoke there's fire & ono"
where that room might be
is anybody's guess
it might be over..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................here
or somewhere else
Posted by: a,ir-o,no at July 24, 2006 3:54 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 03:44 AM
No, I don't deny the holocaust...I question the scope and the cause.
War is a fucked up thing and atrocity still goes on and is still exagerated when it's your side suffering and minimalized when it's the other guy.
Evidence...Iraq.
I don't want the job of moderator on this blog because of the nature of this blog.
I believe in truth no matter how painful those truths may be.
Too many here are more involved with just feeling good and they'll eviscerate anyone that bums them out.
I wouldn't dare hold anyone to my own standards.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:54 AM
ok, nobody
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:56 AM
Atleast I feel better knowing I was posting the truth from the actual ICRC site and not bullshit from Holocaust deniers and proclaiming it as truth.
At first I thought I was wrong .. I wasn't looking at the right part of the ICRC site .. no .. it turns out I was.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 03:54 AM
Uhhh...wtf?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 3:56 AM
I think Air O was being serious there.
(Or at least thats what personailty 34.b is telling me.)
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 03:53 AM
Google this in whole Connie:
"The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits there in April 1945." from this post Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:32 AM
See where it takes you. Then google "The Institute for Historical Review".
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 3:57 AM
Um Nobs.
The halacaust was a huge big horrible hellish
thing.
People have written books to that effect.
Books that collaborate with each other and can be verified through evidence.
In Germany its a crime to deny the Halacaust or even play it down because thats what the Nazi's did at the time and still to this day do.
I would be careful with some of those sites.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 3:59 AM
sheesh, connie
i'm not the gospel truth
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 3:59 AM
it's called [looks it up in the dictionary]...
PERSIFLAGE (persi-flah'zh)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:02 AM
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 03:57 AM
That's from the ICRCs own docs...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:02 AM
Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.
A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).
Under oath...the quotes are accurate.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:05 AM
Nobody, for what ever reason, those sites are
not good information.
I have read and read and read on this subject.
One trick of the Nazi's was to have a good part of the camp for visitors. They knew damn well even the most racist people would not tolerate
how they were treating the Jewish people, who were civillians and not prisoners of war either.
Maybe thats what those reports were referring to.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:09 AM
Uhhh...wtf?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:56 AM
That's from the ICRCs own docs...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:02 AM
Right ... "The Myth of the Six Million"
"The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt (Terezin) up to the time of their last visits there in April, 1945. This large Jewish community, which had been concentrated under German auspices, enjoyed complete autonomy in communal life under a Jewish administration. The Jewish Council of Elders repeatedly informed the ICRC representatives that they were enjoying surprisingly favorable conditions when one considered that Germany was going down to defeat during a war in which World Jewry had been the first to call for her destruction. .."
From Google - IHR ... Institute for Historical Review
Site of the world's leading Holocaust denial organisation ... www.ihr.org/ - 102k - Jul 22, 2006
You are posting quotes from an organisation whose mission is to deny the Holocaust. Nice. No wonder I couldn't find this bullshit on the actual ICRC site!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 4:09 AM
Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946),
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:10 AM
Under oath...the quotes are accurate.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:05 AM
Sure .. to a warped fucking mind .. I bet they are.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 4:11 AM
You are posting quotes from an organisation whose mission is to deny the Holocaust. Nice. No wonder I couldn't find this bullshit on the actual ICRC site!
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 04:09 AM
No that's not tha article I'm quoting.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:12 AM
nobody
your zaniness is getting out of hand
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:12 AM
yah, Nobs.
This is a strange path you are on.
Its good to question.
But not the halacuast.
REALLY, really.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:13 AM
from the article I'm quoting...
The Report admits that the Germans were at first reluctant to permit supervision by the Red Cross of people detained on grounds relating to security, but by the latter part of 1942, the ICRC obtained important concessions from Germany. They were permitted to distribute food parcels to major concentration camps in Germany from August 1942, and "from February 1943 onwards this concession was extended to all other camps and prisons" (Vol. 111, p. 78). The ICRC soon established contact with camp commandants and launched a food relief programme which continued to function until the last months of 1945, letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2735
from the icrc...short history
A year later, the ICRC obtained authorization from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send food parcels to internees in the concentration camps whose whereabouts it knew of. It had details concerning about 50 deportees, to each of whom it sent a parcel, and during the summer it received acknowledgements of receipt countersigned by the addressees. The ICRC subsequently managed to find out where other deportees were interned and it expanded its parcel-sending operation. By 1 March 1945, the ICRC had details on about 56,000 deportees, and by the end of the hostilities, 105,000. From the summer of 1944 onwards, the organization supplemented its individual parcels with collective shipments. In total, up to May 1945 it sent over 122,000 parcels to the concentration camps.
http://www.themissing.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/359CC4EF8A1E5C72C1256B66005B2171
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:15 AM
Sure .. to a warped fucking mind .. I bet they are.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 04:11 AM
google it willow...The transcripts of this testimony were available...I posted the original some time ago on this blog...
Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately.
A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:16 AM
Nobody,
allow me to pose the following questions to you:
Did the government stage the first moon landing in a Hollywood studio?
Is Elvis Presley dead?
Is Barbara Olson dead?
Seriously.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 4:16 AM
//letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees.//
ok
then they were exterminated
where's the mystery
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:17 AM
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 04:16 AM
No
Yes
Probably
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:18 AM
//letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees.//
nobody reads this as: "then they had a party"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:18 AM
Tonguing you from...
Oops...no...
Night Night, Blog....see ya tomorrow...
XOXOXO
Posted by: A. at July 24, 2006 4:19 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:18 AM
"Probably."
Interesting.
Alright.
Posted by: Michael the self-actualized A-C at July 24, 2006 4:19 AM
No that's not tha article I'm quoting.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:12 AM
Well too fucking bad .. because you are professing this bullshit as truth .. Is this or is this not your post??
The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits there in April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries was a relatively privileged ghetto" (Vol. III, p. 75). According to the Report, "'The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions. From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich ... These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy. . . two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit" (Vol. I, p . 642).
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 03:32 AM
When you google that bullshit does it or does it not lead you here? The Myth of the Six Million.
Is the website or is the website not affiliated with www.ihr.org?? Is the Institute for Historical Review or is it not calling itself "Site of the world's leading Holocaust denial organisation" ???
You aren't going to turn the arguement around .. and you are not going to win. You are posting bullshit from a Holocaust denying organisation.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 4:20 AM
From the ICRC...
In October 1943, the International Committee of the Red Cross sent a delegate named Jean de Bavier to Hungary. On 17 May 1944, Friedrich Born arrived to take his place. Powerless to prevent it, they witnessed the wave of deportations to Auschwitz of almost all the Jews living in the provinces, which was organized by the SS between 15 May and 7 July 1944.
http://www.themissing.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/359CC4EF8A1E5C72C1256B66005B2171
from the article I site...
The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile. However, food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:21 AM
how's this scenario:
the jews received a tenth of the food parcels
which supplemented their crumbs & rat ribs
so it was a banguet for them
then they sent letters of thanks
& the germans distributed the 9/10's to there own
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:23 AM
XOXOXO
with a cherry on top, A.
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:24 AM
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 04:20 AM
I'm not arguing the conclusions of the author...I'm arguing the citations...big fucking difference.
I found and linked one of the original documents cited by that author...I am looking for the other.
I also noted the name of the ICRC official that testified to the accuracy of the quotations so that you could google it.
I believe that the Vatican also has supporting documentation if I remember correctly...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:25 AM
The letter thing-it was another trick of the Nazi's.
You can say a lot about Hitler, but he wasn't
stupid. Even though he did badly in school at times.
He just needed the right sort of stimulation
to get those juices flowing.
Nobody is qouting actual things that actually happened-but they were cover up tactics by the Nazi's.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:25 AM
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 04:20 AM
also if you look back over this blog when the orignal argument came up some time ago you'll find that I posted same material from an ICRC link...I'm looking for that again as well.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:27 AM
Nobody, that stuff you are qouting is criminal.
It really is.
I have no idea why in the hell you are giving it the time of day.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:29 AM
From the ICRC...
In the last days of the war, ICRC delegates were able for the first time to go inside the camps at Turckheim, Dachau and Mauthausen. They succeeded in preventing last-minute executions, and negotiated the surrender of the camps on the arrival of the Allied forces. The ICRC delegate at Mauthausen, Louis Haefliger, managed to get an order revoked, thereby preventing the underground aviation factory at Gusen (which was part of the camp) from being blown up, together with the 40,000 or so detainees who were in it.
http://www.themissing.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/359CC4EF8A1E5C72C1256B66005B2171
from the article I site...
One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).
Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:32 AM
I'm not arguing the conclusions of the author...I'm arguing the citations...big fucking difference.
I found and linked one of the original documents cited by that author...I am looking for the other.
I also noted the name of the ICRC official that testified to the accuracy of the quotations so that you could google it.
I believe that the Vatican also has supporting documentation if I remember correctly...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:25 AM
Oh give me a motherfucking break, would you? Do I strike you are particularly stupid?
You most certainly did post that particular text to support your ridiculous contention that six million Jews did not die in the Holocaust. What was it again .. most of them died from Yellow fever, was it?? .. oh yes ... "The holocaust may indeed be exagerated considering that the red cross reports attribute most deaths to yellow fever." ....Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 12:35 AM
This entire bullshit thing started because you were denying that 6 Million Jews died .. and were not exterminated by the Nazis. That .. regardless of my backround .. is abhorrant.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 4:32 AM
IT IS A CRIME in Germany and in many parts of Europe to do what you are doing.
Because the Nazi's were so good at screwing with reality, IT IS A CRIME to say those things.
It poisons another generation of people.
The reason for these laws was so that the lies and the disinfo would stop within one generation,
and would not permanetly flourish in Germany.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:33 AM
nobody
use your imagination
you're doing your own twisted Michael the self-actualized A-C
who conflates criticism of the israeli nazi party with being anti-semitic
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:33 AM
Nobody, that stuff you are qouting is criminal.
It really is.
I have no idea why in the hell you are giving it the time of day.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 04:29 AM
Why is it criminal to question?
Never have I said that it was anything less than horrible.
But consider the way things are spun around Iraq and take another look back into history...
