* "Plains Indian View of the ‘Buffalo’ Soldier" (by Roy Cook, via Southern California American Indian Resource SCAIR, americanindiansource.com/buffalo%20soldiers/buffalosoldiers.html) [archive.is/5JutO] [begin excerpt]:
On the other side, it is worth noting, at the time and later, black soldiers writing in pension requests and veterans’ newspapers showed no signs of a special regard for the Indians. They used the same dismissive epithets--"hostile tribes,""naked savages,"and "redskins"—and the same racist caricatures employed by whites. Most recently we saw the same mentality and terminology used in the hunt for Osama Bin Laudin: Geronimo. Reminiscent of the use among whites of "blackface" to denigrate and stereotype African-Americans, a black private named Robinson went to a masquerade ball at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, in 1894, dressed as "an idiotic Indian squaw," according to a published report by a fellow soldier.
By the same token, it should not be too surprising to read of a black soldier calling a Plains Indian in 1890 "a voodoo nigger," repeating the voice of a white soldier who called the Plains Indians in 1873 "red niggers." This buffalo soldier only reflected the overall values of the culture in which he struggled for a place, hoping to ally himself with the dominant American group. As historian William Gwaltney, a descendent of buffalo soldiers, said, "Buffalo Soldiers fought for recognition as citizens in a racist country and...American Indian people fought to hold on to their traditions, their land, and their lives." These were not compatible, harmonious goals that could provide the basis for interracial harmony.
The idea that the buffalo-soldier combat record surpassed that of other units helps support the notion that the Indians might have been especially respectful of the black soldiers. However, it fails to withstand analysis. These soldiers did participate in significant battles. They fought in major wars against Indians, including conflicts against the Cheyenne in Kansas after the Civil War, the decade-long and brutal Apache war of the late 1870s and early 1880s, and the last major campaign, Massacre at Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge in South Dakota during 1890-1891. [end excerpt]
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* "Western genocides exposed in London conference" (2019-01-22, presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/22/586441/Western-genocides-exposed-in-London-conference--) [archive.is/bcdz1]
* "Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes; Review finds thousands of papers detailing shameful acts were culled, while others were kept secret illegally" (2012-04-18, theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes) [archive.is/efBFj]
* "History Corner: The Great Irish Famine" (retrieved 2014-05-27, wolfetonesofficialsite.com/famine.htm) [archive.is/kBLyJ]
* "Proving the Irish Famine was genocide by the British" (2015-04-28, irishcentral.com/news/proving-the-irish-famine-was-genocide-by-the-british-tim-pat-coogan-moves-famine-history-unto-a-new-plane-181984471-238161151.html) [archive.is/2rMwA]
* "Irish Holocaust" (irishholocaust.org)
Page List:
- Introduction (irishholocaust.org/home) [archive.is/ambRn]
- Britain's Cover Up (irishholocaust.org/britain'scoverup) [archive.is/7znJv]
- The Food Removal (irishholocaust.org/thefoodremoval) [archive.is/Q7jjO]
- Voices in the Wilderness (irishholocaust.org/voicesinthewilderness) [archive.is/2AArr]
- Official British Intent (irishholocaust.org/officialbritishintent) [archive.is/6J2B1]
- Toll of Holocaust (irishholocaust.org/tollofholocaust) [archive.is/9chNn]
- Complicity (irishholocaust.org/complicity) [archive.is/358cM]
- What We Must Do (irishholocaust.org/whatwemustdo) [archive.is/GdIRN]
- Lisnabinnia Memorial (irishholocaust.org/lisnabinniamemorial) [archive.is/t8ZBs]
- Liverpool, Great Hunger (irishholocaust.org/liverpoolandthegreat) [archive.is/cyedi]
- Sister Jean Marie (irishholocaust.org/sisterjeanmarie) [archive.is/AQaxB]
* "A book on Britain’s role in famine that killed 8-10 million Iranians in WWI; The deadly famine in Iran, which was caused by the British presence in the country during World War I, is ignored by almost all recent history books; Dr. Mohammad Gholi Majd sheds light on the great Persian famine that a British and Russian invasion caused in Iran during First World War" (2019-01-17, presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/17/586008/UK-Iran-famine-book-Dr-Majd) [archive.is/qboV4]:
Dr. Mohammad Gholi Majd’s “The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia 1917-1919” is perhaps the only book that extensively documents the genocide.
According to the book, the widespread famine coupled with a disease epidemic killed around 8-10 million Iranian between 1917 and 1919, nearly half of the country’s population back then.Majd, who has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University, writes in his book that after invading Iran at the beginning of 1916, the British used all means of transportation for war supplies to the front-lines.
That effectively prevented imports of wheat and other foodstuff into Iran from India, Mesopotamia, Asia, and also the United States -- which was back then a rival of the UK.
