tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36943162361733149972024-02-29T07:37:54.240+00:00REALITY and ILLUSIONThis blog revolves around the dual concepts of “Reality” and “Illusion”. In the post 9/11 world it can be difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion as facts are altered and new pseudo-realities are created. In 2002 a White House aide said: “We’re an empire now and when we act we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality we’ll act again, creating other new realities.”
There is also the ultimate Reality - alluded to in the very first post of this blog.Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-81601118600616819652019-12-03T19:18:00.000+00:002019-12-03T19:18:46.981+00:00A Public Execution on London Bridge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mainstream Media (MSM), controlled by billionaire backers of the Tory Party, have spun the following story:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dead man, Usman Khan, was a "terrorist" - what else? - who had been released from prison a year ago, in December 2018. On 29/11/2019 he had been attending a seminar organised by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, which was designed to help offenders - convicted murderers and hardened ex-convicts among them - reintegrate into society following their release from prison. The seminar was held in Fishmongers' Hall, near London Bridge. Usman, it is claimed, was electronically tagged and was under surveillance since his release from prison. So far so good.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hereabouts the tale doing the rounds in MSM becomes more interesting. Usman seems to have flipped at the seminar and threatened to blow up the hall. What is more, he was wearing a fake suicide jacket and he had two kitchen knives taped to his wrists! Now, we live in a society which is hyper conscious about security. Id cards for employees are ubiquitous and visitors to another commercial set-up have to pass through strict security. And here was a feared "terrorist" sauntering around wearing a suicide jacket and two knives! Where were the security staff? Surely, hardened ex-criminals and murderers needed to be watched closely? So far no pictures have emerged showing our "terrorist" resplendent in a suicide jacket - a fake one, mind - and matching kit of two kitchen knives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, pictures of a man with bushy eyebrows are plastered all over the MSM. We are told this is how Usman looked. I came across a video on YouTube which took the mickey out of this claim. At 20, Usman had beautifully shaped eyebrows which seem to have turned into hideous bushy ones 8 years later! Enjoy the video:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The suicide jacket being fake, did not work, of course. So our intrepid "terrorist" whipped out his knives and began stabbing people right and left. Alas, he had miscalculated! He met his match in a convicted murderer, a fellow attendee on the Learning Together seminar, and a Polish chef. Faced with such determined resistance our "terrorist" turned tail and fled, presumably with two kitchen knives <b>dripping with blood </b>held in his hands. Where does he go? To London Bridge, of course, the well known place for stabbings just before a General Election called by a Tory Prime Minister. The General Election of 2017 was held on 8 June 2017 when Theresa May was Prime Minister, and the London Bridge stabbings occurred on 3 June, 2017. The General Election of 2019 is being held on 12 December and the stabbings took place on 29 November. As a matter of fact, the 2017 General Election was far bloodier. On 22 May 2017, two weeks before election day, a massacre took place in the Manchester Arena when 23 people died. Will Boris Johnson's General Election be content with one atrocity or is a second barbarity waiting to burst on the scene?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let us continue with the story. Usman Khan is now on London Bridge, presumably spattered with blood all over, wielding two bloodied knives in hands which must also be drenched in blood. Altogether, he is said to have injured several people, two of whom died. Usman is now confronted by a brave "off-duty plain-clothes Transport police officer" who, with equally brave members of the public, disarms Usman and runs off with a single <b>spotless</b> knife with not a drop of blood on it (it is not clear where the second knife disappeared). This cop/secret agent, or perhaps a magician, has somehow ensured that no traces of blood will soil his hands or clothes! After his departure, Usman is held down by fearless members of the public, apparently his suicide jacket holds no terror for them. At that point the City of London police arrive who pull the man sitting atop Usman away, point their guns at Usman and execute him! He did have a suicide jacket on, didn't he? How were the police to know it was fake? See? Dead men tell no tales!</span><br />
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This is the man alleged to be "Transport Police officer, off-duty, in plain clothes", who ran off with a spotless knife. Not one drop of blood on it. Was he an undercover cop or MI5 agent? Who knows?<br />
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The video below shows him running away from the crime scene with the "murder weapon". It was put up on the Daily Mirror website with his face covered up.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click on the link below to see the "plain-clothes, off-duty police officer" running away with the "murder weapon". </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-bridge-terror-attack-hero-20990888">Let us remove the murder weapon from the scene of crime</a><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The London Bridge Execution provided an immediate spur to the Tories' campaign against Labour. Within two hours of the Execution the political spin had begun. A totally fake tweet surfaced on the Twitter platform, attributed to the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, complete with his picture:</span><br />
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The idea, apparently, is to deliver a knock-out blow to Labour Party in the General Election on 12 December. Conservatives, of course, wax eloquent on all things criminal and seek to toughen the punishments meted out by courts. The scourge of the capitalist class, Jeremy Corbyn, takes a more humane approach to the subject of Crime and Punishment.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy Corbyn is being demonised relentlessly by MSM, led by the state broadcaster, BBC (aka The Bull**** Broadcasting Corporation). The Chief Rabbi in the country has been roped in to do his bit in this demonisation process. The most potent weapon that Corbyn's opponents wield against him is the utterly false charge of anti-Semitism - against him personally, and against the Labour Party.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anti-Semitism is minuscule in the Labour Party, far less than in other political parties. Corbyn himself is totally free of any racial or religious prejudices. Here is a link to an excellent article on this subject:</span><br />
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<a href="https://off-guardian.org/2019/11/27/everything-you-really-need-to-know-about-labours-antisemitism/">The Reality of anti-semitism in the Labour Party</a><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tories have the backing of oligarchs who control the dishonest MSM. The billionaires have poured millions into the election campaign hoping to secure victory for their party. All kinds of funny things are going on, one of which is the subject of this blog. When a religious leader tells his followers to vote for a particular party - as Rabbi Mirvis has done - then we have the repellent spectacle of religion being dragged into politics. Imagine a Muslim religious leader telling his followers to vote Labour! All hell would break loose and the MSM would go berserk. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am voting Labour. I would be delighted if the obnoxious Trump poodle Johnson lost the election and Jeremy Corbyn formed a new government after 12 December. As the Labour slogan says: FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">پاکستان میں آج کل ایک مذہبی سیاستدان بنام فضل الرحمان آئینی حکومت گرانے کے لئے سر توڑ کوشش کر رہا ہے- اس کا فسادی مارچ (جسے وہ "آزادی مارچ" کہتا ہے) 27 اکتوبر کو کراچی سے شروع ہوا اور سندھ و پنجاب سے گزرتا ہوا 31 اکتوبر کو اسلام آباد پہنچا- تب سے وہاں ایک "فتنہ دھرنا" قائم ہے جہاں کئی ہزار مرد (جن میں اکثر بلوچستان اور پختونخواہ کے مدارس کے طلبا ہیں) براجمان ہیں- خیال ہے کہ ان کی تعداد لگ بھگ 30 ہزار ہے جس میں ڈنڈا برداروں کے دستے بھی شامل ہیں- یہ بھی کہا جاتا ہے کہ ان کے پاس بارودی اسلحہ اور مہلک ہتھیار بھی ہیں - اس فوج ظفر موج کی خوراک اور دیکھ بھال پہ روزانہ کروڑوں روپے اٹھ جاتے ہیں- ایک اہم سوال یہ ہے کہ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">فضل کی اصلیت عظیم صحافی جولین اسانج کے سائبر خانے "وکی لیکس" میں بے نقاب ہو چکی ہے- بقول وکی لیکس جب فضل امریکی سفیر این پٹرسن کے سامنے گڑ گڑا چکا تو این نے اپنے صدر کو واشنگٹن میں پیغام بھیجا: "فضل نے یہ واضح کر دیا ہے کہ پاکستانی پارلیمان میں اس کے ووٹ فروخت کے لئے </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">حاضر ہیں"! وکی لیکس کے انکشافات کا ذکر میں اپنے ایک گزشتہ بلاگ میں کر چکا ہوں جو آپ نیچے دیا ہوا رابطہ دبا کر پڑھ سکتے ہیں</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">آئینی حکومت کو گرانے کی کوششوں میں حزب اختلاف کی علاقائی جماعتوں کے علاوہ دونوں بڑی ملک گیر جماعتیں بھی شامل ہیں- سزا یافتہ مجرم نواز شریف، جس کے پاس اپنی پارٹی کا کوئی عہدہ نہیں، اپنے بستر علالت سے احکامات جاری کرتا ہے اور پارٹی کے عہدے دار بلا چوں و چرا سر تسلیم خم کر کے فضل کے ساتھ آئینی حکومت گرانے کی سازشوں میں مصروف ہو جاتے ہیں- اسی طرح "عوام کی پارٹی" کا کرتا دھرتا بلاول بھٹو بھی حکومت گرانے میں فضل کے ساتھ کھڑا ہے-- اس وقت پاکستان کی "جمہوریت" کے متعفن جوہڑ میں بے ضمیر اور بے حس لوگ کس امید پر ڈبکیاں لگا رہے ہیں؟</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">پاکستانی صحافت میں ایسے لوگ جن کو حالات کی نزاکت کا صحیح اندازہ ہو شائد ایک ہاتھ کی انگلیوں پہ گنے جا سکتے ہیں- بہت سے صحافی پاکستان کے دشمنوں سے اپنے قلم کا سودا کر چکے ہیں- ایسے کم علم صحافیوں کی بھی کمی نہیں جو اتنی بڑی سازش کو پاکستان کی اندرونی سیاست کہہ کر اپنے بے معنی "تجزیوں" سے صفحے سیاہ کرتے ہیں </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">پاکستان کے متعلق بات کرنے سے پہلے کچھ دوسرے اسلامی ملکوں پہ ایک نگاہ ڈال کے ہم بہت کچھ سمجھ سکتے ہیں- عراق، لیبیا اور شام پہ تباہی نازل ہونے کی بنیادی وجہ ان ممالک کی خود مختار حکمت عملی تھی جس سے امریکی (یاصیہونی) مالی نظام اور اقتصادی قوت پہ ضرب پڑتی تھی- صدام حسین، قذافی اور بشار الاسد، تینوں ڈالری نظام کے قید خانے سے نکل کے سونے پہ مبنی سکہ رائج کرنے کے خواہشمند تھے- اس گستاخی کی سزا بہت عبرت ناک تھی- عراق اور لیبیا تباہ ہو چکے ہیں اور صدام و قذافی موت کی آغوش میں جا سوۓ ہیں- صرف بشار زندہ بچا ہے جو اپنے وطن کو امریکیوں/اسرئیلیوں اور ان کے خونخوار داعش دہشتگردوں کی گرفت سے آزاد کرانے کے لئے روس اور ایران کی مدد سے لڑ رہا ہے- ان تین ممالک سے قبل امریکی "سوپر پاور" نے تونس اور مصر میں "عرب بہار" کی ہوائیں بھیج کر ابن علی اور حسنی مبارک سے چھٹکارا حاصل کر لیا تھا- اب وہاں امریکہ کی فرمانبردار حکومتیں ہیں اور امریکہ/اسرائیل مطمئن ہیں- جن اسلامی ممالک نے امریکہ/اسرائیل کے سامنے گھٹنے ٹیک کے تابعداری کی زنجیر گلے میں ڈال لی وہ بچ گئے:سعودی عرب، متحدہ امارات، قطر وغیرہ </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">گزشتہ ستمبر عمران خان نے اقوام متحدہ میں کھڑے ہو کر جو تقریر کی تھی اس نے امریکہ/اسرئیل اور انکے حلیف بھارت میں خطرے کی گھنٹیاں بجا دی تھیں- اس تقریر میں عمران نے جرات و بیباکی سے "غریب" ممالک کی دولت خود غرض حکمرانوں کے توسط سے امیر ممالک میں منتقل ہونے کی روداد بیان کی تھی- اس دولت کا باہر جانے کے بعد واپس آنا محال ہو جاتا ہے جب کہ پاکستان کے مالی جرائم کے مرتکب لوگوں کو مغرب میں پناہ دے دی جاتی ہے- ان ممالک کی اخلاقی اقدار کا پول عمران نے ان کی اسلام کو بدنام کرنے کی سازش کا ذکر کر کے کھول دیا تھا- آخر میں مقبوضہ کشمیر میں بھارت کے مظالم کا تفصیل سے تذکرہ کر کے عمران نے بھارت کی مکاری اور درندگی سے ساری دنیا کو آگاہ کر دیا-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">عین<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> اس وقت جب امریکہ و اسرائیل سعودی عرب کو اسلامی ملک ایران کے خلاف جنگ پہ ابھار رہے تھے عمران نے ایران اور سعودی کے دورے کر کے ان میں صلح کرانے کی کوشش کی اور جنگ کا خطرہ ٹل گیا-</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> مندرجہ بالا وجوہ کی بنا پہ <span style="font-size: small;">ان تین ممالک (اور ان کے حلیفوں) کے لئے عمران ایک ناپسندیدہ شخصیت </span> بن چکا ہے<span style="font-size: small;"> جسے راہ سے ہٹانا ضروری ہے- اس کے لئے انہوں نے ایک ماہر شاطر کی طرح پاکستان کی بساط پہ اپنے مہروں کو حرکت دینی شروع کر دی ہے- ایک اہم مہرہ وہ خود غرض، </span>بے ضمیر <span style="font-size: small;">اور لالچی شخص ہے جو دارالحکومت میں دھرنا </span> دیئے<span style="font-size: small;"> ہوۓ ہے- دوسرا اتنا ہی اہم مہرہ سزا یافتہ مجرم نواز کا ہے جس کی "علالت" کے جال میں عمران کو پھنسانے کی کوشش کی جا رہی ہے- ایک اور مہرہ سابق صدر زرداری کا ہے جس پر ملک کی دولت لوٹ کر امیر ملکوں میں منتقل کرنے کے الزامات ہیں- وہ بھی سخت بیمار ہے اور "ظالم" عمران کی دہائی دے رہا ہے- </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">پاکستانی حکومت نے بھارتی سفارت خانے کا عملہ کم کر دیا ہے جو ایک مثبت قدم ہے- اسی طرح امریکی سفارت خانے پہ بندشیں لگانے کی ضرورت ہے اور "غیر ریاستی اداروں" کو اگر قابو میں نہیں رکھا جا سکتا تو انہیں بند کرنا بہتر ہے- رہے عمران کے ارد گرد اغیار کے ایجنٹ تو ان کی نشان دہی "آئی ایس آئی" (یہ ہماری ذہنی غلامی ہے کہ ہم اپنی زبان میں اپنے اداروں کے نام نہیں رکھ سکتے!) کا کام ہے- عمران کے پاس پارلیمان میں اکثریت نہیں اور وہ بیساکھیوں کے سہارے اپنی حکومت چلا رہا ہے، جسے ناکام ثابت کرنے میں حکومت میں شامل غدار بھی اپنا کردار ادا کر رہے ہیں-</span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-27116873327839994392019-10-22T22:44:00.001+01:002019-10-25T10:35:19.381+01:00The slow death of Julian Assange by state torture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last April I wrote about the persecution of Julian Assange, an outstanding journalist and, through his fearless reporting, no less than a benefactor of mankind. During the six months since his arrest he has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours each day and subjected to psychological and drug-induced torture. He is now a living wreck, unrecognisable from the man with a razor-sharp intellect. Craig Murray, a former British ambassador and a personal friend of Assange, was present when Assange was taken to Westminster Magistrates Court to lay the groundwork for a kangaroo trial. Craig Murray's account of the court proceedings is a damning indictment of the "British justice" flaunted by the British ruling classes. People who are earmarked by the government for wilful victimisation can expect no justice. Murray has published a lengthy blog at his website today. Most of it is copied below. </span><br />
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I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. </div>
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Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.</div>
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But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought. </div>
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Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – <a href="https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768" style="color: #e9a825; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border, background, color; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;">even of Nils Melzer</a>, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness. </div>
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I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedings, then his lawyers could explain what had happened to him later. The question of why a man who, by the very charges against him, was acknowledged to be highly intelligent and competent, had been reduced by the state to somebody incapable of following court proceedings, gave her not a millisecond of concern.</div>
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The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan war logs and the State Department cables. The charges are nothing to do with Sweden, nothing to do with sex, and nothing to do with the 2016 US election; a simple clarification the mainstream media appears incapable of understanding.</div>
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The purpose of yesterday’s hearing was case management; to determine the timetable for the extradition proceedings. The key points at issue were that Julian’s defence was requesting more time to prepare their evidence; and arguing that political offences were specifically excluded from the extradition treaty. There should, they argued, therefore be a preliminary hearing to determine whether the extradition treaty applied at all.</div>
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The reasons given by Assange’s defence team for more time to prepare were both compelling and startling. They had very limited access to their client in jail and had not been permitted to hand him any documents about the case until one week ago. He had also only just been given limited computer access, and all his relevant records and materials had been seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy by the US Government; he had no access to his own materials for the purpose of preparing his defence.</div>
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Furthermore, the defence argued, they were in touch with the Spanish courts about a very important and relevant <a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/09/inenglish/1570606428_107946.html" style="color: #e9a825; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border, background, color; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;">legal case in Madrid</a> which would provide vital evidence. It showed that the CIA had been directly ordering spying on Julian in the Embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide security there. Crucially this included <a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/09/inenglish/1562663427_224669.html" style="color: #e9a825; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-property: border, background, color; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;">spying on privileged conversations</a> between Assange and his lawyers discussing his defence against these extradition proceedings, which had been in train in the USA since 2010. In any normal process, that fact would in itself be sufficient to have the extradition proceedings dismissed. Incidentally I learnt on Sunday that the Spanish material produced in court, which had been commissioned by the CIA, specifically includes high resolution video coverage of Julian and I discussing various matters.</div>
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The evidence to the Spanish court also included a CIA plot to kidnap Assange, which went to the US authorities’ attitude to lawfulness in his case and the treatment he might expect in the United States. Julian’s team explained that the Spanish legal process was happening now and the evidence from it would be extremely important, but it might not be finished and thus the evidence not fully validated and available in time for the current proposed timetable for the Assange extradition hearings.</div>
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For the prosecution, James Lewis QC stated that the government strongly opposed any delay being given for the defence to prepare, and strongly opposed any separate consideration of the question of whether the charge was a political offence excluded by the extradition treaty. Baraitser took her cue from Lewis and stated categorically that the date for the extradition hearing, 25 February, could not be changed. She was open to changes in dates for submission of evidence and responses before this, and called a ten minute recess for the prosecution and defence to agree these steps. </div>
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What happened next was very instructive. There were five representatives of the US government present (initially three, and two more arrived in the course of the hearing), seated at desks behind the lawyers in court. The prosecution lawyers immediately went into huddle with the US representatives, then went outside the courtroom with them, to decide how to respond on the dates. </div>
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After the recess the defence team stated they could not, in their professional opinion, adequately prepare if the hearing date were kept to February, but within Baraitser’s instruction to do so they nevertheless outlined a proposed timetable on delivery of evidence. In responding to this, Lewis’ junior counsel scurried to the back of the court to consult the Americans again while Lewis actually told the judge he was “taking instructions from those behind”. It is important to note that as he said this, it was not the UK Attorney-General’s office who were being consulted but the US Embassy. Lewis received his American instructions and agreed that the defence might have two months to prepare their evidence (they had said they needed an absolute minimum of three) but the February hearing date may not be moved. Baraitser gave a ruling agreeing everything Lewis had said.</div>
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At this stage it was unclear why we were sitting through this farce. The US government was dictating its instructions to Lewis, who was relaying those instructions to Baraitser, who was ruling them as her legal decision. The charade might as well have been cut and the US government simply sat on the bench to control the whole process. Nobody could sit there and believe they were in any part of a genuine legal process or that Baraitser was giving a moment’s consideration to the arguments of the defence. Her facial expressions on the few occasions she looked at the defence ranged from contempt through boredom to sarcasm. When she looked at Lewis she was attentive, open and warm.</div>
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The extradition is plainly being rushed through in accordance with a Washington dictated timetable. Apart from a desire to pre-empt the Spanish court providing evidence on CIA activity in sabotaging the defence, what makes the February date so important to the USA? I would welcome any thoughts.</div>
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Finally, Baraitser turned to Julian and ordered him to stand, and asked him if he had understood the proceedings. He replied in the negative, said that he could not think, and gave every appearance of disorientation. Then he seemed to find an inner strength, drew himself up a little, and said:</div>
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I do not understand how this process is equitable. This superpower had 10 years to prepare for this case and I can’t even access my writings. It is very difficult, where I am, to do anything. These people have unlimited resources.</div>
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The effort then seemed to become too much, his voice dropped and he became increasingly confused and incoherent. He spoke of whistleblowers and publishers being labeled enemies of the people, then spoke about his children’s DNA being stolen and of being spied on in his meetings with his psychologist. I am not suggesting at all that Julian was wrong about these points, but he could not properly frame nor articulate them. He was plainly not himself, very ill and it was just horribly painful to watch. Baraitser showed neither sympathy nor the least concern. She tartly observed that if he could not understand what had happened, his lawyers could explain it to him, and she swept out of court.</div>
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The whole experience was profoundly upsetting. It was very plain that there was no genuine process of legal consideration happening here. What we had was a naked demonstration of the power of the state, and a naked dictation of proceedings by the Americans. Julian was in a box behind bulletproof glass, and I and the thirty odd other members of the public who had squeezed in were in a different box behind more bulletproof glass. I do not know if he could see me or his other friends in the court, or if he was capable of recognising anybody. He gave no indication that he did. </div>
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In Belmarsh he is kept in complete isolation for 23 hours a day. He is permitted 45 minutes exercise. If he has to be moved, they clear the corridors before he walks down them and they lock all cell doors to ensure he has no contact with any other prisoner outside the short and strictly supervised exercise period. There is no possible justification for this inhuman regime, used on major terrorists, being imposed on a publisher who is a remand prisoner.</div>
