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July 6, 2010 | 
Author Dog Poet tells it how it is again.
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
It’s hard to find something to write about anymore. Of course, there are many situations and subjects that keep moving toward some unknown destination. All over the world there are conditions and pressures that interconnect with other conditions and pressures around the world. Perhaps the most mystifying feature is the world press. Major cataclysmic events are in operation or soon to be and the press is having tea with advertisers and reality TV stars. You wouldn’t (and don’t) know that much of anything that is happening is actually happening.
The situation in the Gulf of Mexico is off the charts and a number of police and enforcement agents are in operation to hinder the access of people seeking to study and report on what is happening. It appears that it has been made a felony to approach locations within a certain distance for the purpose of taking photos. This is in violation of laws that allow citizens to have access to public beaches and other locations. Workers involved in the cleanup are forbidden to speak to anyone about what they are doing.
BP is a company that is largely owned by front corporations that are owned by Rothschild. The press is 96% owned by Zionist concerns. The situation in the Middle East has been made the way it is by the same interests, starting with the 9/11 attack which was carried out by Israeli and American intelligence forces, which also engineered the attack on Afghanistan, which dummied up the false intel on Iraq and is now engaged in an all out effort to accomplish an attack on Iran. When you consider that ICTS was the security firm in charge of all 9/11 airports, the London Tube and the Madrid train station; it is pretty obvious who the bad guys are……..
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The General, the Journalist, and the Power of Israel
“As You Know, I Didn’t Say That”
by Gary Leupp [Original Source...]
Philip Weiss, who runs a blog called Mondoweiss (War of Ideas in the Middle East) has just posted a remarkable piece entitled “Petraeus Emails Show General Scheming with Journalist to Get out pro-Israel storyline.”
If true, it is a tale of honesty and dishonesty, opportunism, and cowardice. It indicates that Gen. David Petraeus, who just replaced Gen. McChrystal as commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, has frankly assessed that the intimate U.S. relationship with Israel is costing U.S. lives in the Middle East. But he’s concerned that his views may cost him politically and so uses buddies in the media to conceal them.
Since the story’s a bit complicated I thought I’d arrange the material in a straightforward chronology.
Dec. 2009: on orders from Gen. Petraeus, then Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), a team of military officers tours the Middle East, interviewing senior Arab leaders who tell them that U.S. inability to force Israel to end settlements is making the U.S. look weak and also spreading anti-American feeling throughout the region.
Jan. 16, 2010: this team is sent by Petraeus to the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 45-minute 33 slide PowerPoint briefing stuns Mullen with its message that U.S. failure to constrain Israel is damaging U.S. interests throughout Southwest Asia.
Jan. 18: Petraeus sends a paper to Mullen (or according to another report, the White House) requesting that the West Bank and Gaza (which now, with Israel, falls under the European Command [EUCOM]), be included within CENTCOM. He argues that this would indicate to Arab leaders that the U.S. understood that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the central one in the region. (An unnamed Pentagon official has confirmed that this proposal was “dead on arrival”).
March: White House sends special envoy for the Middle East, George Mitchell, on a visit to Arab capitals and Israel to encourage Israeli-Palestinian talks. He is in Israel March 9.
March 9: Mullen visits Israel to meet with Israeli Chief of General Staff, Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi. He tells him that Israel has to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “in a larger, regional, context” as having a direct impact on America’s status in the region. (That is to say: continued defiance of Obama’s call for a freeze on settlement on the West Bank is directly hurting U.S. interests throughout the Arab world.)
March 9: On the very same day, Vice President Joe Biden is also in Israel. He’s embarrassed by an Israeli announcement that the Netanyahu government will be building 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem in defiance of Obama’s urging that there be a freeze to allow for Israeli-Palestinian talks. Biden has a private, angry exchange with the Israeli Prime Minister, telling him: “This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you’re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. That endangers us, and it endangers regional peace.”
March 11: Israeli journalist, Shimon Shiffer, publishes article entitled “Biden: You’re Jeopardizing Regional Peace” in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He reports: “The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel’s actions and US policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops fighting against Islamic terrorism.”
March 13: Mark Perry, a military and intelligence analyst on the Middle East for 20 years, posts an article on the Foreign Policy blog entitled “The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story” revealing Petraeus’ actions and noting the “January Mullen briefing was unprecedented. No previous CENTCOM commander had ever expressed himself on what is essentially a political issue; which is why the briefers were careful to tell Mullen that their conclusions followed from a December 2009 tour of the region where, on Petraeus’s instructions, they spoke to senior Arab leaders.”
