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Stef · at 1:59 pm

The evidence that last week's massacre in Norway involved something more than a lone nutcase is starting to stack up...

- The possible involvement of multiple gunmen
- Ridiculously slow police response time
- The police knowing the gunman's name when they arrived
- The 'media package which emerged immediately after the shootings - including a dubious 1,500 page manifesto, suitably incriminating Facebook account and high quality portraits and photos of the gunman dressed up in a variety of deranged costumes like some kind of White Nationalist Action Man

Anders Behring Breivik posing with some chums

and so on and so on

So, yes, there are plenty of reasons to suspect 'dark actors playing games' behind the scenes

And if the profile of the gunman, as being woven by the corporate media, were that of a Muslim fanatic or a lone Internet-obsessed conspiranoid I'd acknowledge that at least some of the analyses I'm seeing in the alternative media were internally consistent and credible

However, it's a little different this time

The ideology being implicated on this occasion is the kind of anti-Islamist, White Nationalist, pro-Zionist brew which up till now the 'dark actors playing games' have been working like bastards to cultivate around the world

When ghastly characters like 'Lionhart' and Melanie Phillips, people who've spent years bigging up the TERROR!! threat in support of their ideologies, feel obliged to distance themselves from an act of terrorism I personally conclude that something unusual is going on

You don't have to do much digging to establish that the EDL and other European White Nationalist groups are Zionist funded and often quite open about their solidarity with the state of Israel

My take is that if Melanie Phillips is wetting her knickers about something the chances are that it's not that good for Zionism

Melanie Phillips - The answer to the question 'Do you want to see something *really* scary?'

However, the fact that this mass murder places Zionist-associated ideologies firmly into the frame has done nothing to prevent many on-line conspiranauts posing the question 'Cui bono?' and responding 'The Zionists'

This is a belief system I've been criticising repeatedly in recent posts - the conviction that 'The Jews' are responsible for every event of malevolent significance in the world. A presumption nurtured by a willingness to cherry pick evidence and bend thought to gratify that belief system

It is on the increase in many of the sites that I visit, in readers' comments if not in the posts, and it's fucking up clear, critical thinking

It is no accident that the corporate media persistantly go out of their way to depict conspiracy theorists as people motivated by racial or religious agendas. Racial and religious based belief systems are easily ridiculed and, not to put too fine a point on it, they have a boundless capacity to piss people off. Well thought out, politically-based points of view are a much tougher proposition

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Stef · at 10:04 am

Stef · at 11:34 pm

Christchurch's ex Central Business District

I've been meaning to write a piece for a months now about the Fukushima earthquake and some of the more imaginative assertions which have appeared on the Internet about the how, why and who made (sic.) it happen

I'm still planning to get round to it, whenever I feel up to the shit I'll get for writing it

As part of a discussion of the theories about what happened to Fukushima I was going to mention how little coverage the alternative media has given to the earthquake that hit Christchurch just before Fukushima. No, make that three major earthquakes and 7,500 aftershocks that have pounded a city that had no recorded history of seismic activity until it started ringing like a bell a year ago

Anyway, I'm pre-empting what I want to write about Fukushima and Christchurch because there's a story brewing in the land of the Long White Cloud which will be of particular interest to those who believe that 'The Jews' have, courtesy of HAARP, now taken charge of all tectonic activity on the planet...

"LATEST: Prime Minister John Key has confirmed one of three Israelis killed in the Christchurch earthquake was carrying multiple passports but is refusing to go into further detail because it is not in the national interest.

The police national computer has been under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake in February because of fears Israeli agents loaded software into the system that would allow backdoor access to highly sensitive intelligence files.

The Security Intelligence Service ordered the checks as part of an urgent investigation of what one SIS officer described as the suspicious activities of several groups of Israelis during and immediately after the earthquake.

Three Israelis were among the 181 people who died when the earthquake destroyed most of Christchurch's central business district on February 22. One was found to be carrying at least five passports.