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I have been both cataloguing and protesting for years the increasingly authoritarian powers of the UK state, but that the most gross abuse could be so open and undisguised is still a shock. The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after government and media lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: purple;">You can read Craig Murray's full blog here:</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;"> <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/">Assange in Court</a></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-39403934441563827812019-10-13T10:39:00.000+01:002019-10-13T17:05:28.638+01:00The Mumbai False Flag Re-visited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The False Flag of Mumbai, on 26 November 2008, has already been extensively exposed in books and articles. Perhaps the most famous book on the Mumbai False Flag is Elias Davidsson’s “The Betrayal of India : Re-visiting the 26/11 Evidence”. A review of that book can be read here:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although Pakistanis have written numerous articles about the Mumbai False Flag, what was missing was a book giving full details of how the operation was planned and executed. This shortcoming has now been addressed by Munir Ahmad Baloch in his Urdu book “Mumbai 26/11: Hemant Karkare aur Ajmal Kasaab” : </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To demonise Pakistan, the plotters massacred 166 people over three days, commencing 26 November. The official conspiracy theory is that there were 10 "terrorists" who had defied India's army and security services for several days. The resulting lies and mendacious reporting in the US-controlled western Mainstream media (MSM), and in Indian media, established Pakistan as a “terrorist” state. The puppet rulers of Pakistan, installed by the USR (US Regime), either kept quiet or made traitorous statements fed to them by their USR/Indian handlers. It is only with the arrival of Prime Minister Imran Khan that the country has plucked up courage to speak the truth to the world, above all in Imran’s seminal speech to the UN General Assembly on 27 September, 2019. Of particular relevance in this context is the way Imran Khan pulled the mask away from the face of the Terrorist Prime Minister of India, the Butcher of Gujerat, Modi. The world is now slowly waking up to the fact that all terrorist events attributed to Pakistan in the past were either the handiwork of India or USR or a collaboration between the two (with, possibly, Israeli participation).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The tragic hero of Munir Baloch's book is Inspector Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism squad chief, a Hindu who had exposed the web of extremist Hindu terrorism in Indian army and security forces. He had named high ranking serving officers, such as Colonel Purohit, who were neck-deep in numerous massacres, which they blamed on “Muslim terrorism”. Hindu terrorist organisations such as RSS (of which the current Terrorist PM of India is a lifetime member) considered Karkare an enemy of Hindus and of “Mother India”. Modi had openly declared him to be a traitor, who was to be dealt with mercilessly. Hemant Karkare, and two of his colleagues closely involved in the uncovering of Hindu Terrorism, were callously murdered by sharpshooters amid the mayhem and confusion of Mumbai False Flag. Following his murder, a former Inspector General of police in the sate of Maharashtra, S M Mushrif, wrote a book titled “Who killed Karkare? – the real face of terrorism in India”.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Munir Baloch tells us that the fall guy, Ajmal Kassab from Pakistan, had in fact been kidnapped from Nepal by Indian Secret Service in 2006 and had been held in captivity. According to the official conspiracy theory he was the only "terrorist" who survived, his nine companions having been killed in the encounter. No photographs were ever produced of the nine dead "terrorists". Ajmal Kassab, however, was allegedly snapped up at a railway station by a fearless photographer of "The Times of India" who put his life at risk to take Ajmal's photo while people were being gunned down all around him! What a hero! He performed an invaluable service because, as the Indian public learnt later, the numerous CCTV cameras at the station had conveniently broken down at noon that very day. What's more, the CCTV cameras, at Taj Mahal and Oberoi-Trident hotels, at Leopold Cafe or at Cama Hospital had apparently all failed to record the proceedings of the day as no recordings were ever produced in the kangaroo trial that condemned the kid to death.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kassab's photograph purported to show a “terrorist” on a Mumbai railway station shooting passengers and railway employees. What we see in the picture is a freshly shaved youth with carefully combed hair, laden with rucksack and bags, wearing clean and pressed multi-pocketed trousers, his Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle pointing downwards! This was the young man who, according to Indian authorities, had spent four days in boats (first his own, then an Indian fisherman’s) sailing from Karachi to Mumbai, eventually stepping down on the shores of Mumbai at night on Wednesday, 26 November, 2008. He had then proceeded to set fire to a petrol filling station and to embark on a callous murder spree. When he eventually arrived at a railway station, where his photograph was allegedly taken, you would expect him to look haggard, with several days’ growth of beard, his face covered with dirt and blood and his clothes looking filthy. Not a bit. He might have been a typical wooden Bollywood hero who had arrived at the station for the shooting of a film. This fact alone speaks volumes about the ridiculous story that the MSM had hammered into the consciousness of the public through sheer repetition and ceaseless propaganda.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An astonishing fact that I learned from Munir Baloch’s book is that the drama played out on 26 November could indeed be likened to the shooting of a film. A few months earlier, the Bollywood movie “A Wednesday” was produced by UTV Motion Pictures, directed by Neeraj Panday. The story had an uncanny resemblance to the Mumbai False Flag. It more or less foretold what was going to happen later the same year: </span></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-6537911003185604502019-05-09T23:28:00.001+01:002019-05-09T23:29:14.596+01:00D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” —<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Professor Neil Postman</strong>, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em></div>
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What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.</div>
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Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better.</div>
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Week after week, the script changes (Donald Trump’s <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tweets</a>, Congress’ hearings on Robert Mueller’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller/index.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Russia probe</a>, the military’s <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/bolton-us-to-deploy-carrier-bombers-to-middle-east-in-iran-warning.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">endless war drums</a>, the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/potential-2020-candidates-stand-midterms/story?id=59316177" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ever-widening field of candidates</a> for the 2020 presidential race, etc.) with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama.</div>
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The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places, and the audience members are quick to forget past mistakes and move on to the next spectacle.</div>
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All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the dark backstage, hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights and parading actors.</div>
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Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama, vitriol and scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent” government today, with elected officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents, routinely performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very little to move the country forward.</div>
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Yet behind the footlights, those who really run the show are putting into place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at contributing to the workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any opportunity to voice our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late.</div>
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It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.</div>
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Indeed, while mainstream America has been fixated on the drama-filled reality show being televised from the White House, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.</div>
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Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts—our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded.</div>
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Our losses are mounting with every passing day.</div>
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Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more have become casualties in the government’s war on the American people.</div>
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The American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.</div>
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None of these dangers have dissipated.</div>
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They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams.</div>
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The new boss has proven to be the same as the old boss, and the American people, the permanent underclass in America, has allowed itself to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.</div>
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Frankly, it really doesn’t matter what you call the old/new boss—the Deep State, the Controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter who occupies the White House, it is a profit-driven, an unelected bureaucracy that is actually calling the shots.</div>
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In the interest of liberty and truth, here’s an A-to-Z primer to spell out the grim realities of life in the American Police State that no one is talking about anymore.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS</strong>. In the cop culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesn’t amount to much.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE</strong>. This governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties—namely, the right to property—is being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice wherein <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/asset-forfeiture-laws-raise-concerns-1435868428" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity</a>. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">D is for DRONES</strong>. It is estimated that at least 30,000 drones will be airborne in American airspace by 2020, part of an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/drones-will-soon-automatically-follow-you-2015-7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">$80 billion industry</a>. Although some drones will be used for benevolent purposes, many will also be equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weapons—all aimed at “we the people.”</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E is for ELECTRONIC CONCENTRATION CAMP</strong>. In the electronic concentration camp, as I have dubbed the surveillance state, all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents and all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness dependent on the government’s say-so.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">F is for FASCISM</strong>. A study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10769041/The-US-is-an-oligarchy-study-concludes.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens</a>. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.” Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups. In other words, we are being <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ruled by an oligarchy</a> disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere economic units.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">G is for GRENADE LAUNCHERS and GLOBAL POLICE</strong>. The federal government has <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/how-americas-police-became-army-1033-program-264537" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">distributed more than $18 billion worth of battlefield-appropriate military weapons, vehicles and equipment</a> such as drones, tanks, and grenade launchers to domestic police departments across the country. As a result, most small-town police forces now have enough firepower to render any citizen resistance futile. Now take those small-town police forces, train them to look and act like the military, and then enlist them to be part of the United Nations’ <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/strong_cities_network_will_foster_collaboration_to_fight_violent_extremism" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strong Cities Network program</a>, and you not only have a standing army that operates beyond the reach of the Constitution but one that is part of a global police force.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">H is for HOLLOW-POINT BULLETS</strong>. The government’s efforts to militarize and weaponize its agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration stockpiling millions of lethal hollow-point bullets, which violate international law. Ironically, while the government continues to push for stricter gun laws for the general populace, the U.S. military’s arsenal of weapons makes the average American’s handgun look like a Tinker Toy.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I is for the INTERNET OF THINGS</strong>, in which internet-connected “things” will monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free. The key word here, however, is control. This <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/12/enterprises-billions-of-devices-internet/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“connected” industry</a> propels us closer to a future where police agencies apprehend virtually anyone if the government “thinks” they may commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">J is for JAILING FOR PROFIT</strong>. Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by private corporations, this <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">profit-driven form of mass punishment</a> has given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep their privately run prisons full by jailing large numbers of Americans for inane crimes.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">K is for KENTUCKY V. KING</strong>. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/17/nation/la-na-court-search-20110517" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ruled that police officers can break into homes, without a warrant, even if it’s the wrong home</a> as long as they think they have a reason to do so. Despite the fact that the police in question ended up pursuing the wrong suspect, invaded the wrong apartment and violated just about every tenet that stands between us and a police state, the Court sanctioned the warrantless raid, leaving Americans with little real protection in the face of all manner of abuses by law enforcement officials.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">L is for LICENSE PLATE READERS</strong>, which enable law enforcement and private agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicles, and their occupants, all across the country. This data collected on tens of thousands of innocent people is also being <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/even-fbi-privacy-concerns-license-plate-readers/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">shared between police agencies, as well as with fusion centers and private companies</a>. This puts Big Brother in the driver’s seat.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">M is for MAIN CORE</strong>. Since the 1980s, the U.S. government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">reportedly dubbed “Main Core,”</a> is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. As of 2008, there were some 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">N is for NO-KNOCK RAIDS</strong>. Owing to the militarization of the nation’s police forces, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for routine police matters. In fact, more than <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/02/17/shedding-light-on-the-use-of-swat-teams/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">80,000 of these paramilitary raids are carried out every year</a>. That translates to more than 200 SWAT team raids every day in which police crash through doors, damage private property, terrorize adults and children alike, kill family pets, assault or shoot anyone that is perceived as threatening—and all in the pursuit of someone merely suspected of a crime, usually possession of some small amount of drugs.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">O is for OVERCRIMINALIZATION and OVERREGULATION</strong>. Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, it’s estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it. As a result of this <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/26/supreme-court-justices-agree-overcriminalization-problem-america/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">overcriminalization</a>, we’re seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and jailed for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">P is for PATHOCRACY and PRECRIME</strong>. When our own government treats us as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, mistreated, and then jailed in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">profit-driven private prisons</a> if we dare step out of line, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/08/the_road_to_pathocracy.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pathocracy</a>: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” Couple that with the government’s burgeoning precrime programs, which will use <a href="http://www.govtech.com/public-safety/New-Partnership-to-Help-Fusion-Centers-Streamline-Intelligence-Gathering-Dissemination.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fusion centers</a>, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s-predictive-policing-program-uses-computer-analytics-to-pinpoint-those-most-likely-to-commit-crimes-before-they-happen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">predictive policing</a>, biometrics, and behavioral <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">epigenetics</a> in order to identify and deter so-called potential “extremists,” dissidents or rabble-rousers. Bear in mind that anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is now viewed as an extremist.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Q is for QUALIFIED IMMUNITY</strong>. <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/12/supreme-court-weighs-qualified-immunity" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Qualified immunity</a> allows officers to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing. Conveniently, those deciding whether a police officer should be immune from having to personally pay for misbehavior on the job all belong to the same system, all cronies with a vested interest in protecting the police and their infamous code of silence: city and county attorneys, police commissioners, city councils and judges.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">R is for ROADSIDE STRIP SEARCHES and BLOOD DRAWS</strong>. The courts have increasingly erred on the side of giving government officials—especially the police—<a href="http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/2013_vol_39/may_2013_n2_privacy/upending_human_dignity_fourth_amendment.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">vast discretion in carrying out strip searches, blood draws and even anal probes for a broad range of violations</a>, no matter how minor the offense. In the past, strip searches were resorted to only in exceptional circumstances where police were confident that a serious crime was in progress. In recent years, however, strip searches have become routine operating procedures in which everyone is rendered a suspect and, as such, is subjected to treatment once reserved for only the most serious of criminals.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S is for the SURVEILLANCE STATE</strong>. On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21651817-america-argues-anew-over-how-much-snooping-nsa-can-do-reviewing-surveillance-state" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior</a>. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">T is for TASERS</strong>. Nonlethal weapons such as tasers, stun guns, rubber pellets and the like have been used by police as weapons of compliance more often and with less restraint—even against women and children—and in some instances, even causing death. These <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/how-militarizing-police-can-increase-violence.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“nonlethal” weapons also enable police to aggress with the push of a button</a>, making the potential for overblown confrontations over minor incidents that much more likely. A Taser Shockwave, for instance, can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">U is for UNARMED CITIZENS SHOT BY POLICE</strong>. No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later, often attributed to a fear for their safety. Yet the <a href="http://qz.com/410585/garbage-collectors-are-more-likely-to-die-on-the-job-than-police-patrol-officers/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions</a>, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">V is for VIPR SQUADS</strong>. So-called “soft target” security inspections, carried out by roving <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/congressman-u-s-unprepared-for-imminent-isis-threat/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VIPR task forces</a>, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams, are taking place whenever and wherever the government deems appropriate, at random times and places, and without needing the justification of a particular threat.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">W is for WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS</strong>. Using either x-ray radiation or radio waves, scanning devices and government mobile units are being used not only to “see” through your clothes but to spy on you within the privacy of your home. While these <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mobile scanners</a> are being sold to the American public as necessary security and safety measures, we can ill afford to forget that such systems are rife with the potential for abuse, not only by government bureaucrats but by the technicians employed to operate them.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">X is for X-KEYSCORE</strong>, one of the many spying programs carried out by the National Security Agency that targets every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone. This top-secret program “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals</a>.”</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Y is for YOU-NESS</strong>. Using your face, mannerisms, social media and “you-ness” against you, you can now be tracked based on what you buy, where you go, what you do in public, and how you do what you do. Facial recognition software promises to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. The goal is for government agents to be able to scan a crowd of people and instantaneously identify all of the individuals present. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/16/technology/security/fbi-facial-recognition/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Facial recognition programs are being rolled out in states all across the country</a>.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Z is for ZERO TOLERANCE</strong>. We have moved into a new paradigm in which young people are increasingly viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike, <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/29/the-top-10-zero-tolerance-follies-of-201" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">often for engaging in little more than childish behavior</a>. In some jurisdictions, students have also been penalized under school zero tolerance policies for such inane “crimes” as carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick, bringing nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out combs that resemble switchblades. The lesson being taught to our youngest—and most impressionable—citizens is this: in the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).</div>
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As I make clear in my book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Battlefield America: The War on the American People</em></a><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">,</em> the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.</div>
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We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age.</div>
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You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state.</div>
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Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This article was originally published on <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/d_is_for_dictatorship_while_america_feuds_the_police_state_shifts_into_high_gear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Rutherford Institute</a>.</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Constitutional attorney and author <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John W. Whitehead</strong> is founder and president of <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Rutherford Institute</u></a>. His new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-War-American-People/dp/1590793099/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Battlefield America: The War on the American People</a> is available at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">www.amazon.com</u></a>. Whitehead can be contacted at <a href="mailto:johnw@rutherford.org" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">johnw@rutherford.org</a>. He is frequent contributor to Global Research.</em></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-51937215541397921652019-04-15T06:59:00.000+01:002019-04-17T10:10:11.277+01:00The persecution of Julian Assange<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thursday, 11 April 2019, will for ever be a black day in the history of the United Kingdom. On this day, a servile British Prime Minister, Theresa May, caved in to pressure from a wild US President who treats International Law with disdain. The British police was ordered to arrest Julian Assange, a great benefactor of mankind, who had been given political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy by the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (that asylum has just been withdrawn by Correa's successor Moreno, a US puppet who faces corruption allegations).</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below is a selection of comments from courageous individuals who speak up against injustice and oppression.</span><br />
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1. Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador.<br />
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<a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/">https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/</a><br />
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2. Comments from Julian Assange's lawyer Carlos Poveda.<br />
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<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/assanges-lawyer-says-wikileaks-founders-life-danger-extradited-u-s/5674257">https://www.globalresearch.ca/assanges-lawyer-says-wikileaks-founders-life-danger-extradited-u-s/5674257</a><br />
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3. Mark Taliano, author of "Voices from Syria".<br />
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<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-lauded-protected-not-persecuted-destroyed/5674246">https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-lauded-protected-not-persecuted-destroyed/5674246</a><br />
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4. John Pilger, the fearless journalist of international fame.<br />
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<a href="http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-assange-arrest-is-a-warning-from-history">http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-assange-arrest-is-a-warning-from-history</a><br />
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5. Dr Leon Tressell, a historian.<br />
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<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-government-arrests-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-behalf-american-empire/5674195">https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-government-arrests-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-behalf-american-empire/5674195</a><br />
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<b>APPENDIX</b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Freedom Articles website has set out the issues surrounding Julian Assange's arrest with great clarity:</span><br />
