A senior Hamas figure said Friday that official and unofficial US sources have asked the Islamist group to refrain from making any statements regarding contacts with Washington, this following reports that a senior American official is due to arrive in an Arab country in the coming days to relay a telegram from the Obama Administration.
The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would "rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas."
The Hamas figure, who is close to Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the government in Gaza, added, "This is a sensitive subject. The Americans don't want anyone to comment on it because this would catch the attention of pressure groups (in the US) and cause problems."
He said Hamas' exiled leadership in Damascus is overseeing the contacts behind closed doors.
On Wednesday a Washington-based Arabic newspaper quoted a senior official as saying that an American envoy is scheduled to meet with Hamas representatives in an Arab country and hand them a letter from the Obama Administration.
According to the report, the official said Washington has no choice but to work with Hamas due to its influence in the Arab and Islamic world.
Make sure to watch this fascinating video testimony about the pervasive Catholic-Islam connection.
http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html#ixzz0s6dPxbnI Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill. To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the US. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks. The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand. If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the oil company's expense. "If there's a country that's experienced with building dikes and managing water, it's the Netherlands," says Geert Visser, the Dutch consul general in Houston. In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The US. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. By May 5, the U.S. had not come round. To the contrary, the US. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment --unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts. Why does neither the U.S. government nor US. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico. When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it. As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the official in charge of the clean-up operation, explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water--the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that." In other words, U.S. ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf, requiring them to make up to 10 times as many trips to storage facilities where they off-load their oil-water mixture, an approach Koops calls "crazy." The Americans, overwhelmed by the catastrophic consequences of the BP spill, finally relented and took the Dutch up on their offer -- but only partly. Because the U.S. didn't want Dutch ships working the Gulf, the U.S. airlifted the Dutch equipment to the Gulf and then retrofitted it to U.S. vessels. And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labour unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained. A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out. With oil increasingly reaching the Gulf coast, the emergency construction of sand berns to minimize the damage is imperative. Again, the U.S. government priority is on U.S. jobs, with the Dutch asked to train American workers rather than to build the berns. According to Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington, Dutch dredging ships could complete the berms in Louisiana twice as fast as the U.S. companies awarded the work. "Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands," he says, perplexed that the U.S. government could be so focussed on side issues with the entire Gulf Coast hanging in the balance Then again, perhaps he should not be all that perplexed at the American tolerance for turning an accident into a catastrophe. When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident occurred off the coast of Alaska in 1989, a Dutch team with clean-up equipment flew in to Anchorage airport to offer their help. To their amazement, they were rebuffed and told to go home with their equipment. The Exxon Valdez became the biggest oil spill disaster in U.S. history--until the BP Gulf spill. - Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe and author of The Deniers.
Thanks, A.M. for both items.
UPDATE :
This just came in:
US to Accept Help on Oil Disaster
Tammuz 18, 5770, 30 June 10 10:32
(Israelnationalnews.com) The United States is reportedly accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the American State Department announced late Tuesday.
The State Department said in a press release that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that has been accepted. More than 30 countries and international organizations have offered to help with the spill. Washington has reportedly not yet made a final decision on most of the offers. The spill is already being called one of the greatest environmental disasters in history
Let me see: how many days since the beginning of the crisis? About 70 days. This is how long Obama and his minions let the disaster progress, destroy the Gulf area, and endanger the whole world irreparably, before accepting help. What should we call this: aggravated criminal negligence?
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 6:09 AM
It took Barack Obama 1 day to fly General McChrystal halfway around the world to the White House to fire him for insulting remarks his staff made about the president and Bite-me Joe Biden in a teen magazine. But, it’s now been 70 days since the BP oil gusher started spewing hundreds of thousands of crude from the Gulf floor and there still is no plan in place to prevent the crude oil from destroying the southern coast.
Onlookers stare at a huge mass of oil that came ashore on Pensacola Beach on June 23. The water is closed to the public. (Tampa Bay.com) Hat Tip Brian B. It didn’t have to be this way. The Dutch have equipment that would have prevented any oil from reaching shore but the federal government wouldn’t allow them into the Gulf. There’s more: ** The feds only accepted assistance from 5 of 28 countries a month after the disaster. ** It took the Obama Administration 53 days to accept help from the Dutch and British. ** It took them 58 days to mobilize the US military to the Gulf. ** The feds shut down crude-sucking barges due to fire extinguisher concerns. ** The Obama Administration ignored oil boom manufacturers that have miles of product stockpiled in their warehouses. ** They only have moved 31 of 2,000 oil skimmers to the disaster area off of Florida. ** Florida hired an additional 5 skimmer boats to operate off its coast due to federal inaction. ** There are no skimmer boats off the coast of Mississippi. ** The massive A-Boat skimmer won’t be allowed to join the cleanup effort until the Coast Guard and the EPA figure out whether it meets their standards. ** The feds shut down sand berm dredging off the Louisiana coast. ** The president continues to hit the golf course, ball games, hold BBQ’s and party while the crude oil washes up on shore.
That’s what you get when you elect a community organizer as president.
I wish commentators would stop saying Obama is inept, naïve, mistaken, lacking in understanding, etc. He knows exactly what he is doing. He is destroying the USA and the West and he is doing a brilliant job of it. Look at what he has accomplished in only a year and a half. He is not inept. He is evil.
contributed by Jack, with the above comment.
Make sure to read and watch the previous BP posts, searching under label, "BP", starting June 11, 2010. Lots and lots of information there.
Addendum and update:
Just as Bibi is being pressured severely by Rome via Obama and the queen's visit at the UN, the East Coast experiences deadly heat, the worst in 15 years. Another "coincidence"?