And remember the history books are written by the winners.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:34 AM
nobody
use your imagination
you're doing your own twisted Michael the self-actualized A-C
who conflates criticism of the israeli nazi party with being anti-semitic
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 04:33 AM
It's an intellectual exercise...Note the rabid reaction in opposition...as if someone were questioning their religion...strange effect isn't it?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:37 AM
I have no idea why in the hell you are giving it the time of day.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 04:29 AM
Because he is an idiot and he always needs to be right. Well here .. he clearly is not.
It is completely disgusting and I have no clue what would casue a human being to be like this. How .. given the testimony of survivors, the actual camps themselves and the endless records kept my those meticulous fuckers in Germany DETAILING how they commited mass murder .. anyone could even try to deny this? It is disgusting and a stain on humanity.
I am done. Everyone under the sun has told me he was sick .. not to deal with him. I gave him the benefit of a doubt. I care about him (even after this disgusting attempt to deny the Holocaust) but I swear to god .. I will never listen to a thing this man has to say unless I see something where it is indicative to me that he has a soul and he understands that millions we systematically exterminated.
Good Night Connie .. I am to fucking upset to stay here a second longer.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 4:40 AM
yes, nobody
you've stirred a hornet's nest
congratulations
*
(so what's your angle)
(what are you fishing for)
(and is it worth it)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:43 AM
400,000 alone died from typhus...resulting from mistreatment and poor conditions...
according to the same ICRC report that I'm quoting from...
and you think that I'm denying the holocaust?
No, I'm questioning the details of what is "common knowledge" just like it's common knowledge that Saddam had something to do with 911...and this makes me a monster?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:45 AM
It is not criminal to question
IT is however criminal to say that the Halaucost was anything less than that it was.
Hitler was idolized. He never came out and said
that he was gassing, starving, mutilating, raping, trying to kill they very souls of-Jewish people.
TO THIS DAY there are people in Germany who still
think the world of Hitler, but they are not allowed to say it in public.
I have read so so so many books about this.
By people who lived through it. Germans.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:45 AM
Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
There is a dual meaning behind the title of Alain Resnais' eviscerating holocaust documentary, Night and Fog: a reference to the arrival of interned prisoners into concentration camps under the cloak of darkness, and the subconscious suppression of knowledge and culpability for the resulting horror of the committed atrocities. Arguably one of the finest documentaries ever captured on film, Night and Fog opens with the fluid, horizontal tracking of an idyllic, seemingly impressionistic, barren countryside. But this is no ordinary remote open field.
It is 1955, and this is postwar Poland, the site: Auschwitz. Using highly unsettling, archival footage recorded during postwar liberation contrasted against the stillness of the modern-day landscape, Resnais creates a powerful, haunting chronicle of cruelty, dehumanization, and denial of personal responsibility. As in his subsequent feature film, Hiroshima mon amour, Night and Fog is an examination of repressed memory.
However, unlike Hiroshima mon amour where actions have individual, emotional consequence, Night and Fog is a scathing indictment of the conscious, deliberate obscuration of truth - an oppressive truth with moral and universal repercussions.
In 1955, ten years after the end of World War II, the deflection of accountability are reflected in the Nuremberg trials, a defiance of personal guilt tempered by cowardice, as the narrator (Jean Cayrol), a concentration camp survivor, asks the fundamental question: Who is responsible? Even today, at the turn of the century, it is still a relevant question that is met with uncomfortable silence.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 4:46 AM
btw according to "those meticulous fuckers in Germany DETAILING how they commited mass murder"
the number is 700,000 in auchwitz...400,000 to typhus...
I never said that they didn't commit mass murder either...I just questioned the scale of it and not the horror of it because part of the blame for the deaths there is firmly on the US and Britains shoulders from bombing...
Look up Dresden bombing...
They did pretty much the same things that we did in abu gharaib as well...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:49 AM
I am done. Everyone under the sun has told me he was sick .. not to deal with him. I gave him the benefit of a doubt. I care about him (even after this disgusting attempt to deny the Holocaust) but I swear to god .. I will never listen to a thing this man has to say unless I see something where it is indicative to me that he has a soul and he understands that millions we systematically exterminated.
Good Night Connie .. I am to fucking upset to stay here a second longer.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 04:40 AM
XOXOXO
Nobody is a character, all right.
It is pretty fucking sick what he is doing at the moment.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:50 AM
oops.
I was going to post something sarcastic but change my mind.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 4:50 AM
Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
There is a dual meaning behind the title of Alain Resnais' eviscerating holocaust documentary, Night and Fog: a reference to the arrival of interned prisoners into concentration camps under the cloak of darkness, and the subconscious suppression of knowledge and culpability for the resulting horror of the committed atrocities. Arguably one of the finest documentaries ever captured on film, Night and Fog opens with the fluid, horizontal tracking of an idyllic, seemingly impressionistic, barren countryside. But this is no ordinary remote open field.
It is 1955, and this is postwar Poland, the site: Auschwitz. Using highly unsettling, archival footage recorded during postwar liberation contrasted against the stillness of the modern-day landscape, Resnais creates a powerful, haunting chronicle of cruelty, dehumanization, and denial of personal responsibility. As in his subsequent feature film, Hiroshima mon amour, Night and Fog is an examination of repressed memory.
However, unlike Hiroshima mon amour where actions have individual, emotional consequence, Night and Fog is a scathing indictment of the conscious, deliberate obscuration of truth - an oppressive truth with moral and universal repercussions.
In 1955, ten years after the end of World War II, the deflection of accountability are reflected in the Nuremberg trials, a defiance of personal guilt tempered by cowardice, as the narrator (Jean Cayrol), a concentration camp survivor, asks the fundamental question: Who is responsible? Even today, at the turn of the century, it is still a relevant question that is met with uncomfortable silence.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 4:51 AM
the neo-cons' bloody mindedness
is a direct consequence of the holocaust
"NEVER AGAIN!!"
unfortunately,
they're cutting their own throats
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 4:52 AM
It is not criminal to question
IT is however criminal to say that the Halaucost was anything less than that it was.
Hitler was idolized. He never came out and said that he was gassing, starving, mutilating, raping, trying to kill they very souls of-Jewish people.
TO THIS DAY there are people in Germany who still think the world of Hitler, but they are not allowed to say it in public.
I have read so so so many books about this.
By people who lived through it. Germans.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 04:45 AM
Ya I know and someday they'll think the same of Bush...
Try to explain what happened in Falujah to a right winger and they won't believe it...they'll call you a terrorist...
When you take prisoners for any reason you're responsible for what happens to them...even when they get sick and die...But we as a country have some responsbility in that as well and the accounting needs to be true.
Look at how now they're bombing civilian infrastructure...It's always women and children that suffer the most...Has anything really been learned or has it been turned on it's head and used by the same type of people to do the same type of things all over again??
Over 25 million people total died in WW2...A great many of them at the very end of the war...and a great deal of them to allied bombs.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:54 AM
they're cutting their own throats
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 04:52 AM
naw...they're burning kids to ashes and making money the same as they did in ww2
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:55 AM
oops.
I was going to post something sarcastic but change my mind.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 04:50 AM
feel free. we need it now.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 4:56 AM
Yeh Nobs I can't talk to you tonight because your
logic meter is off the maps.
Im not trying to be mean, but man, you need to rethink some of this stuff you are saying.
I mean C'MON.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 4:57 AM
What's the number for kids that died due to "sanctions" in Iraq...the last estimate I heard was in the millions...
How many Palestinians?
How many Lebonese?
All to protect the Israelis from a war long past and a man long dead....
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:58 AM
Yeh Nobs I can't talk to you tonight because your logic meter is off the maps.
Im not trying to be mean, but man, you need to rethink some of this stuff you are saying.
I mean C'MON.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 04:57 AM
What in particular or is it just a general assumption?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 4:59 AM
"straw man" describes a point of view that is created in order to be easily defeated in argument
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:00 AM
a. nazis are bad because they kill
b. allies are bad because they kill
c. we are all bad because we all kill
do i have logic right?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:03 AM
"straw man" describes a point of view that is created in order to be easily defeated in argument
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:00 AM
I've yet to see any serious argument...Because no one knows any "particulars" only generally assumed figures...
You ever wonder about the use of the word "estimate"?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:03 AM
What in particular or is it just a general assumption?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:59 AM
hahaha!
you are funny tonight.
Nobody walks into a room:"yeah the holocaust sucked but it wasn't THAT bad."
room:"BOOOOOOOOO"
Nobody: What? Did I say something wrong?
hahahahahaha!
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:03 AM
//Try to explain what happened in Falujah to a right winger//
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:54 AM
[preface: your stance is on par with theirs]
ok, nobes
i'll go search right-wing blogs & cite their propaganda
ah, it says "only bad guys got whacked in falujah"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:04 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 05:03 AM
where did I say "it wasn't that bad"?
do repost that part...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:05 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 05:03 AM
(lol)
you're the best
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:05 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:49 AM
The number for Treblinka was worse than that.
The lowest estimate I've read was 900,000. I've read accounts that claim up 2.5 million.
Less than 50 people left the camp alive.
On a good day, a trainload of "undesirables" would arrive by 10:00 am. Yeah, I'll grant they were'nt all Jews. The Poles, the Romani, The Russians and Ukrainians, the furnace was indifferent. By noon, between 5,000 and 20,000 people were dead. By 2:00, the were ready for another load. It didn't happen every day, but it happened as many as three times in one day when it did.
Auchwitz was at least a slave labor camp. People only went to Treblinka (there were two other camps, but I don't remember their names) to die.
I suppose its possible that the number six million is inaccurate, simply due to the fact that many families were separated and assumed the worst.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:06 AM
ah, it says "only bad guys got whacked in falujah"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:04 AM
oh and we didn't use fuel air explosives on civlian populations either...a banned weapon btw...it's considered a war crime...same weapon that the Israelis are using in Lebanon...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:06 AM
where did I say "it wasn't that bad"?
do repost that part...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:05 AM
*
IT WASN'T THAT BAD (paraphrased)
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:49 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:08 AM
I suppose its possible that the number six million is inaccurate, simply due to the fact that many families were separated and assumed the worst.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:06 AM
and that many of those died as a result of allied bombs, starvation, disease as a result of the same bombs...but the allies couldn't take the bad press...and many of them died while Russia had occupied the camps...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:09 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:06 AM
well,
according to my dingbat sources
everything was cool
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:10 AM
Most accounts of the Holocaust recognise six extermination camps, all located in occupied Poland. These were:
* Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) (Auschwitz I was a concentration camp and Auschwitz III a labor camp)
* Belzec
* Chelmno (German: Kulmhof an der Nehr, Polish: Chelmno nad Nerem)
* Majdanek
* Sobibór
* Treblinka
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:10 AM
IT WASN'T THAT BAD (paraphrased)
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:49 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:08 AM
the number is 700,000 in auchwitz...400,000 to typhus...
