-------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boudewijn Wegerif" <•••@••.•••> To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net> Subject: WHAT MATTERS-168: Relating as a Voyeur to 'No Honest Americans' by John Kaminski + + Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 23:48:49 +0200 WHAT MATTERS-168 --April 3, 2004 Relating as a Voyeur to # No Honest Americans, by John Kaminski # The Barbaric Assassination of Sheik Yassin # Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss speaks out against the Zionists # The Hidden Agenda of Richard Clarke _________________________ Dear list members, Below, I reproduce John Kaminski's powerfully written statement that there are (by title of his article), 'No Honest Americans - and, "U.S. citizens cheer their criminal nation savaging the whole world." I take this in. "America is a criminal state, flouting international law and laughing about it. Our president makes jokes about the lies he told to enrich his crony corporate accomplices with the scam in Iraq. He makes jokes about the lies he told that cost the lives of hundreds of American service people, not to mention tens of thousands of innocent civilians abroad. . . " I take it in, but superficially. As I read, I note how the mouse in my right hand is reaching towards, and the index finger is ready to click on to the next item in the Outlook Express inbox. This reaction is not true to the true me, which knows that Kaminski's prophetic call to conscience requires that I get up away from the laptop, to pause and reflect at the prayer table. I do not make the move. Instead, I go on to search for more words, more knowledge. Through the internet, I have become a voyeur - an addict to knowledge for its own sake. So I hasten to relate what Kaminski has written to the assassination of Sheikh Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas. By Google search, I look for the most meaningful write-up of the assassination, to bring home the horror of the murder. I am drawn to 'Who Won World War II' by Ran HaCohen at http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen . My eyes go over the words. I learn again (I have read it so often before) how it is difficult to find a single article in the Geneva Convention that has not been breached by Israel as an occupying force. The assassination of Sheik Yassin reflects a new level of barbarism. I pick out the following from Ran HaCohen's article as particularly noteworthy: # "Killing a person without a trial - not a person carrying a bomb, not an armed person in combat - is terrorism, is barbarism. When those who claim to fight off terrorism and barbarism become barbarian terrorists themselves, they lose their own claim to justice. . . Assassinations are clearly prohibited by Article 23b of the Hague Regulations, 1907 - http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE04/_edn1 # "Remember that Hamas is not just a terror organisation, as the US and Israel want us to think, neither is it just a political party; Hamas runs an entire network of schools, clinics and social welfare, in a society impoverished to the point of starvation by decades of exploitation and years of strangulation." # "The message is: Israel has no moral nor legal boundaries whatsoever. Israel can target elderly and invalids, political leaders and religious clerics. If we can kill Yassin, says Jerusalem, we can kill everyone; No judge, no morality, no convention and no law can stop our missiles." # "Following the assassination, Israeli military echelons quoted in Ha'aretz (23.3.04) called it 'a constitutive event', one that would make History. Indeed. Unless a global reaction against this barbarism emerges - not an Al-Qaeda type of reaction, which shares this very barbarism, but something like the recent Spanish example; unless we renew the struggle for the legacy of the Allies who won World War II, and get rid of all those responsible for the barbarisation of the human kind, Israel's assassination of Sheik Yassin may enter history as the moment in which Hitler's concept of war for annihilation, of contempt for the basic convictions and conventions of humanity, celebrated its triumph, shared and imposed by the axis of Sharon, Bush and Bin Laden." -- In other articles from the inbox, I learn how there are Jews speaking out in anguish against the barbarous acts of the Israeli Zionists, and publicly disassociating themselves from them. # "Zionism and the State of Israel have no right to represent Judaism and/or the Jewish people," said Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta at the memorial service in commemoration of Sheikh Yassin, hosted by the Arab Muslim American Federation in New York. # "Zionism and the State of Israel have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people. The name Israel in reference to Zionism and their State is false, it has been usurped from the Jewish people. To subjugate and oppress a people, in this case the Palestinian people, to steal their land, their homes, olive orchards etc, is totally against G-d and the laws of His Torah. These crimes can only bring dire results. # "True Jewry is deeply anguished by the existence of Zionism and the State of Israel and are constantly pained and humiliated by their actions." Read more at http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Speeches/NYC032304.cfm . -- One looks for other signs of hope. >From all sides, there is praise for Richard Clarke's best-selling book, 'Against All Enemies'. I am encouraged by how Clarke's story of Bush's abuse of the presidency is being kept