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-38611702157031113102018-10-01T23:49:00.000+01:002018-10-01T23:49:50.330+01:00Censorship by Twitter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is Twitter’s demand for me to delete my tweet that fell foul of Twitter’s mysterious “rules”, which are often used as a weapon of censorship :</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Sakib Ahmad </span></b><b><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: 9.5pt;">ثاقب</span></b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 8.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 8.5pt;">@RealandIllusory</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Georgia;">@ShireenMazari1 @PTIofficial Holohoax is the new religion that has supplanted Christianity in the West. Holohoax is a bigger hoax than 9/11, biggest ever https://t.co/rfSFjmoB2v<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">[here, on red background, was emblazoned the word <b>Delete]</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Georgia;">If you feel that your account has been locked in error, you can appeal by contacting our support team </span><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: Georgia;"><a href="https://support.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=suspended"><span style="color: #4f81bd; text-decoration: none;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Georgia;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I submitted my appeal by clicking where Twitter had indicated. I asked Twitter to explain who I had abused in my tweet and what rule exactly had been violated. Two days later, on 22 September, I received a standard email which simply repeated the weasel words relating to “Twitter rules”:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Hello,</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We’re writing to let you know that your account features will remain limited for the allotted time due to violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically our rules against abusive behavior.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs on our platform, we do not tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse. This includes behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another person's voice.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Please note that continued abusive behavior may lead to the suspension of your account. To avoid having your account suspended, please only post content that abides by the Twitter Rules:</span></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules#abusive-behavior"><span style="color: #196ad4; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules#abusive-behavior</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Thanks,</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Twitter”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My reply to this devious email, which was quite meaningless in the context of my tweet, was:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">When my account was suspended on 20 September I appealed against the decision. Your email doesn't seem to be a response to my appeal. You are merely repeating the original senseless charge against me. PLEASE LET ME HAVE A FORMAL RESPONSE TO MY APPEAL.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I repeat I have committed NO violation of Twitter rules nor have I abused anyone. Some nameless Twitter employee's high-handed behaviour in this case is quite unacceptable. Do point out to me the alleged abuse in my tweet. The fact is that in this case a Twitter employee is acting as CENSOR. Censorship by your uncontrolled employees is quite intolerable. I would rather leave Twitter than accept censorship of ideas and carefully researched historical facts. PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE BEHAVIOUR OF YOUR EMPLOYEES.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please let me have a formal response to my appeal, preferably by a named individual at Twitter who holds a position of responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My reply was sent out on 24 September. There has been no response since. I doubt if I will hear from Twitter again. This seemingly Zionist-controlled “social media platform” has given a clear instruction to me to delete my tweet which the powers-that-be at Twitter have found offensive. I am not supposed to disobey!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter is quick to take notice when certain issues are put under the spotlight. Among these topics are Israeli government’s war crimes, the conspiracy of 9/11, the legend of “holocaust” (which appears to have originated at least a decade after the end of the Second World War) and the Jewish crimes against the Palestinians. A tool of the Zionists and Neoconservatives, Twitter censors criticism of these issues by absurdly invoking its “rules against abusive behaviour”. Real abuse against Muslims and Islam flourishes on Twitter, shredding its vaunted “rules” to smithereens but that abuse is presumably tolerated in the name of “freedom of expression”.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that Twitter is highly addictive and people do cave in to Twitter’s browbeating, deleting their critical tweets about Jewish/Neocon conspiracies. Not me. If Twitter does not unlock my account without any pre-conditions then that is the end of my Twitter adventure. It is time people woke up and recognized Twitter – and other social media platforms – as offering a false perception of freedom to express their views. The ideas expressed are carefully monitored, invoking the “Twitter rules” to silence dissent. Twitter camouflages its censorship by dishonestly claiming to be upholding the mysterious rules pertaining to abusive behaviour.</span></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-58236730656425616102017-07-03T04:35:00.000+01:002017-07-05T11:15:05.124+01:00The Development of the Christian Creed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">This is a continuation of the previous blog dated 19 May. That blog was concerned with how the Christian religion and scripture originated, which you can read here: </span><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-origins-of-christian-religion-and.html"><span style="color: red;">The Origins</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This blog is concerned with the conflicting beliefs espoused by people who eventually emerged victorious over fellow Christians holding different views from their own. What Jesus actually said or preached is now lost in mists of antiquity, the NT having become a repository of the victors' inconsistent views.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>The Messiah or a Reforming Prophet?</u></b></span></span></h2>
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pre-date the four Gospels. Paul wrote some 40-50 yeas after Jesus’ death while
the four Gospels appeared during the succeeding 50 years, written by scribes
who relied on oral traditions. Paul’s views are at odds with the accounts in
the Gospels as well as in the book of Acts, written by the author of the Gospel
of Luke. Paul introduced the splendid idea of Jesus being offered up by God as
a sacrifice for the sins committed by others! Apparently, people never
questioned the injustice and gullibility inherent in this claim of vicarious
sacrifice. People were mesmerised by the idea that a mere belief in Jesus, the
crucified Messiah, was enough to "save" them and it also freed them of the need to follow
Jewish Law. At a stroke, the Jewish Law became irrelevant: the only way to wash
away your sins was through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The scribe who wrote the
Gospel of Matthew some 25-30 years after Paul, flatly contradicted him by
asserting that the followers of Jesus needed to keep the Jewish Law!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Do not think that I
have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to
fulfil. ……….Therefore whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments
………. Will be called least in the kingdom of heaven …….. For I tell you , unless
your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never
enter the Kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-20).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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quite clear that whoever followed this alleged exhortation of Jesus was in danger
of losing his/her "salvation". What one book of the NT lays down in strong terms
is contradicted equally strongly in another book! </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fact that both views exist in the same scripture makes a mockery of the NT: if one part of the scripture is correct then another part cannot be. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If there is a devout Christian who believes in both Paul and Matthew simultaneously then he/she needs to have his/her sanity tested. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To the early Christians known as the Ebionites, Paul was the arch-enemy with his convoluted ideas of Jesus’ death and resurrection: "salvation" came only from Jesus’s death. Put simply, Paul transformed the religion of Jesus into a religion about Jesus. The Pauline dogma was also opposed by Jesus' brother James, leader of the Church in Jerusalem, who accepted Jesus as a reforming Prophet sent to regenerate the moribund Jewish religion. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Within a century, however, the followers of
Jesus had turned Christianity into a distinct anti-Jewish religion.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paul’s anti-Jewish
stance was mild compared to the views expressed in various Gospels which did
not make it into the canon authorised by Emperor Constantine. Even the
canonical Gospel of John has Jesus declare the Jews to be the “children of the
Devil” (John 8:42-44). </span></div>
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Mark was the first Gospel to be written, around 65-70 CE. Both Matthew and
Luke, writing 15-20 years later, used Mark as one of their sources, hence these
three are referred to as the Synoptic Gospels. This is the reason why almost
all of Mark’s parables and stories can be found in Matthew or Luke, though some
of them were changed to emphasise certain points that Matthew or Luke thought
important. For example, Jesus’ death is described differently in Mark and Luke.
In Mark he is a terrified man led to his death (“My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me”) but in Luke he is a fearless, benevolent and sagacious man
unconcerned about his own impending death (“Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they are doing”).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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believed, Jesus had already announced the end of evil times and the onset of Kingdom of
God: “The time has been fulfilled; the kingdom of God is near. Repent and
believe the good news!” (Mark 1:15). Two thousand years later we still await
the establishment of that kingdom of truth, peace and justice by the “Son of
Man” even though, according to Mark, Jesus blurted out: “Truly I tell you, some
of those standing here will not taste death before they see the Kingdom of God
having come in power” (Mark 9:1). [Apparently, “Son of Man” is a reference to
the second appearance of Jesus on earth after he has died and is resurrected
and becomes, in some sense, “Son of God” as well!]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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much later than the other three, is quite different from the Synoptic Gospels.
There is no mention of the virgin birth or any details of Jesus’s early life.
This Gospel wrestles with the theological issues which sharply divided the
Christian communities a hundred years after Jesus’s death. It talks about the
mystical Word of God, that existed in the very beginning, was itself God and
through it God created the universe, and eventually became a human being,
namely, Jesus [“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his
glory” (1:14)]. The miracles Jesus performs in John are referred to as “Signs”
of one come down from heaven to give eternal life to those who believe in him.
This is reinforced with many “I am” sayings attributed to Jesus: “I am the
bread of life”, “I am the light of the world”, “I am the resurrection and the
life”, etc. Unlike the parables in Mark, we are assailed with long speeches by
Jesus!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of God on earth is an alien concept in John! To John “Kingdom of God” exists in
“heaven”, not on earth, and believers in Jesus will reside there with God for
ever; others will be condemned. No mention here of the “Son of Man” to
establish God’s Kingdom on earth! John’s Gospel was written towards the end of
the first century CE, by which time the entire generation addressed by Jesus
had died without witnessing Jesus’ prophecy of Kingdom of God come true! So,
what does the anonymous scribe of the Gospel of John does? Easy. He creates a
Kingdom of God in heaven, not on earth! Is it possible to retain one’s sanity
and still be able to make sense of John’s convoluted theology?</span></span></div>
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who had access only to Mark’s Gospel, would have known nothing about the
unusual birth of Jesus, being born of a virgin, or that he existed before his
appearance on earth. With the appearance of Matthew’s Gospel many years later,
the Christian dogma expanded to include the idea of Jesus’ mother being a
virgin. Then, with Luke, Jesus also acquired the status of “Son of God”, who is
vaguely of divine origin, his mother having been impregnated with The Holy
Spirit. (Luke 1:35) explains what Mary learnt from the angel Gabriel: “The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;
therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God”.
At this stage in the development of Christian dogma, Jesus was created when he
was born. The idea of him having existed before his earthly life came later
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Testament is all about the Jewish Prophets, the New Testament revolves around a
single controversial personality. Until you get to the Gospel of John, Jesus is
referred to as a “son” in much the same way that the Old Testament prophets
are, that is, as someone close to God. I have lost count of the number of
“sons”, “begotten sons” and “firstborns” mentioned in the OT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Christian sects, the Ebionites, were quite clear on the matter of divinity:
since there can be only One God, Christ is not God. For Christ to be God, there
had to be two gods: Jesus was a human Messiah, adopted by God to be his “son”,
but he was a man from first to last, not a divine being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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early sect, followers of Marcion, who believed in two Gods, the wrathful God of
the OT and the God of Jesus, the God of love and mercy. Still others believed
in multiple divine beings and they had no difficulty in accepting Jesus as
divine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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300 years, Chiristianity evolved, rejecting much of the early dogma as
heretical. The essential dilemma was: can Christianity remain a monotheistic
religion while accepting Jesus as a deity? Eventually, the dogma of Trinity was
invented and all opposing views were declared heretical. Tertullian, a noted
heresy hunter, declared some 200 years after Jesus’s death:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The Father is one,
and the Son is one, and the Spirit is one …. they are distinct from one another
…. The Father is not the same as the Son, since they differ one from the other
in the mode of their being.” Having established that the three are distinct,
Tertullian then declares: “they are not different in substance though they are
different personalities”. That, in a nutshell, is the dogma of the Unity of the
Trinity: All three are God manifested in three different personalities! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tertullian’s convoluted
arguments were debated and refined over the following hundred years as people
wrestled with the nature of the relationship between Father and Son. In the
fourth century the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and set
about unifying the religion, which could then be used to unify his fractured
empire. In 325 CE the famous Council of Nicaea was held, attended by the most
important bishops and priests in the empire, where the final form of the Christian
religion in the Roman empire was at last established, with its central dogma of
Trinity: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>persons in the Godhead are eternal beings
and they had always existed. They are three but they are One because they are
of the same substance! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All those mind-bending
arguments are now forgotten, pious Christians quietly accept the dogma of
Trinity spun by the theologians, some 200-300 years after the death of Jesus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Does the New Testament
support the dogma of Trinity?</u></b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There does not seem to
be an explicit statement of Trinity in the NT, not even in the Gospel of John
where Jesus is clearly referred to as being divine. The later Christians found
such exclusion from their scriptures unnerving. Ehrman says that a specific
reference to the Trinity was accordingly inserted ( John 5:7-8):</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these are one.</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."</span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Make of it what you will!</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Ehrman has
written a separate book about changes made to the Bible in the first 300 years
after Jesus: “Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and
Why”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Conclusion</u></b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ehrman: “Jesus’s
divinity was part of John’s theology, not a part of Jesus’s own teaching".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although the
Christians of Rome won in the end, insisting their beliefs to be ‘orthodox’, it was not the
original form of religion conveyed by Jesus and his apostles. The 4<sup>th</sup>
century Nicene Creed claimed Jesus to be “fully God and fully man”, and also
that he was “begotten not made, of one substance with the Father”. Neither claim
was made by the disciples or apostles of Jesus! Such obtuse theology made its
appearance a hundred years or more after the death of Jesus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There have been
numerous archaeological discoveries, comprising ancient scrolls dating back to
the first 200 years CE. None of these support the view considered “orthodox” by
the established church and accepted without question by a majority of
Christians. Those discoveries are simply “heretical” compared to the “orthodox”
dogma. Texts in favour of “orthodox” dogma have never been found!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jesus is supposed to
have died, or crucified according to orthodox belief, around 30 CE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-18958392045432821942017-05-19T15:38:00.000+01:002017-05-19T15:38:19.830+01:00The Origins of the Christian Religion and Scripture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">In July 2015 I wrote a
blog about the Old Testament of the Bible (OT), which you can read here: </span><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-horrors-of-old-testament.html"><span style="color: red;">The Horrors of the Old Testament</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog is about the
development of the Christian religion and the emergence of the second holy book
of Christianity, the New Testament (NT). Both the religion and the scriptures took
shape after the death of Jesus, who was born into a Jewish family. As a Jew he is
said to have accepted the Jewish scriptures, believed in the Jewish Prophets of the
OT and followed the Jewish religious law. At the time of Jesus’ death
Christianity was little more than a sect within Judaism. Within a hundred
years, however, Christianity had transformed itself into an anti-Jewish
religion of gentiles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The NT came into being
decades after Jesus’ death. If a Muslim, with a good understanding of the Qur’an,
is introduced to the NT he/she will be struck by its many contradictions and inconsistencies,
and by the preponderance of statements which are insulting to human intelligence.
This is quite bewildering for one who has been instructed in the Qur’an to use
one’s powers of thought when reading the Qur’an and to think deeply when the
same subject is illuminated from different angles in different parts of the Quran.
Those who do not, are likened to cattle or to one who is simultaneously deaf,
blind and mute. Needless to say, for a Muslim the NT is not an easy book to
read, especially as wisdom and guidance are scattered through its pages, side
by side with the convoluted theology and the confused thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is one to make of
this amazing mix? I needed to understand the origins of Christianity, which I
eventually did, thanks to this excellent book : “Jesus, Interrupted” by Bart D.
Ehrman. The author started out as a staunch Christian who considered the Bible
to be the immutable Word of God. His years of studying the Bible, and the
origins of Christian religion, eventually led him to become an agnostic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learnt from Ehrman
that there are numerous books which were, at one time or another, considered
canonical but were later excluded from the Scripture. These</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> books were not written by the followers of Jesus, who were all
lower-class Aramaic speakers from Galilee. They would have been unfamiliar with
the refined Greek in which the books were actually written. Most of these books were
written by anonymous writers decades after Jesus’ death, who relied on oral
traditions as their sources. To validate the anonymously written books, and to
give them authority, it was decided to link them to established names. Hence
the attributions such as “the Gospel according to Matthew”, etc.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This explains why the books of the NT
are so different from one another, full of contradictions, inconsistencies and
discrepancies: the anonymous accounts were written by men who did not know each
other and probably lived in different countries in the Roman empire, and they
modified the stories in accordance with their own cultural traditions. None of
the original copies of those books have survived. What we do have are copies
made centuries later, all of which have been altered as the Christian religion
took shape after the death of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In summary, the NT
consists of 27 books, which were written by 16 or 17 authors over a period of
some 70 years (compare this with the OT, consisting of 39 books, written by
dozens of authors over a period exceeding 600 years). Four of these books are
Gospels (Jesus’ sayings, plus a description of events in his life) while the
remaining books consist of writings by, or attributed to, Jesus’ disciples or apostles, or their
companions. The 4 Gospels are those linked to the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John. Of the remaining books, one is a book of Acts, which describes what
happened after Jesus’ death (his “ascension to heaven”). A large part of Acts
is concerned with an early convert, Saul of Tarsus, who came to be known as
apostle Paul, and who established much of the Christian dogma which later came
to be accepted as official canon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No less than 13 books simply comprise Paul’s letters to the churches he
founded. These letters, which establish Christian religion in Paul’s image, are
somehow considered as ”inspired”. Biblical scholars think that Paul wrote,
perhaps, six of these letters, the remaining letters were written by others but
attributed to Paul. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first certain
reference to the four Gospels included in the authorised NT occurred around 180
CE by a church father called Irenaeus. At that time lots of other Gospels were
floating around, some claimed to have been written by Jesus’ disciples Peter,
Thomas and Philip. These contained too many "heresies" unacceptable
to church fathers in the Roman empire, and were excluded from Scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John and Matthew were
two of the 12 disciples of Jesus while Mark was said to be a companion of
disciple Peter and Luke was a companion of Paul. In fact, the Gospels
attributed to Mark, Matthew, Luke and John were not written to be part of the
Scripture. These Gospels were written anonymously from oral traditions: none of
the writers claimed to be an eyewitness. They simply state what they think
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John might have related after the death of Jesus. Hence
the attribution: “The Gospel according to ….”. With the passage of time their
accounts acquired a mystique and an aura of holiness, eventually becoming a
part of the Scripture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a quotation
taken from pages 267,268 and 279 of Ehrman’s book:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Christianity, as has
long been recognised by critical historians, is the religion about Jesus, not
the religion of Jesus. The beliefs and perspectives that emerged among Jesus’
later followers were different from the religion of Jesus himself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were numerous
Christians involved in these transformations, who reinterpreted the traditions
of Jesus for their own time. Christianity emerged over a long period of time,
through a period of struggles, debates, and conflicts over competing views,
doctrines, perspectives, canons, and rules. The ultimate emergence of the
Christian religion represents a human invention, arguably the greatest
invention in the history of western civilisation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It would be impossible
to argue that the Bible is a unified whole, inspired by God in every way. The
Bible is not a unity, it is a massive plurality. God did not write the Bible,
people did. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the first century
CE the Christian beliefs differed widely. These diverse Christian communities
bickered among themselves concerning their rival theologies and they competed
bitterly to win converts. They all claimed to be the true exponents of Jesus’ religion
and they had books to back up their claims. The group that eventually won was
the influential one based in Rome, the centre of the empire. It declared this
Roman Christianity to be the catholic religion - universal religion – followed
by the disciples and apostles of Jesus. Thus was born Roman Catholic
Christianity, which re-wrote history to present itself as always having been
the largest and truest Christian sect. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the exception of
Paul’s letters, the NT is essentially a collection of forged documents, written
anonymously but attributed to Jesus’ disciples or apostles or their companions.