German Jesuit Cardinal Bea with Rabbi Heschel, 1960s
"Alberto Rivera, deceased Ex-Jesuit turned Bible-believing Christian..., reveals the history Jesuit Augustin Cardinal Bea taught him about the origin of Islam. We cannot forget that Cardinal Bea was one of the most wicked Jesuits who ever drew a breath. As a German Bavarian Jesuit priest, he participated in the anti-Jewish fury unleashed in Bavaria prior to the accession of Hitler who wielded absolute power over Pope Pius XII’s Third German Reich. It was Bea who later served as the confessor to Pius XII and who also participated in the cover-up that sought to conceal the Jesuit Papacy’s foremost role in the carrying out the Eurasian Jewish Holocaust. And it was Bea who worked with leading religious Jews in further securing Israel—the Pope’s Revived Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem—in anticipation of the building of the Third Hebrew Temple for the final Pope to be murdered....Thus, it was this diabolical Augustin Cardinal Beahere. who was the true source of the origin of Islam revealed in the video
Since the time of the release of Rivera’s most important information, Venetian Count Vittorio Vivaldi III has confirmed on your editor’s broadcast the basic tenets of the story. The Count fully substantiates the Vatican wrote the Koran; the Augustinian monks were the true movers of the Pope’s False Prophet Muhammad; and that the Islamic Crusades called “Jihads” merely killed off the true enemies of Satan’s Roman Papacy—the[]Jews and true, Bible-believing Christians.
And as Rome used Islam to kill her enemies during the Sixth and Seventh centuries throughout Arabia and North Africa, even so will that Great Whore of Rome, that “Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth,” use Islam to kill these very same enemies within North America."
This comes from Eric Phelps's website, Vatican's Assassins. Eric Phelps has been a frequent contributor to this blog, with unvaluable historical information about the Vatican, popes, Jesuits, etc. This is another stellar contribution of his via his website.
And now, do contemplate the following in that context:
Why Do Muslims Murder Americans?
- Daniel Greenfield - July 7, 2010
The latest talking point in the Western terrorism apologist camp is that Islamic terrorism against Americans began in 1968 when a PLO supporter named Siran Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy. Thaddeus Russell, a radical professor and author of something called, "A Renegade History of the United States", circulated the latest version of this meme when he wrote;
"Not one American died at the hands of a politically motivated Arab or Muslim until June 5, 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was shot to death by Sirhan Sirhan. The killing came shortly after President Lyndon Johnson declared that the U.S. would become Israel’s major sponsor"
Of course there's one problem with this claim. History. The difference between History and Radical History, is that the former is a record of events that actually took place, and the latter is a distortion of history based on a political agenda. The idea that Muslim terrorists began murdering and trying to murder Americans, after an LBJ announcement isn't history. It's radical history. So let's take a look at history instead. In 1958, ten years before Sirhan Sirhan began polishing his gun, the United Arab Republic (a geographical Frankenstein's monster under the rule of Egypt's Hitler-worshiping General, Gamal Abdel Nasser) funded and armed a Muslim revolt against the Christian Lebanese government of President Chamoun. Eisenhower responded by sending in the US Marines as peacekeeping forces. The Muslim terrorists responded by setting off bombs in public squares, restaurants and department stores where Americans were likely to be found. A Beirut cafe filled with US soldiers was bombed. So was a bus outside the Capital Hotel, which was filled with Americans. The ABC Department Store, a five story building frequented by Americans was hit by a suicide truck bomber. The same building also housed the local offices of the Singer Sewing Machine company. A bomb went off 30 yards away from the car of the US ambassador. A US Sergeant was shot and killed by a sniper. But of course we've already forgotten the Marines storming Red Beach on 24 hours notice. Yet the terrorism still went on. The US embassy was bombed in 1967 and bombed again in 1969. And all this is only a snapshot of Arab Muslim terrorist attacks against the US in a single city, in one country. But apologists for Muslim terrorists will go on to claim that we just shouldn't have been in a Christian country, one which was being claimed by Muslims. Just as they would similarly agree that we shouldn't support Israel, a Jewish country being claimed by Muslims. Or Thailand, a Buddhist country also being claimed by Muslims. In essence we should just stay out of every non-Muslim country being claimed by Muslims. Which includes much of the known world-- including parts of Europe, such as Spain. (and now, a parcel of land near Ground Zero, for the construction of their Victory Mega-mosque. -- aem) So instead let's stay at home. Surely Muslim violence will not trouble us here. Not before the dreaded year 1968, when LBJ and RFK said something positive about Israel. That has to work. Doesn't it? Then let's go back to 1930, before there even was an Israel. Before US forces were carrying out peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. When the Nation of Islam was founded by W. F. Muhammad. That friendly religious order which claims that white people are subhuman and that America is the devil. The Nation of Islam is however more than just a letter on a baseball cap or a crazy leader occasionally appearing on talk shows to explain why he hates the very people who are giving him a platform. Like just about everything with Islam in its Islam, it has had a long and bloody history from the very beginning. In 1932 Robert Karriem, one of Muhammad's followers, gathered 12 other followers together, along with his wife and children, as he tied down a tenant of his, James J. Smith, and stabbed him in the chest and then smashed in his skull. Karriem proclaimed "The unbeliever must be stabbed through the heart" and "every son of Islam must gain a victory from the devil. Four victories and the son will attain his reward". All quotes from Muhammad's teachings about Islam. Kerriem was caught and put away, but the violence only grew. In that same year, the Reverend J.D. Howell, pastor of St. Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Church, warned against "the sinister cult of Islamism" which "toppled sanity into homicidal fantasies".