alive before the public. Then I learn that there is a hidden agenda. Clarke's effort is part of "the collectivist's strategy of leading their own opposition," writes Edward Griffin (the author of 'The Creature From Jekyll Island') in a review at http://www.freemarketnews.com . By way of background, Griffin points out how the 'money trust' that introduced the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, "created an institution that was offered to the public as a government agency to break the grip of the money trust but which actually consolidated the power of the money trust and expanded it." This, writes Griffin, was a classic example of offering false leadership and leading one's own opposition. A similar strategy is being followed by Richard Clarke, and was followed by the authors of two other books from the same publisher as 'Against All Enemies" - Simon and Schuster. In 1987, William Greider's book, "Secrets of the Temple," was offered to the public as a scathing exposé of the Federal Reserve System. "His history was excellent, but his conclusion was fatally flawed," writes Griffin. "After having proven that the Fed was conceived as a weapon of the banking elite against the common man and having shown throughout his book that this is exactly the function it has always served, his conclusion was, not to abolish the Fed or even to make serious changes to it. His 'call to action' was simply to stop worrying about it." Then, in 2000, the giant publishing house Simon and Schuster published another book in this same category, 'Day of Deceit; The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor', by Robert Stinnett. Here we learn how the Roosevelt Administration secretly plotted to cause Japan to Attack Pearl Harbor as an excuse to bring the United States into World War II. However, what conclusion is drawn? In Griffin's words, "It was that this act was justified because it helped put a stop to Hitler in Europe. In other words, to halt totalitarianism in Europe, it was necessary to adopt totalitarianism in America, and to do so was an act of great statesmanship! Once again, Simon and Schuster provided the American people with a false opinion leader." And now we have Richard Clarke verifying, as an insider, in 'Against All Enemies', that Bush "disregarded warnings of pending terrorist attacks and, after 9-11, launched an unnecessary invasion of Iraq." Think about it: there are no surprises here. "The book's true agenda is revealed by the author's solutions," writes Griffin. Clarke "reluctantly accepts totalitarian measures in the United States as necessary for homeland security and indirectly supports the expansion of U.N. power as a desirable goal on the path to world order." Note, Clarke's book didn't go to press until after Kerry had become the clear frontrunner of the Democratic Party. Kerry is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and, although he might make minor alterations in Iraq, "we can be sure that he would continue to follow the CFR blueprint for world government based on the model of collectivism," writes Griffin. -- How deeply do the deceptions and lies by which we live/are ruled effect us? How much does what John Kaminski writes about Americans (and by implication, all those allied to America, like myself) matter to you/me? If you identify with my voyeurism and are dissatisfied with it, there is hope for you, I believe, and me. It shows that you expect more of yourself/me. Like me perhaps, you have been asking yourself at what point you break off your love affair with your PC/laptop and take more seriously to consciousness-raising silence and prayer, on the one hand, and non-violent activism, on the other - even take more seriously the possibility (indeed likelihood soon) of being imprisoned and disappeared as a dissident against corporate capitalism. You ask yourself about your addiction to internet knowledge, and how it is holding you back from love and truth in action. Meanwhile, the money masters continue their rule through a 'money trust' that has its beginnings in ancient Babylon, and in the wish in most people to save money as a store of value. In the last weeks into months I have begun several articles about this. I have promised you a review of The Lost Science of Money, by Stephen Zarlenga, for example, in which Zarlenga presents an outstanding record of the struggle between public and private control of money through history. For some reason that I do not understand, the review has been held on hold. As have other articles: a) about there being a lot more gold stashed in banks around the world than we have been led to believe, and b) about Cecil John Rhodes, who was principally responsible for 'developing' the diamond and gold fields of southern Africa, as part of his imperial vision of a British Empire that would unite the entire Anglo-Saxon race, including America. . I am also working on a development of the two-tier, post-capitalist economic model (of negative interest credit currencies linked to non-negotiable social merits) that I introduce in the article, For An Ubuntu Economy in South Africa - at http://www.whatmmatters.nu/ubunteco.html Perhaps this E-letter, and the accompanying article by John Kaminski, has had to be shared with you first. In friendship, Boudewijn Wegerif What Matters Programme Mossvägen 8, 699 31 Deje, Sweden Tel:+46-552.689100 http://www.whatmatters.nu PS - With regard to my health, the effective pain management continues against the cancer wracking my bones. I take 80 mg of morphine, 8 cortisone tablets, 8 paracetamols, and anti-inflationary voltarin daily. I am not sure how much my losing my physical mobility bit by bit is due to the medication and how much to the cancer. I also take a lot of vitamins and anti-oxidants. The mental agility is still there, and so long as this is so, I will continue with what matters. _________________________ NO HONEST AMERICANS U.S. citizens cheer their criminal nation savaging the whole world By John Kaminski - •••@••.