That's not bad enough for you?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:11 AM
"...even when they get sick and die...But we as a country have some responsbility in that as well and the accounting needs to be true"
nobody, i agree and disagree. all of us have some responsibility for the bombing at the end of WWII, and the lateness of our response to the holocaust and for our part in allowing the global situation to become what it was that would propel fascists to power in germany, italy and japan. and i think the difference in degree of responsibility is pretty much immaterial.
as far as true accounting goes, i don't see the difference in someone dying by gas or by yellow fever, just as i don't see the difference in someone dying by torture or a missile landing in the wrong place. and i don't see the difference in whether 1.5 or 6 million died.
i do see the need for true accounting as far as including the gays, dissidents, romani, handicapped in the holocaust. just as i see the need to include the 200 nationalities that died on 9/11. i see those as substantive differences...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 5:11 AM
IT WASN'T THAT BAD (paraphrased)
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:09 AM
*
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:12 AM
Another two death camps were located outside Poland:
* Jasenovac extermination camp was operated by the Nazi puppet Croatian Ustaše regime, and had Serbs as its primary victims. However, Jews, Gypsies and political prisoners were also killed there, like in other concentration camps. The genocide in Jasenovac was committed by Croatian Ustaše, who had a racial extermination programme, formulated by Mile Budak, before and independently of the Wannsee plan. Ustaše started exterminating Serbs at such a pace and with such enthusiasm, that in late 1941 German Nazis decided to take measures to restrain the genocide, before they resorted to similar actions in their death camps. Overall, the death toll makes Jasenovac the third most productive in Holocaust, and the only one which did not have Jews as main target.
* Maly Trostenets, a much less known camp than the other, was located in present-day Belarus.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:12 AM
So let's say the number is exaggerated by half.
Let's assume that half of the deaths that ocurred were the result of disease or malnutrition due to Allied bombing campaigns.
That leaves 1.5 million people that were systematically exterminated.
I know that the Soviets killed quite a few in the closing days of the war, too.
I guess I just don't get the point of the argument. Are you just trying to point out that history is often recorded inaccurately?
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:12 AM
A fine mess you have made of things Nobs.
The allied fighters had no idea about the camps.
I doubt very much that they cared about bad press.
FOR THE LOVE OF
Do not listen to this man. He will support any idea to the death rather than say "oops I am reading a bad source"
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:13 AM
10 out of 10, jenise
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:15 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:10 AM
Thank you. The other one that is stuck in my head is Majdanek.
There was a female guard there nicknamed the Stomping Mare of Majdanek.
Do a google if ya wanna be a little ill.
---
i do see the need for true accounting as far as including the gays, dissidents, romani, handicapped in the holocaust. just as i see the need to include the 200 nationalities that died on 9/11. i see those as substantive differences...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 05:11 AM
Yep
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:16 AM
and i think the difference in degree of responsibility is pretty much immaterial.
as far as true accounting goes, i don't see the difference in someone dying by gas or by yellow fever, just as i don't see the difference in someone dying by torture or a missile landing in the wrong place. and i don't see the difference in whether 1.5 or 6 million died.
i do see the need for true accounting as far as including the gays, dissidents, romani, handicapped in the holocaust. just as i see the need to include the 200 nationalities that died on 9/11. i see those as substantive differences...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 05:11 AM
It does matter when you're looking at the possibility of history repeating itself like we are now...
Too often the argument is made that it isn't fascism because no one's being gassed...
But they're still dying, starving, getting sick as a result of this war...
It somehow makes it different to some people when it's not really different at all...
If it can be known how many thousands died as a result of the bombing...of the starvation of bombing civilian infrastructure...then maybe things like falujah and lebanon would hold more significance for people...
How easy it was to impose sanctions on Iraq...it was so clean...just deny them baby formula...It was none the less as lethal as anything that occured in ww2
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:16 AM
10 out of 10 for waiting, too
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:17 AM
here is something-I think EVEN MORE PEOPLE than reported died.
Only because of the humanitarian crisis and everyone could have been trying to cover their own asses.
If you want to get down to inaccurate numbers, thats what I think. But to BLAME the allied forces for the death camps is quite a fucked up
twist there nobs.
Do you want people to mail you dead animals again?
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:17 AM
I guess I just don't get the point of the argument. Are you just trying to point out that history is often recorded inaccurately?
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:12 AM
that and this
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:16 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:17 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:16 AM
ok, those sanctions sucked too
you're making a dumb-ass comparison
it has sweet nothing to do with nazi atrocities
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:20 AM
If you want to get down to inaccurate numbers, thats what I think. But to BLAME the allied forces for the death camps is quite a fucked up twist there nobs.
Do you want people to mail you dead animals again?
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 05:17 AM
Actually a great number of casualties occured from the bombing of civilian infrastructure...
Look at the shit going on now with "precision guided weaponry" they didn't have anything near so precises then...the guys dropped their bombs in the fog, in the dark, where ever was convenient just so that they could turn around and get safely back on land.
Look up the bombing of dresden for instance...that occured AFTER germany surrendered and it was the allies that did it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:21 AM
the number is 700,000 in auchwitz...400,000 to typhus...
That's not bad enough for you?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:11 AM
you post denial items and now you care?
you post this:
A FACTUAL APPRAISAL OF THE "HOLOCAUST" BY THE RED CROSS.
No Evidence Of Genocide
One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83). Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:54 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:22 AM
If I was in a Nazi death camp (please note the words death camp not summer fun camp) I'd rather die by arial attack. From the allies. And as I was dying I would think, thank God this thing is almost over. Maybe some people will get out of the camps and tell everyone what happened.
And then here comes Nobody...
La La La
The allies killed people in the death camps too
La La La
What! They did! Did they not drop the bombs?
La La La
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:23 AM
hello...
is anything getting through to you, nobody
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:23 AM
it has sweet nothing to do with nazi atrocities
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:20 AM
not even considering that many of the deaths resulted from deprivations of humanitarian goods the same as occured in Iraq?
No...it's the same exact fucking thing...when you bomb out the ability to feed people or if you deny it from entering into the country.
You know that women and children will die when you make that choice to go to war...
SAME THING
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:24 AM
"Too often the argument is made that it isn't fascism because no one's being gassed..."
and that it isn't extermination because no one's being gassed...both stupid arguments, i think
"But they're still dying, starving, getting sick as a result of this war..."
yes, this war and that one...people still sick and dying in hiroshima and nagasaki...that was my point
"It somehow makes it different to some people when it's not really different at all..."
agreed
"If it can be known how many thousands died as a result of the bombing...of the starvation of bombing civilian infrastructure...then maybe things like falujah and lebanon would hold more significance for people..."
maybe...i would hope so...but...
"How easy it was to impose sanctions on Iraq...it was so clean...just deny them baby formula...It was none the less as lethal as anything that occured in ww2"
and on cuba and on north korea and on...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:16 AM
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 5:26 AM
Look up the bombing of dresden for instance...that occured AFTER germany surrendered and it was the allies that did it.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:21 AM
You know Nobs. I could strangle you right now.
Communications were not as good then.
You know that.
It was the greatest generation. They made the world more peaceful for awhile.
And here comes Nobody
La La La
I sit here in my safe non warzone life and spit
on the people who made it possible me
La La La
The halaucost wasn't so bad
La La La
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:27 AM
One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83). Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:27 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:16 AM
I will agree with the need for truth in the amount of suffering caused by all of us good old democracies. What happened in Viet Nam, Korea, Falluja, Dresden, Nagasaki, etc, are all crimes against humanity. No one is accountable for those things, and that's fucking awful. No one is accountable for what Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao visited upon the population of China, what Stalin and Pol Pot did to their own people.
Again, I see the point, but I think the speed and efficiency with which the Nazis acted is what set it apart.
And I think it's just as likely that Connie's right and that more people actually died, but record keeping wasn't tip-top at that point in time.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:27 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:24 AM
no
what you're doing is the same thing that the u.s. military said about falujah
what the israeli's are saying about lebanon, now
etc
etc
[a list as long as kingdom come]
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:28 AM
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 05:26 AM
I don't even know how many are going to die in the future from the DU spread all over Iraq...I know that there has been 42 times the amount of radioactive material spread on that country then there was on japan...look how long and how badly the people there suffered?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:30 AM
No Evidence Of Genocide
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:54 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:30 AM
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 5:32 AM
it has sweet nothing to do with nazi atrocities
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:20 AM
:) i like you.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:33 AM
I don't even know how many are going to die in the future from the DU spread all over Iraq...I know that there has been 42 times the amount of radioactive material spread on that country then there was on japan...look how long and how badly the people there suffered?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:30 AM
know or 'estimates'
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:34 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:27 AM
"And I think it's just as likely that Connie's right and that more people actually died, but record keeping wasn't tip-top at that point in time."
awww but the nazis were sticklers for accuracy...
and by everyones accounts the majority of deaths occured at the end of the war...and that they were starved.
"No one is accountable for those things"
but they should be...instead of pointing the finger at only one possible cause for atrocity and then using that one example to prove that you're not like them...that your killing is righteous and good...bringing democracy and all that...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:35 AM
I guess what I'm getting at is that there are probably better ways to make the point you are after.
IMHO, of course.
---
As for the DU argument, my uncle was a TOWII operator (the "silver dart", DU tipped) in Gulf v1.0 and he and his children bear witness to the effects of DU.
I've always felt that Bush I should've stood in the the Hague.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:36 AM
know or 'estimates'
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:34 AM
know...the actual tonnage is recorded...in the army you have to account for every shot fired.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:36 AM
damn,
i hate it when i write a comment & post it
yeah,
sip some coffee
sit back.... relax
only to look up & see it still in the comments box
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:38 AM
"And I think it's just as likely that Connie's right and that more people actually died, but record keeping wasn't tip-top at that point in time."
awww but the nazis were sticklers for accuracy...
and by everyones accounts the majority of deaths occured at the end of the war...and that they were starved.
"No one is accountable for those things"
but they should be...instead of pointing the finger at only one possible cause for atrocity and then using that one example to prove that you're not like them...that your killing is righteous and good...bringing democracy and all that...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:35 AM
What I meant by record keeping is that birth/death records in Europe were not on par with what they are today. It's quite possible that many more civilians died than were reported (killed by bombing on both sides.)