Majd argues that Brits even kept ships loaded with wheat from entering the southern port of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf.
He also writes that significant amounts of food were confiscated by the British to supply British troops both within Persia and in the region.
Further aggravating the situation was the refusal of the Allies of WWI – France, the UK and Russia –to pay Iran for using its oil reserves during the war, the book says.
Majd argues in his book that the UK intentionally caused the genocide conditions to weaken Iran and effectively take control of the country out of fear for its interest in India, which was then a component of the British Empire.
"According to the American Charge d'Affaires, Wallace Smith Murray, this famine had claimed one-third of Iran's population. A famine that even according to British sources as General Dunsterville, Major Donohoe, and General Sykes had claimed vast numbers of Iranians," reads the book.
Major Donohoe describes Iran of that time as a “land of desolation and death.”
As it has been the case with many other crimes committed by the British Empire, London has long tried to cover up London’s role in the deadly famine.
Historic documents released by the British government over the past decades overlook the genocide. The UK Foreign Office did not even mention the famine in its 1919 “Handbook on Iran.”
* "8-10 million Iranians died over Great Famine caused by the British in late 1910s, documents reveal" (2015-11-04, english.khamenei.ir/news/2197/8-10-million-Iranians-died-over-Great-Famine-caused-by-the-British) [archive.fo/MEzG4]
- (comment): I wonder if the same famine was extended into Eastern Anatolia where large number of Armenians died during their relocation process by Ottaman empire during WWI. Armenians claim it be genocide conducted by Turks where as Turks say food shortage was due to British blockade. The numbers claimed here are too high compared to Iranian population of that time. During the Great famine of India (south) of 1870s estimated death was 5 million people and during the worse Bengal famine of 1943 during WWII death toll had not reached 10 million. Those deaths were attributed to inapt measures taken by colonial British rule in India.
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* "US violations of international law" (2019-01-11, mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3470895) [archive.is/CnoxG]: Let’s take a brief historical detour. What we keep hearing from Washington politicians at various levels, including those holding official executive positions, are never-ending accusations that our country allegedly has violated and disrespected international law.
The start of the year is a good time to jog memory and think back to all the instances in history where the United States – without a doubt the most “peace-loving” nation in the world – committed acts of intervention and military aggression around the world throughout its recent history, grossly violating international law, but every time finding excuses, including legal, for its actions.
True, at first, the US politicians did not bother with the now routine juggling of phrases and concepts, and made no bones about calling things for what they were. In particular, following his inauguration in March 1913, President Wilson unashamedly talked about how he was going to “teach the South American republics to elect good men.”
Over time, the professional lexicon evolved, apparently in the wake of human rights activism, and in 1922 US Secretary of State Robert Lansing, justifying the military occupation of Haiti, said it was necessary to “protect American and foreign lives and property.” Soon, this particular thesis becomes a favourite phrase intended for “wide use.” In the same vein, in his state of the union address in August 1945, President Truman claimed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified by military necessity. Historians do not agree on the military expediency of these terrible actions. However, the fact is indisputable that this is the only case in the history of humankind when atomic bombs were dropped on populated urban areas.
During the Cold War again, without the least embarrassment, the Americans began to justify their military aggression in the international arena by pointing to various factors that are incompatible with the norms of international law, and mostly come from the realm of ideology. For example, commenting on the upcoming operation to overthrow the Castro government in Cuba, President Eisenhower in March 1960 openly stated that Washington would not allow the creation of a regime in the Western hemisphere which would be dominated by “international communism.” The US leaders used similar motives to cover up their actions in 1961, as they were gearing up for a bloody military intervention in Vietnam. This is reflected, for example, in the Memorandum of November 8, 1961. Later, though, in the so-called the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of August 7, 1964, the Americans rather “elegantly” justified the use of military force with the objective of “promoting international peace and security in Southeast Asia.” The United States also used ideological slogans that do not rely on any norms of international law for overthrowing the leftist government of Francisco Caamano in the Dominican Republic in April-May 1965.
It should be noted that the UN General Assembly has repeatedly condemned such actions by the United States as illegal. For example, in its Resolution 38/7 of November 2, 1983, the Washington military operation in Grenada in October 1983 was unequivocally qualified as “gross violation of international law,” although President Reagan, for example, in his televised address to the nation, justified the aggression by the need to help small peaceful nations and protect American citizens. Similarly, the UNGA in its Resolution 41/38 of November 20, 1986 condemned the US military attack on Libya in April 1986, qualifying it as a “violation of the UN Charter and international law,” although US politicians tried to explain their actions by their “right to self-defence.” The invasion of Panama by US troops, too, allegedly in self-defence, as indicated in the letter by the US Permanent Representative to the President of the UN Security Council on December 20, 1989, in accordance with UNGA Resolution 44/240 of December 29, 1989, was qualified as flagrant violation of international law.