Reverend Howell also emphasized that "The Negro race cannot, as such, be held responsible for the actions and teachings of fanatics. Their 'Arabian' leader is solely to blame. There must be quick and just punishment of those who come among us and, for personal gain, lead us astray. The Islamic 'Bible' and the Nation of Islam must go"
In 1955, the FBI described the Nation of Islam as an "Especially Violent and Anti-American Cult." Its publication contained the quote, "Of all the governments in the world, there has never existed one so wicked as America, which has misled the holy people of Allah." The FBI internal bulletin found that the Nation of Islam presents "...a threat to the National Security of the United States." The Nation of Islam murdered "infidels" who left the movement or criticized Elijah Muhammad. Some were stunningly brutal, the murder of an entire family in Philadelphia, including drowning two infants. But the worst was yet to come. Unlike the Son of Sam or the Zodiac killer, the Zebra Murders, which took place in San Francisco in 1973 have been generally forgotten... because it is politically incorrect to recall painful history. The full number of those murdered by the "Death Angels" of the Nation of Islam may never be known. Estimates range anywhere from 71 to over 200. Those targeted were children as young as 11 year old Michele Denise Carrasco and as old as 81-year-old janitor Ilario Bertuccio. Salvation Army cadets, college students, a retired coast guardsman. The victims were shot, mutilated, raped or decapitated. Some were so badly mutilated that their identities have never been learned. The killers were Nation of Islam members and in some cases used NOI businesses to carry out their atrocities. Their defense was paid for by the Nation of Islam. The horrifying crimes had been committed because the Black Muslim perpetrators believed that murder was their "ticket to heaven". The Zebra Murders were the worst acts of Muslim terrorism perpetrated on US soil, until September 11, 2001. Like virtually every Muslim atrocity, they have been swept under the rug, their memory scrubbed away and banished to the dusty archives. Because it is much easier to claim that Muslims began murdering Americans in 1968 because they were angry over Israel-- than to admit the ugly and unpleasant truth: that Islam is not any fundamentally different than Communism or Nazism. It is a political ideology which calls for world conquest and the absolute dominion of its leaders. Let us step back then before 1973, before 1968, before even 1955 and 1932. All the way back to 1786. When Muslim pirates were preying on American ships, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the ambassador to Tripoli, to try and understand what his justification for these attacks was, the ambassador replied that, "It was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." Thirty-five Americans died in the Barbary Wars, long before LBJ, RFK or Theodore Herzl were even born. (And the same motivation exists – unchanged and unchangeable – to this day. –aem) The justification of an 18th century Muslim ambassador for his piracy against the United States shares a common theme with the Zebra Murders taking place on American soil, nearly two centuries later. The Islamic Supremacism which insists that Muslims have the right to kill those who are not their kind, for reasons of religion or race, and that those who commit the murders will have a ticket to heaven. It also forms the common denominator with the ideologies of Muslim terrorist groups of the present day. Apologists for Islam focus on the practical motivations behind Islamic atrocities. The Barbary pirates wanted slaves and money. The Death Angels enjoyed rape and torture. Hamas and Al Qaeda want to rule over different countries. But they are united by the common denominator that Islamic teachings served to dehumanize their enemies and turn them into subhumans. And that is, and has always been the problem. The idea that others are subhuman, and that you can therefore enslave them, kill them and abuse them justifies any number of crimes of opportunity. This goes back to Mohammed and his followers, who embarked on epic sprees of murder, slavery, rape and robbery because they were doing the "Will of Allah," and those who hadn't gotten on board with Islam, were enemies and infidels. In the 1930's, European countries tried to deal with Nazi Germany through appeasement, by ignoring the realities of Nazi ideology, and instead treating it as a symptom of economic and political grievances. The result was that Nazi power grew, and so did their atrocities. They went from street violence and a few murders, to conquest, war and genocide. Like the Barbary Pirates and the Death Angels and Hamas-- the Nazis had practical motivations for their crimes. Some of them wanted loot. Some enjoyed torture and murder. But they had the same justification-- that everything they did was correct and even praiseworthy, because their victims were subhumans. Most murderous ideologies will harness some sort of popular grievance and appeal to their follower's baser desires to kill and plunder. But to ignore the actual ideology, is a dangerous form of denial. To try and appease it is even worse. Muslims did not begin murdering Americans in 1968 because they were angry about Israel. They were murdering Americans in 1929, because they were angry at Jews. They were murdering Americans in 1909, because they were angry at Christians. In 1973 they were murdering Salvation Army cadets, homeless people and a teenager who was bringing a teddy bear to his little sister, because they were angry at Americans. In 1955, it was because the Americans were there with a peacekeeping force to prevent them from slaughtering Christians in Beirut. In 1786, they were killing Americans.. because they were just there. That is the ugly bottom line. Islam justifies the murder of non-Muslims. It says that their property may be taken and their wives raped-- if they don't submit to Islam. The Koran states that Allah is the enemy of infidels. It states that jihad is mandatory for all Muslims. It promises paradise for those who join in. The Christian or Jew has a choice of either submitting to their rule, and becoming a dhimmi, a second class citizen-- or being an infidel and a target for anything a Muslim cares to do to him or her. Americans are targets because they are non-Muslims. That is why Obama emphasized in his Cairo speech that America is a Muslim country. That is why Russia joined the OIC. Both are ways of saying, "Don't attack us, we're one of you." But why does that need to be said? It needs to be said, because Islam places Muslims and non-Muslims in different categories. Because it assigns different categories to Muslim and non-Muslim countries. In Islam, there is the Dar Al Islam (The Muslim Realm) and the Dar Al Harb (The Realm of Devastation). A country that is not Muslim, is not in the process of becoming Muslim, and does not have a treaty or truce with whatever a given Muslim faction considers to be real Islam-- is part of the Dar Al Harb, to be made war on, conquered and subjugated.
Why do Muslims murder Americans? Because they're not Muslims. And even when they are Muslims, it's because they're not the right kind of Muslim. Because Americans have things they want. Because America occasionally interferes with their goal of recreating a Caliphate. Because American power is an implicit insult to Islamic Supremacism, which demands that non-Muslims cannot have more power or taller buildings than Muslims. But in the end as always, Americans are a target because they are non-Muslims, which makes them inferior, deprives them of equal rights in Islam jurisprudence and renders them subhuman. Had America never allied with any non-Muslim country or Muslim country, that Muslims have a grievance with-- Americans would still be murdered. Because so long as an ideology embraces both violence and the dehumanization of those outside the ideology-- murder is inevitable. This did not begin in 1965. It began in 610. And it's not over yet.