An unaccredited Israeli search and rescue squad was later confronted by armed New Zealand officers and removed from the sealed-off "red zone" of the central city. Key was asked repeatedly today to confirm details of an SIS investigation into whether the Israeli secret service had infiltrated the police national computer after three Israelis were killed and other Israeli citizens fled the country..."

All the old favourites are there - multiple passports, hacking of national computer systems, Chabad safe houses, Israeli humanitarian aid teams that are not anything of the sort...

But, for the life of me, I can't see how the Magic Jew Earthquake Machine fits into the story

Israel, of course, has form when it comes to ripping off Kiwi passports for use by its fearless, globe-trotting back-shooters - and this story from 2004 is particularly heart-warming; featuring as it does Israeli agents befriending a victim of cerebral palsy on the basis that he would have never needed a passport and no-one would notice if someone applied for one in his name

Of course, if the state of Israel behaved a little more like New Zealand its employees could use their own fucking passports

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Stef · at 3:49 pm

Amongst any other points of disagreement, there is one issue above all others that distances me from many of the people who promote alternative narratives of 7/7 and other atrocities.

They know 'The Jews' did it

I don't

For the umpteenth time, I'm going to illustrate why those people are wilfully spouting out of their rear end when it comes to 7/7 and The Jews. After that I will move further afield and point to a couple of examples how this same kind of nonsense, and I will explain why it is nonsense, is fucking up other areas of sceptical inquiry

I have yet to meet a 7/7 researcher who is an apologist for Israel or Zionism, quite the opposite. I have, however, met a few who do not believe that plutocratic evil is restricted to The Jews and who will not point fingers without supporting evidence. As I have made clear throughout the life of this blog, these are the kind of people I feel most comfortable associating with

As far as I can tell, the Muad'dibs, the Kollerstroms, the Jim Fetzers, the Kevin Barretts, and all the other twunts who accuse people like me of being Zionist stooges for not blaming The Jews for 7/7, point to three pieces of evidence of undeniable Mossad involvement in 7/7...

An Israeli company was responsible for CCTV on the London Underground on 7/7
Benjamin Netanyahu was in London on the morning of 7/7 and, as reported in an Israeli newspaper, was warned not to leave his hotel by a mysterious phone call shortly before the bombs exploded
Everyone knows that staged atrocities like 7/7 are the kind of things The Jews get up to

Starting from the top...

CCTV on the London Underground, or anywhere else, can potentially record (or not record) a multitude of crimes every day. How exactly does that make the people operating the cameras responsible for the planning and execution of those crimes? Could anyone honestly believe that the British state could not interfere with footage from CCTV cameras operated by a non-Israeli company?

Control of the CCTV proves absolutely nothing when it comes to responsibility for 7/7

Now hands up anyone who thinks that Benjamin Netanyahu travels on public transport in London. Hands up anyone who thinks that Mossad would only tell Netanyahu that it is bombing London a few minutes before the bombs go off. And hands up anyone who thinks that the all-powerful Mossad and Israeli state would broadcast proof of their foreknowledge and culpability in an Israeli newspaper

I have posed these questions directly to people promoting the Netanyahu Warning story on the net and have yet to receive a straight reply. They insist on uncritically perpetuating this crap regardless, demonstrate every time they do so that their brains are in their backside and show that when their reason and prejudice are in conflict their prejudice wins every time

Which leads us on to the 'everyone knows The Jews do this sort of thing' proof of guilt.

Presumably anyone who supports this line of thinking is in favour of randomly stopping and searching Black people on the High Street. They would also presumably have some sympathy with the rising tide of Islamophobia which is being stoked up in the West off the back of exactly the same kind of logic. Innocent till proven guilty? Nah, sod that

You choppers

As well as having your brains in your backside, you'd have to cultivate and maintain a seriously skewed understanding of history to believe that only The Jews play dress-up and engage in false flag operations

The British, for example, have been dressing up in sheets and flouncing around Arabia, executing and buggering the locals for years, long before the Zionist state was even a twinkle in Herzl's eye

There was Richard Burton, the spiritual godfather of the contemporary sex tourism industry...