March 16: neocon, Max Boot, member of the Council of Foreign Relations, tries to refute Perry’s piece on the blog of Commentary magazine (a monthly on politics and Judaism and considered a leading voice of neoconservatism), stating “I asked a military officer who is familiar with the briefing in question and with Petraeus’s thinking on the issue to clarify matters. He told me that Perry’s item was ‘incorrect.’” He quotes the unnamed officer [whom Perry believes is Petreus, for reasons which will become clear] as stating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only “one of many issues, among which also is the unwillingness to recognize Israel and the unwillingness to confront the extremists who threaten Israelis.” Boot adds: “That’s about what I expected: Petraeus holds a much more realistic and nuanced view than the one attributed to him by terrorist groupie Mark Perry.” (This is an allusion to the fact that Perry has interviewed members of Hezbollah and Hamas, and written a book entitled Talking to Terrorists.)
March 16: Petraeus in written testimony tells Congress: “The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests. . . Israeli-Palestinian tensions often flare into violence and large-scale armed confrontations. The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples in the [region] and weakens the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab world. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support. . .”
March 16: On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin calls concerns about Israeli settlements “this manufactured Israeli controversy.” She writes “the Obama Administration has decided to escalate, make unilateral demands of Israel, and threaten the very foundation of the US-Israel relationship. This is quickly leading to the worst crisis in US-Israel relations in decades, and yet this did not have to happen. More importantly, it needs to stop before it spirals out of control.”
March 18: M. J. Rosenberg writes a piece entitled “On The Middle East: It’s Palin vs. Petraeus & New Poll” posted on the Political Correction blog of the Media Matters Action Network in which he praises Petraeus’s views on Israel/Palestine. He notes that Petraeus is spoken of as a Republican candidate for President and contrasts his views with those of Palin.
March 18, 2:18: Michael Gfoeller, a State Department Policy Advisor serving CENTCOM, forwards Rosenberg’s story to Petraeus with the subject line: “FW: On the Middle East: It’s Palin vs Petraeus.” His message is short: “Sir: FYI. Mike.”
2:27: Petraeus forwards the story to Commentary’s Boot, stating: “As you know, I didn’t say that. It’s in a written submission for the record…” He means that the above-quoted Congressional testimony wasn’t in his oral remarks but in the 56-page document plainly entitled “Statement of General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army Commander, US Central Command before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the posture of US Central Command, 16 Mar 2010.”
2:31: Boot responds to Petraeus: “Oh brother. Luckily it’s only media matters [the Media Matters Network] which has no credibility but think I will do another short item pointing people to what you actually said as opposed to what’s in the posture statement.”
2:37: Petraeus responds to Boot: “Thx, Max. (Does it help if folks know that I hosted Elie Wiesel and his wife at our quarters last Sun night?! And that I will be the speaker at the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in mid-Apr at the Capitol Dome…)”
2:45: Boot to Petraeus: “No don’t think that’s relevant because you’re not being accused of being anti-Semitic.”
2:57: Petraeus: “Roger! 
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3:11: Boot files a story on the Commentary blog, “A Lie: David Petraeus, Anti-Israel.” He attacks “misleading commentary that continues to emerge, attributing anti-Israeli sentiment to Gen. David Petraeus.” He dismisses the “posture statement” as a filing from “Petraeus’s staff.” Concludes: “General Petraeus obviously doesn’t see the Israeli-Arab ‘peace process’ as a top issue for his command, because he didn’t even raise it in his opening statement. When he was pressed on it, he made a fairly anodyne [pain-soothing] statement about the need to encourage negotiations to help moderate Arab regimes. That’s it. He didn’t say that all settlements had to be stopped or that Israel is to blame for the lack of progress in negotiations. And he definitely didn’t say that the administration should engineer a crisis in Israeli-U.S. relations in order to end the construction of new housing for Jews in East Jerusalem.”
March 19: Activist James Morris, who runs the website “Neocon Zionist Threat to America” and sends out endless emails with detailed links to media and officials, sends Petraeus an email congratulating him on his statement to Congress. Petraeus merely responds by forwarding the Commentary piece by Boot and the message: “FYI.” The general doesn’t realize it, but underneath the Commentary piece is the entire exchange with Boot quoted above. That’s why we know about it.