As for being accountable, yes, you're damn right some one should be. be nice if the ICC actually worked.
Again, I don't disagree, I simply think the point was not well received due to its framing.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:40 AM
No Evidence Of Genocide
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 01:54 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:30 AM
No there isn't...show me something that's not conjecture...
There were hangings, there were shootings...there were crematoriums were the dead were cremated...
There were mass deportations...There were work camps...There were ghettos...There was massive racism...But you don't wholesale kill your slaves deliberately...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:40 AM
I've always felt that Bush I should've stood in the the Hague.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:36 AM
i think war crimes tribunals mean nothing if only those that lose wars stand trial. (hey there, by the way)
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 5:41 AM
There were mass deportations...There were work camps...There were ghettos...There was massive racism...But you don't wholesale kill your slaves deliberately...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
You did at Treblinka.
It was not a work camp, it was strictly for killing people. And it functioned with typical German efficiency.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:43 AM
site? proof of 42 times worse than japan?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:43 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
well, by your definition of genocide it's genocide
you may refrain now from splitting hairs, booby
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:43 AM
but they should be...instead of pointing the finger at only one possible cause for atrocity and then using that one example to prove that you're not like them...that your killing is righteous and good...bringing democracy and all that...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006
Nobody. You are dismissing what the United States has done right. WWII was the last war that was actually needed and heroic. Hitler was intent on taking over Europe. This country is going down a crap road right now, but that doesn't mean you get to say Everything the United States has ever done sucked.
WWII was not about spreading democracy. It was about liberating Europe from fascists.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:43 AM
Again, I don't disagree, I simply think the point was not well received due to its framing.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
The framing is partially the fault of mucky who's damned determined to prove that I hate all jews and that I'm a nazi...
He began this conversation and I was forced to respond somewhat ill prepared...I provided better materials the first time the argument was had because I was studying it at that time...right now I'm working on some jscript...kind of a severe cognitive jar
There's a big problem with how you CAN frame it when the emotional reaction is so strong...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:44 AM
only to look up & see it still in the comments box
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:38 AM
: )
framing, very tactful turn of phrase. : )
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 5:44 AM
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 05:41 AM
Yep (again)
*waves*
:)
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:46 AM
There were mass deportations...There were work camps...There were ghettos...There was massive racism...But you don't wholesale kill your slaves deliberately...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
wrong -
"Most accounts of the Holocaust recognise six extermination camps, all located in occupied Poland. These were:
* Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) (Auschwitz I was a concentration camp and Auschwitz III a labor camp)
* Belzec
* Chelmno (German: Kulmhof an der Nehr, Polish: Chelmno nad Nerem)
* Majdanek
* Sobibór
* Treblinka
and
"Another two death camps were located outside Poland:
* Jasenovac extermination camp was operated by the Nazi puppet Croatian Ustaše regime, and had Serbs as its primary victims. However, Jews, Gypsies and political prisoners were also killed there, like in other concentration camps. The genocide in Jasenovac was committed by Croatian Ustaše, who had a racial extermination programme, formulated by Mile Budak, before and independently of the Wannsee plan. Ustaše started exterminating Serbs at such a pace and with such enthusiasm, that in late 1941 German Nazis decided to take measures to restrain the genocide, before they resorted to similar actions in their death camps. Overall, the death toll makes Jasenovac the third most productive in Holocaust, and the only one which did not have Jews as main target.
* Maly Trostenets, a much less known camp than the other, was located in present-day Belarus.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:47 AM
a double smile from jenise
it's what i live for
♥
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:48 AM
Nobody. You are dismissing what the United States has done right. WWII was the last war that was actually needed and heroic. Hitler was intent on taking over Europe. This country is going down a crap road right now, but that doesn't mean you get to say Everything the United States has ever done sucked.
WWII was not about spreading democracy. It was about liberating Europe from fascists.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 05:43 AM
No I'm not and would you stop waving that flag in my face?
The US was initially supportive of Hitler...Part of the history that's not talked about much is that the Uberman bullshit that Hitler was for actually started here in the US...Rooted in the Eugenics movement which oddly enough found ardent support in the Bush family...
No...There is evil in every culture ours is no exception...The reasons for our entrance into ww2 weren't nearly as humanitarian as publically pronounced...albeit I'm quite sure that the soldiers fighting it believed it with all their hearts...pretty much the same as they believe in Iraq or believed in Korea or Vietnam or [insert war here]...Thee first casualty in war is the truth.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:50 AM
There's a big problem with how you CAN frame it when the emotional reaction is so strong...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:44 AM
that and your argument is clearly wrong.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:51 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:47 AM
No not wrong...You will note that poland was occupied by the russians wuite some time before the end of the war.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:52 AM
I suppose its possible that the number six million is inaccurate, simply due to the fact that many families were separated and assumed the worst.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:06 AM
The numbers were obtained from records the Nazi's kept.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 5:53 AM
"hitler had the right idea" ~ ono's father
"the good old days - making soap out of jews" ~ ono's uncle
[excuse me while i puke]
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:53 AM
that and your argument is clearly wrong.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:51 AM
How so?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:53 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:44 AM
I guess I can see how discussing Israel's present fascist tendencies, and then moving on to questioning the actual numbers of the Holocaust might irritate some folks.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 5:53 AM
//No I'm not and would you stop waving that flag in my face?//
Hey when it comes to this topic I can wave a flag.
Its the only part of recent history that Im proud of when it comes to the US.
I don't know what your problem is.
For anyone to insinuate that the allies asissted
in killing Jewish people is fucking INSANE.
Man, I wish Dr was here.
He'd have this conflated logic all straightened
out in 2 secs flat.
All I can say is that you are off your rocker tonight, and you are proving Muck4doo/Thoth/Angry Fool right with this retardedness.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 5:55 AM
"hitler had the right idea" ~ ono's father
"the good old days - making soap out of jews" ~ ono's uncle
[excuse me while i puke]
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:53 AM
Actually I was reading a jewish scholar earlier tonight that said the soap thing was a myth...I'll try to find it again if you wish.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:55 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:56 AM
btw, the comment from ono's uncle
was said in an off-hand way
as we were getting into a car...
after church
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:56 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 05:55 AM
just look it up...dresden is a fact...the bombing of civilian infrastructure is a fact....the starvation is a fact...
They say that there is no more horrible way to die...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 5:58 AM
//the soap thing was a myth//
that's not the point
whether it was a funny ol' myth or not
the point is he meant it
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 5:59 AM
most happy to keep you living, air-ono. ; )
conbo, i know you weren't talking to me, but i hope it's okay to add my two cents here. i have real trouble thinking of our fighting in WWII as heroic. necessary by the time we did it, but i don't think so heroic.
for me it's two things - 1. that we (the world) let whole countries of people get to the point that they felt so desperate that they would support fascists in the first place so that genocide could happen and 2. that we dropped two nuclear bombs for very different reasons than those stated.
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 5:59 AM
No not wrong...You will note that poland was occupied by the russians wuite some time before the end of the war.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:52 AM
yes. very wrong. russians have little to do with extermination camps 1939 to 1943.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 5:59 AM
The numbers were obtained from records the Nazi's kept.
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 05:53 AM
I know, I still think it's possible the records themselves are inaccurate.
I think that's it's possible the death toll was higher.
I think that's it's possible that it was lower, too.
Anyway you cut it, it was genocide, IMO.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:00 AM
Anyway you cut it, it was genocide, IMO.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:00 AM
:) - i like you too
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:02 AM
I guess I can see how discussing Israel's present fascist tendencies, and then moving on to questioning the actual numbers of the Holocaust might irritate some folks.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 05:53 AM
true...but irritation is inevitable...
Israel is using the same justification for invading Lebanon that Hitler used on Poland...
and if you make that comparison which is rightly justified then the argument comes out that Israel isn't setting up camps (which they are btw and I'll link to it shortly) and that they can't be fascist because of the holocaust...
It's the type of circular argument that leads there anyway so why not cut it off at the pass and look at some of the ways people died and compare them to present day?
They Israeli government I'm afraid has become what they're supposed to hate...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:02 AM
I've got to get some rest.
Later -
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 6:02 AM
They say that there is no more horrible way to die...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:58 AM
Jesus H!
What is your problem?
You may not be a card carrying Nazi member but tonight you are a Nazi Sympathizor.
The worst part of the war was when the allies
came? I can tell you that Europe did not feel that way at all.
You are rewriting history Nobody and its a sick thing to do.
Im completey in shock.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:02 AM
They say that there is no more horrible way to die...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:58 AM
can i put you in a closet and test zyklon-b on you to see?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:04 AM
as we were getting into a car...
after church
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 05:56 AM
oh god, i don't even want to know what he thinks about the turks!
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:00 AM
i really don't understand this fixation with exact numbers...as if it somehow changes the magnitude. *waving north from so. california*
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:05 AM
The worst part of the war was when the allies came? I can tell you that Europe did not feel that way at all.
You are rewriting history Nobody and its a sick thing to do.
Im completey in shock.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 06:02 AM
No I'm not sympathizing with the nazis...they made slaves of hundreds of thousands of people, Caused the deats of hundreds of thouands more due to ill treatment, they invaded countries preemptively and killed more hundreds of thousands for financial gain, They raped and murdered and looted...but that's what soldiers do when they're at war...Have you read the news recently?
What does "never again" mean when you go to war and repeat the same shit all over again?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:06 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 06:02 AM
he has abstruse academic hat on
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:06 AM
gotta go. final solution jeopardy is on.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:06 AM
nobody, whether it's soap or medical experiments, it hardly matters. the japanese did it in china, too. and we did it in the 50s. either way and in all cases, the human race lost part of its soul each time and forever...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:07 AM
yes. very wrong. russians have little to do with extermination camps 1939 to 1943.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:59 AM
The ICRC went into the camps in 1943 but couldn't go into the russian held camps and there were years before the war ended.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:08 AM
he has abstruse academic hat on
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 06:06 AM
I'm afraid it looks like this.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:08 AM
i really don't understand this fixation with exact numbers...as if it somehow changes the magnitude. *waving north from so. california*
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 06:05 AM
because if all the deaths are attributed to the "death camps" then a large part of the real reasons are ignored...
and if those reasons are ignored than they will be repeated....have been repeated...are being repeated...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:10 AM
when i use an academic word like "academic"
i up the ante with an "obscure or difficult to understand" word like abstruse
which is the meaning of "abstruse"
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:10 AM
What does "never again" mean when you go to war and repeat the same shit all over again?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:06 AM
Um. The people in our government right now aren't there legally, they installed themselves.