Then that bloke in The Four Feathers...

Then that bloke in that other film...

There was the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa during the Second World War...
And SAS assassination teams in Aden...

And not forgetting that pair of jokers who had to be sprung out of jail in Basra a few years back

Ah, but the argument goes, The Jews trained the British Army to behave like this

Nope, wrong way round. The British were practicing infiltration, playing one side off against the other and ripping off the world by tricking and paying puppets to do their killing long before the State of Israel existed. It was the British who trained the Israelis, not the other way round. Which is why this frankly bonkers individual is revered in the Jewish State...

General Order Wingate - clandestine warfare and counter-insurgency specialist, and all round beardie mentalist

Blaming 'The Jews' for everything is a cop out. The people who fall into that trap are swallowing the same myth that was doing the rounds in the 1920s and 1930s. That myth is that there was a Jew-free Golden Age at some point in the unspecified distant past, that only The Jews are capable of being responsible for great acts of plutocratic wickedness and that if The Jews were out of the picture everything would be just fucking peachy

The problem is that history is littered with people who, by any measure, cannot be considered to be The Jews or Zionists but who were still right bastards. One example that comes straight to mind is President Andrew Jackson. The man who laboured for years to kill an earlier incarnation of the 'Zionist' Federal Reserve but who laboured just as hard killing indigenous North American people and endorsing slavery

A once popular painting celebrating the spirit of American Progress driving indigenous people into the shadows of history. Nice
(I don't think she was supposed to be Jewish)

People like Jackson, or the slavers who fought for their freedom (to keep slaves and to steal a chunk of Mexico) against the slave-free Mexicans at the Alamo, just don't fit into 'The Jews are responsible for everything awful' mythos. Consequently, people who embrace that mythos are also obliged to develop a very selective view of history and current events

As belief systems go, blaming The Jews for everything is not rational, it is unsupported by historical experience and it is also cowardly. It is a device for ducking out of any obligation to reflect critically on the shortcomings of your own 'race' (whatever the fuck that is), your heritage and the beliefs you hold dear. It is, for example, absolutely no coincidence that the majority of people who blame The Jews for everything just happen to revere capitalism. And now that capitalism has fucked up, yet again, they feel obliged to get busy finding some racial group to blame rather than the system itself

The final straw, as far as this nonsense goes for me personally, hit the camel's back a couple of months ago immediately after the huge(?) earthquake hit Japan. I'll leave that story till the next time...

Stef · at 2:00 am

Some time ago I promised myself to never to write again about the antics of a particular bunch of clowns who claim to be interested in researching what really happened in London on July 7th 2005

Actually, that’s not strictly accurate, as at least one of these clowns claims to know exactly what happened on 7/7 and has put his name to a film which asserts as much

The reason why I promised to try and lay off the folk in question was partly because I believed I'd written more than enough on the subject and partly because I wished to avoid wasteful, distractive conflict

Unfortunately, the regions of the Internet I inhabit are increasingly thick with one-sided and misleading accounts of the heroic deeds of these characters and I'm tired of watching this nonsense pass unopposed

I doubt if anyone visiting this blog needs me to elaborate on Cass Sunstein's paper on the strategy of Cognitive Infiltration. However, even before this strategy had a name, observation of the 9/11 Truth Movement in the US and the careers of characters such as Davids Icke and Shayler in the UK would have given some idea of how the State could seriously fuck-up the progress of researchers investigating a flawed State Narrative

Key tactics would include...

