"WATCH THE DERIVATIVES" - Good advice! So here are some derivative figures for you.

 

 Video thanks to Carl.

 PS: You don't have to agree with everything this pastor says; still, his financial advice is worth taking.

And speaking of the devil....

It seems to me the following article is a polite way of saying that the banks are going broke ( because of derivatives?), while the next article spells it all out.

 

Banks Set to Cut $1 Trillion From Balance Sheets

BANKING, FINANCIAL SYSTEM, BALANCE SHEETS, BANKS, MARKET, FUNDING, COSTS, REVENUE, EARNINGS

Financial Times

| 25 Mar 2012 | 08:50 PM ET

Investment banks are to shrink their balance sheets by another $1 trillion or up to 7 percent globally within the next two years, says a report that foresees a shake-up of market share in the industry.

Higher funding costs and increased regulatory pressure to bolster capital will force wholesale banks also to cut 15 percent, or up to $0.9 trillion, of assets that are weighted by risk, a joint report by Morgan Stanley and consultants Oliver Wyman predicts.

In addition, banks are expected take out $10 billion to $12 billion in costs by reducing pay, firing employees and paring back investments in areas that are no longer considered core.

“It is really decision time for investment banks,” said Huw van Steenis, analyst at Morgan Stanley. “The market underestimates the degree to which banks will rationalize their portfolios of activities.”

The report says investment banks have taken out about 7 percent of capacity last year and will cut up to another 10th in the next two years.

Reacting to regulatory pressure and the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, a number of banks have embarked on heavy cost-cutting in the past six months, shedding staff and assets and closing down or selling whole units.

Examples include Royal Bank of Scotland, which is removing £70 billion of risk-weighted assets in its investment bank by pulling out of or downsizing cash equities, corporate broking and equity capital markets operations.

Swiss bank UBS is paring back its investment bank by getting out of some fixed income areas and proprietary trading.

Ted Moynihan, partner at Oliver Wyman, said the shake-up would cause 15 per cent of global market share to change hands in the near future.

“It is like a game of musical chairs. Firms will have to choose which operations they prune drastically and in which they have a comparative advantage and are able to invest in scale to win market share,” he said.

The scale of the cuts would help banks to come back to return on equity levels of 12 to 14 percent in the next two years, up from an average of 8 per cent in the past year, Mr van Steenis predicted.

That is based on the assumption that crisis-depressed revenues have reached their lowest level and could rise 5 to 10 percent annually.

But this forecast contrasts with predictions by other analysts and bank executives. “The banking sector will not be able to reach a return on equity beyond 11 to 12 percent this year and next,” the chief executive of one large continental European bank said.

JP Morgan Cazenove predicted in a recent report that a lower revenue base, tighter regulation and stubbornly high staff costs would push down average return on equity to 6.8 percent by 2013.

Copyright 2011 The Financial Times Limited

URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46851445/

 

TBTF Get TBTFer: Top 5 Banks Hold 95.7%, Or $221 Trillion, Of Outstanding Derivatives

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/tbtf-get-tbtfer-top-5-banks-hold-957-or-221-trillion-outstanding-derivatives

Every quarter the Office of the Currency Comptroller releases its report on Bank Derivative Activities, and every quarter we find that the Too Big To Fail get Too Bigger To Fail. To wit: in Q4 2011, of the total $230.8 trillion in US outstanding derivatives, the Top 5 banks (JPM, BofA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman and HSBC) accounted for 95.7% of all Derivatives. In some respects this is good news: in Q2, the Top 5 banks held 95.9% of the $250 trillion in derivatives. Unfortunately it is also bad news, because $220 trillion is more than enough for the world to collapse in a daisy chained failure of bilateral netting (which not even all the central banks in the world can offset). What is the worst news, is that the just released report indicates that in addition to everything else, we have now hit peak delusion, as banks now report to the OCC that a record high 92.2% of gross credit exposure is "bilaterally netted." While we won't spend much time on this issue now, it is safe to say that bilateral netting is the biggest lie in modern finance (read How US Banks Are Lying About Their European Exposure; Or How Bilateral Netting Ends With A Bang, Not A Whimper for an explanation of this fraud which was exposed completely in the AIG collapse). And just to put this in global perspective, according to the BIS in the first half of 2011, global derivative gross exposure increased by $107 trillion to a record $707 trillion. It will be quite interesting to get the full year report to see if this acceleration in gross exposure has increased. Because if it has, we will now know that in 2011 European banks were forced up to load up on several hundred trillion in mostly interest rate swap exposure. Which can only mean one thing: when and if central banks lose control of government bond curves, an rates start moving wider again, the global margin call will be unprecedented. Until then we can just delude ourselves that central planners have everything under control, have everything under control, have everything under control.
Top 5 bank derivative exposure:


Exposure by bank:



And the delusion that everyone is somehow hedged. To the tune of $230 trillion!

So, are we just going to take it, or are we going to fight this? Yes indeed, this is U.S. policy. Could it also be Israeli policy??? Reference: Migron, Gush Katif, etc. Muslim take-over of Jewish Lands, compliments of the Israeli government and the Supreme Court of Israel.

 Thanks to Carl.