Different times Nobs. But I won't let you diminish what used to be good about the United States.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:12 AM
nobody, whether it's soap or medical experiments, it hardly matters. the japanese did it in china, too. and we did it in the 50s. either way and in all cases, the human race lost part of its soul each time and forever...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 06:07 AM
more accurately it's those that are soulless that commit these things and they aren't an abherration of the nazis...They are people in every society...in every community...and they are never held to account...
Do you think that human testing isn't going on to this day?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:12 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:08 AM
LOL
nah, nobody isn't a nazi
he's into controversy
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:12 AM
and if those reasons are ignored than they will be repeated....have been repeated...are being repeated...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:10 AM
yes, i understand that. but to me, it's the inverse.
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:12 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:02 AM
Of course they can be fascist.
And they have become what they are supposed to hate.
I just think the comparison would've been just as apt when comparing Israel with, say, Polk's war, or the slaughter or the North and South American Indians.
And it probably would've been received better.
That's all.
I simply wouldn't responded when muck tried to change the argument to Holocaust denial/accuracy, because it was meant to inflame and change the topic.
Just my $.02
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:14 AM
Um. The people in our government right now aren't there legally, they installed themselves.
Different times Nobs. But I won't let you diminish what used to be good about the United States.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 06:12 AM
No...being their illegally isn't what makes it different...The horrors of war have occured in every single war no matter who the leader was...
It's still the same thing...it's still kids dying.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:15 AM
I simply wouldn't responded when muck tried to change the argument to Holocaust denial/accuracy, because it was meant to inflame and change the topic.
Just my $.02
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:14 AM
Yes, good point.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:15 AM
//more accurately it's those that are soulless that commit these things and they aren't an abherration of the nazis...They are people in every society...in every community...and they are never held to account...//
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:12 AM
that's a far cry from only larry, moe, & curly went to the gas chamber
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:16 AM
I simply wouldn't responded when muck tried to change the argument to Holocaust denial/accuracy, because it was meant to inflame and change the topic.
Just my $.02
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:14 AM
aye but he goes on for days and days saying nasty shit and lying his ass off about what it is that I believe and why.
If I ignore him he just goes on and on and says "see that proves it because you won't answer me"
[eye twitches]
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:17 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:08 AM
"1945 January 27 Advancing Soviet troops enter Auschwitz-Birkenau"
"The camps at Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chelmno had already been liquidated by the Germans before the Russians arrived."
russians not to blame for deaths it seems.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:17 AM
//Just my $.02//
how rich are you
you throw 2 cents around like there's no tomorrow
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:18 AM
Fucking A Nobody.
The United States did not start WWII
We stopped it. We were a different country then.
We treated our prisoners of war with dignity,
even the Nazi's we captured.
Stop being stupid about this.
No, what we did in WWII does not justify what we are doing in the ME presently.
And no one here is saying that.
We aren't wingnuts you know.
You are being a little nut 2nite however.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:20 AM
If I ignore him he just goes on and on and says "see that proves it because you won't answer me"
[eye twitches]
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:17 AM
Ignore Mucky. He treats this place like a fight club. Seriously.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:22 AM
What is genocide?
The United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
It defines genocide as:
[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
=================
LINK:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm
==============================
For more information, check out:
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -
Posted by: Star Vox at July 24, 2006 6:23 AM
"1945 January 27 Advancing Soviet troops enter Auschwitz-Birkenau"
"The camps at Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chelmno had already been liquidated by the Germans before the Russians arrived."
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:17 AM
The internees had been shipped westward according to the ICRC...but records are sketchy and derived from incoming numbers...
As for you're assertion of deaths...please post numbers..linked and sourced...my assertion was that due to russian occupation that they were no longer trackable by the ICRC
months went by...
Germany Surrenders Unconditionally May 4 - May 8, 1945
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:25 AM
We stopped it. We were a different country then.
We treated our prisoners of war with dignity, even the Nazi's we captured.
Stop being stupid about this.
No, what we did in WWII does not justify what we are doing in the ME presently.
And no one here is saying that.
We aren't wingnuts you know.
You are being a little nut 2nite however.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 06:20 AM
we stopped it by bombing a beaten country that had been making surrender overatures for months and by bombing civilians with the most horrible weapon known to mankind...The only country ever to nuke anyone...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:28 AM
"[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:"
You don't wholesale kill off your slaves...and those people in those camps were slaves.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:29 AM
They are people in every society...in every community...and they are never held to account...//
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:12 AM
like WFC said, we need a real ICC. but we're always going to have fanatics, fascists and fundamentalists (sometimes all rolled up in one). it's allowing the conditions to exist that they can attract followers. alone these guys are just crazy people screaming on the street corner...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:29 AM
like WFC said, we need a real ICC. but we're always going to have fanatics, fascists and fundamentalists (sometimes all rolled up in one). it's allowing the conditions to exist that they can attract followers. alone these guys are just crazy people screaming on the street corner...
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 06:29 AM
But what happens when they have all the power?
How do you impose justice?
The UN was a nice dream...but the US laughs at it now...Israel ignores it...The UK pats it on the head like an ignorant stepchild...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:32 AM
Paul Krugman: Bush & Blacks
According to the White House transcript, here’s how it went last week, when President Bush addressed the N.A.A.C.P. for the first time:
THE PRESIDENT: “I understand that many African-Americans distrust my political party.”
AUDIENCE: “Yes! (Applause.)”
But Mr. Bush didn’t talk about why African-Americans don’t trust his party, and black districts are always blue on election maps. So let me fill in the blanks.
First, G.O.P. policies consistently help those who are already doing extremely well, not those lagging behind — a group that includes the vast majority of African-Americans. And both the relative and absolute economic status of blacks, after improving substantially during the Clinton years, have worsened since 2000.
The G.O.P. obsession with helping the haves and have-mores, and lack of concern for everyone else, was evident even in Mr. Bush’s speech to the N.A.A.C.P.
Mr. Bush never mentioned wages, which have been falling behind inflation for most workers. And he certainly didn’t mention the minimum wage, which disproportionately affects African-American workers, and which he has allowed to fall to its lowest real level since 1955.
Mr. Bush also never used the word “poverty,” a condition that afflicts almost one in four blacks.
But he found time to call for repeal of the estate tax, even though African-Americans are more than a thousand times as likely to live below the poverty line as they are to be rich enough to leave a taxable estate.......
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2006/07/paul-krugman-bush-blacks.html
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 6:32 AM
Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps Timeline
"There were mass deportations...There were work camps...There were ghettos...There was massive racism...But you don't wholesale kill your slaves deliberately..."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 05:47 AM
No not wrong...You will note that poland was occupied by the russians quite some time before the end of the war.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:52 AM
implyimg to me you hold russians responsible. do not blame be because you are vague and do not explain thoroughly.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:34 AM
Bob Herbert: Israel's Friend
It’s too late now, but Israel could have used a friend in the early stages of its war with Hezbollah — a friend who could have tugged at its sleeve and said: “O.K. We understand. But enough.”
That friend should have been the United States.
It is not difficult to understand both Israel’s obligation to lash back at the unprovoked attacks of Hezbollah, and the longstanding rage and frustration that have led the Israelis to attempt to obliterate, once and for all, this unrelenting terrorist threat.
Israelis are always targets for terror — whether they are minding their own business in their homes, or shopping at the mall, or taking a bus to work, or celebrating the wedding of loved ones.
(A quick example from a seemingly endless list: An Israeli security guard prevented a Palestinian suicide bomber from entering a mall in the seaside town of Netanya last December. The bomber detonated his explosives anyway, killing himself, the guard and four others.)
But the unnecessary slaughter of innocents, whether by Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, American forces in Iraq or the Israeli defense forces, is always wrong, and should never be tolerated.
So civilized people cannot in good conscience stand by and silently watch as hundreds of innocents are killed and thousands more threatened by the spasm of destruction unleashed by Israel in Lebanon........
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2006/07/bob-herbert-israels-friend.html
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 6:34 AM
we stopped it by bombing a beaten country that had been making surrender overatures for months and by bombing civilians with the most horrible weapon known to mankind...The only country ever to nuke anyone...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:28 AM
ok you have a point with the nuke. that was horrid.
but to say the US and allies were responsible for genocidal atrocities is really not true.
and it makes me mad. because my Grandfather was
in the war, and it is a source of pride for him
that he did not kill on the spot the Germans he captured. He was a German interprator-he got a humanitarian award for treating the prisoners in his care with dignity. Also, he wasn't a pro war
person, he went because he had too, and he tried
to see the war from everyone's angle. He knew the
German soldiers were brainwashed.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 6:34 AM
//The only country ever to nuke anyone...//
that's a fabrication.
no.
please.
i know.
[source: pol pot]
Posted by: air-ignoramus at July 24, 2006 6:35 AM
"[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:"
You don't wholesale kill off your slaves...and those people in those camps were slaves.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:29 AM
vague vague vague. what camps? name them.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:35 AM
oh, dandy
now you woke kevin up
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:36 AM
edit:
[source: pol "it wasn't me" pot (it was the russians)]
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:38 AM
But what happens when they have all the power?
How do you impose justice?
The UN was a nice dream...but the US laughs at it now...Israel ignores it...The UK pats it on the head like an ignorant stepchild...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:32 AM
they have the power, because we've allowed them the power. empire by invitation - whether that's the US in relation to rest of the world and the UN or an oligarchical cabal in relation to the rest of the country's people.
and in some circumstances and under certain ideologies, you might just wholesale kill off your slaves. especially if you didn't want your work done by those who were 'less than pure.' why else move them from ghettos to camps? you could just as easily have slave work done in ghettos.
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:38 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 06:18 AM
:p
---
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:17 AM
Do you believe in Israel's "right to exist?"
I dislike nationalism. Think it's as dangerous as religion.
I don't believe in any nation's "right to exist".
I believe that the Jewish people (inside and outside of Israel) have a right to live without fear of the Holocaust being repeated.
I believe every Palistinean has a right to exist, free of the terror of tanks and bulldozers.
I believe that the Iraqi's should have the right to live in a land unpoisoned by our weapons.
I think that were it me, I would have simply stated that the Israelis have just as much right to exist unmolested as the Lebanese do, and that calling for the Jews to "be driven into the sea", or saying that "a million Arabs are not worth one Jewish fingernail" are both morally repugnant arguments.