••• The presidential election, Bush vs. Kerry, what a joke! Two privileged plutocrats, two psychotic perverts from the same demonic college fraternity, neither ever had to hold a job, each advocating continuing crimes against humanity, even against their own people. And to make matters worse, they no longer count the votes honestly. The computer spits out a predetermined total, and the TV whores tell you to believe it. And just like in the election itself, you have no real choice. Two spoiled children of privilege, born into incomprehensible wealth, constantly gathering more as they go on their immoral ways, devising ever more evil strategies by which to fleece the slaves of the world, preparing to divide America into armed camps, all the while taking their lead from the evil Israelis, who build walls against humanity and murder whomever they please. The few people who try to point out the injustice are either prohibited from speaking or thrown into jail without trial, or outright murdered. The new American way is the old Israeli way. But Americans embrace it, as they continue their sleepwalking march toward slavery and oblivion. Cheering with empty eyes as they go. Does it not strike you as odd - assuming you are a thinking, feeling human being not yet too retarded by flouride, chemtrails, food additives, antidepressants and demonically engineered food that will eventually poison you to death - that there is not a single principled public figure in America who has pointed out that America's rape of Iraq violates every international law and moral precept that has ever been written by the great minds of the past? That the dispersal of uranium all over Central Asia will kill millions? That the clumsy coverup of the inside job of mass murder on 9/11 was the ultimate betrayal of all Americans? What ARE Americans doing? Cowering in their undefendable homes and waiting for the end? Does it not strike you as odd that no one speaks out about America's crimes against the world? Against poor people everywhere? Against its own citizens? Now the real deal is on the table. A New Orleans judge has ruled that the cops can invade your own home without a warrant. That's the end of the Fourth Amendment, a citizen's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the very basis of freedom in America. This is merely the expected verification of the Patriot Act, that Soviet-style law that allows the government to control every aspect of your life. Now, no one is safe from American tyranny. 1984 has finally arrived. And no one speaks out against it. How dumbed down we have become. Nobody even paid attention to the recent 9/11 conference in San Francisco, which was sparsely attended. Same with the recent peace marches marking the first anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. But that may be because participants were afraid to ask the hard questions, intimidated as they were by a choking climate of mindless flag-waving that refuses to consider the real evidence or challenge the lies that are being told every day by our bought-off media. The 9/11 critics and those who marched with signs merely nibbled around the edges of the problem, pointing out inconsistencies here and anomalies there. They didn't come out screaming for blood, for retribution, for justice, that America's governmental system is a criminal enterprise that kills innocent people on a daily basis. And as a result, the thugs in power just ignored them and kept telling their same old lies. There is no evidence Arab hijackers did the dirty deed on 9/11. If there was, don't you think they would have released it, would have trumpeted it to the skies, and said, "Look, here is the proof we were telling the truth." If they had that evidence, you can be sure they would release it. But they haven't released it, which means they don't have it. Forget about all this barking about Richard Clarke and Condoleeza Rice and what Bush knew and when he might have known it. These are all side issues meant to distract you from the real issue. The real issue is that Arab hijackers DIDN'T do it, or we would have heard the evidence by now, two and a half years later. So the real question is not about the 9/11 panel, or who said what to whom. The real question is who did it. And it wasn't Arab hijackers. So who does that leave? America is a criminal state, flouting international law and laughing about it. Our president makes jokes about the lies he told to enrich his crony corporate accomplices with the scam in Iraq. He makes jokes about the lies he told that cost the lives of hundreds of American service people, not to mention tens of thousands of innocent civilians abroad. He makes jokes about it. And most Americans laugh with him. And wave their flags. And laugh as they break the law. There is no law in America now. Only tyranny. Only bought-off judges who allow the rich to steal from the poor, and imprison the poor who break no law at all. At the same time they open the borders so hungry immigrants from Third World disaster countries (disasters engineered by oppression from the United States) can stream into the country and lower the standard of living for