 

• Police, IDF Preparing for Migron Expulsion

Police and IDF troops are preparing for the largest expulsion of Jews since Gush Katif, destroyed almost exactly seven years earlier.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

First Publish: 3/26/2012, 8:32 AM

Expulsion of Gush Katif

Police and back-up IDF troops are preparing for the largest expulsion of Jews since Gush Katif, destroyed almost exactly seven years ago, immediately after the Ninth of Av, the day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples.
The training will be totally superfluous if the government reaches a new agreement with residents of Migron, in Samaria, following the High Court decision Sunday that rejected a compromise to expel dozens of families from the community in three years, that is, after new homes can be built on nearby state land.
A senior officer in the Central Command warned two months ago that planning for the expulsion will cause a deterioration of security on several fronts, although the soldiers would serve as back-up reserves in an expulsion while the police take the front lines.
First of all, the training will take soldiers away from combat operations, particularly near Gaza and on the Egyptian and Lebanese borders. The emphasis on Gush Katif expulsion training was widely blamed for the IDF's lack of preparedness in the Second Lebanon War.
Secondly, the destruction of another Jewish community will diminish the strength of  Jewish presence in Samaria in Area C, the area that is controlled by Israel and contains all the Jewish communities in the region. This may encourage the Palestinian Authority, backed by Peace Now, to become the de facto authority in areas where Jews live, although only 4% of Palestinian Arabs live in Area C.
The IDF officer also warned that another expulsion could find the IDF having to deal with severe “price tag” operations against Arabs in protest of the court orders and government policy, unless the Netanyahu administration decides to back a new bill that would pave the way for Migron to remain in its present location.
Synopsis of Migron story:
Migron was built with government help on land whose ownership is unclear, except for the fact that it is not state land. Peace Now launched a lawsuit before the Supreme Court aimed at destroying the community. Since only Magistrate's Courts adjudicate land ownership in Israel, the question of who owned the land was not decided in the Supreme Court, although it seems that some of it was given by King Hussein to Jordanians who never laid claim to it. Jordan was an occupying power in Judea and Samaria from 1949-1967.
The compromise, worked out by MK Benny Begin (Likud) with much difficulty, would have had the residents move to a small, nearby area that is uncontested state land, and have the present Migron houses used by the government for other purposes.
A compromise moving them to a large, new suburb to be built near the existing community of Adam on state land was worked out by the Judea and Samaria Council two years ago, but the residents rejected it, still hoping to save the existing community.
In both compromises, the residents were to remain in Migron until the alternate houses were built. The compromise was agreed to by both government and residents in order to avoid both the violence that accompanied the destruction of the houses at Amona in 2006 and the bitter split in the nation that occurred due to the expulsion from the Katif Bloc in 2005.
The courts, however, made saving Migron in its present location an impossibility and may now have made the new compromise unachievable.

•  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/154129#.T3A5gNn_k14

Dramatic gesture - I Iove it! Definitely a step in the right direction: get rid of stupid brainwashing, lies,and demagoguery. Why don't you do the same in America? Your society will be all the better for it.

I feel bad for the beautiful country of Greece, raped by Rome. Yes, Rome: Rome, Germany, the NWO, are all one and the same. Who is next?

by zuuuueri
on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 18:06
#1300586

well, to make a long story short, the reality of the common man in greece is
that he is being bled dry.
Aside from the politically connected few, people tend to work hard and get very little money for it. A few exceptions exist, which of course get tons of attention- the public sector , for the most part, doesn't do jack shit, but the salaries there are pathetically small as well.
There are a few strong unions in the private sector which also pull several times the
average income of the typical working man, and they get a lot of attention too.
You'd think that everyone in greece was working one of those cushy jobs, but
of course, the truth is that very few do.

In the urban scene, most people under the age of 35 are lucky if they get some
job that's technically part time, but sometimes might offer the chance to work 50-60 hour
weeks just so that the boss renews thier contract. These people might make 800 euros a month, and if theyre lucky maybe get up to about 900. breaking a thousand a month is
out of reach for most.

For the majority of the public sector flunkies, similar salaries prevail-
most of them are in the 1000 a month range.

there is a small slice of people, private and public sector, who have
worked their way through this 800-1000 euros barrier and either by
playing office politics (public sector) or busting their asses (private sector)
manage to pull in between 2 and 3k a month. They are usually aware that
they got where they are by their own ability and they are often very
aware that while they are comfortable, they are not in the actually
wealthy class. There are a lot of yuppy types in this segment, sadly,
being told by foriegn television what they should want.

Like the americans who make six digits but have negative net worth,
about half of the people in this middle class in greece fell for the
consumer fantasy, so they are in debt and basically fucked. The
other half are a bit more responsible and often had a lot of savings,
maybe in some rental property, maybe more recently in the banking
system. Those people, represent wealth yet to be robbed, so
they _will_ be fucked, just as soon as someone get around to ripping
them off one way or another.

In the cities, supermarkets and all sorts of things are controlled by
cartels, mostly foriegn owned now. It's cheaper to buy greek products in a
supermarket in germany where there is competition, than the same products in a
supermarket in greece, owned by the same parent company as the german one.. why?
partly because they can.

The self-employed are doubly screwed. Most business in greece is still under the shadow of
this medieval system of concessions and monopolies farmed out by politicians to their cronies or friends or maybe if they owe someone a favor. As a small
independent (almost always just a family business, because to hire
someone outside of the family is a sure way to bankrupt such
a fragile venture), not only are there heavy taxes to deal with (comparable
to western europe), but there is an immense bureacracy set up
partly to obstruct anyone from competing with these politically connected
shitheads. Lets not forget how corrupt folks like tax inspectors are.
They will size you up to get a feel for just how much they can squeeze
out of you, then make up some kind of numbers from pure fantasy,
just to force you to cut a deal with them.

so, you have to deal with that shit, then you have to deal with the mountain of
permits, paperwork, etc, all opportunities not so much even for
bribes to be collected by the people in the machinery, but to force you
to, in a sense, pay into the franchise of the bigshot who owns the
monopoly on whatever the hell is is youre trying to do. you can even
bribe officials , etc, but if you fail to pay into the bigshot's syndicate,
then you'll be busted for bribing an official, or something.