Ehrman, again:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“A large number of
books in the early church were written by authors who falsely claimed to be
apostles in order to deceive their readers into accepting their books and the
views they represented”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog has dealt
with the background to the established Christian religion and the authorised
Scripture (NT). In the next blog I intend to comment on the contents of the NT
and the fundamental Christian beliefs.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-45250912849094802332016-12-30T15:16:00.002+00:002016-12-31T06:27:01.286+00:00Christmas is a dangerous time for Muslim school children in the West<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now that Christmas festivities are behind
us it is a good time to reflect on the effect they may have had on the next
generation of Muslims growing up in the West.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Christmas is a well established religious
and cultural event in the West. Though a majority of the population has
rejected Christianity as a belief system, the Christian religion has had a
profound effect on western culture. In the run-up to Christmas it is usual to
enact the mythical stories relating to the birth of Christ and to venerate him
as “son of God” by singing hymns and carols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For nominally Christian families it is all
good fun as they participate in the playacting and singing of hymns and
carols.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They simply do not let
their absence of belief affect their enjoyment of the music and the playacting,
which are treated merely as cultural phenomena. This may, at best, be
considered mildly hypocritical for people who have lost faith in Christianity
and pass themselves off as agnostics or atheists. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What about Muslim children though? That is,
children from families who are staunchly Muslim and the concepts of</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tawheed</b> [<b>توحید </b>:
Oneness، divinity belonging to a single God, the One – <b>الواحد </b>] and</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Shirk</b> [ <b>شرک </b> -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attributing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>divinity to a created being]</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">are absolutely fundamental to
their Islamic faith. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the Quran, Shirk is referred to as unpardonable. For a
Muslim child to engage in the “celebrations” in the traditional Christmassy
manner would be not just hypocritical but sacrilegious and blasphemous. Playing
fast and loose with Quranic injunctions makes a mockery of God’s Guidance for
mankind, which is what the Quran is.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a growing problem as an increasing
number of Muslim families fail to get across to their children the essential meaning of
<b>Kalimah Tayyeba</b> [<b>کلمہ طیبہ</b> ] and <b>Surah Ikhlaas </b>[<b>سورہٴ اخلاص </b>]. The concept of a God who is beyond their senses but can be
perceived through the many Attributes or Beautiful Names [ ا<b>سماء الحسنیٰ </b>] appears to be alien for most Muslim children. Influenced by the prevailing
atmosphere around them, more and more Muslim parents seem to be taking a
relaxed view as their children cavort around on the school stage in much the
same way as non-Muslim children do. At home, a glowing Christmas tree holds out the promise of presents from Santa Claus on Christmas Day!</span></span></div>
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the double whammy of modernist parents and mullah-worship of ignorant
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Names” ( <b>اسماء الحسنیٰ </b>), Attributes of God, which are mentioned in the Quran. There are many more. These
help Muslims to understand the Majesty, Power, Mercy and Justice of the One
God, the Creator of all that exists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Khaaliq The Creator الخالق </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Vaahid The One/Unique الواحد </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As-Salaam The Peace السلام </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ar-Razzaaq The Provider/Sustainer الرزاق </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Jaleel The Majestic الجلیل </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Hakeem The Wise الحکیم </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An-Noor The Light النور </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Hakam The Judge/Arbiter الحکم </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As-Samad The Eternal/ Everlasting الصمد </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Aziz The Powerful/ Irresistible العزیز </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ar-Raheem The Merciful/ Compassionate الرحیم </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Avval The First الاول </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Aakhir The Last الآخر </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Az-Zaahir The Outermost/ The Evident الظاھر </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Baatin The Innermost/ Hidden الباطن </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Ghafoor The One who Forgives الغفور </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Aleem The Possessor of Knowledge العلیم </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Vaase The Vast/All-Embracing/The Omnipresent الواسع </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Valee The Friend/Helper الولی </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Al-Qaadir The All-Powerful القادر </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In my family there was a widespread acceptance that the presidential
election in the US Oligarchy was being contested by two “evil” personalities.
The disagreement arose on which of the two was the Lesser Evil. In the morning
of November 9, with Donald Trump’s triumphant face dominating TV screens, a member of
my family announced that the Lesser Evil had won, which seemed quite obvious to
me. However, that announcement was immediately contradicted. I came to realise
that the general feeling in my family was to regard him as the Greater Evil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the run-up to the presidential election, Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
released thousands of emails hacked from the email account of John Podesta,
chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The mainstream media (MSM),
owned and controlled by the oligarchs, did its best to suppress the startling
revelations in these emails and keep the public in the dark. The true face of
Hillary Clinton was shielded behind a veil spun from MSM lies and
disinformation. People who are content to get their news from the MSM tend to
form a view of Clinton which bears little resemblance to reality. By contrast,
Trump was hammered mercilessly, his shameful misdeeds shouted from the rooftops
for all to hear. In any case, this supremely narcissistic man appeared to be
his own worst enemy, judging by the filthy things he said in pursuit of votes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The post-election commentaries in the MSM by so-called “liberals” and
“progressives”, shameless touts of the US Oligarchy, show that these
pen-pushers are blind and deaf to the revolt against the Established Order,
which is spreading rapidly. Its first manifestation occurred with the Brexit
vote in the UK and, as Trump made clear, it has spread to the US as Brexit Plus,
Plus, Plus. Western media, firmly under the control of oligarchs, have become
vehicles for disseminating disinformation and for perpetuating the rule of the
oligarchs in the post-Orwellian unreal world in which we are forced to live
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I had entertained hopes of finding realistic reporting in the Urdu
language media of Pakistan. Only for those hopes to be cruelly dashed! Most
commentators appeared to be regurgitating the propaganda being peddled in the
western MSM. A journalist I hold in high regard was contrasting the “uncouth
and uncivilised” Trump with the “dignified, smiling lady with great experience
of statecraft”! As for Pakistan’s English language media, the presstitutes
bought out by the US oligarchs obediently toed the official line, lamenting
Clinton’s loss and making fun of Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So, why was woman Clinton the Greater Evil? Below I have itemised some
pointers. A fuller list would make the blog very long. Thanks to the existence
of independent media which publicised the Podesta Emails, the Machiavellian
intrigues that go on within the Democratic Party are now well understood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Clinton was the
agent of the neoliberal oligarchy that rules the West. If Trump is the price we
have to pay to defeat neoliberalism then that price is worth paying. While the
globalist oligarchs have grown immeasurably rich, the working class and the
middle classes in USA have suffered terribly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[neoliberalism: economic policies such as privatization, fiscal
austerity, deregulation, “free trade”, reduction in government spending so as to increase the role of the private sector in economy and society]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Clinton openly
talked about a nuclear war with Russia and China, and she had no qualms about
the US being the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict with these
countries. Her insistence on a no-fly zone over sovereign Syria would have
meant a head-on clash with Russia, leading to World War III and a possible
annihilation of humanity on earth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 3.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With the help of
the criminal governments of France and the UK, Secretary of State “Hitlery” Clinton
destroyed the most prosperous state in Africa, the welfare state of Libya,
which planned to ditch the dollar in favour of a gold-backed dinar (“we came,
we saw, he died”, Killary cackled over the tragic death of President Gaddafi). Not
for nothing is she referred to as “Hitlery” and “Killary”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; line-height: normal;"> 4.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">This scheming
woman then turned her attention to sovereign Syria which had not only abandoned
the dollar but also refused to allow an oil pipeline from Qatar to pass through
its territory on its way to Turkey and Europe. She let loose the mad dogs of
CIA, the terrorists ISIS/Al-Qaeda/Jabhat al-Nusra etc, on Syria. Syria fought
back bravely, eventually appealing to Russia for help. The arrival of Russians on
the scene, at the end of September 2015, was a game changer. The Syrian army began
to win back the territory it had lost to the evil alliance of US, Nato, Israel
and the Gulf states. The cost to Syrian people is incalculable: half the
population was uprooted as infrastructure was deliberately destroyed and people
lost the means to survive. Some half-million died while millions more were
maimed or wandered about as refugees.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; line-height: normal;"> 5. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">The money
laundering machine, The Clinton Foundation, was a fake charity. Millions of
dollars came pouring in from donors in return for various favours, referred to
as “pay-to-play”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; line-height: normal;"> 6.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">“Crooked Hillary”
became Democratic presidential candidate as a result of widespread rigging of
primaries against her opponent Bernie Sanders.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; line-height: normal;"> 7. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Physically and
mentally sick Clinton would have been a worse puppet than Obama in the hands of
The Oligarchy. Most of Obama’s cabinet had been chosen for him long before he
won the election in 2008 (see <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-revelation-isnt-hillary-clinton">this</a>). Probably a worse fate awaited the sick
Clinton.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 8.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Podesta
Emails are said to contain references to the Clintons’ frequent travels in the “Lolita
Express”, which flew them to a holiday island where the morally corrupt, utterly
depraved oligarchs gathered to indulge in their vile practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The 2016 US presidential election was atypical in that one of the two
principal presidential candidates, Trump, was outside the control of the
Oligarchy and the Military-Security complex (collectively, the Deep State). The
non-stop propaganda about “democracy” is so much eyewash to deceive the public.
Two of my earlier blogs deal with this subject, <a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/democracy-today-in-pakistan-usa-and-uk.html">here </a>and <a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/western-democracy-endangered-species.html">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What of the future? My guess is that, within a year Trump will have
been tamed sufficiently for the Deep State to carry on much as before. If Trump
proves too obstinate and tries to bring the Deep State under his control he
faces possible assassination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to Paul Craig Roberts: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt;">“If Trump
is actually successful in curbing the power and budget of the military/security
complex and in holding Wall Street politically accountable, he could be
assassinated.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt;">As for the depravity and satan-worship of the ruling class, revealed by the Podesta emails, you can learn more by clicking this link:</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/clinton-podesta-email-pedophilia-satanism/">What Podesta emails reveal</a></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-6348021502761985532016-05-28T23:05:00.000+01:002016-05-30T09:59:21.372+01:00بحریہ ٹاؤن لاہور: ایک بے روح بستی <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">لاہور تیزی سےبدل رہا ہے- مالدار لوگوں کو بسانے کے لئے نئی بستیاں ابھر رہی ہیں- عام لوگوں سے الگ تھلگ، بڑے بڑے پھاٹکوں اور فصیلوں کے پیچھے</span><span style="font-size: large;"> یہ "محفوظ" اور بے روح بستیاں یورپ اور امریکہ کے شہروں کی بھونڈی شکل اختیار کئے ہوۓ ہیں- انہی بستیوں میں غالباً سب سے بڑی "بحریہ ٹاؤن" ہے جسے بنانے والا ملک ریاض حسین وہی شخص ہے جس نے زرداری کو اس کے دور صدارت میں ایک عالیشان رہائش گاہ بنا کر تحفتاً دی تھی- بحریہ ٹاؤن ایک ایسا آئنہ ہے جس میں پاکستان کے براؤن صاحبان اپنی غلامانہ ذہنیت کا عکس بڑی وضاحت سے دیکھ سکتے ہیں-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ملک ریاض نے مغرب کی اندھا دھند نقالی کو اپنی اولین ترجیح بنایا ہے- اس کا اچھا پہلو یہ ہے کہ سڑکیں کشادہ اور صاف ستھری ہیں اور لوگوں کی جان و مال کی حفاظت کا معقول انتظام ہے- اگر ان اچھی باتوں کو اختیار کر کے ملک ریاض پاکستانیت کا عنصر اس نو آباد شہر میں داخل کر دیتا تو "بحریہ" لاھور کی ایک حسین بستی بن سکتی تھی- لیکن "ترقی" کا نعرہ لگانے والوں کے لئے ترقی کا مفہوم یہ ہے کہ اپنی شناخت اور روایات کو مٹا کر امریکیوں کی زبان، تہذیب اور قدروں کو گلے لگایا جائے- سڑکوں، دوکانوں، مسجدوں اور دل بہلانے کی جگہوں کے نام سب انگریزی میں ہیں- کہیں کہیں انگریزی کے ساتھ اردو کی تحریر بھی نظر آ جاتی ہے ورنہ بھاری اکثریت انگریزی میں ہی ہے- جامعہ مسجد کے باہر آپ کو صرف Jamia Mosque نظر آے گا اور عمر مسجد کے اوپر Omer Mosque کے بڑے بڑے حروف آپ کا منہ چڑا رہے ہوں گے-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">کہ غلامی میں بدل جاتا ہے قوموں کا ضمیر</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ملک ریاض سے درخواست ہے کہ ہر انگریزی کی عبارت کے ساتھ اردو کی تحریر ضرور لگانی چاہئیے- اس ضمن میں لاہور چھاؤنی اور"ڈیفنس" کے علاقے میں ہمارے فوجیوں نے بدترین ذہنی غلامی کی مثال پیش کی ہے، جس کی تقلید کی ضرورت نہیں تھی- لاہور کے مغرب پرست طبقے کے لئے امریکی برگروں، پیزوں اور کوک کا معقول انتظام ہے- ایسی خوراک لوگوں کی صیحت پہ اثرانداز ہونے کے علاوہ زرمبادلہ امریکہ کو منتقل کرنے کا باعث بنتی ہے- غیر ملکی قرضوں میں جکڑا ہوا پاکستان اس کا متحمّل نہیں ہو سکتا-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">اپنے اپنے ذوق کی بات ہے- اگر آپ کو بحریہ میں پیرس کا آیفل ٹاور نظر آ جائے یا قدیم مصر کے نوادرات تو آپ کو کیسا لگے گا؟ </span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-31229365381321066672016-03-23T23:10:00.000+00:002016-04-08T04:45:57.687+01:00The rise and rise of Islamophobia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of demeaning Islam and humiliating Muslims continues unabated. My last two
blogs, <a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/san-bernardino-latest-false-flag.html">HERE</a> and <a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/francois-hollande-traitorous-french.html">HERE</a> , dealt in detail with how western governments and the
mainstream media owned by transnational corporations are colluding in this evil
undertaking. The latest act was played out in Brussels on 22 April, where bombs
went off at the airport and a metro station, killing 34 people and wounding
some 280 more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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newspapers and TV networks are going full blast with tales of terrorists whom
the formidable intelligence and police forces, enjoying unprecedented powers,
could not stop. After the event, pictures are shown of two men, said to be
brothers, wheeling trolleys through the airport with a gloved hand
while the other hand is bare. We are asked to believe – without being presented
any evidence whatsoever - that the gloves hide the detonators! Does it not occur to the security agencies that this claim amounts to an admittance of gross negligence for failing to have the gloves removed? We are told further that
the brothers are suicide bombers who died in the aftermath of the explosions!