Once the 1980s were over and the Cold War was history, Western countries led by the United States achieved excellence in casuistry, justifying their actions in violation of international law by citing international law itself. One can make entire dictionaries with the terms they invented and which they used to cover and justify violations of international law. In particular, explaining the bloody and destructive operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which lasted from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999, US President Clinton spoke of the need to restore peace, degrade military capabilities, etc. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush used the mythical “threat” that Saddam Hussein allegedly represented to the world as cover. Already at this stage, in April 2017, under the far-fetched pretext of defence against proliferation and the use of deadly chemical weapons, an order was issued to deliver illegal strikes on Syria.
The unlawful seizure of Russian diplomatic property and the expulsion of diplomatic representatives also qualify as a violation of international law, which US politicians justify with arguments rooted in international law. It would be naive to believe that this sentiment in the American political establishment may change in the foreseeable future. As the recent events show, unfortunately, Washington is increasingly trying to replace the concept of international law with the so-called rule-based order. The White House may have different administrations that can change the strategy regarding migration policy, healthcare or taxation, but they remain constant in their deep conviction of the “exceptionalism” of their own nation. This exceptionalism has for more than one century granted them “license” to violate the rules underlying the international order.
I cite these historical parallels not so much because we love history, which we do, but because lately we’ve been hearing numerous accusations that our country is engaged in the very actions committed by those who are accusing us.
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* (2019-01-17, facebook.com/teleSUREnglish/photos/a.492297374247003/1593435344133195/) [archive.is/oxp5V]:
On this day we remember the African Political Leader Patrice Lumumba on the 57th anniversary of his death.
He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. He was a leading figure in the Congo as the country established its independence from Belgium, which had controlled the Congo since the late 19th century.
Lumumba's murder in 1961 made him a symbol of struggle for African nation's attempts to unite and to break free of the influence of the European powers. He is remembered as a passionate believer in the power of African nations to shape their own destinies and free themselves from colonial influence.
Rest in peace comrade!
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* "This Day. A reflection on Amilcar Cabral" (2019-01-20, tonyseed.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/this-day-amilcar-cabral/) [archive.is/VFdAT]
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* "Fascism in Croatia: The Independent State of Croatia was founded on April 10th, 1941" (2016-04-04, historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/fascism-croatia) [archive.is/IFVPO]
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* "Soviet soldiers ‘gave their lives’ to liberate Europe, restore human rights — Intel chief; Soviet servicemen, who liberated European countries from Nazi occupation during World War II, laid the groundwork for modern Europe, says Russia’s director of Foreign Intelligence Service" (2019-01-17, tass.com/society/1040433) [archive.is/H4ZX1]
On 17 January 1945 the Red Army together with First Polish Army liberated Warsaw. A reminder to revisionists of WWII history: more than 600'000 Soviet soldiers sacrificed their lives to free Poland saving millions of Poles, Jews and other peoples from the Nazis.
Warsaw Liberated From The Nazis On This Date In History
74 years ago today, Soviet troops together with the 1st Army of the Polish Army liberated Warsaw in the course of the Vistula-Oder offensive operation. On the night of January 17, the military forced into the Vistula, in the morning Soviet-Polish soldiers broke into the city. By 12 o'clock Warsaw was completely rid of the fascist invaders. -Cody Glacz
* Propaganda poster from Nazi-occupied Poland
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c. 1920 - 1923 Poland government propaganda posters against Bolshevism
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* "Laying wreaths at the Monument to the Liberators of Belgrade and the Monument to Soviet Soldiers; Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic visited the Liberators of Belgrade Memorial. The two presidents laid wreaths to the Monument to the Liberators of Belgrade and the Monument to Soviet Soldiers to commemorate those who lost their lives in World War II" (2019-01-17, en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59688) [archive.is/UbRY8]
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* " ‘Heroes’: Budapest lauds Hungarians who allied with Nazis to invade USSR" (2019-01-15, rt.com/news/448839-hungarians-nazi-heroes-government/) [archive.is/3BdWM]
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* "Almost half of Russians see USSR collapse as shameful – poll" (2019-01-17, rt.com/russia/449026-russians-ussr-collapse-shameful/) [archive.is/nJenR]
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"The union of workers and dehkan farmers" Soviet poster, Samarkand, 1921
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* photo (2019-01): Lenin Statue under construction in Tamil Nadu
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* "Trofim Denisovich Lysenko" page index (updated 2009-09-22, by Hugo S. Cunningham, cyberussr.com/rus/lysenko.html) [archive.is/XjVyH]
* "The Real Genetic vs. Lysenko Controversy" (posted 1999-07-13, via cyberussr.com/rus/ly-tl-cv.html) [archive.is/bQt4w]
1. Geneticists insisted that heredity was carried forth exclusively by what is inside the nucleus of a cell (chromosomes) and that the rest of what is in the cytoplasm of the cell was just junk. This was called the "Chromosome Theory of Heredity." Lysenko did deny the THEORY, but he never denied the importance of chromosomes. DNA was not known of in the 1930's. Lysenko did NOT dispute that heredity was carried forth by chromosomes, but he insisted that the WHOLE of the cell, CYTOPLASM and all, was involved in the heredity process. Lysenko did NOT reject the importance of CHROMOSOMES, he even counted doubling of chromosomes in plants (as did geneticists). What he objected to was the dogma that "heredity was SOLELY contained in the chromosome." He turned out to be right: a lot of factors of heredity are in the cytoplasm of cells, not located in the nucleus! Geneticists claimed it was ALL contained in the chromosomes which are IN the nucleus. Lysenko disagreed, he was right. Ergo, the geneticists were excessively dogmatic in insisting they were right and declaring this that and the other. The disovery of DNA doesn't change this: Mitochondrial DNA, having the DNA of a bacterium, is in the CYTOPLASM of cells, not in nucleus. Without that, the rest wouldn't even work! For Mitochondria and how the discovery of how this evolved and works, see Lynn Margulis's works.