Note from CJHS: To all of you who are reading this and have rabbis who believe that interfaith dialogue with Muslims will bring us to a world where we are all living in peace and harmony, have them read this.
The above piece thanks to A.M.
Comment:
Knowing this should help us put their joint war against us into a whole new perspective. What's the point of getting mad at the Muslims if we don't include ROME in our wrath, and attack the right target? After all, SHE is the real monster behind the horrors of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ahmedinajad, etc. The Church created this murderous Frankenstein, and now hides nicely behind all its evil deeds, the terror, etc. Radical Islam has taken the place of the Inquisition.
An interesting topic is the Vatican itself. Notice that it was built on one of the many Roman hills, close to the hill dedicated to Janus, the two- headed god.
This is a very good description of the Vatican: one face to the world, nice and sweet. The other true face in the opposite direction, hidden from view: the face of violence, murder, death, oppression, burnings, hangings, torture, decapitations, mass murders, terrorism, mass graves, Holocaust, etc. etc., etc.
That is the Church, and if you don't understand this, you do not understand what you are seeing with your own eyes. The real face of the Church is TRYING to hide. But thank God, it is becoming more and more visible to all these days.
The Flotilla saga gave us a glimpse of the total cooperation between the two entities, the Church and Islam. And of course ROME is THE SOVEREIGN, while Muslims are the SUBALTERNS, THE UNDERLINGS, and don't appreciate it, I am sure.
Remember that the King of Saudi Arabia defers to King Juan Carlos of Spain, in the Knights of the Golden Fleece ( and so does Queen Elizabeth, by the way):
So when Obama bowed deeply to the king of Arabia, he actually bowed to Rome. Did you know that? Does HE know that?
On a related topic: Just today I wrote about some other monsters the Church created, now coming back to bite them . Islam is one more powerful such example.
I was wondering about the very same thing, listening to that woman speak; but her tone was so sincere, I believed her after my initial suspicions. And the world believes her too. Is she genuine, or just a very good actress?
Why did Kindra Arnesen get security clearance from BP when no one else did?
By Jane Burgermeister Kindra Arnesen is a Venice, Louisiana woman who was given security clearance by BP and allegedly saw and heard things that the media are barred from seeing….
And that even though she is a fierce critic of BP.
Hmm…Now, someone has emailed to say Kindra Arnesen is a fighter for truth like myself.
But I guess if were like Arnesen, I too would have be given security clearance to something like Baxter’s facilities in Orth an der Donau where 72 kilos of seasonal flu were contaminated with the bird flu virus. Or to visit WHO’s SHOC room where supercomputers linked to UN security forces track the spread of a pandemic.
I never was given any such security clearance.
Not only did Arnesen get security clearance, she went on CNN TV to tell Americans how dangerous the situation is and how they must evacuate [to FEMA camps].
I guess that would be like me telling people how dangerous the swine flu virus is and how they must take the toxic vaccine on CNN.
Whether she knows it or not, Arnesen seems to be a tool of BP to push their agenda. This is all about hyping the dangers of the oil spill and getting people to go to the FEMA camps. And the oil or tar but even more the dispersant BP is using really is poisonous.
But is the situation really so bad that a mass evacuation is needed? BP bars all independent reporting.
We have little idea of what is going on. There are irregularities. The video footage of the gusher does not appear to show a Blow Out Prevention Stack, for example.
How do we know what gusher this is?
How do we know what kind of clearance Kindra Arnesen got?
The international corporate crime syndicate behind the false swine flu pandemic, the oil spill and the financial crisis are sure to be changing their propaganda tactics as they recognise the power of the internet. By giving a Venice woman like Kindra Arnesen the task of spreading the message that an evacuation is needed, it sounds more plausible.
She tells us she had to take her kids away also for four days and the respiratory problems cleared up. But who can take a child out of school for four days?
She ends her “passionate” condemnation of the lack of respiratory equipment by calling for her local officials to organise an evacuation.
However, there are grounds for believing that there can be no danger great enough to justify a move to a FEMA camp – and that is the only place where so many people can be brought.
The very same people who caused the oil Gulf spill and the swine flu pandemic and financial crisis will be running that camp. But this time, they will have complete power over the inmates.
The people in the camp will be disarmed and totally powerless and trapped.
So great is the degree of control over the mainstream media, that literally millions of people could be sent there and die there and there be not a word would be written about it.
The internet kill switch will shut down the blogs.
In Relatives and friends can be told that their loved ones cannot be traced because of the confusion of the evacuation/lack of internet at the summer camp down by the beach etc where they are, and they should just be patient till the internet is fixed….
Anyone who thinks the murder of millions of people in camps is not possible should just read the history of Nazi germany.
The Nazis also kept all reports of concentration camps out of the mainstream media. Studies show that most Germans really did not know about what was going on the highly secretive concentration camps in as far as the media was their only source of information they had, and that media was completely in the control of the Nazis.
In addition, we know from history books that the Jews were deceived into going into the concentration camps.
They were told they were work camps, temporary camps etc in order to get them to enter them of own free will.
Other Jews were given the task of assigning people to the transport units.
By the time, the victims recognised that these were death camps, it was too late for them to escape.
Everything is in place for a repeat of the Holocaust in the USA but on a bigger scale: the 800 FEMA camps are in place in secretive locations; the special units to transport Americans to the camps and guard them have been set up (FEMA, Homeland Security and Blackwater); and the transport trains are ready.
Preparations for a media black out are almost ready.
The emergency laws to allow any crime by the government are in place.
It is fair to assume some office has been set up ready to register and obtain all the assets of the people sent to the FEMA camps. There is a lot of money to be made from people dying there, after all.
And didn’t hedge funder George Soros do just this job of registering the assets of Jews who were sent to be murdered in concentration camps in Hungary as a kid?