Establish eccentric, easily ridiculed individuals as being spokespeople for scepticism of the Official Narrative
Divert focus away from the flaws in the Official Narrative and towards supporting equally flawed Alternative Narratives
Pollute the environment with inaccurate information and generally waste sincere researchers’ time

In past posts I have documented how two individuals in particular have served the interests of the State by cognitively disrupting research into the 7/7 atrocity

I haven't the faintest idea if either is a knowing participant but I do know that they have caused distress to victims' families, offered themselves up to be presented as buffoons on national television, attempted to interfere with trial proceedings without consulting the accused, tried to associate themselves with sincere researchers who aren't acting like buffoons, made apologies for Hitler, claimed to be Jesus, claimed to be the King of England, claimed to be the King of Israel, passed off speculation about 7/7 as fact, and taken actual facts about 7/7 and mutilated them

Here's a photo of the people I'm talking about, taken at the end of a court case one of them got involved in as a result of his knob-end attempt at jury-tampering. A case which just happened to coincide with the conclusion of the 7/7 inquest. He's the messiah dressed as an Israeli flag...

'The Last Baby-Sitter on Earth 2011' quarter finals reach their thrilling climax

(presumably Michele Renouf was otherwise engaged as she usually likes this sort of thing)

The truly impressive aspect of their behaviour is that these characters have pulled this off with barely a squeak of criticism from the alternative media. Quite the opposite. Their output has been endorsed and disseminated widely, as I will illustrate shortly

In contrast, the handful of people who have actually expressed criticism of this cognitive bullshit have been ignored or accused of being Zionist shills. Myself included.

What is the secret of this success in the alternative media?

The trick is to simply assert, without any doubt or reservation, that 'The Jews' did it, whatever 'it' may be

Job done

Once you've got that under your belt you can say or engage in absolutely any form of stupidity you fancy - making stuff up, hassling bereaved people, claiming to be God. It's all good.

The important thing is asserting Jewish culpability. Everything else is incidental and permissable

However...

Call me old fashioned but I doubt very much that wickedness is restricted to 'The Jews' and I'll be fucked if I take to credulously endorsing any old unsubstantiated twaddle some lunatic comes out with, about 7/7 or anything else, without asking them to back it up first

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Stef · at 3:08 am

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the Truthiest of them all?

It's a heavyweight bout between Max and Alex

Jones won his previous challenge with a knock-out assertion that 'the Arabs own Hollywood!!!' but Max has got some special moves of his own

Place your bets and scroll forward 4 minutes in to see which of the these two duelling Infowarriors is going to leave his opponent speechless...

That's a knock-out @4.24

Well done Max!

The cheque's in the post and the negatives aren't

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Stef · at 5:36 pm

As I haven't a lot of free time to put together much in the way of considered blog posts myself , I've been spending what free on-line time I have hanging around other people's blogs

Sad to say, and especially with the passing of Lord Patel, there continues to be not much in the way of UK blogging which suits my own personal tastes - sceptical of official narratives, but equally cautious about competing alternative narratives, and not inclined to run away with the fairies, or aliens

Craig Murray's blog is always worth popping by, though I suspect Craig has decided that he needs to retain at least some kind of connection with the mainstream in order to sustain a living. The swarm of trolls that descended on Craig's blog after he started commenting on the Israelis shooting nine peace activists in the back of the head indicates he must be doing something right

Aangirfan's prodigious blog is also worth visiting but, my, it does cross the line between anti-Zionism and something a tad more uncomfortable with reliable regularity

I've also spent a little time wading underneath the comments on Old Holborn's blog, though I always find myself wanting a shower afterwards

Old Holborn claims to be a Libertarian, though he and his entourage of commentators seem to spend the vast majority of their time venting race-hate about brown people and blaming them for all of the UK's ills, whilst devoting pretty much fuck all time to the Evils of the State. In fairness, Old Holborn also has the occasional wee pop at Zionists and has aroused the enmity of other members of the British Libertarian Party for doing so

That's the depressing state of Libertarianism in the UK - mostly pro-zionist wog-haters, plus the occasional anti-zionist wog-hater

In that respect, there are strands of American Libertarianism that are light years ahead of the essentially hate-fuelled discourse that's taking place in the UK

And what's the subject of Old Holborn's latest post? With the country, and the world, on the brink of an economic and social precipice, engineered by a governing, legal and financial elite that is to all intents and purposes entirely Muslim free. What's the Big Issue on the mind of the UK's leading Libertarian blogger?