2. Geneticists insisted on pure bred lines and claimed these were the best. Lysenko insisted on occasionally mixing the pure lines with wild varieties or else the pure lines would degenerate. Lysenko was 100% right about this. The head geneticist, Vavilov, admitted he was right, but the real battle over this carried on outside of plant breeding, in the realm of racist politics. Prior to this claim, backed by actions with plants, the geneticists had not yet reached the phase where they went "nuts" over what Lysenko said. This claim made them go nuts.
3. Geneticists insisted that there is strict competition in the survival of the fittest, between species and within one species. Lysenko disagreed with this whole idea of "within one species" (intraspecific) competition and showed that this idea justifies Western Imperialism and exploitation of others by a ruling class (the fittest in the game of survival). He turned out to be right with Margulis topping the cake: she's a Nobel Prize winner. It even turns out that there is far less competition between species than had been theorized before. This phase got the geneticists to claim Lysenko was anti-Darwin and the battle raged on anew.
[end excerpt]
- He was very wrong about acquired inheritance.
- No, Lamarckian evolution regarding acquired characteristics being inheritable has been validated through recent developments in epigenetics. Read "Unified theory of evolution Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck" (2016-11-09, by Michael Skinner, professor of biological science at Washington State University, via aeon.co/essays/on-epigenetics-we-need-both-darwin-s-and-lamarck-s-theories) [archive.is/gKOP5]
* (from "Pravda," 3 January, 1936; page 1). "COULD WE EVER HAVE DREAMED OF SUCH A GREAT HONOR?" Letter from Academician T. D. Lysenko's Parents to Comrade Stalin, via cyberussr.com/rus/lyse-par.html) [archive.is/LX66]
* (English translation) All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge Professor I.E. Slushchenko Akademician T.D. Lysenko-- An Outstanding Soviet Scientist Transcript of a public lecture, given in the Central lecture hall of the Society in Moscow "Pravda" Publishing, Moscow, 1949. pp. 31-32 (conclusion) via cyberussr.com/rus/lyse-slu.html) [archive.is/xO4WY]:
In our country, everything possible has been done so that scientists can freely create and build up the most advanced science in the world, thus making easier the work of mankind.
Our scientists are sustained by the concern of the fatherland, and attention from the Party and Comrade Stalin, from the entire Soviet people.
A true student of the Party, people, and our entire Socialist reality is Academician T. D. Lysenko. He subordinates all his knowledge and strength, all his creative thoughts in science to a single goal -- the further flourishing of our great Socialist Motherland.
And Soviet people readily understand the following deeply felt words of the scientist:
"They often ask me: Who are your parents? And I answer: peasents, in a Collective farm since 1929. [Editor's note-- "1929" means they volunteered immediately for Collectivization, rather than having to be coerced in 1932-1933.] But in fact I have other parents as well -- the Communist Party, Soviet power, and the Collective farms. They raised me, and made me the man I am today."
Such is the path to science, such are the scientific principles and achievements of the outstanding scientist of the Stalin era, Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko.
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* "Abe's Russia complex: The devil is in the details" (2019-01-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e354d544d32457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/pywb8] [begin excerpt]: Interminable islands row
The territorial spat over four Pacific islands – known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan – dates back to World War II, when the former Soviet Union tried to reclaim lands it had ceded to Japan in previous engagements from half a century before. Even after Japan formally surrendered, the Soviet Union advanced, occupying ceded territory and additional islands that it had never claimed.