There is a lot of real estate, assets and businesses to be bought up for a song if the Gulf state residents are evacuated – and never come back.
This is Kindra:
This fisherman's name is also Arnesen - one big happy fishing family, with roots in Scandinavia, from what I can tell.
Seeing what she has seen, I can understand her outrage.
And here she is in a previous video, interviewed by CNN; read her story below, it's interesting.
My feeling is, she is for real, but you never know. Maybe she is being used by the PTB? Or maybe she simply believes what they believe, and so is a very useful tool for them.
Whatever it may be, the same principle always applies : KABDEHU BECHASHDEHU. Take what she says into consideration, but use your own judgment.
What that translates to is: Do your own homework, check your sources, see if your life circumstances warrant staying put, or leaving. But do not succumb to panic. Prepare in advance, have a plan of action in case the balance tilts in favor of leaving. Make arrangements in advance for a place to stay, in case you have to leave on short notice.
Stay in control, that is the main thing. Don't wait until FEMA takes you out. If you see there is danger, ACT BEFORE they do.
See all my previous BP articles, by searching for the label, " BP". They start on June 11 ( page 1 and 2). Try to read them in chronological order, they will make more sense that way. The first one related to the catastrophe is titled :" If even Dr. Len Horowitz...."
Yes, a lot of Israelis have chosen this path, to our greatest sorrow. But what about the president of the U.S. himself? What about his choice for the Supreme Court?
She idolizes Israeli Supreme Court judge Aharon Barak, among other things - but that is not the issue here.
Let's set the record straight: the abomination comes straight from the White House - if the reports below are accurate - and why shouldn't they be, in light of what we know about Obama's choices and preferences?
(To be noted that Wayne Madsen has in the past made outrageous statements that were proven to be pure fantasy. So if it only came from him, I would discount this report. However he is not the only one to claim that, as you will see below.)
It would explain a lot, but I won't elaborate here; let's just say that history is replete with horrors brought about by aggressive gay men and their buddies.
In addition, I had told you last year about my impression that Barack Obama and Benedikt are Gilgulim ( reincarnations) of Balak and Bilaam..so much more to write about this, but later.... it's coming!
About Obama's alleged homosexual preferences: (pre-election video)
The Wayne Madsen Report underscores what Larry Sinclair has been maintaining for years.
Wayne writes that not only is Obama gay but it names favorite clubs and a gay dating service run by Rev. Wright that Obama and another young man in the congregation used. The other young man was later murdered. According to WMR, Rahm (the boy ballet dancer) Emmanuel is also member of the gay club.( Rense)
May 24, 2010 –SPECIAL REPORT from WAYNE MADSEN.
Obama and Emanuel: Members of same gay bath house in Chicago
President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.
The bath house, Man’s Country, caters to older white men and it has been in business for some 30 years and is known as one of uptown Chicago’s “grand old bathhouses.” WMR was told by sources who are familiar with the bath house that it provides one-year “lifetime” memberships to paying customers and that the club’s computerized files and pre-computer paper files, include membership information for both Obama and Emanuel. The data is as anonymized as possible for confidentiality purposes. However, sources close to “Man’s Country” believe the U.S. Secret Service has purged the computer and filing cabinet files of the membership data on Obama and Emanuel.
Members of Man’s Country are also issued club identification cards. WMR learned that Obama and Emanuel possessed the ID cards, which were required for entry.
Obama began frequenting Man’s Country in the mid-1990s, during the time he transitioned from a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to his election as an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Emanuel, reportedly joined Man’s Country after he left the Clinton White Hosue and moved back to Chicago in 1998, joining the investment firm of Wasserstein Perella and maintaining his membership during his 2002 campaign for the U.S. 5th District House seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich, who was elected governor.
Man’s Country appears to be a “one stop shopping” center for gay men. The club’s website advertises steam rooms, “fantasy rooms,” bed rooms, male strippers, adult movies, and lockers.
However, Man’s Country was not the only location for Obama’s predatory gay sex activities. The Chicago gay community is aware that Obama often made contacts with younger men at his famous “pick-up basketball” games. It was at these “pick up” matches where Obama first met Emanuel and a young Democratic campaign worker and senior bank vice president named Alexi Giannoulias. Currently running for Obama’s old U.S. Senate seat now occupied by Roland Burris, Giannoulias successfully ran for Illinois Treasurer in 2006 after being drafted for the run by Chicago’s Democratic machine.
The Blagojevich trial: “Sex, Lies, and Audio tapes” — Fitzgerald’s US Attorney’s Office part of White House cover-up of gay sex in the Second City
Giannoulias was a vice president and senior loan officer for his father’s bank, Broadway Bank, from 2002 to 2006. Broadway Bank made real estate loans to Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the chief of Rezmar Corporation. On May 13, 2008, Rezko was found guilty, after being indicted by a grand jury at the behest of the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick J. Fitzgerald, of six counts of wire fraud, six counts of mail fraud, two counts of corrupt solicitation, and two counts of money laundering. Rezko has been in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center at Van Buren and Clark in Chicago since June 2008. However, Rezko has not yet been officially sentenced to a federal prison. A Syrian-American, Rezko is considered to be a flight risk, even though his one-time fortune of $50 million has been reduced to zero.
One Republican politician in Chicago told WMR that Rezko will be a prime witness for Blagojevich’s defense. “Figure it this way, Rezko’s been in solitary confinement in the city jail since June 0f 2008 . . . if he is released to appear at Blagojevich’s trial as the primary witness, everyone expects him to squeal like a pig,” said the Republican politico.