March 20: Morris emails Petraeus trying to engage him further on the issue. Petraeus replies: “Thanks, James. Frankly, I’d like to let all this die down at this point, if that’s possible! All best —”
May: Morris shares the emails with Philip Weiss of the Mondoweiss (War of Ideas in the Middle East) blog. (This is affiliated with The Nation magazine). Weiss overlooks it at the time.
Late June: after McChrystal is fired and replaced by Petraeus, Morris sends Weiss an email with subject line: “Did you read my exchange with Petraeus” and Weiss finally reads it
July 2: Weiss posts his article. Now, what — if the story’s true –does all this tell us? It seems to me it indicates the following:
(1) Petraeus genuinely believes that Israeli actions threaten what he sees as U.S. interests in the region, and endanger U.S. troops;
(2) he doesn’t want to say this too loudly or want the voting public to think about this;
(3) he wants to run for president, and to position himself against Palin;
(4) there are people in the State Department (like Gfoeller) who’d like to help him do that;
(5) he’s deeply concerned about the Jewish vote (Does it help if folks know that I hosted Elie Wiesel and his wife at our quarters last Sun night?! );
(6) he has a close relationship with Boot, whom you notice, doesn’t bother to call him “Sir;” and
(7) he’s indiscreet in handling his email correspondence.
The people fighting the 94,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan are mainly Pashtun nationalists energized by jihadist Islam. They’re not much interested in Israel-Palestine which is very far away but when they hear about the plight of the Palestinians it probably increases their anger at the invaders. In that sense, the close U.S.-Israeli partnership may indeed threaten their lives. Maybe the troops ought to know that a general who believes that (but doesn’t want to say so out loud) is now leading them.
Oh, and could some journalist ask about this at the next Defense Department news briefing?
Israeli soldier faces manslaughter charge in Gaza incursion
Jerusalem (CNN) — An Israeli soldier faces a manslaughter charge in the death of a Palestinian waving a white flag during a three-week incursion into Gaza, the Israeli military said Tuesday.
The criminal indictment is one of a few disciplinary actions being taken by the Israeli Defense Forces for conduct in the Gaza incursion, including the use of a Palestinian man as a “human shield,” the military said in a news release.
In that incident, a battalion commander authorized sending a Palestinian man into a house sheltering terrorists in order to persuade them to leave the house, the IDF news release said. The commander was indicted “because he deviated from authorized and appropriate IDF behavior” and ignored rules on the use of civilians in military operations, it said.
Israeli investigators looked into more than 150 incidents during Operation Cast Lead undertaken by Israel in late 2008 in response to an escalation of Palestinian rocket attacks, and conducted 50 probes, the IDF said.
Tuesday’s news release also said a criminal investigation has been ordered into an incident in which a residence with about 100 people inside was struck from the air, and an officer had been disciplined for failing to exercise appropriate judgment in ordering an attack close to a mosque.
But the Palestinians say Israel’s actions are unsatisfactory.
“I think Israel should take all responsibility for all the war crimes that it is responsible for during its unjustified war in Gaza, and what they just announced is too little too late,” Palestinian spokesman Ghassan Khatib told CNN.
Since 2007, at Least $3 Billion Has Left Afghanistan by Plane in Boxes and Suitcases
Via: Der Spiegel:
Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off aid to the Afghan government.
Brigadier General Mohammed Asif Jabarkhel sits with folded arms in his office, just a few steps away from the security checkpoint at Kabul International Airport. “Of course I know what’s going on here,” the 59-year-old head of the airport’s customs police grumbles from beneath his thick moustache as a fan whirs in the background. “But, in this country, who’s allowed to speak the truth?”
Jabarkhel is referring to the huge amounts of money regularly being secreted out of Afghanistan by plane in boxes and suitcases. According to some estimates, since 2007, at least $3 billion (€2.4 billion) in cash has left the country in this way. The preferred destination for these funds is Dubai, the tax haven in the Persian Gulf. And, given the fact that Afghanistan’s total GDP amounts to the equivalent of $13.5 billion, there is no way that the funds involved in this exodus are merely the proceeds of legal business transactions.
Police: Catholic priest stole $1M for male escorts
A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotels and restaurants.
Waterbury police say the 64-year-old Rev. Kevin J. Gray was charged Tuesday with first-degree larceny. Gray is the former pastor at Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon Parish in Waterbury.
The Hartford Archdiocese last month asked police to investigate after it discovered during a financial review that he might have taken more than a million dollars for personal use.
Gray was Sacred Heart’s pastor from January 2003 until April 15, when he was granted a medical leave. He was later suspended but still lives there.