This state of war continued into the 1950s until negotiators from both sides agreed on how the island territories should be divided. Those on the Japanese side agreed to forfeit all of the Kuril chain islands and the south part of Sakhalin, while the Soviet diplomats decided to return Shikotan and Habomai.
The peace treaty was close to fruition until the U.S. intervened, fearing that Japan's improving relations with the Soviets and potentially China would jeopardize its influence in the region. So the U.S. threatened to annex comparable territory in Japan that it was occupying, such as Okinawa, if the latter were to allow the Soviet Union to keep those islands specified in the treaty.
An emboldened Japan then redefined the Etorofu and Kunashiri islands, which were part of the Kuril chain and which it had agreed to let the Soviet Union keep, as part of the Northern Territories, effectively claiming that these were distinct lands that will remain under the sovereignty of Japan.
The new terms tanked the peace treaty. Instead, Japan and the Soviet Union signed a joint declaration in 1956 that effectively ended the war and restored diplomatic ties. The Soviet Union put the territorial dispute on the backburner by stipulating in the declaration that the islands of Shikotan and Habomai will be returned to Japan upon signing a peace treaty. Over six decades later, a treaty remains elusive. [end excerpt]
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* "How a Crimean town almost turned into a NATO base in 2006" (2019-01-13, micoff.livejournal.com/658438.html) [archive.is/6MtAF], (translation, stalkerzone.org/crimean-town-nato-base-2006/) [archive.is/BkJwZ]
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* "Rostislav ishchenko: 25 years ago an agreement on the elimination of nuclear weapons in Ukraine was signed" (2019-01-14, ukraina.ru/history/20190114/1022320495.html) [archive.is/SU9ni], (translation, stalkerzone.org/rostislav-ishchenko-25-years-ago-an-agreement-on-the-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine-was-signed/) [archive.is/PNvS4]
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* "9/11 Timeline: Pentagon" (retrieved 2019-01-22, historycommons.org), pg. 1 [archive.is/fov8B], pg. 2 [archive.is/p333j]
* "Saudi flag statue to be removed from near 9/11 site after backlash from public; A statue of the Saudi Arabian flag is to be removed from the World Trade Center grounds in New York later this week in response to public complaints about its proximity to the site of the September/11 attacks, which are believed to have been carried out by Saudi nationals" (2019-01-15, presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/15/585844/Saudi-flag-New-York-World-Trade-Center-exhibition) [archive.is/fO9Qh]
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* "President of Cuba Remembers Legacy of Ruben Martinez Villena" (2019-01-16, plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=37734&SEO=president-of-cuba-remembers-legacy-of-ruben-martinez-villena) [archive.is/DOn94]
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* "Europe In Revolt!" (2018-12-25, redmolerising.wordpress.com/2018/12/25/europe-in-revolt/) [archive.is/85ASO]
Stewart MacLennan writes:
“A poster for IMG Rally: Europe in Revolt, to take place in Glasgow on Monday 22 April (1974?), featuring as speakers one Stewart Maclennan (UCATT personal capacity & IMG), John McGeown (President Kent Students Union) and some Belgian chappie called Mandel. As I recall, the rally went ahead, but Mandel couldn’t make it (no doubt frightened off by the competition on the platform)”
And whilst we are on the theme of Europe, here is the 1979 FI European Election Manifesto: “Out of the Bosses Market- For A Socialist Europe” (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6x030xo26viiqfg/FI%20Euro%20Manifesto.pdf)
The IMG’s candidate was Tariq Ali.
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* "Chicago Mole Among Us. Obstructing and Smearing Chicago Activists, culminating in false arrests and a murder frame-up" (retrieved 2013-05-31, chicagomole.org/) [archive.is/0YeK8]
- Introduction (chicagomole.org/Introduction.html) [archive.is/eL12j]
- Jerry's deeds (chicagomole.org/Jerrys%20Deeds.html) [archive.is/BIAhz]
- Chronology of events (chicagomole.org/Chronology.html) [archive.is/hiyVG]
- Lumpen Times Articles (chicagomole.org/lumpen.html) [archive.is/jnSW4]
- Refutation of Lumpen Times articles (chicagomole.org/Refutation.html) [archive.is/bMwNR]
* "The Conspiracy that won't go away; How the Moonies, Media, and FBI derailed the Irish Liberation Front in Chicago" (1993, The Lumpen Times, n.8) [https://web.archive.org/web/20190120214402/http://versionfest.org.s3.amazonaws.com/version16/lumpen-pdfs/lumpen-008.pdf]
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* "Treasure unearthed: Items owned by disgraced Russian princeling found in Uzbekistan" (2019-01-21, rt.com/russia/449344-romanov-prince-treasure-uzpekistan/) [archive.is/YpwHb]
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* "Before Herzl, There Was Pastor Russell: A Neglected Chapter of Zionism Years before Theodor Herzl proposed creating a Jewish state, Charles Taze Russell was traveling the world holding Jewish Mass Meetings, beginning in 1879, at which he urged Jews to find a national home in Eretz Israel" (2018-08-22, haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.MAGAZINE-before-herzl-there-was-pastor-russell-a-neglected-chapter-of-zionism-1.6409303) [archive.is/wXHOE] [begin excerpt]:
This setting of breakneck development and intellectual progress is where Russell founded the Bible Student Association, which aspired to go back to basics by studying the Bible itself.