In 2005, Rezko reportedly engaged in a complicated real estate “flip” through which his wife Rita and Obama agreed to split an empty lot adjoining a home that Obama bought in Chicago’s Kenwood district. The deal saw Obama buy the home for $1.65 million, which was $300,00 below market value. Obama then bought a strip of the adjoining property from Mrs. Rezko, a speculative deal that stood to make Obama a handsome profit. Since Rezko’s conviction, the property has has reportedly gone into bankruptcy. Giannoulias’s Broadway Bank was seized by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation on April 23, 2010, reportedly as Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner was on his way to Chicago to present the bank with a bailout check. Geithner quickly changed his plans.
Giannoulias, Broadway’s then-senior loan officer, has denied being involved in the decision to loan money to Rezko.
Last month, Blagojevich’s trial judge, U.S. District Court judge James Zagel, a crony of former Illinois Republican Governor Jim Thompson, ruled that all 500 hours of phone calls intercepted and taped by Fitzgerald could not be played during Blagojevich’s trial as demanded by Blagojevich and his defense lawyers. Blagojevich demanded that Fitzgerald “show up in court and explain to everybody . . . why you don’t want those tapes that you made played in court.”
WMR has learned that the tapes may contain salty references Obama’s and Emanuel’s private lives.
WMR attempted to interview Blagojevich’s senior defense lawyer Sam Adam to no avail but other informed sources told us that the tapes, if played, would highlight the corruption of not only Obama, Emanuel, and other member of Obama’s Chicago “brain trust” but also Fitzgerald himself. WMR was told that Fitzgerald’s tactics have included providing sex and drugs to imprisoned felons to get them to provide perjured testimony at federal trials.
It is exactly the type of federal prosecutorial misconduct by Fitzgerald that former Republican Governor said was used by state prosecutors when he commuted the death sentences of Illinois’s death row population. Ryan was indicted by Fitzgerald for fraud and he is currently serving out a federal prison sentence.
Blagojevich’s trial is scheduled to begin on June 3 and Fitzgerald’s main interest is to keep the trial focused on Blagojevich, especially after he managed to “flip” Blagojevich’s former chief of staff John Harris to testify against the impeached and ousted governor. WMR learned from informed sources that one lawyer on Harris’s defense team is involved in a gay partner scandal that was discovered by the attorney’s wife.
Some of the wiretaps may reveal that it was not Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s longtime friend and current White House policy adviser who was Obama’s top candidate to fill his U.S. Senate seat, but the young 32-year old “pick up basketball” friend of Obama, Giannoulias, then serving his second year as state Treasurer. However, Obama has avoided campaigning for Giannoulias in Illinois and there are indications that the president has “thrown Giannoulias under the bus,” according to some Democratic political circles in Chicago.
Mutiple Chicago sources report that Republicans who see Giannoulias’s Obama connections as providing an edge in his Senate race this year should not celebrate prematurely. Giannoulias’s GOP opponent, U.S. Representative Mark Kirk, a Naval Reserve intelligence officer, has also been identified as a closeted gay man. Kirk divorced his wife last year after an eight-year marriage. They had no children.
In addition, U.S. Representative Aaron Shock, who took over the House seat vacated by Obama’s Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is, according to Chicago Boy’s Town sources, a habitué of Minibar, a noted gay bar in Chicago’s gay district. For an extremely young first term member of the House, observers were surprised when GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia named Shock as a Deputy Minority Whip.
Man’s Country, one of Chicago’s “grand old bathhouses” and located at 5015 North Clark Street in Chicago’s “Boystown,” was a frequent hangout for State Senator Obama and Rahm Emanuel
Sources in Chicago’s gay community report that Obama was attracted to Man’s Country’s older white clientele because he generally enjoys being fellated by older white men. Obama would regularly be seen at Man’s Country on Wednesdays.
Obama reportedly has never engaged in reciprocal activity. The sources also confirm the allegations made during the 2008 campaign by Larry Sinclair, a Chicago visitor who revealed that in 1999 he engaged in such oral sex activity and crack cocaine use with then-State senator Obama on two occasions, once in the back of a Chicago limousine operated by Five Star Limousine Service, and the other at a Chicago area motel, the Comfort Suites in Gurnee, Illinois.
After revealing details of the encounter at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Sinclair was arrested by Washington Metropolitan Police on a fugitive warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Obama’s vice presidential running mate, Senator Joe Biden. Sinclair was charged with a misdemeanor count of theft of money orders, however, the state of Delaware declined prosecution. Beau Biden later declined to run for his father’s old Senate seat because of his duties to prosecute a major pedophilia case involving Lewes, Delaware pediatrician Dr. Earl Bradley. There are reports that Biden’s office helped to cover up Bradley’s activities, including failing to authorize search warants for Bradley’s office and computer.
Chicago’s “DLC” — not the Democratic Leadership Council but the “Down Low Club” — a gay matchmaking service
WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama’s former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the “Down Low Club” but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase “DLC.” The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC.
The gay DLC’s services were intended to keep ensure TUCC’s gay members avoided posting solicitations on web services like Craig’s List and refrain from cruising gay bars. The strategy was to protect them from getting busted and being “outed.”
Among the members of the gay “DLC” were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: “septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.”
“DLC” members often went on camping trips arranged by TUCC. Wright reportedly was the head of the “DLC” matchmaking services and ensured that its members protected each other.
The “DLC’s” clientele included Obama and other gay members of TUCC, including, reportedly Young, Bland, and Spencer. Fox 32 Chicago reported that Bland’s mother, Josephine Bland, was so upset at her son inviting men into their home as a result of contacting them through gay web sites like “Adam4Adam,” she moved out.
The gay community in Chicago knows to keep away from the TUCC and “DLC” stories because of the “creepiness” of the operation and the suspicious deaths of the three TUCC gay black men.
Although Obama protected his alternate life style through the secretiveness of the “DLC,” he was not so careful when he proclaimed he was a state senator while frolicking at Man’s Country in uptown Chicago.
Love: Obama’s personal trainer
Reggie Love, a former Duke basketball and football player and unsuccessful National Basketball hopeful, currently serves as Obama’s personal trainer and White House “special assistant” — he has been called Obama’s “body man” — who receives a salary of $104,000 a year. Love is also reportedly one of Obama’s regular gay sex partners. Love joined Obama’s Senate staff in a senior staff position in 2006.