At least this shitty system is so far not enforced so much by thugs as it is by
courts and sheer paperwork.

If you have any money left over to support your family, well, you are lucky.

There are 'closed professions' like civil engineers, lawyers, etc, where
you have to somehow get a license from someone who already has one - inherit one or buy it - and those guys, along with the services they sell, often name their price.

curiously doctors are not a closed profession- full on competition, and
private sector cash-customer healthcare costs are actually affordable,
though maybe not if you're one of the poor SOBs making 800 euros a month.

smart, capable, ambitious people, if they dont have any real ties , family
reasons, etc, to stay in greece, usually leave to find work abroad, paying 5x what
they could get in greece. almost all of them would wish they could stay in greece,
but they are so fed up with this shitty system, and the lack of oppurtunities,
that they give up and move away.

the actually rich people? the politically connected, or folks who were positioned well
and making money from back in the days when there was a healthier economy (like, in the 70s), those guys are living in another world entirely. Some of them are well off because of
actual genuine hard work, but the majority of them got their money from
the corrupt machinery of power. They're obviously not going to give
it back, and theyre obviously not going to squeeze themselves to
pay off a government bond, either.

There is a humongous gap between 30 years odl and 40 years old
in greece. people younger than early 30s know the system is full of
shit, they have no confidence at all that it works or will keep any
promises, they see all politicians as lying scumbags, and for the most
part they know the thing is falling apart around them. They are
largely not inclined to violence, either.  The demonstrations, etc,
you see, are _so far_ organized. There was always a small hooligan
element in , big surprise, spoiled middle class kids, who would go
make some trouble to stick it to 'the man' (their parents, usually
in the middle class i mentioned), break some shit, spray some graffiti,
and then hang out in a cafe and brag to each other and on facebook
how they were resisting being oppressed.
That was a common formula for a friday night around the university.
Someone would then call the cops, the cops would show up, they'd
all go through the drill, chase the kids for a few blocks , and then go home.
the kids would then, go hang out and brag about how they were
resisting being oppressed by cops.

and every so often this might culminate in the recreational torching of
a macdo or maybe a foriegn bank.

The demonstrations are not usually those kids, because demonstrations
aren't just a thing on the whim of the moment some friday night...
most of the demonstrations are organized by unions and political parties,
mostly, so far, on the left, and mostly they are about people bitching
and moaning to protect some bit of their share of the gravy train.
yes, sometimes it does get out of hand.

when the actual hard working sucker making 800 a month gets
pissed enough to start smashing things, look out, because the whole
country would go up in flames. As these people are increasingly
unemployed, some of the tension in the streets is beginning to be
genuine and not just organized. This is not organized by any parties,
though there is a growing awareness that the huge about of illegals
in the country working the bottom-rung below minimum wage jobs
are there to drive down the price of labor at the low end, and i would
expect to see more tension between them (also now out of work in
large numbers, but not yet leaving the country in large numbers) and
unemployed greeks.


The attitude in the country has changed immensely in the past year
or two. everyone, whether he's a 'worker' making 800 a month
or whether he's a small time self-employed businessman or a farmer
or whatever, knows that the system is hopelessly corrupt, cannot be fixed,
and is bleeding them dry to pay for it all, while behind them the banks
loaned fantasy printing press money to them with the premeditated goal of foreclosing on them anyway.. and they almost all agree that the main goal of the euro is
to allow Germany to dominate the rest of Europe, and that it's a bad deal for Greece. almost everyone who doesnt directly depend on the
status quo knows and says this, and they are all just waiting for
the moment when it breaks. Announcing default is what that means for
a lot of them.

Greek police will go on strike if they are ordered to really use force
to control the population- the violence you see so far is mild compared to other
countries and , really, genuinely, the police in Greece are up and down
the ranks , not trained, indoctrinated, or expected to employ force against
the population. When two years ago a cop shot a kid in a demonstration,
even though the court found that he fired in self defence, the cop
went to jail for murder. You don't find cops brought to account like
this in other countries either. This does not put a smile on the faces of the
empire-builders, but they can't change it overnight either.

the army? if the army was ordered to use force against the population...
the army would probably gently assist the government in abdicating, like what
happened in egypt recently.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-what-happens-after-greece-defaults

That is exactly my thinking: Libya is a test case for Israel! Make sure to read "Brilliant comment by Anonymous", below.

As a matter of fact - I wrote about my concerns earlier - I think the MAIN reason for NATO to be in the Mediterranean is just that; THE WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG IS ON ITS WAY! Under some U.N. resolution pretense, the U.N. will give the order to attack Israel. 

But remember what the prophets said about this coming war: IT IS THE ATTACKERS WHO WILL BE BURIED HERE, IN MASSIVE AMOUNTS!

Attack Yaakov at your own risk, Esav and Amalek.