Very convenient. Those accused in the Paris and San Bernardino massacres also
laid down their lives to allow the authorities’ lies and smears to go
unchallenged. As in Paris, the alleged perpetrators have criminal backgrounds and had spent time in prisons. They were under surveillance by the security agencies, who were also fully aware of their
trips to Syria and back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The terrified citizens
of western Europe have now got to a point where they will believe
anything that the authorities tell them and they will readily barter away their
civic rights and freedoms for the illusory security of a post-Orwellian state. To strike more terror into their hearts it is being said that the terrorists belonged to ISIS. Since they were allowed to travel freely to Syria and back while under surveillance, this claim is actually an admission that ISIS is being controlled by the West. But the frightened Europeans, fed on a diet of lies and disinformation, are too befuddled to see that the finger of suspicion is pointing towards their own governments who finance, train and arm these
terrorists and mercenaries with criminal backgrounds. Invariably, the terrorists are irreligious people
with a Muslim background whose sentimental attachment to Islam can be easily
exploited by drilling into them a hideously distorted version of Islam. </span></span></div>
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terrified populations of western Europe and North America have been dehumanised
to such an extent that they barely protest when USA and NATO invade Muslim
countries, mercilessly murdering millions of Muslims and rendering millions
more refugees. Their wrath is reserved for the victims while the murderous war criminals escape censure. One country that benefits enormously
from the carnage visited upon the western populations is Israel, which loses no
opportunity to whip up Islamophobia. The day after the Brussels atrocity, Israel’s Minister of Transport and Intelligence, Yisrael Katz, said: “If in
Belgium they continue eating chocolate and enjoying life, and continue to
appear as great democrats and liberals, and not decided that some Muslims in
their country are [organising] terror, they won’t be able to fight them.” Here is the newspaper report: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brussels-attack-belgium-must-tighten-security-instead-of-eating-chocolate-and-enjoying-life-says-a6948261.html">Israeli minister lectures Belgians</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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NATO, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states in the creation
and financing of terrorist organisations has been largely suppressed in the
mainstream media. Most people are lazy and they accept what the mainstream
media tell them. To know the truth one has to make an effort to seek it out
from the independent media on the internet. Here is one example of what the
independent media can tell you about the reality of "terrorism": <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/when-terrorism-becomes-counter-terrorism-the-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-are-going-after-the-terrorists/5496051?utm_source=Global+Research+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3c8cc305e3-Newsletter_22_12_1512_22_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ec9ab057f-3c8cc305e3-81332685&ct=t(Newsletter_22_12_1512_22_2015)&mc_cid=3c8cc305e3&mc_eid=54d6fab42a">Terrorism merges into counter-terrorism</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The reality of the
mainstream media, owned and controlled by multi-billionaires, who also sponsor
politicians to protect their interests in legislative assemblies, can be
gleaned from this report: <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-illusion-of-choice-ninety-percent-of-american-media-controlled-by-six-corporations/5472690?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">Illusion of free media</a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>TAILPIECE 24 March, 2016</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I learnt today that the security at Brussels airport is in the hands of ICTS, a firm which is run by former members of Israeli internal security agency. This firm is responsible for airport security at several American and European airports. It has been involved in several "security lapses" involving "Muslim terrorists", including the 2001 Triple Towers outrage of 9/11 in New York and the 7/7/2005 bloodbath in London. The full report is below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-israeli-intelligence-operatives-run-security-at-brussels-airport/5516262?platform=hootsuite">An unbelievable tale of Israeli Intelligence Operatives</a> </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Second TAILPIECE : 25 March 2016</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is getting weirder and weirder. It seems the images that have been issued to the public are fake. Those who planned the massacres and killed the patsies who allegedly exploded the bombs have gone to a lot of trouble to hide their identity. A classic false flag operation! Click on link below:</span><br />
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-1034003515576829642015-12-09T14:48:00.000+00:002015-12-14T23:01:52.855+00:00San Bernardino: latest false flag atrocity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This latest contribution in the spread of Islamophobia by western governments and mainstream media is possibly the most childish. The American FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, has had the bright idea of inventing a Muslim Bonnie-and-Clyde, a trigger-happy couple who go on the rampage killing innocents right and left!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story goes as follows: In San Bernardino, California, an American-born Muslim man, Syed Rizwan Farook, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out mass shootings of Farook's colleagues on 2 December, resulting in numerous casualties, including 14 deaths. Needless to say, as in all such false flag attacks attributed to Muslims, the couple were mercilessly gunned down and silenced for ever. As dead people tell no tales, this left the FBI free to weave a fantastic tale that defies both logic and common sense.</span><br />
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Paris-area emergency personnel and ambulance crews were taking part in a simulated emergency exercise on the very same day the <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/paris-emergency-crews-practiced-mass-shooting-simulation-hours-prior-terror-attacks/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Paris terrorist attacks took place.</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two days later, on Friday, 4 December, this circus had a comedy sequel when the alleged murderers' house, which had been used to store a multitude of weapons and ammunition, was invaded by dozens of reporters who showed off the couple's personal belongings to the </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whole world on live television!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to FBI, the couple had engaged in a shoot-out with the police. When pictures of their getaway car were taken it was found to have the windows rolled up with the glass shattered. The pictures of the dead couple showed them to be handcuffed. How on earth is it possible for a person to be hand-cuffed and engage in a shootout with car windows rolled up? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The car was riddled with bullet holes made by the police shooters, who had made sure the couple had died. Capturing them alive was obviously not an option as that would have made it impossible for FBI to spin its fantastic story, which defies common sense. Killing alleged Muslim "terrorists" is standard practice while the police has no trouble arresting alive non-Muslim pink-coloured mass murderers, who are never called terrorists. This linkage of "terrorism" with Islam is an essential psychological trick behind the satanic Islamophobia campaign being conducted by western Establishments (governments/bureaucracy/media/security forces).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A report published at the website of Veterans Today lays bare the false propaganda that has been raging about the San Bernardino massacre of innocents. As the report points out, why would radical Muslims kill innocent people rather than high-level individuals such as "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Dov Zakheim, and the other architects of the genocidal War on Islam</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: , "helvetica neue light" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">". </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Click this link:</span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Justifiable suspicions about what happened surfaced straightaway after the incident.</em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The alleged perpetrators, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik,</strong>appear to have been used as convenient patsies – the same way April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Dzhokhar were unjustly framed for a crime they didn’t commit.</em></div>
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False flag attacks are used to stoke fear, to enlist public support for planned domestic and foreign horrors. Events post-9/11 are well-documented. What’s unfolding now looks like more of the same – the phony pretext of combating ISIS, state-sponsored high crimes at home and abroad.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eyewitnesses to the San Bernardino shooting</strong> said three white gunmen in black military attire, armed with assault rifles, were responsible.</div>
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Sally Abdelmageed working at the Inland Regional Center described them this way, saying “(a)s soon as they opened up the doors to building three…one of them (began) shoot(ing) into the room.”</div>
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“I couldn’t see a face. He had a black hat on…black cargo pants, the kind with the big puffy pockets on the side…long sleeve shirt…gloves…huge assault rifle…six magazines…I just saw three dressed exactly the same.”</div>
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“It looked like their skin color was white. They look like they were athletic(ally) buil(t), and they appeared to be tall” – clearly professionals, carrying out a well-planned attack, the way all false flags are conducted.</div>
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Abdelmageed and other eyewitnesses gave similar accounts, debunking the official narrative – a Big Lie, framing two innocent Muslim patsies, killed by police to tell no tales, given no chance to explain their innocence.</div>
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Their bodies were found handcuffed, indicating they were apprehended and likely extrajudicially executed to be unable to refute the official narrative.</div>
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Former NSA/CIA contractor Steven D. Kelley told<a href="http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/08/440834/Craft-International-mercenaries-San-Bernardino-shooting" id="yiv8826192590yui_3_16_0_1_1449832341001_4860" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> Press TV</a> intimated that hired guns allegedly from Craft International (a Blackwater type paramilitary group, the same one responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings) could have been behind the San Bernardino shootings. (see below)</div>
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The incident “is just one in a long string of false flag events that I am afraid to say are not over,” he said. “We’ll probably be seeing several more before the end of the year, because of the events that are going on in the world, specifically with NATO implicated in the buying of (stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil complicit with) Daesh and other events.”</div>
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“(W)hen these things happen, they need to have a rapid response which requires a false flag attack. This was very obvious that this was going to happen” – with lots more to come, Kelly believes, part of Washington’s well-orchestrated fear-mongering campaign.</div>
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The early stages of its dirty aftermath are playing out, most Americans mindless about how they’re being duped.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francois Hollande, the current French president, has presided over two horrendous terrorist attacks on Paris. The first one, in January this year, resulted in the deaths of 12 people while the second attack, carried out on Friday 13 November, left 129 dead. This number is expected to rise considerably as more deaths occur among those in critical condition.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The obscene policies pursued by Hollande - willingly or under pressure from the Americans - are spelt out with great clarity in Tony Cartalucci's article, published by the Centre for Research on Globalisation. This is copied below.</span><br />
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/14/attack-in-france-state-sponsored-terror-but-which-state/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">As predicted and previously reported</a>, terrorists who took part in an unprecedented attack in the center of Paris killing over a 100 and injuring hundreds more, were well-known to French security agencies before the attack took place.</em></div>
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The UK Daily Mail reported in its article, “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3318379/Hunt-Isis-killers-Syrian-passport-body-suicide-bomber-Stade-France.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447523389199_2398" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hunt for the Isis killers: One terrorist identified as ‘young Frenchman known to authorities’ – another two found with Syrian and Egyptian passports</a>,” that:</div>
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One of the terrorists involved in last night’s attacks in Paris has been officially identified as a Parisian, according to local media reports.</div>
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The man, who was killed at the Bataclan, was identified using his fingerprints and was from the southern Parisian neighbourhood of Courcouronnes.</div>
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French reports say that the man, who was around 30 years old,<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> was already known to French anti-terrorist authorities prior to last night’s attacks. </strong>(emphasis added)</div>
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Similarly in January 2015 in the wake of the “Charlie Hebo attack” which left 12 dead, <a href="http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/14/french-surveillance-law-amid-terror-of-own-creation/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">it was revealed</a> that French security agencies tracked the perpetrators for nearly a decade beforehand, having arrested at least one terrorist a total of two times, incarcerating him at least once, tracked two of them overseas where they had trained with known terrorist organizations and possibly fought alongside them in Syria, before tracking them back to French territory.Astoundingly, French security agencies never moved in on the terrorists, claiming that after a decade of tracking them, they had finally decided to close their case for precisely the amount of time needed for them to plan and execute their grand finale.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More Wars and More Surveillance Can’t Help </strong><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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With a similar scenario now emerging, particularly in the wake of the “Charlie Hebo attack,” where French security agencies knew about extremists but failed to stop them before carrying out yet another high-profile attack, even with enhanced surveillance powers granted to them by recent legislation, it appears that no amount of intrusive surveillance or foreign wars will stem a terrorist problem the French government itself seems intent on doing nothing to stop.The problem is not France’s immigration laws. Dangerous people are in France, but they are being tracked by French security agencies. The problem is not Syria. Terrorists have left to fight there, acquired deadly skills and affiliations before returning to France, but have likewise been tracked by French security agencies. Instead, the problem is that French security agencies are doing nothing about these dangerous individuals knowingly living, working, and apparently plotting in the midst of French society.In the coming hours and days, the French government and its various co-conspirators in their proxy war against Syria will propose a plan of action they claim will stem the terrorist threat France and the rest of Europe faces. But the reality is, the problem is not something the French government can solve, because the problem is clearly the French government itself.<div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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With the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) emerging as being behind the attack, the question that remains is, who is behind ISIS itself? While the West has attempted to maintain the terrorist organization possesses almost mythological abilities, capable of sustaining combat operations against Syria, Iraq, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, support from Iran, and now the Russian military – all while carrying out large-scale, high-profile terrorist attacks across the globe – it is clear that ISIS is the recipient of immense multinational state-sponsorship.</div>
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The rise of ISIS was revealed as early as 2007 in interviews conducted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">in his 9-page report “The Redirection</a>.” The interviews revealed a plan to destabilize and overthrow the government of Syria through the use of sectarian extremists – more specifically, Al Qaeda – with arms and funds laundered through America’s oldest and stanchest regional ally, Saudi Arabia.</div>
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A more recent <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Department of Intelligence Agency (DIA) report drafted in 2012 (.pdf)</a> admitted:</div>
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If the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).</div>
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The DIA report enumerates precisely who these “supporting powers” are:</div>
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The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime.</div>
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And to this day, by simply looking at any number of maps detailing territory held by various factions amid the Syrian conflict, it is clear that ISIS is not a “state” of any kind, but an ongoing invasion emanating from NATO-member Turkey’s territory, <a href="http://journal-neo.org/2015/06/09/logistics-101-where-does-isis-get-its-guns/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">with its primary supply corridor crossing the Turkish-Syrian border</a>between the Syrian town of Ad Dana and the western bank of the Euphrates River, a supply corridor now increasingly shrinking.</div>
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In fact, the desperation exhibited by the West and its efforts to oust the Syrian government and salvage its proxy force now being decimated by joint Syrian-Russian military operations, is directly proportional to the diminishing size and stability of this corridor.</div>
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Just last week, Syrian forces reestablished firm control over the Kweyris military airport, which was under siege for years. The airport is just 20 miles from the Euphrates, and, as Syrian forces backed by Russian airpower work their way up toward the Turkish border along the Syrian coast, constitutes a unified front that will essentially cut off ISIS deeper inside Syria for good.</div>
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Should ISIS’ supply lines be cut in the north, the organization’s otherwise inexplicable fighting capacity will atrophy. The window for the West’s “regime change” opportunity is quickly closing, and perhaps in a last ditch effort, France has jammed the spilled blood and broken bodies of its own citizens beneath the window to prevent it from closing for good.</div>
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The reality is that France knew the “Charlie Hebo” attackers, they knew beforehand those involved in the most recent Paris attack, and they likely know of more waiting for their own opportunity to strike. With this knowledge, they stood by and did nothing. What’s more, it appears that instead of keeping France safe, the French government has chosen to use this knowledge as a weapon in and of itself against the perception of its own people, to advance its geopolitical agenda abroad.</div>
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If the people of France want to strike hard at those responsible for repeated terrorist attacks within their borders, they can start with those who knew of the attacks and did nothing to stop them, who are also, coincidentally, the same people who helped give rise to ISIS and help perpetuate it to this very day.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the fourteenth year in succession we are going to observe on 11 September the sickening sight of world "leaders" playacting respectful silence, laying wreaths with solemn faces, looking sombre and delivering hypocritical speeches about their resolve to bring "peace" whatever the cost (meaning: invasions of foreign lands, genocidal killings and control of their natural resources). These brazen attempts to persuade people to believe in the farce of a magical attack on the world's sole superpower, with impregnable defences, by technically backward people living in remote Afghanistan have made the USA and NATO countries the laughing stock of social media. In the post-Orwellian world that we live in today the mainstream media are the principal means in the hands of the corrupt democracies to deceive people and sell lies as truths by repeating those lies endlessly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On 11 September 2001, 3 towers in New York, made of concrete and steel, collapsed inexplicably in a heap of dust. Two of these had been hit by airplanes in the upper storeys but the third tower - WTC7 - just imploded magically, in the same way as the other two had. Following the first two implosions, a BBC reporter stood belting out the drivel assigned to her by her masters at the BBC while the third tower stood tall in the background! This video, showing the woman announcing the collapse of WTC7 well before it did so, can be watched in the following account of the event by the highly respected Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, published at their website on 21 November, 2012. The video will bring home to you how the</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> presstitute media serve the western oligarchies operating under the cloak of democracy.</span><br />
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WTC Building 7, also known as the Salomon Brothers Building or WTC 7, was a 47–story skyscraper that was part of the World Trade Center complex. Built in 1984, Building 7 would have been the tallest high-–rise in thirty–three of our United States. Building 7 housed several intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the NYC Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center, more commonly known as “Giuliani’s Bunker,” along with several major financial institutions.</div>
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Building 7, which was 100 yards from the Twin Towers, was not hit by an airplane on September 11, 2001, and suffered only minimal damage from debris falling from the North Tower. Several fires began burning on a few floors, and the entire building completely collapsed – almost into its own footprint – at 5:20 p.m. Numerous eyewitnesses, including members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and other first responders, and multiple news sources, made statements that indicate that there was foreknowledge that WTC 7 was going to come down, despite the fact that no skyscraper in history had ever completely collapsed due to fire. (Much of this evidence of foreknowledge is detailed on the website of the <a href="http://rememberbuilding7.org/foreknowledge/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Remember Building 7 campaign</a> and other related sites.)</div>
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Where foreknowledge of an extremely unusual event is demonstrated, the possibility must be considered that the foreknowledge derived directly or indirectly from those who had inside information about, and/or control over, the event itself. Thus, if foreknowledge of the collapse of Building 7 can be shown, this would be a strong indication that Building 7 was subjected to controlled demolition, and that advance warning of Building 7’s demise derived ultimately from those who intended to bring the building down. Thus, foreknowledge of the collapse of Building 7 is not only consistent with, but supportive of, the controlled demolition hypothesis.</div>
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To worry that a damaged building might collapse in some fashion is one thing. But to be certain that it will collapse is another. A detailed study of the FDNY accounts by 9/11 researcher Graeme MacQueen shows that more than half of those who received warnings of WTC 7’s collapse (where a degree of certainty can be determined from the reports) were certain or were told with certainty that Building 7 was coming down. (The figures calculate to 31 out of 58. See MacQueen’s report <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200701/MacQueenWaitingforSeven.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Waiting for Seven…” at page 4</a>.)</div>
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If someone were observing the fires in WTC 7 and able to determine, in the last few moments of the building’s existence, that a peculiar set of circumstances was beginning to threaten the building, that would be one thing. But to receive warnings of the building’s collapse well before this set of circumstances arose raises suspicion. Yet, a detailed study of the FDNY reports shows that of the thirty-three cases where the time of warning can be determined, in ten cases warnings were received two or more hours in advance, and in six cases warnings were apparently received four or more hours in advance. (See MacQueen’s <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200701/%20%20%20%20MacQueenWaitingforSeven.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Waiting for Seven…” at page 4</a>.) In other words, the warnings came long before the unique set of circumstances had allegedly come together to cause the building’s collapse.</div>
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If the collapse warnings were derived from vague worries and concerns, as claimed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the warnings would not have been precise. A complete collapse, such as happened to WTC 1, WTC 2, and WTC 7 on 9/11, was unknown – unless the building was being brought down by controlled demolition. That is why FDNY member James McGlynn could say on 9/11, in reference to one of the Towers, “Any time I’ve heard of a collapse, it was never an entire building like this turned out to be.” (See MacQueen’s <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/%20%20%20%20200701/MacQueenWaitingforSeven.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Waiting for Seven‚” at page 21</a>.) Nevertheless, somehow, many people knew in advance that WTC 7 would suffer an unprecedented collapse. Which begs the question, “How did they know?” Consider the following exchange from the FDNY oral histories:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A. “Yes, so basically they measured out how far the building was going to come, so we knew exactly where we could stand.”</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Q. “So they just put you in a safe area, safe enough for when that building came down?“</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A. “Five blocks. Five blocks away. We still could see. Exactly right on point, the cloud stopped right there.”(See MacQueen’s <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200701/MacQueenWaitingforSeven.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Waiting for Seven…” at page 8</a>.)</li>
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It is quite remarkable that a debris cloud estimate could be so precise for a collapse that was supposedly caused by unforeseen and unplanned events. Had Building 7 “tipped over,” which would have been more realistic, given the structural damage that was supposed to be the reason for its collapse, the building could actually have ended up crushing several other tall buildings, creating a destruction zone much farther away from the building.</div>
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Building 7’s collapse reported <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">in advance</i> by CNN and the BBC</h3>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">In this BBC video</a>, correspondent Jane Standley reports that Building 7 has collapsed; meanwhile (at the 1:17 mark), a fully intact Building 7 can actually be seen — still standing — behind her. Who fed this information to Standley? Apparently, someone who had inside information about, and/or control over, the event itself, released that information to the media prematurely.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LetB0z8_o" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">In another news clip,</a> while Building 7 is seen standing fully erect and showing no signs of impending trauma, CNN’s Aaron Brown gives the following report: “We are getting information now that one of the other buildings, Building 7, in the World Trade Center complex, is on fire and has either collapsed or is collapsing…” Who is he “getting information” from? Again, it appears to be from someone who had inside information about, and/or control over, the event itself, and who released that information to the media prematurely. Only such an individual could have expected Building 7 to come down.</div>