Media General’s tabloid, the National Enquirer, proffered a story last year about Michelle Obama being furious about the relationship between her husband and his “body man.” TheEnquirer’s sister tabloid, The Globe, later floated a story about Obama having a relationship with a Democratic campaign official named Vera Baker. WMR has been told that this relationship was a clever ruse to throw off speculation about Obama’s actual past sex partners. Baker has apparently left the United States for relatively more obscurity in Martinique. Media General’s tabloids have scooped the mainstream media on sex scandals involving Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky, Tiger Woods, and John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.
WMR’s Chicago sources believe the Secret Service records of presidential candidate Obama’s activities in Chicago would show that Obama regularly arrived at Love’s Chicago residence at 9:00 am and departed at 9:15 am. Sources told WMR that while 15 minutes is much too short for a personal training exercise, it is ample time for fellatio.
Bill Frist, “Brokeback Mountain,” and Obama
In 2006, after Obama became the junior senator from Illinois, WMR’s sources in the Congressional Black Caucus reported that there were persistent rumors of gay trysts between Obama and then-GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. The allegations at the time seemed unbelievable.
However, based on Obama’s penchant for receiving fellatio from older white men, a column written by The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” columnist Al Kamen on April 7, 2006, some four months into Obama’s Senate term, may have expanded relevance. Kamen reported he received an invitation to attend Frist’s “5th Annual VOLPAC ’06 Weekend” in Nashville from April 21st to 23rd and that the invitation card required one to “unbuckle the cowboy’s pants and look inside to see what this was all about.” Kamen opined that the invitation seemed “a bit too ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”
The invitation advertised that the shindig would feature “one-of-a-kind music and special friends,” although Kamen said there was no indication what made the “friends” so “special.” Kamen then wrote, “The back of the card shows the cowboy from behind with a red flowered handkerchief sticking out of his right pocket. Wait a minute — wasn’t there something about how this used to be some kind of code in the gay community years ago? A way to signal each other in crowded, noisy bars? So we checked the GayCityUSA.com’s Hanky Codes. Sure enough, there it was in the chart explaining what they mean: red hanky in right pocket. Oh, dear.”
850 Orthodox Rabbis vs. Obama's Supreme Court Choice
by Eli Stutz Tammuz 16, 5770, 28 June 10 11:00
(Israelnationalnews.com) The Rabbical Alliance of America, representing 850 orthodox Rabbis, harshly criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan. Kagan, 50, is set to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, 90, the court's foremost liberal.Rabbi Yehuda Levin, speaking on behalf of the body of rabbis, issued a statement explaining the Rabbis position, in which he said: "Ms. Kagan is Non-Kosher - not fit to serve on the supreme court or any other court. It is clear from Ms. Kagan's record on issues such as abortion-on-demand, Partial-Birth-Abortion, the radical homosexual and lesbian agenda, the "supremacy" of the anti-family panoply over religious liberties of Biblical adherents, et. al., that she will function as a flame-throwing radical, hastening society's already steep decline into Sodom and Gommorah." Levin told CNSNews.com that his fellow rabbis and hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Jews--are confused at the Obama's choice of Kagan. “What exactly was Obama thinking, President Obama thinking, when he nominated Kagan? Because eventually, down the road, someone--or some group--is going to ‘take the hit’ for the crazy decisions that Kagan is bound to make. So we would have much preferred if President Obama had given this ‘distinction’ to another minority group, instead of singling out the Jews.”"We feel that Elena Kagan turns traditional Judaism on its head--from a concept of a nation of priests and holy people, she is turning it into, ‘Let’s homosexualize every segment of society. And by the way, partial-birth babies have no right to be delivered.’" Senator Jeff Sessions, the leading Republican on the Judiciary Committee said that Kagan can expect hard questions regarding her ability to be a Supreme Court justice. Sessions, who appeared on Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" said, "She has the least experience of any nominee at least in the last 50 years." Kagan served in the past year as Obama's U.S. solicitor general. There, she advocated for the U.S. government in cases before the court she now wants to join. Kagan would be the first new member of the Supreme Court in almost 40 years who has never been a judge.
Israeli Pride
Israeli flag at NY parade Photo: Liran Gilboa
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NY Gay Pride March: I'm a proud Israeli
Some 200 Israelis take part in Manhattan's gay pride parade as millions watch them wave Israeli flag Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON - Israeli pride in New York. Some one million people attended Manhattan's 41st annual Gay Pride March on Sunday. A delegation of some 200 Israelis could be found among the crowd, as streets and balconies were adorned with rainbow flags. Israel is the only country to participate, for the third year in a row, in an organized manner in the world's oldest gay pride parade.
A group of Israelis traveled to New York City just to take part in the march and waved flags saying, "I am a proud Israeli."
Israeli delegation marching in Manhattan (Photo: Liran Gilboa)
Among the parade participants were also employees of the Israeli Consulate in New York, as well as representatives from Israel Gay Youth and the Tel Aviv Municipality. Many passersby tossed curious looks at the Israelis, who appeared together and carried state flags.
The parade began in the afternoon at the corner of 5th Avenue and 36th Street, and ended two hours later at Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. Many then continued on to Pier 54 for a party.
The parade is a tribute to a police raid on the gay bar Stonewall, which took place on June 28, 1969. The violent clashes urged the community to begin the tradition of the pride parade.
Rubashkin, murdered Jews in Israel, etc; the list of the church's victims is very, very long.
June 27, 2010
Pope Lashes Out at Belgium After Raid on Church
By RACHEL DONADIO
ROME — In a sign of sharply rising tensions between the Vatican and Belgium, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday criticized as “surprising and deplorable” a raid on church property last week by Belgian police officers investigating sexual abuse by clerics.