I'm certainly not letting Israel off the hook for it's actions. Or the U.S., for that matter.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:39 AM
July 24, 1944 - At Lublin in Poland, Red Army soldiers discovered the abandoned Majdanek extermination camp, the first major camp to be liberated. Despite hasty efforts of the Germans to burn the camp to hide its purpose, the Russians found the remains of gas chambers. During the next month, Soviet troops liberated the abandoned Belzec and Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.
January 27, 1945 - Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:39 AM
implyimg to me you hold russians responsible. do not blame be because you are vague and do not explain thoroughly.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:34 AM
That's more than a bit of a jump from what I said...
You assume the estimates correct but they've been lowered as time goes by and more evidence is sifted...
Auchwitz for example it was claimed originally that 2.5 million died there...then 1.5...now they're arguing in a country where it's illegal to deny the holocaust whether or not to set the true number at 700,000
because when they started adding up the claims it went as high as 25 million deaths...which really doesn't add up...
Note in the timeline that the camps had been abandonned...over and over...
They were abandonned because they kept pulling their "workforce" closer and closer as they lost ground militarily...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:41 AM
//You don't wholesale kill off your slaves...and those people in those camps were slaves.//
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:29 AM
thanks, nobody
love,
pol pot
btw, all my slaves feel over onto open rusty tin cans & sliced their own throats
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:42 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:41 AM
Again, though, some camps were simply death camps, that provided no labor or industry.
Treblinka is the only one I ever studied, though.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:43 AM
show me how i was to assume you meant they were moved from this?
"There were mass deportations...There were work camps...There were ghettos...There was massive racism...But you don't wholesale kill your slaves deliberately..."
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:40 AM
No not wrong...You will note that poland was occupied by the russians quite some time before the end of the war.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:52 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:45 AM
And if I recall correctly, Treblinka was only operated until '43 or '44.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:45 AM
i really must get to bed. i'm nurse again tomorrow. strange as it may sound, it was nice to talk to you all about this tonight...
good night, conbo, nobody, WFC, air-ono, NC, kevin.
Posted by: jenise at July 24, 2006 6:46 AM
vague vague vague. what camps? name them.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:35 AM
from your timeline...a few
1937 - Buchenwald was built by the Nazis as a camp for political prisoners like German Communists and Social Democrats. Between 1937-8, Jews were added as Germany's anti-Semitic campaign was set in motion. With a population of 15,000 prisoners, the camp was one of slave labor, with German Communists at the top.
1941 - In eastern Alsace, up a winding road from the village of Natzwiller, the Nazis built a labor camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp on French soil. The inmates originally were German who were to supply labor for building V-2 factories in man-made caves dug out of the Vosges Mountains. The prisoners would live in the cold, damp tunnels as they built them.
1941 - In eastern Alsace, up a winding road from the village of Natzwiller, the Nazis built a labor camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp on French soil. The inmates originally were German who were to supply labor for building V-2 factories in man-made caves dug out of the Vosges Mountains. The prisoners would live in the cold, damp tunnels as they built them.
and as a side note and to correlate with what I'd earlier posted...
April 11, 1945 - North of Ohrdruf, near the town of Nordhausen, the American Timberwolf Division came upon 3,000 corpses and more than seven hundred barely surviving inmates. Both living and dead lay in two double-decker barracks, piled three to a bunk. The rooms reeked of death and excrement. Victims of starvation and tuberculosis, the prisoners had also suffered from American bombing of the V-2 factories just one week before.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:47 AM
so you need not take my word alone.
Again, though, some camps were simply death camps, that provided no labor or industry.
Treblinka is the only one I ever studied, though.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:43 AM
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:48 AM
sweet dreams, sweet jenise
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:49 AM
Good night, jenise.
Many blessings and pleasant dreams.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:49 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:47 AM
so you admit difference between death and work/concentration camps?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:49 AM
No not wrong...You will note that poland was occupied by the russians quite some time before the end of the war.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 05:52 AM
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:45 AM
from the article I posted earlier in the discussion that's quoting the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, 1948.
The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special relief to 183,000 Rumanian Jews until the time of the Soviet occupation. The aid then ceased, and the ICRC complained bitterly that it never succeeded "in sending anything whatsoever to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many of the German camps after their "liberation" by the Russians. The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile. However, food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:50 AM
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 06:49 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 06:49 AM
:0
I've been scooped!
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:51 AM
also from your link...a single example of them being moved that's well documented...
August 31 1944 - The SS began the evacuation of the Natzweiler-Struthof camp as Allied troops approached; 2000 prisoners died on the death march to Dachau.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:51 AM
now to get you to admit it matters not if 1,000 or 10,000,000 died. one person dead because they are different is one too many. even you might one day admit that.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 6:52 AM
so you admit difference between death and work/concentration camps?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:49 AM
he admits nothing
ask him to admit he's skating on ice
and he'll say "i'm on the titanic (there is no iceberg, only spoons)"
*
he emits bullshit
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:54 AM
you have to get up earlier if you want to scoop the scoop-meister
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:56 AM
Franz Stangl, Commandant of Treblinka:
"Regarding the question of the optimum amount of people gassed in one day, I can state: according to my estimation a transport of thirty freight cars with 3,000 people was liquidated in three hours. When the work lasted for about fourteen hours, 12,000 to 15,000 people were annihilated. There were many days that the work lasted from the early morning until the evening . . . I have done nothing to anybody that was not my duty. My conscience is clear.' "
This site puts the estimate at 850,000 killed at Treblinka. The camp was an extermination site built near a penal/slave labor camp.
It was only open between June 1942 and November 1943.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 6:57 AM
so you admit difference between death and work/concentration camps?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:49 AM
People died enmasse in work/concentration camps due to poor conditions...consider the following link...note that the prisoners say "there are also criminals amongst us"...Note the starvation that I've tried to highlight...
"Edward R. Murrow on Buchenwald 4/15/45" 10:43
http://www.otr.com/ra/murrow_buchen.ram
Posted by: "NEWS CONSUMER" at July 24, 2006 03:34 AM
But as for your larger point...yes...some deaths were deliberate...Especially in the beginning when they practiced eugenics on cripples...
Now would you deny the fact that there were ghettos filled with noninterred jews at the end of the war?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 6:58 AM
(in this case)
//he emits bullshit//
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 6:58 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:50 AM
assumed information from a previous discussion is not valid. i have no knowledge of it and you should not assume i or anyone else does.
Natzweiler-Struthof camp was work/concentration camp - not death camp.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 7:00 AM
Good Mornin Folks
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:01 AM
~nobody~
are you using neo-nazi revisionist crapola
("hey, it wasn't that bad")
to support u.s. imperialism
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:03 AM
now to get you to admit it matters not if 1,000 or 10,000,000 died. one person dead because they are different is one too many. even you might one day admit that.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 06:52 AM
I'd say that readily...but that was never the point...
The point was how history is manipulated to absolve the "good guys" from their part in it, to make them look good when they themselves caused many of the privations, how fascists presently hide behind the nazis by saying "see we have no death camps so we're not nazis"
Consider how after the war the "good guys" didn't want to take the jews so badly that they instead gave them a country out of land of other people they didn't like...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:04 AM
hey, bob
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:04 AM
Hawking criticises EU states trying to ban stem cell research
Stephen Hawking, the world's best-known living scientist, has attacked "reactionary" forces in Europe and America which are trying to ban research into stem cells from human embryos.
Professor Hawking, who suffers from motor neurone disease, has criticised President George Bush and European governments who want to stop the funding of research with embryonic stem cells, which promises to revolutionise the treatment of many incurable conditions.
His attack comes on the day that an attempt will be made in Brussels to prevent any money from the European Union's €54bn (£37bn) science budget being spent over the next seven years on research into human embryonic stem cells.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:04 AM
Radical Cleric Pat Robertson: Disasters point to 2nd Coming ......
..... Radical Cleric Pat Robertson also sees a future in real estate ....
CHESAPEAKE - A proposed interchange off Interstate 64 and backed by Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson may lead to some of the most high-end shopping in Hampton Roads.
Consultants for the Christian Broadcasting Network unveiled detailed plans Tuesday, announcing a 500-acre complex near Regent University that they say would rival MacArthur Center in Norfolk, Short Pump Town Center in Richmond and Town Center in Virginia Beach.
When completed, the giant complex called Blenheim Park would add about $1 billion to the region, generate hundreds of millions in tax revenues for Chesapeake and Virginia Beach and provide $15 million to $20 million a year for CBN, according to its developers. Site plans and applications have not been filed in either city.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 7:06 AM
Mornin', Bob.
*passes Bob the brassie*
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 7:06 AM
Whats Up Mate?
MP casts doubt on David Kelly suicide
LONDON (AFP) - An opposition member of parliament has alleged that a government scientist who cast doubt on intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction may not have taken his own life.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:06 AM
What the hell is a Brassie?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:07 AM
assumed information from a previous discussion is not valid. i have no knowledge of it and you should not assume i or anyone else does.
Natzweiler-Struthof camp was work/concentration camp - not death camp.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 07:00 AM
and still people died...A great part of my arguement is that 400,000 people died from typhus alone...Not to mention starvation that occured due to the bombing campaign...This in the humane part of the system...
Such work camps are allowed under the geneva convention btw...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:08 AM
But as for your larger point...yes...some deaths were deliberate...Especially in the beginning when they practiced eugenics on cripples...
Now would you deny the fact that there were ghettos filled with noninterred jews at the end of the war?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 06:58 AM
that point is not germane to this discussion. we are not discussing that - nor will we be. we are discussing your inability to admit genocide.
'some deaths were deliberate.' please. admit what it was - genocide.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 24, 2006 7:08 AM
same old, bob
just being the hero of the blog
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:08 AM
What the hell is a Brassie?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:07 AM
a herb heating device.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:09 AM
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in remarks published Monday that an Israeli ground invasion would not protect Israel from Hezbollah rocket attacks. He said the priority is for a cease-fire and was open to discussing ideas on how to end the crisis.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:09 AM
Nite Jenise
I can't believe I wasted my nite arguing about the existance of the holocaust.
wt hell?
i did discover I do have a romantic view of WWII.
My Grandfather would be disapointed in me.
He hated the war. Oh well.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:11 AM
Consider how after the war the "good guys" didn't want to take the jews so badly that they instead gave them a country out of land of other people they didn't like...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:04 AM
(I love it when you use an arguement championed by me!!) Now you are getting it! Kudos! Welcome to rational thought! But your point on the rest is bullshit.