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In sum, both CNN and BBC did not merely report that WTC 7 was damaged or that it might collapse. Instead, they prematurely announced the actual collapse of Building 7. No satisfactory explanation has been given about these premature announcements, which were obviously based on data fed to the announcers, apparently by an unknown person or persons who had inside information about, and/or control over, the event itself, and who bungled matters by releasing that information to the media prematurely.</div>
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More evidence of foreknowledge of the collapse of Building 7 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/%20%20%20%20watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw&t=2m8s" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">is preserved in this video</a> where an eyewitnesses can be heard saying: “Keep your eye on that building. It’ll be coming down soon.” And “The building is about to blow up. Move it back.” And also, “We are walking back. The building is about to blow up.”</div>
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These reports were later corroborated by first responder Indira Singh, who, in a radio interview about Building 7, revealed that the FDNY had stated that “We’re going to have to bring it down.“</div>
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The testimony of Kevin McPadden, an emergency medical technician and 9/11 first responder, is even more shocking. In a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4z-Wrp1pY8" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">taped interview</a>, McPadden indicated that there was an actual countdown preceding Building 7’s collapse:</div>
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“The Red Cross rep was like, he goes over and he says [to us], ‘You gotta stay behind this line because they’re thinking about bringing the building down.’…He goes over and he asks one of the…firefighters what was going on…He came back over with his hand over the radio and [you could hear] what sounded like a countdown. And, at the last few seconds, he took his hand off [the radio] and you heard ‘three-two-one,’ and he was just saying, ‘Just run for your life! Just run for your life!’ And then it was like another two, three seconds, you heard explosions. Like, BA-BOOOOOM! And it’s like a distinct sound…BA-BOOOOOM! And you felt a rumble in the ground, like, almost like you wanted to grab onto something. That, to me, I knew that was an explosion. There was no doubt in my mind…”</div>
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NIST has tried to evade the issue of foreknowledge of WTC 7’s collapse in its report on the building’s destruction by implying:</div>
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It is true that damage to WTC 7 was directly witnessed by some firefighters and, apparently, led a few (about seven) of them to worry that the building might collapse. However, the great majority (approximately fifty) who were worried about collapse did not base this worry on the physical damage but on what they were told. (See MacQueen’s <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200701/MacQueenWaitingforSeven.pdf" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Waiting for Seven…” at page 5</a>.) Moreover, while an engineer may have communicated his opinion, early in the day, that the building might collapse, neither this communication nor communications from the FDNY is sufficient to explain all of the collective evidence indicating foreknowledge of Building 7’s collapse.</div>
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Individually, each of the factors discussed above indicates the possibility of foreknowledge of Building 7’s collapse: the certainty of Building 7’s impending collapse as expressed and memorialized in the FDNY oral histories, the early announcements made by the FDNY, the precise nature of the early announcements, CNN’s and the BBC’s premature reporting of Building 7’s collapse, and the actual countdown to Building 7’s demise. Collectively, these factors provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that this foreknowledge is most readily explained by the fact that Building 7 was brought down in an explosive controlled demolition carefully planned months in advance.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is an excellent summary of the USA's act of self-harm, 9/11, and its consequences over the succeeding years. By Paul Craig Roberts:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42823.htm#.Vfc1C_H_Fag.twitter">My Crime,Your Punishment</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In February 2013, before Pakistan's national elections held later that year in May, I wrote a blog about democracy in Pakistan, the USA and the UK. You can read it <b><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2013_02_01_archive.html">here</a> . </b>That blog jolted some of my readers but not sufficiently to shake their faith in USA's corrupt democracy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Paul Craig Roberts has written an article on Western Democracy, which he says is an endangered species on its way to extinction. The article was published yesterday at his website, paulcraigroberts.org. The full article is reproduced below.</span><br />
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Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction — Paul Craig Roberts</h1>
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The British Labour Party no longer represents the working class. Under UK prime minister Tony Blair, the Labour Party became a vassal of the One Percent. The result has been a rebellion in the ranks and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a principled Labourite intent on representing the people, a no-no in Western “democracies.” </div>
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Corbyn is too real for the Labour Party Blairites, who hope to be rewarded with similar nest eggs as Blair for representing the capitalist One Percent. So what is the corrupted Labour Party doing to prevent Corbyn’s election?</div>
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The answer is that it is denying the vote to Corbyn supporters. You can read the story here:<br />
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The illegal Egyptian military dictatorship that overthrew on Washington’s orders the first democratically elected government in Egyptian history has issued an edict prohibiting journalists from contradicting the military dictatorship. In brief, the dictatorship installed by Washington has outlawed facts.</div>
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Washington rejected the government that the Egyptian people elected, because it appeared that the democratically elected government would have a foreign policy that was at least partially independent of Washington’s. Remember, according to the neocons who, together with Israel, control US foreign policy, countries with independent foreign policies, such as Iran, Russia, and China, are America’s “greatest threats.” </div>
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The Egyptian military thugs, following Washington’s orders, have more or less eliminated all of the leadership of the political party that was democratically elected. The party was called the Muslim Brotherhood. In the presstitute Western media, the political party was described more or less as al Qaeda, and how are the ignorant, brainwashed, and propagandized Americans to know any difference? Certainly neither “their” government nor the presstitute media will ever tell them.</div>
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With the military dictatorship’s edict, independent news reporting no longer exists in Egypt. Washington is pleased and rewards the dictatorship with bags full of money paid by the hapless and helpless American taxpayers. </div>
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Americans should keep in mind that most of the dollars that they pay in income tax are spent either spying upon themselves and the world or killing people in many countries. Without resources taken from American taxpayers millions of women, children, and village elders would still be alive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine, South Ossetia, and other countries. America is the greatest exporter of violence the world has ever known. So wear your patriotism on your sleeve and be proud. You are a depraved citizen of the world’s worst killer nation. Compared to the USA, Rome was a piker. </div>
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France herself seems to be collapsing as a democracy and no longer respects her own laws. According to this report from Kumaran Ira on World Socialist Website <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/19/fkil-a19.html" style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/19/fkil-a19.html</a> ,<br />
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Where do you suppose the socialist president of France got his idea of an illegal and unconstitutional “kill list”? If you answer from “America’s First Black President,” you are correct. </div>
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The French people should be outraged that “their” president is nothing more than a murderer and an agent of Washington. But they aren’t. False flag operations have made them fearful. The French like other Western peoples, have ceased to think.</div>
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Every western democracy is gone with the wind. Washed up, Finished. Every value that defined Western civilization and made it great has been flushed by power and greed and arrogance. </div>
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Proconsuls have replaced democracy. </div>
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I certainly do not believe that Western civilization was ever pure as snow and devoid of sins and crimes against humanity. But it is a fact that in Western civilization, despite the numerous injustices, reforms were possible that improved life for the lower classes. Reforms were possible that restricted the rapaciousness of the rich and powerful. In the US reforms made the impossible come true: ladders of upward mobility made it possible for members of the lowest economic class to become multimillionaires. And this actually happened.</div>
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The governments in Washington committed many crimes, but on occasion Washington prevented crimes. Remember President Eisenhower’s ultimatum to Washington’s British, French, and Israeli allies to remove themselves from the Suez Canal in Egypt or else.</div>
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Today Washington pushes its allies to commit crimes against humanity. That is what NATO and the National Endowment for Democracy are for. </div>
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In my lifetime Americans have always had a good opinion of themselves. But in the 21st century this good opinion has hyper-jumped into hubris and arrogance. If you haven’t been around very long in terms of a human life, you don’t see this. But older people do. </div>
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Just as the Roman Empire ended in the destruction of the Roman people, the American Empire will end in the destruction of the American people. Judging from histories, Roman citizens were superior to American citizens; yet, Rome failed. </div>
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Americans shouldn’t expect any other outcome. The price to be paid for insouciance, self-satisfaction, and complicity is high.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Added 27 September 2015:</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">Below</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> is a follow-up by Paul Craig Roberts, published at his website on 22 September 2015. The link to this article is: <a href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/09/22/democracy-departed-west-paul-craig-roberts/">Democracy Has Departed The West</a></span></h3>
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Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and not to their peoples. In the UK the military brass has declared its hold on the reins of power. </div>
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Jeremy Corbyn is the first Labourite to lead the Labour Party in a long time. Considering the stupidity and immorality of the Tories, Corbyn could become prime minister of Britain. Should this occur, Corbyn would shift the budget priorities away from supporting Washington’s wars toward refurbishing the social welfare state that made life for ordinary Britishers more secure and less stressful.</div>
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A senior serving general of the British army said that the army would not allow the people to “put a maverick in charge of the country’s security. The Army just wouldn’t stand for it and would use whatever means possible, fair or foul, to prevent that.”</div>
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In other words, a democratic outcome unacceptable to the English military will be overthrown. Just like in Egypt. </div>
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Here we have the incongruity of Washington and London bringing democracy to others through what Vladimir Putin calls “airstrike democracy,” while tolerating a democracy deficit themselves. The safest conclusion is that democracy is a cloak for an aggressive agenda, not a value in itself to the US and UK elites, who rule and who intend to continue to rule these countries for their personal benefit.</div>
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Jonathan Cook reports that the use of “whatever means possible, fair or foul,” against Labour prime ministers who actually stood for the people rather than for the elites is not unique to Corbyn.<br />
Labour Prime Minister Harald Wilson faced similar pressure and resigned. <a href="http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-09-20/army-plots-against-british-pms-are-not-new/" style="color: maroon; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-09-20/army-plots-against-british-pms-are-not-new/ </a></div>
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As far as I can tell, not only has democracy departed the Western world, but also compassion, empathy for others, morality, integrity, respect for truth, justice, faithfulness, and self-respect. Western civilization has become a hollow shell. There is nothing left but greed and coercion and the threat of coercion. When I read—hopefully incorrect reports—that Russia’s President Putin desires to be a partner of the West, I wonder why such a powerful country, which has emerged into light out of darkness, wants to be Satan’s partner. I assume that the reports are untrue or that Putin is acting in the interest of humankind to defuse the dangerous situation created by Washington and its NATO sock puppets.</div>
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Russia should not forget the courageous speech that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to the UN on September 20, 2006. Standing at the podium, Chavez said that on the previous day George W. Bush stood here, “Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulfur.” The purpose of America, Chavez said, is “to preserve the pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.”</div>
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Chavez’s words were too much truth for US politicians. Nancy Pelosi, the multimillionaire Speaker of the US House of Representatives, said that such a speech was to be expected from an “everyday thug.” </div>
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Elsewhere the response was different. Rafael Correa, currently President of Ecuador, said that Chavez had insulted Satan, because although Satan is evil like Washington, he is al least intelligent, and Washington is completely stupid.</div>
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The Western World is on its last legs. Unemployment is horrendous for European and American youth—primarily for the educated. Young American women, driven by student debt, advertise on Internet sites for “sugar daddies” to whom they will supply sex for financial support. The easy answer—“education is the solution”— is a lie. Ph.Ds cannot get jobs, because university budgets are cut in order to save money for wars and bank bailouts and 75% of the remaining budget is used by administrations to pay themselves large salaries and perks. NYU, for example, provides its higher administrative personnel with expensive summer homes. University presidents in America have multimillion dollar incomes, while the students drown in debt.</div>
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The Wall Street Mentality—unlimited Greed—has taken over American life, and this greed has been exported to Europe, which had achieved a sharing relationship between labor and capital. Today Europe, like the US, is an opportunity wasteland for the young. Greece has been sacrificed for the private bankers, and Italy, Spain, and Portugal are waiting in the wings. In the place of independent European countries, a fascist centralized authority is rising.</div>
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As millions of refugees from Washington and its NATO enablers’ wars seek refuge in Europe,<br />
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In recent years we have witnessed that private bankers acting through the EU were able to appoint the governments of the allegedly democratic governments of Greece and Italy. </div>
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In the Western World the aristocracy of wealth is being re-established. If Russia and China join this “partnership,” then billions of peoples will be ruled by a handful of mega-rich elites.</div>
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The world is on the knife edge. The West is lost. Russia and China could go down with the West, because both Russia and China suffered tyranny and look to the West for the paths to freedom and liberty. But Western paths lead to “domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.” </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Paul Craig Roberts </em></span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #21200b; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are </span><a data-cta-variation="0" data-event-id="19412" href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?wp_cta_redirect_19412=http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/books/the-failure-of-laissez-faire-capitalism-and-economic-dissolution-of-the-west/&wp-cta-v=0&wpl_id=7qEFgPKvXBTXcxNxNsooPUwFcLwgv571Umd&l_type=wpluid" rel="follow" style="color: maroon; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West</a><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #21200b; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> and </span><a data-cta-variation="0" data-event-id="19412" href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?wp_cta_redirect_19412=http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/books/how-america-was-lost/&wp-cta-v=0&wpl_id=7qEFgPKvXBTXcxNxNsooPUwFcLwgv571Umd&l_type=wpluid" style="color: maroon; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How America Was Lost</a><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #21200b; font-family: 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-73222079055296442592015-07-28T21:11:00.000+01:002017-05-17T22:27:54.263+01:00The Horrors of the Old Testament <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is hardly possible nowadays to surf the internet without bumping into brainwashed, ignorant people who try to humiliate Muslims by attacking Islam and the greatest man who ever walked on earth, Muhammad, the Messenger of God. Quite recently, I came across a lady twittering the praises of Christianity and belittling Islam. It was obvious that she knew little about Islam and her knowledge of Christian scriptures was limited. This blog is a riposte to such complacent people unaware of their own scriptures.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">My stock response to such ignorant attacks is to provide links to three of my most popular blogs </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">about Quran/Islam, which I did:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eaeaea; line-height: 20.572479248046875px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2015_02_01_archive.html"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Translations of the Quran</b></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/islam.html"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Islam: back to basics</b></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/islam-reality-beyond-time-and-space.html">Islam: the Reality beyond time and space</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">The versions of the Bible that the various Christian sects follow differ widely. Generally, the version that the Protestant Christians in western Europe and North America follow is made up of two parts: The Old Testament (OT), which has 39 books, and The New Testament (NT) which has 27 books. The OT is also broadly accepted by the Jews as a part of their holy scriptures while the NT, being a collection of writings attributed to Christ's disciples and other followers, is not. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have set out numerous extracts from the OT below. Christians and Jews may be offended and they may see this as an attack on their religion. It is nothing of the sort. I have made similar comments about what passes for "Hadith" in Islam. My view is that God has given us a mind and power of thought, which the Quran tells us we must apply to all things. Blind belief is an insult to human intelligence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Extracts from the Old Testament</u><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (King James version - 39 books)</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Book 1 Genesis</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the Quran refers to all Messengers as exalted men of impeccable character, they come across as licentious men in the OT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"[Lot said to his people] Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes." <i>Gang rape is OK?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a crude description of Lot's incest with his daughters, refer to the original. This blog is not the right place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Abraham openly committed incest with his half-sister: "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jacob married two sisters. He also committed incest with his daughter-in-law. He wrestled with God most of the night:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And he [God] said, let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jacob's son followed his father's footsteps when it came to licentiousness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"...., that Reuben went and lay with Bilah his father's concubine: "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God slew Onan, not for incest with his brother's wife but for spilling his seed outside her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And Onan ..., when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.</span></div>
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ARAM married his aunt (father's sister) ... "and she bare him Aaron and Moses"!</div>
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"... whosoever doth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death." <i>Death penalty for working on "wrong" day!</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death." </span><i><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death penalty for </span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">homosexuality, no gay rights!</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For good measure, OT goes on to mention bestiality, resulting in the deaths of man, woman and beasts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Death for apostasy: "Bring forth him that hath cursed [the Lord] without the camp; ... and let all the congregation stone him"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If the Lord became furious with people's disobedience: "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Quran, by contrast, does not invoke the death penalty for any of these acts and Allah does not turn people into cannibals. The punishments of the OT are thought to have been introduced among the Muslims by Jews and Christians through the deceitful practice of infiltrating "Hadith" stories with false ones which mimic Biblical savagery.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Death by stoning if you work on the sabbath: "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And they warred against the Midianites, ... and they slew all the males. And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones,...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">David and his sons come across as lechers, insane with blood lust. And "God" can only be described as a figure of fun, a vengeful, jealous voyeur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>The deluge of filth continues in later books of the OT</u></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>OT 10 The Book of Samuel 2</b> describes in sordid detail how David tortured and killed his enemies. He also hated disabled people: "And David said on that day, ..and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, .."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then there was Bathsheba, married to Uriah, who David first saw from the roof of the king's house as she washed herself, and was smitten by her beauty. "And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her". Then, when she became pregnant with David's child Soloman, David sent her husband to "the forefront of the hottest battle, ...that he may be smitten and die". And that is exactly what happened, and left David free to marry Bathsheba!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Thus saith the LORD, Behold, ...and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun"! <i>What kind of beast is this "God"?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amnon, son of David, distinguished himself by raping his own sister (refer to the original for sordid details). Another son of David, Absalom, committed incest with his father's women: ".. and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Solomon was even more extreme - if you can imagine that - than his extremist father! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"But king Solomon loved many strange women ...... And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines". Wow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Elisha prayed unto the LORD ..., smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"... This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"But Rabshakeh said unto them, hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Does any of this sound remotely "holy"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inexplicably, both Solomon and David are referred to as sons of God. </span></div>
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<b>OT 13 The Book of Chronicles 1</b>: "... Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father."</div>
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In <b>OT 19 The Book of Psalms</b>, God begets David:</div>
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".. Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee."</div>
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Then there is <b>OT 22 Song of Songs. </b>The song is attributed to Solomon and describes the pleasures of unrestrained lust. Embarrassed Christians have unsuccessfully tried to have this "abomination" expunged from the Bible. </div>
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Over the remaining 17 OT books it gets worse. For example, in <b>OT 24 The Book of Jeremiah</b>, we have descriptions of people burning their own children alive and God-created cannibalism: "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters." In later books the recurring themes of adultery, incest, massacres, whoredom, cannibalism continue to be mentioned in lurid, obscene terms. In addition, there are strange references to "God" practising deception, referring to some women as his, who "bare sons and daughters". Then "God" is crushed and devoured by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and acts like the worst sort of human tyrant by going into uncontrollable rage and committing evil deeds on people (sending famine, evil beasts, etc). Would any sane person want to worship the "God" as described in the OT?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>How the evil in the OT has affected those who treat it as "holy"</u></span></h3>
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A year ago the Jews of Israel mercilessly massacred over 500 children in Gaza and devastated the land and infrastructure. Altogether, over 2,200 men, women and children died, and hundreds of thousands are still homeless. Perhaps we should not be surprised. People who believe in a book like the OT are quite capable of committing such atrocities without feeling remorse at their vile actions.</div>
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What applies to Jewish believers of the Old Testament also applies to the Christian followers in western governments. Over the past decade, the number of Muslim lives that the US/NATO monster has destroyed in Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria/Libya/Pakistan exceeds 2 millions. Though a majority of population in the West professes to be agnostic or atheist, western culture is heavily influenced by Christian scriptures and traditions. </div>
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Apart from direct assaults by their armed forces, the US/Nato/Israel monolith has spawned a number of terrorist outfits - ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Pak Taliban, etc - to wreak mayhem in the aforementioned Muslim countries and create conditions of civil war, which then serve as an excuse to intervene and take control of the countries. If the OT continues to be regarded as sacred or holy then I see little improvement in the wanton killings and destruction by US/NATO/Israel. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>The sleep-walking Muslims</u></span></h3>