Yup, Khazis in Rochdale

The series of demented, racist comments underneath that post make truly depressing reading. There's no way of knowing just how representative this bile is of ordinary British people's views but there's no doubt that the media has been stoking it up for years and that must be having some effect

I despair

My one consolation is that, if history is anything to go by, it's the brown shirt dickheads who are first up against the wall after they've outlived their usefulness to their puppetmasters

You didn't see it coming did you Ernie baby?

But, as consolations go, it's pretty poor fare

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Stef · at 3:22 pm

Stef · at 5:14 pm

Some quality genocide denial there. Though it's worth contemplating that anyone in mainland Europe who might think about responding with some equally hilarious racist historical revisionism, aimed at Israeli citizens, would get locked up for a few years

I'll be uploading a copy of my favourite scene from Cabaret up onto Ziotube with the same tags as this despicable piece of shit shortly. ..

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Stef · at 1:03 am

A couple of days early for the anniversary but this BBC documentary (a throwback to a time when the BBC still made documentaries rather than videos of press releases) about the USS Liberty attack is definitely worth a spin...

It gets especially interesting towards the end when lots of people, including Psycho-in-Chief Robert McNamara, start suffering from spontaneous memory loss and bad tempers

Hmmm, Robert McNamara in a bad mood, not good

Robert 'I'm totally OK with becoming Death, Destroyer of Worlds' McNamara

The Israelis' explanation of how they mistook an American ship traveling at 2-3 knots for an Egyptian ship traveling at 25-30 knots is equally entertaining, particularly when you hear how the Israelis started jamming American, not Egyptian, radio frequencies just before they started dropping napalm on the ship's decks...

The USS Liberty - just bristling with US identity codes and no offensive armament whatsoever

Oh yes, and there's a bit where some ex US military types start talking about how nuclear armed American jets were minutes away from vaporising Cairo

It's a shame more Americans don't know about the Liberty attack, as some of them might get round to asking why they've been subsidising this sort of thing through billions of dollars of aid every year. Aid to a country with a GDP per capita somewhere between Italy and New Zealand which, the last time I looked, were doing just fine without any US subsidy

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edit: meanwhile, back in 2010, more comedy chutzpah gold from those side-splitting Israeli spokesfolk...

"A spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry said a dock action like the one being urged in Sweden was
illegal,
according to rulings by the European Court of
Human Rights"

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Stef · at 7:14 pm

Would you like to know what really happened on that boat? Here's the scoop...

We Had No Choice
'Mavi Marmara' raid commando: "They had murder in their eyes."

though, as events proved, murder in your eyes turns out to be considerably less lethal than murder in your guns

Being a big Full Metal Jacket fan, I particularly appreciated this line...

T. said he realized the group they were facing was well-trained and likely ex-military after the commandos threw a number of stun grenades and fired warning shots before rappelling down onto the deck. “They didn’t even flinch,” he said. “Regular people would move.”

They really are taking the piss now

and, hmmm, do I detect the first signs of an admission that the Israelis did fire their weapons before landing on the boat after all? I believe I do
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Stef · at 12:00 pm

Gaza - so full of cakes there simply isn't enough room for any more humanitarian aid

Whilst wading through the GIYUS-style spam which is being posted underneath articles about the lethal act of Israeli piracy earlier this week, I’ve occasionally bumped into references about how the Israeli blockade doesn’t need to be broken anyway

The Friends of Israel who’ve commented against the necessity of blockade running have informed the casual reader that market stalls in Gaza are literally groaning under the weight of produce on offer.