Telephone messages were left at Sacred Heart and the office of his public defender.
Child Rape is Ok as Long as It Doesn’t Put a Damper on Your Wedding!
By Neil Foster
In an article appearing in today’s Irish Independent titled “Newly-wed who had sex with girl (12) walks free from court” we hear the story of a young 12 year old girl who was sexually assaulted and raped by upto 60 different men with only 21 being named. I wonder who the others were? Were they too important to be named?
The guy who walked free from court was 19 at the time and received an 18 month suspended sentence for his monstrous crime. This creep, who has 2 young children of his own and stated that the events “had put a damper on his wedding day”, was part of what can only be described as a major paedophile ring yet because he said he was sorry he got off with it. Where are the social services when a convicted paedophile is left in charge of 2 young children behind closed doors? Two other paedophile rapists aged 30 and 34 are serving jail sentences for the same crime, against the same young girl, although the article does not mention for how long.
The victim herself, kept a diary in which she had the names of 60 men involved but only named 21 of them. The victim, now 20, later stated that she didn’t feel raped but simply that her childhood had been lost.
Since when is getting raped by 21 men when you’re a 12 year old child not feel like rape?
This girl has been so traumatised it appears that she cannot seem to understand what has been done to her and indeed how she has been used by these disgusting predatory animals of the human species. They are the dregs of society and should be locked away indefinitely. They are clearly an incurable danger to every child who comes into contact with them.
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BP oil spill: all states along Gulf of Mexico affected by slick
Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill have been found on a Texas beach, the first evidence that crude from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well has reached all the Gulf states.
A Coast Guard official said it was possible that the oil hitched a ride on a ship and was not carried naturally by currents to the barrier islands of the eastern Texas coast, but there was no way to know.
The amount is tiny in comparison to what has coated beaches in the hardest-hit parts of the Gulf coast in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle but it still provoked the quick dispatch of cleaning crews and a vow that BP will pay for the trouble.
Israel Details Easing of Its Gaza Blockade
JERUSALEM — Israel on Monday announced details of the easing of its blockade of Gaza, and the Israeli defense minister held a rare face-to-face meeting here with the Palestinian prime minister in a flurry of activity apparently intended to show diplomatic momentum ahead of the Israeli prime minister’s meeting with President Obama, scheduled for Tuesday in Washington.
Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press
Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, left, met with the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, in Jerusalem on Monday.
After a rocky few months in Israeli-American relations, officials on both sides seemed eager to move to a smoother footing and show progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in which the Obama administration has invested heavily.
American-brokered indirect peace talks started in May after a year of efforts. Daniel Shapiro, a senior Middle East adviser at the National Security Council, said Friday that in the weeks since, “the gaps have been narrowed.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said over the weekend that the “main goal” of his meeting with Mr. Obama would be to advance to direct talks with the Palestinians, as well as to discuss security issues like Iran’s nuclear drive. Yossi Gal, the director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said the “significant steps” that Israel had taken regarding Gaza would also be raised.
But Palestinians say little has been achieved so far, and they have tried to dispel any inflated notions of progress. “What I see is all public relations,” Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Monday by telephone.
Berlusconi must resign: Italy’s Dems
Pier Luigi Bersani, Chairman of The Democratic Party of Italia
The Democratic Party of Italy, the main center-left opposition party in the country, has called for the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
According to IRNA, the party called for the resignation amid a deepening political wrangling and disagreement between Berlusconi and his conservative ally Gianfranco Fini, who is also the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Political strife within Italy’s biggest center-right political party, Party of Freedom, led by Berlusconi has intensified after he threatened Fini of expulsion from the party over a controversial wiretap law that analysts say has been tailor-made to shield Berlusconi from prosecution.
Speaking to Sky TG24 news channel on Monday, Enrico Letta the Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party said “Italy is in dire need of a government that is capable of governing the country at a time of economic crisis.”
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IKEA MUST BE ADDED TO THE BOYCOTT LIST
Here’s a new one…. IKEA ships their goods to the illegal settlements in the West Bank….. but NOT to Palestinian cities.
Adri Nieuwhof
Swedish Radio reported on 23 June that home furnishings retail giant IKEA in Israel discriminately ships to Israel’s illegal settlements but not Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank.
More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico
BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.
British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.
BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been spilling between 3,681,500 litres and 911,454,000 litres of oil into the sea per day since it exploded on April 22.
The spill is already being labeled as America’s worst environmental disaster and has turned into a economic and PR nightmare for the British company.