Soon a class for systematic Bible Study was formed in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and in 1879 Charles Taze Russell was elected its pastor. The movement founded Zion's Watch Tower, the most widely circulated magazine in the world today, according to Business Insider, with an average of 70 million copies a month in 334 languages. For comparison, National Geographic has a circulation of something over 6 million and is published in 25 different languages.
A few years later, in 1881, Russell was elected the first president of the Watchtower Society. Its purpose was to distribute his teachings in the form of tracts.
Russell was a prolific writer, and his major accomplishments include a six-volume series of systematic theology, "Studies in the Scriptures." By 1909 this series was one of most widely circulated works in the world, surpassed only by the Bible and The Chinese Almanac.
His crowning achievement at that phase was "The Photo-Drama of Creation," a ground-breaking innovation that combined sound and color in a motion picture for the first time in history. The film was, viewed by more then eight million people, an astronomical success in the terms of the times.
In 1909 Russell moved The Watch Tower Society Headquarters to 124 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights. It would remain there until 2016, when Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, bought the property.
Early advocate of Zionism
On August 18, 1891, now in Jerusalem, Russell wrote to the philanthropists Baron Maurice de Hirsch and Baron Edmond de Rothschild, or as he puts it “the two leading Hebrews of the world.” No less, he put forward a practical plan for Zionism.
It involved purchasing all government-owned land in Palestine, i.e., land not held by private owners, from the impoverished Ottoman Empire. Years later Herzl would make similar proposals. (A copy of the letter is published in "Zion's Watchtower and Herald of Christ's Presence", December 1891, pp. 170-171.)
“As you will see from my books, we find the testimony of the prophets to be, that your nation will be greatly blessed and return to divine favor between now and the year 1915, A.D.," Russell wrote. The persecutions that Jews were suffering in Russia were "a mark of divine favor rather then the reverse," the pastor suggested - and it would only get worse because the Lord's purpose was to drive the Jews "out of all lands whither he has scattered them."
To where? To Palestine, as apparently indicated by the prophet (Jeremiah 32:37-44; 33:6-22), Russell explained. Owning not an inch of that land, he had no vested interest, the pastor elaborated, and went on: "My suggestion is that the wealthy Hebrews purchase from Turkey, at a fair valuation, all of her property interest in these lands: i.a., all of the Government lands (lands not held by private owners), under the provision that Syria and Palestine shall be constituted a FREE STATE…"
In his letter, Russell delicately gibes at alternative "Jewish homeland" ideas touted at the time in places other than Israel, though Baron de Hirsch was actually involved in resettling Jews elsewhere: "But please note, my dear Sir, that the sacred Scriptures predict the return to Palestine, and not a further wandering to the ends of the earth—to America or elsewhere. And, therefore, it is my humble opinion that Israel will find no rest for the sole of his foot until he finds the land of promise; and I pray you, therefore, not to waste your efforts in assisting emigration elsewhere, but concentrate them in the direction where God has indicated success…”
We cannot know whether he even replied to Russell, let alone be influenced by him. But a month after Russell's letter to the barons, on September 11th 1891, Baron Hirsch founded the Jewish Colonization Association to buy land, principally in North and South America but in Palestine too, where agricultural colonies could be established and resettled by Jews who were persecuted in Russia.
Meanwhile, the pastor's message did not go unnoticed in the broader Jewish communities of the United States and Europe. [end excerpt]
- image caption: The Bible Students in association with Pastor Russell thought the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt confirmed biblical chronology.