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Indeed, this culture of unbridled violence has become so infectious that Muslim states of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, armed to the hilt with weapons supplied by the West, have ganged up to attack Muslim Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world. Then there is the enigma of Turkey, a Muslim country that is also a NATO member, which is being cleverly used by its fellow NATO members to serve their interests by attacking Muslims who do not conform to Turkey's majority sunni sects.</div>
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Muslims are being cleverly manipulated to commit suicide through sectarian warfare. Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan are utterly destroyed. Only Pakistan has been saved from that ignoble fate by the cohesion of its powerful armed forces.</div>
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The US/NATO governments, and their servile media, invariably use the term "terrorism" as euphemism for violent acts committed by Muslims, who are then described as "terrorists". No matter how many people are killed by a Jew or a Christian, the terms "terrorism" or "terrorist" are never applied. By means of such disgraceful psychological techniques a majority of people in the West has come to see Islam/Muslims as the arch enemies, much as the communist countries behind the "Iron Curtain" were once.</div>
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When will the Muslims wake up from their slumbers and recognise the depth of degradation to which they have sunk?</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the days leading up to Thursday, 7 May, the mainstream media bombarded the poor electorate with stark warnings of a hung Parliament and a minority government, either Tory or New Labour (Old Labour having died a painful death when the unspeakable Tony Blair made his pact with the media moguls and Big Business way back before his 1997 landslide victory). Increasingly, the hapless Ed Miliband, not accepted as genuine New Labour by BigBiz and media moguls, was emerging as a figure of fun in the media which was kinder towards Cameron. During those days Cameron's habitual poker faced expression metamorphosed into a passionate Churchillian one as he delivered speeches with arms flailing and his body language on fire. What exactly was going on, I wondered?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having cast my vote for the Green candidate earlier in the day, I decided to take a pre-midnight nap. Shortly after the stroke of twelve I switched on the television. I stared aghast as the BBC exit poll shown on the TV screen predicted a comfortable victory for the Tories. I soon learnt that many people did not believe it. A former LibDem leader, Paddy Ashdown, declared the exit poll to be nonsensical and promised to eat his hat in public if he was proved wrong. By 3 o'clock in the early hours it was obvious that the swing to the Conservatives was too sharp and LibDems were being slaughtered, in Scotland by Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish Nationalists and in England by the Conservatives. I had had enough and I decided to go back to bed. I do not know if Paddy Ashdown publicly ate his hat as he had promised to do!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With hindsight I can see with more clarity what had happened. Thanks to Blairite manoeuvrings, the differences between the Conservatives and New Labour had largely disappeared. The position in the UK had become similar to that of the USA, where the two major political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, both enjoy the financial support of Wall Street and giant multinationals. With the departure of Blair there was an Old Labour backlash in the Labour Party which cast doubts on Ed Miliband's loyalty to the City of London and Big Business. The mainstream media, mostly owned by the super-rich/large conglomerates, and the perfidious BBC, began a process of disparagement against Labour. The spectre of a coalition government between Labour and Scottish Nationalists, who were presented as being interested only in Scottish independence with scant regard for the rest of the Union, was kept constantly before the English electorate. Brainwashed by this constant bombardment, the voters went out and cast their vote for the Conservative Party.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is obvious that unless the Labour Party sells its soul to the devil Blair-like it will never receive the support of mainstream media or funding from large multinationals. The dice are loaded in favour of the Tories and the game of democracy is conducted on uneven playing fields. This dishonest system is further exacerbated by the "First Past the Post" method of selecting the winning candidate in each constituency irrespective of the proportion of votes received. Thus, we have a majority Conservative government which is supported by less than a quarter of the total electorate or a little more than one-third of those who actually voted. Without a complete overhaul of the mainstream media, and the sources of funding for political parties, the elections are an exercise in dishonestly brainwashing the electorate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, there is little new about the new government. Cameron lost no time following his victory to re-confirm his closest cronies in their old posts. "The Witch" returns to the Home Office, "Mr Austerity" marches back as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Israeli stooge Philip Hammond stays at the Foreign Office. So what is on the horizon?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Expect stricter surveillance by the State as the "Snoopers' Charter" becomes law, and citizens' rights are watered down</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* The sufferings of ordinary people will increase as the discredited austerity bites deeper and re-distributes wealth to the financial elite</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* The US/NATO/Israeli adventurism abroad will continue to lay waste foreign countries and decimate their populations</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The irony is that the electorate has willingly voted for this hellish scenario because it cannot escape from the conditioning, the brainwashing that hired journalists working for the media conglomerates constantly subject it to. Unless we grasp this basic truth and try to free our minds and our lives from such mental and spiritual oppression by discarding mainstream media in favour of independent/alternative media we shall remain entrapped in a fascist state.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>LATER ADDITION</u> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">(13 May 2015)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I published my post-mortem on the British General Election on 10 May. The following day Global Research published "UK Election Aftermath" which sets out in stark detail what to expect from the new government over the next 5 years. The full article is re-produced below.</span><br />
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today in the UK, people are waking up to their first week of a five-year rule under a Conservative majority government. It’s been the first time the Tories have managed to form such a government since 1992. Only 37 percent of those who bothered to vote actually voted Conservative. In fact, the current administration is in government with 24 percent of support from all those who were eligible to vote.</em></div>
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Under the UK’s ‘first past the post system’, the Scottish Nationalist party gained 56 seats with 4.8 percent of votes cast. The Greens gained one seat with a share of 3.8 percent. Under a system of proportional representation, the Greens would now have 25 seats in the new parliament. With the current system, a party could theoretically gain the most number of seats nationally but fail to gain a single seat. This is the nature of the ‘democratic’ voting system in the UK.</div>
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What the UK now has in store is five years of an ideologically driven administration that will push through its welfare-cutting, pro-privatisation policies wrapped up in <a class="cboxElement" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/britain-ruling-class.jpg" rel="lightbox[5448709]" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="britain ruling-class"><img alt="" class="wp-image-5336397 alignright" height="304" src="http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/britain-ruling-class.jpg" style="border: 0px none; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 635px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="britain ruling-class" width="221" /></a>talk of a need for austerity and presided over by a millionaire-dominated cabinet which represents the interests of the richest echelons of global capital.</div>
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Out of those who voted Tory, a good deal comprised people of relatively modest means: people who will have been led to believe that ordinary people’s interests equate with the ‘national interest’ as defined by Tory politicians. These are people who for some strange reason believe that more privatisation, more deregulation, more austerity, more inequality, more concentration of wealth and more attacks on the public sector will be good for them as individuals and good for the economy.</div>
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The acceptance of this ideology is not just down to Tory methods of persuasion but is also due to its perpetuation by the corporate mainstream media and the other main political parties, which have fully embraced neoliberalism. However, many people feel that the Tories can be best trusted to see through such things, unlike Labour (Tory-lite) or the Liberal Democrats who might mismanage, waver or may not be quite as committed to the neoliberal cause. As a party by the rich, for the rich of and of the rich, they may have a point.</div>
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What we can now expect to see is the attempted completion of a project that had begun under Thatcher in the eighties: the complete subservience of ordinary working people to the needs of powerful corporations, the tax-evading corporate dole-scrounging super rich and the neoliberal agenda they have imposed on people. And key to securing this is the <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-a-brief-history-of-an-agenda-for-corporate-plunder/5407780" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</a> (TTIP).</div>
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The European Commission tries to sell TTIP by claiming that the agreement will increase GDP by one percent and will entail massive job creation. These claims are not supported even by its own studies, which predict a growth rate of just 0.01 percent GDP over the next ten years and the potential loss of jobs in several sectors. Corporations are lobbying EU-US trade negotiators to use the deal <a href="http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/brave_new_transatlantic_partnership.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">to weaken</a> food safety and restrictions on GM food and agriculture as well as labour, health and environmental standards, among other things. Through certain regulatory and investor trade dispute stipulations, the outcome would entail the <a href="http://corporateeurope.org/trade/2013/12/regulation-none-our-business" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">by passing of any existing democratic processes</a> in order to push through the ultimate corporate power grab.</div>
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This proposed trade agreement (and others like it being negotiated across the world) is based on a firm belief in ‘the market’ (a euphemism for subsidies for the rich, cronyism, rigged markets and cartels) and the intense ideological dislike of state intervention and state provision of goods and services. The economic doctrine that underpins this belief attempts to convince people that they can prosper by having austerity imposed on them and by submitting to neo-liberalism and ‘free’ trade: a smokescreen the financial-corporate elites hide behind while continuing to enrich themselves.</div>
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Current negotiations over ‘free’ trade agreements have little to do with free trade. They are more concerned with loosening regulatory barriers and bypassing any current democratic processes that hinder their profits. These deals could allow large corporations to destroy competition, enforce privatisations and secure lucrative government procurement markets and siphon off wealth to the detriment of smaller, locally based firms and producers. We see this from TTIP, to the US-India Knowledge Agreement on Agriculture, CETA, TPP and beyond.</div>
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Notions of the ‘national interest’ that governments churn out are merely rhetorical devices to be used to rally the masses. And notions of being ‘against the national interest’ are used to curtail of destroy dissent, as we currently see happening with Greenpeace in India.</div>
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In order ‘to do business’, government machinery has been corrupted and bent to serve their ends. In turn, organisations that were intended to be ‘by’ and ‘for’ ordinary working people to challenge capital have been <a href="http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/rrtalk.htm" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">successfully infiltrated and dealt with</a>.</div>
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The global takeover of agriculture by powerful agribusiness, the selling off and privatisation of assets built with public toil and money and secretive corporate-driven trade agreements represent a massive corporate heist of wealth and power across the world.</div>
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Whether it concerns rich oligarchs in the US or India’s billionaire business men, corporate profits and personal gain trump any notion of the ‘national interest’. 300,000 dead farmers in India who killed themselves or the ranks of the unemployed in Spain or Greece are regarded as mere ‘collateral damage’ in what is ultimately a war on working people and the environment itself.</div>
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Looting economies for personal gain is disguised as ‘free trade’. Austerity is sold as ‘growth’. Massive profits is ‘wealth creation’. Ecological degradation is ‘progress’. From Obama in the US to Cameron in the UK or Modi in India, their neoliberal agenda betrays them as handmaidens to the rich.</div>
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In Britain expect to see militarism, brutality and imperialism continuing to be sold under the banner of ‘humanitarianism’ and ‘democracy’. Expect more cronyism, an increasingly wider revolving door to facilitate the flow between private interests and government, more insidious lobbying by big business and a continued free for all in the corrupt City of London.</div>
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Some 11,334,000 voted Conservative in the UK last Thursday. The other 53 million in the country now face having deal with the outcome for the next five years.</div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-54466873383562482962015-04-23T08:55:00.000+01:002015-04-23T17:53:46.407+01:00THE TRUTH ABOUT YEMEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bombing of Muslim Yemen by the US vassal state of Muslim Saudi Arabia, backed up by a motley group of countries including the US, Israel, Gulf sheikhdoms, etc is a shameless and dishonourable act. The relentless bombing, which has killed and maimed thousands while destroying civilian infrastructure, has been grossly misrepresented in the mainstream western media, controlled by a handful of Jewish/Neocon families. One has to turn to the independent/alternative media to dig out the truth. Below are two articles published by Global Research which explain the geo-political intrigues which threaten Yemen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On paper the Arab forces look impressive but their fighting prowess is highly doubtful. Moves are afoot to get the Pakistanis to send over their formidable army to fight the cowardly Arabs' war for them. Summoned by the Saudi King Salman, the Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the head of the Army, General Raheel Sharif, have flown to Riyadh today. Although Pakistan's Parliament has already voted to stay out of the internecine warfare between Muslim countries, Nawaz is notorious for his penchant to ride roughshod over Parliamentary decisions. General Shareef is reputedly a hard headed realist who will resist any attempts by Nawaz to get Pakistani soldiers to fight Salman's war.</span><br />
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The House of Saud and a military coalition that consists mostly of anachronistic monarchies are claiming to bomb Yemen as a means of saving the Yemenite people and their transition to democracy. The irony should not be lost on observers that recognize that the Saudi-led coalition — consisting of the Kingdom of Morocco, UAE, Kuwait, Kingdom of Bahrain, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia itself — is comprised of an unhealthy mixture of backward family dictatorships and corrupt governments that essentially are the antithesis of democracy.</div>
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Just as important to note, the Saudi-led war on Yemen is a criminal act. The military attack on Yemen was not authorized by the UN Security Council. Nor can the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia justify its bombing campaign under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, because Yemen and Ansarullah (the Houthi movement) pose no threat of war to Riyadh and never had any intentions of igniting a war in the Arabian Peninsula. This is why the Kingdom’s war on Yemen is categorically a violation of the Charter of the UN and international law.</div>
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The Houthis never wanted to aggravate Saudi Arabia let alone start a war against the Kingdom. Days before the Saudi-led war on Yemen, the Houthis had stealthily sent a delegation to Riyadh to establish an understanding with the Saudis and to calm them down.</div>
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Instead of opposing the illegal war on Yemen, Washington and its allies, including Britain, have thrown their political support behind the bombing of Yemen by the malfeasant Royal Saudi Air Force, which has committed war crime by intentionally bombing civilian infrastructure, including <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/yemen-in-crisis-air-strike-leaves-40-civilians-dead-at-camp" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">refugee camps</a> and <a href="http://rt.com/news/247701-yemen-school-children-dead/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">children’s schools</a>.</div>
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It is no coincidence that most of the victims in Yemen are civilians. This is part of a Saudi strategy of establishing rapid military dominance, which is colloquially called “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shock and awe.</em>” Ring any bells? This is a strategy taken right out of Uncle Sam’s playbook that intends to demoralize resistance and scare the opponent into surrendering.</div>
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Pentagon’s not-so-hidden bloody hands</h2>
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Not eager to reveal their roles in another illegal war on another sovereign country, the US and undoubtedly several of its NATO allies have decided to keep low profiles in the attack on Yemen. This is why Washington has opted to publicly present itself as only providing logistical and intelligence support to the Saudis for the war on Yemen.</div>
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The war on Yemen, however, would not be possible without the US. Not only have countries like the US and Britain provided military hardware to Saudi Arabia, but they are providing it with bombs for the attack, refueling its warplanes, providing intelligence, and giving the Kingdom logistical support.</div>
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Does this sound like non-involvement? Can the US really be considered a non-combatant in the war?</div>
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History — and very recent history at that too — is repeating itself in Yemen.</div>
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Observers should recall how Washington deceptively claimed that it did not want to go to war with the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 2011. The US publicly let the British and French take the lead in the NATO war on Tripoli while the Pentagon was actually the main force behind the war. US President Barack Obama called this a strategy of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/27/obama-libya-leadership-nato" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">leading from behind</a>.”</em></div>
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The US strategy in Yemen is not too different from that of the NATO war on Libya. It is another case of cloak and dagger where the US does not want to be seen pulling the strings behind the aggression and violation of international law.</div>
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The Saudis would never have dared attack Yemen without Washington’s green light or help. The Pentagon is even selecting the bombing targets in Yemen for the Kingdom. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“American military planners are using live intelligence feeds from surveillance flights over Yemen to help Saudi Arabia decide what and where to bomb,”</em> the Wall Street Journal casually <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-doesnt-currently-plan-on-ground-forces-in-yemen-1427469528" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> when the war began. National Security Council Spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan, even stated that the US had established <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/fall-yemen-government-leaves-us-options-29902643" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a joint planning cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate</a>”</em> the attack on Yemen.</div>
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This is why it should not come as a surprise that Saudi Arabia used Washington as the platform to announce the launching of its war on Yemen. The Associated Press even noticed the weird podium that the Kingdom had selected. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In an unusual tableau, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States announced the rare military operation by his country at a Washington news conference about a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/fall-yemen-government-leaves-us-options-29902643" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">half-hour after the bombing began</a>,”</em> the Associated Press reported on March 25.</div>
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Double standards: Remember EuroMaidan in Ukraine?</h2>
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One ugly double-standard after another ugly double-standard sticks out. While the House of Saud argued that it has intervened militarily in Yemen to restore Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour Al-Hadi, who Riyadh claims is the legitimate president of Yemen, it has pushed for a war on Syria and worked with the US to topple Bashar Assad’s government.</div>
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Washington’s reaction is even more lopsided. When EuroMaidan was underway in Kiev and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was forced to flee in 2014, the US and its allies claimed that Yanukovich had lost all legitimacy because he fled Ukraine. Even as recently as February 2015, US officials have maintained this argument. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Well, let’s all refresh ourselves on the facts here. President — former President Yanukovich abdicated his responsibilities by fleeing Kiev during a political crisis,”</em> the US Department of State’s spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/02/237049.htm#IRAN" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a> reporters during a press briefing.</div>
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Well Mr. Al-Hadi also fled his country. Nevertheless, the same measuring stick that was used in Ukraine is not applied to assess Al-Hadi’s legitimacy. Unlike its position on Ukraine, Washington claims that Al-Hadi is still the legitimate leader of Yemen.</div>
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The US is even willing to put aside its differences and work with Sudan, which the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">US Department of State</a> claims is a state sponsor of terrorism, to bomb Yemen into accepting Al-Hadi back.</div>
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The basis for all of these contradictory positions is really a marker of US interests and Machiavellianism. It has nothing to do with legitimacy, democracy, or human rights.</div>
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Al-Hadi’s (il)legitimacy</h2>
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While there some parallels between the two, there are key differences between Ukraine and Yemen. These key differences set Yanukovich and Al-Hadi apart and are what made Yanukovich legitimate and Al-Hadi illegitimate.</div>
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Firstly, unlike President Yanukovich, Al-Hadi resigned from office. For arguments sake, however, we will not dwell on this. There are much more important points for evaluating Al-Hadi’s legitimacy.</div>
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Unlike Yanukovich, Al-Hadi’s term had actually expired. While President Yanukovich was elected into office by the Ukrainian people for his term, President Al-Hadi’s term was extended through an administrative process. To quote <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/21/us-yemen-assassination-idUSBREA0K13420140121" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reuters</a>: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yemen’s political factions extended the president’s term by a year”</em> on January 21, 2014. Al-Hadi was only kept in office to execute reforms, and this is the criterion for his legitimacy.</div>
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Under the above context, it has to be remembered that Al-Hadi was selected as a transitional figure. He became the president of Yemen to usher democracy and his term was extended in 2014 for this purpose. Instead, Al-Hadi dragged his feet on the democratic reforms — the fundamental basis for his legitimacy — that he was supposed to institute in Yemen. He was not fulfilling his mandate to share power and to enfranchise Yemen’s different political factions.</div>
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President Al-Hadi actually tried to concentrate power into his own hands while working to weaken Yemen’s other factions, including the Houthis, through gerrymandering by redrawing Yemen’s administrative regions.</div>
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Petro-politics & Bab-el-Mandeb Strait: Another war for control of oil?</h2>
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The geopolitical significance of Yemen has weighed heavily in the equation. This war is as much about oil as it is about Saudi suzerainty and the House of Saud’s objectives to make Yemen a vassal state. Alongside Djibouti, Yemen forms part of an important maritime chokepoint, called the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (also known as the Gateway of Tears/Anguish), which connects the Indian Ocean’s Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.</div>
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It is no exaggerations to call the Mandeb Strait one of the world’s arteries. As a maritime chokepoint, the strait is just as important as Egypt’s Suez Canal — which connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea — and the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, because Bab-el-Mandeb overlooks one of the most strategic and important global corridors for the transportation of energy and international commerce.</div>
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Preventing US and Saudi rivals from gaining a strategic foothold over the Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden is a major objective of the war on Yemen. The US and the House of Saud see control over the Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden as strategically important in the scenario of a conflict with Iran where Tehran closes the Strait of Hormuz to oil shipments and international shipping. As the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html?ref=sunday&_r=0" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">points out</a>, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nearly all Saudi commerce is via sea, and direct access to the Arabian Sea would diminish dependence on the Persian Gulf — and fears of Iran’s ability to cut off the Strait of Hormuz.”</em>Plan B in such a scenario for the Kingdom includes <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-geo-politics-of-the-strait-of-hormuz-could-the-u-s-navy-be-defeated-by-iran-in-the-persian-gulf/28516" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">using Aden and other Yemeni ports</a>.</div>
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Support for the balkanization of Yemen chimes with this and ideas about dividing Yemen have been floating around since the Arab Spring. In 2013, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=2" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New York Times</a> had this to propose about a Saudi takeover and annexation of southern Yemen: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Arabs are abuzz about part of South Yemen’s eventually merging with Saudi Arabia. Most southerners are Sunni, as is most of Saudi Arabia; many have family in the kingdom. The poorest Arabs, Yemenis could benefit from Saudi riches. In turn, Saudis would gain access to the Arabian Sea for trade, diminishing dependence on the Persian Gulf and fear of Iran’s virtual control over the Strait of Hormuz.”</em></div>