It was Genocide .. and I do not have the slightest fucking idea why it is so hard for you to type the words - Yes, I agree, the Holocaust was Genocide.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:12 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 7:12 AM
I think Bill CLinton said it best; "The more people that die, the harder it is to have peace."
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:13 AM
~nobody~
are you using neo-nazi revisionist crapola
("hey, it wasn't that bad")
to support u.s. imperialism
?
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 07:03 AM
Only Nobody could pull this off
Watch the master...
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:14 AM
//Hawking criticises EU states trying to ban stem cell research//
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:04 AM
//MP casts doubt on David Kelly suicide//
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:06 AM
*
you're our stephen hawking & david kelly all wrapped in one, bob
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:14 AM
Anything good on the audioblog Willow?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:15 AM
And I must say the slight-of-hand argument style was clever .. weaker minds around here fall for that bullshit all the time. : )
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:15 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 07:12 AM
he's my mentor
(him & atom ant)
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:16 AM
'some deaths were deliberate.' please. admit what it was - genocide.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 24, 2006 07:08 AM
There you see...you need that word for it to be horrible...All the deaths must be from extermination...failing that the majority of them...Why is it so hard for you to believe that war itself is brutal enough to kill millions?
Is what is going on in Palestine genocide?....Iraq?...Lebanon?...I'd say so...but then again I'd say that all wat is genocide...not just that one little pocket of history.
Eugenics is a much more horrible word...but somehow that's not hearly as important to most people...even though it was for those reasons that most of the deliberate deaths occured...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:16 AM
Anything good on the audioblog Willow?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:15 AM
Only if you want to hear about the bullshit that was flying around the blog in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:16 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 07:14 AM
//to support u.s. imperialism//
should have been: to oppose u.s. imperialism
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:18 AM
(I love it when you use an arguement championed by me!!) Now you are getting it! Kudos! Welcome to rational thought! But your point on the rest is bullshit.
It was Genocide .. and I do not have the slightest fucking idea why it is so hard for you to type the words - Yes, I agree, the Holocaust was Genocide.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 07:12 AM
You only assumed...I did mention that I wasn't arguing the authors assumptions I was arguing the quotations themselves?
I'm sure that I did...but by that time you'd already pronounced judgement...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:18 AM
//to support u.s. imperialism//
should have been: to oppose u.s. imperialism
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 07:18 AM
I knew what you meant. :)
It was funny. I was thinking the same thing earlier.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:19 AM
//Only if you want to hear about the bullshit that was flying around the blog in the middle of the night.//
THIS I GOTTA HEAR
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:19 AM
Just waiting till eight to call my hottie Doc..
She has to tell the pharmacist to fill my pills. I guess it is too early or some shit. F&)^ that!
Anyhoo, I got this here DVD called "Chompsky; Rebel without a pause"
I am gonna watch it whilst I blog wit youns.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:19 AM
Only if you want to hear about the bullshit that was flying around the blog in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 07:16 AM
Who was throwing it?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:21 AM
I'm sure that I did...but by that time you'd already pronounced judgement...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:18 AM
Oh do be quiet.
There was nothing noble about that whole argument Nobs.
Sorry.
O.O
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:21 AM
btw...I'm not "getting it" I've had the same opinions for a very long fucking time so don't take credit where you're due none.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:22 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:16 AM
See what I mean .. slight-of-hand. The topic .. in case you have forgotten .. was the Holocaust. Who died, How and Why.
The topic now interesting me is why you just will not admit it was Genocide. I am fairly certain after seeing your weak argument style tonight that you are afraid to admit you are in the wrong here.
Very sad indeed. But not unexpected.
If you want me to work on your blog .. you will have to overcome this.. because eventually you will find out .. I am very often correct.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:22 AM
Oh do be quiet.
There was nothing noble about that whole argument Nobs.
Sorry.
O.O
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 07:21 AM
No...you're just dumb connie...dumb as a stump.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:23 AM
btw...I'm not "getting it" I've had the same opinions for a very long fucking time so don't take credit where you're due none.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:22 AM
so feisty.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:23 AM
I was trying to expand your mind about the meaning of Genocide!
I was "blah blah blah"
You gave Mucky so much material
Man. He might start to keep a diary of your posts now.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:23 AM
You pissed Wil off good Nobs!
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:26 AM
No...you're just dumb connie...dumb as a stump.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:23 AM
!
Well. I am just offended beyond belief.
Not really.
I am waiting for your next extreme proclomation.
Can't outdo tonight, not for awhile.
Aliens, maybe.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:27 AM
You pissed Wil off good Nobs!
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:26 AM
Ya .. I tend to get alittle pissed off when we start using Holocaust denying sites as factual and honest round these parts.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:27 AM
Nox beckons.
Mme. Salix, Bob, ono, conbo, Kevin, Nobs, and anyone lurking,
Good night.
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 7:29 AM
See what I mean .. slight-of-hand. The topic .. in case you have forgotten .. was the Holocaust. Who died, How and Why.
The topic now interesting me is why you just will not admit it was Genocide. I am fairly certain after seeing your weak argument style tonight that you are afraid to admit you are in the wrong here.
Very sad indeed. But not unexpected.
If you want me to work on your blog .. you will have to overcome this.. because eventually you will find out .. I am very often correct.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 07:22 AM
No...you've a reading comprehension problem due your emotionalism...let me know when you've caught up?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:18 AM
Why do you suppose there is so little phsyical evidence of a deliberate campaign to exterminate the jews? Chemists have examined the camps and found no traces of the chemicals supposedly used. They found traces of delousing chemicals insead.
Consider also the following statement "those people were slaves in those camps" and you don't exterminate your workforce while fighting a war...
They exterminated the cripples...the blind...the ones that couldn't work...This alone is horror enough...
But people did die...by the hundreds of thousands...So how did they die?...By all reports it was disease and starvation on a massive scale...being worked to death...in camps that are still legal under the geneva conventions...being forcibly marched while evaccuating prison camps closer to the front...
See...my point is that war itself will make people suffer the worst of horrors that are blamed only on a madman...so if you don't have a madman then war is ok right?
But everyone always believes that their leader isn't a mad man...so war is always ok...get it?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:31 AM
nite WFC
I need to go too.
damnit all but now I wasted my sleep time.
i have going through the day all tired.
stupid.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 7:33 AM
Ya .. I tend to get alittle pissed off when we start using Holocaust denying sites as factual and honest round these parts.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 07:27 AM
The quotes are accurate...I posted the original of one of the quoted documents above I believe the source is the vatican and it confirms the quotes...
The ICRC said in court that they were...as for the authors assumptions I make no claims.
I also said that I posted the original ICRC report somewhere on this blog...
why don't you try looking for the original material itself?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:34 AM
Thousands flee as Iraq violence deepens
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes in fear as sectarian violence has turned ever more bitter since a U.S.-backed national unity government was formed two months ago, official data showed on Thursday.
raq's most powerful religious authority, Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, joined the
United Nations and U.S. officials in raising the alarm over a spike in bloodshed and a form of ethnic cleansing he called "campaigns of displacement."
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:37 AM
goodnight XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO's
to connie & waiting
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:41 AM
Floods could push North Korea back into famine
SEOUL (Reuters) -
North Korea, constantly battling food shortages, could be tipped into famine after heavy flooding this month in key farming regions hit its potato and rice crops, experts said on Thursday
House overwhelmingly backs Israel in vote
WASHINGTON - The House, displaying a foreign affairs solidarity lacking on issues like
Iraq, voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support
Israel in its confrontation with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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The resolution, which was passed on a 410-8 vote, also condemns enemies of the Jewish state.
House Republican leader John Boehner cited Israel's "unique relationship" with the United States as a reason for his colleagues to swiftly go on record supporting Israel in the latest flare-up of violence in the Mideast.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:41 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 7:41 AM
Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946),
http://vho.org/F/b/CICR/index.html
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 04:10 AM
one of the documents the author is quoting...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:42 AM
Group Decries Bush's Law Interpretations
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report highly critical of the practice.
The ABA group, which includes a one-time FBI director and former federal appeals court judge, said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws.
The attachments, known as bill-signing statements, say Bush reserves a right to revise, interpret or disregard measures on national security and constitutional grounds
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:44 AM
Good Night Mr. Cicero! Sweet Dreams!
Nobody.. don't play stupid. We are both well aware you are not. You do - however - pick what you choose to pay attention to.
We both know you are avoiding where I pointed out the post from a Holocaust denying site. That is specifically what I am refering to .. nothing else. It's what we call sticking to what is germane.
Now, I need to nap or I won't be able to see to research.
And don't forget .. so you don't waste your time... I do not read the blog after I leave. Or .. I do suppose you could waste more of your time trying to convince me you are right on this matter. It won't work .. and not just because you are so clearly wrong on this entire Holocaust matter... more because I don't waste my time searching for my name when I am off-blog like others here.
Good Night .. Or Morning.
Posted by: Willow at July 24, 2006 7:45 AM
So What are you saying Nobs?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:46 AM
The establishment of Israel in the Mideast was a big mistake. A reflection of the arrogance of the times. The toothpaste is now out of the tube, what do you do now?
Posted by: You fix it! at July 24, 2006 7:48 AM
Posted by: Waiting for Cicero at July 24, 2006 07:41 AM
//[sorry]
This feature is only available for
the continental United States//
*
FUCK YOU AMERICA
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:48 AM
there for the grace of god
goes willow
: )
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 7:51 AM
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Company Starts Small
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- It's a dream that's been pursued for years by governments, energy companies and automakers so far without success: Mass-producing affordable hydrogen-powered cars that spew just clean water from their tailpipes. So Shanghai's Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies decided to start small. Really small.
This month, it will begin sales of a tiny hydrogen fuel-cell car, complete with its own miniature solar-powered refueling station. The toy is a step toward introducing the technology to the public and making it commercially viable.
"Public awareness and education are the first steps toward commercialization," said Horizon founder Taras Wankewycz, 32. "We want to make sure this technology gets adapted globally.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:52 AM
It is the goal of Castle Hill Publishers to scientifically investigate historical events, particularly those of the 20th century, without limitations imposed by dogmas or axioms.
It is also Castle Hill Publishers' goal to defend human rights and to combat discrimination, especially when it is directed against the German people. This shall be done within the widest possible framework and particularly by means of proper historical research into the events of the 20th century in Europe.
It is also Castle Hill Publishers' goal to correct unjust reporting or accounts of events of the 20th century. It is also the Foundation's goal to further public debate about the subject generally described as 'Holocaust'.