everyone else. Except the rich patricians who can get away with anything. They are allowed to commit crimes because it's profitable, and they pay off the judges and politicians who allow them to keep doing it. You should no longer be nursing the delusion that Americans are suddenly going to awaken and rectify the injustices, and America is going to suddenly return to the bastion of peace and freedom it always insisted it was. It's not going to happen. Too much blood, too many toxic substances and greasy lies have passed over the dam, have been vomited all over the floor of public discussion by those who don't tell the truth about anything. Nobody in the government is telling the truth about anything, and it has been going on for a long time. Two recent examples have really stuck in my craw. The first was Michel Chossudovsky's story about the three British prisoners released from Guantanamo. Chossudovsky revealed that while we were bombing Afghanistan, the Taliban we were trying to kill were flown out on an American plane with the Pakistani army while gung-ho U.S. gunners continued to kill innocent civilians with their high-tech toys from high in the sky. Rumsfeld, realizing he needed to fill up Guantanamo, had the Pakistanis conduct a roundup of innocent civilians from refugee camps and shipped them to Cuba, where he has supervised the torture and interrogations of people he knew were innocent, like those unlucky British boys, for more than two years. That makes me want to vomit. What America has become - poisoned and psychotic - simply makes me want to vomit. And there is not a single soul with any power in Washington who will face these issues. That also makes me want to vomit, and makes me very ashamed of my country. The other story that threw me over the edge happened yesterday when I was researching various chemtrail material and I happened across Mary Sparrowdancer's magnum opus on fluoride, called "The Battle of Darkness and Light" (everyone should read this at http://www.rense.com/general45/bll.htm ). Before she ever got to the really bad part of how the poisonous nuclear waste product called fluoride was put in America's drinking water (can you imagine such a bonehead, suicidal stunt?), she described an episode from the 1980s in which a panel of health experts was commissioned to devise a food chart that would enable Americans to have healthier diets. After they finished their studies and concluded that a healthy diet should be based on plenty of fruits and vegetables, the government bureaucrats shifted all the data and published a document that said healthy diets should be based on heavy consumption of cereals and starches. The medical results of this prostituted campaign, 20 years later, has resulted in a variety of epidemics: thyroid problems, dental disasters, obesity, and many other maladies that have all reaped trillions in profits for the pharmaceutical industry, which of course is the incestuous first cousin to the petroleum industry. To top it all off, after a long run where gastrointestinal medicine was the leading moneymaker for the establishment drug pushers, a new product has leaped to the top - antidepressants. And it's all traceable back to that cynical decision by the government to change America's eating habits by changing the data that had been produced by health experts. That's the kind of integrity we get from Washington. Forget about depleted uranium, funky vaccinations, and needless wars that take our sons and daughters from us for no good reason. The government has been poisoning us with its basic medical information for years, so I guess bombing another country for illegitimate reasons should not exactly come as a surprise to us at this late date, I mean, after all the decades of lies that have been told to us about everything. I mean, if we accept the poisoning of ourselves without much complaint, how could I be getting upset that we're killing people all over the world for reasons that are proven lies? As I said before in a previous essay, we are much farther down the road to hell than I thought. And I wonder why I write these words, since there is not a single person, either in the Congress or on television, who is currently pointing out that America is doing anything wrong in any area. Only that one rich person is not being very patriotic by criticizing the way another rich person has chosen to kill tens of thousands of people, and that that first rich person would have done the same thing, but he would have done it differently. Many people get upset when I talk about these things. Yet in the public sphere, I see no one talking honestly. Not a single American public figure talking honestly. About anything. -- John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays posted on hundreds of websites around the world. More recently he has written a booklet titled "The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn't Believe the Official Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001." More information about both of these books can be found at http://www.johnkaminski.com/ _________________________ This E-letter will be posted at http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters41.html#WM-168 * The What Matters Programme is an initiative by Boudewijn Wegerif, to spread information about what is happening in the world today, and how things could be, given a schooling at all levels to free the self and the world from debt/guilt oppression and money madness - a schooling for Satyagraha, truth and love force. 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