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Houthi control over Yemen, however, complicates and obscures US and Saudi plans.</div>
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Mandeb Strait and control of strategic chokepoints</h2>
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As Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has rightly pointed out, the Houthis and the Yemeni military are capable <a href="http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150407/1020553715.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of closing the Mandeb Strait</a>. One of the reasons that Saudi Ambassador to Washington Adel Al-Jubeir stressed that the Houthis should not have control over ballistic missiles, heavy military hardware, and Yemeni bases is because the US and Saudi Arabia want to neutralize the potential of Yemen to close the Mandeb Strait, especially if Yemen should coordinate with Tehran as an Iranian ally in the future. In this regard, the Saudis have attacked Yemen’s missile depots. The aim of the air strikes include not only preventing Yemen’s missile arsenal from being used to retaliate against any exertions of Saudi force, but to also prevent them from being on hand to a Yemeni government aligned to Tehran or other US rivals.</div>
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Moreover, it has to be remembered that control over Yemen is not only important for mitigating the effects from a scenario where the Strait of Hormuz are closed by Tehran. Control over Mandeb Strait is also important for tightening the noose around the Iranians and in the scenario of a war with Iran. The same can be argued about a US strategy in the Indian Ocean against the Chinese.</div>
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Back in 2011, when Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was serving in Brussels as Moscow’s envoy to NATO, he noted that Washington was not only planning on taking over Syria as a beachhead for a war with Iran, but that the US and its allies would later try to control Yemen as the next step in preparing the <a href="http://sputniknews.com/world/20110805/165570384.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">grounds for an attack on Iran</a>. At the time, RIA Novosti (now renamed Sputnik) <a href="http://sputniknews.com/world/20110805/165570384.html#ixzz3WgK714TF" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a> that <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Rogozin agreed with the opinion expressed by some experts that Syria and later Yemen could be NATO’s last steps on the way to launch an attack on Iran.”</em></div>
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Why did Netanyahu warn US Congress about Yemen?</h2>
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Reports that Israel is a not-so-secret member of the Saudi-led coalition that is bombing Yemen need to be read, understood, analyzed in the above context about the Mandeb Strait too. Netanyahu’s unspoken concern is that Yemen could cut off Israel’s access to the Indian Ocean and, more specifically, its ability to easily deploy its Dolphin class submarines to the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.</div>
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Who is threatening who? According to the Sunday Times and Israeli sources, <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article304083.ece" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">three nuclear-armed Israeli</a> submarines are deployed near Iran’s shores at all times waiting on standby for orders from Tel Aviv to bomb Iran. In part, this is why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ringing the <a href="https://youtu.be/-pOs99OZN1g?t=37m29s" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">alarm bells about Yemen and the Mandeb Strait</a> in the Washington Beltway when he went to speak on Capitol Hill on March 4.</div>
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Israel is concerned about Yemen because an independent Yemeni government could inhibit Israel’s nuclear-armed submarines from easily deploying from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf to menace Iran with the threat of an attack.</div>
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Iran and the Houthis</h2>
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Just like the case with Ukraine, all the problems in Yemen are also being blamed on a nearby country. While Russia has been blamed as the scapegoat for the plethora of problems in Ukraine, Iran has been blamed for the Saudi war on Yemen.</div>
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The Saudis are falsely depicting the Houthis as Iranian proxies or allies, because the movement is composed of Zaidi (Fiver) Shiites. The Houthis, however, are independent from Tehran and have agency as political actors; they are not Iranian proxies whatsoever. A common faith has not brought the Houthis and the Iranians, who are predominately Jaffari (Twelver) Shiites, together. Politics is what has brought the two together.</div>
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The sectarian language that falsely depicts Yemen as a battleground between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims is ill informed or intended to mislead people by design about the actual politics and history of Yemen. This type of sectarian language was never used when the House of Saud supported King Mohammed Al-Badr’s Zaidi imamate against the republicans or Ali Abdullah Saleh, who himself is a Zaidi Shiite, against the Houthis.</div>
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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is very accurate when he points out that different regional players are turning to Tehran for help, because either Saudi Arabia will not help them or is pushing them in the direction of Iran through its foolish policies. This has been precisely the case for the Houthis. If it was not for the flawed policies of the US and Saudi Arabia, the Houthis would never have turned to Iran in the first place.</div>
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The Houthis also sent delegations to Moscow and Beijing to overcome US and Saudi efforts to isolate and weaken them internationally.</div>
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Will Yemen become Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam?</h2>
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Historically, foreign intervention in Yemen has largely proven to be a disaster. Yemeni terrain is rugged and the elevated interior topography is perfect for guerilla warfare. Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt lost many soldiers in North Yemen during its civil war, which was a major liability for Cairo.</div>
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When Ibn Saud was conquering Arabia, he was stopped in Yemen by King Yahya.</div>
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In more recent history or times, when Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen to fight the Houthis in 2009 and 2010, it was effectively defeated again in Yemen. The Houthis even ended up capturing towns inside Saudi Arabia.</div>
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Ground operations will not be a walk in the park for Saudi Arabia. Any invasion and occupation of Yemen will prove to be a disaster for the Kingdom. There are also complex tribal links between southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. In the chaos a Pandora’s Box could be ignited that would result in rebellions inside the Kingdom itself.</div>
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The House of Saud seems to be cognizant of the dangers. This may be why it is pushing Pakistan and Egypt to send their troops.</div>
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Someone should tell the House of Saud that according to the Chinese general Sun Tzu, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The best war is the one that never has to be fought.”</em></div>
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The Washington-backed, Saudi-led campaign is now switching into a new phase codenamed “Restoring Hope”. The Saudi Defense Ministry says it is going to focus on anti-terrorism, security and finding a political solution to the crisis. But this does not mean a ceasefire will be declared. Saudi spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri stated that the bombing operation will resume if it is deemed necessary. Thus, talking about the political resolution doesn’t involve the real aim on it. Furthermore, footage from Sanaa and reports from Aden showed that the coalition bombing and shelling continued overnight. It showed how diplomacy works throughout where United States and its allies are involved. The statements mean nothing, if they were expressed by U.S. and Co. Meantime Yemen is repeating the fate of Iraq, Syria and Libya which were destroyed and thrown into the perpetual wars too.</div>
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Oil prices extended declines after the Saudi announcement. Brent crude dropped 0.71 percent to $61.45 per barrel at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmn0CxBE-M&feature=youtu.be#" style="border: 0px; color: #3b4d81; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6:51</a> GMT today. It had risen more than $6 a barrel since the start of the Saudi-led bombing in March. Withal, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 1.24 percent to $55.91 per barrel.</div>
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The Saudis accuse the rebels of being tools of Iran, a claim viewed skeptically by many experts. Moreover, in this approach we can find the idea that Saudi Arabia is the tool of United States to hide own intervention into oil-rich region. Also, western media have forgotten that Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi isn’t so legitimate like they want to show. Hadi resigned on January 22, 2015. 1 month before US-backed coalition started military company in Yemen.</div>
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The U.S. is beefing up naval presence in the region. On Monday, the US Navy sent two warships to Yemeni waters to conduct ‘maritime security operations’. The Pentagon said in a statement on Monday that the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its escort cruiser USS Normandy have transited from the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea on April 19. It cited the “current instability in Yemen” as the reason for the move. A Saudi-led coalition has already imposed a naval blockade around the country, in addition to its bombing campaign, as it seeks to fight back against Shia Houthi rebels.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The Quran is divine in origin. The way Classical Arabic of the 7th century (as used by the Quraysh tribe of Makkah) has been employed in the Quran is unique. As the values and principles described in the Quran embrace all aspects of human existence - physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual - the Quran uses sublime, semi-poetical language to transcend the limitation of words, in places introducing its own semantics. </span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there are the dishonest translations where Islam-hating "orientalists" deliberately set out to misrepresent the Message of the Quran. A translation widely used by Islamophobes is by N.J. Dawood, a Jew, published by Penguin. In their book "Distorted Imagination", Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies describe N.J. Dawood's translation as "one of the most inaccurate, misleading and distorted versions on the market (and the preferred choice of Salman Rushdie)".</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Authentic renditions of the Quran</span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Quran severely rebukes the priest class. Having read translations of the Quran by various so-called doctors of religion, I can see why. An authentic interpretation of the Quran will be free of contradictions and it will appeal to one's common sense and sense of justice. I have found the following three renditions, by men with wide experience of life, of immense help in acquiring an understanding of the Quran:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. The Message of the Quran by Muhammad Asad</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. The Quran As It Explains Itself by Dr Shabbir Ahmed (the Urdu version is قرآن خود اپنی نظر میں )</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It can be read or downloaded from the free library, <a href="http://www.ourbeacon.com/wordpress/?page_id=21"><b>here</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Mafhoom-ul-Quran by G A Parwaiz (in Urdu) مفہوم القرآن </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(an English translation, "Exposition of the Holy Quran" is also available)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Tailpiece</u> </span><span style="font-size: large;">(</span><span style="font-size: small;">added 26/02/2017</span><span style="font-size: large;">)</span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Islam derives naturally from the Quran. An </span><span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">introduction</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> to Islam can be read <a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/islam.html"><b><span style="color: blue;">here</span></b></a></span></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-65318038671317302292015-01-06T19:20:00.002+00:002015-01-06T19:42:39.535+00:00The Lessons of Peshawar Massacre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On 16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 2014
132 children and 9 teachers were massacred at a school in Pakistan. The
responsibility for this carnage was claimed by PakTaliban, whose fugitive
leader, Mullah Fazlullah – it was he who gave the order for Malala Yousafzai’s
near-fatal shooting - lives in Afghanistan. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General Raheel Sharif</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the days following the atrocity the Chief of Pakistan
Army, General Raheel Sharif, and the head of Inter-Services Intelligence,
General Rizwan Akhtar, flew to Afghanistan. Pakistan media reported that the
generals had taken with them evidence of Indian complicity in the Peshawar
atrocity (training of PakTaliban murderers and equipping them with
sophisticated weapons and communication equipment). They met the Afghan
president, Ashraf Ghani, and the top commander of occupying powers US and NATO,
General John Campbell. General Sharif’s demand for the arrest of Fazlullah, and
his handover to Pakistan, seems to have been unsuccessful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Following the return of Pakistan’s generals there were
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bombed Fazlullah’s hiding place in Afghanistan. There were rumours that
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Pakistan’s descent from high ideals of Islam into a
cauldron of Mullahism and West-worship</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pakistan, a homeland for the Muslims of India, was the
vision of the great Muslim poet-philosopher, Muhammad Iqbal. To realise that
vision required a leader with extraordinary qualities, able to resist the will of
the British imperialists and of the Hindus of Indian Congress political party
(who saw themselves as the natural heirs to the British). The Muslims were
fortunate to have found in Muhammad Ali Jinnah a staunch Muslim who saw no
conflict between Quranic guidance and modern life. He articulated Iqbal’s
vision, and his own, in interviews and speeches.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In December 1943 Jinnah gave an interview to a British
journalist, Beverley Nichols, in which he described the ‘vital principles’ of
Pakistan as: The Muslims are a Nation. He elaborated further: “You must
remember that Islam is not merely a religious doctrine but a realistic and
practical Code of Conduct. I am thinking in terms of life, of everything
important in life. I am thinking in terms of our history, our heroes, our art,
our architecture, our music, our laws, our jurisprudence”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a radio broadcast to the people of the USA, in February
1948, Jinnah talked about the constitution of Pakistan yet to be drafted: “it
will be of a democratic type, embodying the essential principles of Islam.
Today, they are as applicable in actual life as they were 1,300 years ago.
Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of man,
justice and fair play to everybody. We are the inheritors of these glorious
traditions and are fully alive to our responsibilities and obligations as
framers of the future constitution of Pakistan. In any case Pakistan is not
going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We
have many non-Muslims – Hindus, Christians, and Parsees – but they are all
Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other
citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jinnah, the modern Muslim for whom the Message of the Quran
was independent of the time period in which humanity lived, was opposed by the
Muslim priest class which rejected the idea of Pakistan and sided with the
Indian Congress party. The mullahs went further, some declaring Jinnah and
Iqbal as ‘kaafir’.</span></span></div>
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fought Jinnah and opposed Pakistan Movement, have claimed the country in the
name of their distorted version of Islam, a throwback to the pre-Islamic Age of
Ignorance. This insanity is matched at the other extreme by the
West-worshipping class of Pakistanis, for whom Islam has little meaning, a
“religion” at best. For them the fount of wisdom is located in the West, to
which they look for guidance in their lives. These self-styled “liberals” are
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and the way their distorted understanding of Islam has been encouraged and
exploited, point to international intrigue. Pakistan military’s response to
PakTaliban’s atrocities is to attack them and kill as many as possible. This
may turn out to be a futile exercise if nothing is done to stem the flow of
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actions of PakTaliban, its soul is being assiduously destroyed by
West-worshippers who are hell-bent on imposing an alien language and its
associated Anglo-American culture on Pakistan.</span></span></div>
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long run but it does require a great deal of patience in the meantime. This
solution is a rapid spread of education in Urdu, a language Pakistanis
understand and which is intimately connected with their culture and religious
traditions. The education needs to be broadly based: it must encourage
individuals to reflect on Quranic Guidance themselves (as demanded by Quran)
and provide them with scientific, technical and linguistic knowledge which is
necessary for material prosperity in current world conditions. Without
reforming Pakistani society we are faced with an eternal struggle between the
forces of darkness: rabid West-worshippers against mad mullahs espousing a
religion which negates the spirit of Islam.</span></span></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-26654555828166595612014-12-08T14:45:00.000+00:002014-12-08T14:45:16.653+00:00Who or what is DAJJAL?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most Muslims are aware of a hadith/hadees, a narration attributed to Messenger Muhammad, Rehmatul-lil-aalameen, which speaks of a one-eyed phenomenon emerging from the earth in the future. Blind in one eye, <i>Dajjal</i> would have mysterious powers which would enable it to hear and see all that is going on in the world, amass treasures of silver and gold and control nature, causing rain to fall and plants to grow, and have powers of life and death. People with weak faith would prostrate themselves before it but those with strong faith would see through this deception.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An excellent explanation of this hadith was given by Muhammad Asad in his book "The Road to Mecca". I am reproducing it here, in Asad's own words. You may find this explanation useful when faced with a zealous Muslim who insists on taking the story literally, completely missing its figurative meaning, "the parable of modern material civilization" [matter = earth].</span><br />
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<i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Dajjal</i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is one-eyed: that is, it looks upon only one side of life - material progress - and is unaware of its spiritual side. With the help of its technical marvels it enables man to see and hear far beyond his natural ability, and to cover endless distances at an inconceivable speed. Its scientific knowledge causes 'rain to fall and plants to grow' and uncovers unsuspected treasures from beneath the ground. Its medicine brings life to those who seem to have been doomed to death, while its wars and scientific horrors destroy life. And its material advancement is so powerful and so glittering that the weak in faith are coming to believe that it is a godhead in its own right. But those who have remained conscious of their Creator clearly recognise that to worship the </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dajjal</i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> means to deny God."</span><br />
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-63214991266978128932014-11-24T21:32:00.000+00:002014-11-25T08:29:04.152+00:00قرآن مجید میں "عالم" کی تعریف <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>آجکل پاکستان میں خصوصاً اور دنیاۓ اسلام میں عموما، مسلمانوں کے نام نہاد مذہبی پیشوا خود ساختہ اعزازی ناموں سے پہچانے جاتے ہیں: مولانا، ملا، مولوی، امام، شیخ وغیرہ- بحیثیت مجموعی یہ حضرات - کہ خواتین ان میں نہیں ہوتیں - اپنے تئیں "علما" کہلوانا پسند کرتے ہیں اور اپنے نظریات سے اختلاف رکھنے والوں پہ کفر کا فتویٰ صادر کرنے کے لئے ہمہ وقت کمر کسے بیٹھے ہوتے ہیں</b><br />
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<b>اگرچہ ان حضرات نے اپنے لئے قرآن سے "عالم " کی اصطلاح اخذ کر لی ہے لیکن قرآن خود "علما " کی تعریف کن الفاظ میں کرتا ہے؟ سوره فاطر (35)، آیات 27/28 ، ترجمہ: ڈاکٹر شبیر احمد </b></div>
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<b>کیا تم نے غور نہیں کیا الله بلند فضا سے ایک ہی جیسا پانی برساتا ہے اور پھر اس سے کتنے مختلف رنگوں اور خواص کے پھل پیدا کرتا ہے؟ اور پہاڑ جو ایک ہی مادے سے بنتے ہیں ان میں مختلف رنگوں کے قطعات ہوتے ہیں، کوئی سفید، کوئی سرخ اورکوئی کالا </b></div>
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<b>شبیر صاحب کا تبصرہ: ان دو آیات پہ غور کیجئے، کتنے بہت سے سائنسی علوم کی طرف اشارہ کر کے لفظ "علما " آیا ہے- ان آیات میں علم موسمیات، حیوانیات، حشرات الارض، مویشیوں اورعلم خوراک وغیرہ کا ذکر ہے- اگر علما سے مراد مذہبی پیشوایّت لی جائے تو وہ تو محض کچھ رسمی عبادات آپ کو سکھا سکتے ہیں </b></div>
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Sakib Ahmadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09684519231128535788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694316236173314997.post-56312907275618760342014-11-16T20:01:00.001+00:002014-11-18T14:36:26.334+00:00The Malala phenomenon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;">At the age of just 17 Malala Yousafzai is probably the most
famous Pakistani in the world today. This blog is an attempt to unravel the
mystery that surrounds Malala.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Malala was born on 12/07/1997 to Ziauddin and Toorpekai
Yousafzai in Swat, Pakistan. Ziauddin was inspired by Marxist ideology and was
active in promoting education for boys and girls in Swat. His deep interest in
politics meant that he constantly discussed politics with his children,
especially Malala. By the time she was 12 she could discuss politics
intelligently and, under persuasion by her father, had given up her earlier
wish of becoming a doctor in favour of becoming a politician. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">In 2007 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was formed in the tribal
areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, known as FATA (Federally Administered
Tribal Areas). These so-called Pakistani Taliban were distinct from the Afghan
Taliban, who were engaged in a fierce struggle to drive out foreign forces from
Afghan soil. The Pakistani Taliban, espousing a weird form of Islam, had just
one aim: to carry out terrorist activities in Pakistan and to destabilize the
country. They were surrounded on three sides by Pakistan’s military, leaving
the porous border with Afghanistan as the route from where armaments, tools of
terrorism and finance flowed in freely. Numerous reports in Pakistan’s press
named the backers as the American CIA and Indian RAW.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Pakistan’s incompetent federal government failed miserably
to control the growing influence of Pakistani Taliban, who became the effective
rulers of FATA within two years. Emboldened by their success, PakTaliban moved
further into the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), especially
Swat, and forcibly imposed such perversions as banning girls’ education in the
areas under their control. By the time Malala was 11 it was the writ of
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<span style="color: blue;">What was life like under PakTaliban? BBC Urdu had a
brilliant idea. Get a Swati student to write a regular blog! A 16 years old
girl volunteered but withdrew under pressure from her family who feared
reprisals from PakTaliban. Ziauddin, however, offered up 11 years old Malala as
the blogger. She was deemed too young but was eventually accepted as the fear
of the ruthless Taliban had driven away more suitable pupils. On 3/01/2009
Malala’s first blog in Urdu appeared at the BBC Urdu website under the
pseudonym Gul Makai (Sunflower). She wrote several blogs, the last one on 12/03/2009.
With great courage she gave a candid account of her life in Mingora (the main
town in Swat) under PakTaliban occupation and wrote passionately about girls’
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<span style="color: blue;">From that point Malala’s rise to fame was rapid as a US
journalist made a New York Times documentary about her and she gave interviews
in print and on television. In July 2009 Richard Holbrooke, US president
Obama’s special representative for “AfPak”, had a meeting with the
twelve-year-old! By December 2009 the identity of Gul Makai, the young BBC
blogger, had been revealed in articles about Malala. PakTaliban issued numerous
death threats to her but Ziauddin paid little heed, possibly because of the
action of Pakistan Army in the summer of 2010 to drive PakTaliban out of KPK.
In July 2012 Malala gave a speech at National Marxist Summer School in
Pakistan.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The area commander of PakTaliban, Mullah Fazlullah, gave the
order for her assassination. Fazlullah is currently the leader of PakTaliban
and lives across the border in Afghanistan. He is said to have the support of
Afghan, American and Indian secret services. On 9/10/2012, aged 15, Malala was
shot at close range by a young Talib as she travelled home in her school bus.
One bullet entered the left side of her forehead, travelled down her face and
embedded itself in her shoulder. After initial operations in Pakistan she was
sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for intensive
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<span style="color: blue;">On 15/10/2012 a famous visitor came to see Malala in her
hospital bed. It was Gordon Brown, the former British Prime Minister who was
once close to America’s Obama, and now acted as the UN Special Envoy for Global
Education. He lost no time in launching a petition for children’s education
under the catchy slogan “I am Malala”. He is thought to have put forward the
name of the anti-Pakistan, anti-Islam journalist Christina Lamb to ghost-write
Malala’s autobiography in English. Predictably, when the book was published in
October 2013 it had the title “I am Malala”! This book is notable for the
disagreeable way Lamb has exploited a child by slipping in comments in Malala’s
name which would have been beyond her comprehension. As an example, Salman
Rushdie’s infamous book “Satanic Verses” is mentioned in the context of freedom
of expression even though Muslims worldwide were deeply hurt by the perversity
of Rushdie in deliberately abusing and ridiculing what the Muslims hold sacred
and dear.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The PakTaliban have reiterated their death threats to both
Malala and her father. In my opinion most Pakistanis tend to see Malala as an
idealist who is now virtually a willing prisoner in the hands of western
politicians. She will be used for their political ends as much as possible and
will be discarded eventually as her Marxism or her Islam are seen as insurmountable
obstacles. Her Nobel Prize for Peace, too, is seen in political terms for two
reasons: firstly, Malala has done nothing for regional or world peace and,
secondly, to make the prize palatable to India she had to share it with a
virtually unknown Indian.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Malala is growing up into an assured young woman of great
dignity and charm. So far she has coped with her fame with no trace of
arrogance and self-importance. May Allah’s Grace and Mercy accompany her in her
life.</span></div>
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This post can also be read at the Muslim Institute's website:<br />
<a href="http://www.musliminstitute.org/blogs/malala/malala-phenomenon">http://www.musliminstitute.org/blogs/malala/malala-phenomenon</a><br />
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For an account of foreign powers' anti-Pakistan conspiracies using <i>Tehreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan</i> as the destabilizing force, see the following blogs:</div>
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<a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/terrorising-pakistan.html">Terrorising Pakistan</a></div>
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<a href="http://sakibahmad.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/terrorising-pakistan-part-2.html">TP - part 2</a></div>
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