In an exceedingly rare personal message and rebuke of a sovereign country, the pontiff also stressed the church’s “autonomy” to conduct its own investigations and criticized the “deplorable methods” of the Belgian police, who detained bishops, confiscated files and even drilled into the tombs of at least one cardinal in the Brussels Cathedral in a search for documents.
“On several occasions I have personally reiterated that such serious issues should be attended to by both civil and canon law, with respect for their reciprocal specificity and autonomy,” Benedict said in a statement circulated by the Vatican on Sunday.
He also expressed his “closeness and solidarity” with the Belgian clergy and André-Joseph Léonard, the archbishop of Belgium and the president of the Belgian Bishops’ Conference.
The unprecedented raid on Thursday came months after the Belgian church, stung, like those in many European countries, by allegations of sexual abuse by clerics, created a committee to investigate claims.
On Thursday, the police in Leuven, Belgium, also confiscated the case files of that committee and the computer of its director, a well-respected child psychiatrist. The committee director, church authorities and the Vatican have criticized the police, saying they had violated the privacy of the victims who had come forward.
In Brussels that day, the police also searched the home and former office of Cardinal Godfried Danneels and took documents and his personal computer. They have not said whether the cardinal himself is under investigation.
Police officers raided the church headquarters in Brussels on Thursday as the bishops were starting their monthly meeting and detained them and their staff for nine hours.
On Saturday, the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, called the detention of bishops “serious andunbelievable” and compared the police tactics to those of Communist regimes. He also said that the bishops had been deprived of food and water while they were detained.
On Sunday, the Belgian justice minister denied that assertion, as did the spokesman for the Belgian Bishops’ Conference, who in a statement circulated by the Vatican on Friday said that the raid ” had been conducted “correctly.” In his message on Sunday, Benedict said he hoped that “justice will run its course,” guaranteeing “the fundamental rights of people and institutions” and “the respect for victims.
Gaza Terrorists Burn Down Second UN Camp, Handcuff Guards
Tammuz 16, 5770, 28 June 10 03:38
by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) Masked terrorists stormed into a United Nations children's camp in Gaza early on Monday morning, attacked and handcuffed the camp guards, and set the place on fire. UN workers said the facility sustained heavy damage.
The attack was the second of its kind this summer. In late May terrorists set fire to the United Nation's' largest Gaza summer camp and left behind bullets and a note threatening to kill John Ging, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) head in Gaza.
Ging responded to Monday's attack by calling to “change the circumstances on the ground that are generating such extremism.” He complimented Hamas' emergency responders for responding quickly to the incident.
Ging made similar remarks following the May attack. At that time, Fatah blamed Hamas for the incident, accusing the Islamic terrorist group of “targeting the education process and the UNRWA curriculum.”
Hamas has opened its own summer camps as an alternative to UNRWA. The Hamas camps focus on teaching the Koran and terrorist philosophy, including hatred of Israel. Many include paramilitary training. Approximately 100,000 Gaza children attend Hamas camps, while 250,000 attend the UN camps.
The UN camps have faced criticism from Islamist organizations other than Hamas, including Salafi groups that consider Hamas too moderate. Salafi terrorists have been behind previous attacks in Gaza, including dozens of bombings targeting music stores, restaurants, Internet cafes and pharmacies.
Supreme Court to allow sex-abuse suit against Vatican to proceed
By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 29, 2010; A07
In announcing which cases it would take during its next term, the Supreme Court said Monday that it would let stand a lower-court ruling allowing the Vatican to be sued over the church sex-abuse scandal [...]
Church sex-abuse lawsuit can continue
In declining to stop a lawsuit that accuses the Vatican of conspiring with U.S. church officials to cover up sex abuse, the court took a rare step toward bringing the Holy See into a U.S. courtroom.
The justices, without comment, declined the Vatican's appeal of a lower-court ruling that said it could be sued in a U.S. court on certain grounds. The decision came in a lawsuit filed by a man who said he was sexually abused as a teenager in 1965 by a priest in Portland, Ore. His attorneys said the church moved the priest among different assignments to cover up the abuse.
The Vatican argued that its status as a foreign country exempts it from being sued in a U.S. court, a longtime position that has helped shield it from such lawsuits.
In partially rejecting that argument, the Supreme Court allowed pretrial discovery in the case to go forward, and attorneys for the plaintiff said they would seek to subpoena church documents and call Vatican officials under oath. But attorneys for both sides said they doubted that the decision would trigger a flood of additional lawsuits from victims.
"We are not foreseeing that. You really have to have specific facts and a pattern that implicates direct Vatican involvement to bring these cases," said Jeff Anderson, an attorney for the plaintiff and for hundreds of other people who say they were sexually abused by priests[....]
Comment:
"Guaranteeing the fundamental rights of people, and respect for victims." That is so sweet, Benedikt; but what about YOUR victims' rights?? Why would the detention of bishops be "serious and unbelievable"? Is their blood of a different color than the blood of arrested and murdered rabbis, nowadays and for centuries past, thanks to your shenanigans all over the planet?
Change is definitely in the air. For centuries the Church thought of itself as immune to criticism, lawsuits, retaliation, or responsibility. Now it is feeling vulnerable, for once; what a wonderful development!
Time for payback, I'm afraid, cardinals, popes, Jesuits, and all your cabal. 2000 years of oppression of the Jewish people ( and others) might just come back to haunt you, finally: the chickens are coming home to roost!
I would be very honored to know that maybe, just maybe, this blog was influential in empowering a few people in the battle against Rome.
In a similar vein, the United Nations, with the backing of Western powers, encouraged, fed, clothed, financed, protected, defended, and egged-on the terror monster Hamas in Gaza. Now that giant Frankenstein is turning against its benefactors and taking its rage out on the hand that fed him.
Chicken are coming home to roost her too. You created so much evil, trying to hurt Israel: instead, YOU are getting hurt, Unwanted Nobodies.