They’ve also mentioned that exotic, mouth-watering dishes such as ‘steak au poivre’ are on offer in Gaza’s extensive selection of gourmet restaurants

A quick Google search for ‘Fine Dining in Gaza’ by myself and the source of this nonsense was quickly established…

“In a bid to stir awareness of anti-Israeli slants in foreign media coverage of Gaza, the Government Press Office sent an e-mail on Wednesday to members of the Foreign Press Association in Israel containing a guide to a luxurious restaurant in the Strip and a recently opened Olympic-sized pool”

Hmmm, fine dining and lovely big swimming pools

Would those swimming pools be even more luxurious than this one?

Watersports - Auschwitz stle

And would those markets and restaurants be even more overstocked with tasty comestibles than the ones they had in this paradise on earth?

Theresienstadt 1944 - simply lovely...

I don’t know what the fuck is going on in Gaza. I do know that I’ve always been able to get a decent meal even in the shittiest places I’ve been to around the world, provided I had enough money in my pocket. I wouldn’t however be so wilfully deceitful as to pretend that this proved the general populations in those shitty places were having it easy

So, no I haven’t been to Gaza, but when apologists for what’s going on there start quoting from the Auschwitz and Theresienstadt Lonely Planet Guide, c.1944 I certainly start to feel creeped out

And if a goy like myself feels creeped out by references to swimming pools as being proof that life is OK somewhere I would hazard a guess that the better educated mensch behind that press release would have at least some idea of the historical irony they're toying with

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Stef · at 9:53 pm

Apparently, and I shit you not, the IDF had no choice but to gun down those peace protesters because, and I really do shit you not, they were armed with marbles...

A brutal ambush at sea

"Ron Ben Yishai recounts bloody clash aboard Gaza-bound vessel: The lacking crowd-dispersal means, the brutal violence of ‘peace activists,’ and the attempt to bring down an IDF helicopter"

"Navy commandoes slid down to the vessel one by one, yet then the unexpected occurred: The passengers that awaited them on the deck pulled out bats, clubs, and slingshots with glass marbles, assaulting each soldier as he disembarked. The fighters were nabbed one by one and were beaten up badly, yet they attempted to fight back."

It's worth reading the full account of the brutal, children's sports equipment based, ambush those vicious peace protesters had set for the brave IDF fighters. The tone of this nonsense is genuinely reminiscent of the justifications the Nazis used when explaining their atrocities away.

The purpose of crap like this is not to win over the hearts and minds of opponents or the undecided . It's put out so that the Faithful have a rationalisation for murder they can dissonantly cling onto. Deep down, they don't really give a shit if it's true or not

And yes, I know I've broken Godwin's Law, but the parallels are really there and genuinely creepy and unsettling

And these are the same demented looneytune amoral fuckers who are boasting about deploying nuclear armed submarines in the territorial waters of a country they are gagging to go to war with

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edit: and, in a similar vein, here's Norman...

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Stef · at 9:14 am

30th May 2010

"The flotilla's commander, identified only as "Colonel O," was quoted by the Times as saying that the submarine force was "an underwater assault force. We’re operating deep and far, very far, from our borders."

The submarines could be used if Iran continues its program to produce a nuclear bomb. "The 1,500km range of the submarines’ cruise missiles can reach any target in Iran," a navy officer told the Times"

Israeli Dolphin Class submarine. Armament - 6 x 21-inch torpedo tubes and 4 x 25.5-inch torpedo tubes capable of launching nuclear-armed Popeye Turbo cruise missiles with a range of up to 1,500 kilometres

31st May 2010

Story Highlights

Turkish Aid Ship. Armament - electric-powered wheelchairs, prefabricated homes, water purifiers, cement and other building materials

A more complete list of prohibited items can be found here - shoes are OK though

My advice to the folks at GIYUS (including that bastion of British patriotism the Biased BBC blog) is to stock up on Jolt Cola, Cheetos and Bullshit. It's going to be a long week...