It is also Castle Hill Publishers' goal to financially assist Revisionists who, due to their work, are subjected to prosecution, physical assault or slander, or who are otherwise victimized or persecuted.
It is also the Foundation's goal to oppose, with all available legal means, those persons, institutions and organizations who denounce, charge, convict or otherwise inflict harm on Revisionists for not believing in the existence of gas chambers.
Lastly, it is Castle Hill Publishers' goal to restore, with all available legal means, the honor and reputation of all persons and/or organizations who are found to have been unjustly accused or even convicted of criminal acts, especially such as were allegedly committed during World War Two.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 7:53 AM
Arrested Bush Dissenters Eye Courts
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration's policies.
Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating "No More War." What could be more American, they thought, than mixing a little dissent with the bunting and buzz of a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by the president?
Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.
Authorities say they were arrested because they refused to obey reasonable security restrictions, but the women disagree: "Because I had a dissenting opinion, they did what they needed to do to get me out of the way," said Nelson, who teaches history and government at one of this city's middle schools.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>>>>>>>>
OK, someone elses turn to post news.
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 7:54 AM
This article is dedicated to a chemist, Primo Levi.
Abstract: Holocaust deniers base some of their arguments on the public's ignorance of history and science. Accurate information, not censorship, is the best antidote to their claims. 1.1 to 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. The predominant weapon of mass murder was Zyklon B, hydrogen cyanide in a solid support. Early forensic analysis, shortly after World War II, supports this fact. Several pseudo-scientific reports, most notably by Leuchter, Lüftl, and Rudolf, have attempted to shed doubt on the facts. A forensic analysis by the Institute for Forensic Research in Cracow confirms the presence of cyanide in the buildings said to have been exposed to it. The arguments made by deniers are distortions of fact. The deniers misrepresent the statistics of the dead, and misinterpret air photo evidence. The properties of hydrogen cyanide from Zyklon B are consistent with its use as an agent of mass murder. The fact that Prussian blue is prevalent in delousing facilities but not in homicidal chambers is not evidence that no gassings occurred. In fact, Prussian-blue formation is extremely sensitive to conditions, and it is quite reasonable that Prussian blue formed in the delousing chambers but not all of the gas chambers used for murder. It is easier to tell a lie than to prove a lie to be incorrect; nevertheless, accurate information and not censorship is the best response.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 7:55 AM
So What are you saying Nobs?
Posted by: Bob26003 at July 24, 2006 07:46 AM
I'm saying you are not allowed to criticize Israel or the holocaust is thrown up into your face.
I'm saying that common knowledge is quite often inaccurate.
I'm saying that you don't need to have a Hitler to see the horrors of war inflicted upon hundreds of thousands.
I'm saying that presupposing the need for a Hitler enables more atrocities to occur then it disallows.
I'm saying that the war always hurts the civilians worse than the soldiers...After all the soldiers must be well fed in able to fight their hardest right?
I'm saying that bombing of civilian infrastructure causes starvation, disease and death on massive scales.
I'm saying that the holocaust legend obscures more causes of horror than it reveals.
Did anyone here even know that the Eugenics thing that was the most hideous mork of Hitlers reign started right here in the good old US of A by the grandparents of those running our country right now?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 7:57 AM
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 07:55 AM
can you find an original citation...that site only cites itself.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:01 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:57 AM
you could have said all that without playing down the holocaust
whether your sources prove the holocaust was exxagerated or not
is not a necessary condition
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:05 AM
can you find an original citation...that site only cites itself.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 08:01 AM
That article uses footnotes from sources outside of the site ...
http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/chemistry/notes.shtml#note-67
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 8:06 AM
here are the first 5 listed
Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust, the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, New York: The Free Press, 1993 p. 1.
Yisrael Gutman, "Auschwitz - An Overview" in Y. Gutman, and M. Berenbaum, The Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, Bloomington: Indiana University Press and Washington DC: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1994, p. 6.
Primo Levi The Drowned and the Saved, New York: Random House, 1988.
Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein and Adalbert Rückerl, Nazi Mass Murder: A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, p. 139.
Franciszek Piper, "The Number of Victims" in Anatomy, op. cit., pp. 61-74.
Brian Harmon, "The Auschwitz Gambit: The Four Million Variant" http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/four-million-01.html
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 8:08 AM
you could have said all that without playing down the holocaust
whether your sources prove the holocaust was exxagerated or not
is not a necessary condition
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 08:05 AM
oh but what better example?...
It was after all thoth that brang it up and I use what's most readily available.
like for instance from kevins link...
Zykon B was a delousing agent...supposedly used to kill people...this is an obvious spin meant to fit the available evidence...how do I know?...
"In 1945, an examination by the Institute of Judicial Expertise in Krakow of a sample of hair found in Auschwitz revealed the presence of compounds of prussic acid, the basic component of Zyklon B gas used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Traces of the acid were also found in metal objects found in the hair, such as pins, clasps, and gold-plated spectacle holders."
Now how did it get on all of their belonging if they were undressed, gassed to death and then buried?
No they were deloused, then wearing the chemical back on their skin and hair got it on their belongings when they walked out alive.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:12 AM
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 08:08 AM
I was hoping more for the material published to the web for peer review...I would also note that those citations are all dated pretty recently...nothing from the actual period in question?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:15 AM
critical thinking wins you no friends.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:17 AM
That picture on this site http://vho.org .... shows this guy Germar Rudolf
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 8:18 AM
//oh but what better example?...//
you mean, "what better example to deviate from what i wanted to actually say"
anyway,
i listened to willow's audio-blog
& she's believes that 9/11 was the 9/11 that occured in the 9/11 commission
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:19 AM
I'm saying that bombing of civilian infrastructure causes starvation, disease and death on massive scales.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 07:57 AM
I wonder if Lebanon enjoyed seeing
Condi "war monger" Rice show up this morning
for her photo op just as Israel steps up the
shelling and invasion of Lebanon ?
No, she won't talk cease fire, you see there
has to be more blood and guts on the Lebanon
streets before you can have a "lasting peace".
Posted by: Ajax
at July 24, 2006 8:20 AM
I was hoping more for the material published to the web for peer review...I would also note that those citations are all dated pretty recently...nothing from the actual period in question?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 08:15 AM
Believe whatever you want to believe .... it's a free country.
Not my mission in life to change your mind.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 8:21 AM
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 08:18 AM
but apparently his findings agree with the link that you posted...
TESTA sold Zyklon in different concentrations. Invoices presented to municipal or industrial clients for fumigation of buildings were printed with columns headed C, D, E, and F, each denoting a category of potency and price. As explained in a letter to Osland, strength E was required for the eradication of specially resistant vermin, such as cockroaches, or for gassings in wooden barracks. The "normal" preparation D was used to exterminate lice, mice, or rats in large, well-built structures containing furniture. Human organisms in gas chambers were killed with Zyklon B.
note the last line is the authors assumption
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:22 AM
This is the paper by the chemist that the article cites...
Degesch publication, "Directives for the Use of Prussic Acid (Zyklon) for the Destruction of Vermin (Disinfestation)," NI-9912 as cited in Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989, Library of Congress 89-81305, p. 18.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:23 AM
WILLOW
salon.com also refuses to believe that election fraud is occurred
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:23 AM
//is occurred//
um,
god bless the internets
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:25 AM
Not my mission in life to change your mind.
Posted by: Kevin © at July 24, 2006 08:21 AM
keep that in mind...I hate being preached to for asking questions.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:27 AM
salon.com also refuses to believe that election fraud is occurred
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 08:23 AM
sometimes people hang on to beliefs because they use those beliefs to define themselves...and losing that belief would be like a form of death of self to them...They would lose definition...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:28 AM
Here's my view of how Condi's photo op
went with the Lebanese Prime Minister:
LPM: We want to negotiate an immediate
cease fire.
Condi: No, Israel needs to bomb and invade
you more before a lasting peace and new
Middle East can be birthed and kick off
its own blood sack.
LPM: We want to negotiate an immediate
cease fire.
Condi: [smile into the camera and waves]
LPM: We want an immediate ceare fire.
Condi: [looks at the LPM, smiles]
Thanks everyone, now I'm off to Israel.
Posted by: Ajax
at July 24, 2006 8:30 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 08:28 AM
true
it's called cognitive dissonance
(which i invented)
yet, my point still stands
that you're an idiot for broaching an emotive subject as a bridge to highlight your disgust with the world of geo-politics
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:33 AM
The horror continues because the root cause of it will never be examined so long as their is a monster to blame it on...no one will ever believe their leader is a monster...the germans didn't...
Now who is it that would want you to believe that war itself isn't the monster?
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:34 AM
Aliens?
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 8:39 AM
As for Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue.
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 8:46 AM
that you're an idiot for broaching an emotive subject as a bridge to highlight your disgust with the world of geo-politics
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 08:33 AM
You misunderstand my disgust completely...It's humanity itself that's disgusting me...
Feeling all good about themselves by reciting a legend while ignoring their own countrys complicity...
A legend mind you that's been used as a shield to commit even more atrocity in the name of conquest...
Hitler thought that he was defending himself too when he began his preemptive wars...
You haven't noticed the calls in our government recently for those camps that are all over the country to be turned into work camps filled with illegal immigrants?
You know that's what the jews were considered to be in germany...illegal immigrants...
The same thing is going happen again...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:46 AM
make sure to read the comments...
GAMLA: News and Views from Israel / YNET
IDF has started building detention compound to be used for holding Hizbullah members that will be captured during fighting in north. Officials: Project attests to government's plans for large-scale ground incursion in Lebanon Sharon Roffe-Ofir
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:48 AM
well if that does happen, afterwards, you will
say it didn't happen, so really what is the point
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 8:48 AM
well if that does happen, afterwards, you will say it didn't happen, so really what is the point
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 08:48 AM
no I will say that you never recognized it happening in time to stop it because you thought that it happened a different way...
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:50 AM
Posted by: conbo at July 24, 2006 8:51 AM
Look ma...no gas chambers...so it isn't happening...
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Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:52 AM
i came in @ about 130 comments
500 comments later i'm still here
so i'll listen to some more of wil's audio-blog
& drift off...
maybe one day i can have a coffee tete-a-tete with you guys
talk about the big issues over a big salad
but first i'll have to make inroads into what bedevills me
otherwise, no tete-a-tete
no pan-cakes
no nothing
Posted by: air-ono at July 24, 2006 8:57 AM
No really...it's not happening...
FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders
There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list. The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:58 AM
Posted by: Nobody at July 24, 2006 8:59 AM