UN Intervention Into Libya An Ominous Precedent For Israel

Center for Security Policy | Mar 21, 2011
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama Administration has just undertaken in its war with Muammar Gaddafi.   How it will all end is just one of them.
Particularly concerning is the prospect that what we might call the Gaddafi Precedent will be used in the not-to-distant future to justify and threaten the use of U.S. military forces against an American ally: Israel.
Here's how such a seemingly impossible scenario might eventuate:
It begins with the Palestinian Authority seeking a UN Security Council resolution that would recognize its unilateral declaration of statehood.  Three top female officials in the Obama administration reprise roles they played in the Council's recent action on Libya: U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, a vehement critic of Israel, urges that the United States support (or at least not veto) the Palestinians' gambit.  She is supported by the senior director for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council, Samantha Power, who in the past argued for landing a "mammoth force" of American troops to protect the Palestinians from Israel.  Ditto Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose unalloyed sympathy for the Palestinian cause dates back at least to her days as First Lady.
This resolution enjoys the support of the other four veto-wielding Security Council members - Russia, China, Britain and France - as well as the all of the other non-permanent members except India, which joins the United States in abstaining.  As a result, it is adopted with overwhelming support from what is known as the "international community."
With a stroke of the UN's collective pen, substantial numbers of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli citizens find themselves on the wrong side of internationally recognized borders.  The Palestinian Authority (PA) insists on its longstanding position:  The sovereign territory of Palestine must be rid of all Jews. 
The Israeli government refuses to evacuate the oft-condemned "settlements" now on Palestinian land, or to remove the IDF personnel, checkpoints and facilities rightly seen as vital to protecting their inhabitants and, for that matter, the Jewish State itself.
Hamas and Fatah bury the hatchet (temporarily), forging a united front and promising democratic elections in the new Palestine.  There, as in Gaza (and probably elsewhere in the wake of the so-called "Arab awakening"), the winner will likely be the Muslim Brotherhood, whose Palestinian franchise is Hamas).

The unified Palestinian proto-government then seeks international help to "liberate" their land.  As with the Gaddafi Precedent, the first to act is the Arab League.  Its members unanimously endorse the use of force to protect the "Palestinian people" and end the occupation of the West Bank by the Israelis.

Turkey (which is still a NATO ally, despite its ever-more-aggressive embrace of Islamism) is joined by Britain and France - two European nations increasingly hostile to Israel - in applauding this initiative in the interest of promoting "peace."  They call on the UN Security Council to authorize such steps as might be necessary to enforce the Arab League's bidding.

Once again, Team Obama's leading ladies - Mesdames Clinton, Power and Rice - align to support the "will of the international community."  They exemplify, and are prepared to enforce, the President's willingness to subordinate U.S. sovereignty to the dictates of transnationalism and his personal hostility towards Israel.  The concerns of Mr. Obama's political advisors about alienating Jewish voters on the eve of the 2012 election are trumped by presidential sympathy for the Palestinian right to a homeland. 

Accordingly, hard as it may be to believe given the United States' longstanding role as Israel's principal ally and protector, Mr. Obama acts, in accordance with the Gaddafi Precedent.  He warns Israel that it must immediately take steps to dismantle its unwanted presence inside the internationally recognized State of Palestine, lest it face the sort of U.S.-enabled "coalition" military measures now underway in Libya.  In this case, they would be aimed at neutralizing IDF forces on the West Bank - and beyond, if necessary - in order to fulfill the "will of the international community."

Of course, such steps would not result in the ostensibly desired end-game, namely "two states living side by side in peace and security."  If the current attack on Libya entails the distinct possibility of unintended (or at least unforeseen) consequences, application of the Gaddafi Precedent to Israel seems certain to produce a very different outcome than the two-state "solution":  Under present and foreseeable circumstances, it will unleash a new regional war, with possible worldwide repercussions.  
At the moment, it seems unlikely that the first application in Libya of the Gaddafi Precedent will have results consistent with U.S. interests.  Even if a positive outcome is somehow forthcoming there, should Barack Obama and his anti-Israel troika of female advisors be allowed, based on that precedent, to realize the foregoing hypothetical scenario, they would surely precipitate a new international conflagration, one fraught with truly horrific repercussions - for Israel, for the United States and for freedom-loving people elsewhere. 
A Congress that was effectively sidelined by Team Obama in the current crisis had better engage fully, decisively and quickly if it is to head off such a disastrous reprise.

---

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is President of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for the Washington Times and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9:00 p.m. on WRC 1260 AM.

Article contributed by A.M. Thank you.  






...But meanwhile...