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edit: sad to say, it would appear that, unlike German U-boat manufacturers, PizzaIDF* does not deliver to the Israeli Navy, which is a real shame as, after a busy night machine-gunning passive resistors, I would imagine that a 12inch cheesycrustmeatfeast with extra chillies would really hit the spot

* "gifts of over $250 are eligible for a US IRS tax deduction."

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Stef · at 6:49 pm

Mr Tony Benn is one of the long list of state-sanctioned dissident, but only a little bit dissident, voices I am at best ambivalent about but I did enjoy this clip; more for the obvious discomfort of the State Broadcasting Company frontperson than anything Mr Benn says...

Apparently the BBC isn't supporting the Gaza aid appeal because some of the funds raised might end up being misused by a terrorist government

So, you know what to do about paying your state television tax next time it's due

And cheers to anon 22:41 for this link to a piece by John Mearsheimer which sums up the motivation for, and the results of, the recent slaughter pretty well...

Another war, Another Defeat

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Stef · at 3:46 pm

Here's something I learned today, whilst doing a google image search for 'Palestine, Teddy Bear' to find an image to illustrate the news that the BBC wasn't going to take part in a Gazan fund-raiser, I discovered this little gem...

"The Israeli Armored D9 — nicknamed Doobi (Hebrew: דובי‎; lit. teddy bear) — is a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer that was modified by the Israel Defence Forces, Israeli Military Industries and Israel Aerospace Industries to increase the survivability of the dozer in hostile environments and enable it to withstand heavy attacks."

The humour presumably comes from the fact that D9s are not furry and real teddy bears don't crush people to death

note how its thick metal plating has enabled this armoured bulldozer to withstand heavy attacks from unarmed female peace activists and emerge victorious

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Stef · at 11:38 am

What? Only a little bit fascist? I think Keren's trying to hide her light under a bushel there

I also think that it's pretty unlikely that anyone would lay out a picnic lunch on an open hillside if they thought the people being butchered on the other side of the valley represented any real threat to their safety at all

There are currently 670 comments underneath this clip of espresso slurping slaughter-tourists and I haven't yet seen much in the way of a Hasbara 'explanation' debunking it in any way. So, I'm obliged to conclude that this is on the level

What I have seen, and am starting to see more frequently, is comments which cross the line between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

Militant Zionism is an ideology which people can choose to accept or reject, regardless of their ethnicity, and it is reasonable to hold people responsible for the ideologies they choose to follow

Pouring abuse on someone just because they belong to a particular ethnic group is pretty hard to justify, morally or logically

To give in to base Human emotion and become a race-hater is to play the Zionist game. It is to reduce yourself to Their level

Keren Levy is an unpleasant piece of hateful trash because she chooses to be one, she wasn't born one.

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Stef · at 10:01 am

The most recent reports quote something like 1,300+ Palestinian dead vs 13 Israelis who lost their lives in the recent slaughter in Gaza

However, at least four of those Israelis were killed by their own forces. Adding them onto the Israeli casualty count effectively overstates Hamas' existential-threatening striking power by at least 40%

1,300 against 9

And there are still some fuckers out there claiming that this was some kind of defensive action

In all of the blood-stained history of colonial Britain the gold standard for slaughter was the Battle of Omdurman when, as in the wildest dreams of contemporary neocon psychopaths, an army of Muslim insurgents stood in open ground and offered themselves up to be slaughtered by the thousand with the most modern weapons available to the British invaders

It was less of a battle and more of an exercise in geometry as General Kitchener's troops methodically arranged the arcs of fire of their artillery and machine guns to cut down as many people as possible before tea time

The casualty figures for this legendary one-sided slaughter were

9,700 Sudanese vs. 47 British

... 1,300 Gazans vs. 9 Israelis

Hmmm, definitely comparable

though, of course, Kitchener's men didn't butcher anywhere near as many children.

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