- image caption: Postcard - Transcontinental Tour of Pastor Russell, June 1913
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* "The Mossad Ran a Fake Diving Resort for Tourists in Sudan. This Is the Incredible Story Behind It; One of the Israeli intelligence agency’s most daring missions is being turned into a movie, ‘Red Sea Diving Resort.’ One of the operatives looks back on a breathtaking operation that saved thousands of Ethiopian Jews’ lives in the 1980s" (2018-05-06, haaretz.com/world-news/asia-and-australia/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-incredible-story-of-the-diving-resort-in-sudan-run-by-the-mossad-1.6036466) [archive.is/qt6WA]
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* "General's Final Confession Links 1956 Massacre to Israel's Secret Plan to Expel Arabs; 'Yiska' Shadmi, the highest IDF officer tried for the Kafr Qasem massacre, admitted before his death that his trial was staged to protect military and political elites. Historian Adam Raz believes that behind the horrific 1956 event was a secret plan to transfer Israel's Arabs" (2018-10-11, haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-general-s-confession-links-massacre-to-israel-s-secret-plan-to-expel-arabs-1.6550421) [archive.fo/ObVAG]
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* "Their Pretense Is Over. The Settler Leadership Is a Violent, Lawless, Racist Gang of Vigilantes The blanket public support offered by settler leaders to the suspected murderers of Aisha Rabi is a milestone. The settlement enterprise, long based on Jewish supremacy and territorial expansion, now justifies terror" (2019-01-10, haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-their-pretense-is-over-the-settler-leadership-is-a-violent-lawless-racist-rabble-1.6828777) [archive.is/MZbZt] [begin excerpt]:
On the afternoon of April 11, 1982, I was visiting the Western Wall with relatives when we heard a burst of automatic rifle nearby. We couldn’t see anything happening, but the police quickly evacuated the Kotel plaza. The security forces were running in the opposite direction from us, so it was clear the incident had taken place on the other side of the Wall, on the Temple Mount. It also seemed clear that whatever was happening was a Palestinian terror attack.
Clear at least, until we got back home and listened to the news on the radio.
The attacker’s name was Alan Goodman, an American Jew who had recently made aliyah. The M-16 rifle he used to kill a member of the Muslim Wakf custodians of the Al Aqsa compound, and to wound four others, had been issued to him only days earlier when he began his basic training with the IDF.
It was the first time I’d ever heard gunfire, and the whole idea of a Jew carrying out an attack in the Jewish state seemed bizarre to my eight year-old mind. The only conceivable reason for his actions was that he was "a mad American."
Madness was also the line that his lawyers tried to use in court. But the judges weren’t buying it. Enough literature of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s were found in the lonely 37 year-old’s room, together with his cries of "An eye for an eye" and "Long live the Jews” during the attack, to convince them it had been an ideologically-motivated act of vigilantism and he was given a life sentence, commuted to 15 years in 1997, when he was released and returned to his native Baltimore.
Alan Goodman was indeed a lone gunman. And there were other individual Jewish terrorists like him, from the late 1970s onwards, carrying out their murderous freelance attacks on Palestinians. Nearly all of them had backgrounds as sad loners or petty criminals, usually using IDF-issued weapons, without any organizational backing or widespread support, exacting their own private revenge for victims of Palestinian terror. Their actions were roundly condemned from all sides of the political scene.
But while Goodman was on trial in Jerusalem, there was a much larger, ideologically serious group of Jewish terrorists active.
Their first operation was in June 1980, when they booby-trapped the cars of three Palestinian mayors in the West Bank, whom they suspected of having been involved in directing murderous attacks on Jewish settlers.
A few members of the group were involved in detailed plans to blow up the Al Aqsa mosque, in the hope that it could derail Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai, part of the peace agreement with Egypt. Others carried out a shooting-attack at the Islamic Collage in Hebron, killing three students. The members of what became known in the media as the "Jewish Underground" were finally rounded up in April 1984, when several were caught placing explosives in four Palestinian buses.
Twenty-five members of the Jewish Underground were charged in court. These weren’t vigilantes or deluded individuals. They included educators and academics, former officers in the IDF, some in their later thirties and forties. Respected members of the settler movement, grown-ups. In a report in Haaretz at the time, they were described as "an underground of good guys."
In the preface to his book on the group, one of its younger members at the time, journalist Haggai Segal (today editor of the right-wing religious newspaper Makor Rishon), pointed out that it was a misnomer to call them an "underground," as they never existed as a clandestine and networked organization, had not chosen a name for themselves, and most of the group were unaware of all four of the planned attacks and had not necessarily supported them.
It didn’t change the fact that they were a group of like-minded ideologues who had murdered in the belief that they were furthering the interests of the Jewish people and Jewish state by their actions. And nearly all the right wing, including most of the settler leadership, condemned them.
Or, to be more accurate: Their actions were denounced, but as individuals, they were not ostracized.
They remained part of the movement, their families were taken care of while the fathers remained in prison (ultimately, they all had their sentences commuted and even those who had received life, were out in six and a half years). Upon release, they returned to their communities as respected members.
Back in the 1980s, it was clear there were two types of Jewish terror. There were unruly vigilantes, acting out of impulse, madness, or Kahanist ideology - and there were those who had been wrong to take the law in to their own hands but remained, as the title of Segal’s book describes them "Dear Brothers." [end excerpt]
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Capitalists' Science
* "Lynn Margulis, Neo-Darwinism, And Kin Selection" (2009-03-17, by Steve Davis, via science20.com/gadfly/lynn_margulis_neodarwinism_and_kin_selection) [archive.is/RhJHs] [begin excerpt]:
Professor Lynn Margulis is the biologist who had the incredible insight that the cells of modern organisms were originally formed by the symbiotic combination of prokaryotic cells and colonies of bacteria, and then had to battle for years to have this recognised by the science community.