The Second Time as Farce by Daniel Greenfield

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Posted: 23 Mar 2011 07:34 PM PDT  It was Hegel who said that history repeats itself because nations and governments fail to learn from it, but it was Karl Marx who added that history repeats itself a second time as farce. Which makes it all too appropriate that Obama is repeating the Bush era as farce. For years American liberals accused George W. Bush of being dumb and unserious-- only to elect a man who actually is dumb and unserious. Who announces a war in between his NCAA picks and a trip to Rio. Who has spent more time playing golf, than directing the war effort. Who spends more time in front of the mirror and the camera, than on policy. They accused Bush of running an imperial presidency-- and that is exactly what they got the second time around. A war without even the thinnest facade of congressional involvement. Without Dick Cheney being anywhere in sight. They accused Bush of having a Nazi collaborating grandfather, and their own grass roots efforts to elect an Un-Bush were funded by a philanthropic Nazi collaborating billionaire. They falsely insisted that Bush went to war for oil. And now their Great Hope has actually gone to war for oil. For BP's 900 million dollar Libyan oil deal, which Prime Minister Cameron endangered when he precipitously rushed to back the Libyan rebels who seemed on their way to victory, only to crumble at Gaddafi's pushback. After all those years of calling Blair, Bush's poodle-- Obama turned out to be Cameron's poodle. They're no doubt laughing about it in London. Back when Gaddafi was securely in power, BP lobbied to free the Lockerbie bomber to avoid Gaddafi's threat to cut all commercial ties with the UK. What a difference a year makes. Now the only thing that will save BP is a good old fashioned war. Gaddafi had already called on Russian and Chinese oil companies to replace Western oil companies. Not to be left out, the Libya rebels quickly created their own oil company reminding everyone of what this is really about. History repeats itself as farce. But who's laughing now? There is a reason why Europe yawns at Turkey's use of chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels, while sending in the jets when Gaddafi bombs rebel positions. Why the genocide in Sudan was not interrupted by a No Fly Zone, and top European firms still do business with Iran through proxies in Dubai. It's not about human rights. It's not even about the threat potential. If it were, North Korea or Iran would be in our bomb sights. Right now Syria is massacring protesters, but don't look for military intervention there either. That's not what it's about. It's about the bright boys deciding that Gaddafi stands in the way of the future, just like Slobodan Milosevic once did. Genocide, ethnic cleansing and terrorism are minor crimes, compared to obstructing the emergency of a stable order and the fat profits it will bring. Obama's justification for the bombing to congress, citing, "Qadhafi's defiance of the Arab League", and the "international community", as well as "the authority of the Security Council" should send chills up anyone's spine. The idea that the US has become the 'Enforcer' for the Arab League is an ugly enough idea, though it is a remarkable moment of honesty about just who's calling the shots in US foreign policy. But more meaningful still is the end of that sentence which hinges that trail of justifications on, "efforts to preserve stability in the region". Which is another unexpected moment of honesty, as long as you understand that stability has nothing to do with democracy, human rights or preventing bombs from falling on orphans. It's about keeping the trade going and the oil flowing. Keeping the violence down to a dull roar and maintaining predictable economic conditions. No oil price fluctuations, no crazy demands from a lunatic and an advancement of the new order of the January Revolutions. This wasn't an intervention in response to genocide or WMD's. Gaddafi is fighting a civil war with few blatant atrocities. Two weeks ago the UN death toll was at a mere 1,000. That would have been a slow month in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But NATO set similarly low standards for declaring genocide in Kosovo. And all the weepy reports and heartstrings tugging was meant to disguise those simple facts. Just as news reports on Libya describe massacres in vague terms and cheer on the bravery of the rebels without telling us who they are. We're told what we need to know, that Gaddafi is bad and the rebels are good. And while it's hard to argue that a world without him might be a better place, it's unclear what Libya will be like without him. The US and Europe have been encouraged to believe that they will be dealing with former members of the US governments and the Libyan human rights people they have been funding. That may or may not be the case. In Egypt, the Jan 25 twitter activists just got stomped into the ground. With enough members of the old regime around, Libya may experience a more stable transition. Most likely it will trade in one civil war for another. And the African mercenaries will be back hunting down Islamist rebels. If the Libyan air force bombs them, we won't say a thing. So long as the oil keeps flowing on schedule. When a panicked Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program to avoid going the way of Saddam, European oil companies fared poorly at the bidding, while US companies got the inside track. But last year many of those companies, including the influential ChevronTexaco, pulled out, tired of the corruption and the bribery. BP however remained, holding on to its 900 million dollar deal, even lobbying for the release of one of Gaddafi's mass murderers. The Iraq War had intimidated Gaddafi, but its collapse had him feeling his oats again. Irrational demands followed. And the toadying of the American and British governments to his family only fed the beast. France's Sarkozy now sees a chance to push his Mediterranean Union, by doing what France routinely does, and yet what President Chirac (now facing trial for embezzlement) lambasted the US for in Iraq-- unilateral intervention. Libya was formerly under French rule, and France is fairly casual about invading its former colonies to restore order. That the new coalition to bomb Gaddafi met in Paris is an ironic concession to its Francocentric nature. This war is a French project, in partnership with the UK, with the US along to provide the brute muscle. Sarkozy needs to catch fire with French voters, almost as badly as Obama does with US voters. He is polling behind Marie LePen and his UMP party barely outdrew the National Front in local elections. He has failed to rein in domestic Islamism, but bombing Libya is easy by comparison. And gives him the illusion of placing his fingerprint on history's page. Then there's France's Total S.A. oil company which has its own presence in Libya. Between its dirty deals with Saddam Hussein and Iran, Total SA makes BP look good. Three years ago, Gaddafi was pitching his tent in the heart of Paris, on Sarkozy's lawn. Back then Sarkozy denounced "those who excessively and irresponsibly criticised the Libyan leader’s visit" and his aide explained that Gaddafi's visit was a good thing because it brought billions of euros and tens of thousands of jobs to France. But now Monsieur Gaddafi is Le Monstre. And what were those jobs and billions of euros coming from? The sale of French fighter jets to Libya, from the country which took the lead in going after the Libyan air force. Considering the poor performance of Libya's air force, Gaddafi would be justified in asking Sarkozy for a refund. Two years ago, UK PM Gordon Brown was expressing his "admiration and gratitude" for Gaddafi. Now Cameron had to interrupt a Middle Eastern arms sales tour to call for a war on Gaddafi for his suppression of rioting rebels. Pity then that the UK had actually been selling some 350 million dollars worth of military equipment, including a good deal of crowd control gear. Now France and the UK are stepping in to save the Libyan rebels from the military equipment that they themselves sold to Gaddafi. Did Gaddafi dramatically change over the past few years? No. The circumstances did. In 2008, Gaddafi was being cooperative and welcoming to Western oil companies and arms dealers in a region ruled by tyrants. By 2011, he was no longer cooperative and it suddenly seemed as if a wave of democratic change was sweeping the region. That made him into an obstacle. Had Gaddafi quickly suppressed the uprising, Sarkozy and Cameron would have kept their mouths shut. But Gaddafi's real crime was to start winning, after the Europeans had decided he was going to lose. Now they intend to make sure he does. It's as cynically simple as that. Sarkozy and Cameron are committed. The price of oil is also the price of political power. Western economies rise and fall on the price of oil. Falling oil prices after the Cold War helped spur economic development, and rising oil prices will prevent any recovery. With an election in 2012, Barack Hussein Obama also stands to personally benefit from stabilizing oil prices. But that may be giving him credit for intelligence he doesn't have. What he does have is a need to be the center of attention. And given a choice between backing a fairly safe war, or standing shamefacedly on the sidelines, the choice wasn't surprising. Hillary Clinton needed to end her term as Secretary of State with a bang. It's not her husband's Kosovo, but it's the closest she can come to being Madeleine Albright. Everyone involved has now gotten their war. It's not a very impressive war, but even a small war is better than nothing. The Libyan rebels range from Gaddafi's own regime cronies to Al Qaeda, to various professional human rights activists and rebels of the sort that all Arab countries collect after a while. And they're all eager for our support, so long as we don't ask any difficult questions. Such as who besides Gaddafi was responsible for human rights abuses and whether they intend to protect equal rights for all peoples regardless of gender and religion. And of course we won't be asking any bothersome questions like that. Instead we will act as mercenaries for the Arab League, European oil companies and a trio of cynical leaders who embraced Gaddafi one minute and turn him into the world's worst criminal next. Those who wonder why Israel is constantly denounced by Europe while Muslim tyrants are pandered to, need only understand this simple fact. There is neither trust nor honesty in foreign policy. Bush's invasion of Iraq, ill-considered as it was, had a basic germ of idealism in it. That idealism is wholly and completely absent from European foreign affairs, which is precisely why it stirred so much cynicism and rage. Bush genuinely believed that Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world could be made better if we just showed them what was possible. But Bush is gone now, and this is about trade, money and power. That iron triangle whose shape is regional stability and whose name is hypocrisy. It is why we are now spending billions of dollars on regime change in Libya, while ignoring genocide elsewhere. It's why a man who denounced the overthrow of Saddam, who actually did commit genocide, is now part of a campaign against Gaddafi, who has not. We are ensuring stability. The stable order. The mold of convenience. Get your war on with Obama and see Iraq repeat itself a second time as farce. Marx would have been proud. BRILLIANT COMMENT BY ANONYMOUS: "UN pretense: could this be it? I just started to read... http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/that-is-exactly-my-thinking-libya-is.html Re:  As a matter of fact - I wrote about my concerns earlier - I think the MAIN reason for NATO to be in the Mediterranean is just that; THE WAR OF GOG AND MAGOG IS ON ITS WAY! Under some U.N. resolution pretense, the U.N. will give the order to attack Israel.  I just finished reading this...could it be this??.......3rd paragraph R2P (Responsibility to Protect) http://www.thestar.com/opinion/edito...ity-to-protect On March 17, Security Council Resolution 1973 authorized the use of “all necessary measures” short of an invasion and occupation of Libya “to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas” — the first UN-sanctioned combat operations since the 1991 Gulf War. Resolution 1973 was passed by a 10-0 vote within 24 hours of being introduced, contrary to prevailing expectations that the moment for action had passed and the world once again had watched haplessly from the sidelines. An international military coalition has destroyed Libya’s air defence system, targeted tanks, established a naval blockade and is patrolling Libya’s skies to enforce the no-fly and no-drive zones. The game-changer was the juxtaposition of R2P as a powerful new galvanizing norm; the mass defection of Libyan diplomats who joined the chorus of calls for prompt and effective action to protect Libyan civilians, oust Moammar Gadhafi and promote democratic reforms; and the request for a no-fly zone by the Arab League on March 12.   UN Responsibility to Protect (R2P) 2009 http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.o...ity-to-protect http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/ The RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ("RtoP" or "R2P") is a new international security and human rights norm to address the international community’s failure to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. The INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (ICRtoP) brings together NGOs from all regions of the world to strengthen normative consensus for RtoP, further the understanding of the norm, push for strengthened capacities to prevent and halt genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and mobilize NGOs to push for action to save lives in RtoP country-specific situations. ] ***(A UN inspector just this week accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing") http://mangalorean.com/news.php?news...&newsid=228617 "Spain assumes its responsibility to enforce the UN resolution... and assumes its responsibility to protect the Libyan people," Zapatero said."