Bibi Back at the White House — The Consistency of Israeli Duplicity Comes Ever More Clearly into Focus
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House July 6th, it’s time to recall how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
U.S. military leaders will be watching this meeting very closely, as will the veterans community.
For me, confirmation of Israel’s strategic duplicity came in a meeting with Harry McPherson who served as counsel and speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson. LBJ entered the Senate in 1948 with Louisiana Senator Russell Long for whom I served as counsel and speechwriter.
At his law offices in Washington, Harry described his arrival in Tel Aviv the night that the 1967 War began. That war typifies the consistency of this ongoing deceit.
He flew in the night before from Vietnam through Hong Kong. He knew on arrival that something was amiss because the airport lights were off. He checked into his hotel and was awakened early on June 5th by Wally Barbour, the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
A pear-shaped diplomat with a penchant for yellowing Palm Beach suits, Barbour called to tell Harry that the war had just broken out—to which he replied, “But I just come from the war.”
Barbour picked him up at the hotel and they hurried to the foreign ministry for a brief meeting before conferring with the Israeli chief of military intelligence. In response to their repeated question, “Did the Egyptians attack?” McPherson and Barbour received only evasive answers. As air raid sirens wailed, McPherson recalls in A Political Education:
Barbour suggested that we might continue the discussion in the underground bunker. The general studied his watch. “No, that won’t be necessary. We can stay here.” Barbour and I looked at each other. If it wasn’t necessary, the Egyptian air force had been destroyed. That could only have happened so quickly if it had been surprised on the ground. We did not need to ask for confirmation, but left at once to cable the news to Washington.
Israel was neither under attack nor under threat of attack as its leadership has since conceded. Air raid sirens were just props in the stagecraft of waging war by way of deception.
The Israel-as-victim storyline was stage-managed by Zionist extremists to make both Israeli citizens and foreign observers believe that the Jewish state was endangered. As with the phony intelligence that induced the U.S. to war in Iraq in March 2003, the facts in June 1967 differed dramatically from the geopolitical narrative.
Under cover of that false attack, Tel Aviv occupied land belonging to its neighbors. The bulk of that property is still held by force 43 years later with the support of the U.S. as its oft-duped ally.
Announcing a Small Victory over Israel
The center of the old city of Hebron turned to a concentration camp under the war criminal Udi Ben Moha!!
Israel does not care about the Palestinian negotiator and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. They do not care about the American envoy Georg Mitchell or US President Barak Obama. Israel deals with everybody from the position of absolute and god-given superiority, with the arrogance of a zionist occupier, of a “negotiator” who has become accustomed to think that everybody is enslaved to the zionist organizations. On the other hand, the arrogant zionists of the Israeli occupation calculate a thousand times the consequences of their crimes, they hold emergency sessions to manage possible consequences whenever a government official or one of the military war criminals plans to travel abroad.
Israel is well aware that their crimes will not be forgotten over the years, or that they can get away with signing sham agreements imposed by force on the subservient and illegitimate PA. Crimes are crimes and criminals remain criminals until they are subject to trials and punished, each criminal and each punishment according to the crime. We Palestinians think in this way. All victims of the Israeli genocide and war crimes are waiting for the day of justice. The political negotiations and “review meetings” and supposed agreements which Israel thinks will help release their criminals from the responsibility for their crimes, are all useless for the victims of the Israeli occupation. Only justice in all outstanding issues could resolve the injustice of the oppressed Palestinians.
Top Catholic Priest Accused of Sexually Abusing His Own Sons
A prominent Catholic priest, praised by Pope John Paul II as “an efficacious guide to youth,” Father Marcial Maciel, sexually abused not only young seminarians under his control but also abused his own children, according to a lawsuit filed today in Connecticut by a man who claims to be Maciel’s son.
In an interview to be broadcast Monday evening on ABC News Nightline, the priest’s son, Raul Gonzalez, 30, says he thought his father worked for the CIA or an international oil company, until he saw the priest’s picture in a 1997 magazine article detailing allegations of sexual abuse.
“My mom said, ‘Is that you?’ and my dad said, ‘No, it’s not me’ and my mom said, ‘Yeah, it’s you,’” recalled Gonzalez in the interview, conducted by Jason Berry, an investigative journalist who first reported on widespread sexual abuse by Maciel at the Legion of Christ and writes for the National Catholic Reporter.
The Legion of Christ has acknowledged that Father Maciel fathered at least one child as a priest.