We owe a huge debt to Margulis, but it’s not only for this that we owe her. Margulis has described neo-Darwinism as; "a minor twentieth century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon Biology" and believes that her opponents "wallow in their zoological, capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin—having mistaken him.”Her reference to “Anglo-Saxon” biology as a religion is actually misplaced. I believe the problem she refers to should be labeled “Anglo-Norman ideology” because it was only after the Norman invasion of England that the peculiarly British cultural oddity we now know as individualism, emerged as a significant social force. The concept was eventually given written form and “philosophical” credibility by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, after which it never looked back.
So powerful was its grip on the imagination of a sector of the British intelligentsia that Darwin’s most prominent supporter, Thomas Huxley, was unable to accept Darwin’s clearly unambiguous description of social instincts as superior to individual instincts, and more significant than individual instincts as a factor in evolution. Huxley salved his conscience by mentioning the importance of sociality in a mere footnote to his essay Evolution and Ethics (1894), a concealment that must rank as one of the more notable abandonments of ethics in the history of science. But Huxley’s role in advancing the ideology went further than this.
Concealment of the significance of sociality in evolution went hand in hand with the promotion of ruthless competition. And it was this perception of evolution and natural selection, the image of “nature red in tooth and claw” that was seized with glee by apologists for capitalism who were, at that time, struggling with an outraged public reaction to the inhuman conditions under which the working class, including very young children, were expected to labour.
Huxley and others gave them the justification they craved. Individualism, competition, and struggle it was alleged, is the way of the world, the natural order just as God had created it, now backed up by the findings of science. The political alliance between capitalism and established religion continues to this day, and it was that perverted, anti-social version of Darwinism that was utilized by this political alliance, and which also continues today in its modern form of neo-Darwinism. [end excerpt]
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* "Unearthing the ancient traces of China-Saudi Arabia exchanges" (2019-01-18, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3141544d32457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [archive.is/KwExr] [begin excerpt]:
China and Saudi Arabia recently unveiled the achievements of their joint archeological exploration at the ruins of the al Serrian port, an important pilgrim-trade port in ancient times connecting the East and West.
The ruins of the port are located by the Red Sea, the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula. It was deserted for unknown reasons and then covered up by sands. [...]
Results show that in the south of the site, there is a place that would have been a natural harbor for ship berthing and a channel for ships to move in and out. The findings also include bronze weights, agates, coins, as well as Arabian pottery and glazed pottery from ancient Persia and China, signifying that the al Serrian area by the Red Sea was an essential maritime channel for East-West exchanges. [...]
The five-year joint archeological exploration is one of the important cultural cooperations reached by the two countries when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Saudi Arabia in January 2016.
From March to April in 2018, the team conducted the first unearthing and discovered debris of porcelain dating back to China's Song Dynasty (960-1279), Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1636-1911).
"As a Saudi Arabian, we highly value this cooperation project with China. The ancient trade channel from China to the Red Sea, namely the Maritime Silk Road, to a large extent, strengthens the cultural exchanges and economic and trade cooperation between China and Arab countries," said Mahdi Al Qarni, who is in charge of the joint archeological exploration on the Saudi Arabian side. [end excerpt]
- image caption: A team of Chinese and Saudi Arabian archeologists works at the site.
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* "Run Through the Jungle" (retrieved 2019-01-20, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Through_the_Jungle) [archive.is/X2icH]
* "John Fogerty: 'Run Through the Jungle' Is Plea for Gun Control; 'There's got to be some sort of lid on this thing', singer says of Second Amendment" (2016-01-12, rollingstone.com/music/news/john-fogerty-run-through-the-jungle-is-plea-for-gun-control-20160112) [archive.is/oXbps]
* "How Creedence Clearwater Revival Became the Soundtrack to Every Vietnam Movie" (2018-02-20, pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-creedence-clearwater-revival-became-the-soundtrack-to-every-vietnam-movie/) [archive.is/AuhOJ]
* "Run Through the Jungle" lyrics (by John Cameron Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Whoa thought it was a nightmare
Lord it was so true
They told me don't go walking slow
The devil's on the loose
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Whoa don't look back to see
Thought I heard a rumblin'
Calling to my name
Two hundred million guns are loaded
Satan cries "take aim"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Whoa don't look back to see
Over on the mountain, thunder magic spoke
"Let the people know my wisdom
Fill the land with smoke"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Whoa don't look back to see
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