Yes, Anonymous, I think you go it right. It makes sense, doesn't it? Thanks for your brilliant and focused research!

Now it is just a matter of time before they apply the exact same rule invented just in time for Libya to "the poor palestinian victims of Israeli oppression and apartheid". Amazing what words can do.  All this incitement, which was started by Benedikt, and which will probably end with a war by the whole world against Israel. Never underestimate the power of speech!

These developments in Libya also go to show you the slavish dedication of Obama to Benedikt's plans. I had told you about this two years ago already; now everybody can see this man for what he really is.

See also:

http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-and-israel-lots-of-explosive-new.html


http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2011/04/who-is-really-behind-infamous-facebook.html

BP Catastrophe Part VIII: excellent summary in video form, worth watching to understand the total picture. New information too . See disclaimer below.

Don't forget to read and watch BP Catastrophe parts I-VII too. Search the label "BP" starting June 11, 2010



Disclaimer: Received reliable information from a trusted source that Don Adrian Salbucci is a rabid anti-semite.

 "He is a good analyst but eventually he will drift into his hatred against Jews."

BP Catastrophe Part VII: the Hand of G-d behind everyday events...and the hand of the evil ones is exploiting this to the max, to further their own totalitarian agenda - their response reminds me of the Haiti disaster.

 ***

 AVERTIBLE CATASTROPHE

Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Jun. 26, 2010

 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?

It Took Obama 1 Day to Fire McChrystal… But After 70 Days He Still Can’t Get Cleanup Equipment to the Gulf

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.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/it-took-obama-1-day-to-fire-mcchrystal-but-after-70-days-hes-still-refuses-to-allow-cleanup-equipment-into-gulf/

President Obama’s Dishonesty, Ineptitude On Display

http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/?p=8063

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"?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/philadelphia-s-heat-hits-record-breaking-highs-20752628

HAREDI PARENTS, PART III: What this amounts to is ARBITRARY ARREST ( OR IS IT ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION?) OF A LARGE GROUP OF RELIGIOUS JEWS: VERY DANGEROUS PRECEDENT, reminiscent of Nazi and Soviet times. Also, understand MEDIA BLACKOUT.

As then, so now

Supreme Court to Hear Second Suit Against Itself

Tammuz 13, 5770, 25 June 10 08:45

by Maayana Miskin

(Israelnationalnews.com) The Supreme Court is facing a petition against itself for the second time in one week. Residents of Emanuel have filed suit, arguing that the court jailed residents of the city despite lacking the authority to do so.


A similar suit was filed by the Israel Law Center, which filed a writ against the Prison Service and the Israel Police for obeying the Supreme Court's allegedly illegal order. The Supreme Court turned down the suit.

Dozens of parents from Emanuel were jailed last week after refusing to send their daughters to a school in which a chassidic track had been integrated – by court order – with the rest of the school. The parents argued that the integrated track would expose their daughters to influences not suited to their chassidic lifestyle.

The Supreme Court accused the parents of racism against Sephardi Jews, despite the fact that several of the parents were themselves Sephardi, and held them in contempt for failing to uphold the order to integrate. The fathers of girls from the chassidic track were ordered jailed for three weeks, as were several mothers.

According to the prisoners, represented by Attorney Aviad Visoli, the court had no right to send them to jail. "The mass arrest of the plaintiffs, together with the other parents, is grave and unprecedented... As it is now clear that this arrest was illegal, it would be appropriate to act quickly and release the plaintiffs at once. The honorable court is therefore requested to hold an immediate session regarding this plea, and to order that the plaintiffs be released from this obviously illegal detention," he stated in the petition.

Visoli accused the court of refusing to listen to previous pleas, and holding sessions regarding appeals against the mass detention of parents behind closed doors. During sessions that were made public, the parents and their attorneys were not given time to speak, he said.

Mesika: Emanuel Parents 'Guilty of Two Sins'

Tammuz 15, 5770, 27 June 10 08:31

(Israelnationalnews.com) Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika, speaking at a Melave Malka protest outside Ma'asiyahu Prison Saturday night, said that instead of being pushed aside, the National-Religious and Hareidi-Religious communities should be leading the state. The event was held to support parents from Emanuel who refused to obey a court order to send their children to a Beit Ya'akov school in the town.

Mesika said “the incitement by the far left against you is because you are Hareidi, and Heaven forbid, 'settlers' as well. This is a sin they cannot forgive. Our communities should unite to lead the state,” he said. 

Court Accepts Compromise in Emanuel Case

Tammuz 15, 5770, 27 June 10 10:44

(Israelnationalnews.com) The High Court has released the fathers of the children who refused to obey a court order to send their daughter to a Beit Ya'akov school in the town. The release was ordered after the court was presented with a compromise plan, drafted by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Rabbi of Slonim, the Hassidic group to which the imprisoned fathers belong to. According to the plan, the children from both sides of the argument – those of the parents who refused to send their children to the school, and those who filed the petition to force the school to accept their children – will attend a three day seminar on Jewish unity, to fill out the remaining days of the school year.

The parents have agreed to consider this activity as fulfillment of the original court order to integrate the classes, and as such, the court has released the fathers and cancelled the arrest orders for the mothers of the children, which were suspended last week.

Showers in Central Samaria

Tammuz 15, 5770, 27 June 10 07:29

(Israelnationalnews.com) Rain was falling in central Samaria Sunday morning, in a rare summer rain shower. Drivers were urged to take extra caution, because of the slippery roads.

Comment:

• I do find it strange, I must say, that a community which is so staunchly opposed to secular courts, nevertheless takes it upon itself to file suit in just such a court. I understand the reason, but still, it undermines the strength of the Slonim community's argument and legitimacy.If you are going to be principled,  you should be principled all the way, or your principles end up having no substance, and will be ridiculed and disbelieved by outside observers.

• Another remarkable and strange thing is, no matter how much I tried to find IMAGES of arrested Haredim on Google, searching with words such as "Haredim, Emanual, Jerusalem, arrests, Maasiyahu, Haredi parents", they were not there. THEY ALL DISAPPEARED. You can find pictures of police arresting rioting and violent Charedim, and of Chareidim attacking the police. But the mass arrest of PEACEFUL AND INNOCENT CHAREIDIM BY POLICE IN JERUSALEM IS NOT DOCUMENTED ON GOOGLE IMAGES, at least not available with a simple search. Did Google deliberately remove all pictures associated with this mass illegal arrest of Jews in Jerusalem? Maybe the Hebrew web has pictures, but in English, they are nowhere to be found, at least not by googling the words. They can be found on specific sites, but without the necessary captions and/or links for an easy search.

By the way, the same thing happens with pictures of violence against Jews in Judea and Samaria: miraculously a lot of the pictures somehow disappear. But of course pictures of violence against Arabs in Judea and Samaria appear prominently.Just try to google it yourself, see what you find.

The logical conclusion is that there is GOOGLE CENSURE of such images, which would make sense, considering that the CEO of Google is a strong supporter of Obama and works with him. Unless, simply, the interest of the world in violence against Jews is minimal, and therefore the pictures end up at the bottom of the barrel. But this explanation doesn't hold, in my view, because certain searches only yielded two, three pages, and even there, no pictures were to be found. So I hold with the explanation that Google is censoring pictures that show innocent Jews being arrested.

THIS IS CALLED A MEDIA BLACKOUT. 

See the next post, "Ponies and Balloons" to understand how media blackouts work; listen to a credible witness to deliberate suppression of information by the PTB. This system is at work here as well. On the surface, these separate incidents don't seem to have much in common, yet they really are not separate at all: they come from the same, evil source called the NWO, another name for GLOBALIZATION, another name for WORLD RULE BY NWO LOYAL GOVERNMENTS,  THE UNITED NATIONS, THE COMMITTEE OF 300, THE BILDERBERG GROUP, THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION, THE CFR, etc, WITH THE VATICAN RULING THEM ALL AT ITS HELM.

See here one of the ways in which the media blackout is being put in effect; for instance, as regards the BP catastrophe:

"BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. " ( the Flu Case)

So to extrapolate to violence against settlers by the Yassamniks,  and injustice against the Haredim: who might be buying out keywords? How would that work? 

• Re: the statement by Gershon Mesika:

I couldn't have said it better. This is precisely the point, and this is what the Vatican and the PTB cannot tolerate either, just as the left cannot tolerate it. Settler - Haredi, Haredi settler, is in their view a deadly combination that has to be eliminated at all cost.

In fact, Torah, unflinching loyalty to Mitzvot, and Eretz Yisrael is the powerful combination that is simply unshakable, whose power comes directly from Hashem, and that the evil ones, as well as we, know they cannot defeat. That is why they will do everything in their power to destroy this nucleus of pure Torah, which is bringing about G-d's blessings. What can they do against G'd's blessings? They are simply powerless.

• All is well that end well... for now:

The rabbis themselves came up with the right solution. Exactly what is needed: unity of Am Yisrael, BY Am Yisrael, with the courts OUT OF THE PICTURE. The court managed to put its dirty fingers in the pot anyway, and it does not come out smelling like a rose at all: something is very foul in the state of Israel; but BLESSING AND UNITY sprang out of the Kiddush Hashem of the loyal and steadfast Jews of the Shomron.

And just as a proof of His blessings, Hashem is sending rain in the middle of the summer to the Shomron.

NB:

What is administrative detention?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention

And what is arbitrary arrest?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_arrest_and_detention

So, lawyers, which one is it? Your input is welcome. Either way, it is nothing a TRUE DEMOCRACY would do. They are both symptoms of a very sick and fascistic regime doing everything it can to protect its totalitarian rule over a dissenting, and increasingly aware and rebellious, population.

Make sure to read and watch the first two posts on this topic:

Brave Haredi parents, I support you fully; finally...

BRAVE HAREDI PARENTS, KIDDUSH HASHEM, PART II - ne.

And if you also want to understand more about the BP catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, read the posts that have the label "BP". There are a few very extensive ones with in-depth coverage, videos, explanations, links, etc. etc. Very interesting, and makes you understand the situation there better - at least I hope so.

Shabbat Shalom.

CONCLUSION:

עו"ד אביעד ויסולי: ניצחון הרבנים על בית המשפט  - רק הרבנים החליטו בנושא חינוך הילדים

עו"ד אביעד ויסולי שייצג חלק מהאסירים מגיב להחלטת הפשרה עם בג"צ: החלטת בג"צ הוא ניצחון הרבנים על בית המשפט. בית המשפט נסוג מההחלטה שההורים יחתמו על קיום פסק הדין, וקיבל באופן מלא את ההסכם של מרן הרב עובדיה יוסף עם מרן האדמו"ר מסלונים שהבנות תצאנה לשלשה ימי עיון על אהבת ישראל, והפרקליטות הודיעה שההסכם מהווה מבחינתה קיום פסק הדין, מה שלמעשה הביא לניצחון שבכל נושאי החינוך הדתי והחרדי יכריעו הרבנים ולא גורמים חיצוניים. כמו"כ מדגיש עו"ד ויסולי  שההורים הודיעו שהם אינם מתחייבים דבר בנושא פסק הדין אלא ההסכם היחידי המוצג לבית המשפט זה ההסכם בין הרבנים, ובית המשפט נסוג מהדרישה שההורים יחתמו או יודיעו שהם יקיימו את פסק הדין.

לפרטים: אביעד ויסולי 0505-791746

Translation:

Attorney Aviad Vissouli, who represented part of the prisoners, reacted to the decision of the Supreme Cour with the following statement:

The decision of the Supreme Court is a victory for the rabbis. The court renounced the demand that the parents sign the court decision, and accepted in full the decision of the rabbis Ovadia Yosef and the Admor of Slonim, that the girls participate in a three day seminar on the topic of Ahavath Yisrael; and the prosecution agreed that this decision is equivalent to a court decision. Which in effect is a victory, because it means that in every case having to do with religious and Haredi education, the rabbis will decide, and not a foreign element.

In addition, Attorney Aviad Vissouli stressed that the parents stated that they do not themselves in any way to accept this decision of the court, and that the only agreement that was achieved in court was the agreement between the rabbis, and the court renounced its requirement that the parents sign that they will obey the decision.

For details, Aviad Vissouli, ..... 


- From Arutz7:

"The agreement between the top rabbis was brokered by Shas Chairman Eli Yishai.

Attorney Aviad Visouly, who represented several jailed fathers, said the compromise was “a victory for the rabbis over the High Court.” The court, he noted, backed down from its earlier insistence that the parents sign a commitment to send their daughters to the school. By accepting the compromise between the rabbis, the attorney said, the court essentially admitted that the rabbis  were sovereign to decide the matter, not the court."

Received from SHmuel, thank you.